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Thursday, December 9, 2010

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  • Roubini predicts another $1Trillion housing losses
    As Nouriel Roubini heads to Athens to meet with investors and policymakers potentially about the debt crisis in Europe, the economist says he's increasingly worried about a problem closer to home: America's real estate mess. The country's real estate problems are "underappreciated," and b ...
  • In Memoriam: Pike River miners
    Pike River had faulty ventilators, no back-up power generation system, inadequate methane drainage systems and no adequate monitoring of gas levels. Moreover, there were no plans in place to respond rapidly to an emergency. After the first explosion it took hours for emergency crews to reach the sit ...
  • BoS: China credit bubble on borrowed time ..
    The Royal Bank of Scotland has advised clients to take out protection against the risk of a sovereign default by China as one of its top trade trades for 2011. This is a new twist. It warns that the Communist Party will have to puncture the credit bubble before inflation reaches levels that threate ...
  • Goff: Conspiracism and Wikileaks
    Conspiracism A conspiracist is someone who reaches first for the conspiracy explanation, then seeks out support for his or her presupposition. Wikileaks' latest release of a mountain of diplomatic chit-chat has provoked more than a government attack on Wikileaks. It has provoked more than a diplom ...
  • Bernankes QE3 faces stiff resistance
    Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, was expected to open the way for a third blast of bond purchases in a 60 Minutes interview, but any such move is likely to face resistance from Fed hawks and mounting criticism in Congress. Transcripts suggest that Mr Bernanke is sufficiently worried a ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • California widow returns library book, 74 years ov ...
    A California woman is proving it's never too late to make things right. Hazel Severson, 95, of Sacramento says a friend found a book that Severson's late husband had borrowed from an Amador County library in 1936 while sorting through things for a garage sale. She knew what she had to do: return t ...
  • People Power! Settlement in Atlanta Eagle Case For ...
    A settlement in the "Atlanta Eagle Raid" lawsuit will force the Atlanta Police Department to rewrite unconstitutional policies regarding arrest, search, and seizure, and make other changes to protect the public from police misconduct. These reforms require Atlanta police officers to document cer ...
  • New Vitamin D RDA and Vitamin D Deficiency
    Low Vitamin D and the Vitamin D deficiency symptoms that go with it can generally be avoided by eating Vitamin D enriched foods or taking supplements. The latest controversy that has spun out of the new Vitamin D RDA announcement has caused some people to turn away from this important vitamin. But ...
  • Canada: Snowstorm Shuts Down London, Ontario
    Crashes close westbound Highway 401 for hours Canadians getting a blast of stormy weather this week can be thankful they're not living in the snowed-under communities of southwestern Ontario, east of Lake Huron. The London area has received about a metre of snow since the weekend, with five to 10 ...
  • People Power! Pakistan Protests US Drone Attacks
    Hundreds of Pakistani people have taken to the streets of the capital Islamabad to condemn the unauthorized US drone attacks on the country's tribal areas. The protesters condemned what they called the killings of over 2,000 civilians in the non-UN-sanctioned drone strikes since 2004. The activis ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Canadian content . . .
    THE NY TIMES has an article, "Diplomats Noted Growing Mistrust by Canadians Toward U.S.", by Charlie Savage. WikiLeaks cables from a couple of years back mention —“The degree of comfort with which Canadian broadcast entities, including those financed by Canadian tax dollars, twist current events to ...
  • Superstar . . .
    THE JERUSALEM POST reports that the Iranian government is chuffed about the Star of David. Apparently there's one on the roof of the Air Iran offices. Been there since the late 70's.
  • Anonymous
    Oh yeah. �A small army of activist hackers orchestrated a broad campaign of cyberattacks on Wednesday in support of the beleaguered antisecrecy organization WikiLeaks, which has drawn governmental criticism from around the globe for its release of classified American documents and whose founder, ...
  • Tricky Dicky . . .
    BLOOMBERG has an interesting report, "Nigeria Files Charges Against Dick Cheney, Halliburton Over Bribery Case". I wonder what will happen . . .
  • State Dept Wiki-Newspeak
    U.S. to Host World Press Freedom Day in 2011 Press Statement Philip J. Crowley Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public Affairs Washington, DC December 7, 2010 "The United States is pleased to announce that it will host UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day event in 2011, from May 1 - May 3 in Washingt ...

Media Matters for America

  • Exactly What Glenn Beck Lied About When Vilifying ...
    Glenn Beck demanded an apology from Forbes magazine for claiming that he has been "falsely vilifying" George Soros and said, "I'd like to know exactly what I lied about." Beck's attacks on Soros are, of course, demonstrably false.Beck Demands "Proof" That He "Falsely Vilified" George Soros Beck: " ...
  • REPORT: Fox Gave DREAM Act Opponents Far More Airt ...
    According to a Media Matters analysis, Fox News gave guests who oppose the DREAM Act, a bill that�would provide a path to legal status for certain immigrants who came to the United States as children, more than 40 minutes of airtime�from November 23 through December 6 but only about 7 minutes�to su ...
  • Right-Wing Media Attack Obama Over Metaphor Used ...
    Media conservatives are condemning President Obama for using the word "hostage" as a metaphor while�discussing negotiations. Yet Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush also used the same rhetoric in describing their political opponents. Right-Wing Media Condemn Obama For "Hostage" Rhetori ...
  • The World According To Glenn Beck's DVD Collectio ...
    Glenn Beck explains that the Death Star and the Matrix are real.The Heroes Beck: "I'm A Jedi Master." On his Fox News show, Beck attacked The Wall Street Journal's Thomas Frank for writing a column critical of Beck's view of history, saying that the piece had "no substance." Beck added: "There nev ...
  • Fox Pundits Mum On South Korea Trade Deal After Ea ...
    When President Obama's November trip to Asia did not immediately result in a trade agreement with South Korea, Fox News' top pundits Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity were quick to paint the entire tour as a failure. Now that Obama has secured the trade deal, both O'Reilly and Hannity have ignored the ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Senators Give President Obama Negotiating Instruct ...
    Time for me to get back into my foreign policy wheelhouse after wandering into sensitive subjects of domestic tax and social policy. I need to join fellow Democracy Arsenal blogger Kelsey Hartigan in her slam against a letter sent Monday by five senators to President Obama. Sens. Lieberman, Kyl, Cas ...
  • When Seduction Fails: Time for Obama to Make His O ...
    Barack Obama's latest effort to seduce Benjamin Netanyahu to stop expanding illegal settlements in occupied territories as a portal into renewed Palestine-Israel talks has collapsed. Khruschev, Oops, I mean Netanyahu has yet again thrown eggs in the face of President Obama, humiliated him and hi ...
  • Link Israel Aid To Ending Occupation
    The Obama administration has abandoned its feckless effort to induce Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to accept a 90-day settlement freeze designed to kick start peace negotiations - and save Israel from suicidal settlement expansion. Any doubt that the settlements could be Israel's death warran ...
  • Wake-up, America
    I've been talking recently about the rise of inequality in America. And while much of this change can be traced to the Reagan and Bush tax cuts for wealthy Americans, a greater source of class tension in the next ten years will be between the college educated and the rest of the society. Today, just ...
  • The Second Valley of Death by Ken Berlin
    The General Counsel of the Coalition for Green Capital has written a fantastic article on the two "valleys of death" faced by clean energy technologies entering the marketplace. I've pasted it below: The Second Valley of Death By Kenneth Berlin Almost everyone in the United States agrees t ...

TruthOut

  • E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Who Is Sanctimonious?
    Washington - What does President Obama think of those who fought and bled to pass his bills in Congress (in some cases losing in this year's election for their pains) while also defending him against wild charges from the right wing? Are they among the liberals he described as "sanctimonious" who lo ...
  • Bill McKibben: Growing Global Movements
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  • James Kwak | More on the Tax Deal
    First, the comic relief. From the Times: "Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, said that he still wanted the Bush-era rates extended permanently and that the cost of the package was worrisome."read more
  • House Passes DREAM Act, but Senate Prospects Dim
    Washington - The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday night that would provide a conditional path to citizenship for as many as 500,000 children of illegal immigrants. While the House approved the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act by a vote of 216-198, the fate of th ...
  • Esther Cepeda | Latinos Mulling New Tune in Politi ...
    Chicago - It's 1985 and Pee-wee Herman walks into a bar to use the phone, arousing the anger and suspicion of a murderous biker gang called "Satan's Helpers." A long list of painful deaths is detailed and a last request is made. The rosy-cheeked Pee-wee loads the jukebox, asks the short, Hispanic b ...

Planetsave

  • Canadian Insurance Companies Seeing Effects of Cli ...
    I heard some years ago that the insurance industry was one of the leading industries as far as acknowledging climate change. Why? Because they get screwed if they don’t recognize the risks of climate change and adjust their policies accordingly. Canadian insurance companies recently reported that th ...
  • Gradual Warming Not Entirely Responsible for Green ...
    A new study to come out of the University of British Columbia has shown that sudden changes in the amount of meltwater contributes more to the acceleration, and thus the eventual loss, of the Greenland ice sheet than the gradual increase of temperature, reversing previously thought views on the matt ...
  • Foremost Climate Change Expert Speaks Out
    One of the world’s foremost experts on climate change, Lonnie Thompson, university professor in the School of Earth Science at Ohio State University, has spoken out for one of the first times about the real possibility of a future in which we will have to adapt and suffer. Thomspson – who usually le ...
  • Israeli Fire Typical of Climate Change in Mediterr ...
    Recent fires to sweep through the Carmel Mountains near Haifa in Israel are a typical example of the effects of climate change and a bitter taste of the future according to Dr. Guy Pe’er. Pe’er and other members of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev on behalf of the Israeli Ministry of the Environme ...
  • Europe Must Step Up Polar Research
    A position paper released by the European Polar Board (EPB) calls for focusing polar research into the European Research Area so that it not only becomes a priority for the upcoming 8th R&D Framework Programme from the European Commission and polar funding agencies at national level in EU member sta ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • What do socialists say about democracy? - Editor's ...
    “DEMOCRACY DOES not come from the top, it comes from the bottom,” Howard Zinn tells us at the beginning of his wonderful film The People Speak. “The mutinous soldiers, the angry women, the rebellious Native Americans, the working people, the agitators, the antiwar protestors, the socialists and anar ...
  • The legacy of Vietnam's long struggle - Critical A ...
    THE RAIN sheeted down, time washed away. I looked down from the rooftop in Saigon where, more than a generation ago, in the wake of the longest war of modern times, I had watched silent, sullen streets awash. The foreigners were gone, at last. Through the mist, like little phantoms,...
  • What WikiLeaks revealed about the empire - Critica ...
    THE CORPORATE media are reliable and consistent. They consistently focus on the sensational, and they reliably take the position of the U.S. government. So it should come as no surprise that the recent release of U.S. diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks is being covered with much sound and fury, signifyi ...
  • For South Africa’s workers, a Chinese-supplied job ...
    Call me Raymond, he says. He doesn’t want his real name known. He knows he could get into serious trouble for the illegally low wages that he pays his workers. Raymond grew up in China, found it too fiercely competitive, and came to Africa in search of easier opportunities. Now...
  • Duty and the epidemic in Haiti - Reflections of Fi ...
    ON Friday, December 3, the UN decided to devote a session of the General Assembly to an analysis of the cholera epidemic in this neighboring country. The news of that decision was hopeful. Surely it would serve to alert international opinion to the gravity of the situation and mobilize support... ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Rethug Convicted for Election Fraud
    Yes, this is election fraud: preventing people from voting through deception or intimidation. Not to be confused with voter fraud: voting by people who are not eligible to vote. Here's how to tell the difference: Election fraud is committed by republicans, targets minorities and other Democratic vot ...
  • Worm's Eye View_Affordable Health Care
    I've tried before to articulate my different perspective on the Affordable Care Act which is being hailed by some as the "signature" accomplishment of the current administration. �I'm not so sure it's as "signature" as everyone thinks it is right now and the really bad part is that we may not know f ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    As BG said weeks ago, it's a Wikileaks world now. "Hackers have attacked the websites of credit card giants Mastercard and Visa. The attacks came after the Anonymous group of hackers pledged to pursue firms that have withdrawn services from Wikileaks. Mastercard payments were disrupted but the firm ...
  • Imagine a Different December 8
    Jon Wiener in the Nation: It was thirty years ago today: December 8, 1980, on what would turn out to be the last day of John Lennon's life, he did an interview promoting his new album, Double Fantasy. He talked about the sixties: "The thing the sixties did was show us the possibility and the respons ...
  • How Do You Have An Upper And A Middle But No Lower ...
    You know, I'm really getting tired of hearing about all these awful things we're doing to the "middle class" and nary a word about the most endangered species of the bunch, that bottom twenty percent... that suddenly invisible fifth quintile... that nobody seems to know the first fricking thing abou ...

Care 2

  • Zoo Illogical: Ugly Animals Need Protection from E ...
    Zoos are like fancy hotels, albeit without the fluffy pillows and individually packaged soaps, or so says Daniel Frynta, an ecologist at Charles University in Prague. Only the "richest" animals get to check in. And if an endangered species gets a room, Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it ...
  • Live Sheep Export Hurts … Humans?
    By now, you've no doubt heard about the string of shark attacks on tourists off the Egyptian coast at the Sharm el-Sheikh resort, including one attack that killed a German tourist. But do you know why the sharks suddenly started biting? Some officialsSubmitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! ...
  • ACTION ALERT; Stop KFC from Destroying Our Forest ...
    KFC�s paper packaging is directly contributing to the destruction of our Southern forests. While other fast food chains are working hard to use less, use more recycled paper, and ensure that their paper packaging is not coming from the world�s endangeredSubmitted by Simone D. to Green Lifestyle �| ...
  • New Planet Found; Star's Fourth World Stumps Astro ...
    If three's a crowd, a new planet recently discovered orbiting a sunlike star is really cluttering up its neighborhood.Submitted by Katie Miller to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Tell University Of Nebraska-Lincoln ...
    The bottom line is that the University of Nebraska should not be advocating shooting cats. Cats are pets, not pests as the University contends. In many states, killing cats is considered aggravated cruelty and is a felony. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Wednesday’s Open Thread
    Rachel Maddow says that Barack Obama is “undermining his own relevance and the relevance of the presidency itself” (!) … Get this: The Alaska Senate race may not be settled anytime soon, even though Joe Miller trails Murkowski by over 10,000 votes … Ah, we thought former Fla. Rep. Alan Grayson would ...
  • Are Wikileaks’ Defenders Striking All of Us?
    A couple hours ago, I heard on TV that the hackers have attacked Visa today, shutting it down. (Yesterday, they got to Mastercard.) I just got a Twitter message from Jake Tapper (ABC News), via my Facebook page, that SarahPalinUSA is under attack. (Probably, it’s a DNS attack — denial of service, wh ...
  • Joe Wilson Shares Fascinating Insights about Wikil ...
    “… [O]ne ought to be looking at the possibility that this is an official penetration by a hostile intelligence service and begin asking questions who stands to benefit by this embarrassment as well as by this leak of some really essential information, national security information. … I’m quite sure ...
  • Barack Obama Surrenders to Terrorism
    * Bumped up * The logic here is simple. Barack Obama, by his own admission, has caved in to terrorists. Not even Jimmy Carter was this weak. Meet Barack Obama who is accusing the GOP of being terrorists: “It’s tempting not to negotiate with hostage takers unless the hostage gets harmed,” President O ...
  • Obvious Democratic Storm
    The tax deal is all the buzz. The NYT signals the Obama retreat, and NBC’s First Read, a vital piece of the court media in the first year of the administration, argues for the retreat on a campaign promise by stating that there are not enough votes for the POTUS position in the Senate. “Obvious” [.. ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Giant Graffiti Animals by ROA
    The thirty-something mystery Belgian graffiti artist called ROA is making a real name for himself with fantastic images of animals and birds appearing all over the world. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • Norton I: America's Unsung Emperor
    He may have been slightly mad, but America's unsung emperor was really a quite fascinating man, much loved by the the people of his adopted city. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 10 Most Insane Motorcycle Stunts Ever
    A list of 10 of the most awesome tricks and stunts on two wheels known to man. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Green Side of Poisonous Stink Weed
    Pennycress had a reputation before bursting onto the biodiesel scene. How bad is pennycress? What good are pennycress seeds and plants? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Amazing Christmas Trees Made from Recycled Junk
    Treehuggers promote recycling old, unused Christmas trees. What if the tree itself was made of recycled junk? Green artists around the world have made some terrific trees read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Backers Rev Up Oil Sands Campaign
    As environmentalists and others campaign to block it, the chief Washington oil lobby readies a grass-roots and advertising effort to argue for the economic benefits.
  • 8 Charged in Sewage Dumping in Brooklyn Creek
    Complaints from residents about sewage and grease in the creek led investigators to a nearby shopping center.
  • On Our Radar: Ethanol Subsidies in Tax Deal, Group ...
    Set to expire at the end of the year, tax credits for domestic ethanol production are part of the deal "at the moment," the Renewable Fuel Association says.
  • World Bank Will Help Finance Carbon Markets
    In the absence of rapid international action, the institution will invest millions in helping developing countries pay for clean energy projects and slow the destruction of forests.
  • An Alert on Ocean Acidity
    Carbon dioxide emissions from man-made sources are causing the acidity level to rise at what is probably the fastest rate in 65 million years, threatening global fisheries, a study says.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Military Contracts December 8 2010
    The Great Deflation hits some sectors moar than others. It looks like Raytheon is getting to overcentralize the damn crypto devices which someday shall FAIL yet again. Unless of course a Raytheon goon sellz the keyz out the backdoor and everyone covers it up. Contracts Announced by The U.S. Departme ...
  • Epic European Royalty Water-Stealin 'World Society ...
    The World Society - Definitely not a New World Order Water Corporation? or - All yr water are belong to Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus! http://www.theworldsociety.org/privilege2.html I wonder if these people are having a conspiracy against Lake Superior!! Apparently Jesse Ventura h ...
  • The Federal Reserve is laundering money - Xtranorm ...
    For followups & fun I've posted a bunch of vids to youtube (New Madrid MSNBC and Army Corps 1 and 2 ) and a bunch of pdfs to Scribd including all the latest crazy Pennsylvania Homeland Security stuff. Event here: Indymedia having a 2010 Resistance in Review on Friday at Waite House with dinner! TC ...
  • New banner image finally - different header layout ...
    Good change, reduces clutter Are those THETANS?! Needs Andrew Jackson vs Banksters! Needs Rocky Taconite American Hero What this place needs is blink tags
  • Statecraft Horrorshow! Wikileaks State Department ...
    Ahk a quick link dump here. Wikileaks is expected to drop the big diplomatic cables starting with Der Spiegel . There's a new Wikileaks blog out there - Assange talked to some Arab reporters over videochat so apparently the fuzz hasn't gotten him yet. 2010-11-28: ARIJ Conference | WL Central . Liveb ...

Daily Censored

  • Is Democracy the Opposite of Capitalism?
    The roots and rise of modern democracy are inextricably linked with Capitalism. Nothing appears in human society outside of history, or context, or economic foundation. Democracy doesn’t fall from the sky or exist above class politics. Bob Avakian in his book: ‘Democracy: Can’t We Do Better Than Tha ...
  • The federal government is violating the First Amen ...
    Readers hopefully have read the article by whistle blower, David Goodstein, entitled “So you want to blow your whistle: Confessions of a whistle blower (http://dailycensored.com/2010/12/06/so-you-want-to-blow-your-whistle-confessions-of-a-whistle-blower/).  David Goodstein is the courageous whistleb ...
  • Keep the Change, Mr. President
    Michael Collins You have accomplished what no Republican could do. Social Security and every other program that benefits the people are now in real peril. The Grail is yours, celebrate your victory. You just have another couple of years of public fretting, fake humility, and dissembling before the b ...
  • Put The Fraqing Outrage Where It Belongs
    If we are to assume that what we hear on the news is what is going on in the country, there is something missing.  I am hearing a lot about how the responsible Democrats, in Congress, are upset at the package the President was able to negotiate with the Republicans.  If one attempts to “read” [...]
  • Britain: We’ll never give in, says student fees pr ...
    A boy of 12 taking part in this week’s mass protest over university tuition fees said today: âWe will never give in.â Tommy Jackman, who will be one of the youngest to demonstrate against the hike in fees, said he was not scared despite the violence at previous protests. He vowed to be on the [...]

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

Marler Blog

  • So, what is the deal with E. coli O157:H7 and Meat ...
    According to US Customs, in 2007, the United States imported 3.048 billion pounds of beef or 10.7% of the overall beef consumption for the year. That amount was slightly lower than in 2006 and about 500 million pounds less than in 2005 and 2004.� I assume, but need to confirm, that much of the impor ...
  • Hartmann Dairy and customers get caught with 400 g ...
    In between watching on CSPAN the House argue, albeit politely, over inserting S. 510, with Tester/Hagen Amendment into the 2011 spending bill, I had a chance to talk with Mark Steil and MPR for his story, “State ratchets up pressure on raw milk seller:” The state has made repeated efforts to stop M ...
  • House inserts S. 510 (with Tester) into Spending B ...
    With Congressmembers Rosa DeLauro, Bart Stupak and John Dingell leading the charge, the Senate's version of food safety, S. 510, has been absorbed into the House Omnibus Spending Bill (payments to keep lights on in Washington). And, after what appears to be an upcoming party-line vote, it (the Omnib ...
  • Another Gouda Cheese E. coli O157:H7 Lawsuit Filed ...
    Since it seems that the House and Senate still cannot seem to get a Food Safety Bill across the finish line, we thought we would keep encouraging companies not to poison their customers in a slightly more direct way. On or about October 14, 2010, 14-year-old MK and her mother Lois Kirby shopped at ...
  • Food Safety - it's not over until the Senator from ...
    Washington correspondent for the Associated Press, Mary Clare Jalonick, reports a few hours ago that: Food safety legislation stalled by a constitutional snag could be revived as part of a giant year-end budget bill. The bill to increase the Food and Drug Administration's powers to keep food safe ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 12.09.10
    Fabio schools Fox's hyper-skeptical Neil Cavuto on electric cars Still, the ignorant Fox News anchor just won't believe his guest. GM announces expansion of Hawaii Hydrogen Initiative Plug-i ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.08.10
    Ford Transit Connect gets delivered in short order with help from Azure Dynamics They only cost twice as much (and then some) as the gas-powered version. Report: GM may let Euro drivers switch Opel Ampera ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.07.10
    Volvo C30 Electric gets DRIVen and it's a wonderful little ride This bodes incredibly well for Volvo's electrification effort. 2010 Business of Plugging In, notes and quotes An overview of t ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.06.10
    Video: 2011 Nissan Leaf assembly process detailed From Oppama, Japan to you in painstaking detail. Report: Volvo to introduce downsized engines in 2013 Also pondering diesel for the U.S. ...
  • Think recalling 850 City EVs over braking issue in ...
    Filed under: Recalls, Electric Even though U.S. production of the Think City started off well the other day, all is not fine in Think land. The company is recalling 850 City cars throughout Europe because the brakes on the electric car can weaken under "extremely humid conditions." A Think rep ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Youth Climate Activists to World Leaders: "Remembe ...
    Youth climate activists from around the world are gathered in Cancun this week to push for a binding climate deal. Democracy Now! spoke to several of them on Monday at Cancunmesse, the main hub of NGO activity here at the UN climate talks.
  • Cancun, Climate Change and WikiLeaks
    CANCUN, Mexico—Critical negotiations are under way here in Cancun, under the auspices of the United Nations, to reverse human-induced global warming. This is the first major meeting since the failed Copenhagen summit last year, and it is happening at the end of the hottest decade on record. While t ...
  • "Thousands From Cancun" - Mass March Planned by Vi ...
    A large protest march is being planned today in Cancun organized by La Via Campesina and other groups. Alfredo Acedo, a spokesperson for UNORCA described what is being planned. Click Here to see all Democracy Now! coverage of the Cancún Summit. Click Here for full climate change coverage.
  • Anti-Capitalist Bloc Marches in Streets of Cancun ...
    Protesters took to the streets of Cancun on Monday night to demonstrate against the UN COP16 talks. More than 150 demonstrators with the anti-capitalist bloc marched from the Via Campesina camp, where they are staying, through the streets and main thoroughfares in Cancun. They marched, waved flags ...
  • Maude Barlow: With Only Market-Based Solutions on ...
    Maude Barlow is an author, activist, and the former senior adviser on water to the United Nations. She is the national chairperson for the Council of Canadians. She came to Cancún to speak with other civil society organizations about the relationship between water and climate change and the need f ...

Digg Green

  • This is your brain undergoing cognitive disso ...
    Researchers demonstrate that, once again, we adjust our beliefs to reflect our past actions, and claim to have spotted the neural activity that accompanies this adjustment.
  • 'Lightfoil' idea shows light can provide lift ...
    The force of light particles can be harnessed to provide the same kind of "lift" that puts planes in the air, researchers say.
  • Thirsty?
    The future is a scary place, yes -- but one thing we don't need to fear is being unaware that we're thirsty. Research and development
  • FAIL: NASA sold Space Shuttle PCs without wip ...
    For sale, used computers packed full of secret NASA Space Shuttle data. Disk wiping? What's that? A recent audit showed that NASA failed to wipe hard drives before selling PCs, contractors used unapproved software, and hard drives were missing or stored in a dumpster that had public access.
  • Top 5 Solar Powered Oddities (w/pics & vid) ...
    They may not be the "top" 5 of the year but they're either interesting, entertaining or promising. A favorite: The solar powered Popemobile (apparently under serious consideration)...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Quote of the Day – Listen, if anything happe ...
    Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me it would not be an accident. John Lennon
  • Assassination of John Lennon
  • The McCollum Memo: The Smoking Gun of Pearl Harbor
    On October 7, 1940, Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum of the Office of Naval Intelligence submitted a memo to Navy Captains Walter Anderson and Dudley Knox (whose endorsement is included in the following scans). Captains Anderson and Knox were two of President Roosevelt’s most trusted military ad ...
  • TSA: No more overseas airmail packages over one po ...
    By Jonathan Benson The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to tighten the noose of tyranny around the collective neck of America with a recent announcement from the Japan Post Services Co. (JPSC), the Japanese postal service, that no more airmail packages over one pound will be perm ...
  • THE ISRAELI LOBBY OWNS THE CONGRESS, HOLLYWOOD AND ...
    Interview by Kourosh Ziabari Wayne Madsen is an American investigative journalist and columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the political blog “Wayne Madsen Report”. He has appeared on ABC News, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al-Jezeera, MSNBC and Press TV. Madsen has written the introduction to th ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Bears Protest to Save Nude Supermodels
    EARTH has PETA’s back. Keeley Hazell: Donât Wear Fur (PETA, NSFW) Naked protest against fur coats in Barcelona PETA Celebrates National Topless Day …Speaking of nudity, my last nude (sasquatch) cartoon Visit the rest of Joe’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com. And follow him on Twitte ...
  • Climate Change Conference, Cancun Style! (cartoon)
    Will Cancun be more productive than Copenhagen? The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change takes place in Cancun until December, 10. I imagine a lot of productive days discussing much needed change… Not! (I am bringing back “Not!”–who’s with me?!) More on the UNFCCC Cancún Climat ...
  • Canned Spinach Killing Popeye! (cartoon)
    More on BPA… BPA Ban Blocked from Food Safety Bill Bisphenol A linked to diabetes, heart disease in humans BPA wikipedia site …and E. coli Long-Term Effects of E-Coli Food Poisoning Ground Beef: The Cartoon View all of Joeâs political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on T ...
  • Frankenfish Worried About the Future of GMOceans ( ...
    Take action to keep GE salmon (”Frankenfish”) off your plate, because as Food and Water Watch state: Genetically engineered salmon are on a fast track to being the first GE Animal approved for human consumption. The FDA is trying to approve GE salmon as a new animal drug, but the truth is U.S. Food ...
  • Koch Brothers–Tilting at Clean Energy (cartoon and ...
    The idiom “tilting at windmills” (or turbines) derives from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It means to attack imaginary enemies, or fight unwinnable or futile battles. Big Oil and Coal (and others) are in a futile battle against clean energy. Clean energy will inevitably emerge victor ...

Inhabitat

  • Yunak Evleri Is a 5-Star Hotel Built Into Ancient ...
    Many caves were carved out of the soft limestone cliffs in the region of Cappadocia, whose history dates back to the 6th century.  The hotel was completed in 2000 with extensive cleanup and grounds improvement. The remarkable cave retrofit brought in power for lights, Wi-Fi and modern gadgets a well ...
  • Inhabitat Holiday Gift Guide: Green Gifts for Him
    As they say, “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.” If you’re finding yourself in a bit of a conundrum when it comes to shopping for the fella (or fellas) in your life this season, then take a cue from our Green Holiday Gift Guide, geared specifically towards the eco-minded guy! From snazzy WeWo ...
  • Towering Holiday Tree Made of 86 Shopping Carts
    Read the rest of Towering Holiday Tree Made of 86 Shopping Cartshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Anthony Schmitt, eco christmas tre ...
  • Packaging the Future: Banana Leaves as Natural Pac ...
    Nature has had millions of years to come up with perfect natural packaging solutions — brilliant designs made from elements as simple as water, sun and nutrients that keep liquids wet, protect cargo during transportation, and prevent mold or insects from getting in. The purpose of our Packaging the ...
  • BIG’s Angular Green-Roofed School Blends Into the ...
    Bjarke Ingels Group recently unveiled a proposal for a school in Asminderod, Denmark that is topped with a series of undulating green roofs. The bands of greenery create an immersive landscape for the children that compliments the school’s focus on nature and sustainability. The building themselves ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Evolution Survives Assault on Louisiana Textbooks
    Louisiana’s high school biology textbooks have survived the latest creationist-flavored attempt at distorting education about evolution. A subcommittee of the state’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted 6-to-1 Tuesday to approve an industry-standard biology text, which conservative cr ...
  • Frog Bladders Hunt and Remove Foreign Objects
    A bizarre discovery shows some frogs and toads can grow their bladders around objects lodged deep within their bodies, ultimately peeing them out. Zoologists from Australia’s Charles Darwin University discovered the oddity after implanting frogs with tiny radio transmitters, which inexplicably migr ...
  • Crab Nebula’s Violent Outbursts Shock Astronomers
    HEIDELBERG, Germany — Astronomers consider the Crab nebula one of the steadiest sources of high-energy radiation in the universe. Radiation from the supernova remnant is believed to be so constant that astronomers use it as a standard candle with which to measure the energetic radiation of othe ...
  • Desperate Battle Against Killer Bat Plague
    It’s a postcard October morning at Kentucky’s Carter Caves state park. Sycamore and hickory have already turned orange, and the sun crests ancient Appalachian slopes against a cloudless sky. With Halloween a few days away, a life-sized Elvis dummy peeks out a visitor center window. Middle schoolers ...
  • Doubts Brew About NASA’s New Arsenic Life
    An arsenic-loving microbe found in a salty lake, which was touted last week as a potentially new form of life, is under heavy fire from the scientific community. The microbe, a bacteria called GFAJ-1, can apparently use arsenic instead of phosphorous to build its DNA, a trick no other life form has ...

PakAlert

  • White Xmas: Monster Snow Storm To Cover Over 50% U ...
    While the details of what areas will get smacked by a major snowstorm this weekend are still being sorted out, one thing is certain, the storm has the potential bring a travel nightmare to many areas. AccuWeather.com meteorologists are predicting a storm will move from the northern Plains into th ...
  • BUSTED – WIKILEAKS WORKING FOR ISRAEL
    Reports have come in today, tying Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, directly to Israeli intelligence and “Israel friendly” media outlets. We are told Assange, while at a Geneva meeting, agreed to allow Israel to select or censor all Wikileak output. Despite the dramatic arrest of Julian Assange fo ...
  • 24 Signs That All Of America Is Becoming Just Like ...
    Well, the United States has lost over 42,000 factories since 2001 and now all of America is turning into “Allentown”. Unfortunately, things are going to get even worse. Thousands more factories and millions more jobs will be sent overseas. The debt loads of our state and local governments will con ...
  • UFO’s are Tesla’s Flying Saucers – A Super weapon ...
    Following the wave of "UFO" sightings in early 1950's, Professor Giuseppe Belluzzo (1875-1952), a scientist-engineer and a former Italian cabinet minister, who apparently personally worked in one of these German-Italian "flying saucer" projects in the 1940's, was quoted in Italian and American newsp ...
  • From Bad To Worse: The Economy Today, And Tomorrow
    At bottom, to fully comprehend the events that are taking place, and that are about to take place in our economic and cultural environment, we have to focus on the ignition source. If your house is set on fire, do you blame the house for burning? Do you blame the fire? Or do you blame the people tha ...

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo and WikiLeak ...
    A few days ago, I spoke — for the 21st time — with the irrepressible Scott Horton for his show on Antiwar Radio, which is available here. Over the course of 18 minutes, we discussed why my contentiously entitled article, The Irrelevance of Wikileaksâ Guantánamo Revelations, was intended to provoke ...
  • WikiLeaks’ Revelations that Bush and Obama P ...
    In the relatively small number of US diplomatic cables released to date by WikiLeaks, from its cache of 251,287 documents, the most disturbing revelations concerning the “War on Terror” deal with the pressure that the Bush administration exerted on Germany in 2007, regarding the planned prosecution ...
  • Urge Your MP to Sign Caroline Lucas’ Early D ...
    With just five weeks to go before Guantánamo will have been open for nine years, and with Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, still held, the time is ripe for MPs to sign up to an Early Day Motion submitted by Caroline Lucas, Parliament’s only Green MP and a formidable campaigner ...
  • “A Day for Shaker Aamer” on Saturday & ...
    I have been mentioning Saturday’s event, “A Day for Shaker Aamer,” for many weeks, in articles promoting screenings of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the documentary I co-directed with Polly Nash, which is being shown on Saturday (Click on the image to enlarge the poster). However, wit ...
  • Biggest Student Protest on Thursday, as Parliament ...
    On Thursday, students, schoolchildren, university staff, concerned members of the public, and, hopefully, trade unionists (including members of the NUT) will lobby Parliament as MPs vote on the coalition government’s ruinous plans to slash university funding and to double or triple students’ fees, a ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

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

SPL Center

  • Glenn Beck: A Quarter of Americans May Face Starva ...
    Cranking up his doomsday predictions to a new fever pitch, Glenn Beck this week warned that by January some 75 million Americans could be starving. “race yourself. We went to two or three experts yesterday,” the Fox News Channel host said in his Wednesday radio broacast. “[O]ne of them said that by ...
  • With ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Movement Growing, New SPL ...
    The so-called “sovereign citizens” movement — men and women who believe they are exempt from most state and federal laws, regulations and tax codes — is spreading like a prairie fire. While many of these are tax resistors or perpetrators of “paper terrorism” – the filing of nuisance liens and such – ...
  • New Report Examines ‘Tea Party Nationalism,& ...
    Back in July, the NAACP publicly called upon Tea Party leaders to repudiate extremists and racist individuals within their ranks. Although the presence of such elements in Tea Party circles had been evident for some time, movement figures tended to be dismissive and defensive in their response. Such ...
  • Rap-Loving Promoter Creates Whites-Only Facebook C ...
    It looks like Facebook. It apparently works like Facebook. But the Terms of Use, not to mention the name, might give you a clue that this definitely isnât Facebook. Meet AryansBook.com. âAryanBook [sic] is a racialist, WHITE ARYAN PRIDE Social Network for Whites Only! Niggers, Jews, Mexicans, and Mu ...
  • Feds Charge Alleged Accomplice in 1998 Skinhead Mu ...
    On July 4, 1998, two women invited anti-racist skinhead pals, Lin âSpitâ Newborn, 25, and Dan Shersty, 21, to a late-night party in the desert outside of Las Vegas. But there was no party: Newborn and Shersty were shot to death in what police and prosecutors called a planned execution by the leader ...

change: org.

  • Maryland's March Toward Marriage Equality
    Election Day 2010. It's a day that most progressives would rather pack away in a dark basement, joining Election Day 2002 and Election Day 1994 in that large Rubbermaid storage bin marked "progressive failures." But though we now have to hear the words "Speaker of the House John Boehner," and watch ...
  • Send Arnold Schwarzenegger a Holiday Card to Free ...
    Looking for a holiday craft project that also fights for justice for human trafficking victims? One NGO suggests getting together with friends, family or co-workers and sending Arnold Schwarzenegger a holiday card. But these cards aren't just warm seasons greetings; they're part of a campaign asking ...
  • Miranda Lambert: Country Singer & Animal Kille ...
    What is it with some country singers lately? Must they prove their Red State credentials by killing animals? First there was Troy Gentry's illegal, immoral canned bear hunt. Now country singer Miranda Lambert has made a name for herself outside her usual music circles as someone who just can't resis ...
  • Newspaper Asks Hard Questions: Can a Woman Be Too ...
    In an example of political reporting at its best, local St. Louis paper the Riverfront Times recently led its news section with some heavy-hitting reporting: "Sarah Steelman: Hot or Not?" In all seriousness, a story called "How Hot is Sarah Steelman anyway?" -- a piece judging the attractiveness of ...
  • Oakland's Immigrant Youth Pay $80/Month to Get to ...
    Oakland International High School in Oakland, California, serves recently-arrived immigrant students who need to learn English and prepare for college. It has become a central source of support for Oakland's immigrant community and will, this year, graduate its first full senior class. But of the ap ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Senator Bernie Sanders: Obama's Tax Deal is a 'Mor ...
    Statement by Senator Bernie SandersWASHINGTON - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today on the agreement announced Monday between the White House and congressional Republicans:read more
  • Haiti Cholera Outbreak 'Came from UN Camp'
    PARIS - The cholera outbreak ravaging Haiti began at a camp for UN peacekeepers from Nepal, according to an expert report submitted to the French foreign ministry, a source close to the matter told AFP on Tuesday.Respected French epidemiologist Professor Renaud Piarroux conducted a study in Haiti la ...
  • Obama Supporters Strongly Opposed to Deal Extendin ...
    by Greg SargentOkay, we now have our first poll measuring the impact on the Democratic base of Obama's support for a temporary extension of all the Bush tax cuts. Suffice it to say this is a major, make-or-break issue with them that could have real political ramifications for the President and C ...
  • DREAM Act Hunger Strike Nears Critical 30-Day Stag ...
    by Jeff BiggersOn the heels of a new Congressional Budget Office report that the DREAM Act would reduce the deficit by $1.4 billion over the next decade and public support by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, seven university students in San Antonio prepare themselves to enter their ...
  • Court Dismisses Targeted Killing Case, Does Not Co ...
    Statement by ACLU and Center for Constitutional RightsWASHINGTON - A federal court today acknowledged the serious issues raised by a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's targeted killing policy, but dismissed the case on the grounds that the plaintiff did not have legal standing to cha ...

Lifehacker

  • DIY Coffee Table Remote Drawer [DIY]
    Remote controls, video game controllers, and other such electronics are necessary in the living room, but can clutter it up quickly. Here's how to add a remote drawer to your coffee table for just a few bucks. More��
  • Cortex Makes Sharing Pages, Images, and Videos fro ...
    Chrome: There are buttons and bookmarks you can click to share links, images, and videos, but the Cortex extension makes them seem so slow. Click and hold for half a second, and you can share to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, or Instapaper. Mo ...
  • Facebook Adds More Privacy Controls to Their Mobil ...
    In response to the privacy controversy this year, Facebook released a set of new, simple privacy controls back in May. Today, they added those controls to the mobile version of their site as well, so you can edit your settings on-the-go. Mo ...
  • The Plan for Taking an Actual Delete-All-Email Sab ...
    Researcher Danah Boyd doesn't auto-respond or archive her email when she's on sabbatical—she sends it all right to /dev/null, a.k.a. the trash. If you desperately need to reach her, call her mother. Here's her reasoning and methodology. Mor ...
  • DivX Plug-In Improves Playback for Some Flash Vide ...
    Windows/Mac: DivX, the well-established maker of video codecs, offers a free web plug-in that decodes Flash video with graphics hardware acceleration. In some cases, especially on netbooks or slower machines, it may do the job better than Adob ...

Water Privatization

  • South West Water Standardizes on Informatica Data ...
    REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Informatica Corporation , the world's number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced that South West Water in the U.K. has selected Informatica Data Quality , an integral part of the Informatica Platform, to deliver trusted, high quality data ac ...
  • Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. Reports Third Quarter ...
    GEORGE TOWN, GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS--(Marketwire - November 9, 2010) - Consolidated Water Co. Ltd. ( NASDAQ : CWCO ), which develops and operates seawater desalination plants and water distribution systems in areas of the world where naturally occurring supplies of potable water are scarce or ...
  • Selangor Water Impasse: Will Tun Dr.Lim Step Up to ...
    More than 72% of contracts, worth RM600 million, was awarded through direct negotiation, not open tender process. Between 2005 – 2007, RM325 million could not be accounted for between Syabas public accounts and the record of contracts. RM51.2 million, or 120% more than the RM 23.2 million approved b ...
  • Trent moves forward with Water St. residence plan
    Trent University is once again moving forward with its plan for a private-sector built and operated student residence on Water St. on Symons campus. Residence Development Corp.[...]
  • Of Debt to Federal Government and Imminent Bail ou ...
    by Dr. Dzul According to the Auditor-General Report 2009, the State of Selangor owes the Federal Government a sum of RM929.86 millions. It must be made known to all that 85% of the debt, an equivalent sum of RM705 millions were incurred as a result of procurement of water assets in the state. In acc ...

Guardian

  • Student protests build as MPs debate tuition fees ...
    As parliament votes on higher tuition fees thousands of students are marching in London and Edinburgh. Follow the latest here. Send us your news: @peterwalker99 peter.walker@guardian.co.uk Follow the political developments on Andrew Sparrow's live blog2.33pm: There's lots of shoving against the b ...
  • Russian tit-for-tat threat in 'spy' row
    Parliamentary assistant Ekaterina Zatuliveter's detention is a smokescreen, Russia's most senior official claimsThe Russian government's most senior official in Britain today hinted that any attempt to expel the parliamentary assistant detained for allegedly spying for his country could result in ti ...
  • Web battle over WikiLeaks continues
    �� Oil giant Shell's grip on Nigerian state revealed �� Rampant corruption 'could push Kenya back into violence' �� Whitehall told US to ignore Brown's Trident statement �� Cyber rampage by WikiLeaks supporters �� Full coverage of the WikiLeaks cables1.53pm:Evgeny Morozov, a Standford University aca ...
  • Lockerbie bomber Megrahi 'in coma'
    Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who has prostate cancer, is close to death, according to reportsThe Lockerbie bomber has slipped into a coma, is on life-support and is not expected to recover, it was reported today. "Everyday is expected to be his last," a source close to his family is said to have told Sky ...
  • Reprimands in fake lobbying scandal
    Three ex-MPs stripped of their Commons passes for breaching rules preventing former politicians cashing in on access to parliament to make money as lobbyistsThree Labour ex-ministers were today stripped of their Commons passes and reprimanded for breaching rules preventing ex-politicians from cashin ...

McClatchey

  • Westboro Church to picket at Elizabeth Edwards' fu ...
    Westboro Baptist Church, a group with a history of staging protests at funerals and issuing anti-gay statements, is planning to picket the Saturday funeral of Elizabeth Edwards.
  • Report: California's climate cap-and-trade won't n ...
    California's effort to cap carbon emissions by gasoline refiners, utilities and other large polluters will have little impact on consumers and businesses in the state while creating up to 623,000 new jobs over the next decade, according to a new report.
  • Florida Senate revives challenge to Obama's health ...
    If the Republican-led state Legislature has its way, Florida voters will have two chances in 2012 to weigh in on President Barack Obama and his agenda.
  • Natives' super PAC changes face of Alaskan politic ...
    The new world of political campaign financing collided with Alaska's U.S. Senate race in spectacular fashion this year, according to the latest federal election reports, with the state's leading Native nonprofit and three wealthy businessmen opening their wallets in ways that weren't legal before.
  • House passes DREAM Act, but Senate prospects dim
    WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday night that would provide a conditional path to citizenship for as many as 500,000 children of illegal immigrants.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Unlikely marriage powers ahead
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: No-one here really wants to be doom-laden about it, but it's a reality that more and more are having to face: the UN climate process could be grinding to a halt. Researchers from Scotland will look at the potential of marine energy in the Maldives If t ...
  • 'Terrific ten' given days to save the world
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico. Enid Blyton had five (and then seven) - Ocean had 11 (and then 12). Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa, president of the UN climate summit here, has gone for 10 - 10 people who have just three days to save the planet. The UK's Chris Huhne sa ...
  • Hot and cold oil in Cancun climate
    � Campaigners have accused governments of having their heads in the sand regarding the urgent need for action Reading the runes of Cancun's first week at a distance (the BBC, unlike Britain's best-selling daily paper The Sun, is deploying its correspondent on site for only the second half of the m ...
  • A healthy argument for biodiversity
    An apple a day might not keep the doctor away... but if an article in this week's Nature is correct, a little bit of biodiversity might be the trick. The link between biodiversity and health is a topic we've been into previously on this blog - almost two years ago, in fact. That concerned a paper sh ...
  • Four degrees of hurt
    It's possible, with the right kind of lighting, to see the ongoing UN climate negotiations as some kind of sealed-in world where Alice in Wonderland logic holds sway. In this world, with the right amount of political will and political acuity, decisions are going to be made that will keep temperatu ...

The Wonk Room

  • Today In Recap: From ‘Likely’ DADT Vot ...
    Earlier this evening, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) — the moderate Republican whose vote to proceed to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was supposed to create a domino effect that would have brought along the support of Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AR) and Scott Brown (D-MA) and given Democrats ...
  • Report: Working Poor ‘Unequivocally Worse Of ...
    As the New York Times noted this morning, most households will receive a tax cut under the proposed tax deal between President Obama and Congressional Republicans. In fact, “the only groups likely to face a tax increase are those near the bottom of the income scale â individuals who make less than $ ...
  • Consequences Of The Midterms: Maine Gov Thought If ...
    On Sunday, Maine’s Gov.-elect Paul LePage — a Tea Party activist who ran on repealing the Affordable Care Act and infamously told President Obama to “go to hell” — announced that Maine should join the multi-state lawsuit challenging the law because if 35 states joined the suit, it “dies, automatical ...
  • Reid Pressures Collins To Accept Time Compromise O ...
    During a press availability following the Democratic caucus this afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) praised Sen. Susan Collins’ (R-ME) openness in considering a fair and reasonable amendment process for bringing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to a vote, but stopped sh ...
  • Benin To GOP: ‘We Are Crushed By The Impact ...
    The Wonk Room is reporting and tweeting live from the international climate talks in Cancun, Mexico. At the beginning of the Cancun climate talks, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and other Republican senators questioned the threat to the developing world from climate change, telling President Obama to kill t ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Sister in Spirit
    It's not a new story, and this post has no new information. It's just been bugging me since I read about how the harpercon government is removing funding from this worthy initiative (to give it to the RCMP to set-up their own missing persons database that will not even have a focus on Aboriginal wom ...
  • Patrick Ross's reply to the Judge's ruling
    According to Balbulican in Dr. Dawg's comments: It’s not quite accurate to say that Patrick failed to respond to the Notice of Libel. I have obtained partial transcript: “…LOL so much for so called legal ‘expertise’. What you fail to realize, your so called “honour” is that Day has f ...
  • Video Evidence of Ottawa Police Association in Ass ...
    At the link is shocking footage of Ottawa Police Association president Stephen Boucher, attempting to assault 3 pedestrians. As you can see things don't turn out the way Boucher had expected. Boucher's behaviour makes these quotes now seem less inexplicable. Here he is blubbering about the fall-out ...
  • Three More Years! Three More Years!
    So, after over 10 years, the Afghan government still can't fight its own battles against its own people? This is an insurgency with limited support from Pakistan and (MAYBE) Iran, versus a government with billions of dollars and the backing of NATO. One wonders how the Taliban was able to stabilize ...
  • What would make harper and Ignatieff change their ...
    So,the detestable, anti-Canadian sociopath and the elitist prick both think that its a good idea to waste our resources training insurgents and rapists for another three years in Afghanistan. This as the current supreme leader behind this whole travesty, Barack Obama, has decided that the whole thin ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Sen. Dorgan, in farewell speech, remembers Bunny G ...
    Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) is retiring this year, after 30 years in Congress. Sen. Dorgan served as Chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee (DPC). In an address on the Senate floor last week, he reviewed the Committee's hearings on contracting waste, fraud and corruption in Iraq and Afgha ...
  • 7th Circuit to appoint counsel for tax whistleblow ...
    In an unusual move, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago has decided to appoint a lawyer for Milwaukee tax whistleblower Mike DeGuelle (pictured). Tax.com reports today that  DeGuelle blew the whistle on a prolonged tax cheating scheme by S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. The scheme included ...
  • S.372: A Bad Deal for Whistleblowers
    After a careful review of S. 372, the National Whistleblowers Center, the Federal Ethics Center, and the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition strongly recommend that the bill not be approved in its current form.� We urge the House of Representatives to fix the bill and send it back to the Sena ...
  • Dodd-Frank has banks competing for whistleblower r ...
    The Charlotte Business Journal interviewed Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, for an article released today. The article examines how more and more banks are adopting whistleblower programs through which employees can raise compliance concerns. Why? Kohn ex ...
  • New Jersey Supreme Court answers a document dilemm ...
    Many companies that violate the law try to keep their employees from having the ability to prove those violations of the law. The impose rules that prohibit employees from taking company documents home, or disclosing them to anyone (even courts and government law enforcement agencies). Then, if an e ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Copyheart: Encouraging People To Copy
    Occasional Techdirt contributor Nina Paley, who has pointed out some problems with Creative Commons in the past, is pushing an interesting solution: the Copyheart. It's not a huge license or anything like Creative Commons, but just a basic suggestion: where you might normally put a © symbol, instea ...
  • MPAA Reminding Universities They Need To Crack Dow ...
    Back in 2008, we wrote about how the MPAA convinced Congress to pass legislation to make colleges and universities responsible for reducing copyright infringement on campus or lose federal funding. The law was really a trial run of sorts -- an attempt to see how this could work for making ISPs resp ...
  • OpenDNS Comes Out Against COICA Censorship
    Broadband Reports points us to a blog post from OpenDNS's founder and CEO, David Ulevitch, highlighting the dangers of COICA. He notes that services like OpenDNS already allow individuals the choice to block access to certain websites, but having the government declare entire sites blockable at the ...
  • UK Team Reviewing Copyright Law Will Include James ...
    Here's a nice surprise. Recently, the UK announced plans to commission a report that would review copyright laws from top to bottom. While we felt that it was odd for the UK to do this, since it had done pretty much exactly the same thing four years ago, it sounded as though they were going to foc ...
  • Copyright Lawsuit May Reveal Whether Documentary M ...
    Remember the situation with David Letterman and Joaquin Phoenix arguing copyright on Letterman's show? While they were joking about it, the issue revolved around whether or not Phoenix's last movie was really a documentary or not. It uses the famous clip of Phoenix acting crazy on Letterman's show ...

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BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Before I start my links, let me just apologize that I have not been able to keep up with all the comments on my last post (not to mention the comments elsewhere on the internets).  I try to respond to everyone, but I’m a bit overwhelmed this week.  It is especially hard since many of [...]
  • Feminism or the Highway?
    Is feminism the only banner under which people can fight patriarchy, or better yet, kyriarchy? Is any act performed with the goal of ending gender oppression automatically feminist? Even if the people doing it don’t identify with feminism?  Even if feminism has consistently slapped them in the face ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Just finished on Thinking Liberty.  Not sure when the podcast will be up.  Love to hear what you think. Related to the discussion gendered caregiving roles, here is a post about how it is harder for an immigrant child to gain citizenship if it is her father, rather than mother, who is a citizen. And ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If you live in the DC area, we will be having a really free market on Tuesday, December 14th from 7 PM to 10 PM at the Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd NW, Wash DC. This Tuesday, November 30th, it looks like I’ll be on Thinking Liberty at a little after 8 PM U.S. eastern standard [...]
  • Are all Johns (and Janes) the Same?
    Last Tuesday I linked to an article that really bugged me, but I hadnât quite put my finger on all the reasons why.  It was about a brothel for women that is opening in New Zealand.  The author of the article was predicting that the brothel would be a failure because women “have to be [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

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

treehugger

  • Rare Audubon Book on Birds Sells for $10M in Aucti ...
    Photo: etsy Who would have thought that a book of pictures of birds would sell for $10 million. But "Birds of America" by John James Audubon, which was created in 1827 was sold in auction to an anonymous collector, bidding by telephone. It contains 435 hand-coloured illustrations of bird ...
  • A 'Shrewdness' of Apes and Other Odd Group Names
    Photo: Tambako the Jaguar / CC Most people know that when lions get together they form a pride, and that if you get enough fish in one place its called a school -- but were you aware that a group of ravens is known as an unkindness? Actually, there's a bevy of bizarre nam...Read the full story o ...
  • Slow Down: the App for Rockin' Hypermilers
    Image: OVK Slow Down Do you get the feeling your car likes to go faster when you're blasting a great song on your interactive media system? Come on, admit it: you are secretly rationalizing that if the car goes faster fueled by the music, it must not be using more gas. Sure, your eco-conscience ...
  • Thriving Biosphere Found in Rocks Deep Underneath ...
    Photo credit: M. McCarthy via University of California, Santa Cruz There's a reason for leaving "no stone unturned" when it comes to scientific exploration -- there's probably life underneath even the most unlikely rock. Even if that rock is well under the seafloor. Researchers from the Univers ...
  • Green Search Engine Ecosia Donates Over $160,000 B ...
    Some incredible news about the success of its first year comes from Ecosia -- the search engine site which committed to donating 80% of its profits to a green cause announced it managed to contribute a whopping $160,000 to WWF's Jureuena rainforest project in Brazil during Ecosia's very first ye ...

Biosingularity

  • Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku
    The appeal of sudoku has spread to the prokaryotic world. A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles â with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, Japan. “Because sudoku has simple rules, we felt that maybe bacteria could solve it for us, as long as ...
  • Surgery Dramatically Lowers Blood Pressure
    A California company has shown how to dramatically lower blood pressure in hard-to-treat patients by destroying tiny nerves in the kidney. The nerves are located inside the main arteries leading to the kidney. They affect blood pressure by controlling the release of sodium and an enzyme called renin ...
  • Scientists ferret out a key pathway for aging
    For decades, scientists have been searching for the fundamental biological secrets of how eating less extends lifespan. It has been well documented in species ranging from spiders to monkeys that a diet with consistently fewer calories can dramatically slow the process of aging and improve health in ...
  • New study into bladder regeneration heralds organ ...
    Researchers in the United States have developed a medical model for regenerating bladders using stem cells harvested from a patient’s own bone marrow. The research, published in STEM CELLS, is especially relevant for paediatric patients suffering from abnormally developed bladders, but also represen ...
  • New Drug May Safely Boost ‘Good’ Chole ...
    An experimental pill that boosts levels of “good” HDL cholesterol has cleared a major safety hurdle, renewing hopes of fighting heart disease in a new way. Although the study of the drug, anacetrapib, was designed to look primarily at its safety, researchers say they were stunned by its dramatic eff ...

CFACT

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

Ria Novosti Online News

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

  • COP 16 March for Life & Climate Justice
    Video from the Via Campesina march on the COP 16 - December 7, 2010Click here to read this article
  • Working Fast to Slow Climate Change: Farmers Inspi ...
    The world's family farmers and farm workers are ready to take action on climate change and they can do it quickly without new or expensive technologies.Click here to read this article
  • Climate Talks So Weakened by U.S., Major Polluters ...
    Longtime environmental writer and activist and 350.org founder Bill McKibben has won the 2010 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. Speaking outside the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Cancún, McKibben says, "In certain ways, [a U.S. walkout] would be the best thing that could happen. For ...
  • Obama's Tax Deal is a 'Moral Outrage'
    WASHINGTON - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today on the agreement announced Monday between the White House and congressional Republicans:Click here to read this article
  • Wikileaks: The Truth Will Always Win
    In 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."Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXVII ...
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos sobre esta serie titulada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. [1]-[2]-[3]-[4]-[5]-[6]-[7]-[8]-[9]-[10]-[11]-[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ...
  • Paisajes naturales VII (Más allá de los verdes pra ...
    Si lo desea, revise nuestro archivo. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas ...
  • Peces en el mar II (6 fotos e imágenes acuáticas)
    La serie titulada 'Peces en el Mar', presenta su segunda parte en la cual hemos incluído 6 lindas fotografías del fondo marino. No se pierda la continuación de esta serie y -como siempre-, disfrute nuestros recursos.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATE ...
  • Wallpapers para Navidad y Fin de Año II (12 elemen ...
    Ya que vamos en línea recta hacia las festividades decembrinas, me permito compartir con ustedes la segunda parte de la serie 'Wallpapers para Navidad y Fin de Año II (12 elementos)'. Son 12 bonitas imágenes en alta definición que harán lucir el fondo de su escritorio realmente hermoso y original.No ...
  • Especial de Navidad y Fin de Año II (Esferas y Reg ...
    Más rápido de lo que canta un gallo, le tenemos ya la segunda parte de nuestro Especial de Fin de Año (esferas y regalos). En esta ocasión, compartimos con usted 12 bellísimas imágenes alusivas a las fiestas navideñas. Disfrútelas y por favor comparta con sus amigos nuestra página. www.BancodeImagen ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Is There a CAFO in Your Neighborhood?
    National consumer advocacy organization Food & Water Watch (FWW) just released the latest version of its Factory Farm Map, which charts the concentration of factory-farmed animals across the country and their subsequent affect on human health, communities and the environment. As most factory farmer ...
  • CDC responds to CLF on antibiotic resistance testi ...
    The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, confirms that the CDC “feels there is strong scientific evidence of a link between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in humans.” Frieden offered the CDC’s position in his response to a lette ...
  • JHU Students Take the Real Food Challenge
    Colleges and universities in the United States spend over $4 billion every year on food. Imagine if that purchasing power were shifted towards food that is community-based, fair, ecologically sound, and humane. That’s the idea behind the Real Food Challenge (RFC), a national network uniting students ...
  • Urban Foraging in Asheville, NC
    While accompanying my fiancé to Asheville, N.C. for one of her residency interviews, I found myself bouncing around from coffee shop to coffee shop in downtown Asheville, scooping up free internet, downing coffee, handling bits of work, bits of personal business and trying to think about whether I c ...
  • Too Much or Too Little: The Hazards of Mixing Anti ...
    How food animals are given medication can be very different from how you take medication.  While humans are prescribed antibiotics at specific dosages in pills or injections, food animals are often given antibiotics mixed in their feed and freely choose how much to consume.  These free-choice medica ...

Norwegianity

  • Excerpts from a life
    Rolling Stone has just published an interview they did with John Lennon on December 5, 1980. No link to the interview yet, but here’s an excerpt: “It’s nice of [Japanese Playboy] to show just the back of the baby,” John remarks about one of the photos. “I don’t want pictures of Sean going around. Mo ...
  • Links
    Links, because it’s Monday morning and you don’t have time for this nonsense: Do you have a right to drink yourself to death? And if so, why can’t you kill yourself with hard drugs? I’m pro wet-house but I don’t understand how the authorities can be OK with one kind of slow death, but not [...]
  • Vitamin D, cont.
    The L.A. Times explains the Vitamin D fatwah. I wish they hadn’t bothered. Maintaining a healthy level of vitamin D through diet alone has become much easier since manufacturers began fortifying foods with the nutrient. Fortified foods â including virtually all milk, many brands of orange juice, and ...
  • President Pelosi?
    Reading Frank Rich this morning (no link but if you go to the NYTimes he’s kind of hard to miss) a thought occurred to me. Wouldn’t it be absolutely fabulous if Obama and Biden both resigned, making still Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi the new President of the United States? I know, won’t happen, ...
  • Opening lines to a book I’ll never write
    Working title, Owned: Everything was being rewritten but not everyone seemed to understand how thoroughly or to what extent. Wall Street and the banksters were creating laws to give themselves title to all the money even as average people entered into the digital realm of unlimited cultural wealth. ...

Public News Service

  • Report: AZ Out of Step on Pre-kindergarten Program ...
    Report: AZ Out of Step on Pre-kindergarten Programs Phoenix, AZ – Most states have maintained funding for pre-kindergarten programs despite their budget problems. A new report from the Pew Center on the States says Arizona is an exception, having totally eliminated funding for early childhood progra ...
  • ‘Tis the Season for Medicare Drug Plan Sign- ...
    ‘Tis the Season for Medicare Drug Plan Sign-Up Phoenix, AZ – The deadline for open enrollment for the Medicare “Part D” prescription drug plan is fast approaching. December 31st is the last day to sign up. Comments from State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) counselor Stephanie Langguth (L ...
  • Pioneering Pair of AZ Schools Take "Green" Matters ...
    Pioneering Pair of AZ Schools Take "Green" Matters into Their Own Hands Phoenix, AZ – Hundreds of Arizona K-12 students are taking part in a program called Eco-Schools which involves projects like recycling, planting and energy reduction in schools. The program is free and is being hosted in the Un ...
  • 2,500 Arizona Kids Hope for “Forever Family& ...
    2,500 Arizona Kids Hope for “Forever Family” Phoenix, AZ - Many families looking to adopt children are going overseas to places like Russia to find children. Meanwhile, Arizona has 2,500 children in the foster care system waiting for a “forever family.” Comments from Sarah Melick, adoption specialis ...
  • Reports Look at Mom-and-Pop Shops in Rural AZ...an ...
    Reports Look at Mom-and-Pop Shops in Rural AZ...and Their Disappearance Phoenix, AZ – The number of small town grocery stores is declining in Arizona, as they compete with superstores in the state's larger cities and shopper attitudes change. But it's a change in the landscape that isn't healthy for ...

Center for Food Safety

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

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • John John: Narco News: An Exclusive Interview with ...
    Narco News: An Exclusive Interview with Julian Assange on the Eve of His Arrest: "The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, gave an exclusive interview to Brazilian journalist Natalia Viana of the online publication Opera Mundi on Monday. (Viana, 2004 graduate of Narco News’ School of Authentic Jour ...
  • Daniel Ellsberg Says Boycott Amazon - Antiwar.com ...
    Daniel Ellsberg Says Boycott Amazon - Antiwar.com Blog Open letter to Amazon.com Customer Service: December 2, 2010 I’m disgusted by Amazon’s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating today its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Con ...
  • Three Americans extradited to Canada to face G20 c ...
    Three Americans extradited to Canada to face G20 charges - thestar.com: "Three Americans are being extradited to Canada to face more than 100 charges related to damage during a protest at the G20 economic summit in Toronto last June, police said Friday. “These people may think they have gotten away ...
  • The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange - David Sam ...
    The Shameful Attacks on Julian Assange - David Samuels - International - The Atlantic Julian Assange and Pfc Bradley Manning have done a huge public service by making hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents available on Wikileaks -- and, predictably, no one is grateful. Manning ...
  • Armenian activist and editor attacked, placed in s ...
    Armenian activist and editor attacked, placed in strict jail - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, December 2, 2010--The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about reports that Nikol Pashinian, an opposition activist and editor-in-chief of the independent daily Haykakan Zhamanak, was ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Use organic milk and eggs
    Many people think that drinking milk and eating eggs is harmless to the cows and chickens. Unfortunately, this is not true. The animals living in factory farms are having an awful and short life. Make sure you buy organic (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html) milk and eggs, which is less harmfull ...
  • Environmental News 09/12/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Tasmanian devil in danger
    The Tasmanian devil is an endangered species (wildlife/endangered-species.html). Facial tumours are decimating their population. Already 80 per cent of them have succumbed to the contagious facial tumour disease since it first struck in the mid- 1990s. Many people fear the Tasmanian devil will becom ...
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  • Taking Care Of Your Green Spiritual Side
    We exercise, take care of our looks, and watch what we eat, but is there more? We take a look at yoga, Pilates and meditation…

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Nigeria graft agency charges Cheney, Halliburton b ...
    ShareThisNigeria graft agency charges Cheney, Halliburton boss 07 Dec 2010 Nigeria's anti-corruption agency filed charges against former U.S. vice president [sic] Dick Cheney and the head of oil services giant Halliburton Co on Tuesday over an alleged scheme to bribe Nigerian officials. The Economic ...
  • Assange accuser may have ceased co-operating
    ShareThisAssange accuser may have ceased co-operating 09 Dec 2010 Anna Ardin [who also goes by the name Bernardin], one of the two complainants in the rape and sexual assault case against WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, has left Sweden, and may have ceased actively co-operating with the Sw ...
  • Sarah Palin Under Cyber-Attack from Wikileaks Supp ...
    ShareThisSarah Palin Under Cyber-Attack from Wikileaks Supporters in 'Operation Payback' --Anon_Ops describes itself as an "anonymous, decentralized movement which fights against censorship and copywrong." 08 Dec 2010 The website and personal credit card information of former [half] Gov. Sarah Palin ...
  • In Her Defense, I'm Sure the Moose Had It Coming
    ShareThisIn Her Defense, I'm Sure the Moose Had It Coming By Aaron Sorkin 08 Dec 2010 ...I don't relish the idea of torturing animals. ...I don't watch snuff films and you make them. You weren't killing that animal for food or shelter or even fashion, you were killing it for fun. You enjoy killing a ...
  • Blair recalled to face further questions on build- ...
    ShareThisBlair recalled to face further questions on build-up to Iraq war 09 Dec 2010 Tony Blair is to be recalled before the Iraq Inquiry to answer questions over whether he pressured his Attorney General to change his advice on the legality of the war. The former prime minister will face a second ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • The deputy assassin
    By Rela Mazali In the second piece below, Israeli activist Nurit Peled-Elhanan comments on the recent appointment of a new Deputy Chief of Staff, Yair Naveh, who orchestrated (at least some of) Israel’s summary executions widely wordwashed as “targeted assassinations.” Peled-Elhanan claims the appoi ...
  • The Deadly Fires: Israel’s Katrina?
    The Israeli authorities announced Sunday night that the fire ranging in the Carmel hills since Thursday, Israel’s most devastating fire on record, is now under control. An even worse disaster was averted. The fire did not seriously spread into Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, or its suburb Tirat ...
  • Strawberry Fields Forever
    From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway This week the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced the âbeginning of the export seasonâ in the Gaza Strip. âThe export seasonâ entails the continuation of a short-term program, sponsored â from planting through to distribution â by the Dutch government. The progr ...
  • Correction to the disclaimer, and Happy Hanukkah
    By Jesse Bacon On Tuesday, I posted about a free documentary screening. I then edited that post when I learned that the film received Israeli government funding. I provided the disclaimer for folks who are observing the full cultural boycott of Israel, (which my sponsor Jewish Voice for Peace is not ...
  • Free documentary on Israeli women soldiers; UPDATE ...
    Check out Link Tv’s Doc Debut feature,where you can watch the entire one hour film,  To See if I am Smiling Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. In the award-winning documentary To See If I Am Smiling, the frank testimonials ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • On Wikileaks and warfare
    Josh Mull, in a post here and elsewhere, takes me slightly to task for saying Assange is engaging in asymmetrical warfare, because it’s not warfare at all and saying so will just provoke the government to retaliate. Point well taken, but when his supporters can take down major websites, even if the ...
  • Assanage accuser reportedly stops cooperating with ...
    Anna Ardin, one of the two complainants in the rape and sexual assault case against WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, has left Sweden, and may have ceased actively co-operating with the Swedish prosecution service and her own lawyer. The sooner this travesty and obviously politically-inspire ...
  • Ron Paul to head Monetary Policy Subcommittee
    [Ron Paul will be] Ben Bernanke’s direct nemesis during any and all future Congressional spectacles starring the printing unchallenged one. And with US debt creeping ever closer to the debt ceiling, coupled with the dollar for dollar monetization of the US deficit, such spectacles will soon be plent ...
  • Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Deep Water
    Not only is this great music, they were showmen too. Their influence was of course, huge. “Once you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.”
  • Unconventional hydro power
    Renewable Energy World has a long, detailed article and podcast on unconventional hydro power, focusing on wave and tidal power.

Coteret

  • Yediot’s legal editor cites Nuremberg Laws, ...
    Rabbis’ disgrace Analysis, Boaz Okon, Yediot, December 8 2010 [front-page; Hebrew original here and at the bottom of this post] In 1834, a clothes salesman in London refused to sell an article of clothing to a customer.  The refusal stemmed from the fact that the buyer was “just a Jew.”The Jewish bu ...
  • Yediot: “Security establishment” warns ...
    This appears to be a General Security Service (GSS) leak: The scenario that the security establishment is preparing for is threatening. The scenario envisions the security prisoners launching a hunger strike, setting fire to their cells, trying attack the guards, severing all contact with the prison ...
  • Maariv “exclusive”: Israel and Brazil sign major s ...
    This appears to be a major agreement: Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Chief of Security in the Defense Ministry Amir Kain signed the historic agreement for security cooperation between the two countries a few days ago.  Brazil’s intelligence affairs minister signed the agreement on the Brazilian sid ...
  • Maariv runs some scary gossip on Bibi and “the Bos ...
    Last night, Channel Ten TV News’s Raviv Drucker exposed a letter written to Benyamin Netanyahu in early 2009. The author, one Yisrael Yagel, a former executive in Netanyahu’s 2008 election campaign, penned an indictment of the Prime Minister’s management style, with particular emphasis on the role a ...
  • Maariv: Turkish FM says he envisions one Israeli-P ...
    The sourcing, as is usual in the Israeli media, is poor. It appears that Maariv’s Eli Bardenstein was on some sort of government junket in Turkey. Over the past few days, other Israeli journalists posted status updates from Istanbul. The full translation of his report is at the bottom of the post, a ...

Deadline Live

  • China blocks news websites ahead of Liu Xiaobo Nob ...
    The news websites of the BBC, CNN and Norwegian state broadcaster NRK have been blocked on mainland China the day before Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo is to be awarded the Nobel peace prize. Attempts to access the three broadcasters’ websites today were unsuccessful, with the message “Internet Explor ...
  • THE INTERNET STRIKES BACK: MasterCard, Visa Hacked ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtrg87i2kI4
  • This Day In History – December 9
    1793 â New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster. 1835 â The Republic of Texas captures San Antonio, Texas. 1861 â The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress. 1872 â In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the ...
  • Geraldo Rivera Tells Bill O’reilly Recent Do ...
    Geraldo Rivera Tells Bill O’reilly Recent Domestic Terror Plots Are Fake He explains the role of the FBI in all of the most recent cases and how they take depressed gullible morons and walk them into to attempting terrorist acts. Bill at the end says “You and Napolitano ought to go camping together” ...
  • Just Say No to GMO music video with Traditional Ch ...
    The super-popular “Just Say No to GMO” music video is now available with Traditional Chinese subtitles! Created by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, this song and music video have been circulated around the globe, reaching nearly 500,000 views. With a powerful anti-GMO message, this song is educating p ...

The Air Vent

  • Now and Then
    Capitalism vs Science…. Perhaps we should be a little more competitive with our schooling.  Maybe everyone doesn’t need a ribbon.
  • O’Donnel et al. First Praise from Climate Co ...
    At Climate Audit Andrew Weaver, who is not a climate skeptic, has been very complimentary of the Antarctic paper. Link here for audio of the relevant bit. We haven’t yet described the meaning in the extensive work but the implications are both overall and seasonal trend.  I wonder how he got a copy ...
  • Ljungqvist Analysis Continued
    This is a guest post by Kenneth Fritsch.  He’s taken the time to further the analysis of the unusual proxies from the recent Ljungqvist paper covered here.  Like our work on the Antarctic, this is progressing in baby steps toward a result.  In case you don’t know, I have a ton of respect for peop ...
  • Warnings
    Ok, I’m not a natural book reviewer.   I am a prolific reader however, and simply can’t stop trying to entertain or educate my overworked ganglia.  It is a curse when a book can take hours of  your life yet you can’t stop reading.   Recently Mike Smith sent an email saying he wanted to send me ...
  • Remember When…
    Scientists solve enigma of Antarctic ‘cooling’ – click for article. Research ‘kills off’ climate sceptic argument by showing average temperature across the continent has risen over the last 50 years In the remote and inaccessible West Antarctic region the new research, based on ground measurements a ...

Focal Point

  • Did Assange's Accusers Want STD Testing?
    Some of Julian Assange's defenders* are citing this special report by Mark Hosenball as proof that the rape allegations against the wikileaks figurehead are unfounded. WASHINGTON (Reuters) The two Swedish women who accuse WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sexual misconduct were at first not ...
  • Weekly Pulse: DADT, Vampire Bees, and Other Health ...
    The latest edition of the Media Consortium's Weekly Pulse features: -An op/ed by doctor who specializes in treating STIs in a military town. Some of Dr. Kenneth Katz's military patients say they won't follow up when they ship overseas bcause they're afraid their personal medical information will b ...
  • A Feminist Lawyer on the Case Against Wikileaks' J ...
    Feminist attorney Jill Filipovic takes a closer look at the sex crime allegations against Julian Assange of wikileaks. I think the post strikes exactly the right balance between being skeptical about the merits and motives of the case against Assange and acknowledging that he's accused of some ...Re ...
  • WAM! Radical '80s Prom Photos
    The Radical '80s Prom was a huge success. We drew over 100 paying customers and raised over $1000 for Women Action and Media, a national organization dedicated to creating gender justice in media. It was the best damned dance party I've ever been to. DJs Marc Faletti and Amanda Marcotte had ... ...
  • Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips Advocat ...
    This sums up everything that needs to be said about the "populist" Tea Party. It's not populist and its values of are antithetical to those of the Boston Tea Party. Last month, Judson Philips, the president of Tea Party Nation, suggested on his internet radio show that only property owners should ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Tests Full Text Comment Stories in the Re ...
    Facebook is testing a new type of one-line story on the recent activity feed of the wall which shows the full text of a comment. This story type would make the recent activity feed more interesting but slower to read, and could entice users to click through to view the original post. In the example ...
  • Facebook Launches a Mobile Applications Privacy Da ...
    Facebook is adding privacy controls for applications and websites to the m.facebook.com mobile interface. Users will be able to access the recently launched Applications, Games, and Websites Privacy Dashboard to view which parties have access to their profile, rescind permissions, control what info ...
  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Playdom, Kabam, Playfish, Storm8, and Ubisoft. Social Game Design ...
  • Facebook CTO Bret Taylor to Discuss Facebook’s 201 ...
    January 25th | San Francisco As we announced recently, Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011, our second conference on the future of monetization on social platforms, is happening January 25th in San Francisco. Today we are excited to announce that Facebook CTO Bret Taylor will be joining us for a firesid ...
  • Photo Tagging Helps Apps Ascend This Week’s List o ...
    This week’s AppData list of fastest-growing Facebook games by daily active users is mostly a listing of larger apps that enjoyed rebounds, but not real growth, in their DAU over the seven-day period, along with a few showing new spikes that may not last. But as usual, there are also a few newer name ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Obama to Netanyahu: "You win"
    Alan Hart argues that US President Barack Obama's admission that he has given up trying to persuade Israel to freeze illegal settlement building proves that the makers of the USA's Middle East policy "are Israel’s leaders and their lobby in the US … not the man who occupies the Oval Office in the Wh ...
  • UK ministers who legislate for war criminals to wa ...
    Stuart Littlewood views the army of obsequious Israel grovellers within the British government and main political parties who are spearheading the efforts to change the law so that Israeli war criminals can visit the country without fear of justice.
  • Assange and Wikileaks need your help
    Christopher King urges everyone who cares about justice and the truth to stand by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with donations to help him defend himself against politically-motivated, vexatious prosecution by criminal governments and their lickspittles anxious to hide their dirty secrets.
  • WikiLeaks and the wicked disinformers
    Paul J. Balles debunks false arguments of "national security" expounded by the likes of Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post to bludgeon the whistleblower website WikiLeaks and argues that, rather than damaging legitimate US national interests, WikiLeaks is exposing matters of legitimate publi ...
  • WikiLeaks: what, really, is the problem?
    Alan Hart reflects on the WikiLeaks disclosures, arguing that "the problem is not the manipulation of WikiLeaks by any foreign intelligence service but, in effect, the manipulation by key players in the mainstream media, in America especially, of the material WikiLeaks is providing".

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Is the First Amendment Dead & Gone? You bet!
    …and so are so many other rights I just received an email with a link to the following clip, and with the link came the headline that read:   ‘Wikileaks Has Proven the First Amendment is Dead & Gone!’ Is the First Amendment dead & gone? You bet! Has it been dead and gone for a while now? You [...]
  • Digging Deeper in Years into Wikileaks’ Treasure C ...
    A Fairly Short List of Goodies for Wikileaks Santa   I have been waiting. I have been searching and reading. I have been waiting impatiently while searching and reading the initial pile of recently released Wikileaks’ documents, specifically those pertaining to Turkey. I have received many e-mails a ...
  • Notes on the Margin-Dec 1
    Setting the Record Straight on Satire v. Fiction, A Few Notes on my Opt-Out Support Session at DCA & A Few Words on  Ron Paul Supporters-Activists My last ‘Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz’ seems to have caused some unexpected reaction. First, it started several e-mails from the media asking whether they ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • Boiling Frogs Beltway Buzz: DHS-TSA Terror Watch L ...
    Resilient Founding Fathers with Propensity for Resistance among One Million+ Terror Watch List Suspects!   In May 2009 the Inspector General of the Justice Department found that 35% of the nominations to the Department of Homeland Security’s Terror Watch Lists were outdated, many people were not rem ...

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • JFKto911.info
    Join our community page by CLICKING HERE, a social networking page of like minded individuals! Our page is intended to bring people together in an environment of less advertisement with a hope of sorting through propaganda in life and discovering the truth.
  • JFK deathbed confession | Big news Repost from Bor ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction, the best screenwriters that ever lived would never be able to come up with the truth of John F. Kennedy's assassination or that of 911.
  • Conservative Conundrum
    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
  • HURRAY FOR SHORT MEMORIES!
  • Never Forget: Bad Wars Aren’t Possible Unles ...
    This is a very good article from Michael Moore, what he delineates are the reasons we are still in such a mess as a Nation and a people. These reasons are blatant and should never be allowed to happen again. Even though Obama seems to be tied to the Bush Doctrine of appeasing the military-industrial ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • How to Remove Conduit Engine Search from Firefox 3 ...
    I know this isn’t a tecchie blog, but sometimes I come across a problem to which there isn’t a solution listed and have to work it out for myself. In this case I (ill-advisedly as it turned out) upgraded BitTorrent to version 7 (7.1 and 7.2 at present). This is sort of pertinent to The [...]
  • WIKILEAKS MIRROR SITES – IMPORTANT
    The Wikileaks servers are under constant pressure and attack: both the sheer weight of traffic and the efforts of various government agencies to bring the servers down, or damage the DNS records, are conspiring to make the main wikileaks.org site unavailable. But this is not really a problem for two ...
  • Wikileaks: Governments Apologising In Advance For ...
    Well, it seems that a few politicians have been saying rude things about each other, and now they are really desperate to cover it all up. I don’t know; we expect “our” representatives to be paragons of virtue and then damn Wikileaks spills the beans. Bad Wikileaks! On the other hand, given the shit ...
  • Operation Christmas Child: Christian Fundamentalis ...
    Somewhere in the minds of millions of children there exists a place where Christmas is every day, and gifts appear beneath the eternal tree and at the foot of the magical fireplace whenever their back is turned. In the hearts of millions of children the joy of giving is equally precious as the joy o ...
  • McDonald’s and PepsiCo to Help Write UK Heal ...
    This article from The Guardian will come as no surprise to anyone who watches how much food companies and supermarkets are allowed to influence public education in the UK. What might come as a surprise is how blatant the level of influence is – in the words of the UK government: “A âResponsibility D ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

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

Cutting Edge News

  • Wikileaks Criminals Reminds One of Wikipedia Crimi ...
    The current mess over Wikileaks, and what appears to be a growing criminal enterprise, complete with cyberwarfare retaliation, brings to mind another Wiki problem in our world--namely, Wikipedia. Does Wikipedia have a policy against those with criminal records manipulating and editing its pages? The ...
  • After the Holocaust - Holocaust Survivors Demand J ...
    In November, the U.S. attorney in New York indicted 17 people for allegedly defrauding programs funded by Germany for Holocaust survivors and administered by the Claims Conference. Six of those charged were Conference employees, including some who supervised these very programs for many years.It is ...
  • The Deaf Edge - Gallaudet University's Identity St ...
    After two protests which rocked Gallaudet University, positive changes are being made but Gallaudet University still does not fully embrace Deaf culture and respect American Sign Language.� The selection of Catherine Murphy as the Director of Public Relations at Gallaudet University recently is anot ...
  • Edge on Asia - South Korea is Poised to Respond in ...
    A top South Korean presidential security advisor - who could be the country's next defense minister - says Seoul is prepared to bomb North Korea if Pyongyang again hits the South with artillery.�Kim Kwan-jin, the presidential security advisor hoping to be the next defense minister, is talking tough. ...
  • Romania on Edge - Romania: On a Voyage between Hop ...
    As a Romanian with the perspective of someone who emigrated 18 years ago, I can also say that I remain confused each time I depart from my native land. It is a feeling that, frequently, I manage to hide when I return from there because it is difficult to share with my colleagues in Spain, where I no ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Happy As A Hangman
    By Chris HedgesThose who do not carry out acts of rebellion, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, are guilty of solidifying and perpetuating these crimes. Those who do not act delude themselves into believing they are innocent. They are not
  • WikiLeaks: What, Really, Is The Problem?
    By Alan HartAlan Harts vote of confidence for WikiLeaks and Julian Assange and an indictment on the mainstream media for the way it reported the leaks
  • Assange Rape Accuser Linked To Notorious CIA Opera ...
    By David EdwardsOne of the women that is accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes appears to have worked with a group that has connections to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  • The Truth Will Always Win
    By Julian Assange In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth
  • The Arrest Of Julian Assange: Truth In Chains
    By Chris FloydWell, they got him at last. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the target of several of the worlds most powerful governments, turned himself into British authorities today and is now at the mercy of state authorities who have already shown their wolfish and lawless desire to destro ...

Contagious Love Experiment

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

Yid With Lid

  • New Wikileaks Release Reveals Saudi Arabian Royal ...
    Included in today's release of State Department Cables is an item that was classified only because it could possibly embarrass the Saudi royal family. Since the document is already public and there is no loyalty here to the Saudi Royals (or the Kansas City Royals for that matter) I decided to pass a ...
  • Why Do Iranians and Turks Want Arabs To Fight Jew ...
    By Barry Rubin If you want to understand how the debate goes in the Arabic-speaking world and the ways liberals there try to get across their message, there�s nothing better�to read than Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed�s article, �Erdogan...Fulfill Your Promises.� It�s also very easy to misunderstand ...
  • The 40 Best Political Quotes Of 2010
    �John Hawkins, the master of the political list has come up with the 2nd Annual 40 Best Political Quotes Of 2010. Obviously, coming up with a list of "best" quotes for an entire year is going to be a little subjective. For example my favorite quote for 2009 only finished 3rd.�If we have another ...
  • The Lid May Have To Close Soon--Please Hit The Tip ...
    2010 has been a successful year for "The Lid," we broke stories such as the recent Helen Thomas video as well as the one back in June, the J-Street tax return that proved that George Soros was funding the Anti-Israel group, the code-pink attempted attack on CPAC,� and the extent of the underfunding ...
  • Libyan Threats Led To British Release of Lockerbie ...
    It was the worst terrorist attack in Britain's history, the deadliest assault on U.S. civilians until 9/11 and a political powder keg that roiled governments around the world. And via the latest WikiLeaks release we are finding out the real reason why the only man convicted for the attack wa ...

The Real Agenda

  • U.S. Fiscal Health Worse than Europe, says academi ...
    Reuters The U.S. dollar will be a safe investment for the next six to 12 months because global markets are focused on the euro zone‘s troubles but America’s fiscal health is worse than Europe’s, an adviser to the Chinese central bank said on Wednesday. Li Daokui, an academic member of the central ba ...
  • Baltimore Oriols player questions Obama’s Le ...
    CBS Baltimore Orioles outfielder Luke Scott wasn’t only talking baseball at the winter meetings on Tuesday. He questioned President Barack Obama’s birthplace and claimed he did not represent the United States. “Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers sto ...
  • Alarmistas del Cambio Climático proponen Esteriliz ...
    La sobrepoblación es un mito. Las propias cifras de la ONU indican claramente que la población se estabilizará en 2020 y luego caerá dramáticamente después de 2050 de una manera natural. Como The Economist informó: "La fertilidad está cayendo y el número de miembros de las familias se está reduciend ...
  • UN peacekeepers likely cause of Haiti cholera outb ...
    By Jonathan M Katz A contingent of UN peacekeepers is the likely source of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed at least 2,000 people, a French scientist said in a report obtained by The Associated Press. Epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux concluded that the cholera originated in a tributary of H ...
  • H1N1 Vaccine caused 3,587 Miscarriages
    That is a 700 percent increase in miscarriage incidence. NaturalNews.com Recent data presented to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Children’s Vaccines has revealed some shocking information about the effects of the H1N1 / swine flu vaccine on pregnant ...

Wind Watch

  • Green energy costs lowballed, task force says
    Ontario’s government is overstating the benefits of its Green Energy Act and underestimating hydro rate increases, according to a new report on economic competitiveness set to be released on Tuesday. The report — written by the Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress — poin ...
  • Wind farm project ‘is a threat to wildlife&# ...
    The wind farm element of Grahamstown�s proposed combined renewable energy project has raised serious concerns from the game reserve sector. Dr William Fowlds, chairman of Indalo, the association of private game reserves in the area, said although the proposed Grahamstown wind farm comprised just nin ...
  • Cape Wind’s big win; Critics slam costs as state O ...
    Massachusetts regulators yesterday approved an electricity rate deal between Cape Wind and National Grid that could force consumers and businesses to pay $1.4 billion extra on their energy bills over 15 years. �This decision will not only raise costs for our members, but also establishes a dangerous ...
  • Renewable energy push leads to price jolt for rura ...
    Minnkota Power Cooperative, which supplies electricity for a wide swath of eastern North Dakota and northwest Minnesota, has been delivering a jolt to its member rural electric cooperatives. A combination of factors involving the economics of wind power in Minnesota have led the power provider to ta ...
  • How close is too close?
    Umatilla County Planning Commissioner David Lynde leaned back in his chair and looked across the table to wind company representatives sitting before the commission Thursday night. �This may be just a dumb country boy asking this, but have any of you actually went out and camped by a wind turbine or ...

Not My Tribe

  • Nominate Julian Assange for a Nobel? Time Person o ...
    I Am Just Sick. Julian Assange arrested, denied bail, confined to a UK jail cell deemed unsuitable for Bush, Blair or their murderous peers. Britain even assured Israel that its war criminals could visit England without fear of politically motivated arrest warrants. So much for the Assange-is-Mossad ...
  • Wikileaks reveals inventory of US possessions crit ...
    To complain that the Wikileaked list of US “critical infrastructure and key resources” provides a checklist of targets for aspiring terrorists is to pretend that opponents of empire are as simple minded as American television viewers. The importance of most of these Critical Foreign Dependencies is ...
  • message from a Hopi elder
    You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered…   Where are you living?   What are you doing?   What are your relationships?   Are you in right relation?   [...]
  • Dancing with the scars, Gaza edition.
    Doesn’t have Bristol Spawn-of-Satan dancing, but it does have Jasper, PikesPeakOceans favorite animated avatar.dancing in his underwear for Netanyahu, Obama, and Ms. Hillary Warning, clicking on this link will cause emotional scars. Hence the title.
  • FOX convicts murdered prisoner, posthumously.
    The Military Police thug who killed him, isn’t contesting the charge that he killed the Human Being, and is instead pleading insanity. “He was off his meds” well, that’s wonderful, the MilPigs put psychotic cops in charge over helpless prisoners. FOX 21 is saying “the Ft Carson soldier ACCUSED OF ki ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Michael Shermer's Projections
    Michael Shermer has responded to Anthony Halls confronting of him in his usual way. After listing aload of NWO theories, Shermer writes... Nevertheless, we cannot just dismiss all such theories out of hand, because real conspiracies do sometimes happen. Instead we should look for signs that indicat ...
  • Circular Rationalism
    In several Youtube debates I've had on a variety of different subjects, I've noticed the debunkers/skeptics have a number of vague buzzwords that they like to throw around. They include: 'Reason''Rationality''Debunked by Science''Freethinker' The third one is a common dismissal. "Those 9/11 truthers ...
  • Freudian Projection of Irrelevance
    I don't like stooping to their level, but I'm fed up with debunkers downplaying the credibility of 1300 Architects and Engineers and all the other technical experts in the truth movement. Let's consider the icons of their 'movement' ... A couple of gossip artists with a blog that makes The Daily Mir ...
  • 'Debunker' Pat Curley: the King of Scientific Peer ...
    So one of the peer-reviewers of the Active Thermitic Material paper has identified himself. Here is the current situation as summarized by "Sitting-Bull" on 911blogger.com: It took Prof. Griscom 4 long years to become convinced of 9/11 truth. Science did it. And: Some "Debunkers" already claim he w ...
  • ALERT: US State Department Cannot Afford Professio ...
    Written by John-Michael P. Talboo Friday, 03 December 2010 ae911truth.org Federal Government Website Offers Amateur Video by Student as Authoritative Analysis A new report has been released by the State Department website America.Gov in an effort to debunk the physical and forensic evidence presen ...

Fooducate

  • What is Expeller Pressed Oil and Why Does it Matte ...
    Ingredient list aficionados (OK, geeks) like us come across interesting phrases and wordings in product packages. In some cases, the fancy words mask a simple ingredient, trying to create an aura of sophistication or health (100% pure evaporated cane sugar syrup is basically…sugar). But sometimes th ...
  • Soda, Surplus, and Food Stamps: A Short History
    This is a guest blog post by Daniel Bowman Simon Lately there has been a lot of hoopla in the Big Apple about the federal food stamp program, now officially known by the snappy acronym SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.) Over 41 million Americans (and 1.7 million New York City resi ...
  • The New Child Nutrition Act – Will 6 cents make a ...
    On Thursday afternoon, Congress passed the “Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act”. This happens once every 5 years, when the government reviews and re-approves the Child Nutrition Act. The law provides federal funding for feeding millions of schoolchildren lunch and sometimes breakfast for free or greatly ...
  • What are the 10 Most Popular Product Scans on Food ...
    It’s been a month since we launched the Fooducate iphone app. That’s enough time to start seeing some trends. We wondered which products are the most popular. Here then is the list of top ten scans: 1. Nutella – Hazelnut Spread 2. Coca-Cola – Coke 3. Coca Cola – Diet Coke 4. Jif – Creamy Peanut But ...
  • Whole Grains and Dietary Fibers: End Your Confusio ...
    This is a guest blog post by Hope Warshaw, RD. It follows up on her previous guest post. We’re being urged via health messages and big marketing campaigns to eat more dietary fiber and simultaneously to chow down on more whole grains. Beyond the messages to achieve these goals ringing in our ea ...

Traffikd

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

Survival International

  • Double ‘green energy’ threat to Borneo tribes’ rai ...
    Construction is already under way at the Murum dam site. © Survival International As environment ministers from around the world meet in Mexico for the UN climate change conference, tribes in the rainforests of Borneo are facing a double âgreen energyâ threat as hydroelectric dams destroy thei ...
  • 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 ...

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Renewable energy industry at risk
Politico (blog)
- Dec 09, 2010
- 51 minutes ago
DIANNE FEINSTEIN | 12/9/10 10:51 AM EST Congress is about to turn its back on renewable energy by allowing a crucial Treasury Grant Program to expire at the ...
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Wind, solar backers take their case to Congress
Houston Chronicle
- Dec 08, 2010
- 10 hours ago
The initiative was created as part of last year's stimulus package in response to concerns that the economic downturn had caused traditional renewable ...
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Clean Credits, Dirty Subsidies and a Key Choice for Congress
TIME
- Dec 09, 2010
- 3 hours ago
Ethanol brewed from corn is technically a renewable fuel, but it's even dirtier than gasoline; the carbon supposedly saved by using farmland to grow fuel ...
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Idaho utilities protest rapid wind power growth
BrighterEnergy.org
- Dec 09, 2010
- 54 minutes ago
The PURPA program in Idaho requires utilities to buy power from renewable energy projects at a rate set by the Idaho Public Utilities Commission if they ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Department of Ecology holds a public hearing on the Burien Shoreline Master ...
Highline Times
- Dec 09, 2010
- 9 hours ago
By Keith Daigle 37 meetings later the Burien Shoreline Master Program (SMP) is one step closer to adoption as the Washington Department of Ecology (DOE) ...
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Ecology's Tailoring Rule Proposal
Enviro.BLR.com
- Dec 09, 2010
- 1 hour ago
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology)—along with the environmental agencies of all states and local governments authorized to issue federal PSD ...
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Group Finds Lead in Many Holiday Light Sets
MyFox Detroit
- Dec 08, 2010
- 18 hours ago
The Michigan-based consumer group The Ecology Center tested 68 common varieties of holiday lights for lead, cadmium and other dangerous chemicals. ...
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Marine ecology, green growth in Ulsan
Korea Times
- Dec 09, 2010
- 3 hours ago
For Ulsan City is one of the nation's leaders in marine ecology and green growth. Running from the mountains west of the city to Mipo Bay and the East Sea, ...
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Water Power

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Some South End residents without water following water main break today
Boston Globe
- Dec 09, 2010
- 1 hour ago
By Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff Dozens of homes in the South End are without water today following a water main break that created a sinkhole large ...
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EPA acts on a natural gas drilling groundwater case
Energy Collective
- Dec 09, 2010
- 21 minutes ago
EPA testing has confirmed that extremely high levels of methane in their water pose an imminent and substantial risk of explosion or fire. ...
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UDC sees progress on water and gas
River Reporter
- Dec 09, 2010
- 2 hours ago
The letter came under consideration at the UDC's November meeting and was sent back to the Water Use/Resource Management committee for revision. ...
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Chief Cites Water Problems at Fatal Upstate NY Fire
FireEngineering.com
- Dec 09, 2010
- 1 hour ago
Firefighters had problems getting water to a fire that killed a woman in Hyde Park, New York, according to the local fire chief. Fairview Fire Chief Tony ...
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