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Thomas Paine

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

11 Aug - RSS SnapShot

I get a few 'Friend' requests from business/traffic blogs. I avoid them as a matter of policy - but check out what they offer! The SEO site Free Real Traffic caught my attention with its list of links, search, etc. It is 'Green' at Web of Trust, so I thought I would share a chance to look it over.
Since the LinkFest! is still not a business blog but a hobbyist's 'toy' I tend to avoid chancing a perversion of Google Rank. Heh, if leading that was my objective...I believe I know a way to do it!

RSS SnapShot Opit's LinkFest! at My Opera

IPS - Inter Press Services

  • CUBA: Leaving the Hurricane Behind

    HOLGUÍN, Aug 11 (IPS) - Debris of houses, roofless buildings and fallen trees are still routine sights along the 740-km drive from the Cuban capital to Holguín, one of the regions most heavily affected by Hurricane Ike in early September, 2008.

  • MIDEAST: Tensions Rise on Israel's North

    RAMALLAH, Aug 11 (IPS) - The war of words between Israel and the Lebanese resistance movement Hizbullah has heated up in the last week, raising fears that another war between Lebanon and Israel is imminent.

  • HEALTH: Go Away With Your Spray

    SAO TOME, Aug 11 (IPS) - Zinaldina dos Reus, Zizi for her friends, is washing clothes by a stream near the airport in São Tomé. Her toddler plays nearby. Zizi, 21, can't remember the last time she or her husband had malaria, years ago. She credits the free bed nets and anti-mosquito home spray ...

  • U.S.-AFRICA: Clinton Backs Agricultural Developme ...

    LUANDA, Aug 11 (IPS) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is using her trip to Africa to promote agricultural development as an approach to food aid which she has described as a "signature element" of the new Obama administration’s foreign policy.

  • NORTH AMERICA: Scant Results for Mexico at Summi ...

    MEXICO CITY, Aug 10 (IPS) - At the two-day summit between the heads of state of Canada, Mexico and the United States, Mexican President Felipe Calderón failed to obtain a positive response with respect to the situation of millions of undocumented Mexican immigrants in the United States, a solu ...

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Innovation Canada

  • Space reader

    (Article courtesy of the University of Windsor) Bill McConkey probably won’t be around to see the day when humans are finally able to travel tremendous stretches through outer space to distant planets such as Jupiter. When they do make that journey, however, they’ll owe a significant debt of gra ...

  • Filling the glass

    Walkerton, Ont., North Battleford, Sask., and the Kashechewan First Nation Reserve, in Northern Ontario, have all become high-profile — and tragic — examples of what can go wrong when a community’s drinking water becomes contaminated. Surprisingly, they are not alone. At any given time, 1,700 ...

  • i2eye with Bartha Maria Knoppers

    “Don’t plan your career — be curious.” That’s the credo that Bartha Maria Knoppers, the new director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, espouses — and one she lives by. Knoppers turned her love of books into a master’s in c ...

  • Environmental legacy

    (Article courtesy of University of Regina) University of Regina biologist Chris Somers is fascinated by how humans and wildlife interact and how animals respond to human-modified environments. “My research often combines animal ecology in the field, environmental chemistry and genetics,” explain ...

  • Rebooting the search for dark matter

    “This is just a regular day at the office,” says researcher Chris Jillings as a two-kilometre-long cable lowers an elevator down into a maze of sweltering passageways leading to the “clean rooms” at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, or SNOLAB. “But every so often, I realize this is all rea ...

Signs of the times

  • Human Sacrifice? Archaeologist creates stir with n ...

    Human sacrifice! Victims buried alive! Read all about it in Cahokia -- Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi. According to this new book by University of Illinois archaeologist and professor of anthropology Tim Pauketat, the mound builders were not always the idyllic, corn-growing, potter ...

  • All Broads Lead to Rome

    Mired in sex scandals, headed for an ugly divorce, dogged by investigators, Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is a national joke. He's also the richest, most successful politician in Europe - and has no intention of changing his ways. Will Italy change without him? 'Veronica believes," said ...

  • Cuban economy feels heat of world downturn

    Cuba's economy was already in grave condition before the worldwide recession struck. Now, the government is imposing even harsher rationing of electricity and food. Driving the bulk of the crisis has been the world recession, which slashed demand and prices for Cuba's few exports, like nickel, and ...

  • U.S. bailout panel: toxic assets may need more sup ...

    Washington - The Treasury Department should consider expanding programs to cleanse troubled assets from bank balance sheets if current efforts fail to restart markets or if economic conditions worsen, a U.S. bailout watchdog panel said on Tuesday. The Congressional Oversight Panel said in its lates ...

  • Update: Big quake hits off India's Andamans, no ts ...

    Port Blair, India - A major earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck in the Indian Ocean off India's Andaman Islands early on Tuesday, but a tsunami alert for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh was later canceled. There were no reports of a tsunami or of any casualties from the tremor, o ...

Threat Level

  • Hacker with Asperger’s Sentenced to 55 Months fo ...

    A Los Angeles hacker received a slightly reduced sentence Monday of 55 months in prison for participating in a multi-million computer fraud scheme, after a federal judge took into account the man’s diagnosis with Asperger’s Syndrome. Viachelav Berkovich, 34, received five months less than the m ...

  • Google’s Patry Returns to Blogosphere

    Google’s chief copyright officer, considered one of the nation’s leading authorities on intellectual property, has resumed personal blogging following a year-long hiatus. Patry’s latest copyright blog commenced Thursday and is named after his new book, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars. He s ...

  • Hacking, Lock-Picking, Booze and Bacon: DefCon 17 ...

    > LAS VEGAS — Braving triple-digit heat, mean hangovers and an incredibly hostile network, roughly 10,000 hackers, security experts, feds, spies and various other “computer enthusiasts” took over the Riviera last weekend for the world’s largest hackin ...

  • Indictment Comes as Feds Consider Legalizing, Taxi ...

    A federal grand jury has indicted a Canadian man accused of assisting overseas online gambling sites process hundreds of millions of dollars in payments, the authorities said Thursday. Although federal law prohibits financial institutions from knowingly assisting in online payouts of chance gaming l ...

  • Lawsuit: Twitter Method Infringes Patents

    Twitter’s microblogging service breaches the patents of a Texas-based technology company, which is demanding unspecified damages and licensing fees, according to a federal lawsuit. TechRadium, of Sugar Land, claims it has patents to what it calls the “mass notification” concept. According to t ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • What's the Matter with Oklahoma?

    As the ever more combustible health care debate rages across America, the state of Oklahoma has become the poster child for the conflict and its contradictions. A 2007 study by the Commonwealth Fund ranked Oklahoma dead last in state health...

  • Town Halls, Teabaggers, Obama Birthers and Nixonla ...

    Once in a rare while, a book captures the spirit of its age. So it is with Nixonland, Rick Perlstein's stunning chronicle of the rise and fall of Tricky Dick. But his story of the "fracturing of America" isn't simply...

  • Guns and Bitter in Pennsylvania

    During the Democratic primaries last spring, Barack Obama almost derailed his campaign with his unfortunate remark about "bitter" people in small town Pennsylvania who "cling to guns." Now after the second Keystone State shooting rampage in four months, that clumsy...

  • The Unbearable Whiteness of Being...a Birther

    As has been documented in detail, the anti-Obama birther movement is strongest in precisely those states where Republicans poll best and, ironically, health care is worst. But despite experiencing serial embarrassments akin to learning the sun does not rise in...

  • Bush Domestic Spying Ally Cornyn Now Fears Obama D ...

    If nothing else, Republican Senator John Cornyn is an irony producing machine. During the Terri Schiavo affair, the former Texas Supreme Court Justice was at the forefront of the GOP campaign to intimidate and threaten judges. Now after his fierce...

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Consortium News

  • Olbermann-O'Reilly 'Truce' Frays

    The "truce" between MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Fox News' Bill O'Reilly unravels after its exposure, writes Robert Parry. August 7, 2009

  • Keeping an Eye Out for Planet Earth

    The Obama administration is freeing up evidence about global warming but political challenges block progress, says Michael Winship. August 7, 2009

  • Ex-CIA Analyst Criticizes State Secrets

    Former CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman says the "state secret privilege" is mostly used to cover up embarrassments. August 7, 2009

  • Ellsberg's Hiroshima Remembrance

    Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg recalls Hiroshima and his family's ties to the early days of the atomic era. August 6, 2009

  • GE Muzzles Olbermann about Fox

    As Fox News eggs on health-care disruptions, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann respects a GE-brokered truce with Fox, says Robert Parry. August 5, 2009

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Planetsave

  • BBOP | Jazzing Up Business’ Impact On Biodiversi ...

    The Business and Biodiversity Offset Program has left me torn: is this a genuine attempt to preserve biodiversity, or just another exercise in corporate greenwashing? The Business and Biodiversity Offset Program is a work in progress. Its name includes that reviled word “offset”, a red rag for ...

  • Who Needs a Phone Book?

    As the Internet becomes the resource more Americans turn to for phone numbers, lawmakers are beginning to examine the proliferation of unwanted phone books — and their environmental impact. A Minnesota legislator, Rep. Paul Gardner, has introduced state legislation to allow consumers to opt-out ...

  • Shark Repellent, Saves Sharks!

    We have all been waiting for this day. Finally, shark repellent has arrived to the world… except this shark repellent is not used to save humans from sharks. No this shark repellent was made to save sharks from humans. With good reason, while only about 4 people die of unprovoked shark attacks e ...

  • Green iPhone Apps Reviewed. Part 2: Paid Apps

    If you missed Green iPhone Apps Reviewed Part 1: Free Apps, you can see it here . After my first batch of reviews on the free green iPhone apps, I have gotten some great suggestions on green apps. If you have any you you would like to see reviewed, you can comment here, head over to my website www ...

  • Could Trees Be the New Rubber?

    You’re waiting at a red light, your engine idling lightly. You check the crosswalk signal: 20 seconds, you have some time. You turn your classical music up a notch to the perfect volume and you close your eyes, relaxing on your way home from work. But your moment of relaxation is interrupted by t ...

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Public Citizen in Texas

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Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Real Obscenity in the Kentucky Senate Race

    In his speech at Fancy Farm August 1, Attorney General Jack Conway referred to himself as a "tough son of a bitch," causing widespread pearl-clutching and fainting among followers of fancy city boy Dan Mongiardo, who immediately squeaked a foot-stamping demand that Conway apologize for language that ...

  • The Nightowl Newswrap

    Why the hell are people who have been convicted of anti-choice violence being allowed access to Scott Roeder? The list of names of people who have visited him in the Sedgwick County jail where he is being held while he awaits trial for the murder of Dr. George Tiller who was murdered in cold blood ...

  • You Trust Corporations More Than Government Again ...

    Kevin Drum explains why he doesn't: Today I stormed the halls of corporate America. And got my butt kicked. SNIP I actually went into the store steeling myself for the fact that my "free" phone wouldn't actually be free. There'd be a "transfer charge" or some alleged government waste disposal fee ...

  • The Poison of Secrecy

    The reason secrecy is the most dangerous crime an administration can commit is because it perpetuates and encourages other crimes. Transparency is government is essential not just for its own sake - ensuring the people and the press know what's going on - but for the preventive effect. In The Natio ...

  • On "Death Panels" and Downs Syndrome

    Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's claim that President Obama's health care reform would allow "death panels" to decide to kill her son Trig, who suffers from Downs Syndrome, is not just further evidence of Caribou Barbie's detachment from reality. It's not even just another example of cynical rep ...

Care 2

  • How Corrupt is the Economic System of the U.S.A. T ...

    At one time the high standards of the American lifestyle were the envy of the world. That day is gone with the wind. A 30 nation survey placed the poverty rate of the U.S.A. only above Mexico and Turkey. The economic gap between rich and poor widening. Submitted by David Buchan to US Politics & Go ...

  • How to effectively sanction Hamas

    It is very unlikely that sanctions will cause the Hamas government to fall. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • 45 Ways To Improve Your Life

    How you can improve life? Some tips and ways to do, Let it apply see the result. Submitted by Sharon M. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • New species discovered in fragile Eastern Himalaya ...

    The report, The Eastern Himalayas- Where Worlds Collide, describes more than 350 new species discovered in the last decade including 244 plants, 16 amphibians, 16 reptiles, 14 fish, 2 birds, 2 mammals and at least 60 new invertebrates. Mark Wright, Submitted by Simone D. to Animals | Note-it ...

  • Nonanimal Training Methods U.S. Military Could Be ...

    This use of animals in military medical courses constitutes a violation of the Department of Defense’s own joint regulation on animal welfare, which states that alternatives must be considered and used if available and also explicitly prohibits inflicting Submitted by Simone D. to Animals | Not ...

GreenBiz

  • Kraft Overhauls Its Manufacturing Ops to Cut Water ...

    In less than three years -- and a full two years ahead of its company-wide goal -- the snack giant has managed to save 3 billion gallons of water by adopting new manufacturing and cleaning methods.

  • Bottled Water is Way More Complicated Than I Thoug ...

    It should be easy to phase out bottled water from company headquarters, right? Think again. It can bring up issues with a company's supply chain, cafeteria inventory and vending machines -- and don't forget the new dishwashers or glassware that may need to enter the picture.

  • Green Wineries Embrace Innovation from the Fields ...

    Solar-powered vineyards, biodynamic farming, organically grown grapes and innovative packaging put several California wineries on the leading edge of sustainable wine production. Their remarkable results offer valuable lessons for green leaders in any industry.

  • Coca-Cola Enterprises Emissions Reductions, Recycl ...

    The bottling, marketing and distribution arm of the beverage giant has set a goal to reduce CO2 emissions by 15 percent before 2020, as well as to recover 100 percent of its bottles for recycling.

  • Report Urges Efficiency as a Solution to Californi ...

    A new study by the Pacific Institute shows ways that California farmers can cut their water use by as much as 17 percent without cutting the productivity of the nation's most productive agricultural region.

Reuters Global

Ezra Klein

  • It Is Democracy, Not Health-Care Reform, That Is S ...

    As Josh Marshall says , we've reached a point in the health-care reform discussion where logic has fallen apart. Consider, for instance, Danielle Allen's op-ed this morning. Discussing the insistence of some that health-care reform will result in rationing and death panels, Allen chides those who ...

  • Ezekiel Emanuel on Euthanasia

    Given that old academic writings by Ezekiel Emanuel are entering Betsy McCaughey's Nonsensatronic 3000 and emerging as coded arguments for euthanasia (or, more evocatively, "death panels"), it's probably worth seeing what the former bioethicist and current OMB adviser has actually said about euthana ...

  • Tab Dump

    • This is what it's like to have health insurance on the individual market . • Foreign Policy's web site has a new Afghanistan-Pakistan section . • Sam Harris is not impressed with Francis Collins' attempt to merge theism and science. • George Scialabba takes aim at the un-democratic Sena ...

  • Is the Government Going to Euthanize your Grandmot ...

    Sarah Palin's belief that the House health-care reform bill would create "death panels" might be particularly extreme, but she's hardly the only person to wildly misunderstand the Section section of the bill ordering Medicare to cover voluntary end-of-life counseling sessions between doctors and the ...

  • This Week's Think Tank: Health Care, Obesity and I ...

    1) Health economists Amy Finkelstein and Robin McKnight examine what happened when the government introduced Medicare into the market . 2) A variety of economists and health policy experts wonder why is the developed world obese? 3) The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has a very fair over ...

Booman Tribune

  • Deep Thoughts

    I'm sitting on the back porch of my cabin in the woods listening to a symphony of crickets and cicadas. I have a little friend. It's a toad that is no more than two and half inches long from front to back. By this time next year he'll be the size of a softball. There is nothing insane about ...

  • Dana Milbank's Heroic Irreverence

    Well, you called the Secretary of State a bitch, Dana... “What I have noticed is that the conservatives have been saying, ‘He’s just not funny.‘ And now the left wing is saying, ‘He’s just not funny,’” Milbank said. “Either they’re driven by partisan animus or I’m just not that funny. ...

  • Serious Questions

    With just 24 percent of Tarheel Republicans believing that Barack Obama is a citizen, I think we need to reanimate Sigmund Freud to help us understand what is going on. I also think we should try to figure out who is primarily responsible for spreading this misinformation. How is it being done? A ...

  • Ben Stein's Whining

    So, the New York Times fired Ben Stein, ostensibly for cutting an advertisement for a credit-ratings company without first asking for permission. However, the fact that Ben Stein refers to people who believe in evolution as "Neo-Darwinists" ought to be reason enough to terminate his muddled ass. A ...

  • Real Activism

    I don't know how Blanche Lincoln is going to respond to being called "one of the Senate's most corrupt members," but I do know that Howie Klein isn't spending his August spinning his wheels or twiddling his thumbs. When the history of the last five years is written, Klein is going to get his due as ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Is psychopathy a hardware issue?

    Neuroscience continues to probe the depths of our grey matter, delivering blow after blow to that good ol’ mind-body dualism. The latest news? Psychopaths appear to have a detectable brain abnormality that “normal” folks do not. Interesting stuff, but there are some nasty implications also: Wh ...

  • Agnotology: The science of ignorance

    Many of my fellow citizens believe that the Apollo program was faked, evolution is a lie, global warming is a sinister plot by Al Gore to take away their Hummers, and President Obama is some kind of Nazi foreigner whose healthcare plan will lead to mass euthanasia. Disinformation seems to be a winni ...

  • Fusion on a budget

    Canadian company General Fusion are developing a fusion reactor that is based on a process called magnetized target fusion The reactor consists of a metal sphere with a diameter of three meters. Inside the sphere, a liquid mixture of lithium and lead spins to create a vortex with a vertical cavity i ...

  • A shout-out from Montreal

    This is sort of a halfway report… as I’m drafting this, it’s now officially Saturday, but barely. Given that, I’ll keep it short. Here are a few of the highlights from the convention so far: First – thanks to Montreal, and to Canadians from all over for hosting a very friendly convention. ...

  • A shout-out from Montreal

    This is sort of a halfway report… as I’m drafting this, it’s now officially Saturday, but barely. Given that, I’ll keep it short. Here are a few of the highlights from the convention so far: First – thanks to Montreal, and to Canadians from all over for hosting a very friendly convention. ...

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Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Thanks to Rose for finding my phone! Plus: I'm sta ...

    I nearly had a horrible day today, leaving my trusty old Helio phone on a bench at the University of Minnesota mall. A good samaritan named Rose picked it up and called the Boiler Room coffee shop back after I tried the phone. I got it back! Thanks a ton, Rose, you saved yet another messy situation ...

  • Hat tip for Joaquin Phoenix conspiracy

    Not a bad idea! Which makes this potentially one of the greatest performances any modern actor has ever given -- or at least one of the most baldly courageous. The closest comparison would have to be Andy Kaufman's utter commitment to his obnoxious Tony Clifton persona, but Phoenix is going Kaufman ...

  • Tough times south of the border

    Duly noted: Mexican TV reporter ducking stray bullets: Hat tip to the thoughtful Texas farmer Don , who knows what you ought to know about the War On Drugs. This video was recently the #1 most discussed from Mexico on YooToob... Plus, don't miss the five stages of complete social collapse! http://c ...

  • Pirate Bay Trial and Kopimi: The Kopimi Manifesto

    I can't say I get it. But I like it. In these apocalyptic and bitchy times, it is high time to get some sarcastic Swedish hacker philsophy out there. Now is the time. The spectrial is apparently the place. How could we forget the Pirate Bay Spectrial?! They released a Pirate Bay Manifesto - POwr, Br ...

  • Some notes from the Abyss; Fusion Centers going to ...

    We're on the brink of disaster | Salon! As people lose confidence in the ability of markets and governments to solve the global crisis, they are likely to erupt into violent protests or to assault others they deem responsible for their plight, including government officials, plant managers, landl ...

  • AlterNet Top Stories

  • Why Corporations, Emerging Powers and Petro-States ...

    In the past six months, big players in the global economy have grabbed 50 million acres of arable land, from Africa to Southeast Asia.

  • The 'Perfect' Porn Vulva: More Women Demanding Cos ...

    Women are risking their lives to achieve an unrealistic and unnecessary ideal.

  • 13 Secret Toxins Lurking in Your Food, and How to ...

    Here are some tips to help you steer clear of hidden toxins that masquerade as safe products.

  • Rape Victims Charged Up to $1,200 for Rape Kits

    Rape is not something you should budget for. Yet some rape victims, unlike victims of other crimes, have to pay for basic evidence collection.

  • Christian Cowboy Plots to Bring Christ into Kids' ...

    David Barton likens himself to a biblical prophet. He wants to destroy the separation of church and state. Why is he designing school curricula?

Threat Level

  • Hacker with Asperger’s Sentenced to 55 Months fo ...

    A Los Angeles hacker received a slightly reduced sentence Monday of 55 months in prison for participating in a multi-million computer fraud scheme, after a federal judge took into account the man’s diagnosis with Asperger’s Syndrome. Viachelav Berkovich, 34, received five months less than the m ...

  • Google’s Patry Returns to Blogosphere

    Google’s chief copyright officer, considered one of the nation’s leading authorities on intellectual property, has resumed personal blogging following a year-long hiatus. Patry’s latest copyright blog commenced Thursday and is named after his new book, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars. He s ...

  • Hacking, Lock-Picking, Booze and Bacon: DefCon 17 ...

    > LAS VEGAS — Braving triple-digit heat, mean hangovers and an incredibly hostile network, roughly 10,000 hackers, security experts, feds, spies and various other “computer enthusiasts” took over the Riviera last weekend for the world’s largest hackin ...

  • Indictment Comes as Feds Consider Legalizing, Taxi ...

    A federal grand jury has indicted a Canadian man accused of assisting overseas online gambling sites process hundreds of millions of dollars in payments, the authorities said Thursday. Although federal law prohibits financial institutions from knowingly assisting in online payouts of chance gaming l ...

  • Lawsuit: Twitter Method Infringes Patents

    Twitter’s microblogging service breaches the patents of a Texas-based technology company, which is demanding unspecified damages and licensing fees, according to a federal lawsuit. TechRadium, of Sugar Land, claims it has patents to what it calls the “mass notification” concept. According to t ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies at age 88

    BOSTON (Reuters) - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who emerged from a powerful male-dominated political family to found the Special Olympics and become a leading advocate of the mentally disabled, died on Tuesday at the age of 88.

  • Myanmar's Suu Kyi ordered back into house detentio ...

    YANGON (Reuters) - A court in army-ruled Myanmar on Tuesday sentenced opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months in detention, a verdict that drew condemnation abroad and will keep her off the political stage ahead of next year's elections.

  • Congress drops plan to spend $550 million on new j ...

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House leaders have dropped plans to spend $550 million in the Air Force budget on passenger jets used by lawmakers and senior government officials, officials said on Monday.

  • UPDATE 2-VMware buying SpringSource for $420 mln

    * Will hurt profitability excl. items through at least 2010

  • Country duo Brooks & Dunn to break up

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country music duo Brooks & Dunn, whose honky-tonk bravado catapulted them to the top of the charts for almost two decades, said on Monday they would break up after a farewell tour next year.

Godspace

  • Editing your Life: The Spiritual Discipline of Edi ...

    I am sitting in Sydney on a beautiful but crisp winter’s morning watching the rainbow lorikeets out in the trees. Â My Dad’s funeral is over and I will head back to Seattle in 2 days time. Â I have been very aware of prayer and the grace of God in the midst of this. Â Thanks to [...]

  • Living in Transition as Spiritual Practice

    I am now in Sydney Australia after what has been one of the easiest long international trips I have made for a long time. Â I even slept for several hours on the flight which makes me very aware of the fact that people have been praying for me. Today’s article comes from Guy Chmieleski who is [. ...

  • Recent Additions to the Spiritual Practices series

    Here’s the round-up of the most recent Spiritual Practices posts: The Spiritual Practice of Apologizing by T Freeman Love-making as a Spiritual Practice by Mark Scandrette Smoking the Glory of God by Jason Clark The Spiritual Practice of Getting Honest With Myself by Jonathan Brink Spiritual Disci ...

  • Between the Sheets: Sleeping as A Spiritual Practi ...

    I will be heading out to Australia this afternoon but am hoping to continue posting while I travel. Â The submissions continue to arrive which is wonderful and I am enjoying reading them before I post them. This morning’s post is from Teri Peterson a presbyterian pastor who loves her new bed (wh ...

  • Driving as Spiritual Practice

    The weather has cooled down considerably here in Seattle and everyone feels that things are back to normal. Â A little rain would be appreciated – yes we do have days and in this case months without rain in the Pacific NW. Â The garden is flourishing but definitely crying out for a good soakin ...

Pine River World News

  • Exploding the myth that the Obama administration w ...

    Pine River World News August 11, 2009 When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States there was widespread expectation that he would be wholeheartedly welcomed in Africa. And he was - for a while. But I for one haven't noticed much change in U.S.-African policy between his administrati ...

  • Three more U.S. banks collapse: 72 failures so far ...

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Three more U.S. banks collapse 72 failures so far this year © World Socialist Web Site By Patrick O’Connor August 10, 2009 U.S. regulators closed another three banks last Friday: First State Bank and Communit ...

  • Bankrupt U.S. Financial System: The Bubble Bursts ...

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Bankrupt U.S. Financial System: The Bubble Bursts and the Economy goes into a Tailspin © Global Research By Mike Whitney August 8, 2009 The World needs a breather from the U.S. And they'll get it sooner than many think ...

  • James G. Abourezk: If You Find Yourself in a Hole, ...

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. If You Find Yourself in a Hole, Stop Digging © WRMEA By James G. Abourezk August 2009 Wherever I heard that hackneyed phrase, "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging," it applies more toda ...

  • Fidel Castro: Seven Daggers At The Heart Of The Am ...

    This English translation of Fidel Castro's latest article is courtesy of Prensa Latina news agency, Havana, citing Cubadebate as the source. Reflections by Comrade Fidel: Seven Daggers At The Heart Of The Americas © Fidel Castro Ruz Post date: August 6, 2009 I read and reread data and articles w ...

  • PsyBlog

  • Consumer Psychology

    · How and why we consume and how our beliefs, ideas and senses influence consumption. Peter Drucker, the management consultant, famously argued that about 80% of all products and services fail or fall well short of targets within six months of launching. Clearly markets have little understanding ...

  • Why Left to Right Punches Are More Aggressive, Pow ...

    Reading and writing from left to right is a skill so well-practised, so ingrained in language, that it's easy to ignore. Yet, according to some research, the direction in which language flows could have implications that spread into many other areas of our experience. Consider that people are often ...

  • Persuasion: The Right-Ear Advantage

    If you want someone to comply with a random request for a cigarette, you should speak into their right ear, according to a new study by researchers in Italy. Marzoli & Tommasi (2009) had a female confederate visit a disco and approach 176 random people asking for a smoke. Clubbers were about twice ...

  • 10 Rules That Govern Groups

    Much of our lives are spent in groups with other people: we form groups to socialise, earn money, play sport, make music, even to change the world. But although groups are diverse, many of the psychological processes involved are remarkably similar. Here are 10 insightful studies that give a flavou ...

  • Are Your Initials Holding You Back?

    "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." ~Romeo and Juliet In these lines from Shakespeare's famous play, Juliet is trying to persuade Romeo that the bitter feud between their respective families doesn't matter, that he and his surname are easily divisib ...

  • Blacklisted News

  • FBI Insider Links Turkish Lobby To Bribery And Bla ...

    Edmonds Deposition - Deep Corruption Under The Surface Edmonds Testifies About Turkish Bribery And Blackmail FBI Insider Ties Turkish Lobby To Bribery, Blackmail

  • 'Don't give Tamiflu to children'

    Children should not be given the anti-viral drug Tamiflu to combat swine flu, Oxford University researchers said today.

  • Americans' entry into Iran linked to vote unrest: ...

    A leading Iranian lawmaker said on Monday the illegal entry of three detained U.S. citizens into the country may have been related to unrest that erupted after Iran's June presidential election.

  • 'World Community Grid': IBM sees big opportunity i ...

    Related: IBM Introduces 'World Community Grid' Big Green Innovations, a play on IBM's nickname Big Blue, is part of IBM's so-called 'smarter planet' initiative that aims to apply information technology to efficiently manage electrical grids, transportation systems and other infrastructure.

  • The changing face of hunger; Hunger hits Detroit's ...

    Food has long been an issue in this city without a major supermarket. Now demand for assistance is rising, affecting a whole new set of people.

Project Censored

  • WALTER CRONKITE: THE END OF AN ERA – JULY 17, 20 ...

    WALTER CRONKITE: THE END OF AN ERA – JULY 17, 2009 The end of an era is a term too often over-used. But it is a term that is properly used when discussing the passing of Walter Cronkite. It is truly the end of an era in journalism. No other journalist could do what Walter did. He could cal ...

  • You Can Now Find Our Investigative Research at the ...

    You can now find all of the investigative research that we have done over the years at our new and exciting Media Freedom International Website Please check the website often for news and updates.

  • Analysis of Project Censored: Are We a Left-Leanin ...

    By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” –Frederick Douglass ...

  • Infotainment Society: Junk Food News and New ...

    By Mickey Huff and Frances A. Capell We can do the innuendo We can dance and sing When it’s said and done We haven’t told you a thing We all know that crap is king Give us dirty laundry! Don Henley, Dirty Laundry, 1982 The late New York University media scholar Neil Postma ...

  • A Black President Doesn’t Mean Racism is gone in ...

    By Peter Phillips Racial inequality remains in the US. People of color continue to experience high rates of poverty, significant unemployment, police profiling and repressive incarceration. School segregation is a continuing concern among race scholars as well. According to a new Civil Rights re ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Vodafone's secret deal with 2degrees

    NBR article detailing Vodafone's secret "sweatheart" deal with 2degrees for mobile termination rates ordered offline by Commerce Commission. Link to text of original story. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

  • Vodafonea4™s secret deal with 2degrees

    NBR article detailing Vodafone's secret "sweatheart" deal with 2degrees for mobile termination rates ordered offline by Commerce Commission. Link to text of original story. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

  • Fabius Maximus on "Government Sachs"

    Few things so powerfully illustrate the cowardly passivity of modern Americans than the lack of response to the news about Goldman Sachs. It's OK to get angry, America!Here are some of the major volleys to date in this emerging story. Of course, few signs of this surface in the mainstream media - ...

  • CNN: Majority opposed to Afghan war ..

    A new CNN poll has found, for what I think is the first time, a majority of Americans opposed to the war in Afghanistan. Pentagon officials and Afghanistan-watchers have thought for months that this moment was inevitable: public support for Afghanistan, those people thought, was broad mostly because ...

  • The Ultimate Suckera4™s Rally

    Incredible. We have never seen a stock market rally like this in all the history for the S&P 500. In no other time has the S&P index run up nearly 50 percent in the matter of 5 months. Extreme market volatility is the ultimate sign of market distress. Think for a minute and ask yourself if 26,00 ...

Independent ( London )

  • Briton appears in Iraqi court over killings

    A British security contractor accused of shooting two colleagues to death made an initial appearance in an Iraqi court, a step to determine if there is sufficient evidence to charge him with murder, Iraqi and British officials said today.

  • Clinton demands end to sexual violence in Congo

    US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was today demanding an end to rampant sexual violence that has engulfed war-ravaged eastern Congo.

  • Hillary Clinton: I'm secretary of state, not Bill

    Hillary Clinton has a message for the world: It's not all about Bill.

  • Taiwan military rescues 300 typhoon victims

    Taiwan's military rescued about 300 people today after a mudslide touched off by Typhoon Morakot consumed a village, but scores remained missing. A helicopter on a relief operation in the area crashed into a mountain with three crew aboard.

  • JFK's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver dies

    President John F. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who carried on the family's public service tradition by founding the Special Olympics and championing the rights of the mentally disabled, died this morning, her family said in a statement. She was 88.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Clinton: US Supported Iran Protesters ‘Behind th ...

    Summary: In an interview today on CNN’s GPS with Fareed Zakaria, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that while the US didn’t want to come out too publicly in favor of the protesters in the wake of Iran’s disputed June elections, the State Department was “doing a lot” behind the sc ...

  • Iranians selectively barred from Swedish universit ...

    Summary: Chalmers University Sweden’s national security service, Sapo, has issued a warning that Iranian citizens studying at Swedish universities could have ties to their nation’s nuclear and military establishments. Therefore, the government agency has advised Swedish universities to ban a ...

  • IRAN: Nuclear Capability After 2013, Says U.S. In ...

    Summary: WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (IPS) - Iran is unlikely to be able to produce enough highly enriched uranium (HEU) for a nuclear weapon until at least 2013, according to a U.S. government intelligence estimate made public Thursday. source: IPS read more

  • Retired US General: Attacking Iran a ‘Credible O ...

    Summary: Despite the paucity of evidence supporting the allegations on which the case for war rest, retired Air Force General Charles Wald insists that attacking Iran is “a technically feasible and credible option.” source: Anti War.Com read more

  • John Bolton: US Should Assist Israel if it Attacks ...

    Summary: Bolton The former United States Ambassador to the United Nations sat down with Russia Today this week to discuss the possibility of Israel attacking Iran by the end of the year. source: China Daily read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • TGIF: "Neo Gum" for the YouTube Era

    Checkout the awesomely cool Matrix-like universe is this hip TV ad for "5" is the last "fashionable" chewing gum launched in 2007 by Wrigley.

  • Scientists Pinpoint Source of Earth’s "Hum"

    It's not just whales that sing, the Earth does too. A pair of physicists at the University of California figured out that the Earth’s hum is caused not by earthquakes or atmospheric turbulence, but by ocean waves colliding with the...

  • Artificial DNA: Will It Trigger Unintended Consequ ...

    Cyborgs have been the sci-fi dream of a generation, merging man and machine in amazing new combinations. Most of which seem to look like major action stars. But a team at the University of Copenhagen think that's amateur hour. In...

  • Is a "Hypercane" - A Mega-Katrina Possible? MIT Ex ...

    MIT's Kerry Emanuel describes the worst nightmare hurricane that could ever happen -a "hypercane" with winds raging around its center at 500 miles an hour. Water vapor; sea spray and storm debris are spewed into the atmosphere, punching a hole...

  • Is Mars Between Ice Ages? Experts Say "Yes" -A Gal ...

    "Mars is not a dead planet -it undergoes climate changes that are even more pronounced than on Earth." James Head, planetary geologist, Brown University The prevailing thinking is that Mars is a planet whose active climate has been confined to...

Natural News

  • FDA Declares Mercury Amalgam Fillings Safe for All

    (NaturalNews) His mercury fillings were gray And he chewed on them every day. But the stuff reached his brain And it drove him insane Now he works for the FDA - by Mike Adams Any scientific credibility the FDA might have been clinging to in these last few years has now disintegrated with the agency' ...

  • New Easter Island Mystery: Scientists Say Natural ...

    (NaturalNews) No one can argue that Easter Island, located off the coast of Chile in the South Pacific, is one of the most mysterious places on earth. The extremely remote island is home to huge, enigmatic monoliths carved by the one-time inhabitants of the island who settled there over 1,500 years ...

  • Tomato Pill Found to Reverse Heart Disease

    (NaturalNews) A pill made from tomatoes may do more to help treat heart disease and high cholesterol than many pharmaceutical products currently on the market, according to preliminary trials carried out by researchers from Cambridge University. The pill, known as Ateronon, contains a version of the ...

  • Phthalates Danger: Chemicals in Plastics Put Unbor ...

    (NaturalNews) Chemicals called phthalates are frequently used in vinyl and other plastic products, including personal care products, children's toys, and medical devices -- despite the fact research has suggested these compounds can play havoc with the function of the human endocrine system and po ...

  • The Sweet Art of Healing

    (NaturalNews) Jerome, a 53-year-old high school teacher, was in the hospital awaiting amputation of his left leg. He'd been receiving IV antibiotics to treat a diabetic ulcer, a wide, oozing open wound on his ankle, but this didn't halt the steady advance of gangrene, and he was told they had no cho ...

  • TheGallopingBeaver

  • How to waste money

    FOREIGN POLICY has a neat page, entitled " The List: The World's Biggest Military Boondoggles ". It's quite a list, and it seems that the U.S. is not alone in trying to make failure expensive. Britain: TYPE 45 DARING-CLASS DESTROYER Budget: $10.6 billion for six ships Status: Delayed From the p ...

  • Intuition and survival

    THE NEW YORK TIMES has a very interesting article by Benedict Carey, " In Battle, Hunches Prove to Be Valuable ". It's a look at the experiences of the U.S. Army and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how a small segment of them are much more adept at finding and avoiding IED's and ambushes. The U ...

  • Make safe

    Just a little note... This eventful summer - hospitals and other issues - tells me it's time for a break of sorts. Posts from Boris will be likely be a little sparse for the next while. I'm off to a quiet corner of the country for a few months of fieldwork, a needed break, and maybe even some fishin ...

  • She's Not Happy . . . .

    Methinks Hillary is not happy with the question . . . . (Cross-posted from Moved to Vancouver )

  • TASER™ media template

    As reports of gratuitous TASER™ abuse by police pile up daily, here at The Beav we are pleased to provide this handy template to the media for all future TASER™ stories : Officers who used a Taser on a ___ in a ___ found out only later he was ____ and didn't understand ____, police said Tuesday. ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox's Jarrett falsely claimed Pelosi "sort of sug ...

    Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett falsely claimed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "sort of suggested that any American citizen who dared voice an objection in a protest is a Nazi, apparently based on one isolated incident." However, Pelosi actually said of the protesters, "They're carrying swastika ...

  • Fox News personalities advance Palin's "death pan ...

    In a Facebook posting, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin claimed that under Democratic health care reform, "Obama's 'death panel' " would "decide" whether her parents or her son Trig, who has Down syndrome, were "worthy of health care." Since then, several Fox News anchors, hosts, and contributors ...

  • Breitbart claims White House literally "directed" ...

    Joining other conservatives who have claimed that President Obama bears "responsibility" for violence at town hall meetings, Andrew Breitbart distorted a reported quote from a White House official in claiming that "union thugs were directed by the White House to go to" the meetings "and 'punch ...

  • WSJ baselessly claimed health care surtax ...

    The Wall Street Journal editorial board claimed that the House Democrats' health care reform bill is "a jobs killer," citing as evidence the bill's "5.4-percentage point income surtax," which it baselessly asserted "would hit small business especially hard." In fact, according to House Democrat ...

  • Carlson, Doocy falsely claim Pelosi called health ...

    Discussing the recent health care town hall protests, Gretchen Carlson falsely claimed, "Nancy Pelosi says anyone who speaks out is un-American," and Steve Doocy falsely claimed, "Pelosi [said] that apparently the opposing view to her view is un-American." In fact, in a USA Today op-ed, Pelosi ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Internet: The Cause And Cure For Nanostories

    As someone whose life was turned upside down when I had the distinct displeasure of being the focus of one of the nanostories that Bill Wasik is writing about in And Then There's This, I was predisposed to by... Sponsored Topics: Bill Wasik - John Edwards - Book - Flash mob - New York Times ...

  • Introducing the 'Nanostory'

    Thanks so much to TPM for hosting this discussion about my new book, And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture. In its (admittedly eccentric) mix of first-person reporting, experimental stunts, and honest-to-God social science,... Sponsored Topics: Social sciences - Trusted ...

  • And Then There's This

    Bill Wasik joins us this week at Cafe for a discussion of And Then There's This: How Stories Live And Die In Viral Culture. Cafe readers are no strangers to the best and worst of internet memes, and Wasik's breakdown... Sponsored Topics: Bill Wasik - Flash mob - Book - Arts - New York City

  • Coda: A Single Star

    Just a little musical coda to my last post. Take a couple of minutes. The song says simply: How is it that a single star, alone, can dare. How can he dare, for God's sake. One lone star, I would... Sponsored Topics: Israel - Religion and Spirituality - Judaism - Jew - Christianity

  • George Bush-Ghostbuster

    This seems too weird to be true, but the source is the editor of the Charleston Gazette. Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog,... Sponsored Topics: george w bush - Jacques Chirac - United States - ...

TruthOut

  • US Battling CIA Rendition Case in Three Courts

    Binyam Mohamed is recovering from his seven-year ordeal near his home in the English countryside. (Photo: Daily Mail UK) read more

  • This Bud's for Obama

    When Obama sat down for a beer in the White House Rose Garden with Professor Gates and Sergeant Crowley, they all turned their backs on the smaller, craft brewers of the country. Obama chose Bud Light, Gates asked for Red Stripe, and Crowley drank Blue Moon. One of the major craft brewers b ...

  • Chirac, Bush and the Apocalypse

    Editor's Note: Thanks to Dan Billin, who brought this story confirming an earlier report translated for Truthout to my attention. -ljt/TO In 2003, a telephone call from his American homologue made the French president understand what was pushing the American president to want to make war o ...

  • US, Canada, Mexico Vow Joint Fight Against Flu, Dr ...

    Guadalajara, Mexico - US President Barack Obama and the leaders of Canada and Mexico vowed Monday to battle swine flu, murderous drug gangs and economic recession together in a friendly North American summit. But despite the warm feelings, there were few signs of major breakthroughs on cont ...

  • Clinton Lands in DR Congo With Eye on Human Rights

    Luanda - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton turned her attention to human rights on Monday as she arrived in the strife-torn Democratic Republic of Congo on the fourth leg of her seven-nation African tour. Clinton, who arrived in Kinshasa from Angola, was to stay a little over 24 hours i ...

The Heathlander

  • Silencing civil society

    Former Israeli military commander Efran Efrati recently testified to the BBC that Palestinian children are ‘routinely ill-treated’ by Israeli soldiers: “You take the kid, you blindfold him, you handcuff him, he’s really shaking… Sometimes you cuff his legs too. Sometimes it cuts off the ci ...

  • Gaza Freedom March

    For those who don’t know, Norman Finkelstein and others are organising a mass non-violent global march on Gaza to break the siege. Some updates: - Gaza Freedom March website: http://www.gazafreedommarch.org/ - YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/GazaFreedomMarch - A list of peop ...

  • The latest anti-Hamas meme: “child brides”

    Last week, Hamas sponsored a mass wedding celebration in Gaza, perhaps in an attempt to reverse its flagging poll ratings: ‘Nearly a thousand Palestinians celebrated marriage on Thursday night in a ceremony organised by Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip. Hamas dignitaries including Mahmud Zahar ...

  • Chomsky on the ‘Responsibility to Protect’

    Earlier this week Noam Chomsky participated, along with Jean Bricmont, Gareth Evans (former Australian FM and long-time President of the International Crisis Group) and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, in a UN panel on the doctrine of ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P). You can watch the three hour discussio ...

  • How to lose friends and alienate people

    Hiring paid hasbaratchiks to “spew forth bullshit” online, parading out Ehud Olmert to convince Americans that opposing settlement construction is like opposing rainbows and kittens, launching a smear campaign against Human Rights Watch, one of the most conservative human rights organisations ar ...

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Republicans Have Government Insurance, Why Can’t ...

    For weeks I have been listening to all the BS Republicans have spewed about health care reform. Republicans shouted it was socialized medicine and when that didn’t work they came up with other untruths. The fact of the matter is all members of Congress use the public option plan. Republicans are w ...

  • Retire Early In Self Defense Could Be A Mistake †...

    /h3> Collect Now, or Later? Timing Your Social Security Benefits With the current state of US and world economy, the alternative to jumping out a window, committing a heinous crime or planting your pup tent under an overpass, is retire early and collect your meager social security check at gene ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – July 13, 2009

    It’s Monday and it’s time for another version of the Texas Progressive Alliance weekly highlight reel. Off the Kuff suggests that a pro-science PAC could do a lot of good, nationally and in Texas. WCNews at Eye On Williamson reminds us that despite the brouhaha over transportation during the rec ...

  • Protect Us From Another Celebrity Death and Networ ...

    The world is reeling from political upheaval, economic meltdown and environmental catastrophe. What does the national media focus on for two weeks? The high drama of a controversial musical artist who has the audacity of dying. News that effects each and every person on this planet is buried un ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – July 6, 2009

    Now that we’ve celebrated another birthday for America, it’s time for the weekly Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup. Here are your highlights from the holiday week. The loss of Ron Artest from the Rockets to the Lakers (essentially a trade for Trevor Arista) is a bad deal, writes PDiddie a ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Source of mystery 'hum' discovered

    The source of the Earth's mystery hum has been found - the low frequency sound is believed to be the result of the collision between two waves goi...

  • Fast-spinning black holes might reveal all

    A theory has been proposed suggesting that a black hole could spin so quickly that it would shed its event horizon producing a "naked" black hole, a p...

  • UFOs filmed over Australia

    Northern Territory resident Alan Ferguson has claimed to have captured video evidence of strange objects flying in the skies above his home and has be...

  • Florida triangle UFO is "true unknown"

    A sighting of a triangular UFO in Florida has been termed "true unknown" by the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). The sighting occured back in July and was ...

  • Pterodactyl fossil reveals complex flight

    Studies of a pterodactyl fossil have shown that the creature had complex wing fibers that would have enabled it to fly with the same precision as mode...

Grassroots

  • On the Global Day of Action for Honduras, Donate y ...

    Want to do something simple to help support Honduran democracy and keep the crisis in the public eye? Donate your status! It’s free, easy, and can make a huge impact. Right now, the corporate news media is mostly silent about what’s happening on the ground in Honduras and the role of US polic ...

  • Rethinking Aid: Hurricane Relief Rooted in Sustai ...

    haiti-fruit_nursery.JPG I stopped in Gonaives to follow up with last year’s hurricane victims while traveling with Grassroots International’s partner the Peasant’s Movement of Papay (MPP) from Port-au-Prince to Haiti’s Northwest last w ...

  • Myths and Facts about the Coup in Honduras

    3675021114_3e0b1b1526_m.jpg read more

  • Global Day of Action for Honduras: Would You Be Si ...

    Honduras_march.jpg In solidarity with our partner, the Via Campesina, Grassroots International joins the Global Day of Action for Honduras , August 11, 2009. The Via Campesina issued a call to stand in solidarity with the people of Honduras: ...

  • Just Released—Food Rebellions! Crisis and the H ...

    Cover_Mock-up_rev_13_Feb_09.jpg We’re pleased to announce the release of Food Rebellion s! , co-published by Grassroots International and our ally Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy. Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger f ...

Climate

  • August 11, 2009

    Alaska Lawmakers Override Palin Energy Veto (AP) In a final spat with former Gov. Sarah Palin, the Alaska Legislature voted to override her veto of $28.6 million in federal stimulus funds intended for energy efficiency projects. India Says Developing World Not Split in Climate Talks (Reuters) ...

  • August 10, 2009

    Vast Expanses of Arctic Ice Melt in Summer Heat (AP) The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square miles of ice on Sunday in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible record low polar ice cap. China to Unveil Plan for 'New Energy ...

  • August 8-9, 2009

    Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security (New York Times) Climate change will pose profound strategic challenges to the U.S., raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration and pandemics, military analysts have revealed. ...

  • August 7, 2009

    NY Governor Signs Order Setting Emissions Goal (Albany Times Union) New York Gov. David Paterson has signed an executive order that sets a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all statewide sources by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050. $2-Billion Infusion Coming to Cash for Clunkers ...

  • August 6, 2009

    China Negotiator Optimistic on Climate Treaty (AP) China's top climate envoy said he is optimistic that upcoming negotiations will produce a new global warming treaty, but admitted developed countries have slowed the process by not setting CO2 reduction targets. $1.36 Billion to Create Technol ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Jamail and Lazare, Lost in Military Limb ...

    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: In Chalmers Johnson's recent piece, "Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire," the mission of the Service Women's Action Network (SWAN) was mischaracterized. It has now been corrected at the piece. ] It's not exactly a secret that the U.S. Army and the U.S. M ...

  • Tomgram: John Feffer, Their Martyrs and Our Heroe ...

    The way you imagine someone engaged in a suicide attack depends, not surprisingly, on which end of the attack you happen to be on -- in cultural, if not literal terms. In American films and pop culture, there were few acts more inexplicable or malevolent in the years of my childhood than those of ...

  • Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, 64 Years Too Late and No ...

    As another August 6th approaches, let me tell you a little story about Hiroshima and me: As a young man, I was probably not completely atypical in having the Bomb (the 1950s was a great time for capitalizing what was important) on my brain, and not just while I was ducking under my school desk ...

  • Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Dismantling the Empire

    The Obama administration's plan to end production of the F-22 Raptor has received plenty of press coverage , but the Pentagon budget itself, even though it's again on the rise, hardly rates a bit of notice. In fact, amid the plethora of issues large and small -- from health care reform to Gates-g ...

  • Tomgram: Juan Cole, Empire's Paranoia About the P ...

    These days, it seems as though the United States is conducting its wars in places remarkably unfamiliar to most Americans. Its CIA-operated drone aircraft, for instance, have been regularly firing missiles into Waziristan , where, in one strike in June, an estimated 80 tribespeople were killed wh ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Stripper culture hits the skids

    Most people want their children to grow up to be contented and successful individuals replete with dignity and determination. These qualities are not usually evident in your typical exotic dancer and/or sex worker. I'm sure there are a minority of people employed in the above industries who can boas ...

  • Decline and Fall Of America: JPMorgan Fleeces Alab ...

    America’s collapse into a Third World banana republic is accelerating: Alabama’s most populous county, Jefferson County, is so broke it’s closing down courthouses and laying off so many cops that it’s now planning to call in the National Guard to maintain order: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The s ...

  • The Last Gasp of the Angry White Man

    What we're seeing in these angry town halls these days is the last gasp of the angry white man. He's not quite sure what he's angry about, but he knows he's angry. It's not the world he used to know. He gets the disquieting feeling that he doesn't rule the roost anymore. And it's driving him crazy. ...

  • Pentagon Takes Over P.E.

    On the East Coast, when you think of San Francisco, we often imagine a progressive oasis where ideals of peace and community take precedent over mindless jingoism and division. That's why I was deeply shocked to learn that the San Francisco School Board voted 4-3 to allow Junior ROTC -- military tr ...

  • Tomgram: Jamail and Lazare, Lost in Military Limbo

    — from TomDispatch It's not exactly a secret that the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps, fighting two wars seemingly without end, have been under enormous stress. Army Chief of Staff General George W. Casey recently compared the experience to being on a "treadmill," one, he added, that his servic ...

Ten Percent

  • Honour Among Thieves

    Predictably the rapists, murderers and torturers profiteering off the Iraq war turn out to be falling upon each other like animals now the spoils are not so easy to come by and hide. Would it be wrong to start taking bets on Erik Prince dying by his own hand, being whacked by his colleagues or Chen ...

  • Translating The Government On Torture

    Dr Kim Howells, Labour chairman of the intelligence and security committee, told Today it would examine any claims of UK complicity in torture. “I can tell you that we found no evidence that there’s been collusion between the intelligence services, any government department and governments that ...

  • Honey Trap, Extortion, Genocide & Terrorism

    Just another day in Washington, Sibel Edmonds got to give her deposition. Turkey really hates the Armenian genocide being recognised, luckily politician’s love bribes and are hypocrites. Ok, that bit’s not so newsy.

  • Torturers & Their Excuses

    Wonder why it’s the Torygraph that Miliband and Jonhson print their denial of guilt. But don’t waste your time reading their carefully obfuscatory bullshit, this is all you need to know- MI5 and MI6 officers who question terrorism suspects they know are being tortured, are acting in line with a ...

  • Portrait Of A Fundamentalist

    Most of what General McChrystal has done over a 33-year career remains classified, usually eats just one meal a day, in the evening, to avoid sluggishness. He is known for operating on a few hours’ sleep and for running to and from work while listening to audio books on an iPod. an encyclopedic, ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Is Ben Bernanke a Grand and Wonderful Wizard?

    At the request of some folks here at NQ, here is a piece on a topic which deserves more attention. This post originally appeared on my blog on July 21st. “There’s no place like home.” Just as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz merely wanted to return to the peace and comfort of her home in Kansas, [. ...

  • This is democracy, with a small d

    I don’t have much else to add to what Leah from New Hampshire, C-SPAN caller says. Here we go: This is democracy in action — Leah gets it and the questioner in the next video gets it. The video shows the same town hall meeting with GA Rep Scott with a question from another constituent. Notice ...

  • In 15 Minutes, Tune In to Paulie Abeles’ Show on ...

    Monday night show concluded, and promo bumped down. Listen to the archived show at any time. At 9:00 p.m. ET, join host Paulie Abeles for her Monday night show on No Quarter Radio. Tonight, Paulie talks with Dr. Lynette Long (see photo right) about sex trafficking. Experts estimate that 27 million ...

  • Tune In to No Quarter Radio’s Sins of Omission w ...

    Monday night show concluded, and promo bumped down. Listen to the archived show at any time. At 9:00 p.m. ET, join host Paulie Abeles for her Monday night show on No Quarter Radio. Tonight, Paulie talks with Dr. Lynette Long (see photo right) about sex trafficking. Experts estimate that 27 million ...

  • In 15 Minutes, Tune In to Paulie Abeles’ Show on ...

    At 9:00 p.m. ET, join host Paulie Abeles for her Monday night show on No Quarter Radio. Tonight, Paulie talks with Dr. Lynette Long (see photo right) about sex trafficking. Experts estimate that 27 million people are victims of sex trafficking. The National Human Trafficking Resource Center defines ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Therapy News

  • Annual Conference for OCD Helps Clients Cope

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While the effects, for both clients and their families, of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD can have far-reaching consequences that greatly impact elements of everyday life, many who grapple with the mental health concern remain untreated, even during the normal c ...

  • Growing Awareness of Nutrition Sets to Foster Happ ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Update Check into a given health-related news portal these days and you’re likely to find a wealth of material about obesity. Calling the increasing number of people who grow up overweight an “epidemic,â€� some medical professionals and reporters have represented the ...

  • Feedback in Marriage Counseling Reduces Divorce Ra ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Update Incorporating feedback, or responses from therapy clients, into psychotherapy sessions, has been shown to have a dramatically positive effect on the success of recovery and healing. But such studies have not included instances of marriage counseling, providing the inspi ...

  • The Impact of Worry on Hair Loss

    A GoodTherapy.org News Update The Detroit Free Press recently published an article reporting that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was experiencing significant hair loss as a result of the extreme stress she has endured over the past several months. Rallying interest in the issue, the article seek ...

  • Reversing Eating Disorder Relapse

    By Joanna Poppink, LMFT Click here to contact Joanna and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I’m in the middle of attending a great conference at UCLA this week end. It’s “Adult Attachment in Clinical Context: Applications of the Adult Attachment Interview.” Superb and gifted researchers and ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • We must protect Tennessee's natural resources (The ...

    Our national parks are some of Tennessee's greatest treasures. These scenic parks, Civil War battlefields and historic sites provide an anchor to our tourism industry and are economic engines.

  • Sponsored by: (Asheville Citizen-Times)

    There may be no better insider's view of a community visited by mountaintop removal than Ann Pancake's novel “Strange as This Weather Has Been.” There may be no better insider's view of a community visited by mountaintop removal than Ann Pancake's novel “Strange as This Weather Has Been.” ...

  • People of faith rally against mountaintop removal ...

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Xcel submits plan to boost renewable power, cut carbon by 10%
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- Aug 11, 2009
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Xcel Energy has outlined a plan to boost its production of renewable energy, saying it wants to add about 980 megawatts of solar and wind power by 2015 and ...
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Renewable power industry says US moving too slowly
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- Aug 10, 2009
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By Peter Henderson LAS VEGAS, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Renewable energy leaders on Monday said the United States is moving too slowly to turn the economy green, ...
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India Likely to Invest 1 Trillion Rupees in Renewable Energy
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By RAKESH SHARMA NEW DELHI -- India expects 1 trillion rupees ($21 billion) of investments over a five-year period ending March 2012 for renewable-power ...
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Renewable Energy Corp, swings to quarterly loss
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- Aug 10, 2009
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A local partnership that includes nonprofit Ecology Action, Internet provider Cruzio and developer Joe Appenrodt said Monday its bid for the 1.4-acre ...
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The Ecology of Industrial Plants
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In an emerging field called industrial ecology, researchers help industrial parks manage the flow of excess energy, materials, and water from one company to ...
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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mr. William C. Tauber, host of the first Southern California all GREEN ENERGY radio show and Executive Director of Ecology ...
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ENVIRONMENT: Florida Bay's ecology on the brink of collapse
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A Great Egret is shown in the shallow waters of Florida Bay in Islamorada, Fla., Wednesday, July 15, 2009. A sprawling estuary at the state's southern tip, ...

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- Aug 10, 2009
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N) predicts that water purification could grow from a drop in the corporate bucket to a major growth driver within years, just as its wind unit did. ...
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Milford tap water found to be contaminated
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By Globe Staff Milford residents were instructed on Sunday to boil all tap water after the town's water supply was found to be contaminated with E. coli and ...
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Kraft Foods Cuts Water Used in Manufacturing by 21%
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- Aug 10, 2009
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By Lauren Coleman-Lochner The company needed a total of 3 billion fewer gallons of water for manufacturing over the past three years, spokesman Richard ...
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Looking for the 'oooh,' 'aaah' and 'aaack!' at the Air & Water Show
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- Aug 10, 2009
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By Janet Franz Special to the Tribune Celebrating its 51st year, the Chicago Air & Water Show is set to draw its usual 2 million-plus crowd to North Avenue ...
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