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• CHILE: Grassroots Heritage Preservation Efforts Gr ...
  With the first National Congress on Heritage Neighbourhoods and Areas, community groups in Chile plan to draw attention to their struggle to defend the country's vulnerable historic heritage.
• Greybeards Urge U.S. not to Veto U.N. Anti-Settlem ...
  Some four dozen former top U.S. diplomats and prominent policy analysts are urging President Barack Obama not to veto a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution that is expected to reaffirm the illegality of Jewish settlements in the Occupied Territories.
• COTE D'IVOIRE: New Techniques, New Profits for Tom ...
  Even while the country has faced civil war and political crisis, innovative research organisations have worked to meet the challenges of food security and rural poverty.
• 'Accidentally' Set on Fire – New Form of Sex ...
  "I knew he beat her but I never imagined that she would end up like this," Elsa Jerez told IPS, talking about her 24-year-old daughter Fátima Catán, a victim of domestic violence in Argentina who died of severe burns to her body.
• JAMAICA: Dying Manufacturing Sector Seeks Govt Cur ...
  For close to 10 years, Patrick Marzouca has just managed to keep his tiny car factory afloat in a rapidly declining productive sector.

Scoop - NZ

• Old Jet Retooled to Slay Stealth Fighters
  It's been just three weeks since China unveiled its new J-20 stealth fighter, and already the U.S. Air Force has plans well underway to defeat the
• Fisk: The brutal truth about Tunisia ...
  The end of the age of dictators in the Arab world? Certainly they are shaking in their boots across the Middle East, the well-heeled sheiks and emirs, and the kings, including one very old one in Saudi Arabia and a young one in Jordan, and presidents – another very old one in Egypt and a young one i ...
• Tweeting Tyrants Out of Tunisia
  Even yesterday, it would have been too much to say that blogger, tweeters, Facebook users, Anonymous and Wikileaks had brought down the Tunisian government,
• Hone: Maori Party has lost its way
  A FEW MONTHS ago my daughter said to me, "Dad, you know I'll always vote for you, but I just can't bring myself to vote for the Maori Party any longer. I don't like what I see your mates doing, so I'm gonna vote for the Greens." That was a bit of a kick in the bum for me, having led the hikoi tha ...
• Deepening crisis traps America's have-nots
  The US is drifting from a financial crisis to a deeper and more insidious social crisis. Self-congratulation by the US authorities that they have this time avoided a repeat of the 1930s is premature.

Independent - London

• Obama and Hu vow cooperation
  The United States and China unveiled $45 billion in export deals today as Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao sought to paper over deep rifts about trade, currencies and security.
• Rising rivers swamp another Australian town
  Authorities told residents in Australia's southeast to flee homes with three days of supplies today as a surging river threatened another community in a flooding crisis that has devastated the country's mining industry.
• Obama hosts Hu as world powers seek common ground
  President Barack Obama has welcomed Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House for the start of day-long meetings to address currency, trade, security and human rights concerns.
• Video: Funeral of 13-year-old Australian flood vic ...
  Father remembers his teenage son, Jordan Rice, who died after pleading with rescuers to save his younger brother first.
• Video: Dramatic rescues in Brazil
  Helicopters reach stranded drivers in Sao Paulo state as flood waters rise.

Rogue Government.com

• Greek default plan report rejected
  Government officials in Greece and Germany have denied a report that officials in Germany's finance ministry are working on contingency plans to handle the fall-out if Greece defaults or needs to restructure its debt.
• Romania Likely to Get New World Bank Deal Over 2 Y ...
  Romania will probably secure a new loan agreement with the World Bank to be packaged with a cred
  Image via Wikipediait from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union which may span beyond a 2012 elections, a bank official said.
• Augmented reality ads on the rise around Europe
  A growing number of European start ups have taken to creating virtual experiences that double as commercials. But as this sector is rapidly expanding, challenges remain.
• Fear Mongering: Cyber-attacks could cause global ' ...
  A succession of multiple cyber-attacks could "become a full-scale global shock" on a par with a pandemic and the collapse of the world financial system, the report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said.
• Canada Bans Classic Dire Straits Song From The Rad ...

Innovation Canada

• Quitting time
  Despite the best intentions of a 34-year-old National Non-Smoking Week, which starts on Jan. 16, one of the most disheartening things for anyone trying to quit smoking is the extremely high likelihood that his or her efforts will end in failure. “Even with proper treatment, around 70 to 80 percent o ...
• Discoveries of the deep
  Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the planet. Hidden beneath them is an entire world we know very little about, a world of undersea mountain ranges and ocean basins that play host to hundreds of thousands of underwater species. In the late 1990s, marine scientists expressed their concern with thi ...
• Shakin' all over
  At the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston, Ont., Richard Bathurst is a mover and a shaker. Literally. Over the past 20 years, Bathurst, a civil engineering professor who is cross-appointed to Queen’s University, has become an internationally recognized authority on earthquake-resista ...
• The year in review
  Welcome to 2011! Before we launch into a new year of covering cutting-edge Canadian research, we’re going to rewind and look back at some of the success stories we featured on InnovationCanada.ca in 2010.  Some recurring themes in Canadian research this year were: biodiversity, aboriginal culture, a ...
• Celebrating Arctic research
  When you turn 50, there’s a tendency to sit back and celebrate your accomplishments. But some 50-year-olds prefer to be bold and try new things. Such is the case for the University of Alberta’s Canadian Circumpolar Institute (CCI). Between building university-degree programs in the North and finding ...

Signs of the times

• Plasma Rain on The Sun
  A sheet of plasma more than 350,000 km wide is rising and falling along the sun's southwestern limb today. It's so big, it makes an easy target for backyard observatories. Amateur astronomer Michael Buxton sends this time lapse movie from Ocean Beach, California: "I made the movie at 1 minute i ...
• 9,400-year-old dog found, earliest found in Americ ...
  Nearly 10,000 years ago, man's best friend provided protection and companionship - and an occasional meal. That's what researchers are saying after finding a bone fragment from what they are calling the earliest confirmed domesticated dog in the Americas. University of Maine graduate student Sam ...
• Healthy Food For Your Eyes
  When it comes to foods for the eyes, carrots are right on top of everyone's list. However, this rich source of vitamin A is not the only ingredient of a healthy eye diet. Vitamin A prevents night blindness and focal drying of the eyes called Xerophthalmia and can retard the development of cataracts ...
• Brazil: Rains Put Sao Paulo on Alert, Rio Deaths R ...
  Brazilian officials have put Sao Paulo on alert as heavy rains hit the metropolis. In Rio state, meanwhile, deaths from last week's mudslides have risen to 727. As rain fell on Sao Paulo, water rose above car windows in some points in the South America's largest city, blocking major highways. Th ...
• The brutal truth about Tunisia
  Bloodshed, tears, but no democracy. Bloody turmoil won't necessarily presage the dawn of democracy The end of the age of dictators in the Arab world? Certainly they are shaking in their boots across the Middle East, the well-heeled sheiks and emirs, and the kings, including one very old one in Saud ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Shameless self promotion
  For those who remember the Maple Syrup Revolution podcasts from earlier this year, you may want to check out this post over at The Woodshed. I'll try not to clog this blog with endless plugs for my new project, but I really can't recommend Virtually Speaking strongly enough. It is a terrific listen, ...
• Pc Green....
  Sometimes...good things happen. The trial of six green campaigners has collapsed after an undercover policeman who had infiltrated their group offered to give evidence on their behalf. Funny thing about hanging around green types, one does start to learn and love the planet a little and notice ...
• Blog-flog: Ms. Marx
  Literate, articulate, and engaging on a great many things righteous and just. That'd be a certain Ms Marx, sociology gradstudent, residing out where they pull giant nickels from the ground. Go now, and read.
• US rightwing fantasy vs. reality
  The US right, fortunately, mostly still inhabits a world of rhetorical violence. You see, despite the rhetoric and the history, precious few wingnuts are actually willing to move beyond talk and engage in real political violence. Theirs is an unreality where, despite their relative wealth and afflu ...
• The future comes closer . . .
  Nano loom: Carbon-nanotube webs are pulled and twisted to make yarns. The four webs here are 5.5 centimeters wide. Credit: Science/AAASMIT'S TECHNOLOGY REVIEW has an important report by Katherine Bourzac, "Spinning Nano Yarns", which highlights several important advances in nano-material fabricati ...

Media Matters for America

• Fox's MacCallum Doesn't Know What The EPA Does
  During a segment criticizing the Obama administration's relationship with the business community, Fox "straight news" anchor Martha MacCallum claimed that "it is not customary for the EPA to tell car companies how to run their business." In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency has set mandator ...
• Fox Rushes To Discredit HHS Study On Pre-Existing ...
  Fox News has repeatedly attempted to discredit an HHS study estimating how many people have pre-existing conditions. In doing so, Fox falsely claimed the study said 129 million people would "lose their coverage" if Republicans repealed the health care reform law, when in fact, HHS said this num ...
• Fox Prepares For Health Care Repeal By Misinformi ...
  In advance of the House GOP's health care repeal vote, Fox News hosts, contributors, and guests have repeatedly misinformed about the health care reform bill with attacks ranging from falsely claiming that the bill "did not include incentives for wellness" and that the bill will cause jobs " ...
• Gingrich Falsely Accuses Obama Of "Waging A War On ...
  Fox News contributor�Newt Gingrich recently falsely accused the Obama administration of "waging a war on American energy." In fact, the Obama administration has invested in domestic energy production and has made historic efforts to reduce American independence on foreign oil.Fox Contributor Gingri ...
• Wash. Times Hosts Unhinged Attacks On O ...
  In the week since the memorial service for the victims of the shootings in Tucson, Arizona, The Washington Times has published op-eds attacking President Obama over his speech and criticizing the service as a "political rally" and a "campaign event."Kuhner: Obama's Speech "Was A Surreal Spectac ...

Global Research.ca

• Financial Chaos and Debt Default in the European U ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The Systemic Global Economic Crisis: At the Crossr ...
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• Night in Tunisia: Riots, Strikes and a Spreading I ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Wars Are Not Fought on Battlefields
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Countering Pentagon Propaganda About Prisoners Rel ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• 2020 Vision
  I run the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and so in a sense I get paid to think about the future. Usually I spend my time thinking about the intersection of technology and media, but today I want to talk about three tectonic shifts that are taking place in the world and how they might effect what Ameri ...
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• Political Winds: The Parties Of Global Israel
  There is no need for me to comment on Ehud Barak's decision to bolt the Labor Party, or shall I say unhinge it. Daniel Levy's long,�thoughtful analysis on Foreign Policy's Middle East Channel�tells you all you need to know, and more. As I said a few posts back, a new party is taking shape to organiz ...
• Bombing Iran: Goldberg Responds
  In response to my recent post, Jeffrey Goldberg sent me the following email, which I reproduce in full:I read your recent article, and I don't feel that the merits of your case are strong. When I completed the reporting for the Atlantic piece in June (it was shipped in July and published in August), ...
• Some Wiring Under the Tuscon Courthouse Floor
  I'm not satisfied with public discussion of the Tuscon horror. Years ago, I learned from another such massacre, on the Long Island Railroad, that deranged loners like Jared Loughlin may be tuned in more acutely than the rest of us to a society's subliminal signals and that when those undercurrents o ...

TruthOut

• Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian American and ...
  Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are, with Latinos, the fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S. workforce. In 2009, Asian American and Pacific Islanders were one of every 20 U.S. workers, up from one in 40 only 20 years earlier. AAPIs, again with Latinos, are also the fastest growing e ...
• Two Blue Dogs Explain Why They Oppose Repeal
  Washington - U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, co-chairman of the Blue Dog coalition of conservative Democrats, voted "no" last year when President Barack Obama's health care reform proposal came before the House. So did U.S. Rep. Larry Kissell. But when the Republicans vote today on repealing the health car ...
• Alan Grayson | Gabby Was Right, Palin Is Wrong
  When I opened my web browser yesterday, at yahoo.com, there was Sarah Palin, smiling at me. "Oh, God," I said to myself, "what has she done now?" The headline was "Palin Defends 'Blood Libel'". That's interesting, I thought. What else might Palin be defending? Cannibalism, maybe?read more
• Tunisia's Democratic Revolution
  Whether the overthrow of the corrupt and autocratic Ben Ali regime in Tunisia in a mass civil insurrection will lead to a stable, just and democratic order remains to be seen, but the dramatic events in that North African country underscore a critical point: Democracy in the Arab world will not come ...
• New Mexico Governor Violating Constitution for Pol ...
  In an effort to tackle the climate change crisis, on December 6, 2010, the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) adopted New Energy Economy's (NEE) rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 3 percent per year from 2010 levels, with a goal to reduce emissions 25 percent below 1990 levels ...

Planetsave

• The Future of Energy & How to Achieve It
  If you ask environmentally-minded people or typical liberals/progressives about what sort of energy we should be using and what energy technologies our governments should be promoting, you are sure to see a lot of support for renewable energy like solar and wind, as well as the components that make ...
• Global Warming — What If It’s a Big Hoax
  Of course, I wouldn’t endorse that ridiculous claim that global warming is a hoax for a second. The science is clear. However, even if you were completely confused about this matter, what would be the point of not working improve our society with clean energy, more jobs, clean water and air, a bette ...
• Loss of Arctic Reflectivity Intensifies Global War ...
  A new study published online in the journal Nature Geoscience has uncovered data that shows over the past 30 years the decreases in the amount of snow and ice covering the Earth’s surface has decreased the reflective capacity of the Earth and exacerbated global warming much more than previous climat ...
• New Oil Platform Planned for Grey Whale Feeding Gr ...
  The Sakhalin Energy Investment Company which is part owned by Shell has announced plans to build a third major oil platform in the centre of crucial feeding grounds for the North Pacific grey whale, in the Russian Far East. Considering that Sakhalin already have two major oil platforms in the vicini ...
• Breakthrough: Transgenic Chicken Blocks H5NI Flu S ...
  A transgenic chicken has been developed that blocks transmission of the avian flu to other chickens. The new technique — some aspects of which are not clear even to the geneticists developing it — holds out great promise for preventing human illness as well as unnecessary animal deaths. But nothing ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Congratulations on the Wetlands Family Day
  Waihola couldn’t have put on better weather for the family  day that the Society held on the 2
• Journey through Waihola’s wetland (Taieri Herald, ...
  Journey through Waihola’s wetland Taieri Herald 30 Nov 2010 The magnificent view from within the wet
• Texas and EPA: Going to battle over waste water pe ...
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has publically demanded that Texas immediately take s
• Singapore International Water Week, 04-08 July 201 ...
  Theme: Sustainable Water Solutions for a Changing Urban Environment This global platform for water s
• WaterMicro 2011: 16th International Symposium on H ...
  Organised by: International Water Association (IWA), Affordable Water, National Institute of Water a

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Palast Arrested - Busted by BP in Azerbaijan by Gr ...
  by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 20 December, 2010 “Here in A
• Chris Hedges: Obama is a "Poster Child for the Dea ...
  with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 20, 2010 Image by Dandelion Salad via Fli
• Michael Parenti: The Panama Deception + US imperia ...
  with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org December 20, 2010 Image
• Is Bradley Manning Being Held as Some Sort of “Ene ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 20 December, 2010 Imag
• Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail by Chris ...
  Image by Collin David Anderson via Flickr by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig D

Axis of Logic

• "Venezuela Says Oil Reserves Surpass Saudi Arabia' ...
  In the Reuters report republished in full below, the corporate media (CNBC/Reuters) overstepped itself - again - taking every conceivable opportunity to attack President Chávez in what should have been a simple, straight-forward news bulletin. They begin by raising questions about his character, the ...
• U.S. : 200 cows found dead in Wisconsin field - Wo ...
  STOCKTON, Wis., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- A Wisconsin farmer suspects a virus killed about 200 of his cows. Portage County sheriff's deputies were dispatched to a farm field in Stockton Friday after the department was notified of the dead cows, the Wausau Daily Herald reported. The sheriff's department ...
• The Slave Revolution that created a nation - Haiti
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• The War On WikiLeaks - Critical Analysis
  The attacks on WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, are a response to an information revolution that threatens old power orders, in politics and journalism. The incitement to murder trumpeted by public figures in the United States, together with attempts by the Obama administration to corrupt ...
• Right-wing and liberal media fawn over Obama speec ...
  15 January 2011 President Obama’s Wednesday night speech at a memorial service for the victims of the Tucson massacre has been hailed by all sections of the corporate-controlled media, both liberal and conservative. Its main theme—opposing any political analysis of the attempted assassination of ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• You're surprised that republicans lie? I suppose y ...
  I don't know how to tell you this, but when John Boehner and the republican caucus in the House insist that the Affordable Care Act will kill/crush/destroy jobs, they are flat-out lying. Their noses are growing and their pants are on fire. They're just making shit up. Especially about healthcare. Th ...
• Fighting the Man by Speaking Truth to Power
  This is how it's done, children. If you have time to recover between beatings, you're doing it wrong. From The Nation: When the brave and brilliant journalist John Ross was offered official honors by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 2009 -- for telling "stories nobody else could or would te ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  The Domestic Terrorists at the Gun Owners of America are doubling down They are still using violent language to oppose the Affordable Care Act because they fear the creation of a database that might keep a Glock with a 30 round clip out of the hands of a crazed and dangerous individual like Jared Le ...
• Just What We Need_ More Reaganesque Deregulation.
  Please... spare me the platitudes about how this is all being done for the benefit if small businesses. �That's bullshit when the Republicans say it and it's the same stinking steaming pile when the Democrats say it. � Number one... Wall Street and Washington couldn't find a smaller rat's ass to giv ...
• Nixon's No Liberal

Care 2

• Why Facebook wants your phone number - CNN.com
  Why does Facebook want your phone number and address? Submitted by Mary Patricia E. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Endangered whooping cranes were shot
  Preliminary tests on three dead cranes found at the end of last year conclude that the endangered birds were shot. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Richard (RJ) Eskow: If Obama Moves Right He Loses ...
  Yet it's still rumored that the president's State of the Union will emphasize deficit reduction over job creation, and the White House has refused to assure worried Democrats that the president won't also propose cuts to Social Security. Submitted by Hans Mueller to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...
• TAKE ACTION!!! German government funds Lufthansa ...
  Lufthansa has published plans for the world's first commercial flights with agrofuel-blends � including palm oil - from April 2011--Shockingly, the German government is subsidising Lufthansa's agrofuel project to the tune of 2.5 million Euros and has pubSubmitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� ...
• California city is the first, but not the last, to ...
  Well, here we go: Threatened by rising ocean levels, the city of Ventura, California is starting to pick up stakes and move inland. It's removing a bike path and pushing back a parking lot at a spot called Surfers Point, in the hopes of resisting ...Submitted by Hans Mueller to Environment �|� �Not ...

Smirking Chimp

• The Daily Chimp for Wednesday, 19 January 2011
• Class War and Violence Belie Obama's Tattered Unit ...
• If Obama Moves Right He Loses Everybody - And Ever ...
• It's Mourning in America: Tacky and Weird
• Straight shooters: All I want is a weapon of mass ...

Paul Krugman

• What's Moving Interest Rates?
  It's the economy, stupid.
• The Output Gap
  It's big -- as expected.
• Great Leaps Backward
  Are we China, 1958-61?
• Upton Sinclair and the Wonk Gap
  No analysis, no accident.
• European Inflation Targets
  Bad for the periphery.

No Quarter

• Principles of Our Government and the Congressional ...
  The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism… –Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson wrote those words in a letter, dated May 28, 1816, to writer, Virginia delegate, and U.S. Senator,  John Taylor. They were i ...
• Hu Knows Who?
  * Bumped Up * Chinese Premier Jintao Hu is in town. I just caught the following news report and wanted to be sure you are up to speed: My favorite moment? Tossing Barack the keys and warning him not to scratch the stealth plane. That is priceless.
• Obama Summons “Journos” and OPEN THREAD
  The word “journalist” still suggests some level of accountability, truth-seeking or objectivity, though that is eroding quickly. Right now, I see people like Matthews, Olbermann and their ilk as “information stylists.” They style information according to what they think looks good and then try to se ...
• Hu Knows Who?
  Chinese Premier Jintao Hu is in town. I just caught the following news report and wanted to be sure you are up to speed: My favorite moment? Tossing Barack the keys and warning him not to scratch the stealth plane. That is priceless.
• Your Tax Paying Dollars At Work In Tucson, And Els ...
  In the ensuing days after the Tucson shooting, the Federal Government has sent a slew of people there to work with the locals in trying to figure out just what the heck was going on with Jared Loughner, as this Washington Post article highlights: A team of 250 federal investigators and 130 local det ...

Environmental Graffiti

• 6 of Haiti's Lost Frogs Rediscovered
  In Haiti, 6 unique frogs have been rediscovered after 20 long years thought lost to science. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Harrowing Consequences of the Captive Dolphin ...
  Every time this article is read, money is donated straight to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, helping to protect dolphins from brutal drive hunting. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• The Strange History of Funeral Fashion Conventions
  Funeral attire and fashion has varied throughout history and from culture to culture. This in-depth look at why these traditions are held has much to reveal... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• How Black Magic is Threatening India's Owl Populat ...
  Owls are trapped and traded illegally in India because of their superstitious importance and use in black magic and sorcery. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Incredible Fauna of the Largest Wetland on Ear ...
  South America's Pantanal is the largest wetland on earth, a place teeming with wildlife yet under threat. We explore it through the lens of top photographer Nick Garbutt. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

• The Murdered Women of Juarez
  The murder of women and the escalating war on drugs reveal a Mexican system with blood on its hands.
• Proposal: A Global Day of Action on Military Spend ...
  Budget priorities are finally getting a hearing in Washington -- let's not waste it.
• Gen. Petraeus Makes McChrystal Look Like a Pacifis ...
  Counterinsurgency can mean whatever you want it to mean.
• New U.S. Ship Deployment to Costa Rica Heightens T ...
  The Costa Rican government approves deployment of U.S. Coast Guard.
• Arab Democracy Now!
  Will Tunisia be the beginning of the Arab world's 1989?

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...

Al Jazeera

• 'Baby Doc' holds presidency hopes
  Former president Jean-Claude Duvalier seeks a return to power, despite facing corruption and theft charges.
• Tunisia leader vows break with past
  Interim president pledges separation of state and political parties as he seeks to shore up new government.
• UN to boost Cote d'Ivoire forces
  UN Security Council beefs up peacekeeping mission with additional 2,000 troops as the latest mediation effort fails.
• Swiss banker held over WikiLeaks
  Rudolf Elmer arrested over the passing of tax evader details to website, hours after being convicted in separate case.
• Troops held over DR Congo mass rape
  Fifty women tell UN they were raped in Fizi town in an incident that appears to be a vengeance for death of a soldier.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Europeans Suspend Trade in Emissions Permits
  The attacks raise new questions about the viability of the bloc's main tool to combat a rise in warming gases in the atmosphere.
• On Our Radar: Senator Seeks Ban on 'Frankenfish'
  An politician describes genetically modified fish as a "monster" that threatens wild stocks.
• Full Speed Ahead on Deepwater Drilling
  Reflecting the expansion, BP has secured permits to drill in the Great Australian Bight basin.
• Severe Smog Linked to Deaths in Hong Kong
  A new study ties declining visibility and rising air pollution to 1,200 deaths annually in the city from 2007 to 2010.
• A Better Yardstick for Solar Cycles
  New research gives climate scientists optimism that they can make a more accurate determination of the sun's role in global warming.

Dot Earth News

• Deconstructing a Bestiary of Malthusian 'Miserabil ...
  After an attack on those seeking population stability, a more subtle discussion of human numbers and choices.
• Vanishing Planet in 140 Amusing Characters
  Finding humor, via Twitter, in news that a possible life-friendly planet may not exist.
• From Whales to Apes, Small Conservation Steps
  Conservation efforts, whether for whales or apes, entail risk but offer rewards, one small victory at a time.
• A Look at White House Views on Scientific Integrit ...
  A critique of new White House efforts to foster the integrity and communication of science.
• On Responding to Imprecise Climate Risks
  Exploring the logic for action on warming despite imprecise forecasts.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• The Kids Ain't All Right: FDA: Vitamin C illegal; ...
  “It’s like an epidemic, in the sense that they’re infected with these wrong ideas, and they’re spreading it to other researchers through journals.” -- Dr. John Ioannidis I can't recommend NaturalNews.com enough. For excellent info that has helped me quite a bit thru a still-dubious diet but now wit ...
• Seize the Year!! It's ours!! Now with Fractal Ante ...
  The last piece of litter I noticed in 2010 was a Four Loko can by the Hiawatha Franklin station. Had a nice New Years roundabout. Basement foursquare. Bonsai tree, Heatbox. Cabooze. Loud basement jamming. Wookiefoot. Igorrr. Stranvisky Conducts Firebird And the new Fractal microwave cloaking dev ...
• Russia & China not buying BIS Fractional Reserve G ...
  A bit of Xmas cheer pushin back against LA school district police brutality: How a Google Engineer (and Reddit) Got a Teenager Out of Jail for Christmas Fiddlesticks: It's Over: Jason Rosenbaum: BREAKING: FCC breaks Obama's promise, allows corporate censorship online with fake Net Neutrality Previou ...
• Robert Erickson: Featured Pic for Top 10 Political ...
  Friend of mine says this is still a running gag at her office six months later! :-D My mom is happy the Christmas tablecloth went a bit viral! Star Tribune featured the penny drop as the most photogenic political moment in Minnesota politics for 2010! The boring 2010 campaign season featured one hi ...
• Metrodome collapse new video closeups panels rippi ...
  Is it Metrodome or Metropolis? No one was injured fortunately. New video closeups from the surveillance cameras posted - its a pretty clear sign of collapse eh? Part 1: Part 2 The damage could block DNC 2012, sure to cheer opponents of the convention. In a satirical press release Nature took credi ...

Daily Censored

• The Palin Will Always Be With Us.
  Who was it? Who put all those big words in Sarah’s mouth? Were they spelled out phonetically on the TelePrompTer? We may never know. We may never care.
• Endless Lament from the Perpetual War
  By Numerian The reality of warfare – of being on the receiving end of cluster Bombs and drone airplane attacks – entirely escapes Americans, because warfare is remote and sanitized. On December 7th of this year – the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor – the United States will celebrate sevent ...
• Indiana charter schools fail to succeed
    The charter school hype never ceases to bear bitter fruit.  Take the state of Indiana.  Nearly 23,000 students attend 62 tuition-free, public charter schools in Indiana.  Under Indiana law, the mayor of Indianapolis can authorize charter schools and he has sponsored about 20. Another three are aut ...
• Another look at Red/Blue
  A Red state and a Blue state, it is interesting to look at some differences.  Florida is trying to pass an Arizona style illegal immigrant law.  It would not stand a chance in California.  In California one finds storefronts offering medical marijuana.  In Florida there are storefronts that offer “p ...
• Facebook’s ever changing privacy policies
  I’m not upset that I deleted my Facebook page. I never really got much out of it and I felt like I was constantly spending time on Facebook just fixing the privacy settings that were always changing. Now comes details that Facebook is planning on invading the privacy of its users further by making a ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Gaza Doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish Two Years After Isr ...
• Corn on "Hardball": Sarah Palin Defends ...
• Glenn Beck And Sean Hannity Dropped From Philadelp ...
• Union Protest Interrupts Mortgage Bankers Summit
• Chinese Workers Are Not the Enemy

Institute for Policy Studies

• What if Jared Loughner was a Muslim Arab Immgrant?
  What if the alleged gunman wasn't named Jared Loughner but instead was named Ali Mohammed?
• Food for a Rooted Future
  Rice farmers in the Philippines go chemical free, community strong.
• Arab Democracy Now!
  Will Tunisia be the beginning of the Arab world's 1989?
• The Lineup: Week of January 17-23, 2011
  Donald Kaul and John Feffer reflect on the insane national context for the tragic attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson.
• Ruled by Rifles
  We have to stop the guys with the guns from making their deranged rules--and fast.

Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

• PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
  Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
• War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
  WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Shahid ...
• An American Suicide Terrorist
  William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...
• Video: Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
  Cross-posted from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage ...
• Peter B Collins: Final Podcast of 2010: Progress ...
  Listen to Podcast:  Click Here Prof. David Coates of Wake Forest University and Tim Carpenter of Progressive Democrats of America discuss the new political mix in Washington and offer advice on how to confront the challenges ...

Marler Blog

• United Food Group Recalls 7,875 pounds of Angus Be ...
  United Food Group, LLC, a California business, is recalling approximately 7,875 pounds of ready-to-eat Angus Beef patties that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The products subject to recall include 22.5-pound cases of “FULLY COOKED BLACK ANGUS GROUND BEEF STEAK PATTIES,” with each ...
• Michael Hartmann, "Raw Milk Poster Boy," linked to ...
  The Star Tribune reported yesterday that the “state says condemned raw milk is missing from Gibbon farm,” and is now seeking an order of contempt. For those who recall, raw milk produced by Hartmann was blamed for causing eight cases of E. coli O157:H7 in May, and seven instances in July and August ...
• Is it time to treat sprouts like raw milk?
  Raw milk is banned from interstate sales and is limited in many others because of the risk of foodborne illness. Yet, sprouts, which have been causing a number of outbreaks recently and over the decades can be sold and bought whenever and wherever. Bruce Blythe of the Packer exploded this in his a ...
• FDA and CDC - 125 sickened by Salmonella serotype ...
  According to reports from the FDA and CDC: • From November 1, 2010, through January 11, 2011, 125 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:-, whose illnesses began since November 1, have been reported from 22 states and the District of Columbia. Results of t ...
• FDA Environmental Assessment of 2010 E. coli O145 ...
  This Environmental Assessment was conducted in response to a multi-state foodborne disease outbreak CDC investigation involving 33 cases of E. coli O145 infection in five states in the spring of 2010. An epidemiologic investigation found that the illnesses were associated with the consumption of shr ...

AutoblogGreen

• Chrysler working on hydraulic minivan hybrid with ...
  Filed under: Hybrid, Minivan/Van, Technology, Chrysler Chrysler Group CEO Sergio Marchionne and Lisa Jackson, Agency Administrator for the EPA, announced a new research project to bring hydraulic hybrid technology to the marketplace. The new hybrid will be based on Chrysler's Town & Country miniv ...
• AutoblogGreen for 01.19.11
  Video: First Model S Alpha build hits the road and it's gorgeous We're ready for our close-up. Detroit 2011: Volvo pushes electric vehicle safety message to the wall [w/video] It's an electric car that's also a Volvo, so you can bet it's ...
• Tesla Model S begins first phase of road testing [ ...
  Filed under: Sedan, Videos, Tesla, Electric Tesla Model S road testing - Click above to watch the video after the break The last time Tesla Motors released a video about the Model S, it was a lot of talking from the company's vice president and chief engineer for vehicle engineering, Peter Raw ...
• AutoblogGreen for 01.18.11
  Tesla's chief engineer says Model S work is "on track" Important Alpha tests going on now. Nissan's Tavares to GM: Electric cars don't have tailpipes Is he making himself clear? ...
• AutoblogGreen for 01.17.11
  Toyota: $50,000 fuel cell sedan on track to launch in 2015 Or sooner. China denies involvement in Renault EV spy case Over $841k found in secret bank accounts? ...

Rafe's Radar

• TripIt finds buyer, moves up-market
  Handy traveler's helper app, never a standalone business, finds a good fit in its buyer.
• AR.Drone lesson: Don't dogfight in a Wi-Fi war zon ...
  A demo of an iPhone-controlled helicopter goes wrong as the drone smacks into a CES attendee's head. Originally posted at CES 2011
• Yahoo pumps up Connected TV; D-Link announces box ...
  Yahoo has updated its TV widget platform, but does it make sense for it to get its own set-top box?
• Peep Wireless says it makes cell towers redundant
  Startup tries to bring mesh networking to cell carriers. Also walkie-talkies, lightwave data transmission, and radiowave energy harvesting. ...
• Cash is dead, says Dwolla
  Can an Iowa-based start-up undercut PayPal--and credit cards--by charging only a 25-cent-per-transaction fee?

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• Tucson, Juarez and an Assault Weapons Ban
  The Glock 19 semiautomatic pistol that Jared Loughner is accused of using in his rampage in Tucson, Ariz., is, according to Glock’s website, “ideal for versatile use through reduced dimensions” and is “suitable for concealed carry.” The site continues, “Compact and subcompact Glock pistol model mag ...
• Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA
  Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appears on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, January 14 at 7pm EST.
• TONIGHT: Amy Goodman on CNN’s John King USA
  Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, January 14 at 7pm EST.
• Amidst Violence, Thousands in Tunisia Protest for ...
  In Tunisia, thousands of demonstrators have gathered in the center of the capital, Tunis, calling for President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to immediately step down. For the past four weeks, Tunisia has been gripped by a wave of unprecedented protests over unemployment, high food prices and government ...
• Part II...Icelandic Parliamentarian Calls U.S. Sub ...
  The U.S. Department of Justice has subpoenaed the internet company Twitter for personal information from several people linked to the online whistleblower website WikiLeaks. The subpoena asks Twitter for all records and correspondence relating to their accounts. Icelandic parliament member Birgitta ...

Digg Green

• Genetically Modified Chickens Don't Pass On ...
  British researchers have inserted a gene into chickens that blocks flu viruses from replicating and spreading to humans. But it could take years before these genetically modified birds end up on your plate.
• Scientists Make Dozens of Storms in the Abu D ...
  A Swiss company, Meteo Systems, is poised to earn a pretty penny in Abu Dhabi with a controversial weather modification system said to be responsible for dozens of rain showers in the desert last summer.
• The Orion nebula: Still full of surprises
  This ethereal-looking image of the Orion Nebula was captured using the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This nebula is much more than just a pretty face, offering astronomers a close-up view of a massive star-forming region to ...
• Phoenix Lander blasts away Martian dirt, unco ...
  When the Phoenix Lander touched down on Mars in 2008, its rocket engines blasted away so much dirt that they exposed a subsurface ice layer. While the discovery of underground ice was exciting, some scientists were puzzled because the engines shouldn't have been strong enough to do that much di ...
• Genome testing: Is it a disease predictor? ...

Invisible Opportunity

• The Cost of Celebrity and the Price of Fame
  By Les Visible I understand the need for celebrities. We like movies and music. We like to read books and enjoy the force and power of ‘the muse’ as it works ‘through’ someone. A lot of us even enjoy the arrogance of those who deny the existence of the muse; to their great misfortune. I’ve [...]
• California county allows marijuana, but not raw mi ...
  By Ethan Huff Humboldt County, Calif., is largely recognized as the marijuana capital of the U.S. Its lax attitude towards both the legal and illegal growth and sale of the controversial plant is unmatched, and has earned the county quite a reputation. But in a state where raw milk sales are legal, ...
• FDA System Approves Nonexistent Product from Nonex ...
  By Heidi Stevenson The FDA farms out drug and medical device testing. It’s in the hands of the companies hoping to gain approval for their products, but they must first get approval before doing tests on humans. Even here, though, there’s a catch. The FDA doesn’t review the testing plans. That’s don ...
• Seasonal flu vaccine fairy tale rapidly collapsing ...
  By Mike Adams Like a medical house of cards in an earthquake, the seasonal flu vaccine mythology is collapsing right before our eyes. After months of urging everyone to get vaccinated (and blaming non-vaccinated people for skipping out on their “public health obligation”), UK health authorities anno ...
• Constitutionalist Judge John Roll may have been th ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Will Cigarettes Be Made Illegal in the Near Future ...
  The battle over cigarettes is heating up -- and the momentum to criminalize tobacco smoking continues to build in the United States and around the world.
• Did CVS Buy Its Way Out of a Meth Indictment?
  A poor, drug-addicted woman gets 10 years for buying too much of an over-the-counter medicinal product, while CVS gets off the hook by paying millions.
• Prohibition Debate Sparks Over Popularity of Under ...
  There are only tenuous links between mephedrone and any alleged fatalities. Governments are racing anyway to ban the drug, but the DEA is yet to act.
• When Booze Was Banned But Pot Was Not
  What can today’s crusaders against prohibition learn from their predecessors who ended the alcohol ban?
• Dr. Martin Luther King's Birthday: Is the Drug War ...
  How do we begin to address the connections between astronomical rates of incarceration, disintegration of black families, and the war on drugs?

Twilight Earth

• Chefs Alice Waters and Dan Barber Back Bluefin Tun ...
  Two of the United Statesâ leading chefs have joined the Center for Biological Diversityâs (CBD) campaign to save bluefin tuna, one of the worldâs most imperiled fish. Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, Calif., and Dan Barber, owner of Blue Hill in Manhattan, have signed a pledge not t ...
• The World According to Monsanto – Full Documentary
  The World According to Monsanto is an in-depth Documentary that looks at the domination of the agricultural industry. Related posts:Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza of GMO News Articles Food Inc. – Full Documentary Stop Monsanto Again–GM Alfalfa Threatens to Contaminate Or ...
• The Aging Activist
  Don’t ever lose your passion or desire to take action for what you believe in. The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:Stop Monsanto Again–GM Alfalfa Threatens to Contaminate Organic Crops Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Bear ...
• Extreme Makeover Stadium Edition: Eagles Going Gre ...
  In an era where sports stadiums are expanding seat capacities to limits that make fire marshals nervous, itâs nice to see at least one stadium making some environmentally friendly changes. While their team is not one of the 2011 Super Bowl favorites any longer (after losing to the Green Back Packers ...
• Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon
  As Jeffrey Davis shares in the tagline for his great new greensite EcoSnobberySucks, “every step matters”. It’s a great message (and website) to remind us to stop disliking one another for our differences and start appreciating the steps everyone is taking to make this world a happier, healthier pla ...

Inhabitat

• Smak Unveils 2 Shipping Container Condos in Britis ...
  PR agency Smak recently developed an advertising campaign for Power Smart Month in British Columbia, Canada that features two green shipping container condos plopped down in the middle of the city. Both container homes appear identical at first glance, however they are differentiated by a major fact ...
• Compostmodern 2011 Kicks Off This Weekend in San F ...
  Heads up San Francisco Bay Area readers! Compostmodern 2011 kicks off this weekend in San Francisco, so if you’ll be in the Bay Area don’t miss out on this must-attend event for anyone concerned with sustainability and the earth’s future. This year Compostmodern has assembled an unparalleled group o ...
• ByProducts Transforms Waste Wood Offcuts Into Flat ...
  Looking for a simple seating alternative that’s eco-friendly and won’t take up a lot of space? Then check out ByProducts’ eco-conscious, clever, and compact tables and stools, which are made from discarded wood cutoffs. Constructed from baltic birch, each chair and table capitalizes on the shapes of ...
• Enter the 2011 METROPOLIS Next Generation Design C ...
  There are less than two weeks left to enter Metropolis’ Next Generation Design Competition, a design challenge asking you to give the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) building in downtown L.A. a zero-footprint makeover. Open for interpretation with a number of hungry ears and ready to he ...
• Tupperware Lamps Will Make Your Friends Mint Green ...
  Remember those old-school Tupperware molds that people used to make Jello in? Well Etsy seller BootsNGus has taken these nostalgic items and transformed them into retro pendant lamps. They’re the perfect kitchen accessory to make your friends mint green with envy, and they even come with an energy-e ...

Pogue's Posts

• First, the Bad News
  Two announcements this week. Two big bummers. Two good things gone.
• The Arrival of the Verizon iPhone
  It'll be a wild ride now that the Verizon iPhone is here. Finally.
• C.E.S.: A Bad Time to Introduce a Tech Product
  Why do companies come to C.E.S. hoping for journalistic attention? There are just too many products announced at the show.
• A Guitar With No Strings Attached
  The Kitara guitar has no strings and it produces a world of new electronic sounds.
• An Android Phone's Alter Ego
  Motorola introduces the Atrix 4G, with a docking station that can turn it into a functional laptop.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Slime Molds Are Earth’s Smallest, Oldest Farmers
  Colonies of a bizarre microbial goo have been found practicing agriculture at a scale tinier than any seen before. Animals such as ants, snails and beetles are known to farm fungus. But the slime moldâs bacterial farming trick takes it into a whole new realm of the organismal kingdom. “If you can p ...
• The Mass Extinction of Scientists Who Study Specie ...
  We are currently in a biodiversity crisis. A quarter of all mammals face extinction, and 90 percent of the largest ocean fish are gone. Species are going extinct at rates equaled only five times in the history of life. But the biodiversity crisis we are currently encountering isn’t just a loss of ...
• Introducing: Daniel MacArthur of Genetic Future
  Wired Science Blogs is delighted to welcome a new addition to our fleet of awesome: Daniel MacArthur of Genetic Future. A British postdoctoral genomics researcher by day, science blogger by night, Dan writes about the fast-moving world of human genetics and the companies offering to sell you inform ...
• Amateurs Find Hidden Gems in Space Photo Contest
  See Also: Best of a New Trove of Mind-Blowing Space Photos Spiral Galaxy Study Yields Super Sharp Images New Sharp Image of Violent Galactic Collision Reader Photo Gallery: Awesome DIY Astronomy The Making of a Mind-Blowing DIY Sun Photo
• New Study Finds No Sign of ‘First Habitable Exopla ...
  Things donât look good for Gliese 581g, the first planet found orbiting in the habitable zone of another star. The first official challenge to the small, hospitable world looks in the exact same data — and finds no significant sign of the planet. “For the time being, the world does not have data th ...

PakAlert

• Review: War on terror in December 2010
  The Republicans under George W Bush had taken the credit of stabilizing Iraq and gradually handing over provinces in Iraq to Iraqi forces. Gen David Petraeus and Gen Stanley McChrystal were pronounced as heroes. Claims made and acclaims received were far from truth since Iraq is still as volatile as ...
• Video: US Unemployment
  For American job-seekers, finding a way to make a living may take longer than expected. Press TV's Colin Campbell has the latest US unemployment figures. Americans are fearful things could get worse.. well soon it won't be fearful, it will be reality. the unemployment rate decreased because of all ...
• 2011 Financial Meltdown Fast Approaching
  Despite the best efforts by the American mainstream financial media, the eager PR division of the United States Dollar Ponzi Scheme, to paint the rosiest of rosy pictures for blindly optimistic readers, the stubborn image of a debt-swollen jobless behemoth economy slowly toppling persists. No matter ...
• Rothschilds And The War On The Gulf of Mexico
  This article explains what is really happening in the Gulf of Mexico, who is really responsible for the explosion, and how the devastation serves investment bankers who sway stocks, create markets, and planned this crisis, among a series of catastrophes, to advance geopolitical and financial agendas ...
• Pakistan’s Quantum Leap in Technological Growth: B ...
  Pakistan has faced tribulation since birth. A hegemonic neigh bent on its destruction, a far away enemy that is insidious in it enmity, a rough neighborhood, and a geographic area which focuses the superpower’s attention to it. Pakistanis are the most resilient nation on earth–coming up with solutio ...

Andy Worthington

• Algerian in Guantánamo Loses Habeas Petition for B ...
  Last Tuesday, while activists, journalists and lawyers were holding a rally outside The White House to ask President Obama to honor his pledge to close Guantánamo, and to raise awareness of the plight of the remaining 173 prisoners, Judge Richard Leon, in the District Court down the road, refused to ...
• Reprieve Encourages Supporters to Write to Prisone ...
  In the Guardian’s Comment is free yesterday, Cortney Busch of Reprieve, the London-based legal action charity whose lawyers represent 15 of the remaining 173 prisoners in Guantánamo, encouraged Guardian readers to write to prisoners who might be losing hope because of the failure of the Obama admin ...
• Rights Groups Urge Concerned Americans to Call Con ...
  Between January 18 and 21, a number of campaigning groups in the U.S. — No More Guantánamos, Witness Against Torture, the Defending Dissent Foundation, High Road for Human Rights Education Project, and WarIsACrime.org — are asking supporters to call Congress to ask their Senators and Representative ...
• Countering Pentagon Propaganda About Prisoners Rel ...
  For several years now, one organization in the US government has persistently undermined attempts to have a grown-up debate about the perceived dangerousness of prisoners at Guantánamo, and the need to bear security concerns in mind whilst also trying to empty the prison and to bring to an end this ...
• Andy Worthington is Keynote Speaker on Guantánamo ...
  On Saturday January 22, Amnesty International UK is holding its South East Regional Conference at The Vyne Centre, Broadway, Knaphill, Woking, GU21 2SP, from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm (map here). Entrance is free with a contribution requested towards lunch and refreshments, and the event opens for registr ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Scientists Make Dozens of Storms in the Abu Dhabi ...
  A Swiss company’s claims to have created storm clouds in the desert are met with skepticism.
• Going "All The Way" With Renewable Energy?
  A massive build-out, rare earth minerals, and willpower needed for a 100 percent renewable future, two U.S. researchers say.
• Pictures: Mount Etna Erupts Overnight
  NoneSee this week's explosive nighttime spectacle from Europe's most active volcano—plus classic pictures from years, and centuries, gone by.
• Cholera and Cooperation Play Into Haiti Reforestat ...
  Ambitious efforts try to dry out the charcoal business, rebuild eroded hillsides, ease flooding, and improve water quality.
• PHOTOS: Six Long-Lost Haitian Frog Species Found
  NoneOn the one-year anniversary of Haiti's earthquake nightmare, scientists exploring the country's few remaining pristine forests find an abundance of frogs—including six species lost to science for nearly two decades.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• A Real Public Option In Connecticut?
  And so it would seem.The other day for an open thread at ePluribus Media I commented on "the intended public option that should be Sustinet in Connecticut," and it would seem that is to be the case if the Sustinet Health Partnership Board of Directors get their way according to the report they hande ...
• Dan Malloy scores first in Danbury
  Dan Malloy jumping off of the bench of the Danbury Whalers shortly after scoring the first goal in Whalers' history. [update] I have an interview from after the game at TK's. Let me say, in advance, that he was a bit reluctunt to give it since I am a political blogger... But as a hockey fan I prom ...
• Still All That I Want
  Something that gets lost in the news about the unemployed is the fact that much of what used to be the backbone of this nation's economic prowess, the middle class, is now the working poor: Imagine That: Working Poor On The Rise After the Republicans crashed to economy in 2008 one thing became imm ...
• Choosing a New Police Chief: No Local Ties, Please ...
  Do you want your town to look like The Dukes of Hazzard? Then again, maybe New Milford has been run by Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coltrane for a while. If that's not your idea of how a quaint New England town should be run, then help make sure the next police chief has no local ties - political or fa ...
• WWWWWWWWW.boardofeducationobstruction.edu
  Click on the above link, and it will take you to an interesting place. A place where obstruction is the norm, bad lawyering is the standard, lack of preparedness is encouraged, and focusing on the main mission is discouraged. Sounds beautiful, doesn't it? Here's the real name of this magical cyber s ...

SPL Center

• The Tanton Files: More on FAIR Founder’s White Nat ...
  I’ve spent the past week going through piles of correspondence written over the years by John Tanton, the racist founder of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which the Southern Poverty Law Center added to its list of hate groups in 2007. While digging, I came across a memo that ...
• The Radical Right Responds to the Tucson Shootings
  Leave it to Fred Phelps and his rabidly anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) to provide the most heinous response to this weekendâs shooting in Tucson that left six people dead and 14 others wounded, most notably U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. In a flier posted to the WBC website, the group, whose ...
• Critic: King’s Proposed Hearings on Muslim ‘ ...
  U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), known for his incendiary remarks about Muslim Americans, has asked for a round of hearings into the radicalization of Muslim America – a move at least one member of Congress worries smacks of a Joseph McCarthy-style witch hunt. In an editorial published this week in Ne ...
• Possible Terror Attack on MLK Parade in Spokane Th ...
  A backpack bomb with the potential of killing or injuring dozens of people was found Monday along the route of a Martin Luther King Day “unity march” in downtown Spokane, Wash., authorities said today. “It was a device that clearly was intended to harm or kill people,’’said Frank Harrill, a senior ...
• Who is Jared Lee Loughner?
  Is Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged mass murderer who shot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, a right-wing extremist? It’s hard to say. When you look at the Internet material he purportedly produced, the first impression you get is that the 22-year-old now in custody for the shooting of 20 peop ...

change: org.

• Victory! Etsy Removes Rape Congratulations Cards
  Ladies and gentleman, we have a victory! Just under two months after I began covering the controversial rape congratulations card for sale online at Etsy, the card (as well as the ones mocking breast cancer and Down Syndrome) have finally been removed. Moreover, Etsy has changed its revised items po ...
• Denver Police at a Crossroads over Excessive Force ...
  Activists in Denver say there have been too many incidents of Denver police clobbering individuals and beating them to a pulp for officials to ignore any longer -- and they hope new Mayor Bill Vidal will get to the bottom of it. Vidal appeared pretty mindful of that at his recent swearing-in ceremon ...
• Can Bison Take Back the Range?
  In the annals of American manifest destiny, the chapter on American bison is typically gruesome. Once numbered in the tens of millions, over the course of one century the number was cut down to less than a hundred free-roaming animals. These remnant few took refuge in the first national park, Yellow ...
• How a Poultry Plant Can Ruin an Entire Community
  As Change.org previously reported, North Carolina's Nash County plans to let Sanderson Farms build a poultry slaughterhouse, hatchery, and spray field in the region. Nash County officials claim the chicken operation will bring much-needed jobs and breathe life into the local economy. The county's re ...
• At the Dallas Morning News, Same-Sex Weddin ...
  Here's a riddle: when is a wedding not considered a real wedding? Answer: When it's in the Dallas Morning News. As we noted a few months ago, a gay Dallas couple, Mark Reed-Walkup and Dante Walkup, have been trying like heck to get their paid same-sex wedding announcement into the Weddings section o ...

Common Dreams -News

• Swiss Banker Rudolf Elmer Convicted Over WikiLeaks ...
  A Swiss banker who publicised private client data on WikiLeaks was found guilty today of breaching strict banking secrecy and threatening former colleagues, but was given only a suspended fine.The judge acquitted Rudolf Elmer on charges he sought $50,000 (£31,250) for returning client data to former ...
• White House Takes Offensive Against Health Care Re ...
  by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium bloggerThis week, House Republicans will hold a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The bill is expected to pass the House, where the GOP holds a majority, but stall in the Democratic-controlled Senate. In the meantime, the symbolic vote is giving both ...
• Big Coal's Call to Arms? Should Feds Stop West Vir ...
  by Jeff BiggersWhat happened to the new era of civility? Less than two weeks since the Tucson shooting tragedy, coalfield residents in central Appalachia and around the country are stunned and increasingly concerned about a "call to arms" issued by coal industry representatives for tomorrow's ...
• FBI Confirms Bomb Planted at Spokane Parade; 'Fall ...
• Mohamed ElBaradei Warns of 'Tunisia-Style Explosio ...
  by Jack Shenker in Cairo The Egyptian dissident Mohamed ElBaradei has warned of a "Tunisia-style explosion" in his country as self-immolation protests proliferated and anti-government activists announced plans for a nationwide "day of anger" next week.read more

Lifehacker

• Using Twitter As a Productivity Tool [GTD]
  Twitter's not traditionally the first place you'd think of when you're goal is productivity, but as productivity blog KnowtheNetwork points out, it can be surprisingly adept at adding quick notes or to-do's from most anywhere. More�� ...
• Todo.txt Touch for Android Now Available to Test [ ...
  My first Android app, Todo.txt Touch, manages your todo.txt file stored at Dropbox—and it's now available for beta-testing. More »
• Set Your Desktop to a Place Off in the Distance [W ...
  This Wednesday we've got a collection of wallpapers that look out into the distance, admiring nature—whether it's photographed or illustrated. More »
• Multifl0w Brings WebOS-Like Multitasking to Your J ...
  iOS: If you like the elegant flow of flipping through apps as "cards" in WebOS, Multifl0w brings that ability to jailbroken iOS devices. More��
• The Connected City Desktop [Featured Desktop]
  Carefully placed icons and stylish Rainmeter skins make this red and black desktop by reader Mulberry24 subtly functional, providing plenty of information in a beautifully integrated format. More��

Water Privatization

• Plan seeks to relieve Detroit of control of water ...
  The long-standing debate between Detroit and its suburbs over management of the city's troubled water and sewage system intensified Tuesday after a Plymouth lawmaker introduced a bill that would allow for more suburban control.
• Steven Cohen: We Need Smart, Agile and Innovative ...
  When police adopt more high tech and sophisticated policing techniques and rigorous performance metrics, crime goes down. We need to apply that same approach to our efforts to manage and police environmental quality.
• Plan seeks to relieve Detroit of control of water ...
  The long-standing debate between Detroit and its suburbs over management of the city's troubled water and sewage system intensified Tuesday after a Plymouth lawmaker introduced a bill that would allow for more suburban control.
• Environmental Issues Subject of Film Series
  KENT—The Environmental Summit Film Fest will begin a five-part series on Jan. 25. This year the series will be held at Kent School in the Dickenson auditorium on Tuesday evenings at 7:30. The series leads into the Environmental Summit on Feb 26.
• Privatization of city slaughterhouse eyed
  ILOILO City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog is eyeing the privatization of a city-owned slaughterhouse if a contractor-supplier charged P100 million or more for the upgrading of equipment and facilities of the abattoir. read more

Guardian

• Obama risks China's ire with human rights remarks
  Taking tougher approach towards China, Barack Obama also urges Hu Jintao to engage in talks about Tibet with Dalai LamaThe state visit by China's president, Hu Jintao, to the US was today overshadowed by Beijing's poor record on human rights, with Barack Obama twice referring to the matter in public ...
• Activist spying 'gone badly wrong'
  Senior officers say undercover operations need independent regulation as criticism mounts over the Mark Kennedy casePolice chiefs admitted today that their infiltration of undercover police officers into protest groups had gone "badly wrong" and called for independent regulation of spying operations ...
• Tunisia arrests relatives of Ben Ali
  Family members held on suspicion of 'crimes against Tunisia', local TV reports, as interim leader promises 'break with the past'Thirty-three members of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's family have been arrested on suspicion of "crimes against Tunisia", local television reported tonight, showing images of s ...
• Goldman to lift £1m UK bonus cap
  Bank puts aside last year's restraint as it pays staff $15.3bn in bonuses and salaries, despite 38% fall in earningsGoldman Sachs is to lift the £1m bonus cap imposed on its 100 London-based partners last year as the Wall Street firm begins to hand out multimillion-pound payouts to its staff around ...
• Lansley unveils radical NHS reforms
  The health secretary lays out plans to cull 24,000 management staff and let NHS hospitals, private firms and GPs compete for patientsThe NHS will undergo a radical pro-market shakeup with hospitals, private healthcare providers and family doctors competing for patients who will be able to choose tre ...

McClatchey

• At White House, China’s Hu vows to 'increase ...
  WASHINGTON — Chinese President Hu Jintao said Wednesday he has come to the United States to increase mutual trust between the two nations as China takes on an increasingly important global role in economic and security issues.
• Defense in Luis Posada Carriles case allege entrap ...
  EL PASO, Texas -- U.S. government lawyers trapped Luis Posada Carriles into lying under oath so they could bring criminal charges against the anti-Castro militant, his defense alleged Tuesday.
• Pollination time amid the almond groves of Califor ...
  There are about 2.4 million beehives in the United States.
• Lieberman won't seek re-election: 'Time to turn th ...
  STAMFORD, Conn. U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman said Wednesday that he would step down after four terms not because he faced a tough campaign for a fifth, but simply because the time had come for him to change direction.
• Accountable care organizations: The next big thing ...
  WASHINGTON — Accountable care organizations take up only seven pages of the massive new health care law, yet they've become one of the most talked about provisions.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Summit misses the 'C-word'
  Some fascinating threads on energy and climate change are swirling around the heads of Presidents Barack Obama and Hu Jintao as the two leaders convene in Washington DC. China's energy direction is assured - but is the US's? The "C-word" isn't being mentioned in despatches at all - but the E-word ...
• Real world of climate: How scary?
  Earlier this week I posted on uncertainty in climate model projections, raising the question of whether lack of certainty made the future more or less "scary" - and what it should mean for policymaking. As would have been expected, I guess, your responses varied greatly - from Maurizio Maurabito's ...
• Conservation and Schrodinger's cat
  � In Schrodinger's famous thought experiment involving an unsuspecting, limbo-bound feline, the mere act of observing something can change its state. In the real wild world, it's not supposed to happen - to cats or other animals. The very idea of ecological science as it's practised nowadays is ...
• Ice-cold reality of warming projections
  Glacier melt will contribute to sea level rise - but how much? Given the importance of glaciers in regulating the water supply for a fair fraction of the Earth's population - given also the recent furore over the likely melting date for Himalayan glaciers - there's possibly no hotter topic in clim ...
• A big bite for conservation
  � Overall, you'd have to conclude that 2010 was a better year than most for sharks. Just before the Christmas season began, both houses of the UN Congress passed the Shark Conservation Act, which basically aims to end the practice of shark finning in US waters by making it illegal. Conservation gr ...

The Wonk Room

• Rep. George Miller’s Impassioned Defense Of ...
• NPR’s Steve Inskeep, Politifact’s Bill ...
• Chamber President Tells Congress To ‘Starve ...
• Arizona Tries To Close Budget Hole By Cutting 280, ...
• King Hearings To Call On Critic Who Believes &#821 ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Link About "Housing on the Knife's Edge"
  Jim Flaherty (likely acting on the advice of people less stupid than he is) has decided to tighten-up the rules for buying a house in Canada. Heck, I'll let David Macdonald of Progressive Economics Forum tell it: On the heels of multiple warnings from the Bank of Canada that Canadians have taken on ...
• Trying to Invalidate My Own Prophecies: I called t ...
  Just for what it's worth. I'd like our riding association to decide that the harpercon budget should be defeated (unless we successfully make harpercons grovel and produce a semi-social democratic budget that we could have passed with the Liberals). Let's see. I've been itching to take these monste ...
• The Sanctity of the Individual
  For some reason, as a result of the transition from dreaming to the incoherent first moments of waking thought, I was gripped with thinking about what a stupid waste it was when Patrick Dorismond was killed as a result of police racism. It's actually a pretty stupid story: Undercover Detective Ander ...
• Lindsey Graham - Afghanistan is all about the air ...
  Just want to point out that Repug senator Lindsey Graham vindicated what I've been (unoriginally) saying all along about Afghanistan. It's simply to provide air bases for the US to project power in Central Asia. Of course, Graham lies and tries to say that the US will provide these bases for the sec ...
• Failure, failure, failure, and still more failure
  Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear (January 2008): Are we winning the battle against the insurgents in Afghanistan?Almost any Canadian soldier, diplomat or NATO official asked that question invariably answers: Yes, we are, but there is still a long way to go.Ah! But what a differ ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Cuccinelli's misuse of the FCA
  Today's Washington Post, Metro section, leads with a story by Rosalind Helderman called "Democrats try to curb Cuccinelli's powers." The story reports on an effort by some Virginia Commonwealth Senators to change state law so that the state Attorney General must get court approval before issuing a " ...
• NELA to host webinar on new whistleblower remedies
  The National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) has scheduled a webinar called Using New Developments In Whistleblower Laws To Your Client's Advantage.� It will be on March 10, 2011, 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern. This 90-minute webinar will address new developments in whistleblower law, incl ...
• ARB holds first oral argument in a SOX case
  Today the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB) held its first oral argument in a case under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). Last November, the ARB gave notice of today's oral argument, and invited interested groups to submit friend-of-the-court (or "amicus") briefs. The ARB asked th ...
• IRS issues proposed whistleblower rule today
  The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is publishing today a new proposed regulation for its whistleblower reward program. In today's Federal Register, the new regulation makes clear that whistleblowers can receive a reward for providing information that prevents the IRS from issuing a refund that is no ...
• FDA Scientist In Danger of Losing Her Job
  The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) mission is to protect and promote the health and safety of all Americans. Scientists at the FDA have the critical role of ensuring that the FDA fulfills this mission. Unfortunately, when scientists and researchers put the said health and safety of Americans b ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• How Facebook Used White Space To Crush Myspace
  Mike talks a lot about disruptive innovation, about how -- despite all outward appearances -- newcomers can compete and even usurp the establishment (which are also called "entrants" and "incumbents" by Clayton Christensen). The examples are plentiful: Microsoft Money was outfoxed by Intuit's Quicke ...
• RIAA Threatening ICANN About .music; Claiming It W ...
  Oh look, the RIAA is overreacting yet again -- and doing so the only way it knows how: by rolling out the legal threats. This time it's threatening ICANN over its new top level domain program, which allows all sorts of new TLDs to be registered -- including planned proposals for a .music domain. B ...
• US Customs & Border Patrol Protecting America From ...
  We're still waiting for a good explanation of why Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement group is involved in internet copyright issues that have nothing to do with either immigration or customs enforcement, but it appears that those sharp border patrol folks are really doing their ...
• Max Mosley Says Newspapers Must Alert Famous Peopl ...
  Ima Fish alerts us to the bizarre idea of Max Mosley, the former head of the international motorsports organization FIA, to create a special rule for the rich and famous that would require the media to alert them to any stories mentioning them before publication. Mosley, of course, had a... um... w ...
• Let's Try This Again: Even If There's No Corruptio ...
  Last week, I wrote a post about how 87% of Congress Reps who signed a letter urging the FCC to approve the Comcast/NBC Universal merger (which I think should be approved) had received campaign contributions from Comcast, saying that "this is what corruption looks like." In the post, I explained thi ...

VacTruth

• Vaccine Damaged Kids and the Media Attack on Dr. A ...
  How do you reveal and trace the REAL source behind the Dr. Any Wakefield witch-hunt? Follow the money.Vactruth.com
• Vaccine Induced Child Abuse Exposed
  Many parents falsely accused of child abuse are convinced that their child has been injured by a routine childhood vaccination.vactruth.com
• Andrew Wakefield Attack Spells Death for These 3 P ...
  Recent attacks on Andrew Wakefield, a medical doctor, make it painfully obvious that the pharmaceutical industry is getting very nervous and desperate. This may be a last-ditch effort at saving a failed vaccine policy due not to Dr. Wakefield’s discredited work but to the damage vaccines cause in he ...
• Media Vultures Have Another Go At Andrew Wakefield ...
  According to the British Medical Journal Wakefield's paper linking the MMR vaccine to Autism was an 'elaborate hoax'. Who is right?vactruth.com
• Will There Be More Chronically Ill and Development ...
  The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania made changes to its immunization code to be effective August 1, 2011. Should state or federal agencies be held responsible for the damage to that child since it mandated the vaccines for attendance in school?vactruth.com

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  Looks like Baby Doc got picked up by the police in Haiti today. Some people are wondering why he was allowed to fly in. Some people are wondering if they are really going to prosecute him. I’m wondering why the fuck that murdering bastard has been drinking wine and eating baguettes in France all thi ...
• On Speech
  I can’t believe the number of articles I have seen about the violent rhetoric of the right and how it is responsible for the Safeway shooting.  (I’m not going to call it the Gifford shooting, because a hell of a lot of people got shot that day and they count too.)   And now rumor [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I feel like I should say something about the anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, but it is just a silent scream at this point.  Haitians are gathering all over Haiti to commemorate, grieve, and try to figure out what the hell to do.  I sincerely hope all white knights will get the hell out of the [ ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I’m sure you all know what a clusterfuck it is in Northern Mexico right now. I wonder if a student movement, or any kind of people movement, can turn it around. (HT @maymaym) As long as we are on southern border issues, the Penn and Teller video in this post on Colorlines is hilarious. And [...]
• 2010 in Review
  It has been an interesting year.  Thanks to all of you who have stuck around to converse.  I’ve learned a lot from you. My thinking has changed so rapidly in the last couple years, I can barely imagine what I am going to be writing two years from now.  The posts that got the most [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The LaRouche Show, January 15, 2011
  To Save Civilization, We Must Move Beyond the Senses
• LPAC-TV Interview with Wayne Voelz: Top-Down Plann ...
  Interview with Wayne Voelz Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 14, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 2
• U.S. States, Cities Blow Out; No Recourse but Glas ...
  By EIR Economics Staff Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 14, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 2
• Obama’s Retreat: Small Victory in War Against T4 E ...
  By Edward Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 14, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 2
• A Wedding Anniversary: The Sixth Sense
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 14, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 2

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

• By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
  [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
• By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
  [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
• By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
  [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]
• By: Ecocentric’s Best of the Ecoblogosphere ...
  [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]
• By: FutureEmergency.com
  [...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]

treehugger

• In NYC Tonight: Cities As Green Engines
  Cities may account for two-thirds of global energy usage and over 70% of global carbon emissions, but we know they don't have to be enemies of the environment. That's the thrust of a panel discussion tonight at Baruch College that seeks to identify the ways that urban centers can serve as cl ...
• Weekday Vegetarian: Green Curry Noodles
  Photo: Kelly Rossiter I've been making a lot of Asian-style noodles lately, I guess in a quest to use up all the carrots and cabbage I have. I spent all morning thinking about what I would make for lunch, but nothing appealed to me so I went back to the noodles but today I made them with green ...
• So Far So Good for London's Bicycle 'Superhighways ...
  All Cities Should Make it Easier for Cyclists Brian has recently covered the success of London's 'bike superhighwa...Read the full story on TreeHugger
• Wind Turbines Might Help Crops Absorb More CO2, Fi ...
  Photo: Flickr, CC Beneficial Microclimate Impact According to the preliminary results from research done by DOE and University of Colorado scientists, wind turbines built in the middle of crop fields might be doing more than just producing electricity. Indeed, while the turbines don't produce ...
• Fox News Goes Fact Free on EPA Authority, Drilling ...
  photo via flickr The tone in Washington and in the mainstream media has changed, right? Pundits say we are moving toward a higher level of discourse. But what happens when facts don't matter, and history is re-written to fit an ideology? Take two examples from the past few days on Fox. In the f ...

Biosingularity

• Using the body’s own defenses to combat cancer
  In the past 40 years, scientists have learned a great deal about how cells become cancerous. Some of that knowledge has translated to new treatments, but most of the time doctors are forced to rely on standard chemotherapy and radiation, which can do nearly as much damage to the patients as they do ...
• Telomere Tweaks Reverse Aging in Mice
  By tweaking enzymes that prevent chromosome tips from unraveling, researchers have shown age-related tissue degeneration can be reversed in some mice. Medical breakthroughs involving mice must be taken with rock-sized grains of salt because, despite their genetic similarity, the rodents aren’t human ...
• Warfarin, Dietary Supplements a Risky Combo
  If you’re using the anticlotting drug warfarin, tell your doctor about any herbal or dietary supplements you may be taking. That’s the strong advice of researchers who say that nine of the 10 top-selling supplements can change the effectiveness of warfarin, potentially causing a dangerous bleed, a d ...
• A SNP Surprise
  Ellen Goode and her colleagues at the Mayo Clinic found a surprise while studying the human genome: four chromosomal locations with mutations that could lead to an increased risk of ovarian cancer. But the biggest surprise was a number of SNPs on chromosome 8 that seem to act through a different mec ...
• The dark side of oxytocin, much more than just a “ ...
  There’s a chemical that can subtly shift your childhood memories of your own mother. In some people, it paints mum in a more saintly light, making them remember her as closer and more caring. In others, the chemical has a darker influence, casting mum as a less caring and more distant parent. All of ...

CFACT

• Is the world food chain stretched to the limit?
  The U.S. could ease the current global food price spike with one administrative action--limiting the amount of U.S. corn that gets turned into corn ethanol.
• A step-change in Earth's climate outlook?
  As Britain suffers through its third straight harsh winter, a British watchdog group is calling for an inquiry into the failed recent long-range weather forecasts of the British Meteorological Office.
• Driving US families into fuel poverty
  Will America learn in time from the price being paid by British companies and families?
• EPA’s Texas power grab
  Hollywood climate monsters are a lousy basis for energy and economic policy.
• The Cancun climate con
  The UN seeks to redistribute wealth, while CFACT works to reduce energy poverty.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Afghan president embarks on official visit to Russ ...
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai is embarking on an official two-day visit to Russia on the invitation of President Dmitry Medvedev.
• Medvedev, Public Chamber members to talk corruptio ...
  Members of Russia's Public Chamber will meet with President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday to discuss corruption, law enforcement reform and interethnic issues.
• Main news of January 19
  A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
• Top stories of the day
• Steve Jobs, a dropout who conquered the world
  Apple CEO Steve Jobs, said to be the heart and soul of the company he co-founded, has stepped down for medical reasons. He will keep his chief executive title and participate in "major strategic decisions" at Apple.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• International Space Station
• Kazakhstan ratifies space cooperation agreement wi ...
  Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed into law the ratification of a Russian-Kazakh space cooperation agreement, the government press service said on Monday.
• Russia to launch ocean satellite in March
  Russia will launch an oceanography satellite in March to keep track of a vast amount of data that will help improve weather, climate and ocean forecasts, a Russian scientist said on Wednesday.
• Solar eclipse comes to Northern Hemisphere on Tues ...
  The first partial solar eclipse of 2011 will be visible from much of Europe, North Africa and central Asia on Tuesday.
• Ariane 5 puts 2 communication satellites into orbi ...

Pruning Shears

• TAHITI BOY covers "Stay The Same" by The Shoes
  Free download over here.  No, I’m not turning this into a music blog; the Brockway compilation just hit the linking point yesterday, followed coincidentally by an email on Tahiti Boy’s latest.  Anyone who tops one of my “Best Music” lists gets lifetime free plugs on my site.
• 2011 Brockway Entertainment Canadian Rap Future Su ...
  Troy at Brockway Entertainment has released his annual CD of new acts, and once again it’s really impressive.  It can be downloaded for free here, and I strongly recommend it.  Give it a few listens - even if you think you don’t like hip-hop.
• This Week in Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Combat operations have concluded for:Pfc. Robert J. NearSgt. Ethan C. HardinPfc. Ira B. Laningham, IVLance Cpl. Joseph R. GieseSgt. 1st ...
• The right's role in the Arizona massacre
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Glenn Reynolds is a dumbass and those who find his arguments persuasive are, if possible, even more stupid. if you’re using this event to criticize the “rhetoric” of Mrs. Palin or others with whom you disagree, then you’re either: (a ...
• This Week in Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Since my previous update combat operations have concluded for:Sgt. Jose M. Cintron RosadoSpec. Jose A. Delgado ArroyoLance Cpl. Maung P. ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Wyo. Debate Simmers Decades After Fluoridation
  On Jan. 7, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to lower the recommended level of fluoride in drinking water for the first time in nearly 50 years, based on a fresh review of the science that suggested some Americans, particularly children, may be getting too much fluorid ...
• Tests Confirm Banned Drugs in US Beef
  The Department of Health (DOH) said two supermarkets, Costco and RT-MART, had removed U.S.-imported beef products from the shelves yesterday, after they were found to contain small amounts of banned drugs a day before during a regular check.Click here to read this article
• Activism After Clicktivism
  For more than a decade revolutionaries and culture jammers have been paralyzed by the computer screen. Trusting the promises of technocrats and digital visionaries, dazzled by the viral hype surrounding MoveOn and the like, we've come to rely far too heavily on a particular form of Internet organizi ...
• California Can't Have it All: There's Not Enough W ...
  Nothing can be done in California that will keep its farms and big cities thriving at today's levels and also keep the fish and the Delta alive. So what do we do? Click here to read this article
• Oh, For Civil Healthcare in America
  Stand at the front desks in a hospital admissions area or a doctor's office or at other providers' offices and civility is the last thing we'll know. We can be sick - shaking with fever, bending over in pain, bandaged for wounds, chest aching with unknown agony, and the questions and responses will ...

fotoFrontera

• Fotografías de mujeres muy hermosas I (Chicas Lind ...
  Como un reconocimiento a la belleza femenina y como regalo especial para todos los caballeros, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas se congratula al poder compartir 12 fotografías de mujeres muy hermosas. Esperamos que les gusten y en breve tendremos algo para las chicas lindas. ¡Beautiful Girls! ATENCIÓN ...
• Del crepúsculo al amanecer VII (Imágenes Fantástic ...
  Para ver más imágenes fantásticas, revise usted los números siguientes. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su computadora si así lo desea. ...
• Fotografías de chocolates, café, avellanas y trufa ...
  Para ver más fotografías de chocolates, café, avellanas y trufas, haga usted click sobre uno de los siguientes números. [1][2][3] ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas en su co ...
• Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXXIV
  De la misma serie 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas', presentamos la parte número 34 dedicada a los Paisajes Naturales. Disfrute estas hermosas fotos y si desea ver nuestras entregas anteriores, por favor escoja un número a continuación. No olvide compartir nuestros recursos. [ ...
• Las mejores imágenes del mundo parte III (16 posta ...
  Para ver nuestras colecciones anteriores sobre esta serie titulada 'Las mejores imágenes del mundo', escoja un número a continuación. [1][2][3]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Greetings from Cuba!
  CLF’s Sr. Research Program Coordinators Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl and Sarah Rodman are visiting Cuba as part of a Natural Environmental Ecological Management delegation. Members of the group will see first hand large-scale Cuban infrastructure developed to support its 18-year-old, world-renowned sustainab ...
• Are you learning your food habits at home? Doesn’ ...
  When I was a teacher, a common gripe among the staff was that the parent’s “weren’t doing their job” at home and how were “we,” the teachers supposed to make up for students whose parents didn’t read to them or encourage them to do their homework. This ongoing blame game ranged from discussions of r ...
• New FDA Numbers Reveal Food Animals Consume Lion’s ...
  Antibiotics, one of world’s greatest medical discoveries, are slowly losing their effectiveness in fighting bacterial infections and the massive use of the drugs in food animals may be the biggest culprit. The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is largely due to the misuse and overuse of antibi ...
• Yakima Valley Releases Draft Air Quality Policy fo ...
  Unlike agricultural water discharges which are regulated for large farms defined as CAFO by the EPA and the Clean Water Act, most agricultural air emissions are not regulated. Water discharges and air emissions that are related to industrial scale agricultural operations in rural areas are big conce ...
• No title
  By Julia DeBruicker Valliant On the front porch, boots stamp away snow, and then the farmer steps inside.  The glasses fog up.  Off comes the jacket, the cap, and out goes the hand in greeting.  After a season spent grazing cows and sheep and pasturing pigs, hens and turkeys, meat producers from ar ...

Norwegianity

• Follow the money
  The L.A. Times, not the most progressive newspaper, takes a creative tack in supporting Tunisia’s revolution by citing George W. Bush. [Juan Cole on Tunisia's revolution] Yep, they’re still working on getting W. his Nobel Peace Prize for having kept the body count under one million. Hopefully they’l ...
• Open for business
  Open for business doesn’t normally mean that you’re willing to drop your pants and spread your cheeks, but I think that would be close to what new Cheesehead guv Scott Walker is going for with his new “Wisconsin: Open For Business” signs that are going up all along Wisconsin’s state borders with Min ...
• Brodkorb gets stribbed
  The Strib finally gets around to profiling one of the key political players in Minnesota, something they don’t do nearly often enough. [Michael] Brodkorb races through many days making statements as the state Republican Party’s deputy chair. Then, he rapidly turns to his state-paid job as Senate Rep ...
• Drive-by reporting
  The media absolutely refuses to play this one straight. A day after accurately reporting most of what happened at this weekend’s Tucson forum on the shootings, the Post published this drive-by “news” story today: The atmosphere created a sense of foreboding long before the Jan. 8 massacre at a Tucso ...
• Stribivity vs Rich text
  Nancy Barnes vs [Frank Rich (link)]: With little solid information available on the motivation of the shooter, we immediately decided that we didn’t want any finger-pointing in our coverage. [A week on, that denial is becoming even more entrenched. As soon as the president left the podium Wednesday ...

Public News Service

• Keeping the Flu Bug Away: Tips for Arizona Residen ...
  Keeping the Flu Bug Away: Tips for Arizona Residents Phoenix, AZ – Worries over the spread of the H1N1 flu virus forced many Arizona parents to be extra cautious when it came to protecting their children last flu season. Experts say with flu season upon us again, parents should work to keep their ki ...
• New FCC Rules on an Open Internet Called "Fake"
  New FCC Rules on an Open Internet Called "Fake" Washington, D.C. – The FCC approved new rules for an 'open Internet' last week, but many of the same groups that pushed for such regulations say what they got was a "fake" set of rules drafted with help from the companies they're meant to regulate. Com ...
• Poll: Americans Ready to Deep Six the Death Penalt ...
  Poll: Americans Ready to Deep Six the Death Penalty? Phoenix, AZ – Arizona executed its first prisoner in three years in October. Now a recent poll by the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C. shows growing support for alternatives to the death penalty. Executive director Richard Die ...
• Keep it Simple, Santa – Tips for Holiday Sho ...
  Keep it Simple, Santa – Tips for Holiday Shopping for Tots Phoenix, AZ – There's only one more weekend left for holiday shopping, and if you're looking for gifts for preschoolers, experts say you can give your kids an advantage in later life, while at the same time saving money, by steering away fro ...
• Report: BLM on Track to Feed Energy Needs from AZ ...
  Report: BLM on Track to Feed Energy Needs from AZ Sun Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is getting kudos for its work on designating Solar Energy Zones (SEZs) on public lands in a new report from The Wilderness Society. Specifically, the Brenda area in western Arizona is profiled as a ...

Center for Food Safety

• Tell Sec. of Agriculture Vilsack to Adopt a Morato ...
  In a precedent-setting final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the planting of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) acknowledges for the first time that GE contamination of organic and conventionally grown crops presents a huge problem in the ...
• Feds Yank GE Crops From All Northeast Refuges
  Settlement of Bombay Hook Suit Makes Southeast Refuges Next Legal Target    The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has agreed to stop planting genetically engineered (GE) crops on all its refuges within a dozen Northeastern states, according to a settlement agreement in a lawsuit brought by conservation a ...
• In Wake Of Pending FDA Approval Of GE Salmon, Cali ...
  Bill Would Require Labels on All Genetically Engineered Salmon   Dissatisfied with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) current review of the first-ever proposed commercialization of genetically engineered (GE) salmon, today California State Assemblymember Jared Huffman introduced an Assemb ...
• Obama to Sign Landmark Food Safety Legislation
  Center for Food safety Applauds New Powers for the FDA. Tester-Hagan Amendment a Win for Consumers and Small, Local Food Producers and Processors The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) by the United States Congress.  The bill which passed ...
• USDA Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement ...
  AGENCY MAKES NO DECISION ON APPROVAL OF THE ROUNDUP READY CROP CITING HARM TO ORGANIC INDUSTRY AND PROLIFERATION OF SUPERWEEDS CFS URGES AGENCY TO CONTINUE BAN ON POTENTIALLY HARMFUL CROP The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Sta ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• We Twisted King’s Dream, So We Live With His Night ...
  We Twisted King’s Dream, So We Live With His Nightmare - COLORLINES: "Then of course came the venal cooptation of King’s crowning public moment—the 1963 March on Washington—by Glenn Beck, this past August. Insisting that it was time to “reclaim the civil rights movement,” because conservatives were ...
• What the Zapatistas can teach us about the climate ...
  What the Zapatistas can teach us about the climate crisis: [permaculture-media] "The Line of Dignity proposes that equity between North and South can only be reached when the Northern notion of environmental sustainability (preservation of resources for planetary needs and future generations) is mat ...
• NYPD Cops' Training Included an Anti-Muslim Horror ...
  NYPD Cops' Training Included an Anti-Muslim Horror Flick - Page 1 - Columns - New York - Village Voice: "And not just some diddly 20-minute educational film, either. It was a full-length color feature, with more explosions than a Transformers sequel and more blood-splattered victims than an HBO Worl ...
• The New Gay � Why Don’t Gender Rights Have a Bigge ...
  The New Gay � Why Don’t Gender Rights Have a Bigger Queer Following?: "The combat role has been a focal point of gender-role terror over several decades about integration of women and queer people in the armed forces. I’d like to start my storytelling in 1980, with one of my favorite forgotten “nati ...
• Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and the silence of frie ...
  Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and the silence of friends: [mondoweiss.net] "We know the most vociferous opponents of Palestinian freedom that walk the halls of Congress. Their words and actions are clearly supportive of the most brutal of Israeli actions against Palestinians, leaving no room for doubt ...

Pensieve

• More Constitutional Amendments!?
  The Honduran Congress has introduced more constitutional amendments last night, apparently to reform the judicial branch of government. I hope the Supreme Court declares them unconstitutional quickly; I suspect the reforms are “punishment” for the Supreme Court not bending to Manuel Zelaya’s will in ...
• Charter Cities in Honduras?
  Paul Romer, speaking at a TED conference, proposed the creation of “charter cities” in poor countries as a way to develop them. His prime example, China, with Hong Kong, and the new special cities that China has set up under more capitalist rules. Mr. Romer recently visited Tegucigalpa, and has some ...
• Honduran Congress Dances to Snake Charmers
  Photo by supercake The Honduran government is under tremendous pressure from South American socialist nations led by Hugo Chavez, and the offended âgodâ, the Obama administration. The former want to force the congress to do away with constitution protections against autocratic governments. The latte ...
• Grand Canyon from Hopi Point
  I wasn’t expecting to go to the Grand Canyon over Christmas break. But, since my nephew Oscar and his wife Natalie now live in Phoenix, my brother invited me to join them in visiting him for the first time. The trip over there was grueling, especially after sitting in a bus for 14 hours. But, [...] ...
• Change, by Futureshorts
  Related posts:Hope for Change? Related posts:Hope for Change?

Green Times

• Environmental News 20/01/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Garbage in the forest
  Garbage dumps like this one are a shame on mankind. This picture clearly shows the awful impact people can have on the environment . Such wild dumps can destroy and polute the local habitat (directory/categories/Health%20 %20Beauty) for years...We all want to enjoy the wonders that planet Earth offe ...
• Environmental News 19/01/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Young tree plants in national park
  It looks like someone left their picnic waste behind... but in fact these bags -called tree guards- protect small plants in order to reforest some areas. They save the vulnerable seedlings from animal’s appetite, harsh weather conditions and reduce moisture loss. Isn’t it amazing to see a p ...
• Know your Green ABCs
  Good for the environment, and good for yourself! We can do a lot more than just recycling or turning off the light...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Iran looks to expand corp of web watchers in 'soft ...
  ShareThisIran looks to expand corp of web watchers in 'soft war' with West --'We will have cyber police all over Iran.' 19 Jan 2011 Iran's top police chief envisions a new beat for his forces: patrolling cyberspace. The first web watchdog squads are planned in Tehran this month -- another step in Ir ...
• Bomb that could have killed hundreds found by poli ...
  ShareThisBomb that could have killed hundreds found by police on Martin Luther King parade route 19 Jan 2011 A backpack bomb which could have killed hundreds has been disabled after being left along the route of a Martin Luther King memorial day parade in the U.S. The device was spotted on the stree ...
• Wikileaks: US sought data on Israeli coded message ...
  ShareThisWikileaks: US sought data on Israeli coded messages 19 Jan 2011 The United States told its Middle East diplomats in 2008 to collect data on "encrypted Israeli communications" and create financial and "biometric" profiles of Palestinian leaders, Reuters reported on Wednesday, quoting a docum ...
• Study: 129 million have preexisting conditions
  ShareThisStudy: 129 million have preexisting conditions 18 Jan 2011 As many as 129 million Americans under age 65 have medical problems that are red flags for health insurers, according to an analysis that marks the government's first attempt to quantify the number of people at risk of being rejecte ...
• House set for GOP health care repeal vote
  ShareThisHouse set for GOP health care repeal vote --Measure is expected to pass Republican-led House 17 Jan 2011 The House of Representatives is set to vote on a repeal of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul this week, fulfilling a campaign promise of congressional Republicans and setting ...

Daily Loaf

• Must-click links: Hathaway to purr-form for Nolan ...
  Must-click links is a collection of (mostly random) movie and news links assembled by CL contributor Anthony Nicholas. Anthony encourage you to send your suggestions for the next day’s post to anthonynicholas2@gmail.com or leave a comment in the comment's section.
• Sex offenders banned from living in most of San An ...
  The City Commission for San Antonio Florida, a community of less than 1,000 residents west of Dade City, passed an ordinance this week that effectively bans sex offenders from living anywhere in the town. The ordinance forbids sex offenders from occupying housing within 1,500 feet of any school, da ...
• Bill’s Sports Binge: Pathetic playoff picks, Bucs ...
  Bill does for sports what steroids does for testicles
• Concert review: Lost In The Trees at Orpheum, Ybor ...
  North Carolina folkrestra Lost In The Trees played an intriguing set at Ybor’s Orpheum Monday night. Though the crowd reflected the fact that it was a Monday night, with about only 50 people packed into the deep, dark pit of the bar, the show that happened was probably not one they’d soon forget.
• Kanye West, Kings of Leon & Arcade Fire the big he ...
  Among the other big name bands (all British) that we'll be playing include the return of P.J. Harvey, and reunion tours with Big Audio Dynamite, Wire and the London Suede (Although B.A.D.'s Mick Jones performed with the Gorillaz at the closing of the festival last year).

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• When and where will Israel’s Tucson be?
  By Jesse Bacon By rights it should have been in 1995, when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. But the man who took over for him as Prime Minister after appearing at a rally where he was depicted as a Nazi is Prime Minister again. And Rabin’s party was just split into its final tiny segments. And the cu ...
• Exclusive Interview: JNF demolishes village for th ...
  By Jesse Bacon Bulldozes from the Jewish National Fund demolished the Bedouin village for Al-Arakib for the ninth time yesterday and today. They also demolished the village’s olive groves the week of Tu Bshvat, which celebrates the flowering of trees so they can grow a forest named after a Fundament ...
• More precious than oil: help rebuild destroyed cis ...
  From Ta’ayush’s appeal to help rebuild cisterns destroyed by the Israeli military. Dear Friends and Supporters, The situation of the Palestinian cave-dwellers in South Hebron Hills continues to be difficult. They suffer from permanent harassment carried out by the military and settlers. This y ...
• Targetted professor stands up for human rights in ...
  By Jesse Bacon Neve Gordon, whose own academic freedom was threatened after his support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, writes in the Nation on the continued slide of human rights in Israel. This time at Ben Gurion Airport the site of much harassment of democracy activists as we ...
• A year in jail not enough punishment for protestin ...
  Israel’s military went to court for the right to keep holding in jail Palestinian organizer Abdallah Abu Rahmah, the cousin of slain protester Jawaher Abu Rahmah. Happily for the Israeli Army, it’s a military court so they complied. Abdallah is now to serve an additional 2-3 months. Presumably they ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Social Distortion. Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
  You can listen to the entire new Social Distortion album online. Plus, the more who listen, the cheaper the price gets on Amazon. Such a deal!
• Shale gas drilling can make tap water flammable
  Shale gas drilling, which involves injection toxic and flammable liquids at high pressure underground to fracture rock formations can make tap water flammable. Crazed environmentalists (and those who wish to drink water from their taps without fear of exploding) oppose this dangerous practice, while ...
• The emptiness of liberal and progressive discourse ...
  Emptywheel at FDL continues the discussion triggered by Freddie DeBoerâs “the blindspot,” which is about the lameness and complicity of the liberal blogosphere, and the lack of a genuine left here in the States. There’s a thriving left in Britain that has an accompanying blogosphere. A quick glance ...
• Apparently the recession was caused by excessive r ...
  So implies Obama, in the WSJ where he mandates that foolish regulations will be henceforth banished to the netherworld. Observers are unclear as to whether this includes regulations he has in fact ushered in himself. Look, dumb and stupid regulations can indeed be burdonsome and inane (as I pointed ...
• Sahara Forest Project. Concentrated solar and seaw ...
  The hugely visionary Sahara Forest Project, a collaboration between Norway and Jordan, is about to become reality. It will desalinate water from the Red Sea using solar power, and will also use the incoming water to cool greenhouses so crops can be grown year round in the desert.

Coteret

• Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for remov ...
  On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared with t ...
• “Rejectionist front”: Maariv details N ...
  As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, from a ...
• New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: ‘ ...
  On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that this i ...
• Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book, no ...
  Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the introdu ...
• Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders spons ...
  This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and then di ...

Deadline Live

• Using LCD projectors for… mind control?
  By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore January 17, 2011 Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have announced that, using inexpensive components from ordinary liquid crystal display (LCD) projectors, they’re able to control both the brains and the muscles of tiny organisms such as worms. Hang Lu a ...
• David Icke on the Southern Poverty Law Center &#82 ...
• Attending a City Council meeting….be prepared to g ...
  (FEDERALJACK)   On Tuesday 01-18-2011 we attended the city council meeting in North Miami Beach, FL to give out more information about 9/11 and fluoride as we have been doing and were completely caught off guard by the reaction to the Arizona shooting last week.  Their reaction has been to put in a ...
• Play Chose Attention Americans! America now Offici ...
• FBI Has TWO DOZEN Videos Of Tucson Shooting

The Air Vent

• Above the Law
  Most will notice that I’ve not been blogging this week. There really isn’t any time but Cuccinelli is now being given a new hurdle to uncover Mann’s emails. Virginia senators are considering changing law to prevent Mann’s private emails from being read.  First the university claims they don’t exist ...
• A Superfund Story
  If you want to read the regs start with CERCLA, then SARA. After reading the first few pages you will probably want to come back here to read this because you will realize I would have to be practically brain dead to be as boring as reading regs. Superfund was set up with good intentions. [...]
• The Evidence of Failure
  By John Pittman I think there is enough evidence to show that the IPCC has failed. I am not talking about the perceived tactical failure of Copenhagen or Cancun, but a more fundamental failure on their part. In Anticipating Failure, I wrote about how environmental issues have been successful resolve ...
• Anticipating Failure
  Guest post by John Pittman, but  before that I have something to add. I accepted this post on John’s  past reputation without even looking at the content.  John doesn’t share my political views on many things so this post was a surprise.  Without a doubt I’m getting older, so it is not often tha ...
• Cartoons are fun
  A little wrongthink fun from TGBrown on a CA thread.

Focal Point

• Steve Jobs Bought Human Liver Like Foie Gras
  Will Saletan accuses Apple CEO Steve Jobs of "gaming the system" to get a liver transplant: Jobs lives in Northern California, but he got his liver in Tennessee. Why? Different parts of the country have different waiting lists, and the wait in Northern California was three times longer than the ...
• Commodities Trader Arrested for Threatening to Kil ...
  Former New York commodities trader Vincent McCrudden was charged in federal court this week with threatening to kill 47 current and former federal regulators from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and other agencies. McCrudden ...Rea ...
• It Gets Better, But Probably Not With a Boob Job
  Amanda of Pandagon points to a disturbing ABC News story about teens getting plastic surgery in a bid to escape bullying or, and/or to recover from the psychological scars of bullying. We meet Erica, who was mercilessly teased about her nose, became so distraught that she started skipping ...
• Sarah Palin, Blood Libel, and Death Panels
  Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin claims she is the victim of "blood libel," a reference to the anti-Semitic claim that Jews sacrifice Christian children. A Jewish congresswoman got a bullet through her brain, but Sarah Palin is casting herself as the victim because some people have criticized her ...
• SC Armory Embosses Rep. Joe Wilson's "You Lie" on ...
  The a South Carolina gun company is selling a special commemorative AR-15 lower embossed with the phrase "You Lie," as a tribute to Rep. Joe Wilson (R)'s famous outburst during President Obama's health care speech in 2009. Corey Hutchins of Free Times snagged some promotional copy and screen caps ...

Inside Facebook

• Washington Post Launches Facebook Marketing Agency ...
  The Washington Post Company has officially launched its full-service Facebook marketing and advertising agency SocialCode. The agency will offer Page management, app development, social commerce, fan monetization, message testing, and advertising through Facebook’s Ads API. As former newspaper reade ...
• Facebook Overhauls Its Apps for Feature Phones in ...
  The downside to being one of the most popular mobile apps in the world is that you must be universally accessible to all devices from the lowliest feature phone to the latest Android device. Facebook said today that it’s overhauling its offerings for more than 2,500 models of feature phones through ...
• Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
  The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at MdotM, Speeddate, King of the Web, Meteor Games, and NaturalMotio ...
• Facebook Video Chat App VChatter Scores Funding, A ...
  Chatroulette-style Facebook video chat application vChatter has just raised $350,000 from angel investor Dave Kennedy, who co-founded a dating site that would eventually turn into Match.com. The funding will be used to make hires for the app’s development team with the goal of more rapid deployment ...
• Photos and Horoscopes on This Week’s List of Faste ...
  This week’s AppData list of fastest-growing Facebook apps by daily active users is a fairly typical mix of games and utilities that nevertheless has a few interesting points to it. Take a look: Top Gainers This Week Name DAU Gain Gain,% 1. Windows Live Messenger 12,276,230 +293,482 +2% 2. CityVille ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Air Force Academy Taps "Member of Lord's ...
  truthout: Air Force Academy Taps "Member of Lord's Army" to Speak at National Prayer Luncheon http://bit.ly/fFHQCK #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: New Mexico Governor Violating Constituti ...
  truthout: New Mexico Governor Violating Constitution for Polluters http://bit.ly/i8TZPK #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Tunisia's Democratic Revolution http://b ...
  truthout: Tunisia's Democratic Revolution http://bit.ly/gJWsrr #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian Ame ...
  truthout: Unions and Upward Mobility for Asian American and Pacific Islander Workers http://bit.ly/i8Qh20 #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: News in Brief: Senator Lieberman, Conrad ...
  truthout: News in Brief: Senator Lieberman, Conrad Not Seeking Re-Election, and More ... http://bit.ly/hsvvqj #Truthout #p2 #p2b

ReDress News

• Israeli Zionist left writes its own obituary
  Jonathan Cook argues that the Israeli Labour Party’s collapse may "free up the political landscape for a real left to emerge in Israel, one less tied to the onerous legacy of Labour Zionism and prepared to collaborate creatively with the Palestinian national movements".
• Lebanese Hezbollah leader Nasrallah could be right
  Alan Hart explains why we should not dismiss lightly Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s assertion that the tribunal investigating the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri as "an American and Israeli tool".
• Tunisia - the people’s revolution
  Yvonne Ridley comments on the British media's lopsided coverage of the uprising in Tunisia - devoting airtime to the inconvenience caused to UK tourists and focusing on the role of social media rather than the "revolutionaries who physically took to the streets and faced down live ammunition, baton ...
• Israel's right-wing future
  Lawrence Davidson analyses the growth of fascism in Israel, arguing that this process "did not begin ... with 1967 and the taking of the occupied territories. It did not even begin in 1917 and the Balfour Declaration. It began with the very inception of Zionism."
• Today we are all Tunisians
  Yvonne Ridley pays tribute to the courage of the Tunisian people and reminds us of the stark fact that all the time when the deposed Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was torturing and plundering his people, he had the full support of the USA and European governments.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Podcast Show #37
  The Boiling Frogs Presents Corey Pein Corey Pein recounts the creation of the recently launched groundbreaking site warisbusiness.com, a nonpartisan site covering military contracting, the global arms trade and the lobby, and how he began the project with two assumptions: The first- a lot of peopl ...
• Additional Omitted Points in CIA-Gulen coverage & ...
  Crucial Details Missing in the MSM Coverage of the Recent Intel Chief’s Exposé Last week I wrote about the Washington Post’s incomplete and one-sided coverage of the recently published memoir by former Turkish Intelligence Chief Osman Nuri Gundes exposing CIA Operations via an Islamic Group in Centr ...
• Weekly Round Up for January 9
  Obama’s Whistleblower-Hunt, ‘Rent-A-Generals’ Industry, A Great Example of Intentionally Awful Journalism, One-Tip-Based Terror Watch List & More! A belated happy new year to all our readers and friends here at Boiling Frogs Post. As you can tell I am just coming up for air. The holiday season happe ...
• The “Exceptionally “Redacted 9/11 Commission Inter ...
  Newly Released 9/11 Commission Files at Cryptome.Org Last week John Young’s information site Cryptome.Org began publishing documents related to the interviews conducted by the 9/11 Commission which were released for the first time. On January 3, Cryptome posted the 9/11 Commission’s report on my int ...
• Turkish Intel Chief Exposes CIA Operations via Isl ...
  âIn the 1990s Gulenâs Madrasas sheltered 130 CIA agents” in Kyrgyzstan & Uzbekistanâ Yesterday Washington Postâs Jeff Stein published a very interesting but incomplete story regarding a recently published memoir by former Turkish Intelligence Chief Osman Nuri Gundes. Here is the title of his post: I ...

Afro Spear

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• elementary my dear Watson, elementary
  Updated repost of one of my favorites. Thanks to Sister Anna for bringing it to my attention again after 3 years.  I remember watching a couple of the Sherlock Holmes movies when I was a kid. I never thought much of them as the story lines didn’t really hold my interest, plus they were shown [...]
• Black Woman’s Body Image…How WE feel a ...
    There are many many people talking about black women these days, am I right about it? How we think, what are dreams should be, what we need, what we don’t need, whether black men love us, or not; whether white men love us, or not; whether Asian men love us, or not; whether latino [...]
• Cosmetics Industry Rakes in Billions on the Insecu ...
  Colorism is happening, not only with Africans throughout the diaspora, but also with our equally melanated Indian brothers and sisters. I was surprised, but not surprised (if you know what I mean) to learn of the rampant colorism that’s happening in India. I have heard of the color caste system in t ...
• Violence
  A deeper prespective from Sister Ana: Poverty is violence Hunger is violence Injustice is violence Racial/Ethnic/Religious Discrimination is violence Ignorance is violence Backwardness is violence War is violence Sickness without the proper medical attention is violence Lack of sanitary conditions i ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

• Secretariat the Horse, the Movie
  To be witness to history from afar is one thing, to be up close is another, and to have the wisdom to know the difference is the icing on the cake, of course, I am referring to great moments in history, of excelling in any endeavor, being human, or otherwise, of the bright spots and not of man’s dar ...
• I understand and now you do, too!
  Why do they hate us? Is it really that hard to understand? 1st collector for I understand and now you do, too!Follow my videos on vodpod
• I understand, now you do too!
  A lot of people ask the question, why do they hate us so? This trailer from a new movie explains it in simple terms, it is a sociologist outlining the thinking that has emerge around the world in their views of the Empire. As with every Empire that has ever existed, conquered people will never [...]
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Unsuitable Blog

• Sudden Oak Death – It’s News Because I ...
  It’s commonly called Sudden Oak Death, so why the picture of a stand of larch trees? That’s a question well worth asking, but a far more important question is: why has Phytophthora ramorum, the name of the fungus responsible, become such big news in the UK? Ever since P. ramorum started blowing its ...
• Mother Nature Network: A Hypocritical Crock Of Shi ...
  I make no apologies for the title of this post: I have just spent a short while reading the biographies of the Mother Nature Network Team, and have ended up in the kind of moral position that Immanuel Kant might have struggled with if he had had the internet to contend with in his philosophical [... ...
• The Unsuitablog’s Worst of 2010
  Taking a cue from all the awards and “looking back on”s going on at the moment, it seems like just the right time to pick the very worst ethical hypocrites of 2010. Taking the year as a whole, there is a huge selection to choose from even when just looking at the pages of The [...]
• Undermining in 2010: How Did I Do?
  There is something very human in looking back over a specific period of time and reflecting on what you have achieved, failed in or could just have done a bit better. It’s part of the learning process that civilization discourages, because if we really did look back and reflect upon what really matt ...
• EnviroLeaks : Now Live
  EnviroLeaks is a repository of leaked information that fills the gap between what the mainstream media allow us to know about the environmentally destructive behaviour of the industrial system, and the often highly classified and largely political information from groups such as WikiLeaks. EnviroLea ...

Subalternate Reality

• All That Happens In The Middle East Can’t Be ...
  Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on the ...
• Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
  Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
• Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
  crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
• GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
  Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
• Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
  Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...

Idea Lab | Technology

• How Can We 'Gamify' the News Experience?
  One of the biggest emerging conversations over the past year in Silicon Valley is around "gamification." Simply put, this is the idea of applying game mechanics, particularly those found in videogames, to all sorts of non-game experiences. After following this conversation for many months, I've c ...
• LocalWiki: Laying the Groundwork
  A few of you have been wondering what we've been up to since our Kickstarter pledge drive ended, so we want to give you a quick update on our Knight-funded project, LocalWiki. For those of you who are more technically inclined, we hope to also provide an insight into these early stages of our proces ...
• NPR's Project Argo Creates National Content at the ...
  Jason and the Argonauts were the mythological Greek heroes who set off on a quest for the Golden Fleece. Like its namesake, NPR's Project Argo is off on another noble quest -- to strengthen local journalism, particularly on digital platforms. Project Argo is a partnership between NPR and member sta ...
• Introducing Sourcerer: A Context Management System
  If you want to follow the news, the web has a lot to offer: a wide variety of information sources, powerful search tools, and no shortage of sites where people can voice their opinions. At the same time, though, the web can be overwhelming. Hundreds of links turn up in a Google search. Relevant inf ...
• How OpenStreetMap Helps to Curb Haiti's Cholera Ep ...
  In order to respond to the current cholera epidemic in Haiti, it's essential that citizens, aid groups and others are aware of the locations of functioning health and sanitation facilities. The challenge is that maps showing this information don't currently exist -- at least not in a comprehensive a ...

Cutting Edge News

• The Border on Edge - Interfaith Forum in New Mexic ...
  At the state and local levels, the debate over immigration continues to simmer in 2011. In Las Cruces, New Mexico, for instance, public forums on the immigration question are scheduled to be held at City Hall on�January 20. A roster of speakers is lined up to address the legal, economic and human ri ...
• Islam on the Edge - Asia Bibi to be Shifted to Mul ...
  Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death on blasphemy charges, may be shifted to an all-women’s prison due to security concerns.The Christian community raised its concerns to the authorities and to Federal Minister for minority affairs Shahbaz Bhatti that Asia Bibi is not being pr ...
• Tunisia on Edge - The Breakdown in Tunisia is an O ...
  On January 14, President Zine al-Abadine Ben Ali of Tunisia stepped down after days of worsening riots and, coincidentally, one day after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bluntly criticized Middle Eastern leaders during a speech in Qatar, where she accused them of tolerating "corrupt institutions ...
• Edge on the Mideast - The Muslim Brotherhood's Mar ...
  For the past five decades most funding to Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations around the world � especially those involved directly in terrorist activities � has come from oil rich countries in the Middle East. However the MB Palestinian branch, Hamas, designated as a terrorist organization ...
• China Rising - China’s Military Comes Into Its Own
  Chinese President Hu Jintao is visiting the United States, perhaps his last state visit as president before China begins its generational leadership transition in 2012. Hu’s visit is being shaped by the ongoing China-U.S. economic dialogue, by concerns surrounding stability on the Korean Peninsula a ...

High Country News

• High Country Views, A conversation with Michael Be ...
  Writer Pat Toomay talks with landscape photographer Michael Berman about his craft and the draw of the desert.
• We can't save the land without first saving the We ...
  The communities of the West can be saved while the land is protected, too.
• The trouble with guns
  Maybe it's true that guns don't kill people, but people using guns can sure do damage.
• My walkabout with Michael
  Author Pat Toomay shadows iconic Western photographer Michael Berman on a trip through the Gila Wilderness.
• Keep a public hand on water
  Communities that try to save money by privatizing their water generally regret it.

CounterCurrents

• Not Yet Time To Give Up Hope: Noam Chomsky
  By Mickey Z. What has to be done today is (1) large-scale conversion ( weatherizing , etc.), (2) sharp change in transportation to greater efficiency, like high-speed rail, (3) serious efforts to move to sustainable energy, probably solar in the somewhat longer term, (4) other adjustments that are ...
• House Rhetoricians v. Santas Reindeers
  By Subhankar Banerjee Will we take serious action this year on climate change so that all of us including the House Rhetoricians and the Christian establishments of the world can continue to tell the Rudolph and Santa story with a clear conscience, because weve taken steps to help Rudolphs family m ...
• Global Food Prices Hit Record High
  By Andre Damon Food prices have hit record highs due to a string of crop failures together with an upsurge in speculation, resulting in rising living costs
• Food Crises Pummel The Poor, Austerity Multiplies ...
  By Raj Patel The last two years hunger and malnourishment will have indelibly affected an entire cohort of children. The recession has meant that more people are vulnerable to systemic shocks
• Killer Technologies Will Not Increase Our Food Pro ...
  By Devinder Sharma Genetically modified (GM) crops are once again in the eye of a storm. With the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPM] taking a complete U-turn in its stated policy approach and now publicly supporting GM crops, the debate is heating up.

Contagious Love Experiment

• Practicing Peace in the New Year
  A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. Che ...
• Sharing the writing of another Stieber
  My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing our [ ...
• Article in FOR
  The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Realit ...
• Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Consci ...
  Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-being-w ...
• Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!

Yid With Lid

• On anti Israel rhetoric, Muslim Propaganda and ant ...
  Anti Semitism is on the rise fueled by growing anti Israel rhetoric. Just a few weeks ago, a former European Commissioner and a prominent Dutch politician, Frits Bolkestein, called on orthodox Jews to leave Holland because of "the anti-Semitism among Dutchmen of Moroccan descent, whose numbers keep ...
• Gun Owners Afraid That Michael Moore Will Eat Them ...
  Welcome to Viral Videos For January 19th. As is the tradition, today's videos include the Political, Amazing, and the Simply Funny. Including Michael Moore's contention that people own guns because they are racist, truth be told, they own guns because they are afraid to be eaten alive by Michael M ...
• Collectivism and The Loss of Individual Power
  It was as if someone was trying to send me a message. It seems as though every radio talk show, every commentary, each political debate during the past twenty-four hours centered on the issue of individual power vs. collectivism in American society. It is my contention that individual power based on ...
• How The Mainstream Media REALLY Creates its Israel ...
  By Barry Rubin How incredibly bad is media coverage of Israel-Palestinian issues and of the Middle East in general? Here�s an example. CNN has just run a report on how wonderfully moderate the Palestinian Authority (PA) is. They are firing imams of West Bank mosques who are spewing out i ...
• NewsBusted Explores Why MSNBC Wants to Kill!
  MSNBC is steaming mad, maybe ready to kill. There are new charges of inciting violence directed at Glenn Beck, the GOP has made a move directed to help scrabble players, and President Obama has figured out a new reason to condemn Israel.� All this and more are featured in NewsBusted the twice weekly ...

The Real Agenda

• Climate change study had ‘significant errors ...
  Rising temperatures and Food Shortages claims were ‘honest mistakes ‘  based on flawed data AFP A climate change study that projected a 2.4 degree Celsius increase in  temperature and massive worldwide food shortages in the next decade was seriously flawed, scientists said Wednesday. The study w ...
• Dez Medicamentos que Mais Induzem à Violência
  NaturalNews.com Versão Português Luis R. Miranda O Instituto de Práticas Seguras de Medicação (ISMP) publicou recentemente um estudo publicado na revista “PLoS One” destacando as piores drogas de prescrição que levam o paciente a tornar-se violento. Entre os dez mais perigosos estão os antid ...
• Los 10 Fármacos que Más Inducen a la Violencia
  NaturalNews.com Adaptación Luis R. Miranda El Instituto para el Uso Seguro de los Medicamentos (ISMP) publicó recientemente un estudio en la revista PLoS One destacando los peores medicamentos recetados que hacen que los pacientes se vuelven violentos. Entre los diez más peligrosos están los antidep ...
• Monsanto’s Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases
  New Diseases Endanger Human and Animal Health By Jeffrey Smith While visiting a seed corn dealer’s demonstration plots in Iowa last fall, Dr. Don Huber walked passed a soybean field and noticed a distinct line separating severely diseased yellowing soybeans on the right from healthy green plants on ...
• ‘Our Government will Sacrifice People to Acc ...
  By Luis R. Miranda Former drug dealer and government asset Ricky Ross is back in the news.  After spending 20 years in prison, Ross spoke to Russia Today television and painted a clear picture of how the U.S. government orchestrated the Iran-Contra operation and what it was capable of doing in order ...

Wind Watch

• Windfarm would pose threat to rare bird, warns exp ...
  One of the UK�s rarest birds could be in jeopardy if a major windfarm development in a picturesque part of Inverness-shire is given the go-ahead, a public meeting has heard. About 150 people attended a meeting at Kiltarlity Village Hall to discuss proposals for a 28-turbine windfarm on land between ...
• Customers face huge bill for wind farms that don&# ...
  The failure of Britain�s wind farms to produce electricity in the extreme cold will cost billions of pounds, create an economic crisis and lead to blackouts, leading industrialists have warned. To cover up the ineffectiveness of wind farms the Government will be forced to build emergency back-up pow ...
• Wind turbines divide Dutch
  Residents of a small fishing village in The Netherlands are protesting a plan for building wind turbines that they believe would radically change the look of the community. The Dutch government has given permission for building 86 wind turbines on towers near the scenic village of Urk that would con ...
• Marin wind power test site gets blowback from envi ...
  The proposal was for two thin towers, 197 feet tall and 10 inches in diameter at their base, on two remote west Marin ridgelines, a mile and a half apart and northeast of Dillon Beach. With meteorological testing gear, digital transmitters and a small solar panel mounted to each tower, the temporary ...
• Noise complaints draw opposition to wind farms
  Mike Eaton and his wife live in northeastern Oregon for the peace and quiet. But ever since wind turbines arrived on the ridge above their home two years ago, the Eatons� slice of heaven has been a nightmare. �It makes me seasick and nauseous,� said Eaton, who carries a cane. �I take medication for ...

Not My Tribe

• Film: Maafa 21, Black Genocide in 21st Century Ame ...
  Martin Luther King Jr. was an advocate of birth control, but that didn’t stop organizers of MLK tribute festivities at Colorado College from ending today’s program with a screening of MAAFA: Black Genocide in 21st Century America, a completely contrived shockumentary attempting to incite African Ame ...
• Proof Positive that Privatized Parochial Education ...
  The Colorado Springs Christian Schools is hosting a fundraiser, $250 a seat at the banquet, in April, where they intend to award George W Bush, Decider-in-Thief, the Lion’s Heart Award. They’re giving that cowardly murdering PUKE a medal for being “Courageous”. And to add Blasphemy to Insult, they’r ...
• Baby Doc Duvalier back in Haiti…
  No, really, the ex-dictator is back. Maybe he’s hoping to steal some more, only this time there’s no Haitian money to take. Perhaps from the international aid to Haiti? Negotiate a deal for a U.S. air base perhaps? Of course in the middle of a rigged election where, just like in Afghanistan and Iraq ...
• Happy Birthday MLK Jr, human rights leader, now a ...
  Does this need repeating every Martin Luther King Day? It’s all I can do to resist meeting my compatriots at the MLK breakfast this morning with signs to decry their tomfoolery. MLK was a man of action not sleep walking. He wanted to march against war, not with it, holding wind chimes. To host remem ...
• Dutch TV interview with Julian Assange

Debunking the Debunkers

• Debunking the Debunkers
  Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors, but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subject ...
• Some brief thoughts on a few random things
  1) Michael Shermer, amazingly enough, has not linked the recent Tucson shootings to 9/11 Truth. He is however trying to claim there's nothing suspicious about the mass bird and fish deaths. What about the 96% drop in honeybees, Shermer? Is that normal? He of course puts all this hysteria down to peo ...
• Miley Cyrus wants to murder innocent children!
  Jared Lee Loughner (three names!), the latest nutbar to go postal, was apparently a 'truther'. His friend in the video above describes how he was a fan of the movie Loose Change. Other reports say he was also a fan of Zeitgeist. Not surprisingly, the debunkers are once again using this to demoniz ...
• WTC7 Explosion Video A Fake?
  First off, here is the video in question. Joseph Nobles of ae911truth.info points out in his post "Explosion on 'Seven’s Exploding' Video is Not Original," that the firefighter in the clip does not say "seven's exploding," but rather "the city’s explodin." After taking this into consideration and ...
• The Year in Duh-Bunking: February
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog writes: The Year in Troof: February Follies Gage's Gaggle held their 1000th signer press conference and celebration. Steven Jones chose this opportunity to speculate that perhaps the New World Order had caused the Haiti earthquake. Sibel Edmonds became a 9 ...

Fooducate

• Health Claims and Other Assorted Jokes
  The GAO – Government Accountability Office – (yes, there is such a thing) issued a report late last week, telling the FDA it needs to do a better job protecting consumers from misleading health claims on products. According to the GAO, the FDA’s efforts to protect consumers from false or misleading ...
• I Must Have Died and Gone to Food Heaven [Fancy Fo ...
  We spent the day yesterday in San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center munching our way through hundreds of gourmet foods. Every 6 months, the manufacturers, importers and distributors of quality food products meet for Fancy Food Show, a trade convention that showcases their latest and greatest cul ...
• What Food Represents YOUR State? [Humor]
  Just saw this on Serious Eats and had to share. [Click on the map to enlarge] California is grapes, while New York and Illionois are pizza. Texas is steak, while Florida gets oranges. What’s with the green Jell-O, Utah? Get Fooducated: iPhone App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on t ...
• Eating Healthfully on the Cheap
  When it comes to eating healthfully, there are two complaints that come up most often: 1. The nutritional value of a food is inverse proportion to how good it tastes. 2. Nutritious food is too expensive. These 2 claims are both false, of course. And to help refute statement (2), ShopSmart Magazine, ...
• Exclusive: Is the ADA Dropping its Corporate Spons ...
  We’ve just learned from several dietitians about an online survey the American Dietetic Association is circulating among its 70,000 strong membership, focusing on RDs attitudes about the organization’s corporate sponsorship program. You know – taking money from big food companies and pretending it d ...

Traffikd

• Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Program ...
  Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Internet ...
• How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blogs i ...
  To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
• Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
  If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate great ...
• Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
• 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...

Survival International

• Bushmen back in court over water rights
  Bushman child, CKGR, Botswana 2004 © 2004 Stephen Corry/Survival The Kalahari Bushmen pleaded for the right to water in Botswana’s Court of Appeal on Monday. A panel of five judges heard the case, and are expected to deliver their verdict on 27th or 31st January. The Bushmen won the right to ...
• Botswana approves $3bn mine as Bushman water case ...
  Bushman mother and children at Gope, before their eviction to a resettlement camp © Fiona Watson/Survival Botswanaâs government has green-lighted a massive $3bn mine in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve â in the middle of the Kalahari Bushmenâs appeal against the Botswana authoritiesâ refusal ...
• Brazilian authorities approve Amazon dam despite p ...
  Kayapó Indians protesting against the Belo Monte dam © T Turner The Brazilian government’s Indigenous Affairs Department, FUNAI, has issued an order restricting entry to an area of land near the site of the planned Belo Monte dam, following indications that there are uncontacted Indians living ...
• Bushmen ‘determined’ as legal battle over water ap ...
  Xoroxloo Duxee died of dehydration after the Bushmen's water borehole was disabled. © Survival On January 17th, Botswana’s Court of Appeal will begin a hearing to decide whether Kalahari Bushmen living on their ancestral lands have the right to water. The Bushmen, who returned to their land ...
• Travesty of justice for human rights defender
  Dr Binayak Sen, human rights defender, starts his life sentence for sedition, India. © Anon, use by special arrangement Indian human rights defender Dr Binayak Sen has been sentenced to life in prison under charges that Amnesty International has called âpolitically motivatedâ. Binayak Sen â a ...

Greg Palast

• Shake your head and throw something at your TV
  from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depending ...
• Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
  from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil runs o ...
• Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
  by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Russian ...
• The Real Wiki Hero
  by Marta Steele from OpEdNews with a Surprise P.S. from Greg Palast Is it not ironic that the same country that contributed Rupert Murdoch to the world has more recently donated Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks since 2007, when it was founded to "report on and publish important informat ...
• WIKI-CREEP ASSANGE, THE SCAMPPvt. Bradley, the Cha ...
  by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash I'm a "hero" and it makes me want to puke.  This week I was voted a "Hero of the Media" in one of those fairly harmless polls that are little more than thermometers of face time on the idiot box. But this Nation Magazine gong is shared with Julian Assange, imp ...

Telegraph UK - oil

• The PM's disappointing retreat on soaring fuel cos ...
  Telegraph View: Mr Cameron says a promised fuel tax stabiliser has turned into a 'difficult issue', but this is not so.
• Petrol prices to hit £6 a gallon
  Petrol could hit new record price as the price of oil on the world markets climbed higher following Alaska oil spill.
• Petrol price fear as leak closes oil field
  Global oil prices could rise sharply today after BP and other oil companies were forced to shut down almost all production from North America's biggest field.
• Tiny village in West Sussex sitting on 'black gold ...
  A tiny village could be sitting on a half a billion dollars' worth of oil after a petroleum company announced the results of exploration in the unlikely oilfield in West Sussex.
• 'Systemic failures' to blame for BP Deepwater Hori ...
  "Systemic failures" by BP and other companies contributed to Deepwater Horizon spill, damning US inquiry finds.

Ian Welsh

• Stop treating monsters as reasonable people
  Over the last few years, and in particular in the last couple, I’ve noticed something about myself: I’ve become a lot more rude in my political dealings, including with many people I used to consider allies.  At first this worried me a bit, because I couldn’t quite pin down why, beyond the fact tha ...
• Stop treating monsters as reasonable people
  Over the last few years, and in particular in the last couple, I’ve noticed something about myself: I’ve become a lot more rude in my political dealings, including with many people I used to consider allies.  At first this worried me a bit, because I couldn’t quite pin down why, beyond the fact tha ...
• Dear Software Writers
  Please don’t set your program to auto-update my drivers without telling me.  Because, no, your newer drivers are not always better, in fact they often break something, which is why I NEVER auto-update drivers (or much of anything else). Thanks for wasting a good six hours of my life fixing your scr ...
• Dear Software Writers
  Please don’t set your program to auto-update my drivers without telling me.  Because, no, your newer drivers are not always better, in fact they often break something, which is why I NEVER auto-update drivers (or much of anything else). Thanks for wasting a good six hours of my life fixing your scr ...
• Ideologies have overlap
  Ideologies neither form a spectrum, nor a grid, nor even a circle.  Instead the reality is more complicated, with ideologies agreeing on different issues, often for different reasons in some very odd ways. Progressivism (as I understand it, I would not call myself a progressive) is fundamentally and ...

Age of Autism

• Did Change.org's Brie Cadman Promote Censorship of ...
  Managing Editor's Note: Looks like Brie Cadman is following Secretary of Health and Human Services Director Kathleen Sebelius's directive to censor/suppress/choose not to run science that questions vaccine safety. Where's the 1st amendment outcry from left or right? By J.B....
• News @Northeastern Presents Dr. Richard Deth on Ch ...
  From Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. See the original article HERE. For more information, please contact Jason Kornwitz at 617-373-5729 or at j.kornwitz@neu.edu. The British medical journal, BMJ, has published a report by an investigative journalist on the first study...
• Age of Autism and Andrew Wakefield Team Up Saturda ...
  From Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill: Our book tour for "The Age of Autism -- Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-Made Epidemic" hits Houston on Saturday and Dallas on Monday. Saturday morning, we're thrilled to share the stage and lend our...
• Poul Thorsen is Still In Charge of Public Danish A ...
  By Ulla Danielsen The scandalised danish autism researcher, Dr. Poul Thorsen, who once was chief of the now defunct research unit Nanea at Aarhus University is still in a powerful position as an autism researcher. Seemingly unaffected by the suspicions...
• Landscaping Wakefield's Grave
  By Martin Walker In yet another sickening betrayal of parents, patients and those suffering from pharmaceutical adverse reactions. Brian Deer has repeated his basic thesis that the 12 children amongst many who were referred to the Royal Free Hospital and...

Global BDS Movement

• On the Second Anniversary of Israel’s Bloodbath in ...
  Occupied Palestine, 27 December 2010 – On the morning of 27 December 2008 Israeli forces initiated a 23-day military offensive against the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip killing more than 1400 and injuring over 5000 Palestinians, predominantly civilians and refugees since 1948. read more
• Palestinian Civil Society reiterates call for a fu ...
  Occupied Palestine, 22 December 2010 - We, the undersigned Palestinian civil society organizations, including farmers’ unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees, reiterate the call of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) for a full boycott of Carmel-Agrexco due to its complic ...
• Derail Israel's Unlawful A1 Train Project– End Int ...
  Occupied Palestinian Territory, 16 December 2010 - Israel’s A1 high-speed train project designed to connect Jerusalem and Tel Aviv violates international humanitarian law and human rights law. The A1 rail project forms a component of Israel’s ongoing plans to cement its regime of occupation, colonia ...
• Australian BDS Movement Begins to Emerge
  By Phil Monsour read more
• Palestinian refugees and Israel's A1 rail project ...
  The A1 rail project constitutes yet another step in the i read more

Farm Wars

• Truth Squad Radio: No Child Left Behind?
  JS Rugg joins the show to discuss the sad state of education in this country. When third world countries produce children who are better educated than our children....we need to ask "why?" No Child Left Behind has been a disaster for the nation and our children are paying the price.
• “Trusted” Activist Groups Try to Regulate Silver a ...
  Not all groups supposedly fighting for our food freedom are who we think they are. If you really want an eye-opener, read the following article, and check out this link, which notes organizations on the Merck Pharmaceuticals dole.
• How the Food Safety Modernization Act will destroy ...
  It has made us start to totally re-look at our business plans and how we're going to sell our food. We're no longer going to sell wholesale, no longer going to sell to chefs or restaurants, it's consumer direct only.
• Signs of food toxicity in genetically engineered e ...
  “The safety claims made for these plants are not supported by existing data. On the contrary, there are alarming signs that the consumption of food derived from these plants could result in adverse health effects.
• Truth Squad Radio – Weekly Schedule!
  This Wednesday we will talk with RT Fitch about the wild horse roundup situation, and receive an update on how the FDA is allowing aluminum to poison our food supply.

Open Your Eyes News

• Joint pain? It could be fluorosis caused by fluori ...
  The Times of India – The next time you suffer from a persistent backache or an irritating stiff joint, don’t attribute it to long hours spent at the computer. It could well be the result of fluorosis, a disease thought to affect people in rural India with no access to safe drinking water. It’s time ...
• Antibiotics increase risk of IBS and Crohn’s ...
  Daily Mail – Children given antibiotics are twice as likely to develop digestive problems, research shows. Those prescribed penicillin and similar medicines are more at risk from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and Crohnâs disease. Scientists believe the drugs may encourage harmful bacteria and other ...
• Venezuela Says Oil Reserves Surpass Saudi Arabia&# ...
  CNBC – Venezuela has overtaken Saudi Arabia as the world leader in oil reserves with certified deposits leaping to 297 billion barrels at the end of 2010, President Hugo Chavez’s government said Saturday. Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez told Reuters that the new reserves, which pushed the total 41 pe ...
• Brazil Landslide and Flood Toll Reaches 665
  Wall St Journal – The death toll from flooding and mudslides in southeastern Brazil climbed to at least 665 people, as public outcry turned toward authorities’ ongoing struggle to reach still-isolated areas and their failure last week to have warned residents of the danger of gathering storms. Relie ...
• Police frustration over ‘lock-down’ af ...
  The Guardian – Two policemen at the inquest into the 7 July 2005 bomb victims spoke yesterday of their frustration at leaving the scene of the bus explosion and being “locked down” inside the nearby British Transport police HQ, because it was feared that the building could also be a target. Minutes ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Green jobs growing in California, Next 10 says
  Green jobs at clean-tech or alternative-energy companies are flourishing in California, with nearly a quarter of them based in Los Angeles, a study has found. Employers offering jobs in fields such as solar power generation, electric vehicle development, environmental consultation...
• Zero DS: An electric commuter, on two wheels
  Plug-in electric cars have been headline news for the better part of a year, with the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt finally entering the market as production cars. It's an unfortunate reality that mass-produced plug-in electric motorcycles, which have been...
• The melting Arctic: a bigger-than-estimated impact ...
  The dramatic shrinking of Arctic sea ice and the Northern Hemisphere's glaciers and snowfields has reduced the radiation of sunlight back into space more than scientists previously predicted, according to a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience. As a...
• National parks: A missed deadline to curb haze
  More than three decades after Congress ordered state and federal officials to clear the haze that obscures vistas from America's national parks and wilderness areas, progress has slowed to a near-halt. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency failed to meet a...
• California electricity pricing threatens plug-in h ...
  California has been targeted as an early adopter market for plug-in hybrid vehicles, such as the Chevrolet Volt. Yet a study released Thursday said the price of recharging those vehicles may make them less economical to operate than traditional hybrids....

water.org

• Matt Damon recognized for Water.org (MTV)
  Matt Damon Recognized At Critics’ Choice Awards For Water.org Charity (MTV) – Damon was given the fourth annual Joel Siegel Award for Service to the Community. While Kimmel provided comic relief, joking that the Oscar winner is “the greatest guy in the world,” the actor received serious accolades fo ...
• Matt Damon receives Joel Siegel Award (VH1)
  Joel Siegel Award – Matt Damon (VH1) – Video of Matt Damon receiving the Joel Siegel Critics Choice Movie Award. Video Link. Critics’ Choice |Movie Awards |Critics’ Choice Video |Celebrity News
• Matt Damon, Gary White talk to Katie Couric (Glamo ...
  Matt Damon Talks to Katie Couric About His Clean Water Crusade (Glamour) – He may be an ex-Sexiest Man Alive, but Matt Damon and his Water.org partner Gary White, are on a crusade: clean drinking water everywhere. Glamour columnist Katie Couric learns why water is a womenâs issue. When Matt gets inv ...
• Bill Clinton keynote speaker for Hult Challenge (P ...
  President Bill Clinton to Deliver Keynote at Hult International Business School’s 2nd Annual Global Case Challenge (PR Newswire) BOSTON – Hult International Business School announced today that President Clinton will serve as this year’s keynote speaker and personally present awards to the winning t ...
• Lowe’s Foundation donating $1M to 4 charitie ...
  Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation Donating a Total of $1 Million to Four Environmental Charities through Online Campaign – Each charity will receive $100,000; Consumers will help decide how remaining $600,000 is divided (Business Wire) MOORESVILLE, N.C. â Loweâs and the Loweâs Charitable ...

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Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

• Why We Should Take Jared Loughner's Politics Serio ...
  very few of today's college students have any sense of what "the left" or "the right" are or have traditionally stood for, what "liberal" and "conservative" have historically meant or where on the political spectrum we might place fascism and communism. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� ...
• Call for Fox News to drop Glenn Beck | Media | The ...
  Ten thousand sign petition for rightwing talkshow host to be removed amid accusations that he has whipped up hatred in the wake of the Arizona shooting Submitted by John C. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Thousands protest in Tel Aviv against Knesset prob ...
  We are voicing a clear voice in support of human rights and democracy, and against racism, McCarthyism and future destruction. We will continue to fight for democratic values, freedom of speech, equal rights for citizens and the end of the occupation."Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note- ...
• CBC News - Ottawa - Ottawa parents lodge complaint ...
  Ottawa Parents ladge complaint after 10 year old son handcuffed by Ottawa Police.Submitted by Wayne Cook to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Israeli Demolition Begins in East Jerusalem Projec ...
  Israeli bulldozers demolished part of a landmark building in a predominantly Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Sunday to make way for a Jewish housing project, prompting condemnation from Palestinian officials...Submitted by Carrie Burton to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• California: Holtville Farm Going Solar
  Located in California's Imperial Valley, Vessey and Company, Inc. began as a small farming venture growing and shipping iceberg lettuce. Now the 10,000 acre operation is a Imperial Valley powerhouse producing and shipping 25 different t ...
• E•BOOM CAPITAL: A Robust Week for Green Stocks Led ...
  Plug Power led the Eâ¢B Clean 100 this week with a share price increase of 67 percent. Solar said Thursday that Coca-Cola Refreshments USA will purchase 37 fork lift trucks powered by the compan ...
• Innovative Solar Bus Shelter Powers the Grid in Ca ...
  Its seems as though solar panels are beginning to show up everywhere. From devices like mobile phones to computer keyboards to structures like hi-way emergency telephone booths and bus stop shelters, companies are continuing to develop ...
• E•BOOM CAPITAL: Little Exposure for Investors in K ...
  Here is the Electricity Storage Association’s scoreboard for technologies now available for various applications of energy storage. Aside from pumped storage hydro (PSH), compressed air energy s ...
• Sol Sytems New Program Provides Another Option to ...
  Renewable Energy Credits (REC)�are quickly becoming a viable and quick option for companies and utilities�to reduce their carbon footprint and meet new industry and government renewable energy standards. read more

News Blaze

• Repealing Obamacare: Remarks by Congressman Tom Mc ...
  The CBO warns that this law will increase average private premiums by $2,100 within five years above what they otherwise would have been without Obamacare.
• FightZone TV To Sponsor AOF MMA Expo At Florida St ...
  'Fusion' will be the 11th major MMA event held by Art Of Fighting in Florida. Promoter, Nathan Smith, commenting on the growing mainstream popularity of the sport says 'Art of Fighting has stayed true to its Florida roots and is now hosting the f
• Loyalists of Gbagbo Open Fire Towards UN Security ...
  Deploring the repeated acts of aggression against its patrols, the UN Operation in C�te d'Ivoire (UNOCI) reported today that its security forces stationed at the Pullman Hotel were waiting for the arrival of the AU Emissary, Kenya's Prime Minister
• White House Project Founded By Marie Wilson Appoin ...
  Ever since she accepted the Girl of the Year Award in eighth grade, Tiffany Dufu knew that she wanted to make a profound impact. Raised in the Pacific Northwest, the daughter of a homemaker and a minister, Ms. Dufu was an early feminist who challeng
• UN Reports Former Haitian Leader's Return Raises I ...
  There are major issues surrounding Mr. Duvalier and the considerable range of human rights abuses that took place in Haiti during the 15 years that he was in power, the spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)19

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Renewable Energy Study Eyes 2030 as Year of Change

ThirdAge

- Jan 19, 2011

- 6 hours ago

Renewable energy could be the main way we turn on our lights within the next two decades. New research shows it's possible and affordable for the world to ...

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Subsea 7 Launches Renewable Unit, Forms Offshore Wind Alliance

Wall Street Journal

- Jan 19, 2011

- 12 hours ago

Subsea 7 Wednesday announced the launch of its offshore renewables division, transferring its seabed-to-surface expertise, capabilities and safety and risk ...

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BP: Renewables Grow Faster than Fossil, But Stay in Minority

Greentech Media (blog)

- Jan 19, 2011

- 3 hours ago

Renewable energy and biofuels will be the fastest growing segment in energy, according to BP, but fossil will still rule the roost. ...

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Broadrock Renewables Breaks Ground on Landfill Gas-to-Energy Expansion ...

Business Wire (press release)

- Jan 19, 2011

- 1 hour ago

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Broadrock Renewables LLC, in partnership with the County of Orange, held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new landfill gas-to-energy ...

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Human Habitat

ecology water energy

Announcing Sixth Annual Ecology Series

Aledo Times Record

- Jan 19, 2011

- 6 hours ago

By Anonymous The Rock Island County Soil and Water Conservation District will be hosting their 6th Annual Winter Ecology Series, the first 3 Tuesdays in ...

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Washington Bills Would Streamline, Reform State Water Management

EP Magazine

- Jan 19, 2011

- 4 hours ago

Twenty-nine legislators supported bills in the House and Senate that would remove some authority from the Department of Ecology and set up a new water ...

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The economic jungle: How ecologists could save banking

New Scientist

- Jan 19, 2011

- 7 hours ago

An ecological theorist and the Bank of England's head of stability have teamed up to show that if you apply the mathematical models used in ecology to ...

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U of A student wears same jeans for 15 months

iNews880.com

- Jan 19, 2011

- 6 hours ago

Le's human ecology professor Rachel McQueen tested the jeans. She found bacteria, but nothing that should make a healthy person sick. ...

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Iorio: New price hikes, broken pipes behind higher water bills

Tbo.com

- Jan 19, 2011

- 20 minutes ago

"We don't want people to have high water bills," Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio says. "That's the last thing we want." By RAY REYES | The Tampa Tribune TAMPA - Cold ...

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Video: 'Water for Elephants' -- Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon in trailer

Examiner.com

- Jan 19, 2011

- 28 minutes ago

The highly-anticipated film, Water for Elephants is soon to be released, and the official international trailer for the film has hit the internet. ...

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California's CVP gets good 2011 water outlook

Western Farm Press

- Jan 19, 2011

- 3 hours ago

Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor forecasted likely increases in water supplies in ...

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Councilwoman Watson to fight takeover of Detroit water department

The Detroit News

- Jan 19, 2011

- 4 hours ago

Detroit— Councilwoman JoAnn Watson is vowing to fight against a takeover of the city's water department. Watson said the attempts by her colleagues to ...

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