7 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The lawless Wild West attacks WikiLeaks
  That the whistle-blowing site has been charged with no crime is no barrier to severely punishing it
• WikiLeaks debate with Steven Aftergood
  Examining WikiLeaks with a transparency advocate and harsh critic of the whistle-blowing site
• More Joe Lieberman-caused Internet censorship
  Does anyone care that the Connecticut Senator is single-handedly suppressing political content from the Internet?
• Joe Lieberman emulates Chinese dictators
  The Connecticut Senator pressures Amazon to block Americans from viewing WikiLeaks documents
• The moral standards of WikiLeaks critics
  Applying the principles used to condemn Julian Assange would sweep up many political and media figures

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Special Interests Ditched Blue Dogs
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 7, 2010Center for Public IntegrityThe love in Washington is famously fickle. A new Center analysis shows how special interests first lavished money on congressional Democratic Blue Dogs – then abandoned them as the 2010 election approached.read more
• Two Arctic Ice Seals Threatened by Climate Change ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 3, 2010Center for Biological Diversity Responding to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the Obama administration today proposed Endangered Species Act protection for two ice-dependent Arctic seals threatened by climate change.read more
• Amnesty International Condemns Iraqi Interior Mini ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 3, 2010Amnesty International - USAAmnesty International today strongly condemned a call by the Iraqi Interior Minister for the swift execution of 39 alleged al-Qai’da members as they were paraded before journalists, handcuffed and clad in orange jumpsuits. Malcolm Sma ...
• Miserable Jobs Report Mocks Holiday Hopes
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 3, 2010Americans for Democratic ActionWith fresh evidence in today's jobless report that it's tougher than ever to find work, Americans for Democratic Action-the nation's longest-established liberal advocacy group-called once again on Congress to extend unemployment be ...
• Statement by Dean Baker on the Final Vote by The P ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 3, 2010CEPRDean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) released the following statement on the final vote of the President's deficit commission:"With the failure of the President Obama's fiscal commission to issue a report and the rele ...

Common Dreams-Views

• Fraudulent Egyptian Election
  by Stephen ZunesThe November 28 Egyptian parliamentary elections were a farce.  The vast majority of Egyptians boycotted the charade. But even those who did try to vote witnessed massive ballot-stuffing, vote-buying, intimidation, multiple voting in pro-government precincts, interminable delays in p ...
• This Isn't Sarah Palin's Alaska
  by Nancy LordWith the holidays upon us again, I think back with both pleasure and distress to the feast I was welcomed to a few seasons ago at the top of Alaska. The effects of climate change in polar regions are now starkly obvious--and they have consequences. Not so long ago, the part of the Arct ...
• Reflections on Thanksgiving
  by Grace Lee BoggsI recall many Thanksgivings, some more enjoyable than others but each worth reflecting on.When I was a child, relatives who worked in my father's restaurant and lived bachelor lives because their wives and families had been left behind in China, would show up at our house on Thanks ...
• The Truth Will Always Win
  by Julian AssangeIn 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win."His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch's expose that Australian troops were being needless ...
• Why Are We in Afghanistan – Still?
  by Tom GallagherYou have to wonder what it might take to get the man in the White House to acknowledge just how absurd the current U.S. military effort in Afghanistan has become. Would the president of Afghanistan himself telling us to start getting our troops out do it? Nah. How about the leader ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

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

Water Wars

• Another View: Time for Sacramento to update sewage ...
  Re "Water wars hinder sound decision-making" (Viewpoints, Dec. 3):
• Letters to the Editor
  Sewage, prisons, redistricting, etc.
• Commentary: Truce needed in water wars
  Each Sunday through the beginning of the 2011 General Assembly, The Times is taking a look at some of the key issues that Gov.-elect Nathan Deal and state lawmakers will face.
• War over water will produce no winners
  Clever compromise is the only hope.
• Viewpoints: Water wars hinder sound decision-makin ...
  It is unfortunate that the wastewater discharge permit for the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation

WordPress | Economics

• The Assange reaction
  In the same way the West has created more terrorists by torturing Muslims, people view Assange more
• Obama moves to the Center
  Just like Clinton moving to the center after 1994 Democrat defeat, Obama is doing the same by agreei
• Surplus-value: The greatest gift of all?
  As is typical in his ethical reflections, Derrida puts forward the idea of a pure or hyperbolic gift
• "Wait Until That Deal Come Round"
  Jon Ward at The Daily Caller: President Obama and congressional Republicans have reached a tentative
• My thoughts on the tax deal
  A few hours before my football team was embarrassingly defenestrated from the ranks of the NFL

Electronic Intifada

• The Carmel wildfire is burning all illusions in Is ...
  Over the last four days, more than 12,300 acres have burned in the Mount Carmel area or northern Israel, a devastating swath of destruction in a country the size of New Jer ...
• New Israeli laws threaten Palestinian civil societ ...
  A bill recently proposed in Israel's parliament, the Knesset, requires organizations to pledge loyalty to Israel as "Jewish and democratic." The legislation continues threatens the ...
• Boycott roundup: French companies to drop out of J ...
  In a significant victory for the global Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, French companies Veolia and Alstom have dropped out of the Jerusalem light rail ...
• Why we walked out
  Students across the US are protesting a public relations campaign that brings soldiers from the Israeli army to speak on campuses. These tours are an attempt to justify recent war ...
• Without land, Gaza farmers grow crops on roofs
  BEIT HANOUN, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - "We grow on our roof because we are farmers but have no land now," says Moatassan Hamad, 21, from Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. " ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Bombers attack politician's compound on Afgha ...
  A twin suicide attack has killed at least 40 people in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan.
• Taliban attack Pakistan tribal area after Kayani&# ...
  Taliban militants fired rockets in Ladha area of Pakistan's North Waziristan agency after a joint visit by army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and air force Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman to the restive tribal region Tuesday.
• Pak woman publicly flogged by Taliban yet to get o ...
  Nearly two years after the Taliban left Pakistan's Swat district, life seems to have returned to normalcy, but a woman named Saira Bibi still seethes with pain and anger remembering how she was flogged by the militants during their rule.
• Cameron in Afghanistan to hold talks with Karzai
  British Prime Minister David Cameron was in Afghanistan Tuesday to hold talks with President Hamid Karzai, a presidential spokesman said.
• UK's Cameron eyes 2011 Afghan pullout
  British Prime Minister David Cameron, visiting Afghanistan on an unannounced trip, said troops could start withdrawing from the country as early as next year.

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 ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
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on Government Oversight

• Federal Contracting Potpourri
  A few quick updates from the world of government contracting: The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently identified key acquisition challenges, including: Cost and schedule growth Program execution and production suffers Acquisition workforce stretched thin Program managers not accountable ...
• Free BBQ and Mob Protection for Doctors
  Oh, boy. How much fun is this? The Senate Finance Committee just released a report on a Baltimore cardiologist who put in over 585 stents that may have been medically unnecessary. So what would cause a surgeon to behave like...
• Morning Smoke: SEC Whistleblower Office On Hold Du ...
  SEC cites budgetary uncertainty in decision to slow work on new offices by Peter Schroeder [The Hill] BP lawyers challenge government's size estimate of Gulf of Mexico oil spill by Steven Mufson [The Washington Post] Hal Rogers eyes lobbyist as...
• Whistleblowers and Taxpayers Held Hostage by Tax C ...
  After a decade-long struggle to secure credible whistleblower protections for federal employees, it appears that there's now a light at the end of the tunnel. The Senate is poised to pass the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2010 (S. 372),...
• New Documents Expose Defense Contractor Legal Immu ...
  New documents made public by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) show that many of the largest defense contractors, including Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, L-3 Communications, Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems, all have or had contracts with the Pentagon containing indemnity provisions,...

Digital Journal

• Impaired driving serious holiday season issue
  With the holiday season comes parties and the chance of a young person making the wrong choice when it comes to getting home. Drug use was a factor in over 13 per cent of traffic fatalities in Canada in 2006.
• Universe bigger than original estimates; 'trillion ...
  A new study shows that the universe is larger than what we originally estimated. By analyzing elliptical galaxies, scientists found hundreds of millions of cool, small stars known as red dwarfs. This could possibly mean “trillions of Earths."
• Al Qaeda planning to surgically implant bombs in J ...
  As American travelers continue to grapple with TSA pat-downs and full-body scanners, Al Qaeda and related affiliates are planning to surgically insert bombs within the bodies of suicide Jihadis.
• Skating in season at Toronto's Nathan Phillips Squ ...
  Nathan Phillips Square is in the process of being revitalization that will be completed in 2012 but that didn't stop skaters this first December weekend, even Santa was taking a spin.
• Campbell House in Toronto celebrates the season
  Toronto's Campbell House was ready for the holidays on Saturday with free roasted chestnuts and apple cider for $2 a glass. The tree lighting ceremony took place at 4:30 p.m. after an afternoon of children's holiday stories being told by the fire.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• “No one believes in Afghanistan any more”
  European Union President Herman Van Rompuy told the United States in 2009 that “no one [in the EU] believes in Afghanistan any more,” according to a U.S. account of the meeting leaked by WikiLeaks (“‘No one believes in Afghanistan any more:’ EU leader in WikiLeaks cable,” Globe and Mail, 5 December ...
• WikiLeaks: France went to bat for Omar Khadr
  U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks on Wednesday reveal that France’s Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, asked the U.S. to consider releasing Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay. Kouchner, who played a founding role in the international humanitarian NGO Médecins sans frontières, personally ...
• Political attacks
  We are under attack from the Harper Conservatives. Please make your contribution now to help us stop Harper’s plans to spend $16 billion on the F-35 stealth fighters.
• Afghan intervention surpasses Soviet stay
  The duration of the U.S. and allied intervention in Afghanistan now exceeds that of the Soviet intervention of 1979-1989. Sunday, 28 November 2010 marks the 3340th day since U.S. and allied forces entered Afghanistan in order to topple the Taliban government and capture Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Lad ...
• Is the Defence Department feeling the heat over F- ...
  The Defence Department has commenced a public relations campaign to sell the Canadian public on the Harper government’s decision to buy the F-35 fighter (Steven Chase, “PR blitz aims to sell “skeptical public” on need for F-35 fighter jets“, Globe and Mail, 24 November 2010). Roundtables targeting ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Living With Kevin: The First 24 Hours
  Before I left for California, I was taken aback by Natalie and Janine’s excitement when I mentioned staying at the house with Kevin in Ojai instead of getting a hotel room. I couldn’t figure out why in the world they would be that excited about a house. Then I walked through the door and everything ...
• Vitamin D Controls Genetic Expression for Health a ...
  December 2nd, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez Vitamin D is especially active in areas of the human genome related to autoimmune diseases, providing yet more evidence that the vitamin plays a critical role in regulating the immune system and protecting against certain diseases. In a study publi ...
• U.S. Senator Caught Admitting That Lame Duck Sessi ...
  December 2nd, 2010 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson The recent passage of Senate Bill 510, the so-called “Food Safety Modernization Act” took place during the Senate’s “lame duck” session — the time after the fall elections, but before the new members of Congress have been installed, where Congress ...
• Chemicals in Soap Can Harm Children’s Health
  December 2nd, 2010 Daily Mail Chemicals found in cleaning products may be harming the health of children and adults, new research suggests. A study shows that young people who are over-exposed to the soap agent triclosan are more likely to suffer allergies. The chemical bisphenol A (BPA), which is u ...
• Broccoli Extracts Prevent Stomach Disorders
  December 2nd, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez Extracts from broccoli and plantain may help boost the stomach’s defenses against infection, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Liverpool in collaboration with Scottish and Swedish researchers, and published in the ...

Pambazuka News

• Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cuba s ...
  The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
• Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
  On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
• Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descendant ...
  Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
• Guadeloupe: Demand for support for the independenc ...
  Felix Alain Flémin, secretary general of the Guadeloupe Communist Party (GCP) has called for international solidarity in support of the struggle for independence and self-determination of the people of those Caribbean islands under French colonial do...
• Katrina victims face eviction
  Following reports of federal government plans to repossess temporary housing from Katrina victims, the US Human Rights Network - http://www.ushrnetwork.org has called for the Obama administration to reverse this decision and provide those affected with substantive directive support.

War in Context

• The war on free speech
  John Naughton writes: ‘Never waste a good crisis” used to be the catchphrase of the Obama team in the runup to the presidential election. In that spirit, let us see what we can learn from official reactions to the WikiLeaks revelations. The most obvious lesson is that it represents the first reall ...
• The expanding Saudi file
  Saudi Arabia’s Prince Turki al-Faisal demanded on Sunday that WikiLeaks be “vigorously punished” and said that it was incumbent on the US “to not just be extra vigilant but to try to restore the credibility and the legitimacy of their engagement with the rest of us, and ensure that there are no more ...
• New York Times plays down Saudi role in promoting ...
  “WikiLeaks cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists,” declares The Guardian, reporting on the US State Department’s concerns about the Kingdom’s role in funding al Qaeda and other militant organizations. The New York Times opts for the bland, “Cash Flow to Terrorists Evades U.S. ...
• Julian Assange and the power of asymmetric fear
• Israel on Iran: So wrong for so long
  Justin Elliot looks back at Israel’s repeated predictions that Iran would soon acquire nuclear weapons. Officials at the U.S. Department of State, we learned from the secret cables released by WikiLeaks last week, have serious questions about the accuracy — and sincerity — of Israeli predictions ab ...

Watts Up With That?

• Quote of the Week – “weather is not cl ...
  Over at The Air Vent, Jeff reviewed the book “Warnings” by CCM Mike Smith.  This is a book about weather, weather forecasting, severe weather events, and the people and technology that save lives and help people in their daily lives … Continue reading →
• “Zombie” satellite shuts down critical ...
  I’m a bit of a zombie myself as I write this, as I was up until 4:30AM PST dealing with this problem which turned out to affect National Weather Service offices nationwide in addition to my business, which uses the … Continue reading →
• CFACT’s “Kook of the week” at Ca ...
  From the YouTube description: Lord Christopher Monckton, renowned science and policy expert, presents CFACT’s Kook of the Week. This gentleman was found at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Cancun, Mexico. Watch the video:
• Visualizing the entire 2010 Atlantic hurricane sea ...
  The photo below is a stunning and novel piece of imagery and I commend NOAA’s Environmental Visualization Laboratory for this nicely done graphic. If they had done it last year, Al Gore would not have had to Photoshop in some … Continue reading →
• BBC “disappears” headline “Colde ...
  People send me stuff. Strange, what could be so wrong or threatening about this story headline that it simply had to “vanish” without so much as a correction or a note as to why? Fortunately the Internet has a memory. … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• Wikileaks: Power, Propaganda, and the Global Polit ...
  by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 7, 2010 Introduction The recent release of the 250,000 Wikileaks documents has provoked unparalleled global interest, both positive, negative, and everywhere in between. One thing that can be said with certainty: Wikileaks is changing ...
• Bernie Sanders: I will do whatever I can + Alan Gr ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ MOXNEWSd0tCOM | December 06, 2010 Sen Sanders Ready To Do Whatever It Takes To Stop Tax Cuts For Millionaires & Billionaires *** Alan Grayson “Republicans Have Become Unbelievably Callous” see The Republican Party: Institutional Insanity by Ralph Nader Matt Taib ...
• Wikileaks In Venezuela: Espionage, Propaganda And ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Eva Golinger Postcards from the Revolution December 3, 2010 The first batch of recently released secret and confidential US State Department documents obtained by Wikileaks include over a dozen dispatches from the US Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, evidencing e ...
• WikiLeaks: Numerous Reasons to Dismiss US Claims t ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 3 December, 2010 In sifting through the avalanche of US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks, only the Guardian, in the Western media, has picked up on cables from Islamabad relating to the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, t ...
• All Guantánamo Prisoners Were Subjected to “Pharma ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 3 December, 2010 In one narrative of the “War on Terror,” President Bush scrapped the protections of the Geneva Conventions — including Common Article 3, which prohibits “cruel treatment and torture” and “outrages upon per ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

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

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Nurit Peled: the appointment of Yair Naveh to IDF ...
  We must gather up our courage and teach our children to refuse. Refuse to take part in an organization that is led by war criminals, murderers of children. An organization like that cannot be... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now i ...
• IOA FUNDRAISER: New Website
  Dear IOA readers -- We're approaching the final development phase of an improved IOA website that will enable us to present content more effectively and far more reliably. However, that would only... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Brazil explains recognition of Palestine
  In a move that took Washington by surprise, Brazil has recognized the state of Palestine along the 1967 borders before Israel's seizure of the West Bank... Brazil's outgoing President Luiz Inacio... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Noam Chomsky: The charade of Israeli-Palestinian t ...
  Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion—excluding Arab East Jerusalem—should go down as one of the most humiliating... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• IOA FUNDRAISER: New Website
  Dear IOA readers -- We're approaching the final development phase of an improved IOA website that will enable us to present content more effectively and far more reliably. However, that would only... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Iran's nuclear program
• Russian missile, air defenses to be integrated by ...
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered that the country's missile and air defense systems be unified before December 2011, the Kremlin press service said on Tuesday.
• Nuclear warheads ready for Bulava missile as test ...
• Nuclear warheads ready for Bulava missile as test ...
  Nuclear warheads have been completed for Russia's new Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile, its Yury Solomonov said on Tuesday in an interview with Russia's Natsionalnaya Oborona journal to be published later in December.
• Bulava missile: test-launch history

NewsWise

• Major Gift to IU Kelley School of Business Support ...
  As a result of an anonymous $250,000 gift, Indiana University's Kelley School of Business will have the support to develop a proprietary teaching and assessment tool that will enhance how faculty teach and measure the development of students' ethical judgment.
• 'Jump Training' May Help Prevent Knee Injuries in ...
  A shortened, focused "jump training" program may help to lower the risk of knee injuries in women basketball players, according to a study in the December issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
• Naughty Or Nice? a Field Trip Into the World of Cy ...
  When he took his behavioral economics research out of the lab and into the world of Internet domainers and pornographers, UC Berkeley professor John Morgan found that business professionals in industries typically considered "shady" are better collaborators and more "trusting, trustworthy, and altru ...
• Nationwide Children's Hospital Partners with The O ...
  Every year, more than 50,000 babies are born premature in the United States. Despite the notable advances in neonatal care, these premature infants often suffer from preterm birth complications - the single largest cause of infant mortality. In order to better understand preterm birth, Nationwide Ch ...
• 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.

Natural Health News

• A Fountain of Youth in Your Muscles?
  New research finds that "endurance exercises," like a spinning class, can make your look younger. Exercise actually unlocks the stem cells of your muscles.� Endurance exercise increase the number of muscle stem cells you have, and enhances their ability to rejuvenate old muscles. Investigating a r ...
• Sleepy, Playful Kitten
  This is Tilly, playing with some string and taking a nap with her teddy bear
• The World's Oldest Living Things
  Rachel Sussman shows photographs of the world's oldest living organisms.� They range from a 2,000-year-old brain coral off Tobago's coast to an underground forest in South Africa that has lived since before the dawn of agriculture.
• Finally -- Less Radiation Exposure Being Advised
  A safety campaign has been launched in an effort to stop the overuse of medical radiation.� The first step in the Image Wisely campaign is a pledge to use the least radiation necessary for a procedure; it has so far been signed by more than 700 health care providers. The average total radiation exp ...
• Is Your Home Supplied with Water Contaminated by L ...
  Those are important lessons to be learned from the recent release of a CDC report on the 2004 crisis of lead in the water in the Washington DC area. After years of denial and stonewalling, the CDC acted only under sustained pressure from safe-water advocates, the media and Congress. In addition, t ...

Antemedius

• U.S Foreign Policy & The End Of Empire?
  MIT Professor Noam Chomsky talks with Real News CEO Paul Jay about the history and current state of US foreign policy debunking various myths - including the myth that republicans are the warmongers and that democrats are more "peace" oriented, from FDR's and Roosevelt's vision for world domination ...
• How Is It That Republicans Have Any Credibility?
  What is it, exactly, that the Republican Party stands for? They have a PR rep for being strong on the military, strong on fiscal discipline and strong on traditional values. The problem is that over the last couple of years we have seen that, as a group, they really don’t have any credibility on any ...
• Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detaine ...
  Originally published at Truthout.org Note: Investigative reporter Jason Leopold participated as lead author in the investigation and writing of this report. The Defense Department forced all "war on terror" detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antima ...
• Ann Wright: WikiLeaks and Accountability
  Mary Ann Wright is a former United States Army colonel and retired official of the U.S. State Department, known for her outspoken opposition to the Iraq War. She is most noted for having been one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the March 2003 invasion of I ...
• Apes Reading The Constitution
  There is a line in “A Fish Called Wanda” that comes to mind when I think about Tea Party Conservatives and many of what passes for main-line Republicans these days. Wanda is talking to Otto and he says “Apes don’t read philosophy” Wanda replies “Yes, they do, Otto, they just don’t understand it”. Th ...

Climategate

• Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
  Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks more tr ...
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking g ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of global wa ...
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

• Facebook Won’t Shut Down WikiLeaks Page
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller As numerous other websites happily conspire with the US government to shut down WikiLeaks, despite the fact that neither Assange nor anyone else associated with the website has ever been charged, much less convicted, of a disclosure-related crime, it is goo ...
• Why Has the OTP Announced a “Preliminary Examinati ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller According to a press release today, the OTP is conducting a preliminary examination into whether two recent North Korean attacks on South Korea qualify as war crimes: The shelling of Yeonpyeong Island on the 23 November 2010 which resulted in the killin ...
• Irish Political Commitments
  by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis A couple of years ago, Josh Newcomer and I argued that political commitments have developed to a point where they should receive constitutional scrutiny.  In other words, we do not accept that because political commitments lack international legal force they shou ...
• How to Write a Book in 647 Steps (Part Three)
  by Kevin Jon Heller According to Oxford University Press, my book checks in at a healthy 452 pages.  I still can't quite believe that I wrote something so long -- approximately 165,000 words, 130,000 more than anything else I've ever written.  Writing the book was extremely fun, but the hard w ...
• The Climate in Cancun
  by Dan Bodansky by Dan Bodansky Needless to say, there’s a much warmer atmosphere at this year’s climate conference in Cancun than last year’s conference in Copenhagen.  By all accounts, the Mexicans have done a great job both in preparing the diplomatic groundwork for this year’s meeting and in ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• CFL light bulbs dangerous to health - fail German ...
  Classic: The energy saving bulbs show mercury levels 20 times higher than regulations allow in the air surrounding them for up to five hours after they are broken, according to tests released Thursday by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA Remember,...
• TGIF Edition latest issue
  Try these links...the second one may work better to open the page first, then click on the TGIF link in the middle of that page to bring up the PDF: http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/tgif3dec10.pdf http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment ...
• Breaking: Air Con premise endorsed by Journal of C ...
  In the 2009 release of Air Con (and again in the latest 2010 Climategate edition about to go on sale in bookshops across NZ), one of the points I argued is that Antarctica is not warming uncontrollably or significantly. Earnest...
• RIP, men
  Our sympathies and prayers are with those left behind in the mine, and their families. Could NZ have done it better? Only an inquiry will tell us now. One thing I want to make clear, however. Much as I might...
• Methane didn't seem to scare US rescuers as much
  Armchair OSH apologists in the media and in Sci-blogs have been trying to justify the lack of a rescue in Greymouth because of the dangers from gases. I'm no mining engineer, so I stand to be corrected, but like many...

My Care2 Picks

• BP Oil Spill: Kindra Arnesen Venice LA Needs to Ev ...
  All it takes is for people like this to change the world. normal people will save the world. Not celebrities, not royalty, not CEOs, not bankersSubmitted by John Farnham to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• The Water Portal
  Water initiative includes a special focus on the threats to our rivers, watersheds, and fresh water supplies from drilling for methane gas in the Marcellus Shale region of the Northeastern U.S.Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against ...
  Al Gore says any scientist who disagrees with him on Global Warming is a kook, or a crook. Guess he never met these guysSubmitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Why US troops are occupying Haiti
  Apr 2004 analysis History hasn't changed | aimed at upholding the US�s role as the principal economic, military and geo-political power in the Caribbean region Haiti has been in US grip since 1915, when Marines invaded Occupation till 1934Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• "Food Not Bombs" Network Cooks For Peace Around Th ...
  With over a billion people going hungry each day worldwide, then how can we spend another dollar on war!? Food Not Bombs shares free vegan and vegetarian meals in over 1,000 cities around the globe, with local chapters opening-up daily to turn the tide.Submitted by Third Eye Open to Green Lifestyle ...

Angry Indian News

• Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FBI after in ...
  Tension grows between Calif. Muslims, FBI after informant infiltrates mosque: [washingtonpost.com] "The undercover FBI informant - a convicted forger named Craig Monteilh - then drove off for 5 a.m.... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• WikiLeaks: Nicaragua financiada por Hugo Chávez y ...
  WikiLeaks: Nicaragua financiada por Hugo Chávez y el narcotráfico| Momento 2407 de diciembre de 2010: La última información del sitio electrónico WikiLeaks publicada por el diario El País, de España,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• America XXI: Campesinos mexicanos reclaman resulta ...
  America XXIEl Consejo de Organizaciones Campesinas de México (Conoc) exigió hoy a los gobiernos representados en la Cumbre Climática que adopten acuerdos para encaminar un segundo período del... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• The Rise of Indonesian Atheism | The Jakarta Globe
  The Rise of Indonesian Atheism | The Jakarta Globe: "Embedded within Indonesia’s constitution are the following two lines: “all persons have the right to worship according to their own religion or... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• British Grandma Close to Execution
  British Grandma Close to Execution[asafeworldforwomen.org] After a catastrophically flawed trial, British grandmother Linda Carty was sentenced to death in February 2002 by a Texan court, for... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• 80-square mile kill zone Gulf of Mexico – “It look ...
  VIDEO
• Red or Blue? The Potential Cost of Speaking Out (P ...
  The Wilcox family ordeal began just prior to Halloween when Sherrie’s child was questioned at school without being advised that she had the right to have an advocate in the room with her at the time questioning. Further, the interrogation questions had nothing to with Sherrie Wilcox’s fitness as a m ...
• Geoengineering: Climate Ghouls’ ‘Plan B’
  The UN Climate talks in Cancun are now focusing on geoengineering, using it as a tool to extort a binding UN treaty to reduce phony global warming. The AP reported today that "we may need geoengineering as a 'Plan B,' if nations fail to forge agreement on a binding treaty to rein in greenhouse gases ...
• Truth Squad Radio Show – Open Mike Night!
  This week is open mike night, with Paul Griepentrog and Gladys checking in with an update on the S.510 blue slip issue and other top news!
• Farm Wars Public Service Announcement: S.510 Blue ...
  This is a Farm Wars Public Service Announcement! Click link to listen: PSA S.510 Blue Slip

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - Todd ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and expand ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? - La ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

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

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• CFL light bulbs dangerous to health - fail German ...
  Classic: The energy saving bulbs show mercury levels 20 times higher than regulations allow in the air surrounding them for up to five hours after they are broken, according to tests released Thursday by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA Remember,...
• TGIF Edition latest issue
  Try these links...the second one may work better to open the page first, then click on the TGIF link in the middle of that page to bring up the PDF: http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/tgif3dec10.pdf http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment ...
• Breaking: Air Con premise endorsed by Journal of C ...
  In the 2009 release of Air Con (and again in the latest 2010 Climategate edition about to go on sale in bookshops across NZ), one of the points I argued is that Antarctica overall is not warming uncontrollably or significantly....
• RIP, men
  Our sympathies and prayers are with those left behind in the mine, and their families. Could NZ have done it better? Only an inquiry will tell us now. One thing I want to make clear, however. Much as I might...
• Methane didn't seem to scare US rescuers as much
  Armchair OSH apologists in the media and in Sci-blogs have been trying to justify the lack of a rescue in Greymouth because of the dangers from gases. I'm no mining engineer, so I stand to be corrected, but like many...

Mondoweiss

• What’s J Street doing meeting with Israeli officia ...
  The lobby group J Street has a somewhat muddled policy on the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. An interview in which their executive director says that he’s meeting with the Israeli Foreign Ministry on “how to address” the movement adds to the confusion. On their website, J Stree ...
• Attention progressives for Palestine: Rep. Alan Gr ...
  Rep. Grayson penned an article for Huffington Post today, Looking For Your Ideas and Advice, and created a website where he wants the progressive community to write to him with their ideas about anything from peace to the economy. He will be forwarding all comments to the Progressive Caucus' two ne ...
• The intellectual dishonesty of Benny Morris: Blame ...
  Slog through Benny Morris' latest screed about who's to blame for the collapse of the two state solution�at your own risk... It's like a ride on a quadruple loop roller coaster. The twists and turns of the rampant intellectual dishonesty, complete with the requisite comparison of "dealing with the P ...
• A jolt? More on Brazil’s decision to recogni ...
  In a letter sent to Mahmoud Abbas by�Brazilian President Luiz Inåcio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian government has declared its recognition of a Palestinian State along the 1967 armistice lines. �The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted the announcement in both Portuguese and English�on its we ...
• Carmel fire response shows criticism of Israel is ...
  A friend passes along this excerpt from Yossi Alpher's Peace Now Q & A:That that help came from the United States, France, Britain, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia, Egypt, Jordan and even the Palestinian Authority can conceivably be understood as a sign that Israel's international is ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

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

The Killing Train

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

treehugger

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

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Than Shwe had eyes for the Red Devils
  Burmese supremo had considered a $1bn bid for Manchester United only months after being condemned for lax response to cyclone Nargis
• Radio show with Suu Kyi to launch
  Opposition leader invited to weekly Q&A show with Radio Free Asia, one of four non-state radio outlets broadcasting in Burma
• Student army to join Karen fighting
  All Burma Students' Democratic Front met with renegade DKBA commander shortly after fighting erupted in November close to the Thai border
• Karen villagers pressed to relocate
  Land close to Myawaddy earmarked for development of petrol storage facilities by construction and trade company close to Burmese junta
• Fuel price cap sparks imbalance
  Lack of profit-margin for private fuel stations causes a surge in black market sellers where gas can retail at nearly double the price

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Cancun Climate Conference: Gordon Brown got it wro ...
  John Prescott says Gordon Brown made a wrong judgement by trying to force the world into a climate change deal too early.
• Cancun climate conference: What to expect in week ...
  As ministers arrive in Cancun, Mexico for United Nations climate change talks what issues will they be discussing, what are the sticking points and will there be a global deal at the end?
• Cancun climate conference: Britain should lead the ...
  Britain should lead the world by taking on a tough new climate change target to cut emissions by 60 per cent within 20 years which will see thousands of new wind turbines installed and millions of electric cars on the roads.
• Arctic elegy: a lament for the disappearing ice
  What will the rapid warming of the polar icecaps mean for future generations?
• Cancun summit: cutting carbon emissions will help ...
  Cutting carbon emissions will help combat obesity even if global warming is a myth, a senior scientist has said.

National Geographic | Environment

• Ten NatGeo News Stories You Might Have Missed in 2 ...
  NoneSee our editors' picks of the best stories of 2010 that flew under the radar, including space-time "wrinkles" and squid plastic surgery.
• PHOTOS: "Alarming" Amazon Drought—River Hits New L ...
  NoneA megadrought has gripped the Amazon, drying up rivers and cutting off thousands of forest communities dependent on boat traffic for survival.
• Global Warming Burning Lakes?
  Lake temperatures are rising much faster than air temperatures in many places around the world, and the fate of freshwater species hangs in the balance.
• Exxon Valdez Lessons Applied in Gulf Coast Cleanup
  Sand oiled by the Gulf of Mexico spill is cleaned and returned to beaches, a technique used to avoid repeating mistakes made after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster. Video.
• New Biggest Volcano in the Solar System?
  If a new theory holds true, Tharsis Rise on Mars is about to cast down Olympus Mons as the largest known volcano in the solar system.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Ninth Circuit hears arguments on California same-s ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] heard oral arguments Monday in Perry v. Schwarzenegger [case materials] on Proposition 8 [text, PDF; JURIST news archive], California's same-sex marriage ban. The hearing was divided into two one-hour sessions, with the first ...
• ICC examines possible war crimes charges against N ...
  [JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] confirmed on Monday that the prosecutor's office has opened preliminary examinations to evaluate possible war crimes committed by North Korea [press release]. ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo [official profile] verified that e ...
• Supreme Court hears arguments on veterans' benefit ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Monday in Henderson v. Shinseki [oral arguments transcript, PDF] on the time limits for seeking judicial review of the denial of a veteran's claim for disability benefits. The iss ...
• Supreme Court to hear Wal-Mart gender discriminati ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday granted certiorari [order list, PDF] in Wal-Mart v. Dukes [docket; cert. petition, PDF], a massive gender discrimination class action lawsuit. The issues are (1) whether claims for monetary relief can be certified under ...
• France court convicts US airline in Concorde jet c ...
  [JURIST] A French court on Monday found US-based Continental Airlines [corporate website] and one of its employees guilty of manslaughter for their roles in the Air France Concorde jet crash [BBC backgrounder] outside Paris in 2000. The court found [CBC report] that a piece of metal fell off a Conti ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Canada at War in Iraq! New 54-page COAT re ...
• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaign - ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious blast ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's energy ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

Tikun Olam

• Israel’s Jim Crow
  I was listening a few days ago to a riveting radio documentary (hear the audio) about the 1950s era execution of Willie McGee, a Mississippi African-American accused of raping a white woman.  McGee’s niece, decades after his death, makes a deathbed promise to her mother, McGee’s sister, to get to t ...
• Isaiah Weeps: Jewish National Fund, GOD-TV Erase I ...
  After researching this post and watching the video transcribed below, I don’t know whether to cry or scream at the grievous injustices done to Israel’s Bedouin in the name of the Jewish people (the Jewish National Fund) and Christians the world over (GOD-TV). The Israeli government is hoping the sev ...
• Israeli Media Falsely Accuse Palestinians of Arson ...
  The Israeli government hasbara brigade appears to have assigned several recruits to “monitor” this blog and publish official talking points here.  So I think it’s worthwhile to update yesterday’s post with the latest news developments and a few ripostes to the worst of the nonsense. There is a meme ...
• Israel’s Carmel Fire: Racism Rears Its Ugly Head E ...
  The worst forest fires ever to have struck Israel are sweeping through the Carmel Mountains surrounding Haifa.  42 prison guard trainees died when their bus was blocked on a highway and burned, thus cutting off their escape.  It is the worst loss of life in a natural disaster in Israel’s history. ...
• Assange’s Delusions on Bibi and Mideast Peace, Ama ...
  The problem with writing a blog is that you write one thing one day and by the next it’s overtaken by events and you have to backtrack and take back almost everything you said the day before.  Such is the case with Julian Assange, about whom I wrote that it would be enormous folly for [...] Relat ...

Ode Magazine

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

OpEd News

• Barack Obama: The Great Equivocator!
  Barack Obama has become The Great Equivocator by agreeing to an extension of those unwarranted, unjustified, and unwise Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. He has let all of us progressives -- and himself -- down through cowardice.
• Challenging Obama's Anti-Progressivism
  Obama's two year record - betrayal and failure.
• Tax inspectors against capitalism? Now that is ric ...
  Never mind the atrophying over the past 40 years of real economic activity in Britain; never mind that the current crop of political leaders has neither the nerve nor the know-how to kick-start economic productivity. Apparently it is because Mrs Green likes to eat truffles while being fanned by hunk ...
• A National Pension Plan Revisited
  Social Security history indicates only a National Pension Plan can provide a suitable and secure financial arrangement for retirees and SS already has the framework for a National Pension Plan.
• The Deficit Game
  The current corporate slant of the "new" deficit commission makes this a good time for a little reminder as to how the corporate state uses debt as a shackle for the middle class and working people. This article covers some excellent ground in examining the roots of this ongoing policy.

Switchboard

• Happy 50th Birthday to the Arctic National Wildlif ...
  Today is the 50th birthday of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  On December 6, 1960, President Eisenhower established the Arctic Wildlife Range of about 9 million acres in the northeast corner of Alaska after Congress failed to protect it.  It included the highest peaks of the Broo ...
• Zero Hour for New START Ratification
  Despite unusually fierce oppostion for such a modest yet important treaty, it looks like New START will be brought to the Senate floor for a vote on ratification during the lame duck session, probably on December 13. The treaty requires the U.S. and Russia to further reduce the number ...
• Rave review for A Force for Nature; Climate debate ...
  John Adams’ book about founding NRDC, A Force for Nature, received rave reviews in a TreeHugger article profiling the book… Dan Lashof spoke with NPR’s Weekend Edition about how climate groups are revising the argument for global warming. Dan noted that it was a “strategic error” that ...
• Better Life: Smart Energy Policies Create Clean E ...
  People often ask me why states should prioritize clean energy policies when these same states and the people who live in them are struggling with so many financial challenges.  Shouldn’t state governments focus all of their attention on creating jobs?  The fact that better state energy ...
• Better Life: Clean Energy in Action, Improving Our ...
  As the days get shorter and the wind chill starts to register, I am beginning to focus on the things I love about winter.  One is turning on the heat at my house. That might seem odd.  After all, for many people, heating season means waking up to clanking radiators, skin tortured by de ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Obama’s Political Skills, And How They Matte ...
  I’m not the kind of blogger to get furious about things like Obama’s tax cut cave-in (unnecessary and wrong on the merits though it certainly is) very often because my expectations of presidents also tend to be low. I will quibble with Matt on one point: Obama is clearly not “the greatest progress ...
• That Term “Stockholm Syndrome,” I Do N ...
  Without getting into the debate we’ve been having in comments about his merits as a columnists, I note that Frank Rich’s latest much-praised column makes no sense: THOSE desperate to decipher the baffling Obama presidency could do worse than consult an article titled âUnderstanding Stockholm Syndrom ...
• Best. Commenters. Ever.
  My recent trip to Ireland followed up roughly 20 hours spent on airplanes and airpots with the worst allergic reaction I’ve had since junior high school.   So it made me particularly happy to come home and see that this blog’s favorite Yankee fan (with one exception) Howard had sent me Thelonious ...
• Facelift
  Thoughts, please. No related posts. No related posts.
• Annals of slacktivism
  I’m confused. Isn’t this how the wingers brought down the Iranian government last year? Well, it turns out that the good people of Facebook-land have made the effort to defeat child abuse by replacing their profile pictures with images from cartoons. Um, okay guys good plan. I canât possibly see ho ...

Desert Research Institute

• Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evolutio ...
  Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.
• DRI Researcher Published in Nature Geoscience
  The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.
• Taking Your Home’s Energy Temperature
  An article authored by DRI Associate Research Professor Emeritus Charles “Fred “Rogers, Ph.D., outlines the best practices for homeowners who are looking to save money on their home heating and cooling bills.
• DRI Researcher Earns National Science Foundation M ...
  DRI Research Professor Hans Moosmüller, Ph.D. and colleagues received $649,801 from the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to develop a Photo-Acoustic Light Absorption and Albedo Spectrometer (PALAAS) for the characterization of aerosol radiative forcing in the ...
• DRI Researcher Develops Bioengineering Company
  DRI’s Joseph J. Grzymski, Ph.D. partnered with Adam G. Marsh, Ph.D. from the University of Delaware to develop Evozym Biologics, a company created to bridge the gap between research and innovation and commercial value.

Earth Techling

• Solar Power Meets Christmas Tree Lots
• ‘Hybrid’ Streetcar Loses Its Wire
• Taking The Virtual Energy Audit Plunge
• GE Forms Home Energy Management Unit
• Indian Kids May Get Solar Powered Slates

National Law Journal | U.S.

• 2010: The NLJ 250
  The National Law Journal's annual ranking of the nation's largest law firms.
• DOJ: Appeals court should vacate injunction in hum ...
  A U.S. Justice Department lawyer on Monday tried to convince an appeals court in Washington that a trial judge went too far in issuing an injunction that blocks federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.
• Court agrees to hear closely watched Wal-Mart and ...
  Stakes in the Supreme Court's business-related docket this term jumped into the stratosphere today with the justices' decisions to hear arguments in the mammoth Wal-Mart class action challenge and the latest legal front in the global warming battle.
• 'Girls Gone Wild' founder has until Thursday to pr ...
  A federal judge has pressured Joseph Francis, founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" franchise, to turn over a document this week in order to resolve possible criminal contempt charges before the end of this year.
• Eastern Orthodox monastery prevails in copyright c ...
  A Boston federal judge has ruled that an Eastern Orthodox archbishop infringed an Eastern Orthodox monastery's copyrights for English language translations of ancient Greek religious texts.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• TD Vaccines' Oral, Dual-Action ETEC Vaccine Candid ...
  ETEC infection can lead to severe and debilitating diarrhoea, and each year the bacteria afflict millions of international travellers and children in the developing world.
• Financial Responsibility Requirements for Hard Roc ...
  The requirements will help ensure that owners and operators of the facilities, not taxpayers, foot the bill for environmental cleanup.
• Health Funding Grows to Staggering $26 Billion for ...
  The report documents that there is a continous health funding for the developing countries. The commitment to health in the developing world has grown dramatically over the last twenty years.
• 2010 Carole Noon Award for Sanctuary Excellence aw ...
  'Ms. Robinson and Animals Asia's Moon Bear Rescue Centres exemplify the essence of the GFAS Carole Noon Award and serves as a model of effectiveness and commitment to the highest level of humane standards,' says Roberts.
• Accumulate Secures Mobile Banking Applications
  Accumulate launch the Safe Frame Library giving banks the opportunity to move their new or existing mobile banking services to a new level, from informational to transactional services.

environment 360

• Emissions from Deforestation Lower than Earlier Es ...
  A study by ecologists employed at a U.S. consulting firm says that carbon emissions from destruction of tropical forests are likely half of previous estimates, a finding that could affect international efforts to compensate developing nations for leaving forests intact. The new analysis, presented d ...
• Coal-based Pavement Sealant is Leading Source of T ...
  A coal-based sealant sprayed on pavement for parking lots, playgrounds, and driveways is the leading contributor of a toxic pollutant found in U.S. lakes and reservoirs, according to a new study. Samples of sediments collected from the bottom of lakes and reservoirs in 40 urban areas by the U.S. Geo ...
• Google Satellite Platform Allows Tracking of Envir ...
  Google has unveiled an online technology that allows scientists and researchers to track and measure changes to the environment using 25 years worth of satellite data. Google Earth Engine, introduced during climate talks in Cancun, utilizes “trillions of scientific measurements” collected by NASA’s ...
• Green Roofs are Starting To Sprout in American Cit ...
  Long a proven technology in Europe, green roofs are becoming increasingly common in U.S. cities, with major initiatives in Chicago, Portland, and Washington, D.C. While initially more expensive than standard coverings, green roofs offer some major environmental — and economic — benefits. BY BRUCE ...
• Japan Opposition to Kyoto Extension Casts Pall ove ...
  Japanese officials say they will oppose an extension of the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012, calling the treaty “outdated” because it covers only 27 percent of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking at international climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, a senior Japanese official told Bloomberg that his ...

Red Ice Creations

• Clueless Patsy Set-up by FBI in Christmas Tree Bom ...
  The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing before the city’s annual tree-lighting Friday night, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon. He was thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a van to the corner of the square and attempted to detonate it.
• One scientist’s hobby: recreating the ice age
  Wild horses have returned to northern Siberia. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Russian scientist Sergey Zimov is reintroducing these animals to the land where they once roamed in millions to demonstrate his theory that filli ...
• FBI Thwarts Own Car Bomb: Will Americans recoil in ...
  Maximum bloodless terrorism upon a public increasingly skeptical about the official narrative of the "War on Terror" comes to mind. This skepticism, of course, comes from the fact that the only groups that seem to be actually building bombs and conducting terrorist operations are within our own West ...
• Cables Obtained by WikiLeaks Shine Light Into Secr ...
  A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at backroom bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats.
• Nigel Farage: "Just who the hell do you think you ...
  "Famous euroskeptic Nigel Farage in just under 4 brief minutes tells more truth about the entire European experiment than all European bankers, commissioners, and politicians have done in the past decade." Source Video from: YouTube.com ► European Parliament, Strasbourg - 24 November 2010 ► Speaker: ...

Russia Today

• WikiLeaks damage to US foreign policy colossal – p ...
  The information age has changed the way people communicate, and the WikiLeaks website – a product of that age – seems to be changing the world of politics as well. Political scientist Timothy Colton spoke to RT about...
• French revolution: cash withdrawal weapon
  French bankers have a nervous morning ahead. They are waiting to see whether a campaign calling on depositors to withdraw all their money will really catch on.
• EU backs Russia’s accession to WTO
  At the EU-Russia summit in Brussels there has already been one important breakthrough – the EU has officially agreed upon Moscow’s membership of the WTO.
• Shark kills German tourist in Egypt
  A German tourist has been killed by a shark at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. The 70-year-old woman bled to death in the water.
• Suspected Russian spy to be deported from UK
  A Russian woman working for a member of the British Parliament has been detained on suspicion of espionage, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday. She is currently facing deportation.

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

• NASA Mono Lake Discussion about “alien&#8221 ...
  On December 2nd, 2010, NASA scientists released a press conference about discovering “alien” life in Mono Lake, California. This life-form, instead of incorporating phosphorus into its DNA structure incorporated arsenic instead, which is a deadly poison to most life-forms on Earth, (including us!). ...
• Falcon 9 Static Fire 2 a Success
  On December 3rd, 2010 SpaceX attempted a static fire test of all nine Falcon 9 engines on it’s second rocket with the first Dragon capsule to be launched December 7th, 2010. The first attempt was aborted because of excessive chamber pressure in one of the engines and in spite of the rapid recycling ...
• Update: NASA’s Big Announcement
  True to modern form, NASA has announced that a different for of life was discovered; But on Earth. This is huge actually, because it opens up criteria in which alien life could be discovered in various extraterrestrial/extrasolar planets: NASA-Funded Research Discovers Life Built With Toxic Chemical ...
• NASA’s Big Announcement
  When it comes to NASA, I go by the maxim “Not A Straight Answer”, which I followed since 1977 when NASA denied finding life via the Viking Landers. And I’m not going to mention The Face on Mars, that’s a totally different subject altogether. So when they announced November 29th, 2010 there was a big ...
• Leadership in world green energy another “Sp ...
  Folks in government are calling China’s meteoric rise on the super-power stage a “sputnik moment” for the United States, especially since the introduction of their super-computer this year and the construction of their modern high speed rail service. And although China’s currently the new leader in ...

Tippers News

• Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
  The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are fSubmitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Two survivors of human trafficking share their sto ...
  She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help victi ...
  EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From Lif ...
  Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Evidence Refutes Bp's and Fed's Deception
  In August, Truthout conducted soil and water sampling in Pass Christian Harbor, Mississippi; on Grand Isle, Louisiana; and around barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, in order to test for the presence of oil from BP's Macondo Well. [extremely high]Submitted by Ellyn S. to Environment �|� �No ...

The Freeman

• The Ominous Expansion of Class-Action Suits
  At stake are billions of dollars and the creation of a new standard for certifying class-action lawsuits.
• Deal Shaping up to Extend Tax Cuts, Unemployment P ...
  “The Senate Republican leadership telegraphed on the Sunday-morning talk shows that a compromise to extend unemployment compensation and the George W. Bush-era tax cuts is in the offing. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Jon Kyl (Ariz.), the Republican whip, told different inte ...
• Fed Chief Takes to Airwaves to Defend Policy
  “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is stepping up his defense of the Fed’s $600 billion Treasury-bond purchase plan, saying the economy is still struggling to become “self-sustaining” without government help.⦠Bernanke said he thinks another recession is unlikely. But he warned that the econ ...
• Unemployment Jumps to 9.8 Percent
  “Employers added fewer jobs than forecast in November and the unemployment rate unexpectedly increasedâ¦. The jobless rate rose to 9.8 percent, the highest since April, while hours worked and earnings stagnated.” (Bloomberg) Hello, Washington? Is anybody there? Do you see the mess you’ve made? FEE T ...
• Compromise in Works Over Tax Rates
  “House Democrats yesterday approved an extension to the Bush tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000, a measure almost certain to be rejected in the Senate. But negotiators worked behind the scenes on an eventual compromise that could extend the cuts to top earners as a way to win Republica ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Skills for journalists: Again, the question
  What skills does today’s journalist need to have? I do not think this question has only one answer. In a comment on a blog post by Robert Hernandez, Michael Grimaldi wrote: The highest skill of journalism is knowing the number of questions to ask, how many people of whom to ask them, and then rep ...
• Data journalism and programmer journalists
  Some good stuff on this topic: Debate over journalism’s required skills gets heated, by Robert Hernandez: I do not believe you need to master programming to succeed in journalism. I do believe you need to respect and understand the power of each and every craft, not just programming, but photog ...
• Nitpicking some myths about digital journalism
  Andy Boyle wrote a response to Mark S. Luckie’s blog post 5 myths about digital journalism, and because I left a comment on Mark’s post, Andy called me out on Twitter. Now, I know Mark a little and Andy not at all (except via his tweets), but I think they are both bright and sincere young journalist ...
• Online video, audiences, sharing: Putting it all t ...
  I thought about titling this post “Another stupid way news sites waste time and effort by failing to understand the Web and how people use it,” but I thought maybe that was far too broad, since it covers so many things. This post is really about how journalism organizations could use video intellig ...
• Online video, links, and people: Putting it all to ...
  I spend a lot of time speaking (and thinking) about online video — both journalism video and the broader YouTube varieties. When we think about how people use online video — and by “people” I mean mostly North Americans in the college and university student age group — we have to consider sharing. ...

Facing South

• The Secession Ball's revisionist history
  On Dec. 20, the group Sons of Confederate Veterans is holding a $100-per-person "Secession Gala" in Charleston, S.C.� to celebrate the state's signing 150 years ago of the Ordinance of Secession -- the document whereby slave-holding states that would eventually form the Confederacy abandoned the Uni ...
• Come celebrate at the ISS Holiday + 40th Anniversa ...
  WEATHER UPDATE, 12/4 3:20pm: We're continuing to watch the weather in the Triangle. So far the party is STILL ON despite snow in the Triangle, since temperatures are still warm enough to avoid icing. Stay tuned for further updates! Does the political scene have you in the dumps? Are you ready for a ...
• VOICES: Watch your wallet -- Obama's federal wage ...
  By Dan La Botz, Labor Notes They're calling it Obama's PATCO -- his proposal for a two-year wage freeze for two million federal workers. When Ronald Reagan fired 13,000 striking PATCO members, the air traffic controllers, in August 1981, he sent a signal to other employers that it was open season ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The deficit commission's curious ...
  Date on which President Obama's deficit commission will meet to consider adopting a plan drawn up by its co-chairs, former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Erskine Bowles, former Clinton chief of staff and current University of North Carolina president: 12/3/2010 Age to which the plan would rais ...
• Will offshore drilling ban spur wind development?
  Yesterday the Interior Department announced an updated strategy for offshore oil and gas leasing that bans drilling in federal waters off the Atlantic Coast and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico for the next seven years. "As a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill we learned a number of less ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Canadian Encyclopedia

• Great Depression
  Few countries were affected as severely as Canada by the worldwide Depression of the 1930s. It is estimated that between 1929 and 1933 Gross National Expenditure declined by 42%, by the latter year 30% of the LABOUR FORCE was
• Riel, Louis
  Louis Riel, M�tis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION (b at Red River Settlement [Man] 22 Oct 1844; d at Regina 16 Nov 1885). Riel was educated at St Boniface and studied for the
• Macdonald, Sir John Alexander
  Sir John Alexander Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada (b at Brunswick Place, across the Clyde R from Glasgow, Scot 10 Jan 1815; d at Ottawa 6 June 1891). He was the dominant creative mind
• Confederation
  Confederation, the union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada (Canada being an earlier 1841 union of Lower Canada and Upper Canada), was achieved 1 July 1867 under the new name,
• Vimy Ridge
  Vimy Ridge, battle fought 9-14 April 1917 during WORLD WAR I . The long, low ridge formed a key position linking the Germans' new HINDENBURG LINE to their main trench lines leading north from HILL 70 near Arras, France.

How Can I Recycle This ?

• What can I reuse or recycle to make a draft exclud ...
  Ok, put your hand up if you’re cold. I’m guessing everyone in the northern hemisphere is waving at their computers right now. It’s pretty brr. On my frugal/cooking/growing blog The Really Good Life, I’ve written about the five frugal ways I’ll be keeping warm this winter – but one thing I missed off ...
• How can I reuse or recycle curtain swatches?
  We’ve had an email from Stephannie: Just having our lounge curtains replaced and got a lot of fabric swatches to check out colours etc before hand. Not sure what to do with them now. They’re mostly about A4 size with fractions of big patterns on. Thought about little coin purses or pin cushions but ...
• How can I reuse or recycle baby stair gates and pl ...
  We’ve had an email from Karen: How can I recycle a baby cot, stair gate and play pen?? Cant bear to throw them away but seems difficult to give away!! It doesn’t have to be difficult to give them away – join your local Freecycle/Freegle group, post an “offer” message and chances are someone will [.. ...
• How can I reuse or recycle clothes patterns?
  Carol sent us an email explaining: I often see huge bins of clothes patterns at thrift stores. Most helplessly outdated or missing instructions. I have used them in the past as packing material but was wondering if there was any other uses. Seems like there has to be some use for the tissue type pap ...
• How can I reuse or recycle old net curtains?
  We’ve had an email from Shannon: We’ve got loads of net curtains from the days before we all realised they were naff! They’re chintzy and are nylon or polyester or something. Do you have any recycling ideas? If they’re still in good condition, you could try passing them on – ask on Freecycle/Freegle ...

Mondoweiss

• What’s J Street doing meeting with Israeli officia ...
  The lobby group J Street has a somewhat muddled policy on the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. An interview in which their executive director says that he’s meeting with the Israeli Foreign Ministry on “how to address” the movement adds to the confusion. On their website, J Stree ...
• Attention progressives for Palestine: Rep. Alan Gr ...
  Rep. Grayson penned an article for Huffington Post today, Looking For Your Ideas and Advice, and created a website where he wants the progressive community to write to him with their ideas about anything from peace to the economy. He will be forwarding all comments to the Progressive Caucus' two ne ...
• The intellectual dishonesty of Benny Morris: Blame ...
  Slog through Benny Morris' latest screed about who's to blame for the collapse of the two state solution�at your own risk... It's like a ride on a quadruple loop roller coaster. The twists and turns of the rampant intellectual dishonesty, complete with the requisite comparison of "dealing with the P ...
• A jolt? More on Brazil’s decision to recogni ...
  In a letter sent to Mahmoud Abbas by�Brazilian President Luiz Inåcio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian government has declared its recognition of a Palestinian State along the 1967 armistice lines. �The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted the announcement in both Portuguese and English�on its we ...
• Carmel fire response shows criticism of Israel is ...
  A friend passes along this excerpt from Yossi Alpher's Peace Now Q & A:That that help came from the United States, France, Britain, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia, Egypt, Jordan and even the Palestinian Authority can conceivably be understood as a sign that Israel's international is ...

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Research trip to the Antarctic: Probing ocean acid ...
  Posted on behalf of Jane Qiu Science journalist Jane Qiu has now reached the Palmer ecological research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, joining researchers investigating how climate change has affected the region in recent decades. Please check back for her dispatches from the bottom of the w ...
• Climate change spurs bid to put seals on endangere ...
  A warmer world could mean a reduction of the colder climates. With this in mind, on 3 December the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) proposed designating two Alaskan mammals—Arctic ringed seals (Pusa hispida) and Pacific bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus)—as ‘threatened’ under ...
• You Cut misfires with attack on minority initiativ ...
  Science bloggers are leaping to the defense of National Science Foundation, which is under attack through the You Cut scheme announced by House Science and Technology committee member Adrian Smith (Republican of Nebraska). His launch video calls for the public to search the NSF database of awards fo ...
• Key oral arguments made in stem cell case
  The attempt by two adult stem cell researchers to quash US funding for human embryonic stem cell research reached a critical juncture this morning, as a high-profile appeals court heard key oral arguments in the case. Arguing before a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for th ...
• Wikileaks cables suggest US blocked Iranian scient ...
  The latest stream of cables from the website Wikileaks, which is publishing more than 250,000 confidential US embassy documents, shows science getting caught up in diplomatic tussles. One message reveals that a US delegation urged Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Ch ...

new geography

• The Financial Crisis Continues to be an Inside Job
  Over the weekend I saw the documentary movie Inside Job with a friend who is not a financial markets expert. After the show, I told her I was relieved to see that the movie covered the majority of the causes of the collapse of the financial markets in 2008. Part of my relief was from thinking that e ...
• I Opt-out of California
  Like the harried traveler who made famous the expression, “Don’t touch my junk”, I have elected my own personal protest, California style. I have decided to OPT-OUT of California to protest my overgrown state government. I am tired of California legislators sticking their hands in my pants to pay fo ...
• Retro Rail Alert
  The New Zealand Government recently decided to follow the example of Montreal and Toronto by amalgamating the six City councils and the single Regional Council of the Auckland Region to create a united “Super City” of 1.4 million people. Like similar amalgamated bodies, the new Auckland Council, w ...
• Florida Goes Underground
  By Richard Reep Last year’s report that Florida had lost people marked a new low in our state’s boom-and-bust history. But this autumn’s news seems to surpass even that sorry milestone with a combination of sluggish tourism, empty state coffers, and a reputation as one of the top real estate fore ...
• Could the Dallas Way be the Right Way?
  Dallas was George W. Bush’s first choice for a retirement destination but it gets low approval ratings elsewhere. A recent poll of readers of American Style magazine rated Dallas only 24th out of 25 large American cities as an arts destination. It came in immediately behind those well-known cultura ...

GM Watch

• Judge orders sugar beets pulled from soil
• GM proposal could face legal challenge
• Wikileaks document pushes GM food for African coun ...
  1. Wikileaks document pushes genetically modified food for African countries 2. Wikileaks: State Dept. wants intel on African acceptance of GMOs EXCERPT: It's ... a shame to see that our spymasters are actively engaged in efforts to make the world safe for Monsanto. Aren't there better things for t ...
• Clearance for field trial of genetically modified ...
• Vatican has not endorsed GM food, official says

spiked

• Tax inspectors against capitalism? Now that is ric ...
  The rise of the radical tax inspectors, chasing after ‘tax dodgers’ Philip Green and Vodafone, reveals the parlous state of left-wing thinking.
• Breast is best? Let mothers decide
  Why aren’t people angrier about the Lib-Con government’s desire to nudge new mums towards ‘good behaviour’?
• Treating people like lab rats
  When it comes to UK health policy, dodgy Nudge-style psychology is just as oppressive as New Labour nannying.
• Neither the FA nor the BBC
  In the war of the World Cup between the England bid elite and Panorama, neither team of self-righteous Soccerists seems supportable.
• Resist this nudge towards sobriety
  The UK government’s decision to raise duty on high-strength lager in order to change our behaviour diminishes us all.

Cryptogon

• Deadly Medicine: Lethal Profit Machine
  Via: Vanity Fair: Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A. doesn’t reach, and “mi ...
• Gold: Fresh Record High
  Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Intraday break higher out of previous range. Via: Bloomberg: Gold futures jumped to a record $1,429.40 an ounce on concern the U.S. will pump more cash into the economy and Europe’s debt woes will spread, boosting t ...
• 20 Statistics
  Via: Economic Collapse Blog: Today global wealth is more highly concentrated in the hands of the elite than it ever has been at any other point in modern history. Once upon a time, the vast majority of the people in the world knew how to grow their own food, raise their own animals and take [...]
• List of Facilities Vital to U.S. Security Leaked
  If you look at the State Department document, notice how many times the phrase, “undersea cable landing,” appears? I stopped counting after 50. This goes all the way back to one of my core assumptions on here: If “The Terrorists” were real, this show would have been down long ago. It would take no s ...
• Spooks at the Cup
  Via: New Zealand Herald: Laws allowing spies to intercept text messages, snoop on computers and track people online will be pushed through Parliament before next year’s Rugby World Cup. The move has brought accusations that the Government is passing laws behind closed doors. But Prime Minister John ...

The Economic Collapse

• Say What? 30 Ben Bernanke Quotes That Are So Stupi ...
  Did you see Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on 60 Minutes the other night?  Bernanke portrayed the Federal Reserve as the great protector of the U.S. economy, he claimed that unemployment would be 15 percent higher if the Federal Reserve had sat back and done nothing during th ...
• Suffocated By Red Tape – 12 Ridiculous Regul ...
  Even with all of the massive economic problems that the United States is facing, if the government would just get off our backs most of us would do okay.  In America today, it is rapidly getting to the point where it is nearly impossible to start or to operate a small business.  The ...
• 15 Reasons Why Barack Obama’s Debt Commissio ...
  In a surprise move, the co-chairs of Barack Obama's national debt commission released their preliminary proposals to the media on Wednesday.  The proposals are actually quite modest - they recommend that nothing be implemented until 2012 because of the weak economy, and their plan w ...
• Jobless Recovery?: 25 Unemployment Statistics That ...
  Guess what?  Unemployment is up again!  That's right - even though Wall Street is swimming in cash and the Obama administration is declaring that "the recession is over", the U.S. unemployment rate has gone even higher.  So are you enjoying the jobless recovery?  The truth is that t ...
• Barack Obama: We Must Embrace Globalism And The Em ...
  Although it received very little coverage in the mainstream media, Barack Obama made some comments about globalism during his speech in Mumbai, India that were very eye-opening.  As he was discussing the new realities of world trade in 2010, Obama warned against "those who see globa ...

Desertification

• Meeting the world’s future food needs is dep ...
  Read at : http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/4276/saving-africas-seeds-farmers-fighting-for-diversity Saving Africa’s Seeds: Farmers fighting for diversity by: Tanya Kerssen Meeting the world’s future food needs is dependent on preserving the genetic diversity of the plants we grow and eat, as well ...
• Plants to produce thicker roots and quicken their ...
  Read at : http://www.livescience.com/environment/fast-growing-plants-biofuel-101206.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+livescience%2Fenvironment+%28LiveScience.com+Environment%29 Fast-Growing Plants May Carpet World in Green By Eric Schaffer, LiveScience’s Mad Scientist ...
• Africa has the potential to become a food exporter ...
  Read at : http://globalhealth.kff.org/Daily-Reports/2010/December/02/GH-120210-Food-Security.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kff%2Fkdghpr+%28Kaiser+Daily+Global+Health+Policy+Report%29 Africa Can Produce Enough Food To Feed Itself, Study Says Africa is capable of prod ...
• Community gardens can serve as an effective tool f ...
  Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/12/06/review-and-analysis-of-the-benefits-purposes-and-motivations-associated-with-community-gardening-in-the-united-states/ Review and Analysis of the Benefits, Purposes, and Motivations Associated with Community Gardening in the United States Linked by Mic ...
• EMWIS Flash n°85, November/December 2010 (EMWIS / ...
  Read at : Water Issues Announcement List EMWIS Flash n°85, November/December 2010 Euro-Mediterranean Information System on the know-how in the Water Sector EMWIS is a program of the Union for the Mediterranean. For further information: www.emwis.net Monthly Flash produced … ...

The Paper Trail

• Reform Reading: JPMorgan CEO Not Embarrassed to be ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
• Ethanol’s Political Investment: PACs Gave $1 ...
  Political action committees for companies and trade groups involved with the ethanol industry contributed $1 million to Congressional candidates in the 2008 and 2010 election cycles. The money went to nearly 200 candidates, including 21 in the big corn-growing state of Illinois, 12 each in Indiana, ...
• Dispute in Pennsylvania Town Highlights EPA’ ...
  It was a windy Friday morning last December when Gary Kuklish stepped out of the post office in the tiny coal town of LaBelle, PA, looked down the valley to the Monongahela River, and was surprised to find his view obscured.
• Reform Reading:  SEC Delays Whistleblower Off ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
• Whistleblower Bill Close to Winning Senate Approva ...
  A landmark bill to protect government whistleblowers is expected to win U.S. Senate approval this month, according to two advocacy groups, extending protection to members of the intelligence community who report waste, fraud, and abuse.

backofthebook.ca

• Afghanistan worsens for women
  Photo: Afghan women students at Kabul University, 1995 By Alison@Creekside Speaking to his fellow members of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights last week at a meeting which heard that the situation for Afghan women has considerably worsened over the last two years, Lib MP Mario Sil ...
• Canada’s favourite torturers
  By Alison@Creekside CBC: "The Canadian Forces have for years arrested children suspected of working with the Taliban and handed them over to an Afghan security unit accused of torture. The document, obtained under an Access to Information request and marked 'secret,' shows that Defence Ministe ...
• Jack up the crazy: Courtney Love’s reality s ...
  by Rachel Krueger This is what we’re doing now, Universe?  It’s not enough that Snooki has a book deal and that the Bieber-fetus has a biopic.  We’re giving Courtney Love a reality show now? Because this show isn’t going to be whatever Courtney thinks this show is going to be ("America’s Next ...
• WikiLeaks cache slim on Canadian content, so far
  By Frank Moher Early pickings for Canadians eager to find out what U.S. diplomats think of us, thanks to WikiLeaks' latest release of documents, labelled "cablegate," have been slim to none. Make that none. So far, just 220 of 251,287 files have been released, and none feature the American am ...
• Poledancing to the Web’s Tune
  Call them WebMatrons -- a new breed of businesswomen who've reinvented themselves on the internet ~~ By Beth Hendry-Yim ~~ After spending more than half her life working hard to raise her two boys alone, Susan Peach is ready for life to get a little easier. At 46, the B.C. fitness instructor . ...

Worldnews

• President Obama in Bush-era tax cuts climbdow ...
  US president Barack Obama brushed aside opposition in his own party today and announced an agreement with Republicans on a plan to extend expiring income tax cuts for all Americans, renew jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed and grant a one-year reduction in payroll taxes. The emerging ...
• Online search giant Google opens an e-book st ...
  SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is making the leap from digital librarian to merchant in a challenge to Amazon.com Inc. and its Kindle electronic reader. The long-awaited Internet bookstore, which opened Monday in the U.S., draws upon a portion of the 15 million printed books that Google has scanne ...
• Time to play catch-up on technology, Obama sa ...
  WINSTON-SALEM -- President Barack Obama downplayed politics Monday, emphasizing the need for Republicans and Democrats to work together and tested out talking points for his re-election campaign. "I believe right now there are bigger issues at stake for our country than politics," Obama told a ...
• Obama, GOP reach deal on tax cuts, benefits ...
  WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama reached agreement Monday with congressional Republicans to extend and deepen tax cuts temporarily - and extend unemployment insurance - in hopes of stirring the economy and creating jobs. Obama pointedly refused to drag out the debate any longer over his que ...
• Kylie Minogue `thought about egg donation` ...
  Kylie Minogue has revealed that she has 'thought about' egg donation to help her have children. Kylie Minogue leaving her house and heading to Heathrow Airport to take part in tomorrow's Macy's...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embedded ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ in I ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any Time ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cops an ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• LIDOCAINE AND PRILOCAINEcream [Sandoz Inc.]
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• HYDROGEN PEROXIDEsolution [Walgreens Co.]
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• Smart Mom Jennifer Taggart aims to get the lead ou ...
  The blogger, environmental lawyer, former engineer and mother of two puts manufacturers under her X-ray fluorescence gun.

Common Dreams

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

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• Cory Doctorow
• Margaret Atwood
• Viggo Mortensen
• David Jacobson
• Hugh Dillon

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Another setback for Wikileaks and ...
  ExamineReligion: Another setback for Wikileaks and Assange: judge denies him bail http://exm.nr/eqDGlj
• ExamineReligion: Lehigh Valley Humanists Join the ...
  ExamineReligion: Lehigh Valley Humanists Join the War on Christmas? http://exm.nr/hPA9vw
• ExamineReligion: Christmas Celebration Spotlight: ...
  ExamineReligion: Christmas Celebration Spotlight: Cornerstone Christian Church in Jackson, MI http://exm.nr/g0oaHB
• ExamineReligion: School is in Session http://exm.n ...
  ExamineReligion: School is in Session http://exm.nr/gshv7H
• ExamineReligion: Catholic commercialism: Can you b ...
  ExamineReligion: Catholic commercialism: Can you buy back your wayward flock? http://exm.nr/i1WwFc

Energy Collective

• Climate Change Groups Need to Rethink Their Approa ...
  Yesterday morning I awoke to NPR Weekend Edition Sunday's report on how climate groups are retooling their argu
• Election Does Not Spell Cleantech Doom
  With the recent �shellacking� (as President Obama referred to the election results) of the Democratically controlled Congress, much of the buzz in the cleantech space has been doom and gloom.� Is cleantech doomed to a new dark age?� I do not believe so.Energy policy is one area where there is an ...
• David Doniger - Supreme Court to Hear Case Against ...
  The Supreme Court will hear challenges by America's biggest power companies to a landmark appeals court ruling in Connecticut v. American Electric Power that they can be sued to curb their emissions of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming.�
• At National Oil Spill Commission Meeting, We Share ...
  The�National Oil Spill Commissioners�shared our preliminary conclusions on Friday about the root causes of the BP oil disaster and the best ways to safeguard America against future spills. Though our final report will not be released until January, our initial findings have taken shape.
• Plugging Schools Into the Smart Grid
  A school district in Silicon Valley is adding a 1.26 MW photovoltaic (PV) solar installation across several campuses to deliver about 45% of their annual electricity needs.� The ground-mounted facilities will be placed as canopies in school parking lots, so the shading provided by the panels can als ...

Green House - USA Today

• Supreme Court to hear climate change lawsuit
  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case about climate change in which electric utilities are rebuffing an effort by states to reduce their power plant emissions.
• Study: Mercury pollution causes birds to act gay
  Mercury pollution causes a surprising tendency of male white ibis birds to mate with other males, finds a new University of Florida study.
• Tips for giving Mother Earth a greener Christmas
  How to enjoy the holidays without spoiling the planet? This is a conundrum I face every year since my younger daughter is still at an age, thankfully, when she wants toys -- sometimes big ones with lots of wasteful packaging like the 2008 request for a collection of eight Barbie princesses. What to ...
• Glam Chicago home hides its 48 rooftop solar panel ...
  n its traditional Chicago neighborhood, Michael Yannell's new courtyard home has a distinctive butterfly-shaped roof that hides its 48 rooftop solar panels from street view.
• EPA celebrates 40th birthday amid controversy
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency celebrated its 40th anniversary this past week as House Republicans axed a global warming committee.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• Challenging Obama's Anti-Progressivism
  by Stephen Lendman Believing Obama is progressive is like calling a cat a dog. Only the delusional think so. He's, in fact, hard-right, a neocon, a warrior president, a corporatist pursuing anti-populist policies favoring wealth and privilege, not social justice when more than ever it's needed. ...
• The hatemonger from the Netherlands
  By Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine Israel's manifestly fascist Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has once again demonstrated virulent malice and ill-will toward Muslims in general, including Israel's own Muslim citizens who constitute nearly one fourth of the population, by inviting anti-Is ...
• Haitians Protest Sham Elections
  by Stephen Lendman Washington's imperial boot flaunts Lavalas' slogan: "All people are people (Tout moun se moun)." The sham elections are one of many abuses. As a result, Haitians continue protesting for rights they've been long denied, including leaders serving them, not monied interests. O ...
• UN Climate Concern Morphs into Chemtrail Glee Club
  By Rady Ananda In Cancun, Mexico, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is under pressure to overturn the UN ban on chemtrails. This would dissolve an agreement reached in October at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Japan. In that landmark decision, the 19 ...
• Confronting the ‘futuristic’ branding ...
  By Rady Ananda Lately, we’ve seen a massive marketing make-over of environmental modification (ENMOD) programs. What has been a clandestine and hostile military application now is promoted as a “futuristic” solution to corporate pollution. Debunking mass media’s mischaracterization of geoengineeri ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Water Matters: watch Ben Parfitt on Voice of BC
  CCPA-BC Resource Policy Analyst Ben Parfitt has been researching issues related to water and natural gas for years, and he's a dynamic and passionate speaker on the topic. He recently appeared on Voice of BC to discuss this issue. We highly recommend watching this video if you want to get a clear an ...
• Stimulus Extended (well the deadline anyway)
  The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) has continued to release analysis on spending from the Infrastructure Stimulus Fund adding much needed transparency despite the general lack from the federal government itself. �Unfortunately, this particular fund only represents about a quarter of all infrastru ...
• Children pay heavy price for inequality: UNICEF
  A new UNICEF report looks at 24 OECD countries and rates Canada poorly on children's material well-being, which includes housing and family income. We're #17 out of 24 countries. The report says �Canada should address income inequality by promoting fairly paid and highly skilled employment and throu ...
• Would you like jobs with that: online calculators
  Two new online calculators highlight the fact that government spending changes have a real effect on the economy. The calculators demonstrate the change in employment and economic activity based on changes in government spending. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities calculator allows users to ...
• Canadians still waiting for a jobs recovery
  Canada may have fared better than the U.S. during this past recession, but a full economic recovery should mean a jobs recovery. CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan explains why Canada's falling short on the job recovery front in this Globe and Mail article. Check out The Globe and Mail's interac ...

World Wide Hippies

• Brazil Slows Global Warming
  Amazon deforestation; surprisingly high for a record low | Nature The official data for Amazon deforestation over the past year is out, and the final tally, though higher than expected, nonetheless represents a historic low. And that translates into substantial reductions in greenhouse gases. “Brazi ...
• Senator Mitch McConnell: Corrupt Scumbag
  WWH-Senator Mitch McConnell: Julian Assange is âhigh-tech terroristâ – WWH: Mitch McConnell most corrupt Senator in Washington. Speaking on Meet the Press, Kentucky U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell said Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law, terming him a âh ...
• Mob rule on China’s Internet
  The keyboard as weapon | International Herald Tribune via NYT It began with an impassioned, 5,000-word letter on one of China’s most popular Internet bulletin boards, from a husband denouncing a student he suspected of carrying on an affair with his wife. Immediately, hundreds joined in the attack. ...
• Worldwide Hippies News!
  WWH- News – Week of December 6, 2010 Worldwide Hippies is your most trusted network of independent news and views on the web. Worldwide Hippies News is produced weekly for the Hippie Community Worldwide. This week- Haiti “Burn the Witches”, John Mccain No Rainbow, Hiliary and the Chief Bush Buddies ...
• Fourteen-year-old known as El Ponchis will be trie ...
  Mexican teenage ‘hitman’ could face three years in prison | The Guardian A 14-year-old boy who is accused of taking part in four beheadings carried out for a Mexican drug cartel will be tried under a state juvenile law carrying a maximum of three years in prison, a judge said yesterday. The juvenile ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
  A soft landing for America 40 years from now?� Don�t bet on it.� The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines.� If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and g ...
• The New American Oligarchy
  There is a war underway. I'm not talking about Washington�s bloody misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, but a war within our own borders. It�s a war fought on the airwaves, on television and radio and over the Internet, a war of words and images, of half-truth, innuendo, and raging lies. I'm talki ...
• The Health Insurance Industry’s Vendetta Against M ...
  Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, makes great movies but they are not generally considered “cliff-hangers.” All that might change since a whistle-blower on the “Democracy Now!” news hour revealed that health insurance executives thought they may have to implement a plan “to pus ...
• Wendell Potter Appearances for 'Deadly Spin&#3 ...
  For more information, visit WendellPotter.com AUTHOR APPEARANCES WASHINGTON, DC Tuesday, November 9, 2010 The National Press Club 529 14th Street, Northwest 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. WASHINGTON, DC Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Politics and Prose 5015 Connecticut Avenue, NW 7:00 p.m ...
• Bradley Manning Support Network Condemns Unjust De ...
  Washington, DC, November 10, 2010 – Last week, David House, a developer working with the Bradley Manning Support Network, was detained and had his computer seized by the FBI when returning from a vacation in Mexico. He committed no crime, nor was he ever alleged to have committed a crime. He was que ...

Salon

• Party time for Bush and Cheney!
  I know they weren't the best of friends when they left Washington, but I bet former President Bush and Dick Cheney at least had a phone call tonight congratulating one another on one of the great heists in history. In 2001, they knew they couldn't make their budget-busting tax cuts for the rich p ...
• Actually, it's a pretty good deal...
  The obvious comparison that comes to mind, now that President Obama has officially relented on the GOP's insistence that all of the Bush tax cuts be extended, is to George H.W. Bush and his decision in 1990 to go back on his "No new taxes" campaign pledge.
• Study finds that Aspirin may cut cancer deaths, bu ...
  A new report from British scientists suggests that long-term, low-dose aspirin use may modestly reduce the risk of dying of certain cancers, though experts warn the study isn't strong enough to recommend healthy people start taking a pill that can cause bleeding and other problems.
• Heisman finalists mirror BCS championship game
  Auburn quarterback Cam Newton and Oregon running back LaMichael James will meet up in New York before heading to Arizona for next month's national championship game.
• Today in conservative "post-partisanship"
  Exciting news on the post-partisan third-way "no labels" front: Michael Bloomberg just helped the Republicans probably take back the New York state Senate, and Michelle Rhee is on the cover of Newsweek.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Auditor’s report: A remedy for ailing hospitals
  Ontario's hospital system is operating well below the efficiency that patients and taxpayers deserve.
• Ex-Nortel workers: Cutting off the disabled
  Ex-Nortel workers on disability deserved better from their company, and from Tory Senators.
• Blair and SIU: So sorry, no snitching
  His G20-related apology is good, as far as it goes, but Chief Bill Blair needs to do more in rooting out bad cops.
• Ex-Nortel workers: Cutting off the disabled
  Ex-Nortel workers on disability deserved better from their company, and from Tory Senators.
• Declare TTC essential service
  Mayor Rob Ford is right in wanting the TTC declared essential, but this part of his agenda isn't sure to pass.

Energy Collective

• Climate Change Groups Need to Rethink Their Approa ...
  Yesterday morning I awoke to NPR Weekend Edition Sunday's report on how climate groups are retooling their argu
• Election Does Not Spell Cleantech Doom
  With the recent �shellacking� (as President Obama referred to the election results) of the Democratically controlled Congress, much of the buzz in the cleantech space has been doom and gloom.� Is cleantech doomed to a new dark age?� I do not believe so.Energy policy is one area where there is an ...
• David Doniger - Supreme Court to Hear Case Against ...
  The Supreme Court will hear challenges by America's biggest power companies to a landmark appeals court ruling in Connecticut v. American Electric Power that they can be sued to curb their emissions of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming.�
• At National Oil Spill Commission Meeting, We Share ...
  The�National Oil Spill Commissioners�shared our preliminary conclusions on Friday about the root causes of the BP oil disaster and the best ways to safeguard America against future spills. Though our final report will not be released until January, our initial findings have taken shape.
• Plugging Schools Into the Smart Grid
  A school district in Silicon Valley is adding a 1.26 MW photovoltaic (PV) solar installation across several campuses to deliver about 45% of their annual electricity needs.� The ground-mounted facilities will be placed as canopies in school parking lots, so the shading provided by the panels can als ...

EU Times

• Chinese Twitter user arrested on her wedding day f ...
  A Chinese Twitter user has been arrested, on her wedding day, over a tweet. One week after Paul Chambers lost his appeal in the so-called Twitter joke trial here in the UK, Amnesty International reports that Chinese activist Cheng Jianping has been sentenced to a year of ‘re-education’ after retweet ...
• The Decline of the Left in Europe
  As America has been moving left, Europe is taking the opposite course. Social-Democratic parties have lost some of their dominance. These two maps plot political power. For countries with coalition governments, the holder of the Prime Minister or being the largest party in the coalition is used. Pur ...
• Local elections in Poland test government’s popula ...
  Voting stations across Poland opened Sunday for municipal elections in which 48,000 regional leaders were to be elected. The elections are regarded as a political barometer ahead of parliamentary elections in 2011. Local elections in Poland have opened across the country, in a key test for the gover ...
• Uneasy ‘calm’ in Conakry after post-election ethni ...
  Ethnic violence in Guinea’s capital Conakry following a disputed presidential election has left at least seven people dead. The situation appears to have calmed, but simmering tensions remain. It was heralded as an election that would finally bring democracy to a coup-weary West African nation, but ...
• Romanian Architect designes Sci-Fi building for Ta ...
  You thought Dubai and Shanghai had the craziest, most futuristic architecture in the planet. Sorry Taiwan, you and your Taiwan Tower—a 984-foot (300 meter) high structure with mechanized observation platforms that float using helium and propellers—win. Originally conceptualized by Romanian architect ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Google announces Nexus S phone sporting Android 2. ...
  Guest Post: Albert is a developer, gadget geek, and all-round nice guy. He’s passionate about Android, and writes for  ZADroid , a new blog that covers Android in South Africa. However, anything shiny and sufficiently technologically advanced puts a smile on his face. Above and beyond that, Albert ...
• What might a return of the estate tax mean for fun ...
  Nonprofit fundraising in the US could be impacted most by a tax change coming up in 2011 in terms of giving amongst the wealthiest. A two year trend of reduced donations from those with the highest net worth may see acceleration with a full return of the estate tax. The study analyzed random survey ...
• Elizabeth Edwards Latest News: Her Cancer Has Spre ...
  Elizabeth Edwards took to her Facebook page to post what many are calling her final goodbye. Her doctors have told her the cancer has spread to her liver and any further treatment would be pointless. Here’s what she posted to her Facebook page: “I have been sustained throughout my life by three sav ...
• The Mile High Burger Club: Continental Airlines' A ...
  From A Hamburger Today [Photographs: Damon Gambuto] Continental has been my airline of choice for the last few years, and up until just recently it was one of the last airlines to include a meal with your ticket price. Well, another one has bitten the dust: Continental now charges Economy Class cus ...
• Former Dallas Cowboys QB Don Meredith Dead At 72
  Don Meredith was the happiest, most fun-loving guy wherever he went, whether crooning country tunes in the huddle as quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys or jawing with Howard Cosell in the broadcast booth as analyst on the groundbreaking “Monday Night Football.” His irreverent personality made him on ...

Groklaw

• Download LibreOffice Release Candidate 1
  The following software packages are intended to give you a first impression of what LibreOffice is. Currently we are in the process of combining the work of many contributors, and improving how to make the software available to our users. There are known issues, so please consider reading the releas ...
• Attachmate Updates MFT Tool
  Attachmate recently unveiled a new release of FileXpress, its managed file transfer (MFT) offering that supports moving files among IBM i-, mainframe-, Unix-, and X86-based computer systems. Support for the latest release of Microsoft Windows Server heads the list of improvements in version 7.0. - ...
• Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle
  The Apache Software Foundation - one of tech's most influential open-source groups - is closer to quitting Java's governing body after losing a stand-off vote against Oracle on Java. The Reg has learned that with 75 per cent of qualifying Java Community Process (JCP) members having voted on whether ...
• Ellison: Oracle Enterprise Linux Coming to Sparc
  Oracle will port its Enterprise Linux distribution to Sun's Sparc processor, a move that could help it compete better against IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the high-end server business.... "We think Sparc will become clearly the best chip for running Oracle software. At that point we'd be nuts not to ...
• Facebook redesign upsets some users
  Another pointed out that his comments now note his employer. "Why is my job showing up next to my name on this post!? It's never happened before, & I did not authorize it!" - James Temple, San Francisco Chronicle

WideShut

• Famous Actor Placed On Terror Watchlist?
  There is contention on whether actor Mark Ruffalo was placed on a wactch-list, but the propaganda might still have the desired effect.
• The Banker: by 33rddegreefilms
  A short film that puts the current financial collapse in to perspective.
• November 30, 2010, WideShut Webcast On Resistance ...
  On this week's show Keelan Balderson discusses the EDL, the Christmas Tree Bomber, and the dubious Wikileaks documents.
• Another Dubious Terrorist Attack: Christmas Tree B ...
  Oregon Christmas tree bomber was groomed online and given dud bomb by agent. How much was really his own doing?
• November 23, 2010, WideShut Webcast On Resistance ...
  On this week's show Keelan discusses the list of celebrities that have spoken out about 9/11.

Waterkeeper Alliance

• State revokes key certificate for Alcoa Power Gene ...
  State revokes key certificate for Alcoa Power Generating Inc.
• Big Poultry ramps up its assault on the Chesapeake
  Big Poultry ramps up its assault on the Chesapeake
• Tell EPA that coal ash is hazardous waste!
  Coal ash is a dangerous mix of arsenic, lead, mercury and other poisons.
• Commissioners delay decision on coal export facili ...
  Commissioners delay decision on coal export facility
• After suing, group says city on track to fixing se ...
  After suing, group says city on track to fixing sewage problem

Politics in the Zeros

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

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Kiwi soldier's family 'devastated' by death
  The family of the Kiwi soldier killed in Afghanistan said he was "absolutely passionate about what he was doing".
• Welfare errors cost taxpayers millions
  Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars are being mistakenly handed out to beneficiaries every year.
• DOC: No 'concrete' information on seal slaughter
  The Department of Conservation (DOC) says it is yet to receive any "concrete" information on who carried out the brutal clubbing to death of 23 fur seals near Kaikoura
• Three-year-old dies of head injury after months in ...
  A three-year-old girl who was admitted to Starship hospital earlier this year with a severe head injury has died.
• British PM in Afghanistan, eyes troop pullout next ...
  British PM David Cameron said troops could start withdrawing from Afghanistan as early as next year.

Just World News

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

First Truths

• Liberty or Authority: The Social(ism) Question
  Although the vicissitudes of the political season belie the fact, when November draws to a close the state will persist. And with it will remain its ring of members, superficial substitutions notwithstanding, all ready to deal in douceurs with wealth created by the productive among us. Convinced a ...
• The State's Corporate Wasteland
  Corporations, while they are celebrated as paragons of innovation and efficiency, suffer from the same slow reaction time, waste, and lack of creativity that defines government agencies. Taking into account the fact that the state and the corporation are pieces of the same coercive puzzle, a system ...
• Mortgage Liens On Our Lives
  The state, though it assures us of the goodwill behind its housing policies, has succeeded in a master stroke of subterfuge that further condenses wealth in the troves of the elite. The mortgage fiasco once again demonstrates that the state will mobilize when the interests of its club members are im ...
• Terrorism By Any Other Name
  In federal court on Tuesday, Faisal Shahzad, whose attempt to bomb Times Square with homemade explosives was thwarted back in May, was handed a life sentence. In a statement made during a hearing, Shahzad, an American radicalized by the United States’ sanguinary, terroristic crusade against the Mu ...
• Sounding Off
  In a society that fully and consistently honors individual sovereignty, observing the nonaggression principle, an independent right to free speech is unnecessary and redundant. By making the coercive land monopolization of government impossible, libertarian anarchism preempts free speech as an issue ...

Media Co-Op

• Leaked Cable #r?a?p?e?: An Open Rant Against the P ...
  So, I could write a really polite open letter. You know, kind of a figurative tap on the shoulder to say: "Hey guys, when you're writing and commenting about these charges against Julian Assange, you're sort of perpetuating awful stereotypes and sexist arguments about women and rape..." Fuck polite. ...
• Murder is a risky business
  On Monday December 5th, members of various community groups disrupted the Mining Business Risks conference. Crashing the opening plenary, concerned community members were protesting a conference that promised to help mining companies “successfully navigate” risks such as “environmental activist,” an ...
• TVO's Paikin: G20 Police Assaulted AMC Journalist
  Don't let Christie Blatchford fool you. Blatchford, the Globe and Mail columnist who's being protested amid accusations of being racist towards 6-Nations, also declared after the G20 that several journalists covering the summit who were threa ...
• À l'occasion de la commémoration de la tuerie à la ...
  En lutte contre le patriarcat sous toutes ses formes : en solidarité avec les femmes et en hommage aux femmes combattantes, à la mémoire d'Andrea Dworkin et de bien d'autres femmes   ''Dans Pouvoir et violence sexiste, Dworkin s’attache su ...
• Climate Activists Confused to Find Canada’s Climat ...
  Canadian government selling international and domestic climate policy on popular online shopping tool Check out the listing Ottawa/Edmonton/Cancun – Climate activists in Canada, as well as those in Cancun, Mexico, were floored today to come a ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Where is China headed?
  China's high speed train system David Seaton's News Link I heard a talk over a year ago at a meeting of the Madrid Fulbright association: the speaker was professor Fisac, the head of Chinese studies at Madrid University.� She said that in the course of conversation with an official of the Chinese C ...
• Speaking of China
  David Seaton's News LinksI am in awe of the Chinese and have been since I was a child. I think Napoleon's famous phrase, "Let China sleep for when she awakes, she will shake the world" is an understatement. The only mystery was their decadence. So finally, my intuition that China is behind Wikileaks ...
• Wikileaks (my latest theory)
  David Seaton's News LinksAfter my waltzing around ever so long with trying to figure out who's behind Wikileaks, the penny finally dropped. It is so glaringly obvious to me now, that I'm surprised it never occurred to me before. The good news is that it isn't Israel.(Hillary) Clinton likened online ...
• Wikileaks or the lonliness of Private Manning
  For your eyes only �David Seaton's News LinksThe diplomatic corps of any sovereign country is an instrument of the state.� It does what the head of state and his/her government decide that it should do. Even if there were a total regime change in the USA, one of any political color you lik ...
• Getting serious for a moment
  David Seaton's News LinksFor the time being the USA is the major pillar of stability of some sort that the world has. Like it or not, that is a fact. Anything that affects that stability causes extremely unpredictable outcomes, blowback and damage everywhere. I am certainly not "pro status quo", but ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• Farm Pollution Knocks Chesapeake Bay Out of Balanc ...
  Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON – For more than thirty years, contamination from high-intensity farming has been adding to the pollution that fouls Chesapeake Bay, one of America’s most storied waterways. A new... [[ This is a content summary only ...
• Congress Passes Child Nutrition Bill
  Contact: Congratulations! When you said you wanted better nutrition in schools, Congress listened. Both houses of Congress have now passed legislation to give more poor children free meals at school, mandate healthier school cafeteria... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
• Important Child Nutrition Legislation Sent to Pres ...
  Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org or leeann@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – A major public health victory on behalf of the neediest school children is about to be realized when President Obama signs into law... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• Holidays Come Early for California Chemical Makers ...
  Contact: Renee Sharp, (510) 444-0973 x302 or renee@ewg.org Oakland, Calif. -- In September 2008, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrated the signing of two bills that, he said, would propel “California to the forefront of the nation and... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
• Food Safety Bill will Save the Lives of Thousands
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – At least 5,000 Americans – most of them young children, the elderly and the sick – die every year from eating contaminated food, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• The Trick to Eating Healthy on a Tight Budget
  Every month, hundreds of thousands of Americans are falling out of the middle class and into poverty. Pakalert Press has uncovered 27 signals that things are likely to get worse before they get better. They include: Residents of New York state just experienced their first full-year decline in ...
• This Vilified Daily Food Slashes Heart Attack Ris ...
  By The Weston A. Price Foundation The Weston A. Price Foundation provides accurate information about nutrition and is dedicated to putting nutrient-dense foods back on American tables. Members receive a lively and informative quarterly journal and email updates on current issues and events.Visi ...
• Want to Be Happier? Keep Your Focus
  Nearly half the time you're awake, your thoughts drift. And how often your mind wanders is a predictor of how happy you are -- new research finds that the more often you take yourself out of the present moment, the less happy you are. So U.S. News & World Report suggests the following five ways to ...
• The Amazing Anti-Aging Discovery Experts Say Deser ...
  You may be able to extend your life and stay fit throughout your old age with a simple change of diet that switches on your "youth" gene. Professor Cynthia Kenyon, whom many experts believe should win the Nobel Prize for her research into aging, has discovered that carbohydrates directly affect th ...
• Squirrel Obstacle Course
  A tasty snack seems to be worth a whole lot of effort for this squirrel.

JAMA

• Medical Education Meets Health Reform: New Models ...
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• Tuberculosis Vaccine [Lab Reports]
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• Infectious Alzheimer Protein [Lab Reports]
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• New Depression Target [Lab Reports]
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• Kidney Failure Cause [Lab Reports]
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Survival - tribal peoples

• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Editorial: Fight drunk driving with tougher sancti ...
  Quebec's decision to stick with a 0.08 blood alcohol level will be greeted with relief by the province's bars and restaurants -and possibly drivers as well.
• Editorial: Cracking down on domestic violence
  By one accounting, since Dec. 6, 1989, a total of 945 Quebec women have been murdered at the hands of men. That man is rarely a stranger like Marc Lepine, the anti-feminist who killed 14 young women at the Ecole Polytechnique. The typical killer of a woman in Quebec is men who shared her lif ...
• Fight drunk driving with tougher sanctions
  Quebec's decision to stick with a 0.08 blood alcohol level will be greeted with relief by the province's bars and restaurants -and possibly drivers as well.
• Cracking down on domestic violence
  By one accounting, since Dec. 6, 1989, a total of 945 Quebec women have been murdered at the hands of men. That man is rarely a stranger like Marc Lepine, the anti-feminist who killed 14 young women at the Ecole Polytechnique. The typical killer of a woman in Quebec is men who shared her lif ...
• Editorial: Now more than ever, others need our hel ...
  It will take nothing short of a Christmas miracle for Canada's charities to collect more money this year than they have in either of the last two. Since 2007, the number of donations has dropped precipitously, by nearly $1 billion. Donors are fewer and they're older.

Food World Order

• eu food safety chief forced to quit gm lobby role
  from the ecologist: A key figure in charge of food safety within the EU has been forced to quit her director role at a pro-GM group. European Green MEPs had called for EFSA chair Diana Banati's resignation after she had failed to disclose her seat on the board of directors of the International Life ...
• 'botox apples' genetically modified to keep from b ...
  from delish: The expression "one bad apple spoils the bunch" may soon have to be retired. Okanagan Specialty Fruits, a Canadian biotechnology company, has petitioned the USDA for approval of its genetically modified "non-browning apple." The company is marketing the fruit as the "Arctic" while criti ...
• white house to serve 2,000 lbs of gulf seafood ove ...
  from food safety news: The White House announced Wednesday it has shipped about 2,000 pounds of shrimp and crabs from the Gulf to serve at this year's holiday parties, a big gesture aimed at boosting consumer confidence in regional seafood in the wake of the devastating BP Deepwater Horizon oil sp ...
• cdc admits dc water may still be contaminated
  head of dc water says cdc report 'not new news' from washington post: The water in almost 15,000 DC homes that were repaired during a massive effort to remove lead pipes may still be contaminated by dangerous levels of the metal, according to a report released [Dec1] by the CDC. If those residenc ...
• food prices expected to rise sharply
  from cnbc: Everyone is waiting for inflation. Corn is up 45 percent the last three months. We haven't seen cotton prices this high since after the Civil War. Soybeans are up. Oil is up. Metals are up. So are coffee and cocoa. In this era of massive liquidity, everything is up, except for food prices ...

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• Say What? 30 Ben Bernanke Quotes That Are So Stupi ...
  Did you see Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on 60 Minutes the other night?  Bernanke portrayed the Federal Reserve as the great protector of the U.S. economy, he claimed that unemployment would be 15 percent higher if the Federal Reserve had sat back and done nothing during th ...
• Suffocated By Red Tape – 12 Ridiculous Regul ...
  Even with all of the massive economic problems that the United States is facing, if the government would just get off our backs most of us would do okay.  In America today, it is rapidly getting to the point where it is nearly impossible to start or to operate a small business.  The ...
• 15 Reasons Why Barack Obama’s Debt Commissio ...
  In a surprise move, the co-chairs of Barack Obama's national debt commission released their preliminary proposals to the media on Wednesday.  The proposals are actually quite modest - they recommend that nothing be implemented until 2012 because of the weak economy, and their plan w ...
• Jobless Recovery?: 25 Unemployment Statistics That ...
  Guess what?  Unemployment is up again!  That's right - even though Wall Street is swimming in cash and the Obama administration is declaring that "the recession is over", the U.S. unemployment rate has gone even higher.  So are you enjoying the jobless recovery?  The truth is that t ...
• Barack Obama: We Must Embrace Globalism And The Em ...
  Although it received very little coverage in the mainstream media, Barack Obama made some comments about globalism during his speech in Mumbai, India that were very eye-opening.  As he was discussing the new realities of world trade in 2010, Obama warned against "those who see globa ...

CASSE

• A Shift in the Burden of Proof
  The World Bank and other proponents of growth need to prove that growth is actually "economic" instead of "uneconomic."
• From Black Friday to a Better Way
  Rethinking consumption and consumer spending may be the key to enjoying the holidays.
• In Search of Answers about Economic Growth
  It's time to rethink the dilemma of economic growth and find some much-needed answers for the economy.
• Enough Is Enough
  Brian Czech's foreword to the new report, Enough is Enough: Ideas for a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources.
• An Economy of “Enough”
  On November 17, you'll be able to download the outstanding new report about how a steady state economy would work.

The Talking Clock

• Don't tell me... it's so hot, it's snowing
  Today's Daily Express tells us that: "With more than 10 inches of snow in some parts and a further eight inches set to fall overnight, forecasters are predicting the worst winter for 100 years." Really? Must be all that balmy, hot, global warming that we're all being taxed to death in the name ...
• Why the fuss about Russian spies..?
  There's such a fuss on both Sky News and the BBC News channel about Mike Hancock MP and Russian spies who may or may not be working for him. I don't understand why the fuss. Prior to the TREASON committed by forty years of Parliaments at Westminster, it might have mattered. But now... Ou ...
• Quote of the Week: A "They're Planning An 'Acciden ...
  Buried away in a report you may well have skipped over - if you saw it at all - is an opinion that this blog would endorse... "Diana was doing something historically unprecedented and politically very dangerous. She was drawing attention to the mechanisms of state that don't receive much attentio ...
• Which nutcases are running this planet anyway? Now ...
  If you've heard of: The forthcoming The Avengers film, 2009's Where the Wild Things Are, Reservation Road, Zodiac, All the King's Men, Collateral, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, In the Cut or XX/XY... ...then there's a good chance you've heard of actor Mark Ruffalo. Not an Islamic e ...
• EUSSR sentence Godfrey Bloom to twenty years hard ...
  The EUSSR has today sentenced UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom to twenty years hard labour in a Gulag. His sentence will be served after he completes the sentence imposed by the complicit British Government which has sentenced Bloom to two years of walking a water wheel in Reading Gaol for the high crime of s ...

Facing South

• The Secession Ball's revisionist history
  On Dec. 20, the group Sons of Confederate Veterans is holding a $100-per-person "Secession Gala" in Charleston, S.C.� to celebrate the state's signing 150 years ago of the Ordinance of Secession -- the document whereby slave-holding states that would eventually form the Confederacy abandoned the Uni ...
• Come celebrate at the ISS Holiday + 40th Anniversa ...
  WEATHER UPDATE, 12/4 3:20pm: We're continuing to watch the weather in the Triangle. So far the party is STILL ON despite snow in the Triangle, since temperatures are still warm enough to avoid icing. Stay tuned for further updates! Does the political scene have you in the dumps? Are you ready for a ...
• VOICES: Watch your wallet -- Obama's federal wage ...
  By Dan La Botz, Labor Notes They're calling it Obama's PATCO -- his proposal for a two-year wage freeze for two million federal workers. When Ronald Reagan fired 13,000 striking PATCO members, the air traffic controllers, in August 1981, he sent a signal to other employers that it was open season ...
• INSTITUTE INDEX: The deficit commission's curious ...
  Date on which President Obama's deficit commission will meet to consider adopting a plan drawn up by its co-chairs, former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Erskine Bowles, former Clinton chief of staff and current University of North Carolina president: 12/3/2010 Age to which the plan would rais ...
• Will offshore drilling ban spur wind development?
  Yesterday the Interior Department announced an updated strategy for offshore oil and gas leasing that bans drilling in federal waters off the Atlantic Coast and the Eastern Gulf of Mexico for the next seven years. "As a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill we learned a number of less ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Arrested in UK WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange turned himself into British police Tuesday morning in connection with a Swedish arrest warrant for him on rape and sexual molestation accusations. According to a statement by the Metropolitan … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  WikiLeaks: Saudi Arabia, Other U.S. Allies Remain Key Funders of Global Terrorism Government cables leaked to WikiLeaks and written by Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and other top diplomats reveal that, despite U.S. efforts since 2001 to cut the sources … Continue reading →
• Who’s in Charge Here?
  by Joshua L. Dratel Amid the relief occasioning Hillary Clintonâs intervention that led to the plea agreement resolving the military commission prosecution of Omar Khadr, some curious comments were reported in the media during the period just before the deal … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  WikiLeaks Changes Domain Name to WikiLeaks.ch The U.S.-based domain company that had provided WikiLeaks with the WikiLeaks.org domain withdrew its service Thursday after it said that sustained denial of service attacks on WikiLeaks threatened the stability of the rest of … Continue reading →
• Reaction to the Reaction to the Ghailani Verdict
  by Joshua L. Dratel The polar reactions to the verdict in the trial of Ahmed Ghailani could not be less contrived, as they represent the ultimate in confirmation bias.  I donât believe a single opinion was changed by the result: … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Wikileaks: What does Julian Assange hope to achiev ...
  Julian Assange has made a name for himself by publishing hoards of state secrets over the years on his website, wikileaks.org. But why does he do it?
• US public asked to play judge and jury for science ...
  Incoming congressional leaders are asking citizens to find "wasteful spending that should be cut" in the National Science Foundation's budget
• Secret US space plane lands itself
  After seven months in space, the US military's X-37B became the first US craft to land autonomously from orbit. But what was its mission?
• Look like a panda if you want to save a panda
  A panda conservationist dons a panda suit to ensure this captive-bred cub doesn't get a whiff of human contact before being reintroduced into the wild
• Today on New Scientist: 6 December 2010
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: Neanderthals just like us, pirates seeking an alternative internet and painting with sound

Tech Drive In

• Orta Theme for Ubuntu GNOME Just Got Awesomer!
  We had already featured Orta theme in our listing of�top themes to be used with Faenza icon theme in Ubuntu. Orta GTK theme hit version 1.0 today and has become ever more beautiful. The latest version comes with a number of new features and tweaks as well. What's New in Orta 1.0 GTK Theme fo ...
• Top 3 Application Menu Alternatives for Ubuntu
  I didn't had any problem with the default menu application I have in my Ubuntu. That was until I tried other application menus available out there. Here is a collection of 3 simple application menu alternatives you should give a try in your Ubuntu. GnoMenu GnoMenu is a nice and simple alte ...
• Divergence, Orta, Equinox - Three Awesome GTK Them ...
  Themes for Ubuntu and Linux are truly coming of age. Without any doubt, Faenza icon theme is easily the best I have used in my Ubuntu. Here is a collection of three cool GTK themes namely Divergence, Orta and Equinox that are the best in my list of GTK themes to use with Faenza. We have already feat ...
• How to Install VLC 1.1.5 in Ubuntu Maverick, Lucid ...
  VLC 1.1.5 is the latest and�fifth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. Latest VLC comes with a number of important bug fixes and other security related improvements. Here is how you install latest VLC 1.1.5 in Ubuntu Maverick, Lucid using PPA. What's New in VLC 1.1.5? Two and a half mon ...
• JDownloader - Simple, Useful Download Manager, Ins ...
  JDownloader is a simple cross platform download manager which probably is also one among the most popular download manager for Linux platform. JDownloader is Open Source and written entirely in Java. JDownloader Download Manager for Ubuntu/Linux JDownloader simplifies downloading files from O ...

Case About Bird Flu

• Euro collapse ‘possible’ amid deepenin ...
  Euro collapse ‘possible’ amid deepening divisions over bail-out It is feasible that the euro will not survive the current sovereign debt crisis sweeping Europe, one of the Treasury’s leading independent forecasters has said. By Philip Aldrick, Economics Editor 9:08PM GMT 06 Dec 2010, The Telegraph U ...
• Why hasn’t the US government filed injunctio ...
  According to the US government, the release of documents by Wikileaks is damaging US interests, and even endangering lives. So why has the US government not filed injunctions to prevent media outlets like Forbes, the New York Times and the Guardian from publishing news stories based on Wikileaks cla ...
• Guardian promotes irresponsible “bank run&#8 ...
  France awaits Eric Cantona’s cashpoint revolution The government has criticised the ex-footballer’s call for the public to stage a mass cash-withdrawal protest Angelique Chrisafis in Paris guardian.co.uk, Sunday 5 December 2010 20.00 GMT France is bracing for Eric Cantona’s bank-run revolution Tues ...
• Karin Kolland’s initiative for Austria to le ...
  Karin Kolland’s campaign for a referendum for Austria to leave the EU as well as her new book called “EU Exit” (EU Austritt)  are proving to be a huge hit with 13,800 visitors coming to the facebook site alone. Check out her blog and her talk in German: http://euaustrittvolksbegehren.blogspot.co ...
• Germany’s Finance Minister says bank debts t ...
  Germany’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said in an interview in Der Spiegel that democracy will be endangered if tax payers are forced to carry the burden of bank debt.  http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/0,1518,732998,00.html Schäuble made his remarks as resistance among Germans to hand ...

Invisible Opportunity

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

Veterans Today

• This is what the ACLU wants to protect?
  The ACLU wants to make sure everyone’s right to speak freely is protected and that is a good thing. It comes with a price to be paid in order to do it. When groups like Westboro get to say what they want we all get to say what we want. The problem is the ACLU [...]
• Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News
  Top 10 Veterans Stories in Todayâs News 1.      Vet’s Lawyer Asks Supreme Court To Allow Claims Deadline Leniency. In continuing coverage, USA Today (12/7, Biskupic, 1.83M) notes that the lawyer for Korean War veteran David Henderson, “who suffered from schizophrenia and was barred from appeal ...
• December 7
  Much of what our country and our lives are like today was shaped by the events that occurred 69 years ago during a quiet Sunday morning on Dec. 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. At 7:55 a.m., the first wave of 183 Japanese planes raced across the mountains north of Pearl Harbor to begin bombing, [... ...
• A Message to the Black Community
  The hip hop community takes great pride in "keeping it real." But are they really keeping it real, or are they simply struttin' around saying, "look at me," while the corporate elite have them unknowingly doing an updated version of Steppin' Fechit - right down to the ape-like body language?
• WICKED WIKILEAKS
  That Afghanistan is corrupt is not news. Just how corrupt is news. Paul Balles According to a report by Scott Shane, Mark Mazzetti and Dexter Filkins of the New York Times, WikiLeaks exposes how, “From hundreds of diplomatic cables, Afghanistan emerges as a looking-glass land where bribery, extortio ...

electric politics

• Keeping the Present Inevitable
  Republocrats. Demicans. It adds up to Oligarchy. The wealthy have overtly seized control of the U.S. They're not of a mind to share the spoils. What to do? Nobody seems to know... Nevertheless, it helps to talk about the problem. And the more people who rattle their chains the better. Rick MacArthu ...
• Scientia Potentia Est
  Anybody in the U.S. who wants higher education should be able to have it. Preferably, for free. But that's not how the system works... What a waste! Nevertheless, good things are happening. For some inspiration from the community college level I turned to the maverick educator Wick Sloane. God bles ...
• An American Criminologist
  It's one of those things that everybody seems to know but nobody puts into words, until somebody does. Jonathan Simon, in his award winning book Governing Through Crime, observes that American ideas about criminal justice are not only out of kilter but have metastasized into almost every area of li ...
• American Puppet Theater
  I hope that voters boycott the Democrats in November, to send a message to Washington about make-believe politics. And if you think about it, voting is not your only civic duty — there's plenty to do at the local level, often to greater effect. Sam Smith, of the Progressive Review, helps keep our n ...
• The Truth Is Out There
  Forever, it seems like, unidentified things have been flying around in the skies. UFO deniers claim everything can be explained — that nothing is really out of the ordinary — but that's factually incorrect. In her recent book on UFOs Leslie Kean takes a "militantly agnostic" position in advocating ...

PR News

• Midterm messages focus on economy
  WASHINGTON: The Democrats and Republicans have ramped up communications leading up to the midterm elections on November 2, with the state of the economy taking center stage.
• Olson gets PR boost with Dig acquisition
  MINNEAPOLIS: Marketing agency Olson acquired Chicago-based PR agency Dig Communications.
• Burson taps Edelman's Deri
  NEW YORK: Burson-Marsteller hired Chris Deri as CEO and market leader in China, a new position at the firm.
• Marina Maher adds three in healthcare
  NEW YORK: Marina Maher Communications hired Michele Schimmel as MD and Abby van Horne and Courtney Judd as VP's in the firm's health and well-being practice.
• David All Group hires Boles
  WASHINGTON: The David All Group tapped Becky Boles as VP of accounts, effective December 6.

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. ...

k2p blog

• Sarkozy pushes nuclear, arms deals on India visit
  The French President is on a 4 day visit to India close on the heels of the visits by President Obama aand the Russian Prime Minister. The Chinese Premier is due next.
• Cancun won’t because it can’t
  With Japan's forthright statement on Monday and reluctance on the part of the other countries such as Russia, Canada and Australia to commit to a second phase, the entire negotiation at Cancun is fraught with uncertainty.
• Proof positive of FIFA bribery & corruption: Qatar ...
  Can there be any other reason than B & C for Qatar to get the World Cup??? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/9250612.stm
• Does microfinance lead to a debt trap?
  Some more of my illusions get shattered. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11899506
• Light blogging for the next two weeks: off to warm ...
  I shall be travelling for the next two weeks in temperatures significantly higher than the minus 23 degrees Celsius we had last night in middle Sweden. Blogging will be necessarily light.

Left Foot Forward

• Supporting disabled people not sustainable says co ...
  Barely days after proudly pledging her support for the rights of disabled people on International Day for Persons with Disabilities, Department for Work and Pensions minister Maria Miller has now announced that Disability Living Allowance, used by disabled people to pay for everyday things like heat ...
• Lib Dems fail to learn lessons from Scotland on tu ...
  As MPs in Westminster prepare for the most controversial vote of this parliament on the coalition’s plan’s for tuition fees, in Scotland the contrast between the Liberal Democrats now and the Lib Dems in 1999 when forming the Scottish government could not be starker. During the campaign for the firs ...
• ‘Jilted Generation’ demand “we w ...
  Shiv Malik is the co-author of the book Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth. He comments on unpaid interns and unenforced minimum wage legislation.
• Two nation Conservatism: VAT rise hits North harde ...
  A new report shows the Governments rise in VAT could hit not only the poor, but also the middle class heavily, with some areas being particularly drastically hit.
• Work no longer enough to prevent poverty
  In-work poverty is now a bigger challenge than out-of-work poverty, new research finds today. 58% of children living in relative poverty have at least one parent in work.

Consumerist

• Chase Isn't Charging You A Fee, They're Rewarding ...
  Reached for comment about ex-WaMu "free checking" accounts becoming new Chase "fee checking" accounts, a Chase spokesperson told Consumerist, "What we're trying to do is reward customers for giving us more of their business, in terms of multiple accounts, or deeper business, in terms of balances or ...
• Why Do Airlines Hate Kevin Smith So Much?
  It's been almost a year since director Kevin Smith had a very public spat with Southwest after being told he was too girthy to fly. That means it's time for the Jersey Girl filmmaker to get ticked off at another carrier, and the lucky recipient of his vitriol is Virgin America. According to Mr. Sm ...
• Money Maneuvers To Make By Year's End
  As 2010 winds down, your April 2011 self will thank you for making some moves to lighten your tax bill and set your finances in order for the year ahead. Decisions you make in the next few weeks will have implications that last for months. Yahoo Finance dishes up some savvy choices that will pay o ...
• American Psycho: The Musical, Coming To Broadway!
  American Psycho, the dark murder-satire flick starring Christian Bale where he assumes the identity of a rival Wall Street banker and commits a series of decadent killings, is coming to Broadway! "There are murders in full view of the audience. There's going to be a lot of blood," playwright Robe ...
• Supreme Court To Hear Walmart Gender Discriminatio ...
  Given that Walmart is the country's largest private employer it's not terribly surprising that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to have a look at the sex discrimination lawsuit filed against the retailer -- the largest class-action suit of its kind in U.S. history. The lawsuit began as a claim b ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Opposition Remains to Nomination of James Cole for ...
  James Cole/Bryan Cave LLP Main Justice: Sessions Thwarts Movement on Deputy Attorney General Nominee The nomination of James Cole to the position of Deputy Attorney General at the Justice Department (DOJ), which has been stalled in the Senate since he was endorsed in July, continues to dra ...
• GAP's Tom Devine Discusses Federal Whistleblower P ...
  On the Media (NPR): WikiLeaks and Protections for Federal Whistleblowers This OTM segment features a one-on-one interview with GAP Legal Director Tom Devine. He discusses the current, inadequate protections for government whistleblowers and the need to pass the Whistleblower Protection Enhance ...
• Censorship: U.S. to Government Employees "No WikiL ...
  On Friday, the White House Office of Management and Budget issued a memo forbidding unauthorized federal employees from accessing WikiLeaks from their government or personal home computers. While federal agencies are not hesitating to censor federal employees when it comes to WikiLeaks, the agen ...
• GAP's Jesselyn Radack Discusses WikiLeaks on BBC W ...
  BBC World News: Interview with Jesselyn Radack GAP Homeland Security and Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack discusses WikiLeaks, NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, and the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). Radack also blogged on the interview here. The New York Times: Wiki ...
• Radack on BBC World News: Wikileaks & Drake - Why ...
  I was just on BBC World News discussing Wikileaks, Thomas Drake, and the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA).  It is sheer hypocrisy for the U.S. to scream literally bloody murder about Wikileaks (calling for Wikileaks' Julian Assange's execution) without giving employees a safe alt ...

UK Progressive

• Now What? Wiki-leaks Founder Assange Arrested by S ...
  By Denis G. Campbell Libertarian Presidential candidate Congressman Ron Paul, (R-TX) tweeted yesterday: Re: Wikileaks - In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble. Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange was arrested this morning in ...
• Yup, We’re ‘Guilting’ You
  I too, am a world class procrastinator. Indeed I waited almost three years before writing and asking for help. I got so annoyed with the appeals from Ira Glass of npr’s This American Life and Maya from truthout.org that I took the bold step of writing to them telling them to please stop. (Of course ...
• Lynne Stewart Update
  by Sharon Kyle Lynne Stewart is a woman who was an attorney. For more than thirty years she represented controversial, and often unpopular defendants. Because of work she did in providing legal council to one of her clients she was charged with conspiracy and providing material support to terrorist ...
• Disgraced former Speaker Newt Gingrich says we sho ...
  Could we make this up? #tcot #p2
• When Your Purpose Finds You: ATQ-Asking the Questi ...
  (UPDATED) by Denis G. Campbell, Publisher, UK Progressive Magazine Three weeks ago, sitting in a Hong Kong hotel room watching the Asian Golf Channel, a young golfer who’d had a great year on Tour was asked, âwhat changed for you? How did you go from good to great in just one year?â He answered â60- ...

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JoNova

• Key Tool for the Scare Campaign: Censorship. How b ...
  A very curious thing happened on Saturday. There’s a media war going on here in Australia. At stake is free speech — but the discussion about it is completely disguised and parades instead as a debate about “balance” in science reporting. It’s reached the point where our national masthead felt the n ...
• Key Tool for the Scare Campaign: Censorship. How b ...
  A very curious thing happened on Saturday. There’s a media war going on here in Australia. At stake is free speech — but the discussion about it is completely disguised and parades instead as a debate about “balance” in science reporting. It’s reached the point where our national masthead felt the n ...
• First recorded “casual aside” marks decline in sca ...
  This is the first time I’ve seen a mainstream story on an unrelated topic where the writer assumes everyone understands how dodgy climate science is. Climatology is relegated to a joke. For the sake of posterity, I wanted to capture this moment in the downfall of a once respected profession. Source, ...
• The Medieval Warm Period hit west Antarctica
  What do you know? The Medieval Warm Period, which either “didn’t exist” or “only happened in Europe”, also hit Western Antarctica. The climate models don’t know why the world was warmer 1000 years ago. They don’t know why it cooled into the Little Ice Age either. The models don’t do regional project ...
• Wikileaks sordid details reveals climate science i ...
  It’s all a grand charade — the matinee show put on by the Theatre of Science was merely being used for the Grand Extravaganza called the Theatre of Politics. Wikileaks, not surprisingly, turned up some not-so-diplomatic and not-so-scientific goings-on in the political race to steer power and dollars ...

ReNew America

• WikiLeaks threatens release of Gitmo files
  (Newsmax) - Julian Assange, the treacherous founder of WikiLeaks, continues to threaten harm against the United States. He promises to release secret documents about Guantanamo Bay, which is home to the U.S. detention center for suspected terrorists, if any government tries to curb his dastardly doi ...
• Prop. 8 appeal goes before federal court
  (Christian Post) - Attorneys on both sides of the Proposition 8 debate are heading back to court on Monday to make arguments before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals...
• American freedom and religious morality
  (Andie Brownlow) - Liberals and conservatives both believe that as Americans, we should be moral people. The major difference is where their morality intersects with their politics...
• Texan calls for jail time for enforcing Obamacare
  (WorldNetDaily) - Texans take their rights seriously. A bill that has been prefiled for the 2011 state legislative session creates penalties of up to $5,000 in fines and up to five years in jail for anyone guilty of the "felony" of attempting "to enforce an act, order, law, statute, rule or regulati ...
• Michele Bachmann suggests GOP 'insurrection' over ...
  (Politico) - Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says GOP leaders must work quickly next year to repeal the new health care law or else face an "insurrection" from rank-and-file members...

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