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  • The Fake Moderation of America's Moderate Mide ...
    Summary: The following weeks will provide a profound opportunity to reset the U.S. and European approach. Perhaps the high rhetoric of Barack Obama’s Cairo speech may yet be redeemed. If not, events in Cairo and beyond will represent the death knell of the president’s promise of a better pos ...
  • Egypt's military-industrial complex
    Summary: With US-made tear gas canisters fired on protesters in Cairo, Washington's role in arming Egypt is under the spotlight. source: Guardianread more
  • It's Not Radical Islam That Worries The US – I ...
    Summary: ChomskyThe general threat has always been independence. In the Arab world, the United States and its allies have regularly supported radical Islamists, sometimes to prevent the threat of secular nationalism. source: Information Clearing Houseread more
  • 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 ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Radical Theory Says "Life Had Multiple Origins ...
    Life originated in a nebular cloud, over 10 billion years ago, but may have had multiple origins in multiple locations, including in galaxies older than the Milky Way according to Rudolf Schild of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Rhawn Joseph...
  • Tracking the Realtime Threat of Near-Earth Ast ...
    Stephen Hawking believes that one of the major factors in the possible scarcity of intelligent life in our galaxy is the high probability of an asteroid or comet colliding with inhabited planets. We have observed, Hawking points out in Life...
  • NASA's 1st Complete Image of Our Star -Sol -Wi ...
    NASA has released the first complete view of the sun's entire surface and atmosphere. The ability to view opposite sides of our star front and back simultaneously will enable significant advances in space weather forecasting for Earth, and improve planning...
  • "Cosmic" Super Computer Ponders Dark Energy My ...
    The Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG) at the University of Portsmouth (UK) recently went live with its first supercomputer, which has a 1,008-core Intel cluster capable of one billion calculations per second. It uses 2.66GHz Intel Xeon processors and...
  • Image of the Day: The "Eyes" of M87 -The Owl N ...
    The Owl Nebula (M97), an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen gas, helium and other ionized gases formed roughly 6,000 years ago in the constellation Ursa Major, is regarded as one of the more complex of the planetaries. The object gets...

Natural News

  • With Huffington Post sold to AOL, NaturalNews ...
    (NaturalNews) The Huffington Post was sold to AOL for $315 million yesterday, meaning the site, which was once the darling of independent media, is now clearly positioned as institutionalized media. As the editor of NaturalNews, I have, over the last several months, received several concerning e ...
  • Sun exposure and vitamin D may prevent multipl ...
    Embargoed for release: 7-Feb-2011 16:00 ET (7-Feb-2011 21:00 GMT)(NaturalNews) For decades, scientists have noticed something odd about the condition known as multiple sclerosis (MS). This chronic disease of the brain and spinal cord is less likely to occur in people who live in warmer climates ...
  • Iron, folic acid supplements during pregnancy ...
    (NaturalNews) Giving pregnant women folic acid and iron supplements may increase the intelligence of their children later in life, according to a study conduced by researchers from Johns Hopkins University and published in the "Journal of the American Medical Association."The researchers studied ...
  • Dogs can sniff out cancer in people, but docto ...
    (NaturalNews) The mainstream media is suddenly reporting on the idea that dogs can sniff out cancer in human beings. This concept is no surprise to NaturalNews readers, of course, as we've talked about this before, but until now the idea that cancer patients could be detected by smelling them wa ...
  • Government offers cash prizes to doctors who r ...
    (NaturalNews) The U.K. National Health Service (NHS) has decided to turn its health care system into a giant game where doctors who recruit the most new mental patients win cash prizes. The equivalent of over $243 million is set to be divied out based on which general practitioners (GP) garner t ...

Threat Level

  • Anonymous Hacks Security Firm Investigating It ...
    A U.S. security firm that claimed to have uncovered the real identity of Anonymous members responsible for a recent spate of web site attacks became a victim of Anonymous itself, when members of the online vigilante group breached the company’s network and stole more than 60,000 internal e-mail ...
  • Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody ...
    Sony is threatening to sue anybody posting or “distributing” the first full-fledged jailbreak code for the 4-year-old PlayStation 3 gaming console. What’s more, the company is demanding that a federal judge order Google to surrender the IP addresses and other identifying information (.pdf) of th ...
  • Lawyer: Assange Would Face Closed-Door Trial i ...
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would face a secret, closed-door trial if he were extradited from Britain for sex-crime allegations in Sweden, his defense attorney argued in court on Monday. In the first of what’s expected to be a two-day extradition hearing, defense attorney Geoffrey Robertson ...
  • 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 ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Beck Echoes Romney on Threat of Islamic Caliph ...
    For pure political shadenfreude, few developments have been as entertaining as the right-wing family feud over the chaos in Egypt. Among just the neoconservatives, democracy promotion idealists are clashing with advocates of authoritarian stability. On air and online, the Republican partisan p ...
  • Meet RINO Reagan
    This weekend, Republicans marked the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan with speeches celebrating his small government philosophy, anti-tax fervor and hard-line foreign policy. But if Reagan was a GOP candidate today, he would doubtless fall victim to violations of his own 11th Commandment, "Thou ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Mubarak's Dangerous 'Groupthink'
    The chasm between Egyptian President Mubarak and the protesters starts with their different realities, notes Lawrence Davidson. February 7, 2011
  • NYT's Keller Disparages Assange
    New York Times editor Bill Keller mocks WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange but uses the group's documents, writes Coleen Rowley. February 6, 2011
  • Ronald Reagan, Enabler of Atrocities
    Though hailed for making Americans feel good, Ronald Reagan facilitated horrible human rights crimes, recalls Robert Parry. February 6, 2011
  • Egyptian Blogger Describes Clashes
    One of Egypt's top bloggers helped galvanize protests to dictator Hosni Mubarak and describes the cost to Dennis Bernstein. February 6, 2011
  • Egypt Is Test of Obama's Promises
    In 2009, President Obama went to Cairo and promised "a new beginning," words now being put to the test, notes Kevin Zeese. February 5, 2011

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Texas Railroad Commission jumping into the dis ...
    The Texas Railroad Commission added an emergency item to tomorrow’s agenda so it can hear from the Texas Energy Reliability Council about last week’s rolling blackouts impact on natural gas service. The meeting starts at 9:30 am on Tuesday, February 8th at the William B. Travis Building.  Watch ...
  • Who didn’t contribute to yesterday’s rolling b ...
    Yesterday, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said cold weather had knocked out about 50 of the 550 power plants in Texas, totaling 8,000 megawatts.  We canât tell you which plants were down because that information is considered “confidential under market rules.”  According to ERCOT’s website, its marke ...
  • WCS press conferance 103 [Flickr]
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:
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  • PUC Executive Director gets the ball rolling o ...
    Brian Lloyd, the executive director of the Public Utility Commission has directed the electric reliability monitor (the Electric Reliability Council of Texas) and the electric market monitor (Potomic Economics)  to investigate all of the events surrounding last week’s rolling blackouts and elect ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • New ET contact protocol suggested
    A new protocol for contacting life outside Earth may make the message universally understandable. A team of three scientists has decided that perhaps ...
  • 400 wolves terrorise remote Russian town
    A 'super pack' of 400 wolves have started hunting together due to lack of food. Wolves who normally hunt in packs of six to seven are joining forces t...
  • Blindness cause clue discovered
    A team of scientists have discovered the enzyme which causes age related macular degeneration. Macular degeneration is a form of age related blindness...
  • Scientists develop 'thinking cap'
    It is thought that supplying an electric current to the brain can improve our mathematical talents. A study that asked participants to solve a series ...
  • Theme park ride moved due to ghost
    A new water slide has had to be relocated following sightings of a headless monk by workers. Staff at Thorpe Park reported objects being flung around ...

Grassroots

Climate

  • EPA Chief Faces Hostile House GOP
    Source:� Politico The showdown between House Republicans and the White House over climate change and environmental policies kicks off Wednesday with EPA chief Lisa Jackson as the star witness.
  • South Korea to Start Emission Trading in 2013- ...
    Source:� Reuters South Korea will start carbon emission trading between 2013 and 2015 after strong opposition from industry to the government's initial plan to start in 2013.
  • Australia: Carbon Price Talks Set for Collisio ...
    Source:� Sydney Morning Herald The mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto are urging corporate Australia to lobby jointly for compensation and transition arrangements when the government puts a price on carbon.
  • Colorado Probes Use of Diesel in Fracking
    Source:� The Durango Herald A federal investigation into companies' use of diesel fuel in fracking fluids has prompted Colorado state regulators to have their own look into the practice.
  • Maryland County Caught Up in Fight Over Fracki ...
    Source:� Washington Post Environmentalists and energy officials are at odds over "fracking" in Maryland, as a state legislator prepares legislation to ban drilling until it is determined that it will not taint water. read mor ...

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

  • Eyes on the Ball
    I don't keep up with these things, but I remember that a couple of years ago Donald Rumsfeld felt compelled to abort a trip to France for fear of getting prosecuted as a war criminal. Now Bush has likewise cancelled a trip to Switzerland for the same reason. The problem is that these foreign c ...
  • Health Insurers Kill Off Kid's Only Policies
    The health reform law unfortunately was inadequate. It was filled with loopholes. No surprise then that Health Insurance companies are starting to exploit those loopholes to limit coverage -- for children: The requirement that children under 19 be granted insurance regardless of preexisting ...
  • Olbermann Has a New Platform
    It looks like Keith Olbermann will take a job at the Current cable television channel. I've never watched that channel but I have discovered that I do have it, and I have it in non-digital form. Apparently, this is rare. Current TV is available in only about 60 million homes, and is usual ...
  • It Ain't Easy Being Blue...
    It's tough to be a Blue Dog, what with the congressional leadership (allegedly) showing them the cold shoulder, the Democratic Leadership Council shuttering its office, and Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) retiring. But the truth is that the DLC has done its work. It has finally ruined the Democratic P ...
  • How Crazy is Too Crazy for Fox?
    One thing I've started to wonder about is what particular event is going to cost Glenn Beck his job at Fox News. I'm certain that he's already on the verge of getting the axe. But, given how bizarre and deranged he's become, he won't be fired simply for being bizarre and deranged. He's offend ...

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

  • UK Unveils New Mental Health Care Policy
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary In the past week, reports have been published out of the U.S., the U.K. and Northern Ireland addressing how much money is spent—and should be spent—on mental health coverage such as psychotherapy, family counseling, and substance abuse treatment. Perhaps most notab ...
  • A War Against Women
    By Judith Barr, MS, LPC, Power: Healing to the Root Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Judith and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile When is a political campaign (and I don’t mean an election) a guise for accomplishing something far more sinister and far more dangerous than is claim ...
  • The Emotional Downside of Motherhood
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While motherhood lowers the risk of suicide among women, raising children is also emotionally trying, especially in the first few years of a child’s life. A new study of Norwegian mothers finds that within those first three years, a mother’s happiness peaks at the ...
  • Taking Care of Yourself While Caring for a Lov ...
    By Karen Rowinsky, LMSW, Caregiver Issues/Stress Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Karen and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Caregivers are people of any age, gender, cultural background, economic level, and health status. The one thing that caregivers have in common is stress. E ...
  • 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 ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Kentucky musician Moore looks to past - Louisv ...
    Kentucky musician Moore looks to past Louisville Courier-Journal Daniel Martin Moore is a green musician � and not simply because of his well-documented stance against mountaintop removal coal ... and more��
  • Locals Say MTR Mining Continues Despite EPA Ve ...
    Care2.com (blog) Locals Say MTR Mining Continues Despite EPA Veto Care2.com (blog) The mine was the largest mountain top removal operation ever approved, covering an area larger than Pittsburgh. In its decision, the EPA cited the Clean ...
  • WV Coal Miners “Keeping the Lights On” Install ...
    Pontiac Illinois Community News WV Coal Miners �Keeping the Lights On� Installing Solar Arrays! PlanetSave.com Politicians in West Virginia have fought for mountaintop removal, sued the EPA, and they have even gone as far as shooting a bullet through a mock cap and ... Sen. Rockefeller doesn't ...
  • 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 ...

Memeorandum

  • Social Scientist Sees Bias Within (John Tierne ...
    John Tierney / New York Times: Social Scientist Sees Bias Within  —  SAN ANTONIO — Some of the world's pre-eminent experts on bias discovered an unexpected form of it at their annual meeting.  —  Discrimination is always high on the agenda at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology's ...
  • Bush cancels Europe trip amid calls for his ar ...
    Justin Elliott / Salon: Bush cancels Europe trip amid calls for his arrest  —  Will George W. Bush set foot in Europe again in his lifetime?  —  A planned trip by Bush to speak at the Switzerland-based United Israel Appeal later this week has been canceled after several human rights groups call ...
  • HuffPost to AOL: Leaving left behind? (The Pol ...
    The Politico: HuffPost to AOL: Leaving left behind?  —  The Huffington Post may have been founded as the liberal answer to the conservative Drudge Report, a place for progressive wound-licking in the wake of George W. Bush's re-election.  —  But on Monday, Arianna Huffington was distancing hers ...
  • Olbermann Said to Be Going to Current TV (Medi ...
    Media Decoder: Olbermann Said to Be Going to Current TV  —  Keith Olbermann, the former top-rated host of “Countdown” on the news channel MSNBC, will announce his next television home on Tuesday, and people familiar with his plans pointed Monday to a possible deal with the public affairs channe ...
  • Sarah Palin And Gay Rights: Comments Fuel Spec ...
    The Note: Sarah Palin And Gay Rights: Comments Fuel Speculation About Where She Stands  —  ABC News' Michael Falcone reports:  —  Some conservatives who are already upset that this week's Conservative Political Action Conference will include a right-leaning organization that promotes gay rights ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.0, Banda Sea
    Tuesday, February 8, 2011 08:16:05 UTCTuesday, February 8, 2011 05:16:05 PM at epicenterDepth: 390.50 km (242.65 mi)
  • M 6.2, Solomon Islands
    Monday, February 7, 2011 19:53:42 UTCTuesday, February 8, 2011 06:53:42 AM at epicenterDepth: 413.90 km (257.19 mi)
  • M 5.3, Nias region, Indonesia
    Monday, February 7, 2011 08:08:37 UTCMonday, February 7, 2011 03:08:37 PM at epicenterDepth: 82.80 km (51.45 mi)
  • M 5.0, Fiji region
    Thursday, February 3, 2011 11:13:48 UTCThursday, February 3, 2011 11:13:48 PM at epicenterDepth: 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
  • M 5.2, Vanuatu
    Thursday, February 3, 2011 03:22:57 UTCThursday, February 3, 2011 02:22:57 PM at epicenterDepth: 53.00 km (32.93 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Cascade effect
    By building dams on the upper Mekong, China has triggered a revival in hydropower ambitions downstream, writes Philip Hirsch.Much has been written on the downstream impact of China’s dams on the Mekong River, which flows through or along the borders of Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand ...
  • Brighter outlook ahead?
    New data from an American research group suggests China’s energy demand will peak by 2030. Linden Ellis asked Mark Levine, the man behind the numbers, about their implications. For four years, the China Energy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California has collected end-us ...
  • 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 ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Anonymous Hacks Security Firm Investigating It ...
    A U.S. security firm that claimed to have uncovered the real identity of Anonymous members responsible for a recent spate of web site attacks became a victim of Anonymous itself, when members of the online vigilante group breached the company’s network and stole more than 60,000 internal e-mail ...
  • Sony Lawyers Expand Dragnet, Targeting Anybody ...
    Sony is threatening to sue anybody posting or “distributing” the first full-fledged jailbreak code for the 4-year-old PlayStation 3 gaming console. What’s more, the company is demanding that a federal judge order Google to surrender the IP addresses and other identifying information (.pdf) of th ...
  • Lawyer: Assange Would Face Closed-Door Trial i ...
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would face a secret, closed-door trial if he were extradited from Britain for sex-crime allegations in Sweden, his defense attorney argued in court on Monday. In the first of what’s expected to be a two-day extradition hearing, defense attorney Geoffrey Robertson ...
  • 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 ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Russia poised to breach mysterious Antarctic l ...
    MOSCOW (Reuters) - For 15 million years, an icebound lake has remained sealed deep beneath Antarctica's frozen crust, possibly hiding prehistoric or unknown life. Now Russian scientists are on the brink of piercing through to its secrets.
  • China raises rates to battle stubbornly high i ...
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China raised interest rates on Tuesday for the second time in just over six weeks, intensifying a battle in the fast-expanding economy against stubbornly high inflation that threatens to unsettle global markets.
  • Special Report: The man who sold the sky
    PARIS (Reuters) - One warm July evening three years ago, John Leahy set off along London's river Thames in an electric punt. With Leahy, a sharp and energetic New Yorker who has been Airbus sales chief since 1994, were the company's Middle East president Habib Fekih and Tim Clark, president of E ...
  • Russia poised to breach mysterious Antarctic l ...
    MOSCOW (Reuters) - For 15 million years, an icebound lake has remained sealed deep beneath Antarctica's frozen crust, possibly hiding prehistoric or unknown life. Now Russian scientists are on the brink of piercing through to its secrets.
  • Activist's tears may be game changer in Egypt
    CAIRO, Feb 8 (Reuters) - One man's tears provided a new impetus on Tuesday to protesters in Egypt seeking to keep up momentum in their campaign, now in its third week, to topple President Hosni Mubarak.

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #475 (Arab revolution ...
    Obama 'disappointed' with US intelligence on Tunisia. An Intelligence Failure in Egypt? Did US intelligence fail in North Africa? Continue reading →
  • Embassy cables show US spied on UK Foreign Off ...
    The latest release of US embassy cables from whistleblower website WikiLeaks shows that the US Department of State ordered its diplomats to actively report on the personal lives of British Foreign Office officials. On several instances, American diplomats in London appear to have reported on the ...
  • 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 →

War is a Crime.org

  • George Bush: Preliminary Indictment for Tortur ...
    George Bush: Preliminary Indictment for Torture - by Stephen Lendman A previous article addressed torture as official US policy under Bush, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2008/07/torture-as-official-us-policy.html It remains so under Obama, authorized at the h ...
  • Mubarak's Thirty-Year Dictatorship
    Mubarak's Thirty-Year Dictatorship - by Stephen Lendman Throughout decades of brutal rule, Mubarak remained a steadfast US ally. As a result, Washington rewarded him generously. US administrations also ignored his crimes, corruption, and lawlessness, as late January released WikiLeaks cables rev ...
  • Why Did the President Cross the Road?
    By David Swanson To kneel before the corporate throne of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. And here's what he had to say there on Monday. President Obama again stressed that he wanted to freeze non-war/military spending well into the next president's tenure: "That's why I've proposed that we freeze ...
  • The New Cold Type Reader Is Out
    The ColdType Reader (Scroll page for issues - latest at top) Issue 53 80 Pages: NEW DAWN IN EGYPT – The Revolution Is Being Televised, Fazila Farouk & Jess Hurd; It’s Egypt’s Revolution, Not Ours, Chris Hedges; A Lesson In Revolution And Hypocrisy, Andy Worthington; Hurwitt’s Eye, Mark Hu ...
  • Kucinich: The Tea Party’s First Test
    Will Tea Party Members Defend the Constitution or Capitulate on PATRIOT Act Extension? Washington D.C. (February 7, 2011) – Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a steadfast defender of civil liberties, today released the following statement in advance of an expected vote to extend certain provisi ...

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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Farming Pathogens

  • The Scientific American
    Science is the business right now. If the science works, the business works, and vice versa. –Craig Venter Bird flu marinates a chicken in its own juices, a satay best avoided whatever the menu special. In such short an order better for the bistro than the barn, infected birds rapidly bleed from ...
  • 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

  • Koch Brothers At Heart Of GOP Power
    On First Day Of New Congress, Koch Operatives Met With GOP Chairman Planning To Gut The Clean Air Act Think Progress- By Lee Fang at 10:00 am In January, ThinkProgress interviewed billionaire plutocrat David Koch about his views on climate science, his Tea Party movement, and his political plans ...
  • Afternoon Jukebox- “Ain’t Nothing ...
    The Black Keys feat. Mos Def and Jim Jones (BlakRoc)- “Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)”
  • AOL To Buy Huffington Post For $315 Million
    AOL To Buy Huffington Post For $315 Million Arianna Huffington will be named president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which will integrate all Huffington Post and AOL content. AFP/AlterNet February 6, 2011 | WASHINGTON — US Internet provider AOL will buy The Huffington P ...
  • Chris Hedges: US & Israel should change polici ...
    by Wordgeezer Chris Hedges, standing to the right of Daniel Ellsberg, on Dec 16, 2010, at the demonstration that, in the main stream media, didn’t happen. Probably the most important news in recent times, because it  involved people, who were once in government, the CIA, and the media. They were ...
  • 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 ...

Solari

  • Precious Metals Market Report
    By Catherine Austin Fitts I am back in Tennessee, so I am headed over to Top of the World Farm on Thursday evening to have dinner with Franklin and Susan Sanders and to do our Precious Metals Market Report. It feels like a homecoming! There is a lot to cover. Last month, Franklin and I covered ...
  • The Moneychanger: Steps to Rebuilding Your Loc ...
    P.O. Box 178 Westpoint, Tennessee 38486 www.the-moneychanger.com franklin@the-moneychanger.com (888) 218-9226 THE MONEYCHANGER’S STEPS TO REBUILDING YOUR LOCAL ECONOMY Simple, practical steps that you can take personally to rebuild your local economy and stop financing the Tapeworm economy in t ...
  • Quote du Jour
    “Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now … Thus in France the emetic was once forbidden as medicine, the potato as an article of food.” ~ Thomas Jefferson, in “Notes on Virginia” 1784 Related reading: Thomas Jefferson ...
  • More Americans Are Creating Their Own Jobs
    By Los Angeles Times New job figures released Friday might have been more meager than most economists had expected, but at least one set of numbers made some people happy. That’s because the Bureau of Labor Statistics added a new category this month for incorporated self-employed workers The ne ...
  • Proposal Would Exempt Utah Food From Federal R ...
    By Robert Gehrke Rep. Bill Wright, as he puts it, “grew up in the dirt,” raising dairy cattle since he was a boy. But now he fears farming is in jeopardy, threatened by the heavy hand of federal regulations that could drive farmers out of business and jeopardize Utah’s food supply. So in the la ...

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

  • A bad, likely, and seldom mentioned scenario f ...
    Summary:  Summary: Rising inflation would be bad. But there is something that might make inflation far worse, is more likely, and almost never mentioned: prices rising faster than wages.. About the past The cost of living rose during the great inflation of the 1970′s.  But people got by becau ...
  • Inflation is coming! Inflation is coming!
    Summary:  Not a day goes by that investment or political (conservative) writers don’t assure us that inflation is coming — or even here.  Except when they’re warning of hyperinflation (for the right-wing its always Weimer-inflation, except when it’s NAZI-Munich).  This post shows the evidenc ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • WikiLeaks’ founder Assange fights extradition ...
    Reuters – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asked a British judge on Monday to block his extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations, arguing he would not get a fair trial and could end up facing execution in the United States. The 39-year-old Australian computer expert, who has infuriated the ...
  • Sun Exposure, Vitamin D May Lower Risk of Mult ...
    ScienceDaily — People who spend more time in the sun and those with higher vitamin D levels may be less likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study published in the February 8, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. MS is a ...
  • Pakistan policemen killed in rebel attack
    AFP - Militants fired rockets and bullets at a police patrol van in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing two officers and injuring six others, police said. The incident, claimed by the Taliban, took place in Balyamina village, 10 kilometres (six miles) west of northwestern Hangu, a town regu ...
  • Preschool fees big barrier to indigenous atten ...
    The Australian – EARLY childhood educators are calling on the federal government to make preschool free for Aboriginal children, after a study revealed fees are one of the main factors preventing indigenous children participating in early education. The study by SDN Children’s Services, which la ...
  • Indonesia’s Falun Gong Tolerated But Not Legal
    VOA – Indonesia recently refused legal status to the spiritual group Falun Gong. The group is banned in China and human rights organizations say the ruling to restrict Falun Gong in Indonesia was made to maintain good relations with one of its biggest trading partners. On a Sunday morning in fro ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Egypt, Suleiman and the Limits of U.S. Hegemon ...
    A thought has been burning a hole in my head over the past few days -- namely, that any meaningful Egyptian transition to democracy will almost certainly involve some form of a truth and reconciliation process. This issue has already arisen in Tunisia, where Le Figaro reports that the country's ...
  • Iranian Green Movement Leaders Apply for Pro-E ...
    Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, opposition figures and de facto leaders of the Green Movement, announced on February 6 that they applied for a permit to demonstrate in the streets of Tehran in solidarity with the pro-democracy movements in Egypt and Tunis. According to Kaleme, a websit ...
  • Diplomacy At Work In Sudan
    Until recently, the conventional wisdom has been that a pro-independence referendum for southern Sudan was overwhelmingly likely to end in massive bloodshed. Now it looks like things may work out fairly happily. How’d it happen? Elizabeth Dickinson explains the American diplomacy at work: In sh ...
  • Iran Claims Egyptian Uprising Marks New Islami ...
    Iranian officials and the state-run media in the Islamic Republic have tried to portray the anti-government uprising in Egypt as another âIslamic Revolutionâ and the beginning of the formation of an âIslamic Middle East.â Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in Tehranâs Friday prayers on ...
  • Frank Wisner on Mubarak: Gaffe or Conflict of ...
     Frank Wisner, President Barack Obama's envoy to Cairo who generated controversy over the weekend by declaring that Egypt's Hosni "Mubarak must stay in office" to facilitate a smooth transition, has been recalled following revelations that he has financial ties to Mubarak's regime. The Independe ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: The First Step is Respecting ...
    Last week, Conor Friedersdorf observed of the conservative noise machine, "It is hard to think of anyone who disrespects and takes advantage of conservatives more than they do." Now, I'm not a conservative, but I happen to think this is a very big problem. When Rush Limbaugh dismisses as crazy ...
  • The Little Picture: You've Got HuffPo.
    Above, Ariana Huffington addresses a conference in L.A. in 2009. AOL announced today that it would by her nearly-six-year-old online venture, The Huffington Post. (Flickr/(cc) Kenneth Yeung - www.thelettertwo.com)
  • How Republicans Are Supposed to Talk About Rel ...
    The Deseret News recently explored the different ways potential presidential candidates Mitt Romney and John Huntsman might handle the issue of their Mormonism (something the Politico tackled here), and the article included a revelation I hadn't noticed before: It's early, but Huntsman's strate ...
  • Credible Threats Come From Political Power.
    You'll understand if I don't take this threat very seriously.: Tom Buffenbarger, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, said his members are �not rushing to vote for a Republican.� But, he said, �it is going to be hard to get them to show up at the polls ...
  • Blue Economies.
    With President Obama meeting with skeptical business leaders, it's worth noting that Democratic presidents are better for the economy than their Republican counterparts. Via Chuck Spinney, is a nifty chart showing overall rankings: And here is a second chart, circa 2008, from Michael Kinsley: ...

Buzzflash

  • Is Selling and Buying Drugs the Bi-Partisan "F ...
    MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT   Robert Kuttner just wrote a column in which he stated a point BuzzFlash has been driving home recently: "America's corporations no longer need America's workers." As BuzzFlash has recently criticized, President Obama's response has been to appoint th ...
  • Did You Know that the Right Wing Believes Libe ...
    MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT Do you want to know "five reasons liberals aren't as happy as Conservatives"? John Hall of TownHall.com believes that he has the answers to this rather - shall we say - questionable assumption. After all, so many progressives are in a quandary as to ...
  • Surge in Minority Growth Fuels Pathological Hy ...
    MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT If you wonder what can explain the pathological hysteria of the Tea Party and right-wing whites, one need look no further than the headline from an Associated Press article today, February 3. "Census estimates show big gains for US minorities," the h ...
  • Hosni Mubarak and America's Corporate Cable Co ...
    MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH EDITOR FOR TRUTHOUT What do Hosni Mubarak and the major United States cable companies have in common? They have banned Al Jazeera. That's a shame, because Al Jazeera has great "on the ground" coverage and literally speaks the language of the tumultuous happenings in the ...
  • The US Censors Al Jazeera for No Good Reason
    Wadah Khanfar, Op-Ed on BuzzFlash at Truthout Newsweek The U.S. censors Al Jazeera for no good reason. As I write, a ticker flashes across my screen reporting that our Cairo bureau has been stormed, our offices closed, and our equipment confiscated. It's another hurdle in a fast-growing lis ...

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

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • A Decade Later: NRC Reactor Oversight Process ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 4, 2011Union of Concerned ScientistsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) reactor oversight process, introduced 10 years ago to better monitor safety at nuclear power plants and trigger appropriate agency responses, has failed to improve nuclear safety, acco ...
  • Plans for 150 New Coal Plants Scrapped
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 4, 2011Sierra ClubPurdue University has cancelled plans for a new campus coal plant, making the plant the 150th to be defeated or abandoned since the beginning of the coal rush in 2001. Thanks in part to the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, in the last two yea ...
  • Tunisia: Prison Visit Ends 20-Year Ban
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 4, 2011Human Rights WatchTunisia's interim government should ease overcrowding and reverse a policy imposed more than 15 years ago to deny inmates facing the death penalty any contact with their families, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch made th ...
  • Mubarak's Base
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 4, 2011Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)For online resources; see: accuracy.org/online-resources-on-egyptread more
  • Lawsuit Launched to Protect Pacific Waters for ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 4, 2011Conservation GroupsThe Center for Biological Diversity, Oceana and the Turtle Island Restoration Network today filed a notice of intent to sue the federal government for failing to protect leatherback sea turtle habitat ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Every School a Sanctuary
    Rethinking Schools Editorial In the 1980s, as refugees from U.S.-sponsored wars in Central America sought safety in the United States—only to be declared “illegal aliens” by the government—progressive churches and communities throughout the country decided to become sanctuaries and offered ...
  • The Wrong Mubarak Quits. Soon the Right One Wi ...
    by Robert FiskThe old man is going. The resignation last night of the leadership of the ruling Egyptian National Democratic Party – including Hosni Mubarak's son Gamal – will not appease those who want to claw the President down. But they will get their blood. The whole vast edifice of power whi ...
  • Egypt Is the Future
    by Laurence LewisWhile many have been surprised by the seemingly sudden uprising in Egypt, the real question isn't about how it happened but why it didn't happen sooner. Despite brave and noble opposition efforts by various individuals and groups over the past decades, it seems nevertheless to h ...
  • The Stasis of the Union --One Last Take
    by Philip KraskePundits have summed up the latest State of the Union speech as a rousing call to action short on detail, and I suppose they're right, though I am always puzzled that people expect any more than histrionics from these speeches. With Congress and the Supreme Court huddled aroun ...
  • You Must Watch the Empire Bowl
    by Robert LipsyteIf you are still passionately following football or, worse, allowing your kid to play, you may just be an old-fashioned imperialist running dog. Not that all football fans are bloodthirsty hounds feeding off the crippled hindquarters of the dying animal of empire. Some are in a ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • U.S. "Choosing to get" Afghanistan "fundamenta ...
    By Steve Hynd Derrick and Robert have already written about the new report today from resident Afghanistan analysts Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Keuhn (PDF here) which says that the Taliban insurgency there didn't have to happen but that US dismissiveness in 2002 prevented reconciliation ...
  • Damning New Report Shows U.S. Strategy Blockin ...
    By Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe The new report from NYU’s Center for International Cooperation is a damning description of the U.S. policies in Afghanistan since 2001, and a warning that the escalated military strategy blocks the road to peace while making the Taliban more dangero ...
  • 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 ...

Water Wars

  • Preventing Water Wars
    Team studies effect of urban development and water redistribution on local wetlands.
  • Water wars continue in Bastrop, Lee counties
    One group in Bastrop County is prepared to fight against potential plans to tap their water supply and pipe to the Interstate 35 corridor.
  • Want an apocalyptic tale of world without wate ...
    THE WATER WARS, by Cameron Stracher, 2010, Sourcebooks, $16.99, 256 pages. You would never even consider it. Going to school without a shower or a bath? No way. There's a time and place in school to be sweaty and it's called "practice" -- as in football, basketball, the gym. But ...
  • 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...

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Electronic Intifada

  • Smell of freedom is sweet in this small Egypti ...
    CAIRO (IPS) - Imam Mohammed al-Saba of the Eisa mosque here in the center of the rural town Kirdasa takes the pulpit to tell his congregation he can smell "the air of freedom f ...
  • The circles in the sky over Gaza
    People keep talking of a new war. They tell you about their neighbors -- they're probably too shy to admit that its their family, not their neighbors -- who already sta ...
  • Obama envoy Wisner works for Egypt military, b ...
    High-powered Washington lobby firms have helped the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak secure enormous benefits in Washington. President Obama's special envoy to Egypt, ...
  • We are all part of Egypt's revolution
    "It's been almost two weeks since the Egyptian uprising began. I type these words sitting in my dirtied and blood-soaked jeans, as I have no change of clothes. But all that rea ...
  • 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 ...

Afghanistan Sun

  • Outcasts, Storyville: Afghan Cricket Club - Ou ...
    (BBC1), the eight-part sci-fi drama that had its gritty (you could taste the dust in your mouth) debut last night. The outcasts have named their new home planet Carpathia ? in honour, as their ...
  • NATO reconstruction bases to go
    KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's president said Tuesday that international military bases that run provincial infrastructure and development programs will have to close as his ...
  • Afghan, U.S. Forces Brace for Spring Offensive
    At Least 8 Dead in Afghan Suicide Bombing At least eight people were killed after a Taliban suicide bomber hit a grocery store in Kabul, Afghanistan. A U.S. official said two Americans citizens may ...
  • Taliban set to 'come back at us hard&#039 ...
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Ten loud explosions that rocked Kandahar one day last week actually signaled good news on the front line of the war against the Taliban. The blasts ? one every ...
  • Oil convoy bound for Afghanistan attacked in P ...
    (CNN) -- Armed militants in southwest Pakistan torched two oil tankers carrying fuel for U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, a government official told ...

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

  • Congressional Oversight Quotes of the Day
    By Bryan Rahija Mickey Edwards, Vice President and Director of the Aspen Institute; former Member of Congress (R-OK) and Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee: When it comes to oversight functions—of either oversight committees, or oversight subcommittees, or any...
  • Morning Smoke: Army Suspends Efforts to Move W ...
    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. Army puts...
  • 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...

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

  • Canada: Time to play a leadership role in nucl ...
    Last month Canada assumed the presidency of the main UN disarmament body, the Conference on Disarmament (CD). Paul Meyer, who served as Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament in Geneva from 2003 to 2007, argues that Canada needs to look outside the CD if it is to help advance the non-proliferation ...
  • 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.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 2-7-11
    Today, Kevin reveals the truth behind celebrity endorsements that they don’t want you to know about! Plus, find out what happened to a listener after mentioning Kevin Trudeau’s name in front of the chairman of Domino’s Pizza. Self Help: Envision Your Dreams    Invest Wisely    Natural Cures      ...
  • One of the Most Dangerous ‘Drinks’ ...
    February 7th, 2011 Mercola.com By: Dr. Mercola New research reveals that there could indeed be a link between the controversial MMR vaccine and autism, as well as bowel disease in children. The study appears to confirm the findings of doctor Andrew Wakefield, who suggested a possible link in 199 ...
  • The Currency That Just Won’t Quit
    February 7th, 2011 CNNMoney.com By: Charles Riley The Swiss franc, one of the world’s strongest currencies, has been on a tear in recent months, and is now flirting with a new all time high against the U.S. dollar. The Swiss currency has spiked more than 20% against the dollar since June, when E ...
  • Scientists Say Special Diet May Ease Symptoms ...
    February 7th, 2011 AOL Health By: Deborah Huso A specialized diet may help ease the symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, according to Dutch researchers. A recent study from Radboud University and the ADHD Research Center in the Netherlands observed 100 children, ages ...
  • Universal Flu Vaccine Coming Soon? Researchers ...
    February 7th, 2011 AOL News By: Torie Bosch Every year, the flu shot is something of a gamble. Scientists have to figure out what the most active strains are, then create a vaccine around them. Sometimes, there are shortages and delays in shipping and manufacturing, which can keep people from ge ...

Pambazuka News

  • Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cu ...
    The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
  • Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice b ...
    On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
    Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...

War in Context

  • Muslim Brotherhood rejects Khamenei’s attempt ...
    “The Iranian nation has become a model for the other nations through its resistance and insistence on Islam and Islamic establishment and due to the eye-catching progress it has made on this path throughout the last 32 years,” Ayatollah Khamenei said while addressing a military gathering in Tehr ...
  • Wael Ghonim interview – updated
    The Guardian reports: An emotional television interview given by a young Egyptian Google executive who was arrested after playing a key role in using the internet to spark the uprising against Hosni Mubarak is being hailed as a landmark moment in the ongoing revolt after it struck a chord acros ...
  • Interview with Sandmonkey
  • The death of Israeli democracy
    Mya Guarnieri writes: As Egyptians demand their freedom, I ask a Muslim in Jaffa if we will see the same in Israel. “I don’t think so,” he answers. “Even with all the mess here, we have democracy.” But, do we? And for how much longer? As we speak, the Knesset is debating one of a slew of anti ...
  • Tom Engelhardt: Pox Americana
    Driving through the gates of hell and other American pastimes in the Greater Middle East By Tom Engelhardt As we’ve watched the dramatic events in the Middle East, you would hardly know that we had a thing to do with them.  Oh yes, in the name of its War on Terror, Washington had for years [ ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Food fight
    Paul Krugman has caused quite a stir with his claims that the riots in Egypt are the result of: global warming > causing bad weather > causing crop failure > causing increased food prices > causing riots. It’s rather circular … Continue reading →
  • Gore and Olbermann, a match made in…
    From Hot Air, just a rumor at the moment: NYT: Olbermann to join ⦠Al Goreâs Current TV posted at 9:43 pm on February 7, 2011 by Allahpundit  Unconfirmed thus far, but the Times hears buzz. Two words: âequity stake.â … Continue reading →
  • Boreholed
    Jeff Id was trying to defend his paper on Antarctica (O’Donnell et al) at Real Climate. This is what he got for his trouble. Red lines mine. Meanwhile the dhogazas of the world run free in the same thread: Clearly, … Continue reading →
  • Global Warming is a Pussy Cat
    Guest post by Ira Glickstein Thanks to WUWT readers who posted estimates of how much of the supposed 0.8ºC Global Warming since 1880 was due to Data Bias, Natural Cycles, and AGW (human-caused warming). I am happy with the results … Continue reading →
  • RC’s duplicity prods Jeff Id out of reti ...
    Jeff asked me to carry this, since his blog is off the radar since he announced his retirement. It took an RC moment to change that. – Anthony Wrong is Wrong â A reply to the Real Noise at Real Climate … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Protests Demanding Mubarak’s Resignation ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Feb. 7, 2011 Protests Demanding Mubarak’s Resignation Grow Stronger, Despite Some Government Concessions Newly-appointed Egyptian vice president Omar Suleiman held talks on Sunday with opposition groups in Cairo in an attempt to stem the anti-g ...
  • Time for Democracy in Egypt by Ralph Nader
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page Feb. 7, 2011 Those politically savvy people who thought strongman, Hosni Mubarak would be out before the end of the first week of the Egyptian uprising better rethink the odds. For thirty years Mubarak has developed what can be c ...
  • Ralph Nader Rips Obama for his Sit-Down with C ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ liamh2 | February 07, 2011 On Monday, Feb. 7, 2011, Peace and Justice activist Ralph Nader ripped President Barack Obama for his “anti-union stroll” across Lafayette Park to meet this morning with the “corporate barons” in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. His co ...
  • US Warships Signal Washington’s Intervention t ...
    by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 7 February, 2011 Three US warships dispatched to Egypt signal that Washington is stepping up efforts to secure the embattled regime of Hosni Mubarak. As millions of Egyptian people persist in nationwide protests against the US-backed regime, W ...
  • Solomon, Nader, Cornel West and Chomsky: Build ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Building A Powerful Left in the United States February 4, 2011 [...] Ralph Nader brings to bear the wisdom of six decades of fighting the good fight as he summarizes strategies and policies he feels can revitalize American society. [...] Noam Chomsky reminds ...

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

  • Words Make Sense of Numbers
    Knowing a language that uses counting words can shape oneâs ability to understand large numbers. A new study of deaf people who have made up their own hand signals to communicate shows that without number words, it’s hard to keep track of more than three objects at a time. âLearning language re ...
  • Allergies Linked to Brain Tumor Protection
    Hay fever, dog, peanut and other allergies may protect sufferers from certain types of brain tumors, a new study suggests. In surveys of hospital patients, individuals with glioma — a common form of brain and spinal cancer — were less likely than cancer-free individuals to report having aller ...
  • Dr. Seussian Mystery Fluid Could Have Saved To ...
    A mixture of cornstarch and water best known for entertaining kindergartners could have plugged the spewing Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, say physicists. Where regular drilling mud failed to stop the flow, oobleck — a complex fluid that seems to switch between liquid and solid — succe ...
  • Quantum Fluctuations May Melt Ultracold Glass
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience777190536001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); Just above absolute zero, the coldest temperature possible in the universe, quantum fluctuations can melt some forms of glass into goo. At the subatomic s ...
  • Video: Roiling Sun Captured From All Angles
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience780788805001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); When it comes to solar storms, there’s no longer any place to hide. For the first time, solar scientists have obtained simultaneous views of the entire ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • WikiLeaks: Israel’s secret hotline to the man ...
    The new vice-president of Egypt, Omar Suleiman, is a long-standing favourite of Israel's who spoke daily to the Tel Aviv government via a secret "hotline" to Cairo, leaked documents disclose. IOA... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palesti ...
  • Dany Cohn-Bendit on the situation in Egypt and ...
    Cohn-Bendit's comments at the European Parliament, responding to Lady Ashton's comments on Egypt. 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...
  • A statement from the protesters at Cairo’s Tah ...
    We the protesters who are currently on sit-in at Tahrir (liberation) square in Cairo since January 25, 2011 strongly condemn the brutal attack carried out by the governing National Democratic Party's... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian ...
  • Jerusalem set to approve contentious Jewish ho ...
    The Jerusalem Municipal Committee for Planning and Building is expected to approve today the construction of two buildings that will include 13 apartments for Jewish residents in the Sheikh Jarrah... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...
  • 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 ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Dutasteride Not a Cost-Effective Way to Preven ...
    The popular drug dutasteride may not be a cost-effective way to prevent prostate cancer in men who are at elevated risk of developing the disease, according to findings by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher.
  • NDSU Professor Dean Webster to Receive America ...
    Dr. Dean C. Webster of North Dakota State University (NDSU) will receive the prestigious Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2011 from the American Chemical Society (ACS). The purpose of the award is to encourage interest and progress in coatings science technology and engineering and to recogniz ...
  • Expert: Roof Collapses Predictable in Record S ...
    A structural engineering professor at the University of New Hampshire is available to discuss two hazards of this season's record snowfalls: roof collapses and ice dams. Ray Cook, assistant professor of civil engineering, can discuss the science behind this winter's many roof collapses and give ...
  • Consumer Credit Increase a Good Sign, but the ...
    Steven Kyle, professor of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, comments on recent reports that consumer borrowing has increased for the third consecutive month.
  • Experimental Approach May Lead to Improved Tre ...
    Researchers are reporting on a promising new approach to treating diabetic wounds, bed sores, chronic ulcers and other slow-to-heal wounds. It may be possible to speed healing by suppressing certain immune system cells.

Natural Health News

  • Fishing for Kittens
    The wily cat eventually pops out of the right hole!
  • Otter Playtime
    This adorable video was filmed at the London Zoo.
  • Famous Actress Angers Cancer Experts by Saying ...
    Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen has reportedly �infuriated cancer experts� by describing sun screen as �poison�.� Bundchen refuses to use it because of the chemicals they contain. According to the Daily Mail: �[Bundchen] made the comments at the launch of her own organic skin care range, ...
  • Are You or Your Family Eating Toxic Food Dyes?
    Food dyes are one of the most widely used and dangerous additives. �While the European Union has recently placed regulations on labeling food dyes to inform consumers of the health risks, the United States has no such requirement. Here are some of the most common food dyes used today, accor ...
  • A Possible Silver Lining for Hot Flashes
    New research shows that the irritating symptoms many women experience at menopause, such as hot flashes and mood changes, may indicate a reduced risk for breast cancer. The study reported that women who had the most severe hot flashes also had the lowest risk for postmenopausal breast cancer.� ...

Antemedius

  • Pox Americana: Driving Through the Gates of He ...
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com As we've watched the dramatic events in the Middle East, you would hardly know that we had a thing to do with them.� Oh yes, in the name of its War on Terror, Washington had for years backed most of the thuggish governments now under siege or anxious t ...
  • Sorry, Ariana and Markos, No More Free Content ...
    I know all too much about writing for free. I do it here all the time. It's a labor of love. I've been at it for more than 900 blog posts and more than 5 years. I know about writing without being paid for it. Despite that, and despite my understanding that when I post at group blogs I know I ...
  • Egypt: Counter-Revolution Brought To You By...
    Originally published at Asia Times It will be a long, winding, treacherous and perhaps bloody road before the popular Egyptian revolution even dreams of approaching the post-Suharto Indonesian model (the largest, most plural democracy in a Muslim-majority country) or the current Turkish model ( ...
  • HuffPo Bought By AOL
    This morning's news says that beleaguered, dinosaur of dial up AOL has bought Huffington Post and made the doyenne of digital, Arianna, an executive. Here's the news from the New York Times: The two companies completed the sale Sunday evening and announced the deal just after midnight on Mond ...
  • Is The Egyptian Uprising Running Out Of Steam? ...
    What’s next in Egypt? It is the question that many are asking but I doubt anyone (including myself) is going to be very accurate in answering. There are precedents all over the place for the way things can go. It might go like Tunisia where the president empties his and the nations bank accounts ...

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 Response to Stavros Gadinis and Eric Pan by ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Pierre-Hugues Verdier, author of Mutual Recognition in International Finance, responds to the comments by Stavros Gadinis and Eric Pan] I would first like to thank Professors Pan and Gadinis for their generous and insi ...
  • A Response to Pierre-Hugues Verdier by Eric Pa ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Eric Pan, an Associate Professor of Law and Director, The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance, responds to Pierre-Hugues Verdier, Mutual Recognition in International Finance] Pierre-Hugues Verdier h ...
  • A Response to Pierre-Hugues Verdier by Stavros ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Stavros Gadinis, an Assistant Professor of Law at U.C. Berkeley School of Law, responds to Pierre-Hugues Verdier, Mutual Recognition in International Finance] Pierre Verdier’s piece, “Mutual Recognition in Internationa ...
  • Mutual Recognition in International Finance by ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal [Pierre-Hugues Verdier, an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, describes his recently published article Mutual Recognition in International Finance] In the absence of an international ...
  • Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 52(1): ...
    by Harvard International Law Journal by Harvard International Law Journal The Harvard International Law Journal is proud to partake in its inaugural online symposium hosted by Opinio Juris. Beginning today, each day this week we will be bringing you discussion surrounding one of the articles ...

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

  • California Prisoners Sentenced to Death by Wat ...
    The water at Kern Valley State Prison contains twice the federally accepted level of arsenic, a known carcinogen. But the 4,800 men imprisoned at the "state-of-the-art" Central California facility have no choice: they have to drink it.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Tropical Cyclones Attacking Australia
    Tropical Cyclone Yasi, recently upgraded to a category 5, the highest level of threat, is bearing down on Queensland Australia and the Great Barrier Reef with wind speeds likely exceeding 175 mph. Submitted by Anna Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Alarming NOAA data, Rapid Pole Shift
    Since 1860, the magnetic pole shift has more than doubled every 50 years.During the past 10 years, the magnetic north pole has shifted nearly half of the total distance of the past 50 years! IOW, the pole shift has apparently sped up substantiallySubmitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-i ...
  • An Experiment in Futility
    Discount the futile partisan punditry: the iron fist of consistent foreign domination still shows through the clouds of obfuscationSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • A Guide: How Not To Say Stupid Stuff About Egy ...
    a handy list to keep you from offending Egyptians, Arabs and the world when you discuss, blog or talk about Egypt The library is safe thanks to Egypt�s youth, whether they be the staff of the Library or the representatives of the demonstratorsSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...

Angry Indian News

  • WikiLeaks: Israel's secret hotline to the man ...
    WikiLeaks: Israel's secret hotline to the man tipped to replace Mubarak - Telegraph: "Mr Suleiman, who is widely tipped to take over from Hosni Mubarak as president, was named as Israel's preferred... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • The Daily Herald -Five parties register to con ...
    The Daily Herald -Five parties register to contest Statia Island Council election: "ST. EUSTATIUS--No less than five parties will be contesting the first Island Council election under Statia's new... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • US officials flock to appear on Al Jazeera | R ...
    US officials flock to appear on Al Jazeera | Raw Story: "What a difference a revolution can make.Members of the Obama administration are flocking to appear on Al Jazeera, one of the most influential... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Pentagon Building Bases in Central America and ...
    Pentagon Building Bases in Central America and Colombia | Fellowship of Reconciliation: [forusa.org] "by John Lindsay-PolandU.S. military agencies in September 2010 signed contracts for construction... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Church of Scientology investigated over ‘slave ...
    Church of Scientology investigated over ‘slave labor’: report | Raw Story: "The FBI is investigating the Church of Scientology over allegations its practices may have violated human trafficking laws,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Israeli cmdr. urges readiness for war
    ShareThisIsraeli cmdr. urges readiness for war 08 Feb 2011 The Israeli army chief has urged Tel Aviv to make preparations for an all-out war over the recent developments across the Middle East, a report says. Israel's Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi has said that given the recen ...
  • 'Gaza patients in critical condition'
    ShareThis'Gaza patients in critical condition' 07 Feb 2011 The Gaza Health Ministry has warned that the current shortage of medicine due to Israel's blockade has caused a serious health disaster for Palestinian patients. According to the ministry, more than 170 medicines and 140 medical consumab ...
  • Activists plan 2nd Gaza-bound flotilla
    ShareThisActivists plan 2nd Gaza-bound flotilla 08 Feb 2011 International activists are planning to send an aid convoy to the blockaded Gaza Strip on the anniversary of Tel Aviv's deadly attack on a humanitarian mission. The mission has been organized by Spanish activists Manuel Tapial and Laura ...
  • Record Low Arctic Sea Ice Extent for January
    ShareThisRecord Low Arctic Sea Ice Extent for January 08 Feb 2011 The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has reported that Arctic sea ice was at its lowest extent ever recorded for January (since satellite records began)... NSIDC reported that ice extent was unusually low in Hudson B ...
  • Milan judge frees former Guantanamo inmate con ...
    ShareThisMilan judge frees former Guantanamo inmate convicted of association with terrorism aim --'Both the defence and the prosecution asked the judge to take into account his illegal and inhumane detention at Guantanamo.' 07 Feb 2011 A judge on Monday ordered that a Tunisian convicted of crimi ...

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...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Meanwhile in Israel..
    By Jesse Bacon While their neighbors in Egypt struggled to defend their amazing movement from attack by pro-government goons, Israel used it’s remaining democracy to..further the investigation of NGO’s. The House Committee approved a motion for the first panel to be chaired by MK Fania Kirshenba ...
  • What will you do?
    By Jesse Bacon My friend asked me, only half-jokingly “What if you have to change your name for your blog?” I wish a swift and durable success to the people’s movements in Cairo. I was just coming of age when the Berlin Wall fell (my “camp” was actually a nerdy kids Current Events class in June ...
  • No more cancer: Israeli Army admits Jawaher ki ...
    By Jesse Bacon I In a triumph of the obvious truth over incoherent lies, the Israeli Army now admits that Jawaher Abu Rahmah was indeed killed by tear gas at a demo, not as their anonymous speculation would have it by cancer or an honor killing. These tales violated basic plausibility, but they ...
  • When and where will Israel’s Tucson be?
    By Jesse Bacon By rights it should have been in 1995, when Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. But the man who took over for him as Prime Minister after appearing at a rally where he was depicted as a Nazi is Prime Minister again. And Rabin’s party was just split into its final tiny segments. And th ...
  • Exclusive Interview: JNF demolishes village fo ...
    By Jesse Bacon Bulldozes from the Jewish National Fund demolished the Bedouin village for Al-Arakib for the ninth time yesterday and today. They also demolished the village’s olive groves the week of Tu Bshvat, which celebrates the flowering of trees so they can grow a forest named after a Funda ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Health Care Reform bill contains heat-seeking ...
    (To my knowledge, this is the first post about this anywhere. Please distribute widely. Feedback and collaboration welcome.) The HCR bill contains a rider that, by codifying and unifying recent case law, makes it much harder for tax shelters to avoid taxes. This may well explain why there is suc ...
  • The Worst Gig
    Via Mike Finnigan on Facebook. He’s been on the road for 45 years playing keyboards and has a tale of his own. There are many other such tales on The Worst Gig! When I was starting out I used to play in nightclubs for weeks at a time. Then they might pick up an option [...]
  • California’s landmark climate law tentatively ...
    In perhaps a startling decision from a court generally known for being liberal, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith has tentatively ruled that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) violated state law in enacting plans for reducing greenhouse gases and implementing cap-and-tra ...
  • Informants infiltrate British activist groups ...
    At least one of them, Mark Stone (who was paid £100,000 a year by police), spent seven years as a leader of the organization he was informing on. This of course, can and does happen in the States. Consider the multitude of supposed revolutionary Marxist parties here in the US. Now that a real li ...
  • The inanity of Superbowl ads
    There is something seriously skewed about a culture that spends inordinate amounts of time anticipating then discussing advertisements broadcast during a sporting event. Josh Mull, Polizeros contributer and co-participant in our podcasts, sums it up well on Twitter.

Coteret

  • Yediot’s Plocker: Thank you Mossad for r ...
    On Sunday (January 9 2011), Yediot’s Itamar Eichner reported [emphasis mine; full translation here]: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is furious with outgoing Mossad Director Meir Dagan because of the briefing Dagan gave journalists last Thursday. In the course of that briefing, Dagan shared wi ...
  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv detai ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, fro ...
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: &#8 ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that th ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders s ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and the ...

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The Air Vent

  • Wrong is Wrong – A reply to the Real Noi ...
    UPDATE:  This was left in the comment thread at WUWT � GeorgeGr says: February 7, 2011 at 2:48 pm The html tags did not work. Here is the post from Realclimate that I was trying to cite: RE: Vernon at 42 says: ��Why are responses from one of the co-authors not being posted? That seems [...]
  • Still Not Qualified for Real Climate
    No I’m not back blogging, still way too busy but I am going to let you guys know that although I am a coauthor of the critiqued paper at a recent RC post here, my comments are unworthy of the great and all seeing climatologists there. I’ve had a nice conversation with Dr. Steig off-line [...]
  • Closed
    On the SOP thread we got into too heated a discussion.  I’ve had more than my fair share of the public lately and don’t know when tAV will be back. Of all the elements of the periodic table stupididium is the most abundant.  The idiots pushed me over  the edge tonight.   I’ve had well [...]
  • What Evidence for “Unprecedented Warming ...
    This is a new paper which takes a look at the statistical uncertainty of the long term warming trends by Pat Frank.  He looks at the uncertainty of the data including that created by non-stationary errors and comes to the reasonable conclusion that global trends for the length of the temp record ...
  • SOP
    Today someone made a comment on the Cuccinelli vs Dr. Man thing which has me stirred up a bit.  I fully understand that some scientists may have the opinion that you don’t want Academics worrying about politics and there is some kind of problem with legal requests for emails.  What unfortunate ...

Focal Point

  • Heavier Kids: Blame Working Moms...or Lazy Dad ...
    A new study of 900 kids reports a correlation between the number of hours a woman works outside the home and the BMI* of her children. "For a third grader of average height, the increase in BMI was equivalent to an extra one and a half to two pounds over what that child would normally gain i ...
  • Surprise! Lila Rose's Planned Parenthood "Stin ...
    Media Matters reveals that Lila Rose's undercover "sting" videos of Planned Parenthood have been doctored: -Why is Live Action Doctoring Its Planned Parenthood Audio? -Latest Lila Rose Video Ends Her Credibility Once and For All For more on anti-abortion extremist Lila Rose and her misbego ...
  • Bloomberg Badmouths Groundhog Who Bit Him 2 Ye ...
    Mayor Mike Bloomberg isn't the type to forgive and forget. Two years ago, New York's official Groundhog Day groundhog, Staten Island Chuck, bit the mayor during the annual weather forecasting ceremony. This year, the Staten Island zoo equipped the groundhog hutch with a special plunger to ...R ...
  • Thomas Should Recuse Himself in HCR Case for T ...
    A judge in Florida ruled this week that the entire Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. According to political scientist and Supreme court-watcher Scott Lemieux, that's probably not the end of the world for health care reform: "Despite this, this ruling is less important than the contro ...
  • Of Course Ultimatums Are Okay
    Morning Gloria of Jezebel asks, "Is It Ever Okay To Make a Relationship Ultimatum?" My answer: You'd better believe it. Seriously, though. I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the question. Why wouldn't it be okay, at least sometimes? We issue ultimatums all the time: -Either you g ...

Inside Facebook

  • Pick & Zip App Allows for Easy Bulk Download o ...
    Pick & Zip is a Facebook application that works via Connect allowing users to quickly download photos from Facebook in either a PDF or Zip file, instead of having to use Facebook’s interface for one-off downloads. The app doesnât require installation, is free and allows for convenient selection ...
  • Ads API Profile: Clickable’s Facebook Advertis ...
    As part of our ongoing series on companies offering Facebookâs Ads API tools and services, today we profile Clickable’s Facebook Advertising Suite. While clients can also manage search advertising, Clickable Pro handles Facebook advertising in a separate interface so it can quickly iterate on fr ...
  • Facebook Rolls Out Real-Time Commenting to All ...
    Facebook quietly implemented real-time commenting for wall and news feed posts in late January, allowing users to see new comments by others appear in-line without having to refresh the page. Now it has confirmed that live commenting has been rolled out to all users, and has explained the “wri ...
  • ISA 2011: Growth and Monetization on Mobile So ...
    With the growth of the Apple iOS and Android ecosystems over the last year, is 2011 the year that mobile social platforms finally take off in US? At Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011, we looked at what 2011 will hold for social application developers with executives from leading platforms and publ ...
  • MySpace, Connect, Groupon, LivingSocial, Badoo ...
    Badoo, the dating app, continues to top our list of growth in terms of monthly active users this week, adding more than 5.4 million users to come out with more than a total of 37.6 million — exceeding any other growing app by far. The app has been criticized by a number of other developers [...]

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ReDress News

  • Israeli economy for beginners
    Gilad Atzmon looks at some of the hidden reasons for Israel's economic success, from money laundering by criminal Russian oligarchs to arms trading, human organ trafficking and harvesting, and other types of international organized crime.
  • Egypt: the groupthink problem
    Lawrence Davidson argues that unless Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak and his deputy, Omar Suleiman, are made to bridge the gap between their parallel universe and the reality of life in Egypt, and draw the right conclusion and go, Egypt could embark on a ruinously dangerous path.
  • To the Egyptian army
    Christopher King reminds the Egyptian army that the world is watching it, and asks: "Will you choose repression or freedom for your people?"
  • US arms industry and the people’s revolt in Eg ...
    Paul J. Balles comments on the USA’s ambivalent line on the people’s revolution in Egypt. He argues that although the administration has a growing fear that a government hostile to Washington could gain control Egypt, “the unspoken fear is that American arms manufacturers will lose a reliable cu ...
  • The spirit of Egypt's Tahrir Square
    Christopher King views the United States' and Europe's equivocal attitudes towards the people's uprising in Egypt and considers what the impacts on Europe and the US might be if the uprising succeeds.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • US Media & Egypt Coverage: Dodging the Real Is ...
    $60 Billion US Aid to Egypt=$60 Billion Current Net-worth of Mubarak Family With all eyes and attention on Egypt, the unsavory ‘US Foreign Policy’ has become the topic of choice among the intelligentsia, journalists, and the overly populated US analyst colony. There are scores of analyses out th ...
  • The FBI “Kamikaze Pilots” Case
    In a public statement issued on Monday, January 31, members of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee demanded a prompt response from the former Chairman and the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission regarding Former FBI Language Specialist Behrooz Sarshar’s censored testimony to the Commission. ...
  • 9/11 Family Members Demand Answers from the 9/ ...
    The Witnessed & Documented “Kamikaze Pilots” Case In a public statement issued today (see below), members of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee demanded a prompt response from the former Chairman and Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission regarding Former FBI Language Specialist Behrooz Sars ...
  • The Dream Team: Paul-Nader?
    Maybe there is hope after all… Isn’t it good to see a joint focus on macro issues and real diseases? Even better, to see micro differences and lame sideshows put aside for the badly needed greater good? What do ‘you’ think? This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Please help us con ...
  • Podcast Show #37
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Corey Pein Corey Pein recounts the creation of the recently launched groundbreaking site warisbusiness.com, a nonpartisan site covering military contracting, the global arms trade and the lobby, and how he began the project with two assumptions: The first- a lot of p ...

Afro Spear

  • “Do you know Africa’s hidden presi ...
    What transpired in Tunisia recently, sadly though, unearthed a great rot in upper echelons of power in Africa. The strength in this, albeit, is the fact that this domino effect did affect Egypt and Yemen where every eye is on to see what will happen. And thereof, maybe, many casualties will foll ...
  • The Herd Mentality…To What Extent Are We ...
    I have recently become fascinated by the idea of the “Herd Mentality” which is the phenomenon of people in crowds or groups who blindly sometimes mindlessly follow the “lead” of certain persons within the same group who appear to be better informed than the rest of the group. In a related manner ...
  • “The Vick Comeback: More Than Just On Th ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21  Stories of redemption are common. Drug addicts kick their habits to rejoin civil society; corrupt investors become charitable. But rarely is there a story of someone overcoming their demons in which people not only want to watch, but want to cheer. Michael Vick’s ...
  • An Education: One Moore Book
    This article in the Huffington Post was forwarded to the AfroSpear by Wayétu Moore, one of the creators and publisher of onemoorebook: When Liberia was my home, they called it sweet. Sweet was the word I remembered the most during the war. I was five and my father, two sisters and I fled Monrovi ...
  • “Who is next after Mubarak?” by Nk ...
    Looking at the way a new dawn is unfolding in Maghreb, one can comfortable assert that this is but the beginning of a new dawn for Africa and the Middle East. It kicked off from Tunisia where a 23 years dictator was impelled to flee. This guy, Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali was a master of [...]

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

  • Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall
    Memorial Tribute to Hugh MacDougall “We are sending the power of love, peace and compassion, which can change the world.” â Hugh MacDougall, Australia, SEN Honorary Advisor Hugh was more to Suzanne and I than SEN’s Honorary Spiritual Advisor. He was the beloved friend we called brother, and he w ...
  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainabil ...
  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must ...
    Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
  • Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the ...
    The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do ...
  • Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
    SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

  • Secretariat the Horse, the Movie
    To be witness to history from afar is one thing, to be up close is another, and to have the wisdom to know the difference is the icing on the cake, of course, I am referring to great moments in history, of excelling in any endeavor, being human, or otherwise, of the bright spots and not of man’s ...
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Unsuitable Blog

  • Friends of the Earth, iPods and The Competitio ...
    It was a windy Thursday evening at the beginning of 2011. An office in north London buzzed with anticipation at the launch of something exciting; something that would appeal to a new breed of eco-conscious consumers who want that extra something to keep them feeling good about their fast-pased, ...
  • A Story About Banks [Guest Post]
    A few weeks back I had a revelation. Many years ago I opened an account with the Midland Bank in Ipswich. Lots of the people that worked there used to come into the pub that I worked in at lunch-time and they all seemed very nice. Actually there was also a very affable man, a [...]
  • Nature Conservancy Embrace Dow Chemical Busine ...
    Below is a long list of chemical compounds and elements. This is not just an ordinary list, for it is special in all sorts of ways – not least of all to anyone who is a supporter of our old friends The Nature Conservancy. The list contains just those substances that the US Environmental Protecti ...
  • Sudden Oak Death – It’s News Becau ...
    It’s commonly called Sudden Oak Death, so why the picture of a stand of larch trees? That’s a question well worth asking, but a far more important question is: why has Phytophthora ramorum, the name of the fungus responsible, become such big news in the UK? Ever since P. ramorum started blowing ...
  • Mother Nature Network: A Hypocritical Crock Of ...
    I make no apologies for the title of this post: I have just spent a short while reading the biographies of the Mother Nature Network Team, and have ended up in the kind of moral position that Immanuel Kant might have struggled with if he had had the internet to contend with in his philosophical ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...
  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constr ...
  • Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgage ...
    crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, in ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Lawyers Voice Concerns About Live-Streaming Co ...
    One of the first things First Justice Mark Coven told us when we went down to the Quincy District Court to start talking about our project, Order in the Court 2.0, was that we had to hold an all-court meeting to introduce the project to everyone to get their input. This seemed like an excellent ...
  • Why Huffington Post's 'Predict the News' Game ...
    Fellow Knight News Challenge winner Chris O'Brien recently posted on this site about "gamifying" the news. The idea behind the� movement O'Brien is speaking of, which Brad Flora touched on in another recent Idea Lab post, involves adding incentives -- pop-up achievements for tasks completed, pro ...
  • Turning the iPad into an Open, Offline Mapping ...
    We've talked here before about TileMill, an open source tool for creating your own custom map tiles (the individual pieces that make up a full map of a city, country, and so on). But what sorts of things can you do with these map tiles? One area we wanted to explore was using them on Apple's lat ...
  • Dotspotting Expands to Track Homicides, Food V ...
    Since my last post, we've been busily working on extending the functionality of Dotspotting, the first project in our larger Citytracking project aimed at helping people tell stories about cities. It's still, as my colleague Aaron puts it, very much in a "super alpha-beta-disco-ball" state -- wh ...
  • How Can We 'Gamify' the News Experience?
    One of the biggest emerging conversations over the past year in Silicon Valley is around "gamification." Simply put, this is the idea of applying game mechanics, particularly those found in videogames, to all sorts of non-game experiences. After following this conversation for many months, I' ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Economic Recovery on Edge - Lack of Contract O ...
    The cost of federal contracts in 2010 totaled $535 billion.Federal agencies are increasingly reliant on contractors but many struggle to manage them and therefore expose billions in taxpayer dollars to fraud, waste and mismanagement.The Government Accountability Office identified management weak ...
  • Egypt in Revolt - In Search of a Leader: Egypt ...
    A political festival of one million people was held in Cairo on Tuesday. Despite the continued shutdown of the Internet, transportation problems and a curfew, Egyptians came in the hundreds of thousands to Tahrir Square to tell President Hosni Mubarak, once again, to go.His effigy was hanging in ...
  • Dying in America - CSI America: Bungled Death ...
    In detective novels and television crime dramas like "CSI," the nation's morgues are staffed by highly trained medical professionals equipped with the most sophisticated tools of 21st-century science. Operating at the nexus of medicine and criminal justice, these death detectives thoroughly inve ...
  • Egypt in Revolt - What Are the United States’ ...
    Several American lawmakers have called for the United States to cut or suspend its foreign aid to Egypt. That aid, as has been noted, has been a decades-long symbol of the U.S. government’s support for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whose years of repression are fueling these ongoing mass pro ...
  • Oil Without a Plan - Egypt's Crisis Exacerbate ...
    A�dire US military warning last year about declining oil production has proven well-founded in Egypt, a country that produced 935,000 barrels daily in 1996 but is now on the brink of relying on imports to meet its own demand. The report last April by the US Joint Forces Command said vanishing oi ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • A Manifesto For Change In Egypt
    By Mohamed ElBaradei In Egypt, as in Tunisia, there are other forces than just the president and the people. The army has been quite neutral so far, and I would expect it to remain that way. The soldiers and officers are part of the Egyptian people. They know the frustrations. They want to prot ...
  • Egyptian Youth And New Dawn Hopes
    By Firas Al-AtraqchiFor young Egyptians, long-dormant patriotism and pride have been finally awakened
  • A People Defies Its Dictator, And A Nations Fu ...
    By Robert FiskIt might be the end. It is certainly the beginning of the end. Across Egypt, tens of thousands of Arabs braved tear gas, water cannons, stun grenades and live fire yesterday to demand the removal of Hosni Mubarak after more than 30 years of dictatorship
  • Middle East Intifadas
    By Stephen Lendman Initially in Tunisia, popular revolt spread regionally across North Africa and the Middle East, erupting in Algeria, Jordan, Egypt and Yemen
  • Worsening Food Crisis Is Leading To Political ...
    By Devinder SharmaIn the midst of the chaos being witnessed across the Arab world -- Tunisia, Algeria and now Egypt -- what is being missed out is the role food inflation has played in triggering these protests

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing o ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Re ...
  • Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Co ...
    Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-bei ...
  • Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!

Yid With Lid

  • Egypt: Amateur Hour For U.S. Policy
    By Barry Rubin When the president of the United States talks like this there is something seriously wrong: "What I want is a representative government in Egypt and I have confidence that if Egypt moves in an orderly transition process, that we'll have a government in Egypt that ...
  • Olbermann Going To Al Gore's Current TV
    It looks as if Mr. Nasty Keith Olbermann has found a new home.� Possibly one of the few TV networks with a smaller audience than MSNBC. According to The New York Times, Olbermann will be going to struggling Current TV the network majority owned by Former Vice President Al Gore and businessman J ...
  • Egypt: Correcting Old Myths and New Myths
    By Barry Rubin Nothing is more fashionable than hindsight. Here are some myths forming this week. 1. New myth: Egypt proves that stability doesn't work. Let's see: The Egyptian regime has lasted 59 years and is still in power as I write. Sounds relatively stable to me.�The U.S.-E ...
  • El Baradei Continues to Equivocate On Future o ...
    As of this writing the only definite result coming out of the Egyptian protests is as that of September 2011; Hosni Mubarak will be out of office.� The choices to replace Mubarak are uncertain. The sad truth seems to be that unless Mubarak is replaced by someone from the ranks of the Egyptian Mi ...
  • PATCH.COM-The Real Jewel of Arianna Huffington ...
    Last night Arianna Huffington announced that her progressive "news" site Huffington Post was purchased by AOL for� $315 million dollars. Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, who made the announcement on her site Sunday night, will become president and editor in chief the Huffington Po ...

The Real Agenda

  • OMS: Niños vacunados contra H1N1 sufren de nar ...
    Desde agosto de 2010, y tras masivas vacunaciones contra el virus de la gripe H1N1 en 2009, se detectaron casos de narcolepsia en niños y adolescentes en al menos 12 países", señala la OMS.
  • The Government in your Phone
    Parents would be punished if their children send ‘innapropriate’ content from their mobiles WOAI A measure which would allow a judge to punish the parents of teenagers who engage in the risky practice known as ‘sexting,’ was introduced today in the Texas Legislature, and immediately received the ...
  • The U.S.´s secret tools to force Internet Conn ...
    A revamped cargo plane, the Commando Solo beams out psychological operations in AM and FM for radio, and UHF and VHF for TV. Arquilla doesn’t want to go into detail how the classified plane could get a denied internet up and running again, but if it flies over a bandwidth-denied area, suddenly y ...
  • Who is the Real Opposition in Egypt?
    by Shamus Cooke Global Research February 7, 2011 The revolution in Egypt erupted like all revolutions do, from the bottom up. It was unemployment and high food prices that propelled working and poor people into action. Now, the media reports that the “oppositionâ in Egypt is a group of well-to-d ...
  • ‘Breakthrough’ promises a ‘o ...
    Alok Jha UK Guardian February 7, 2011 Scientists at Oxford University have successfully tested a universal flu vaccine that could work against all known strains of the illness, taking a significant step in the fight against a disease that affects billions of people each year. The treatment – usi ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind power opponents advance legislation
    AUGUSTA â A group opposing industrial windmills atop Maine’s mountain ranges has convinced several lawmakers to submit legislation that scrutinizes and reduces the speed of the state’s wind power initiative. Wind power proponents counter that the group isn’t looking for transparency or to slow d ...
  • Waubra gets vocal in the US
    Two senior US health industry executives this week conducted video interviews with more than a dozen Waubra residents, detailing health problems associated with living near wind turbines. Mr Preston Ribnick and his wife, Lilli-Ann Green, said their visit was part of a campaign to communicate inf ...
  • Groups fear damage to land by Lanai, Molokai w ...
    The damage that proposed wind farms on Lanai and Molokai could do to the islands’ natural beauty and cultural sites outweighs the benefits they might have by helping the state reach energy self-sufficiency. That was the message from several community groups that testified at a legislative hearin ...
  • Opposition ‘very troubled’ by &#82 ...
    LANAI CITY – Lanai residents turned out Saturday to express strong opposition to bringing “big wind” to their island for the benefit of Oahu consumers. Testifiers expressed concern about how a proposed wind farm by Castle & Cooke could impact the environment, cultural sites, hunting access and s ...
  • Wind turbines need to be farther apart, sugges ...
    A new formula has been devised to help wind farm owners generate energy more cost efficiently. Charles Meneveau, a Johns Hopkins University (JHU) fluid mechanics and turbulence expert, working with a colleague in Belgium, has devised the new precept through which the optimal spacing for a large ...

Not My Tribe

  • Bush on the lam from Switzerland!
    Cancelled a planned appearance for fear of being arrested for Torture and other heinous crimes. Too bad the CSPD and prosecutor don’t have the BALLS to file similar charges against the Ãber-VerBrecher and instead are giving him a Medal for being such an upstanding Christian Hero. Like Vlad Dracu ...
  • If “Security Firm” HBGary knows &# ...
    Why then weren’t they contracted by the U.S. Dept of (in)Justice to find the sender of the email on the White House LAN, who gave Pooter Libby the information to help the BushTards punish Valerie Plame Wilson for not backing up their LIES about WMDs? Wouldn’t the Capital Murders of 7000+ U.S. so ...
  • The parable of the land and the bible
    “When white man arrived, we had the land and they had the bible. They told us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened our eyes, they had the land and we had the bible.” -Indigenous humor
  • Houston Police behaving badly
    Here’s the link. The Houston mayor says in a quote at the end of it that whoever published the video should be prosecuted. Punished as harshly as the officers? They got misdemeanor charges of Official Oppression. Not Aggravated Assault, Deadly weapon (they all had guns) Serious bodily injury. Ha ...
  • Cameron vows Racial Cultural purity for Britia ...
    Says he doesn’t have anything against Islam, just “radical” Islam, meaning, Muslims who don’t bow down before his Naturally Superior White Culture. He also, as prime minister to ROYALTY, and incidentally the same Royal Family that used to hunt his ancestors, just for sport, babbles much about De ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Mike Adams & Andrew Wakefield on Scientific Re ...
    An excellent discussion on the history of science and how revolutionary figures are often savagely attacked, despite being correct. The stuff about cold fusion was interesting. Steven Jones was also a leading name in cold fusion, but his work was separate from Fleischmann and Pons. In 2009, U ...
  • Debunking the Debunkers on Pumpitout Radio
    Jeff Hill's Pumpitout radio show featuring Adam Taylor and myself. We discuss the undeniable evidence which proves that the public has not been told the truth concerning the atrocities that took place on September 11, 2001. We also discuss the numerous errors made by so-called 9/11 "debunkers." ...
  • Jesse Ventura: American Conspiracies Audio Boo ...
    The full audio book of Jesse Ventura's American Conspiracies. Here is the chapter on 9/11: Download audio book link Related links: Rep. Cohen: Ventura’s Show Promotes Terrorism TruTV's 'Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura' - 9/11 Jesse Ventura's Pentagon Episode & a response to Neighb ...
  • Debunking the Debunkers
    Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors, but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a sub ...
  • Loughner and Zeitgeist in Perspective
    James B. over at Screw Loose Change recently posted part of an article claiming that the film Zeitgeist heavily influenced Jared Loughner. James apparently felt that the article made "enough good points about Jared Loughner and the pan-conspiracy movie Zeitgeist" and "thought it deserved a post. ...

Fooducate

  • Did You See that Superbowl Commercial for Kale ...
    No. Of course not. Of the twelve food commercials during yesterday’s superbowl, all were for junk food and liquid candy: Coke Pepsi Lipton Brisk Doritos Snickers What you need to know: Let’s just say outright that we enjoyed the commercials very much. Lots of creativity. Overall, the quality was ...
  • Protect Yourself from Fake Guacamole [Superbow ...
    Big game today, and lots of snacking in front of the TV. Guacamole has become part of the tradition, as a healthy dip for your tortilla chips. Superbowl Sunday is the single biggest day for avocados every year, with 50 million pounds eaten! So why settle for a fake guacamole dip with 45 ingredie ...
  • Need Inspiration? Watch this Trailer – Fat, Si ...
    The documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead is scheduled to debut on April 1st. No Joke. It chronicles the story two men who struggle to lose weight, overcome the same rare disease and change their lives for good.  The uplifting story follows Joe Cross on a cross country road trip where he vows to d ...
  • Who’s Your Daddy? Guess 8 Surprising Ownership ...
    Can you guess which megacorp on the right owns each of the young brands on the left? Solution after the jump. In many cases, these baby brands don’t prominently display their parent company logo on their packaging or website because they want to retain an innocent, healthy image, one that is lon ...
  • 8 of 10 Healthy Kids’ Food – Aren’t
    Are you surprised? You shouldn’t be. Oakland, CA based Prevention Institute recently published a study entitled Claiming Health: Front-of-Package Labeling of Children’s Food with some interesting findings. The consumer protection group reviewed dozens of products that are marketed as healthy to ...

Traffikd

  • Culture Vulture: Social Strategies for Differe ...
    Social media campaigns are becoming more integrated into the overall online marketing mix. And as with anything on the Web, you need to think global to succeed in the long term. To succeed with social media marketing for different cultures, you need to familiarise yourself with what’s happening ...
  • Internet Marketing and Social Media Degree Pro ...
    Guest post by Brian Jenkins Over a billion and a half people use the Internet, and this has created a plethora of opportunities for talented Internet marketers. Specialized knowledge in Internet marketing and social media is vital for many businesses. Yes, there are successful, self-taught Inte ...
  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blo ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
  • Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
    If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate g ...
  • Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips ...
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Po ...

Survival International

  • Hundreds protest against Ecuador leader’s arre ...
    Pepe Luis Acacho, Shuar leader, Ecuador © Survival Pepe Luis Acacho, an indigenous Shuar leader, has been arrested just two days after he was chosen as leading candidate for the presidency of CONAIE, Ecuador’s main indigenous organization. Acacho was arrested along with two other Shuar men ...
  • India’s policy of ‘integrating’ tribal people ...
    The MP of India's Andaman Islands has called for Jarawa children to be 'weaned' away from the tribe in order to 'drastically mainstream' them. © Salomé/Survival India’s Minister of Tribal Affairs, Kantilal Bhuria, has announced that he supports the ‘integration’ of India’s tribal communitie ...
  • Gillian Anderson narrates unique film of uncon ...
    A still from new aerial footage of an uncontacted Amazon tribe in Brazil © BBC/FUNAI/Survival Movie star Gillian Anderson has launched Survival’s new campaign to protect some of the world’s last uncontacted tribes with an extraordinary new film. The film shows uncontacted Indians on the Br ...
  • Success: Peru acts to save uncontacted tribes
    Global coverage of the newly-released photos has pushed the Peruvian government into action © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival Peru’s authorities have announced that they will work together with Brazil to stop loggers entering isolated Indians’ territory along the two countries’ joint border. ...
  • Outrage as construction of Belo Monte dam ille ...
    Indians protesting against the Belo Monte dam © Verena Glass Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, has issued a ‘partial’ installation licence for the Belo Monte dam, to be built on the Xingu River in the Amazon. The licence allows the initial stages of construction, including the clearin ...

Greg Palast

  • Reagan: Killer, Coward, Con-man
    The Observer London by Greg Palast You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. On the 100th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, as we suffer a week of Reagan-kitcheria and pukey peons, let us remember: Reagan was a con-man. Rea ...
  • Shake your head and throw something at your TV
    from MoviesOnline.ca Bush Family Fortunes is a documentary that will make you shake your head and want to throw something at your TV. If even half of what BBC investigative reporter Greg Palast reveals is true and you happen to be an American you may or may not be calling for a revolution depen ...
  • Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
    from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage these fuels cause to us now, what will happen when the world's supply of oil ru ...
  • Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
    by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Rus ...
  • The Real Wiki Hero
    by Marta Steele from OpEdNews with a Surprise P.S. from Greg Palast Is it not ironic that the same country that contributed Rupert Murdoch to the world has more recently donated Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks since 2007, when it was founded to "report on and publish important info ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Upcycled & recycled Valentine’s Day gift ...
    Since it’s coming up to Valentine’s Day, I thought it might be nice to have a round up of fun recycling/upcycling Valentine’s Day crafts – for inspiration or purchase! Andrea Cook has been making cute Valentine’s Day cards out of recycled handmade paper and fabric scraps. Coupled-up kitties! Sar ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle an old wrought iron ...
    Sticking in the garden after yesterday’s “how to make cloches” question, I’m a member of UKVegGardeners and spotted this question on the forum yesterday: Anyone got any suggestions, please, on uses for an old wrought iron 3ft square garden gate which has reached the end of its gate life but must ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle restaurant menus?
    Jessica left a message on the “suggest an item” page: Hello, I work in a restaurant where we get new menus about every two weeks. They are nice menus, but have worn edges, maybe, some wear and tear. But we throw these menus out by the hundreds every two weeks. It seems so wasteful to [...]
  • How can I use up, reuse or recycle goose fat?
    We’ve had an email from Ali, asking about goose fat: We jumped onto the goose fat bandwagon at Christmas because everyone was saying it was the best way to make roast potatoes but they were awful!! Not sure if it was my fault or the fat but either way they’re off the menu here now!! [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle storage heater bric ...
    Carole sent an email asking about storage heater bricks: does anyone know what to do with old storage heater bricks? Just had 4 old heaters taken out and I suspect the plumbers will just take the lot to the dump so want to see if I can save them and reuse them or find somewhere [...]

Age of Autism

  • Dr. Halvorsen on Wakefield, Witch Hunts and Va ...
    By Anne Dachel Several months ago, I interviewed British doctor Richard Halvorsen concerning the heated vaccine-autism controversy. Dr. Halvorsen had gained a fair amount of attention in the British press. I contacted him recently to get his views on the...
  • California Reports Tripling of Autism K-12
    From California Watch HERE. Special education students with autism in California have more than tripled in number since 2002, even as overall special education enrollment has remained relatively flat, according to an analysis of state education data released yesterday. More...
  • Mr. Gates, Dr. Julie Gerberding Told Dr. Gupta ...
    It wasn’t Andrew Wakefield who said vaccines cause autism Mr Gates, it was Julie Gerberding…and she told Sanjay Gupta By John Stone “Now, we all know that vaccines can occasionally cause fevers in kids. So if a child was immunized,...
  • Fiona Godlee of BMJ Responds to Wakefield Ques ...
    Below is a response that arrived in our comments from Fiona Godlee of the BMJ to a post we ran last week titled, Email the BMJ Editor Asking These Questions RE: Andy Wakefield Editorial. Fiona Godlee said: Thank you for...
  • Contest to Celebrate the Launch of Vaccine Epi ...
    We have books to give away, and we want to hear from you. Select one of the questions below and publish your answer as a comment to this post, 250 words or less, please. We’ll review them all and Age...

Global BDS Movement

  • Palestinian Civil Society Statement on the dr ...
    Professor John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) on transnational corporations and other Business enterprises is currently preparing his final report to the UN Human Rights Council, due in June 2011. The report will include Guiding Principles for the implement ...
  • On the Second Anniversary of Israel’s Bloodbat ...
    Occupied Palestine, 27 December 2010 – On the morning of 27 December 2008 Israeli forces initiated a 23-day military offensive against the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip killing more than 1400 and injuring over 5000 Palestinians, predominantly civilians and refugees since 1948. read more
  • Palestinian Civil Society reiterates call for ...
    Occupied Palestine, 22 December 2010 - We, the undersigned Palestinian civil society organizations, including farmers’ unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees, reiterate the call of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) for a full boycott of Carmel-Agrexco due to its com ...
  • Derail Israel's Unlawful A1 Train Project– End ...
    Occupied Palestinian Territory, 16 December 2010 - Israel’s A1 high-speed train project designed to connect Jerusalem and Tel Aviv violates international humanitarian law and human rights law. The A1 rail project forms a component of Israel’s ongoing plans to cement its regime of occupation, col ...
  • Australian BDS Movement Begins to Emerge
    By Phil Monsour read more

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • Sun Exposure, Vitamin D May Lower Risk of Mult ...
    ScienceDaily — People who spend more time in the sun and those with higher vitamin D levels may be less likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study published in the February 8, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. MS is a ...
  • Pakistan policemen killed in rebel attack
    AFP - Militants fired rockets and bullets at a police patrol van in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing two officers and injuring six others, police said. The incident, claimed by the Taliban, took place in Balyamina village, 10 kilometres (six miles) west of northwestern Hangu, a town regu ...
  • Preschool fees big barrier to indigenous atten ...
    The Australian – EARLY childhood educators are calling on the federal government to make preschool free for Aboriginal children, after a study revealed fees are one of the main factors preventing indigenous children participating in early education. The study by SDN Children’s Services, which la ...
  • Indonesia’s Falun Gong Tolerated But Not ...
    VOA – Indonesia recently refused legal status to the spiritual group Falun Gong. The group is banned in China and human rights organizations say the ruling to restrict Falun Gong in Indonesia was made to maintain good relations with one of its biggest trading partners. On a Sunday morning in fro ...
  • Top India and Pakistan diplomats meet in Bhuta ...
    BBC - The heads of the diplomatic services of India and Pakistan have met in Bhutan, in the first high-level talks between the two countries since July. Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao met her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir on the sidelines of a South Asian regional meeting. The count ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Federal offshore wind plan: $50.5 million in r ...
    The yachts and gulls might need to make some room off the mid-Atlantic coast for the offshore wind turbines that the government is hoping to soon install. Federal agencies are jumping on the goal that President Obama set in his...
  • Saving money vs. helping the environment: It's ...
    Americans are more inclined to make energy-efficient improvements when their actions help save money. They are less motivated by environmental concerns, according to a national poll released Monday by the Tennessee-based research firm Shelton Group. About a quarter of Americans...
  • California air chief blasts auto trade group o ...
    California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary D. Nichols on Monday wrote to seven major automobile manufacturers, accusing their trade group, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, of misrepresenting the state's efforts to cooperate with federal officials on rules to curb greenhouse...
  • Native Americans wary of Lake Tahoe bike path
    Planning for a 30-mile bike path along the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe is moving into high gear, but may be slowed by concerns over Cave Rock, considered to be a sacred site by the Washoe Tribe. The Native American...
  • Renewable energy: Labor coalition's tactics dr ...
    Do California construction unions raise concerns about building massive solar plants in the Mojave Desert because they care about wildlife, water shortages and delicate vegetation? Or is it, as some fellow labor unions charge, a way to extort expensive contracts...

water.org

  • Water.org powering microfinance for water (CFI ...
    Whatâs Matt Damon Got to Do With Microfinance? (Center for Financial Inclusion) – Reeta Roy, the president and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, penned the post for the foundationâs blog many weeks ago. But the storyâs still fresh: an organization called Water.org is powering a âmarket-driven an ...
  • Water.org ensuring the right to clean water (A ...
    Ensuring the Right to Clean Water, One Bottle at a Time: Matt Damon and water.org team up to end the global water crisis (ABC News) – Water.Org gives grants in 14 countries (with Haiti most recently added) utilizing the innovation of a micro-finance model called âwater creditâ. Using the power o ...
  • Votes are in from Lowe’s Giving Campaign ...
    The Votes Are in: America Shows Its Love for National Parks, but Everyone Wins in Loweâs First Online Giving Campaign (Business Wire) MOORESVILLE, N.C. – Loweâs and the Loweâs Charitable and Educational Foundation are distributing grants totaling $1 million to the four charities that participate ...
  • Hult Global Case Challenge video (Hult)
    Official Hult Global Case Challenge video 2011 (Hult) - The Hult Global Case Challenge is an international case competition that is open to all university and college students from around the world. On March 5th 2011 in partnership with Water.org, we will hold Regional events in five major citie ...
  • Matt Damon recognized for Water.org (MTV)
    Matt Damon Recognized At Critics’ Choice Awards For Water.org Charity (MTV) – Damon was given the fourth annual Joel Siegel Award for Service to the Community. While Kimmel provided comic relief, joking that the Oscar winner is “the greatest guy in the world,” the actor received serious accolade ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

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

Margaret's News

  • Egypt protesters call for push to eject Mubara ...
    Protesters called for a push on Tuesday to eject President Hosni Mubarak from power after the government conceded little ground in talks with the opposition and sought to squeeze demonstrators out of central Cairo.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Settlers kill 2 Palestinian teens, soldiers at ...
    An Israeli settler allegedly from the illegal Barkha settlement shot and killed 19-year-old Uday Qadous after they engaged in a verbal altercation, on 27 January in the northern West Bank village of Iraq Burin, near Nablus.Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Cool Our Fever
    We live in a democracy and policies represent our collective will. We cannot blame others. If we allow the planet to pass tipping points...it will be hard to explain our role to our children. We cannot claim...that �we didn�t know.� Jim Hansen, Directo Submitted by Kit B. to Environment �|� � ...
  • Make Members of Congress Wear NASCAR Patches
    The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism � ownership of government by an individual, by a group. FDRSubmitted by Kit B. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Reagan:Killer, Coward, Con-Man
    You're not going to like this. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. But in this case, someone's got to. Reagan was a con-man. Reagan was a coward. Reagan was a killer. (Greg Plast) Submitted by Kit B. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

To Do

renewable recycling conservation
SoCalGas, City of Escondido Create Renewable Energy From Sewage
PR Newswire (press release)
- Feb 08, 2011
- 2 hours ago
(SoCalGas) and the city of Escondido today announced the official start-up of the first renewable energy project in California to purify wastewater biogas ...
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University Of Renewable Energy Established In Brong Ahafo Region
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
- Feb 08, 2011
- 8 hours ago
President John Evans Atta Mills has cut the sod for work to begin on the proposed University of Renewable Energy in Brong Ahafo. ...
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ConocoPhillips and NEED Project Promise More Renewable Energy Workshops
TMCnet
- Feb 08, 2011
- 1 hour ago
By Narayan Bhat The companies are aiming to use the workshops to make American school teachers aware of energy efficiency and the need for conservation. ...
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Transparency and Government Support Will Spur Geothermal Market Growth
RenewableEnergyWorld.com
- Feb 08, 2011
- 50 minutes ago
By Marin Katusa, Casey Research | 2011-02-08 11:00:00.0 | 0 Comments In the renewable energy space, geothermal energy could one day be one of the most ...
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Human Habitat

ecology water energy
State lags on reducing greenhouse gas amounts
Seattle Times
- Feb 07, 2011
- 12 hours ago
A report released Monday by the Department of Ecology says the state has adopted policies to reduce global-warming pollution, but it's unlikely to achieve ...
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Climax Ecology: Learning to See the Forest for the Trees
The Atlantic
- Feb 08, 2011
- 53 minutes ago
One was on postmodern art history, and the other was on the ecology of the Siskiyou Mountains. I took the art history seminar because at the time I was ...
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Ecology proposes changes to water-quality standards
Whidbey Examiner
- Feb 06, 2011
- Feb 06, 2011
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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Ecology expert panel to study missing links in assessment of power projects in ...
Times of India
- Feb 07, 2011
- 17 hours ago
PUNE: The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) will conduct a study to identify missing parameters and incorrect information in the environmental ...
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Water Power

water floods pollution
Milwaukee, Chicago areas may face water shortages: USGS
Reuters
- Feb 08, 2011
- 1 hour ago
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The Great Lakes region, the world's largest freshwater system, could face local water shortages in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas ...
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EPA: No more rocket fuel in drinking water
Mother Nature Network (blog)
- Feb 08, 2011
- 26 minutes ago
The agency will begin regulating how much is too much when it comes to perchlorate being in your water. ON TAP: Apparently, your tap water has been coming ...
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Tampa task force to examine high water bills
MiamiHerald.com
- Feb 08, 2011
- 5 hours ago
Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio has instructed a task force to review the city's water department after customer complaints of unusually high water bills. ...
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El Paso recovers from 'water emergency'
Water Technology Online
- Feb 08, 2011
- 1 hour ago
EL PASO, TEXAS — The city of El Paso, Texas, is recovering from a water crisis after a winter storm caused reservoir levels to dip below normal levels, ...
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