21 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

Open Your Eyes News

• Cold weather kills 10,000 heads of cattle in Vietn ...
  Voice Of America – The Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) announced about huge losses in cattle caused by the long cold spell in recent days.The department stated the costly deaths occurred despite the best efforts of local authorities and people to sav ...
• News Corp raises prospect of Sky News spin-off-FT
  Reuters – News Corp (NWSA.O) has told Britain it might separate Sky News from BSkyB (BSY.L) to avoid a lengthy review of its move to take full control of the satellite broadcaster, the Financial Times reported. Citing three people familiar with talks between News Corp and the government, the FT said ...
• Va. teen detained in Kuwait sues U.S. over no-fly ...
  The Examiner – A Northern Virginia teenager detained in Kuwait is suing the U.S. government, saying officials violated his rights by apparently placing him on the no-fly list without reason. Gulet Mohamed, 19, claims in the suit that he was detained in Kuwait in December at the request of U.S. autho ...
• Australia floods: Taxpayers may face one-off flood ...
  BBC – Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard has raised the prospect of a one-off tax to help pay for the devastation wrought by severe flooding. Economists estimate that the flooding in Queensland and Victoria will cost at least A$3bn (£1.8bn) in lost coal exports and agricultural production. Re ...
• Housing Starts in U.S. Fell More Than Forecast in ...
  Bloomberg – Builders began work on fewer homes than projected in December, a sign the industry that triggered the recession continued to struggle more than a year into the U.S. economic recovery. Housing starts fell 4.3 percent to a 529,000 annual rate, the lowest level since October 2009, Commerce ...

The Progressive Realist

• Time Is Now for Effective Engagement with Iran, Ex ...
  The Arms Control Association hosted a briefing today on Iran’s nuclear program entitled “Toward a Negotiated Solution,” part of ACA’s “Solving the Iranian Nuclear Puzzle” Briefing Series.  The session focused on examining what a viable diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear issue would look lik ...
• Military Commissions Resuming
  Charlie Savage reports that the military commissions are set to resume at Gitmo. Conservatives are happy because they view this as another sign Gitmo won't be closing, and because they have an affinity for the symbolism of military commissions that belies their actual merits. It's worth rehashing ...
• "China as Behemoth" Has a Military Edge
  Dan Drezner has a good roundup pushing back on Forbes magazine’s random and stupid article contending that Chinese President Hu Jintao is the most powerful man in the world. (Harry Reid also made a similar mistake, calling Hu a “dictator”.) Drezner tags the “Hu as powerful dictator” line as part of ...
• Letter Urges Obama to Support UN Resolution on Isr ...
  Via Steve Clemons, a number of prominent diplomats, analysts, and journalists have signed a letter to President Obama urging him “to instruct our Ambassador to the United Nations to vote yes” on a new UN resolution condemning Israelâs settlements and demanding that Israel “immediately and completel ...
• Hungary's Media Law Draws EU Protests
  Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb�n was greeted with protests from some EU parliamentarians when he addressed them as its rotating president of the European Council. � Spiegel: Orb�n began his speech to the European Parliament at 10:36 a.m. on Wednesday morning. He had hardly had time to greet th ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Friday Q&A: Fighting for Women in the States.
  Kay Steiger talks with Nancy Northup about how nearly 40 years after Roe v. Wade, the battle to ensure reproductive rights has gone local. What other challenges to reproductive health care will we see this year? There's going to be a continued attempt to restrict private insurance plans from cover ...
• John Adams and the Affordable Care Act.
  Here's something I'll bet you didn't know: The Founding Fathers supported government-mandated health care. Rick Ungar of Forbes unearthed this bit of history (via Greg Sargent): In July of 1798, Congress passed – and President John Adams signed -"An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen." ...
• Lightning Round: Today is the 54th Anniversary of ...
  What the hell, let's engage in some irresponsible 2012 presidential speculation. I see that the Republican primary is essentially (I don't consider the former governor of Alaska to be viable)�down to Romney and Huckabee which, as David Weigel puts it, "emphasizes the power Mike Huckabee has to shap ...
• The Little Picture: Google's Shake-Up.
  (Flickr/Jolie Odell) Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who resigned today and will be replaced by Larry Page, one of the company's co-founders.
• The Golden Age.
  At PostBourgie, G.D. attacks the view that a free market would have eventually sorted out Jim Crow: It actually is a pretty abstract proposition, since this is never the way American life, and the crushing racism of the Jim Crow South in particular, actually worked. Flynn�s example assumes a pas ...

Buzzflash

• Two Thoughts About New RNC Head Reince Priebus
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT They've gone from someone the party Was reluctant to denounce To someone whose name no one can Figure out how to pronounce. *   *   *   *   *   *   *   * A white corporate lawyer? That's perfect for the GOP! The best anagram for his name Is "super nice brie."rea ...
• In Wake of Shootings, Opposition to Health Care Re ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Every GOP hard-liner will soon argue The liberal media's slipping a noose on And defiantly declare that they all have Now become the real victims of Tucson.read more
• Could Jeb Bush's "Plan Latino" Lead Him to the Whi ...
  BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Jeb Bush is politically and media savvy, ambitious, engaging, has an established resume as a winner, and  is plugged in to the top echelons of the Republican Party establishment. He is bilingual and he's married to a Mexican-born woman. He is also smart enoug ...
• Bullets Can Kill Dreamers, But They Cannot Kill Dr ...
  MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT   Bullets can kill dreamers, but they cannot kill dreams. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968 should teach us that. It should inspire us through the mourning and shock over the shootings in Tucson, and the virulent, violent rhetoric o ...
• Boehner Knew Obama Would Give a Moving Speech and ...
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH I can understand going to a cocktail party instead. It was definitely a lose-lose: He that knew Obama would give a moving speech And there would be no booze. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1/12/935857/-Boehner-Sips-a-Cosmo-During-Tucson-Memorial In addition to ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Obama officials caught deceiving about WikiLeaks
  A Reuters report details that private statements and reports contradict administration's public claims
• The vindication of Dick Cheney
  Obama has won the War on Terror debate -- for the American Right. And they're quite appreciative
• The U.S. role in Gulet Mohamed's detention
  State Department denials of American responsibility increasingly appear to be false
• Applying U.S. principles on Internet freedom
  Who are the actual agents of transparency and who are its opponents?
• Homeland Security's laptop seizures: Interview wi ...
  Will Congress act to curb the shocking abuses U.S. citizens encounter when re-entering their own country?

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• 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 ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• John Cornyn Runaway Winner of “Biggest Hypocrite o ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2011America's VoiceLast week's Republican-backed Hispanic Leadership Network conference in South Florida overflowed with chatter about how the GOP needs to improve its positioning with Latino voters.  Amidst all the discussion, however, few voices at the conferen ...
• Good Jobs Are the Answer
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2011SEIUFollowing the Bureau of Labor Statistics release of 2010 union membership data, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry issued the following statement:read more
• Polish Prosecutor Officially Recognises Guantánamo ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 20, 2011REPRIEVEGuantánamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah has been granted all-important ‘victim’ status in the pending criminal investigation into a CIA black site in Poland, following a complaint brought by Polish lawyer Bartlomiej Jankowski working with INTERIGHTS, Reprie ...
• New Report Finds Bank Carbon Principles Did Not Cu ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 20, 2011Rainforest Action Network (RAN)Today Rainforest Action Network (RAN) released The Principle Matter: Banks, Climate & The Carbon Principles, a new report assessing the impact of the much-lauded 2008 Carbon Principles signed by six of the country's leading banks ...
• These Are the Investigative Reports the SEC Doesn’ ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 20, 2011Project On Government Oversight (POGO)Previously unpublished investigative reports exposing a wide range of serious misconduct at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are now available on the Project On Government Oversight's (POGO) website.read more

Common Dreams-Views

• Obama Must Call Israeli Settlements Illegal
  by Ian Williams"To veto or not to veto?" That is the agonising question that has President Barack Obama pacing the battlements of the White House waiting to dodge the slings and arrows of outraged Aipac. Provoked by the latest demolition in East Jerusalem, no fewer than 120 countries have sponso ...
• Comcast/NBC Merger Takes Media Consolidation to th ...
  by John Nichols & Robert McChesneySenator Al Franken, the former media personality who has emerged as one of the savviest analysts of media policy in Washington, got it exactly right when he termed the anticipated merger of Comcast and NBC Universal a "disaster."read more
• Who Can Fight Off the Social Security Pillagers?
  by Dean BakerThat is the question that supporters of Social Security should be asking as we brace for President Obama’s State of the Union address next week. Specifically, the question is whether Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid will keep up his spirited defense of Social Security or whether h ...
• Big Coal's Rally of Denial: Coalfield Citizens Bri ...
  by Jeff BiggersBesieged 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 mo ...
• Rocky Times Ahead: Are You Ready?
  by Sarah Byrnes and Chuck Collins"I don't believe the economy is getting better," says Billy R., a member of a mutual aid group in Oregon that he jokingly calls "my reality support group." "All around me I'm surrounded by media and advertising urging me to keep borrowing, buying, and sleepwalking ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Obama's War, One Year Later: 195 Million Say No to ...
  By Robert Greenwald Next month will mark the one-year anniversary of the launch of President Obama's escalated military campaign in Afghanistan. One year later, violence is still getting worse and costs are skyrocketing. After more than nine years, it's time to end this war. Take a strong p ...
• From Military-Industrial Complex to Permanent War ...
  By Gareth Porter Fity years after Dwight D. Eisenhower’s January 17, 1961 speech on the “military-industrial complex”, that threat has morphed into a far more powerful and sinister force than Eisenhower could have imagined. It has become a “Permanent War State”, with the power to keep the United Sta ...
• Mosul: A Lesson For Kandahar
  By Steve Hynd Yesterday, two more American soldiers engaged in "non-combat activities" were shot to death in Iraq, and a third was wounded. They were killed by an Iraqi soldier who smuggled live ammunition into a training exercise and then turned his gun on his trainers. While this type of "friendly ...
• Joe Klein Has No Clue
  By Steve Hynd This week's TIME has a piece by veteran fan of armed interventions, Joe Klein, risably entitled "What it will take to finish the job in Afghanistan". It's worth a read as an example of how the U.S. hasn't a blessed clue how to accomplish any such thing, being a precis of the convention ...
• An expensive stasis
  By Dave Anderson: Bernard Finel is depressing me as he explains why he is writing less now about Afghanistan than he has in the past. I am depressed because I fundamentally agree with him: At some point we’ll declare “combat operations” ended in Afghanistan. This will reduce the violence in the coun ...

Water Wars

• Environmental Issues Subject of Film Series
  KENT—The Environmental Summit Film Fest will begin a five-part series on Jan. 25. This year the series will be held at Kent School in the Dickenson auditorium on Tuesday evenings at 7:30. The series leads into the Environmental Summit on Feb 26.
• Environmental Issues Subject of Film Series
  KENT—The Environmental Summit Film Fest will begin a five-part series on Jan. 25. This year the series will be held at Kent School in the Dickenson auditorium on Tuesday evenings at 7:30. The series leads into the Environmental Summit on Feb 26.
• Environmental Issues Subject of Film Series
  KENT—The Environmental Summit Film Fest will begin a five-part series on Jan. 25. This year the series will be held at Kent School in the Dickenson auditorium on Tuesday evenings at 7:30. The series leads into the Environmental Summit on Feb 26.
• Environmental Issues Subject of Film Series
  KENT—The Environmental Summit Film Fest will begin a five-part series on Jan. 25. This year the series will be held at Kent School in the Dickenson auditorium on Tuesday evenings at 7:30. The series leads into the Environmental Summit on Feb 26.
• Delta data distorted, 2 Bay Area utilities say
  Nearly 4 million people in the Bay Area draw their drinking water from two rivers upstream of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. But the question of how much delta water is drawn has pitted two of the region's...

WordPress | Economics

• Alan Johnson
  Sad to learn Alan Johnson has stood down. I guess he might have been asked to resign unsure of the r
• A Nation Divided
  Walter E. Williams wrote: You might be tempted to think that the brutal domestic conflict seen in ot
• Ship's Log: Day Nine (Melbourne to Tilbury)
  The second day of the Pacific Crossing, ninth day on board. Last night the mate on watch announced t
• New York City Historical Materialism Conference 20 ...
  Karl Marx NEW YORK CITY HISTORICAL MATERIALISM CONFERENCE 2011 We are pleased to announce New York C
• Social Relations in Turbulent Times
  Turbulence SOCIAL RELATIONS IN TURBULENT TIMES CALL FOR PAPERS – SESSIONS ORGANISED BY THE CRITICAL

Electronic Intifada

• It's not just Tunisians who are hungry
  CAIRO (IPS) - "Break my heart but don't come near my bread" goes an old Arabic proverb. Failure to observe it has often come at a high political price. Just ask Tunisian president ...
• Boycott roundup: Ahava products off the shelves, f ...
  Canadian and United Kingdom solidarity activists have scored recent victories towards deshelving cosmetics made in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank ...
• Jerusalem evictions, demolitions leave lasting tra ...
  Occupied East Jerusalem (IRIN) - Evictions and house demolitions are a growing humanitarian concern for Palestinians living in East Jerusalem, says the UN Office for the Coordinati ...
• No place to sleep for Lydd family
  Sixty-seven members of the Abu Eid family were displaced when Israeli forces destroyed their seven homes on 14 December 2010. Alex Kane reports from Lydd.
• Israel's Labor party not to be mourned
  Ehud Barak, Israel's defense minister, appears to have driven the final nail in the coffin of the Zionist left with his decision to split from the Labor party and create a new "cen ...

Afghanistan Sun

• U.S. places dead man on terrorist blacklist
  Qari Hussain has been reported killed many times, and is now widely believed to be dead. Only problem is no-one has told the State Department.
• Oz Army Chief says Afghan forces may take security ...
  Australian Army Chief Ken Gillespie has expressed hope that foreign forces would be able to hand over security charges to Afghan forces by 2014.
• US blacklists Pak Taliban commander Qari Hussain f ...
  The United States has designated Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Qari Hussain under its Executive Order 13224, which targets terrorists and their supporters.
• Shocking but expected, says Pakistani daily on tra ...
  The explosive findings in the federal tax ombudsman's report on a string of scams related to the Afghan transit trade were described by a Pakistani daily as 'shocking but expected'.
• Taliban order phone limit in Afghan north
  The Taliban have ordered limits on the use of mobile phones in a remote area of northwestern Afghanistan, residents and officials said. The Islamist group's order in Bala Morghab, a remote distri

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 ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
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on Government Oversight

• SEC Commissioner with Ties to Industry Calls for M ...
  By Michael Smallberg A commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an unusual statement Wednesday criticizing an SEC study on the oversight of investment advisers, and calling on Congress to delegate significant SEC authority to a self-regulatory organization...
• Quitting the Pentagon to Avoid Public Disclosure
  By Mandy Smithberger Tom Vanden Brook at USA Today reports that, after his publication exposed that 80 percent of 158 retired military officers consulting for the Pentagon also had ties to defense contractors, and now that the Pentagon is requiring...
• What the Pentagon's Top Tester Said About the F-35 ...
  Details emerge about why Gates may have put the F-35B on “probation” By Nick Schwellenbach Two weeks ago, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that the Marine Corps’ version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is in trouble. While “two...
• Quote of the Day
  By Bryan Rahija More fun discussion from yesterday's oral argument in the Supreme Court: CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Counsel, your central argument is that because "person" is defined to include corporation, "personal" in the same statute must include corporate. I tried...
• Unposted Inspector General Reports Showcase SEC Mi ...
  By Michael Smallberg A few months ago, we questioned why many of the investigative reports issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Inspector General (OIG) are nowhere to be found on the agency or the OIG’s website....

Digital Journal

• Dog attacks three at Toronto area store, owner sou ...
  Three people were attacked within a few minutes this morning outside a store in the city of Vaughan by a German Shepherd. Two of the victims required medical attention after the attacks.
• Fake cop robs delivery man in Toronto
  A man making a grocery delivery in the Danforth Avenue/Main Street area was robbed last week by a man saying that he was a police officer.
• Pot grow-op discovered by smoking house in Ontario
  Peel Regional Police saw smoke at a Brampton, Ontario home during a routine patrol, later stumbling onto a large residential grow-op Monday.
• Future moon mining by corporations leads to legali ...
  It may be quite some time before private corporations begin to mine the moon, but that hasn't stopped the international scientific community bringing up the legality of such a venture. Experts say, though, that it's legal.
• 82-yr-old cancer survivor forced to reveal prosthe ...
  An 82-year-old lady was returning home to British Columbia after a visit with her family. At Calgary International Airport she said she was humiliated and embarrassed by airport security.

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

• NDP on Canada in Afghanistan
  This afternoon at the Centre for Policy Studies (CIPS), University of Ottawa - The Hon. Jack Layton delivered a confident and passionate address regarding Canada's leadership on the mission in Afghanistan.
• President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell spe ...
  Video: Fifty years ago, on January 17, 1961, Americans gathered around their TV sets to watch President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell speech from the White House. He warned the American people about the growth in economic power and political influence of an immense military establishment and a lar ...
• Eisenhower’s farewell address and F-35s
  On Monday January 17th, 2011 Steven Staples's Hill Times article will commemorate Eisenhower's iconic farewell speech and offer some thoughts on today's military industrial complex.
• Creating jobs in Canada: F-35s not the best option
  Analysts, activists, and politicians have denounced Canada’s controversial F-35 fighter jet purchase from day one, pointing out that the whopping $16-billion investment is not in accordance with the country’s military or domestic needs. In response, the Canadian government has marketed the purchase ...
• Taliban numbers intact despite surge in Allied for ...
  A recent Washington Post article suggests that the Taliban has endured the recent offensive by NATO and U.S. forces with its numerical strength intact (Slobodan Lekic, “Taliban Strength Unaffected by Allied Surge,” Washington Post, 6 January 2010). “A NATO official said this week that the alliance e ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-19-11
  Today is your lucky day! Kevin has spent days researching and talking to experts around the world about the Iraqi Dinar. Get an insider’s look into this controversial investment. Find out if you should be jumping on the Iraqi Dinar investment bandwagon or running away from it as fast as possible! We ...
• Toxic Chemical Threatens Safety of Students, Teach ...
  January 18th, 2011 ParentDish.com By: Honey Berk Last night’s snowstorm may not have closed down New York City public schools, but most of the kids at P.S. 36 in Staten Island will be kept home by their parents, anyway, while the Department of Education sorts out a toxic mess. Last week, potentially ...
• Depression On The Rise In College Students
  January 18th, 2011 NPR By: Patti Neighmond Researchers say severe mental illness is more common among college students than it was a decade ago, with most young people seeking treatment for depression and anxiety. A study presented at the American Psychological Association found that the number of s ...
• Can Woolly Mammoth Be Cloned From Frozen DNA?
  January 18th, 2011 AOL News By: Lauren Frayer They’ve been extinct for about 10,000 years, but woolly mammoths could be back on Earth in just five years, according to Japanese scientists who plan to use frozen DNA to resurrect the behemoth. Last summer, researchers plucked skin and muscle tissue fro ...
• WikiLeaks Acquires Details of Thousands of Swiss B ...
  January 18th, 2011 ABC News By: Jim Sciutto and Jessica Hopper Former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer handed over two computer discs detailing thousands of offshore bank accounts to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today, claiming that they contain evidence of massive potential tax evasion and other poten ...

Pambazuka News

• Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cuba s ...
  The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
• Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice by em ...
  On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
• Global: May for the Cuban 5
  The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
• Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
  Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
• 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
  Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...

War in Context

• Mahmoud Abbas fears the same fate as Tunisia’s ous ...
  It seems natural that residents in the occupied West Bank where two intifadas failed to drive out the Israelis would want to celebrate Tunisia’s successful uprising — but that isn’t allowed under Mahmoud Abbas’ watch. He, it would seem, identifies more strongly with Tunisia’s ousted president, Zine ...
• How the Obama administration hyped the WikiLeaks t ...
  Glenn Greenwald writes (and my comments follow): To say that the Obama administration’s campaign against WikiLeaks has been based on wildly exaggerated and even false claims is to understate the case. But now, there is evidence that Obama officials have been knowingly lying in public about these m ...
• Gaza doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish two years after Isr ...
• Self-fulfilling prophecy: Dennis Ross doesn’t thin ...
  Ali Gharib lays out the multiplicity of reasons why Dennis Ross — “a three-time-loser on Israeli-Palestinian peace-making” — lacks the competence for any role in the Middle East. I was struck by an article by Nathan Guttman in the legendary Jewish Daily Forward about Dennis Ross and George Mitchell ...
• The escalation in racism among Israeli students
  Ynet reports: Three weeks after the publication of a petition calling on Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar to take action against racism spreading within schools and the general public, teachers told Ynet about the harsh reality they are forced to face daily. In one case, a 12th grade student of a n ...

Watts Up With That?

• An appeal to the climate science blogosphere
  Can you keep an open mind on the cause of winds? Climate science needs your help! by Anastassia Makarieva Many of us who have become researchers have been attracted by the dynamic and constructive debate that lies at the heart … Continue reading →
• Friday Funny
  Josh from Cartoons by Josh writes: Following on from an earlier cartoon “What the Greens got wrong” this is about the plans for the next thing on the green agenda – not sure what it will be but no doubt … Continue reading →
• Shale gas boom on
  IEA: Natural Gas Can Supply World For 250 Years Thursday, 20 January 2011 09:51 United Press International Supplies of natural gas could last more than 250 years if Asian and European economies follow the U.S. unconventional reserves, the IEA said. … Continue reading →
• CSIRO – climate variability caused drought, ...
  While this is a bit dated, from late last year, given all the attention given to the floods in Queensland supposedly being caused by global warming aka climate change, this seemed relevant to review. h/t to reader Baa Humbug and … Continue reading →
• Extreme cold warnings, Minnesota record lows below ...
  Brutal cold has invaded the upper-Midwest.  A record low at International Falls is not an easy thing to break.  No problem today (01/21/11), as temps have fallen into the minus 40s F (or C, if you prefer).  The cold air … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• WikiLeaks: Why It Matters. Why It Doesn’t?
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews | January 20, 2011 A panel of leading thinkers explores WikiLeaks and its implications for access to information, security, first amendment rights, innovation, and more. WikiLeaks: Why It Matters. Why It Doesn’t? see Gareth Porter: US keeps Americans ...
• The Spectre Haunting Europe: Debt Defaults, Auster ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Prof. Michael Hudson and Prof. Jeffrey Sommers Global Research January 18, 2011 A spectre is haunting Europe: the illusion that Latvia’s financial and fiscal austerity is a model for other countries to emulate. Bankers and the financial press are asking govern ...
• Gareth Porter: US keeps Americans in the dark abou ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Presstvusdesk | January 20, 2011 Military industries are posing an increasing threat to the United States due to the sector’s mounting pressure for higher military budgets and larger military programs, says investigative journalist and historian Gareth Porter. US ...
• Chris Hedges: US wars to continue until its econom ...
  with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad January 20, 2011 www.presstv.ir American wars will continue until the country’s giant corporations, which pay the politicians in Washington’s corridors of power, become financially unsustainable, says senior fellow at the Nation Institute, Chris Hedg ...
• Tony Blair’s Wilful Misrepresentation: Delib ...
  by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 20 January, 2011 “And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings, interested him no more.” (Francis Brett Harte, 1836-1902.) Charles Anthony Lynton Blair, QC., is set to reappear before the Chilco ...

Your New Reality

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  John Gray reviews Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism : ...free market policies rarely make poor countries richer; global companies without national roots belong in the realm of myth; the US does not have the highest living standards in the world; the washing machine ch ...
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  Beautiful Russian animation from Anatoly Petrov in 1978. The subject matter is fascinating, more so considering how close the war industry is to linking the human mind directly to weapons :
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  Mute the sound on this video, taken during the Southeast Queensland floods last week, before you watch it. The music destroys the atmosphere, there should be silence, the only sound that of water lapping.
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  Hey Gun Massacre Guy! We're Gonna Make You Famous! Just Like You Wanted! By Darryl Mason It was once forbidden in newspaper journalism to write that someone had committed suicide, even if they were famous, a prime minister, a movie star. The fear, based in what has long seemed to be pretty solid e ...
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  There's so much to say about this wonderful, brilliant lecture by Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy author Douglas Adams, but I'm not going to spoil any of it. Just get through the first 10 minutes or so and you'll find it almost impossible to stop listening. I had to tear myself away from it at 3am, ...

Wired - Science

• 8 Beautiful Bioluminescent Creatures From the Sea
  See Also: The Mass Extinction of Scientists Who Study Species Glow-in-the-Dark Shark Turned on by Hormones Jellyfish Eyes Solve Optical Origin Mystery Jellyfish Are the Dark Energy of the Oceans 10 Crazy-Looking New Deep-Sea Creatures
• Hidden Messages Found in Bird Nest Decorations
  The discovery of messages in raptors’ nests has raised the possibility that many bird species encode signals into these structures, with seemingly decorative flourishes actually full of meaning. Among black kites, scraps of white plastic are used to signal territorial dominance. To other kites, th ...
• Multiple Asteroid Strikes May Have Killed Mars’s M ...
  Once upon a time, Mars had a magnetic field, just like Earth. Four billion years ago, it vanished, taking with it the planet’s chances of evolving life as we know it. Now scientists have proposed a new explanation for its disappearance. A model of asteroids striking the red planet suggests that, w ...
• All-Nighters Make Bodies Hoard Calories
  Staying up all night clearly taxes the body, but scientists have only now added up the exact bill. By measuring the actual number of calories the body expends to fuel an all-nighter versus a good night’s sleep, researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder calculate that a full night o ...
• Slime Molds Are Earth’s Smallest, Oldest Farmers
  Colonies of a bizarre microbial goo have been found practicing agriculture at a scale tinier than any seen before. Animals such as ants, snails and beetles are known to farm fungus. But the slime moldâs bacterial farming trick takes it into a whole new realm of the organismal kingdom. “If you can p ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Gaza doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish two years after Isr ...
  Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish was a well-known Palestinian gynecologist who spent years working in one of Israeli’s main hospitals. On January 16, 2009, two days before the end of Israel’s brutal 22-day... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Assaf Kfoury: Will the US Ignite the Lebanese Tind ...
  For months now, the media has been reporting that the UN-mandated Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) is expected to indict Hezbollah members for the killing of Rafiq Hariri in February 2005. Up until... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
• ACLU suing King County [Washington State] over can ...
  The ACLU of Washington filed a federal lawsuit against King County over the decision to cancel a bus ad that alleges Israeli war crimes. The lawsuit claims that King County violated the First... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Aluf Benn: Israel can’t stop Palestinian independe ...
  The 'diplomatic holding action' that Israel is conducting has enjoyed partial success, but the world is gradually becoming accustomed to the idea that Palestine will join the family of nations this... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Aisling Byrne: Building a police state in Palestin ...
  "If we are building a police state -- what are we actually doing here?" So asked a European diplomat responding to allegations of torture by the Palestinian security forces. The diplomat might well... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia, U.S. to discuss Afghan helicopter deal in ...
  Talks on the delivery of Russian helicopters to Afghanistan will take place later this month in Washington, a Foreign Ministry official said on Friday.
• Russia, EADS continue fight for Indian aerial tank ...
  Russia's Il-78 Midas and the EU's Airbus A330 MRTT are the only competitors in a re-tender to supply six aerial tankers to the Indian air force (IAF), the India Strategic defense magazine said.
• Lithuania seeks regional debate on French warship ...
• 'Gas-for-fleet' terms to be agreed within 2 months
  The Russian and Ukrainian finance ministries will draw up a draft agreement within two months on the extension terms of the lease of the Sevastopol port to Russia, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Tuesday.
• Russian parliament approves New START on 2nd readi ...
  The State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, voted for ratification of a new strategic arms reduction deal with the United States on the second reading on Friday, setting its terms for approving the pact.

NewsWise

• Case Western Reserve Receives $7.8M to Study Mania ...
  The Department of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a $7.8 million renewal grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for the long-term study of manic symptoms in children.
• Malshe Cited as Leader in Nanotechnology Field
  NanoBusiness Alliance, the top nanotechnology industry organization, has chosen engineering professor and NanoMech, Inc. founder Ajay Malshe as one of the 10 most influential nanotechnology leaders of 2010. The designation, announced recently by Vincent Caprio, NanoBusiness Alliance executive direct ...
• Could Oysters be Used to Clean Up Chesapeake Bay?
  In a study funded by the U.S. EPA and administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, biologists at Virginia Commonwealth University measured the nutrient removal capacity of the Eastern oyster.
• Cancer Research Institute Announces Second Investm ...
  Cancer Research Institute, a nonprofit organization, has awarded $450,000 to Oncovir, Inc., to Produce and Supply Hiltonol(r) (Poly-ICLC) for Use in Clinical Trials of Cancer Vaccines and Other Immunotherapies.
• Experienced Leaders Join SMA Foundation Board of D ...
  Experienced leaders in business, media, and law, join the SMA Foundation's Board of Directors.

Natural Health News

• Life Coaching Tips: The Feline Way
  Here are words of wisdom, all illustrated by some very characterful cats!
• Watch Boiled Water Freeze Instantly
  In Canada’s Northwest Territories, it's so cold that boiling water instantly freezes when tossed into the air.
• When Good Cholesterol Is Even Better
  New research suggests that how much high-density lipoprotein (�good�) cholesterol you have is not as important as how well that good cholesterol works. High-density lipoprotein cholesterol is healthy for your heart; people with high blood levels of HDL tend to have lower risk of developing heart di ...
• Furor Over the New Breastfeeding Study
  A recent commentary in the British Medical Journal is causing anger among breastfeeding advocates.� The commentary argues that four months of exclusive breast feeding is probably just as good as six months (the current British recommendation), and is less likely to cause harm. The commentary�s titl ...
• 4 Important Ways to Take Care of Your Teeth
  Your mouth health is important to your overall health.� The best way to make sure your moute is healthy is to be proactive about taking care of your teeth. Hive Health Media suggests some ways to protect your teeth health: Eat Fruits and Vegetables Whole fruits and vegetables, with their skin on, ...

Antemedius

• Krauthammer And Conservative "Constitutionalism"
  Is there anyone more disingenuous than Charles Krauthammer? In his column in the Washington Post today he goes on and on about what he perceives as the new “constitutionalism” that is coming to the Republican controlled House of Representatives. He gleefully compares it to constitutional “originalis ...
• Black Agenda Report's Glen Ford on Obama Appointin ...
  Analysis of Obama's appointment of J.P. Morgan's William Daley to WH Chief of Staff... Real News Network - January 7, 2011 New Obama Chief of Staff A Message to Wall Street Glen Ford of BlackAgendaReport.com: President Obama is more concerned with pleasing Wall St than appeasing public opinion
• Governance By A Single Political Party: The Demore ...
  It is the only rational conclusion a thinking person can attain.  The United States is not governed by operatives of either one or the other of two major political parties.  There is only one major political party that is always at the helm of our system of government, and below all the decks, pulli ...
• Obama Administration Planning To Restart Gitmo Tri ...
  Graphic courtesy of lazyevaluator via Flickr File it under going down the wrong damned path, again. The New York Times is reporting that the Obama administration is preparing to lift the ban on new military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay. Shortly after he was inaugurated President Obama directed Defe ...
• BMJ Charges Fraud In Wakefield Data On Autism
  To the day he died my father had the sig line on all his e-mail of “Technology and Science = A great time to be alive”. He is the person that I got my love for the gadgets and knowledge that comes out of our ability to look at the world through the skeptical lens of science. The down side of this lo ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

• Do Free Trade Agreements Threaten the States? Well ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I am sympathetic to the concern, expressed in this short article, about the threat that international agreements pose to state laws.  The American states, as I’ve argued here and here, need more autonomy in foreign affairs and in their interaction with international law ...
• Are the Israeli Settlements “War Crimes&#822 ...
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I realize that discussing the international law aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is not exactly a new and fresh topic likely to inspire thoughtful and reasonable thinking, and yet I was struck by the aggressive tone of this NYT editorial from a representative o ...
• News Flash: Bolivia Opts Out of Nation-Statehood
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro As of early 2009, it’s officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia.  (Okay, news travels slowly to Philadelphia; perhaps to your town, too?)  That may seem like a technical change, but Stanford geographer Martin W. Lewis makes the case that it gives the lie to th ...
• Jerusalem 2111
  by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen   What will daily life in Jerusalem be like a century from now? This is the theme of the Jerusalem 2111 International Animation Competition, organized by the Association of Planning and Conservation- Jerusalem (Beit Hamodel).  The blog io9 has a post with links to ...
• WikiLeaks Hypocrisy Watch — The Guardian Edi ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Guardian published an editorial by a Republican political operative today blaming WikiLeaks for releasing a State Department cable concerning a meeting between Tsvangirai and Susan Rice in which Tsvangirai discussed the possibility of peacefully removin ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Giffor ...
  The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
• New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tempera ...
  A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...
• RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
  It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...
• Climate scientists go feral, begin wearing cammo g ...
  Utah survivalists infiltrate climate science community. Whodathunkit?: It might surprise, and hopefully disturb you, to hear that in my short time at AGU, I discovered four scientists who are already creating some form of survival retreat for their family, and...
• Admission: climate science IS stalking horse for g ...
  Slate magazine calls it: For 20 years, evidence about global warming has been directly and explicitly linked to a set of policy responses demanding international governance regimes, large-scale social engineering, and the redistribution of wealth. These are the sort of...

My Care2 Picks

• Learning to love uncertainty
  Knowing the limits of what science can tell us, and understanding the worth of failure are all valuable tools that would improve people�s lives.The idea of something being �scientifically proven� is practically an oxymoron Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
• Conventional Thinking
  Foreign Policy published at the height of American exhaustion with the war in Vietnam promised to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy in Washington. Huntington & Manschel had essays from Galbraith and HolbrookeSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Swine Flu Vaccine Propaganda Makes Unwelcome 2011 ...
  Classic "Cabbage Patch" marketing strategy...if you had any doubts that the news networks aren't joined at the hip to the corporate interests, well here you are. Like a 24/7 advert campaign, but a campaign you don't have to pay for.Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
• An Antidote to News from Arizona
  Thousands of Muslims showed up at Coptic Christmas eve mass services in churches around the country and at candle light vigils held outside : "human shields" against militant threats. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Strawberry Fields (Poisoned) Forever
  The state that supplies 90 percent of U.S. strawberries has approved a fumigant pesticide that chemists are hesitant to handle in the lab.Submitted by Di Anna K. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Undercover policeman married activist he was sent ...
  Undercover policeman married activist he was sent to spy on | UK news | The Guardian: "A police spy married an activist he met while undercover in the environmental protest movement and then went on... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• ‘Large amount’ of weapons seized from blogger who ...
  ‘Large amount’ of weapons seized from blogger who cheered Tucson shooting | Raw Story: "A Boston-area blogger who declared 'one down, 534 to go' after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has had... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Obama careful to avoid criticism of Hu during stat ...
  Obama careful to avoid criticism of Hu during state visit | Julie Mason | White House | Washington Examiner: "While calling human rights in China 'a very serious issue,' President Obama on Wednesday... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Blackwater’s Prince building mercenary force with ...
  Blackwater’s Prince building mercenary force with apartheid-era ‘hit squad’ officer | Raw Story: "The northeast African country of Somalia has been one of the world's most notorious failed states for... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• ABC Radio Australia News:Stories:PNG targets rebel ...
  ABC Radio Australia News:Stories:PNG targets rebel camps along Indonesian border: "Papua New Guinea's government has deployed a joint security operation to destroy alleged free West Papua activist... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

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

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - Todd ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and expand ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? - La ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Iraq legal advice was 'provisional' - Tony Blair
  ShareThisIraq legal advice was 'provisional' - Tony Blair 21 Jan 2011 Tony Blair has said he disregarded Lord Goldsmith's warning that attacking Iraq would be illegal without further UN backing because it was "provisional". The ex-PM said he believed his top legal officer would change his position o ...
• SEC Taps Goldman Sachs Executive as Division Head
  ShareThisMega barf alert! SEC Taps Goldman Sachs Executive as Division Head 18 Jan 2011 The Securities and Exchange Commission has named Goldman Sachs Asset Management Chief Investment Officer Eileen Rominger to head its division overseeing asset managers and hedge funds. Rominger will come to the S ...
• At least 15 killed in third day of suicide attacks ...
  ShareThisAt least 15 killed in third day of suicide attacks in Iraq 19 Jan 2011 Suicide bombers struck in Iraq for a third consecutive day on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people in two attacks in Diyala province... In the deadliest incident, a suicide bomber drove an ambulance packed with explosiv ...
• Fox News: US must take Iraq, Kuwait oil
  ShareThisFox News: US must take Iraq, Kuwait oil 19 Jan 2011 Following a significant hike in oil prices, an angry Fox 'News' host has exclaimed that the United States has every right to take the oil from Iraq and Kuwait. On his Friday show, the Great American Panel, Sean Hannity, said that Iraq and ...
• Scouts as traffic police: Packs to issue speeding ...
  ShareThisBe prepared... for Scouts as traffic police: Packs to issue speeding drivers with warnings to get badges in return 20 Jan 2011 The Scouts, aged between ten-and-a-half and 14, spent two hours last Friday evening being shown how to use a laser speed gun before helping three police officers an ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Giffor ...
  The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
• New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tempera ...
  A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...
• RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
  It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...
• Climate scientists go feral, begin wearing cammo g ...
  Utah survivalists infiltrate climate science community. Whodathunkit?: It might surprise, and hopefully disturb you, to hear that in my short time at AGU, I discovered four scientists who are already creating some form of survival retreat for their family, and...
• Admission: climate science IS stalking horse for g ...
  Slate magazine calls it: For 20 years, evidence about global warming has been directly and explicitly linked to a set of policy responses demanding international governance regimes, large-scale social engineering, and the redistribution of wealth. These are the sort of...

Mondoweiss

• ACLU of Washington sues Seattle over I/P transit a ...
  Reuters "In a free and democratic society, we cannot allow the government to suppress lawful speech, even speech that may stir emotions," Kathleen Taylor, executive director of the ACLU of Washington, said in a statement about the suit on Wednesday. The ACLU's lawsuit against King County and on beh ...
• Spirit of Tunisia is infectious
  Here's an aerial view of Israeli General Yoav Galant's house, picked up by Haaretz, then passed along by�Yuval Ben-Ami, who writes: This is Israel, not California. Houses such as Galant�s are not common here, to say the least. Even Israel�s wealthiest suburban communities, such as Kfar Shmaryahu ...
• MSM self-censorship on the Israel issue
  Tonight Chris Matthews used the retirement of Joe Lieberman as an opportunity to bash the "neocons" for the Iraq war.�Matthews landed on Lieberman's disgraceful answer to Pat Buchanan's question�on Morning Joe today, saying the�Iraq war was worth it because of�WMD and Al Qaeda and�Saddam's threat to ...
• ‘Israeli occupation as brutal as Nazis&#8221 ...
  Don't ever use�Nazi analogies, right? No. When I went to Gaza, all I could think of was the Warsaw Ghetto, and the effect on the Jewish psyche of that humiliation, and the need to impose the same experience on others. You cannot understand the occupation without looking at the cycle of abuse. Here i ...
• One foot in, one foot out: A tour of a Palestinian ...
  A demolished house in Wadi Rahal, a village near Bethlehem. (All photos: Cat Rabenstine) Last week I took a walk through a friend�s village near Bethlehem. The sky was blue and spotted with clouds. It was chilly but the sun peaked through with surprising radiance.� First, he (let�s call him Ahme ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Vaccin ...
  The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustful ...
• VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 3 – Synt ...
  For centuries humankind has depended on an inherent natural immunity to survive; adapting to environmental changes while overcoming mutable diseases, viruses, bacterial or biological threats & inter-species cross contamination. With the 21st Century advancement of high-tech laboratory scie ...
• VRM: GlaxosmithKline Implicated In Systemic Clinic ...
  ‘A psychiatrist on the payroll of GlaxoSmithKline has been sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to committing research fraud in clinical trials for antidepressant Paxil. Palazzo enrolled children who did not actually suffer from major depressive or obsessive compulsive disorder ...
• VRM: California Institutes Mandatory DTaP Vaccinat ...
  âFor the 2011â12 school year only, children entering 7thâ12th grade will need proof of a DTaP (Diphtheria,Tetanus & Pertussis) shot before starting school. For 2012-13 and beyond, only students entering 7th grade will need proof of a Tdap shot.â California Depât of Public Health ‘The law will ap ...
• VRM: Health Matters Part 2
  BISPHENAL A PLASTIC is deadly. It leaks a synthetic hormone which mimics Estrogene & is present in most common store-bought products, also found in the lining of all soup cans. Long term effects include Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Androgeny. It should be noted that in the original tests th ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

• Death in the Corn: Part II of III
  Published: 17 September 2008 The ambush was set, but “Terry” Taliban didn’t step into it. The most successful hunters are not the ones who bag something every time, but the ones who hunt all the time, and 2 Para has been hunting the most dangerous prey. The soldiers of C-co 2 Para are not sure ho ...
• Death in the Corn: Part I of III
  Published: 15 September 2008 Helmand Province, Afghanistan The soldiers are living like animals at a little rat’s nest called FOB Gibraltar. They call it “Gib.” Named after the lynchpin of British naval dominance in the Mediterranean, this cluster of mud huts in the middle of hostile territory ...
• For My Thai Friends
  04 January 2011 Was walking by the water.� There were thousands of birds and so I wanted to send this snapshot back to Thailand.� Thai people are welcome in Florida!� Y'all get over here. Michael {loadposition user8}
• Winter Haven Native's War Dispatches Have Worldwid ...
  Please click here to view entire article in the Lakeland Ledger. {loadposition user8}
• The Jungle Twins
  01 January 2011 In October 2010, a rare set of elephant twins was born in Thailand, leading to vibrant media interest.� The birth was a happy surprise partly because it had been the second set of twins born in Thailand in 2010.� Many Thais consider this auspicious, and two sets of twins in one ye ...

The Killing Train

• I am not a gadget
  Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds behin ...
• Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
  For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more mathem ...
• A short video on Toronto Star's recent G20 coverag ...
  Three minutes on technology and protests, focusing on the Toronto Star's recent G20 coverage, especially Rosie DiManno's articles.
• Thoughts on Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows"
  After a couple of recommendations from a couple of different directions, I read Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains". It combines neuroplasticity research (which I read about in Norman Doidge's "The Brain that Changes Itself") with ideas about a literary, print-ba ...
• "Santa" Ford just stole 1000 jobs from the future
  Yesterday's headlines in Toronto newspapers were about how Rob Ford and City Council repealed the $60 vehicle registration tax. The Toronto Sun went as far as painting a beard on a picture of Ford, calling him Santa, and referring to the tax repeal as a christmas gift to Toronto. Another advance aga ...

treehugger

• New Interactive Map Tracks Ocean Dead Zones
  Image via WRI Just under a year ago, NASA released a map of marine dead zones. It helped us visualize the extent to which low-oxygen areas are harming ocean ecosystems. Now, there's an even better tool -- an interactive map from World Resources Institute....Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
• One Tonne Life: A Swedish Family's Green Lifestyle ...
  All images via One Tonne Life This week in Sweden an unprecedented low carbon lifestyle experiment has begun. The Lindell family have moved into a solar powered prefab house in the suburbs of Stockholm that is specially designed to minimise energy consumption. The family's aim is to see if they ...
• The Week in Pictures: LEDs Illuminate Medieval Cat ...
  The cloisters of the medieval Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury, England have been transformed into a stunning technicolor maze of 69 towers, thanks to 15,000 water bottles that change color in sync with choral music. We also have photos of Colin Firth's wife, Livia Firth, who wore a gorgeous, ...
• The Pentalobe Screw, And Apple's War Against Self- ...
  Image Credit iFixit Consumerist tells us that Apple is switching to a special new screw called by some a Pentalobe, by iFixit an "Evil Proprietary Tamper Proof Five Point Screw" (or the EPTP5PS). It is designed to make it impossible for anyone but Apple to service your iPhone or computer. Consu ...
• How to Boil a Frog and Maybe Save Humanity (Video)
  Image credit: Peak Moment/How to Boil a Frog From the Findhorn film's warning that consumer society is impossible without oil, to Escape from Suburbia's search for a life after fossil fuels, we're not short of movies that give a sobering account of the status quo, and a compelling case for doi ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Major coal mine ‘poisoning rivers’
  Report warns that Burma's largest coal mine in Shan state is causing health problems and displacement of nearby communities
• Energy minister ‘unhappy’ with privati ...
  Transfer of control over petrol retailing to private companies upsets energy minister whom business sources claim may be willing the scheme to fail
• Suu Kyi to join online community
  Opposition leader gets internet installed at Rangoon lakeside mansion and is soon to take her first step into the online world
• Shan party candidate wins lawsuit
  Election Commission dismisses case by USDP losing candidate on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence to suggest foul play
• S Korea eyes Burma stock market
  Korea Exchange officials travel to Burma as speculation mounts that the two countries are moving closer to seeting up a stock exchange

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Climate change may be responsible for the rise and ...
  Bad weather can always be relied upon to generate the odd moan, but now scientists have discovered that it could also be responsible for bringing down entire empires.
• Foreign insects threatening British gardens
  Four foreign insects are posing a serious threat to British gardens as they spread across the country, experts are warning.
• What was the role of warmists in the Queensland fl ...
  Australia was told to prepare for droughts as a result of climate change, and let down its guard against flooding, writes Christopher Booker.
• Pc Mark Kennedy: inquiry into police 'cover up' of ...
  The police watchdog launched an independent inquiry into Nottinghamshire Police amid claims officers covered up key evidence.
• Exam board accused of 'brainwashing' pupils with i ...
  Britain's largest exam board has been accused of "brainwashing" pupils by forcing them to use an inaccurate temperature graph that exaggerates the scale of global warming.

National Geographic | Environment

• Tough Road to Getting LED Lights on the Streets
  LED street lights can save energy, but not all power systems are set up to reward cities for choosing a more efficient nighttime glow.
• Smallest Farmers Found? Amoebas Carry, Plant "Seed ...
  In lean times, amoebas can pack up "seeds," migrate, and start fresh in greener pastures, a new study says.
• Yellowstone Has Bulged as Magma Pocket Swells
  Some parts of the ground around Yellowstone's simmering supervolcano rose by ten inches between 2004 and 2010, experts report.
• Scientists Make Dozens of Storms in the Abu Dhabi ...
  A Swiss company’s claims to have created storm clouds in the desert are met with skepticism.
• Going "All The Way" With Renewable Energy?
  A massive build-out, rare earth minerals, and willpower needed for a 100 percent renewable future, two U.S. researchers say.

Jurist - Legal Research

• UN to send human rights mission to Tunisia
  [JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official website] on Wednesday said that a team of experts will be sent to Tunisia [press release] within the next week to assess the human rights priorities and meet with interim authorities following the ousting of its president [JURIST r ...
• Obama administration may resume military commissio ...
  [JURIST] The Obama administration may increase its use of controversial military commissions [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] for Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees, according to a New York Times report [text] Wednesday. Per the report, administration officials plan to rescind an ord ...
• UK court finds for Nokia in patent suit
  [JURIST] The UK Court of Appeal [official website] on Thursday found in favor of Finnish telecommunications company Nokia [corporate website] in its most recent patent suit against German intellectual property firm IPCom GmbH & Co [corporate website]. The ruling [text] invalidates two European paten ...
• Key defendant in Galleon insider trading trial ple ...
  [JURIST] A key defendant in the Galleon Group insider trading case pleaded guilty [press release] Wednesday to three counts to commit securities fraud before judge Richard Holwell of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website]. Danielle Chiesi was accused of commun ...
• UN warns of possible Ivory Coast genocide
  [JURIST] UN rights officials on Wednesday expressed "grave concerns" over continued post-election violence in the Ivory Coast [CIA backgrounder; JURIST news archive], cautioning that genocide could be imminent [press briefing]. During a daily briefing, UN Special Advisor on Genocide Francis Deng [of ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• The Other Hermanator
  If anyone thought I'd let another day pass without blogging about Herman Cain, a.k.a. "The Hermanator," they are sadly mistaken. Since we're in the midst of a Cain boomlet following his recent announcement that he's formed a presidential exploratory committee, let me clear up an important point of n ...
• Why We Shouldn't Worry About Killer Gerunds
  There's a kinder, gentler, more sensitive GOP in town. In the newly demilitarized zone of political rhetoric, health care reform this week was transformed from "job killing" to "job crushing" and "job destroying," as Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) put it. There was trickle down spin, too. House Ma ...
• What Really Happened to 15 Million Jobs?
  America's jobs crisis began a decade ago. Long before the housing bubble burst and Wall Street melted down, something in our national job-creation machine went horribly wrong. The years between the brief 2001 recession and the 2008 financial collapse gave us solid growth in our gross national ...
• Who Will Give the GOP's State-of-the-Union Respons ...
  It's one of the most treasured spotlights -- and one of the most thankless tasks -- in American politics. For one night this year, a Republican will become the face of the party and offer a response to the president of the United States after he delivers the State of the Union address. The spotligh ...
• Is Healthcare Reform Fiscal Reform?
  Greg Mankiw mocks the muddled thinking of health-reform advocates. I have a plan to reduce the budget deficit. The essence of the plan is the federal government writing me a check for $1 billion. The plan will be financed by $3 billion of tax increases. According to my back-of-the envelope calcu ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

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

Tikun Olam

• Israel Drops Sex Harrassment Charge Against Palest ...
  18 months ago, Palestinian academic lecturer, Dr. Honida Gaanam, was trying to fly to France for an academic conference.  Her problem is that she was flying while Arab.  The Ben Gurion airport security guard began to search Ganaam’s bra invasively and the victim fought back by grabbing the guard’s ...
• Supreme Court Reopens Israel’s Guantanamo
  If you’ve ever heard Alan Dershowitz or any liberal Zionist talk about the wonderful role played by the Israeli High Court in protecting democracy and human rights in Israel, do me a favor and quote ‘em this post I’m writing.  I’m sorry to say that the Supreme Court is little more than a sham; wind ...
• Shiloh Settlers to Rabbi Ascherman: ‘You Destroy J ...
  Here is some eye-opening video of the protest outside Rabbi Arik Ascherman’s Jerusalem home by extremist settlers from the Shiloh settlement. They protested against Ascherman’s planned Tu B’Shvat tree planting ceremony (today) at a Palestinian village whose orchards have been destroyed by the Shiloh ...
• Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
  MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
• More IDF Lies about Bilin Abu Rahme Killing
  After trying four or five previous sets of lies to absolve themselves of responsibility for killing Jawaher Abu Rahme during a weekly Bilin demonstration a few weeks ago, the IDF now has a story and they’re sticking to it.  It appears that despite the fact that the army’s own doctors warned in 2004 ...

Ode Magazine

• How to reap the harvest of peace
  By: PeaceCorso Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire assures us that "if we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow the seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present." Ms. Maguire knows whereof she sp ...
• Cultures of compliments
  By: Anne Thomas In the culture I grew up in compliments came naturally and abundantly. If someone looked nice, we told them so. If clothes were attractive, we let people know. If someone bought a new car or house, we all sang our praises. That sort of positive, enc ...
• 2011 Year of the rabbit: A time for pause
  By: Chintana According to eastern astrology, 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit. It is said that this will be a temperate time with unhurried pace, suitable for introspection and respite. I’m not one for fortune telling but isn’t this a nice thought? Seems like we ...
• Learning by accident
  By: Rosalia There was a time I lived like a carefree woman who read bad news, shook her head, and went about her usual day. I felt secure in the world, and the knowledge that I controlled my own destiny. That time ended on April 13, 2002. Before then, I hadn’t ...
• Peace takes will
  By: PeaceCorso Yo-yo Ma is arguably the world’s finest living cellist. Imagine October 17, 1999: the day he lost his $2.5 million Stradivarius in a taxi cab. Excerpted from the New York Times … by Katherine E. Finkelstein … Yo-Yo Ma, the world's most famo ...

OpEd News

• Justice Department Leakers of Classified Info. Get ...
  Three months ago, journalist Michael Isikoff noted the disturbing "Double Standard" in White House Leak Inquiries. But now it's not just the Executive Branch. Josh Gerstein of Politico just published an article on how a judge ruled that the Justice Department can keep secret names of its own lawye ...
• DOJ: So-Called "Leakers" Are More Dangerous Than S ...
  The strength of government's unyielding animus toward whistleblowers is no more evident than in the latest statements from disgraced prosecutor William Welch, who is "redeeming" himself amidst prosecutorial misconduct allegations stemming from the botched case against late-senator Ted Stevens by pro ...
• Show Us the Jobs: Obama's State-of-the-Union Chall ...
  On Tuesday, January 25 th , President Obama will give the annual state-of-the-union address to Congress and the American people. Since the disastrous mid-term elections, Obama's popularity has surged. The President should use this opportunity to tell Americans his strategy for dealing with the US ...
• JFK's Inaugural Address: 50 Years Ago and Still Re ...
  Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of JFK's inaugural address. I take another look at it but find in it some good lessons for us today. While our time is messier and more complex than his was on the world stage, we face many of the same divisive challenges at home that we then faced abroad. It ...
• Former CIA "Ghost Prisoner" Abu Zubaydah Recognize ...
  Important news from Poland, as the Polish Prosecutor grants "victim" status to "high-value detainee" Abu Zubaydah, tortured in a secret CIA prison in Poland.

Switchboard

• The West Coast's Big Uneasy - and the Delta Stewar ...
  If you haven’t read this article from yesterday’s Contra Costa Times about U.C. Berkeley Professor Bob Bea’s work on Delta stability issues, take a moment to do so.  Others have raised the serious concerns regarding Delta stability that Professor Bea highlights.  (NRDC has written abou ...
• Upton's Upside Down Agenda
  Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), the new chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is making no secret of his plans for “an all-out push to block federal and state climate rules.”  Yesterday, Upton’s released his committee agenda for the new Congress, which includes detailed plan ...
• Realtor in Marcellus shale region: we have lost re ...
  We've blogged before about how it may be impossible to get a mortgage or FHA loan on property with or near gas leasing due to the hazards. We've also blogged about decreases in assessed property values and difficulties in selling homes. A new article re-emphasizes these important issu ...
• Bayer CropScience deserves an F for its failed saf ...
  Dear Bayer CropScience, I see from the news reports that you are having a bad day. This morning's news reported on a published study linking a Bayer pesticide, even at extemely low levels,�to deadly infections in bees. Then, this afternoon the US Chemical Safety Board released a scath ...
• Interior Dept. restructures; Fireplace smoke conce ...
  In a Times Picayune story, Regan Nelson commented on Secretary Ken Salazar’s plans to restructure the Department of the Interior by creating two independent bureaus and an advisory panel to streamline federal regulation and respond to emergencies related to deepwater oil drilling… Rega ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• Hack of the Day
  Greg Mankiw. Related posts:Your Point Being? Hack of the Day How To Be A Hack Related posts:Your Point Being? Hack of the Day How To Be A Hack
• Sarah Palin’s America
  Some amusing nastiness from James Wolcott, on the development of the next hit reality TV show, tentatively entitled Reality. Like soul brother Beck, Sarah Palin has moonshot herself into a zero-gravity zone that is beyond parody, where brazen self-caricature takes on the bold outlines of cartoon sta ...
• Labour Shadow Cabinet Reshuffle
  Alan Johnson, Shadow Chancellor, resigned yesterday in order to spend more time with his family.  This is one of the rare instances where “spending more time” with one’s family means precisely that.  I’ve written positively about Johnson in the past, and argued that he should have challenged Gordo ...
• Lost in the Shuffle
  of the senior Senator from Connecticut declining the opportunity to fail in his re-election bid is the retirement of Kent Conrad.  Lieberman’s retirement generated the news, Conrad’s is more salient for the obvious reasons.  While Conrad is not even in the suburbs of my political preferences, inst ...
• There is Literally No Argument so Dumb That They W ...
  Shorter Daily Tucker: By encouraging people to exercise, Michelle Obama is effectively a murderer. Among other things, Obama seems unaware that while walking and running are deadly activities, nobody has ever died operating a motor vehicle. Update (PC): That “sharp increase” noted by the Daily C ...

Desert Research Institute

• Building Concepts for Clarity
  Todd Mihevc has a knack for finding the right tools for the job, but he’s no handyman for hire. For 25 years, Mihevc, an Assistant Research Hydrogeologist at DRI, has been instrumental in developing equipment that surveys, studies, and samples water systems in Nevada. His latest research concerns th ...
• Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evolutio ...
  Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.
• DRI Researcher Published in Nature Geoscience
  The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.
• Taking Your Home’s Energy Temperature
  An article authored by DRI Associate Research Professor Emeritus Charles “Fred “Rogers, Ph.D., outlines the best practices for homeowners who are looking to save money on their home heating and cooling bills.
• DRI Researcher Earns National Science Foundation M ...
  DRI Research Professor Hans Moosmüller, Ph.D. and colleagues received $649,801 from the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to develop a Photo-Acoustic Light Absorption and Albedo Spectrometer (PALAAS) for the characterization of aerosol radiative forcing in the ...

Earth Techling

• Green Vs Green In Another Solar Lawsuit
• Rechargeable Battery Recycling Rate Up
• A Better Way To Convert Waste Heat
• Big Tidal Power Project Slated For India
• French Test Offshore Vertical Axis Wind

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Toyota argues shareholder claims are fatally 'flaw ...
  Toyota Motor Corp. moved on Thursday to dismiss a consolidated lawsuit alleging that its shareholders suffered massive losses following a string of recent recalls associated with floor mats and accelerator pedals.
• Attorney subject to malicious prosecution claim ov ...
  A California appellate court has ruled that a Los Angeles attorney must defend a malicious prosecution lawsuit filed against him over a case he pursued involving a wedding-reception brawl.
• Florida's attorney certification process upheld
  The Florida Bar's board certification process — in which attorneys are recognized as specialists in their field of law based in part on confidential peer reviews — does not violate lawyers' right to due process, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.
• 8th Circuit, citing Wyeth, rules private class act ...
  A pharmaceutical company will face a private class action for faulty manufacturing practices that prompted a drug recall, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has ruled.
• SOCIAL MEDIA: Are social media snake oil? The batt ...
  Law firms must take care not to dismiss social media based on a reliance on the old ways, or they may be setting themselves up for failure.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Changes Made to DEP’s Website
  FYI -  DEP has made a change to their website, making it a little harder to find violations of Oil & Gas drillers. From the DEP main page, you now have to click on “Latest News” tab - Violations are listed there now, along with the production data. Not hidden, just moved. You can also go there [. ...
• Become a Waterdog!
  Become a Pine Creek Waterdog!! It’s simple and could make a huge difference in protecting our environment and assisting the DEP in enforcing compliance with our regulations.  The Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group is holding a training and registration for Waterdogs on February 8, 2011 from 7 to ...
• Waterdog Training January 10th 2011
  Waterdogs Training Monday, January 10th, 2011 7:00-9:00pm Jersey Shore Middle School Library Registration Fee $10 Additional $20 if you would like a TDS Meter Registration is due by January 3rd, 2011 Please make checks payable to: LCCD Lycoming County Conservation District 542 County Farm Road, Suit ...
• Pittsburgh Sets Model to Reject Corporate-Imposed ...
  November 30, 2010 By S.B. Thompson Chambersburg, PA – Edited for length * The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is actively involved in many issues to help prevent corporations from raping America’s land and resources, including speaking out against uranium mining and mountaintop re ...
• Investigating the US Gas Boom
  I know many of you are becoming very aware of the natural gas boom happening in the Mid Atlantic area. This video covers some old ground but it also discusses some very current issues and is a great intro for anyone who is trying to learn about the problems with the fracking process. http://www.thee ...

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

environment 360

• Chinese Environmental Groups Accuse Apple of Ignor ...
  Thirty-six Chinese environmental groups have accused Apple of repeatedly failing to address concerns about pollution and the health of workers in factories that make components for the company’s computers and digital devices. The environmental groups ranked Apple last out of 29 international technol ...
• Interview: A Fierce Advocate For the Yellowstone G ...
  When he returned from Vietnam in 1968, Doug Peacock retreated to the Yellowstone backcountry to “get out of myself” and move beyond the memories that haunted him. It was there he began what would become his life’s work: documenting the grizzly bear on film and in books Doug Peacock and advocatin ...
• A Fierce Advocate for Grizzlies Sees Warning Signs ...
  Doug Peacock has been tireless defender of the Yellowstone grizzly for decades, but he believes the bear may now be facing its toughest threat yet. In an interview with Yale Environment 360,�Peacock talks about the insect infestation that is destroying a key food source for grizzlies and recalls som ...
• Groundwater Overuse May Make Arsenic More Common i ...
  A century of exploitation of groundwater supplies has drawn down water tables across Vietnam, making it difficult to avoid water contaminated with arsenic even at deeper depths, according to a new study. In tests of 512 private wells reaching depths of 10 to 50 meters (33 to 164 feet), researchers f ...
• Breeding Grounds of Rare Whale Threatened by Russi ...
  A proposed oil platform off Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East poses a significant risk to an endangered population of gray whales, according to an international wildlife group. Sakhalin Energy Investment Company, which is partly owned by Shell WWFGray whale and several Japanese companies ...

Red Ice Creations

• Australia in the Process of Making Thousands of Pl ...
  From one of our listeners: Kindred spirit! From a deeply compassionate and enlightened listener (thanks to your work) I received this email petition. A new level of the panicking grasp of dumb tyranny is occurring in our country. It’s an attack on the emerging human consciousness. Could you please m ...
• David Rockefeller Speaks About Population Control
  David Rockefeller gives a speech about over population. In this video, you will hear and see him discussing how the U.N. should sustain the population.
• Caligula's tomb found after police arrest man tryi ...
  Police arrest tomb raider loading part of 2.5 metre statue into lorry near Lake Nemi, south of Rome, where Caligula had a villa. The lost tomb of Caligula has been found, according to Italian police, after the arrest of a man trying to smuggle abroad a statue of the notorious Roman emperor recovered ...
• Plasma Rain on the Sun
  Plasma Rain: A sheet of plasma more than 350,000 km wide is rising and falling along the sun's southwestern limb today. It's so big, it makes an easy target for backyard observatories. Amateur astronomer Michael Buxton sends this time lapse movie from Ocean Beach, California: "I made the movie at 1 ...
• The Singularity - Trailer
  Within the coming decades we will be able to create AIs with greater than human intelligence, bio-engineer our species and re-design matter through nanotechnology. How will these technologies change what it means to be human? More at: thesingularityfilm.com

Russia Today

• Polish aviation official calls for acceptance of p ...
  Colonel Edmund Klich, Poland’s envoy to the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), backed its report on the reasons for the Polish president’s plane crash. Earlier, some Polish politicians called the report one-sided and...
• Afghanistan’s security is our continued effort and ...
  Ahead of his meeting with Dmitry Medvedev, Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke with RT about his plans for solving the problems that are plaguing Afghanistan and spilling beyond its borders.
• Iran will never stop enriching uranium – envoy to ...
  Ali Asghar Soltani, the Iranian envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, has said his country’s nuclear program is now entirely self-sufficient and the enrichment of uranium will continue regardless of foreign...
• Bout to hire new attorney
  Viktor Bout, the Russian businessman being held in the US for alleged gunrunning, has decided to hire a legal adviser to replace the one offered to him by the state.
• Pre-trial hearings for Viktor Bout start in US
  Alleged gunrunner Viktor Bout is set to make his first US court appearance for a pre-trial hearing. He faces charges of conspiring to kill Americans and supplying weapons to terrorists.

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

• Quantum DNA
  It’s been written that photosynthesis might be a quantum process. Now a paper appears that claims DNA itself is a quantum process: A Nobel Prize winning biologist has ignited controversy after publishing details of an experiment in which a fragment of DNA appeared to ‘teleport’ or imprint itself be ...
• The Paracast: Jerome Clark
  This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien features Jerome Clark, author of âThe UFO Encyclopediaâ and âHidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds.” After listening to this interview, I was kind of surprised by a researcher in present day ufology who sti ...
• Tau Zero and Breakthrough Spaceship Propulsion
  In the mainstream, propulsion science does not recognize UFO propulsion technology per se, (Bob Bigelow not withstanding), but there are several theories being bandied about and while interstellar travel just might occur before we become a Kardashev Level One Civilization in around two hundred years ...
• Inexplicata: Huge UFO in Peru
  On January 4th, 2011 a huge “mothership” UFO was seen hovering above Barrios Altos in Peru. ] Residents of Barrios Altos claim having witnessed what could well be the first UFO sighting of 2011. With the video in hand, one expert has already attested to the authenticity of the homemade recording. T ...
• Binnall of America: Dr. Beachcoming
  Are you interested in the oddities of history? Do you know about the NASA sandwich and the extinct kings of the Isle of Man? Then you want to listen to this latest edition of Binnall of America.com as Tim interviews the mysterious Dr. Beachcoming (not his real name) and discuss the above items and m ...

Tippers News

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

The Freeman

• More States Join Obamacare Legal Fight
  “Six more states joined a lawsuit in Florida against President Obamaâs health care overhaul on Tuesday, meaning more than half of the country is challenging the law.” (New York Times) Now the federal courts will rule on the scope of federal power. FEE Timely Classic “The Health Care Debate Was ‘Mean ...
• Obama, Hu to Discuss U.S. Exports
  “[W]hen [Chinese] President Hu Jintao walks into the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with President Obama on Wednesday to face a group of 18 American and Chinese business leaders, much of the clash will be about a new economic battlefield â inside China itself. A series of trade restrictions im ...
• Comcast Permitted to Buy NBC – with Conditions
  “Federal regulators on Tuesday blessed Comcast’s $30 billion acquisition of NBC Universal, imposing a slew of conditions on everything from competition with rivals to the price of Internet service for poor families out of concern that the firm’s vast sweep could harm consumers.” (Washington Post) In ...
• Bureaucrats Keep Us Safe?
  Once people believe that government agents protect us, there can be no end to the avenues of “protection” bureaucrats will offer.
• Growth-Stunting Regs to Get Second Look
  “President Barack Obama will order a review of U.S. regulations to remove or overhaul those that inhibit economic expansion without helping consumers, advancing his outreach to the business community.” (Bloomberg) And while heâs at it, how about all the business privileges? FEE Timely Classic “The P ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• HTML and CSS Resources for Teaching
  Every year around this time, I update the resources I use in teaching my advanced online design class. I know there are a million lists like these online. I try to keep mine short, simple and current. Also, I’m not teaching programmers or graphic design majors. My students are journalists. CSS B ...
• Visual narratives: Empirical data
  From a research study by two scholars at Stanford: In this paper, we investigate the design of narrative visualizations and identify techniques for telling stories with data graphics. We take an empirical approach, analyzing visualizations from online journalism, blogs, instructional videos, and vi ...
• Teaching HTML and CSS to journalism students
  I’ve been looking at the open-source course materials for Web Design 1, from the WaSP InterACT curriculum project. I think these materials can easily be adapted for use in a journalism curriculum. The idea is to acquaint our students with the building blocks of the Web they use every day. For stude ...
• A stupid way to handle online video
  Great post from Jerry Lazar, posted Sunday: … a lot of newspapers — perhaps cowed by their own clueless attorneys — similarly do not allow their videos to appear anywhere but on their own Websites, essentially guaranteeing that nobody outside their own geographic area will stumble upon it. This ...
• Journalists’ Toolkit: My other blog
  Lately I have been spending a lot of time building an online course for our journalism students at the University of Florida. I can’t offer the course to the public because it’s in the university’s distance learning system and open only to enrolled students. However, I have been updating and postin ...

Facing South

• One year after Citizens United
  A year ago this week, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision about the role of money in elections -- a ruling so momentous that many are still grappling to take stock of its impact on our political system. The case: Citizens United. The decision: In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled t ...
• BP's spilled oil is washing up in people
  Today marks nine months since the BP Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers and sending millions of gallons of crude oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. Though the gushing well was capped last July, oil continues to wash ashore along the Gulf Coast. BP's oil is also washin ...
• Scarce jobs and broke budgets: What can Southern s ...
  If anyone needed evidence that the Great Recession is still reverberating through the economy, consider the situation state legislatures face as they come into session this month. Put together, states have a collective $160 billion budget shortfall for the current fiscal year. And some states are ...
• Big Oil sends regulatory wish list to Congress
  The new head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently invited companies and industry groups to submit a list of regulations they'd like to see scrapped. The responses have been coming in -- but the American public isn't allowed to see them yet. That's because Chairman Dar ...
• The gayest of times, the worst of times
  By Bob Moser, Texas ObserverBobby Beltran was already having a blue Christmas. Because of his job, the 26-year-old was missing his tight-knit family's celebration back home in Brownsville for the first time. After work on Christmas night, to cheer himself up, Beltran joined some friends and ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Ivory Coast's Election Quagmire
  In resolving Ivory Coast's disputed election runoff, recognizing the rightful president is merely the first step in edifying a governance model that evenly represents the country's diverse and divided population.
• U.S. Dual-Track Policy in Somalia
  In a country with layers of complexity, clan warfare and a broken state, the Obama administration is taking an appropriately complex approach to stabilizing Somalia, one that may or may not bear fruit.
• Preventing Maternal Deaths in West Africa
  Dr. Fredanna M'Cormack and her Bele Uman Project are working in Sierra Leone to save the lives of pregnant mothers and their babies.
• Interview with Kumi Naidoo
  The Greenpeace executive director talks about connections between the environment, poverty, peace, and how the interconnectedness of these issues can drive civil society.
• Zimbabweans Still Suffering
  On a daily basis, the people of Zimbabwe face starvation, poverty, corruption and oppression, and their government is highly unlikely to bail them out anytime soon.

Canadian Encyclopedia

• Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
  Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
• Vimy Ridge
  Vimy Ridge, battle fought 9-14 April 1917 during WORLD WAR I . The long, low ridge formed a key position linking the Germans' new HINDENBURG LINE to their main trench lines leading north from HILL 70 near Arras, France.
• New France
  France was a colonial power in North America from the early 16th century, the age of great European discoveries and fishing expeditions, to the early 19th century, when Napol�on Bonaparte sold Louisiana to the US. From
• Native People: Eastern Woodlands
  Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
• Fur Trade
  Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle plastic chopping boards ...
  We’ve had an email from Miranda: Can I recycle an old plastic chopping board? It’s stained and scarred and we don’t want to use it any more. As far as I can tell, most plastic chopping boards are made from HDPE (resin code 2), which can be recycled and is quite widely collected – but [...]
• Last minute Recycling at Christmas links
  Since sharing my favourite upcycled Christmas present ideas and recycled Christmas decoration suggestions, I’ve spotted another few awesome things that I thought I should mention in case you’ve got a few spare hours this afternoon and want to reduce, reuse and recycle! I love, love, love using the m ...
• How can I reuse or recycle electric toothbrushes?
  We’ve had an email from Georgina: Where can i recycle electric toothbrushes? What about the replaced brushes? Electric toothbrushes are covered under Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations so should be recycled in designated WEEE bins at tips etc. The replacement heads almost c ...
• Recycle This in 2010 – my favourite stories
  So here we are at the end of another year – and it’s been a great one for Recycle This. We’ve had more than 1,000,000 unique visitors over the year: about 300,000 from the UK, 350,000 from the US and the rest from around the world – including 12 people from Papua New Guinea, 5 [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle Strepsils “handy ...
  Hey team. Apologies for the lack of a post on Friday – I was ill with my second cold of 2011 (which, given it was only the 7th of Jan, I thought was pretty good/bad going. I’m in the constant coughing stage now, such fun.) I spent the whole day in bed wishing I could [...]

Mondoweiss

• ACLU of Washington sues Seattle over I/P transit a ...
  Reuters "In a free and democratic society, we cannot allow the government to suppress lawful speech, even speech that may stir emotions," Kathleen Taylor, executive director of the ACLU of Washington, said in a statement about the suit on Wednesday. The ACLU's lawsuit against King County and on beh ...
• Spirit of Tunisia is infectious
  Here's an aerial view of Israeli General Yoav Galant's house, picked up by Haaretz, then passed along by�Yuval Ben-Ami, who writes: This is Israel, not California. Houses such as Galant�s are not common here, to say the least. Even Israel�s wealthiest suburban communities, such as Kfar Shmaryahu ...
• MSM self-censorship on the Israel issue
  Tonight Chris Matthews used the retirement of Joe Lieberman as an opportunity to bash the "neocons" for the Iraq war.�Matthews landed on Lieberman's disgraceful answer to Pat Buchanan's question�on Morning Joe today, saying the�Iraq war was worth it because of�WMD and Al Qaeda and�Saddam's threat to ...
• ‘Israeli occupation as brutal as Nazis&#8221 ...
  Don't ever use�Nazi analogies, right? No. When I went to Gaza, all I could think of was the Warsaw Ghetto, and the effect on the Jewish psyche of that humiliation, and the need to impose the same experience on others. You cannot understand the occupation without looking at the cycle of abuse. Here i ...
• One foot in, one foot out: A tour of a Palestinian ...
  A demolished house in Wadi Rahal, a village near Bethlehem. (All photos: Cat Rabenstine) Last week I took a walk through a friend�s village near Bethlehem. The sky was blue and spotted with clouds. It was chilly but the sun peaked through with surprising radiance.� First, he (let�s call him Ahme ...

Media Consortium

• 1.4 million fans can’t be wrong: NPR’s Facebook pa ...
  But Carvin also emphasized the importance of audience expectations. “They still see our site as mainly dedicated to consuming news,” he said. Facebook, on the other hand, is a web venue in which people are used to chatting with their family and friends. ..NPR’s Facebook page is a complement to, not ...
• The Newsonomics of 2011 news metrics to watch » Ni ...
• Gallery: 15 iPad news apps
  Thinking about creating an iPad app for your newsroom? Want to see what other news media have come up with? Below are screengrabs of several news apps from newspapers, magazines radio, television, and online-only news websites.
• Five Months on Tumblr as Seen Through Pummelvision ...
• The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: After DREAM ...

Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• NASA’s last shuttle mission needs some gas money
  No money - no problem: Atlantis back in 2009. Photo:NASA/Jack Pfaller NASA has added one more Space Shuttle flight to the schedule of launches before its veteran fleet is retired, despite not actually having any money at the moment to pay for the mission. Yesterday the agency announced it woul ...
• Super-absorbent material holds promise for spill c ...
  A new super-absorbent, 'swellable' glass material could prove useful in oil spill cleanups, groundwater remediation, and removal of pollutants such as pesticides and pharmaceutical products from water. The product, called 'Osorb', is a nanostructure material comprised of silicon atoms bound to a ...
• Big names get a shock in dry run of UK impact asse ...
  There were some surprising results when the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) released the details of its first attempt at measuring the impact of research in English universities (Times Higher Education). HEFCE had already announced in November 2010 that the pilot was broadly ...
• Cochrane review attempts to slow the spread of sta ...
  In recent years an increasing number of health experts have advocated giving cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to healthy people in an attempt to make a dent in the number of people dying from cardiovascular disease. But now a review by the widely respected Cochrane Collaboration suggests there i ...
• ERC announces Advanced Grant winners
  The European Research Council has announced the winners of its latest round of Advanced Grants, worth €590 million (US$793 million). The ERC, funded by the European Commission under the Framework 7 research programme, has awarded grants of up to €3.5 million to 266 leading researchers from around ...

new geography

• The Next Urban Challenge — And Opportunity
  In the next two years, America�s large cities will face the greatest existential crisis in a generation. Municipal bonds are in the tank, having just suffered the worst quarterly performance in more than 16 years, a sign of flagging interest in urban debt. Things may get worse. The website Business ...
• Agglomeration Vs. Isolation for Science Based Econ ...
  Earlier this month President Obama signed the reauthorization of the COMPETES Act, which provides federal funding for science initiatives aimed at enhancing economic competitiveness. In addition to shoring up agencies like the National Science Foundation, the bill called on the Department of Commerc ...
• Rise of the Hans
  When Chinese President Hu Jintao comes to Washington this week, there aren't likely to be many surprises: Hu and Barack Obama will probably keep their conversation to a fairly regulated script, focusing on trade and North Korea and offering the expected viewpoints on both. But seen from a different ...
• Tampa to Orlando High-Speed Rail: Keeping Promises ...
  Florida's Tampa to Orlando high-speed rail project could be barreling down the tracks toward taxpayer obligations many times the $280 million currently advertised. That is the conclusion of my Reason Foundation report, The Tampa to Orlando High-Speed Rail Project: Florida Taxpayer Risk Assessment. ...
• Presidential Travel: Around the World in Eighteen ...
  As a corrective for the struggles of American diplomacy, I am surprised that no one has proposed mothballing Air Force One. The jet of state is almost the perfect symbol of modern presidents, who fly around the world as if on a magic carpet, but come home with little more than passport stamps. In re ...

GM Watch

• Dutch GM seed company (and RTRS member) Nidera rep ...
• The "organised irresponsibility" of GM corporation ...
• GM contamination in Australia "staggering"
• More GM trickery from EFSA: Environmental risk ass ...
• Independent GM researcher wins court victory for d ...

spiked

• This is a crisis of the state as well as the marke ...
  For all the blame heaped on immoral bankers, it was poor profitability in the productive industries that fed the Wall Street monster.
• King Kenny has a heavy cross to bear
  Dalglish’s return to Liverpool is just the latest in a series of Messianic - and mostly failed - second comings.
• British television’s superiority complex
  The notion that ol’ Blighty is a hotbed of quality TV is as wrongheaded as the idea that Americans are all philistines.
• The definitive guide to modern-day Malthusians
  With the human population heading towards seven billion, spiked challenges the miserabilists who say this is a Very Bad Thing.
• Why it should be easier to take the abortion pill
  BPAS’ chief executive explains why she is taking the UK Department of Health to court over early medical abortion.

Cryptogon

• Blackwater’s Prince Building Mercenary Force ...
  Via: Raw Story: According to news reports published Thursday, Prince has partnered with an African-based security company, Saracen International, to win security contracts from the Somali government that would see the mercenaries fight the on-land part of the war against Somali high-seas pirates, an ...
• FAA Warns of Ongoing GPS Issues in Southeastern U. ...
  Interestingly (instinctively?), Cryptogon readers have been buying Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass by Harold Gatty for years. This one gets a tick in the Social Engineering box because of how the machine gets people to internalize and rely on whiz bang technology that can then be denied with ...
• Bankruptcy Considered for States
  How much longer can appearances be maintained? Will people continue to believe the U.S. is solvent if large states start to pack it in? Remember Meredith Whitney in States Will Need Federal Bailout Within a Year? There was a lot of scorn directed at her after that. Well… Via: New York Times: Policy ...
• IRELAND: FIVE MINISTERS QUIT IN TWO DAYS
  Via: BBC: There has been uproar in the Irish parliament after five ministers quit the cabinet inside two days, with a sixth expected to join them. It was confirmed overnight that four had tendered their resignations, joining Foreign Minister Micheal Martin, who stood down on Tuesday. The enterprise ...
• AIRprint Device Reads Fingerprints from Two Meters ...
  Via: Technology Review: Over the years, fingerprinting has evolved from an inky mess to pressing fingers on sensor screens to even a few touch-free systems that work at a short distance. Now a company has developed a prototype of a device that can scan fingerprints from up to two meters away, an app ...

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

Desertification

• New photos of family gardens in the Sahara desert ...
  Family garden project in the refugee camps of the Saharawis (RASD) near Tindouf (S.W. Algeria).  Gardens doing remarkably well in the Sahara desert. These new photos, taken in August and December 2010 in the camp of Ausserd, show once again … Continue reading →
• Climate Report Warns of Food Gap (Live Science)
  Read at : http://www.livescience.com/environment/global-warming-impacting-crops-food-production.html Dire Harvest: Climate Report Warns of Food Gap By Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer If emissions of greenhouse gases continue to increase unchecked, they could push the Earth’s surface temperatu ...
• Innovative research organisations and the challeng ...
  Read at : http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54178 New Techniques, New Profits for Tomato Farmers By Fulgence Zamblé ABIDJAN, Jan 19, 2011 (IPS) – Even while the country has faced civil war and political crisis, innovative research organisations have worked to meet the challenges … Continue reading ...
• An evaluation of the Dom Hélder Câmara project in ...
  Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.com/2011/01/dom-helder-camara-flexibility.html Dom H̩lder C̢mara РFlexibility. Innovation. Sustainability. Posted by Greg Benchwick In 2010, the IFAD Office of Evaluation undertook an evaluation of the Dom H̩lder C̢mara project in Brazil. The evaluation recogni ...
• The world’s largest reverse osmosis desalination p ...
  Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2011/01/israel-desalination-water/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+greenprophet+%28Green+Prophet%29 Israel sends wrong message about desalination Lisa Damast Construction has begun in Israel on the worldâs largest reverse osmosis desal ...

The Paper Trail

• Conservative Think Tank’s Plan Would Limit S ...
  The American Enterprise Institute offered a plan today to eliminate the “bubble-inducing distortion” it blames for the recent financial crisis – mortgage underwriters Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The assessment stands at odds with the Center’s recent FactWatch which reviewed government data and concl ...
• Pearl Project Analyzed Network Behind Crime With S ...
  When the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists set out to identify all of the players involved in Daniel Pearl's kidnapping and murder, it turned to a company – unfamiliar to most Americans but well-known to U.S. intelligence – to help analyze and understand the intricate network of ...
• Customers Close Accounts to Protest Wall Street, A ...
  The death blow for Michael Dalrymple’s Phoenix eco-friendly building supply company was the credit freeze that paralyzed the banking system and the nation in the fall of 2008.
• On Capitol Hill, the More Things Change …
  It didn’t take long for some new House Republicans to decide that inside-the-Beltway wisdom is essential after all. Many have hired tried-and-true Capitol Hill veterans as their chiefs of staff.
• TARP Watchdog Sounds Alarm About “Too Big To ...
  For U.S. banks, bigger is still better despite the financial reform law’s attempt to rein in “too big to fail” institutions, a government watchdog says.

backofthebook.ca

• Stephen Harper and the Kingdom of the Numb
  Our regular Politics blogger, Alison@Creekside, is under the weather. While we eagerly await her return, we offer you posts from some of our other favourite Canadian political bloggers, beginning with: Montreal Simon Gawd. What an awful day. Work was hell. It was rainy and slushy. The brand ne ...
• Gervais’ Gay Joke Goes Awry
  By Rachel Krueger I don’t think Ricky Gervais is a homophobe.  But in his Golden Globes opening monologue he delivered a right zinger that was entirely predicated on "gay" being an insult.  Referring to Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor in I Love You, Phillip Morris, he quipped,  ‘Two heterosexual act ...
• Faggots don’t like censorship
  By Dave Brindle We want our/We want our/We want our faggot in the lyrics. Is it censorship or sensitive to our times that the old biddies on the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council have designated the Dire Straits '80s classic "Money for Nothing" unacceptable for play on Canadian radio becaus ...
• Editing for nothing for Dire Straits
  By Frank Moher You will have heard that an American publishing house has plans for an edition of Huckleberry Fiinn in which the character "N***** Jim" is to be renamed "Slave Jim." Now comes word that the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that the song "Money for Nothing" by Dire ...
• I Don’t Need a Motorola Xoom Tablet PC
  by Eric Pettifor Ok, I'm starting to want a tablet. No, not the iPad for which I expressed my underwhelmedness back in February of 2010, but for the Motorola Xoom to be released this quarter, perhaps even as soon as next month. What's so great about the Xoom? Well, ...

Worldnews

• Lukas Podolski Will Stay In Koeln Forever - W ...
  Wolfgang Overath believes that Lukas Podolski will remain in Koeln so long as the club improves. By Clark Whitney Share Share Find the best odds and bet on the Bundesliga. The day after being linked with a move to Zenit St. Petersburg, Germany international striker Lukas Podolski has been label ...
• Palermo Coach Delio Rossi Ready For Tricky Te ...
  Delio Rossi has warned his Palermo players not to underestimate relegation strugglers Brescia... By Salvatore Landolina Share Share Find the best odds and bet on Serie A. Palermo coach Delio Rossi is hoping his side learned their lesson from last week's 3-1 loss at Cagliari as he prepares... ...
• Big breakfast may make you fat after all
  — For years, dieters have been told that the way to lose weight was to start the day with a hearty breakfast. Eat more in the morning and youâll burn more calories and consume less food later in the day, nutritionists have told us. But now a new study suggests that the only thing a big breakfas ...
• Rihanna's Dad 'Feels Sorry' For Chris Brown ...
  Rihanna's father admits he "feels sorry" for his daughter's ex-lover Chris Brown despite his brutal attack on the pop star two years...
• Stoke City Complete Loan Signing Of Aston Vil ...
  Forward joins Potters for the rest of the season By Jonathan Birchall Share Share Find the best odds and bet on the Premier League. Stoke City have signed Norwegian striker John Carew on loan from Aston Villa....

Alex in Wonderland

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

MY Daily Apple

• Colder temperatures, more heart attacks
  When temperatures dip during cold snaps, your body notices.
• PROGESTERONEinjection [Hikma Farmaceutica]
  Updated Date: Dec 16, 2010 EST
• ABILIFYtablet [REMEDYREPACK INC. ]
  Updated Date: Dec 16, 2010 EST
• Well: Tim Gunn's Advice for Making It Work
  In his role as mentor on the fashion reality show "Project Runway," Tim Gunn listens, consoles, advises and motivates the contestants. Now the fashion guru is offering his sage advice on how the rest of us can "make it work." (Source: NYT Health)
• Observatory: Humans, Like Animals, Behave Fearless ...
  A patient with rare brain damage is unafraid and incautious.

Common Dreams

• Social Media and Law Enforcement: Who Gets What Da ...
  by Jennifer LynchThis month, we were reminded how important it is that social media companies do what they can to protect the sensitive data they hold from the prying eyes of the government. As many news outlets have reported, the US Department of Justice recently obtained a court order for reco ...
• Former UK Prime Minister Blair Reveals Iraq Pledge ...
  Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has told an inquiry into the 2003 invasion of Iraq that he privately assured George Bush, the US president at the time, that  "you can count on us", eight months before the war. While Blair stopped short of saying he had promised Bush unconditional ...
• Former CIA “Ghost Prisoner” Abu Zubaydah Recognize ...
  by Andy WorthingtonFor those seeking accountabiity for the senior Bush administration officials and lawyers who established a global torture program in the "War on Terror," involving extraordinary rendition and torture in a variety of secret prisons, the news that the Polish Prosecutor has today ...
• Spate of Suicide Blasts Rock Iraq
  A spate of explosions across Iraq has killed at least 50 people, most of them in twin suicide car bombings in the holy city of Karbala, the third major attack in as many days. Thursday's attacks mostly targeted pilgrims marking the Shi'ite Muslim mourning day of Arbaeen, and were the ...
• CIA-Trained 'Terrorist' Luis Posada Carriles in US ...
  by Chris ArsenaultEL PASO, Texas - Margarita Morales Fernandez couldn't be in court to see the former CIA agent who allegedly killed her father and 72 others aboard a Cuban airplane in one of the world's worst airline attacks before September 11, 2001. Fernandez and hundreds other victims are car ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• Richard Dawkins
• Rick Mercer
• Chubby Checker
• Roberto Luongo
• Wendel Clark

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: American Idol's ratings drop like ...
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• ExamineReligion: Miraculous Meeting - A Devotion h ...
  ExamineReligion: Miraculous Meeting - A Devotion http://exm.nr/dY6ipj
• ExamineReligion: If We All Were Gay http://exm.nr/ ...
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• ExamineReligion: Moody Publishers Inside Pages off ...
  ExamineReligion: Moody Publishers Inside Pages offers contest to win Kind or iPod http://exm.nr/eLXKjl
• ExamineReligion: LA Pagan calendar of events and c ...
  ExamineReligion: LA Pagan calendar of events and classes for Jan. 21 to 30 http://exm.nr/fAycBd

Energy Collective

• Masdar's far-reaching green footpring
  Masdar, the clean energy company in oil-rich Abu Dhabi, is best known for building a green city in the Arabian desert. But while zero-carbon Masdar City has captured the lion's share of attention--here's my tour--Masdar as a company is having an impact far from home by investing in clean technolo ...
• USDA Announces Loan Guarantees For Three Cellulosi ...
  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that biofuels and biomass energy projects across America have been selected for funding to continue the Administration's support for the development of renewable fuels. Vilsack highlighted the various investments USDA made since he laid out a broad vision ...
• Small Modular Reactors Sail into Headwinds at Sava ...
  Licensing issues could push prototypes projects off course.
• Congress to Push Back on Fed, State Climate Regula ...
  Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), the new chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is making no secret of his plans for �an all-out push to block federal and state climate rules.�� Yesterday, Upton�s released hi
• The Impact of PV Solar on Peak Electric Demands
  The Independent System Operator-New England, ISO-NE, administers the regional wholesale electric market. ISO-NE currently operates two demand management programs designed to reduce peak electric demands and thus limit the adverse rate impacts of peak demands. The adverse rate impacts are due to the ...

Green House - USA Today

• Should phone books be optional? Poll finds most sa ...
  When was the last time you searched the phone book's white pages? If you're like nearly seven out of 10 U.S. adults, the answer is rarely or never, finds a Harris Interactive poll released Thursday.
• USDA unveils new green, bio-based product label
  Eco-minded shoppers will soon see a new new U.S.-approved label on many products, including household cleaners and skin-care items, made with bio-based ingredients.
• Harris Poll: Gays are greener than heterosexuals
  Gays express more concern about the environment than heterosexuals and the gap between them is growing as U.S. adults overall espouse fewer "green attitudes" than in 2009, finds a recent Harris Poll.
• BP: Renewable energy will outpace oil growth in 20 ...
  Renewable power sources will outpace oil as global energy demand surges nearly 40% in the next 20 years, according to an industry forecast Wednesday by energy giant BP.
• 2011's most fuel-efficient cars? Not just hybrids, ...
  This year promises huge leaps in fuel-sipping vehicles as electric cars like the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt enter the U.S. market. Car companies, prodded by U.S. requirements to boost overall fuel efficiency, are turning out a widening array of cars getting at least 30 miles per gallon, including th ...

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

• United States Has a Choice in Tunisia
  By Nicola Nasser* The ongoing Tunisian Intifada (uprising) cannot yet quite be termed a revolution; Tunisians are still revolting, aspiring for bread and freedom. This Intifada will go in history as a revolution if it gets either bread or freedom and as a great revolution if it gets both. Internall ...
• Let Aristide Return!
  by Stephen Lendman On February 29, 2004, US marines abducted him at gunpoint, airlifting him forcibly to the Central Africa Republic. It was one of Haiti's darkest moments, losing its beloved leader, reelected President in 2000 with 92% of the vote. For over six years, he's been exiled in South ...
• Beat Your Daisy Cutters Into Daisies
  Mickey Z. Seed bombs are compressed balls of soil and compost that have been impregnated with wildflower seeds. When jettisoned onto construction sites, abandoned lots, etc. seed bombs become a method of protesting and combating urban sprawl. The BLU-82B or “Daisy Cutter” bomb has been described a ...
• Obama Challenges China on Human Right
  by Stephen Lendman During Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit, a US - China Joint Statement said: "The United States stressed that the promotion of human rights and democracy is an important part of its foreign policy. China stressed that there should be no interference in any country' ...
• The State of the Union: A.D. 2011
  by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. I. The Crisis We are now at the breaking-point, in a present moment when civilization throughout our planet is presently wobbling at the brink of what could probably soon be, the greatest crisis of humanity since Europe's Fourteenth-century plunge into an inflationary ne ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Ending Our Addiction to Coal: The Wind and Solar P ...
  The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Saskatchewan Office released today�Transforming Saskatchewan�s Electrical Future: The Potential for Wind and Solar Power, by Mark Bigland-Pritchard, a member of Green Energy Project Saskatchewan. The report offers a practical and workable set of integrate ...
• Why are Canadian corporate taxes so low?
  PricewaterhouseCoopers and the World Bank published their "Paying Taxes 2011" study. �Among other things it examines the total tax rate paid by a hypothetical flower pot corporation in 183 countries around the world. �Canada is in the top 10 countries in terms of how easy it is to pay taxes. What i ...
• A recipe for greater equality
  The always insightful Alex Himelfarb asks in his latest must-read blog: "What would you think if someone could show that they knew just what it would take to improve our physical and mental health, reduce crime and violence, increase civic trust and participation, reduce teenage pregnancy and drug a ...
• A holiday gift from the CCPA: Enhanced publication ...
  For a limited time the CCPA is opening its entire cache of research free of charge � giving full public access to our publications via a database run by the Canadian Electronic Library. Browse our books, peruse chapters from our education journal Our Schools/Our Selves, and utilize the key-word se ...
• Canada's richest 1% taking more than ever before
  A major report by CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan shows Canada's richest 1% enjoy more of the gains from economic growth than ever before in recorded history. The report looks at income trends over the past 90 years, revealing the richest 1% took 32% of all growth in incomes between 1997 and ...

World Wide Hippies

• These Nobel Winners Should Stick Together, Amirite ...
  Barack Obama raised Nobel laureate’s plight with Hu | The Telegraph US President Barack Obama on Wednesday raised the plight of the imprisoned Liu Xiaobo, his successor as Nobel peace laureate, directly with President Hu Jintao of China, an official said. “The president did raise Liu’s case,” the se ...
• Farrow to receive activism award
  By WENN.COM-Actress and activist Mia Farrow is set to be honoured for her continued dedication to human rights causes across the globe. The Rosemary’s Baby star is an outspoken campaigner for refugee causes, particularly those affecting children in war-torn areas. Her efforts have earned her the Ma ...
• Tea Party: Reap What You’ve Sown
  Sorry Tea Partiers — The GOP Only Cares About Their Corporate Paymasters and Wealthy Elites Like the Kochs | Alternet While tea party regulars are giddy with the thought that their movement took over the U. S. House, they were actually a Trojan horse for powerful corporate interests. Early this mont ...
• Pittsburgh in the 60’s
  Like saying goodbye to an old friend The first thing I saw as I sat down with my coffee and the morning newspaper was an article announcing the retirement of one of the burgh’s longest on air newscasters. This lady has been on the air here since 1978. I have always watched her and my first [...]
• GOP Lies About Health Care
  The GOP’s 5 Most Absurd Lies About Healthcare Reform, Debunked | Alternet Now is the time to brush up on the facts about healthcare reform so we can keep the latest crop of Republican lies from taking hold. The newly Republican-controlled House voted 245 to 189 on Wednesday to repeal the Affordable ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

• "I Shall Not Hate": Gaza Doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish ...
  AMY GOODMAN: Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the end of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Dubbed "Operation Cast Lead," up to 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed in the 22-day assault between December 28th, 2008 and January 18th, 2009. More than half the Palestinians killed were civil ...
• Fox News: The No. 1 Name in Murder Fantasies
  Bill O'Reilly's recent "joke" about decapitating Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was only the latest example of a demented Fox News culture that permits on-air personalities to fantasize about assassination and other forms of violence against those deemed enemies of the station, its personali ...
• Robert Greenwald on the Ed Show -- January 6, 2011 ...
• The Tyranny of Defense Inc.
  American politics is typically a grimy business of horses traded and pork delivered. Political speech, for its part, tends to be formulaic and eminently forgettable. Yet on occasion, a politician will transcend circumstance and bear witness to some lasting truth: George Washington in his Farewell Ad ...
• War Is a Drug
  If, as 2011 begins, you want to peer into the future, enter my time machine, strap yourself in, and head for the past, that laboratory for all developments of our moment and beyond.Just as 2010 ended, the American military�s urge to surge resurfaced in a significant way.� It seems that �leaders� in ...

Salon

• Blackwater founder secretly backing Somali militia
  Erik Prince, whose former company Blackwater Worldwide became synonymous with the use of private U.S. security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, has quietly taken on a new role in helping to train troops in lawless Somalia.
• Discharging gays cost Pentagon $200 million
  A government analysis says that discharging gay service members cost the Pentagon nearly $200 million from 2004 to 2009. The money went mainly to recruit and train replacements.
• Rick Santorum just said what most antiabortion act ...
  Rick Santorum successfully inserted himself into the news cycle today by saying something stupid and offensive about the president, race and abortion. The only thing most people remember about the two-term former senator from Pennsylvania is that Dan Savage turned his name into a filthy sex term, ...
• What 25 tons of explosives will do to an Afghan vi ...
  Last October, an American fighting unit in Afghanistan reduced an entire village to dust in minutes. Nestled in the fertile Arghandab Valley, Tarok Kolache had become a Taliban stronghold and was proving a difficult fortress to penetrate. The affair must have really irked the American commander, ...
• Giffords husband 'extremely hopeful' for recovery
  Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can stand with assistance, the latest milestone in her recovery as her family prepares to move her to Houston for extensive mental and physical rehabilitation from a bullet wound to the brain.

SMB News

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

Toronto Star - Editorials

• Indoor ice rinks: Private partners could rescue ci ...
  Public-private partnerships deserve consideration as a way of building more badly needed skating rinks in Toronto.
• It makes good sense to GO electric
  A plan to make GO Transit’s Lakeshore and Georgetown train lines electric is worth the $1.8 billion pricetag.
• Places to sprawl
  Unnecessary and undesirable urban sprawl continues in key parts of the GTA, despite provincial goals to limit it.
• Pan Am Games: Toronto’s sticker shock
  Despite rising costs, the Commonwealth Games are something to cheer about.
• Alzheimer’s disease: Heeding the cries in the nigh ...
  The death of a woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease on a frozen sidewalk underlines the need to tackle this growing health crisis.

Energy Collective

• Masdar's far-reaching green footpring
  Masdar, the clean energy company in oil-rich Abu Dhabi, is best known for building a green city in the Arabian desert. But while zero-carbon Masdar City has captured the lion's share of attention--here's my tour--Masdar as a company is having an impact far from home by investing in clean technolo ...
• USDA Announces Loan Guarantees For Three Cellulosi ...
  Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that biofuels and biomass energy projects across America have been selected for funding to continue the Administration's support for the development of renewable fuels. Vilsack highlighted the various investments USDA made since he laid out a broad vision ...
• Small Modular Reactors Sail into Headwinds at Sava ...
  Licensing issues could push prototypes projects off course.
• Congress to Push Back on Fed, State Climate Regula ...
  Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), the new chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is making no secret of his plans for �an all-out push to block federal and state climate rules.�� Yesterday, Upton�s released hi
• The Impact of PV Solar on Peak Electric Demands
  The Independent System Operator-New England, ISO-NE, administers the regional wholesale electric market. ISO-NE currently operates two demand management programs designed to reduce peak electric demands and thus limit the adverse rate impacts of peak demands. The adverse rate impacts are due to the ...

EU 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 ...

Stonecipher News

• Reasons to Donate Blood
  Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actuality ...
• Special Education High School Transition Services
  From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s Offi ...
• Don't Quit Your Day Job
  This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses all ...
• Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
  Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found that me ...
• Diabetics Urged to Confer With Their Doctor About ...
  According to Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter, "THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- One day after a U.S. advisory panel recommended that the controversial diabetes drug Avandia stay on the market -- albeit with added restrictions -- several medical organizations are urging patients not to change ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

• Strife of brian
  BRIAN COWEN was facing renewed calls from his own party to quit last night after the Greens humiliated him by blocking new ministerial appointments and forcing him to bring forward the general election. Just two days after voting confidence in his leadership, Fianna Fáil TDs turned their fire on t ...
• Super Bowl off-field action
  Jan. 20, 1980: Fans of the Los Angeles Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers trade cheers and beers outside the Rose Bowl before Super Bowl XIV. The pre-game tailgate parties were limited as 8,000 parking spaces were closed because of recent rains
• Daily View: Ed Balls replaces Alan Johnson as shad ...
  Commentators discuss the departure of Alan Johnson as shadow chancellor and his replacement, Ed Balls. In the Wall Street Journal Iain Martin says goodbye to the man he says could have been prime minister: "[O]ne of the most extraordinary aspects of Johnson's story is that he is one of the very few ...
• Tony Blair returns to the Iraq Inquiry
  Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has told the Iraq Inquiry that he believed the war in Iraq was legal and the advice he received from the then Attorney General confirmed that belief. Mr Blair was questioned about earlier advice from Lord Goldsmith which suggested that additional UN backing would be ...
• FBI Makes Largest Mob Roundup In NY History
  (New York, NY)  –  As many as 100 mobsters have been arrested in what the FBI says is the largest roundup of its type in New York history. The arrests have been carried out since the early morning hours today in connection with mob investigations in New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island. The New Yo ...

Groklaw

• Google's Niels Provos battles malware on the Web
  In addition to worrying about protecting Web surfers' computers, Provos also is conscientious about safeguarding consumer privacy and he pushed for Google to delete user data collected by the team after two weeks, which is a short retention period for any Internet company collecting data. "We spent ...
• Verizon challenges FCC's new Internet rules
  The same court ruled last year that the FCC lacked the authority to stop Comcast Corp from blocking bandwidth-hogging applications on its broadband network, spurring the agency's most recent rulemaking effort. "They've a history of backing the Bells," said Stifel Nicolaus analyst Rebecca Arbogast, ...
• Some patent reflections on WebM
  Summary? Well, software patents are evil and PWJs are a menace to society. We knew that already. But when it comes to WebM, there is an extremely powerful entity in whose own interest it is to make sure PWJs are not a problem for WebM. So when it comes to worrying about patent threats, WebM is actua ...
• A Supreme Conflict of Interest
  Common Cause, which I'm privileged to lead, has asked the Justice Department to investigate whether Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas should have recused themselves from the landmark Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission case last year because they may have attended ...
• Cyberbullying Leads to Prison Term for New Jersey ...
  Federal prosecutors last year indicted New Jersey resident Matthew Bean, 20, for distributing sexually explicit photos of a teenage boy, in an alleged effort to drive the boy to suicide....Law enforcement later identified Bean as the sender, and yesterday he was sentenced by a Philadelphia federal j ...

WideShut

• Hackers Target EU Carbon Traders
  Czech Hackers steal EU carbon credits, reopening the debate on CO2 trading.
• Mainstream Admit Oil Could Hit $200 Barrel High
  Lindsey Williams proven right by the BBC on $200 a barell oil, but is there really an oil shortage?
• Fluoridation of Southampton’s Water May Be & ...
  As Southampton Fluoride action reaches the high court, we take another look at the true dangers of water flouridation.
• Record Youth Unemployment In UK
  Cameron launching back to work campaign, but with record unemployment due to lack of jobs how is it supposed to work?
• Haiti and the New World Order
  WideShut Webcast: Discussing the takeover of Haiti, the Stuxnet virus false flag and Jared Lee Loughner's Youtube.

Waterkeeper Alliance

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Politics in the Zeros

• Polizeros Radio. The absence of a real left in the ...
  What passes for the left in the US, including the left blogosphere is mostly tepid liberalism with no genuine criticism of imperialism or capitalism. This ties in with the current liberal tendency to purge (epistemic closure) or denigrate views to the left of itself. Also, what would a left foreign ...
• Virtual power plants
  A virtual power plant (VPP) isn’t really a power plant at all. It doesn’t actually exist. It’s a power plant of the IT mind—a plant locked in the digital world that can shift from traditional generation to smart-grid-enabled renewables at will. The VPP exists only in the software used to manage the ...
• Los Angeles County bus entirely alt-fuel now, no d ...
  In an urban area where diesel buses began operating in 1940, the MTA now has 2,221 buses powered by compressed natural gas, as well as one electric bus and six gasoline-electric hybrids. They now have zero buses that run on diesel, sharply reducing GHG emissions and particulates in the air and are t ...
• Intermountain Healthcare. High quality, low cost h ...
  Recently a friend was rushed to Valley View Medical Center here in Cedar City UT by his wife after he became quite ill and was coughing up blood. They diagnosed him with pneumonia. His fever was very high. The hospital immediately filled him with liquids, antibiotics, and provided superb medical car ...
• US government led by Geithner gives big banks a fr ...
  The fix is in. The Financial Stability Oversight Council led by Geithner made sure the big banks will be allowed to do whatever they want, risk and the general good be damned, even as other countries are moving to limit the size of banks. But in the US, the interlocking nexus between the big banks [ ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

• UK to assess visa rules for Kiwis to ensure they'r ...
   The British Foreign Secretary says he wants to ensure visa rules remain "firm but fair".
• Burned woman's body found by road near Huntly remo ...
  The body of a woman found beside an isolated rural road west of Huntly has been removed from the scene.
• Air NZ-Virgin deal should mean cheaper Aust fares
  Crossing the Tasman by plane should cost less now that Air NZ has bought a substantial stake in Virgin Blue.  
• Expert says inspections would have saved Pike Rive ...
  The tragedy at the Pike River Coal mine would not have happened if New Zealand had maintained a mining inspector programme canned more than a decade ago, a mining expert says
• UK to assess visa rules for Kiwis to ensure they'r ...
  British Foreign Secretary William Hague says he wants to keep immigration rules allowing New Zealanders into the UK "firm but fair"

Just World News

• Anne Applebaum and the 'Delugist' narrative on Tun ...
  There is a powerful constellation of forces in the Middle East that wants to see Tunisia's current popular uprising fail. This constellation includes: (1) All the other U.S.-supported autocrats in the Arab world, now terrified that Pres. Ben Ali's hasty departure from the country his family has loot ...
• Open thread, MIC, Tunisia, etc
  I am in North Carolina for much of the weekend, presenting at this conference on the military-industrial complex. Amazing yesterday, driving down here, to hear so many great news reports on the car radio about the unraveling of one small corner of the complex, in Tunisia. There may yet be bloody a ...
• Tunis: Curtains for Ben Ali?
  Just looking at this coverage from Al-Jaz of the day's massive and nonviolent protests in the Tunisian capital, Tunis. As Trotsky so elegantly described in his "History of the Russian Revolution", when the Cossacks start fraternizing with the protesters this signals the imminent end of the regime. ...
• Lebanon, what next?
  Anthony Shadid had a piece on Lebanon in the NYT today, with this lede: With Hezbollah’s toppling of the Lebanese government, the militant Shiite Muslim movement entered what may prove to be one of the most dangerous chapters in a 30-year history that has made it reviled in the West and popular in ...
• The STL and the myth of judicial virginity
  The myth propagated by supporters of the various "international" criminal tribunals established since 1992 has been that somehow a judicial proceeding could rise completely above the sordid field of politics and follow its own complete integrity. I used to subscribe to that myth. But in 2000-01, a ...

First Truths

• The Pretense of "Austerity"
  For C4SS, I write: The truth of state capitalism, though, is that it harnesses and exploits the labor and aptitude of the many to fatten a parasitic few. Working people lay the foundational infrastructure of state-capitalism, allowing its top-heavy imbalances to carry on in the face of countervailin ...
• The People's Republic of Crony Capitalism
  My latest for the Center for a Stateless Society: States the world over are acting as guarantors of entrenched commercial power, promoting their economic interventions with the language of fairness and efficiency. The new rules that the China Banking Regulatory Commission is expected to promulgate a ...
• No Work for the Weary, Part II
  My latest commentary for the Center for a Stateless Society: But if the state exerts its monopoly on the use of force to create special advantages for certain "competitors," and all of the supposed "choices" we have in the economic system are predicated on those advantages, then there is only the si ...
• The Empire Drones On
  I commented for C4SS "on the secrecy surrounding the U.S. military's drone program and the number of innocents it kills."
• Green Rising: The Dangers of Political Environment ...
  Today, my criticism of political environmentalism�was published as a Feature Article by C4SS.

Media Co-Op

• Support Political Prisoners of the G20
  Guelph ABC G20 Support Fund and Pamphlet Here is the long-awaited pamphlet, “Support Political Prisoners of the G20″. It gives instructions on writing and donating to G20 prisoners. Guelph ABC is facilitating an accessible alternate fund for G ...
• Pricy Jets a Nice Haul for Lockheed Execs
  Halifax Peace Coalition celebrates King, Eisenhower in picket against F-35s at Stadacona The decision by Canada's government to invest $9 billion in the "next generation" of fighter jets is a Nova Scotian issue, and should be of particular con ...
• By A Show of Hands...
  The Post-Secondary Education Coalition presents the results of their opinion polling and prepares to hit the streets. The Nova Scotia Post-Secondary Education Coalition took the fight against deregulating tuition fees into provincial governmen ...
• Sinixt in Vancouver Courts
  'Extinct' Nation Works to Defend Traditional Territory From January 10-14, 2011, members of the Sinixt nation were in Vancouver attending a BC Supreme Court case resulting from their three-week long anti-logging blockade in October 2010. In t ...
• Divorce as a Social Network
  Women discover a sense of communal support at the Divorce Fair “I don’t have him around anymore.” “I don’t have that pain.” “More closet space.” “No snoring.” “Less debt.” Each statement garnered an increasingly positive response from the crow ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Wikileaks: comparing conspiracy theories
  Image by Christian Ségal������ David Seaton's News LinksIt isn't as if conspiracies don't exist, but generally stupidity or incompetence explain most disasters and even real conspiracies don't tend to be as elaborate as their legion of fans would like to believe. But if we define a "conspiracy" as w ...
• The travails of Pfc Bradley Manning
  From the beginning of his detention, Manning has been held in intensive solitary confinement. For 23 out of 24 hours every day -- for seven straight months and counting -- he sits completely alone in his cell. Even inside his cell, his activities are heavily restricted; he's barred even from exerc ...
• Is "freedom" just another word for nothing left to ...
  David Seaton's News Links There is a world, a universe, of pain in the following quote from the Financial Times: If you want something to get angry about, I wouldn�t look at tuition fees. I�d look at a little graph produced by Leon Feinstein of the Institute for Education, which shows tests of cogn ...
• Holbrooke and Assange: the end of empire and the d ...
  Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori "You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan." The last words of Richard HolbrookeDavid Seaton's News LinksAmerica's most famous über-diplomat went out like an old Roman: his last words, lucid and noble, are worthy of the best moments that American history has to ...
• Wikileaks (virtual world) versus lynching the Prin ...
  David Seaton's News LinksOn Saturday the 11th of December, about 50 people demonstrated in favor of Julian Assange in front of the US Embassy in London. The demonstration was organized on the Internet.� Two days before, in the same city, a crowd of rioting students nearly lynched the Prince of Wales ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

• EPA Unveils Plan to Help Identify ‘Brockovich’ Che ...
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promised to help local water utilities address public concerns over the possible presence of hexavalent chromium (chromium-6) in... [[ This is a content summary only. V ...
• EPA to Bar Fluoride-Based Pesticide
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs, 202-667-6982 leeann@ewg.org; Beyond Pesticides: Jay Feldman, 202-543-5450 Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to grant three environmental groups’ petition to end the use... [[ This is a content summary onl ...
• U.S. Catches Up with Science On Fluoride in Drinki ...
  Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – Since 2005, Environmental Working Group (EWG) has been pushing the federal government and municipal water utilities to reduce the levels of fluoride in drinking... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
• EPA Should Require Clear Labels and Warnings for A ...
  January 05th, 2011 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved a partial waiver last year to allow the sale of gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol (E15) in flexible-fuel or Model Year 2007 and newer vehicles. Most gasoline... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
• Teflon chemical PFOA – Comments on Draft Screening ...
  January 04th, 2011 Click here to download full comment PDF, including detailed analysis that follows the cover letter below. December 24, 2010 Mr. David Morin, Executive Director Program Development and Engagement Division Science and... [[ This is a content summary on ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

• The 6 Worst Brands of Bottled Water You Can Buy
  The Environmental Working Group analyzed the company websites and product labels of over 170 varieties of bottled water to see if the companies disclosed information on where water came from, how the water was treated, and whether the results of tests to ensure purity were revealed. The researcher ...
• My Blackberry is Not Working!
  Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield star in this sketch from The One Ronnie.
• Most Americans are Delusional About Healthy Eating
  In a recent poll of more than 1,200 American adults, close to 90 percent said their diet was either "somewhat," "very," or "extremely" healthy. However, 43 percent of the survey respondents said they drank at least one sugary soda or sweetened drink every day. A third also said they were at a healt ...
• The Best Bomb Detectors for Airports - Why Aren't ...
  By Dr. Mercola As you probably know, 486 full-body (aka "naked") scanners are now being used at 78 airports across the United States. Along with the US, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea have also started using the scanners. According to EPIC.org, the scanners have been wholly rejecte ...
• The Amazing Skidboot
  Meet the Amazing Skidboot -- the smartest dog you will ever see.

JAMA

• Mapping Out Biomarkers for Alzheimer Disease [Edit ...
• Endovascular and Open Revascularization for Nonath ...
• Buprenorphine Implants and Opioid Dependence [Lett ...
• Buprenorphine Implants and Opioid Dependence [Lett ...
• Buprenorphine Implants and Opioid Dependence--Repl ...

Survival - tribal peoples

• India Supreme Court judge condemns 'historic injus ...
  Bhil girl, India. The Supreme Court has condemned the 'terrible oppression and atrocities' of India's tribal people. © Sunil Janah/Survival Two of Indiaâs Supreme Court judges have passed a groundbreaking judgement recognising Indiaâs tribal people as the nationâs âoriginal inhabitantsâ and st ...
• Wikileaks: US embassy condemned eviction of Kalaha ...
  The Bushmen of the CKGR were largely self-sufficient before the government evicted them. © Stephen Corry/Survival The US Ambassador to Botswana strongly condemned the government’s forced eviction of the Kalahari Bushmen, according to secret US embassy cables released today. Ambassador Joseph H ...
• Torture video soldiers charged only with ‘disobeyi ...
  The torture footage caused widespread anger and revulsion. © Survival Three soldiers who were captured on video torturing two Papuan villagers last May are being tried in a military court. But despite the beatings and torture shown in the video, the soldiers have only been charged with âfailin ...
• Bushmen back in court over water rights
  Bushman child, CKGR, Botswana 2004 © 2004 Stephen Corry/Survival The Kalahari Bushmen pleaded for the right to water in Botswana’s Court of Appeal on Monday. A panel of five judges heard the case, and are expected to deliver their verdict on 27th or 31st January. The Bushmen won the right to ...
• Botswana approves $3bn mine as Bushman water case ...
  Bushman mother and children at Gope, before their eviction to a resettlement camp © Fiona Watson/Survival Botswanaâs government has green-lighted a massive $3bn mine in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve â in the middle of the Kalahari Bushmenâs appeal against the Botswana authoritiesâ refusal ...

Montreal Gazette

• A shameful violation of religious freedom
  You have to wonder what the powers that be in Quebec City were thinking when they invited a delegation of Sikhs to make a presentation to a National Assembly committee this week, only to have them turned away.
• SPCA goes a cut too far
  It might be that there is an overabundance of pit bulls in Verdun, but the SPCA goes too far in doing something about it when it neuters animals without their owners' consent.
• Einstein was no deist
  Re: "Science and religion need each other" (Letters, Jan 14).
• Editorial: A better way to pick our judges
  It will be some time before it can be said with any certainty whether the Bastarache Commission inquiry into the process of judicial appointments in Quebec was worth the $6 million that it cost taxpayers. What can be said with considerable certainty in the immediate aftermath of the publication of t ...
• Head hits have no place in hockey at any level
  Sidney Crosby is the National Hockey League's leading scorer. He's its biggest star. His team's fortunes rise and fall on his presence. Yet for the last 21/2 weeks Crosby has been unable to play, suffering from one, possibly two concussions, joining a long list of athletes with significant h ...

Food World Order

• city of houston shuts down two radioactive water w ...
  from khou: A radioactive water well that is controlled by the City of Houston, and that serves residents of Jersey Village, is no longer being used, according to the communications director for Houston Mayor Annise Parker. On Monday, a KHOU-TV investigation revealed Jersey Village water well #3 was ...
• 1/20 binge & purge: bailout pizza & gm eggplant
  domino's gets $12m bailout as experts warn of food riots* africa's growing consumer class lures multinationals* gm eggplant trials suspended in philippines* think composting stinks? here's a fresher idea* grassroots 'truth-in-labeling" campaign* video: the more americans go on food st ...
• usda cracks down on honey laundering
  from allgov: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is continuing its pursuit of illegal, and sometimes dangerous, imports of foreign honey into the United States. After the government in 2002 imposed a tariff on honey imported from China, the world’s largest producer of the product, Chinese busi ...
• maryland orchard to pasteurize cider after e. coli ...
  from barfblog: In October, 1996, 16-month-old Anna Gimmestad of Denver drank Smoothie juice manufactured by Odwalla Inc. of Half Moon Bay, Calif. She died several weeks later; 64 others became ill in several western U.S. states and British Columbia after drinking the same juices, which contained un ...
• 1/13 binge & purge: human cheese & toxic waste®
  1m pigs buried alive in s. korea foot & mouth outbreak* lower corn & soybean output sends prices surging* nanofoods discussion group gears up in uk* would you try a slice of human cheese?* don't eat the toxic waste® brand nuclear sludge® chew bars!

CrusadeWatch

• "Crorepathy" Fr. Jegath Gasper Raj main ...
  source:  Asian Tribune The Sri Lankan Catholic Church, the Catholic Radio Veritas based in Phillipines, the Tamil Catholic hierachy and its priests have been the main links of the global network of the Church to protect, promote, provide succor and cover to the internationally banned T ...
• Sex, lies and money in the church
  source: Indian Express, October 24, 2010 Shevlin Sebastian It was midnight. Fr Jose George could not sleep because there was no fan in his room. Jose knocked on Anna Jacobs door. When she opened it, he told her he could not sleep. She invited him inside, because there was a fan. ...
• Denigration of Buddhism & conversion of the vu ...
  source:  Vijayvaani.com,   Oct 25, 2010 Christianisation was the third force of colonialism as best expressed by Jomo Kenyatta, the late Kenyan leader, who said: When the white man came he had the bible we had the land. Then he said let us close our eyes and pray. When we opened our eyes ...
• Christianity's contributions mostly negative, Amer ...
  source:  Christian Century, October 26, 2010 (RNS) When asked about Christianity's recent contributions to society, Americans cited more negatives than benefits, according to a new survey.
• Evangelism as part of foreign political strategy
  source:  The organiser, Oct 3, 2010  By Manju Gupta Evangelical Intrusions, Sandhya Jain, Rupa & Co., Pp 251 (HB), Rs 395.00 THIS book comes at an opportune moment when repeated reports of religio-political violence in the north-eastern states are pouring in, accompanied by the ris ...

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

• 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 ...

CASSE

• What If We Stopped Fighting for Preservation and F ...
  Tim Murray has a fresh idea for achieving conservation over the long haul.
• Fictitious “Facts” Spur Students to Liquidate the ...
  Are our colleges and universities sending students to work on a misguided mission?
• Show Me the Evidence: Growth and Prosperity
  New study by Fodor and Associates shows that growth and prosperity have become unhitched in U.S. cities.
• Who Moved My “Conservative?”
  How is it that the word “conservative” has come to mean such an anti-environmental, pro-growth, transform-the-world-into-plastic agenda.
• The Financial Crisis Is the Environmental Crisis
  Eric Zencey suggests reforming the monetary system to avoid future economic and ecological calamities.

The Talking Clock

• Nick Clegg, Mr. Seven Percent
  There are two big politics stories today. In one, we find that a politician has been sent to prison for fiddling his expenses. Or, put another way, defrauding the public purse. Or, put another way, stealing money out of the pockets of those unable to feed their families or heat their homes. A ...
• All of this freezing is making me sweat...
  The Environment Editor of The Sun today tells the newspaper's readership: "BRITS endured one of the coldest years on record in 2010, it was confirmed yesterday - as more snow was forecast today. Temperatures averaged 8°C (46°F) - just half a degree above the all-time low in 1919." Must be all tha ...
• Labour: Johnson's resignation is a right Balls up!
  Labour The Marxist Party's Alan Johnson has resigned as Shadow Chancellor for 'personal reasons'. Who cares? Goodbye. Don't let the door slap you on the arse as you exit. And who are they promoting in his place? Ed Balls! How hilarious! We predict that the curse of Gordon Brown will s ...
• Wikileaks: UKIP go to court
  The Talking Clock hears that a group from UKIP are planning to make their presence felt at court on Tuesday 11th January when Wikileaks frontman Julian Assage goes before the beak to answer to the evil European Arrest Warrant that has been signed in his name. We hear that one very high profile UK ...
• Is Theresa May actually Jacqui Smith in a mask?
  News breaking on the BBC that the 'controversial' American pastor Terry Jones has been banned from entering Britain 'for the public good'. This is the guy who threatened to burn a copy of the Koran in the United States on the anniversary of 9/11. Now, leaving aside the fact that this blogger t ...

Facing South

• One year after Citizens United
  A year ago this week, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision about the role of money in elections -- a ruling so momentous that many are still grappling to take stock of its impact on our political system. The case: Citizens United. The decision: In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled t ...
• BP's spilled oil is washing up in people
  Today marks nine months since the BP Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers and sending millions of gallons of crude oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. Though the gushing well was capped last July, oil continues to wash ashore along the Gulf Coast. BP's oil is also washin ...
• Scarce jobs and broke budgets: What can Southern s ...
  If anyone needed evidence that the Great Recession is still reverberating through the economy, consider the situation state legislatures face as they come into session this month. Put together, states have a collective $160 billion budget shortfall for the current fiscal year. And some states are ...
• Big Oil sends regulatory wish list to Congress
  The new head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently invited companies and industry groups to submit a list of regulations they'd like to see scrapped. The responses have been coming in -- but the American public isn't allowed to see them yet. That's because Chairman Dar ...
• The gayest of times, the worst of times
  By Bob Moser, Texas ObserverBobby Beltran was already having a blue Christmas. Because of his job, the 26-year-old was missing his tight-knit family's celebration back home in Brownsville for the first time. After work on Christmas night, to cheer himself up, Beltran joined some friends and ...

CenterLine

• Today’s Terrorism News
  Judge in Ghailani Case Appears Ready to Back Conviction At a hearing in federal court in New York Thursday, Judge Lewis Kaplan appeared skeptical of defense arguments that the sole conviction against Ahmed Ghailani in connection with the U.S. Embassy … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Report: White House Preparing for New Military Commission Cases at Guantanamo The New York Times reports that the Obama administration will increase the use of military commissions and is preparing to lift an order imposed on the day Obama took … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Supreme Court Declines to Hear al-Adahi Appeal The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal by Guantanamo detainee Mohammed al-Adahi, who was ordered freed by a federal judge in 2009 on the grounds that the government lacked sufficient … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  NYT Report Offers Window into Defense Strategy in Ghailani Trial The New York Times offers an in-depth portrait Tuesday of the strategy defense attorneys used during the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in a … Continue reading →
• Today’s Terrorism News
  Yemen Sentences al-Awlaki to Ten Years in Absentia U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was sentenced in absentia by a Yemeni court to ten years in prison Monday for âtaking part in an armed group and incitement to kill foreigners,â according to … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

• Eradication from above
  Rodents can threaten island ecosystems. In the Galapagos Islands, rangers are releasing poisoned bait from helicopters to try to eradicate the pests
• Winging it: NASA's aviation vision
  Wraparound winglets and decibel-dashing deltas feature in NASA's vision of next-generation aircraft
• What's wrong with Steve Jobs, and will Apple suffe ...
  Steve Jobs's sick leave has generated the sort of news coverage normally reserved for a member of the first family – so what's wrong with him?
• Today on New Scientist: 17 January 2011
  All today's stories on NewScientist.com, including: cyberwar countermeasures, robot dogs, and how bugs control your mind
• What's the carbon footprint of war?
  When a brutal war significantly reduces a human population, forests have the chance to re-grow and absorb carbon dioxide, a new study suggests

Tech Drive In

• XPlanetFX - Incredible Tool for Rendering Real Tim ...
  XPlanetFX is an incredible tool for rendering�high quality�real time earth wallpaper in Ubuntu. XplanetFX comes with a handy GTK interface which makes things a whole lot simpler. I never knew such a tool even existed until one of our readers mentioned us about it. Real Time Earth Wallpaper in U ...
• Blender 2.56 Beta Released[Ubuntu PPA]
  Blender is an incredible open source cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation. And if you are unaware of the capabilities of Blender, you should watch these stunning Blender made short films and animations you probably haven't seen ever before. Blender 2.56 beta is the fifth beta release of Ble ...
• Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal - First Impressions
  At the time of writing this article, Ubuntu 11.04 codenamed "Natty Narwhal" is still very much in its nascent stages of development. I really wanted to take it for a spin and write about my first hand impressions on latest build Ubuntu Natty. I installed Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Alpha 1 in my USB ...
• Remove OpenOffice and Install LibreOffice in Ubunt ...
  Though there is no definitive time frame yet, LibreOffice is going to be the default Office suite for Ubuntu in the near future. "Future ubuntu releases will be shipped with LibreOffice", said Mark Shuttleworth himself recently. If you don't want to wait until then, here is how you install latest Li ...
• Last.fm Free Music Player Google Chrome Extension ...
  Tech Drive-in has covered several posts on useful Google Chrome extensions before, the most prominent being the one where we featured useful Chrome extensions for a more secure browsing experience. But this one is special. A Last.fm music player extension for Google Chrome that�does exactly what you ...

Case About Bird Flu

• GERMANY CONSIDERING DEBT RESTRUCTURING OF GREECE A ...
  The German government is considering a restructuring of Greek and Irish debt, according to German media. Plans to implement a partial default for Greece and Ireland could signal that the German government is putting together a viable strategy to stabilize the eurozone., which is currently collapsing ...
• Brian „Trabelsi“ Cowen prolongs the inevitable dem ...
  Ireland’s Taoiseach Brian Cowen won the motion of confidence among Fianna Fail Dail members atlast night after Finance Minister Brian Lenihan swung behind the beleagured Prime Minister Cowen’s challenger, Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin, is set to resign from Cabinet. Facing annihilation in ...
• Debt Bondage: The Economic Treason of Banks
  Bob Chapman The International Forecaster January 18, 2011 Between now and the end of the year, most likely in the fall, we’ll see major financial and economic problems in Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Belgium, Spain and Italy. Those events will sorely test Germany, France, Holland and Austria. Over and ...
• Rockefeller Owned: Chileans tell him he will fail
  NWNoticias YouTube January 17, 2011 Together with his good-old friend Agustin Edwards Eastman, Mr. Rockefeller takes a quick vacation almost every year in the south of Chile. Both are well known for working with the CIA during the 1973 coup against Salvador Allende and manipulating public opinion th ...
• China Plants Flag on Constitution Avenue
  Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 18, 2011 On Tuesday night, Obama followed the script closely. He sat down to what the corporate media describes as “an unusual and intimate dinner” with Hu Jintao, the CEO of the sprawling slave labor gulag and globalist dream come true in China. After dinner, Hu Jina ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Global warming is dead, let’s move on
  By Imre Salusinszky WE did it. For once, we acted collectively, as humans, huddled together on a fragile planet, rather than as selfish individuals. And we did it: we beat global warming. So now let’s move on. According to the Bureau of Meteorology, 2010 was Australia’s coldest year since 2001. Sinc ...
• The Met Office fries while the rest of the world f ...
  By Christopher Booker First it was a national joke. Then its professional failings became a national disaster. Now, the dishonesty of its attempts to fight off a barrage of criticism has become a real national scandal. I am talking yet again of that sad organisation the UK Met Office, as it now defe ...
• China-style dictatorship of climatologists
  By Patrick Michaels November’s election made it quite clear that the people of the United States do not want to radically change our society in the name of global warming. Pretty much every close House race went to the Republicans, while the Democrats won all the Senate squeakers. The difference? Th ...
• Israeli Banks Finance Newspaper calling for Genoci ...
  By Yossi Bartal Major Israeli banks, credit institutions, and communication companies are among the advertisers in an extreme right wing weekly magazine that called for building concentration camps. An Israeli Jewish orthodox magazine “Ma’ayanei Hayeshua” (Fountains of Salvation) that is distributed ...
• Confirmed: Stuxnet Was False Flag Launched by Isra ...
  Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 16, 2011 On Saturday, the Gray Lady of establishment propaganda, the New York Times, passively admitted that the Stuxnet virus responsible for crippling Iran’s nuclear energy program was engineered by Israeli and U.S. intelligence. “Officially, neither American nor Is ...

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 ...

electric politics

• From Boom to Bust and Back Again
  It's no accident that the White House won't regulate the banks. In our plutocratic system the White House is their wholly owned and fully brain-washed subsidiary, the only question being how best to pretend otherwise. To discuss various matters involving American and world high finance I turned onc ...
• Inflection Points
  What's the attraction of trying to remake the world so that everybody becomes like us? My answer is it's the logical extension of a terrifying, still very much alive American system of slavery but whatever your favorite explanation, the project itself is doomed. When will we ever learn? To talk abo ...
• Trench Warfare
  It's not just morally unconscionable that a tiny minority of Americans have almost all the money, it's a terrible thing in policy terms, especially if what you want is democracy. A plutocracy — let's not kid ourselves about this — is basically a slave system. To talk about how we got into our prese ...
• Priorities
  To be honest, the shrimp fishermen don't matter. The Gulf coast tourist traps don't matter. The economic effects of the spill. Don't matter. It's not about the money. What matters is that we're destroying the environment, killing countless innocent creatures. I keep hoping things may not be quite a ...
• Regime Change Politics
  We tell ourselves that humans are sentient animals. Yet here in the U.S. our politics seem rather more directed by delusion, or denial, than reason. Collectively, we not only do not know that our political system does not produce democratic results, we pretend the results are democratic no matter h ...

PR News

• Grant splits from The Michael Russell Group
  NEW YORK: James Grant, VP of The Michael Russell Group, is leaving the firm to launch his own PR firm called James Grant PR.
• Buddendeck resigns from Nissan global comms role
  JAPAN: Alan Buddendeck, global VP of corporate communications for Nissan, resigned, effective December 31.
• Ogilvy undergoes NY consumer talent shake-up
  NEW YORK: Despite client retention within Ogilvy's New York consumer PR practice, the WPP agency confirmed that a number of senior-level employees within the practice have departed over the past few months.
• Volkswagen names Edelman AOR
  LOS ANGELES: Volkswagen Group of America hired Edelman as its PR AOR in the US, but it has not yet completed its review for an events firm.
• BIO hires Lisaius to lead campaign initiative
  WASHINGTON: The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) hired Ken Lisaius as a senior advisor and director of public affairs, with responsibility for leading the development of a new education and industry branding campaign.

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

k2p blog

• How many ways to add up to any number? Sequence of ...
  Emory mathematician Ken Ono and colleagues will be announcing results today that include a finite, algebraic formula for partition numbers thanks to discovering that the sequence of partitions is fractal.
• Indian Environment Ministry challenges IPCC and CO ...
  The Indian Environment ministry has sponsored a paper which says that human induced global warming is much less than what the R K Pachauri headed IPCC had said.
• Ships and crew safe but Sea of Okhotsk rescue susp ...
  The Sea of Okhotsk rescue has been suspended for bad weather but the ships and their crews are in relative safety.
• No “peak” gas in sight as IEA doubles ...
  Known reserves of Natural gas were thought to be sufficient for 60 to 120 years. Now with shale gas being produced in large quantities, the IEA has revised known reserves upwards to 250 years -- and they could be further revised upwards.
• Global warming paper withdrawn for being “fa ...
  A study warning that the planet would warm by 2.4C by 2020, creating deadly consequences for the global food supply, is being debunked as false and impossible

Left Foot Forward

• By-election number 3 as Gerry Adams resigns his We ...
  Gerry Adams has triggered another by-election by resigning his Westminster seat, reports Left Foot Forward's Devolution Correspondent Ed Jacobs.
• Are we really all in it together?
  Howard Reed reports on how the coalition's cuts show that the poorest will be hit hardest - particularly single parents families and single pensioners.
• Britain is the world leader in wind power
  New statistics this week confirm the United Kingdom is the world leader in the wind power sector with 1,342 megawatts (MW) installed, reports Chris Tarquini.
• Iraq Inquiry: The key questions facing Blair
  Tony Blair will appear before the Iraq Inquiry today for a second time, from 9:30 to 2:00, to face cross-examination on key evidence he gave first time around.
• Johnson resigns as Shadow Chancellor – Balls ...
  Alan Johnson shocked Westminster today by resigning as Shadow Chanellor for "personal reasons to do with my family". Ed Balls is the new Shadow Chancellor.

Consumerist

• Ally Bank Withdraws Maryland Robosigner Foreclosur ...
  If you're one of 250 Maryland homeowners with a foreclosure order signed by Ally Bank's Jeffrey Stephan, you've just been granted a reprieve. The bank is withdrawing all Maryland foreclosures authorized by Stephan, who admitted that he casually signed off on thousands of foreclosures each month. Bu ...
• Walmart To Cut Sodium And Reduce Produce Prices
  Walmart has announced a massive plan to cut sodium and added sugar from thousands of products, add stores in poor areas that don't currently have supermarkets, and slash prices on produce. The plans were announced in partnership with First Lady Michelle Obama, whose "Lets Move" campaign aims to cut ...
• Apple Switching To New Kind Of Screw So You Can't ...
  Apple has started to use a new kind of 5-pointed screw that no one has a screwdriver for except Apple. The "pentalobular" screws are going into new iPhones and some laptops, making it harder, if not impossible, for owners to get into the guts of the gadgets they ostensibly own. Better yet, accord ...
• Wendy's To Sell Off Arby's Chain
  Just three years after combining in a $2.2 billion merger, Wendy's and Arby's are about to part ways. The supersized 2008 deal created the world's third-largest fast-food chain, but Arby's has struggled and parent Wendy's/Arby's Group is now ready to slice the roast-beef chain out of the family. I ...
• AT&T To Change Text Message Packages And Chuck Som ...
  Is it cellphone plan adverse tweak season? Now AT&T is changing up its text message plans and doubling the per message rate for going over them, and getting rid of some upgrade discounts, reports Engadget, going off a leaked internal document. Text package will be 1,000 messages for $10, and 10 ce ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

• Justice Department Leakers of Classified Info. Get ...
  Three months ago, journalist Michael Isikoff noted the disturbing "Double Standard" in White House Leak Inquiries.  But now it's not just the Executive Branch.  Josh Gerstein of Politico just published an article on how a judge ruled that the Justice Department can keep secret names of its own law ...
• U.N. Investigations Chief Subject of Whistleblower ...
  Associated Press: U.N. Investigations Chief Under Investigation Michael Dudley, a U.N. official responsible for investigating internal misconduct, is himself the subject of an investigation involving two whistleblowers. According to complaints filed with GAP, the two whistleblowers assert they ...
• Swiss 'WikiLeaks' Banker on Trial; Congress Looks ...
  By Wikimedia user Elwood J. Blues BBC News: Swiss Banker Linked to Wikileaks on Trial Over Secrecy A former Swiss banker faced a one-day hearing today in Zurich for allegedly leaking client data, as well as making threats to his former employer. Although the banker handed over additional ...
• IRS Revamps Whistleblower Reward Program: Whistleb ...
  Washington Post: IRS Reverses Position, Which Could Benefit Whistleblowers Summary: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has reversed a policy change that had limited the scope of its whistleblower program by blocking rewards for informants in certain cases. On Friday, the IRS announced new r ...
• DOJ: So-Called "Leakers" Are More Dangerous Than S ...
  The strength of government's unyielding animus toward whistleblowers is no more evident than in the latest statements from disgraced prosecutor William Welch, who is "redeeming" himself amidst prosecutorial misconduct allegations stemming from the botched case against late-senator Ted Stevens by ...

UK Progressive

• Lieberman and Shriver: A Tale of Two Democrats
  by Denis G. Campbell Joe Lieberman and Sargent Shriver’s names sat above each other on my Google News Reader. Sarge, a visionary gentleman and leader who lived in the shadow of the Kennedy’s, ran for Vice President and created the Peace Corps, died at 95. Lieberman is a turncoat, back-stabbing, self ...
• Republican/Tea Party Media Messaging Part 2: Never ...
  Welcome to the second in an ongoing series of ways the Republican/Tea Party sticks their fingers in their ears and says… “la-la-la-la, I’m not listening, whilst never moving off THEIR talking points. Part 1 was about the ‘don’tstoptalkingever’ thing. Part 2 is about giving YOUR answer just not to t ...
• General Shinseki Has a Dream
  by Brent Budowsky Let’s begin a JFK moon-shot program to end homelessnessamong American veterans within five years, and end homelessness of any American within 10 years. The ambitious goal of ending the plight of our homeless heroes within five years was originally proposed by Gen.  Eric Shinseki, t ...
• Hypocrisy? Republican Congress Members Defend Deci ...
  … while voting to repeal US Healthcare reform. Watching them twist and turn themselves into knots defending their indefensible, hypocritical  position.
• UK Residents Unable To Offer Valid Opinion On Fluo ...
  By Theodora Filis, Contributing Editor Last year the South Central Strategic Health Authority (SCSHA), in Southampton, UK, arrogantly rejected the overwhelming public opposition to fluoridation of Southampton City’s water supply on the grounds that the public was too ignorant to hold a valid opinion ...

NewsAlert

• No One Died on a US Flight in 2010
  Newser
• Schultz: Republicans Have A 'Pre-Civil Rights Atti ...
  Eyeblast T.V.
• Giffords leaves Tucson hospital for arduous rehabi ...
  The Washington Post
• Home sales hit 13-year low; Median Home Price Fall ...
  The AP
• Education Cutbacks and Urban Violence
  The American Thinker

JoNova

• Science is played by politicians
  When an expert on small mammals announces that sea levels will rise by 100m, that’s national news. When an expert on hydrology announces that thousands of homes will be flooded sooner or later in a major capital city, it’s buried, and stays buried for four years, and even after it’s leaked, it still ...
• Vision of The Annointed
  Thomas Sowell wrote Vision of the Anointed in 1995, and didn’t mention climate change. Yet such is the insight of the man that what he wrote was prescient, pertinent and 100% applicable 15 years later. Our battle today follows a similar pattern to  battles over many other social policies. Sowell di ...
• While the Cat is away-Version 2
  CAT (away) + Mice = PLAY Jo is away from the computer for some fun and relaxation with her family. Jo being “off-line” leaves the controls of this blog in the hands of volunteer moderators. This time while the Cat is away: Many regular posters here use web links to make their point(s). If those [... ...
• The Warmest Year Antidotes
  What do you say when the Big PR bell is rung? You know the litany: “2010 was the warmest since measuring began, and the previous decade was also the warmest decade on record.” (eg The AGE) Sure, and the world has been warming for 300 years, long before the industrial revolution. The trend hasn’t cha ...
• Brisbane’s Man-made Flood Peak?
  In Australia we’re all watching the flood news unfold. Right now, two friends are trapped without electricity in an apartment building in inner Brisbane. The ground floor below them is inundated. Troy and Jan wrote on Tuesday night that they had little warning their exit route would be cut off, and ...

ReNew America

• The president said nothing
  (Marie Jon, RA analyst) - From the moment the good citizens of this country heard what took place in Arizona, President Barack Obama said nothing to admonish the media or the investigating sheriff for openly defaming innocent people who had nothing to do with the deaths and life-threatening injuries ...
• House passes health law repeal
  (Politico) - House Republicans passed a bill to repeal President Barack Obama's health care plan Wednesday, taking their first major step toward rolling back the massive overhaul that has dominated the American political landscape for almost two years...
• Why we're a divided nation
  (Walter E. Williams) - Some Americans have strong, sometimes unyielding preferences for Mac computers, while most others have similarly strong preferences for PCs and wouldn't be caught dead using a Mac. Some Americans love classical music and hate rock and roll. Others have opposite preferences, lo ...
• Conservatives blast Obama 'appeasement' of China
  (Newsmax) - President Barack Obama's red-carpet treatment of visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao has failed to sweep away growing alarm over China's no-holds-barred push for military and economic dominance, with one leading conservative expert charging Wednesday that the president's over-the-top co ...
• The hate speech inquisition
  (Michelle Malkin) - There isn't a shred of evidence that deranged Tucson massacre suspect Jared Loughner ever listened to talk radio or cared about illegal immigration. Indeed, after 300 exhaustive interviews, the feds "remain stumped" about his motives, according to Tuesday's Washington Post...

Truth Offering

• Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
  It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, and ...
• US Falls In Level of Overall Economic Freedom -- D ...
  The Heritage Foundation just released its annual Economic Freedom List. The list "measures ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic freed ...
• Did J.P. Morgan Sink the Titanic!?
  1st Row: JP Morgan, Joseph Bruce Ismay, John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim. 2nd Row: The Federal Reserve and the TitanicAs youngsters, we're all told the infamous story of the Titanic, the supposedly indestructible ship that sunk on its maiden voyage. We're all familiar with the story: the shi ...
• Our Diet Is Killing Our DNA!
  Few people are aware of this simple fact: what you eat directly impacts your DNA. This likely seems like a strange new concept to most, considering we're all brought up with such an incorrect understanding of human health and wellness. Five years back, I was no different -- well, I always cared abou ...
• Chemtrails: Scars in the Sky
  Geoengineering is a relatively new idea to the world. According to�Wikipedia,�"The modern concept of�geoengineering�(or�climate engineering) is usually taken to mean proposals to deliberately manipulate the�Earth's�climate�to counteract the effects of�global warming�from�greenhouse gas�emissions. Th ...

2012 Blog

• Sea Rise Ark / Irish Giant Gene / Betelgeuse
  Experts are saying the sea levels will rise by 13 feet in the next thousand years. This is the first time such a long-range forecast has been made, and presumably the authors will never see their work disproved. I presume this work, which focuses on climate change, does not consider that the long-te ...
• Doomsday Driver
  A woman who claimed the world was going to end in an apocalyptic earthquake Friday was arrested in the Marin Headlands on allegations of abducting four people off the streets of Berkeley and San Francisco, a federal spokeswoman said. Lark Ann Freeman, 36, of Fairfield was booked into Marin County Ja ...
• George Lucas: 2012 Believer
  Just in, via a news report quoting Seth Rogen on a meeting he had with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg: He recalls, “George Lucas sits down and seriously proceeds to talk for around 25 minutes about how he thinks the world is gonna end in the year 2012, like, for real. He thinks it.  “He’s [...] ...
• The Sun… and us
  A giant eruption (aka CME) on the far side of the Sun has some 2012ers bracing for the worst. Odds are everything will be OK, but this is one of those weeks in which the SH might hit TF. And we’ve just had a 7.0 earthquake in the Loyalty Islands. Might be nothing – but [...] Related posts:Global W ...
• Tampa Airport and The Magnetic Pole Shift
  This story has caused a big stir online, leading many people to jump to the conclusion that the magnetic poles are shifting, and doom is near. The runways have large numbers visible to the pilots when they land the planes. The numbers are used for the pilots to line up their compasses for a safe [.. ...

Facing South

• One year after Citizens United
  A year ago this week, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision about the role of money in elections -- a ruling so momentous that many are still grappling to take stock of its impact on our political system. The case: Citizens United. The decision: In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled t ...
• BP's spilled oil is washing up in people
  Today marks nine months since the BP Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers and sending millions of gallons of crude oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico. Though the gushing well was capped last July, oil continues to wash ashore along the Gulf Coast. BP's oil is also washin ...
• Scarce jobs and broke budgets: What can Southern s ...
  If anyone needed evidence that the Great Recession is still reverberating through the economy, consider the situation state legislatures face as they come into session this month. Put together, states have a collective $160 billion budget shortfall for the current fiscal year. And some states are ...
• Big Oil sends regulatory wish list to Congress
  The new head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently invited companies and industry groups to submit a list of regulations they'd like to see scrapped. The responses have been coming in -- but the American public isn't allowed to see them yet. That's because Chairman Dar ...
• The gayest of times, the worst of times
  By Bob Moser, Texas ObserverBobby Beltran was already having a blue Christmas. Because of his job, the 26-year-old was missing his tight-knit family's celebration back home in Brownsville for the first time. After work on Christmas night, to cheer himself up, Beltran joined some friends and ...

One News Page

• Patricia Krenwinkel Denied Parole for Manson Famil ...
  Charles Manson Follower Patricia Krenwinkel Denied Parole for 13th Time63-year-old Patricia Krenwinkel, convicted along with other members of the Manson Family for the Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969, was denied parole for a 13th time. Patricia Krenwinkel was convicted on seven... read more
• Sebastian gets Martin Luther King tattoo
  Singer Guy Sebastian gets a new tattoo in tribute to activist Martin Luther King.
• Who is Shailey Tripp? Todd Palin Affair Story Gain ...
  Who Is Shailey Tripp? According to the National Enquirer, She Is the Woman in the Middle of a Todd Palin Affair Scandal The National Enquirer has published a story about an alleged Todd Palin affair involving a woman named Shailey Tripp. According to the Enquirer, stories... read more
• Reality Tv Star Taylor Checks Into Rehab
  PRETTY WILD star TESS TAYLOR has checked into a rehab clinic in California to kick an addiction to opiates.The aspiring model is receiving treatment at the SOBA Malibu Recovery Center after becoming 'extremely weak and exhausted from trying to detox and recover from opiate addiction,' according ... ...
• CAMERON DIAZ IN LOVE WITH GREEN GUYS!
  CAMERON Diaz seems to have a thing for a certain color! The actress admits even she is surprised by the number of green guys she’s fallen for in her movie career but says it’s just a strange coincidence. “I actually didn’t realize it until someone pointed out that I really like guys ...

Global Research TV

• Visita a una escuela cubana
• Visita a un policlínico cubano
• David Swanson: War Is A Lie
• Argentina, IMF and the New World Order
• The Panama Deception: War and Media Failure

Daily Tech

• Scientist Creates Evolutionary Robots
  University of Vermont researcher finds that robots learn to walk and behave more efficiently when its body and behavior evolves instead of being fixed
• Details on "Google Offers" Groupon Competitor Surf ...
  Groupon in Google's crosshairs
• High School Teacher Develops New Method of Creatin ...
  Now Harvard University is using the method in its labs
• Lenovo and NEC May Merge Their PC Businesses
  The talks could transform into some sort of other partnership, as well
• Intel Confident it Can Beat ARM in the Mobile Spac ...
  Who, us worried? Naww...

Oriental Review

• Russia And The Oil-Gas Diplomacy In Arctics (I)
  By Vadim Truhachev (Russia) Dem. Edward Markey — Chair Deputy of the House Committee for the Natural Resources — claimed that agreement between Rosneft and BP may threaten American national security. According to his opinion, stock exchange may complicate the procedure of fee recovery from the Engli ...
• India-Russia Relations: Rekindling The Past
  By Rupakjyoti Borah (India) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev landed in New Delhi on December 21, trying to give a push to the bilateral ties between Russia and India. His visit marked the end of a series of high-profile visits to India by the top leadership of all the five permanent members of the ...
• Central Asia: Top 10 Developments in 2010
  By Alexander Shustov (Russia) The present list of top 10 developments in Central Asia in 2010 was compiled on the basis of the author’s assessment of their impact on the region’s political and socioeconomic landscape. In any case, the developments surveyed below will likely have enduring repercussio ...
• Japan and India: Coming Together For a Multipolar ...
  By Rupakjyoti Borah (India) In a significant development that went largely unnoticed, India agreed to speed up the mining of its rare earth reserves during the visit of its Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Japan between October 24-26, 2010 for the annual bilateral summit. Rare earth materials find a ...
• What Is Khodorkovsky Doing His Time For (III)
  By Gregory Tinsky (Russia) Part 1 Part 2 Khodorkovsky as a one of modern Russian political system Framers During next three or four years Mikhail Khodorkovsky became one of the wealthiest people in Russia. Due to the experts’ estimates his fortune used to make up $18 billion. Time of financial affai ...

BlogHer

• Not All of Us are Michael Freaking Scott
  I admit, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Community when it started, but I’m a convert this season. The characters are engaging enough on a surface level that I don’t have to spend any time thinking about their motivations or histories if I don’t ...
• The Sit Down Diet
  January is BlogHer's Month of Little Steps to Health & Fitness, and we want you to share your favorite easy health tip! Click here to see how to play along. And check out all the tips so far in the Month of Little Steps to Health & Fitness se ...
• Day 14: Spanish Almond Soup With Bread, Saffron an ...
  For Day 14 of Countdown to Soup Swap, a weird but really good Spanish almond soup made from stuff I found in my pantry -- and a little courage. We're counting down to National Soup Swap Day with soup ideas every day for two weeks! Come back e ...
• The New Site Figment Asks Users to "Write Yourself ...
  I wasn't the kid in the class who said they were going to be a writer when they grew up. I'm sure I said it once or twice. I probably also said I was going to be a doctor, nurse or teacher. When I was a few years out of university and my offi ...
• Excessive Video Gaming Causing Anxiety in Kids?
  "Kids' Excess Video Gaming Tied to Anxiety" doesn't even feel like news, at first blush. Surely there's anxiety on the part of the parents trying to keep their kids from spending every waking moment glued to the XBox, and obviously kids who ...

Health Freedom Alliance

• 7 Foods So Unsafe Even Farmers Won’t Eat Them
  We’ve all been told that there are foods that should be avoided, things like high fructose corn syrup and white bread, that cause serious issues from weight gain to cancer. But have you taken the ...
• Kentucky Farm Freedom Act: Proposed Bill Will Keep ...
  S.510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, was signed January 4th and is poised to hand the FDA unlimited power over the food supply and create costs for food producers that will drown the already sinking ...
• GMOs: Myths, Falsehoods, Superstitions
  The history of GMO’s in India is a sorted tale of corporate aggression and destitute farmers so in debt from season after season of  failed crops that there has been a suicide epidemic as people ...
• President Obama Signs Into Law Sweeping Food Safet ...
  On Tuesday, President Obama signed one of the most expansive food regulation bills in living memory, giving the Food and Drug Administration sweeping regulation powers over food production and distribution. The billion-dollar Food Safety Modernization Act ...
• Government to Reduce Fluoride Levels in Drinking W ...
  Under pressure to make a decision about safe levels of exposure to a fluoride-based pesticide, EPA and other agencies have taken action to address the risks of a mineral that has long been promoted as a necessity in ...

Live News Wire

• Editorial: As The Country Mourned, Tucson Needed T ...
  Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was about ...
• Police Made Visits To Loughner Home Before Shootin ...
  The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to authoritie ...
• Criminal Charges Filed Against Congresswoman’s Sho ...
  Newly-released court documents offer a glimpse into the motive behind Jared Loughner's attempted assassination of Tucson Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday. Recovered from Loughner's home was a letter addressed to Jared Loughner from Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords mailed a tha ...
• “Unbelievable Tragedy:” Congresswoman Shot By Youn ...
  At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery store ...
• Queensland Facing Flood Of “Biblical” Proportions
  The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this week. ...

Coal Tattoo

• ‘Rally for Coal’ draws 1,000 to W.Va. ...
  Sen. Joe Manchin, right, and West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, far left, attend a rally for coal Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 at the Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. More than 1,000 people crowded round the well of the state Capitol’s rotunda Thursday to rally in response to a recent action by the U.S. E ...
• Rep. Miller renews call for mine safety reforms
  Here’s a statement issued last evening by the office of Rep. George Miller, D-Calif.: In light of information released today by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.) called on Congress to move on legislation immediately that would close loopholes in fe ...
• Manchin to introduce bill to block EPA permit veto ...
  This just in from the office of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin: Washington, D.C. – Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) has delivered a letter to his Senate colleagues urging them to join with him and cosponsor legislation to oppose last week’s unprecedented regulatory actions by the Environmental Protection ...
• Does Rep. Nick Rahall care about reducing coal min ...
  I’ve been wasting some time this week, asking West Virginia political leaders what they thought of the once-secret engineering report outlining ways that Arch Coal Inc. could have greatly reduce the damaging impacts of its proposed Spruce No. 1 Mine. Let me tell you … these folks do not want to tal ...
• Ky. Coal Association: Mining much safer
  Below is an AP report out of Kentucky by Dylan Lovan, and here’s the link to the report he’s writing about (his story says it was “provided” to the AP, but it looks like it’s actually just posted on the Kentucky Coal Association’s Web site. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A new coal industry paper says minin ...

Daniel Miessler

• Guillaume Nery Underwater Base Jump
  via youtube.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsJan-Ove Waldner ServesEuler’s DiskThe Parrot AR.DroneThe GiftI’m Playing a Bit of SC2
• Communicating Optimally in Email
  The fundamental source of poor email style is the practice of quoting the entire message you’re replying to. If that’s what you do, then it doesn’t matter whether you put your response at the top or bottom. In fact, if you’re going to quote the entire message, top-posting probably is better. But bot ...
• Pew Pew Pew
  via martianchronicles.files.wordpress.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsSelecting a TypefaceThe Burden of ProofAnother TimeThis is a ProblemWhat your email address says about your computer skills | The Oatmeal
• Heat-sensitive Wallapaper | Baekdal Design
  Turn up the heat and your wallpaper starts to blossom. Here with the radiator is off……and now on. via baekdal.com Compelling. Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related PostsAir Umbrella | Yanko DesignPhenomenal Logo Design | Spartan Golf ClubThe Posterous BookmarkletI Want to Go W ...
• Six Principles for Making New Things | Paul Graham
  Now people are saying the same things about Arc that they said at first about Viaweb and Y Combinator and most of my essays. Why the pattern? The answer, I realized, is that my m.o. for all four has been the same.Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems [...]

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