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Thomas Paine

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Sunday, February 6, 2011

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  • The Second Arab revolt: Winners and Losers
    Summary: The biggest outside winner is Iran. It is however US policy that gave Iran its greatest present -- the ouster of Saddam Hussein from power.They have built on this windfall by an intelligent policy wherein they have shown themselves ready to support non-Shiite movements such as Hama ...
  • Egypt: A Great Test for the West
    Summary: Nabi SonboliThe West has two options: support change in Egypt and benefit from a democratic Middle East; or support inefficient, illegitimate, corrupted dictatorships and authoritarian governments and lose credibility, which will impose further costs on itself and the region. sour ...
  • Will There Be War on Iran? A Fresh Yet Diverge ...
    Summary: Ali Fathollah-Nejad on an explosive panel debate between two SOAS experts that contributed to a richer understanding of the ongoing crisis source: The Middle East in Londonread more
  • Crisis in Egypt-Iran wins, Israel loses in tu ...
    Summary: Meanwhile, the entire US strategy to isolate Iran in its region by erecting a phalanx of "pro-West" Arab regimes plus Israel is withering away and Iran's influence as a regional power may touch a qualitatively new level. source: Asia Timesread more
  • How About a Clean Break – with Israel?
    Summary: Back in 1996, a group of leading neoconservatives led by Richard Perle drafted a memorandum for then (as now) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recommending that Israel adopt a more aggressive and assertive policy towards its neighbors. They called it a "Clean Break" to su ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Free-Floating Magnetic Fields Found Shrouding ...
    NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope may have uncovered a new high energy mystery: galaxies and even large-scale galaxy clusters have magnetic fields shrouding them much like Earth. While examining distant extra-galactic sources, a team of astronomers at the University of...
  • Natural Particle Accelerator Observed Above E ...
    The European Space Agency's Cluster satellites have flown through a natural particle accelerator just above Earth's atmosphere, gathering clues to how most of the dramatic displays of the northern and southern lights are generated. Such natural particle accelerators pop up...
  • Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy ...
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  • World’s Most Powerful Laser Reveals an Invisib ...
    In brilliant beams of light from the world’s most powerful X-ray laser -the Linac Coherent Light Source, physicists have taken snapshots of living viruses and see the 3-D shape of proteins frozen in nanometer-scale crystals. The technique and the images...
  • 'Search for Twin-Earth' Update: NASA Finds Ear ...
    We think it's only a matter of time now that we'll find a Twin Earth. NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable "Goldilocks" zone, a region where liquid water could...

Natural News

  • General Mills imitation blueberries story keep ...
    (NaturalNews) It's the story that just keeps going viral. We broke it here on NaturalNews with the release of The Blueberry Deception, a mini documentary that exposed the truth about many name-brand food products that fake their blueberries. You can watch it here: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=7 ...
  • EU Commission tries to destroy zero tolerance ...
    (NaturalNews) The European Union (E.U.) Commission, at the behest of lobbyists from the biotechnology, food, and animal feed industries, is proposing to undo a long-held "zero-tolerance" policy that protects the European food supply from contamination by unapproved genetically-modified organisms ...
  • Popular cancer drugs increase risk of death, s ...
    (NaturalNews) A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has revealed that the popular cancer drug Avastin (bevacizumab) raises patients' risk of death by up to 350 percent when combined with chemotherapy. Designed to stop the production of new blood vessels in the ...
  • Wyoming, Maine introduce food freedom legislat ...
    (NaturalNews) On December 19, 2010, the U.S. Senate voted 73 - 25 to pass the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, also known as S. 510. Though the bill has not yet officially been signed into law, several states, including Wyoming and Maine, are gearing up to challenge parts or all of it with the ...
  • California desert city proposes broadcasting f ...
    (NaturalNews) In an effort to raise the morale of his city's residents, mayor R. Rex Parris of Lancaster, Calif., has proposed broadcasting recorded bird sounds around town. He told listeners in his recent "State of the City" speech that scientific studies have shown that bird sounds improve hap ...

Threat Level

  • FCC Net Neutrality is a Regulatory ‘Trojan Hor ...
    The Federal Communications Commission’s net-neutrality decision opens the FCC to “boundless authority to regulate the internet for whatever it sees fit,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation is warning. The civil rights group says the FCC’s action in December, which was based on shaky legal autho ...
  • Times Editor Alarmed By Prospect of WikiLeaks ...
    NEW YORK — New York Times executive editor Bill Keller may not regard Julian Assange as a journalistic peer, but he made clear Thursday that he doesn’t think the WikiLeaks founder should face criminal prosecution in the United States. Keller joined his counterpart from Britain’s Guardian newspap ...
  • No, Hackers Can’t Open Hoover Dam Floodgates
    The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is shooting down a key legislative talking point: that the internet “kill-switch” legislation is needed to prevent cyberterrorists from opening the Hoover Dam’s floodgates. The brouhaha started last week, when legislative aides on the Homeland Security and Govern ...
  • British Border Agent Fired for Putting Wife on ...
    A UK border agent lost his job after authorities discovered he’d placed his wife on a terrorist watch list in an attempt to rid himself of her. The woman was left stranded in Pakistan for three years because she was unable to fly back to the UK after visiting relatives, according to the Daily M ...
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  • Feds Tackle Sports-Streaming Pirate Sites
    The U.S. government seized 10 domains connected to broadcasting professional sports Wednesday as part of a widespread crackdown on internet piracy. The court-ordered seizures, as part of the government’s Operation in Our Sites, are aimed at web sites that sell counterfeited goods, as well as sit ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Republicans Continue to Mock the "Health of th ...
    In a 2008 campaign full of low points, John McCain's deepest descent may have come during his final presidential debate with Barack Obama. Dripping with condescension, McCain used air quotes to mock the concern of abortion rights advocates for the "health of mother." Now two years later, the n ...
  • The Triple Legacy of Ronald Reagan
    On Sunday, Americans will mark the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan. But for the conservative movement, the now-decades long hagiography project is reaching a crescendo. While the Gipper's former speechwriter Peggy Noonan today lauded his goodness in the Wall Street Journal Friday, Sarah Palin ...
  • Darrell Issa's Freedom of Information Act
    In his new role as grand inquisitor of the Obama administration, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is performing his own freedom of information act. That is, after eight years during which President Bush as a matter of policy by default rejected Freedom Information of Act (FOIA) requests, Issa no ...
  • Right-Wing Hoax Highlights GOP Redefinition of ...
    As TPM and others reported last week, Planned Parenthood had alerted the FBI that some of its clinics had likely been targeted by right-wing activists claiming to run an interstate sex trafficking ring that involves minors and illegal immigrants. So that the anti-abortion group Live Action and ...
  • Egyptians' Approval of U.S. Tripled After Obam ...
    While the Obama administration is grappling to find the right path forward in Egypt, Republicans are deeply divided. Fearful of the Muslim Brotherhood and fearful for Israel, some like John Bolton and Rep. Thaddeus McCotter have urged support for the authoritarian "devil we know." Others, like ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • US-Israeli Strategy Crashes in Egypt
    The uprising in Egypt marks an end to a long U.S.-Israeli strategy of imposing "order" on the Middle East, says Gareth Porter. February 1, 2011
  • The Hope of Groundhog Day
    The classic movie "Groundhog Day" captured the human plight of struggling to learn from life's lessons, observes Winslow Myers. February 1, 2011
  • Reagan's Bargain/Charlie Wilson's War
    From the Archive: Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, now totaling 100 or so bombs, is another part of Ronald Reagan's legacy. By Peter W. Dickson
  • Lebanon Marks Another US Reversal
    U.S.-Israeli policies run into another reversal in Lebanon with the rise of the militant Shiite group, Hezbollah, notes Ivan Eland. February 1, 2011
  • Assailing Assange on '60 Minutes'
    "60 Minutes" reporter Steve Kroft takes the side of secrecy in duel with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, notes David Swanson. January 31, 2011

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Could Austin make another bad deal with STP
    On January 25th, Juan Garza, President of Advanced Technology with NRG Energy, Inc. sent a letter to Austin Energy general manager, Larry Weis.  The contents of that letter are outlined below. Two months ago, I informally delivered a proposal to you for Austin Energy and NRG Energy to explore a ...
  • Rolling Blackouts, who’s to blame?
    A massive winter storm rolled through Texas last night causing 7,000 megawatts worth of power plants to shut down and in the wee hours of the morning, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the grid operator, declared an energy emergency. ERCOT called on state energy suppliers to cut ...
  • WCS press conferance 095 [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
  • Sunset chairman supporting Railroad Commission ...
    The Sunset Advisory Commission is putting the wheels in motion to overhaul the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC).  And, the chairman of the Sunset Commission is telling two of RRC commissioners that their agency “badly broken.”  Commissioner Michael Williams, the longest-serving member of the trio ...
  • Texas leads in use of diesel as fracking fluid
    Drilling companies injected more than 32 million gallons of fluids containing diesel into the ground during hydraulic fracturing operations from 2005 to 2009, according to federal lawmakers.  About a third of the 32 million gallons was straight diesel fuel, with 49.8% of the 32.2 million gallons ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • James Randi offers new $1m challenge
    James Randi is offering $1m to any homeopathy manufacturer able to prove that their products work. Previously Randi famously offered $1m to anyone who...
  • All-seeing car could help blind people drive
    Mark Riccobono has become the first blind man in the US to legally drive a car around a racetrack. The feat was made possible by a special SUV fitted ...
  • Artist grows an ear on his arm
    In a bid to share what it hears with the world an artist has had an ear surgically implanted in his arm. The ear was placed under the skin with plans ...
  • Scientists identify biggest ever bear
    A South American giant short-faced bear is now believed to be the largest bear that ever lived. Weighing 3,500 pounds and stretching to a height of 11...
  • Will Apophis hit Earth in 2036 ?
    The answer is most likely 'no' however its exact path may be more complicated than previously thought. NASA had previously investigated the likelihood...

Grassroots

Climate

  • Harper Presses Obama to Approve Keystone Oil S ...
    Source:� Postmedia News Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a personal pitch Friday for Pres. Obama to support a controversial $7 billion pipeline that could double the amount of oilsands crude exported to the U.S.
  • EPA-Bashing Won't Work, Sen. Rockefeller Warns ...
    Source:� The Hill Sen. Jay Rockefeller delivered a "frank, honest message" to the industry: His bid to delay U.S. EPA emissions limits won't work if cleaner-burning coal does not move closer to reality.
  • California Cap-Trade Plan Dealt Blow by S.F. J ...
    Source:� San Francisco Chronicle The California Air Resources Board violated state law in 2008 when it adopted a plan to reduce emissions and again when it passed cap-and-trade regs, a San Francisco Superior Court judge has ru ...
  • Arizona Solar Plant Picks Chinese Supplier
    Source:� NYT Green Suntech, the Chinese solar giant, has won a contract to supply PV panels for a 150-MW project in Arizona, marking China�s entry into a U.S. power-plant market dominated by American companies.
  • Department of Energy Seeks to Cut Solar Costs ...
    Source:� Reuters The DOE said it will spend $27 million on a new effort to reduce the costs of solar power by 75% by the end of the decade in a bid to make the renewable power source as cheap as fossil fuels.

GreenBiz

  • Hyundai Heating Up Competition for Fuel Effici ...
    The Korean automaker announced that it will step up its drive to build the most fuel-efficient cars around by publicly releasing its fleet's average fuel economy every month.
  • How to Spur Behavior Change to Promote Sustain ...
    Despite the wide array of sustainability initiatives companies are undertaking on their own operations, perhaps the biggest challenge to scaling up global sustainability efforts is convincing end users to reduce their own impacts.
  • The Empire State Building Strikes Back at Ener ...
    The statistics on the greening of the Empire State Building are almost as dizzying as the 102-story New York City landmark. And the lessons that can be learned from the efforts by the project partners are numerous as well, Johnson Controls' Clay Nesler told the audience at the State of Green Bus ...
  • Enterprise Rent-A-Car Makes $150M Green Buildi ...
    The company has developed a new green building standard to guide its investment called the Enterprise Sustainable Construction Protocol (ESCP). Enterprise Rent-A-Car expects ESCP could rack up energy and water savings of up to 35 percent.
  • How the Chevy Volt Became the Heartbeat of GM
    The second part of an in-depth look at how GM took its electric vehicle from concept to prize-winning machine, and the seven steps the program's leader used to shepherd it across the finish line.

Reuters Global

Booman Tribune

  • Casual Observation
    I understand the desire to keep things somewhat orderly in Egypt and to plan meticulously and collaboratively for free and fair September elections. Chaos doesn't benefit anyone. But I'm not sure this is a horse we can ride. I am also a little doubtful that the momentum for reform can be conti ...
  • Today in the Stupid
    An amazing thing happens when the federal government tells the light bulb industry that their products need to be more efficient. Scientists go to work to make their products more efficient. While it's true that the incandescent bulbs that we are used to will be phased out over the next two-to ...
  • Bunch on Reagan
    Will Bunch gets some precious space in the Washington Post to debunk five myths about Ronald Reagan, on the occasion of his 100th birthday. For example, Reagan didn't shrink the size of government. Reagan famously declared at his 1981 inauguration that "in the present crisis, government is ...
  • Serious Question
    Packers or Steelers? I'm a Giants fan. If you know what that means then you'll also know exactly why I like the Steelers and the Packers so much more than other teams in the NFL. It's a small fraternity. They share many things in common, including a stubborn refusal to employ cheerleaders. ...
  • Casual Observations
    It's a good thing our president was born in Africa so he knows how to handle any crisis there. Also, too, he's not afraid to branch out from the from the King James. Discuss

European Tribune

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • 9 Secrets for a Lifetime of Like, Love, and Lu ...
    By Lori Hollander LCSW-C, BCD Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lori and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Will your relationship last a lifetime? Will you and your partner enjoy each other’s company and have a deep and intimate connection, emotionally and ...
  • In UK, Non-Heterosexual People Experience More ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary A study of more than 7,000 adults living in the United Kingdom found that those who identify as gay, lesbian and bisexual are more likely to experience a variety of mental health problems than are their heterosexual peers. The study didn’t measure how many of these ...
  • Decoding Resilience Through Study of Pain
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Researchers at Cornell were looking at how attitude affects chronic pain. In the process, they may have discovered one of the keys to resilience—a term psychologists and therapists use to describe the natural ability to weather difficult situations with minimum em ...
  • The Psychology of Trauma: How We Deal With Dis ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary When a large disaster strikes, some of those affected recover faster than others. Some may have recovered psychologically for the most part by a few weeks later; others find themselves considerably shaken up, still needing to find a therapist months down the road. ...
  • What if Sociopathy and Psychopathy Were Treata ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Psychopathy and sociopathy both refer to extreme forms of antisocial thinking, accompanied by the inability to feel compassion and empathy. While it’s uncertain whether these result from genetic or environmental factors, one thing is certain: we don’t really know ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Bands tune up against mountaintop removal - Bo ...
    Bands tune up against mountaintop removal Boone Mountain Times While mountain top removal mining does not happen in North Carolina, Watauga's electricity providers, Blue Ridge Electric and New River Light and Power, ...
  • COURTS: Robbery Trial Approaches; Prestera Sue ...
    HNN Huntingtonnews.net COURTS: Robbery Trial Approaches; Prestera Sued for Death at Housing Unit ... HNN Huntingtonnews.net FEDERAL COURT: The suit over new Environmental Protection Agency rules pertaining to Mountaintop Removal has been moved from the US District Court for the ...
  • Online Only: Finally, Washington frowns on mou ...
    Fox News Online Only: Finally, Washington frowns on mountaintop removal mining Greece Post After making a full scientific assessment of environmental impacts, the EPA has revoked the permit for the largest mountaintop removal project ever to ... Bay plan adds to W.Va. lawmaker umbrage vs EPABus ...
  • Jay tells coal not to work for 'status quo' - ...
    Politico Jay tells coal not to work for 'status quo' Charleston Gazette ... opposition to the US Environmental Protection Agency's crackdown on mountaintop removal mining and to EPA regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions. ... Manchin makes first Senate floor speechWest Virginia Public Br ...
  • Commentary: EPA's rejection of mountaintop rem ...
    Commentary: EPA's rejection of mountaintop removal was correct move McClatchy Washington Bureau Revoking the permit was the responsible course for an agency that has, sadly, allowed far too much mountaintop removal in the Appalachian region. ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (Rasmussen Re ...
    Rasmussen Reports: Daily Presidential Tracking Poll  —  The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president.  Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove, giving ...
  • 10 Things Conservatives Don't Want You To Know ...
    Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress: 10 Things Conservatives Don't Want You To Know About Ronald Reagan  —  Tomorrow will mark the 100th anniversary of President Reagan's birth, and all week, conservatives have been trying to outdo each others' remembrances of the great conservative icon.  Senate ...
  • Exclusive: Sarah Palin Interview With The Brod ...
    David Brody / The Brody File: Exclusive: Sarah Palin Interview With The Brody File  —  In an exclusive interview with The Brody File, Sarah Palin criticized President Obama for his handling of the situation in Egypt saying that this was his, “3am White House phone call” and, “that call went rig ...
  • Charles Krauthammer: 'If Godzilla Appeared on ...
    Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs: Charles Krauthammer: 'If Godzilla Appeared on National Mall Gore Would Say It's Global Warming'  —  Charles Krauthmammer on Friday said if Godzilla appeared on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Al Gore would blame it on global warming.  —  Such marve ...
  • 2 Detained Reporters Saw Secret Police's Metho ...
    New York Times: 2 Detained Reporters Saw Secret Police's Methods  —  WE had been detained by Egyptian authorities, handed over to the country's dreaded Mukhabarat, the secret police, and interrogated.  They left us all night in a cold room, on hard orange plastic stools, under fluorescent ligh ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.6, southwest of Sumatra, Indonesia
    Sunday, February 6, 2011 11:21:16 UTCSunday, February 6, 2011 06:21:16 PM at epicenterDepth: 9.90 km (6.15 mi)
  • M 6.0, Tonga
    Monday, January 31, 2011 06:03:26 UTCMonday, January 31, 2011 07:03:26 PM at epicenterDepth: 68.60 km (42.63 mi)
  • M 5.0, Vanuatu
    Sunday, February 6, 2011 01:06:52 UTCSunday, February 6, 2011 12:06:52 PM at epicenterDepth: 35.10 km (21.81 mi)
  • M 5.1, Guam region
    Sunday, January 30, 2011 02:04:55 UTCSunday, January 30, 2011 12:04:55 PM at epicenterDepth: 61.60 km (38.28 mi)
  • M 5.6, Bio-Bio, Chile
    Saturday, February 5, 2011 16:11:38 UTCSaturday, February 5, 2011 01:11:38 PM at epicenterDepth: 13.70 km (8.51 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Challenging China on rare earths
    Eight years after tacitly ceding the high-tech metals market to Beijing, a US minerals company prepares to reopen a California mine holding vast deposits of the elements. Suzanne Goldenberg reports.It's a deep pit in the Mojave desert. But it could hold the key to America challenging China's tec ...
  • In Mali’s soil, anxiety grows
    Foreign companies are snapping up the best fertile land in the food-insecure country. Madeleine Bunting examines what this means for local subsistence farmers, who fear the loss of their fields, crops and water.A new complex of government offices on the banks of the river Niger in Bamako, Mali, ...
  • If money grew on trees
    Saving the world’s rain forests would be the cheapest way to stave off climate change. But, argues Fiona Harvey, without a business model that works, it is just a hopeless dream.Walking into the Amazon rain forest, the overwhelming impression is of the sheer abundance of its life. A savoury, sou ...
  • Drying up the Han
    China’s bold programme to divert water to its parched northern cities will come at a cost for the clear-running Han River and those who rely on its flow, says Wang Kunzuo.If you wanted to trace the roots of Chinese civilization, you would do well to take a trip along the banks of the Han River. ...
  • Moving the masses
    Struck by a spate of fatal landslides, Shaanxi plans to relocate 2.4 million people to safer ground. But will this ambitious programme work? Meng Dengke reports.On December 7, a hugely ambitious resettlement project planned for Shaanxi province in north China secured approval in principle from t ...

AlterNet Top Stories

  • Rape is Rape, DCCC, But Does Heath Shuler Know ...
    SO. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee thinks that we should, and I quote from their Twitter: “Tell the GOP to abandon their bill to deny health coverage to rape victims” See, there’s just one problem with that. It’s not just the GOP’s bill. 10 Democratic representatives are co-spon ...
  • Why Full Employment Is Required to Sustain a S ...
    It will take mighty resolve on the part of the people to take political power away from the interests of big business and Wall Street.
  • Army’s Mental Health Care Failed Bradley Manni ...
    The uprisings in Egypt have inspired all sorts of people, including Private Bradley Manning, the young man being held in solitary confinement in Quantico, accused of being the source for Wikileaks. Manning’s friend David House, tweeted after visiting him this week, “Bradley’s mood and mind soar ...
  • Arizona Tea Party Gone Wild: New Bill Gives St ...
    How did this latest episode in “Arizona Tea Party Gone Wild” get by the state’s attorney general Tom Horne? While the Canadian immigrant Horne has been obsessed with banning Tucson Unified School District’s academically successful Mexican American Studies program for allegedly promoting “the ove ...
  • Turn Your Kids Into Personal Finance Champs
    Do your children think you are a walking ATM? If you are tired of “must-have-that-toy-right-now” tantrums as you walk down the aisles of Target or Toys âRâ Us, go straight to your nearest bookstore and buy Alisa T. Weinstein’s new book, EARN IT, LEARN IT.  Alisa tosses the old allowance-based s ...

Threat Level

  • FCC Net Neutrality is a Regulatory ‘Trojan Hor ...
    The Federal Communications Commission’s net-neutrality decision opens the FCC to “boundless authority to regulate the internet for whatever it sees fit,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation is warning. The civil rights group says the FCC’s action in December, which was based on shaky legal autho ...
  • Times Editor Alarmed By Prospect of WikiLeaks ...
    NEW YORK — New York Times executive editor Bill Keller may not regard Julian Assange as a journalistic peer, but he made clear Thursday that he doesn’t think the WikiLeaks founder should face criminal prosecution in the United States. Keller joined his counterpart from Britain’s Guardian newspap ...
  • No, Hackers Can’t Open Hoover Dam Floodgates
    The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is shooting down a key legislative talking point: that the internet “kill-switch” legislation is needed to prevent cyberterrorists from opening the Hoover Dam’s floodgates. The brouhaha started last week, when legislative aides on the Homeland Security and Govern ...
  • British Border Agent Fired for Putting Wife on ...
    A UK border agent lost his job after authorities discovered he’d placed his wife on a terrorist watch list in an attempt to rid himself of her. The woman was left stranded in Pakistan for three years because she was unable to fly back to the UK after visiting relatives, according to the Daily M ...
  • Feds Tackle Sports-Streaming Pirate Sites
    The U.S. government seized 10 domains connected to broadcasting professional sports Wednesday as part of a widespread crackdown on internet piracy. The court-ordered seizures, as part of the government’s Operation in Our Sites, are aimed at web sites that sell counterfeited goods, as well as sit ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Egypt tries to return to work, protests hit ec ...
    CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's government tried to get the nation back to work on Sunday and people queued in Cairo when banks opened for the first time in a week as protests to force President Hosni Mubarak to quit entered their 13th day.
  • Nokia likely to sack several executives: repor ...
    FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The world's biggest cellphone maker Nokia is likely to sack several executive board members in a management shake-up, a German weekly reported.
  • Palin trademark application refused -- for now
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's bid to trademark her name and that of her daughter, Bristol, ran into trouble at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office because the application forms were unsigned, government records show.
  • Palin says Obama's policies have US on road to ...
    SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Feb 4 (Reuters) - Republican Sarah Palin said on Friday an explosion of government spending and debt under President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats had put the United States on "the road to ruin."
  • Bush's Swiss visit off after complaints on tor ...
    GENEVA (Reuters) - Former President George W. Bush has canceled a visit to Switzerland, where he was to address a Jewish charity gala, due to the risk of legal action against him for alleged torture, rights groups said on Saturday.

IntelNews

  • Egypt intelligence highlights Congress-CIA ten ...
    A US Congressional hearing over a career CIA officialâs promotion turned into a heated exchange on Thursday, as Congress members accused Americaâs intelligence community of failing to provide forewarning of the political instability in Egypt. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #474
    Israel jails Arab activist for spying. Assange used disguise to evade surveillance new book reveals. US Congressman wants to know who wants to know. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #473
    Cyprus recognizes Palestine as independent nation. Top NZ intel scientist had falsified CV. Report uncovers widespread FBI intelligence violations. Continue reading →
  • Analysis: Spy Agencies Failed to Predict Egypt ...
    It is becoming increasingly clear that the ongoing popular uprising in Egypt represents the most important geopolitical development in the Middle East since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. In light of this, it is remarkable how unprepared foreign intelligence agencies have proven in forecas ...
  • Emirates authorities deny Oman spy ring allega ...
    The government of the United Arab Emirates has denied operating an espionage network in the neighboring Sultanate of Oman, saying that spying goes against the countryâs values. The official denial was issued in response to a news report by Omanâs state news agency, which said that Omani authorit ...

War is a Crime.org

  • At Stake in Egypt: Reading Gaza Mom
    By David Swanson The danger of permitting the Egyptians democracy, rather than replacing a dictator with his (and our) torturer lies, let us be honest, not in the possibility that Egyptian politics will approach the religiosity of our own Republican Party, and not in the possibility that the civ ...
  • Haiti Update: Electoral Runoff and Aristide's ...
    Haiti Update: Electoral Runoff and Aristide's Status - by Stephen Lendman With world attention focused on Middle East events, mainly Egypt's, Haiti's gotten little attention despite its compelling need for real change. So far, it's nowhere in sight, nor openly discussed, or demanded like visible ...
  • We're All Egyptians Now!
    We're All Egyptians Now! - by Stephen Lendman And Tunisians, and Yemenis, and Algerians, and Jordanians, and Lebanese, and, of course, Palestinians, suffering for over six decades after Israel stole their historic homeland, over 43 years under brutal, suffocating occupation. Their struggle is ou ...
  • Want to stop religious fanatics, then stop the ...
  • Facebook and Twitter in Tunisia and Egypt: Dec ...
    Excerpted from a University of Virginia student newspaper: Experts, students hold panel on Middle East Quandt, Ayachi, Faiza meet University students in conversation concerning recent unrest, political protests in Tunisia, Egypt By Michelle Davis, Associate Editor on February 4, 2011 Students ...

Grist - News

  • Fish consumption at all time high, says U.N. a ...
    by Agence France-Presse. ROME -- Fish consumption reached record levels in 2010 and world stocks need to be urgently rebuilt, experts at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report Monday. "The contribution of fish to global diets has reached a record of almost 17 kil ...
  • Bordeaux vineyards go organic, slowly but sure ...
    by Agence France-Presse. BORDEAUX, France -- Two historical Bordeaux wine estates have gone green, breaking a long resistance to organic viticulture amongst the region's elite producers. "Still in 2011, there are people who do not trust in the fact that it is possible to grow organic in Bor ...
  • U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon shifts focus from clima ...
    by Agence France-Presse. LONDON -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is shifting his focus away from involvement in international climate change talks and toward new areas in the fight against global warming. Ban is to redirect his efforts from trying to push forward the international clim ...
  • New Senate bill aims to avoid next oil spill
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Senators plan to introduce in the coming weeks new legislation aiming to prevent another disastrous oil spill like last year's massive gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said Wednesday. A similar bill that would revise offshore ...
  • Big cities are not always the biggest polluter ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- Big cities like New York, London, and Shanghai send less pollution into the atmosphere per capita than places like Denver and Rotterdam, said a study released Tuesday. Researchers examined data from 100 cities in 33 nations for clues about which were ...

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

Suzie-Q

  • Oil Tankers In The Wake Of The Egyptian Crisis
    Tech Talk – Oil Tankers in the wake of the Egyptian Crisis The Oil Drum- Posted by Heading Out on February 6, 2011 – 9:01am Gail Tverbergâs analysis of some of the underlying causes of the current Egyptian crisis is cogent, but one of the other consequences caught my attention today. For, as was ...
  • Breaking: Egypt Ruling Party Leadership Resign ...
    Egypt Ruling Party Leadership Resigns; Obama Backs Gradual Transition AP/The Huffington Post Posted: 02/ 5/11 11:39 AM CAIRO – State TV says the top leadership body of Egypt’s ruling party, including the president’s son Gamal Mubarak and the party secretary-general Safwat el-Sharif, resigned Sat ...
  • Arizona Governor Mocks Bloomberg For Arizona G ...
    Jan Brewer Mocks Michael Bloomberg For Arizona Gun-Show Sting (VIDEO) The Huffington Post Nick Wing First Posted: 02/ 3/11 05:19 PM Updated: 02/ 4/11 09:00 AM Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) hit back at New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg this week, suggesting that his undercover sting to expose l ...
  • BREAKING: FOX News Reports: Assassination Atte ...
    BREAKING: FOX News reports: Assassination attempt on Egyptian VP kills 2 bodyguards, sources say— (Unconfirmed as of this post)– Will update when further information is available… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Egyptian Journalist Ahmed Mahmoud Dies Of Gunshot Wounds; First Reported Journalist Death In Upri ...
  • Ron Reagan: Sarah Palin Is A Soap Opera…
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Solari

  • Black Slams Financial Commission
    Tuesday, senior S&L regulator William K. Black slammed the FCIC for failing to call out fraud. As told the Real News: ⢠The Commission was unwilling to use the “F” word (”fraud”) ⢠“They’ve drawn the picture of the horse, but they refuse to call it a ‘horse’” ⢠The Commission’s conclusions co ...
  • Our Inheritance: A World of Galaxies
    What happens when you point the Hubble Space Telescope to a seemingly blank patch of sky? A view that takes you to the edge of the universe! Continue reading the article . . . Solari Report Blog Commentaries Star Eating a Planet (26 May 10) Jewels of The Galaxies! (15 Sept 09) Hubble Repairs Co ...
  • Unemployment Continues
    By Joe Weisenthal [click on the image for a larger version] Continue reading the article . . .
  • Fed Can Keep Most Gold Secrets But Must Yield ...
    By C. Powell Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: The Federal Reserve can keep secret most of the gold documents at issue in GATA’s freedom-of-information lawsuit against it, a federal judge ruled today. But the judge, Ellen Segal Huvelle of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ordered th ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

  • Sources of information about the situation in ...
    Summary:  Amidst all the blather by non-experts and propagandists (using this to advance their foreign policy preferences), there are some reliable sources of information.  Here are a few recommendations. I remain skeptical that large changes will result from this over a period of months or even ...
  • Employment
    Summary:    The US economy continues its slow “recovery.”  It’s not an organic recovery, as it results from three rounds of massive fiscal and monetary stimulus — powerful medicine, with serious side-effects (to be felt in the future).  Lost in our delusions, we confuse this with actual health.  ...
  • About Fourth Generation Infections
    Summary:  Chet explains the nature of outlaws organizations in the 21st century.  Less dangerous but more difficult to exterminate than insurgents.  Not romantic, but profitable.  Life warfare, crime will always be with us — but its form evolves along with society. We now have two chronic e ...
  • Two pictures show an important difference betw ...
    Summary:  Americans tend to see the mote in China’s eye but not the beam in ours.  We project our dark traits onto China, no matter how absurd.  Today we see two pictures that provide a rebuttal to one common myth about China and America. The news media and its pet pedants tell us much abo ...
  • Another climate wild card: solar cycle 24, pe ...
    Summary:  Yesterday we asked if food prices will continue to rise, destabilizing the third world?  Today we ask the same question, with the Sun as the suspect.  This takes us to the frontier of science, beyond the cartoon certainties fed to us by the news media.  This is un-news, hidden from the ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Australian bank threatens staff with sack over ...
    The Australian – The Commonwealth Bank has threatened its employees with disciplinary action, including dismissal, if they do not report criticism of the bank made by others on social media channels, including Facebook. The Finance Sector Union yesterday demanded the suspension of the bank’s new ...
  • Rothschild rebrand drops investment banking af ...
    Telegraph – Five years after its onslaught, the financial crisis has claimed its latest high-profile victim: Nathan Mayer Rothschild. Two hundred years after “the third son” founded his eponymous bank in London, “NM” is being dropped in a rebranding exercise designed to ditch the group’s “invest ...
  • Diet change improved ADHD children’s behaviour ...
    The Australian – Restricting the diets of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder to omit allergy-causing foods can improve symptoms substantially in about two-thirds of cases. Researchers compared the effects on behaviour of giving 50 children aged four to eight a restricted diet ...
  • British Court bans man with low IQ from having ...
    Telegraph – A man with a low IQ has been banned from having sex by a High Court judge who admitted the case raised questions about âcivil liberties and personal autonomyâ. The 41 year-old had been in a relationship with a man whom he lived with and told officials âit would make me feel happyâ [. ...
  • U.S. OKs planting of Monsanto’s modified sugar ...
    LA Times – Move comes after USDA estimates of a sugar shortage. Regulators place some restrictions on the plantings pending a court-ordered review. Opponents say they’ll go to court again to try to stop the action. Despite a court ban, federal regulators said Friday that farmers would be able to ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Efforts to Discriminate Against Muslims Draggi ...
    Another one to remember next time conservatives start wondering why Jews are liberal, is this story about how conservative passion for discriminating against Muslims winds up stepping on the toes of Jewish groups as well: House Bill 45, introduced by Rep. Mike Jacobs, R-Atlanta, states “it shall ...
  • Obama’s Challenges in Egypt Involve Delicate D ...
    It is difficult to comment with any certainty on the situation in Egypt at this moment because it is changing so rapidly and there are so many unknowns. We do know that what is happening is a major political upheaval that will have a significant impact on the country and the Middle East whate ...
  • The Coptic Angle
    Egyptian State TV has aired Pope Shenouda III still calling for an end to protests: “The Egyptian Radio and Television website posted an interview produced by the Nile News channel with Shenouda in which, in an implicit expression of support for the regime, he called on protesters ‘to end protes ...
  • "State" Multiculturalism
    This is England? I woke up this morning to discover that apparently “state multiculturalism” has failed. According to Prime Minister David Cameron: read more
  • How to Get Enemies to the Negotiating Table: A ...
    On Thursday, the Center for American Progress and the National Security Network put on a series of panels to discuss policy options on Iran.  The highlight of the event was a debate between Afghanistan Study Group Member Paul Pillar and Brookings’ Kenneth Pollack.  Both retired intelligence anal ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: At Least the Next Reagan Cent ...
    I love this streak of petty authoritarianism that runs through some conservatives. Rick Santorum doesn't like decisions coming out of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals? Get rid of the entire circuit! What a wonderfully relativistic universe of law and order! I can play this game! I thought Citiz ...
  • The Little Picture: Egyptian National Anthem.
    At least a million people in street protests sang the Egyptian National Anthem, according to Al Jazeera English. (Flickr/Al Janzeera English's photostream
  • How Does It Feel to Be a Problem on the Intern ...
    "A diagram of comments left on a blog post by a rape survivor, asking for Penny Arcade's "Dickwolves" shirts to be discontinued." credit @kirbybits I feel like I promised y'all at least one nerd-culture post, and so far all I've written here is, you know, actual issues. So boring! If you've ...
  • First It's Tyranny, Then It's the Status Quo.
    At the National Review's Agenda blog, Avik Roy uses Ronald Reagan's famous tirade against Medicare as a way to highlight the Kerrs-Mill Act of 1960, a conservative alternative to Medicare: You don�t hear much about the Kerr-Mills Act anymore, for a reason. After the enormously consequential e ...
  • Today in Failing.
    This is pretty hilarious: Though Fox News claims President Obama "misquoted a familiar Bible verse" during the National Prayer breakfast yesterday, Media Matters points out "they seem unfamiliar with the fact that there is more than one version of the Bible."Obama was quoting from the New Inter ...

Buzzflash

  • Reagan Was the Corporate Puppet Who is Still P ...
    MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT As the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan approaches on February 6th, it is hard to escape the Republican voices clamoring for sainthood to be bestowed on the Gipper. What did Ronald Reagan ever do for non-wealthy Americans beyond becoming the symbo ...
  • Pope Says Social Networking Can't Replace Huma ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Yeah, but when it comes to boys & priests Many folks wouldn't be so bitter If the latter rejected human contact and had Just been reaching out on Twitter. http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110124/wl_time/httpnewsfeedtimecom20110124faithfulfacebookpopebenedictb ...
  • Uncloaking the Kochs: Hitting the Streets for ...
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  • WikiLeaks Reveals Lula’s Distaste for Pesky Le ...
    NIKOLAS KOZLOFF FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT A couple of weeks ago, I suggested that Julian Assange might have found a potential home in Brazil, where former president Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva expressed support for whistle-blowing group WikiLeaks.  Interrupting a run-of-the-mill speech about inf ...
  • For Five Years, Justice Thomas Failed To Repor ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Almost 700 grand never got mentioned; We'll hear lots about this in the future. If there were a song about this story We would call it "Ginny the Moocher."   http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-thomas-disclosure-20110122,0,2413407.storyread ...

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Sciencebase

  • The trouble with encryption
    Lots of us encrypt files using the likes of AxCrypt and TrueCrypt. If there’s a risk of losing a device carrying sensitive information such as contacts, email, bank statements, invoices etc, then it is worth using such a tool. The ease with which a file, folder or even complete hard drive or USB ...
  • SpectroscopyNOW – February 1 issue
    Valentine’s Day science – Spring may not quite be in the air, but Valentine's Day is on the way and love is certainly on the minds of researchers in the US. A small functional magnetic resonance imaging has been used to investigate love. The study revealed brain activity in 10 women and 7 men wh ...
  • Six science snippets
    Six science snippets from David Bradley What is entropy? – This property of all matter – this collapse into disorder – is given a name: entropy. Things that are disordered have greater entropy than things that are relatively more organized. A glass of water, in which the molecules of water itsel ...
  • Seven slices of science stuff
    Seven slices of science stuff from David Bradley Vuja de – Thinking outside the box with new eyes? Haven't we see this managerial psychobabble before or is it just vuja de? Alchemist Newsletter – An element close to every Alchemist's heart, quicksilver, or more properly mercury, featured in the ...
  • A tetralogy of science news
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Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • CCR Responds to Death of Awal Gul at Guantanam ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 3, 2011Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement in response to the death of Awal Gul at Guantánamo Bay: "CCR expresses deep regret at the death of Guantánamo detainee Awal Gul. A citi ...
  • Common Cause Condemns Bigotry, Hateful Stateme ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 3, 2011Common CauseCommon Cause's 40 year history of holding power accountable has been marked by a commitment to decency and civility - in public and private. So we are of course outraged to find that a few of those attending the events around a gathering Common C ...
  • NRDC: Upton-Inhofe's Proposal Threatens Public ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 3, 2011Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)Legislation proposed by Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) to block the Environment Protection Agency from enforcing safeguards to protect against carbon dioxide and other pollutants would be a ser ...
  • New Bill, New Problems for Anti-Choice Politic ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 3, 2011NARAL Pro-Choice AmericaNancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, said the anti-choice House leadership's decision to modify a provision that would redefine what constitutes rape will create even more problems for Speaker John Boehner and other an ...
  • “Mubarak Will Hunt Us Down One by One”
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 3, 2011Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)Pro-regime forces in Cairo are attacking and detaining media and human rights workers, leading to wide-spread concerns about an increase in state violence against pro-democracy protesters. Egypt is 7 hours ahead of U ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • With Democracy or Against It -- There's No In ...
    by David SirotaIn America, politicians are rarely compelled to turn rhetoric into action. Presidents make public commitments to support legislation while quietly instructing their congressional allies to kill the corresponding bills. Congresspeople then campaign on policy proposals only to make ...
  • Monsanto Nation: Exposing Monsanto's Minions
    by Ronnie Cummins My expose last week, "The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now?"  has ignited a long-overdue debate on how to stop Monsanto's earth killing, market-monopolizing, climate-destabilizing rampage. Should we basically resign ourselves to the fact that the Biotech Bully of ...
  • Extreme Weather Report From Home: The Thong Wi ...
    by Subhankar BanerjeePeople across half of the US just experienced unprecedented cold, snow and ice brought in by a record setting winter storm. Climate deniers have been wondering, we thought it's gonna be warm with global warming, so why is it so cold? The climate scientists on the other hand ...
  • We All Helped Suppress the Egyptians. So How D ...
    by Johann HariThe old slogan from the 1960s has come true: the revolution has been televised. The world is watching the Bastille fall on 24/7 rolling news. An elderly thug is trying to buy and beat and tear-gas himself enough time to smuggle his family's estimated $25bn in loot out of the countr ...
  • The Dumbing Down of America
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Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Americans: If You're Going to Cut, Cut Militar ...
    By Robert Greenwald Cutting the deficit is all the rage in Washington, D.C., these days, and members of both parties are all too willing to put vital public structures like Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block. The implication is that we can't afford to fund luxurious programs ...
  • Maximal goals = maximum veto points
    By Dave Anderson: The US wants a maximal victory in Afghanistan as defined by "defeating" the Taliban, and destroying Al-Quaeda and any other terrorist organization. The second part of this goal set is achievable, or at least is achievable if it is redefined as reducing the threat to nuisance le ...
  • 2010: Worst Year for Civilian Deaths of the Af ...
    Last year was the worst year for civilian deaths in the war so far, and irregular armed groups backed by the U.S. and by the Afghan government are preying on the population while recruiting and abusing children. Go team. I'm almost numb from continually relaying reports like this, but every time ...
  • After 2014 In Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd I wrote yesterday that all the happy talk on the war in Afghanistan is just that, and that 2014 is not the end of the story by a long chalk. It's a theme taken up by the respected expert Martine van Bijlert of the Afghanistan Analysts Network today in a talk at the Davos 2011 Open ...
  • Happy Talk On The Afghan War Is Just Spin & 20 ...
    By Steve Hynd President Obama had some happy-talk on the Afghan occupation last night, saying: In Afghanistan, our troops have taken Taliban strongholds and trained Afghan security forces. Our purpose is clear: By preventing the Taliban from reestablishing a stranglehold over the Afghan people, ...

Water Wars

  • Preventing Water Wars
    Team studies effect of urban development and water redistribution on local wetlands.
  • Arguments set in tri-state water wars case
    ATLANTA (AP)- An appeals court will hear arguments on the state of Georgia's request to overturn a ruling that could severely restrict metro Atlanta's water supply. Lawyers said the 11th U.S. Ci...
  • One tribunal for all water disputes?
    The water resources ministry is toying with the idea of setting up an integrated water disputes tribunal that will be the one-stop forum for all inter-state water wars.
  • Arguments set in tri-state water wars case
    An appeals court will hear arguments on the state of Georgia's request to overturn a ruling that could severely restrict metro Atlanta's water supply.
  • Hearing Set in Water Wars Case
    The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta will hear arguments March 9 centering a long-running water dispute between Georgia, Alabama and Florida.

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Electronic Intifada

  • The danger to Egypt's revolution comes from Wa ...
    The greatest danger to the Egyptian revolution and the prospects for a free and independent Egypt emanates not from the "baltagiyya" -- the mercenaries and thugs the regime sen ...
  • Visit Palestine
    An advertisement from the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism which ran in National Geographic's Traveller magazine has resulted in more than sixty complaints being lodged with the ...
  • Settlers kill 2 Palestinian teens, soldiers at ...
    Israeli settlers shot and killed two Palestinian teenagers in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank, and then attacked the funeral procession for one of them. Meanwhile, ...
  • Interview: protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square ...
    Matthew Cassel, photojournalist and an editor with The Electronic Intifada, is currently in Cairo and has been documenting the unfolding of the Egyptian revolution. He ...
  • Family of Amr Qawasme, murdered in his bed, se ...
    On 7 January, five Israeli soldiers invaded Subhya Qawasme's home. Her husband, Amr, was shot to death while he was sleeping in their bed as Subhya prayed beside him. A ...

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

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on Government Oversight

  • Smuggled Contract Laborers in Afghanistan: The ...
    By Neil Gordon The Washington Examiner obtained an investigative report that uncovered instances of foreign workers without proper security clearances or identification being smuggled onto U.S. and NATO bases in Afghanistan. According to an April 2010 report by the International...
  • Lawyers Seeking Lobbying Reform
    By Scott Amey Lobbyists and lawyers have endured all kinds of name-calling. But what do you call a lawyer-lobbyist? Here’s one label: a member of the American Bar Association’s (ABA’s) Task Force on Federal Lobbying Laws, a group that recently...
  • The Voices of DCAA?
    By Nick Schwellenbach As part of my testimony this week on improving federal contract auditing and the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA)—the de facto contract auditing agency for the federal government—I said, “You only have to read the hundreds of...
  • Morning Smoke: Is the Military Buying Faulty G ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Former employee...
  • Dog Bites Man in Pentagon Contracting Fraud Re ...
    By Neil Gordon You may have heard about or seen by now this Department of Defense (DoD) Report to Congress on Contracting Fraud. The report was requested last year by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the same man who successfully got...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

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

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canadian Auto Workers staff continue to suppor ...
    The Canadian Auto Workers’ staff made another $15,000 donation to the Rideau Institute’s Ceasefire program. Annie Labaj, Director of the CAW’s International Department, called attention to the important work that the Rideau Institute and the CAW have conducted together, including assisting in c ...
  • U.S. ends, Russia begins colour-coded terroris ...
    Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has announced that the United States will be phasing out the colour-coded terrorism alert program in favour of a system that is supposed to better inform the public about the nature and meaning of terrorism threats.  Homeland Security as ...
  • New START agreement to enter into force Februa ...
    Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton are expected to exchange the formal “instruments of ratification” of the New START agreement, the final step required for the nuclear arms reduction treaty to enter into force, during the Munich Security Conferen ...
  • No, We Will Not Join Fortress North America, M ...
    Stephen Harper and Canada's big corporations want to integrate our security and military forces with the United States. Canadians stopped other border schemes, and we kept Canada out of the Star Wars missile defence scheme. Let's prevent Fortress North America.
  • U.S. urges Canada to stick with F-35
    U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is urging the Canadian government to move ahead with its planned purchase of 65 American F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Kindness Breeds More Kindness
    January 25th, 2011 Wired Science By: Brandon Keim In findings sure to gladden the heart of anyone who’s ever wondered whether tiny acts of kindness have larger consequences, researchers have shown that generosity is contagious. Goodness spurs goodness, they found: A single act can influence doze ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-21-11
    Today, Kevin gives you his advice on how to lower high blood pressure and what to do if you have bad body odor. Self Help: Weight Loss Cure Lose A Pound A Day! Natural Deodorant Oral Chelation Rid Your Body of Candida Get The Toxins Out Health: The Truth Behind Genetically Modified Food Garlic & ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-20-11
    Today, Kevin exposes the truth behind negotiating at pawn shops and how award shows are just 100% shams. Self Help: Healthy Hair Dye      Stay Away From Teflon     Get Rid Of Emotion Pain    Protection From Toxins      Health: College Kids Are Depressed    Toxic Chemical Threatens New York City ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 1-19-11
    Today is your lucky day! Kevin has spent days researching and talking to experts around the world about the Iraqi Dinar. Get an insider’s look into this controversial investment. Find out if you should be jumping on the Iraqi Dinar investment bandwagon or running away from it as fast as possible ...
  • Social Security Is in Far Worse Shape Than You ...
    January 19th, 2011 Daily Finance By: Charles Hugh Smith For years, politicians and policymakers have reassured the American public that the Social Security system, which sends monthly checks out to 53 million beneficiaries, is safely solvent — and will be for decades to come. But federal spendin ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Returned ex-dictator Duvalier charged
    Haiti on Tuesday briefly detained former dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, back from exile in France, and charged him with corruption, theft and abuses of power allegedly committed during his 15-year rule. While a noisy crowd of his supporter...
  • Break the Silence Congo week
    The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
  • Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
    Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
  • African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution ...
    The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...

War in Context

  • Slavoj Zizek and Tariq Ramadan on the future o ...
    Many American academics and pundits from thinktankland should study the way Slavoj Žižek expresses himself. Passionate, emphatic, uninhibited, eccentric, and humorous — above all, a man who knows what it means to speak your mind. This is a display that shows that deep analysis does not need th ...
  • » Dissolving stereotypes of the Middle East
    “Highlights” by Digla, an acoustic rock band from Cairo. This is their first music video.
  • After Mubarak
    Adam Shatz writes: Mubarak, when he stands down, is not likely to be missed by many people in Egypt, where he has pledged to spend his last days, but he will be missed in Washington and, above all, in Tel Aviv. Mubarak and Omar Suleiman, now the interim vice president, worked closely with Israe ...
  • What Mubarak must do before he is replaced
    Hossam Bahgat and Soha Abdelaty, the executive director and deputy director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, write: Egypt’s constitution stipulates that if the president resigns or his office becomes permanently “vacant,” he must be replaced by the speaker of parliament or, in th ...
  • Return of the Turks as Middle East kingmaker
    Joshua Walker writes: “Enough we say, the decision belongs to the people of the brotherly Egyptian and Tunisian nations… Turkey shares the grief of these nations as well as their hopes.” So-declared a self-confident Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday in his prime-time speech ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Earthly cloud similarities seen in solar CMEs
    New SDO images show CMEs exploding from the Sun ripples like clouds do on Earth. It looks a lot like this photo, showing the well known Kelvin-Helmholtz instability. =============================================================== From the University of Warwick: Physicists, led by a researcher at ...
  • On being a scientist – a manual
    Bruce Foutch writes about this book in Tips and Notes to WUWT, Phil Jones might benefit from a gift copy. ON BEING A SCIENTIST A GUIDE TO RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT IN RESEARCH  THIRD EDITION This book is now available from The … Continue reading →
  • WUWT reference pages updated
    There’s a bunch of additions and improvements to the Reference Pages (shown on the menu bar below) this week. Sea Ice Page - Added a Global Sea Ice Cover map at the bottom Atmosphere Page  - Added several new graphics, … Continue reading →
  • Gavinology
    Bishop Hill writes: Fred Pearce is on the receiving end of the full fury of the warmosphere for his article about the Lisbon conference in New Scientist. Pearce, discussing who had agreed to turn up, said this: But the leaders … Continue reading →
  • Snowzilla post mortem – the 2011 Groundh ...
    The nation is rather abuzz over the huge snowstorm (which I dubbed Snowzilla) this week, and I thought I’d put together a collection of loosley related news items. In light of Krauthammer’s recent comment, I’m glad I chose Snowzilla for … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • “The Arab World Is on Fire” by Noa ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Noam Chomsky www.inthesetimes.com February 2, 2011 “The Arab world is on fire,” al-Jazeera reported on January 27, while throughout the region, Western allies “are quickly losing their influence.” The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising i ...
  • Michael Hudson: Reaganomics Sucked Wealth Up, ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ www.therealnews.com Michael Hudson on Reagan Centenary: Creating an economy for predators is not respect for a free market Michael Hudson: Reaganomics Sucked Wealth Up, Did Not Trickle It Down see State of the Union: Unnamable Politics and Useful Idiots by Jo ...
  • As things fall apart By William Bowles
    By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info crossposted on Strategic Culture Foundation 6 February, 2010 If it wasn’t such a tragedy the headlines in the corporate media would be truly laughable! Led of course, by the Washington Post and the New York Times, the duel chee ...
  • NATO Surrenders Europe To U.S. Global Missile ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism February 5, 2011 On January 27 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization took the most decisive step yet toward the implementation of the decades-old project first proposed by the Ronald Reagan admini ...
  • 9/11 Truth: Cynthia Mckinney and Dr Nafeez Ahm ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ RunCynthiaRun | February 05, 2011 On the 8th of March 2010 Cynthia Mckinney (a former US Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party Presidential nominee) and Dr Nafeez Ahmed (best selling author and political scientist) address a meeting of Members of Parliament on t ...

Your New Reality

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    A radical experiment in social chaos is about to be unleashed on the UK. Basically, the government has run out of money and they have try something, anything : At the heart of this revolution is the idea that power shifts from the centre to the local level. The chaotic world that Boles envisag ...
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    A screengrab from a photo by Victoria Hazou of the Egyptian Uprising, part of this remarkable Big Picture collection of the January 25 to February 6 protests to force President Hosni Mubarak to quit the presidency and leave the country :
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    Carl Sagan on The Moon : Fox News' Bill O'Reilly on The Moon : Bill O'Reilly's 'premium content' site should be called 'Bill O'Reilly, Master Troll'.
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    Charlie Sheen's response to American media hysteria about his latest drug, booze, hooker & porn star related adventures : (via @Reddit)
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    Merry Christmas From Minsk

Wired - Science

  • Tiny Water Flea Has More Genes Than You Do
    By Mark Brown, Wired UK This tiny, near-microscopic water flea has more genes than you. In fact, this freshwater zooplankton is the first crustacean to have its genome sequenced, and its 31,000 genes crowns it the animal with the most genes so far. For those keeping count at home, the average h ...
  • Video: Uncontacted Tribe in Brazilian Jungle
    Video of an uncontacted tribe spotted in the Brazilian jungle has been released, bringing them to life in ways that photographs alone cannot. The tribe, believed to be Panoa Indians, have been monitored from a distance by Brazil’s National Indian Foundation, a government agency charged with h ...
  • Black Widow Spiders are Wasteful Gluttons
    The most venomous spider in North America, the black widow, is actually a bit of a couch potato. âThey’re sort of like humans, when they’re around a lot of food they become lazy and wasteful,â said J. Chadwick Johnson, a biologist at Arizona State University. âThey’ll kill food they don’t need, ...
  • Small Asteroid Passes Close to Earth Today
    A small asteroid swooped within 7,366 miles of Earth on Feb. 4 — today — at 2:40 p.m. EST [19:40 UT]. The object, called 2011 CQ1, was discovered earlier today by astronomer Richard Kowalski using a 0.68-meter telescope near Mount Bigelow outside of Tuscon, Arizona as part of the Catalina Sky S ...
  • Your Next Football Party Could Be Vacuum Fried
    Championship games come and go, but one Super Bowl matchup remains the same: yummy, unhealthy fried snacks versus healthy, unyummy vegetables. Perhaps that will change. Food engineers at Chile’s Pontificia Universidad Catolica  say they’ve developed a new way to use vacuum fryers to make lower ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Chris Hedges: What corruption and force have w ...
    The failure of the US to halt the slow-motion ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Israel has consequences. The failure to acknowledge the collective humiliation and anger felt by most Arabs because... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...
  • Pratap Chatterjee: Egypt’s military-industrial ...
    With US-made tear gas canisters fired on protesters in Cairo, Washington's role in arming Egypt is under the spotlight. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Noam Chomsky: It’s not radical Islam that worr ...
    The nature of any regime the US backs in the Arab world is secondary to control. The dictators support us. Their subjects can be ignored – unless they break their chains, and then policy must be... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Egypt unrest spurs Palestinian Authority to pl ...
    Spurred by the events in Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and its ruling Fatah party also promised to hold local elections, followed by general elections, very soon... The PA was supposed to hold... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Noam Chomsky: “This is the most remarkable reg ...
    A Democracy Now! interview on events in Tunisia and Egypt, and their background: Mubarak, peace and stability, the history of US involvement in the Middle East, the US military industrial complex,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Air Pollutants from Fireplaces and Wood-Burnin ...
    Danish scientists, in a study published in American Chemical Society's journal, Chemical Research in Toxicology, found that the invisible particles inhaled into the lungs from breathing wood smoke from fireplaces have multiple adverse effects.
  • Skin Conditions Could Hinder Treatment in Canc ...
    A cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment, which commonly includes chemotherapy or radiation, can be taxing physically and emotionally on any patient. If that is not enough, dermatologists are cautioning patients receiving cancer treatment and cancer survivors that they may experience a host o ...
  • Super Bowl Ads Don't Pack Same Punch in Social ...
    Commercials during the Super Bowl may be some of the most watched ads on broadcast T.V., but Olin marketing professors say social media has changed the game. Advertisers need to engage the audience before, during and after the game with strategies that include everything from smartphones to Twit ...
  • La Nina Pacific Ocean Cooling Pulls Global Tem ...
    The La Nina Pacific Ocean cooling event continues to pull down temperatures, with the global average temperature falling below seasonal norms for the first time in 18 months and only the second time in almost two and a half years.
  • Going to Great Lengths for Beautiful Hair? Der ...
    While the latest hairstyles and hair colors may look great, dermatologists warn that many women are subjecting their hair to harsh chemicals and heated styling devices that, in turn, can damage the hair. Over time, lustrous hair can look lackluster, become brittle and require a complete hair car ...

Natural Health News

  • Beagles Rescued from Research Lab
    Shannon Keith, the founder of Animal Rescue, Media & Education (ARME), found out that a pair of beagles were being retired from a research lab. These dogs had lived in the lab nearly their entire lives and had never felt the rays of the sun or grass under their feet.� Keith rescued them, and mad ...
  • Speedflying in Wengen 2010
    Speedriding, speedflying and wingsuitflying in Wengen, Switzerland.
  • Stop Buying Soaps Whose Vendors Lure You with ...
    Overuse of antibiotics creates the very kinds of bacteria that these drugs can no longer destroy. Antibiotic resistance is one of the most serious public health threats of the 21st century. Somewhere around 90,000 patients in the U.S. die each year as a result of hospital-acquired infection. Th ...
  • Women with Breast Implants Have Lymphoma Risk
    The U.S. FDA, after an intensive review of known cases of anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) in breast implant recipients, has issued a statement warning that women with implants may have an increased risk of developing the cancer. FDA and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons are wor ...
  • Depressed, Drugged College Freshmen on the Ris ...
    A comprehensive annual survey of full-time college students has concluded that the emotional health of college freshmen has dropped to its lowest level in 25 years. �The survey included 200,000 students. College counselors also are reporting more students who are under stress, depressed and on ...

Antemedius

  • Making The Independent Judiciary A Joke
    The independence of the judiciary means that the Courts should be free from improper influence from outside interests. What a great idea for having a transparent, fair judicial system. It's a concept that has so much promise. But in practice the present Supreme Court and its members may be dr ...
  • Dems: Obama Broke Pledge to Force Banks to Hel ...
    from Paul Kiel and Olga Pierce ProPublica (view source) Before he took office, President Obama repeatedly promised voters and Democrats in Congress that he’d fight for changes to bankruptcy laws to help homeowners—a tough approach that would force banks to modify mortgages. “I will change our ...
  • Popular Culture 20110204 (Music): The Kinks
    The Kinks are likely the most important British Invasion band that most folks remember only slightly, if even at that. They were quite good, but completely different from the BIG THREE (The Beatles, The Who, and The Rolling Stones) in that they just never seemed to get things completely right. ...
  • Breaking: Center for Constitutional Rights To ...
    You think that just because President Obama is afraid of the consequences of investigating the criminal Bush administrations State Sponsored Torture program that the former President and his henchmen are off the hook? Well think again. And this is not just on theoretically either. I’ll have a ...
  • 'Advanced' Civilization: The Long Party is Ove ...
    "Our current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive." -- Robert Jensen In 2010 we watched, aghast, as British Petroleum' s Macondo Well in the Gulf of Mexico blew it's top and leaked umpteen mill ...

Climategate

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

Opinio Juris

  • A Very Short Comment on Kiobel
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’m dashing off to China in a few hours, but I couldn’t resist a brief post on the Second Circuit’s denial of rehearing on Kiobel v. Royal Dutch.  Does anyone doubt this case is headed for the Supreme Court?  Which is not to say that I disagree with the panel major ...
  • Time for Richard Falk to Resign as U.N. Specia ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Richard Falk, professor of international law at Princeton and U.N. Special Rapporteur for the situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian territories, is rejecting calls for him to resign from his U.N. position due to alleged comments he made about a 9/11 conspiracy ...
  • Dan Drezner Provides the Quote of the Day
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson From his new book on Zombies and international relations … Realists would advocate noninterference in how zombie states treated their own living and undead populations. In the end, realists would conclude that there would be little intrinsic difference ...
  • Kiobel Rehearing Denied
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford Today the Second Circuit denied panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum. My colleague Trey Childress has details here.
  • Vatican Sovereignty
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson (Note:  I’m going to pull down most of this post, although alas it makes Peter’s comment not relevant to anything.  Martined over at VC points out a couple of mistakes.  I think I”m going to delete anything but the reference to the news article.  Pe ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goe ...
    As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...
  • Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
    Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
  • BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Gi ...
    The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
  • New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tem ...
    A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...
  • RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
    It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...

My Care2 Picks

  • Electric Stimulation of the Brain Can Free You ...
    New scientific research suggests that by stimulating parts of their brains electrically, people can be induced to think more creatively than they normally do.Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • EPA (Finally) Regulates Rocket Fuel in Tap Wat ...
    Perchlorate, a common ingredient in rocket fuel and a potent thyroid toxin, will be regulated in drinking water, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced yesterdaySubmitted by Kathy B. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • America: Incarceration Up, Education Down
    With only 5% of the world population, America has more than 25% of the world�s prisoners. The country that has become the greatest police state in the world has found a way to exploit its population through incarceration for monetary gain.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �N ...
  • Marine Toxicologist Dr. Riki Ott: People Now ...
    Dr. Ott is a recommended source for the Exxon Valdez report BP Played Central Role in Botched Containment of 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/26/bp_played_central_role_in_botchedSubmitted by John Farnham to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • All under-fives should take vitamin D pills to ...
    All children under five are at risk of developing rickets because of their couch potato lifestyles, the government's Chief Medical Officer said today.Submitted by Nancy Bridget to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • PKS Says Members Taking Part in Cairo Uprising ...
    PKS Says Members Taking Part in Cairo Uprising | The Jakarta Globe: "If Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak gets unseated, Indonesians, apparently, are partly responsible for it.Anis Matta, secretary... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Maan News Agency: Ma'an Arabic readers divided ...
    Maan News Agency: Ma'an Arabic readers divided on Palestine Papers: "BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Readers of Ma'an's Arabic-language news site were divided over the publication of leaked PLO documents by the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • US company 'helped' Egypt block web - Americas ...
    US company 'helped' Egypt block web - Americas - Al Jazeera English: "When Egypt's uprising began nearly two weeks ago, there was a near-total internet blackout.But exactly how was access cut off?An... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Malaysia too wants to monitor the bloggers - G ...
    Malaysia too wants to monitor the bloggers - Global Voices Advocacy: "Yesterday, Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz announced the drawing up of new guidelines, which... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Egyptian youth to found new opposition politic ...
    Egyptian youth to found new opposition political party | World | RIA Novosti: "The Egyptian youth movement plans to found its own opposition party to 'preserve the achievements' of nearly two weeks... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Egypt denies vice president targeted in shooti ...
    ShareThisEgypt denies vice president targeted in shooting 06 Feb 2011 Egypt's government is denying that the newly named vice president was targeted in an assassination attempt. A government statement says a stray bullet from an exchange of fire between "criminal elements" struck the lead car in ...
  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in British co ...
    ShareThisWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in British court to fight extradition 06 Feb 2011 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appears in a British court on Monday to fight his extradition to Sweden, with leaked details shedding new light on the rape and molestation accusations he faces. The two-d ...
  • Cheney calls Mubarak a good friend, U.S. ally
    ShareThisUnsubs sticking togehter: Cheney calls Mubarak a good friend, U.S. ally 06 Feb 2011 Former Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney said Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is a good friend and U.S. ally, but declined to predict whether the embattled leader would heed protesters' calls to step dow ...
  • Mubarak's wealth could reach 70bn
    ShareThisMubarak's wealth could reach 70bn 06 Feb 2011 Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak could have amassed huge sums of money as much as 70 billion dollars during the decades that he has been a top official. According to analyses by Middle East experts, Mubarak has taken much of the ga ...
  • US-led forces kill 4 Afghan civilians
    ShareThisUS-led forces kill 4 Afghan civilians 06 Feb 2011 US-led forces have killed four civilians, including a woman, in northern Afghanistan when they bombed their house in the war-ravaged country, a top government official says. According to the source, the US-led NATO forces carried out the ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • New-look Investigate magazine HIS and HERS goe ...
    As of Sunday...with more exclusive revelations about the Pike River disaster and police bungles in the rescue operation...and HERS features new poll results showing support for National is wide but shallow, and that a large number of voters want Winston...
  • Investigate Political Poll 2011 - No1
    Investigate magazine's first big omnibus and political poll in more than five years is underway. If you want to fill in the survey form (takes less than two minutes on average) online, you'll find it here.
  • BREAKING NEWS: Arizona shooter of Gabrielle Gi ...
    The young gunman who shot and killed six people, and left Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition, appears to have borne a grudge against Giffords after meeting her in 2007 at the age of 19. According to reports, former...
  • New study says CO2 rise a result of warmer tem ...
    A new peer reviewed study supports another contention I raised in Air Con: that CO2 increase follows temperature increase, and that there appears to be no correlation between fossil fuel emissions and temperature. The paper is available in full in...
  • RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
    It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...

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Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Dr. Wakefield’s Imminent Vindicatio ...
    Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 Study demonstrated “anti-myelin antibodies and digestive tract pathologies in children with autism after being given the Urabi strain triple live virus MMR vaccine. All 12 children in the Study had intestinal abnormalities (known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease), with c ...
  • VRM: A Concise Compendium The Problem With Vac ...
    The advent of cloned DNA vaccines & Synthetic Genomics, backed by proponents of the Trans-humanist & Bioethics movements (this is a post-Darwinian view, in which the species has the power to direct its own evolution), has opened a Pandora’s Box spelling the inevitable death of natural immunity. ...
  • VRM: Medical Industry Data Proves Influenza Va ...
    The Influenza virus itself is constantly mutating from year to year. While mainstream doctors are traditionally divided, several prominent Studies have come forward in recent years challenging the Status Quo on the efficacy of the sacrosanct Flu shot & awakened an increasingly distrustf ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 3 – ...
    For centuries humankind has depended on an inherent natural immunity to survive; adapting to environmental changes while overcoming mutable diseases, viruses, bacterial or biological threats & inter-species cross contamination. With the 21st Century advancement of high-tech laboratory ...
  • VRM: GlaxosmithKline Implicated In Systemic Cl ...
    ‘A psychiatrist on the payroll of GlaxoSmithKline has been sentenced to 13 months in prison after pleading guilty to committing research fraud in clinical trials for antidepressant Paxil. Palazzo enrolled children who did not actually suffer from major depressive or obsessive compulsive diso ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • The River - Part II
    “It had become a place of darkness. But there was in it one river especially, a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea, its body curving at rest afar over a vast country, and its tail lost in the depths of the land. ...
  • Sangin Then, and Now
    2 February 2011 During the summer of 2009, the British were fighting hard for Sangin.� They were always outnumbered by Taliban and terrain.� Casualties were high. Today, US Marines are paying in blood for the very same ground because, in part, they gave up a miniscule speck of Afghanistan, and ...
  • An Artery of Opium a Vein of Taliban
    27 July 2009 Sangin, Afghanistan {loadposition user8}
  • Did Mubarak Flee?
    High USG source just told me Mubarak may have fled.� USG working to confirm.� US evacuation now very high priority. {loadposition user8}
  • Egypt Eruption
    I asked General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey for his thoughts on the evolving situation in Egypt: Egypt is a few steps short of a disaster.� The corrupt, incompetent regime will not survive. Most likely outcome--- the Generals take charge, announce a reform government, start� the process of respon ...

The Killing Train

  • More such philanthrocapitalism we shall be utt ...
    Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Edwards, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule by wealth). The rich are giving their money away so effectively, they say, that the public won't mind increasing inequality. read more
  • I am not a gadget
    Jaron Lanier, author of "You are not a gadget", is very well-informed about what he is writing about, which is some of the social consequences of the internet, and some of the implicit ideologies that are built into the internet as we are living with it today. Lanier was one of the early minds b ...
  • Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
    For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more ma ...
  • A short video on Toronto Star's recent G20 cov ...
    Three minutes on technology and protests, focusing on the Toronto Star's recent G20 coverage, especially Rosie DiManno's articles.
  • Thoughts on Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows"
    After a couple of recommendations from a couple of different directions, I read Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains". It combines neuroplasticity research (which I read about in Norman Doidge's "The Brain that Changes Itself") with ideas about a literary, prin ...

treehugger

  • Weekday Vegetarian: Red Lentil Dal with Cumin- ...
    Photo: Kelly Rossiter We are off to dinner at my mother-in-law's tonight, and she doesn't really get vegetarianism. So I make something to take along for my vegetarian son to eat, as he is usually on his way to dinner from work. It has to be something that is easy to reheat and doesn't requ ...
  • See, Obama Still Cares About Climate Change (V ...
    See? Obama still cares about climate change! Despite keeping largely silent on the issue over the last year or two, failing to speak up to save the climate bill from certain death in the Senate, and not giving it any mention at all during his State of the Union address, he still wants Americ ...
  • 75x More Fish Were Caught In Arctic From 1950- ...
    photo: ajburcar/Creative Commons Apropos of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization just told us that we're eating all time record amounts of fish: Researchers from the University of British Columbia are reporting that between 1950 and 2006 the total amount of fish caught in Arctic waters ...
  • TreeHugger Founder Graham Hill Featured in Sho ...
    Photo: Screen grabs from video Chapter 1: The New City Our Dear Leader was interviewed for a documentary series about the future of mobility. The first instalment is about our increasingly urban future and how mega-cities are, in Graham's words, "very efficient sharing systems". Graham als ...
  • Oprah's Vegan Challenge, Miranda Kerr's Green ...
    Photo: Oprah.com If there's any A-lister in the world that could bring veganism to the masses, it's Oprah -- and with a full show this week dedicated to meat-free diets, she's taking on the challenge. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Mississippi federal judge dismisses health car ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi [official website] on Thursday dismissed [opinion, PDF] a lawsuit challenging the health care reform law [HR 3590 text; JURIST news archive]. Judge Keith Starrett ruled that plaintiffs, Mississippi Lt. Governor P ...
  • US-Russia nuclear arms treaty enters into forc ...
    [JURIST] The US and Russia on Saturday formally inaugurated the New START treaty [materials, PDF; JURIST news archive], an agreement intended to reduce nuclear arms in both countries. At the security conference in Munich, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [official profile] and Russian Forei ...
  • Federal judge upholds detention of Yemeni at G ...
    [JURIST] A federal judge on Thursday upheld the detention of Mashur Al Sabri [summary of evidence, PDF], a Saudi-born Yemeni citizen who was captured between Afghanistan and Pakistan and detained as an enemy combatant in December 2002. Sabri is currently 32 years old and has been held for more t ...
  • Cuba to free 2 more political prisoners
    [JURIST] The Cuban Roman Catholic Church [official website] announced Friday that Cuban officials have agreed to release two more political prisoners. The agreement includes allowing Angel Moya to stay in Cuba [VOA report] and Guido Sigler to go to the US. Moya is only the second prisoner [Reute ...
  • Federal appeals court upholds terrorism convic ...
    [JURIST] A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] on Friday voted 2-1 to uphold the conviction [opinion, PDF] of a Florida doctor who offered to treat injured al Qaeda [JURIST news archive] fighters so they could return to fighting Americans in Ira ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Once Reagan's Foe, Jerry Brown Declares a Holi ...
    After a long and overlapping history between the two California governors, Jerry Brown has declared tomorrow, Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday, a California state holiday. "Ronald Reagan embodied the American dream," Brown said today. "As California's governor, he worked with members of the Legis ...
  • An Intelligence Failure in Egypt?
    The intelligence community is like the offensive line of the government. They protect the quarterback all day long, and no one notices until they give up a sack. Which raises the question: Was President Obama blindsided by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt? The White House, the office of the D ...
  • A Case Against TSA Unionization
    Transportation Security Administration workers can now unionize (but can't strike), thanks to a decision Friday from TSA Administrator John Pistole, and, to get the case against this, I called the Workforce Fairness Institute, a group that advocates against union organizing in both public and pr ...
  • Obama On His Conversations With Mubarak
    President Obama has had two conversations with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak since the present wave of unrest began, Obama said at a press conference this afternoon, and in each conversation he has urged Mubarak to embrace change. Notably, Obama did not say he had personally urged Mubarak to ...
  • TSA Workers Can Unionize, Can't Strike
    A major development in labor policy: Transportation Security Administration workers can now unionize. It was previously thought that collective bargaining for airport security workers would pose a security risk, but TSA Administrator John Pistole announced today that they can unionize. One impo ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Israeli Settler MK to Huckabee: ‘We’re Connect ...
    Mike Huckabee and Israel’s radical settler movement are almost always fodder for a good laugh.  I thank Ofer Neiman for providing one in the form of an Arutz Sheva article, in which settler MK Nissim Zeev brags about his friendship with Mike Huckabee, who he brought to Israel and hosted last we ...
  • Benny Gantz: Third IDF Chief of Staff Appointe ...
    Haaretz reported that over the weekend Bibi Netanyahu and Ehud Barak decided to appoint their third candidate to be IDF chief of staff.  He is Benny Gantz, who until now had played also-ran to Yoav Galant, the candidate originally offered the job to replace Gabi Ashkenazi, when his term ends ne ...
  • Ashkenazi’s IDF Gravy Train
    There are new developments in the case of IDF chief of staff, Gabi Askhenzai, who I revealed yesterday was under criminal investigation for his role in the hoax Galant memo.  Today, the chief government investigator in the case revealed (well, he didn’t exactly “reveal” this since there’s a gag ...
  • IDF Chief of Staff Ashkenazi Faces Criminal In ...
    The campaign over who will be the next IDF chief of staff, already odd and dysfunctional, has taken a new turn for the bizarre.  Everyone who reaches out for this rose seems to get pricked. Several months ago, defense minister Barak began considering who would become the next chief of staff.   ...
  • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
    MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.

Ode Magazine

  • A new food manifesto
    Itâs time to take back control of what and how we eat. Hereâs why. Food isn’t just something we need to shovel down our gullets each day to survive. It’s far more potent: the means, more than any other, by which we humans shape our planet and ourselves.Photo by Marko Matas ...
  • Harness a vocabulary of intention
    By: Nazia Mallick Are you using diminishing language in your speech and writing? The law of diminishing returns is defined as: "A point beyond which the application of additional sources yield less than proportional increases in output." In the same wa ...
  • A sustainable solution to unsafe drinking wate ...
    By: efriend For centuries, the town of Thimi, just outside of Kathmandu, Nepal, has been renowned for its pottery. Here, you will find family after family with the surname "Prajapati," identifying them with the traditional pottery-producing caste that ...
  • Lessons learned from war
    By: Charlie_Badenhop I have many fond memories of sitting in a small room in my wife’s grandmother’s house, sipping tea, and giving oba-chan the space to say whatever was on her mind. When I asked her about World War II, here’s what she had to say: ...
  • Kites for peace above Cairo
    By: Adriaan Wagenaar A Dutch journalist spotted kites in the sky above Cairo. After the fighter jets flying over Cairo last weekend to intimidate the protesting crowds, some protesters throwed their kites into the air above Cairo. Kites for peace. It reminded me to th ...

OpEd News

  • Haiti Update: Electoral Runoff and Aristide's ...
    Haitians like Egyptians yearn for freedom.
  • We're All Egyptians Now!
    Egyptians and others globally yearn for freedom.
  • Ronald Reagan, Enabler of Atrocities
    Democrats mostly approached this deification of Reagan as harmless, an easy concession to the Republicans in the name of bipartisanship. Some Democrats would even try to cite Reagan as supportive of some of their positions as a way to protect themselves from attacks launched by the increasingly ...
  • Mary Pipher: Writing to Change the World
    Stories have the power to open hearts, change minds and inspire action. They can be very simple. Generally when a story deeply moves me, it will move others.They speak directly to the emotions. And they reach both sides of the brain. Stories are not right brain or left brain: they are whole brai ...
  • Can We Peace Grandmothers Foment an Egypt-styl ...
    A plea to grandmothers to form a grass-roots movement of grannies to end our conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan

Switchboard

  • Grand Isle Businesses Battered by BP Oil Disas ...
    For more than 30 years, Sarah and her daugher Annette Rigaud owned one of the most popular eateries on Grand Isle, LA. Sarah’s Restaurant is a cozy place filled with mementoes of sun-splashed beach vacations and fishing trips. It was a prosperous business, part of a proud family li ...
  • New Mexico: elementary school evacuated due to ...
    An elementary school in Farmington, New Mexico was evacuated yesterday after strong odors were detected and several teachers complained of nausea and headaches. According to a�news article, "officials believe the gas odor was a result of the gas company venting a gas well within a ...
  • Climate, Energy and Environment News from Lati ...
    Chile: Alleged adulteration in the environmental impact assessments of the HidroAysén dam project surfaced this week.  The regional branch of the National Forestry Corporation (Conaf) had rejected the project but the Conaf headquarters changed the report and stated that the projec ...
  • Outside Obama-Harper meeting, environmental gr ...
    Today, while President Obama met with Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the White House, environmental groups staged a rally in Lafayette Park outside the White House. The protestors held colorful signs depicting each of the states along the Keystone XL pipeline’s right-of- ...
  • Better Buildings Needed Now, Says White House
    Here at NRDC’s Center for Market Innovation, we spend a lot of time thinking about how to establish market conditions and mechanisms that will create a “new normal” for energy efficiency finance in existing buildings.   “New normal” means property owners prioritize energy efficien ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Iraq Did Not Have F-14s
    It’s kind of a minor point, but if a Democratic Senator made a similar error (especially in the context of arguing for military disengagement) I suspect that we’d hear no end of rage and mockery from the right wing milblogger crew. I’d also add that the United States did actually get paid for m ...
  • Back in My Day, the Big Scandal Was When a Lib ...
    Shorter one of Breitbart’s ethically and factually challenged lickspittles:   “The fact that people who work in the same place had a conference call is the biggest scandal since political journalists exchanged emails about politics.   A scandal of this magnitude completely negates their poin ...
  • Nobody Could Have Predicted
    That the latest “sting” from Breitbart/O’Keefe protege Lila Rose would turn out to be a complete fraud. Apparently, the ends justify the means, and in this case the end involves denying less affluent women access to medical care. It’s also instructive that the sting operations being run by O’Ke ...
  • Friday Nugget Blogging
    “Mom, football players are raping a lot of women.” And getting away with it. Related posts:Friday Nugget Blogging Friday Nugget Blogging Friday Nugget Blogging Related posts:Friday Nugget Blogging Friday Nugget Blogging Friday Nugget Blogging
  • How Will the Supremes Vote on ACA?
    Having discussed the limitations of positivist political science, I attempt to figure it out using my highly sophisticated “educated guess” method. Although it’s a “sovereign immunity” case and not a commerce clause case, I think that Hibbs is a better guide to Scalia’s vote than Raich.  Uphold ...

Desert Research Institute

  • 2010 DRI Annual Report
    The 2010 annual report is now available for download. This issue includes an interview with Executive Vice President for Research Dr. Terry Surles, our involvement with a large NSF grant to study climate change, an overview of the work in our divisions and centers, select researcher profiles, an ...
  • Tracking the Air Quality at Lake Tahoe
    In order to better understand the pollutant sources that are affecting Lake’s Tahoe’s water quality, Research Professor Hampden Kuhns, began studying Lake Tahoe in 2003 when he assembled the areas first emissions inventory. The inventory included local measurements using his TRAKER road ...
  • Building Concepts for Clarity
    Todd Mihevc has a knack for finding the right tools for the job, but he’s no handyman for hire. For 25 years, Mihevc, an Assistant Research Hydrogeologist at DRI, has been instrumental in developing equipment that surveys, studies, and samples water systems in Nevada. His latest research concern ...
  • Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evol ...
    Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.
  • DRI Researcher Published in Nature Geoscience
    The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • DODD-FRANK ACT: Agenda Unknown
    The new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, slated to open on July 21, seems sure to generate enough rulemakings and enforcement actions to sustain entire practice groups. But questions abound over the regulatory entity's mission.
  • A whistleblower and its 'pit bull'
    Florida pharmacy Ven-A-Care and solo practitioner James Breen are scoring major wins in False Claims Act cases.
  • NTP faces crucial patent challenge
    After winning a massive $612.5 million settlement of its patent infringement case against Research in Motion in 2006, NTP Inc. filed 13 new infringement lawsuits against technology giants. But a sticky patent law question is holding them up.
  • Arbitration records lift curtain on Milberg's ...
    An arbitration panel has handed Milberg LLP an award stemming from convicted former partner David Bershad's participation in a kickback scheme — but Bershad has come out ahead financially.
  • For Utah's senator, a sterling legal pedigree
    Meet Mike Lee: a product of the D.C. legal elite and favorite of the Tea Party.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Groups File Federal Gas Drilling Lawsuit again ...
    Delaware River Basin Commission Served Notice Trenton, New Jersey —The Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Damascus Citizens for Sustainability have joined forces in filing a federal lawsuit against the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) in federal district court in Trenton, NJ. Complaints were ...
  • Oil and Gas Companies Illegally Using Diesel i ...
    By Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal Posted on February 1, 2011 The 2005 Bush-Cheney Energy Policy Act famously exempted hydraulic fracturing from the Safe Drinking Water Act. But it made one small exception: diesel fuel. The Policy Act states that the term “underground injection,” as it relat ...
  • PA DEP Fines Pennsylvania General Energy Co. L ...
    COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dept. of Environmental Protection Commonwealth News Bureau Room 308, Main Capitol Building Harrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 02/2/2011 CONTACT: Daniel T. Spadoni, Department of Environmental Protection North-central Regional Office 570-327-3659 DEP Fines Pe ...
  • Trout Unlimited to hold training session for M ...
    The following Trout Unlimited-sponsored training session is for those interested in learning about the signs and symptoms of trouble in the Marcellus Shale drilling areas, and to learn what’s normal when such activity is on-going. When: February 26, 2011 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Where: Citizen’s ...
  • Changes Made to DEP’s Website
    FYI -  DEP has made a change to their website, making it a little harder to find violations of Oil & Gas drillers. From the DEP main page, you now have to click on “Latest News” tab - Violations are listed there now, along with the production data. Not hidden, just moved. You can also go ther ...

News Blaze

  • Ban Hopes New Election in Myanmar Leads to 'In ...
    The statement added that the United Nations stood ready to work with the new government and all other stakeholders in the country to facilitate greater democratization, development and stability.
  • Reconstruction and Stabilization News Feed
    Before participating in a signing ceremony with Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke about the attacks on peaceful demonstrators and journalists in Egypt.
  • UN Disappointed By Three-Year Extension of Som ...
    Somalia has not had a functioning central government for 20 years and has been riven by factional fighting, currently between the internationally recognized Transitional Federal Government (TFG), supported by a UN-backed African Union (AU) peacekeep
  • U.S. Deplores The Unfair Trial Against Alan Gr ...
    We deplore the Cuban government's announcement that Cuban prosecutors intend to seek a 20 year sentence against Mr. Gross. As we have said many times before Mr. Gross is a dedicated international development worker who was in Cuba providing support
  • Secretary Hillary Clinton's Remarks on Grenada ...
    Our nations cooperate bilaterally, as well as through the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative, the Partnership Framework for HIV and AIDS, the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas, the Caribbean Youth Empowerment Program and other multilat

environment 360

  • French Firm Says Vertical Axis Design Reduces ...
    A French company has introduced a new floating wind turbine with a vertical axis, an innovation its designers say makes it far more cost-efficient than conventional turbines in open ocean waters where wind currents can be strongest. Unlike typical floating turbines, which can be prohibitively ex ...
  • Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice, Russians Near Goal ...
    After punching through more than two miles of Antarctic ice, a Russian drilling team is just 100 feet from the surface of an enormous sub-glacial lake that has not been disturbed for millions of years. The New Jersey-sized Lake Vostok — the third-largest lake in the world, by water volume — sits ...
  • Africa’s Flourishing Niger Delta Threatened by ...
    The inland Niger delta of Mali is a unique wetland ecosystem that supports a million farmers, fishermen, and herders and a rich diversity of wildlife. But now, the country’s president and Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi have begun a major agricultural project that will divert much of the river’s w ...
  • Ten Most Threatened Forests
    Conservational International has identified what it says are the world’s 10 most threatened forest hotspots, all of which have lost 90 percent or more of their original woodlands to human activity. Five of the endangered forests are in the Asia-Pacific region, three are in Africa, Conservat ...
  • Intel the Biggest Buyer of Renewable Energy in ...
    Intel Corporation remains the top purchaser of renewable energy in the U.S., nearly doubling the amount of green energy credits it will buy in 2011 to more than 2.5 billion kilowatt-hours — the equivalent of powering 218,000 American homes — according to a new ranking by the U.S. Environmental P ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Gitmo detainee gets life sentence in embassy p ...
    The first former Gitmo detainee to be brought before a US civilian court was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for his role in the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Africa. The ruling renewed the debate over whether accused terrorists should be tried in the US civilian court system. A key gov’t ...
  • Mysterious Indonesian Crop Circle being invest ...
    Indonesian Air Force chief Marshall Imam Sufaat on Monday instructed his staff to use a helicopter to take aerial photographs of crop circles discovered on Sunday. Crop circle was formed in the rice fields in Krasakan, Jogotirto Village, District Berbah, Sleman, Yogyakarta on 23rd January, 2011. ...
  • Police funerals under the gun: becoming "publi ...
    As police funerals grow in size -- last week’s service for a fallen Toronto police Sgt. drew a record 12,500 mourners from across Canada and the U.S. -- some observers have begun to ask whether these events are becoming too excessive."Often good intentions don’t have the desired effect," he said ...
  • Air Force’s ‘All-Seeing Eye’ Flops Vision Test
    It’s the one of the most revolutionary — and one of the most chilling — weapons to come out of America’s decade of conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Gorgon Stare, a new “all-seeing” camera system for aerial drones, is supposed to boost U.S. surveillance by an order of magnitude, by installing a ...
  • Egypt asks Berlin to return Nefertiti bust, Ge ...
    Egypt’s top archaeologist has formally requested the return of the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti that has been in a Berlin museum for decades, the latest move in his eight-year-old campaign to bring home ancient artifacts spirited out of the country during colonial times. The bust dates ...

Russia Today

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

  • Even Gary Bekkum is skeptical
    Gary Bekkum’s  STARpod.org’s site is usually replete with government conspiracies, psychic spies, hamsters, Bigelow’s Skinwalker Ranch, Laura Eisenhower’s Mars Colony and other wondrous esoteric oddities that it’s hard to believe that Gary could be skeptical of anything. But he is. He is very s ...
  • More Paracast: George Filer
    Yeah I know I’ve been lazy lately (or so it seems), but trust me on this one. You won’t be disappointed with this interview Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien of the Paracast had with Eastern MUFON Director George Filer, who also has the website Filer’s Files (which caters to guess what? Y ...
  • The Paracast: Clifford Clift of MUFON
    This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and Chris O’Brien is a conversation with MUFON International’s Clifford Clift. Subjects range from the nuts and bolts aspects of UFOs to the possible paranormal links with ghosts, angels, demons and Sasquatch. This was a down to earth and civil interview, ...
  • Bizarre Beachcoming: Review of the Codex Serap ...
    Dr. Beachcoming, that eccentric collector of all things of an exotic historical nature, reviews The Codex Seraphinianus,  a book written by Luigi Serafini that is purportedly about an alien world complete with language, customs, architecture, flora and fauna. Luigi Serafini, Codex Seraphinianus ...
  • Quantum DNA
    It’s been written that photosynthesis might be a quantum process. Now a paper appears that claims DNA itself is a quantum process: A Nobel Prize winning biologist has ignited controversy after publishing details of an experiment in which a fragment of DNA appeared to ‘teleport’ or imprint itsel ...

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
    The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov ...
  • BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
    'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov' ...

The Freeman

  • The First Leftist
    This article appeared in FEE’s Essays on Liberty, volume 1 (1952). It was originally published separately as a pamphlet in 1951. The first Leftist would not be popular in America today. That is true because the original Leftists wanted to abolish government controls over industry, trade, and the ...
  • Few Jobs Created, but Unemployment Rate Drops
    “The unemployment rate dropped sharply last month to 9 percent, the lowest level in nearly two years. But the economy generated only 36,000 net new jobs, the fewest in four months.” (Washington Post) Sputtering along. FEE Timely Classic “The Cure for Unemployment” by Roland W. Holmes
  • Don’t Mess with Debt Ceiling, Bernanke Warns
    “The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, warned Congressional Republicans on Thursday not to âplay around withâ a coming vote to raise the governmentâs legal borrowing limit or use it as a bargaining chip for spending cuts.” (New York Times) Presumptuous. FEE Timely Classic “Democracy, De ...
  • Wrong Lesson from Egypt
    One wrong conclusion to be drawn from the popular uprising against the dictatorship in Egypt is that the American government could ignore such things if we were “energy independent.”
  • Reed Op-ed in The Christian Science Monitor
    FEE President Lawrence W. Reed’s op-ed “The Deficit Americans Should Think about Most: Personal Character” is online at the The Christian Science Monitor. Here’s a teaser: [T]he deficit that matters most is not denominated in dollars at all. Its currency is of the heart and mind. It’s a manifest ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Web literacy: Should be required
    A student calls me on the phone. “Professor McAdams, I wonder if you could help me. I’ve never taken a class with you, but …” “Yes, what can I do for you?” I reply. “I bought my own website, but I’m not sure how to get my Web pages there.” From past experience, I know what I need to ask now. ...
  • Can journalism education rise to the challenge ...
    Most journalism programs face the same challenges: How to find, employ and retain faculty who are comfortable teaching new skills and techniques. How to provide equipment and software to students (especially with shrinking budgets). How to keep up with a rapidly changing field. Perhaps mos ...
  • HTML and CSS Resources for Teaching
    Every year around this time, I update the resources I use in teaching my advanced online design class. I know there are a million lists like these online. I try to keep mine short, simple and current. Also, I’m not teaching programmers or graphic design majors. My students are journalists. C ...
  • Visual narratives: Empirical data
    From a research study by two scholars at Stanford: In this paper, we investigate the design of narrative visualizations and identify techniques for telling stories with data graphics. We take an empirical approach, analyzing visualizations from online journalism, blogs, instructional videos, an ...
  • Teaching HTML and CSS to journalism students
    I’ve been looking at the open-source course materials for Web Design 1, from the WaSP InterACT curriculum project. I think these materials can easily be adapted for use in a journalism curriculum. The idea is to acquaint our students with the building blocks of the Web they use every day. For s ...

Facing South

  • Gulf oil spill claims czar under fire for rosy ...
    BP oil spill paymaster Kenneth Feinberg released a draft plan this week for deciding payments on final claims for damages for the disaster, and it's drawing fire for being too optimistic about the pace of recovery. Feinberg released the proposed methodology on Feb. 2 and said he would ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: The partisan fight over healt ...
    Date on which President Obama signed into law the Affordable Care Act implementing comprehensive health care reform: 3/23/2010 Date when a group of state attorneys general filed a lawsuit seeking to have the law declared unconstitutional in part because of its mandate that all Americans buy ins ...
  • Hexavalent chromium pollution linked to coal a ...
    The landmark $333 million court settlement that propelled legal researcher Erin Brockovich to environmental stardom involved the contamination of a California town's groundwater with hexavalent chromium, a toxic compound known to cause cancer. Now the same dangerous heavy metal, usual ...
  • Report: Voter ID laws 'unaffordable' for North ...
    Today, Facing South and the Institute for Southern Studies released an analysis [pdf] showing that a voter ID bill proposed by North Carolina Republicans could cost the state $20 million or more over the next three years, exacerbating the state's $3.7 billion budget gap. Drawing on data from ot ...
  • Machinists sue South Carolina governor for ant ...
    By Jenny Brown, Labor NotesAnti-union rhetoric and threats are emanating from new governors in several states, including Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida. But none has been so explicit as South Carolina, where incoming Governor Nikki Haley has announced her determination to specifically ...

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Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Canadian Pacific Railway
    Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the
  • Group of Seven
    The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. The original members - Franklin CARMICHAEL, Lawren HARRIS, A.Y. JACKSON, Franz JOHNSTON, Arthur LISMER, J.E.H. MACDONALD and F.H. VARLEY
  • War of 1812
    The war of 1812 was a military conflict between the United States and Great Britain. As a colony of Great Britain, Canada was swept up in the War of 1812 and was invaded a number of times by the Americans. The process of naming
  • Winnipeg General Strike
    The Winnipeg General Strike, 15 May-25 June 1919, was Canada's best-known general strike. Massive unemployment and inflation, the success of the Russian Revolution (1917), a wave of strikes across Canada and rising
  • Hydroelectricity
    Hydroelectricity is obtained from the ENERGY contained in falling water; it is a renewable, comparatively nonpolluting energy source and Canada's largest source of ELECTRIC-POWER GENERATION . In N America in the 1850s the

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I get into the habit of using reuseabl ...
    Following in the vein of “how can I get into the habit of taking packed lunches?”, I thought it would be useful to gather together your thoughts and tips on getting into the habit of using reusable shopping bags. Because cutting down on plastic carriers is going save the world you know. ;) So wh ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic chopping bo ...
    We’ve had an email from Miranda: Can I recycle an old plastic chopping board? It’s stained and scarred and we don’t want to use it any more. As far as I can tell, most plastic chopping boards are made from HDPE (resin code 2), which can be recycled and is quite widely collected – but [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle lemon juice (Jif) p ...
    For some reason, our local supermarket has stopped selling lemon juice in sensible containers and only sells it in plastic lemon-shaped bottles now. (Not actually Jif lemons but similar, with a flat bottom.) We had to buy a couple of those annoying plastic lemons to tide us over until we can get ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle electric toothbrush ...
    We’ve had an email from Georgina: Where can i recycle electric toothbrushes? What about the replaced brushes? Electric toothbrushes are covered under Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Regulations so should be recycled in designated WEEE bins at tips etc. The replacement heads almo ...
  • Last minute Recycling at Christmas links
    Since sharing my favourite upcycled Christmas present ideas and recycled Christmas decoration suggestions, I’ve spotted another few awesome things that I thought I should mention in case you’ve got a few spare hours this afternoon and want to reduce, reuse and recycle! I love, love, love using t ...

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Reality Asserts Itself

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

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Here comes the (entire) Sun
    By Adam Mann While many in the US today are focused on a terrestrial contest pitting two teams against one another, engineers at NASA are concentrating on a pair of orbiting satellites working in tandem. Around the time of tonight's Superbowl halftime show (about 01:00 hours GMT), the two S ...
  • What does surrendering your uranium get you? S ...
    Among the latest tranche of Wikileaks memos are an intriguing batch out of Tripoli, detailing the scientific cooperation provided to Libya by the US in exchange for the surrendering its uranium centrifuge programme and highly enriched uranium (HEU) from its 10MW research reactor at the Tajura Nu ...
  • Kelly likely to command shuttle mission
    Mark Kelly, husband of Gabrielle Giffords, the US congresswoman shot last month (see Anatomy of a brain injury), is likely to command the next Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, reports Politico. The shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to launch on 19 April. Kelly will annou ...
  • Science education: Hollywood to the rescue?
    So President Obama has urged the United States to make Science Fair as cool as the Superbowl. Sure, some of us know that it already is. But how to convince those who don’t? The answer, according to a group of teachers, scientists and entertainment industry types meeting today in Beverly Hills, m ...
  • Tough cuts proposed for US science
    By Adam Mann When Republicans took control of the US House of Representatives at the beginning of this year, they promised to make cutting what they saw as an inflated federal budget their priority. True to their word, on 3 February Republican legislators released a miserly budget that includ ...

new geography

  • Super Bowl XLV: The $10 Billion Bag of Chips
    I am raining on the big parade by equating the Super Bowl with trade deficits, budget shortfalls, state bonds on the edge of default, and unemployment close to ten percent. But if thirty-second ads that cost $2.7 million or The Black Eyed Peas at halftime can’t lift the economy out of its doldru ...
  • Orange County Vantage Point: One Eye on Egypt ...
    Scenes from Egypt, Tunisia and other places in the Middle East provide a stark reminder of the chaos that can consume entire nations. The scene on Bolsa Avenue in Little Saigon last week offered evidence that chaos can be overcome. Don’t get me wrong—chaos had a place along Bolsa as streams of ...
  • The Social Side of the Internet
    Is success in social networking measured by the number of �Friends� you have on Facebook, or �Followers� you have on Twitter, or �Connections� you make on LinkedIn?  The jury is still out on how social media and social networking will ultimately play out, but new research shows real benefit ...
  • The Death of Earmarks
    Record deficit spending in Washington has many faces: Defense, Medicare, Social Security. But none has received more criticism in recent months than the infamous and notorious earmark. Conjuring up images of “Bridges to Nowhere” or “Teapot Museums”, earmarks, or Congressionally Directed Funding, ...
  • The Midwest: Coming Back?
    Oh my name it is nothing My age it is less The country I come from Is called the Midwest �Bob Dylan, �With God on Our Side,� 1964 For nearly a half century since the Minnesota-raised Robert Zimmerman wrote those lines, the American Midwest has widely been seen as a �loser� region�a plac ...

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Cryptogon

  • Like Other War Criminals, Bush Has to Plan Tra ...
    Via: Reuters: Former President George W. Bush has canceled a visit to Switzerland, where he was to address a Jewish charity gala, due to the risk of legal action against him for alleged torture, rights groups said on Saturday. Bush was to be the keynote speaker at Keren Hayesod’s annual dinner o ...
  • Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computers
    Via: Wall Street Journal: Hackers have repeatedly penetrated the computer network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, and federal investigators are trying to identify the perpetrators and their purpose, according to people familiar with the matter. The exchange ...
  • Britain: Court Bans Man with Low IQ from Havin ...
    My default setting is that the state should have nothing to do with what consenting adults do in their bedrooms. In the case below, however, “Alan” has an IQ of 48 and lives in government housing. What should the role of the state be in a situation like this? Via: Telegraph: A man with a [...]
  • Egypt: Gas Pipeline Attacked
    Via: Wall Street Journal: An Egyptian gas pipeline in the Sinai peninsula was attacked Saturday, cutting off supplies to Jordan and Israel. The pipeline was attacked by “subversive elements,” Egyptian state TV reported. There were no further details on those responsible, but the attack was the l ...
  • Beijing Bomb Shelters House One Million People
    Via: Telegraph: To understand how far ordinary Chinese have been priced out of their country’s property market, you need to look not upwards at the Beijing’s shimmering high-rise skyline, but down, far below the bustling streets where nearly 20m people live and work. There, in the city’s vast ne ...

The Economic Collapse

  • The Shadow Banking System: A Third Of All The ...
    You and I live in a totally different world than the ultra-rich and the international banking elite do.  Many of them live in a world where they simply do not pay income taxes.  Today, it is estimated that a third of all the wealth in the world is held in offshore banks.  So why ...
  • 17 National Debt Statistics Which Prove That W ...
    What we have done to future generations over the past 30 years is absolutely criminal.  30 years ago the U.S. national debt was a bit under one trillion dollars, and at that time it was considered a huge national crisis.  Today, the national debt is 14 times larger and the years ...
  • Almost Everything Is A Crime In America Now: 1 ...
    Doesn't it seem like almost everything is becoming a crime in America now?  Americans are being arrested and charged with crimes for doing things like leaving dog poop on the ground, opening up Christmas presents early, not recycling properly, farting in class and having brown l ...
  • The Working Poor
    As the middle class in America continues to be slowly wiped out, the number of working poor continues to increase. Today, nearly one out of every three families in the United States is considered to be "low income". Millions of American families are finding that they can barel ...
  • Christmas Stories
    If you and your family are blessed and prosperous this holiday season, you should consider yourself to be very fortunate, because there are tens of millions of other Americans that are desperately hanging on by their fingernails.  The Christmas stories that you are going to read ...

Desertification

  • “Helping Farmers Grow More Food” ( ...
    Read at : http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/4440/helping-farmers-grow-more-food by: Jill Richardson Food and agriculture came up exactly once in the State of the Union. It’s disappointing but not shocking. Here’s what Obama said: This is just a part of how we are shaping a … Continue reading →
  • Groasis / AquaPro, a deceptively simple invent ...
    Read at : http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/4451/making-a-weeks-worth-of-rain-last-the-whole-year Making a Week’s Worth of Rain Last the Whole Year Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. We think of deserts as dry wastelands incapable of food production.  Surprisin ...
  • U.S. looks to Monsanto to feed the world (La V ...
    Read at : http://www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/4463/us-looks-to-monsanto-to-feed-the-world by: Marcia Ishii-Eiteman Originally posted on Pesticide Action Network’s blog, Groundtruth. At the annual World Economic Forum this past weekend in Davos, Switzerland, U.S. Agency for International Developm ...
  • The State of Smallholders in Agriculture (IFAD ...
    Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.com/2011/01/capturing-state-of-smallholders-in.html Capturing âthe State of Smallholders in Agricultureâ in Latin America Posted by Greg Benchwick Examining Latin America at the New Directions for Smallholder Agriculture Conference This is rural poverty in Latin ...
  • Agriculture can transform economies and lives, ...
    Read at : http://ifad-un.blogspot.com/2011/01/smallholders-play-fundamental-role-as.html Smallholders Play Fundamental Role as Business Partners in Feeding the World Posted by Roxanna Samii By Kanayo F. Nwanze (this blogpost was originally posted on the World Economic Forum blog) What do the hea ...

The Paper Trail

  • Multiple Safety Failures Identified in Chemica ...
    A new report on a 2008 explosion at a West Virginia pesticide factory offers a chilling account that raises questions about safeguards at the plant.
  • Federal Judge with Medical Industry Investment ...
    U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who ruled Monday that the health care reform law is unconstitutional, holds financial investments in health and medicine worth as much as $75,000.
  • Newsmaker Interview:  Warren Says Congres ...
    Elizabeth Warren, the government’s top advocate on consumer financial issues, says that Congress needs to hold auto dealers to the same basic rules of fairness that apply to other financial institutions.
  • Potential 2012 GOP Slow to Enlist Big-Dollar L ...
    One strong sign of a politician’s interest in the presidential race is always the amount of early money raised. New rules for identifying lobbyist-bundlers show just two potential GOP candidates for the 2012 nomination reporting large bundled contributions from registered lobbyists in the 2009-2 ...
  • WikiLeaks More Effective Than SEC, Says Enron ...
    A former Enron accountant who blew the whistle on fraud at the energy giant says she doesn't trust the Securities and Exchange Commission to handle tips from company insiders, even though the agency plans to offer a generous new bounty for information about fraud.

backofthebook.ca

  • Clement leads anti-UBB forces down slippery sl ...
    By Frank Moher So, all you digerati who are celebrating this morning because the Conservatives have told the CRTC to rescind its decision on user based internet billing, or else: do you really want the federal government calling the shots on this? The Tories especially? One can't help but ...
  • Final Total for F-35?
    by Eric Pettifor When buying an SLR camera, the price of the unit is not the entire cost. Will you need additional lenses? Tripod? Camera case/bag? Filters? Additional media? Apparently it's the same thing when buying fighter jets. You can't just buy 65 ...
  • Bad Jokes are Good PR
    by Rachel Krueger Amy Chua is terrible at jokes.  She told one in early January about forcing her 7-year-old daughter to practice piano ‘right through dinner into the night’ with no breaks, and no one laughed.  Guys, the punchline is that the daughter got good at piano.  Honestly.   An ex ...
  • Stelmach resignation leaves old-school media i ...
    By Brian Brennan Can the mainstream print media successfully reinvent itself to become as relevant to news consumers in the digital age as it used to be back in the days when readers looked to their morning newspapers for authoritative coverage of the previous day's events? The question a ...
  • Mike Farnworth: gay matters
    By Dave Brindle Is BC ready for a story asking if it's ready for a gay leader? It's the story that Mike Farnworth, a leading contender to replace the deposed Carole James as leader of BC’s NDP, knew would be told before he announced his candidacy. A story that I, along with ...

Worldnews

  • Iran opposition seeks rally backing Egypt ...
    TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's opposition has asked the government for permission to rally in support of uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. The request could place the government in a bind. Tehran's rulers crushed protests against a disputed 2009 election and the opposition has not been able to stage r ...
  • Dating Sites Caught Using Facebook Photos ...
    Posted on: Sunday, 6 February 2011, 07:10 CST A brand new dating website launched Friday makes its mark by allowing visitors to seek potential mates by searching through profile pictures the site owners jacked from Facebook. The site, Lovely-faces.com, took an estimated 250,000...
  • In memory of Mother: Anemia is tough on o ...
    Mother always said that when one reached sixty, it was downhill all the way. Mother mentioned feeling more fatigued. She began to experience more difficulty getting up out of a chair and had to take frequent breaks throughout the day. Of course, I did not understand this. I do not think I r ...
  • Foreign cooking shows banned on Iran TV ...
    TEHERAN - Iran's state-run television has been banned from screening cooking shows that promote foreign cuisine as conservatives seek to fight Western...
  • Facebook photos swiped for dating website ...
    --> A view of the Facebook homepage taken in Washington, DC. Hacking and art mixed on Friday in a freshly-launched dating website that lets visitors seek mates by sifting through profile pictures mined from Facebook. Hacking and art mixed on Friday in a freshly-launched dating website that ...

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Common Dreams

  • Hosni Mubarak's Power Fades as US Backs His De ...
    by Julian Borger in Munich and Chris McGreal in Cairo America yesterday swung its support behind Egypt's vice-president, Omar Suleiman, and the political transition he is leading, calling for a process of orderly reform.read more
  • Egypt Regime Digs in as Death Toll Mounts in T ...
    by Jack Shenker and Peter Beaumont in Cairo, Harriet Sherwood in Alexandria, and Julian Borger The Egyptian regime dug in today, defying international pressure to begin an immediate transfer of power while launching attacks on journalists and human rights observers.read more
  • Kucinich: Does Treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manni ...
    Release by Congressman Dennis KucinichWASHINGTON  - Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) yesterday wrote to Defense Secretary Robert Gates asking for information about reports that the Army ignored evidence of the mental health problems of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking class ...
  • Murdoch Launches Bid to Rule News in the iPad ...
    by Stephen FoleyRupert Murdoch, the media mogul who parlayed a small Australian newspaper company into one of the world's biggest conglomerates, promised yesterday to "re-imagine" the newspaper and "make the business of newsgathering and editing viable again", as he launched the first daily news ...
  • Hillary Clinton Signals US Backing for Omar Su ...
    by Julian Borger in MunichThe US secretary of state Hillary Clinton today signalled how far the US has swung its support behind vice-president Omar Suleiman and the transition process he is leading in Egypt.Clinton was speaking at a security conference in Munich today, where the watchword on Egy ...

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Energy Collective

  • Delphi Fuel Pumps Compatible with New E15 Meas ...
    Delphi announced that its OE quality fuel products are compatible with the new E15 measure approved last Friday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase the amount of ethanol currently blended in fuel from 10 percent to 15 percent for all light-duty vehicles built in the las ...
  • Entergy Responds to Data Refuting Accusation t ...
    The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant has been under attack for several years by a concerted, organized effort to force it to shut down. One of frequently employed tactics has been to widely publicize and repeatedly mention any event that puts the plant in a bad light. The tactic of repetition ...
  • Nathan Lewis on Energy Realities: Can We Get t ...
    Last week, President Obama threw down an ambitious national goal in his second State of the Union Address: by 2035, 80% of America's electricity will come from "clean" energy sources, double the share we now derive from clean sources. But what counts as "clean," how do we get there, and is the g ...
  • DOE: SunShot Initiative to Cut Cost of Solar P ...
    Rhone Resch listened carefully Friday as Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced “SunShot,” a new federal initiative with the ambitious goal of reducing the total cost of photovoltaic (PV) solar power systems by 75 percent by the end of the decade. Resch liked what he heard.
  • Tahrir Square and Katrina Syndrome
    Samuel Johnson once observed that nothing concentrates the mind like a hanging. If Dr. Johnson were alive today he would undoubtedly add the corollary that nothing concentrates the mind on the tenuous nature of oil supplies like political turmoil in the Middle East.

Green House - USA Today

  • NASA research center goes ultragreen
    Ceiling panels that cool the air? Windows and shades that open automatically? A constant LCD display of energy use? These are some of the nifty features in NASA's new lunar-shaped office building that opens this spring in Moffett Field, Calif.
  • EPA to limit rocket fuel chemical in tap water
    The Obama administration announced Wednesday that it will develop first drinking water standard for a toxic rocket fuel ingredient linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women and young children.
  • Yellow Pages offers opt-out website for phone ...
    Don't want thick phone books delivered to your house anymore? The Yellow Pages industry is now offering an upgraded, user-friendly website to make it easier for consumers to opt-out or limit deliveries.
  • Could you live with six pairs of shoes? Mom sp ...
    Be honest -- how many pairs of shoes do you have? How many do you actually wear? Several Green House readers expressed shock that a California mom who, in an effort to simplify her life, has only six pairs of shoes.
  • U.S. companies take bold greening efforts in 2 ...
    In a dramatic shift, U.S. companies are making b0lder and longer-term commitments to green their businesses despite a challenging economy, says a report Tuesday.

Prior Art

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

Peoples Voice

  • Haiti Update: Electoral Runoff and Aristide's ...
    by Stephen Lendman With world attention focused on Middle East events, mainly Egypt's, Haiti's gotten little attention despite its compelling need for real change. So far, it's nowhere in sight, nor openly discussed, or demanded like visible millions are doing abroad. Stay tuned. It may ...
  • We're All Egyptians Now!
    by Stephen Lendman And Tunisians, and Yemenis, and Algerians, and Jordanians, and Lebanese, and, of course, Palestinians, suffering for over six decades after Israel stole their historic homeland, over 43 years under brutal, suffocating occupation. Their struggle is ours, and it's high time ...
  • The Arab Revolt in Tunisia and Egypt
    Ziad Shaker elJishi I get sick to my stomach listening to CNN or reading the New York Times but i do it every once and a while because i like to learn what the imperialist and pro-Zionist media outlets are saying. Yesterday was no exception as I listened to the mutterings of CNN as it coll ...
  • The "Recovery" - - Just Don't Eat, Heat Your H ...
    By Numerian We still don’t even know if Fed officials actually believe the ridiculous things they say, or whether they are merely acting stupid to hide the fact that they have created a world in which financial prudence is punished, those who save are forced to subsidize those who spe ...
  • El Salvador's Sweatshop Economy
    by Stephen Lendman A previous article addressed global sweatshop wage slavery, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/02/global-sweatshop-wage-slavery.html Definition of a Sweatshop The term has been around since the 19th century. Definitions var ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Deficit mania: When politics trump economics
    As Ontario leans into a provincial election year and inches toward a pre-election budget, CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie shows how politically misguided it would be to bend to pressure to slash public funding in the name of deficit reduction. His prescription for provincial budget priori ...
  • Five economic reasons to say no to more corpor ...
    With debate over more corporate tax cuts dominating pre-budget speculation, CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan lays down five economic reasons to say no to more tax breaks to corporations this year or next: jobs, investment, costs, opportunity costs, and the need for working capital. In th ...
  • Saskatchewan's Potash: Who Benefits?
    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Saskatchewan Office today released�Exploiting Saskatchewan�s Potash: Who�Benefits? by John W. Warnock. The new report considers the history of potash exploitation in the province with an eye to answering the question of whether the people of Saskatche ...
  • Amy Goodman will be the featured speaker at CC ...
    We're very pleased to announce that Amy Goodman will be the featured speaker at our 2011 Gala Fundraiser on Friday, April 29. You can buy your tickets online now: buy individual tickets ($75 each) or reserve a group table for eight ($600). Amy is the host and executive producer of Democracy N ...
  • Ending Our Addiction to Coal: The Wind and Sol ...
    The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Saskatchewan Office released today�Transforming Saskatchewan�s Electrical Future: The Potential for Wind and Solar Power, by Mark Bigland-Pritchard, a member of Green Energy Project Saskatchewan. The report offers a practical and workable set of integ ...

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2011 Legislature: Montana GOP takes aim at renewable power
The Missoulian
- Feb 05, 2011
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Bills to restrict new energy-efficient building codes, undermine "net metering" for small-scale renewable power plants and limit the use of tiered utility ...
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Xcel's work on plants, renewables keeps pushing electricity bills up in Colorado
Denver Post
- Feb 05, 2011
- 12 hours ago
Those riders were for costs such as renewable energy, transmission and fuel to make electricity. "That's like a second bill," Clegg said. ...
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Renewable energy razzle dazzle
Longboat Key News
- Feb 04, 2011
- Feb 04, 2011
President Barack Obama spelled out his vision for renewable energy, electric cars and a coal-free America in his State of the Union address. ...
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Power-One reports $1B in revenue
Bizjournals.com (blog)
- Feb 05, 2011
- Feb 05, 2011
based Power-One (Nasdaq: PWER) manufactures inverters for the renewable energy sector at its Phoenix facility. Its earnings released earlier this week show ...
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Ecology proposes changes to water-quality standards
Whidbey Examiner
- Feb 06, 2011
- 2 hours ago
The Washington Department of Ecology invites the public to review and comment on changes proposed in the state's surface water-quality standards that would ...
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Reset state water policy to do more with less
Seattle Times
- Feb 04, 2011
- Feb 04, 2011
A torrent of water bills in Olympia includes legislation to improve water management in the state Department of Ecology to produce tighter, ...
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Ecology proposes minor changes to water quality standards
Access Washington
- Feb 03, 2011
- Feb 03, 2011
OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) invites the public to review and comment on minor changes proposed in the state's surface water ...
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A strong community protects adolescents from risky health behavior
Sify
- Feb 06, 2011
- 9 hours ago
Gary W. Evans, a professor in Cornell's College of Human Ecology, began recruiting participants in rural upstate New York in the late 1990s, when they were ...
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Agencies getting tough with ship ballast dumping
The Associated Press
- Feb 06, 2011
- 2 hours ago
Organisms as large as adult fish and as small as bacteria lurk in ship ballast tanks, which hold millions of gallons of water and sediments that keep ...
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El Paso Water Emergency Continues Sunday
KTSM News Channel 9
- Feb 06, 2011
- 3 hours ago
By Bob Grotenhuis - Producer EL PASO - Mandatory water restrictions continue Sunday as El Paso Water Utilities works to update the community on a severe ...
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Water and sewer rate changes would hit Kalamazoo city residents hardest
MLive.com
- Feb 06, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By Alex Nixon | Kalamazoo Gazette KALAMAZOO — Water and sewer bills in Kalamazoo would rise this year if the City Commission votes to approve new rates ...
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Autistic kids love water, which makes safety sessions here vital
Los Angeles Times
- Feb 05, 2011
- 18 hours ago
By Nick Sortal Staff Writer Like many autistic children, Ethan John loves the water — and that's both a good and bad thing. If there's water around, ...
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