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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • CHINA: More Growth Lies Ahead, But Hurdles Too
    As China's economy continues to soar, many experts here remain only cautiously optimistic about the country's future growth, confident that its fundamentals remain strong but concerned that a real estate bubble and rising inflation could slow economic growth.
  • Cables Belie Gulf States' Backing for Strikes on I ...
    The dominant theme that emerged in U.S. media coverage of the first round of Wikileaks diplomatic cables last week was that Arab regimes in the Gulf - led by Saudi Arabia - shared Israel's view that Iran's nuclear programme had to be stopped by military force, if necessary.
  • CAMEROON: Profits Were Only a Phone Call Away
    These are awkward times for the men in the middle in Cameroon's Western Highlands. A profitable niche buying produce cheaply on farms, and supplying farmers with seed and fertiliser at premium prices has been shattered by the sound of a cellphone ringing.
  • CLIMATE CHANGE: Straining Gnats and Swallowing Cam ...
    What some people view as modest but real progress in the climate change talks, now in their second week in this southeastern Mexican resort city, others see as no more than smokescreens or "false solutions."
  • MIDEAST: Labour Rights Slow to Catch on for Domest ...
    Recent revelations of domestic worker abuse may be grotesque and horrifying, but they are only the most visible aspect of the many difficulties faced by these predominantly female workers, activists say.

Scoop - NZ

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

Independent - London

  • Tributes paid to friendly-fire paratrooper
    A British Army paratrooper killed in an apparent friendly-fire incident in Afghanistan was "never prepared to accept less than the best", his family said.
  • Video: 'Hancock was always too soft on Russia' say ...
    Labour MP Chris Bryant says Liberal Democrat member Mike Hancock was always too soft on Russia following allegations that he employed a suspected Russian spy, Katia Zatuliveter, as his aide.
  • Video: Athens riots mark anniversary of teenager's ...
    Greek police clashed with youths hurling petrol bombs in Athens yesterday during protests to mark the anniversary of the 2008 police killing of a teenager that triggered the country's worst riots in decades.
  • Afghan leader Karzai hails British 'sacrifices'
    David Cameron and Hamid Karzai today played down the significance of the WikiLeaks revelations of criticisms of British military operations in Afghanistan, as the Afghan President voiced his "gratitude for the sacrifices and the resources that Britain has brought" to his country.
  • Cameron talks of 2011 Afghan withdrawal
    British troops could begin pulling out of Afghanistan from next year, David Cameron has indicated as he made a surprise visit to see progress being made in the fight against the Taliban.

Rogue Government.com

  • Gen. Petraeus: Afghan victory not a ‘sure thing’
    The commanding general of the war in Afghanistan says US victory in the region may not be a "sure thing" after all.
  • The Fed Has a $110 Billion Problem with New Benjam ...
    A significant production problem with new high-tech $100 bills has caused government printers to shut down production of the new notes and to quarantine more than one billion of the bills in huge vaults in Fort Worth, Texas and Washington, DC, CNBC has learned.
  • Harvard: Marijuana Cuts Tumor Growth by 50%
    The active ingredient in marijuana cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread, say researchers at Harvard University who tested the chemical in both lab and mouse studies.
  • Here Come Homeland Security Internet Police, and T ...
    Last week, the Department of Homeland Security seized 82 domain names for allegedly hawking counterfeit goods ranging from knockoff Coach handbags to bootleg DVDs
  • Sierra Leone: Revisiting the path to war?
    In less than a decade following the end of one of the world’s most brutal wars, Sierra Leoneans are again worrying as their leaders resume signing a string of mineral exploitation contracts which ironically have caused the citizens more harm than good.

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • WikiLeaks Boss Assange Arrested In UK
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested by British police over sexual assault claims in Sweden. The 39-year-old Australian was detained by Scotland Yard officers at around 9.30am after he voluntarily went to a police station in central London. Police contacted Mr Assange's lawyer ...
  • Ancient astronomy: Mechanical inspiration
    The ancient Greeks' vision of a geometrical Universe seemed to come out of nowhere. Could their ideas have come from the internal gearing of an ancient mechanism? Two thousand years ago, a Greek mechanic set out to build a machine that would model the workings of the known Universe. The result was ...
  • Iran, P5+1 Wrap Up Geneva talks
    The Islamic Republic of Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) have ended two-day multifaceted negotiations in Geneva. At the end of the third round of the comprehensive talks in the Swiss city of Geneva on Tuesday, Iran and P5+1 agreed to hold the next ...
  • Israel Fears Growing Palestine Support
    Israel has criticized the recent recognition of a Palestinian state by several South American nations, saying the move is against the spirit of the Mideast talks. "Recognition of a Palestinian state is a violation of the interim agreement signed by Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 1995 ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: The Baby and the Bathwater - Wiki-Leak ...
    As our readers know, Sott.net doesn't always take the easy path, but we do try to take the right path and we don't like to get egg on our faces. If we think we are right in the face of all opposition, we'll stick to our guns. By the same token, if we discover we have made an error, we admit and co ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Things that grow in the darkness
    Being any part of National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa (or over there in Hull) can be frustrating. It's like living in a mushroom farm much of the time. Things grow out of cracks and turn into things you don't expect. However, if you are the Commander of Canadian Expeditionary Force Command (CEF ...
  • Warped headline
    Federal Tories take 2 byelections, Liberals 1There were no "Tories" running. They were Harperites. Surely the CBC can tell the difference.
  • Stupidity . . .
    FRED REED thinks the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, is stupider than a trilobite. Why? Rickie wants to invade Mexico.Almost forever, the record for stupidity was held by Lumbo, a Cambrian trilobyte (sic) born to an early family of retarded trilobites. Lumbo also had Down’s Syndrome. It ws an unbeata ...
  • Angry man in uniform says something
    Bill Blair, Toronto cop-chief. The video shows about a half-dozen police officers chasing and then tackling Nobody at Queen's Park. SIU director Ian Scott said the video appeared to show one of the officers striking Nobody repeatedly while he was on the ground. Police had forensically examined ...
  • Ryan Newell
    LuLu's article prompted a Google News search: Legless Man Stalks Brainless Protestors. Truly an age of miracles.

Media Matters for America

  • Conservative Media Scream "Reparations" in USDA Di ...
    Conservative media have attacked Congress for approving $1.15 billion to settle discrimination claims by African-Americans against the Department of Agriculture (often referred to as Pigford II claims), asserting the settlement is a form of "reparations." In fact, claimants in the case must provide ...
  • DREAM Act Rhetoric A "Veritable Nightmar ...
    In recent weeks, Fox hosts and guests have attacked the DREAM Act -- which would provide a path to legal status for certain immigrants who came to the United States as children -- with a barrage of inflammatory rhetoric.Fox Attacks DREAM Act With Barrage Of Inflammatory Rhetoric Jarrett: "Those Wh ...
  • Conservatives grasp at straws to condemn DADT repo ...
    Since the release of the Pentagon's survey of service members regarding Don't Ask Don't Tell, conservatives have attacked the report as inaccurate, claiming it does not adequately represent veterans, that repeal would require a return to the draft, and that it would censor military chaplains. In fa ...
  • Liz Cheney Has No Idea What Obama Has Said
    Liz Cheney called on President Obama to "repudiate" his policy in Afghanistan and say that decisions will be "based on conditions on the ground." In fact, Obama has repeatedly said that the transition in Afghanistan will be based on "conditions on the ground." Liz Cheney Calls On Obama To Sa ...
  • Historians Dismantle Beck's Roman History Lesson
    On both his radio and Fox News programs this week, Glenn Beck sought to�show how the U.S. is�" repeating the exact mistakes" that led to the fall of the Roman Republic.�But according to Roman history experts consulted by�Media Matters, Beck's history lesson distorted or fabricated key facts. Beck P ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • US mediation monopoly collapsing
    The United States is at a crossroads in its mediation of Middle East peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians. The Obama administration can no longer walk on the Israeli side of the line--which is exactly where the US has been since Israel's creation--while continuing to pay lip service to the ...
  • The Fire Next Time
    The blaze is barely�quelled,�but the political firestorm is already spreading. I don't mean the posturing and second-guessing by ministers and various political figures; those, like Shas Interior Minister Eli Yishai, cynically calling for a national inquiry into who did what over the past few days, ...
  • Danny Ayalon Needs To Thank Palestinians Too
    Israel Deputy Foreign Minister penned a heartfelt oped in the Jerusalem Post expressing thanks to various international players for their offered and provided relief in the terrible Carmel fire disaster in Israel. To Ayalon's credit, he thanks Turkey which sent two airplanes to support -- along w ...
  • Should the US Negotiate Now With N. Korea? With Ir ...
    Looking at current standoff with North Korea / China, Shadow Government's Will Inboden calls for a truce between conservatives and progressives in the foreign policy community over the question of when the United States should or shouldn't engage in negotiations. Inboden detects hypocrisy in those w ...
  • Ignoring Obama's Call, AIPAC Backs GOP On START
    According to Nathan Guttman in the Forward and Ron Kampeas at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, AIPAC is in agony. It desperately wants to support the US-Russia START treaty aimed at limiting nuclear warheads because the treaty would greatly advance Israel's security. But it is afraid of defying ri ...

TruthOut

  • Obama, GOP Reach Agreement on Tax Cuts, Democrats ...
    President Barack Obama reached agreement Monday with congressional Republicans to extend and deepen tax cuts temporarily in hopes of stirring the economy and creating jobs, and also extending unemployment insurance for 13 months. Congressional Democrats refused to jump onboard immediately, continui ...
  • Gay Marriage Battle Starts a New Chapter
    The legal battle over gay marriage in California continued today in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, prompting the next chapter in what could be the most important civil rights struggle in recent history. The court heard oral arguments on Monday, and its decision could either pu ...
  • Happy as a Hangman
    Innocence, as defined by law, makes us complicit with the crimes of the state. To do nothing, to be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to sanction, through passivity and obedience, the array of crimes carried out by the state. To be innocent in America means we passively per ...
  • Climate Deal Failure Could Devastate World's Poor, ...
    Cancun, Mexico - Further delay in international action to slow warming would endanger vast numbers of lives in the world's poorest countries, but Cancun can still deliver decisive progress to help avert disaster, the head of the UN climate science panel said. In an interview with SolveClimate News, ...
  • The Charade of Israeli-Palestinian Talks
    Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion – excluding Arab East Jerusalem – should go down as one of the most humiliating moments in U.S. diplomatic history. In September the last settlement freeze ended, leading the Pal ...

Planetsave

  • China Blowing the Roof Off with Clean Energy — Hug ...
    On the same day that Senate Republicans filibustered a vote for renewable energy in the USA, by contrast – China has just published an astoundingly ambitious and exciting renewable energy plan for the next ten years. China’s plan is to get a total of 500 Gigawatts of renewable energy on the grid by ...
  • Bears Protest to Save Nude Supermodels
    EARTH has PETA’s back. Keeley Hazell: Donât Wear Fur (PETA, NSFW) Naked protest against fur coats in Barcelona PETA Celebrates National Topless Day …Speaking of nudity, my last nude (sasquatch) cartoon Visit the rest of Joe’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com. And follow him on Twitter @Gre ...
  • Fire Integral to Australian Geographical History
    According to a new research report the arrival of humans in Australia had no significant impact on the frequency with which fire traversed the continent. The report is the first to date charcoal deposits back some 70,000 years, making Australasia one of the best-documented regions of the world for t ...
  • Fires Likely to Unlock Large Storehouses of Carbon
    One of the most disastrous results of climate change is the initialization of feedback loops which themselves further the impact of climate change. One of the most potentially dangerous of these are the fires which burn through the dryer parts of our planet. And according to a new study published in ...
  • Measuring Open Ocean Air to Sea Carbon Exchange
    The quest to understand the interactions between our planet’s oceans and its environment is a continuing one, fraught with inexplicable evidence and hidden meanings. A team led by scientists from the National Oceanocgraphy Centre, Southampton, have measured the air to sea exchange of carbon dioxide ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • A Texas Case Puts the Death Penalty on Trial - Dea ...
    Recent revelations about faulty evidence in two Texas death-penalty cases have raised new questions about the fairness of the death penalty. Now those questions will get an unprecedented hearing in the middle of a current murder trial: on Monday, a judge will hear evidence in the case of Texas v.... ...
  • Cuban medics a big force on Haiti cholera frontlin ...
    PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - They don't send out press releases, don't have public information officers and their contacts are not widely publicized by the huge international humanitarian operation helping cholera-hit Haiti. But when the United Nations appeals for more doctors and nurses to combat ...
  • France: Bank Day, December 7th. Take out your mone ...
    The following video is of former France international and Manchester United forward, Eric Cantona, suggesting another way to spark a revolution. Cantona suggests that people should go in mass to withdraw their money from the banks in France on December 7th so that the powers that be listen t ...
  • Canada's Harper advisor calls for assassination of ...
    Source: CBS News Network...
  • Afghan trainee kills six US troops - World News
    1 December 2010 The killing of six US soldiers by an Afghan police officer is one of the bloodiest in a series of incidents that call into question the US-NATO strategy of turning over combat operations to Afghan forces in 2014. Monday’s “fragging” of US Army trainers took place at...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Our thoughts are with Elizabeth Edwards and her children The estranged wife of former two-time presidential candidate John Edwards is at home resting and spending time with her family and friends after being advised by her physicians that future treatment would be futile, and palliative care is in h ...
  • Bond Ponders Leaks
  • Abuse By School Lunch
    Yes, school lunches were abusive when I was in school, but this is not about mystery meat and pureed vegetables. �This is about the people who caused the current economic crisis blaming their starving, homeless victims. Karoli at Crooks and Liars: I'm speechless. This little rant by Kate O'Beirne at ...
  • Study shows liberal brains different from conserva ...
    Quite by accident, I ran across this interesting story in the LA Times from three years ago on the neurological basis for political opinions. What I've always found interesting is that there is a real anti-social quality to right wing conservative politics that is evident in the antagonisms conserva ...
  • The fourth front we're fighting
    Way back in the 80s I was afraid that calling it the "war on drugs" was a bad idea, and that if factors came together right, it could turn into a literal drug war. When the assault weapons ban was allowed to expire, I saw this crap coming. I was paying attention to what was going on in Columbia in t ...

Care 2

  • Early Detection Is Possible for Prion Diseases, St ...
    A fast test to diagnose fatal brain conditions such as mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans could be on the horizon, according to a new study from National Institutes of Health scientists.Submitted by Hill Rick to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Stay out of the water! Warning to British tourists ...
    British holiday firms have cancelled diving and other water sports around the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh after a horrific series of shark attacks, which killed one and left others seriously injured.Submitted by Nancy Bridget to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Pregnant Mother's Diet Impacts Infant's Sense of S ...
    A major new study shows that a pregnant mother's diet not only sensitizes the fetus to those smells and flavors, but physically changes the brain directly impacting what the infant eats and drinks in the future.Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Source: White House presents proposed tax deal to ...
    Obama: Framework for bipartisan deal would extend all Bush-era tax cuts for two years and jobless benefits for 13 months. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Aspirin may cut cancer deaths, but caution urged
    LONDON � A new report from British scientists suggests that long-term, low-dose aspirin use may modestly reduce the risk of dying of certain cancers, though experts warn the study isn't strong enough to recommend healthy people start taking a pill that ..Submitted by Jae A. to Health & Wellness �|� ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Did Obama Finally Lead? Open Thread
    * Bumped Up * I have watched the different reactions on Fox and CNN to President Obama’s announcement that a deal has been reached to extend the so-called Bush tax cuts for two years for everyone in exchange for extended unemployment benefits. The Fox conservatives (Krauthammer and Jonah Goldberg) s ...
  • Monday Open Thread
    Julian Assange gets the Saturday Night Live treatment, and how! … Hillary Clinton is criticized for what she is not saying about a “genocide” of Iraqi Christians (“Americans of all faiths must band together and pressure the State Department to do something about the wanton murder of Iraqi Christians ...
  • Reassignments Loom For US Diplomats Post-WikiLeaks
    The release of State Department cables by Julian Assange at WikiLeaks has continued to have an impact at home and abroad. I am still not sure how it is this man has not been charged with espionage, or Pfc Bradley Manning with treason for providing classified information to a foreign national, but th ...
  • Did Obama Finally Lead? Open Thread
    I have watched the different reactions on Fox and CNN to President Obama’s announcement that a deal has been reached to extend the so-called Bush tax cuts for two years for everyone in exchange for extended unemployment benefits. The Fox conservatives (Krauthammer and Jonah Goldberg) saw Obama as “A ...
  • American Exceptionalism
    �� Once upon a time, America put together a political apparatus that could imagine and create and pay for Saturn V and the minor detail of the manned capsule atop the fire in the hole. Werner von Braun and his posse were stolen from the Germans, and the money was won from the exports to [...]

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

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

Daily Censored

  • Crimes of the State:Creating New Definitions
    Crimes of the State: Defining What is and is not being done in “Our Name” By: Solomon Comissiong Definitions are important…however who defines “what” and “how” is even more important. Definitions often provide much needed substance to terms that are purposefully vague at best. Terms without contextu ...
  • Rabbi Michael Lerner Challenges Obama
    Rabbi Michael Lerner published in Washington Post.com on December 4 a call for candidates to challenge Obama in the 2012 presidential primaries. âSuch a candidate would need to unequivocally commit to a well-defined progressive agenda and contrast it with the Obama administration’s policies,â Lerner ...
  • SO YOU WANT TO BLOW YOUR WHISTLE? Confessions of a ...
    By David Goodstein Expectation â The government really wants to uncover fraud and punish the guilty! The Reality  – Donât bother, the governmentâs first priority is âtaking care of businessâ, big business! As the former Director of Education* for the Kaplan owned CHI Institute in Broomall, PA I was ...
  • My local sheriff has bought into the fear of terro ...
    As much as I try to protect my identity online, this is a story that I cannot just let go. Scotts Bluff County Sheriff Jim Lawson and the sheriff’s department in my town has decided that there is a major threat of terrorism and that the county needs to adopt the âSee something, say something,â [...]
  • Detroit Federation of Teachers: Run-off for presid ...
    Detroit teachers union election fails to name president Micki Steele / The Detroit News Officials of the Detroit Federation of Teachers had hoped to announce election results today, but no single candidate for any of the six offices received a majority of the vote. Runoff elections are planned in ea ...

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

Marler Blog

  • Less irradiation can kill more bugs on leafy green ...
    ScienceDaily reports in “Killing Salmonella and E. Coli on Fresh Produce With Half the Normal Food-Irradiation Levels” that a team of Texas A&M researchers has developed a way to cut by as much as half the amount of irradiation needed to kill 99.999 percent of salmonella, E. coli and other pathogens ...
  • My favorite cheeses are pasteurized and from Washi ...
    They are also aged for over a year.� I'll put these two cans up to any raw cheeses any day - for taste and safety reasons.� You can order online and taste for yourself.
  • Rushing Waters Fisheries Recalls Smoked Fish Sprea ...
    Rushing Waters Fisheries, Palmyra, is recalling about 225 pounds of smoked trout and smoked salmon spreads, because the products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. No illnesses have been reported from eating this product. The contamination was discovered through routine testing conduc ...
  • Well, I guess I am not going to be invited to the ...
    In 1996 when I was the emcee of the State Democratic Convention, or when I was urged to run against Rick White for the House in 1998, or when I was urged to run against Slade Gorton for the Senate in 1999, or when over the last decade I have hosted more fund-raisers than I can recall, or when I thin ...
  • USC's - "The Raw Truth"
    I cannot make the screening of "The Raw Truth," a documentary about all types of raw food, done by a number of great kid's from USC's award-winning film school (I am assuming my part did not get left on the cutting room floor).� Here are the details: Dear Friends and Family, You are invited to a s ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 12.07.10
    Volvo C30 Electric gets DRIVen and it's a wonderful little ride This bodes incredibly well for Volvo's electrification effort. 2010 Business of Plugging In, notes and quotes An overview of t ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.06.10
    Video: 2011 Nissan Leaf assembly process detailed From Oppama, Japan to you in painstaking detail. Report: Volvo to introduce downsized engines in 2013 Also pondering diesel for the U.S. ...
  • Think recalling 850 City EVs over braking issue in ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Electric Even though U.S. production of the Think City started off well the other day, all is not fine in Think land. The company is recalling 850 City cars throughout Europe because the brakes on the electric car can weaken under "extremely humid conditions." A Think rep ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.03.10
    First Chevy Volt charity auction has 12 days to go, but it's already up to $180,000 That's like one-and-a-half Tesla Roadsters. Report: First Nissan Leaf delivery to a U.S. customer happening very soon ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.02.10
    Report: GM studying how to double or triple Chevy Volt production At a cost of $40,000 per Volt, economies of scale can't grow fast enough. Cracker Barrel to install high-speed plug-in vehicle charging st ...

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Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Maude Barlow: With Only Market-Based Solutions on ...
    Maude Barlow is an author, activist, and the former senior adviser on water to the United Nations. She is the national chairperson for the Council of Canadians. She came to Cancún to speak with other civil society organizations about the relationship between water and climate change and the need f ...
  • Bill McKibben: WikiLeaks Cables Confirm U.S. "Bull ...
    Bill McKibben is the founder of 350.org and the winner of the 2010 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. He is receiving the prize Monday night along with Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards. Democracy Now! caught up with McKibben at the Cancún Climate Conference in Mexico. We ...
  • WikiLeaks and the End of U.S. ‘Diplomacy’
    WikiLeaks is again publishing a trove of documents, in this case classified U.S. State Department diplomatic cables. The whistle-blower website will gradually be releasing more than 250,000 of these documents in the coming months so that they can be analyzed and gain the attention they deserve. R ...
  • Noam Chomsky on the Economy, US Midterm Elections, ...
    Noam Chomsky is a Professor Emeritus at MIT, where he taught for over half a century. He is author of dozens of books. His most recent is "Hopes and Prospects." Watch Part I of this conversation TRANSCRIPT AMY GOODMAN: Noam, you were continuing your prescription- your advice that ...
  • The Health Insurance Industry’s Vendetta Against M ...
    Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, makes great movies but they are not generally considered “cliff-hangers.” All that might change since a whistle-blower on the “Democracy Now!” news hour revealed that health insurance executives thought they may have to implement a plan “to pu ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • Helen Thomas and the Zio-Ogres from the Synagogue ...
    I wasn’t very happy with Helen Thomas when she apologized for saying what she initially said and after losing her job as well. I’m unhappy with Oliver Stone and others who also apologized for telling the truth, which one should never apologize for. You might apologize for your delivery of the truth ...
  • Unconstitutional S.510 Food Bill Driven by Big Foo ...
    By Annie White The Food Safety Modernization act has certainly taken those paying attention to it on a roller-coaster ride of amendments, stalls and clashes. Now it seems the ride is over and at least for now the bill is dying due to an unconstitutional section of the bill that allowed senate to rai ...
  • Cancer, a Man-Made Disease
    By Dr. Mercola According to the latest statistics compiled by the American Heart Association, cancer surpasses heart disease as the top killer among Americans between the ages of 45 to 74. The odds are very high that you or someone you know has cancer or has died from it.Cancer rates for various typ ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Drug Given to All Guantan ...
    Jason Leopold t r u t h o u t;, December 1, 2010 The Defense Department forced all “war on terror” detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine, an act that an Army public health physician called “pharmacologic waterboarding.” The US m ...
  • F.A.S.T. by DHS: Seems like The Minority Report

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • World’s First Hydrogen Hybrid Ferry Coming to NYC
    Photo courtesy of Statue Cruises If you’re heading to New York City next year, or if you live here and haven’t been out to the Statue of Liberty, you’re in for a green surprise. A new ferry is set to hit the waves of New York Harbor next spring and it runs on hydrogen fuel cells [...]
  • Packaging the Future: Banana Leaves as Natural Pac ...
    Nature has had millions of years to come up with perfect natural packaging solutions — brilliant designs made from elements as simple as water, sun and nutrients that keep liquids wet, protect cargo during transportation, and prevent mold or insects from getting in. The purpose of our Packaging the ...
  • Towering Holiday Tree Made of 86 Shopping Carts
    We’ve seen a lot of wacky Christmas trees made from everything from beer bottles to bicycles in our day but never one made of shopping carts! That’s right, 86 metal shopping carts balance atop one another to form this 33-foot-tall holiday tree at the Frank Gehry-designed Edgemar mall in Santa Monica ...
  • BIG’s Angular Green-Roofed School Blends Into the ...
    Bjarke Ingels Group recently unveiled a proposal for a school in Asminderod, Denmark that is topped with a series of undulating green roofs. The bands of greenery create an immersive landscape for the children that compliments the school’s focus on nature and sustainability. The building themselves ...
  • Inhabitat Green Gift Guide: Eco Friendly Jewelry
    If you’re looking for just the right piece of eco jewelry to dazzle that special person on your holiday list, look no further. We’ve searched high and low and gathered 18 glittering, shimmering pieces of green jewelry for you to choose from. From an elegant recycled necklace that looks like it’s mad ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Supreme Court Takes Climate Pollution Case
    The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a landmark case on greenhouse gases, potentially affirming or denying the public’s right to limit corporate pollution. At issue is American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, a case filed by environmental groups and eight states against midwestern ...
  • Computer Geeks: Compete to Help NASA Explain Dark ...
    If you can teach computers to learn, NASA needs your help. Cosmologists hope gamers, programmers, computer scientists and geeks-of-all-trades can help them identify evidence of dark matter. An international group of astronomers are hosting a competition, called GREAT10 (for GRavitational lEnsing Ac ...
  • Huge Magnetic Filament Erupts on the Sun
    A magnetic filament more than 50 times the Earth’s width is erupting off the surface of the sun. The loop of hot plasma has been snaking around the sun’s southeast limb since Dec. 4, and appears to be growing by the hour. When NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory saw it on Dec. 4, the filament was mor ...
  • Laser Light Can Lift Tiny Objects
    Light has been put to work generating the same force that makes airplanes fly, a study appearing online December 5 in Nature Photonics shows. With the right design, a uniform stream of light has pushed tiny objects in much the same way that an airplane wing hoists a 747 off the ground. Researche ...
  • Glacial Silt Encased Some of Earth’s Best-Preserve ...
    Some of the rarest and most detailed fossils on Earth owe their stunning preservation to dust blown out to sea by glacial winds. Soft-bodied creatures usually rot or get eaten before sediment can bury and fossilize their fragile tissues. Yet a zoo of squishy animals that swam 435 million years ago ...

PakAlert

  • VIDEO: Americans Ignorant as Europeans Protest US ...
    While Americans struggle to answer how long the US has been in Iraq or Afghanistan, how much money has been spent, and how many lives lost, Europeans feeling the cost of US wars at home take to the streets in protest. In the US, despite two combat missions costing thousands of lives, more than a tri ...
  • Leaked Cable Reveals Obama Sent To “2012 ALICE Bun ...
    A new report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) on the thousands of secret documents belonging to the United States leaked by the European whistleblower site WikiLeaks says that President Obama and US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates were put in ...
  • Out Of Control – The Risk Of A New Korean War
    By the end of December, South Korea plans to hold another round of artillery drills on islands lying in disputed waters, including, dismayingly enough, Yeonpyeong Island. Nothing could be calculated to be more provoking under the circumstances. In preparation for the response to the drills that are ...
  • 10 Skills Needed to Thrive in a Post-Collapse Worl ...
    Some experts see the perfect storm emerging for a dramatic collapse of Western civilization claiming we've reached environmental, economic, and geopolitical tipping points. Clearly, some skills will be far more valuable than others if this societal breakdown occurs. Sorry bankers, lawyers, and acco ...
  • Mysterious ‘Vortex’ Warned Is Creating Global Weat ...
    So, as we near another Christmas time in World, yet again, gone mad with war and the lust for death, and as humanity struggles under the tyrannical yoke of its elite masters enslaving them more and more as each day passes, and as too many “signs” to mention in one sitting begin to appear around us, ...

Andy Worthington

  • Biggest Student Protest on Thursday, as Parliament ...
    On Thursday, students, schoolchildren, university staff, concerned members of the public, and, hopefully, trade unionists (including members of the NUT) will lobby Parliament as MPs vote on the coalition government’s ruinous plans to slash university funding and to double or triple students’ fees, a ...
  • Andy Worthington, Asim Qureshi and Jason Leopold D ...
    My friend Peter B. Collins, a very experienced progressive radio host, who, in his own words, “is burdened with too many opinions,” and “follows news and politics to a degree that one friend calls ‘borderline obsessive,’” is putting together some excellent podcasts from the Bay Area, and it has been ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington Speaks at “Bring Aaf ...
    On November 14 — a very rainy Sunday in London — I was one of a number of speakers who gathered outside the Pakistani embassy for an event, “Bring Aafia Home,” which was organized by the Justice for Aafia Coalition, to urge the Pakistani government to do all it can to secure the return of [...]
  • Help Release Shaker Aamer: Three Free Screenings o ...
    “‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK “This is a strong movie examining the imprisonment and subsequent torture of those falsely accused of anti-American ...
  • Wikileaks: Numerous Reasons to Dismiss US Claims t ...
    In sifting through the avalanche of US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks, only the Guardian, in the Western media, has picked up on cables from Islamabad relating to the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist who disappeared with her three young children in Karachi on March 3 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • New Intelligence Report Finds Gays Most Targeted f ...
    The FBI issued its 2009 Hate Crime Statistics report this morning. The report shows that the number of reported hate crime incidents fell from 7,783 to 6,604. But a pattern that has existed since the FBI started tallying these numbers remains: the LGBT community is, by far, the most victimized by vi ...
  • Un-TruTV: Fear vs. Fact on Ventura’s ‘Conspiracy T ...
    Madison, Georgia. Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura and âconspiracy expertâ Alex Jones creep through the woods and hunker down beside a tree. Jones points through underbrush. Ventura leans forward, peers at something, and says in his ominous rumbling baritone, âWhat in the hell is this?â The camer ...
  • Plea Closes 1965 Case of Slain Civil Rights Worker
    With Monday’s guilty plea of former Alabama state trooper James Bonard Fowler in the 1965 slaying of civil rights worker Jimmy Lee Jackson, another of the infamous cold cases that have languished unresolved since the turbulent peak of the civil rights movement was closed. Fowler, 77, will spend six ...
  • 9.12 Project Paranoia: Obama Wants to See You… Nak ...
    Unsurprisingly, Glenn Beckâs 9.12 Project has absorbed much of its founderâs famous paranoia. Based on Beckâs fevered lectures and paid endorsements, legions of 9.12âers have eagerly bought up overpriced gold coins, non-hybrid seeds, and lots of ammo for use in 9.12 Project practice shoots. But not ...
  • David Duke, Huffing About Sexual Mores, Calls the ...
    Now that he’s gaining in years, former Klan boss and longtime white supremacy advocate David Duke, who in his youth gained a notorious reputation as a womanizing playboy, is apparently now shifting to a more traditional role of moralizing geezer. Witness his most recent video “lecture,” wherein he p ...

change: org.

  • Was the California Brown Pelican Recovery Celebrat ...
    Brown pelican recovery is often heralded as a success story for the Endangered Species Act. California declared the brown pelicans recovered in the state as of June of 2009, and the federal de-listing came in November 2009. Yet organizations like International Bird Rescue Research Center believe the ...
  • Twenty Years of Beating the Odds
    Marian Wright Edelman, President of the Children's Defense Fund, is part of Change.org's Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. How does a child endure unspeakable hardship and still manage to succeed? What does it mean to save rather than give up on a child? When you r ...
  • Trying to Rape Gay People Straight Should Be a Hat ...
    If the phrase "corrective rape" sounds jarring to you, it should. It's a brutal concept whereby straight people think that LGBT folks can be "cured" through forced sex. The practice has become systemic and widespread in South Africa, particularly against the lesbian community, with upwards of ten ne ...
  • Village Officials Issue Instructions on How to Ill ...
    Bosnia is not an easy place to fight for animal protections. In a region that's been so torn by war, animal welfare is not only a low priority, but animals become victims of the frustration and violence of the people. So, we end up with stories like the YouTube video of a girl throwing a litter of n ...
  • Japan Is Still Killing Whales and Forcing Them on ...
    Last week, Japan resumed its time-honored yet highly controversial practice of hunting and killing whales in the name of "scientific research." Despite intense protests from environmentalists, the country aims to keep stocking up on whales and selling their meat — regardless of the health and enviro ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Liberal Dems to Obama: Fight Harder
    by Jonathan Allen & Josh Gerstein Resentments between President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats that began simmering even before their midterm disaster are nearing the boiling point on Capitol Hill, as liberals make clear that Obama's efforts to strike a lame-duck deal with Republicans will ...
  • WikiLeaks to Keep Releasing Cables Despite Assange ...
    by Robert BoothWikiLeaks will continue releasing the leaked US embassy cables in spite of the arrest this morning of its founder, Julian Assange, over allegations in Sweden of sexual offences.The whistleblowers' website has made arrangements to continue publishing the classified documents, the air ...
  • PACs Flocked to Conservative Blue Dog Democrats, T ...
    by Josh Israel and Aaron Mehta In mid-2009, the 52 conservative House Democrats who made up the Blue Dog Coalition were at the height of their power. Money was rolling in - especially from the health care, energy, and financial services industries looking to curry favor with a key voting bloc ...
  • Cables Belie Gulf States' Backing for Strikes on I ...
    by Gareth PorterWASHINGTON - The dominant theme that emerged in U.S. media coverage of the first round of Wikileaks diplomatic cables last week was that Arab regimes in the Gulf - led by Saudi Arabia - shared Israel's view that Iran's nuclear programme had to be stopped by military force, if necessa ...
  • Campaigners Rally to Defense as Attempts to Muzzle ...
    by Jerome TaylorRenewed cyber attacks on Wikileaks servers in Sweden closed down sections of the whistle-blowing website today as the information war over the State Department cables escalated dramatically.The attacks came as the Swiss post office announced it had frozen a Wikileaks bank account con ...

Lifehacker

  • Gmail Priority Inbox Learns Faster, Explains Its D ...
    Gmail says that since introducing its semi-automatic Priority Inbox feature, users who stick with their Priority Inbox end up spending 15 percent less time reading email. To cut that time even deeper, and explain why things are priority, they' ...
  • When to Ship Your Packages (Last Minute) in Time f ...
    If you didn't go nuts for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there's a good chance you haven't even started your Christmas shopping. But don't panic yet! It's okay to be late—we've got your guide to holiday shipping deadlines. More » ...
  • Most Popular How-To Guides of 2010
    We cover a lot ground every day on Lifehacker, but we get our greatest pleasure from putting together in-depth, step-by-step guides, making complicated tasks easy to do yourself. Here's a look back at our most popular how-to features of 2010. ...
  • From the Tips Box: Alternative Apps, Instant Previ ...
    Readers offer their best tips for finding alternatives to popular apps, quickly toggling Google Instant Previews, and cleaning up big spills. More��
  • Remains of the Day: Prepare for Chrome Announcemen ...
    Google's planning to drop some Chrome OS and the Chrome Web Store news tomorrow, developers find an on screen keyboard in webOS 2.0, and Amazon might jump into Netflix territory with an online video subscription service. More�� ...

Water Privatization

  • Of Debt to Federal Government and Imminent Bail ou ...
    by Dr. Dzul According to the Auditor-General Report 2009, the State of Selangor owes the Federal Government a sum of RM929.86 millions. It must be made known to all that 85% of the debt, an equivalent sum of RM705 millions were incurred as a result of procurement of water assets in the state. In acc ...
  • Raw deal for water
    As a resident of Selangor, I must voice out my views on its water supply services.
  • Malaysian police fire tear gas on opposition prote ...
    Malaysian police on Sunday fired tear gas and water cannons to break up an opposition-backed protest focused on public utilities after some 5,000 defied a ban on the rally.
  • Will the Korean conflict escalate into full-blown ...
    KUALA LUMPUR, 8 NOVEMBER, 2010 : Petaling Jaya Utara MP, Tony Pua today claimed that the Federal Government has abused the tax-payers’ funds by contemplating a multi-billion ringgit bail out of the privatized water industry in Selangor.
  • Mount Olive water hearing cancelled
    MOUNT OLIVE TWP. - The Township Council's public hearing scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 7, for the privatization of the township water system has been canceled.

Guardian

  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested
    �� Julian Assange arrested and due to appear in court �� US attorney general Eric Holder pledges to stem leaks �� Latest cables reveal US plans to defend Baltic states �� Full coverage of the WikiLeaks cables11.06am: The Australian has issued a sneak preview of Assange's op-ed piece due later today ...
  • Ireland prepares to set budget
    Finance minister Brian Lenihan will present the toughest budget in Irish history today10.38am: Breaking news from Brussels - the European Union has formally approved Ireland's ��85bn rescue package. It's largely a procedural step, although a sudden change of heart would certainly have sparked a pani ...
  • Hundreds stuck in cars in Scotland
    Snow and ice are continuing to cause disruption across the UK, with hundreds of drivers stranded in their cars in Scotland overnight. Follow the latest here11.04am: More criticism about the Scottish authorities handling of the weather conditions, PA report:Scottish Labour's transport spokesman, Char ...
  • Prison system failing, says Clarke
    Justice secretary to announce plans to bring down 60%-plus reoffending rates for short-term prisoners through a 'rehabilitation revolution'The justice secretary, Ken Clarke, will today detail his plans to divert thousands of offenders from prison to bring to an end the Victorian-style "bang 'em up" ...
  • Haiti election heading for runoff
    �� Provisional date of 16 January set for decisive contest �� Further violence feared amid fraud allegationsHaiti was today preparing for the results of troubled elections that have generated fraud charges, protests and sporadic violence, and which and are widely expected to go to a decisive second ...

McClatchey

  • Democrats could scuttle Obama-GOP tax cut deal
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama reached agreement Monday with congressional Republicans to extend and deepen tax cuts temporarily — and extend unemployment insurance — in hopes of stirring the economy and creating jobs.
  • Iran, yes, Korea, no: U.S. takes diverging course ...
    WASHINGTON — The Obama administration confronted two of its most intractable foreign-policy issues Monday, seeking ways to contain rising tensions with nuclear-armed North Korea and, separately, pressing Iran to halt a uranium-enrichment program suspected of being part of a secret nuclear weapons pr ...
  • Afghanistan backs off threat to close private secu ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government is scaling back its contentious plans to push private security companies out of the country.
  • WikiLeaks: Swiss bank freezes Julian Assange's acc ...
    WASHINGTON — The Swiss bank PostFinance moved Monday to close WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's bank account in the latest international move to isolate Assange in the wake of his release of once-secret U.S. State Department cables.
  • Elizabeth Edwards says cancer returns, thanks supp ...
    Elizabeth Edwards, who has battled cancer publicly since 2005, said in a statement Monday that doctors have no hope that further treatment will ward off her cancer.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

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

The Wonk Room

  • Three Ways to Strike Down Prop 8 Without Declaring ...
    Earlier today, a three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger challenge to anti-gay Proposition 8.  The lengthy hearing — extending for more than two full hours — was divided into a hearing on the merits of the cas ...
  • Obama Agrees To Extend All Bush Tax Cuts And Cut E ...
    The White House just announced that it has settled on the details of the deal it’s been cooking up with Congressional Republicans over the coming expiration of the Bush tax cuts. In return for a two-year extension of all the Bush tax cuts — including those for the richest two percent of Americans an ...
  • Rick Scott Still Supports Bringing Arizona-Style I ...
    During his tough gubernatorial primary against Bill McCollum (R), Governor-elect Rick Scott (R-FL) touted his support for Arizona’s immigration law and proposed exporting the controversial bill to Florida. However, once he nabbed the Republican nomination, he “rarely mentioned the issue.” Even now t ...
  • Sen. Cornyn Flunks Basic Economics, Claims Tax Cut ...
    Reportedly, the Obama administration and Congressional Republicans are cooking up a “compromise” when it comes to the expiring Bush tax cuts. In return for a temporary extension of all the Bush tax cuts — including those for the richest two percent of Americans — Congress would also extend long-term ...
  • Republicans Were For Prevention Before They Were A ...
    Sarah Kliff previews the GOP’s big box of ideas for how to force Democrats to vote against their own health care law come January. Last week, House Republicans wanted to attach repeal to next month’s doc fix, now they’re considering taking a page from Sen. Mike Johanns’ (R-NE) original 1099 repeal p ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Yawn! Peter Mansbridge asks "Afghanistan: Was it w ...
    A tired, lame-ass, deluded conversation ensues. (With apologies to Steven Staples of ceasefire.ca who tried to tone-down the rah-rah nonsense.)
  • Peter Kormos on the G-20
    I haven't watched this whole thing. I just thought that I'd post it here to spread it around.
  • Two Commenters at the National Post or "Someone is ...
    Argh. The scum-bag, money-losing, propaganda rag, the National Post has an article about Rob Ford mouthing-off about another subject he knows nothing about. It's one of the least objectionable of his utterances, except for the implications in his simple-minded recommendations. Ford states that if it ...
  • Post-NATO Afghanistan Chaos
    In another discussion I felt compelled to say that after NATO leaves, the Karzai government will likely collapse. I think the significance of that should be my post for the day. When NATO leaves the whole rotten edifice they constructed will come crashing down. And it will be NATO's fault. NOT the ...
  • Stay in Afghanistan Past 2011? Don't Even Think Ab ...
    Via Politics Re-Spun: Canada is considering NATO and allied requests to keep troops in Afghanistan past 2011 to conduct non-combat training missions, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Sunday. Now, let's remember: Canada's participation in the Afghanistan occupation has seen us handing prisoners o ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • 7th Circuit to appoint counsel for tax whistleblow ...
    In an unusual move, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago has decided to appoint a lawyer for Milwaukee tax whistleblower Mike DeGuelle (pictured). Tax.com reports today that  DeGuelle blew the whistle on a prolonged tax cheating scheme by S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. The scheme included ...
  • S.372: A Bad Deal for Whistleblowers
    After a careful review of S. 372, the National Whistleblowers Center, the Federal Ethics Center, and the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition strongly recommend that the bill not be approved in its current form.� We urge the House of Representatives to fix the bill and send it back to the Sena ...
  • Dodd-Frank has banks competing for whistleblower r ...
    The Charlotte Business Journal interviewed Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, for an article released today. The article examines how more and more banks are adopting whistleblower programs through which employees can raise compliance concerns. Why? Kohn ex ...
  • New Jersey Supreme Court answers a document dilemm ...
    Many companies that violate the law try to keep their employees from having the ability to prove those violations of the law. The impose rules that prohibit employees from taking company documents home, or disclosing them to anyone (even courts and government law enforcement agencies). Then, if an e ...
  • Pete Tucker calls on President Obama to pardon Bra ...
    Pete Tucker is a journalist for TheFightBack.org and WPFW 89.3 FM, Washington, D.C.'s Pacifica Radio station. This week, he called on President Barack Obama to pardon tax whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld. "In addition to a turkey, Obama should pardon a whistleblower this holiday season," Tucker says. H ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Canadian Telco Claims Netflix & Google TV Should B ...
    A few years back, you may recall, we covered how some content creators in Canada were looking to expand broadcast regulations to the internet. If you're not aware, Canadian law requires that broadcasters fund and promote a certain amount of Canadian-based content. The reason for it on television i ...
  • Getting Rid Of Fantasy Numbers In The Copyright De ...
    James Boyle, law professor at Duke and also one of the pre-eminent scholars on copyright and public domain issues (seriously, if you haven't read his book on The Public Domain, you're missing out -- and it's available for free, of course), has written his latest column highlighting how much of the s ...
  • Singapore Appeals Court Says Internet DVR Is Legal
    About a year ago, we wrote about a lawsuit in Singapore, questioning whether or not the operator of an online DVR, RecordTV, was violating copyrights by letting users record and access TV shows online. The service only worked on shows broadcast over the air, and only for users who could show that t ...
  • There Can Be Only One New Finland?
    Reader Mimu Bunnylin points us to an interesting "trademark" battle coming out of Finland, where the Green political party kicked off their latest political campaign with a new slogan: "New Finland" (apparently Uusi Suomi in Finnish). Seems pretty generic, right? Well, apparently for a long time t ...
  • Newsday Drops Its Paywall For 'At Least One Month'
    Remember how excited Cablevision was about putting up that paywall for Newsday, the newspaper that it owned? While the company claimed that the purpose of the paywall was really all about keeping Cablevision customers from deserting in favor of Verizon, it was still rather stunning to find out afte ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

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

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

  • By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
    [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
  • By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
    [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]
  • By: Ecocentric’s Best of the Ecoblogosphere ...
    [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]
  • By: FutureEmergency.com
    [...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]
  • By: Gina
    It would be encouraging to see options on what actions we can take to be of support. Would it help to have a petition list, even via email, that can be submitted to various government departments? I think most of us feel helpless to do anything against the blind power of government and big busin ...

treehugger

  • Carbon Emissions From Deforestation Revised Down
    photo: Wakx/Creative Commons Initially estimated at about 20% of total CO2 emissions, then revised downwards to about 15% last year, new research claims that the carbon emissions from deforestation may be just half of that lower estimate. There's a whole array of good, bad, and muddled news her ...
  • Binishells At The Happy Mutant Retreat and Prescho ...
    Image credit: BoingBoing I would have loved to send my kids to the Happy Mutant Retreat and Preschool, being built at an undisclosed location and revealed for the first time on BoingBoing. It's being built of Binishells, which,
  • Mountain Gorilla Population Increases 25% in Centr ...
    photo: Naaman Saar Stavy/Creative Commons Some great news for gorillas and conservation: WWF reports that a survey conducted in the Central Africa's Virunga Massif--that's a region containing three national parks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda--has found that the world' ...
  • Will Barcoding DNA Save Species on the Brink?
    Zebras are naturally barcoded. Photo via wwarby We've heard of barcoding trees to prevent deforestation, and tagging animals to track them for scientific purposes is an everyday practice. But what about barcoding the DNA of all animals across the planet to protect them from illegal poaching, tr ...
  • Climate Change to Kill 5 Million People Globally b ...
    From sea level rise, to extreme weather, to desertification, the US has among the highest risk for damages. Photo: US Army/Creative Commons. Each year there are 350,000 people dying due to climate change, with a total death toll by 2020 of five million; each year after that deaths from climate ...

Biosingularity

  • First Human Liver Grown in Lab
    For the first time, human cells have been used to create a lab-grown liver. It’s a milestone on the way to creating a new source of livers for transplant, Wake Forest University (WFU) researchers say. Last June, a different research team reported growing a liver from animal cells. But if the goal is ...
  • New virus ‘jumps’ from monkey to scien ...
    A never-before detected strain of virus that killed more than one-third of a monkey colony at a U.S. lab appears to have ‘jumped’ from the animals to sicken a human scientist, researchers report. Although it’s an unusual move for that type of virus and does warrant further monitoring, the researcher ...
  • Cancer Drug Zeroes In on a Genetic Mistake
    At some point in Karen Pihl’s life, one of her lung cells made a potentially fatal misstep. As the cell duplicated its DNA in preparation to divide, part of the gene for one protein became erroneously attached to part of the gene for another. The genetic malfunction bestowed the cell with the abilit ...
  • Cancer’s hiding spots revealed
    After receiving chemotherapy, many cancer patients go into a remission that can last months or years. But in some of those cases, tumors eventually grow back, and when they do, they are frequently resistant to the drugs that initially worked. Now, in a study of mice with lymphoma, MIT biologists hav ...
  • Consuming polyunsaturated fatty acids may lower th ...
    Periodontitis, a common inflammatory disease in which gum tissue separates from teeth, leads to accumulation of bacteria and potential bone and tooth loss. Although traditional treatments concentrate on the bacterial infection, more recent strategies target the inflammatory response. In an article i ...

CFACT

  • 'Cool it' with all the research dollars
    Preparation and adaptation for all climate change is the simple, common-sense, cost-effective and precautionary Plan B that all governments can - and should - support.
  • End the ethanol subsidies
    Congressional inaction would save taxpayers $6 billion; lower beef, pork, poultry and egg prices; and save tens of thousands of gallons of water.
  • CFACT to showcase experts at Cancun climate confer ...
    CFACT will feature two prominent experts on climate science and policy at COP 16, the UN conference on climate change which convenes next week in Cancun, Mexico.
  • Biodiversity: Losing which species?
    The current wildlife extinction rate is the lowest in 500 years--according to the UN Environmental Program̢۪s own World Atlas of Biodiversity. Many species have actually expanded their ranges over the past century.
  • Stockholm temperatures freeze global warming claim ...
    Lessons learned from the Swedish temperature record. In science, observations must be taken much more seriously than theories or computer models.

Ria Novosti Online News

  • WikiLeaks founder refused bail
    Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, was denied bail and remanded in custody until December 14 by a London court on Tuesday, CNN reported.
  • Opposition group to hold two protest rallies in Mo ...
    Moscow will see two protest rallies - only one of which has been sanctioned by the authorities - on December 12, a leader of the Left Front movement said on Tuesday.
  • Russian royal family's letters sold for $390,000 i ...
    A collection of 2,000 letters, postcards and photographs sent by the last Russian tsar's siblings to their private tutor was sold at an auction in Geneva for some $390,000, the Nasha Gazeta paper said on Tuesday.
  • Expensive hobby full of risk and adrenaline
    People hungry for thrills choose extreme hobbies, like illegal drag racing. They say that put a lot of effort into making their races safe, while critics call them criminals.
  • Roscosmos turned on 2 reserve Glonass-M satellites
    Russia has switched on two reserve Glonass-M satellites to replace the ones that were lost when a rocket deviated off course on Sunday, the head of Russia's state run space corporation Anatoly Perminov said on Tuesday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.The Wikileaks document dump was really tough to keep up with. Lots and lots of stories:We’re bombing Yemen, and Yemen’s government is covering ...
  • xo for the holidays volume III
    For the third year in a row, xo publicity is offering a free compilation of holiday music.  It can be had here, and since I really enjoyed the first two I’m passing this along as well.  No consideration was provided for this, unless you’re going to be a stickler and count the hookers and coke. UPDAT ...
  • Shutting down the Internet, once seizure at a time
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postLast Friday, deep in the middle of a long holiday weekend, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seized dozens of web sites. The full list is here, and a common reaction m ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Also see Jim White on the strange dance of Pakistan officially insisting none of this is going on. Corrosively cynical comment omitted.Combat ...
  • Make hay while the sun shines
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I’ve been blogging for just about three and a half years now, and in the last week or so I have finally seen some movement on the subject of my very first blog post: an appeal for principled conservatives to push back on the civil li ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • TransFair USA Eyes a Brand Makeover
    Why would an organization that has spent over a decade putting resources into building strong brand identity suddenly decide to change their name? The answer is that they have put themselves at risk of becoming irrelevant in the "new" sustainable coffee market by a willingness to sell "fair trade" t ...
  • US Imperial Militarism, Climate Change, and Extinc ...
    As it becomes increasingly clear that we're way past the point of dangerous interference with the climate system, as more and more components of the natural world that sustains our very existence collapse, revealing the breadth and depth of our destruction, as scientists openly despair at the alread ...
  • Looking Back at a Year of Ag Industry Consolidatio ...
    Over the last year, in towns around the country, thousands of farmers, ranchers, and concerned citizens have packed auditoriums to overflow capacity–not for a rock concert or even a farm auction, but for the leaders of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the USDA. The departments have been on a list ...
  • Charting a New Path to Eliminating Hunger
    In just a few short weeks State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet will be launched! We’re excited to share with you a sneak preview of Chapter 1 entitled, “Charting a New Path to Eliminating Hunger,” authored by co-project directors Brian Halweil and Danielle Nierenberg.Click he ...
  • New Trailer for the Film the Vanishing of the Bees
    The Vanishing of the Bees film is finally complete and available on the site http://www.vanishingbees.com/Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Especial de Navidad y Fin de Año (Esferas y Regalo ...
    Dentro de nuestro especial de Fin de Año, le ofrecemos la cuarta parte que incluye 12 bonitas imágenes y wallpapers navideños. Las esferas de colores brillantes y los regalos, son los protagonistas de esta entrega especial 2010. Le recuerdo que todas las fotografías, son de alta resolución.Nota: Haz ...
  • Especial de Navidad y Fin de Año (Dibujos Animados ...
    Esta es la tercera parte de nuestro especial de Fin de Año. En esta ocasión, hemos incluído 10 wallpapers navideños con dibujos animados. Son imágenes muy lindas con las que usted podrá decorar el escritorio de su PC, Laptop, iPad o Netbook. Por cierto, no olvide compartir nuestra página.Nota: Haz c ...
  • Wallpapers para Navidad y Fin de Año I (10 element ...
    Como parte de nuestro especial de Fin de Año 2010, le traemos en exclusiva y antes que nadie esta bonita colección con 10 wallpapers en alta definición relacionados con la Navidad. Usted verá a Santa Closs, a los muñecos de nieve, ositos, paisajes nevados, árboles decorados, luces de colores, velas, ...
  • Especial de Fin de Año (Fotos de Árboles de Navida ...
    Con esta serie de imágenes, damos inicio a nuestros especiales de Fin de Año. Para empezar, le ofrecemos a usted esta colección que incluye 6 bonitas fotografías de Árboles de Navidad. Más adelante, tendremos para usted otras series especieles con más imágenes navideñas. Felices fiestas 2010.Nota: H ...
  • 21 imágenes para Tagged (fotos de mujeres y hombre ...
    Esta bellísima colección de imágenes, está dedicada especialmente para los usuarios de la famosa red social Tagged. Esta serie, incluye 21 fotografías de mujeres y hombres para quien desea crear un perfil original y diferente. En esta ocasión, usted encontrará fotos de mujeres hermosas y hombres muy ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

  • Links
    Links, because it’s Monday morning and you don’t have time for this nonsense: Do you have a right to drink yourself to death? And if so, why can’t you kill yourself with hard drugs? I’m pro wet-house but I don’t understand how the authorities can be OK with one kind of slow death, but not [...]
  • Vitamin D, cont.
    The L.A. Times explains the Vitamin D fatwah. I wish they hadn’t bothered. Maintaining a healthy level of vitamin D through diet alone has become much easier since manufacturers began fortifying foods with the nutrient. Fortified foods â including virtually all milk, many brands of orange juice, and ...
  • President Pelosi?
    Reading Frank Rich this morning (no link but if you go to the NYTimes he’s kind of hard to miss) a thought occurred to me. Wouldn’t it be absolutely fabulous if Obama and Biden both resigned, making still Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi the new President of the United States? I know, won’t happen, ...
  • Opening lines to a book I’ll never write
    Working title, Owned: Everything was being rewritten but not everyone seemed to understand how thoroughly or to what extent. Wall Street and the banksters were creating laws to give themselves title to all the money even as average people entered into the digital realm of unlimited cultural wealth. ...
  • Toons’n'links
    There’s a running theme here, I think. And an oldie but goodie: Not trying to make a political point, of course. Just noting the meme in progress and its roots. Links: Reason #34 why it’s good to get along with your neighbors (everyone needs some help now and then) I fail to see what insights [...]

Public News Service

  • Seniors: Don't Use Social Security to Cut the Defi ...
    Seniors: Don't Use Social Security to Cut the Deficit Phoenix, AZ – Workers and seniors nationwide and in Arizona are protesting a proposal from the President's Fiscal Commission to reform Social Security with "progressive" benefits and a raised retirement age. Comments from Karen Marie-Stella, AARP ...
  • Congressman Grijalva Calls on FDA to Ban Triclosan
    Congressman Grijalva Calls on FDA to Ban Triclosan Phoenix, AZ - Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva (Rah-OOL Gree-HOL-vah) joined two House colleagues calling on the Food and Drug Administration to ban triclosan (TRICK-lo-san), a common ingredient in many over-the-counter products like soaps, shampoo ...
  • Former Commissioner: Politics Still Threatens Ariz ...
    Former Commissioner: Politics Still Threatens Arizona Wildlife Tucson, AZ – Arizona voters earlier this month rejected a ballot measure to increase the legislature’s authority over wildlife management. But a former state Game and Fish commissioner says political considerations continue to intrude on ...
  • Advocate: Wrong Time to be Ending Jobless Aid
    Advocate: Wrong Time to be Ending Jobless Aid Phoenix, AZ - More than 50-thousand people in the state are at risk of losing unemployment benefits during the Christmas season if Congress doesn’t act. Low-income advocate Cynthia Zwick, director of the Arizona Community Action Association, says this is ...
  • Plans to End Childhood Hunger in AZ by 2015
    Plans to End Childhood Hunger in AZ by 2015 Phoenix, AZ – Actor Jeff Bridges is hoping a new program announced this week will end childhood hunger in Arizona and across the nation by 2015. The No Kid Hungry Campaign incorporates public-private partnerships, nutrition education and increased particip ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Israel’s Jim Crow « Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the ...
    Israel’s Jim Crow « Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place Under Jim Crow, the South was a democracy for whites which offered inferior roles and rights to Blacks. The latter’s inferiority was even codified in a founding document of the Republic, which defined a Black slave as equal for ...
  • CBC News - Brian Stewart: Who will trust Washingto ...
    CBC News - World - The real question: Who will trust Washington ever again? My first reaction on reading about the staggering number of American officials with this level of security access was "you can't be serious." But this indeed seems to be the case. The explanation: Soon after 9/11, the Bush ...
  • 'French web host need not shut down WikiLeaks site ...
    French web host need not shut down WikiLeaks site: Judge [zeenews.com/]  Paris: A French judge declined to force web provider OVH to shut down the WikiLeaks site, OVH has said, after the government called for the whistleblower website to be kicked out of France. The legal challenge came after F ...
  • Peltier court record doesn't lie: "We don't know ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 06 December 2010 Contact: Delaney Bruce, Legal Team Liaison, Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee, PO Box 7488, Fargo, ND 58106, USA; Telephone: 1-701-235-2206; contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info Peltier court record doesn't lie: "We don't know who shot those agents." ...
  • Rob Smith: DeFarra Gaymon and Why Black Homophobia ...
    Rob Smith: DeFarra Gaymon and Why Black Homophobia Now Has a Body Count From the "no homo" in hip-hop culture to the gay hate preached from the pulpits, African-Americans teach each other and our young people that being gay isn't only a bad thing, it's the worst thing. By doing so, Black culture sho ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Use organic milk and eggs
    Many people think that drinking milk and eating eggs is harmless to the cows and chickens. Unfortunately, this is not true. The animals living in factory farms are having an awful and short life. Make sure you buy organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html) milk and eggs, which is less harmfull ...
  • Tasmanian devil in danger
    The Tasmanian devil is an endangered species (wildlife/endangered-species.html). Facial tumours are decimating their population. Already 80 per cent of them have succumbed to the contagious facial tumour disease since it first struck in the mid- 1990s. Many people fear the Tasmanian devil will becom ...
  • Taking Care Of Your Green Spiritual Side
    We exercise, take care of our looks, and watch what we eat, but is there more? We take a look at yoga, Pilates and meditation…
  • Environmental News 03/12/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Tips for a Green Office Christmas Party!
    Well, ‘tis the season and all that – so we thought we’d help out with some great tips for throwing an eco friendly Christmas Office party…

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • WikiLeaks: Julian Assange to hand himself in to po ...
    ShareThisWikiLeaks: Julian Assange to hand himself in to police after arrest warrant issued 06 Dec 2010 Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, will hand himself in to police - possibly as early as Tuesday - after a fresh European Arrest Warrant was issued by the Swedish authorities. Mr Assange is ...
  • Julian Assange's lawyers say they are being watche ...
    ShareThisJulian Assange's lawyers say they are being watched --WikiLeaks founder's lawyers also accuse US state department of inappropriate behaviour in not respecting attorney-client protocol 05 Dec 2010 Lawyers representing the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, say that they have been surveilled ...
  • WikiLeaks Prompts Review of Govt IT Security
    ShareThisWikiLeaks Prompts Review of Govt IT Security 06 Dec 2010 Government departments have been ordered to review IT security in response to the WikiLeaks cables, the latest of which revealed a secret list of sites which could "critically impact" US security if they were attacked by terrorists. S ...
  • Soldier killed by US friendly fire was a New Zeala ...
    ShareThisSoldier killed by US friendly fire was a New Zealander in British army 07 Dec 2010 A paratrooper killed when an American fighter fired on friendly forces in Afghanistan was a New Zealander serving with British forces. He has been named as Private John "Jack" Howard, from Wellington. It is u ...
  • Assange's Alleged Rape Victims Bragged of Conquest ...
    ShareThisAssange's Alleged Rape Victims Bragged of Conquests After 'Crimes' --When it comes to Assange rape case, the Swedes are making it up as they go along By Barrister James D. Catlin, who acted for Julian Assange in London in October. 02 Dec 2010 Apparently having consensual sex in Sweden witho ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • The Deadly Fires: Israel’s Katrina?
    The Israeli authorities announced Sunday night that the fire ranging in the Carmel hills since Thursday, Israel’s most devastating fire on record, is now under control. An even worse disaster was averted. The fire did not seriously spread into Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, or its suburb Tirat ...
  • Strawberry Fields Forever
    From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway This week the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced the âbeginning of the export seasonâ in the Gaza Strip. âThe export seasonâ entails the continuation of a short-term program, sponsored â from planting through to distribution â by the Dutch government. The progr ...
  • Correction to the disclaimer, and Happy Hanukkah
    By Jesse Bacon On Tuesday, I posted about a free documentary screening. I then edited that post when I learned that the film received Israeli government funding. I provided the disclaimer for folks who are observing the full cultural boycott of Israel, (which my sponsor Jewish Voice for Peace is not ...
  • Free documentary on Israeli women soldiers; UPDATE ...
    Check out Link Tv’s Doc Debut feature,where you can watch the entire one hour film,  To See if I am Smiling Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. In the award-winning documentary To See If I Am Smiling, the frank testimonials ...
  • Midnight raids continue, father of three taken fro ...
    From the Palestine Solidarity Project Early Thursday morning, at approximately 2:00am, Israeli forces from the Gush Etzion military base came to the homes of brothers and National Committee members Yousef and Mousa Abu Maria. Both are also co-founders of the Palestine Solidarity Project. Mousa, whos ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Worth repeating…civil disobedience STILL works
    This man has spirit, and that’s required for real, positive change!  Reverend Billy Talen is the leader of the Church of Life After Shopping and has been, for months or years now, protesting in bank lobbies to get them to stop funding mountain top removal.  He posted this on facebook: This peacefu ...
  • Naga Viper. World’s hottest pepper can “strip pain ...
    Hananeros? Wimpy! Move over Bhut Jolokia, there’s a new kid in town. The hottest pepper is now the Naga Viper, which was created by a British chili farmer, Gerald Fowler. It measures 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale of hotness. By contrast, the Bhut Jolokia measures about 1,050,000, habaneros are 300 ...
  • $20 solar to hydrogen conversion system
    The system can use water from any source, be it river water, sea water or even waste water. The company claims to that the system is highly efficient and is capable of powering a house with only two bottles of water from ‘any source’. Tata, the huge company from India is seriously interested and has ...
  • Homeland Security and Walmart join on national inf ...
    “The U.S. Homeland Security Department said Monday its “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign has been expanded to Walmart stores across the country” after starting in the New York City MTA. Imagine my excitement. Dale Sommers just said on his Roaddog Trucking talk show(Sirius 147), it’s gua ...
  • Bad craziness. 14 year old drug cartel killer
    Edgar Jimenez Lugo, age 14, was arrested in Mexico. He says he’s been a paid killer and torturer since he was 11. Sometimes if he couldn’t find the target, he’d just kill a passerby so he’d get paid. His teenaged sisters were also arrested. One was the girlfriend of a top cartel leader and a [...]

Coteret

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

Deadline Live

The Air Vent

  • Ljungqvist Analysis Continued
    This is a guest post by Kenneth Fritsch.  He’s taken the time to further the analysis of the unusual proxies from the recent Ljungqvist paper covered here.  Like our work on the Antarctic, this is progressing in baby steps toward a result.  In case you don’t know, I have a ton of respect for peop ...
  • Warnings
    Ok, I’m not a natural book reviewer.   I am a prolific reader however, and simply can’t stop trying to entertain or educate my overworked ganglia.  It is a curse when a book can take hours of  your life yet you can’t stop reading.   Recently Mike Smith sent an email saying he wanted to send me ...
  • Remember When…
    Scientists solve enigma of Antarctic ‘cooling’ – click for article. Research ‘kills off’ climate sceptic argument by showing average temperature across the continent has risen over the last 50 years In the remote and inaccessible West Antarctic region the new research, based on ground measurements a ...
  • Doing it Ourselves
    After ten months of reviews and rewrites we have successfully published an improved version of Steig et al. 2009.  While we cannot publish the paper here, we can discuss the detail.   Personally I’ve never seen so much work put into a single paper as Ryan did and it’s wonderful to see it come to ...
  • ??
    Sent to me by email, the Bishop of Liverpool speaks out on consumption and the environment…….? http://beta.policyreview.tv/video/458/2769

Focal Point

  • A Feminist Lawyer on the Case Against Wikileaks' J ...
    Feminist attorney Jill Filipovic takes a closer look at the sex crime allegations against Julian Assange of wikileaks. I think the post strikes exactly the right balance between being skeptical about the merits and motives of the case against Assange and acknowledging that he's accused of some ...Re ...
  • WAM! Radical '80s Prom Photos
    The Radical '80s Prom was a huge success. We drew over 100 paying customers and raised over $1000 for Women Action and Media, a national organization dedicated to creating gender justice in media. It was the best damned dance party I've ever been to. DJs Marc Faletti and Amanda Marcotte had ... ...
  • Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips Advocat ...
    This sums up everything that needs to be said about the "populist" Tea Party. It's not populist and its values of are antithetical to those of the Boston Tea Party. Last month, Judson Philips, the president of Tea Party Nation, suggested on his internet radio show that only property owners should ...
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Inside Facebook

  • Loopt Tries to Adapt Around Facebook’s Places With ...
    A very early pioneer in the location-based social networking space, Loopt is adapting to a new reality where Facebook is fast-becoming the central hub for location sharing. It’s launching a new version of its app today with a simpler interface that better marries its own check-in data with Facebook’ ...
  • ThinkEquity Says It Advised Peanut Labs Deal
    A collection of big-name banks and boutique investment firms compete across Silicon Valley to provide financial advice to client companies planning to sell themselves, raise money, or buy. They normally try to stay out of the public eye to preserve trust and focus with clients. And in social gaming, ...
  • Developer Roadmap Update: November Rollup Migratio ...
    Facebook has been pushing back a set of updates to its graph API since last month, but according to a developer update from late last week, it’s happening this coming Sunday, the 12th. The changes are for the most part small (we’ve covered them in more detail when they were announced). Here they are ...
  • New Reports, More Data at Inside Facebook Gold
    We’re proud to announce major revisions and improvements for the December 2010 edition of Inside Facebook Gold, our comprehensive business intelligence service providing data and analysis on Facebook. Facebook is today the foundation of a vibrant, dynamic startup ecosystem, and yet it remains a priv ...
  • Facebook Profile Redesign Will Coax More Data From ...
    Facebook has released a major redesign of the user profile which makes more profile info, photos, and friends immediately visible. A single panel navigation system, image-accompanied Likes, Friendship Page previews, and the ability to tag friends in your work, school, and sports info are also new. W ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • WikiLeaks: what, really, is the problem?
    Alan Hart reflects on the WikiLeaks disclosures, arguing that "the problem is not the manipulation of WikiLeaks by any foreign intelligence service but, in effect, the manipulation by key players in the mainstream media, in America especially, of the material WikiLeaks is providing".
  • A just peace, not religion is the solution in Midd ...
    Uri Avnery argues that only Palestinian statehood and a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict offer a chance to stem the tide of religious fundamentalism that is filling in the gap left by the failure of secular Arab nationalism and compounded by the utter uselessness and treachery of Ar ...
  • US technology goes to North Korea via Israel and C ...
    Paul J. Balles views the latest breed of chickens that may come home to roost in the USA: American military technology given to Israel courtesy of US tax dollars, sold by Israel to China, which supplies it to the North Koreans who in turn threaten to use it against the US and its allies.
  • Did Mahmoud Abbas know in advance about Israel's d ...
    Stuart Littlewood scents the whiff of treason in the Wikileaks disclosure that Palestinian “President” Mahmoud Abbas had been forewarned by Israel about its planned onslaught on Gaza and had failed to sound the alarm at the UN and other forums to deter Israel’s slaughter of fellow Palestinians
  • "GOD-TV" evangelical Christian channel funds Israe ...
    Neve Gordon looks at how an evangelical Christian TV channel with a viewership of nearly half a billion people, including 20 million in the USA and 14 million in Britain, is funding a project to ethnically cleanse Israel's Bedouin citizens from their ancestral land.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

  • The Black Masses and the Praise Song
    Many of the “Masses” of Black People have something that is truly undervalued in this “trust no one but yourself” society. These Lumpens of society, if they are believers in Jesus Christ, actually have something of great value that neither hatred, ridicule, nor cynicism can’t snatch from them. Becau ...
  • This Is A Disgrace!
  • “The Persecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assang ...
    World Socialist Web Site 3 December 2010 The American state, its spokesmen in the mass media, and its allies around the world are engaged in an international campaign of vilification and persecution against WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange. This campaign has nothing to do with any supposed crime he ...
  • The most powerful black women in Europe–Black Wome ...
    Black Women in Europe⢠blog announced its first-ever Black Women in Europeâ¢: Power List that includes 58 women in Europe in six categories. The categories are business, lifestyle, media, politics, social entrepreneurs and NGOs. This year’s Black Women in Europeâ¢: Power List 2010 were chosen from ...
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Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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

Unsuitable Blog

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

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • CNN Fails to Correct Mistaken Identity for New Zea ...
    CNN's broadcasts are of packed with cheerleading for the network's viewer participation opportunities. You're encouraged to "share your story" at CNN iReport or "join a live chat" at Anderson Cooper's blog or check out CNN Heroes on Facebook or follow one of the network's nearly three dozen Twitter ...
  • Medill Students: Audience Research Should Drive Hy ...
    At the Block By Block "community news summit" in September, operators of locally focused websites came together to share what they knew and learn from their peers. Almost all of them were looking for advice on how to support their sites financially. Here's a start: "Sustaining Hyperlocal News: An A ...
  • MIT Unveils Civic Tools for Communities Affected b ...
    Last Friday, MIT Center for Future Civic Media's director Chris Csikszentmihalyi formally released extrAct, a suite of Internet-based databasing, mapping and communications technologies for use by communities impacted by natural gas development. extrAct is targeted not only at communities and lan ...
  • Innovation Strategy #1: Don't Take 'No' for an Ans ...
    This past week, Tom Grasty and I were invited to the Paley Center as part of "The Next Big Thing: The New News Entrepreneurs." We were asked to present Stroome before an extraordinary audience stuffed with CEOs, COOs and presidents of some of the world's most important media companies. During on ...
  • How the FCC is Creating Better Open Data
    In the context of our TileMill project, we’ve been talking about our goal to help make open data from governments more actionable by making it easier to turn GIS data into custom maps. We’re focused on building better tools so people can turn data into custom maps to tell better stories online, but ...

Cutting Edge News

  • After the Holocaust - Holocaust Survivors Demand J ...
    In November, the U.S. attorney in New York indicted 17 people for allegedly defrauding programs funded by Germany for Holocaust survivors and administered by the Claims Conference. Six of those charged were Conference employees, including some who supervised these very programs for many years.It is ...
  • The Deaf Edge - Gallaudet University's Identity St ...
    After two protests which rocked Gallaudet University, positive changes are being made but Gallaudet University still does not fully embrace Deaf culture and respect American Sign Language.� The selection of Catherine Murphy as the Director of Public Relations at Gallaudet University recently is anot ...
  • Romania on Edge - Romania: On a Voyage between Hop ...
    As a Romanian with the perspective of someone who emigrated 18 years ago, I can also say that I remain confused each time I depart from my native land. It is a feeling that, frequently, I manage to hide when I return from there because it is difficult to share with my colleagues in Spain, where I no ...
  • Edge on Environment - Understanding How Icebergs F ...
    In an effort to understand how fast sea level could rise as the climate warms, a University of Michigan researcher has developed a new theory to describe how icebergs detach from ice sheets and glaciers. This process of "iceberg calving" isn't well understood. While scientists believe it currently a ...
  • American Education on Edge - Public School Tries S ...
    In public high schools across America, large classes containing a mix of both boys and girls are the norm. However, in a move that’s drawing high marks from students, one public school in Maryland has decided to buck that tradition.Class experimentAt Boonsboro High School in the small, rural town of ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Mumbai 26/11: Two Years Later, Unanswered Question ...
    By Ram PuniyaniThe Mumbai terror attack once more proves that what comes to social awareness is just a tip of the iceberg. Sometimes what is presented is obvious and the deeper truth remains under the hue of the hysterical response. We need to learn a lesson in public life to treat all uncomfortab ...
  • The Oppressed Mind
    By Dave Fryett If quoting a Jewish racists hateful screed against Gentiles is anti-Semitism, then by this logic, reproducing the equally horrific writings of Adolf Hitler against the Jews is mere anti-Germanism. Condemnation of his ghastly book, Mein Kampf, and by extrapolation, the entire Nazi mov ...
  • Seven Reasons Why Capitalism Cant Recover Anytime ...
    By Shamus Cooke As the recession grinds on, politicians in most industrial countries have an incentive to make exaggerated claims about the supposed coming economic recovery. Some say the recession is over. Obama is in the group that claims were on the road to recovery, while other nations can only ...
  • Four Scenarios for the End of the American Century ...
    By Alfred W. McCoyThe Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
  • Honduras: Latin Americas Murder Capital
    By Stephen LendmanBy some accounts, its the worlds 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

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • Washington Post: Obama Administration "Looks Weak" ...
    By Barry Rubin The Washington Post's editorial, �Mr. Mubarak vs. Mr. Obama,��has two passages especially worthy of notice. Among U.S. daily city newspapers, the Post has been the best generally at understanding the serious trouble created by the Obama Administration�s mistakes and mi ...
  • White House Nonsense: The Dream Act Is Like Ginko ...
    The White House is definitely scraping the barrel when it comes to selling the Dream Act which grants amnesty to some illegal immigrants. Stephanie Valencia posted the 10 Reasons We Need The DREAM Act on the White House website and to be honest if that's all she can come up with this Dream Act is ho ...
  • Obama's FCC Commissioner- Free Internet is a Civil ...
    It must be in the constitution somewhere.� The guarantee of free internet.� Maybe its there under the part where the constitution guarantees health care for all whether you want it or not.� Or it could be under the provision that says: "The President is to enforce all laws equally except in the ...
  • HUH? What the Heck is Wrong With Jeffrey Goldberg?
    According to Israeli police, the horrible Israeli wildfire that killed 42 people and forced the evacuation of thousands of others from the outskirts of Haifa through the Mount Carmel region of the country had finally been extinguished. The fire could not have been put out without the help of the si ...
  • Ten Case Studies of Radical Islamists Infiltrating ...
    By Barry Rubin There is a very important�one might say, life-and-death�distinction that should be made in considering U.S. counterterrorism policy. Certainly, U.S. forces have had many successes in stopping intended terrorist attacks against the United States. Yet there have also been a numb ...

The Real Agenda

  • Internet 9/11 Courtesy of Staged Wikileaks Disclos ...
    Is Wikileaks the Internet’s Pearl Harbor? Will Julian Assange and his web operation help bring Martial Law to Cyberspace? by Zen Gardner Think about it. Where is this seemingly staged Wikileaks furor taking us? While we participate in digging into the juicy tidbits of information that incriminate ju ...
  • United States manipulated Climate Accord
    Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage.
  • Em Cancún, Cientistas do Clima caem em Pânico e Me ...
    Alarmistas do clima chamam ao racionamento no mundo desenvolvido, embora tudo seja uma farsa. London Telegraph Tradução ao Português: Luis Miranda O aquecimento global é agora uma ameaça tão grave para a humanidade, dizem alguns cientistas, que estão chamando pelo racionamento nos países ricos para ...
  • A Mafia Narco no Rio: “O Estado criou esses ...
    Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda Com grande entusiasmo temos ouvido, lido e visto relatos na mídia tradicional como a polícia militar brasileira tomou posse do “morro do alemão” no Rio de Janeiro. As imagens eram claras e não houve dúvida de que o ataque chocou pessoas no Brasil e no estrang ...
  • Oficial da ONU: Política Climática é para Redistri ...
    Ottmar Edenhofer confirma que a política ambiental é para implantar modelo neo-feudal Por Luis R. Miranda The Real Agenda As reivindicações feitas pelos céticos do aquecimento global, -que existem razões não descritas por trás da legislação- foram confirmadas por um membro do Painel Intergovernament ...

Wind Watch

  • Can’t fight the fire
    CAPE JERVIS – Do you call the CFS in the event of a wind turbine fire? While it might seem like the right thing to do, according to group officer for the Southern Fleurieu CFS Mr Greg Crawford, there is little to nothing the CFS can do in this situation, as officers found out at the weekend. Last Sa ...
  • Wind turbine permit denied
    BLACKFOOT � The Bingham County Planning and Zoning Commission denied a special use permit on Wednesday that would have allowed Blue Ribbon Energy to install 27 wind turbines near the Goshen townsite. The commission voted five to one to deny the request based on a lack of pertinent information and th ...
  • Wind power threatens rare Texas prairie bird
    One of the most interesting and endearing sights on the Texas prairie is the Lesser Prairie-Chicken. During mating season, males strut and dance, puff up orange air sacks on their necks, and raise horn-like feathers. Maybe you’ve never heard of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken but the odds are you will. T ...
  • Bruce County council backs call for turbine study
    Bruce County council is throwing its support behind a request from Huron-Kinloss that the Grey Bruce Health Unit study the health effects of wind turbines close to homes. “I have a lot of people in my community that have been sick since the turbines [have been] up and working. We hope if we pass thi ...
  • Turbines could create noise problems
    Proposed wind farms in Tippecanoe County have some upset and worried about the noise caused by wind turbines. According to audiologists, new information is coming to light about exposure to wind turbine noise. It shows the turbines may be ruining quiet rural living for some. Julie Peretin said she h ...

Not My Tribe

  • Wikileaks reveals inventory of US possessions crit ...
    To complain that the Wikileaked list of US “critical infrastructure and key resources” provides a checklist of targets for aspiring terrorists is to pretend that opponents of empire are as simple minded as American television viewers. The importance of most of these Critical Foreign Dependencies is ...
  • message from a Hopi elder
    You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered…   Where are you living?   What are you doing?   What are your relationships?   Are you in right relation?   [...]
  • Dancing with the scars, Gaza edition.
    Doesn’t have Bristol Spawn-of-Satan dancing, but it does have Jasper, PikesPeakOceans favorite animated avatar.dancing in his underwear for Netanyahu, Obama, and Ms. Hillary Warning, clicking on this link will cause emotional scars. Hence the title.
  • FOX convicts murdered prisoner, posthumously.
    The Military Police thug who killed him, isn’t contesting the charge that he killed the Human Being, and is instead pleading insanity. “He was off his meds” well, that’s wonderful, the MilPigs put psychotic cops in charge over helpless prisoners. FOX 21 is saying “the Ft Carson soldier ACCUSED OF ki ...
  • Will INTERPOL investigate cyber attacks on Wikilea ...
    Wikileaks has been deprived its DNS service by everydns.net, but you can still reach the site by going to their direct IP, 88.80.13.160. Pass it on. Here is a full list of Wikileaks websites and mirrors. The US War on Freedom is on, and Wikileaks reminds us, we are the troops. wikileaks.org – Offici ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Circular Rationalism
    In several Youtube debates I've had on a variety of different subjects, I've noticed the debunkers/skeptics have a number of vague buzzwords that they like to throw around. They include: 'Reason''Rationality''Debunked by Science''Freethinker' The third one is a common dismissal. "Those 9/11 truthers ...
  • Freudian Projection of Irrelevance
    I don't like stooping to their level, but I'm fed up with debunkers downplaying the credibility of 1300 Architects and Engineers and all the other technical experts in the truth movement. Let's consider the icons of their 'movement' ... A couple of gossip artists with a blog that makes The Daily Mir ...
  • 'Debunker' Pat Curley: the King of Scientific Peer ...
    So one of the peer-reviewers of the Active Thermitic Material paper has identified himself. Here is the current situation as summarized by "Sitting-Bull" on 911blogger.com: It took Prof. Griscom 4 long years to become convinced of 9/11 truth. Science did it. And: Some "Debunkers" already claim he w ...
  • ALERT: US State Department Cannot Afford Professio ...
    Written by John-Michael P. Talboo Friday, 03 December 2010 ae911truth.org Federal Government Website Offers Amateur Video by Student as Authoritative Analysis A new report has been released by the State Department website America.Gov in an effort to debunk the physical and forensic evidence presen ...
  • Geraldo Should Be Impressed by 1300 Architects and ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog asserted yesterday that Geraldo Rivera wouldn't be so impressed by the 1,300+ Architects and Engineers of ae911truth.org if he knew "about the swimming pool engineer or the HVAC engineer or the dental engineer who thinks it was done with beam weapons from ...

Fooducate

  • Soda, Surplus, and Food Stamps: A Short History
    This is a guest blog post by Daniel Bowman Simon Lately there has been a lot of hoopla in the Big Apple about the federal food stamp program, now officially known by the snappy acronym SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.) Over 41 million Americans (and 1.7 million New York City resi ...
  • The New Child Nutrition Act – Will 6 cents make a ...
    On Thursday afternoon, Congress passed the “Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act”. This happens once every 5 years, when the government reviews and re-approves the Child Nutrition Act. The law provides federal funding for feeding millions of schoolchildren lunch and sometimes breakfast for free or greatly ...
  • What are the 10 Most Popular Product Scans on Food ...
    It’s been a month since we launched the Fooducate iphone app. That’s enough time to start seeing some trends. We wondered which products are the most popular. Here then is the list of top ten scans: 1. Nutella – Hazelnut Spread 2. Coca-Cola – Coke 3. Coca Cola – Diet Coke 4. Jif – Creamy Peanut But ...
  • Whole Grains and Dietary Fibers: End Your Confusio ...
    This is a guest blog post by Hope Warshaw, RD. It follows up on her previous guest post. We’re being urged via health messages and big marketing campaigns to eat more dietary fiber and simultaneously to chow down on more whole grains. Beyond the messages to achieve these goals ringing in our ea ...
  • Nutri-Grain, Fake Color, and Why Do American Kids ...
    Take a look at the two packages for Kellogg’ Nutri-Grain cereal bars. One is made here for us. The other is made in the UK for Europeans. Both use food coloring to achieve a more “strawberry-ish” color. In the UK, the coloring is achieved using beetroot. But in the US, the coloring is Red No. 40, [ ...

Traffikd

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

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Global Renewable Energy Developer Expands Use of Second Wind's Advanced Sodar ...
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- Dec 07, 2010
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7, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Renewable Energy Systems (RES), one of the world's leading renewable energy developers and constructors, recently deployed a third ...
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Renewable power is heating up fast in California
San Francisco Chronicle
- Dec 06, 2010
- 13 hours ago
And the process of trying to reach that goal has helped make California the center of renewable power development in the United States, although the cost to ...
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Buoy to measure wind potential in Lake Michigan
Chicago Tribune
- Dec 07, 2010
- 5 hours ago
Grand Valley State University's Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center is leading the project, funded with a $3.7 million federal grant. ...
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Reznick Group Announces Collaboration for Seminar “Critical Drivers for ...
Business Wire (press release)
- Dec 07, 2010
- 1 hour ago
The seminar, “Critical Drivers for Utility Scale Renewable Energy,” will leverage expertise from three leading professional service firms to provide a ...
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'Walking Dead' finale recap: Zombie science and a message about ecology
Los Angeles Times (blog)
- Dec 06, 2010
- Dec 06, 2010
So, this is the way Season One of "The Walking Dead" ends: not with a whimper, but with a giant, all consuming bang, a massive explosion that sees the CDC ...
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Bayview Nonprofit Wins Restraining Order after Losing Contract
The Bay Citizen
- Dec 06, 2010
- 11 hours ago
Arc Ecology, founded by peace and environmental activists in 1983, has been located in a Third Street storefront emblazoned with the words “Community Window ...
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Reid Dairy Farm Recognized For Ecology Leadership
Michigan Farmer
- Dec 07, 2010
- 8 hours ago
In recognition of their proactive efforts, the Michigan Farm Bureau presented its Ecology Leadership Award to the couple on Nov. ...
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Green Power, Port of Pasco at odds on rent
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
- Dec 07, 2010
- 1 hour ago
A spokesman with the Washington state Department of Ecology, which has refused to grant Green Power the air quality permit necessary for its Pasco operation ...
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Administration makes case for water rate hike
Toledo On The Move
- Dec 07, 2010
- 26 minutes ago
by Brian Schwartz TOLEDO, OH -- Mayor Michael Bell's plan to increase water and sewer rates for City of Toledo customers met with staunch opposition Monday ...
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Reese Witherspoon Talks about Co-Star Rob Pattinson
TheCelebrityCafe.com
- Dec 07, 2010
- 47 minutes ago
While promoting her new movie, How Do You Know, Reese Witherspoon talked about her Water for Elephants love interest, Robert Pattinson. “I'm not gonna lie. ...
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Water tanks: Rochester Hills will reconsider after residents object to plan
Detroit Free Press
- Dec 07, 2010
- 5 hours ago
By TAMMY STABLES BATTAGLIA Rochester Hills officials are re-examining a proposal to build two 3-million-gallon water storage tanks in the city, ...
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Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen reopens after United Water repairs water main
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- Dec 07, 2010
- 30 minutes ago
The lane has been closed since 7 pm last night when United Water needed to repair a broken water main in the area. Although repairs were estimated to finish ...
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