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• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
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• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
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on Government Oversight

• Largely Missing From the WikiLeaks Debate: The Sta ...
  The release of more than 250,000 State Department cables by self-proclaimed whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has sparked discussions on a variety of topics, including U.S. diplomacy, excessive secrecy, information-sharing inside the government, and First Amendment rights. But largely absent from all ...
• Morning Smoke: IG Report: "Regulatory, Organizatio ...
  A call to step it up at agency: Report urges more hiring, surprise visits to drilling rigs by Jennifer A. Dlouhy [Houston Chronicle] Overhaul of Oil Industry Urged by Stephen Power [The Wall Street Journal] Oil Spill Investigators Say Access...
• Digging for Gold: A Nugget from Senate Report on B ...
  The federal government puts out dozens of reports every month, most so boring they make your teeth hurt. Not so with congressional reports. Staffers are stressed for time, so Committee reports are short on text, with dozens of documents attached...
• New Podcast on WikiLeaks
  A new POGO podcast is now available! POGO staffers recently sat down to discuss something that relates to so many aspects of our work—the latest WikiLeaks disclosures. Download the latest podcast POGO podcast RSS feed Subscribe to POGO podcasts for...
• Morning Smoke: New Pentagon Rule on Withholding Pa ...
  Defense revises rule on contractor business systems by Robert Brodsky [Government Executive] Federal oil rig inspectors hit for lapses preceding BP spill by Charles S. Clark [Government Executive] Fed Emails Are Sought by Maya Jackson Randall [The Wall Street Journal]...

Digital Journal

• Hope for Kyoto, UN climate change summit in Cancun
  Light a candle for Hope. That is the message that the Council of Canadians are spreading. Hope for the Kyoto Protocol, the only global climate change treaty with mandatory emission reduction commitments. Last year’s Copenhagen Accord is non-binding.
• Toronto Police Chief Blair speaks with forked tong ...
  Reports about police actions at Canada’s Toronto G20 summit (and after) requires special glasses for reading between the lines.
• An open letter to conservative thinker Prof. Thoma ...
  A letter to an intellectual, academic, and top Conservative party ideologue concerning, statements which have grave consequences for journalists around the world.
• Snow buries London, Ontario, area
  Londoners are saying they haven't seen this much snow in decades. Many claim the city hasn't been buried like this since 1977 when the highest 24-hour snowfall ever for London was recorded.
• British Columbia Politics a Lolly Scramble
  Given the dramatic events of the past few weeks British Columbia's political future looks, to an outsider, like what the British part would call a "lolly[candy] scramble".

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• Commons supports nuclear disarmament
  The House of Commons gave its unanimous consent to a motion in support of nuclear disarmament on December 7th. New Democrat MP Bill Siksay moved: That the House of Commons: (a) recognize the danger posed by the proliferation of nuclear materials and technology to peace and security; (b) endorse the ...
• “No one believes in Afghanistan any more”
  European Union President Herman Van Rompuy told the United States in 2009 that “no one [in the EU] believes in Afghanistan any more,” according to a U.S. account of the meeting leaked by WikiLeaks (“‘No one believes in Afghanistan any more:’ EU leader in WikiLeaks cable,” Globe and Mail, 5 December ...
• WikiLeaks: France went to bat for Omar Khadr
  U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks on Wednesday reveal that France’s Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, asked the U.S. to consider releasing Omar Khadr from Guantanamo Bay. Kouchner, who played a founding role in the international humanitarian NGO Médecins sans frontières, personally ...
• Political attacks
  We are under attack from the Harper Conservatives. Please make your contribution now to help us stop Harper’s plans to spend $16 billion on the F-35 stealth fighters.
• Afghan intervention surpasses Soviet stay
  The duration of the U.S. and allied intervention in Afghanistan now exceeds that of the Soviet intervention of 1979-1989. Sunday, 28 November 2010 marks the 3340th day since U.S. and allied forces entered Afghanistan in order to topple the Taliban government and capture Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Lad ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Using Cell Phones While Pregnant Can Cause Behavio ...
  December 8th, 2010 Daily Mail By: Jenny Hope Pregnant women who regularly use mobile phones could increase the risk of their children behaving badly, claims a startling survey. If their offspring then start using the devices at an early age, the chance of problems climbs to 50 per cent, according to ...
• How WikiLeaks Altered The Way We See The World In ...
  December 8th, 2010 The Guardian By: Robert Booth and Haroon Siddique Shortly before 6.30pm on Sunday night, the first cracks appeared in the dam. The largest ever leak of US government classified documents streamed out online, revealing never publicly seen details about Iran, North Korea, Afghanista ...
• ‘All-Out Cyber War’ Erupts Over WikiLeaks: ‘Anonym ...
  December 8th, 2010 Raw Story By: Stephen A. Webster MasterCard Worldwide confirmed on Wednesday morning that the “MasterCard Directory Server” had gone down and that cardholders were experiencing service interruptions. The revelation was made as a massive denial of service attack was staged against ...
• Texas Woman Jailed for Overdue Library Books
  December 8th, 2010 AOL News By: Ben Muessig Authorities threw the book at a woman who had a few overdue library books. Police in Baytown, Texas, say they locked up Jessekah Few last month after the 25-year-old failed to show up in court for a hearing about unreturned library books. “It’s not a very ...
• WikiLeaks Struggles to Stay Online as Hostility Gr ...
  December 8th, 2010 AOL News By: Hugh Collins WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is working to keep his whistle-blower website online and the project funded amid growing hostility from governments and business partners. “The man is a high-tech terrorist,” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. ...

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• Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of the 20 ...
  Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
• March on Washington scheduled for November
  The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
• USA: Black community activist faces possible 10 ye ...
  Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
• Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
  Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...
• Black Congress to convene in D.C. to set black age ...
  As criticisms of President Obama’s war and economic policies mount, the group that first questioned his intentions regarding the concerns of the black community is holding a national Congress to define a black agenda to serve the interests of black p...

War in Context

• Why Assange and Wikileaks have won this round
  Ian Welsh writes: The odd thing about Wikileaks is that their success has been assured, not by what they leaked, though there is some important information there, but by their enemies. The massive and indiscriminant overreaction by both government and powerful corporate actors has ensured this, an ...
• The accusations against Assange
  Kate Harding writes: You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to find the timing of Interpol’s warrant for the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who turned himself in to British authorities today, curious. The charges — “one count of unlawful coercion, two counts of sexual molestation a ...
• How the US and China colluded to undermine Copenha ...
  Der Spiegel reports: Last year’s climate summit in Copenhagen was a political disaster. Leaked US diplomatic cables now show why the summit failed so spectacularly. The dispatches reveal that the US and China, the world’s top two polluters, joined forces to stymie every attempt by European nations ...
• US effort to limit Sadr bloc’s influence in new Ir ...
  Christian Science Monitor reports: The US is warning that it could cut substantial funding to Iraq’s Health, Education, and Transport ministries if the anti-American Sadr bloc is given those cabinet posts in a new government being formed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The comments by a senior ...
• Lying for the State Department
  Is skill in the art of lying a prerequisite for the job of State Department spokesman, or is it just an ability acquired through on-the-job training? James Rubin, State spokesman for the Clinton administration, demonstrated that he retains his fluency in an interview he did this afternoon alongside ...

Watts Up With That?

• Is the warming in the 20th century extraordinary?
  WUWT readers, Figure 4 is noteworthy, because it points out the trend of 20th century warming in context with other periods of warming derived from the ice core record. I suggest you bookmark this post and that graph, as it … Continue reading →
• The Story Told by the Southern Oscillation Index
  Guest post by David Archibald Bob Tisdaleâs post on ENSO on 19th November prompted me to see what I could find in the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) data. The SOI is calculated from the monthly or seasonal fluctuations in the … Continue reading →
• Shredding the “climate consensus” myth ...
  From Climate Depot, read more here INTRODUCTION: More than 1000 dissenting scientists (updates previous 700 scientist report) from around the globe have now challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and … Continue reading →
• Upcoming paper in Nature – Greenland ice she ...
  From the University of British Columbia press office: Greenland ice sheet flow driven by short-term weather extremes, not gradual warming: UBC research Sudden changes in the volume of meltwater contribute more to the acceleration â and eventual loss â of … Continue reading →
• A bill for climate data integrity: The Public Acce ...
  This just in from U.S. Senator David Vitter’s office here’s now the official press release: For Immediate Release Contact: Joel DiGrado (Vitter) (202) 224-4623 December 8, 2010 Emily Lawrimore (Barrasso)  (202) 224-6441 Vitter, Barrasso Introduce Bill to Ensure Open, Accurate NASA Climate … Conti ...

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• Money Is Still the Name of the Game by Michael Par ...
  by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org December 9, 2010 For years certain pundits and political scientists have insisted that money is not all that important in winning elections. Large sums expended on campaigns glean only an extra percentage point or two in votes ...
• Peace in Our Time: Obama’s Munich, Part 1 by ...
  by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com December 8, 2010 Wikileaks is all the rage right now — in two senses.  The substantive rage is among those U.S. people who care about the nefarious and sometimes illegal schemes that its government has perpetrat ...
• Obama’s Bushism by Michael Hudson
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Michael Hudson December 8, 2010 I almost feel naïve for being so angry at President Obama’s betrayal of his campaign promises regarding taxes. I had never harbored much hope that he actually intended to enact the reforms that his supporters expected – not afte ...
• The Road From Dallas, 47 Years Later By Ed Ciaccio
  by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer December 8, 2010 Monday, November 22, 2010, marked the 47th anniversary of a traumatizing historical event which forced many of us who are now aging Baby Boomers to unwillingly accelerate our maturity. To commemorate this event, I read JFK and the Unspea ...
• The Charade of Israeli-Palestinian Talks by Noam C ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Noam Chomsky In These Times December 2, 2010 Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion—excluding Arab East Jerusalem—should go down as one of the most humiliating moments in U.S. di ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

• 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 ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Jonathan Cook: Israel’s racist rabbis
  Jews must not rent homes to “gentiles”. That was the religious decree issued this week by at least 50 of Israel’s leading rabbis, many of them employed by the state as municipal religious leaders.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Anti-Muslim European MPs tour West Bank settlement ...
  Settlement leader: "European countries must understand that without a state of Israel there is no one to stop the Muslim wave from eroding Europe, and without Judea and Samaria, Israel is unable to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• Lamis Andoni: The PA’s ultimate act of resistance
  The idea of dissolving the PA has many supporters - both inside the Palestinian territories and among the Palestinian diaspora. But this must not be a leap in the dark: the Palestinians must be... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• IOA FUNDRAISER: New Website
  Dear IOA readers -- We're approaching the final development phase of an improved IOA website that will enable us to present content more effectively and far more reliably. However, that would only... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Top rabbis move to forbid renting homes to Arabs, ...
  "We don't need to help Arabs set down roots in Israel," Rabbi Shlomo Aviner of the Beit El settlement, said. Aviner explained that he supported the move for two reasons: one, a Jew looking for an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• TsAGI develops vertical take-off UAV for eco-monit ...
  Russia's Central Aerodynamics Institute (TsAGI) is testing a model unmanned air vehicle (UAV) developed at the institute with vertical take-off and landing capability, TsAGI said on Thursday.
• Regional security organization to meet in Moscow
  The foreign and defense ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will meet in Moscow on Thursday to discuss measures to react to crisis situations.
• Bulava missile could be modified for ground launch ...
  Russia's new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) Bulava could be fired from ground-based launchers after a slight modification, its designer Yury Solomonov said.
• Russia ratifies regional security force agreement
  The State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, on Wednesday ratified an agreement establishing a rapid reaction force for the regional security group.
• Russia, India may hold joint military drills annua ...
  The Russian-Indian joint Indra military drills will involve three branches of the armed forces and may be held every year in the future, the chief of the Russian General Staff said on Wednesday.

NewsWise

• Sesame Street Program Improves Development for Chi ...
  Children exposed to Jalan Sesama, an Indonesian version of the children's television show Sesame Street, had improved educational skills and healthy development, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Over a 14-week period, the children who had th ...
• Cancer Prevention Expert Honored for Innovative To ...
  Behavioral scientist and tobacco-cessation expert, Alexander V. Prokhorov, M.D., Ph.D., at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is the recipient of the 2011 American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO) Joseph W. Cullen Memorial Award for Excellence in Tobacco Research.
• Expert Alert - Let It Snow!
  Winter sports such as skating, skiing and snowshoeing are great forms of exercise. But cold temperatures, snow, ice, and fear of injury may discourage some people from getting outside and being active. The following CIHR-supported researchers are available to offer tips on how to enjoy winter sports ...
• For Golfers, Active Warm-Up Beats Passive Stretchi ...
  What's the best way to warm up before a golf match? Performing a passive, static stretching routine before taking practice swings may actually have a negative impact on performance, according to a study in the December issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research jo ...
• Exemestane may be Another First-Line, Adjuvant The ...
  1) Exemestane and anastrozole provide similar control of breast cancer and survival with different side effect profiles; 2) Exemestane may be considered as an alternative, first-line adjuvant therapy.

Natural Health News

• Kitty Tries to Get in Water Bottle
  Wishful thinking does not always lead to success ...
• A Menagerie Chorus of 'Deck the Halls'
  Happy holidays from the animals of YouTube.
• Do Cell Phones Cause Behavioral Problems?
  Researchers have found evidence that when pregnant women use cell phones regularly, their children are more likely to have behavioral problems. The scientists examined data from 28,000 seven year old children and their mothers. �Children whose mothers used cell phones while pregnant were 40 percent ...
• 16 Minutes of Exercise Separates Fit and Unfit Kid ...
  A recent study shows that normal-weight children get an average of 16 more minutes of physical activity a day than their obese peers. �In addition, girls tend to get 20 minutes less physical activity each day than boys do. Normal-weight children are moderately to vigorously active for 59 minutes a ...
• 10 Ways U.S. Dietary Guidelines Should Change
  In June, a 13-member advisory committee gave the U.S. federal government recommendations for what it should do if it really wants to fight obesity.� U.S. News & World Report lists 10 of the key recommendations from the panel's report.� Here are a few of them: Think total diet. A concrete but flexib ...

Antemedius

• Westboro Baptist Church To Protest Elizabeth Edwar ...
  It is a hard thing to have a pluralistic society. It requires a certain level of tolerance for those who don’t seem to be able to restrain themselves to the idea of polite society. Since we all, from time to time, break those constraints it is understood that the price of our forgiveness for doing s ...
• How to Schedule a War: The Incredible Shrinking Wi ...
  Originally published at TomDispatch.com Going, going, gone!� You can almost hear the announcer�s voice throbbing with excitement, only we�re not talking about home runs here, but about the disappearing date on which, for the United States and its military, the Afghan War will officially end. Practic ...
• British Judge Says Julian Assange 'May' Be Release ...
  Assange may be released Peter Wilson, Europe correspondent The Australian, December 09, 2010 12:00AM JULIAN Assange has received a glimmer of hope in his battle against sexual abuse allegations. A British judge says the WikiLeaks founder may be released from jail next week unless Swedish prosecut ...
• Thanksgiving Dinner For Forty (Again)
  This is re-post of my thoughts on Thanksgiving in a giant family. Sorry for the lack of originality but when I sat down to talk about Thanksgiving I found I could not say it any better than I already had. Cheers B- The winter holidays are nearly upon us. This time of year always makes me think of m ...
• Today's Cyber War
  It's not a secret: the Internet was always going to radically change the world of information. That's nothing new. What is new, is that the struggle over who controls and possesses information isn't going to be fought solely in the courts or in the legislatures or the media. It's going to be foug ...

Climategate

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

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• The Hole in the Heart of Judge Bates’ Al-Aulaqi De ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I hope to have more to say in the next few days about Judge Bates’ completely predictable decision to dismiss the ACLU/CCR lawsuit.  I just want to flag here what is the most obvious problem with it.  Judge Bates claims — clearly trying to insulate himsel ...
• [Can-cun or Can’t-Cun? [That [is [not]] [might be ...
  by Dan Bodansky by Dan Bodansky The climate negotiations were cast as a choice last year between Hopenhagen or Nopenhagen, and this year between Can-Cun or Can’t-Cun.  John Ashton, the senior negotiator from the UK Foreign Office, told me yesterday that he sees four possible outcomes here:  momen ...
• Ready. Aim. Click.
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro This message just went out on Twitter: WE ARE ATTACKING WWW.VISA.COM IN AN HOUR! GET YOUR WEAPONS READY http://bit.ly/e6iR3X AND STAY TUNED. #ddos #wikiealsk #payback Sure sounds like war to me.  I have no idea what the weapons actually consist of, but they were app ...
• WikiLeaks Hypocrisy Watch: Library of Congress Edi ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Library of Congress is preventing its employees or visitors using its wireless network from accessing WikiLeaks.  It released the following explanation: The Library decided to block Wikileaks because applicable law obligates federal agencies to protect ...
• Wikileaks Fallout: No Security Clearances for Blog ...
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Well, not quite that broad, but almost.  This letter from career services at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (posted here) is a stunner: Hi students, We received a call today from a SIPA alumnus who is working at the State Department.  He as ...

Investigate - Breaking News

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

My Care2 Picks

• Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied An ...
  Julian Assange�s chief accuser in Sweden has a significant history of work with anti-Castro groups, at least one of which is US funded and openly supported by a former CIA agent convicted in the mass murder of seventy three Cubans on an airliner he was inSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note ...
• Greenpeace sues corporate spies in US
  Greenpeace USA has filed a lawsuit against Dow Chemical, Sasol North America and PR firms Dezenhall Resources and Ketchum, for hiring private investigators to steal documents from Greenpeace, tap our phones and hack into our computers. Submitted by John Farnham to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
• Oil Spill Outrage: How Congress Deprived Cash From ...
  Could Congress have prevented the BP mess? A report reveals that a law enacted after the Exxon Valdez to avoid future oil spills was deprived of cash by lawmakers. Submitted by Hans Mueller to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• On Korea, Here We Go Again!
  If American journalism should have learned one thing over the years, it is to be cautious and skeptical during the first days of a foreign confrontation like the one now playing out on the Korean Peninsula. Often the initial accounts from the �U.S. side� Submitted by Norm C. to US Politics & Gov't ...
• Mossad Criminals Murder Iranian Scientist and Woun ...
  An Iranian nuclear scientist has been killed and another injured in separate attacks in Tehran today. Context against assassinations www.transcend.org/tms/2010/05/the-npt-and-the-nuclear-power-trap/ www.campaigniran.org/casmii/Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Alternative welfare report “superior”
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• Lockerbie bomber Megrahi 'in a coma' | World news ...
  Lockerbie bomber Megrahi 'in a coma' | World news | guardian.co.uk: "The Lockerbie bomber has slipped into a coma, is on life-support and is not expected to recover, it was reported today. 'Everyday... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Lebanese Newspaper Publishes U.S. Cables Not Found ...
  Lebanese Newspaper Publishes U.S. Cables Not Found on WikiLeaks - Max Fisher - International - The Atlantic: "It's unclear how Al Akhbar got the cables, which they say are 'exclusive,' and whether... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Support WikiLeaks and Defend Julian Assange! | Thi ...
  Support WikiLeaks and Defend Julian Assange! | This Can't Be Happening: "The Obama administration has sunk to a new low in pursuing Assange, and is now having its so-called Justice Department try to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• ABC The Drum - Rudd and Arbib duck the North Korea ...
  ABC The Drum - Rudd and Arbib duck the North Korea of the internet: "Like an Advent calendar for journalists ('On the 12th day of Christmas, WikiLeaks gave to me; The love notes of Berlusconi')... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• S.510 is alive and funded by the House!
  S.510 is alive and on its way to a farm near you!
• Chop and Shop Organ Harvesting In the Crosshairs!
  Chop and Shop organ harvesting machines will roam the streets of Manhattan from 4:00pm to midnight searching for prey starting Wednesday.
• 80-square mile kill zone Gulf of Mexico – “It look ...
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• Red or Blue? The Potential Cost of Speaking Out (P ...
  The Wilcox family ordeal began just prior to Halloween when Sherrie’s child was questioned at school without being advised that she had the right to have an advocate in the room with her at the time questioning. Further, the interrogation questions had nothing to with Sherrie Wilcox’s fitness as a m ...
• Geoengineering: Climate Ghouls’ ‘Plan B’
  The UN Climate talks in Cancun are now focusing on geoengineering, using it as a tool to extort a binding UN treaty to reduce phony global warming. The AP reported today that "we may need geoengineering as a 'Plan B,' if nations fail to forge agreement on a binding treaty to rein in greenhouse gases ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - Todd ...
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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 ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

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

Mondoweiss

• Inconceivable– the MSM once reflected an Ara ...
  Muzzlewatch alerts us to this incredible find by Pulse media. This in none other than Time magazine circa '52:“The word 'American' no longer has a good sound in that part of the world [the Middle East]. To catch the Jewish vote in the U.S., President Truman in 1946 demanded that the British admit 1 ...
• The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s perverted stance on ...
  Why does the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) have nothing to say about the�rabbinical edict�circulating in Israel�currently signed by more than four dozen rabbis�forbidding the sale or rental of homes to non-Jews? Or, why has the Center not applauded the�dissenting view�of Israel�s l ...
• ‘The Palestine Cables’: WikiLeaks expo ...
  WikiLeaks has gone from a drip to a torrent, and we need a way to keep up. With this post we inaugurate a new feature at this site. "The Palestine Cables" will be a weekly chronicle/analysis of important revelations bearing on Israel/Palestine that are contained in the ongoing dump of hundreds of t ...
• Why is the White House sending its Iran negotiator ...
  Well because that's where the power is. The permanent Establishment in D.C. has a neoconservative flavor right now, Obama has to truckle to those folks. (Ask me why later.) The Foundation for Defense of Democracies is a neoconservative shop. It takes a hawkish stance on confronting Iran. The Obama ...
• US’s greatest contribution to the peace proc ...
  In light of the US failure to broker an Israeli settlement freeze, it's clear to me now that the single most valuable contribution the United States has made to the cause of Middle East peace over the last two years was taking on the issue of settlements. If it had "won", direct talks would [...]

Vaccine Resistance Movement

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

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• Geotags and Social Networking
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• INSIDE THE INFERNO: Book Delivery Update
  My friends,� Quick update on INFERNO, our latest and biggest book project: it�s nearing completion. I�m reviewing final pages with photographs this week. But, I'm sorry to say, we won�t quite have it ready for Christmas. �A project like this takes a small army to see through. It has been a huge un ...
• For Thai Readers
  03 December 2010 Merry Christmas Thailand!� I see Christmas decorations in Bangkok and Chiang Mai.� (Though it might be strange for Buddhists.)� I've also seen many Christmas decorations in places like Hanoi, Singapore, and even Jakarta. Two articles featuring my work are in the October and Decemb ...
• The Kopp-Etchells Effect
  17 August 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan The roads are so littered with enemy bombs that nearly all transport and resupply to this base occurs by helicopter.� The pilots roar through the darkness, swoop into small bases nestled in the saddle of enemy territory, and quickly rumble off into the night. A ...
• PFC Bradley Manning's Charge Sheet
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The Killing Train

• Spinning the leaks
  My daily routine these days includes going to the Wikileaks twitter feed (twitter.com/wikileaks), which took me to this story in the UK Guardian about how Saudi Arabia proposed an Arab force to invade Lebanon. The Guardian is definitely the best site on the Wikileaks, and for data in general - they ...
• Wikileaks Cablegate
  The US Embassy cables put out by Wikileaks are not the truth. Even though I knew it, a part of me was disappointed at how ideological some of the cables were. Take #09TELAVIV1060, "Rep. Wexler discusses Iran with IDF Intelligence". The entire discussion is about the threat posed by Iran to Israel. E ...
• Would anyone be unhappy if Tom Flanagan disappeare ...
  I know I wouldn't... and no, I don't think it's manly. I think it's disgusting.
• Wikileaks Cablegate! Panamanians hope for a succes ...
  I was just peeking around Wikileaks's Cablegate (cablegate.wikileaks.org). This looks like the real thing folks! Take a look at this 1989 cable on Panama for example: http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/1989/12/89PANAMA8545.html SUBJECT: PANAMANIANS HOPE FOR A SUCCESSFUL COUP More analysis to foll ...
• Political theory interlude
  Manuel suggested I read Norberto Bobbio, an Italian socialist writer on democracy. So I picked up his "Which Socialism?" In it, Bobbio argues that there's no necessary connection between democracy and socialism. Contrary to what socialists would like to believe, democracy doesn't automatically happe ...

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 ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Burma ‘fourth biggest jail’ for journalists
  Number of journalists imprisoned worldwide climbs to 14-year high as New York-based watchdog laments 'war against information'
• David Mathieson: ‘War crimes are happening&# ...
  Refugees continue to move back and forth across Burma’s border with Thailand as fighting in Karen state shows no sign of abating. Thai authorities have been criticised for treating those who fled like ‘ping pong balls’, refusing them sanctuary and forcing their return. But although it’s a complex si ...
• Naypyidaw gem fair nets $1.4bn
  Majority of the traders from overseas as record sales point to buoyancy of a market sanctioned by the US and EU
• Suu Kyi’s son returns home
  Mother and son part
• ‘Hacked’ corpses of Karen troops found
  Bodies of six captured KNU/KNLA Peace Council found with machete marks as fighting intensifies close to Burma's border with Thailand

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Chris Huhne stays at Cancun key climate change tal ...
  Energy and Climate Change Secretary hits out at his predecessor Ed Miliband for putting politics ahead of saving the planet.
• Cancun climate change summit: Chris Huhne attacks ...
  Chris Huhne, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, has hit out at his predecessor Ed Miliband for putting politics ahead of saving the planet.
• Cancun Climate Change Conference: the Diary
  The inside story from the United Nations climate change talks in Cancun, Mexico.
• Cancun climate change conference: Britain is urged ...
  British taxpayers could pay an extra £600 per year in green taxes to help poor countries cope with the floods and droughts caused by climate change, Lord Stern has suggested.
• Cancun climate change conference: Ban Ki-moon urge ...
  Ban Ki-moon, the head of the United Nations, has made an impassioned plea for the world to agree a new deal on climate change warning that "nature will not wait while we negotiate".

National Geographic | Environment

• Ten Weirdest New Animals of 2010: Editors' Picks
  NoneA fish with "hands," a T. Rex leech, and a self-cloning lizard are among National Geographic News's picks for the weirdest new species in 2010.
• Ten NatGeo News Stories You Might Have Missed in 2 ...
  NoneSee our editors' picks of the best stories of 2010 that flew under the radar, including space-time "wrinkles" and squid plastic surgery.
• PHOTOS: "Alarming" Amazon Drought—River Hits New L ...
  NoneA megadrought has gripped the Amazon, drying up rivers and cutting off thousands of forest communities dependent on boat traffic for survival.
• Global Warming Burning Lakes?
  Lake temperatures are rising much faster than air temperatures in many places around the world, and the fate of freshwater species hangs in the balance.
• Exxon Valdez Lessons Applied in Gulf Coast Cleanup
  Sand oiled by the Gulf of Mexico spill is cleaned and returned to beaches, a technique used to avoid repeating mistakes made after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster. Video.

Jurist - Legal Research

• House approves bill preventing US trial of Guantan ...
  [JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] voted 212-206 [roll call vote] Wednesday in favor of a defense spending bill [HR 3082] that includes a provision preventing Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees from being transferred to the US for trial. The legislation would blo ...
• South Korea says Facebook not complying with data ...
  [JURIST] A South Korean regulator said Wednesday that Facebook [website; JURIST news archive] is not in compliance with the nation's data privacy laws and must more earnestly seek consent from users before accessing their personal information. The Korean Communications Commission [official website] ...
• ACLU appeals CIA rendition case to Supreme Court
  [JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Tuesday filed an appeal [cert. petition, PDF; press release] with the US Supreme Court [official website] to overturn a ruling dismissing its suit over the CIA's extraordinary rendition program [JURIST news archive]. In a Septe ...
• France court begins trial of Chilean officials ove ...
  [JURIST] A French court began proceedings in absentia Wednesday against 14 former Chilean officials over the disappearance of four French citizens during the regime of Augusto Pinochet [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. The defendants are primarily high-ranking military officers, including former d ...
• Supreme Court mulls Arizona immigration employment ...
  [JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; merit briefs] Wednesday in Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting [oral arguments transcript, PDF; JURIST report] on whether an Arizona statute imposing sanctions on employers that hire illegal immigra ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

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

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Send Wikileaks Some Love (and Cash)
  Blogs like this one could not exist without sources like Wikileaks.  I have had my own Bradley Mannings provide invaluable information which they and I deemed to be vital for my readers to know.  Information which governments and intelligence services like Israel, the Mossad and Shabak did not any ...
• What’s That Giant Sucking Sound? Peace Talks Goin ...
  With a nod to Ross Perot…It’s the sound of the Obama administration pulling the plug on the Israeli settlement freeze extension and peace talks.  Pres. Obama leaves it to a big news day (another failure disguised as a victory) to announce a major foreign policy failure, that he’s given up on his v ...
• Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
  MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
• Moskowitz-Kahane Prize for Settler Zionism
  Dr. Irving Moskowitz, bingo king, hospital mogul and settler real estate magnate, today issued a call for nominations for the 2011 Moskowitz-Kahane Prize for Zionism. Candidates must be true believers in Jewish supremacy over all of Biblical Israel and be proficient in Krav Maga and all aspects of A ...
• Israel’s Jim Crow
  I was listening a few days ago to a riveting radio documentary (hear the audio) about the 1950s era execution of Willie McGee, a Mississippi African-American accused of raping a white woman.  McGee’s niece, decades after his death, makes a deathbed promise to her mother, McGee’s sister, to get to t ...

Ode Magazine

• True peace in the smallest place
  By: PeaceCorso The Science of Mind has been a relative mainstay in my spiritual practice for many years. Its founder, Ernest Holmes, was a great mind. His goal was to integrate science and the depths of humankind. That’s why I like this quote: "When we c ...
• Time to call our bluff
  By: Peter Merry bluff, to deceive or seek to deceive by concealment of weakness or show of self-confidence or threats (orig. in poker to conceal poor cards). - call someone’s bluff to expose or challenge someone’s bluff (Chambers Concise Dictionary) “Words oug ...
• Keeping it local to rebuild shattered lives
  By: Amanda_TWW A British expatriate, Figen Cakir has lived in Turkey for nearly two decades. She experienced first hand the devastation the Golcuk earthquake had on her community in 1999. More than a decade after, the local people are still rebuilding their lives, ...
• California dreaming becomes a reality
  How Alvarado Street Bakery went from hippie collective to commercially successful co-op. Alvarado Street Bakery makes quality products with co-operative values.Photo: MJ Wickham Alvarado Street Bakery traces its roots to the Red Clover Worker’s Brigade, a 1970s Northern Califo ...
• A planet is a terrible thing to waste
  Why caring about the ecosystem means caring for the ecosystem. A recent conversation with a friend got me thinking. This friend had just returned from a conference on species survival and habitat preservation. While there, he learned, to his great surprise, that among a small subset of s ...

OpEd News

• More on Obama's Capitulation and Betrayal
  Obama's shameless capitulation to wealth and power
• PHOTO-POEM: If Tiger Woods Lived in Sweden
  Imagine if Tiger Woods had been sowing his wild oats in Sweden. Not only would he not get to swing any big phallic golf clubs for quite a while, but he might never even get out of prison if the same level of severity were to be applied to him as to Julian Assange!
• The Hidden Cost of Capitulation
  Now that the president has signaled yet another collapse in agreeing to tax cuts for the rich, there is a hidden cost to this capitulation. He is now stuck defending this deal for the rest of his term. I predicted this on the show yesterday and today it's playing out exactly the way I imagined, with ...
• Dysfunctional People, Dysfunctional Government
  Tea Party activists project their own unresolved negative emotions on to the government. Their anger is a cover-up for their own emotional issues. Good government needs smart, wise, insightful citizens.
• Amnesia As A Way Of Life: WikiLeaks Amid The "Care ...
  Lamentably, the US Empire, as was the case with any imperium throughout history, has grown into a bloated abomination kept provisionally alive by self-deluded apparatchik and ignorant killers. What can one do about the situation, other than try to get out of the way of this wounded giant and stand c ...

Switchboard

• A recovering engineer posts a photo of "sustainabi ...
  Regular readers will know that I'm a fan of Chuck Marohn's Strong Towns Blog.� Recently he has been taking some polite (he's a midwesterner to the core, or so it seems in his writing) shots at the engineering profession, of which he is a member.� Chuck believes that many engineers do n ...
• A Water Agenda for Governor Brown - Involving the ...
  A broad range of stakeholders in California have a fundamental interest in the state’s water policies.  Yet in the past, a few interests have often played a dominant role in shaping the state’s water policies.  (No one has better chronicled the role of the powerful few than Marc Reisne ...
• India Climate Change and Energy News - Week of Nov ...
  Climate Change India Says Climate Talks Moving from Global Treaty “United Nations climate talks in Mexico are moving away from a global treaty, and nations should focus more on what they can be doing domestically to prevent climate change, India’s environment minister said…. ‘An int ...
• Major U.S. Businesses and Military Leaders call fo ...
  Major U.S. businesses and military leaders sent public letters to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton calling for leadership on global climate finance.  They are calling for the US to make the needed critical investments in assisting developing countries in dep ...
• Deepwater Wind Submits Plans to DOI for America's ...
  Today, Deepwater Wind announced plans to build two offshore wind projects in the US. The first plan proposed is a 5-8 turbine demonstration offshore wind project close to Block Island, as a replacement to a previously announced 100 turbine, 350 MW project. The second, named the Deepwat ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• South Korea Raises
  Words, words, words: South Korea will swiftly and strongly respond with force until North Korea surrenders if the communist state launches another assault, the South’s new defence minister said. Kim Kwan-Jin issued the warning on Saturday, during his inauguration speech after President Lee Myung-Bak ...
• Inter-Service Rivalry
  This week’s Over the Horizon column is about inter-service rivalry: Because different services perform different missions, not all contribute equally to certain grand strategic tasks: The Royal Navy’s contribution to the counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan is severely limited, while the British arm ...
• A working class hero was something to be
  Thirty years ago tonight John Lennon was murdered by a mentally ill fan. By a simple twist of fate the story was broken by sportscaster Howard Cosell during a ABC Monday Night Football telecast. After the shooting police responding to the scene took Lennon to a nearby emergency room, where an ABC ...
• You Are the Sucker, Susan Collins Edition
  Nobody possibly could have predicted that getting Susan Collins’s “support” for DADT would involve procedural compromises that would allow the explicit repeal opponents in her conference to kill the bill.    Certainly, we haven’t seen this before. Related posts:The Susan problem Never Give A Su ...
• This “it” may be the “that&#8221 ...
  I confess that it’s Week Ten in the UC system, and as such, I’m swamped with the duties that make me a responsible teacher.  But as a cancer survivor myself, I can’t let this pass. In his post about her dying words, Donald Douglas writes: The story’s trending at Memeorandum. And at ABC News, “Eli ...

Desert Research Institute

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

Earth Techling

• DIY Designer to Electrify Reverse Trike
• Illegal Beijing Egg House Solar Powered
• Offshore Wind Power Potential 212 GW?
• Fighting Climate Change Google Style
• Swanky New LA Mega Mansion Seeks LEED

National Law Journal | U.S.

• SOCIAL MEDIA: How can I motivate my attorneys to b ...
  Far too many law blogs appear, have one post, and then sit idle for months afterwards. Adrian Dayton offers advice to managing partners who want to kickstart their firms' blog presence.
• Toyota stages second dress rehearsal on eve of cou ...
  A federal judge issued tentative orders Wednesday mainly rejecting Toyota Motor Corp.'s motions to dismiss lawsuits alleging that defects in vehicles caused them to suddenly accelerate, resulting in injuries and death.
• An appellate challenge to law barring federal empl ...
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit heard arguments on Dec. 8 about the constitutionality of a federal law barring men who failed to register for the draft by age 26 from federal employment.
• Court appears sympathetic to Arizona in immigratio ...
  Arizona's crackdown on employers who hire unauthorized aliens won sympathy and support from a number of justices during Supreme Court arguments Wednesday in a challenge to the Granite state's immigration law.
• Attorney disciplined for hiring prostitute

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

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

News Blaze

• WHO to Produce Standard Terminologies for Traditio ...
  The World Health Organization (WHO) is set to develop the first-ever global information standards for traditional medicine. It will be a primary source of health care for many people in parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin American, and is increasingly
• Public Funeral For Elizabeth Edwards
  A representatives for the Edwards family confirmed that the service will be held at the Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh, where the Edwards family worshiped. The funeral will be open to the public.
• U.S. Gives Up on Settlement Freeze Push
  The U.S. had attempted for three weeks to persuade Netanyahu's right-wing cabinet to accept a 90-day freeze, at one point discussing 20 F-35 as a deal-sweetener, but to no avail.
• Allegations of Fraud During Election Trigger Viole ...
  According to media reports, thousands of protesters rampaged through the streets of Port-au-Prince, the capital, setting fire to the headquarters of the ruling government coalition, which they accused of rigging the results, after Tuesday's announc
• Appsolute Media Announces Free iPhone/iPad App fo ...
  'Celebrity Dead or Alive' is the only celebrity quiz game that allows people to test their knowledge of who's still walking the red carpet and who's pushing up daisies.

environment 360

• Growth of Cloud Computing Will Yield Large Reducti ...
  The rapid growth of cloud computing could reduce energy usage in the global information technology industry by 38 percent by 2020, according to a new report. Cloud computing refers to Internet-based computing in which data and applications are shared between computers on demand, rather than hosted o ...
• Interview: The U.S. Military is Moving to Cut Its ...
  When it comes to energy consumption, no single part of the U.S. government comes close to the Defense Department, with military operations accounting for about 80 percent of total federal energy use. Pentagon Department of DefenseSharon Burke leaders say this reliance on fossil fuels is a threat to ...
• New Mission for U.S. Military: Breaking its Depend ...
  As head of a new energy office at the Pentagon, Sharon Burke is charged with finding ways for the U.S. armed forces to cut its dangerous reliance on oil. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, she talks about what new technologies are being tested and why the military considers energy use a key ...
• Common Earthworms Used to Remove Toxic Metals from ...
  Scientists in South America are exploring the use of common earthworms to clean contaminated soil and liquids at former industrial sites and landfills. According to a study published in the International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, earthworms, which process waste and soil in gardens, hav ...
• Is the End in Sight for The World’s Coral Reefs?
  It is a difficult idea to fathom. But the science is clear: Unless we change the way we live, the Earth's coral reefs will be utterly destroyed within our children's lifetimes. BY J.E.N. VERON

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• Color-coded terror alerts may end
  The Homeland Security Department is proposing to discontinue the color-coded terror alert system that became a symbol of the country’s post-9/11 jitters and the butt of late-night talk show jokes.The system’s demise would not be the end of terror alerts; instead, the alerts would become more descrip ...
• Private space capsule launched
  A private US capsule that could soon be hauling cargo and even astronauts to the space station has launched on its first demonstration flight. The Dragon ship launched from Florida on a Falcon 9 rocket at 1543GMT (1043 EST). The capsule separated about 10 minutes after launch and has reached orbit, ...
• Critically Important Cable #048489 being buried by ...
  Deflecting blame: The State Department and WikiLeaks Much has been reported about the details of the cables that were sent from US embassies around the world to the state department in Washington - the content ranging from the highly informative to what some ex-diplomats describe as little more than ...
• Haiti cholera likely from UN troops, expert says
  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 Tuesday by The Associated Press. Epidemiologist Renaud Piarroux concluded that the cholera originated in a tributary of Haiti’s Arti ...
• Why Earth may be entering a new Ice Age
  All data points to the sun as the primary source of short-term and long term climate change on Earth. While volcanic eruptions such as the current one in Iceland can affect short-term weather conditions over a region, planetary climate is governed by solar activity-or lack of it. The first inkling t ...

Russia Today

• Claims WHO is massively underestimating global mal ...
  New research shows malaria kills more than 13 times the number of people in India than currently estimated by the World Health Organization, prompting questions over whether WHO has miscalculated global death rates from...
• Police seize internet-linked grenade launcher
  Police in central Russia are investigating a bizarre suspected assassination plot with a radio-controlled grenade launcher equipped with a webcam.
• Fast and furious: highway hijack Hollywood-style
  A group of robbers arrested in Central Russia for taking cargo from trucks while on the move, said they were inspired by similar antics in the Hollywood flick “The Fast and the Furious” starring Vin Diesel.
• Traffic torture
  Moscow's miles of traffic jams snake back as far as the eye can see. In the midst, a lot of angry drivers fighting off road rage. If you want to get anywhere, you had better plan an early start.
• Russian spies: UK media like them spicy
  Another Russian femme fatale has found herself at the center of a Bond-style spy scandal. The UK media are gripped by the spicy details of the drama involving the 25-year-old, dubbed the Russian Sex Bomb, and British MP...

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

• Falcon and Dragon Soar
  After much gnashing and gritting of teeth, SpaceX’s second Falcon 9 and first Dragon launched at 10:43 a.m. EST to what become an event for the history books: SpaceX launched the Dragon spacecraft from Florida on a two-orbit test flight Wednesday, and the company brought the automated capsule back t ...
• SpaceX to attempt Dragon launch
  From Spaceflightnow: SpaceX plans to launch a robotic space capsule, fly it around the world two times, then order the craft back home Wednesday in a whirlwind test flight to demonstrate the ship’s readiness to NASA. The Falcon 9 rocket fired its nine Merlin first stage engines Saturday during a pre ...
• The Church of the Proper Altar
  From Wired: A NASA spokesperson has dismissed a major critique of the Science arsenic bug paper based not on the criticism’s merits, but on its venue — it appeared in a blog rather than a peer-reviewed journal. Apparently ideas are valid (or not) based not on their content, or even the reputation of ...
• NASA Mono Lake Discussion about “alien&#8221 ...
  On December 2nd, 2010, NASA scientists released a press conference about discovering “alien” life in Mono Lake, California. This life-form, instead of incorporating phosphorus into its DNA structure incorporated arsenic instead, which is a deadly poison to most life-forms on Earth, (including us!). ...
• Falcon 9 Static Fire 2 a Success
  On December 3rd, 2010 SpaceX attempted a static fire test of all nine Falcon 9 engines on it’s second rocket with the first Dragon capsule to be launched December 7th, 2010. The first attempt was aborted because of excessive chamber pressure in one of the engines and in spite of the rapid recycling ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

• AIG Says It Will Repay Fed
  “Insurance giant American International Group on Wednesday formalized plans to pay off its debt to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and set the stage for the Treasury Department to sell a significant portion of its stake in the firm early next year.” (Washington Post) Donât be distracted: AIGâs ...
• Economic Package Heads Toward Senate Debate
  “Senate leaders are planning to begin debate on a far-reaching tax package as soon as Thursday as rank-and-file Democrats warm to an agreement between the White House and Republicans to extend a host of expiring tax cuts and pump fresh cash into the economy.” (Washington Post) Theyâre all Keynesians ...
• Consumerism Is Keynesianism
  One of the most pernicious and widespread economic fallacies is the belief that consumption is the key to a healthy economy.
• The Cutting Edge of Censorship
  Someone – someone very important – doesn’t like what Wikileaks is doing. So, Senator Joe Lieberman (?-Conn.) asked Amazon.com whether it had kicked Wikileaks off their server right after Wikileaks’s publication of thousands of classified US diplomatic cables. It turns out, they “had” – right after h ...
• Washington Unemployment Falls
  “The unemployment rate in the Washington region dropped to 5.8 percent in October from 6.3 percent a year ago, according to federal government data released Tuesdayâ¦. The region is seeing an influx of young people taking jobs in the federal government and contracting sector, boosting the economy by ...

Teaching Online Journalism

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

Facing South

• Affordable housing projects in New Orleans rise or ...
  By Ariella Cohen, The Lens Even as President Barack Obama agrees to keep Bush-era tax cuts, a consensus is still lacking on an extension of tax credits needed to rebuild New Orleans' Big Four housing developments, as well as other Gulf Coast complexes. Tucked away in the massive tax bill Obama ...
• Scientists call for a deeper look at coal ash cont ...
  This month marks two years since a coal ash holding pond collapsed at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in Roane County, Tenn., sending a billion gallons of waste laden with arsenic, lead and other toxic contaminants into a nearby community and the Clinch and Emory rivers. ...
• Proposed North Carolina voter ID law: A modern-day ...
  In 1898, when North Carolina Democrats seized control of the state legislature, one of their first steps was to pass an amendment to the state constitution requiring that voters pass a literacy test and pay a poll tax before they could vote. Then campaigning on a platform of "white supremacy, ...
• Stimulus freed big polluters from following key en ...
  Some of the nation's biggest polluters including BP and Duke Energy won exemptions from a basic environmental law under the Obama administration's economic stimulus, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity: The administration has awarded more than 179,000 "categorical exclus ...
• VOICES: Oil spill response bill may not survive in ...
  By Stephen Bradberry, Bridge the Gulf As the 111th Congress of the United States of America draws to a close there is a unique opportunity for assisting the ongoing struggle for full recovery of the Gulf Coast. The region, battered by the 2005 hurricane season, which was led by Hurricane Katrina ...

Worldpress - Africa

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

Canadian Encyclopedia

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

How Can I Recycle This ?

• Recycled Christmas decorations – our favouri ...
  There are lots of ways to make recycled Christmas decorations by reusing waste paper, scrap fabric, or random other things from around the home and garden – and they’re certainly not all just for kids. Here are some of our favourites: Want to have a starry, starry night? Use twigs from the garden to ...
• Recycled into Jewellery – more beautiful ite ...
  With all the buy-stuff events coming up over the next couple of months – and because it’s generally wonderful and inspiring, I thought it was high time we had another look around the world of upcycled jewellery – the stuff people are making by reusing and recycling random things that would otherwise ...
• Great reusing and recycling ideas from November
  Here’s some of my favourite comments left on the site over the last month in case you missed them first time around. First up, props to everyone who left comments on our post about how to get into the habit of taking packed lunches – great answers from everyone: Bellen, Alice, Alexis, carol, Bobbie, ...
• Recycled Christmas – upcycle trash into hand ...
  Perhaps it’s just the blogs I read but it seems like more people than ever are thinking of making gifts this Christmas. There are lots of suggestions out there for making biscuits, cakes or jams, or knitting or crocheting something pretty — but if you’re after a truly frugal Christmas, all those ing ...
• How can I reuse or recycle old duvets?
  We’ve covered sheets & valances and feathers & down – but not intact duvets themselves. I was thinking about duvets last week – not just because I spent much of Thursday wrapped up in one and the rest of the week wishing I was wrapped up in one, but also because I saw this insulating [...]

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• Inconceivable– the MSM once reflected an Ara ...
  Muzzlewatch alerts us to this incredible find by Pulse media. This in none other than Time magazine circa '52:“The word 'American' no longer has a good sound in that part of the world [the Middle East]. To catch the Jewish vote in the U.S., President Truman in 1946 demanded that the British admit 1 ...
• The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s perverted stance on ...
  Why does the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) have nothing to say about the�rabbinical edict�circulating in Israel�currently signed by more than four dozen rabbis�forbidding the sale or rental of homes to non-Jews? Or, why has the Center not applauded the�dissenting view�of Israel�s l ...
• ‘The Palestine Cables’: WikiLeaks expo ...
  WikiLeaks has gone from a drip to a torrent, and we need a way to keep up. With this post we inaugurate a new feature at this site. "The Palestine Cables" will be a weekly chronicle/analysis of important revelations bearing on Israel/Palestine that are contained in the ongoing dump of hundreds of t ...
• Why is the White House sending its Iran negotiator ...
  Well because that's where the power is. The permanent Establishment in D.C. has a neoconservative flavor right now, Obama has to truckle to those folks. (Ask me why later.) The Foundation for Defense of Democracies is a neoconservative shop. It takes a hawkish stance on confronting Iran. The Obama ...
• US’s greatest contribution to the peace proc ...
  In light of the US failure to broker an Israeli settlement freeze, it's clear to me now that the single most valuable contribution the United States has made to the cause of Middle East peace over the last two years was taking on the issue of settlements. If it had "won", direct talks would [...]

Media Consortium

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

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Dispute over carbon offsets continues in Cancun
  Tensions over a class of common refrigerants have increased this week in Cancun, thanks to pressure from activist groups and a recent European Commission proposal to ban hydrofluorocarbon-23 emissions from its domestic offset market beginning in 2013. Those offsets - funneled through the Clean D ...
• SpaceX's Dragon capsule succesfully launches, key ...
  Commercial spaceflight achieved a major milestone with the launch of Space Exploration Technology Corp.'s (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket at 10:43 a.m. EST on 8 December. The rocket carries the company's Dragon capsule, a reusable spacecraft intended to ferry astronauts, supplies, and research materials to ...
• Research trip to the Antarctic: Tracking giant pet ...
  Posted on behalf of Jane Qiu Science journalist Jane Qiu is at the Palmer ecological research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, joining researchers investigating how climate change has affected the region in recent decades. Please check back for her dispatches from the bottom of the world. J ...
• Republican leadership nominates committee chairs f ...
  Republican leadership voted to recommend Fred Upton of Michigan for the chairmanship of the powerful US House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday, ending a long-shot bid by the conservative Joe Barton of Texas (Bloomberg). Upton is a more moderate Republican who has endorsed the science of ...
• Cancun talks rumble on amid mixed messages
  Yesterday the word came down from one environmental group: The latest deforestation text was out at the climate talks in Cancun, and all but a few outstanding issues had been resolved, paving the way for a deal by the global environment ministers that take over this week. A deal on deforestation cou ...

new geography

• Education Wars: The New Battle For Brains
  The end of stimulus � as well as the power shift�in Congress � will have a profound effect on which regions and states can position themselves for the longer-term recovery. Nowhere will this be more critical than in the battle for brains. In the past, and the present, places have competed for smart ...
• The Financial Crisis Continues to be an Inside Job
  Over the weekend I saw the documentary movie Inside Job with a friend who is not a financial markets expert. After the show, I told her I was relieved to see that the movie covered the majority of the causes of the collapse of the financial markets in 2008. Part of my relief was from thinking that e ...
• I Opt-out of California
  Like the harried traveler who made famous the expression, “Don’t touch my junk”, I have elected my own personal protest, California style. I have decided to OPT-OUT of California to protest my overgrown state government. I am tired of California legislators sticking their hands in my pants to pay fo ...
• Retro Rail Alert
  The New Zealand Government recently decided to follow the example of Montreal and Toronto by amalgamating the six City councils and the single Regional Council of the Auckland Region to create a united “Super City” of 1.4 million people. Like similar amalgamated bodies, the new Auckland Council, w ...
• Florida Goes Underground
  By Richard Reep Last year’s report that Florida had lost people marked a new low in our state’s boom-and-bust history. But this autumn’s news seems to surpass even that sorry milestone with a combination of sluggish tourism, empty state coffers, and a reputation as one of the top real estate fore ...

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• International coalition calls on Gates Foundation ...
• Leaked cables reveal GMO, agrofuel agendas
• Judge orders sugar beets pulled from soil
• GM proposal could face legal challenge
• Wikileaks document pushes GM food for African coun ...
  1. Wikileaks document pushes genetically modified food for African countries 2. Wikileaks: State Dept. wants intel on African acceptance of GMOs EXCERPT: It's ... a shame to see that our spymasters are actively engaged in efforts to make the world safe for Monsanto. Aren't there better things for t ...

spiked

• Fees debate: what next for the ‘Harry Potter ...
  The militant and lively student protests against university fees could soon be exhausted without some clearer political objectives to guide them.
• It’s Christmas, so watch out for rapists
  A Xmas-hooked ad campaign designed to raise awareness about illegal cabs is exploiting women’s fear of rape.
• Creating a society of armchair snoops
  By encouraging the public to monitor CCTV footage, a new website promises to turn us all into armchair snoops.
• Ceci n’est pas une cigarette
  What is the anti-smoking lobby’s response to a harmless pretend-cigarette? It wants to ban it, of course.
• Jonathan Franzen: the Great American Malthusian
  Franzen’s deep misanthropy prevents Freedom from being a good novel: his characters’ lack of nobility means they just aren’t interesting.

Cryptogon

• U.S. Treasuries Sell Off
  Monitoring… Via: Reuters: Treasury prices plunged on Wednesday for a second straight day, pushing benchmark yields to a six-month high, after a deal in Washington to extend tax cuts fueled fears of inflation and a swelling budget deficit. The sharp dip in prices brought some buyers to the table in a ...
• U.S. Tells Uganda: Consult Us Before Using Intelli ...
  Via: Guardian: The US told Uganda to let it know when the army was going to commit war crimes using American intelligence â but did not try to dissuade it from doing so, the US embassy cables suggest. America was supporting the Ugandan government in its fight against rebel movement the Lord’s Resist ...
• Shell Claimed it Inserted Staff Into Main Ministri ...
  Standard operating procedure. Via: Guardian: The oil giant Shell claimed it had inserted staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government, giving it access to politicians’ every move in the oil-rich Niger Delta, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable. The company’s top executive in N ...
• Steve Wozniak: ‘We’ve Lost a Lot of Co ...
  Via: CNN: The world has mostly caught on to Steve Wozniak’s vision of having a computer in every home. But this digital lifestyle can sometimes turn rotten, he said last week. Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs and designed, programmed and built some of the world’s first personal computer ...
• Saudi Arabia: U.S. TV Effective for Countering Jih ...
  In summary, the U.S. military is aware that “American Culture” is a strategic weapon that is capable of defeating an enemy, or entire populations, without necessarily having to kill them. The U.S. military, however, must and will kill in order to allow “American Culture” into a society in order to r ...

The Economic Collapse

• 12 Facts That Will Blow Your Mind – Federal ...
  Do you remember the days when getting elected to Congress or choosing to work for the government was referred to as "public service"?  The idea was that you would be making a sacrifice for the greater good of the country.  Well, those days are long gone.  Today, getting elected to C ...
• America’s Message To The Rest Of The World: ...
  Have you ever seen pictures of extravagant wealth from places such as Dubai or Abu Dhabi and wondered where in the world they got all that money from?  Have you ever read news stories that talk about China lending us hundreds of billions of dollars and wondered how they could possib ...
• Could The Financial Crisis Erupting In Ireland, Po ...
  The Irish banking system is melting down right in front of our eyes.  Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Spain are all drowning in debt.  It is becoming extremely expensive for all of those nations to issue new debt.  Officials all over Europe are begging Ireland to accept a bailout.  Po ...
• How In The World Did We Get To The Point Where The ...
  Ben Bernanke and the rest of the folks over at the Federal Reserve did not just wake up one day and decide that they wanted to start printing hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air.  The truth is that the economic forces that have brought us to this point have taken decades ...
• Why Democrats And Republicans Are Both Wrong About ...
  All over the Internet, Republican pundits are declaring that extending the Bush tax cuts will save the economy and Democrat pundits are declaring that ending the Bush tax cuts will save the economy. Well, you know what? Nothing will save the U.S. economy. The U.S. government is g ...

Desertification

• Sunset in my winter garden (Willem van Cotthem)
  Anywhere on this planet, the beauty of plants and animals in a garden is food for the soul. Therefore, from time to time, I post pictures of plants and animals in my own garden. I like to share these with … Continue reading →
• “Drastic” land reforms are needed in N ...
  Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=91313 NEPAL: Land tenure reforms “urgently needed” “Drastic” land reforms that give more rights to poor families who labour on others’ land are needed in Nepal to stave off hunger among the poorest and boost agricultural production, … Continue r ...
• UN European Launch of the UNDDD – INVITATION ...
  Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List Invitation to the European Launch of the UN Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification (2010-2020) Date: 16 December 2010 Place: Faraday House Auditorium, 48-51 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AE. … Continue readi ...
• Urgent help for thousands of people at risk follow ...
  Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?Reportid=91320 SOMALIA: Thousands at risk as severe drought hits Mudug Local leaders have appealed for urgent help for thousands of people at risk following a severe drought in Somalia’s central region of Mudug. “We had very little … Continue reading →
• Glacier shrinkage and water adaptation strategies ...
  Read at : UN News Centre http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=36983&Cr=climate+change&Cr1= Water adaptation strategies urgently needed to counter glacier shrinkage â UN official The United Nations environment chief is calling for the urgent development of adaptation strategies ranging from u ...

The Paper Trail

• GOP Conference Chooses House Chairmen
  The House Republican Conference met today to select committee chairmen for the 112th Congress, which begins in January. A month ago, the Center for Public Integrity examined the men most likely to take over these key panels in the new GOP-led U.S. House of Representatives.
• Reform Reading:  Debit Card Use Up 15 Percent ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
• Reform Reading: Senator Asks Fed for Details of Lo ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
• Lawyer Group To Examine Ethical Pitfalls Raised in ...
  The American Bar Association says it is studying whether third-party investment in lawsuits, in the form of loans to lawyers or financing arrangements with their clients, may run afoul of ethical rules governing attorney conduct.
• Reform Reading: JPMorgan CEO Not Embarrassed to be ...
  A roundup of news and commentary to help consumers monitor the transparency and accountability of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.

backofthebook.ca

• A little 4Chan justice for Mastercard
  By Frank Moher So 4Chan has finally found something useful to do with all its suppressed testerone and brought down the Mastercard site, in retaliation for the credit card company's decision to stop processing donations to WikiLeaks. They've also apparently done some serious damage to PayPal (for ...
• The Revolution Has Been Postponed
  by Eric Pettifor Last year I predicted that a small revolution in web apps would occur thanks to the introduction of Google Chrome OS, and may have implied that this would have a negative effect on the iPhone. I also expressed the opinion that if all went well with the ...
• Afghanistan worsens for women
  Photo: Afghan women students at Kabul University, 1995 By Alison@Creekside Speaking to his fellow members of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights last week at a meeting which heard that the situation for Afghan women has considerably worsened over the last two years, Lib MP Mario Sil ...
• Canada’s favourite torturers
  By Alison@Creekside CBC: "The Canadian Forces have for years arrested children suspected of working with the Taliban and handed them over to an Afghan security unit accused of torture. The document, obtained under an Access to Information request and marked 'secret,' shows that Defence Ministe ...
• Jack up the crazy: Courtney Love’s reality s ...
  by Rachel Krueger This is what we’re doing now, Universe?  It’s not enough that Snooki has a book deal and that the Bieber-fetus has a biopic.  We’re giving Courtney Love a reality show now? Because this show isn’t going to be whatever Courtney thinks this show is going to be ("America’s Next ...

Worldnews

• EBOUE CALLS FOR UNITED FOCUS
  Emmanuel Eboue feels Arsenal must put a potential clash against European giants Barcelona or Real Madrid out of their minds and focus fully on the "massive" showdown with Barclays Premier League title rivals Manchester United. The Gunners secured their place in the last 16 of the Champions Leag ...
• COLUMN: Pence sticks to convictions
  individual: 4 numChar :2958 -->TOTAL ELEMENTS IN ARRAY: 8 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN ARRAY: 4577 TOTAL CHARACTERS IN PAGES: 2958 LAST PAGE CONTAINS: 1619 -->WASHINGTON On a midweek afternoon in February 2009, a month into the Obama presidency, Republican Rep. Mike Pence arrived at Columbus in his eas ...
• How Phila.-region lawmakers stand on tax-cut ...
  By Thomas Fitzgerald and Joelle Farrell Inquirer Staff Writers Congressional Democrats, including several from the Philadelphia region, railed Wednesday against President Obama's tax-cut deal with Republicans as the White House sought to squelch the uprising from its base. For all the complaint ...
• Cheers To Obama On Taxes
  WASHINGTON--President Obama is to be congratulated on his efforts to stave off the 2011 tax hikes. The deal would preserve current tax rates on income and capital for two years, reduce the estate tax below the draconian levels that would otherwise apply in 2011, and keep in place most existing ...
• Karzai’s Response to Cables Relieves U ...
  KABUL, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates called it “extraordinarily embarrassing,” which might also describe the sentiments beneath the decorous tableau on Wednesday night in the palace of President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan. A little more than a week after the disclosure of a c ...

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Julie's List of Weird MS Symptoms and Phenomena
  After months of posting questions asking you "Have you ever experienced X?" or "Does this sound familiar?" I have put all of these blogs into one big list for all of us to enjoy. Let me clarify - the most interesting and enjoyable part of these blogs is not found in what I originally wrote, but in t ...
• Try an "Energizing Nap" With This App to Fight MS ...
  I was skeptical when my husband first mentioned "Pzizz" to me. However, after a couple of weeks of him saying to me, "I'm going to take a nap, I'll be back in 20 minutes," then emerging completely refreshed, he had my attention. He really would come back in 20 minutes having taken actually taken a n ...
• ANALPRAM ADVANCED (Hydrocortisone Acetate And Pram ...
  Updated Date: Dec 8, 2010 EST
• Daily Sunscreen Use Does Protect from Melanoma, St ...
  Title: Daily Sunscreen Use Does Protect from Melanoma, Study Finds Category: Health News Created: 12/6/2010 8:05:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 12/7/2010
• Sandra Lee, other celeb chefs share favorite Chris ...
  For many celebrity chefs, baking cookies is a favorite holiday tradition. They share their recipes with USA TODAY.

Common Dreams

• 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 ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Thoughts on the population growth ...
  ExamineReligion: Thoughts on the population growth and death rates and evolution http://exm.nr/enObOa
• ExamineReligion: Life Unexpected - A Devotion http ...
  ExamineReligion: Life Unexpected - A Devotion http://exm.nr/fCdQQn
• ExamineReligion: Scientific study: Being too clean ...
  ExamineReligion: Scientific study: Being too clean may be making you depressed http://exm.nr/ghfJIZ
• ExamineReligion: More on the results of the sbs, v ...
  ExamineReligion: More on the results of the sbs, vbv, comparison study of Romans http://exm.nr/eMSNmU
• ExamineReligion: Joy, beauty, desire, sehnsucht: ...
  ExamineReligion: Joy, beauty, desire, sehnsucht: Whatever the term, a fingerprint of God http://exm.nr/g52tWc

Energy Collective

• The Road to Clean Energy Leadership: Baby Steps or ...
  By Matthew Stepp Pursuit of global leadership in clean energy innovation is intensifying.� A new analysis �of where clean energy technologies are being invented provides a good �gut check� of where the U.S. ranks and what other countries are doing to leapfrog forward.� And it tells a very tenuous st ...
• Worse than Coal?
  As I noted in last Wednesday's posting, one of the questions that came up in a webinar on shale gas in which I participated concerned the climate consequences of higher recent estimates of methane leakage from US natural gas systems.
• Latest Negotiating Document Released in Cancún
  Early this morning the chair of the key group negotiating a global climate agreement in Cancún released a vision for “Elements of an Outcome” from the deliberations of the past two weeks.
• Ontario could see enormous economic benefits pursu ...
  The Conference Board of Canada came out with a report today that assesses the economic benefits to Ontario of developing offshore wind in the Gre
• What scientific information or data does the Depar ...
  U.S. House Republicans sent a short note over to the U.S. Department of the Interior, inquiring as to Interior�s plans for regulatory or policy changes with respect to hydraulic fracturing on public lands. �My favorites from among the questions asked: What scientific information or data does DOI in ...

Green House - USA Today

• U.N. chief urges climate deal, warning nature 'wil ...
  Saying the planet's future is at risk, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tried to revive stalled climate talks by urging world leaders to agree to steps -- however imperfect -- to fight climate change.
• Study: Top homebuilders fall short on green featur ...
  America's largest homebuilders are offering more energy efficient homes but still fall far short with other green practices, says a report Tuesday that ranks the 10 largest publicly-traded companies.
• U.S. panel's probe of Gulf oil spill nears end
  With three days of hearings expected to begin Tuesday, a key U.S. panel is nearing the end of its investigation into the cause of the Gulf of Mexico rig explosion and the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
• Multigenerational homes, front porches gain favor
  A slower housing market is shifting consumer preferences towards multi-generational homes with front porches, solar reflective roofs and access to public transportation, finds a new survey by the American Institute of Architects.
• Supreme Court to hear climate change lawsuit
  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case about climate change in which electric utilities are rebuffing an effort by states to reduce their power plant emissions.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• More Fraud, Intimidation, and Illegitimacy Assured ...
  by Stephen Lendman On November 28, Haiti's first round legislative and presidential elections were so tainted, they elevated sham elections to a new level - a cruel joke, a process in name only, one fraudulent enough to make a despot blush. Now round two, New York Times writer Deborah Sontag head ...
• Wikileaks: The Movie
  By Timothy V. Gatto I’ve been following what passes as “the news” from the mainstream media. The most peculiar set of circumstances have emerged as the Wikileaks phenomenon unfolds. I say “phenomenon” because I’ve never seen anything like this, except maybe The Pentagon Papers back in the early ‘70 ...
• 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 ...
• Obama's Grand Betrayal
  Michael Collins Previously, I reported the startling news - Obama to Change Party. That was satire, at least on November 14. Just three weeks later, satire becomes reality. In the past few days, President Obama has traded away $620 billion in tax revenues in order to get a $56 billion, 13 month ...
• Obama Capitulates to Republicans
  by Stephen Lendman Despite campaign pledges and President Obama opposing extending tax cuts for households earning over $250,000, another promise made was broken. At the same time, while supporting them for working Americans, he said doing so permanently is unaffordable. Unsurprisingly, a Decemb ...Image via Wikipedia

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Canada's richest 1% taking more than ever before
  A major report by CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan shows Canada's richest 1% enjoy more of the gains from economic growth than ever before in recorded history. The report looks at income trends over the past 90 years, revealing the richest 1% took 32% of all growth in incomes between 1997 and ...
• New York Times article: Income Inequality too big ...
  New York Times writer Robert Frank says it's time to tackle the problems of income inequality in this article.
• Let's Do Something About Poverty!
  The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is a proud partner of Poverty Free Saskatchewan (PFS), a coalition of groups attempting to develop a comprehensive anti-poverty program for the province. Today we released Let's Do Something About Poverty!, in order to encourage ...
• The growing gap and the problem of recession
  Bruce Livesey writes a blog in the Progressive Economics Forum showing the link between worsening income inequality and the threat of a Great Recession that could 'go on indefinitely'. Read the blog here.
• Does Canada really have a debt and deficit problem ...
  A new CCPA study examines Canada's debt and deficit and finds that debt in Canada—even after two years of stimulus—is still at very low levels compared to other countries, and compared to the mid-1990s. Big Train Coming: Does Canada Really Have a Deficit and Debt Problem? says a sharp turn to spe ...

World Wide Hippies

• Anonymous Continues Operation Payback: The Battle ...
  Anonymous, a rag-tag rebel army whom fight under the flag of chaotic good have been busy. Since the arrest of Julian Assange, they have worked together to bring down the web sites of Master Card, Visa, Paypal, Joe Lieberman, A Swiss Bank and several others. They do this for the lulz, mostly, but the ...
• Happy as a Hangman
  by: Chris Hedges | Truthdig | Op-Ed Innocence, as defined by law, makes us complicit with the crimes of the state. To do nothing, to be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to sanction, through passivity and obedience, the array of crimes carried out by the state. To [...]
• America’s New Minority – The Unemployed
  America’s New Minority – The Unemployed According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of unemployed citizens over the age of 16 has doubled since 2008. These numbers do not reflect those people that have fallen off the unemployment rolls because they have exhausted all of the benefits ava ...
• An Open Letter to the President
  Dear President Obama, I speak only for myself. Though this letter may be published, the news changes so fast that some of my words may lose their validity by the time it reaches my audience. If this should happen, I apologize for these discrepancies in advance. Please also accept my apologies for ha ...
• Ignore The Distractions: Focus on What Has Been Re ...
  This case must not obscure what WikiLeaks has told us | The Independent Every one of us owes a debt to Julian Assange. Thanks to him, we now know that our governments are pursuing policies that place you and your family in considerably greater danger. Wikileaks has informed us they have secretly lau ...

Michael Moore - Must ReadImage via Wikipedia

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

Salon

• Money-hungry Newt hawking holiday junk
  There increasingly seems to be a correlation between the intensity with which Newt Gingrich says he is mulling a presidential bid and the urgency with which he hawks his books and CDs to the conservative masses.
• Tax cut deal: Obama bought himself precious time
  If anybody wanted to erect a statue of President Obama after his first two years, the unofficial White House motto should be engraved on the base: "Thank you, Sir. May I have another?"
• Don't primary Obama, change Congress
  I talked about the discouraging notion of a primary challenge to President Obama on "Hardball" tonight. Steve Kornacki's been doing a great job explaining why such a move is unlikely; Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (a Hillary Clinton supporter in 2008) explained to Justin Elliott why it is unwise. ...
• NFL committee wants to ditch official helmet
  Members of the NFL's head, neck and spine committee say the league shouldn't have an official helmet anymore.
• Calling Captain Awesome
  An unemployed cabinet installer from Eugene, Ore., has legally changed his name from Douglas Allen Smith Jr. to Captain Awesome.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Chief Blair: Watch what he does
  Police Chief Bill Blair is saying the right things about tracking down officers who went rogue during Toronto’s G20 protests. But the real test of his effectiveness rests on what he does, not what he says.
• Haiti election: A vote of no confidence
  Political anarchy is the last thing Haiti needs.
• Transit City: Ford’s solo act makes no sense
  Democratic principle demands that Toronto city council be heard, and allowed a vote, on killing Transit City.
• Ford Inaugural: Pinkos and pink shirts
  Mayor Rob Ford gives an effective opening speech at an inaugural meeting of city council unfortunately marred by Don Cherry's buffoonery.
• G20 summit probe: A bad law that bred illegality
  Protection of foreign dignitaries is not an excuse for ignoring the constitutionally entrenched rights of Canadians.

Energy Collective

• The Road to Clean Energy Leadership: Baby Steps or ...
  By Matthew Stepp Pursuit of global leadership in clean energy innovation is intensifying.� A new analysis �of where clean energy technologies are being invented provides a good �gut check� of where the U.S. ranks and what other countries are doing to leapfrog forward.� And it tells a very tenuous st ...
• Worse than Coal?
  As I noted in last Wednesday's posting, one of the questions that came up in a webinar on shale gas in which I participated concerned the climate consequences of higher recent estimates of methane leakage from US natural gas systems.
• Latest Negotiating Document Released in Cancún
  Early this morning the chair of the key group negotiating a global climate agreement in Cancún released a vision for “Elements of an Outcome” from the deliberations of the past two weeks.
• Ontario could see enormous economic benefits pursu ...
  The Conference Board of Canada came out with a report today that assesses the economic benefits to Ontario of developing offshore wind in the Gre
• What scientific information or data does the Depar ...
  U.S. House Republicans sent a short note over to the U.S. Department of the Interior, inquiring as to Interior�s plans for regulatory or policy changes with respect to hydraulic fracturing on public lands. �My favorites from among the questions asked: What scientific information or data does DOI in ...

EU Times

• Germany’s angst about Islamists goes mainstream
  The 200 robed and bearded men gathered at dusk on the market square, rolled out their prayer rugs and intoned Allah’s praises as dismayed townspeople looked on. It was Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month, and the group that calls itself “Invitation to Paradise” was mounting a defiant response to weeks ...
• Florida Follows Arizona’s Lead With New Bill Crack ...
  Florida has joined Arizona on the front lines of battling illegal immigration with a new bill released this week that seeks to crack down on the estimated 800,000 undocumented workers in the state. The bill, filed by state Sen. Michael Bennett, allows law enforcement officers to check the residency ...
• Fed aid in financial crisis went beyond U.S. banks ...
  The financial crisis stretched even farther across the economy than many had realized, as new disclosures show the Federal Reserve rushed trillions of dollars in emergency aid not just to Wall Street but also to motorcycle makers, telecom firms and foreign-owned banks in 2008 and 2009. The Fed’s eff ...
• Image via WikipediaJoe Lieberman emulates Chinese dictators
  The comparison of these two passages is so telling in so many ways: The Washington Post, today: Revelations by the organization WikiLeaks have received blanket coverage this week on television, in newspapers and on Web sites around the globe. But in parts of the world where the leaks have some of th ...
• British Employers WILL be allowed to favour women: ...
  Employers are to be allowed to discriminate in favour of women, black and disabled job candidates under controversial new laws. Lib Dem equalities minister Lynne Featherstone insisted the shake-up announced yesterday was not about ‘political correctness’ but making the workplace fairer. The legislat ...

Stonecipher News

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

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Andy Rubin: 300,000 Android phones activated each ...
  Here’s is another proof about the surging growth of Android phones. Google Android VP, Andy Rubin confirmed on his twitter account that over 300,000 Android phones are being activated every day. This is an interesting stat because a quick math tells us that although being the most fragmented OS, Go ...
• EA Sports Active 2 Review | For Nintendo Wii, Play ...
  The ultimate interactive fitness program just got better. Released in North America on November 16, EA Sports Active 2 adds impressive new features that distinctly set it apart from its predecessor. While the original release was only available for the Nintendo Wii, EA Sports Active 2 expands its r ...
• The Future is Now: SpaceX Flight 100% Successful
  SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: Alan Walters (awaltersphoto.com) for Universe Today. Hailed as a both a great day for commercial spaceflight as well as for NASA, SpaceX made history on Wednesday with a 100% successful test flight of its Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket
• EA’s Pogo takes casual games into mobile sphere wi ...
  After long prep, Electronic Arts is launching its first Pogo games on the iPhone tomorrow. Pogo.com has been around as web site for casual gamers since 1998. EA bought the company in 2001 and has built it into a popular casual game site with 5 million unique monthly visitors. Now the company is lau ...
• Arsenal 3-1 Partizan Belgrade: Champions League Hi ...
  Arsenal edged past Partizan to book their place in the knock out stages of the Champions League. Robin Van Persie was felled in the box and the Dutchman picked himself up to put away the spot-kick but Cleo levelled to leave Emirates supporters nervy. Goals from Theo Walcott and Samir Nasri gave Ars ...

Groklaw

• Facebook revamp gives away even more info, warn pr ...
  Although it has never admitted as much, more detailed user information in profiles make Facebook a more attractive platform for advertisers; hence Facebook's direction of travel is always towards encouraging users to share more with a wider pool of people. - John Leyden, The Register
• VMware to virtualize Android smartphones for busin ...
  VMware is teaming with LG to sell Android smartphones that are virtualized, allowing a single phone to run two operating systems, one for business use and one for personal use. The companies believe virtualization can provide separation between work and personal applications and data, solving many ...
• Ask Your Question for Wednesday Talks
  On December 8, 2009, the White House issued an unprecedented Open Government Directive requiring federal agencies to take steps to achieve key milestones in transparency, participation, and collaboration. On the one-year anniversary of the Directive, we're answering your questions on the Administrat ...
• Mike Milinkovitch, Eclipse : La position dOracle ...
  [PJ: The interview with the head of Eclipse is in French, but with Google Translate, all things are possible. The essence of his answer to the question about how he views Java since Oracle took it over is that the good news is that now there is investment, so Java can progress, which for the last t ...
• Blackboard Drops Appeals on Software Patent
  Blackboard Inc.'s protracted legal fight to retain the software patent it used to successfully sue course-management rival Desire2Learn is over. It lost... A federal jury in Texas ruled in 2008 that Desire2Learn had infringed the patent and ordered it to pay Blackboard $3.1-million. But the U.S. Pa ...

WideShutImage via Wikipedia

• Prosecute Climate Deniers For Ecocide
  While UN heads pray to the Mayan goddess of the moon, a UK lawyer and Bolivia want to charge Climate Deniers with Ecocide under the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth.
• More Details On Ken Clarke’s Money Making Pr ...
  Ken Clarke's prison policy will see focus on fines to make money and privitisation to cut costs.
• November 07, 2010, WideShut Webcast On Resistance ...
  On this week's show Keelan Balderson discusses global warming, riffs in the 7/7 Truth community, and the seasonal flu hoax.
• Famous Actor Placed On Terror Watchlist?
  There is contention on whether actor Mark Ruffalo was placed on a wactch-list, but the propaganda might still have the desired effect.
• The Banker: by 33rddegreefilms
  A short film that puts the current financial collapse in to perspective.

Waterkeeper Alliance

• Habitat for endangered vermilion darter expanded i ...
  Habitat for endangered vermilion darter expanded in Jefferson County's Turkey Creek
• Utah oil sands project draws fire
  Utah oil sands project draws fire
• Knight Foundation Donor Advised Fund Awards $120,0 ...
  Knight Foundation Donor Advised Fund Awards $120,000
• Maryland agriculture chief: New environmental laws ...
  Maryland agriculture chief: New environmental laws will help farmers
• Riverkeeper threatens legal action against provinc ...
  Riverkeeper threatens legal action against province

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.

TVNZ - Top Stories

• Mistakes in NCEA language exams anger students
  Thousands of NCEA students have been affected by sloppy mistakes and problems discovered in their foreign language exams
• National Party MP Wong not yet in the clear
  National MP Pansy Wong may not be out of the spotlight just yet, with the Auditor-General considering an investigation into her travel spending
• Foreshore bill hanging by a thread after Labour wi ...
  The government's foreshore legislation is hanging by a thread after Labour announced today it will pull its support for it.
• SFO lays 87 charges in alleged $15 million fraud
  The Serious Fraud Office has today laid 87 charges under the Crimes Act against Michael John Bradley and Jacqueline Lyndsay Bradley, the co-directors of B'On Financial Services Ltd (B'On), for what is alleged to be the defrauding of approximately 85 ...
• Phil Goff confirms Labour support for foreshore le ...
  Labour has confirmed it will pull its support for new foreshore legislation, saying it does not offer a lasting solution

Just World News

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

First Truths

• The Ivory Coast and "Power-Sharing"
  The election controversy in Ivory Coast has raised the idea of "power-sharing" within the country, an idea that arguably, when carried to its ultimate end, leads to anarchy. Read my comment here.
• Liberty or Authority: The Social(ism) Question
  Although the vicissitudes of the political season belie the fact, when November draws to a close the state will persist. And with it will remain its ring of members, superficial substitutions notwithstanding, all ready to deal in douceurs with wealth created by the productive among us. Convinced a ...
• The State's Corporate Wasteland
  Corporations, while they are celebrated as paragons of innovation and efficiency, suffer from the same slow reaction time, waste, and lack of creativity that defines government agencies. Taking into account the fact that the state and the corporation are pieces of the same coercive puzzle, a system ...
• Mortgage Liens On Our Lives
  The state, though it assures us of the goodwill behind its housing policies, has succeeded in a master stroke of subterfuge that further condenses wealth in the troves of the elite. The mortgage fiasco once again demonstrates that the state will mobilize when the interests of its club members are im ...
• Terrorism By Any Other Name
  In federal court on Tuesday, Faisal Shahzad, whose attempt to bomb Times Square with homemade explosives was thwarted back in May, was handed a life sentence. In a statement made during a hearing, Shahzad, an American radicalized by the United States’ sanguinary, terroristic crusade against the Mu ...

Media Co-Op

• CYD Podcast #8
  Via Campesina Takes to the Streets! As we work our way into the second week of the UN climate conference, things are heating up outside of the conference centre. We've got coverage of another special prize for Canada, and then Adam Scott gives ...
• Community organizers unite to demand climate and s ...
  in solidarity with La Via Campesina   Community organizers unite to demand climate and social justice in solidarity with La Via Campesina   Close to 100 Migrant rights, union, anti-poverty, gender equity and climate activists gathered at Na ...
• Make climate justice look hot! Help illustrate The ...
  Following on our call for story ideas, we're looking for designers, illustrators and artists of all stripes to join the Climate Justice special issue editorial collective to help spice it up and create thoughtful images and design to compliment and enhance the upcoming issu... Read on for more info: ...
• Ontario Ombudsman says G20 conditions "amounted to ...
  Report has harsh words for police and fence law In a report released today Ontario Ombudsman André Marin strongly criticised the regulations implemented ahead of the G20 which gave the police extraordinary powers, and said that it "amounted to ...
• CYD Podcast #7
  Oil and Water don't mix: Kicking off week two of the negotiations Today, as negotiations kicked off for the second week, the Canadian youth led an action showing that "Oil and Water don't mix." We talk with Claude Généreux, from CUPE, the Cana ...

David Seaton's News Links

• The must see, must pass along video
  David Seaton's News LinksSteve Benen at Political Animal has put together this video and it is a powerful and positive piece of work. If you like it pass it on.DS
• Tales of Globalization: USA and India: a marriage ...
  "I believe that the relationship between the United States and India will, in fact, be one of the defining partnerships of the 21st Century." President Obama - BBC News The most dramatic and remarkable improvement in consumption has been of those who were already the richest people in India � that i ...
• A fairy tale as grim as Grimm could ever be (a fab ...
  David Seaton's News LinksOnce upon a time in a far off and pleasant land, during the reign of King George the Idiot, there lived a young man who dreamed of fame and greatness. He yearned so long and so deeply, that the Good Fairy was moved by his constant pleading and praying and appeared before him ...
• Where is China headed?
  China's high speed train system David Seaton's News Link I heard a talk over a year ago at a meeting of the Madrid Fulbright association: the speaker was professor Fisac, the head of Chinese studies at Madrid University.� She said that in the course of conversation with an official of the Chinese C ...
• Speaking of China
  David Seaton's News LinksI am in awe of the Chinese and have been since I was a child. I think Napoleon's famous phrase, "Let China sleep for when she awakes, she will shake the world" is an understatement. The only mystery was their decadence. So finally, my intuition that China is behind Wikileaks ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

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

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• 15 Dangerous Drugs Big Pharma Shoves Down Your Thr ...
  Writing in AlterNet, Martha Rosenberg says: "In the pharmaceutical industry's rush to get drugs to market, safety usually comes last. Long studies to truly assess a drug's risks just delay profits after all -- and if problems do emerge after medication hits the market, settlements are usuall ...
• Grains of Sound -- Low Earth Orbit
  The video uses footage provided and authorized by the European Space Agency. The song used appears on the album Sine Language Volume 3 (Under), part of a three volume concept album about the transcendent power of music to communicate beyond the barriers of time, space, and culture
• Ignore This Simple Daily Habit and Watch Your Risk ...
  KSBW reports: "Some messages coming out of your mouth bypass the vocal chords. Turns out that your teeth, gums, and surrounding tissues also have plenty to say -- about your overall health." Here are some of the signs to look for: Flat, worn teeth and headache -- Sign of: Stress ...
• What are the World's 10 Fattest Countries?
  The World Health Organization projects that five years from now, in 2015, the number of overweight adults will increase to 2.3 billion, up from just 1.6 billion five years ago. The Global Post lists the world's top ten fattest countries, as measured by the percentage of the population with a BMI in ...
• The Trick to Eating Healthy on a Tight Budget
  Every month, hundreds of thousands of Americans are falling out of the middle class and into poverty. Pakalert Press has uncovered 27 signals that things are likely to get worse before they get better. They include: Residents of New York state just experienced their first full-year decline in ...

JAMA

• Ensuring Safe and Effective Use of Medication and ...
• Evaluation of Consistency in Dosing Directions and ...
  Context� In response to reports of unintentional drug overdoses among children given over-the-counter (OTC) liquid medications, in November 2009 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new voluntary industry guidelines that recommend greater consistency and clarity in OTC medication dosi ...
• Scientists Turn to Immune "Fingerprints" to Unders ...
• Tetanus and Pertussis Vaccination Coverage Among A ...
• Vital Signs: Binge Drinking Among High School Stud ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• 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 ...

Montreal Gazette

• Editorial: AMT leaves us in the cold and dark
  Worse hit were commuter trains, some running up to two hours behind, others cancelled altogether. Would-be passengers on the Vaudreuil-Hudson line, for instance, the second-busiest served by the Agence metropolitaine de transport, were left waiting until 6:45 p.m. for the 5 o'clock train.
• Editorial: Let every vote count
  The Conservative government has signalled that it plans to press ahead with legislation intended to give Canada's fastest growing provinces fairer representation in the House of Commons. This comes as a relief, because it seemed for a while that none of the federal parties currently represen ...
• Transit fare hike justified if service improves
  A new year is just around the corner and, as has been the case for the past decade, it will come with yet another hike in bus and metro fares in Montreal. Annoying as this might be to transit users, it is not necessarily unjustified. It is not, as public-transit lobby Transport 2000 accuses, ...
• Haiti's long agony continues unabated
  On Sunday, 12 of Haiti's presidential candidates gathered on a single stage to denounce the election going on that day as a fraud, and to urge Haitians to stop voting. That sad spectacle was, perversely, the closest thing to a glimmer of hope that Haiti has seen in the agonizing months since the Jan ...
• Canada Health Act rules ignore human nature
  The Quebec College of Physicians is shocked, shocked to learn that some doctors are accepting cash payments to jump patients up the surgery waiting list. And federal Liberal health critic Ujjal Dosanjh claimed that he "could never in my wildest nightmare imagine this happening here."

Food World Order

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

CrusadeWatch

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

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• 12 Facts That Will Blow Your Mind – Federal ...
  Do you remember the days when getting elected to Congress or choosing to work for the government was referred to as "public service"?  The idea was that you would be making a sacrifice for the greater good of the country.  Well, those days are long gone.  Today, getting elected to C ...
• America’s Message To The Rest Of The World: ...
  Have you ever seen pictures of extravagant wealth from places such as Dubai or Abu Dhabi and wondered where in the world they got all that money from?  Have you ever read news stories that talk about China lending us hundreds of billions of dollars and wondered how they could possib ...
• Could The Financial Crisis Erupting In Ireland, Po ...
  The Irish banking system is melting down right in front of our eyes.  Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Spain are all drowning in debt.  It is becoming extremely expensive for all of those nations to issue new debt.  Officials all over Europe are begging Ireland to accept a bailout.  Po ...
• How In The World Did We Get To The Point Where The ...
  Ben Bernanke and the rest of the folks over at the Federal Reserve did not just wake up one day and decide that they wanted to start printing hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air.  The truth is that the economic forces that have brought us to this point have taken decades ...
• Why Democrats And Republicans Are Both Wrong About ...
  All over the Internet, Republican pundits are declaring that extending the Bush tax cuts will save the economy and Democrat pundits are declaring that ending the Bush tax cuts will save the economy. Well, you know what? Nothing will save the U.S. economy. The U.S. government is g ...

CASSE

• Real Economies and the Illusions of Abstraction
  Hazel Henderson, a true champion of the steady state economy, digs deep into the deficiencies of our economic and financial systems.
• A Shift in the Burden of Proof
  The World Bank and other proponents of growth need to prove that growth is actually "economic" instead of "uneconomic."
• From Black Friday to a Better Way
  Rethinking consumption and consumer spending may be the key to enjoying the holidays.
• In Search of Answers about Economic Growth
  It's time to rethink the dilemma of economic growth and find some much-needed answers for the economy.
• Enough Is Enough
  Brian Czech's foreword to the new report, Enough is Enough: Ideas for a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources.

The Talking Clock

• Quote of the Day: 2nd December 2010
  "One of the contributors to the book, emeritus professor and nuclear and space scientist Oliver Manuel, writes that his chapter quotes a prescient warning in 1961 from former US President Eisenhower that a federally funded scientific-technological elite might one day take control of government polic ...
• £773: what the cost of keeping the elites in their ...
  Sharing news of the plans and developments regarding the European Empire is a strange one... it's the only bloodsport which hasn't yet been banned, one feels. Give them time. Ask Godfrey Bloom. On this, Day Eight of the Battle FOR Britain (since the Daily Express came onboard)... ...we're a ...
• Liar, liar, pants on fire: Hague's EU whoppers... ...
  Watch this... listen to the lies. Liar, liar, liar. And we don't even need to look at a politician from a different party than Hague's own for support to back up our 'liar' assertion. Backbench patriotic Conservative MP Douglas Carswell is compiling a list of the transfers of power to and ...
• I probably won't get shot in my bed for living in ...
  You know, one of the funny things (funny as in 'odd', not as in 'ha ha!') about compiling this blog is that - sometimes - I write blog posts where I think: "Watch out... this one will get me shot in my bed by the state stormtroopers." And what's so funny about that, you may ask? What's so funn ...
• Don't tell me... it's so hot, it's snowing
  Today's Daily Express tells us that: "With more than 10 inches of snow in some parts and a further eight inches set to fall overnight, forecasters are predicting the worst winter for 100 years." Really? Must be all that balmy, hot, global warming that we're all being taxed to death in the name ...

Facing South

• Affordable housing projects in New Orleans rise or ...
  By Ariella Cohen, The Lens Even as President Barack Obama agrees to keep Bush-era tax cuts, a consensus is still lacking on an extension of tax credits needed to rebuild New Orleans' Big Four housing developments, as well as other Gulf Coast complexes. Tucked away in the massive tax bill Obama ...
• Scientists call for a deeper look at coal ash cont ...
  This month marks two years since a coal ash holding pond collapsed at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in Roane County, Tenn., sending a billion gallons of waste laden with arsenic, lead and other toxic contaminants into a nearby community and the Clinch and Emory rivers. ...
• Proposed North Carolina voter ID law: A modern-day ...
  In 1898, when North Carolina Democrats seized control of the state legislature, one of their first steps was to pass an amendment to the state constitution requiring that voters pass a literacy test and pay a poll tax before they could vote. Then campaigning on a platform of "white supremacy, ...
• Stimulus freed big polluters from following key en ...
  Some of the nation's biggest polluters including BP and Duke Energy won exemptions from a basic environmental law under the Obama administration's economic stimulus, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity: The administration has awarded more than 179,000 "categorical exclus ...
• VOICES: Oil spill response bill may not survive in ...
  By Stephen Bradberry, Bridge the Gulf As the 111th Congress of the United States of America draws to a close there is a unique opportunity for assisting the ongoing struggle for full recovery of the Gulf Coast. The region, battered by the 2005 hurricane season, which was led by Hurricane Katrina ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  U.S. Judge Dismisses Al-Awlaki Suit A U.S. federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to prevent the U.S. government from targeting and killing U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is suspected of being a key member of al Qaeda in the … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Arrested in UK WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange turned himself into British police Tuesday morning in connection with a Swedish arrest warrant for him on rape and sexual molestation accusations. According to a statement by the Metropolitan … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  WikiLeaks: Saudi Arabia, Other U.S. Allies Remain Key Funders of Global Terrorism Government cables leaked to WikiLeaks and written by Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and other top diplomats reveal that, despite U.S. efforts since 2001 to cut the sources … Continue reading →
• Who’s in Charge Here?
  by Joshua L. Dratel Amid the relief occasioning Hillary Clintonâs intervention that led to the plea agreement resolving the military commission prosecution of Omar Khadr, some curious comments were reported in the media during the period just before the deal … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  WikiLeaks Changes Domain Name to WikiLeaks.ch The U.S.-based domain company that had provided WikiLeaks with the WikiLeaks.org domain withdrew its service Thursday after it said that sustained denial of service attacks on WikiLeaks threatened the stability of the rest of … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Wikileaks derailed by just a hundred computers
  The attacks that brought down the infamous secret-spilling site were incredibly unsophisticated and easy to carry out
• Hacked Wiimote used for water research: Kinect is ...
  The controller of Nintendo's Wii console can be used as a sensor for water research, and the brand-new Kinect is next on the agenda
• Fresh claim of superheavy element in nature
  A new report that roentgenium, element 111, is present in gold will be met with scepticism, says Celeste Biever
• Britain gripped by Narnia-like weather spell
  This image, taken by NASA's Terra satellite, shows the extent of the blanket of snow currently covering the British Isles
• Upgraded radio telescope sees double
  The 'Double Quasar' is the subject of the first portrait taken by the UK's newly upgraded e-MERLIN array of radio telescopes

Tech Drive In

• CLI Companion - Incredible Tool to Learn Command L ...
  CLI Companion is a really useful tool especially if you are a complete newcomer to Linux and Ubuntu and totally unaware of ways to understand command line. Ironically, CLI Companion lets you learn and enjoy command line using its simple GUI. CLI Companion - Learn and Enjoy Command Line Inc ...
• 15 Nice and Simple Open Source Android Games
  Like a week ago, we featured one of the best collection of open source Android apps here. Now lets talk about Android games, not just normal games, but the real open source ones. Tiltmazes is an open source logical puzzle game for Android platform. A ball sits in a flat tray containing one or m ...
• 13 Breathtaking Conky Configurations You Should Se ...
  Though we used to talk a lot about Ubuntu desktop eyecandy, Conky is something we never really discussed at all.�Conky Ubuntu Lucid theme was the only exception, which is by far the most easy to install Conky theme I have ever used. So as to settle the Conky drought once and for all, here we feature ...
• Big Buck Bunny Trailer Sighting on Google Nexus S ...
  Big Buck Bunny is one among the three Blender Foundation produced open movies, others being Elephant's Dream and Sintel[watch them all]. And the webpage for Google�s very own Android 2.3 powered Nexus S Phone shows the Big Buck Bunny trailer to illustrate the 'Entertainment on the Go' section! ...
• Vendetta Online, World of Goo are Now Available fo ...
  Ubuntu Software Center is definitely coming alive. The latest entrants in the 'for purchase' section of Ubuntu Software Center include the incredibly good puzzle game called World of Goo and Vendetta Online, a 3D space combat MMORPG. World of Goo Puzzle Game World of Goo is a wonderfully c ...

Case About Bird Flu

• Wikileaks could go “thermonuclear” aft ...
  Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder lavished with awards by the Economist magazine and celebrated by Forbes, Time and Der Spiegel, has finally been arrested on rape charges in the UK, sparking speculation that  Wikileaks will release documents and go âthermonuclearâ. http://www.aolnews.com/world ...
• Irish Finance Minister prepares to pass IMF/EU bud ...
  Protestors are gathering outside the Irish parliament as the Finance Minister Brian Lenihan prepares to announce draconian cuts and steep tax hikes as part of the budget 2011 following the Irish Government’s four-year plan and Memorandum of Understanding with the IMF/EU. Th budget is set to pass eve ...
• “This is not a bailout. It’s a sell-ou ...
  belfasttelegraph.co.uk This is not a bailout. It’s a sell-out of the Irish people By David McWilliams Friday, 3 December 2010 Make no mistake about it, this ‘bailout’ will sink the Republic. We are witnessing a monumental struggle between the innocent average Irish person and the guilty creditors of ...
• Irish will have to pay €7,500 a year to banks for ...
  Let’s hope the Budget doesn’t force a brain drain By Peter Vale, The Independent Monday December 06 2010 We are in the strange position today of knowing the broad content of the next four Budgets. For example, we know that by 2012 the average household will be worse off by almost â¬400 per month, pr ...
• L’Oreal spokesman Eric Cantona fails to coll ...
   Eric Cantona’s Bank Protest looks set to flop Eric Cantonaâs attempt to collapse the European financial system by orchestrating a run on the banks looks set to flop, with a slow trickle of people turning out to drain their accounts. By Henry Samuel and Heidi Blake 9:45AM GMT 07 Dec 2010, The Teleg ...

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 ...

Veterans Today

• FIREFIGHTERS FOR 9/11 TRUTH DEBUNK ASSANGE: IRREF ...
  “118 FIRST RESPONDERS HEARD EXPLOSIONS…..” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor One of the many groups of dedicated professionals insulted by Julian Assange is “Firefighters for 9/11 Truth.”  This is their video.  Assange says they are liars but even Fox News now admits that Building 7 was de ...
• TacTalk: Brain Theory
  Let me begin by stating that I have operated a premier force-on-force (human-vs-human) facility for many years training Federal Agencies, SWAT, Police, Soldiers and Airman in close contact fighting. While I may not be a brain surgeon, I have become a subject matter mentor in stress inoculation and b ...
• ALLEN ROLAND:MORE PROOF HEART CENTERED APPROACH WO ...
  Dave Sharpe had trouble leaving his Yorktown, Va., home until Cheyenne helped ease the former airman’s anxiety. Gillian Laub for TIME In my work with veterans with PTSD, both individually and group, I have proven that a heart centered approach is the missing link in their self healing process. In th ...
• GORDON DUFF: BUSTED – WIKILEAKS WORKING FOR ...
  ASSANGE ACCUSED:  “TOOK MONEY FROM ISRAEL” By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor 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 s ...
• U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contra ...
  CONTRACTS: No. 1122-10 NAVY Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Newport News, Va. is being awarded a $323,611,867 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-09-C-2116) for continuation of construction preparation efforts for the second aircraft carrier (CVN 79) of the Gerald R. Ford class. Work ...

electric politics

• (Unlawful) Targeted Killing
  The U.S. government should not murder people abroad. A simple enough rule, yet in a bizarre, barbaric, and cold-blooded fashion Washington now not only claims the right to murder anyone it wants, anywhere it wants, abroad, including American citizens, but actively carries out such intent with drone ...
• The Power of Imagination
  Harkening back to an earlier age, the prolific and brilliant author and anthologist Michael Sims helps us to understand science, natural history, literature, and all manner of other things. A Renaissance man. In Dracula's Guest he explores through Victorian eyes the universal human fear of the dark ...
• The Art of Agriculture
  American culture has lost an essential chthonic connection with the soil. Restoring it requires rethinking conventional agricultural practices — practices, in any case, for many additional reasons, unsuited for the modern world. Dare we say we're on the cusp of an organic revolution? To get some of ...
• Chili's Campaign in the Buckeye State
  Voters in Ohio's second congressional district have a real choice: the Democrat, Surya "Chili" Yalamanchili, wants to create jobs and is on the side of the workers, while his opponent, incumbent Republican Jean Schmidt, apparently has no policy views whatsoever except unconditional support for the ...
• Plato's Secret
  The Gods on Mount Olympus don't rule the world. Science does. But Plato couldn't say that in ancient Greece without a good chance of being put to death. So Plato did a sensible thing: he hid his secret, using musical codes, inside his already magnificent philosophical construction, a philosophy tha ...

PR News

• Firms decline further comment on Greenpeace lawsui ...
  WASHINGTON: Ketchum, Dezenhall Resources, and Dow Chemical continued to decline to comment following the filing of a lawsuit by Greenpeace earlier this week against the companies for corporate espionage.
• Marina Maher wins Pernod Ricard whiskey brands
  NEW YORK: Pernod Ricard named Marina Maher Communications the AOR for its whiskey portfolio, including the Glenlivet, Jameson, and Chivas Regal brands.
• Apple wins in hushed battle over iPhone carrier
  Articles that Verizon may soon be getting Apple's iPhone, ending AT&T's exclusivity it's enjoyed since the popular phone launched, have created somewhat of PR limbo for both carriers.
• 'The Economist' taps DKC for film-related project
  The Economist hired DKC to work on a project, effective last week, as it aims to expand its brand positioning beyond just a magazine, to more of a multimedia property, explains agency president Sean Cassidy.
• DiGennaro adds new division led by Wells
  NEW YORK: DiGennaro Communications is launching a thought leadership content division to be led by Melanie Wells, executive editor at Forbes Media.

The Story Behind the Story

• UTAH SOUND MONEY ACT (Brilliant!!!)
  Today I was introduced to Mr. Larry Hilton, JD, MBA – the author of a brilliant piece of much needed legislation that hopefully will pass the Utah legislature, and then each and every other state in this union. Here is his introduction to me for the “Utah Sound Money Act” —- Click here:  Sound Mone ...
• Long Live King and Queen Obama!!!!
  Barack Obama enjoys living like a king, so why shouldn’t Michelle Obama live like a queen? The First Lady was photographed last night in Hawaii wearing $635 per pair designer shoes by Maison Martin Margiela. A woman lucky enough to have a job in this economy and working for the federal minimum wage ...
• Remember November 22, 1963 – The Assassinati ...
  To honor the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, I think it important to post the following correspondence with independent researcher and film-maker John Hankey. This written dialog was first posted on Rense.com by Mr. Hankey back in 2007. A. True Ott, PhD The Reason JFK Jr Was Murdered From John Ha ...
• COLD FUSION IS HERE!!!
  Understanding Lightning âNeltronsâ is Key to Cold Fusion One manâs study of lightning and itâs effects led to his discovery of the Neltron – tiny negative particles of matter smaller than electrons. The Van Allen Magnetic belts discharges tiny negative particles into the part of the air where helium ...
• INSIDERS REPORT: OBAMA SUFFERING FROM SEVERE DEPR ...
  So you state that President Obama is depressed?  How did you come by this information?  From a direct source still working within the White House on a daily basis.  As I had stated previously, tensions at the White House have reached a critical stage.  The infighting among staff is off the charts.  ...

k2p blog

• Bring back my incandescent light bulb!
  Consumer protection organisations have demanded a suspension of the EU ban on incandescent light bulbs, citing official tests that showed the new compact fluorescent lamps to be dangerous if broken.
• Sarkozy pushes nuclear, arms deals on India visit
  The French President is on a 4 day visit to India close on the heels of the visits by President Obama aand the Russian Prime Minister. The Chinese Premier is due next.
• Cancun won’t because it can’t
  With Japan's forthright statement on Monday and reluctance on the part of the other countries such as Russia, Canada and Australia to commit to a second phase, the entire negotiation at Cancun is fraught with uncertainty.
• Proof positive of FIFA bribery & corruption: Qatar ...
  Can there be any other reason than B & C for Qatar to get the World Cup??? http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/9250612.stm
• Does microfinance lead to a debt trap?
  Some more of my illusions get shattered. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11899506

Left Foot Forward

• The real nature of the EMA debate
  Anthony Painter examines the truth behind the numbers in the Educational Maintenance Allowance debate.
• Who’s misleading whom?
  The tuition fee row will hit its peak tonight, after which students across England will have to face up to the fact they will pay fees amounting to £27,000.
• London’s new anti-Tory generation says no to ...
  On the day MPs vote on government proposals to increase tuition fees, Ken Livingstone has warned the government about the disastrous consequences for London.
• Five reasons to oppose the trebling of fees
  MPs will vote tonight on the trebling of tuition fees to £9,000. Left Foot Forward sets out five reasons to oppose the move.
• New campaign to up the ante on bank reform
  If banks operated in public interest, there would be no need for a ‘Big Society Bank', argues Ruth Potts of the new economics foundation.

Consumerist

• Reach Dell Resolution Expert Center
  Here's how to contact the Dell Resolution Expert Center (REC), another place to get action on your Dell customer service issue. It's a special internal escalations team set up to resolve thornier problems. One Dell call center employee calls them "demigods" and recommends that "if there is no luck ...
• At The Gap, "50% Off All Sweaters" Is Essentially ...
  One would think that with a major national retailer such as The Gap, promotional signage would be carefully coordinated on a national basis. Local stores wouldn't be slapping whatever placards they have lying around in the store window, whether or not the sales advertised on those placards are ac ...
• Pizza Hut Receipt: "Careful This Gal Is A Bitch"
  Apparently, at one Nebraska Pizza Hut, complaining about a botched order makes you a bitch. When one customer called to complain about her order, she received a credit for free pizza. That pizza arrived with a special message on the receipt: "Careful This Gal Is A Bitch." She chose not to eat the p ...
• Geeks.com Gives Full Refund When New Ubuntu Distri ...
  Adam ordered an older netbook from geeks.com. When it arrived, the wireless Internet didn't work, so he upgraded the version of Ubuntu Linux from 8.04 to 10.04. This just broke almost everything else on the computer. He returned the netbook to geeks.com, but didn't expect them to offer a full refun ...
• Calculate How Many Days You Have To Work To Buy So ...
  DaysToPay is a handy little site that quickly shows you how long you will have to work in order to buy something. Enter the cost and your hourly wage or yearly salary and it shows you just how much of your sweat is going into that new Xbox Kinect. "If you knew you had to work 3 Days, 6 hours and 4 ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Lugar Urges Development Banks to Report Corruption ...
  Senator Richard Lugar released a statement on Tuesday in which he urged all multinational development banks to refer companies and consultants suspected of fraudulent or corrupt practices to relevant national authorities. The development banks -- including the World Bank, African Development Bank, A ...
• Justice Department Examines Laws with Potential Us ...
  Courtesy of Espen Moe The New York Times: Justice Department Studies WikiLeaks Prosecution According to those familiar with the Justice Department’s investigation into WikiLeaks, government officials are examining an array of statutes that could potentially be used to charge WikiLeaks fo ...
• AIG Role Still Haunts James Cole's Chances to be D ...
  As the 111th Congress draws to a close, the heat is on to confirm James Cole as Deputy Attorney General. Despite the last-minute push, Cole still has serious problems that haunt and disqualify him from taking a senior position at the Justice Department. From 2005 through December 2009, James Cole ...
• Opposition Remains to Nomination of James Cole for ...
  James Cole/Bryan Cave LLP Main Justice: Sessions Thwarts Movement on Deputy Attorney General Nominee The nomination of James Cole to the position of Deputy Attorney General at the Justice Department (DOJ), which has been stalled in the Senate since he was endorsed in July, continues to dra ...
• GAP's Tom Devine Discusses Federal Whistleblower P ...
  On the Media (NPR): WikiLeaks and Protections for Federal Whistleblowers This OTM segment features a one-on-one interview with GAP Legal Director Tom Devine. He discusses the current, inadequate protections for government whistleblowers and the need to pass the Whistleblower Protection Enhance ...

UK Progressive

• Green Matters: One Year After “Climategate”
  By Theodora Filis When unknown hackers stole more than 1,000 e-mails written by British climate researchers last year, and published some of them on the Internet, the media dubbed the affair “Climategate” in reference to the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon ...
• The President’s Last Stand Is No Stand At All: Why ...
  by Robert Reich The deal the President struck with Republican leaders is an abomination. It will cost $900 billion over the next two years — larger than the bailout of Wall Street, GM, and Chrysler put together, larger than the stimulus package, larger than anything that’s come out of Washington in ...
• Obama To Progressives: I Won’t Be Held To ‘Some Ab ...
  You miss the point Mr. President. It’s because they know they can roll you and you will cave sir.
• Obama Disappoints, Scolds Progressives Says ‘He’ W ...
  by Denis G. Campbell If complete victories are the standard by which we are measuring success or core principles,” President Obama said yesterday in his news conference, “then, let’s face it, we will never get anything done. People will have the satisfaction of having a purist position and no victor ...
• Obama: Republicans Held The American People Hostag ...
  Sometimes though you have to make a stand Mr. President. Get out the veto pen and make them suffer.

NewsAlert

• NY Times Warning: Blue State Armageddon On The Way
  The American Interest
• Do You Have Any Property Rights?
  Cato Unbound
• Minority groups demand feds pull California high-s ...
  The San Jose Mercury reports:In the latest hurdle thrown in the path of California's forthcoming high-speed rail project, a statewide nonprofit coalition of minority-owned companies and small businesses is demanding the federal government pull $3 billion from the initiative. The complaint filed wit ...
• NJ Gov. Christie introduced as 'true rock star' to ...
  APP
• Bill to Give Seniors $250 Defeated in House
  Fox News

JoNova

• BREAKING NEWS! The abdication of the West — the st ...
  It did seem too quiet at Cancun. The power hungry tyrants learnt from Copenhagen. They realized that they have a far better chance of success by underselling the expectations and sliding in long impenetrable documents in front of underling bureaucrats. Due to the importance of this I have reproduced ...
• Where is the evidence for the dangerous positive f ...
  It appears the warming of the 20th Century has been done before.  It’s just business as usual for the planet. Frank Lansner has been hard at work again, and we’ve been discussing the Vostok ice cores. This time Lansner was looking to see if the current warming trend was unusual, and if there was ev ...
• Solar Panel subsidies: A billion dollars to provid ...
  There is no sunnier first world country than Australia. If solar was going to be a raging success anywhere, surely it would be in the land of the Sunburnt Country. Instead the Australian government has poured in more than a billion dollars to install solar panels on the roof tops of private homes.  ...
• Where is the evidence for the dangerous positive f ...
  It appears the warming of the 20th Century has been done before.  It’s just business as usual for the planet. Frank Lansner has been hard at work again, and we’ve been discussing the Vostok ice cores. This time Lansner was looking to see if the current warming trend was unusual, and if there was ev ...
• Newspoll fails basic test of english: produces non ...
  The latest Newspoll test on climate gives out almost no useful information on what Australians think about carbon emissions, but definitively shows that Newspoll survey designers didn’t think too hard about the questions. Indeed the survey is so meaningless that sometimes sceptics and unskeptics wou ...

ReNew America

• Morning after reflections on the tax deal
  (John Hayward) - Everyone has had a chance to sleep on the deal to extend Bush tax rates, announced last night by President Obama and congressional Republicans. Congressional Democrats were largely irrelevant to the process, and did not sleep well...
• Gifted artist with Down syndrome donates paintings ...
  (South Coast Today) - Three of David Danis' favorite activities are watching television, painting and helping those in need. One TV program he watched a while ago helped pull it all together...
• Deal struck on tax package
  (Wall Street Journal) - President Barack Obama reached agreement Monday with Republican leaders in Congress on a broad tax package that would extend the Bush-era income tax cuts for two years, reduce worker payroll taxes for one year and give more favorable treatment to business investments...
• WikiLeaks' internal e-mails revealed
  (NewsReal) - Today is the day that WikiLeaks is going to get a taste of its own medicine. Thanks to an early participant in WikiLeaks' operations dating back to 2006 and the beginning of 2007, who became so disgruntled with its leader's outsized ego, lies and deceitful methods that he quit, we have ...
• WikiLeaks threatens release of Gitmo files
  (Newsmax) - Julian Assange, the treacherous founder of WikiLeaks, continues to threaten harm against the United States. He promises to release secret documents about Guantanamo Bay, which is home to the U.S. detention center for suspected terrorists, if any government tries to curb his dastardly doi ...

Truth Offering

• A Nation of Cowardly, Morally-Bankrupt Sheep
  Sheep are led to slaughter. They are controlled from birth to death. They are oppressed. And once they are controlled, they will never again be free. WE are a nation of SHEEP! Tweet � Note: this isn't for the faint of heart. I'm frustrated! Why!? Because I care. I care deeply; about this country; a ...
• Latest Poll - Week Ending 12/5/10
  Tweet � This time around, we wanted to know what you thought of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy. More specifically, we asked, "Do you think the Federal Reserve's monetary policy will lead to hyperinflation?" Here are the results: So although we didn't all agree it would happen soon, we all s ...
• S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
  Tweet In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
• Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Relatio ...
  At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the Uni ...
• Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Relatio ...
  Tweet At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect ...

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