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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, January 27, 2011

27 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

Healthcare USA, after Anton BruehlImage by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com via Flickr

Capital Flow Analysis

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Vinod Khosla and the Gasification/Fermentation Deb ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Vinod Khosla Prognosticates Vinod Khosla is once more offering up his prognostications on the future of the energy business: What Matters in Biofuels? Given the likely continued dominance of the internal combustion engine, cellulosic and sugar-derived fuels ...
  • Great Green Fleet Neither Great Nor Green?
    Join the forum discussion on this post In my recent interview with Tom Hicks, who is the Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Navy (Energy), he explained some of the Navy’s energy initiatives. One of those is to sail the “Great Green Fleet.” The goal is that in 2012 they will put a carrier strike grou ...
  • EPA Expands E15 Decree
    Join the forum discussion on this post This week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the use of 15% ethanol fuel blends (E15) for 2011-2006 model year cars: EPA Grants E15 Fuel Waiver for Model Years 2001 – 2006 Cars and Light Trucks WASHINGTON â The U.S. Environmental Protection A ...
  • Marginal Land Produces Marginal Biomass
    Join the forum discussion on this post The global potential for energy crops is a topic of great interest, and the media is often filled with reports of the potential for production on marginal land. Indeed, some of these reports go so far as to suggest that a substantial fraction or even all of cu ...
  • Who, How, and Why: $140 Oil and $5 Gas
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post is from OilPrice.com. ———————————— Who, How, and Why:  $140 Oil and $5 Gas According to a loosely-organized apocalyptic Christian movement, May 21, 2011 will be the “end of days.”  On or about that same date, the price of oil i ...

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 5 Fixes for Skiing's Hidden Costs
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Schussing down the side of a mountain on a set of skis is a sure cure for winter doldrums. But the sport can also have an unhealthy impact on the surrounding air and water. Researchers in Sweden and Norway have studied ski wax technicians who work for world-class ski teams, ...
  • The Nickel Pincher: How to Make Homemade Yogurt—No ...
    Next week Rodale.com starts a month of living plastic-free. Check the Nickel Pincher every week for advice on minimizing plastic in your life. RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Yogurt is the simplest and easiest dairy food you can make, and it’s efficient, too: Every drop of the milk you start with turns in ...
  • 5 Tasty Recipes for Winter Comfort Foods
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—As wave after wave of cold fronts and winter-weather systems hit many parts of the country, sometimes the best antidote is to curl up in the evening (or in the middle of a snowed-in day) with your favorite comfort food. And if you choose right, these foods can be healhty an ...
  • New Congress Shows Hostility to Organic Farming
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At a time when more people are buying organic food than they were a year ago, and a time when organic farms are grossing higher profits than their chemical counterparts, Congress, it appears, wants to pull the federal spending that makes organic farming possible. A caucus of ...
  • Federal Initiative Aims to Make Life Easier for Br ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—You've probably heard the saying, "It takes a village to raise a child." And last week, the U.S. Surgeon General reminded us all that it takes a community to support a mother who chooses to breastfeed that child. Unveiling the Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding last Thu ...

big think

  • Ash explosions from Bromo and Anak Krakatau in Ind ...
    If the eruption at Kirishima wasn't enough to keep us occupied, Bromo in the Tengger Caldera has ramped up its activity significantly. Last fall, the volcano had a few explosive events that disrupted air travel near the volcano but all of Bromo's activity was overshadowed by Merapi. Earlier this ... ...
  • What to do when no one trusts you
    Having spent the last few days figuring out a way around the facebook and twitter blocks in Egypt, I'm back and ready to blog ..... about Yemen. There was another large protest today, I'm hearing 11 thousand in support of the opposition, which seems like a fair number to me.� Two quick comments ...
  • Kirishima eruption in Japan still going strong
    I had a fun time last night speaking to the Licking County Rock and Mineral Club - lots of talk about volcanoes and we spent some time talking about our newest best friend, Kirishima. The impressively-erupting Japanese volcano (see below) has finally made it into the english-speaking media but not . ...
  • Study: A Complete Stranger Understands You About a ...
    If you say "it's snowing hard out there," are you annoyed if no one gets up to shovel the walkway? Vexed, are you, by your intimates' inability to see what you meant? Do you think a long love's result should be near-wordless mind-reading? If so, here is some advice derived from the current issue of ...
  • Join With American University Students in Their Co ...
    This semester I am teaching an interdisciplinary course on "Science, the Environment, and the Media."� The 25 combined undergraduate and graduate students in the course have split into project teams each selecting a semester long project examining the role of communication and the media relative to ...

Information Liberation

  • 'War on Cops'?
    Every week -- actually, every day -- innocent people across the country are harassed, abused, brutalized, tortured, and murdered by armed strangers in government-issued costumes. Most of the assailants are never held accountable. Often, they are plac...
  • "Cops Kill People Execution Style & Judges Cover I ...
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  • Obama Nominates Former Top RIAA Lawyer To Be Solic ...
    This has actually been rumored for quite some time, but now it's official. President Obama has nominated one of the RIAA's top litigators, Donald Verrilli to replace Elena Kagan as Solicitor General. Verilli, of course, was instrumental in leading ...
  • Does Favoring Free Enterprise Mean Favoring "Busin ...
    "The first great error here is the mental habit that many have of thinking that big government and big business are somehow at odds." American political rhetoric seems to operate on a regular cycle, like a clock, which is why it seems lately like...
  • Hazlitt and Keynes: Opposite Callings
    John Maynard Keynes was born in 1883 and died in 1946. Henry Hazlitt was born in 1894, eleven years after Keynes, and lived much longer, until 1993. Their lives and loyalties are a study in contrast, and mostly of choices born of in...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Twelve Million Pages Opened by Declass Center in 2 ...
    The new National Declassification Center (NDC) reviewed 83 million pages of classified historical records in 2010, but so far only 12 million of those pages have been declassified and released to the open shelves at the National Archives, according to a new report (pdf) from the NDC. At a time when ...
  • JASON: Can Climate Change Agreements be Verified?
    If meaningful international agreements are reached to limit or reduce the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) such as carbon dioxide that contribute to global warming, then it will be necessary to verify compliance with such agreements.  This turns out to be a challenging problem, involving technical ...
  • CRS: Economics a Growing Factor in National Securi ...
    Economic vitality and national security are now inextricably intertwined, a new report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service explains. “There is scarcely an economic policy issue before the Congress that does not affect U.S. national security.  Likewise, there is scarcely a national securit ...
  • CRS Director’s Retirement Renews Old Questio ...
    Daniel P. Mulhollan, director of the Congressional Research Service, told CRS staff last week that he will be retiring in April.  Mr. Mulhollan, who joined CRS in 1969, has been director of the congressional support organization for the past 14 years, making him its longest-serving leader. Although ...
  • State of the Union: Tradition and Function
    The history and characteristic features of the State of the Union address, to be delivered by President Obama on January 25, were reviewed in a recent report (pdf) from the Congressional Research Service. “Presidents often acknowledge the difficult nature of the goals they set, but such acknowledgme ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • A tetralogy of science news
    Four more picks from the latest science news by David Bradley Tales of the unexpected: a night with Tim Radford – My mentor at The Guardian, Tim Radford, told tales of science writing at a special event last week and warned the audience that the public can be very squeamish about new scientific prac ...
  • 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 ...

RFF Library

  • Parallel Paths: Canada-U.S. Climate Policy Choices
    National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (Canada) http://tinyurl.com/4g22k6u Uncertainty about American climate policy colours and shapes Canada’s own policy choices and direction. By necessity, our integrated economies require serious consideration of harmonizing Canadian climate pol ...
  • Alternative Fuels for Military Applications
    Rand Corp. / by James T. Bartis, and Lawrence Van Bibber http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG969.html The U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force have all established programs geared toward reducing dependence on the use of fossil fuels in tactical weapon systems such as aircraft, combat ship ...
  • Missing the Mark in the Chesapeake Bay: A Report C ...
    Center for Progressive Reform / by William Andreen, Robert Glicksman, and Rena Steinzor, Shana Jones and Yee Huang http://www.progressivereform.org/articles/ChesBay_WIPs_1102.pdf [CPRblog]  In August, CPR sent the Chesapeake Bay watershed jurisdictions (Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Vi ...
  • Cities and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Moving Forwar ...
    Environment and Urbanization (online first article first published on January 10, 2011  | doi:10.1177/0956247810392270 ) / by Daniel Hoornweg, Lorraine Sugar and Claudia Lorena Trejos Gomez first published on January 10, 2011 as doi:10.1177/0956247810392270 http://eau.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/ ...
  • Quantifying Carbon and Distributional Benefits of ...
    World Bank / by Limin Wang, Sushenjit Bandyopadhyay Mac Cosgrove-Davies, and Hussain Samad http://tinyurl.com/4lfr7nf Scaling-up adoption of renewable energy technology, such as solar home systems, to expand electricity access in developing countries can accelerate the transition to low-carbon econo ...

Scientific American - News

  • Olden Gaze: Galaxy in Hubble Image May Be the Most ...
    It was a long time ago, and it was a galaxy far, far away, but it's doubtful that any Ewoks, Hutts or Wookies would have had time to evolve there. In fact, the galaxy in question is so far away, and the distance its light must travel to reach Earth so vast, that astronomers see the galaxy as it appe ...
  • Spruce Up: Researchers Pinpoint Genes That Give Pi ...
    In western North America the mountain pine beetle --the most destructive of the many species collectively known as bark beetles--is on a pine tree–killing spree. Since the 1990s swarms of the tiny killer, spurred in part by a streak of relatively mild winters that don't kill the insect, along with ...
  • Apologies Fail to Live Up to Our Expectations
    Bank chiefs, oil company executives and louche politicians seem as allergic to admitting guilt as the public is eager to extract contritions from them. If sometimes we seem to scrutinize people more for their failure to say, "I'm sorry," than for the transgressions themselves, it is partly due to th ...
  • Sussing Out Simians: Humans Can Accurately Size Up ...
    What's in a face? A chimpanzee's face, that is. Humans, it seems, apparently remain genetically and culturally close enough to their primate relatives, and are able to accurately guess an individual chimp's personality just by observing it s face. This discovery sheds light on the evolution of ...
  • Entangled En Masse: Physicists Crank Out Billions ...
    Entanglement, that most counterintuitive quantum phenomenon by which particles share an unseen link that aligns their properties, is looking more mundane all the time. Just last week two groups of researchers reported entangling a photon with a crystal-based device , potentially paving the way for ...

RAWA News

  • Afghan infants fed pure opium
    CNN: In a far flung corner of northern Afghanistan, Aziza reaches into the dark wooden cupboard, rummages around, and pulls out a small lump of something wrapped in plastic. She unwraps it, breaking off a small chunk as if it were chocolate, and feeds it to four-year-old son, Omaidullah. It’s his br ...
  • Red Cross says Afghan conditions worst in 30 years
    Reuters: Spreading violence in Afghanistan is preventing aid organisations from providing help, with access to those in need at its worst level in three decades, the Red Cross said on Wednesday. “The proliferation of armed groups threatens the ability of humanitarian organisations to access those in ...
  • “Eid Gul was just one of 69 Afghan Civilians ...
    RAWA News: The Obama administration’s effort to persist in carrying out a deadly war in Afghanistan outside the public’s eye has been succeeding. Three means are employed: tight control over news flowing out of Afghanistan; vastly greater reliance upon secretive night raids by U.S. Special Forces; a ...
  • AFGHANISTAN: Fears over child recruitment, abuse b ...
    IRIN: Pro-government militias in parts of Afghanistan are believed to be recruiting underage boys and sometimes sexually abusing them in an environment of criminal impunity, local people and human rights organizations say. In a bid to counter the intensifying insurgency, the Afghan government and US ...
  • Corruption Consumes Much Afghan Aid
    Newsmax: After no fewer than 10 quarterly reports to Congress, 40 percent of 56 billion USD allocated to civilian projects in Afghanistan, or 22.4 billion USD in U.S. taxpayer funds, cannot be accounted for by SIGAR, the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction. The original amount for ci ...

frogblog

  • Free film for jailed Iranian filmmaker
    If you’re in Wellington this Sunday night, there’s a free film showing at the Paramount in support of Jafar Panahi. The Iranian filmmaker was arrested in March 2010 for “plans” to make a film about the nationwide protests that followed the disputed 2009 presidential election in Ira ...
  • Cool animated video of Auckland transport
    There’s a cool video doing the rounds on the blogosphere right now which shows the Auckland public transport network working over a 24 hour period. An animated map of Auckland’s public transport network from Chris McDowall on Vimeo. Watching it really highlights to me how radial th ...
  • 0800NEWCOPS: Fail in every possible way
    I can scarcely believe this Police recruitment poster.  In fact, I initially thought it was a photoshopped spoof when I saw it over at LudditeJourno a couple of days ago.  But there’s a link to a NZ Herald story from a couple of weeks back that authenticates it. Cue in the “Clint R ...
  • Wikileaks gives impetus to Waihopai protest
    It was good to be part of the protest outside the Waihopai spybase on Saturday. It is a bit out of the way, so the numbers involved are never that large, but they do represent the concern of many New Zealanders that the presence of the base compromises the independence of New Zealan ...
  • Protesting under the water
    I’m still annoyed the Bluegreens, including the Conservation Minister, plan to cruise Akaroa Harbour this weekend so soon after they declined the local marine reserve application. How rude! Understandably there is going to be a local protest this weekend and whilst I can’t be there, ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Can America Be Changed?
    If the American people ever hope to take back their country, they need to understand America's political economy so the parts of it that are morally offensive and economically ineffective can be repudiated. Only then will Americans be able to make the changes that are needed to make Lincoln's dr ...
  • The Media in America: Selling Views, Calling it Ne ...
    America's journalists are not "newshounds" They are nothing more than salesclerks, hocking the products their employers want to sell. The pretty faces that now function as most television news anchors are no different than the pretty models used to sell other products. The American "free" press ...
  • America's Next Failure: the Police State
    Every police force in the nation has cold (unsolved) cases. The War on Drugs has been ineffective for more than forty years. No one knows where a vast number of illegal immigrants even are. The CIA has been unable to locate Osama bin Laden after more than ten years of searching. Your local police ca ...
  • Western Civilization and Classical Economics: The ...
    When a civilization abandons its morality, no rationalization can be devised to justify its continued existence. It is likely that many reasons can be given for this abandonment in the Western world, although I am convinced that one predominatesthe expansion of law. Law once governed various kin ...
  • The Mythical United States of America: Rushing int ...
    The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of nation the United States was meant to be. What exists today fulfills none of those goals. Some have argued that the nation was a fraud fr ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Immigration Show
    Even though deportations of illegal immigrants are up under the Obama administration, the LA�Times reports that Republicans want to return to the high-profile workplace raids of the Bush era. But why return to a less efficient program? Let's take a look: Targeting employers is part of an effort b ...
  • Is Tunisia the First Domino?
    Joshua Tucker makes an argument today that Tunisia might be the leading edge of a broader revolt in the Middle East, just as Poland was the leading edge of the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989. But then I think he undermines his own case: One fundamental difference that I can not help ...
  • Should Real Life Be More Like Videogames?
    Game researcher Jane McGonigal writes in the Wall Street Journal today that real life isn't good enough anymore: Gamers want to know: Where in the real world is the gamer's sense of being fully alive, focused and engaged in every moment? The real world just doesn't offer up the same sort of caref ...
  • The CBO's Crystal Ball
    Over at The Corner, Avik Roy is outraged at today's estimate from the CBO that the 2011 deficit will be $1.5 trillion. Beyond the outrage, though, he also implies that perhaps this reflects badly on the CBO's forecasting ability, since they predicted a lower deficit last year. "What’s a $500 billion ...
  • Putting a Lid on the Bloviators
    I'll probably never say this again, but I think I'm actually on Darrell Issa's side here. He decided to do things a little differently at today's TARP hearing: At the start of the hearing, chairman Rep. Darrell Issa announced the committee members would waive their opening statements and instead ...

Insanity Report

  • IC 224: It’s Not a Date When…
    Topics for the show: We had some technical difficulties with Dylan’s mic at the beginning of the show Keith Olbermann leaves MSNBC Steve Harvey’s ex-wife got a “Confindential” package from his mistress Pointless relationship advice It’s not a date when… how do you know he really loves you? Share wit ...
  • Oh Look…It’s Rick Santorum
    Hold on, I haven’t said this in a while so I might be a little rusty: Rick Santorum…..GO FUCK YOURSELF Seriously, did this guy just essentially compare black people not being considered people under the Constitution as slaves to a fetus that could be placed in a petri dish and frozen like a mini-piz ...
  • The House Repeals Health Care Reform
    This is so stupid but not for the reasons most people will tell you. Most people will focus on how repealing Health Care Reform will take away Health Care opportunities for people with pre-existing conditions, children trying to stay on their parent’s insurance  and those 36+ million who couldn’t af ...
  • IC 223: A STD Called Weezy
    Topics for the show: Kriss explains his new term for horrible drivers Hunters and fishermen and their stories Rolling Stone does a perplexing interview of Lil Wayne Amare Stoudemire gets in “trouble” Colleges should focus on the STUDENT part of student athlete It takes two to tango Share with your f ...
  • FacePalm of the Week: World’s Worst Hunter
    (Reuters) – A wounded fox shot its would be killer in Belarus by pulling the trigger on the hunter’s gun as the pair scuffled after the man tried to finish the animal off with the butt of the rifle, media said Thursday. The unnamed hunter, who had approached the fox after wounding it from a [...] ...

Simple Climate

  • Rain-soaked plants trudge downhill
    Surveys separated by 70 years show how climate change in Northern California has increased rainfall, causing plants to move to generally warmer, drier, lower altitude habitats.
  • Ice melt poses dual sea rise and water access thre ...
    One-fifth of the ice held in the world's ice caps and glaciers will melt by 2100, affecting water availability, adding around 12 cm to sea levels and threatening some coastal regions, predicts University of British Columbia's Valentina Radić.
  • Greenhouse gases break temperature-rainfall link
    While warmer air can take up more water than colder air, the extra heat trapped in the lower atmosphere by gases like CO2 decreases how much of this is released as precipitation, explains Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research's Katja Frieler.
  • Dust research polishes climate models
    The smallest, cooling, particles are a lower proportion of all atmospheric dust than climate models assume, says the US National Center for Atmospheric Research's Jasper Kok, likely meaning there are more particles than previously thought overall and helping improve accuracy of climate predictions i ...
  • Climate change can be understood and tackled
    In the ultimate simple climate change explanation, leading climate analyst Kevin Trenberth notes carbon dioxide has gone up over 35% since pre-industrial times, with over half of that since 1970 - but other researchers I've spoken to this year give cause for hope that this can be slowed.

e!Science News

  • LSU's Mark Batzer decodes orangutan genome
    The word "orangutan" is derived from a Malay phrase meaning "man of the forest," which is a perfectly apt description of these tree-dwelling primates. Genetically the most distant great ape from humans, these critically endangered creatures inhabit the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra. As an arboreal s ...
  • Touchscreens made of carbon
    Just touching it slightly with the tips of your fingers is enough. You can effortlessly write, navigate, open menu windows or rotate images on touchscreens. Within fractions of a second your touch is translated into control commands that a computer understands. At first glance, this technology borde ...
  • Research suggests HIV causes rapid aging in key in ...
    In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, being infected with the virus that causes the disease was considered a virtual death sentence. But with the development of antiretroviral therapy, many with HIV are now living much longer. In fact, it is estimated that by 2015, about half of all HIV-positive ...
  • How spring-loaded filaree seeds self launch
    Even by invading plants' standards, the filaree, or common stork's bill, has been remarkably successful. Introduced into North America in the eighteenth century, it is now endemic in south-western states such as California, and the plant's intriguing seed dispersal mechanism seems to lie at the root ...
  • 'Hidden plumbing' helps slow Greenland ice flow
    Hotter summers may not be as catastrophic for the Greenland ice sheet as previously feared and may actually slow down the flow of glaciers, according to new research. read more

unEarthed

Brave New Climate

  • New BNC podcast series and predict millionth page ...
    One of the new initiatives I’ll be trying in 2011 is an audio podcast series (I use the term ‘series’ loosely, as there’ll be no fixed schedule). This is now fairly straightforward to do, via my iPhone 4 and the Audioboo app. This type of media/blogging is quick and flexible to do on the fly. [...]
  • The cost of ending global warming – a calcul ...
    Guest Post by Chris Uhlik. Dr Uhlik did a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford 1979–1990. He worked at Toyota in Japan, built robot controllers, cellular telephone systems, internet routers, and now does engineering management at Google. Among his 8 years of projects as an engineeri ...
  • Livestock and Climate Change … Status update
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. The United Nations report Livestock’s Long Shadow (LLS) came out in 2006 with an estimate that 18 percent of anthropogenic greenhou ...
  • QLD floods highlight the cost of climate extremes
    After a long, hot period of drought in eastern Australia, spanning much of the 1990s and 2000s and referred to as the worst in 1000 years (see also discussion on BNC on the drought here and the strange winter of 2009 here), the period 2010-2011 has seen record rainfall and rural flooding events in A ...
  • Government intervention on fossil fuel pollution
    Guest post by DV82XL. He is a Canadian chemist and materials scientist (and regular BNC commenter). An earlier relevant post by this author can be read here: An informed public is key to acceptance of nuclear energy. I have been watching with some amusement the debate here at BNC surrounding the ide ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Guest Editorial - Layla Anwar: Protesting...
    An Arab Woman Blues - Reflections in a sealed bottle...: Protesting... [FOTO-Source: صورة أيقونية ليوم الغضب الثاني ستصبح اشهر صورة لأبطال مصر #Jan25] So far I have seen no real indicators for more open democratic societies in the making. Leaving aside my own allergy to the word "democracy" and its ...
  • ei: Documents reveal PA-Israel collaboration to ta ...
    ei: Documents reveal PA-Israel collaboration to target resistance Details on the growing security cooperation between the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority, the United States and the United Kingdom were revealed yesterday, the third day of Al Jazeera network's release of more than 1,600 internal ...
  • Anishinaabekwe: Poem: We Don't Want to be in Your ...
    Anishinaabekwe: Poem: We Don't Want to be in Your Prayers: "According to 'God,' We are sinners, Because we are Native, What is 'God,' A rapist? A colonizer? A conquistador? Crusaders? We don't believe in your 'God,' Because 'God' benefits you, 'God' set up torture chambers, So by force you would ...
  • The Jim Crow Guidebook | SocialistWorker.org
    The Jim Crow Guidebook | SocialistWorker.org: "WHERE DID Blacks use the bathroom, get a drink, safely stop for gas, and perform all the other quotidian acts of road-tripping under Jim Crow segregation? I had seen references to a "Negro" guidebook in the New York Times, but never actually read one un ...
  • Capital of conservatism | SocialistWorker.org
    Capital of conservatism | SocialistWorker.org: "THE DOGMAS and delusions of conservatives and Corporate America are still dominating national politics--and their most effective advocate has turned out to be a Democratic president. That's the conclusion we drew from President Barack Obama's State of ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Why I Can’t Watch CNN
    Even though I enjoy watching some shows on CNN, I find it ever more difficult to not change the channel. When I turn on CNN I get the opportunity to see right wing conservative guests and commentators spew outright lie after outright lie. It makes me sick to my stomach to watch right wing mouth piec ...
  • Paul Ryan’s America
    In Paul Ryan’s America, your grandmother would already be dead. If she was lucky enough to survive, she would be pushing a shopping cart bagging for handouts, because someone on Wall Street churned her retirement into nothing, and her Social Security payouts would be $20 per month after “managers” p ...
  • Impeach Clarence Thomas Now
    While Clarence Thomas ruled repeatedly for the benefit of the oligarchs, the Heritage Foundation paid his wife hundreds of thousands of dollars. Mr. Thomas neglected to claim this income on his financial disclosure statements, which is a crime if I remember correctly. So here we have billionaires la ...
  • Who Will Be Glenn Beck’s Next Target?
    So which “liberal” will be targeted for assassination on next on the Glenn Beck show? Which champion of the poor will be the next target of his rants? Which community organizer will Beck blame for all that is wrong in America?  What leader of an organization that is empowering minorities, and attem ...
  • Glenn Beck
    So who did Glenn Beck say we should shoot in the head today?

Appalachia Rising

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

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  • The Goldstone Report: more important than you thin ...
    With each passing day, the publication of the Goldstone Report seems like a key event in shaping the political and diplomatic trends that currently dominate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A new book – to which I contributed an article dealing with the Israeli reaction to the report – takes a fres ...
  • Breaking: Settlers kill Palestinian near Iraq Buri ...
    19 year old Oday Maher Hamza Qadous was shot to death this afternoon while farming his land in Iraq Burin near Nablus. According to eyewitnesses’ report, Qadous was farming with his cousin, Omer Ahmed Qadous, on the west side of Iraq Burin when settlers from Barcha enter the farmland and shot Oday ...
  • Israelis in Cairo: “We envy the Egyptian peo ...
    By Hagar Sheizaf and Bar Rose Two Israelis on holiday in Egypt were caught in the Cairo awakening. This is their report. ‪The Cairo pro-democratic demonstrations started on Wednesday at about 1:00pm. We were on our way to the Egyptian museum, and just happened to curiously stop by what later bec ...
  • Israel’s refugee detention facility: worse t ...
    As the new prison for refugees and their children demonstrates, racism is a profound problem in Israel today. But it is only a component in a broader ethos, which tramples all over those who are weak and vulnerable. In Israel’s hierarchy of sympathies, even those at the very top suffer from the deva ...
  • Settlers attack West Bank village of Ein Abbus
    This morning, in the northern West Bank village of Ein Abbus, settlers attacked villagers, set fire to a car and spray painted multiple walls with graffiti “we will never forget”. At approximately 630 this morning, dozens of settlers entered the village and set fire to one car. Settlers then began t ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • Florida’s Chief Justice Comments on the &#82 ...
    Before I get to the substance of this post, I want to share a very important lesson I’ve learned recently.  Our basic liberties, in fact the most vital liberty of all, Freedom of Speech is under a vicious assault in this country.  Your freedom to speak is no longer free, particularly when you are ...
  • Another Order out of Lee County….
    It just defies any commentary….. Lee+county+starnes+rule+1.440+does+not+apply+in+lee+county+12+2010 Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • Oral Arguments- The People of The State of Florida ...
    The battle lines are drawn, the issues are clear.  Florida’s Attorney General asserts that this state’s top attorney has the jurisdiction and authority to investigate the activities and allegations.  How dare the Attorney General think she has any authority over the law firms acting in this state! ...
  • The Countrywide/Dexia Fraud Complaint…
    Anyone who is being foreclosed on for a Countrywide mortgage should read this complaint and the detailed allegations of fraud…. Remember, the taxpayers paid millions of dollars in attorney’s fees alone to pay for the sins of these people….the total price is far too high to calculate. DexiaCountrywid ...
  • Another Week, Another Disturbing Story Out of Lee ...
    Another big development out of Lee County’s rocket docket – that’s the accelerated foreclosure court. Four In Your Corner learning of at least one case where a judge has prevented a homeowner from using a government program that could have helped her avoid foreclosure. Lee County Tweet this! Share a ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • Who’s Watching Whom?
    We no sooner had descended from the Sudanese sky to a dirt airstrip than we were asked to immediately visit the commissioner in charge of the referendum process. It was something of a surprise because we’ve been going to that same village for over a decade delivering development programs and the req ...
  • Winds of Change – Back to Ottawa
    This is the final video from our remarkable trip to Sudan for the historic referendum. Of all our dozens of trips, leaving on this occasion was perhaps the most difficult. The Sudanese we have known for over a decade – administrators, soldiers, exiles, slaves, religious and educational leaders, NGO ...
  • Winds of Change – Departure
    Filed under: Personal, The New Internationalism
  • Winds of Change – Projects
    It’s been difficult only getting to Sudan for one week a year because of my parliamentary schedule – visits used to be far more frequent. Yet we have been fortunate in having a good number of Canadians travelling with us each year. Some have been coming for the last five years. That leaves my wife, ...
  • Winds of Change – The Referendum and Faith
    It’s Sunday today. The southern Sudanese in certain areas will be winding their way towards their respective places of worship. In Juba, the large churches will be full. In Gordhim, where our team was based for the trip’s duration, the church is being renovated and so the people will seat themselves ...

Vaccine Awakening

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

2020 Science

  • Davos 2011: Desperately seeking Google
    It’s that time of year again – 2000+ of the worlds top movers and shakers are beginning to descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos for this year’s Annual World Economic Forum meeting.  Political heavyweights like Clinton, Annan, Sarkozy and Cameron will be intermingling with the likes of Gates, Bono ...
  • Obama’s 21st century regulatory system will demand ...
    Cross posted from the Risk Science Center Blog: There’s a lot to like in President Obama’s perspective on 21st century regulation. Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Obama outlines his thinking behind his new executive order to review and revise a convoluted and potentially disruptive federal r ...
  • NOVA Making Stuff, nanomaterials and a web-lactati ...
    Next week sees the debut of the PBS science program NOVA’s new series Making Stuff – a four part special “exploring the materials that will shape our future”, hosted by NY Times technology columnist David Pogue. You may recall that I expressed some reservations over the program’s approach to bioengi ...
  • Nanoparticle Toxicity dropped from the World Econo ...
    As I report on the Risk Science Blog, the latest iteration of the World Economic Forum Global Risks Report has dropped “Nanoparticle Toxicity” as an emerging and significant risk.  Instead, the far more generic “Threats from New Technologies” takes its place. This is a welcome move – but I do have ...
  • A bluffer’s guide to Risk Science in the 21st cent ...
    A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati under the slightly provocative title “Small Gods and the Art of Technology Innovation”.  The talk is now available on-line (slides and audio at least) – and viewable below – through the excellent work of the folk at CAC. R ...

Reader Supported News

  • Obama: 'Our Destiny Remains Our Choice'
    Liz Halloran reports: "President Obama, in his second State of the Union address - his first before a divided Congress - characterized the challenges facing the nation as between the United States and the rest of the world, and not between Democrats and Republicans." President Barack Obama is gre ...
  • US Government Commits Avian Holocaust With Mass Po ...
    "The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is engaged in what can only be called an avian holocaust through its Bye Bye Blackbird program that has poisoned tens of millions of birds over the last decade." Red-winged blackbirds in flight. (photo: Danny Vowell/Kentucky New Era/AP) So ...
  • Planned Parenthood Seeks FBI Probe
    David Crary reports: "Planned Parenthood, a perennial protest target because of its role in providing abortions, has notified the FBI that at least 12 of its health centers were visited recently by a man purporting to be a sex trafficker but who may instead be part of an attempted ruse to entrap cli ...
  • Tea Time for Scalia
    The report begins: "Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will speak on Monday on the separation of powers at an event organized by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and her Tea Party Caucus." Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. (photo: Reuters) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!
  • "Mr. President, Your People Are Dead."
    Intro: "Who is El General, and what did he have to do with the fall of the government of Tunisia?" A Tunisian protester lies bloody in the streets of Tunis, 01/18/11. (photo: Getty Images) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames!

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • Shovel ready: Cuban urban agriculture as job creat ...
    Iâve just returned from eight days in Cuba studying their sustainable agricultural system — especially their urban agriculture sector — and I have several key take-aways. One of the biggest insights was the untapped potential of urban agriculture as a creator of good jobs. The Cuban system was re ...
  • New kit can help farmers reduce pesticide impact
    A Farmer Information Kit released recently by the Maryland Pesticide Network (MPN) seems to show that concern about the impacts of pesticides on our environment and health is becoming more widespread, judging by the organizations and disciplines that were part of the kit’s production. The kit is a ...
  • Leading U.S. Food Service Provider Introduces Meat ...
    The national non-profit Meatless Monday campaign is proving to be “The Little Engine That Could” in the environmental public health world. In just the last two years national awareness of Meatless Monday more than doubled. According to a commissioned survey by FGI Research more than 30 percent of Am ...
  • Cuban Pesos: A Farmer’s Market Experience
    CLF’s Sr. Research Program Coordinators Jesse Kurtz-Nicholl and Sarah Rodman are visiting Cuba as part of a Natural Environmental Ecological Management delegation. Members of the group will see first hand large-scale Cuban infrastructure developed to support its 18-year-old, world-renowned sustainab ...
  • Conference Envisions a Very Different Future Harve ...
    Thirty years ago, Bruce Springsteen wrote the lyric “from small things, mama, big things one day come.” In a sense, that was part of the message of Fred Kirschenmann’s keynote address at the 12th annual conference of Future Harvest-Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, although his addres ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

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

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

  • Pembina reacts to the new Canada-U.S. climate repo ...
    Pembina Institute 25 Jan 2011 Clare Demerse, associate director of the Pembina Institute's climate change program, made the following statement in response to today's release of the�"P ...
  • Job Opportunity: Conservation Volunteers Intern, N ...
    Position Conservation Volunteers Intern Organization Nature Conservancy of Canada — Alberta Region Organization Application Deadline 4 Feb 2011 (All day) Location Calgary Link to Full Job ...
  • Green Budget Coalition's Recommendations for Budge ...
    THe Green Budget Coalition The Green Budget Coalition, comprising 21 leading Canadian environmental and conservation organisations, is pleased to share its Recommendations for Budget 2011, detailing their recommendations for the 2011 federal ...
  • ENGO responses to Royal Society of Canada's report ...
    1) Pembina responds to Royal Society of Canada report http://www.pembina.org/media-release/2141 2) Sierra Club Canada responds to Royal Society of Canada report http://prairie.sierraclub.ca/en/tar-sands/media/release/sierra-club-cana… 3) Royal Society Report on Tar Sands ignores Trad ...
  • CPAWS Northern Alberta's comments on Elk Island Na ...
    The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Northern Alberta Chapter has posted their comments on the Elk Island National Park Draft Management Plan to their Facebook page. Source: CPAWS Northern Alberta

Stop NATO

  • Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Without Co ...
    Stop NATO January 27, 2011 Afghanistan: War Without End In A World Without Conscience Rick Rozoff The largest foreign military force ever deployed in Afghanistan is now well into the tenth year of the longest and what has become the deadliest war of the 21st century. Some 154,000 occupation troops, ...
  • Ivory Coast: Testing Ground For U.S.-Backed Africa ...
    Stop NATO January 23, 2011 Ivory Coast: Testing Ground For U.S.-Backed African Standby Force Rick Rozoff The announcements of presidential election results last month in West Africa and Eastern Europe have served as the pretext for the United States and its allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organi ...
  • Britain Spearheads “Mini-NATO” In Arct ...
    Stop NATO January 22, 2011 Britain Spearheads “Mini-NATO” In Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea Rick Rozoff On January 19 and 20 British Prime Minister David Cameron hosted his counterparts from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at the first Nordic Baltic Summit to conso ...
  • Washington To Rearm Georgia For New Conflicts
    Stop NATO January 14, 2011 Washington To Rearm Georgia For New Conflicts Rick Rozoff Recent reports in the Russian news media have detailed plans by the U.S. to provide the Mikheil Saakashvili government in Georgia with tens of millions of dollars worth of anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons. The Ru ...
  • U.S. Recruits Japan As Global Military Partner
    Stop NATO January 12, 2011 U.S. Recruits Japan As Global Military Partner Rick Rozoff  During the preceding week the U.S.’s top military officer identified Asia as the central focus of the Pentagon’s attention in the world, U.S. warships joined Japanese counterparts in military maneuvers in the East ...

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Intel Hub

  • Suspected Massacre in Suez, Egypt – Martial ...
    Further Information on Suspected Massacre in Suez, Egypt Disturbing Reports are coming through of friends of the Egyptian campaigners of a Massacre at the coastal town of Suez. All information here is unconfirmed for now. Philip Brennan | PhilipBrennan.net | 27 January 2011: Disturbing reports of a ...
  • Gulf Human Rights Hero Thomas B. Manton Falsely Im ...
    NaturalNews Ethan A. Huff Former President and CEO of the International Oil Spill Control Corporation, Dr. Thomas B. Manton heroically fought to expose the truth about the massive Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, which was caused by a BP oil platform explosion in April 2010. However, all of his hard wor ...
  • Dr Wakefield Demands Retraction From BMJ After Doc ...
    Natural News By Mike Adams In light of new evidence that has emerged clearing Dr Wakefield of the allegations that he fabricated study data involving MMR vaccines and symptoms of autism, Dr Wakefield is now publicly demanding a retraction from the British Medical Journal and author Brian Deer. Docum ...
  • Farage: Meet Your New Soviet Overlords, Mr Orbán
    Related Posts: UK Independence Party member Nigel Farage speaks about the plane crash that almost took his life FEMA Advising Australia Amid Takeover Of America? Air Force Conducting Urban Environmental Training Exercises In North Carolina High-Ranking Members of US Military Part of ‘Knights of Malt ...
  • It’s the End of the World as We Know it…
    The Intel Hub By Avalon It’s the End of the World as We Know it…  Music & Lyrics by R.E.M. Released 1987 “Everything he’s signed is NULL & VOID!” It looks as though the end of the road for the Obama Administration is just around the corner. A recent video from AJ with special guests [...]

FRS

  • The Palestine Papers confirm: Total Capitulation b ...
    Tariq Ali 24 January 2011 http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/01/24/tariq-ali/total-capitulation/ The ‘Palestine Papers’ being published this week by al-Jazeera confirm in every detail what many Palestinians have suspected for a long time: their leaders have been collaborating in the most shameful fashio ...
  • Egypt protesters defy crackdown
    Anti-Mubarak protesters clash with police overnight across capital Cairo as government struggles to restore order. al Jazeera, 27 Jan 2011 Activists trying to oust Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, are continuing to clash with police in the capital, Cairo, despite a government crackdown to end ...
  • Chicago Protest of Government Repression of Palest ...
    On Jan. 25, demonstrators held rallies in over 50 cities worldwide to protest the FBI’s Sept. 24, 2010, raids on 14 peace activists and subsequent Grand Jury subpoenas of 23 different activists â 9 of whom are involved in solidarity work with Palestine. All of those who received summons to testify b ...
  • Egypt Rocked by Deadly Anti-Government Protests
    Video from Associated Press: Mass Protest Against Egypt Leader January 25, 2011 Thousands of anti-government protesters clashed with riot police on Tuesday in the centre of Cairo in a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30 years in power. (January 25) ————————— ...
  • 15th Annual Free All Political-Prisoners And P.O.W ...
    by Ice Pick Slim, Hip Hop Wired 17 January 24, 2011 15th ANNUAL DINNER HONORING US POLITICAL PRISONERS/POWS &THEIR FAMILIES Last weekend when  the United Snakes of Amerikkka observed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a national holy-day for the 25th year, the Malcolm X Commemorative Committee [MXCC] c ...

Ken O'Keefe

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

StillSmallVoice

  • Will you be my friend?
    Sometimes, we forget what it's like to be friends. So let's try a little exercise. We did this on another blog, the late and lamented Dating Jesus, which I stabbed and killed so that I could concentrate on Still Small Voice. Sometimes, in the heat of the argument, we forget that we're talking to r ...
  • Stay tuned for the fabulous Jennifer Jaff
    Today, the dynamo behind Advocacy For Patients with Chronic Illness will be in a live web-chat with my friend, Bill Weir. (I don't think I'm overstepping any boundaries by calling him "my friend," but it's my blog, so it's my reality.) Do tune in at noon, right here. Oh, and if you haven't heard? ...
  • Charlie Louvin has died
    You can read more about him here or listen to a story about him here. And thanks, Cynical, for the link.
  • Ladies and gentlemen, we filled the Bug.
    CyclinArchivist (I don't think that's Cyclin's birth name, but it certainly is the Twitter one) took some stuff by Mother Courant today and sent this: "Full bin, awesomesauce!" I am spending the day at my country retreat (is my town the only town where it started snowing at 10 a.m.?), so I was una ...
  • When do we say someone has paid their debt to soci ...
    Read David Chura at Beacon Broadside. He writes: Anyone who has been locked up hears plenty about respect for society, for the law, for other people and their property, and so they should since that respect is essential for civil communities and nations. But at the same time inmates and ex-offen ...

Associated Content

  • Toyota Recall List 2011: Lexus IS/GS
    In what may strike car owners as a case of deja vu, Toyota recalls approximately 245,000 vehicles due to a potentially faulty fuel pressure sensor. Are any of the Toyota recall models in your driveway?Contributor: Sylvia Cochran Published: Jan 26, 2011
  • Jimmy Buffett in Stable Condition After Fall
    Jimmy Buffett, American folk singer, has fallen. He was admitted to a Sydney hospital and is in stable condition. Buffett was on a tour in Sydney, Australia, at the Opera House. He is currently in stable condition with a head injury.Contributor: Amy Browne Published: Jan 26, 2011
  • Paul Ryan Responds to the State of the Union
    Congressman Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, delivered the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address, a thankless task that Ryan performed with calm, almost bleak competence.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 26, 2011
  • Michelle Bachmann Responds to the State of the Uni ...
    It is a commentary on our times that President Obama's State of the Union address merited two responses. The official Republican response was given by Congressman Paul Ryan. The Tea Party response was given by Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 26, 2011
  • President Obama's State of the Union Speech Sets O ...
    President Obama gave a practical, effective State of the Union that highlighted his continued move to the center of American PoliticsContributor: Matt Savarese Published: Jan 26, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • China's New Super-City Will Merge Nine Urban Cente ...
    If you’re going to build the world’s biggest megatropolis in the world’s most populous country, you don’t start from scratch. You take nine existing population centers and merge them. At least, that’s the thinking behind the “Turn the Pearl River Delta Into One” initiative, which aims to do exactly ...
  • New Evidence That Life On Earth Was Forged in Oute ...
    Two new studies published in the past week lend more weight to the theory that life, or at least its constituent parts, came from outer space. One bolsters the theory that left-handedness prevails in the cosmos, and another explains how the building blocks of life became left-handed in the first pl ...
  • Your Guide to the Year in Science 2011
    2011 is shaping up to be a great year for science. Here's what to look forward to We at PopSci love to find the biggest, coolest, most interesting science and technology innovations. This year promises much to love, including an artificial heart that looks and beats just like a real one, and 3-D en ...
  • Year in Science: 2011
  • What Could Possibly Go Wrong: An Internet "Off" Sw ...
    Just how this idea could backfire The last time someone could shut down the Internet was probably in 1969, when it consisted of two computers. But in recent years, concerned with the possibility of a “cyberattack,” Congress has been exploring such an option. In 2009, senator Jay Rockefeller sponso ...

Veterans Today

  • Dr. Ashraf Ezzat:The Downfall of Mubarak of Egypt
    What is happening now in Egypt is historic by all means and all parties involved should acknowledge that and deal with it as such.
  • Gilad Atzmon: Jews against the King
    Along the years we have heard about ‘Jews against Zionism’, ‘Jews against Racism’ and ‘Jews against anti Semitism’. In the last few days we have learned about a new Jewish collective. They are called ‘Jews Against the King.’ Apparently some Jews in Hollywood are not happy with the great cinematic su ...
  • DON’T GET MAD, PALESTINIANS. GET EVEN.
    Bypass Israel and its twisted backers and deal direct with those responsible, the United Nations. By Stuart Littlewood / STAFF WRITER See this embarrassment as your big chance – a God-sent opportunity to sweep away the shameful Palestinian Authority. Take the garbage out and bin it. Then make a fres ...
  • Gilad Atzmon: The Palestine Papers and Us
    I have a rule — I never intervene in Palestinian political matters. I never comment on Palestinian internal debate. I do not think that I have the right to do so : I am an ex-Israeli and an ex-Jew, and I write about Israel, Jewish Identity politics, and Zionism. For me, the leaked Palestinian Papers ...
  • GORDON DUFF: CHINA AND JOBS, SAGINAW, MICHIGAN (V ...
    3600 TOP WAGE MICHIGAN JOBS… By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor The plant featured in the video below was General Motors, then Delphi Automotive.  Years ago, I tried to pick it up for the state’s Department of Corrections as a training facility and prison.  The whining, “yellow peril” is ju ...

War is Business

  • 60 Years Of American Arms Exports To The Muslim Wo ...
    The table here offers a simple comparison of US arms sales worldwide and to what the Pentagon calls "the Near East and South Asia." This super-region corresponds roughly with the Islamic world.Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, or
  • Government Backed With US Guns Arrests Activist Ba ...
    Saudi military official on civilian deaths in Yemen: “If we had the Predator, maybe we would not have this problem." Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, or
  • Government Backed With US Guns Arrests Activist Ba ...
    Saudi military official on civilian deaths in Yemen: “If we had the Predator, maybe we would not have this problem." Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, or
  • Video: South Korean Special Forces Rescue The MV S ...
    More news about Saracen International. Also: Did a private intel agency push rumors about Hamid Karzai's drug use?Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. Join the investigation and register for free, or
  • Who Is Saracen International? What Is It Doing In ...
    It appears that Erik Prince, an American mercenary, has partnered with a group of equally notorious South African guns-for-hire for a paramilitary mission in an Islamic nation, under a corporate banner harking back to the Crusades. But what does it all mean?Thanks for subscribing to War Is Business. ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • Global temperature forecast for 2011
    Last year, according to the Met Office Hadley Centre, was the second warmest on record with a temperature anomaly of 0.50C above the 1961-1990 average. This was very close, but slightly below their forecast which was issued at the Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009. It stated global temper ...
  • Met Office: 2010 Globally second warmest on record
    Last week, researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, where temperature records extend back to 1880, announced that global surface temperatures in 2010 tied with 2005 as the warmest on record. This was similar to data released by National Oceanic and Atmospheric A ...
  • The Met Office DID forecast a cold winter.
    There's been much in the news over the last week or so, regarding the issue of whether or not the Met Office did forecast a cold winter, and if so was this communicated to the government. You can read one version of events in the Independent newspaper by clicking here. Readers of this blog will kno ...
  • Coal takes the strain...again.
    On BBC Look North on friday I reported that during the recent intense cold weather, it's been our traditional coal and gas fired power stations that have been working flat out to keep our homes and businesses warm. And for the third winter running, the intense cold has gone hand in hand with per ...
  • December 2010 update: Second coldest since 1659
    Met Office provisional figures show that December 2010 with a mean CET temperature of -0.7C was the second coldest since records began in 1659, beaten only by December 1890 which had a mean of -0.8C. The diagram below shows how the month ranks with other cold Decembers, a truly memorable month cli ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • Climate Apartheid? The India-Bangladesh Superfence
    My friend came to me, with sadness in his eyes He told me that he wanted help Before his country dies And so begin the lyrics to "Bangla Desh" from George Harrison's Concert for Bangla Desh held on 1 August 1971 in Madison Square Garden. Well before we had Sir Bono and Sir Bob Geldof, Live Aid and ...
  • Financial Wargaming: If China Dumps US Treasuries
    Boo! Here's a fun feature you may have overlooked. Well, let's just say it's fun contemplating--I offer no guarantees if it will be enjoyable if it comes through. It is said that popular entertainment gains resonance from being not entirely disconnected with reality. In particular, resonating with c ...
  • Will Japan Join the Trans-Pacific Partnership PTA?
    If there's a developed country suffering from typical developed country maladies, it's Japan. Massive public debt (largely counterbalanced by huge FX reserves some would argue); a shrinking and aging population; chronic deflation; and a moribund non-export oriented sectorare among its many woes. Mea ...
  • 'End of History' Fukuyama Raps US, Lauds China
    While I try to be a conscientious scholar, a neat thing about academia is that you don't even have to be right to gain attention. Take Francis Fukuyama [please!] After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he gained notoriety for his now widely derided "End of History" thesis that all political-economic ...
  • When Basel III Met the Yankee Bubblemeisters
    In German, weltmeister is the world champion in English. But, when it comes to inflating asset price bubbles, perhaps we can relax the rules of grammar and syntax and declare our American friends the global bubblemeisters. Not being content with one housing bubble and its demise, let's just say the ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Shut Down The Federal Reserve, Break Up The Big Ba ...
    How do we fix the economy?  That is a question that tens of millions of Americans are asking right now.  Republicans are harshly criticizing the empty economic proposals being put forward by Barack Obama and the Democrats, but the Republicans don't seem to have any real solutions ei ...
  • 20 Shocking New Economic Records That Were Set In ...
    2010 was quite a year, wasn't it?  2010 will be remembered for a lot of things, but for those living in the United States, one of the main things that last year will be remembered for is economic decline.  The number of foreclosure filings set a new record, the number of home reposs ...
  • House Prices – Up Or Down In 2011?
    How soon will it be before people finally start using the term "depression" to describe what has happened to the U.S. housing market?  It has been four and a half years since housing prices began to decline, and they are still falling.  In fact, U.S. housing prices have now fallen f ...
  • Empty Promises: 5 Reasons Why Barack Obama’s ...
    Barack Obama's State of the Union address sure sounded good, didn't it?  There were lots of solemn promises, lots of stuff about America's "bright future" and a line about how we are now facing this generation's "Sputnik moment" that will surely make headlines all over the globe.  B ...
  • 10 Things That Would Be Different If The Federal R ...
    The vast majority of Americans, including many of those who believe that they are "educated" about the Federal Reserve, do not really understand how the Federal Reserve really makes money for the international banking elite.  Many of those opposed to the Federal Reserve will point t ...

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E U Times

  • World’s largest volcano in Yellowstone National Pa ...
    The super-volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming has been rising at a record rate since 2004. It would explode with a force a thousand times more powerful than the Mount St Helens eruption in 1980. Spewing lava far into the sky, a cloud of plant-killing ash would fan out and dump a lay ...
  • In bipartisan tones, Obama challenges GOP
    It sounded conciliatory, even friendly, brimming with the outward trappings of a shift to the center, but President Barack Obama’s 2011 State of the Union speech was, at its core, an unmistakably partisan challenge to congressional Republicans. Obama, facing a chamber full of Democrats and Republica ...
  • Russia “perplexed” by US publishing ex-Chechen mil ...
    Russia’s Foreign Ministry has said that it has been “at least bewildered” by the release of a book by a former Chechen militant Ilyas Akhmadov in the US. The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that Ilyas Akhmadov “passing himself off as the Foreign Minister of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria is in f ...
  • Ex-Minnesota governor sues over body scans, pat-do ...
    Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura sued the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration on Monday, alleging full-body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Ventura is asking a federal judge ...
  • Arizona to pass 2012 eligibility law
    Obama will have to produce birth certificate to run again. It could be a game-changer. A plan in Arizona to require presidential candidates to prove their eligibility to occupy the Oval Office is approaching critical mass, even though it has just been introduced. The proposal from state Rep. Judy Bu ...

Voiceless Victim

  • How Much More Evidence Do You Need Before You Stop ...
    Documentary evidence was revealed in Ireland this week proving that Catholic officials do not report sex crimes against children to the police, and that this is official Church policy originating from Rome. Such disclosures should have been answered with judicial inquiries, charges being laid, and i ...
  • Bill Zeller and others must not die in vain
    The tragedy of Bill Zeller’s lifetime of suffering from the effects of childhood sexual and physical abuse, which finally resulted in his recent suicide has touched people around the world. Bill was obviously a very special person and a great loss to those who knew him, and the rest of the world. Bi ...
  • Please Explain Why Catholic Bishops Get Away with ...
    I read with horror this week that a youth worker in the Northern Territory of Australia is facing charges under mandatory reporting laws. Her crime? While she did eventually report her concern about the possible sexual abuse of a five-year old child, she has been summonsed to appear before a magistr ...
  • “Apostolic Visitation” another Papal P ...
    Will the "apostolic visitation" result in any real, concrete action, or is the Church driven PR resulting from the event an end in itself? Will the Church be held accountable for producing any changes or do they expect the smoke and mirrors of the "apostolic visitation" to obscure the fact that once ...
  • Child Sexual Abuse Victims Abandoned by their Fami ...
    I have discovered a disturbing thing about children abused by Catholic Church sponsored sexual predators. I’ve met a lot of other victims recently and heard their histories, each one shocking in its own way. Each victim has their own twist of the knife that makes their story truly heart wrenching, s ...

WL Central

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

U N News

  • UN: Number of cholera deaths in Haiti shows signs ...
    The number of people dying from cholera in Haiti has been on a downward trend or has stabilized in all ten of the country's departments affected by the outbreak, the United Nations humanitarian office reported today, adding that the number of hospitalized people has also been decreasing.
  • Latin American and Caribbean unemployment dropped ...
    The economic upturn in most Latin American and Caribbean countries in 2010 fuelled a 0.6 percentage point drop in unemployment - from 8.1 per cent in 2009 to 7.5 per cent - and is expected to lead to a further decrease of between 0.2 and 0.4 percentage points this year, the United Nations reported t ...
  • UN human rights chief voices concern over migrants ...
    The United Nations human rights chief today voiced deep concern over the fate of a group of about 40 migrants who have been missing since they were abducted in Mexico last month, and death threats to a prominent human rights defender assisting other migrants who escaped the kidnapping ordeal.
  • Haiti must respect international mission's elector ...
    Haiti's electoral council must take full account of an international mission's findings, reportedly eliminating the Government candidate from the presidential run-off, or face the prospect of considerable unrest, the United Nations peacekeeping chief warned today.
  • UN independent human rights expert urges support f ...
    Noting the pending legal proceedings against Jean-Claude Duvalier, the former Haitian leader who returned to his home country earlier this week, the United Nations independent expert on human rights in Haiti today urged the international community to "allow justice to take its course" in the Caribbe ...

Conspiracy Reality TV

  • Mystery Missile Launch, Big Pharma Begins Microchi ...
    Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.
  • 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
    The British Government's story of what happened, how, and why is contained in three reports comprising just over 200 pages. There is virtually no forensic physical evidence in the public domain. The first two reports were published simultaneously in 2006, ten months after 7/7. One was a home office ...
  • The Absurdity Of Starting A Small Business In The ...
    In the 1950s only about 1 in 20 Americans needed the government blessing to do their job. Today, that number is more than 1 in 3. And government puts all kinds of requirements on would be entrepreneurs making it harder for these entrepreneurs to start and grow small businesses.
  • CIA Whistleblower: “Heart Attack Gun”
    Senator: Does this pistol fire the dart? CIA Dir: Yes, it does, Mr. Chairman, and a special one was developed which potentially would be able to enter the target without perception.
  • Naked Truth Behind Body Scanners
    He's abusing his relationship with the public by pretending to be a public servant and talking about how these back-scatter scanners are going to make us safer? He stands to benefit because he's getting payed by the manufacturing companies to go all over the networks saying that these scanners are T ...

Rewilding Institute

  • Conservation News Brief
    Captain Paul Watson to arrive in Australia for final preparations for Operation Musashi Friday Harbor, WA – Just days after reaffirming that they will head to the Southern Oceans alone to defend the whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary, even after Greenpeace and the Australian government have ...
  • Whaling Opponents Collide at Sea
    On board the Steve Irwin in the Ross Sea –February 6th, 2009, 0800 Hours (Sydney Time)  February 5th, 2009 1300 Hours (PST), 75 Degrees 44 Minutes South and 165 Degrees 39 Minutes West The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin collided with the Yushin Maru No.2 this morning in the Ross Sea as the harpoon v ...
  • Dave Foreman’s Recent Speech At Nebraska Wesleyan ...
    Here’s a great speech Dave did in Nebraska recently. Fetzer Lecture Rewilding North America THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Click Here To Listen In!
  • New Website All About Mexican Gray Wolves!
    There are only 52 Mexican gray wolves in the wilds of Arizona and New Mexico. The Rewilding Institute has joined with local, regional, and national conservation, scientific, and sportsmen’s organizations, and concerned citizens in launching a new website, mexicanwolves.org, to help save this highly ...
  • Follow Rewilding On Twitter
    We’ve gotten with the times and signed up for a brand new Twitter account.  Now you can follow TRI on Twitter and get updates when we have new posts on the site. Follow Rewilding on Twitter!

Asia Sentinel

We Know the Lies

  • The Great Depression was Deliberately Created
    � This evidence suggests that The Great Depression was artificially created so the larger Wall Street firms, which control the stock market, could eliminate competition and make profits out of lending America money to recover from it. read more
  • * URGENT! ~ This Needs to be Read Right Now ~ URG ...
    This is the most shocking article I've read in a long, long time! The magnitude of this information is nothing short of... SHOCKING! I urge you to read it a second, even a third time. Get this out to everyone... family, friends, even your enemies! read more
  • The Largest Mega City in the World to be Created i ...
    � � By the end of the decade, China plans to move ever greater numbers into its cities, creating some city zones with 50 million to 100 million people and "small" city clusters of 10 million to 25 million.  read more
  • NWO Bill Gates Wants All New Babies on the Planet ...
    Bill Gates is promoting a plan to use wireless technology to register every newborn on the planet in a vaccine database! read more
  • Second Amendment... The Founding Fathers Made Cert ...
    Whoever said that the founding fathers didn't think that all citizens should have guns is living in their own little world. read more

    Blacklisted News

  • Food speculation: 'People die from hunger while b ...
    The explanation offered by the UN and food experts was that a "perfect storm" of natural and human factors had combined to hyper-inflate prices. US farmers, UN agencies said, had taken millions of acres of land out of production to grow biofuels for vehicles, oil and fertiliser prices had risen stee ...
  • Blackwater Lawsuit Dismissed 7 Years After Grisly ...
    A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit that blamed the security company formerly known as Blackwater for the deaths of four contractors killed in a grisly 2004 ambush on the restive streets of Iraq.
  • Even DHS is Freaked Out by Spy Drones Over America
    “I don’t know how much [drones] will be used within the U.S.,” says Ruth Doherty, a top official with the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate tasked with countering the domestic threat of homemade bombs. Asked about domestic drone use for bomb-spotting by Danger Room ...
  • Justice Department seeks to have all web surfing t ...
    The US Justice Department wants Internet service providers and cell phone companies to be required to hold on to records for longer to help with criminal prosecutions.
  • Postal Service Eyes Closing Thousands of Post Offi ...
    The U.S. Postal Service plays two roles in America: an agency that keeps rural areas linked to the rest of the nation, and one that loses a lot of money.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • WITH “ENGAGEMENT” FAILING, WASHINGTON VOICES URGE ...
    Summary: Rajavi and SaddamPredictably, the Istanbul talks have ended without positive results. And, it seems clear that the discussion came to a dead end over two issues: –the Islamic Republic wanted explicit recognition of its right to enrich uranium which the United States (at least) was not ...
  • Iran to P5+1: Stop following up Zionists
    Summary: A day after multifaceted talks between Iran and the P5+1, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad advises the six major world powers to stop following up the path of Israel. source: Press TVread more
  • 'Iran open to talks, no preconditions set'
    Summary: A senior Iranian official says Tehran is ready for further talks with major world powers provided that its rights are not violated, refuting claims that it has set preconditions. source: Press TVread more
  • Swiss Deny Linking UBS To Iran, Guantanamo Inmates
    Summary: The Swiss government Thursday denied directly linking economic sanctions against Iran and an offer to resettle two Guantanamo detainees in Switzerland to a U.S. case against Swiss bank UBS AG. He was responding to a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable from July 2009 made public by WikiLeaks, ...
  • Iran sees Istanbul meeting a good talk opportunity ...
    Summary: "I think this meeting is creating a very good opportunity for dialogue between the parties, for demonstrating mutual respect, and for discussing issues of mutual interest," Akhundzadeh told Interfax news agency in an interview. "The Istanbul meeting also offers a good opportunity for co ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Jupiter CSI": 2009 Impact Scar Big as the Pacific ...
    A hurtling asteroid about the size of the Titanic caused the scar that appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009, according to Glenn Orton, an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Leigh Fletcher, researcher at Oxford University, U.K....
  • "Galactic Flashes May Signal Transmissions By Othe ...
    "We'll be looking for the occasional celestial flash," said Joseph Lazio, a radio astronomer at JPL. "These flashes can be anything from explosions on surfaces of nearby stars, deaths of distant stars, exploding black holes, or even perhaps transmissions by...
  • Dark-Matter Halos and Black Holes: Are They Linked ...
    The largest galaxies with in the largest halos of dark matter also harbor the most massive black holes. which has led to speculation that exotic physics controls the growth of black holes and their link to massive dark matter halos....
  • CERN Physicists Zeroing In on Solving Mystery of D ...
    CERN Physicists at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) particle detector, part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva are zeroing in on one of the great unsolved mysteries of modern science: the source of the universe's mysterious dark matter....
  • Sprawl! China Developing a New City: Pop 42 Milli ...
    City planners and architects in China are hoping to turn the nine cities in the Pearl River Delta into a single, monster megacity with a population the of 42 million the size of Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire combined...

Natural News

  • Cancer experts speak out about natural cures in li ...
    (NaturalNews) It's one of the biggest underground secrets of the medical world: Cancer can be cured. In fact, the human body already knows how to cure cancer; it merely needs to be activated in the proper way (because your genetic code contains built-in cancer cure instructions) and then given the p ...
  • Warning: Scientists discover mad cow disease-causi ...
    (NaturalNews) Cancer and Alzheimer's disease are usually described as the two most dreaded health disorders. But there is probably no more ghastly way to suffer and inevitably die than to contract so-called mad cow disease or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Prions are known to cause mad cow disease, also ...
  • Virginia House approves bill to end HPV vaccine ma ...
    (NaturalNews) Controversy over the safety of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has led to a resolution to end mandates requiring young girls to receive it. If passed by the Virginia state Senate, a bill recently passed by the Virginia House of Delegates will end mandates put into place in 2007 ...
  • Dr Wakefield demands retraction from BMJ after doc ...
    (NaturalNews) In light of new evidence that has emerged clearing Dr Wakefield of the allegations that he fabricated study data involving MMR vaccines and symptoms of autism, Dr Wakefield is now publicly demanding a retraction from the British Medical Journal and author Brian Deer. Documents just mad ...
  • Documents emerge proving Dr Andew Wakefield innoce ...
    (NaturalNews) New documents have emerged that clear Dr Andrew Wakefield of the allegations of fraud recently made by the British Medical Journal and its reporter Brian Deer. This new evidence "completely negates the allegations that I committed scientific fraud. Brian Deer and Dr. Godlee of the Bri ...

Threat Level

  • New York Times: Assange Was a Source Not Media Par ...
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was a source, not a partner or collaborator, according to the New York Times in a new, detail-rich Times magazine piece about the newspaper’s volatile relationship with beleaguered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the government’s behind-the-scenes reactions to ...
  • Facebook Enables HTTPS So You Can Share Without Be ...
    Facebook announced Wednesday it would begin supporting a feature to protect users from having their accounts hijacked over Wi-Fi connections or snooped on by schools and businesses. Facebook users will now have the option of using Facebook over HTTPS, the encryption protocol used to protect online b ...
  • DHS to End Color-Coded ‘Threat Level’ Advisories
    Apparently the terrorists have cracked the five-color threat advisory code the federal government instituted in 2002, in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks. Or maybe the government has finally realized the silliness of the oft-spoofed five-color threat level advisory nobody paid attention t ...
  • Amid Street Protests, Twitter Shuttered in Egypt
    Twitter confirmed Tuesday evening its microblogging site has been shuttered by Egyptian authorities hours after widespread reports that access has been cut off as Egyptians took to the streets in what many hope and some fear would be a sequel to the revolution in Tunisia last week. The day’s specula ...
  • Report: U.S. Can’t Link Bradley Manning to Julian ...
    After months of investigation, U.S. authorities have apparently been unable to find any independent evidence that a jailed Army private accused of leaking classified documents gave them to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks, according to a news report. The information comes from anonymous Pentagon ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Palin Declares Soviet Union Won the Space Race
    From war taxes and the First Amendment to Reagan's Iran/Contra scandal, how much energy her home state of Alaska produces and so much more, Sarah Palin doesn't know what she doesn't know. As her response to President Obama's State of the Union address showed, that long and growing list now includes ...
  • Waiting for Krauthammer on Egypt
    As the Washington Post and the New York Times reported, the rapidly developing unrest in Egypt is just as quickly posing a major challenge to U.S. foreign policy in the region. On Tuesday, Secretary of State declared "the Egyptian government is stable" even as tens of thousands of protesters poured ...
  • Pawlenty Echoes Obama in New Ad
    This week, former Minnesota Governor and obvious GOP White House hopeful Tim Pawlenty debuted a glitzy new ad to promote his new book and his upcoming candidacy. As it turns out, Pawlenty's timing in releasing his big-budget video just hours before the President's 2011 speech to Congress is altoget ...
  • GOP Takes Credit, Deflects Blame on Economy. Again ...
    Two new surveys released today are just the latest signs the U.S. economic recovery is gaining steam. While a USA Today panel found "nine of 10 economists said they're more optimistic than three months ago," the National Association for Business Economics reported that "more firms expressing positi ...
  • Republicans Can't Hide Their Ryan Eyes
    This week, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced they would deploy Rep. Paul Ryan to give the Republican rebuttal to President Obama's State of the Union address. But while Boehner is now touting Ryan as "uniquely qualified to address the state of our econo ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Local organization fighting Exelon’s proposed new ...
    Texans For A Sound Energy Policy (TSEP) has filed formal legal contentions with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) urging denial of Exelon’s application for an Early Site Permit (ESP) for a proposed nuclear power plant site south of Victoria, Texas. The filing of these contentions will set the ...
  • Texas News Roundup for 1/24
    The Texas Progressive Alliance congratulates the Packers and the Steelers as it brings you this week’s roundup. WhosPlayin helped organize a cleanup for an historic African American cemetery dating back to about 1845 that had been the target of litterbugs and illegal dumpers. Respect for the dead, a ...
  • Dewhurst backing off his old coal shutdown positio ...
    After Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst‘s remarks, made during his session-opening luncheon just a week ago,  about his plans to push for âregulatory and fiscal incentivesâ to phase out the heavy-polluting coal plants that were built back to the 1970s and replace them with natural gas plants, the Lt. Gove ...
  • Texas Hill Country CREZ (Transmission line) Projec ...
    The Public Utility Commission passed a scaled-back version of a controversial power line project through the Hill Country to bring West Texas wind energy to the urban centers on Thursday, January 20th.  The commission was under a Monday deadline to act on the project. The three-member panel spent mu ...
  • Nuclear Power: Maximizing Profits and Socializing ...
    The United State’s much-touted nuclear renaissance is in jeopardy, but it is not primarily from environmental and safety concerns. The industry is finding it increasingly difficult to make the economic case for building new nuclear plants. The enormous capital cost of building reactors is just one f ...

Unexplained Mysteries

Grassroots

  • Man-made disasters need human solutions: Honduras ...
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  • One Year on in Haiti
    Previous Publication Info Previous publication:� Huffington Post Outside Link:� One Year on in Haiti oneyear.jpg Shee ...
  • God Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise…
    Subheadline:� Planning for disaster is part of responsible development river-haiti.jpg Those living on the margins have very little wiggle room for survival even in good times.�But ...
  • Gaza: Stories of Strength amid Assault and Siege
    3407229255_9879b60da3_b.jpg �Year before last, I was sitting in the living room of my childhood home sharing a cup of morning coffee with my mother and musing over the holidays. We laughed over kitschy Christmas gifts from well-meaning relativ ...
  • Petitioning the Israeli High Court for Justice
    cast.jpg Our partner, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), works to protect human rights and promote the rule of law. They have been recognized as an effective voice of the Palestinian people through awards such as the Human Rights ...

Climate

  • Obama Energy Plan Best Chance for Clean Power
    Source:� Reuters President Obama's new plan to double U.S. clean power output could provide the kind of compromise needed to pass a divided Congress.
  • Obama's Clean-Energy Goals Have Industry Questioni ...
    Source:� Los Angeles Times Pres. Obama has grand plans � 1 million electric vehicles on the road within 4 years and clean power sources providing 80% of the nation's energy by 2035. Executives say steady funding would help.
  • Chu Plugs R&D to Hit Obama's Clean-Energy Target
    Source:� CNET News Energy Secretary Steven Chu sheds light on how the White House defines "clean-energy sources" as it seeks to push ahead on energy innovation to boost the economy.
  • Interior Secretary: 'I'm Staying'
    Source:� Politico Ken Salazar has warned against reading too much into his absence at the State of the Union Address, saying he�s not leaving his post any time soon.
  • Europe's Green Energy Faces Subsidy Shake-Up
    Source:� Reuters The EU looks set to overhaul the way renewable energy projects and power grids are financed, launching a new type of infrastructure bond and converging the EU's tangle of overlapping subsidies.

GreenBiz

  • InterContinental Lands a Green Building 'First' in ...
    A bid by the InterContinental Hotels Group to make its existing properties more environmentally responsible has earned the company a green building first in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program.
  • Climate Earth to Shed New Light on Water's Supply ...
    The San Francisco-based company said Tuesday it has added a new layer of analysis to its environmental intelligence system. Organizations can now measure water use in their operations and supply chains in order to identify mitigation opportunities and make more informed business decisions.
  • 7 Reasons to Enlist Your Company in EDF's Climate ...
    As the Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps enters its fourth year, the program that places MBA candidates at firms to ferret out energy savings details the advantages for companies that participate.
  • 7 Reasons to Enlist Your Company in EDF's Climate ...
    As the Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps enters its fourth year, the program that places MBA candidates at firms to ferret out energy savings details the advantages for companies that participate.
  • Facebook, Microsoft, Dunkin' and More Join EDF's C ...
    The Environmental Defense Fund's 2011 Climate Corps program adds new companies to the roster of major firms that will welcome MBA candidates to their facilities this summer to search for potential energy savings. �

Reuters Global

  • Pakistan, blasphemy, and a tale of two women
    Two very different women have stood up to Pakistan's religious right at a time when their political leaders are afraid to speak out.
  • Pakistan and Mullah Omar: who knows where he is?
    The New York Times has an intriguing story about the sourcing for a report that did the rounds last week saying that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) rushed Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar to Karachi last week after he suffered a heart attack.
  • Panda diplomacy: the remix
    The latest chapter of panda diplomacy was written at the National Zoo, where the Chinese government agreed to lengthen the "loan" of popular panda pair Mei Xiang and Tian Tian for another five years. Does Washington love them because they look like babies?
  • Musharraf’s Kashmir deal, mirage or oasis?
    Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf gives his views on a roadmap for peace in Kashmir which he agreed with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
  • Washington flatfooted by return of Haiti’s & ...
    Haiti's infamous "Baby Doc", Jean Claude Duvalier, made a surprise reappearance in his homeland this weekend, and Washington's planners had less than an hour to prepare.

Booman Tribune

  • An Intemperate Rant
    Whatever Dennis Kucinich's merits, and he has quite a few, he is a spectacularly tone-deaf politician. First of all, let me stipulate that it's completely idiotic and irresponsible to put unpitted olives on someone's sandwich. You chomp down on a pit that you weren't expecting, and dental damage i ...
  • Stupid Republicans
    Somewhere north of 84% of the people who watched the State of the Union last night approved of the president's proposals but it caused blood to spurt from Glenn Beck's ears and eyes and his wife had to take him to the hospital after only ten minutes of viewing. Or, so he claims. This shock- ...
  • A Brief Interruption ...
    ... to Your Regularly Scheduled Programming. Queensland, Australia is suffering massive flooding like no time since the 19th century. The Middle East is ablaze with citizen protest movements taking to the streets to oust their US supported dictators. We just found out that the most plausible th ...
  • Winning the Future
    Mark Halperin's take on the State of the Union speech was pretty typical of the Beltway pundit crew. The president delivers a boffo performance... ...Obama's presentation was close to flawless: upbeat and animated, leisurely and assured, surprisingly engaging even when he lapsed into the prof ...
  • Stabenow to Chair Ag Committee
    I had to hunt around to confirm it but, as I expected and predicted, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) leap-frogged more senior members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry to become the chair. I think it is significant anytime that a woman takes over a chair of a committee in ...

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Futurismic

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

Therapy News

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    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline It just may, according to new research published in High Altitude Medicine & Biology. The journal found a statistically significant increase in suicide among people who live at higher altitudes; they also ruled out altitude-related health problems as the cause of suic ...
  • Role Models Affect How We See Ourselves
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Imagine bright and intelligent young adolescents or high school students. Imagine the countless different professional and personal paths they can choose to follow. But what if they envision their futures not based on their own capabilities and dreams, but rather on w ...
  • Seeking An Antidote to Stress, Pain and Illness?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Dr. Anthony Ong of Cornell University says that positive emotions may be exactly such an antidote. Dr. Ong has reviewed a broad range of studies on the relationship positive emotions and physical health during the aging process. His conclusion? Positivity benefits far ...
  • It’s About Relationships, Not Food!
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  • For Mental Health, Weight Influences More than Jus ...
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Mountaintop Removal

  • EPA was right to revoke mountaintop removal mine p ...
    West Virginia Public Broadcasting EPA was right to revoke mountaintop removal mine permit Daily Athenaeum AP Larry Gibson, an environmental activist against mountaintop removal, holds a photo in protest at a rally for coal Thursday at the Capitol in Charleston, ... REPORT: Environmental Impact of M ...
  • Commentary: EPA's rejection of mountaintop removal ...
    Commentary: EPA's rejection of mountaintop removal was correct move McClatchy Washington Bureau Revoking the permit was the responsible course for an agency that has, sadly, allowed far too much mountaintop removal in the Appalachian region. ... and more��
  • Govt: New rules would cut thousands of coal jobs - ...
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  • Hundreds gather to honor activist - Beckley Regist ...
    State Journal Hundreds gather to honor activist Beckley Register-Herald Bonds, a key leader in building resistance against mountaintop removal coal extraction from a local issue to a national movement, passed away Jan. ... Judy Bonds, an Enemy of Mountaintop Coal Mining, Dies at 58New York Times Re ...
  • EPA right to reject mountaintop removal - Charlott ...
    Treehugger EPA right to reject mountaintop removal Charlotte Observer The EPA has revoked a permit for mountaintop removal coal mining similar to this operation on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia. ... Documentary about mountaintop removal premiers at SundanceForbes (blog) Coal Operators Organize ...

Memeorandum

  • The State Of The Union, In Your Words (NPR)
    NPR: The State Of The Union, In Your Words  —  Right after President Barack Obama finished his State of the Union address, we asked our listeners to describe his speech in three words.  We received responses from more than 4,000 of you.  We've run them through a word cloud generator and this is wh ...
  • 43 Million Watch President Obama's State of the Un ...
    Nielsen Wire: 43 Million Watch President Obama's State of the Union Address  —  On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 President Obama delivered his State of the Union address.  The address was carried live from approximately 9:00 PM- 10:15 PM on 11 networks.  The sum of the average audience for those netwo ...
  • Slopes behind ropes: fear of lawsuits closing grea ...
    Brian Donohue / New Jersey Online: Slopes behind ropes: fear of lawsuits closing great New Jersey sledding hills … It's one of the simple, most wonderful pleasures of life: zooming down a snow-covered hill just fast enough for a touch of fear to quicken your pulse.  Maybe it's a solo run.  Maybe y ...
  • Axelrod mocks Tea Party response: 'Am I looking at ...
    Michael O'Brien / The Hill: Axelrod mocks Tea Party response: ‘Am I looking at the right camera?’  —  A top White House adviser gently mocked the Tea Party response to the State of the Union delivered by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) on Tuesday night.  —  White House senior adviser David Axelrod ...
  • Dealing With Assange and the Secrets He Spilled (B ...
    Bill Keller / New York Times: Dealing With Assange and the Secrets He Spilled  —  This past June, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, phoned me and asked, mysteriously, whether I had any idea how to arrange a secure communication.  Not really, I confessed.  The Times doesn't have encrypte ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • The wrong direction west
    Beijing has renewed its efforts to drive development in western China but, amid the fanfare, environmental risks are being ignored, write Dong Zhenguo and Zhang Guilin.Last year, Beijing boosted its decade-long campaign to develop the economically backward regions of western China by launching a fre ...
  • Apple's darker side
    A new study from three Chinese campaign groups reveals the hidden face of America’s trendiest technology giant. He Haining and Yuan Duanduan report on Apple’s supply-chain secrets.On January 20, a report entitled “The other side of Apple” was published in Beijing. Compiled by three civil-society org ...
  • Power to the people?
    As winter power shortages shroud Nepal in familiar darkness, Deepak Adhikari unravels the country’s hydro debate.With winter in full swing, the spectre of planned power cuts, euphemistically called “load shedding”, is haunting Nepal's electricity consumers. The country’s citizens dread this time of ...
  • China’s great disappearing lake
    Northern China’s largest body of freshwater is shrinking, but can it be saved? Huo Weiya travelled to Inner Mongolia to find out.Dalai Lake is shrinking. For years, the water level of northern China’s largest freshwater lake – lying on the Hulunbuir grasslands of Inner Mongolia, close to the borders ...
  • For Brand, a new shade of green
    American “techno-hippy” Stewart Brand says a shift to nuclear power and genetically modified foods is needed to address global warming. He explains his controversial change of position to Damian Carrington.Stewart Brand appears to have squeezed many lives into his 71 years and defies easy categorisa ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • New York Times: Assange Was a Source Not Media Par ...
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was a source, not a partner or collaborator, according to the New York Times in a new, detail-rich Times magazine piece about the newspaper’s volatile relationship with beleaguered WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the government’s behind-the-scenes reactions to ...
  • Facebook Enables HTTPS So You Can Share Without Be ...
    Facebook announced Wednesday it would begin supporting a feature to protect users from having their accounts hijacked over Wi-Fi connections or snooped on by schools and businesses. Facebook users will now have the option of using Facebook over HTTPS, the encryption protocol used to protect online b ...
  • DHS to End Color-Coded ‘Threat Level’ Advisories
    Apparently the terrorists have cracked the five-color threat advisory code the federal government instituted in 2002, in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks. Or maybe the government has finally realized the silliness of the oft-spoofed five-color threat level advisory nobody paid attention t ...
  • Amid Street Protests, Twitter Shuttered in Egypt
    Twitter confirmed Tuesday evening its microblogging site has been shuttered by Egyptian authorities hours after widespread reports that access has been cut off as Egyptians took to the streets in what many hope and some fear would be a sequel to the revolution in Tunisia last week. The day’s specula ...
  • Report: U.S. Can’t Link Bradley Manning to Julian ...
    After months of investigation, U.S. authorities have apparently been unable to find any independent evidence that a jailed Army private accused of leaking classified documents gave them to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks, according to a news report. The information comes from anonymous Pentagon ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Telescope spots oldest galaxy ever seen
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and European researchers trying to peer back to the beginnings of the universe said on Wednesday they have spotted what they think is the most ancient galaxy ever seen -- 13.2 billion years old.
  • Allen Stanford incompetent for trial: judge
    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Financier Allen Stanford is incompetent to stand trial at this time over accusations that he led a $7 billion fraud, a U.S. judge in Texas ruled on Wednesday.
  • Muslim birth rate falls, population to grow more s ...
    PARIS (Reuters) - Falling birth rates will slow the world's Muslim population growth over the next two decades, reducing it on average from 2.2 percent a year in 1990-2010 to 1.5 percent a year from now until 2030, a new study says.
  • Q+A: Are Japan's public finances at tipping point?
    TOKYO (Reuters) - Rating agency Standard & Poor's cut Japan's long-term sovereign debt rating on Thursday for the first time since 2002, saying the government lacked a coherent plan to tackle its mounting debt.
  • Hitler's last bodyguard gives up on fan mail
    BERLIN (Reuters) - More than 65 years after World War Two, Adolf Hitler's last surviving bodyguard says that he can no longer respond to the continuous deluge of fan mail he receives from around the world, because of his advanced age.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #472
    French spies become embroiled in Renault's espionage saga. Palestinian Authority documents leaked by ex-MI6 agent. NY Times editor calls Assange 'spy-like'. Continue reading →
  • Revelations continue in ex-CIA agent’s trial in Te ...
    A United States government informant testifying at the immigration trial of a former CIA agent has described how he was smuggled into the US from Mexico onboard a luxury boat. It was believed that the former agent, Cuban-born Luis Posada Carriles, had arrived in the US from Honduras in 2005 using a ...
  • News you may have missed #471 (ex-spy edition)
    Interview with ex-CIA analyst David Kanin. New book by ex-CIA agent Everett. Ex-MI5 officer questions UK spying priorities. Continue reading →
  • South African spy chief had secret US talks, embas ...
    South Africaâs spy chief regularly gave the American embassy in Pretoria detailed information on internal African National Congress (ANC) politics, according to a diplomatic cable leaked by WikiLeaks. The cable, entitled âZuma Advisor Threatens to Expose Political Skeletonsâ, was authored on Septemb ...
  • US paying ‘price in blood’ for Israel-Palestine co ...
    Two former CIA officers have warned that America will continue âpaying an increasing price in bloodâ for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and urged the White House to directly meddle in domestic Israeli politics in order to help end the dispute. Continue reading →

War is a Crime.org

  • Mass Street Protests in Egypt
    Mass Street Protests in Egypt - by Stephen Lendman An August 2009 Council on Foreign Relations Steven Cook report headlined, "Political Instability in Egypt," saying: Facing possible instability, (m)ost analysts believe that the current Egyptian regime will muddle through its myriad challenges and e ...
  • Code Pink Wins the Future
    By David Swanson The future will be here in April and Code Pink: Women for Peace has already won it (thus answering President Obama's State of the Union call to "win the future"). The color coded threat warnings our government has been bombarding us with since shortly after September 11, 2001, will ...
  • What did the FBI and MPD "catch" us doing?
    From the Mid South Peace and Justice Center On Tuesday, January 25, three agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation visited our offices. Soon afterward we found our building surrounded by marked patrol cars and unmarked black SUV's from the tactical unit of the Memphis Police Department. They ...
  • The Killer Robot Caucus
    By Nathan Hodge, Wall St Journal Members of Congress love their drones, but they want to give all robots their due. In a news release today, Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon (R., Calif.) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D., Texas) announced the official rebranding of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Caucus, which they c ...
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Grist - News

  • New Senate bill aims to avoid next oil spill
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Senators plan to introduce in the coming weeks new legislation aiming to prevent another disastrous oil spill like last year's massive gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said Wednesday. A similar bill that would revise offshore dri ...
  • Big cities are not always the biggest polluters
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Big cities like New York, London, and Shanghai send less pollution into the atmosphere per capita than places like Denver and Rotterdam, said a study released Tuesday. Researchers examined data from 100 cities in 33 nations for clues about which were the ...
  • 2010 warmest ever year, says U.N. weather agency
    by Agence France-Presse. GENEVA -- The U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization said Thursday that 2010 was the warmest year on record, confirming a "significant" long-term trend of global warming and producing exceptional weather variations. The trend also helped to melt Arctic sea ice cover t ...
  • Apple under fire for pollution and poisoned Chines ...
    by Agence France-Presse. SHANGHAI -- Chinese environmental groups on Thursday singled out Apple for failing to tackle concerns over pollution and the health of workers at plants making parts for trendy gadgets such as its iPhone. In a new report, the groups said the U.S. giant ranked last in a ...
  • Mitsubishi launching eight green cars by 2016
    by Agence France-Presse. TOKYO -- Japan's Mitsubishi Motors said Thursday it would launch a new lineup of environmentally friendly cars by March 2016 and double operating profit in the next three years by focusing on emerging markets. Mitsubishi will launch a total of eight electric vehicles an ...

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Farming Pathogens

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

Suzie-Q

  • Women Bloggers to Watch for 2011- We Made The List ...
    Happy Wednesday Justice Bloggers! I am thrilled to tell you that this Blog has been listed in the â101 Women Bloggers to Watch for 2011â³.   I am not sure how we made the list of 100 Women Bloggers but I am forever grateful.  They listed us as Politics and Rock N’ Roll.  So, I guess [...]
  • State Of The Union 2011 Speech- FULL TEXT
    State Of The Union 2011: Speech, Reaction & Commentary (LIVE UPDATES) AP/The Huffington Post Posted: 01/25/11 10:32 AM Standing before a nation clamoring for jobs, President Barack Obama will call for targeted spending to boost the economy but also for budget cutting in Tuesday night’s State of the ...
  • SOTU Preview: Obama To Focus Speech On Jobs, Innov ...
    SOTU Preview: Obama To Focus Speech On Jobs, Innovation, Cooperation Via: Huffington Post JULIE PACE   01/22/11 11:55 PM   WASHINGTON — Under pressure to energize the economy, President Barack Obama said Saturday he will use his State of the Union address to outline an agenda to create jobs now and ...
  • Olbermann vs The Corporate Media
    Olbermann’s MSNBC Exit Was Weeks in the Making NY Times January 22, 2011, 2:48 pm By BILL CARTER On Thursday, NBC’s news division staged an elaborate presentation for advertisers, seeking to sell commercial time in NBC’s news programs over the next year. All the members of MSNBC’s prime-time lineup ...
  • Tony Blair at British Iraq Inquiry
    C-SPAN For a second time former British Prime Minister Tony Blair testified before the Committee of Inquiry on the Iraq War. January 2010, Mr. Blair testified before the five-member group on his role during the lead up to the war, military preparedness, and his relationship with President George W. ...

Solari

  • So Long Facebook!
    By Catherine Austin Fitts Someone from Allendale Michigan kept logging in to my Facebook space. Then I started having challenges with unauthorized posts and photo tags. Finally some mysterious character passing as me started sending out Facebook invitations from me. They sent one to me. Managing my ...
  • On the Truth
    “A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than bef ...
  • E-mails Suggest Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out o ...
    By Teri Buhl Lawsuit alleges the bank took extreme measures to defraud investors, and now JPMorgan may be on the hook Former Bear Stearns mortgage executives who now run mortgage divisions of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Ally Financial have been accused of cheating and defrauding investors t ...
  • All the Mass Deaths of Animals Plotted on a Map
    By Casey Chan The world is ending! Okay, maybe not. But doesn’t it seem like every day animals are dying in masses? So, it must mean something! I think the West Coast is safe. The South, um, pretty screwed. Check out the full map here created by an anonymous user. Birds and fish are dying all over ...
  • Desert Solitaire
    From Ed Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire” Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and c ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Recovering lost knowledge about exhaustion of Eart ...
    Summary:  One of the saddest aspects of the Internet is how it fails to make us smarter.  In a mutant version of Gresham’s Law, loud amateurs too-often drown out the voices of experts.  Here we an excerpt from a 1975 book that tells us more about Peak Oil than a typical dozen posts on most [...]
  • More jobs, bought at a dear cost (to be paid for i ...
    Summary:    The US economy continues its slow “recovery.”  It’s not an organic recovery, as it results from three years of massive fiscal and monetary stimulus — powerful medicine, with serious side-effects (to be felt in the future).  Lost in our delusions, we confuse this with actual health. ...
  • We were participants in one of the great battles o ...
    Summary:  Some of the “great battles” were nothing of the kind.  This is easily seen by comparing them with a truly great battle, one that looks to have decisive effects:  9-11. For centuries western historians described the Battle of Tours (aka Poitiers) as one of the world’s decisive battles. ...
  • For the holiday season, here are some comforting t ...
    Summary:  As the sky darkens over America we find comfort in logical but incorrect beliefs, ignoring the horrifying nature of our core problem.  Here are two comforting examples. (1)  Our leaders have bad advisors In both national security and economics we have well-funded think-tanks advocating ...
  • Second thoughts by 2 major boosters of the Af-Pak ...
    Summary:   Guest author Bernard Finel discusses yet another think-tank report giving prescriptions for the Af-Pak War.  But this one is a surprise, a serious walk-back by one of the powerful institutional advocates of our foreign wars.  Perhaps they’re cutting their losses and gearing up for t ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Yemen protests: Thousands call on president to lea ...
    BBC - Thousands of Yemenis are demonstrating in the capital Sanaa, calling on Ali Abdullah Saleh, president for more than 30 years, to step down. This comes after mass protests in Egypt and a popular uprising in Tunisia that ousted its long-time leader. Yemeni opposition members and youth activists ...
  • Egypt protests: Anti-Mubarak demonstrators arreste ...
    BBC – About 700 people have been arrested throughout Egypt in a crackdown against anti-government protests, security officials say. The arrests came as police clashed with protesters in two cities following Tuesday’s unprecedented protests. One protester and one policeman were killed as police bro ...
  • Bombs targeting Iraqi officials kill 3 in Baghdad
    AP — A series of roadside bombs aimed at Iraqi troops and an electricity official missed their targets but killed three other people on Thursday, officials said. The blasts follow a particularly deadly week in Iraq, raising concerns about an uptick in violence as the U.S. military prepares to withdr ...
  • E-mails Suggest Bear Stearns Cheated Clients Out o ...
    Atlantic – Former Bear Stearns mortgage executives who now run mortgage divisions of Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Ally Financial have been accused of cheating and defrauding investors through the mortgage securities they created and sold while at Bear. According to e-mails and internal audits ...
  • Wall Street Partying in Davos as Crisis Angst Fade ...
    Bloomberg – As Wall Street chief executive officers flock to the World Economic Forum, theyâll be breathing a sigh of relief along with the Swiss mountain air: There are no panels on compensation or redesigning financial regulation. After spending much of last yearâs meeting defending the industry a ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Coverage of the Egypt Uprising
    Ellis Goldberg, a bona fide expert of Egyptian politics (and UW Political Science professor) happens to be in Cairo at the moment and has started blogging about the evolving situation. A recommended source for anyone seeking informed commentary on the situation as it evolves (along with Juan Cole, o ...
  • After Moscow Bombing, Russia Needs to Woo Moderate ...
    Russian citizens have been caught in the crossfire between muscle-headed government leaders and homicidal dreamers for two decades. The Moscow Airport Bombing, which killed 35 people on Monday and injured over 100, provides evidence yet again that the Kremlin’s security policies continue to fail. I ...
  • Leading Through Civilian Power When Military Power ...
    State Department Policy Planning Director Anne-Marie Slaughter argues that the United States much fundamentally restructure its foreign policy making apparatus in order to effectively engage the challenges of the 21st century. While consensus exists, however, funding has not followed. Coming off ...
  • Russian Duma Ratifies New START, Marking Two Years ...
    The Russian Duma voted to ratify the New START treaty today, thereby ensuring that the treaty will enter into force. While this was more or less a forgone conclusion, START’s completion represents a significant achievement for the President. In fact, the past two years have seen remarkable progress ...
  • State of the Union: On Democracy in the Arab World
    Last night’s State of the Union address was, unsurprisingly, focused on domestic issues. For someone concentrating on the broader Middle East, the speech’s oblique references to foreign policy did not convey a clear sense of the social unrest and political malaise that have been on display for week ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Winning the Future.
    That's the phrase you'll probably hear from the White House a lot. Like Matt Yglesias, I went to a bloggers' roundtable with other progressive journalists today and met with David Axelrod. He repeated this phrase a lot, and also said repeatedly, along with an economic advisor, Brian Deese, that the ...
  • Lightning Round: A Blueprint for Rapture.
    Of all the criticisms of the SOTU, the most irritating is the charge that the president didn't express sufficient solidarity with protesters in Egypt or any number of a bazillion other places around the world. For one thing, as Daniel Larison says, this wasn't a "State of the Empire speech." Yet ac ...
  • Virginia GOP Continues to Embarrass the Commonweal ...
    With this proposal, Virginia's conservative legislators intend to show their faith in the efficacy of government: A Virginia legislator is proposing castrating sex offenders as an alternative to the increasing costs to detain and treat them after they've served their prison sentences.Republican Sen ...
  • Giving Them the Business.
    Few things have been stranger to those of us on the left over the last couple of years than the continued insistence of the moneyed class that Barack Obama is "anti-business." After all, the stock market has soared since he's been president -- the Dow is up nearly 50 percent since he took office -- ...
  • Why You Shouldn't Pay Attention to "Instant" React ...
    National Journal's Sara Sorcher reports on the instant responses to last night's address: According to CBS News and Knowledge Networks' "instant poll," which surveyed a nationally representative sample of 500 viewers in the minutes after the president’s address, 91 percent said they approved of Oba ...

Buzzflash

  • China Bests U.S. Because Fools With Uncle Sam Hats ...
    MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT Put aside the Fox fraudcasting lies and Tea Party vitriol for awhile. The state visit of President Hu Jintao of China has shown how the delusional triumphalism of the right wing has hampered America's growth. It's nice to take a walk down Disneyland's ...
  • President Obama's "Sputnik Moment" Turns Into Thro ...
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