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Thomas Paine

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

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

7 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

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Survival International

  • Dozens wounded following police raids on Easter Is ...
    Rapa Nui woman wounded by a rubber bullet © DC RapaNui At least 25 people have reportedly been injured after police evicted indigenous inhabitants from buildings on Rapa Nui, widely known as Easter Island. Since August this year, Rapa Nui people have occupied a number of buildings on land the ...
  • Alternative Nobel Prize Bishop blasts Guarani ‘gen ...
    Bishop Erwin Kräutler marches against the Belo Monte dam © Prelazia do Xingu Catholic Bishop Erwin Kräutler has accepted the Right Livelihood Award, known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, for his work defending the rights of Brazilian tribes. He was honored ‘for a lifetime of work for the hum ...
  • US-backed elite Indonesian forces target churchmen ...
    The latest revelations come just weeks after a video emerged of Indonesian soldiers torturing two Papuan men. © Survival A leading churchman in West Papua has called on President Obama to withdraw US cooperation with Indonesia’s elite ‘Kopassus’ forces, after finding himself on a military ‘enem ...
  • Research shows spiritual beliefs preserve rainfore ...
    Makuxi wearing paishara costumes for a meeting at Bismark to discuss their land claims, Raposa Serra do Sol, Brazil. © Fiona Watson/Survival A recent study suggests that indigenous cultural beliefs such as shamanism help to preserve rainforests and their wildlife. The report is the result of ...
  • Amazon nomads demand justice
    Awá men travel down a road cut by loggers. © Uirá Garcia A group of 10 Awá Indians has made the long journey from the Amazon to Brazilâs capital to demand that the authorities protect their land. Their forest home is being destroyed at a ferocious pace by ranchers, loggers and colonists wh ...

Greg Palast

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

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The folly of another surge
    We'll waste another couple thousand Western lives, untold thousands of Afghani lives and half a trillion dollars banging our head into that wall instead of admitting that American power has real limits, especially in areas that are objectively tertiary interests.
  • An American Future
    So, I’m peering into my looking glass today, or rather tonight, as the snow eddies down, the first snowfall of winter, and it’s winter I see for America, and for the world. It’s clear at this point that America is only the shell of a democracy, and instead is run by a self-perpetuating oligopoly who ...
  • Wikileaks will either be done as Assange does it o ...
    What I’m hearing constantly from the squishy left is that Assange and Wikileaks are irresponsible and blah, blah, blah. “Someone might die” because they didn’t perfectly redact the  Yes, yes, someone might. Of course, if the leaks end the war one day early……, someone might live, eh? If the islander ...
  • Wikileaks And The End of the Open Internet
    Let’s just state the obvious here: we’re seeing the end of the open internet with what is being done to Wikileaks.  It’s one thing for Amazon to toss them, it’s another thing entirely to refuse to propagate their domain information.  This has been coming for quite some time, and Wikileaks is not t ...
  • Obama isn’t about compromise
    People, Obama is not and never has been a left winger.  Nor is he a Nixonian or Eisenhower Republican, that would put him massively to the left of where he is and to the left of the majority of the Democratic party. Instead his a Reaganite, something he told people repeatedly. Until folks get it [.. ...

Age of Autism

  • Denial and the "Normalization" of The Age of Autis ...
    By Anne Dachel I was thrilled to be at the University of MN December 4th when Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill were there to give a talk on their new book, The Age of Autism. They presented the history and...
  • Why Can't We "Cure" Autism in a Few Years?
    By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. It's probably a requirement to read Age of Autism that you don't mind ruffling a few feathers. But when we say a major effort should be made to "cure" autism, an affliction which at a conservatively...
  • J.B. Handley: Hungry Lie 2.0? “Autism is Genetic”
    By J.B. Handley Has there been a statement made with less proof than this one? “Autism is genetic”? I don’t think so. Consider the hopeless Wired Magazine journalist, Amy Wallace, making the following statement: “In fact, the growing body of...
  • Winners and Another Contest! HandHold Adaptive's A ...
    Here are TWO more winners of Autism Track. Kimberly Beck and The Maui Family. Congrats! From our friends from HandHold Adaptive have kindly offered to give NINE Age of Autism readers a free copy of their newest app, AutismTrack. We...
  • Leigh Attaway Wilcox Interviews Lyn Redwood on the ...
    Leigh Attaway Wilcox writes for the Dallas News MomsBlog. She interviewed Lyn Redwood about the SafeMinds PSA campaign designed to inform Americans of their choice in requesting mercury free flu shot for their loved ones. Please read the full post...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

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  • Wikileaks: These leaks spell doom for web freedom
    Daily Mail – When the Daily Telegraph first published details of MPsâ expenses, it was almost impossible to disentangle two very different issues. One concerned MPsâ conduct, and it was clear that an unacceptably large number had indeed abused the allowance system. It was a legitimate public interes ...
  • Pakistan suicide bomb attack kills dozens
    BBC – A suicide bomb attack in north-west Pakistan has left at least 40 people dead, local officials have said. The attack took place at a government compound in the Mohmand Agency as officials met anti-Taliban allies. Dozens of people have also been hurt in the attack, local media say. The area bor ...
  • Cloned meat gets the go-ahead: Minister rejects ba ...
    Dailymail-The spectre of a clone food free-for-all came a step closer yesterday. Ministers want to allow the unrestricted sale of meat and milk from so-called Frankenfarm animals. They are ready to reject the idea of a ban as ‘disproportionate in terms of food safety and animal welfare’. The move wa ...
  • Harms often surface years after cancer drug approv ...
    Reuters – Serious and sometimes life-threatening side effects often go unreported until years after cancer drugs have been approved, Canadian researchers said Monday. Within four years of approval, five of the 12 drugs they looked at had earned a “black box warning” from the U.S. Food and Drug Admi ...
  • Open letter: To Julia Gillard, re Julian Assange
    ABC – …Feelings are running high, and many in this country take the view that the Australian Government ought do more to assist its vilified, beleaguered citizen. Assange has become a cause celebre, as evidenced by the signatories to this open letter, a whoâs who of sorts, from Noam Chomsky to Helen ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • California auto insurance goes green
    California motorists who spend little time on the road could pay significantly lower insurance premiums with new "pay-as-you-drive" auto policies starting in February. To be offered first by California insurance giants State Farm Mutual and the Automobile Club of Southern...
  • Old Altamont Pass turbines to be swapped out by Ne ...
    NextEra Energy Resources will switch out thousands of old wind turbines in the Altamont Pass for newer machines that are more efficient and less dangerous to birds, according to an agreement with Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown’s office. The governor-elect hatched...
  • Mono Lake: a view of life...on Earth and beyond
    Biochemist Felisa Wolfe-Simon didn't know exactly what she would find when she led an expedition to Mono Lake, a body of water near Yosemite National Park that is rich in arsenic that leaches from nearby rocks. A NASA astrobiology research...
  • Films on water, hemp at L.A.'s Egyptian theater
    If "An Inconvenient Truth" put environmental films on the map, the International Artivist Film Festival keeps that spirit alive. The seventh annual event, running through Saturday at L.A.'s Egyptian theater, features 45 films dedicated to raising awareness about the environment,...
  • An acre for an acre: Farmland preservation measure ...
    Before the real estate bust, tract houses were a booming crop in California's farm belt. Parts of the Central Valley were turning into a bedroom community for the Bay Area. So three years ago, Stanislaus County, which has a $1-billion...

water.org

  • Know your charity (NBC)
    How to know where your money goes when you donate to charities this holiday season (NBC Action News) KANSAS CITY, Missouri – [Keith] Stamm is the chief operator for Water.org . The nonprofit group is based out of Kansas City, but it pushes to give clean drinking water to people all over the world. H ...
  • Holiday gifts that give back (CBS)
    Holiday Shopping for Gifts that Give Back (CBS – WOWKTV) CHARLESTON, WV – For a health or sports nut, a water bottle is a simple gift that can help others as well. Actor Matt Damon is pitching “hope in a bottle,” in which 100 percent of the profits go directly to Water.org, one of the [...]
  • Join a conference call with Damon’s Water.or ...
    Join A Conference Call With Matt Damon’s Water.org (Look to the Stars) – This is your chance to hear first-hand from Matt Damon’s Water.org about their work in Tigray, Ethiopia, the impact their programs are having on peopleâs lives, and their plans for the future in this region. Read full Look to t ...
  • Student to swim 10-miles for water (Water.org)
    Carman-Ainsworth High student plans 10-mile swim to raise funds for global effort (Flint Journal/ Mlive – November 29, 2010) FLINT TOWNSHIP, Michigan – Erick Skaff is using his skills in the water to raise money for a clean water cause around the world. The 17-year-old Carman-Ainsworth High School s ...
  • Rec.fm makes online shopping charitable (Benzinga)
    Rec.fm Makes Online Shopping Charitable This Holiday Season (Benzinga – November 26, 2010) – New fundraising platform Rec.fm (http://rec.fm), today announced a special holiday promotion that doubles the amount of money consumers can earn for their favorite charities. Rec.fm normally gives 51% of its ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Cherished perk on the chopping block as schools tr ...
    IOWA CITY, Iowa � Under pressure to cut costs, state universities and lawmakers across the nation are going after one of the oldest traditions in the academic world: the professor's cherished sabbatical.Submitted by Jae A. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Ron Paul: Don't Blame Wikileaks!
    State secrecy is anathema to a free society. Why exactly should Americans be prevented from knowing what their government is doing in their name? In a free society we are supposed to know the truth.Submitted by Sandra Watson to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Mr. Galloway Returns By Diane V. McLoughlin, mclou ...
    FTA: 'Justice Mosley ruled, 'the main reason why the [government] sought to prevent Mr. Galloway from entering Canada was that they disagreed with his political views.' [2] [2a] Submitted by Diane V McLoughlin to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 4 Scenarios for the Coming Collapse of the America ...
    The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imaginesSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Israel, Iran, U.S. have negative images
    Israel, Iran and the United States were the countries with the most negative image in a globe-spanning survey of attitudes toward 12 major nations. Canada and Japan came out best in the poll, released Tuesday. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Violent police attack on students in Turkey
    polis-portakal-gazi-mi-sikti--1007509.Jpeg Police violently attacked to the students in Turkey who wanted to protest the summit of Prime Minister and University Rectors. One pregnant student (age 19) los ...
  • Croatia: Struggle in "Mundus Varazdin"
    vz-mundus3003-pok.jpg Short info about struggle of "Mundus Varazdin" workers. After several cases of the company failing to fulfill its obligations towards the workers, more than 2 ...
  • Nationwide prisoners' struggle in Greece
    A call for solidarity by the Initiative for the Rights of Prisoners for the prisoners in Greek jails who are having a co-ordinated nationwide protest since Monday. Included are the demands of the prisoners. Since Monday 29th November the ...
  • Roaming Marches Disrupt Oxford - Personal Account
    castle.jpg Marches of hundreds (mainly school students) disrupted Oxford City Centre, briefly occupying County Hall, Barclays, Lloyds, and Castle Mound (see the photo), disrupting traffic, and roaming th ...
  • Against the reform, another revolt! Updates on stu ...
    Last night the Chamber of Deputies approved the Gelmini reform. 307 votes in favour, 252 against, 7 abstained. The reform will be passed over to the Senate on 9th December for its 3rd reading, then to the Chamber of Deputies again for the final vote. ...

Free Range International

  • Afghanistan’s Forgotten Province
    There are a couple of recent articles in the flood of coverage about Afghanistan which caught my eye last week.  The first is factually wrong but I understand what the author was saying and he is, in a sense correct.  The second is factually correct, I understand what that reporter was saying too an ...
  • Rules of Engagement
    I have written in the past about night raids and aggressive ISAF convoy tactics causing unnecessary civilian casualties.  I have also written on the importance of not allowing enemy fighters who attack ISAF units to live and fight another day.  Counterinsurgency requires adaptation and my annoyance ...
  • Healing Ulcer
    After only 90 days of fighting to root the Taliban out of a place they have owned for over a decade  Gen McChrystal called Marjah a bleeding ulcer. That was an unbelievably stupid assessment given the nature of the enemy, the rules of engagement placed on the Marines by the General, and the paltry a ...
  • Afghanistan Summary
    This summary comes from Sami the Finn a.k.a Sami Kovanen, the Senior Information Analyst at Indicium Consulting. Sami has been in Afghanistan for over six years now and is one of the best informed analyst working outside of the ISAF security bubble.  He was kind enough to let me post this update and ...
  • On The Border
    The military campaign in Afghanistan is going well apparently.  I read that last Monday here in the Washington Post so it must be true.  But two days ago it took a turn for the worst.  I know that to be a fact too because I read it here in the Washington Post.  The truth is [...]

The Story Behind the Story

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

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Tony Blair, former British PM (Sept 11, 2010)
    He was British prime minister for a decade of change and controversy. This week, as his book "A Journey" hits shelves around the world, Tony Blair is our guest.
  • James Cameron, Director and Activist (Oct 2, 2010)
    He's one of Hollywood's most powerful figures, and, he's been one of the oil sands most vocal critics. That combination had the oil industry on edge when Avatar director, Canadian James Cameron visited Alberta.
  • Robert Fowler, Held Hostage by al Qaeda in Africa ...
    Kidnapped by al Qaeda. The very thought causes shudders. But it happened to this week's guest: one of Canada's former senior diplomats in Africa on a special mission for the United Nations. The challenge: solving a dispute between the government of Niger and the rebel movement MNJ. This week, the Un ...
  • Steve Nash, Two-time NBA MVP (Sept 19, 2009)
    He's one of the best basketball players on the planet, and he's made millions at it. But there's more to this week's guest than just the game. A lot more. This Canadian now makes his name on the courts, in the movies, and doing some pretty good things around the world. This week, he's our guest.
  • Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (Sept ...
    We know it was a recession, but do we know if it's really a recovery? And what about that huge deficit? A dollar again approaching parity with its US counterpart? And the unemployment rate -- could it soon be in double digits? Difficult questions for this week's guest, the man who has to consider th ...

Scotts Contracting

  • Guest Post: Trash Reduction: A 30-Day Plan for Eve ...
    Trash Reduction: A 30-Day Plan for Every Homeowner by: Gerald Arnolds is a guest blogger for My Dog Ate My Blog and a writer for Accredited Online Colleges. Day 1: Do some necessary homework. Before you can start to reduce … Continue reading →
  • Analysts say ignoring global warming will cost the ...
    Nov 19, 2010 Portsmouth Herald Deborah McDermott Nov. 19, 2010 (McClatchy-Tribune Regional News delivered by Newstex) — Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a three-part look at the conference, "Sustainable Future: How Can our Nation Turn the Corner on the Economy and the Environment, and can N.H. Lead ...
  • GLOBE Alliance Will Advocate for Sustainability
    GLOBE Alliance Will Advocate for Sustainability Worldwide The Global Leadership in Our Built Environment Alliance has issued a call for partners to help fight climate change by advancing sustainable design. By:Stephani L. Miller The U.S. Green Building Council and the World Green Building Council (W ...
  • Green by Necessity is China’s New National P ...
    China’s New National Plan: Green by Necessity Tags: Alternative EnergyBest PracticesCase Studieschinalow carbon economyPolicySustainabilityTransportationUrban EconomicsWater November 29, 2010 by Warren Karlenzig China’s new national 2011-2015 economic plan–essentially also its green blueprint–is now ...
  • Work Outs Will Soon Create Energy and Burn Fat
    Gyms Now Producing "Healthy Clean Energy" Tags: Alternative Energyclean energy fitness centersConservation & Recreationfitness centersGreen BusinessGreen RevolutionHealth & Nutritionhealthy clean energySustainability November 30, 2010 by Nathanael Baker "Healthy clean energy" may soon become a catch ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • آغاز تجمع دانشجویی در دانشگاه امیرکبیر
    ه گزارش دانشجونیوز، از ساعات ابتدای صبح امروز شانزدهم آذر 89 حدود 50 دانشجوی دانشگاه پلی تکنیک به این دانشگاه ممنوع الورود شده اند. نیروهای انتظامات بدون ارائه ی دلیل مشخص، از ورود این دانشجویان به دانشگاه جلوگیری می کنند.read more
  • Opposing Iran's supreme leader is denial of God sa ...
    A senior Iranian cleric, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, has suggested that opposing the country's supreme leader amounts to a denial of God.read more
  • What the Media Does Not Say About the Anti-Iran Le ...
    The most intensely debated documents released by WikiLeaks last week were about what some of the Arab rulers think of Iran and its nuclear program. According to the documents, many of the Arab leaders have been privately urging the United States to attack Iran while publicly claiming that they oppos ...
  • «قطع دست فقط در جوامع ابتدايی ممکن است اثر داشته ب ...
    روز چهارشنبه دست يک متهم به سرقت در زندان مرکزی کرمانشاه با  حضور ِِ گروهی به اجراء در آمد  که دادستان کرمانشاه آنها را  «اشرار و اراذل و اوباش سابقه‌دار » خواند.   هدف از به تماشا آوردن اين گروه ، «عبرت گرفتن»  آنها  عنوان شد.   read more
  • Using WikiLeaks to Advance the Narrative of War on ...
    The supposedly "moderate" Arab regimes that are allies of the United States are thus all ruled by unpopular regimes that are dictatorial, even autocratic. Their rulers say one thing about Iran in public and the opposite in private because they are afraid of their own citizens.read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Making Non-Corporate Choices
    America's pre-eminent consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader frequently talks about the last two generations growing up "corporate" in their attitudes and lifestyle choices. An important aspect of growing up “corporate” is automatically giving into constant pressure from t ...
  • The Best Research Corporate Money Can Buy
    As I have blogged previously, the whole notion of fluoride being safe and good for teeth is based on decades of corporations paying researchers to produce the scientific results they want – and burying research and firing and blacklisting scientists whose studies show otherwise. A Systematic Corpora ...
  • Water Fluoridation: a Corporate-Inspired Scam
    As Christopher Bryson outlines in his 2004 book Fluoride Deception, the decision to deliberately dose US municipal water supplies with a potent industrial toxin was basically a corporate scam dreamed up by Alcoa, GM and Dupont in the thirties and forties to stem a tide of lawsuits related to death a ...
  • Fluoride: the New Lead
    It took decades to “prove” that even low-level lead exposure caused mental retardation and behavioral problems in children. In 1973 when I graduated from medical school, there was a mountain of compelling evidence of the terrible things lead in paint and auto exhaust was doing to kids. However under ...
  • The Age of Stupid
    The very last film in our Reel Earth film series was the British movie The Age of Stupid http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1300563/. It's actually a series of extremely thought provoking vignettes. I found the film quite sad, as the plot concerns a 2055 archivist in a world where the arctic ice sheet ha ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Random Notes in the Margins
    A couple of topics that I was unable to squeeze a whole blog post out on, but nonetheless wanted to say something. And yes, in some cases below I am simplifying or not adding obvious codicils: 1.  Germany’s Chancellor Merkel claims that “multiculturalism has failed.” She didn’t exactly define her t ...
  • KOREAN NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES
    December 2nd, 2010. During American and South Korean naval manoeuvres in the Yellow Sea near North Korea a nuclear explosion occurs, sinking a dozen major warships including the American carrier USS George Washington. At least ten thousand American and South Korean sailors and servicemen are killed, ...
  • FBI FOILS OWN TERRORIST PLOT AS STUNNED NATION REE ...
    It’s hard for me to look at the news these days without cringing, so why not share with my readers! The first non-news of the day is the FBI foiling a “terrorist plot” to blow up a Christmas Tree ceremony in Portland with a car bomb. Sounds terrible, doesn’t it, a Somali born teenager tried [...]
  • Should the USA Nuke North Korea?
    A commenter recently suggested that the obvious solution to the North Korean “problem” would be to simply nuke them out of existence. Well, maybe not those exact words, but the basic suggestion was to attack North Korea using nuclear weapons. The North has a huge well dug-in conventional military, w ...
  • Through Thick and Thin
    It’s been a rough week, what can I say. First, the Veterans Day hangover. Being a veteran myself, I am appalled about how what should be a day of somber reflection about the horrors of war has turned into a celebration of permanent war.  And I am so sick of hearing people say and write [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • How the RFA Wastes Your Tax Dollars – Part I: How ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Over the next two posts, I will examine some of the tactics used by the Renewable Fuels Association to justify keeping the $6 billion ethanol subsidy that was made almost entirely redundant when the the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) was passed into law in  200 ...
  • Book Review: The Impending World Energy Mess
    Join the forum discussion on this post I actually had low expectations for The Impending World Energy Mess by Robert L. Hirsch, Roger H. Bezdek, and Robert M. Wendling. Not because I thought Robert Hirsch and company would put out a sub-par book, but rather I have read so many peak oil books that I ...
  • Cellulosic Ethanol Reality Begins to Set In
    Join the forum discussion on this post Delusional Mandates It is hard to believe that just a few short years ago, Congress mandated a massive increase in usage of cellulosic ethanol. This was remarkable, because no commercial cellulosic ethanol facilities even existed at the time. But people like ...
  • Rank the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2010
    Join the forum discussion on this post Platts’ annual survey of the Top 10 Energy Stories of 2010 is now open and will remain open until Christmas: The top 10 survey: what were the biggest oil stories of 2010? They listed about 40 stories; I pulled out a list below that I think is worth debating ...
  • Addressing Oil Company Subsidies
    Join the forum discussion on this post Following my recent essay on the elimination of the VEETC, the major ethanol subsidy in the U.S., some ethanol supporters argued for continuing the subsidies because oil companies receive subsidies. There are many versions of the oil subsidy argument – some of ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 5 Sweet Recipes with Healthy Berries for Holiday E ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Whether you're hosting a full-blown party or just a few friends or family, including berries in your recipes adds some great flavor and colors to the festivities. And not only does fruit make special-event food taste scrumptious, but it also fights the germs we're exposed ...
  • Work Off Your Holiday Stress (and Calories) withou ...
  • Wake Up and Drive! It Could Save Your Life
  • How to Have a Hundred-Dollar Holiday
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The holidays are a time of year that is supposed to be happy and joyful. But this year, with the recession still lingering, job security still tenuous, and unemployment benefits running out for a lot of people, it's hard to look forward to buying piles of big presents (tha ...
  • Legumes Linked to Appetite Control
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—An important solution for staying at a healthy weight might be residing in your pantry: beans and other legumes. As described in a recent article in the medical journal Advances in Nutrition, Purdue University scientists looked at available research on legume consumption, ...

big think

  • Wikileaks Gets It Wrong About Al-Jazeera
    We are becoming used to Wikileaks reports of cables from US Diplomats being immediately accepted as factual statements, rather than opinion based on encounters. The latest being the leaked communiqu�s from the US Ambassador to Qatar, Joseph Le Baron. He claimed that the Qatar based satellite channel ...
  • The War on Drugs Is Reducing Marriage Rates
    The "Just Say No" campaign in the late 1980s increased the severity of sentencing for drug offenders in the U.S. Since that time, particularly since the mid-1990’s, incarceration rates have been steadily increasing to the point that the U.S. now has the one of the highest incarceration rates in the ...
  • The Matrix: The Political Dance of Modern Drawing ...
    You can always count on the MoMA for two things: high-concept theme shows and high-concept theme shows that go in directions you didn’t expect. On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century , which runs through February 7, 2011, begins as you’d expect with the big boys of modernism. Just as th ...
  • 492 - Western DC: Haunt of Superman, Simpsons and ...
    Does a central government need to be literally, geographically central? Of course not. In fact, when considered against the territory they govern, the location of many (if not most) national capitals is remarkably eccentric.�One of the clearest examples is Moscow, 7 time zones and close to 6.000 ... ...
  • A Think Tank for Creative Teens
    It is the perfect time for teenagers who love writing, and writers, to have an outlet for their creativity: they are, or soon will be, reading Salinger in class, and now those among them most excited about the story-telling process have a place to go and to share with others like them. Figment.com . ...

Information Liberation

  • Currency Failures from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A Br ...
    Presented by Timothy Terrell at the Mises Circle at Furman University: "The Coming Currency Crisis and the Downfall of the Dollar," 13 November 2010....
  • To Abolish Crime or to Monopolize It?
    Once, I remember, I ran across the case of a boy who had been sentenced to prison, a poor, scared little brat, who had intended something no worse than mischief, and it turned out to be a crime. The judge said he disliked to sentence the lad; it seem...
  • Bernanke Quivers in Fear During 60 Minutes Intervi ...
    Bernanke is scared, the Fed is scared, their inflationary policies are being exposed and they're being forced to respond. Bernanke is literally quivering with fear in this interview as he lies and says QE2 is not inflationary and "We*re not printi...
  • Ron Paul: 'What we need is more WikiLeaks'
    Popular Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul is no stranger to breaking with his party, but in a recent television appearance the libertarian-leaning Rep. went even further than any member of Congress in defending whistleblower website WikiLeaks. ...
  • Republicans Move to Block Ron Paul from Monetary P ...
    Ron Paul will not head up the House's monetary policy subcommittee if John Boehner has anything to say about it. "Five GOP leadership aides, speaking anonymously because a decision isn't final, say incoming House Speaker John Boehner has discussed...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Blocking Access to Wikileaks May Harm CRS, Analyst ...
    The Library of Congress confirmed on Friday that it had blocked access from all Library computers to the Wikileaks web site in order to prevent unauthorized downloading of classified records such as those in the large cache of diplomatic cables that Wikileaks began to publish on November 28. Since t ...
  • National Security Secrecy: How the Limits Change
    On December 3, I participated in an interesting, somewhat testy discussion about Wikileaks on the show Democracy Now along with Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com, who is a passionate defender of the project.  The ultimate victory of Wikileaks (or something like it) is guaranteed, Mr. Greenwald suggested ...
  • Sifting Through the Fallout from Wikileaks
    The ongoing release of U.S. diplomatic communications by the Wikileaks organization is “embarrassing” and “awkward,” said Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates yesterday, but its consequences for U.S. foreign policy are likely to be “fairly modest.” “I’ve heard the impact of these releases on our for ...
  • Kim Philby on Truth in Diplomatic Cables
    As confidential U.S. diplomatic documents continue to enter the public domain, it is worth remembering that not everything that is written down in a government document, even (or especially) in a classified document, is necessarily true.  “Truth telling” involves a bit more than trafficking in offi ...
  • Nuclear Physicist Sam Cohen
    Nuclear physicist Sam Cohen died Sunday at age 89, the Washington Post reported in an obituary today. Cohen, a veteran of the Manhattan Project, conceived, designed and advocated development of the neutron bomb, a high-radiation anti-personnel weapon. He cordially despised the Federation of American ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Searching for scientific abbreviations
    Ambiguous abbreviations and acronyms are annoyances when it comes to text search and data mining. As a writer-editor, I was always taught to spell out the long form (LF) of a short form (SF) at first mention in a document so that the reader would know that when I mentioned EBV I was referring to [.. ...
  • Santa Claus Science
    Santa Claus, Father Christmas, Saint Nicolas, Kris Kringle, Sinterklaas. Call him what you will, at this time of year, for children who celebrate everywhere, many questions of a scientific nature arise and parents squirm in their efforts to answer them. Now, Gregory Mone, a contributing editor at Po ...
  • Latest scientific discoveries
    Forget fruit and veg. Lose weight and cut the booze to reduce cancer risk People should be warned that cancer is linked to obesity and alcohol, rather than urged to eat more fruit and vegetables to protect against the disease. UK trialling testing sugar-coated salt on roads Although they’ve been usi ...
  • Science snips
    Yet more science news snippets from David Bradley Related Posts:Periodic Table of Science BloggersMicrobial BioremedySpectral LinesHappy New YearCassini-Huygens newsScience snips is a post from: Sciencebase Science BlogScience snips is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
  • Climate change and digital music
    Information technology has a carbon footprint, that’s beyond doubt. Now, writing in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Christopher Weber, Jonathan Koomey and Scott Matthews in the US in work supported by grants from Microsoft Corporation and Intel Corporation have calculated that ...

RFF Library

  • The Impact of Air Quality on Hospital Spending
    Rand Corp. / by John A. Romley, Andrew Hackbarth and Dana P. Goldman http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR777.html Air pollution is harmful to human health, but little is known about the costs of pollution-related health care. If such care imposes a significant burden on insurance companies ...
  • Three Essays in Transportation Energy and Environm ...
    Rand Corp. / by Sara Hajiamiri http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD261.html Concerns about climate change, dependence on oil, and unstable gasoline prices have led to significant efforts by policymakers to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and oil consumption. Within the transportation s ...
  • Managing New Orleans Flood Risk in an Uncertain Fu ...
    Rand Corp. / by Jordan R. Fischbach http://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD262.html This dissertation addresses one of New Orleans’ most critical challenges: how to make the city more resilient and less vulnerable to future flood damages. The author considers proposals to augment the existin ...
  • Making Policy in the Shadow of the Future
    Rand Corp. / by Gregory F. Treverton http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP298.html The National Intelligence Council’s (NIC’s) 2008 report Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World projects what the world will look like in 2025 based on recent trends. However, as an intelligence organization, ...
  • Residential Insurance on the U.S. Gulf Coast in th ...
    Rand Corp. / by James W. Macdonald, Lloyd Dixon and Laura Zakaras http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP284.html The hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005 brought devastating losses of life and property; they also threw the residential insurance market in the Gulf States into turmoil. Insurance ...

Scientific American - News

  • Pending U.S. Food Safety Bill Promises More Accoun ...
    Where did your most recent meal come from? Whether or not it was the supermarket, a nice restaurant or nearby drive-through, its contents probably came from not just one U.S. locality but a smattering of states--and countries. Just which ones, though, neither you nor the people who sold, packaged ...
  • Diminishing returns?: U.S. Science Productivity Co ...
    Science in the 1990s and into the early 21st century continued to advance the frontiers of knowledge--but less efficiently than it did earlier in the 20th century, according to a new study commissioned by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The report examines scientific publication trends in the ...
  • Targeting Practices: How Can Online Advertising Co ...
    The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) call for a "do not track" mechanism to be created to protect Web users' private information from being exploited by online advertising networks sounds good on paper, but implementing such a technology would be a thorny process. It is not because the technology is ...
  • Poison Nil: Mono Lake Bacterium Exhibits Exotic Ar ...
    Life as we know it is remarkably diverse and adaptive, permitting organisms to gain a toehold in some of the most outwardly inhospitable places on the planet. But it tends to rely on a tidy, predictable array of six nutrient elements, a modest alphabet of basic biology that leaves open the possibili ...
  • WikiLeaks Breach Highlights Insider Security Thre ...
    The ongoing WikiLeaks expos� not only circulated hundreds of thousands of secretive government documents , it has also swiftly prompted changes to the system designed to share access to them. On Tuesday, the U.S. State Department cut off a military computer network's access to its files, dramatic ...

RAWA News

  • Karzai pardons criminals, drug dealers: WikiLeaks
    AFP: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered the release of numerous dangerous criminals and drug traffickers detained by US-led coalition forces, leaked American diplomatic cables revealed Tuesday. American officials said they had repeatedly rebuked the president and Afghan attorney general Muham ...
  • Hungry for Some Truth on the Afghanistan War
    Huffington Post: When will the Obama administration stop damaging its credibility by denying the failure of the Afghanistan War? It seems every day we get another report showing that the Taliban’s momentum continues despite President Obama’s massive troop increase. But, somehow, the administration's ...
  • Good Cop, Bad Cop: Afghanistan’s National Po ...
    CBS: While the Afghan army has made some strides in recent years, the national police force has developed a reputation for drug abuse, illiteracy and desertion. Earlier this month The New York Times reported that up to 19 Afghan police officers from southwest of Kabul defected to the Taliban en mass ...
  • AFGHANISTAN: Women remain prisoners
    IRIN: Over 80 percent of Afghan women, particularly in rural areas, are illiterate and have very little or no awareness about their human rights, including the right to a fair trial, according to aid agencies. For a woman to refer a case to the police or a prosecutor is widely believed to be pointle ...
  • Afghan Children Face Everyday Deprivations
    The Guardian: Mark Sedwill's claim that children in Kabul are better off than those in many western cities (Children safer in Kabul than in Glasgow, says Nato spokesman, 22 November) deserves attention, not because it is accurate (which it is not) but because it illustrates a shocking disregard by s ...

frogblog

  • Farrar’s fat fib on the foreshore
    I missed this last week. The National Party's blogmeister David Farrar posted a pack of lies in response to challenges to the Government's foreshore and seabed legislation.
  • What are you wishing for our kids this Christmas?
    It's Day Two of our 'Twelve Days of Christmas' campaign to guarantee our kids the essentials this Christmas. What are you wishing for our kids this Christmas?
  • Rally brings hope for safer cycling
    Yesterday, along with my colleagues Keith Locke and David Clendon (and Jacinda Ardern from Labour), I had the pleasure of attending the Bikes for Life rally in Auckland which you may have seen on the news last night. The rally was called in response to the recent spate of deaths we ...
  • List of Wikileaks mirrors
    Wikileaks will not be censored.
  • What we’re wishing for this Christmas
    Today, we're launching a 'Twelve Days of Christmas' campaign urging New Zealanders to guarantee the essentials for every kiwi kid this Christmas.

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

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

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Houston, the Tax Cuts Have Landed
    Apparently President Obama has reached a tax cut deal with Republican negotiators. It will extend all the Bush tax cuts for two years and do a few more things besides: The deal includes reducing the 6.2 percent Social Security payroll tax on employees by two percentage points for a year....It also ...
  • Chart of the Day: Who Votes, Who Counts
    Via Ezra Klein (and simplified by me), this chart largely explains why sky-high unemployment hasn't produced any real sense of urgency in our political class. It's because unemployment is high among people who don't vote and low among people who do. If the stock market were crashing or corporate pro ...
  • Economics and Crankery
    Noah Millman writes a long post today about people — conservatives mostly — who claim to maintain a radical skepticism toward conventional economic remedies for our lousy economy. He ends with this: What professed skepticism frequently amounts to is a vulnerability to crank theories. The people I ...
  • Fighting WikiLeaks
    Clay Shirky is conflicted about WikiLeaks: he acknowledges that over the long haul human organizations of all kinds require a certain amount of secrecy, but he also thinks that the appearance of a guy like Julian Assange working to subvert a bureaucracy overly addicted to secrecy is occasionally a g ...
  • Living in Fox's World
    A friend from Virginia emails about Obama's deal with Republicans on extending the tax cuts: I hate to say this but I do have my ear to the ground with a lot of "regular" folks and the way this impending "deal" is being described by most of them is that Republicans are pushing to keep the tax cut ...

Insanity Report

  • The Douchetastic Bill Maher
    “I thought, when we elected the first black president, as a comedian, I thought two years in, I’d be making jokes about what a gangsta he was, you know?” Maher said. Instead, Maher said we’ve got “President Wayne Brady.” I’m by no means overly sensitive.  I think we’ve established that.  On face v ...
  • IC 214: The Tiny Lister Eye
    Topics for the show: Brett Favre proves the NFL is “No Country for Old Men” Tron Legacy & Yogi Bear show the extreme ends of the spectrum in movies What Hollywood does right and what they do wrong Video games have stepped up to the level of movies in terms of storylines How both sides [...]
  • The Dumbest Debate In The Country Right Now
    We argue and debate a lot of dumb things in this country.  Every time Sarah Palin “writes” a new Facebook note or tweets something on Twitter, the media decides to talk about how she “might could be” running for President.  They ignore things like the factual inaccuracies she’s spewing or the fact ...
  • IC 213: The Day After 4 Loko
    Topics for the show: The first show after the 4 Loko Podcast Party Rules for drinking How did we not die or get Herpes in College? Lebron goes back to Cleveland Kriss hates personal fouls and the lax punishment for fighting in the NFL Obama is caving on the Bush Tax cuts? WikiLeaks leaks the [...] ...
  • Someone Get Julian Assange a Hot Cup of STFU
    Every time WikiLeaks drops thousands of “shocking leaked government documents” on the web, people ask me to comment on it. I guess because I always talk about politics, I’m supposed to care about this stuff. Well the truth is I don’t. I guess I don’t understand why I should be shocked that these cab ...

Simple Climate

e!Science News

  • Influenza virus strains show increasing drug resis ...
    Two new studies raise public health concerns about increasing antiviral resistance among certain influenza viruses, their ability to spread, and a lack of alternative antiviral treatment options. The findings are published in the January 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases. (Please see bel ...
  • Study reveals 'secret ingredient' in religion that ...
    While the positive correlation between religiosity and life satisfaction has long been known, a new study in the December issue of the American Sociological Review reveals religion's "secret ingredient" that makes people happier. read more
  • John Theurer Cancer Center presents studies on pro ...
    HACKENSACK, N.J. (December 7, 2010 at 7:30am) — The John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center announced today important research findings presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) taking place December 4-7, 2010 in Orlando, Florida. The ASH ...
  • Low-dose aspirin reduces death rates from range of ...
    The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has contributed to a study showing that a low dose of aspirin reduces the occurrence of several common cancers. The study is published in today's Lancet. read more
  • Why married men tend to behave better
    Researchers have long argued that marriage generally reduces illegal and aggressive behaviors in men. It remained unclear, however, if that association was a function of matrimony itself or whether less "antisocial" men were simply more likely to get married. read more

unEarthed

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

Brave New Climate

  • Monthly Argument debate: climate change – is ...
    Remember this? Want to see me go head-to-head in a ‘bar room brawl’ with Jim Green and a representative from Friends of the Earth (Cam Walker)? Want to see on what I agree — and disagree — with Arthur Dent (formerly Albert Langer) on energy options for the future and the possibility of nuclear energ ...
  • Media reactions to the Energy paper – part 1
    It’s been fascinating to watch the media reaction to our Energy paper on how carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies. It has certainly stirred a lot of interest, and the timing was admittedly celestial, because two other reports on electrici ...
  • The arithmetic adds up to nuclear
    Yesterday, The Australian newspaper published an Op Ed piece by Nicholson, Biegler & Brook, entitled Emission reductions are not blowin’ in the wind, which discusses our recent paper in Energy. The print (dead tree) version of the article even had the graph shown here included! However, the editor h ...
  • Nuclear is the least-cost, low-carbon, baseload po ...
    This is a press release to accompany a new peer-reviewed paper by Martin Nicholson, Tom Biegler and me (Barry Brook), published online this week in the journal Energy. In subsequents BNC post, I will look at how the media has reacted so far to the story (the good, the bad and the ugly), and also [.. ...
  • The effect of cutting CO2 emissions to zero by 205 ...
    Guest Post by Dr Tom M. L. Wigley. Tom is a a senior scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Division of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research and former Director of the CRU. He is an adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide. For his list of papers and citations, click here (hi ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • 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 ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Obama Just Lost 2012
    Caving this time cost you your job. Extending tax cuts for the filthy rich while giving crumbs to the starving makes me sick to my stomach. Just giving the Republicans everything they want without so much as a whimper. Barry, you are not a Democrat. In fact I want my money back.
  • Republicans, Don’t Listen to David Stockman
    If you are a Republican, you had better not listen to David Stockman, Reagan’s budget director that created the trickle down fantasy. If you accidentally listen to what he says, you would realize that more tax cuts, the main plank in the Republican platform is insane. He is not happy with President ...
  • Raise Taxes or Cut Taxes?
    Raising taxes, and spending the money wisely, and on programs that promote economic fairness, stimulates the economy. Cutting taxes on the filthy rich stimulates hoarding, and not the economy. They should teach this in kindergarten. Every single billionaire makes sure the media that serves him teach ...
  • Economic Treason
    The Republicans plan on retaking the White House by performing endless economic treason. Regardless what the president, and the Democrats do to repair our struggling economy, the Republicans will stand in the way. The can count on a corporate controlled press to never call them out for filibustering ...
  • Republicans Are Herd Animals
    The tea bag caucus, it turns out, got over One Billion in PORK. Whoda thunkit…

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Israeli racist rabbis not afraid of the law
    Fifty rabbis demand Jews will not rent apartments to gentiles – and the law seems to defend them. Fifty Israeli rabbis, mostly municipal chief rabbis â that is, officials drawing their salary from public funds â published this morning a psak, religious ruling, forbidding Jews to rent or sell apartme ...
  • Why did they kill Jaurès? An Israeli lament
    I have a new hero. I first heard of him long ago. It would be difficult to miss his name. Walk down any odd street in France and you’d pass pass a “Jean Jaurès high scool”. Often enough, the street himself will be named after Jaurès. Indeed, the street just south of my house here [...]
  • 50 Israeli Rabbis issue ruling forbidding renting ...
    Rabbis behind the ruling are state employees. So far, not one of them was prosecuted or fired The Israeli media is reporting this morning that some 50 rabbis have signed a declaration calling for Jews not to let Arabs hire apartments in their communities. The Rabbis expressed support for Rabbi Shmue ...
  • British Consul General Heads European Diplomats At ...
    The UK’s Consul General in Jerusalem attended the appeal hearing in the case of Abdallah Abu Rahmah at the Ofer Military Court of Appeals today, along with many other European diplomats. Former US president Jimmy Carter and The Elders issued a statement calling for Abu Rahmah’s immediate release ear ...
  • Update from South Hebron Hills: The IDF on cruise ...
    Israeli activists that try to escort Palestinian farmers to their water holes are met with smoke grenades and threatened with arrests By Mairav Zonszein Bir-el Eid, South Hebron Hills – Last Saturday, Taaâyush activists escorted again Ziyad Yunis from Bir el Eid to his water cistern. Once again sett ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Listen To How a Judge Who “Get’s It&#8 ...
    Watch the ABC News Story Here! Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Wiki Leaks- Building US Jobs By Leveraging China&# ...
    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 07 BEIJING 000231 SIPDIS STATE FOR E, EAP, EAP/CM STATE FOR EEB/TPP WCRAFT, CLAYTON HAYS, HHELM STATE FOR H/BETSY FITZGERALD, EAP/CM SHAWN FLATT,SCA/RA JOHN SIPLSBURY STATE PASS USTR FOR DMARANTIS, TREIF, TIM STRATFORD, ANN MAIN, JEAN GRIER DOC FOR IRA [...]
  • Pinellas County, Florida’s Sixth Judicial Ci ...
    As questions over servicers and ownership of notes and mortgages have now made their way into the public discourse, I’ve been looking backwards, deconstructing these arguments and tracing the roots of the arguments and the very real questions which are being debated around the world and the admissio ...
  • WHAT???!?!?!?!?! A Must Read Order!
    I’d ask, “Are you kidding me?”, but we’re talking about someone’s home and a little thing called Due Process…. order+lee+county+rule+1+510e+is+obliterated+12+2010 Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • MERS- The Legal Chimera
    MERS is a corporate creature created to fulfill the objectives of the securitization marketplace.  As the securitization model has unraveled, focus again shifts to the role of MERS in the debacle that is the American system of property ownership.  The attached exhibits offer insight into the legal g ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • For Women, A Chance At Last
    The narrative on women’s issues in the modern age has dominated its fair share of political attention in this past year. With the government’s attention on maternal health for the G8 meetings, concern over human trafficking, the primacy of women’s concerns over the loss of the gun registry, and the ...
  • “Thanks For Coming”
    You know something is essentially broken in politics when a clear case of human need in society is passed off by a government that attempts to hide behind legislation in order to absolve itself of just plain humanity. Such is the case with the some 400 Nortel pensioners on long-term disability who, ...
  • A Nation Afraid Of Its People
    Speaking to a luncheon of legislators from around the world, John Kennedy attempted to hold out what he thought was the greatness of America: We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid ...
  • Nip and Cut
    Well, Movember is over. The effort by some 80 MPs, their staffs and security guards on the Hill came out of nowhere in late-October and became the talk of the Commons for a month. Barely even mentioned a year ago, Justin Trudeau helped to bring the effort to Ottawa and it created some interesting dy ...
  • They’re Just Tea Leaves
    I walked into the House of Commons early yesterday and ran into a couple of journalists waiting to talk to any MP they could find about their thoughts on the by-elections. It was supposed to be Michael Ignatieff’s “Waterloo,” according to pundits, yet the mood of the journalists was sombre at best. ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • US Nanotechnology Environmental, Health & Safety R ...
    The US National Nanotechnology Initiative’s latest iteration of its Environmental, Health and Safety Research Strategy has just been posted on-line for public comment.  Between now and January 6, anyone who is interested is encouraged to read the draft and comment on the on-line portal – hopefully ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    As you’ll have gathered from last week’s Lost in the Maize, I’ve been on the road this week.  In fact, I am writing this on the plane back to Detroit, looking forward to a quick wash, shave, sleep, and catch-up with family, before heading off to the Society for Risk Analysis annual meeting in Salt [ ...
  • Emerging technologies at the World Economic Forum ...
    In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it comes to technology ...
  • Risk Science – A personal perspective
    As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend a good portion of my “inst ...
  • Risk, uncertainty and sustainable innovation: Feed ...
    Despite the risk of receiving absolutely no comments (please don’t let me down!), I thought I’d try something new and ask for some feedback on the background blurb for a meeting I’ve been working on. The meeting is a symposium on Risk, Uncertainty and Sustainable Innovation being organized by the Ri ...

Reader Supported News

  • Obama Announces Bipartisan Pact on Taxes
    The report begins: "President Barack Obama has announced a bipartisan agreement on year-end legislation to extend expiring tax cuts and renew jobless benefits as part of a sweeping attempt to strengthen the economic recovery." President Barack Obama, flanked by House Minority Leader John Boehner ...
  • Obama Announces Bipartisan Pact on Taxes
    The report begins: "President Barack Obama has announced a bipartisan agreement on year-end legislation to extend expiring tax cuts and renew jobless benefits as part of a sweeping attempt to strengthen the economic recovery." President Barack Obama, flanked by House Minority Leader John Boehner ...
  • WikiLeaks Founder Threatens to Release Entire Cach ...
    The article begins: "At the center of a tightening web of death threats, sex-crime accusations and high-level demands for a treason trial, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange threatened to unleash a 'thermonuclear device' of completely unexpurgated government files if he is forced to appear before auth ...
  • WikiLeaks Cables: CIA Drew Up UN Spying Wish List ...
    The Guardian reports: "The US state department's wishlist of information about the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and other senior members of his organisation was drawn up by the CIA." The CIA prepared a list of information on UN officials and international diplomats that it wante ...
  • GOP, Dems Nearing Deal on Taxes, Jobless Benefits
    The article begins: "An outline of a bipartisan economic package is emerging that would temporarily extend the Bush-era tax rates for all taxpayers, while extending jobless benefits for millions of Americans." From left, Senate Democrats Jack Reed, Mark Begich, Ben Cardin, Sherrod Brown, Charles ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • U.S. And NATO Allies Escalate Military Buildup Aga ...
    Stop NATO December 6, 2010 U.S. And NATO Allies Escalate Military Buildup Against Iran Rick Rozoff The new Strategic Concept adopted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at its summit in Lisbon, Portugal on November 19-20 reiterated the U.S.-led military bloc’s determination to expand military ...
  • North Korea As Pretext: U.S. Builds Asian Military ...
    Stop NATO December 3, 2010 North Korea As Pretext: U.S. Builds Asian Military Alliance Against China And Russia Rick Rozoff On December 1 the U.S. and its South Korean military ally completed four days of naval maneuvers in the Yellow Sea where China claims a 200-mile exclusive economic zone. The U. ...
  • U.S. And NATO Prolong And Expand Greater Afghan Wa ...
    Stop NATO December 2, 2010 U.S. And NATO Prolong And Expand Greater Afghan War Rick Rozoff Over 150,000 foreign troops from more than fifty nations will spend another Christmas in Afghanistan. The tenth since the U.S. and Britain invaded the nation on October 7, 2001 and the North Atlantic Treaty Or ...
  • U.S. Recruits Russia As Junior Partner To Maintain ...
    Stop NATO November 24, 2010 U.S. Recruits Russia As Junior Partner To Maintain Global Dominance Rick Rozoff This past weekend the world witnessed an event that until recently would have seemed inconceivable: A Russian head of state attended a summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Preside ...
  • Lisbon Summit: NATO Proclaims Itself Global Milita ...
    Stop NATO November 22, 2010 Lisbon Summit: NATO Proclaims Itself Global Military Force Rick Rozoff The recently concluded North Atlantic Treaty Organization Treaty summit in Portugal gave Washington everything it demanded from its 27 NATO allies, at least 20 NATO partners providing troops for the wa ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • Washington Passes Secret Energy Tax
    Canada Free Press ALERT: It looks like the climate bill debate has already been decided by Washington and voters didn’t even have a chance to say “NO!” A staggering $65 billion dollars has been transferred from the private sector to fund the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). RGGI is governm ...
  • POLICE STATE 2010: Philly Cops Stopping & Searchin ...
    Related Posts: POLICE STATE 2010: Guns drawn, FBI raids peace activist’s apartment Is the AP deliberately fear-mongering Europe terror threat to sell body scanners? American College Student Gunned Down, Kidnapped and Tortured In Secret Prison Engineers Slam Internet ‘Censorship’ Bill Ahead of Key Se ...
  • Western Civilization Has Shed Its Values
    By Paul Craig Roberts The Intel Hub Western Civilization no longer upholds the values it proclaims, so what is the basis for its claim to virtue? For example, the U.S. print and TV media and the U.S. government have made it completely clear that they have no regard for the First Amendment. Consider ...
  • BREAKING: WikiLeaks Being Used to Justify “P ...
    Eric Blair Activist Post Senator Mitch McConnell called Assange a “high-tech terrorist” on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday and said, “if itâs found that Assange hasnât violated the law, then the law should be changed.” Over the weekend, an insightful article by Zen Gardner exposed how WikiLeaks resemble ...
  • BP Oil Spill Worker Sues Memorial Company Over Cor ...
    UltimateMemorial.com by Andrea Dearden A Louisiana man is suing his former employer and the BP Corp., claiming it never warned him he was working with dangerous chemicals during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill clean-up effort. Seaman David Leon Brooks filed the Jones Act complaint against Tidewater ...

FRS

  • Wikileaks now mirrored at 500 sites around globe
    The Atlantic Magazine, December 6, 2010 Following multiple attacks and attempts to shut down Wikileaks.org, the site’s operators laid out a new plan. They asked Wikileaks supporters around the world to host their own copies of the site, known as mirrors, and created tools to make doing so easy. In ...
  • Communist Party of the Philippines declares mutual ...
    December 7, 2010 Central Committee â¨and⨠Military Commission of the â¨Communist Party of the Philippines National Executive Committee, â¨National Democratic Front of the Philippines We hereby declare to all commands and units of the New People’s Army (NPA) and the people’s militia a ceasefire orde ...
  • Cancun: underwater protest at climate change talks
    TckTckTck partners, Greenpeace and 350.org, have staged a haunting underwater tableau to highlight the need for urgent action as the UN Cancun climate talks go into their second week. Young people dressed in everyday wear, dived amongst the statues at the underwater art installation, Silent Evolutio ...
  • Grand jury subpoenas hit more Palestine solidarity ...
    WBEZ, Dec. 03, 2010 � Grand-jury subpoenas Friday afternoon may signal that the federal government is expanding a probe of Midwest antiwar activists. Attorney Jim Fennerty said the FBI served subpoenas to at least two Chicago-area women who visited the Israeli-occupied West Bank this summer. Fennert ...
  • Athens: Protestors clash with Greek police
    AlJazeeraEnglish | December 06, 2010 Police and demonstrators have clashed in the Greek capital, after thousands of people gathered to mark the anniversary of a police shooting. The demonstration marks two years since police shot dead 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. His death sparked weeks of ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • The Strategy of Recognizing Our Enemies, or Why We ...
    The second category of enemies are those who on the surface would appear to be allies - our esteemed fellow conservationists. Unfortunately, Sea Shepherd is the "Lady of the Night" of the conservation movement. Many of our allies do agree with our objectives in the daytime but they don't want to be ...
  • TJP Liberty Report from Gaza – Ken O’K ...
    Virtually unreported by the western propaganda machine is the almost daily shootings of Palestinians in the so-called “buffer zone”. This land happens to be the best agricultural land in Gaza and in a state of siege in which 80-90% of the population is reliant upon aid to survive, these shootings ar ...
  • Getting shot at by Israelis in Beit Hanoun, Gaza
    Today is the International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine. So today we expressed our solidarity by painting messages of support on a wall in Beit Hanoun and demonstrating against the ongoing siege of Gaza. Despite this entire event being completely peaceful on our end, Israelis shot ...
  • My mum interviewed by Salem News
    A lovely story by Salem News in which my mother is interviewed. It is indeed the boundless, unconditional love that she gave to me that is responsible for any good deed I have done in my life. If only every child were given the same, we would have a better world within one generation.� Thank [...]
  • Truth Behind Blockade of Gaza – As Revealed ...
    News Release – For immediate release – Thursday, October 21, 2010 Due to Gisha’s Freedom of Information Act Petition on Gaza Closure: Israel Reveals Documents related to the Gaza Closure Policy à After 1.5 years of obstruction, today Israel revealed the procedures governing the closure of Gaza and t ...

StillSmallVoice

  • God be merciful to me, a sinner
    I've mentioned�that I am not a fan of holiday inflatables. I wish I were a bigger person, but there you are. I am not. And come to find out, my neighbors' assortment (I count four, but there may be five. It's hard to tell if the larger one is actually two smaller inflatables and I don't much want t ...
  • Here's a nice thing
    Rock�-- who, like Cher, goes by just one name --�is the owner of Newington's Doogie's�restaurant, and the franchisor of The Clam Digger, of Waterbury. When his businesses give to charity, they�usually give to the Humane Society because,�Rock says, animals are often overlooked. But this Christmas,� ...
  • At least we have a name for it.
    On Monday, a Courant story about an assault by teen girls�at Eleanor House, a therapeutic group home�in Hartford,�moved a reader to comment:� throw them outside and let them freeze to the sidewalk. we all know why there [sic]parents left them years ago now. there [sic] not going anywhere in life� ...
  • Because you can't listen to the Hallelujah Chorus ...
    And thanks, Mike, for the inspiration.
  • Virginia Thomas says call to Anita Hill was probab ...
    In October, the conservative leader who is also the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, left a phone message for Anita Hill suggesting Hill apologize for testimony she gave against Thomas during his 1991 confirmation hearings. Virginia Hill� recently resigned as leader of Liberty Centra ...

Associated Content

  • Jobless Rate Hits 9.8 Percent, Unemployment Benefi ...
    The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest unemployment numbers Friday and, coupled with the lowered expectations of the Federal Reserve and the potential expiration of the unemployment extension benefits for millions, those numbers...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Dec 06, 2010
  • Swiss Bank Closes Out on Wikileaks Founder Julian ...
    Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, faces legal and political fire. A Swiss bank has now jumped on the bandwagon, freezing his personal accounts.Contributor: S.S. Sanks Published: Dec 06, 2010
  • Ben Roethlisberger Broken Nose Merely Latest Bruis ...
    Ben Roethlisberger endured a broken foot to get on the field last night. Therefore, getting a broken nose on the first series was almost nothing, as he still got a last-minute touchdown throw to beat Baltimore - but can his luck last till February?Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Dec 06, 201 ...
  • Facebook Cartoon Profile Pic News Reaches Climax
    After days of Facebook users putting up cartoon profile pictures - with celebrities now getting in on it - the phenomenon is now nearing an end. The news is about to reach a peak, if it hasn't already, since the campaign ends at midnight tonight.Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: Dec 06, 2010
  • The Newest Fad to Hit Facebook -- Did it Really Ac ...
    Over the last few weeks, the goal on social media site Facebook has been to encourage all users to change their profile picture to a favorite childhood cartoon character in an effort to raise awareness to violence against children.Contributor: Deborah Braconnier Published: Dec 06, 2010

Truth Offering

  • Latest Poll - Week Ending 12/5/10
    This time around, we wanted to know what you thought of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy. More specifically, we asked, "Do you think the Federal Reserve's monetary policy will lead to hyperinflation?" Here are the results: So although we didn't all agree it would happen soon, we all say hyperi ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated men ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated mention ...
  • Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Relatio ...
    At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the Uni ...
  • Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Relatio ...
    At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the Uni ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Climate Groups Retool Argument For Global Warming
    The number of Americans who believe that global warming is a scientific fact has been dropping, and environmental groups and climate scientists who say the evidence for warming is clear are scratching their heads over this reversal and scrambling to find a new strategy.
  • AP Reporters Try to Breathe Life Into Moribund UN ...
    I do hope that Associated Press reporters Arthur Max and Charles J. Hanley are finding some recreational time while they are reporting from Cancun about what’s happening at the “United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.”
  • A look at America's deadliest space weapons
    Space weaponry has been the focus of military men since the Nazi German High Command began exploring the concept as far back as the late 1930s. Following WWII and the advent of atomic weapons, the USSR and USA began to compete for domination of Earth orbit. Both realized the strength contained in t ...
  • Mounting State Debts Stoke Fears of Looming Crisis ...
    Budget imbalances, state and local government debt worry analysts
  • State Department To Columbia University Students: ...
    Talking about WikiLeaks on Facebook or Twitter could endanger your job prospects, a State Department official warned students at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs this week.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • American threats will derail Iranian nuclear talks
    Summary: Sadegh Kharazi After almost one and a half years, on Monday Iranian diplomats and their “5+1” counterparts returned to Geneva to resume talks over a number of issues, including Iran’s nuclear programme. The mood music in the run-up to these discussions has been negative, with American ...
  • Lessons from WikiLeaks
    Summary: The globalization process will gradually deliver its unique products that will naturally affect existing global arrangements. These products will be a mixed blessing for political systems: from the weakened power and monopoly of nation-states vis-à-vis the expanding information networ ...
  • Expectations low for Iran nuclear talks
    Summary: American diplomats have arrived in Geneva for the first international nuclear talks with Iran in over a year, which are set to get under way on Monday. The Obama administration and European officials have said expectations are low for the new round of nuclear talks, which are expected ...
  • Genuine Engagement with Iran Still the Best Way Fo ...
    Summary: For the sake of regional security, Washington and its European allies should accept the Tehran Declaration as the basis of negotiations for a nuclear fuel swap. This landmark declaration was brokered by the leaders of Brazil and Turkey in May, 2010. The arrangement, originally approved ...
  • Wiki-Leaks and plausible lies - Where have all the ...
    Summary: While the revelations in the Wiki-leaks documents about the true nature of the US government and its imperial attitude towards other nations are welcome, I find myself in the strange position of having to agree with Hillary Clinton, David Cameron et al that the leaks won't affect anyo ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Mystery of Dark-Matter Galaxies Orbiting the M ...
    People used to think that the heavens were a vast clockwork, with planets and moons moving in circular orbits like a vast timepiece. Recent advances have shown us that this stellar machinery is far vaster than they ever suspected -...
  • Can Human Aging Stop? A Radical New Theory Says "Y ...
    Evolutionary biologist Michael Rose, at University of California, Irvine, says he has discovered a natural path to achieve “biological immortality” without the use of anti-aging drugs and stem cell treatments. Humans eventually achieve a period of non-aging, Rose suggests, just...
  • Image of the Day: The Sleeping Beast -Milk Way's S ...
    Astronomers have long wondered why it is that the super-massive black hole in the center of our galaxy, nown as Sagittarius A*, containing about 4 million times the mass of our Sun is relatively quiet.. Yet, despite its size, the...
  • China Completes Planet's Most Accurate Map of Anta ...
    Chinese scientists have shifted its focus from mapping the moon to completing the world's first land cover map of the Antarctica at the end of this year. The result will be the most accurate map of the continent ever published....
  • From the X File Dept: 1924 - US Navy Ordered to Li ...
    It seems that a SETI experiment happened decades before Project Ozma -a pioneering SETI project started in 1960 by Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake (image below), at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia. The object of...

Natural News

  • Net neutrality, the FCC, Wikileaks and the future ...
    (NaturalNews) Regardless of what you think about the Wikileaks release of state secrets, there's no debating the astonishing fact that the internet made these leaks possible. Without the internet, no single organization such as Wikileaks would have been able to so widely propagate secret government ...
  • Lack of vitamin D makes kids fat
    (NaturalNews) Why are American kids so often overweight and even downright fat to the point many are developing type 2 diabetes, a disease that used to be unheard of except among middle-aged folks? Is it all due to junk food diets and lack of exercise? Those factors no doubt contribute to the epidem ...
  • U.S. war veterans being killed with high-dose psyc ...
    (NaturalNews) Questions are being raised over whether a widely prescribed anti-psychotic drug may be contributing to the deaths of traumatized U.S. war veterans.Among those who recently died while taking AstraZeneca's blockbuster drug Seroquel are Marine corporals Andrew White and Chad Oligschlaeger ...
  • Health care bankrupting California as Schwarzenegg ...
    (NaturalNews) Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency in California today, then immediately called for $9.9 billion in spending cuts; mostly from health benefits and health-related services. Gov. Schwarzenegger has come to realize what NaturalNews has been warning readers for year ...
  • California judge orders illegal GMO sugar beet cro ...
    (NaturalNews) For the first time in history, a judge has ruled that an illegally-planted, genetically-modified (GM) crop be destroyed. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White of California ruled back in August that all future plantings of GM sugar beets cease until the U.S. Department of Agriculture condu ...

Threat Level

  • Why WikiLeaks Is Good for America
    A truly free press — one unfettered by concerns of nationalism — is apparently a terrifying problem for elected governments and tyrannies alike. It shouldn’t be. In the past week, after publishing secret U.S. diplomatic cables, secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has been hit with denial-of-service atta ...
  • WikiLeaks’ Assange To Meet With U.K. Police Over S ...
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to meet with British police over an arrest warrant and extradition request from Sweden, according to reports from the British press. “Late this afternoon after close of business I got a call from the police who said that they had received an extradition re ...
  • WikiLeaked Cable Says 2009 Brazilian Blackout Wasn ...
    SAO PAULO — Despite widespread speculation at the time, a massive power outage that left 18 out of the 26 Brazilian states in the dark for up to six hours last year was not the result of a cyberattack, according to a classified diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks last week. The Nov. 10, 2009, b ...
  • WikiLeaks Releases Secret List of Critical Infrast ...
    A secret memo listing critical infrastructure facilities around the world was published by WikiLeaks on Sunday, prompting criticism that the publication could serve as a target-list for terrorists. The cable, written in February 2009 and classified “Secret,” lists more than a hundred facilities tha ...
  • Columbia University Reverses Anti-WikiLeaks Guidan ...
    Days after Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) caused an uproar by warning its students against linking to WikiLeaks or discussing the secret-spilling website’s latest cache of diplomatic cables online, the prestigious training ground for future diplomats has chan ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Meet the Winners of the Class War
    Back in 2006, billionaire Warren Buffett lamented, "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." Now with President Obama's capitulation imminent on extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich, average Americans will once again be the big ...
  • GOP Peddles Uncertainty Myth About Taxes
    In their scorched-earth effort to deliver another $700 billion tax cut windfall for the wealthy, Republicans have fittingly appropriated their favorite global warming talking point: "uncertainty." Mitch McConnell, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and John Boehner are just of the GOP leaders claiming "Con ...
  • Obama and McCain on the Couch
    Watching Barack Obama and John McCain over the past week has left pundits and armchair psychologists alike scratching their heads. While the two foes from the 2008 presidential election couldn't be more different, their puzzling performances over tax cuts for the wealthy and the repeal of Don't Ask ...
  • Wikileaks Confirms McCain Dangerously Wrong on Geo ...
    Assessing the impact of the Wikileaks revelations, Fareed Zakaria concluded the confidential cables actually show "the skills of U.S. diplomats." Overall, Zakaria was reassured that "the State Department works" and by "an American diplomatic establishment that is pretty good at analysis." But in o ...
  • The "Thank You Sir, May I Have Another" President
    In January 2009, President Obama journeyed to Capitol Hill to meet with Congressional Republicans on the stimulus. Unbeknownst to the President, Minority Leader John Boehner had already instructed his entire GOP caucus to vote "no" on the bill they were to discuss with Obama. Now, history is repea ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

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

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texas vs EPA – the saga continues
    US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set a December 1, 2011 deadline for 13 states to develop plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, as the agency prepares to implement its major new rule January 2. A dozen of the states plan to submit emissions plans that do not account for GHG emissio ...
  • Don’t forget to pre-register for the 3rd Annual Au ...
    If you haven’t already pre-registered to celebrate the holidays at the 3rd Annual Austin Green Holiday Party, do so soon.  It is coming up soon and this year it is hosted by 10 great organizations. Fiesta Gardens  (2100 Jesse E. Segovia St., Austin, TX 78702) Thursday, December 16th, 2010 from ...
  • Is declining energy quality a root cause of the cu ...
    In a paper published this November in the journal Environmental Research Letters by energy expert Dr. Carey King of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, a center based at the  University of Texas at Austin’s  Jackson School of Geosciences, he concluded that an overlooked ...
  • 20,000 Sacrificed In Annual Blood Offering To Corp ...
    The nation looked on in reverence Friday as 20,000 citizens were decapitated, dismembered, and burned alive in the name of Corporate America, continuing the age-old annual rite to ensure bounteous profits in the coming fiscal year. . . . The blood offering follows last week’s Feast of Increasing Mar ...
  • Emily Cross: Global Warming and Campaign Finance I ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Emily Cross is a Political Science student at Rice University. Emily hugs trees during her free time.

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Croatia to land on the Moon in 2012
    Croatia's space program is set to land its "Histrohod" rover on the Moon by the end of 2012. Costing 20,000 Euros and funded by a number of private do...
  • Creationist 'ark' park angers scientists
    A $150 million amusement park based on Noah's Ark is going to be developed in Kentucky. Scientists have criticised the move by Kentucky Governor Steve...
  • World's oldest Christmas tree at 124
    Officially the oldest imitation Christmas tree in the world the 14th inch tree was originally bought in 1886. Paul Parker received the tree which has ...
  • Dr Who's sonic screwdriver - a reality ?
    Engineers are developing a device able to move and manipulate objects using ultrasonic sound waves. While it only works on a very small scale at the m...
  • The apple that never goes brown
    A biotechnology company has produced a genetically modified apple that doesn't go brown when sliced. Okanagan Specialty Fruits believes the new type o...

Grassroots

  • The global forum “For Life, Environmental and Soci ...
    viamarch.jpg By�Cloc/The Via Campesina(Cancún, 5 December 2010) One idea dominated the opening and first working day of the global forum �For Life, Environmental and Social Justice�, organized by La Via Campesina and its allies at their camp i ...
  • New Map Shows Concentration of Factory Farms
    Subheadline:� Food & Water Watch Analysis Finds Livestock on Factory Farms Grew by 20 Percent in 5 Years Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Food & Water Watch (a Grassroots International ...
  • International Solidarity Cools the Planet
    cancuns.jpg by Sara Mersharead more
  • Rural Women (and Men) Lead the Way in Ending Viole ...
    707729276_d8407e6648_t.jpg � � Today, November 25th, is observed around the world as the International Day to Eliminate Violence against Women. Grassroots International joins women and men everywhere�in calling for an end to all violence � int ...
  • A New Kind of Disaster in Haiti in the Midst of St ...
    un_haiti_tent.jpg Haitian peasant leader, Chavannes Jean Baptiste, put it best: �Haiti is going from disaster to disaster.��He was talking about debilitating disease among displaced people in squalid living conditions, tropical storms destroyi ...

Climate

  • China Buoys Climate Talks with "Binding" Target
    Source:� Reuters China on Monday offered for the first time to submit its voluntary carbon emissions target to a binding U.N. resolution, buoying climate talks after Bolivia accused rich world policies of causing "genocide." �
  • Canada among Top Climate Change Culprits
    Source:� CBC Canada is the fourth worst out of 57 countries evaluated for their performances in helping halt climate change. The top three are Saudia Arabia, Kazakhstan and Australia, according to a new report.
  • Rich Countries Failing to Deliver £30bn Climate Ai ...
    Source:� Guardian Rich countries were accused of failing to deliver on their promise of $30 billion in aid to countries that will experience the worst ravages of climate change.
  • Saudi Wants Nuclear Power 'Soon': US Official
    Source:� AFP Saudi Arabia plans to be producing nuclear power within 10 years. "They want to have civil nuclear power as a part of their mix ... relatively soon," a senior US trade official said.
  • Mount Everest Shows Signs of Heavy Metal Pollution
    Source:� Washington Post Following in Edmund Hillary's footsteps? Don't drink the water on your way up. Dangerous levels of arsenic and cadmium have been found in snow samples from Mount Everest. read more

GreenBiz

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

Reuters Global

  • Does Germany need Europe?
    Jim O'Neill, the new Goldman Sachs Asset Management chairman who is famous for coining the term BRICs, reckons he know why Germany might not be rushing to bail out all the euro zone debt that is under pressure. Europe is not as important to Berlin as it was.
  • Ivory Coast puts Africa’s credibility on the ...
    Ivory Coast's election has put African and U.N. credibility on the line and could raise concerns over whether deals to end other African post-election crises have established a new model for leaders to emerge as the winner from elections even if they lose them.
  • It was news, but not as we know it…
    "We end a week of fiction," NASA's Dwayne Brown said.
  • Denuclearising Pakistan
    At about the time WikiLeaks released tens of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables, including one related to a secret attempt to remove enriched uranium from a Pakistani research reactor, a top Pakistani military official held a briefing for journalists that focused on U.S.-Pakistan ties.
  • WikiLeaks Scandal: Is the United Nations a Den of ...
    U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has dismissed suggestions that her diplomats are part-time spies, as suggested by the latest batch of documents released by the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.

Booman Tribune

  • Wanker of the Day: Jim Inhofe
    I wonder, what are the absolutely essential elements of any good Christmas parade? You have to have Santa, right? And I'm thinking you need some reindeer. Some red and green lights. Are elves mandatory? What else? A sleigh would be nice, especially sleighbells. How about some giant candy can ...
  • Serious Questions
    Isn't Dick Lugar conservative enough for the Republican Party? Is it really necessary to give him a primary challenge because he's less than 100% unhinged? Is that what things have come to? Discuss
  • Deal or No Deal?
    Paul Krugman wants the president to call the Republicans' bluff and let all the Bush tax cuts expire, essentially raising taxes on everyone who isn't living in poverty. Krugman acknowledges that this will complicate the unemployment situation but he thinks it's worth it to protect the long-term sol ...
  • A Leaking, Wilting Mustache
    For a guy who goes around talking about globalization and a flat world, Tom Friedman sure seems surprised to discover that America can't dictate outcomes the way we used to. He appears to have just learned that Arab regimes want us to blast Iran to smithereens. It looks for all the world like he's ...
  • Not Feeling Confident
    I like Jeff Merkley's leadership on reforming the filibuster, but I feel like Charlie Brown lining up to kick the football. Nothing I've seen indicates that the Democrats in the Senate have the kind of intestinal fortitude to stay united on anything important. What do you think? Discuss

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • When is Giving Not a Gift After All?
    By Judith Barr, MS, LPC, Power: Healing to the Root Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Judith and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile In this time of giving – the holiday season – it is vital for us to truly comprehend giving . . . not in the one-sided way it’s taught in our world, but r ...
  • Nurturing the Nurturer: Tips for New/Seasoned Moms ...
    By Andrea Schneider, LCSW Postpartum Depression Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Andrea and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The holidays are swiftly upon us, and for many, it is a season of joy, anticipation, family and friends, decorations, and memories in the making. For the woma ...
  • Changing Our Perception of Bully Psychology and Co ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline For years, many people’s attitude towards bullying was that it was a “rite of passage,” something that would ultimately make kids stronger, according to professor Dan Olweus. Olweus has spent his career researching bullying’s causes and effects—an area of study that’s ...
  • Eat to Control Your Anger. Get Your Grocery List H ...
    By Yvonne Sinclair M.A., MFCC Click here to contact Yvonne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Remember the old days? No, not that early… I mean the real old days, like the 40’s and 50’s. Well, I am sure some of you were not even a thought in your parent’s expectations at that time. Have you see ...
  • Step Two – Creating Your Soul Mate
    By Yvonne Sinclair, MA, MFCC, Relationship Enhancement Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Yvonne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Isn’t it wonderful?  Isn’t it marvelous to feel another person loves you just the way you are? Another person cares about your needs and wishes ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop Removal film hits screens - Louisville ...
    Mountaintop Removal film hits screens Louisville Courier-Journal ... the Louisville Film Society will host two screenings of a new documentary about the effects of mountaintop removal mining on a small Eastern Kentucky ... and more��
  • Worth repeating...civil disobedience STILL works - ...
    Worth repeating...civil disobedience STILL works OpEdNews ... 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. ...
  • Jonathan Franzen on activism, overpopulation, and ...
    Jonathan Franzen on activism, overpopulation, and birds The Guardian There is a place for radical stances -- Greenpeace with the whales, some of the anti-mountaintop-removal stuff going on in Appalachia. ... and more��
  • West Virginia submits comments on mountaintop mine ...
    West Virginia submits comments on mountaintop mine permit SteelGuru West Virginia is standing by its permit for the state's largest mountaintop removal mine in Logan County. The state said that it has submitted comments to ... and more��
  • Blankenship Quits As CEO Of Massey Energy - Care2. ...
    Reuters Blankenship Quits As CEO Of Massey Energy Care2.com (blog) Blankenship has been the face of Big Coal in the Appalachian, a country that has seen huge tracts of land purchased and destroyed by mountain top removal ... Massey CEO ends profitable career marred by blastThe Associated Press Cont ...

Memeorandum

  • The Wikileaks sex files: How two one-night stands ...
    Richard Pendlebury / Daily Mail: The Wikileaks sex files: How two one-night stands sparked a worldwide hunt for Julian Assange  —  A winter morning in backwoods Scandinavia and the chime of a church bell drifts across the snowbound town of Enkoping.  Does it also toll for WikiLeaks founder Julian ...
  • Elizabeth Edwards gravely ill with cancer (Associa ...
    Associated Press: Elizabeth Edwards gravely ill with cancer  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Elizabeth Edwards over the past six years has seen her husband's presidential ambitions thwarted, retreated from public life as their marriage disintegrated over his affair, then emerged to advocate for changes …
  • Wonkbook: Everything you need to know about the Bu ...
    Ezra Klein: Wonkbook: Everything you need to know about the Bush tax cut deal  —  I'll admit it: I didn't think they had it in them.  A temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts?  Sure, they could manage that.  Fear is a powerful motivator in Washington, and nothing scares politicians like the thre ...
  • Obama sells out the left: a Republican win on taxe ...
    Jennifer Rubin / Right Turn: Obama sells out the left: a Republican win on taxes  —  There really is no other way to say it: the Republicans won, the liberal Democrats lost, and the president sided with the Republicans.  The subject, of course, is an agreement to extend all the Bust tax cuts.
  • Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested in Londo ...
    BBC: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London  —  Julian Assange denies sexually assaulting the two women  —  The founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been arrested by police in London.  —  The 39-year-old Australian, who was the subject of a European ar ...

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China Dialogue

  • Moving past Mexico
    Whether the Cancún climate summit succeeds or founders may not matter, writes Andrew Pendleton. Long-term progress depends on national politics.The last time Cancún played host to a major inter-governmental summit was in 2003. Then, the fifth ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation colla ...
  • Cancún’s climate colonels
    Success in Mexico – and global security – depends on the ability of frontline negotiators to handle the tensions, write Nick Mabey and Shane Tomlinson.The experience of managing complex peacekeeping missions has led the military to coin a valuable term: the “strategic colonels”. Strategic colonels c ...
  • Counting carbon
    Uncertainty in national emissions inventories is par for the course and not an excuse for inaction in Cancún, writes Jay Gregg. A deal on transparency looks possible – and there is every reason to push for it.Creating national emissions inventories seemed easy: I would simply take the energy consum ...
  • Country conflicted
    US negotiators headed to Cancún weakened by a year of domestic disappointments, but bright spots for American climate policy still exist. Linden Ellis asked a group of experts what to expect next. The United States has entered the climate talks in Cancún with a newly elected, sceptical and divided ...
  • The wrong revolution
    Populist politicians have railroaded America’s climate-change efforts, creating global deadlock that shows no signs of breaking soon, writes Jan McGirk.“You don’t need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows,” the singer Bob Dylan once rasped. But a little guidance wouldn’t hurt the growing po ...

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Threat Level

  • Why WikiLeaks Is Good for America
    A truly free press — one unfettered by concerns of nationalism — is apparently a terrifying problem for elected governments and tyrannies alike. It shouldn’t be. In the past week, after publishing secret U.S. diplomatic cables, secret-spilling site WikiLeaks has been hit with denial-of-service atta ...
  • WikiLeaks’ Assange To Meet With U.K. Police Over S ...
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to meet with British police over an arrest warrant and extradition request from Sweden, according to reports from the British press. “Late this afternoon after close of business I got a call from the police who said that they had received an extradition re ...
  • WikiLeaked Cable Says 2009 Brazilian Blackout Wasn ...
    SAO PAULO — Despite widespread speculation at the time, a massive power outage that left 18 out of the 26 Brazilian states in the dark for up to six hours last year was not the result of a cyberattack, according to a classified diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks last week. The Nov. 10, 2009, b ...
  • WikiLeaks Releases Secret List of Critical Infrast ...
    A secret memo listing critical infrastructure facilities around the world was published by WikiLeaks on Sunday, prompting criticism that the publication could serve as a target-list for terrorists. The cable, written in February 2009 and classified “Secret,” lists more than a hundred facilities tha ...
  • Columbia University Reverses Anti-WikiLeaks Guidan ...
    Days after Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) caused an uproar by warning its students against linking to WikiLeaks or discussing the secret-spilling website’s latest cache of diplomatic cables online, the prestigious training ground for future diplomats has chan ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • UK police arrest WikiLeaks' Assange over rape clai ...
    LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange handed himself in to British police on Tuesday after Sweden issued a warrant for his arrest over allegations of sex crimes, London's Metropolitan Police said.
  • China hits back at criticism over North Korea
    BEIJING/ SEOUL (Reuters) - China Tuesday hit back at the United States and its Asian allies for their refusal to talk to North Korea, saying dialogue was the only way to calm escalating tension on the divided Korean peninsula.
  • US STOCKS-Futures rise on tax cut deal
    * Futures up: S&P 10.4 pts, Dow 76 pts, Nasdaq 19.5 pts
  • Argentina recognizes Palestine pre-1967 borders
    BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's government said Monday it had decided to recognize a Palestinian state based on borders before the 1967 war, following a similar move days earlier by neighboring Brazil.
  • Married men are nicer, and here's why
    NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men tend to behave better when they're married - both because marriage likely helps improve their behavior, and nicer men are more likely to be married in the first place, a new study reports.

IntelNews

  • Some spy news in the shadow of WikiLeaks’ re ...
    The WikiLeaks revelations continue, and so does the global news storm concerning the whistleblower site. Obviously, the news value of the WikiLeaks disclosures is unquestionable. However, there are notable intelligence-related developments taking place outside the now-familiarWikiLeaks context. Con ...
  • FBI allegedly looking for Russian spy inside NSA
    American counterintelligence investigators are allegedly trying to uncover at least one Russian-handled double agent operating inside the US National Security Agency (NSA), according to information published on Wednesday. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #457
    Belgium investigates Colombian spying allegations. Russia reshuffles foreign intelligence after spy scandal. Israel gets new spy chief amid big shuffle. Continue reading →
  • More underreported WikiLeaks revelations
    Some of the least noticed revelations include a 2009 dispatch from a US diplomat in Tel Aviv, which appears to confirm the close secret relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, despite the fact that these two countries have no official diplomatic connections. Another diplomatic cable r ...
  • Some underreported WikiLeaks revelations
    Undoubtedly the most underreported WikiLeaks disclosure concerns a 2007 meeting between US officials and Meir Dagan, the then Director of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency. During the meeting, Dagan apparently "presented US with five-step program to perform a coup in Iran". Continue reading →

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Grist - News

  • Guarded hope at U.N. climate talks
    by Agence France-Presse. CANCUN, Mexico -- Negotiators on climate change were raising their hopes Sunday after signs of modest progress in Mexico, but a dispute over the future of the Kyoto Protocol threatened to derail momentum. The 194-nation talks at the Caribbean resort city of Cancun were ...
  • Cancun climate talks hit bump thanks to Japan and ...
    by Agence France-Presse. CANCUN, Mexico -- World climate talks struck a sour note on their third day Wednesday as Japan was accused of weakening the campaign for a post-2012 treaty by retreating from the landmark Kyoto Protocol. With negotiators laboring to unblock a complex, interlinked two-tr ...
  • Obama extends drilling ban in wake of BP spill
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has reversed a decision to expand oil exploration off U.S. coasts and, in the wake of the BP spill, will extend a deepwater drilling ban in certain areas through 2017, the administration said on Wednesday. The move, announced by Inter ...
  • Worldchanging’s bright green contribution
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Rumors have been floating around for a while, but on Monday the unfortunate fact became public: the sustainability news and advocacy site Worldchanging is shutting down. The 501c3 non-profit will dissolve by the end of the year, though the hope is to preserve its seven-year o ...
  • Why it’s OK for big polluters to get stimulu ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. A hefty new investigation from the Center for Public Integrity takes the Energy Department to task for giving stimulus (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) funding to industrial polluters while waiving requirements that they conduct environmental-impact reviews. It's an i ...

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Farming Pathogens

  • Grainmorrah
    I gave the following presentation Friday night at Give & Take, an interactive show and tell happy hour held monthly at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. Both informative and a lot of fun. Even our ancestors, without a smartphone among them, played like kids on the harvest moon. But fair warning: histo ...
  • Help/Harm
    Many of us only reluctantly accept one of life’s toughest lessons. In the course of doing our very best to make a better world–decades all blood, sweat and tears in the face of hideous odds–we may discover ourselves really fouling a few things up. The road to hell, etc., etc. Never realizing our mis ...
  • Virus Dumping
    Man came to shake my hand / and rob me of my farm –Ryan Bingham Dumping grain on another country is a classic maneuver in economic warfare. When a country’s borders are opened by force or by choice, by structural adjustment or by neoliberal trade agreement, when tariffs and other forms of protection ...
  • We Can Think Ourselves into a Plague
    The power of the mind is a New Age staple. But, really, can I concentrate enough to levitate myself (much less get my laundry done today)? The materialist answers, funny you mention it, but, yeah, you can. A few minds thought through the ideas that produced the airplane and perhaps soon enough the p ...
  • How Mayor Bloomberg Causes Obesity
    Yeah the doctors don’t know, but New York was killing me / Bunch of doctors coming round, they don’t know / That New York is killing me / Yeah I need to go home and take it slow in Jackson, Tennessee -Gil Scott-Heron On October 6 Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked the United States Department of [...]

Suzie-Q

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

Solari

  • DOJ Targets the Little Wall Street Schemes
    By Courtney Comstock The Justice Department is now announcing the details of their latest crackdown on fraud schemes like market manipulation and ponzi schemes. The big announcement we’ve all been waiting for is a bit of a letdown because its almost all ponzi schemes and the biggest we’ve read abou ...
  • Obama, Republicans Reach Deal to Extend Tax Cuts
    By Carrie Budoff Brown President Barack Obama announced an agreement with congressional Republicans Monday night to extend the Bush-era tax cuts to all Americans for two years — including wealthier families — but it still faced serious opposition from many in the Democratic Party. The deal also inc ...
  • Fed Wants to Strip a Key Protection For Homeowners
    By Tony Pugh As Americans continue to lose their homes in record numbers, the Federal Reserve is considering making it much harder for homeowners to stop foreclosures and escape predatory home loans with onerous terms. The Fed’s proposal to amend a 42-year-old provision of the federal Truth in Lend ...
  • Monetization of U.S. Government Debt
    By Michael Pollaro As of 2nd quarter June 2010, the Federal Reserve held 25.7% of the U.S. government’s public held debt outstanding, up from 15.1% 4th quarter 2000.  And as for foreign central banks, they just love U.S. government debt, holding 37.1% of outstandings, up from 19.1% 4th quarter 2000 ...
  • Solari Report - Selected Tax Issues to Consider Wh ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

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    Summary:  This is the first in a series looking at the US and global situations.   Here  we look at one of the large processes ending the post-WWII era — the leveraging and deleveraging of the developed nations.  It’s as much a psychological and political process as an economic one.  It’s a ...
  • The latest jobs news, watching the recovery in act ...
    Summary:   Corporate profits are strong.  Spending by the rich is skyrocketing (look at art prices).  The Republican’s top objective is extending the tax cuts for the rich and cutting social security and medicare benefits for everybody else.  So the economy must be doing fine, with excellent jo ...
  • The home-grown aspect of the jihadist menace
    Summary:  Much of our home-grown terrorism results from the government’s careful nurturing, clearly seen in the many cases since 9-11.  It’s yielded a full harvest:  a fearful and tame public.  Here are some of these stories. Domestic jihadist terrorists since 9-11 comes in several forms.  Mo ...
  • A look at America’s lost decade
    Summary:  When the new Congress takes their seats in January, the Tea Party-dominated House will have many goals.  Jobs for the unemployed is not among them (they prefer to trust in the Blue Fairy).   The numbers paint a sad story, of little interest to our ruling elites. Let’s look at America’s ...
  • Why the Turkey is not our national bird, and a rem ...
    Summary: For our Constitutional regime to survive the coming troubles we’ll need social cohesion.  That means remembering who we are as a people and nation.  Remembering our shared history.  And most of all, remembering that America belongs to us, its citizens.  No matter how powerful our eli ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Report calls for radical redesign of cities to cop ...
    The Guardian-Megacities on the Move report says authorities must start planning their transport infrastructure now for a future when two thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. Moving away from car ownership, using real-time traffic information to help plan journeys and having more vir ...
  • Wikileaks: These leaks spell doom for web freedom
    Daily Mail – When the Daily Telegraph first published details of MPsâ expenses, it was almost impossible to disentangle two very different issues. One concerned MPsâ conduct, and it was clear that an unacceptably large number had indeed abused the allowance system. It was a legitimate public interes ...
  • Pakistan suicide bomb attack kills dozens
    BBC – A suicide bomb attack in north-west Pakistan has left at least 40 people dead, local officials have said. The attack took place at a government compound in the Mohmand Agency as officials met anti-Taliban allies. Dozens of people have also been hurt in the attack, local media say. The area bor ...
  • Harms often surface years after cancer drug approv ...
    Reuters – Serious and sometimes life-threatening side effects often go unreported until years after cancer drugs have been approved, Canadian researchers said Monday. Within four years of approval, five of the 12 drugs they looked at had earned a “black box warning” from the U.S. Food and Drug Admi ...
  • Open letter: To Julia Gillard, re Julian Assange
    ABC – …Feelings are running high, and many in this country take the view that the Australian Government ought do more to assist its vilified, beleaguered citizen. Assange has become a cause celebre, as evidenced by the signatories to this open letter, a whoâs who of sorts, from Noam Chomsky to Helen ...

The Progressive Realist

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

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Obama's Tax Deal.
    Basically, in exchange for temporary extension of all the Bush tax cut and a capitulation to the conservative Democrat-Republican consensus on the estate tax, President Obama will get 13 months of unemployment benefits, a year long pay-roll tax cut, extensions of tax credits in the stimulus, and som ...
  • Losing Faith in Obama.
    Paul Waldman asks whether the president has finally gone a step too far in compromising with Republicans. From the moment Obama emerged on the national scene, his ability to weave a compelling narrative around himself and his candidacy was one of his greatest strengths. As I argued back in 2006 (an ...
  • The Constitution, Radicalism, and the "Mainstream. ...
    Over at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick and Jeff Shesol give us the low-down on the latest in conservative creativity, a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would allow states to band together to repeal any federal laws they didn't like. So for instance, if legislatures in two-thirds of the states de ...
  • Lightning Round: You Might Be Irrelevant to the Po ...
    It's important to understand that the policy issues that matter to "the public" is dependent on class. Social Security, for instance, is important to a lot of people occupying the mid to low ranks of income distribution, not those above it, which is why pampered journalists are always worried about ...
  • The Little Picture: Ben Bernanke on 60 Minutes.
    Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke went on 60 Minutes over the weekend to defend the Fed's policies. (Flickr/TalkMediaNews's photostream)

Buzzflash

  • McConnell and Boehner Seen Around D.C. Defacing Ho ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT BY MARK KARLIN What would be the cost of extending unemployment benefits that the Republicans demand can only be implemented if they are offset by decreases in the deficit? Why, it would be - ironically - about one year's worth of the "bonus" tax cuts for the wealthy ...
  • What's One Question GOP Leaders Never Ask: "What C ...
    PATRICIA WELLER FOR BUZZFLASH Do Republicans ever sit in a room together and begin the discussion with "What can we do for the good of the country?"  Because I can't see it. Whether they were tea partiers or simply the disenchanted, the middle class drove the Republicans to power in November.  You ...
  • Does Obama Have a Politically Fatal Character Flaw ...
    STEVEN C. DAY FOR BUZZFLASH When thinking of Barack Obama these days, political progressives tend to find themselves haunted by a wide range of emotions, many quite negative. But one thing in particular, I think, predominates - utter and compete bewilderment. How, we keep asking ourselves, could ...
  • Republicans Will Gridlock The Government If They D ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH America has millions & multitudes But the GOP only cares About those select people who happen To be multi-millionaires. Forget the shutdown when Clinton was president; These guys drew up the maps During the Bush years which then culminated in Our national financial coll ...
  • Theodore Roosevelt: "Behind the Ostensible Governm ...
    BOB KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH Once again, the curtain of secrecy is drawn back and Olympus looks more like Oz. The machinations of empire turn out to be banal and ordinary. In a time of endless war, when democracy is an orchestrated charade and citizen engagement is less welcome in the corridors of ...


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