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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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Monday, September 12, 2011

12 September - iGoogle

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 6: Activists with H...Image by Getty Images via @daylife

Watson, Your New Health Insurer - ABC News (blog)
WellPoint Inc., which operates Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in 14 states, will use Watson's vast health care database and quick calculating power to guide treatment decisions for its 34.2 million members. “This very much fits into the sweet spot of ...
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Glow-in-the-dark cats against AIDS, other diseases - USA Today
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a genome-based immunization strategy to fight feline AIDS and illuminate ways to combat human HIV/AIDS and other diseases. The goal is to create cats with intrinsic immunity to the feline AIDS ...
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Mom's Cancer Shows Up Earlier in Daughters - MedPage Today
By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today Explain that an MD Anderson study found that women with BRCA mutations and either breast or ovarian cancer who also had previous generation family members with these cancers had their ...
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23 Indian kids get HIV from blood transfusions - CBS News
AHMADABAD, India - At least 23 children suffering from a rare genetic disorder that requires regular blood transfusions have tested positive for HIV after receiving tainted blood, officials said Monday. The children, who suffer from thalassemia and are ...
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FDA panel wants bone drugs' labeling changed, but how? - FiercePharma
What to do about the potential risks of bisphosphonates? An FDA advisory panel wasn't exactly sure. At a meeting last week, the agency's expert committee voted to change the labeling on these popular bone drugs--which have been linked with painful, ...
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Hospital workers outspend others on medical care - Reuters
By Debra Sherman CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hospital employees spend 10 percent more on healthcare, consume more
Web MD
Fast-Paced Cartoons May Hurt Kids' Attention, Memory
Children who watched just nine minutes of a fast-paced, high-action cartoon performed worse on routine tests of attention and other skills compared...
Under 3 Doses of HPV Vaccine May Be Effective
Discovery
How 'SpongeBob' Inhibits Learning
Four-year-old's who watched fast-paced shows like "SpongeBob SquarePants" scored much lower in tests assessing children's ability to learn and pay...
Sunscreen In A Pill
Oddly Enough
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Psychology Today
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All THings Considered - NPR
Scientific American
Techdirt
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New Scientist
An artist's menstruation machine


USA Today
1 dead, 4 hurt in explosion at French nuclear site

Guardian UK
Explosion at French nuclear waste plant
One worker reported dead in blast at Marcoule nuclear waste processing site in southern FranceOne person has been reported killed and four injured...

Gaddafi's son flees Libya to Niger


 Science Daily
New species of ancient predatory fish discovered
'Trojan Horse' particle sneaks chemotherapy in to kill ovarian cancer cells

Democracy Now!
Attica Is All of Us: Cornel West on 40th Anniversary of Attica Prison Rebellion
From One Ground Zero to Another: Sister of 9/11 Victim Meets Afghan Who Lost Family in U.S. Bombing

Mother Jones
We're Still at War: Photo of the Day for September 12, 2011
How Debt Can Help Save America

War Room
The criminalization of speech since 9/11
Prosecution for "material support" has expanded under Obama. Where does it leave the First Amendment?
9/11 resolution passes House, Congress clearly no longer broken

CCPA
The Voice of Nunavut: Learning from the Eastern Arctic's education challenges



Common Dreams
Yeah, Whatever

G4S Meter Readers To Harass The Unemployed


Ten Percent
Yeah, Whatever

G4S Meter Readers To Harass The Unemployed


memorandum
What We Affirm - Leon Wieseltier's Remarks at '9/11 ... (Leon Wieseltier/The New Republic)
Conservatives join liberals in opposing Obama's payroll tax cut extension (Russell Berman/The Hill)

Daily Bell
IMF Bailouts Way to One World Government: Greeks Sick of Eurocrat Orders

Resuing the Frog
If you’re talking jobs or GHGs, alternative scenarios matter

Alberta PC Leadership Q&A


Circle of Blue Water News
The Stream, September 12: Botswana Bushmen Revive Crucial Water Source
Water, Energy, and Transportation: President Obama Backs Infrastructure Bank in Jobs Speech

Blog of Rights - ACLU
This Week in Civil Liberties (9/9/11)
The Accountability Shell Game

PEW Clean Energy Program
Energy Efficiency Drives Economic Growth
Obama In Sync With America On Standards

Pesticide Action Network
Monsanto's superweeds & superbugs



PECAN Group
It’s not the brutality that is ‘systematic’. It’s the lying about it

Hospital California? You can check-in any time you like. But, you can never leave.


Corexit: a review of what we know « Gulf Leak Watch

Open Secrets
OpenSecrets.org Mailbag: Lobbying or Bribery?, Big Pharma's Health Care Push and More
FEC Fines Maryland Donor, Facebook Likes Erskine Bowles and More in Capital Eye Opener: Sept. 9

 Politics Security Secrecy
Security Secrecy for Governor Perry Called 'Unique' | Freedom of ...
Transparency, Liberty Real Victims of ... - Think Free - Freedom Politics

Reef News & Issues
Coral-list: WPBT’s “Lionfish & Panko Thyme” film short
Jeff Burnside, NBC Miami: INVITATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM CONFERENCE IN MIAMI OCT. 19-23

Hayride
Alario Shakes Down Nursing Home Owners In Bid To Become Senate President
Priebus Calls On Obama To Release Files On Solyndra Debacle

News24
ANC appalled by Malema hate speech ruling
The ANC says it is appalled by the ruling that ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema's singing of the words "shoot the boer" amounts to hate speech.

AB, Steyn in ICC ODI Team
Where is Julius Malema?
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema is nowhere to be found as the High Court ruled that the singing of the song "dubhula ibhunu" constituted...
ICD probes assault on New Age journalist


The Star Online : Nation
PKFZ: Dr Ling sent notes to explain confusion
Home ministry probes firms over 'masterminds' in 6P programme

Statesman
Nation Digest: Flight scares prompt F-16 action


TED Blog
TED Blog exclusive video: A new method for escaping tall buildings
Fellows Friday with Minou Norouzi

Phillipines News
Biggest TESDA training center in Cebu province opens in Medellin
House to probe P250M unused lighthouse parts at DOTC

Food and Water Watch
What’s Making Pennsylvania’s Floodwaters Toxic?
2011-08-26

 Satellite News
NASA Hosting First West Coast Launch Tweetup for Earth-Observing Satellite
NASA will invite 25 of its U.S. Twitter followers to a Tweetup expected to culminate in the launch of the first of a new generation of...
NASA'S Wise Mission Discovers Coolest Class of Stars

Daily News Egypt
Rights group says Egypt abusing military trials
Turk PM on 'Arab Spring tour' amid Israel tension


Israel's leaderless Labor party votes for new chief

UN nuclear chief says more concerned about Iran**
** Good Heavens, yes. Can't forget to shill for nuclear armed Security Council against responsible nuclear power peace signatories...as Iraq was too BTW
The Turkish response


WhoWhatWhy
WhoWhatWhy editor Russ Baker talks Libya….
Radical Thinking To Recreate And Reimagine Our Cities

Zoe - It's our Nature
Meet One of the Dog Teams
Rick Perry Compares Self to Galileo
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

16 Sept - Algae, fuel and force

Cover of "From Eros to Gaia"Cover of From Eros to Gaia

Solazyme to announce Navy contract for algae-based fuel

The new contract with the Navy is more than seven times the size of an initial 20,000-gallon contract awarded last year and completed this week. The Navy is eager to find alternatives to its HRF-76 Naval Distillate, the shipboard diesel that it uses to power gas turbines and boilers.

Halifax-based Ocean Nutrition Canada accidentally stumbled upon an oil-producing algae which creates oil at a rate 60 times greater than normal algaes.

According to Toronto Hydro's CEO Anthony Haines the electricity grid in Toronto can't handle the load of 10% of drivers buying and charging electric cars.
Cities in Canada suck up most of the electricity in Canada, but produce comparatively little despite lots of rooftop space for solar panels and windmills. The problem is that the electricity grid isn't setup or designed to be taking in that much energy from so many different sources, so having a network of solar and wind systems wouldn't work right now anyway because the electricity grid is too archaic.


Has climate change cut plankton’s oxygen production?

The particular study that troubled him was an assessment of ocean phytoplankton levels from 1899 to today published in top journal Nature. In it, Boris Worm and his colleagues at Dalhousie University, Canada, found that the populations of phytoplankton in the oceans had fallen 40% since 1950, crediting climate change as the cause of the decline. At the time Worm was widely quoted as saying that phytoplankton is responsible for producing “half the oxygen we breathe”.
On that basis, Mark Piore asked: “If phytoplankton produces half the oxygen we breathe and populations have fallen by 40%, then has total oxygen production fallen 20%?” 
Leading physicist Freeman Dyson has also expressed his frustration that atmospheric oxygen levels are not monitored more closely. “The reservoir of oxygen in the atmosphere is large but not infinite,” he wrote in his book “From Eros to Gaia” in 1990. “Since eight tons of oxygen are used up for every three tons of carbon burned, and we are burning six gigatons of carbon per year, we might expect that the oxygen is being used up at the rate of about 13 parts per million per year. Thirteen parts per million should be measurable. Whether or not the general public is concerned, there are important scientific reasons for measuring the oxygen.”

Professional trolls*


People are reporting that they're getting these comments from … [a] company called Netvocates. The company … will defend your organization's reputation by sending people to fill blog comments with defenses.
She cites some of the firm's promotional materials:
For many organizations, blogs represent an uncomfortable topic. Unlike traditional communication mediums, blogs frequently impact an organization and its products and image in uncontrolled and often unexpected ways. In addition, the sheer volume of blogs, message boards, and other discussion forums makes it difficult for organizations to effectively monitor the activity relevant to them.
…there's also a group called the Rendon Group that is all about controlling public opinion on government actions thatpeople are reporting on their site meters. Considering that the Rendon Group has contracts from BushCo to spread pro-war propaganda, it's hard to imagine that they aren't also targeting left-leaning blogs, possibly trying to circumvent productive anti-war discussion by bomb-throwing and other nonsense. 

Brazilian Indians held prisoner by gunmen
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A large group of Guarani Indians in Brazil is being held prisoner by gunmen hired by ranchers. The gunmen have cut off the Indians’ access to food, water and health care since they surrounded their community one month ago.
Despite pleas from the Guarani for police assistance and urgent medical care, their community, known as Ypo’i, is still besieged.

News from the Guarani

  1. Film depicting Guarani plight wins prestigious award
    25 June 2010
  2. Reports condemn appalling situation of the Guarani
    1 June 2010
  3. Landmark trial of Indian’s ‘killers’ suspended
    7 May 2010

Top stories now

  1. Mapuche hunger strike enters 65th day
    14 September
  2. Cartoon book satirizing ‘development’ launched in Malaysia
    13 September
  3. India forms new tribal council in wake of Vedanta victory
    9 September
  4. Penan tribe block logging roads in protest
    8 September
  5.  
  6.  Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells
    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/us/18dairy.html?_r=1
  7. All it took was an early thaw for the drinking water here to become unsafe. Runoff from all but the largest farms is essentially unregulated by many of the federal laws intended to prevent pollution and protect drinking water sources. The Clean Water Act of 1972 largely regulates only chemicals or contaminants that move through pipes or ditches, which means it does not typically apply to waste that is sprayed on a field and seeps into groundwater. 
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