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Thomas Paine

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

Saturday, January 8, 2011

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • INDIA: 100-Dollar Laptops Bring In Distant Kids
    Responding to the lack of computer training in Mukteshwar's schools, Veena Sethi, a retired Delhi University professor, set up two used personal computers in the basement of her home with the aim of bringing the basics of computing to school children.
  • PERU: Storm in a Glass of Milk
    During his nearly five years in office, Peruvian President Alan García has earmarked 620.5 million dollars to the "Glass of Milk" Programme (PVL), the backbone of the policies aimed at reducing malnutrition levels in the country. But the results of the nutritional supplement programme are poor.
  • U.N. Tight-Lipped on Use of Military Force in Cote ...
    As the continuing political stalemate threatens to unleash a civil war in Cote d'Ivoire, the United Nations is taking an increasingly aggressive stance in the widening standoff with the West African nation.
  • ARGENTINA: On the Path to Sustainable Development?
    This year will be the ninth straight year of impressive economic growth for Argentina. Some analysts say the international context is the key to the high rates of growth since 2003, while others stress that there are also internal factors behind the expansion.
  • HAITI: The Year of Living Dangerously – Part ...
    When diplomat Ricardo Seitenfus spoke out in interviews last month condemning the international community, he was dismissed from his post within days by the Organisation of American States.

Scoop - NZ

  • Towards a written British constitution
    Views are being sought by January 10th on a document being described by some as the first step towards a British codified constitution. The 150-page draft cabinet manual, drawn up on 14 December, aims to set out how the UK is governed.
  • Youth jobless rate hits 19.4%
    New Zealand's youth unemployment rate has surged to nearly 20 per cent – one of the highest levels in almost 20 years. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) figures for the September quarter last year showed 19.4 per cent of Kiwis aged between 15 and 24 were unemployed – ...
  • The Hobbit and New Zealand's heritage industry
    We are accustomed to think of movies as part of our leisure activities rather than terrains on which political battles are enacted. However, in a highly commercialised globe that has turned image and sound into pathways to political inclusion and global recognition, films have become politicized are ...
  • Photography Blog
    Best photography inspirations on Professional Photography Blog
  • 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 ...

Independent - London

  • Iran official says US woman detained
    A senior Iranian police official says an American woman has been detained on suspicion of spying — contradicting an earlier denial of her arrest on state TV.
  • Obama urges end to 'symbolic battles' in Congress
    President Barack Obama urged newly empowered Republicans today not to wage "symbolic battles" against him but to instead work together to help spur job growth and economic recovery.
  • Radical cleric urges resistance against US
    A cleric whose militia once battled Americans urged followers today to resist the United States "with all means" in his first public address in Iraq after four years in exile.
  • More rain worsens Australia floods
    Almost a foot of rain in just a few hours renewed flood fears in Australia's already waterlogged Queensland state today, sending a surging river over its banks and into another large town.
  • Darfur integral to better US-Sudan ties, says Kerr ...
    US Senator John Kerry says Sudan's northern government will win quick US incentives if an independence referendum in the south goes smoothly, but further improvement of ties will depend on progress toward peace in the separate conflict in Darfur.

Rogue Government.com

  • Viking Found Organics On Mars
    More than 30 years after NASA's Viking landers found no evidence for organic materials on Mars, scientists say a new experiment on Mars-like soil shows Viking did, in fact, hit pay dirt.
  • Homeland Security Hasn't Made Us Safer
    Hardly anyone has seriously scrutinized either the priorities or the spending patterns of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its junior partner, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), since their hurried creation in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
  • Mystery of mass animal death epidemic deepens afte ...
    Thousands of dead turtle doves rained down on roofs and cars in an Italian town in the latest in a growing spate of mass animal deaths across the globe.
  • Blue Shield of California plans huge rate increase ...
    Health insurance costs for hundreds of thousands of individual policy holders with Blue Shield of California could go up as much 59 percent this year, according to the Los Angeles Times.
  • New Israeli military technology speeds up warfare
    Intense winds scraped sand from the desert floor, clouding the view and leaving the Israeli soldiers scarcely able to see each other as they practiced blasting artillery shells at distant targets.

Innovation Canada

  • The year in review
    Welcome to 2011! Before we launch into a new year of covering cutting-edge Canadian research, we’re going to rewind and look back at some of the success stories we featured on InnovationCanada.ca in 2010.  Some recurring themes in Canadian research this year were: biodiversity, aboriginal culture, a ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Fresh storms hit Queensland - Australian flooding ...
    Heavy rains fell in eastern Australia on Thursday, bringing fresh misery to flood-hit communities as the mayor of the flooded city of Rockhampton warned it could take up to a year to recover from the worst flooding in decades. Officials were only beginning to see the scope of the damage as river l ...
  • How to Stop the Epidemic of Attention Deficit Diso ...
    On November 12, the CDC reported that 10% of U.S. children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), an increase of almost 25% in just four years. Between 2003 and 2007, a million children were given this diagnosis for the first time, raising the number of ...
  • Truthout Report on Military "Spirituality Test"
  • Beyond Surveillance: Darpa Wants a Thinking Camera
    It's tough being an imagery analyst for the U.S. military: you're drowning in pictures and drone video, with more pouring in endlessly from the tons of sensors and cameras used on planes, ships and satellites. Sifting through it to find roadside bombs or missile components is a time-consuming chal ...
  • Cables reveal UK police trained Bangladeshi death ...
    Cables released by WikiLeaks reveal how the British government provides training to a Bangladeshi government paramilitary force specialising in executing political opponents. The Rapid Action Battalion's most recent killing was Anisur Rahman, a member of the Bangladeshi Communist Party in the wester ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • The future is chocolate . . .
    IF YOU LOVE CHOCOLATE, listen up: according to Alasdair Wilkins' article in io9, "Newly sequenced chocolate genome reveals the secrets of better candy", the boffins have cracked the cocoa code, and they're starting to tinker . . . it actually might be a good thing, take a minute and check it out.The ...
  • Did the Canadian Forces and Airshow...[updated wit ...
    ...just permit and encourage a Canadian civilian to kill Taliban, via a large field gun? Hockey icon fires live shell at Taliban Reading the Ottawa Citizen headline, one cannot help but think a Mr. Don Cherry,� ornery geezer and politically partisan celebrity hockey commentator, not a member of the ...
  • WikiLeaks . . .
    ACCORDING TO THE NYT, in a report by Kim Severson and Robbie Brown, "WikiLeaks Cables Make Appearance in a Tale of Sunken Treasure and Nazi Theft". Like Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler, but this is real. Sumbitch. The US gov't. seems mendacious. It appears Spain wants a big chunk of a treasure galleon ...
  • Consult your schedule . . .
    Now, you know.
  • Santa Tracker
    At the time of writing NORAD is placing Santa Claus at Goose Green in the Falkland Islands. (Nice, just what I need.) Follow NORAD's 2010 Santa Tracker here.

Media Matters for America

  • Dobbs Falsely Blames Blue Shield Premium Hikes On ...
    Appearing on Fox News, Lou Dobbs falsely blamed the health care reform law for premium increases announced by Blue Shield of California. In fact, a Blue Shield spokesman said the rate increases "have almost nothing to do with the federal health reform law" and "reflect trends that were building lon ...
  • The Truth About "The Truth About Fox News Viewers"
    John Lott has penned a FoxNews.com op-ed criticizing as "a mess" a recent University of Maryland study which found that Fox News viewers were more likely to be misinformed than those who did not watch the network. However, the op-ed makes its case by misinforming readers on the economic stimulus, h ...
  • Dick Morris Ignores Economists To Claim Spending ...
    On Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Dick Morris declared that government spending has led the country "deeper into the recession" and that the only way out is "budget cuts." However, stimulus spending has been credited for averting a worse recession, and numerous economists have argued that ...
  • Fox Suddenly Silent On Reported GOP Plans To Use ...
    Fox News' extensive coverage of the new Republican House majority has so far ignored the fact that the GOP is reportedly embracing the use of the self-executing rule -- commonly referred to as "deem and pass" -- to mandate federal budget limits. By comparison, Fox figures repeatedly attacked De ...
  • Krauthammer Advances Baseless "Doc Fix" Argument T ...
    Charles Krauthammer claimed that the Congressional Budget Office's finding that the Affordable Care Act reduced the deficit was based on a "gimmick" because Democrats did not include the so-called "doc fix" in the bill. In reality, the "doc fix" was proposed prior to the debate on the Affordable Ca ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • How the Republican Assault on Health Care Could Ba ...
    When it comes to health care, Republicans should be careful what they wish for. Their upcoming vote to repeal the health-care law will be largely symbolic -- they don't have the votes to override President Obama's certain veto. The real thing happens later, when they try to strip the Department o ...
  • Darrell Issa's Ominous Past & Twitter Avatar: Top ...
    Darrell Issa's Ominous Past & Twitter Avatar: Top 10 reasons Issa is the perfect Obama watchdogDon't let Darrell Issa's verbal ineptitude or crime-ridden past fool you: The last person Obama wants investigating him is the cunning California�Don't let Darrell Issa's verbal ineptitude or crime-ridde ...
  • Plutocracy Rising
    It's quite fitting that yesterday two top Republican Congressmen thought it more important to be at a fundraiser than at their Swearing In Ceremony. It looks like we have arrived back at the K-Street Plutocracy that got Tom Delay busted just three short years ago. What was Darrel Issa's first commun ...
  • Warning To Dems: Stop Mocking Boehner's Tears
    I found myself strangely moved by the way John Boehner assumed the Speakership yesterday and I think any objective observer would have to agree that his humility was touching. Including the tears. (I loved the way Speaker Pelosi seemed moved by how moved Boehner was. Of course, I love everything abo ...
  • Gene Sperling Thinks Asset Bubbles Are Cool
    Very few reporters discussed the stock bubble before it collapsed in the years 2000-2002. It was the same way with the housing bubble. The most frequently cited source on the housing market in the Washington Post in the bubble years was David Lereah, the chief economist of the National Association o ...

TruthOut

  • GOP May Lose Health Care Repeal Battle, but War Wi ...
    Washington - The Republican-led House of Representatives will vote Wednesday to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law — and that will settle nothing. Rather, it will be but one more battle in a long political war that will go on for at least two more years, one which either side may win.re ...
  • Reality Television Writers and the Future of Labor ...
    They write and produce popular reality television shows "American Eats" and "Cash Cab." They are freelancers working unpaid overtime and paying for healthcare out of pocket while the big media bosses rake in the profits. They are fed up and getting organized. read more
  • This Is Going to Suck
    The American people were treated on Thursday to a (mostly) full and complete reading of the Constitution of the United States from the floor of the House of Representatives. The performance was proposed and organized by the new Republican majority in that chamber for the purpose - according to them ...
  • New in Brief: Gates Outlines Plan to Cut Military ...
    Gates Outlines Plan to Cut Military Spending read more
  • Obama’s New Chief of Staff Sought to Loosen Post-E ...
    William M. Daley, President Barack Obama's new chief of staff, is a major Wall Street player who sought to loosen corporate reform laws and protect big accounting firms from investor lawsuits and criminal prosecution. read more

Planetsave

  • Mass Bird and Fish Death Map
    Somebody has gone through the trouble of mapping where numerous bird and fish deaths (as well as some other animal deaths) have been occurring in recent weeks (screenshot above). Check it out here: Mass Animals Deaths.
  • Environmental, Wildlife, & Green Living News of th ...
    Other than what we’ve already covered, of course, here are a number of good environmental, wildlife, and green living stories form around the internet. GreenDeals aims to be a Groupon for green shoppers New website aims to offer US consumers discounts on green products and services… High-speed rail ...
  • Global Weirding News of the Week
    Other than what we’ve already covered, of course, here’s our weekly global weirding news link drop. A little more than normal given our extensive coverage of the mass bird and fish deaths that are occurring right now (and, thus, our inability to get to other important news). Coal prices soar as warm ...
  • Rainbows (10 Friday Photos)
    Photo Credit: Roy via flickr Rainbows… I think they’re one of the most inspirational things that nature gives us and that, for sure, make us feel optimistic. Don’t you think that not seeing rainbows in life would be so sad? Well, I hope that it won’t happen to anyone. Enjoy the photos and choose the ...
  • Want to Eat Less? Just Imagine Eating More
    Imagine a big slice of your favorite pie. Imagine eating all of it. Your mouth automatically begins salivating, your taste buds begin firing up. Now, imagine eating more pie until you are full…A short while later, you find yourself confronted with the real pie. You might think that this is going to ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Venezuela: A People's Assembly - Bolivarian Republ ...
    Venezuela’s new National Assembly took office on Wednesday, promising interesting debates between the 40% opposition minority coalition and the 60% pro-Chavez majority According to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, 2011 will be the year of “popular victory” in the country’s legislative body, the Nat ...
  • Prisoners at Supermax Ohio Penitentiary Begin Hung ...
    AMY GOODMAN: 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 i ...
  • Bradley Manning and the Case Against Solitary Conf ...
    The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky In the earliest days of our Republic, a group of well-meaning Philadelphia Quakers set out to reform the prison system. The idea was to remove convicts from the mayhem and corruption of overcrow ...
  • Obama signs law hindering efforts to empty Guantan ...
    US President Barack Obama has signed a law effectively preventing him from emptying the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In a statement, Mr Obama said he opposed the restrictions but signed them because they were included in a law funding the US military in 2011. The law forbids... ...
  • The New Jim Crow - Race and Ethnicity
    How mass incarceration turns people of color into permanent second-class citizens The first time I encountered the idea that our criminal-justice system functions much like a racial caste system, I dismissed the notion. It was more than 10 years ago in Oakland when I was rushing to catch t ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Holy shit...this never happens...we agree with Steve King about something Well, maybe we ought to clarify that a bit -- we agree with what he said, not what he meant. Thursday evening he took to the floor of the House to rail about the "mendacity" of the GOP leadership. "As I deliberate and I listen ...
  • What America Really Needs is a Formal Caste System
    This is brilliant. But it doesn't go anywhere near far enough. Let's have separate classes of citizenship to accurately reflect the separate economic classes we already have. Then maybe the need for the not-top classes to rise up and defeat the social parasite classes will finally become obvious. Be ...
  • With Dems Like These...
    Dem leader: Let's 'modify' health reform by seeking 'common ground' with GOP Facing a vigorous Republican effort to repeal health reform, a member of the House Democratic leadership says his party is willing to "fine-tune" the law based on input from the GOP. Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, a member of th ...
  • Goebbels Would Be So Proud
    I didn't originate this... it's by a gentleman named Adam Bessie at The Daily Censored. (LINK:) and it pretty much delineates the major issues we the people are going to face as they.. the corporate plutocracy... transitions we... the people... from a representative republic based on life, liberty a ...
  • It took far too long to do way too little
    COIN, or Counter Insurgency doctrine, is built around the premise that we can win the "hearts and minds" of the local population by showing them -- via our actions -- that we really are on their side and have their best interest at heart. Essential to COIN is the significant presence of civilians an ...

Care 2

  • 31 Bison Captured Inside Yellowstone, Sent to Slau ...
    Hazing operations have been taking place nearly every day along migration routes north of Yellowstone. Early Tuesday afternoon, Yellowstone National Park and the Montana Department of Livestock began capturing wild buffalo at the Stephens Creek buffalo Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it ...
  • Two-Headed Cow Calf Born In Georgia (VIDEO)
    A cow in Georgia has given birth to a two-headed calf.Farmer Irakli Dzhgarkava, shown with the calf on Imedi television, says the cow is refusing to allow her strange offspring to suckle, so they are giving it milk from a bottle.Submitted by Yrna M. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Will there be Doomsday on May 21, 2011?
    The Family Radio Worldwide evangelist Harold Camping predicts that The Judgement Day is closer than we think and has announced the exact date of rapture as May 21, 2011. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • For town made famous by 'Erin Brockovich,' a toxic ...
    Hinkley, Calif., battled pollution of its ground water by chromium 6 in the 1990s � a case that inspired 'Erin Brockovich.' Now the substance has escaped its containment barrier.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Are E-Cigarettes the Holy Grail for Hopelessly Add ...
    I've tried nicotine patches, lozenges and gum, prescription drugs and hypnotherapy, and none of them are anywhere near as effective as e-cigarettes.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Up, Up, And Away…
    That would be the price of gasoline these days. I don’t know about where you live, but I do know I went away for a week, and came back with the gas prices higher than when I left. We are closing in on $3 a gallon here. The Washington Examiner had an editorial on this [...]
  • Paul Ryan (R-WI) Addresses ‘Fiscal Train Wreck’ (+ ...
    Upon further review and with a little prompting from some regular readers, I am correcting an oversight and am pleased to now induct Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) into the Sense on Cents Hall of Fame. He clearly deserves it. Why induct Ryan now? Well, listen for yourself as Mr. Ryan provides a health ...
  • Using Women as Props
    Obviously we’re in la-la land. A place where it’s debatable whether or not women are citizens and persons; where it’s debatable whether or not women are protected by the Constitution. I’m just going to continue to live and act as if I’m a person, as if a citizen. It’s not so easy to act as [...]
  • Stark Facts Behind Obamacare Financing———————————— ...
    PREFACE: LEST I FORGET, the overwhelming “meme” of top-tier MSM is that there is NO chance in hell that Obamacare will be repealed. They say that it’s merely “Republican theater” or “kabuki theater,” a fight for the benefit of furious constituents but wholly un-realistic: What say you? Original: Sin ...
  • The Sorry State of Pakistan
    Salmaan Taseer is dead. He’s neither the first politician, first liberal, the first outspoken bullish pugnacious politician who was killed. Nor is he last. There were many, there will be more. He was the sitting governor of Pakistan’s biggest province and was assassinated by his own bodyguard.  Doe ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Florida's Manatees Head for Refuge of Industrial O ...
    In late December 2010, manatees were seen in the warm waters near Florida power stations. Why did they leave the Gulf of Mexico at this time? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Prickly Facts About Porcupines
    Porcupines are master-climbers but they often tumble out of trees. Let us learn some more about this spiky creature! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Exploring Small Town Maine via Big Woods Country
    A memorable trip taking in Maine's glorious natural majesty as well as its recent historic past in the 'Blueberry Capital of the World' - Cherryfield, Maine. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 5 Plants That Can Get You High
    Five uncommon drugs which occur naturally, and the strange effects that they have. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Face to Face with the Mandrill
    Discover the amazing Mandrill monkey, famous for its blue and red face! 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

  • Cape Wind is Cleared for Takeoff - Mostly
    The offshore wind project has obtained its final government permit but still faces the hurdle of selling roughly half the power.
  • Detroit's Electric Jump-Start
    The Big Three hope for a reinvention that will rescue the American auto industry.
  • The Call of the Bayou
    A reporter finally grasps the pull of the teeming gulf waters.
  • Hold that Megawatt!
    A company has opened a plant in Johnson City, N.Y., that sells frequency regulation -- that is, the ability to fine-tune the system that keeps the supply and demand for electricity in balance.
  • A Steady Dose of Atmospheric Detergent
    New measurements suggest that nature is supplying relatively steady doses of a substance that helps to clean up human air pollution.

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

  • Corporate Charter Trigger Compton Chronicles
    “Everything we do from now moving forward, will be to expose all of Green Dot’s lies and everything they lied to us and to our parents.” â Animo Justice Student Beginning of the false narrative The corporate media has been all awash with Ben Austin’s apparent hostile take over of another public scho ...
  • The Wheels of Justice – The Ibanez Case Ruling
    By Numerian posted by Michael Collins The issues in this case are not merely problems with paperwork or a matter of dotting iâs and crossing tâs. Instead, they lie at the heart of the protections given to homeowners and borrowers… From the ruling The Too Big To Fail banks have been waiting with trep ...
  • Republicans are out for blood– Yours.
    The Republicans want to kill the health care bill.  They want to strip kids from their parent’s coverage.  They want to eliminate affordable coverage for people who have lost insurance along with their jobs.  They want to put a cap back on the amount of coverage your health insurance will have to pa ...
  • 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 ...

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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

  • Nevada E. coli O157:H7 victim may require a liver ...
    Linda Rivera, an E. coli O157:H7 victim, was told today to consider a liver transplant and to ask if her three boys would be the donors.� Linda, who Senator Reid profiled several times in the fight for the food safety bill, has remained hospitalized since May of 2009.� Medical bills to date are over ...
  • Number Three in the 50 Top Agriculture Blogs
    Must be my week.� Goes to show that someone other than my mom reads my blog. Marler Blog: Food is a powerful component of our culture; it has the power to make or break its consumers. For those moments when food happens to harm us, we advise looking to blogs like this one to keep you informed and e ...
  • Jimmy John's and Tiny Greens Alfalfa Sprout Salmon ...
    Yesterday, we filed the fist lawsuit in Illinois stemming from the expanding Salmonella outbreak. Now today, according to the CDC, from November 1, 2010, through January 4, 2011, 112 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:-, whose illnesses began (onset da ...
  • Columbus Meat Market Inc. Recall 200 Pounds of Gro ...
    The Illinois Department of Agriculture says a Chicago company has recalled about 200 pounds of ground beef patties because of possible E. coli contamination. The department said Thursday the patties were produced by the Columbus Meat market Inc. on Dec. 27 and shipped to food-handling customers in ...
  • Food Safety - Waste, Fraud or Abuse?
    The consming public wants to know.

AutoblogGreen

  • Banned Four Loko energy drink recycled into ethano ...
    Filed under: Etc. Straight from the "Never Expected To See This" file is a story regarding plans for all those banned and discontinued cans of alcoholic energy drinks that were taken off the market late last year. Instead of bring poured on the ground in honor of all the parties that will forever ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.07.11
    A study of developed nations suggests they have hit 'peak travel' After "peak oil," it's almost expected. VIDEO: Tesla Motors releases totally hawt Model S engineering pr0n Fill up while you ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.06.11
    GM drives your Volt before you do Don't worry if you see a few miles on the odometer. Three Renault execs suspended over electric vehicle industrial espionage questions More details, please. ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Scientists Shed Light on What Causes Brain Ce ...
    Just 5 percent of Parkinson's disease cases can be explained by genetic mutation, while the rest have no known cause. But a new discovery by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio may begin to explain why the vast majority of Parkinson's patients develop the pr ...
  • Fermi's Large Area Telescope Sees Surprising ...
    The Crab Nebula, one of our best-known and most stable neighbors in the winter sky, is shocking scientists with its propensity for fireworks—gamma-ray flares set off by the most energetic particles ever traced to a specific astronomical object. The discovery, reported today by scientists workin ...
  • Astronomer Misses Meteor On Live TV [w/Video] ...
    He was there to show the public how to spot interesting sights in the night sky -- which made it all the more embarrassing for astronomer Mark Thompson when he missed seeing a meteor on live TV.
  • New Research: Walking 5 Miles a Week Slows Pr ...
    According to the results of a new study, walking at least 5 miles a week may help slow down the progression of cognitive decline and Alzheimer's Disease in the elderly. Walking at least 6 miles a week can also help prevent healthy individuals from developing Alzheimers.
  • Bacteria ate up all the methane that spilled ...
    This plume of dissolved methane should have lurked in the water for years, hanging around like a massive planetary fart. But by August, it had disappeared. On three separate trips through the gulf, John Kessler from Texas A&M University couldn’t find any traces of the gas above background level ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • They Dare Not Speak Its Name … Rothschild Zi ...
    By David Icke – Davidicke.com I have written and spoken extensively about the agenda behind the unfolding global financial crisis and here I will expose the coordinating force, or at least the prime one, behind that agenda and so much else, including 9/11. Most conspiracy researchers either don’t re ...
  • Piers Corbyn Warm Weather Not Causing Cold
    Piers Corbyn of http://www.weatheraction.com most famous for predicting our current weather anomalies by using a Solar Lunar predictive method, explains here how the Climate Warming scare was a contrived hoax.
  • Veteran Journalist Thomas Resumes Column in News-P ...
    Legendary journalist and 50-year veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas has come out of a seven-month retirement to resume her weekly political affairs column today, published in print and online exclusively in the Falls Church News-Press. Thomas’ first column back appears on Page 13 of this ...
  • Unused swine flu vaccine turns into hazardous wast ...
    Stuck with thousands, of unused swine flu shots, local health care providers are faced with the problem to discard flu vaccine for the first time in recent memory. Background: Swine flu vaccine left over from the winter 2009/2010 vacination campaign expires these days and therefore has to be dispose ...
  • USS Liberty Memorial
    On June 8, 1967, US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was suddenly and brutally attacked on the high seas in international waters by the air and naval forces of Israel. The Israeli forces attacked with full knowledge that this was an American ship and lied about it. Survivors have been forbidden fo ...

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

  • Digital Storytelling 101: How Kids Can Use Technol ...
    Kids are naturally drawn to gadgets and new technology, so why not turn that curiosity into a fun – and educational – outlet for their creativity? One of the coolest ways to develop your child’s technological literacy is to get them telling their own stories by creating their own media. From how to ...
  • NYC’s East River May Get Tidal Power Plant
    Wind and solar power dominate the renewable energy conversation, but tidal power could soon play a much larger role. On Monday, the New York based company Verdant Power filed the nation's first-ever application to build a tidal power plant. The desired location? New York City's East River.
  • Artist Sinisa Kukec Transforms Trash Into Treasure
    Read the rest of Artist Sinisa Kukec Transforms Trash Into Treasurehttp://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: 3PQ, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, D ...
  • 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 ...
  • 4 Days Left To Register For 2011 eVolo Skyscraper ...
    You have four days left to register your proposal for the 2011 eVolo Skyscraper Competition, one of the most exciting annual architecture design competitions. Students, architects, engineers, and designers from around the globe are asked to submit their genius ideas for groundbreaking, unique, high- ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Video: Solar Eclipse Seen From Space
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience741816659001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); The Earth-orbiting satellite Hinode caught this stunning video of the annular solar eclipse Jan. 4. An annular eclipse occurs when the moon is slightly farthe ...
  • Dying Trees Make Way for Mice With Deadly Disease
    SALT LAKE CITY — Recent diebacks of aspen trees in the U.S. West may end up increasing the risk posed by a lethal human pathogen, a new study suggests. A tree-killing syndrome called sudden aspen decline that has wiped out swaths of trees across the West in the past decade has also changed the [. ...
  • Drill Close to Reaching 14-Million-Year-Old Antarc ...
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Lake Vostok, which has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years, is about to be penetrated by a Russian drill bit. The lake, which lies 2.5 miles below the icy surface of Antarctica, is unique in that it’s been completely isolated from the other 150 subglacial ...
  • Forensic DNA Test Can Decipher Criminals’ Hair Col ...
    A new genetic test can reveal the hair color of unseen criminal suspects or unidentifiable victims. The new analysis used a collection of recently discovered mutations linked to hair color, and it can predict the hue of an unknown person’s hair with about 80 to 90 percent accuracy. “This could ...
  • Shark Conservation Act Becomes Law
    The Shark Conservation Act has finally become law, giving much-needed protection to some of the ocean’s most magnificent creatures. Signed by President Obama Dec. 4, the law closes a major loophole in an existing U.S. ban on shark finning. That gruesome practice involves fishermen cutting off shark ...

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

  • On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington and Katie Galla ...
    This morning, as part of my current US tour to raise awareness of Guantánamo, in the week that the 173 men still held in the “War on Terror” prison begin their tenth year of detention, I was delighted to be invited to speak to Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez on Democracy Now! Amy and Juan [...]
  • In the Guardian: Bringing Guantánamo Detainees to ...
    Below is an article I wrote for the Guardian’s Comment is free America, after editor Matt Seaton got in touch to ask if I’d be interested in writing a short article promoting the screening of my film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash) at Revolution Bo ...
  • Podcast: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo and ...
    To coincide with my induction as a trusted author on Op-Ed News, I spoke to Rob Kall, Op-Ed News’ executive editor and publisher on Tuesday, for a 75-minute podcast, which will also be broadcast, in some form or other, on Rob’s Bottom Up Radio Show on WNJC 1360 AM, which runs from 9-10 pm EST [...]
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • A Real Public Option In Connecticut?
    And so it would seem.The other day for an open thread at ePluribus Media I commented on "the intended public option that should be Sustinet in Connecticut," and it would seem that is to be the case if the Sustinet Health Partnership Board of Directors get their way according to the report they hande ...
  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • Newest Extreme Right Demand: Bring Back McCarthyis ...
    Between 1950 and 1954, Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy led one of the most notorious political witch-hunts in U.S. history. Aided by the parallel activities of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), McCarthyâs anti-communist crusade divided politicians, captivated the media, and fanned ...
  • Defender of Hate Group Leader Campaigning to Head ...
    Saul Anuzis, leader of the Michigan GOP until last year, announced earlier this week that he would be challenging Michael Steele for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Anuzis had made a failed but significant run against Steele, the party’s first black leader, for the same ...
  • White Supremacist Turned FBI Snitch Turner Sentenc ...
    The sentence wasn’t as harsh as he feared, but neo-Nazi blogger and shock-jock radio host Hal Turner will spend 25 months in prison worrying about white racists he believes will be eager to snuff him for having been an FBI informant. Turner, 48, whose vicious rhetoric was much admired among white su ...
  • Better Homes and Aryans: April Gaede Wants to be a ...
    April Gaede, long-time white supremacist and Jill-of-all-Aryan-trades, is working on yet another new project. Perhaps the Aryan matchmaker service she was trying to launch in January isn’t working out so well, so Gaede is moving from breeding material to reading material. Her latest venture, which s ...
  • Buyer Beware: Veterans Today and its Anti-Israel A ...
    Veterans Today (VT) is a website that bills itself as a “military veterans and foreign affairs journal.” And, indeed, many of its contributors are military veterans or veterans’ advocates from across the political spectrum. VT also offers some information about veterans’ benefits (lifted from the Ve ...

change: org.

  • Horse Slaughter Proponents Try to Raise Their Odds ...
    It's too bad that what happens in Vegas doesn't really always stay in Vegas. This past week, the dubiously named "Summit of the Horse" took place at the Las Vegas South Point Hotel and Casino to plot how to make horse slaughter for human consumption legal again in the U.S. Wyoming State Representati ...
  • Oldest African National Park Faces Destruction in ...
    Virunga National Park, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is Africa's oldest national park. Not only does it offer a sanctuary for animals, it also brings income to the local population from tourism and fishing. Everyone loves the beauty and history of the park. Well, everyone except for t ...
  • The Saudi Strategy to Block Online Freedom of Spee ...
    Common sense tells us if it ain't broke don't fix. Unfortunately the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information, MOCI, seems to be lacking in the common sense department. Since last September, the MOCI's spokesperson, Mr. Abdulrahman al-Hazzaa has been talking about how the ministry will soon unveil ...
  • Facebook Comments Reveal Prejudices on Homelessnes ...
    Recently I had the privilege to share our new documentary "On the edge" with a group of women staying in a shelter in Tallahassee.  One woman, hearing that my hands were freezing when I came in to set up, gave me one of those new-fangled hand warmers, a toasty little treat for my hands. This act, ...
  • Somos Republicans Condemns Attacks on "Anchor Babi ...
    A number of representatives on the state and federal level in the Republican Party have developed an obsession with attacking the American-born children of undocumented (and, they're thinking, brown-skinned) immigrants, willing to violate the 14th Amendment to deny these innocent babes their birthri ...

Common Dreams -News

  • ‘Don’t Repeal Health Law – Go Beyond it to Single- ...
    Statement by Physicians for National Health Program WASHINGTON - A nationwide organization of doctors who favor a single-payer health care system today rejected calls by Republican leaders to repeal the new health law, noting that the law contains modest benefits for patients that should not be s ...
  • Center Moves to the Center, Courting the Middle
    by Peter Hart Obama's selection of conservative Democrat William Daley as his new chief of staff didn't surprise anyone. So reporters were left to explain the political shift behind the move. Some saw little movement at all, since Daley's political views would seem more or less in line with his ...
  • Unlikely Coalition Pushes Back Against Arizona-Sty ...
    by Corrie MacLagganFive days before the Legislature convenes , representatives of civil rights, business and religious organizations sounded alarms about Arizona-style immigration legislation and other proposals that they say are anti-immigrant and would be harmful to Texas families and businesses.r ...
  • Thousands Head South for Sudan Vote
    Thousands of southerners have returned to south Sudan from the north ahead of the independence referendum that could see the south split from the north to form a separate state. International envoys including Jimmy Carter, the former US president, Thabo Mbeki, the former South African president, ...
  • Germany Shuts Nearly 5000 Farms in Dioxin Scare as ...
    German officials are investigating possible "illegal activity" after a company allegedly supplied 25 animal feed makers with 3,000 tonnes of contaminated fatty acids. Tests from the Harles und Jentzsch plant in Schleswig Holstein found excessive levels of the poisonous chemical dioxin, ...

Lifehacker

  • Use the One-A-Month Technique to Adopt Habits that ...
    We're not even a week into the New Year and you're probably already feeling the pressure of your resolutions. Get out your list and get ready to overhaul it with the One-A-Month technique for a better shot at year-long personal growth. More ...
  • Welcome to the First Open Thread of 2011 [Open Thr ...
    We've spent the week beefing up our 2011 resolutions. Jump inside this week's open thread for a little more peer-style resolution support—and to do all your regularly scheduled open-threading. More »
  • Use Custom Search Engines to Turn Off Google Insta ...
    If you like Google Instant sometimes, but want to turn it off for some searches, reader lastlifelost shows us how to do so using Firefox and Chrome's custom search engines. More��
  • Twittrd Shows You the Most Popular Links on Any We ...
    While we at Lifehacker have some handy indicators next to each post so you can track what's popular, not all sites provide the same functionality. Free service Twittrd will show you how often a given link has been tweeted instead. More�� ...
  • DIY Bottle Opener from Scrap Wood
    Whether you continually lose those tiny bottle openers or you want to have a little DIY fun this weekend, DIY site Instructables demonstrates how to make a bottle opener out of a piece of scrap wood, one nut, and one bolt. More�� ...

Water Privatization

  • Review urged on privatization laws and prospective ...
    MANILA, Jan. 7 (PNA) -- With the series of increases in utility costs, including the use of Metro Manila's light rail mass transport and its expressway system, a party-list lawmaker on Thursday recommended a review on existing laws on privatization, build-operate-transfer (BOT) scheme and other rela ...
  • War of words over water at Westhill: Debate team t ...
    In 1809, Joel Barlow wrote, “If we estimate its magnitude by the length of its course and the quantity of water it throws into the sea, it is much the greatest river that has hitherto come to our knowledge.” The same could be said as a metaphorical statement about the debate team from the high schoo ...
  • City of Keyser eyes water system privatization
    Keyser, W.Va. — By Richard Kerns Tribune Staff Writer KEYSER – Faced with an uncertain future for an $11 million improvement project that city officials say is crucial to the future of the Keyser water system, city officials Wednesday hosted representatives of a private water company that offered to ...
  • Water woes
    Global investment firm aims to buy Mountain Water by Jessica Mayrer The world's second largest private investment firm may soon control the water flowing through Missoula's taps. The Carlyle Group, which holds $97.7 billion worth of assets in countries across the globe, announced Dec. 22 that it int ...
  • 20th Anniversary: Privatization and free market ec ...
    When I arrived in Prague in November 1993, The Prague Post was still located in the old Communist Party headquarters close to Wenceslas Square, in a maze of dusty offices where the working-class bureaucrats and politicos looked at us as a cadre of foreign counter-revolutionaries.

Guardian

  • White girls 'easy meat' for Pakistani rapists, say ...
    Row erupts after former home secretary says grooming for sexual abuse is a particular problem amongst Pakistani menA row has broken out after the former home secretary Jack Straw said some British Pakistani men regard white girls as "easy meat" for sexual abuse.The Blackburn MP spoke out after two A ...
  • British troops move out of Helmand
    �� First permanent UK base set up outside province since 2006 �� Patrols aimed at securing key road in violent part of Kandahar �� Household Cavalry working under US commandBritish troops have established a permanent presence outside Helmand province for the first time since 2006 in an effort to sec ...
  • Liverpool sack Roy Hodgson
    �� Hodgson: 'Last few months most challenging of career' �� Henry: 'Decision made in best interests of club'Liverpool have announced that Roy Hodgson has left the club by "mutual consent" � and that Kenny Dalglish has been installed as caretaker manager until the end of the season.Hodgson, 61, has b ...
  • US tells Twitter to pass on messages
    Icelandic MP to fight attempts by the US department of justice to access her private informationA member of parliament in Iceland who is also a former WikiLeaks volunteer says the US justice department has ordered Twitter to hand over her private messages.Birgitta Jonsdottir, an MP for the Movement ...
  • Control orders for terrorists will stay
    Nick Clegg admits that government will retain restrictions for terror suspects who cannot be prosecuted in British courtsNick Clegg today promised to end virtual house arrest, contained in the current anti-terror control orders regime, but for the first time admitted that the government will retain ...

McClatchey

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

thwap's schoolyard

  • Christie Belchforth's new book
    Saw a picture of Christie Belchforth the other day. Good god! She looks like some the clearly demented hostess of an ancient children's program that's been running for decades too long. Anyway, apparently the idiot has produced a new book. In her own words, it's not about the merits of the Six Nati ...
  • Cherry in Afghanistan: Canadian political culture ...
    Many, many, many, other bloggers have already done a fine job of deriding the obnoxious Don Cherry's nauseating buffoonery in Afghanistan: The 76-year-old Cherry worked the mostly French-Canadian troops at each stop with the Kandahar version of his long-running Coach’s Corner segment that airs du ...
  • Whatever
  • Overwhelmed
    I'd started a piece that was going to be called "I read the news today, oh boy" which was just going to be a survey of what was in the news recently, but time constraints and the enormity of it all, the sheer weight of things, overwhelmed me. I still want to mention them, so here they are in no par ...
  • New Site Added to Blog-roll
    I've added a few over the last week or so actually, and I intend to add s'more from people gracious enough to comment here. But I've been doing some research on Ipperwash and Caledonia and I very much like the site: Solidarity with Six Nations. Check 'em out!

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

  • The Amazing Ability Of People To Simply Ignore Dat ...
    Nate Silver, who, before he became famous as a political data analyzer on his FiveThirtyEight website (now hosted by the NY Times), was famous to a much smaller group of folks for his similar data analysis of baseball data at Baseball Perspectus. Every so often, he jumps back to baseball analysis, ...
  • Mimi & Eunice: Ye Olde Technologie Killing Culture ...
    Last month a well meaning friend in San Francisco wrote to me:Netflix hurts and an idiot student told me last spring,"Why pay too see Sita at the Red Vic when I can watch it on the Internet for free."� I tried to be polite in my answer...� I fear theInternet, Netflix, and other forms of amusement ar ...
  • Feds Subpoena Twitter For Info On Wikileaks-Suppor ...
    In the feds continued efforts to find something (anything!) to charge Wikileaks with, its latest fishing expedition apparently involves issuing a subpoena to Twitter asking for info on the account of Birgitta Jonsdottir, a Member of Iceland's Parliament, who had been instrumental in helping Wikileak ...
  • DailyDirt: 3D Printing Doesn't Require Dorky Glass ...
    Every so often, there's a catchy gadget label that tries to make things sound cooler than they are. For example, I've actually seen sunglasses that advertised that they provided "HD vision" -- even though they were non-prescription. The "HD" fad may be dying down, but the "3D" train might just be ...
  • Court Dismisses Harry Potter Plagiarism Case: 'Str ...
    There have been a whole bunch of claims from authors of random books about wizards that JK Rowling "stole" the idea for Harry Potter from them. This happens all the time with super successful books. Half the time I think it's really just an attempt by the authors of the other books to get some fre ...

VacTruth

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

  • CES 2011: Goal0's Off-Grid Solar Power Solutions f ...
    Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch None of this tiny-solar-cell-stuck-to-a-jacket-pocket stuff. Goal0 has an off-grid solar charging station that is intended to keep the outdoorsy charged up while out camping. It is designed to be rugged and efficient, and it looks like a high quality solar product. Che ...
  • CES 2011: Smart Plugs and Energy Monitors from Int ...
    Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch The connected home is a big theme at this year's CES, and part of that is the use of smart plugs and monitors for managing home energy consumption. There are no small number of adapters and equipment for both at the plug and meter levels on display, showing that consum ...
  • CES 2011: What Does the 3D TV Rush Mean For Our En ...
    Samsung displays the "world's largest" 3D LED TV; Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch 3D TVs, projectors, cameras -- it's all the rage this year at CES and the next wave of entertainment. Practically every major company that plays a role in entertainment electronics, from televisions to cameras, has thei ...
  • South Carolina Pilot Project Puts Farmers' Markets ...
    Photo: vigorman University of South Carolina scientists are developing a plan to place farmers' markets at health centers. Dr. James Hébert specializes in cancer prevention research, especially with regards to diet. Support for the project comes from a $1.5 million grant from the Centers for Di ...
  • Livia Firth Upcycles Colin Firth's Moth-Eaten Suit ...
    Junky Styling transforms Colin Firth's moth-eaten suit into gorgeous eco-fashion dress. Photo: Vogue UK Livia Firth stunned on the red carpet last year when she accompanied her husband, actor Colin Firth, to numerous award shows dressed to the nines in gorgeous, green fashion. I am happy to rep ...

Biosingularity

  • The Deadliest Diets
    Two specific eating patterns increase the risk of death for older adults, a 10-year study finds. Compared to people who ate healthy foods, men and women in their 70s had a 40% higher risk of death if they got most of their calories from high-fat dairy foods or from sweets and desserts. University of ...
  • Eliminating dopamine turns fruit flies into masoch ...
    Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that seems to have been around from about the time of the very first nerves. Every animal we’ve looked at, including some that branched off prior to the Cambrian, seems to express the dopamine signaling machinery in its nerves. So you might expect that eliminating dopa ...
  • Toxic House Cats?
    Toxoplasmosis is a serious disease when transmitted from a pregnant mother to the unborn fetus, potentially resulting in stillbirth, brain damage, or long-term eye damage that can lead to blindness. Even worse, it’s extremely common in a most common animal, the house cat—and it’s easily transmissibl ...
  • The code for survival
    When cells are exposed to life-threatening stresses, they take quick action to save themselves. Among other defenses, they start manufacturing proteins that perform critical tasks such as repairing DNA. Researchers at MIT and the University of Albany have now discovered one way that cells boost prod ...
  • Wandering Tumor Cells Predict Poor Outcome
    Women with metastatic breast cancer who have no tumor cells circulating in their blood after the first round of treatment live longer than those who do, French researchers report.Circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, are cells that break off from a tumor and escape into the bloodstream. These cells can ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • Help a blogger out
    DCblogger could use some help.� Please do something if you can.
  • Recalibrating convenience, privacy and security
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postWe will probably always have to balance computer security and ease of use. Ideally security is baked in, and we go on our merry way without having to think about it. This is the case with viruses. Users were once expected to downlo ...
  • 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) ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Organic New Year's Resolution Videos
    Here are videos to inspire your organic New Year's resolutions.Click here to read this article
  • The Scoop on Neotame - Not Allowed in Organics
    Neotame, as a synthetic additive, is not allowed in organic foods, contrary to the Internet rumor.Click here to read this article
  • Let EPA Know That it's Time to Ban Triclosan
    Your voice is critical in generating public comments on a petition, published in the Federal Register, to ban the antibacterial chemical triclosan. As you may know, this chemial, now found in the bodies of 75% of the US population, is linked to endocrine disruption, bacterial and antibiotic resistan ...
  • US Says Too Much Fluoride in Water
    Fluoride in drinking water - credited with dramatically cutting cavities and tooth decay - may now be too much of a good thing. Getting too much of it causes spots on some kids' teeth. Click here to read this article
  • Tell Your Grocer: We Want GMOs & Factory Farm Prod ...
    Please send this letter to the top 6 US food retailers to urge them to support Truth-in-labeling.Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Tributo a nuestro planeta I (Paraísos Naturales)
    Para ver más imágenes de paisajes, escoja un número. [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 ...
  • Fotografías de caballos III (Equinos de Pura Sangr ...
    Si desea 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 guardar ...
  • Las flores de mi jardín V (8 imágenes gratis para ...
    Para ver más fotos de flores, escoja un número a continuación. [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 ...
  • Wallpapers de música disco II (Imágenes de Colores ...
    Si desea ver más wallpapers de música, 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 guard ...
  • ¿Aún buscando el Paraíso? ¡Descubre las Islas Malv ...
    Si aún continúas buscando el paraíso, te invito a descubrir Las Islas Malvinas. Un verdadero edén rodeado por hermosas playas de color azul turquesa, aguas cristalinas, lujosos hoteles, días soleados, noches bohemias, chicos atractivos y mujeres hermosas. A través de 27 fotografías, explora este inc ...

Center for a Livable Future

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

Norwegianity

  • Extra ticket time
    Just got two free tickets for tonight’s Portland-Wolves game and so far no takers for the second ticket but the catch is you have to get to Target Center by 5 pm for a pre-game bench sit. It would make for a long evening with no guarantee of a Wolves win, so a love of [...]
  • Felonious Monk
    They finally came for me. My ISP forwarded an email from some Cali jerkwad lawyers who’re sending Notices of Claimed Infringement to every IP address that downloaded True Grit. Who me? Why not Inception or Nude Nuns with Big Guns, the other two Top 10 Most Shared Movies on BitTorrent currently resid ...
  • 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 ...

Public News Service

  • New Year's Resolution to Quit Smoking? – Tip ...
    New Year's Resolution to Quit Smoking? – Tips to Help Kick the Habit for Good Phoenix, AZ – It’s the first week of the New Year and a crucial time for those who resolved to quit smoking – which takes an average of 7-8 tries before most people are successful. The American Lung Association offers seve ...
  • Tossing Arizona's Wild Birds a Winter Lifeline
    Tossing Arizona's Wild Birds a Winter Lifeline Phoenix, AZ – When the weather turns cold, wild bird populations in Arizona, especially in the mountains, have to work hard to find enough food to survive. Now is the time that Arizonans can help by putting out feeders and keeping them full this winter. ...
  • Driving Issues with Elders? Gentle Discussion Tips ...
    Driving Issues with Elders? Gentle Discussion Tips Phoenix, AZ – The holidays may be the only time all year that all your loved ones are under one roof. It could also be the best time to assess an older family member's driving skills, and whether it may be time to have that difficult conversation a ...
  • What's the Potential Economic Impact of the Tax De ...
    What's the Potential Economic Impact of the Tax Deal? Phoenix, AZ – What effect on the economy would the tax plan compromise agreed to by President Obama and congressional Republicans have, in Arizona and elsewhere? Comments from Andrew Fieldhouse, federal budget policy analyst with the Economic Pol ...
  • Immigrant Advocate: AZ Can’t Afford Voluntee ...
    Immigrant Advocate: AZ Can’t Afford Volunteer Border Force Phoenix, AZ – Arizona state senator Jack Harper (R-Surprise) is proposing a state-backed volunteer force to patrol the border and report illegal activity to authorities. An immigrant advocate says it’s something the state can’t afford. Comme ...

Center for Food Safety

  • In Wake Of Pending FDA Approval Of GE Salmon, Cali ...
    Bill Would Require Labels on All Genetically Engineered Salmon   Dissatisfied with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) current review of the first-ever proposed commercialization of genetically engineered (GE) salmon, today California State Assemblymember Jared Huffman introduced an Assemb ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • White Supremacy, Europocentric Racism and US Natio ...
    Indianz.Com > News > Opinion: Obama and liberals trying to give land to 'first' Americans Another topic that I have been reading about that is equally stressful is the ongoing effort on the part of our president and his radical liberal cohorts to give land to people who claim to have been here on th ...
  • Lakota deserve apology for Wounded Knee, 120 Years ...
    Lakota deserve apology for Wounded Knee, 120 Years Ago | The Progressive The 120th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre should serve as a reminder of the U.S. government’s brutal war on American Indians. On the morning of Dec. 29, 1890, the U.S. 7th Calvary attacked a Lakota community camped al ...
  • Fire in abandoned New Orleans warehouse kills 8
    Fire in abandoned New Orleans warehouse kills 8: "acquetta Evans, a homeless woman who is currently living in her car in the Upper 9th Ward, told the WSWS, “If they weren’t homeless, they wouldn’t be deceased. I’m homeless too. Maybe if they were in a house they’d be alive today. They was real good ...
  • Report: 44% of Israeli Jews support rabbis' edict ...
    Report: 44% of Israeli Jews support rabbis' edict forbidding rentals to Arabs in Safed :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] According to the results of a new survey, 48% of Israeli Jews oppose the call to forbid renting or selling property t ...
  • First, Your Shoes; Next, Your DNA: Elliot Cohen on ...
    First, Your Shoes; Next, Your DNA: Elliot Cohen on How Surveillance Is Erasing Freedom and Autonomy, Step by Incremental Step :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] AB: One of the most chilling examples you give of the components of the Total ...

Pensieve

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

Green Times

  • Selection of organic vegetables
    Summertime is salad time! Currently you can find a great range of the most delicious organic vegetables on the market. To find a place where you can purchase all kinds of fresh organic fruits and vegetables, use the Green Times directory, section Food Drink (pictures/food-drink.php). If y ...
  • People enjoying bright day at beach
    Australians can feel lucky to be able to enjoy beautiful sunny weather most part of the year. 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 s ...
  • Environmental News 07/01/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Australian cockatoo
    The Australian Cockatoo is a beautiful icon of the national fauna. These loud birds live in flocks and  feed themselves during bright daylight.    You can take easy actions to protect Australian birds like the cockatoos. For example, never use pesticides to get rid of vermin.  Intoxicated seed ...
  • Environmental News 06/01/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Man admits he lied to FBI to frame associates as t ...
    ShareThisMan admits he lied to FBI to frame associates as terrorists 06 Jan 2011 A man who lied to the FBI to frame several associates as a terrorists pleaded guilty Thursday to making false statements to officials. Syed Omair Ali, 25, of Queens, admitted that he contacted the FBI last May to alert ...
  • 1.5 million Americans filed for bankruptcy in 2010
    ShareThis1.5 million Americans filed for bankruptcy in 2010 By Jerry White 06 Jan 2011 The number of people in the US filing for bankruptcy rose by 9 percent last year to 1.53 million, as more working families fell victim to job losses, plunging home values and unforgiving creditors. The figure was ...
  • Israeli soldier killed, 4 injured in Gaza
    ShareThisIsraeli soldier killed, 4 injured in Gaza 08 Jan 2011 One Israeli soldier has been killed and four others injured by resistance fighters in the Gaza Strip during clashes that saw Tel Aviv warplanes carrying out airstrikes. The clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters took pla ...
  • Votes of GOP lawmakers who missed swearing-in rule ...
    ShareThisVotes of GOP lawmakers who missed swearing-in ruled invalid 06 Jan 2011 The votes cast during the first days of the congressional session by two Republican lawmakers who skipped Wednesday's swearing-in ceremony will be invalidated, House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Calif.) said ...
  • DOJ sends order to Twitter for Wikileaks-related a ...
    ShareThisDOJ sends order to Twitter for Wikileaks-related account info 08 Jan 2011 The U.S. Justice Department has obtained a court order directing Twitter to turn over information about the accounts of activists with ties to Wikileaks, including an Icelandic politician [Birgitta Jónsdóttir], a lege ...

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

  • Polizeros Radio
    Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, and Josh Mull of Firedoglake & Rethink Afghanistan and myself have done six podcasts on BlogTalkRadio so far, and judging from the listens, we seem to be getting an audience. Polizeros Radio is on Thursday night at 8:30 PM PST, however you can listen anytime and also downl ...
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  • Taiwan encouraging potty-trained pigs
    Pigs are apparently easy to potty-train, and doing so saves water, decreases disease and water pollution, and boosts fertility. The Taiwan EPA, encouraged by results from a pig farm that potty-trained 10,000 pigs, wants the practice adopted nationwide among their 6 million pigs.
  • Electric vehicles are not clean
    The dirty little secret of plug-in vehicles is that they’ll all charge their batteries with inherently dirty night-time power and be responsible for more CO2 emissions than a fuel efficient Prius-class HEV that costs a third less and doesn’t have any pesky issues with plugs, charging infrastructure ...
  • On breaking unions, states filing bankruptcy, and ...
    During the Great Depression, Congress passed an act saying states and municipalities could file for bankruptcy. The law was challenged and part of it was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1936 in Ashton v. Cameron County Water Imp. Dist. Congress then rewrote the law so that municipalities could fi ...

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

  • EIV/TLS Regression – Why Use It?
    This is a guest post reprinted with permission from Roman M’s blog statpad.  I found this to be the best explanation I’ve read of the difference in OLS and EIV methods and it has the additional benefit of discovering that the solutions of the EIV regression are dependent on the input scaling.   T ...
  • Let it Rain
    Anastassia Makarieva has been graciously keeping me up to date on the goings on with their recent publication.  She sent me an email today with a bit of a surprise. Dear Colleagues Recently news sneaked in here and there that a “secret” project in Abu Dhabi has successfully created artificial rains ...
  • Tell us what you really think
    Judith Curry has a post on Libertarians and environment.  Apparenlty, I’ve been keeping my opinions to myslef too much lately because after reading the following sentence, I let loose with a chapter size description of my opinions.  It’s like I don’t have a blog or something. So why do Libertarian ...
  • A half million dollar coverup – and going
    SPPI sent me their press release on Cuccinelli’s efforts to make Michael Mann’s email public.  I don’t for a minute believe that Cuccinelli is interested in protecting government money already spent – which is what the law is supposed to protect – he’s trying to make public Mann’s emails.   This s ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • There's a Sucker Born Every Minute
    Dwight Garner wins the Lede of the Day Award for his scathing and accurate assessment of the New York Times Book Review's self-help bestseller list: The New York Times Book Review’s advice and miscellaneous best-seller list — the place where self-help books go to eyeball one another — is a ... ...
  • Senate Dems Unveil Roadmap for Filibuster Reform
    Open Congress has the latest on the senate Democrats' filibuster reform plan: Senators Tom Udall [D, NM], Tom Harkin [D, IA] and Jeff Merkley [D, OR] have released an official outline of their filibuster reform package. As expected, it would force senators who want to filibuster to actually .. ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

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  • Facebook Roundup: Loading Time, HuffPo, Congress, ...
    Facebook Site Loads Fastest – Facebookâs home page loads faster than all other social networking sites, according to a recent survey from AlertSite. Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 Facebookâs home page loaded at an average rate of 1.06 seconds. YouTube followed, then LinkedIn, Twitter and MySpace. [Image ...
  • Platform Update: Out with the Old Insights, Furthe ...
    Facebook announced the discontinuation of the old Insights dashboard, an extension of the deadline for migration away from deprecated APIs, and a revamp of the Facebook for Wesbsites introduction documentation in its weekly Platform update on the Facebook Developers Blog. Old Insights Dashboard to b ...
  • Facebook Moves Friend Requests Link to the Home Pa ...
    Facebook has moved the active link for friend requests from the Requests panel in the bottom of the home page’s right sidebar to the “Friends” navigation link in the top of the left sidebar. Similar to application requests, pending friend requests will still appear as text in the Requests panel, but ...
  • The Best Facebook-Integrated Devices from CES 2011
    The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas featured the launch of many new products that include Facebook integrations. The emerging trend is the inclusion of either Facebook social sharing features, or device-specific Facebook apps on devices that don’t require a connection to a computer. Most ...

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

  • The “Exceptionally “Redacted 9/11 Commission Inter ...
    Newly Released 9/11 Commission Files at Cryptome.Org Last week John Young’s information site Cryptome.Org began publishing documents related to the interviews conducted by the 9/11 Commission which were released for the first time. On January 3, Cryptome posted the 9/11 Commission’s report on my int ...
  • Turkish Intel Chief Exposes CIA Operations via Isl ...
    âIn the 1990s Gulenâs Madrasas sheltered 130 CIA agents” in Kyrgyzstan & Uzbekistanâ Yesterday Washington Postâs Jeff Stein published a very interesting but incomplete story regarding a recently published memoir by former Turkish Intelligence Chief Osman Nuri Gundes. Here is the title of his post: I ...
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  • 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 ...

Afro Spear

  • Don’t Leave the Church with Your Hands Throw ...
    I read a while back that Anne Rice, the writer of the Vampire Chronicles, and who is/was a Catholic, has decided to leave the church because of the rampant hypocrisy that she sees there. In an article of the Los Angeles Times dating back to August 2010, Anne was quoted as saying: “The author Anne [. ...
  • This Song Sometimes Makes Me Wanna Believe…
    Lawd knows if I could – I would. I can’t, but ever since I heard this joint back in the day, I felt it, felt it deep down in my soul. I hear the work song, the crack of the whip, the holla, the praise shout, the squeal, the love that can’t be concealed. I [...]
  • “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 [...]

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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  • JFK deathbed confession | Big news Repost from Bor ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction, the best screenwriters that ever lived would never be able to come up with the truth of John F. Kennedy's assassination or that of 911.
  • Conservative Conundrum
    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
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Unsuitable Blog

  • 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

  • LocalWiki: Laying the Groundwork
    A few of you have been wondering what we've been up to since our Kickstarter pledge drive ended, so we want to give you a quick update on our Knight-funded project, LocalWiki. For those of you who are more technically inclined, we hope to also provide an insight into these early stages of our proces ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...

High Country News

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

  • PELOSI GOES MAD! Blames Bush For Dems Losing House
    Maybe all those injections into her lips, or the pressure of being Speaker of the House but allow me to suggest that it is time to call those nice men to with the special jackets.� You know the ones with the long sleeves that tie in the back? Nancy Pelosi has gone wacko.� We're not talking about a l ...
  • Some Guys Are NEVER Satisfied-Fashion Model Massag ...
    Some Guys Are NEVER Satisfied-Fashion Model Massager Hates His Job, is my favorite of the Viral Footage videos in today's post. Most guys I know would take his job in a minute. Unfortunately its not a real job, its a commercial for an employment service, but nevertheless its a must see. Other grea ...
  • Absolute Proof That MSNBC Believes Their Viewers H ...
    VThere are those who think that the 10-15 regular viewers of MSNBC have to have to have an intelligence level somewhere between burnt toast and potato salad. After all, they are regularly fed progressive propaganda dressed up as news and come back for more. Today, America's progressively biased ...
  • Moonbat Madness! Global Warming Makes Oceans Warm ...
    This one has to be the most creative global warming story to come out of the Church of Global Warming in a long time. The Shores of Kent in Great Britain has been cluttered with approximately 40,000 dead crabs. The explanation being sold to the public is Global Warming is making the seas warm, ...
  • New Congressional Report Shows Obamacare Will Kill ...
    Its the battle of the reports, most of the mainstream media is trumpeting a Congressional Budget Report saying that killing Obamcare will increase the budget by 230 Billion to the deficit between now and 2021. Most are not giving the same coverage to a report released by the GOP, which shows that th ...

The Real Agenda

  • “Authoritarianism is the Natural State of Hu ...
    Professor David Shearman -an adviser for the United Nations IPCC- says humans are a “malignant eco-tumour” and an “ecological cancer. Paul Joseph Watson An influential professor who worked as an assessor for the United Nations IPCC has called for democracy to be replaced with an eco-dictatorship whe ...
  • China getting set to absorb Europe
    China Will Back Europe, Euro With Currency Reserves Bloomberg Europe and the euro will remain among the most important areas of investment for China’s world-record $2.65 trillion of foreign-exchange reserves, a central bank official said in the nation’s latest show of support. “The euro and the Euro ...
  • In New York 41% of Pregnancies Result in Abortions
    Meanwhile, bureaucrats push for more centers to facilitate abortions CBS Archbishop Timothy Dolan is calling for efforts to make abortions in New York City “rare.” Dolan gathered with other religious leaders on Thursday to draw attention to the city’s high abortion rate. The city health department l ...
  • Eco-fascistas claman por ‘Ciudades Prisión&# ...
    Adaptación Luis R. Miranda Las personas que se resisten a que el Estado controle cada aspecto de su existencia se verán obligados a vivir en ‘ghettos’ miserables, mientras que el resto de la población va a estar bien controlada en las ciudades que se tornen en cárceles monitoreadas con alta tecn ...
  • DARPA Begins Mind’s Eye Program
    Jason Douglass Infowars.com January 6, 2011 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) kicked off the Mind’s Eye Program earlier this week.  The program’s focus is the development of smart cameras that can actually think for themselves.  These systems will not just watch us but will also ...

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

  • Sulzman Weekly Rush Hour Bannering
    COLORADO SPRINGS- We covered all corners and medians at the intersection of Nevada and Uintah for a Rush Hour Bannering against adding Apache helicopters to Ft Carson’s 4th Cav whatever. –Next week: Nevada Ave and I-25, Friday 4:30pm be there!
  • Dr. Hajo Meyer on real threat to Jews
  • You can lead a horse to water, but can it give its ...
    Nope. From the horse’s mouth: On advice of lawyer, don’t talk about arrest. On advice from retired lawyers: civil liberties issue iffy. Advice gleaned from the overworked ACLU: case not as good as others we’ve got. Advice from friends: hope for a plea deal. Request from PPJPC colleagues: pretend we ...
  • Death of a Chaplain.
    First, it should be noted that Doctors, Psychiatrists and Chaplains are, like everybody else in the services, Combatants under the Geneva Conventions. Their orders are to keep the soldiers physically and mentally and “morally” able to follow their orders, which are to Kill Other Human Beings. That’s ...
  • Should local Israel boycott arrestees face wrongfu ...
    COLORADO SPRINGS- There’s a plan tomorrow, Thursday Jan 6 at 1:30, for the first court appearance of BDS activists Cyndy Kulp and Ted Nace, arrested in November at a local shopping center, and charged with trespass to curtail their free speech. THE PLAN is for the two Middle East Peace Project membe ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • The Year in Duh-Bunking: February
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog writes: The Year in Troof: February Follies Gage's Gaggle held their 1000th signer press conference and celebration. Steven Jones chose this opportunity to speculate that perhaps the New World Order had caused the Haiti earthquake. Sibel Edmonds became a 9 ...
  • Skeptics eating up Big Pharma crucifixion of Dr An ...
    The British Medical Journal has published a report by journalist Brian Deer and accused Dr Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who in 1998 published a study suggesting a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, of fraud. Over the last 12 years there has been considerable media misrepresentation of Andre ...
  • 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 ...

Fooducate

  • Funny Flowchart for Choosing Food at the Supermark ...
    We all know how hard it is to choose healthy food at the supermarket. If you don’t already have an iphone with Fooducate’s free app, this flowchart may be the next best thing. Kinda. Thanks to flowchart creator Darya Pino, neuroscience PhD, columnist, and foodie. Check out her excellent blog Summer ...
  • So, You Think You’re Eating Healthy…
    Here’s a perplexing mathematical puzzle – If 2 out of 3 Americans are overweight or obese, how can it be that 9 out of 10 Americans (think they) are eating healthfully? That’s what Consumer Reports wants to know, and a recent article explains why so many of us get it wrong: We found that Americans [ ...
  • 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/ ...

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

  • Canadian rowers to cross Atlantic in support of tr ...
    Dylan (right), Nigel (center), and Zach (left) have been training for several months for their world record attempt. © D. White/Survival A team of 16 men and women will depart from Agadir, Morocco, in the next few days in an attempt to break the world record for the fastest East to West cross ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Two bloggers who could use a helping hand
    Times are tough, all around, and I know that’s true of many of my readers. It’s also true of a couple of good bloggers.  The first is Roy Edroso of Alicublog, who skewers the right in fine style.  He’s down and out, living with a friend and could use a helping hand if you can [...]
  • 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 thi ...
    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 ...
  • Two bloggers who could use a helping hand
    Times are tough, all around, and I know that’s true of many of my readers. It’s also true of a couple of good bloggers.  The first is Roy Edroso of Alicublog, who skewers the right in fine style.  He’s down and out, living with a friend and could use a helping hand if you can [...]

Age of Autism

  • Dan Olmsted On Charlottesville -- Right Now with C ...
    Listen HERE. Charlottesville--Right Now, Interviews, New audio, News, Radio Shows, WINAAdd comments 1.6.11 Co-Author of the book The Age of Autism Dan Olmsted joins Coy to discuss the connection between mercury and autism. Today’s conversation focuses on the recentBritish Medical...
  • Vaccine Safety Advocate Kim Stagliano Discusses Wa ...
    By Kim Stagliano Many of us have spent the last few days fielding phone calls and emails from reporters around the country. Here are three articles on the newest chapter in the Tale of Dr. Andrew Wakefield expressing support for...
  • Age of Autism Winners! The Puzzling Piece Necklace
    Thank you to Melissa Winter of The Puzzling Piece for offering a free necklace to three AofA readers. Joan, Shelley and Shawn are our winners. The contest is CLOSED. Also, Melissa is running a promotion - if you sell 60...
  • The British Medical Journal Shows Misjudgement, Bi ...
    Managing Editor's Note: We have covered the MMR/Wakefield/Lancet story in dozens of posts. Please click ageofautism.com/andrew-wakefield to read the history. By John Stone The publication of new/old allegations of fraud against Andrew Wakefield in BMJ (HERE) follows on a succession...
  • Fiona Godlee: Editor with an Agenda?
    By John Stone As I pointed out in BMJ Rapid Responses last year (HERE) Dr Godlee was appointed to her present post shortly after a presentation to British National Formulary ‘The Next MMR – could we do better?’ (HERE) in...

Global BDS Movement

Farm Wars

  • The USDA’s Organic Deception
    “USDA Certified Organic” is a big business, and the deception is great. With a bit of sleight of hand, by simply moving a word around a bit, you have a complete subterfuge.
  • Truth Squad Radio – On Wednesdays Now!
    We will be discussing the USDA Certified Organic’s Dirty Little Secret: Neotame, as well as getting updates on other important issues.
  • USDA Certified Organic’s Dirty Little Secret: Neot ...
    Let me make this perfectly clear. Neotame does not have to be included in ANY list of ingredients! So, if you buy processed food, whether USDA Certified Organic or not, that food most likely will contain Neotame - a neurotoxin worse than Aspartame.
  • Report from Iron Mountain; Using fear to make peop ...
    "The final candidate for a useful global threat was pollution of the environment. This was viewed as the most likely to succeed because it could be related to observable conditions such as smog and water pollution– in other words, it would be based partly on fact and, therefore, be credible. Predict ...
  • USDA GMO Policy
    Monsanto, Vilsack, and the USDA GMO juggernaut.

Open Your Eyes News

  • US Consumers boost borrowing in November
    Associated Press – Americans increased the amount of money they borrowed in November, mostly to buy cars and attend college. But the second straight month of gains barely raised consumer credit above its lowest point in four years. Consumer debt rose $1.3 billion in November, the Federal Reserve sai ...
  • British MP jailed over expenses scandal
    ABC – A former British Labour MP has been jailed after pleading guilty to making false expense claims. David Chaytor will spend 18 months in prison, becoming the first politician to be convicted and sentenced over the expenses scandal which rocked the country’s parliament. The former Labour MP repre ...
  • US concerned by Tunisia social media crackdown
    Associated Press – The United States is concerned about demonstrations and a crackdown on social media in Tunisia, following weeks of unrest in that country. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley urged restraint on all sides Friday, and said Tunisians should enjoy the right to protest publicly. He ...
  • Fresh rioting breaks out in Algerian capital Algie ...
    BBC – Fresh rioting has broken out in the Algerian capital and several other cities, after days of unrest over food price increases and unemployment. Police fired tear gas and used water cannon on stone-throwing youths following Friday prayers in Algiers. The riots have been linked to rising food pr ...
  • Babies given antibiotics before six-months ‘ ...
    Daily Mail – Babies given antibiotics before the age of six months are up to 70 per cent more likely to develop asthma later in childhood, according to a study. Researchers found infants treated with the drugs faced a 40 per cent rise in risk of the incurable condition if they were prescribed a sing ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • House Republicans get early warning from Californi ...
    "This committee will remain vigilant to ensure that politics and special interests do not interfere with the ability of the EPA and the states to act in accordance with the law to respond to what the scientists are telling us,’’ Boxer said.
  • 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...

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
Local firm will install Chinese solar panels
Sacramento Bee
- Jan 08, 2011
- 9 hours ago
Premier Power Renewable Energy Inc. has tapped a Chinese manufacturer for a big chunk of the solar modules it plans to install this year. ...
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Mo. measure filed to block renewable energy rule
Bloomberg
- Jan 07, 2011
- Jan 07, 2011
(AP) — A Missouri senator has filed a resolution to block part of the rules developed by utility regulators for a renewable energy mandate. ...
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President Extends Energy Efficiency and Renewable Provisions
Buildings
- Jan 08, 2011
- 3 hours ago
President Obama has signed a bill that will extend many energy efficiency and renewable energy provisions through 2011. Included is Section 1603 of the ...
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$125-M renewable energy projects approved in Subic
Manila Bulletin
- Jan 08, 2011
- 5 hours ago
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT, Philippines — The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has given the green light for the establishment of renewable energy projects ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
Ecology issues fine for illegally burning dock on public land
Access Washington
- Jan 07, 2011
- 18 hours ago
SPOKANE — The Moccasin Bay Association received a $13500 penalty from the Department of Ecology (Ecology) for illegally burning a 12-slip boat dock at ...
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USA: Ecology issues new burn ban for Asotin County
FireEngineering.com
- Jan 07, 2011
- Jan 07, 2011
The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is issuing a burn ban for Asotin County because stagnant air conditions in the area are not improving. ...
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County's stormwater plan nixed by WA panel
The Columbian
- Jan 07, 2011
- Jan 07, 2011
The plan had been developed in a compromise with the Department of Ecology, which oversees the federal Clean Water Act. It was challenged by the Rosemere ...
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'Lavasa could badly affect ecology'
Daily News & Analysis
- Jan 06, 2011
- Jan 06, 2011
... Western Ghats and if the Lavasa project was allowed to go ahead,many more similar projects would come up destroying the ecology of the Western Ghats. ...
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Water Power

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Water fluoride levels causing tooth disease
abc7.com
- Jan 08, 2011
- 5 minutes ago
The federal government has called for a reduction in the amount of fluoride in drinking water because of a growing epidemic of fluorosis, a tooth disease ...
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Mass. rolling out solar hot water rebate program
Boston Herald
- Jan 08, 2011
- 52 minutes ago
Solar hot water systems generate heat from sunlight to make hot water. The roof-mounted solar collectors for hot water systems look similar to solar ...
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Cancer-Causing Chemical Found in Milwaukee Water
WHBL Sheboygan
- Jan 08, 2011
- 4 hours ago
Years later, the Milwaukee Health Department and Milwaukee Water Works are explaining why its presence in the city's public water system doesn't offer an ...
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Haiti: nestled by the sea, with no clean water to be found
Montreal Gazette
- Jan 08, 2011
- 15 minutes ago
By Sue Montgomery, Postmedia News January 8, 2011 12:02 PM Women collect water at a camp in Port-au-Prince's Delmas district last month. ...
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