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Sunday, August 30, 2009

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • DEVELOPMENT-US: Gentrification Fears Dog Sustaina ...

    ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug 30 (IPS/IFEJ) - As U.S. cities consider the urgent need for sustainable public transportation options, advocates are looking for ways to achieve the environmental benefits of such projects without displacing residents through gentrification of surrounding areas.

  • AGRICULTURE: Piecing a Living Together In Rural S ...

    BREEDE RIVER, South Africa, Aug 29 (IPS) - It's early spring in the fertile Breede River farming region, with the fruit orchards a blur of pink blossoms and the first green shoots starting to sprout in the vineyards, but for household gardener Ishmael Shiki it's been a bad start to the growing s ...

  • MOZAMBIQUE: Markets Too Far For Farmers' Profit

    LAGO DISTRICT, Mozambique, Aug 29 (IPS) - August is peak tomato season in the Niassa province of northwest Mozambique, and farmers are bringing bucket-loads of tomatoes to sell to Nkwichi Lodge, one of the few buyers of local produce in the region.

  • MEXICO: Biological Remedy for Sickened Soil

    MEXICO CITY, Aug 29 (Tierramérica) - Mexico is beginning to take on the environmental debts left by the oil industry, applying biological techniques to break down alcohols, solvents, glycerines, gasoline, benzene and acetone, turning them into carbon dioxide and water.

  • MIDEAST: In a Rotten State

    GAZA CITY, Aug 29 (IPS) - Abu Abed can't make a profit, and although 54 years old, he still has not married. "I can't pay my rent, I can't afford a wedding."

The Intelligence Daily

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Innovation Canada

  • i2eye with Palmiro Campagna

    Widely seen as Canada’s crowning technical achievement of the day, the Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor was scrapped after only five test planes were completed. Half a century later, aviation enthusiasts still mourn the loss and the Avro workers who left Canada to help realize NASA’s moon-rocke ...

  • Testing ground

    Think of it as a case of lab life trying to imitate real life. From behind a two-way mirror, researchers observe and record medical staff trying to use intravenous drug pumps and other devices while being continuously interrupted by a Code Blue or other emergencies that could cause them to make mist ...

  • Ocean view

    The winch at the rear of the ship slowly lowers a 13-tonne steel capsule about the size of three minivans into still water in early July. The shell, painted a garish yellow, is a trawl-resistant frame designed to deflect fishing nets. More important, once settled on the ocean floor, the capsule will ...

  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Former Israeli prime minister Olmert indicted

    Jerusalem - Israeli legal authorities have indicted former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert on corruption charges. The indictments filed Sunday charge Olmert with illegally accepting funds from an American backer, and double-billing for trips abroad. He faces charges including fraud and breach ...

  • Bulgaria Archaeologists find 14th Century Medallio ...

    Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a unique glass medallion with Christ Pantocrator at the excavated fortress of Kastritsi near Varna. The archaeological team is led by Valentin Pletnyov, head of the Varna Regional History Museum. The medallion, which is dated back to the 14th century, the l ...

  • 2.8 Earthquake Struck the Snowy Mountains, Lake Eu ...

    The epicentre of the quake, felt at 12.05pm (AEST) today, was at Lake Eucumbene, about 30 kilometres from Cooma and 25 kilometres from Jindabyne. Its magnitude of 2.8 on the Richter scale was half the intensity of the 1989 Newcastle earthquake, which killed 13 people. Australian Seismological Cent ...

  • Lockerbie bomber release linked to oil deal: paper

    London - Britain agreed to include Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi in a prisoner transfer deal with Libya because of "overwhelming interests" shortly before an oil deal was sealed with Tripoli, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The Sunday Times said leaked letters from Justice Secretary ...

  • Study Says World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few

    Washington -- A recent analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries has revealed that the world's finances are in the hands of just a few mutual funds, banks, and corporations. This is the first clear picture of the global concentration of financial power, and point out the worldwide finan ...

Threat Level

  • Spy Son Rats Out Mole Father

    The son of a disgraced CIA agent convicted of funneling classified information to the Russians has pleaded guilty to charges of helping his imprisoned father collect overdue bills for his dad’s nefarious activities. The 25-year-old son, Nathaniel James Nicholson of Eugene, Oregon, traveled through ...

  • Accused TJX Hacker Agrees to Guilty Plea — Faces ...

    Accused TJX hacker, Albert Gonzalez, has accepted a plea agreement with prosecutors in Boston that will put an end to cases that authorities have described as one of the largest credit card and identity theft cases ever prosecuted in the country. Gonzalez, 28, has agreed to plead guilty to all of t ...

  • ACLU Calls Pentagon Hacker’s Extradition ‘Trag ...

    The American Civil Liberties Union came to the defense of British hacker Gary McKinnon on Thursday, decrying an extradition treaty that could soon see McKinnon standing trial in the U.S. on charges of cracking and damaging American military systems. “The recent tragic case of Gary McKinnon highlig ...

  • Accused TJX Hacker Expected to Finalize Plea Deal ...

    An attorney for accused TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez says his client is expected to finalize a plea agreement with authorities in New York and Massachusetts by this Friday, according to the Associated Press. “My client is extremely remorseful as to what has happened,” said Rene Palomino, Jr., who ...

  • Conficker Botnet Messes With Reporters’ Heads By ...

    Remember the Conficker botnet? It’s still out there, lurking, waiting, dreaming like Cthulhu, as mysterious and deadly as it was last spring when the New York Times called it an “unthinkable disaster” in the making, and 60 Minutes warned the entire internet could be disrupted. Now, five month ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Hurricane Katrina and the "Nobody Could've Predict ...

    "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees," President George W. Bush protested on September 1, 2005. Ultimately, Bush's feeble - and false - excuse for his tragic failure in the wake of the drowning of New Orleans...

  • Canadians Warned to Get Health Insurance for U.S. ...

    Traffic in Vancouver, as I learned the hard way during a recent trip to British Columbia, is a nightmare. The crisis has become so severe that the city is now home to North America's only commercial radio station dedicated 24/7...

  • Canadians Warned to Get Health Insurance for U.S. ...

    Traffic in Vancouver, as I learned the hard way during a recent trip to British Columbia, is a nightmare. The crisis has become so severe that the city is now home to North America's only commercial radio station dedicated 24/7...

  • America Wins When Democrats Go It Alone

    Back in January, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman presciently warned President Obama about the GOP's bad faith in negotiating the stimulus bill, announcing, "Look, Republicans are not going to come on board." Now Krugman's paper is reporting the White...

  • CBS News Slams AARP, Promotes Right-Wing ASA Inste ...

    As its 2003 support for President Bush's overpriced, unfunded and deeply flawed Medicare prescription benefit showed, the AARP can make some strange political bedfellows. Buti in a segment Monday slamming the 40 million member organization over its role in the...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Build The Bone Pile Climb It To Hellven

    Someone posted this on Whitechapel earlier. I have no idea where it’s from, other than that it’s obviously supposed to be a capture from a Facebook page. Whoever "Shawna Van Ness" is, she/he is a genius.

  • Station Ident: Long Weekend

    Bank Holiday weekend here in the old country, which means I’ll be out Sunday and Monday, being Outside and Doing Things. Horrible. Apparently someone might let me do a bit of archery at some point. I haven’t drawn a longbow in a couple of years, so this could be funny. Today I am trying to finis ...

  • London gets more science-fictional with The Shard

    London, England.. soon to be home to a city within a city, thanks to The Shard. As Inhabitat describe it: The 72-storey building in the London Bridge Quarter will contain premium office space, a world-class hotel, luxury residences, a spa, restaurants & cafes, retail space and a 15-storey public vie ...

  • Is this evidence of Sri Lankan 'war crimes'?

    Channel 4 News shows footage claimed to show Sri Lankan forces executing Tamils earlier this year

  • Sex and Food: What Feeding Porn Tells Us About Our ...

    If porn serves as a repository for images and ideas expelled from society at large, feeding porn seems inevitable.

Consortium News

  • Lockerbie Doubts

    Lost in U.S. outrage over release of a Libyan convicted of the PanAm 103 bombing is the doubt about his guilt, Lisa Pease notes. August 21, 2009

  • CIA: Osama Helped Bush in '04

    From the Archive: Osama bin Laden's pre-election video in 2004 was viewed at the CIA as a bid to boost George W. Bush. By Robert Parry

  • Blackwater's Unwritten Death Contract

    President Bush's CIA farmed out assassination work to Blackwater mercs without regard to legal constraints, says Ray McGovern. August 20, 2009

  • Tom DeLay Stomps Woodstock Nation

    Peaceful dreams of Woodstock lost out to the likes of GOP leader (and dance contestant) Tom DeLay, writes Michael Winship. August 20, 2009

  • The Republican Ayatollahs

    Nine GOP senators protest an investigation of CIA torture with arguments like those of Iran's ayatollahs, says David Swanson. August 20, 2009

CounterPunch

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Planetsave

  • What’s In Your Bloodstream?

    A two-year-old Minnesota biomonitoring program has now confirmed that residents of suburbs east of the Twin Cities have perfluorochemicals (PFCs) in their blood, although government agencies stress that the levels are only slightly higher than those in the general population. Several landfill site ...

  • New Shipping Rules Agreed To Protect The Antarctic

    The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has agreed new rules which ban the transportation and use of heavy grade oils by ships in the Antarctic Ocean. The change was agreed during the 2009 meeting of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee and is scheduled to come into force in 201 ...

  • Fashionable Activism and Fundraising: I’m Tired ...

    Tell the world how you feel about our dirty coal addiction by wearing your message right on your arm: I’m Tired of Coal . Read more of this story »

  • Minnesota Moose on the Run from Climate Change

    An expert advisory committee this week released recommendations on restoring Minnesota’s dwindling moose population, whose decline one expert said is related to gradual warming of the state’s climate. “The moose, of course, is not an animal that deals very well with heat,’’ pane ...

  • Greenpeace Exposes Oil Industry’s Really Dirty F ...

    We can’t expect much from the oil industry, but Greenpeace’s newest finding is as ugly as it gets. Read more of this story »

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Been to Sedalia, can't buy the t-shirt

    The Smith-Cotton High School Band (in Sedalia, Missouri) has to turn in its new t-shirts. In a nutshell: Band shirts hit wrong note with parents "..I was disappointed with the image on the shirt...I don't think evolution should be associated with our school..." They must have a really unique biology ...

  • Keep It Simple: Medicare for All

    Maybe the phrase "public option" has become so poisoned by repug lies and Blue Dog whimpering that it can't be salvaged. So fuck it. Go back to the simple idea everybody can understand: Medicare for All From TPM Reader BR ...You're right that it makes no sense to not counter lies from Armey about ...

  • The Nightowl Newswrap

    SC republicans want Sanford to go and if he doesn't go voluntarily he will be impeached. He already would have been if it wouldn't require a special session, but cost alone didn't save him - the lege is waiting for multiple ethics investigations that may strengthen the case for removing him. Talk a ...

  • Let's all congratulate Liz Cheney on her new job w ...

    I'm not sure which one of the three names on the byline of this Washington Post article is her nom de plume but her work is unmistakable. This just screams "Liz Cheney." After enduring the CIA's harshest interrogation methods and spending more than a year in the agency's secret prisons, Khalid Shei ...

  • Ben Bernanke Saved Whose World?

    Crossposted from Antemedius Secrets Of The Federal Reserve President Obama has re-nominated Ben Bernanke to sit as Chairman of the Federal Reserve for another four-year term, following glowing praises of Bernanke's supposed financial genius in most of the media for his handling of the current econom ...

Care 2

  • Man who threatened to shoot horses now in jail

    The Colorado man publicly organising the shooting of 24 of his horses now finds himself in jail. Trenton H. Parker, of Weld County, distributed a flyer calling for "riflemen-executioners" for the shootings, scheduled for September 5. Weld County Submitted by Simone D. to Animals | Note-it! ...

  • ACTION ALERT: Save the koalas!!!

    There used to be millions of koalas now there are less than 100,000. Their homes are 80% gone and they have to live in urban areas. 4000 koalas are destroyed by dogs and cars alone. Koalas are beautiful animals that should not be destroyed. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals | Note-it! | Add ...

  • Better conditions for cab horses requested

    The Animal Rights Group together with 19 other organisations have joined forces, signing a petition that appeals for more adequate facilities for cab horses to be implemented with urgency. The organisations said: “We cannot understand why such a Submitted by Simone D. to Animals | Note-it! ...

  • ‘Tiger’ to the rescue of farmers

    An innovative electronic gadget, developed by the forest personnel in the district, to scare away crop-raiding elephants has proved to be a success. The gadget was developed by V.K. Sreevalsan, wildlife warden, Wayanad Wild Life Sanctuary, after a two- Submitted by Simone D. to Animals | Note-it ...

  • Bison amour in Yellowstone’s Hayden Valley

    Approximately 3,000 bison call Yellowstone home, and in late July through August every year they journey to the two primary breeding grounds in the park, one of which is scenic Hayden Valley. Bison bulls, who remain solitary or in small bachelor herds Submitted by Simone D. to Animals | Note-it! ...

GreenBiz

  • Gap Touts Clean Water Efforts on New Product Label

    When customers turn a pair of Gaps’ just released 1969 Premium Jeans inside out, they’ll find a label emblazoned with the message: “The water used in the process of washing & dyeing these jeans has been specially treated to ensure it is safe & clean when it leaves the factory.”

  • USGBC Confronts Challenges of Green Building Perfo ...

    Ramping up efforts to ensure that green buildings deliver on their promise, the U.S. Green Building Council rolled out a sweeping initiative this week to amass data on all LEED-certified structures and use the information to help close any gaps between expected and actual performance.

  • Scotland Sets Ambitious 'Zero-Waste Society' Goal

    Among the proposals to help the country achieve its target are possible bans on glass, metal, textiles and wood being sent to landfill; the plan will also help create thousands of jobs in the recycling and waste industries.

  • Water, Water Everywhere -- and Everywhere Under Th ...

    New research finds water tops the list of environmental concerns, while a slew of reports look at ways of addressing what might be the world's most pressing environmental problem.

  • EPA Puts the Heat on Airport Deicing Wastewater

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a new regulation that would require airports to collect certain amounts of the wastewater created when they deice aircraft and runways.

Reuters Global

  • Pakistani Taliban’s new chief:more ambitious ...

    Is Hakimullah Mehsud, the young, battled-hardened new leader of the Pakistani Taliban going to be even more ruthless than his predecessor ?

  • German state elections: Live

    Live blog from three state elections in Germany on Sunday, Aug. 30 -- four weeks ahead of the federal election

  • Japan two-party system — long in arriving

    Observers of Japanese politics who have long thought the country was ripe for a real two-party system are watching Sunday's election with a dual sense of incredulity -- surprise that it has taken so long to oust the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and surprise that it finally looks like ...

  • Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez, the world’s mo ...

    Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican town on the U.S. border where daylight murders and beheaded bodies have become the norm, is the world's most violent city, a study says.

  • Ghosts of Germany’s communist past return fo ...

    Will the party that traces its roots to the Communist East German party that built the Berlin Wall soon be in power in a west German state? Or is the rise of the far-left in western Germany to the brink of its first role as a coalition partner in a state government with the centre-left Social Democr ...

Ezra Klein

  • Tab Dump

    • Do we need another Church Committee? • Rumor is that Mario Batali is opening a restaurant in DC. • Blame Congress for the deficit. • Did the Education Department kill Reading Rainbow? Sigh. We'll miss you, Reading Rainbow.

  • What Happened to Chuck Grassley's Deficit-Improvin ...

    Chuck Grassley on whether the "Gang of Six" will reach a deal when the Senate returns in September: If you asked me that on Aug. 6, I would have said yes, I think so, September. But you’re asking me on Aug. 27 and you’ve got the impact of democracy in America. Everybody’s showing up at town ...

  • Ted Kennedy's (Interim) Successor

    Like Matt Yglesias , I'm puzzled by the charge that it's somehow hypocritical for the Massachusetts legislature to modify their 2004 modification to their succession laws. Basically, the 2004 change blocked Mitt Romney from appointing a successor if John Kerry vacated the seat to assume the presiden ...

  • Let's All Go to the Movies ...

    I finally saw "District 9" last night. Good movie! Thought I'd let it get a bit overhyped. Go in expecting a somewhat gruesome horror/survival film rather than an incisive art film, or an action-oriented summer blockbuster, and you'll really enjoy it. And for a slightly more nuanced exploration of m ...

  • Burn Carbon Responsibly

    One thing that Elizabeth Kolbert's broadside against eco-stunt literature (the books about going green by living without carbon, or electricity, or trash, or toilet paper) didn't do a very good job of explaining is that making sensible decisions about how to reduce carbon emissions is really, real ...

Booman Tribune

  • Why I Am Not a Republican

    I don't like to mix religion with politics. When I do so, I do it always in an entirely defensive manner. I want to prevent our government from enacting legislation which enshrines one idiosyncratic religious view as the law of the land. I majored in philosophy and I studied the ancient Greek of ...

  • WaPo is Now Totally Worthless

    It's hard to exaggerate how much damage the Washington Post does when it trades its credibility for right-wing shillery. The problem is that the Post maintains a residual credibility even when it drops even the most minimum standards of journalism in favor of providing cover for Dick Cheney and his ...

  • Reflections on My Senate Diary

    Looking through the comments to my diary at Big Orange I am struck by how the overwhelming response assumes I am addressing why we are having difficulty passing health care reform through the Senate. I suppose I submitted my diary into a preexisting debate, but that is not really what I meant to di ...

  • Still Bitter About Bork

    I don't know how any reasonable person can look back at the nomination of Robert Bork and be anything but grateful beyond words that he wasn't confirmed by the U.S. Senate. But, these people exist. I don't think Kennedy was far off in the speech he gave. What's weird is that Bork's belief system, ...

  • The GOP, Not the Senate, is Broken

    It gets boring constantly beating on the Republican Party for their racism and general intolerance, but it's an important feature of our national political landscape. The occasion of Sen. Edward Kennedy's death is an appropriate time to do retrospective pieces on the myriad ways that the upper cham ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Swarming to it

    One of my favourite[1] plausible science fictional tropes is that of tiny robotic insects. The latest step towards their instantiation has been taken by researchers in Sweden, Spain, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland as they put forward their conception of how swarms of mass-produced robotic fleas cou ...

  • Swarming to it

    One of my favourite[1] plausible science fictional tropes is that of tiny robotic insects. The latest step towards their instantiation has been taken by researchers in Sweden, Spain, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland as they put forward their conception of how swarms of mass-produced robotic fleas cou ...

  • Books you wish had been written, but weren’t

    Wired’s GeekDad blog has a post by Corrina Lawson in which she lists five books she wishes had been written, but which were not. They’re mostly continuations of a much-loved series or character, but none of the ones there particularly flick my switches. So, I thought “why not throw that one op ...

  • Books you wish had been written, but weren’t

    Wired’s GeekDad blog has a post by Corrina Lawson in which she lists five books she wishes had been written, but which were not. They’re mostly continuations of a much-loved series or character, but none of the ones there particularly flick my switches. So, I thought “why not throw that one op ...

  • The intersection of gaming and guilt

    Over at The Guardian, Keith Stuart finds himself distressed by the rise of computer games that focus on physical fitness; his concern is that the whole appeal of computer games has always been the ability to live vicariously as someone other than yourself, and that this development suggests that bod ...

Yahoo! Canada News

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

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Dot Earth News

  • Rare Photo of Snow Leopard in Afghanistan

    Dot Earth likes a good animal photo as much as the next blog, particularly when the animal is beautiful and endangered. So we're pleased to present a photograph of a snow leopard, taken by a camera trap in the Wakhan Corridor in northeastern Afghanistan.

  • Nano Toothpaste

    Many people worry about the unanticipated consequences of otherwise beneficial developments. For some of them, nanotechnology has been a hot topic. And according to a report this week by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, there is more than ever for them to worry about.

  • Giving Earth That Worn-Down Feeling

    We've all heard about how modern farming isn't good for the land. Tilling and other practices leave farmland vulnerable to erosion; precious topsoil is literally being washed away. The real problem, it seems, is that the land that humans are washing away is not being remade.

  • An Environmentally Friendly Mosquito Repellent?

    Researchers report that they have identified a compound that blocks the ability of mosquitoes to detect carbon dioxide. It is the carbon dioxide we exhale that draws mosquitoes to us.

  • Saving the Flying Fox

    Researchers have calculated that, based on the number of flying fox bats being legally killed by hunting, the species could be extinct within decades.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Classic video: The Website is Down

    This is just a damn funny video -- featuring a busy techie who needs to play some Halo while fools bug him. A crowd favorite! read more »

  • Sibel Edmonds testimony in Ohio congressional case ...

    Sibel Edmonds testimony in Ohio congressional case exposes Turkish blackmail & espionage complex, Valerie Plame, Jan Shakowsky and the whole ball o' wax Allegations of espionage, sexual blackmail control of sitting members of Congress, the bribery of members of Congress, Dennis Hastert, Roy Blunt, ...

  • The DSM-IV Bipolar Pharma-Industrial complex: I ju ...

    Pros: Gave me energy Cons: then gave me akathisia and blurry vision The new energy quickly morphed into marked akathisia. I couldn't not move for more then 5 minutes at a time, extreme restlessness, and extreme anxiety. The akathisia if largely gone after 3 days after discontinuation b ...

  • Introducing Feidt Design LLC - yr handy electronic ...

    You better believe it! I filed for Feidt Design LLC with the Secretary of State a week ago, and got the certificate on Friday! Here's the intro message. (And there was much rejoicing!!) It's a lot of fun to set up a new biz :-) Thanks for visiting Feidt Design! Hey all, Thanks for stopping by the ...

  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Shep Smith Provides Top Notch Kennedy Funeral Cove ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds For those who might say that I am consumed by hatred of all things Fox, I need to set the record straight. While I criticize, what I feel, is right wing propaganda, I am willing to give credit where it is due and today that credit is due Fox [...]

  • Pawlenty Smears Stimulus While His Top Economic Ad ...

    Read the full story at Think Progress In an interview yesterday with Bloomberg, Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) gave a blistering speech attacking President Obama, slamming the the stimulus and efforts to reform health care. Pawlenty declared it would be “ludicrous” to think that the Recovery Act is â ...

  • Fox Nation: A Website Of Division, Not Debate

    Read the full story at News Hounds Fox Nation boasts that it’s a community “committed to the core principles of tolerance, open debate civil discourse –and fair and balanced coverage of the news,” yet we have repeatedly documented their deliberate efforts otherwise. Today’s front page is a ...

  • Fox Won’t Fire Glenn Beck

    Read the full story at News Hounds Mark Karlin, At Buzz Flash, has written an excellent post explaining why Glenn Beck is here to stay, at least for the immediate future. I don’t agree with everything Karlin says but this paragraph sums it up perfectly for me: “ColorofChange.org did the correct ...

  • Radical ‘Birther’ Kreep Launches DefendGlenn.C ...

    Read the full story at Think Progress After Fox News star Glenn Beck accused President Obama of being a “racist” with a “deep-seated hatred for white people,” a drive by Color Of Change has convinced 46 companies to cancel their advertisements on his show. In response, Beck and FoxNews have ...

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  • The U.S. Health Insurance Assault on Canadian Medi ...

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. The U.S. Health Insurance Assault on Canadian Medicare Canada's Response © Global Research By Elizabeth Woodworth August 28, 2009 There's nothing new about the U.S. health insurance industry attacking Canadian Medicare. ...

  • U.S. debt to hit $20 trillion by 2020

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. U.S. debt to hit $20 trillion by 2020 © World Socialist Web Site By Tom Eley August 28, 2009 Forecasts published this week by the Obama administration and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate that the ...

  • BURMA: Rebels say junta shell kills Chinese soldie ...

    IntelTrends - The following article is reprinted with permission from Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.), Thailand. Rebels say junta shell kills Chinese soldiers © S.H.A.N. August 28, 2009 11:55 The United Wa State Army (UWSA) that has joined battle with its Kokang ally against the Burma ...

  • IRAN: Death row terrorist says U.S. has supporting ...

    IntelTrends - The following article is from Iran Daily, Tehran. Rigi Implicates U.S. in Terror Attacks © Iran Daily August 27, 2009 A terrorist mastermind on death row in Iran said the United States has a supporting role in the terror attacks inside Iran. "After meeting with U.S. officials in ...

  • Ian Williams: Compassion - A Scots term with no Am ...

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Ian Williams. Although this was clipped from his blog, it also appears in today's Asia Times, Hong Kong, under the title Lockerbie deal leaves no clean hands . Compassion - A Scots term with no American translation © Ian Williams August 25 ...

  • Res'Eau-WaterNet

  • Knowledge Transfer Workshop: Preliminary program p ...

    Join us for our inaugural two-day network event as we gather Canadian experts to discuss the scientific and technological challenges of delivering safe drinking water in small, rural and First Nations communities.

  • Too Many Canadians Without Safe Water: $5.2M to He ...

    For six million Canadians, quenching their thirst isn’t a matter of simply turning on the kitchen faucet.

  • Dr. David Wilkinson appointed Director of the Clea ...

    RES'EAU-WaterNET researcher Dr. David Wilkinson was recently appointed Director of the Clean Energy Research Centre (CERC), beginning July 1, 2009.

  • Walkerton Clean Water Centre Receives Ontario Mini ...

    The Walkerton Clean Water Centre (WCWC) – a RES’EAU-WaterNET partner – received the 2008 Emerald Award for innovation from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment at an awards ceremony held on March 3, 2009.

  • Filling the glass

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PDA AMERICA

  • Video: Tributes to Ted Kennedy and Healthcare

    Health Care Is A Right Not A Privilege! “What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system” - on health care reform for which he campaigned throughout ...

  • How much security did $1 trillion buy?

    From RethinkAfghanistan The war in Afghanistan is increasing the likelihood that American civilians will be killed in a future terrorist attack. Part six of Rethink Afghanistan brings you three former high-ranking CIA agents on the record ...

  • OUR CHILDREN SHOULDN’T BE MESSENGERS OF HATE ...

    By Linda Milazzo | PDA Blog Contributor All photos by Mike Chickey The photo below was taken on Friday, August 21, 2009 in El Segundo, California, outside the office of Congresswoman Jane Harman (36th CD). It ...

  • Obama: Don’t Stop at Gitmo

    By Jayne Lyn Stahl In 1942, somewhere around 110,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans were either coered to relocate, or underwent internment in the United States. As you know, it was by executive order issued by ...

  • Barney Frank Confronts Woman At Townhall Comparing ...

    At a Barney Frank town hall meeting in Dartmouth, MA, a constituent asks, “Why are you supporting this Nazi policy?” Frank responds: “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” He then calls her ...

Marler Blog

  • Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" is headi ...

    I had a great talk with Tristan Baurick as he was writing “College Discourse Over Food Safety, Courtesy of Bainbridge Lawyer” – that would be me. As I said, spending a few dollars to bring Michael Pollan to the WSU campus is worth it. It puts: “Michael Pollan’s biting critique of indust ...

  • More Bad Raw Milk Stories

    Summer, or at least August, is drawing to a close in the Northwest – temperatures have dropped below 100 and rain is expected. Really, no global warming? I spent most of last week being supportive, but feeling helpless, as a client who ate E. coli O157:H7 -tainted Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough, ...

  • Marler Interview at Eating Well Magazine

    Myself, along with a number of others concerned about the safety of our food supply, were recently interviewed for Eating Well Magazine. Here is my interview: SPECIAL REPORTS - Food Safety Expert: Bill Marler Bill Marler is a managing partner and personal injury lawyer at Marler Clark LLP, PS, and ...

  • The Partnership for Food Safety Education Tackles ...

    Recipes can be handed down from generation to generation and so can myths surrounding food safety -- sometimes with sickening consequences. September is National Food Safety Education Month and the Partnership for Food Safety Education (PFSE), in cooperation with the Food and Drug Administration, th ...

  • Another Nail in the Grass Feed Beef is better than ...

    As I wrote a year ago in a blog post, "Grass-Fed vs Grain-Fed Beef and the Holy Grail: A Literature Review," several people have commented that switching from grain to grass feeding could be one of the solutions to the problem with foodborne pathogens in cattle and other livestock. Quotes like these ...

AutoblogGreen

  • VIDEO: They Might Be Giants ask "How can you deny ...

    Filed under: Etc. , Videos , Alternative Fuel They Might Be Giants "Electric Car" - Click above to watch the video after the break They Might Be Giants are proving that Neil Young isn't the only musician who can sing about cleaner transportation . The quirky band is releasing a CD/DVD album Tuesd ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 08.29.09

    Greenlings: Can I convert an older vehicle to something more environmentally-friendly? Options for greening up the clunker you didn't turn in. Tesla Motors co-founder Marc Tarpenning explains why Roadster ...

  • How did GM arrive at 230 mpg for the 2011 Chevrole ...

    Filed under: Hybrid , Chevrolet , GM , Alternative Fuel Neither General Motors nor the EPA are making declarative statements about how, exactly, the 2011 Chevy Volt will achieve it's much-touted 230 mpg rating that was announced today. GM's most clear statement (available in full after the break) ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 08.12.09

    Two new GM concepts go back to the Bare Necessities (w/VIDEO) Just in case that whole Volt thing doesn't work out, how about these vehicles? Why did the U.S. grant $2.4 billion for batteries? Independence ...

  • GM shows off 120V and 240V chargers for 2011 Chevy ...

    Filed under: Technology , Chevrolet , GM , Alternative Fuel Chevy Volt Home Chargers - Click above for high-res image gallery As part of the massive media blitz being rolled out today by General Motors in preparation for the new 230-mpg Chevy Volt and some B20 biodiesel trucks (more on these lat ...

Rafe's Radar

  • What's the best phone for Google Voice?

    Dear readers: We are testing a new commenting system, JS-Kit's Echo, in this post. In addition to providing a more comprehensive sign-on system and real-time updating, Echo also collates comments on this story from other Web sources, such as Twitter. Check out the action at the end of the post. -- ...

  • Bitly partners with yfrog for picture sharing

    Short URL powerhouse Bitly is baking into its Web service the yfrog picture-sharing service made by Imageshack . yfrog competes with other Twitter -friendly image-sharing services such as Twitpic . For users who want to create easy short links to images they upload from their computers, this wil ...

  • DriverSide: World's least sexy (but useful) car si ...

    A year ago, I covered DriverSide , then in beta, a site designed to help people own cars--not buy new ones or fetishize the ones they can't afford. Since then, with the crisis in the U.S. economy, the automobile market has changed dramatically, making the boring utility of DriverSide ...

  • Shameless plug: TechTracker updates your apps

    I could use some updates. (Credit: Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET) Back in the old days of CNET, we had a product I loved called CNET Catchup. It scanned your computer and told you which software on it had updates available. I'm happy to report that we've brought ... Originally posted at The D ...

  • Who owns transit data?

    If you want to find out when the bus or train that you use to commute to work is going to leave the stop near your house, the likelihood that the information will be available on a site or service other than your local transit agency's site depends on how enlightened your local agency is. In some ...

Camera Obscura

  • 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, wit ...

  • Of housewives and saints: abjection, transgression ...

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935028/housewives-and-saints-abjection.html September 1, 2004... In the opening sequence of Velvet Goldmine (dir. Todd Haynes, UK/US, 1998), future glam-rock trendsetter Jack Fairy stands in front of a mirror and, having been brutalized earlier by a ...

  • Grainy days and Mondays: Superstar and bootleg aes ...

    http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935027/grainy-days-and-mondays.html September 1, 2004... The year is 1970, and suddenly the nation finds itself asking the question, "What if, instead of the riots and assassinations, the protests and the drugs, instead of the angry words and hard-ro ...

Democracy Now!

  • Part II: Tim Robbins on Activism in Hollywood from ...

    Tim Robbins is the artistic director of the Actor’s Gang and an Academy-award winning actor, director, producer, and writer. He won an Oscar for his role in “Mystic River” and is well-known for his roles in numerous films over the past two decades including “The Shawshank Redemption”, †...

  • Who is Obama Playing Ball With?

    It looked like it was business as usual for President Barack Obama on the first day of his Martha’s Vineyard vacation, as he spent five hours golfing with Robert Wolf, president of UBS Investment Bank and chairman and CEO of UBS Group Americas. Wolf, an early financial backer of Obama’s preside ...

  • Youssef Megahed Released as Government Loses Depor ...

    A Florida immigration judge has dismissed the deportation case against Youssef Megahed. The The 23 year old Florida Student was arrested by federal immigration agents in April just three days after a jury acquitted him on federal explosives charges. After hearing a week of evidence put forward by ...

  • Troy Davis and the Meaning of 'Actual Innocence'

    Sitting on death row in Georgia, Troy Davis has won a key victory against his own execution. On Aug. 17, the U.S. Supreme Court instructed a federal court in Georgia to consider, for the first time in a formal court proceeding, significant evidence of Davis’ innocence that surfaced after his conv ...

  • Supreme Court Orders New Hearing For Death Row Pri ...

    The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a new evidentiary hearing for death-row inmate Troy Anthony Davis. The court ruled that Davis should have another chance to prove his innocence before the state of Georgia puts him to death. Watch/Listen to Democracy Now! coverage of Troy Davis case. ‘Global D ...

Farming Pathogens

  • Bird Flu’s Industrial Revolution

    Public talks can be private affairs. In sharing our work we bare the triumphs and limits of a thinking born in long hours alone or with a few fellow conspirators sworn to secrecy. But in breaking our oaths we are able to take the next step. In talking bird flu twice this past month I learned [... ...

  • The Agro-Industrial Roots of Swine Flu H1N1

    Mexico appears ground zero for an outbreak of deadly human-specific H1N1. Of the over 1400 people that have been reportedly infected there so far, 86 have died. Short chains of transmission of the virus have also been reported in California, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, New York City, Canada and New Zeal ...

  • The NAFTA Flu

    Cases of swine flu H1N1 are now reported in Honduras, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Austria, Thailand, Israel, etc. Can’t keep up at this point. H1N1 is making its way across the world by hierarchical diffusion. By the world’s transportation network it is bouncing down a hierarchy of citi ...

  • ‘Farming Human Pathogens’ Now Availabl ...

    ‘Farming Human Pathogens’Â is now available for purchase. The book introduces a cutting-edge formalism based on the asymptotic limit theorems of information theory to describe how punctuated shifts in mesoscale ecosystems imposed by human intervention can entrain patterns of gene expressio ...

  • The Hog Industry Strikes Back

    Swine flu H1N1 appears at one and the same time moving full-boar and on its cloven heels. The World Health Organization reports 15,510 official cases in 53 countries, with new countries regularly reporting in. An order or two more cases are likely unreported and together represent an atypical sprin ...

Digg Green

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

  • Climate change: Preventionists Vs Mitigators

    In the world of climate policy, the argument has been shifting. It used to be between a few global warming Cassandras and hoards of global warming deniers, and that arguing got, well, pretty heated. The deniers long ago lost their argument to the hard science of the matter, so the debate has boiled ...

  • Who's Paying to Kill US Health Reform ?

    In watching town hall after town hall, many of us have looked at attendees frantically spouting nonsense about "death panels" and comparing the public health insurance option to Hitler and wondered, "where do they get these people?"Inspired by John Boehner and friends, Campaign for America's Future ...

  • Microsoft fails; NZOSS steps up; NZ public wins

    Talks between the government and Microsoft fell apart. The government was trying to get a bulk deal from Microsoft, and remove the need for each government agency to enter negotiations individually. Unfortunately Microsoft walked away. SSC spokesperson Marian Mortensen says government looks for t ...

  • Govt has Roundtable on speed dial for advice

    During the Clark-Cullen years there was at least an attempt when setting up advisory boards and review panels to get a range of voices - not that the Clark-Cullen administrations would then necessarily utilise the advice given.In 2000 for example the Labour-Alliance Government picked Rob McLeod - th ...

  • CIA used Blackwater to kill Jihadists

    The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials. Executives from Blackwater, which has generate ...

Independent ( London )

  • Pakistan blast kills 12 police recruits

    A suicide bomber has killed at least 12 police recruits near the main police station in Pakistan's Swat Valley, an official said today.

  • Opposition seen surging in Japan vote

    Japan voted today in parliamentary elections expected to end the ruling conservative party's nearly 54 years in power and give a largely untested opposition a chance to make good on its promises to revive the ailing economy and turn around record-high unemployment.

  • US offered 'millions' to keep bomber in UK

    Scottish ministers went ahead with the controversial decision to send the Lockerbie bomber back to Libya despite an American offer to bankroll his "house arrest" in the United Kingdom, it emerged last night.

  • Captured on film: dolphin bloodbath Japan tries to ...

    On Tuesday, in the Japanese town of Taiji, the killing will resume. Several dozen dolphins will be herded into a secluded cove, where a few will be selected for marine amusement parks. The rest will be speared with knives and harpoons. By the end of the day, the water in the picturesque cove will b ...

  • The godmothers calling the shots in the Naples maf ...

    They go by such nicknames as "Fat Cat" and "Tomboy". Their simmering power struggles once drove them into the streets, guns blazing. They rule their crime families with steely determination, and also raise the children and stir the pasta. Move over, Don Corleone. Godmothers are rising in the ranks ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • U.N. nuclear watchdog denies hiding Iran informati ...

    Summary: Marc Vidricaire The U.N. nuclear watchdog on Friday hit back at reports that it had hidden information about Iran's disputed atomic program, in a rare public comment on the agency's sensitive inspections work. Some media reports, citing unnamed Western diplomats and Israeli officials, h ...

  • Nuclear report on Iran finds cooperation. Problem ...

    Summary: If China and Russia do prove over the coming weeks to be reluctant to proceed with toughened sanctions on Iran, some world leaders are beginning to suggest that new measures might be adopted by key economies independently of the Security Council. In a closely watched meeting Thursday in ...

  • Iran uranium enrichment 'slowed'

    Summary: In a confidential report obtained by the BBC, the IAEA said Iran was continuing its sensitive uranium enrichment work, in defiance of the UN Security Council. But it said there has been a slowdown in production. A senior UN official said the reasons for the slowdown were not clear. Enri ...

  • Netanyahu calls for 'crippling sanctions' against ...

    Summary: BERLIN — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Thursday for "crippling sanctions" against Iran to stop its disputed nuclear work, on a solemn visit to Berlin marked by Holocaust remembrance. source: AFP read more

  • Iran's Khamenei says protest leaders not foreign-b ...

    Summary: TEHRAN — Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that he has no proof the leaders of the post-election violence in June were backed by foreign states, state television reported. source: AFP read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Will the Laws of Physics Extend Beyond Our Univers ...

    Chris Knight, the finest fictional physicist of our time, once said "All science. No Philosophy. Wrong." It's true that an understanding of existence outside of equations is vital for scientists, both in terms of enjoying life and avoiding things like...

  • 2009: The Status of "Spaceship Earth"

    The understanding that life of this planet is composed of an interconnected system must be considered as one of the great discoveries of science, perhaps as profound as Darwin's discovery of natural selection. One of the leading experts on this...

  • "Monster of the Milky Way": The Supermassive Black ...

    While they are difficult to see for the obvious reason that they give off no light, we now know that they exist because there are circumstances in which they can be located by their effect on other stars. Although it...

  • Top "Daily Galaxy" on Social Media: Twitter, Faceb ...

    How Our Ancestors Won Out Over the Neatherthals: They Ate Them -A Galaxy Classic The "Great Wall" Of Space: Galactic Superclusters a Billion Light Years Away Extend for 5% of Observable Universe Saturn's Titan - Is It a Living Lab...

  • "Dark Flow" Discovered at Edge of the Universe: Hu ...

    "Dark Flow" sounds like a new SciFi Channel series. It's not! Back in the Middle Ages, maps showed terrifying images of sea dragons at the boundaries of the known world. Today, scientists have observed strange new motion at the very...

Natural News

  • Historical facts about the dangers (and failures) ...

    (NaturalNews) Vaccines are the quackery of modern medicine. Mass vaccination programs not only fail to protect the population from infectious disease, they actually accelerate the spread of disease in many cases. Many website have cropped up over the last few years to counter the pro-vaccine propaga ...

  • Avoid Table Salt: Learn Why You Should Switch to U ...

    (NaturalNews) Most modern health problems that have been linked to sodium are actually caused by the condition of the salt we eat. The typical modern salt product can be compared to refined sugar and refined flour - it used to be a healthful, whole food, but it has now been stripped and processed in ...

  • Use Common-Sense Lifestyle Tips for Longevity

    (NaturalNews) Most of us would all like to live longer and have a better quality of life. To have the gift of good health in your later years, it makes sense to take care of yourself in your youth. Here are some common-sense lifestyle tips and natural remedies to help grow old youthfully. Drink More ...

  • Wake Up, America: Forced vaccinations, quarantine ...

    (NaturalNews) The United States of America is devolving into medical fascism and Massachusetts is leading the way with the passage of a new bill, the "Pandemic Response Bill" 2028, reportedly just passed by the MA state Senate and now awaiting approval in the House. This bill suspends virtually all ...

  • The Mothers Act Disease Mongering Campaign - Part ...

    (NaturalNews) This is part four of an article series by Evelyn Pringle. Find previous parts here: Part One (http://www.naturalnews.com/026634_drugs_suicide_adhd.html), Part Two (http://www.naturalnews.com/026707_health_disease_depression.html), Part Three (http://www.naturalnews.com/026742_depressio ...

  • TheGallopingBeaver

  • Conservatives getting things done for some Canadia ...

    The Toronto Star's Haroon Siddiqui has it exactly right, Stephen Harper is an embarrassment. Part of the problem in the case of Suaad Hagi Mohamud lies with the Canada Border Services Agency, who have done stupid and embarassing things before , but for Harper to say that it is now his top priority t ...

  • Making a killing in Afghanistan

    LA Times : Four men with the U.S. firm once known as Blackwater are said to be under investigation in the deaths of two Afghans. A U.S. report found serious fault with private security firms in Afghanistan. Kabul : Residents say the U.S. contractors opened fire without provocation after one of thei ...

  • Poseur

    Paul Krugman has always struck me as fundamentally decent and likeable man, Nobel and all (perhaps especially so, considering the award), not prone to savaging his opponents with rhetorical flourishes or reducing himself to ad hominem attacks. So when he publicly rebukes another academic and calls ...

  • Forty Years Later . . . .

    For the good times . . . . (Cross-posted from Moved to Vancouver )

  • Netroots Nation in Second Life

    This is going to be a long post, but bear with me, it's for your own good. Look, you've been reading this blog for a while and so you probably know I'm involved in Second Life, running movies and DJing parties and generally hanging out . And you know my politics are somewhat to the left of the more ...

Media Matters for America

  • Media ignore GOP proposal that would cause many t ...

    Several media outlets have purported to fact-check claims about government funding for abortion but have ignored the fact that a proposed amendment by abortion opponents would have had the effect of forcing many who currently have abortion coverage to lose such coverage even if they receive no ...

  • Conservative media call review of interrogations ...

    Following Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that a federal prosecutor will be conducting "a preliminary review into whether federal laws were violated" during interrogations of detainees suspected of terrorism, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) asserted that the investigation would be a "declara ...

  • Fox News "hops" aboard Tea Party Express with ramp ...

    On August 28, Fox News devoted live coverage and publicity to the kickoff of the Tea Party Express, a bus tour organized by the Republican PAC Our Country Deserves Better, whose mission is to oppose President Obama and the Democrats. Fox News' kickoff coverage foll ...

  • Wash. Times falsely, hypocritically claim ...

    The Washington Times falsely claimed in an editorial that in an "extreme" attempt "to portray opponents of government health care as irrational hatemongers," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced "fictitious" crowds carrying swastikas at health care reform town hall meetings. In fact, swastikas have ...

  • ABC quoted Hatch saying Kennedy "wouldn't want [he ...

    On ABC's World News , senior congressional correspondent Jonathan Karl stated that "Republicans, even those close to Senator [Ted] Kennedy, are not buying" the argument that health care reform should be passed to honor Kennedy's memory, then aired a clip of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) claiming Kennedy ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • SECULAR SAINTS

    The only time I had the privilege of sitting with Senator Ted Kennedy in his Capitol Hill office was when I was in the company of another great American Irishman, Michael Harrington. Mike, who saw Ted Kennedy as akin to... Sponsored Topics: Ted Kennedy - Michael Harrington - Capitol Hill ...

  • Obama's Perfect Eulogy

    President Obama has again demonstrated an uncanny ability to know the right way to approach difficult moments. He could have knocked the ball out of the park with an emphatic endorsement of the liberal agenda. He could have invoked (directly... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Ted Kennedy - Unit ...

  • Comparing Obama to Hitler

    Political scientists and historians from Rush Limbaugh to Sean Hannity to Lyndon LaRouche to that woman with short brown hair who, I deduce, must be a scholar of German history, are comparing Obama to Hitler and his likening his... Sponsored Topics: Rush Limbaugh - Lyndon LaRouche - Sean Hannity ...

  • Road to a 2010 Democratic Victory

    The general handwringing in Washington from the Repubs on the new deficit numbers are the classic response of people like John Boehner who partied too hard in college to ever get to that morning Econ 101 lecture. Paul Krugman straightens... Sponsored Topics: Paul Krugman - John Boehner - Washing ...

  • Beware Authoritative "Inside Washington" Sources W ...

    Washington, D.C. is an echo chamber in which anyone who sounds authoritative repeats the conventional authoritative wisdom about the "consensus" of inside opinion, which they've heard from someone else who sounds equally authoritative, who of course has heard it from... Sponsored Topics: W ...

TruthOut

  • Requiem for a Man: In Honor of Sen. Edward M. Kenn ...

    Ted Kennedy, the senior Senator from Massachusetts. (Photo: Terry Ashe / Time and Life Pictures / Getty) read more

  • Even Camelot Needed Health Care

    Ted Kennedy receives a standing ovation at the White House in March 2009. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty) read more

  • The Iranian Opposition's Second Life

    On July 22, a week into Iran's foreign media reporting ban, a group of Iranian protesters gathered on a grassy hill to speak out against Supreme Leader Khamenei's continued support for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Some wore black T-shirts with a blood-spattered slogan: "Where Is My VOTE?" By midday, the ...

  • Beware Authoritative "Inside Washington" Sources

    Washington, D.C. is an echo chamber in which anyone who sounds authoritative repeats the conventional authoritative wisdom about the "consensus" of inside opinion, which they've heard from someone else who sounds equally authoritative, who of course has heard it from another authoritative source ...

  • August Deadliest Month for US in Afghanistan

    Kabul - An American service member died Friday when his vehicle struck a bomb in eastern Afghanistan, making August the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the nearly eight-year war. The grim milestone comes as the top U.S. read more

The Heathlander

  • The “British method”

    Following a political campaign by the BNP, a Muslim man was abducted from his home in Essex and threatened at knifepoint to stop organising weekly prayer sessions at the community centre. Asked to response, local BNP councillor Pat Richardson denied the BNP was behind the attack, explaining: “Fire ...

  • ‘Israel’s Terror Inside’

    Latest mini-doc from Max Blumenthal, via lenin: As Noam Chomsky has observed, and as this video makes clear, ‘those who call themselves “supporters of Israel” are in reality supporters of its moral degeneration and probable ultimate destruction’. Posted in Israeli / Palestinian, Videos ...

  • A culture of fear

    Pankaj Mishra dissects the ‘culture of fear’ being manufactured by a recent spate of books and articles warning of an impending ‘Eurabia’: ‘Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking ...

  • Fighting the fash

    Anti-fascist activists successfully confronted the BNP’s ‘Red, White and Blue’ hatefest [.pdf] (see also this Channel 4 report) in Codnor yesterday: One of the favourite chants of the day was reportedly: “We are black, white, Asian and we’re Jew / And they’re many, many more of us than ...

  • 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 ...

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TruthHugger

  • Who Will Carry The Kennedy Torch? Op Ed

    The passing of Ted Kennedy may have dealt a blow to progressive humanitarian warriors. The Senate is missing the most effective voice for the disenfranchised. From his perch atop the mountain of comfort built by his family, Ted Kennedy used his position to battle legislative discrepancies that ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 24, 2009

    School is starting, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is prepared as always to ace the test. Here is this week’s roundup of blog highlights. From TXsharon: Woo Hoo! EPA testing has now confirmed wells are contaminated “with various substances connected with gas drilling”–proof that h ...

  • Bi-Polar America – Who is Worthy of a Healthy Li ...

    The rationing of health care is already a fact of life. The new reform will remove some of that rationing and make health care a right instead of a privilege. Bi-Polar America - I am worthy, You are not. Jesus was a socialist.

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – August 17, 2009

    It’s time for preseason football games, but the Texas Progressive Alliance is always in midseason form. Here are this week’s blog highlights. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders why we put up with temper tantrums and intimidation from the far right? Everyone should have their say in our d ...

  • Without Health Options – Where Is Your Voice? Op ...

    Who needs health care

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Climate change computer is notorious polluter

    In an ironic twist the £30 million supercomputer used by the Met Office to predict climate change is one of Britain's worst polluters, wi...

  • Himalayan Bigfoot to undergo DNA testing

    A news story from China this week has claimed that strands of hair retrieved from the borders of Nepal that locals believe to be from the Yeti hav...

  • How deadly are cosmic rays ?

    Cosmic rays constantly bombard the Earth with high-energy particles and for the most part we do not notice them but some scientists believe that t...

  • The future of augmented reality

    As mobile phones and gadgets become more and more sophisticated the concept of an augmented reality in which technology overlays the real world in...

  • Science fiction breaks free from fantasy

    Physicist Dr Michio Kaku has said that the world of science fiction may be a lot closer than fantasy to reality, with technologies such as invisib...

Grassroots

  • Building a Movement, Haitian Style

    pigs.jpg I spent the better part of last week crisscrossing Haiti’s arid Northwest with Grassroots International’s partner the National Congress of the Peasant’s Movement of Papay (MPNKP). MPNKP is best known to our allies and friends fo ...

  • Resilient Hondurans Lead The Way To Protect Democr ...

    IMG00292.jpg Today, thousands of people will fill the streets of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. They are students, housekeepers, children and farmers from different parts of country—many of whom walked 10-12 miles a day to get to the ...

  • Yes, We Can - But Will We Join Our Neighbors to Re ...

    More than a month after the military coup in the Central American country of Honduras (for which the term “banana republic” was originally coined due to the overwhelming influence of U.S. fruit corporations in that country), the junta is still in power and shows little real sign of budging. re ...

  • They Are Afraid of Us, Because We are Not Afraid o ...

    Tom Loudon from our ally the Alliance for Responsible Trade, which is a member of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (a Grassroots International grantee) is currently in Honduras as part of an international human rights monitoring delegation. Today, August 11th, the Global Day of Action for Honduras, h ...

  • 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 ...

Climate

  • August 29-30, 2009

    Both Sides in Energy Debate Watching Healthcare Battle (Los Angeles Times) As the battle over healthcare unfolds, its attack ads, spin-doctoring and town hall rhetoric are being watched with special attention by the combatants in Washington's next big fight -- Pres. Obama's climate plan. Leave ...

  • August 28, 2009

    Forestry leads Indonesian Agency’s Roadmap for Emissions Cuts (Reuters) An Indonesian environment agency has set out a roadmap for the government to adopt forestry, energy, transport, industrial and agriculture policies that would slash carbon emissions by the world's No. 3 emitter. Poll: O ...

  • August 27, 2009

    African Leaders Consider $67 Billion-a-Year Climate Plan (Bloomberg) African leaders meeting in Libya next week will consider a plan to ask industrialized nations to pay developing countries $67 billion a year as part of a common negotiating position for climate talks in Copenhagen. Coal India ...

  • August 27, 2009

    African Leaders Consider $67 Billion-a-Year Climate Plan (Bloomberg) African leaders meeting in Libya next week will consider a plan to ask industrialized nations to pay developing countries $67 billion a year as part of a common negotiating position for climate talks in Copenhagen. Coal India ...

  • August 26, 2009

    US Budget Update Stands Pat on CO2 Permit Auction (Reuters) The White House budget update released yesterday still reflects the Obama administration's plan to combat global warming by auctioning all permits to emit greenhouse gases even though Congress plans to give away a large part to industry. ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: The Next War, On-Screen and Off

    [ Note for TomDispatch readers: We're back! Refreshed and ready for action, but still on a somewhat relaxed schedule until after Labor Day. The next piece will be posted Sunday night. Tom ] G.I. Joe, Post-American Hero The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism By Tom Engelhardt The Pre ...

  • Tomgram: Withdrawing by Bike from Iraq

    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: So it's sayonara for a couple of weeks. I'm taking my usual August break. TomDispatch will return sometime the week of August 24th, but will be on a limited posting schedule through Labor Day. Let me take this opportunity once again to thank those of you who hav ...

  • Tomgram: Mark Engler, Protesting at Climate Groun ...

    We're so past the Roman Empire by now that it's probably time to update the phrase "fiddling while Rome burns." What about, for instance, "writing fake letters ostensibly from real non-profit groups to weaken a climate-change bill while the planet burns"? It's true. According to the New York Ti ...

  • 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 ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Who Won The Ideology Wars?

    This week we said goodbye to Teddy Kennedy, the last of a breed. There are other progressives in the government of the United States, and even some in the Senate with voting records further left of Kennedy's. But none are as iconic as Teddy. With high admiration and sincere apologies to the likes ...

  • Extremism in Defense of Servitude

    We have all seen the footage: Men prowling outside Obama speaking engagements carrying automatic weapons. Suburban brownshirts shouting down speakers at town hall meetings. Leaving aside for the moment the colossal irony of members of the working class taking up arms to defend the rights of corporat ...

  • Redemption Song: Ted Kennedy Through Allen Ginsber ...

    I didn't write or talk much about the death of Ted Kennedy for a couple of days. I didn't even watch any TV coverage. When I finally did watch the testimonials, I remembered seeing Allen Ginsberg on the Tonight Show many years ago. It was either in early 1969 - before Chappaquiddick - or a couple ...

  • Health Care: 2009's Political Super Bowl

    The arrival of football season is a reminder that the debate over health care reform is actually a perverse sporting event. Conservative columnist George Will observed, "Football combines the two worst features of American life: violence and committee meetings." Certainly, the health care debate i ...

  • Lockerbie part of a bigger story: In Khadaffy's wo ...

    Libya's Moammar Khadaffy, once branded "the mad dog of the Middle East" by Ronald Reagan, is celebrating 40 years in power in spite of a score of attempts by western powers and his Arab "brothers" to kill him. In 1987, I was invited to interview Khadaffy. We spent an evening together in his Bedouin ...

Ten Percent

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  • Killing Fields of Sri Lanka

    Channel Four report- Link to unedited clip in 3GP format -Warning, shows the execution of naked bound prisoners by military personnel- A video clip received from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) evidences the way extra-judicial killings are executed in the island. The video captured in ...

  • Is The Obama Administration Victimising A Nobel Pe ...

    Via FreeGaza- After Downing Street, by Ann Wright former US diplomat:- Less than a month ago, in late July, 2009, Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire (http://www.peacepeople.com/) was travelling from Dublin, Ireland to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet Peace Laureate Jody Williams to participate in p ...

  • Selection By Occupier

    Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (albeit funded by both US & NATO govts) has reports of systematic fraud, the EU are more upbeat, try to be surprised. The one candidate Ramazan Bashardost, with some real credentials in representing the Afghan people against powerful and corrupt elite ...

  • Friday! The Peter Serafinowicz Show

    This is a… sort of a…. best of taster, help get The Peter Serafinowicz Show released, details @ peterserafinowicz.com

Paul Krugman

  • 1945

    The fact is that the war left America with a big debt -- bigger, relative to our resources, than we're likely to face when the economic rescue is over. We dealt with it.

  • Summer of hate

    I'm getting more crazy hate mail than I have in years, maybe since 2004.

  • Heredity, environment, justice

    It's comforting to think that we live in a meritocracy. But we don't.

  • The burden of debt

    Don't believe the debt service scare stories.

  • A further note on debt and deficits

    Yes, it's fair to blame Bush for debt incurred on his watch.

No Quarter

  • No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doy ...

    Many analysts would promote the performance and developments on Wall Street as the clear indicator of future developments on Main Street. The divide between these two great thoroughfares has never been greater. In fact, The Wall Street Journal’s lead article on Saturday morning, Halting Recovery D ...

  • The Days of Our Lives

    These are the days we have, the ones we number, the ones we’ll always remember, the ones we want to forget, the ones we’ll never forget. There are some we don’t talk about – ever. Some are painful, some are hilarious, some hurt, some make us cry- every time we think of them. They come [...]

  • President Obama Isn’t Shedding Any Tears Over Ka ...

    Actor/author/director/satirist Harry Shearer wrote an excellent commentary for CNN about his “adopted hometown: “Does Obama Care About New Orleans.” First he discussed the encouraging news that the city is becoming a leader in charter school enrollment, working to clean up local politics and ...

  • Second Acts and Redemption

    Who decides who deserves a second act? I am fairly new to American history. Since Ted Kennedy’s death, I have learned a lot more of what he did (or didn’t do) in the accident he caused in Chappaquiddick which directly led to the loss of a life. In a confession video (See [...]

  • Second Acts and Redemption

    Who decides who deserves a second act? I am fairly new to American history. Since Ted Kennedy’s death, I have learned a lot more of what he did (or didn’t do) in the accident he caused in Chappaquiddick which directly led to the loss of a life. In a confession video (See [...]

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Therapy News

  • Psoriasis Patients May Adapt to Cope with Social R ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Those who experience visible skin lesions and irritations due to the skin condition psoriasis are often faced with negative reactions from others, as the appearance of the dermatological issue can be surprising and unusual. Though people with psoriasis often exhibit s ...

  • A Unique Learning About Power

    A GoodTherapy.org Featured Column written by Judith Barr, MA, LMHC Ten-year old Ann is playing outside on her family’s patio. There’s a bush at the edge of the patio with a funny-looking hanging sack attached to it. Ann watches as the sack seems to swing back and forth on the branch. After some ...

  • Mayo Clinic Highlights Uncertainty about Long-Term ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While anti-depressant medications are able to help some clients who experience intense feelings of sadness, and may also help in attaining sleep and realizing greater energy, their use has become alarmingly widespread in the west. Short-term side effects associated wi ...

  • Psychologist Explores What Makes Children and Adul ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The childhood experience is often hailed as being one of the best components of a human life, and indeed, most people are able to recall rich, blissful memories from their younger years; memories which often take on new meaning as people age and mature. But some period ...

  • The Deafening Sound of Silence

    A GoodTherapy.org Featured Column written by Sarah Jenkins, MC, LPC We are often thinking, for it is rare that we allow the mind to become silent. But, it is in the spaces in between our thoughts that seem to elude us. When our systems are in need of that grace, that time of “nothingness,” we ju ...

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Memeorandum

  • Lockerbie bomber 'set free for oil' (Jason Allardy ...

    Jason Allardyce / Times of London : Lockerbie bomber ‘set free for oil’ — The British government decided it was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom” to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for return to Libya, leaked ministerial lette ...

  • It's come to this: Dems task Teddy's grandson with ...

    Allahpundit / Hot Air : It's come to this: Dems task Teddy's grandson with leading funeral prayer for ObamaCare — The boss has been writing about the left's use of kids as sympathetic “human shields” for their policies for years and years, but even so, I'm amazed. I thought the moral ...

  • The Washington Post's Cheney-ite defense of tortur ...

    Glenn Greenwald / Salon : The Washington Post's Cheney-ite defense of torture — (updated below - Update II) — If anyone ever tells you that they don't understand what is meant by “stenography journalism” — or ever insists that America is plagued by a Liberal Media — you can sh ...

  • A.C.L.U. Lawyers Mine Documents for Truth (Scott S ...

    Scott Shane / New York Times : A.C.L.U. Lawyers Mine Documents for Truth — WASHINGTON — In the spring of 2003, long before Abu Ghraib or secret prisons became part of the American vocabulary, a pair of recently hired lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union noticed a handful of news r ...

  • Edward Kennedy Jr.'s Remembrance of Senator Kenned ...

    New York Times : Edward Kennedy Jr.'s Remembrance of Senator Kennedy — The following is a transcript of Edward Kennedy Jr.'s remembrance of his father, Edward M. Kennedy, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica on Saturday, as recorded by CQ Transcriptions. — My name is Ted Kennedy, Jr. ...

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China Dialogue

  • Rethinking Sino-US relations

    Many Chinese commentators worry about the risks of the United States introducing carbon tariffs. Chu Zhaogen urges them to take a long-term view. United States energy secretary Steven Chu and commerce secretary Gary Locke visited China last month to explore where there might be mutually beneficial U ...

  • Do we know change when we see it?

    An agreement between the US and China on climate change and clean energy may be more significant than its detractors initially supposed, write Banning Garrett and Jonathan Adams. Did the United States and China recently take a game-changing step on climate change and clean energy? Quite possibly so. ...

  • Building regional cooperation

    Can people across the Himalayan region mobilise to build a common, collaborative response to the impacts of climate change? Isabel Hilton interviews Mohan Munasinghe, vice chairman of the IPCC. Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and the vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...

  • Glaciers and guesswork

    The “third pole” is hugely vulnerable to the effects of glacier retreat -- but the science is scarce. Isabel Hilton speaks with Andreas Schild, a specialist in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region. Andreas Schild is director general of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development ( IC ...

  • Biofuels: learning from Obama

    The US president’s directive on advanced biofuels – and its implementation by government departments – sends an important message to China’s energy planners, write Zhang Jinyuan and Xu Dingming. [Produced in association with Rutgers Climate and Social Policy Initiative ] On May 5, 2009, ...

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  • Spy Son Rats Out Mole Father

    The son of a disgraced CIA agent convicted of funneling classified information to the Russians has pleaded guilty to charges of helping his imprisoned father collect overdue bills for his dad’s nefarious activities. The 25-year-old son, Nathaniel James Nicholson of Eugene, Oregon, traveled through ...

  • Accused TJX Hacker Agrees to Guilty Plea — Faces ...

    Accused TJX hacker, Albert Gonzalez, has accepted a plea agreement with prosecutors in Boston that will put an end to cases that authorities have described as one of the largest credit card and identity theft cases ever prosecuted in the country. Gonzalez, 28, has agreed to plead guilty to all of t ...

  • ACLU Calls Pentagon Hacker’s Extradition ‘Trag ...

    The American Civil Liberties Union came to the defense of British hacker Gary McKinnon on Thursday, decrying an extradition treaty that could soon see McKinnon standing trial in the U.S. on charges of cracking and damaging American military systems. “The recent tragic case of Gary McKinnon highlig ...

  • Accused TJX Hacker Expected to Finalize Plea Deal ...

    An attorney for accused TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez says his client is expected to finalize a plea agreement with authorities in New York and Massachusetts by this Friday, according to the Associated Press. “My client is extremely remorseful as to what has happened,” said Rene Palomino, Jr., who ...

  • Conficker Botnet Messes With Reporters’ Heads By ...

    Remember the Conficker botnet? It’s still out there, lurking, waiting, dreaming like Cthulhu, as mysterious and deadly as it was last spring when the New York Times called it an “unthinkable disaster” in the making, and 60 Minutes warned the entire internet could be disrupted. Now, five month ...

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Godspace

  • The Spirituality of Drinking (Chinese) Tea

    Today’s post which seems very appropriate for me when I am heading off for a few relaxing days when I know I will be drinking lots of tea, is written by Andrew Wade He and his family have recently returned from several years working in Hong Kong where Andy worked as a Mennonite pastor. Â [...]

  • Networking as a Spiritual Practice

    I have been a little slow with posting today because Tom and I are on the road again. We are heading for a few days off in British Columbia with some friends but I wanted to make sure that I posted the last of the articles I have received for the What is a Spiritual [...]

  • Mothering as a Spiritual Practice

    Another beautiful day in Seattle and Tom and I are getting ready for a few days vacation up on Mayne Island, one of the Canadian gulf islands. Â The weather is supposed to be good and I am really looking forward to a few days off – hoping that the blackberries and apples are ready like [...]

  • The Eight Weirdest Ways to Go Green

    I just could not resist this article in Alternet and thought that even if you are not interested in green living that you might enjoy it. From the solar-powered bikini that can charge your iPod to the benefits of eating free range snails, here’s few things you may not have thought of yet. Â Read ...

  • Colouring as a Spiritual Practice

    Greets from a cool and overcast Seattle. Â My beans are growing, tomatoes ripening and squash proliferating. Â Last night I was furiously processing some of the produce before Tom and I head out of town tomorrow afternoon for a few days – made 2 Hunza pies and a cheesy tomato bake to take with ...

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • CIA documents reveal secret aspects of Vietnam War

    The CIA has released a six-volume internal history of its involvement in Vietnam prior to and during the Second Indochina War (referred to in the US as the Vietnam War).

  • News you may have missed #0087

    Lithuania will probe claims of secret CIA prisons. Book Review: Spycraft.

  • News you may have missed #0086

    New book examines history of Finnish domestic intelligence. Ex-KGB agent doesn't regret sanctuary decision. CIA used Canadian research for torture.

  • Analysis: Assessing the record of Russian espionag ...

    Roman Kupchinsky has penned an article for The Prague Post, in which he views the recent expulsion of two Russian spies from the Czech Republic as an indication of a broader decline of Russian intelligence operations. But although Kupchinsky’s view is shared by a many Western intelligence observer ...

  • News you may have missed #0085

    How the ACLU got the CIA agents' photos. Russian espionage case is bigger than initially thought, say Czech officials. US spy community builds Wikipedia-style database.

PsyBlog

  • The Acceptance Prophesy: How You Control Who Likes ...

    · Is interpersonal attraction a self-fulfilling prophesy? The mystical-sounding 'acceptance prophesy' is simply this: when we think other people are going to like us, we behave more warmly towards them and consequently they like us more. When we think other people aren't going to like us, we beha ...

  • Brainstorming Reloaded

    · Why brainstorming is ineffective and how to fix it. Brainstorming was once thought a fantastic way for groups to generate new ideas. Although not as fashionable as it once was, brainstorming is still frequently used in business and, often inadvertently, for all sorts of personal decisions; peop ...

  • 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 ...

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  • Bill would give president emergency control of Int ...

    By Declan McCullagh , CNet Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconn ...

  • Cheney ‘OK’ With Violating Felony Torture Stat ...

    Cheney ‘OK’ with violating felony torture statute By Muriel Kane | Raw Story In an interview with Fox News to be aired this Sunday, former Vice President Dick Cheney said he is “OK” with CIA interrogations that violated Justice Department guidelines and condemned the prospect of any investi ...

  • Rep. Frank: House Will Pass Ron Paul’s ‘Audit ...

    Rep. Frank: House will pass Ron Paul’s ‘audit the Fed’ bill this year Powerful House Financial Services Committee chairman says central bank’s lending powers to be ‘curtailed’ By Stephen C. Webster | Raw Story Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA), one of the most unabashed liberals in the U ...

  • Blackwater Founder Accused in Court of Intent to K ...

    Blackwater Founder Accused in Court of Intent to Kill By Jerry Markon | Washington Post The founder of Blackwater USA deliberately caused the deaths of innocent civilians in a series of shootings in Iraq, attorneys for Iraqis suing the security contractor told a federal judge Friday. The attorneys ...

  • Ten Lessons Learned from War

    Ten Lessons Learned from War | McClatchy Forty years ago last week I landed in Vietnam as a soldier. I covered the war in Iraq for the last six weeks as a correspondent. Bookends. Several volumes between them -- a dustup in Belize with Guatemala; South Korea's street fights for democracy; the Persia ...

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  • 'Major win' for Japan opposition

    The opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) is set to win the general election by a landslide, exit polls suggest.

  • The Big Screen Gets Bigger

    Today, young movie-watchers look increasingly like Molly O'Connor. A junior at the University of Dallas, she still goes to the cinema occasionally, but is often just as happy to hunker down on a bed or a couch with friends to watch a downloaded movie on

  • Jaycee Dugard, transfixed by a monster

    Public revulsion will focus on Phillip Garrido, the delusional sex offender likely to spend the rest of his life in jailIn these harsh economic times, the is especially riveting to the public imagination. Our horror and revulsion unite us. Who can we

  • Opposition seen surging in Japan vote

    Japan voted Sunday in elections expected to end the ruling conservative party's nearly 54 years in power and give a largely untested opposition a chance to make good on its promises.

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    This is a guest post by , co-founder and CEO of Hubdub Ltd, the company behind , the news prediction game, and , the daily draft fantasy sports game. Over his last three start-ups he admits he has made every mistake outlined below. Throughout the summer

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Washington Independent

  • DOJ May Skirt Court Order on Interrogation Documen ...

    The Obama administration may circumvent the spirit of a judge's order to disclose hundreds of documents relating to the CIA's Bush-era interrogation program.

  • Mike Huckabee: Obama-Style Health Care Might Have ...

    Sam Stein listens in to Mike Huckabee’s little-noticed radio commentaries for ABC and finds a bit of bad taste. Huckabee’s commentary on the morning of Aug. 27, which aired hours after the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy, argued that government health care might have prodded him to end his life early. ...

  • What Does LeMieux’s Appointment Mean for Cli ...

    Short answer: Hard to say. Long answer: Retiring Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) has been a moderate voice on environmental policy — he voted for cloture on the Lieberman-Warner cap-and-trade bill last year — and his departure could deprive Democrats of one of their few potential Republican allies on ...

  • The Daily Dose

    What with all the death panel talk and senatorial waffling, it’s hard to keep track of the latest developments in the health care reform debate. So we’ll do the work for you. At the end of each day, TWI will run The Daily Dose, a recap of the health care stories of the day that [...]

  • Rep. Trent Franks: I Came Within Three Days of Lau ...

    After a week of unwanted attention that seemed to end with him signing on to Rep. Bill Posey’s (R-Fla.) bill to demand birth certificates from future presidential candidates, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) has released the audio and transcript from the town hall where, according to the Mohave Daily N ...

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  • 18-year kidnapping 'heart-warming': suspect

    A California man who kidnapped an 11-year-old girl and fathered two children with her after holding her prisoner for 18 years described his crimes as "heart-warming" ahead of a court appearance Friday. In a bizarre interview with a local television st Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Society & ...

  • The Cow Turns Green

    Few creatures would seem as beneficent as the cow. Properly grazed and groomed, it gives us burgers and brie, boot leather and fertilizer. Lately, however, radical green groups and celebrity vegans like Paul McCartney have made cows out to be weapons of m Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Green L ...

  • The boy who cried 'pig'

    There once was a boy who needed to fill programming gaps for his 24-hour cable news channel. The boy cried out, "There is a mad cow coming to your family's dinner table! Throw away your red meat!" The villagers turned on his channel to hear his messag Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Society & ...

  • Common sense would cost a lot less than 'health an ...

    There are days when you wake up in the morning and think the world has gone entirely mad. I felt like that when I heard that hanging baskets are a hazard to health and safety - and that local authorities think that 24 hours constitutes reasonable notice Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Offbeat ...

  • Association Criticises GE Trees for Ethanol

    US - The Soil & Health Association is calling for a ban on New Zealand exports of genetically engineered (GE) organisms used to create ethanol. The intended growing in the United States of 260,000 GE eucalyptus trees from New Zealand has been described Submitted by cowboss for the Cows to Green Lif ...

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Ramping up renewable energy
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By Kevin Smith, Staff Writer Southern California Edison is currently working the Tehachapi Renewable Transmission Project, which will route wind-generated ...
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Renewable or nuclear energy? That's just one question
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The numbers for the three renewable sources would be higher if methods to store the energy were to be developed at a reasonable cost. ...
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How green socialism can save the UK
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ECOLOGY: Connell to get funding for flood-control project
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CONNELL The city of Connell will get $50000 to clear sediment from a channel as part of a statewide effort by the Washington Department of Ecology to help ...
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Ecology seeks public input on wastewater permit fee changes
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Founder of the British People/Ecology/Green Party dead at age 80
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- Aug 29, 2009
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The following year this led to the creation of the People Party, later renamed the Ecology Party and finally the Green Party. ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
- Aug 29, 2009
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For six months, the Legislature has been working on a package of bills that would drastically shift the way Californians use and receive water. ...
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Town Still Boiling Water, But Outdoor Use OK
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BOSTON -- Gloucester residents will need to continue boiling their tap water until at least Sunday night, pending the results of more water testing, ...
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Water crisis threatens Yemen's swelling population
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- Aug 30, 2009
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Some residents receive piped city water only once every nine days and others get none at all. The sinking water table means the municipality can now operate ...
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Georgia has own water war with downriver communities
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Aug 29, 2009
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Sonny Perdue had to fight in the Chattahoochee River water war, then he might have a deal by now. Bita Hornarver, bhonarvar@ajc.com Joe Maltese, ...
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