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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

4 January - RSS SnapShot! Pt 1

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  • AGRICULTURE: CASSAVA COMBATING RURAL HUNGER
    In Zambia, a silver lining has emerged for widespread rural hunger and poverty, thanks to homegrown agricultural research. Local scientists have successfully developed four new, early-maturing and high- yielding cassava cultivars in an ambitious research project conducted in the cassava- ...
  • Women Fight Assault Over Internet
    Millions use Facebook to keep in touch with their friends, post photos of reunions and parties and share links to interesting articles and videos. But for 24-year old Maria (not her real name), the popular social networking site became a source of public shame when a former boyfriend posted ...
  • MIDEAST: Parents Unite Across Violent Borders
    With Middle East peace talks at a standstill, a group of activists is taking matters into its own hands. The Parents' Circle Families Forum, a group comprising Palestinians and Israelis who have lost family members in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, aims to build a bridge between the two f ...
  • SRI LANKA: Economy Going Nuts
    At a marketplace near Colombo, consumers scramble for coconuts being sold from a state-owned truck. Sri Lanka is the world's fourth largest coconut producer and a major exporter; but a crop shortfall and a drought have forced the country to import coconuts.
  • NICARAGUA: Lobster Divers in Deep Trouble
    Edgard Walters, who belongs to the Association of Disabled and Active Divers of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, has been in a wheelchair since 2003, when he made his last dive for lobster in the waters of the Caribbean.

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  • HarvardMS: Aging Process Reversed in Mice.
    Scientists have been able to reverse the aging process in mice, a stunning feat that may help regenerate organs in elderly humans, according to a new study published online in the journal Nature. The experimental treatment developed by researchers at Harvard Medical School turned weak and feeble ...
  • US: 1000's of foreclosures on shaky ground
    Two Pennsylvania cases, one state and one federal, have exposed new types of document problems in foreclosure cases. One of the cases has potentially transformative consequences for thousands of troubled Pennsylvania homeowners. At the center of each is the same law firm: Goldbeck McCafferty & McKee ...
  • Roubini predicts another $1Trillion housing losses
    For twelve years this nation was afflicted with hear-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing government. The nation looked to government but the government looked away. Nine mocking years with the golden calf and three long years with the scourge! The country's real estate problems are "under appreciate ...
  • China slows as tightening start to bite
    The spectre of Chinese monetary tightening has now become the most neuralgic issue in the world economy. There are fears that Beijing may knock away the central prop of global recovery if it misjudges the delicate task.
  • Foreign Investors Shun Australian Bank Debt
    It's no big deal when a handful of contrarian bloggers sound the alarm over our banks' heavy offshore borrowings and the risks of a sudden liquidity crisis. But when two of the nation's main tabloid newspapers warn of a possible credit crunch and property market crash, then its time to take this iss ...

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  • Australia flooding expected to peak
    Floodwaters eased in Australia's major coal mining region today, allowing some mines to slowly resume production although most remained idle, as devastating floods affect some 200,000 people and force towns to be evacuated.
  • Iran confirms invite to view nuclear facilities
    Iran confirmed today that it had invited some ambassadors accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna to visit nuclear facilities in the Islamic Republic.
  • Body of Pentagon official in landfill site
    police in Delaware are investigating the murder of a former Pentagon official after his body was found in a rubbish dump.
  • British consulate staff 'linked to weapons plot'
    Two local Palestinian employees of the British consulate general in Jerusalem have been charged on suspicion of arms trafficking as part of an investigation into an alleged plot by two Hamas militants to attack the city's most important football ground.
  • Son of Hitler's deputy faces accusations of sexual ...
    The eldest son of Adolf Hitler's secretary, Martin Bormann, was yesterday accused of subjecting a former pupil at an Austrian Catholic boarding school to violent and protracted sexual abuse during his time there working as a priest and schoolmaster, more than 50 years ago.

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Innovation Canada

  • Celebrating Arctic research
    When you turn 50, there’s a tendency to sit back and celebrate your accomplishments. But some 50-year-olds prefer to be bold and try new things. Such is the case for the University of Alberta’s Canadian Circumpolar Institute (CCI). Between building university-degree programs in the North and finding ...
  • The bright side of E. coli
    Mention the Escherichia coli bacterium, or E. coli, and many people immediately get anxious. After all, certain strains of E. coli, typically ingested through undercooked ground beef, have been associated with cases of severe diarrhea, kidney failure and even death. But a group of undergraduate stud ...
  • Getting to the root of HIV
    Daily, neurologist Chris Power at the University of Alberta in Edmonton boards an elevator in the lobby of the Heritage Medical Research Centre, gets off on the sixth floor and strolls down the corridor to a nondescript, but world-class, level-three-security biosafety laboratory (BSL-3). No one is g ...
  • When good stress turns bad
    Everyone experiences stress, whether it’s dealing with day-to-day annoyances, such as traffic jams or machines that just won’t work, or with truly life-altering events, such as the death of a loved one, a divorce or the loss of a job. Whatever the trigger, the initial response by the body and the br ...
  • Blowin’ in the wind

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  • China backs Spain to emerge from crisis: Beijing
    China is confident Spain will recover from its economic crisis and Beijing will buy Spanish public debt despite market fears of an Irish-style bailout, a top Chinese official said Monday. The comments by Vice Premier Li Keqiang were made in an op-ed piece in Spain's leading daily El Pais one day ah ...
  • Just 35 pct. of Americans support continuing Afgha ...
    A record number of Americans oppose the US war in Afghanistan, according to a recently released poll. A national CNN/Opinion Research poll (.pdf) Thursday revealed that a majority thought the war was going badly and 63 percent completely opposed it. Only 35 percent favored the war. That's down ...
  • Greece To Build Anti-Migrant Fence Along Section O ...
    Greece on Monday announced plans to build an 8-mile long fence along a section of its land border with Turkey to keep out illegal migrants. The border fence plan was announced by Public Order Minister Christos Papoutsis, who claimed that more than 100,000 illegal migrants had entered Greece though t ...
  • 80 African migrants feared drowned off Yemen coast
    At least 80 African migrants were feared drowned Monday after their boats capsized off the coast of Yemen, authorities there reported. The two boats sank in separate accidents. One boat, which carried 45 migrants mostly from Ethiopia, capsized in the Red Sea, according to Yemen's official news agen ...
  • Asian aid convoy arrives in Gaza
    More than 100 Asian activists calling for the lifting of the Gaza blockade and ferrying vital humanitarian aid entered the Palestinian coastal strip on Monday. They are part of an Asian aid convoy, Asia1, which started on December 2 from Rajghat in New Delhi and travelled by road to Syria, after cro ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The pet experience . . .
    The PooTrap®. Do you think it will fly in Canada? I don't think my ol' Bull Terrier would have been happy.This isn't her. Great beak.
  • Nature abhors a vacuum . . .
    ACCORDING TO THE ECONOMIST, "A mercenary solution to Somali piracy" is being considered by people involved with shipping. It's not a new idea, but A.J. says it might fly this time because of the dimensions of the problem, which just doesn't seem to go away:In 2010 alone Somali pirates have attacked ...
  • Swimming with polar bears
    It was a balmy 12 C with intermittent rain in Hamilton today-- perfect swimming weather--and so your intrepid correspondent sallies forth! (That is not fat. What looks to the casual observer like a beer gut is actually layer upon layer of thermal padding and floatation modules - safety first! That's ...
  • Bummer bulletin . . .
    WHY I DON'T BUY JAPANESE ANYTHING: according to the Washington Post, the Japanese have sent a fleet to Antarctica to kill 1,000 whales, if they can. Their fleet has been found and is being harassed by The Sea Shepherd Society. Japan's whaling fleet set out for Antarctic waters in December. Sea Shep ...
  • another headdesk moment
    I know it is only Wednesday, but this is going to be tough to beat for the stupidest thing I'm going to hear all week. "The armies of other nations...could allow homosexuals to serve in their military because we didn't allow them to serve in ours...We will no longer able to bail out these other ema ...

Media Matters for America

  • "I Don't See What The Big Deal Is": Right-Wing Med ...
    Right-wing media are coming to the defense of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who has attracted criticism for remaining on vacation at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, during the recent major snow storms on the East Coast.Gov. Christie Criticized For Vacationing During State's Natural Dis ...
  • Right-Wing Media Dubiously Blame Unions for Slow N ...
    In the days following the blizzard in New York City,� right-wing media seized on a Republican NYC councilman's claim that a deliberate union slow-down was responsible for the city's widely criticized snow removal.� In fact, numerous city officials, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, say there is no ...
  • Right-Wing Media Kick Off 2011 By Dusting Off "D ...
    The right-wing media are kicking off 2011 by reviving "death panel" claims -- which was PolitiFact's 2009 "Lie of the Year" -- by claiming that a recent change to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements was tantamount to the establishment of "death panels."�In fact, the rule simply compensates doc ...
  • Wash. Times Responds To DADT Repeal Wit ...
    Continuing its tradition of anti-gay rhetoric, The Washington Times has responded to the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" by publishing numerous homophobic editorials and op-eds.Wash. Times Responds To DADT Repeal With Anti-Gay Rhetoric Kuhner: DADT Repeal "An Act Of National Suicide." In a ...
  • Fox's Stossel Ignores Evidence To Rail Against Min ...
    During a one-hour special on Fox News, John Stossel attacked the minimum wage, claiming that it is responsible for unemployment both among teenagers and the overall labor force. In fact, studies have found that recent increases in the minimum wage have not increased teen unemployment or overall une ...

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TPM Cafe

  • The Terrorist-Supporting Neocons
    Thanks to a New York Times op-ed today by Georgetown law professor David Cole, debate has been renewed over last summer's SCOTUS decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project and the question of what constitutes "support" for terrorists and can be prohibited. Can you, for instance, outlaw efforts a ...
  • Rising Calls For An American Imposed Peace Plan
    Howard Sachar is the historian the rest of us of who write about Israel are cautious about referring to in our work, for fear of giving away just how much of his research and analysis we borrowed. His A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time, published in 1976, is a magisterial book ...
  • Hu's on First? Key US-China Summit Ahead
    During the 2008 presidential election, Hillary Clinton took a very tough line on China -- arguing then that President George W. Bush should boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies because of China's policies on Tibet and Darfur. My response to then presidential candidate Clinton was that th ...
  • A Bit of New Year's Silliness
    Maybe the only thing I've been obsessed with longer than foreign policy is The Clash. Recently someone shared a brilliant YouTube misheard lyrics video of 'Complete Control,' and I knew I had to make one of my own. So, meaning no disrespect to the high-quality discourse we at TPM conduct on matters ...
  • Arab Nazareth, Israeli Democracy--Bundist Dreams
    A little over three weeks ago (around the time this blogger went quiet, in this season of reflection), Sidra and I took a little road trip to the Israeli Arab town of Nazareth, where we spent the weekend in a funky little inn, the Fauzi Azar. I haven't stopped thinking about it since. When you get a ...

TruthOut

  • Breaking the Israel-Palestine Deadlock
    While intensively engaged in illegal settlement expansion, the government of Israel is also seeking to deal with two problems: a global campaign of what it perceives as “delegitimation” – that is, objections to its crimes and withdrawal of participation in them – and a parallel campaign of legitimat ...
  • Massachusetts is Latest State to Target Greenhouse ...
    State thinks it can slash emissions without new programs. So, now Massachusetts has joined the list of states that aren't waiting for Congress to turn this country away from greenhouse-gaseous sources of energy. That state has set aggressive limits on emissions and plans to reach those targets by r ...
  • Right-Wing Bloggers Use Terror Attack To Launch An ...
    Conservative bloggers are denouncing President Obama for his statement condemning a terrorist attack against a church in Egypt on New Year's Day. These bloggers are falsely claiming that, in the words of Jim Hoft, "Obama is making up Muslim victims" of the attack. In fact, there were reportedly Musl ...
  • Birth of Pakistan's Islamic Extremism
    Editor’s Note: Thanks in part to the iconic status of Ronald Reagan – and the “Charlie Wilson’s War” lionizing of the anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan – Americans have little understanding of how Reagan’s Cold War obsessions contributed to today’s “war on terror” and the danger from a nuclear-armed ...
  • Jerry Brown as California Governor, Act 2: Can He ...
    Jerry Brown may be mellower and more experienced than when he first served as governor in 1975. Now he faces big challenges given California's more diverse population and flagging economy. Just as he did in early 1975, Jerry Brown on Jan. 3 takes the helm of California from a former movie star R ...

Planetsave

  • 65 Million Years with James Hansen
    As Peter Sinclair of Climate Denial Crock of the Week (where I ran across the video) summarizes: In a speech at the University of Oregon, James Hansen, NASA’s chief atmospheric scientist, walks listeners thru the most recent geologic periods, and speaks to the commonly heard climate canard, “It’s be ...
  • BP Oil Spill a “Tremendous,” “Blossoming” Flower o ...
    As I said in the post published an hour ago on TSA agents giving Gulf activists special treatment in California’s Ontario Airport, I recently ran across a few new BP oil spill stories that deserve a little attention. First of all, with regards to the BP oil spill, how’s this for compassion? As we sa ...
  • Oil Spill Activists Targeted by TSA Agents
    I saw this story a week or so ago and decided to pass on covering it (too many stories to cover, you know?), but after running across it again, as well as a few more interesting ones, on our sister site Fail Drill I decided they need to be on here (next three coming in... Read More...
  • Sri Lanka - 029 - Kandy Temple of the ToothImage by mckaysavage via FlickrSarah Palin Schools Conservationists Follow-Up
    Tom had a great post on Sarah Palin “schooling” conservationists last week, explaining to us clueless conservationists that pencils and paper come from trees. A new good friend of mine from WV Outpost picked up the story and added a lot to it, some of the thoughts definitely crossed my mind as well. ...
  • Gulf Coast Residents Still Getting Sick
    Following up on reports from Project Gulf Impact videos from August and October. h/t Climate Crocks

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Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Dying for a good cup of tea - Critical Analysis
    For those readers who might not know, British writer Christopher Hitchens has terminal cancer. He is an admirable example of a man accepting of his fate, and wanting to conduct the balance of his life with as much normalcy as possible. Despite his condition, Hitchens has taken the tr ...
  • Be Human and Humane - Sri Lanka
    According to Sri Lankan press the U S have praised the Sri Lankan Government's efforts in resettling the IDPs (Internally Displaced People). The work however is far from over.  But it certainly is good news. It is the innocent victims such as these, who were trapped between the State Armed...
  • Why the climate summit sank - Environment/Nature
    Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, looks at the outcome of the United Nations climate summit in Mexico. ______ Cancún is slowly slipping into the Caribbean Sea. A combination of climate change, natural weather patterns and ...
  • Haiti is the proof of the failure of the internati ...
    Introduction: Brazilians continue to be the biggest contingent in MINUSTAH (Mission des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation en Haiti) despite disapproval of this neocolonialist army by the great majority of Brazilians.  Here Mr. Ricardo Seitenfus, the departing Brazilian representative to the OAS, s ...
  • Wikileaks, the United States, Sweden, and Devil's ...
    The Anti-Empire Report December 16 ... I'm standing in the snow in front of the White House ... Standing with Veterans for Peace ... I'm only a veteran of standing in front of the White House; the first time was February 1965, handing out flyers against the war in Vietnam....

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Nightowl Newswrap
    Take him anywhere but here - we're having Shah Reza Pahlavi flashbacks. "Incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo could be offered refuge in the US as a means to end the country's political crisis, US officials say. Washington could help Mr Gbagbo make a "dignified exit", but this opportunity ...
  • The 2010 Rooties Are Out - the Best and Worst of K ...
    Media Czech's annual list of the best and the worst of Kentucky politics and culture, the Rooties, gets bigger and better every year. The 2010 Rooties are so great, in fact, that they require three parts to reveal in their entire glory. Read Part One here.
  • Income Disparity Is A Growing Problem
    Socialism for the rich? It looks more and more that way, upon close examination. I remember a job interview (I'm a newspaper journalist) in which the publisher of a medium/small paper talked briefly about competition. "We're all for competition. But not in our particular business. If somebody starts ...
  • OK Mr. Holder... What's The Excuse Going To Be Thi ...
    Leading conservatives call for Obama to back terrorist group Maybe it's just criminal if it's someone besides "prominent" Republicans are doing it? A group of prominent Republicans may have actually committed a crime last month when they traveled to Paris to speak to an Iranian opposition group that ...
  • Someone buy Darrell Issa a thesaurus
    A note to Darrell Issa: "Corrupt" and "stuff I don't like" are not synonymous. For months Darrell Issa has been champing at the bit to get his hands on the gavel of the House Oversight Committee so he can start issuing subpoenas and get Bo's dogwalker and Michelle's manicurist in front of a committe ...

Care 2

  • A European anti-Islam movement grows
    Paris conference brings together speakers from across Europe to rail against the dangers of Islamization.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Blackbirds Fall From Sky
    Environmental service workers finished picking up the carcasses on Sunday of about 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town.Submitted by Joseph M. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • When the Body Says No: How Emotions Can Cause or P ...
    Physician Gabor Maté argues too many doctors ignore what was once a commonplace assumption, that emotions are implicated in the development of illnesses and in their healing.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • S.Korea clamps down on illegal whale-hunting
    The new law is aimed at helping to curb a "growing amount of illegal whale hunting" around the country, it said. South Korea has banned whaling for commercial sale since 1986 but allows trading of those accidentally caught dead in fishing netSubmitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Help Protect Grand Canyon From Uranium Mining
    The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) is moving full-speed-ahead issuing new air and aquifer permits for three uranium mines in the Grand Canyon's watershed. They are proposing permits for air quality at the EZ, Pinenut and Canyon Mines,Submitted by Suzanne S. to Environment �|� �N ...

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Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • How To Ensure A TSA Sexual Assault * Open Thread
    Editor’s Note: The Reverend’s post makes for riveting reading, and will remain up overnight. Only healthcare errands keep this editor from having time to write an open thread. I urge you to focus, in good part, on the Reverend’s excellent rant. Have a knee replacement. Yep, that seems to do the tric ...
  • Re-Elect Chicago
    � POTUS looking ahead. POTUS will start the re-elect on the trail as soon as the SOU is done. Good. Meantime, the drama turns on the Chicago mayoralty, where POTUS will not campaign for Rahm Emanuel. Why not? �Has Rahm gone renegade to the Clintons? Valerie Jarrett is now running the-re-elect from t ...
  • Slow News Day, USS Enterprise XO Faux Outrage
    XO films is a joke. Maybe not the funniest of jokes but humor that pokes fun first and foremost at the XO, Captain Owen Honors. XO is a military term that is shorthand for “Executive Officer.” It is essentially the job of Assistant Principal. You punish people and make sure that the details required ...
  • Fox News Ultimate Irony Moment (UPDATE)
    * Bumped Up * The folks at FOX really are clueless. Megyn Kelly had Ambassador John Bolton on to talk about President Obama’s recess appointments. The crawl at the bottom of the screen? GROWING OUTRAGE OVER PRESIDENT OBAMA’S RECESS APPOINTMENTS. Who does Barack Obama think he is? My, my. How short a ...
  • For Men Only! Open Thread
    Save the Males: Why Men Matter Why Women Should Care Well, Breeze, you can read this too. (Actually, all of us women can read this.) I was just visiting Parker/Spitzer’s blog, looking for a video, when I stumbled across a staff post, “Parker: TV depicts men as bad AND stupid“: Kathleenâs book, âSave ...

Environmental Graffiti

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

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

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Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Seize the Year!! It's ours!! Now with Fractal Ante ...
    The last piece of litter I noticed in 2010 was a Four Loko can by the Hiawatha Franklin station. Had a nice New Years roundabout. Basement foursquare. Bonsai tree, Heatbox. Cabooze. Loud basement jamming. Wookiefoot. Igorrr. Stranvisky Conducts Firebird And the new Fractal microwave cloaking dev ...
  • Russia & China not buying BIS Fractional Reserve G ...
    A bit of Xmas cheer pushin back against LA school district police brutality: How a Google Engineer (and Reddit) Got a Teenager Out of Jail for Christmas Fiddlesticks: It's Over: Jason Rosenbaum: BREAKING: FCC breaks Obama's promise, allows corporate censorship online with fake Net Neutrality Previou ...
  • Robert Erickson: Featured Pic for Top 10 Political ...
    Friend of mine says this is still a running gag at her office six months later! :-D My mom is happy the Christmas tablecloth went a bit viral! Star Tribune featured the penny drop as the most photogenic political moment in Minnesota politics for 2010! The boring 2010 campaign season featured one hi ...
  • Metrodome collapse new video closeups panels rippi ...
    Is it Metrodome or Metropolis? No one was injured fortunately. New video closeups from the surveillance cameras posted - its a pretty clear sign of collapse eh? Part 1: Part 2 The damage could block DNC 2012, sure to cheer opponents of the convention. In a satirical press release Nature took credi ...
  • A New Week of Link Dump: Gnosis Whacks Gawker; Fed ...
    Before Wikileaks there wuz Hyperlinks: Lots of em. Let's lead off with the best thing in America: Prisoners Strike in Georgia - NYTimes.com. GO CHAMPS! Day 3 of Historic Prison Strike in Georgia-Blacked out By Media-Guards committing Violence Anyone can have a Tumbr hit! kim jong-il looking at thing ...

Daily Censored

  • You are about to enter a “brave new world.”
    In the interest of self-preservation I am ending my blog.  The government here is reducing or eliminating taxes, depending on which tax you are talking about.  The new governor is also going to eliminate services, the first of which, I just heard, is the state support of public libraries In order fo ...
  • Decline & Fall – The Happy New Years Edition (with ...
    In 2000, 135 million citizens were employed. In 2010 there were 139 million Americans employed. Given the 9.7% increase in population since 2000, we would expect to see at least 148 million citizens with jobs. Michael Collins The best thing about 2010 is that it’s over. It was a year filled with utt ...
  • 2011: Americans re-take their country from psychop ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com 2011 in America: US unlawful Wars of Aggression: expressly against multiple UN National Security Council Resolutions forbidding US use of military force. Rapacious looting of our economy by political pimps and Wall Street criminal frauds. US “political leadership” c ...
  • Monitoring schoolchildren
    Hundreds of schools have begun monitoring children in the past few year with the United Kingdom intent on stepping up the pace in the new year. Biometrics and CCTV are the most prevalent with many schools in Scotland planning on introducing or expanding schemes in the coming year. New figures reveal ...
  • The prime directive: Thou shalt not kill.
    The generals won’t stop war; it’s their bread and butter. The politicians won’t stop war; it makes them look so strong and resolute and electable. Who’s left? It’s up to the soldiers.

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Equality Trust

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

PDA AMERICA

  • Peter B Collins: Final Podcast of 2010: Progress ...
    Listen to Podcast:  Click Here Prof. David Coates of Wake Forest University and Tim Carpenter of Progressive Democrats of America discuss the new political mix in Washington and offer advice on how to confront the challenges ...
  • You + PDA = Success
    Happy New Year! Friends, At this time of the year, our email boxes are overflowing with messages pronouncing how great a particular organization is, ticking off all the wonderful things that organization accomplished in the last year, ...
  • January 2011 Accountability and Justice IOT News
    January 2011 Accountability and Justice IOT News PDA Issue Organizing Team Accountability and Justice Conference Call https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/309/mtglistproc.asp?formid=meet&caleventid=18964 When Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Time: 9:00 PM ET, 8:00 PM CT, 7:00 PM MT, 6:00 PM PT Note new ...
  • Put the fix on the Senate
    Help Us Make History on January 5 Dear Friend, The Senate is broken. A minority of 41 Republican Senators has virtually stopped reform in its tracks: • If Democrats try to pass something without Republican input, Republicans filibuster. • If Democrats ...
  • Raising Hell for healthcare
    Get this book and raise some hell for Medicare for All! There’s only one force powerful enough to get us the change we want and voted for in 2008: populism. The sad fact is we can ...

Marler Blog

  • My New Year's Resolutions - What I will be doing n ...
    I needed a vacation badly (so did the subscribers and readers of my blog), as I seem to never be at a loss for something to write about – which is a bad or all of us. 2010, kept me busy with Stephanie Smith and Cargill, Linda Rivera and Nestle (that one not over yet) and one too many trips between ...
  • Blog Release - Marler Clark Pledges $10,000 to Int ...
    Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, announced today that it is pledging $10,000 to the International Sprout Growers Association (ISGA) to assist in the development of a safer method for the production of sprouts. The contribution comes on the heels of a nationwide Salmonella outbreak caused by c ...
  • "First Class Foods" Recalls 17 Tons of E. coli O15 ...
    First Class Foods, Inc., a Hawthorne, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 34,373 pounds of organic ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The following products ...
  • Does this recent Sprout Salmonella Outbreak show a ...
    The CDC has confirmed that there are presently 94 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:- from 16 states and the District of Columbia. The number of ill people identified in each state with the outbreak strain is as follows: California (1), Connecticut (1) ...
  • Perhaps after three Sprout Outbreaks, Jimmy John's ...
    Salmonella and E. coli are fecal bateria - think about it. According to today’s report from the CDC, between November 1 through December 27, 2010, 94 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:- have been reported from 16 states and the District of Columbia. ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Hypermiling Hyundai Sonata Hybrid crosses America ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Etc., Videos, Hyundai 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Cross Country Blue Drive - Click above for image gallery You've got to hand it to Wayne Gerdes. He knows how to go the distance in production passenger cars on very little gasoline. In April of 2009, he worked with a tea ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.03.11
    Do you think 2010 or 2011 will be remembered as "The Year of the Electric Car"? Have we reached some sort of landmark year? AutoblogGreen's Most Popular Posts of 2010 From Ditka to diesel, h ...
  • Report: Tesla says Model S will be profitable than ...
    Filed under: Sedan, Technology, Earnings/Financials, Tesla, Electric Tesla Model S - Click above for high-res image gallery It's not exactly a surprise that battery costs for electric vehicles will go down over time, but the big question is by how much and how fast. Tesla Motors, which uses small ...
  • Report: Facing high gas prices, dealers get cautio ...
    Filed under: Car Buying, SUV, Crossover The average gas price in the U.S. is over $3 right now, and there's a good chance it'll go higher before too long. What do you do in this situation if you're a car dealer with a lot full of SUVs and big crossovers? You start being cautious. That's the ta ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.30.10
    42 years of waiting, and working, for an electric car pays off Some people know just how big a deal the first Volt and Leaf deliveries really are. Alyssa Milano to buy both Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

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

Digg Green

  • Is Magnesium The Key To Higher Fuel Economy? ...
    Carbon fiber often occupies the limelight as a light weight material that could take some of the heft out of our cars, and thus improve fuel efficiency -- if only it cost less. But alloys of magnesium, the lightest structural metal, have a history in automotive components tracing back to the 19 ...
  • Recall Alert: Organic Beef
    More than 34,000 pounds of organic ground beef has been recalled by California-based First Class Foods because of a possibility of contamination with E. coli 0157:H7
  • Five Shocking Facts About What Drinking Does ...
    When it comes to health prescriptions, is there anything more controversial than alcohol consumption? It seems that every few months a new study hits the press, either praising the health merits of booze or telling you why it’s ruining your life (or at the very least, your liver).
  • BP Brews Up an Ethanol Breakthrough with Engi ...
    A BP-backed research project promises to commercialize a new method to make cellusosic ethanol "very soon."
  • Big Amygdala? Big Social Network
    According to a researcher at Boston’s Northeastern University, yes, a little nut in the human brain called the amygdala correlates directly to the size of that human’s social network. The amygdala is responsible for some of your most sensitive emotional process: trusting strangers, recognizing ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Terrorist Watch List May Exceed US Population by 2 ...
    By Mac Slavo According to the Wall Street Journal, there are roughly 440,000 people on the watch list as of December 2010, though USA Today indicates that over one million names have been added as of 2009. In 2006 the list contained just 71,000 names (which was subsequently corrected to remove error ...
  • As we count the cost of the freeze, Government pre ...
    By Christopher Booker As we emerge, temporarily perhaps, from weeks of the coldest weather since records began – with snow disasters right round the northern hemisphere, from the US and Europe to China and Mongolia – more examples come to light of how the cost of extreme cold is far greater than tha ...
  • It’s ‘the hottest year on record&#8217 ...
    By Christopher Booker We have lately heard much of the claim that 2010 will turn out to have been “the hottest year on record”. No one has done more to promote this belief than Dr James Hansen, head of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), responsible for one of the four main official g ...
  • Political Science: Freezing Proves Warming
    Those who prefer authoritarian government over liberty have adopted global warming/climate change as the perfect justification: global catastrophe looms if government doesn’t control, tax and ration energy production and energy consumption. When politicians control your access to energy they will co ...
  • Only 9,099 Of Last 10,500 Years Warmer Than 2010 & ...
    By Brian Bolduc On Watts Up With That?, Dr. Don J. Easterbrook notes the attention 2010 is getting as a contender for the warmest year of the century. And then he calms everyone down: Another graph of temperatures from the Greenland ice core for the past 10,000 years is shown in Figure 5. It shows [ ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

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

Inhabitat

  • Lotus-Shaped Singapore Museum Collects Rain and Li ...
    The newly opened over-the-top Marina Bay Sands Casino and Resort in Singapore will soon host a slightly more down-to-earth museum focused on the fusion of art and science. Renowned Architect Moshie Safadie, who has been tickling the edge of green design for decades, designed the mega resort to grab ...
  • Designer Fabien Capello Transforms Unwanted Christ ...
    It may only be the 3rd of January, but if you’ve been circling the block, you may notice that the sidewalks are already littered with last year’s Christmas trees. A terribly sad and wasteful end for one of winter’s most revered symbols, you’ll be relieved to know that designer Fabien Capello is offe ...
  • Fun Bamboo Desklamp by Green Tuna Design
    We love that this simple LED desk lamp by Green Tuna Design doesn’t take itself too seriously, even though it’s got some major green cred. Not only is it lasercut from 5mm sustainable bamboo wood and finished with 100% natural coating, but it also gets its glow from ultra-efficient LEDs. The lamp’s ...
  • Retro Wall Clocks Recycled from Old Turntables
    Many people consider old record players works of art, so it seems like a real shame to throw them out when they’ve broken down beyond repair. That’s why we think these awesome wall clocks made from turntables are pure genius. The one pictured here is made from a Sanyo turntable and features Roncoâs ...
  • 1840s Victorian Home Receives a Zero-Energy Retrof ...
    Read the rest of 1840s Victorian Home Receives a Zero-Energy Retrofithttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", birmingham, e ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Amazing World of Insect-Wing Color Discovered
    A closer look at seemingly drab, transparent insect wings has revealed realms of previously unappreciated color, visible to the naked eye yet overlooked for centuries. Until now, the wing colors of many flies and wasps were dismissed as random iridescence. But they may be as distinctive and marvelo ...
  • Elusive Meteor Shower and Solar Eclipse to Ring in ...
    The new year opens up with the annual Quadrantid Meteor Shower, one of the most impressive — but least observed — meteor showers of the year. The shower is expected to peak sometime between 3 p.m. EST on Jan. 3 and 1 a.m. EST on Jan. 4. Observers in North America should look for shooting stars [... ...
  • Parasites Make Caterpillars Glow to Repel Predator ...
    Parasitic worms may be saving their own little hides when they induce the caterpillars they infest to glow a little and blush a furious red. As the parasitic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora infects caterpillars of the greater wax moth, the normally pale caterpillars temporarily bioluminesce ...
  • How to Capture the Sun in a Beer Can
    This sun-streaked image comes from the easiest, yet most time-intensive DIY astrophotography project ever: solargraphy. Solargraphs trace the seasons by exposing a sheet of photosensitive paper to sunlight for up to a year. The bright arches in this image mark the sun’s path across the sky in Middl ...
  • Climate Models Miss Effects of Wind-Shattered Dust
    Clumps of dust in the desert shatter like glass on a kitchen floor. This similarity may mean the atmosphere carries more large dust particles than climate models assume. Dust and other airborne particles’ effect in the atmosphere is “one of the most important problems we need to solve in order to p ...

PakAlert

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

Andy Worthington

  • WikiLeaks Forum in New York Confirmed: Thursday Ja ...
    In my recently announced itinerary of events to mark the 9th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo in New York, Baltimore and Washington D.C. (facilitated by The World Can’t Wait and Witness Against Torture), I mentioned a forum on the significance of WikiLeaks at the Brecht Forum in New York th ...
  • A New Year’s Plea to Close Guantánamo by a C ...
    While I’m busy preparing articles for the 9th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo on January 11 (and preparing for my visit to the States, from January 6 to 12, to talk about Guantánamo in New York and Washington D.C.), I thought I’d cross-post a great American perspective on the prison’s con ...
  • Andy Worthington Visits the US to Campaign for the ...
    The 9th anniversary of the opening of the “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay is on January 11, and, in the hope of raising awareness of the need for action to close Guantánamo and to secure fair trials or release from the prison for the 174 men still held, Andy Worthington, freelance investi ...
  • Guantánamo Is “A Piece of Hell That Kills Ev ...
    On Christmas Day, I wrote an article reminding readers of the plight of the remaining 174 prisoners in Guantánamo, and specifically focusing on the case of Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, a mentally troubled Yemeni prisoner who has attempted to commit suicide on several occasions. Despite being cleared fo ...
  • Hounding a Torture Judge: A Report by Susan Harman ...
    Holding Bush administration officials accountable for torture is an unfashionable thought in Obama’s America, as was signaled even before Barack Obama took office, when he told the New York Times about his “belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.â After a promising early ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Dan Malloy scores first in Danbury
    Dan Malloy jumping off of the bench of the Danbury Whalers shortly after scoring the first goal in Whalers' history. [update] I have an interview from after the game at TK's. Let me say, in advance, that he was a bit reluctunt to give it since I am a political blogger... But as a hockey fan I prom ...
  • Still All That I Want
    Something that gets lost in the news about the unemployed is the fact that much of what used to be the backbone of this nation's economic prowess, the middle class, is now the working poor: Imagine That: Working Poor On The Rise After the Republicans crashed to economy in 2008 one thing became imm ...
  • Choosing a New Police Chief: No Local Ties, Please ...
    Do you want your town to look like The Dukes of Hazzard? Then again, maybe New Milford has been run by Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coltrane for a while. If that's not your idea of how a quaint New England town should be run, then help make sure the next police chief has no local ties - political or fa ...
  • WWWWWWWWW.boardofeducationobstruction.edu
    Click on the above link, and it will take you to an interesting place. A place where obstruction is the norm, bad lawyering is the standard, lack of preparedness is encouraged, and focusing on the main mission is discouraged. Sounds beautiful, doesn't it? Here's the real name of this magical cyber s ...
  • Party like it's Orwell's 1984
    This summer, I read George Orwell’s paranoid dystopia novel, 1984. I have no idea how I managed to graduate from high school, let along college, without reading it, but, there you go. (And, all literary genius aside, I’m so glad I wasn’t friends with Orwell. Somehow I doubt he was ever the life o ...

SPL Center

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

change: org.

  • Why Does a Major Report on Homeless Youth Ignore L ...
    The evidence is compelling: LGBT youth make up a disproportionately large percentage of our nation's homeless youth, as Change.org and others have reported. Why then did a new, national report on homeless youth from Covenant House, which says it is "the largest provider of services to homeless and a ...
  • Telescope Project Threatens Survival of Rare Red S ...
    Only 200 Mount Graham red squirrels live on Mount Graham, but many could perish if a project of the Mount Graham International Observatory, run by the University of Arizona, receives a new permit. But the Center for Biological Diversity, the Maricopa Audubon Society and the Mount Graham Coalition ar ...
  • Psychologists Speak Out Against the Torture of Bra ...
    If Bradley Manning had gunned down an innocent Iraqi family and a pair of journalists, he'd be free right now – and probably up for some sort of medal. Instead, he allegedly leaked video evidence of said war crime to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. So, naturally, rather than being subjected t ...
  • Missouri Legislator Ready to Repeal Puppy Mill Ban
    Last November, Missouri voters narrowly passed Proposition B, a statewide referendum designed to crack down on cruel and negligent dog breeding in a state that has been labeled the puppy mill capital of the United States. Prop B is a necessary and important law, and it was approved by a majority of ...
  • Will the RNC Elect a Chair Who Befriends Hate Grou ...
    There are a lot of folks running to be the next leader of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Current RNC Chair Michael Steele wants the job again. Former Missouri GOP chairwoman Ann Wagner is running. So are former deputy RNC chairwoman Maria Cino, and Wisconsin Republican Party Chair Reince P ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Administration Prepares to Defy Efforts to Limit O ...
    by Dafna Linzer, ProPublicaObama administration officials say they plan to reject Congressional efforts to limit the president's options on Guantanamo, setting the stage for a confrontation between the president and the new Congress on an issue that has been politically divisive since Inauguration D ...
  • WikiLeaks: US Targets EU Over GM Crops
    by John Vidal, environment editor The US embassy in Paris advised Washington to start a military-style trade war against any European Union country which opposed genetically modified (GM) crops, newly released WikiLeaks cables show.read more
  • Senators Supporting Ethanol Subsidies Reap Riches ...
    by Michael BeckelIn habitually partisan Washington, D.C., a bipartisan group of senators late last month helped extend contentious federal tax provisions designed to aid domestic ethanol production. read more
  • How Afghanistan Became a War for NATO
    by Gareth PorterWASHINGTON - The official line of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the NATO command in Afghanistan, is that the war against Afghan insurgents is vital to the security of all the countries providing troops there.In fact, however, NATO was given a central role in Afg ...
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham Calls for Permanent US Militar ...
    by David EdwardsThe US military will never leave Afghanistan if Sen. Lindsey Graham has his way. The Republican senator from South Carolina expressed his hope Sunday that the country would invite the US to install permanent military bases.read more

Lifehacker

  • From the Tips Box: iPhone Earbuds, Touch Screen Ba ...
    Readers offer their best tips for using iPhone earbuds with your Mac, using a touch screen with a bandage on, and differentiating between all your power cables. More��
  • Remains of the Day: Is Your Android Texting the Wr ...
    A reported Android SMS bug is sending messages to the wrong recipients, Windows Phone 7 has a DRM problem, and Chrome finished off 2010 on 10% of internet surfers' computers. More��
  • Vertical Cinemas: Portrait Orient Your Monitors fo ...
    Widescreen monitors might be great for movies and tucking your IM windows on the sidebar, but they're not so great for reading and coding. Rotate your monitors for maximum vertical space. More��
  • Free Up Hard Drive Space by Changing the Location ...
    If you've noticed some extra bulk on your hard drive since purchasing an iOS device, you're not alone. iTunes backups can suck up a significant amount of hard drive space; liberate your primary drive by moving the backups. More�� ...
  • Ask the Commenters Roundup [Hive Mind]
    Is it possible to see the history of my Android Market downloads?My ISP is garbage. What tools can I use to test just how bad my connection is?I have a dual monitor setup where the monitors aren't side-by-side. What tricks or software can I use to improve my setup?I'm looking for a ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • VAT rise 'necessary' to tackle deficit, says Osbor ...
    As VAT rises to 20%, chancellor rejects criticism that the tax is regressive, and claims rise is a 'tough but necessary step towards Britain's economic recovery' George Osborne claimed today that increasing VAT was the "least damaging" way to tackle the national deficit in the face of criticism tha ...
  • 'It's so quiet without Jo,' says mother
    Theresa Yeates pays tribute to murdered landscape architect's joy and vibrancyThe mother of the murdered landscape architect Joanna Yeates today described how quiet life was without her daughter and that she was waiting for her to return.Speaking at her home in Ampfield, Hampshire, Theresa Yeates, 5 ...
  • BP talk helps lift FTSE above 6,000
    Leading shares are off to a bright new year start, with the FTSE 100 back over 6000 thanks to a rise in commodity and energy companies - notably BP which has been lifted by renewed bid talk.The oil group - hit last year following the disastrous spill in the Gulf of Mexico - has climbed to a six mont ...
  • Return to work hit by sleet and snow
    Met Office issues severe weather warnings for heavy snow in parts of Scotland and northern EnglandFresh showers of snow and sleet meant a hazardous return to work for many people today in Northern Ireland, Scotland, northern England and the Midlands.The Met Office issued severe weather warnings for ...
  • Ivory Coast leader refuses to bow out
    Laurent Gbagbo rejects another appeal to recognise Alassane Ouattara as president, as African leaders consider military actionFor the second time, Ivory Coast's renegade leader has rebuffed an appeal from a high-level regional delegation to cede power to the internationally recognised winner of pres ...

McClatchey

  • Obama prepares to defy Congress's Guantanamo limit ...
    Obama administration officials say they plan to reject Congressional efforts to limit the president's options on Guantanamo, setting the stage for a confrontation between the president and the new Congress on an issue that has been politically divisive since Inauguration Day.
  • Obama swaps island vacation for full Washington pl ...
    WASHINGTON — An old Hawaiian proverb — "A coral reef hardens into land" — about the power of incremental change may resonate with President Barack Obama as he returns Tuesday from his island getaway to begin work on the second half of his four-year term.
  • GOP's Steele argues to keep his job as rivals vow ...
    WASHINGTON — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele fought for his job Monday in a debate with four rivals, defending his troubled tenure with a simple refrain: The party won elections since he took over two years ago.
  • GOP's Brownback: Poor shouldn't lose benefits when ...
    TOPEKA — Kansas Governor-elect Sam Brownback said Monday that he wants the state to stop cutting services for low-income residents just because they get married.
  • U.S. Marines report peace deal with tribe in Afgha ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan — The top U.S. Marine commander in southern Afghanistan said Monday that an influential Afghan tribe had agreed to put a stop to Taliban attacks in a highly contested part of Helmand province sometimes called "Afghanistan's Fallujah."

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • A big bite for conservation
    � Overall, you'd have to conclude that 2010 was a better year than most for sharks. Just before the Christmas season began, both houses of the UN Congress passed the Shark Conservation Act, which basically aims to end the practice of shark finning in US waters by making it illegal. Conservation gr ...
  • Cancun splits opinion, but may mark way forward
    Does the Cancun outcome give real hope for curbing climate change? Views diverge... Within the last week we've run here on the BBC News website two articles by people knowledgeable about climate change that reach widely differing conclusions about the outcome of this year's UN climate summit. Last ...
  • Cancun: The chihuahua that roared
    �From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: If Copenhagen was the Great Dane that whimpered, Cancun has been the chihuahua that roared. And what a surprise it was. Before the summit, expectations were so low that simply keeping the UN show on the road was all many observers (and some players) ...
  • The chihuahua that roared
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: If Copenhagen was the Great Dane that whimpered, Cancun has been the chihuahua that roared. And what a surprise it was. Before the summit, expectations were so low that simply keeping the UN show on the road was all many observers (and some players) ...
  • Time to get down to [business] at Cancun
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: I've been rifling through the main documents that delegations are discussing here, with a view to finding out how far they have to travel if they're to leave here clutching a piece of paper more meaningful than a plane ticket. There are two key document ...

The Wonk Room

  • Despite Demanding ‘Bipartisan Discussions&#8 ...
    Politico reported this afternoon that House Republicans will hold a vote on January 12th to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Democrats quickly accused the new majority of bringing the measure to the floor without allowing time for adequate debate or bipartisan negotiation. During a joint appearance o ...
  • Pfizer Lobbyist Turned RNC Candidate On Defensive, ...
    During todayâs RNC debate, some Republicans expressed frustration over candidate Maria Cino’s past as a lobbyist for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, accusing the former Bush administration official of lobbying on behalf of ‘Obamacare.’ In June of 2009, Pfizer, along the Pharmaceutical Research and ...
  • On His Way Out The Door, Sen. Gregg Tells The Sena ...
    Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee have made a lot of noise about finding ways to defund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the new regulatory agency created as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Incoming Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus ...
  • Bachmann And Ron Paul Liken Insurance Mandate To F ...
    The Hill’s Jason Millman points out that “House Republicans, including Tea Party favorites Michele Bachmann (Minn.) and Ron Paul (Texas)” have filed an amicus brief urging the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn U.S. District Court Judge George Steeh’s decision upholding the constitutionality o ...
  • Ryan Plans To Use Unprecendented New Budget Power ...
    As various parties pointed out last week, the new House rules proposed by the incoming Republican majority would endow House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) with what the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities characterized as “stunning and unprecedented” new powers to set federal spendin ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Failure, failure, failure, and still more failure
    Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear (January 2008): Are we winning the battle against the insurgents in Afghanistan?Almost any Canadian soldier, diplomat or NATO official asked that question invariably answers: Yes, we are, but there is still a long way to go.Ah! But what a differ ...
  • Bliss It Is To Be Alive With YouTube
    Because it has allowed me to look at the following clip and think that for those people, there at that time: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!" I don't know. I find watching the thing to be monumental. I've got a similar post here.
  • Assange Arrested - Related Story: "Has release of ...
    So Julian Assange has met with police to discuss the almost assuredly bogus Swedish charges against him (one from a pro-imperialism in Cuba sleaze-bag), but it will be months before it's decided whether he can be extradited on those charges. And, let's remember, all you creeps (like the illiterate, ...
  • Normalizing Horror
    I ... know it's been a long time ago, ... but bear with me. One of Hitler's claims to fame is that he killed SIX MILLION Jews. (That's like, ... if you were to walk up and down the streets of Toronto and shake hands with everybody you met, ... TWICE that amount of human beings. Toddlers with their ...
  • No blood for oil?
    In the comments section of the last post, the conversation has led commenter Mark to ask something that I was actually thinking about a couple of days ago. When I wrote (in agreement with Alan Greenspan) that the motivation to invade Iraq and cause untold suffering to millions of innocent people was ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

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

Science Express

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

TechDirt

  • Civil Liberties Groups Worried About Hungarian Med ...
    We had already discussed how Hungary's new media censorship laws seemed particularly draconian -- requiring all reporting to be sufficiently "balanced" or the media may receive a fine and all media must reveal their sources. It appears the new law is getting a lot more attention, as its coincides w ...
  • End Result Of HADOPI? Higher ISP Fees
    It's not like people didn't warn everyone what would happen with various three strikes laws. The costs for ISPs were widely discussed, even if the recording industry lobbyists insisted they were overblown. Yet, here we are, a few months into France's HADOPI implementation of three strikes, and Fre ...
  • DailyDirt: Gaming Can Hurt For Real
    Usually video games are played to escape from reality. The distraction from real life is supposed to be entertaining and fun. But every so often there are stories of folks who take their games a bit too far and end up getting hurt physically. Video games are getting more and more realistic all th ...
  • Do We Need A Whistleblower To Tell The World Which ...
    Last month, we mentioned that the Senate had given its approval to a new law protecting whistleblowers in the federal government. There were some problems with the bill, which led some to fight against it, but much of the bill was useful. With the whole Wikileaks stuff going on, there had been som ...
  • New Congressional Leadership Prioritizes Wikileaks ...
    We had high hopes after a recent Congressional hearing about Wikileaks, which appeared to focus more on the problem of overly secretive government rather than just blaming Wikileaks, that perhaps the US wouldn't go too far in its overreaction to the site. However, with a new leadership taking over ...

VacTruth

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

BroadSnark

  • 2010 in Review
    It has been an interesting year.  Thanks to all of you who have stuck around to converse.  I’ve learned a lot from you. My thinking has changed so rapidly in the last couple years, I can barely imagine what I am going to be writing two years from now.  The posts that got the most [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Racialicious posted a great TED video of Tony Porter talking about the man box. Most of you will find something to object to in this report by the United Nations on access to land and security of tenure.  (I know I skipped the recommendations part.)  But it is worth a read for how it frames the [... ...
  • Am I a Rapist?
    I don’t want to talk about the Assange rape charges. There are more than enough people doing that already. But I would like to talk about something that Jaclyn Friedman said during her debate with Naomi Wolf on Democracy Now. Friedman essentially said that a sleeping/unconscious person cannot consen ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Read this! It covers so many things that have been on my mind lately.  It is, as the person who posted it says, long and academic.  But it is worth the time.  In short, it explains how middle and upper class women moved into the non-profit savior industry and how their liberation came at the [...]
  • Beliefs as Barrier
    I understand and respect the choices that many people within the anarchist community make.  I love the self expression and weirdness that is embraced in how people dress or act.  I completely respect the decision to be a vegan, to avoid chain stores, to criticize suburban homogeneity…. But there is ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

treehugger

  • Biologists Find Endangered Seals' Secret Island Ge ...
    Photo: ingridtaylar / CC It's never been easy being an endangered species -- particularly nowadays, what with all the people encroaching upon their native hangouts or clamoring for a peek at an uncommon sight. But despite all that, one group of highly endangered monk seals has managed to find so ...
  • European Wildlife Photographer of the Year's Ghost ...
    "Ghostly Cheetah" by Britta Jaschinski While runners-up came eye-to-eye with a baby sea turtle or captured a crystal-clear picture of a bird scooping up a fish for dinner, the winning image in the GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010 contest was neither close-up or sharp. Instead ...
  • For 2nd Year in a Row, No New Coal Plants Built in ...
    Photo: Zero1o1, Flickr, CC While the more sweeping changes needed to definitively address climate change remained elusive in 2010, looking back on the year yields some subtler good news: For the second straight year, there was no new construction a single coal plant on US soil. The Washington P ...
  • New US Energy Chairman: "I Don't Think We Have to ...
    Fred Upton (R-MI) is the incoming chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the US House of Representatives. He used to be concerned about the "serious problem" of global climate change, which he said must "necessitate serious solutions." But that was way back in 2009, back before it beca ...
  • Italy's Nationwide Plastic Bag Ban Begins (Video)
    Image: Guardian Plastic bag bans have been picking up momentum internationally for some time now, and 2011 kicks off with the instating of another big one: Starting yesterday, single-use non-biodegradable plastic bags will be outlawed in Italy. And while plenty of questions remain about the ban ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

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

Ria Novosti Online News

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Pruning Shears

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

Organic Consumers.org

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

fotoFrontera

  • Fotografías de caballos II (Equinos de Pura Sangre ...
    Para ver más fotos de caballos, escoja un número. [1] [2]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarlas ...
  • Fotografías de chocolates, café, avellanas y trufa ...
    En este nuevo año 2011, deseamos hacerle llegar a usted nuevas colecciones de imágenes. Para empezar, aquí tenemos esta serie de fotografías de chocolates, café, avellanas y trufas. Esperamos sinceramente que le gusten y en breve le mandaremos muchas más.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para e ...
  • Trenes y locomotoras V (Fotografías de caballos de ...
    Para ver más fotos de trenes, escoja un número. [1][2][3][4][5]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guard ...
  • Tributo a Ferruccio Lamborghini I (Colección de A ...
    La compañía Automobili Lamborghini Holding S.p.A, comunmente conocida como Lamborghini es un fabricante italiano de automóbiles deportivos fundado en 1963 por el fabricante de tractores Ferruccio Lamborghini [+]. Como reconicimiento a su proeza, visión y carácter, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas pres ...
  • Feliz y próspero año nuevo 2011 para todos ustedes ...
    Para mi como Administrador del Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, el 2010 ha sido un año maravilloso. Y lo digo, porque alcancé una cifra histórica de suscriptores que ahora mismo ya rebasa los 13,425. Asimismo, nuestra comunidad en Facebook ha ido en ascenso de manera sorprendente que hasta el momento en ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • New FDA Numbers Reveal Food Animals Consume Lion’s ...
    Antibiotics, one of world’s greatest medical discoveries, are slowly losing their effectiveness in fighting bacterial infections and the massive use of the drugs in food animals may be the biggest culprit. The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is largely due to the misuse and overuse of antibi ...
  • Yakima Valley Releases Draft Air Quality Policy fo ...
    Unlike agricultural water discharges which are regulated for large farms defined as CAFO by the EPA and the Clean Water Act, most agricultural air emissions are not regulated. Water discharges and air emissions that are related to industrial scale agricultural operations in rural areas are big conce ...
  • No title
    By Julia DeBruicker Valliant On the front porch, boots stamp away snow, and then the farmer steps inside.  The glasses fog up.  Off comes the jacket, the cap, and out goes the hand in greeting.  After a season spent grazing cows and sheep and pasturing pigs, hens and turkeys, meat producers from ar ...
  • Happy Holidays from the Johns Hopkins Center for a ...
  • Looking at Food System Issues through a ‘Food Just ...
    I first came upon the term “food justice” from an organization in Oakland called People’s Grocery led by Brahm Ahmadi and others who were fighting against an unjust food system in the “food desert” of West Oakland. At the time, it was an area that left residents with liquor stores and [...]

Norwegianity

  • If you meet the Duke on the road, kill him
    I watched True Grit last night, a movie so full of sand some of it got into my supper. The Coens have sucked all the joy out of John Wayne’s Rooster Cogburn and have revealed him for the shoot-’em-in-the-back thumper circa late 19th century America that he was. The Coen’s True Grit didn’t just ruin ...
  • Rantmas
    Culled from Battochio’s Jon Swift tribute and comments and etc.: BradBlog: NYT Public Editor Finally Admits ACORN “Pimp” Hoax Reporting Failure Comrade PhysioProf: Militant Atheism Jurassic Pork: Sweet Jesus, I Hate America World-O-Crap: Abortion Seeking Women: Won’t Someone Think of the Man-Child? ...
  • Bring out the dead
    The Jon Swift Memorial Roundup is up at Vagabond Scholar. You’ll have to scroll a while before you get to mine but you could spend a couple of days clicking on the all the good links so you might want to drag that link to your desktop. I’m not sure what Al Wiesel would have [...]
  • No, not the porn star, the _other_ Lina Romay
    It was never my intent to post irregularly but absent politics, I find myself less driven to post and am thinking that this blog is now sliding into the petite mort of posting when I feel like it, the first of the Seven Steps for Effectively Killing Your Fucking Blog Once and for All Time. [...]
  • Blue Christmas
    Driving down to Iowa there was a mile long stretch east of St Ansgar where snow in the air turned everything light blue. It wasn’t snowing; the wind was saturated with fine dry snow creating a transparent fog-like effect. And blue, a very pronounced light blue. Pro: The best Christmas movie ever [wa ...

Public News Service

  • Making Contributions That Matter
    Making Contributions That Matter Phoenix, AZ – Charitable foundations are under some of the same financial constraints as families and businesses, and a new report (from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy) says most could be doing a better job of choosing education-related projects a ...
  • Keeping the Flu Bug Away: Tips for Arizona Residen ...
    Keeping the Flu Bug Away: Tips for Arizona Residents Phoenix, AZ – Worries over the spread of the H1N1 flu virus forced many Arizona parents to be extra cautious when it came to protecting their children last flu season. Experts say with flu season upon us again, parents should work to keep their ki ...
  • New FCC Rules on an Open Internet Called "Fake"
    New FCC Rules on an Open Internet Called "Fake" Washington, D.C. – The FCC approved new rules for an 'open Internet' last week, but many of the same groups that pushed for such regulations say what they got was a "fake" set of rules drafted with help from the companies they're meant to regulate. Com ...
  • Poll: Americans Ready to Deep Six the Death Penalt ...
    Poll: Americans Ready to Deep Six the Death Penalty? Phoenix, AZ – Arizona executed its first prisoner in three years in October. Now a recent poll by the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C. shows growing support for alternatives to the death penalty. Executive director Richard Die ...
  • Keep it Simple, Santa – Tips for Holiday Sho ...
    Keep it Simple, Santa – Tips for Holiday Shopping for Tots Phoenix, AZ – There's only one more weekend left for holiday shopping, and if you're looking for gifts for preschoolers, experts say you can give your kids an advantage in later life, while at the same time saving money, by steering away fro ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Obama to Sign Landmark Food Safety Legislation
    Center for Food safety Applauds New Powers for the FDA. Tester-Hagan Amendment a Win for Consumers and Small, Local Food Producers and Processors The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) by the United States Congress.  The bill which passed ...
  • USDA Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement ...
    AGENCY MAKES NO DECISION ON APPROVAL OF THE ROUNDUP READY CROP CITING HARM TO ORGANIC INDUSTRY AND PROLIFERATION OF SUPERWEEDS CFS URGES AGENCY TO CONTINUE BAN ON POTENTIALLY HARMFUL CROP The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Sta ...
  • Help Us Fight Monsanto and Protect Our Food and Fa ...
    This has been an incredible year for the Center for Food Safety, and our work protecting our farms, our food, and our environment from the potential hazards of genetically engineered (GMO) crops.  As you know, in April we battled Monsanto in the U.S. Supreme Court – and were victorious in maintainin ...
  • USDA Aims to Commercialize Genetically Engineered ...
    This week, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) led a coalition of farmers, activists, and consumers in a public comment campaign addressing USDA’s latest plan to commercialize illegal GE Roundup Ready Sugar Beets (RRSB).  Last month, USDA released a proposal aimed at commercializing RRSB in spite of in ...
  • Federal Court Orders First-Ever Destruction of a G ...
    Finds Government and Monsanto rushed to illegally plant herbicide resistant crop Today federal district judge Jeffrey S. White issued a preliminary injunction ordering the immediate destruction of hundreds of acres of genetically engineered (GE) sugar beet seedlings planted in September after findin ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Linn Washington, Jr.: Righting an Ugly Wrong
    Linn Washington, Jr.: Righting an Ugly Wrong By LINN WASHINGTON, Jr. An outrageous assertion by a potential presidential candidate who praised a group which had notoriously and openly supported racial segregation played a role in finally righting one of the most grotesque wrongs anywhere in A ...
  • Palestinian Pundit: Bahrain FM: British Colonialis ...
    Palestinian Pundit: Bahrain FM: British Colonialism Is Not Colonialism: Undoubtedly, the British politicians who listened to the Sheik’s “lecture” received his comments on British colonialism with amusement, and the same disbelief that characterized Ariel Sharon’s reaction to George Bush Jr’s descri ...
  • Maan News Agency: Jesus was Palestinian and why it ...
    Maan News Agency: Jesus was Palestinian and why it matters - Jehanzeb Dar: "Because of modern alarmist reactions to the word “Palestine,” many non-Arabs and non-Muslims take offense when it is argued that Jesus was a Palestinian (peace be upon him). Jesus’ ethnicity, skin color, and culture often a ...
  • MIDEAST: Racist Jews to the Fore - IPS ipsnews.net
    MIDEAST: Racist Jews to the Fore - IPS ipsnews.net: "BAT YAM, Dec 25, 2010 (IPS) - Emotions are running high in this working class town on the Mediterranean adjacent to Tel Aviv, the Israeli metropolis that has long been the symbol of liberal laissez-faire Israel. Principally, anti-Arab emotions: Ra ...
  • Black Folks' Guide to Understanding Christmas
    Black Folks' Guide to Understanding Christmas�(FinalCall.com) - It's Christmas, but where's Jesus? When did they kick Him out of His own birthday party, and how did St. Nick, Kris Kringle, and the Grinch who stole Christmas get invitations? And why are many Blacks still dreaming of a white Christmas ...

Pensieve

  • Grand Canyon from Hopi Point
    I wasn’t expecting to go to the Grand Canyon over Christmas break. But, since my nephew Oscar and his wife Natalie now live in Phoenix, my brother invited me to join them in visiting him for the first time. The trip over there was grueling, especially after sitting in a bus for 14 hours. But, [...] ...
  • Change, by Futureshorts
    Related posts:Hope for Change? Related posts:Hope for Change?
  • Colón Protesters Voluntarily Disperse
    Minutes before being forcibly removed by a large group of Honduran police and military, the protesters that had laid siege to the city of Trujillo for 11 days voluntarily dispersed. Had they not, at the very least, there would have been violence. Iâm glad to have been wrong in overestimating the zea ...
  • Trujillo in Siege, Violence Imminent
    Photo by samiq Armed “peasants”, alleged narcos, pro-Zelaya activists and assorted foreign troublemakers have laid siege to the city of Trujillo, Colon, for 11 days. The people of Trujillo are desperate as the only road to the city is blocked by protesters. Armored vehicles with cash for banks, truc ...
  • Don’t Read This If You Work for the US Govt.
    This article does not contain quotes from any secret US government documents, but does discuss and link to reproductions of them, in the press, and in the Google cache. I have been hesitant to publish any information related to Wikileaks in my blog, being sadly aware of the lengths to which the US p ...

Green Times

  • Selection of organic vegetables
    Summertime is salad time! Currently you can find a great range of the most delicious organic vegetables on the market. To find a place where you can purchase all kinds of fresh organic fruits and vegetables, use the Green Times directory, section Food Drink (pictures/food-drink.php). If y ...
  • People enjoying bright day at beach
    Australians can feel lucky to be able to enjoy beautiful sunny weather most part of the yea. But beware of the sun! Two of three Australians suffer from skin cancer (http://www.cancersa.org.au/aspx/Skin_cancer_in_Australia.aspx ) before the age of 70. We should all protect ourselves and treat our sk ...
  • Australian cockatoo
    The Australian Cockatoo is a beautiful icon of the national fauna. These loud birds live in flocks and  feed themselves during bright daylight.    You can take easy actions to protect Australian birds like the cockatoos. For example, never use pesticides to get rid of vermin.  Intoxicated seed ...
  • Environmental News 29/12/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 28/12/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • House GOP to vote on health care law repeal next w ...
    ShareThisBreaking: House GOP to vote on health care law repeal next week 03 Jan 2010 House Republicans will vote next week to repeal the new health care law [insurance cartel giveaway], making good on a top-tier GOP campaign promise and setting up a showdown with President Barack Obama over his sign ...
  • Govt to study U.S. drone for surveillance
    ShareThisGovt to study U.S. drone for surveillance 31 Dec 2010 (Japan) The Defense Ministry has decided to begin full-scale research from fiscal 2011 into whether unmanned aerial vehicles should be introduced for surveillance of China and North Korea, government sources said. The ministry will send ...
  • Massive anti-US rally held in Karachi
    ShareThisMassive anti-US rally held in Karachi --Protesters burt several effigies of Barack Obama 03 Jan 2011 Pakistani protesters have once again taken to the streets, calling for the release of Aafia Siddiqui -- a female Pakistani scientist sentenced to 86 years in prison in the US. Tens of thousa ...
  • Kabul opposes US permanent bases
    ShareThisKabul opposes US permanent bases 03 Jan 2011 Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government has strongly rejected the notion of establishing permanent US military bases in Afghanistan. Chief presidential spokesman Waheed Omar said during a press conference in Kabul on Monday that the issue has ...
  • NYT: U.S. Diplomats Work Like "Marketing Agents" F ...
    ShareThisNYT: U.S. Diplomats Work Like "Marketing Agents" For Boeing By Curtis Cartier 03 Jan 2011 The holidays are over. But the November 28 WikiLeaks diplomatic cable dump is the gift that keeps on giving. The latest present was unwrapped by The New York Times in a story published Sunday. It seems ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Horrible start to a new year: Palestinian woman ki ...
    from the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital yesterday after inhaling massive amounts of tear-gas during the weekly protest in Bil’in, and died of poisoning this morning. Abu Rahmah was the sister of Bassem Abu Rahmah who was als ...
  • Keep the fight for democracy going
    Support peace with your tax-deductible year-end gift today. Donate by December 31st and your gift will help The Only Democracy’s sponsor Jewish Voice for Peace meet a $100,000 matching gift. Your gift helps us keep bringing on the ground reports, commentary, and interviews from Israeli, Palestinian, ...
  • Four cases against Israeli democracy
    By Jesse Bacon While I was away on vacation, four cases of the continuing slow death of Israeli democracy occurred. Taken together, they represent a good spectrum of the responses to democracy activists by Israel, all negative. First, Matan Cohen, Israeli-American activist, member of Young, Jewish, ...
  • African Asylum Seekers in Israel
    Debbie Herdan is a former Tel Aviv resident who was very active in the organization Hagar and Miriam, which works with African women in Israel who are either pregnant or have recently given birth.  Debbie worked with Eritrean, Sudanese and Darfurian asylum seekers for several years and writes that t ...
  • Israeli government thanks Palestinians for help wi ...
    By Jesse Bacon ..By not recognizing their names and refusing them entry for award ceremony in their honor. . This should remind us just how arbitrary the whole edifice of permits and checkpoints is that it can keep out people who helped contain the horrible fires and prevent worse disaster. I am als ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • The Bermuda Triangle of Productivity
    From Fuschia Macaree I’ve been lost there more than once myself.
  • Long-term investing in the casino that is Wall Str ...
    Take any stock in the United States. The average time in which you hold a stock is–it’s gone up from 20 seconds to 22 seconds in the last year. Most trades are computerized. Most trades are short-term. The average foreign currency investment lasts–it’s up now to 30 seconds, up from 28 seconds last m ...
  • Naked House. Shipped in flatpack, assemble yoursel ...
    Treehugger The Naked House uses a shipping container as the base. The panels, which are made from cross-laminated timber, can be assembled into a house in two days by four people using a small crane. What’s more, it can be delivered anywhere in the world in six weeks where there is road or sea acces ...
  • The debt ceiling, spending cuts, and the liberal r ...
    Liberals and progressives who favor raising the debt ceiling and not having spending and entitlements cuts need to explain where the money will come from. The US is currently spending at an unsustainable level. Blithely saying that a Greek or Irish type of financial debacle couldn’t happen here is w ...
  • Influential left-wing ideas
    BobFromBrockley (UK) presents three categories of influential leftie core values in a thoughtful post which bears repeated reading. Good influences Social justice Internationalism The one state solution Open source Strangers into citizens Social justice seems to me to be the predominant leftie value ...

Coteret

  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv details N ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, from a ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: ‘ ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that this i ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book, no ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the introdu ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders spons ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and then di ...
  • Maariv: How to build another nuclear reactor witho ...
    Like most of the world, Israel is facing a major energy crisis. Our population is growing and per-capita energy consumption is on the rise. Nuclear energy is emerging as the solution favored by the government, as reported in a December 8 2010 Maariv feature [full translation at the bottom of this po ...

Deadline Live

  • Behind Big News: Propaganda and the CFR
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSGjUp7SnjI
  • This Day In History – January 4
    1642 â King Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England’s slide into civil war. 1643 â Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and natural philosopher (d. 1727), was born. 1649 â The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial. 1847 â Samuel Colt sells ...
  • Gulf War Syndrome: Killing Our Own
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc-zJUYbMg4
  • Airports toy with the idea of tossing the TSA
    A new year has brought new resolve for airport managers who are fed up with the Transportation Security Agency. “The TSA has grown too big and we’re unhappy with the way it’s doing things,” said Larry Dale, president of Orlando Sanford International Airport. “My board is sold on the fact that the fr ...
  • ‘US was advised to start trade war over GM c ...
    NEW DELHI: The US government was advised by its officials to start a military-style trade war against European countries that oppose GM crop cultivation, a new Wikileak release by the UK-based newspaper Guardian has shown. The US embassy in Paris in 2007, when France moved to ban GM corn by Monsanto ...

The Air Vent

  • Life and Times of the Consensus
    With some of the new blogging coming from the climate community, a blog by an aero engineer is becoming less important than it was when it started.  I recommend people read this accurate article by Dr. Roy Spencer on the state of climate science. Why Most Published Research Findings are False Januar ...
  • Light Scattering by the Earth’s Atmosphere, Aeroso ...
    Guest post by Steve Fitzpatrick: ————– Aerosols are the 800 pound gorilla of global warming.  Aerosols are claimed by many climate scientists to largely âoff-setâ radiative forcing by GHGâs in Earthâs atmosphere, and to have greatly reduced the rate of global warming1.  The magnitude of the curren ...
  • Greenhouse Thought Experiment – Id’s A ...
    I waited until my answer was posted in the WUWT thread.  I have replicated it here as well. Ok, so the point of this thought experiment was to engage the public in a consideration of the differences between the greenhouse effect and an actual greenhouse.  Most here already know that the name itself ...
  • Greenhouse Thought Experiment
    Derek has been in a war with ScienceofDoom over the what appears to be Planck radiation.  I’m actually not sure of his position because it doesn’t make sense yet to me but he left a thought experiment on the thread which could make for some interesting discussion.  Some will find it pretty easy, w ...
  • Dot Earth on O10
    Andy Revkin of Dot Earth has published a post on our Antarctic results among other things. Eric Steig has placed some far more detailed comments on our results on line with it. 2) The results appear to confirm all of the key results in our 2009 Nature paper, notably the significant warming in West A ...

Focal Point

  • 100,000 Dead Fish: Take the Quiz
    This simple quiz neatly divides the world into two kinds of people. A hundred thousand unexplained dead fish is a job for: a) theology; or, b) ichthyology. [Photo credit: psyberartist, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Dear NYT: No Means No; Shoving A Dick Into An Unco ...
    Katrin Bennhold of the New York Times has a heartwarming piece for anyone planning a New Year's Eve hookup. According to Bennhold's friends, consenting to any sex with a dude is the equivalent of giving him an all-access pass to your orifices for the rest of the night, if not the rest of your life ...
  • Julian Assange, Rape Allegations, and the Catch-22 ...
    Amanda Marcotte has a brilliant essay in Slate on the rape allegations against Julian Assange and the Catch-22 of why more victims don't come forward. We're bombarded with erroneous stereotypes about how "real victims" act, then we use those stereotypes to preemptively and unfairly smear accusers ...
  • Maybe Hold Off on the Eggnog 'Til Next Year...
    Against all odds and predictions the Food Safety and Modernization Act passed Congress this week. President Obama is expected to sign the legislation, the first major overhaul of the country's food safety laws in over 70 years. This year saw the largest recall of tainted eggs in American history: ...
  • Help Rick Smith Help The Homeless and Hungry this ...
    My friends at the Rick Smith Show ("Where Working People Come to Talk") are camping out in a supermarket parking lot in sub-zero temperatures to collect food and donations for needy people in their community. Please help them out: Homelessness and poverty continues to plague the region. That' ...

Inside Facebook

  • November 2010 Facebook Traffic: Usual Growth World ...
    More of Facebook’s growth appeared to be coming from abroad than in the US over the course of November, according to our latest review of reports from third-party web measurement firms. In fact, compared to the past few months, up through our last look, at October data, it’s basically flat in the US ...
  • With a Focus on Monetizing Mobile Apps, Tapjoy Lea ...
    It’s hard to forget the shouting match that put an end to Offerpal’s heady days more than a year ago. The company, now known as Tapjoy, had become the prime target of Michael Arrington’s Scamville campaign for serving offers in Facebook games that signed up unwitting users for recurring charges. At ...
  • Facebook and the Parallel Surge in (Early- and Lat ...
    The last quarter of 2010 has ushered in a new era of vibrant activity at the very beginning and very end of the startup life-cycle. Later-stage companies like Groupon, Twitter and Facebook have come back to the trough all within the last several weeks to raise between $200 and $500 million each in w ...
  • Top 25 Facebook Games for January 2011
    Smaller developers have seen more growth over much of 2010, while many of the top titles from leading developers have lost users — in December, though, the losses weren’t so bad. And, it was also a big month for newcomers to the list with the appearance of Zuma Blitz, It Girl, and, of course, CityVi ...
  • What Goldman Sachs’ Reported $450 Million Investme ...
    Facebook has raised $500 million at a $50 billion valuation from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Digital Sky Technologies, The New York Times reported last night. Facebook declined to comment, while DST did not immediately respond to inquiries. The New York-based investment bank took a $450 million sta ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israel's racial courts: the imprisonment of human ...
    Nasser Rego views the case of Palestinian civil liberties activist Nuri al-Oqbi to highlight the racist underpinnings of the Israeli judicial system and draw attention to the use of the courts as instruments of ethnic cleansing and delegitimization of a section of Israeli society, the Bedouin citize ...
  • Why Britain must rip up US extradition treaty
    Yvonne Ridley considers the appalling state of the USA's penal institutions and judicial system, where "the accused are often judged by the colour of their skin, religion and class", and urges UK Prime Minister David Cameron "to tear up the 2003 extradition treaty now" and "tell Obama to get stuffed ...
  • The Palestinian and Zionist causes through the eye ...
    Lawrence Davidson views the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the prism of the spokespersons of the Palestinian and Israeli causes: Susan Abulhawa on the one hand, and Alan Dershowitz and Bernard-Henri Levy on the other.
  • What options exist for Netanyahu next time on the ...
    Richard Lightbown argues that whatever Israel does when the Mavi Marmara sets sail for Gaza on the first anniversary of the murder of aid workers by Israeli commandos aboard the same ship, the movement to break the illegal siege of Gaza "is not going to be frightened off. It is not going to go away. ...
  • Western double standards: the cases of Khodorkovsk ...
    Yvonne Ridley highlights Western hypocrisy and double standards in criticizing a Russian court for convicting tax dodger, money launderer and thief Mikhail Khodorkovsky, while harbouring or condoning the kidnap and illegal detention of Muslims in Guantanamo concentration camp.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

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

Afro Spear

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

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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    Join our community page by CLICKING HERE, a social networking page of like minded individuals! Our page is intended to bring people together in an environment of less advertisement with a hope of sorting through propaganda in life and discovering the truth.
  • JFK deathbed confession | Big news Repost from Bor ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction, the best screenwriters that ever lived would never be able to come up with the truth of John F. Kennedy's assassination or that of 911.
  • Conservative Conundrum
    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
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Unsuitable Blog

  • Undermining in 2010: How Did I Do?
    There is something very human in looking back over a specific period of time and reflecting on what you have achieved, failed in or could just have done a bit better. It’s part of the learning process that civilization discourages, because if we really did look back and reflect upon what really matt ...
  • EnviroLeaks : Now Live
    EnviroLeaks is a repository of leaked information that fills the gap between what the mainstream media allow us to know about the environmentally destructive behaviour of the industrial system, and the often highly classified and largely political information from groups such as WikiLeaks. EnviroLea ...
  • EnviroLeaks – Coming Soon…
    Watch this space for more information. Secure email in advance to farnish [at] hushmail [dot] com Nothing is as it seems…
  • How to Remove Conduit Engine Search from Firefox 3 ...
    I know this isn’t a tecchie blog, but sometimes I come across a problem to which there isn’t a solution listed and have to work it out for myself. In this case I (ill-advisedly as it turned out) upgraded BitTorrent to version 7 (7.1 and 7.2 at present). This is sort of pertinent to The [...]
  • WIKILEAKS MIRROR SITES – IMPORTANT
    The Wikileaks servers are under constant pressure and attack: both the sheer weight of traffic and the efforts of various government agencies to bring the servers down, or damage the DNS records, are conspiring to make the main wikileaks.org site unavailable. But this is not really a problem for two ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • NPR's Project Argo Creates National Content at the ...
    Jason and the Argonauts were the mythological Greek heroes who set off on a quest for the Golden Fleece. Like its namesake, NPR's Project Argo is off on another noble quest -- to strengthen local journalism, particularly on digital platforms. Project Argo is a partnership between NPR and member sta ...
  • Introducing Sourcerer: A Context Management System
    If you want to follow the news, the web has a lot to offer: a wide variety of information sources, powerful search tools, and no shortage of sites where people can voice their opinions. At the same time, though, the web can be overwhelming. Hundreds of links turn up in a Google search. Relevant inf ...
  • How OpenStreetMap Helps to Curb Haiti's Cholera Ep ...
    In order to respond to the current cholera epidemic in Haiti, it's essential that citizens, aid groups and others are aware of the locations of functioning health and sanitation facilities. The challenge is that maps showing this information don't currently exist -- at least not in a comprehensive a ...
  • Altering Docs? Now There's a Tool for That in Docu ...
    When we embarked on the DocumnetCloud project, tools for altering documents were the furthest thing from our minds. After all, a responsible journalist doesn't tweak source documents! But one of the first papers to embed material using DocumentCloud needed to do just that. The Chicago Tribune acc ...
  • CNN Fails to Correct Mistaken Identity for New Zea ...
    CNN's broadcasts are of packed with cheerleading for the network's viewer participation opportunities. You're encouraged to "share your story" at CNN iReport or "join a live chat" at Anderson Cooper's blog or check out CNN Heroes on Facebook or follow one of the network's nearly three dozen Twitter ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Obama on Edge - A Review of President Obama's Firs ...
    President Obama assumed office in 2009 with an ambitious Middle East policy agenda. Atop the list of his campaign pledges, then Senator Obama vowed to pursue Israeli-Palestinian peace and re-engage in diplomacy with Tehran and Damascus. Given these grand plans, perhaps not surprisingly the first two ...
  • Edge of Terrorism - Separating the Terror from Ter ...
    On December 15, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent a joint bulletin to state and local law enforcement agencies expressing their concern that terrorists may attack a large public gathering in a major U.S. metropolitan area during the 2010 holiday season. That concern was echo ...
  • Islam on Edge - How Long Can A Thirst for Revenge ...
    Five men arrested in Denmark and Sweden this week had been plotting to attack the offices of Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper at the center of the 2005 Muhammad cartoons. The would-be terrorists were, according to experts, very professional and very precise. They had no grandiose plan to hit na ...
  • America and Latin America - The Hemispheric Legacy ...
    Within days, Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) will be leaving the Senate for the last time after decades of distinguished service on the Hill. His departure will leave a vacancy of immense proportions that will be difficult to fill. This was because he was the most bona fide Latin American expert to ...
  • The Traveler’s Edge - A Race to the Bottom for Air ...
    Considering how much I travel abroad and domestically constantly, I’m actually surprised how much I hate and resent the thought of flying. It’s not the fear of heights, or the turbulence, or even the perpetual fear of a terrorist attack. No, the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of airline carrie ...

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CounterCurrents

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

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing our [ ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Realit ...
  • Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Consci ...
    Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-being-w ...
  • Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!
  • Tenth Year of War, March to Stop Deployment of Tra ...
    Thursday marked the beginning of the 10th year of war in Afghanistan. There is much to protest about U.S. action there–some performed a die-in to highlight the use of drones (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/200657/us-drone-kills-7-militants-in-nw-pakistan)–and a group of veterans of The Global ...

Yid With Lid

  • How to Start 2011: George Orwell Explains It All ...
    By Barry Rubin �The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.� --Isaac Asimov On this the first working day of 2011 in the Western world, go read Melanie Phillips in her analysis of what's going on in the world. While she focuses on the demonization of Israel and the bizar ...
  • Video: George Soros Says It's Time For the US To G ...
    There is a New World order coming and the United States better get used to it, so says progressive puppet master George Soros. In the interview below, given to the Financial Times he talks about the need for a "managed decline" of the U.S. dollar and he talks at length of the global need for a true ...
  • Michael Steele is Done, Time To Stick a Fork in Hi ...
    It is very rare for the Chairman of a party to face competition for reelection, especially in a year when they have had such a successful midterm election.� But the race for RNC has seen many challengers to the reelection of Michael Steel, and things look bleak for the incumbent.� The eventual winne ...
  • How Iran Is Exploiting Palestinian "Resistance" t ...
    Over the past week, Iranian media have made repeated reference to the second anniversary of Israel's Operation Cast Lead, citing Palestinian "resistance" (terror) as the only option for resolving the conflict. As peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians are stalled, Iran fills the vacuu ...
  • Egyptian Church Blast: Was It Ethnic Cleansing of ...
    It was a horrible scene Christians in Alexandria Egypt were celebrating Mass when a car bomb exploded, killing 21 Christians and wounding another eighty. Logic would dictate that this is a continuation of the "ethinic cleansing" of Christians going on in Egypt for years.� For example, th ...

The Real Agenda

  • Brasil lidera Movimento para Criar Regime Global d ...
    Luiz Inácio da Silva, é o “peão” dos globalistas para censurar a Internet. Por Luis R. Miranda As Nações Unidas e alguns de seus estados mais opressivos estão pedindo a regulação global da Internet, incluindo a censura. Para esse fim, a ONU está trabalhando para estabelecer um “grupo de tra ...
  • D.E.A, la Agencia de Inteligencia
    NYT Adaptación Luis R. Miranda La DEA se ha transformado en una organización de inteligencia global con un alcance que va mucho más allá de estupefacientes, y una operación de espionaje tan amplia que tiene que defenderse de los políticos extranjeros que quieren utilizarlo contra sus enemigos políti ...
  • China Comienza Adquisición de Europa
    España es el primer país a pique. China ejecutará una ‘compra’ al estilo de Nathan Rothschild. Sidney Morning Herald Adaptación Luis R. Miranda China confía en que España se recuperará de la crisis económica y Beijing comprará la deuda pública española a pesar de los temores del mercado d ...
  • China Begins Acquisition of Europe
    Spain is the first country to go belly up.  China to pull off a Nathan Rothchild style ‘purchase’ Sidney Morning Herald China is confident Spain will recover from its economic crisis and Beijing will buy Spanish public debt despite market fears of an Irish-style bailout, a top Chinese official said ...
  • The Historical Framework of Globalization
    by Dr. James Polk Our era  is largely defined by two highly interlinked concepts: globalization and the so-called “war on terrorism.” As geopolitical-economic operatives, both concepts complement each other as significant means to specific ends; both shape important aspects of our daily lives and de ...

Wind Watch

  • Turbines troubling for group
    BEDFORD – A proposed wind turbine project atop a nearby ridge has put the Dutch Corner Rural Historic District on a list of 11 at-risk places throughout the state, nonprofit historical preservation organization Preservation Pennsylvania announced recently. While most of the at-risk places on the lis ...
  • Wind turbine destroyed by fire
    This is in Clear Lake, Iowa. It burned up a week or two ago. The skeleton is still standing there. Click the pictures for full size. The turbines are marked FPL (Florida Power & Light), which is now NEE (Nextera Energy). This last picture shows a turbine that’s down and you can see black stuff under ...
  • Wind bargaining: Patient homeowners in Gilliam and ...
    As the mammoth Shepherdâs Flat wind farm makes a growing commotion on the hills above the Willow Creek valley, several residents are packing up or already gone. âI told them I wouldn’t sign any noise easement unless they bought me out,â said Richard Goodhead, who retired with his wife, Joanne, to a ...
  • Mountain protection: Two county leaders say Mercer ...
    PRINCETON � Developers came to Tazewell County, purchased land and announced plans to build a $200 million wind turbine project along East River Mountain. After months of debate about topics ranging from economic development and property rights, the Tazewell County Board of Supervisors passed a ridg ...
  • If approved, wind project would be first on Nation ...
    (Host) The Green Mountain National Forest is asking the public to weigh in on a proposed 15-turbine wind farm on national forest land in Readsboro and Searsburg. The 30 megawatt project is being proposed by Deerfield Wind, which is owned by Iberdrola Renewables of Portland Oregon. If approved, the 3 ...

Not My Tribe

  • PPJPC drops justice & peace in favor of Judas kiss ...
    You don’t care what our neighborhood Pikes Peak Justice & Peace Commission has gotten its leash tangled around –I shouldn’t– but the latest is well, predictable. FIRST, in November they sponsored an Israel-BDS protest to boycott a local Ahava outlet and promptly got two participants arrested. Wrongl ...
  • Gaza’s Youth Manifesto For Change!
    From anonymous young voices in Gaza, reprinted from Facebook group:Gaza Youth Breaks Out (GYBO), file under Jailhouse Literature. � Fuck Hamas. Fuck Israel. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rig ...
  • Doug Bruce v. Dogbert
    See, this guy is an archetype of So-Called “Conservative” ethos. He milks his position as a pig, Former prosecutor that is, first with the “Back the Badge” morons who actually believe that “The Policeman is always right”, made God-damn sure that no Colorado Springs Gestapo Agent was ever actually pr ...
  • John B. Spencer’s lost Christmas lyric for W ...
    Gathering songs for a Christmas compilation, I went looking through different versions of “Will This House be Blessed?” by John B. Spencer. While the sentiment is in keeping with the season, everyone’s rendition lacked whatever it was I remembered tied the song literally to Christmas. I finally foun ...
  • I remember nothingk, of, Lili Marlene
    On the subject of historical misconceptions, you might say I’m hugely sentimental. So the tale of Lili Marlene catches me up like a honey trap. What does the name conjure for you? A Nazi Mata Hari? A fictional musical persona beloved by soldiers on both sides of the Good War? While even antiwar sent ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Pat Curley will Always be the Better Ringmaster
    Comment from Scootle: Over at the Screw Loose Change blog, Pat Curley has commented on 'Jesse's Pentagon Circus', I agree with many of his comments, but there are a few points that need addressing. Pat writes: The standdown witness is an LA building inspector? Of course, it makes complete sense to ...
  • Of Course, WTC7 Never Existed!
    "Every now and then I meet somebody [..] asking me about this Building 7, but I have no evidence that this really occured!" ~ Joe Lieberman Now this is what you call denialism! As if denying WTC7's demolition isn't bad enough, Joe Lieberman seems to be denying it even existed! So what about all t ...
  • Obama Signs Bill to Compensate 9/11 First Responde ...
    Well, after 9 years those first responders who sacrificed their health to save others and to clean up the remains of the WTC are going to get compensated. According to this yahoo.com article: The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act was named after a police officer who died of a respirato ...
  • Intellectual Rigor Mortis Sets In Early for 'Debun ...
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog stated today that physicist David Chandler "is hardly an exemplar of the highest standards of intellectual rigor." He points to a post from April 22, 2009 entitled "When Will David Chandler Fix His Errors?" that contains two broken video links. One is a vid ...
  • Zeitgeist-9/11: 2010 Update
    Part 2 of the film Zeitgeist concerning 9/11. Updated 2010 version. See the "Zeitgeist Sourcebook," which backs up the claims made in the film. The 9/11 section begins on page 101. As we have made clear several times on this blog, the evidence points to a plane hitting the Pentagon. Claims the fi ...

To Do

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Renewable energy industry shows surprising clout
Stateline.org
- Jan 03, 2011
- 7 hours ago
“It will drive up utility bills because we don't have [energy from renewable sources] ready and have to buy it somewhere else,” he explained. ...
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In California and Arizona, Governors Emphasize Renewable Energy Goals
Solar Home & Business Journal
- Jan 03, 2011
- 5 hours ago
Edmund G. Brown Jr. reiterated a campaign pledge to seek development of 20000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity in the state by 2020. In Arizona, Gov. ...
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UK renewable energy supplies up 23% in Q3 2010
Renewable Energy Focus
- Jan 04, 2011
- 13 minutes ago
The supply of renewable energy in the UK rose 23.1% to 6.98 TWh in the third quarter 2010/2011 compared to the same period last year. ...
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Opinion: We're meeting goals on renewable energy -- but they should be higher
San Jose Mercury News
- Jan 03, 2011
- 15 hours ago
Arnold Schwarzenegger ambitiously committed California to obtain 20 percent of its electricity from renewable resources by the end of 2010. ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Agencies respond to grounded fishing boat
Seattle Post Intelligencer
- Jan 03, 2011
- 6 hours ago
The Coast Guard, Washington state Ecology Department and the Makah Tribe are responding to a grounded fishing vessel near Neah Bay on the Olympic Peninsula. ...
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ECOLOGY EXTENDS BURN BANS IN CHELAN, DOUGLAS COUNTIES; BANS EXPIRE IN SEVERAL ...
FireEngineering.com
- Jan 03, 2011
- 6 hours ago
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is extending burn bans now in effect in Chelan and Douglas counties. Ecology's Stage 1 burn bans will ...
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City Ends Contract – Revenge Says Nonprofit
The Nonprofit Quarterly
- Jan 04, 2011
- 4 hours ago
December 30, 2010; Source:New York Times (The Bay Citizen) | In San Francisco, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization called Arc Ecology claims ...
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Strange priorities
The Province
- Jan 04, 2011
- 4 hours ago
Shame on the Stanley Park Ecology Society. It seems rather strange they can come up with the funds for a dead tree but can't save a living farm that brings ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
Highland Park schools shut again Tuesday for water
9&10 News
- Jan 04, 2011
- 2 hours ago
(AP) — Classes are off for a second day in Highland Park's schools because of a pump failure in the city's water system. WXYZ-TV says officials decided to ...
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Official Stills for Robert Pattinson's 'Water for Elephants' Released
AceShowbiz
- Jan 04, 2011
- 4 hours ago
Some pictures from "Water for Elephants" have been officially released online. Most of them had been seen gracing printed People and Entertainment Weekly ...
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Concerns over contaminated water
Louisville Courier-Journal
- Jan 04, 2011
- 4 hours ago
EPA officials jumped on that statement with this statement: “EPA absolutely has a drinking water standard for total chromium, which includes chromium-6 ...
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State faces tipping point in new year
Daily Local News
- Jan 04, 2011
- 54 minutes ago
Residents of the state concerned about our outdoors heritage, our woods and waters, our drinking water, and our overall quality of life should cast a ...
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