- 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 ...
- 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
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- 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 ...
- 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. ...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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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. ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...]]
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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 [...]
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Send Wikileaks Some Love (and Cash)
Blogs like this one could not exist without sources like Wikileaks. Â I have had my own Bradley Mannings provide invaluable information which they and I deemed to be vital for my readers to know. Â 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. Â McGee’s niece, decades after his death, makes a deathbed promise to her mother, McGee’s sister, to get to t ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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” ...
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 ...
- 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.
- 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 Â DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transpare ...
- 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.
- 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
- 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 ...
- 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” ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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. ...
- 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 ...
- 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
- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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Image via WikipediaJoe Lieberman emulates Chinese dictatorsThe 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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."
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- .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
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 →
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- (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 ...
- 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:Â 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. ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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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.
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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.
- 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 ...
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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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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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