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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • RIGHTS-INDIA: Gujarat State on Trial for Extrajud ...

    NEW DELHI, Sep 14 (IPS) - When police in western Gujarat state claimed to have shot dead four members of the militant Lashkar-e-Toiba (Soldiers of God) group, otherwise known as LeT, including a 19-year-old girl student, on Jun. 15, 2004, in an ‘encounter,’ few believed them.

  • VIETNAM: Doubts about Small Dams Give Gov’t ...

    HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Sep 14 (IPS) - With a generating capacity of only 190 megawatts, the Dak Mi 4 hydropower project being constructed in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Nam is small by international standards.

  • NIGERIA: Govt Gears Up for Another Offensive in t ...

    WASHINGTON, Sep 13 (IPS) - There is mounting evidence that the government of Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'adua is set to launch a full-scale offensive in the Niger Delta when a ceasefire declared by rebels ends on Sep. 15.

  • EDUCATION-BRAZIL: Public Schools Fend Off Invasio ...

    ARAÇUAI, Brazil, Sep 13 (IPS) - Two non-governmental initiatives managed to penetrate the walls around public education in Brazil, temporarily assuming responsibility for the administration of schools where they left their seeds planted. But ultimately they discovered how resistant the school s ...

  • HEALTH-KENYA: A Glove To Save a Mother's Life

    KISUMU, Kenya, Sep 12 (IPS) - The need for gloves for health workers assisting with childbirth may be obvious, but in Yala Sub-District Hospital in western Kenya, obvious does not mean available.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Innovation Canada

  • Little boxes

    With more than half the Canadian population now living in the suburbs, Jill Grant says it’s an obvious time to study this increasingly popular living option, one that remains a bane to urban planners and downtown boosters. Are people drawn to the concept of perfectly matching houses throughout a n ...

  • FISHing for answers

    University of Alberta (U of A) researchers have developed a cancer-testing technology with a snappy name but a serious purpose. The “FISH on a chip” is a complex test that detects abnormalities in chromosomes which characterize particular types of cancer. To create it, researchers miniaturize a ...

  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Charlie Sheen: America was behind the 9/11 atrocit ...

    Charlie Sheen has provoked outrage with claims that the U.S. government was behind the September 11 terror attacks. Ahead of today's eighth anniversary of the atrocities that killed 3,000, the Hollywood star has insisted there was a cover-up. And he has appealed to President Barack Obama to hold a ...

  • Video: Former Congressman James Traficant Tells th ...

    In an interview with Fox News Greta Van Susteren, he said he was the number one target of AIPAC and the U.S. Justice Department. Traficant denied he is anti-Semitic that "Israel has a powerful stranglehold on the American government," controlling members of the House and Senate and involving the U.S ...

  • FLASHBACK: Former Gitmo Guard Tells All

    Army Private Brandon Neely served as a prison guard at Guantánamo in the first years the facility was in operation. With the Bush Administration, and thus the threat of retaliation against him, now gone, Neely decided to step forward and tell his story. "The stuff I did and the stuff I saw was ju ...

  • Master gene creates armies of natural-born killers

    Discovery of the master gene behind the front-line troops of the body's immune system could promise a host of new treatments for disease. Called E4BP4, the gene kick-starts production of natural killer (NK) cells in the bone marrow. Mice genetically engineered to lack the gene were able to make all ...

  • New look at Alzheimer's could revolutionise treatm ...

    Genes that increase the risk of Alzheimer's and a blood protein that speeds up cognitive decline are radically changing our view of the devastating illness. Reported this week, both findings suggest new causes for Alzheimer's, boosting prospects for its treatment and prevention. "What we've found i ...

Threat Level

  • Net Hoax Convinces Germany of Fake U.S. Suicide Bo ...

    FRANKFURT — All of Germany was bamboozled Thursday by a bizarre scheme that tricked the country’s main wire service into reporting an attempted suicide bombing in a California town — an attack supposedly perpetrated by a non-existent rap group called the “Berlin Boys.” How they did it: A ...

  • Attorneys Can See Classified Info in Coffee Table ...

    A federal judge in Washington has ordered the government to grant security clearances to lawyers on both sides of a lawsuit claiming illegal spying against a DEA agent, in a ruling that challenges the government’s long-held claim that the executive branch alone has the authority to determine who ...

  • Vote: What’s Next for The Pirate Bay?

    Thursday’s de-listing from a Swedish stock exchange of The Pirate Bay’s corporate suitor is likely to scuttle the planned $8.5 million purchase of the world’s most notorious BitTorrent site. The removal of GGF from the AktieTorget exchange was based, in large part, on the exchange’s findings ...

  • Pirate Bay Purchase Sinking

    The company planning to purchase The Pirate Bay was de-listed from its Swedish stock exchange after concluding Thursday it duped investors and regulators in the $8.5 million deal. Threat Level has repeatedly questioned Global Gaming Factory’s intentions of turning the world’s most notorious BitT ...

  • Feds Crack ‘Rabid Neurosis’ Pre-Release Piracy ...

    Four high-level members of a pre-release music piracy group, “Rabid Neurosis,” including one of its leaders, were indicted on criminal copyright infringement charges Wednesday. The indictment (.pdf) brings to six the number of alleged Rabid Neurosis defendants ensnared in what the authorities ar ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Health Care Fight: No Echoes of Bush Social Securi ...

    On Monday, the AP portrayed President Obama's struggle to pass health care reform as the second coming of George W. Bush's unpopular and ultimately disastrous attempt to privatize Social Security. But while man each left the bill crafting to Congress...

  • Excerpts of President Obama's Speech to America's ...

    In response to the manufactured outrage over President Obama's planned address Tuesday to America's schoolchildren, the White House as promised has released portions of the text of the speech in advance. Here are excerpts from President Obama's prepared remarks: Preliminary...

  • Why Right-Wing Hissy Fits Work

    On Wednesday, the fact checking web site Politifact deemed a "pants on fire" lie the Republican claim that President Obama planned to indoctrinate America's school children in a broadcast next week. On Friday, press secretary Robert Gibbs rightly noted that...

  • GOP: Health Care Needs More Senate Votes Than Soci ...

    Once upon a time - a time before the 2006 midterm elections consigned the GOP to minority status in Congress, a bill generally required 51 votes in the Senate to become law. But not content to rest on their record...

  • In New Book, Tom Ridge Decries Politicized Bush Te ...

    "In his new book, former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge confirms what most long suspected: the Bush administration manipulated the terror threat level for the President's political advantage. But while his long overdue admission is welcome, his suggestion that he...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • Bush's Interrogators Stressed Nudity

    George W. Bush's interrogators humiliated "war on terror" captives by keeping them nude, reports Robert Parry. September 12, 2009

  • Obama Faces Hard Afghan Choice

    With the Afghan War nearly eight years old, President Obama must make a fateful choice on troop levels, says Michael Winship. September 12, 2009

  • Gaps in Obama's Health Proposal

    President Obama signaled that significant health reform might be delayed for years, reports TheRealNews. September 11, 2009

  • Old Hands Picked for CIA Oversight

    Congressional Republicans and the CIA opt for "trusted old hands" for intelligence oversight jobs, says Melvin A. Goodman. September 11, 2009

  • The Real Lessons of 9/11

    The 9/11 attacks and their aftermath show that competence and rational behavior matter, writes Robert Parry. September 11, 2009

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Planetsave

  • 14 Deer Die in One Night at Zoo under Mysterious C ...

    According to reports , 13 cheetal and one swamp deer died Friday evening under “mysterious circumstances” at the Kanpur Zoo. Viscera samples and stomach content have been sent to the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI). Results are expected sometime within the next two weeks. The ...

  • The Greening of Paint

    Oregon this summer became the first state to enact in law a product stewardship law for the collection of leftover consumer paint. The pilot program, which expires in 2014, involves a consumer fee that a nonprofit organization established by paint producers uses to pay for the collection and pro ...

  • The Great Lakes: Whose water is it anyway?

    In a century of rising fresh water scarcity, a community of activists in the Great Lakes region is working to prevent private ownership of that water resource, although most mainstream conservation and environmental activists are focused elsewhere. If the activists’ concerns are valid, their bat ...

  • Locks of Love: The Evolution of My Hair, and a Sta ...

    Hi, you might recognize that beautiful smiling face before you. That is my face, well it was my face over the last couple of years. I am not here to talk about my face or my smile, which some have called “winning.” I am not even here to talk about myself, although I could do that all day, and ...

  • Cure for AIDS? Possible AIDS Vaccine in the Works

    Researchers in California believe they have hit the jackpot in modern medical breakthroughs. The cure for AIDS. The researchers have published a study in the journal Science, demonstrating two powerful new antibodies which could hold the key to achieving a viable AIDS vaccine. It has been well kn ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Casual Friday Video Round Up

    It’s raining, its poring, and its Friday… so let’s stay inside and watch Youtube videos about action on climate change! Clean Energy Works national television ad, “Waste.” “Get Past the Old Lies”, Environmental Defense Fund: “Cursing Cap” “Goldfish” Posted in Global Warming ...

  • King Williams Parade Pics 051 [Flickr]

    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

  • Don’t Get Rolled Rally: Austin Update

    Earlier this week, Public Citizen hosted a rally at the state capitol to raise awareness about the U.S. Supreme Court re-hearing Wednesday of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Representatives from Common Cause and Clean Elections Texas joined us, despite the rain and ominous weather. ...

  • King Williams Parade Pics 062 [Flickr]

    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

  • Hutchison Takes “Head in the Hot Sand” Approac ...

    Check out our editorial in the Round Rock Leader, in response to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s piece “Cap and Trade is No Good For Texas”: A rebuttal to Sen. Hutchison’s piece concerning Cap and Trade policies By ANDY WILSON Special to the Leader United States Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison takes a ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Canary In The Coal Mine: Climate Change in Tim ...

    Crossposted from Antemedius Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss: James Balog on TED.com "Ninety five percent of the glaciers in the world are retreating or shrinking... there is no scientific dispute about that "Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a netw ...

  • Californians Don't Trust Their Government

    They think that state government no longer serves the interest of the people and actually, who could blame them? As Cathleen Decker says in her piece in the LA Times this morning, "And it's no wonder, with all the money wealthy donors, or their operatives, toss around in Sacramento." But the sign ...

  • Big Problem With The MSM: TV Journalists Are Often ...

    It caused me great pain and consternation to see a CNN anchor trying to interview a Tea Party leader during the big 9-12 march on Washington on Saturday afternoon. The anchor stammered something about the U.S. being a "democracy" and that capitalism is our system of government, or something to that ...

  • The Nightowl Newswrap

    That'll impress the uptight, evangelical base! Bob McDonnell, the republican candidate for Governor of Virginia slipped up and dropped an F-bomb in a live radio interview on Friday. Ever wondered... what a klan rally would look like without the white sheets? Click the link and your question will ...

  • I'm a Ninther

    The 9th Amendment to the Constitution - The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others (health-care) retained by the people.

Care 2

  • Plans to reintroduce cheetahs prompts conservation ...

    India is planning to reintroduce cheetahs into the wild, more than six decades after they were thought to have been hunted into extinction in the sub-continent. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Viva, The Chicken Who Started It All

    Buried in the trees behind the fence at the back of our yard, there was a chicken house which opened onto the cow pasture on the other side. It belonged to our landlady. When we first rented the place, I used to pass by it regularly on my way to the Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | ...

  • 40 lakes in Kazakhstan given Ramsar protection

    Two new arid steppe lake systems in Kazakhstan are now under the protection of the Ramsar Convention. The Naurzum Lake System, a system of approximately 26 lakes, and Zharsor-Urkash Lake System, a system of 14 lakes, have been included in the Ramsar Submitted by Cher C. to Environment | Note-it! ...

  • Dog-population Management in China

    Periodically, Animals Asia learns of government-organized dog-killings on the streets of Chinese cities. Many of these killings are in response to outbreaks of human rabies or to archaic dog-management regulations that do not allow dogs of certain sizes Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! ...

  • Man arrested after trying to teach cat a lesson by ...

    Presenting a brand-spanking-new feature here at Unleashed: "Don't. Just Don't." Here, we'll cover all the ill-advised ideas we silly humans have for dealing with animals. Generally speaking, they don't turn out well. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • MillerCoors Dedicates September to Improving Water ...

    During its first annual Water Stewardship Month, the company's breweries and headquarters are engaging in partnerships and volunteer projects to promote responsible water use.

  • Asia Pulp & Paper Sets Sustainability as a Require ...

    At a summit of global paper industry leaders, Asia Pulp & Paper announced a commitment to halt expansion of its pulp-processing facilities until it finds a source for sustainably produced materials. At the same time the Forest Disclosure Project has announced the next step in developing its first an ...

  • Setting a New Standard for Green Meetings

    The concept of green meetings should be more clearly defined by year's end under proposed Green Meeting and Events Voluntary Standards that are being reviewed by stakeholders from industries ranging from lodging to transportation.

  • Sempra Energy Heads the List of Top 25 Smart Grid ...

    Sempra Energy leads the list of the top 25 smart grid utilities in the first ranking of its kind conducted by IDC Energy Insights and Intelligent Utility magazine

  • Manna from Houston Brings Clean Water Systems to R ...

    Of all the problems threatening the world today, two loom large. One is the climate crisis. The other is the fact that billions of people lack access to clean water and sanitation.

Reuters Global

Ezra Klein

  • Tab Dump

    • Nothing is more useful than a Microplane grater. • The Atlantic collects some of its best 9/11-related coverage . • What happens when online communities die? • What Lehman teaches us about social insurance. • A very lost decade. • A very manly argument for health-care reform.

  • The Middle of the Beginning of the End

    James Kwak responds to my earlier post on employer-based insurance and notes that the problem isn't simply that employers are dropping coverage, but that there's every reason to believe that that deterioration will speed up: Not only is employer-based coverage deteriorating, but the reasons for tha ...

  • The Joys and Sorrows of Swing Voting

    According to ABC News , President Obama is spending some quality time this afternoon with 17 lucky senators: Sens. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Tom Carper (D-Del.), A ...

  • More Charts!

    Health Care for America Now has released another handy-dandy chart detailing how health-care reform will work. There's also a pretty clean page of text explaining what health-care reform will do for different groups of people. It would be nice if they'd include some larger jpegs, and maybe some colo ...

  • Short-Termism

    Speaking of financial regulation, here's Steve Pearlstein on the rise of "short-termism" : The roots of this short-termism go back to the 1980s, with the advent of hostile takeovers mounted by activist investors. This newly competitive "market for corporate control" promised to reinvigorate corpora ...

Booman Tribune

  • Froggy Bottom Cafe

  • That's Not Answering the Question

    "How to lose me in the first two sentences of your column on Afghanistan," by Fareed Zakaria: It is time to get real about Afghanistan. Withdrawal is not a serious option. There is that "serious" word, again. I wouldn't put myself in the "get out now" camp, but every "serious" person I know i ...

  • Casual Observation

    Even though Mark Steyn is probably the most systemically dishonest columnist being published in this country, I hope he is right about Obama ramming home a health care bill that will cause a "long-term gains [that] will be transformative and irreversible." My understanding is that Obama is appearin ...

  • YouTube Thread

    In honor of the upcoming Beatles Rock Band: They just dominated.

  • Santorum for President

    Good news: ORLANDO, FL, September 12, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Speaking to a room full of prominent US Catholic leaders Friday night, Senator Rick Santorum was challenged to run for the Republican Presidential nominaion. Responding to a room already thick with applause, Santorum revealed that h ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • My fandom

    Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderf ...

  • My fandom

    Does Not Equal is a webcomic by Sarah Ennals – check out the pre-Futurismic archives, and the strips that have been published here previously. [ Be sure to check out the Does Not Equal Cafepress store for webcomic merchandise featuring Canadians with geometrically-shaped heads! ] Project Wonderf ...

  • Nanotechnologically self-repairing circuits

    Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a means by which nanotube-filled capsules could repair electronic circuits when they are damaged: Capsules, filled with conductive nanotubes, that rip open under mechanical stress could be placed on circuit boards in failure-prone areas. When ...

  • How to download whole books from Google

    Just in case it isn’t obvious: the following is not an incitement to (or endorsement of) copyright infringement; I have decided to publish this link because I know a number of readers here are interested in the legal and commercial future of books in a digital age (as am I), and because the Author ...

  • Fake Big Brother, bogus Balls of Steel: the *real* ...

    Now here’s an example of the serendipitous way that stories seem to glom together when you blog regularly. A few days ago I noticed a post at MetaFilter about Ikea Heights, a rather silly guerrilla drama show filmed entirely in a large Ikea store without the permission (or, apparently, the awarene ...

Therapy News

  • Veterans Seek Better Mental Health Treatment throu ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Though mental health has at its core the best interests of those working through their difficulties, it is often set back by issues in regulation, administration, funding, and other aspects which have little to do with the process of healing itself. Such complications ...

  • Searching for Links Between Love and Hate

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary There are multiple ideas about the reason as to why hate evolved as an emotion and how it has been useful in the development of human evolution. A popular idea is that the experience of hatred makes people more observant and prepared for conflict, helping them to quick ...

  • Psychotherapy and Meditation: Sitting with What Is

    By Anne Ihnen, MA LMHC Sitting in meditation means sitting with what is. The challenge, of course, is that a lot of what is doesn’t feel very good: we experience fear, restlessness, grief, anxiety, shame. For many of us, these experiences are enough to send us fleeing from the cushion, convinced ...

  • Nation Wakes Up to Need for Greater Dual Diagnosis ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Most people are well aware that some percentage of the population grapples with a substance abuse issue, and that trends in the precise substances used may change from time to time, but difficulties that arise as a result remain largely the same. Problems at work, with ...

  • Anorexia is on the Rise in the United Kingdom

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Anorexia may be expected to experience higher rates of occurrence in stressful times, and as the financial crisis tightens its grip on the United Kingdom, stress is certainly a predominant result. Unfortunately, however, this stress seems to be contributing to an alar ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Verizon says coal industry rally sponsorship not e ...

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Verizon Wireless says its sponsorship of a Labor Day rally supporting the coal industry was not an endorsement for mountaintop removal mining. Verizon...

  • Verizon says rally sponsorship not endorsement (Ch ...

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Verizon Wireless says its sponsorship of a Labor Day rally supporting the coal industry was not an endorsement for mountaintop removal mining.Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam also says in a letter to the Center for Biological Diversi...

  • Verizon says rally sponsorship not endorsement (Th ...

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Verizon Wireless says its sponsorship of a Labor Day rally supporting the coal industry was not an endorsement for mountaintop removal mining.Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam also says in a letter to the Center for Biological Diversi...

  • Is Mountaintop Removal Mining a Threat to Watershe ...

    U.S. EPA is conducting further environmental analysis on 79 pending permits for mountaintop mining , the agency announced today. The agency said the permits issued by the Army Corps of Engineers , identified in a preliminary list released today, could all potentially pose a threat to the mountain wa ...

  • 49 E. Ky. coal permits get another look (Louisvill ...

    Forty nine coal mining permits in eastern Kentucky will get additional scrutiny over the next two months by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of the Obama administration's pledge to make sure that mountaintop removal mining activities comply with the federal Clean Water Act.

Memeorandum

  • T'was Accountability That Killed The MSM (Ed Drisc ...

    Ed Driscoll / Pajamas Media : T'was Accountability That Killed The MSM — On Twitter, Virginia Postrel writes: … Yikes indeed. So why is this happening? Yes, there are certainly key technological changes that are driving the Red Queen's Race. But, as John Nolte writes at Big Hollywoo ...

  • Election trouble brewing for House Dems in 2010 (B ...

    Beth Fouhy / Associated Press : Election trouble brewing for House Dems in 2010 — NEW YORK (AP) - Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama's slipping support could lead to double-digit losses for the party in n ...

  • Updated: 9/12 Attendance Issues Addressed (Dan/Rie ...

    Dan / Riehl World View : Updated: 9/12 Attendance Issues Addressed — Update 4: A relevant bit but I won't claim it as definitive. Stacy was there when I got to DC. I took a cab for the last leg and had to be dropped-off blocks up. The mark we are looking at seems to be Constitution Ave ...

  • CLEAN Conservatives vs FILTHY Liberals-- A Photogr ...

    Gateway Pundit : CLEAN Conservatives vs FILTHY Liberals— A Photographic Essay — After the 2 million strong conservative freedom rally on 9-12: — And, here is the filth left for someone else to clean up after the Inauguration of Barack Obama: — Via Prisca — The democrats ...

  • Stiglitz Says Banking Problems Are Now Bigger Than ...

    Bloomberg : Stiglitz Says Banking Problems Are Now Bigger Than Pre-Lehman — Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) — Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, said the U.S. has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

  • M 5.7, Molucca Sea

    Wednesday, September 9, 2009 08:06:32 UTC Wednesday, September 9, 2009 04:06:32 PM at epicenter Depth : 111.40 km (69.22 mi)

  • M 5.3, south of the Fiji Islands

    Sunday, September 13, 2009 21:43:00 UTC Monday, September 14, 2009 09:43:00 AM at epicenter Depth : 541.00 km (336.16 mi)

  • M 5.0, southern Sumatra, Indonesia

    Wednesday, September 9, 2009 04:02:14 UTC Wednesday, September 9, 2009 11:02:14 AM at epicenter Depth : 77.90 km (48.40 mi)

  • M 5.1, Vanuatu

    Sunday, September 13, 2009 05:14:45 UTC Sunday, September 13, 2009 04:14:45 PM at epicenter Depth : 233.60 km (145.15 mi)

  • M 6.4, offshore Aragua, Venezuela

    Saturday, September 12, 2009 20:06:25 UTC Saturday, September 12, 2009 08:06:25 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

  • Sorting the rubbish in Beijing

    在中国首都北京，市民和专家正在审议商讨��垃圾处�的方�。�伟亚就讨论中的方案进行了调查。 After the 2008 Olympic Games, ...

  • Understanding the energy challenge

    China needs low-carbon development to ensure its energy security. In this effort, writes Lin Boqiang, the country could become a model for other developing nations. [Produced in association with Rutgers Climate and Social Policy Initiative ] China needs a low-carbon economy not only to meet the ...

  • The season of dread returns

    Decades of deforestation left Haiti defenceless against last year’s catastrophic hurricanes. But the Caribbean island hopes attempts to save it from the storms will save lives this year, Suzanne Goldenberg reports. The flood waters were washing cows out to sea and spitting up boulders as if they w ...

  • A national team for the climate

    How could China – and other developing nations – consolidate a response to the climate-change crisis? Qiu Dengke interviews Li Lailai, of the Stockholm Environment Institute. [Produced in association with Rutgers Climate and Social Policy Initiative ] Li Lailai is deputy director of the Stoc ...

  • Staying afloat

    Can the global shipping industry increase its efficiency and reduce its contribution to global warming? Arthur Bowring explores the issues. International shipping is the servant of international trade; ships carry an estimated 90% of world trade. Admiral EE Mitropoulos, secretary-general of the Inte ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Net Hoax Convinces Germany of Fake U.S. Suicide Bo ...

    FRANKFURT — All of Germany was bamboozled Thursday by a bizarre scheme that tricked the country’s main wire service into reporting an attempted suicide bombing in a California town — an attack supposedly perpetrated by a non-existent rap group called the “Berlin Boys.” How they did it: A ...

  • Attorneys Can See Classified Info in Coffee Table ...

    A federal judge in Washington has ordered the government to grant security clearances to lawyers on both sides of a lawsuit claiming illegal spying against a DEA agent, in a ruling that challenges the government’s long-held claim that the executive branch alone has the authority to determine who ...

  • Vote: What’s Next for The Pirate Bay?

    Thursday’s de-listing from a Swedish stock exchange of The Pirate Bay’s corporate suitor is likely to scuttle the planned $8.5 million purchase of the world’s most notorious BitTorrent site. The removal of GGF from the AktieTorget exchange was based, in large part, on the exchange’s findings ...

  • Pirate Bay Purchase Sinking

    The company planning to purchase The Pirate Bay was de-listed from its Swedish stock exchange after concluding Thursday it duped investors and regulators in the $8.5 million deal. Threat Level has repeatedly questioned Global Gaming Factory’s intentions of turning the world’s most notorious BitT ...

  • Feds Crack ‘Rabid Neurosis’ Pre-Release Piracy ...

    Four high-level members of a pre-release music piracy group, “Rabid Neurosis,” including one of its leaders, were indicted on criminal copyright infringement charges Wednesday. The indictment (.pdf) brings to six the number of alleged Rabid Neurosis defendants ensnared in what the authorities ar ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

Godspace

  • First Apple Cake for the Season

    I just made my first apple cake for the season for our MSA Board meeting tomorrow. It is a great way for me to relax once I have all my materials ready for the Board members. Our apple crop is not as big as usual but there are still plenty to enjoy. This recipe was given [...]

  • God of the Bountiful – A Harvest Prayer

    This morning I was sitting in our breakfast room looking out on my gloriously productive garden and feeling a little overwhelmed. Â Then I read through one of the prayers that I had written for our Celtic retreat in August and decided that it would be a good one to adapt as a harvest prayer. Â G ...

  • The Spirituality of the Long Distance Runner

    I had not intended to add another post today but just came across this one written by Steve Fouch in response to the What is a Spiritual Practice challenge. I thought that some of you would find it as interesting as I did. He describes himself as an average father, working at an average job, lo ...

  • What Do We do With All the Tomatoes?

    Yesterday I posted a twitter update that read “Enjoying the aroma of drying tomatoes.” Â Unfortunately some of my facebook friends interpreted that as “dying tomatoes” Â and so there have been a few rather pointed comments about the state of my garden. Â That of course made me realize ...

  • A Year in the Life of MSA

    Every year, we devote one issue of the MSA ezine, the Seed Sampler to the happenings at MSA. The other issues are all about what other people are doing to address the urgent challenges of our times. Some great stuff has been happening here: a fantastic Celtic Prayer Retreat, hands-on gardening work ...

Equality Trust

IntelNews

  • Did CIA engage in non-consensual human experimenta ...

    Several observers are focusing on the CIA’s Office of Medical Services, as well as on Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) a secretive US Army unit, whose work appears to have informed the CIA’s torture program.

  • CIA censored me to avoid embarrassment, says ex-ο ...

    More than a month after Secrecy News reported the legal victory of a former CIA agent, who managed to have a censored report he wrote about the CIA’s dirty dealings in Peru declassified, a US news outlet has finally given some attention to the story.

  • News you may have missed #0104

    Pro-secrecy ex-NSA/CIA director joins declassification board. CIA agent who headed plan to lift sunken Soviet submarine dies. CIA director heads agency recruiting drive of US Muslims.

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    Campaigners in support of the release of a group of Cuban government agents jailed in the US have sued the US government for allegedly influencing media coverage of the trial by paying journalists in Miami.

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    Iran deliberately delaying nuclear bomb plans. CIA sets up new External Advisory Board. Is the CIA's Excessive Secrecy Near an End?

PsyBlog

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    · New study finds slouchers make less confident self-evaluations. At school all the cool kids were slouchers. No one wanted to be seen sitting up straight, paying attention or, heaven forbid making an effort to learn. It was only the geeks in the front row, hoovering up all that useless knowledg ...

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  • Group Polarization: The Trend to Extreme Decisions

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  • 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 ...

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    ACTION ALERT! Who's the criminal, John Yoo or Donna Norton? Please act now! Progressive Democrats of Sonoma County CA asks for your support: On August 17th, Donna Norton, Susan Baritell, and Terra Freedman joined demonstrators at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley School of Law, calling for legal accountabilit ...

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Washington Independent

  • Boxer Eyes Cost in Prepping for Climate Bill Fight

    Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara Boxer faces an even tougher climate than in May 2008 when the Warner-Lieberman climate bill failed.

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    So many awesome signs. (Click to enlarge.) This one was interesting. When I asked her if she was on Medicare, she said no, but she was carrying the sign for her friend who is on the government-run, single-payer health insurance program for older Americans. I asked the friend if she was happy with h ...

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CowBoss' Brain Food

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  • Death on the wing

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Why Organic

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    Something is up. Way up. What are all these fine peeps doing here, only a few months before Bush leaves office? Why not wait for the new President to take office? Why NOW? Additionally, what took the Vatican sooooo long to fess up with some responsibility for what has taken place under their soiled ...

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    Flag wavers may sit this one out. Your vote is a covenant that keeps you locked into this 3D movie. You and I have no idea who these people are. You have been brainwashed to believe a bunch of hogwash. There is a much larger reason they want you to vote, than you have been [...]

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  • BIG MEDIA RULINGS

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Invisible Opportunity

  • Remembering the Villains, Seven come 9/11

    By Les Visible Certainly there were heroes around the WTC game-board on that fateful day. There were people like William Rodriguez and various emergency personnel who heard the various explosions and saw the controlled demolition of the towers and told their tale. There were others who just did thei ...

  • The 9/11 Fish Head Flu Pandemic

    By Les Visible With all of the press hoopla about the H1N1 flu an even bigger epidemic is being overlooked and that is the 9/11 Flu. Deaths from the 9/11 Flu have gone over a million in the last eight years while H1N1 remains a piker by comparison. The 9/11 virus is a mutation of the Zio-Flu [...]

  • Fifty questions on 9/11

    By Pepe Escobar It’s September 11 all over again – eight years on. The George W Bush administration is out. The “global war on terror” is still on, renamed “overseas contingency operations” by the Barack Obama administration. Obama’s “new strategy” – a war escalation – is in ...

  • America was behind the 9/11 atrocities, says actor ...

    By Paul Thompson Charlie Sheen has provoked outrage with claims that the U.S. government was behind the September 11 terror attacks. Ahead of today’s eighth anniversary of the atrocities that killed 3,000, the Hollywood star has insisted there was a cover-up. And he has appealed to President Barac ...

  • 80,000 New Yorkers demand a new investigation into ...

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  • Association Criticises GE Trees for Ethanol

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  • General Motors to Try Selling New Cars on eBay

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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Sept. NATO air strike killed 30 civilians - offici ...

    Sept. NATO air strike killed 30 civilians - official Reuters UK Sixty-nine Taliban were killed, 49 of those were armed and 20 were unarmed, and 11 Taliban were wounded," he said. Last Monday, Afghan Rights Monitor, ...

  • Sept. NATO air strike killed 30 civilians - offici ...

    Sept. NATO air strike killed 30 civilians - official Reuters UK Sixty-nine Taliban were killed, 49 of those were armed and 20 were unarmed, and 11 Taliban were wounded," he said. Last Monday, Afghan Rights Monitor, ...

  • New Bin Laden Tape Calls Obama Powerless to Stop A ...

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Sideways News

  • Week in pictures: 14th September 2009

    Come and view the best pictures from around the world every day. Get a snapshot into another part of the world and open your eyes to what is happening all around you.

  • Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2009

    The list of winners of the annual Astronomy Photographer Of The Year competition was announced on 10th September, with the exhibition opening in the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London on the same day.

  • Creature of the week

    We all need a perk during the seemingly neverending last few hours of the afternoon. Take a look at our favourite animals for some light relief.

  • Week in pictures: 7th September 2009

    A picture for every day, taking a snapshot view into what is happening in the world around us. Come and browse through our gallery of this week's most inspiring images.

  • 9/11 - New York moves forward

    If you go back to New York, you’ll probably catch yourself looking at where the twin towers once stood. You know they aren’t there, and you don’t expect to see them, but you keep looking. It's like returning to the place where you’re certain you left your car keys: “That’s where they wer ...

    Blacklisted News

  • Stiglitz Says Banking Problems Are Now Bigger Than ...

    Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, said the U.S. has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. "In the U.S. and many other countries, the too-big-to-fail banks have become even bigger," Stig ...

  • Neuroengineering to challenge what it means to be ...

    In a recent interview published on H+ Magazine , a new publication (online and print) that covers technologies that both “promise and threaten to radically alter our lives and our view of the world and ourselves,” AI expert Dr. Bruce Katz lays out a lofty vision for the emerging field of neuro ...

  • Alan Greenspan: Market crisis 'will happen again'

    The world will suffer another financial crisis, former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan has told the BBC.

  • Miami’s Ex-DEA Chief Charged with Shredding Docu ...

    The former chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Miami office who led the agency's cases against infamous Panama strongman Manuel Noriega and Medellin cartel kingpin Fabio Ocho, was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for ordering the shredding of records once belonging to disgra ...

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Project Censored

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    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 ...

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    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

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  • $1.9M surge for UQ solar discovery

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  • Soldier shot dead in Afghanistan

    A British soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, it was announced today.

  • Bin Laden dismisses Obama as 'powerless'

    In a tape released by al-Qa'ida's media wing, terrorist leader Osama bin Laden said President Barack Obama is "powerless" to stop the war in Afghanistan.

  • British tourist drowns in Kenya

    A 19-year-old British woman has drowned in Kenya, the Foreign Office has confirmed. Siobhan Meadwell, from Wigan, Greater Manchester, was on holiday in Mombasa when she died during a boat trip.

  • Merkel loses first TV debate with rival

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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Facing Demands and Conditions, Will US-Iran Talks ...

    Summary: Following an unenthusiastic acceptance of Iran’s offer of ‘all-encompassing’ six-party talks by the United States, demands from the US regarding what the talks must include and comments from Iranian officials about what the talks can’t include are leaving open the issue of wheth ...

  • They're baaaaack....

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    Summary: Vahidi ·Iranian defense minister said on Saturday that Iran has no plan to develop nuclear weapons. ·"Manufacturing nuclear weapon is not and has never been on our agenda," Vahidi said. ·"Since the beginning of the Iranian nuclear case, Washington has misjudged the situation," Vah ...

  • US: Six Powers Agree to Iran’s Offer of Talks

    Summary: Despite publicly rejecting Iran’s diplomatic overtures as “not really responsive” just one day prior, the US State Department now says that the six parties (the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) have agreed to Iran’s offer for “comprehensive, all-encompassing and ...

  • Putin warns against attack on Iran

    Summary: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned against military action targeting Iran or imposing new sanctions to curb its nuclear program. source: ABC News read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • "Will AI Surpass Human Intelligence By 2020?"

    Artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence after 2020, predicts Vernor Vinge, a world-renowned pioneer in AI, who has warned about the risks and opportunities that an electronic super-intelligence would offer to mankind. "It seems plausible that with technology we can,...

  • Black Holes: The Ultimate Cosmic Gadget?

    Scientists say that the "universe is the largest laboratory there is", but usually as an explanation for strange signals, not an actual idea for equipment. Now some astronomers are aiming to use a black hole as a particle accelerator. A...

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    The first comprehensive reconstruction of an extreme warm period shows the sensitivity of the climate system to changes in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels as well as the strong influence of ocean temperatures, heat transport from equatorial regions, and greenhouse gases...

  • Richard Dawkins & Carl Sagan: "Will the Universe B ...

    In his classic on the place of planet earth in the universe, Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan asked how is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and said "This is better than we thought. The Universe...

  • The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (9/15)

    Digital Contacts Will Keep an Eye on Your Vital Signs Forget about 20/20. “Perfect” vision could be redefined by gadgets that give you the eyes of a cyborg. The tech industry calls the digital enrichment of the physical world “augmented...

Natural News

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    (NaturalNews) At first glance, a study just published in the August 19th edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is yet another whitewash job about the safety of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus recombinant vaccine --better known as Gardasil, the genital human papillom ...

  • Culture Shock: Living in Ecuador, then visiting an ...

    (NaturalNews) It's shocking visiting the United States after living in Vilcabamba, Ecuador, even for a short while. In just a few weeks in the Valley of Longevity, you naturally get used to the connection with nature: The evening lightning bugs, the dreamscape of stars lighting up the night sky, the ...

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    (NaturalNews) Smoking is a habit associated with numerous diseases, and the labels on cigarettes will soon more accurately reflect this. Obama recently signed a measure that might update warnings on cigarette packs to stronger and more accurate messages, like Smoking Causes Cancer and Smoking Kills ...

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    (NaturalNews) Mike: Hi everybody. I'm here with Kirt Tyson today. How are you doing today, Kirt? Kirt: I'm doing wonderful, and I'm glad to be here. Mike: Now, just the fact that you are here is quite amazing in itself. You had quite a journey to get here and get on the raw foods lifestyle. Can you ...

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    (NaturalNews) In a recent presentation before the annual American Chemical Society meeting held in Washington, D.C., scientist Ankit Agarwal revealed that he's come up with an approach to healing that can kill 99.9999 percent of bacteria in a wound using a natural substance -- silver. And he claims ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • "Million" "Moran" March

    They can't read the health care bill, they can't behave in public meetings - hell, they can't even count - but they sure are angry. And ignorant. And racist. The 9/12 movement - typical conservatives: A day late and a clue short. Please America, don't let these modern-day know-nothings bul ...

  • Proud to be a member of that 'left-wing fringe gro ...

    "I'm thinking of making T-shirts: "Proud to be a member of that 'left-wing fringe group' called 'Women,' " wrote Antonia Zerbisias two days ago. She was referring of course to Steve's unplugged nonsense from Wednesday : "Instead of subsidizing court challenges, the previous government was doing, ...

  • Mappa Wingnuti

    Something is going very wrong in the heads of a substantial number of Americans. - Paul Krugman No offence Paul, but to this observer, the craziness has been there for years, perhaps only in various stages of remission. Take the McCarthy era, at least then the crazy was somewhat understandable. The ...

  • Great! Cheaper Bullets ! ! ! !

    More great news from south of the 49th! Who knew you could actually save $$$ on guns and ammo just 'cuz it's a holiday weekend? From the Miami Herald , but thank goodness, this is not about Florida for a change: Louisiana debuts tax-free shopping for guns, ammo, more By DOUG SIMPSON - Associate ...

  • Smart Guy . . . .

    The Rev. was right . Here's the evidence. Douche bag - 1, Health Care debate - 0 . . . .

Media Matters for America

  • Surprise (for MTP viewers)! Gingrich su ...

    On Meet the Press , after Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) suggested paying for health care reform by cutting Medicare Advantage's "multibillion-dollar subsidies to health insurance companies," Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich attacked the proposed cuts as taking "hundreds of billions of dollars out o ...

  • CNN's King falsely equates Obama calling "death p ...

    CNN State of the Union host John King falsely equated President Obama's statement during his September 9 speech before a joint session of Congress that it's "a lie" that health reform proposals would "set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens" with Rep. Joe Wilson ...

  • Nets devote more coverage to Wilson's outburst th ...

    During their September 10 editions, the three evening network news programs cumulatively devoted more coverage to Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's September 9 joint address to Congress on health reform -- in which Wilson claimed President Obama lied when he said "our reform ...

  • Fox witch hunt attacks Senate-confirmed nominees ...

    As part of Fox News' witch hunt against Obama administration "czars," Fox News asserted that "czars are not subjected to congressional oversight." In fact, many of the Obama administration officials the network has labeled "czars" have been confirmed by the Senate or were appointed to positions ...

  • Todd fails to "call out" Kyl's criticism that di ...

    NBC's Chuck Todd uncritically aired Sen. Jon Kyl's (R-AZ) distortion of President Obama's September 9 address to Congress, in which Kyl falsely suggested that Obama had said, "If you disagree with us, we're going to call you out." But Obama did not promise to "call out" those who disagree with ...

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TPM Cafe

  • The Continuing Disaster of Wall Street, One Year L ...

    As he attempted to do with health care reform last week, the President is trying to breathe new life into financial reform. He's using the anniversary of the death of Lehman Brothers and the near-death experience of the rest of... Sponsored Topics: Wall Street - Lehman Brothers - Business - One ...

  • Nullification (complete with bonus Wilson-Thurmond ...

    Michael Tomasky nails it: Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's latest excursus into the Republican Dixie suck-up, as he "urged fellow governors on Thursday to more frequently assert state sovereignty over the federal government and suggested that the country may increasingly see... Sponsored Topics: So ...

  • Continuing bad news for US/NATO in Afghanistan

    Actually, perhaps trending pretty rapidly toward the truly catastrophic? Joshua Fost of Registan blogged earlier today that "Ghazni Province is falling to the Taliban." (Map and basic info on Ghazni are here.) Later in Foust's post, seems to backtrack a... Sponsored Topics: Afghanistan - T ...

  • Beck's Witch Hunt

    Even though after the Wednesday speech approval of Obama's Health Care plan is back to robust levels, we ought to begin asking the question if we are not experiencing a return to one of the most disgraceful eras of... Sponsored Topics: Health care - United States - Glenn Beck - Witch-hunt - Ques ...

  • Eight Years Later: Why Is There Still A Hole at Gr ...

    Do you remember where you were during our generation's defining hour? When the towers fell and the Pentagon was ablaze, our nation took pause. Now eight years later, it seems that we are still standing still, frozen in time, and... Sponsored Topics: Pentagon - Warfare and Conflict - War on Terro ...

TruthOut

  • CIA Experiments on US Soldiers Linked to Torture P ...

    Students at the US Air Force Survival School at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, the military’s premier survival training program. (Photo: MOJO HD) read more

  • Deadly Afghan Ambush Shows Perils of Ill-Supplied ...

    Ganjgal, Afghanistan - Manning a machine gun on a ridge overlooking this remote Afghan village, U.S. Marine Cpl. Steven Norman tried desperately to lay down covering fire for some 90 Afghan security forces and U.S. military trainers who were trapped in an ambush in the valley below. Each ti ...

  • The "Trigger Mechanism"

    After a summer of politics marked by esoteric phrases like "co-ops" and "insurance exchanges," the newest kernel of ubiquitous arcana is the term "trigger mechanism." This proposal, which is gaining momentum after President Obama's speech to Congress, would have any national health legislat ...

  • Unemployment Rate Doesn't Tell the Whole Story

    "The numbers are telling us that about 1 in 5 Californians is either unemployed or underemployed," said economist Sylvia Allegretto, with the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley. Yosha Bourgea earned $43,000 a year teaching school until he lost his job about a yea ...

  • G2 to the Rescue?

    At a high-powered gathering in Beijing this week, global recovery hopes center on the U.S.-China relationship. Beijing – What a difference a couple of decades make. When Paul Volcker last spoke to the International Institute of Finance — the global industry association of banks an ...

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 ...

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Sabotage Experts: US Coast Guard Exercise on 9/11, ...

    Coast Guard to review exercise after Potomac security scare Security incident on Potomac River prompted by “training exercise,” two police sources say Coast Guard told them. With the nation already on edge and somewhat paranoid on September 11 each year, what is the LAST thing you want to do? ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009

    It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No ...

  • 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 drillingâ€�–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.

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Museum secures Loch Ness Monster rights

    London's Natural History Museum has secured the rights to display the remains of the Loch Ness Monster should it ever be captured in exchange for ...

  • Cave dig unearths important finds

    A cave in Devon has offered archaeologists a treasure trove of ice age animal remains including hyenas, deer and woolly rhinos. The dig was origin...

  • Men lie six times a day

    A new study has claimed that men lie twice as often as women and can do so an average of six times a day. The study also revealed that the most co...

  • How life survives an asteroid impact

    When an extinction asteroid collides with the Earth it can create a winter of endless darkness, but scientists have discovered how small organisms...

  • 11-year-old boy finds pink grasshopper

    An 11-year-old boy has found a rare pink grasshopper in a nature reserve in England. The grasshopper is thought to be a natural variety of the spe...

Grassroots

  • Growing hope and fighting hunger on the Gaza Strip

    Subheadline: Urban gardening as survival mechanism Previous publication: Grist Outside Link: Growing hope and fighting hunger ...

  • 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 ...

Climate

  • September 12-13, 2009

    Schwarzenegger to Veto Renewable Energy Bills (AP) Gov. Schwarzenegger's office said Saturday that he would veto legislation requiring a third of California's energy to come from renewable sources by 2020, choosing instead to mandate the change through an executive order. Minnesota Utility Pul ...

  • September 11, 2009

    US Climate Negotiator: Timing Running Out (New York Times) U.S. climate negotiator Todd Stern warned a Congressional panel that developed and developing nations remain deeply divided on plans for reducing greenhouse gases and time is running out. Australians Overtake Americans in Per Capita C ...

  • September 10, 2009

    Boxer: Climate Bill Will Include Nuclear (Wall Street Journal) Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, who will be writing key parts of the climate bill, says “there will be a nuclear title in the bill.” EU Lowers Planned Climate Funding for Poor Nations (E ...

  • September 9, 2009

    Salazar: Climate Bill Still High on Obama's Agenda (Reuters) Despite Washington's nearly single-minded focus on healthcare reform, the Obama administration still expects the U.S. Senate to pass climate change legislation, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says. Developing World's Energy Needs Set ...

  • September 8, 2009

    EU Ready to Shoulder 30% of Global Climate Funding (EurActiv) The EU is prepared to put up to 30% of the money required to finance an ambitious post-Kyoto climate treaty and overcome the current standoff in the negotiations, a draft European Commission document laying out “fair shares” of t ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Chip Ward, The Ruins in Our Future

    All of us have been watching drought in action this summer. When it hits the TV news, though, it usually goes by the moniker of "fire." As we've seen, California, in the third year of a major drought, has been experiencing "a seemingly endless fire that has burned more than 250 square miles of L ...

  • Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, 9/11's Living Monuments

    On September 11, 2001, a fellow New Yorker and friend of mine , a public health historian who knew instantly what the dangers were, bicycled directly into the smoke, ash, and chemicals that hung over lower Manhattan searching for his daughter whose school was only blocks away from the collapsed bu ...

  • Tomgram: Measuring Success in Afghanistan

    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: Let me express my awe. The Tuesday before Labor Day weekend, I posted a striking piece by organizer and activist David Swanson, "Bush's Third Term, You're Living It." It was the day his new book, Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perf ...

  • Tomgram: William Astore, American Militarism on S ...

    Here's what Cheryl Bartholomew, described as an "Omaha Early Childhood Parenting Examiner," wrote recently about an event happening at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska, for the local affiliate of the national web portal Examiner.com: "The Offutt Air Show, Defenders of Freedom '09 loo ...

  • Tomgram: David Swanson, The More Things Change

    A presidential candidate opposed to the Iraq War is elected and enters the Oval Office. Yet six months later, there are still essentially the same number of troops in Iraq as were there when his predecessor left, the same number, in fact, used in the original invasion of Iraq in March 2003. More ...

Smirking Chimp

  • In Praise of Joe Wilson: What's Wrong with Calling ...

    Liberals are acting all righteous and offended that a member of the Republican opposition, Rep. "Joe" Wilson of South Carolina, would deign to besmirch the "dignity of the presidency" by calling out "Liar!" in the middle of President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday evenin ...

  • UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser ...

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the first time yesterday suggested she may be backing off her support of the public option. According to CNN , Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "said they would support any provision that increases competition and accessibility for health insurance - whethe ...

  • The Real Lessons of 9/11

    On this eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, it’s worth reflecting on how even a mildly competent U.S. President might have prevented the terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and drove the United States into a spasm of revenge that has wasted untold blood and treasure. The evidence of ...

  • Marine's Photo Reminds Us of War that Will Not End

    There was a certain ironic and painful symmetry at work last month. As one iconic image of war was called into doubt, another was being created, a new photograph of combat's grim reality that already has generated controversy and anger. When it was first published in 1936, during the Spanish Civil W ...

  • Go Inland, Young Progressives

    Separating the Midwestern state of Ohio, where soda's called "pop" and workers are sometimes allowed to unionize, from my East Coast home state of Virginia, where a governor perched on a diseased branch of my own family tree gave the nation its first right-to-work-for-less law, is nothing other than ...

Ten Percent

  • EU Negotiating With Honduran Coup Regime

    Caroline Lucas via Socialist Unity- The military coup which took place in Honduras on 28 June this year was 2009’s first such Central American coup. Following the installation of a de facto government, the EU firmly condemned the and made it clear that all negotiations for a preferential trade pac ...

  • State of Play in Iran

    Muhammad Sahimi sums up the present and possible future in Iran (ht2 Naj), the part about the IRGC and the middle class is interesting, I’d like to see something on the working class’s relationship. Speaking of which Mansour Ossanlu, leader of the Union of Workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus C ...

  • Friday! Nine Inch Nails- The Hand That Feeds

    Seemed appropriate…

  • Why We’re All Going To Die

    Because growth-Â FTSE 100 closes above 5000 for first time in almost a year !!!!!! Woohoo!!!!!!-is still the measure of whether things are going well or not. If this ‘crisis’ didn’t teach us anything then only mass die offs will. Boy, I’m chirpy. Cassandras debate. Then that weird airport ...

  • Lost Compass

    No sense of direction… Labour is in serious danger of drifting into opposition, influential backbench MP Jon Cruddas has warned the party. He was joined on the platform by the former work and pensions secretary, James Purnell, While talk of the pair forming a “dream ticket” in any future Labou ...

Paul Krugman

  • Mathematics and economics

    By all means let's have math in economics -- but as our servant, not our master.

  • Fetishizing free trade

    Carbon tariffs don't contradict the principle underlying free trade.

  • The speech

    Maybe this is all it takes to turn the tide.

  • Why the public option matters

    What is one to make of the practical, political argument that any public plan actually included in legislation probably wouldn't make that much difference, and that reform is worth having even without such a plan?

  • Hoping for audacity

    President Obama will give his big health-care speech tomorrow. Let's hope he does it right.

No Quarter

  • NoQuarter Radio’s Sins of Omission with Paulie A ...

    Join Sins of Omission Monday, September 7th at 9pm (ET) as host Paulie Abeles talks to Steven Freeman the lead author of the groundbreaking, highly praised book, Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count. ____ On election day in November, 2004, e ...

  • In 15 Minutes, Join NoQuarter Radio’s Sense on C ...

    Join me at 8PM for NQR’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle. Bruce Carton will be joining me to discuss a wide range of securities litigation and enforcement issues which currently occupy center stage on our economic landscape. Bruce is the editor of Securities Docket and the author of the SD Insider ...

  • The Master Orator and the Amateur

    The one and only. No teleprompters, no nothing but just plain old intellect talking — President Clinton paying tribute to Walter Cronkite at a memorial service held on Wednesday. President Clinton’s health care reform speech to the Congress from 1993 and more below the fold. In his speech at ...

  • MoDo Channels Racist Voices

    MooDoo makes an embarrassing personal admission in today’s NYT. She’s hearing voices. She hears things that don’t exist. And, apparently, her eyesight isn’t too good either. Her piece in today’s NYT calls Joe Wilson’s outburst during Obama’s speech an example of terrible, regional r ...

  • “Tens of Thousands”

    Yes, more numbers to report to you you today. “Tens of Thousands” is the phrase the Washington Post and The New York Times used to describe the numbers of people marching on Washington yesterday, voicing their concerns over the rampant spending by Congress. “Tens of thousands” has apparent ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Catalonia Steps Up Clean Energy Ambitions

    The government of Catalonia approved a decree last month calling for the construction of solar panels on the roofs of 108 public schools.

  • Uganda Unveils Online Gorilla 'Tracking'

    The Uganda Wildlife Authority is planning "online gorilla tracking" as a new initiative targeting the global demand for conservation tourism.

  • A Battle Over California Emissions Rules

    The United States Chamber of Commerce is joining with the National Automobile Dealers Association to try to derail California's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

  • Currently on Our Radar...

    The not-so-hidden cost of crude, Bangladesh's new green dress code, France's carbon tax and more energy and environment news from around the Web.

  • Online Tool Rates Cell Phone Radiation

    The debate over whether cell phones pose health risks is far from settled, but one environmental group has introduced an online tool for rating radio frequency radiation levels for popular handsets.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Supercoca Boliviana Negra cocaine win: Glyphosate/ ...

    Boliviana negra - Wikipedia, Also known as supercoca or la millionaria , Boliviana Negra is a relatively new form of coca that is resistant to herbicide Roundup , or the isopropylamine salt of glyphosate . The coca plant is the precursor to the addictive stimulant cocaine , one of the most widely c ...

  • Believe it or not, the flu will always be with us

    I am sort of amazed by the establishment view that's crystallized around this. Everyone is supposed to cut corners to whip out various runs of vaccines. It's amazing how quickly people forget that influenza has always been with us - a more holistic view is that it basically co-evolves with humans i ...

  • Video with Peter Schiff: A black hole called Feder ...

    I got a kick out of this video and the funny animations. It's all about the mysterious black hole called the Federal Reserve System. Gotta love it! Just posted yesterday: Additionally, the landscape of ruined houses in the first couple shots caught my notice. I'll explain why later... read more »

  • Carbon Market+Sun=FAIL? Sunspot Maunder Minimum vs ...

    Another Little Ice Age? Solar activity and climate change - Ars Technica : Some scientists are suggesting that the slow return to a more active phase of the solar cycle may portend a general decline in solar activity. If sunspots shut down, does that mean that we could stop worrying about climate ...

  • NZ Cellphone racket! LOL This article officially c ...

    In a stunning surprise, apparently the New Zealand mobile phone system is a complete racket, wherein grumpy ministers set the pay rate and thereby influence the balance of corporate power. Or something. In any case, New Zealand's version of the Man officially censored this article about the stupid h ...

Daily Censored

  • Human Trafficking From Nigeria Rises Sharply

    Read the full story at Byline Portal by Sabina Zaccaro, IPS, Italy – An alarming rise has been recorded in the number of Nigerian girls trafficked to Italy. …

  • One Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

    Read the full story at News Hounds Priceless!!! H/T Crooks and Liars …

  • Fox News – "Fair and Balanced" Over ACORN Ambush ...

    Read the full story at News Hounds A blaring headline on foxnews.com: Fox News, once again, appears to be turning into the ACORN channel. All weekend, Fox ran stories about the latest ACORN ambush by right-wingers Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe – you can read more about it here and here. A ...

  • Hutchison Claims That Only A ‘Few’ Of Obama’ ...

    Read the full story at Think Progress On July 30, the Washington Post gave House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) space to write an op-ed railing on President Obama’s “virtual army of ‘czars.’” Today, the Washington Post allowed Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison to write a similar op-ed complaini ...

  • Pawlenty called out on false claim that large numb ...

    Read the full story at Think Progress Today on ABC’s This Week, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) defended Rep. Joe “You Lie!” Wilson’s (R-SC) concern that undocumented immigrants would be able to get federal health care benefits. Although Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ...

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Pine River World News

  • America's New Left

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda. America's New Left © Pravda By Dominick L. Auci, Ph.D. September 12, 2009 Escondido, California On September 9, President Obama addressed a rare, joint session of Congress. His topic was health care reform. Universal health care ...

  • Israel digging tunnel near Al-Aqsa Mosque

    The following article is from Arab News, Jeddah. Israel digging tunnel near Al-Aqsa Mosque © Arab News By Mohammed Mar'i September 12, 2009 RAMALLAH: The Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage said on Friday that Israeli authorities had begun excavation to build a tunnel near Al-Aqsa Mosq ...

  • Morbid Profits: Betting on life expectancy through ...

    The following perspective is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Profiting on death © World Socialist Web Site By Joe Kishore September 10, 2009 Investment banks are planning ways to bet on the life and death of individuals with life insurance policies, as described in an ar ...

  • Of British Conspiracies and Channel Pirates

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin. Of British Conspiracies and Channel Pirates © Stanislav Mishin Source: Mat Rodina September 8, 2009 Recently, a Russian transport, the Artic Sea, carrying about $3-million in timber, having left Kalingrad and heading f ...

  • Unease over oil revenues in Sudan could spark war

    IntelTrends - The following article is from The East African Standard, Nairobi. Unease over oil revenues in Sudan could spark war © The Standard By Macharia Kamau September 8, 2009 Mistrust over the sharing of oil revenues in Sudan could spark another round of armed conflict in Africa's largest ...

    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

    Innovation Canada : Showcasing Research Excellence in Canada

PDA AMERICA

  • OpedNews Journalist and Six Protesters Charged Wit ...

    By Linda Milazzo | PDA Blog Contributor Philadelphia, PA, September 13, 2009: Six members of various anti-war groups, including World Can’t Wait and Military Families Speak Out, and an OpedNews journalist, were arrested yesterday at ...

  • Bloomers and Birthers

    By Jayne Lyn Stahl When I was maybe five or six, I had a dear friend named Theresa whose parents were from Italy. We hung out for most of the third, and much of the fourth ...

  • PDA at Fighting Bob Fest VIII

    Fighting Bob Fest is an annual Chautauqua featuring progressive speakers, networking opportunities, and entertainment. Fighting Bob Fest carries on the tradition of Robert “Fighting Bob” La Follette by providing a forum for progressive ideas on ...

  • Experience argues for ‘Medicare for All’

    By Lara Wright, M.D. I am a family physician who has firsthand experience about the need for health insurance reform. In 1999, after completing a residency in family practice, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. ...

  • Strong Language Is Vital To Winning Back Lost Grou ...

    By Matthew Fouts | PDA Blog Contributor What did I want to hear from President Obama’s speech to the joint session of Congress? So much attention is focused on the public option; I wanted substantive details about ...

Marler Blog

  • Raw Milk Debate Is set to heat up

    Over the last years I have tried to bring some level of rationality to the debate over the consumption of raw milk. I first published on my blog a summary of the findings of my review of peer-reviewed literature on the topic of the "pros" of the consumption of raw milk. Here is the Weston Price As ...

  • Muranaka Farm Inc. parsley recalled because of pos ...

    Muranaka Farm Inc. is recalling 1,005 cases of parsley distributed in 10 states, including Illinois, because it may be contaminated with salmonella. The Moorpark, Calif., company says it's voluntarily recalling cases of 60-count fresh bunched parsley, lot code 0023909, after sampling conducted in co ...

  • Windsor Foods Recalls Beef and Bean Burritos for P ...

    Windsor Foods, a Riverside, California, establishment, is recalling approximately 2,268 pounds of beef and bean burrito products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes , the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. The following products are ...

  • KCRW Radio - Good Food - Food Safety with Bill Mar ...

    Had a great chat with Evan Kleiman of KCRW Radio a few weeks ago. I am about 8:22 into the podcast - click below:

  • Back to Washingon DC Next Week - American Insuranc ...

    Lately it seems I seldom have time to unpack, less alone prepare for another speech. However, I am looking forward to this DC trip. I still believe that insurance companies have the ability to positively influence food manufacturers through auditing before issuing a policy and in giving incentives ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.14.09

    Frankfurt Preview: Toyota unleashes the goods on Auris HSD Concept More solar, more hybrid. Tesla Motors IPO unlikely to come before late 2010 A bit of federal money and a sluggish economy pu ...

  • Frankfurt Preview: Renault's four electric concept ...

    Filed under: Concept Cars , Frankfurt Motor Show , Coupe , Minivan/Van , Sedan , Crossover , Renault , Alternative Fuel Renault Zero Emission teaser image - Click above to enlarge A few months ago, Renault announced plans to bring three electric vehicles to the Frankfurt Motor Show : production ve ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.11.09

    How important is the appearance of a green car? Looks and efficiency. Can you have both? Frankfurt Preview: More on Toyota's new lithium-ion Plug-in Prius Are 12.5 electric miles enough? ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.10.09

    OEMs go all out to defend fuel cells... but hide hydrogen angle Hydrogen cars are now "electric vehicles with fuel cells," capice? Survey says... nearly half of Americans want to buy something like the Vo ...

  • AutoblogGreen for 09.09.09

    Aerodynamics adds 7 miles to Volt electric range Example #253790 why shape is so important. Fisker announces fuel economy estimate for Karma - 67.2 mpg and CO 2 emissions of just 83 g/km Fisk ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Apple's next big thing is Steve Jobs

    On September 9, Steve Jobs returned to the public eye in his first major launch announcement since his medical leave and subsequent liver transplant surgery. At the event, he announced a new line of iPods, new digital formats for music and videos, and, sadly, nothing from the Beatles. Rafe Needle ...

  • TimeBridge: No place to hide from our meetings

    The meeting scheduler utility TimeBridge is growing up and expanding its mission. No longer just a schedule helper, the service is getting more tools to keep meetings that have already started running on time. The company is still selling an online meeting product, based on DimDim . It's adding ...

  • Google Voice and Gmail are sort of merging

    Two new little Google Voice features just made their way into Gmail . A new option lets text messages sent to Google Voice show up as e-mail messages in Gmail. You can reply to messages from Gmail, too, which makes it a nice platform for carrying on a text message conversation. ...

  • TweetDeck gets updates, MySpace support

    The new 0.30 version of TweetDeck , due out Wednesday, supports MySpace . Maybe it's me. Maybe it's my demographic. But who the heck cares about MySpace? The MySpace addition to TweetDeck, though, shows how much CEO Iain Dodsworth wants TweetDeck to become, in his words, "a browser for ...

  • Subvert the HR department with Workscore

    Workscore , set to launch tonight, lets you build a "social resume," a profile of your skills, with ratings from the co-workers you've invited to comment on them. Once you have enough ratings, you can send private Workscore links to the people at the companies where you want to work. ...

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!

  • Sexual terrorism in Congo

    Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday and called on the Congolese government to do more to stamp out rape. One of the people Clinton met with is Christine Schuler Deschryver, a Congolese human rights activist. She lives in Bukavu in the east ...

  • Greg Grandin Fact Checks Lanny Davis on Honduras

    We recently hosted a debate between Latin America historian and New York University professor Greg Grandin and Lanny Davis, a former special counsel to President Clinton who’s now a paid lobbyist for Honduran business leaders backing the coup government. A few days after the debate, Grandin pos ...

  • Guardian Newspaper Credits Democracy Now! in Break ...

    The Guardian newspaper of London published a story about the U.S. military spying on peace activists in Washington State. While the Guardian credits Democracy Now! for breaking the story in an exclusive national broadcast, The New York Times, which ran a piece a few days afterwards, doe ...

  • "A Coup for Lobbyists at the White House"

    Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in the middle of the night just over a month ago, enjoys global support for his return, with the exception of the Obama White House. Though Barack Obama first called the Honduran military’s removal of Zelaya a coup, his administration has backpedaled. Secr ...

  • Steve Earle sings "John Walker's Blues" about John ...

    In 2004, musician Steve Earle performed his song, “John Walker’s Blues,” in our firehouse studio. Go to our exclusive interview with the parents of John Walker Lindh, Marilyn Walker and Frank Lindh: Watch/Listen/Read

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 ...

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    ‘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 ...

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  • Walruses congregate on Alaska shore as ice melts

    Thousands of walruses are congregating on Alaska's northwest coast, a sign that their Arctic sea ice environment has been altered by climate change. "What we've been seeing over the past few years with reduced sea ice conditions, we might be seeing this more and more often, and it's probably not go ...

  • The world's worst radiation hotspot

    Walking through the flat and endless Kazakh steppe, Nemytov Oleg suddenly stops, fumbles in his desert camouflage trousers and pulls out a Geiger counter. The device bleeps into life. He peers pensively at the reading. When we got out of the car it read 3. Now, within a couple of hundred yards, it h ...

  • Praying Mantis Catches a Hummingbird

    Don’t ever mess with a praying mantis.

  • California Kicks Off $75M Green Jobs Training Prog ...

    ..touted as the nation’s largest state-sponsored green jobs training program. Paid for in part with stimulus funds, the Clean Energy Workforce Training Program aims to prepare 20,000 California adults for a range of green collar jobs, such as green building design, solar panel installation, and s ...

  • Teen invents £23 solar panel;could solve world's ...

    A new type of solar panel using human hair could provide the world with cheap, green electricity, believes its teenage inventor. Milan Karki, 18, believes he has found the solution to the developing world's energy needs.

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  • General McChrystal: No Sign of al-Qaeda Presence i ...

    Also Guesses Ongoing War Might’ve Prevented Terror Attacks by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, September 11, 2009 Speaking on the eight-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attack, top US commander in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal says that he sees no indication of any large ...

  • Bill Maher Challenges Obama- 9/11/09 (Video)

    Bill Maher Challenges Obama: “Stand Up For The 70 Percent Of Americans Who Aren’t Crazy” (VIDEO) Huffington Post First Posted: 09-12-09 12:59 AMÂ Â Â |Â Â Â Updated: 09-12-09 01:13 AM On “Real Time” Friday night, host Bill Maher closed his show with some sharp words for the ...

  • Steve Nunn: Former GOP Kentucky Lawmaker Arrested; ...

    Kentucky GOP Pol Found With Slit Wrists After Shooting Death Of Ex-Fiancée TPM Muckraker Zachary Roth | September 11, 2009, 3:54PM For the last few days, we’ve all been transfixed by the tawdry spectacle out of California, in which a married Republican family values crusader has gotten his co ...

  • Obama’s Heckler: Rep. Joe Wilson- His Real N ...

    14 Things You Need to Know About Obama Heckler, Rep. Joe Wilson By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. Posted September 11, 2009. He was mentored by notorious racist Strom Thurmond, he’s taken hundreds of thousands from the health industry, and “Joe” isn’t even his real name. South Carolina Rep. Jo ...

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  • US and China Plan to ‘Take Over’ Clean ...

    By Jonathan Watts Under the plan, money would be used to expand China’s solar, wind, carbon capture and smart-grid markets. Photograph: Graham Turner A joint US-China plan to “take over the world” in low-carbon technology will be revealed tomorrow at a meeting of Davos’s World Economic Foru ...

  • Catherine Goes to North Dakota

    If you are in Fargo, North Dakota this weekend, I hope you will join us! This is a free event to promote sound money, free markets, and to encourage a return to fiscal responsibility among people and in government. More Information

  • Poverty and Income

    By Avi Feller and Chad Stone Two-thirds of the nation’s total income gains from 2002 to 2007 flowed to the top 1 percent of U.S. households, and that top 1 percent held a larger share of income in 2007 than at any time since 1928, according to an analysis of newly released IRS data by economists ...

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  • The Georgia Guidestones

    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...

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    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...

  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...

    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...

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  • Fazlullah may be captured

    MINGORA, Swat — I’m filing this from my iPhone, as Internet is spotty up here, but reports are tricking out that Maulana Fazlullah, leader of the Swat Taliban and a close ally of the TTP, has been either captured or has surrendered near Gulibagh. This is as yet unconfirmed, however. I will post ...

  • Fazlullah may be captured

    MINGORA, Swat — I’m filing this from my iPhone, as Internet is spotty up here, but reports are tricking out that Maulana Fazlullah, leader of the Swat Taliban and a close ally of the TTP, has been either captured or has surrendered near Gulibagh. This is as yet unconfirmed, however. I will post ...

  • Fazlullah may be captured

    MINGORA, Swat — I’m filing this from my iPhone, as Internet is spotty up here, but reports are tricking out that Maulana Fazlullah, leader of the Swat Taliban and a close ally of the TTP, has been either captured or has surrendered near Gulibagh. This is as yet unconfirmed, however. I will post ...

  • A Pakistani Awakening?

    Some interesting news out of the Swat Valley yesterday: TOTANA BANDAI: When a posse of Taliban fighters entered a mosque in this village during evening prayers last week to demand the allegiance of the congregation, long-suffering locals decided they had enough. The villagers, of whom a majority ha ...

  • Afghan Orphans Show Off Artistry

    My friend Natalie Carney is in Kabul doing a documentary on Afghan orphans. And although I’ve seen it many times, I’m always blown away by the sheer resilience of kids in war zones. The urge and ability to be a kid — to play, to smile, to escape a lot of the shit of their [...]

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    Some say that the truth is subjective. Many of us refuse to accept certain truths based on our stations in life, our ethics and our morals.

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    The latest in women’s cycling clothing isn’t lycra cycling shorts, or sports bras, or even bicycle jerseys. It’s more like two pasties and some body makeup. Riders in the World Naked Bike Ride go “as bare as you dare”, raising awareness of the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and prot ...

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    Trees provide us with oxygen, shade, timber, and…power? That’s what researchers at the University of Washington proved recently when they ran a circuit off energy generated by a tree. The experiment was inspired by a MIT study from 2008 that discovered plants’ ability to generate tiny amounts ...

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    Recover, restore, and reuse. That was the mantra employed by Portugal-based architecture team Ezzo, led by César Machado Moreira, in designing Paço De Pombeiro, a twentieth-century rural hotel in Felgueiras, Portugal. The hotel is located on 24-acres of farmland which are primarily used as viney ...

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    Pod living is becoming a new trend in prefab design — small houses carefully designed to contain everything you need to sustain yourself in a small space. Broisson Architects of Naucalpan, Mexico has a new design for a prefab and modular pod house – Shelter No 2. This three-story home is designe ...

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    Some people like suburbia for the wide open spaces, yards, and the sense of privacy, but the ‘burbs are not nearly as efficient as urban centers are. What if there was a way to bring all of the positive qualities of exurbia into the city while keeping all of the efficiency of an urban core? [...]

  • Is It Green?: Method Home Products

    Launched in 2001, Method was conceived by two former roommates to offer eco-friendly, safe and effective home cleaning products. Out to prove that being green is cool, chief brand architect,” Eric Ryan and “chief greenskeeper,” Adam Lowry, created a line of products in attractive, mod ...

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Schwarzenegger may order a change in green energy rules
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An order expected this week would require a third of energy to come from renewable resources -- possibly with no limit on importing such power from other ...
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Darling International Inc. Announces Renewable Diesel Project With ...
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Darling International Inc. Announces Renewable Diesel Project With Valero Energy Corporation IRVING, Texas, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Darling ...
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Clean energy to create more jobs than coal: study
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By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - A strong shift toward renewable energies could create 2.7 million more jobs in power generation ...
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Company Profile for Helix Wind Corporation
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Commute solution: Insurance for alternative transportation users?
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- Sep 14, 2009
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A first-of-its-kind program launched by Bustos and his colleagues at Ecology Action, while it won't address the hair issue, provides one less reason for ...
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Research and Markets: The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology ...
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Tekserve and the Lower East Side Ecology Center to Host Electronic ...
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- Sep 09, 2009
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NEW YORK--(Business Wire)-- Tekserve and the Lower East Side Ecology Center are once again sponsoring an electronic recycling drive, inviting New York City ...
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Outdoors briefs: Ecology money to help Touchet River project
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- Sep 12, 2009
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Mueller Water to offer 27.5 million shares
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- Sep 14, 2009
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AP , 09.14.09, 08:20 AM EDT Mueller Water Products Inc., which makes flow control products, on Monday announced a public offering of 27.5 million shares of ...
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Partisan apprehensions sink water reform package
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- Sep 12, 2009
Last-minute revisions and partisan concessions couldn't save the package of reforms aimed at fixing the state's crumbling water system. ...
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Agency scales back Lake Mead water pump project
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- Sep 13, 2009
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AP LAS VEGAS—The Southern Nevada Water Authority has scaled back an intake pump project at Lake Mead after a drop in the demand for water. ...
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