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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Friday, January 21, 2011

21 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

water.org

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

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • **TAKE ACTION** STOP Iran putting to Death one per ...
    Iran is on an 'Execution Binge' orchestrated by the intelligence and security agencies. On average one iranian every 8 hours is being put to death in Iran which started on the 1st January 2010. The actual number of people thought to be executed..-->Submitted by Kit B. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • Reversing the Erosion of Civil Liberties
    Who has not yet awoken to the fact that we have been sailing since the 9/11 attacks into a perfect storm? Here are just some of the turbulent winds blowing and pushing officials in the wrong direction Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • **TAKE ACTION** Stop Child Sex Trafficking **PLEAS ...
    Over 1.2 million children are trafficked each year into an child sex industry that rakes in almost US$10 billion annually. We can stop this issue by taking a stand and putting the information out ther and making people aware of this awful situation. Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� �N ...
  • A New Paradigm! Solar Highways
    Solar energy produced by the array feeds into the grid during the day. At night, the meter essentially runs backward as energy flows back from the grid to light the interchange.Submitted by Kit B. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • **TAKE ACTION** Protect Civil Liberties: Don't Re- ...
    TO MY ELECTED OFFICIALS: After nearly ten years, it's time to let the PATRIOT Act expire once and for all. I urge you to oppose its re-authorization. Submitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

  • NASA Prepares to Launch Next Earth-Observing Satel ...
    Originally confirmed in 2005, Glory has been developed by a team of engineers and scientists at several government, industry and academic institutions across the country. The Glory spacecraft arrived at Vandenberg on Jan. 11 after a cross-country ro
  • U.S. and Estonia Affirm Partnership in Rebuilding ...
    We have a strong and unwavering commitment to engagement between our nations. It's built on mutual respect, common security concerns, shared democratic values, and a history of cooperation from air policing in the Baltic region to development assis
  • EPA Seeks Applications for Community-Based Environ ...
    Level II awards, ranging from $150,000 to $300,000 each, will support communities that have established broad-based partnerships, identified the priority toxic risks in their communities, and are prepared to measure results, implement risk-reduction
  • U.S.-China Summit Vital Opportunity to Move Forwar ...
    North Korean provocations are expected to continue as the regime approaches its 2012 deadline to become a 'mighty and prosperous nation' and prepares for a leadership transition. More provocations can also be expected that are aimed at shaking the U
  • NASA Postpones Wallops Integration Facility Ceremo ...
    Orbital will conduct missions for NASA under the agency's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services project and Commercial Resupply Services contract. Integration of the Taurus II in the facility begins in February; with a first launch expected la

libcom

  • Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Post ...
    Announcement of new book that develops a truly global history of the anarchist movement. Book Announcement: Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940 URL: http://labourhistory.net/news/i1012_6.php "Anar ...
  • Insurrection in North Africa: the story so far
    Tunisia-protests-007.jpg In the latest development in the rapidly escalating situation in North Africa, the Tunisian President has been forced out of power, a new government formed and a state of emergen ...
  • University of Puerto Rico Students Clash with Riot ...
    14.jpgfq0y5b.jpg Photo account of the demonstration and attack by riot police during the shut down of the administrative building at the University Plaza of the Rio Piedras campus of the University of Pu ...
  • The tragedy of Fiat: new contract, longer hours, s ...
    Fiat_Mirafiori_FiomR400[1].jpg On January 13th and 14th, over 5,000 Fiat workers at Turin's main factory vote on a new contract which drastically increases hours, reduces breaks and restricts industrial ...
  • Protests spread in Tunisia
    RWBAo.jpg For several weeks Tunisia has seen major street protests which now appear to be threatening the Ben Ali regime. This movement has been severely under-reported by the inte ...

Free Range International

  • The Start of a Long Year
    A few weeks back home we’re a blessing and also a time to partake in my favorite thing to do which is doing nothing.  I’m an expert.  While I was away a few articles caught my attention and they serve as a useful point of departure to evaluate where we are at the start of [...]
  • You Can’t Handle the Truth
    The efforts of the international community to bring aid to Afghanistan, help develop the infrastructure with the goal of allowing Afghanistan a chance at self sufficiency are failing dismally.  That should not be a surprise to anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the international aid racket ...
  • Afghanistan’s Forgotten Province
    There are a couple of recent articles in the flood of coverage about Afghanistan which caught my eye last week.  The first is factually wrong but I understand what the author was saying and he is, in a sense correct.  The second is factually correct, I understand what that reporter was saying too an ...
  • Rules of Engagement
    I have written in the past about night raids and aggressive ISAF convoy tactics causing unnecessary civilian casualties.  I have also written on the importance of not allowing enemy fighters who attack ISAF units to live and fight another day.  Counterinsurgency requires adaptation and my annoyance ...
  • Healing Ulcer
    After only 90 days of fighting to root the Taliban out of a place they have owned for over a decade  Gen McChrystal called Marjah a bleeding ulcer. That was an unbelievably stupid assessment given the nature of the enemy, the rules of engagement placed on the Marines by the General, and the paltry a ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Will the REAL “Jared Lee Loughner” Ple ...
  • Is A. True Ott “Sorcha Faal”? Not Eve ...
    I have recently had a dozen or so people e-mail me concerning what I believe to have been an honest mistake — a patriot blog identified me, A. True Ott, with being “Sorcha Faal”.  The author even posted my picture.  He quickly apologized to me for his error, claiming that his “information” came fr ...
  • Top 30 Hidden FACTS about “America”
    In order to understand what is REALLY going on covertly, “behind the curtain” in America – one needs to internalize and understand the following 30 basic facts about “The Powers That Be”.  (TPTB). Thirty Little Known Facts about America 1. The IRS is NOT a U.S. Government Agency.  It is an Agency ...
  • The Death Cult of Jared Loughner
    This is a HUGE Story, folks.  This must be shared far and wide. Click Here: Death Cult As Don N. writes so eloquently on this subject: This case is much, much larger than one ‘lone gunman’. Death cults, drug smuggling (MSM spin aside), and mind control are at the heart of what finances and facilit ...
  • Jared Lee Loughner

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny hou ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plans fo ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being pro ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human effect ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain temper ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here’s ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing to do ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM says t ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Jan 9, 2010)
    This month marks four years since Stephen Harper became Prime Minister. There have been few dull moments during that time and certainly no lack of controversy. This week, with a new year starting and new issues facing his government, the Prime Minister is our guest.
  • Brian Wilson, musician (encore), (Nov, 28, 2009)
    This week, an encore presentation of one of our most memorable interviews from 2004 -- the musical genius behind the Beach Boys, the young California group that went head to head against the Beatles in the 1960s.
  • Dr. Susy Hota, Infectious Diseases Specialist (Oct ...
    Are you tired of hearing about HINI -- the swine flu? That's not surprising because there's been a half year of information coming your way -- some of it contradictory, much of it confusing. This week's guest helps us get down to basics -- what you need to know, and why you need to know it.
  • Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (Sept ...
    We know it was a recession, but do we know if it's really a recovery? And what about that huge deficit? A dollar again approaching parity with its US counterpart? And the unemployment rate -- could it soon be in double digits? Difficult questions for this week's guest, the man who has to consider th ...
  • Wayne Gretzky
    He is the Great One by name, by deed and by reputation. And when Canadians were asked who should be the final torchbearer in Vancouver, he was their first choice. And this week, he's ours. Hockey legend, Wayne Gretzky.

Scotts Contracting

  • Green Flooring Sale- 63109 Area
    Guest Post: Green Flooring Sale Bamboo Floor Fast Growing Economical Design Choices Design Colors
  • What’s Your Town Doing About Climate Change?
    A:St Louis-Citywide Recycling Q:What’s Your Town Doing About Climate Change? On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Maggie L. Fox, Repower America wrote: Dear Scotts Contracting, If you listened to the professional pundits and climate deniers, you would … Continue reading →
  • Protect Prop C, Green Jobs and Missouri Voters
    On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Michael Berg, Sierra Club wrote: View a web version of this email. Defend the Will of Missouri Voters and Help Bring Green Jobs to Missouri. Tell Your Senator and Representative to … Continue reading →
  • Great Energy Efficiency Day 2011
    On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Alliance to Save Energy wrote: Great Energy Efficiency Day 2011 Wednesday, February 16 â 8:30 am to 3:30 pm Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room G-50 The First Fuel for the 112th … Continue reading →
  • US vs Banks- Foreclosures are Lower
    Fallout of foreclosure fiasco spreads beyond "judicial states"–Barclays Jon Prior of Housing Wire reports that the consequences of missteps among mortgage servicers who were pressing failed home loans through foreclosure have proven contagious beyond the "judicial" states considered to be … Continue ...

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Sustainability: Choosing the Right Crisis
    I think Heinberg and Hopkins are right (see previous blog):  sustainability activists should focus on resource scarcity, rather than climate change. It’s just too damned hard to persuade large numbers of people to undertake major lifestyle changes around something they can’t directly experience. Ex ...
  • Don’t Panic: the Failure at Cancun
    This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd becau ...
  • The Poisons in Household Cleaners
    Owing to stranglehold powerful corporate lobbies have on Congress and federal regulatory agencies (such as the EPA and FDA), the US has the worst record in the industrialized world for regulating toxic chemicals. The sad thing is that the majority of Americans are totally clueless about the poisons ...
  • Natural Cosmetic Alternatives
    (OS isn't allowing me to respond to comments on my original post - so I'm doing a new one in response to Joan): � Sorry Joan, I meant to post some links and forgot: http://www.ewg.org/2010sunscreen/best-beach-sport-sunscreens/ http://nochemicalcosmetics.com/cosmetics/ http://mindfulmomma.typ ...
  • Endocrine Disruptors: Are Americans Poisoning Them ...
    The US has the worst record in the industrialized world for regulating toxic chemicals – thanks to the stranglehold powerful corporate lobbies have on Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As a doctor, I am understandably concerned that mill ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Sticks and stones may break my bones (but words wi ...
    I’m sure almost every English speaking person heard that in their childhood, a mantra someone uses when someone has called them names. Of course if it was actually true, there would be no need to say so, the mere fact that such idioms exist is proof positive that words can most definitely hurt. Word ...
  • WHERE THE HELL WAS HOMELAND SECURITY?
    Nearly ten years after 9/11, and ten years of staggering spending on security,  ever expanding powers of government search and surveillance, terror alerts and terror warnings, ever more humiliating and intrusive searches to go on a  plane  (and coming soon searches in buses, malls, and train stat ...
  • War, Religion, Terrorism, and Other Random Nonsens ...
    My last post generated a number of thoughtful comments, so I thought I’d write a follow up post. Not to mention that my life has gotten extremely busy, I’m between Internet connections, and my main computer got an ugly virus. So I won’t have the time or the means to write dedicated posts in the [... ...
  • The Year and the Decade in Review, Short Version: ...
    Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. And what a year and a decade it’s been. We’ve come a long ways since the odometer rolled over in 2000, and are a decade into a century I could barely imagine when I was a young [...]
  • The 1914 Christmas Truce Revisited
    The people in the above photograph are all dead. Most of them have been dead for decades, some of them more than likely were dead within a few years or less of the date when this photograph was taken. They are German and British troops on Christmas day, 1914. In the two years since I [...]

FourWinds10

  • THE GULF OF MEXICO IS DYING: A SPECIAL REPORT ON ...
  • 2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter ...
    The US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported. In spite of the evidence, the environmental impact of the US military goes largely unaddressed by environmental organizat ...
  • The Search for BP's Oil
    "Dolphins off the bow!" � I race to the front of the WeatherBird II, a research vessel owned by the University of South Florida. There they are, doing their sleek silvery thing, weaving between translucent waves, disappearing under the boat, reappearing in perfect formation on the other side. fter t ...
  • THE GULF OF MEXICO IS DYING - A Special Report on ...
  • Consequences of the BP Oil Spill
    The BP oil disaster might end up shifting the entire global energy paradigm -- IF the public is aware of the situation and its consequences. Here are some of the long term effects of the disaster. � Dr. Mercola's Comments: � It's been just over seven months since the Deepwater Horizon exploded, lead ...

Crisis Maven

  • Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – Dyin ...
    There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
  • Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
    The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism of ...
  • Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t adve ...
    Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division of ...
  • CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,000 We ...
    Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After that, ...
  • Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to economi ...
    Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never hea ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further evid ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The following ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagflatio ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest bus ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trade de ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy porte ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This articl ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings were ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Marginal Land Produces Marginal Biomass
    Join the forum discussion on this post The global potential for energy crops is a topic of great interest, and the media is often filled with reports of the potential for production on marginal land. Indeed, some of these reports go so far as to suggest that a substantial fraction or even all of cu ...
  • Who, How, and Why: $140 Oil and $5 Gas
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. ———————————— Who, How, and Why:  $140 Oil and $5 Gas According to a loosely-organized apocalyptic Christian movement, May 21, 2011 will be the “end of days.”  On or about that same date, the price of oil i ...
  • Range Fuels Out of Money?
    Join the forum discussion on this post It is no secret that I have been a critic of Range Fuels — not necessarily of their technology but of their approach. I won’t rehash all of the issues I have had with the company; in a nutshell I felt they like were making claims that were [...]
  • When Economic Recovery Collides with Flat Oil Prod ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post A theme that I commonly discuss in articles and presentations is the problem of economic recovery when oil prices are high. If the market is well-supplied and there is ample excess oil production capacity, oil prices tend to be moderate and stable, and economi ...
  • Ethanol Exports Increase Dependence on Foreign Oil
    Join the forum discussion on this post Near the end of my recent post documenting some of the antics of various ethanol interests, I wrote the following: “As always, I invite a response from ethanol interests or readers who wish to dispute my points. If someone wishes to engage on these points, th ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • Olive Oil + Leafy Vegetables Recipes Cuts Heart Di ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If you need further motivation to follow the so-called Mediterranean diet, consider some new, amazing research findings on two of the diet’s staples: leafy green vegetables and olive oil. In the study on 30,000 women, researchers found that women who consumed at least one se ...
  • Walmart's Big, Healthy Move Bypasses Organics
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâThursday morning, the world's largest retailer announced that it's using its corporate clout to trim the waistlines and boost the heart health of the American public. At a press conference in Washington, Walmart executives pledged to cut the sodium content of processed foods ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: Make Cozy Bedding from Organic ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's nothing like curling up in a bed of flannel sheets while it's snowing outside. If you find yourself needing to warm up your bedroom décor this winter, check out my favorite sources for bedding: Freecycle.org and a local thrift store. While secondhand sheets are unlik ...
  • USDA to OK Genetically Modified Alfalfa; Good-Bye ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Despite rough economic times, more and more people are buying organic, not just to protect the planet, but also to keep their families safe from toxic pesticides linked to ADHD, autism, and certain cancers, among other things. Many also choose organic to keep genetically eng ...
  • 5 Salads Worth Laughing Over
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Is salad all that funny? Even the tastiest ones don't generally make people burst out laughing. Unless we're talking about "Women Laughing Alone with Salad," the stock photo cliché called out recently by Thehairpin.com, and since bounced all over the Internet. Can a salad-ba ...

big think

  • MTV’s ’16 and Pregnant’ Gets No Credit for Declini ...
    Last month, when the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported the birth rate of teenage girls had fallen by 6% between 2008 and 2009, MTV issued a press release claiming the show ‘16 and Pregnant’ contributed to the decline.  Does MTV truly deserve credit for that? I love looking at data ...R ...
  • Call to Duty: N.C. Wyeth’s Civil War Illustrations
    This year marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War. The process of looking back at that time must also include looking back at previous attempts to look back, including (and perhaps most especially) remembrances around the 50th anniversary of the conflict’s beginning .. ...
  • Study: Your Genes Help Pick Your Friends
    How much of you resides between your ears? And how much of what you call "me" is made outside your body, in your relationships with others? Biologists have largely confined themselves to aspects of the mind that can be measured in a single human body (galvanic skin response, activity in the amygdala ...
  • If Sarah Palin Were Black
    Last year, Chauncey DeVega asked�a great question: how would we see Sarah Palin if she were black? �As much as we might like to pretend otherwise, blacks in America are not viewed the same way that whites are. Consider that instead of being primarily portrayed as an out-of-touch liberal elitist . ...
  • GVP Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for January 12 ...
    I've got a new USGS/Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for a wintry January Thursday. Some highlights (with post report updates) include: Russia: The Kamchatka volcano has been active all week, producing intermittent plumes that have reached as high as 6 km / ~2 ...

Information Liberation

  • How the Cartels Ensure Diamonds Last Forever
    Diamonds are considered a unique resource because the price level is always on the increase without any big swings, unlike other commodities, such as gold, whose prices fluctuate (sometimes violently) in the market. The constant increase in the p...
  • Tunisia and Us
    Like many Americans, I missed last month*s news of Mohamed Bouazizi from the rural town of Sidi Bouzid in central Tunisia. The 26-year-old Bouazizi, like many Tunisians for many years, was counted among the unemployed. To make ends mee...
  • WikiLeaks and the U.S.-Supported Dictatorship in T ...
    What has happened in Tunisia provides a perfect encapsulation of U.S. foreign policy and why U.S. officials are so angry over the WikiLeaks leaks. According to the New York Times, some of the WikiLeaks cables *make it clear just how much United ...
  • Arrested Pirate Party Member Becomes Tunisian Stat ...
    After weeks of public protests on- and offline the Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali resigned and escaped the country last Friday. Today, the head of the transitional government, Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi, announced his new cabinet ...
  • No Ads, Domain Seized and No Anonymity For Pirate ...
    A U.S. District Court judge has issued a preliminary injunction against two advertising networks and a Whois protection service of a site that offers pirated e-books. Advertising networks Clicksor and Chitika are now prohibited from serving advertise...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Ozboy’s Bar And Grill Is Closed For Repairs
    It’s only temporary. A couple of weeks. But the recent shenanigans round here have forced me to do some thinking about how LibertyGibbert can run better in the future. I’ve spoken to a couple of you about this today, to … Continue reading →
  • The Dragon’s Dissent Part III: Naked Nationa ...
    The emergence of China as the world’s new superpower has raised many questions in the international community and across the blogosphere regarding the longer-range agenda of the Middle Kingdom. In a recent discussion on this forum, the question of Chinese … Continue reading →
  • U.S. Elections: Will Liberty Win?
    Well today’s the day. As just about every other blog in the sphere is covering the elections today, I thought I’d throw the forum open, and we can discuss the results as they come in, in real time. If as … Continue reading →
  • Libertarianism And Drug Liberalization
    G’day everyone, Just arrived back home safe and sound. Sorry there hasn’t been a new post in several days, but just at the moment my family needs me more than the Bar and Grill does. Dr. Dave has graciously stepped … Continue reading →
  • Stealing Democracy?
    G’day everyone, Ozboy here. The United States mid-term elections are just one week away, and the mounting resentment many Americans feel about the way their country is being governed appears certain to be made clear at the polls. One of … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • DoD Takes Flexible View on Deleting Wikileaks Docs
    Department of Defense employees who downloaded classified documents from Wikileaks onto unclassified government computer systems may delete them without further “sanitizing” their systems or taking any other remedial measures, the Pentagon said in a policy memo (pdf) last week. The release of classi ...
  • ODNI Secrecy Activity, “Population” In ...
    The Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported a notable increase in its classification activity last year, along with an even greater increase in the ODNI “population.” The number of ODNI “derivative classification decisions” — referring to the classification of new records under prev ...
  • A Week in the Chinese Blogosphere (December 2010)
    Chinese bloggers “expressed rage and despondence after learning about the plight of 12 mentally retarded men from Sichuan province who were sold into slavery to work at a building materials plant in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region,” according to a CIA review of the Chinese blogosphere (pdf) du ...
  • A Bumpy Start for Fundamental Classification Revie ...
    The Fundamental Classification Guidance Review is the Obama Administration’s most ambitious effort to confront the problem of overclassification. It requires each agency that classifies information to conduct a detailed review of all of its classification guides in order to identify obsolete classif ...
  • Congressional Oversight Manual, and More from CRS
    The purposes, authorities, and instruments of congressional oversight are described in detail in a newly-expanded Congressional Oversight Manual (pdf) prepared by the Congressional Research Service. “Congressional oversight and investigations can often, though not always, become adversarial,” the CR ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Even more science news
    Science news snippets from the net meanderings of David Bradley Fighting malaria without DDT = FAIL – Review suggests DDT essential in fight against malaria, despite claims for green approaches. A new research paper exposes allegedly false claims and misrepresentations of science by United Nations e ...
  • Free chemistry dictionary
    UPDATE: 2011-01-20 Version 3.0 of the chemistry dictionary is now available. Now, with crowd-sourced, user-submitted words and an OpenOffice.org dictionary extension. “It took me the better part of a month,” Azman told us, “but I’ve made my own and I want it to be as open-source as possible. Chemspy ...
  • Social networking with research data
    I’d previously used the phrase “Napster for Research Papers” when thinking about Mendeley. Mendeley lets you upload your own research papers to your personal library under publishers’ fair use agreements and to share them with their peers as you might share a traditional paper reprint. So, maybe Nap ...
  • Even more science news
    Science news snippets from the net meanderings of David Bradley Sir David King on climate change – King said, “We hear enough from the climate change skeptics that I have to repeat some fundamentals that you’ve probably heard before.” Fifty-five million years ago, atmospheric CO2 concentrations stoo ...
  • Yet more science news
    Latest science news snippets from Sciencebase Bee team funded by Bayer – It is revealed that the lead investigator in the study that recently published results suggesting that bee colony collapse disorder (CCD) is due to the combined effect of a virus and a fungus is funded by the insecticide compan ...

RFF Library

  • Report on the Oversight of Existing and Prospectiv ...
    Interagency Working Group for the Study on Oversight of Carbon Markets http://tinyurl.com/6z7lb9o [From Overview] On July 21, 2010, the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act or Act) was enacted. Section 750 of the Act establishes an interagency working group to “conduct a st ...
  • Food Environment Atlas
    Economic Research Service / USDA http://maps.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas/ [From Atlas Web Site] Food environment factors—such as store/restaurant proximity, food prices, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics—interact to influence food choices and diet quality. Research is ...
  • The United States and China: The Race to Disruptiv ...
    Accenture http://tinyurl.com/4lyn2b2 [From Overview] In this report, we make the assumption that the future will see increased levels of transport fuel diversity, and we explore the  implications of this assumption both in the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies. To achieve th ...
  • Is Public Transport a Risk Factor for Acute Respir ...
    BMC Infectious Diseases / Joy Troko et al http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2334-11-16.pdf [Abstract] The relationship between public transport use and acquisition of acute respiratory infection (ARI) is not well understood but potentially important during epidemics and pandemics. Method ...
  • Linking Functional Diversity and Social Actor Stra ...
    PNAS / Sandra Diaz et al http://www.pnas.org/content/108/3/895.full.pdf+html [Abstract] The crucial role of biodiversity in the links between ecosystems and societies has been repeatedly highlighted both as source of wellbeing and as a target of human actions, but not all aspects of biodiversity are ...

Scientific American - News

  • Entangled En Masse: Physicists Crank Out Billions ...
    Entanglement, that most counterintuitive quantum phenomenon by which particles share an unseen link that aligns their properties, is looking more mundane all the time. Just last week two groups of researchers reported entangling a photon with a crystal-based device , potentially paving the way for ...
  • Experts Criticize Evidence Used to Diagnose Leak a ...
    The recent release of an independent geochemical consulting firm's report concluding that carbon dioxide is leaking from one of the world's largest CO2 geologic storage projects--located at the Weyburn–Midale oil fields in Saskatchewan--has caused a public relations crisis, not only for Cenovus E ...
  • Tearing into the Metrodome: Are Other Air-Pressuri ...
    With a roof made of fabric similar to that used in trampolines, it's not hard to envision why 43 centimeters of snow tore through Minneapolis's Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome last month. What is perhaps harder to imagine is why anyone would consider keeping in place an inflatable domed stadium that mo ...
  • Sticky Business: Video Shows the Right Way to Extr ...
    Dissecting a black widow spider to get its silk glands seems like a task fraught with peril. Luckily, for anyone who dares, now there is video from scientists to show you how it's done.Research labs do not want the silk glands of these infamous spiders for some kind of bizarre trophies. Spider silks ...
  • Unnatural Genes Used to Replace Missing DNA Keep C ...
    Synthetic biology garnered national headlines in May 2010 when a team led by J. Craig Venter announced it had created the world’s first “ synthetic cell ." The group used computers to copy an entire bacterial genome that, when inserted into a cell whose own genome had been removed, "booted up" the c ...

RAWA News

  • US support for Afghan war slips to new low: poll
    AFP: US public support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped to the lowest level since Barack Obama became president, a poll showed Tuesday. The survey by Quinnipiac University showed voters said by a 51 to 41 percent margin than the United States should not be involved in Afghanistan. Still, the r ...
  • ISAF strike kills 6 of a family in Kunar
    PAN: NATO-led soldiers killed six members of a family during an airstrike in eastern Kunar province, a provincial council member alleged on Sunday. But the alliance rejected the allegation as baseless. The overnight bombardment took place in the Kodi area of Asmar district, bordering Pakistan, Haji ...
  • Afghans Unconvinced by Karzai Presidency
    IWPR: Nine years after Hamid Karzai came to power, Afghans have some harsh things to say about his performance. While some argue that his apparent shifts in position are the mark of an astute politician negotiating his way through difficult times, others say some of the compromises he has made have ...
  • Red Cross says Afghan conditions worst in 30 years
    Reuters: Spreading violence in Afghanistan is preventing aid organisations from providing help, with access to those in need at its worst level in three decades, the Red Cross said on Wednesday. “The proliferation of armed groups threatens the ability of humanitarian organisations to access those in ...
  • Rogue militias abuse rural Afghans
    Aljazeera: “At night, they come out on the roads with their faces covered,” said Obaid Sediq, a resident of Central Baghlan in northeastern Afghanistan. “Many times they have stopped our car and emptied our pockets. They have guns and you can't say anything back.” The Arbakai, semi-official local mi ...

frogblog

  • Policy-making needs science
    A recent editorial in Science points out the importance of using evidence based policy. The Editor-in-Chief, Bruce Alberts writes: “It is … disturbing that so many lawmakers elected to the new U.S. Congress reject the overwhelming scientific consensus with respect to human-induced c ...
  • Gollum, and friends, save the Nevis, for now
    Yes, strange but true, the Gollum Galaxiid, is saving the Nevis River from being dammed. I rafted the Nevis River near Queenstown on stage two of my summer rivers tour on Tuesday. There is a species of Gollum, known as smeagol, that lives only in a series of tributaries of the Nevis ...
  • Cyberwarfare a dangerous path
    I see that “cybersecurity” one of the agenda items in this week’s tet-a-tet between Foreign Minister Murray McCully, Defence Minister Wayne Mapp and their UK counterparts William Hague and Liam Fox. The first question McCully and Mapp should ask the British ministers is “Are you goi ...
  • What’s the matter with fractional reserve ba ...
    A thread for those wishing to further explore the nature of the banking system. This video series highlighted by a reader provides a backgrounder on how the fractional reserve system developed and what the implications are. New money created out of thin air from debt? Is this what d ...
  • General debate, January 18, 2011

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • The Media in America: Selling Views, Calling it Ne ...
    America's journalists are not "newshounds" They are nothing more than salesclerks, hocking the products their employers want to sell. The pretty faces that now function as most television news anchors are no different than the pretty models used to sell other products. The American "free" press ...
  • America's Next Failure: the Police State
    Every police force in the nation has cold (unsolved) cases. The War on Drugs has been ineffective for more than forty years. No one knows where a vast number of illegal immigrants even are. The CIA has been unable to locate Osama bin Laden after more than ten years of searching. Your local police ca ...
  • Western Civilization and Classical Economics: The ...
    When a civilization abandons its morality, no rationalization can be devised to justify its continued existence. It is likely that many reasons can be given for this abandonment in the Western world, although I am convinced that one predominatesthe expansion of law. Law once governed various kin ...
  • The Mythical United States of America: Rushing int ...
    The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of nation the United States was meant to be. What exists today fulfills none of those goals. Some have argued that the nation was a fraud fr ...
  • As Western Civilization Lies Dying
    The Western commercial system exists to extract more from consumers than it supplies in products and services. Its goal is profit and has never been the improvement of the human condition but to exploit it. When governments institutionalize this system, they place their nations on suicidal paths, be ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Repealing Healthcare
    Who wrote this? With this week’s vote to repeal President Obama’s health care reform, House Republicans struck a blow for freedom. They struck a blow for the freedom of hospitals to avoid financial penalties, no matter how many Medicare patients develop infections under their care. They struck a bl ...
  • Good News From Goldman Sachs
    Here's some good news from the Wall Street Journal: Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s profit slide of 52% in the fourth quarter showed the securities giant's size and swagger aren't enough for it to escape the tightening squeeze of a regulatory overhaul and jittery clients and investors. ....Hedge funds a ...
  • Quiz of the Day
    Suppose you are going to be transported fifty years into the future. What country would you like to be transported to? Don't worry: you'll be magically equipped with the language and cultural skills you need to continue living a nice middle class existence no matter where you end up. But it's your c ...
  • How Should Dems Manage the Healthcare Repeal Circu ...
    It's a slow day, so let's do some political strategizing. Here's what the LA�Times has to say about yesterday's vote in the House to repeal healthcare reform: The Senate showdown may not begin for several weeks, but promises to be substantially messier and more drawn-out than the debate just comp ...
  • Leave Google Alo-o-o-o-o-ne
    John J. Miller at The Corner today: Google is honoring the 50th anniversary of JFK’s inauguration. Let’s see what (if anything) it does on February 6, which is Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday. Just shoot me now. Can we please please please stop the relentless Google bashing every time they choo ...

Insanity Report

  • Oh Look…It’s Rick Santorum
    Hold on, I haven’t said this in a while so I might be a little rusty: Rick Santorum…..GO FUCK YOURSELF Seriously, did this guy just essentially compare black people not being considered people under the Constitution as slaves to a fetus that could be placed in a petri dish and frozen like a mini-piz ...
  • The House Repeals Health Care Reform
    This is so stupid but not for the reasons most people will tell you. Most people will focus on how repealing Health Care Reform will take away Health Care opportunities for people with pre-existing conditions, children trying to stay on their parent’s insurance  and those 36+ million who couldn’t af ...
  • IC 223: A STD Called Weezy
    Topics for the show: Kriss explains his new term for horrible drivers Hunters and fishermen and their stories Rolling Stone does a perplexing interview of Lil Wayne Amare Stoudemire gets in “trouble” Colleges should focus on the STUDENT part of student athlete It takes two to tango Share with your f ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: World’s Worst Hunter
    (Reuters) – A wounded fox shot its would be killer in Belarus by pulling the trigger on the hunter’s gun as the pair scuffled after the man tried to finish the animal off with the butt of the rifle, media said Thursday. The unnamed hunter, who had approached the fox after wounding it from a [...] ...
  • Poor Sean Hannity
    Poor Sean Hannity.  With the emergence of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck’s popularity, the Birthers and the very vocal nutcases in the Tea Party, Hannity finds himself in the position of not being the ‘Go to’ voice of ignorance for Right Wing Nutjobs.  Like Christoph Waltz’s character in The Green Hornet ...

Simple Climate

  • Ice melt poses dual sea rise and water access thre ...
    One-fifth of the ice held in the world's ice caps and glaciers will melt by 2100, affecting water availability, adding around 12 cm to sea levels and threatening some coastal regions, predicts University of British Columbia's Valentina Radić.
  • Greenhouse gases break temperature-rainfall link
    While warmer air can take up more water than colder air, the extra heat trapped in the lower atmosphere by gases like CO2 decreases how much of this is released as precipitation, explains Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research's Katja Frieler.
  • Dust research polishes climate models
    The smallest, cooling, particles are a lower proportion of all atmospheric dust than climate models assume, says the US National Center for Atmospheric Research's Jasper Kok, likely meaning there are more particles than previously thought overall and helping improve accuracy of climate predictions i ...
  • Climate change can be understood and tackled
    In the ultimate simple climate change explanation, leading climate analyst Kevin Trenberth notes carbon dioxide has gone up over 35% since pre-industrial times, with over half of that since 1970 - but other researchers I've spoken to this year give cause for hope that this can be slowed.
  • Effluent entering streams also soils the atmospher ...
    People are causing chemicals containing nitrogen to enter rivers and streams where, besides having other effects, they're turned into the especially potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide.

e!Science News

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • Livestock and Climate Change … Status update
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. The United Nations report Livestock’s Long Shadow (LLS) came out in 2006 with an estimate that 18 percent of anthropogenic greenhou ...
  • QLD floods highlight the cost of climate extremes
    After a long, hot period of drought in eastern Australia, spanning much of the 1990s and 2000s and referred to as the worst in 1000 years (see also discussion on BNC on the drought here and the strange winter of 2009 here), the period 2010-2011 has seen record rainfall and rural flooding events in A ...
  • Government intervention on fossil fuel pollution
    Guest post by DV82XL. He is a Canadian chemist and materials scientist (and regular BNC commenter). An earlier relevant post by this author can be read here: An informed public is key to acceptance of nuclear energy. I have been watching with some amusement the debate here at BNC surrounding the ide ...
  • BNC as a resource – call for help
    The Brave New Climate blog started out in Aug 2008 as a modest affair. But over the course of 333 posts (and counting), it has grown into quite a resource, covering a wide variety of topics on sustainable energy and climate change. It is about to launch into its 4th year on the circuit! The blog [.. ...
  • No (statistical) warming since 1995? Wrong
    Yes, I’m still on vacation. But I couldn’t resist a quick response to this comment (and the subsequent debate): BBC: Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming Phil Jones: Yes, but only just. Here is the global temperature data from 1995 to ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Guest Editorial: Truth, Tributes and Sanitizing Dr ...
    Truth, Tributes and Sanitizing Dr. King: [finalcall.com] "Across America celebrations, breakfasts, speeches, service projects and singing marked the 25th anniversary of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. The celebration fell on Monday, Jan. 17, and many embraced a day off. Multi-racial groups brok ...
  • OpEdNews - Article: Legimate Reasons for Julian As ...
    OpEdNews - Article: Legimate Reasons for Julian Assange to Worry about Extradition to Sweden Lawyers for Julian Assange said yesterday, "they would oppose his extradition to Sweden because he might subsequently face "illegal rendition to the United States, risking imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay, Cub ...
  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada #226
    CBC: JTF2 command 'encouraged' war crimes, soldier alleges A member of Canada's elite special forces unit says he felt his peers were being "encouraged" by the Canadian Forces chain of command to commit war crimes in Afghanistan, according to new documents obtained by CBC News. The documents from t ...
  • OpEdNews - Article: Do Poor People Get Equal Justi ...
    OpEdNews - Article: Do Poor People Get Equal Justice? The American legal system, in theory, delivers "equal justice under law." But equality implies an inclusiveness that does not exist in this punitive justice structure. It is more like a caste system, in which the benefits are unequally distribute ...
  • Determined to Stifle Arizona Violence Debate, Pali ...
    Determined to Stifle Arizona Violence Debate, Palin Claims She's the Victim... of 'Blood Libel' | CommonDreams.org by John Nichols Echoing the new battle cry of the right, Sarah Palin has come out of hiding to accuse those who suggest over-the-top rhetoric and a volatile political climate might off ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Sarah, Sarah, Sarah Blood Libel?
    Will someone please break the news to her… So Sarah. How exactly do I reload my vote? And please answer this question. How may death threats have your “fans” issued?
  • Today
    Today the Tea Party chickens have come home to roost.
  • How To Interrupt Town Hall Meetings 101
    So when the Republican operatives were handing out instructions on how to disrupt town halls, was shooting the congressperson on the list?
  • “Second Amendment Remedies”
    So what did you expect Angle? Palin? Beck? Limbaugh? Savage? Other right wing psychopaths inciting violence?
  • Stupid Tea Baggers
    The Tea Baggers are so stupid that they don’t understand that if America fails, they will go down with the ship too. I mean there’s stupid, and then there’s stupid.

Appalachia Rising

  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a found ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-2688 o ...
  • Press Inquiries
    All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conference H ...
  • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
  • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachian ...
    Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind coalfi ...

Amped Status

+972

  • Free speech, Caroline’s glitch, and other Je ...
    +972 is hosting today an op-ed written by B’Tselem chief Jessica Montell, in response to particularly insidious accusations levelled at the organisation by The Jerusalem Post star columnist, Caroline Glick. Montell’s op-ed doesn’t mince words – she calls Glick “a hack journalist who parrots any driv ...
  • B’Tselem chief: “Caroline Glick is a h ...
    by Jessica Montell, B’Tselem | Read background here ” Free speech enables us to speak the truth, even when such truth is harsh. So for example, I am free to say that Caroline Glick is a hack of a journalist, who parrots any drivel that suits her extremist ideological agenda without having the basic ...
  • The Kaufman Critique: Dinner and a movie at Herber ...
    The Kaufmans are surprised on their annual birthday dinner – but not by the food It was the missusâ birthday on Wednesday, so we decided to treat ourselves to a fancy restaurant. As the one in charge of choosing the venue, I decided on a place called Herbert Samuel, which is just across the Herbert ...
  • The death of Sargent Shriver & the lessons for Isr ...
    Sargent Shriver, the first head of the Peace Corps, was related to President John F. Kennedy by marriage. He devoted his life to promoting the ideals of public service and peaceful dialogue. Israelis would do well to emulate his example By Roee Rutenberg News of the death of John F. Kennedy’s brothe ...
  • New army version on Bil’in death contradicts ...
    Yesterday evening, just in time to make the eight o’clock news, the IDF has presented another “official” version for the death of Bi’lin’s Jawahar Abu-Rahmah during a protest against the security barrier near her village on December 31st. This is from Haaretz: Abu Rahmah, 36, was taken to the hospit ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • BAM!- ANOTHER BANK SMACKDOWN- Affirmative Defenses ...
    Increasingly our appelate courts are showing that they, “get it” forcing banks to fulfill their basic obligations and respect the rights of parties… MitchellPadot Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • New Order on Verification of Foreclosure Complaint ...
    It’s so frustrating that we have to keep going over and over the same things again and again.  There is a Supreme Court, this court issued a rule….Residential Foreclosure Complaints Must Be Verified. PNC+v+Peckham+Order+Dismiss+4+verif Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • BOMBSHELL- HUNDREDS OF FORECLOSURE CASES DISMISSED ...
    A stunning development has occurred in Lee County—a wave of cases are being dismissed.  This is unprecedented and a very curious development. Is this a sign of things to come?  Why have multiple firms and many plaintiffs decided to dismiss these across the board?  Is this admission from the oppos ...
  • Investors Suing Banks Are On The Same Side As Home ...
    It’s next to impossible to get any information while you’re in foreclosure from the servicer or trustee.   Reasonable discovery requests for basic information are objected to and almost never complied with.  It’s not just homeowners receiving the cold shoulder…the investors are as well….JUST WHAT ...
  • Foreclosure Lawyers Misdeeds Ingored in Florida?
    Florida courthouses are rife with evidence of errors and fabrications made by attorneys handling foreclosure cases, and yet so far no lawyers have been disciplined. With pressure mounting to police its own members, the Florida Bar established a special category of complaints listed as “foreclosure f ...

abelard - news

The Parallel Parliament

  • Winds of Change – The Referendum and Women
    The women of both north and south Sudan are remarkably tenacious and adaptive. This past decade witnessed leaders of women’s groups from both regions holding joint peace conferences in an effort to put an end to two decades of war and to give their children a chance at a better life. It is this last ...
  • Winds of Change – From Darfur to Independenc ...
    I had only just been elected for a month when in January 2007 we journeyed with a large team of businesswomen to oversee our programs in south Sudan. All was normal until the third day, when someone approached us saying that thousands of internally displaced families from Darfur had been found hidin ...
  • Winds of Change – The Ballot Process
    Given the stakes, a large international and domestic effort has gone into the process of making the Sudanese referendum as legitimate as possible under the circumstances. A clear-cut timeline was laid out to reach this point. November 15, 2010 – Beginning of registration December 8, 2010 – Last day ...
  • “Winds of Change – The Referendum Vote ...
    We arrived in south Sudan a few days before the Sunday referendum (January 9th) to see everything in a state of readiness and expectation. Nothing was overlooked. Training classes were underway, informing people of the process of the vote. International observers were in the process of last-minute a ...
  • Winds of Change – The Referendum Vote
    We arrived in south Sudan a few days before the Sunday referendum (January 9th) to see everything in a state of readiness and expectation. Nothing was overlooked. Training classes were underway, informing people of the process of the vote. International observers were in the process of last-minute a ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • New Vaccine Science Can Help Bridge the Divide
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Fear of the unknown is what terrifies us the most, fear of being unable to have control over what the future holds. At the root of that fear is knowing that the choices we make today could have a profound impact on what happens tomorrow. 1 Fear is a strong emotion tha ...
  • Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflammation ...
  • Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New Adv ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Information C ...
  • Vaccine Science: A Search for Truth
    by Barbara Loe Fisher February 2009 turned out to be a month when vaccine science was put on trial in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., in mainstream media and on the internet, in the British Medical Journal and in vaccine safety research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health and ...
  • Talking Vaccine Science with Government: Why Do It ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher After the historic election in November that saw Barack Obama elected President, I wondered what he and his Administration would do about addressing the question that is on the minds of many parents: Why are so many vaccinated children today chronically ill, suffering with lea ...

2020 Science

  • Obama’s 21st century regulatory system will demand ...
    Cross posted from the Risk Science Center Blog: There’s a lot to like in President Obama’s perspective on 21st century regulation. Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Obama outlines his thinking behind his new executive order to review and revise a convoluted and potentially disruptive federal r ...
  • NOVA Making Stuff, nanomaterials and a web-lactati ...
    Next week sees the debut of the PBS science program NOVA’s new series Making Stuff – a four part special “exploring the materials that will shape our future”, hosted by NY Times technology columnist David Pogue. You may recall that I expressed some reservations over the program’s approach to bioengi ...
  • Nanoparticle Toxicity dropped from the World Econo ...
    As I report on the Risk Science Blog, the latest iteration of the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report has dropped “Nanoparticle Toxicity” as an emerging and significant risk.  Instead, the far more generic “Threats from New Technologies” takes its place. This is a welcome move – but I do have ...
  • A bluffer’s guide to Risk Science in the 21st cent ...
    A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati under the slightly provocative title “Small Gods and the Art of Technology Innovation”.  The talk is now available on-line (slides and audio at least) – and viewable below – through the excellent work of the folk at CAC. R ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Hegswarm – what a great word!  Far more elegant and versatile than the “Gray Goo” that has nibbled at the heels of nanotechnology for the past decade. Over the holiday break, I’ve escaped academia for the relative sanity of family reunions and mince pies, and have been catching up on some reading. ...

Reader Supported News

  • Retired Military Brass Find War Consulting Very Lu ...
    Excerpt: "As 'senior mentors,' as the military calls them, the retired officers help run war games and offer advice to former colleagues. Some mentors make as much as $330 an hour as part-time government advisers, more than triple what their rate of pay was as high-level, active-duty officers." S ...
  • Retired Military Brass Find War Consulting Very Lu ...
    Excerpt: "As 'senior mentors,' as the military calls them, the retired officers help run war games and offer advice to former colleagues. Some mentors make as much as $330 an hour as part-time government advisers, more than triple what their rate of pay was as high-level, active-duty officers." S ...
  • Lieberman Makes It Official: He's Retiring
    The report begins: "Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut said Wednesday that he will retire next year, ending a career in which he became his party's vice presidential nominee but six years later ran as an independent after losing the Democratic primary." Sen. Joseph Lieberman has decided to retire ...
  • Insurers Profit Millions on Medicare Float
    The report begins: "Private health insurance plans catering to Medicare recipients are making millions by taking money the government sends in advance - but isn't immediately needed - and using it to make investments, federal investigators say in a report obtained by The Associated Press." Execut ...
  • AUDIO: Bank Overcharged Military Families on Mortg ...
    Tamara Keith reports: "The banking giant JPMorgan Chase is admitting it made some very big mistakes. As first reported by NBC News, the firm says it overcharged more than 4,000 active-duty military personnel on their home loans and foreclosed in error on 14 of them." USAF Technical Sergeant Jeffr ...

War Resisters League

  • The other “Afghanistan Report”
    Whose stories are we telling about the war in Afghanistan? On the day following the White House report on the war in Afghanistan that names the war as a qualified success and calls for the U.S. to “stay the course,” we must lift up the alternative stories and reports of this near-decade of occupatio ...
  • Join the Online Demonstration for Peace in Korea - ...
    President Obama is sending the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington (carrying 75 warplanes and a crew of over 6000) and other warships for additional war-games with the South Korean military beginning Sunday, November 28.� This only escalates the already tense situation on the Kore ...
  • IVAW Women’s Retreat this weekend!
    Dear Supporters, My name is Joyce Wagner. I am a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, and I am a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. This Labor Day, IVAW women will hold our first ever retreat in support of women veterans. Your donation today will help us make [...]
  • Protest nuclear warhead test launch tomorrow!
    Protest September 14, 11:55 pm (midnight) missile launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base: NOTE 09/14/10: THIS LAUNCH AND PROTEST HAVE BEEN CANCELED– More info to come! Join the protest of the test launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) thermo-nuclear warhead delivery system ...
  • International Days of Action in Solidarity with Br ...
    Support Bradley Manning! Oakland, California, USA Thursday, September 16th, 7-9pm Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street, Oakland CA (Between Telegraph and Broadway) Speakers: DANIEL ELLSBERG, Pentagon Papers whistle-blower COL. ANN WRIGHT (ret.), former US diplomat RAY MCGOVERN, former CIA analyst AIMEE AL ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
    An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
  • How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
    Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
  • Obama's Indecent Interval
    Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • Washington To Rearm Georgia For New Conflicts
    Stop NATO January 14, 2011 Washington To Rearm Georgia For New Conflicts Rick Rozoff Recent reports in the Russian news media have detailed plans by the U.S. to provide the Mikheil Saakashvili government in Georgia with tens of millions of dollars worth of anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons. The Ru ...
  • U.S. Recruits Japan As Global Military Partner
    Stop NATO January 12, 2011 U.S. Recruits Japan As Global Military Partner Rick Rozoff  During the preceding week the U.S.’s top military officer identified Asia as the central focus of the Pentagon’s attention in the world, U.S. warships joined Japanese counterparts in military maneuvers in the East ...
  • Militarization Of Energy Policy: U.S. Africa Comma ...
    Stop NATO January 8, 2011 Militarization Of Energy Policy: U.S. Africa Command And Gulf Of Guinea Rick Rozoff At the beginning of the century, while the United States was still embroiled in military interventions in the Balkans and had launched what would become the longest war in its history in Afg ...
  • U.S. Employs Afghan War To Build Global NATO
    Stop NATO January 6, 2011 U.S. Employs Afghan War To Build Global NATO Rick Rozoff In an article entitled “How Afghanistan Became a War for NATO,” American journalist Gareth Porter argued that, contrary to the official position that an estimated 52,000 non-American troops from the North Atlantic Tre ...
  • Pentagon And NATO Apply Afghanistan-Pakistan War M ...
    Stop NATO January 2, 2011 Pentagon And NATO Apply Afghanistan-Pakistan War Model To Africa Rick Rozoff The New Year began with three North Atlantic Treaty Organization soldiers killed in Afghanistan and 20 people, all portrayed as militants, killed in four American missile strikes in northwest Pakis ...

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Intel Hub

  • Raw Video: Protests Against Hu Jintao in Chicago
    Crowds of people chanted outside the downtown Chicago hotel where Chinese President Hu Jintao was being honored at a dinner held by Mayor Richard Daley. One protester said Hu should leave the United States. (Jan. 21) Related Posts: Chinese Leader Disingenuous About Tibetan Issues, Improving Human Ri ...
  • Yellowstone Has Bulged as Magma Pocket Swells
    Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News Published January 19, 2011 Yellowstone National Park‘s supervolcano just took a deep “breath,” causing miles of ground to rise dramatically, scientists report. The simmering volcano has produced major eruptionsâeach a thousand times more powerful than Moun ...
  • Florida’s Non-Citrus Crop Losses From Cold Could T ...
    Ocala.com By Karen Voyles Green bean prices have tripled in North Florida. Mustard greens are hard to find at any price. Cabbage is now going for 69 cents a pound, way more than the three-pounds-for-$1 usually available in January. The hikes in fresh vegetable prices are the most obvious signs for m ...
  • Mark Ruffalo: There Are More Questions Than Answer ...
    Luke Rudkowski of wearechange.org recently ran into actor, director and producer Mark Ruffalo in the streets of NYC. Related Posts: Explosive Revelations From 9/11 Whistleblower Susan Lindauer on Pre 9/11 Warnings and the Iraq War Dennis Kucinich “Pentagon Is Missing Trillions Of Dollars They Can No ...
  • The Machiavellian States of America?
    Daniel O’Connor Campaign for Liberty Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) was the preeminent political philosopher of his time, whose immeasurable influence still resonates today, perhaps even moreso than ever. His book, The Prince, has remained as a very widely read book throughout the globe for the pas ...

FRS

  • It is a crime to witness felonies and stay silent; ...
    Video by David Swanson How Manning Is Being Treated: http://warisacrime.org/content/how-bradley-manning-really-being-treated Quantico, Virginia (January 17, 2011) – Over 150 concerned citizens risked arrest today at the gates to the Marine Corps base at Quantico in order to protest the inhumane cond ...
  • China: Another Suicide at Foxconn (manufacturer o ...
    [As one observer noted, "with Steve Jobs and Apple in the news so much lately, here is the other side of their business." This article details the latest, and ongoing situation.  The views and proposals made are those of the author.--Frontlines ed. Nationalise Foxconn under workers’ control and mana ...
  • Political Prisoners in India: Jailbreak in Chaibas ...
    [Three Indian news reports follow.--Frontlines ed.] TelegraphIndia KUMUD JENAMANI Jamshedpur, Jan. 17: In a daring wee-hour operation, three hardcore Maoist rebels, under trial for the slaughter of dozens of security personnel in Saranda, made good their escape from Chaibasa Divisional Jail today, t ...
  • Greek communists in solidarity with the Tunisian p ...
    [In this period of worldwide capitalist crisis, the people's resistance is growing even while reactionary nationalism and xenophobia are promoted by bourgeois parties, often taking the form of anti-immigrant attacks, especially in various European countries.  Active internationalist solidarity betwe ...
  • Farmers’ suicide spikes in India
    AlJazeeraEnglish  |   January 11, 2011 Mounting debts, international competition and climate change are all being blamed as the reason for a rising number of Indian farmers who are taking their own lives. Official figures say at least 17,000 farmers committed suicide in 2009. Al Jazeera’s Sohail ...

Ken O'Keefe

  • The Samouni Family Children – Survivors of t ...
    January 12, 2011 is a day I will never forget, visiting the Samouni family could not possibly be anything but a life-changing event.  Words simply cannot describe the devastation wrought upon this family by a marauding band of Israeli psychopaths, otherwise known as the Givati Brigade of the Israeli ...
  • On the verge of Cast Lead II, a look back
    Today our team in Gaza met the Awaja family from Thabat.  There were nine members of this family, seven children aged 1 to 12 years old, but one son was murdered during Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), so seven children is now six.  Today we visited a few days in the life of this family, courtesy [. ...
  • Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – Blocking Ramsey ...
    Egyptian Blockade of Gaza – Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General Of the US but long time enemy of US imperialism is being blocked by Egypt (under US orders) into entering Gaza at this moment. All required protocols were followed on the Egyptian side, but once again Egypt plays its role in collabora ...
  • Egypt Blocking Yet Another Humanitarian Aid Convoy ...
    Right now the Asian Convoy to Gaza is having the same problems with the Egyptian government that virtually every convoy has, including the Road to Hope Convoy (R2H). The corruption of the Egyptian regime and the active role it plays in blockading Gaza, partial though it may be, shames all Arabs, sha ...
  • TJP Liberty Report Gaza – 2nd Anniversary Ca ...

StillSmallVoice

  • Trends! Because crystal balls are keen!
    Cliff sends this, a round-up of trends to watch in the coming year. Among the trends are families moving in together (yikes!) and the effect of the growing prison population on society at large, although it says here that Connecticut's prison population is at a 10-year low (scroll down just a bit). ...
  • Tomorrow is the annivesary of Roe v. Wade
    It's been 38 years since the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the country. (And all Connecticut residents know the importance of the state in this decision, right? With Griswold v. Connecticut?) At Revolution (oooh! Communists!) Bob Avakian writes about the morality of abo ...
  • Michelle Obama kills pedestrians?
    Read this and tell me if I'm reading those first few paragraphs wrong. Evidently, the First Lady's Let's Move program should also include training on looking both ways before crossing the street? Because surely those other factors -- alcohol, distracted drivers -- can't shoulder all the blame. And ...
  • How to argue on Facebook
    Right here. And thanks, Jessie, for the link.
  • There's a metaphor in here somewhere
    See if you can find it. A Christian couple has been fined for turning a gay couple away from their inn. You can read more here.

Associated Content

  • Large Mafia Bust Nets Over 100 Alleged Organized C ...
    Eric Holder announced today that 127 alleged organized crime members have been arrested. This is a huge accomplishment for the Justice Department and shows that the mafia is still active today.Contributor: T.A.W. Published: Jan 20, 2011
  • 'American Idol' Season 10 Premieres, Humor Rules J ...
    The "American Idol" season 10 premiere reveals the show heading in a new direction.Contributor: Ryan Christopher DeVault Published: Jan 20, 2011
  • Carlina White, Kidnapped Missing Child, Finds Pare ...
    The main protagonist in the story, Carlina White, was a 19-day-old child who grew into an inquisitive adult, now 23, who would later discover that she was not adopted as she had been told but had been kidnapped from a New York hospital in 1987...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Jan 20, 2011
  • Kennedy's Inaugural Address -- a Celebration of Am ...
    President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address, delivered 50 years ago, is often remembered for just one phrase: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 20, 2011
  • Anne Hathway Will Be the New Catwoman
    Beating out a number of actresses, Anne Hathaway will be Selina Kyle, also known as the Catwoman, in the third installment of Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" series that takes a dark, morally ambiguous view of Batman.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 20, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • Archive Gallery: Mankind's Fascination With the Mo ...
  • Archive Gallery: Mankind's Eternal Fascination Wit ...
    What's on the moon? Here are the "midget-sun hypothesis," lunar snow, and more wild speculations we made prior to the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 Few things have inspired as much mythology and mystique as the moon. We've credited it with triggering madness, housing deities and rousing werewolves. Eve ...
  • New Nanocomposite Magnets Could Reduce the Demand ...
    A little exchange coupling goes a long way. Rare earth elements are getting a lot of ink these days, as questions about future supply have led to both political and economic tensions, and to a renewed search for rare earth deposits in North America, Australia, and parts of Southeast Asia. But some ...
  • Italian Scientists Claim (Dubious) Cold Fusion Bre ...
    Good science is always rooted in good data, but the most entertaining science is the stuff that transcends the need for data by rooting itself fantastical claims and a rejection of the idea that data is even necessary. So naturally it’s a thrill to learn that two Italian scientists claim to have su ...
  • ESO's "Hidden Treasures" Astrophotography Contest ...
    The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has announced the winners of its Hidden Treasures astrophotography contest. Hidden Treasures asks amateur astronomers with an artistic bent (or artists with an astronomic bent) to take the raw, greyscale data from ESO's archives and do what ESO hires a team o ...

Veterans Today

  • How the Republican Assault on Health Care Could Ba ...
    When it comes to health care, Republicans should be careful what they wish for. By Robert Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley Their vote to repeal the health-care law is largely symbolic â they donât have the votes to override President Obamaâs ...
  • National Guard Suicides Double in 2010
    Hey, General Peter Chiarelli, the suicides must some of that ‘risky behavior‘ done in blatant violation of existing Army policies and standards, you dolt! You ever wish the DoD had listened to Steve Robinson when he told the crats, “The harder and uglier the war is, the more the psychological ...
  • US veterans benefits office, clinic opens in Manil ...
    MANILA, Philippines—The new benefits office in Pasay City of the US Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) will formally open on Monday, according to the US Embassy. By Jerry E. Esplanada at the Philippine Daily Inquirer On Jan. 31, the DVA’s out-patient clinic will also start operating there. The cli ...
  • Dr. Ashraf Ezzat: Egypt to Central Park: We Want C ...
    The Obelisk known as Cleopatra`s needle had stood in the sunny and dry Egyptian desert air for nearly 3000 years and had undergone little damage. In a little more than a century in the climate of New York City, pollution and acid rain have heavily pitted its surfaces.
  • Genetically Modified Foods Endangering Your Life?‏
    Monsanto has a monopoly on the world’s genetically modified crops, owning and controlling approximately 90% of all the GMOs. This poses a huge problem. Via the Board Magazine Because they control the plants and the seeds, outside of their own labs there has been little if any research related to the ...

War is Business

  • A Week’s Worth Of News, Bullet-Pointed
    Big fish Viktor Bout had a fleet of aircraft delivering high-tech weapons around the world. Small fish Anna Fermanova stuffed some night-vision scopes into her luggage.Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, or
  • General Dynamics Makes ‘Things Stop Happenin ...
    Whether or not the new US approach in Afghanistan succeeds, the Abrams deployments are good news for the tanks' manufacturers.Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, or
  • New Security Contracts At US Embassy In Tunis
    Ten days before the revolution, the State Department gave out a $214,000 contract to to install "forced entry/ballistic resistant" upgrades to the embassy in Tunis.Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, or
  • Eisenhower Needs Amy Chua’s Publicist—Plus, ...
    The intrinsic problem with most arms trade journals: "the people they write about are the same people they write for."Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, or
  • Ike, MLK And The Military-Industrial Complex
    Eisenhower and King would doubtless disagree on many, many issues. The danger of unaccountable power accumulating within the military bureaucracy and its private adjuncts was one matter about which they agreed.Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, o ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Met Office: 2010 Globally second warmest on record
    Last week, researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, where temperature records extend back to 1880, announced that global surface temperatures in 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest on record. This was similar to data released by National Oceanic and Atmospheric A ...
  • The Met Office DID forecast a cold winter.
    There's been much in the news over the last week or so, regarding the issue of whether or not the Met Office did forecast a cold winter, and if so was this communicated to the government. You can read one version of events in the Independent newspaper by clicking here. Readers of this blog will kno ...
  • Coal takes the strain...again.
    On BBC Look North on friday I reported that during the recent intense cold weather, it's been our traditional coal and gas fired power stations that have been working flat out to keep our homes and businesses warm. And for the third winter running, the intense cold has gone hand in hand with per ...
  • December 2010 update: Second coldest since 1659
    Met Office provisional figures show that December 2010 with a mean CET temperature of -0.7C was the second coldest since records began in 1659, beaten only by December 1890 which had a mean of -0.8C. The diagram below shows how the month ranks with other cold Decembers, a truly memorable month cli ...
  • First global temperature data published: 1998 stil ...
    The first eagerly awaited data on 2010 global temperatures shows that although it was a very close run thing, 2010 has failed to beat 1998 which still holds the title of hottest year on record. The UAH global temperature satellite data, recorded and compiled by the University of Alabama in the USA ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Max Interest Rate Microlenders Should Charge Is...
    By now, I'm sure you've read all about the controversies over suicides attributed to microlending in Andra Pradesh state in India and government attempts to regulate such lending. Now, a bigwig has waded into the controversy, claiming that many commercial lenders there have not really been faithful ...
  • UK Cabinet Member: EU Agri Subsidies 'Immoral'
    Well, no @#$%. While I agree with the sentiment that spending vast amounts of EU funds on handouts to rich-world farmers--and benefits tend to go to large producers, mind you--is immoral, you do have to consider the context of who's saying so. Among other things:The Conservatives to which Environmen ...
  • Singaporean PM Lee: PRC Revaluation a Win-Win
    Well here's an interesting news item: China's model of authoritarian development is said to be based on the example of Singapore [1, 2]. Whereas Deng Xiaoping's predecessors always derided the minuscule nation-state as some sort of degenerate capitalist roader, his game-changing visit there in the l ...
  • Khodorkovsky, Rule of Law & Russia Joining WTO
    This is yet another entry in the long-running saga of Russian WTO accession [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. I think you know how this story goes: the seemingly arbitrary (re-)incarceration of Vladimir Putin's political foe and onetime oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky bodes ill for Russia's attempts to join the ...
  • Everything's Big in Texas, Including Austerity
    Texans famously have a strong independent streak, hence the bumper sticker "Don't Mess With Texas." A few months ago, Texas Governor Rick Perry famously suggested that, given Washington's continuing profligacy, the state may consider seceding from the union to avoid saddling its future generations w ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Instead Of Using This Period Of Economic Stability ...
    The fact that the official U.S. government unemployment rate has dipped slightly is good news.  However, it is not the "economic turning point" that Barack Obama and others are proclaiming it to be.  Rather, what we are in right now is "the calm before the storm".  The massive amoun ...
  • Which Of The Currencies Of The World Is Going To C ...
    Last year was an absolutely fascinating time for world currency markets.  The yen, the dollar and the euro all took their turns in the spotlight.  Each experienced wild swings at various times, but the overall theme that we saw was that faith in paper currencies is dying.  The bigge ...
  • In The Future You May Not Be Able To Provide The B ...
    Today, millions of American families are extremely stressed out because they are working as hard as they can and yet they find at the end of the month they still haven't been able to pay all of the bills.  Unfortunately, things are only going to get rougher in the years ahead.  The ...
  • Everything Is Falling Apart: 20 Facts That You Wil ...
    If you haven't noticed lately, America is literally falling apart all around us.  Decaying infrastructure is everywhere.  Our roads and bridges are crumbling and are full of holes.  Our rail system is ancient.  Our airports and runways have definitely seen their better days.  Aging ...
  • 12 Economic Collapse Scenarios That We Could Poten ...
    What could cause an economic collapse in 2011? Well, unfortunately there are quite a few "nightmare scenarios" that could plunge the entire globe into another massive financial crisis.  The United States, Japan and most of the nations in Europe are absolutely drowning in debt.  The ...

Infoshop - Alt Media

E U Times

  • US Congress to Take Harder Line on Illegal Immigra ...
    The end of the year means a turnover of House control from Democratic to Republican and, with it, Congress’ approach to immigration. In a matter of weeks, Congress will go from trying to help young, illegal immigrants become legal to debating whether children born to parents who are in the country i ...
  • Over a million immigrants land U.S. jobs in 2008-1 ...
    Over the past two years, as U.S. unemployment remained near double-digit levels and the economy shed jobs in the wake of the financial crisis, over a million foreign-born arrivals to America found work, many illegally. Those are among the findings of a review of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and C ...
  • US House votes to repeal Obama’s health care law
    Swiftly honoring a campaign pledge, newly empowered Republicans pushed legislation to repeal the nation’s year-old health care overhaul through the House Wednesday night, brushing aside implacable opposition in the Senate and a veto threat from President Barack Obama. The 245-189 vote was largely al ...
  • Warmists: ‘We can’t win the game, so let’s change ...
    Willis Eschenbach’s recent guest post at Watts Up With That? on the current state of ‘Climate science’ should be made compulsory reading in every classroom, every university science department, every eco-charity, every environmental NGO and in every branch of government. They won’t like it up ‘em, t ...
  • Mexico announces Bloodiest Year yet in War on Drug ...
    It’s been four years since Mexican President Felipe Calderón began a concerted effort to curb drug-related violence across Mexico, deploying 50,000 federal troops charged with dismantling the country’s drug cartels and drug transportation networks. Much to the chagrin of Calderón, his government’s ...

Voiceless Victim

  • Bill Zeller and others must not die in vain
    The tragedy of Bill Zeller’s lifetime of suffering from the effects of childhood sexual and physical abuse, which finally resulted in his recent suicide has touched people around the world. Bill was obviously a very special person and a great loss to those who knew him, and the rest of the world. Bi ...
  • Please Explain Why Catholic Bishops Get Away with ...
    I read with horror this week that a youth worker in the Northern Territory of Australia is facing charges under mandatory reporting laws. Her crime? While she did eventually report her concern about the possible sexual abuse of a five-year old child, she has been summonsed to appear before a magistr ...
  • “Apostolic Visitation” another Papal P ...
    Will the "apostolic visitation" result in any real, concrete action, or is the Church driven PR resulting from the event an end in itself? Will the Church be held accountable for producing any changes or do they expect the smoke and mirrors of the "apostolic visitation" to obscure the fact that once ...
  • Child Sexual Abuse Victims Abandoned by their Fami ...
    I have discovered a disturbing thing about children abused by Catholic Church sponsored sexual predators. I’ve met a lot of other victims recently and heard their histories, each one shocking in its own way. Each victim has their own twist of the knife that makes their story truly heart wrenching, s ...
  • Catholics Abuse Victims, Protect Criminals and Sti ...
    Which explains why last night when a small group of clergy sexual abuse victims held a peaceful candlelight vigil near the chief Australian monument to Catholic wealth and power, St Mary’s Cathedral, despite otherwise overwhelming public support, some old Catholic women loudly and viciously abused u ...

WL Central

  • 2011-01-07 EFF: The Best of Cablegate: Instances W ...
    TweetEFF has chosen the cables they feel have "been critical to understanding and evaluating controversial events." Their choices: “Dancing Boy” Scandal Alleges Child Prostitution, Possible Drug Use among U.S. Private Contractors Pfizer Allegedly Sought to Blackmail Nigerian Regulator to Stop Lawsu ...
  • Twitter Details & Messages of Birgitta Jónsdóttir ...
    TweetThe US Department of Justice has issued a subpoena on Twitter for material related to Birgitta Jónsdóttir, including her personal details and, it can be assumed, all her private direct messages. Ms Jónsdóttir twittered thus: department of justice are requesting twitter to provide the info - i ...
  • 2011-01-08: Peter King: Zeal of Hypocrites
    TweetA month ago, on the 7th of December, a week after Peter King made his controversial Wikileaks Is Terrorism" comments, I posted this rather lengthy article to my blog, and linked to it from WL Central, documenting both King's hypocrisy and the possible motives he might have for taking such a rad ...
  • 2011-01-08: U.S. DOJ Twitter Subpoena Updates
    TweetShortly after news of the subpoena issued to Twitter by the The U.S. Department of Justice emerged, an electronic copy of the subpoena surfaced and was, of course, circulated via Twitter. (A copy of the subpoena can be found here in pdf format.) Birgitta Jónsdóttir, one of 63 members of Iceland ...
  • 2011-01-08: Twitter on censorship: No censorship o ...
    TweetIt was December 14 when Twitter first received the sealed order to turn over information on several of its users. Twitter could simply have provided the information requested, instead of acting, on January 5, to have the order unsealed. The unsealing of the subpoena allowed the Twitter users in ...

U N News

  • UN human rights chief voices concern over migrants ...
    The United Nations human rights chief today voiced deep concern over the fate of a group of about 40 migrants who have been missing since they were abducted in Mexico last month, and death threats to a prominent human rights defender assisting other migrants who escaped the kidnapping ordeal.
  • Haiti must respect international mission's elector ...
    Haiti's electoral council must take full account of an international mission's findings, reportedly eliminating the Government candidate from the presidential run-off, or face the prospect of considerable unrest, the United Nations peacekeeping chief warned today.
  • UN independent human rights expert urges support f ...
    Noting the pending legal proceedings against Jean-Claude Duvalier, the former Haitian leader who returned to his home country earlier this week, the United Nations independent expert on human rights in Haiti today urged the international community to "allow justice to take its course" in the Caribbe ...
  • Former Haitian leader's return raises impunity iss ...
    The return to Haiti of former Haitian leader Jean Claude Duvalier clearly raises issues of impunity and accountability, the United Nations human rights office said today, adding that it was looking into the matter.
  • Haiti's recovery multi-year effort, UN humanitaria ...
    The relief effort after Haiti's devastating earthquake a year ago has helped millions of people, but a multi-year initiative with full international support is crucial to put the country on its feet, the top United Nations humanitarian official warned today.

    Blacklisted News

  • China devalues US buying power by 30%, Protects US ...
    The trade imbalance between the US and China, a hot button between the nations for the last decade or so, is finally going to start to stabilize in the summer of 2011.� However, it is doing so with a de facto devaluation of the US dollar and its buying power.� The average American will see a spike i ...
  • Coporate Media FAILS to Report Facts Of Giffords S ...
    The corporate media has attempted, with absolutely no evidence, to blame the Tucson shooting on right wing extremists and 9/11“truthers.” Instead of doing their job, these government talking heads have accepted the official story and worked tirelessly to spread the government line.
  • Massive 235ft rocket carrying a secret spy satelli ...
  • Lockheed Gets Big Bucks to Prep Soldiers for Urban ...
    American soldiers spent seven years patrolling the urban neighborhoods of Iraq; its troops battled insurgents there block-by-block and house-by-house. Now that the Army is getting out of Iraq, it wants to make sure its urban combat skills don’t wither away. So it today it gave Lockheed Martin a cont ...
  • Path Is Sought for States to Escape Debt Burdens
    Policy makers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • A time not for celebrating victory over Iran
    Summary: The international controversy over Iran’s nuclear program simply boils down to this unverified assumption that Iran is determined to produce nuclear bombs. However, no one among Western politicians seems to want to consider this plausible argument that the fact that Iran has not yet de ...
  • While You Were Reading About Ukrainian Nurses …
    Summary: Real news was buried in WikiLeaks -- like this revealing cable on Iran's nuclear ambitions. source: Foreign Policy Magazineread more
  • The Istanbul Negotiations and the Necessity of a N ...
    Summary: Nabi SonboliInstead of a currently failed containment strategy, transatlantic partners need to change their approach and follow a strategy based on dialogue about common interests and values toward Iran. Decreasing tensions, removing sanctions, organizing bilateral and multilateral dial ...
  • Iran and International Organizations in 2010
    Summary: Although international organizations have been of special importance to Iran’s foreign policy over the past 120 years, it has been more so in 2010 as it was a year for major interactions and challenges between Iran and these organizations. source: Iran Reviewread more
  • Turkey's FM says atmosphere "positive" ahead of Ir ...
    Summary: DavutogluTurkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said that the psychological milieu seemed very positive ahead of the nuclear talks between p5+1 countries and Iran in Istanbul. source: World Bulletinread more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Is the Surging Yellowstone Caldera -the World's La ...
    With some 80% of airports in Europe shut down last summer due to the lingering ash cloud created by Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano, we thought it would pay to take an updated look at the possibility of the world's most massive...
  • 'The Daily Galaxy' January Contest -Win a Free $50 ...
    Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...
  • From the 'X Files' Dept: NASA Moon-Heist Movie to ...
    "Here’s one of those stories of outrageous theft that sounds too great to be true. Except that it is true, and full of all the things that make for a great narrative: hope, dreams, criminal activity, and pieces of the...
  • The Daily Flash: Sci, Space, Tech (1/19)
    New Study Finds No Sign of ‘First Habitable Exoplanet’ Things don’t look good for Gliese 581g, the first planet found orbiting in the habitable zone of another star. The first official challenge to the small, hospitable world looks in the...
  • New Discovery: Hidden Supermassive Black Holes of ...
    Astronomers have long suspected that the chief contributors to this cosmic X-ray background were dust-swaddled black holes at the centers of active but undetected galaxies. Now, an international team of scientists using data from NASA's Swift satellite confirms the existence...

Natural News

  • The downfall of science and the rise of intellectu ...
    (NaturalNews) The very reputation of so-called "science" has been irreparably damaged by the invocation of the term "science" by GMO lackeys, pesticide pushers, mercury advocates and fluoride poisoners who all claim to have science on their side. It seems that every toxin, contamination and chemical ...
  • J&J recalls 50 million more drugs on top of 200 mi ...
    (NaturalNews) Just when it seemed like the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) recall saga had come to a close, the company announced yet another recall that includes nearly 50 million units of Tylenol, Benadryl, Rolaids, Sudafed and Sinutab. According to the official press release from McNeil Consumer Health ...
  • Natural gas drilling responsible for causing flamm ...
    (NaturalNews) Natural gas drilling operations are springing up both in the U.S. and the U.K., but opponents say that the industry is destroying groundwater and very seriously polluting the environment. After some residents living near natural gas drilling operations began noticing that their tap wat ...
  • ProAlgaZyme is an algae infusion of plant-structur ...
    (NaturalNews) One of the simple truths of superior health is that water from plants is healthier than tap water or "processed water." Plants structure the water, arranging molecules into a life-supporting pattern that's far more complex and advanced than simple H2O. This is one of the reasons why ju ...
  • Study: Prevent high blood pressure by eating blueb ...
    (NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Harvard University have discovered that eating blueberries helps to prevent the development of high blood pressure. According to their report, which will be published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, eating at least ...

Threat Level

  • Parents Sue Expert Witness Who Made Fake Child-Por ...
    An Ohio lawyer who serves as an expert witness in child pornography cases might be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil damages for Photoshopping courtroom exhibits of children having sex. Attorney Dean Boland purchased innocent pictures of four juvenile girls from a Canadian st ...
  • Claim: WikiLeaks Published Documents Siphoned Over ...
    Music and movie pirates may not be the only ones trolling peer-to-peer networks for booty. The secret-spilling site WikiLeaks may also have used file sharing networks to obtain some of the documents it has published, according to a computer-security firm. The allegations come from Tiversa, a Pennsy ...
  • Supreme Court Upholds Intrusive Government Backgro ...
    The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that U.S. government contractors must undergo the same background checks as federal employees. A lower court had declared the checks an unconstitutional “broad inquisition” when applied to the contractors. The challenged background investigations sought ...
  • Father-Son Spy Drama Ends With Dad’s 8-Year Senten ...
    A disgraced CIA agent serving 23 years for being a Russian spy was handed eight more years Tuesday for hiring his son to collect overdue bills linked to the father’s nefarious espionage activities. The 59-year-old father, Harold Nicholson, had enlisted his now-26-year-old son, the youngest of three ...
  • Two Charged in AT&T Hack of iPad Customer Data
    Two suspects have been charged with federal crimes for allegedly hacking AT&T’s website last year to obtain the personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners. Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco, Calif., was charged in New Jersey on Tuesday with one count of identity fraud and one count of conspi ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • New Civility Short-Lived in Health Care Debate
    In the run-up to Wednesday's vote by House Republicans to undo the Affordable Care Act, the McClatchy papers asked, "Will it last? Health care repeal debate takes on civil tone." The answer, of course, was no. The Republican Party that brought America bogus charges of "death panels," the "governme ...
  • The Republican Patients' Bill of Wrongs
    On Wednesday, House Republicans will keep half of their grandstanding promise to "repeal and replace" the 2010 health care reform law. But the easy part ends there. As the Washington Post explains, GOP leaders are still far offering anything to replace the Affordable Care Act they hope to kill in ...
  • Republicans Shelby, Paul Call for Over $1 Trillion ...
    In the run-up to November's midterm elections, David Leonhardt of the New York Times presciently warned, "In their Pledge to America, Congressional Republicans have used the old trick of promising specific tax cuts and vague spending cuts," adding, "It's the politically easy approach, and it is like ...
  • GOP Hypocrites Creating Uncertainty over Debt and ...
    For years, Republicans have deployed the word "uncertainty" to stymie any public policy with which they disagreed. A decade after President Bush declared "scientific uncertainties remain" about global warming, virtually the entire Congressional Republican caucus has proudly joined the deniers' camp ...
  • Christ-like Tom Delay Refuses to Turn the Other Ch ...
    On the day of his booking on conspiracy and money laundering charges five years ago, convicted felon and former House Majority Leader Tom Delay proclaimed, "Let people see Christ through me." Apparently, Delay's Jesus didn't believe in turning the other cheek, but instead accused the Romans of "cri ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • The Great Tax Cut Debate - Myths and Facts
    In the lame-duck Congress agenda, perhaps the most substantive debate is over whether to continue tax breaks for the rich. President Obama and most Congressional Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans, everyone making under $250,000. Republicans want to extend the tax ...
  • What Landslide?: A Closer Look at the Midterm Elec ...
    By now, everyone has heard of the conservative "tidal wave" that has overtaken Congress and most gubernatorial seats throughout the U.S. Indeed, anyone who has watched mainstream media coverage probably understands the midterm election results as a "rebuke of Obama's policies," with the "Tea Party m ...
  • INS Targets Community Leaders, Not Criminals
    When people the world over think of Arizona nowadays, they generally think of Governor Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe Arpaio or state representative Russell Pearce – the poster children of the state's move toward legalized discrimination and racial profiling. If they are closely following the politics of t ...
  • Dancing with Dynamite:How Citizens Can be More Tha ...
    Two years ago, President Obama sailed into the White House on the winds of voters’ desire for widespread social change and their disgust with two wars and a massive recession associated with George W. Bush. Only two years into his presidency and the concurrent Democratic takeover of Congress, howeve ...
  • Pope Says Condoms Acceptable 'In Certain Cases'
    Until now, the Vatican had prohibited the use of any form of contraception -- other than abstinence -- even as a guard against sexually transmitted disease.

Consortium News

  • China's Hu Arrives to Look Around
    China's President Hu Jintao visits the U.S. with a look of a banker checking in on a struggling client, reports Danny Schechter. January 18, 2011
  • Getting Out of Iraq Before More Strife
    Any delay in the U.S. departure from Iraq risks American troops getting caught up in more fighting, warns Ivan Eland. January 18, 2011
  • Troubled History of the Hariri Probe
    A UN tribunal thinks it's finally solved the murder of Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri, but its record has been spotty, says Robert Parry. January 17, 2011
  • Eisenhower's Understated Warning
    Fifty years ago, President Eisenhower warned of the "military-industrial complex," but it turned out worse, writes Gareth Porter. January 17, 2011
  • Twisting MLK's Message of Peace
    A U.S. official claims Martin Luther King would have supported today's war against "terrorists," but William Loren Katz disagrees. January 17, 2011

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Public Citizen in Texas

  • Dumping on Texas for Fun and Profit
    SPECIAL GUEST COLUMN FROM JIM HIGHTOWER Originally posted at http://www.jimhightower.com/ Thank you, California. And you, too, Florida, Maine, Missouri, and the 32 other states that intend to send a very special gift to Texas â namely, their radioactive waste. Now there’s a gift that truly keeps on ...
  • Competitive Power “Advocates” launches new website ...
    The industry group, Texas Competitive Power Advocates, today unveiled its spiffed-up new website to help drive its message in support of choice in the retail electric market. In addition to advocacy information, the site provides links to state and local government regulatory agencies, the major new ...
  • Texas’ 82nd Legislature – a bumpy ride?
    The Texas Legislature opened its 2011 session yesterday amid a great deal of fanfare, but little substance at this point.  However, we can expect more interesting things to happen starting today when the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission makes their legislative recommendations for such controvercial ...
  • STP license renewal – Opportunity for public parti ...
    On January 13th, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced the opportunity to request a hearing on an application to renew the operating licenses for the South Texas Project (STP) Units 1 and 2 which will expire on Aug. 20, 2027, and Dec. 15, 2028, respectively. South Texas Project Nuclear O ...
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Unexplained Mysteries

  • Pterosaur fossil found with preserved egg
    An ancient female pterosaur fossil has been found in China alongside one of its own eggs. The discovery of the egg indicated that the pterosaur was fe...
  • Snake and scorpion wine on sale
    A village in Vietnam is producing bottles of wine containing cobra snakes and scorpions. The wines are being shipped worldwide and are said to be a na...
  • Two new geoglyphs found in Nazca
    Scientists have identified two new geoglpyhs of a human head and an animal in Nazca, Peru. Situated close to the Nazca Lines the new geoglyphs are tho...
  • Tomb of Caligula discovered
    The lost tomb of the Roman emperor Caligula has been found at Lake Nemi, south of Rome. Italian police reported finding the site after catching someon...
  • Sharks found to be colourblind
    New research in to sharks has revealed that they are completely unable to see colours. This means that divers wearing light-coloured swimsuits are les...

Grassroots

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    Subheadline:� Planning for disaster is part of responsible development river-haiti.jpg Those living on the margins have very little wiggle room for survival even in good times.�But ...
  • Gaza: Stories of Strength amid Assault and Siege
    3407229255_9879b60da3_b.jpg �Year before last, I was sitting in the living room of my childhood home sharing a cup of morning coffee with my mother and musing over the holidays. We laughed over kitschy Christmas gifts from well-meaning relativ ...
  • Petitioning the Israeli High Court for Justice
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  • Panda diplomacy: the remix
    The latest chapter of panda diplomacy was written at the National Zoo, where the Chinese government agreed to lengthen the "loan" of popular panda pair Mei Xiang and Tian Tian for another five years. Does Washington love them because they look like babies?
  • Musharraf’s Kashmir deal, mirage or oasis?
    Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf gives his views on a roadmap for peace in Kashmir which he agreed with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
  • Washington flatfooted by return of Haiti’s & ...
    Haiti's infamous "Baby Doc", Jean Claude Duvalier, made a surprise reappearance in his homeland this weekend, and Washington's planners had less than an hour to prepare.
  • Anyone here been to Pakistan and speaks English?
    Do the Americans understand Pakistan? If not, their entire strategy on Afghanistan and Pakistan may be doomed to failure.
  • Vietnam’s Capitalist Roaders
    Vietnam's ruling communists opened an eight-day party congress on Wednesday with a candid admission the fast-growing economy had become unstable.

Booman Tribune

  • Stupid Attack of the Day
    This is not quite in Vince Foster territory but it's getting close. Apparently, Michelle Obama is responsible for a slight uptick in pedestrian deaths. It's all part of her anti-obesity campaign. By getting more people to walk to work, she's putting more people at risk of being run over by a car. ...
  • Crazy Republicans
    Steve Benen looks at the serious thinking being done by the Republican policy shop. The Republican Study Committee has quite a laundry list in mind. These folks actually map out cutting $2.5 trillion from the budget without touching Social Security, Medicare, or even a single penny of Pentagon ...
  • Time to Go Bold
    I'm generally supportive of Obama's preference for pragmatic progressivism, and I don't mind too much that he's positioned himself in the center of the Democratic Party. The leader of the party must take into account the needs and desires of all parts of the party. In any case, how do you deal wit ...
  • Your iPhone may be killing people
    One big reason why multinational firms send jobs, particularly manufacturing jobs, overseas is to avoid US worker safety and environmental laws. Many of us remember the Bhopal tragedy in India in which as many as 15,000 people died from a poisonous gas release at a plant run by Union Carbide, due i ...
  • How Long Must This Joke Go On?
    I suppose that House Republicans had no choice but to pass a repeal of health care reform after all their crazed rhetoric on the campaign trail. But I wonder how far they are willing to go to mess with the implementation over the next two years. I know that Nancy Pelosi's House passed hundreds of ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 24
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • Arguments against life extension
    Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
  • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
    Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
  • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
    Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
  • How to be a futurist
    The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Follow F ...

Therapy News

  • Breast Cancer and Mental Health
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Any life-threatening disease is bound to have both immediate and long-term impacts on the way a person sees the world. On one hand, it’s a reminder to cherish every day you have with loved ones—to not let precious moments go by unsavored. A serious disease can also mak ...
  • For Our Readers in Alaska, the Yukon, and Other In ...
    By Mary Ellen Barnes, Ph.D. & Ed Wilson, Ph.D., MAC, Drug & Alcohol Addiction Topic Expert Contributors Click here to contact Mary Ellen and/or see her Profile Click here to contact Ed and/or see his Profile Over 25 years of living in ruralAlaska (“The Bush” – Aniak, Pt. Hope, Rampart, Seward, Kod ...
  • After Natural Disasters, Getting Kids into Counsel ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline When children experience natural disasters such as hurricanes, it’s essential to get them into counseling or therapy sooner rather than later, concludes a new study from the University of Miami. Kids, more than adults, are especially prone to PTSD after such events, a ...
  • Transitioning Back to Work After the Baby: Tips fo ...
    By Andrea Schneider, LCSW Postpartum Depression Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Andrea and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile âThe phrase âworking motherâ is redundant.â Jane Sellman âMaking the decision to have a child-It’s momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go wa ...
  • Change Your Mind, Change Your Life
    By Kelly Chicas, LPCC, NCC, CRS, Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kelly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile What is happiness? If you are thinking of changing your life for the better, one way is start identifying your goals. What version of happiness or wel ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Rally for Coal pushes back against EPA - Charlesto ...
    Daily Yonder Rally for Coal pushes back against EPA Charleston Gazette 1 permit for a new mountaintop removal mine planned by Arch Coal. About 80 opponents of mountaintop removal also showed up. Acting Gov. ... Rally set for coal industry ThursdayDaily Mail - Charleston Friday Roundup: Rally for Co ...
  • Judge allows mountaintop removal lawsuit to procee ...
    Environment News Service Judge allows mountaintop removal lawsuit to proceed SteelGuru ... has ruled in a preliminary decision that mining companies can proceed with their challenge to US EPA's new policies on mountaintop-removal coal mining. ... Judge Sides With Coal Industry Against EPA Clean Wat ...
  • EPA was right to revoke mountaintop removal mine p ...
    OnEarth Magazine (blog) EPA was right to revoke mountaintop removal mine permit Daily Athenaeum AP Larry Gibson, an environmental activist against mountaintop removal, holds a photo in protest at a rally for coal Thursday at the Capitol in Charleston, ... REPORT: Environmental Impact of Mountaintop ...
  • Asheville Loves Mountains: Music to end mountainto ...
    Asheville Loves Mountains: Music to end mountaintop removal mining Mountain Xpress (blog) As we speak, millions of tons of explosives are being detonated in the Appalachian Mountains to mine coal via mountaintop removal, a devastating practice in ...
  • EDITORIAL: State should stand firm on mountaintop- ...
    EDITORIAL: State should stand firm on mountaintop-removal mining istockAnalyst.com (press release) Bill Haslam and the Legislature will have to consider during the next four years will be mountaintop-removal mining for coal. The practice of blasting the ...

Memeorandum

  • Everything starts with repeal (Charles Krauthammer ...
    Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post: Everything starts with repeal  —  Suppose someone - say, the president of United States - proposed the following: We are drowning in debt.  More than $14 trillion right now.  I've got a great idea for deficit reduction.  It will yield a savings of $230 billion ...
  • Poll Finds Wariness About Cutting Entitlements (Ne ...
    New York Times: Poll Finds Wariness About Cutting Entitlements  —  As President Obama and Congress brace to battle over how to reduce chronic annual budget deficits, Americans overwhelmingly say that in general they prefer cutting government spending to paying higher taxes, according to the latest ...
  • Are We In Bill Clinton's Third Term? (Jason Matter ...
    Jason Mattera / Human Events: Are We In Bill Clinton's Third Term?  —  Jacob Lew was tapped by Barack Obama last July to lead the Office of Management & Budget.  Most recently, William Daley accepted a request to serve as BHO's chief of staff.  —  Both Lew and Daley also had prominent positions wi ...
  • GE's Immelt to Head New White House Jobs Panel (La ...
    Laura Meckler / Wall Street Journal: GE's Immelt to Head New White House Jobs Panel  —  WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama will announce Friday that Jeffrey Immelt, chief executive of General Electric Co., will head a new White House board aimed at finding ways to foster private-sector job growth.
  • President serving 'third term' of Clinton White Ho ...
    Michael O'Brien / The Hill: President serving ‘third term’ of Clinton White House, says Gingrich  —  President Obama is acting out a kind of “third term” of the Clinton administration, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said.  —  Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker who sparred with Pres ...

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China Dialogue

  • For Brand, a new shade of green
    American “techno-hippy” Stewart Brand says a shift to nuclear power and genetically modified foods is needed to address global warming. He explains his controversial change of position to Damian Carrington.Stewart Brand appears to have squeezed many lives into his 71 years and defies easy categorisa ...
  • Soot strategies
    As the power of black carbon to accelerate ice-melt becomes clearer, climate-change policymakers are giving more time to this long overlooked pollutant. Jenny Johnson reports.Global efforts to mitigate climate change are beginning to take aim at a once-obscure pollutant called “black carbon” in a sh ...
  • Failure to engage
    As the Year of the Tiger draws to an end, Meng Si reviews its key environmental events and awards China poor marks for public participation.On the last day of December, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection rejected a request from non-profit group Chongqing Green Volunteers for a re-examinati ...
  • A new era for Tibet’s rivers
    Construction of a massive dam on the Yarlung Zangbo marks a turning point for Tibet, write He Haining and Jiang Yannan. A development boom is coming.The rushing waters of the Yarlung Zangbo, the last of China’s great rivers to remain undammed, will soon be history. On November 12 last year, the buil ...
  • Cleantech's dirty fight
    As trade tensions escalate between America and China, reckless policies on clean technology are stoking the flames – at everyone’s expense, writes Yuhan Zhang.The United States and China have cooperated with each other on clean technology for years. The two powers jointly conduct low-carbon research ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Former Navy chaplain claims that homosexuality can ...
    If you give some members of the religious right a voice and enough room, they tend to make themselves look like fools. And it’s shaping up that David Pakman  is becoming an expert on this. Pakman, who has interviewed such “luminaries as Peter LaBarbera, Paul Cameron, and Bryan Fischer, has just add ...
  • Priebus' Republican National Committee: A Wholly O ...
    The new RNC chair Reince Priebus, implicated in Americans for Prosperity's voter-caging scandal, carried a lot of water for the Koch-led group in Wisconsin. Now he's rewarded.
  • “16 And Pregnant†P ...
    MTV's reality show paints a dire picture for girls who get pregnant in high school. But new research disproves teen mom stereotypes and even predicts some positive outcomes.
  • Big Coal’s Rally of Denial: Defiant Coalfiel ...
    Besieged citizens from the central Appalachian coalfields faced down Acting West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and a large crowd of Big Coal lobbyists and inflamed coal miners at a rally inside the state capitol with their own solemn march on the mounting health care crisis from mountaintop removal ...
  • How We've Proved the "Tragedy of the Commons& ...
    If we are to somehow ward off the coming catastrophes, we have to figure out how to cooperatively own and protect the single most important feature of our planet.

Threat Level

  • Parents Sue Expert Witness Who Made Fake Child-Por ...
    An Ohio lawyer who serves as an expert witness in child pornography cases might be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in civil damages for Photoshopping courtroom exhibits of children having sex. Attorney Dean Boland purchased innocent pictures of four juvenile girls from a Canadian st ...
  • Claim: WikiLeaks Published Documents Siphoned Over ...
    Music and movie pirates may not be the only ones trolling peer-to-peer networks for booty. The secret-spilling site WikiLeaks may also have used file sharing networks to obtain some of the documents it has published, according to a computer-security firm. The allegations come from Tiversa, a Pennsy ...
  • Supreme Court Upholds Intrusive Government Backgro ...
    The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that U.S. government contractors must undergo the same background checks as federal employees. A lower court had declared the checks an unconstitutional “broad inquisition” when applied to the contractors. The challenged background investigations sought ...
  • Father-Son Spy Drama Ends With Dad’s 8-Year Senten ...
    A disgraced CIA agent serving 23 years for being a Russian spy was handed eight more years Tuesday for hiring his son to collect overdue bills linked to the father’s nefarious espionage activities. The 59-year-old father, Harold Nicholson, had enlisted his now-26-year-old son, the youngest of three ...
  • Two Charged in AT&T Hack of iPad Customer Data
    Two suspects have been charged with federal crimes for allegedly hacking AT&T’s website last year to obtain the personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners. Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco, Calif., was charged in New Jersey on Tuesday with one count of identity fraud and one count of conspi ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • BofA posts loss on mortgage problems
    CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp, the largest U.S. bank by assets, reported a second straight quarterly loss as mortgage woes continue to saddle the bank with billions in problem home loans.
  • U.S. arrests 119 in biggest Mafia bust
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Authorities arrested 119 organized crime suspects on Thursday in what the FBI called the largest single-day operation against the Mafia in history.
  • U.S. warns China on North Korea
    SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States warned China that it would redeploy forces in Asia if it failed to rein in its ally North Korea, the New York Times reported on Friday, as Pyongyang bowed to pressure and agreed to crisis talks.
  • PREVIEW-BofA 4th quarter results clouded by charge ...
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  • Google co-founder Page takes over, targets Faceboo ...
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc co-founder Larry Page will take over as CEO from Eric Schmidt, a surprise move to make the company more nimble at a time when competition heats up with fast-growing rivals like Facebook.

IntelNews

  • US paying ‘price in blood’ for Israel-Palestine co ...
    Two former CIA officers have warned that America will continue âpaying an increasing price in bloodâ for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and urged the White House to directly meddle in domestic Israeli politics in order to help end the dispute. Continue reading →
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    Blackwater still working for US despite denials. CIA gets spooky with new radio commercials. Iranian shah's son found dead in Boston. Continue reading →
  • Ex-CIA agent and anti-Castro militant on trial in ...
    A former CIA agent and militant anticommunist, who is idolized by Americaâs anti-Castro Cubans, but is considered a terrorist in parts of Latin America, has gone on trial in Texas. Continue reading →
  • Breaking News: Tunisian security officials arreste ...
    Several key figures in Tunisiaâs crumbling security apparatus have being either apprehended or killed, amid fears that they were planning a countercoup against the new government. Continue reading →
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    Vulture not a Zionist spy after all, declare Saudis. Germany jails two Libyans for spying. Russian aide accused of spying to remain in UK until October. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • Yet Another Poll Mistakenly Asks the Right Questio ...
    From CBS: Pollsters asked Americans which of three programs - the military, Medicare and Social Security - they would be willing to change to cut government spending. The military was by far the top choice, cited by 55 percent. Twenty-one percent cited Medicare, and 13 percent Social Security. Asked ...
  • Tony bLIAR Round-Up
    The Telegraph has posted video of Tony Blair admitting that he lied to Parliament on legality of attacking Iraq, explaining that his statement was not legal but political (whatever that means). BTW, Isn't the whole problem with this so-called Inquiry that it is political rather than legal? Wall S ...
  • US was Cheerleader for Massacre
    Wikileaks Cables on Israel's Gaza Onslaught By KATHLEEN CHRISTISON, CounterPunch CounterPunch has accessed Wikileaks’ file of cables on Israel’s Gaza assault two years ago (Operation Cast Lead, December 27, 2008 through January 18, 2009). Though the cables often simply rehash Israeli press reporti ...
  • England, Canada, and Poland Today Pursuing Account ...
    Canada is investigating its war crimes in the US-led war on Afghanistan. Poland is investigating its role in lawless US imprisonment and torture. And Tony Blair is being questioned yet again in London about why exactly he parroted George W. Bush's Iraq War lies. Meanwhile, Dick Cheney is thanking Ob ...
  • Effects of Deployments on Military Families
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  • 2010 warmest ever year, says U.N. weather agency
    by Agence France-Presse. GENEVA -- The U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization said Thursday that 2010 was the warmest year on record, confirming a "significant" long-term trend of global warming and producing exceptional weather variations. The trend also helped to melt Arctic sea ice cover t ...
  • Apple under fire for pollution and poisoned Chines ...
    by Agence France-Presse. SHANGHAI -- Chinese environmental groups on Thursday singled out Apple for failing to tackle concerns over pollution and the health of workers at plants making parts for trendy gadgets such as its iPhone. In a new report, the groups said the U.S. giant ranked last in a ...
  • Mitsubishi launching eight green cars by 2016
    by Agence France-Presse. TOKYO -- Japan's Mitsubishi Motors said Thursday it would launch a new lineup of environmentally friendly cars by March 2016 and double operating profit in the next three years by focusing on emerging markets. Mitsubishi will launch a total of eight electric vehicles an ...
  • Obama says U.S. and China share climate goals
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Chinese President Hu Jintao agreed with him on the need to fight climate change by moving ahead in international negotiations. Meeting with Hu at the White House, Obama touched on last month's accord in Cancun, M ...
  • Obama admin creates new agencies for oil oversight
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Three separate bodies will now oversee offshore oil resources, once handled by an agency whose poor management was exposed after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, U.S. officials announced Wednesday. President Barack Obama had promised to overhaul the Minerals ...

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Farming Pathogens

  • The Scientific American
    Science is the business right now. If the science works, the business works, and vice versa. –Craig Venter Bird flu marinates a chicken in its own juices, a satay best avoided whatever the menu special. In such short an order better for the bistro than the barn, infected birds rapidly bleed from the ...
  • Fearful Symmetry
    A colleague, genuinely perplexed, even outraged, asked me what the fuck was going on with all those dead birds in Arkansas. And, tongue-in-cheek, what would Mulder and Scully say? Scully: Mulder, it’s me. I got your message. Really, Beebe, Arkansas for a flock of dead birds? Does Skinner approve? Mu ...
  • The Great Recession Flu
    Swine flu is so 2009. Like La Roux and v-neck t-shirts. And yet the United Kingdom is presently suffering a swine flu attack worse than anything it faced in 2009. The number of flu patients in intensive care has risen by 60 per cent in the past week to 738, four times greater than at [...]
  • Alien vs. Predator
    Dallas: [looks at a pen being dissolved by alien's body fluid] I haven’t seen anything like that except, uh, molecular acid. Brett: It must be using it for blood. Parker: It’s got a wonderful defense mechanism. You don’t dare kill it. –Alien (1979) NASA announced earlier this month one of its resear ...
  • That’s the Thicke
    The logistics of a just, equitable and healthy agricultural landscape here in the United States would remain a problem if Michael Pollan himself, Wendell Berry, or better yet Fred Magdoff were appointed Secretary of Agriculture. Decades-long efforts pealing back agribusiness both as paradigm and inf ...

Suzie-Q

  • Thanks to Socialized Medicine, Dick Cheney Is Stil ...
    Question for the tea party and everyone who voted for tea party Republicans in November: Did you enjoy your purely cosmetic vote to repeal the health care reform law? Personally, I would feel pandered to, and not particularly satisfied with all of that fiscally expensive congressional time being was ...
  • Kennedy’s Speeches Revisited
    As good as Kennedy’s inaugural was, the speeches that define him historically were given within just over 50 hours in June 1963, one of them prepared secretly over months, the other practically ad-libbed. JFK’s Eloquence, 50 Years Later E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Truthdig | Posted on Jan 19, 2011 It’s remem ...
  • Tougher Gun Laws?
    Poll: Majority Of Americans, Including Gun Owners, Support Tougher Restrictions Huff Post- Amanda Terkel First Posted: 01/18/11 09:07 AM Updated: 01/18/11 09:47 AM WASHINGTON — Despite powerful lobbying against any new gun-control measures by groups like the National Rifle Association, a new bipart ...
  • We Must Have This Discussion
    As unpleasant as it is to inject political history into a discussion surrounding the tragedy that is becoming known as the Tea Party Massacre (the term itself is, of course, a political injection,) I think that is is something that we should do. Something we MUST do. As you might have guessed by the ...
  • Obama Arizona Speech: FULL TEXT
    Obama Arizona Speech: ‘I Want America To Be As Good As She Imagined It’ The Huffington Post/AP First Posted: 01/12/11 07:00 PM Updated: 01/12/11 09:40 PM TUCSON, Ariz. â Summoning the soul of a nation, President Barack Obama on Wednesday implored Americans to honor those slain and injured in the Ar ...

Solari

  • Quote du Jour
    “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Beauty Will Save the World
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn It is vain to affirm that which the heart does not confirm. In contrast, a work of art bears within itself its own confirmation: concepts which are manufactured out of whole cloth or overstrained will not stand up to being tested in images, will somehow fall apart and turn ...
  • Guess Which Major Commodity Has Performed The Wors ...
    By Gregory White Since quantitative easing 2 really kicked off in early September, one major commodity has lagged the broader market. Surprise, it’s gold. And now, with all the talk of inflation striking China, India, and even the United States, you would think the great inflation hedge would be set ...
  • Space, The Financial Frontier
    From tourist trips to the edge of the atmosphere to satellite companies propelling products into the ether, the galactic gold rush is on. And now private firms are making millions from Nasa, says Jerome Taylor On 8 December at 10.42am local time, a sleek white rocket with the word “SpaceX” emblazon ...
  • Southern Europeans Are Not Lazy!
    By Gregory White While the presumption may be that southern members of the eurozone are lazy, the evidence suggests otherwise, according to Societe Generale. This chart shows the gaps in labor utilization and labor productivity eurozone members need to make up to catch up to U.S. GDP per capita. The ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri Lanka Gu ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

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Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become obsol ...

Fabius Maximus

  • More jobs, bought at a dear cost (to be paid for i ...
    Summary:    The US economy continues its slow “recovery.”  It’s not an organic recovery, as it results from three years of massive fiscal and monetary stimulus — powerful medicine, with serious side-effects (to be felt in the future).  Lost in our delusions, we confuse this with actual health. ...
  • We were participants in one of the great battles o ...
    Summary:  Some of the “great battles” were nothing of the kind.  This is easily seen by comparing them with a truly great battle, one that looks to have decisive effects:  9-11. For centuries western historians described the Battle of Tours (aka Poitiers) as one of the world’s decisive battles. ...
  • For the holiday season, here are some comforting t ...
    Summary:  As the sky darkens over America we find comfort in logical but incorrect beliefs, ignoring the horrifying nature of our core problem.  Here are two comforting examples. (1)  Our leaders have bad advisors In both national security and economics we have well-funded think-tanks advocating ...
  • Second thoughts by 2 major boosters of the Af-Pak ...
    Summary:   Guest author Bernard Finel discusses yet another think-tank report giving prescriptions for the Af-Pak War.  But this one is a surprise, a serious walk-back by one of the powerful institutional advocates of our foreign wars.  Perhaps they’re cutting their losses and gearing up for t ...
  • The insight that must precede reform of America: t ...
    Summary:  The last few weeks have produced news confirming that the Constitution is dead, the still heart of the Republic.  Realistic planning for reform must start with that grim fact or remain pie-in-the-sky fantasy. From the mailbag:  “There is only one peaceful solution to our great crisis, f ...


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