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• U.S.: Controversy Highlights Plight of Black, and ...
  
  
  The controversial firing of an African-American federal government employee over comments misconstrued to be racist has refocused attention on the plight of black farmers in the U.S. South.
• Ocean Losing Its Green
  
  
  The oceans are the lifeblood of our planet and plankton its red blood cells. Those vital "red blood cells" have declined more than 40 percent since 1950 and the rate of decline is increasing due to climate change, scientists reported this week.
• Families of Dead U.S. Vets Accuse Insurer of Massi ...
  
  
  Prudential cheated the families of dead U.S. soldiers and Marines out of more than 100 million dollars in interest on their life-insurance policies, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in a Massachusetts federal court.
• Haitian Immigrant Street Peddlers Try to Get a Leg ...
  
  
  Gaston Dorelus has little education, no vocational training, no extrinsic qualifications to make his way through life any easier.
• CUBA: Village with English Past, Ecological Presen ...
  
  
  Only hurricanes disrupt the tranquility of Cocodrilo, a Cuban coastal village founded by immigrants from the Cayman Islands in the early 20th century.

Scoop - NZ

• Fallujah infant mortality exceeds Hiroshima
  
  
  Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study. Iraqi doctors in Fallujah have ...
• Peak Oil: The Real Gulf Crisis
  
  
  At last report BP was making progress on the relief wells that are being drilled to plug the runaway well in the Gulf. The London Times reports that BP hopes to penetrate the casing of the leaking well and start pumping in well-sealing mud in about two weeks. Let's hope something works. In the next ...
• Hickey: NZRB should target housing bubble
  
  
  Now that the world has avoided going over the financial cliff, at least for now, the powers-that-be are doing a post-mortem of what went wrong. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just produced a 42 page paper titled "Central Banking Lessons from the Crisis" that makes for an intere ...
• Ginza becomes a shopping mall
  
  
  Tokyo's posh Ginza district, whose streets have drawn comparisons to Fifth Avenue, Bond Street and Rue du Faubourg, is transforming into a shopping mall showcasing the latest in low-priced, mass-produced clothing. Giant flagship stores of casual clothing retailers have replaced older established te ...
• AEP: Drip after drip of deflation data
  
  
  Today's release on manufacturing activity by the Richmond Fed is pretty ghastly, as you would expect given that the effects of fiscal stimulus are now wearing off at accelerating pace - before the happy handover to the private sector is safely consummated - and given that the structural East-West im ...

Independent - London

• Six killed as minibus hits roadside bomb
  
  
  A minibus packed with civilians struck a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan early today, killing six on board and wounding nine, officials said.
• UAE to block many BlackBerry services in October
  
  
  The United Arab Emirates said today it plans to block some messaging and Web services on BlackBerry smart phones, days after it warned the device could pose a potential threat to national security and social values.
• Toxic chemical used on Gulf oil spill
  
  
  The US Coast Guard has routinely approved BP requests to use thousands of gallons of toxic chemical a day to break up oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico despite a federal directive that the chemicals be used only rarely on surface waters, congressional investigators said after examining BP and govern ...
• Chelsea Clinton weds at exclusive New York estate
  
  
  It was high society inside and high security outside as Chelsea Clinton wed her longtime boyfriend at an elegant estate in a Hudson River village where several prominent guests were spotted beforehand, but the husband-and-wife-to-be stayed out of sight.
• Iran rebuffs Obama's call to free US detainees
  
  
  Iran has rejected President Barack Obama's plea to release three Americans arrested more than a year ago near the Iraq border, the foreign ministry said, insisting that justice would take its course.

Rogue Government.com

• Downloading Humans: The Hive Group Philosophy
  
  
  Big Brother has turned monitoring the Internet into big business, which grows daily as the controllers wave the false flag of cybersecurity .�
• US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs ...
  
  
  In a summer of suffering, America's military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in the grinding conflict. All signs point to more bloodshed in the months ahead, straining the already shaky international support for the war.
• Detergent Company Uses GPS to Follow Consumers Ho ...
  
  
  Unilever's Omo detergent is adding an unusual ingredient to its two-pound detergent box in Brazil: a GPS device that allows its promotions agency Bullet to track shoppers and follow them to their front doors.
• Alex Jones Wants You To Be Fearful Of Your Kitche ...
  
  
  The amount of fear mongering from Alex Jones is becoming increasingly more and more ridiculous.
• AP survey: A bleaker outlook for economy into 201 ...
  
  
  The U.S. economic recovery will remain slow deep into next year, held back by shoppers reluctant to spend and employers hesitant to hire, according to an Associated Press survey of leading economists.

Innovation Canada

• Send in the bacteria
  
  
  The video clip is the stuff of science fiction: a swarm of 5,000 bacteria lift microscopic epoxy bricks and assemble them one by one to form a pyramid, as if they were building a tower of blocks. A computer directs their movement by controlling magnetic fields.But for Sylvain Martel and his team of ...
• Seeing red
  
  
  Ram Krishna of Toronto has had type 2 diabetes for almost 25 years, but he only started taking insulin a couple of years ago to help better control it. Since the insulin regimen began, he has had to test his blood glucose level more regularly — about three to five times a week. To do so, he does wha ...
• Making (brain) waves
  
  
  Imagine your brain as a bustling city. The grey matter in your head could be compared to a dense network of mixed-use buildings, with snaking utility lines and connecting sidewalks throughout. Steam delivers heat through pipes out of the main utility centre, lights blink on and off, and information ...
• Keeping phones focused
  
  
  The transparent silicon wafer is smaller than a pencil’s eraser tip and as thin as a sheet of paper. But the LensVector autofocus camera lens — the world’s tiniest — has big prospects. And it may soon turn the cellular-phone industry on its ear. Developed by Tigran Galstian, a physics and engineerin ...
• Fertilizer from the sea
  
  
  When the first European settlers arrived to scratch out a living on the thin soils across Atlantic Canada, they quickly made use of the seaweed on the beaches around them as a plentiful source of crop fertilizer. This age-old European practice continues in the region to this day, and now a Nova Scot ...

Signs of the times

• Many in Gulf are outraged at reports of vanishing ...
  
  
  Now that BP engineers have managed to place a cap on the company's bleeding well in the Gulf, the sprawling oil slicks seem to have retreated from the water's surface, claimed many media reports this week. "Where is all the oil?" an AFP headline asked. Time magazine ran a piece suggesting that the ...
• Unknown Object Observed over Toronto, Ontario, Can ...
  
  
  Published: July 17, 2010 Location: King and Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario Date: July 16, 2010 I saw a bright, white light (very small) that first appeared be a very high flying bird about 60 degrees up from the western horizon. Unusually high for any bird in Toronto... since I'm a "birder," ...
• FLASHBACK: India helped FBI trace ISI-9/11 terrori ...
  
  
  New Delhi - While the Pakistani Inter Services public relations claimed that former ISI Director-General Lt-Gen Mahmud Ahmad sought retirement after being superseded on Monday, the truth is more shocking. Top sources confirmed here on Tuesday that the general lost his job because of the "evidence" ...
• FLASHBACK: The Washington-Islamabad Nexus of Terro ...
  
  
  Washington - The United States could well consider naming Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) a foreign terrorist organisation judging by the revelations spilling out now about its nefarious activities that have not only troubled India but also jeopardised Washington's battle against terror ...
• Wikileaks has exposed US crimes and designs
  
  
  War diary is an account of daily events occurring during war. Each HQ/unit/intelligence agency maintains this diary which subsequently helps in finalizing war history. While the unit in the field records the events based on its limited internal resources, higher HQs and intelligence agencies make th ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Four fried chickens and a coke...
  
  
  Been a coupla months since the bards at Canadian Cynic went on holiday. An aeon in blogtime. Since then we've had fighter debacles, Census scandals, emerging RCMP scandals, G8/20 scandals, and 90 000 scandalous documents from the big dusty place across the sea. And some others that don't immediatel ...
• Doris is a Liar
  
  
  Go read BCL . Stockwell Day MP PC, asserts that that long form Census data allows your find out personal information about your neighbour, such as whether they are Jewish. As to why he said Jewish one can only speculate, but the fact remains his assertion is false. It is beyond reasonable to pressu ...
• Just pay it . . . .
  
  
  The NEW YORK TIMES has a report by Steven Greenhouse, " Pressured, Nike to Help Workers in Honduras ", about the successful efforts of US college students to force Nike to do the right thing. Moral suasion was ineffective, but when the students had their colleges buy their sweats elsewhere, the kind ...
• Conflict. Blue on Blue.
  
  
  The CBC report . The Canadian military is rejecting a report released by WikiLeaks that suggests four Canadian soldiers who died in September 2006 in Afghanistan were killed by friendly fire from U.S. forces. The military maintains the four soldiers died in combat with the Taliban. The press relea ...
• Russian roulette
  
  
  As has been mentioned before on this blog , the waltz between Russian bombers and Canadian fighters is a carefully orchestrated and choreographed dance. The show up just outside our air space, we intercept, they go home. This happens so often it's usually barely mentioned in the press. The well esta ...

Media Matters for America

• WSJ lets AZ state senator rewrite histor ...
  
  
  The Wall Street Journal uncritically reported Arizona state senator Russell Pearce's (R) claims that the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment "had nothing to do with aliens." In fact, the Congressional debate from the time shows that both proponents and opponents of the Citizenship Clause ...
• Right-wing media respond to AZ ruling with unhing ...
  
  
  Media conservatives have responded with a torrent of unhinged rhetoric to an Arizona judge's ruling that blocked parts of the state's immigration law from taking effect. For example, Rush Limbaugh suggested the ruling would prevent the state from defending itself from an "invasion," and Jeffrey ...
• Varney ludicrously lauds Bush economic record, s ...
  
  
  On Fox & Friends , Fox Business' Stuart Varney argued that it is "inaccurate" to attribute the recession to President Bush and claimed that "President Obama's policies have not fixed that ongoing recession." In reality, Obama's policies have created growth in the GDP and the Dow Jones Industria ...
• Fox & Friends ignore their own inter ...
  
  
  Fox & Friends �misled on a Department of Homeland Security memo on immigration reform, falsely claiming it "appears to show the White House has an amnesty plan," which they plan to implement by "going around Congress." The hosts continued to mislead even after White House Press Secretary Rober ...
• Fox makes faulty comparison to suggest AZ ruling ...
  
  
  Fox News' Alisyn Camerota compared the number of "deaths along the U.S. border" to the number of "soldiers killed in Iraq" to falsely suggest that Judge Susan Bolton's decision to block parts of Arizona's new immigration law put "people in danger." In fact, crime rates in border states have de ...

Global Research.ca

• Iran Encircled: Two US Congressional Resolutions, ...
  
  
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• US, NATO Allies Prepare New Invasion Of Somalia
  
  
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• Russia, Afghanistan and Star Wars
  
  
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• US Peace Movement Adopts New Comprehensive Strateg ...
  
  
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• Georgia Prepares for War with Russia
  
  
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TPM Cafe

• The Real Reasons ADL Joined The Bigots
  
  
  I don't know why it should be a surprise that the Anti-Defamation League joined the rightist haters in opposing the mosque at Ground Zero. The fact is that neither the ADL or its twin, the American Jewish Committee (the other old, established Jewish anti-discrimination organization) has been abou ...
• The Chevy Volt: Now For The Good News
  
  
  The American economy does not recover simply because macroeconomic conditions are right, or because it is stimulated by government in ways that make them more nearly right. It recovers because new industries---rooted in technological innovations, but growing out of established industries---create wh ...
• Anti-Defamation League Joins The Bigots..Opposing ...
  
  
  The ADL has joined some of the worst bigots in America and is opposing construction of the Islamic community center at the site of the World Trade Center. I have nothing to add to this story from The Tablet. (The Tablet, a Jewish publication, clearly is disgusted by ADL's action. Bravo). For ...
• New Economic Study: If People Don't Eat Chicken, T ...
  
  
  This surprising result -- that the failure to eat chicken leads to starvation -- would be shown true using the same methodology as a new study on the impact of the TARP. The study, by Princeton University Professor Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody's Analytics, examines the i ...
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TruthOut

• A Long Stay
  
  
  More than 300,000 immigrants languish in detention centers around the country. Why are they there - and who is profiting from their imprisonment? Pedro Guzman Perez speaks to his wife, Emily Guzman, by phone every evening. They speak around 8 PM, a talk filled with stories about their days, shared ...
• Obama Seeks to Expand Arms Exports by Trimming App ...
  
  
  Washington - The United States is currently the world biggest weapons supplier — holding 30 per cent of the market — but the Obama administration has begun modifying export control regulations in hopes of enlarging the U.S. market share, according to U.S. officials. President Barack Obama already h ...
• Afghanistan and the "Sacrifice Trap"
  
  
  The last month has seen six Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, bringing our country’s total to seventeen. Yet even with a federal election looming and 61 percent of Australians wanting troops brought home, our involvement in the war has bipartisan support. In fact, far from raising questions ...
• Economic Recovery for the Few
  
  
  Where is this elusive recovery? The banks, some say, have "recovered." Yet they remain dependent on Washington, they do not make the loans needed for a general recovery, and many medium and small banks keep collapsing. The stock market shows no recovery. The Dow index was 14,000 in late 2007 whe ...
• Banks: Too Big Not to Organize
  
  
  Boston - Through the blare of screeching feedback from portable translation headsets and microphones, unionized bank workers from Brazil, England, Chile, Germany and Uruguay are encouraging American workers to undertake an unprecedented campaign against a common enemy: Grupo Santander, the global ba ...

Planetsave

• Help Create a Documentary on Haiti and Its Long-Te ...
  
  
  Important activist opportunity to help make a film about Haiti that goes deep into the country’s history, culture, and food insecurity issues. Haiti was on people’s map after the horrible earthquake it suffered recently, and then… quickly off it. Perhaps a much bigger issue for Haiti than this recen ...
• Greenpeace Activists Quarantine Illegal GE Crops
  
  
  Greenpeace recently found genetically engineered maize from Monsanto, MON810, illegally growing in Italy. Now, activists from Italy, Austria, Germany and Hungary are quarantining this GE maize. “Greenpeace has taken action today to prevent any further contamination from these hazardous and illegal G ...
• Important Media Weekly Roundup
  
  
  Some great recent news from the Important Media network. The Inspired Economist Walmart and Seventh Generation have joined forces to bring sustainable products to the masses! Emily DeMasi discusses an excellent documentary about America’s dependence on foreign oil titled FUEL and asks “Why have I no ...
• Help Create a Documentary on Haiti and Its Long-Te ...
  
  
  This post contains additional media. Click here to view the full post . . Important activist opportunity to help make a film about Haiti that goes deep into the country’s history, culture, and food insecurity issues. Haiti was on people’s map after the horrible earthquake it suffered recently, and t ...
• Greenpeace Activists Quarantine Illegal GE Crops
  
  
  Greenpeace recently found genetically engineered maize from Monsanto, MON810, illegally growing in Italy. Now, activists from Italy, Austria, Germany and Hungary are quarantining this GE maize. “Greenpeace has taken action today to prevent any further contamination from these hazardous and illegal ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Report: Closings, Warnings Increase At NY Beaches
  
  
  NEW YORK –  New York beaches saw an increase last year in the number of days with health-relat
• Pollution causes gender-bending in Canadian fish
  
  
  Boy or girl? It's getting harder to tell, thanks to water pollution that is changing the sexual
• Michigan Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation P ...
  
  
  From the Michigan DNRE website: Request for Pre-Proposals  July 2010 This is a request for pre-propo
• A question about water pond water quality
  
  
  So, we’ve been having some issues with the water quality in the pond. The fish have been healt
• Water and sanitation a basic human right
  
  
  image – AP File Photo The United Nations General Assembly has declared that each person on the

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• The Gold Rush by Ed Ciaccio
  
  
  by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer August 1, 2010 “All in a dream, all in a dream, The lo
• “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 7th Installment ...
  
  
  by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted
• What the Tea Party has in common with the rest of ...
  
  
  By Nikki Alexander Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://nikkialexander.wordpress.com August 1, 201
• Hypocrisy To The Nth Degree by Philip A. Farruggio
  
  
  by Philip A. Farruggio Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 31 July, 2010 Interesting how there is such a
• Mr. Obama, Why We are not that Impressed By Timoth ...
  
  
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com July 30, 2010 I decided

Axis of Logic

• As BP winds down cleanup, environmental impact spr ...
  
  
  31 July 2010 In another indication that BP will seize on its reported success in finally stopping the Gulf oil blowout to protect its revenues, new CEO Bob Dudley on Friday said that the company will start to wind down its cleanup operations. Efforts to completely shut down the Macondo...
• Army reports record number of suicides for June, 2 ...
  
  
  Soldiers killed themselves at the rate of one per day in June, making it the worst month on record for Army suicides, the service said Thursday. There were 32 confirmed or suspected suicides among soldiers in June, including 21 among active-duty troops and 11 among National Guard or Reserve fo ...
• As casualties in Afghanistan rise, Army suicides, ...
  
  
  31 July 2010 As US military fatalities in Afghanistan hit a new high in July, the US Army issued a report exposing record suicides, drug use and other signs of deep demoralization among its ranks after a decade of colonial-style wars. Another six US troops were killed in a series...
• Hamas vows revenge after Israel kills commander in ...
  
  
  Hamas on Saturday vowed revenge after one of its senior commanders was killed in Israeli air strikes on Hamas-linked targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday night. "This new stupidity won't easily pass. We promise revenge for the blood of our martyr," the al-Qassam Brigades said in a leaflet faxed.. ...
• Colombia Kicks Over the Negotiating Table - Editor ...
  
  
  Is President Álvaro Uribe trying to prevent his successor from making peace with Venezuela? When Luis Alfonso Hoyos walked into a regional meeting on Thursday, July 22, he would have done well to remember that -- ever since U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented the alleged evid ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• How Global Warming Could Sink Ron Paul
  
  
  July was the 4th-hottest month in Louisville history. But how bad could global warming really be for Kentucky? We're far and high enough from the ocean that rising seas just mean a quicker drive to the new beach. Shorter, warmer winters mean lower heating bills. A longer growing season means bumper ...
• Here's the deal: I don't really have a dog in this ...
  
  
  So, my friend and colleague over at Show Me Progress , Clark, is more involved in local politics than I am. I don't just live in KC, in Jackson County, where the city holds non-partisan elections and the top two Democrats face off, I live in a part of the county where Democrats rarely have a challen ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  
  
  Daniel Elsberg has a WikiLeaks wishlist. �Now we do, too. The old media just doesn't grok While they hand-wring over whether Julian Assange and WikiLeaks constitute a prolific source, or an editor-in-chief - the blogosphere recognizes that it is a new age, a new era, and the old paradigms simply no ...
• Shorter ADL: Bigotry and hatred are only truly off ...
  
  
  It was such a buzzkill to read the Anti-Defamation League's statement on the construction of Cordoba House two blocks north of the site where the Twin Towers once stood. How do I express my disappointment in concise terms? How about this... I never thought I would see the day that the anti-Defamat ...
• Primary Challenges
  
  
  Whenever a Democratic officeholder betrays the cause, I am always the first to shout "Primary the fucker!" �But Jon Walker uses a current republican primary to illuminate the multiple contradictory factors involved in primaries. Staunch conservative Christine O'Donnell is challenging Rep. Mike Castl ...

Care 2

• Yikes!! People how Wild! This is No Joke ~ Toyot ...
  
  
  The problems the company has been having with faulty gas pedals could be blamed on cosmic rays from space. Cosmic ray radiation from deep in the cosmos, has been known to plague vulnerable data and memory chips in electronics Submitted by DC Bass to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Pictures: Human-Sacrifice Chamber Discovered in Pe ...
  
  
  Found in Peru within a chamber used for an ancient human-sacrifice rite called the presentation, this woman was likely an offering to the site, archaelogists say. Submitted by Marty Powell to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• White House Jester Beheaded For Making Fun Of Soar ...
  
  
  "For crimes of great arrogance and cheek, His Idiocy the White House Jester has been sentenced to a swift demise," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said following the death sentence. "Let it be heard over every city and suburb of this land *HUMOR* Submitted by Kit B. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it ...
• Monsanto: The world's poster child for corporate m ...
  
  
  ...They presented Monsanto with the steps and procedures needed to obtain a place of industry dominance in a world in which natural seeds were virtually extinct. Submitted by Kathy B. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Cows rescue calf from flood
  
  
  A herd of cows caught in flood waters in South Dakota. Two cows work to rescue a trapped calf. Submitted by Catherine Turley to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Big Brother is bipartisan
  
  
  The great coming issue is privacy. The great sucking sound you hear is government and business wanting to know what you write in e-mails, what condoms you purchase at the pharmacy, what books you read in the library and what credit cards you use at the store. Privacy is the issue that should unite T ...
• Publisher Puts Sarah Palin Bio for Evangelical Chr ...
  
  
  You know the story: She ran for vice president, and lost; she was governor of Alaska, and quit halfway through her term; her book, "Going Rogue: An American Life," was a best-seller; she's a commentator on the Fox News Channel; she will soon be sharing Alaska in a series for The Learning Channel; sh ...
• The Idiocracy Factor: How U.S. Ignorance Helped Do ...
  
  
  Americans' lack of knowledge about Afghanistan is virtually limitless. Which matters, because the U.S. is at war there. And which explains why the American military is losing its longest war. During my 2001 trip, where I covered the Taliban defeat at the Battle of Kunduz for the Village Voice and KF ...
• Where has all the oil gone? Long time passing . . ...
  
  
  This week Fox News had people (and the Mamas and Papas in song) asking about where has all the oil gone? When will they ever learn that Houdini didn’t really make the elephant disappear? It had to go somewhere. In all the time that Americans have been fighting, dying, and losing assorted limbs to ...
• Book by an Innocent Victim Suggests Torture by U.S ...
  
  
  Although U.S. officials have attributed the torture of Muslim prisoners in their custody to a handful of maverick guards, in fact such criminal acts were widely perpetrated and systemic, likely involving large numbers of military personnel, a book by a survivor suggests. Additionally, guards were re ...

Paul Krugman

• Health Care Memories
  
  
  Things that didn't happen.
• The Amanpour Era Begins
  
  
  My head, talking.
• Two Point Nine One
  
  
  About those bond vigilantes ...
• Clockwise Spirals
  
  
  History and the risk of deflation.
• Bad for the Jews
  
  
  Oy, ADL.

No Quarter

• It is Still the Economy, Stupid!
  
  
  Friday’s dismal economic news that 2nd Quarter GDP fell well below expectation was not the real bad news. As Rick Davis at the Consumer Metrics Institute points out, there’s trouble in that there data: The 2.4% figure will garner all of the headlines, but the more important “real final sales of do ...
• Partition Riots 2
  
  
  � Spoke Arif Rafiq, Bill Roggio, Rufus Phillips, re the sudden diplomatic flap between Pakistan and the UK. Prime Minister David Cameron remarked at Delhi that Pakistan is untrustworthy and in league with terror teams. Soon after, the Zardari government split with the Pakistan Army ISI. Now Zarda ...
• Crazy Times * Open Thread
  
  
  At the moment, I’d rather pass my time browsing the Web by searching for stories and photos of Chelsea’s wedding, so ably written up by Ani, but I did run across these stories today and am interested in your reactions: CNN’s Anderson Cooper has issued an apology for not pressing Shirley Sherrod on h ...
• Congratulations to the Clintons!!
  
  
  Today on MSNBC shared a story from AP covering Chelsea Clinton and her fiancé Mark Mezvinsky’s rehearsal dinner last night in Rhinebeck, New York. They offered pictures of a beaming Bill and Hillary… Shortly before 11 p.m. local time, the Clintons exited a van arm-in-arm outside the Beekman Arms ...
• Rick Davis Goes Inside the GDP Report
  
  
  The equity markets are flat so the 2nd quarter GDP report must have been properly priced into current valuations. Perhaps, but I would neither go that far nor would I be so brazen as to say that the markets are wrong in how they trade. Markets are never wrong. The market is the market. All this s ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Caño Cristales: Colombia's Incredible Rainbow Rive ...
  
  
  For the very short spell between the wet and dry seasons, this Colombian river becomes a glorious kaleidescope of rainbow colours! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Mystery Behind Spontaneous Human Combustion
  
  
  The phenomena of Spontaneous Human Combustion... is it fact or fantasy, science or science fiction? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Solar-Powered Plane That Can Fly Non-Stop For ...
  
  
  This amazing solar-powered plane can stay in the air for up to two weeks at a time! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• How Cockroaches Select Their Secret Hideaways
  
  
  The unique factors that influence cockroaches in making decisions have only recently been discovered - with this knowledge we can keep these pests out of our homes! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
• Insects Drinking From Raindrops
  
  
  Here are some incredible images of insects drinking from beads of water collected on plant stems and flowers. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Israel Playing With a Fire It Expects the U.S. to ...
  
  
  Israel needs to know that the United States will finish the war that Israel wants to start.
• The Srebrenica Massacre, After Fifteen Years
  
  
  Fifteen years after the massacre at Srebrenica and the height of the Bosnian War, what has that conflict taught us?
• Uribe's Parting Shot
  
  
  The Colombian president is on his way out. But he wants to make sure to lock in a confrontational approach toward Venezuela.
• A Solution to Congolese Violence -- or Empty Gestu ...
  
  
  A new U.S. law requires that companies doing business in the Congo and adjoining countries disclose the provenance of the minerals transacted efforts taken to ensure armed groups don't profit.
• NorK "Coup-Proofed" From Both Within and Without
  
  
  Like any tyrant, Kim Jong-il relies on numerous tools of authoritarian control to stay in power.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  
  
  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 be c ...
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  
  
  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 Affa ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  
  
  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 the d ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  
  
  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 progr ...
• 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’s p ...

Al Jazeera

• Thousands cut off in Pakistan flood
  
  
  Heavy flooding leaves estimated 1,000 dead, though full extent of damage still unknown.
• Dutch mission ends in Afghanistan
  
  
  Roughly 2,000 troops to leave on schedule despite request to stay from Nato.
• Cluster bomb ban comes into effect
  
  
  Global treaty on cluster munitions enters into force, outlawing use of the deadly weapon.
• UAE to block BlackBerry services
  
  
  Emirati agency says decision result of "judicial, social and national security concerns".
• Fires extend grip in western Russia
  
  
  At least 28 people are killed as fires engulf 30 per cent more territory in 24 hours.

Green Inc. - NYT

• On Our Radar: Oil Spill Larger Than China Admits
  
  
  An American oil spill consultant suggests the Chinese spill was larger than the government admits.
• A Lively Debate on Climate Change
  
  
  Christopher Monckton, the Third Viscount Monckton of Benchley, debated Eric Bates, executive editor of Rolling Stone magazine, on the topic of climate change.
• Back in Touch With Her Inner Camper
  
  
  Even as a boy scout's mother was struggling to keep warm, she could appreciate what she had been missing by staying in hotels.
• Toward a Cleaner and Greener New York
  
  
  By halving sulfur levels in No. 4 heating oil, New York City could make a dent in air pollution and respiratory illnesses.
• On Our Radar: BP Writes Off Spill Costs
  
  
  Will half of BP's spill escrow fund come out of government coffers?

Dot Earth News

• Tracking Gulf's Fate as Slicks Recede
  
  
  As signs of oil on the gulf surface recede, biologists worry about hidden impacts to marine life.
• Varied Views of Bloody Coves
  
  
  Video scenes of the latest slaughter of marine mammals in a bloody cove are interpreted very differently by different factions.
• Lessons From Two Important Climate Forecasts
  
  
  A great climate scientist is defined by his successful forecast of warming and his acceptance that another forecast was flawed.
• Views on Carbon Caps, Sustainability Science
  
  
  An Apollo science project to balance human actions and the planet's limits
• Clashing Pacific and Atlantic Patterns Shaped Supe ...
  
  
  New research reveals the conditions that shaped the extreme snows of last winter.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Heads Up to Quigley's Apex: Bank of International ...
  
  
  From the shadier side of Switzerland comes the bank where the Nazis put plenty of dental gold they pillaged... Now with another gold-related operation for the 21st Century! One of the shadiest institutions in the world, the obscure Bank of International Settlements, was initially set up in 19 ...
• An affordable price
  
  
  Goldman Sachs Settlement 'Victory' Ushers Change to Wall Street BusinessWeek - ‎1 hour ago‎ July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s $550 million settlement with US regulators yesterday will benefit the firm by ending three months of uncertainty at an affordable price. ****** Another nice ...
• Food autonomy and building resilient communities i ...
  
  
  I got a few new followers from the Oakland/Bay Area after the tweets & post on the protest & stuff that went down after the Oscar Grant verdict. Police and state violence in many urban areas is an ongoing structural product of the way things are run in places like the Bay Area and other cities, but ...
• Hot night in Oakland: Oscar Grant killed by Mehser ...
  
  
  NadiartTwo : RT @ phyrecracker : Once the protest is labelled as a riot it's time for pocs to keep it movin #oscargrant "riots" began before they started. A good point there. Kind of like how the Toronto police recently parked a couple cars in front of the ragin' black bloc and vanishe ...
• Sunset of Chicago's Handgun Ban: Shots on Lawrence ...
  
  
  Back now from the US Social Forum in Detroit; stayed at friends' in Chicago and my sister's in Madison. On the way out of Detroit Saturday, I took Michigan Avenue west into Dearborn before cutting down to I-94. On the way out of Chicago Sunday, I took Lawrence Avenue out to I-90. Michigan and La ...

Daily Censored

• Detroit School privatizers and their coin operated ...
  
  
  We Can Win!  Detroit says âNOâ to Mayoral Control “DID YOU HERE THE GREAT NEWS! BAMN turns the ballot on Mayoral take over we won once again 6 to 3 votes!!! also rob bobb is running away i heard on the news thats hes going to be gone in like march!!!! we are winning and [...]
• Charter School Teacher Villages being constructed ...
  
  
  Picture of a computer-generated rendering of new buildings (beyond Williams Street, buildings in foreground are existing ones) in a “Teachers Village” along a new retail corridor on Newark’s Halsey Street in Newark, New Jersey. Teacher Villages for charter schools: Medieval castles for the education ...
• Aren’t You Tired Of Bending Over?
  
  
  Aren’t you tired of bending over?  I know I am.  The too big to fail banks perpetrated a giant real estate scheme. Loaning $$$ to people they knew would never be able to pay them back.  Then they secretly bet against those borrowers by insuring their loans with other banks.  When the house flipping ...
• Naomi Klein’s “The Shock Doctrine” and the Crisis ...
  
  
  It has been three years since Naomi Klein’s book, “The Shock Doctrine – The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” was published. Since that time, capitalism’s economic crisis has metastasized, and part of Klein’s analysis has proven extremely useful in understanding much of the response of the capitalist pol ...
• The Alan Gross Case: Could Twelve Dozen = Five?
  
  
  Someone, perhaps the protagonist himself, made a mistake — perhaps an âoversight,â as Washington bureaucrats label their errors. Alan Gross, on a mission for his company (DAI) working for US AID (United States Agency for International Development) solicited a tourist visa to travel to Cuba for t ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Wikileaks 'guilty' on moral grounds: Gates
• Pakistan committed in fight against Taliban: Gates
• US 'refutes' July death toll in Iraq
• US military chief admits to Iran attack plan
• US cannot afford to withdraw from global role: Mul ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• Corporate Negligence by any Other Name
  
  
  Resurrecting the Amoco brand would be just a cynical ploy at a time when we need to move forcefully into a new economy that doesn't ravage the environment.
• Dave Zirin on 'Bad Sports'
  
  
  Even a diehard pro sports fan can appreciate the problems of the current team ownership system.
• Review: 'The Bomb'
  
  
  Howard Zinn's last book leaves us with words that bring together thought, action, and passion.
• Wikileaks' Afghan War Diary
  
  
  Reactions to the documents have been mixed, but it's clear that they provide an important, revealing account of the cover-ups, corruption, and needless deaths that mark this aimless war.
• Obama: Faking Right?
  
  
  Obama may be fooling us all by faking right and dribbling right -- but it's our responsibility to close down that lane and make sure he drives to the left.

Equality Trust

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• VAT rise would hit the poorest
  
  
  Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
• Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
  
  
  Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector . But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?
• Splendid: government targets second homes
  
  
  As reported in today's Daily Telegraph , proposed hike in capital gains tax aims to part-fund increase in tax allowances for those on lower incomes. David Cameron describes second homes as "not .... necessarily splendid" for the economy.

PDA AMERICA

• Inside the Democratic Party July Call
  
  
  On this call we ratified the national endorsement of the following candidates: 1) David Segal (RI-01) who has been endorsed by RIPDA chapter under Brian Hull's leadership. 2) Larry Kalb (WA-02) who has been endorsed by ...
• Deja vu all over again!
  
  
  From Cleveland to Congress via Arizona At the PDA Grassroots Leadership Conference in Cleveland, Salvador Reza, co-founder of Puente Arizona, spoke about Arizona’s regressive immigration bill SB 1070 and the growing movement to prevent its enforcement. ...
• Property Rights and Public Accommodations
  
  
  Property Rights and Public Accommodations Ernest Partridge, Co-Editor The Crisis Papers July 28, 2010 � In the early sixties, the young black students in the South had had enough. Enough separate drinking fountains, enough all-night drives because no motel would provide a room, and ...
• Newspaper Truthiness
  
  
  By David Swanson | War is a Crime The Cleveland Plain Dealer is the latest in a series of major newspapers around the country that have announced a partnership with a group called PolitiFact which will ...
• Progressive Democrats of America Energized by Nati ...
  
  
  By David Swanson Progressive Democrats of America marked the beginning of its seventh year with a three-day conference that brought hundreds of activist leaders from all over the country to a Cleveland, Ohio, hotel this past weekend. Participants heard ...

Marler Blog

• RNC Chairman, Michael Steele, supports S 510 - Wel ...
  
  
  CNN reports that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was forced to cancel an appearance Friday before a national meeting of black journalists due to - you guessed it - food poisoning. "While traveling out West the Chairman came down with a bad case of food poisoning," an RNC spoke ...
• Senator Reid Promises E. coli Survivor Action on S ...
  
  
  Linda Rivera, a Nevada woman who contracted E. coli from cookie dough and has been battling for her life for the past fifteen months, has been promised the Senate will move on the pending food safety bill, S. 510--the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. A constituent of Senate Majority Leader Harry ...
• Relative Risk between Raw or Pasteurized Milk - a ...
  
  
  I get a lot of emails on raw milk – most are from raw milk promoters, producers or consumers who liken me to the devil or at least a pawn of big business. So, when I got a more subtle and interested question, I was pleased to respond. The question in essence was about the relative risk between dri ...
• IAFP Speech - "Is Ingredient a 10-letter word for ...
  
  
  After being in the fog of Seattle for the better part of the day working on my slides for the International Association for Food Protection conference (with a little bit of help), I am looking forward to an excuse to go to sunny California next week. Slide 10 - Larry King Video - http://www.marle ...
• More Food Safety Speeches Next Week
  
  
  I have the pleasure of speaking at IAFP (still working on slides) in the early part of next week and doing some stand-in at the www.foodsafetynews.com , www.outbreakdatabase.com and www.realrawmilkfacts.com booth.� I�then have the distinct honor of speaking at the NMA conference b ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 07.30.10
  
  
  Video: Elon Musk chats it up on Colbert Report Stephen makes a funny. Plug-In 2010: Drive Oregon chills with Arcimoto Pulse, Barefoot Motors ATV Three wheels, $17,500. ...
• AutoblogGreen for 07.29.10
  
  
  Plug-In 2010: Bill Nye, Chelsea Sexton return for public night panel Who loves electric cars? These folks. 2011 Chevrolet Volt requires... premium gas? Yup. What else would you put in a $41, ...
• AutoblogGreen for 07.28.10
  
  
  2011 Chevrolet Volt to be priced at $41,000, $350/month lease for 36 months Time to pony up? EPA sticker values for 2011 Volt likely to be interim, updated in 2012-13 The EPA's only had four ...
• AutoblogGreen for 07.27.10
  
  
  Report: Nissan considers relaunching 200SX as a fuel-efficient, affordable fastback Will Nissan introduce an efficient, budget-friendly fastback? Please. PICC's latest converted plug-in Prius boasts 40-mi ...
• AutoblogGreen for 07.26.10
  
  
  Automotive X-Prize: Finals Stage heats up as Edison2 tries to stay cool with ice Competition is the mother of creativity. Automotive X-Prize: TW4XP evolves human-hybrid Twike three-wheeler for competition ...

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters' Roundtable: How to start a tech busines ...
  
  
  Today we're talking about how to start a company in 2010 and 2011. A little background: I started covering startups in 1998 at a magazine called Red Herring. I wrote a daily column about startups called Catch of the Day. Over three years, I interviewed the leaders of over 1000 companies. Most o ...
• CNET to the Rescue: No matter where you go, here w ...
  
  
  On our show today: our favorite smartphone apps to help find stuff to do, things to eat, and people to connect with. Also, your questions and calls answered, including tips on painting laptops. But not until Josh shows off his USB-powered warning lights and a beer cooler that looks like a laptop ...
• Reporters' Roundtable: The state of blogging
  
  
  Blogs: What are they good for? Where are they going? We have three experienced guests today to discuss. Don't miss this look into the current and future state of the blogosphere. Our guests: Anil Dash of Expert Labs , an independent nonprofit which creates new Web technologies to help policy ma ...
• CNET to the Rescue: Cubicle defense
  
  
  Today, we rescue you from the indignities of working in a cubicle. We've got your rear-view mirrors, your headphones, and should all else fail, your USB foam rocket launchers. Because, you know, work is war. Also: How to stream music on an iPhone, how to test your home network for open ports, an ...
• Tynt breaks copy and paste, but only if you let it
  
  
  If what you paste is not what you copied, Tynt might be the tool that made it possible, but it's not to blame.

Camera Obscura

• Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
  
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so fre ...
• The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
  
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
  
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
  
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
• Dangerous spaces: Safe.
  
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, w ...

Democracy Now!

• WikiLeaks' Afghan War Diary
  
  
  Wikileaks.org has done it again, publishing thousands of classified documents about the U.S. war in Afghanistan. The website provides a secure platform for whistle-blowers to deliver documents, videos and other electronic media while maintaining anonymity. Last March it released a video shot from a ...
• Amy Goodman on CNN's _John King, USA_
  
  
  Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman appears live from Las Vegas on CNN’s John King, USA , on Thursday, July 22nd at 7pm Eastern Time.
• Part II: Kashmiri Journalist Basharat Peer, Author ...
  
  
  Indian troops and police have killed fifteen people in Kashmir since June, sparking widespread protests. The Indian government has imposed a strict military curfew in the area as well as a media gag order on local journalists. The international community has remained silent on the human rights abus ...
• Deficit Doves
  
  
  Getting out of the red is the new black. Deficit hawks have swooped down on the U.S. budget. This week, they attacked unemployment benefits. Ultimately, they are going after Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, the venerable programs once considered untouchable “third rails” of U.S. politics. Th ...
• Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's _John King, USA_
  
  
  Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King, USA , on Monday, July 19th at 7pm Eastern Time.

Farming Pathogens

• Does Influenza Evolve in Multiple Tenses?
  
  
  The past may possess a power greater than prologue. Any one with a social networking account knows that. All of a sudden you find yourself daily interacting with people long thought boxed away. People mature, yes, but sensibilities remain largely intact and an old year, fine wine or vinegar, pours b ...
• Influenza’s Historical Present
  
  
  I delivered the following speech, co-written with economic geographer Luke Bergmann, at the NIH-FAO-sponsored ‘Second International Workshop on Community-based Data Synthesis, Analysis and Modeling of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in Asia’ held in Beijing earlier this month. The speech is b ...
• The Alan Greenspan Strain
  
  
  First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...
• King Leopold’s Pandemic
  
  
  The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...
• The Expulsion
  
  
  In 1845 a diplomat delivered a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm to Louis Philippe of France protesting the insults leveled at the Prussian king by expatriates living in Paris. King Louis had the radicals’ newspaper closed down and the group, along with one Karl Marx, deported. This was not the first ti ...

Suzie-Q

• BP: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Dispute – 1951
  
  
  BP By Any Other Name – The Anglo-Iranian Oil Dispute – 1951 Crooks & Liars- By Gordonskene Friday Jul 30, 2010 7:00pm When Iran, under Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized Iran’s oil production in March of 1951, it put a crimp in the relations between Iran and Britain, who had enjoyed massive profits fro ...
• Dan Ellsberg on WikiLeaks & the Essential Democrat ...
  
  
  John Nichols, The Nation, July 29, 2010 The Obama White House was quick to condemn the publication Sunday evening of more than 91,000 secret documents detailing the monumentally misguided and frequently failed attempt by the United States to occupy Afghanistan. National Security Adviser James Jones ...
• Obama Small Business Task Force Will Likely Threat ...
  
  
  The Huffington Post Lloyd Chapman On April 26th, President Barack Obama established a Small Business Task Force to supposedly remove barriers to small businesses landing contracts with the federal government. I had to laugh out loud. This was amusing to me for many reasons, but most notably, Preside ...
• BREAKING: Arizona Immigration Law: Judge Blocks Pa ...
  
  
  Judge Blocks Parts Of Ariz. Immigration Law Law Will Still Take Effect Thursday But Without Many Controversial Provisions AMANDA MYERS, Associated Press Writers Via: KPHO.com POSTED: 2:58 pm MST July 27, 2010 UPDATED: 10:21 am MST July 28, 2010 PHOENIX — A judge has blocked the most controversial se ...
• Louisiana Oil Geyser: 20-Foot Oil Leak (PHOTOS)
  
  
  Louisiana Oil Geyser: 20-Foot Oil Leak Shooting Up In Plaquemines Parish After Hit By Tugboat (PHOTOS) Huff Post- First Posted: 07-27-10 01:29 PM   |   Updated: 07-27-10 02:51 PM NEW ORLEANS – (AP) Oil is spewing from a damaged well north of a bay where officials have been fighting the spill f ...

Solari

• Financial Times Says European Banks Lent Their Cus ...
  
  
  Although it does not appear until almost the end of this article in the Financial Times, BIS Gold Swaps Mystery Unravelled, the source of the gold provided in the dollar swaps with BIS is coming from customers of about 10 European banks who are holding their gold at the banks in ‘unallocated account ...
• High-speed Railroading
  
  
  America’s system of rail freight is the world’s best. High-speed passenger trains could ruin it. Union Station in Los Angeles has been restored as a fine example of the Art Deco architecture that typified California in the 1930s. It has served as a backdrop for many Hollywood films, from “Union Sta ...
• Global Prices for Big Mac Burgers
  
  
  Continue reading the article . . .
• Google, CIA Invest in Predicting the ‘Future’ via ...
  
  
  By Noah Shachtman The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find ...
• Dr. Gwen Scott on Morgellon’s
  
  
  -- -- -- -- Dr. Gwen Scott, N.D. Dr. Gwen Scott with Jeff Rense on Morgellon’s Disease (.mp3) Also recommended: Dr. Gwen Scott - Natural Medicine: A Survivor’s Guide

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Why Is Simon & Schuster Spreading the Wild Con ...
  
  
  Pamela Geller has some crazy ideas, which the corporate media seem content to disseminate uncritically.
• FBI Admits Investigating Howard Zinn for Criticizi ...
  
  
  FBI files show bureau may have tried to get Zinn fired from Boston University for his political opinions
• What to do if You're Detained in Arizona? Here's a ...
  
  
  Since SB 1070 passed, immigration lawyers have been flooded with questions. Here are some answers.
• California Storing DNA of Innocent People
  
  
  California’s law mandating that DNA samples be taken from all felony arrestees is facing a legal challenge from the ACLU of Northern California.
• Hightower: Why Is No One Talking About the Real Tr ...
  
  
  The Shirley Sherrod fiasco didn't just expose ugliness on the part of Breitbart, Fox News and Obama. It also overshadowed another, truly racist act.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

• Climate science progresses, despite the wishes of ...
  
  
  Summary:   New research continues to flow in that challenges important aspects of the climate science consensus.  In the case of a new article, the long-term temperature reconstructions, largely dependent on tree rings (dendrochronology), and the role of solar effects.  That the leaders have for so ...
• Every day brings new pro-war propaganda for our am ...
  
  
  Summary:   One oddity of our time is the news.  Not the predominance of pro-war advocacy, or its increasingly desperate and specious nature, but how seldom anyone remarks upon these things.  Today Max Boot provides another example.  A ludicrous example. Here we examine “Impact of past defense ...
• Today’s conservative doomster warning (ludic ...
  
  
  Summary:   A brief analysis of the latest doomster propaganda, using fear to promote the baseless recommendations of the Austerians.  It’s another chapter of conservatives’ favorite story, Fear. It’s fun to play with the minds of the American people, as we’ve become foolish and ignorant.  Any ...
• About the problems at Arlington Cemetery
  
  
  Summary:  A brief analysis by GI Wilson on the problems at Arlington Cemetery, and their broader significance. Business as usual in DC!  Troops got treated poorly at Walter Reed and troops get more of the same at Arlington cemetery. Consistent track record of pissing on the troops and their graves.  ...
• The threat of insurgents using MANPADS is exaggera ...
  
  
  Summary:  One cause of our America’s increasing paranoia are the persistent exaggerations of threats by our experts.   This is another article in our efforts to help readers become better consumers of news.  It combines material from two previous posts, here and here. An important role of geopol ...

Open Your Eyes News

• WikiLeaks founder accuses US army of failing to pr ...
  
  
  The Guardian – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has hit out at the US military, saying that it bears the ultimate responsibility for any deaths of Afghan informers in the wake of the publication by his organisation of 75,000 leaked files of American army secrets. Assange and WikiLeaks, the whistlebl ...
• The Dangers of Genetically Engineered Milk
  
  
  Huffington Post – As reported in the June 25 New York Times article on “Genetically Altered Salmon,” genetically altered foods “must be labeled–if they are different in their nutritional or natural properties or other characteristics.” Genetically engineered milk is very different than natural milk, ...
• US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs
  
  
  AP â In a summer of suffering, America’s military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in the grinding conflict. All signs point to more bloodshed in the months ahead, straining the already shaky international support for the war. Six more Americans ...
• UK deputy leader doubted case for Iraq war
  
  
  ABC – Britain’s former deputy prime minister, John Prescott, has told the Iraq inquiry he was nervous about the intelligence being relied on before the invasion in 2003. Lord Prescott was Tony Blair’s loyal deputy for a decade, and party to 23 secret war cabinet meetings. He told the Chilcot inquiry ...
• Western diet link to ADHD
  
  
  PhysOrg.com – A new study from Perth’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research shows an association between ADHD and a ‘Western-style’ diet in adolescents. The research findings have just been published online in the international Journal of Attention Disorders. Leader of Nutrition studies at ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Israel destroys whole Bedouin village, hundreds ho ...
  
  
  Israel destroys whole Bedouin village, hundreds homeless (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Three hundred Bedouins in the Negev desert were made homeless last Thursday as hundreds of Israeli police razed their village and demolished their homes. Chaya Noach, head of Negev Coexistence Forum for Civi ...
• Michael Rakulski – O powstaniu arystokracji ...
  
  
  Michael Rakulski – O powstaniu arystokracji pracy (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) âNasza epoka, epoka burżuazji, wyróżnia siÄ jednak tym, że uproÅciÅa przeciwieÅstwa klasowe. CaÅe spoÅeczeÅstwo rozszczepia siÄ coraz bardziej i bardziej na dwa wielkie wrogie obozy, na dwie wielkie wrÄcz pr ...
• Maoism-Third Worldism on the Environment (español)
  
  
  HD-mp4 torrent title: Maoism Third Worldism On the Environment (Spanish)
• Adaptasyon sa pelikula ng Mabuhay ang Tagumpay ng ...
  
  
  Shubel Morgan: Adaptasyon sa pelikula ng Mabuhay ang Tagumpay ng Digmang Bayan! (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Tagalog) (English) Isinulat ni kasamang Lin Biao noong 1965, Ang Mabuhay ang Tagumpay ng Digmang Bayan! ay isa sa pinakamahalagang rebolusyonaryong basahin ng ating panahon. Isinusulo ...
• Monsanto, Settlers Inadvertently Create New Superw ...
  
  
  Monsanto, Settlers Inadvertently Create New Superweeds (www.antiimperialism.wordpress.com) Over a decade ago, Monsanto made a supposed breakthrough. The idea was simple: sell both genetically-modified seeds and herbicide which would kill all other plant-life. It was marketed with great success to Am ...

PakAlert

• Chutzpah – Israeli puppets bully Pakistan
  
  
  The ‘British Friends of Israel’, David Cameron, British Prime Minister during his visit to India claimed that Pakistan while publically working to stablize Afghanistan, is funding the Taliban. He blamed Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI behind the terrorist activities inside Pakistan’s neighboring ...
• Disasters at Work: Floods and Air Plane Crash in P ...
  
  
  152 people included 146 passengers and six crew members on board the plane were killed in a plane crash in the Margalla hills near Islamabad. On the other hand, the death toll from three days of flooding in Pakistan has exceeded 1100, as heavy seasonal monsoon rains bloat rivers, submerge villages a ...
• Prepare for WW3: How to build a cheap fallout shel ...
  
  
  A fallout shelter, in an emergency, does not have to cost several thousands of dollars or take years to prepare.
• Obama Kills At Least 66 More US Troops In July
  
  
  Afghanistan – In a summer of suffering, America's military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in the grinding conflict. All signs point to more bloodshed in the months ahead, straining the already shaky international support for the war. ...
• Global Oil Spill Epidemic – Updates
  
  
  Why are oil spills suddenly occurring constantly, all over the world? Just this year, the environment has taken an unprecedented beating, from the oil industry alone.

Andy Worthington

• Today: Fast Against Torture on Eighth Anniversary ...
  
  
  Eight years ago today, Jay S. Bybee, then the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, and now a judge in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, signed two memos, largely written by OLC lawyer John Yoo, which purported to redefine torture so that it could be used by the CIA, and approv ...
• Buy My Guantánamo and Stonehenge Books Anywhere in ...
  
  
  Recently, a reader wanted to buy a signed copy of my book The Guantánamo Files in the United States, which threw me into something of a quandary. Normally, I would advise anyone wanting to buy a copy of any of my books outside the UK to check out online retailers (Amazon, for example — [...]
• Who Are the Guantánamo Prisoners Released in Cape ...
  
  
  Last week, the enforced repatriation of Abdul Aziz Naji, an Algerian prisoner in Guantánamo, diverted attention from the stories of three other men who were released in less worrying circumstances: a Syrian who was rehoused in Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony off the west coast of Africa; an U ...
• Abdul Aziz Naji, Released from Guantánamo Last Wee ...
  
  
  In the first detailed interview with a prisoner released from Guantánamo to Algeria, Abdul Aziz Naji, forcibly repatriated last week, has spoken to the Algerian newspaper El Khabar, describing his experiences during his eight years in US custody. While this is a welcome demonstration of transparency ...
• Guantánamo Algerian Returns Home; Will Obama Suspe ...
  
  
  Last week, the release from Guantánamo of Abdul Aziz Naji, who was transferred to Algerian custody against his wishes, overshadowed other news from the prison, and with good reason. As I explained in an article at the time, the Obama administration, the Supreme Court and the D.C. Circuit Court, whic ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• How Prospects Cooled for U.S. Global Warming Bill
  
  
  Political stalemate means the world’s largest historic contributor to the greenhouse gas problem faces international talks—again--without a plan. United States - Greenhouse gas - Global warming - Environment - Climate change
• Photos: Algae Blankets China Beaches; Dead Zone Br ...
  
  
  NoneMats of green algae have covered miles of coastline in China, creating foul odors and possibly choking life underneath the waves. Algae - China - Biology - Flora and Fauna - Bacteria
• China Oil Spill Photos: Fire, Crude, and an Inky C ...
  
  
  NoneFire, crude, and an inky cleanup mark the great China oil spill of 2010—a drop in the barrel compared to the Gulf of Mexico spill. Oil spill - Gulf of Mexico - Environment - Energy - Petroleum in the Environment
• Pictures: Huge Jets Shoot From Dam During China Fl ...
  
  
  NoneChina's massive Three Gorges Dam is being pushed to its limits by heavy monsoon rains that have sent water gushing through spill gates. Three Gorges Dam - Flood - Dam - Monsoon - Water
• Jumbo Squid Flash, Flail in First Ever Squid-cam V ...
  
  
  Filmed away from humans for the first time, jumbo squid light up during an expedition that also found them to have superstrong bites. Squid - Proxying and Filtering - Cooking - Home - Shellfish

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Let's Take a Shot at the Media
  
  
  How can I possibly top that introduction? I'm so happy - I'm tearing up! Actually, if I can add just a dash of local flavor to this bubbling cauldron of intellectual give and take, Connecticut Man1 can add a micro-brew to his menu of libations. Cheers! Let's Take a Shot at the Media While I'd l ...
• Welcome News on Ramping up Blog Production in New ...
  
  
  As the next big election season starts to heat up... I just wanted to note that this place will start getting a little more interesting. There a lot of great races on the radar, with the Governor's race, a Senate seat and the endless campaign campaigns on the House side, of course. But, even better ...
• What subversive literature is that?
  
  
  My daughter is up to something today.... First step to conquering the world?
• Premature Ejaculatory Praise Of Tiny Comical Rele ...
  
  
  I think TPM's Megan Carpentier may have captured the essence of this funny and tiny problem for teabagger redux - "Microman" - in her last paragraph: Wurzelbacher describes Microman as "frustrated" and "one of us" in the same press release. One wonders how many other Tea Party members, already frust ...
• Two Polls and Two Really Bad Jokes
  
  
  Poll 1. Research 2000 just pretty much confirmed the state of the Connecticut Senate race between Blumenthal and McMahon: Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 5/24-26. Likely voters. MoE 4% ( 1/11-13 results) Dick Blumenthal (D) 52 (56) Linda McMahon (R) 33 (34) It'd been a while since we polled Co ...

SPL Center

• Another Long, Hot Black Nationalist Summer at Fox ...
  
  
  It must be July, because Fox News is once again hyperventilating over a racially charged non-story. One year ago, it was Glenn Beckâs crusade against Van Jones, the White House environmental advisor who, the host charged, day after day and against all available evidence, was a black nationalist us ...
• Expanding A3P Absorbs Another Hate Group
  
  
  The American Third Position (A3P), a fledgling but important Southern California-based white supremacist political party, has expanded its base by merging with another relatively new racist and anti-Semitic organization. The latter group, the New Jersey-based League of American Patriots (LOAP), was ...
• Neo-Nazi Bill White Facing Jury Intimidation Trial
  
  
  Former neo-Nazi leader Bill White , already doing time in a federal prison, may face trial in a separate case of allegedly encouraging violence against a jury foreman. A federal judge in Chicago ruled 11 months ago that when White posted personal information, including the home address and phone num ...
• Racists See ‘Set-Up’ in Arrest of Idaho Lawy ...
  
  
  Onetime Aryan Nations attorney Edgar J. Steele was denied bail today in a case that has many of his fellow bigots suggesting in postings to white nationalist websites that the Idaho attorney must be an innocent victim of a conspiracy because of his racist views — not a man who plotted to have his wi ...
• Strange Twists Reported in Idaho Murder-for-Hire C ...
  
  
  The twists and turns in the murder-for-hire case of one-time Aryan Nations attorney Edgar J. Steele could come right out of a novel by Danielle Steel. Since his arrest last Friday, when he was charged with soliciting the murder of his wife and her mother , there have been the following developments ...

change: org.

• Feds Score The Pollution Woes Of Minority Towns
  
  
  U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson spends a whole chunk of her time dealing with her agency's controversial climate change regulations and an oil spill in the Gulf. But she also has another passion. Jackson, the first African American administrator, g rew up in the 9th ward of New Orleans . Seeing ...
• To Save Shellfish, Add Chesapeake Ray to the Menu
  
  
  Ever thought about eating a stingray? Neither had I, really, until I learned that the Virginia Marine Products Board is now  spotlighting what they are calling the "Chesapeake Ray."  Like the invasive asian carp in the Mississippi River, officials are attempting to market the fish to consumers as a ...
• Is MTV the Best Television Network for LGBT People ...
  
  
  There are people besides Snooki and The Situation on MTV? I had no idea. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced last week that MTV has the most representation of LGBT characters on television. In its fourth annual study, GLAAD compared the broadcast and cable television ne ...
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Slaughter ...
  
  
  While driving down an isolated highway through South Dakota prairieland in mid-July, a couple spotted a stray running around in the middle of the road. The good Samaritans stopped and, after a bit of a struggle, managed to scoop the lost animal into their van, where it promptly fell asleep for 10 ho ...
• Aloha Homeless!
  
  
  I recently enjoyed a month on the beaches of Oahu, Hawaii. AND the use of a house a block away. Not everyone, even in the "paradise" that is Hawaii, is so fortunate when it comes to the housing part. In fact, there has been a growing "homeless problem" in a number of locations on several of the is ...

Common Dreams -News

• White House Pushes for Warrantless Access to Inter ...
  
  
  by Muriel Kane The White House has asked Congress to make it possible for the FBI to demand that Internet service providers turn over customers' records in cases involving terrorism or other intelligence issues without first obtaining a court order. read more
• As Desert Deaths Soar, a Morgue Grows Crowded
  
  
  by James C. McKinley Jr. TUCSON - Dr. Bruce Parks unzips a white body bag on a steel gurney and gingerly lifts out a human skull and mandible, turning them over in his hands and examining the few teeth still in their sockets. The body bag, coated with dust, also contains a broken pelvis, a femur and ...
• Congress Reforms Cocaine Convictions
  
  
  by Alex Spillius in Washington The US House of Representatives approved a bill reducing the disparities between mandatory crack and powder cocaine sentences, which will now be sent for President Barack Obama's signature. During his presidential campaign, Mr Obama said that the wide gap in sentencing ...
• Michigan Oil Spill Estimated by EPA at 1 Million-P ...
  
  
  by Tim Martin Federal officials now estimate that more than 1 million gallons of oil may have spilled into the Kalamazoo River through Battle Creek, and the governor is sharply criticizing clean-up efforts as "wholly inadequate." The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the update Wednesday ...
• Global Warming Pushes 2010 Temperatures to Record ...
  
  
  by Juliette Jowit Global temperatures in the first half of the year were the hottest since records began more than a century ago, according to two of the world's leading climate research centers. Scientists have also released what they described as the "best evidence yet" of rising long-term temper ...

Lifehacker

• Five Best Personal Project Management Tools [Hive ...
  
  
  It's easy to find a project management tool for large groups, but finding one for personal use that doesn't overwhelm you with group-focused features is a challenge. Here's a look at five popular tools for personal project management. More� ...
• Convert Your Charcoal Grill to Gas [DIY]
  
  
  Whether you've made your own barbecue or have an old one sitting around in the garage, if you've tired of the charcoal scene, you can save money on a new gas grill by converting your old one instead. More��
• Top 10 Tools and Tactics to Trim Your Bills [Lifeh ...
  
  
  Cutting down your cellphone, rent, credit card, and other bills is the gift that keeps on giving, all year 'round. Try these negotiation tactics, savings tips, reminder plans, and other tips to cut down your paycheck killers. More�� ...
• Make Edible Cups Out of Jello [Food]
  
  
  Whether you're a fan of environmental hacks or you just want a new conversation starter, these edible, naturally biodegradable cups are sure to add some fun to your summer get-togethers. More��
• Change Your Account's Gender in Web Services to Av ...
  
  
  The great (and sometimes annoying) thing about the internet is that most web services attempt to tailor their ads to you. Reader Defunctfrenzy , though, found that he actually got better ads by switching his gender in his account settings. ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Pelosi Dodges The Afghan Question
  
  
  By Steve Hynd Christine Amanpour asked Nancy Pelosi the $60 billion question on Afghanistan: "How does this figure into our protecting the American people? Is it worth it?" Pelosi asked rhetorically. "Is it worth it?" Amanpour repeated pointedly. "Is it worth it?" "That is the question," Pelosi repl ...
• Back To Whack-A-Mole In Afghanistan?
  
  
  By Steve Hynd Official reports of Operation Tor Shezad, the latest British offensive in the helmand province of Afghanistan, say it is going well, in that they haven't found many Taliban yet. The operation, which translates as "black prince", started with soldiers being dropped from Chinook helicopt ...
• TIME’s Epic Distortion of the Plight of Women in A ...
  
  
  By Derrick Crowe Help us push back against TIME Magazine's distortion of women's issues in Afghanistan. Tomorrow, TIME Magazine will treat newsstand customers everywhere to one of the most rank propaganda plays of the Afghanistan War. The cover features a woman, Aisha, whose face was mutilated by th ...
• The End Of Military History?
  
  
  By Steve Hynd As Newt Gingrich calls for new wars and a clash of civilizations despite the manifest failure of force to accomplish anything much in Afghanistan and Iraq, it's worth asking: is war becoming obsolete as a viable instrument of statecraft? Andrew Bacevich says yes. A lengthy excerpt from ...
• From the "No-One Could've Anticipated" files
  
  
  By Steve Hynd Who would ever have guessed? At a time of record-high military suicides, commanders are ignoring the mental health problems of American soldiers and not winnowing out enough of those with records of substance abuse and crime, a United States Army report has concluded. ...The report sai ...

Water Wars

• Rockford River Days...let the countdown begin
  
  
  The city of Rockford is preparing of its annual celebration "River Days" which runs Friday, Aug. 13 through Sunday, Aug. 15, in Riverside Park in downtown Rockford (most events).
• Library water wars
  
  
  Youngsters from Price and Helper duel with loaded water bottles. The action took place during the three-day Price vs. Helper water wars. Since this year's summer reading program has a water theme, Procarione and Helper ...
• Gubernatorial hopeful Scott stops by Eastpoint
  
  
  Rick Scott, Republican hopeful for the Florida governors mansion, stopped briefly in Franklin County Sunday afternoon to take a look at the oyster bars. In spite of reports to the contrary, Scott did not visit Apalachicola this week unless you...
• Town column: Summer park activities are still in f ...
  
  
  Summer, defined as the months in which school is not in session, is official two-thirds complete. But things aren't winding down just yet at the Oakbrook Terrace Park District, where big events are scheduled in the days to come.
• Rockford River Days...let the countdown begin
  
  
  The city of Rockford is preparing of its annual celebration "River Days" which runs Friday, Aug. 13 through Sunday, Aug. 15, in Riverside Park in downtown Rockford (most events).

WordPress | Economics

• China launches new global positioning satellite
  
  
  BEIJING (Reuters) – China Took A Further Step Toward ending on Sunday ITS dependence on U.S. s
• Eurazeo in exclusive B&B Hotels talks with Car ...
  
  
  PARIS (Reuters) – French financial holding firm Eurazeo said on Saturday it is in exclusive ta
• Michigan Governor and Manufacturing Jobs
  
  
  In this piece out on Thursday in the Huffington Post, Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm complains
• How the economy works
  
  
  The economy works very much like the human body. When the body functions as it should, the person is
• U.S. is World's #1 Weapons Supplier - With a Bulle ...
  
  
  Common Dreams: Obama Seeks to Expand U.S. Arms Exports WASHINGTON – The United States is curre

Electronic Intifada

• Activists work to stop tax-exempt donations to Isr ...
  
  
  As Israel's illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank continues to be a strain on US-Israel relations, an unflattering light is being shone on US private donations to ...
• US tax-exempt donations fund Israeli settlements
  
  
  RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Anger has arisen in Palestinian areas over reports that millions of tax-exempt dollars from the US are being funneled towards Israel's illegal ...
• Book review: history lesson on the left's Palestin ...
  
  
  If I am Not For Myself provides fascinating critical insight into Zionism, and amounts to a crucial warning from history on Palestine for the liberal left of today. Asa Win ...
• What's in a name? In a racist society, everything
  
  
  A young Jewish Israeli woman and a young Palestinian Jerusalemite had consensual sex. Afterwards, the Jewish woman discovered that her partner was in fact not Jewish at all, but ho ...
• Don't deny our rights: open letter to Mahmoud Abba ...
  
  
  No Palestinian institution or leader has ever accepted an exclusive Jewish claim to Palestine, which is irreconcilable with the internationally recognized rights of the Pal ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Dutch troops begin to withdraw from Afghanistan
  
  
  The Netherlands Sunday began the phased withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan, the Dutch foreign ministry in the Hague said, after four years of active operations in the conflict.
• Pak Army kills 15 Taliban militants in Orakzai Age ...
  
  
  At least 15 militants were killed and several others wounded during the Pakistan security forces' offensive in the Orakzai Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
• 270 civilians killed in July in Afghanistan
  
  
  As many as 270 civilians were killed in July in different incidents across Afghanistan, an official said Sunday.
• US-led forces start targeted killings of militants ...
  
  
  In a major shift that could change the nature of the war in Afghanistan, the US-led forces have started the targeted killings of insurgents from Al Qaeda and the Taliban, a media report said.
• UK troops find 'bomb factory' in Afghan ...
  
  
  The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said that the British troops targeting a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan have found a cache of bomb-making equipment.

Futurismic

• Fabricating fabrics: 3D printing meets (sustainabl ...
  
  
  Man, things are moving fast. I’ve been blogging about 3D printing on and off for a few years now, but I wasn’t aware that some designers are already using fabbing techniques to print off some very cyberpunkish custom-tailored clothes and accessories [via BoingBoing]. I expect the novelty of the tech ...
• What makes humans different to other animals?
  
  
  You probably know the classic three answers to that one: humans are unique among animals because of tool use, symbolic behavious (e.g. language), and the domestication of other living things. Now, however, we may be able to add a fourth… although it might be better understood as the one that underli ...
• Tardigotchi: hybrid real/virtual pet
  
  
  Readers of a certain age will remember the tamagotchi virtual pet craze of the late nineties, though they (like me) may be surprised to know they’re still selling strongly. Furthermore, readers who follow Futurismic closely (which is all of you, AMIRITES?) may remember me mentioning tardigrades, the ...
• Six reasons why mind uploading (probably) ain’t go ...
  
  
  Via R U Sirius at the recently-resuscitated H+ Magazine, SyFy*’s Dvice blog lists six reasons that the uploading of human minds in the classic sf-nal civilisational Singularity scenario is extremely unlikely to become a reality. The sixth is the one most likely to make a good story in its own right, ...
• SocNets and nation-states: a comparison
  
  
  Via Bruce Sterling, a piece at The Economist compares Facebook’s population and social character to that of a nation-state: In some ways, it might seem absurd to call Facebook a state and Mr Zuckerberg its governor. It has no land to defend; no police to enforce law and order; it does not have subje ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
  
  
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on Government Oversight

• House Passes CLEAR Act
  
  
  The House of Representatives passed the CLEAR Act (Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009, or, H.R. 3534) late yesterday by a vote of 209 to 193. You may read POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian's statement on the...
• Embarrassing Secrets? David Tenenbaum and the Stat ...
  
  
  "When properly invoked, the state secrets privilege serves important goals. History shows that where it is abused, there are serious consequences." Senator Patrick Leahy, D-VT, (2009) Is the state secrets privilege still being abused? POGO has witnessed government actions to...
• House Passes Offshore Oil and Gas Worker Whistlebl ...
  
  
  The House just passed HR 5851—the Offshore Oil and Gas Worker Whistleblower Protection Act of 2010. POGO strongly supports this bill, which was sponsored and championed by Reps. George Miller (D-CA) and Markey (D-MA). Find POGO's statement on the bill...
• Where's the Reaction to "Top Secret America"?
  
  
  POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian offers her thoughts to the The Washington Post on its "Top Secret America" series: "I would have thought this series would have been a game changer of how Congress looks at intelligence," said Danielle Brian,...
• House to Vote on Two Key Pieces of Legislation Tod ...
  
  
  The House is set today to vote on two key pieces of legislation in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf: the CLEAR Act (Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009), H.R. 3534, and the...

Digital Journal

• Crew of water bomber killed while fighting fire
  
  
  A British Comumbia wildfire turned deadly for the crew of a water bomber working to stop the blaze. The pilot and co-pilot of the aircraft were killed when it crashed on Saturday, July 31.
• Irie Music Festival 2010 celebrates cultural diver ...
  
  
  As tens of thousands of people celebrated the annual Caribana festival at the Exhibition Place in downtown Toronto, another festival took place in three city squares which celebrated the different cultures in the form of music, art and cuisine.
• A chat with Vancouver community leader Godwin Eni
  
  
  Dr. Godwin Eni, originally from Nigeria, is a leading figure in the African-Canadian community in British Columbia, Canada. I recently had a chat with him. Here is how it went:
• Value of American food waste greater than offshore ...
  
  
  A new study suggests that 16 per cent of the total energy used in the U.S. is used in food production and the amount that is thrown away is more valuable than what is available in offshore reserves.
• Toronto's Christopher Raphael arrested for first d ...
  
  
  Almost a month after a Canada-wide warrant was issued for Christopher Raphael, 20, police have their man. Raphael is the fifth person arrested in the Adrian Ducas murder case.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Aloha Homeless!
  
  
  I recently enjoyed a month on the beaches of Oahu, Hawaii. AND the use of a house a block away. Not everyone, even in the "paradise" that is Hawaii, is so fortunate when it comes to the housing part. In fact, there has been a growing "homeless problem" in a number of locations on several of the is ...
• Will D.C. Shut Down Its New Tent City?
  
  
  The new tent city at the intersection of 7th, R and Rhode Island Avenue in northwest Washington D.C. is three weeks old as of today. Many people are surprised to see that it hasn't been shut down by the city yet. We believe that's because Mayor Adrian Fenty doesn't want images of protesters being ar ...
• Never Leave a Fallen Comrade Behind
  
  
  I will always place the mission first. I will never accept defeat. I will never quit. I will never leave a fallen comrade. These are the words that our soldiers look toward to sustain and guide them, not only during active duty, but for the rest of their lives. One only has to visit a national ve ...
• The Courage to Start Moving the Homeless Online
  
  
  Homeless and not-so-homeless volunteers will be demolishing an RV tomorrow, Saturday, July 31, in Pflugerville, Texas. They're not angry — they're inspired. It's step one in the "RV extreme makeover" project of  Homeless Coach , a startup non-profit whose focus is on taking technology to the homeles ...
• Sex Trafficking Doesn't Just Happen Overseas
  
  
  "Children and youth victimized in human trafficking are not social outcasts or criminals. Rather, they are our neighbors and friends, our nieces and nephews, and our children and grandchildren who have been or who are currently being mentally, physically and sexually abused. And they don't need us ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Global cluster bomb ban takes effect August 1st
  
  
  A global treaty that bans the use of cluster bombs, a weapon containing multiple â often hundreds â of small explosive submunitions or bomblets, will take effect today, August 1st, when the treaty, signed by 107 countries, becomes legally binding. Steve Goose, who is the co-chair of the Cluster ...
• DND computers used to remove criticism of F-35s fr ...
  
  
  The Department of National Defence has confirmed that its computers were used to alter the Wikipedia entry regarding the F-35 fighter and the Conservative government’s decision to purchase 65 of them. Reportedly, the edits included “the removal of information critical of the government’s plan to buy ...
• Tory government misplaces Canadian Arctic
  
  
  In an effort to bolster its claims that Canada needs the F-35 to defend Canadian sovereignty in the North, the Conservative Party is pointing to the recent intercept of two Russian Bear aircraft “over the Arctic” by Canadian CF-18s as evidence of the need for new fighters, claiming that the intercep ...
• Hawks versus doves
  
  
  Last weekend’s National Post published a letter from Senator Pamela D. Wallin questioning the independence and expertise of three critics of the Department of National Defence’s purchase of F-35 fighter jets on the basis that all of them have ties to the Rideau Institute. Dismissing the Rideau In ...
• Report suggests changes to rules of engagement cou ...
  
  
  A recent study by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds “strong evidence” that “local exposure to ISAF generated civilian casualties drives increased insurgent violence over the long-run.” (Luke N. Condra, Joseph H. Felter, Radha K. Iyengar & Jacob N. Shapiro, The Effect of Civilian Casualt ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Drug Contamination Of Waterways Threatens Life On ...
  
  
  July 30, 2010 Natural News by Mike Adams The President’s Cancer Panel (PCP) recently released its yearly report to the President outlining the status of cancer in America. This year’s report focuses primarily on environmental factors that contribute to cancer risk. According to the report, pharmaceu ...
• Feds Raid Amish Dairy And Threaten Action Over Raw ...
  
  
  July 30, 2010 NaturalNews.com by Ethan Huff The U.S. government gestapo is at it again in its crusade against raw milk. Recently, the jackboots swarmed a Pennsylvania Amish man’s private dairy farm for the second time, falsely accusing him of violating the ridiculous prohibition on selling raw milk ...
• Mainstream Media Slants Cancer Articles Towards Un ...
  
  
  July 30, 2010 Natural News by David Gutierrez “Very few news reports about cancer discuss death and dying, and even those that do generally do not mention palliative and hospice care,” the researchers wrote. Palliative care is medical care designed to reduce suffering and improve quality of life but ...
• Music Benefits The Brain
  
  
  July 30, 2010 NaturalNews.com by S.L. Baker Northwestern University scientists have pulled together a review of research into what music — specifically, learning to play music — does to humans. The result shows music training does far more than allow us to entertain ourselves and others by playing a ...
• US Financial System Begging For $76 Billion More
  
  
  July 30, 2010 Bloomberg by Sandrine Rastello The U.S. financial system remains fragile and banks subjected to additional economic stress might need as much as $76 billion in capital, according to the results of International Monetary Fund stress tests. The findings, released today as part of a broad ...

Pambazuka News

• Global: May for the Cuban 5
  
  
  The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
• Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
  
  
  Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
• 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
  
  
  Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
• Haiti: Private contractors 'like vultures coming t ...
  
  
  Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging "shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporation...
• How NGOs are profiting off a grave situation
  
  
  It's now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be ...

War in Context

• Do disclosures of atrocities change anything?
  
  
  At Counterpunch, Alexander Cockburn writes: The hope of the brave soldier who sent 92,000 secret U.S. documents to Wikileaks was that their disclosure would prompt public revulsion and increasing political pressure on Obama to seek with all speed a diplomatic conclusion to this war. The document ...
• Secrets worth revealing
  
  
  “Dr Ellsberg, do you have any concern about the possibility of going to prison for this?” “Wouldn’t you go to prison to help end this war?” Ellsberg responded when asked by reporters about the repercussions he might face after leaking the Pentagon Papers. The 40-year old former US military analyst ...
• Obama administration in danger of establishing ‘ne ...
  
  
  The Obama administration has repudiated some of the Bush administration’s most egregious national security policies but is in danger of institutionalizing others permanently into law, thereby creating a troubling “new normal,” according to a new report released today by the American Civil Liberties ...
• Taliban hunt Wikileaks outed Afghan informers
  
  
  Channel 4 News reports: The Taliban has issued a chilling warning to Afghans, alleged in secret US military files leaked on the internet to have worked as informers for the Nato-led coalition, telling Channel 4 News “US spies” will be hunted down and punished. Speaking by telephone from an undiscl ...
• One man’s terrorist
  
  
  Larry Derfner writes: In the hypocrisy that characterizes Israel’s view of Palestinians, this is the height of it: The greatest denouncers of Palestinian violence against Israel also tend to be the greatest defenders of pre-state Zionist violence against Britain. After electing [Menachem] Begin pr ...

Watts Up With That?

• The phenomena of disinvitation and the brotherhood ...
  
  
  Closing out dissent By Professor Bob Carter August 1, 2010, originally published at Quadrant Online, portions republished here with permission. The phenomena of disinvitation and the brotherhood of silence Scientists who venture to make independent statements in public about environmental … Continue ...
• Walking the Plank-ton
  
  
  Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Following on from Anthony’s article, here are my thoughts about the phytoplankton paper “Global phytoplankton decline over the past century”, by Daniel G. Boyce, Marlon R. Lewis & Boris Worm. I started to write about … Continue reading →
• Climate proposals threaten pursuit of happiness an ...
  
  
  New study documents harmful effects of âcap-and-tradeâ and âendangermentâ schemes Guest post by Paul Driessen Environmental justice demands that the United States address global warming, the gravest threat facing minority Americans, insist the EPA, Congressional Black Caucus and White House. ...
• “Our Climate” iPhone app is rising fas ...
  
  
  I am delighted to report that “Our Climate” made it to the Number 1 paid weather App position in the Canadian iTunes store (out of 570 paid weather apps)!  It took only 40 hours to get there. See screen shot … Continue reading →
• Gore cleared in masseuse case
  
  
  Portland police say the masseuse failed a polygraph and the DNA didn’t match. Gore’s aides made a statement: “Mr. Gore unequivocally and emphatically denied this accusation when he first learned of its existence three years ago,” spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

• “The 15% Solution,” Serialization, 7th Installment ...
  
  
  by Jonathan Westminster, Ph.D. aka Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash,com August 1, 2010 This is the seventh installment of a project that is likely to extend over a two-year-period from January, 2010.  It is the serialization of a book entitled The 15% So ...
• Our Complicity by Dahr Jamail
  
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamail Dispatches (see photography by Erika Blumenfeld) July 29, 2010 We rather be ruined than changed. We rather die in our dread, than climb the cross of the moment, and let our illusions die. -W.H. Auden, excerpted from “The Age of Anxiety” ...
• ‘Go Ahead, Try and Make Me Pay You’: Wage Theft an ...
  
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Danny Postel and Ted Smukler www.inthesetimes.com July 27, 2010 The Arizona Interfaith Alliance for Worker Justice, a worker center in Phoenix, has seen a “huge spike” in wage theft since SB 1070, Arizona’s draconian immigration law, passed in April. Trina Zel ...
• Beware Rich Political Saviors by Joel S. Hirschhor ...
  
  
  by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org July 28, 2010 Consumer confidence is terrible; citizen confidence is worse: Only 11 percent of Americans have confidence in Congress.  No surprise there is record-setting anti-incumbency anger rampant among Americans.  But the sad t ...
• Democracy Now!: Julian Assange: Transparent Govern ...
  
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! July 28, 2010 WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange: “Transparent Government Tends to Produce Just Government” We spend the hour with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, talking about the biggest leak in US history: the release of more than 91,000 ...

Your New Reality

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  Attempted Coup Unfolds In Australia By Darryl Mason A dramatic night in Australian politics, as the right wing of the Rudd Labor government staged an early evening, non-military coup against the prime minister. This is how ABC News Online broke the story just before 7pm Sydney time : Prime Minist ...
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  I've been trawling through hours and hours of amazing footage shot at early 2003 anti-War On Iraq protests in Sydney. Again and again it smacks me in the face that all of the protesters, including the tens of thousands of Australian school students who marched against the war, knew more about the qu ...
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  This is a quite astounding glimpse of the computer interfaces of five years from now, if the tech catches on, when keyboards and handcontrols become redundant. If you've only got a few minutes, whip through to about 10:50 and marvel at what moviemakers could do, what game makers could bring to life ...
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  Best. News. Story. Intro. Ever. The intro : A German student created a major traffic jam in Bavaria when he 'mooned' a group of Hell's Angels, hurled a puppy at them and then escaped on a bulldozer. The Full Story Is Here

Wired - Science

• Physicists Dream Up the Antilaser
  
  
  Fifty years after physicists invented the laser, ushering in everything from supermarket scanners to music CDs, scientists have conceived its opposite — the “antilaser.” Unlike its more popular cousin, the antilaser is unlikely to take over the world. Still, it could be useful one day, for instance ...
• Cheaper, Better Satellites Made From Cell Phones a ...
  
  
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Instead of investing in their own computer research and development, engineers at the NASA Ames Research Center are looking to cell phones and off-the-shelf toys to power the future of low-cost satellite technology. The smart phone in your pocket has about 120 times more ...
• Under Pressure
  
  
  My latest article for Wired is now online. It’s about baboons, stress vaccines and the often dangerous effects of glucocorticoids. One of the subplots of the article is the severe health consequences of the social hierarchy, which I mostly discuss in the context of the Whitehall Studies: For the pa ...
• Genome Surprise: Guinea Pigs Have Ebola!
  
  
  The ebola virus is one of the nastiest pathogens known to man. It corrodes blood vessels and stops clotting, leaving most of its human victims bleeding to death through their pores. And guinea pigs — along with opossums, wallabies and insect-eating bats — have it in their genes. A genomic hunt for ...
• Controlling Soot Might Quickly Reverse a Century o ...
  
  
  A massive simulation of soot’s climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last century’s temperature change. Compared to the larger, longer term task of getting greenhouse-gas pollution under control, limiting soot wouldn ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• A Cooper Union Student Lost an Eye Protesting in I ...
  
  
  Emily [Henochowicz] says her ISM protest activities were about the Palestinians, to prove to them that "it's not all of our people" who are against them. "It was important for me to tell them, 'I'm... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Exclusive IOA Interview with Noam Chomsky: Israel’ ...
  
  
  It is not our right or responsibility to lecture the Palestinian leadership on what they should do. That is up to the Palestinians to decide. But it is very definitely our responsibility to focus... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• The Disinherited: Syria’s 130,000 Golan Height Ref ...
  
  
  What happened to the 130,000 Syrian citizens living in the Golan Heights in June 1967? According to the Israeli narrative, they all fled to Syria, but official documents and testimonies tell a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
• Assaf Kfoury: Keeping the Record Straight
  
  
  About Noam Chomsky’s trip to the Middle East in May 2010: Coverage of the trip and discussions of Chomsky's statements on Fayyad’s development policies, on being a "supporter of Israel," on... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
• Jonathan Cook: Settlers Wage Vendetta on Shin Bet
  
  
  Adalah lawyer Abir Baker: “The Shin Bet is facing an internal crisis over this arrest and the settlers are trying to exploit that with their campaign. Many members of the Shin Bet are settlers... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Germans divided over conscription - polls
  
  
  Germans have not as yet decided whether conscription should be abolished, DPA reported on Saturday.
• Czech early warning facility to be part of NATO de ...
  
  
  An early warning center on Czech soil will be part of NATO missile defense, Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas said on Saturday.
• Philippine vice-president promises 'warm welcome' ...
  
  
  Vice-President of the Philippines Jejomar Binay on Saturday visited the Russian flagship of the Black Sea fleet, the RFS Moskva guided-missile cruiser, and promised the sailors a warm welcome any time they return.
• Canadian Air Force intercepts Russian bombers over ...
  
  
  Canadian Air Force fighters intercepted two Russian strategic bombers over the Atlantic Ocean, CBC television reported, citing Canadian Defense Minister Peter MacKay.
• Iran to engage all Air Force bases for major drill ...
  
  
  Iran's Air Force will engage its all bases for massive week-long drills, which kick off on Saturday.

NewsWise

• Purple Light Means Go, Ultraviolet Light Means Sto ...
  
  
  A new membrane developed at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics blocks gas from flowing through it when one color of light is shined on its surface, and permits gas to flow through when another color of light is used. It is the first time that scientists have developed a m ...
• Red Blood Cells Have a Tiny but Effective Protecto ...
  
  
  Pediatric researchers have discovered a new biological pathway in which small segments of RNA, called microRNA, help protect red blood cells from injury caused by chemicals called free radicals.
• Key Step in Body's Ability to Make Red Blood Cells
  
  
  Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered a key step in the creation of new red blood cells in an animal study.
• Gulf Oil Spill: Officials Want to Minimize Toxic H ...
  
  
  Some of the short-term health effects of the April accident are known - watery and irritated eyes, skin itching and redness, coughing and shortness or breath or wheezing - there also are many unknown health effects, says a UAB School of Public Health researcher. Nalini Sathiakumar, M.D., Dr.P.H., an ...
• Some Like It Hot: How to Heat a 'Nano Bathtub' the ...
  
  
  Researchers at JILA have demonstrated the use of infrared laser light to quickly and precisely heat the water in "nano bathtubs" -- tiny sample containers -- for microscopy studies of the biochemistry of single molecules and nanoparticles.

Natural Health News

• Physical Activity Reduces the Risk of Early Death
  
  
  A new study by researchers has found that even light or moderate intensity physical activity, such as walking or cycling, can substantially reduced your risk of early death. The study combined the results from the largest studies around the world on the health impact of light and moderate intensity ...
• Are ER Visits for Food Allergies on the Rise?
  
  
  Children's visits to emergency rooms for serious food-allergy reactions may be on the rise.� Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston found that the number of food-induced allergic reactions treated in their ER more than doubled over six years. There was an even greater rise in the number of serio ...
• Your Box Spring Mattress Could be Acting as a Giga ...
  
  
  The rate of breast cancer in Western countries is 10 percent higher in the left breast than in the right. This also is true for the skin cancer melanoma. Researchers have suggested a surprising explanation for this -- and for the dramatic increase in rates of breast cancer and melanoma over the past ...
• Star Wars According to a Three Year Old
  
  
  Believe it or not, she has the seem the movie only once.� She wasn't coached to say anything, nor was she forced to make the video.
• Next Major Toxic Hazard that Can Ruin You and Your ...
  
  
  Susan Shaw, an internationally recognized marine toxicologist, author and explorer, shows evidence the toxic Gulf of Mexico oil slick is being kept off of beaches only at devastating cost to the health of the deep sea.

Antemedius

• Wikileaks posts an Insurance policy
  
  
  Wikileaks Afghanistan War Diary It seems that Wikileaks has posted a massive (1.4 GB, 10x larger than all the other files on the page combined) heavily encrypted file on it's dedicated "Afghan War Diary" page labeled simply "Insurance". (See link above) Possibly in response to the harsh rhetoric is ...
• Rethink Afghanistan or Rethink 2012, Mr. Obama
  
  
  From GritTV and Brave New Films, July 27th, 2010 With the release of the WikiLeaks "War Logs," more focus has been brought to the war in Afghanistan. But will anything change? Our friends at Brave New Films have been following the war there for years, urging Americans to learn more about the situat ...
• Blood on Our Hands
  
  
  By David Swanson The most massive and brutal crime committed on this planet during the past decade has been the invasion and occupation of Iraq. And we're seeking to wash the blood off our hands without so much as an "Out, damn spot!" Nowadays "looking forward, not backward" is supposed to take ca ...
• Makutano Junction Soap Opera
  
  
  Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . The last place most of us look to for useful information is television soap operas. But Makutano Junction , a Kenyan-produced soap opera set in the fictional town of the same name is not your average TV drama. Broadcast in Kenya, Ugand ...
• Future? What Future? Where Did It Go?
  
  
  These are three of the cheerful passages in the article. If you've never read the whole thing I'd recommend it... The Delusion Revolution: We're on the Road to Extinction and in Denial By Robert Jensen Imagine that you are riding comfortably on a sleek train. You look out the window and see that ...

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 more tr ...
  
  
  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 “smoking g ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
  
  
  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 global wa ...
  
  
  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

• An Annoying Mistake in an Otherwise Good 11th Circ ...
  
  
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld this week the conviction of “Chuckie Taylor” for violating the U.S. Anti-Torture Act, which implements U.S. obligations under the Convention Against Torture. Taylor is the son of former Liberian President Charles ...
• African Union Loves Bashir, Hates the ICC
  
  
  by Kevin Jon Heller Not surprisingly, the AU has condemned the ICC's decision to issue an arrest warrant against Bashir for genocide.  Equally unsurprising, the new resolution seems to have been adopted with the same kind of back-room machinations that led to the AU's previous resolution condemn ...
• More on AZ Law Takedown (Hines Redux)
  
  
  by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro I’ve got some bigger picture thoughts (cautionary, from an alien rights perspective) over at the NY Times Room for Debate.  As for Judge Bolton’s reasoning in her order invalidating key provisions of the law, it is striking how much work Hines v. Davidowitz (1941) d ...
• Trafigura’s One Million Euro Fine for Hazardous Wa ...
  
  
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller [The following is a guest-post written by Ifeoma Ajunwa, a human-rights attorney who is beginning a PhD at Columbia University in the fall.  Our thanks to her for contributing -- KJH] In April of 2007, as a representative for the NGO, Human Rights Advocates ...
• The Kosovo Advisory Opinion, Self Determination, a ...
  
  
  by Chris Borgen Now that I've had a chance to read through the ICJ's advisory opinion, following are a few initial reactions. (I will consider the separate opinions in another post.) Marko Milanovic has has done a great job parsing the main issues that were at bar, namely 1. Whether the ICJ shoul ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• Has Climatedepot crashed?
  
  
  As of writing, am getting a VisualBasic error on http://www.climatedepot.com Is it just my computer network that can't see it? UPDATE 1pm NZST: Back up and running. Marc must have hit wrong button somewhere :)
• Arctic heading for major freeze - new NOAA forecas ...
  
  
  More evidence pointing towards a significant global cooldown, with even NOAA modelling now picking a brutal northern hemisphere winter.
• Air Con Climategate Edition now avail in NZ
  
  
  Due to an ongoing series of requests, we've decided to import the US version of the Air Con Climategate Edition. It's now available direct from the Howling At The Moon website, in either hard copy for $39.90, or PDF for...
• Ray Stevens Global Warming Song
  
  
  They may call him the Streak, but you can't keep Ray Stevens down evidently...witness his lastest on Global Warming
• Breaking news: Chinese security attack NZ politici ...
  
  
  Chinese security forces have attacked and injured a New Zealand politician in the grounds of the New Zealand parliament buildings, because the MP had the temerity to be holding a Tibetan flag at a ceremony to Welcome the Chinese Vice-Premier...

The World We Live In

• Domain Name Being Changed
  
  
  Some of your might have noticed that i have not been posting for a while. It was mostly out of frustration, you see when i started this site, I figured i would use it as a space to publish information, that i felt needed more attention in our life’s. New, views or even just facts [...]
• One Facebook, Two Faces: A Piece By A Virtually De ...
  
  
  I had been banned from Facebook and my account had been disabled a night before Facebook was banned in Pakistan. Before all this happened, I visited the blasphemous page “Draw Muhammad Day” and the content on the page hurt me badly. Once again a certain group of westerners called it the “freedom of ...
• New Chemical Element Discovered In Pakistan
  
  
  Pakistani researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, so far only discovered and found in Pakistan , has been named Zardarium (Symbol = Zm). It has one Presitron, 1 Priministron, 77 Ministrons, 98 deputy Ministrons, 298 National Assemblions, and 100 Senatr ...
• At least we are not Dubai
  
  
  We haven’t got a lot to be thankful for these days in Pakistan. But at least we are not Dubai. Fed up with loadshedding, bombs, and TV cynicism pervading Pakistan, I recently escaped to Dubai for a holiday. Big mistake. Huge. Ten days later I returned, gasping for Karachi’s polluted, but far sweete ...
• 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests?
  
  
  The claim that no Arab names appeared on the flight manifests for the planes hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001 arose shortly after the terrorist attacks, and variations on the theme have persisted to this day. The claim initially arose when lists of passengers published by CNN, The Guar ...

Center for Food Safety

• The Story of Cosmetics
  
  
  In the latest installment of her “Story of Stuff” videos, Annie Leonard walks us through “The Story of Cosmetics,” and the ugly truth of toxics in, toxics out. Visit the website for an annotated script, viewing party materials, fact sheets and more. As she explains in the Huffington Post, “It turns ...
• Announcing the True Food Shoppers Guide Mobile App
  
  
  The Center for Food Safety today launched a new mobile application that will help shoppers to quickly and easily identify foods made with ingredients from genetically modified (GM) organisms.  The free app, “The Center for Food Safety’s True Food Shoppers Guide”, is available for mobile devices thro ...
• Lawsuit Filed to Halt Release of Genetically Engin ...
  
  
  An alliance of conservation organizations today sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its approval of open-air field tests of a genetically engineered (GE) hybrid of eucalyptus tree across the southern United States. The permit, issued to a company called ArborGen, which is a joint initiative ...
• A Pressing Issue: David and Goliath Battle on GM A ...
  
  
  by Lisa J. Bunin, Ph.D. The media got it wrong and let the public down when it erroneously reported Monsantoâs wholesale victory in its Supreme Court appeal of the GM alfalfa case — the first-ever Supreme Court case on GMOs (Monsanto Co. v Geertson Seed Farms).  Despite claims and headlines to th ...
• 56 Members of House and Senate Ask USDA to Keep Ba ...
  
  
  Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), joined by 49 other representatives and five other senators, sent a letter today to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asking USDA to retain the regulated status of genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa. Their letter comes in r ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• “After God, Come the Cubans”: Haiti, Six Months Af ...
  
  
  “After God, Come the Cubans”: Haiti, Six Months After the Earthquake � haiti-cuba-venezuela : Leticia Martínez Hernández SIX months have passed, but it seems like yesterday when, on that January 12, the faces of this agitated, forgetful world turned toward Haiti, the poorest nation of the American ...
• Reports emerge the UK used depleted uranium weapon ...
  
  
  Reports emerge the UK used depleted uranium weapons in Iraq :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1] Reports have emerged that the UK used depleted uranium weapons during the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. A UK defense official has reportedly ...
• Black in Bed-Stuy: Another Kind of Non-Citizen
  
  
  Black in Bed-Stuy: Another Kind of Non-Citizen � Kenyon Farrow While all eyes are turned to Arizona for the (now partial) implementation of SB 1070, I found an interesting article in City Limits (a NYC-based public policy and urban affairs news site and magazine, which has gotten really good in the ...
• Profiling of Sacramento area youth
  
  
  Sacramento Press / Profiling of Sacramento area youth Profiling of Sacramento area youth How effectively are we really addressing profiling of area youth if we simply address racial profiling in terms of black and white? 17-year-old Terrey Randolph, who is a black teen, cleaned dog kennels, backya ...
• Pacific Islands Trade: A year's worth of bad outco ...
  
  
  By Adam Wolfenden Despite being launched only a year ago by Pacific leaders, the negotiations on the Pacific trade agreement known as PACER-Plus are slipping away from the Islands. The bureaucratic forces and power politics of the region's bigger neighbours are already shaping the agenda and ...

Pensieve

• Asleep (a short story)
  
  
    Photo by eye of einstein I am holding a thread and staring into a labyrinth. Darkness is falling, and the gold of sunset begins to fade from the moss that drapes its walls. Ancient stones lose their friendliness and succumb to moist cold. Only the sky remains cheerful. Inside the labyrinth darknes ...
• Criminal Rule in Honduras
  
  
  Photo by markarinafotos While Rome is burning, everyone is hypnotized by the fiddling emperor Chavez. Crime and impunity in Honduras, which steadily worsened during Manuel Zelaya’s administration, has only gotten worse under Porfirio Lobo. But Mr. Lobo is busy courting international opinion, in the ...
• Hurricane Alex Aftermath
  
  
  (I wrote the following entry on Friday, July 2, but have been unable to post it until today. As of now, there is no water in my house.) I just arrived home after exploring the are around my home after Hurricane Alex tore through Monterrey. The hurricane made landfall Wednesday night as a category tw ...
• Agatha’s Aftermath in Tegucigalpa
  
  
  Over the weekend, tropical storm Agatha, the first of 2010, deluged Central America. Rain had already been falling for weeks in some localities, which brought a level of devastation unheard of since Hurricane Mitch 12 years ago. Over a hundred people lost their lives, 17 or 18 of them in Honduras. H ...
• Lobo Will Go But Not Attend EU Summit
  
  
  The BBC has clarified my confusion around Honduran President Porfirio Lobo’s presence in the EU Summit. He will attend a parallel event, but not the summit itself. This is to appease the Chavez block who seemingly will never forgive Honduras for removing their ally Manuel Zelaya from office. His coa ...

Green Times

• Environmental News 30/07/2010
  
  
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Climate Change, the Political Hot Potato
  
  
  Should the government be choosing carrot over stick to encourage energy efficiency? Peter Garrett elaborates…
• Environmental News 29/07/2010
  
  
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Potato Power – the green alternative to disposable ...
  
  
  An electrifying boiled potato – you think we’re joking? No, it’s true! The humble potato is a shining light in renewable green energy…
• The Making of The Plastiki
  
  
    The expedition of the Plastiki boat, made from 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles, aims at informing and educating the world that waste is fundamentally inefficient design.   For more information read the article: Plastiki Delivers Green Message in a Bottle (or two) (climate-chang ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Wetlands Front Group Funded by Big Oil Wants Taxpa ...
  
  
  ShareThis Wetlands Front Group Funded by Big Oil Wants Taxpayers to Foot�Bill for BP's Gulf Destruction By Brendan DeMelle and Jerry Cope 28 Jul 2010 A group of oil companies including BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, Citgo, Chevron and other polluters are using a front group called " America's WETLAND Founda ...
• Witness says Army offered him cash to 'infiltrate' ...
  
  
  ShareThis Witness says Army offered him cash to 'infiltrate' WikiLeaks 01 Aug 2010 Before the online site WikiLeaks published a trove of classified documents about the Afghanistan war, government investigators interviewed Boston-area acquaintances of a military analyst charged with providing other d ...
• Iraqis to sue US firm at Abu Ghraib
  
  
  ShareThis 'These men were senselessly tortured by a company that profited from their misery.' Iraqis to sue US firm at Abu Ghraib 31 Jul 2010 A US court has given the green light to 72 Iraqis to proceed with a lawsuit against a private contractor accused of complicity in the alleged abuse of detaine ...
• House GOP leaders: 9/11 first responders aid bill ...
  
  
  ShareThis House GOP leaders: 9/11 first responders aid bill 'a massive new entitlement program' 28 Jul 2010 House Republican leadership is advising its members to vote against a bipartisan bill that would, among other things, bolster medical support to Sept. 11 victims. The James Zadroga 9/11 Health ...
• SUV with American Embassy Contractors Strikes and ...
  
  
  ShareThis SUV with American Embassy Contractors Strikes and Kills Afghans 31 Jul 2010 In Kabul on Friday, a crowd of hundreds of Afghans rioted after a sport utility vehicle carrying American Embassy contractors mercenaries struck a car of Afghans, killing at least three of them, the Afghan police s ...

Daily Loaf

• Rays overpowered, fall 4-5 to Yankees
  
  
  Tampa Bay does some small-ball scoring but it’s no match for New York’s long balls as the Rays lose the second game of the three-game series, setting up the rubber match for 1:40 p.m. Sunday.
• Concert review: Dave Matthews Band and Gov’t Mule ...
  
  
  The recently re-named 1-800-Ask-Gary Amphitheatre welcomed Dave Matthews Band and support act Gov’t Mule this past Wednesday, July 28. The place looked surprisingly sparse when we arrived around 7 p.m., even in the general admission pit, where fans were pressing in close to the stage and vying for ...
• Rays 2010 deadline deals
  
  
  Check back throughout the day on the Rays deals on trade deadline day. We'll post them as soon as we get official word.
• Hometown home run heroics: Rays beat Yankees 3-2
  
  
  Local-kid-made-good Matt Joyce’s 3-run shot is all the Tampa Bay Rays needed to put away the New York Yankees Friday night in the first of three games.
• Pat Donovan’s Deep Fried Sports: The “let me get ...
  
  
  The Rays won their sixth game in a row yesterday behind another strong performance from David Price. Price went 6.1 innings, giving up just 2 runs on 7 hits while striking out 9.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Interview with Khalil Alamour, organizer of protes ...
  
  
  By Jesse Bacon I spoke with Khalil Alamour at the protest tent at Al-Araqeeb, the village demolished by Israel this week. Protestors plan to return tomorrow and rebuild it.
• Daniel Dukarevich: Eyewitness Account of the Razin ...
  
  
  By Daniel Dukarevich. On the ground report from Daniel who was previously interviewed here, reposted from Tikkun Olam. Uprooting the olive trees of Al-Araqeeb Yesterday, Daniel Dukarevich posted an eyewitness account (Hebrew) of the eradication of the Bedouin Negev village of Al-Araqeeb by the Isra ...
• Urgent need for support to release 17 year old Ahm ...
  
  
  From the Friends of Freedom and Justice Bil’in and the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee On July 19, 2010 Bil’in was subjected to yet another Israeli Occupation Forces night raid when an unusually heavy number of Israeli soldiers entered the outskirts of the village to arrest a local youth; ...
• Alert: Thousands of police evacuating and demolish ...
  
  
  Tuesday, 5:30am by Yeela Raanan. Thousands of police are in the village of el-Araqib right now – beginning a mass evacuation, demolition, and erasure of this historical Bedouin village. if you have access to the media, please send them to this village as soon as possible! the village of el-Araqi ...
• Another Well and Another Goat
  
  
  (crossposted on the Villages Group Blog) ——————- Al-Tawamin, July 24, 2010 Here is the unlikely battlefield. You have a mountain slope, baked dry, thousands of sun-bleached rocks, millions of thorns. It issues into an even drier wadi, on the other side of which another slope of rocks and thorns ris ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Solar energy now costs less than nuclear energy
  
  
  A new report out of Duke University says that solar energy and nuclear energy have passed a “historic crossover,” where decreasing solar energy costs and increasing nuclear energy costs have met, and then parted. Solar energy is now cheaper than nuclear energy and is getting increasingly cheaper eve ...
• Salton Sea could become lithium treasure trove
  
  
  It’s baking hot in the summer at the Salton Sea, a large inland salt water lake in California that often smells of dead fish. It is a genuinely weird and strange place. But a mining company thinks they might be able to extract lithium, as well as other elements, from geothermal wells there, and do [ ...
• Woody Guthrie “This machine kills fascists” Smiths ...
  
  
  From a traveling Smithsonian exhibit on roots music. Woody Guthrie often performed with “This machine kills fascists” on his guitar.
• Mexico TV cancels show in protest after 4 reporter ...
  
  
  It’s getting beyond heart of darkness in Mexico now. The reporters were kidnapped after covering a protest at a penitentiary against the arrest of its director. This would be the same prison where three inmates were temporarily released and given weapons by the guards. They murdered 35 people, then ...
• This is SO not a good prank to play on TSA
  
  
  The Cheeky offers four suitcase stickers that make it appear you’re doing something seriously illegal. (The grumps in Canada have banned the stickers from being sold there)

Coteret

• Israeli Finance Ministry explains recent IDF-sourc ...
  
  
  Why the sudden spate of Israeli-sourced publications on Hezbollah’s military power? On Wednesday (July 7 2010) this one, in the Jerusalem Post, elicited a sarcastic Tweet from Foreign Policy’s Marc Lynch: Israel’s shocking discovery of Hezballah presence in….Lebanon. Believe it or not! This mornin ...
• Haifa Mayor wants to turn Mavi Marmara into &#8220 ...
  
  
  Cruiseship Marmara Mayor of Haifa Yonah Yahav has a creative idea: to turn the Turkish ship into a floating hotel Amir Buhbut, Maariv, July 8 2010 [Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] While Turkey is demanding Israel apologize over the flotilla to Gaza, the mayor of Haifa has an interesting ...
• [video] Birthright group visits (Jewish Settlement ...
  
  
  The “Hebron” account at WeJew.com (a kind of Jewish YouTube wannabe) has just (July 5 2010) uploaded a video purportedly documenting a visit of this month of an Australian Birthright group to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. This site is the stated raison d’être of the extremist Jewish Settle ...
• Hasbarapocalypse — Leaked Frank Luntz memo: ...
  
  
  The Israel Project (TIP), an American Hasbara outfit, commissioned Republican political consultant Frank Luntz to examine the effectiveness of Israel’s public diplomacy in the US on the Flotilla debacle. TIP gave the memo to the Prime Minister’s Office, where someone promptly leaked it to Chico Mena ...
• Israeli Ministry of Justice endorses extremist int ...
  
  
  On Friday, July 9, the Ministry of Justice and the Jewish Legal Heritage Society will present a two-day seminar on Jewish laws concerning the Land of Israel.  [An invitation in Hebrew can be seen here and a translation is appended at the bottom of this post. H/T Dena Shunra.] While I am not an exper ...

Deadline Live

• Deadline Live – July 30 2010
  
  
  First Hour: Breaking News from Deadline Live.info , Paul Topete from the band Pokerface. Second  Hour: Super Mario of Deadline Live.info Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
• Texas Judge Arrested For Jailing School Kids With ...
  
  
   Payback time! by Katie Lopez ValleyCentral.com An Hidalgo County Judge finds herself on the other side of the bench after being indicted. Judge Mary Alice Palacios of Precinct 4, Place 2 is accused of sending kids to jail for months at a time, because they couldn’t pay their truancy fine. Shielded ...
• Explosions Reported at Nuevo Laredo Border Bridge ...
  
  
  Mario Andrade DeadlineLive.info July 31, 2010 DeadlineLive.info has received reports of explosions outside the offices of the Televisa TV Station in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The incident apparently took place last night. Some nearby residents herd an explosion apparently from grenades or small explosiv ...
• Malvo Interview: There were more operatives involv ...
  
  
  Russell Goldman ABC News Police will once again question DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, after the convicted serial killer said for the first time in a TV interview with actor William Shatner that two other men were initially part of the bloody plot that terrorized the Washington area and left 10 people d ...
• Old New World Order Goal, World Empire
  
  
  The New World Order is not new. It is actually controlled by very old, very wealthy families. It is likely at least partially the brainchild of European royalty that should have faded into the sunset a long time ago, along with their central banking agents. Somehow, these royal families have managed ...

The Air Vent

• Feedback
  
  
  I’ve put in a few days time now studying carbon sequesterization in limestone.  This morning I’ve run several calculations based on raw data dug up in Al Gore’s house – a.k.a. the internet.  Joking aside, I flatly disagree with the IPCC two hundred year shelf life of CO2.  It makes zero sense to ...
• Thank god for climate science
  
  
  Oh, jeez.  Now the phytoplankton are dying off in an unprecedented…ly…. And it’s your damned SUV that did it again.  The scientists are claiming that we don’t really know what is going on, but maybe it’s global warming.  Never mind that our instruments can barely detect the temperature change, ma ...
• Bo Christiansen Variance loss
  
  
  This is a repost from Eduardo Zorita’s blog, regarding a paper produced by Bo Christiansen which analyzed variance loss in climate reconstructions.  It’s a science post so keep all comments/questions on that topic or face the red heat laser of doom. . Mann 07 made the claim that RegEM didn’t create ...
• The Revolving Door of a Broken Science
  
  
  Back again.    During my absence, a story came out at Climate Audit and the Blackboard regarding Ryan O’s efforts to collect data from Ammann.  Now Ryan wrote several times politely to Caspar Ammann first, receiving ZERO response.  Having no options, he reasonably began a series of FOI’s which ...
• Environmentalism as religion – Are Environme ...
  
  
  This is a guest post from Roddy Campbell.  It’s a little risky, even for the Air Vent but I think it has a lot of truth in it.  It offers an explanation of the views of the enviro-scientists who pervade the climate science community. ——— With the extraordinary rise of fears of global warming in [. ...

Focal Point

• "Non-Partisan" Conservative Pundit Fred Barnes Too ...
  
  
  Conservative commentator Fred Barnes has recently criticized liberal journalists for discussing ideas on a free, private email list. Barnes claims that, unlike the denizens of journo-list, he's a non-partisan conservative: "If there's a team, no one has asked me to join. As a conservative, I nor ...
• Glenn Beck's Goldline Scam--Visualized
  
  
  Illustrator Jess Bachman diagrams Glenn Beck's shady links to Goldline in an accessible infographic. To summarize: Goldine is a sponsor of Beck's TV and radio shows. Beck tells his audience that they should buy gold as a hedge against inflation, but not just any gold. Beck says you should buy antiqu ...
• Alarms on BP's Deepwater Horizon Disabled to "Help ...
  
  
  BP/Transocean's concern for rig workers is touching. Key alarm systems on the Deepwater Horizon were disabled to "help workers sleep" : Vital warning systems on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig were switched off at the time of the explosion in order to spare workers being woken by false alarms, a ...
• Should Phoebe Prince's Bullies Go to Jail?
  
  
  Phoebe Prince hanged herself in her bedroom in South Hadley, Massachusetts at the age of 15. Six students from her high school are charged with hounding her to suicide. Emily Bazelon investigated the back story of the Phoebe Prince case for Slate as part of a series on cyber-bullying. Like an anthr ...
• Evidently, the Trick is to Dis the Tea Party on Jo ...
  
  
  I've been critiquing the Tea Party since its first stirrings in 2009. I've blogged, tweeted, reported, and even given public lectures about its roots in the socially conservative New Right, its wealthy backers in corporate America, its close ties to the GOP establishment, its racist and anti-immigra ...

Inside Facebook

• Facebook Roundup: Bugs, Questions, Security, Media ...
  
  
  Facebook Questions Absent in Search Engines – Facebook launched its Questions service this week but so far the results are not available in search results. Search Engine Land reported that a Facebook spokesperson tells them, âCurrently, search engines cannot access questions and answers through o ...
• TechCrunch Social Currency CrunchUp: PlacePop Laun ...
  
  
  Today at TechCrunchâs CrunchUp conference, PlacePop officially launched its loyalty card iPhone app and social service. Instead of businesses offering deals to customers checking in to a centralized location-based service, users check-in directly to a businessâ custom PlacePop loyalty card, digi ...
• Facebook Has No Plans to Continue fbFund
  
  
  Facebook’s in-house business incubator and mini financier, fbFund, appears to be mothballed. After two years of funding companies building on Facebook’s developer platform, the program’s success has been dwarfed by the massive new social gaming market, and by the growing ecosystem of marketing servi ...
• Report: Facebook IPO Still Not Coming Soon
  
  
  Following up on years of Facebook saying that it is not planning to make an initial public offering any time soon or not commenting on rumors to that effect, a new report out… basically has that same message. “Facebook Inc. will probably put off its initial public offering until 2012, giving Chief E ...
• Growing International Populations on Facebook Are ...
  
  
  [Editor's Note: The data cited in this article is excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Visit Inside Facebook Gold to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering.] English is still by far the most-used langu ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Long-Awaited Cluster Bomb Ban Enters Int ...
  
  
  truthout: Long-Awaited Cluster Bomb Ban Enters Into Force: United Nations - Thirty-eight countries will start o... http://bit.ly/dag2E6 #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Colombia: US Military Aid May Have Spark ...
  
  
  truthout: Colombia: US Military Aid May Have Sparked Civilian Killings: La Macarena, Colombia - When Colombian ... http://bit.ly/aX0Aww #Truthout #p2
• truthout: The Right Manipulates Muslims - and Boy ...
  
  
  truthout: The Right Manipulates Muslims - and Boy Scouts: I was never a Boy Scout but I was a helluva Cub Scout... http://bit.ly/aCdGPX #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Stolen Land, Stolen Trees, Stolen Liveli ...
  
  
  truthout: Stolen Land, Stolen Trees, Stolen Livelihoods: Imagine your livelihood is farming. You grow a variety... http://bit.ly/bOnJD8 #Truthout #p2
• truthout: A Second Slave Rebellion in Haiti: One o ...
  
  
  truthout: A Second Slave Rebellion in Haiti: One of the many effects of poverty in Haiti is that desperate pare... http://bit.ly/9V2HDa #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• Middle East history buff Hague whitewashes Israel’ ...
  
  
  Stuart Littlewood views British Foreign Secretary William Hague’s weasel words on the siege of Gaza and his consistent rear-guard defence of Israeli crimes, which show that Prime Minister David Cameron’s recent reference to the Gaza Strip as a “prison camp” should not be interpreted as signalling a ...
• Ethnic cleansing in the Israeli Negev
  
  
  Neve Gordon recounts his experience of visiting the Israeli Arab village of Al-Arakib moments after it had been razed to the ground by the Israeli authorities, in the latest example of ethnic cleansing in the Negev desert.
• Israel’s secret police exposed
  
  
  The arrest by Israel’s internal security service, the Shin Bet, of an Israeli Jew accused of killing at least four Palestinians has thrown a rare light on the secret police, including attempts by one of its agents to enlist the accused to assassinate a Palestinian spiritual leader, Jonathan Cook rep ...
• Ban Israel from the London 2012 Olympics
  
  
  Please sign the petition now http://www.petitiononline.com/12101982/petition.html To:  International Olympics Committee Dear International Olympics Committee (IOC) We, the undersigned citizens of the world, call on the international Olympics Committee to rescind Israel's participation in the Lo ...
• Iraq war whistleblower David Kelly’s postmortem re ...
  
  
  Christopher King calls on Britain’s coalition government to release the postmortem report – so far kept secret – on the death of Iraq war whistleblower and UN weapons inspector David Kelly, who allegedly committed suicide but is suspected of having been murdered by US or Israeli agents.

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Is WikiLeaks the antidote to the Washington K Stre ...
  
  
  The acid test for Washington’s beltway experts Since the end of the cold war, the U.S. had been looking for an enemy to match the Soviet Union and came up empty handed until 9/11. Refocusing the efforts of the world’s largest and most expensive military empire on Al Qaeda would provide the incentive ...
• Obama Appoints a Not-Too-Long-Ago-Hatched Neocon L ...
  
  
  Matthew Bryza: Azerbaijan Ambassadorship & a Tangled Web of Conflicts President Obama appears to have run out of Non-Neocon candidates to appoint for crucial positions. After one year with no ambassador to fill the position in Azerbaijan, the President reached out to and appointed a young neocon wit ...
• Another ‘Viable’ Candidate Bites the Dust …
  
  
  Maksim Bakiyev: A Groomed Puppet Who Never Came to Be King Kyrgyzstanâs Wanted Fugitive: Maksim Bakiyev. The story is more or less the same – the one that has been repeating itself for many decades.  The one based on a script written by the very same conductors who wrote the ones before, and who ...
• America’s DNA Profile Has Been All Over Afghanista ...
  
  
    In the two years since the publication of our book Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story we have had the chance to address dozens of forums and radio audiences around the United States about Afghanistan. It has been an illuminating exercise, not so much in terms of what Americans understan ...
• Jamiol Presents
  
  

Afro Spear

• sat’day riddymz
• Why Didn’t You Black Folks Build Some Towns ...
  
  
    Over the course of our history in the Americas, black folks have gone through some stuff! Our struggle here began in slavery. We all know that North America for sure was founded on our black backs. Wall Street was founded on the auction block of slavery. In spite of the unspeakable brutality of th ...
• You Can’t Stop the Violence in Ghetto Street ...
  
  
  From Black Agenda Report: You Can’t Stop the Violence in Ghetto Streets Without Stopping the Violence in Iraq, Afghanistan and Elsewhere. By managing editor Bruce A. Dixon âFor more than a generation, the standard stance among America’s black political class was to demand an end to militarism, emp ...
• “For as the body without the spirit is dead, ...
  
  
  âThe constant assertion of belief is an indication of fearâ Krishnamurti Once a week I volunteer at an inner city mission. Interestingly, even though I had volunteered sporadically before with different organizations and missions, it was after reading Rick Warren’s “The Purpose Driven Life”, th ...
• sat’day riddymz
  
  
  Thanks to Sis. Anna Renee for turning me on to this! Check out her new spot here too! 

Expose the BNP

• Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
  
  
  A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep his po ...
• Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
  
  
  The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
• Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
  
  
  On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
• Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
  
  
  On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well ...
• Nick Griffin: “If Hitler hadn’t been s ...
  
  
  The following is a transcript of Dominic Carmen’s speech given at the Expose the BNP media briefing, held at the NUJ headquarters on 7th April. At the 1987 General Election, the BNP put up two candidates and received 553 votes. It was beaten hands down by the Monster Raving Loony Party which put up ...

Sen4Earth

• Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
  
  
  SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
• Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
  
  
  SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
• Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central
  
  
  The Gulf Oil Disaster is the latest symptom of the madness being unleashed on Mother Earth, Mankind, Wildlife and Life itself. SEN will here post links to every action you can take. Visit often because more will arise in coming weeks and months. If you learn of one we've missed, please enter it in a ...
• Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox News, PLU ...
  
  
  SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
• Climate&Energy “Speak Up&Out” Results
  
  
  In April SEN published “Drill Oil and the USA and World to Hell?” To our users we said “Tell Sustainability Education Network’s sen4earth.org what YOU believe and what YOU Demand of government in Energy & Climate policy and legislation.” “SEN will report the overall results to you and to media, AN ...

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

• CORPORATE STATES OF AMERICA
  
  
  Do you want to continue to have a say, albeit, not very much, in what goes on in this government? If you do, you must act, as outlined below, as soon as possible. We have got to give it a try, even if we go down, we must stop the corporate takeover. This is so [...]
• TEABAGGERS REFRAIN
  
  
  Government is the only thing standing between us and all those who would harm us, in one form or another! Be it war, medicine, unsafe products, the list is endless. Corporate America has taken over our Government and it is the reason we’re in such a mess. Don’t blindly get on a bandwagon of non-thin ...
• Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered ...
  
  
  A huge gash on the ocean floor—like a ragged wound hundreds of feet long—has been reported by the NOAA research ship, Thomas Jefferson. Before the curtain of the government enforced news blackout again descended abruptly, scientists aboard the ship voiced their concerns that the widening rift may go ...
• BP BLOCKED WORKERS
  
  
  BP blocked workers cleaning up the oil disaster in the Gulf from wearing protective respirators.
• Jim Geer in handcuffs!
  
  
  Chair Karen Thurman has repeatedly demanded a full and independent investigation. But the Republicans who control Tallahassee are trying to block the investigations into their culture of corruption, instead trying to make Jim Greer the fall guy for their misdeeds.

Unsuitable Blog

• Hello Green Tomorrow: Avon Conveniently Forget The ...
  
  
  Sitting in my inbox for four months, one would expect a story to go stale, but despite coming at a particularly hectic time of my life, and being revisited just this morning, it seems that some stories are destined to keep going simply because the parties involved are in such deep denial. One such ...
• Hackers Shut Down EU Carbon-Trading Website [From ...
  
  
  Sorry for all the reposts recently, but it’s been a very busy time at Unsuitablog HQ, and I also can’t top this bit of news from The Guardian covering an excellent example of Undermining. Emissions Trading, like all forms of offsetting, is a method of ensuring that the industrial system can keep op ...
• Greenwash of the Week: The Sustainability Consorti ...
  
  
  Another winning post by David at The Good Human, exposing a magnificent example of Astroturfing. I suspect one reason these things keep turning up is because of “Fluorescent Tabard Syndrome”: the psychological oddity that allows anyone wearing an extremely bright item of work clothing to go virtual ...
• Redleaf Water: A Crash Course In Greenwash Spottin ...
  
  
  It’s always good to refresh your skills, and that opportunity came to me a couple of days ago when a reader sent me a nice example of subtle but very detailed greenwashing in the shape of Redleaf Bottled Water. Straight away the shields are up because we are talking about an entirely commercial pro ...
• True In All But Name
  
  
  And that’s how brainwashing works…

Subalternate Reality

• Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
  
  
  Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
• Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
  
  
  crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
• GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
  
  
  Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
• Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
  
  
  Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
• Aliou Kumbaya
  
  
  My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day.  He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...

Idea Lab | Technology

• Creating a Participatory, Open Source Map of an En ...
  
  
  For the past few weeks I've been working from Tbilisi, Georgia -- the other Georgia -- with a fascinating organization called OpenMapsCaucasus (OMC for short), which has been hard at work creating the first participatory, public domain road map of an entire country. Created by JumpStart Inte ...
• Councilpedia In Private Pilot, Overcoming Tech Cha ...
  
  
  Over the last several months, Gotham Gazette has made major strides on its Councilpedia project, which will help New Yorkers keep tabs on their local officials and share their knowledge with others. Over the last year, the project has evolved and -- we think -- improved from our original plan. C ...
• Ushahidi Racking up Downloads, Available in New La ...
  
  
  The Ushahidi platform's growing use has been astounding to say the least. The platform has been download almost 4,000 times. On top of that, our mobile applications (including the Android Oil Spill reporter by Henry Addo) have been downloaded more than 3,700 times. As an organization that is bare ...
• Highlights and Pitfalls of Virtual Street Corners ...
  
  
  We're just winding down my Knight News Challenge project, Virtual Street Corners , and haven't had time to sort through all the recorded materials and debrief the participants, but I wanted to share some initial thoughts and reactions. The most encouraging takeaway from the project was the enthu ...
• Four More "Programmer-Journalists" Reach Halfway P ...
  
  
  Ever since the first Knight "programmer-journalist" scholars enrolled in the journalism master's program at the Medill School , I have checked in with them around the midway point -- and taken the opportunity to introduce them to the Idealab audience. As we mark the end of Medill's spring quarter, ...

Cutting Edge News

• Public Transit on the Edge - Lawmakers Ramp up The ...
  
  
  Congress�began ramping up its oversight of Metro as Washington, D.C. mass transit riders braced for a possible fare hike and transit officials embarked on making long overdue safety changes while fighting a multi-million dollar budget shortfall. President Barack Obama has requested $150 million in t ...
• The Edge of Terrorism - Yemen’s Forever War: The H ...
  
  
  The Yemeni government’s adoption of a February 2010 ceasefire indicates that its scorched-earth policy in the sixth phase of the war was unsuccessful. For their part, the Houthis sought to avoid a two-front war involving Saudi Arabia, whose military had begun to directly confront them prior to the t ...
• The Edge of Justice - Despite Allegations, No Pros ...
  
  
  Eight years ago, President George W. Bush issued a stern policy on sex trafficking in war zones—a policy that remains on the books to this day. With government contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan sometimes exceeding the number of U.S. troops, Bush vowed to prosecute employees and suspend or disquali ...
• The Obama Edge - Afghanistan May Yet Be Obama’s Ac ...
  
  
  The White House has had a few laughs recently, poking fun at RNC Chairman Michael Steele. The most recent gaffe they’re pointing to is Steele’s comment surrounding Afghanistan and the possibility the war cannot be won. White House operatives lit up the Internet with charges and accusations that Stee ...
• The Spiritual Edge - The Interpretation of Dreams ...
  
  
  Dreams have always held significance for human beings through the ages, and dreaming has been associated with a multitude of different notions. The idea of dreams functioning as a link between humans and the divine has been particularly common. According to a thesis in religious studies from the Uni ...

High Country News

• The drift dweller
  
  
  Colorado scientists have discovered that snow molds are ubiquitous in the high country.
• In Utah, the more things change, the more they sta ...
  
  
  Utah will still be fighting over wilderness 20 years from now.
• A river again?
  
  
  The EPA extends Clean Water Act protection to L.A.'s urban watershed.
• Leasing lag?
  
  
  The BLM is offering less land for oil and gas leasing in Wyoming.
• Wolves: The debate is seldom rational
  
  
  The great Western wolf debate is as emotional as ever.

CounterCurrents

• Deaths In Renewed Kashmir Violence
  
  
  By Aljazeera A teenage boy and a protester have been killed in clashes in Indian Kashmir, bringing to six the number of people shot dead by security forces in two days
• Dont Blame Pakistan For The Failure Of The War
  
  
  By Imran Khan Political leaders in the US and UK should realize that people in the streets of New York and London are not threatened by the people in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan but by the growing radicalization of their own marginalised Muslim youth
• The Hidden Face Of Sanctions
  
  
  By Dr. Alan Sabrosky The real purpose of sanctions is not to affect the policies of the Iranian government, because nothing it does will affect the sanctions. It is to prepare the US public for an attack against Iran, almost certainly in conjunction with Israel, to destroy Israels last remaining c ...
• Peak Food: Can Another Green Revolution Save Us?
  
  
  By Nicholas C. Arguimbau The Green Revolution was a one shot deal, because we cannot again double irrigate acreage or multipy use of chemical fertilizers by five; and because the Green Revolution was a program of the oil age, which is fast departing. Modest crop-yield increases may keep up with pop ...
• The Heroism Of PFC Bradley Manning
  
  
  By Evan Knappenberger As far as the courageous PFC Manning goes, he is my new military intelligence hero. Thanks, Brad. And shame on you, media, for being out-reported by a twenty-two year-old kid with a laptop. But most of all, shame on you, US Army, for forcing a kid to be the one to finally exp ...

Contagious Love Experiment

• 92219 Pieces of my Broken Afghan Heart
  
  
  The following letter was sent to me from the young people in Afghanistan who tried to come to the U.S. this summer for our speaking tour. The U.S. embassy flatly denied them, but their voices continue to cry out. The official narrative of the Afghan War is that it has greatly served the people of A ...
• The other side of Afghanistan
• Days 9-11: Solitude, Mountains, and Humanity
  
  
  The first time I talked to Ymani, one of our hosts in Asheville, NC, I was at Salam’s house in Berkeley, CA. The first cross-country trek that I embarked on was drawing to an end and I was entering all kinds of scenarios into google maps to try to incorporate Asheville into the plans before [...]
• Day 8: A Good Day to be an Older Brother
  
  
    Half a year ago, my younger brother loaded up his compact car and drove from our parent’s house in Maryland to Little Rock, AR. Zack has always been a sharp thinker and dedicated worker, but had been struggling to find somewhere and something to really put his energy behind. Drifting from culinar ...
• Day 7: How to Deal
  
  
  Day 7: Josh, OKC Our visit to Oklahoma City seems like a good time to gush about my girlfriend Margo. After a long, sweltering ride through New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma without air conditioning, having Margo waiting at the church where we spoke was a refreshing sight. Her and some friends made th ...

Yid With Lid

• Syria Marches Into Lebanon; Saudis Surrender to In ...
  
  
  By Barry Rubin P.J. Crowley, State Department spokesman and its answer to Pollyanna (Note 1), looks at the advance of America’s enemies and gives the advice that their strategy isn’t working. Ah, but it is. Crowley responds to the following question� about the joint visit of the Saudi ...
• Does Prince Charles Believe That He is the Muslim ...
  
  
  Its easy to feel bad for Britain's Prince Charles, after all the guy's main purpose in life is to wait for his mum to die so he can take over her Job. Charlie has spend his life looking for his "special purpose." The man has been pampered in royalty all his life so he doesn't even have an i ...
• Maxine Waters to Join Charlie Rangel on Ethics Com ...
  
  
  On Monday Congresswoman Maxine Waters will be joining her buddy Chuck Rangel on the ethics comittee hot seat. At issue is deal that Waters is accused of arraigning between� regulators and OneUnited of Massachusetts, a bank in which her husband held shares. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who did not ow ...
• NYT Says Economy Will Get Worse: Other Indicators ...
  
  
  This morning the government issued new growth rates for the economy that clearly showed the economy was beginning to slow down again. In fact even the President's mouthpiece the New York Times is predicting that this slowdown trend will continue. The Times is asking the question if� the "recovery ...
• 15-Year-Old Malka Chana Roth Murdered by Hamas Nin ...
  
  
  Today Frimet and Arnold Roth of Jerusalem Observe the Ninth Anniversary of the murder of their daughter. Killed in a Hamas terrorist attack in Jerusalem 30-Jul-10: Please remember our daughter today According to the Hebrew calendar, the ninth anniversary of our daughter Malki's death starts at su ...

The Real Agenda

• Alimentos: El Secreto Siniestro
  
  
  La tienda de comestibles, junto con su fregadero de la cocina, son dos de los lugares más peligrosos del mundo. En los siguientes videos, se aborda uno de los más oscuros modos del poder de la globalización y como se ha usado para controlar a la población a través de los alimentos. La adulteración d ...
• Is Obama a Marxist or Socialist? No, he works for ...
  
  
  Is it possible the Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs operatives in the Obama administration truly desire a communist revolution as Glenn Beck and Wayne Allyn Root insist? During the 2008 election cycle, Goldman Sachs donated nearly a million bucks to Obama. Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase donated near ...
• Gaúchos sendo pulverizados como Baratas
  
  
  Por Luis R. Miranda Ha algumas semanas os cidadãos do Rio Grande do Sul, mais especificamente, São Leopoldo e cidades vizinhas foram despertados para a realidade das Trilhas Químicas. Em 03 de junho de 2010, centenas testemunharam a pulverização maciça de produtos químicos sobre o céu azul de suas c ...
• Law of the Sea Treaty and the National Ocean Counc ...
  
  
  The intentions of the Council are stated on page 8 of the report that include implementing LOST and other international treaties. The report also states that the Council’s plans shall be implemented by Executive Orders, in addition to federal and state laws. This section mentions ‘global climate cha ...
• CIA, Google to monitor the web in real time, predi ...
  
  
  CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.

Wind Watch

• Highland windmills remain unbuilt
  
  
  The seasons have changed four times since construction began on Virginia’s first wind farm, and there’s still no sign of the 400-foot windmills planned for the top of a Highland County ridge. Developers of the project — who previously blamed winter weather for the slow progress — last week declined ...
• Neighbours on the barricades against wind turbines ...
  
  
  The postcard image of Denmark in harmony with wind turbines has shattered. Protests from more and more Danish neighbours of wind turbines on land have stopped wind power projects and made local politicians reluctant to approve licences. This is evident from a front page article in yesterday’s editio ...
• Turbines too loud for you? Here, take $5,000
  
  
  IONE, Ore. — Residents of the remote high-desert hills near here have had an unusual visitor recently, a fixer working out the kinks in clean energy. Patricia Pilz of Caithness Energy, a big company from New York that is helping make this part of eastern Oregon one of the fastest-growing wind power ...
• MATL moves to tap eminent domain for power line ri ...
  
  
  Disputes between some landowners in Montana and Alberta and the developer of a power line crossing private property between Great Falls and Lethbridge are coming to a head as the company prepares to begin putting up poles. On Monday, Montana Alberta Tie Ltd., the developer of the Montana Alberta Tie ...
• Throwing caution to the wind
  
  
  The growth of wind power is exploding across Canada. Wind farms are springing up as easy investments in green energy. Scientific studies have raised serious concerns about the impact they could have on human health. But few are paying much attention. As Sylvia Squair reports, some doctors and scient ...

Not My Tribe

• Freedom and Duress NOT the same thing.
  
  
  A gentleman wrote earlier that Ireland signed a paper partitioning the Nation, and likewise, Scotland and Ireland had signed papers joining their people to the United Kingdom. And that therefore Scots and Irish Separatists are breaking a treaty and how very dare they do so, it’s dishonorable etc. He ...
• NPR vs. FOX is Obama vs. Bush, difference being sk ...
  
  
  Petition gatherers are hoping you’ll help pressure the White House Correspondents’ Association to assign the front row seat recently purged of Helen Thomas to the public-serving NPR instead of the right-wing FOX. I favor whoever will unmask the corporate choke hold on the media and government, not w ...
• Peter King, (R-NY) = Painful rectal itch.
  
  
  Rabidly Anti-Freedom. Freedom of speech unless you say anything against his Pet War. Freedom of Religion unless you’re Muslim of any sect, Jewish of any sect that doesn’t rabidly scream for the death penalty against all Muslims everywhere, Christian and not supportive of the D.P.A.A.M.E., Property R ...
• I heard something GLORIOUS yesterday.
  
  
  A kid on a cell phone, couldn’t have been more than 7 but not real young either, keeps saying “huh? What’s THAT?” then asks her mom “Mommy, whats a ‘nigger’”? I thought I would not live long enough to ever hear such a thing. An American child, race, who knows, she was darker skinned even [...]
• Local stuff, Public transport
  
  
  From Ed Billings Rally; Bring Back Evening and weekend Transit When; Friday, August 20, 2010 12:00 pm Where; In Front of City Hall We have had enough of the cutting of vital services while our City Government is spending out 1.6 million per year on the Olympic Training Center.

Debunking the Debunkers

• Debunking the Debunkers
  
  
  Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors , but feel free to contact us here if you have a suggestion or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subjective matt ...
• Debunking Joseph Nobles: Three Big Issues Indeed
  
  
  Joseph Nobles of ae911truth.info has finally completed his critique of what he considers three of ae911truth's biggest mistakes, which he calls "The Big Three." According to him, these are three issues ae911truth claims that debunkers never address. Here are my thoughts on it. The Big Three, Part O ...
• Responding to a Response to my Response
  
  
  Well, today's a rarity, as I will be doing two posts in one day. I was originally just going to write a response to a section on Joseph Nobles' website ae911truth.info, but I'll need to respond to this first. Mr. Nobles has decided to address a post I recently did about his site. It would also be ...
• Collapse Rates of the WTC Consistent With Controll ...
  
  
  An argument against controlled demolition debunkers have raised is that the WTC did not collapse at free fall rates. It is well known that a free fall drop from the height of one of the Twin Towers would be about 9.2 seconds. I except that the Towers took closer to around 15 seconds to collapse , so ...
• David Cameron - Same Old Shit!
  
  
  Concluding a series of posts on British politics, here's a simple video I put together focusing primarily on David Cameron. It took longer than I would have liked coz I had to keep updating it with new quotes as they came out. For some reason, Youtube has squashed my last three videos and I've had ...

Fooducate

• ADA Response to Accusations on Partnership with He ...
  
  
  A couple of weeks ago we lamented the signing of a sponsorship deal between the American Dietetic Association (ADA) and chocolate mega-corp Hershey. We exchanged emails with the ADA in order to voice our concern and to learn more about this relationship. The ADA media relations group was open and g ...
• Fat-Free Fig Bars – A Healthy Snack Choice?
  
  
  Mark G., a fooducate blog reader, writes: I would love your opinion on Barbara’s Bakery Fat Free Whole Wheat Fig Bars. I love these cookies (as does my 4 year old) and they seem to be a relatively healthy dessert option. I would love to see what you say. Thanks. Well Mark, the answer is “it’s [...]
• Ridiculous Pomegranate Juice Wars
  
  
  POM, the beverage company that turned an old pomegranate orchard into a money machine with POM Wonderful juices, is taking the Coca Cola Company, parent of Minute Maid, to court. The reason: false advertising. According to POM, Minute Maid’s pomegranate juice name and label make it appear as if pom ...
• Planter’s Trail Mix – A Good Snack?
  
  
  Jodie, who follows Fooducate on Facebook, asked – “can you let me know any information on Planters new Trail Mix? it’s delicious.. wondering if it’s too good to be good for me?” Excellent question Jodie. Trail mix is a great mix of protein, heart healthy fats, and carbs that really helps keep people ...
• The Problem with Chocolate Milk
  
  
  Do your kids drink chocolate milk? What would happen if one day you’d take away the chocolate, and leave them with just the milk? Would they continue drinking the plain milk, or would you need to switch to other sources of vitamins and minerals? A few weeks ago, at the School Nutrition Association’s ...

Traffikd

• Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
  
  
  Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits , last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open ...
• 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
  
  
  This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...
• Cloud Living Now Available From Glen Allsopp
  
  
  One of my friends has just launched a new product that I think may be of interest to many Traffikd readers. Glen Allsopp has written an e-book, Cloud Living , based on his experiences from making a five-figure monthly income from his websites. Cloud Living is actually more than an e-book, it i ...
• 5 Reasons New Bloggers Should Use Niche Social Med ...
  
  
  I've been talking to some new bloggers recently and I've been asked questions about how they should work on growing their blog, increasing subscribers, and getting more visitors. Most bloggers know about the potential impact of social media and some even spend considerable amounts of time on sites l ...
• Blog Design Showcase
  
  
  The typical post topics covered here involve topics related to social media marketing or blogging . One way to increase traffic to your site is to use an attractive design that will draw a lot of attention. Web design galleries and showcase blog posts like this one send considerable amounts of visit ...

Clearreaching

• Happiness super market
  
  
  I’ve been into the triptych “love-beauty-enlightenment” since I was 18. I’ve tried many methods, among which: the Emin Way , Reiki , SRT , channeling and divinations of sorts. I’ve read tons of New Age books about spirituality, enlightenment, immortality and so on and so on. I boasted that I knew th ...
• Test your EQ!
  
  
  I am going on vacation for a week, but I’ll leave you with a little test which is supposed to measure the EQ: There is a woman and a man, who love each other but live on two different islands. The man shares his island with a savage. The woman seeks a way to get to the man’s island, because she lov ...
• Predisposition
  
  
  For the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, the soul had something that was called “fora”, meaning direction. In other words, the soul was thought to have taken up, long before the birth of the body it inhabited, the direction of good or evil. Thus, man was considered to be born good or bad. Quite som ...
• Is there such a thing as soul?
  
  
  Much talked about, much used, the concept of soul has nowadays turned into a chewing gum, especially when put in the context of reincarnation. The truth is that the concept of soul has been tackled by both philosophy and religion since antiquity; this should account for the dozens of definitions the ...
• On koans
  
  
  The purpose of a koan is for the person who engages in it to realize the difference between the mind (which manifests itself as a flow of thoughts) and consciousness (which is the space that contains the flow of thoughts). Always the issue is to understand that it is identification with our thoughts ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Preventing Maternal Deaths in West Africa
  
  
  Dr. Fredanna M'Cormack and her Bele Uman Project are working in Sierra Leone to save the lives of pregnant mothers and their babies.
• Interview with Kumi Naidoo
  
  
  The Greenpeace executive director talks about connections between the environment, poverty, peace, and how the interconnectedness of these issues can drive civil society.
• Unsustainability in Today's Sustainable Developmen ...
  
  
  For development to be integrated into a community, governments and NGOs need to find a way to educate and involve local people for the long term.
• Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
  
  
  We are seeing a steadily growing tide of discontent with the Kimberley Process.
• Re: Conflict Minerals: the New Blood Diamonds
  
  
  I believe that the senators dont know the real issues on the ground and their well-intended legislation will be useless without knowledge of the actual situation.

Canadian Encyclopedia

• New France
  
  
  France was a colonial power in North America from the early 16th century, the age of great European discoveries and fishing expeditions, to the early 19th century, when Napol�on Bonaparte sold Louisiana to the US. From
• Fur Trade
  
  
  Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (
• Native People: Eastern Woodlands
  
  
  Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
• Canadian Pacific Railway
  
  
  Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the
• War of 1812
  
  
  On 18 June 1812, at the height of the Napoleonic conflict ( see NAPOLEONIC WARS ), the US declared war on Great Britain and struck at the only British possession on the continent: Canada. Most of the battles that followed

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle an old wall year planne ...
  
  
  We’ve had an email from Alex asking: Can big paper wall planners be recycled? We’ve got at least a dozen at my school to get rid of now but I didn’t know about recycling them in the paper bins because they’re laminated. No, it’s very unlikely that they’ll be accepted for paper recycling. Most wipe- ...
• How can I reuse or recycle plastic coleslaw/potato ...
  
  
  Between the good weather and the World Cup, every weekend recently has been barbeque-madness in the UK, which means the burger, salad and salad accompaniments shelves at the supermarket are stripped bare by 10am, just a solitary limp iceberg lettuce left behind to tell of the devastation. Pre-packed ...
• How can I reuse or recycle body jewellery?
  
  
  We’ve had an email from Toni: Do you know of any charities that collect used body piercing jewellery? Everyone seems to want gold and these aren’t gold they’re steel. Your earring suggestions don’t apply either because they’re ring and bars. Marie Curie’s jewellery recycling scheme claims to accept ...
• How can I reuse or recycle rubbish pencil erasers?
  
  
  We’ve had an email from Sophie: I bought a big bag of rubbers at the start of school but they were hard and rubbish so I turned them into stamps instead! I drew a design on them then cut it out with an art knife and they work great. I remember doing something similar with them when [...]
• What can I reuse or recycle to build a cold frame?
  
  
  (I suspect they’ll be an overlap between this and our previous question about making greenhouses but I thought I’d ask again because they’re a bit different.) I’m having lots of fun growing stuff in our new garden. The old garden was considerably small and got no (no!) direct sunlight whatsoever, w ...

Mondoweiss

• ‘New Republic’ writer lauds ADL’ ...
  
  
  Ben Birnbaum's twitter feed; mosque is being "demagogued" on right and left, but ADL's "nuanced statement should be commended, not condemned." Here's Ben Birnbaum at New Republic, a long piece of Israel lobbyana, attacking Human Rights Watch as an enemy of Israel. Reliable narrator?
• the battlefield of public opinion is a psychologic ...
  
  
  oh god, i'm going thru this psychological minefield.just an amazing amount of bullshit pushback in my blogging reality. i seem to fluxuate between periods of self doubt with respect to the 'tone' of my blogging (basically just being me which apparently really drives some people nuts in not a good wa ...
• Foxman says some are ‘entitled’ to be ...
  
  
  The Times' Mark Barbaro and Paul Vitello did excellent reporting on the mosque controversy, and the role of Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League.“It’s the wrong place,” Mr. Foxman said. “Find another place.” Asked why the opposition of the families was so pivotal in the decision, Mr. Foxman, a ...
• Neocon/Israel lobby strategy for getting US into w ...
  
  
  Gareth Porter at antiwar.com responds forcefully to Reuel Marc Gerecht, at the Weekly Standard, calling on Israel to bomb Iran. Again, I ask, when is this type of discussion going to happen in the mainstream media, so that Americans can sort out what they really want?the aim of Gerecht and of the ...
• Timing is everything
  
  
  Two Armenian-Americans have sued the Turkish government in California for the Armenian genocide of nearly a century ago.The suit seeks class action status on behalf of all Armenians and Turkish citizens "who were deprived of their citizenship, brutally deported, (and) had their property seized" by ...

Media Consortium

• Amazon to Unveil $139 Kindle Wi-Fi - mediabistro.c ...
  
  
  Amazon has fired the next shot in the eReader price war. This evening the New York Times broke the news that Amazon will soon offer a new edition of the Kindle eReader, a brand new $139 edition called "Kindle Wi-Fi."
• 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Creating an iOS or Androi ...
  
  
  Find out more about the five mistakes to avoid when creating an iOS or Android application; and how you can learn from others’ mistakes, made in the creation and marketing process, that will save you a lot of time and money.
• How publishers are using aggregation, curation pla ...
  
  
  Great posts on tools/strategies to help support publishers in curation and aggregation. Two separate things btw (as noted by previous link). A definite must read. "Curation platforms, which have moved beyond the RSS feed, provide varying levels of automation, functions and technology to suit a med ...
• Aggregators, curators, and indexers: There’s a dif ...
  
  
  Parsing the differences bw curation, aggreation and indexing. Important when thinking of jouranlism/publishing and community strategies and what your communities want.
• Tumblr Is On Fire. Now Over 6 Million Users, 1.5 B ...
  
  
  I think I have to get on tumblr...

Reality Asserts Itself

• ECONOMIC CRISIS AND RACISM HAUNT ARIZONA IMMIGRATI ...
  
  
  On Wednesday, a last-second injunction from Judge Susan Bolton temporarily stopped the most aggressive provisions of state bill SB1070 from going into effect. This is the Arizona law that will target undocumented immigrants. In particular, the judge struck down the section that compels police office ...
• G20: INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM AND ARBITRARY STATE ACTION
  
  
  In a murder trial, if the police obtain evidence illegally and can't make their case otherwise, most of us accept the principle that a person we believe to be guilty should go free. We do this because we don’t want to live in a police state. Our right to privacy, to avoid arbitrary search and seiz ...
• BURSTING 'OFFICER BUBBLES'
  
  
  In the last few days, a video produced for The Real News by my colleagues Nazrul Islam and Jesse Freeston has officially gone viral - over 200,000 views on YouTube. The following is a blog that Jesse wrote giving context to the "Officer Bubbles" story. You will find links to the key videos at the en ...
• THE MISSING WORDS AT THE G20 – or an absurd plan f ...
  
  
  With all the public attention during G20 on the 1000 arrests and such, something critical was overlooked.� That's the paradox the assembled heads of governments created for ending the global economic crisis. The G20 leaders recognize that "demand" needs to grow. That means people must have the mea ...
• PEACE PROCESS GOING NOWHERE, ISRAELI ELITE DOING F ...
  
  
  Gideon Levy, a columnist in the Israeli newspaper Haaratz writes, "If there remained any vestiges of hope in the Middle East from Barack Obama, they have dissipated; if some people still expected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to lead a courageous move, they now know they made a mistake (and misl ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Crowd-sourcing science funding
  
  
  Attention, scientists: got any friends who might want to make a donation to a broke biologist… or two or three? They can do so over at FundScience , a nonprofit organization which today is announcing three projects that you, your next-door neighbor, or anyone at all can help fund with the click of ...
• Concerned conservationists' grumbles greet Galapag ...
  
  
  A UN body has removed the Galapagos from its list of World Heritage in Danger, to the dismay of conservationists. The islands had been added to the list in 2007 by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), due to threats from tousim and fishing. At its meeting i ...
• Poor science fails to stop Tokyo’s fish market mov ...
  
  
  Posted for David Cyranoski The cleanup of the contaminated site that’s to be a new home for Tokyo’s fish market, the world’s biggest, is still dogged by controversy. As Nature reported back in April, the figures for concentrations of toxic chemicals at the site before the cleanup appear in key do ...
• Fuel from microbes – another LS9 production
  
  
  Many plants, insects and microbes naturally produce small quantities of alkanes and alkenes, the long-chain carbon and hydrogen molecules that are major components of diesel, petrol (gasoline) and jet fuel. The biotechnology company LS9 , based in South San Francisco, California, has now pinpoin ...
• Researchers hail new MRC head
  
  
  The new head of the UK’s Medical Research Council is to be John Savill, Nature has learned. Savill is currently head of the University of Edinburgh/MRC Centre for Inflammation Research and is also the chief scientist for Scotland. He will replace Leszek Borysiewicz, who is leaving to become vice- ...

new geography

• Ownership Subsidies: Dream Homes or Disasters?
  
  
  Home ownership has been considered an integral part of the American Dream for as long as anyone can remember. Now it has come under scrutiny, notably in a June Wall Street Journal piece by Richard Florida , which claims that that home ownership reduces employment opportunities for young adults, si ...
• Health Care Development in Central Florida
  
  
  By Richard Reep In this still cooling economy, Florida seems to be continually buffeted by a perfect storm of unemployment, record foreclosures, and stagnant population growth. As the state continues to suffer, the health care industry has unfolded two planning efforts aimed at building some econo ...
• Deepwater Dreams: Drilling The Psych of Oil Execs ...
  
  
  For more than fifteen years, I spent a considerable amount of my professional time in the company of oil men. For years I ate lunch with them, traveled with them to places like Scotland and Russia, listened to their war stories over drinks, watched them unfurl seismic charts on board tables, read ...
• A New War Between The States
  
  
  Nearly a century and half since the United States last divided, a new "irrepressible conflict" is brewing between the states. It revolves around the expansion of federal power at the expense of state and local prerogatives. It also reflects a growing economic divide, arguably more important than the ...
• Going Underground in Australia
  
  
  Just over a decade ago, governments in Australia were immune to calls for accelerated infrastructure investment in our major urban centres. Plans for strategic reinvestment were rare. Much has changed in that time, maybe too much. It seems that enthusiasm for major urban infrastructure now runs ahe ...

GM Watch

• Meeting rejects Biotechnology Bill
• UK and US scientists parrot Monsanto's talking poi ...
• Roundup's potency declines and foils U.S. farmers
• Help stop Terminator's return!
• Activists quarantine illegal GM crops in Italy

water.org

• Join the Day of Action & achieve the MDGs (ONE)
  
  
  Join the Day of Action & Achieve the MDGs (ONE) – In September of 2000, leaders of the 191 United Nations member countries met in New York City and formulated a plan to halve extreme poverty by 2015. Unanimously, these leaders agreed upon eight comprehensive, holistic, and attainable goals, the Mill ...
• Klean Kanteen special edition bottles (Klean Kante ...
  
  
  Klean Kanteen Special Edition Bottles (Klean Kanteen) - Klean Kanteen is part of a growing marketing trend that supports earth-friendly causes with a percentage of the profits from their product sales. (Think TOMS shoes – for each pair purchased, they send one to a child in need; or Boxed Water, whi ...
• Getting the most from FaceBook fans (Chron. Phil.)
  
  
  Getting the Most From Your Facebook Fans (Chronicle of Philanthropy) – By following the lessons of social game developers, Chase engaged more than 2-million Facebook users in a dialogue on philanthropy. We found that these types of interactions could easily evolve into creative fundraising solutions ...
• Rich Thorsten on sustainable sanitation (PRLog)
  
  
  A clean bill of health? How humanitarian agencies can remedy approaches to nutrition and sanitation (PRLog) – Rich Thorsten, Director of International Programs at Water.org and one of the panellists, asserts: âSanitation has finally begun to receive more attention in the international development ...
• Pitbull helps Water.org with “Game On” ...
  
  
  Water is Life! (Planet Pit) – Purchase Pitbull’s song “Game On” from iTunes and Pitbull’s proceeds go directly to Water.org. During the World Cup this year more than 2,000 children will die from preventable water-related disease. More than 50 percent of Africans suffer from water-related diseases. ...

Before It's News

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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 break ...

Margaret's News

• Some Afghan soldiers missing from U.S. base are in ...
  
  
  At least eight members of the Afghan military wanted by U.S. authorities after fleeing a Texas air force base have attained permanent resident status in Canada or are awaiting decisions on refugee claims. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• FBI access to e-mail and web records raises fears
  
  
  Can be obtained merely with the signature of a special agent in charge of any FBI field office and there is no need even for a suspicion of wrongdoing, merely that the records would be relevant in a counterintelligence or counterterrorism investigation. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & G ...
• Gay-bashing on the rise in Vancouver: councillor
  
  
  Unfortunately, we are the gay-bashing capital, Mr. Stevenson said. While I dont think theres been a huge spike, its on the increase. Gay-bashing is not going down, thats for sure. The question is: Why not? Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Why the QDR's independent panel makes good, common ...
  
  
  The need to defend the American homeland; assure access to the sea, air, space, and cyberspace; preserve a favorable balance of power across Eurasia that prevents authoritarian domination of the region and providing for the common good good globally. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov' ...
• Obama is zero for four and Republicans are sitting ...
  
  
  Although Obama's economic team did a good job of arresting the financial meltdown and recession that began under President Bush, they aren't getting much credit for this in the minds of American voters. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

• Part II of Interview with Meridian Solar's Preside ...
  
  
  large This is the second part of a three-part Q & A with Andrew McCalla, founder and president of Austin, Texas-based Meridian Solar. In this segment he talks about saving c ...
• Part I of Q & A With Meridian Solar's President An ...
  
  
  large This is the first part of my three-part interview with Andrew McCalla, founder and president of Austin, Texas-based Meridian Solar . In this part McCalla talks about M ...
• Solar-Powered Yoplait Yogurt
  
  
  General Mills Inc .( NYSE:GIS ) is now using the power of the sun to help make yogurt.
• Rush for higher feed-in tarrifs sees big jump in G ...
  
  
  The first half of this year saw a rush to install new solar panels in Germany that has resulted in a rise in capacity of more than 3 gigawatts for the Northern European country.
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News Blaze

• Dinner for Schmucks Film Review
  
  
  Although Hollywood has a horrible track record when it comes to remakes of foreign films, especially French farces, I nonetheless approached Dinner for Schmucks optimistically and with an open mind.
• SanDisk unveils its smallest USB Flash Drive
  
  
  SanDisk unveils its smallest USB Flash Drive, a first time for the flash drive manufacturer.
• Why Did I Get Married Too? DVD Review
  
  
  Janet Jackson and sister Rebbie Jackson pose for photographs at the premiere of the new film Why Did I Get Married Too held at the School Of Visual Arts Theater.
• Analogies Emerge Between WikiLeaks' Afghan War Doc ...
  
  
  While watching Julian Assange this morning, I thought of a documentary I saw a few months ago, The Most Dangerous Man In America.
• Papaha-Naumokua-Kea Marine National Monument a Nat ...
  
  
  Designation of Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument as UNESCO World Heritage Site

Historical Notes

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libcom

• Moscow / Khimki: The Battle with the Adminstration ...
  
  
  main.jpg Moscow / Khimki: The Battle with the Adminstration Heats Up
• A new philosoFiat at Pomigliano factory, Italy
  
  
  fiat-pomigliano-fiom-protesta.jpg If eight hours don't seem enough for you ( original title of the article ), try to work at an assembly line from ten o'clock at night till six o'clock in the morning wit ...
• Threat to outsourced workers’ benefits
  
  
  jobcentre.jpg Interesting article from the Financial Times. Quote: The government is “minded” to scrap an informal code guaranteeing public sector benefits for thousands of outsour ...
• Beneficiaries Burn Bennet In Rotorua, New Zealand ...
  
  
  rotorua.jpg Just like in 1991, New Zealand's governing National Party is attacking both the waged and unwaged wings of the working class at the same time. The Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement intervi ...
• Truck Drivers defiant despite conscription orders ...
  
  
  a3-2-thumb-medium.jpg Truck drivers carrying fuel stand their ground and continue their strike against the austerity measures despite the government calling a civil conscription on them ...

Free Range International

• Losing Hearts and Minds
  
  
  Ben Arnoldy at the Christen Science Monitor penned an excellent tale on reconstruction efforts going pear shaped and the consequences resulting from such folly.  It is an excellent piece of reporting from one of the truly professional foreign correspondents working the country today.  The report was ...
• Restrepo
  
  
  Last week Kanani Fong at The Kitchen Dispatch arranged an interview for me with Tim Hertherington, who along with Sebastian Junger produced the award winning documentary Restrepo.   Kanani signed onto the Restrepo team to spearhead a public relations effort, in conjunction with National Geographic, ...
• Riding with Ghosts
  
  
  Editors Note:  This article is too good not to share in its entirety.  The reporter, Mitch Potter, was kind enough to give me permission to do so.  Mitch contacted me through the blog and Panjwaii Tim told me he was a great guy with lots of experience and knowledge who he was happy to host. [...]
• Arbaki
  
  
  It looks like the new boss has convinced President Karzai to reverse his position on using tribal militias.  The new name for these soon to be created Arbaki is Local Police Forces (LPF.)  This is a plan which has been tried before with minimal success. In Kandahar the Local Defense Initiative (LDI) ...
• East Afghanistan
  
  
  Spencer Ackerman over at Danger Room wrote a post last week with the disturbing title of East Afghanistan Sees Taliban as “Morally Superior” to Karzai.  This assessment came from the after action slides of Col Randy George who commanded Task Force Warrior this past year.  There is nothing in the a ...

Heliogenic Climate Change

• All you need to know about government scientists
  
  
  “Gabriela Chavarria of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been picked as the science adviser for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Trained as an entomologist, Chavarria studied neotropical bumble bees and has since worked in conservation policy at Washington, D.C.âbased NGOs. Since ...
• Lindzen and Choi’s new paper out — con ...
  
  
  “Abstract: To estimate climate sensitivity from observations, Lindzen and Choi [2009] used the deseasonalized fluctuations in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and the concurrent responses in the top-of-atmosphere outgoing radiation from the ERBE satellite instrument. Distinct periods of warming and c ...
• How bad is the Gulf spill?
  
  
  “The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is bad â no one would dispute it. But just how bad?  … [T]he Deepwater Horizon blowout is not unprecedented, nor is it yet among the worst oil accidents in history. And its ultimate impact will depend on a long list of interlinked variables, including the weat ...
• While EPA wages war on coal, China coal imports sk ...
  
  
  “China’s growing appetite for imported coal has ignited coal prices … Last week, the benchmark price at Australia’s Newcastle port for thermal coalâthe type burned in power plantsâhit $108 a metric ton, the highest since October 2008, according to globalCOAL, an international trading platform. A ...
• California going down — begs for fed bailout
  
  
  “State tax collections plummeted unexpectedly in April, wiping out months of steady gains that legislators hoped would ease their budget troubles and restore California’s economy faster than experts predicted.  … Revenue for April, the biggest revenue month because it is when most Californians pay ...

Common Dreams

• White House Pushes for Warrantless Access to Inter ...
  
  
  by Muriel Kane The White House has asked Congress to make it possible for the FBI to demand that Internet service providers turn over customers' records in cases involving terrorism or other intelligence issues without first obtaining a court order. read more
• As Desert Deaths Soar, a Morgue Grows Crowded
  
  
  by James C. McKinley Jr. TUCSON - Dr. Bruce Parks unzips a white body bag on a steel gurney and gingerly lifts out a human skull and mandible, turning them over in his hands and examining the few teeth still in their sockets. The body bag, coated with dust, also contains a broken pelvis, a femur and ...
• Congress Reforms Cocaine Convictions
  
  
  by Alex Spillius in Washington The US House of Representatives approved a bill reducing the disparities between mandatory crack and powder cocaine sentences, which will now be sent for President Barack Obama's signature. During his presidential campaign, Mr Obama said that the wide gap in sentencing ...
• Michigan Oil Spill Estimated by EPA at 1 Million-P ...
  
  
  by Tim Martin Federal officials now estimate that more than 1 million gallons of oil may have spilled into the Kalamazoo River through Battle Creek, and the governor is sharply criticizing clean-up efforts as "wholly inadequate." The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the update Wednesday ...
• Global Warming Pushes 2010 Temperatures to Record ...
  
  
  by Juliette Jowit Global temperatures in the first half of the year were the hottest since records began more than a century ago, according to two of the world's leading climate research centers. Scientists have also released what they described as the "best evidence yet" of rising long-term temper ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

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• Tegan and Sara
• Lee Daniels
• James Cameron
• Anna Kendrick

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: R&S Channel Genesis of Fossils: R ...
  
  
  ExamineReligion: R&S Channel Genesis of Fossils: Rocks of Ages - Coiled fossils called ammonites, found in Jurassic rock in Yorkshire... http://ow.ly/18nIaQ
• ExamineReligion: R&S Channel The economy of heaven ...
  
  
  ExamineReligion: R&S Channel The economy of heaven: part three - An Economy of Heaven (Exodus 16:2-15; Matthew 20:1-16) Part 3 In... http://ow.ly/18nDui
• ExamineReligion: R&S Channel He knew he was gay th ...
  
  
  ExamineReligion: R&S Channel He knew he was gay the day he married me and every day we were married. http://ow.ly/18nyWZ
• ExamineReligion: R&S Channel Aug 2nd 'Buddhis ...
  
  
  ExamineReligion: R&S Channel Aug 2nd 'Buddhism for the Curious' program in Columbus http://ow.ly/18nuk9
• ExamineReligion: R&S Channel Interview with Anne R ...
  
  
  ExamineReligion: R&S Channel Interview with Anne Rice on leaving "Christianity" http://ow.ly/18nqlv

Scotts Contracting

• Home Energy Calculator
  
  
  Finally a home energy meter that is easy to use. If you are seeking efforts to cut your energy use-age. TheMicro Soft hohm energy metercan aid in reducing your energy use-age. Dear Hohm user: Here at Microsoft Hohm, we listened … Continue reading →
• The Discovery of Global Warming
  
  
  The Discovery of Global Warming July 2009 A hypertext history of how scientists came to (partly) understand what people are doing to cause climate change. This Website created by Spencer Weart supplements his much shorter book, which tells the history … Continue reading →
• Follow the Money-US Political Oil Ties
  
  
  Following the Oil Money: How âSlickâ are Your Representatives? I recently wrote a post about the BP Republicans in Congress. Those are the no-brainers like Joe Barton who apologized to the now infamous oil (spilling) company because President Obama took … Continue reading →
• New Study Shows Solar Energy is Cheaper than Nucle ...
  
  
  The Holy Grail of the solar industry â reaching grid parity â may no longer be a distant dream. Solar may have already reached that point, at least when compared to nuclear power, according to a new study by two … Continue reading →
• Wanted Green Build Projects-Home or Business
  
  
  Scotts Contracting- latest Green Build Web Promotions includes: While working for a Business I will document the work done with photos/video of my Crew Doing the Actual Work and post them to my web pages, associate links and other business … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

• U.S. Property Rights in Line with Tenets of Commun ...
  
  
  Treatment of private property in America would make Lenin smile.
• As Usual, Government Regulation as Political Payof ...
  
  
  The financial regulation measure before the Senate will only benefit the big banks. Surprise, Surprise!
• Drug Czar Supports More of the Same
  
  
  A new report calls for ending the Drug War; the drug czar isn't buying it.
• Greece is a Harbinger of Things to Come
  
  
  Don't think that what is happening in Greece can't happen in America.
• Crony Capitalism Caused the Crisis
  
  
  Blaming capitalism for crises is a smokescreen politicians use to perpetuate their political monopoly.

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

• Israel Playing With a Fire It Expects the U.S. to ...
  
  
  Israel needs to know that the United States will finish the war that Israel wants to start.
• The Srebrenica Massacre, After Fifteen Years
  
  
  Fifteen years after the massacre at Srebrenica and the height of the Bosnian War, what has that conflict taught us?
• The Opposite Game: All the Strangeness of Our Amer ...
  
  
  Have you ever thought about just how strange this country's version of normal truly is? Let me make my point with a single, hardly noticed Washington Post news story that's been on my mind for a while. It represents the sort of reporting that, in our world, zips by with next to no reaction, despite ...
• The WikiLeaks Documents Are NOT the Pentagon Paper ...
  
  
  One reason the leak will not become Pentagon Papers 2.0 is that the contents tend to confirm, rather than contradict, news about Afghanistan.
• Conceding Failure of Pentagon Papers Critical to W ...
  
  
  The Vietnam War lasted four more years after the release of the Pentagon Papers.

Law.com

• Baker & McKenzie to Pay $6 Million in Settlement O ...
  
  
  Baker & McKenzie has agreed to pay $6.65 million to compensate Coudert Brothers' bankruptcy estate for profits Baker earned from unfinished business that partners took with them when they left the defunct Coudert. Baker will forfeit most of its interest in an estimated $17 million in contingency fee ...
• ABA Delegates to Weigh Judicial Finance Training, ...
  
  
  Attorney Josh Markus will urge delegates at the ABA's annual meeting in San Francisco this week to officially encourage financial products and practices education and training for judges in the U.S. and abroad. The proposal is one of 35 resolutions up for debate, including a proposal that would urge ...
• Financial Reform Keeps Law Firm Banking and Securi ...
  
  
  Regulations for the recently enacted financial reform law are months away, but law firms with strong financial services practices are rolling out the welcome mat for client conferences and filling their calendars with client meetings. Clients' initial questions have largely focused on the so-called ...
• Bus Cameras Show Fatal Injury From New Angle
  
  
  While making a legal left turn, a veteran Connecticut Transit bus driver fatally struck a pedestrian crossing against the light. The incident turned into a $3.9 million settlement, thanks to an innovative use of technology that pieced together video from internal cameras on the bus.
• Former Jackson Walker Lawyer Snared in Federal Cas ...
  
  
  Texas billionaire brothers Sam and Charles Wyly, in denying Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that they hid $550 million in trading profits via a maze of offshore trusts and other entities, are pointing at the advice they received from lawyers and financial advisers, according to report ...

Iranian.com

• جنازه‌ها را با ماشین حمل گوشت جابه‌جا ‌کردند
  
  
  در سه راه افسريه در جنوب شرق تهران جاده ای است به نام بلوار امام رضا که سرآغاز جاده تهران مشهد است. پانزده شانزده کيلومتر که در اين جاده حرکت کنيد در سمت چپ‌ چند گورستان می بينيد که به اقليت‌های مذهبی تعلق دارد. read more
• سخنان اخیر آقای جنتی موجب حیرت و وهن شورای نگهبان ...
  
  
  چکیده : زهرا رهنورد با اشاره به ادعای احمد جنتی گفت:"پروژه اخیر سخنان آقای جنتی موجب حیرت و وهن شورای نگهبان در ذهن هر آدم عاقل و وطن پرستی است .انسان با خود می گوید خدایا سرنوشت این ملت و این انتخابات تا کنون در دست چه کسانی بوده است؟آنانی که حتی مرغ پخته هم به حرف هایشان می خندد." read more
• In ironic twist, Iran detained US hikers critical ...
  
  
  ust before Iran arrested US hikers Shane Bauer and his friends a year ago, he was nearly finished with an exposé on the Israeli army's use of illegal weapons against protesters. “He would have published it long ago if he had not been arrested," says his friend Shon Meckfessel. "You would say the Ira ...
• Newt Gingrich Suggests Attacking Rest Of 'Axis Of ...
  
  
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• Yadegari Prison Sentence Analyzed
  
  
  On July 29, 2010, Provincial Court Judge Cathy Mocha sentenced Mahmoud Yadegari to 20 months in prison. In theory, the Iranian-Canadian could have received consecutive sentences that totaled a maximum of 70 years. On July 6, 2010, the fraudster and illegal exporter of controlled devices had been con ...

  Blacklisted News

• Congressional Budget Office: “Growing Budget Defic ...
• Barge crashes into oil well in Gulf of Mexico, new ...
  
  
  The US Coast Guard dispatched emergency teams Tuesday after a boat crashed into an oil well off the coast of New Orleans, reportedly sending crude spewing some 20 feet into the air.
• Audit: U.S. Can't Account For Billions In Iraqi Fu ...
  
  
  $8.7 billion in Iraqi funds missing
• Climate Weapons: More Than Just a Conspiracy Theor ...
  
  
  In this particular context, the credibility of projections emanating from the Wildlife Fund, an influential international organization running worldwide operations styled as environment-protection programs, is beyond question
• Natural gas could lead to new Lebanon-Israel war
  
  
  The discovery of large natural gas reserves under the waters of the eastern Mediterranean could potentially mean a huge economic windfall for Israel and Lebanon, both resource-poor nations - if it doesn't spark new war between them.

The Intelligence Daily

• Peak Food: Can Another Green Revolution Save Us?
  
  
  By Nicholas C. Arguimbau Norman Borlaug, widely seen as the father of the “Green...
• Pride & Prejudice in Army’s Human Terrain System
  
  
  By John Stanton “Col Sharon Hamilton [acting HTS program manager], does not know what is going on...
• Vast Intelligence Buildup Is To Oil Pentagon War M ...
  
  
  By Sherwood Ross The Washington Post’s revelations re the amazing growth of the U.S. intelligence...
• Foreclosures Continue To Dramatically Increase In ...
  
  
  By Michael T. Snyder In a very alarming sign for the U.S. economy, foreclosures have continued to...
• The Real Aim of Israel’s Bomb Iran Campaign
  
  
  By Garerth Porter Reuel Marc Gerecht’s screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran...

My AntiWar

• U.S. to approach N. Korea differently from Iran on ...
  
  
  Summary: “We don’t take a cookie-cutter approach here,” spokesman Philip Crowley said. “Iran and North Korea are two different countries. Iran has resources, particularly in the energy sector. North Korea does not.” source: Yonhapread more
• Q&a With Daniel Ellsberg, the Man Behind the P ...
• Islamist Protesters in Pakistan Burn Effigy of Dav ...
• Prince Charles Called on to Block Modern Iranian E ...
• British Armed Forces Stunned by Trident Bill

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• U.S. to approach N. Korea differently from Iran on ...
  
  
  Summary: "We don't take a cookie-cutter approach here," spokesman Philip Crowley said. "Iran and North Korea are two different countries. Iran has resources, particularly in the energy sector. North Korea does not." source: Yonhap read more
• Two Resolutions, One World War
  
  
  Summary: US bases surrounding Iran Proposed by 47 US Representatives on July 22nd, House Resolution 1553 is flagrantly providing explicit support for military strikes against Iran. We are now witnessing the legalization and industrialization of another war, one which will set the entire region a ...
• Sanctions Give China an Advantage in Iran
  
  
  Summary: Spurred by its energy needs, China has undertaken a range of investment projects in Iran, gradually filling in the void left over by Western firms forced out by international sanctions. With more than 100 Chinese companies present in Iran, it has built Tehran’s subway, power stations, ...
• China opposes new EU sanctions on Iran
  
  
  Summary: china-iran China said on Friday that it did not approve of tougher new sanctions imposed by the European Union on Iran, and welcomed Tehran's offer to return to negotiations on a nuclear fuel swap without conditions. source: Reuters read more
• SANCTIONS, THE TRR, AND THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR DIPL ...
  
  
  Summary: Tehran Agreement Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said earlier this week, that the Islamic Republic is prepared to stop enriching uranium to the nearly-20 percent level required to fabricate fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor (TRR), if others agree to provide new, finished fue ...

The Daily Galaxy

• EcoAlert: Massive Algae Bloom in Baltic Sea
  
  
  This satellite image from the European Space Agency captures a 377,000-square-kilometer (145,000-square-mile) algal bloom in the Baltic Sea that could pose a risk to marine life in the Baltic Sea. The blue-green bloom, which stretches from Finland in the north...
• WOOT! Galaxy Fans: Join the IDG Tech Panel for Fre ...
  
  
  Major companies around the world value the opinion of thought leaders like you! Join the IDGTechPanel to be invited to a variety of interesting and rewarding survey opportunities. In exchange for your valuable time and insight, you will have exclusive...
• WOOT! SU, DIGG, & REDDIT Fans: Win a Free Kindle
  
  
  Your help needed to share Daily Galaxy posts you love on Digg, Reddit, and SU. Win a Free Kindle for driving most traffic to the site in August. Send us copies your Digg and/or Reddit or SU stats and shipping...
• WOOT! SU, DIGG, & REDDIT Fans: Win a Free Kindle
  
  
  Your help needed to share Daily Galaxy posts you love on Digg, Reddit, and SU. Win a Free Kindle for driving most traffic to the site in August. Send us copies your Digg and/or Reddit or SU stats and shipping...
• Scientists Map Entire Brain Network: “The most co ...
  
  
  “We have successfully uncovered and mapped the most comprehensive long-distance network of the Macaque monkey brain, which is essential for understanding the brain’s behavior, complexity, dynamics and computation,” announced Dharmendra S. Modha of IBM. “We can now gain unprecedented insight...

Natural News

• Flu vaccine push already underway; first batch cau ...
  
  
  (NaturalNews) As ridiculous as it seems, retailers across the U.S. are already stocking their stores with Christmas goods. It's all about the big commercial push, of course, since retailers make about 50 percent of their profits during the Christmas season. Similarly, flu vaccine manufacturers gener ...
• Vitamin D more effective than vaccines at preventi ...
  
  
  (NaturalNews) A vitamin D supplement is more effective at reducing the risk of flu infection than vaccines or antiviral drugs, according to a study conducted by researchers from Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition .Researchers cond ...
• Even with life-threatening side effects, Adderall ...
  
  
  (NaturalNews) Even though the side effects of the popular Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) drug, Adderall, are potentially deadly, many college students are now using the drug to increase energy levels and brain power in order to get good grades, according to new reports. A potent coc ...
• Monsanto: The world's poster child for corporate m ...
  
  
  (NaturalNews) At a biotech industry conference in January 1999, a representative from Arthur Anderson, LLP explained how they had helped Monsanto design their strategic plan. First, his team asked Monsanto executives what their ideal future looked like in 15 to 20 years. The executives described a w ...
• Music benefits the brain, research reveals
  
  
  (NaturalNews) Northwestern University scientists have pulled together a review of research into what music -- specifically, learning to play music -- does to humans. The result shows music training does far more than allow us to entertain ourselves and others by playing an instrument or singing. Ins ...

Threat Level

• Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls
  
  
  LAS VEGAS — A security researcher created a cell phone base station that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing someone to intercept even encrypted calls in the clear. The device tricks the phones into disabling encryption and records call details and conte ...
• Biometric and Other Locks Fail to Foil Hackers at ...
  
  
  LAS VEGAS — It wouldn’t be DefCon without a noted lock hacking team demonstrating the gross insecurity of some of the latest security locks, such as a biometric lock that could be easily cracked with a paper clip. This year the three-member team of lock hackers, Marc Weber Tobias, Toby Bluzmanis an ...
• WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious ‘Insurance’ File
  
  
  In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks’ recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled “insurance.” The huge file, posted on the Afghan War page at the WikiLeaks site, is 1.4 GB and is encrypte ...
• WikiLeaks Suspect’s YouTube Videos Raised ‘Red Fla ...
  
  
  An Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks was admonished as a trainee in 2008 for uploading YouTube videos discussing classified facilities, according to an Army official with direct knowledge of the incident. Bradley Manning, now 22, was three months into his 16 week ...
• Former NSA Director: Countries Spewing Cyber Attac ...
  
  
  LAS VEGAS — Attribution is one of the biggest problems on the internet when it comes to cyberwarfare. How do you hold a nation responsible for malicious attacks if you can’t determine whether or not the activity was state-sponsored? Retired General Michael Hayden, former director of the National Se ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• GOP Sets Record for Blocking Judicial Nominees - a ...
  
  
  As Senate Republicans added blocking aid to small business to their record-setting obstructionism , Democrats this week failed to secure the needed votes for reform of the filibuster rule . But largely overlooked in the debate over the filibuster is the Republicans' unprecedented obstructionism whe ...
• It Was the Best of Times, It Was the End of Times
  
  
  In recent years, Pew Research , Time and others have found that almost half of Americans believe that the Second Coming of Christ and the End Times will occur during their lifetimes. Now, conservatives just need to make up their minds about whether this is a good thing. Because while Left Behind s ...
• Perry Calls Texas' 46th-Ranked Health System Best ...
  
  
  Everything, they say, is bigger in the Texas. So it is with the failure of the health care system. Leading the nation with a horrifying 25% of its residents uninsured , Texas ranked 46th in the Commonwealth Fund's 2009 scorecard of state health care performance. Nevertheless, that dismal performanc ...
• Whitman and Fiorina: California Dreamin' on Taxes
  
  
  In Washington, the partisan war is flaring up again, this time of over taxes . President Obama wants to keep the " Making Work Pay " middle class tax credit while rolling back the expiring Bush tax cuts for households earning over $250,000. Republicans hope to stop him, keeping the Treasury-draini ...
• Sorry Joe: Obama, Not GOP, to Blame for Smaller St ...
  
  
  Vice President Joe Biden , backed by the overwhelming consensus of economists , is right that the $787 billion Obama stimulus package has succeeded as designed . But as many warned - and the sluggish recovery now sadly seems to confirm - the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) should have ...

Blackspot News Feed

• Living on a dying delta by Dahr Jamail
  
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamail Dispatches June 30, 2010 Our first full day in Louisiana finds us venturing south from New Orleans to Houma, a town about an hours drive to the southwest. It is from here we are to take a flight over the marsh to inspect the damage, thu ...
• Israel's 1.5 Million Starving Prisoners
  
  
  Israel's four-year blockade of Gaza continues to trample the lives of 1.5 million innocents.
• Sharron Angle: Rape, Incest Part of God's Plan -- ...
  
  
  The Nevada GOP nominee for Senate thinks abortion should not be allowed even in cases of rape and incest.
• Is Our Disdain for Sleep Making Us Crazy?
  
  
  The definition of insomnia is so broad it's hard to pin down -- almost inane. What is certain is sleep deprivation's affect on the body and psyche.
• 10 Easy Steps for Becoming a Radical Homemaker
  
  
  Go on and live dangerously -- hang out the wash.

Consortium News

• Stumbling Toward a Bleak Horizon
  
  
  As daunting challenges mount, the American political system has rarely looked this dysfunctional, observes Danny Schechter. July 27, 2010
• Israel's Self-Defeating Gaza Embargo
  
  
  Israel's harsh embargo of Gaza has inflicted harm on Israel's image while helping Hamas consolidate its power, says Ivan Eland. July 27, 2010
• How Bush Botched the Afghan War
  
  
  The leaked history of the Afghan War conveys an unspoken narrative of how President Bush bungled the conflict, says Robert Parry. July 26, 2010
• Afghan War Leaks Expose Costly Folly
  
  
  Wikileaks' release of 92,000 classified documents about the Afghan War reveals a bloody march of folly, writes Ray McGovern. July 26, 2010
• BP Oil Spill Threatens Bayou Tribes
  
  
  The BP oil spill, mixed with a possible hurricane, could end a way of life for struggling Louisiana Native tribes, writes Dennis Bernstein. July 25, 2010

CounterPunch

• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obam ...
• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His Mouth ...
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• Greg Moses : Mormons for Racial Profiling?

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Israel declares village closed to foreigners (Ma' ...
  
  
  Israeli forces turned away Palestinian medical teams at a checkpoint erected at Iraq Burin on Saturday morning, telling international medical volunteers that the area was a "closed milita ...
• International activists help rebuild Palestinian h ...
• Investigating the Freedom Flotilla attack (Stephe ...
  
  
  On June 2, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) approved formation of an international committee (like the Goldstone Commission) to probe the Flotilla attack, saying it will include lawyers and international law and human rights experts, its findings to be presented in September (during the Council's t ...
• Evicted families spend first night outdoors (Ma'a ...
  
  
  Sami Qeresh head of a household of six dependents, said women and children "spent a night in the open air waiting for Israeli forces to carry out their decision" over documents allegedly ...
• Israel hits Gaza after rocket fire (Al Jazeera)
  
  
  Israel has launched air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip, injuring eight Palestinians, Palestinian sources say. Sami Zyara, a Palestinian journalist in the Gaza Strip, told Al Ja ...

Water - AlterNet

• The BP Oil Spill: Time to Get Unreasonable
  
  
  Shrimper Diane Wilson might be going to jail for her high-profile protests against BP. Why is she so sure it’s worth it?
• Exposing the Natural Gas Industry's Attempt to Sil ...
  
  
  Natural gas companies, according to the director of the documentary film 'Gasland,' Josh Fox, are 'shameless and have immense resources to pay for spin.'
• How the Gulf Spill's Devastation Works Its Way Fro ...
  
  
  As responsible parties to the BP disaster, we must take real steps toward preventing another catastrophe -- one that would further damage birds, fish and plankton.
• Will Drinking Water for Millions be Devastated by ...
  
  
  From Colorado to New York, natural gas drilling is putting drinking water at risk.
• 'And During the Wet Years They Lost All Memory of ...
  
  
  We've acted as though there was no drought until it was too late and we failed to take steps to reduce our water use by serious efforts to improve efficiency and cut waste.

Public Citizen in Texas

• Tom "Smitty" Smith at Al Armendariz welcome party ...
  
  
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Tom "Smitty" Smith at Al Armendariz, the new Region 6 EPA Administrator welcome party in El Sol Y La Luna
• Take Action Today! Texas Representative Chet Edwar ...
  
  
  On Thursday, July 15, the House Energy and Water subcommittee is scheduled to vote on $25 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear reactors in the FY2011 Energy and Water Appropriations bill. Only last month, the House passed $9 billion in nuclear loan guarantees in the 2010 Supplemental Appropria ...
• Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El ...
  
  
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El Sol Y La Luna
• Public Citizen Staff at PUC after protesting a beh ...
  
  
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Public Citizen Staff at PUC after protesting a behind-closed-door negotiation b/w NRG, CPS Energy, and Chairman Barry Smitherman
• Energy Efficiency: Things Were Going So Well Until ...
  
  
  Perry Appointees Smitherman, Nelson, Anderson protect consumers from energy efficiency There is a disturbing trend emerging in Texas. A once successful consumer-oriented program is floundering because of a deficit of perspective behind the dais at the PUC. The Public Utility Commission of Texas prop ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• NASA plans future Venus mission
  
  
  With interest in Venus increasing NASA are considering ways in which to explore the planet in a future mission. Scientists have suggested everything f...
• Vicar tells churchgoers to swear more
  
  
  A Vicar has told parishoners to swear more because he believes it to be how Jesus would have spoken. Reverend Michael Land said that Christians need t...
• "Sea monster" spotted off British coast
  
  
  Marine experts have been examining a new photograph taken of an alleged sea creature off the coast of Devon. The picture was taken to the Marine Conse...
• New photo reveals the real Face on Mars
  
  
  A new high resolution image of the infamous Face on Mars has revealed it as nothing more than a rocky hill. The original Face on Mars was photographed...
• Tokyo's 'oldest man' found dead for 30 years
  
  
  Japan's oldest man at 111 years old was found to have been dead for 30 years and mummified in his own bed. Police investigated his home after an offic...

Grassroots

• Six Organizing Principles for a Sustainable Future
  
  
  Subheadline:� Lessons from Wendell Berry and Grassroots International Partners haiti-trees.jpg Some of the most important lessons I know about grassroots organizing come from the p ...
• UNOSJO and Indigenous Rights Featured in The Natio ...
  
  
  2387534655_005da15cea.jpg In a recent article in The Nation (“Retreat to Subsistence,” July 5, 2010), Peter Canby describes the great work of one of Grassroots International’s partners in Mexico, the Union of Organizations of the Sierra Juare ...
• UN to Vote on the Right to Water
  
  
  Subheadline:� Act now to support human rights to water and sanitation Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� Daniel Moss is Coordinator of Our Water Commons and a consultant with Grassroots I ...
• Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: False Solutions to Cli ...
  
  
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• What Connects Your Carrot to the Climate Crisis?
  
  
  Subheadline:� New film showcases impact of industrial agriculture on global warming A new online film from WhyHunger, “The Food and Climate Connection: From Heating the Planet to Healing It,” highlights the impact of today’s global food ...

Climate

• July 31 - Aug. 1, 2010
  
  
  Feds Warned Company in Mich. Spill About Pipeline (AP) U.S. regulators earlier this year demanded improvements to the pipeline network that includes a segment that ruptured in southern Michigan, spilling hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, according to a docum ...
• July 30, 2010
  
  
  EPA Says Michigan Spill Appears Contained (Reuters)  Oil spilled from a pipeline in Michigan does not present a threat to the Great Lakes and the spill has been contained on a river about 50 miles inland from Lake Michigan, federal officials said on Thursday. Company at Center of Mich. O ...
• July 29, 2010
  
  
  Crews Work to Keep Oil Spill from Lake Michigan (AP) Federal officials believe an oil spill that has contaminated a major Michigan river was larger than first estimated, and the governor is warning of a "tragedy of historic proportions" should the oil reach Lake Michigan some 80 miles away. L ...
• July 28, 2010
  
  
  Reid Unveils Pared-Down Energy and Oil Bill (AP) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's new bill would eliminate the $75 million cap on economic liability from an oil spill, add $5 billion to the Home Star program and spend $400 million to encourage deployment of electric cars. Reid: Renewable El ...
• July 27, 2010
  
  
  BP Replaces CEO and Posts $17 Billion Q2 Loss on Spill (Reuters) BP named American Bob Dudley as its next CEO on Tuesday, saying Tony Hayward would stand down after his gaffe-prone handling of the worst oil spill in U.S. history that triggered a $17 billion quarterly loss. Feds Lay Out Macondo ...

GreenBiz

• U.K. Retools Trash Policy to Hit Zero Waste
  
  
  The United Kingdom government has launched a review of waste policies in England with an eye on working toward zero waste.
• U.N. Water Rights Ruling Gives Business a Chance t ...
  
  
  The U.N. adopted a resolution this week recognizing access to clean water as a fundamental human right in a move that is relevant for all businesses and geographies.
• Why Every Company Should Examine Its Trash
  
  
  In a little over a year, a Caterpillar plant increased its monthly recycling rate from 30 percent to more than 80 percent through a partnership with Waste Management, making recycling more accessible to employees and collecting more materials.
• Climate Corps 2010: Popping the Lid on Energy Savi ...
  
  
  To hunt for energy savings at a 37-acre Pringles plant, an EDF Climate Corps fellow explores the vast facility from the production floor to the roof and crunches numbers and more to capture energy efficiency opportunities.
• The Crucial Role for Business in Sustainable Econo ...
  
  
  The World Business Council for Sustainable Development WBCSD has identified alarming levels of growth in urbanization and consumption in a new report, along with a potential path for businesses to follow to foster a transition to sustainability.

Reuters Global

• Taliban names removed from U.N. list – how t ...
  
  
  Amid all the noise about the Afghan war, the most significant news may turn out to be the removal of Taliban names from the U.N. sanctions list to smooth the way for talks
• The view from Pakistan : India a bigger threat tha ...
  
  
  India may have a bigger problem in Pakistan than previously thought. More than half of Pakistanis surveyed in a Pew poll say India is a bigger threat than al Qaeda or the Taliban. So it's not just the Pakistani military that believes bigger, richer India to be the existential threat; a majority ...
• Cocktails with Khmer Rouge killers
  
  
  The sentencing of Khmer Rouge torturer Kaing Guek Eav this week and the forthcoming trial of former leader Khieu Samphan by a United Nations-backed court has brought renewed attention to their murderous rule of Cambodia in the 1970s
• Japan PM under fire — from his wife
  
  
  Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan faces plenty of grilling from the opposition camp but his toughest critic might be the one he calls "the opposition party within his own household" -- his wife.
• On WikiLeaks, Pakistan and Afghanistan; the tip of ...
  
  
  Despite the WikiLeaks uproar, it's hard to see how much can or will change in U.S. policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan. Not only are the reports not new, but the U.S. policy options were always limited in a very complicated war.

Booman Tribune

• Is Dick Cheney Dying?
  
  
  I had not realized this: Former Vice President Dick Cheney is still in the hospital after heart surgery in early July. Daughter Liz Cheney says her 69-year-old dad is out of intensive care and hopes to return home this week. She tells "Fox News Sunday" that he's already planning trips for fly ...
• What If the Republicans Win the House?
  
  
  I don't like to even think about what the next Congress will be like if the Republicans take over the House. How many of the mistakes they made in 1995 will be repeated? Will they shut the government down again? Will they harass the president with baseless investigations? Will they initiate impe ...
• Obama Wants A Race War Says Ben Shapiro
  
  
  I can't believe I missed this, and I didn't see a diary on it so here goes. Ben Shapiro, esteemed conservative pundit and Regnery author of books like Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future, says it isn't the Tea Party or Andrew Brietbart or AZ Gov. Jan Brewer or Sheriff Ar ...
• The Entitlement of Bigotry
  
  
  I just got home from spending a beautiful afternoon in lower Manhattan, where no one appeared to be thinking about a proposed Islamic Center near the former site of the Twin Towers. But 600 miles south of there in rural North Carolina, Ilario Pantano, 'a former Marine and a Republican candidate for ...
• Open Thread
  
  
  It's a travel day for me. What's going on in the world?

European Tribune

• Sunday Open Thread
  
  
  Stormy Weather...
• Italian Regional Report (part II)
  
  
  de Gondi: (30 July 2010)Berlusconi has chased Gianfranco Fini and his group out of his...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 1 ...
  
  
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europe on this date in history:1291 - the Swiss...
• Saturday Open Thread
  
  
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• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 31 ...
  
  
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1800 - birth of...

Futurismic

• Fabricating fabrics: 3D printing meets (sustainabl ...
  
  
  Man, things are moving fast. I’ve been blogging about 3D printing on and off for a few years now, but I wasn’t aware that some designers are already using fabbing techniques to print off some very cyberpunkish custom-tailored clothes and accessories [via BoingBoing]. I expect the novelty of the tech ...
• What makes humans different to other animals?
  
  
  You probably know the classic three answers to that one: humans are unique among animals because of tool use, symbolic behavious (e.g. language), and the domestication of other living things. Now, however, we may be able to add a fourth… although it might be better understood as the one that underli ...
• Tardigotchi: hybrid real/virtual pet
  
  
  Readers of a certain age will remember the tamagotchi virtual pet craze of the late nineties, though they (like me) may be surprised to know they’re still selling strongly. Furthermore, readers who follow Futurismic closely (which is all of you, AMIRITES?) may remember me mentioning tardigrades, the ...
• Six reasons why mind uploading (probably) ain’t go ...
  
  
  Via R U Sirius at the recently-resuscitated H+ Magazine, SyFy*’s Dvice blog lists six reasons that the uploading of human minds in the classic sf-nal civilisational Singularity scenario is extremely unlikely to become a reality. The sixth is the one most likely to make a good story in its own right, ...
• SocNets and nation-states: a comparison
  
  
  Via Bruce Sterling, a piece at The Economist compares Facebook’s population and social character to that of a nation-state: In some ways, it might seem absurd to call Facebook a state and Mr Zuckerberg its governor. It has no land to defend; no police to enforce law and order; it does not have subje ...

Therapy News

• Depression’s Impact on Interpreting Facial Express ...
  
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline When someone is dealing with depression, the way they perceive the outside world can be somewhat altered. Earlier this month, research showed that depressed people see color less vividly, and a new study shows they also have a more difficult time judging facial expres ...
• California’s Need For, And Lack Of, Mental Health ...
  
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline With a recent state-wide survey of California’s residents, UCLA researchers paint a vivid picture of the need for mental health services in California. Of those surveyed, one in every 25 reported very serious symptoms of psychological stress, and one in every 5 report ...
• For The Physically Ailing, Relationships and Spiri ...
  
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Hospitals are increasingly incorporating more than just medical care for patients who are ill or injured. Psychologists, counselors, and religious guides can all play a role in helping an individual maintain mental, emotional, and spiritual balance, even toward the en ...
• Right On
  
  
  By Kelly Chicas, LPCC, NCC, CRS, Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kelly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Iâm pondering on what the meaning of love is – and how we think of it as a society. This past week, I watched two movies that were designed to get u ...
• Alchemy and Individuation
  
  
  By Dr. Joshua M. Simmons, Psy.D., Jungian Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Joshua and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Alchemy was an ancient practice that sought to transform non-precious materials into gold and healing elixirs. It was practiced throughout the world fo ...

Mountaintop Removal

• EPA issues more new mountaintop removal guidance - ...
  
  
  EPA issues more new mountaintop removal guidance Charleston Gazette (blog) This entry was posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 at 5:01 pm and is filed under Mountaintop Removal . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS ...
• LIVING LIGHTLY: Layers of meaning in mountaintop r ...
  
  
  LIVING LIGHTLY: Layers of meaning in mountaintop removal Muncie Star Press Mountaintop removal is a method of mining coal that has been practiced in Appalachia for several decades. An estimated 800000+ acres of forest have been ...
• Mountaintop Removal: Farewell to Forests - Natural ...
  
  
  Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Mountaintop Removal : Farewell to Forests Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Mountaintop removal is a coal extraction procedure that involves stripping soils, blasting mountains and filling valleys and streams with mining debris. ...
• Massey Energy files 'SLAPP' lawsuit against enviro ...
  
  
  Massey Energy files 'SLAPP' lawsuit against environmental activists Williamson Daily News Since the spring of 2008, Massey has filed at least four SLAPP suits against activists in West Virginia working to end mountaintop removal , none of which ...
• Rand Paul: Controversial Mountaintop Removal Coal ...
  
  
  Salon Rand Paul: Controversial Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Isn't So Bad Huffington Post (blog) Mountain top removal isn't just the top of the mountain. The process removes the majority of the mountain, leaving a scar upon the surface. ... Rand Paul: Controversial Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining ...

Memeorandum

• The Un-Divorced - JOHN FROST and his wife had been ...
  
  
  Pamela Paul / New York Times : The Un-Divorced   —  JOHN FROST and his wife had been unhappily married for much of their 25 years together when his company relocated him in 2000.  So when he moved from Virginia to Knoxville, Tenn., he left her behind.  —  At first, it wasn't clear what would happe ...
• FBI Files Reveal Historian Howard Zinn Lied to Hid ...
  
  
  Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain : FBI Files Reveal Historian Howard Zinn Lied to Hide CPUSA Membership   —  Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) document drop on the Left's favorite anti-American historian: … Cliff Kincaid summarizes the FBI documents: … Read the rest of that.  What is importa ...
• House Ethics Inquiry on Waters Is Tied to Bank (Er ...
  
  
  Eric Lipton / New York Times : House Ethics Inquiry on Waters Is Tied to Bank   —  WASHINGTON — When Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, called Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. in late 2008 to ask him to host a special meeting that would feature a California bank executive ...
• The Big Day: Chelsea Clinton's Wedding (Katharine ...
  
  
  Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus : The Big Day: Chelsea Clinton's Wedding   —  An exterior view of Beekman Arms Inn, where many of Chelsea Clinton's wedding guests are said to be staying.  The prospect of seeing the Clintons and other celebrities has gripped residents of the town.  —  RHINEBECK, N ...
• Dem leaders, donors to hold Rangel birthday bash a ...
  
  
  Alexander Bolton / The Hill : Dem leaders, donors to hold Rangel birthday bash at The Plaza   —  Democratic leaders and major party donors plan to hold a lavish 80th birthday gala for Charles Rangel at The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan next month, despite 13 ethics charges pending against the veteran la ...

Energy & Environment News

• Pocono Raceway Becomes Solar-Powered
  
  
  The Pennsylvania racetrack, site of a 500-mile Nascar Sprint Cup race, is the world’s largest sports facility operating on power from the sun.
• Optimism That Cement Will Shut Down Gulf Oil Well
  
  
  An effort known as a static kill is part of a two-pronged strategy to kill the well in the Gulf of Mexico by cementing it shut twice, from above and below.
• Turbines Too Loud for You? Here, Take $5,000
  
  
  In Oregon, an energy company is offering checks to residents in exchange for signed waivers saying they will not complain about excessive noise from turning turbines.
• Tracking Gulf's Fate as Slicks Recede
  
  
  As signs of oil on the gulf surface recede, biologists worry about hidden impacts to marine life.
• In China, Pollution Worsens Despite New Efforts
  
  
  China continues to suffer the downsides of its rampant economic growth, with new figures showing an increase in pollution in the air and along its waterways.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.1, Rota region, Northern Mariana Islands
  
  
  Wednesday, July 28, 2010 22:51:35 UTC Thursday, July 29, 2010 08:51:35 AM at epicenter Depth : 40.40 km (25.10 mi)
• M 5.3, Santa Cruz Islands
  
  
  Wednesday, July 28, 2010 18:21:15 UTC Thursday, July 29, 2010 05:21:15 AM at epicenter Depth : 78.20 km (48.59 mi)
• M 5.5, Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
  
  
  Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:31:46 UTC Wednesday, July 28, 2010 03:31:46 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.7, Moro Gulf, Mindanao, Philippines
  
  
  Monday, July 26, 2010 23:06:50 UTC Tuesday, July 27, 2010 07:06:50 AM at epicenter Depth : 625.90 km (388.92 mi)
• M 5.6, Salta, Argentina
  
  
  Monday, July 26, 2010 17:31:31 UTC Monday, July 26, 2010 02:31:31 PM at epicenter Depth : 192.20 km (119.43 mi)

China Dialogue

• The climate for investment
  
  
  Tom Murley leads the renewables team at one of Europe’s most active private-equity houses. He tells Tan Copsey about finding finance in a recession, responding to regulation – and building turbines in the Swedish forest. Tom Murley is a leading investor in the western European renewable-energy marke ...
• Restructuring China’s finances
  
  
  In its quest to build a low-carbon economy, China is seeking ways to channel cash towards green schemes. Zeng Gang outlines the latest developments. History teaches us that financial support is an essential ingredient in technological innovation and economic transformation. Finance – be it the funds ...
• “Deng would back green growth”
  
  
  Hu Angang is a leading Chinese economist, government advisor and advocate of low-carbon development. He talks to Isabel Hilton about his country’s path to fiscal success – and how it can be painted green. The distinguished Chinese economist, Hu Angang , is noted for his radical approach to economic ...
• Credit where it’s due (2)
  
  
  China’s commercial banks are making strides in domestic green finance but failing to show the same commitment abroad. In the conclusion of her article on sustainable credit, Adina Matisoff calls for new standards. In the three years since the Chinese government introduced the Green Credit Policy , p ...
• Credit where it’s due (1)
  
  
  Since groundbreaking green finance laws were launched in China three years ago, the country’s banks have made admirable efforts to clean up lending practices. But, says Adina Matisoff, transparency remains weak. Three years ago this July, the Chinese government introduced unprecedented financial reg ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Witness: 'Cabal' at VA Is Killing Veterans
  
  
  At a hearing last week, experts told Congress that VA staff was “intentionally delaying research and treatment for our veterans.â€
• No, America Is NOT a Christian Nation
  
  
  By Richard Albert, Race-Talk contributor Speaking from the heart of the Muslim world in Turkey’s Cankaya Palace in April 2009, President Barack Obama answered the question with the nuance that has come to characterize his public statements: America, he declared, is “a predominantly Christian nation” ...
• TIME’s Epic Distortion of the Plight of Women in A ...
  
  
  Help us push back against TIME Magazine’s distortion of women’s issues in Afghanistan. Tomorrow, TIME Magazine will treat newsstand customers everywhere to one of the most rank propaganda plays of the Afghanistan War. The cover features a woman, Aisha, whose face was mutilated by the Taliban, next t ...
• Why Is Simon & Schuster Spreading the Wild Con ...
  
  
  Pamela Geller has some crazy ideas, which the corporate media seem content to disseminate uncritically.
• The BP Oil Spill: Time to Get Unreasonable
  
  
  Shrimper Diane Wilson might be going to jail for her high-profile protests against BP. Why is she so sure it’s worth it?

Threat Level

• Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls
  
  
  LAS VEGAS — A security researcher created a cell phone base station that tricks cell phones into routing their outbound calls through his device, allowing someone to intercept even encrypted calls in the clear. The device tricks the phones into disabling encryption and records call details and conte ...
• Biometric and Other Locks Fail to Foil Hackers at ...
  
  
  LAS VEGAS — It wouldn’t be DefCon without a noted lock hacking team demonstrating the gross insecurity of some of the latest security locks, such as a biometric lock that could be easily cracked with a paper clip. This year the three-member team of lock hackers, Marc Weber Tobias, Toby Bluzmanis an ...
• WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious ‘Insurance’ File
  
  
  In the wake of strong U.S. government statements condemning WikiLeaks’ recent publishing of 77,000 Afghan War documents, the secret-spilling site has posted a mysterious encrypted file labeled “insurance.” The huge file, posted on the Afghan War page at the WikiLeaks site, is 1.4 GB and is encrypte ...
• WikiLeaks Suspect’s YouTube Videos Raised ‘Red Fla ...
  
  
  An Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks was admonished as a trainee in 2008 for uploading YouTube videos discussing classified facilities, according to an Army official with direct knowledge of the incident. Bradley Manning, now 22, was three months into his 16 week ...
• Former NSA Director: Countries Spewing Cyber Attac ...
  
  
  LAS VEGAS — Attribution is one of the biggest problems on the internet when it comes to cyberwarfare. How do you hold a nation responsible for malicious attacks if you can’t determine whether or not the activity was state-sponsored? Retired General Michael Hayden, former director of the National Se ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• UAE to suspend Blackberry service on security fear ...
  
  
  DUBAI (Reuters) - Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM) was hit with its first major ban on Sunday after the United Arab Emirates, citing security risks, said Blackberry services would be barred in October.
• Brownsville, the 'hood that New York left behind
  
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Josephine Spearman alternately fought back tears and grew defiant with anger when discussing the murder of her son, one of 11 shootings in 15 days recently that have made the neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn, one of the most dangerous in the United States.
• Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter marries in NY
  
  
  RHINEBECK, New York (Reuters) - Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter married her long-time boyfriend in the picturesque New York village of Rhinebeck on Saturday in what has been dubbed America's royal wedding.
• Activists rally for Arizona immigration law
  
  
  PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) - A few hundred supporters of a new Arizona law that cracks down on illegal immigrants rallied in central Phoenix Saturday, as tensions over the measure simmered.
• China launches new global positioning satellite
  
  
  BEIJING (Reuters) - China took a further step on Sunday toward ending its dependence on U.S. satellites to provide navigation and positioning services.

IntelNews

• Israel government extends document secrecy rule to ...
  
  
  By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | Researchers, academics and transparency advocates have criticized new Israeli government regulations that extend the classification period of state archives from 50 to 70 years. The measure was approved on July 11 by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, following ...
• Lebanon releases German suspected of spying for Is ...
  
  
  By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | German officials have confirmed reports from Lebanon that a German citizen has been released after being questioned in connection with Israeli espionage activity in eastern Lebanon. Manfred Peter Mog, 58, who has lived in Lebanon since 1999, was detained on Mon ...
• News you may have missed #403
  
  
  Hundreds of FBI agents accused of cheating on spy rules test. The US Justice Department is investigating claims that hundreds of FBI agents cheated on an exam designed to test their knowledge of new rules about spying on suspects. Depending on the outcome of the investigation, agents could be discip ...
• South Korean spy reportedly expelled from Libya
  
  
  By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | Libya has expelled a South Korean intelligence officer and has shut down its mission in Seoul, according to South Korean diplomatic sources. The unnamed officer, who was expelled by the Libyans on June 18, is reportedly a member of South Korea’s National Intelligence S ...
• News you may have missed #402
  
  
  Lebanon arrests German suspected of spying for Israel. German citizen Manfred Peter Mog, 58, was arrested on Monday in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley by Lebanese army investigators on suspicion of spying for Israel, according to Lebanese media reports. Woman suspected as Russian spy under house arrest in Te ...

After Downing Street.org

• "Deadly 'toys' " {WMD's}: Ban In Effect, Not By Th ...
  
  
  Will we hear mention of this on the U.S. Sunday Morning talking heads shows, crickets! We the U.S. media be reporting on this, chances are extremely little if at all and most certainly not a front page story! Cluster bomb ban comes into effect � The treaty prohibits signatories from using, producing ...
• Attn: More Agent Orange Testing, in U.S.
  
  
  If this stands as true and not properly cleaned up then the problems still exist as we've seen with the following generations of Vietnamese since our use during the occupation of! Army Probes Its Use Of Agent Orange In Md. City Jul 30, 2010 FREDERICK, Md. (AP) ― The Army says it's searching intern ...
• Torture Memo: Eight Years On
  
  
  All from a Country that is based on it's Laws and Constitution to hold it together, was and is the major architect of International Laws and Condemns those who fail to uphold Human Rights and those same International Laws, not to mention that torturing of others for so called intelligence doesn't wo ...
• Brit Iraq War Inquiry: "tittle-tattle" Evidence
  
  
  As apparently the Inquiry will be extended into the Fall with, as reported, the possibility of recalling some witnesses and now a trip to Iraq for direct on the spot evidence of the occupation. 'Tittle-tattle' behind Iraq invasion 31 Jul 2010 Former British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott says t ...
• War Scheduled to End Same Day as World
  
  
  By David Swanson Andrew Bacevich's new book, "Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War," is a good summary of the past 65 years' worth of war thinking in Washington, D.C. "Prior to World War II," he writes, "Americans by and large viewed military power and institutions with skepticism, if ...

Grist - News

• House passes oil-spill response bills
  
  
  by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to overhaul offshore-drilling safety rules and protect whistleblowing workers in a sweeping response to the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The White House-backed legislation would end a $75 million cap ...
• Google searches for ‘global warming’ g ...
  
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes. Do people care less about global warming during recessions? University of California economists Matthew Kahn and Matthew Kotchen have a new paper that uses three interesting measurements to suss out the relationship between " Environmental Concern and the Business ...
• New BP boss says there will be ‘pullback&#82 ...
  
  
  by Agence France-Presse. NEW ORLEANS -- Incoming BP boss Bob Dudley vowed on Friday that the British energy giant would not abandon Gulf residents for years to come, as engineers fine-tuned plans to kill a ruptured well for good. Making his first trip to the region since he was named to take o ...
• California pulls home-energy stimulus funding in P ...
  
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes. More fallout from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's opposition to Property Assessed Clean Energy : California pulled funding for its home solar and energy-retrofit loans yesterday in response to federal mortgage overseers' negative ruling on the program. The California Energy Com ...
• Gigantic wind turbines, flush power, biodegradable ...
  
  
  by Randy Rieland. There's an oil spill in Michigan and the energy bill's now a little slip of a thing , but a lot of other stuff happened this week that didn't grab big headlines. Here are 10 stories from the greenosphere that you might have missed: A really, really mighty wind:  If wind powe ...

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Time - Top Stories

• Oil Spill: Is It Too Soon to Roll Up the Cleanup?
  
  
  With the well capped and surface oil fast disappearing from the Gulf of Mexico, the response to the BP spill seems ready to move to a new phase
• What's Behind Baseball's Great Pitching?
  
  
  The no-hitters have stolen the show. Offense output is declining. Strikeouts are at an all-time high. Why the pitchers have taken over the game.
• Signs of Uzbek Persecution Rising in Kyrgyzstan
  
  
  Six weeks after deadly violence between the Kyrgyz and Uzbek communities of southern Kyrgyzstan, Uzbeks are being persecuted under the guise of an investigation into the fighting
• Private Spies: Rubicon Make 24 Look Sunny
  
  
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• Argentina Belatedly Celebrates a Journalist Hero
  
  
  When the generals began disposing of thousands of young people in the late 1970s, only one journalist dared stand up for the rights of the "disappeared." And then he seemed to vanish from history.

Washington Independent

• House Passes Oil Spill Response Legislation
  
  
  The House passed an oil spill response package today in a 209-193 vote, despite strong objections from Republicans. The package passed after hours of floor debate. Republicans argued that the bills are ill conceived, would kill jobs and are too far-reaching. If signed into law, the package, among ot ...
• House Passes Amendment Exempting Some Drillers Fro ...
  
  
  The House just approved an amendment to an oil spill response bill that would exempt drilling companies from an Obama administration moratorium on deepwater drilling if they comply with Interior Department safety regulations. The proposal retains some Interior Department discretion. The amendment wa ...
• The Week in Immigration News
  
  
  - Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), once a supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, shot down hopes from advocates that he’d again push for the cause. âReally? Iâm certainly happy to hear that, since they have been unrelenting in their criticism of me,â McCain told Politico. âI will mainta ...
• Text of Engel Bill Blocking Oil Company Tax Deduct ...
  
  
  Here’s a copy of Rep. Eliot Engel’s (D-N.Y.) legislation that would prevent BP from claiming a $10 billion tax deduction from the cost of responding to the spill. The “Denial of Certain Tax Benefits to Offending Oil Polluters Act of 2010,” as it is called, says: “In the case of an offending oil poll ...
• Banks Already Working Around FinReg Rules
  
  
  Remember that controversial rule in the financial regulatory reform law, designed to prevent banks from making risky bets on their own behalf? It did not take long for banks to figure out how to get around it. At The Atlantic, Daniel Indiviglio explains that banks including Goldman Sachs are just re ...

Digg Green

• 7 of Summer's Biggest Wildfires Seen from Space
  
  
  From California to Siberia, huge wildfires in forests and peat bogs are raging. NASA has captured images of these seven fires sending huge plumes of smoke into the atmosphere.
• World CO2 Emissions [Infographic]
  
  
  From basic global CO2 emissions rankings by country to the effect of cows, this Infographic paints a disturbing picture of what we’re doing to our world. Surprisingly, some of these statistics show that many of the assumed culprits are relatively innocent, while many “harmless” facets of life are do ...
• BP Denies Texas A Cash Advance, Gets Scathing Resp ...
  
  
  Oil giant BP Plc rejected a request from Texas for a $25 million cash advance to clean up shorelines sullied by the Gulf oil spill, and got a scathing response from top Texas officials, according to letters given to Reuters on Thursday.
• Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? (TED v ...
  
  
  Nuclear power: the energy crisis has even die-hard environmentalists reconsidering it. In this first-ever TED debate, Stewart Brand and Mark Z. Jacobson square off over the pros and cons. A discussion that'll make you think -- and might even change your mind.
• The Most Powerful Wind Turbine Looks Like the Weir ...
  
  
  In the future, we will look at these 885-foot-wide structures in the middle of the ocean and we won't even blink. But, right now, I'm having a hard time imagining them spinning en masse at 20 revolutions per minute.

Invisible Opportunity

• There Must be a Reason but the Reason can’t ...
  
  
  By Les Visible I made a comment about the use of Corexit and explained how professionals, who certainly knew the effect, had to have a certain intent. I’ve pointed out that their reality is being shaped by the forces that manipulate the financial system, to reduce the value of everything they own, w ...
• Nice Girls by Day and Hookers by Night
  
  
  By Les Visible It’s a pretty simple system that these money men perform. They find a couple of countries and they provoke them into war. They loan both sides some money with a heavy interest charge and they got money loaned out to all the businesses that provide the tools of war. When the war [...]
• Alex Jones on Max Keiser – NSA uses Google t ...
• Alex Jones on Max Keiser-CIA Faked bin Laden Video
• Video – Al Qaeda Doesn’t Exist

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Will California Legalize Pot?
  
  
  With only a few months to go until the election, the campaign to legalize marijuana in California has only $50,000 in cash on hand. The question now is: How can it win?
• Parents: End the War on Drugs -- for Your Kids
  
  
  It's time for parents to say enough is enough. We are smarter, more educated than we used to be. We see what works and what doesn't - and the war on drugs just doesn't work.
• Congress Acts to Reduce Crack/Powder Cocaine Sente ...
  
  
  One of the most glaring injustices of the American drug war: the 100:1 disparity in sentencing between federal crack cocaine and federal powder cocaine offenders.
• Watch: What a Legal Pot Economy Would Look Like
  
  
  How everyone stands to benefit from ending the war on weed.
• Has the Most Common Marijuana Test Resulted in Ten ...
  
  
  More than 800,000 people are arrested on marijuana charges each year in the United States, many on the basis of an error-prone test.

Twilight Earth

• If Climate Change Was a Dog (cartoon)
  
  
  We did know about climate change back in the 50’s, as evidenced by this Frank Capra Video on Global Warming. But even though it was a monster of a dog back then, it was still just a harmless little puppy. Today, well, it’s different. And I don’t know how much I trust the little man controlling [... ...
• Genetically Modified Truths (cartoon)
  
  
  The biotech and agrochemical industries are KILLING us! Well, atleast they are well aware of that and are working hard to clean up their act. Oh wait, now I’m not telling the truth… More relevant info: The Killing Fields of Multi-National Corporations How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronical ...
• Fragile Day Song by Wilderland Benefits Gulf BP Oi ...
  
  
  The Song Fragile Day by Wilderland is going to benefit the Gulf BP oil spill cleanup efforts. Related posts: NOAA Collecting Seafloor and Water Column BP Oil Spill Data Shell is Busy Today Cleaning up its Mess – 1,400 Barrels in the Gulf BP Oil Spill Gushing 10 Times More Oil Than Official Es ...
• Ashley Judd on her Hillbilly Pride and Mountain To ...
  
  
  Ashely Judd is a Hillbilly, and proud of it! She's on a mission to protect her heritage from the devastation of Mountain Top Removal. Related posts: Ending Streamlined Mountaintop Coal Removal Permits Is Not Enough Idaho Wolf Hunt Video with Ashley Judd and Defenders of Wildlife Wendys Rest ...
• Look Inside the FY2011 Budget Reveals Climate Chan ...
  
  
  The budget for FY2011 has been released and there are some interesting things happening in reference to Climate Change expenditures. Related posts: Oil Executive Epiphany Leads to $125 Billion Climate Change Funding White House Follow-up on Global Climate Change Impacts Technology Transfer ...

Inhabitat

• 3-D Printing Set on Changing Sustainable Textile P ...
  
  
  Forget about trying to figure out whether you’re a small, medium or large. No longer reserved for architects and industrial designers, 3-D printers are making their way onto the fashion scene. Once considered an extravagant undertaking with questionable results, the advancements of rapid-prototyping ...
• Materials Smackdown: What’s Greener – Wood, Metal ...
  
  
  If you’re moving or renovating, you may find yourself in the market for new furniture. In the past, shopping for furniture mainly meant comparing colors, price and style, but these days many conscious consumers want to find furniture that has a low environmental impact, and the biggest element of e ...
• Top 6 Designs That Harness the Energy of Physical ...
  
  
  Itâs often hard not to succumb to the built-in stimuli of digital entertainment – especially when it’s everywhere we turn. But we often forget that thereâs a lot to be had with just oneâs imagination and a little bit of physical energy. So as an alternative to carbon hungry toys that ultimatel ...
• Wild ‘Head Gardeners’ Made from Recycled Bottles H ...
  
  
  There’s no point in crying over spilt milk, especially when those empty plastic containers can be recycled and turned into beautiful pieces of art. Well settled at home, or equally suited to hit the streets as daring green guerilla art, Anna Garforth’s Head Gardners are turning milk lovers and city ...
• Zero-Energy Housing Wedge in Denmark Covered in So ...
  
  
  Read the rest of Zero-Energy Housing Wedge in Denmark Covered in Solar Panelshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architec ...

Pogue's Posts

• At Snopes.com, Rumors Are Held Up to the Light
  
  
  David Pogue interviews David Mikkelson of Snopes.com, where Internet veterans go to get the truth about online rumors.
• Q&A: Rumors, Cyberbullying and Anonymity
  
  
  David Pogue talks to John Palfrey, Harvard Law School professor, co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and author of "Born Digital."
• Loosening the iPhone Death Grip
  
  
  Predictably, Mr. Jobs's gesture did nothing to satisfy the most vocal Apple bashers, but most reasonable people will agree that this is a decent good-faith gesture on Apple's part.
• What Isn't There an App For?
  
  
  Surely there are apps no one has invented yet. What do you want on your phone?
• Line2 Phone App Gets Even Better
  
  
  Line2, iPhone app that makes and receive calls either using the AT&T airwaves or the Internet, now takes calls automatically over Wi-Fi so you don't use any AT&T minutes at all.

WIRED Magazine | Science

• Physicists Dream Up the Antilaser
  
  
  Fifty years after physicists invented the laser, ushering in everything from supermarket scanners to music CDs, scientists have conceived its opposite — the “antilaser.” Unlike its more popular cousin, the antilaser is unlikely to take over the world. Still, it could be useful one day, for instance ...
• Cheaper, Better Satellites Made From Cell Phones a ...
  
  
  MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Instead of investing in their own computer research and development, engineers at the NASA Ames Research Center are looking to cell phones and off-the-shelf toys to power the future of low-cost satellite technology. The smart phone in your pocket has about 120 times more ...
• Under Pressure
  
  
  My latest article for Wired is now online. It’s about baboons, stress vaccines and the often dangerous effects of glucocorticoids. One of the subplots of the article is the severe health consequences of the social hierarchy, which I mostly discuss in the context of the Whitehall Studies: For the pa ...
• Genome Surprise: Guinea Pigs Have Ebola!
  
  
  The ebola virus is one of the nastiest pathogens known to man. It corrodes blood vessels and stops clotting, leaving most of its human victims bleeding to death through their pores. And guinea pigs — along with opossums, wallabies and insect-eating bats — have it in their genes. A genomic hunt for ...
• Controlling Soot Might Quickly Reverse a Century o ...
  
  
  A massive simulation of soot’s climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last century’s temperature change. Compared to the larger, longer term task of getting greenhouse-gas pollution under control, limiting soot wouldn ...

The Progressive Realist

• Today in Mosque Madness
  
  
  Team Gingrich gets both dumber and more offensive chatting with Salon’s Justin Elliot: Newt Ginrich’s spokesman told Salon in a phone interview today that building a mosque at Ground Zero “would be like putting a statue of Mussolini or Marx at Arlington National Cemetery.” Asked what the 19th centu ...
• Gingrich Embraces a Clash of Civilizations Narrati ...
  
  
  The importance of Newt Gingrich 's speech at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday has been overlooked. Rick Lazio and Carl Paladino have embraced Islamophobia out of political expediency, and Sarah Palin can be expected to reflect the GOP's populist impulses, no matter how ugly. But Gingrich ...
• Hard Is Not Hopeless: Affecting Outcomes in Afghan ...
  
  
  This week the New Republic has a series of articles on Afghanistan - the aforementioned piece by Anna Badkhen on the perilous situation in the north and Ahmed Rashid's argument for writing off the south and east are focusing US energies on the north and west perhaps the two best. But worthy of menti ...
• Pakistani Opinion on Drones
  
  
  Spencer Ackerman summarizes the findings of a new Pew survey ( PDF ) on Pakistani views and pulls out the surprising-seeming news that most Pakistanis say they don’t know anything about the drone strikes program: Top of the list: âJust over one-in-three Pakistanis (35%) have heard about the drone ...
• Gusher of WikiLeaks
  
  
  The WikiLeaks scandal isn't even a pale carbon copy of the Pentagon Papers 39 years ago that accelerated America's Vietnam defeat. But even then there was nothing that wasn't known by the war correspondents covering Vietnam. Deception and disinformation were part of the U.S. arsenal. And the daily a ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• The TAP Five.
  
  
  The five TAP pieces that have made a stir around the web this week. " The Myth of the Fairer Sex " " Defining Lynching Down " " What Will a Republican Majority Do Next? " " Digital Copywrongs " " Webb And 'White Privilege' "
• Lightning Round: All Real Americans Love the Sting ...
  
  
  I wouldn't read too much into Gallup's weekly average of the generic congressional ballot, which has Democrats surpassing Republicans for a second consecutive week. But it does raise the question of what the ceiling of support is for Republicans, and whether that ceiling has already been reached. I ...
• Barack and Me (and Abe and Karl).
  
  
  Thanks to Paul Waldman 's post earlier today, I have now read Stanley Kurtz 's attack on President Obama 's socialist agenda from The Corner , the blog of National Review . Kurtz's thesis begins with the indisputable fact that I have commended portions of Obama's program -- he cites my column in Wed ...
• To Sue or Not to Sue?
  
  
  Shirley Sherrod indicated yesterday that she will sue Andrew Breitbart for editing and posting a video of her, which resulted in her losing her job (only to be offered another) at the USDA. There has been a lot of encouragement online, urging Sherrod to hold Breitbart -- and Fox News, which dissemin ...
• The Little Picture: Afghanistan Drags On.
  
  
  Sixty-six American troops� died in Afghanistan this July, making it the deadliest month of the entire nine-year occupation. Approximately 265 American troops have died so far this year. For the Afghanis themselves, the situation has also gotten worse -- last year saw at least 2,200 civilian deaths ...

Buzzflash

• Afghanistan War: Whatever is Happening There is th ...
  
  
  WILL DURST FOR BUZZFLASH To say the release of 91,000 classified documents has revealed a disconnect between our public position on Afghanistan and the actual situation on the ground is like inferring a disparity between yoga and bayonets. Dawn dishwashing liquid and green olive tapenade. A tray ...
• GOP, "The Party Of No (Ideas)," Wants To Continue ...
  
  
  There are "... already rumblings that the GOP would try to repeal significant portions of President Obama's agenda -- including health care reform , the stimulus , and financial regulatory reform -- and take the country back to the days of the Bush administration ."� Yessirree bobtail, they wa ...
• McConnell and Republican's feelings on those out o ...
  
  
  Colonel Colin J. N. Chauret, USAF Retired for BuzzFlash Senator Mitch McConnell's answers to�Candy�Crowley, "CNN's State of the Union", 18 July 2010, made me angry enough to bite through a ten penny nail. I'll�not go into all�answers, only one that�upset me. � Answering Crowley's question�why�Re ...
• Senate Candidate Paul: “I Can’t Possibly Be Expect ...
  
  
  TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Don’t worry, Rand; relax And chill. Whatever you can’t recall, We will. http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/rand-paul-i-cant-possibly-be-expected-to-remember-all-the-crazy-things-ive-ever-said-video.php?ref=fpb
• Andrew Breitbart Smells Like Bad Ass, And It's Tim ...
  
  
  ANDREW BREITBART Andrew Bretbart may smell like bad ass, but he knows how to grab center stage as the corporate media breathlessly latches on to his bigoted scams and lies and -- thus -- making the Democrats in D.C. looking like they just took a bath in watered down cow dung.� That's why BuzzFlash h ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• This week in Change
  
  
  (updated below) I'm still away for the week working on my book, but in order to create a new comment section and to illustrate our political culture of Change, I'd like to note these three incidents from this week: First , in Collapsing Empire News, the�Democratic House -- not deterr ...
• The WikiLeaks Afghanistan leak
  
  
  The most consequential news item of the week will obviously be -- or at least should be -- the massive new leak by WikiLeaks of 90,000 pages of classified material chronicling the truth about the war in Afghanistan from 2004 through 2009 .� Those documents provide what The New�York Times calls �"an ...
• CNN anchors attack the scourge of anonymity
  
  
  CNN's Kyra Phillips and John Roberts spent a good five minutes yesterday expressing serious concern over what they called "the dark side" of the Internet:  the plague of "anonymous bloggers" who are "a bunch of cowards" for not putting their names on what they say, and who use this anonymity to spre ...
• Why has the Post series created so little reaction ...
  
  
  Remember how The Washington Post spent three days documenting on its front page that we basically live under a vast Secret Government -- composed of military and intelligence agencies and the largest corporations -- so sprawling and unaccountable that nobody even knows what it does.  This public/pri ...
• The heroism of Shirley Sherrod
  
  
  (updated below) Everyone is presumably aware by now of the facts surrounding the disgusting fraud perpetrated on Shirley Sherrod, engineered by Andrew Breitbart, amplified by Fox News, and meekly submitted to by the Obama administration.��Those who aren't can read excellent commentary f ...

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Risky teams, forged banknotes, frost-proof frogs
  
  
  An eclectic mix of science snips from Sciencebase: Novel algorithm cuts the risks of choosing ineffectual team members – The risky business of putting together a team Counterfeit spectroscopy – Banknote counterfeiting is a growing problem for fraud investigators across the globe and criminals involv ...
• Cialis in glass and a shortage of helium
  
  
  These are my links for July 23rd through July 26th: ACS and RSC Sustainability Alliance – The Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society have joined forces to launch a sustainability website. Be interesting to know what is the carbon footprint of this endeavour and the server elect ...
• Headhunting goes automatic for the people
  
  
  Very few people work alone in the so-called knowledge economy. Even a lowly freelance science writer has a network of editors, publishers and other associates on which they rely to get their words out to an audience. The point is even more apparent in the world of research where often vast teams of ...
• Sweet sensors
  
  
  Nothing new under the sun, as the bard said, and how true it is sometimes. No sooner had I posted a news article on spectroscopynow.com entitled “Sweet sense of GOD” than Santhosh Challa, a Senior Scientist at Merck & Co in New Jersey, USA, got in touch to tell me that his team had also [...] Sweet ...
• Just say no to sunscreen nanophobia!
  
  
  Once again we’re at a pivotal point in human development, where a novel technology might allow us to improve the lot of millions, perhaps billions of people across the globe and yet activists are invoking the precautionary principle and informing consumers of the possible dangers therein. As happene ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• WikiLeaks: A Soldier and a Veteran Comment
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 29, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) BROCK McINTOSH read more
• Lawyers’ Committee Pleased with Passing of Fair Se ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 29, 2010 Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL) The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law applauds the historic passage of The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 in the House yesterday. With President Obama's signature pending, this serves as a substantia ...
• Grijalva Closes Yuma Office After Bullet, Shattere ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 29, 2010 Congressman Raúl Grijalva The Yuma district office of Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva has been closed for the day because of recent vandalism. A shattered window and bullet inside the office were found earlier today. Police are investigating the incident and have not releas ...
• Ports Bill Paves the Way for Clean Air Programs Ac ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 29, 2010 Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Legislation introduced today by Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) seeks to reduce truck-borne pollution in and around our nation's shipping ports, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. The federal legisl ...
• Pentagon Shoots Down POGO’s FOIA Regarding Governm ...
  
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 29, 2010 Project On Government Oversight (POGO) POGO just learned that the Department of Defense (DoD) rejected our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the data contained in the government's new contractor performance and responsibility database, the Federal Aw ...

Common Dreams-Views

• No Place for Washington in Colombia-Venezuela Row
  
  
  by Mark Weisbrot In March I wrote about the Obama administration's contribution to the election campaign under way in Venezuela , where voters will choose a new national assembly in September. I predicted that certain things would happen before September, among them some new "discoveries" that Ve ...
• The Deception of Real-Life 'Inception'
  
  
  by David Sirota For all of its "Matrix"-like convolutions and "Alice in Wonderland" allusions, the new film "Inception" adds something significant to the ancient ruminations about reality's authenticity-something profoundly relevant to this epoch of confusion. In the movie's tale of corporate es ...
• What's Sadly Missing in Time's Afghan Cover
  
  
  by Greg Mitchell The Time magazine cover story this week arrives with a graphic cover image next to the title, "What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan." It shows an Afghan teen named Aisha whose nose and ears had been sliced off by the Taliban. Inside, editor Rick Stengel explains that he consul ...
• Citizen Mobilization for Housing in Haiti
  
  
  by Beverly Bell “We’re mobilizing people in the camps and the shantytowns to let them know that getting housing is a right. Our vision is to make the problem of housing a focal point of people’s struggle,” said Reyneld Sanon of the Force for Reflection and Action on Housing (FRAKKA by its Creole ...
• The Heroism of PFC Bradley Manning
  
  
  by Evan Knappenberger At the US Army’s Intelligence Training Center at Fort Huachuca, Arizona in 2003 and 2004, our first term paper was assigned to be on the military intelligence hero of our choice. The museum there had several dozen to choose from, though I forget now who I wrote about. Aside fr ...

Karl Burkart

• Nanocomp cuts through nano-hype with truly futuris ...
  
  
  Paper that stops bullets and yarn that conducts electricity -- it sounds like sci-fi, but Nanocomp is making these futuristic dreams a reality.
• The solar-powered dream world of 'Inception'
  
  
  The magical dream world of 'Inception' was largely solar-powered, thanks to the initiative of Leonardo DiCaprio.
• Inception's solar-powered dream world
  
  
  The magical dream world of Inception was largely solar-powered thanks to the initiative of Leonardo DiCaprio.
• 11 Ways Geolocation is changing the world
  
  
  This year Rob Reed's 10 ways to change the world through social media goes geospatial. Check out how mobile GPS is going to change the way we network and do good.
• CoolClimate art contest: reenvision the future
  
  
  New art contest travels across the web in search of inspiring images that will motivate us to take climate action.

Water Privatization

• Midland county commission candidates: Keenan eyes ...
  
  
  Rich Keenan, incumbent District 4 Midland County commissioner,is seeking re-election to the post he assumed 18 months ago when hereplaced Jim Stamas, who went on to higher political office.
• Midland County commission candidates: Geisler says ...
  
  
  Jim Geisler doesn't want to be a politician, but he is seekingthe District 5 Midland County Commission seat in the Aug. 3primary. Geisler is a Republican running against fellow RepublicanDavid G. Thompson.
• Mindanao pushes for EPIRA amendments
  
  
  Stakeholders in Mindanao want their voice heard on the power supply solution that they are now seeking government leaderships attention on their bid for amendments in the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) for a provision that will primarily defer the privatization of the Agus and Pulungui h ...
• GROWING GOVERNMENT: Jeffersonville's city salaries ...
  
  
  HOW JEFFERSONVILLE SALARIES HAVE CHANGED Year Total Salaries Growth From Previous Year 2005 $9.53 million 4.57 percent 2006 $10.15 million 6.50 percent 2007 $10.92 million 7.59 percent 2008 $12.15 million 11.27 percent 2009* $14.25 million 17.19 percent Information from the Jeffersonville Clerk-Tre ...
• MWSS, two other groups to block Angat dam privatiz ...
  
  
  Despite their different points of view, a government water agency, a water utility firm, and a non-government organization may soon find themselves uniting behind one cause.

Guardian

• Pakistan floods toll rises to 1,100
  
  
  Access blocked to areas in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa as authorities try to rescue 27,000 people trapped after heavy rains The death toll from floods in north-west Pakistan has risen to 1,100 people, an official said today. Adnan Khan, a disaster management official, said the toll could rise further, as th ...
• Peres accuses UK of pro-Arab bias
  
  
  Veteran politician claims MPs pander to Muslim voters with anti-Jewish rhetoric and glorify Palestinians as underdogs Israel's president, Shimon Peres, has accused some British MPs of pandering to anti-Israel sentiment among their Muslim voters, claiming there is a "deeply pro-Arab" core in the UK e ...
• Two held over MI6 parcel bomb
  
  
  Suspects arrested in north Wales over packages allegedly addressed to MI6 offices and Downing Street Two men are being held by police today after two parcel bombs reportedly addressed to 10 Downing Street and MI6 were intercepted last week. The suspects, aged 52 and 21, were arrested on suspicion of ...
• Powerboat crash kills competitor
  
  
  European and British National Powerboat Championships called off after pilot Ian Stirling killed and crew member hurt A powerboats championship was abandoned today after an experienced competitor was killed when his boat flipped over, the Royal Yacht Association (RYA) said. Ian Stirling, 59, a veter ...
• Chinese strikes set to win new rights
  
  
  Activists hail landmark debate on collective bargaining in manufacturing heartland of Guangdong High-profile strikes at Honda and other factories have put workers in southern China on the verge of gaining new rights, campaigners believe. Officials in Guangdong province – for years the country's manu ...

McClatchey

• Reporters complain they can't get Guantanamo court ...
  
  
  WASHINGTON — Reporters covering trials of accused terrorists at Guantanamo on Monday will have their first-ever face-to-face chance to air their complaints about the U.S government's restrictive rules, which journalists say make it nearly impossible for the public to follow the proceedings.
• Obama won't campaign for Democrats when he visits ...
  
  
  AUSTIN -- When President Barack Obama visits Texas on Aug. 9, the state's top-tier Democratic candidate, gubernatorial nominee Bill White, will likely be miles away, reaching out to voters in Johnson County near Fort Worth.
• Drifitng, empty kayak makes it hundreds of miles t ...
  
  
  MIAMI — It began as a mystery. Where was the owner of the expensive, blue-and-white racing kayak that a boat captain found Tuesday drifting 3 � miles off Key Largo in the Florida Keys with no one aboard?
• Commentary: Torture memos — Accountability, ...
  
  
  Eight years ago on Aug. 1, armed with two legal opinions that gutted the prohibition against torture, CIA agents and contractors began the month-long "enhanced interrogation" of Abu Zubaydah in a secret CIA dungeon in Thailand.
• Commentary: Venezuela's fallout with Colombia is n ...
  
  
  Journalists are not supposed to shoot down a good story, but I have to confess that I'm not terribly excited about the news of Venezuela's break of diplomatic relations with Colombia, nor about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's threat to stop oil exports to the United States.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• An equal partnership with the land?
  
  
  The journal Nature this week debates one of the most important questions of our age: how can we feed the Earth's growing population such that no-one goes hungry and nature is left with some land and water of its own? Being a science journal, you'll not be surprised to hear that one of the things it ...
• Climate campaigns down the pan
  
  
  Apologies issued by two campaign groups, WWF and Oxfam , may or may not bring to a close one of the more bizarre yet telling episodes that have materialised within the UN climate convention. At the convention's annual two-week session in June in Bonn , activists removed the nameplate of the Saudi A ...
• Common climate in Canberra and Washington
  
  
  Turn the clock back four years, and you could not have slipped a cigarette paper between the climate policies of the administrations in Washington DC and Canberra. With the election of Kevin Rudd in December 2007, paths diverged. Against the backdrop of opinion polls showing climate change as a m ...
• UN climate talks in the mire?
  
  
  It's not being touted as such, but the latest document from the United Nations climate convention (UNFCCC) is the clearest admission we've yet had that UN talks are in the mire. Add it to the latest word from the US Senate , and "mire" hardly seems strong enough. Let's take the global document fir ...
• Scientist leaves behind a climate of abuse
  
  
  I didn't know Stephen Schneider , the Stanford University climatologist who has just died from an apparent heart attack, well enough to pen a comprehensive account of his life and works. RealClimate has an appreciation by his close colleague Ben Santer; and the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post ...

The Wonk Room

• Michigan Oil Spill Damages Wildlife, Forces Reside ...
  
  
  On Monday, a disastrous leak in one of the world’s largest pipeline systems gushed over 1 million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River, located in southwest Michigan. Already, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm has declared the area a disaster zone, quickly activating State Emergency Operations ...
• Megan McArdle Has No Idea What She’s Talking ...
  
  
  Megan McArdle, the Atlantic Monthly blogger fond of making up nonsensical arguments about the economy, health care, and education policy, has waded into climate policy with similarly catastrophic results. In a critique of a Kevin Drum piece about new research on a warming-induced decline of global s ...
• Schlafly: Obama Wants ‘Big Brother Governmen ...
  
  
  Over the past two months, many Republican pundits and members of Congress have been calling for the end of unemployment benefit extensions for the millions of Americans who can’t find work. Meanwhile, GOP Senators held the unemployment insurance (UI) extension bill hostage for weeks as 2.5 million A ...
• Meg Whitman Believes Arizona Law ‘Should Sta ...
  
  
  In June, California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman (R) reminded California Latino voters of her opposition to Arizona’s controversial immigration law in an ad that aired on the Spanish-language broadcast of the Mexico-France World Cup game. A few weeks ago, the San Francisco Chronicle reported ...
• RNC Conveniently Forgets GOP’s Anti-Medicare ...
  
  
  Today is Medicare’s 45th anniversary, and the Republican National Committee is celebrating the occasion by trying to attack “Obamacare” and by pretending the GOP has been a defender of Medicare. The RNC posted an online research briefing called “Happy 45th Birthday Medicare!” alleging President Obam ...

thwap's schoolyard

• The Rot Starts From the Top
  
  
  Y'know, all the needle-dicked pigs expressing their rape fantasies and living out their sadistic masturbation fantasies were only playing around with the situation their superiors gave them. And the G20 ISU took its orders from stephen harper. And stephen harper takes his orders from BP, Monsanto, ...
• Canada Day 2010
  
  
  It was a beautiful day. I was at the park in Hamilton with my little boy when I saw a young woman I recognized from the local activist community. She told me that she'd been arrested in Toronto at the G20 Summit. She wasn't there to protest though. She was visiting friends and they went out for some ...
• Well, That Sucked.
  
  
  So what was the turn-out at the rally "demanding" a public inquiry into the $1 Billion dollars worth of incompetence and brutality at the G20? You remember that one don't you? It was in all the papers. Remember stephen harper, before blowing $16 billion on new fighter-planes to protect us from Al ...
• Correlation Between US Aid & Colombian Death Squad ...
  
  
  What else is new ? The results were obtained by comparing the number of reports of such killings in the two years prior to the start of Plan Colombia -- the multibillion-dollar U.S. military aid package -- in 2000 with the number of killings after the launch of that counterinsurgency and anti-dru ...
• The Miami Model
  
  
  Today, why don't we all google " miami model protests" (or "miami model - [anything else]") and see what we find. Because I just know that we'll find great stuff to read. Because, you know, I think our protests as they stand, are useless. We stand around and chant, the elites ignore us with impunit ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Sixth Circuit says local officials are liable for ...
  
  
  The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued a decision this week that local government officials can be held liable for accusations they make against� citizens when it is "reasonably foreseeable" that their statements will cause the citizen to be fired from their job. Martha Paige worked as an ac ...
• Whistleblowers beware: employers will look for you ...
  
  
  This week, the Legal Intelligencer reports on how some employers are routinely investigating the social network sites (SNSs) of employees who make claims against them. Called " How Facebook Can Make or Break Your Case ," the article is mostly about how Facebook posts can make the employer's case and ...
• Neon Tommy considers plight of national security w ...
  
  
  Student Paresh Dave of the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California (USC) has written an incisive story about how national security whistleblowers can protect themselves while blowing the whistle on misconduct by government officials. Dave's story is ...
• Allegations of Retaliation Against Whistleblowers ...
  
  
  President Obama recently nominated Robert E. O’Neill to serve as U.S. attorney for Florida’s Middle District, one of the country’s busiest regions. The nomination will be reviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee in the coming months and will need to be approved by a vote of the full Senate. Howeve ...
• House Oil Spill Response Bill includes gold standa ...
  
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced plans to bring the Oil Spill Response Bill to the House floor for passage. The Washington Independent is reporting that the bill will include the Offshore Oil and Gas Worker Whistleblower Protection Act of 2010, which, “provides whistleblower and anti-retalia ...

Science Express

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

TechDirt

• Innovation Happens When Ideas Have Sex
  
  
  A few months back, we wrote a bit about Matt Ridley's new book called The Rational Optimist . I still haven't had a chance to read the book, but reader sehlat points us to an essay that Ridley has written for Reason Magazine that is adapted from the book, which is an absolute must read, on how inno ...
• Detroit News Anchor Realizes How Twitter Has Chang ...
  
  
  One of the key points we tried to hammer home at our Techdirt Saves* Journalism event in June was the importance of realizing that news organizations are really in the business of building community . So many in the news business focus on the belief that they're in the "news" business, but that's n ...
• What About Creating A Digital Transmission Right
  
  
  Bennett Lincoff has been proposing a different kind of solution to the music industry's online woes for quite some time. Last year, he did a great job picking apart some of the major problems with Jim Griffin's Choruss plan (which, again, we've been told was supposed to launch in January, but we're ...
• Marvel Issuing Takedowns Over Thor Trailer; Hey Ma ...
  
  
  There's been plenty of buzz over the the upcoming movie Thor , and at the recent Comic-Con in San Diego, Marvel apparently showed off a trailer of the movie that got people excited . Of course, with so many people in the room, some filmed it, and it didn't take long for the clip to go online. Othe ...
• Court Lets Venues Deduct Fees From BMI License For ...
  
  
  While ASCAP is busy attacking Creative Commons and refusing to debate , it appears that the performance rights organization may have a bigger problem on its hands. Reader Beefcake alerts us to an important ruling against BMI , the other big US performance rights group (there's also the somewhat sma ...

VacTruth

• Parents in China were beaten when they tried to ge ...
  
  
  In March 2010 it was reported From the New York Times that China had been selling 'tainted vaccines'. These vaccines had not had adequate storage and yet were sold to the public of China, subsequently allowing the vaccines to be administered to children. As a result, as many as eighty children suffe ...
• Vaccine Trial Targets Kids
  
  
  Parents are being asked to register their children for a worldwide vaccine trial aimed at preventing a common cause of chest infections. These children will receive three doses of a vaccine for bronchiolitis, through nasal drops and will require a follow up blood test. The babies to be used in the f ...
• Pharmaceuticals contributing to AIDS crisis
  
  
  While scientists from around the world gather in Vienna to discuss how to fight AIDS at the 18th International AIDS Conference, there are a lot of AIDS skeptics doubt that official medicine will be able to find a solution. Robert Scott Bell says that the scientists at the conference are wrong becaus ...
• Fact, vaccines have never eradicated anything, eve ...
  
  
  For years now the myth that vaccines can eradicate illnesses has existed. This myth was perpetrated by the pharmaceutical industries and backed up by our governments and has existed purely to trick the general public into having countless vaccines in the ruse that they will live long and healthy liv ...
• U.S. Government to America’s Vets: Drop Dead
  
  
  This documentary and original investigative report exposes a 19 year secret US government program whose consequence resulted in the needless suffering and deaths of our brave gulf war veterans. Total dead since 1991 — over 75,000. Does anyone care? Could your father, husband, son or daughter be amon ...

BroadSnark

• Drug War Ping Pong
  
  
  Lately, I’ve seen several articles holding up Colombia as some kind of model for how to deal with drug war violence.   The latest one is this piece in Foreign Affairs in which Robert Bonner claims that Mexico should follow Colombia’s example. Really people?  Colombia? Colombia is ranked number 13 ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  
  
  It still burns, the treatment I got as a teen.  I think the guy who wrote the Case Against Adolescence is still pissed too.  Glad he did something constructive with it. This article on reconciliation is a must read for anyone who cares about ending conflicts, especially genocidal ones. I hope you al ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  
  
  This article kinda freaked me out.  I’m going to have to step up my training a la Sarah Connor. (HT @PunkJohnnyCash) Very cool video on Spontaneous Order.  (HT @JamesTulsaALL) So here is a question for you.  Can you have multiculturalism – respect for other cultures – without succumbing to moral ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  
  
  I don’t know how I never heard about Spot.us.  I love that. Also loving that India plans to seek extradition of the former chairman of Union Carbide for the Bhopal disaster.  What amazing things could happen if states no longer gave protection to businesses. This article Against School that has be ...
• Growing up Jewish – Kosher Edition
  
  
  I’ve shared with you all the tortures of Sabbath and Passover.  But I have not yet shared with you the biggest torture of all. My mother keeps kosher. Being kosher means no shellfish and no pork.  Shellfish and pork are, as you may have heard, an abomination! The food that you can eat is classifie ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Use the Coming Shock To Preve ...
  
  
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, July 30, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 29
• Obama in the Bunker: The White House Is on a Jim C ...
  
  
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, July 30, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 29
• Planned Disintegration Hits American Cities
  
  
  By Carl Osgood Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, July 30, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 29
• The Folly of Chronic Wars
  
  
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, July 30, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 29
• Obama White House, DNC in Suicide Pact To Oust Ran ...
  
  
  EIR News Service press release.

Armies of Liberation

• The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
  
  
  As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
• بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
  
  
  مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
• السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
  
  
  اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة ...
• Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
  
  
  Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
• Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
  
  
  Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

Dark Politricks

• Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
  
  
• Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
  
  
  Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
• Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
  
  
  Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
• NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
  
  
  John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
• Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
  
  
  Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...

food and water watch

• USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
  
  
  In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
• Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
  
  
  Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
• Farm to School Needs More Support
  
  
  It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
• Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
  
  
  Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff  “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...
• USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
  
  
  The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...

treehugger

• Fresh and Easy's Farm to Store in 24 Program
  
  
  photo: Sara Novak This is an idea that I hope gets some traction and expands to other grocers across the nation. Fresh & Easy's Neighborhood Market found such success with their Farm to Store in 24 Program , that they will be expanding it. Customers are ensured through the program, the their pr ...
• Volcom Drives Jean Donation Program for the Homele ...
  
  
  Image via Volcom . Last year, Volcom , in collaboration with the National Coalition for the Homeless , donated over 5,000 pairs of jeans to fifty homeless shelters nation-wide in a jean recycling program called, "Give Jeans a Chance." This year, the athletic apparel brand is back with 200 more ...
• Battle Over Natural Gas Royalties Heats Up in Isra ...
  
  
  "The gas belongs to the public" - one of Civil Action Forum's publicity cartoons. When massive natural gas reserves were discovered off the coast of Israel in early 2009, it seemed as if the country's energy problems were solved. Many expected that a resource bonanza was on th... Read the full ...
• Urban Bedbug Onslaught Is A Curse On Dense Living, ...
  
  
  Bedbug . Image credit :wikipedia Bedbugs are are becoming quite the urban plague again, resurgent and causing much misery in US cities after decades of being a relatively rare problem. Some methods of being rid of bed bugs, these days, are pretty awful from an environmental standpoint: like c ...
• The Challenges and Opportunities of a Sustainabili ...
  
  
  Cleaning the supply chain is one of the challenges of Walmart's sustainability project. Image credit: williamcho /Flickr This guest post was written by Rand Waddoups, senior manager of sustainability at Walmart. Last July, we announced that we would lead in the creation of a Sustainable Prod ...

Biosingularity

• Researchers discover that gut bacteria affect mult ...
  
  
  Biologists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated a connection between multiple sclerosis (MS)—an autoimmune disorder that affects the brain and spinal cord—and gut bacteria. The work—led by Sarkis K. Mazmanian, an assistant professor of biology at Caltech, and postdoc ...
• HIV prevention science scores a victory — th ...
  
  
  Today at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, members of the International Rectal Microbicide Advocates (IRMA) and thousands of other HIV advocates and scientists cheered a long-awaited, much anticipated success in the quest for new HIV prevention technologies. Researchers ann ...
• Novozymes reveals knowledge on new antibiotic agai ...
  
  
  Scientists from Novozymes have now found the mechanism by which plectasin, an anti-microbial peptide, kills bacteria that cause severe infections in humans. Peptide antibiotics such as plectasin have retained antibiotic activity throughout evolution. The new knowledge shows that plectasin and other ...
• First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell C ...
  
  
  Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute JCVI, a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. The team synthesized the 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modified Mycoplas ...
• Bran Reduces Heart Disease Deaths
  
  
  People with diabetes who eat plenty of bran-rich whole grains appear to have a reduced risk of death from heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular causes, a new study shows. Researchers from Harvard University followed almost 8,000 nurses with type 2 diabetes for almost three decades. They fou ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Mrs. Madoff exonerates Michael Mann
• Crusading for poverty, disease, and death
  
  
  In this video, Paul Driessen exposes how Western policies of eco-imperialism are leading a crusade against the poor of the world.
• Destroying biodiversity
  
  
  The greatest threats to the world̢۪s species are misguided environmental and anti-technology policies.
• Of pelicans and people: CFACT staff visits affecte ...
  
  
  The Louisiana brown pelican is perhaps the number one symbol of the damage caused by BP oil spill. Running a close second are the people of Louisiana who have already lost jobs both from the spilled oil and from the Obama administration's decision to impose a 180-day moratorium on offshore drilling.
• CFACT update from the Gulf coast
  
  
  As we boarded the boat, our captain told us we would be traveling 50 miles. Before we knew it, we arrived at Queen Bess Island, a habitat preserved just for pelicans and other birds.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Turbine to be launched at Siberian power plant on ...
  
  
  Deputy Premier Igor Sechin on Monday will launch hydropower unit 4 of Siberia's Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydropower Plant, damaged in a deadly accident last August.
• Seven people killed in road accident in Russian Fa ...
  
  
  Seven people were killed and another eight injured after two minivans collided on a highway in the Magadan Region in the Russian Far East, the regional emergencies center said on Sunday.
• Wildfires in Russia claim 30 lives, over $150 mln ...
  
  
  Wildfires raging in central Russia due to abnormally hot weather have claimed 30 lives, left 2,210 people homeless and caused damages worth over 4.6 billion rubles ($150 million), the Ministry for Regional Development said on Sunday.
• Ukraine after presidential elections
• Ukraine raises domestic household gas prices 50% f ...
  
  
  Ukraine's government has raised domestic household gas prices by a staggering 50% from August 1 as part of its measures to balance the budget and get much-needed funds from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• China orbits fifth navigation satellite
  
  
  China has successfully launched its fifth navigation satellite into orbit as part of a project to develop its own global satellite navigation system, official news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.
• Russia to launch 3 Glonass satellites in September
  
  
  A Proton-M carrier rocket bearing three Glonass-M navigation satellites will be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on September 2, Russia's space agency said on Friday.
• China leads in outer space pollution - Russian spa ...
  
  
  China has topped the list of the world's major polluters of the near-Earth space environment, followed by the United States and Russia, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Friday.
• Russian Mir mini-subs dive in Lake Baikal
  
  
  Russia's Mir deep submersibles made a series of dives in the world's deepest freshwater lake to inspect crystals containing natural gas on Wednesday, the Fund for the Protection of Lake Baikal said.
• Russian cosmonauts complete 6-hour spacewalk
  
  
  Two Russian cosmonauts completed a six-hour spacewalk on Tuesday to fix a video camera and cable connections to an ISS module.

Pruning Shears

• This Week in Tyranny
  
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I didn’t post last Sunday and have been largely offline this weekend. So I’ve mixed some older links in and included lots of quotes. Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Every m ...
• The Problem Isn't Fast News, It's Dumb News
  
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Walter Shapiro picked this week to lament the sorry state of the media. He believes we have become ignorant and easily distracted by an Internet-bred culture that cultivates short attention spans. There have always been good and ba ...
• Putting Geneva Down the Memory Hole
  
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post On Tuesday former Attorney General Michael Mukasey attempted to justify America’s military commissions, and did so extremely dishonestly. For instance, he conflates Guantánamo detainees with those “accused of the Sept. 11, 2001, att ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Carol Rosenberg reported ( via ) on the military commission of Omar Khadr. He rejected a plea deal because doing so would “give an excuse to the government for torturing me and abusing me as a child.” Since most of the detainees at ...
• Ten Pounds of Bullshit in a Five Pound Bag
  
  
  Philip Klein basically admits conservative fiscal principles do not survive contact with reality: “Reagan, it’s often said, came into office with the goals of building up the military and winning the Cold War, cutting taxes, and reducing the size of government. He was tremendously successful in the ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Will Frito-Lay's New Traveling Greenhouse Really S ...
  
  
  There's just something discordant about a billion-dollar processed-food manufacturer trumpeting its farmy-ness. Click here to read this article
• Chicken Producers Debate 'Natural' Label
  
  
  A disagreement among poultry producers about whether chicken injected with salt, water and other ingredients can be promoted as "natural" has prompted federal officials to consider changing labeling guidelines. Click here to read this article
• Cloned Livestock Quietly Gain a Foothold in Europe
  
  
  Albrighton, England - Many Europeans recoil at the very idea of cloning animals. But a handful of breeders in Switzerland, Britain and possibly other countries have imported semen and embryos from cloned animals or their progeny from the United States, seeking to create more consistently plump and p ...
• Farmers Want 'Big Chicken' Held Responsible for Po ...
  
  
  Fifty-five farmers signed a petition sent to Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday, asking him to hold large poultry producers responsible for pollution from chicken houses seeping into the Chesapeake Bay. Click here to read this article
• Michael Pollan: The Mighty Rise of the Food Revolu ...
  
  
  Until very recently, food was invisible as a political issue. Something is stirring. Pollan reviews five books that address the heart of the food movement. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

• Fotografías de gatitos (7 elementos)
  
  
  Para continuar con nuestras colecciones de imágenes de gatitos , tenemos para nuestros más de 11,500 suscriptores y los más de 10,000 visitantes diarios, 7 fotos de gatitos muy tiernos .Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si de ...
• Vehículos (5 imágenes gratis para ver y compartir)
  
  
  ¿Es usted coleccionista de fotografías o imágenes de vehículos ? Pues aunque no lo sea, déjeme decirle que le tengo en exclusiva 5 fotografías de autos que podrá utilizar para fondo en su computadora o simplemente para admirar la belleza de estos vólidos de 4 llantas .Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la ...
• Selección de imágenes surtidas (7 elementos)
  
  
  ¿Le gusta observar imágenes de diversos temas o tópicos? ¡Perfecto! Aquí está su oportunidad para disfrutar de 7 imágenes que seguro le darán algunas ideas o al menos recrearán un poco sus pupilas. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada ...
• Escenarios fantásticos
  
  
  Esta es una colección de 5 imágenes fantásticas que podrán ser parte de su colección. No olvide usted compartir nuestros contenidos para que sean cada día más personas quienes tengan acceso a miles de imágenes gratuitas .Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ...
• 20 de las más hermosas mariposas en el mundo
  
  
  En Smashingcenter , usted podrá encontrar una maravillosa colección que incluye 20 de las mariposas más hermosas que existen en el mundo. Vea de cerca estos enigmáticos insectos y admire sus formas, colores y texturas con efecto macro . Sea testigo de una evolución inexplicable. Nota: Haz click aquí ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Baltimore City Data Day Aims to Empower Baltimore ...
  
  
  As I intend to dedicate the better part of my career to research, I am often confronted with the fear that even the highest quality data can end up out in the ether of peer-reviewed publications that never make their intended splash, seen by a limited few and impacting even fewer. Last Friday I atte ...
• CLF is reading…
  
  
  Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher by Frederick L. Kirschenmann A collection of Kirschenmann’s greatest writings on farming, philosophy, and sustainability Theologian, academic, and third-generation organic farmer Frederick L. Kirschenmann is a celebrated agric ...
• Book Review: The World is Blue: How Our Fate and t ...
  
  
  By my estimation, seventy-five-year-old author Dr. Sylvia Earle has spent more than 1% of her life underwater. If her dives were connected in time, it would be as if she slipped into the ocean on New Year’s Day and did not re-emerge until some time after Labor Day. Her book chronicles her experienc ...
• How low can you go?
  
  
  You may have seen online tools such as the Footprint Network that allow you to estimate your impact on the environment and offer somewhat conservative lifestyle suggestions on how to lower oneâs impact (taking it easy on the thermostat, more public transportation… you know the drill). Well, what ...
• Cattle Burps and Climate Change: What About Bison ...
  
  
  In a recent Mother Jones article, writer Kiera Butler asks the experts if eating responsibly raised meat can actually be good for the planet.  One of the responses comes from Joel Salatin, star of Food, Inc., Fresh and a personal hero of mine.  Joel makes some strong points that uphold the merits of ...

Norwegianity

• Moloch Matters
  
  
  The iPad was charging so I listened to some NPR money show this morning while running errands. Sound Money or Moloch Matters â one of those shows, I can’t tell them apart. Two women were busy lying about the estate tax and yes they did tell the enormous lie about farmers being impacted by the [... ...
• America hating Republicans vs. shit-in-the-grass D ...
  
  
  Billionaires on trial? Billionaire perverts who buy miscarriages of justice getting reinvestigated? I think Obama’s just figured out how to get the left fired up and ready to get out the vote! I think the centrists who run our government truly fail to appreciate how despised the monied classes are. ...
• Loverly
  
  
  The fucking rich: David Edwards and Muriel Kane Sam Pizzigati - Congress refunding the Afghanistan clusterfuck was disappointing, but Juan Cole points out the silver lining: [T]he interesting thing about the vote is the 103 Democratic Party ´no´ votes, triple the number who voted against a similar b ...
• Shits
  
  
  More. More of the same disgusting, assbiting shit you always get from me because that’s what’s out there. Disgusting, assbiting shit. And the shitheaded shits who shit out the disgusting, assbiting shit. - I really don’t know what’s going on here. Either E.J. Dionne Jr. just rediscovered his testicl ...
• Piled higher and deeper
  
  
  In the future, there will be no jobs, no income, no nothing. Just the rich and their support team and the rest of us can just go fuck ourselves. Harold Meyerson: Why invest in new plants, offices and workers, particularly here at home? Spooked by the 2008 crash, corporations want to keep more money ...

Public News Service

• AZ School Boards Chief: Drop-out Gains Threatened ...
  
  
  AZ School Boards Chief: Drop-out Gains Threatened by Budget Cuts Phoenix, AZ – The latest Kids Count Data Book released this week shows a 50-percent reduction in Arizona’s high school dropout rate since the year 2000. But the head of a major education group says that progress is in jeopardy because ...
• Wall Street Home “Resale” Fees Raise I ...
  
  
  Wall Street Home “Resale” Fees Raise Ire, and Eyebrows Phoenix, AZ – A coalition including the National Association of Realtors, AFSCME, and the Property Rights Alliance is calling foul on a new Wall Street real estate investment device called a “private transfer fee covenant.” Kurt Pfotenhauer (FOT ...
• Experts Say While AZ Teen Births are Down, Pregnan ...
  
  
  Experts Say While AZ Teen Births are Down, Pregnancies are Not Phoenix, AZ – This week’s Kids Count report shows Arizona teenage births down 10 percent since the year 2000. But the state’s largest reproductive health organization says the numbers are misleading because teen pregnancies are up. Comme ...
• AZ Anti-Hunger Agencies Get Help Reaching Apprehe ...
  
  
  AZ Anti-Hunger Agencies Get Help Reaching Apprehensive Latinos Phoenix, AZ – Two national interns have been assigned to Arizona anti-hunger agencies. The recent college graduates, known as “Hunger Fellows,” will work to increase information and access to the federal food stamp program now known as ...
• SB 1070 Foes Plan Major Protest as Law Takes Effec ...
  
  
  SB 1070 Foes Plan Major Protest as Law Takes Effect Tucson, AZ – Immigrant rights advocates are calling for a “day of non-compliance” July 29th, the day Arizona’s controversial new immigration law takes effect. Planned actions include rallies, vigils and civil disobedience. Comments from Jennifer Al ...

My Care2 Picks

• Dryland & Groundwater Degradation / Easier to prev ...
  
  
  Science behind climate change, how global dryland regions are being affected and understand how successful adaptation strategies have been implemented. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Eager for new Curveball, CIA may have been duped ...
  
  
  Hat Tip www.iranian.com Some former intelligence officials wonder if the CIAs failure to exercise normal caution in its handling of Amiri could have led them to fall for a dangle - Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• To My Dearest Family
  
  
  ... I will always, Love You from that land above. And we will, touch again. You have my word, My Love ... Submitted by Sunrise Sunset to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• An Honest Look at Obama's First Year
  
  
  Pause and review the main events of the first year or more ; an excellent detailed analysis from a progressive writer willing to note the good, the bad, and the ugly. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Details of 100m Facebook users collected and publi ...
  
  
  Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been collected and published on the net by a security consultant. Ron Bowles used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not hidden by the user's privacy settings. Submitted by Sophie Smith to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

• Mossad assassins paid by US firms-presstv
  
  
  Mossad assassins paid by US firmsUS investigators say American companies paid money to the suspects behind the Israeli-masterminded assassination of a senior Hamas official.American cyberspace... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Florida church plans "Burn a Quran Day"
  
  
  Florida church plans "Burn a Quran Day": [presstv.com] A Florida church is promoting Islamophobia and has plans to publically burn the Holy Quran on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• 'US military can't be stretched much thinner'
  
  
  'US military can't be stretched much thinner'The Pentagon says the United States must expand its navy to keep pace with China and other rising powers in Asia, but political analyst Donald Hellmann... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs
  
  
  US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs - Yahoo! NewsKABUL, Afghanistan – In a summer of suffering, America's military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Ariz. governor considers changing immigration law
  
  
  Ariz. governor considers changing immigration law - Yahoo! NewsPHOENIX – The fight over Arizona's immigration law showed no signs of letting up Friday as the federal judge who blunted its force faced... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• GM Crop Contamination Insurance?
  
  
  The issue of crops that have been genetically modified (GM) contaminating surrounding crops is one that is growing in severity, and triggering lawsuits by farmers whose crops have been contaminated.
• Constitutional Sheriff Tony DeMeo
  
  
  The Sheriff’s Deputy told the federal agents that there would be no seizure or taking of cattle, per DeMeo’s decision based on the Constitution. The Deputy was told that the BLM federal agents intended to arrest DeMeo and use armed force to take Hage’s cattle. Sheriff DeMeo advised the federal agent ...
• National Ocean Council
  
  
  Because of the decades of difficulty that the collectivists have had trying to ratify the Law Of Sea Treaty (LOST), Obama is sneaking it in through the back door, by way of this Executive Order establishing the Council. Because LOST is a treaty, Obama's Executive Order is not Constitutional as treat ...
• THE MINING OF OUR AQUIFERS: As long as BLM can mak ...
  
  
  Springs and streams in northern Nevada are drying up. Surface water is contaminated with arsenic and other heavy metals, and groundwater is contaminated when water is re-injected into the aquifer, leaving less water for wildlife and other uses. Meanwhile, the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land ...
• CFS claims victory while Roundup Ready alfalfa get ...
  
  
  While the Center for Food Safety does its victory dance claiming that it won the Supreme Court genetically modified alfalfa (GM) case, and no GM alfalfa will be forthcoming any time soon, the Roundup Ready seed is already sitting in the wings ready to be planted. The House of Representatives just se ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Wetlands Front Group Funded by Big Oil Wants Taxpa ...
  
  
  ShareThis Wetlands Front Group Funded by Big Oil Wants Taxpayers to Foot�Bill for BP's Gulf Destruction By Brendan DeMelle and Jerry Cope 28 Jul 2010 A group of oil companies including BP, Shell, ExxonMobil, Citgo, Chevron and other polluters are using a front group called " America's WETLAND Founda ...
• Witness says Army offered him cash to 'infiltrate' ...
  
  
  ShareThis Witness says Army offered him cash to 'infiltrate' WikiLeaks 01 Aug 2010 Before the online site WikiLeaks published a trove of classified documents about the Afghanistan war, government investigators interviewed Boston-area acquaintances of a military analyst charged with providing other d ...
• Iraqis to sue US firm at Abu Ghraib
  
  
  ShareThis 'These men were senselessly tortured by a company that profited from their misery.' Iraqis to sue US firm at Abu Ghraib 31 Jul 2010 A US court has given the green light to 72 Iraqis to proceed with a lawsuit against a private contractor accused of complicity in the alleged abuse of detaine ...
• House GOP leaders: 9/11 first responders aid bill ...
  
  
  ShareThis House GOP leaders: 9/11 first responders aid bill 'a massive new entitlement program' 28 Jul 2010 House Republican leadership is advising its members to vote against a bipartisan bill that would, among other things, bolster medical support to Sept. 11 victims. The James Zadroga 9/11 Health ...
• SUV with American Embassy Contractors Strikes and ...
  
  
  ShareThis SUV with American Embassy Contractors Strikes and Kills Afghans 31 Jul 2010 In Kabul on Friday, a crowd of hundreds of Afghans rioted after a sport utility vehicle carrying American Embassy contractors mercenaries struck a car of Afghans, killing at least three of them, the Afghan police s ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Has Climatedepot crashed?
  
  
  As of writing, am getting a VisualBasic error on http://www.climatedepot.com Is it just my computer network that can't see it? UPDATE 1pm NZST: Back up and running. Marc must have hit wrong button somewhere :)
• Arctic heading for major freeze - new NOAA forecas ...
  
  
  More evidence pointing towards a significant global cooldown, now picking a brutal northern hemisphere winter.
• Air Con Climategate Edition now avail in NZ
  
  
  Due to an ongoing series of requests, we've decided to import the US version of the Air Con Climategate Edition. It's now available direct from the Howling At The Moon website, in either hard copy for $39.90, or PDF for...
• Ray Stevens Global Warming Song
  
  
  They may call him the Streak, but you can't keep Ray Stevens down evidently...witness his lastest on Global Warming
• Breaking news: Chinese security attack NZ politici ...
  
  
  Chinese security forces have attacked and injured a New Zealand politician in the grounds of the New Zealand parliament buildings, because the MP had the temerity to be holding a Tibetan flag at a ceremony to Welcome the Chinese Vice-Premier...

Mondoweiss

• ‘New Republic’ writer lauds ADL’ ...
  
  
  Ben Birnbaum's twitter feed; mosque is being "demagogued" on right and left, but ADL's "nuanced statement should be commended, not condemned." Here's Ben Birnbaum at New Republic, a long piece of Israel lobbyana, attacking Human Rights Watch as an enemy of Israel. Reliable narrator?
• the battlefield of public opinion is a psychologic ...
  
  
  oh god, i'm going thru this psychological minefield.just an amazing amount of bullshit pushback in my blogging reality. i seem to fluxuate between periods of self doubt with respect to the 'tone' of my blogging (basically just being me which apparently really drives some people nuts in not a good wa ...
• Foxman says some are ‘entitled’ to be ...
  
  
  The Times' Mark Barbaro and Paul Vitello did excellent reporting on the mosque controversy, and the role of Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League.“It’s the wrong place,” Mr. Foxman said. “Find another place.” Asked why the opposition of the families was so pivotal in the decision, Mr. Foxman, a ...
• Neocon/Israel lobby strategy for getting US into w ...
  
  
  Gareth Porter at antiwar.com responds forcefully to Reuel Marc Gerecht, at the Weekly Standard, calling on Israel to bomb Iran. Again, I ask, when is this type of discussion going to happen in the mainstream media, so that Americans can sort out what they really want?the aim of Gerecht and of the ...
• Timing is everything
  
  
  Two Armenian-Americans have sued the Turkish government in California for the Armenian genocide of nearly a century ago.The suit seeks class action status on behalf of all Armenians and Turkish citizens "who were deprived of their citizenship, brutally deported, (and) had their property seized" by ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Multi-Virus Vaccine Quinvaxem Proving Deadly
  
  
  Quinvaxem, a powerful 5 in 1 vaccine currently being distributed in India, containing live Diphtheria, Tetanus, Hib oligosaccharide (Haemophilus influenzae) & Hepatitis B virus plus an inactivated B. pertussis virus (heat treated or attenuated), has already caused the deaths of at least 5 children i ...
• VRM: The Rockefeller Foundation – Rulers of ...
  
  
  “Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly, ‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy; The way into my parlour is up a winding stair, And I’ve a many curious things to shew when you are there.” Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is in vain, For who goes [...]
• VRM: Britain’s National Health Service &#821 ...
  
  
  Britain’s National Health Service is rapidly destroying the UK Health Care system; dismantling local programs, stripping hospitals of essential service staff, downsizing hospitals altogether, refusing to upgrade old equipment – all under the guise of tightening the belt, preserving what’s left of di ...
• VRM: H1N1 Vaccine Surplus From 2009 Reveals Growin ...
  
  
  VACCINE SURPLUS FROM 2009 – Canada: $200,000,000+ worth of unused H1N1 vaccine. United States: $455,000,000+ worth of unused H1N1 vaccine. France: approximately $750,000,000 worth of unused H1N1 vaccine supply. Britain: $250,000,000 worth of unused H1N1 vaccine supply (3.8 million doses). Germany: $ ...
• Polio – United Nations & The Great Cull
  
  
  According to the World Health Organization vaccines aren’t to blame for the spread of Polio in Nigeria; but rather low vaccine uptake amongst the poorest communities. This despite the fact that, by their own admission, children receiving the LIVE POLIO VIRUS MIST will continue shedding the virus amo ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
  
  
  Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. � If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner fo ...
• Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
  
  
  After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new low- ...
• Strawberry Picking
  
  
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller. T ...
• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  
  
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal for o ...
• Green Building and Remodeling for Dummies: Book Re ...
  
  
  I love the Dummies series of books.� They're quick reads packed with info that's presented in a clear and organized way. Plus I love the fact that most of them are available in Kindle versions for much less than the paper version. With the popularity of the Dummies books though, there are oft ...

Michael Yon

• Perspective
  
  
  Published: 21 July 2010 Apologies that this article is available only in Thai language. Please click here to view the entire article. {loadposition user8}
• Even as the World Watched IV: Peaceful, or Pistol?
  
  
  12 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Thailand fighting in May, the rain of media mixed with the dust of politics, creating mud that left honest people feeling bogged down.  People desiring clarity slogged knee deep, then waist deep, and it kept coming. My reports avoided politics largely ...
• Even as the World Watched III: Getting Hit to Get ...
  
  
  Published: 07 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Bangkok fighting in May, radio interviewers back America kept asking about the overuse of force by the Thai Army.  I answered that’s not happening, and there seem to be hundreds of journalists crawling over the streets, and I see them with ...
• Even as the World Watched II: Tasting the Kool-Aid
  
  
  Published: 05 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand This journalist was all over the place.  She stood out from the crowd for obvious reasons.  One evening, as the sun was setting, she was walking down a mostly desolate street not far from Dusit Thani hotel, and she was alone with that little camera.  ...
• Big Guns
  
  
  28 April 2010 The intention was to write a detailed dispatch on the 3-17th Field Artillerly.  Unfortunately, General Stanley McChrystals’ crew broke an agreement I had with the Army to stay until 5/2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team leaves Afghanistan, and so the research on this dispatch was not comp ...

The Killing Train

• Afghan War Diary incidents in Pakistan
  
  
  [Analysis of Wikileaks's Afghan War Diary]. I thought it might be useful to show a map of the (approx. 170) incidents in the Afghan War Diary that mention Pakistan and also take place within Pakistan's borders. I will be reading the summaries to see what happened here, but take a look at it - there ...
• Iran in the Afghan War Diary
  
  
  A search on "Iran" in the Afghan War Diary gives about 150 hits - more, actually, but I cleared a bunch that were place names that have the string "iran" in them, like Faqiran, and any entries about how the US raids a weapons cache and uncovers Iranian-manufactured weapons (there are a lot of those ...
• India in the Afghan War Diary
  
  
  In the phonetic alphabet (alpha, bravo, charlie, delta, echo, foxtrot, golf, hotel, india...), the letter "i" is represented by "india". This makes searching for "India" in the Afghan War Diary a bit of extra work, as grid systems and nomenclatures that use alphabetical numbering and reach the lette ...
• Task Forces in Afghanistan
  
  
  [More analysis of Wikileaks Afghan War Diary]. Looking through the 200- entries in the Afghan War Diary that specifically mention Canada, I noticed that most of them mention one of three task forces: TF Aegis, TF Paladin, and TF Kandahar. Searching for each of those terms gives a 1000-3000 hits each ...
• The Drug War in Afghanistan - some maps
  
  
  [More analysis of the Wikileaks Afghan War Diary]. I tried searching the database for any of these keywords: narc, opium, heroin, drug, poppy. It came up with 800 hits, which look like this: Note the concentration in the south (Hilmand) and the east. Now let's zoom in on one of the areas, one the ...

treehugger

• Fresh and Easy's Farm to Store in 24 Program
  
  
  photo: Sara Novak This is an idea that I hope gets some traction and expands to other grocers across the nation. Fresh & Easy's Neighborhood Market found such success with their Farm to Store in 24 Program , that they will be expanding it. Customers are ensured through the program, the their pr ...
• Volcom Drives Jean Donation Program for the Homele ...
  
  
  Image via Volcom . Last year, Volcom , in collaboration with the National Coalition for the Homeless , donated over 5,000 pairs of jeans to fifty homeless shelters nation-wide in a jean recycling program called, "Give Jeans a Chance." This year, the athletic apparel brand is back with 200 more ...
• Battle Over Natural Gas Royalties Heats Up in Isra ...
  
  
  "The gas belongs to the public" - one of Civil Action Forum's publicity cartoons. When massive natural gas reserves were discovered off the coast of Israel in early 2009, it seemed as if the country's energy problems were solved. Many expected that a resource bonanza was on th... Read the full ...
• Urban Bedbug Onslaught Is A Curse On Dense Living, ...
  
  
  Bedbug . Image credit :wikipedia Bedbugs are are becoming quite the urban plague again, resurgent and causing much misery in US cities after decades of being a relatively rare problem. Some methods of being rid of bed bugs, these days, are pretty awful from an environmental standpoint: like c ...
• The Challenges and Opportunities of a Sustainabili ...
  
  
  Cleaning the supply chain is one of the challenges of Walmart's sustainability project. Image credit: williamcho /Flickr This guest post was written by Rand Waddoups, senior manager of sustainability at Walmart. Last July, we announced that we would lead in the creation of a Sustainable Prod ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Grim warning sounded on climate change
  
  
  Plankton down by 40% in past 50 years as scientists sound warning bell about rising sea temperatures, with implications for Burma likely severe
• Burma parties wary of US sanctions
  
  
  Candidates complain that US sanctions will do little to affect repressive laws that govern how parties approach Burmese elections this year
• China seals biggest Burma mining deal
  
  
  World's largest steel manufacturer one of two Chinese companies set to sink $800 million into lucrative nickel mine in northern Burma
• Shan party’s campaign blocked by EC
  
  
  Election Commission secretary tells Shan Nationalities Democratic Party that they cannot enter Karenni border town to canvas for votes
• Thailand hungry for more Burmese gas
  
  
  Exports of gas from block 300kms south of Rangoon will bring the proportion of Thailand's energy needs being met by Burma to above 30 percent

Telegraph - Climate Change

• David Cameron runs the greenest government ever? T ...
  
  
  Although the Coalition is likely to come good on its commitment to combat climate change, it is less clear that it cares about the rest of the environment, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• Cutting waste to landfill will mean incinerators a ...
  
  
  Households that agree to have incinerators built in their backyard could be given discounts on their fuel bills under plans to tackle 'Nimbyism' and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill.
• Met Office report: global warming evidence is 'unm ...
  
  
  A new climate change report has provided the "greatest evidence we have ever had" that the world is warming.
• Energy revolution could put bills up by a third
  
  
  Householders face a £300-a-year rise in gas and electricity bills and cuts in the energy they use to hit climate change targets.
• Countryside has been 'overlooked' amid climate cha ...
  
  
  Important issues affecting the countryside have been overlooked because of the focus on the problems of climate change, campaigners have said.

National Geographic | Environment

• How Prospects Cooled for U.S. Global Warming Bill
  
  
  Political stalemate means the world’s largest historic contributor to the greenhouse gas problem faces international talks—again--without a plan. United States - Greenhouse gas - Global warming - Environment - Climate change
• Photos: Algae Blankets China Beaches; Dead Zone Br ...
  
  
  NoneMats of green algae have covered miles of coastline in China, creating foul odors and possibly choking life underneath the waves. Algae - China - Biology - Flora and Fauna - Bacteria
• China Oil Spill Photos: Fire, Crude, and an Inky C ...
  
  
  NoneFire, crude, and an inky cleanup mark the great China oil spill of 2010—a drop in the barrel compared to the Gulf of Mexico spill. Oil spill - Gulf of Mexico - Environment - Energy - Petroleum in the Environment
• Pictures: Huge Jets Shoot From Dam During China Fl ...
  
  
  NoneChina's massive Three Gorges Dam is being pushed to its limits by heavy monsoon rains that have sent water gushing through spill gates. Three Gorges Dam - Flood - Dam - Monsoon - Water
• Jumbo Squid Flash, Flail in First Ever Squid-cam V ...
  
  
  Filmed away from humans for the first time, jumbo squid light up during an expedition that also found them to have superstrong bites. Squid - Proxying and Filtering - Cooking - Home - Shellfish

Jurist - Legal Research

• France ruling expands legal protections for person ...
  
  
  [JURIST] The Constitutional Council [official website], France's highest constitutional authority, ruled Friday that French police may no longer hold suspects for 48 hours without telling them their rights or bringing charges. Since President Nicolas Sarkozy's [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] came ...
• Citigroup, SEC settle sub-prime mortgage exposure ...
  
  
  [JURIST] The US Securities and Exchange Commission [government website] announced Thursday that it has charged Citigroup Inc. [official website] with misleading investors about the company's exposure to sub-prime mortgage-related assets and settled with the company [press release; litigation release ...
• US to file first free trade labor rights case agai ...
  
  
  [JURIST] US Trade Representative [official website] Ambassador Ron Kirk [official profile] announced Friday that the US will file a case against Guatemala [press release] for labor rights violations. The case, filed under the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAF ...
• Ninth Circuit denies Arizona bid to expedite immig ...
  
  
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] Friday denied [order, PDF] the state of Arizona's request for an expedited appeal to lift the preliminary injunction issued Wednesday against several provisions of a controversial immigration law [SB 1070 materials; JURIST new ...
• Croatia high court upholds lawmaker's war crimes c ...
  
  
  [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Croatia [official website, in Croatian] on Friday upheld the conviction [judgment, PDF; in Croatian] of former Parliament [official website] member Branimir Glavas [JURIST news archive], but reduced his sentence by two years. Glavas was convicted and sentenced to 10 yea ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• The FBI Wants to Codify Snooping
  
  
  A few weeks ago, word began circulating among the privacy activist and civil liberties community that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was seeking to obscure a major power grab under the cover of a technical change to existing legislation. Yesterday, the Post's Ellen Nakashima clarified matters . ...
• The CIA as Executive Agent for Climate Change
  
  
  Gen. James Clapper (ret.) gets his Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing today, and it's very likely he'll sail through with a large number of votes from Republicans. Last week's public hearing didn't tell us too much about Clapper's insight into a variety of institutional issues, but his ...
• Obama Insists On Performance Standards For Teacher ...
  
  
  Today, President Obama wades in to a controversy that threatens to split one of the Democratic Party's most generous source of donations and activists, the teacher unions, from the whole.� The dispute is about teacher performance, narrowly, and about government's distribution of common goods more ge ...
• The Most Revealing #Wookieleaks
  
  
  Perhaps the best hashtag ever, but who has time to read all those, 90,000 #wookieleaks tweets. My own contribution was: "I've placed information vital to the survival of the rebellion into the memory systems of this E3 PFC." But that's not very funny. So here's the top ten, as judged by me: 1. Des ...
• Will Romney's START Gamble Pay Off?
  
  
  A few weeks ago, Mitt Romney drew a circle in the sand and stood inside of it, declaring his opposition to the START treaty on the grounds that it jeopardized national security and conceded too much to Russia. The op-ed was torn to shreds the next day by the Washington consensus, which very much sup ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaign - ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat
• [COAT] Letters-to-Editor needed re:CANSEC weapons ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious blast ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's energy ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

Tikun Olam

• ADL Says ‘No’ to Park51 Ground Zero Muslim Cultura ...
  
  
  Abe Foxman, one of American Jewry’s leading Islamophobes, announced the ADL opposed Park51, the new Muslim cultural center two blocks from Ground Zero.  The project, also known as Cordoba House, has the strong support of Mayor Bloomberg and all the appropriate community planning boards and agencies ...
• Sheikh Jarrah Protestors Defy Censors, ‘Out’ Doron ...
  
  
  I’m grieved that some of my readers today have been telling me they can’t access my site.  My host tells me it’s because the new DNS hasn’t fully propagated itself and that takes up to 48 hours.  But I’m not sure why some readers should have access to the site and then lose it.  I [...] Related ...
• Links for 2010-03-15 [Digg]
  
  
  TV interview: Mossad Assassination in Dubai A 30 minute interview for ScanTV's "Moral Politics" show dealing with the Israeli Mossad's assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al Mabouh and the repurcussions for Israel from this act.
• U.S. Companies Facilitate Mossad Assassination
  
  
  The Wall Street Journal (yes, it’s true) published an illuminating article detailing a U.S. investigation into the financing for the Mossad hit on Mahmoud al-Mabouh in Dubai several months ago.  It notes that several U.S. online sites which match technical jobs and freelancers and arrange for payme ...
• Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
  
  
  Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.

Ode Magazine

• Embracing empty mental moments
  
  
  By: VictoriaKlein While sitting down to work or chatting with friends, you find mind utterly empty - whether trying to think of a certain names or facts, or drawing a blank when grasping for creative ideas. How often does this happen to you? This first t ...
• Cancer research gets a boost from venture capital
  
  
  The “war on cancer” has been going on for decades, yet victory is still nowhere in sight. Andy Rachleff, a venture capitalist turned philanthropist, is trying to speed things up by funding research by young scientists with new ideas. After he watched several good friends ...
• Dance of life
  
  
  The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970, as a “teach-in day” to raise awareness about environmental problems. Today, Earth Day mobilizes hundreds of millions of people around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to a cleaner planet. Last year, these schoolchildren ...
• The power of hope
  
  
  Freeing yourself from fear helps build the physical strength needed to fight disease and engage fully with life. I received a moving letter from a friend. “Big shock in October: breast cancer. Eighteen months of treatment. I’ll spare you the details… Everything should be ...
• The irony of exercise
  
  
  By: VictoriaKlein You might remember my post from last month about my new-found enjoyment of jogging . Fear not – the joy still remains. In fact, my clothes are already starting to fit better. Even with my noticeably results, I’ve missed my past 2 workouts ...

OpEd News

• Danger! Right Wingnuts! Danger! Home Depot And Th ...
  
  
  Sometimes the Right Wingnut Tony Perkins seem as if heapos;s the robot in Lost In Space: "Danger! Danger! Danger!" So now heapos;s flailing and flopping his arms trying to warn people about the possible repeal of DOMA and the recruitment of children by Home Depot. Donapos;t laugh. The Four Horse ...
• International Officials Attempt to Deal with "Syst ...
  
  
  Government regulations should be designed to help the majority of Americans, not a small wealthy percentage. Considering what happened the last time our central bank tried to control the exact course of our economy, it is only natural to feel reluctance when they speak of doing it again.
• Palestinian Detainee Abuse During Operation Cast L ...
  
  
  Evidence of Israeli war crimes
• get real, people-- in praise of Susan Megles
  
  
  Now is the time to crush the GOP, not abandon Obama.
• get real, people-- in praise of Susan Megles
  
  
  Now is the time to crush the GOP, not abandon Obama.

Switchboard

• The Gulf Oil Spill and Seafood Safety
  
  
  Some of the fishing areas in the Gulf of Mexico are reopening. In fact, this week Louisiana reopened commercial fishing in areas East of the Mississippi. In the coming weeks, we can expect that many more areas will�reopen to recreational and commercial fishing. I'd love to see the Gul ...
• House passes oil spill legislative package
  
  
  The House has passed, by a vote of 209-193, the Consolidated Land, Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2010, aimed at preventing another Gulf oil tragedy, and ensuring polluters like BP pay the full cost of damages resulting from oil spills.  Final passage occurred earlier tonight, Fr ...
• New report on hundreds of accidents related to oil ...
  
  
  Our colleagues at the National Wildlife Federation just released a very important report that details oil and gas incidents f rom 2000 to 2010, including hundreds of deaths, explosions, fires, seeps, and spills as well as habitat and wildlife destruction in the United States. As they c ...
• Michigan Oil Spill: Are pipelines really the safer ...
  
  
  In the 100 days since the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the largest oil spill in US history, Big Oil and its supporters have been doing everything in their public relations power to convey the impression that what happened in the Gulf on April 20 was a one-off event, a freak accident ra ...
• A Shot of Adrenaline for the Nation's Largest Muni ...
  
  
  The New York City Council did not meet in its historic chambers at City Hall yesterday.  With portions of the 198 year old City Hall ongoing much-needed renovation, the Council gathered instead at the old Emigrant Savings Bank building, just about a block to the north.  Despite the “f ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• You forgot Pantload!
  
  
  Sir Charles on the midterm elections: There really isn’t adequate space to address the extraordinary drop in American prestige that accompanied a war of aggression fought for bogus reasons, the use of torture as official U.S. policy, massive increases in poverty and inequality, and the world-wide ...
• Can We Get Rid of the 4th Amendment For You Too?
  
  
  Shorter Col. Mustard:   “Religious freedom, pluralism, and equality might be important American values, but if they might cause Osama bin Laden to say something snarky on a videotape, out the door they go!” The extent to which Republican politics consists of ressentiment all the way down is becomi ...
• Poor, Underpriveleged Yankees Receive Another Dona ...
  
  
  So the National League tried to help out the poor defenseless Yankees before the season by trading them a quality starter for a marginal fifth outfielder, but so far it’s been merely an awful trade rather than a complete heist (although I bet Vazquez ends the year with an ERA+ well over 100 while Me ...
• Making It Easy
  
  
  Obama’s glacial pace in making federal court nominations is not, strictly speaking, an example of the kind of thing Krugman is talking about today. Making a couple dozen more nominations to the lower federal courts would not be a base-energizing move (nominating someone like Pam Karlan to the Supr ...
• Saving Kids From Dangerous Drugs Act of 2009 passe ...
  
  
  The measure was introduced by Dianne Feinstein as a replacement bill for the Hysterical Moral Panic Act of 2009. Related posts:This is what passes for discourse… If People Don’t Bother to Perform Their Own Double-Blind Studies Before Taking Drugs, They Deserve to Die! What? More Reasons For the U ...

Desert Research Institute

• DRI Assists with West Point Cadet Training
  
  
  Dr. Eric McDonald his group of DRI scientists have partnered with West Point to develop a curriculum to teach cadets how to take soil samples and measurements with different geotechnical equipment, as well as manage large data sets.
• DRI Researcher Named to National Committee
  
  
  Duane Moser, Ph.D., has been elected to the Executive Committee for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory Research Association (DuRA).
• Scientists Use Tahoe Work to Protect Guatemalan La ...
  
  
  A team of scientists including DRI's Dr. Alan Heyvaert have been working at Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan to find solutions to algae blooms that have assailed the ecosystem and the locals' drinking water.
• Kendrick Taylor Named Chief Scientist for Antarcti ...
  
  
  The National Science Foundation has again selected DRI's Kendrick Taylor, Ph.D. to be chief scientist for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project, a crucial step in defining the influence of changes in greenhouse gases on climate.
• Jianting Zhu Named Maki Chair in Hydrologic Scienc ...
  
  
  Jianting “Julian” Zhu, Ph.D. was just named the Maki Chair in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences. Zhu has been with DRI since 2004 and is an accomplished researcher with numerous articles published.

Earth Techling

• Electric Car Makes iPad Central Info Hub
• Scientists Look Into Sunlight To Fuel
• GM Ups Chevy Volt Production Numbers
• U.S. DOE Puts $106M Into Carbon Capture
• Chicago Piloting Korean Smart Grid Tech

National Law Journal | U.S.

• WHITE-COLLAR CRIME: A new era of defending the boa ...
  
  
  Three top white-collar defense lawyers discuss the state of financial fraud enforcement at the SEC and DOJ.
• The iron man of import battles
  
  
  In the early hours of a Saturday morning, you might find Paul Luckern manning the guard desk at the U.S. International Trade Commission, buzzing in the teams of lawyers arriving to appear before him in court.
• They want a clean fight
  
  
  More than 100 lawyers squeezed into a courtroom in Boise, Idaho, on July 29 to argue before a panel of seven judges about which U.S. courthouse should host the massive litigation over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
• Financial reform keeps bank practices busy
  
  
  Firms are hosting conferences and Webinars on Dodd-Frank; specialists are on the move to client meetings.
• Court gets little guidance on Howes penalty
  
  
  Just when it looked like the long-running discipline case against former Assistant U.S. Attorney G. Paul Howes couldn't get any more complicated, it did. The District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility on July 27 issued three conflicting recommendations on how Howes should be sanctione ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Gas Stock 2010!
  
  
  http://www.gasstockconcert.com/ This is an environmental concert and rally. Music and like minded folks who are concerned about the gas drilling in PA. Check it out.
• Advanced Waterdog Training in August
  
  
  Here is info about the upcoming Advanced Waterdog training. Remember to let Erica know if you plan to attend. Hello Everyone, We have scheduled our next Advanced Waterdog Training on August 24 from 5-9.  We will have a small picnic (please bring a dish to pass) first since the training will be held ...
• Is the Gas Industry Spreading Brine on Our Roads?
  
  
  Hi all. Here are some responses to the question of brine being spread on dirt roads. If you have any further info on this topic from DEP, DCNR or PennDOT please get in touch with the PA forest Coalition. They are the ones providing this info in this form. There is contact info fro Dick [...]
• Ignorance isn’t the problem
  
  
  Here is another wordpress blog that was emailed to me. Add it to your list if you have time or room for one more. http://boatrocker.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/ignorance-isnt-the-problem/
• For Gas-Drilling Data, There’s a New Place to Dig
  
  
  by Nicholas Kusnetz ProPublica, July 12, 2:01 p.m. Starving for data about natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale? A new website hopes to feed your need. A couple of environmental and public health groups have teamed up to create FracTracker, a web tool that brings together different data sets ...

News Blaze

• Dinner for Schmucks Film Review
  
  
  Although Hollywood has a horrible track record when it comes to remakes of foreign films, especially French farces, I nonetheless approached Dinner for Schmucks optimistically and with an open mind.
• SanDisk unveils its smallest USB Flash Drive
  
  
  SanDisk unveils its smallest USB Flash Drive, a first time for the flash drive manufacturer.
• Why Did I Get Married Too? DVD Review
  
  
  Janet Jackson and sister Rebbie Jackson pose for photographs at the premiere of the new film Why Did I Get Married Too held at the School Of Visual Arts Theater.
• Analogies Emerge Between WikiLeaks' Afghan War Doc ...
  
  
  While watching Julian Assange this morning, I thought of a documentary I saw a few months ago, The Most Dangerous Man In America.
• Papaha-Naumokua-Kea Marine National Monument a Nat ...
  
  
  Designation of Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument as UNESCO World Heritage Site

environment 360

• EPA Rejects Challenges to Regulating Carbon Dioxid ...
  
  
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rejected 10 petitions challenging its authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, declaring that human activities are warming the planet and that, despite rising criticism from skeptics, “climate science is credible, compelling and growing stron ...
• Hottest Decade on Record
  
  
  The past decade was the hottest ever recorded and global temperatures are now rising at a rate of about one-fifth of a degree Fahrenheit every decade, according to the annual “State of the Climate” report issued by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). More than 300 climat ...
• In Wreckage of Climate Bill, Some Clues for Moving ...
  
  
  Ample blame exists for the demise of climate legislation in the U.S. Senate, from President Obama’s lack of political courage, to the environmental community’s overly ambitious strategy, to Republican intransigence. A way forward exists, however, to build on the rubble of the Senate’s failure to cap ...
• Mexican Immigration May Rise As Warming Reduces Cr ...
  
  
  Rising temperatures and reduced crop yields in Mexico could force as many as 6.7 million Mexicans to emigrate to the United States over the next 70 years, according to a new study. Researchers from Princeton University, led by atmospheric scientist Michael Oppenheimer, made that projection after stu ...
• UK Firm Joins Race to Build Gargantuan Offshore Wi ...
  
  
  British designers are developing a new type of offshore wind turbine that rotates on its axis, mimicking the spiral of a sycamore seed, and that stretches nearly 900 feet (275 meters) from tip to tip. The so-called Aerogenerator has two enormous arms that extend from the base of the structure in a ...

Red Ice Creations

• BP well to stay sealed as storm moves in
  
  
  As Tropical Storm Bonnie approaches, vessels are prepared for evacuation. Also, during an investigative hearing, BP is accused of cutting corners. Reassured by a week of intense monitoring, federal officials Thursday said they planned to leave the damaged BP well sealed despite evacuating vessels ah ...
• BP digitally alters press photo, confesses it’s a ...
  
  
  It’s been a long season of embarrassment for BP, but leaking oil isn’t what the blogosphere is ripping the company for today. A site called Americablog spotted a press photo of BP’s Houston command center, ostensibly taken on July 16. The image had quite visibly been Photoshopped - badly - to includ ...
• More doctored BP photos come to light
  
  
  The search for doctored BP photos is on. And it's a bit like finding Waldo in the famous game. On Wednesday, for the second time this week, a blog has identified an altered photograph about BP's oil spill response on the company's Web site. The Gawker Web site said it received a tip about a BP photo ...
• State of Emergency as Tropical Storm Bonnie Heads ...
  
  
  Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency today as Tropical Storm Bonnie heads directly toward the site of the Gulf Oil spill, threatening weeks worth of progress. BP officials and the federal government are scrambling to prepare for storm, which grew in strength today to become the ...
• Large China oil spill threatens sea life, water
  
  
  China's largest reported oil spill emptied beaches along the Yellow Sea as its size doubled Wednesday, while cleanup efforts included straw mats and frazzled workers with little more than rubber gloves. An official warned the spill posed a "severe threat" to sea life and water quality as China's lat ...

Russia Today

• Has WikiLeaks done a favor to the public? – Big Ap ...
  
  
  The website WikiLeaks has made it into the media spotlight again by releasing over 90,000 governmental reports on Afghanistan.
• Arizona immigrants rejoice over court decision
  
  
  A US Federal district court has removed the harshest provisions of a new Arizona immigration law, just a day before the legislation was to come into effect.
• Toxic barrels from China en route to Russia
  
  
  Efforts are underway to recover thousands of barrels with hazardous chemicals floating down a Chinese river towards Russia.
• Lethal heat: abnormally-high temperatures cause de ...
  
  
  The month-long heat-wave being experienced in Russia has caused destructive forest fires that have burnt down hundreds of homes in the country’s center. At least 28 people have been killed.
• Zenit head and shoulders above opponents
  
  
  It’s halfway through the Russian Premier League season and one of the week 15 highlights saw table- toppers Zenit Saint Petersbourgh beat defending champions Rubin 2-0, and extend their lead in the process.

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

• Philip K. Dick, Neo-Nazis and the National Securit ...
  
  
  It is well known in science-fiction circles that author Philip K. Dick was a mad, drug-induced psychic shamanic figure who glimpsed into the future realms on an almost daily basis for over thirty years, much to his detriment in most cases. What isn’t known so much is that during the 1950s he was fri ...
• thunderbolts.info: Galactic Thunderbolts
  
  
  Ahh, here’s some physics stuff I can grok. The Electric Universe guys never fail to make logic out of gobblety-gook: Consensus astronomers look at individual points of light and discover the most massive stars. Electric Universe observers look at the entire complex of filaments and discover the char ...
• Time Travel Paradox. Or Not
  
  
  I don’t generally delve into the subject of time travel because it’s kind of hard for my poor mammal brain to comprehend. Well, I kind of understand Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity (or is it Special Theory of Relativity?) because I’ve read science-fiction for 45 years and have actually taken ...
• More Moon Madness on the Paracast
  
  
  In an interview by Gene Steinberg and co-host Christopher O’Brien of David Hatcher Childress on the July 18th Paracast, the Moon once again (and other objects in the Solar System) get the esoteric treatment in issues such as; the perfect size of the Moon during total solar eclipses, the supposed ‘ri ...
• Cryptoterrestrial Underground Bases
  
  
  Lon of Phantoms and Monsters gives his take on the Puffin Island UFOs and lists various examples of famous underground and undersea bases: The UFOInvestigations and Research Unit, based in Shrewsbury, have turned their attentions to Anglesey in their quest to gather information on extraterrestrial p ...

Tippers News

• Monsanto: The world's poster child for corporate m ...
  
  
  ...They presented Monsanto with the steps and procedures needed to obtain a place of industry dominance in a world in which natural seeds were virtually extinct. Submitted by Kathy B. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Extra! Extra! BP Spill is Over, Oil is Gone, Prob ...
  
  
  Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Oil is gone! Problem Solved! It's a fantastic miracle! Now we can pretend it never happened! Isn't life wonderful...??? Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• NEVER Say You Are Too Small...
  
  
  Susan Boyle At Britains Got Talent 2009, the performance the world has been waiting for. Susan, a 48-year-old from Scotland! So? Share your gifts, put in your cradle & never say I am too weak, too small, can make no change... YOU ARE A DIVINE BEING! Submitted by Parsifal S. to Offbeat �|� �Note ...
• NRDC Sues FDA for 30 Year Delay in Regulating Anti ...
  
  
  Today NRDC sued the FDA, again, this time because the Agency has yet to finalize a document 32 years in the making that would regulate the use of antimicrobial chemicals in hand soaps and body washes. Todays lawsuit asks the court to impose... Submitted by Kathy B. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Veggieworld: Why eating greens won't save the plan ...
  
  
  "In the developed world, the most effective way to reduce the environmental impact of diet, on a personal basis, is to become vegetarian or vegan," says Annette Pinner, chief executive of the Vegetarian Society in the UK... Submitted by Mathew Wallace Doing my PhD to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! ...

The Freeman

• Recovery Loses Momentum
  
  
  “The recovery lost momentum in the second quarter as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year and too weak to drive down unemployment.” (Washington Post, Friday) Imagine how bad off weâd be without the stimulus! FEE Timely Classic “Transforming America: The B ...
• Obama to Take Credit for Auto Revival
  
  
  “President Barack Obama heads to Michigan today to tout the revival of the auto industry after his administration controversially bailed out General Motors and Chrysler last year using tens of billions of taxpayer dollars.” (ABC News, Friday) Touting the abuse of taxpayers, the waste of precious res ...
• National Insecurity
  
  
  Are we so afraid that we are eager to trash irreversibly what’s left of our civil liberties?
• FBI Could Monitor Internet Activity without Court ...
  
  
  “The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual’s Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation.” (Washington Post, Thursday) Another step in th ...
• Legal Internet Gambling Reconsidered on Capitol Hi ...
  
  
  “With pressure mounting on the federal government to find new revenues, Congress is considering legalizing, and taxing, an activity it banned just four years ago: Internet gambling.” (New York Times, Thursday) The wrong reason to decriminalize Internet gambling. FEE Timely Classic “Morals and Libert ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Online video still growing, gaining viewers
  
  
  Just because comedy or humorous videos are the most popular among U.S. adults ( source ) does not mean journalists should wring their hands and despair about public tastes. What’s more important, I think, is that among people who have broadband Internet access at home, 75 percent watch online video ...
• Is J-school relevant? (#wjchat)
  
  
  @killbutton Q1 Yes, because the foundation of journalism is SO important. Journos need a strong foundation in ethics! #wjchat @dnvolz Brian Williams never got any college degree and is considered a top journalist even in an ever-changing market #wjchat @mhinojosa Q1 Yes, I think it’s more importa ...
• Top Teaching Online Journalism posts: Past 6 month ...
  
  
  According to Google Analytics, this is what you’ve been reading here (Dec. 1, 2009, up to today): 21 examples of Flash journalism A few words about digital audio recorders Now printable! Reporterâs Guide to Multimedia Proficiency Recording phone calls: For reporters Why does anyone major in ...
• Tips for HTML5, part 6: A look at CSS3
  
  
  Although I hear there are still some journalism programs where CSS is not taught, I’m going to assume that all those Luddites are working on bringing their design and presentation curriculum into the 21st century. CSS is essential to design and presentation for the Internet. In this post I’m just g ...
• Two good books for learning JavaScript, jQuery
  
  
  Since about March this year, I’ve been searching for a few good, clear books to recommend to journalists and students who are interested in learning to use jQuery — with an eye toward getting ready for HTML5. You could just leap straight into jQuery, but I think it would make more sense to get a ha ...

Facing South

• INSTITUTE INDEX: President Haley Barbour, brought ...
  
  
  Year in which Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) must leave office due to term limits: 2011 Year in which Barbour -- who's been mentioned as a possible 2012 presidential candidate -- set up a political action committee in Georgia because of its lenient rules regarding corporate contributions: 2 ...
• Backlash grows against BP's effort to 'buy up' Gul ...
  
  
  On July 1, a video appeared on BP's website featuring renegade scientist Ivor van Heerden -- a marine specialist who, as Facing South profiled , was fired from LSU when he blamed the flooding of New Orleans after Katrina on the Army Corps of Engineers' shoddy levees. Van Heerden's gadfly role ...
• VOICES: EPA to elevate environmental justice in it ...
  
  
  By Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking public comment on an interim guidance document that requires agency staff to incorporate environmental justice into the agency's rulemaking process. The rulemaking guidance is a step toward meeting EPA ...
• Mental health claims from oil spill probably won't ...
  
  
  By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica BP's $20 billion fund to compensate those hurt by the Gulf oil spill will probably turn down one controversial class of claims: those for mental health problems. In little-noted testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on July 21, Kenneth Feinberg, the indepe ...
• What's Congress doing in response to BP's oil disa ...
  
  
  Environmental advocates were handed a big disappointment last week with the death of carbon cap-and-trade legislation in the U.S. Senate -- a measure that would have been a step toward ending the externalization of some costs associated with pollution from oil and other fossil fuel energy sources. ...

Survival International

• Nomad tribe emerges from forest to prove its exist ...
  
  
  Karapiru, an Awá man who survived the massacre of his family by gunmen. © Fiona Watson/Survival Indians from the tiny Awá tribe will stage a three day protest in the Brazilian Amazon from August 1st to 3rd, to prove that they exist and to demand that their land be protected from invasion. The ...
• Avatar’s Na’vi in London to stop Vedanta mine
  
  
  Two Naâvi protested outside Vedantaâs AGM. © Survival Two Naâvi from James Cameronâs film Avatar today paid a visit to British mining company Vedanta Resourcesâ Annual General Meeting in Westminster, London. The Naâvi joined tribal rights organization Survival in a demonstration ...
• Indians hold construction workers hostage at Amazo ...
  
  
  A dam being built in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. © Survival Brazilian Indians are occupying the site of a hydroelectric plant, demanding that they be compensated for the damage caused to them by the dam, that their land rights be upheld and that no more harmful dams be built in the regio ...
• Sarawak’s Chief Minister faces UK protesters over ...
  
  
  Chief Minister Taib Mahmud was met by demonstrators protesting at the destruction of the Penan's rainforest. © Survival Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud faced protests by supporters of the Penan in the UK today, while British MPs have written to him expressing concern over the newly document ...
• Michael Palin sends message to support Dongria Kon ...
  
  
  Michael Palin © John Swannell Actor, presenter and explorer Michael Palin has sent a message in support of the Dongria Kondh tribe of India, who are resisting a mine on their land by FTSE 100 company Vedanta Resources . In a statement, Michael Palin said, âI’ve been to the Nyamgiri Hills in ...

Greg Palast

• Behind Bush's Wyly Billionaire Burglars... Hint: B ...
  
  
  by Greg Palast Card illustrations by Bob GrossmanSam Wyly is one of the planet's "Ten Greenest Billionaires," according to Forbes. And, the magazine should have added, the one that deserves the most prison time. Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged billionaire Sam and his bil ...
• Palast on GRITtv: Fighting Toxic Oil Companies
  
  
  Last week, Mike Papantonio told us on GRITtv that there was no fund from BP to pay for the oil disaster, and raised some questions about Kenneth Feinberg, the administrator of the damages to Gulf residents. Today investigative journalist Greg Palast answers some of those questions--and raises a f ...
• Shoot BP:The Amazon to Arctic Investigation
  
  
  Alaska Native Henry Makarka©1997James Macalpine-PIF At Tatitlek Village, Alaska Native Henry Makarka told me, "If I had a machine gun I'd shoot every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka was talking about the executives who came to him and his tribe 40 years ago to purchase their land at Va ...
• Shoot BP:The Amazon to Arctic Investigation
  
  
  At Tatitlek Village, Alaska Native Henry Makarka told me, "If I had a machine gun I'd shoot every one of them white sons of bitches." Makarka was talking about the executives who came to him and his tribe 40 years ago to purchase their land at Valdez.  They were from the companies now known as Exxo ...
• Getting into Massa's Drawers:Truly Creepy Detailsa ...
  
  
  Exclusive for Buzzflash.com by Greg Palast For the two weeks before tickle-and-grope charges busted open on him, and before his resignation from Congress, our BBC Television investigations team was hunting for Representative Eric Massa. We wanted to know what he had hidden in his drawers. Not his ...

Telegraph UK - oil

• BP oil spill: Was Tony Hayward right after all?
  
  
  The disgraced BP boss enraged America when he played down the effects of the Gulf of Mexico spill. But was he to the truth? asks Richard Alleyne.
• New oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after tug boat ...
  
  
  A new oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has created a mile-long slick after a tug boat struck an abandoned well off the Louisiana coast.
• Gulf of Mexico oil spill: Cheap oil and deepwater ...
  
  
  Tony Hayward had to go, but we'll all have to pay if we want risk-free fuel, argues Tracy Corrigan.
• China struggles to clean up worst-ever oil spill
  
  
  Hundreds of fishing boats armed with vats of "oil-eating" bacteria were busy trying to contain China's worst-ever oil spill.
• BP oil spill: company accused of 'buying academic ...
  
  
  Researchers reportedly asked to sign "restrictive" contracts for work designed to protect BP from Gulf of Mexico oil spill lawsuits.

Ian Welsh

• Ricardo’s Caveat
  
  
  In 1817 David Ricardo formalized the Law of Comparative Advantage. Since then it has stood the test of time as one of the very few laws that an Economist can point to and say, “this is indisputably true.” It’s because of this law that you can only rarely find an [...]
• Afghan Army Sustainability
  
  
  The premise behind the US/ISAF strategy in Nato is that a surge of foreign fighters will be sufficient to impose sufficient costs on the Taliban and other anti-government groups that they will not effectively contest the expansion of both ISAF and Afghan government control of the Pashtun urban a ...
• Netroots Schizo
  
  
  I had a good time in Vegas, so I didn’t spend a huge amount of time at NN, but I did spend enough time to take in the mood, and it was schizophrenic.  About half the people there are some combination of angry, disappointed and bitter with Democrats in general and Obama in particular.  This [...]
• Wikileaks and Material Support
  
  
  To anyone paying attention for the past five years, the Wikileak files don’t contain broad information that was widely known or suspected.  It filled in lots of blanks, but anyone paying attention knew that Pakistan’s ISI is backing significant elements of the Taliban with cash, guns, intel and pro ...
• Ricardo’s Caveat
  
  
  In 1817 David Ricardo formalized the Law of Comparative Advantage. Since then it has stood the test of time as one of the very few laws that an Economist can point to and say, “this is indisputably true.” It’s because of this law that you can only rarely find an [...]

Age of Autism

• Stirring the Pot
  
  
  By Cathy Jameson I have discovered as Ronan gets older that I don’t quite fit a specific Mom mold. Even though I have typical children too, I’m not a Soccer Mom even though I’d do anything to have time to...
• Sometimes Autism Sneaks Up On You
  
  
  By Rosemary Dubrowsky The day started like any other weekday. The alarm went off and I was up and getting Danny’s food ready to go to school. He is 14 years old has pretty severe autism and goes to school...
• The Nanny Vs. The Nanny State: Drescher Questions ...
  
  
  Managing Editor's Note: Fran Drescher is a noted actress, cancer survivor, author and founder of Cancer Schmancer. Kathleen Sebelius is head of Health and Human Services. Secretary Sebelius told Reader's Digest that she encourages media censorship when it comes to...
• Military Families Fight for Autism Treatment
  
  
  By Angela Warner A few days ago I received a copy of the Complaint (lawsuit) filed in US District Court in Washington, DC, against the United States Government, the Department of Defense, Tricare Management Activity, and Secretary of Defense Robert...
• The Moment We Become Credible
  
  
  By Kent Heckenlively, Esq. This web-site has abundantly recounted stories from our community of how the affliction of our children and subsequent efforts to determine what happened to them have earned us the ridicule of the medical community, contempt of...

Global BDS Movement

• 6,000 Irish shoppers demand supermarket stops stoc ...
  
  
  Today, Thursday 29th July 2010, at 1pm, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) delivered a petition to Dunnes Stores signed by 6,000 shoppers across Ireland. The petition demands that Dunnes Stores stop stocking Israeli products, until Israel respects Palestinian rights and international l ...
• Palestinian civil society salutes Olympia Food Co- ...
  
  
  Occupied Palestine, 26 July 2010 – Palestinian farmers unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees struggling against Israel’s colonial Wall and settlements warmly salute the historic decision taken on July 15th [1] by the Olympia Food Co-op to remove all Israeli products from its shel ...
• Action Alert: Support the Olympia Food Co-op Now! ...
  
  
  Just last week the Board of Directors of the Olympia Food Co-op took thecourageous step of instituting a boycott of Israeli goods, the firstgrocery boycott of Israel in the US. Already, there is a movement afoot tocondemn the Co-op for taking this important stand. Board and staff arereceiving aggres ...
• IKEA contributes to a better everyday life for the ...
  
  
  IKEA delivers goods to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. IKEA’s answer to the critique is that "IKEA stores have existed in Israel for the many people since 2001" and that "IKEA’s vision is to contribute to a better everyday life for the many people." read more
• BNC welcomes actions to mark fifth anniversary of ...
  
  
  BNC welcomes actions to mark fifth anniversary of BDS call � read more

Farm Wars

• GM Crop Contamination Insurance?
  
  
  The issue of crops that have been genetically modified (GM) contaminating surrounding crops is one that is growing in severity, and triggering lawsuits by farmers whose crops have been contaminated.
• Constitutional Sheriff Tony DeMeo
  
  
  The Sheriff’s Deputy told the federal agents that there would be no seizure or taking of cattle, per DeMeo’s decision based on the Constitution. The Deputy was told that the BLM federal agents intended to arrest DeMeo and use armed force to take Hage’s cattle. Sheriff DeMeo advised the federal agent ...
• National Ocean Council
  
  
  Because of the decades of difficulty that the collectivists have had trying to ratify the Law Of Sea Treaty (LOST), Obama is sneaking it in through the back door, by way of this Executive Order establishing the Council. Because LOST is a treaty, Obama's Executive Order is not Constitutional as treat ...
• THE MINING OF OUR AQUIFERS: As long as BLM can mak ...
  
  
  Springs and streams in northern Nevada are drying up. Surface water is contaminated with arsenic and other heavy metals, and groundwater is contaminated when water is re-injected into the aquifer, leaving less water for wildlife and other uses. Meanwhile, the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land ...
• CFS claims victory while Roundup Ready alfalfa get ...
  
  
  While the Center for Food Safety does its victory dance claiming that it won the Supreme Court genetically modified alfalfa (GM) case, and no GM alfalfa will be forthcoming any time soon, the Roundup Ready seed is already sitting in the wings ready to be planted. The House of Representatives just se ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Punitive laws thwart fight against HIV in homosexu ...
  
  
  UN News Centre– The continued criminalization of male-to-male sex in the Asia-Pacific, resulting in harassment and other human rights violations, is hurting the region’s response to HIV, a new United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report has found. Of the 48 countries in the region, 19 of the ...
• Obama Signs $59B War Spending Bill
  
  
  Fox News – President Barack Obama is signing legislation to fund his troop surge in Afghanistan. Before Congress passed it on Tuesday, the bill was stripped of money for domestic stimulus programs. Obama was signing it in a low-ley Oval Office session Thursday. Democratic leaders had to rely on Repu ...
• Dutch troops to end Afghanistan deployment
  
  
  BBC – The Netherlands is ending its military involvement in Afghanistan, after four years in which its 1,950 troops have won praise for their effectiveness. Dutch military chief Gen Peter van Uhm said they had seen security improve significantly in Uruzgan province. Read Article
• CCTV turning UK schools into ‘prisons’
  
  
  Telegraph – Schools are being turned into âprisonsâ as children are subjected to increasingly sophisticated surveillance and security measures, according to a report. Researchers found the widespread use of CCTV, ID cards, electronic registration systems, fob-controlled gates and fingerprint tec ...
• What Do You Lack? Probably Vitamin D
  
  
  NY Times – Vitamin D promises to be the most talked-about and written-about supplement of the decade. While studies continue to refine optimal blood levels and recommended dietary amounts, the fact remains that a huge part of the population â from robust newborns to the frail elderly, and many oth ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

• Gulf oil spill: Witness gives harrowing account of ...
  
  
  To Mike Williams, the first clue to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon was a hiss. Williams, a rig engineer technician, was in an office on the phone with his wife when he heard announcements over the rig’s loudspeaker about...
• Gulf oil spill: Did Coast Guard allow excessive to ...
  
  
  Documents released by a congressional committee Saturday show that the U.S. Coast Guard appeared to flout a May 25 Obama administration directive that sought to limit the use of chemical dispersants on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico oil...
• Gulf oil spill: Deepwater Horizon was due for majo ...
  
  
  The Deepwater Horizon was in poor condition prior to its exploding in the Gulf of Mexico and triggering the worst U.S. offshore oil spill in history, an engineering technician told federal investigators at a hearing in suburban New Orleans Friday....
• Gulf oil spill: Computer glitches plagued the Deep ...
  
  
  Computers on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig had a history of malfunctions, a rig technician told federal investigators Friday. A computer that could be used to control all rig drilling functions routinely crashed and had to be restarted, according to...
• Gulf oil spill: Fishermen decry a lost season
  
  
  The reopening of a broad swath of Louisiana waters this week to fishing and shrimping won't salvage the livelihoods of many Gulf of Mexico fishermen this season after the devastating effects of the catastrophic BP oil spill. The lifting of...

Mark I. Moore | Deepwater Horizon

• bpoilresponse: I uploaded a YouTube video -- Insta ...
  
  
  bpoilresponse: I uploaded a YouTube video -- Installation of the Capping stack http://youtu.be/oCDT4SC-e0g?a
• bpoilresponse: New information about: NOAA vessels ...
  
  
  bpoilresponse: New information about: NOAA vessels and their current mission in the Gulf of Mexico - http://tinyurl.com/2un3yrs
• bpoilresponse: I uploaded a YouTube video -- Bubbl ...
  
  
  bpoilresponse: I uploaded a YouTube video -- Bubbles from MC252 tube http://youtu.be/cU1yWXhggzI?a
• bpoilresponse: I uploaded a YouTube video -- Recov ...
  
  
  bpoilresponse: I uploaded a YouTube video -- Recovering a COMPATT http://youtu.be/CACkp6gkuOg?a
• bpoilresponse: New information about: Relief well ...
  
  
  bpoilresponse: New information about: Relief well and static kill status as of July 25, 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/2d8uz47

spiked

• The Queen of England vs a pantomime fascist
  
  
  The expulsion of Nick Griffin from a palace garden party shows how desperate the political class is to keep the BNP as their pet bête noire.
• Why ‘mad inventors’ don’t surviv ...
  
  
  The hit BBC show reveals the bean-counting cautiousness and lack of entrepreneurial spirit of today’s capitalists.
• A Big Society with small ambitions
  
  
  The jury is out on whether David Cameron’s flagship initiative will really reduce the role of the state in our lives.
• The dangers of aid
  
  
  A new book exposes the problems with Third World aid missions, but ends up replacing NGOs’ black-and-white view of Africa with its own.
• Tony and Barrie: the queens of family life
  
  
  C4’s film about the world’s first gay parents was both thought-provoking and tacky at the same time.

Cryptogon

• Terrorism Case Baffles Remote Alaska Town
  
  
  My guess is that the following line is the most useful piece of information in the article: …this has the air of a poorly written movie. You visited some site and then you were found with a piece of paper that contained some words. Ready to plea bargain? When it’s time for a law enforcement [...]
• Essays on Conspiracies by Julian Assange
  
  
  WikiLeaks Founder, Constantly Annoyed that People Are Distracted by False Conspiracies Such as 9/11″ — I haven’t read these yet, but I’m going to go read them now. Via: Cryptome: CRYPTOME 31 July 2010 These essays on conspiracies by Julian Assange (me@iq.org) were retrieved today from his website iq ...
• The WikiLeaks “Insurance” File
  
  
  From now on, I’m going to include a standard WikiLeaks disclaimer in the form of a link to a previous post. — Is WikiLeaks hanging a Sword of Damocles over elements of the U.S. Government? Via: Cryptome: The file, “insurance.aes256,” is ten times the size of the seven other files combined. Appears t ...
• One of the Fastest-Growing Businesses on the Inter ...
  
  
  The piece provides an interactive graphic to explain what you can do to counter this advertiser surveillance stuff, but nowhere does the word AdBlockPlus appear. Woops. *chuckle* This will block most ads from loading in the first place. (Yes, AdBlockPlus blocks ads on Cryptogon.) I like Ghostery bec ...
• Brazil: Some Detergent Boxes Will Contain GPS Tran ...
  
  
  Just wait until the detergent box costs more than the GPS transmitter. Via: AdAge: Unilever’s Omo detergent is adding an unusual ingredient to its two-pound detergent box in Brazil: a GPS device that allows its promotions agency Bullet to track shoppers and follow them to their front doors. Starting ...

The Economic Collapse

• One Economic Chart That You Should Permanently Bur ...
  
  
  Today most Americans are completely obsessed with the silliest of things.  They wonder how Lindsay Lohan is going to fare in jail and they agonize over who LeBron James is going to play basketball for.  But when it comes to the things that really matter, most Americans are completel ...
• What To Do
  
  
  Today, more Americans than ever are absolutely convinced that we are headed for an economic collapse.  After all, it doesn't take an advanced degree in economics to understand that American consumers, American businesses, local governments, state governments and the U.S. federal gov ...
• Mortgage Horror Stories: The U.S. Housing Industry ...
  
  
  Back about five or six years ago, when the housing bubble was still rising, just about anyone could get a mortgage.  Lending institutions were handing out ridiculously bloated home loans to almost anyone who breathed.  It didn't matter if you had a rotten credit history, it didn't m ...
• 103 U.S. Banks Have Collapsed So Far In 2010 &#821 ...
  
  
  Have you ever noticed how almost all U.S. bank closings are now announced over the weekend?  It is almost as if someone wants to keep the increasing number of bank closures out of the news cycle as much as possible.  The Obama administration continues to use phrases like "green shoo ...
• What Do You Believe Is America’s Biggest Eco ...
  
  
  Today there are literally dozens of major threats to the U.S. economy.  Each one of these threats alone could cause a major economic implosion.  The Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the derivatives bubble, the housing crisis, the exploding U.S. national debt and the burgeoning European deb ...

Desertification

• Sitopia for the hungry and malnourished people (Wi ...
  
  
  I have been reading with great interest the former posting on this blog, the short article of Carolyn STEEL, author of  Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives (Random House, £8.99), entitled ‘Ideas for modern living: sitopia‘ and published by … Continue reading →
• Ideas for modern living: sitopia (Google / The Obs ...
  
  
  Read at : http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/01/carolyn-steel-sitopia-food Ideas for modern living: sitopia Food for thought about shaping our world through food⦠Carolyn Steel The Observer, Sunday 1 August 2010 Have you ever thought about what food really means? Ours is the first soc ...
• Participation in the Dimidia blog
  
  
  I like to recommend all the visitors of my desertification blog to have a look at the Dimidia-blog too : http://www.dimidia.com/ Dimidia, LCC You will find at the home page : This site is dedicated to the many people – … Continue reading →
• Connect with Development Gateway at Facebook
  
  
  Development Gateway is an international nonprofit organization that provides Web-based platforms to make aid and development efforts more effective around the world.
• Desert Greenhouse (Desert Greenhouse BV (DGH))
  
  
  Read at : http://www.desertgreenhouse.com/ Desert Greenhouse Introduction In the past 100 years, the Dutch greenhouse industry has spent millions in research and development to improve greenhouse systems. Driven by the limited space available in a small and densely populated country … Continue readi ...

The Paper Trail

• DEFENSE: Alleged Traumatic Brain Injury Research M ...
  
  
  The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is reviewing allegations of research misconduct in a mild traumatic brain injury clinical trial with U.S. Marines in Iraq, according to documents and interviews.
• ENVIRONMENT: Democrats Join Fight Against Coal Ash ...
  
  
  A bipartisan majority of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is voicing “strong opposition” to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to regulate the disposal of coal ash — an environmental hazard that was the subject of an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity last year ...
• DEFENSE: Coast Guard Modernization Program Nearly ...
  
  
  The Coast Guard’s ill-fated “Deepwater” program to modernize its fleet is $3.8 billion over budget and years behind schedule, despite modest improvements in program management over the past three years, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says.
• ENVIRONMENT: Senate Bill Aims to Tighten Regulatio ...
  
  
  Reacting to health worries about chemical dispersants used in the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg introduced legislation on Wednesday that would require the Environmental Protection Agency to test such compounds and disclose their ingredients.
• DEFENSE: War Contracting Commission Cites Center A ...
  
  
  During a hearing on the oversight of subcontractors in war zones, the Wartime Contracting Commission on Monday cited the Center for Public Integrity/ Washington Post investigation into the difficulty of enforcing a U.S. ban on contractors engaging in sex trafficking. It also delved into numerous in ...

backofthebook.ca

• No jokes please, we’re Canadian
  
  
  By Alison@Creekside Vancouver company The Cheeky.com says their humorous suitcase stickers featuring bags of cocaine, US bills, sex toys and a bound-and-gagged flight attendant will help you find your luggage more easily, but Transport Minister John Baird's spokesy says: "Joking about potentia ...
• Manly moustaches v. lego beards
  
  
  By Chris Bowman I'm doing some research right now which includes a lot of pictures from the 1870s and 1880s. Times were tough in old Canada back then; you had to be pretty rugged if you weren't some city slicker from Ottawa. She's an unforgiving country, though fair if you're willing ...
• DND on friendly fire: Wikileaks, US don’t kn ...
  
  
  By Alison@Creekside One of the Wikileaks war logs released yesterday contained a friendly fire report filed by the 205th RCAG U.S. military unit which states four Canadian soldiers were killed and seven other Canadians and an interpreter were wounded on Sept. 3, 2006, when a fighter jet dropped a ...
• Munir Sheikh, StatsCan Jedi
  
  
  By Alison@Creekside Munir Sheikh, head of Statistics Canada, in his resignation letter (which has already been removed from the StatsCan website): "I want to take this opportunity to comment on a technical statistical issue which has become the subject of media discussion. This relates to the qu ...
• Tired of Twitter
  
  
  By Mark Evans Don’t get me wrong, I love Twitter as a way to share and consume information but I’m tired of the coverage lavished on it as a revolutionary entity. The latest breathless article appeared in The Toronto Star recently in which the author, Antonia Zerbisias, talked about how Twitte ...

Worldnews

• Pakistan flood toll passes 1,100
  
  
  The death toll from massive floods Pakistan has risen to 1,100 people, officials said. Disaster management official Adnan Khan said that the toll could rise even higher since there are areas in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province that rescue workers have not been able to access. Authorities are strugg ...
• Fernando Torres Will Leave Liverpool Due To A ...
  
  
  Barcelona ace believes Torres may join Chelsea next summer... By Sumeet Paul Share Liverpool striker Fernando Torres will quit Anfield for Chelsea next summer if they fail to yield any silverware this season, according to Barcelona star David Villa....
• Madonna in Paris to direct her new movie
  
  
  The Associated Press PARIS - The Material Girl is illuminating the City of Light, where she's shooting her latest film, "W.E." Dressed all in black and heavily accessorized in dark shades, a hat and a patterned scarf, Madonna directed Saturday's shoot in Paris' tony 6th district. The 51-year-ol ...
• Finding the Good Ears
  
  
  Connecticut’s corn crop had been running about two weeks early, but has slowed a bit because of heat and lack of rain. Corn is widely available directly from growers, at farmers’ markets and farm stands, usually into October. The going rate this summer is 50 cents an ear or $5 to $6 a dozen (or ...
• Philippine president steps into airline row ...
  
  
  MANILA ' President Benigno Aquino said on Sunday his government would intervene in a labour dispute between pilots and flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) which had caused flight cancellations. Aquino said ministers from the departments of justice, transportation, labour and his chief aide w ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Libertarian Parenting: David Friedman and Unschool ...
  
  
  Professor David Friedman talks about being raised by Milton Friedman, and how he unschooled his own children.
• Daily Briefing—21st-22nd July 2010
  
  
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Ethics, Congress and War (Video)
  
  
  Sooo, Congress is bothered by a little corruption? Hah! Also, will there be war with North Korea and/or Iran?
• Evening Briefing—15th July 2010
  
  
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Daily Briefing—28th-29th July 2010
  
  
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire

MY Daily Apple

• This IS His Grandfather's Bug, But Now It's Electr ...
  
  
  If the Chevy Volt's $40,000 price tag sounds a bit too steep, you could always go the do-it-yourself route of Oregon teenager Ashton Stark. He just finished a yearlong conversion of his grandfather's 1972 Volkswagen Beetle into an electric car.
• By Hiring Gulf Scientists, BP May Be Buying Silenc ...
  
  
  For months now, local scientists have been out on Gulf waters, advising the cleanup and measuring the damage. But there is growing concern that some of the best minds are being sidelined, since they've signed on as paid consultants to BP.
• Tracking Gulf's Fate as Slicks Recede
  
  
  As signs of oil on the gulf surface recede, biologists worry about hidden impacts to marine life.
• Playing With Pills
  
  
  Drugs calculations is a very hard course for many nursing students. A specially made computer game, developed at the University of Stavanger (UiS) in Norway, is set to help them pass a vitally important exam. If you mention the words "drug calculations" to a nursing student, it is likely that you ...
• FDA Statement on the Reopening of Some La. State W ...
  
  
  STATEMENT BY MARGARET A. HAMBURG, COMMISSIONER OF FOOD AND DRUGS, ON THE REOPENING OF SOME LOUISIANA STATE WATERS TO COMMERCIAL FISHING (HR)

The Story Behind the Story

• OBAMA —- The Changeling
  
  
  Obama — The Changeling (Change you can REALLY Believe In.) By A. True Ott, PhD In a standard deck of playing cards, the Joker card is wild.  It can be anything you want or need it to be, from an ace to a lowly deuce.   Jokers are great to have in the deck when playing [...]
• Washington Post Article — Post 9-11 World &# ...
  
  
  http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/ http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/print/ A hidden world, growing beyond control Monday, July 19, 2010; 1:53 AM The top-secret world the government created in response to ...
• America the Great??
  
  
  America is Great —– Because America is Good!! By  A. True Ott, PhD, June 1, 2010 The famous French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled widely through America in the year 1832.  Following his tour of America, he wrote extensively about what he saw and experienced here ...
• Reuters on BP Manipulations by Paul Noel
  
  
  If you read this story (Link) http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64Q1KL20100527?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a49:g43:r2:c0.156425:b34398576:z0 You get a stunning story.  You find out that BP was buying up oil to cause the price to stay high.  In their fiscal emergency they are having to let the oil go and the ...
• CERBERUS — GUARDING THE GATES OF HELL??
  
  
  UPDATED INFORMATION ON GPS COORDINATES ON GOOGLE MAPS AND GOOGLE EARTH!! Also, since this article was posted, I have received documentation that the vans are the property of DirectTV, and are being outfitted with new GWEN TOWER and Satellite accessing technologies.  Doesn’t that make you feel bette ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

• Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny hou ...
  
  
  Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plans fo ...
• Air powered environmentally friendly car being pro ...
  
  
  Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in ...
• Deforestation – environmental & human effect ...
  
  
  There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain temper ...
• Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here’s ...
  
  
  Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing to do ...
• Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
  
  
  It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM says t ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

• Robert Fowler, Held Hostage by al Qaeda in Africa ...
  
  
  Kidnapped by al Qaeda. The very thought causes shudders. But it happened to this week's guest: one of Canada's former senior diplomats in Africa on a special mission for the United Nations. The challenge: solving a dispute between the government of Niger and the rebel movement MNJ. This week, the Un ...
• Steve Nash, Two-time NBA MVP (Sept 19, 2009)
  
  
  He's one of the best basketball players on the planet, and he's made millions at it. But there's more to this week's guest than just the game. A lot more. This Canadian now makes his name on the courts, in the movies, and doing some pretty good things around the world. This week, he's our guest.
• Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (Sept ...
  
  
  We know it was a recession, but do we know if it's really a recovery? And what about that huge deficit? A dollar again approaching parity with its US counterpart? And the unemployment rate -- could it soon be in double digits? Difficult questions for this week's guest, the man who has to consider th ...
• Dr. Shana Kelley, University of Toronto (October 3 ...
  
  
  Research labs around the world are on the constant hunt for new ways of fighting one of the world's great killers - cancer. In one lab in Toronto, exciting promise on a new technique for early detection. The possibilities are endless: for fighting cancer, and other diseases, both here in our world, ...
• Dr. Susy Hota, Infectious Diseases Specialist (Oct ...
  
  
  Are you tired of hearing about HINI -- the swine flu? That's not surprising because there's been a half year of information coming your way -- some of it contradictory, much of it confusing. This week's guest helps us get down to basics -- what you need to know, and why you need to know it.

constancehrose

• Emily Henochowicz 21 Year Old The American hit in ...
  
  
  JERUSALEM — An American woman has lost her eye during a demonstration in Jerusalem against Israel's naval raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, a hospital official said Tuesday. Emily Henochowicz, 21, of Maryland, underwent surgery after suffering the injury, said hospital spokeswoman Yael Bossem-Levy. ...
• Bryan's Proud of Lady Gaga's Fans: That's Gay Extr ...
  
  
  In honor of LGBT Pride month, Bryan Safi goes gaga for Lady Gaga fans and their sissified, flamboyant tribute videos -- from the US Military to kids to Chatroulette users, everyone's got a little "Bad Romance" to show off. Every day this week, infoMania's Bryan Safi, host of "That's Gay," will ...
• VIDEO: Biggest Gas Boom in History Blowing Up in U ...
  
  
  It's official: the expansion of hydro-fracking operations is creating the biggest natural gas boom in US history... the film GASLAND explores this controversial method of extracting gas. (Don't know what hydro-fracking is yet? -- Watch the trailer!) Oil and gas companies are going to start hydr ...
• Ex-officer found guilty of manslaughter in Oakland ...
  
  
  (CNN) -- A former police officer who is white was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in the killing of an unarmed black man in Oakland, California. Johannes Mehserle, who was a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer at the time of the incident, was convicted in the shooting of 22-y ...
• Unseen UK, Part 5
  
  
  Hosts Max Lugavere and Jason Silva present a look at the parts of the Great Britain that usually are seen only by locals and the most adventurous travelers. In Part 5 we go to Edinburgh to shop for a custom-made kilt. * * Louise petrozza Vanderbilt medical center starting salary nurses Dogs a ...

Energy Collective

• Warming to the science of global warming
  
  
  Giles Parkinson at The Climate Spectator has a look at our warming planet - Warming to the science .
• Areva under pressure
  
  
  New delays reported at Flamanville. EDF seeks an equity position. The NRC has questions about digital instruments & controls for the EPR.
• Thoughts on an Ethanol Pipeline
  
  
  � Local Production for Local Needs
• Can’t afford an electric car? Rent a Nissan Leaf
  
  
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• Brazil: Energy superpower
  
  
  Brazil's a country worth watching. It can boast about the 2014 FIFA World Cup , the 2016 Olympic Games and, more important (although nothing's more important than soccer in Brazil), a fast-growing, diverse and mostly clean supply of energy to power one of the world's most robust economies.

Green House - USA Today

• Oregon couple builds a dream cabin for $10,000
  
  
  For $10,000 in materials, Mariah Morrow and Ryan Lingard built their own off-grid mountain cabin in the wilderness near Joseph, Ore., where they hike, ski and snowshoe.
• Tiny Wisconsin home masters the zen of small livin ...
  
  
  Convinced you couldn't live in a tiny house? A new modernist box, perched on a bluff overlooking Lake Superior in Bayfield, Wisc., is such an exquisite small abode that you might think twice.
• NOAA: South Florida, East Coast likely spared surf ...
  
  
  Southern Florida, the Florida Keys and the East Coast are not likely to experience effects from surface oil, assuming that the Gulf of Mexico well remains capped, according to new NOAA analysis.
• European Union pushes for energy-neutral buildings
  
  
  While the U.S. Congress continues to wrangle this year over energy legislation, the European Union is moving boldly ahead to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by making buildings more efficient.
• Tony Hayward: 'I became a villain for doing the ri ...
  
  
  Tony Hayward, who stepped down as the chief executive of BP, defended his tenure in saying he "became a villain for doing the right thing."

Prior Art

• Patent Litigation Weekly: International Trade Comm ...
  
  
  Over the past two decades, the question of what constitutes a domestic industry has typically been heard by the same ITC administrative law judges who ultimately rule on the patent disputes that come before the agency. It's rare that the full commission considers the issue. On April 14, th ...
• Patent enforcement companies speak at SF conferenc ...
  
  
  Earlier this month, MDB Capital Group--an that promises to help investors understand "the hidden value of intellectual property assets and future technological leadership"--held what it billed as its first annual "Bright Lights" intellectual property conference, bringing together IP-centric ...
• Supreme Court Decides Bilski: Stevens and Allies T ...
  
  
  In the last batch of opinions to which he will ever contribute, retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens fell one vote shy in his goal of moving methods of doing business outside the scope of the country’s patent system. And he marked the occasion by weighing in with a concurrin ...
• The Post-Bilski landscape: Why some tried, but fai ...
  
  
  It’s not a stretch to say that many members of the patent bar were relieved when the U.S. Supreme Court finally issued its decision in Bilski v. Kappos late last month. Considering that plenty of those lawyers—and the clients they...
• What's so bad about "business method" patents? Sma ...
  
  
  Those who have read the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bilski decision know that — a four-justice minority that wanted to ban business method patents. While that's an ill-defined term, it's clear that such a ruling would have effectively invalidated many patents already involved in litigation. Lawsu ...

Peoples Voice

• Wikileaks’ Julian Assange and Conspiracy The ...
  
  
  By Michael Collins "I'm constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud." Julian Asange, Wikileaks, July 19 ( Image left ) John Young was one of the co-founders of Wikileak ...
• Is the Republican Victory Plan Another Great Depre ...
  
  
  by Stephen Crockett It seems like the Republicans in Congress have decided that sabotaging economic recovery and employment growth is their best tactic for electoral gains in the November elections. Indications of this plan have been around since the Democratic victories in 2008. It seems that all ...
• Palestinian Detainee Abuse during Operation Cast L ...
  
  
  by Stephen Lendman On July 6, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PACTI) and Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel released a report titled, "Exposed: The Treatment of Palestinian Detainees During Operation Cast Lead," detailing their horrific treatment. T ...
• A Note on the Mighty Wurlitzer
  
  
  Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org What is the 'Mighty Wurlitzer'? It used to be the honorific of Frank Wisner, the first chief of political warfare for the Central Intelligence Agency, used to describe the C.I.A.’s plethora of front organizations and newsmedia stooges that he was capabl ...
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  By Keith Johnson ”I see a whole army of my countrymen, here, in defiance of tyranny. What will you do without freedom? Will you fight?” ~ William Wallace ~ from the motion picture “Braveheart” Talk like that could get you branded a right-wing extremist these days. We are now taught that feeling ...

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• Are we fiddling while Rome rebuilds?
  
  
  In a compelling read today, Toronto Star columnist Christopher Hume makes the case that North Americans are complacently letting their society crumble while other nations are rebuilding to meet today's challenges. He writes, "Empires don't collapse overnight and certainly for many North Americans, ...
• Tackling Canada's poverty problem
  
  
  When people hear that Canada's after-tax income gap between rich and poor families is at a 30-year high, they ask: what can we do about it? There is no magic bullet solution, but Campaign 2000 is offering a thoughtful way forward to tackle Canada's persistent poverty problem. If you don't think Ca ...
• Empty Promises: The Hard Truth About Getting Rich
  
  
  Broken promises are something we normally associate with politicians at election time. But what about the broken promise of economic growth? For years we've been urged to work smarter and harder, repeatedly reminded that a strong and growing economy is the fastest route to prosperity for all. But ...
• Rich getting richer: It's not a cliche
  
  
  An op-ed in the October 11, 2007�Saskatoon Star Phoenix suggests studies showing the rich are getting richer make "misleading" claims and are merely "cliche". The opinion, by the Fraser Institute's Herbert Grubel, is clearly written with the hope that Canadians will overlook the inconvenient truth ...
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  I am trying to imagine the conversation I may one day have with my grandchildren about how my generation squandered $60 billion in tax cuts within the space of a single federal budget without investing a cent of it in something that will last for future generations. We are living in very surreal ti ...
  
  
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  By JENNIFER ROBISON If Nevada's voters don't have strong opinions on renewable energy, they also don't break one way or the other on whether offshore ...

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  Kaiser Ritter Partner's Schumacher Keeps It Green

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  In 2009, more than 60% of the new electricity capacity created in [European Union] states was based on renewable resources. China, the US and European ...

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  Advocates press Congress on renewable energy standard

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  By LAUREN FRENCH WASHINGTON -- Renewable energy advocates are pushing Congress to include a renewable electricity standard in a climate bill that was ...

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  Fossil Fuel Subsidies 10x Renewables Support

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  By Seeking Alpha 07/27/10 - 04:22 PM EDT Good day ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the first quarter 2010 US Ecology, Inc. earnings conference call. ...

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  US Ecology, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2010 Results

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  By Gina Potthoff Visitors to Grand Lake St. Marys have been advised to stay away from the water, choked by blue-green toxic algae. ...

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Record rains – but Pakistan is dying for water

Floods kill more than 800, but lack of clean drinking water leaves 600 children dead from disease every day

In the Red: The Green Behind Nuclear Power
http://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/updates/new-report-red-green-behind-nuclear-power

"Tea party" activists drawn to Williamsburg and its portrayal of Founding Fathers

"I want to get to know our Founding Fathers," he added. "I think we've forgotten them. It's like we've almost erased them from history."
It's a common point of view among tea party activists. They say their unhappiness with Washington reflects how far the federal government has strayed, through taxation and regulation, from the Founders' intentions.

Documents indicate heavy use of dispersants in gulf oil spill

 The Obama administration issued an order that limited the spreading of controversial dispersant chemicals on the Gulf of Mexico's surface. Their use, officials said, should be restricted to "rare cases." Federal documents show the use of dispersants wasn't rare at all.

Iraqis don't expect political impasse to be resolved by fall

Leading Iraqi politicians say they have all but abandoned hope of resolving an impasse over forming a new government before fall. "Now, everything is stopped," said Nadjha Khadum, the editor of the Ur News agency Web site. "There's no work, no jobs. People are waiting. People are just buying food and saving money because they are afraid the situation will get worse in the future -- worse than in 2006 and 2007," years marked by a brutal insurgency.

Los Angeles Times publishes racist hate speech directed at O'odham 

Appalachian Trail Could Be Extended Across International Borders

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Hiking enthusiasts are looking to extend the Appalachian trail along its proper geological trajectory across international boundaries through our northern neighbors, jumping across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom and sloping down to Morocco in Africa. 

Military airstrike video leak suspect in solitary confinement

Wiki-Tiki-Tavi? The Mongoose Is Loose

n our United States of Amnesia there is a thin, carefully manufactured line between truth and spin, between real and computer-generated and, apparently, between heroes and traitors.In covert America, a society now built upon distrust of everyone and everything, our government consistently lets us down by leaving us unprotected ... kowtowing to corporations instead of blowing the whistle on them. The traffic cops of industry who used to man federal regulatory agencies have been replaced by lobbyists from the very industries the government was supposed to monitor.

Regular citizens are out of work, tired, broke and confused ... perfectly set up for fomenting division and over-stimulating us to the point of fatigue and indifference. Frankly, Americans don't have anyone to trust, and they know it. How did we get here? 

China investment in Iran worries US
The US and its Western allies accuse Iran of seeking a military nuclear program. Tehran rejects the charges, stressing that as a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty it will not forgo its right to peaceful nuclear technology.  
( And I accuse the West of systematic bullshit with premeditated malice aforethought. )


Wikileaks: a threat to National Security!
http://politically-confused.blogspot.com
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” - attributed (disputedly) to Joseph Goebbels

There is no greater threat to 'national security', than truth and openness. Therefore it follows that all 'national security' is based on lies, and thus the fox is guarding the henhouse, so to speak. This is a fact that people who have succumbed to the militarist fetish fail to see.

Austrian government attempts to frame Jane Burgermeister
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• Jane Burgermeister distances herself from theflucase website now classified as a terrorist site
• Disclaimer:www.janeburgermeister.org site is run by others
• WHO denies plans to scale back swine flu pandemic alert level
• UK swine flu regulator to be closed
• etherlands to destroy 17 million swine flu vaccine doses
• Why law and legal institutions are increasingly under threat in all of Europe
• “Your constitutional rights are being violated,” Austrian lawyer tells Jane Burgermeister
• Amnesty International to look into New Zealand activists false imprisonment
• UK government told “lies” about Iraq threat to justify war, reports The Telegraph
• French Labour Minister Eric Woerth quits as UMP treasurer in Bettencourt cash bribe scandal
• “Can you imagine me coming to a dinner … and leaving with money…?”, asks Sarkozy
• The role of the new media in informing the French about the Sarkozy scandal: Daniel Hannan discusses
• French public anger grows at government sleaze allegations

A Brief Refresher on the Taliban's Worst-Kept Secret

Wikileaks' papers are just the latest Afghan military shockers to surface. Remember Reagan and the Pakistani spooks?

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/07/military-life-insurance-scam-fraud-prudential-metlife

Wall Street's Dead Soldier Problem
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/07/military-life-insurance-scam-fraud-prudential-

investigate top life-insurance companies Prudential and MetLife over allegations that they're defrauding dependents of service members—and others—out of their full death benefits.

Google Teams Up with CIA to Fund "Recorded Future" Startup Monitoring Websites, Blogs & Twitter Accounts
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/30/google_teams_up_with_cia_to

StatsCanWatch: Where have all the social science-y surveys gone?
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/07/statscanwatch-where-have-all-the-social-science-y-surveys-gone.html

StatsCan recommended move to voluntary census, Tony Clement says 
Hat Tip Creekside  Head of Statscan quits over census
http://creekside1.blogspot.com/2010/07/head-of-statscan-quits-over-census.html
Munir Sheikh's letter of resignation taken down from StatsCan website.

Could Diabetes Be in Your Bones? Link Between Metabolic Disease, Bone Mass; Breakdown of Bone Keeps Blood Sugar in Check
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100722132334.htm

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