20 October - Late 'News'

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Dept of Justice snared in fraud over Pfizer prosecution: ‘Too big to nail!’

Last September, we reported “Pfizer slapped with $2.3 billion fine for illegally dealing drugs.” No one went to jail and Pfizer paid a tiny portion of its profits from illegally dealing Bextra from 2001 thru 2005.  In 2005 alone, Pfizer made $1.7 billion on that drug. Now, CNN has revealed that the Department of Justice allowed Pfizer to set up a dummy corporation to take the rap, so that Pfizer could maintain its Medicare and Medicaid contracts.
On April 2^nd, CNN reported, “when it came to prosecuting Pfizer for its fraudulent marketing, the pharmaceutical giant had a trump card: Just as the giant banks on Wall Street were deemed too big to fail, Pfizer was considered too big to nail.
“Why? Because any company convicted of a major health care fraud is automatically excluded from Medicare and Medicaid. Convicting Pfizer on Bextra would prevent the company from billing federal health programs for any of its products. It would be a corporate death sentence.”
“Becky McClain, [an award-winning] molecular biologist from Deep River, Connecticut, filed a lawsuit against Pfizer in 2007, claiming she had been wrongly terminated for complaining about faulty safety equipment that allowed a ‘dangerous lentivirus’ to infect her and some of her colleagues.”

WikiLeaks: How U.S. tried to stop Spain’s torture probe

The cause for alarm at the U.S. Embassy was what a U.S. diplomat called a “well documented” 12-inch-tall dossier compiled by a Spanish human rights group. In the name of five Guantánamo captives with ties to Spain, it accused the Bush legal insiders of laying the foundation for abuse of detainees in the months following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Of particular concern was that a swashbuckling Spanish magistrate, Baltasar Garzón, might get the probe under Spain’s system, which gave judges extraordinary investigative powers.
Civil rights attorney Michael Ratner, whose Center for Constitutional Rights has championed Guantánamo detainee rights, called the cables taken together “quite dramatic.”
“The U.S. prides itself on our own independent judiciary,” Ratner said. “But here you have the hypocrisy of the U.S. government trying to influence an independent judicial system to bend its laws and own rules.”
( One would have to assume he knows nothing about Bilateral Immunity Agreements or legislation Congress authorized - in several bills including and especially during the Clinton Administration as well as Bush's. See my 'Law' files if you don't recognize the references )

 * Suggested by Dr. John v. Kampen

Thunderbolts of the Gods*

Thunderbolts of the Gods by David Talbott and Wallace Thornhill introduces the reader to a former age of planetary instability and earthshaking electrical events. The 108-page full-color monograph, based on the life’s work of the two authors, offers a revolutionary synthesis of historical investigation and the newly discovered “Electric Universe.”

Talbott and Thornhill claim that cosmic upheaval occurred so recently as to have profoundly affected early human cultures, provoking “incomprehensible” myths, symbols, and commemorative practices. Through a synthesis of ancient testimony, high-energy plasma experiments, and space age discoveries, the authors bring the ancient world to life. If their hypothesis is correct, it will surely alter many paths of scientific investigation as well.

The little-known study of powerful electrical discharges in plasma is a new and exciting development in plasma cosmology, with profound implication for space age astronomy. Talbott and Thornhill have followed these developments because they see plasma science as a bridge between the ancient and modern worlds. To advance their case, they present side-by-side comparisons of laboratory plasma experiments and globally recurring symbols of the ancient sky. The evidence, they report, shows an ancient obsession with extremely violent electrical discharge formations in the heavens.

Nuclear War God*

According to a recent press release, a new theory claims to explain how the planet Mars acquired its red color and its tortured, barren, and desiccated landscape.
According to the release, “About 180 million years ago, a planet-shattering yet naturally occurring nuclear reaction may have wiped out everything on Mars, sending a shockwave that turned the planet into dry sand.”

16 Oct missed articles from RSS SnapShot! source feed at Opera

Scoop - NZ

• Rupert, James Murdoch to Testify Under Oath, Again
  Shortly after James Murdoch and his father Rupert testified before Parliament in July, two former News Corp. employees accused James, the head of the company's European and Asian operations, of misleading the MPs. Whether or not Murdoch lied, deceit will not be an option the second time arou ...
• UK, France help plan Sirte offensive
  British and French special forces are on the ground in eastern Libya, calling in air strikes and helping rebel units as they prepare to assault Sirte, the last coastal town still in the hands of pro-Gaddafi forces, a rebel officer has told the Guardian. The soldiers have taken a leading role ...
• Afghanistan's occupational hazards
  [Author, Malalai Joya, is a former Afghan parliamentarian (2005-07).] Supporting Hamid Karzai's mafia regime is like hammering nails in the coffin of freedom, democracy and human rights because his government is full of misogynistic Islamic fundamentalists, warlords, drug-lords and criminals. ...
• Breivik: Killing the Left
  However nuanced, it is striking how little extant interpretations attend to the fact that Breivik’s most grotesque violence was not directed at Muslims or immigrants as such but at the youth members of the Norwegian Social Democrats. Anders Breivik may be an Islamophobe, but he hates the lef ...
• Nobel gurus warn Britain on fiscal overkill
  "Britain has jumped on the band-wagon of fiscal tightening in a big way," said Professor Edmund Phelps from New York's Columbia University. "I have some sympathy with that but I'm not sure it is being implemented as deftly as it should be. If you slam on the brakes too hard you risk throwing ...

Independent - London

• Video: Massive wildfires in Texas
  Officials say more than three dozen fires are burning across the US state of Texas, driving thousands of people from their homes. .
• Cameron calls for end to Russia 'tit for tat'
  David Cameron insisted that Britain would not give up on bringing Alexander Litvinenko's killer to justice as he kicked off his visit to Russia today.
• Greek workers strike over market reforms
  Greek tax collectors and taxi owners have started two-day strikes in protest at austerity measures and market reforms aimed at keeping the cash-strapped country solvent.
• Asian stock markets fall over Europe fears
  Asian stock markets fell sharply today amid fresh anxiety over Europe's debt problems and a potential default by Greece which would wreak havoc on the global economy.
• 'America does not give in to fear' says Obama
  President Barack Obama honoured the legacy of September 11 victims by personally tracing the trail of the terrorist attacks, proudly declaring that the decade since has proven "America does not give in to fear".

Rogue Government.com

• Hackers claim they exposed Booz Allen Hamilto ...
  Hackers flying the AntiSec banner claimed today that they compromised a server at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton and have released internal data, including about 90,000 military e-mail addresses.
• Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical s ...
  A wooden chest discovered on board the vessel contained pills made of ground-up vegetables, herbs and plants such as celery, onions, carrots, cabbage, alfalfa and chestnuts – all ingredients referred to in classical medical texts.
• Geo-engineering: green versus greed in the ra ...
  The alert on the Climate Ark website in January 2009 was marked urgent: "Take action: A rogue science ship is poised to carry out risky experimental fertilisation of the Southern Ocean. This is likely [to be] the first of many coming attempts to begin geo-engineering the biosphere as a solution ...
• Australian kids are living in climate of fear
  On the eve of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon tax package announcement, psychologists and scientists said the lessons were alarmist, created unneeded anxiety among school children and endangered their mental health.
• Over 1,400 arrested, tear gas fired in Malays ...
  Malaysian police fired repeated rounds of tear gas and detained over 1,400 people in the capital on Saturday as thousands of activists evaded roadblocks and barbed wire to hold a street protest against Prime Minister Najib Razak's government.

Innovation Canada

• Tele-coaching
  Children in Nova Scotia who suffer from disruptive behaviour, anxiety disorders or other moderate mental health issues often fail to receive timely access to psychological care. It can take up to a year to see a psychologist for treatment. Dalhousie University psychologist Patrick McGrath is dev ...
• Always wear sunscreen
  As the summer signals hot weather and long days at the beach, doctors, cosmeticians and mothers everywhere rally to proffer their standard warning: “Always wear sunscreen.” But for people who are allergic to sunblock, like Elda Scaiano, it is impossible to wear commercial sunscreens. Fortunately ...
• Virtual practice makes perfect
  For Halifax-based neurosurgeon David Clarke, the Monday-afternoon surgery session of Aug. 17, 2009, was anything but routine. For starters, his patient’s brain tumour was located in a tricky spot, close to the delicate part of the brain that controls speech. A small slip of the scalpel either wa ...
• A powerful elixir
  The good news is that there are more than a million cancer survivors in Canada. The bad news is that they live with the long-term effects of treatment, including extreme fatigue, memory and attention problems, bone density loss, leading to fractures, and a sometimes debilitating anxiety over can ...
• No more slipping through the cracks
  At any given time, some 19,000 children are in foster care in Ontario, placed there for their protection by one of the province’s 53 Children’s Aid Societies (CAS). While CAS caseworkers write meticulous reports on the children who pass through the system, the details contained in the thousands ...

Signs of the times

• US, California: FBI Arrests Prominent Democrat ...
  A prominent Democratic campaign treasurer who works for federal, state and O.C. lawmakers including U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Loretta Sanchez and state legislators Lou Correa and Jose Solorio has been arrested by the FBI on suspicion of mail fraud, The Orange County Register has learned. ...
• US: Illinois to lay off thousands of state wor ...
  A decision made by Gov. Pat Quinn may leave thousands of state workers without a job by the end of the week. The cuts are coming in the face of a budget deficit that doesn't leave enough money to pay the workers, the governor says. Quinn also plans to close a prison, juvenile detention c ...
• US Gun Sales 'on Track to Surpass 15 Million' ...
  Rick Perry's emergence as the front runner for the Republican Presidential nomination would seem like a coup for the gun industry. The Texas governor's enthusiasm for firearms rivals Yosemite Sam's. He has an A+ rating from the Texas State Rifle Association and packs a laser-sighted Ruger pisto ...
• New Evidence Links Cisco to Jailing and Tortur ...
  A human rights group suing Cisco for aiding the tracking and torture of people in China claims it has new evidence proving the tech giant tailored its technology to specifically enable these abuses. If accepted by the court, the revelations, including that Cisco trained Chinese officials in ho ...
• US: One Sperm Donor, 150 Offspring
  Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor to conceive a baby seven years ago, and they hoped that one day their son would get to know some of his half siblings - an extended family of sorts for modern times. So Ms. Daily searched a Web-based registry for other children fathered by the ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Pictures . . .
  Two American Nazis in uniform stand in the doorway of their New York City office, on April 1, 1932, when the headquarters opened. "NSDAP" stands for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or, in English, National Socialist German Workers' Party, normally shortened to just "Nazi Party". ...
• Assholes
  h/t Pale
• Why we don't torture
  Because it figuratively and literally puts us in bed with the bad-guys. The CIA worked closely with Moammar Gadhafi's intelligence services in the rendition of terror suspects to Libya for interrogation, according to documents seen Saturday by the Associated Press, co-operation that could sp ...
• Sparks . . .
  LOOKS LIKE GOD DOESN'T LIKE ROB FORD. Then again, I might be biased. Check out the rest of the pictures at blogTO.
• Drones . . .
  Check out the mission symbols.WIRED has an article by Spencer Ackerman, "How the CIA Became ‘One Hell of a Killing Machine’". It's an account of how the CIA got up to speed with its efforts to attack al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to Spencer, the CIA started from zero.On April 1 ...

Media Matters for America

• Conservative Media Criticism Of Jobs Plan Only ...
  Conservative media figures are citing the discredited myth that the stimulus failed to argue that President Obama's jobs plan also will not help the economy. In fact, economic analysts have repeatedly said that the 2009 recovery act boosted the economy and increased employment, and economists e ...
• Flailing: Right-Wing Media Scramble To Find At ...
  Right-wing media have continued their long history of attacking President Obama's speeches by scrambling to criticize his September 8 address in which he proposed the American Jobs Act.Right-Wing Media Flail In Attempt To Criticize Obama's Jobs Address Doocy: Obama Repeated "Pass It Right Away ...
• The Washington Times' Fun With Photoshop
  The Washington Times published an illustration of President Obama's face on late singer Amy Winehouse's body to illustrate a column by Jeffrey Kuhner that claimed Obama is "injecting the heroin of class warfare and socialism into our national bloodstream," which will lead to "insanity and death ...
• Social Security Is Not A Ponzi Scheme
  Right-wing media outlets have rushed to defend Gov. Rick Perry's false claim that Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme." In fact, experts agree that Social Security's "structure, logic, and mode of operation have nothing in common with Ponzi schemes."Right-Wing Media Push Falsehood That Social Se ...
• Conservative Media Defend Anti-Consumer, Anti- ...
  The right-wing has labeled the Department of Justice's decision to block the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile as politically motivated and anti-jobs. In fact, experts say the DOJ's decision was based on clear violations of antitrust laws and would both protect consumers and prevent significan ...

Global Research.ca

• 9/11 EVENTS; Montreal Conference Sept 8, Toron ...
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• STAY INFORMED: SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY E-NEWSLE ...
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• 911; A Time for Truth
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Congresswoman Lee Introduces Bill to Repeal th ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• NATO and 9/11: Declaration of the Latvian Anti ...
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TPM Cafe

• Turkey Is Trying To Save Israel From Itself
  Roger Cohen has a great column in today's Times. It is about the sheer idiocy of Prime Minister Netanyahu's refusal to apologize for the killings on the Mavi Marmara relief ship. (It also addresses President Obama's complete indifference to the killing of an American citizen on board the ship. ...
• Great Orations vs. Great Obfuscations
  I often enjoy and benefit from Maureen Dowd's columns, but today she's fallen off the wagon of arch and noble punditry into the smallish world-view, or Beltanschauung, of the Washington Beltway's sophisticated chattering classes. These worthy purveyors of Capitol-corridor realism believe -- or f ...
• The Capitalist Crack-Up
  Fitzgerald, by then deep into an inglorious relationship with Gin Rickeys, was lucid enough, in 1936, to explain that "all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work - the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside - the ones you rememb ...
• Why Obama's Beltway Apologists are Letting Us Down
  This essay, which has been linked hundreds of times since it went up two days ago on Huffington Post, is as long (4300 words) as it is damning. I hope that you'll copy it onto a document and print it out in order to read it over the weekend and that you'll agree with me that the subtle horror of ...
• Palestinian Strategy
  There has been a great deal of anxious speculation about what Palestinians really want, the speculation tied to the questionable mandate of a president who has not stood for election since 2005 (and his prime minister who was never elected at all), the anxiety tied to concern that, if you take t ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• The UN Palmer Inquiry and Israel's Attack of t ...
  This article examines two of the principal issues dealt with in the Report: first, whether Israel had a right to intercept the Mavi Marmara, and second, given that Israel did in fact in ...
• Turkey suspends Israel defence and trade ties ...
  Turkey is "totally suspending" all trade, military and defence industry ties with Israel, the Turkish prime minister said. Turkey downgraded diplomatic relations with its former ally to ...
• Last-minute push to avert PA UN bid (Al Jazeera)
  With one week to go before the United Nations General Assembly convenes, there is a flurry of diplomatic activity in Jerusalem and Ramallah, much of it aimed at the Palestinian Authorit ...
• Recipe: Sumagiyya (Laila El Haddad and Maggie ...
  Ah, Sumagiyya-that quintessential Gazan dish that is either much loved, or much hated! Sumagiyya (in classical Arabic: Sumaqiyya) is a classic Gaza City dish, one in the category of single-bowl dishes popular in Gaza. Sumagiyya's greyish appearance-a result of the sumac, its namesake, and tahina ...
• TRAILER - Sumoud: The Struggle for al-Araqib ...

Water - AlterNet

• Who Are America's Top 10 Gas Drillers?
  More than 14,000 oil-and-gas companies were active in the United States in 2009. But multinational giants like Exxon Mobil and BP now produce much of the nation's gas.
• Illegal Marijuana Operations Are Destroying Pu ...
  For every acre of land where marijuana is grown, approximately 10 more acres are polluted with toxic chemical fertilizers and herbicides.
• Expanding Desert, Falling Water Tables, and To ...
  As environmental stresses mount, we can expect to see a growing number of environmental refugees.
• FIJI Water and Their Parent Company's Shady Wa ...
  The pursuit of water is the hidden pea in Roll Global's corporate shell game.
• Ignoring Climate Change, State Department Repo ...
  This is shocking considering carbon emissions from tar sands are 80% higher than the average crude and the extraction process requires strip mining and toxic waste.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Why Does Rice play Texas?: climate change, EPA ...
  The wildfires, Obama's cave-in on the EPA's smog rules, the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline protests, Hurricane Irene, and our continued drought and economic malaise puts into focus several things that have been ruminating in my head all weekend, and it all comes back to this one question-- Why d ...
• News Roundup for September 5, 2011
  The Texas Progressive Alliance hopes everyone had a fine Labor Day weekend as we bring you this week’s roundup. Off the Kuff looks at a movement to end pensions for public employees. Amy Price is one of just a few progressives running for Houston City Council in 2011, and PDiddie at Brains ...
• ERCOT calls for energy conservation this weekend
  Its predicted that the entire state will have record temperatures this weekend. Please take all measures to avoid using unnecessary energy. They might have a hurricane on the east coast but we have a heat wave in Texas and there might not be enough electricity to go around. Statement from ERCOT ...
• Earthquake and hurricane, the east coast is st ...
  Earlier today I got on a scheduled phone call with some of the staff in our D.C. office just after they had come back into their building after evacuating during the 5.8 magnitude Virginia earthquake that rattled buildings and nerves all the way to New York City.  They, of course, had more immed ...
• HOT HOT HOT! Austin breaks heat record today a ...
  Today Austin’s temps will soar back into the 100′s for our 69th day this year of over 100 degrees. This  will break a record that has stood since 1925 for the most days over 100 degrees, as we begin another round of heat advisories lasting through the weekend of 100+ degree weather. ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Apollo 18 - could it have happened ?
  As Apollo 18 hits cinemas attention turns to the real lunar mission that was cancelled back in 1973. Some conspiracy theorists contend that Apollo 17 ...
• NASA releases new Apollo site photographs
  New images showing the Apollo landing sites taken from orbit have been released by NASA. The images show the final resting place of the lunar 12, 14 a...
• Ancient gladiator school found in Austria
  A study of the ruins of Carnuntum in Austria has revealed the remains of a school for gladiators. The fighters would have lived in tiny cells barely l...
• Giant crocodile captured in Philippines
  The largest crocodile to be caught alive in years is to become part of a new ecotourism park. The gargantuan reptile measures 21ft long and weighs a w...
• Hew Horizons still on course for Pluto
  NASA's New Horizons probe is still hurtling towards Pluto at a speed of 1 million miles a day. Launched in 2006 the spacecraft is the first to be sent...

Grassroots

• Free – but not for you and me: Winners and Los ...
  chimage.php_.jpg With the political extravaganza of the debt ceiling debate now in their rear view mirror, the U.S. Congress will soon vote on “free” trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea. Despite major concerns raised b ...
• Latest Attacks Bring Fire and Fear to Gaza
  border_boy.jpg Soon after shameful attacks killed six in southern Israel, Prime Minister Netanyahu said that militants would pay “a very heavy price.” And then his warplanes proceeded to pound civilian areas with missiles. So far nine ...
• Seeing REDD
  no_redd.jpg Like most other market-based solutions, REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), and its more recent avatar REDD +, are fundamentally about profit – not forests, not people, and not global warming or ...
• Program Coordinator for the Middle East and Haiti
  Grassroots International seeks an experienced individual to work as an active member of its Grantmaking & Advocacy Team. The Program Coordinator develops and manages programs consistent with Grassroots’ mission in two key overseas program areas: Palestine/Israel and Haiti. Qualifi ...
• Youth carry the work forward
  Subheadline:  Leading the way for economic development, climate justice and sustainability From her humble beginnings, Sayra never imagined the profound impact she would have on the global movement for food sovereignty.read more

Climate

• Melbourne to Get Australia's First Biochar Plant
  Source:  The Age Australia's first commercial biochar plant, to turn green waste into energy and store carbon dioxide, will be built in Melbourne after a $4.5 million grant was awarded to Pacific Pyrolysis.
• China Seeks Japan Tech in Rare Earth Deals: Re ...
  Source:  Reuters China told Japanese business leaders that it hoped their companies would bring technology to develop rare-earth products to China, while standing by its controversial decision to limit the metals' exports, ...
• Scottish Greenhouse Gas Emissions Falling
  Source:  BBC News Greenhouse gas emissions in Scotland have fallen by 28.9% since 1990, according to the latest official statistics. The government said the figures showed it was on course to achieve its climate change ta ...
• Kiribati Ponders Floating Island to Fight Sea Rise
  Source:  AP The president of the Pacific island nation of Kiribati is so worried about climate change wiping out his country that he's considering ideas as strange as building a floating island.
• Rick Perry’s Al Gore Problem
  Source:  The Washington Post Ron Paul's underdog presidential campaign is out with a new ad in Iowa and New Hampshire that hits Rick Perry for his former life as a Democrat, focusing on the Texas governor’s support for Al G ...

GreenBiz

• Climate Corps 2011: From Megatron to Low-Hangi ...
  The subsidiary of Volvo North American Trucks has been home to the star of the summer blockbuster, Transformers 3, as well as a number of obvious but overlooked energy efficiency fixes.
• Dell Backs Away from Carbon Neutrality, Focuse ...
  The company's latest CSR report downplays its green power purchases and highlights Dell's growing e-waste hauls and improved energy efficiency and performance-per-watt metrics.
• View from the C-Suite: Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn
  Head of the consumer electronics retail giant discusses advances in energy management, working with suppliers to reuse 183 million pounds of recycled parts, and the opportunity to take a leading role in electric vehicle market.
• How Utilities and Home-Builders are Teaming Up ...
  Putting solar on new residential buildings is a win-win-win situation, but not an easy one to achieve: One development outside of Sacramento, Calif., shows how builders, utilities and cleantech companies can make it happen.
• Countering Climate Change, from the Heartland ...
  This week's video from energyNOW! explores potential solutions in two very different locations -- America’s heartland and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

Duly Noted

• Pakistan’s Afghan policy: is that depth ...
  A new report on what Pakistan wants in Afghanistan has fuelled a debate about whether what it wants makes sense for Pakistan.
• Taliban talks and Mullah Omar’s Eid message
  The Eid message from Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar offers less than meets the eye, especially given the haziness of U.S. policy on Afghanistan
• UN Syria sanctions draft targets Assad, family
  Western nations circulated a draft U.N. resolution on Tuesday that calls for sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, influential members of his family and key associates.
• America in Afghanistan until 2024 ?
  Afghanistan and the United Statesd are negotiating a status of forces pact, under which according to reports, troops may stay on well beyond 2014.
• UN tells Mbeki he got it wrong on Ivory Coast
  This week U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's chief of staff, Vijay Nambiar, defended the United Nations' record on Ivory Coast, telling Thabo Mbeki in a highly unusual public rebuttal that it was the former South African president -- not the international community -- who got it wrong in the w ...

Booman Tribune

• The EPA v. "Job Creators "
  Yea! The EPA job killing machine is dead! Long live the job creators in their victory over Obama the Evil Muslim Keyan Marxist Fascist! Obama has reversed course again, by rejecting the unanimous opinion of the EPA's scientists to issue regulations to lower ozone pollution, but he saved Ameri ...
• Bachmann's Campaign Team Quits
  Ed Rollins is the only Republican operative in the country who I kind of like. It's probably his blue-collar roots and his history as a boxer that makes him seem like a regular dude. He's a mercenary, like almost all the other great American campaign managers. But he also has a tendency to of ...
• It's Important That We Win Next Year
  The 2010 elections were not only a disaster on the federal level. The Republicans gained supermajorities on the state level in places like Alabama and Texas. Republican-majority governments in states like Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Arizona, and Florida have been passing r ...
• Casual Observation
  I really don't want to ever again have to listen to Republicans talk about respect for the office of the presidency. If they can't even show up for a Joint Session of Congress, then they're too hypocritical to live, let alone be taken seriously. If this speech were about a matter of national s ...
• Into the Wayback Machine
  It's hard to believe that the website Dowd Report exists, especially when part of their mission statement is to "[g]et featured in a mainstream media report about obsequious fansites that border on or even cross the line dividing genuine fandom and creepy stalkerhood." Back in 2008, the site ac ...

Environmental Graffiti

• The Abandoned Cold War Listening Station Built ...
  Incredible images of the abandoned Cold War listening station of Teufelsberg, which towers over West Berlin... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• 10 Amazing Photos of Animals Hidden Under the ...
  Incredible images of animals found under the sea ice of the Canadian Basin. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Incredible Hanging Monastery of Mount Heng
  The bizarre temple of Hengshan, which clings to a sheer rock face near Datong in China. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• San Francisco Built Out of 100,000 Toothpicks!
  The incredible "Rolling Through the Bay" kinetic sculpture took 100,000 toothpicks and 34 years to complete. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Momma Alligator Rescues Baby from Heron's Beak
  Watch the amazing rescue of a baby alligator by its mother from the clutches of a heron... This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• China Forced to Temper Its Mercenary Approach ...
  China has been taking the code of Western corporations -- "ye who enter the marketplace, abandon all ethics" -- to the next level.
• Did 9/11 Make Peace Passe?
  The U.S. Institute for Peace wants to change its name. What's the matter with peace all of the sudden?
• To Whatever Extent Libya Is a Victory, It's a ...
  As with Saddam Hussein and his regime in Iraq, states may conclude that the fate of Qaddafi was sealed the day he gave up nuclear weapons.
• Christian and Muslim Extremists: Power-Mad Br ...
  Extremists, whether Muslim, Christian or Jewish, are alarmist, anachronistic and most, of all, power-hungry.
• Labor Lessons Through the Lens of Liberia
  Please join the Institute for Policy Studies and the International Labor Rights Forum for a briefing on Firestone’s exploits in Liberia.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will b ...
• President European Commission Advocated World ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International A ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Curre ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in th ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare pr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’ ...

Al Jazeera

• Bomb threats ground two Pakistani flights
  Pakistan International Airline planes, headed to the UK and Malaysia, land safely after email threats.
• Witness arrested at Mubarak trial in Egypt
  Key witness in former president's trial arrested for perjury after he changed earlier evidence given to prosecutors.
• Libyan fighters say Gaddafi 'surrounded'
  Military council official says toppled leader trapped within 60km radius and will be captured or killed soon.
• Sweden's Saab files for bankruptcy
  Struggling carmaker to seek court-administered reorganisation after failing to pay suppliers and employee salaries.
• Scores killed in Russian plane crash
  At least 43 people, including members of a hockey team, killed after jet went down near city of Yaroslavl.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Plight of the Lemur: A Movie
  A documentary maker gathers information about the lemurs' mating and vocalizations as well as illegal logging of the trees on which they depend.
• Interior Employee Set Off Inquiry on Polar Sci ...
  An inspector general seems to contradict official statements that a scientist's polar bear research is not within her purview.
• Policing Your Power-Hungry Appliances
  Belkin has a new line of products that measure the electricity consumption of specific bulbs or appliances, calculate the costs and find ways to achieve savings.
• Wind Industry Lobbies for Tax-Credit Extension
  The so-called production tax credit is due to expire at the end of 2012; the last time it lapsed, at the end of 2003, development of new wind projects tapered off significantly.
• Getting a Grip on the Grid
  New technology to more accurately gauge the temperature of power lines es expected to improve the overall efficiency of the electricity grid.

Dot Earth News

• A Hidden Factor Behind Losses in Texas Fires
  A fire-ravaged Texas county illustrates what happens when populations explode in areas exposed to natural hazards.
• Survey: Tea Party Isolated on Climate, But Wid ...
  A new survey shows strong support for energy research across the political spectrum
• A Reality Check on Clouds and Climate
  Separating hype from reality on clouds in a changing climate.
• Have You Had Your Daily Moment of Climate Dread?
  The funny side of climate concerns.
• Can Obama Escape the Alberta Tar Pit?
  President Obama has a responsible route around the intense fight over a proposed oil pipeline.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Review: "Contagion": Minneapolis faces instant ...
  SPOILER ALERTS! -- Plagued man (lower left) staggers off bus at Lake & Lyndale; Paltrow croaks at Fairview University Medical Center; MDH painted as buffoons; Matt Damon defends saddest Minnesota XMas ever w/ shotgun & sweaters! Snagged advance tickets to Steven Soderbergh's A-List dis ...
• Libyans, Prepare to Hail & Welcome the New NAT ...
  Libya looks like it's finally kicking into the next step. I posted this up onto Agonist. Sorry for lack of links but you can google this stuff... As we close in on 50,000,000 good Americans on food stamps, yet another occupation & Hard Power hegemony scheme kicks off. Get ready for Monday's ...
• Mercury in Retrograde; 2012 is a trick says Au ...
  I don't really get the Mercury Retrograde thing but a lot of people swear by it. Consult here: Is Mercury in Retrograde? It apparently will be retrograde for the next 5 days -- I am supposed to be careful with communications... 2011 Taurus Year Ahead... More on retrograde. I don't know, astrolog ...
• After London riots: Internets attention turns ...
  Earlier :) Nov 20 2010: TC Indymedia Exclusive: Secret 'Trigger' & blueprint for emergency domestic military crackdown plan revealed | HongPong.com Moar Recently: Reacting to London riots - A Little Truth about America's situation Emerged! Marc Ambinder (marcambinder) on Twitter A few ...
• Pawlenty promotes Mossad plane crash/bombing o ...
  UPDATE Sunday Aug14: LOLSo long and thanks for all the mullet. Theory: TPaw was not supposed to brag about Mossad ops at the debate - lol his campaign is Over Like Clover in an Iowa pasture. Why not? :-D Our former Governor Tim Pawlenty plays for the ruthless neo-Cheneyite role in a future Repu ...

Daily Censored

• Objections and Replies
  (This is a continuation of part two of a four-part series on the ethics and political theory of Ayn Rand, written exclusively for The Daily Censored, by Dr. Robert Abele, professor of philosophy at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area.) In this series so far, we have made several ...
• Why privacy matters
  In today’s every connected world, it is of the utmost importance that everyone remain vigilant when safeguarding their privacy and identity. If this does not happen, then invasions of privacy and identify theft are more likely to occur. This happened to me recently at work. If I were a les ...
• THIEF IN THE LIVING ROOM
  By Saul Landau A rogue elephant ravishes the American living room. But instead of stopping the criminal antics, the people and elected officials salute, praise and honor him, and keep him close to our hearts and wallets. The scoundrel’s name? The Defense Department. Thanks to clever PR teams, th ...
• Libya and the Masculinity of War: Whose Victory?
  Libyan rebels have established their National Transitional Council.  Without women.  No surprise considering the parades of victorious men driven by the blinding macho of their rebellion against Gadhafi who continue to shoot off their guns in celebration. The rebels make their victory indistingu ...
• National Blogger Censored by his Publisher
  Carlos Miller, whose whose blog Photography is Not A Crime tirelessly covers the intersection of police and cameras, thought he had come  upon as story made of pure gold, it had sex, a lawless cop, and even a kitten. But when his publisher pulled the article without even contacting him, he saw h ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Meet The Money Behind Rick Perry
• Exclusive: Questions Surround Grassley Staffer ...
• Over 1200 arrested in Keystone XL protests
• Comedian Katt Williams: 'I Meant What I Said' ...
• The GOP still doesn't like the unemployed

Institute for Policy Studies

• Did 9/11 Make Peace Passe?
  The U.S. Institute for Peace wants to change its name. What's the matter with peace all of the sudden?
• John Faraci, International Paper -- Corporate ...
  International Paper CEO John Faraci received a 75 percent pay hike in 2010. He pocketed $12.3 million.
• Break The Chain Heads to Georgia
  A delegation of women leaders will travel to the Peach state to hear about the negative impacts that immigration enforcement has on immigrant families.
• Can Anyone Tackle Our Tax-Dodging CEOs?
  A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies documents how America's top corporate execs are stiffing Uncle Sam - and lavishly lining their own pockets in the process.
• The Lineup: Week of Sept. 5-11, 2011
  Three op-eds reflect on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

IntelNews

• US spies on Israel (shock, horror)
  Ever since Monday, when The New York Times exposed the reason behind the May 2010 incarceration of FBI linguist Shamai Leibowitz, US and international media have been buzzing with prominent headlines like: “US government spied on Israel's Washington embassy”. Although these headlines are accurat ...
• White House considering covert operations agai ...
  One of the major strategic objections to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the near-certain prospect that removing the Sunni-dominated Ba’ath Party from power would increase Iranian-Shiite influence in the country. As the US military exit strategy gradually unfolds in Iraq, the administration ...
• News you may have missed #585
  GCHQ recovers £300m worth of stolen information. Kuwait arrests alleged Iraqi spy. Hackers steal CIA and Mossad SSL certificates.
• CIA Helped Gaddafi Torture Libyan Dissidents, ...
  Back in February, when Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi blamed the popular revolt against him on al-Qaeda, he was ridiculed in the international media. But documents discovered at an abandoned Libyan government office complex show that the Libyan rebels’ supreme military commander was abducted i ...
• News you may have missed #584
  Billing dispute reveals details of secret CIA flights. French admit secret service spied on reporter. NZ let Israeli spies go free in return for passports.

War is a Crime.org

• September 11, 2011 - Memorialize All the Victi ...
  Just what is it we're being told to "never forget" as we remember the events of 10 years ago?  Looking back at what the Bush regime did at the time: CBS News reported that, on the afternoon of 9/11/01, Donald Rumsfeld ordered the military to draw up plans to attack Iraq.  "Go massive. ...
• Take THIS to the Bank
• After Ike: Can Charlottesville love both peace ...
  By David Swanson | The Hook If I told you I would support women's rights as long as I didn't have to oppose rape, you’d think I needed lessons in both logic and basic human decency. If I said I would favor freedom as long as I didn't have to be against slavery, you might start backing away sl ...
• Top Secret America and the Huge Blank Checks Of
  We are given figures in the multi multi billions spent on the wars of choice and the so called 'homeland security', but there are huge amounts, in the multi billions, not known or labeled top secret and blacked out in government reports on the rapid growth of intelligence within government and t ...
• Israeli Oppression Continues While Talking Peace
    Israeli Oppression Continues While Talking Peace - by Stephen Lendman   No wonder Palestinians want and deserve statehood, as well as full UN membership to be able to seek World Court redress, and be able to sue under Genocide Convention provisions, and why not.    Isr ...

Grist - News

• Light pollution is stealing our night sky&#821 ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. This (left) is your sky. And this (right) is your sky on ONE MAJOR LIGHT SOURCE. So it's no surprise that suburban starscapes have been totally desaturated by the lights on buildings, roads, and parking lots. Less than half the U.S. -- and almost none of Europe -- ...
• Mom could be arrested for letting her kid bike ...
  by Jess Zimmerman. There are a few factors that make it tricky for kids to bike or walk alone: Bad drivers who face insufficient consequences, lack of sidewalks and protected bike lanes, too few crosswalks. We COULD improve biking and walking infrastructure, and have cops actually crack do ...
• Don’t tell Bachmann, but lightbulb stand ...
  by Sarah Laskow. Republicans have been whining about the Obama administration’s liberty-squashing decision to phase out inefficient incandescent bulbs in favor of CFLs, LEDs, and (surprise!) more efficient incandescent bulbs. But (double surprise!) the idea of requiring efficient lig ...
• Las Vegas actually pretty good at conserving water
  by Sarah Laskow.   The Las Vegas strip likes to pretend it’s flush in all manner of luxuries, including water -- even though Lake Mead, which provides the city with water, could disappear within the next decade. Running a giant fountain or indoor canal in the middle of the des ...
• Nothing says eco-tourism like a 21-foot crocodile
  by Jess Zimmerman. What do you do with a suspected man-eating crocodile the size of a small aircraft? Make it the highlight of an eco-tourism park. At least, that's what wildlife authorities in the Philippines are doing with a 21-foot crocodile they caught this weekend. Lord, if onl ...

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• Cyber Crime Costs £71 Billion per Year
  IT security company Norton have revealed the true cost of cyber crime each year.
• Fruit of the Poison Tree
  The War on Honest Cops Rages On
• New Polls Show Presidential Approval At New Re ...
  Can the president recover from disastrous poll numbers, or is he already past the point of no return?
• Charity: Steve Jobs vs. The World
  Steve Jobs is being judged by idiots as uncharitable. That's what idiots do.
• Google Maps Needs Constant Double-Checking
  Google Maps - pay attention to your address and location.

Time - Top Stories

• Obama's Ozone Flip-Flop: Bad Policy and Bad Po ...
  Obama's Ozone Flip-Flop: Bad Policy and Bad Politics
• Afghanistan's Shrinking Army: Hole in U.S. Str ...
  Afghanistan's Shrinking Army: Hole in U.S. Strategy
• Beyond 9/11: The War on Terror
  The attacks were seen as a declaration of war, and America has been at war ever since
• Why Good Mozzarella Is So Difficult to Find in ...
  When it comes to making fresh mozzarella, as a nation we're where pizza was 20 or 30 years ago
• Caffau's Star Exists Despite Lack of Lithium, ...
  Cosmic theory says Caffau's star is impossible -- yet it's shining out there all the same

Digg Green

• 20 Most Marvelous Moon Missions
  Of the dozens of missions, manned and unmanned, that have been sent to the moon, here are some highlights. These include Grail, the Apollo flights, the Soviet Luna missions, and more.
• 8 Amazing Animal Migrations
  Some humans may be willing to travel far for fine dining, but that's nothing compared to a sooty shearwater: these birds, which are based in New Zealand, fly roughly 40,000 miles each year to reach their seasonal feeding grounds along coastal California, Alaska, and Japan--and some even clock 62 ...
• Footprints on the Moon
  In new photographs taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we can see the landing sites of some lunar craft, as well as the tracks left by those who flew in them.
• Dolphins Talk Like Humans
  Dolphins don't whistle, but instead "talk" to each other using a process very similar to the way that humans communicate.
• Global Smarts: Why Average IQ Is Higher in Som ...
  Scientists are beginning to figure out why some regions of the world have a higher average IQ than others, and infectious diseases may explain this gap.

Invisible Opportunity

• The Eternal Night Time of the Eternally Damned
  By Les Visible We’re at the midway point of the month between the beginning and the anniversary bash of 9/11. Many things are going on in the background and I’m going to list some of them with my take, unsupported by links, though there are some out there, if you are of a mind to [...]
• Why Ron Paul (In 60 Seconds)
• Greenhouse Gas Theory Discredited by ‘Coolant’ ...
  By: John O’Sullivan Science professor, a former global warming believer now denier, publishes groundbreaking paper to prove carbon dioxide cools, not warms our atmosphere. Professor Nasif Nahle found something deeply troubling about the man-made global warming theory (AGW). He explains, “I start ...
• Climategate ‘hide the decline’ exp ...
• Quote of the Day – If there is one princ ...
  If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest. Thomas Jefferson

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Illegal Marijuana Operations Are Destroying Pu ...
  For every acre of land where marijuana is grown, approximately 10 more acres are polluted with toxic chemical fertilizers and herbicides.
• New Jersey Medical Marijuana Patient with Mult ...
  A New Jersey man convicted of marijuana manufacture after he grew 17 plants in his backyard faces deep injustice.
• An Open Letter to NYC Mayor Bloomberg: Be a Le ...
  How does Mayor Bloomberg reconcile his administration’s marijuana policies with your quote in support of the Marriage Equality Act.
• Marijuana Is Going to Be Sold One Way or Anoth ...
  Ask a law enforcement official how having marijuana sold by criminals rather than by regulated businesses is making our communities safer.
• An Open Letter to CA Governor Jerry Brown on I ...
  No other state in the country endures as many annual deaths from accidental drug overdose as California.

Twilight Earth

• Cartoon caption contest
  Take a look at the cartoon below and enter your caption idea in the comment section (more ifo on prize, etc. below the cartoon). Eligible captions will be those posted on my site, Elephant Journal, Wend Magazine, PlanetSave, Eco-Snobbery Sucks, Ecolutionist, Ecopolitology, and Twilight Earth. Wi ...
• Exposed: Why the GOP wants to eliminate Clean ...
  Whether we can believe this see-through-elephant-trunk footage or not, the possibility that elephants have a triple fitration system within their trunks has to have some credence. Otherwise, why on earth would leading Republicans try to make it easier for big polluters to further pollute the air ...
• Apples may lose trees [cartoon]
  The rest of Joe Mohr’s cartoons, and cartoon updates and other green news on Twitter @GreenCartoons. Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon) Eco-Snobbery Sucks: The Cartoon Related posts:The Aging Activist Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoo ...
• Mixed message from USDA chief Vilsack [cartoon]
  US Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack tells us to eat more natural foods a few days after fully deregulating GMO alfalfa…I’m confused. Confused as well? Read the links below and try to figure out this mess. From The New York Times: Government’s Dietary Advice: Eat Less From Elephant Journal: ...
• BREAKING: Deleted Monsanto cartoon panel, leaked!
  Unlike the former Monsanto cartoon on this subject, this version shows a bit more clearly who surrendered the future of organic agriculture to Monsanto. There’s been a lot of talk from both sides (organic and biotech) about compromise. That is misleading and almost laughable (read: cryable ...

Inhabitat

• Inhabitat Acquired by LA Media Company Interne ...
  Six and a half years ago, as a broke architecture grad student, I launched the blog Inhabitat.com late one night from my college studio as a vehicle through which to explore my passions: green building, clean technology and sustainable design innovation. At the time that I launched Inhabitat, I ...
• NASA’s Solar-Powered Twin GRAIL Spacecrafts Sc ...
  Exciting news – tomorrow, NASA is scheduled to launch its newest mission, The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL. Two twin spacecrafts will be launched into orbit to get up close and personal with an old friend we still have much to learn about: the moon. GRAIL A and GRAIL ...
• Dominic Wilcox Upcycles Old Paint Brushes Into ...
  We first fell for artist and designer Dominic Wilcox last year at the Milan Furniture Fair with his living shoe laces exhibition. But more recently, the designer has created an installation of coat hooks, recycled from old paint brushes. The fun and creative installation is part of a group show ...
• Exhibit of 125 Jewel-Colored Mini-Greenhouses ...
  Read the rest of Exhibit of 125 Jewel-Colored Mini-Greenhouses Opens in Philadelphia This Weekend Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: American Philosophical Society Museum, cornell university, eco design, French Natural History, green design, greenhouse, greenhouse archite ...
• VW+BS’ Periscope Building Gives Birds Eye View ...
  In big, bustling cities, its hard to find new space for commercial buildings. But the VW +BS architectural firm took their search in Singapore above and beyond, literally. Their newly constructed Periscope building is tucked behind a series of storefronts with a spectacular extension that rises ...

Pogue's Posts

• Rethinking the 'Never Unsubscribe' Rule for Spam
  Is trying to unsubscribe from spam lists really such a bad idea?
• Steve Jobs Reshaped Industries
  It's hard to imagine that we'll ever see another 15 years of blockbuster, culture-changing hits like the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad - from Apple or anyone else. And that's really, really sad.
• How to Build a Usable Watch
  Students at the Columbia Business School re-imagine the watch with some pretty amazing ideas.
• Five (And Then Some) Tech Tips for Travel
  More than a dozen tech tips for making flying less of a hassle.
• Zen and the Art of Scrolling
  David Pogue seeks answers to a condundrum: Why does Apple have Lion users drag the scrollbar up to move the page up?

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Lunar Landing Sites: Then and Now
  Recently released high-resolution NASA images provide the best detail yet of the extent to which we've left our mark on the moon.
• Female Orgasm Remains an Evolutionary Mystery
  After baffling biologists for decades, the female orgasm has resisted yet another attempt to explain its elusive evolutionary origins.
• Expedition Helps Build Network of Ocean Sensors
  A 274-foot research vessel has just completed an expedition to aid the installation of web-enabled sensors that will monitor the ocean in the Pacific Northwest.
• Wing Secrets That Help Insects Rule the World
  Insects dominate the world, and their wings allow them to do this. This gallery explores some of the amazing facets of insect wings that propel them through their highly successful lives.
• New ‘Demon’ Bat Species Found in Vietnam
  Three new bat species, one resembling the Lord of the Underworld, have been discovered in the tropical forests of southern Indochina. The tiny 'demon,' named Beelzebub’s tube-nosed bat, has been seen only in Vietnam.

PakAlert

• As Reality Finally Hits The Financial Elite, T ...
  Finally, after trillions in fraudulent activity, trillions in bailouts, trillions in printed money, billions in political bribing and billions in bonuses, the criminal cartel members on Wall Street are beginning to get what they deserve. As the Eurozone is coming apart at the seams and as the US ...
• Chaos On The Streets Of America
  Should we just expect mass chaos on the streets of America every time a major holiday rolls around? At least 42 people were hit by gunfire in New York City over the Labor Day weekend. The violence got so bad that even the mayor felt compelled to publicly address it. In Chicago, at least 6 peo ...
• CIA Is “One Hell Of A Killing Machine,” Offici ...
  The Central Intelligence Agency continues to rapidly expand its global extrajudicial assassination program under the Obama administration, secretly murdering people with drones from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Somalia and Yemen. Even American citizens are fair game, according to the President. ...
• Photos: The Biggest Environmental Disaster You ...
  Participating in the Tar Sands Action was a decision I made with much ambivalence. I was not sure it would produce any results commensurate with the risk of arrest and expenses for travel; I objected to the organizers' authoritarian remonstrations regarding clothing; I doubted the strategic emp ...
• Foodie Underground: 20 Uses For Honey You Neve ...
  It was brought to my attention last week that September is in fact National Honey Month. Honey gets an entire month all to itself? Why yes, it certainly does. Turns out that Americans consume 1.5 pounds of honey per person annually, and there are more than300 types of honey in the United Stat ...

Andy Worthington

• Quarterly Fundraiser Day Two: $1900 Still Need ...
  Please support my work! It’s the second day of my quarterly fundraising appeal, and I’d like to thank the six readers and supporters who, to date, have donated $600 to help me continue my research and writing on Guantánamo and torture. I realize that times are tough, and only g ...
• Save the NHS: Make No Mistake, the Government ...
  I’ve just returned from having my blood tested at Lewisham Hospital, and, as always when I use the NHS (the National Health Service, for readers outside the UK), I marvel that, because the entire system is paid for via taxation, no one asks me for any money upfront, and no one asks me for ...
• Quarterly Fundraiser: Help Me Raise $2500 for ...
  Please support my work! On the eve of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 that precipitated the “War on Terror” that has consumed my life for the last five and a half years, through my work chronicling the illegality and the human cost of the Bush administration’s ...
• WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Release ...
  Please support my work! Freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington continues his 70-part, 700,000-word series telling, for the first time, the stories of 776 of the 779 prisoners held at Guantánamo since the prison opened on January 11, 2002. Adding information released by Wikilea ...
• The UK “Riots” and Why the Vile an ...
  I left the UK for a family holiday in Greece in the middle of what were termed “the riots,” a four-day explosion of violence, looting and arson that didn’t really come as a surprise to me, as it was both a bitter response to an increasingly divided society, and a dreadful demon ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Trading Oil for Natural Gas in the Truck Lane
  Some U.S. companies are finding that the cost of switching to vehicles that run on alternative fuels is worth it over the long haul.
• New Shark Species Found in Food Market
  Trolling a Taiwan fish market for data, researchers reeled in a surprising catch—a deepwater shark unknown to science.
• Pictures We Love: Best of August
  NoneSee National Geographic photo editors' favorite news pictures of the month—an invisible man, sardine "storm," Swiss daredevil, and more.
• Largest U.S. Dam Removal to Restore Salmon Runs
  The deconstruction of two obsolete dams in the U.S. Pacific Northwest will restore rivers and benefit more than a hundred species, experts say.
• First New U.S. Bird Species in Decades—Already ...
  A new bird species has been found in the U.S. for the first time in decades—but the species may have already flown the coop for good.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Don't Turn Your Back on the Bankers for Even a ...
  The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan ...
• Sarah Palin: Mayor of New Milford?
  Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why ...
• Much like the "conservative" GOP...
  The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So f ...
• Stop Drinking and Start Doing, Dem Dumb Dumbs
  Sober up, Dems. You started sucking suds when you captured the Congress in 2006. Since 2008 you've been binge drinking with Congress and the Prez. You even nibbled on some hot wings and pub nuts. Burp! And now the bartender just cut your drunk, lazy, liberal, progressive, leftie ass off. Y ...
• The People Have Spoken. And Their Message Is ...
  So. What the heck happened last night? The GOP picked up 60 seats in the House, effectively reversing their losses there from 2006 and 2008, and returning control of that body to them. The GOP picked up some 6 seats in the Senate, but the Democratic Party retains control there. The GOP picked u ...

SPL Center

• News Roundup for September 7, 2011
  Judge Jeffrey A. Manning added an 85- to 190-year prison sentence to the three death sentences Richard Poplawski received for the shooting deaths of three Pittsburgh, Pa., police officers in 2009. The extra term would keep Poplawski behind bars should his death sentences be commuted or overturne ...
• SPLC and Mississippi Lawyer File Suit in Racia ...
  The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) joined Mississippi attorney Winston J. Thompson III in filing a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of the family of a black man who was beaten in a motel parking lot and then run over and killed. The New York Times also detailed the case, in which SPLC accuses seven ...
• 9/11 Rally to Include Hard Rightists From Arou ...
  The “9/11 Freedom Rally” being hosted this Sunday by Pamela Geller, the notorious Muslim-basher whose blog once suggested that President Obama was the “love child” of Malcolm X, is meant to generate anger at Muslims and their faith on the 10th anniversary of America’s deadliest terrorist attack. ...
• Neo-Nazi Set to Plead Guilty Today in MLK Terr ...
  The man accused of planting a “weapon of mass destruction” on the parade route of a Martin Luther King Jr. unity parade in Spokane, Wash., last January is expected to plead guilty today in U.S. District Court. Kevin William Harpham, a 36-year-old with past ties to the neo-Nazi National Alliance ...
• Racist Prison Gang Member Pleads to Hate Arsons
  A member of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood gang who wanted to “prove himself” in order to join chapter in Texas has pleaded guilty to four federal hate crime charges associated with a series of racially motivated arsons. One of the crimes Steven Scott Cantrell confessed to was attemptin ...

change: org.

• If Up to New Mexico’s Governor, Undocume ...
  A haunting but ultimately uplifting story out of New Mexico has been making the rounds in newspapers and TV reports across the country. A 6-year-old girl in Albuquerque was abducted as she walked home on a suburban street. The kidnapper pulled her into his van, parked near a rock hiding packing ...
• Victory! NJ Gov. Signs Bill So Survivors Won't ...
  In late June, a vital bill to support rape survivors landed on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's desk. The bill, which had strong bipartisan support in both legislative houses, was to bar rape survivors from being charged for their own rape kits -- collections of forensic evidence after a sex ...
• Teen Leads Safe Crosswalk Campaign in Wake of ...
  The shock and grief over a young person's tragic death can be paralyzing. Not for Kimiko Nishitsuji. Her friend's sudden death last month after being hit by a car at an intersection long known to be dangerous for pedestrians instead spurred her to action and mobilized a community. Kimiko created ...
• Major Progress: Administration to Grant Deport ...
  Wow. Just weeks ago, UCLA graduate and award-winning Dreamer David Cho posted a petition on Change.org commemorating the ten-year anniversary of the federal DREAM Act and asking President Obama and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to do everything in their power to stop deporting tal ...
• Robert Segwanyi Spared Deadly Deportation to U ...
  Robert Segwanyi was scheduled for deportation on August 18,  from the United Kingdom's Heathrow airport. The UK was sending Robert back to Uganda, where he was tortured with molten plastic and imprisoned for being gay. Robert was spared from deportation at the very last minute according to ...

Common Dreams -News

• Going Backwards: Tea Party, Fox News Viewers O ...
  WASHINGTON - While 10 years after the 9/11 Al- Qaeda attacks, most U.S. citizens say they respect diversity and the freedom of religion, they don't always apply those principles to Islam and immigrants, according to a survey released here Tuesday by two major think tanks. ...
• EU Bans Genetically Modified-Contaminated Hone ...
  The European Union's highest court on Tuesday ruled that honey which contains trace amounts of pollen from genetically modified (GM) corn must be labelled as GM produce and undergo full safety authorization before it can be sold as food. In what green groups are calling a "groundbreakin ...
• Palestinians Deploy Obama Speech in UN Stateho ...
  RAMALLAH, West Bank -- President Barack Obama is an unlikely participant in a Palestinian campaign to drum up support for a bid to win U.N. recognition of their statehood -- a diplomatic move opposed by both his administration and Israel. But as part of an official media campaign begun this week ...
• Despite Exploding Volcanoes, Iceland World's M ...
  REYKJAVIK -- When Johanna Sigurdardottir was sworn in as Iceland's head of government back in February 2009, she was described as the world's first openly gay prime minister. But in a country with progressive political views and liberal social mores, her sexual orientation was never cons ...
• Obama's Job Speech: Democrats Fear It’s Too Late
  President Obama’s new effort to revive the ailing economy may be too little, too late, according to Democrats and liberal policy experts. They contend that Obama missed his chance to turn the economy around by November 2012, but still want him to call on Congress to move an aggressive new ...

Lifehacker

• YNAB Unveils Android App for Budgeting on the ...
  Android: Web service You Need A Budget (YNAB) is one of your favorite apps to help get your money in order and organize your finances, and now the service has unveiled an Android app to make keeping track of your money on the go even easier. ...
• The Information Galaxy Home Screen [Featured H ...
  Reader Minhtam.nguyen created this lock screen that gives him the date, his calendar, and the weather all without ever needing to unlock his phone. More »
• Speed Up Your SSD By Correctly Aligning Your P ...
  We've covered proper solid state drive maintenance before, but one of the most overlooked factors in proper SSD care is partition alignment. Here's how to make sure your partitions are aligned correctly and that you're getting the most out o ...
• Remains of the Day: Export All Your Google Voi ...
  Google's "Data Liberation" service now supports Google Voice, GameStop begins buying and selling used iOS devices, and Amazon tests package deliveries to lockers inside convenience stores. More »
• Use Clear Nail Polish to Keep Metal Cans from ...
  Shaving cream, cooking spray, and other products in metal cans can often rust and leave marks on your counters. You can fix this with a dab of clear nail polish. More »

Water Privatization

• Oklahoma recreation chief opposes parks privat ...
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The new chief of the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation says it's impractical to privatize operation of the state's 35 state parks. Deby Snodgrass says most of Oklah...
• Manila Water, Maynilad overcharging—solon
  A LAWMAKER on Tuesday urged the government to investigate private firms Maynilad and Manila Water, and the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) for a slew of violations, including implementing allegedly anomalous water rate increases.
• Okla. recreation chief opposes parks privatization
  Okla. recreation chief opposes parks privatization
• PSALM: Korea Water still keen on Angat plant
  Korea Water Resources Corp., the state water utility company of South Korea, is still interested in acquiring the 218-megawatt Angat hydroelectric power plant, a government official said Friday.
• Glencore expresses interest in Larko and EYDAP
  Glencore, the multinational mining and commodities trading company, has expressed interest in the privatization of Larko, an old ailing mining concern, and EYDAP, the Athens water supply company, according to sources.

Guardian

• US-backed Afghan militias accused of human rig ...
  Human Rights Watch report catalogues groups acting with impunity, undermining key plank in Nato troop reduction plansUS-backed Afghan militias are committing murder, rape, torture and extortion, risking increasing support for the insurgent groups they were designed to fight against, a prominent ...
• David Cameron says Russia and UK must 'rebuild ...
  On one-day visit to Moscow, Cameron strikes conciliatory tone but also urges Russia to stamp out corruption, and reiterates demand for extradition of Andrei Lugovoi David Cameron has called for Russia to redouble its efforts to stamp out corruption and said there would be no let-up in UK demands ...
• Vickers report: banks get until 2019 to ringfe ...
  • ICB stops short of recommendation for full break-up • Osborne promises legislation in this parliament • Up to £2tn of assets could be behind firewall • Barclays and RBS likely to be most affectedBritain's biggest banks are to be given until 2019 – longer than had been expected – to implement r ...
• Africa and Middle East in spotlight as group l ...
  Days after men executed in Iran for homosexuality, activists from around the world come together to lobby for changeAn international pressure group is to be launched in Britain on Tuesday to tackle the rise in homophobic violence around the world, with a focus on Africa and the Middle East.The U ...
• Chemotherapy breakthrough could dramatically r ...
  Scientists have developed 'smart-bomb chemotherapy' which can isolate and destroy tumours without damaging healthy cellsCancer researchers have developed a "smart bomb" treatment that can target tumours with drugs while leaving healthy body cells intact. The technique means that patients will su ...

McClatchey

• Mexico's Monterrey, famed for industrial might ...
  MONTERREY, Mexico — Out of the desert scrub, the tycoons of Monterrey have erected an industrial powerhouse that is a beacon across Latin America.
• US aid to Pakistan is 'counterproductive,' Sen ...
  CHICAGO — Continued U.S. aid to Pakistan is both "naive" and "counterproductive" given that nation's backing for a terrorist network targeting American forces and working to destabilize Afghanistan, Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk said Tuesday.
• No end in sight to drug shortages
  MILWAUKEE — Martha Sorensen was diagnosed with ovarian cancer last summer.
• Firefighters balk at new digital radios, as fa ...
  WASHINGTON — Caught in thick smoke in a burning suburban Cincinnati home, veteran firefighter Robin Broxterman and her novice mate, Brian Schira, tried to summon help on their Motorola digital radios. She called four times, he another half dozen, according to radio logs from the 2008 incident.
• Japanese company finds the right mix in Los Ba ...
  A 112-year-old Japanese company's plant is run by a Portuguese manager born in Angola with a work force of Mercedians that ships 15 percent of its tomato products overseas, especially to China.

Afghanistan Sun

• Taliban bomb kills Afghan governor, 3 guards
  KABUL (AFP) - An Afghan district governor and three of his guards were killed Tuesday when their vehicle was blown up in a Taliban roadside bomb in the east of the country, an official said.Asil ...
• Scott Brown yards away from mortar attack on A ...
  A fghan insurgents last month launched a mortar attack just yards away from where U.S. Sen. Scott Brown was watching a street hockey game with his fellow soldiers at a base near Kandahar. ...
• U.S. civilian is kidnapped, killed in Afghanistan
  The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan -- An American civilian working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was kidnapped from his Afghanistan power plant and strangled, officials and ...
• Soldiers wounded in Afghan IED strikes
  DEFENCE has revised Afghanistan casualty figures after three soldiers reported delayed symptoms from roadside bomb blasts, including two whose armoured vehicle was hit by four bombs in just over a ...
• Hundreds March For Losing Afghan Candidates
  Hundreds of people have marched in Afghanistan in support of losing candidates who are disputing the results of last year's parliamentary ...

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 ...
• 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 pe ...
• 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 ...
• 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’v ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Amicus Brief argues for SOX coverage for Villa ...
  The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) and the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) filed an amicus brief this week in Villanueva v. Core Laboratories NV, a case pending at the U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). The brief argues that SOX should protect whis ...
• Armicus Brief argues for SOX coverage for Vill ...
  The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) and the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) filed an amicus brief this week in Villanueva v. Core Laboratories NV, a case pending at the U.S. Department of Labor's Administrative Review Board (ARB). The brief argues that SOX should protect whis ...
• August 26th Premiere of Documentary "Chasing M ...
  A new documentary about the infamous Madoff scandal opens in theaters across the country on Friday August 26th. I am looking forward to seeing Chasing Madoff on Friday and learning more about Harry Markopolos’ struggle to blow the whistle on a financial fraud that rocked the US economy. I ...
• Calling All Corporate Whistleblowers: SEC Rule ...
  Today is a big day for corporate fraud detection. The Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Final Rules implementing the whistleblower provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act go into effect. The SEC has simultaneously launched a new Office of the Whi ...
• IRS Guidelines Discourage Whistleblowers
  Today, Tax Analysts published an article about how Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidelines can result in whistleblower awards being unfairly reduced. The Government Accountability Project, No FEAR Coalition and National Whistleblowers Center sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Shulman on August ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Congress Moves Forward With Useless Patent Ref ...
  With Congress and the President pretending that a bad patent reform bill is all about "creating jobs" even as there's little evidence that the reforms will actually do anything, Congress appears to be poised to approve the bill. Of course, the bill does almost nothing to address the real proble ...
• Needed: Bright Line Rule On Mass Infringement ...
  The news that US Copyright Group has dropped yet another of its lawsuits isn't all that noteworthy at this point. This time, it was a lawsuit against people associated with 1,951 IP addresses, which USCG suggests were involved in unauthorized file sharing of the movie I Spit On Your Grave. Thi ...
• Paxfire Sues The Lawyers And Individual Who Fi ...
  Well, well. Following a research paper that claimed that a company named Paxfire was teaming up with some ISPs to hijack search terms and take people directly to certain websites, a class action lawsuit was quickly filed. Paxfire wasted little time in responding angrily that the basis of the l ...
• How Sweden Dismantled Many Of Its Online Civil ...
  People who talk about copyright policy and some of the things going on around the globe, often talk about how various governments' decisions appear to be direct-on-order from Hollywood and the legacy US entertainment industry. And, to some extent, that sounds crazy conspiratorial to think that ...
• DailyDirt: Gee, Brain, What Do You Want To Do ...
  Maybe animals are getting smarter. We've covered how some monkeys have figured out how to take pictures of themselves, and we're learning more interesting things about animal behavior all the time. Here are a few more interesting discoveries that could bring us some damn dirty apes.. and fish an ...

VacTruth

• “The Act of Vaccination or Inoculation W ...
  Jeffry John Aufderheide interviews Dr. Tim O'Shea on vaccinations.
• MMR Victim Refused Compensation For Not Being ...
  It has now been proven that the ‘Vaccine Damage Payments Unit’ (VDPU) not only cherry pick who they award compensation to, depending on the level of disability but also change their rules to suit their needs, as they go along. Katie Stephen has been left permanently and profoundly deaf in he ...
• Top 5 Vaccine Stories for August
  Parents of Kitsap County are exempting their children from shots in increasing numbers. It was said that roughly 7 percent of Kitsap students skipped one or more shots during the past school year. That vaccine story and more for the month of August...
• Dr Andrew Wakefield To Speak At National Autis ...
  The National Autism Association is having Dr Andrew Wakefield speak at their forthcoming conference about his new book which is to be released in the spring.
• Vaccine Ingredients: Non-Ionic Surfactants (Tw ...
  Triton X-100 and Tween 80 were mixed with DDT to spray on crops in the 1940s and 1950s - combinations of these chemicals are still in pesticides today. Polysorbate 80, also known as Tween 80, is a surfactant in these vaccines: DTaP, DTaP-HebB-IIPV, DTaP-Hib, Gardasil, Influenza, Rotavirus, and T ...

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  I’m still missing most everything, but I managed to catch a few bits of news. Indigenous people in Ecuador are being targeted for protest. The Eastern Navajo Diné filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the hopes of stopping uranium mining.  The petition is w ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  This will be another short one, I’m afraid. Perhaps you all could help me out, since I haven’t been able to do too much blog reading. If you read nothing else, please read this piece on the government eugenics sterilization program. It is just…. I am speechless. This is a good ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Work is still kicking my ass and keeping me away from the internets. But I have managed to read enough to be annoyed. This op-ed from the Council on Foreign Relations says that we need to raise the debt ceiling because, if we do not, then: 1. We will be forced to cut defense spending and [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  I suspect it will be another week before I can complete part two to that media post. I want to finish reading A Mixtape Manifesto first. And The Economist put out a whole media’ issue that I haven’t gotten around to yet. I’ll have something for you though. Related to Thursday&# ...
• Deal Breaker
  I recently read The World That Never Was. I really liked it, despite the fact that it includes a gazillion people and can be hard to follow (even for someone who was familiar with many of the players). The book basically covers the period between Haymarket and WWI. There is one part of the book ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Glass-Steagall Needed Now To Avert Global Dict ...
  by Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, August 5, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 30
• Are Earthquakes Foreseeable? The Current State ...
  by Sergey Pulinets Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, August 5, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 30
• Reverse This Treason Now! Congress Ratifies Ob ...
  by Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, August 5, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 30
• Without Science, There Will Be No Civilization
  by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, August 5, 2011, Vol. 38, No. 30
• LaRouche: We Will Fight To Overturn This Treason
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

• Yemen Air Forces bombs soldiers, kills 240
  The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...
• Yemenis protest against al Qaeda
  In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...
• اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن
  My article from PJM at al Mostakela: اوباما يفقد السيطرة على اليمن تخاطر الولايات المتحدة بتمكين القاعدة في اليمن وتنفير الشعب اليمني عن طريق إحباط تغيير النظام هناك كتبت – جين نوفاك يعتبر اليمن بلد معقد، فقد ظل يرزح تحت وطأة اضطرابات كبيرة، كما أن فهم اليمن يخبرنا الشيء الكثير عن الشرق ال ...
• Yemen’s CT chief accused of war crimes
  After Yemen’s Republican Guard killed and dismembered tribal prisoners Thursday, Arhab tribesmen issued a statement Friday demanding the immediate arrest and prosecution of General Ahmed Saleh as a war criminal. Ahmed Saleh heads the Republican Guard containing US funded counter-terror units and ...
• Yemen protesters announce boycott of US, Saudi ...
  Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...

Dark Politricks

• Palestinian Statehood: Now’s the Time
  By Stephen LendmanSunday, September 11th, 2011 by Stephen Lendman   Palestinians worldwide want it. So do supporters and up to 140 countries. They comprise more than enough to ensure it and full de jure UN membership. The Palestinian Authority (PA) can petition the General Assembly directly ...
• Spy Comedy: CIA/Israeli Funded Group Creates ...
  By Veterans TodaySunday, September 11th, 2011 CHERTOFF, FORMER HOMELAND SECURITY DIRECTOR AND RITA KATZ OF S.I.T.E. INTELLIGENCE TIED TO AL QAEDA FRONT Supplied Intel That Led to Iraq Invasion, Took Credit for 9/11 Attack   Group hired by FBI to create phony intelligence to sell to the US g ...
• Airplane bathroom sex blamed for terror alert
  With security officials on edge for the tenth anniversary of 2001′s World Trade Center attack, even something as trivial as passengers spending too much time in an airplane bathroom proved sufficient to cause fighter jets to be scrambled and bomb squads called in. ABC News reported on Sund ...
• Tiocfaidh ár lá–The Moral Victory
  By Michael FarrellSunday, September 11th, 2011 Normally, I hate moral victories. But this is a weird day and a weird week and a weird time. I’m still struggling to make enough sense out of what I think about current affairs let alone recent history to write intelligibly. But, Ireland, rank ...
• Al-Jazeera Egypt shut down for ‘sowing dissent’
  CAIRO — The satellite channel Al-Jazeera Egypt said on Sunday the authorities had prevented it from broadcasting, after entering its offices and confiscating transmission equipment. Ahmed Zain, the channel’s chief in Cairo, told AFP that police, officers from the culture ministry and repre ...

Dandelion Salad

• Michael Parenti: Free Speech (2011)
  with Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org Sept. 4, 2011 48South7th on Aug 31, 2011 Author Michael Parenti challenges his audience to learn about and advocate free speech in the face of oppression. From the origins of the Bill of Rights up to today’s challe ...
• A Personal Manifesto, and Reflections on the S ...
  by Konstantin Kaminskiy Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Questions of Political Economy in Modernity, August 26, 2011 Sept. 2, 2011 Note: This was really meant for my personal blog, but there is some political economy in here, so I can put it up here too. I will be finishing the thing about China, n ...
• The Triumvirate by William Blum
  by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org Sept. 1, 2011 Libya and the world we live in “Why are you attacking us? Why are you killing our children? Why are you destroying our infrastructure?” – Television address by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, April 30, 2 ...
• Ch. 4: Peace Chaplain By William T. Hathaway
  by William T. Hathaway Guest Writer Dandelion Salad August 29, 2011 Peace Chaplain RADICAL PEACE is a collection of reports from peace activists in the USA, Europe, Iraq, and Afghanistan. A seminarian contributed this chapter about learning to love her enemies. Because of her activism, she prefe ...
• After 9/11, Was War the Only Option? by Noam C ...
  Dandelion Salad by Noam Chomsky In These Times Sept. 5, 2011 This month marks the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. The impact of the attacks is not in doubt. Just keeping to western and central Asia: Afghanistan is ba ...

Your New Reality

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  When You Wish Upon Hydrogen And Helium, With A Small Amount Of Lithium... The most widely accepted theories on how stars come into existence, from the dawn of the Universe and on, may need to be rewritten, after the discovery of a 16 billion year old star. Here's the current theory : ...
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  From the Maysles Brothers sensational, shocking Rolling Stones doco Gimme Shelter :
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  Keepon - A Toy Designed For Autistic Children - Will Hypnotize The Masses This Christmas A theurapetic robot designed to help children with autism learn how to interact with the world, and its people : Fortunately for the toy industry, and considering it has no arms or legs, Keep ...
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  The War Inside You, every second of your life :
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  Hurricane Irene : Apocalypse Fail From the front page of the New York Times print edition, Sunday, August 28 : The aftermath, via an AP headline that sounds like the title of an unwritten RadioHead song. Little Damage Seen In Many Places : From AP : From North Caroli ...

Wired - Science

• Lunar Landing Sites: Then and Now
  Recently released high-resolution NASA images provide the best detail yet of the extent to which we've left our mark on the moon.
• Female Orgasm Remains an Evolutionary Mystery
  After baffling biologists for decades, the female orgasm has resisted yet another attempt to explain its elusive evolutionary origins.
• Expedition Helps Build Network of Ocean Sensors
  A 274-foot research vessel has just completed an expedition to aid the installation of web-enabled sensors that will monitor the ocean in the Pacific Northwest.
• Wing Secrets That Help Insects Rule the World
  Insects dominate the world, and their wings allow them to do this. This gallery explores some of the amazing facets of insect wings that propel them through their highly successful lives.
• New ‘Demon’ Bat Species Found in Vietnam
  Three new bat species, one resembling the Lord of the Underworld, have been discovered in the tropical forests of southern Indochina. The tiny 'demon,' named Beelzebub’s tube-nosed bat, has been seen only in Vietnam.

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Amira Hass: Hamas regime needs the Gaza blockade
  Hamas needs a blockade to regulate from within so that the subjects of "independent Gaza" will be exposed as little as possible to different realities and will not question its policies. Hamas needs... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Ali Abunimah: Israel’s role in planned US laws ...
  A group of pro-Israel activists, backed by StandWithUs, a national US pro-Israel US organization, is planning to take legal action to force the Olympia Food Co-op to rescind its historic decision to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• Israeli Arab couple wins legal battle to build ...
  Palestinian residents of Sahknin, an Arab Galilee town, petitioned the Israeli High Court of Justice five years ago over rejection by Rakefet's admissions committee. IOA Editor: The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Noam Chomsky: Was there an alternative?
  We are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. On May 1st, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
• “Return” plan for al-Bared: displacing the dis ...
  WikiLeaks documents now reveal that one of the options secretly discussed was to relocate the residents of Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon to the West Bank, possibly to the newly... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Russia to sink $170 mln into Plesetsk space center
  Russia will spend over 5 billion rubles ($170 mln) on the development and expansion of the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia this year, Space Forces spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said on Wednesday.
• Russia to sign deal for 2 more French warships ...
  Russia will sign a contract with France for the third and fourth Mistral-class amphibious assault ships before the end of this year, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Wednesday.
• Medvedev meets with Russian, French ministers
  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met on Wednesday with the Russian and French foreign and defense ministers.
• Flight recorder found at MiG-31 crash site
  Investigators have found one of the two flight recorders at a crash site of a Russian MiG-31 Foxhound fighter jet in the Urals, a source in the investigation committee said.
• Russian fighter jet crashes in Urals
  A Russian Mikoyan MiG-31 fighter jet crashed in the Urals on Tuesday, killing both pilots, officials say.

NewsWise

• Food Safety Benefits of Irradiated Food
  Christine Bruhn, PhD, director of the Center for Consumer Research at University of California-Davis, and a professor in the UC-Davis Department of Food Science and Safety, explains why foods are irradiated in this video from IFT.
• Food Safety Tips for Packing Lunches
  Back-to-school time is here and while many parents are concerned with packing healthy lunches for their kids, it's also important to make sure the food they're eating is safe to eat as well. This IFT audio news release provides helpful food safety lunch packing tips.
• Pesticides and Produce: Myth vs. Science
  Many consumers want to buy organic produce because they're concerned about pesticides. This audio interview with Dr. Carl Winter, a food toxicologist at the University of California-Davis and member of the Institute of Food Technologists, discusses myth vs. science when it comes to pesticides an ...
• What are Antioxidants and Why Do You Need Them?
  Antioxidants--what are they and why do you need them? IFT Member Claudia Fajardo-Lira, PhD, Professor of Food Science and Nutrition at California State University-Northridge, explains the facts about antioxidants in this video.
• Institute of Food Technologists Welcomes 2011- ...
  Roger Clemens, DrPH, Chief Scientific Officer of the E.T. Horn Company, is the new President of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), a nonprofit scientific society for professionals engaged in food science, food technology, and related areas in industry, academia, and government.

Natural Health News

• This Antioxidant is So Powerful it Protects Sm ...
  Free radicals induced by cigarette smoking have been strongly linked to oxidative stress, which contributes to the pathobiology of various diseases. A recent study was performed to investigate the effects of astaxanthin, which is known to be a potent antioxidant, on oxidative stress in smokers. ...
• Can Eating This Sweet Treat Decrease Risk of t ...
  A recent analysis sought to evaluate the association between chocolate consumption and the risk of developing cardiometabolic disorders.  Researchers pooled the results of seven studies that collectively included more than 114,000 participants. Five of the seven studies reported a benefici ...
• Good News Dentistry for Reversing Dental Decay
  A newly developed tooth-regenerating paste could reverse bacterial-induced tooth decay. The amino acid toothpaste that contains a compound that assembles into fibers. When applied to a decayed tooth, it forms a gelatinous scaffold that attracts calcium. The paste has already been tested on a s ...
• Why the Breakfast Most Americans Will Eat Toda ...
  Nearly every breakfast “staple” -- including cereal, donuts, yogurt, bagels, and orange juice -- is considered to be a staple only because someone is making money off of it.  In the nineteenth century, breakfast was neither cold nor sweet; it was hot, hearty, and full of lard. Then, in 189 ...
• 9 Natural Fertility Boosters
  MSN has collected a list of nine ways that you can increase your chances of getting pregnant without turning to drugs.  Here are a few methods that they found: Limit caffeine consumption: Studies have shown reduced fertility for women who consume more than 300 mg of caffeine each day. Los ...

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 “ ...
• 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

• Can Iran Sue Russia in the ICJ?
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Since neither state has accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ, I am curious how this report could possible be accurate: A senior Iranian diplomat said that Tehran has filed a lawsuit against Russia after the latter backed out of delivering anti-aircraft S-30 ...
• Congress’s Constitutional Power to Establish N ...
  by John Dehn by John Dehn Please forgive the recent interruption to my guest blogging tenure.  I currently live in New Jersey.  We sought refuge from Hurricane Irene in a cabin in the Adirondacks – sans internet access.  Interesting times. Earlier this summer, Opinio Juris hosted an excellent ...
• Congress’s Constitutional Power to Establish N ...
  by John Dehn Please forgive the recent interruption to my guest blogging tenure.  I currently live in New Jersey.  We sought refuge from Hurricane Irene in a cabin in the Adirondacks – sans internet access.  Interesting times. Earlier this summer, Opinio Juris hosted an excellent discussion of ...
• Kevin Costner, 11th Circuit Judge (Mamani v. B ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Against my better judgment, I read the 11th Circuit’s opinion in Mamani v. Berzain, the Bolivian ATS case.  I say against my better judgment because reading American judges on international law is kind of like listening to Kevin Costner play Robin ...
• Kevin Costner, 11th Circuit Judge (Mamani v. B ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Against my better judgment, I read the 11th Circuit’s opinion in Mamani v. Berzain, the Bolivian ATS case.  I say against my better judgment because reading American judges on international law is kind of like listening to Kevin Costner play Robin ...

Public News Service

• New School Year = New Chance for Better Nutrit ...
  New School Year = New Chance for Better Nutrition for AZ Kids Phoenix, AZ – The vast majority of American children have a poor Healthy Diet Score according to the American Heart Association, and ever-increasing childhood obesity causes a broad range of health problems. A new school year gi ...
• Muslim Woman Seeks Understanding through Theater
  Muslim Woman Seeks Understanding through Theater Phoenix, AZ - As communities around the nation find ways to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11, one Muslim woman uses theater to promote understanding. Rohina Malik (Roh-HEE-nah MAH-lik) wrote a one-woman play about the profound impact the ...
• Endangered Gray Wolves to be “Hunted&#82 ...
  Endangered Gray Wolves to be “Hunted” in Tucson Tucson, AZ – The world’s 50 remaining Mexican gray wolves will be the subject of a combination street art/scavenger hunt event starting tomorrow (Saturday) in Tucson. Spotting the wolf silhouettes can win you prizes, but org ...
• Famed Tucson Chef Stages Colorado Fire Relief ...
  Famed Tucson Chef Stages Colorado Fire Relief Event Tucson, AZ - One year ago, the Four Mile Canyon Fire west of Boulder became the most devastating fire in Colorado history. On September 7 (the fire anniversary), Tucson chef and area cabin owner Janos Wilder is hosting a fundraiser for the ongo ...
• AARP: Familiares que Cuidan de Familiares Enfe ...
  AARP: Familiares que Cuidan de Familiares Enfermos Valen casi $10 Billones para Arizona Phoenix, AZ –Un reciente estudio por parte del AARP demuestra que uno de cada cuatro norteamericanos cuida de algún miembro mayor de su familia, de la familia de su pareja o algún amigo; y est ...

Center for Food Safety

• Lawsuit To Halt GE Crops On Southeastern Refuges
  Genetically Engineered Crops on 25 Refuges in 8 States Are Illegal A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) seeks to end cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) crops on twenty-five national wildlife refuges across the U.S. Southeast.  The suit ...
• U.S. Congress Turns Up The Heat On Genetically ...
  23 Members of Congress say “GE fish would not be in the public interest” NEWLY PUBLISHED STUDIES HIGHLIGHT ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF ESCAPED GE FISH Members of Congress turned up the heat on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday, sending strongly worded, bipartisan letters calling ...
• U.S. House Of Representatives Passes Amendment ...
  Sixty-Seven Organizations and Businesses Endorse Amendment;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives for its decision yesterday to prohibit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from approving genetically eng ...
• FDA temporarily suspends use of some arsenic i ...
  Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy urge continued action to remove all arsenic from animal feeds permanently The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that Alpharma, a division of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has agreed to stop sellin ...
• Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsa ...
  Monsanto’s Failure to Provide Binding Legal Covenant To Protect Family Farmers Threatened by GMO Contamination Necessitates Amended Complaint New threats by Monsanto have led to the filing of an amended complaint by the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) in its suit on behalf of family farmers, s ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Horace Campbell: Magnus Malan and Crimes Again ...
  Horace Campbell: Magnus Malan and Crimes Against Humanity in Africa: General Magnus Malan, the chief architect of the total onslaught of the apartheid military, passed away on 18 July 2011. This total onslaught strategy was the idea that South Africa was threatened by a communist conspiracy and ...
• Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and A ...
  Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide: Native American scholar/activist Andrea Smith spoke on the topic of her new book, "Conquest:Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide." Smith was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is a member of INCITE! Women ...
• The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake A ...
  The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake Alfred: Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being : ASU Libraries: , Recorded March 23, 2009 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, University of Victoria Professor of Indigenous Governance Gerald Taiaiake Alfred talks about the "Resurgence of Tradition ...
• Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gad ...
  Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware : Deadline Live With Jack Blood: By Stephen C. Webster Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 — 12:27 pm Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) promised to help former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware as ...
• The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Mon ...
  The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Monroe Doctrine and justice denied?: A hundred years ago [RB: actually eighty] a legal case in Scotland swept across the world establishing her legal system in the front row of jurisprudence in the world. [Donoghue v Stevenson] Scots Law was all grown u ...

Pensieve

• The Plight of the Rio Plátano Biosphere Reserve
  Ever since I was in high school I’ve heard stories about the Rio Plátano Biosphere Reserve, a protected area in eastern Honduras. The Plátano river flows through the remote Mosquitia region, the largest rainforest in Honduras, and home to countless species of birds, mammals and insects. It ...
• Google Celebrates Freddie Mercury
  Although as of this moment, 339 news sources have already reported it, and “me too” articles can be annoying, this Google doodle is one of the best I’ve seen in a while. Google doodles evolved from simple variations of the Google logo on their front page, to videos, games, and ...
• El Salto, Nuevo Leon
  El Salto, in Nuevo León, is a waterfall in the Sierra Madre Oriental that cut through a hairpin bend in a canyon wall. It is a favorite Sunday haunt of Neoleonenses. In those few months of the year when it has water, you will find the pool at its base filled with ATVs, Jeeps, Land [...] R ...
• Super Mario Bros + Portal = Mari0
  What do you get when you mash up the most popular video games of the 1980′s and the 2010s? Many of you probably have fond memories of playing Super Mario Bro’s (S.M.B. hereafter) in the 1980′s. The absurdly popular Super NES was a staple of the living room in the days before th ...
• Web Designers vs. Web Developers
  Web Designers vs Web Developers is brought to you by Wix.com Use creative design to make a Free Website You are most welcome to share this infographic with your audience. Related posts:Your Web Alphabet Free Burma! Inductee to the Creative Class One Hundred Thousand People March Against Zelaya W ...

Green Times

• Environmental News 09/08/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• White Crane for Peace and Remberance
    66 years have passed since the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima (6-Aug) and Nagasaki (9-Aug). Following the horror of the earthquake and tsunami and the impact on the Fukushima Nuclear plant, Japan has now vowed to become nuclear-free. The crane is a symbol of health and longevity in Japan, and ...
• Environmental News 08/08/2011
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Iguazu falls
    Iguazu falls, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, deserves its place as one of the most beautiful and stunning falls in the world! Established as a National Park (glossary/wildlife/national-park.html), the area provides shelter for an incredible array of fauna (wildlife/fauna.html) and fl ...
• Hiroshima Day 2011
  “I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world”... remembering Hiroshima 66 years on...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Reviews of Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart
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• Climate study endorses central premise of Air Con
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• BREAKING SILENCE: what the Coroner was not all ...
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• BREAKING SILENCE news release
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• News release on Ian Wishart's Kahui case book, ...
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Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Freedom Theatre attacked yet again
  Missed this item last week because of earthquake/hurricane, but the Freedom Theatre was attacked again on August 22nd:   Freedom Theatre targeted again After the Israeli army targeted the theatre twice during the last month, arresting three of its members, today at approximately 02:00 in t ...
• Israel’s Tahrir [1]: Will the Revolution ...
  Ok… a little bird told me there was this teeny, modest wavelet of demonstrations in Israel, so maybe it’s time I write something about it. (snark, snark; actually my mom, two of my siblings and a couple of nieces were among those 4-5% of Israel’s population, over 300,000 people ...
• Report on Summer Camps at Susya and Umm-Al-Kheir
  The summer camps at Susya and Umm-Al-Kheir have just ended. Both camps are organized locally, and funded with the help of outside donors. Villages Group activists help arrange these funds, work with organizers to help meet their needs, and – most rewardingly – visit the camps to inte ...
• Freedom Theatre Update: First rule about being ...
   `Let the jury consider their verdict,’ the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. `No, no!’ said the Queen. `Sentence first–verdict afterwards.’ Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Here’s an update about the latest arrest at the Freedom Theatre in Jeni ...
• Antisemitism and Political Blogging: Personal ...
  My 5-year involvement with this site has been somewhat intermittent. Although I love to blog, there is still this other pesky thing called “life” that often tends to take precedence. At other times, despair about my main blogging subject (Israel-Palestine, hereafter I-P), and the app ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Is Governor Jerry Brown still a moonbeam?
  In 1976, when Jerry Brown was California governor the first time, Chicago columnist Mike Royko famously dubbed him “Governor Moonbeam.” The moniker stuck, even if Royko later apologized for it. But perhaps he had a point after all. Starry-eyed, perky optimism does indeed have its pla ...
• Rusko live dubstep 2010
• Corporationwiki
  Look up a person or business on Corporationwiki to view the links to other entities and people. It uses public data from California Secretary of State, Florida Department of State and Texas Secretary of State. Here’s the data for Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. [...]
• Storing solar power directly in molten salt
  Instead of focusing heat from the sun onto a central tower to power turbines and storing excess heat in molten salt, researchers at MIT propose putting the heliostats on hillsides and using them to directly heat the salt. They say this could provide power 24/7 when the sun is out during the day.
• Solyndra bankruptcy will hurt Obama, renewable ...
  Solyndra executives donated and raised large sums for Democrats and Obama. The company got over half a billion in loan guarantees. The money is gone and Solyndra just filed for bankruptcy. Republicans predictably and maybe accurately think the whole deal is stinky and plan investigations. Even ...

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 sha ...
• “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&#8 ...
• 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. No ...
• 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 an ...

Deadline Live

• Operation Grenade Walker – Obama’s ...
  Mexico has arrested an American man for selling grenades and other explosives material to the CIA’s and DEA’s favorite criminal organization: The Sinaloa Drug Cartel. The man by the name of Jean Batiste Kingery was arrested and immediately released last year by the U.S. Attorney Gene ...
• EU bans GM-contaminated honey from general sale
  The European Union’s highest court on Tuesday ruled that honey which contains trace amounts of pollen from genetically modified (GM) corn must be labelled as GM produce and undergo full safety authorisation before it can be sold as food. In what green groups are calling a “groundbrea ...
• BREAKING: FEMA Lets Texas Burn by Turning Away ...
  http://RTR.org | In this report Gary Franchi delivers the breaking story about FEMA doing a Katrina repeat by blocking volunteers and letting towns burn. He also looks at the new Ron Paul Campaign ad, tracks down some explosives that DHS lost and looks at a sterilized grade school curriculu ...
• THIS, is why Rick Perry wants to skip all the ...
  Yep, just like Bush Jr… Perry was a male cheerleader. Not there’s anything wrong with that … ahem.. I was in attendance when Perry debated KBH and Debra Medina, during the TX Primaries in 2010. He so thoroughly had his clock cleaned that people in the audience were openly mocki ...
• Are walnuts the answer to reduce your risk for ...
  Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Michigan women, and it is the second leading cause of cancer deaths for women in our state. In spite of these numbers, there is good news. Early detection is the key to survival. With regular screening, breast cancer is more likely to be det ...

The Air Vent

• Climate Rapid Response Team
  Desslers explanation for his paper has been added to YouTube.
• Life in tha fast lane
  The title with two meanings, I’ve got no time but apparently the rebuttal to Spencer’s paper was so important that it got through peer review in two weeks, acceptance to publication. Thanks to HaroldW and WUWT, we have a copy here, I also received an advance copy of the pdf thanks to ...
• Naughty Step
  At Judith Curry’s blog, Jonathan Jones put together a rather concise statement: Jonathan Jones | September 5, 2011 at 10:32 am | Reply With a tiny handful of exceptions (Judy, Richard Betts, Hans von Storch, Eduardo Zorita, surely there must be a few more?) the whole of “mainstre ...
• Can we now agree that the climate peer review ...
  Think anyone feels the heat? UPDATE #3: At the end of the Guardian article, it says Andy Dessler has a paper coming out in GRL next week, supposedly refuting our recent paper. This has GOT to be a record turnaround for writing a paper and getting it peer reviewed. And, as usual, we NEVER get [...]
• Redefining Peer Review — Editor Resigns
  UPDATE:  Roger Pielke Sr.  has his own take on the issue here.   An excerpt from his take is quite similar to my own.  A single paper referenced with no specifics regarding the critique, my red bold below. My Comment:  Wagner is not an expert on the subject of the Spencer and Braswell paper, so ...

Focal Point

• Dealbreakers
  Labor Day is about two things: freedom and respect. So, in that spirit, I thought I'd weigh into the discussion of romantic dealbreakers. Here are mine: 1. Picky eaters and the food-indifferent. I'm a good cook. You've got to eat what's put in front of you and like it. 2. Beard ...
• NYT Misses the Mark on Bloomberg, Goldsmith, a ...
  Now here's a backhanded way to normalize a mayor covering up his deputy's arrest for domestic violence: "Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s management style has its hallmarks: unwavering loyalty to aides and a deep distaste for exposing private lives to public scrutiny." &# ...
• Guilty Pleasures
  Amanda Marcotte, Matt Yglesias, and Atrios are debating the concept of "guilty pleasures" in pop culture. Here's my theory of what guilty pleasures are. For people my age, taste is a personal aesthetic code. Good taste can be idiosyncratic, in fact, it's expected to be. You're supposed to ...
• Obama's Pick to Head Council of Economic Advis ...
  Interesting fact about Alan Krueger, Obama's pick to head the Council of Economic Advisers, Alan B. Krueger. His research showed that raising the minimum wage doesn't destroy minimum wage jobs, it helps fill job vacancies: Mr. Krueger is best known for his studies testing widely hel ...
• Updated: Inmates and C.O.'s at Rikers Island W ...
  Jean Casella and James Ridgeway report in Mother Jones that New York City has no plans to evacuate an estimated 12,000 inmates and their correctional officers on low-lying Rikers Island ahead of Hurricane Irene: "We are not evacuating Rikers Island," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in ...

Inside Facebook

• Friend Quizzes, Page Tabs, Photos, Phrases, Ho ...
  Although there were six friend quiz apps and a pair of Page tab apps on our list of those growing most by daily active users this week, the rest of the list was pretty much a mixed bag. Phrases, Twitter, luck, horoscopes, beauty and mobile apps made up the rest of the list. The titles [...]
• Study: Auto-Posting to Facebook Decreases Like ...
  Facebook Pages that automatically publish content to the news feed through third-party apps such as HootSuite, TweetDeck, and NetworkedBlogs receive an average of 70% less Likes and comments on their posts per fan, according to a new study by Applum, developer of Page tool EdgeRank Checker. The ...
• Facebook Becomes a Competitor and Complement t ...
  iTunes and Amazon take note: musicians are now selling MP3s directly from their Facebook Pages. Electronic music producer and DJ David Guetta this week added a tab application to his Facebook Page that allows him to sell MP3s for Facebook Credits. The Nothing But The Beat app, developed by Frenc ...
• Announcing Inside Virtual Goods: The Future of ...
  2011 will be remembered as the year that Zynga filed for its IPO, Google launched Google+, and Facebook executed the Credits transition. With the first potential social gaming IPO, Zynga plans to raise up to $2 billion to fund its continued global expansion. Meanwhile, Google is putting its weig ...
• New Facebook Platform Industry Hires: Kontagen ...
  Kontagent looks to have hired a Director of EMEA Business Development as Wildfire hired a few more account managers, Vitrue and AdParlo hired some technical staff and a few other companies hired other employees. If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us kn ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: On the News With Thom Hartmann: Pres ...
  truthout: On the News With Thom Hartmann: President's Job Plan Will Cost $300 Billion, and More #jobs http://ow.ly/6nT97
• truthout: Project "Censored 2012": Moving Beyo ...
  truthout: Project "Censored 2012": Moving Beyond Media Reform http://ow.ly/6nSZ2
• truthout: Nepalese Discard Imported Seeds and ...
  truthout: Nepalese Discard Imported Seeds and Stock up on More Resilient Local Varieties with Co-Op Seed Banks #newsint http://ow.ly/6nSdi
• truthout: Did a Top GOP Staffer for Sen. Grass ...
  truthout: Did a Top GOP Staffer for Sen. Grassley Cover Up Evidence of #NewsCorp Hacking In The US? http://ow.ly/6nNBs
• truthout: Joseph Stiglitz: The Price of 9/11 v ...
  truthout: Joseph Stiglitz: The Price of 9/11 via @ProSyn http://ow.ly/6nLZk

ReDress News

• Gaza not represented in UN's blockade whitewas ...
  Stuart Littlewood analyses the conclusions of the UN's Palmer inquiry into the fatal Israeli raid on the Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara: a "bizarre reframing of the situation - that the illegal occupier, Israel, is the victim of the Palestinians' lawful resistance and that Israel's sec ...
• Turkey and Israel: Turkey does the right thing
  Lawrence Davidson lauds Turkey's decision to downgrade its diplomatic relations with Israel and suspend military ties with the Zionist state and says that Tel Aviv's refusal to do the decent thing and apologize for murdering unarmed civilians on the high seas has probably put an end to its dream ...
• Israel's settler army and government poised to ...
  Uri Avnery says Israel's settler-dominated political and military establishments may be planning to provoke serious violence to coincide with the Palestinian bid to gain UN recognition later this month.
• America's FBI goes rogue
  Lawrence Davidson looks at the use of informants by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation which, he argues, amounts to counselling, procuring and inciting crime. "[W]ithout the intervention of the informant, without his incitement, there is no evidence that any of [the] entrapped 'cr ...
• From Libya to Palestine - tyranny to freedom
  Aijaz Zaka Syed argues that dethroning Muammar Gaddafi was the easy part and that the real struggle to build a new Libya begins now.

Amazon Rainforest

• World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
  The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
• World’s largest beef company signs Amazo ...
  The world’s largest meat processor has agreed to stop buying beef from ranches associated with slave labor and illegal deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, according to the public prosecutor’s office in the state of Acre. The deal absolves JBS-Friboi from 2 billion reals ($1.3 bill ...
• Peru suffers an environmental tragedy!
  The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years.  Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 hectares of virgin and extremely divers ...
• Earth’s Living Treasure- Celebrating Forests f ...
  United Nations declared 2o11 as the International Year of Forests (Forests 2o11), and why Forests are the theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May 2o11. In this special year, the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are ...
• Belo Monte hydroelectric dam construction work ...
  The company leading the dam project, Norte Energia, announced that infrastructure work on roads that will provide access to the region started on Monday morning. The £7bn Belo Monte dam on the Amazon’s Xingu river is scheduled to start producing energy on 31 December 2014 and would be the ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• BFP Independent Perspective: Social Security M ...
  The Unanswered Question of “Social Security Surplus” By Linda Lewis As some politicians describe it, the Social Security program is an economic disaster forced upon younger generations by the demands of greedy baby boomers. News media obediently parrot the scare stories, seldom questioning the m ...
• Jamiol Presents
• Oh George! You got some ‘splainin‘ to do!
  Who at Alex Station knew what in August-September 2001? By Kevin Fenton Recent allegations made by former counterterrorism “tsar” Richard Clarke against former CIA Director George Tenet and two other former CIA managers, Cofer Black and Richard Blee, have thrown one of the key unanswered questio ...
• BFP Select Nightly News & Editorials-August 12 ...
  Escobar: Syria- Why the Regime Won’t Fall, Lebanon Intercepts Covert Arms Shipment Bound for Syria, DHS Trying to Make New Terrorist “Watchlist Service” Exempt from Privacy Act, Bank of America’s Backdoor Bailout, Begging for Change, Russia & Azerbaijan: An Obstacle t ...
• Answers in Absolute for ‘Why 9/11?’
  Why ‘some’ Still Question, Seek Answer(s) & Accountability For ‘some’ reason I have been receiving more than a few ‘eye-rolling’ responses when I mention our theme for the month leading up to September 11- the tenth year. You and I know where the conscious but mostly subconscious eye-rolling ...

Afro Spear

• 9/11: Ten Years After
  “Today I do not honor terrorism, reinforce fear or plot revenge. No. I pause today to commit to less violence and more peace. I choose today to be a part of the healing instead of part of the destruction. I remember today that peace begins within and love is an action.” Wayne Hicks
• Jasmine Revolution: An African Revolution Not ...
  One of the illusions that Europeans and Arabs alike have successfully perpetrated for over a century, is that the northern part of Africa is not apart of the African continent. I have had discussions and arguments with so-called “highly educated people”… those with more than on ...
• “Don’t even ask” by Mr. Fish
  Seen over at Truthdig
• Father and Son: A painful moment
• “Gadaffi, Dictators and faint memory if ...
  On 30thDecember 2006, the world witnessed humiliating hanging of Saddam Hussein, former Iraq’s tyrant, after being arrested bolted in a spider hole. Many thought other dictators would make a note of the sudden and unceremoniously demise and downfall of Saddam. Go figure. They didn’t because of a ...

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 yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

• Expanding the border of local food advocates
  By: thayerd Thousands of people, mostly women and children, have been walking for days. Not just a day or two, they've been walking for fifteen to twenty days, bound for Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya. Many of the women have lost children to hunger during the tre ...
• Sharing optimism and joy with sidewalk chalk
  By: mmlarsen Remember when you were a kid and you’d draw pictures and write happy thoughts with chalk in your driveway and down the sidewalks of your street? And the adults always smiled when they read the big, paste-colored messages? This is just like that. On ...
• OdeLive presents health pioneer Johan Boswinkel
  By: Ode Warning! This story is about a man who has developed a groundbreaking new therapy: healing with light. The man is not a doctor. Nor is he an accredited scientist. His proof is rather anecdotal, and yes, countless skeptics are eagerly lining up to attack ...
• Three creative ways people are bringing hope a ...
  By: Anne Thomas Even though the initial intensity of the March 11 disaster has subsided, many people still feel a deep tugging to help Japanese disaster victims. Since that subtle pull is strong and persistent, people are finding very creative ways to bring hop ...
• Saying goodbye to David Servan-Schreiber
  By: Ode Ode columnist David Servan-Schreiber died on the evening of Sunday, July 24. He was 50. A professor of psychiatry in the US and France, Servan-Schreiber wrote the bestselling Anticancer: A New Way of Life and The Instinct to Heal, both read around the w ...

OpEd News

• Dumb is In -- Redneck Perry Re-sets Slickness ...
  Palin-style dumb is out -- and slicker, smoother more ideological versions of hustling walk the landscape. Reversals makes once slow students into stars, aligning them with common folks. Watch out as Ponzi-schemer Perry redefines slickness, with skills beyond W.
• Libya: Here We Go Again
  History is replete with conquering forces being cheered when they arrive, and then rapidly mutating from liberator to despised enemy. And once our seizure of Libyan oil becomes clear it will only ramp up the jihadist hatred for America that has spread like wildfire across the Middle East. We are ...
• Obama Readies Tepid Jobs Plan While The Right ...
  What no one is talking about is why the jobs are gone -- and a good part of the reason has to do with the attacks on unions that fought to protect American workers. With Obama is posturing for political reasons, and the Republicans are playing at trench warfare in the interest of big business, w ...
• Labor Day and the Obama Delusion Mantra
  This is a sad Labor day. But perhaps, if we face the betrayal of those we thought were on our side we can make some progress. The people still do have the power, if they wake up and choose to use it. There are no political parties out there that unflinchingly support social and ecological j ...
• We Learned Nothing From 9/11
  Maybe if it stopped spending so much time and money killing foreigners the American government could protect Americans. A lot changed on 9/11, but not everything. We're still governed by corrupt idiots. And we're still putting up with them. What does that say about us?

Switchboard

• Huge Victory for Sharks: California Legislatur ...
  Leila Monroe, Staff Attorney, Oceans Program, San Francisco I’m not sure how sharks celebrate, but if these endangered creatures knew that California’s State Senate just voted to pass Assembly Bill 376, no doubt they’d break out a ...
• If you don't like the facts, make up your own
  David Goldstein, Energy Program Co-Director, San Francisco That seems to be the principle that motivates Joseph Bottum’s article, “It’s green and blue, but not bright”, recently published in the Weekly Standard. Because from ...
• NRDC in the News 9/6: Ozone standard delay, fr ...
  NRDC News, NRDC News Team, NRDC Offices Worldwide Frances Beinecke’s statement on President Obama’s troubling decision to postpone new federal ozone standards was quoted in The Wall Street Journal… USA Today’s White House Bl ...
• Maryland gives smart growth another push
  Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC   I’m of the opinion that the package of (bold, at the time) smart growth policies introduced in Maryland in the 1990s by then-governor Parris Glendening has done a great ...
• Killing the Ozone Rule: President Obama's Bad ...
  Pete Altman, Climate Campaign Director, Washington, D.C. To say that President Obama had a “bad air day” Friday is putting it mildly. In reversing his Administration’s previously strong support for ozone regulations to protect the ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• What Should Lisa Jackson Do?
  I’ve pondered this question ever since Obama decided to not only undercut the EPA’s new smog rules, but to do so in a very public way, clearly intended to make him seem serious on jobs and pro-business. EPA chief Lisa Jackson has not made any public statements since the announcement. ...
• Obama and the 2010 Midterms
  Elias Isquith is very agitated about one of the points in this post, which may be due to a lack of clarity on my part.    To provide said clarity, I should emphasize that I am not saying that the precise outcome of the 2010 midterms was inevitable.   I do think nothing Obama could have done [...]
• Riddle of the Sands
  Last week at APSA I chaired a panel on IR Theory and Grand Strategy.  I discuss one of the papers in this week’s WPR column: In 1903, the novel “Riddle of the Sands” was published to great acclaim in the United Kingdom. Written by Erskine Childers, the novel told the story of a ...
• Bear patrol
  The present version of security theater may soon be losing one of its more distinctive elements: “You don’t take your shoes off anywhere but in the U.S. — not in Israel, in Amsterdam, in London,” said Yossi Sheffi, an Israeli-born expert on risk analysis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol ...
• Today’s Purveyor of Market-Distorting Up ...
  Mittens.    The fact that he sees putting virtually all of the tax burden on wage earners as a “middle class” tax break tells you all you need to know about contemporary Republican politics.    Not to mention the fact that the tax plan would require the repeal of Medicare.  

Desert Research Institute

• ASCENT Connecting women in atmospheric sciences
  Atmospheric Science Collaborations and Enriching Networks (ASCENT) is a program focusing on women in atmospheric science/meteorology. It’s designed to initiate positive professional relationships among female faculty of different ranks and postdoctoral researchers.
• DRI and UNR Scientists Help Agencies Preserve ...
  DRI and The University of Nevada have highly cooperative, productive and ongoing research programs across a variety of topics in the Lake Tahoe Basin that are doing their best to provide quality science to inform basin managers and policymakers.
• Storm Peak Lab Celebrates the 4th of July and ...
  There is nothing like a small-town parade on the 4th of July. The scientists and volunteers at the DRI Storm Peak Lab (SPL) in Steamboat Springs, Colo. participated in this year’s Steamboat Springs Fourth of July Parade. The parade theme was the “Greatest Summer on Earth.”
• In Memoriam: DRI President Dr. James V. Taranik
  President of DRI in 1987, Dr. James V. Taranik was internationally known for his research in aerospace remote sensing, and his professional career had already included senior positions with NASA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the Iowa Geological Survey, and the University of Iowa.
• DRI Researcher Earns Grant to Study the Season ...
  A DRI researcher will lead a team that is heading to Antarctica to study the molecular biology, and evolution of microscopic organisms.

Earth Techling

• Green Job Training Revitalizes Colorado Builder
  Rick Haley, 60-year-old veteran of the contracting industry, has reinvented himself by accessing stimulus funds to get re-trained in green building technology and using those new skills to create a new venture, Delta Energy Auditing.
• 14 Million Hybrids and Electric Cars By 2017?
  A new Pike Research report claims there will be more than 14 million plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles on the road by 2017.
• Yahoo! Loses CEO, Gains LEED Certification
  The very large collection of buildings that serves as Yahoo!'s headquarters in California recently took LEED-EBOM for a major green rehaul of operations.
• Making Solar Windows Easy On Labor, Budgets
  Focus Materials' Focus Wall aims to offer an attractive, efficient solution to integrating photovoltaic technology into the walls of buildings.
• A Solar-Powered Chicken Coop For Dummies
  For those who dream of keeping chickens but don't have a clue what to do, there's a solar-powered chicken coop that feeds, waters and walks your chicks.

National Law Journal | U.S.

• Search for billing flexibility behind L.A.'s l ...
  Two former partners at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis have launched their own firm in Los Angeles, prompted by an opportunity to provide flexible billing rates for clients.
• Vermont Law School wades into flood relief efforts
  Classes have begun two days later than planned, but students and faculty have rallied to assist Vermont residents in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene.
• 1,800 pro bono hours later, attorney sees Sept ...
  Patrick White, of counsel at Porter Wright and vice president of the Families of Flight 93, talks to the NLJ about the work and challenges behind the United Flight 93 Memorial.
• 1st Circuit reinstates jury's conspiracy verdi ...
  A federal appeals court has reinstated the jury convictions of the three defendants for conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and maintain a charity's tax-exempt status by hiding its ties to jihadist fighters. The court also affirmed the convictions on other counts of two of the def ...
• SURVEY OF LAW FIRM ECONOMICS
  Our national survey shows firms had a better 2010, and despite a hazy economy, they see promise in 2011.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Controversial billboard depicting contaminated ...
  The Sautners from Dimock put up a billboard that has a picture of their dirty water and the words “FIX IT” on Rt. 29 in the heart of Cabot Oil & Gas territory. As soon as it went up, they held a press conference.  Angry pro-gas neighbors were also there –  and Cabot spokesm ...
• Waterdog Training August 11th
  Below is note from Erica about the upcoming Waterdog training at Ives Run. Hello Everyone I just wanted to remind everyone that we are hosting another Advanced Waterdog Training on August 11th at Ives Run from 5-9 pm.  Please let me know if you can make it and also please feel free to share it [...]
• PennFuture files federal lawsuit against Marce ...
  Harrisburg, PA (July 21, 2011) – Citizens for Pennsylvania‟s Future (PennFuture) filed a lawsuit today in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania against Ultra Resources, Inc., for air pollution at its Marcellus Shale drilling sites, which violates the federal Cl ...
• Advanced Waterdog Training in August
  An advanced Waterdog training will take place on August 11th. Details from the flyer are below. Hello Waterdogs, I wanted to invite all of you to our Advanced Waterdog Training on August 11 from 5:00—9:00. This training will only be for people who have already attended the initial training. We w ...
• A Substitute for Tears…
  Two fellows that have had profound effects on the music in my life have each written songs about the gas drilling and want to preserve the beauty and purity of places they have come to know and love in Pennsylvania. Check out Van Wagner’s tune here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trxrh_FmP ...

News Blaze

• Bomb Blast Rocks Indian Capital, 11 Dead 65 In ...
  New Delhi: At least 11 people were killed and 65 others injured in a blast explosion outside New Delhi's High Court Gate number 5 at 10:15AM in the Indian capital.
• Female Football Legend Promotes Women's Empowe ...
  Female Football Legend Marta Ends Two-day Visit to Sierra Leone Declaring 'When women succeed, we all win.'
• Michael Torchia Hosts Shape Up America Pavilio ...
  The pavilion will present two full days of fun health and fitness demonstrations for the entire family. Event highlights will include: Zumba, Hip Hop Kids, Self Defense Classes, Muay Thai Fighting Demos, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsue, Boxing, Kickboxing,
• Property Values Increase Statewide In California
  The value of county-assessed property increased by $5.3 billion (0.1 percent) to $4.297 trillion. The value of state-assessed property, mainly privately owned public utilities and railroads, totaled $85.3 billion, an increase of $6.3 billion
• Solectria Renewables Awarded $2.1M US Departme ...
  Solectria Renewables Awarded $2.1 Million U.S. Department of Energy

environment 360

• Scientists Calls for Ban On Industrial Deep-Se ...
  A new report by a team of international scientists calls for a ban on industrial deep-sea fishing, saying that decades of overexploitation have depleted fish stocks that take longer to recover than other species. The report, published in the journal Marine Policy, says that depletion of global f ...
• New Global Warming Survey is First to Include ...
  A new survey on U.S. views concerning global warming based on political party affiliation finds agreement across party lines for the need to fund renewable energy research, but wide disparity over whether global warming is even happening. The survey by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communi ...
• Debt-Ridden Greece Proposes Huge Solar Power E ...
  Greek officials are calling for an ambitious expansion of solar power generation in their sunny country, hoping that large-scale production of renewable energy will generate significant revenues and green jobs for the country’s troubled economy. Greek Energy Minister George Papaconstantinou says ...
• Post-Irene Sediment Clouds Hudson River and Ne ...
  This NASA satellite image, taken after Hurricane Irene deluged the New York City area with heavy rains, shows Click to enlarge NASANew York Harbor, post-Irene massive amounts of sediment mixing with the darker waters of New York Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the pale green, brown, ...
• Process Uses Plastic Bottles to Remove Arsenic ...
  U.S. researchers say they have developed a simple, inexpensive process that uses common plastic bottles to remove arsenic from drinking water, a problem facing nearly 100 million people in developing nations. In the process, pieces of plastic soda or water bottles are coated with cysteine — an a ...

Red Ice Creations

• Hurricane Irene aims at New England, but its e ...
  The worst-case scenario sounds scary: Hurricane Irene could sweep ashore in New England this weekend, dousing the state with torrential rains, and lashing it with damaging wind gusts, while heavy surf pounds the coasts and water rises in streams. But it’s still “highly uncertain” exactly where a ...
• Earthquake damages Washington monument
  The Washington Monument is not tilting. However, a closer look at the world’s tallest obelisk brought National Park Service officials to discover cracks near the top of the 555-foot monument. After taking a closer look at the Washington monument Tuesday, National Park Service officials found som ...
• Biggest Earthquake to hit Virginia in 110 Year ...
  The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck in Virginia and was felt in New York and Washington D.C. today was a rare event for the east coast. But the shaking was believed to be so widespread because the tremors of the quake were shallow at between one and four miles deep. It’s the strongest quake ...
• Red Ice TV - Episode 5 - The Secret Space Program
  In this episode, we discuss the secret space program, what it is, who is behind it and why? Is there a human civilization living off-world with highly advanced technology and knowledge about the existence of aliens? Why are we being kept in the dark? We feature Peter Levenda, Richard Dolan, Rich ...
• Algorithms Control the World
  Kevin Slavin argues that we’re living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are ...

Russia Today

• Top KHL squad killed in passenger plane crash ...
  Thirty-four people have died in a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger plane crash near the city of Yaroslavl in Central Russia. The majority of victims were members of the local ice hockey team Lokomotiv.
• German court backs unpopular EU bailouts
  The German Constitutional Court has endorsed the country’s participation in bailouts for ailing EU economies. The move was supported by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said that the ruling “confirms” the actions of...
• Yaroslavl ‘thinkfest’ talks Afghanistan, multi ...
  The Central Russian city of Yaroslavl is turning into a global think tank this week, with the third global policy forum inviting the world’s best minds to come up with solutions to some of the world's most pressing...
• Deadly blast rocks New Delhi court
  A bomb blast has rocked the Indian capital, New Delhi, killing nine and injuring at least 65 outside the city's High Court.The Harkat-ul-Jihad terror group has taken responsibility for the attack.Their message was sent...
• Real chaos on cards for new Libya
  The security chief of ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly fled the country for neighboring Niger on Tuesday. With Gaddafi’s whereabouts still unknown and rebels controlling most of Libya, experts fear...

Not My Tribe

• No evidence to hold Sabar Lal Melma in Guantan ...
  Hard to imagine we’d come to look at Guantanamo as a lesser evil. Gitmo held terror suspects without charges, indefinitely, secretly, and tortured them, to death sometimes. At least they and their families back home were safe from the pretext of a drone strike or special ops night raid. Th ...
• I dunno, maybe that was some kind of sign, you ...
  It’s difficult to inject logic into either politics or faith without being the subject of a lynching, but here goes. There was a statue, 62 feet tall, of Jesus on the side of a highway in Ohio. People would actually pull over and pray to it. So last year about this time it was struck [...]
• It Was Always, Always You
  My maternal grandparents had a favorite song, Irving Berlin’s suitably sentimental Always. With “always” capping every line and recurring as a chorus echo, the theme quickly packed a saccharine wallop if it wasn’t you celebrating your 50th or 60th anniversary. I’ve ...
• Problems Per Perry’s Precipitation Petit ...
  There’s a failsafe in the rainmaker/faith healer scam that lets the thief off the ol’ hook so that either way he gets paid. If the sufferer is healed, even if say, he was “laid hands on” on the 6th day of a 7 day cold and was much better the next day, like that, then [...]
• My Lai every day
  From Wikipedia:The My Lai Massacre (Vietnamese: thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰɐ̃ːm ʂɐ̌ːt mǐˀ lɐːj]; English pronunciation: /ˌmiːˈlaɪ/ ( listen), also /ˌmiːˈleɪ, ˌmaɪˈlaɪ/,[1] Vietnamese: [mǐˀlɐːj]) was the mass murder of 347–504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, conducted by “Charl ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• 9/11 10th Anniversary Campaign
  Click here to support the 9/11 families and first responders as they call for a new investigation in the largest 9/11 campaign ever! Debunking the Debunkers Regarding Building 7 '9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out' Trailer & Rebuttal to Pat Curley Related Info: Click here for ...
• Maybe with Some Goading Keith Olbermann Will F ...
  Send tweets to Keith Olbermann: @KeithOlbermann -- Richard Gage from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth AE911Truth.org : in New York around 9/11. PLEASE interview him!!! Also, Thumbs Up this Current TV request: http://getsatisfaction.com/currentcom/topics/please_have_olbermann_intevi ...
• Maybe with a Little Goading Keith Olbermann Wi ...
  Send tweets to Keith Olbermann: @KeithOlbermann -- Richard Gage from Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth AE911Truth.org : in New York around 9/11. PLEASE interview him!!! Also, Thumbs Up this Current TV request: http://getsatisfaction.com/currentcom/topics/please_have_olbermann_intevi ...
• Propaganda Wars, Episode 2: The BBC Strikes Back!
  9/11: Conspiracy Road Trip - Sept 8, 2011, 21:00 GMT, BBC3 This September marks the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, one of the biggest terrorist atrocities of the 21st Century. Nineteen hijackers, all members of Al Qaeda, crashed four planes on American soil, leading to the deaths of 2,9 ...
• The Eleventh Fail: The BBC & 9/11 Truth ... Fo ...
  Written by Scootle Royale, with help from John-Michael Talboo. Shortly before the BBC Conspiracy Files hitpiece aired on Monday, I published a blog listing my top ten debunker fails. After seeing watching the piece, I think the entire program deserves to be considered the eleventh fail. Th ...

Fooducate

• The Virtues of Hummus [Secret Family Recipe In ...
  Who hasn’t heard of hummus? It’s all the rage in nutrition circles, as more consumers are discovering the Mediterranean bean dip and incorporating into their diet. The two leading brands, Tribe and Sabra have seen explosive growth in the last few years and more players are joining al ...
• 10 Nutrition Label Improvements the FDA MUST I ...
  The FDA is planning a minor facelift to the 20 year old nutrition label. When nutrition labels were introduced into the market, the food industry battled vehemently against them, while the government and health organizations explained that providing detailed information would help consumers make ...
• A Labor of Love – Raising Children with Food S ...
  This is a guest blog post by Beth George I am a mother, child advocate lawyer, food activist, and entrepreneur.    This is a story of how focusing on diet made a huge difference in my son’s life.  I hope our story may help others. As a child advocate attorney, I worked with many children in [...]
• Burritos, Willie Nelson, and Sustainable Agric ...
  Chipotle’s motto is “Food with Integrity.” Although the burrito joint is a fast food establishment, it tries to source meat and other ingredients from small farms practicing sustainable agriculture. Animals are treated like … animals, not factory inputs. To emphasize thei ...
• Hormel’s 100% Natural Deli Meats and High Pres ...
  Fooducate community member Tom emailed us with a question about deli meats: Hi Fooducaters - Wondering if you can turn a critical eye towards Hormel’s Natural Choice line. I have been buying it, but frankly, it does not seem expensive enough to make me believe they are truly producing a he ...

Traffikd

• Brand You – How to Brand a Blog
  Brands bring something recognizable to the table that readers or customers can see and immediately identify with to get a picture of what the brand stands for. If you are making yourself into a personal brand your goal can be to make yourself, your image and your name instantly recognizable as a ...
• Use Social Media For Increased Blog Traffic
  Finding ways to increase traffic to your blog can be a challenge for anyone in every niche. If you're releasing good content at a steady rate then check out these tips for using social media outlets to get the traffic you want. Use Social Media Sites to Your Advantage Why should you use social ...
• Four Pre-Writing Exercises for Inspired Bloggers
  Rebecca Chelsey's recent post on ways to spark our creativity got me thinking about the next step: how to take that creativity and turn it into meaningful sentences on the page. In other words, what we do with that spark of inspiration will determine the success or setbacks we face when we blog. ...
• 8 Simple Sources of Creative Inspiration
  As a creative person, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely otherwise. This is an especially unfortunate habit for my creativity to have because I am in the field of design. Over the years I've researched and stumbled upon ei ...
• 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 ...

Survival International

• Brazilian Indians demand Shell leave their land
  Guarani man. Shell is using sugarcane planted on Guarani land. © Fiona Watson/ Survival Indians of the Guarani tribe in Brazil have demanded that energy giant Shell stop using their ancestral land for ethanol production. Ambrosio Vilhalva, a Guarani man from one of the communities affecte ...
• Borehole breakthrough for Botswana’s Bushmen
  Two men from Kikao wait for water at the Mothomelo borehole © Vox United/Survival Survival International has been speaking to Bushmen from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve as they celebrate drinking water from the Mothomelo borehole for the first time in nine years. It marks a significant ...
• Savannah Miller designs t-shirt for Survival
  Savannah Miller modeling her t-shirt designed for Survival. © James Betts / Survival Fashion designer Savannah Miller has designed an exclusive limited edition T-shirt for Survival International – inspired by the Bushmen of the Kalahari in Botswana and their struggle to defend their ...
• New signs indicate uncontacted Amazon Indians ...
  The uncontacted Indians of this region made worldwide headlines in February 2011. © Gleison Miranda/FUNAI/Survival A recent expedition in the western Brazilian Amazon has found new signs of uncontacted Indians, indicating that they are moving to different parts of the forest. It is likely ...
• Anti-extinction campaign launched to protect 3 ...
  Nukak mother and child. © David Hill/Survival The UN has launched a campaign to protect 35 indigenous tribes from extinction in Colombia. Survival works closely with one of tribes, the Nukak, nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the northwest Amazon basin. The campaign responds to a barrage ...

Greg Palast

• Hamptons Hurricane: A Bankers' Katrina
  by Greg Palast Don't worry:  the bankers are safe.  The sub-prime sharks, derivatives divas, media mavens and their hairdressers, their trophy wives and their trophies' personal trainers, the movers and shakers and money-makers, are all out of danger. Despite the warning that in a couple of day ...
• Me and Piers Morgan:Hacked and AttackedHow Mor ...
  by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout.org/Buzzflash I am not surprised that Piers Morgan has been outed for hacking phones (listening, in one case, to personal messages between Heather Mills and Paul McCartney). I learned about the creepy antics of this one-man TV-host crime spree the hard way ...
• Not Another Ransom Notefrom Congressman Boehner
  by Greg Palast It was quite upsetting to find our President blindfolded and tied to a chair at the GOP Tea Party headquarters, but I'm sure the $2.2 trillion ransom we paid to the hostage-takers is worth it. Well, now that the Obama presidency is over, we can move on to more serious matters ...
• Who killed "Stieg" Larsson?
  I asked my daughter if she would like to add her own recollections about JK Rowling and the "alternative" Harry Potter endings Jo Rowling told us when we were hanging out in the Green Room at BBC Television Centre. (I provide investigative stories for the BBC current affairs program Newsnight.) ...
• It's Not Default of Obama:Jail GOP Deadbeats f ...
  by Greg Palast exclusive for Truthout/Buzzflash.com Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist gave debtors' prison a bad rap. Too bad. I'd say that locking away GOP Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a penitentiary for deadbeats seems like a darn good idea. Bush reads from My Pet BudgetLet's talk about how w ...

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle well out-of-date re ...
  The other day I was making some tomato & lentil soup for lunch when I found the pack and a half of red lentils in our store cupboard actually went out of (best before) date in January 2008. That’s pushing it even for our very lax attitude toward best before dates – and is especi ...
• How can I reuse or recycle novelty jester hats?
  Karen has emailed about her boyfriend’s hat collection: When cleaning up I came across a lot of jester hats from my boyfriend (about two dozen). He has collected them over the years for free at carnival (we are from Holland). Giving them away hasn’t been succesful, and we don’t ...
• How can I reuse or upcycle trainer socks/glove ...
  About seven or eight years ago now, I had a bit of a thing for trainer socks/glove socks/foot socks — those socks that stop before your ankle so they almost disappear in trainers/sneakers — and bought quite a few pairs to wear for work. Now seven or eight years later, arrgh, I hate t ...
• How can I reuse, recycle or revamp a rucksack/ ...
  We’ve kinda covered this already but Janette has such a specific question that I thought it was worth looking at it again: I have a backpack I would like to recycle and reuse. I have the straps and the part that goes against our back but would like to change the rest of it with [...]
• How can I repair/revamp a stained cotton rug?
  I haven’t done a “repair this” for a while but this is something I’ve been wondering about for a few weeks now: how can I repair/revamp a stained rug? It’s a circular cotton rug with off-white (even before the stains!) and pale blue strips, and even though it was pr ...

Age of Autism

• Finn Family Immune Toll: H1N1 Vaccine and Narc ...
  By Adriana Gamondes Due to a “pandemic” of two children infected with a new strain of swine flu after exposure to pigs, the CDC is gearing up for the new swine flu, H3N2.. But then, buzz kill, it turns out...
• California Law Would Allow Vaccination of Mino ...
  ATTENTION California Parents! Tell Gov. Jerry Brown what you think about a law that will allow someone to give your 12 year old child Gardasil and other vaccines without your knowledge or consent. Read NVIC’s Urgent California Action Alert here....
• Brian Deer Tries to Cover His Tracks
  By Jake Crosby In trying to cover up the fact that he altered the original version of an article he authored for The Sunday Times, Brian Deer put the following claim beneath his article about Septrin, “The Pill That Killed,”...
• Get on the (MB12) Stick! revitaPOP is on GROUPON!
  Click here to see our friends at revitaPOP with a great deal on Groupon! Recent studies show that using nutritional supplements can maximize workouts, allowing exercisers to run the 40-yard dash in only 20 yards. Garner your fitness efforts with...
• MMR, the Murdochs and British Medical Journal: ...
  By John Stone BMJ editor, Fiona Godlee, is scheduled to give a presentation under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health in the Washington DC area on Tuesday renewing her and BMJ’s onslaught on the reputation of gastro-enterologist Andrew...

Global BDS Movement

• Map test
  View Global BDS Day of Action 2011 in a larger map
• BDS campaigners force Ahava shop to move
    The central London flagship store of Ahava, an Israeli cosmetics company whose products come from stolen Palestinian natural resources in the occupied West Bank, and are produced in the illegal settlement of Mitzpe Shalem, has been forced to move … Continue reading →
• Rawabi remains settler-colonial sub-contractor
  Uri Davis writes on the ongoing links between the Rawabi project and the Jewish National Fund.
• Stop the Wall release new report on Brazil’s m ...
  Notwithstanding its recent recognition of the Palestinian State and its long tradition of supporting Palestinian rights and upholding international law, the Brazilian government has signed contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars with Israel’s arms industry.
• Trade Unions
  The global trade union movement has consistently demonstrated its courage and commitment to human rights by adopting concrete, ground-breaking labour-led sanctions against oppressive regimes in a show of effective solidarity with oppressed peoples around the world. Adopting BDS measures has &#82 ...

Farm Wars

• The Great Gulf Coast Holocaust (Part 4)
  The current method for detecting oil and Corexit contamination in Gulf seafood is a simple sniff test, in which FDA inspectors hold a bag of fish up to their nose and if the inspector does not detect any “strange odors, the fish passes the food safety inspection test and is eligible to be proces ...
• Fukushima Now Radiating Everyone: ‘Unspeakable ...
  Exposing the "unspeakable" realities of the Japanese catastrophe in this 60 Minutes program Sunday night during which leading nuclear scientist Dr. Michio Kaku said radiation from Fukushima will impact of all of humanity. The nuclear energy power industry violation of the right to health is appa ...
• The Great Culling (Fluoride) by Paul Wittenber ...
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• Top Organics and Non-GMO Guys Back Monsanto an ...
  The Green PolkaDot Box, selling products with ties to Monsanto and Halliburton, is supported by Natural News, OCA, and Institute for Responsible Technology.
• Dead Men Walking – Update on Fukushima
  As I sit here thinking about Fukushima, I wonder what the people who caused this calamity to escalate into what, in essence, could very well be the final end game, are thinking. It seems clear that there is no running, and no hiding. Only a delay in the inevitability of an end to life as we know ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Raoul Moat’s brother criticises police s ...
  Guardian – Raoul Moat’s elder brother told an inquest he believes police made a mistake in not allowing him to speak to the fugitive gunman during a stand-off in which he died. Within days of Moat’s release from Durham prison in July last year, he shot and injured 22-year-old S ...
• Iran Cracks Down on Dissent
  Wall St Journal – Iran has raised pressure on activists and opposition members in the past two months in an apparent move to preempt antigovernment protests, as regional uprisings gained momentum in Syria and Libya, according to activists and human-rights organizations. The scope of the go ...
• Scuffles as Hosni Mubarak trial resumes in Egypt
  BBC – Riot police had to separate anti- and pro-Mubarak crowds outside the police academy courthouse where the trial was taking place. The 83-year-old is accused of ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising earlier this year which ended his rule. Read article
• US drone attacks kill 35 in S Somalia
  Press TV – US drone attacks have killed dozens of al-Shabab fighters in southern Somalia over the past 24 hours, Press TV reports. The attacks killed 35 al-Shabab fighters and destroyed stockpiles of heavy weapons in the city of Kismayu on Monday, the Press TV correspondent in Mogadishu re ...
• Four police dead after explosions in Chechnya-RIA
  Reuters – Four policemen were killed and five people wounded on Tuesday in a suicide attack in Chechnya’s capital Grozny during celebrations of the end of Ramadan, a police source told RIA news agency. RIA quoted an unidentified police official as saying that a man detonated an explo ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Shark fin soup one step closer to being banned ...
  The days of being able to order shark fin soup at California restaurants appear to be numbered. The state Senate on Tuesday voted 25-9 to ban the sale, trade and possession of shark fin, a key ingredient in the traditional...
• Keystone pipeline backers use anti-Saudi messa ...
  To the list of all the reasons why backers of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast want it to be built, add now the welfare of Saudi Arabian women. The pipeline, which would bring oil...
• Funds will help protect South Orange County wa ...
  Aliso Viejo was awarded more than $93,000 in waterway improvement funding last month from the Orange County Transportation Authority. The program funds projects to protect county waterways and beaches from pollution generated by transportation. Aliso Viejo plans to match the...
• Woman brings some green to her Huntington Beac ...
  Shirley Knopf still walks regularly past the school where she taught for 14 years. But this summer, she was starting to have trouble recognizing the front of it. Hawes Elementary School, where Knopf taught computer classes until 1997, had become...
• Helping apartment dwellers recycle
  Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield (D-Woodland Hills) has sponsored a bill requiring owners of buildings with five or more units to provide recycling services. He recently joined with representatives of organizations supporting the bill in a news conference at the Bella Vista...

water.org

• Twakeover Infographic
  From late July through August, Water.org ran a contest offering the winner to "take over" (twakeover) our @water Twitter account for one full week in September. Below is a pretty detailed overview of the campaign, the voting, and our lessons learned.
• Levi’s drive for Water.org via Facebook ...
  Levi’s Drive for Water.org via Facebook (New York Times) – Levi’s is adding a hue to its marketing efforts: Facebook blue. The purveyor of all things denim has teamed up with the social media giant on the next phase of its “Go Forth” campaign. On Tuesday, Levi’s will announce the campaign ...
• The @water Twakeover (Globe and Mail)
  New trend on Twitter: handing over your account (Globe and Mail) – This month the latest social media trend seems to be encouraging legitimate takeovers. The Water.org group (@water), which works with communities in developing countries to meet water and sanitation needs, will soon be hand ...
• Water.org will hand over its Twitter (Mashable)
  Water.org Will Hand Over Its Twitter Account to Contest Winner (Mashable) – Water.org is surrendering its Twitter account, @Water, for an entire week to the user who racks up the most votes on its site. To enter, you must be following @Water on Twitter. Then sign up to participate with a s ...
• Gary White talks water on MSNBC
  World faces a water crisis (MSNBC) – Gary White interviewed by Martin Bashir June 30, 2011 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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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

• 'Price tag' operations continue in WB
  Palestinian sources reported Friday evening that Birzeit residents discovered graffiti slogans in Hebrew sprayed over a wall at the local town mosque and on one of the exterior walls in Birzeit University, near Ramallah. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World  |   Note-it!  |& ...
• Oprah's Canadian Network Runs Tar Sands Ads
  "Ethical Oil," a front group for the oil industry's effort to build the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline from Canada, is airing ads exclusively on the Oprah Winfrey Network in Canada. See video. Submitted by Judy C. to Environment  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Middle Class Families vs. Big Banks
  Sign on now to call on the Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee to protect the interests of middle class families, to confirm a director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and to let the agency do its work. Sign E.Warren's petition. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Polit ...
• Palestinians launch UN campaign, Palestine Sta ...
  Palestinians this Thursday began a campaign in support of their UN membership bid, as their senior leaders met to fine-tune the plan to become the UN's 194th member state. Submitted by Elias Ayad to World  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
• Palestine - The Time is Now!
  The Palestinian bid for recognition is down to the wire -- and if we join forces in the next 72 hours we could get the crucial EU leadership --- France, Germany and the UK are still wavering --- needed to push it through. Submitted by Lynn Squance to World  |   Note-it! &n ...

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• United States: DOE Backs Solar Projects with N ...
  The Department of Energy (DOE) has made back to back announcements that combined will support the solar sector with loan guarantees that total nearly $500 million. read more
• Photon Energy Wins Major Naval Solar Power Con ...
  The United States Navy has selected Photon Finance LLC, Island Pacific Energy LLC, and Pacific Energy Solutions LLC for $500 million of solar development contracts. read more
• DOE Awards More Than $145 Million for Future S ...
  Solar roofing shingles. Image credit: Dow Chemical The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), under Energy Secretary Steven Chu, recently announced the awarding of more than $ ...
• DOE Lab Provides Extensive Dataset on Effects ...
  Image courtesy Conserve Energy Future.com The National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL, recently published extensive data on the effect of cloud cover on solar powe ...
• Canadian Solar Provides Panels for Germany's L ...
  Canadian Solar (Nasdaq: CSIQ), one of the world's largest global solar companies, has announced it has supplied the solar modules for Germany's largest solar power plant. read more

News Blaze

• Bomb Blast Rocks Indian Capital, 11 Dead 65 In ...
  New Delhi: At least 11 people were killed and 65 others injured in a blast explosion outside New Delhi's High Court Gate number 5 at 10:15AM in the Indian capital.
• Female Football Legend Promotes Women's Empowe ...
  Female Football Legend Marta Ends Two-day Visit to Sierra Leone Declaring 'When women succeed, we all win.'
• Michael Torchia Hosts Shape Up America Pavilio ...
  The pavilion will present two full days of fun health and fitness demonstrations for the entire family. Event highlights will include: Zumba, Hip Hop Kids, Self Defense Classes, Muay Thai Fighting Demos, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsue, Boxing, Kickboxing,
• Property Values Increase Statewide In California
  The value of county-assessed property increased by $5.3 billion (0.1 percent) to $4.297 trillion. The value of state-assessed property, mainly privately owned public utilities and railroads, totaled $85.3 billion, an increase of $6.3 billion
• Solectria Renewables Awarded $2.1M US Departme ...
  Solectria Renewables Awarded $2.1 Million U.S. Department of Energy

Worldnews

• Gold falls from record high to Rs 27,820 ...
  NEW DELHI: Gold lost Rs 930 to close at Rs 27,820 per 10 grams in the bullion market today due to profit- booking by stockists at existing high levels amid a weak global trend. Gold had touched an all-time high of...
• Inflation an offshoot of policies of deve ...
  NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday said high inflation in India is caused partly due to the unfavourable policies adopted by the developed countries in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. "Inflation challenge...
• Sir Alex Ferguson plans to stick around a ...
  Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson has said that he has no plans to retire, even though he turns 70 at the end of this year....
• Caroline Wozniacki sorry for Nadals cramp ...
  Danish tennis ace Caroline Wozniacki has said that she was not making fun of Rafael Nadal when she imitated the Spanish...
• Sir Alex Ferguson defends conduct of 'ent ...
  • Fans understand Real Madrid manager is 'fighting for them' • 'It's Mourinho's nature to be agitated,' says Ferguson Sir Alex Ferguson has defended José Mourinho, saying: 'I don't find anything wrong with his enthusiasm'. Photograph: Tom Jenkins...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embed ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any T ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cop ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• Savient Announces the Election of William F. O ...
  EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J., Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVNT) today announced that William F. Owen, Jr., M.D. and David Y. Norton have been elected to the Company's Board of Directors, effective September 1, 2011. "We believe that Bill and David bring...
• Quality of Life, Burnout, Educational Debt, an ...
  Context Physician distress is common and has been associated with negative effects on patient care. However, factors associated with resident distress and well-being have not been well described at a national level. Objectives To measure well-being in a national sample of internal medicine resi ...
• Tired? Feeling ratty? You could be running low ...
  A recent study revealed that you will recover from a cold 40 per cent quicker if you take zinc supplements. So, what other symptoms and ailments indicate a nutritional deficiency?
• Botox fixed my wonky walk: Why doctors are usi ...
  These injections don't just make wrinkles vanish, they can weaken overactive muscles and reduce the spasms.
• Vital Signs: Neonatal Deaths Slow, but U.S. St ...
  Researchers estimated that 3.3 million children under a month old died worldwide in 2009, down from 4.6 million in 1990. (Source: NYT Health)

Common Dreams

• Going Backwards: Tea Party, Fox News Viewers O ...
  WASHINGTON - While 10 years after the 9/11 Al- Qaeda attacks, most U.S. citizens say they respect diversity and the freedom of religion, they don't always apply those principles to Islam and immigrants, according to a survey released here Tuesday by two major think tanks. ...
• EU Bans Genetically Modified-Contaminated Hone ...
  The European Union's highest court on Tuesday ruled that honey which contains trace amounts of pollen from genetically modified (GM) corn must be labelled as GM produce and undergo full safety authorization before it can be sold as food. In what green groups are calling a "groundbreakin ...
• Palestinians Deploy Obama Speech in UN Stateho ...
  RAMALLAH, West Bank -- President Barack Obama is an unlikely participant in a Palestinian campaign to drum up support for a bid to win U.N. recognition of their statehood -- a diplomatic move opposed by both his administration and Israel. But as part of an official media campaign begun this week ...
• Despite Exploding Volcanoes, Iceland World's M ...
  REYKJAVIK -- When Johanna Sigurdardottir was sworn in as Iceland's head of government back in February 2009, she was described as the world's first openly gay prime minister. But in a country with progressive political views and liberal social mores, her sexual orientation was never cons ...
• Obama's Job Speech: Democrats Fear It’s Too Late
  President Obama’s new effort to revive the ailing economy may be too little, too late, according to Democrats and liberal policy experts. They contend that Obama missed his chance to turn the economy around by November 2012, but still want him to call on Congress to move an aggressive new ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• James Moore
• Neill Blomkamp
• Sarah Polley
• Jay Baruchel
• David Suzuki

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Red, white and blue UFO spott ...
  ExamineReligion: Red, white and blue UFO spotted along with orange orbs over Colorado http://t.co/rDRCTfb
• ExamineReligion: Sunset cruise on Sept. 19th h ...
  ExamineReligion: Sunset cruise on Sept. 19th http://t.co/K60wcYV
• ExamineReligion: Good for the enemy http://t.c ...
  ExamineReligion: Good for the enemy http://t.co/Wl8IUgU
• ExamineReligion: Mick Jagger 'paid it forward' ...
  ExamineReligion: Mick Jagger 'paid it forward' with Maroon 5; life is better when we help http://t.co/zFxxWSA
• ExamineReligion: We are all "Sons of Anarchy" ...
  ExamineReligion: We are all "Sons of Anarchy" http://t.co/skwQDIR

Energy Collective

• JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!
  We are less than two days out from President Barack Obama’s speech to a Joint Session of Congress and to the nation to outline proposals to help put Americans back to work. This speech could be a strident call for all-out measures to reinvigorate American employment, a more limited set of p ...
• The Market Sorted, Solyndra Lost
  President Obama Visiting
• Burden of Proof
  One delayer tactic is to demand "proof" of "global warming" before advocating "hugely expensive actions". (*)
• China Restarts Progress On Its Nuclear Energy ...
  Post-Fukushima safety checks are done, but the size of the new build will be smaller
• Why the Smart Grid Is Taking So Long
   The smart grid is coming. It…is…just…coming…very…slowly.

Green House - USA Today

• Climate change affects each U.S. state, Web to ...
  How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.
• What's in your child's car seat? Study finds t ...
  What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.
• U.S. cities require buildings to disclose ener ...
  Worried that the apartment you like could be an energy hog? Help is on the way as U.S. states and cities begin this year to require that commercial buildings measure and disclose their energy use.
• Study: Climate change imperils Himalayan glaciers
  Two of three Himalayan glaciers -- both in humid areas of eastern Nepal -- could disappear if present climate change patterns continue, a study predicts.
• Environmentalists cheer Obama's fuel economy hike
  President Obama's plan to double fuel efficiency standards for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025 received applause from environmentalists who had pressed for such action.

Prior Art

• With $4.5 Billion Bid, Group Led by Apple and ...
  HASH(0xa1dc540)
• Hangover Cure: Warner Bros. Settles Copyright ...
  HASH(0x4aa6940)
• This Week in IP: Apps, Tats, and Patent Reform ...
  HASH(0x5fdc098)
• App Backwards: Lodsys, Texas Troll, Targeted i ...
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• Supreme Court Rules Against Microsoft in i4i Case
  HASH(0x4a53730)

Peoples Voice

• Ian R. Crane Named Co-Defendant in Lawsuit Aga ...
  By Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference Suit Alleges Conspiracy to Commit Character Defamation/Assassination by Libel and Slander Ian R. Crane has recently been named a co-defendant in a $10 million lawsuit being filed by the Gulf Oil Spill Remediation Conference (GOSRC) against Deborah D ...
• How We See Capitalism-Imperialism's Ill Doings ...
  By Ziad Shaker elJishi The idea for this article began when a conversation ensued between a homeland security officer by the name of Diaz and a passenger detained at the airport for a two hour interrogation while returning from a 16 hour trip overseas. This situation has become common practice ...
• Whither Qaddafi and Libya?
  By Franklin Lamb The Strange Calm Over Tripoli The large gold framed portrait of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi that adorned the wall behind the reception desk of my hotel since it opened many years ago has vanished.  Also gone are the 72 green flags that flew on the white poles have also be ...
• Arab Authoritarian World is Changing But How ...
  By Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D Individualistic absolutism is an epidemic across the oil enriched Arab world and has its own flourishing history. Paradoxical as it appears, changing fortunes of time have brought the cruel monsters that have darkened the history of mankind and the victims face to ...
• THE SPARK OF LIFE IS LOVE / NOT THE HIGGS BOSON
  By Allen L Roland Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ) proton-proton collision in which two energetic electrons and two energetic muons, elementary particles similar to electrons, are observed—the type of event that the decay of a Higgs boson might produce, although there are other explanation ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• The Voice of Nunavut: Learning from the Easter ...
  In 1999, Nunavut was officially celebrated and regarded as a governance gem: a masterfully crafted work of public administration that would serve the Inuit in the best way. However, today, more than 10 years after its creation, although it has a government, policies and legislation in place whic ...
• The impact of rising tuition fees on Ontario f ...
  A new CCPA study finds that over the past two decades, Ontario's system of financing higher education has become more regressive, exploiting already over-stretched families who want to help their children pursue their educational aspirations. In 1990, a middle income family in Ontario could ear ...
• Next Up: Calling young leaders in Vancouver, E ...
  Next Up taking applications for 2011/12 programs in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Saskatoon Next Up -- A leadership program for young people committed to social and environmental justice Next Up is an amazing, intensive and transformative program for young social change activists between th ...
• CCPA statement at the passing of Jack Layton
  We are all heartbroken at the passing of Jack Layton. On behalf of the staff and Board of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, our deepest condolences, love and support to Olivia and family, and to his NDP family. An inspirational leader, he carried the hopes and dreams of all of us in ...
• Inequality Bad for Business
  CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes how the business establishment is growing concerned about income inequality in Canada in this Canada Business article. Read the article here.

World Wide Hippies

• Are Today’s Children Getting The Nurturi ...
  By EARLAND LILLY, WWH – Most of you will remember that I think the worse thing civilizations have done down through the ages is to not just affirm but TO LEAD WITH our Nurturing or ,more Feminine or Gentle Side of our human personality. That I think remains the core of broken marriages, lo ...
• And If You Order Right Now…
  By Phil Polizatto, WWH – I had a quote thrown at me this week. It hurt. But just for a little while. It was from Karl Marx’s Preface to A Critique of Political Economy: “Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.” What? Say it isn’t so, Karl! I like you. You were [...]
• 1.2.3…. Scatter!!!
  By Ed Croft, WWH – I have been railing over the past few years about the wars that we have mired ourselves in. I kept asking, “Where is Country Joe and the Fish?”, “Where is Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young?”, “Where were the college protests?”, “Where was the Weather Underground?”. You get ...
• Help US keep up the ‘Howl’ for Pea ...
  “MoonBeams in a Jar”    Amulets – exclusively for Worldwide Hippies on the Web. Hand Made – Dichroic glass is beads (in a lab tempered glass Amulet) containing multiple micro-layers of metals or oxides which give the glass dichroic optical properties. The main characteris ...
• Boomers go bust over kids
  smh.com.au – With Gen Y staying at home well into their 20s, it’s proving expensive for the parents paying the bills. The expression ”you have to be cruel to be kind” could not be more appropriate than for the growing number of ”kids” still living at home with ...

FourWinds10

• SYNTHETIC SEA -- OCEANS OF PLASTIC
• Military Debris Threaten Oceans
  BANGALORE, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) - Military debris dumped into the world’s oceans are hazardous to coral ecosystems, reefs, fish and marine wildlife, say experts, who also warn - in light of the recent tragedy in Japan - that earthquakes and tsunamis could disturb this debris and even wash it ...
• Ocean Garbage: Floating Landmines
  No matter where you travel on the Canada's West Coast, no matter how remote or seemingly untrammelled and pristine the fiord or inlet, a piece of plastic, Styrofoam or other garbage has been there before you. God knows how it got there: Dumped recklessly off a vessel, swept down a river or throu ...
• Fight Against Marine Garbage Runs Into Plastic ...
  HONOLULU, Hawaii, U.S., Mar 28, 2011 (IPS) - Every day, billions of plastic bags and bottles are discarded, and every day, millions of these become plastic pollution, fouling the oceans and endangering marine life. No one wants this, but there is wide disagreement about how to stop it. "Eve ...
• Florida spring breakers find the oil (VIDEO)

Crisis Maven

• Updated Statistical, Economic and Historical R ...
  We have updated our References section and, for the first time, also published our References ordered by Subjects – probably the most comprehensive trove on Statistical, Economic, Monetary and Historical Data etc. … References by Subject References – General and Applied Statistics Re ...
• Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
  When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
• Why Our Future Must Be Solar As Our Past Once Was
  When you put a pot on the hot plate on your stove and switch on the heat – do you not expect the pot to get hot? When you add energy on the earth’s surface to what the sun and geothermal influences already provide would you not expect the earth respectively the atmosphere to get [...]
• Update: Greenpeace measures Caesium 40 miles f ...
  … and hence in areas not yet evacuated though they should obviously have been. Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace team See also: Call for further evacuation around Fukushima Now, if nothing should happen, those within these areas and of course also further beyond, even in adjacent ...
• How to protect your garden patch or field agai ...
  Do you own a garden, a patch of land, a field where you plant, esp. for human food or animal feed? Then you should prepare against letting the radioactive fall-out from Japan into your soil, where it will remain and contaminate your plants and e.g. livestock for probably decades. Here’s th ...

Capital Flow Analysis

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

R-Squared Energy Blog

• Reality Settling in at the White House
  Join the forum discussion on this post Hug the Green Industry, Kill Big Oil When Barack Obama was campaigning for president, I thought he displayed a “comic book” view of the energy industry: Lots of stereotypes of the good guys and the bad guys. He would support the good guys (th ...
• Investor Interest in U.S. Biofuel Production S ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post I just finished writing the 4th chapter in my book tonight. This chapter was a primer on renewable energy, covering biomass, hydropower, wind, solar, geothermal, and ocean energy technologies. Interesting tidbit from this chapter: The world’s largest ...
• Book and Travel Update, and Some Interesting S ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post Book Update I have mentioned it on here a couple of times, but I am under contract to deliver a book on energy by the end of this year. I initially had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to write, but that has evolved a bit as [...]
• The Battle for Libya’s Post-Gadhaffi Soul (and ...
  Join the forum discussion on this post As hostilities in Libya wind down, one thing is clear: A number of nations will jockey for access to Libya’s oil. It happened in Iraq, where ironically the U.S. was shut out as Russia, China, and France won bids to develop Iraq’s fields. The ne ...
• Keeping Michele Bachmann Honest on Gas Prices
  Join the forum discussion on this post The Promise: Gas Below $2 a Gallon Like many of you, I am often unhappy with our political leaders. One thing that annoys me the most is that many will say or do just about anything to get elected. By now, you have surely heard the news that Republican ...

Discovery Educator Network

• DocsPal - Free online file Converter and Viewer
  Tags: converter, pdf, tools, web2.0, docspal, wordby: Dean Mantz
• Authors Speaking
  Comments:Here is another site for finding authors to visit with your students virtually. - Dean MantzTags: authors, speaking, bookclubs, Skypeby: Dean Mantz
• National Engineers Week Future City Competition™
  Comments:Educators are encouraged to use this site allowing for students to take on the role of an engineer and develop their own virtual city. - Dean MantzTags: engineers, competition, futurecity, education, STEMby: Dean Mantz
• iMovies in Education
  Comments:Teachers using digital video, in particular iMovie, have provided an abundance of anecdotal evidence for encouraging individual expression, spawning creativity, revitalizing content, promoting collective knowledge construction and individual reflection, and offering students of a varie ...
• Word Dynamo - Free Study Guides, Quizzes, Game ...
  Comments:Expand vocabulary at all levels through a series of games and flashcards. No cost. Must create an account to save your work. - Robin TalkowskiTags: flashcards, vocabularyby: Robin Talkowski

Rodale News

• The InGREENspirational 7!
  "Meet amazing people. Learn cool stuff. And have lots of fun along the way." read more
• Farmer's Markets Innovations Make Healthy Food ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—There's often a throwback feel to farmer's markets, where you can seek out the same heirloom vegetable varieties your great-grandmother adored. Old-school, heritage-breed chicken eggs? Yep, a true farmer's market probably offers them. And while the farmer's market is a p ...
• The Nickel Pincher: DIY Wedding Favor Ideas
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—At the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the guests all left with luxurious wool scarves, sporting the Union Jack in various colorful prints, that cost about $75 each. Chances are, you haven't budgeted that amount of money into your next soiree. And do ...
• Where Dunkin' Donuts Egg Sandwiches Come From
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Dunkin' Donuts may be the king of coffee in America, but the company also sells tons of egg sandwiches to enjoy with its java. read more
• Purple Potatoes: Your New Blood Pressure Medicine
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Want to lose weight and lower your blood pressure? read more

big think

• Is Fundamental Physics too Theory-led?
  What's the Latest Development? To some the Large Hadron Collider is a disproportionate investment of time, money and expertise. But Jon Butterworth says it is genuinely exploring new territory for whatever might be there. The energy frontier remains a frontier of knowledge.  ...
• Wednesday Whatzits: Katla Update, Cleveland he ...
  After a little (ahem) confusion this morning, we're back on track (for now). A few quick hits for a grey Ohio morning: Iceland: The news from Katla hasn't changed much since I updated the post yesterday evening. Seems like the prevailing idea is meltwater from within the caldera percolated ...
• How to be Smart with Hurricane Preparation
  What's the Latest Development? If we can expect that cities like New York will be exposed to more frequent and intense hurricanes in the future, how can they be made more resilient? What if GPS, Wi-Fi and mobile technology were completely ubiquitous in all parts of the city, including ...
• Move...delayed!
  Well, the cat is out of the bag - Eruptions will be moving. However, the move has been delayed for a number of reasons until next week. Sorry about that announcement post (which I forgot was set to automatically post), but Eruptions will be here at Big Think for awhile longer. Look for the real ...
• Risk of Rover Infecting Mars with our Germs
  What's the Latest Development? Though the idea of 'infecting' Mars with our germs is nothing new, one microbiologist believes the next Mars rover may have a higher chance of becoming a microbe lifeboat.Andrew C. Schuerger's tests on models of the Mars Science Laboratory's (known as "Curios ...

Information Liberation

• Belarus Struggles With Meat Shortage as Russia ...
  Belarus*s supermarkets are running out of meat as Russians take advantage of a currency crisis that a devaluation and the world*s highest borrowing costs have failed to stem. *All meat has gone to Russia,* Alexander Andreyevich, an 82-year-old fo...
• NJ Bullying Law Gives Students Anonymous Hot L ...
  Recently, eighth grader Derek Lopez was executed by a police officer for "scaring" the cop. The cop felt it was his place to stop the boy from bullying a fellow student, the student said the scuffle between the two boys was "nothing," yet the cop in...
• Caught Red Handed: Police Swear Man They Shot ...
  This video is unbelievable. Police in unmarked cars surround a man with their vehicles and ram into him, then get out and shoot him in a scene reminiscent of a mafia style hit. The cops in this case lied about everything. They claimed the man ramm...
• Calif. bill entitles babysitters to workers co ...
  From The Union: How will parents react when they find out they will be expected to provide workers' compensation benefits, rest and meal breaks and paid vacation time for*babysitters? Dinner and a movie night may soon become much more complicated. ...
• "First they came for the lemonade stands..."
  I thought this was quite an apropos comment on the Gibson Guitar raid. First they came for the lemonade stand, and I didn't say anything, because I didn't have a lemonade stand. Then they came for the organic foods and raw milk, and I didn't say an...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Spending More Than We Earn
  I’m sure you’re growing a little weary of the farce that Australian politics has become this last week. I’ll keep the previous thread going, with updates as they occur. If, as I suspect, moves begin in Cabinet against Gillard, I’ll … Continue reading →
• Parliament On A Knife Edge Part III – Ju ...
  I said the other day that the Thomson scandal threatened to blow up into Australia’s Watergate. Boy, I wasn’t wrong! The muck is being piled higher and higher. Now it’s reached the person of Julia Gillard herself. OK, first a … Continue reading →
• Parliament On A Knife Edge Part II: End This N ...
  Since I posted my previous thread on this subject four weeks ago, things have gone from the sublime to the ridiculous. The rather tawdry scandal involving Craig Thomson, Labor MHR for the seat of Dobell in New South Wales, has … Continue reading →
• Playing The Race Card Part II: Anarchy In The UK
  What do you make of the riots happening in many British cities? I’ve read with some interest the discussion on GE’s blog, although I personally believe the emphasis on race is misplaced. I’m just returned from a week on the … Continue reading →
• Now Reap The Whirlwind
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average today closed down 512 points—the biggest one-day fall since the 2008 financial crisis—in the wake of the stitched-up deal hammered out in the U.S. Congress on raising the debt ceiling. Carnage is expected today on … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• Are herbal remedies medicines?
  If herbal medicines are truly physiologically active, regardless of whether multiple ingredients are deemed necessary for efficacy, they should be assessed as medical products. The producers of such products should be able to offer evidence to prove this is the case and to offer safety advice re ...
• Rare diseases and rarer treatments
  R&D into new pharmaceuticals has improved quality of life and boosted life expectancy significantly since the very first physician told a patient to take two aspirin. Despite the doom-mongering about antibiotic resistant superbugs and the emergence of new diseases, such swine flu, vaccinatio ...
• Herbal remedy help or hindrance?
  Herbal remedy help or hindrance? – The safety issues surrounding so-called herbal remedies have been called into question again and again. However, new regulations aimed at protecting consumers will not encompass all products in the way legislators and scientists might have hoped, as some ...
• Not slippery when wet
  Not slippery when wet – Can our pruney bath fingers help us make safer tyres? Car tyres have rain treads. Shoes have rain treads. So, why don’t animals have rain treads? Here evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi – and author of the new book having nothing whatever to do wi ...
• Catching up with The Alchemist
  Catching up with The Alchemist – Ancient oxygen levels were higher than The Alchemist thought, but they existed in submarine oxygen oases rather than in the atmosphere. We also learn this week that a sweet solution to modulating pharmaceutical activity is possible, that micro-onions could ...

RFF Library

• Regulation, Unemployment, and Cost-Benefit Ana ...
  Virginia Law Review via SSRN / by Jonathan S. Masur and Eric A. Posner http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1920441 [Abstract] Regulatory agencies take account of the potential unemployment effects of proposed regulations in an ad hoc, theoretically incorrect way. Current practice ...
• Waste Opportunities — Past and Future Climate ...
  European Environment Agency http://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/big-potential-of-cutting-greenhouse [From Website] Using a life-cycle perspective, this report analyses the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from municipal solid waste management in the EU, plus Norway and Switzerland…Three diff ...
• Measuring Regional Environmental Efficiency: A ...
  University of Thessally / by George  Halkos and Nickolaos Tzeremes http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32934/ [Abstract] This paper by applying a directional distance function approach measures the UK regions’ municipality waste performance. In addition the paper constructs conditional stochastic ker ...
• The Environmental, Social and Economic Assessm ...
  UN Environment Programme http://www.unep.org/PDF/PressReleases/Rhino_Ark_Main_Report.pdf [From Environmental Valuation and Cost Benefit News]  [The report] attributes improved forest cover, safer living conditions for local communities and greater security for wildlife to the fence, which was co ...
• Influences on the Low Carbon Car Market from 2 ...
  Element Energy for Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (UK) http://bit.ly/mXLdMq [Green Car Congress post]  An analysis of future vehicle total costs of ownership (TCO) in the UK found that low carbon cars can make substantial progress in bridging the current cost gap by 2030 [but will still require ...

Scientific American - News

• Commemorative Calculus: How an Algorithm Helpe ...
  At first glance--and even after deep scrutiny--the names on a new memorial to those killed on September 11, 2001, seem randomly arrayed. The names are not arranged alphabetically nor, for the most part, are they presented in labeled groups. But the memorial's layout is anything but random. [Mo ...
• Jumpy Stars Slow the Hunt for Other Earths
  The Kepler spacecraft has hit an unexpected obstacle as it patiently watches the heavens for exoplanets: too many rowdy young stars. The orbiting probe detects small dips in the brightness of a star that occur when a planet crosses its face. But an analysis of some 2,500 of the tens of thous ...
• NASA Unveils New Detailed Photos of Apollo Moo ...
  New photos of several Apollo moon landing sites were released today (Sept. 6), showing extraordinary new details about three areas on the lunar surface that were visited by humans. The images include the sharpest views yet of tracks left by the astronauts and their lunar rovers."The ima ...
• Electrified Bacterial Filaments Remove Uranium ...
  From Nature magazine. Hair-like filaments called pili enable some bacteria to remove uranium from contaminated groundwater. The discovery, published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , could aid in the development of radioactivity clean-up technologies. [More] ...
• Human Ancestors Interbred with Related Species
  From Nature magazine. Our ancestors bred with other species in the Homo genus, according to a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The authors say that up to 2% of the genomes of some modern African populations may originally came from a closely ...

First Truths

• The irreducible subjectivity of economic pheno ...
  A private, group email correspondence with a number of C4SS colleagues yielding the following pithy comment: > Can catastrophe force behavior that mimics > a lowering of time preference, resulting in> long-term quantitative reduction of cost or> increase in profit/savings? No ...
• Saul Newman on Zerzan, Bookchin, and Postmoder ...
  From Saul Newman's The Politics of Postanarchism: Yet, these two thinkers [i.e., Zerzan and Bookchin] have more in common than it may appear: they both hang on to the Enlightenment desire for social fullness. That is, the idea of a rational social harmony and the overcoming of alienation. Bookch ...
• The Cost Principle and the Sovereignty Principle
  Benjamin Tucker, from Liberty, Vol. V.—No. 12.:It does not follow, because I have the right, and every other man has the right to the products of his labor and to the liberty of retaining them forever in his own hands, that it is, therefore, either right or best that all men should retain all ...
• "[A]narchism is the usher of science"
  From Albert R. Parsons, husband of Lucy Parsons: The philosophy of anarchism is included in the one word "Liberty;" yet it is comprehensive enough to include all things else. No barriers whatever to human progression, to thought, or investigation, are placed by anarchism; nothing is considered s ...
• Carson on NATO
  In a private email, Kevin Carson offers an accurate summary of NATO's role within the framework of empire: Just give it a few years -- they'll be readjusting the boundaries of this "mutual defense pact" eastward and southward until they include Japan and Angola. Maybe Venezuela as well. And righ ...

Media Co-Op

• Justice for Levi Campaign Update
  Family seeks justice for a man killed by Ontario Police From September 7-9th, the family and supporters of Levi Schaffer, a man killed by Ontario Provincial Police officers in 2009, will be at the Ontario Court of Appeal in Toronto, fightin ...
• Workers on Labour Day
  'Capitalism isn't working for Workers', but workers are rallying for change. The September 5th 2011 Labour Day march, rally and BBQ brought hundreds of people throughout the day to the South Commons in Halifax.  The annu ...
• Report Recommends Repression to Reign in Canuc ...
  The official report on the June 15 Canuck's Riot was released on Sept. 1, with the odd title “The Night the City Became a Stadium.” Costing more than $313,000, the report was co-written by Douglas Keefe, a former deputy minister in Nova Scotia, and John Furlong, former head of th ...
• No One Arrested at Keystone XL Protest in Halifax.
  HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA - On Friday, September 2nd, approximately 20 protestors showed up in front of the US consulate's office, located in Purdy's Wharf, Tower II. The protestors were there to show solidarity with their American coun ...
• Top Picks at the Vancouver Latin American Film ...
  There's still another week left in the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival.  Yesterday, I ended up watching the Venezuelan film Hermano, and it might just be the best dramatic feature I've seen this year. If you have t ...

David Seaton's News Links

• Will this all end with a bang or a whimper?
  David Seaton's News Links  U.S. corporate profits and efficiency are getting absurd. On Friday we saw record quarterly profits of $1,450 billion, making up a record share of GDP at 10.1%. We're also at record corporate efficiency of $15,278.72 -- up 22.3% from last year (...). That last one ...
• From Utoya Island to Capitol Hill
  David Seaton's News LinksDefinition of DECLASSTransitive verb: to remove from a class; especially to assign to a lower social status It is ridiculed by poets and libertines; idolized by moralists; the target of speeches by politicians, popes and all others who climb into the pulpit to recruit vo ...
• Norway: a taste of the magma
  David Seaton's News LinksMagma (from Greek μάγμα "paste") is a mixture of molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and may also exist on other terrestrial planets. Wikipedia The Norwegian right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed at least 7 ...
• A tribute to Amy Winehouse
  This is a reprint of something I wrote in July of 2008: I admit that I had thought that Amy Winehouse was just another one of the media grotesques, a sort of Paris Hilton with a beat. I thought that her big hit "Rehab" was a catchy update of the Stax/Atlantic sound, sung in blackface. I san ...
• Somalia Famine
  David Seaton's News Links According to the UN, more than six out of every 10,000 people are dying of hunger every day in some parts of the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of Somalia, with more than half the children there suffering from acute malnutrition. This is far above the normal fami ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• Republicans are Lunatics and Nobody Cares, Par ...
  Jared Bernstein notes that if he's elected president, Mitt Romney has promised to "immediately move to cut spending and cap it at 20 percent of GDP." That's crazy with the economy so sluggish, but in fact, it's even crazier than that. Here are budget projections for 2013 from the OMB: Medic ...
• The Upside of Being a Lunatic
  Sen. Richard Shelby (R–Fuhgeddaboutit) says he's mighty impressed by Richard Cordray, President Obama's pick to head up the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Jon Cohn explains what this means in real life: So is Cordray on track for confirmation? Of course not. As Shelby made ...
• Quote of the Century: Mitt Romney on the Middl ...
  From Mitt Romney, explaining step 3 of his 59-step plan to get to get America back to work: You know, of course, Greta, who has been most hurt by the Obama economy. And it's people in middle incomes. And so what I want to do is lower taxes for middle-income Americans. And so I will remov ...
• Obama to Maliki: Put Up or Shut Up
  The New York Times has apparently confirmed a Fox News report that President Obama plans to withdraw almost completely from Iraq at year's end: Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta is supporting a plan that would keep 3,000 to 4,000 American troops in Iraq after a deadline for their withdrawal ...
• A Job is a Job is a Job
  Last week I defended Republican governors from charges of hypocrisy for accepting federal funding even though they may have opposed the law that enabled the funding in the first place. Whether you oppose a program or not, once it's passed into law and your state's taxpayers are helping pay for ...

Insanity Report

• FacePalm of the Week: Romney Can’t Be This Stupid
  I consider Mitt Rommey a moderate Republican.  I consider him to be pretty reasonable.  The problem is, moderate Republicans seem to be hated by the rest of their party.  So with Romney having Presidential aspirations, he’s going to have to find some way to shake his “moderate” ...
• Jimmy Hoffa’s Comments Piss Off the Tea Party
  So I wake up this morning and because I had to go into the office, I decided to prepare myself properly for the level of fuckery by watching Morning Joe.  People ask me all the time why I watch shows like this and I always respond “Because I don’t drink Coffee.”  Morning Joe usually provides [.. ...
• IC 268: On Some Real N@#ga Shit
  Topics: Followup on Dylan’s Strawberry Letter The new Strawberry Letter segment Beyonce’s career is apparently over cause she’s pregnant The worst Lil Wayne lyrics on the Carter IV Kriss & Dylan are exposed to “Real Nigga Shit” by 2 white girls, Kreayshawn &#03 ...
• Random Thoughts: Kreayshawn & V-Nasty
  I’ve heard the name “Kreayshawn” before but I wasn’t really sure what exactly what it was.  Then I saw this picture from the VMAs and was reminded why I don’t watch the VMAs: Kreayshawn looks like Amy Whinehouse if Whinehouse had been addicted to STDs instead of drugs.  Rod from the Black Guy Wh ...
• State Trooper “Gets it in” on the Hood of a Car
  These type of segments on CNN typically annoy me but this one was actually kind of funny. I actually feel bad for the cop. It’s probably his girlfriend/wife and they wanted to “spruce up” their sex life and where better to do it than outside in front of an abandoned ranch in th ...

Simple Climate

• Tension simmers over climate link to plant growth
  Two separate groups have criticised how Maosheng Zhao and Steven Running from the University of Montana, Missoula worked out that plants are growing more slowly due to large-scale droughts from satellite data – but Zhao and Running say these do not impact the overall conclusions.
• Climate cycles drive civil wars
  Countries affected by El Niño are twice as likely to have internal conflict during the warmer part of the cycle than the cold, say Mark Cane and colleagues at Columbia University.
• Climate change gets nature moving
  Our warming planet is driving species away from the Equator towards cooler climes at the poles at 17.6 kilometres per decade, find Chris Thomas from the University of York, UK, and his colleagues, up to three times as fast as previously thought.
• More turtles could become fish supper with warming
  By collecting baby green turtles and clothing them in “swimming vests”, University of Queensland's David Booth and Andrew Evans have showed that higher temperatures reduce their swimming ability, making it more likely they'll be eaten as they enter the sea.
• Climate controls must cover gases other than CO2
  Combining controls on emissions of less well-known greenhouse gases with CO2 limits would slow warming more rapidly, say Jim Butler of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and colleagues.

e!Science News

• Pain relief can now be based on solid evidence
  A Cochrane Review of data relating to about 45,000 patients involved in approximately 350 individual studies has provided an evaluation of the effect you can expect to get if you take commonly used painkillers at specific doses. The review also identifies pain killers for which there is only poo ...
• Micronutrient powders reduce anemia and iron d ...
  Adding a powder that contains several vitamins and minerals, including iron, zinc and vitamin A, to the semi-solid foods taken by infants and children between six months and two years of age, can reduce their risk of anemia and iron deficiency. This is the conclusion of a new Cochrane Systematic ...
• Virtual reality may help adults recover from s ...
  Early results suggest that using virtual reality (VR) human-computer interfaces might help adult stroke patients regain arm function and improve their ability to perform standard tasks, when compared to patients who don't use VR. The findings are reported in a new review published in The Cochran ...
• Proceed with caution when setting up financial ...
  There is growing use of financial incentives in many countries to reward primary care practitioners who improve the quality of their services. After reviewing all available data in a Cochrane Systematic Review, a team of researchers found insufficient evidence to either support or refute the pra ...
• Many adverse drug reactions among hospital and ...
  Many cases of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) seen in hospital and emergency care could be prevented, says a new study presented at the annual conference of the International Pharmaceutical federation (FIP) on September 8 . The researchers who carried out the study say that the finding that preven ...

unEarthed

• Only 60 days for New York’s fracking review??
  That’ll go by faster than you can say ‘flaming faucets’ Next week, New York State is planning to release a 1,000+ page document that could guide how the controve ...
• We Are Acting On Smog Rules Even If Obama Won't
  Today's failure by Obama illustrates why Earthjustice is in court President Barack Obama This morning, the President tried to yank the rug out from under ...
• President Bush -- er, Obama -- Keeps Weak Ozon ...
  Obama administration pushes ozone health protection reconsideration to 2013 Weak Bush-era ozone health standards will be maintained by the Obama administration. ...
• Friday Finds: Daryl Hannah Gets Her Hands Dirty
  Cancerous ink, climate change craziness, industry schooling Daryl Hannah. Photo courtesy of guano Daryl Hannah faces off against tar sands pipeline She may ...
• Tr-Ash Talk: Rebellion Against Coal Ash in Ill ...
  Joliet residents protest outside congressman’s office Residents protest outside Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger's office.. Illinois has the dubious distinction ...

Brave New Climate

• Civil disorder and nuclear power
  Nuclear fission, like any other energy source, carries benefits and risks. In discussion on future deployment of different sustainable energy sources, the commentary in this blog has placed a lot of emphasis on the rational weighting of factors such as: (i) lives lost per unit of energy delivere ...
• What is your energy philosophy?
  People seem to like to infer motives. (Perhaps it’s an inherent evolutionary trait, allowing anticipation of your prey’s or predator’s next move?) I find that a lot of people get me wrong about my position on energy and sustainability — often deliberately so, I suspect. S ...
• Open Thread 18
  The previous Open Thread has gone past 550 comments, so it’s time for a fresh palette. The Open Thread is a general discussion forum, where you can talk about whatever you like — there is nothing ‘off topic’ here — within reason. So get up on your soap box! The standard commenting rules of ...
• Risk perception – of fans and fission re ...
  Guest Post by Craig Schumacher. Craig has been commenting on nuclear power themed websites for about five years and has published his own blog, Channelling the Strong Force, since 2008. He formed the nuclear power advocacy organisation, Nucleus 92 Inc., in 2009. He is a regular commenter on this ...
• Nuclear risk insurance
  Guest Post by Luke Weston. Luke is a Melbourne-based physicist and occasional freelance electronic engineer, with a strong interest in educating the community about nuclear energy and related issues. It is often said by the anti-nuclearists that the commercial nuclear energy industry “can& ...

Indigenist Opinion

• Horace Campbell: Magnus Malan and Crimes Again ...
  Horace Campbell: Magnus Malan and Crimes Against Humanity in Africa: General Magnus Malan, the chief architect of the total onslaught of the apartheid military, passed away on 18 July 2011. This total onslaught strategy was the idea that South Africa was threatened by a communist conspiracy and ...
• Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and A ...
  Andrea Smith: Conquest - Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide: Native American scholar/activist Andrea Smith spoke on the topic of her new book, "Conquest:Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide." Smith was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is a member of INCITE! Women ...
• The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake A ...
  The Library Channel Presents Gerald Taiaiake Alfred: Resurgence of Traditional Ways of Being : ASU Libraries: , Recorded March 23, 2009 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, University of Victoria Professor of Indigenous Governance Gerald Taiaiake Alfred talks about the "Resurgence of Tradition ...
• Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gad ...
  Leaked cable: Sen. McCain promised to help Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware : Deadline Live With Jack Blood: By Stephen C. Webster Wednesday, August 24th, 2011 — 12:27 pm Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) promised to help former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi obtain U.S. military hardware as ...
• The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Mon ...
  The Lockerbie Case: Lockerbie: Romney, the Monroe Doctrine and justice denied?: A hundred years ago [RB: actually eighty] a legal case in Scotland swept across the world establishing her legal system in the front row of jurisprudence in the world. [Donoghue v Stevenson] Scots Law was all grown u ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Dear Senator Rubio – Go Fuck Yourself
  We no longer need to wonder what Republicans dream of at night. It seems their only goal in life is to make sure seniors live out their golden years scared to death. Scared, no knowing how their medications will be paid for, or how they will eat, or heat their homes. Pulling their “safety ...
• GOP Sabotage Anyone?
  So what are the Republicans planning to make sure President Obama isn’t able to create ANY jobs? One has to wonder.
• Class War Update The Rich Killed 50,000 Americ ...
  Over 50,000 Americans died last year because they couldn’t afford a doctor, or medications. They are the victims of the class war. You know, the class war where the rich are killing us for “corporate profits” or worse. I guess turning a profit on your portfolio is far more impo ...
• Dick Cheney On Tour!
  Prepare yourselves folks. Dick Cheney is attempting to stimulate sales of his “book” by going on a tour. What shall we call it? How about the “I lied about WMD’s and tortured people” book tour. Coming to an alternate universe embracing media pundit near you. Why is ...
• Say it Joe. Republicans are Terrorists
  Unfortunately I have way too much credit card debt, and some credit lines too. I was terrorized by the fact that if the tea party traitors were able to force us to default on our debt, my interest rates, and payments would be going up. This could wipe me out. Yes Joe, they were terrorizing [...]

Appalachia Rising

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

Amped Status

• The Richest 0.1% Have Launched A War On Us &#8 ...
  We have endured financial oppression for long enough. In a time of national crisis and shared sacrifice, the richest one-tenth of one percent of the population cannot continue on their merry way, living in obscene wealth and detached from reality, while the majority of the population desperately ...
• Full-Blown Civil War Erupts On Wall Street: As ...
  Finally, after trillions in fraudulent activity, trillions in bailouts, trillions in printed money, billions in political bribing and billions in bonuses, the criminal cartel members on Wall Street are beginning to get what they deserve. As the financial elite start turning on each other, the la ...
• Extreme Weather Roundup: Severe Flooding To Hi ...
  Tropical storm Lee threatens severe flooding in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi | Vermonters shocked by Irene’s destruction | 80% of Texas in "exceptional" drought | Vast ice island set to break off Greenland glacier | New leak near Deepwater Horizon site quickly becoming ...
• Federal Reserve Policy + Extreme Weather = Rev ...
  By David DeGraw Federal Reserve policy mixed with extreme weather has put the world on a fast track to revolution and war. Here's why the Fed cannot get away with another round of Quantitative Easing. [Read More]
• Open Letter to Warren Buffett: Put Your Money ...
  By David DeGraw If you are truly sick and tried of the "mega-rich" being "coddled" by a "billionaire-friendly Congress," as you said in your recent NY Times editorial, why don't you back up your words with some real action and put your money where your mouth is? [Read More]

+972

• A few remarks on the Palmer report
  Why does Israel still refuse to show us the full footage from the Mavi Marmara? Perhaps because it knows what we’ll see Last weekend saw the release of the Palmer Report (which can be read here – a PDF file) dealing the Flotilla incident and the assault on the Mavi Marmara last year. To make a [...]
• Suspected settler attack on IDF base
  Haaretz is reporting that ‘unknown assailants’ infiltrated an Israeli military base near Binyamin in the occupied West Bank. The assailants then snuck into the mechanics area of the base and slashed the tires and cut cables of 12 military jeeps. The assailants spray painted the words “price tag” ...
• Joint Palestinian-Israeli statement supporting ...
  By Haggai Matar A large group of left-wing Palestinian and Israeli parties, unions and civil society groups has issued an unprecedented joint statement in support of the Israeli struggle for social justice. The group demands unity in the struggle against occupation and racism. For the first time ...
• September journey interlude: A serious obstacle
  Staying on the road in Israel and the Palestinian territories during a month of trial, and today: political developments being the journey to a screeching halt. A week into September, the journey faces a peril. My idea was to describe the developments of a potentially dramatic month by way of t ...
• New book explores Israel’s military cour ...
  The Israeli military legal system  is one of the most under reported yet crucial components of Israel’s system of control over Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Since 1967, Israel has controlled the entire area of the West Bank using two forms of legal enforcement based on two different le ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Gillard Government invests to boost water eff ...
  The Gillard Government will be investing $845 million in the 2011-12 Budget to deliver water infrastructure projects and manage water sustainably in communities across Australia.
• Australia continues to lead the way in Antarc ...
  Australia's position as a world leader in Antarctic research will be backed by $28.3 million in the 2011-12 Budget, Environment Minister, Tony Burke announced today.
• Official opening of the Woodcroft Community C ...
  Woodcroft Community Centre has been transformed into a groundbreaking green hub through the Australian Government's Green Precincts Fund.
• $300,000 Fellowship to sequence Antarctic Kri ...
  The genome of one of the most successful species on Earth, Antarctic Krill, will be sequenced for the first time thanks to a new Gillard Government $300,000 Antarctic Science Fellowship.
• Farmers helping to protect endangered ecologi ...
  Farmers in New South Wales and South Australia will receive support from the Gillard Government for vital work protecting five endangered ecological communities on 19,474 hectares of privately managed land.

Matt Weidner Blog

• Robo Signing And Desecration of Our Courts- Th ...
  You would have thought the banksters would have gotten the message…they were after all given a total pass.  Not even a slap on the wrist, it was just a collective dodge….they were permitted to moonwalk away from the crime scenes. Did they learn any lesson?  You bet, the lesson is we ...
• Fraudclosure in Florida, A Survey and The Cris ...
  Florida was well into the acute phase of the foreclosure crisis during the dark days of fall 2008 when Bush and Paulson wrote the blank checks that bailed out the banks, Wall Street institutions and the criminals that brought our country to the brink of economic Armageddon.  Bush wrote the check ...
• BOMBSHELL- Listen to This Rally on The Steps o ...
  The First Annual Rally in Tally! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• LYTTLE v. BANKUNITED- Another Headscratcher of ...
  Here goes another spellbinding appeal written by that masterful author George Gingo. You really must sit down and study the attached appellate brief which reads more like a nail biting crime novel than some dry academic appeal. I mean, seriously. Put yourself in the moment, picture the courtroom ...
• Brand New, Hot Off The Presses MERS Policy Bul ...
  After years of claiming that assignments don’t matter and the date of assignment certainly doesn’t matter, the MERS Monster has finally changed its tune, effective July 21, 2011: The Certifying Officer must execute the assignment of the Security Instrument from MERS before initiating ...

abelard - news

• on balancing budgets and intelligence | behavi ...
  Why one has years of plenty under Conservatives and lean years after Socialist rule.
• the foolishness of the european markets & the ...
  Sheep running European stock exchanges and fiscal madness in the IMF and the Eurozone - this is a joke, right?
• oswald mosley, britain's very own national soc ...
  Major new document: Mosley understood the Labour Party and its close relationship with Fascism. Illustrated.
• updated: using the official Vuelta web site | ...
  How to find the information you need to follow the Vuelta cycle race, now including the dinamic [sic.] stage summary.
• fannie mae and freddie mac start to blame the ...
  Obama looks for scapegoats to help improve his election chances.

The Parallel Parliament

• Citizenship – “41,654 to 10″
  That great rebel for liberty, Thomas Paine, wrote of his take on the society of his day: “Society is composed of distinct, unconnected individuals who are continually meeting, crossing, uniting, opposing and separating from each other as accident, interest and circumstances shall direct.” That w ...
• Citizenship – “Paying it Forward&# ...
  One of the most fundamental traits of good citizens is that they know they are building on foundations established at great cost by others who preceded them. They have a heritage to protect and not just a future to build. Much of that framework was built by hard work, innovation, investments, so ...
• Citizenship – “Blessed Are The Lea ...
  Jodi and Shawn are on something of a journey. Young professionals, they have been community leaders in their own right for the last number of years, but as part of the group of 10 that met a couple of weeks ago, I’ve watched them become more animated in their desire to make citizenship meaningfu ...
• Citizenship – “Not Leaders, But Le ...
  People are programmed to avoid painful decisions, and these days it appears as though many politicians are as well, for obvious reasons. Basic choices force people to analyze their deepest motives. As long as politics is around, and political representatives say that are willing to make those ch ...
• Citizenship – “For the Believers&# ...
  So we commence the last week of posts, recognizing that the task before Canadians today is a formidable one.  Citizenship as a useful political concept is in danger of being torn into many parts. By a bitter twist of historical fate, the concept which evolved to provide a sense of identity and c ...

Vaccine Awakening

• Vaccine Wake Up Call for Parents: Your Childre ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...
• The Health Liberty Revolution & Forced Vaccination
  “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taking ...
• What You Should Know About Meningococcal Disea ...
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...
• Vaccines & Liberty: Let Freedom Ring
  by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side,
Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...
• In Memoriam: Infant Deaths & Vaccination
  by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state man ...

2020 Science

• Lost in the Maize
  This week my life has been dominated by writing a new review of nanotoxicology.  Not that the world needs another review – far from it, as there are a number of excellent ones out there (I’ve even contributed to some).  But in a moment of abject weakness, I agreed to help a good coll ...
• Realizing dreams of carbon nanotubes
  A guest blog by John Dorr, Vice President of Business Development Nanocomp Technologies Inc. Despite all the fuss over nanotechnology, it’s surprisingly difficult to get a clear sense of how the technology is contributing to new products.  So when the company Nanocomp Technologies Inc. approache ...
• Lost in the Maize
  One thing they don’t warn you about going into academia is the business of making sense of your paycheck. When I started working for the US government in 2000, I was bowled over by the bureaucracy. Compared to the lean, mean government of a UK emerging from the Thatcher years, it was like going ...
• Risk Science – A personal perspective
  As Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, it’s probably not surprising that I’m constantly being asked “what on earth is risk science?”  What is surprising is how hard it is to come up with a clear and concise answer.  Which is why I decided to spend ...
• Emerging technologies at the World Economic Fo ...
  In an interconnected world, global issues demand integrative solutions.  It’s a statement that many people would agree with – in systems where associations between cause and effect are complex, you ignore synergistic inter-relationships between factors at your peril. But when it come ...

Reader Supported News

• Meet the Money Behind Rick Perry
  Benjy Sarlin reports: "Texans don't like the government interfering with their business, especially campaign donations, where state laws allow contributors to fork over unlimited cash. No one has benefited more from this arrangement than Rick Perry, who has raised $100 million over the last deca ...
• Koch Brothers Million-Dollar Club Revealed
  Mackenzie Weinger reports: "The billionaire Koch brothers can count dozens of corporate executives and philanthropists among their million-dollar donor club, according to a new report that revealed the big givers. Charles and David Koch hold retreats twice per year to court donations for their c ...
• Fox Doctors Hoffa Speech to Fabricate Call for ...
  Matt Gertz reports: "Right-wing bloggers misled by dishonest Fox News video editing are attacking Teamsters President James Hoffa, Jr. for supposedly urging violence against Tea Party activists during a Labor Day speech. Conservatives are also attacking President Obama, who appeared at the event ...
• Murdoch/Cheney Backed Fracking Company Endange ...
  Excerpt: "Briana Mordick, an Oil & Gas Science Fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council told Media Matters that the poor cementing 'could cause water contamination' and said that 'remedial cementing can and should be performed': 'This is only a small-scale demonstration project but th ...
• Murdoch/Cheney Backed Fracking Company Endange ...
  Excerpt: "Briana Mordick, an Oil & Gas Science Fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council told Media Matters that the poor cementing 'could cause water contamination' and said that 'remedial cementing can and should be performed': 'This is only a small-scale demonstration project but th ...

War Resisters League

• Portand: Veteran Organizing and Economic Justice
  This past week, WRL organizers Kimber Heinz and Ali Issa attended the Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace 2011 conventions. In addition to attending workshops on the GI resistance movement now, as well as building relationships with … Continue reading →
• Digging into the Operation Recovery Campaign
  Check out this post from Operation Recovery organizers who have been working hard down at Ft. Hood in Texas. To get plugged in to working with the current GI Coffeehouses, including Under the Hood Cafe near Ft. Hood, contact WRL Organizing Coordinator, Kimber Heinz at kimber@warresisters.org. By ...
• “The Flavor of Freedom” . . . and ...
  [The WRL blog is excited to feature a book review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in Manhattan.] Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love and War by Annia Cieza ...
• Wisconsin Updates!
  Since Joy First’s article on the occupation of the Wisconsin capitol in the spring issue of WIN magazine, organizers have continued to coordinate actions and protests, keeping the public focused on this issue. Here are some updates: Around the grounds of the capitol on June 4, protesters set up ...
• Know Before You Go, ‘Cause There’s ...
  At the National Network Opposed to the Militarization of Youth (NNOMY) gathering in 2009, youth staffers of the Ya-Ya (Youth Activists-Youth Allies) Network, a youth-led organization based in NYC that focuses on counter-recruitment and other kinds of social justice work, met with reps from WRL N ...

Center for a Livable Future

• You’ve Got Mail: Antibiotic Resistance, Animal ...
  Given their close contact with animals and animal waste in the workplace, employees of IFAP facilities are the ones at greatest risk for becoming infected with drug-resistant pathogens. Also, IFAP sites degrade the communities in which they’re sited by contaminating air, water and soils with an ...
• Peak Oil, Food Systems, Irene, Debt and Deadlines
  What if we could force peak oil into the spotlight with our own grand deadline and list of actions?
• The Genesis of Corn-Fed Cars
  This friction between the auto industry and the corn lobby will be one of the many fascinating developments to watch as corn ethanol continues to find its footing in our economy.
• Do Genetically Engineered Foods Really Need to ...
  Nina Federoff, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and professor at Penn State University penned an opinion piece in the New York Times recently, asking for less regulation of genetically engineered (GE) crops. Professor Federoff would like to see more gra ...
• Sweating the small stuff: engineered nano-mate ...
  Many public health hazards are too small to see.  This is especially true of engineered nano-materials, or ENMs.  As their name implies, these materials are small—no more than a few hundred nanometers in diameter.  (For perspective, one nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or one human hair sp ...

A special project of Foreign Policy and the New America Foundation

• Leaving Afghanistan
  Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
• Raging at Rawalpindi
  American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
• The FP Salon: Peter Bergen's The Longest War
  An FP round-table discussion on counterterrorism expert Peter Bergen's latest book. A decade after 9/11, is the war on terrorism a war we can win?
• Crazy Like a Fox
  In a fit of anger, Hamid Karzai axes his director of intelligence, Amrullah Saleh. But is there method to his madness?
• Addicted to Contractors
  The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.

Field Notes - Alberta Environment

• Save Our Sage-Grouse!
  Alberta Wilderness Association The greater sage-grouse has been called Alberta's most endangered species. In 2011, just 13 male birds were recorded in Alberta, a 98 percent decline since 1968. The plight of the sage- ...
• Save our Sage-Grouse! Recommendations from Eme ...
  Alberta Wilderness Association 8 Sep 2011 Desperate measures are needed if Canada’s most endangered wildlife species, the greater sage-grouse, is to be saved from extinction i ...
• Media Briefing 2: Emergency Sage-Grouse Summit
  - Recommendations to Save Alberta’s “Most Endangered Species” Alberta Wilderness Association 7 Sep 2011 What?   ...
• Media Briefing 1: Emergency Sage-Grouse Summit
  Last Ditch effort to Save Alberta’s “Most Endangered Species” Alberta Wilderness Association 6 Sep 2011 What?   ...
• Public Comment Period: Recovery Strategy for t ...
  Organization:  Environment Canada Initiative:  Recovery Strategy for the Woodland Caribou, Boreal population in Canad ...

Stop NATO

• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: Septembe ...
  ==== NATO Air War In Seventh Month: 21,780 Sorties, 8,180 Strike Sorties Indian Link To NATO ABM System Targets China, Pakistan, Iran, Russia Afghanistan: 1,645 Dead, 13,609 Wounded In America’s Longest War Afghan War: Czech Defense Minister Inspects New Special Forces Base Dutch Defense M ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: Septembe ...
  ==== NATO Chief: 172-Day Libyan War Impossible Without U.S. Capabilities Time To Disband NATO: A Rogue Alliance Grim Celebration By NATO Powers: Libyan Intervention Evokes Collective Memory Of Colonial Era Africa: Final Conquest For Pentagon’s Global Military Sphere Of Influence New Berlin ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: Septembe ...
  ==== Libya: NATO Air Combat Missions Exceed 8,000 For First Time In Its History, NATO War Led By European Powers BRICS Nations Fear West Plans Libya-Type Scenario In Syria Gaddafi’s Libya As Demon United Nations Hijacked On Libya Pakistani Minister: NATO Behind Attack That Killed 36 Soldiers === ...
• Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: Septembe ...
  ==== NATO’s Air War Against Libya: 21,322 Sorties, 7,998 Strike Sorties Azerbaijan To Join NATO As U.S. Targets Iran, Russia NATO’s Strategic Concept: U.S. Interceptor Missile Radar In Turkey U.S. Unwilling To Compromise On Missile Shield: Russian Foreign Minister NATO To Build Joint ...
• Rasul Gamzatov: For women war is never over
  Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Rasul Gamzatov From Octaves Translated by Peter Tempest So many men were torn away From us in war’s dread sweep… Remembrance of it to this day Makes wives and mothers weep. New grass has grown, and grown are now The sons of ...

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