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Thursday, January 6, 2011

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MIDEAST: It's Christmas Again, and Still No Way to ...
    "We try to be happy and celebrate with our families during Christmas, but the atmosphere is not cheery as in other parts of the world," says Hossam Tawwil. And as around Christmas on Dec. 25, so for Orthodox Christians preparing to celebrate Christmas Jan. 7.
  • EGYPT: Shark Attacks Bite Tourism
    The beaches of Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Sharm al-Sheikh are tentatively back to normal after having recently been the site of five separate shark attacks, one of which proved fatal. While the phenomenon's precise cause remains undetermined, local experts fear that the spate of attacks ...
  • Bahrain's Farms Disappearing Under Concrete Towers
    Environmentalists are engaged in a nation-wide campaign to protect what is left of the agricultural belt in Bahrain. Seventy percent of farms have been eliminated due to urbanisation, according to environmentalists who are warning of a serious environmental crisis.
  • PHILIPPINES: Catholics Dare Excommunication Over R ...
    Support for reproductive health legislation, popularly known as the RH Bill here, has snowballed on social websites and among peer networks, yet passage and funding of the bill remains uncertain. Catholic bishops have long used the threat of excommunication in the raging debates over use of ...
  • ZIMBABWE: In the Eye of the HIV/Aids Storm
    Teenage commercial sex workers are finding themselves at the centre of the HIV/AIDS storm amid concerns of widespread lack of condom use and a spike in the number of infections among this demographic, despite the country's continuing HIV/AIDS campaigns, which health authorities say has see ...

Scoop - NZ

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  • US Army "Spiritual Fitness" Test Under Fire
    An experimental, Army mental-health, fitness initiative designed by the same psychologist whose work heavily influenced the psychological aspects of the Bush administration's torture program is under fire by civil rights groups and hundreds of active-duty soldiers. They say it unconstitutionally req ...
  • 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 ...

Independent - London

  • US 'execution drugs' row flares up again as trail ...
    The controversy over the use of British-made drugs in executions in the United States flared up last night after court documents emerged in Arizona which suggested that the supply could be traced to an address in west London.
  • BP cost cuts contributed to Gulf spill, says repor ...
    BP and its partners made a series of cost-cutting decisions that ultimately contributed to the oil spill that ravaged the Gulf of Mexico over the summer, the White House commission into the disaster said yesterday. In its final report on the causes of the largest offshore spill in US history, the co ...
  • Markets make Portugal pay heavy price for loan
    Portugal's cost of borrowing soared by 80 per cent yesterday, as the eurozone's ongoing debt crisis took centre stage again with the festive season barely over.
  • Mehdi Army leader ends his exile and returns to Ba ...
    The Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, one of the most controversial public figures to have emerged in Iraq following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, has returned after three years of self-imposed exile in Iran.
  • China offers online help for suspicious spouses
    China's exploding wealth has created a culture of secret mistresses and second wives. Now officials are putting marriage records online so spouses can check for cheaters.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

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

Signs of the times

  • Pharma Propaganda Alert: 'Fraud' Study Linked Auti ...
    The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report. The 1998 paper by Dr. Andrew Wakefield and colleagues was renounced by 10 of its 13 authors and later retracted by the medical journal Lancet , where it ...
  • The coming war on women
    A war is coming. Congressional Republicans have already made clear that their top priority, once they take control of Congress in the next session, is to make sure President Obama is a one-term president. But there is a second priority that many Republicans in Congress, and in state legislatures a ...
  • Dead birds in Sweden killed by 'external blows'
    A large number of dead birds were found in the city of Falkoping, Sweden, Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, according to a press release on the website of the Swedish National Veterinary Institute. Autopsies were peformed on five of the birds. The institute said they died due to "sudden, hard ...
  • Ireland - Property prices down 40% from peak
    A survey from property website Daft.ie has found that asking prices for homes fell by 14% last year, with prices falling by 5% in the final three months of the year. Daft.ie says prices have now fallen by 40% from their peak, with the average price now just below €220,000. During 2010, asking pric ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: Procession of the Damned: Mass Bird an ...
    And the Procession of Damned Data continues... Yesterday, January 4th, RyanX discussed the recent mysterious deaths of blackbirds and fish in Arkansas. As reports about mass deaths of birds and sea creatures continue to pour in from all over the world, perhaps it's time to, how should I put it... " ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • What would Christmas be without a classic?
  • Christmas present from the CIA
    Think Wikileaks is a big name? Now it's a WTF big name. Courtesy of the US Central Intelligence Agency. H/T Jill
  • Trash talk . . .
    THE ECONOMIST has an article about ocean trash, "A New Year’s wish for less trash". I've posted about this before, but the latest news needs dissemination:The almost unbelievable reality, says a new charity Science and Technology against Ocean Plastics (STOP), is that large areas of our oceans now c ...
  • Merry Holiday
    This is the time of year when politicians work even less diligently in the public interest, scarf down gut-fulls of trough gobbling goodies and pose in a mockery of care as ever more constituents go without. I detest the snot of the season, the inescapable drone of saccharine muzak, the whine of cri ...
  • The train wreck that keeps on wrecking
    The sale (OK 99 year lease) of BC Rail is still fresh in everybody's minds. Truthfully, it's smelly and the sudden turn of Basi and Virk to a guilty plea will never be something easily swallowed. Somewhere, somehow, a deal was made, involving taxpayers money, at the eleventh hour, which kept Gary C ...

Media Matters for America

  • Beck Dubiously Claims Federal Reserve's ...
    Glenn Beck claimed the Federal Reserve is driving up food prices by "printing too much money" and "devaluing our own currency." In fact,�U.S. food prices are forecast to rise by only 2-3 percent in 2011, and according to Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, U.S. grocery prices have actually decreased o ...
  • Right-Wing Media's Phony Deficit Blame Game Now T ...
    Right-wing media are now targeting Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as being to blame for the increase in the federal deficit. In fact, experts agree that almost the entire deficit can be attributed to Bush's tax cuts, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the economic recession.Right-Wing Media Mo ...
  • Right-Wing Media Falsely Claim Dems Trying To Out ...
    Right-wing media have attacked Senate Democrats' filibuster reform proposals by falsely claiming they plan to outright ban filibusters. In fact, Democrats are currently proposing a variety of changes to the overall process that are designed to promote transparency and curb abuse -- none of whic ...
  • Conservatives Falsely Blame Obama Drilling Policie ...
    Conservative media figures have blamed the recent increases in oil and gas prices on President Obama's drilling policies. However, experts point to expectations of increased demand and other factors.Conservative Media: Obama's Policies Caused Oil And Gas Prices To Rise Beck: Oil Prices Rising Beca ...
  • Coming Right-Wing Smear: Common Legislative Proced ...
    HotAir.com's Ed Morrissey is the first of what will no doubt become a flood of right-wing media figures falsely characterizing a proposal for Senate Democrats to extend the first legislative day of the session in order to build support for filibuster reform as them using "chicanery" to "change the ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Yitzakh, Rafik, and Salman
    When I was a kid, there was this song by Dion, "Abraham, Martin, and John" -- an elegy to Abe Lincoln, MLK, and JFK, leaders assassinated before their work was done, obviously. Readers of a certain age are sure to remember it: "Has anybody here, seen my old friend Martin..." It wasn't that great of ...
  • Peter King Listed By Secret Secret As Pro-Terroris ...
    New York City's former mayor, Ed Koch, has taken time off from his new career as a film critic to offer a valentine to Rep. Peter King (R-NY), the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, for scheduling hearings on the dangers posed by Muslim Americans. Koch's support for King is no ...
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  • Price for Jonathan Pollard's Release Should be a D ...
    Jonathan Pollard was paid for his espionage by a foreign government. Whether that government was the Soviet Union, China, Great Britain, or as it turned out -- Israel -- Pollard was a compensated enemy of the US national interest and convicted. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just ...
  • 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 ...

TruthOut

  • Army's "Spiritual Fitness" Test Comes Under Fire
    Test Was Designed by Psychologist Who Inspired CIA's Torture Program An experimental, Army mental-health, fitness initiative designed by the same psychologist whose work heavily influenced the psychological aspects of the Bush administration's torture program is under fire by civil rights groups ...
  • Solution: Cut Costs of Radioactive Waste Stabiliza ...
    This week's Solution's column examines a very important but overlooked and permanent problem of dealing with our nuclear waste, waste that we have manufactured in the past and waste we may make in the future if the push for more US nuclear plants is successful. The author of this column, Greg Willia ...
  • Peak Oil and a Changing Climate: An Introduction ( ...
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  • 2011: Jobs Versus The Deficit
    The roadmaps showing the way out of our 1.4 trillion dollar federal deficit almost always begin at the same starting points. During 2010, it became taken-for-granted that today's record-setting red ink is a result of unrestrained government spending — especially stimulus spending. And the idea that ...
  • Boehner Pleads For Civility As New Congress Conven ...
    Washington - Ohio Rep. John Boehner is to become Speaker of the House Wednesday afternoon, and plans to set a conciliatory tone by telling the nation “The American people have humbled us.” Boehner, 61, will preside over a House of Representatives with its biggest Republican majority in 62 years. Re ...

Planetsave

  • Sudden Fish Kills, Bird Die-offs, and Other “Forte ...
    Seems like you can’t swing a dead…um, strike that. It’s hard to miss the wave of news coverage of late concerning the mysterious die-offs of flocks of birds (in two Southern U.S. states). And then there’s that slightly earlier, mass fish kill (all one species), not far away, coming  just a short ti ...
  • Clean Coal Does Not Exist
    I’ve heard it from those in the business, those living in coal country, and various scientific studies: nothing can make coal clean. Nonetheless, the myth keeps on circulating (I wonder why). I think it coal’s numerous environmental harms need to be broadcast much more.. broadly and loudly this year ...
  • Fox News Serving Up Climate Skepticism
    Related Articles: From Planetsave: Fox News Boss Ordered Staff to Make Climate Change Seem Doubtful From Ecopolitology: Fox News Editor Tampers with Climate Reporting: Where is Conservative Outrage Now? From ClimateProgress: National Journal: “The GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of ...
  • Oceanic Garbage Patch Blown out of Proportion by M ...
    Unsurprisingly, not every statistic you read or hear of in the media correct. According to assistant professor of oceanography at Oregon State University, Angelicque “Angel” White, one such statistic you should definitely think twice about is anything referring to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Th ...
  • Ocean Currents Changing due to Global Warming
    New researched published in the most recent edition of the scientific journal PNAS has shown that there have been significant and drastic changes to oceanic currents in the western North Atlantic Ocean since the 1970s. The research found that the influence of the cold water Labrador Current has been ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • The murder of Patrice Lumumba: Congo’s tragedy - A ...
    Today the Democratic Republic of Congo is depicted as a place of horror. Recent fighting in the country is presented as a continuation of ancient blood-letting between eastern tribes and ethnic militias. These lies hide the reality of a country that has been the scene of imperial pillage for more ...
  • Costs of the Free Market - Canada
    There was always skepticism about claims that, as the rich became richer, income would "trickle down" to others. What wasn't perhaps foreseen was that the trickling would actually be in the other direction, and that it would be more of a torrent than a trickle. But the evidence is now...
  • East and West, More or Less - World View
    I am not from the East or the West... I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one... - Rumi1 I remember my first wild strawberry... so tiny... but the flavor was magnified, as compared with the large, store-bought kind that my city-upbringing taste buds were accustomed... ...
  • Benazir Bhutto And Her Commitment To Democracy? - ...
    Editor's Comment: December 27, 2011 was the 3rd anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's assassination and Shahid R. Siddiqi updates the essay he wrote for publication on Axis of Logic on the second anniversary of her death. Associated Press of Pakistan reported Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani's wo ...
  • Why Washington Hates Hugo Chavez - Featured
    In late November, Venezuela was hammered by torrential rains and flooding that left 35 people dead and roughly 130,000 homeless. If George Bush had been president, instead of Hugo Chavez, the displaced people would have been shunted off at gunpoint to makeshift prison camps--like the Superdome--as t ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Nightowl Newswrap
    Jerry Brown wastes no time proving us dead wrong about him saving California. "Brown... wants to slash virtually every state-funded program to help balance California's massive deficit, in many cases resurrecting cuts sought by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger but rejected by lawmakers. Brown would restri ...
  • Social Security 101
    Don't be distracted by the congressional rethuglican kabuki being presented for your amusement; the real objective is dismantling Social Security. Fight the lies with the facts. From the always-valuable karoli at Crooks and Liars: I am writing this after seeing young progressives I respect parrot c ...
  • Stop caving in to hysterics just because they are ...
    I am so god-damned sick of hearing the fright-wing shriek and stomp and rend the cloth from their breasts over paying doctors to talk to patients about end-of-life care. Have none of these idiots ever been inside an ICU or had a relative or friend with a terminal illness struggle with those decision ...
  • After Senate criticism, IG for Afghanistan fires t ...
    Arnold Fields, a retired Marine Major General and the embattled Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), has attempted to save his own ass by firing a couple of underlings �following harsh criticism last month from Senators after he testified last November before the Senate Commi ...
  • Tea Party plays insane games with nation's credit- ...
    Republican leaders are telling us we need to chill out. There is no way - none - that Tea Party Republicans are going to destroy the full faith and credit of the United States by refusing to raise the national debt ceiling, a step that would cause the nation to default on its financial obligations f ...

Care 2

  • Nevada's Predator Control Program Threatens Wild H ...
    Nevada is in the process of approving a predator control program to protect privately owned livestock. This situation could be from a page ripped out of Catch-22. Money is spent to kill predators that may harm livestock, predators like mountain lions,Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �No ...
  • Huckleberry Finn removes N-word: Political correct ...
    .Submitted by mick cave to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Military dog's call of duty saves marines
    Sgt. Bo's King Cole USMC, a 2 year old black Labrador was on another mission. He was only meters away from his handler when he stopped and looked back. The Military War Dog regarded his friend and seconds later, became a martyr to his duty.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Ad ...
  • ACTION ALERT: Ask State to Prohibit ALL body grip ...
    Body gripping traps are cruel and inhumane. Imagine a truck door slamming on your arm or leg and it can't open. WIth the use of body gripping traps, this is exactly what is felt. The animal will not be killed until the hunter checks back which can be Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Four bumblebee species declining in North America
    The populations of four species of North American bumblebee have declined, a new study has confirmed. The study also found that fungal infections are more likely to plague these bees than other, more stable bumblebee species. Submitted by Kathy B. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

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No Quarter

  • Time For Revisionist History – Again **OPEN THREA ...
    The new Congress will be sworn in, likely by the time you read this. There is a major shift in power in the House, from the Democrats to the Republicans. Speaker Pelosi returns to simply Congresswoman Pelosi, and Speaker-Elect John Boehner will be sworn in. But you know Nancy Pelosi did not go quiet ...
  • Is Justice Scalia Antagonizing Women and the GLBT ...
    The Washington Post’s Emi Kolawole covered an interview Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gave to California Lawyer. Discussing the 14th amendment to the Constitution, he said: The Constitution does not protect women (or gay men and lesbians) against discrimination. That ought to make us feel rig ...
  • Dawn of a New Era?
    Meant to get this up earlier. John Boehner and the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives a few hours ago. Boy, am I glad Nancy Pelosi is out of the big chair. Listening to her is akin to the sound of brittle fingernails on a dusty blackboard. Endless screeching. She did not go [.. ...
  • Hello. Goodbye. Okay.
    Editor’s Note: Lisa Brackmann is the author of the novel, Rock Paper Tiger, advertised below in the center column. Rock Paper Tiger is a thriller set in China. The “heroine,” a veteran of the war in Iraq, lands in a world of suspenseful, terrifying trouble in Beijing. The novel has won rave reviews, ...
  • Daley Rumor + Open Thread
    Editor’s Note: Our nightly open thread, with a timely post from John Batchelor’s blog, is up early. We hope to post one more story soon, from Lisa Brackmann’s blog. Lisa is the author of Rock Paper Tiger, a harrowing thriller advertised in the center column.   The hot rumor is that the White House i ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • What Are Cats Really Thinking?
    Irrefutable pictorial evidence that cats are tirelessly preparing to conquer our fragile world. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Was Santa Claus the First to Domesticate Reindeer?
    The Scandinavian Sámi people trained reindeer long before Santa Claus taught them to fly. But how did a middle eastern saint get involved with reindeer? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Colorful Mating Habits of Sea Hares
    You might not imagine that sea hares could get up to anything very interesting - but their mating habits are actually unimaginably bizarre! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Parasitic Albino Redwood Tree
    Discover the amazing albino redwood tree which survives by sucking the life blood from its parent! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Bottled Water Vs. Tap Water
    A great amount of press has been published regarding the decadence and unnecessary waste of bottled water. But is the issue as simple as presented? 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

Al Jazeera

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

  • AIDS and 9/11
    AIDS and 9/11  By Terry Morrone I’ve learned from 9/11 that the US government and the news media lie and distort on a grand scale. The evidence that 9/11 was an inside job is overwhelming. Yet the media vilifies dissidents, labeling them conspiracy theorists. Here are some parallels between AIDS and ...
  • Judge admits interfering in Detroit Federation of ...
    Press Release                           For immediate release: Judge admits to interfering in Detroit teachers union vote   The statement below is from MERC Judge Julia Stern, who admits to working with DPS and Keith Johnson to interfere in the current DFT run-off elections, in a way that helps John ...
  • 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 ...

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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

  • Video: Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
    Cross-posted from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage ...
  • 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 ...

Marler Blog

  • What is a Customer?
    A commenter on an earlier post said: "do you think companies want to make people sick and lose millions of dollars???"  I think the easy answer is to say of course not.  But, in my experience, few of the food companies that I have sued in the last 18 years viewed their customer like this: A Custome ...
  • Seattle attorney hopes lawmakers back new food saf ...
    For two decades, Seattle attorney Bill Marler has focused on foodborne illness cases. But outside of the courtroom, he has pushed for an overhaul of the nation's food safety system. His efforts were rewarded Tuesday when President Obama signed a $1.4 billion food safety bill. Bu ...
  • Lawsuits filed in Texas Listeria and Illinois Salm ...
    It already looks to be a busy year in food poisoning lawsuits.� Here is the Sangar Listeria Complaint and the Jimmy John's Salmonella Complaint.
  • A non-adulterant - E. coli O45 - causes seven illn ...
    An E. coli O45 Outbreak that has sickened seven has been linked to Zillman Meat Market according to the Marathon County Department of Health.   As I have said a few times, it has been over a year since we filed the Petition for an Interpretive Rule Declaring enterohemorrhagic Shiga Toxin-produci ...
  • Seattle attorney hopes lawmakers back new food saf ...
    For two decades, Seattle attorney Bill Marler has focused on foodborne illness cases. But outside of the courtroom, he has pushed for an overhaul of the nation's food safety system. His efforts were rewarded Tuesday when President Obama signed a $1.4 billion food safety bill. Bu ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Hypermiler Wayne Gerdes: After 2,269 miles and 59 ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Etc., Hyundai 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Cross Country Blue Drive - Click above for image gallery Last fall, hypermiler Wayne Gerdes proposed to Hyundai that he drive a 2011 Sonata Hybrid across the country to help the automaker get the vehicle from the media launch lo ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.05.11
    Wayne Gerdes: After 2,269 miles and 59 mpg, Hyundai Sonata Hybrid "kicks ass" Don't compare. Toyota: Prius will be "the number one nameplate in the industry" by 2020 Ambitions are running hi ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.04.11
    Chevrolet Volt outsold Nissan Leaf in U.S. in December? We'll check back in once the market gets into full swing. Toyota: Prius emissions less harmful than a sheep's, um, emissions Isn't tha ...
  • 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 ...

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!

  • Dr. Atul Gawande on Obama's 'Frustrating' Record o ...
    Renowned surgeon and author Dr. Atul Gawande discusses his frustrations with President Obama’s on healthcare reform, the ethical conundrums of learning and practicing medicine and his most recent book, The Checklist Manifesto. Part 1 of interview Part 2 of interview
  • Darrell Issa, Step Away From the Corporations
    Remember “freedom fries”? That’s what the House Republicans, when they were last in the majority, renamed french fries, after France refused to support the invasion of Iraq. It seems like renaming fries might be just about the extent of food regulation that some in Congress are willing to support. ...
  • Prisoners at Supermax Ohio Penitentiary Begin Hung ...
    Four prisoners in the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary have launched a hunger strike to protest what they call their harsh mistreatment under solitary confinement. The prisoners—Bomani Shakur, Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Jason Robb and Namir Abdul Mateen—were sentenced to death for their involvement i ...
  • 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 ...

Digg Green

  • Vaccine blocks cocaine high in mice
    Researchers have produced a lasting anti-cocaine immunity in mice by giving them a safe vaccine that combines bits of the common cold virus with a particle that mimics cocaine.
  • A New Study Says America Is Losing Its Empath ...
    A new study shows Americans are less empathetic than they were 30 years ago, and for reasons that might surprise you.
  • 8 sci-fi inspired advances that became real i ...
    Are we already living in the future? Take a moment and decide for yourself with these eight advancements that are helping make science fiction into science reality.
  • A Is for Armageddon: 12 Ways to Destroy the P ...
    It's 2011, which means we're just a year away from finding out whether all those Mayan predictions about the end of the world are correct. If the world does end in 2012, these environmental catastrophes may be at least partially to blame.
  • INSANELY awesome solar eclipse picture
    Earlier today Europe, Asia, and Africa got to see a nice partial solar eclipse as the Moon passed in front of the Sun, blocking as much as 85% of the solar surface. The extraordinarily talented astrophotographer Thierry Legault traveled from his native France to the Sultanate of Oman to take pi ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Top US Official Murdered After Arkansas Weapons Te ...
    A shocking report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) states that one of the United States top experts in biological and chemical weapons was brutally murdered after he threatened to expose a US Military test of poison gas that killed hundreds of ...
  • Why are the animals dying? Birds, fish wiped out i ...
    By Mike Adams In the last week, nearly 100,000 fish washed up on the shores of the Arkansas River, dead. Also in Arkansas, thousands of red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky and plummeted to the ground where they were also found dead. The scene repeated itself in Southern Louisiana where 500 red-w ...
  • Italian Banks Wage ‘War on Cash’ as Co ...
    Cash is king in Italy, a lesson Massimiliano Romano learned when he tried to pay for a cab with a credit card at Rome’s main train station. “I thought my cards would be enough,” said Romano, head of research at brokerage Concentric Italy in Milan. “But I had to let 10 people go in front [...]
  • ‘Fed up’ 82-year-old held alleged thie ...
    An 82-year-old retired high school math teacher and business owner with diabetes and leukemia shot out a tire on a pickup truck loaded with stuff allegedly stolen from his house near here and held two men at gunpoint until police arrived. New Castle County police took William G. Rafter, 41, of Clayt ...
  • John P. Wheeler III: The Neighbors’ Twist
    By Radell Smith U.S. Army veteran, MADD supporter, a regular at the Pentagon, former Securities and Exchange Commission insider…the list goes on and one about the esteemed–now deceased–John P, Wheeler III. But as much as is known about the man who got things done; no one knows who killed him and lef ...

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

  • Fox News Serving Up Climate Skepticism
    Related Articles: From Ecopolitology: Fox News Editor Tampers with Climate Reporting: Where is Conservative Outrage Now? From ClimateProgress: National Journal: âThe GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the gl ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Massive Energy-Generating Wind Tower Proposed for ...
    When considering wind power as an energy source, it’s best to think big. Japan-based ZENA Systems is working on developing a new type of wind energy generator that will dwarf anything before it. The 50 meter-tall hexagonal building essentially acts as a huge scoop that compresses wind from all direc ...
  • Stunning Icelandic Institute is an Ice-Frosted Eco ...
    Read the rest of Stunning Icelandic Institute is an Ice-Frosted Eco Citadelhttp://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", arkis, ...
  • New Nanomaterial Could Charge Electric Vehicles 40 ...
    Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have developed a new type of material made from “nanoscoops”, which can increase the charging speed of small lithium-ion batteries by 40-60 times. Previously the anodes in lithium ion batteries — lithium ion molecules which travel between anodes ...
  • Cedar Haven is a Forest Retreat Made with Reclaime ...
    Cedar Haven is a forest retreat inspired by the cedar trees and tranquility of its surrounding area. Following the specifications of the homeowners who wanted an escape that would fit amicably on a site where an old log cabin once sat, they hired Gelotte Hommas to build the stunning, contemporary re ...
  • Pittsburgh Penguins Kick Off Recycling Program
    Fresh from unveiling their new LEED Gold hockey stadium, the Pittsburgh Penguins are cementing their reputation as one of the greenest teams in the NHL. This month the hockey team kicked off their new recycling campaign, which will focus on getting hockey fans to recycle their cans and bottles when ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Clever Crows Use Tools in New Way
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience739268601001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); With the simple act of using twigs to poke a rubber spider, New Caledonian crows may have become the first birds to join an exclusive cognitive class. Using tools in mult ...
  • Toxic Oceans May Have Poisoned Early Animals
    Soon after complex animals made their first great strides onto the stage of life, the oceans brewed up a toxic chemical mix that put the brakes on evolutionary innovation, suggests a paper in the Jan. 6 Nature. The culprits? Too little oxygen and too much sulfur dissolved in coastal waters, repo ...
  • Moon and Space Station Eclipse the Sun
    Tuesday morning’s partial solar eclipse produced a gorgeous crescent sunrise in Europe, Africa and Asia as the moon blocked most of the sun’s disk. But for a split second, the sun was also partially blocked by another satellite: the International Space Station. French astrophotographer Thierry Lega ...
  • Ancient Birds Clobbered Rivals With Clubbed Wings
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK Paleontologists at Yale University have discovered that a prehistoric bird with club-like bludgeons for hands likely used its powerful wings to beat up monkeys, snakes and other predators. The fowl, named Xenicibis xympithecus, lived in Jamaica about 10,000 years ago, and wa ...
  • Nanoparticles in Sewage Sludge May End Up in the F ...
    Plants and microbes can absorb nano-sized synthetic particles that magnify in concentration within predators up the food chain, according to two new studies. Nanoparticles can be made of countless different materials, and their safety isn’t well-understood. Yet the minuscule specks are infused int ...

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

  • Psychologists Protest the Torture of Bradley Manni ...
    My colleague Jeff Kaye — or to give him his proper title, Dr. Jeffrey Kaye — amazes all who know him by being an extraordinary freelance journalist while holding down a full-time job as a psychologist. As I have previously reported, Jeff has spent many years digging away at the largely submerged sto ...
  • The Guantánamo Files: An Archive of Articles &#821 ...
    Please support my work! For five years, I have been researching and writing about Guantánamo and the 779 men (and boys) held there over the last nine years, first through my book The Guantánamo Files, which tells the story of the prison and around 450 of the prisoners, and then through 12 onl ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Anti-Muslim Group Denounces One Professor, Defends ...
    The American Congress for Truth (ACT), an anti-Muslim group run by firebrand Brigitte Gabriel, has targeted a Muslim professor serving on a human rights board in Florida, accusing him of having ties to radical Islamic groups and serving as a “mosque operative” in city government. After months of opp ...
  • Neo-Nazi Leader Convicted on Threat Charges, Again
    In a case that tested the limits of free speech, an all-white jury in Chicago on Wednesday found the ever-garrulous imprisoned neo-Nazi leader Bill White guilty of using his website to encourage violence against the foreman of a jury that convicted a fellow white supremacist. Federal prosecutors in ...
  • FAIR Pushing Utah to Take Expensive Anti-Immigrant ...
    The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday published a lengthy investigative report on the origins of the immigration bill proposed by Utah State Rep. Stephen Sandstrom (R-Orem). Chief among the story’s findings is that Michael Hethmon, general counsel to the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), played a m ...
  • Anti-Gay Activist Adds Homophobia to Airport Frisk ...
    As if travelers donât have enough to worry about when they go through airport security, the leader of a prominent anti-gay hate group has added a dollop of his personal agenda to the mix. With the controversy growing over whether the new full-body scanners and more-aggressive pat-down searches are e ...
  • Violent IKA Activist Lashes Out Again
    Jarred Hensley is a white supremacist who likes to hurt people. He did prison time for it. And now he’s figured out a way to hurt people and even break a country’s laws without having to do jail time. Along the way, he’s also caused something of an international uproar on the Internet. Hensley is a ...

change: org.

  • Delta's Latest Lost Dog Turns Up Dead
    According to a report (pdf) compiled by ThirdAmendment.com, Delta Airlines had 16 animal-related incidents between January and October 2010, more than any other airline listed. In previous years, the airline had their fair share of problems, but why did they suddenly pull ahead of the pack in rackin ...
  • New Coalition Forms to Fight Attack on Constitutio ...
    If xenophobic state legislators from Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Oklahoma, and South Carolina have their way, being born in the U.S.A. won't be enough to make you an American citizen. That's against the Constitution, you say? Meh, Constitution-shmonstitution. But a pesky new coalition called Ame ...
  • One Bluefin Tuna Fetches Nearly $400,000
    It may sound like a tall tale — or rather, a fish tale — but Japanese fishermen recently landed a 754-pound bluefin tuna. The fish's weight and size were certainly impressive, but the price fishermen got for their catch broke records: The fishermen received $396,000 for one tuna! The story is certai ...
  • Groups Defend Marine Life from Navy Weapons Testin ...
    There's nothing like underwater mine-blasting and weapons testing to wake you up in the morning. Although people on the Pacific coastline won't hear or see much, the story could be much different for wildlife. The Pacific Ocean between Washington and California is home to a variety of marine species ...
  • Anti-Abortion Group Attacks Health Care Reform, Th ...
    As the House GOP sets its sights on voting to repeal the health care reform next week, anti-abortion groups are losing no time mobilizing their grassroots efforts to make sure it happens. Today, HealthWatch reports that the Susan B. Anthony List announced that it will be gathering followers to press ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Dems Accuse GOP Of 'Enron-Type Accounting' And Ass ...
    by Sam SteinWASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats, removed from their rhetorical shackles by the coming Republican control of the House, are accusing the GOP of resorting to "Enron-type accounting" in their efforts to push legislation in the next Congress.read more
  • Greenwash: Walmart's "Love, Earth" Jewelry Line Do ...
    by Jean Friedman-RudovskyA few blocks from the jewelry factory's entrance in La Paz, Bolivia, Julia and Maria look over their shoulders to see if the night guards are watching. The two young Aymara Indian women shiver in the cold night air and lower their heads as they speak. "It's a horrible exper ...
  • Bees in Freefall as Study Shows Sharp US Decline
    by Alok JhaThe abundance of four common species of bumblebee in the US has dropped by 96% in just the past few decades, according to the most comprehensive national census of the insects. Scientists said the alarming decline, which could have devastating implications for the pollination of both wild ...
  • Rep. Issa to Big Business: What Regulations Should ...
    In news from Capitol Hill, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) has asked the oil industry, drug manufacturers, healthcare providers and telecom firms to tell him which government regulations he should target this year as the new chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. According to ...
  • Most Americans Say Tax Rich to Balance Budget: Pol ...
    Most Americans think the United States should raise taxes for the rich to balance the budget, according to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll released on Monday.President Barack Obama last month signed into law a two-year extension of Bush-era tax cuts for millions of Americans, including the wealthiest, ...

Lifehacker

  • A First Look at Android 3.0 Honeycomb, or Android ...
    Here's a glimpse at Android 3.0 Honeycomb, as previewed earlier today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. The goodies include: More��
  • Google Cache Continue Redux Lets You Browse Entire ...
    Chrome/Firefox/Opera/Safari: Viewing Google's cached pages is nice for when a site goes down or updates, but you can only view a cached version of that one page. This user script will let you browse the cache of the entire site. More�� ...
  • Get Quick Google Maps Directions from Your House C ...
    Chrome's custom search engines, like Firefox's keyword bookmarks, are great at getting information with fewer key taps. One Lifehacker commenter recommends creating a search that auto-fills your home address into Google Maps for easy, quick di ...
  • Use Your Kindle for Free Overseas Browsing on 3G [ ...
    The Kindle is great for reading books on-the-go, especially when travelling. However, what some people don't know is that you can also browse the web on your Kindle's 3G for free—even internationally. More »
  • Pageonce Compiles Money and Bills on Your iPhone, ...
    iPhone/iPad: Pageonce, a kind of uber-start-page previously mentioned that seems to have shifted over to combining your bills and finances, is free in the iTunes App Store for a limited time. The app, which came in second in our poll of mobile ...

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Northern Ireland Water chief resigns
    Laurence MacKenzie steps down after thousands of households left without water over Christmas and New YearThe head of Northern Ireland Water (NIW) has resigned over the mishandling of the water crisis that hit the province over Christmas and the New Year in the wake of freezing temperatures.The stat ...
  • Spilled coffee triggers hijacking alert
    Communications equipment sent out distress signals and plane diverted to CanadaA pilot's spilled coffee accidentally triggered a hijacking alert and caused a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Frankfurt to make an unscheduled stop in Canada. A Transport Canada report said United Flight 940 was d ...
  • England made to wait despite Tremlett's heroics
    �� Matt Prior's century helps England to historic total �� Jimmy Anderson rips out heart of Australian battingEngland failed to take a wicket in the extra half hour allowed them to try and finish the fifth Test � and the series � in style with a day to spare. With seven wickets down, young Steve Smi ...
  • How Black Swan is ruffling feathers
    Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as a ballerina hitting the big time. How realistic is the movie? We asked the cream of British ballet to give their verdictsBlack Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky, claims to penetrate to the romantic, obsessional heart of ballet. Based loosely on Swan Lake, the fil ...
  • Beautiful bread and butter pudding
    For some, bread and butter pudding is the king of nursery desserts, for others it's the stuff of bad childhood memories. How do you make yours?Seldom has a dessert rejoiced in such a proudly unpretentious name as the bread and butter pudding. It's Victorian nursery food at its finest; blandly milky, ...

McClatchey

  • Panel: BP well blowout revealed industry-wide prob ...
    WASHINGTON — The errors and misjudgments that led to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling rig last spring weren't the result just of blunders by BP and its contractors, but reflect industry-wide problems that require new regulations and standards, a presidential commission ha ...
  • Pakistani religious groups cheer killing of govern ...
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The increasing radicalization of Pakistani society was laid bare Wednesday when the nation's mainstream religious organizations applauded the murder of provincial governor Salman Taseer earlier this week, while his killer was showered with rose petals as he appeared in court.
  • Private firms went on hiring spree in December
    WASHINGTON — Private businesses hired new workers at a surprisingly energetic pace in December, according to a widely tracked job-tracking report released on Wednesday.
  • Father watches with pride as Rand Paul becomes U.S ...
    WASHINGTON — Rep. Ron Paul figured this day would come — but not quite this soon.
  • Military bans 2 U.S. firms from Afghan contracting
    KABUL, Afghanistan — Nearly a year after two American construction companies abruptly shuttered their operations in Afghanistan and left the country allegedly owing their Afghan partners more than $2 million, the U.S. military announced Wednesday that it's temporarily blacklisting the firms.

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

  • LGBT Groups Look Beyond Congress, Will Focus On Co ...
    The take away from Amanda Terkel’s piece on the outlook for LGBT initiatives for the next two years is that most of the action will be happening in the states and the courts, since the Republican majority in the 112th Congress is showing little interest in taking up equality legislation: One branch ...
  • Conservative Groups Split Over Participation Of GO ...
    The Family Research Council and a few other social conservative organizations like Concerned Women for America, American Principles Project and American Values are refusing to attend next month’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to protest the participation GOProud, a gay rights group ...
  • Global Boiling: Biblical Australian Floods Send Co ...
    As the planet warms from fossil fuel pollution, climate catastrophes grow. In Australia, record floods caused by unrelenting months of rain are threatening the nation’s economy, with global repercussions. Global manufacturers have been shocked by the shutdown of Queensland’s rich coal mines, with as ...
  • Rick Scott’s Non-Discrimination Order Exclud ...
    South Florida Gay News is reporting that newly-inaugurated Florida Gov. Rick Scott is kicking off his term by issuing a narrow non-discrimination order for state employees. Executive Order 11-04 address only race, gender, creed, color and national origin and ignores the existing protections in the F ...
  • House Republicans Place A Foxx In Charge Of The Hi ...
    The incoming Republican majority, as laid out in today’s Progress Report, is bringing with it an extreme fealty to corporate interests. House Financial Services Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) explained that, in his view, Washington’s role is “to serve the banks.” Oversight and Government Reform Comm ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • The Sanctity of the Individual
    For some reason, as a result of the transition from dreaming to the incoherent first moments of waking thought, I was gripped with thinking about what a stupid waste it was when Patrick Dorismond was killed as a result of police racism. It's actually a pretty stupid story: Undercover Detective Ander ...
  • Lindsey Graham - Afghanistan is all about the air ...
    Just want to point out that Repug senator Lindsey Graham vindicated what I've been (unoriginally) saying all along about Afghanistan. It's simply to provide air bases for the US to project power in Central Asia. Of course, Graham lies and tries to say that the US will provide these bases for the sec ...
  • 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, ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • NIH Whistleblower Wins Right to Federal Court Tria ...
    On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled in favor of a sickle cell disease researcher who blew the whistle on improper cloning of blood cell lines. The decision clears the way Dr. Duane Bonds (pictured) to proceed with her claim that the National Institutes of Healt ...
  • New NWC interns arrive with enthusiasm
    The National Whistleblowers Center received a new group of interns today.� They arrived with marked enthusiasm to help individuals and the common good.� Here they are: In the top row are David, Sabrina, Whitney and Zach. Seated are Katie, Andrew and Sabeen.� Welcome and thank you for your decisio ...
  • Obama Signs Landmark Whistleblower Protections in ...
    Today, President Obama signed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (H.R. 2571), which contains landmark whistleblower protections for food safety employees. Highlights of the Food Safety Whistleblower Provision: � Covers all employers "engaged in the manufacture, processing, packing, tr ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • IHOP Drops Trademark Lawsuit Against IHOP
    Back in September, we noted that restaurant chain IHOP (International House of Pancakes) was suing another IHOP (International House of Prayer), claiming trademark infringement. Trademarks are supposed to only cover the areas of commerce you're in, but IHOP (food) claimed that since IHOP (church) w ...
  • Two Years After The RIAA Suggested ISPs Were Ready ...
    It's been a little over two years since the RIAA dropped its strategy of suing music fans for sharing files online -- a strategy that was an unequivocal disaster for the record labels. Of course, when the news came out, the RIAA suggested that the reason they had done so was because of a backroom d ...
  • Have We Reached A Tipping Point Where Self-Publish ...
    Ross Pruden points us to a recent post by author Joe Konrath (whose musings on why authors shouldn't fear file sharing, as well as his own experiments with "self-piracy" we've discussed before), in which he goes back on his previous views against self-publishing and makes the argument that authors s ...
  • DailyDirt: Duh... Ads Are Supposed To Change Peopl ...
    Ads can be controversial sometimes -- designed to attract attention. Most ads catch your eye with attractive people or shocking images, but the "best" ads also stick in your mind and remind you who the actual sponsor was. We're always interested in "good" ads (not the ads that get attention for ho ...
  • Expendables Producers Decide To Demand Cash From F ...
    Most of the movie producers who have jumped onto the "pre-settlement" letter bandwagon, whereby they simply demand cash from people, who might have downloaded the film, in exchange for not suing them, have been either small time producers or porn producers. The one exception, so far, had been the p ...

VacTruth

  • Will There Be More Chronically Ill and Development ...
    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania made changes to its immunization code to be effective August 1, 2011. Should state or federal agencies be held responsible for the damage to that child since it mandated the vaccines for attendance in school?vactruth.com
  • 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?

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I’m sure you all know what a clusterfuck it is in Northern Mexico right now. I wonder if a student movement, or any kind of people movement, can turn it around. (HT @maymaym) As long as we are on southern border issues, the Penn and Teller video in this post on Colorlines is hilarious. And [...]
  • 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 [...]

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

  • The Trials and Tribulations of Adélie Penguins in ...
    Photo credit: Fen Montaigne The iconic Adélie penguin is one of only two species to live and breed exclusively in Antarctica. Known for its "tuxedo" patterned coloration and their annual migrations of thousands of miles across the Antarctic, the penguins number in the millions—but this large p ...
  • Survey Reveals French are the Saddest People on Ea ...
    Photo: imdb If you are feeling very sad about the coming year, you are probably French. If the thought of the new year fills you with hope and optimism then you may be from Nigeria, Vietnam or even Kosovo. So where does that leave North Americans? The new "Global Barometer of Hope and Des ...
  • Ferran Adrià's elBulli Restaurant Aims for Zero Em ...
    Image credit: El País According to El País on sunday, celebraty chef Ferran Adrià is plotting a zero emission premises for his restaurant elBulli on the coast of Catalonia, Spain. The 2010 chef of the decade (nominated by The Restaurant magazine) closed his three Michelin stars restaurant last ...
  • Bikes for the World Need a Storage Site. Can You H ...
    Photo credits: Bikes for the World Bikes for the World donates used bicycles to non-profit community programs in Africa and Central America "to enable the poor to hold jobs, attend school, and obtain health services." To date they've processed about 50,000 bikes valued at over $2 million USD. B ...
  • Istanbul Residents Vote On Two Ugly Tram Designs
    The voting website for Istanbul's new tram design. Screenshot: Istanbul Ulaşım A.Ş. Sigh. Just when I was feeling optimistic about the latest developments with Istanbul's public transportation system, the municipality goes and announces that it's running an online poll to let the public choose ...

Biosingularity

  • The dark side of oxytocin, much more than just a “ ...
    There’s a chemical that can subtly shift your childhood memories of your own mother. In some people, it paints mum in a more saintly light, making them remember her as closer and more caring. In others, the chemical has a darker influence, casting mum as a less caring and more distant parent. All of ...
  • 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 ...

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

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

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

  • Rules Regulating Pesticide Spraying Vary Widely by ...
    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has spent the past decade considering adding warnings to herbicide product labels against applying the chemicals in ways that can result in drift, but has yet to mandate the change.Click here to read this article
  • Top Health Freedom News for 2010
    With 2010 officially over, here's a look at the trends and top stories of the year in the world of natural health and health freedom.Click here to read this article
  • How Green Became the Color of Money
    In the early summer of 1995, Jay Hair quietly resigned as head of the National Wildlife Federation. This Napoleonic figure had transformed a once scruffy, apolitical collection of local hunting and gun clubs into the cautious colossus of the environmental movement with more than four million members ...
  • Seeking a Meaningful Price on Carbon
    One month ago, Wesleyan University hosted a weekend conference called "Pricing Carbon." It was a revival meeting of sorts, bringing together about 500 economists, campaigners, scientists, students and lawmakers seeking, despite recent setbacks, to apply the age-old " polluter pays" principle to car ...
  • The Coming Health Crisis
    Human activity is disrupting Earth's climate, and the rising emissions of greenhouse gases are accelerating that disruption. (See "Our Changing Climate" box below) Some of the health consequences of climate change are straightforward: warmer temperatures, changes in the hydrologic cycle, increased g ...

fotoFrontera

  • Frases, poesías, citas y pensamientos en imágenes ...
    Como petición especial de nuestros suscriptores, seguidores en Twitter y nuestra comunidad en Facebook, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas inicia esta colección de 'Frases, poesías, citas y pensamientos en imágenes'. Espero que les gusten y en breve tendremos muchas más.Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la i ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXXII
    Si lo desea, revise nuestras entregas anteriores sobre esta misma serie. [1]-[2]-[3]-[4]-[5]-[6]-[7]-[8]-[9]-[10]-[11]-[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ...
  • Volcanes, montañas y nevados V (5 postales increíb ...
    Para ver más fotos de esta serie, 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 g ...
  • Paisajes naturales VIII (Más allá de los verdes pr ...
    Si lo desea, revise nuestro archivo. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]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 guardar ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Loonacy
    ABC News says that Michele Bachmann is seriously considering running for President. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…. I ...
  • Links, now with more krunk
    Substantial reads for the new year: Chomsky on Israel-Palestine Clay Shirky on Wikileaks Charles Stross has Reasons to be Cheerful Books still protected by Congress no matter how friggin long the authors have been dead dead dead - Idiocies of the coddled right: Birkey on Bachmann Tax dodging evangel ...
  • 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 [...]

Public News Service

  • SAD? – You Are Not Alone
    SAD? – You Are Not Alone Phoenix, AZ – You may be sad about the holidays being over, but you may also have SAD to deal with. That's Seasonal Affective Disorder, a condition linked to a lack of sunlight with symptoms that vary. But the condition is treatable and there is help for it all over the Gran ...
  • 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 ...
  • Don't Believe in Santa? NORAD Tracks Him
    Don't Believe in Santa? NORAD Tracks Him Phoenix, AZ - Don't believe in Santa? The people who safeguard the airspace over North America have been tracking Santa as he flies around the world on Christmas Eve, every year since 1955. Comments from NORAD's Lt. Stacey Knott.
  • AZ Game and Fish Bids to Take Over Gray Wolf Recov ...
    AZ Game and Fish Bids to Take Over Gray Wolf Recovery Tucson, AZ – The Arizona Game and Fish Department wants Congress to eliminate federal protection for the endangered Mexican gray wolf and turn the controversial program over to the state. Conservation groups say the result could be extinction fo ...
  • A Holiday Wish: Protect America's Forests
    A Holiday Wish: Protect America's Forests Phoenix, AZ - A coalition of groups, including several active in Arizona, are asking President Obama for a holiday gift: making federal rules for National Forest land strong enough to "stand the test of time." New rules are expected next month. Comments from ...

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

  • Viola Wilkins: Thousands Pay Tribute to Judy Bonds ...
    Thousands Pay Tribute to Judy Bonds: She Has Been to the Mountaintop, and Now We Must Fight Harder to Save It | CommonDreams.org by Jeff BiggersShe was a tireless, funny, and inspiring orator, and a savvy and brilliant community organizer. She was fearless in the face of threats. As the godmothe ...
  • WikiLeaks Archive - Cables Show D.E.A.’s Global Re ...
    WikiLeaks Archive - Cables Show D.E.A.’s Global Reach - NYTimes.com ¶In Panama, an urgent BlackBerry message from the president to the American ambassador demanded that the D.E.A. go after his political enemies: “I need help with tapping phones.” ¶In Sierra Leone, a major cocaine-trafficking prosec ...
  • Ray McGovern: Why Obama Should Read Wikileaks on A ...
    Ray McGovern: Why Obama Should Read Wikileaks on Afghanistan By RAY McGOVERN Perhaps President Barack Obama should give himself a waiver on the ban prohibiting U.S. government employees from downloading classified cables released by WikiLeaks, so he can get a better grasp on the futility of his Afg ...
  • We should focus on WikiLeaks, not Assange | Social ...
    We should focus on WikiLeaks, not Assange | SocialistWorker.org: "UPON LISTENING to Democracy Now's long overdue debate between two feminists about the sexual assault allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange recently, I was struck by how unsatisfying the debate was. I have been one of th ...
  • John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See: An indictment ...
    John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See: An indictment of news reporting as state propaganda :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] Pilger questions BBC Head of Newsgathering Fran Unsworth and Editor-in-Chief of ITV News David Mannion about their ...

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
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  • 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 ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 3 US-led soldiers killed in Afghanistan
    ShareThis3 US-led soldiers killed in Afghanistan 05 Jan 2011 Three US-led NATO troops have been killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan, raising the death toll for foreign soldiers to six only five days into 2011. Two soldiers were killed in a bomb explosion in the east and the third died in a sim ...
  • Body of Former Federal Official Found at Landfill
    ShareThisBody of Former Federal Official Found at Landfill 03 Jan 2011 (DE) A military expert who served three Republican presidents and helped get the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built as part of his dedication to those who fought in that war was found dead in a landfill, and authorities were trying ...
  • Son of Omaha Police Detective Kills Assistant Prin ...
    ShareThisSon of Omaha Police Detective Kills Assistant Principal, Self --Robert Butler Jr. Also Wounds Principal in School Shooting Rampage 05 Jan 2011 A high school student who was the son of a police detective shot two school officials at Millard South High School in Omaha today and then shot hims ...
  • US sets up center for 'secret war'
    ShareThisUS sets up center for 'secret war' 06 Jan 2011 The US administration is ramping up a "secret war on terror groups" in hot spots around the globe by establishing a new military targeting center, officials say. According to incumbent and former US officials, the center, run by the US Joint Sp ...
  • Scalia: Constitution Doesn't Protect Women or Gays ...
    ShareThisScalia: Constitution Doesn't Protect Women or Gays from Discrimination 04 Jan 2011 Neither women nor gays are promised protection against discrimination under the Constitution, Supreme Court [in]Justice Antonin Scalia said in an interview with the publication California Lawyer. Scalia's rem ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • East Jerusalem update: 1 Palestinian organizer dro ...
    By Jesse Bacon Adnan Gheith, whose plight we mentioned earlier, dropped his appeal with the Israeli Supreme Court and will be expelled for four months from East Jerusalem. Ha’aretz reporter Mairav Zonszein linked to that of Jonathan Pollak refusing to plead for mercy in his own case. While it is a t ...
  • Israeli Army’s anonymous version of Jawaher& ...
    By Jesse Bacon One of the proudest moments on this blog for me came when we were among the people covering the Rachel Corrie’s attempt to bring desperately needed supplies to Gaza in the aftermath of the 9 killings aboard the Mavi Marmara. Covering the event live on twitter as the Israeli army jamme ...
  • 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 ...
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    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, ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • That $100 billion the Republicans want to slash fr ...
    It’s chump change. The federal budget is $3.4 trillion. Jumping up and down like an angry orangutan and demanding cuts of $100 billion is merely political theater and posturing and will accomplish nothing of substance.
  • Ikea stops selling incandescent light bulbs
    Instead, they will be selling CFL, LED, and halogen lights. Halogens put off so much heat they are banned in some retirement homes as fire risks. CFLs are, I think, a transitional product that will be replaced by LEDs.
  • Off with our heads! On the delusions of many Ameri ...
    From Bill Gross, managing director of Pimco, who manages over $1.2 trillion in assets, mostly bonds. He’s definitely not perky about the finacial and debt catastrophe he sees looming for the US. Like George Soros, another billionaire, he clearly sees the inequities and stress fractures in our societ ...
  • Electric scooter morphs into unicycle
    The Uno electric scooter is a unique beast: an electric scooter that looks like a mini-motorcycle and folds up into a Segway-like scooter balanced on two wheels. And you can switch modes while driving it. Whee!
  • California’s massive budget problems
    From an in-depth Reuters article on California’s dismal financial situation. California faces an identity crisis. If the world’s eighth largest economy has any chance of restoring its former glory, it will have to reverse course drastically and quickly, becoming less socially progressive and more fr ...

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

The Air Vent

  • Kicking Puppies
    Recently at WUWT, I made a post on a thought experiment about the greenhouse effect.  It was fun IMO, despite less than optimal wording. People got to vote on a couple of different situations which help them sort the reasons that ‘greenhouse’ is a misnomer.  Well of course in the wild blue of the ...
  • Find the Fallacies
    I don’t know if I should do this because it’s a little mean even for me.  Will has a post which has been reviewed with two Wow’s by a MENSA member that proves global warming can’t exist.  LINK HERE. He’s been beating his chest about it on the WUWT thread explaining how ‘fooled’ I and [...]
  • 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 ...

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

  • RootMusic Nets $2.3 Million in Funding to Hire Eng ...
    RootMusic, developers of the BandPage Facebook Page tab application for musicians, today announced that it has secured $2.3 million in funding from Mohr Davidow Ventures with David Feinleib. The company’s founder J Sider says the money will go towards “hiring engineers, expanding the team, because w ...
  • Zibaba To Launch Affiliate Marketing Ecommerce Sto ...
    Facebook ecommerce storefront provider and preferred developer consultant Zibaba is launching an affiliate store front program for Facebook Pages at the end of January. Affiliate marketers will be able to choose items from any existing Zibaba merchant, agree to a revenue sharing or CPA system, and s ...
  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Ubisoft, PlaySpan, Nanigans, Menue, Arkadium, and A Bit Lucky. Le ...
  • The Facebook Marketing Bible January 2011 Edition ...
    The January 2011 edition of the Facebook Marketing Bible: The Comprehensive Guide to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook is now available! The Facebook Marketing Bible has enabled thousands of marketers, social application developers, publishers, and entrepreneurs to navi ...
  • Offerpop’s Tab Apps Let Pages Run Commenting Conte ...
    New Page management service provider Offerpop today launches its suite of tab apps that allow Pages to run contests. Pages pay a flat monthly subscription rate based on their number of Likes and can then run as many campaigns as they want with the simple-to-use, white labeled photo, poll, and coupon ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Sacking Dahlan - a blow to Israel, a gain for Pale ...
    Rod Cox argues that Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's decision to suspended Mohammed Dahlan from a key body of the ruling Fatah faction pending an investigation into allegations that he was plotting a coup deprives Israel of a principal tool and removes a stumbling block ...
  • Obama administration's double standards
    Lawrence Davidson views a prime case of US double standards: the failure of the Obama administration to prosecute prominent US Republicans for lending support to an Iranian group that is on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations, while simultaneously prosecuting Americans with connec ...
  • Weapons of mass deception: time to turn to alterna ...
    Paul J. Balles looks at the hazards of relying on the mainstream media, which are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small number of conglomerates and moguls, such as Rupert Murdoch, and suggests some websites and commentators in alternative media.
  • 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 ...

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

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    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 ...
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  • 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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    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.
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    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

  • The Unsuitablog’s Worst of 2010
    Taking a cue from all the awards and “looking back on”s going on at the moment, it seems like just the right time to pick the very worst ethical hypocrites of 2010. Taking the year as a whole, there is a huge selection to choose from even when just looking at the pages of The [...]
  • 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 [...]

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

  • China Rising - China's Military Modernization is C ...
    As Secretary of Defense Robert Gates prepares to go to China and President Obama prepares to host Chinese leader Hu Jintao, it is important that they recognize that the Chinese leadership has an increasingly capable military at its disposal. Worse, the factors shaping that military remain opaque.A n ...
  • The Way We Are - Love Me, Love My Car--and Guns To ...
    The way people treat their possessions looks like love, according to a new study.�"Is it possible for consumers to be in love with their possessions?" ask authors John L. Lastovicka of Arizona State University and Nancy J. Sirianni of Texas Christian University. When it comes to cars, computers, bic ...
  • The Urban Edge - Racial Segregation Causes Higher ...
    Older people who live in racially segregated neighborhoods with high crime rates have a much higher chance of developing cancer than do older people with similar health histories and income levels who live in safer, less segregated neighborhoods.That is one of the key findings of a new study conduct ...
  • Edge on Religion - If You are Angry at God, You ar ...
    The notion of being angry with God goes back to ancient days. Such personal struggles are not new, but Case Western Reserve University psychologist Julie Exline began looking at "anger at God" in a new way."Many people experience anger toward God," Exline explains. "Even people who deeply love and r ...
  • Black's Farhud Book a Necessary Nightmare
    Lyn Julius' review of Edwin Black's new book The Farhud (see Edwin Black's 'The Farhud' Makes for Uncomfortable but Necessary Reading, Arts December 27, 2010) prompted me to purchase a copy. The reviewer was most appropriate in quoting Black introductory remarks. Black wrote and Julius quoted: "This ...

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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

  • Iranian Authorities Begin Rounding Up/Arresting Ch ...
    Like many other places in the Muslim world in Iran, the so called Religion of Peace is not a religion of tolerance. According to sources, at least 70 Christians have been arrested in the Tehran province of Iran since Christmas. The arrested Christians have been detained based on trumped up charges o ...
  • Wikileaks Cable Releases Prove That Israeli Policy ...
    By Barry Rubin A new Wikileaks document is being spun by some media to imply something critical about Israel's policy in the Gaza Strip. In fact, the secret cable shows the exact opposite. It also shows that what I've been writing on the subject was 100 percent accurate. The U.S. State ...
  • Jerrold Nadler Gets Both the Constitution and the ...
    Progressive's have been lining up against Speaker Boehner's plan to open the House session tomorrow with a reading of the United States Constitution, even though the Democrats have been invited to participate in the ceremony.� Rep. Bob Goodlatte's (R-Va.) office told the Washington Post that he woul ...
  • The NY Times Arrogant Attempt to Discard the US Co ...
    As the unofficial, official Newspaper of the progressive movement, the NY Times has a core audience to placate, but who would think that they would go out of their way to alienate the rest of their readership. But that�s exactly what they did in an editorial called �Pomp, and Little Circumstance�, w ...
  • Viral Footage !
    For the past three days I have been editing a second site called Viral Footage, along with The Lid. Unlike this site, Viral footage is comprised of 100% videos. Each morning M-F, I post seven videos. Generally two of them are political oriented, the rest are news worthy, satirical, funny ...

The Real Agenda

  • Aspartame made with GM Bacteria
    Anthony Gucciardi The manufacturers of the most prevalent sweetener in the world have a secret, and it’s not a sweet one. Aspartame, an artificial sweetener found in thousands of products worldwide, has been found to be created using genetically modified (GM) bacteria. What`s even more shocking is h ...
  • Contaminación Aviaria y Porcina con Dioxina en Esp ...
    Berlín -que compra aves y huevos de España- estudia si hay responsabilidad penal Yahoo España El Gobierno de Alemania analiza si existen responsabilidades penales en la contaminación con dioxina de piensos para animales, incidente que ha obligado a cerrar al menos un millar de granjas avícolas y por ...
  • Is 2011 the Year of the Bank Run?
    CNN Money Some market watchers say yes, pointing ominously to the torrents of money pouring out of Ireland. Irish bank deposits declined in November for the fourth straight month, the central bank said last week. Overseas deposits fled the country at their fastest pace in more than a year. The depos ...
  • World Food Prices Rise to Record on Sugar, Meat Co ...
    Bloomberg World food prices rose to a record in December on higher sugar, grain and oilseed costs, the United Nations said, exceeding levels reached in 2008 that sparked deadly riots from Haiti to Egypt. An index of 55 food commodities tracked by the Food and Agriculture Organization gained for a si ...
  • Milhares de sardinhas aparecem mortas no Parana
    Parana Online Milhares de peixes mortos vêm sendo encontrados na Baía de Paranaguá, desde a última quinta-feira (30). Naquela data, pescadores e moradores da região começaram a sentir um cheiro forte, e desde então, começaram a aparecer os peixes, principalmente sardinhas, sempre mortos. Na manhã de ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind Turbine Ice Safety Notice
    As with any tall structures, please use caution when approaching wind turbines when potential icing conditions exist. Potential icing conditions can occur at any time during the colder months. Caution should be exercised from November to April inclusive. The 110 turbine Underwood Wind Farm of EOWP i ...
  • Wind turbine opponents turn out in North Kingstown
    NORTH KINGSTOWN � Several hundred people showed up at the North Kingstown High School auditorium Tuesday night for a Planning Commission hearing on a proposal to build a controversial 427-foot wind turbine at Stamp Farm on Route 2. Richard Pastore, chairman of the commission, said it was one of the ...
  • Wind power could put birds at risk
    One of the nation’s largest bird conservation groups says rapid construction of wind energy projects will endanger several avian species. That includes the whooping crane, a famous migratory bird and annual visitor to central Nebraska. Officials with American Bird Conservancy on Wednesday cited data ...
  • Hammond wind panel adopts home guarantee
    HAMMOND – Is the Hammond Wind Committee nailing the coffin on the town’s chances of hosting an Iberdrola-owned wind farm? The committee voted 9 to 1 Tuesday evening – with committee member and leaseholder, Michele W. McQueer, casting the lone dissenting vote – to adopt the controversial Residential ...
  • Blumenthal urges tough standards for siting of win ...
    Hartford – Attorney General Richard Blumenthal called on state officials to draft strict standards for the siting of wind power projects in Connecticut, including two that have generated local controversy in Colebrook and Prospect. Blumenthal, who was conducting what was likely his last press confer ...

Not My Tribe

  • A thuggish murder of the Queens English
    Christine O’Donnell is being audited on her campaign spending, as well she should. She made a devil’s deal, sold the remaining fragments of her soul on a bet that she could become a Congress-critter. The Korporate Kampaign-fund Kartel fronted her undisclosed amounts of bread. But she didn’t follow t ...
  • Render unto Obama the peace symbol that is Obama&# ...
    I’ve always cherished the peace symbol button I wear on my coat lapel, lovingly decorated for me with rhinestones. But I see what it’s become, a broach. Time to take it off, not because it’s grandmotherly, it’s pure and simple outrée. PEACE: Yeah, who doesn’t want peace –so what? That the peace sym ...
  • 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Merry Christmas from me, and from NORAD!
    Me (2007) NORAD (1965!) http://noradsanta.wikia.com/
  • The Reading Comprehension of Debunkers...
    ...never ceases to amaze me. Youtuber "TheSkepticalIdealist" recently commented on my video "Demolition Expert Debunks the Debunkers" and tried to misrepresent the expertise of Tom Sullivan. I pointed out to him that Sullivan's position at CDI was not just a photographer, but also a Powder Carrie ...
  • More predictive programming...
    Remember the 2001 Lone Gunmen pilot episode that predicted 9/11? Remember the 2004 BBC Panorama program that predicted 7/7? Remember the 2005 TV docudrama Oil Storm that predicted Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans? Remember the 2009 Nicholas Cage movie Knowing that predicted the G ...
  • The Year in Duh-Bunking: January
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change writes: The Year in Troof: January The 1000th Clown joined Richard Gage's circus, only about 2-1/3rd years after Gage's predicted date. Not having learned his lesson, Box Boy promptly set a goal of having 2,000 members by summertime. Cindy Sheehan joined the Tr ...
  • Why do skeptics and debunkers passionately defend ...
    Just browsing through some old SLC posts, I came across this one from 2007: The Reichstag Fire Was Not An Inside Job!. I always thought the truth about the Reichstag fire was common knowledge, although I do remember scanning through a JREF post when LC:AAC was released which tried to debunk the bit ...

Fooducate

  • Special-K Multigrain Oats & Honey: Promises vs Rea ...
    Special-K has long been identified as the go to cereal for dieters. In a continuous quest to grow and expand, the brand is introducing a new flavor “Multigrain Oats & Honey”: After one taste of new Special K® Multigrain Oats & Honey cereal, you may find yourself thanking honeybees. That’s because ...
  • Fooducate iPhone App Update [v1.11]
    As always around this time of year, people are interested in losing some of the holiday weight gained, improving eating habits, and leading a healthier lifestyle. We hope you will be making this blog and our iPhone App part of your routine when trying to decode food labels and choose better grocerie ...
  • Energy Bar or Fake Food?
    Melinda, A fooducate community member, asks: I do a good that is very physically demanding, so to keep my energy up and hunger down, I eat a smores Pure Protien bar every morning on first break. Since I have been reading your blog, I have become an ingredient watcher and I’m wondering just how good/ ...
  • Re-inventing a Junk Food Company
    You’ve got to hand it to Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo. She is trying to re-invent the junk food and beverage conglomerate by building an entire portfolio of “Good For You” Products. Problem is, that she is pushing the company forward when it needs to go backward. We’ll explain… Here is an example ...
  • Happy New Year! 2011 Food and Nutrition Trends
    Hi everyone, great to see we all made it to 2011! 2010 was full of interesting developments in the food and nutrition space. The First Lady launched Let’s Move, to stop childhood obesity. The FDA and the FTC went with a new fervor after manufacturers’ misleading health claims. A renewed child nutri ...

Traffikd

  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blogs i ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
  • Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
    If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate great ...
  • Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
  • 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
  • Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
    Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits, last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open a ...

Survival International

  • Disease kills 15% of recently contacted tribe in p ...
    Marubo woman & children, Javari Valley, Brazil © Fiona Watson/Survival 15% of the recently contacted Korubo Indians in Brazil have died since the year 2000, as a result of inadequate health care. The alert has been raised by the Brazilian NGO the Center for Indigenous Work (Centro de Trabalho ...
  • WikiLeaks: US renewed Indonesia military ties afte ...
    Footage of Indonesian soldiers torturing two Papuans caused widespread outrage and revulsion. © Survival US government cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed that Indonesia threatened to derail President Obama’s visit to Jakarta this year unless America reversed its ban on military assistan ...
  • Nukak’s desperate plea to return home
    Many Nukak have been forced to flee their forest homes, and now live in refugee camps outside the forest. © Arnau Blanch/Survival A leader of the Nukak tribe from the Colombian Amazon has made a desperate appeal for his people’s survival before the country’s top human rights committee. ’We wan ...
  • Borneo tribes under threat from massive palm oil e ...
    Penan mother and child, Sarawak, Borneo. © Survival International The hunter-gatherer Penan and other tribes are under threat from new plans to expand palm oil plantations massively in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The Sarawak government has announced plans to double the area used for palm ...
  • Tribe reveals new evidence of uncontacted Indians ...
    Kayapó Indians dance at a protest against the Belo Monte dam © T Turner A tribe in the Brazilian Amazon has revealed new evidence showing that there are uncontacted Indians living in the area of the planned Belo Monte mega-dam, and has warned that these Indians are seriously threatened by the p ...

Greg Palast

  • Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
    by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Russian ...
  • The Real Wiki Hero
    by Marta Steele from OpEdNews with a Surprise P.S. from Greg Palast Is it not ironic that the same country that contributed Rupert Murdoch to the world has more recently donated Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks since 2007, when it was founded to "report on and publish important informat ...
  • WIKI-CREEP ASSANGE, THE SCAMPPvt. Bradley, the Cha ...
    by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash I'm a "hero" and it makes me want to puke.  This week I was voted a "Hero of the Media" in one of those fairly harmless polls that are little more than thermometers of face time on the idiot box. But this Nation Magazine gong is shared with Julian Assange, imp ...
  • Put a Little Palast in Your Stocking
    from Greg Palast For Chanukah, Christmas, Hajj 2010, Kwanzaa or whatever lights your candle, why not give the (tax deductible) gift of Truth? My latest disguise - fooled you? This year we have a few suggestions for Holiday gift-giving from the Palast Investigative Fund store: A Palast Gift Ca ...
  • Debt Vultures Shot for ChanukahLiberia is saved bu ...
    by Greg Palast for In These Times We got’m. I can hardly believe it. Yesterday, the financial vultures, the carcass-chewers who were preying on the dirt-poor African nation of Liberia, gave up. Two shadowy vulture funds, which had won a $43 million court judgment against Liberia, agreed to accept ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Afghan fatality rates are treading water at best
    Insurgencies will take heavier casualties than most counter-insurgent and main body forces because the insurgents tend to be much more lightly armed, lightly armored and do not have widespread access to both an extensive base infrastructure or medevac helicopters.  However, popular insurgencies that ...
  • Stasis off Somalia
    In 2008, piracy off the Somali coast became a medium size news story.  The International Maritime Bureau has the data: The 2008 figures surpass all figures for hijacked vessels and hostages taken recorded by the PRC since it began its worldwide reporting function in 1992. In 2008 there was a worldwi ...
  • Centrists don’t want to the do the right thing
    Stuart Zechman, writing about centrists such as Obama, states: It’s not that they desire or welcome obscenely high foreclosure and unemployment rates –don’t get me wrong– but it’s that they don’t agree that New Deal-style policies to help ordinary people are worth the cost in terms of shifting gover ...
  • No title
    Stuart Zechman, writing about centrists such as Obama, states: It’s not that they desire or welcome obscenely high foreclosure and unemployment rates –don’t get me wrong– but it’s that they don’t agree that New Deal-style policies to help ordinary people are worth the cost in terms of shifting gover ...
  • Surging Backwards
    The goal of the US campaign this year was to increase the number of secure districts so that ISAF and hopefully the Karzai government can distribute a wide variety of public goods in order to gain legitimacy.  That is why the US has committed its strategic ground reserve as part of a counter-insurge ...

Age of Autism

  • US Vaccine Court Rules Routine DTaP (Diptheria Tet ...
    We ran this post right before Christmas, when this award was announced by the vaccine court. Medical professionals are wondering why the Pertussis vaccine is not working - and are recommending additional boosters for Americans. There are two sides to...
  • Is the Whooping Cough “Epidemic” in California Cau ...
    By J.B. Handley It’s the #1 talking point from the other side right now: there is a terrible Pertussis (whooping cough) epidemic in California, kids are dying, and it’s the whole thing has been caused by celebrities and the “anti-vaccine”...
  • CryShame Response to BMJ Report
    From UK's CryShame: PARENTS OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN SPEAK OUT AGAINST BMJ CLAIMS THAT WAKEFIELD 'S RESEARCH WAS FRAUDULENT HERE WE GO AGAIN. Once again, the BMJ gives a platform for Brian Deer's investigation of the research behind Dr Andrew Wakefield...
  • Support Age of Autism!
    Thank you for your readership and comments throughout 2010. We have a rich slate of topics and some wonderful changes coming in 2011. Our sponsors are working harder than ever to protect and care for American children - despite the...
  • Age of Autism Awards 2010: Fox News' Alisyn Camero ...
    By Anne Dachel Fox News anchor Alisyn Camerota has been amazing over the past several months. She’s done what reporters almost never do when it comes to the heated controversy over vaccines and autism—she’s given us BOTH SIDES. I used...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Ivory Coast: UN plans more peacekeepers
    BBC – UN peacekeepers in Ivory Coast are sending a request to the Security Council for 1,000 to 2,000 more troops amid the continuing political crisis. UN peacekeeping chief in Ivory Coast Alain Le Roy said he hoped the troops would be available in a few weeks. UN peacekeepers have been protecting a ...
  • Italian Banks Upset with Level of Cash Use; Underg ...
    Bloomberg – Cash is king in Italy, a lesson Massimiliano Romano learned when he tried to pay for a cab with a credit card at Romeâs main train station. âI thought my cards would be enough,â said Romano, head of research at brokerage Concentric Italy in Milan. âBut I had to let 10 people go [...]
  • Legal highs: the dark side of medicinal chemistry
    Nature – Synthetic chemist David Nichols describes how his research on psychedelic compounds has been abused â with fatal consequences. Read article
  • Resurgent Turkey Flexes Its Muscles Around Iraq
    A Turkey as resurgent as at any time since its Ottoman glory is projecting influence through a turbulent Iraq, from the boomtowns of the north to the oil fields near southernmost Basra, in a show of power that illustrates its growing heft across an Arab world long suspicious of it. Its ascent here, ...
  • U.S. Consumer Bankruptcies Rose 9% in 2010 to 1.5 ...
    Bloomberg – U.S. consumer bankruptcy filings rose 9 percent last year compared with 2009, reaching 1.53 million, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute, which projected 2010 bankruptcies totaling 1.6 million. The pace of bankruptcy filings slowed in the last quarter, with fewer petitions in ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Three California ecosystems endangered, report fin ...
    In a classic example of winning a sweepstakes you don’t want to be in, a report released Wednesday found that California has more endangered ecosystems than any other state, claiming three of the top 10 imperiled places. The report, prepared...
  • Colorado uranium mill approved
    Colorado regulators on Wednesday approved the nation's first new uranium mill in more than 25 years, greenlighting construction of a new facility in the remote southwestern part of the state. The state Department of Public Health and Environment gave a...
  • BP, Haliburton, Transocean and industry practices ...
    “The blowout was not the product of a series of aberrational decisions made by rogue industry or government officials that could not have been anticipated or expected to occur again,” the report states. “Rather, the root causes are systemic and, absent significant reform in both industry practices a ...
  • New Mexico threatens a U-turn on environmental reg ...
    New Mexico, the only state besides California to move forward on comprehensive global warming regulations, is reversing course under a new Republican governor, Susana Martinez. The move threatens to cripple the Western Climate Initiative, a California-driven effort to enact a...
  • Dead birds falling from sky still mystify experts
    The puzzling phenomenon started on New Year’s Eve when thousands of blackbirds were found dead in central Arkansas.

water.org

  • Matt Damon to receive Joel Siegel Award (PR Newswi ...
    Matt Damon to Receive Joel Siegel Award at the 16th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards (PR Newswire) SANTA MONICA, CA – The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) announced today that renowned actor and philanthropist Matt Damon will be presented with the fourth annual Joel Siegel Award at the 1 ...
  • Charity of the week: Water.org (dandyannie)
    Charity of the week: Water.org (dandyannie) – Water.org is a charity co-founded by Matt Damon, who has done a phenomenal job bringing much needed attention to this extremely important issue. The website is chock-full of information regarding water initiatives around the world and things that we can ...
  • Teen plans to swim for safe water (NBC 25)
    Local teen plans to swim for safe water (NBC 25 – December 25, 2010) – Every time you turn on the faucet Erick Skaff wants you to remember how lucky you are. Heâs speaking out and taking action in an effort to help the situation. Heâs created an organization called Swim4Water. Through this organizat ...
  • Matt Damon in DoSomething.org top 10 for charity ( ...
    DoSomething.org announces its 2010 ‘Celebs Gone Good’ roundup (MTV) – DoSomething.org listed their top 20 most charitable celebrities of 2010. Matt Damon placed #7 for his Water.org organization. Read full MTV article.
  • Teen to swim 10 miles for Water.org (ABC – W ...
    Teen to swim 10 miles to raise money for clean water (ABC – WJRT) FLINT TOWNSHIP – Erick Skaff has loved the water since he was very young and is now a long distance swimmer for the Carman-Ainsworth swim team. When he learned last summer that finding clean water is a global problem, he decided [...]

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Rejectionist front: Maariv details Netanyahus r ...
    This completely contradicts the Israeli position, according to which everything is open for negotiation, and Netanyahu is willing to talk about all the core issues and go into a room with Abu Mazen in order to come out of it with an arrangement. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! � ...
  • Mr. Prime Minister, douse the flames of racism
    On the other hand, a law may be passed that allows membership committees to disqualify candidates from living in small locales on the basis of "the candidate's lack of suitability for the social-cultural fabric of the community." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
  • America's self-loving Jews aren't helping Israel
    The dominant view among the centrist group of the Jewish community - that "we support every Israeli government, right or wrong" - reminds one of a situation in which a parent finds out that his child is addicted to drugs and hands him his credit card. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note- ...
  • Record Levels of Violence in Afghanistan Do Not Eq ...
    While President Obama plans to tell the country today that we are on the right track in Afghanistan, the truth is that there is more violence and death here than at any point since the US invasion. Submitted by Judy C. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Say it ain't so: Zakaria, Huffington and Tom Fried ...
    "It is a matter of grave concern that Israeli authorities are continuing to treat the Islamic religious sites and cultural heritage in the Holy City of Jerusalem in a manner that amounts to further desecration." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • Italy's Solar Installations Could Double in 2011
    According to market research firm iSuppli, Italy has set itself up to be a European solar hotbed in 2011. read more
  • Scientists Mimic Plants to Create Liquid Solar Fue ...
    A team of U.S. and Swiss scientists have successfully created technology that can turn solar energy to a usable liquid form of fuel. Researchers say that the method used is similar to the way that plants photosynthesize the sun’s energy ...
  • U.S. Now a Net Exporter of Solar
    The newest report from GTM Research shows that the United States is now a net exporter of solar power, via solar panels, solar cells, and such peripheral supplies as inverters, solar trackers, charge controllers and racking systems. re ...
  • E•BOOM CAPITAL: Private Companies Pursue Renewable ...
    SolarReserve’s (United Technologies) solar power and molten salt storage system It is pretty clear that the economic viability of wind and solar energy and the extent to w ...
  • U.S. Researchers Develop 20-percent Efficient Poly ...
    Iowa State University (ISU) researchers, working in the Ames Laboratory (a U.S. Department of Energy-operated facility run by ISU), have reportedly developed a process whereby polymer solar cells become more efficient by the addition of ...

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Gaza Youth's Manifesto for Change
    Surprised it had not been raised so far here on Libcom . Some pro-palistinain solidarity people consider it a divisive conspiracy but , hey , Hamas was sponsored by Mossad in its early days. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/02/fr ...
  • Croatia: Actions of solidarity with UK and Italian ...
    IMG_0099.jpg Short info about students struggle & solidarity. Last week, students in Croatia organized actions to express solidarity with their colleagues in UK and Italy who are p ...
  • Australia: Wharfies strike over conditions at Patr ...
    freo.jpg Maritime Union of Australia members in Patrick Stevedoring facilities at Fremantle, Albany, Melbourne's Webb Dock, and Geelong have voted overwhelmingly to take protected action after a secret b ...
  • Interview with an anarchist Royal Holloway student ...
    Increase-in-tuition-fees-008[1].jpg Recently, the UK has seen the rise of a mass student movement in opposition to huge increases in course fees across British universities, combined with cuts to researc ...
  • Rabat: Unemployed Teachers' Demo Attacked by Polic ...
    Unemployed teachers beaten at protest, Today a group of several hundred unemployed people, mostly teachers, from the ANDCM (National Association of Unemployed Graduates in Morocco) held a protest in front of the Moroccan parliament in R ...

Free Range International

  • You Can’t Handle the Truth
    The efforts of the international community to bring aid to Afghanistan, help develop the infrastructure with the goal of allowing Afghanistan a chance at self sufficiency are failing dismally.  That should not be a surprise to anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the international aid racket ...
  • Afghanistan’s Forgotten Province
    There are a couple of recent articles in the flood of coverage about Afghanistan which caught my eye last week.  The first is factually wrong but I understand what the author was saying and he is, in a sense correct.  The second is factually correct, I understand what that reporter was saying too an ...
  • Rules of Engagement
    I have written in the past about night raids and aggressive ISAF convoy tactics causing unnecessary civilian casualties.  I have also written on the importance of not allowing enemy fighters who attack ISAF units to live and fight another day.  Counterinsurgency requires adaptation and my annoyance ...
  • Healing Ulcer
    After only 90 days of fighting to root the Taliban out of a place they have owned for over a decade  Gen McChrystal called Marjah a bleeding ulcer. That was an unbelievably stupid assessment given the nature of the enemy, the rules of engagement placed on the Marines by the General, and the paltry a ...
  • Afghanistan Summary
    This summary comes from Sami the Finn a.k.a Sami Kovanen, the Senior Information Analyst at Indicium Consulting. Sami has been in Afghanistan for over six years now and is one of the best informed analyst working outside of the ISAF security bubble.  He was kind enough to let me post this update and ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • NATIONAL INFLATION ASSOCIATION PREDICTIONS
    The National Inflation Association is pleased to announce its top 10 predictions for 2011. 1) The Dow/Gold and Gold/Silver ratios will continue to decline. In NIA’s top 10 predictions for 2010, we predicted major declines in the Dow/Gold and Gold/Silver ratios. The Dow/Gold ratio was 9.3 at the time ...
  • Understanding the Nine Veils
    Understanding the Nine Veils By A. True Ott, PhD Nearly a decade ago, a dear friend and colleague of mine named Don Harkins authored a wonderfully thought-provoking piece entitled “Slavery and the eight veils.   Prior to Harkins’ untimely death, we discussed this “Eight-veils theory” for literally h ...
  • Is there hidden messaging in The Simpson’s c ...
    Today, a friend named Alex sent me this post: Watch this video to understand how hollywood has given us early indications of foreknowledge of falseflag events including 9/11 and Katrina.  Consider the series “V” coming up on Jan 4 such predictive programming, and liken the “red rain” to chemtrails.  ...
  • The Bursting Debt Bubble – Power Point
    To see Dr. Ott’s newest power point – and to follow along with his radio broadcast, click here:   The Bursting Debt Bubble This is clearly THE BIGGEST STORY in American History. Spread the word — and Merry Christmas – (no thanks to the treasonous traitors at Goldman Sachs.)  
  • UTAH SOUND MONEY ACT (Brilliant!!!)
    Today I was introduced to Mr. Larry Hilton, JD, MBA – the author of a brilliant piece of much needed legislation that hopefully will pass the Utah legislature, and then each and every other state in this union. Here is his introduction to me for the “Utah Sound Money Act” —- Click here:  Sound Mone ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

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

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • Lyndsay Greene, Author -- encore (Oct 19, 2010)
    Peter talks about planning and preparation for the retirement years with the author of "You Could Live a Long Time: Are You Ready?"
  • Governor General David Johnston (Oct 9, 2010)
    Peter talks about the role of the GG -- plus technology and hockey -- in Johnston's first interview as the Queen's representative in Canada
  • Margaret Bloodworth, Retired Senior Bureaucrat and ...
    She was at the front lines of Canada's response to 9-11, just part of a distinguished three decade long public service career. Margaret Bloodworth has now retired, but her thoughts on the country's safety, and the role of a senior public servant make her this week's guest.
  • Ed Clark, TD Bank President and CEO (Dec 11, 2010)
    It's now one of the biggest, most powerful banks anywhere -- and it's Canadian. Leading it, a former Ottawa bureaucrat, who walks into the boardrooms of Bay Street and Wall Street with a confidence reserved for the world's most influential business leaders. Ed Clark is our guest this week - and you ...
  • Elvis Costello, singer/songwriter (Nov 27, 2010)
    His music captures the times we live in and its been doing so for forty years. He's never been shy about issues, and Elvis Costello isn't today. He's here to talk music, politics and activism.

Scotts Contracting

  • Solar Electric System 2011 Special
    For the First Quarter of 2011-St Louis Renewable Energy, Green Builder Scotts Contracting will be offering a reduced labor charge for the Installation of Solar Electric Systems on NFP (Not-For-Profit) Organizations. For Additional Information or to see if you business … Continue reading →
  • Solar Electric System 2011 Special
    For the First Quarter of 2011-St Louis Renewable Energy, Green Builder Scotts Contracting will be offering a reduced labor charge for the Installation of Solar Electric Systems on NFP (Not-For-Profit) Organizations. Click Here For Additional Information or to see if … Continue reading →
  • Home Repair Service- Storm Damage-Roofing
    Home Repair Service- Storm Damage-Roofing Scotts Contracting Storm Repair Services: 1. Green Roofing- Shingles, Metal, Flat Roofing, 2. Storm Damage Clean-Up 3. Green and Eco Demolition 4. Home Repair 5. Water Proofing email: scottscontracting@gmail.com
  • EPA Region 7 Actions in 2010 Result $3 Billion in ...
    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7 901 N. Fifth St., Kansas City, KS 66101 Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Nine Tribal Nations EPA Region 7 Compliance and Enforcement Actions in 2010 Result in Record $3 Billion in Pollution Control and … Continue reading →
  • First Triple State Thermal Solar Cooling/Heating P ...
    GEMCO Announces First Triple State Thermal Solar Cooling/Heating Project in Canada The system is designed to address the cooling, heating and domestic hot water needs of the hospital using energy from the sun. TORONTO, CANADA Marketwire – [WorldofRenewables.com] Glenbarra Energy … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • Son of Iran shah commits suicide in US: family
    BOSTON, Massachusetts — The youngest son of the late shah of Iran has committed suicide in Boston, weighed down by sorrow at the loss of his father and the upheaval in his homeland, his family said Tuesday. "It is with immense grief that we would like to inform our compatriots of the passing away o ...
  • Son Of Iran's Former Shah Commits Suicide
    Former Iranian Prince Ali Reza Pahlavi, the youngest son of the late Shah committed suicide on Tuesday morning at his home in Boston, according to a family statement. Mr.Pahlavi, 44, who lived between Paris and Boston, fought a long battle with depression according to the statement by his brother Re ...
  • تقدیر ازاستاد ادیب برومند
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  • ..the passing away of Prince Alireza Pahlavi
    It is with immense grief that we would like to inform our compatriots of the passing away of Prince Alireza Pahlavi. Like millions of young Iranians, he too was deeply disturbed by all the ills fallen upon his beloved homeland, as well as carrying the burden of losing a father and a sister in his yo ...
  • Young Lions of the Green Movement
    Since June 2009, when Iran's rigged presidential election was held, the international community has learned much about the Green Movement and the courageous Iranians who have supported its struggle against the hardliners. Neda Agha Soltan, one of the first martyrs of the Green Movement, has become a ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • Are Americans Disgruntled, Hostile, and Suspicious ...
    It seems it should be easy to blog about Vaknin’s 2nd criterion (see full criteria below) for a semi-failed state:  a disgruntled, hostile and suspicious citizenry. I don’t know anyone who thinks Obama has done a good job of running the country. Both right wing Republicans and left leaning progress ...
  • Is the US a Zombie State?
    As I blogged previously, I am intrigued by analyst Sam Vaknin’s concept of a “zombie state” – one which has ceased to perform effective domestic governing functions. Vaknin, writing pre-2010, is mainly concerned about the total inability of US regulatory agencies to regulate. Paul Roberts, Reagan’s ...
  • US Failed Statehood – Part II
    Obviously the 2008 economic collapse – and the virtual paralysis of either the Bush or Obama administration in effectively addressing it – strongly supports the premise (that the US is on the brink of failed statehood) Chomsky lays out in his 2006 Failed States: the Abuse of Power and the Assault on ...
  • The US as a Semi-Failed State
    Noam Chomsky was one of the first to raise the possibility the US was becoming a failed state. He published Failed States: the Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy. Chomsky’s book in early 2006, before it became anyone realized the federal government was incapable of rehabilitating post-Katri ...
  • Forgotten 1968 Uprisings
    From 1968: the Year That Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky Kurlansky discusses a total of sixteen popular uprisings – in addition to those in the US, France, and Czechoslovakia – that occurred in 1968. I  list four more that have clearly altered the course of world events. As I recall, the way the ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The Year and the Decade in Review, Short Version: ...
    Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. And what a year and a decade it’s been. We’ve come a long ways since the odometer rolled over in 2000, and are a decade into a century I could barely imagine when I was a young [...]
  • The 1914 Christmas Truce Revisited
    The people in the above photograph are all dead. Most of them have been dead for decades, some of them more than likely were dead within a few years or less of the date when this photograph was taken. They are German and British troops on Christmas day, 1914. In the two years since I [...]
  • Another Symptom of the Colonial Mind Set: Internat ...
    Last week the “International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act” failed in the House of Representatives, despite passing unanimously in the Senate. This was a “bipartisan” bill ostensibly designed to “require the federal government to develop a plan to combat child marriage with the g ...
  • GIANT GAMMA RAY EMITTING BUBBLES DISCOVERED NEAR M ...
    Yes, it’s true, scientists have discovered two huge gamma ray emitting bubbles emerging from the Milky Way. The above image is what they look like … if the viewer is considerably outside the galaxy and can see gamma rays. People can’t see gamma rays, so the above image is “false colour” so to speak. ...
  • George Armstrong Custer meets Buffalo Calf Road Wo ...
    Ah, the Battle of the Greasy Grass. Or the Battle on the Greasy Grass. Or the Battle of Greasy Grass Creek. Or as us white people call it, the Battle of  the Little Bighorn or Custer’s Last Stand. It’s in the news lately, because a military flag that was carried into the battle by Custer’s [...]

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

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

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • Supply Side Ramifications of the Gulf Spill
    Join the forum discussion on this post Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, I wrote the following: BPâs Oil Rig Disaster May Bring an End to Support for New Offshore Exploration “I believe the long term implications of this incident will be to exacerbate our slide d ...
  • My Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2010
    Join the forum discussion on this post Here are my choices for the Top 10 energy related stories of 2010. I can’t remember having such a difficult time squeezing this list down to 10 stories, because there were many important energy stories for 2010. It was hard to cut some of them from the Top [.. ...
  • Who’s Been Naughty? Ethanol Interests
    Join the forum discussion on this post The previous essay spoke of the selfishness of many of today’s political leaders in spending tax dollars for votes, while compromising the economic opportunities for the next generation. In this essay, I want to focus on the selfishness of a particular group: ...
  • Borrowing For the Present at Our Children’s Expens ...
    Join the forum discussion on this post Dreams of a Child This past week my youngest son told me that he wanted to be president when he grows up. I still remember when I felt that way. As a child, I thought “I would make a good president.” I thought I had the qualities that you [...]
  • Guest Post: Roof Shingles Meet Solar Panels
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest post was written by Daniel Fielding, a freelance writer who focuses on gadgets and the environment. He is the lead editor for Shades of Green, a Green Technology Blog. Roof Shingles Meet Solar Panels By Daniel Fielding “We have the te ...

Discovery Educator Network

  • iPad for Learning for All the Wrong Reasons - Ewan ...
    Comments:Nice and insightful blog post about why iPads can be beneficial beyond just replacing textbooks. - Dean MantzTags: learning, ipad, EwanMcIntoshby: Dean Mantz
  • Solving the Flip Video Codec Problem | edte.ch
    Comments:Here is a resolution to those video conversion issues we all have faced when using a Flip camera with attempts to import for editing. - Dean MantzTags: flip, flipvideo, codec, howtoby: Dean Mantz
  • Dragontape - Online Video Mixtapes
    Comments:Import movies from YouTube and create a remix of them combined into 1 single movie. - Dean MantzTags: youtube, remix, tools, web2.0, web, media, dragontapeby: Dean Mantz
  • Top 25 Sites of 2010
    Tags: web2.0, 2010, technology, education, websites, Top25by: Dean Mantz
  • 6 Virtual Tours Of The Human Body For Free Interac ...
    Comments:Here are 6 virtual tours of the Human Body. I have written a blog post review of the 1st option- Google Lab's Body Browser. - Dean MantzTags: science, anatomy, interactive, virtual, Biology, tours, edtech, reference, healthby: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

  • 6 Chef-Created Recipes Your Family Can Make at Hom ...
    RODALE NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC—It’s certainly a step in the right direction that the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act was finally passed and signed into law last month. It means more nutritious food at schools, no soft drinks and candy in vending machines, and even a tiny bit of money to make school lunc ...
  • Doctor's Orders: Avoid a Surgeon Who's Sleep Depri ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—If you have to schedule an elective surgery, chances are you'd rather not go under the knife of a surgeon so sleep-deprived his or her work is on par with a surgeon operating drunk. But according to a new editorial published by medical doctors in the The New England Journal ...
  • Save the Owls—Eat Organic
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—With winter fully upon us, you may have a few unwanted guests trying to sneak inside where it's warm. This time of year is prime "migration" season for mice and rats who don't like the cold weather any more than you do. But before you try to get rid of them with one of those ...
  • Organic Sales Are Up; Big Food Makers Seem Nervous
    Tweet RODALE NEWS, WASHINGTON, DC—Despite the recession, American sales of organic food continue to increase, with sales up 5.1 percent in 2009 and up at least 8 percent in 2010. As Americans have become increasingly aware of the problems with industrial agriculture production—chemical pesticides, ...
  • How to Give Prostate Cancer the Finger
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—British researchers have found a correlation between finger length and prostate cancer risk, as reported in a recent issue of Cancer Research U.K. Don't reach for the measuring tape yet, though. Finger length may be fixed, but the findings don't change the need to attend to ...

big think

  • Rumors from Pakistan
    Oh, those Pakistanis.� First, they claim that a drone strike killed Fahd al-Qusa and then months later al-Qusa appears safe and sound on the front page of al-Sharq al-Awsat, where he kindly posed for a picture with the paper's Yemeni correspondent.� Never mind that he is on the US most-wanted list . ...
  • January 6 Papers: Jihadi tensions
    One of the regular features of the old Waq al-waq was the day in papers, and as I slowly adjust to the new site I'm bringing it back. We start today in the south, where News Yemen is reporting that in Ja'ar two jihadi factions came to blows, leading to the death of one fighter. (Ar)� The details . ...
  • Is America—And the Rest of the World—Ready For a G ...
    From the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times to CNN's The Situation Room, President Jimmy Carter's recent claim on Big Think that America is in fact ready to elect a gay Commander-in-Chief sometime "in the near future" created quite the media stir. However, as political commentator Andrew Sullivan ... ...
  • A New Year in Congress
    It’s a new year in Congress. With the start of the 112th Congress the Republicans have assumed control of the House. Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) became the new Speaker of the House today, taking over the job from Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) who will stay on as Minority Leader. The Democrats retain control ...
  • News Attention and Public Concern with Climate Cha ...
    Over at the NY Times' Dot Earth blog, Andrew Revkin discusses the analysis of climate change coverage trends that I posted about earlier this week.� In Revkin's post, Drexel University sociologist Robert Bruille is quoted raising an important observation about the the downturn in news attention to . ...

Information Liberation

  • Why Net Neutrality Regulation is the Path to Endin ...
    Let*s bring some perspective here. People have become hysterical. They are DEMANDING Net Neutrality. Now. Right NOW. But, wait a second* they already have it. Right now, we all enjoy a neutral net. It*s here. It exists. It*s alive. And it*s fucking f...
  • Why WikiLeaks Leaks Matter
    Why should anyone care about the secret diplomatic cables WikiLeaks has disclosed? So what if State Department bureaucrats say unflattering things about other world *leaders*? Some people may be asking those questions in response to WikiLeaks*s lates...
  • ICE Docs: Linking to Copyrighted Material Enough f ...
    Complaint for Forfeiture filed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement reveals that many are merely sites that link to copyrighted material hosted elsewhere, yet should be seized because they *facilitate the commission* of copyright infringement.Immig...
  • Previously Chatty Homeland Security Clams Up After ...
    As you're probably aware, we've been covering the many serious legal questions raised by Homeland Security's decision to use its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) group to seize a bunch of domain names. As we've reported, the basis for the d...
  • Chinese Crackdown On Porn Websites Sounds Like US ...
    There have been some recent reports on how China has apparently begun a massive crackdown on porn websites, shutting down tens of thousands of websites. And, while the scale is obviously significantly larger, what struck me about the reports on this...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

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

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Tightening Security in the “Post-WikiLeaks&# ...
    The Obama Administration is moving to increase the security of classified information in response to the massive leaks of classified documents to Wikileaks in recent months.  The White House Office of Management and Budget yesterday issued a detailed memorandum (pdf) elaborating on the requirement t ...
  • Security Practices at DoD Facilities Reviewed
    There are security weaknesses at many of the research facilities operated by the Department of Defense, according to a DoD Inspector General survey issued last year. “All [military] Services identified compliance issues related to information assurance,” the IG report (pdf) found, based on a review ...
  • Air Force SAP Policy Limits Congressional Contacts
    The Air Force issued updated guidance (pdf) last week concerning its highly classified special access programs, including new language prohibiting unauthorized communications with Congress. Special access programs (SAPs) involve access and safeguarding restrictions that are more extensive than those ...
  • Secrecy and Classification — Two Diverging D ...
    One aspect of the current crisis in classification policy is the growing discrepancy between what is secret and what is classified.  All too often, official classification controls are imposed (or retained) on information that is public, thereby generating confusion and loss of confidence in the int ...
  • Leaks to AIPAC Said to be “Common”
    The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobby organization, has often received and distributed confidential government information, including classified materials, asserted former AIPAC official Steven J. Rosen in his pending lawsuit against the organization. “There is e ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • Invisible hairs cause baldness
    A topic close to my scalp: male-pattern baldness. Regular readers will be aware of my long, wavy locks from teenage years. But, as I got older, it all waved goodbye (my Dad’s joke! He’s even less than cranially hirsute too). Now, scientists in Pennsylvania reckon they have shown that faulty stem cel ...
  • Science books for the New Year
    These are my recent science book finds for the New Year The science of kissing – When did humans begin to kiss? Why is kissing integral to some cultures and alien to others? Do good kissers make the best lovers? And is that expensive lip-plumping gloss worth it? Sheril Kirshenbaum, a biologist and s ...
  • A lethal Christmas star
    There was an ugly rumour that the giant red star, Betelgeuse, that is the right shoulder (on the left as you look at it) of the constellation Orion is “about to” go supernova. The rumours seemed to have started earlier in the year when observations suggested that Betelgeuse had changed shape, a sure ...
  • Sciencebase person of the year 2010
    Anyone can pick someone famous, a Zuckerberg, a Jobs, a Gaga, and call them their person of the year. But, how about a personal person of the year? Here’s my pick of the people who have had the biggest impact on me this year, whether through their retweet efforts on Twitter, their comments on my [.. ...
  • Periodic table of videos at the movies
    Regular Sciencebase followers will by now know only too well the Periodic Table of Videos from Nottingham University and my good friend Martyn Poliakoff. The creators of the video series recently ran a competition for viewers to create a movie-style poster to promote the videos and had an astounding ...

RFF Library

  • Tracking the Sun III: The Installed Cost of Photov ...
    Lawrence Berkeley National Lab / Galen Barbose, Naïm Darghouth, and Ryan Wiser http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/emp/reports/lbnl-4121e.pdf [From Introduction] The market for PV in the United States is driven by national, state, and local government incentives, including up-front cash rebates, production-based ...
  • Nitrous Oxide Emission from Denitrification in Str ...
    PNAS / Jake J. Beaulieu et al http://www.pnas.org/content/108/1/214.full.pdf+html [Abstract] Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and stratospheric ozone destruction. Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) loading to river networks is a potentially important source o ...
  • Socioeconomic Legacy Yields an Invasion Debt
    PNAS / Franz Essl et al http://www.pnas.org/content/108/1/203.full.pdf+html [Abstract] Globalization and economic growth are widely recognized as important drivers of biological invasions. Consequently, there is an increasing need for governments to address the role of international trade in their s ...
  • An Evaluation of Public Aids Towards Renewable Ene ...
    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Working Paper 10-37 / Jose Luis Ferreira and Alvaro Escribano http://e-archivo.uc3m.es/bitstream/10016/9796/1/we1037.pdf [Abstract] Public aids towards renewable energy sources in Spain have had the consequence of a great increase in their use. This is particularly t ...
  • Massachusetts Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 20 ...
    Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs / State of Massachusetts http://www.mass.gov/Eoeea/docs/eea/energy/2020-clean-energy-plan.pdf [From Press Release] Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles today set the statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit for 2020 requ ...

Scientific American - News

  • More Than Meets the Mirror: Illusion Test Links Di ...
    With all of the New Year's diet ads claiming you can lose dozens of pounds in seemingly as many days, you probably are not alone if you looked in the mirror this morning and saw a less than ideal body. Or maybe you just picked up a new magazine in which already thin models have their remaining f ...
  • Walking Speed Predicts Life Expectancy of Older Ad ...
    When an older friend or relative slows down people take notice--and often start to worry. Although walking pace is a seemingly basic measure to make, it has been gaining traction in the gerontology world as a reliable marker for overall health and longevity for those 65 and older. [More] ...
  • Advancing Alaskan Glacier Holds Clues to Global Se ...
    ICY BAY, Alaska--The icebergs looked impenetrable. Roman Motyka needed a route through."If you see an opening anywhere, let me know," said the University of Alaska Fairbanks glaciologist, at the wheel of a small skiff puttering through the ice-choked bay off the Gulf of Alaska. [More] ...
  • Abandoned Uranium Mines: An 'Overwhelming Problem' ...
    There's an old uranium mine on rancher Larry Gordy's grazing land near Cameron, Ariz. Like hundreds of other abandoned mines in the Navajo Nation , the United States' largest Indian reservation, it looks as if it might still be in use--tailings, or waste products of uranium processing, are still pi ...
  • Reliance on Indirect Evidence Fuels Dark Matter Do ...
    Most of the matter in the universe remains missing in action--at least, that's long been the standard cosmological paradigm. [More]

RAWA News

  • Southern Afghanistan’s largest hospital stru ...
    The Canadian Press: Tiny patients go two to a bed and overworked doctors are on the verge of burnout in the children’s ward of southern Afghanistan’s largest hospital. A steady flow of sick kids is pushing Kandahar city’s already overstretched Mirwais hospital beyond the brink. But pleas for badly n ...
  • CNN Poll: Opposition to Afghanistan war remains hi ...
    CNNN: More than six in ten Americans oppose the U.S. war in Afghanistan, according to a new national poll. "The war has not always been unpopular - back in March, when a majority thought that the war was going well, the country was evenly divided. But by September, the number who said that things we ...
  • Wikileaks: US officials pressured Karzai to remove ...
    Associated Press: Afghan President Hamid Karzai refused to remove a former warlord from atop the energy and water ministry despite U.S. pressure to oust the minister because Washington considered him corrupt and ineffective. Secret diplomatic records showed the minister — privately termed “the worst ...
  • NATO air strike kills 4 Afghan soldiers: ministry
    AFP: Four Afghan soldiers were killed in an overnight NATO airstrike in a Taliban flashpoint of southern Afghanistan, the country’s defence ministry said Thursday. “Initial reports we have indicate that an air strike last night killed four Afghan National Army soldiers who were on a patrol mission i ...
  • US medicines for Afghan soldiers disappear
    Associated Press: U.S.-donated medicines and pharmaceutical supplies meant to keep the new Afghan army and police healthy have been disappearing before reaching Afghan military hospitals and clinics, and the government said it is removing the army’s top medical officer from his post as part of an in ...

frogblog

  • Racist TVNZ scheduling makes a very angry frog
    I’m meant to be on holiday. But something happened today which made me really angry, so I thought I would post about it. A highlight of my summer holiday is watching the tennis at the ASB stadium in Auckland. I don’t personally attend the stadium (the majority of the punters the ...
  • General debate, December 31, 2010
    Another on bites the dust, people. Have a great, safe New Year’s Eve and see you in election year!
  • Must be the season…
    Merry Christmas, everyone! Have a good one!  Whatever you believe in.
  • Before the holiday season ends send a submission o ...
    It’s almost Christmas time and I’m sure most of you are ready for a holiday. But before you go, if you live in Auckland, Rodney, Whangarei, or anywhere else and want smart transport decisions please take a few minutes to make a submission on the New Zealand Transport Agency’s lates ...
  • ACC privatisation: Let the fightback begin
    I’ve run the “ACC: undermine, cut privatise” banner on a few posts on ACC over the last couple of years, and now we’re seeing the third leg of the trifecta emerging with the announcement yesterday that ACC’s work account is to be partially privatised. This may be good news for some ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • Western Civilization and Classical Economics: The ...
    When a civilization abandons its morality, no rationalization can be devised to justify its continued existence. It is likely that many reasons can be given for this abandonment in the Western world, although I am convinced that one predominatesthe expansion of law. Law once governed various kin ...
  • The Mythical United States of America: Rushing int ...
    The mythical United States of America so highly lauded exists nowhere. It is a Shangri-la. The Preamble of the Constitution makes perfectly clear what kind of nation the United States was meant to be. What exists today fulfills none of those goals. Some have argued that the nation was a fraud fr ...
  • As Western Civilization Lies Dying
    The Western commercial system exists to extract more from consumers than it supplies in products and services. Its goal is profit and has never been the improvement of the human condition but to exploit it. When governments institutionalize this system, they place their nations on suicidal paths, be ...
  • Is Perfect Research Possible
    Some claim that there is no hope of doing perfect research. So, is there hope of doing perfect research? Of course there issometimes! It all depends on the whetherwhether the subject is limited and whether the researcher can write and is intelligent enough to adequately evaluate the evidence. Un ...
  • The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Last Gasp of ...
    No civilization in history that collapsed after a period of greatness has ever regained its dominance. Egypt lasted for three millennia; today it is little more than a field for archeological study. The Persian Empire, which lasted for more than three hundred years, became the largest and most p ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • The Great MMR Vaccine Fraud
    The belief that vaccines cause autism got its start in 1998 with a paper in the Lancet authored by Andrew Wakefield. We've known for a long time that it was a piece of crap: it used a nonrandom sample of 12 children, it depended largely on observations by parents, it was marred by egregious conflict ...
  • Quotes of the Day: Pitchforks and Plutocrats
    From Matt Steinglass, commenting on Chrystia Freeland's "global elites": Back in mid-2009, Barack Obama told the assembled plutocrats of Wall Street that they ought to be more grateful to him; he was "the only thing standing between you and the pitchforks." The plutocrats smiled, and departed by he ...
  • Does Crime Pay?
    Mike Konczal writes today about our skyrocketing prison population. He attributes this partly to a 70s-era school of thought known as Incapacitation Theory, which basically says the only way to protect ourselves from bad people is to lock them up so they can't do bad things. It sounds pretty obvious ...
  • Depending on the Rich
    In Chrystia Freeland's Atlantic piece about the new "global elite," she defined them like this: "Its members are hardworking, highly educated, jet-setting meritocrats who feel they are the deserving winners of a tough, worldwide economic competition—and many of them, as a result, have an ambivalent ...
  • Filibuster Mini-Reforms Unveiled
    Greg Sargent has posted a summary of the filibuster reforms that Democrats plan to introduce later today, and it's a fairly modest effort. Here are the bullet points: Eliminates Secret Holds Right to Amend: Guarantees Consideration of Amendments for both Majority and Minority Clear ...

Insanity Report

  • How NOT to Get Your Boyfriend to Propose to You
    A woman from Chicago’s Northwest Side wanted to start the New Year with a marriage proposal, with help from police. As WBBM’s Julie Mann reports, the woman is now facing criminal charges. Ana Perez, 40, called 911 around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, claiming her boyfriend was attacking her. When police arri ...
  • Steve King Asks Kids about Abortion
    I often go into a high school auditorium or meet with people at even the K-through-12 level in their entirety, and I will tell them: “You will be asked to answer one of the most profound moral questions of our age and that is where do you stand on the abortion issue. And you need [...]
  • I Am Not a Lawyer…
    I’m not a lawyer.   I’m not a Constitutional Scholar.  I just want to put that out there right now.  Now that said, I just read what Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said about the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution does NOT protect against discrimination on th ...
  • Michael Steele Makes Pitch for Re-Election
    It’s time for Michael Steele’s reelection bid as chairman of the RNC.  So you know what time it is: Minority Outreach Time “We stopped talking to people,” said Steele of his party’s downfall in earlier election cycles. “We stopped trying to connect directly with people. We stopped expanding and rea ...
  • IC 219: The Prostitutes on Payroll Plan
    Topics for the show: New Years Resolutions and why they don’t work The President calls the Eagles owner and mentions Mike Vick Chris Brown vs Raz B and we all lose When your first insult after being “disrespected” is “You’re gay”…that’s a problem Chris Christie goes to Disney World Ending DADT means ...

Simple Climate

  • Dust research polishes climate models
    The smallest, cooling, particles are a lower proportion of all atmospheric dust than climate models assume, says the US National Center for Atmospheric Research's Jasper Kok, likely meaning there are more particles than previously thought overall and helping improve accuracy of climate predictions i ...
  • Climate change can be understood and tackled
    In the ultimate simple climate change explanation, leading climate analyst Kevin Trenberth notes carbon dioxide has gone up over 35% since pre-industrial times, with over half of that since 1970 - but other researchers I've spoken to this year give cause for hope that this can be slowed.
  • Effluent entering streams also soils the atmospher ...
    People are causing chemicals containing nitrogen to enter rivers and streams where, besides having other effects, they're turned into the especially potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide.
  • A picture of climate change is worth 1,000 words
    Global warming illustrated: one simple diagram of the basic science that I made, along with a host of images from scientific institutions allow me to shut up for once, and let the pictures talk for themselves.
  • Choose the ultimate Simple Climate explanation
    Vote for previous poll-winners in the final poll to choose the best explanation of climate change given to me by scientists I've interviewed for my blog this year.

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Brave New Climate

  • BNC as a resource – call for help
    The Brave New Climate blog started out in Aug 2008 as a modest affair. But over the course of 333 posts (and counting), it has grown into quite a resource, covering a wide variety of topics on sustainable energy and climate change. It is about to launch into its 4th year on the circuit! The blog [.. ...
  • No (statistical) warming since 1995? Wrong
    Yes, I’m still on vacation. But I couldn’t resist a quick response to this comment (and the subsequent debate): BBC: Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming Phil Jones: Yes, but only just. Here is the global temperature data from 1995 to ...
  • Open Thread 8 – BNC Christmas and New Year 2 ...
    So, the year that was — 2010 — comes to a close, with 115 more BraveNewClimate blog posts in the archives, 13,500 more comments and 430,000 extra hits. Thanks to all the many BNC guest posters (Gene Preston, Geoff Russell, Peter Lang, John Morgan, DV82XL, Marion Brook, Tony Kevin, John Rolls, Paul ...
  • Energy and climate books I read in 2010
    Here is a selection of sustainable energy and climate change books I read in 2010. I’ve provided a few sentence summary of each book (from my perspective) and a Rating out of 5. Some books have been reviewed in more detail on BNC already — enter from the title of the book in this website’s search bo ...
  • OzEA – The second story
    The Oz-Energy-Analysis.org project continues to hum away in the background, building momentum. For those who don’t recall what OzEA is, read these two posts from earlier in the year on BNC: OZ-ENERGY-ANALYSIS.ORG â open science for the new millennium OzEA modelling â large-scale wind power using a b ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Viola Wilkins: Thousands Pay Tribute to Judy Bonds ...
    Thousands Pay Tribute to Judy Bonds: She Has Been to the Mountaintop, and Now We Must Fight Harder to Save It | CommonDreams.org by Jeff BiggersShe was a tireless, funny, and inspiring orator, and a savvy and brilliant community organizer. She was fearless in the face of threats. As the godmothe ...
  • WikiLeaks Archive - Cables Show D.E.A.’s Global Re ...
    WikiLeaks Archive - Cables Show D.E.A.’s Global Reach - NYTimes.com ¶In Panama, an urgent BlackBerry message from the president to the American ambassador demanded that the D.E.A. go after his political enemies: “I need help with tapping phones.” ¶In Sierra Leone, a major cocaine-trafficking prosec ...
  • Ray McGovern: Why Obama Should Read Wikileaks on A ...
    Ray McGovern: Why Obama Should Read Wikileaks on Afghanistan By RAY McGOVERN Perhaps President Barack Obama should give himself a waiver on the ban prohibiting U.S. government employees from downloading classified cables released by WikiLeaks, so he can get a better grasp on the futility of his Afg ...
  • We should focus on WikiLeaks, not Assange | Social ...
    We should focus on WikiLeaks, not Assange | SocialistWorker.org: "UPON LISTENING to Democracy Now's long overdue debate between two feminists about the sexual assault allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange recently, I was struck by how unsatisfying the debate was. I have been one of th ...
  • John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See: An indictment ...
    John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See: An indictment of news reporting as state propaganda :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] Pilger questions BBC Head of Newsgathering Fran Unsworth and Editor-in-Chief of ITV News David Mannion about their ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Jan Brewer “Guilty” One Count of Murde ...
    The first person in Arizona had now died from lack of “funding” for their organ transplant. We have 2o0 million to give Exxon for a rebate, after they netted 40 billion in profit, but we can’t pay for an organ transplant. When it comes to how Republican’s brains work, something is just wrong.
  • So the Republicans Take Control of the House Today
    Now we will know how the Romans felt when the barbarians overran their city a few hundred years ago…. Hark, what is that I hear? I think it is someone saying “Hell no you can’t” cut corporate welfare, stop letting companies save on taxes if they outsource jobs, stop making sure most large companies ...
  • Finally Rachel Maddow Agrees
    Republicans are trying to sabotage the economy for political gain. She just came out and said it. Well, it is obvious to anyone with a working brain. Helping the rich, and kicking the unemployed, and making fun of them won’t exactly make things better ya know….
  • Coming Soon – Reagan, America’s Greate ...
    The damage Ronald Reagan did to our nation is staggering. Coming soon…
  • Peter Johnson Rails Against “Congress” ...
    Of course he forgot to mention it was only Republicans in congress that voted “No”. An innocent mistake, I am sure. Peter, you pathetic pile of human feces. You left out the word Republican before the word Senators over and over and over. REPUBLICAN SENATORS kept the bill from coming up for a vote. ...

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

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  • Knesset Committee on un-Israeli activities
    The Knesset’s decision to investigate organizations that criticize the government’s policy on the Palestinian issue is yet another demonstration of the fear that grips Israeli elites. Their true concern is about Israel’s internal strength, rather than its standing abroad. The Knesset’s decision to i ...
  • Breaking the Silence member: ‘Gov’t do ...
    The Knesset plenum voted Wednesday [January 4] to order the House Committee to consider establishing a parliamentary panel of inquiry into left-wing Israeli organizations that allegedly participate in delegitimization campaigns against Israel Defense Forces soldiers…MK Fania Kirshenbaum (Yisrael ...
  • Let’s investigate leftists. It actually make ...
    It just doesn’t end. It’s as if there’s no recess. Honestly, I feel like driving up to Jerusalem and asking the guys in “parliament” to slow down for a second. Just give me a break. Please, can I just have a breather for a few days without you guys pushing Israeli “democracy” further down the [...]
  • Netanyahu: democracies don’t send armed agen ...
    Last year, at the height of the Green Revolution in Iran, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gave an interview in which he explained the difference between the way democracies act when faced by demonstrators agitating for their freedom, and the way in which non-democratic states act. In Iran, securit ...
  • Another activist arrested; intimidation of leftist ...
    Another Israeli activist has been arrested and jailed in connection to the protest in front of the US ambassador’s house last Saturday night. The activist was summoned for ‘questioning’ yesterday afternoon and arrested upon arrival. He has been charged with the same crimes as the other activists who ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • What will 2011 Bring For The FraudClosure Fight?
    Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
  • You’re All A Bunch of Deadbeats- Just Pay Yo ...
    You borrowed far more than you could ever afford.  You splurged on wasteful and unnecessary things.  You took on financial burdens that you could never afford to repay.  You paid outrageous fees. Yes, the brokers that sold you the loans lied and fudged the numbers and did whatever they had to do to ...
  • Americans Got Hammered by The Bank of America Sett ...
    How would you like a 39% principle reduction on that faulty Countrywide loan that you’re struggling to pay?  How bout a 39% principle reduction on any one of the faulty loans that were originated by a shady subprime lender that engaged in a whole range of questionable activities in order to get you ...
  • DEATH FROM FORECLOSURE- WE’RE GOING TO SEE M ...
    One of the things that I’m most concerned with in the middle of this Foreclosure Fight is the increasing desperation I see and hear from clients and consumers.  Even if people are being treated fairly and getting foreclosed on, there are some folks who are just so desperate, so angry, so abandoned ...
  • Florida’s Attorney General Report on Fraudcl ...
    The name says it all.  Florida Attorney General.  Economic CRIMES Division.  Hat tip to 4ClosureFraud for getting their hands on this presentation and posting it.  This is a MUST READ for anyone who has any interest in the fight to restore integrity to the courts and the foreclosure process and who ...

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The Parallel Parliament

  • The Second Scramble
    Today we take a team of 12 to south Sudan to oversee our projects there and to observe the referendum that in all likelihood will see the south secede from the north, forming the world’s newest nation. Canadians – governments, NGOs, and a large number of citizens – have invested heavily in the regio ...
  • 2010 – The Year of Living Dangerously
    In a year-end statement, Stephen Harper offered that 2010 was the year that Canada “shined” on the world’s stage. That was a bit of a stretch, but a quick scan of similar statements by other world leaders boasted much the same fare. Regardless of the progress, or lack of it, in specific nations, col ...
  • Annus Horribilus
    1992 wasn’t the best year for Queen Elizabeth II. For months she had watched her family deteriorate and then suffered dislocation when Windsor Castle caught fire. In her year-end speech she could only conclude: “1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of ...
  • A Bridge Too Far
    A very subtle line in journalism was crossed in the past few weeks that needs to experience some push back. Journalist Andrew Cohen and pundit Norman Spector both provided observations that Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen are experiencing anything but marital bliss. In doing so, they journeyed a ...
  • Your Turn As Santa
    What do you do when Santa turns into Scrooge? In what is surely the tip of the iceberg, the federal government quietly cut $53 million from settlement agencies in the GTA. Speaking with a number of agencies in Toronto today gave the unmistakable impression that a government bent on providing corpora ...

Vaccine Awakening

  • Counting Blessings, Remembering the Children
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Every Christmas and New Year, when I give thanks for the people who have blessed my life, I remember the mothers and fathers of severely vaccine injured children, who have taught me the most about love and courage. I know that my son, Chris, who developed brain inflammation ...
  • Thousands Of Americans Register for NVIC's New Adv ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher Thousands of Americans living in all 50 states took action and registered for the new NVIC Advocacy Portal at www.NVICadvocacy.org during Vaccine Awareness Week (Nov. 1-6, 2010) co-sponsored by the National Vaccine Information C ...
  • Vaccine Science: A Search for Truth
    by Barbara Loe Fisher February 2009 turned out to be a month when vaccine science was put on trial in the U.S. Court of Claims in Washington, D.C., in mainstream media and on the internet, in the British Medical Journal and in vaccine safety research initiatives by the U.S. Department of Health and ...
  • Talking Vaccine Science with Government: Why Do It ...
    by Barbara Loe Fisher After the historic election in November that saw Barack Obama elected President, I wondered what he and his Administration would do about addressing the question that is on the minds of many parents: Why are so many vaccinated children today chronically ill, suffering with lea ...
  • Vaccine Bullies & Fighting Back
    By Barbara Loe Fisher During the past decade, families in the United Kingdom, Canada and America have witnessed the demonization of brave doctors and parents of vaccine injured children. It has been both sickening and frightening to watch physicians and some journalists engage in a relentless perse ...

2020 Science

  • A bluffer’s guide to Risk Science in the 21st cent ...
    A few weeks ago, I gave a talk at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati under the slightly provocative title “Small Gods and the Art of Technology Innovation”.  The talk is now available on-line (slides and audio at least) – and viewable below – through the excellent work of the folk at CAC. R ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    Hegswarm – what a great word!  Far more elegant and versatile than the “Gray Goo” that has nibbled at the heels of nanotechnology for the past decade. Over the holiday break, I’ve escaped academia for the relative sanity of family reunions and mince pies, and have been catching up on some reading. ...
  • The geopolitics of nanotechnology – an ideaologica ...
    Getting an unbiased perspective on nanotechnology is probably as close to impossible as you can get.  Governments invest in nanotech because they believe in its ability to inspire new research and stimulate economies and social change.  Corporations invest in nanotech because they think it will give ...
  • The art of risk science
    I’m feeling a little lazy today, so this is a cross-posting from the University of Michigan Risk Science Center newsletter.  It draws in part on the talk I gave at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center this past weekend as part of their “where do we go from here?” series.  The whole setup at CAC ...
  • Lost in the Maize
    My son Alex (13) and I have had a long-standing head-to-head on video games – should he be allowed to play first-person shooter games?  For those of you not plugged into the the gaming community, these are the games where you play out scenes and scenarios from the first person perspective of someon ...

Reader Supported News

  • The Toppling
    Peter Maass begins: "How the media inflated a minor moment in a long war." This is a long and detailed rich account of one of the most iconic and revealing moments in US military history. A US Marine watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad in this April 9, ...
  • Health Reform: An Online Guide
    Intro: "Links to everything you need to know about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010." Americans without healthcare coverage lining up in Wise County, Virgina, for a chance at free treatment, 07/24/09. (photo: Steve Helber/AP) Sorry, your browser cannot display frames! ...
  • Leading Conservatives Openly Support Terrorists
    Glen Greenwald writes: "The reason there isn't more uproar over these Bush officials' overt foreign-soil advocacy on behalf of a Terrorist group is because they want to use that group's Terrorism to advance US aims. Using Terrorism on behalf of American interests is always permissible." Members o ...
  • States Aim to Strangle Unions by Their Blue Collar ...
    Elspeth Reeve reports: "Time to party like it's 1981. States are running out of money, so where do they turn to save some cash? Union busting! 'State officials from both parties are wrestling with ways to curb the salaries and pensions of government employees.'" Workers at a GM plant in Janesvill ...
  • Republicans to Target WikiLeaks
    Tom Kavanagh reports: "Darrell Issa, the California Republican, who will take the reins of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has ambitious plans for that panel, from going after WikiLeaks to investigating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage giants." Re ...

War Resisters League

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

Center for a Livable Future

  • 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 [...]

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

  • Crazy Like a Fox
    In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
  • Addicted to Contractors
    The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
  • How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape
    Much of President Barack Obama's strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Here's what he'll need to know to get the job done.
  • Obama's Indecent Interval
    Despite the U.S. president's pleas to the contrary, the war in Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam than ever.
  • Divide and Conquer
    At an upcoming conference in London, the Afghan government will unveil its plan to bring the Taliban rank and file back into the political fold -- and plead for international assistance for its new initiative. 

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

Stop NATO

  • U.S. Employs Afghan War To Build Global NATO
    Stop NATO January 6, 2011 U.S. Employs Afghan War To Build Global NATO Rick Rozoff In an article entitled “How Afghanistan Became a War for NATO,” American journalist Gareth Porter argued that, contrary to the official position that an estimated 52,000 non-American troops from the North Atlantic Tre ...
  • Pentagon And NATO Apply Afghanistan-Pakistan War M ...
    Stop NATO January 2, 2011 Pentagon And NATO Apply Afghanistan-Pakistan War Model To Africa Rick Rozoff The New Year began with three North Atlantic Treaty Organization soldiers killed in Afghanistan and 20 people, all portrayed as militants, killed in four American missile strikes in northwest Pakis ...
  • New Year To Mark Intensification Of West’s W ...
    Stop NATO December 31, 2010 New Year To Mark Intensification Of West’s War In Afghanistan And Pakistan Rick Rozoff No stranger to armed conflicts over the past 70 years, the United States has completed its first decade of continuous warfare: 2001-2010. On January 1 the U.S. and its allies in the Nor ...
  • Washington Uses Arms Sales To Achieve Global Supre ...
    Stop NATO December 30, 2010 Washington Uses Arms Sales To Achieve Global Supremacy Rick Rozoff In its Yearbook 2010, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) documents that the United States accounts for 43 percent of world military spending and 30 percent of global arms exports, ...
  • 2011: U.S. And NATO To Extend And Expand Afghan Wa ...
    Stop NATO December 24, 2010 2011: U.S. And NATO To Extend And Expand Afghan War Rick Rozoff The war being waged by the United States and the Western military alliance it controls, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is well into its tenth year and is already the longest war in the history of the ...

Before It's News

Intel Hub

  • U.S. Tells Agencies: Watch ‘Insiders’ ...
    NBC By Michael Isikoff The Obama administration is telling federal agencies to take aggressive new steps to prevent more WikiLeaks embarrassments, including instituting “insider threat” programs to ferret out disgruntled employees who might be inclined to leak classified documents, NBC News has lear ...
  • U.N. Data Notes Sharp Rise in World Food Prices
    The New York Times By WILLIAM NEUMAN World food prices continued to rise sharply in December, bringing them close to the crisis levels that provoked shortages and riots in poor countries three years ago, according to newly released United Nations data. Prices are expected to remain high this year, p ...
  • Dead Birds Found In Sweden Connected to Deaths In ...
    Dead birds in Sweden killed by ‘external blows’ http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/eur… Texas officials weigh in on dead birds found across US http://www.khou.com/news/local/Texas-… Mystery bird deaths in Sweden add to unexplained US, New Zealand finds http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/worl… More dead ...
  • Jack Blood Interviews F William Engdahl
    F William Engdahl joins Deadline LIVE to discuss the state of America, the world, Wikileaks and more. http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/ Listen To Deadlive Live with Jack Blood on Oracle Broadcasting Network Monday-Friday at 3 pm CST For More Deadline Live http://deadlinelive.info/ Related Posts ...
  • The 10 Leading Theories For Dead Birds And Fish
    Nicholas West and Zen Gardner Activist Post As the mainstream media attempts to downplay the latest die-off event, which has now gone global, it is worthwhile to keep track of the story lines.  Feel free to add your own to the comments section, and we will update accordingly. Mainstream Explanations ...

FRS

  • South Dakota: The Trial of Land Defender, John Gr ...
    Tuesday, January 04 2011 On December 10 a South Dakota jury found John Graham guilty of felony murder in the death of American Indian Movement (AIM) member Anna Mae Aquash. John Graham, a Tuchone native originally from the Yukon, continues to maintain his innocence. Aquash was murdered in the 1970s ...
  • China and the Scramble for Africa: “Crouchin ...
    Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa) Faisal al Yafai 3 January 2011 The Chinese are involved in countless infrastructure projects across Africa, which the continent desperately needs; yet, their presence has caused ructions. The baggage lounge at Addis Abeba’s Bole International Airport is filled with activi ...
  • World Imperialist Crisis drives new alignments: BR ...
    [A former Indian diplomat discusses the new international alignments and their political meaning. While his analysis needs to be assessed critically, the information he includes in this article is of value to all concerned with the political impacts of the world imperialist crisis.--Frontlines ed.] ...
  • On Bradley Manning, Solitary Confinement, and Sele ...
    January 2, 2011 by Jean Casella and James Ridgeway For the past few weeks, progressive online media sources have been burning with outrage over the conditions in which accused Wikileaker Bradley Manning is being held. Manning (as we first noted on Solitary Watch back in July) is in 23-hour-a-day sol ...
  • India: Dalit Activist Sudhir Dhawale arrested on & ...
    Mumbai Mirror, January 3 2010 Dalit activist and editor of Marathi magazine Vidrohi, Sudhir Dhawale, was arrested on Monday morning at Gondia and charged with sedition (sec 124) and under Secs 17, 20 and 39 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). These sections relate to: raising funds for ...

Ken O'Keefe

StillSmallVoice

  • A little more reading with Sunday's column
    To read the column, go here. To read more about the National Cancer Institute, go here. To read more about "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," go here. To read more about the author, Siddhartha Mukherjee, go here. Flickr photo
  • Gentle reader:
    As much as it pains me, I am going on vacation. I hate that I am doing that. I'd much rather stay in the godless, frozen Northeast with you so that together we can watch the snow melt, refreeze into ice, and melt again. But duty calls (someone has to pick up the seashells) and I must answer. ...
  • Jac inspired me. Gladys, too.
    Happy New Year.
  • Conservatives are chickens
    A new London study says the brains of the politically-conservative have a larger fear center. Read more here or here.
  • The year in racism
    From Mother Jones, whose staff lists the worst of times of 2010, including various political yahoos who kept stepping in it. I would add to their list: The ongoing birther movementThe Park51 discussionCertain elements -- some all too noticeable -- of the Tea Party movement. I enjoy the sign to th ...

Associated Content

  • Ohio's John Boehner is Elected Speaker of the Hous ...
    On Jan. 5, John Boehner became the Speaker of the House of the 112th Congress of the United States. Boehner's greatest challenge will be balancing the competing interests between Tea Party-backed candidates and establishment Republicans.Contributor: Turner Bass Published: Jan 05, 2011
  • Chinese Stealth Fighter Poses Challenge to United ...
    Further proof that China is building a military with which to contest the United States for the role of sole super power was revealed when a photograph of what appeared to be a Chinese stealth fighter was published.Contributor: Mark Whittington Published: Jan 05, 2011
  • Who Are the Copts of Egypt?
    The Coptic Church of Egypt is in the news after a bombing on New Year's Day killed 23 believers leaving a church service. The religion, founded by the Gospel writer St. Mark, is among the oldest Christian faiths in the world.Contributor: Charles Simmins Published: Jan 05, 2011
  • More Dead Birds Falling from the Sky in Sweden May ...
    It would appear that the strange occurrences of large populations of dead birds suddenly falling from the sky have become more than just a fairly localized set of incidents in the southern United States. Officials in Sweden reported Tuesday that...Contributor: Saul Relative Published: Jan 05, 2011
  • USS Enterprise Capt. Owen Honors Discharged Due to ...
    Capt. Owen Honors is no longer a captain, as he was discharged from the Navy earlier this week for videos that he made when he was the U.S.S. Enterprise's executive officer in 2007.Contributor: Lauren Shain-Raque Published: Jan 04, 2011

Popsci - Science

  • In Exchange for Buying American Jets, Turkish Offi ...
    New quid pro quo drama emerges in Wikileaked cable In exchange for buying American-made jets, Turkey tried to barter for a space shuttle ride for one of its astronauts, according to a U.S. State Department message released by WikiLeaks and reported by Space.com. In January 2010, former U.S. ambassa ...
  • Giant Rats Can Detect Tuberculosis With Greater Ac ...
    Dr. Rat will sniff you now A 10-pound rat wouldn’t normally evoke feelings of appreciation, but perhaps it should — apparently it can save lives by sniffing out tuberculosis. Rat disease recognition is much more accurate than microscopes, researchers say. Gambian pouched rats, which are widespread ...
  • Five Hundred More Dead Birds in Louisiana Further ...
    Is it the beginning of the end times? After all, three is a Biblical number and that’s how many mass animal deaths that have been reported in Arkansas and Louisiana as of this writing. The day after 100,000 drum were found belly-up in the Arkansas River, 4,000 to 5,000 red-winged blackbirds dropped ...
  • 10-Year-Old Canadian Girl Is The Youngest Person E ...
    Hooray for Kathryn Aurora Gray Here’s a good argument for letting your kids stay up late: A 10-year-old Canadian girl discovered a supernova over the weekend, the youngest person ever to do so. Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton, the capital of New Brunswick, made the discovery under the supervisio ...
  • New DNA Analysis Reveals Suspects' Natural Hair Co ...
    Dutch scientists have come up with a DNA test that can determine a person’s natural hair color, using no more than a drop of blood or saliva. They say their method can predict hair color with up to 90 percent accuracy, helping forensic investigators identify an unknown person’s characteristics. App ...

Veterans Today

  • The return of the Mavi Marmara
    In a powerful invitation to all to see for themselves the nature of Israeli “self-defense,” Turkish authorities again opened the Mavi Marmara for visitors to board its decks and examine the blood stains, bullet holes and, most poignantly, the exact locations where the nine civilians were slain. By F ...
  • Israeli Oppression—’It Isn’t Nice,&#82 ...
    “No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.” - Clarence Darrow Via Norman Finkelstein
  • U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contra ...
    DoD CONTRACTS: No. 006-10 NAVY Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, Owego, N.Y., is being awarded a $72,618,815 advance acquisition contract for long lead materials and support associated with the manufacture and delivery of 24 mission avionics systems and common cockpits for the Lot 10 MH-6 ...
  • Zahir Ebrahim–The Omnipotent Rothschilds: Wh ...
    From Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org Continuing from Part-2, where Baron David de Rothschild was quoted proclaiming: Caption World Governance By The Rothschilds, 2003 – Click to view GOVERNING BY NETWORKS (Image via bibliotecapleyades-net via bureaudetudes-org large 3 MB) ‘We provide ad ...
  • LILA RAJIVA: THE VULTURE THAT CAME IN FROM THE COL ...
    The BBC , Spectator, Telegraph,  and other main stream outlets are carrying a story about the Saudis “detaining” a vulture with a tag. Is it coincidental that this incident happens just after the ADL targets journalists who (rightly or wrongly) suggest that Wikileaks might have a connection to the ...

War is Business

  • New Map Shows 2,200 Private US Military Contractor ...
    Finally! Here’s a rough version of a feature I’ve had in mind for this site since its launch late last year: Military contractor maps. The closest comparable online project is a part of the Washington Post’s Top Secret America series, by Dana Priest and Bill Arkin. Aided by a team of researchers and ...
  • The ‘Peace Operations’ Lobby Wants To ...
    Perhaps it would help to avoid the colonial allusions: That amusingly counterproductive headline appeared in the latest issue of the Journal of International Peace Operations, a hopeless PR exercise published by the International Peace Stability Operations Association, a tax-exempt lobbying outfit f ...
  • The NYT Pursues The Embassies-As-Arms Dealers Stor ...
    [The US military] is working with Harris Corp. to adapt ESPN’s technique of tagging key moments in National Football League videotape to the war zone. Just as a sportscaster can call up a series of archived quarterback blitzes as soon as a player is sacked on the field, an analyst in Afghanistan can ...
  • US Military’s Party Budget Includes Thousand ...
    How much did the US military spend on party supplies in 2010?
  • The Trans-Atlantic Outrage Gap
    A security company has recruited two former senior civil servants, sparking an outcry about the “revolving door” between Whitehall and the company. â¢â¢â¢ Only two? Meh. I think a more important question should be, “Why did we have 39 Generals or Admirals of 3+ stars retired in 2007 and that wasn’t ...

Hudson's Weather & Climate

  • December 2010 update: Second coldest since 1659
    Met Office provisional figures show that December 2010 with a mean CET temperature of -0.7C was the second coldest since records began in 1659, beaten only by December 1890 which had a mean of -0.8C. The diagram below shows how the month ranks with other cold Decembers, a truly memorable month cli ...
  • First global temperature data published: 1998 stil ...
    The first eagerly awaited data on 2010 global temperatures shows that although it was a very close run thing, 2010 has failed to beat 1998 which still holds the title of hottest year on record. The UAH global temperature satellite data, recorded and compiled by the University of Alabama in the USA ...
  • 2010: The year Britain shivered.
    According to the Met Office December 2010 will turn out to be the coldest December since 1890 based on the Central England Temperature (CET) dataset which started in 1659. They also say that December 2010 will also be the coldest December in the 100 year UK temperature series, covering England, Wa ...
  • Is the perceived rise in flooding real?
    It was claimed by experts following the floods of Autumn 2000 that such rainfall events were a taste of things to come, with increased autumn and winter rainfall a central projection of climate models. In fact, current forecasts for later this century suggest that parts of Yorkshire will see an inc ...
  • Winter's on its way
    Winter looks set to come early to the UK with very cold air expected to sweep southwards across most areas by the end of the week and into next weekend. By Saturday, the air will be unusually cold for November and with still relatively warm seas, all the ingredients are there for some heavy falls ...

Internat'l Political Economy

  • UK Cabinet Member: EU Agri Subsidies 'Immoral'
    Well, no @#$%. While I agree with the sentiment that spending vast amounts of EU funds on handouts to rich-world farmers--and benefits tend to go to large producers, mind you--is immoral, you do have to consider the context of who's saying so. Among other things:The Conservatives to which Environmen ...
  • Singaporean PM Lee: PRC Revaluation a Win-Win
    Well here's an interesting news item: China's model of authoritarian development is said to be based on the example of Singapore [1, 2]. Whereas Deng Xiaoping's predecessors always derided the minuscule nation-state as some sort of degenerate capitalist roader, his game-changing visit there in the l ...
  • Khodorovsky, Rule of Law & Russia Joining WTO
    This is yet another entry in the long-running saga of Russian WTO accession [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]. I think you know how this story goes: the seemingly arbitrary (re-)incarceration of Vladimir Putin's political foe and onetime oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky bodes ill for Russia's attempts to join the ...
  • LDCs Inequality: A Lack of Redistributive Capacity ...
    Martin Ravallion of the World Bank should be familiar to those interested in development studies as one of those who've waded into the highly contested area of poverty and inequality measurement. On the overwhelmingly optimistic side, you have the likes of Xavier Sala-i-Martin of Columbia University ...
  • Korea-US FTA Negotiated; US Congress Up Next
    Whoa, the Obama administration has actually negotiated a trade deal. As trade junkies know, one of the leftover bilaterals from the Bush administration was KORUSFTA. One stumbling block was US automakers demanding better access to the Korean car market. (Remember that this had also been a US demand ...

Economic Collapse Blog

  • Derivatives: The Quadrillion Dollar Financial Casi ...
    If you took an opinion poll and asked Americans what they considered the biggest threat to the world economy to be, how many of them do you think would give "derivatives" as an answer?  But the truth is that derivatives were at the heart of the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, and ...
  • Start A Business? In The United States? Are You Ki ...
    Many of you have decided that you are going to attempt to start a business in the United States today.  Many of you are still convinced that this is "the land of opportunity" and that starting a business is fairly easy.  Are you sure about that?  Are you certain that you have consid ...
  • In The Future You May Not Be Able To Provide The B ...
    Today, millions of American families are extremely stressed out because they are working as hard as they can and yet they find at the end of the month they still haven't been able to pay all of the bills.  Unfortunately, things are only going to get rougher in the years ahead.  The ...
  • Everything Is Falling Apart: 20 Facts That You Wil ...
    If you haven't noticed lately, America is literally falling apart all around us.  Decaying infrastructure is everywhere.  Our roads and bridges are crumbling and are full of holes.  Our rail system is ancient.  Our airports and runways have definitely seen their better days.  Aging ...
  • Economic War
    Most Americans have no idea what an "economic war" is, and even fewer realize that economic warfare is being waged against the United States right now.  For generations, it has been drummed into our heads that "free trade" is always a good thing and that truly free trade will always ...

Torture Abolition

  • The International Convention for the Protection of ...
    PRESS RELEASE For immediate release November 25, 2010 On November 23, 2010, the Republic of Iraq deposited the 20th instrument of ratification for the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances to the Secretary General of the United Nations. Iraq becomes ...
  • Breaking the Silence in Colombia: 50,000 Enforced ...
    The Latin America Working Group Education Fund (LAWG) and the U.S. Office on Colombia (USOC) released a new report today Breaking the Silence: In Search of Colombia ‘s Disappeared revealing official figures that more than 50,000 peo ...
  • AFAD Statement on Commemoration of the Universal D ...
      December 10, 2010   The Right to Defend Human Rights Everyone has rights. Defending one’s rights and that of others is in itself a right as well as an obligation. This is the life-preserving message of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted on 10 December 1948 by the United Na ...
  • IRCT on Human Rights Day: Rehabilitation for Tortu ...
    In focus 10-12-2010 Copenhagen, 10th December 2010 Today, on the UN’s annual Human Rights Day, the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) is calling on governments around the world to fulfill their legal responsibilities to provide appropriate rehabilitation services for tor ...
  • Thank You! Your Help Provides the Beacon of Hope f ...
    Make no mistake.  Your help and support make a huge difference in the lives of torture survivors.  Thanks to your generosity the story of Aida is repeated over and over at TASSC.  However, with the cuts in UN funding, TASSC will be strained to help people like Aida. I want to share a few statistics ...

BlogHer

  • Instagram: Should You Be Using It?
    Instagram is a photography app for iPhone. Mashable recently wrote Is Instagram the Next Distribution Opportunity for News Media?, which included an interview with Andy Carvin, a senior strategist at National Public Radio (NPR). Carvin talke ...
  • 2011 Payroll Tax Deduction is a Small Windfall
    Thanks to the tax bill Obama signed into law a few weeks ago, most people will see a small bump in their take-home pay for 2011. That is because the payroll tax, ordinarily set at 12.4% (split evenly between the employer and the employee), ...
  • Is Your Marriage Affecting Your Health?
    As far back as the late 1800s, epidemiologist William Farr studied the condition of marriage on people's health in France by dividing the adult population into three separate categories: the married, the celibate (those never married) and the ...
  • My Most Difficult Blogging Moment
    I still remember the shock of it all, and how very personally I took it. I had told myself that it wouldn’t happen to me, that I wasn’t that type. Those kinds of things happened to others, the oth ...
  • Own Your Beauty, Month 4: Adventure With Natalie C ...
    Own Your Beauty is a groundbreaking, year-long movement bringing women together to change the conversation about what beauty means. Our mission: to encourage and remind grown women that it is never too late to learn to love one's self and in ...

Health Freedom Alliance

  • Toxic Chemical Approved for Use on California Stra ...
    The chemical methyl iodide has been approved for use on strawberries grown in California despite the fact that The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment listed the type of toxicity for methyl iodide as ...
  • S. 510 Food Safety Bill is Still Alive as HR 3082- ...
    By a 212-206 vote on December 8, the House passed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (formerly S.510) as an amendment to H.R. 3082 (the “Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011″ to fund the government through September ...
  • Bill Gates Promotes and Funds Euthanasia to Forwar ...
    The world population is under attack. As society mills about living in a fog of consumerism the worlds elite are carrying out a plan to reduce the population while promoting their works in the eyes ...
  • Food Safety Modernization Act Revived AGAIN Under ...
    By Sarah Foster December 20, 2010 NewsWithViews.com The infamous food “safety” bill that health freedom activists and their allies assumed was out for the session, has come blazing back to life from its near-death state late Sunday, thanks ...
  • The Pusher Men- How Some Doctors in America Profit ...
    A recent investigation by ProPublica found 170,000 physicians are receiving cash and perks from pharmaceutical companies for promoting drugs. The investigation was a joint venture with ProPublica, a not-for-profit independent newroom, PBS Nightly Business Report, ...

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Green: Green Power for the Empire State Building
New York Times (blog)
- Jan 06, 2011
- 14 minutes ago
On Thursday, the building's caretakers announced another milestone: becoming the largest commercial purchaser of renewable power in the state. ...
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Renewables successes amid gloom
BBC News
- Jan 06, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By Steven McKenzie BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter Successes in the renewables sector should not be overlooked after Skykon was placed in ...
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Premier Power Renewable Energy Announces 1.3 MW Solar Module Supply Agreement ...
Business Wire (press release)
- Jan 06, 2011
- 1 hour ago
Premier Power Renewable Energy, Inc. is a leading global provider of large and small-scale solar power systems, delivering unmatched experience to ...
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EU nations set to exceed cheap energy from renewables target
energyhelpline.com
- Jan 06, 2011
- 27 minutes ago
Collectively, the European Union will exceed its target of deriving 20 per cent of total cheap energy consumption from renewable sources in the next ten ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
USA: Ecology extends burn bans in Chelan, Douglas counties; bans expire in ...
FireEngineering.com
- Jan 05, 2011
- Jan 05, 2011
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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Alexander Bennett: Deer culling protects local ecology
Scotsman
- Jan 05, 2011
- 13 hours ago
To read this article in full you must have registered and have a Premium Content Subscription with the The Scotsman site. By Alexander Bennett Mar Lodge ...
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Coming to the Weis Ecology Center
NorthJersey.com
- Jan 05, 2011
- 8 hours ago
For more information or to register, contact the Weis Ecology Center office at 973-835-2160. Discover the birds of the Highlands, and earn your merit badge ...
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Women's hike in Ringwood, camaraderie in the cold
NorthJersey.com
- Jan 05, 2011
- 8 hours ago
Consider participating in Weis Ecology Center's Women's Hike. Planned monthly throughout most of the year, the women's hikes starts at 8 am, ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
2 million fish found dead in Maryland
CNN International
- Jan 06, 2011
- 42 minutes ago
"Cold water stress exacerbated by a large population of the affected species (juvenile spot fish) appears to be the cause of the kill. ...
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UK Lawmakers Question Deep Water Drilling Safety
Wall Street Journal
- Jan 06, 2011
- 3 hours ago
Major changes to drilling regulations could have a significant impact on the UK because its main deep water area, west of the Shetland Islands, ...
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Highland Park water declared safe
The Detroit News
- Jan 05, 2011
- 13 hours ago
Mayor Hubert Yopp said this afternoon a boil advisory was lifted after the state completed water quality tests and gave the city an "all clear. ...
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Pioneer launches new corn hybrids for increased water efficiency
LubbockOnline.com
- Jan 05, 2011
- 7 hours ago
By ALYSSA DIZON A major agricultural seed company will release new corn hybrid products that could be a boon for areas with limited water resources, ...
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