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IPS - Inter Press Services

• EGYPT: Church Bombing Fuels Sectarian Rift
  It was a tragic year for Egypt's minority Coptic Christian community that began with a drive-by shooting at a church in southern Egypt, and ended in deadly clashes near Cairo after authorities halted construction of a church. As 2010 came to a close, Copts ushering in the New Year with a mid ...
• AFPAK: Bombed Schools Feed Illiteracy, And Militan ...
  "I have now hired a house in the adjacent Dera Ismail Khan district where my three daughters are studying in a school," says Jamil Shah Wazir of the militancy-riddled South Waziristan. Getting girls to school is a real struggle here.
• PAKISTAN: Blasphemy Law Carries Over Into New Year
  In the face of protests and a nationwide strike called by hardline religious parties against any changes to the blasphemy law, Pakistani Christians have had little to cheer about over the Christmas and New Year season.
• MIDEAST: Israelis Resist Their Own Arabs
  A number of recent incidents discriminating against Israel's Palestinian minority has prompted Israeli Knesset (parliament) members to debate whether Israel is becoming increasingly racist.
• U.N. Threatens Ivorian Leaders With Possible War C ...
  The United Nations has warned the beleaguered president of Cote d'Ivoire and his military leaders that they may well go the way of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir: face charges of war crimes and genocide before the international criminal court.

Scoop - NZ

• Foreign Investors Shun Australian Bank Debt
  It's no big deal when a handful of contrarian bloggers sound the alarm over our banks' heavy offshore borrowings and the risks of a sudden liquidity crisis. But when two of the nation's main tabloid newspapers warn of a possible credit crunch and property market crash, then its time to take this iss ...
• Italy's debt costs approach red zone
  Italy's borrowing costs have jumped to the highest level since the financial crisis over two years ago, raising concerns that Europe's biggest debtor may slip from the eurozone's stable core into the high-risk group on the periphery.
• Keiser on Canadian Housing Bubble
  VIDEO: 'Expect Enormous Comeuppance, Tremendous Sense of Denial, Ireland-Like Dynamics, 90% Price Drops'
• CorpWatch : UK: From $1 firm, Lord Ashcroft nets £ ...
  John Key's mate Lord Michael Ashcroft who secretly jetted into NZ to visit Key before the last election owns the Belize Bank. He is also a very shady character when it comes to taxes and his business practices as this story indicates. "The £48.10-a-share offer from ABM is 46 times the firm's earning ...
• Lord Ashcroft 'subjugated a nation', claims Belize ...
  The Conservative deputy chairman, Lord Ashcroft, tonight denied a charge from the prime minister of Belize that he had "subjugated an entire nation" through his extensive business interests in the former British colony. Accusing the peer of being "predatory" and of subjecting Belize to his will, ...

Independent - London

• Spain enacts tough anti-smoking law
  Spain has introduced a tough anti-smoking law that prohibits lighting up in enclosed public places including bars, restaurants, discotheques, casinos, airports and even some outdoor spaces, in line with the European Union's strictest anti-smoking legislation.
• Woman swept away drowns in Australian floodwaters
  A woman drowned after trying to cross a flooded causeway in Australia, becoming the first victim of relentless flooding that one official has described as reaching "biblical proportions," police said.
• Palestinian killed at West Bank checkpoint
  Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian who approached them at a West Bank checkpoint holding a bottle, the Israeli military and Palestinian officials said.
• 'Biblical' floods displace 200,000 Queenslanders
  The worst floods in Queensland's history, described yesterday as "a disaster of biblical proportions", have swamped an area the size of France and Germany combined and displaced more than 200,000 people.
• The IoS – read and admired by all the top people
  It's official: The Independent on Sunday is a must-read among world leaders.

Rogue Government.com

• 50 million taxpayers must delay filing - IRS
• Spain and Italy Have to Refinance Over $530 Billio ...
  The euro currency area has only a one-in-five chance of surviving in its current form over the next 10 years because of competitive imbalances between its members, a leading British think tank said on Friday.
• Man had Fourth Amendment scrawled on chest; strips ...
  Police say a man stripped to his underwear at a Virginia airport checkpoint in a protest against security procedures.
• Biometric ID Check On Children As Young As Four
  DOZENS of Scottish schools have introduced “intrusive” biometric systems, such as fingerprinting, to identify pupils as young as four.
• New pension law could force municipalities to rais ...
  Chicago's Mayor Daley blasted the reform bill Quinn signed on Thursday, predicting it will cause Chicago to hike its property taxes up to 60%.

Innovation Canada

• 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 ...
• The bright side of E. coli
  Mention the Escherichia coli bacterium, or E. coli, and many people immediately get anxious. After all, certain strains of E. coli, typically ingested through undercooked ground beef, have been associated with cases of severe diarrhea, kidney failure and even death. But a group of undergraduate stud ...
• Getting to the root of HIV
  Daily, neurologist Chris Power at the University of Alberta in Edmonton boards an elevator in the lobby of the Heritage Medical Research Centre, gets off on the sixth floor and strolls down the corridor to a nondescript, but world-class, level-three-security biosafety laboratory (BSL-3). No one is g ...
• When good stress turns bad
  Everyone experiences stress, whether it’s dealing with day-to-day annoyances, such as traffic jams or machines that just won’t work, or with truly life-altering events, such as the death of a loved one, a divorce or the loss of a job. Whatever the trigger, the initial response by the body and the br ...
• Blowin’ in the wind

Signs of the times

• Lord of the Fliers: Will Anarchy Break Out Among T ...
  This Weekend's Blizzard Likely to Cost the Airlines Millions of Dollars With Some Travelers Stranded Until Thursday The nightmare continued Tuesday for travelers trying to fly to or from the Northeast. Airports opened but there were plenty of delays, even more lines and fears that delays could stre ...
• Are we becoming more stupid? Human brain has been ...
  It's not something we'd like to admit, but it seems the human race may actually be becoming increasingly dumb. Man's brain has been gradually shrinking over the last 20,000 years, according to a new report. This decrease in size follows two million years during which the human cranium steadily gre ...
• Australia's Queensland faces 'biblical' flood
  A senior official has described the flooding in Queensland, Australia, as a disaster of "biblical proportions". State Treasurer Andrew Fraser said the economic impact would be severe, with huge costs compounded by lost income from mining, farming and tourism. Rockhampton, where 77,000 people live, ...
• "Biblical" Floods Threaten Australian Homes
  Flood waters swept through vast areas of northeastern Australia Saturday, threatening to inundate thousands more homes in a disaster one official said was of "biblical proportions". As Queen Elizabeth II sent her "sincere sympathies" to Queenslanders who rang in a damp new year, helicopters were b ...
• Brazil hosts first Palestinian 'embassy' in Americ ...
  Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas lays foundation stone for future embassy in capital Brasilia. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas thanked Brazil on Friday for recognizing his nation's statehood with the first embassy in the Americas and said other countries were following suit. Since ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Swimming with polar bears
  It was a balmy 12 C with intermittent rain in Hamilton today-- perfect swimming weather--and so your intrepid correspondent sallies forth! (That is not fat. What looks to the casual observer like a beer gut is actually layer upon layer of thermal padding and floatation modules - safety first! That's ...
• Bummer bulletin . . .
  WHY I DON'T BUY JAPANESE ANYTHING: according to the Washington Post, the Japanese have sent a fleet to Antarctica to kill 1,000 whales, if they can. Their fleet has been found and is being harassed by The Sea Shepherd Society. Japan's whaling fleet set out for Antarctic waters in December. Sea Shep ...
• another headdesk moment
  I know it is only Wednesday, but this is going to be tough to beat for the stupidest thing I'm going to hear all week. "The armies of other nations...could allow homosexuals to serve in their military because we didn't allow them to serve in ours...We will no longer able to bail out these other ema ...
• A visit from the Ghost of Christmas Present
  “Since there will never cease to be some in need on the earth, I therefore command you, "Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbour in your land. (Deut. 15:11).” I'm taking a lot of pictures for the newspaper this month this month of people donating to the local food bank, which is called on to ...
• Happy New Year!
  HAPPY NEW YEAR! The infinity figure? That's called an analemma. It's a 37-shot composite. You can find out what it's about at Astronomy Picture of the Day. All the best for 2K11.

Media Matters for America

• 15 Whoppers Beck Did Not Get Fired For In 2010
  In 2010, Glenn Beck repeatedly made up facts on Fox News show -- a barrage of lies that would force any credible news outlet to fire him. Media Matters counts down 15 of the most notable fibs that Beck told this year on Fox News, culminating with the biggest lie of all.No. 15 The Fed Hoards Its Pro ...
• Eight Out Of Nine Countries Allowing Sam ...
  Following the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell,�Equality Matters�finds�that�most countries to legalize same-sex marriage first�allowed gays soldiers to�serve�openly. Of the nine countries that allow same-sex marriage and have a standing military, eight of them first allowed gays and lesbians to serve ...
• Equality Matters Looks At Civil Rights Ac ...
  In light of legislation repealing the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, Equality Matters reviews achievements in civil rights laws that were accomplished during the 19 years between racial integration of the military and the Supreme Court decision striking down laws prohibiting interracial m ...
• Frum Bungles Key Immigration Facts to Justify Kill ...
  In a CNN.com opinion piece, CNN contributor David Frum attempted to justify the defeat of immigration reform bills, including the DREAM Act, by suggesting such measures would not help the United States attract highly skilled immigrants. In fact, both the DREAM and comprehensive immigration reform b ...
• Fox Distorts The Facts To Attack Cape Ha ...
  On�Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade falsely suggested that�if environmentalists have their way, North Carolina's Cape Hatteras "could be just left to the birds, or maybe some turtles." In fact, environmental groups do not seek to have all Cape Hatteras beaches closed, and regulations in place ...

Global Research.ca

• Why Washington Hates Hugo Chavez
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Networks of Empire and Realignments of World Power
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Tortured Until Proven Guilty: Bradley Manning and ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Detroit in Ruins. The Decline of the American Empi ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Tunisia: IMF "Economic Medicine" has resulted in ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• A Bit of New Year's Silliness
  Maybe the only thing I've been obsessed with longer than foreign policy is The Clash. Recently someone shared a brilliant YouTube misheard lyrics video of 'Complete Control,' and I knew I had to make one of my own. So, meaning no disrespect to the high-quality discourse we at TPM conduct on matters ...
• Arab Nazareth, Israeli Democracy--Bundist Dreams
  A little over three weeks ago (around the time this blogger went quiet, in this season of reflection), Sidra and I took a little road trip to the Israeli Arab town of Nazareth, where we spent the weekend in a funky little inn, the Fauzi Azar. I haven't stopped thinking about it since. When you get a ...
• On New START, Fantasy Versus Reality
  In the age of 24-hour news cycles and content-free shouting heads, there will be a tendency to forget last week's historic vote to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction agreement and move on to other subjects. We should resist that tendency. New START will make us all safer by reducing U. ...
• Talk Radio Kabuki Play
  Ever since last November's election I've been trying to understand the role of right wing populism in our democracy. This is a movement that arguably began with George Wallace's 1968 and 1972 Presidential campaigns, began to flourish when Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves in 1984 and perhaps reache ...
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TruthOut

• N. Korea Calls for Peace, Warns of "Nuclear Holoca ...
  Beijing - North Korea on Saturday called for dialogue and peace on the Korean Peninsula in a state-issued New Year’s Day editorial, warning that a breakout of war with the South “will bring nothing but a nuclear holocaust.” While the statement also characterized South Korea’s government as a “minio ...
• UN Threatens Ivorian Leaders With With Possible Wa ...
  United Nations - The United Nations has warned the beleaguered president of Cote d’Ivoire and his military leaders that they may well go the way of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir: face charges of war crimes and genocide before the international criminal court. As it heads for a showdown, ...
• WikiLeaks, Ideological Legitimacy and the Crisis o ...
  While empires try to maintain their hegemony through economic and military prowess, they must also rely on a form of ideological legitimacy to guarantee their rule. Such legitimacy is often embedded in the geopolitical reputation of the empire among its allies and reluctant admirers. Once that reput ...
• Decriminalizing Self-Defense: Victoria Law on Resi ...
  Victoria Law is a longtime prison activist and the author of the 2009 book, "Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women" (PM Press). read more
• Reading Charlotte's Web as a Parent and an Activis ...
  One of my earliest memories is sitting on the couch with my mom as she read Charlotte's Web to me and my sister. Thinking back on the book, I don't remember all of the details, but I do remember that Charlotte (the spider) was helping save her friend Wilbur (the pig) from being killed. I remembered ...

Planetsave

• Exposed! Justin Bieber Proves Global Warming a Hoa ...
  (Crossposted from our sister blog, RedGreenAndBlue.org) How does bullshit propagate on the Internet? Easily. Some guy says something crazy – like “Justin Bieber loves him Sharia Law” or “Most scientists don’t believe in global warming.” Then a few people repeat it. Suddenly it’s everywhere. And for ...
• Swans (10 Friday Photos)
  Photo Credit: James Lines via Flickr I come from Poland and I will never forget these days when I was young, when I went to the nearest park where there was a huge pond with swans. I loved to go there and I was really disappointed whenever there were no swans. I remember that once... Read More...
• GOES Satellites Watching 2011 Roll In
  On December 30, at 1445 UTC the GOES-13 satellite captured a âfull-disk imageâ of North and South America, showing cloud cover associated with low pressure areas over the upper Midwestern United States and Coloradoâs Rocky Mountains. NASAâs GOES project is run out of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Cent ...
• What Causes Mass Extinctions
  Humanity has moved about in such a way, disrupting many fragile ecosystems the world over, and introduced new and often harmful species into these environments, to a point that mass extinction could be on its way, according to a new study that looked at the effect invasive species have and had on bi ...
• Solar Compared (Gram for Gram) to Nuclear and Coal
  Susan Kraemer of our sister site Cleantechnica recently covered an interesting story, a comparison of solar to nuclear and coal by weight. Take a guess which one wins. Here’s the intro from Susan. An interestingly novel way of comparing solar power with nuclear power finds that solar easily bests nu ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Water emergency declared in Calif. city - green - ...
  Water emergency declared in Calif. city – green – TODAYshow.com via Water emergency decl
• Snowy Stoney Creek Spawner Count.
  What a spectacular morning! The North Shore Mountains were heavily sprinkled with snow as I drove do
• Officials: Don\'t drink the water in Barstow
  Officials: Don\’t drink the water in Barstow via Officials: Don\’t drink the water in Ba
• More Interesting Facts! About Trees of course!
  Image by Or, to save on postage... via Flickr via SavATree Trees as everyone knows, are the longest
• Green Street Sidewalks in Downtown L.A.
  When Creek Freak posted our article about the city of Los Angeles’ recent Riverdale green stre

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Exclusive: I Don't Believe In Lennon by Rocket Kir ...
  by Rocket Kirchner Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Rocket Kirchner (blog) Rocket Kirchner (youtube c
• Is the First Amendment Dead & Gone? You bet! b ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 7 Decemb
• Wikileaks: Power, Propaganda, and the Global Polit ...
  by Andrew Gavin Marshall Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 7, 2010 Introduction The recent re
• Rebellion in the High Street? By William Bowles
  By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 7 December, 2010 “The Middle Cl
• U.S. And NATO Allies Escalate Military Buildup Aga ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism D

Axis of Logic

• Networks of Empire and Realignments of World Power ...
  Imperial states build networks which link economic, military and political activities into a coherent mutually reinforcing system.  This task is largely performed by the various institutions of the imperial state.  Thus imperial action is not always directly economic, as military action in one count ...
• Throwing Biotech Lies at Tomatoes – Part 1: Killer ...
  Remember the pictures of the fish tomatoes? For years they were an unofficial emblem of the anti-GMO movement. They depicted how anti-freeze genes from an Arctic fish were forced into tomato DNA, allowing the plants to survive frost. Scientists really did create those Frankentomatoes, but they were ...
• U.S. : In 2011 The Baby Boomers Start To Turn 65: ...
  Editor's Note: Notice the author's tendency to blame the elderly who have worked all their lives, paying into Social Security through mandatory deductions from their paychecks. Nowhwere does the writer blame the US government for the retirement crisis of US workers. Nowhere does the writer call atte ...
• German steel boss calls for “German raw materials ...
  31 December 2010 Ekkehard Schulz, the outgoing chairman of the steel group ThyssenKrupp, has called for the setting up of a “German raw materials corporation” to counteract skyrocketing prices and the growing shortage of raw materials on the world market. Schulz, who is moving to join the sup ...
• Afghan war to escalate in 2011 - World News
  Kabul - A senior officer of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Monday that the war in Afghanistan would escalate in 2011 as the coalition pursues militants. “There is no end to the fighting season; we need to keep pressure on the Taliban all over the country,”...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Attention Hotmail Users "Some users of Microsoft Hotmail are starting off the new year scrambling to get back e-mails of old. A chorus of frantic users has posted complaints on Microsoft's online forum that all of their messages have disappeared. ... "Please help me get them back," wrote one user un ...
• Don't Expect the Bi-partisanship of Lame Duck to E ...
  I believe in bi-partisanship. Not in its current iteration, as a marketing slogan, used mostly by partisans on the right as a disguise that makes their own partisanship appear "moderate" while opposition to their "moderation" is therefore cast as "extreme." I'm talking about genuine bi-partisanship ...
• I was right and the Worst. Psych. Prof. Ever. was ...
  Well over two decades ago, back when neurosciences was still the bastard child of the Psychology and Biology departments, I got my ass handed to me in a most humiliating way by a Psych professor who didn't much care for us bio types (and the feelings were reciprocal) but I needed the class and he ta ...
• Best Music of 2010
  A CD's worth of the year's best songs, generally from off the beaten path. IntroductionIf you dig these songs please consider buying them. �Most can be had for less than a buck. �They will also be hosted at Pruning Shears until Thursday, so you can try before you buy over there.Here are my favorit ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Not as bad as Bali, but effective terror nonetheless. "An explosion at a bar near a barracks in Nigeria's capital has killed a number of people. Nigeria's military chief said a bomb had been planted to target people celebrating New Year's Eve in Abuja but he did not say who was responsible. The expl ...

Care 2

• Arkansas wildlife officials say more than 1,000 de ...
  BEEBE, Ark. � Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 blackbirds to die and fall from the sky over an Arkansas town. Submitted by Evelyn J. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• SeaShepherd and the Whaling ships!
  Dancing with Death Machines at the Bottom of the WorldSubmitted by Jill Vickerman to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Abandoned Horses Are Latest Toll of Drug Trade
  After playing a back-breaking role in the Mexican drug trade, many horses are abandoned across Arizona. Submitted by Penelope Ryan to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 'Zombie Ants' Controlled By Fungus
  The oldest evidence of a parasitic fungus that turns ants in to zombies has been found by scientists. It sounds like something out of the X-Files yet this fungus not only exists today but has been around for 48 million years. Submitted by Stephen Motson to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Co ...
• Extinct Balearic Dormouse Hypnomys (Rodentia, Glir ...
  Increasingly sophisticated methods of mitochondrial DNA analysis and computerized restructuring of extinct species based on bone fragments and complete skeletons have allowed paleontologists to �bring to life� extinct species.Submitted by Bryan Hamaker to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Com ...

Smirking Chimp

• The Coming War over the Constitution
• Which of These Banks Was 2010's Most Shameless Cor ...
• Chris Christie, Mike Bloomberg, Haley Barbour have ...
• On Dimples and Dog Whistles: Why Tucker Carlson De ...
• The Magic of Two-Year-Olds and Death by Cell Phone ...

Paul Krugman

• The Long Road Ahead
  It take a lot of growth to restore full employment.
• Snow Job
  It's always someone else's fault.
• Season's Greetings
  And hippo birdie, where appropriate.
• Congratulations to Estonia - or Maybe Condolences?
  A not-so-excellent adventure.
• No Heat and Bad Food
  On getting stuck with the second-best.

No Quarter

• Brought Down By A Lack Of Vision * Open Thread
  Rudolph floated forward.  Big, beautiful, and buoyant, his red nose a beacon leading the way as part of the local Christmas parade. Still, he needed helping hands to anchor him and navigate a path along the city street. Sure he was a bit awkward to deal with, but with a little foresight and planning ...
• End of Watch 2010
  When a Police Officer dies in the line of duty, the date of their death is known among Officers as their End of Watch. At the beginning of each New Year I take time to visit the Officer Down Online Memorial Pages. 2010 was a particularly deadly year for Police Officers. Every year it seems [...]
• Bloomberg Thin Ice
  � The blizzard of 2010 may be the last of Mike Bloomberg the invincible, and may very well start the unraveling of his stealth campaign for the presidency. Five days after the snow stopped falling, streets remain unplowed, Chinatown sidewalks remain unshoveled, and Bloomberg cannot answer the suspic ...
• What happened to NPR
  NPR used to be my home. A place where I went to hear a story or two about the world at large, about America’s leadership, about people and places that awed and inspired me. Now, it seems, fear-mongering has replaced journalism, and the balanced reporting has morphed into the straight arm of the Obam ...
• Dear NQ Readers: Happy 2011
  Hi NQ Readers–I don’t know how 2011 is going to go down. But maybe our leaders got the message this last election that we want to see some solid solutions and forward movement. I made my list of resolutions last night. (In 2010 I managed for the first time ever to actually accomplish about half [... ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Earth 350, the First Global Climate Art Show
  Earth 350 is the very first planetary art show centered on climate change. It is an approach no one has really looked at before. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Significance Christmas Plants
  Various evergreen plants are popular during the Christmas season. Here we talk their history and significance... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• What We Can Learn from Star Trek Movies
  Even imaginary, futuristic civilizations fought and failed against returning through the black hole of waste, expired natural resources and lost innovation. It happens. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the arti ...
• 5 Solar Eclipses Expected in 2026
  The history of viewing gravity-related phenomena when solar eclipses occur is lengthy, and the narratives surrounding an eclipse's "totality" are even more substantial. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the arti ...
• How Plastic is Preying on Albatross Chicks
  There is seaborne trash that threatens animals of the sea, but plastic debris seems to be the perceived threat for the albatross chicks. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• There Actually Was a 2010 Worth Remembering
  Victory was ours, on a few occasions anyway.
• Resilience, Thy Name Is Al Qaeda
  Its rejuvenation is no reason to panic -- yet again.
• Will the Tunisian President Go the Way of Ceausesc ...
  According to the Guardian, Ben Ali's regime has a fin de siecle feel.
• Postcard from...Koza
  An anti-American riot in Okinawa in 1970 still has ripple effects on the island today.
• Will the Tunisian President Go the Way of Ceausesc ...
  According to the Guardian, Ben Ali's regime has a fin de siecle feel.

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

• Pakistan coalition partner quits
  Prime minister insists MQM's withdrawal will not cause the collapse of the PPP-led federal government.
• Australia floodwaters set to rise
  Queensland still on edge as rivers surge to new heights and flow into low-lying towns even though rain has stopped.
• Tension flares amid Israeli raids
  One Palestinian shot dead at checkpoint in the West Bank and two more injured in Gaza as Israeli jets hit refugee camp.
• Iran stoning ruling 'could change'
  Justice department official says death sentence may be commuted, while convict says she may "sue" journalists.
• China-Russia oil pipeline opens
  New pipeline effectively to double Russian exports of crude oil to world's largest energy consumer.

Green Inc. - NYT

• 2010: An Untameable Spill, an Unpassable Bill
  It was a year full of big environmental news, from the BP oil spill to the failed climate bill.
• On Our Radar: Bird Species at Risk From Wind Devel ...
  Golden eagles and whooping cranes are among the bird species at risk from rapid wind farm development, according to a conservation group.
• An Evangelical Backlash Against Environmentalism
  Some evangelists argue that Christians must resist the "Green Dragon" of environmentalism.
• New York State Buys Conservation Rights for 89,000 ...
  New York State paid $30 million to secure conservation rights on tens of thousands of acres of forest in the Adirondacks.
• Another Setback for a West Coast Coal Port
  The state of Washington has blocked a proposed coal export terminal in Cowlitz County.

Dot Earth News

• Science, People and the Planet in 2010
  From Haitian tremors to gulf oil to synthetic life, a review of a momentous year.
• On Warming, Antarctica, Clouds and Peer Review
  With peer review in place of shouting matches, climate science moves forward a notch or two.
• Putting a Siberian Snow Connection to the Test
  A forecaster seeing links between warming, Siberia and outbreaks of cold weather offers a fresh prediction.
• Wintry Weather and Global Warming
  More from the "weather is still not climate" files.
• Top of the World To You
  A pause to recharge, and to celebrate humanity's remarkable juncture.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• 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 ...
• A New Week of Link Dump: Gnosis Whacks Gawker; Fed ...
  Before Wikileaks there wuz Hyperlinks: Lots of em. Let's lead off with the best thing in America: Prisoners Strike in Georgia - NYTimes.com. GO CHAMPS! Day 3 of Historic Prison Strike in Georgia-Blacked out By Media-Guards committing Violence Anyone can have a Tumbr hit! kim jong-il looking at thing ...

Daily Censored

• Decline & Fall – The Happy New Years Edition (with ...
  In 2000, 135 million citizens were employed. In 2010 there were 139 million Americans employed. Given the 9.7% increase in population since 2000, we would expect to see at least 148 million citizens with jobs. Michael Collins The best thing about 2010 is that it’s over. It was a year filled with utt ...
• 2011: Americans re-take their country from psychop ...
  source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com 2011 in America: US unlawful Wars of Aggression: expressly against multiple UN National Security Council Resolutions forbidding US use of military force. Rapacious looting of our economy by political pimps and Wall Street criminal frauds. US “political leadership” c ...
• Monitoring schoolchildren
  Hundreds of schools have begun monitoring children in the past few year with the United Kingdom intent on stepping up the pace in the new year. Biometrics and CCTV are the most prevalent with many schools in Scotland planning on introducing or expanding schemes in the coming year. New figures reveal ...
• The prime directive: Thou shalt not kill.
  The generals won’t stop war; it’s their bread and butter. The politicians won’t stop war; it makes them look so strong and resolute and electable. Who’s left? It’s up to the soldiers.
• Struggle, Resistance and Progress: 2010 Recap and ...
  www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news Please Join us this Thursday December30th at 9:00 PM EST. If you cannot listen LIVE you can listen on Archive 2010 was a particularly tough year within the stolen borders of American, and throughout the globe—for that matter. The global economic crisis, caused b ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• 'Arms dealer' Bout 'turned down US plea bargain'
• US ambassador to China 'hints at presidential bid'
• 'Arms dealer' Bout 'turned down plea bargain'
• Chavez, Clinton chat at Brazil inauguration
• Obama condemns Egypt, Nigeria bombings

Institute for Policy Studies

• The Lineup: Week of December 27, 2010-January 2, 2 ...
  William A. Collins reviews the gun lobby's gains and Jim Hightower urges readers to move their money to small, locally based financial institutions.
• Not Much to Celebrate with Obama's Tax Deal
  It could spell trouble for Social Security.
• No Tax Holiday for the Working Poor
  There's not much to celebrate with Obama's tax deal.
• Obama's Afghanistan Review: A Whitewash of a Disas ...
  According to the Obama administration, nothing can happen in the U.S. war in Afghanistan that doesn’t mean good news.
• 'Tis The Season For Gay Rights
  Finally, a long-overdue step forward for civil rights achieved.

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

• You + PDA = Success
  Happy New Year! Friends, At this time of the year, our email boxes are overflowing with messages pronouncing how great a particular organization is, ticking off all the wonderful things that organization accomplished in the last year, ...
• January 2011 Accountability and Justice IOT News
  January 2011 Accountability and Justice IOT News PDA Issue Organizing Team Accountability and Justice Conference Call https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/309/mtglistproc.asp?formid=meet&caleventid=18964 When Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Time: 9:00 PM ET, 8:00 PM CT, 7:00 PM MT, 6:00 PM PT Note new ...
• Put the fix on the Senate
  Help Us Make History on January 5 Dear Friend, The Senate is broken. A minority of 41 Republican Senators has virtually stopped reform in its tracks: • If Democrats try to pass something without Republican input, Republicans filibuster. • If Democrats ...
• Raising Hell for healthcare
  Get this book and raise some hell for Medicare for All! There’s only one force powerful enough to get us the change we want and voted for in 2008: populism. The sad fact is we can ...
• ANOTHER VIEW: Where have America’s middle-cl ...
  By Tracy Emblem – For the North County Times American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter, according to a Commerce Department report. These profits are the ...

Marler Blog

• Blog Release - Marler Clark Pledges $10,000 to Int ...
  Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, announced today that it is pledging $10,000 to the International Sprout Growers Association (ISGA) to assist in the development of a safer method for the production of sprouts. The contribution comes on the heels of a nationwide Salmonella outbreak caused by c ...
• "First Class Foods" Recalls 17 Tons of E. coli O15 ...
  First Class Foods, Inc., a Hawthorne, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 34,373 pounds of organic ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The following products ...
• Does this recent Sprout Salmonella Outbreak show a ...
  The CDC has confirmed that there are presently 94 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:- from 16 states and the District of Columbia. The number of ill people identified in each state with the outbreak strain is as follows: California (1), Connecticut (1) ...
• Perhaps after three Sprout Outbreaks, Jimmy John's ...
  Salmonella and E. coli are fecal bateria - think about it. According to today’s report from the CDC, between November 1 through December 27, 2010, 94 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:- have been reported from 16 states and the District of Columbia. ...
• Outbreak of Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:- Infection Sp ...
  With the number of Salmonella or E. coli Outbreaks linked to sprout consumption nearly 40 in the last few decades by my count, perhaps banning sales of sprouts across state lines would both limit the size of these outbreaks and jump-start small, local, sustainable agriculture? This recent Outbreak, ...

AutoblogGreen

• Report: Facing high gas prices, dealers get cautio ...
  Filed under: Car Buying, SUV, Crossover The average gas price in the U.S. is over $3 right now, and there's a good chance it'll go higher before too long. What do you do in this situation if you're a car dealer with a lot full of SUVs and big crossovers? You start being cautious. That's the ta ...
• AutoblogGreen for 12.30.10
  42 years of waiting, and working, for an electric car pays off Some people know just how big a deal the first Volt and Leaf deliveries really are. Alyssa Milano to buy both Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt ...
• Rumormill: BMW's production Vision Concept to be c ...
  Filed under: Coupe, Hybrid, BMW, Rumormill, Electric, Diesel BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery We have heard that BMW has has registered a series of "i+number trademarks (i1, i2, i3, i4, i5, i6, i7, i8 and i9) to use for its fuel efficient MegaCity range ...
• AutoblogGreen for 12.29.10
  Tesla pushing Toyota to be faster, better when it comes to electric cars So, a start-up and a giant OEM walk into a bar... Debate over electric car viability revived in Canada Pictured: an E ...
• AutoblogGreen for 12.28.10
  Opinion: Why early electric vehicle adopters deserve tax credits Just in case Fox News is listening... Nissan: "Everyone in their Leaf" by end of summer Will this promise come true? ...

Rafe's Radar

• 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?
• Oodle goes after Craigslist with social classified ...
  The company that runs the Facebook Marketplace is exporting its technology to the open Web.
• Avaak still trying to crack home Webcam market
  New version of ultra-small Internet-connected monitor camera finally gets motion sensor.
• Life in the Chromeosphere
  The hardware isn't ready and the OS is still beta, but Chrome OS notebooks look poised to steal the Netbook market from Microsoft.
• DivX plug-in does Flash video better than Adobe
  Add-on to Adobe's own add-on uses graphic processor and better software to play video with less CPU overhead.

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!

• A Special Message to our Facebook Fans from Amy Go ...
  As 2010 draws to a close, I want to thank you for watching Democracy Now! and for choosing a news source that’s committed to the truth. Five days a week, Democracy Now! delivers headlines directly to your Facebook page for free, keeping you and your friends up-to-date with the latest news from arou ...
• ‘The Comeback Kid’ and the Kids Who Won’t
  President Barack Obama signed a slew of bills into law during the lame-duck session of Congress and was dubbed the “Comeback Kid” amid a flurry of fawning press reports. In the hail of this surprise bipartisanship, though, the one issue over which Democrats and Republicans always agree, war, was co ...
• WATCH: Amy Goodman on CNN’s John King USA
  Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman discusses the East Coast snowstorm, the war in Afghanistan, and more on CNN’s John King USA on Tuesday, December 28.
• 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 Tuesday, December 28 at 7pm EST.
• India's Most Famous Political Prisoner Dr. Binayak ...
  Renowned Indian physician and human rights activist Dr. Binayak Sen has been sentenced to life in prison. On Friday, Dr. Sen and two others were convicted in India on charges of sedition and conspiracy. Described as Indian’s most famous political prisoner, Dr. Binayak Sen is known as the "physici ...

Digg Green

• Methane on Mars: Now you don't...
  Towards the end of 2011 a large and hugely expensive robotic rover called Curiosity is due to blast off for Mars from Cape Canaveral. If it makes it safely to the planet’s surface in August 2012 one of the first things it will do is sniff the air. Its creators, back on Earth, will be straining ...
• Videos of the inside of a bald-faced hornet n ...
• Was Israel the birthplace of modern humans? ...
  Archaeologists have discovered evidence that places Homo sapiens in Israel as early as 400,000 years ago -- the earliest evidence for the existence of modern humans anywhere in the world.
• Lower levels of education are associated with ...
  Results from a large European study suggest that poorly educated people are more likely to be admitted to hospital with chronic heart failure than the better educated, even after differences in lifestyle have been taken into account.
• NASA's Year In Images and a Martian Eclipse ...
  Flooding in Pakistan via the ASTER satellite; the Spirit Rover finding evidence for Martian water; a luminous Hatley 2 comet; creepy lightning on Saturn; the “Buckyballs” of deep space; the “Unicorn Rose”; and much more. And all in a minute and a half.

Invisible Opportunity

• You are Invited to the Wedding of Stupidity and Va ...
  By Les Visible I’ve got a new litmus test. You may remember that I authored the original litmus test of measuring a person’s integrity, truthfulness and honor against what they have to say about 9/11. It seems like a lot of people who managed some kind of a ‘false positive’ with that one are now [.. ...
• On New Year’s Eve, 2010
  By Les Visible Well, here I sit at the closing of the year. The past is behind me and the future is ahead and neither of them exists in real time, because there is only the present. One could say that the past put us where we are and that what we are likely to [...]
• 9/11 TRUTH: Kevin Ryan Exposes Access for Demoliti ...
• Myths and Facts: Study Verifies That There Is No V ...
  A remarkable study published in the Cochrane Library found no evidence of benefit for influenza vaccinations and also noted that the vast majority of trials were inadequate. The authors stated that the only ones showing benefit were industry-funded. They also pointed out that the industry-funded stu ...
• Steroid use among police officers a widespread pro ...
  By Jonathan Benson Professional athletes are not the only prominent members of society with major drug problems. According to a recent report by AOL News, as many as 25 percent or more of police officers are regularly take steroid drugs, which has led to a rise in the number of assaults and other ca ...

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

• Reading Charlotte's Web as a Parent and an Activis ...
  Charlotte realized that the only way to save Wilbur's life was to make people care about Wilbur. If someone is nameless, we can treat them in the worst ways.
• Vision: The Idea That Drug Addicts Should Be Treat ...
  The U.S. and Canada are making significant strides towards mainstreaming harm reduction, but there are still walls to knock down.
• The Idea That Drug Addicts Should Be Treated, Not ...
  The U.S. and Canada are making significant strides towards mainstreaming harm reduction, but there are still walls to knock down.
• How America Turned into a Nation of Speedfreaks an ...
  An excerpt from Mick Farren's new book exploring the drug that dominates the lives of millions of schoolchildren, soldiers on the battlefield and freelance writers.
• How America Turned into a Nation of Speedfreaks
  An excerpt from Mick Farren's new book exploring the drug that dominates the lives of millions of schoolchildren, soldiers on the battlefield and freelance writers.

Twilight Earth

• When I Was Your Age…
  View all of Joe’s political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related posts:Tea Party Actually Started by Two British Comedians (cartoon) Republican Energy Plan (cartoon) Election Day Cartoon Caption Contest Related posts:Tea Party Actually Starte ...
• Monsanto Claus: A RoundUp-Resistant Christmas
  (To the tune of “The 12 Days of Christmas”) On the worst day of Christmas Monsanto Claus gave to me, six bucks per acre and toxic herbicides from some other company… Last year’s Monsanto Claus cartoon–“Monsanto Claus: Ho Ho Oh No!” …and the rest of my Monsanto-related cartoons. Follow on Twitter @Gr ...
• WTF?! EPA Says RIP to Bee’s.
  EPA knowingly OK’s Bayer’s bee-killing pesticide. Related Links: The full Grist article whose text is in the cartoon. Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Document Shows It Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees The Bayer Kills Bees! website. (They also kill democracy!) Yep, that’s Bee from the environment ...
• Bears Protest to Save Nude Supermodels
  EARTH has PETA’s back. Keeley Hazell: Donât Wear Fur (PETA, NSFW) Naked protest against fur coats in Barcelona PETA Celebrates National Topless Day …Speaking of nudity, my last nude (sasquatch) cartoon Visit the rest of Joe’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com. And follow him on Twitte ...
• Climate Change Conference, Cancun Style! (cartoon)
  Will Cancun be more productive than Copenhagen? The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change takes place in Cancun until December, 10. I imagine a lot of productive days discussing much needed change… Not! (I am bringing back “Not!”–who’s with me?!) More on the UNFCCC Cancún Climat ...

Inhabitat

• Eco Parenting New Year’s Resolutions for 2011!
  The start of a new year is the perfect time to set some productive resolutions. This year we asked some of our favorite green bloggers and sustainable designers to share what they have planned for themselves and their families for 2011. From some eco-insight shared by gDiapers’ founder Kim Graham-Ny ...
• Eco-Fashion Predictions for 2011!
  Whether you’re a fashionista or err on the side of style indifference, you have to consider fashion as an industry with the potential to impact the environment in a considerable and positive way. As we enter a brand new year full of promise and possibility, we asked 27 of our favorite eco-fashion ...
• Coat Transforms Into a Sleeping Bag Warms Homeless ...
  Detroit was one of the US cities hit hardest by the recession, and this winter it finds itself with 18,000 individuals without a home – a quarter of whom are children. To help these individuals achieve some level of comfort in a dire situation, Veronika Scott, a junior at the Center for Creative St ...
• Green Design Predictions For 2011!
  Read the rest of Green Design Predictions For 2011!http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: and William McDonough + Partners, David Johnson, Earth2Tech ...
• Top 6 Most Popular Green Design Stories of 2010
  This past week, we brought you the top green architecture, technology, art, energy, product and transportation Inhabitat stories from 2010, but now it’s time for the main event – the top 6 most popular green design stories of 2010. The following 6 stories were the most talked about and the most cli ...

Pogue's Posts

• A Day With an E-mail Scammer
  An e-mail scammer meets his match in a British theater director with a wicked sense of humor.
• Phone Service Out? Call Customer Service, Of Cours ...
  A reader shares an exchange she had with Qwest customer service.
• Amazon Provides a Dose of Humor
  Some of the best laughs on the Internet come from Amazon reader reviews.
• Here's a Thought: Rollover Megabytes
  A Twitter follower comes up with a good idea: rollover megabytes for data on cellphones, like rollover minutes.
• Gorilla Glass, the Smartphone's Unsung Hero
  People carry their phones around in pockets with keys and change. People drop these things, toss them, scrape them. Why on earth don't they get totally scratched up?

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Climate Models Miss Effects of Wind-Shattered Dust
  Clumps of dust in the desert shatter like glass on a kitchen floor. This similarity may mean the atmosphere carries more large dust particles than climate models assume. Dust and other airborne particles’ effect in the atmosphere is “one of the most important problems we need to solve in order to p ...
• Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2010
  In a year full of major advances, over-hyped findings and controversial studies, Wired Science had a tough time choosing which breakthroughs were the biggest in 2010. So we've collected the ones that stood out the most to us. From synthetic life and three-parent embryos to the possibility of a new h ...
• U.S. Science Funding Boost Faces Uncertain Future
  Despite coming under attack by Congressional republicans, federal science funding has received a major and mostly overlooked boost. The America COMPETES Act, passed by Congress shortly before Christmas, calls for $46 billion in science and technology research funding over the next three years. Fina ...
• The Weirdest Indicators of Serious Medical Risks
  As databases of information about people’s lifestyles and medical ailments grow, ever-stranger omens of our health seem to emerge. Today’s computer-powered studies allow researchers to look beyond obvious health risks of the past. New analyses show, for example, that finger length, grip strength an ...
• The World’s Biggest, Iciest Particle Detector
   See Also: Elusive Neutrino Change-Up Finally Detected Searching for Alien Neutrino Messages Dark Matter May Be Building Up Inside the Sun Underground Lab Probes How Matter Licked Antimatter New Supernova Image Reveals Third Dimension

PakAlert

• Video: Trends for 2011 by Gerald Celente
  Gerald Celente trends for 2011 : gold and silver will keep its rally up and up and up, Gerald Celente very bullish on Gold is forecasting Gold $2000 and global currency crisis that's going to be so bad that they might call for a Bank Holidays we will continue to see defaults nation wide from states ...
• Top 10 Survival Downloads You Should Have
  There are tons of good downloads in the Survival Database Download section of this website. For this article – I have selected 10 that everyone should have either printed and put away, or placed on a USB drive – or better yet both. So – let’s get to it:
• The Transhumanist and Police State Agenda in Pop M ...
  Today’s pop music is filled with symbols and messages aimed to shape and mold today’s youth. Apart from the occult symbolism discussed in other articles, other parts of the elite’s agenda are communicated through music videos. Two of those parts are transhumanism and the introduction of a police sta ...
• 63 Percent of Americans Oppose War In Afghanistan
  Opposition to the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time high, with 63 percent of the public now opposed to U.S. involvement there, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey. Just 35 percent of survey respondents say they still support U.S. involvement.
• 10 Modern Methods of Mind Control
  The more one researches mind control, the more one will come to the conclusion that there is a coordinated script that has been in place for a very long time with the goal to turn the human race into non-thinking automatons. For as long as man has pursued power over the masses, mind control has bee ...

Andy Worthington

• Andy Worthington Visits the US to Campaign for the ...
  The 9th anniversary of the opening of the “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay is on January 11, and, in the hope of raising awareness of the need for action to close Guantánamo and to secure fair trials or release from the prison for the 174 men still held, Andy Worthington, freelance investi ...
• Guantánamo Is “A Piece of Hell That Kills Ev ...
  On Christmas Day, I wrote an article reminding readers of the plight of the remaining 174 prisoners in Guantánamo, and specifically focusing on the case of Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, a mentally troubled Yemeni prisoner who has attempted to commit suicide on several occasions. Despite being cleared fo ...
• Hounding a Torture Judge: A Report by Susan Harman ...
  Holding Bush administration officials accountable for torture is an unfashionable thought in Obama’s America, as was signaled even before Barack Obama took office, when he told the New York Times about his “belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.â After a promising early ...
• With Indefinite Detention and Transfer Bans, Obama ...
  With just two weeks to go before the ninth anniversary of the opening of the “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo, almost everyone in a position of authority in the US has failed to resolve, in a satisfactory manner, the bitter legacy left by the Bush administration. In fact, to judge by two recent ...
• Christmas at Guantánamo
  Ten days ago, when I traveled to Sheffield with my friend, the former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes, for a screening of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with Polly Nash), I asked Omar what Guantánamo was like at Christmas, as I knew that he ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• “Mining” Groundwater in India Reaches New Lows
  Nearly a third of India is suffering from chronic rainfall shortages, and making up for it with "the world's largest groundwater mining operation," according to experts.
• National Snow and Ice Data Center Gets a Cool Make ...
  Its servers process information that's key to charting climate change, but the center had a climate problem of its own to solve.
• Presented By:
• Can Geothermal Energy Pick Up Real Steam?
  Developers say we have a 'window of opportunity' to mine heat from Earth’s white-hot core, but lagging investment and environmental questions pose significant obstacles.
• New Species Photos: Fangless Snake, Bald Bird Near ...
  NoneScientists working in Asia's Mekong River Basin are finding new species of bats, birds, snakes, and more at a "staggering" rate.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• 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 ...
• Party like it's Orwell's 1984
  This summer, I read George Orwell’s paranoid dystopia novel, 1984. I have no idea how I managed to graduate from high school, let along college, without reading it, but, there you go. (And, all literary genius aside, I’m so glad I wasn’t friends with Orwell. Somehow I doubt he was ever the life o ...

SPL Center

• AFA’s Fischer Doubles Down on Anti-Gay Lies
  Like a desperate gambler who simply can’t make himself fold an obvious losing hand and instead increases his bet, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association apparently has concluded that the best defense for being caught in lies is to further inflate them. The Southern Poverty Law Center last ...
• A Poll of Their Own: Family Research Council Takes ...
  Tony Perkins, president of the anti-gay Family Research Council (FRC), was on the attack again today. In a live event broadcast from the FRC political arm’s website, Perkins announced that a new FRC poll had found that almost 63% of “active duty and retired military families oppose overturning the p ...
• AFA’s Fischer Recycles Lies in Support of Anti-Gay ...
  For those who perpetrate lies about gays and lesbians, old habits are apparently hard to break. Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association’s loquacious director of issue analysis for government and public policy, responded on Nov. 26 to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s publication a few days ea ...
• Arkansas House Speaker Salutes Failed Racist Candi ...
  Outspoken white racist Billy Roper, the neo-Nazi founder of White Revolution and former deputy outreach coordinator at the now-defunct National Alliance (NA), failed miserably Nov. 2 as a write-in candidate for governor of Arkansas. But he did get a nice consolation prize: a letter from the speaker ...
• White Revolution Chief Seeks Kinder, Gentler Ode t ...
  In the ranks of white supremacists, Dec. 8 is a day of celebration. But being who they are, racist skinheads and other neo-Nazis generally treat what they call Martyr’s Day — an event meant to honor those who have died for the cause of white nationalism — as just another excuse for a beer-swilling, ...

change: org.

• NIMBYism Strikes Again in New York City
  "Not in my backyard!" Yes, NIMBYism has struck again. Last time we wrote about this issue, the neighborhood was Chelsea in Manhattan. This time, it's the northeast Bronx. Shelters in New York City are full. More beds are necessary for the extreme need occurring during this recession. There is an Arm ...
• Chely Wright Becomes a Leading Voice for LGBT Righ ...
  I will be the first to admit that I hate when celebrities come out as part of a media blitz. And, yeah, Chely Wright definitely did that with the way she coincided the public declaration of her lesbianism with a memoir and  a record. But I like to give gay celebrities the benefit of the doubt. I'm t ...
• 2010's Top 10 Women's Rights Victories
  To get us started on the right foot with 2011, let us remember the victories Change.org members helped achieve in 2010. It's an inspiration for the new year, to keep fighting the good fight on behalf of women's rights, and to remember the power of change. 1. Freedom for the Scott Sisters: Jamie and ...
• 5 Predictions for Immigrant Rights in 2011
  Since I did a decent job with my predictions last year and several people have asked for my opinion on what to expect from the most anti-immigrant Congress in decades, I'm taking a look through my crystal ball at what to expect for immigrant rights in 2011. 1. Little chance of comprehensive immigrat ...
• Japanese Officials Admit to Accepting Gifts of Wha ...
  One small step for whale conservation; one giant gift of blubber. Japanese fisheries agents admitted this week to receiving gifts of whale meat—over $3,000 dollars worth—after months of denial. The scandal was originally exposed by ABC, but officials vehemently denied the allegations. Now, they apol ...

Common Dreams -News

• Suicide by Pesticide: India's Hidden Climate Chang ...
  by Alex RentonNaryamaswamy Naik went to the cupboard and took out a tin of pesticide. Then he stood before his wife and children and drank it. "I don't know how much he had borrowed. I asked him, but he wouldn't say," Sugali Nagamma said, her tiny grandson playing at her feet. "I'd tell him: don ...
• Gazan Youth Issue Manifesto to Vent Their Anger wi ...
  by Ana CarbajosaThe meeting takes place in a bare room in a block of flats in the centre of Gaza City. No photographs, no real names - those are the conditions.read more
• Dilma Roussef, Brazil's First Female President, Vo ...
  by Diana ReneeBRASILIA, Brazil - Left-wing economist Dilma Rousseff, 63, was inaugurated Saturday as the first female president of Brazil, succeeding her popular mentor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. In her inaugural address in the building that houses the lowe ...
• Iran Shoots Down Two 'Western Spy' Drones
  TEHRAN  - Iran's Revolutionary Guards have shot down two "Western spy" drones in the Gulf, the Fars news agency quoted a top commander of the elite military force as saying on Sunday. "Westerners have a series of capabilities which cannot be ignored, especially satellites, or for example they ha ...
• Activists Clash with Japan Whalers in Southern Oce ...
  SYDNEY, Australia - Anti-whalers Saturday said they had clashed with Japanese harpoonists in the Southern Ocean, chasing them through ice packs, throwing stink bombs at them and being hit with water cannon.The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's vessels have been seeking to disrupt the Japanese whal ...

Lifehacker

• Top 10 Gmail Labs You Should Enable [Lifehacker To ...
  As if Gmail wasn't powerful enough, you can find all sorts of goodies and extra features in Gmail Labs. The list is pretty massive, so we've narrowed down our 10 favorite labs to help increase your email productivity. More�� ...
• Use Leftover Paint for Free Color Accents [Househo ...
  Rare is the person who finishes a project with a perfectly empty paint can. Rather than resign the paint to life on a basement shelf, use the leftovers to provide interesting color accents in unexpected places. More�� ...
• Be the Star of Your New Year's Party with These Fo ...
  Whether you're counting down to 2011, mixing cocktails, or finding a ride home, these four apps will help make you (and your iOS or Android phone) the star of your New Year's party. More��
• Best Mobile Personal Finance Tool? [Hive Five Call ...
  Earlier this year we took a look at best money management web sites, but often, tracking money on-the-go is just as important. What's your favorite tool for managing your money on the go? More��
• Most Popular Chrome Extensions and Posts of 2010 [ ...
  Google's browser is a little over two years old, but it's making major waves on the web. This year, Chrome added extensions, a webapp "Store," stable Mac and Linux releases, and more. Here's what intrigued us all most about Chrome in 2010. ...

Water Privatization

• Mount Olive, NJ, to vote on outsourcing water syst ...
  MOUNT OLIVE — Mount Olive Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday before voting on whether to enter a public-private partnership with United Water to take over service of the township-run system.
• Mount Olive, NJ, to vote on outsourcing water syst ...
  MOUNT OLIVE — Mount Olive Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday before voting on whether to enter a public-private partnership with United Water to take over service of the township-run system.
• Privatization changing its ways
  Privatization changing its ways
• Privatization changing its ways
  Privatization changing its ways
• Empty promise of reform in S’gor water service
  This concession agreement was approved by the Federal Government in 2005. In fact, the Barisan Nasional government privatised the water industry to four different companies from 1996 onwards but this privatization has resulted in corruption..

Guardian

• Police and Prison Service to investigate Ford jail ...
  Twenty-three inmates dispersed to secure prisons after buildings torched in protest at clampdown on illegal drinkingTwo separate investigations will be held into the New Year's Day riot at Ford open prison where balaclava-clad inmates torched buildings in protest at a clampdown on illegal drinking.T ...
• Yeates police reassure Bristol public
  Uniformed officers patrol streets around Joanna Yeates's home in Bristol and detectives renew appeal for informationPolice moved to reassure Bristol residents they were doing all they could to find the killer of Joanna Yeates and to keep the public safe.Uniformed officers continued to patrol the st ...
• Clegg 'wins fight over control orders'
  Cabinet said to be poised to approve alternatives to the restrictive conditions imposed on some terror suspectsNick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, is said to have won his cabinet fight to scrap control orders, the restrictive conditions that impose virtual house arrest on some terror suspects.Und ...
• Israel investigates tear gas death
  Jawaher Abu Rahmeh inhaled tear gas fired by soldiers at weekly protest in Bilin against Israel's West Bank barrierThe Israeli military has launched an investigation into the death of a Palestinian woman who was overcome by tear gas fired by soldiers at a West Bank protest.In an unrelated incident t ...
• UK soldier killed in Afghanistan
  Soldier from Scottish regiment becomes first British military fatality of 2011 after being caught in explosion in AfghanistanA soldier from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, has become the first British military fatality of 2011 after being caught i ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: Giving peace a better chance in Sudan
  A new human rights initiative may be the stuff of which peace is made.
• Commentary: Haley Barbour's revisionist history
  Todays lesson in revisionist American history is brought to you by Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.
• Commentary: Dismantle it, piece by piece
  ALEXANDRIA, Va. &mash; The American people have consistently said they fear government control over their health-care choices. And the more they learn about the health-care reform legislation approved earlier this year, the more they realize their fears are justified.
• Commentary: Reforms are a good first step
  SEATTLE — Many observers contend November's midterm election was about the need to rein in our national deficit and to get the economy on the right track. However, when the 112th session of Congress convenes, the new Republican leadership will support a bill that will: increase the deficit by almost ...
• Roussef, Brazil's first female president, vows war ...
  BRASILIA, Brazil — Left-wing economist Dilma Rousseff, 63, was inaugurated Saturday as the first female president of Brazil, succeeding her popular mentor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• 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 ...
• Cancun splits opinion, but may mark way forward
  Does the Cancun outcome give real hope for curbing climate change? Views diverge... Within the last week we've run here on the BBC News website two articles by people knowledgeable about climate change that reach widely differing conclusions about the outcome of this year's UN climate summit. Last ...
• Cancun: The chihuahua that roared
  �From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: If Copenhagen was the Great Dane that whimpered, Cancun has been the chihuahua that roared. And what a surprise it was. Before the summit, expectations were so low that simply keeping the UN show on the road was all many observers (and some players) ...
• The chihuahua that roared
  From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: If Copenhagen was the Great Dane that whimpered, Cancun has been the chihuahua that roared. And what a surprise it was. Before the summit, expectations were so low that simply keeping the UN show on the road was all many observers (and some players) ...
• Time to get down to [business] at Cancun
  From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: I've been rifling through the main documents that delegations are discussing here, with a view to finding out how far they have to travel if they're to leave here clutching a piece of paper more meaningful than a plane ticket. There are two key document ...

The Wonk Room

• Hottest Year In History Ends With Freak Climate Di ...
  As greenhouse pollution continues to build in the atmosphere, 2010 is entering the history books as the hottest year on record. A year of unprecedented extreme weather disasters, 2010 is ending with yet more climate disasters, from floods in Australia to winter tornadoes across America: Parts of Ark ...
• State Budget Cuts Pushing More Students To Costly ...
  With Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives next month, it seems increasingly unlikely that Senate Democrats will be successful in their push to enact stricter regulations on for-profit colleges. These institutions — like Strayer University and the University of Phoenix — are tak ...
• Mortgage Bankers Association Takes Stand Against S ...
  With foreclosures on pace to top one million this year, and federal programs designed to help troubled borrowers falling woefully short of their goals, a few states have stepped up and implemented their own programs aimed at stemming the foreclosure tide. Twenty states across the country are now off ...
• Pining For Those Good Old ‘Rational’ S ...
  Arguing for the need to develop greater missile defense against Iran, Cliff May, president of the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies, gets a little nostalgic for the Cold War. “The Soviet Union,” he writes, “though an evil empire, was not an irrational one“: Soviet rulers did not ...
• Foreclosures Increase As Mortgage Modification Pro ...
  Even with the foreclosure moratoriums that a few of the nation’s biggest banks instituted following the robo-signing scandal, foreclosures for this year will likely top one million. According to a report released yesterday by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Sup ...

thwap's schoolyard

• No blood for oil?
  In the comments section of the last post, the conversation has led commenter Mark to ask something that I was actually thinking about a couple of days ago. When I wrote (in agreement with Alan Greenspan) that the motivation to invade Iraq and cause untold suffering to millions of innocent people was ...
• Video Evidence of Ottawa Police Association in Ass ...
  At the link is shocking footage of Ottawa Police Association president Stephen Boucher, attempting to assault 3 pedestrians. As you can see things don't turn out the way Boucher had expected. Boucher's behaviour makes these quotes now seem less inexplicable. Here he is blubbering about the fall-out ...
• Demolition of Harkat Ruling
  Okay. I am posting something today. It's Toronto Action for Social Change's critique of the Harkat ruling upholding his security certificate arrest for being a danger to the public. Read the whole thing please. This is important: "Harkat Condemned by Secret Allegations."
• Sunday Morning
  I don't think I'll post anything today. There ain't much Captain Beefheart in it a'tall really. Oh well. Let's try another. I remember a night back in London, Ontario, 1987 or so. Severely wasted after a party, lying on somebody's floor, and Captain Beefheart's booming voice on the stereo fill ...
• Anonymous political blogging, civility, and me
  A days ago, Dr. Dawg wrote about Don Cherry's obnoxicity and went on to say a few more things about politics, blogging, and Canadian sensibilities: Canadians, even in 2010 after four years of rule by Stephen Harper, pride ourselves on our good manners. It’s one way we measure ourselves against Ame ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Amicus briefs address OSHA complaints and protecte ...
  My colleague, Stephen M. Kohn (Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center) and I spent New Year's Eve racing the clock to file two friend-of-the-court "amicus" briefs with the Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). Last November, the ARB issued an invitation to file a ...
• 4th Circuit says FCA gives no protection for filin ...
  The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, issued an opinion yesterday that denies protection to employees who file retaliation claims under the False Claims Act (FCA). The three judges ignored the friend-of-the-court brief I submitted that argued how the plain language of the F ...
• Pilot documents security problems, gets investigat ...
  An unnamed pilot posted videos on YouTube showing how baggage handlers can access aircraft just by swiping their ID cards at a door.� Meanwhile, TSA subjects pilots to thorough searches, even those some pilots are permitted to carry firearms on-board, and have access to a hand ax in the cockpit. Now ...
• S. 372 dies in Senate tonight
  We have received confirmation from two sources that a Senator has placed an anonymous hold on S. 372, the Senate's flawed version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). This hold effectively kills the bill as the Senate adjourned tonight until the next Senate is seated. Earlier thi ...
• NWC Report Proves that Qui Tam Statutes Have "No N ...
  The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) publicly released its report to the Securities and Exchange Commission entitled "Impact of Qui Tam Laws on Internal Compliance." This study was conducted in response to concerns from corporations and the SEC Commissioners about Dodd-Frank's potential impact ...

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

• New Year's Message: From Pessimism To Optimism... ...
  A couple months back, I had a really fascinating experience. I had two meetings in a row, each with incredibly successful content creators -- people who have embraced new business models and new technologies to amazing results, both creatively and monetarily. We were discussing the state of the en ...
• Predictions Of Today From 80 Years Ago
  It's the time of the year when nearly every media publication puts out some form of predictions. We've always avoided doing predictions posts, because it seems a little silly -- and it's rare that people really go back and look to see how good their predictions really were. However, a few folks se ...
• The History Of Intellectual Property Based On Its ...
  Google recently announced its funky Books Ngram Viewer, which lets you put in various terms, and see how often they appear in books throughout history. Just for the hell of it, I decided to see how often the terms patents, copyright, trademark and intellectual property appeared in books from 1776 ...
• DailyDirt: Medical Curiosities
  While the fundamental mysteries of the universe seem pretty far from being fully understood, one might assume a more practical science like the field of medicine should be a bit easier to grasp. But that's not really the case at all. There are a vast number of medical curiosities which are only st ...
• Does Google Design AdSense Contract So You're Almo ...
  We've noted numerous times in the past that one of Google's major faults is that it's absolutely dreadful at customer service. To much of the outside world, Google represents something of a big white monolith, with very little human face. When something goes wrong, such as people locked out of the ...

VacTruth

• UK Government Decides Against Giving Children The ...
  Last night ministers and senior government advisers ruled against the flu vaccine for children under five. Their decision was made despite the current flu epidemic in the UK.
• Sanofi Pasteur Plays Santa and Pays for Children t ...
  Sanofi Pasteur is playing Santa by paying parents this amount of money for enrolling their children in flu vaccine trials.
• Take Off the Billion-Dollar Blindfold
  Would you buy an unlabeled bottle of vitamins from a health food store? Would you give those vitamins to your child? Would you trust a stylist who didn’t ask about your own wishes for your appearance? Would you have confidence in a salesperson’s ability to give you sound advice about [...]
• A Judge Sees Through The Emperor’s New Cloth ...
  Child welfare services had applied for a ruling to have four siblings immunized, despite their parents’ decision not to allow the treatment. Have we finally found a judge brave enough to rule with a conscience?
• Christmas Time 2010
  A message from Vactruth.com to keep on “keeping on” in order to bring to light the ‘pseudo science’ that surrounds vaccines, vaccinations, and loss of sovereignty and self-determination in the care of our health, bodies, and children.

BroadSnark

• 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 [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Racialicious posted a great TED video of Tony Porter talking about the man box. Most of you will find something to object to in this report by the United Nations on access to land and security of tenure.  (I know I skipped the recommendations part.)  But it is worth a read for how it frames the [... ...
• Am I a Rapist?
  I don’t want to talk about the Assange rape charges. There are more than enough people doing that already. But I would like to talk about something that Jaclyn Friedman said during her debate with Naomi Wolf on Democracy Now. Friedman essentially said that a sleeping/unconscious person cannot consen ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Read this! It covers so many things that have been on my mind lately.  It is, as the person who posted it says, long and academic.  But it is worth the time.  In short, it explains how middle and upper class women moved into the non-profit savior industry and how their liberation came at the [...]
• Beliefs as Barrier
  I understand and respect the choices that many people within the anarchist community make.  I love the self expression and weirdness that is embraced in how people dress or act.  I completely respect the decision to be a vegan, to avoid chain stores, to criticize suburban homogeneity…. But there is ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Six LaRouche Democrats Announce Campaigns for 2012
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 24, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 50
• Nuclear Power in Asia Is a Matter of Survival
  By Marsha Freeman Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 24, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 50
• No EU Political Union, But a Europe of Sovereign S ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 24, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 50
• LaRouche PAC NAWAPA Drive Expands, Generating Exci ...
  EIR News Service press release.
• LaRouche: On the Urgent Need for a Hamiltonian Cre ...
  EIR News Service press release.

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

• A Spoof Video Fires Back at Chevron's Greenwashing
  If you've seen the commercials that make up Chevron's new "We Agree" campaign, you might well be infuriated. Despite its refusal to take responsibility for dumping 16.8 million gallons of crude oil into the Ecuadorian Amazon in 1992, Chevron has a new self-image of a benevolent oil company. It s ...
• 900 Pound Bull Escapes While Being Transported to ...
  Photo: Tony the Misfit A 900 pound bull just disappeared according to a story in the Daily Item. The bull was being transported to slaughter when the massive creature escaped and led authorities on an hour long chase along a highway near Danville, Va....Read the full story on TreeHugger
• Students Reconstruct Speedo Suits Into Green Fashi ...
  Photo: Speedo When governing body of the sport of swimming FINA (Federation Internationale de Natation) made a change in rules preventing the use of body suits in competitive swimming, the Speedo LZR Racer suit--worn by the likes of Michael Phelps--became surplus overnight. Fortunately, teams o ...
• For the Sea Productions Suggests a New Year's Res ...
  Image: For the Sea Productions Can you identify what lurks in the photo above? Is it a starship limping home through darkest space after a battle to the near death? Another newly identified nightmare fish from the ocean depths? Or is it just an ordinary everyday household object? All is reveale ...
• Should Dangerously Cold Homes Be Illegal?
  Image credit: Stuart Pilbrow, used under Creative Commons license. Earlier this week I reported on how more Brits die from cold than Siberians, and the Government has previously faced court action for not tackling the issue of fuel poverty. Now a coalition of campaigners is stepping up the figh ...

Biosingularity

• New study reveals how cannabis suppresses immune f ...
  An international team of immunologists studying the effects of cannabis have discovered how smoking marijuana can trigger a suppression of the body’s immune functions. The research, published in the European Journal of Immunology, reveals why cannabis users are more susceptible to certain types of ...
• What Happens When You Breathe In Nanoparticles
  Scientists have tracked the flow of nanoparticles from the lungs to the bloodstream for the first time. The work could lead to the development of new drugs and help researchers understand how pollution can cause respiratory problems Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harva ...
• FDA Advisory Panel Backs New Lupus Drug Benlysta
  At the end of a day of often emotional testimony, an FDA advisory panel overwhelmingly voted to recommend the approval of a new drug for the treatment of systemic lupus. If the FDA follows the panel’s advice, the drug, belimumab, will be the first drug approved in more than 50 years for the chronic ...
• Timing is everything for cancer protein p53
  Since the early 1980s, cancer researchers have known that a protein called p53 plays a critical role in protecting cells from becoming cancerous. The protein is defective in about half of all human cancers; when it functions correctly, it appears to suppress tumor formation by preventing cells with ...
• Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku
  The appeal of sudoku has spread to the prokaryotic world. A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles â with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, Japan. “Because sudoku has simple rules, we felt that maybe bacteria could solve it for us, as long as ...

CFACT

• 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.
• Hype versus reality on Indian climate change
  Long-term perspectives support natural, cyclical variation - not manmade disasters.
• Seeing the face of energy poverty, up-close, in Ca ...
  On one side of this tropical strip, UN delegates, media, and observers shuttle between luxurious hotels, posh restaurants, a white sandy beach with turquoise water, and a modern convention center where they spend their time bemoaning man-made climate change
• A Cancun Christmas Carol
  Kyoto was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of its burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Japan announced it. Old Kyoto was dead as Jacob Marley, which is to say, as dead as a door-nail.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Emergency declared in Moscow region districts hit ...
• Russian Air Force to receive Ka-52 helicopters
  The Russia's Defense Ministry plans to start procuring Ka-52 Alligator helicopters for the national Air Force in 2011, ministry's official spokesman Col. Vladimir Drik said on Sunday.
• Colored snow falls in Russia's Samara
  Grey and beige colored snow fell in several areas of the Russia's southeastern city of Samara on the New Year's eve, a spokesman for the local branch of the Emergencies Ministry said on Sunday.
• Russian opposition leader arrested for 15 days ove ...
  Moscow district court has sentenced Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov to 15-day-long arrest over disobedience to police during a rally on Triumfalnaya Square December 31, court's spokesperson Alexandra Berezian said.
• Moscow region sees massive power outages (Update 1 ...
  Heavy snowfalls and strong winds have cut electricity supply to over 88 populated areas outside Moscow, the Moscow United Electric Grid Company (MOESK) said on Sunday.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Ariane 5 puts 2 communication satellites into orbi ...
• Russia's Mission Control raises ISS orbit by 4.2 k ...
  Russia's Mission Control has adjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by raising it 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles), a spokesman for the control center said on Wednesday.
• Launch of new Russian navigation satellite postpon ...
  The launch of Russia's new-generation Glonass-K satellite has been postponed until 2011, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
• Russia's Mission Control to readjust ISS orbit
  Russia's Mission Control is preparing to adjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday by raising it 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles).
• Russian Soyuz craft docks with international space ...
  The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli and NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman has successfully docked with the International Space Station.

Pruning Shears

• This Week in Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Re: the “Accounts Diverge Sharply” article by the Times above, such resolutely neutral treatment smacks of the kind of “some claim earth is rou ...
• Best Music of 2010
  IntroductionIf you dig these songs please consider buying them. Most can be had for less than a buck.All these were downloaded freely and legally this year so I’m posting them in good faith. Links will be live for a week. If you hold the copyright on one and would like it removed, please let me k ...
• 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.While it’s satisfying to settle on a single culprit for the continuing abomination of Guantánamo, the president of the moment (Bush or Obama) ...
• 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.Is it me or are the deaths of American soldiers not being reported as prominently these days? Seems like back in 2006 the death of seven Ameri ...
• Building the shadow Internet
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The rise of Internet-enabled mobile devices has had some interesting consequences. On the face of it, smart phones and tablets are a boon. They allow people to access email and web sites anywhere, not just when tethered to a deskto ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Factory Farms Massing in Missouri, Kansas, New Rep ...
  In Greeley County in western Kansas, voters last week overturned a 12-year-old referendum that prohibited large hog farms from locating there. But in northwest Missouri, a new health ordinance in Andrew County now limits where factory farms can build.Click here to read this article
• From Snowstorms to Heat Waves, How Global Warming ...
  AMY GOODMAN: Much of the East Coast is still struggling to recover from the massive blizzard that slammed into hundreds of cities and towns from the Carolinas to Maine the day after Christmas. Six states-Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina and Virginia-declared states of emerg ...
• More than 25% of Kids and Teens in the U.S. Take P ...
  These days, the medicine cabinet is truly a family affair. More than a quarter of U.S. kids and teens are taking a medication on a chronic basis, according to Medco Health Solutions Inc., the biggest U.S. pharmacy-benefit manager with around 65 million members. Nearly 7% are on two or more such drug ...
• America in Decline: Why Germans Think We're Insane
  As an American expat living in the European Union, I've started to see America from a different perspective.Click here to read this article
• 2010: A Precedent-Setting Year In the Fight Agains ...
  It was another tough year for the coal industry. In the last 25 months not one coal-fired power plant broke ground for construction in the United States. In 2010 alone a total of 38 proposed plants were erased from the drawing board, the most ever recorded in a single year. Utilities also announced ...

fotoFrontera

• Feliz y próspero año nuevo 2011 para todos ustedes ...
  Para mi como Administrador del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, el 2010 ha sido un año maravilloso. Y lo digo, porque alcancé una cifra histórica de suscriptores que ahora mismo ya rebasa los 13,425. Asimismo, nuestra comunidad en Facebook ha ido en ascenso de manera sorprendente que hasta el momento en ...
• Feliz NocheVieja 2010 y Próspero Año Nuevo 2011
  Estimado suscriptor y visitantes en general de cualquier país, disfruten de estas hermosas imágenes con mensajes de NocheVieja 2010 y Año Nuevo 2011. Escoja las que más le gusten y comparta con sus contactos del MSN y con todos sus amigos en Redes Sociales como Facebook, Twitter y Buzz de Google. So ...
• Nueva colección de imágenes Año Nuevo 2011 (mensaj ...
  Especialmente para todos ustedes que nos han encontrado a través de Google, Yahoo, Bing y redes sociales como Facebook, Twitter, Buzz, Google y Friend Connect, tenemos ya la quinta parte de imágenes y wallpapers con mensajes para este próximo Año Nuevo 2011. Haga usted click aquí para ver las imágen ...
• Nuevo wallpaper con mensaje para el Año Nuevo 2011
  Para ver más wallpapers Año Nuevo 2011, escoja un número: [1][2][3][4] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.
• Hermoso wallpaper con mensaje de Año Nuevo 2011
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Center for a Livable Future

• 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 ...
• Happy Holidays from the Johns Hopkins Center for a ...
• Looking at Food System Issues through a ‘Food Just ...
  I first came upon the term “food justice” from an organization in Oakland called People’s Grocery led by Brahm Ahmadi and others who were fighting against an unjust food system in the “food desert” of West Oakland. At the time, it was an area that left residents with liquor stores and [...]

Norwegianity

• Rantmas
  Culled from Battochio’s Jon Swift tribute and comments and etc.: BradBlog: NYT Public Editor Finally Admits ACORN “Pimp” Hoax Reporting Failure Comrade PhysioProf: Militant Atheism Jurassic Pork: Sweet Jesus, I Hate America World-O-Crap: Abortion Seeking Women: Won’t Someone Think of the Man-Child? ...
• Bring out the dead
  The Jon Swift Memorial Roundup is up at Vagabond Scholar. You’ll have to scroll a while before you get to mine but you could spend a couple of days clicking on the all the good links so you might want to drag that link to your desktop. I’m not sure what Al Wiesel would have [...]
• No, not the porn star, the _other_ Lina Romay
  It was never my intent to post irregularly but absent politics, I find myself less driven to post and am thinking that this blog is now sliding into the petite mort of posting when I feel like it, the first of the Seven Steps for Effectively Killing Your Fucking Blog Once and for All Time. [...]
• Blue Christmas
  Driving down to Iowa there was a mile long stretch east of St Ansgar where snow in the air turned everything light blue. It wasn’t snowing; the wind was saturated with fine dry snow creating a transparent fog-like effect. And blue, a very pronounced light blue. Pro: The best Christmas movie ever [wa ...
• Merry Seasonal Greetings
  � And yes, there is now a ton of this kind of remix out there: � � No onset of adult diabetes yet? Try this one: � Rinse, repeat: � Now go smile at the relatives for a while. � MERRY APPROPRIATED PAGAN HOLIDAYS TO YOU AND YOURS! � �

Public News Service

• Don't Believe in Santa? NORAD Tracks Him
  Don't Believe in Santa? NORAD Tracks Him Phoenix, AZ - Don't believe in Santa? The people who safeguard the airspace over North America have been tracking Santa as he flies around the world on Christmas Eve, every year since 1955. Comments from NORAD's Lt. Stacey Knott.
• AZ Game and Fish Bids to Take Over Gray Wolf Recov ...
  AZ Game and Fish Bids to Take Over Gray Wolf Recovery Tucson, AZ – The Arizona Game and Fish Department wants Congress to eliminate federal protection for the endangered Mexican gray wolf and turn the controversial program over to the state. Conservation groups say the result could be extinction fo ...
• A Holiday Wish: Protect America's Forests
  A Holiday Wish: Protect America's Forests Phoenix, AZ - A coalition of groups, including several active in Arizona, are asking President Obama for a holiday gift: making federal rules for National Forest land strong enough to "stand the test of time." New rules are expected next month. Comments from ...
• Beware Grinches After Your Charity Donations
  Beware Grinches After Your Charity Donations Phoenix, AZ — Tis' the season for charitable giving and legal experts say that means there are also scammers out there, so they advise taking a moment to check out any charity before you donate. Comments from attorney Beverly Salhanick (Sal-HAN-ick).
• 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

• 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 ...
• Help Us Fight Monsanto and Protect Our Food and Fa ...
  This has been an incredible year for the Center for Food Safety, and our work protecting our farms, our food, and our environment from the potential hazards of genetically engineered (GMO) crops.  As you know, in April we battled Monsanto in the U.S. Supreme Court – and were victorious in maintainin ...
• USDA Aims to Commercialize Genetically Engineered ...
  This week, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) led a coalition of farmers, activists, and consumers in a public comment campaign addressing USDA’s latest plan to commercialize illegal GE Roundup Ready Sugar Beets (RRSB).  Last month, USDA released a proposal aimed at commercializing RRSB in spite of in ...
• Federal Court Orders First-Ever Destruction of a G ...
  Finds Government and Monsanto rushed to illegally plant herbicide resistant crop Today federal district judge Jeffrey S. White issued a preliminary injunction ordering the immediate destruction of hundreds of acres of genetically engineered (GE) sugar beet seedlings planted in September after findin ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Haiti, Cholera and Colonialsm: Gerald and Maas Sup ...
  Gerald and Maas Suppressed News December 22, 2010 Haiti: according to the World Health Organization the cholera death toll has exceeded 2500 people, and the epidemic continues to spread. U.N. health efforts are limited by concerns for their own security. Cuba has 1200 medical staff on the ...
• U.S. to apologize for STD experiments in Guatemala
  U.S. to apologize for STD experiments in Guatemala | Happily Natural x Black August Weekend U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge or permission more ...
• Guant�namo Is “A Piece of Hell That Kills Everythi ...
  Guant�namo Is “A Piece of Hell That Kills Everything”: A Bleak New Year Message from Yemeni Prisoner Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "On Christmas Day, I wrote an article reminding readers of the plight of the ...
• Viola Wilkins: Indymedia London | Catholic Workers ...
  Indymedia London | Articles | Show | Catholic Workers "close" Dalston "Arcade of Death": "A merry band of London Catholic Workers and friends, fresh from shooting remakes of videos for John Lennon's anti-war classics 'Merry Christmas (War is Over)' and 'Give Peace a Chance' (watch this space for the ...
• International: United Nations Approves Two More Re ...
  International: United Nations Approves Two More Resolutions By Bolivia: Harmony With Nature And Indigenous Issues - Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources Earlier this week, the General Assembly of the United Nations approved by consensus two resolutions presented by Bolivia. The first, entitled “ ...

Pensieve

• 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?
• Colón Protesters Voluntarily Disperse
  Minutes before being forcibly removed by a large group of Honduran police and military, the protesters that had laid siege to the city of Trujillo for 11 days voluntarily dispersed. Had they not, at the very least, there would have been violence. Iâm glad to have been wrong in overestimating the zea ...
• Trujillo in Siege, Violence Imminent
  Photo by samiq Armed “peasants”, alleged narcos, pro-Zelaya activists and assorted foreign troublemakers have laid siege to the city of Trujillo, Colon, for 11 days. The people of Trujillo are desperate as the only road to the city is blocked by protesters. Armored vehicles with cash for banks, truc ...
• Don’t Read This If You Work for the US Govt.
  This article does not contain quotes from any secret US government documents, but does discuss and link to reproductions of them, in the press, and in the Google cache. I have been hesitant to publish any information related to Wikileaks in my blog, being sadly aware of the lengths to which the US p ...

Green Times

• Environmental News 29/12/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Environmental News 28/12/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Drive safely this Christmas
    Should be compulsory watching for ANYONE who drives! On 10 December 1989 the first Transport Accident Commission (TAC) commercial went to air. Twenty years later, this five minute compilation of the road safety campaigns was produced. It features iconic scenes and images from commercials tha ...
• Environmental News 23/12/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Sunset on the beach
  Let this day end with a beautiful sunset... Get your family, your friends and something tasty for a late picnic on the beach and enjoy the illuminating colours. To find some nice organic food and wine for your picnic, check the Green Times food and drink (directory/categories/Food%20 %20Drink) sect ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Rep. Peter King to Ramp Up Immigration Crackdown
  ShareThisRep. Peter King to Ramp Up Immigration Crackdown 28 Dec 2010 Rep. Peter King (R) plans to use his new bully pulpit to target immigration. The New York congressman, who will become the new chairman of the House Homeland Security next week, told the New York Post that he will push for legisla ...
• US's Napolitano to hear air security tips in Israe ...
  ShareThisUS's Napolitano to hear air security tips in Israel 02 Jan 2011 US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will use a visit to Israel this week to assess passenger vetting and other counter-terrorism measures at its Ben-Gurion Airport, government officials said on Sunday. Napolitano, w ...
• Govt accused of blocking investigations of UK invo ...
  ShareThisGovt accused of blocking investigations of UK involvement in torture and rendition --MPs refused the facts on UK's part in rendition cases 02 Jan 2011 The Government is accused of blocking investigations into allegations of UK involvement in torture and rendition, contrary to its proclaimed ...
• Police demand new stop and search powers after hum ...
  ShareThisPolice demand new stop and search powers after human rights ruling scraps previous law 30 Dec 2010 Police are hoping to win government backing for a new counter-terrorism power to stop and search people without the suspicion of criminal activity. Officers say the powers are needed to better ...
• Fighters scrambled and Capital building evacuated ...
  ShareThisFighters scrambled and Capital building evacuated as 'mystery' aircraft flies over Washington 02 Jan 2010 A mystery aircraft prompted an evacuation of the Capitol building and scrambling of military fighter jets today�- but authorities said the false alarm was caused by a commercial airline ...

Daily Loaf

• Lightning beat Rangers, make post-game goalie acqu ...
  The Tampa Bay Lightning entered the new year coming off the best December in franchise history, and hoped to continue that success when they took to the ice against the New York Rangers Saturday night. The Rangers came into the game with the best road record in the NHL, while the Lightning sporte ...
• The hangover: Tips for recuperating the morning af ...
  Hangover tips and tricks. A survey of Tampa Bay and Sarasota area bartenders and other booze-industry professionals revealed therapies of a more, um, eclectic sort.
• New fresh market: First Saturdays at Wiregrass in ...
  You'll find a a variety of local, certified organic, hydroponic and conventional produce, as well as Florida native plants, herbs, flowers, organic garden supplies, prepared foods, local art and eco-friendly products.
• A singer/songwriter’s tribute to the late, great T ...
  Teena Marie is dead and I can't stop crying. Here is a tribute to one of my greatest heroes.
• Lightning bounce back, beat Canadiens 4-1 behind g ...
  Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Cedrick Desjardins grew up in the Montreal 0rganization. On Thursday night, he had the chance to play his first career NHL game against Montreal, and he did not disappoint, leading his team to a 4-1 victory over the Habs. It was not all smooth sailing for Desjardins, a ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Keep the fight for democracy going
  Support peace with your tax-deductible year-end gift today. Donate by December 31st and your gift will help The Only Democracy’s sponsor Jewish Voice for Peace meet a $100,000 matching gift. Your gift helps us keep bringing on the ground reports, commentary, and interviews from Israeli, Palestinian, ...
• Four cases against Israeli democracy
  By Jesse Bacon While I was away on vacation, four cases of the continuing slow death of Israeli democracy occurred. Taken together, they represent a good spectrum of the responses to democracy activists by Israel, all negative. First, Matan Cohen, Israeli-American activist, member of Young, Jewish, ...
• African Asylum Seekers in Israel
  Debbie Herdan is a former Tel Aviv resident who was very active in the organization Hagar and Miriam, which works with African women in Israel who are either pregnant or have recently given birth.  Debbie worked with Eritrean, Sudanese and Darfurian asylum seekers for several years and writes that t ...
• Israeli government thanks Palestinians for help wi ...
  By Jesse Bacon ..By not recognizing their names and refusing them entry for award ceremony in their honor. . This should remind us just how arbitrary the whole edifice of permits and checkpoints is that it can keep out people who helped contain the horrible fires and prevent worse disaster. I am als ...
• On Adeeb Abu Rahmah’s release
  By Rebecca Vilkomerson Video of Adeeb Abu Rahmah being released On a personal note, I remember very clearly the weekend that Adeeb was arrested. I was still living in Israel, and a friend from Anarchists Against the Wall was arrested with him.  This friend was detained for over 24 hours, blindfold ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Human rights as a pretext for imperialism
  Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military interventions around the world? Want to undermine governments that are raising their people up from poverty because they don’t conform to the tastes of upper west side in ...
• Floating wind turbines
  “There is enough energy in high altitude winds to power civilization 100 times over; and sooner or later, we’re going to learn to tap into the power of winds and use it to run civilization.” The Magenn MARS 100 KW floating wind turbine is about to ship. The tether is also the transmission conduit an ...
• Feed lots as nutrient sources for biofuel algae
  [Confined Animal Feeding Operations] offer a rich source of nutrients that can be used as a feedstock to grow algae. Most operations located in the northern climates are equipped with anaerobic digesters that use microbes to break down the organic forms of nitrogen and phosphorous into inorganic for ...
• Brazil first female president, former Marxist, was ...
  Dilma Rousseff has become Brazil’s first female president. In the 60′s, she was a Marxist guerilla who was captured and “barbarically tortured” for two years. She made a point of including her eleven female cell mates as part of the inauguration.
• Damn You Auto Correct
  Sue found Damn You Auto Correct last night and was giggling so much she woke me up. It’s probably best to not view this site in public else people think you’re a lunatic, sort of like reading Dave Barry books in public.

Coteret

• 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 ...
• Maariv: How to build another nuclear reactor witho ...
  Like most of the world, Israel is facing a major energy crisis. Our population is growing and per-capita energy consumption is on the rise. Nuclear energy is emerging as the solution favored by the government, as reported in a December 8 2010 Maariv feature [full translation at the bottom of this po ...
• Yediot’s legal editor cites Nuremberg Laws, ...
  Rabbis’ disgrace Analysis, Boaz Okon, Yediot, December 8 2010 [front-page; Hebrew original here and at the bottom of this post] In 1834, a clothes salesman in London refused to sell an article of clothing to a customer.  The refusal stemmed from the fact that the buyer was “just a Jew.”The Jewish bu ...

Deadline Live

• POLICE STATE: TSA photocopies 4409 Member’s ...
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGYAfY2NxBo
• Szandor Blestman’s Positive Outlook for 2011
  As I sit here typing this on the last day of the first decade of the twenty first century, I must say that I’m not sad to see it go. The years from 2001-2010 (the year 2000 having been, in my opinion, the last year of the twentieth century rather than the first year of [...]
• China preparing for armed conflict ‘in every ...
  “In the coming five years, our military will push forward preparations for military conflict in every strategic direction,” said Liang Guanglie in an interview published by several state-backed newspapers in China. “We may be living in peaceful times, but we can never forget war, never send the hors ...
• Obama makes recess appointment of lawyer who compa ...
  The man who ran on a promise to âchange the way Washington worksâ has once engaged in the cynical practice of making recess appointments. And controversial ones at that. The president’s appointment of James Cole, who was nominated for the post of Deputy Attorney General back in May, has reopened que ...
• Deadline Live – December 30 2010
  News and commentary this 30th day of December 2010 from ‘Our Narrator and Radio Gun’, Jack Blood. In the second hour the Michael J. Murphy joins Deadline to discuss his film ‘What In The World Are They Spraying?’. http://truthmediaproductions.blogspot.com/

The Air Vent

• Greenhouse Thought Experiment
  Derek has been in a war with ScienceofDoom over the what appears to be Planck radiation.  I’m actually not sure of his position because it doesn’t make sense yet to me but he left a thought experiment on the thread which could make for some interesting discussion.  Some will find it pretty easy, w ...
• Dot Earth on O10
  Andy Revkin of Dot Earth has published a post on our Antarctic results among other things. Eric Steig has placed some far more detailed comments on our results on line with it. 2) The results appear to confirm all of the key results in our 2009 Nature paper, notably the significant warming in West A ...
• Botched predictions of the past
  Fox news has an interesting post on extremist environmental claims of the past two decades.  It’s fun because they contacted some of the scientists for their responses.  Who knew bikes could be pedaled backwards with such vigor. Eight Botched Environmental Forecasts One wonders if these intellectu ...
• Projection , Regression
  You would never believe what the government will fund and peereviewlitrachur will approve of. Title: “A scaling theory for the size distribution of emitted dust aerosols suggests that climate models underestimate the size of the global dust cycle” regressomatic. wow.
• Merry Christmas Friends
  May your holiday’s bring you joy and happiness.  

Focal Point

• Dear NYT: No Means No; Shoving A Dick Into An Unco ...
  Katrin Bennhold of the New York Times has a heartwarming piece for anyone planning a New Year's Eve hookup. According to Bennhold's friends, consenting to any sex with a dude is the equivalent of giving him an all-access pass to your orifices for the rest of the night, if not the rest of your life ...
• Julian Assange, Rape Allegations, and the Catch-22 ...
  Amanda Marcotte has a brilliant essay in Slate on the rape allegations against Julian Assange and the Catch-22 of why more victims don't come forward. We're bombarded with erroneous stereotypes about how "real victims" act, then we use those stereotypes to preemptively and unfairly smear accusers ...
• Maybe Hold Off on the Eggnog 'Til Next Year...
  Against all odds and predictions the Food Safety and Modernization Act passed Congress this week. President Obama is expected to sign the legislation, the first major overhaul of the country's food safety laws in over 70 years. This year saw the largest recall of tainted eggs in American history: ...
• Help Rick Smith Help The Homeless and Hungry this ...
  My friends at the Rick Smith Show ("Where Working People Come to Talk") are camping out in a supermarket parking lot in sub-zero temperatures to collect food and donations for needy people in their community. Please help them out: Homelessness and poverty continues to plague the region. That' ...
• CA Judge OK's Festivus as Legit Religion
  A California judge signed off on Festivus as a legit religion: Locked up in a California jail, Malcolm Alarmo King wanted healthier meals. In an argument apparently made to a friendly court, he won a ruling from Superior Court Judge Derek Johnson that he should be fed double-portion kosher . ...

Inside Facebook

• This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
  Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, December 27th, 2010 Older Developers Fill This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Facebook Games by MAU Raise The Village – A Virt ...
• 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 Storm8, Peanut Labs, Kontagent, and Luna Digita. Senior Social Ga ...
• Facebook Roundup: Places in Denmark, SEC, Lawsuits ...
  Facebook To Launch Places in Denmark - A database of Places has been set up in Denmark, which may signal that Facebook is ready to debut its location service in the country. In September we predicted Denmark could be one of the next countries to gain access to Places due to its high iPhone market pe ...
• More Holiday Apps Arrive on This Week’s List of Em ...
  Following on the holiday trend we saw last week, several holiday apps are on this week’s AppData list of emerging Facebook apps, defined as those still under a million monthly active users, including the top gainer for the week: My Best Friends of 2010. Top Gainers This Week Name MAU Gain Gain,% 1. ...
• Facebook Adds More Companies to List of Approved A ...
  Earlier this month, Facebook introduced a list of advertising providers that it has approved for developers to use for offers, banner ads and other forms of advertising in their platform applications. The initial list was quite short, with a number of long-time providers missing — but it has been ad ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Taming the "Wild West" of Microfinance h ...
  truthout: Taming the "Wild West" of Microfinance http://bit.ly/fdiRSP #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Running Out of Engineers http://bit.ly/d ...
  truthout: Running Out of Engineers http://bit.ly/dFolYb #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: New Year Priorities: Tehran Focused on T ...
  truthout: New Year Priorities: Tehran Focused on Turmoil at Home, Not Nuclear Program http://bit.ly/i4rSGk #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: In South Africa, It's Not All Black and ...
  truthout: In South Africa, It's Not All Black and White http://bit.ly/eNLfY1 #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Al Qaida Eyed in Latest Attack on Christ ...
  truthout: Al Qaida Eyed in Latest Attack on Christians in the Middle East http://bit.ly/fB5aaO #Truthout #p2 #p2b

ReDress News

• What options exist for Netanyahu next time on the ...
  Richard Lightbown argues that whatever Israel does when the Mavi Marmara sets sail for Gaza on the first anniversary of the murder of aid workers by Israeli commandos aboard the same ship, the movement to break the illegal siege of Gaza "is not going to be frightened off. It is not going to go away. ...
• Western double standards: the cases of Khodorkovsk ...
  Yvonne Ridley highlights Western hypocrisy and double standards in criticizing a Russian court for convicting tax dodger, money launderer and thief Mikhail Khodorkovsky, while harbouring or condoning the kidnap and illegal detention of Muslims in Guantanamo concentration camp.
• Jesus recruited for "ethnic cleansing" forest: God ...
  Jonathan Cook views the role of the so-called "God-TV" channel and other Christian evangelical extremists, such as the Israel lobbyist pastor John Hagee, in the ethnic cleansing of Israel's own Bedouin citizens from the Negev.
• If Obama could put America's own real interests fi ...
  Alan Hart argues that if US President Barack Obama was able to put America's own real interests above those of Israel, he would win the hearts and minds of the overwhelming majority of Arabs and Muslims.
• US national image and its contradictions
  Lawrence Davidson analyses the reasons behind the widening gulf between the US national self-image as "the world’s prime purveyor of good government, stability and progress" and the reality of imperial power, hypocrisy and double standards.

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

• Jamiol Presents
• Naked Airlines
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• Podcast Show #36
  The Boiling Frogs Presents James Babb James Babb recounts the creation of the grassroots effort We Won’t Fly, and how he and cofounder George Donnelly, two regular dads, founded the group to oppose the full-body airport “porno”-scanners on grounds of privacy, ineffectiveness and health, and demand ...
• Jamiol Presents
• The New York Times: A Curious Case of Change of He ...
  Seeing the Light, Sanctioned Illusionary Game, or … I am going to stay true to my pledged position on Wikileaks related topics, and stick with questions rather than hasty analyses and interpretations. I’ve been highly puzzled by the recent position of and statements by the New York Times on Wikileak ...

Afro Spear

• “African honchos lapse the year 2010 in styl ...
  African rulers are like magicians when it comes to surprises even wonders. My apologies for using the word “rulers” in lieu of leaders. My my belief is, Africa is currently ruled and ruined by rulers, not led by leaders as we dreamed at the time we acquired our political independence. If one asks me ...
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• A Christmas Message
  A few months ago a friend and I had a very intense disagreement which led to some very harsh words being exchanged. A few days ago out of the blue (is it ever really just “out of the blue” ?) while on Facebook, he hit me up and now all is forgiven and forgotten. We are at peace. “According [...]
• “The State of Black Women in Politics Under ...
  Fascinating article by Duchess Harris Click on image for article.
• A KIVA Success: Victoria Women’s Group B-2, ...
  In September of this year, I made a loan through KIVA with 166 others worldwide, to invest in the endeavours of Ruth Nankabirwa and the Victoria Women’s Group B-2 in Lugazi, Uganda. This loan was primarily used to purchase clothes for their clothing boutique. I was notified on December 15th that t ...

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 ...

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Unsuitable Blog

• 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 ...
• EnviroLeaks – Coming Soon…
  Watch this space for more information. Secure email in advance to farnish [at] hushmail [dot] com Nothing is as it seems…
• How to Remove Conduit Engine Search from Firefox 3 ...
  I know this isn’t a tecchie blog, but sometimes I come across a problem to which there isn’t a solution listed and have to work it out for myself. In this case I (ill-advisedly as it turned out) upgraded BitTorrent to version 7 (7.1 and 7.2 at present). This is sort of pertinent to The [...]
• WIKILEAKS MIRROR SITES – IMPORTANT
  The Wikileaks servers are under constant pressure and attack: both the sheer weight of traffic and the efforts of various government agencies to bring the servers down, or damage the DNS records, are conspiring to make the main wikileaks.org site unavailable. But this is not really a problem for two ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

• 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 ...
• Altering Docs? Now There's a Tool for That in Docu ...
  When we embarked on the DocumnetCloud project, tools for altering documents were the furthest thing from our minds. After all, a responsible journalist doesn't tweak source documents! But one of the first papers to embed material using DocumentCloud needed to do just that. The Chicago Tribune acc ...
• CNN Fails to Correct Mistaken Identity for New Zea ...
  CNN's broadcasts are of packed with cheerleading for the network's viewer participation opportunities. You're encouraged to "share your story" at CNN iReport or "join a live chat" at Anderson Cooper's blog or check out CNN Heroes on Facebook or follow one of the network's nearly three dozen Twitter ...

Cutting Edge News

• Wikileaks on the Edge - WikiLeaks Revelations Do N ...
  Julian Assange has declared that geopolitics will be separated into pre-“Cablegate” and post-“Cablegate” eras. That was a bold claim. However, given the intense interest that the leaks produced, it is a claim that ought to be carefully considered. Several weeks have passed since the first of the dip ...
• The Tax Edge - Why the VAT Is Not Pro-Saving
  President Barack Obama’s unsustainable near-term fiscal policies are now preamble to the massive and longstanding long-term fiscal problems highlighted in the Bowles–Simpson Commission report, the Domenici–Rivlin report, and elsewhere. As Europe in similar straits is now demonstrating that, in the i ...
• The Nuclear Edge - On Arms Control, Learn from Rea ...
  START skeptics are driven by something else: the idea that arms-control treaties should serve our security interests now and in the longer term. New START does neither. That is why the Senate should consider the full record of the negotiations before voting to approve a treaty that will: 1. encumber ...
• Book Review - Edwin Black's 'The Farhud' Makes for ...
  The Farhud: Roots of the Arab Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. Edwin Black. Dialog Press. 2010. 464 pages. Buy it here.“This book is a nightmare... I regret that I was the one who had to write it. I hope it never becomes necessary to write another like this one.’ These are among the opening words to ...
• China and Europe - China Ready to Help Europe Retu ...
  China says it is ready to do what it can to help European countries deal with the financial crisis that has shaken confidence in the euro. The statement follows reports that China is ready to buy billions of dollars worth of Portuguese bonds. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu says China supports ...

High Country News

• 2010: the year of food politics
  Food safety was a major concern this year as the federal government moved toward greater regulation of food producers.
• Forecasting 2011
  Columnist Ed Quillen peers into his crystal ball to see what's in store for the West next year.
• Conservation has become a core American value
  Conservation was a surprising winner at many local and state levels.
• Celebrating the 30th anniversary of protecting hug ...
  A landmark law passed 30 years ago settled Native land claims in Alaska in ingenious and still-controversial ways.
• High Country Views, Big solar marches on
  Cally Carswell talks with HCN contributing editor Judith Lewis about the muscle the feds are putting behind solar energy development on public land.

CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

• 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!
• Tenth Year of War, March to Stop Deployment of Tra ...
  Thursday marked the beginning of the 10th year of war in Afghanistan. There is much to protest about U.S. action there–some performed a die-in to highlight the use of drones (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/200657/us-drone-kills-7-militants-in-nw-pakistan)–and a group of veterans of The Global ...

Yid With Lid

• What's Happening in Europe: Holland As A Case Stud ...
  By Barry Rubin One should not generalize in describing European states. Still, the case of the Netherlands shows interesting points regarding both attitudes toward Israel and Islam. Let's start with the Israel issue. I've been closely following the�new Dutch government, formed after an ...
• Second Chance Posts: Top Unread Gems Of 2010
  Its one thing if a post gets read and criticized, but sometimes a post does not get read at all which is very frustrating.� Part of the reason a post wallows in anonymity is its headline. The weakest part of my blogging skills is headlines. That is only one of the reasons a post remains unread.� Bel ...
• Ice Core Samples Prove 9,099 Out Of Past 10,500 Ye ...
  James Hansen of NASA is not just any global warming Moonbat, he is Al Gore's global warming Moonbat. It was Hansen's data that was used in Gore's Oscar/Peace Prize winning film. Hansen's work is ruled by one motto: "If God deals you bad numbers--fudge them." In October of 2008, Hansen mad ...
• MAJOR Natural Gas Find Confirmed in Israel -- Mos ...
  WAY TO GO MOSES!! . For decades some have been complaining if Moses had only made a right turn after he led the Israelites across the Reed Sea the Jews would have the Oil, the Arabs would have the desert and the world would be much better off. Moses' sense of direction is making a comeback. ...
• The Sky Still Isn't Falling --Top Ten Failed Globa ...
  By now we should have seen something,� we were supposed to begin seeing effects from the "man made global warming. The predictions were all there, and they were made long enough ago that we can figure out if the sky is falling and the Manhattan skyline will be under water a week from Tuesday. So how ...

The Real Agenda

• Hope in 2011: Peoples, Civil Society Stand Tall
  By Ramzy Baroud Global Research When the Iraqi army fell before invading US and British troops in 2003, the latter’s mission seemed to be accomplished. But nearly eight years after the start of a war intended to shock and awe a whole population into submission, the Iraqi people continue to stand tal ...
• It’s Raining. It’s Pouring …and Snowing &#82 ...
  By Andrea Silverthorne Part 4  Part 3 Part 2 Part 1 Scientist K.-U Goss, in his 2004 report, The Air/Surface Adsorption Equilibrium of Organic Compounds Under Ambient Conditions, observed the following: “The melting of snow pack also leads to a redistribution of compounds adsorbed to the snow surfac ...
• It’s Raining. It’s Pouring . . . and Snowing . . . ...
  By Andrea Silverthorne Part 3  Part 2 Part 1 Looking back in 2003, at increasing levels of formaldehyde, as measured in 1996, Kelly Chance and Thomas P. Kurosu, of the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge Massachusetts, wrote a report on the columns of formaldehyde gas observed ...
• It’s Raining. It’s Pouring . . . and Snowing . . . ...
  By Andrea Silverthorne Part 2  Part 1 The first ‘Principle of Journalism’ listed on the CCJ web site is that of its obligation to the truth. The CCJ definition of the principle encircles the basic fact that the “journalist truth” entails: “the professional discipline of assembling and verify facts.” ...
• It’s Raining. It’s Pouring . . . and Snowing . . . ...
  By Andrea Silverthorne Part 1 In 1997, a news journalist organization, the Committee of Concern Journalists (CCJ), commences a study to establish written principles for their profession. Before deciding on the principles, the industry reviews its own history, conducts public meetings, and surveys th ...

Wind Watch

• Germany’s renewable energy costs threaten pu ...
  Popular acceptance of Germany�s renewable energy drive is likely to weaken when households see the cost of subsidies in their power bills jump as much as fourfold, the ZEW Center for European Economic Research said. Households will pay 3.53 euro cents per kilowatt-hour of consumed electricity in sub ...
• High court reprieve for thousands of trees
  The proposed Andhra Lake Wind Power Project in Pune district has run into rough weather with the Bombay High Court restraining the promoter, Enercon (India) Pvt Ltd, of the 113.6 MW power project from cutting a single tree until further orders. The proposed project, coming up in proximity of Bhimash ...
• Are wind turbines bad for your health?
  According to research underway by Doctor Sarah Laurie, wind turbines can have a detrimental affect on your health – but not everyone feels the same way. In mid December a number of residents met at both Mt Bryan in the Mid North and at Waterloo near Saddleworth, to hear from Doctor Sarah Laurie abou ...
• Winds of change loom in Somerset County; Proposed ...
  Some people view imminent wind power development in Somerset County as a way to boost the economic stability of the region. Others decry its perceived adverse health effects and detriment to the landscape. Either way, change is looming. Between $1 billion and $2 billion worth of wind energy projects ...
• Residents file noise complaint on Notus Clean Ener ...
  A group of 30 residents filed a noise complaint over the Notus Clean Energy wind turbine in Falmouth Technology Park last month, which is being investigated by the Falmouth Building Commissioner, and will soon have their complaint heard before the Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals. Todd A. Drummey of ...

Not My Tribe

• Doug Bruce v. Dogbert
  See, this guy is an archetype of So-Called “Conservative” ethos. He milks his position as a pig, Former prosecutor that is, first with the “Back the Badge” morons who actually believe that “The Policeman is always right”, made God-damn sure that no Colorado Springs Gestapo Agent was ever actually pr ...
• John B. Spencer’s lost Christmas lyric for W ...
  Gathering songs for a Christmas compilation, I went looking through different versions of “Will This House be Blessed?” by John B. Spencer. While the sentiment is in keeping with the season, everyone’s rendition lacked whatever it was I remembered tied the song literally to Christmas. I finally foun ...
• I remember nothingk, of, Lili Marlene
  On the subject of historical misconceptions, you might say I’m hugely sentimental. So the tale of Lili Marlene catches me up like a honey trap. What does the name conjure for you? A Nazi Mata Hari? A fictional musical persona beloved by soldiers on both sides of the Good War? While even antiwar sent ...
• Remembering Wounded Knee
  In the shine of photographs are the slain, frozen and black � on a simple field of snow. They image ceremony: � women and children dancing, old men prancing, making fun. In autumn there were songs long since muted in the blizzard. In summer the wild buckwheat shone like fox fur and quillwork, and du ...
• 2 AM, time to piss off the Navy.
  So this is the USN “crackerjack” work uniform blouse, from behind. Notice the two stars on a broad field of blue. That’s, according to my brother the Sailor, symbolic. The stars stand for the two times the USN fought the Royal Navy, and won. The extra large field is to make room for more stars [...]

Debunking the Debunkers

• Zeitgeist-9/11: 2010 Update
  Part 2 of the film Zeitgeist concerning 9/11. Updated 2010 version. See the "Zeitgeist Sourcebook," which backs up the claims made in the film. The 9/11 section begins on page 101. As we have made clear several times on this blog, the evidence points to a plane hitting the Pentagon. Claims the fi ...
• I still don't follow the logic...
  Ever since I posted a video on this blog of Bill Gates at TED 2010 talking about using vaccines to reduce overpopulation, a number of people have messaged me trying to rationalize it. This is a Youtube debate I've been having with minmotstand ... minmotstand said: you should think before you speak. ...
• Jesse Ventura's Pentagon Episode & a response to N ...
  Now I personally believe a plane did hit the Pentagon, and alot of leading people in the truth movement such as Richard Gage, Kevin Ryan and Jim Hoffman have warned about disinformation relating to the Pentagon attack and the divisive and damaging effect such speculation has on the movement. So I ...
• A threat much greater than terrorism ...
  "I know you have seen countless horrors in your lifetime, Mr Bin Laden, and that you have witnessed the very worst of mankind, well now I ask you to watch this..." Hahahaaa!! The UK government recently announced plans to pressure ISPs into censoring 'pornography' to 'combat the early sexualizati ...
• YouTube Restores 'Liarpoliticians' Account [UPDATE ...
  *Update 12/21/10: After a battle with the laywers, YouTube has now reinstated the original account.* liarpoliticians2 (1 week ago) "There is a prospect to get my original channel back after an impasse has been reached and sort of worked around between myself and the solicitors of the copyright hol ...

Fooducate

• Happy New Year! 2011 Food and Nutrition Trends
  Hi everyone, great to see we all made it to 2011! 2010 was full of interesting developments in the food and nutrition space. The First Lady launched Let’s Move, to stop childhood obesity. The FDA and the FTC went with a new fervor after manufacturers’ misleading health claims. A renewed child nutri ...
• Fooducate’s TOP TEN Blog Posts in 2010
  The year is ending, and we thought it would be interesting to see what our community has read the most in 2010. Here are our most popular posts from 10 up on to 1: 1862 – 2010: A Brief History of Food and Nutrition Labeling – where we review the major developments in nutrition labeling and [...]
• Coming in 2012: Nutrition Labels on Cuts of Meat
  Good news from the USDA. Meat and poultry, which to date have not been marked with nutrition information, will begin including them in 2012: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced that it will be making important nutritional information read ...
• Frito Lay Announces “All Natural” Junk Food
  As the new year approaches, and with it a multitude of resolutions for a healthier behavior, we will be seeing many new announcements about nutrition, foods and exercise contraptions. Getting a head start is Frito-Lay, the savory snack stalwart owned by PepsiCo. Yesterday the company announced majo ...
• Is White Whole Wheat Flour an Oxymoron?
  IF you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know we advocate eating whole grain breads. In our five part bread minisereies back in November, we tried to cover the seemingly simple task of choosing bread at the supermarket. While some breads are easy to classify as healthy (100% whole grains) ...

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Major Achievements in 2010 - Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

SteelGuru

- Jan 01, 2011

- 13 hours ago

One of the important activities of the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy during 2010 was the organization of Delhi International Renewable Energy ...

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CII proposes bio-diesel price hike

Economic Times

- Jan 02, 2011

- 7 hours ago

In a proposal submitted to the ministry of new and renewable energy, the industry lobby suggested the price could be increased from Rs.26.50 per litre to ...

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Opposition clouds wind's future

Waterbury Republican American

- Jan 02, 2011

- 11 hours ago

Neighbors are up in arms, insisting they aren't against clean, renewable energy, but this is the wrong place for it. Is there a right place for wind power? ...

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Person to watch in 2011: Renewable energy pioneer in spotlight

The News-Press

- Jan 01, 2011

- 12 hours ago

The ultimate results are as yet unclear, but, if successful, Algenol could spark a renewable energy revolution that will lead to true economic ...

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Counties under burn ban until Monday morning

Mid Columbia Tri City Herald

- Jan 02, 2011

- 2 hours ago

By the Herald staff The state Department of Ecology declared a stage 1 burn ban for several counties including Walla Walla, Columbia, Asotin and Garfield ...

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The Meek Are Reconciled with the Earth: The Basis for Christian Ecology

Huffington Post (blog)

- Jan 01, 2011

- 17 hours ago

I think one of the most moving stories in the Old Testament is the story of Joseph. He is an example of someone who is meek and who inherited much. ...

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Ecology North stages annual Christmas bird count

HQ Yellowknife

- Dec 31, 2010

- Dec 31, 2010

Ecology North is sponsoring the annual Yellowknife Christmas Bird Count on Sunday. The group's founder, naturalist Bob Bromley, said, though small in scale, ...

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Ecology files petition in Cowlitz County shoreline permit appeal

Access Washington

- Dec 29, 2010

- Dec 29, 2010

OLYMPIA– The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) today ensured it has a role in any future legal settlement talks of an appeal over a proposed ...

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Water loss forces Highland Park school closings

Chicago Tribune

- Jan 02, 2011

- 22 minutes ago

AP AP Highland Park's mayor says he's asking the Detroit enclave's school system to cancel classes Monday because of the lingering effects of a water system ...

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Good rural Nevada water outlook for farms, ranches

Las Vegas Sun

- Jan 02, 2011

- 1 hour ago

AP A string of winter storms to cap off a year that started with a wet spring has irrigation district officials optimistic they will have adequate water ...

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Experts say public doesn't need to be alarmed about tests showing chromium-6 ...

Syracuse.com

- Jan 02, 2011

- 7 hours ago

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