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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Monday, February 15, 2010

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 IPS - Inter Press Services
  • EDUCATION-NEPAL: Unique School Aims to Be a Tic ...
    KATHMANDU, Feb 15 (IPS) - Had Uttam Sanjel stayed on in the Indian city of Mumbai to pursue his dream of becoming a Bollywood director years ago, the Samata (‘equality) schools that he set up here in Nepal may not be around today.
  • ICELAND: Questions Hang Over EU Membership
    HELSINKI, Feb 15 (IPS) - Views within Iceland towards membership of the European Union (EU) are mixed. Though Iceland has officially decided to apply for EU membership this does not mean that it will join, even if invited to do so.
  • HEALTH-PHILIPPINES: Young Lives Up in Smoke
    MANILA, Feb 15 (IPS) - Whether they choose to light up their first cigarette on their own or are unwitting victims of passive smoking, Filipino youth are increasingly at risk from tobacco exposure.
  • EGYPT: Press Freer, but Still Fettered
    CAIRO, Feb 14 (IPS) - Not long ago an editorial like the one that appeared in the independent Al- Dustour newspaper this week might never have made it into print.
  • DEVELOPMENT: Africa Centre Dismissals Challenged
    BRUSSELS, Feb 14 (IPS) - A European Union (EU) aid programme tasked with nurturing the private sector in Africa has become the focus of high-level diplomatic discussions after almost half of its staff were abruptly dismissed.

Scoop - NZ

  • McCarten: are we still in love with Key ?
    It's Valentine's Day and most of us still love John Key, apparently. His Tuesday speech was promoted as a watershed moment in which we would finally get a better sense of his real motives. There was never any surprise Key would bump up GST and use that extra money to cut income taxes. When sellin ...
  • China orders retreat from risky assets
    A Communist Party directive leaked to the Chinese-language edition of the Asia Times said dollar reserves should be limited to US Treasuries or agency mortgage debt such as Freddie Mac that enjoys Washington's implicit backing. BNP Paribas said the move has major implications for global risk assets ...
  • Cuba: Copenhagen has no legitimacy
    The letter published below was sent by Cuban first deputy environment minister Fernando Gonzalez to Yvo de Boer, who is the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, The December UN climate summit in Copenhagen ended in a farce with an "agreement" drawn up beh ...
  • Dubai puts QE2 on the block
    The disposals are part of an effort to pay down some of Dubai World's $22bn (£14bn) of debts. Last week Istithmar, the investment arm of Dubai World, started the process by selling a 13pc stake in Indian domestic airline SpiceJet. It has also entered into talks to sell Inchcape Shipping Services, ...
  • US: 8 Mil jobs lost, deeper changes coming
    The recession that started in December of 2007 is still causing jobs losses even after 25 long and agonizing months. Most Americans still feel that the economy is deep in the midst of a serious correction. Since the recession started non-farm employment has shrunk from 138.152 million to 130.91 mi ...

Independent ( London )

  • Civilian deaths 'serious setback' to Afghan missio ...
    The killing of 12 Afghan civilians by stray Nato rockets is a "very serious setback" to operations in Afghanistan, the head of Britain's Armed Forces said today as the death of another British soldier was announced.
  • Belgian train crash kills at least twenty
    Two commuter trains collided head-on at rush hour in a Brussels suburb today, killing as many as 25 people, Belgian rail officials said. Other officials said the death toll was lower.
  • Belgian trains collide killing at least 20
    Twenty people were killed when two commuter trains collided head-on during morning rush-hour today, officials in Belgium said.
  • British soldier shot dead in Afghanistan
    A British soldier has been shot dead during a firefight in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said today.
  • Carnival Queen breaks down amid controversy
    She was cheered by legions of Carnival fans, but seven-year-old Julia Lira, the youngest drum corps queen in memory at Rio de Janeiro's lavish party, didn't dance and broke down crying upon realising she was the centre of everyone's attention.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • The people's brakes on war
    Summary: Historic protests couldn't stop the invasion of Iraq, but the legacy will be felt if conflict grows with Iran source: The Guardian read more
  • Netanyahu Heads to Russia to Press for Sanctions o ...
    Summary: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to Russia this week on a state visit which he says will be aimed at convincing Moscow to support “crippling sanctions” against Iran. source: antiwar.com read more
  • Vicious hysteria proposed over Iran’s nuclear prog ...
    Summary: Iran’s announcement that it is to start enriching uranium to close to 20 percent, under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to produce radioisotopes for its medical reactor in Tehran has triggered a fresh outbreak of hysteria. There have been renewed calls for san ...
  • Interview With Head Of Iran's Nuclear Programme
    Summary: Dr Salehi Interview with Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's nuclear programme, explaining recent developments regarding Iran enriching to 20% Uranium source: AlJazeera read more
  • Ahmadinejad calls for worldwide nuclear disarmamen ...
    Summary: In an interview with Russian channel NTV, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for a worldwide nuclear disarmament, declaring that the era of nuclear weapons is over. source: antiwar.com read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • NASA's New Mission: Will It Launch Space-Age "Micr ...
    If the Obama's new NASA plan survives the congressional wringer of hearings, markups, amendments and votes in anything like its present form, it will mark a radical transformation of the our space program from the emphasis on the development and operations of launch vehicles and spacecraft, focused ...
  • Solar Dynamics Observatory: Will It Be Able to Pre ...
    The Atlas V roared to life last Thursday morning to send the Solar Dynamics Observatory into space on its mission to evaluate the complex mechanisms of the sun.  This past November, NASA's orbiting STEREO satellites confirmed the existence of solar mega-tsunamis when they captured height data after ...
  • SETI Invites Citizens of the World Join in the Sea ...
      SETI has just invited the citizens of the world to join the search for extraterrestrial life. All you need to do is log on to the new SETIQuest.org site.  SETIQuest is the result of astronomer Jill Tarter's TED Prize wish. Tarter wished that they would "empower Earthlings everywhere to become act ...
  • "Restaurant at the End of the Universe" - NASAs Ro ...
    "I know this great Restaurant at the End of the Universe." Ford Prefect, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. If we live in a physical universe versus a biological universe, where the ultimate product of cosmic evolution is planets, stars, and galaxies, Steven Dick, NASA's chief historian, suggest ...
  • Is Social Trumping Search - Will Facebook Become B ...
    Yuri Milner is a 48-year-old Muscovite, post-Glastnost billionaire, and Putin clone has become one of the largest investors in digital media in the U.S. this past year, investing a huge sum in the new social “platforms” we all know as Facebook. Milner is one very smart cookie: he has an advanced de ...

Natural News

  • Thirty-six predictions for the world: 2010 - 2012
    (NaturalNews) Ask around and you'll hear this over and over again: People are concerned about what might be coming. They're concerned about a global financial collapse, an ecological crisis and potential disruptions in the food supply. The radical weather patterns now being witnessed across the worl ...
  • Prostate Cancer Screening: 50 Percent False Positi ...
    (NaturalNews) As many as 50 percent of all prostate cancer diagnoses may be cases of over-diagnosis, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal .Over-diagnosis refers to the detection of a cancer that, if left untreated, would never have any negative effects on a person's life. Th ...
  • Exercise can fight aging
    (NaturalNews) A recent study conducted by researchers from Saarland University in Germany has found that engaging in long-term physical activity results in an anti-aging effect. Telomeres, the protective caps found on the ends of cell chromosomes that gradually shorten with age, were found to shorte ...
  • Even "green" technologies depend on dirty, destruc ...
    (NaturalNews) The advent of new "green" technologies may seem like a perfect remedy to many former methods that caused heavy pollution and environmental destruction. The only problem is that many of these new technologies require the mining of rare earth metals which often leads to the destruction o ...
  • Online Advertising Easily Influences Teens to Eat ...
    (NaturalNews) Teenagers are strongly affected by Internet marketing in a way that has yet to be addressed by scientific research or government regulation, a group of scientists has warned in a review published in the Journal of Adolescent Health ."As the media marketplace continues its rapid transfo ...

    TheGallopingBeaver

  • FYI for VANOC, IOC, Canadians*, et al
    Australians, generally, do not like be told what to do or how to behave. They like fun. Especially the sort of fun that amounts to a giant middle finger to bullshit regulations telling them what to do and how to behave. So when their athletes hang a giant boxing kangaroo flag from their Vancouver c ...
  • Fb Fragging
    NERVE IS A BLOG that proclaims its focus on "love • sex • culture". Well, one of their contributors, Brian Fairbanks, found this hearty piece of brouhaha: apparently this young teenager got grounded for three months, because his sister snitched on him, and told their parents that he had a 12-pack of ...
  • At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
    With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Corporal Joshua Caleb Baker, The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (4th Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry), from Edmonton, Alberta, serving with the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team. .Killed in a training accident. ." Fears ...
  • Burning stick meets burning stupid
    Burning stick! Burning stick! U.S. citizen Wayne Gretzky lit the torch and we television viewers were treated to a couple of hours of modern dance and extremely impressive stage effects to mark the opening of the Vancouver games. Nicely done, though neither of my kids would believe kd Lange is a wo ...
  • A Reverse Palindrome
    A PALINDROME is not a hangar for Sarah Palin's ego, it's a word or phrase that means the same read forwards or backwards. Well, this reads with a completely opposite meaning when read backwards. This video was submitted in a contest by a 20-year old. The contest was titled "u @ 50" by AARP. It w ...

Media Matters for America

  • Wallace says he "stud[ied] up" for climate chang ...
    After claiming that he had been "studying up" for a discussion on climate change, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace repeated the false accusation that emails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia show "climate change advocates were suppressing opposition" and a ...
  • Santorum falsely claims Obama has not condemned I ...
    During On the Record , Fox News contributor Rick Santorum criticized President Obama's approach toward Iran, stating that the administration is not "condemn[ing] the regime for being evil and persecuting their people." In fact, Obama has said, "The United States joins with the international com ...
  • Right-wing media use Clinton's heart procedure to ...
    Following former President Bill Clinton's hospitalization to undergo a procedure on his heart, several conservative media figures used the incident to attack Democratic health care reform efforts. For example, Rush Limbaugh said he was "thankful we don't yet have Obamacare," or "the death panel ...
  • They decide: Fox calls for firing of Obama admini ...
    Fox News personalities have suggested that at least 19 Obama administration officials and nominees should resign, be fired, or have their nominations blocked. They have also called for both Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to step down. Beck and Hannity ...
  • Fox News, Hoft distort Summers' comments on tax po ...
    Fox News and Gateway Pundit's Jim Hoft have seized on comments made by National Economic Council director Larry Summers to claim that he said higher taxes on the rich would lead to job growth. In fact, Summers said that President Obama's economic proposals, such as "rewarding people directly for hi ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Pentagon Quietly Explores De-Citizenship of US Cit ...
    At the highest levels of the US military, a quiet discussion is going on about putting in place a legal framework that would permit the US government to strip American citizenship from terrorists. The case of Las Cruces, New Mexico born al Qaeda commander Anwar al-Aulaqi , who has been a key orga ...
  • Dershowitz Under Siege
    Alan Dershowitz is feeling the heat. Last week, the Harvard Law professor agreed that Judge Richard Goldstone, author of the report on war crimes in Gaza, is a "moser," Hebrew term for a snitch. Historically (i.e., in the case of Yitzhak Rabin) the determination that a Jew is a "moser" means t ...
  • The National Anthem -- And Why We Need Health Care ...
    My health insurer here in California is Anthem Blue Cross. When I first opted for it, it was just called Blue Cross. Then, a year or so back, I was notified that an entity called "Anthem" would now be running my insurance policy. I didn't think much about it at the time. I've had the usual proble ...
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  • What Tea Partiers Do -- and What They Should Do
    I don't see why Tea Party Patriots in Nashville paid Sarah Palin $100,000 for a keynote last week when, for no more than the love of country, they could have honored me, a living witness to the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1973. I would have told them how I stood boldly that day on Boston's ...

TruthOut

  • Hold Onto Your Underwear: This Is Not a National E ...
    Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you’re not ready to get on the nearest plane heading anywhere, even toward Yemen. read more
  • Cheney Endorses Effort to Repeal Don't Ask, Don't ...
    On ABC’s This Week today, former Vice President Cheney threw his support behind President Obama’s efforts to change the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, saying that "things have changed significantly " since the discriminatory policy was first put in place. Cheney said that it’s "time to rec ...
  • Errant Rockets Kill 12 Civilians in Afghan Offens ...
    Kabul, Afghanistan - Twelve Afghan civilians died Sunday after two U.S. rockets mistakenly hit a house during the much-trumpeted offensive to clear the last Taliban stronghold in Helmand province, a loss of life that is likely to seriously undermine the operation and the American-led mission in the ...
  • Pressing the Peace Reset Button
    The hopeful energy that resulted in the election of President Obama has run smack into the depressing reality of the largest military budget ever submitted in the history of the planet. But effective strategizing for peace can only emerge from an accurate perception of where we are. The cosmologist ...
  • Healthcare Summit: More Like a Duel at Dawn Than a ...
    The White House has invited congressional Republicans to join Democrats for a healthcare summit to be moderated by President Obama and broadcast live. But Obama says legislative proposals should be on the table, and the GOP wants to start from scratch. The tone is like a hand-engraved invitation to ...

Planetsave

  • 7 Myths about Climate Change Science [& FUN VIDEOS ...
    The science of climate change is not really the question at hand anymore. Of course, there is always more to learn, but that highly accelerated climate change is real and that humans are the main cause of that are no longer questionable facts to the large majority of the scientific community. What ...
  • DE bottle refund law: Mend it, don’t end it, say ...
    A volunteer poses with the bottles and cans collected at a Massachusetts watershed cleanup. A month after the governor of Delaware proposed dumping the state’s beverage container refund law in favor of a new tax for community recycling, in-state and national environmental groups have come out a ...
  • Mann is Off the Hook, So Let’s Look at the Real Cr ...
    Michael Mann, the somewhat infamous climate scientist from Penn State, shouldn’t be so infamous after all, we find out yet another time! “An academic inquiry into the so-called ‘climategate’ email scandal has concluded that a well-known U.S. scientist [Mann] did not directly or indirectly falsify ...
  • Is A Pill Take-Back Law in Our Future?
    As the product stewardship movement gains steam, attention is turning to the issue of unsafe disposal of residue or unwanted consumer pharmaceuticals.  The widespread detection of pharmaceutical residues in public waters and fish has raised biologists’ concerns.  In Minnesota, the popularity o ...
  • Ocean Conservancy Holds US Responsible for Coastal ...
    This week we’re on the topic of saving endangered sea life , and now is the best time to take action with the Ocean Conservancy ! The Obama Administration has a newly formed Ocean Policy Task Force that’s accelerating a planning process for our glorious ocean and coasts. Since it’s up to us to ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • No worries my duckies, “San Antonio resolution bac ...
    I got at least one worried phone call this morning about an article in the Bay City Tribune claiming that A resolution backing STP Units 3 & 4, possibly within the next few days, may be at least partly the outcome of a meeting Matagorda County Judge Nate McDonald and Bay City Mayor Richard Knapik ha ...
  • Rice Farmers in Matagorda County United over Water ...
    Rice farmers in Matagorda County, Texas have united to stop the development of the White Stallion “clean” coal plant in Bay City. As Heather Menzies reported in the Bay City Tribune, local farmers have formed action groups with Public Citizen Texas’ Ryan Rittenhouse and Tom “Smitty” Smith to rally p ...
  • Voters steamed at Supreme Court over Citizens Unit ...
    Where are the torches and pitchforks when we need them? (Or the tar and feathers?)  According to a new poll released today, voters by a margin of 2 to 1 disagree with the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v FEC. Other big results? Asked if special interests have too much influence, 74 per ...
  • Houston’s Ozone Compliance Threatened by White Sta ...
    Public Citizen and Area Legislators Urge State to Deny Air Pollution Permit HOUSTON – Area legislators joined Public Citizen this week in urging environmental agencies to deny the White Stallion coal plant its air permit because if built, the facility would degrade air quality in Houston.  The ...
  • Texas Ag Commissioner Todd Staples says Agricultur ...
    Back in the movie/musical “Oklahoma”, we got a musical lesson that the farmer and the cowman should be friends.  They seem to have bridged that divide rather well in the intervening decades, but today the question remains whether the farmers and ranchers and the climate should be friends. Agricultu ...

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • "We need a spinal transplant in the Democratic Par ...
    Do I really have to tell you who said that? If you still don't understand the difference between Rahm Emmanuel's rhetorical fake-tough and the genuine toughness of Howard Dean, watch this: Full transcript here. (Scroll down for Dean interview.)
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Hearts and minds, baby. "Nato has confirmed that two rockets fired at militants during its offensive in Helmand, south Afghanistan, missed their target and killed 12 civilians. The rockets struck a house in Marjah as thousands of Nato troops continued their operations to oust the Taliban. Nato's com ...
  • Where Are The Populists?
    Based on a Michael Collins article on Daily Censored.com Where are the populists? It's no secret that I'm pretty much fed up with our current system of Capitalism wherein certain capitalist policies are applied only to the bottom 90% of our population while the top 10% are gifted by the most blatant ...
  • Happy Valentine's Day
    One of my favorite songs by two of my favorite artists. Enjoy your Sunday and spoil whoever it is in your life that needs spoiling. We will resume our regular blogging schedule tomorrow.
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    "Hailed" - but for accomplishing what, besides two soldiers dead? "Nato forces in Afghanistan have hailed as a success the first phase of a major operation to oust the Taliban from two key districts of Helmand in the south. More than 15,000 US, UK and Afghan troops swept into Marjah and Nad Ali befo ...

Care 2

  • Marijuana Research Offers New Hope For Male Birth ...
    The male birth control pill has lingered for years tantalizingly just out of reach, in the realm where rumor meets science. Recently developed hormonal and mechanical contraceptives never found an audience, serving only to highlight the absence of male Submitted by Katie Miller to Science & Tech ...
  • Chocolate Perfect Valentines Day Gift: Its Heart-H ...
    Just in time for Valentines Day, researchers have reported that chocolate may keep sweethearts safe from stroke. Submitted by Sally G. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Localization: The Alternative to the Alternatives
    "The end of the Age of Oil will also be the end of globalization1, long-distance commutes, and long-distance transportation of goods and services—period. Oil is the only transportation fuel we have today, and it will be for some time." Submitted by Nancy P. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Barbie's New Career: Computer Engineer
    But role models need more than 'cute pink glasses'Barbie, who once declared that "math class is tough," is branching into IT. Computer Engineer Barbie will be out in the fall, complete with a Bluetooth headset, a smartphone, and a pink laptop. Submitted by Lady Xanadu to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • 911 dispatcher helps save his own son
    OLYMPIA, Wash. - A Thurston County 911 dispatcher helped save his own son’s life.February 4, Chris Scott’s wife Janna called 911 because their 6-month-old son Jacob was choking. He was unconscious and had stopped breathing.The dispatcher who answered was Submitted by Lady Xanadu to Offbeat �|� �Not ...

GreenBiz

  • Lack of Awareness About Water Risks Threatens to S ...
    The vast majority of large publicly companies are failing to adequately manage and disclose risks they face from water stress and scarcity, an issue that will likely become more acute as the world's population increases and the future impacts of climate change come to pass, according to new Ceres r ...
  • From Oil to Gold, Top Companies Shunning 'Dirty' R ...
    Whole Foods and Bed, Bath and Beyond are working to phase out transportation fuel from the Canadian Tar Sands, while Cartier, Sears and more than 60 other retailers have committed to buying gold from environmentally responsible sources.
  • The Rise of Building Efficiency and Retrofits: Sta ...
    It's commonly believed that when it comes to energy efficiency and buildings there's some low-hanging fruit -- but going after the rest costs a lot of money. Actually, that's not true, says C. David Myers of Johnson Controls Inc.
  • San Francisco Launches Nation's Largest PACE Progr ...
    San Francisco has established a $150 million green financing program to allow businesses and homeowners to pay for efficiency, water conservation and renewable energy improvements through future property taxes.
  • The Age of Sustainability: Why 'Less' Should Be Mo ...
    Business has officially entered The Age of Sustainability, and businesses that don't figure in sustainability aren’t likely to survive. Here’s a look at the reasons why as well as pointers on how your company can adapt to the change.

Reuters Global

  • Security: Never safer, or close to the civil liber ...
    Are we in danger of using threats to national security to sweep up almost every issue that might worry or threaten the citizen?
  • Pune bombing unlikely to derail India-Pakistan tal ...
    This weekend's bombing which killed nine people in the Indian city of Pune -- the first major attack since the 2008 assault on Mumbai -- is unlikely to derail plans for the foreign secretaries, or top diplomats, of India and Pakistan to hold talks on Feb. 25.
  • Did I hear ‘freedom fries’? – Fr ...
    February 2003. Anti-French sentiment sweeps across the United States. President George W. Bush and his top aides can barely contain their irritation at the French government for undermining U.S.-led efforts to get the U.N. Security Council to authorize the impending invasion of Iraq. With the aid of ...
  • The politics of bowing in Japan – How low do ...
    In Japan nothing says I'm sorry like a nice, deep bow, and lately there's been a whole lot to be sorry for. Ideally the depth of the bow should match the level of regret, allowing observers to make judgements about how sincere the apology really is.
  • “My Life with the Taliban” – on ...
    Abdul Salam Zaeef became best known as the Taliban ambassador to Islamabad at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks -- he was then arrested and sent to Guantanamo -- and his memoirs provide a unique insight into the developments which led to the eight-year-old war in Afghanistan.

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Climate Change or Apocalyptic Weather Pattern?
    With much of the U.S. receiving blasts of record snow this winter (and more predicted for this coming week), it seems only natural that the subject of snow and its impact would be on people’s minds. Talk about snowed under! Jeff Koterba: Omaha World-Herald/cagle.com ___ As usual, Jon Stewart takes o ...
  • Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s Show
    TONIGHT AT 10:05 PM ET: Tune in to John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show when Larry Johnson joins the experts’ panel every Sunday. The show is carried on many radio stations and via iTunes. (Open iTunes, then click on Radio || Talk/Spoken Word (used to be called News/Talk Radio) || WABC-AM.) FYI, J ...
  • Barack Obama, Terrorist Ping Pong
    Is this a plot by Lewis Black to get new, fresh material? Has he bought off the Republicans? What am I talking about? Check out these two items from today’s news cycle. First we have Dick Cheney accusing Barack Obama of essentially being a surrender monkey on terrorism for daring to arrest [...]
  • Hearts Really Can Break
    Happy Valentine’s Day! OK, the illustration is a little different from what you see on the Hallmark card rack, but it seems right somehow because I want to share a fascinating story about hearts. “Broken heartâ€� is best understood as a metaphor for the loss of someone–including companion an ...
  • Debunking the Jack Bauer Terrorist Myth
    * Bumped up * I am past the point of amusement with the proliferation of Republicans and some Democrats arguing that “terrorists are not entitled” to Miranda Rights. If this did not involve serious issues about our Constitutional freedoms and basic human rights I would laugh. But this is not funny ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • 'Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afgha ...
    Understanding the strength of the Taliban and its supporters could provide needed insight on how to overcome the Taliban using other tools than just the military.
  • Latin America: C-
    The Obama administration has made a few steps in the right direction. But U.S.-Latin American relations are far from mended, and skepticism is growing.
  • HAITI: U.S. Lawmakers, NGOs Call for Debt Cancell ...
    Three weeks after Haiti's devastating earthquake, nearly 100 U.S. lawmakers joined with key civil society groups here Thursday to urge the Group of Seven (G7) leading western nations to commit to cancelling all of the Caribbean country's multilateral debt.
  • The 700 Military Bases of Afghanistan
    After nearly a decade of war, close to 700 U.S., allied, and Afghan military bases dot Afghanistan.
  • Obama Boosts Nukes
    Despite his pledge to seek nuclear disarmament, Obama is investing big in the nuclear complex.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Gerald Posner quits over plagiarism! Olympics Indy ...
    Here's a good one: Gerald Posner was a convenient weathervane for conspiracy coverups, much as Howard Fineman is a convenient weathervane for Safe Establishment Thinking. You can just look for Fineman and Posner for the exact line the mockingbirds are supposed to push. Everyone else seems to water t ...
  • The biggest scandal in world history; WANTAGATE, L ...
    Draft conspiracy post note - this rough draft story lacks links but I want to get it up anyways... Have fun everyone! This guy, Leo Wanta / Lee Wanta / Ambassador Leo Wanta, could be the key to the biggest financial conspiracy of all time. Or maybe it's a huge thing of hot air. It seems we can ...
  • New Video! Robert Erickson, Tea Party prankster, s ...
    This was a fun project to work on. TIP! Combine the old OSX Mp3 player Audion with the Wiretap outgoing-sound recorder by Ambrosia , and you can strip the vocals or VoiceOver off anything to make excellent Fair Use satire from pompous conservative videos!! I found that tip on a random forum, I thi ...
  • Pearl Harbor: Evidence of shady biz or just a lett ...
    Remember the Maine, while you're at it! :-D
  • Controlling 9/11 "crippled epistemology" via fake ...
    ".... we will suggest below that if the hard core arises for certain identifiable reasons, it can be broken up or at least muted by government action." .... " We suggest a role for government efforts, and agents, in introducing such diversity.  Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat ...

Daily Censored

  • Detroit Teachers Fight Back against obsequious pol ...
    “Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental…The freedom to learn…has been bought by bitter sacrifice. And whatever we may think of the curtailment of other civil rights, we should fight to the last ditc ...
  • EMPIRE, POWER, AND PROPAGANDA LECTURE SERIES
    STARTS FEBRUARY 18, 2010 FOCUS ON PALESTINE/GAZA PANEL: CYNTHIA McKINNEY, “The People’s Secretary of State”, former Congresswoman BARBARA LUBIN and ZIAD ABBAS, Middle East Children’s Alliance NUHA MASRI, UC Berkeley student activist NORA BARROWS-FRIEDMAN, award-winning Flashpoints producer February ...
  • Iran is not the Former Soviet Union
    Gerald Seib is the Washington bureau chief for the Wall St. Journal. As such, he is one of the foremost political analysts for American finance capital. In the Feb. 12 edition of the paper, he has an article entitled “Iran Revolution’s End Will be Heard Around the World.”  In it, he explains that al ...
  • LAW BREAKING BRINGS BLOWBACK
    “In a striking admission from the Obama Administration’s top intelligence officer, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair announced Wednesday that the United States may target its own citizens abroad for death if it believes they are associated with terrorist groups.â€�(Feb 4, 2010) We fac ...
  • Where are the Populists?
    Where are the Populists? Michael Collins “There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prospe ...

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Pine River World News

  • USA's Global Miliitary Dominance: Real Reason for ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. USA's Global Miliitary Dominance: �Real Reason for Sanctions Against Iran � �Eric Sommer Source: � Pravda.ru February 15, 2010 The U.S.-sponsored drive to impose new economic sanctions on Iran has nothing to do with the nob ...
  • Of Ukrainian Elections and Western Hypocrisy
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. Of Ukrainian Elections and Western Hypocrisy � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina February 13, 2010 The elections are in and the Western fascist barbie, Yulia Tymoshenko ...
  • Haiti Debacle: Why Good Intentions Must be Probed
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from The African Executive, Nairobi. Haiti Debacle: �Why Good Intentions Must be Probed � �James Shikwati The African Executive February 10-17, 2010 The attempted kidnap of 33 Haitian children by 10 missionaries from the United States raises se ...
  • Ramzy Baroud: The Useless Logic of Round Numbers: ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. The Useless Logic of Round Numbers: �War is Criminal Any Day � �Ramzy Baroud February 9, 2010 The media's habit of revisiting certain issues at set intervals can be strange and even illogical at times. For example, many news outl ...
  • AFGHANISTAN: Operation Moshtarak: Mother of All Ba ...
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Afghanistan: �Mother of All Battles Poised to Begin � � Pravda.ru By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey February 8, 2010 As NATO gets ready for a massive troop surge in Helmand Province, the local population flees ahead of what both ...

PDA AMERICA

  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA
    Feb 12th 2010 Episode 001 PDA is proud to introduce “The Agitator: Voices of PDA” a series of kitchen table conversations with members of the PDA community led by Tim Carpenter, PDA National Director. We ...
  • Paulette Garin: Public financing of campaigns vita ...
    By Paulette Garin | The Cap Times Dear Editor: The Supreme Court’s decision to recognize a corporation’s free speech rights under the 1st Amendment is yet another step in our decline into becoming a corporatist propaganda ...
  • A Report From the Field
    A Report From the Field By Steve Carlson | PDA Member and Blog Contributor As one of Dave Obey’s constituents up here in north west Wisconsin, I have to say it was heartening to see my Congressman ...
  • Restore the Power to the People: Amend the Constit ...
    Restore the Power to the People: Amend the Constitution! William John Cox | PDA Blog Contributor ¿Plata o plomo? Colombian and Mexican drug gangs ask government officials, judges and police officers which they prefer, “silver or lead,” ...
  • Congressman Kucinich … Focus on the Economy
    Congressman Dennis Kucinich sent the following email to his supporters on February 4: We should pay careful attention to the message of the Massachusetts election. And that message is to focus on the economy. ...

Marler Blog

  • Huntington Meat Packing Inc., Expands Recall by 4, ...
    Recall Release CLASS I RECALL FSIS-RC-004-2010 HEALTH RISK: HIGH Editor's Note: This recall release is being reissued to expand the January 18 recall to include approximately 4.9 million additional pounds of beef and veal products, and to correct net weights from 40 lbs. to 50 lbs. in five instan ...
  • Lawsuit Friday - Salmonella in Black Pepper Salami ...
    AP Chicago and AP Portland have been as busy as we have been.  Today, AP Chicago reported on one of our lawsuits – “Man Sues Claiming Salami Made Him Sick,” and AP Portland reported on the other – “Maine woman files suit over E. coli poisoning from tainted beef produced by NY-based Company.” In Chi ...
  • FSIS Responds to our Petition for an Interpretive ...
    Yesterday Safe Tables Our Priority (STOP) published a Press Release urging FSIS to declare "disease-causing E. coli's other than O157:H7 as adulterants in beef and begin testing for them."� In October we filed with FSIS, "Petition for an Interpretive Rule Declaring all enterohemorrhagic Shiga Toxi ...
  • Salmonella Senftenberg and Salmonella Montevideo L ...
    The CDC reports tonight that a total of 225 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Montevideo, which displays either of two closely related PFGE patterns, have been reported from 44 states and District of Columbia since July 1, 2009. The number of ill persons identified in each ...
  • Marler on Hagen - Reprint from Meat and Poultry
    MeatPoultry.com , February 2, 2010 by Steve Bjerklie One of the meat industry’s most respected yet sharpest and, arguably, its most litigious, critics says he is “hopeful” about the nomination of Dr. Elisabeth Hagen to the crucial post of undersecretary of agriculture for food safety. “I am very h ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 02.15.10
    Quick Spin: Ford Transit Connect Electric a good sign of things to come Urban delivery drivers have a lot to look forward to with this van. Class action lawsuit filed on behalf of Prius, Lexus hybrid owne ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.12.10
    This one's just fine, thanks; car owners putting 50,000 more miles on their cars The economy, we think, means repairs > new car. Chicago 2010: The greenest vehicles at the auto show? Vroom. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 02.11.10
    First downtowns, and now suburbs: how cars change American geography From 250 million to 246 million. It's not a big change, but the trend could continue. Chicago 2010: Ford Transit Connect Electric uses ...
  • Chicago 2010: Ford Transit Connect Taxi burns CNG, ...
    Filed under: Chicago Auto Show , Minivan/Van , Ford Ford Transit Connect Taxi - Click above for high-res image gallery Hot on the (w)heels of the Ford Transit Electric , the Transit Connect Taxi drove onto the stage at the Chicago Auto Show today running on compressed natural gas (CNG). The clean ...
  • Chicago 2010: Ford Transit Connect Electric uses t ...
    Filed under: Chicago Auto Show , Minivan/Van , Work , Ford Ford Transit Connect Electric - Click above for high-res image gallery As expected , Ford brought the latest (and greatest?) incarnations of the Transit Connect utility van to the Chicago Auto Show today. The battery-powered Transit Conne ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: HTML 5 vs. Flash
    One of the biggest criticisms of Apple's new iPad, and of the iPhone, is that it does not support Adobe's Flash, a system that lets Web developers code streaming videos and interactivity into Web pages. Steve Jobs is reported to be a big booster for HTML 5, a new extension of the HTML standard ...
  • Divvyshot launches refreshingly simple photo shari ...
    Photo site has bonus feature for iPhone users: shake to share
  • Rafe and Josh debate Google's Buzz
    Is Google Buzz effective competition to Twitter? Or is it just FriendFeed light? Webware writers Rafe Needleman and Josh Lowensohn debate. Originally posted at Webware ...
  • How CoverItLive failed users during iPad unveiling
    When you're covering tech's Super Bowl equivalent live, you really don't want your broadcasting platform to collapse.
  • Reporters' Roundtable Podcast: What the iPad means ...
    The iPad . Perhaps you've heard of it. Now there are hundreds, maybe thousands of posts and podcasts up about this product, and whether it's worth buying, and what's with the stupid name. But for this podcast I have two smart guests with me with whom I want to step a bit beyond these immediate co ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • VIDEO: Juan Gonzalez Receives 2010 Justice in Acti ...
    On Thursday the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) awarded Juan Gonzalez, Co-Host of Democracy Now! and Staff Columnist at the New York Daily News with the 2010 Justice in Action Award. Amy Goodman presented the Award at AALDEF’s Annual Lunar New Year Gala.
  • Haiti, Forgive Us
    The tragedy of the Haitian earthquake continues to unfold, with slow delivery of aid, the horrific number of amputations performed out of desperate medical necessity, more than a million homeless, perhaps 240,000 dead, hunger, dehydration, the emergence of infections and waterborne diseases, and th ...
  • Catch Amy Goodman with Naomi Klein and Raj Patel o ...
    Amy Goodman talks to Raj Patel, author of “The Value of Nothing” and Naomi Klein, author of “The Shock Doctrine,” about their books, the economy, the earthquake in Haiti, and other topics. On C-SPAN’s Book TV: Sunday, February 7th at 3pm (ET) Monday, February 8th at 5am (ET) About the Au ...
  • Democracy Now! Makes Lily Tomlin's Short List
    Lily Tomlin gave Democracy Now! a shout out in Time Magazine’s “Short List of Things To Do.” Here’s the excerpt from Tomlin’s short list: Radio days Stephanie Miller as commentator-comic Mama and her irreverent two-man band of merrymaking mischief monkeys get me laughing every morning. Then ...
  • Oscar Nominees Include Docs on China Earthquake, B ...
    Nominations have been announced for the 82nd annual Academy Awards. In the documentary category, three films featured on Democracy Now! in the past year received nods: * China’s Unnatural Disaster * The Most Dangerous Man in America * Burma VJ

Farming Pathogens

  • The Expulsion
    In 1845 a diplomat delivered a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm to Louis Philippe of France protesting the insults leveled at the Prussian king by expatriates living in Paris. King Louis had the radicals’ newspaper closed down and the group, along with one Karl Marx, deported. This was not the first ti ...
  • Do Pathogens Time Travel?
    Evolution arises from a wealth of failure: 1) natural selection requires large and variable populations comprised largely of organisms that fail because their designs do not match their present problems and 2) chance destruction occurs at all spatiotemporal scales. So clearly strict optimization doe ...
  • We Are All Astronauts Now
    Five years ago I gave copies of this essay to a few friends and family as a year-end holiday gift. As a first stab I think it’s aged well, despite its ignorance of the work of Berger, Harvey, Reichenbach, among others. I offer it now to everyone else in a similar spirit–all in good fun, [...]
  • Pigs Do Fly! Implications for Influenza
    The influenza genome is segmented. Eight pieces of single-stranded RNA encode for 11 proteins: PB2, PB1, PB1-F2, PA, HA, NP, NA, M1, M2, NS1, and NS2. The segmentation allows influenza of different subtypes infecting the same host to trade segments like card players on a Friday night. Most of the re ...
  • Breeding Influenza: The Political Virology of Offs ...
    What better way to medicate against a holiday’s genocidal origins and the hunger now swelling worldwide in the wake of a related banker-brought recession than with a bellyful of turkey, stuffing, yams, and pumpkin pie? Despite its rotten ambiguities Thanksgiving remains my favorite American holiday. ...

Digg Green

  • Greenpeace Taunts Senators with Internet Dating Si ...
    “It takes strong relationships and the right chemistry to devise schemes that successfully evade or destroy environmental regulations,” at least that is the claim made in an elaborate hoax internet dating site targeting members of Congress for their relationships with energy industry lobbyists.
  • Amazon River Water Being Stolen and Bottled Abroad
    A recently published report is exposing some shocking exploitation of the Amazon's natural resources--and this times it's water being stolen. Where is this water headed? According to the report, "tankers are quietly removing water" to be bottled and sold in Europe and the Middle East.
  • Insects Use Wind to Travel Efficiently at 60 MPH o ...
    Migrating insects have evolved to take advantage very efficiently of high speed winds (up to 60 MPH, possibly more) to travel hundreds of kilometers in relatively short periods of time, all that while correcting for crosswinds taking them off-course, and expanding as little energy as possible.
  • The Land Where Electric Bikes Rule
    China, the world's bicycle kingdom - one for every three inhabitants - is going electric. Workers weary of crammed public transport are upgrading to battery-powered bikes and scooters. Even some who can afford cars are ditching them to avoid traffic jams and expensive gasoline.
  • The True Cost of The Amazon Dam (Infographic)
    This week, the Brazilian government greenlit a plan to build a massive hydroelectric dam to power 23million homes. However, its creation will see 500 sq km of the rainforest flooded - is it worth it?

Invisible Opportunity

  • Investigators declare, “Obama never attended Colum ...
    1) Columbia University will not divulge whether the “alleged” diploma issued was in the name of Barry Soetoro or Barack Hussein Obama. No public record exists regarding the diploma. 2) Obama alleges he attended Columbia in 1982, 1983. But, the investigators have been UNABLE to turn up a single shred ...
  • Breast cancer virtually “eradicated” w ...
    By Mike Adams In a gathering of vitamin D researchers recently held in Toronto, Dr. Cedric Garland delivered a blockbuster announcement: Breast cancer can be virtually “eradicated” by raising vitamin D levels. Vitamin D is “the cure” for breast cancer that the cancer industry ridiculously claims to ...
  • New research into greenhouse effect challenges the ...
    By Kirk Myers A former NASA contractor whose theory demonstrating that the greenhouse effect is constant and self-regulating and that increases in human CO2 emissions are not the source of global warming is fighting an uphill battle to publish his controversial work. Developed by prominent atmospher ...
  • The global warming guerrillas
    By Matt Ridley Journalists are wont to moan that the slow death of newspapers will mean a disastrous loss of investigative reporting. The web is all very well, they say, but who will pay for the tenacious sniffing newshounds to flush out the real story? ‘Climategate’ proves the opposite to be true. ...
  • Climategate spreads like an ozone hole

Insurgency Watch | True/Slant

  • InsurgencyWatch moving to True/Slant
    In the coming days, InsurgencyWatch will be moving to True/Slant, “an original content news network tailored to both the ‘Entrepreneurial Journalist’ and marketers who want a more effective way to engage with digital audiences.” (That’s what the official about page says.) It’s not a decision I’ve ma ...
  • Kerry-Lugar’s First Victim
    If true, this is total bullshit: After strong criticism on the Kerry-Lugar bill in Pakistan, the government has decided to replace Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani and the announcement in this respect is expected within the next two days. There’s nothing in the bill reasonable Pakist ...
  • Pakistan’s Civil War Heating Up
    In the aftermath of this weekend’s assault on the Pakistani General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the Taliban hit again in Alpuri, in the Shangla district east of Mingora in Swat. According to military sources who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to talk to the press, a 13- or ...
  • At Home with a Swat Lashkar
    I just finished up a few days in Swat and while I’m working on a story about it, I thought you might like to see a few pictures I took while there. Enjoy. Share/Save
  • FACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in Pakistan ...
    Washington PostFACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in PakistanReutersBy this time he is thought to have fled the region for the safe haven of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. * Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader ...Pakistan to Target Taliba...

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Twilight Earth

  • I Love Mountains Day – Kentuckians Rally to Save t ...
    Kentuckians gather to push The Stream Saver Bill (Senate Bill 139) at the 2010 “I Love Mountains Day” march and rally. Related posts: Wendys Restaurant Chain Supports Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Senior Citizens March 25 Miles Against Mountaintop Removal Verizon Apologizes for Sponsorin ...
  • 2010 East Coast Snowfall Blamed on Global Warming?
    Could warmer atmospheric temperatures be responsible for increased snowfall? Is Global Warming causing Snowpocolypse? Related posts: Photo Sunday: Winter Wonderland – East Coast Blizzard 09 -SnOMG! Caribou Herds Getting Smaller as a Result of Global Warming The Global Warming Debate is Over
  • China Blows Past the Rest of the World as Largest ...
    China blows past Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States to become the world's largest maker of Wind Turbines. Related posts: Windspire Wind Turbine Generating Electricity at Michigan Governor’s House Mariah Power and Windspire Wind Turbine Featured on 20/20 Mariah Power Celebrates 400 ...
  • School Lunch Reform? I Dont Think So! (Cartoon)
    Follow Joe’s cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons. Related posts: Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza of GMO News Articles There is This Duck that I Have Lunch With Dont Stop the Drilling to Save the Polar Bears
  • Alfalfa at the Eleventh Hour
    The USDA is getting closer to approving Monsanto's genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa, despite the fact that it's likely to contaminate other crops... Related posts: Monsanto News Roundup – A Frankenfood Extravaganza of GMO News Articles What is Genetic Pollution and How is it Affecting our F ...

Inhabitat

  • SOM Unveils Plans For a Green Geothermal District ...
    SOM recently unveiled plans for a new urban center in Beijing’s Dawangjing District that will feature an integrated heating and cooling solution designed to reduce energy use and carbon emissions. The new development will include a central park that utilizes a geothermal heat-exchange system to h ...
  • GIVEAWAY: Pi Organic’s Sizzling Venus Lace Nighty ...
    Give your underwear drawer some extra oomph about with this saucy Venus Lace Nighty from Pi Organic. Made from 100% organic cotton, in your choice of red or black, we’re giving away one of these sexy organic numbers to one lucky reader! ENTER TO WIN AT ECOUTERRE >Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | ...
  • John Patrick Organic’s Fall/Winter 2010 Collection ...
    It’ll be a while before we hear about Karl Lagerfeld or Donatella Versace going green, so until then why not bask in the eco-cool 60’s and 70’s vibe of designer John Patrick’s Fall/Winter 2010 line? Not only are these threads organic and carefully crafted, but as a stand against all that garment thr ...
  • GREEN BUSINESS PROFILE: Unplugged on a Rug
    5 Lessons About Small Business You Can Learn From Your Kids If you own your own business and have small kids, you probably know that it ain’t easy to find a balance between the two. But for two moms in New York City who run a small company that organizes ‘Great Green Playdates’ for parents and [... ...
  • A Flatpack Pet Palace Made for Eco-Friendly Feline ...
    Flatpack furniture seems to be all the rage these days. Made from 100% recycled cardboard, the Loyal Luxe Cat Chalet takes kitty living to the next level with an amenity packed palace. With interchangeable ornamental decorations, playing balls, and a textured cardboard carpet for the interior, forge ...

Pogue's Posts

  • A Reader's Ode to the iPad
    As longtime Pogophiles know, I'm fond of writing new lyrics (about the tech industry) to old melodies. But today, I've got some competition. Here's a clever song parody by reader Peter Weisz...
  • Why We Make Home Videos
    As you may be aware, we're about to enter a whole new era of data rot, one of the biggest and most personal of all: consumer videotape is going away.
  • A New Way to Comment on Pogue's Posts
    Pogue's Posts has a new, updated comment system that is better for everyone.
  • The Apple iPad: First Impressions
    Some wild speculations of a guy who's never even tried the iPad. Believe me, I'll review it when I get one. But I like what I'm seeing.
  • Google Voice Is Back on the iPhone, Mostly
    Have an iPhone? Tired of waiting for a Google Voice app? There's a workaround from the folks in Mountainview.

Open Your Eyes News

  • Clinton warns Iran not to ‘build their bomb’
    BBC – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the US would welcome peaceful engagement with Iran but not “while they are building their bomb”. She spoke at the US-Islamic World forum in Qatar during a trip to rally Arab support for tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme. Re ...
  • Internet Freedom Under Attack – Australia – Aussie ...
    The Register – Recent DDoS chaos on the Australian internet may have been great fun for all involved – but behind the good-humoured anarchy lies a growing concern that the government really does have a dark and Big Brotherly vision for the future of politics in the country. As reported in The Regi ...
  • Blunder on DNA defence by UK Home Office
    Daily Telegraph – The Home Office are guilty of “gross incompetence” for providing “seriously flawed information” to parliament, the Conservatives have claimed. David Hanson, the policing minister, has been criticised for repeating a case study to MPs as part of a series of examples of why retention ...
  • UN Human Rights Envoy Visits Myanmar
    Radio Netherlands Worldwide – UN human rights envoy Tomás Ojea Quintana arrived in Myanmar today for a five-day visit. The Argentine diplomat is looking into the former Burma’s progress on human rights issues. Read Article
  • String of Iraq bomb attacks target poll candidates
    Reuters – A string of bombings targeted groups taking part in Iraq’s March election late on Saturday, wounding seven people, an Interior Ministry official said. The attacks stoked fears that violence may mar what is expected to be a fiercely contested March 7 parliamentary vote. Read article

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Sina Stalin, Mao, at Lin Biao ay isinilang sa Disy ...
    Sina Stalin, Mao, at Lin Biao ay isinilang sa Disyembre (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Tatlong dakilang rebolusyonaryo ay isinilang sa Disyembre. Si Stalin ay isinilang noong ika-21 ng Disyembre, taong 1879. Si Stalin ay naaalala dahil sa kanyang dakilang pamumuno sa Unyong Sobyet sa kabuuan n ...
  • “Salamat po, Tita Cory”
    “Salamat po, Tita Cory” (amihanmalaya.wordpress.com) Tigilan na ang ilusyon! matagal nang napanis ang “demokrasyang” inilalako ng mga buwitreng nakasuot ng damit pang-madre. Walang naibalik kundi ang burges na demokrasya, kung saan pinaghatian ng ilang reaksyunaryo na paksyong anti-Marcos ang poder ...
  • Par IRTR: Approximation de la valeur du travail
    Approximation de la valeur du travail par Serve the People de IRTR (première publication le 30 juin 2005) (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (English) (Spanish) (Tagalog) Essayons de calculer la valeur du travail abstrait moyen socialement nécessaire à la production. Cela nous donnera une id ...
  • Again: Are there any groups in the First World wit ...
    Again: Are there any groups in the First World with revolutionary potential at all? (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “Dear Maoist-Third Worldist, Are there any groups in the First World with revolutionary potential at all? I understand that most first world workers possess none. I read the articl ...
  • Ang mataas na gastusin sa pamumuhay sa Ikatlong Da ...
    Ang mataas na gastusin sa pamumuhay sa Ikatlong Daigdig ni Serve the People ng irtr.info (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (English) (Polish) (French) Ang sumusunod na teksto na bahagyang inayos ay inihayag sa irtr.info ni Serve the People noong Disyembre 2, 2005: O siya, tignan natin ang mataas ...

PakAlert

  • PTV Suspends Two Journalists For Attending US Emba ...
    PTV journalist Saghir Naqqash [Left] suspended for visiting a foreign embassy withou prior permission. His colleague Shakeel Awan [Right-in black suit] faces similar action. The state-run PTV has taken stern action against two of its journalists who appeared in pictures of a private party at the ...
  • This Ambassador Is A Sore For US-Pakistani Relatio ...
    “I have a challenge for Ms Patterson today. I challenge her to repeat every single word she said back then and swear it is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth … America’s reputation is lying in the lowest gutters in Pakistan at the moment and it can’t sink any lower.” By AHMED ...
  • Disinformation Tactics: The Methods Used To Keep Y ...
    By Giordano Bruno | Neithercorp Press There was a time, not too long ago (relatively speaking), that governments and the groups of elites that controlled them did not find it necessary to conscript themselves into wars of disinformation. Propaganda was relatively straightforward. The lies were ...
  • 10 Geopolitical Predictions for 2010 & Short Term ...
    A great – and still growing – divergence appeared in 2009 between public statements by leaders and their public performance. The politicized, romanticized theater of increasingly populist “democraticâ€� leaders and media seemed to be of a different planet from activities taking place in the real w ...
  • The Planning of War Behind Closed Doors
    Brussels, London, Istanbul: A Week Of Western War Councils by Rick Rozoff The defense chiefs of all 28 NATO nations and an undisclosed number of counterparts from non-Alliance partners gathered in Istanbul, Turkey on February 4 to begin two days of meetings focused on the war in Afgha ...

ecogeek

  • Street Lamps Powered by Garbage
    A cool new design concept marries composting with clean energy:  garbage-powered street lamps .  The Gaon Street Light from designer Haneum Lee keeps food waste out of landfills while keeping streets illuminated. The street lamp features a garbage bin at its base where food products can be deposit ...
  • Ford Unveils All-Electric Truck for Late 2010
    Ford Motor Company has taken another step forward in adding electric vehicles to their fleet by announcing an all-electric version of their Transit Connect van . The conventional version of the Transit Connect was named Truck of the Year at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this year. A small number ...
  • IBM Creates High-Efficiency Natural Solar Cell
    IBM has created a high-efficiency solar cell made from abundant materials.  The cell achieves 9.6 percent efficiency, which is 40 percent higher than other attempts at natural solar cells. The cell is made from copper, tin zinc, sulfur and sellenium opposed.  Solar cells have been created with gre ...
  • North America's Greenest Building?
    The University of British Columbia is claiming the title of North America's greenest building for its impressive $37 million Center for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS ), currently under construction and to be completed in 2011.  What makes this building the greenest? According to UBC ...
  • Energy Star for Data Centers Launching in June
    Starting in June of this year, data cente r operators can apply for Energy Star status.  The new rating system will score data centers based on PUE, or power unit efficiency, on a scale of 1 - 100. The operators will use an online tool that allows them to enter information on energy use and operat ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Is Little Green Footballs a Communist Blog now?
    "The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff. I won’t be going over the cliff with them." From LGF's Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways With The Right 1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (se ...
  • Will Teabagger anti-immigration agnst spill over t ...
    �Smells like Teabaggrrrr spirit... Peter Schiff is well known for his for far right wing way out there libertarian Ron Paul-like views . You have to wonder if some of Teaba grrrrr angst will spill over to the GOP primary battles and burn Peter Schiff here in Connecticut ? Jim Gilchrist, founder of ...
  • Valuable Lesson From Sarah Palin's Book
    TRex has extracted and documented the bulk of the knowledge that can be had from Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue. Trust me on this, there is a valuable lesson to be had from her book that every Blogger, journalist and pundit should be sharing with anyone that is truly interested in the politic ...
  • Would you drive this car?
    More importantly, would you buy and drive this car? Tata Motors May Launch Nano In America: Special Editions In The Works Efficient, light, and affordable. That is the philosophy behind the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, and one of the smallest as well. Launched earlier this year in Tata’s ho ...
  • T-9 and Holding:
    About 8 minutes before the shuttle blasts off : At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis and crew are nearing liftoff at Launch Pad 39A, prepared to begin the STS-129 cargo-delivery mission to the International Space Station. The countdown clock is holding at T-9 minutes. ...

SPL Center

  • Conspiracy Central: Beck, Birchers to Converge at ...
    The John Birch Society, whose conspiracy theories eventually became so fantastic that it faded into irrelevance, has edged back toward the mainstream – or at least the mainstream of conservative thought. It’s listed as one of 87 co-sponsors of next month’s annual Conservative Political Action Confer ...
  • Racist Group Plans to Run Candidates Nationwide
    The co-founder of the American Third Position (ATP), white supremacist Los Angeles lawyer William Daniel Johnson, says his new California-based group plans to run as many candidates for political office around the country as it can muster. In an interview with Hatewatch last week, Johnson said that ...
  • Movement to Boot Pacifica Forum Off Oregon Campus ...
    For years, students at the University of Oregon generally avoided Pacifica Forum , the formerly left-wing discussion group that has increasingly embraced right-wing extremism. Many students weren’t even aware that the group meets on campus. That all changed last Friday, when students packed the Waln ...
  • Radicals React: Holocaust Museum Killer Was a Hero ...
    White supremacists reacted swiftly to the death of Holocaust Museum shooter and long-time neo-Nazi James von Brunn by lauding his actions and promoting conspiracy theories about his demise. Von Brunn, who had been in poor health and was recovering from gunshot wounds to one ear, died early this afte ...
  • Gays Should Face Legal Sanctions, Says American Fa ...
    People in same-sex relationships should face the same penalties as heroin users. Just ask Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association (AFA), an ultraconservative religious right group. In a Jan. 29 response to an E-mail from a listener to his “Focal Point” radio program, Fischer suggests that “ ...

change: org.

  • Career Women Responsible for the Demise of Romance ...
    The time has come for all of you working women to make a choice. Want real romance? Take off the business suit and stop emasculating your men. Or, keep them under your sensible pumps, and say buh-bye to love. At least, that seems to be the choice offered by author Amy Spencer in a CNN piece titled, ...
  • Chicago, the Fair Trade Town
    Between Blago-palooza and losing the 2016 Summer Olympics bid, 2009 was maybe not such a banner year for Chicago. However, the city is bouncing back in 2010 with a new bid for coolness as it campaigns to become a Fair Trade Town . If successful, Chicago would become the largest Fair Trade Town in No ...
  • V-Day Special: Dating for Nativists 101
    Much like other American holidays, Valentine's Day is a time to spend money on your loved ones. I decided to take a few hours out of the year to spread the love for our anti-immigrant friends, who might be in need of dating tips. After all, nativism is just uncool and unsexy; one look at hate-fests ...
  • Republicans Not Ready to RSVP to Obama's Health Ca ...
    On Friday, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent formal invitations to Congressional leaders for President Obama's televised Feb. 25 health care summit. The lucky invitees include the senior leadership of the House and Senate, as well ...
  • National Animal ID System Goes Down
    In a victory for small farmers, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced last week that the USDA would all but abandon the much-maligned National Animal Identification System .  Intended to help track food outbreaks, NAIS would have required every single livestock animal in the country to be ...

Common Dreams -News

  • It's Official: 2009 Was Record Year For Lobbying, ...
    by Arthur Delaney The final reports are in and we can now officially say that 2009 was the most profitable year ever for the lobbying industry. The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics tallied lobbying income data from tens of thousands of disclosure filings, and the data show that special i ...
  • Then and Now: Rule of Law, Mukasey, and Obama's DO ...
    by Glenn Greenwald Former Bush Attorney General Michael Mukasey has become the leading spokesman for a Cheneyite national security attack, which relies on scaring Americans into believing that Obama is endangering their lives in those rare instances when he deviates from Bush's Terrorism approach.  ...
  • Senate Proposal on Campaign Financing Not 'Best Re ...
    by John Nichols As someone who has written several books and dozens of major articles on judicial interventions in our politics, and who has covered literally hundreds of campaigns in every state of the country, I have made no secret about my sense that the best response to the U.S. Supreme Court's ...
  • A Ruthless Bill Maher Returns with Plenty of Ire f ...
    by Patrick Gavin They once said, if you lose Walter Cronkite, you lose the nation. But what happens if you lose Bill Maher? The liberal comedian has surprised friends and foes alike by adding President Barack Obama to his list of usual targets, such as conservatives and the religious right. "He's ju ...
  • Civilians Die in Afghan Offensive
    by Golnar Motevalli MARJAH - NATO rockets killed 12 Afghan civilians on Sunday, missing Taliban militants attacking NATO and Afghan troops as they press ahead with a major offensive that must win over the local population to succeed. "It's regrettable that in the course of our joint efforts, innoc ...

Lifehacker

  • Make the Slimmer Facebook Lite Your Default Facebo ...
    Facebook Lite is a streamlined, usually faster-loading version of the social network all your old friends from school are using. If you like how it rolls, you can make it your default view for whenever you visit Facebook.com from any browser or link. Head to Facebook Lite , hit the Settings icon to ...
  • Learn Buzz's Keyboard Shortcuts and Direct Message ...
    Now that Google's Buzz social network has learned from its mistakes , more users might be keen on actually giving it a go. The Google Operating System blog has a great power user's guide to the finer points of Buzz. Being the nerdy productive/ergonomic types we are, we immediately jumped to Alex's r ...
  • Adjust Your Car Mirrors to Fully Cover Your Blind ...
    The way most drivers, and car makers, keep their side mirrors doesn't actually cover the blind spot outside the driver's vision. Car and Driver illustrates a car mirror setup that, once you get used to it, could prevent lane change freak-outs. The auto magazine culls its mirror alignment diagram fro ...
  • Making a Tough Call [Quotables]
    "When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because, in that brief moment with the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for." [ Minimal ]
  • How Do You Overcome Creative Blocks? [Ask The Read ...
    Artist and blogger Scott Hansen deals with creative blocks all the time, like any of us do, whether we're in an artistic field or not. So he asked 25 of "today's most exciting creators what they do when the ideas aren't flowing." Photo by Rennett Stowe . The block breakers these creatives use vary ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Instahoglets Link-Dump, Feb 12th 2010
    By Steve Hynd I've had a head-cold for four days and last night it finally reached my chest and triggered an asthma attack. I'm exhausted and sleep-deprived to the extent where 140 characters at a time is all I'm capable of. So here's a link-dump based on my tweets of the last few days. Normal blogg ...
  • Blogging Funk and the New Evil Empire
    Commentary By Ron Beasley As I noted below my hope for change has morphed into a depressing funk. I have had a difficult time putting that funk into words but fortunately Randall Amster has done it for me. Like Randell I grew up in the US and remember when it was the beacon of hope and good. But tha ...
  • Blogging Funk and the New Evil Empire
    Commentary By Ron Beasley As I noted below my hope for change has morphed into a depressing funk. I have had a difficult time putting that funk into words but fortunately Randall Amster has done it for me. Like Randell I grew up in the US and remember when it was the beacon of hope and good. But tha ...
  • Bad boys, bad boys, what you going to do when they ...
    Yes, the Afghan police just have to be better than the Pashtun tribal fighters, Taliban insurgents and AQ affiliated fighters; most of whom are also coming from a cultural-economic context of hash consumption, but this is the force that is supposed to hold and build as the Western troops 'clear' are ...
  • The Economics of Empire II
    Commentary By Ron Beasley As I noted here it's economics that bring an end to empires not military defeats.� In Wars Sending US into Ruin Eric Margolis supplies some details. More empires have fallen because of reckless finances than invasion. The latest example was the Soviet Union, which spen ...

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CS Monitor - News

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The Wonk Room

  • Washington Post’s Dishonesty On Iran Gas San ...
    A Washington Post editorial today calling on President Obama to implement gas sanctions against Iran contains this falsehood: [F]or every expert who argues that a shortage of gasoline would somehow help Mr. Ahmadinejad, there is one who believes it will deepen popular rejection of the regime. That’s ...
  • What To Make Of Anthem’s Rate Hikes
    HCAN has responded to Anthem Blue Cross’s rate hikes (the company is a subsidiary of WellPoint) in the California individual market by releasing a report demonstrating how premium increases have been feeding insurer profits, not paying for health care costs. “The report finds that the top five large ...
  • White House Summit Invitation Suggests Obama Will ...
    The White House has sent a letter to Congress formally inviting Republican and Democratic leaders to the February 25th health care summit. The letter lays out the rough framework for discussion and strongly implies that the President will unveil the final package of compromises between the Senate an ...
  • NC School Secretary Claims She Was Fired For Speak ...
    Latina Lista is reporting that Ana Mateo, a bilingual school secretary, has filed a lawsuit against her former employer, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools, claiming that her civil rights were violated after she was allegedly fired for continuing to speak Spanish to parents. Charlotte’s WSOC broke the n ...
  • GOP Whines After Reid Scraps Jobs Bill That They S ...
    esterday, Senate Finance Committee members Max Baucus (D-MT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released what they were calling a jobs bill, an $85 billion piece of legislation composed of tax incentives for businesses to hire as well as a handful of extenders to expiring tax provisions (that had nothing to ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • No Matter How Thin You Slice It, It's Still Balone ...
    If I really cared, I could just go over to Brian's stupid blog and get the pro-war spin on NATO plans to bribe "moderate Taliban" to stop fighting. Or, I could go to Terry Glavin's stupid blog , and get the same thing with a load of self-satisfied self-praise and idiotic trashing of anti-war types ...
  • "Dear John" - - - deleted scenes
    Jeeziz-H-Kee-Rice!!! So the number one movie in the USA last week is some sappy flick called "Dear John" in which a young woman falls in love with a young man but their romance is punctured by his constantly being sent overseas as a special-forces soldier in the post-9-11 era??? It's never reveale ...
  • It's Official: Canadians are as Ignorant & Ugly as ...
    We helped topple the elected president of Haiti and helped install an interim regime of murderers to destroy the deposed president's political party. Our media had reported jack-shit about this, and most Canadians appeared not to care anyway. We've spent 8 years in Afghanistan and the place is sti ...
  • A Post About Patrick "Asshole" Ross
    [ Edited to Add: Patrick, in this post I'm asking for an apology from you necessary to sustain your commenting privileges here. You can read all about it! But I'm here attaching one further condition. Since I've mentioned "Canadian Cynic" ("CC") and your obsessive stalking of him, you'll probably ...
  • Is Tom Flanagan Simple?
    Last night , on CBC's amusingly titled "Power Panel" Tom Flanagan tried to make himself out as something other than a "harper stooge" by trashing harper's inarguably ridiculous excuse for prorogation (to deal with the awesome task of winding down the response to the great recession) and wishing that ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: Manipulation
    by Tim Wood. "As I have stated all along, my research suggests to me that the rally out of the March 2009 low has been a bear market rally. Nothing has occurred to change that point of view. As a result of the weakness that began a few weeks ago, I have received a number of e-mails asking about mani ...
  • Do Unto Others
    by J. R. Nyquist. "Nearly 14 years ago U.S. officials became interested in a 1995 planning document from a Russian defense think tank. The so-called "Surikov document" was put together in October 1995, with the title "Conceptual Provisions of a Strategy for Countering the Main External Threats to Ru ...
  • Sooner or Later, You’ll Invest Abroad
    by Jeff Clark. "Many conventional U.S. brokers are relatively clueless when it comes to gold stocks. If you asked them to name one, chances are it would be a domestic producer, one with assets located primarily in North America. But that’s not where the big money will be made over the next decade." ...
  • Will Obama Destroy Any Hope of U.S. Energy Indepen ...
    by Charles Brant. "The U.S. consumes nearly three times the amount of oil that it produces domestically on a daily basis. How can this statistic get any worse, you might ask? Imagine in 2010 the Obama administration persuades Congress to pass a budget that results in a reduction of domestic oil prod ...
  • Robert Prechter on Herding and Markets' "Irony and ...
    by Elliott Wave Int. "ave you ever watched a dog interact with its owner? The dog repeatedly looks at the owner, taking cues constantly. The owner is the leader, and the dog is a pack animal alert for every cue of what the owner wants it to do. Participants in the stock market are doing something si ...

on Government Oversight

  • Professor in Louisiana Braves Another Kind of Stor ...
    We wanted to call your attention to a story in yesterday’s New York Times about Dr. Ivor van Heerden, researcher, author, and former deputy director of the Louisiana State University (LSU) Hurricane Center. Dr. van Heerden is one of those...
  • 13 Best Practices for Open Government Webpages
    In the last seven days, each agency in the executive branch launched an Open Government Webpages (OGW) as part of the Open Government Directive (OGD). But while the Open Government Dashboard — the White House's scorecard for agency execution of...
  • Morning Smoke: Ex-Blackwater Employees Say They Wi ...
    Former Blackwater employees accuse security contractor of defrauding government by Carol Leonnig and Nick Schwellenbach [The Washington Post] Dodd, Corker to work together on financial reform by Brady Dennis [The Washington Post] Gensler Turns Back on Wall Street to Push...
  • Time for a Different Kind of "Energetic Reaction" ...
    POGO has obtained a recent internal memo from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) demonstrating a steady lapse in enforcement of safety policies at the Los Alamos Site Office. The contents don't paint a pretty picture, noting a sense of...
  • Morning Smoke: Commercial Real Estate Loans Proble ...
    TARP Panel: Small Banks Are Facing Loan Woes by Carrick Mollenkamp and Maurice Tamman [The Wall Street Journal] Wall St.’s Biggest Bonuses Go to Not-So-Big Names by Eric Dash [The New York Times] Norm Dicks could be boon for Boeing...

Science Express

  • Dark matter or background noise? Results intriguin ...
    Physicists may have glimpsed a particle that is a leading candidate for mysterious dark matter but say conclusive evidence remains elusive.
  • Bcl6 gene sculpts helper T cell to boost antibody ...
    Expression of a single gene programs an immune system helper T cell that fuels rapid growth and diversification of antibodies in a cellular structure implicated in autoimmune diseases and development of B cell lymphoma, scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported toda ...
  • Scientists discover gene mutation responsible for ...
    University of Utah researchers and their colleagues have identified the gene that is mutated in a hereditary form of a rare neuroendocrine tumor called paraganglioma (PGL). The gene, called hSDH5, is required for activation of an enzyme complex that plays a critical role in the chemical reactions th ...
  • Researchers identify itch-specific neurons in mice ...
    Historically, many scientists have regarded itching as just a less intense version of pain. They have spent decades searching for itch-specific nerve cells to explain how the brain perceives itch differently from pain, but none have been found.
  • Sustained quantum information processing demonstra ...
    Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions). The new work, described in the August 6 issue of Science Express ...

TechDirt

  • Grateful Dead Always Knew How To Connect With Fans
    For many, many years, the classic example we'd use of a band who knew how to really connect with its fans (and give them a reason to buy) was The Grateful Dead -- who were, for years, the highest grossing band around, despite encouraging widespread sharing and trading of their taped shows (which the ...
  • Google Music Blog Mess Highlights Why Three Strike ...
    We already wrote about how the big mess with Google taking down some music blogs showed many of the serious problems with the DMCA , but it also highlights some other important points. It's also a perfect example of why asking third parties to stop infringement, or setting up a three strikes policy ...
  • Teen Remixes The Works Of Others Into Best Selling ...
    Here's a story that will get traditionalists up in arms about "stealing" and "laziness," but they'll all be missing the point. We've see for decades how remix culture works in music. The ability to take the works of someone else, mix them up with others, change them around and create something new ...
  • Entertainment Industry Get Their Own 'Piracy Polic ...
    Remember back in December when Vice President Joe Biden hosted a one-sided "piracy summit" , ridiculously declaring that "all of the stakeholders" were present (despite there not being a single representative from the technology industry, nor anyone representing consumer interests or ISPs). The "st ...
  • Australian Court Says You Can't Copyright Facts; P ...
    sinsi is the first of a few to alert us to another good copyright ruling in Australia (following the recent iiNet ruling -- though the Kookaburra ruling is still pretty bad), finding that (as in the US) a collection of facts alone is not copyrightable . The specific case involved a telephone book, ...

VacTruth

  • Who Really Owns Your Child When It Comes to Vaccin ...
    . . . Christina England vactruth.com 02/15/10 Drug companies foster many techniques when it comes to vaccinating our children. These range from taking away full parental rights, to dangling nice ‘juicy carrots’ in front of our unsuspecting and trusting children. This is done in the way of gift ...
  • Multigenerational Vaccine Indoctrination
    . . . Posted on Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s Facebook Page I have frequently spoken about the multigenerational indoctrination about the belief in vaccines. Where did that come from? We need to unwind it. The book, State of Immunity, by James Colgrove, is absolutely amazing and lays out in detail how th ...
  • New York adds HPV to the list of vaccinations requ ...
    . . . . . National Coalition of Organized Women From Laboring Women to Labor Unions, We Move as One www.ProgressiveConvergence.com From the desk of the Director: February 10, 2010 S4479, A6702: Health care practitioner may diagnose, treat or prescribe treatment for a sexually transmissible ...
  • Mumps outbreak spreads among people who got vaccin ...
    . . . by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor NaturalNews (NaturalNews) To hear the vaccine pushers say it, all the recent outbreaks of mumps and measles are caused by too few people seeking out vaccinations. It’s all those “non-vaccinated people” who are a danger to society, they say, ...
  • Health Doesn’t Come Through a Needle
    . . . Dr. Sherri Tenpenny DrTenpenny.com 02/08/2010 From Maine to Maui, Vancouver to Miami, autism rates across North America are soaring. As of February, 2010, there are an estimated 300,000 severely autistic children in this country — requiring nearly $9billion per year in services. Then number ...

BroadSnark

  • Collaborating Across the Divide
    Here’s a hypothetical situation. You work in a town with one factory.  You need your job.  Moving to another town, starting your own business, or getting some other means of survival is not an option at the moment. One of your coworkers (let’s call him Bob) is a racist, sexist, homophobic SOB.  Y ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    If you ever wondered how to confront the racism, sexism, and homophobia of your family and friends, Model Minority shows us how it is done. Tech Dirt covers the creative ways music artists are getting it done outside the traditional system. Alternet has an amazing article highlighting the stories of ...
  • Over-Reliance on the Law
    Over the weekend, a friend of mine posted a video (below) about a Fox news report that was squashed. Several years ago, Fox reporters were working on a story about Monsanto and rBGH.  Monsanto, upon getting wind of the story, had their attorneys send Fox a letter threatening to sue.  Fox wanted to s ...
  • The Art of Non-War
    Let’s set aside for just a moment the horrors of war.  Ignore the cost in human lives, the suffering, the destruction.  Ignore the repercussions that are felt for generations.  And let’s ignore any debates about what it means to declare “victory” in a place like Iraq, where people continue to fig ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I am so tired of hearing about kids being beat up and criminalized.  Are you prepping them for life or prison?  (That was a rhetorical question.) Racialicious has a really beautiful and brave post by A. Rahman Ford called Race, Disability and Denial. Far be it for me to tell Americans that they shou ...

Executive Intelligence Review

Armies of Liberation

  • US Sanctions Iran Based al Qaeda, Zawahiri Promise ...
    The US Treasury Department placed financial sanctions on Saad bin Laden, thought to be in Pakistan, and three alleged al Qaeda operatives in Iran including a Yemeni. The terrorist designation Friday froze their assets within US jurisdictions and prohibits Americans from financial dealings with the ...
  • Arabian Peninsula al Qaeda groups merge
    In the face of Saudi Arabia’s success against the al Qaeda organization, many Saudi operatives have fled to the more hospitable climate in Yemen, joining others who recently arrived from Iraq, Somalia, and Pakistan. Al Qaeda in Yemen announced its merger with Saudi Arabia’s al Qaeda organization to ...
  • Yemen strikes multi-faceted deals with al Qaeda
    Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently struck a deal with Ayman Zawahiri, and Yemen is in the process of emptying its jails of known jihadists. The Yemeni government is recruiting these established jihadists to attack its domestic enemies as it refrains from serious counter-terror measures aga ...
  • Yemen’s Multi Faceted Deals with Al Qaeda (A ...
    اليمن تعقد صÙ�قات متعددة الوجوه مع القاعدة كتبت: جين نوÙ�اك – Ù�براير/ 2009 عبدالله عبدالوهاب ناجي- ترجمة خاصة بالمستقلة عقد الرئيس اليمني علي عبدا لله صالح مؤخرا صÙ�قة مع ...
  • Yemen’s three terror fronts
    By Jane Novak March 28, 2009 3:18 PM Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took credit in an internet statement Friday for a pair of suicide attacks that targeted South Koreans in Yemen. A teen-aged suicide bomber killed four South Korean tourists in Shibam, Hadramout on March 15. A second terror att ...

Dark Politricks

  • Obama Breaks Yet Another Key Campaign Promise
    Administration to “rule by decree” in face of mounting populist opposition to big government agenda Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, February 15, 2010 In the face of rapidly growing populist anger, the Obama administration has signaled that it will fall back on a form of power ...
  • @GlennBeck What Are the Dangers of 9/11 Truthers?
    joerobertson.com Monday, February 15th, 2010 Your Debra Medina attack really got me asking why it was a top priority for you to “expose” her “9/11 truther” connections. You even asked: “Do you have advisors that advise you or people that are around you that are 9/11 Truthers? … Would you, if you fou ...
  • Airport scanners ‘may be unlawful’
    UKPA Monday, February 15th, 2010 The use of body scanners at UK airports may be unlawful, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has warned. Scanners already in place at Heathrow and Manchester Airports may be breaking discrimination law as well as breaching passengers’ rights to privacy, the comm ...
  • Leading Austrian Economist: Some Conspiracy Theori ...
    Washington’s Blog Monday, February 15th, 2010 Many people are starting to appreciate the Austrian school of economics, and its recognition that unrestrained bubbles lead to economic crashes. But many of those who respect Austrian economics dismiss all “conspiracy theories” as being crazy. But in fac ...
  • Aspartame has been renamed and is now being market ...
    Ethan Huff NaturalNews Monday, February 15th, 2010 In response to growing awareness about the dangers of artificial sweeteners, what does the manufacturer of one of the world’s most notable artificial sweeteners do? Why, rename it and begin marketing it as natural, of course. This is precisely the s ...

food and water watch

  • USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
    The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...
  • Why are Toxic Chemicals Innocent Until Proven Guil ...
    This week, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released findings from the “Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals.â€� The report identifies 212 environmental chemicals found in people’s blood and urine. Many of the chemicals, like mercury and atrazine, have been monito ...
  • Climate Change Conference Goes Bottled Water Free, ...
    As part of a larger effort to go as green as possible, the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen has been bottled water free! Forty water stations have been installed throughout the conference to provide water to the 19,000+ participating delegates. We’re delighted that the wor ...
  • COP 15 in Copenhagen: Time to question industrial ...
    As world leaders gather in Copenhagen to discuss climate change and strategies to prevent and alleviate effects on our planet, Food & Water Europe remains acutely aware of half-hearted solutions that such meetings typically bring. We are particularly concerned about the lack of willingness to addre ...
  • Corporate Water Neutrality, Anything But
    According to the India Resource Center, on November 30, 2009, over 2000 villagers marched in protest of a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Mehdiganj, demanding its closure following the company’s decision to continue extracting groundwater during a drought. One week later at a corporate water conference ...

treehugger

  • The Non CO2 Case for Sustainability, Part II: Exci ...
    Image credit: Zer0.org I've been thinking some more about my post on the pros and cons of the non-CO2 case for sustainability . While I would stand by my assertion that we need to keep addressing climate change as a matter of urgency, I realized another key reason as to why CO2 cuts can't be ou ...
  • What's New With Nau For Spring 2010
    All photos: Nau (Glimpse dress, Succinct trench) Nau, is a clothing company that crafts apparel equally at home in a storm or a dorm. Threads at ease in a metropolis, or on the Galapagos. The idea for a clothing business that would adhere to the three credos of Beauty, Performance and Sustainab ...
  • Obama Defends Clean Coal, Tells Renewables Activis ...
    In early February to little fanfare, President Obama created a task force on Carbon Capture and Storage. The purpose? A strategy to speed up clean coal development. The President hopes to have five to 10 commercial clean coal demonstration projects up and going by 2016. If you are the type that ...
  • Creating a New Community in Brixton, South London
    All images by B. Alter Brixton market is an old meandering Caribbean food market; the stalls are bulging with exotic fruits, vegetables, fish, clothing and bargains; the reggae music is pounding away amongst the orderly chaos. Located in one corner of the 1930's arcade is an experiment in commu ...
  • Next in Line for a Bailout: The Nuclear Industry?
    Image: Wikipedia Commons The Obama Administration has been pretty upfront about its support for an energy policy that promotes both clean energy technologies and renewed investment in old technologies such as nuclear, coal and offshore drilling. "I think that on energy there should be a biparti ...

Biosingularity

  • Child Obesity Risks Death at Early Age, Study Find ...
    A rare study that tracked thousands of children through adulthood found the heaviest youngsters were more than twice as likely as the thinnest to die prematurely, before age 55, of illness or a self-inflicted injury. Youngsters with a condition called pre-diabetes were at almost double the risk of d ...
  • How to Change A Skin Cell Into A Nerve Cell or Cel ...
    Eyeballs just don’t become toenails — even though the same genome sits in the nucleus of every cell. The difference is in the parts of the genome that are expressed — a cell’s identity is determined by the specific genes that are active within that cell. The differentiation of a cell, and a cell’s c ...
  • Think Twice: How the Gut’s “Second Bra ...
    As Olympians go for the gold in Vancouver, even the steeliest are likely to experience that familiar feeling of “butterflies” in the stomach. Underlying this sensation is an often-overlooked network of neurons lining our guts that is so extensive some scientists have nicknamed it our “second brain”. ...
  • Brain surgery boosts spirituality
    Removing part of the brain can induce inner peace, according to researchers from Italy. Their study provides the strongest evidence to date that spiritual thinking arises in, or is limited by, specific brain areas. To investigate the neural basis of spirituality, Cosimo Urgesi, a cognitive neurosc ...
  • Researchers Discover First Genes for Stuttering
    Stuttering may be the result of a glitch in the day-to-day process by which cellular components in key regions of the brain are broken down and recycled, says a study in the Feb. 10 Online First issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The study, led by researchers at the National Institute on ...

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Pruning Shears

  • Under The Weather
    I’m on day 3 of some nasty bug, so I’ve only been skimming the headlines (and wouldn’t have the energy even if inspiration struck).  Bleh.
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Declan McCullagh reported on the efforts to give law enforcement agencies direct access to ISP traffic. At the end of the article the Cato Institute throws in the towel and admits it doesn’t give a damn about individual liberty. I ...
  • Living In The Age Of The Exploit
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post One of my favorite blog posts is L33T Justice by Kung Fu Monkey. Aside from being very funny and concisely getting at an important truth, it seems to represent a tipping point - one that mirrored my own. Prior to that things had be ...
  • BlogRoll Amnesty Day
    Today is Blogroll Amnesty Day , the day where bloggers promote their lesser trafficked bretheren (and sisteren(?)). Pruning Shears isn’t exactly an A-List blog and therefore not in a position to drive a whole lot of hits to anyone, but it’s the spirit of the thing that counts. Here are some of my ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Bruce Schneier writes , “In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts.” The bargaining away of our civil liberties in the name of keeping us Safe From T ...

Natural Health News

  • The Secret to Helping Your Child Excel in School a ...
    Is your child struggling in school?  There is a little secret that you need to know in order to change this. The traditional notion of intelligence, based on I.Q. testing, is far too limited. There are eight different intelligences that account for a broader range of human potential in children and ...
  • FDA Only Government Agency to Get Budget INCREASE
    The Food and Drug Administration is a major exception to the Obama administration’s freeze on discretionary spending in the 2011 budget.  Overall, the FDA budget could grow by as much as 23 percent, to just over $4 billion. But this will require Congress to authorize more than a quarter-billion ...
  • Obese People Lose Weight at High Altitudes
    In a recent study, obese individuals who spent time at a mountain facility at high altitudes lost weight without going on a diet. And they kept the weight off for at least four weeks once they returned to normal altitudes. The researchers suspect part of the weight loss can be attributed to the th ...
  • Beers Rich in Hops and Barley Malts Linked to Bett ...
    A new study suggests that beers containing plenty of hops or pale barley malts could promote better bone health thanks to their dietary silicon content. Previous studies have established that beer is an important source of bioavailable silicon, but little research has been done to find out which b ...
  • Being Bored is Bad for Your Health
    Experts say there's a possibility that the more bored you are, the more likely you are to die early. Researchers analyzed questionnaires completed between 1985 and 1988 by more than 7,500 London civil servants. The civil servants were asked if they had felt bored at work during the previous month. ...

Antemedius

  • Republican Neanderthals and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell ...
    A party whose titular head appears to be Rush Limbaugh with strong competition from Roger Ailes’ Fox News could be expected to be disturbed over the recent proposal to scrap the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” rule regarding the service of homosexuals in the military invoked when President Bill Clinton was ...
  • Payment Shock Means Economic And Political Trouble ...
    There is a tendency in politics to see everything in a small time horizon. The fight in front of you is the one that is most important one there is. The problem with this approach is that it lets the clock run out on issues that you should be able to see coming and address before they become a catas ...
  • We're Not In Kansas Anymore
    Over at Mindfully.org you can find hundreds of big and small literary and informational treasures for those interested in peering through the veils of darkness that the media does it's best to pull over our eyes with all of their well practiced smoke and mirrors. One such is in the Political/Social ...
  • How Are Recess Appointments Like Filibusters?
    By David Swanson Answer: They get around the pesky will of the majority of the American people. Here's a lovely post from the DailyKos praising the president of the AFL-CIO for encouraging the president of the United States to appoint officials during a recess in order to get around the Senate. We ...
  • China Blues - The Next Republican Deficit Meme
    Looking around the country you would think the easiest thing in the world to get passed would be a jobs bill or another stimulus. The number of unemployed Americans is critically high and the business climate is pretty dismal. The growth we saw in the economy in the last quarter was due to businesse ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

  • UnderpantsGate: Big Oil, the CIA and the Attempted ...
    Also see: American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism By Alex Constantine (Supplementary revisions, 12-30-09, 1:29 pm) It’s All, Once Again, About Big Oil and a Pipeline … Abdulmutallab’s exploding unmentionables “Why Was Umar AbdulMutallab in Houston in August 2008? Whom Did He Visit There? What Did H ...
  • Celebrities Lead Charge against Scientology
    Hollywood figures quit ‘rip-off’ church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities Peter Beaumont in London, Toni O’Loughlin in Sydney, and Paul Harris in New York The Observer | 22 November 2009 The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the Jo ...
  • Baltimore: Cultist Withdraws Guilty Plea in Baby&# ...
    BALTIMORE — A former member of a defunct religious cult has backed out of a plea deal and will face trial on charges he and others starved a toddler to death. Marcus Cobbs had agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of accessory after the fact. But his attorney abruptly withdrew the plea Friday mo ...
  • What’s Wrong with this RFID Chip?
    RFID chip brought to you by the Carlyle Group and Matrics, Inc.
  • Will Donor Scandals Doom Crist’s Senate bid?
    ” … Three of Crist’s top fund-raisers have been hamstrung by federal investigations in the past nine months, and a fourth, Jupiter sports agent and real estate investor Marc Roberts, is facing a federal lawsuit alleging he defrauded a business partner out of $100 million to support his own ‘lavish p ...

Climategate

  • And here comes Globalwarmsceptic taking the lead!
    The horse named Globalwarmsceptic takes the lead. Related posts: Lord Monckton debates Rupert Posner from the Climate Group Welcome to the death threat club, Phil WARNING! New iphone app to put down climate skeptics
  • WARNING! New iphone app to put down climate skepti ...
    Just saw this over at ClimateRealists: WARNING! There is an iphone app trying to put down what we have to say under the heading of “Skeptical Science”. We need as many of you as possible to promote that this iphone app is yet another attempt to discredit “Climate Realists”. I can only hope the gen ...
  • Groups for and against Michael Mann rally at Penn ...
    Almost 100 people rallied on Penn State’s University Park Campus Friday. Groups for an against were there. For complete coverage this go to WJACTV.com, where there is also a video of a TV report WJAC did. Related posts: Penn State decision on Michael Mann due on this week Penn State Daily Colleg ...
  • Inquirygate: Official British Climategate e-mail r ...
    The so-called Independent Climate Change Email Inquiry is unraveling faster than the man made global warming myth itself. Related posts: Penn State’s inquiry into Michael Mann advances to an investigation Top climatologist finds 40% of British government climate costs report “fraudulent” Climatega ...
  • The full BBC Q&A of Phil Jones
    Yesterday, BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin interviewed Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA). The interview has entered the public domain now, so we at ease publishing the 23 questions and answers here, for the record, and for your com ...

Opinio Juris

  • How’s that UN Hariri Tribunal Doing? Not Well
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The UN special tribunal to investigate the murder of Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri seemed like a good idea at the time it was established, back in 2005.  Some folks claimed it vindicated the role of the UN in resolving this kinds of delicate political disputes.  But the o ...
  • Come Work in the World’s Third Most Livable City!
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller The Economist Intelligence Unit has just released its annual list of the world’s most livable cities — and my adopted home of Melbourne ranks third, behind only Vancouver and Vienna.  It thus seems like an appropriate time to mention that Melbourne La ...
  • The Elephant in the ICC’s Case Against Bashir: Hea ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Dapo Akande, who seems to know more about head of state immunity than anyone else, has an interesting post on the recent ICC Appeals Chamber non-decision decision in the case against Sudan’s President Bashir.  He points out that the Appeals Chamber failed to even mentio ...
  • The Elephant in the ICC’s Case Against Bashi ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Dapo Akande, who seems to know more about head of state immunity than anyone else, has an interesting post on the recent ICC Appeals Chamber non-decision decision in the case against Sudan’s President Bashir.  He points out that the Appeals Chamber failed to even mentio ...
  • Criminal Libel for Publishing a Critical Book Revi ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller That's the allegation made by Dr. Karin N. Calvo-Goller , a senior lecturer at the Academic Center of Law & Business in Israel, against Joseph H.H. Weiler , a professor at NYU who is the Editor-in-Chief of the marvelous European Journal of International Law .  In 2007, glob ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • ADMISSION: No statistically significant warming si ...
    I meant to highlight this on Saturday when I posted on Phil Jones' revelatory interview with the BBC. Now that it's made the front page of some newspapers around the world, I realise I was remiss. QUESTION - Do you...
  • STUDY: Antarctic ice collapse linked to newly-disc ...
    Press release from Scripps follows. Self explanatory really: Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Possibly Triggered by Ocean Waves, Scripps-led Study Finds Extremely long waves could have initiated 2008 collapse events Scripps Institution of Oceanography / University of California, San Diego Depicting...
  • SCANDAL: Climate activists secretly on public payr ...
    They pop up everywhere on blogs, spouting their absolute belief in global warming and humanity's central role in it, but now the London Telegraph has found taxpayer cash is being funnelled to pay for this seemingly citizen-driven propaganda 'debate': "More...
  • Greens 'hoist on their own petard'
    The Washington Post has joined the growing media chorus giving climate change believers a hard time over their simplistic climate sloganeering: In Washington's blizzards, the greens were hoisted by their own petard. For years, climate-change activists have argued by anecdote...
  • BREAKING NEWS: CRU's Jones admits climate data pro ...
    The scientist who gave us Climategate has admitted to the BBC that much of the certainty about global warming turns out to be uncertain behind the scenes. His admission is a bitter blow to the credibility of websites like RealClimate,...

Public News Service

  • Study Pushes $1 Hike in Cig Tax: Doc Wants 'Way Mo ...
    Study Pushes $1 Hike in Cig Tax: Doc Wants 'Way More' Phoenix, AZ – A new report from health advocates promotes a dollar-a-pack hike in cigarette taxes as one way to help cash-strapped states balance their budget. An Arizona public health leader says that’s not nearly enough. Comments from Dr. Bob E ...
  • Teen Pregnancies Up After Decade of Decline; AZ Ra ...
    Teen Pregnancies Up After Decade of Decline; AZ Rate Stays High Phoenix, AZ – A new study shows teen pregnancies rising in the United States after ten years of decline. The study from the non-partisan Guttmacher (GOOT-mock-er) Institute shows Arizona with the third-highest teen pregnancy rate in the ...
  • GLBT Community Responds to Obama's Pledge on "Don' ...
    GLBT Community Responds to Obama's Pledge on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Washington, D.C. - Some civil rights activists are applauding President Obama's State of the Union pledge to work towards repealing the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy that prohibits gay soldiers, sailors, air-men and -women to come o ...
  • Retiree Volunteers Getting Mesa United Way Through ...
    Retiree Volunteers Getting Mesa United Way Through Tough Times Mesa, AZ – With revenues down and needs exploding, the Mesa United Way is making creative use of older volunteers to stretch scarce resources. The volunteers are using their experience and skills to help fill the dollar gap. Comments fro ...
  • Web Tool Helps Arizonans Connect with Social Servi ...
    Web Tool Helps Arizonans Connect with Social Services Phoenix, AZ – In these tough times, there's a new helper for getting help. A statewide website called Arizona Self Help provides free, confidential screening to determine eligibility for any kind of assistance or social benefit program. Comments ...

My Care2 Picks

  • Stop Monsanto's GMO Contamination
    The USDA is accepting public comments on Monsanto's application through February 16 : review of Monsanto's GE alfalfa seed determined that Monsanto's alfalfa met the Obama Administration's standards despite organic contamination : Genetic Pollution Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness �|� ...
  • Our Founders Were NOT Fundamentalists
    Tomorrow's New York Times Sunday Magazine highlights yet another mob of extremists using the Texas School Board to baptize our children's textbooks. Actual Founder-Presidents #2 through #6 were all freethinking Deists and Unitarians Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
  • My Early Optimism on the War on Terror & Civil Lib ...
    Guarding the Home Front: Will civil liberties be a casualty in the War on Terrorism? Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Israel begins rerouting West Bank barrier
    In the village of Bilin, Palestinians will regain 170 acres. Residents celebrate, but foes of the barrier say they'll continue to protest until it's completely gone. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Peace Campaign Hypes and the Rogue War-mongering
    Of Late, the invading forces led by America and their surrogates have launched a demagogue campaign and propaganda for establishment of peace and reconciliation in the country. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Darfur rebels say they repelled army attack in key ...
    Yahoo! News: "KHARTOUM (AFP) – A group of rebels in Darfur said on Sunday it has repelled a Sudanese army offensive in Jebel Marra, a stronghold of the rebellion in the war-torn region. 'We conducted... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Kenyan police raid 'gay wedding' and arrest five m ...
    BBC News - Kenyan police raid 'gay wedding' and arrest five men: "Police in Mtwapa, just north of the Kenyan coastal town of Mombasa, say they have arrested five men whom they accuse of being... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Ivory Coast President Gbagbo dissolves government
    BBC News: "Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo has dissolved the government and electoral commission, casting doubt on when long-delayed elections will occur. Prime Minister Guillaume Soro has... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Checkpoints Catch Unlicensed Drivers, Boost City R ...
    ImmigrationProf Blog: Ryan Gabrielson in the N.Y Times reports on a new local initiative to increase revienues that falls disprportionately on Latinos and immigrants. Sobriety checkpoints have... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • No more silence: why showing up today is important ...
    rabble.ca: Friends,Many of you know that for the last 18 years, February 14 has been set aside as a day to remember and honour the thousands of Aboriginal women who have been murdered or gone... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Former Managing Director of Monsanto India Blows t ...
    India is leading the way in exposing Monsanto for what it is - corrupt to the core. The following two articles show how Monsanto regularly faked data to get its transgenic crop varieties approved in India.
  • Conflicts of interest: Revoking the corporate char ...
    The PPJ Gazette  theppj.info by: Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED One issue seemingly untouched by the all the legal eagles out there who claim to be defending independent and family ranchers and farmers is, the conflict of interest with intent to benefit between the state corpo ...
  • Introducing Aggie – The Traveling Agrobacterium™
    This site is dedicated to providing educational material regarding the risks of GMOs in a simple, easy to understand format. You don't have to be a molecular biologist to understand the process.
  • Our Children Will Accuse Us
    A must-see short film about the connection between traditional agriculture methods and disease. nos_enfants_nous_accuseront by beloutte
  • It happened! HELL FROZE OVER!
    The PPJ Gazette By Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved The District of Criminals was brought to a standstill and congress rendered unable to meet as a result of three blizzards converging over a three day period.  The snow which collected at about 2 feet, along with winds and seve ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • An accidental soft landing
    In February 2005, Aaron Coret was a third-year engineering student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) with a passion for snowboarding. His goal was to turn pro some day, but that dream changed instantly when he crashed while snowboarding in a Whistler Blackcomb terrain park, a playground of ...
  • Biology in motion
    InnovationCanada.ca sits down with Queen’s University psychology professor and biological motion expert, Nikolaus Troje. In his Biomotion Lab, Troje and his colleagues study the cognitive processes that occur in the mind to help us recognize emotional and mental health through human movement.
  • Rethinking the pine beetle
    When he talks about the fight against the mountain pine beetle, Joerg Bohlmann likes to use a medical analogy. “Imagine we’re trying to combat malaria,” says the genome biologist based at the University of British Columbia, “but we don’t know the makeup of the disease-causing parasite, so we leave i ...
  • A Partnership of peoples
    (Courtesy of Frontier magazine, University of British Columbia) Forget what you may have heard about anthropology: it is not solely a science of lost cultures, dusty relics and ancient peoples. This widely misunderstood discipline provides a critical link to contemporary history, and its contributio ...
  • Decade in review
    The first decade of the 21st century will be remembered as a decade of breakthroughs in science and technology. “It’s well known that discoveries in science are often drivers for important technological developments; for example, fuel cells,” says Thomas Ellis, director of research at the Canadian L ...

Signs of the times

  • British Israel Lobby: Sacked Tonge slams Israel's ...
    Baroness Jenny Tonge, who was sacked from the British House of Lords over the weekend for alleged 'anti-Israeli comments,' has criticized "the Israeli attitude towards the Palestinians." The Liberal Democrat health spokeswoman, an outspoken critic of Israel's inhumane conduct against the Palestinia ...
  • Chris Hedges: Zero point of economic collapse
    Aleksandr Herzen, speaking a century ago to a group of anarchists about how to overthrow the czar, reminded his listeners that it was not their job to save a dying system but to replace it: "We think we are the doctors. We are the disease." All resistance must recognize that the body politic and glo ...
  • Global fear-mongering: "Unless we announce disaste ...
    Latest embarrassment comes as key sceptic Benny Peiser backs down in row over fabricated quote Climate experts have been forced to admit another embarrassing error in their most recent report on the threat of climate change. In a background note - released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Clima ...
  • Hold Onto Your Underwear: This is Not a National E ...
    Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you're not ready to get on the nearest plane heading anywhere, even toward Yemen. In 2008, 14,180 Americans were murdered, according to the FBI. In that year, there were 34,017 fatal vehicle crashes in the U. ...
  • The Sword and the Shield: Surround Russia and Chin ...
    The latest news is that Romania will be hosting the U.S. Army's ground-based "missile defense" systems. Russia is not pleased with these developments. These same Army Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) systems are going to be deployed in Taiwan as the U.S. continues its military encirclement of ...

Threat Level

  • ‘Obscene’ U.S. Manga Collector Jailed 6 Months
    A U.S. comic book collector is being sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to importing and possessing Japanese manga books depicting illustrations of child sex and bestiality. Christopher Handley was sentenced in Iowa on Thursday, (.pdf) almost a year after pleading guilty to char ...
  • Record 13-Year Sentence for Hacker Max Vision
    PITTSBURGH — A skilled San Francisco-based computer intruder was sentenced here Friday to 13 years in federal prison for stealing nearly two million credit card numbers from banks, businesses and other hackers — in what is the longest hacking sentence in U.S. history. Max Ray Vision, 37, was also o ...
  • Facebook Denies ‘All Wrongdoing’ in ‘Beacon’ Data ...
    Facebook is denying it illegally breached the privacy of its users in a proposed $9.5 million settlement to a class action challenging its program that monitored and published what users of the social-networking site were buying or renting from Blockbuster, Overstock and other locations. To settle a ...
  • Anonymous Unfurls ‘Operation Titstorm’
    Several Australian government websites were slowly recovering Wednesday hours after the online prankster group, Anonymous, unleashed a massive distributed denial-of-service attack to protest the country’s evolution toward internet censorship. The group, which has brought down Scientology’s websites ...
  • Feds Bust Cookie-Stuffing Code Seller
    Federal authorities are charging a Las Vegas man with marketing a so-called “cookie-stuffing” operation, enriching himself and others while defrauding eBay along the way. The felony conspiracy to commit wire fraud charge levied Tuesday against Christopher Kennedy, who faces a maximum 5-year prison t ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Tea Party's Taxing Logic
    Back in September, " 10 Lessons for Tea Baggers " documented a set of inescapable truths which the frothing-at-the-mouth followers of the Tea Party movement nevertheless manage to deny. Number one on that list then and now is "President Obama cut your taxes." As Steve Benen related today, the Tea ...
  • Not Good and Pawlenty
    Three months after the launch of his Freedom First PAC , Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty with his interview in Esquire took another step towards a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. But while the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza lauded Pawlenty's "stinging critique of GOP," in ...
  • Republicans Trying to Kill Medicare. Again.
    Back in October, Republicans leaders slammed party chief Michael Steele for his "Seniors' Bill of Rights" which promised "no cuts to Medicare." Not because they weren't issuing dire - and mythical - warnings that Democrats were "sticking it to seniors with cuts to Medicare." No, the GOP brain trus ...
  • Broder's Palin Worship Revives Stupid Candidate Th ...
    Back in 1999 , the New Republic displayed then Governor George W. Bush in a dunce cap to tout its cover story, "Why America Loves Stupid Candidates." Judging by David Broder's fawning paean to Sarah Palin today in the Washington Post, it may be time to debate the stupid candidate thesis again. Iro ...
  • White House Press Corps Slams Gibbs' Palin Joke
    In case you missed the reaction to Robert Gibbs' lighthearted mockery of Sarah Palin's "telepalmter", the White House press corps has a new rule. NBC's Chuck Todd, who previously defended Palin by declaring, "We've all done notes," protested Wednesday "I...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

  • Cheney Exposes Torture Conspiracy
    Ex-Vice President Cheney says government lawyers did "what we asked" in approving interrogation policies, notes Robert Parry. February 14, 2010
  • Joking About Climate Change
    East Coast blizzards have prompted predictable jokes from science deniers about climate change, Michael Winship notes. February 12, 2010
  • Charlie Wilson's Deadly Legacy
    Cheney Exposes Torture Conspiracy Ex-Vice President Cheney says government lawyers did "what we asked" in approving interrogation policies, notes Robert Parry. February 14, 2010 Joking About Climate Change East Coast blizzards have prompted predictable jokes from science deniers about climate change ...
  • Terror Death Lists Target Americans
    President Bush okayed a plan to murder American terror suspects, a policy continued by President Obama, says Sherwood Ross. February 11, 2010
  • US Ignores UK's Iraq War Evidence
    The U.S. media and government are turning a blind eye to a formal UK inquiry revealing Iraq War crimes, notes David Swanson. February 10, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • American Theocracy divorces the US Constitution, p ...
    America wants to be ruled by TV Evangelist Bankers who are always holier than everyone else until they're caught! This is where Religion has buddied up with weapons manufacturers to promote killing in the name of Jesus.
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Jan 4, ...
    The Texas Progressive Alliance is still somewhat amazed to be living in the year we make contact, and we hope we’re all still going strong when Odyssey Three rolls around. Texas has most drilling, worst regulation. Texas made national news this week in the ProPublica investigative report and they us ...
  • Weary Soldiers At Risk, They Know This
    A poignant editorial on Al Jazeera seems to have more in depth observations than America’s Corporate media.  Mainstream media must follow the money, toe the line for sponsors and political perks that promise ’scoops’. ‘The US military is exhausted” By Sarah Lazare The call for over 30,000 more tro ...
  • Darth Vader Strikes Again
    The botched terrorist attack on Christmas Day is NOT Obama's fault.
  • Try To Remember America
    Well, few public schools, and few private schools, will fill in the gaps between America the fantasy and America the reality.  The name of America has been invoked with reverence when describing its history of righteous endeavors.  What is seldom included in these filtered history lessons, is some o ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

  • New doubts cast on man-made warming
    A key figure in the climategate affair has cast new doubts on the idea that global warming is man-made. Professor Phil Jones has come forward to state...
  • Solving the mystery of Tutankhamun's lineage
    Science and new technologies are helping to reveal more and more of the secrets of the boy King Tutankhamun. DNA tests are being conducted on samples ...
  • Attack of the killer dolphins
    Dolphins are often considered to be gentle, intelligent creatures but a series of porpoise killings has revealed their darker side. Several cases invo...
  • New telescope reveals breahtaking nebula
    The European Southern Observatory’s new VISTA telescope has revealed stunning images of the Orion nebula. The nebula is 1350 light years away from the...
  • Patient undergoes heart surgery while awake
    Surgeons in Bangalore have demonstrated the process of open heart surgery while the patient is still wide awake. Doctors at the hospital believe that ...

Grassroots

  • Rebuilding Haiti, with A Rwandan Twist
    leave.jpg Today marks the first of many anniversaries in this new phase of Haiti’s history.�It has been a month. The earthquake—known simply as “the incident” to Haitians—changed everything, instantly dividing their experience into a before an ...
  • Fault Lines—Haiti: The Politics of Rebuilding
    In what’s left of Port-au-Prince, Haitians have self-organized into 450 camps administered by neighborhood committees. These newly formed communities not only provide temporary shelter, but are also launching points for local organizers to promote Haitian voices in their society’s new structure. rea ...
  • Aldo Gonzalez of UNOSJO interviewed in San Francis ...
    2010_01_27_0034.jpg Grassroots International partner Aldo Gonzalez from the Union of Organizations of the Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca (UNOSJO) joined us in the San Francisco Bay Area at the end of January for a week of meetings, conferences an ...
  • In Haiti, Support Local Communities, Not Microcred ...
    The Chicago-based Goldin Institute has been in the forefront of providing research and consultative support to grassroots organizations around the world. They parther with local organizations such as Nijera Kori in Bangladesh -- that have long-established connections to grassroots organizations and ...
  • After the Catastrophe: Our Country Can Rise Again
    After.jpg Many of Grassroots International’s partners in Haiti recently released the following statement in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti.  Our partners have used this devastating and unstable time to bond together and to work to rebuild ...

Climate

  • February 15, 2010
    UN Panel Approves 32 China Wind Farms, Blocks Six (Reuters) A UN climate panel approved 32 Chinese wind farms for carbon financing under the Kyoto Protocol late last week, but blocked another six after rejecting eight similar projects in December. Greenland's Glaciers Disappearing from ...
  • February 14, 2010
    U.S. Chamber of Commerce Asks Court to Review EPA Carbon Ruling (Bloomberg) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country's largest business lobbying group, is asking a federal court to review the Obama administration's decision to declare greenhouse gases a health risk under the Clean Air Act. So ...
  • February 14, 2010
    U.S. Chamber of Commerce Asks Court to Review EPA Carbon Ruling (Bloomberg) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country's largest business lobbying group, is asking a federal court to review the Obama administration's decision to declare greenhouse gases a health risk under the Clean Air Act. ...
  • February 12, 2010
    Arizona Quits Western Cap-and-Trade Program (New York Times) Citing financial worries, the State of Arizona has backed out of a broad regional effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions in the West through a cap-and-trade system. Drive to Delay Calif. Climate Law May Be Stuck in Neutral (Climate ...
  • February 11, 2010
    Japan, Australia Beat EU With Carbon Targets, Point Carbon Says (Bloomberg) Climate targets for 2020 in Japan and Australia are more ambitious compared with current levels than what the EU proposed, Point Carbon said, citing analysis of pledges under the 2009 Copenhagen Accord. Two Major U.S. ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: 'This Administration Ended, Rather Than ...
    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: On Friday evening, TomDispatch will be switching to an updated version of this site. It's possible that you might not be able to reach TD for some hours. If so, we expect to be back up on Saturday morning. Tom ] The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't) ...
  • Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Afghanistan as a Patr ...
    It's now a commonplace of the Afghan War. Western leaders in London , Berlin, Amsterdam , and Washington , as well as on flying visits to Kabul or even Kandahar , excoriate Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the "corruption" of his government. In return for their ongoing support, they repeatedly ...
  • Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, How Palin Became a Rogue
    It can't get better than this, can it? A first printing of 1.5 million copies sent out into an otherwise dead book market. Possibly as much as $7 million dollars going to the author, who already has interviews lined up with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. A bus tour of the "real America" tha ...
  • Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.
    Wars come home in strange, unnerving ways -- as Americans have just discovered at Fort Hood. Even before Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on his killing spree, that base, a major military embarkation point for our war zones, was already experiencing the after-effects of eight years of war and repeate ...
  • Tomgram: Droning On
    [ Note for TomDispatch Readers : A number of you have recently written in for clarification on contributing to this site through your purchases at Amazon.com. Here's my best shot at a useful explanation: If you click on any book image at this site -- like the book-cover image of The End of Vict ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Palin, Romney and the GOP Field
    � from Truthout It is ridiculously early to even begin discussing the Republican field for the 2012 presidential election - hell, it's still too early to really talk about the 2010 midterms - but let's do it anyway. Why bother? Because there is a really interesting dynamic shaping up within the GOP ...
  • Lead, Follow, Or Get Out Of The Way
    So now there's going to be a bipartisan health care summit, eh? Woo-hoo. Is that sorta like the jobs summit we just had, one full year into the reign of Obama, despite that all twelve of those months has been riddled with severe economic cancer? And hasn't that summit just really produced a raft o ...
  • In the Gritty World of Campaign Fundraising, the P ...
    Let's have a frank talk about an uncomfortable subject: Progressives need to raise campaign money in order to get elected and stay in office. Sometimes that money has to come from places that progressives aren't comfortable talking about. This gritty reality has too often led to the conclusion th ...
  • Ahmadinejad provokes western anger
    MIAMI -- To fete the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gleefully announced his nation will enrich uranium to 20%. The fiery Ahmadinejad seems to delight in provoking howls of outrage from the West. They were not long in coming. Western media and politicia ...
  • Will Jonathan Karl Confront Cheney's Crimes In His ...
    Tomorrow morning, ABC's Jonathan Karl will audition to replace George Stephanopoulos on the network's flagship Sunday morning program, This Week . Karl's exclusive "get" for his hosting debut is former Vice President Dick Cheney, whom Karl last interviewed on December 16, 2008 - a month after Barac ...

Ten Percent

  • 200,000 Dead, But Haiti Is A Business Opportunity
    Haiti’s misery: good news for big business Raul Connolly There has been much ink spilled in the corporate press about the number of dollars and soldiers being committed to Haiti by “the international community”, but as a January 20 US ABC News headline bluntly put it: “In rebuilding Haiti, opportuni ...
  • The Faces Change, Imperial Foreign Policy Remains ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vice President Joe Biden said on Sunday the United States expects to gain China’s support for imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has told an international conference that Iran has left the world little choice but t ...
  • ISC As Useful As The IPCC
    The senior Labour MP who led the revolt against Tony Blair’s 90-day detention bill yesterday intensified the political storm over Britain’s alleged complicity in torture by attacking the parliamentary intelligence and security committee (ISC) for failing in its remit as overseer of the security serv ...
  • Power of Abuse
    Naj:- The most newsworthy item of Friday’s 22 Bahman celebrations was Ahmadinejad’s speech (that is before evidence of torturing Karoubi’s 37 year old son were broadcast by his brave mother; who in a public letter to the supreme leader exposed the bruises of his naked son to the world; declaring wit ...
  • Friday! Soft Cell- Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
    My favourite Soft Cell song (although a close run thing, a tie really with ‘Where The Heart Is’) and a shout out to Otto, keepin’ it real for the Soft Cell Massive (Attack) in Peru. Where will these dedications go next…?

Booman Tribune

  • A Better Afghanistan Strategy, But Still...
    I'm not a counterinsurgency expert and I disagreed with Obama's decision to escalate our commitment to Afghanistan. But if you asked me how to defeat the Taliban, I'd probably come up with a plan that is nearly identical to the one currently being pursued in Helmand Province. In fact, the plan the ...
  • Quote of the Day
    Sam the Non-Plumber is hilarious: Joe, also known as Sam Wurzelbacher, told an audience in Pennsylvania this week that McCain "is no public servant." "McCain was trying to use me," Wurzelbacher said, according to public radio correspondent Scott Detrow. "I happened to be the face of middle Ame ...
  • Dick Cheney is in the Wrong Court
    I am actually somewhat sympathetic to Dick Cheney's view that a group of people in Yemen who train and finance terrorists who murder, or attempt to murder, U.S. citizens should not be treated as common criminals. The problem (and that it is a problem should be obvious by now) is that every attempt ...
  • Casual Observation
    The New York Times goes after the Congressional Black Caucus and gives us plenty to gag on. What many in the caucus probably see as nothing more than finally gaining enough power to play the game, most progressive good-government types see as selling out. The next generation of black officeholders ...
  • Casual Observation
    Not to be flip, because it is a terrible tragedy, but they are going to make a movie about this.

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Futurismic

  • Stealth mode
    Folks, I hope you’ll excuse the next couple of days being pretty quiet around these parts, but I’ve a whole raft of non-Futurismic work to get sorted this week, plus a few bits of housekeeping here as well… and dropping a few days worth of blogging will mean I can get everything done without the [.. ...
  • eBoot
    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 Wonderfu ...
  • Ideological cyberwarfare and the marketing of inta ...
    Ars Technica points us to a BBC report that claims botnets are increasingly being deployed by ideological and political activist groups as well as the more traditional spammers ‘n’ scammers. There’s undoubtedly a kernel of truth here, but given that the data that informs this conclusion comes from P ...
  • Teens don’t read and can hardly write, right?
    Wrong… unless those 40,000 words they text out over a month don’t count [via LifeHacker; image by nate steiner]. Sure, a lot of those texts will be rote replies and simple questions, but the point stands: teenagers communicate heavily using a form of the written word. When I was a teenager in the ni ...
  • Attention, futurist gamblers: long odds on Artific ...
    Pop-transhumanist organ H+ Magazine assigned a handful of writers to quiz AI experts at last year’s Artificial General Intelligence Conference, in order to discover how long they expect we’ll have to wait before we achieve human-equivalent intelligence in machines, what sort of level AGI will peak o ...

Therapy News

  • UK’s Ministry of Defense: Women in the Military at ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Serving in the armed forces in any capacity, including in armed combat, can take a significant toll on personal well-being, a connection that has long been studied and addressed by researchers and other professionals. Understanding which people may be more susceptible ...
  • Anxious Therapy Clients at Disadvantage for Contro ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Experiencing panic attacks, feeling overwhelmed by the activities and thoughts of everyday life, and chronically worrying over things which may not pose any actual threat are all issues frequently associated with anxiety, and how the brain processes emotional content ...
  • Pre-natal Anemia May Increase Risk of Schizophreni ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline One of the most crucial aspects of modern efforts to understand and eradicate schizophrenia focuses on discovering why the concern develops, and how. Researchers have suspected that issues involving iron deficiency –which can be responsible for a lowered production ...
  • Suicide Rates among Young Children Low, yet Troubl ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline When suicide is connected with youths, it is often thought of in regards to teenagers and young adults, for whom the issue is among the top five leading causes of death in the United States. Younger children, especially those under ten, are typically not associated wi ...
  • Antenatal Depression: Increased Study Brings Incre ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Psychological issues that encourage people to seek professional help can affect clients of any age and situation, but women who have recently given birth are often indicated as being at a somewhat high risk of developing post-partum depression. This concern has been sh ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Speakers say bill would save streams, kill jobs - ...
    RichmondBizSense Speakers say bill would save streams, kill jobs RichmondBizSense Patricia Ticer, D-Alexandria, said her bill would curb “ mountaintop removal ” mining operations and reduce water pollution. Environmentalists support SB 564, ... Coal fight on capitol steps Bluefield Daily Telegraph ...
  • Changing Times For Surface Mines - West Virginia M ...
    Changing Times For Surface Mines West Virginia MetroNews The state's Secretary for the Department of Environmental Protection says now is a transition time for mountaintop removal mining. ... and more��
  • RFK Jr., Massey CEO Debate Mountaintop Mining Befo ...
    RFK Jr., Massey CEO Debate Mountaintop Mining Before W.Va. Audience New York Times Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Massey Coal CEO Don Blankenship sparred here last night over mountaintop-removal mining, coal's future and the ... Kennedy V. Blankenship in Mountaintop Removal Debate Knoxv ...
  • Social Media Day of Action on Mountaintop Removal ...
    Social Media Day of Action on Mountaintop Removal CleanTechnica Mountaintop removal is the highly destructive mining practice that literally explodes the tops off of mountains. It harms homes and habitats. ...
  • Transition Time - West Virginia MetroNews
    Transition Time West Virginia MetroNews The state's Secretary for the Department of Environmental Protection says now is a transition time for mountaintop removal mining. ...

Memeorandum

  • Errant U.S. Rocket Strike Kills Civilians in Afgha ...
    New York Times : Errant U.S. Rocket Strike Kills Civilians in Afghanistan   —  MARJA, Afghanistan — An errant American rocket strike on Sunday hit a compound crowded with Afghan civilians in the last Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province, killing at least 10 people, including 5 children, military ...
  • Alleged Ala. killer was suspect in attempted bombi ...
    Boston Globe : Alleged Ala. killer was suspect in attempted bombing of Harvard professor   —  The professor who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama on Friday was a suspect in the attempted mail bombing of a Harvard Medical School professor in 1993, a law enforcement ...
  • Some Democrats keep distance from Obama (Peter Nic ...
    Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times : Some Democrats keep distance from Obama   —  Aligning themselves too closely with the White House could be a strategic mistake ahead of the midterm election, they fear.  It's an approach that has the administration's tacit blessing.  —  Reporting from Washington ...
  • Joe the Plumber goes off on McCain, says he 'screw ...
    Eric Zimmermann / The Hill : Joe the Plumber goes off on McCain, says he ‘screwed up my life’   —  Joe the Plumber is no longer a fan of either Sarah Palin or John McCain, it seems.  —  Joe, also known as Sam Wurzelbacher, told an audience in Pennsylvania this week that McCain “is no public servant ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Cheney Attacks Biden, Obama on National ...
    Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS : EXCLUSIVE: Cheney Attacks Biden, Obama on National Security   —  Former Vice President Says Bush-Era Policies Deserve Credit for Successes  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney, in an exclusive appearance on ABC News' “This Week,” offered a sharp critique of the Obama admini ...

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China Dialogue

  • Treading into a recycling success
    Worn tyres have long been turned into cheap, durable footwear in Ethiopia. Now, writes Xan Rice, an enterprising woman’s shoe workshop offers inspiration to Africans by thriving in a global market. Old truck tyres never die, they just turn into sandals. For decades, that has been the tradition in Et ...
  • Security in a drier age (3)
    China’s catastrophic drought of 2008 required a massive martial response. In the conclusion of a three-part article, Scott Moore deems it a sign of things to come. The north China winter drought of 2008 and 2009, which China’s National Me­teorological Centre classified as an “extreme weather event” ...
  • Security in a drier age (2)
    In the second segment of a three-part article on water in China, Scott Moore argues that new levels of diplomacy will be needed to stave off regional tension. It is clear that water-related climate impacts spill over China’s borders, increasing the importance of water issues in China’s foreign and r ...
  • Security in a drier age (1)
    Climate change poses new – and serious – barriers to China’s plans for stable development. In the first segment of a three-part article, Scott Moore says water will top the agenda. Outside analysts have long stressed that climate change threatens China’s basic national interests. The Chinese governm ...
  • Asian water wrangles
    Pollution and water scarcity threaten livelihoods in central-south Asia. But, argues Michael Renner, international efforts could help to forge a solution. The quantity and quality of available water play a crucial role in the politics of central-south Asia. Access to clean drinking water is a major, ...

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Threat Level

  • ‘Obscene’ U.S. Manga Collector Jailed 6 Months
    A U.S. comic book collector is being sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to importing and possessing Japanese manga books depicting illustrations of child sex and bestiality. Christopher Handley was sentenced in Iowa on Thursday, (.pdf) almost a year after pleading guilty to char ...
  • Record 13-Year Sentence for Hacker Max Vision
    PITTSBURGH — A skilled San Francisco-based computer intruder was sentenced here Friday to 13 years in federal prison for stealing nearly two million credit card numbers from banks, businesses and other hackers — in what is the longest hacking sentence in U.S. history. Max Ray Vision, 37, was also o ...
  • Facebook Denies ‘All Wrongdoing’ in ‘Beacon’ Data ...
    Facebook is denying it illegally breached the privacy of its users in a proposed $9.5 million settlement to a class action challenging its program that monitored and published what users of the social-networking site were buying or renting from Blockbuster, Overstock and other locations. To settle a ...
  • Anonymous Unfurls ‘Operation Titstorm’
    Several Australian government websites were slowly recovering Wednesday hours after the online prankster group, Anonymous, unleashed a massive distributed denial-of-service attack to protest the country’s evolution toward internet censorship. The group, which has brought down Scientology’s websites ...
  • Feds Bust Cookie-Stuffing Code Seller
    Federal authorities are charging a Las Vegas man with marketing a so-called “cookie-stuffing” operation, enriching himself and others while defrauding eBay along the way. The felony conspiracy to commit wire fraud charge levied Tuesday against Christopher Kennedy, who faces a maximum 5-year prison t ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Belgian trains crash head-on, 10 confirmed dead
    HALLE, Belgium (Reuters) - Two commuter trains crashed head-on near Brussels during the Monday morning rush hour and at least 10 people were killed, a local official said.
  • U.S. Marines say make steady progress in Afghan as ...
    MARJAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. Marines are making steady progress in one of the biggest NATO offensives in Afghanistan since the war began in 2001 but areas infested with roadside bombs are bogging them down, a spokesman said on Monday.
  • Adobe pushes mobile video despite Apple stand-off
    BARCELONA (Reuters) - Adobe announced advances to its popular Flash video player that promise to improve the experience of watching video on a mobile, and said it would support Google's Android phone platform.
  • Immigrants riot in Milan after Egyptian killed
    MILAN (Reuters) - Dozens of immigrants from North Africa rioted during the night in a multi-ethnic district of Milan, smashing shop windows and overturning cars to protest at the knifing death of an Egyptian, Italian police said on Sunday.
  • Bharti confirms $10.7 billion bid for Zain Africa ...
    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Bharti Airtel began exclusive $10.7 billion talks to buy most of Kuwaiti telecom Zain's African cellular assets, the Indian firm's third try to gain a foothold in a continent that offers the last opportunity for major subscriber growth.

Equality Trust

  • Labour is running up a down escalator to tackle in ...
    Tackling society's inequalities is what Labour governments are supposed to be about, and this one has quietly redistributed billions worth of tax since 1997, much of it paid by those fatcat bankers, to alleviate the plight of the poorest. How much has it got to show for it? Read Michael White's ...
  • The five-star lifestyle: "horrible, soulless and w ...
    Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy. Read more here...
  • Lynda Gratton: The business case for greater incom ...
    Read Lynda Gratton in the Financial Times [Wilkinson and Pickett's] argument is that societies which are very unequal have all sorts of problems, and I have a feeling that the same is true for companies,” she says. “I think one has to be very careful about what you pay people ... We’ve put far t ...
  • Broken Britain due to Broken Families?
    Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson on Comment is Free
  • Comment Is Free: Inequality harms all of us
    Lesley Riddoch writes that it's not only the poorest who suffer from inequality – in an equal society, fulfilment and health improve for everyone. Read her article on Comment is Free

IntelNews

  • How many government informants are there in China?
    The interest of intelligence observers was stirred earlier this week by a rare revelation made by a Chinese regional police official, who said that his bureau employs one in every 33 local residents as an informant.
  • News you may have missed #0286
    More on CIA spies working for corporations. Rio Tinto spy controversy thickens. Court keeps White House spy emails secret.
  • News you may have missed #0285
    Canadian government resists release of Cold-War-era files. NPR launches series on confidential informants. CIA returns to US university campuses.
  • Did missing Polish intel officer defect to Russia?
    We have been keeping an eye on the mysterious case of Stefan Zielonka, a senior SIGINT officer with Poland’s Military Intelligence Services (SWW), who disappeared without trace in early May of 2009.
  • News you may have missed #0284
    Real IRA faction killed MI5 informant, says Irish police. NATO spy station up for sale. Analysis on the Binyam Mohamed disclosures and UK-US spy cooperation.

After Downing Street.org

  • Jon Karl & ABC Give Cheney A Sunday Valentine
    By Linda Milazzo This Sunday morning (Valentine's Day, 2010), Jonathan Karl auditioned to replace George Stephanopoulos on ABC's Sunday morning show, This Week . Karl's exclusive "get" for his host debut was former Vice President Dick Cheney, who Karl last interviewed on December 16, 2008 - a month ...
  • 15 February 1898
    Remember the Maine
  • Spanish Inquiry of Alleged Bush-Era War Crimes Beg ...
    By TheDesperateBlogger On Monday February 15 in Madrid, Judge Baltasar Garzon will convene an investigation of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity allegedly committed by U.S. government officials and others during the Bush administration. The first witness called to testify will reportedly be Ame ...
  • NATO says its rockets killed 12 Afghan civilians, ...
    MARJAH ( Reuters ) - NATO rockets killed 12 Afghan civilians on Sunday, the second day of an offensive designed to impose Afghan government authority on one of the last big Taliban strongholds in the country's most violent province. The assault, one of NATO's biggest against the Taliban since the wa ...
  • Cheney Exposes Torture Conspiracy
    By Robert Parry, Consortium News If the United States had a functioning criminal justice system for the powerful – not just for run-of-the-mill offenders – former Vice President Dick Cheney would have convicted himself and some of his Bush administration colleagues with his comments on ABC’s “This W ...

Grist - News

  • Bill Gates talks climate change and high-tech nucl ...
    by Agence France-Presse Bill GatesPhoto: magnifynet LONG BEACH, Calif. - Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates on Friday strayed from his philanthropic focus on fighting poverty and disease to address another threat to the world's poor -- climate change. "Energy and climate are extremely important to ...
  • Norway plans the world’s most powerful wind ...
    by Agence France-Presse OSLO -- Norway plans to build the world's most powerful wind turbine, hoping the new technology will increase the profitability of costly offshore wind farms, partners behind the project said Friday. With a rotor diameter of 475 feet and a height of 533 feet, the 10-mega ...
  • U.K.‘s Gordon Brown will help lead U.N. advi ...
    by Agence France-Presse UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon set up a high-level advisory panel Friday to mobilize funding to help developing nations battle climate change. The panel, to be led by Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Ethiopian counterpart Meles Zenawi, aimed "to mo ...
  • Obama administration celebrates clean energy inves ...
    by David Roberts On Thursday the Obama administration released its annual Economic Report of the President , which assesses the nation's economic progress, the challenges ahead, and the administration's domestic and international priorities. There is a meaty chapter on " Transforming the Energy ...
  • U.N. climate panel needs overhaul, top scientists ...
    by Agence France-Presse PARIS -- The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Nobel-winning U.N. panel that serves as the scientific bedrock for global climate negotiations, needs a serious makeover, five of its most senior members said Wednesday. Writing in the journal Nature, the ...

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Washington Independent

  • Obama’s Small Business Lending Plan Meets Sk ...
    “They’re trying to throw a bone here, not a very economically effective bone, to give the appearance of a balanced policy after the fact,” says one critic.
  • Olbermann, Weigel Discuss Tea Bags and Captain Ame ...
    TWI’s David Weigel appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night and demonstrated that his encyclopedic knowledge of the nation’s right wing is exceeded only by his knowledge of comic book history. Weigel and Olbermann discussed a recent Captain America comic that featured crowds of proteste ...
  • Dems’ Tax Credit Would Create 200,000 Jobs & ...
    The Economic Policy Institute, a liberal policy shop, has some discouraging news for those hoping the Senate’s jobs bill will put a dent in the nation’s 9.7 percent unemployment rate: The business tax break at the heart of the bill will lead to the creation of only 200,000 new jobs this year, EPI es ...
  • Corker: Forget the Consumer Financial Protection A ...
    Bad news for consumer advocates who experienced a flutter of hope this week when Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) swapped Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) — an opponent of creating a consumer financial protection agency — for Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) at the finance reform negotiation table: Corker today told ...
  • Subprime Movies to Replace Subprime Mortgages as W ...
    Nick Baumann of Mother Jones reports that the latest vehicle to try to soak American investors — after Citi’s plans to develop derivatives (a type of insurance product) to allow investors to make money betting on future financial crises — is a movie derivatives market developed by the financial firm ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

  • Tax those carbon gluttons
    LEMME TELL YOU about a carbon tax you’re gonna love. Two such taxes, actually. I tell you, kid, Stephane Dion had the right idea, but the wrong sales pitch. The fun starts with the government giving you maybe $2,000 as a carbon dividend. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & C ...
  • Why do we hate? Academics seek answer in new field
    Hate is everywhere, but the fundamental question of why one person can hate another has never been adequately studied, contends Jim Mohr of Gonzaga University, who is developing a new academic field of hate studies. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �A ...
  • 'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Pe ...
    Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming
    Sure, agriculture provides us with the food we all eat every day. But do you know how those agricultural practices impact global warming? Turns out there's some pretty big impacts, on both the sustainable and industrial sides of the equation; employing su Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
  • We love Butchers
    Former chef Josh Applestone and his wife, Jessica Applestone, are typical of the new butcher breed. He was a vegan, she was a one-time vegetarian when they founded Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston, N.Y., in 2004 Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �N ...

Suzie-Q

  • Biden Slams Cheney On ‘Meet The Press’ ...
    Joe Biden Tears Into Dick Cheney On ‘Meet The Press’ (VIDEO) Huff Po– First Posted: 02-14-10 02:05 AM   |   Updated: 02-14-10 10:32 AM UPDATE, 10:15 AM ET: See details from Cheney’s interview below. In a much-anticipated Sunday showdown between Vice President Joe Biden and his predecessor Di ...
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  • Olbermann Blames Bush And Cheney For 9/11 Attacks
    Keith Olbermann blames Bush, Cheney for 9/11 attacks Raw Story- By Stephen C. Webster Saturday, February 13th, 2010 — 3:11 pm The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 changed American politics forever. But in spite of the warning signs raised by the U.S. intelligence community, the Bush administration seemed ...
  • The Right’s Inability To Grasp Climate Chang ...
    The Right’s Inability to Grasp Climate Change May Be Funny, But It’s Also Very Dangerous AlterNet / By Daniela Perdomo February 12, 2010 The so-called Snowpocalypse has brought out the funny bone in the right-wing media, but their inability to correctly draw causal connections is very dangerous. ...
  • Tea Party Leader Slams Palin As ‘Wolf In She ...
    ‘Warning: Tea Party In Danger’: Leader Slams Palin As ‘Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing’ TPM Muckraker Zachary Roth | February 12, 2010, 9:59AM A prominent Tea Party leader from Texas is warning that the movement “is becoming nothing more than a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party,” and slam ...

Solari

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  • Precious Metals - Week of 2.14.10
    Bank of England Falsified Gold Data to Rig Interest Rates From 1925-31 GATA (14 Feb 10) A Silver Shortage? YouTube (08 Feb 10)
  • Technology - Week of 2.14.10
    Google Wants to Test Gigabit Fiber Internet For Up To 500,000 People Gizmodo (10 Feb 10) Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy Technology Review (03 Feb 10) Urine: A ‘Clean’ Energy Source Discovery News (08 July 09)
  • GATA Washington Conference
    By Chris Powell While our hopes to have a documentary film made from GATA’s conference in Washington on April 18 and 19, 2008, have not been realized, videos of the 17 major presentations there now have been posted at the Vimeo.com Internet site , a site that allows videos to be posted in single seg ...
  • Does Sugar Get You to Play Along?
    By JEREMY SINGER-VINE A boost in blood sugar appears to increase the perceived value of future rewards, according to a study in Psychological Science. Researchers asked 65 college students seven questions about delayed rewards, such as, “Would you prefer $120 tomorrow or $450 in 31 days?” (To encou ...

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    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations  
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
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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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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��
  • An Evolving Afghan Policy - American Chronicle
    An Evolving Afghan Policy American Chronicle ... triumph for the forces of Islamic extremism, al-Qaeda would once again gain a foothold, and the return of the Taliban would likely destabilize Pakistan . ...

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Sideways News

  • Anti-nuclear protesters blockade site
    Hundreds of activists from around the world have gathered in Berkshire to blockade a site that makes nuclear warheads for Trident submarines. Peace protesters chained themselves together or sat in front of the seven gates to the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston from 7am to stop peop ...
  • Iris Andrews on bringing positive change
    Iris Andrews began campaigning for social justice aged 15. Now only 23, she’s campaigned the world over, is an ambassador for Burt’s Bees social policy and one of the Evening Standard's "Faces of the Future". She tells Sideways News what motivates her and about the younger generation’s role in bring ...
  • Burt’s Bees save British bees
    The plight of the disappearing honey bee has hit the headlines time and again over the last couple of years. Now the University of Sussex has established a laboratory to study bees, part-funded by natural beauty company Burt’s Bees which pledged £50,000 in support of the project.
  • Week in Pictures: 15th February 2010
    A picture for every day, taking a snapshot view of what is happening in the world around us. Come and browse through our gallery of this week's most inspiring images.
  • Jacqueline Wilson 'most borrowed author'
    Novelist and former Children's Laureate Jacqueline Wilson has been announced the most borrowed author of the past 10 years. Copies of the author's many books, which are largely written for eight to 12-year-olds, have been taken out of public libraries more than 16 million times in the past decade. ...

Fabius Maximus

  • FM newswire for 15 February, articles for your mor ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis, collected from around the Internet.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. Wasn’t this obvious during the election?  “Barack Obama and The Parallel to Jimmy Carter“, Jim Merriner, Chicago Daily Observer, 24 March 2009 Provoca ...
  • No significant warming since 1995
    More fruits from ClimateGate, the glasnost in climate science following the liberation of many emails and documents from the UK’s Climate Research Unit. “Q&A: Professor Phil Jones“, BBC, 13 February 2010 –BBC’s environment analyst Roger Harrabin intereviews Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Resea ...
  • Pratap Chatterjee asks “are we destabilizing ...
    The parallels are so close to our 1960’s Souteast Asian adventures that perhaps the question should be “can we learn from our mistakes?  So far the answer appears to be “no.” Operation Breakfast Redux - Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969?  By Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatch, 7 Febru ...
  • Stratfor discusses the Jihadist WMD Threat
    Is this threat understated?  Or overstated?   “The Jihadist CBRN Threat” — chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons. By Scott Stewart, Stratfor, 10 February 2010 — This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR. In an interview aired Feb. 7 on CNN, U.S. Secretary of State Hi ...
  • FM newswire for 13 February, articles for your mor ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis.  If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. “Why Not the Gold Standard? – Talking Points on the Likely Consequences of Re-Establishment of a Gold Standard“, Brad DeLong (Prof Economics, Berkeley), 10 August 1996 Watch your libertie ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Massive Star Blows Fancy Hourglass Nebula
    The beautiful hourglass-shaped nebula Sharpless 2-106 shines with brilliant colors in this new image from the Gemini North telescope. Giant star S106IR lies near the waist of the hourglass. Astronomers estimate the star could be up to 15 times more massive than our sun. The winds the star sends rip ...
  • Searching for Network Laws in Slime
    Of all science’s model organisms, none is as weird as Dictyostelium discoideum, a single-celled amoeba better known as slime mold. When they run out of food, millions coalesce into a single, slug-like creature that wanders in search of nutrients, then forms a mushroom-like stalk, scatters as spore ...
  • Mud Volcano Was Man-Made, New Evidence Confirms
    A new analysis shows that a deadly mud volcano in Indonesia may not have been a natural disaster after all. The research lends weight to the controversial theory that the volcano was caused by humans.  Villagers near Sidoarjo noticed a mud volcano beginning to erupt at 5 a.m. local time May 29, 200 ...
  • Antibiotics Breed Superbugs Faster Than Expected
    A newly discovered mechanism of antibiotic resistance helps explain how bacteria have so quickly undermined medicine’s front-line defenses, turning miracle drugs into duds in just a few decades. Scientists have long known that exposing bacteria to the right antibiotics will kill most of them, but l ...
  • New 3-D Map of Interstellar Gas Around the Sun
    Space is a pretty empty place. But it’s not completely empty, as a new map of the interstellar space in the 1,000 light-years around the sun shows. Using the light from 1,857 stars, a team of French and American astronomers were able to measure the density of the gas surrounding our sun by examinin ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Is There a Green Tech Race? Does It Matter?
    Kevin Drum considers the issue of does it really make sense to think of the United States as engaged in a clean tech race with China, Germany, and others. The level on which it clearly doesn’t make sense, is that China racing ahead doesn’t make us worse off. It’s not, in that sense, a real race. On ...
  • If You Could See America Through China's Eyes
    Several years ago, I met with the Deputy Director of the Policy Planning staff of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and I asked him what he was working on -- and what China's grand strategy was. His reply: "We are trying to figure out how to keep you Americans distracted in small Middle Eastern ...
  • Europe or Europeans: Deciding the Transatlantic F ...
    It is difficult to escape the irony of a Europe who, after anxiously awaiting George W. Bush’s exit, is finding the current administration’s relations with the region are far from what was expected. “Obama disses Europe,” the Washington Post 's Anne Applebaum writes,  is, “more or less, is how Eu ...
  • Few Surprises As Greece’s Economic Contraction Acc ...
    Well, I may say there were no surprises, but in fact the Greek economy contracted more than many observers expected in the fourth quarter, while downward revisions to the rest of 2009 converted the present recession into the country’s worst since 1987. Evidently the latest numbers offer the first wa ...
  • Like the Viet Cong? Where Did Taliban Disappear T ...
    There is a potentially eerie, disconcerting passage in Dexter Filkins' interesting report on the Afghan, British and American push into the Taliban stronghold of Marja in Helmand Province. Filkins notes that the opposition didn't really materialize, despite reports that they had recently received ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Losing the Appointment War.
    Yesterday I argued that Obama should be aggressive about using his constitutional power to make recess appointments in the wake of Republican obstructionism. Perhaps in response to Obama's threats, the Senate confirmed 27 nominations that have been delayed for no reason other than obstructionism for ...
  • The Little Picture: Satchmo.
    Jazz Great Louis Armstrong , 1953. (Flickr/ pingnews /LibraryofCongress)
  • Lightning Round: Happiness is a Warm Recess Appoin ...
    Ezra Klein says all that needs to be said on Obama 's "victory" over Senate Republicans in getting them to release holds on 29 administration nominees. Clearly, the threat of a recess appointment was credible, because Republicans knew Obama could, and probably would, issue recess appointments. But ...
  • Torture Apologist Marc Thiessen Joins The Liberal ...
    Scott Lemieux notices a new addition to influential liberal Fred Hiatt 's editorial page at the Washington Post : former speechwriter Marc Thiessen , who has spent the entirety of his post- Bush administration career attempting to defend the use of torture by his former boss. I'd have to say the hig ...
  • Who You Gonna Believe?
    You have two choices. National Journal Desk Jockey Stuart Taylor Jr .: The Holder -Obama policy of promptly reading terrorist suspects their Miranda rights comes close to guaranteeing that no timely intelligence will ever be extracted from any of them. Or experienced FBI Interrogator Ali Souf ...

Andy Worthington

  • Andy Worthington Discusses Torture on BBC1’s “The ...
    Yesterday, I took part in “The Big Questions” with Nicky Campbell on BBC1 (available on iPlayer here for the next week). The bi-weekly discussion show, which tours the country and covers three topics each fortnight, alighted on a Christian school in York on Sunday, and featured around a dozen “exper ...
  • Binyam Mohamed: Evidence of Torture by US Agents R ...
    Three senior UK judges on Wednesday ordered the British government to publicly disclose previously classified information that reveals how Binyam Mohamed, a British resident, was tortured by the CIA while in Pakistani custody in April and May 2002. In one short session, the Court of Appeal brought a ...
  • Torture in Afghanistan and Guantánamo: Shaker Aame ...
    In December, lawyers for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, won an important court case in which judges ordered the British government to release information in its possession regarding claims that MI5 agents were present in the US prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, when Shaker Aam ...
  • Shaker Aamer’s Wife Speaks: “Since he has been awa ...
    In the Wandsworth Guardian, Paul Cahalan has regularly covered the story of local resident Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo. In December, he wrote a detailed article about Shaker’s court case, in which his lawyers were seeking access to evidence in the possession of the British ...
  • A letter to the Times regarding Moazzam Begg and A ...
    In response to the hysteria regarding Amnesty International’s association with former Guantánamo prisoner Moazzam Begg and Cageprisoners (which I reported in detail here), another former prisoner, Bisher al-Rawi, has written the following letter to the Times, which I found to be eloquent, understate ...

Buzzflash

  • Obama is no Caesar, but Brutuses abound
    Body One can always tell when a national election is looming: the circumference of Democrats' circular firing squad suddenly balloons, and anonymous sources -- pure as the politically driven snow, each and every infallible one of them -- start blasting away. Or perhaps this metaphor i ...
  • The Experiment of "Civilization" Has Reached Its ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY By Robert C. Koehler Tribune Media Services The recent death of a woman in her mid-80s named Boa Sr, the last speaker of a language said to date back 65,000 years, represents the breaking of an extraordinary link to the beginning of human speech, to a time when words were ...
  • Remember Nelson Mandela's Release From Jail & Who ...
    BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Danny Schechter, editor of MediaChannel.org It was 20 years ago this Thursday, February 11th when Nelson Mandela’s Liberation Band began to play.� While tens of millions looked on, a great drama was building steam in South Africa. Nelson Mandela had been incarcerated in ...
  • Abraham Lincoln: "The money powers prey upon the n ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT "The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace, and conspire against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies, all who question their met ...
  • Liz Cheney Leads the Second Inquisition as Republi ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE The second "Inquisition" has arrived , or maybe for some the first one never really went away: The arrest of an Army sergeant (and Iraq veteran) who allegedly waterboarded his 4-year-old daughter for failing to recite the alphabet is sickening. Yet it may be the ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Our human rights v. The Others
    Ten � American�Baptists were arrested two weeks ago in Haiti on charges that they exploited the chaos in that country by attempting to smuggle 33 young Haitian children across the border without permission -- either to bring them to a life of Christianity or (as some evidence suggests )�to filter ...
  • Religious faith in government accusations
    The Washington Post , today : The case against Saeed Mohammed Saleh Hatim seemed ironclad. The Justice Department alleged that Hatim, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, trained at an al-Qaeda military camp in Afghanistan, stayed at terrorist guesthouses and even ...
  • Michael Mukasey: Then and now
    Former Bush Attorney General Michael Mukasey has become the leading spokesman for a Cheneyite national security attack, which relies on scaring Americans into believing that Obama is endangering their lives in those rare instances when he deviates from Bush's Terrorism approach.� Toward that end, ...
  • Today in The Liberal Media
    I was fairly certain that Washington Press Corps Dean David�Broder's career would end with his last memorably humiliating moment (of many)�being this February, 2007, column , when he giddily announced that "President Bush is poised for a political comeback," that "Bush now shows signs of renewed e ...
  • TNR's ugly and reckless anti-semitism games
    Even by that magazine's lowly standards, The New Republic yesterday published an amazingly ugly, reckless, and at-times-deranged screed from its Literary Editor, Leon Wieseltier, devoting 4,300 words to accusing Andrew Sullivan of being an anti-semite, largely due to his critical ( i.e. , forbidde ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Summer born lucky are born rich
    If you want to feel lucky in life, make sure you are born to well-off parents and don’t worry about whether you’re birthday is in the summer or winter. In 2005, well-known psychologist Richard Wiseman and his colleagues surveyed 30,000 people via the internet to see if there is a relationship betwe ...
  • A chiefly natural interview with David Newman (Pt. ...
    David Newman is Chief at the Natural Products Branch, Developmental Therapeutics Program, DCTD, at the National Cancer Institutes in Frederick, Maryland, USA. I interviewed him for Issue 1 of a new quarterly newsletter called Chemistry Matters in Pharma. This is Part I of the unabridged transcript ...
  • Correct your chemical spelling mistakes
    Chemist Adam Azman contacted me more than two years ago to ask if I knew of a free or open source chemistry spellchecker custom dictionary for Word or OpenOffice. Searches had revealed only paid-for dictionaries. We both agreed that a free chemical spellchecker would be very useful to all scientist ...
  • Nerdy passwords, secure and memorable
    Coming up with a secure password that cannot be bruteforce or dictionary attacked but that is easy to remember is quite troubling. So, here’s the nerdiest approach yet. Think of a compound, any compound, but preferably one with which you are familiar. If you’re in science, then you could pick a com ...
  • Getting your fill of Sciencebase
    Do you lie at wake at night worrying that you might have missed the latest words of wisdom on Sciencebase? Are you concerned that a new post might have published that you desperately wanted to comment on and now it’s too late? Well…fear not. There are so many ways to connect with Sciencebase and si ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Equality California Calls for Impeachment of Calif ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 11, 2010 Equality California (EQCA) Equality California will ask the governor and state legislature to begin impeachment proceedings against Ronald Rotunda, a member of the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), which regulates campaign finance. ...
  • Speaker Pelosi Reaffirms Commitment to Passing Com ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 11, 2010 America s Voice In an interview published today in the nation's largest Spanish-language newspaper, La Opinión , and other ImpreMedia publications, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reasserted her commitment to advancing comprehensive immigration reform i ...
  • POGO Requests White House Intervention for Los Ala ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 11, 2010 Project On Government Oversight (POGO) The Project On Government Oversight sent a letter today to President Obama citing an internal memo  obtained from sources that outlines a systemic and massive failure of the Department of Energy (DOE) and Los Alamos manag ...
  • So Much for Global Warming
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 11, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) MICHAEL DORSEY Professor of global environmental policy at Dartmouth College, Dorsey said today: "We live on a planet. ... While snow falls in footloads in D.C., on the other side of the planet, Rio was hotter than Sahar ...
  • More Than 25,000 Americans So Far Agree: No 'Room ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 11, 2010 Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence A Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence petition drive with CREDO Mobile Company to urge the Starbucks Coffee Company to prohibit guns in its retail outlets is attracting substantial support, with more than 25,000 people ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • A Disadvantaged Class? The Corporate Speech Index
    by Robert Weissman One of the most astounding passages in the Supreme Court's mind-boggling decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission -- the January decision holding that corporations have a First Amendment right to spend as much as they choose from their treasuries to support or op ...
  • Defeating ‘Corporate Personhood’ Means Defying Cor ...
    by Sandy LeonVest When officials in Marin County, California announced they would form their own public power agency in order to offer residents a cleaner energy mix than the state’s mega-utility, Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation (PG&E), local community activists were glad. read more
  • U.S. Poised to Commit War Crimes in Marjah
    by Robert Naiman The United States and NATO are poised to launch a major assault in the Marjah district in southern Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of Afghan civilians are in imminent peril. Will President Obama and Congress act to protect civilians in Marjah , in compliance with the obligations of ...
  • Hunger and Obesity: Two Sides of the Same Coin
    by Andy Fisher It’s no secret that the country has been facing hard times; still, the soaring number of people who are food insecure is startling. The number of persons receiving food stamps has reached an all time high of 38 million, a 40% increase from February 2008 to November 2009. read more
  • Climate Catastrophe: Surviving the 21st Century
    by Ronnie Cummins & Will Allen "The catastrophic impacts of climate change are not only going to take place in the distant future. They are taking place now." read more

Karl Burkart

  • Nuclear power, strike 2
    Even Wall Street won't touch nuclear because it is too financially risky. At least 1 out of 2 nuclear plants will fail, leaving taxpayers with the burden of debt.
  • Nuclear power, strike 3
    Nuclear power demands huge quantities of water (43,000 gallons per megawatt-hour) making it an unlikely candidate for our water-constrained future.
  • Nuclear power, strike 1
    Two recent nuclear leaks expose the dangers of overhyping a technology that is still not ready for prime time.
  • Bill Gates unleashes fireflies on audience
    After years of putting climate change on the back burner, the world's richest philanthropist announces that climate is our #1 issue.
  • 3rd step to save the world.. stop climate fascism
    2 moves to officially deny the EPA ruling that CO2 endangers public health... will oily politicians will stop at nothing to protect their private backers?

Water Privatization

  • Environmental & Energy (Mondaq)
    The Electricity Market Law 1 sets forth the general principles that apply to (i) the licensing system regulating market activities ; (ii) market players; and (iii) the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (" EMRA "), all of which are further detailed under secondary legislation.
  • 12 kg bottle gas to cost €13 (Malta Star)
    Liquigas is to request an increase in the price of 12 kg bottle gas of €15, only for the Malta Resources Authority to drop the price to €13. Apparently, this is being done to give the impression that consumers are being taken care of by the local authorities, Sunday newspaper Torca said.
  • Iliganons want truth about power outages (Minda Ne ...
    ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/15 Feb)—Employees of Ivory printing press were busy fanning themselves and putting out their handkerchiefs to...
  • Florham Park seniors: No to Republican alternate b ...
    FLORHAM PARK - “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” said Dennis Callahan.
  • Global Drop in DFI may decelerate Job creation in ...
    Global Drop in Direct Foreign Investment (DFI) may decelerate Job creation in Ghana! (Part 1) Perhaps in the last few years and months, Ghana has received worldwide publicity and recognition for being Africa’s paragon of true democracy.

Guardian

  • Afghanistan deaths 'serious setback' in Taliban ba ...
    Deaths of 12 people killed by stray Nato rockets damages efforts to win local support, British military chief admits The killing of 12 Afghan civilians by stray Nato rockets yesterday was "a very serious setback" to military operations against the Taliban, the head of Britain's armed forces admitted ...
  • Belgian train crash 'kills 25'
    • Rush-hour passenger trains collide head on near Halle • Eurostar services to Brussels suspended until further notice Up to 25 people were feared killed when two rush-hour passenger trains collided head on in Belgium today, railway officials said. The commuter trains collided at Buizingen, near Ha ...
  • Cameron press conference – LIVE
    Minute-by-minute coverage as Tory leader speaks to media 12.08pm: Q: What happens to the rights of workers in a coop? Cameron says they will be TUPE-ed across in the normal way. (TUPE refers to the Transfers of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations. They protect workers when organisati ...
  • Clinton: 'Iran becoming dictatorship'
    US secretary of state steps up war of words against Tehran, calling on regime to rethink 'dangerous' nuclear policy Hillary Clinton today said Iran was becoming a military dictatorship as the Obama administration's diplomatic campaign against the Tehran regime continued to escalate. Speaking to uni ...
  • How MI5 kept watchdog in the dark
    • Intelligence committee misled by MI5 evidence • Demands for reform after appeal court revelations It was in the middle of 2008 that Jonathan Evans, director general of MI5, delivered a bombshell confession to the previously compliant parliamentarians of the intelligence and security committee. He ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Climate panel: Time for a refit?
    In the past few weeks, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has received a vast amount of advice on how it should be reformed, ranging from minor structural tinkering to immediate self-immolation. So it must inevitably be when powerful political interests come to blows over what is ...
  • Rising scepticism - a chill wind?
    Over the last few months, a number of British commentators have been trumpeting an increase in scepticism about climate change. The cold weather (often claimed - incorrectly - to be a hemisphere-wide phenomenon), the University of East Anglia e-mail hack , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cha ...
  • Distorted view through the climate gates
    Much has been written - not least on this website - and much more surely will be written over the coming months about supposed inconsistencies, errors, misjudgements and poor practice among climate scientists. How many "scandals" do we now have with the suffix "-gate" attached to them? At least fiv ...
  • Copenhagen - striking accord?
    Arguably, it's a deadline that isn't a deadline for an accord that isn't an accord. "It" is - or was - the 31 January target date by which governments were supposed to tell the UN climate convention (UNFCCC) secretariat what pledges they are prepared to make on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Th ...
  • Crunch time for the cosy cousin?
    You'd think that conserving the world's biodiversity would be a pretty uncontroversial aim - wouldn't you? Who wouldn't think it a good idea that the giant panda survives for our children's children to marvel at, that the intricate dependencies of coral reef ecosystems remain un-ruptured by dynamit ...

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Stealth mode
    Folks, I hope you’ll excuse the next couple of days being pretty quiet around these parts, but I’ve a whole raft of non-Futurismic work to get sorted this week, plus a few bits of housekeeping here as well… and dropping a few days worth of blogging will mean I can get everything done without the [.. ...
  • eBoot
    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 Wonderfu ...
  • Ideological cyberwarfare and the marketing of inta ...
    Ars Technica points us to a BBC report that claims botnets are increasingly being deployed by ideological and political activist groups as well as the more traditional spammers ‘n’ scammers. There’s undoubtedly a kernel of truth here, but given that the data that informs this conclusion comes from P ...
  • Teens don’t read and can hardly write, right?
    Wrong… unless those 40,000 words they text out over a month don’t count [via LifeHacker; image by nate steiner]. Sure, a lot of those texts will be rote replies and simple questions, but the point stands: teenagers communicate heavily using a form of the written word. When I was a teenager in the ni ...
  • Attention, futurist gamblers: long odds on Artific ...
    Pop-transhumanist organ H+ Magazine assigned a handful of writers to quiz AI experts at last year’s Artificial General Intelligence Conference, in order to discover how long they expect we’ll have to wait before we achieve human-equivalent intelligence in machines, what sort of level AGI will peak o ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Fraud up; SEC enforcement up; need for whistleblow ...
    The LA Times reported last week on a series of trends in securities fraud. The $65 billion lost in the Madoff scandal highlights the huge losses millions of investors suffer as a result of corporate fraud.� Meanwhile, the new enforcement chief at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reports ...
  • "OSHA Listens" now set for March 4
    I previously reported that the Occupational Safety and Heath Administration (OSHA) had scheduled an open forum for Wednesday, February 10, 2010.� OSHA postponed the "stakeholders meeting" due to the snowfall in the Washington, DC, area.� It is now rescheduled for Thursday, March 4, 2010, from 9:00 a ...
  • OSHA will listen, but not on February 10
    The federal Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has announced that it will conduct an "OSHA listens" meeting. The meeting was originally scheduled for Wednesday, February 10, 2010, but has now been postponed due to the weather here. To speak at the "OSHA listens" meeting, participan ...
  • While The Whistleblower Sits in Prison, More Peopl ...
    On January 28, 2010, the Washington Post announced that the Swiss government has suspended the disclosure of information about tax cheats to the United States under a February 2009 “deferred prosecution” agreement and may seek to renegotiate the deal.  Under the agreement the Swiss government was su ...
  • New interns advance whistleblower cause
    We are pleased to have the talents and energy of a new group of interns for this winter semester.� Here they are: Top row: Michelle, Jacquie, Jamie. Next row: Quinn, Caitlin. Penultimate row: Ryan, Kevin, Tom. Bottom row: Amanda, Amy, Kylie, Lauren. Not pictured: Kevin, Megan, Phil. We remain inde ...

Defense and the National Interest

  • On War #323: Milestone
    William S. Lind 23 November 2009 One of the ongoing themes of this column has been gangs and the role they play in a Fourth Generation world. Here in the United States they already serve as an alternative primary loyalty (alternative to the state) for many urban young men. Gangs will likely be a m ...
  • DNI to close — update
    23 November 2009 Many thanks to everyone who wrote in.  My wife and I are deeply touched. We’ll try to find someone to at least take over the site as it is and keep the links intact.  Several people have contacted me with ideas.  In the meantime, I’ll leave everything up unless we start having mo ...
  • DNI to close
    Probably on Monday, November 23, depending on how my travels work out. Please go ahead and download any thing you’d like to keep — I’d particularly recommend Boyd’s briefings and the 4GW manuals. I have great faith in the growing number of bloggers and commentators who cover many of the same subjec ...
  • On War #322: What Is “Political Correctness?”
    William S. Lind 18 November 2009 In response to the killing of 13 American soldiers at Ft. Hood by an Islamic U. S. Army major, a number of senior officials have expressed their fear, not of Islam, but of a possible threat to “diversity.” “Diversity” is one of the many false gods of “Political Corr ...
  • What should we do with terrorists?
    Security guru Bruce Schneier has the right idea: We should treat terrorists like common criminals and give them all the benefits of true and open justice — not merely because it demonstrates our indomitability, but because it makes us all safer. Once a society starts circumventing its own laws, the ...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Ft. Lauderdale Officials Want to Stop Public Feedi ...
    Ft. Lauderdale may be known as a prime spring break destination, but many locals fear that if something isn't done to quell (or at least hide) a swelling homeless population, the beachside city will get a bad reputation. The consensus among downtown business owners is that meal distribution by non-p ...
  • The Dangers of Homeless Shelters
    A homeless shelter may never be as safe or accommodating as the Ritz-Carlton, but there is a reasonable expectation that it will serve as a refuge that is a step up from the dangers of the streets. Every now and then, however, that security is compromised, forcing us to ask the question: how safe ar ...
  • Why Homeless Services Shouldn't Work Themselves Ou ...
    There is a mantra in homeless services that we should "work ourselves out of business." We have been trying to work ourselves out of business for decades, yet business is booming . Those of us who dedicate our lives to the issue of homelessness face perverse incentives. Obviously, we get into the wo ...
  • Does Media Exposure Help the Homeless?
    I'm no George Clooney or anything, but some days I get several calls from eager journalists wanting to interview me. For the past fifteen years I've been commenting in the media on social justice issues affecting young people and the homeless in Australia. And I'm usually happy to do the interviews ...
  • Want to Support the Homeless? Get a Library Card
    Nerds rejoice! A new article by the London Guardian 's Ben Meyers adds support to the popular argument that libraries are the most enduring institution of public support for the homeless. As one of the last truly public spaces in many communities, libraries offer a unique opportunity for connecting ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Stable opium cultivation predicted in Afghanistan
    The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) predicts that the number of hectares used for opium cultivation in Afghanistan will remain stable in 2010, but that the number of tonnes produced may decline. The prediction was made in Afghanistan Opium Survey 2010: Winter Rapid Assessment, released on 10 Fe ...
  • Public eyes defence spending for cuts?
    A new poll by EKOS Research shows that the most popular option for reducing the federal deficit is cutting government spending. According to the poll, 46% of Canadians favour spending cuts, compared to 14% who favour raising taxes, 10% who want to continue to run deficits, and 30% who don’t know. ...
  • Karzai considers conscription
    With international partners growing impatient, Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced at a conference of high-level defence officials on Sunday that he is considering the introduction of conscription.  Karzai told the delegates at the Munich Security Conference that conscription may be necessary in ...
  • Army “readjusts” reserve budget
    The Canadian Army has reallocated $5 million to pay for Reserve training that it cancelled earlier this year as a cost-cutting measure. In a press release last week (”Class A Reserves receive $5 million for training,” 3 February 2010), Army commander Lieutenant-General Andrew Leslie acknowledged tha ...
  • Situation in Afghanistan improves; Taliban despera ...
    2010 “‘After a difficult year in 2009, we now see a new momentum in 2010 and it has already started,’ [NATO Secretary-General Anders] Fogh Rasmussen said Friday.” (Slobodan Lekic, “NATO Chief: Situation improving in Afghanistan after tough year,” Canadian Press, 5 February 2010) 2009 “The insur ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Judge Finds Me In Criminal Contempt of Court!
    On Thursday, February 11th, Judge Gettleman held me in criminal contempt of court for something I said on my radio program. My lawyers have requested that I not comment until the legal proceedings are final. I am back in court Wednesday, February 17th. I will be live on the radio on Tuesday, Februar ...
  • Top 5 Health Insurers Post 57% Profit Gain
    February 12, 2010 The Raw Story By John Byrne If no health care overhaul passes Congress, health insurers may be in for a windfall — and one far larger that most Americans probably realize. According to a study by a pro-health reform group published Thursday, the nation’s largest five health insuran ...
  • Rat Out Your Boss, Get Paid By The IRS
    February 12, 2010 MSN There’s a new sheriff in town, and his name is John Doe. He may be sitting in the cubicle next to you. Under a 2006 congressional mandate to the Internal Revenue Service, ordinary citizens can help the tax man cometh — or at least collect. The Whistleblower Office is the IRS’ a ...
  • Body Scanners Pose Privacy and Health Risks
    February 12, 2010 ZD Net By AAP Following in the footsteps of the US, the UK, The Netherlands and Canada, the Federal Government has announced that it will spend $28 million on full body scanners to be introduced at eight Australian airports next year. The scanners, which look through a passenger’s ...
  • TSA Grills Student Over 9/11
    February 12, 2010 Philly.com By Daniel Rubin A federal agent sizing up Nick George might peg him as Most Likely To Be Recruited By The CIA. He’s a physics major at a top college, he minors in Middle Eastern studies, speaks Arabic, has lived in Jordan and is adventurous enough to have backpacked thro ...

Pambazuka News

  • USA: Ethnic media take on race challenge
    The first-ever multilingual poll of black, Hispanic and Asian Americans is a call to action for the ethnic media leaders who sponsored it. While respondents believe that ethnic media are "irresponsible" when it comes to covering race relations, they ...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
  • Global: It takes a Villager
    Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
  • Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descendant ...
    Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...

War in Context

  • This is not a national emergency
    Tom Engelhardt writes: Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you’re not ready to get on the nearest plane heading anywhere, even toward Yemen. In 2008, 14,180 Americans were murdered, according to the FBI. In that year, there were 34,017 fatal v ...
  • Goldman Sachs helped to mask debt fueling Europe’s ...
    The New York Times reports: Wall Street tactics akin to the ones that fostered subprime mortgages in America have worsened the financial crisis shaking Greece and undermining the euro by enabling European governments to hide their mounting debts. As worries over Greece rattle world markets, record ...
  • Iran’s failed Facebook revolution
    In Foreign Policy, Cameron Abadi writes: A group of Iran’s green movement activists had a grand and detailed vision for what was supposed to happen on Feb. 11. They called it a “Trojan Horse” strategy: Backers of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, camouflaged in unassuming attire, would attend ...
  • New blow to Iraq election credibility
    The National reports: Any lingering hope that Iraq can hold a credible and peaceful election suffered a further blow yesterday when the leading secular nationalist bloc suspended its participation. The Iraqiya list, led by the former president Ayad Allawi, announced a three-day halt to its campaig ...
  • Our human rights vs. The others
    Glenn Greenwald writes: Ten American Baptists were arrested two weeks ago in Haiti on charges that they exploited the chaos in that country by attempting to smuggle 33 young Haitian children across the border without permission — either to bring them to a life of Christianity or (as some evidence s ...

Watts Up With That?

  • The Snow Line is Moving South
    Guest post by Steven Goddard As we have been discussing on WUWT, three of the last four months have seen top ten Northern Hemisphere snow extents and the decadal trend has been towards increasing (and above normal) snow extent during the autumn and winter.  It appears that this month will achieve sn ...
  • Quote of the week #28
    There’s so much climate news going on I’ve been derelict in keeping this feature up. This QOTW is from our friend and WUWT contributor Willis Eschenbach who writes: I just got my 29 January 2010 copy of Science Magazine, which contains an interview with Rajendra K. Pachauri, the future ex-Chairman ...
  • Christy and McKittrick in the UK Times: doubts on ...
    A new story by Jonathan Leake in the Sunday Times puts the spotlight on surface temperature data. Above: Rome’s airport weather station. Here is the interactive view “The temperature records cannot be relied on as indicators of global change,â€� said John Christy, professor of atmospheric scienc ...
  • New paper on mathematical analysis of GHG
    Polynomial Cointegration Tests of the Anthropogenic Theory of Global Warming Michael Beenstock and Yaniv Reingewertz – Department of Economics, The Hebrew University, Mount Scopus, Israel. Abstract: We use statistical methods designed for nonstationary time series to test the anthropogenic theory of ...
  • Phil Jones momentous Q&A with BBC reopens the &#82 ...
    Professor Phil Jones unwittingly(?) reveals that the global warming emperor is, if not naked, scantily clad, vindicating key skeptic arguments Annotated Version of the Phil & Roger Show – Guest post by Indur M. Goklany Readers of WUWT are already familiar with the remarkable series of questions and ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Michael Ratner on Israeli Apartheid
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://therealnews.com Michael Ratner reports on his recent visit to the West Bank more about “Michael Ratner on Israeli apartheid“, posted with vodpod see Bilin weekly demonstration reenacts the Avatar film Israel: Occupation or Apartheid? Inside Israel ...
  • The Information Super-Sewer by Chris Hedges
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig February 15, 2010 The Internet has become one more tool hijacked by corporate interests to accelerate our cultural, political and economic decline. The great promise of the Internet, to open up dialogue, break down cultural barriers, pro ...
  • Sharing in a common struggle by Anthony Arnove
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Anthony Arnove, Howard Zinn’s collaborator on projects like the book Voices of a People’s History of the United States and the documentary The People Speak, pays tribute to a friend whose sense of solidarity and joy in life was infectious. SocialistWorker.org F ...
  • NATO Expansion, Missile Deployments And Russia’s N ...
    by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO -Opposition to global militarism February 12, 2010 Developments related to military and security matters in Europe and Asia have been numerous this month and condensed into less than a week of meetings, statements an ...
  • No Nukes by Ralph Nader
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page February 12, 2010 A generation of Americans has grown up without a single nuclear power plant being brought on line since before the near meltdown of the Three Mile Island structure in 1979. They have not been exposed to the enormo ...

Your New Reality

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    This Story About The Flying Killer Robots Vs Terrorists War Has Been Endorsed By The White House By Darryl Mason The White House on Twitter has about 1.7 million followers. White House postings on Twitter are often 'retweeted' by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of followers. If the White House want ...
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    Osama Bin Laden Jumps The Shark By Darryl Mason Bin Laden, or whoever is making those tapes, reinvents himself as anti-capitalist, anti-global warming warrior . Or as it will probably be soon known : Greenhadism. The War On Terror is dying in a flurry of exposed forgeries and outright frauds. The ...
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    Time Magazine ran this story on the United States' Snowpocalypse : The story was left open for comments. After a few hours of relentless mockery from commenters, someone at Time Magazine decided another headline might be necessary : More Here
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    No wonder they hate President Obama so much. He's got a very, very big mouth : "The Government Accountability Office, the GAO, has looked into 96 major defense projects from the last year, and found cost overruns that totaled $296 billion....indefensible, no-bid contracts that cost taxpayers billion ...
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    IOC Move Fast To Censor Video Of Luger's Death Crash Why is the IOC demanding the Nodar Crash Video be censored on YouTube and elsewhere online? This is the sometimes deadly reality of an extremely fast Winter Olympics event like the luge, and what happens when the IOC sign off on having great huge ...

Wired - Science

  • Massive Star Blows Fancy Hourglass Nebula
    The beautiful hourglass-shaped nebula Sharpless 2-106 shines with brilliant colors in this new image from the Gemini North telescope. Giant star S106IR lies near the waist of the hourglass. Astronomers estimate the star could be up to 15 times more massive than our sun. The winds the star sends rip ...
  • Searching for Network Laws in Slime
    Of all science’s model organisms, none is as weird as Dictyostelium discoideum, a single-celled amoeba better known as slime mold. When they run out of food, millions coalesce into a single, slug-like creature that wanders in search of nutrients, then forms a mushroom-like stalk, scatters as spore ...
  • Mud Volcano Was Man-Made, New Evidence Confirms
    A new analysis shows that a deadly mud volcano in Indonesia may not have been a natural disaster after all. The research lends weight to the controversial theory that the volcano was caused by humans.  Villagers near Sidoarjo noticed a mud volcano beginning to erupt at 5 a.m. local time May 29, 200 ...
  • Antibiotics Breed Superbugs Faster Than Expected
    A newly discovered mechanism of antibiotic resistance helps explain how bacteria have so quickly undermined medicine’s front-line defenses, turning miracle drugs into duds in just a few decades. Scientists have long known that exposing bacteria to the right antibiotics will kill most of them, but l ...
  • New 3-D Map of Interstellar Gas Around the Sun
    Space is a pretty empty place. But it’s not completely empty, as a new map of the interstellar space in the 1,000 light-years around the sun shows. Using the light from 1,857 stars, a team of French and American astronomers were able to measure the density of the gas surrounding our sun by examinin ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Noam Chomsky: Howard Zinn
    Historian Howard Zinn's remarkable work, including his most famous book, A People's History of the United States, is summarized best in his own words. His primary concern, he once explained, was "the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Israel is accused of waging covert war across the ...
    Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East in an effort to stop its key enemies co-ordinating their activities. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much mor ...
  • Think tank: Israel faces global delegitimization c ...
    Reut says the campaign is the work of a worldwide network of private individuals and organizations. They have no hierarchy or overall commander, but work together based on a joint ideology -... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israeli court frees non-violent pro ...
    “Israel knows that the non-violence struggle is spreading and that it’s a powerful weapon against the occupation,” said Neta Golan, an Israeli activist based in Ramallah. “Israel has no answer to it,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Israel upholds legality of Jews-only housing compl ...
    The Tel Aviv District Court rejected a petition this week against a decision to lease land in Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood for the exclusive use of members of the religious Zionist community. The... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Many Prostituted Juveniles Treated as Offenders, N ...
    A new national study finds that nearly a third of the prostituted juveniles taken into custody by police are treated more as criminal offenders than as victims of the pimps and customers who sexually abuse them. Study authors say this reflects controversy and confusion nationwide among criminal just ...
  • Seniors Stymied in Wait for Kidney Transplants
    One-third of people over the age of 65 wait longer than necessary for lifesaving, new kidneys because their doctors fail to put them in a queue for organs unsuitable to transplant in younger patients but well-suited to seniors, research from Johns Hopkins suggests.
  • Workshop Lays Foundation for U.S. National Space S ...
    How best to start developing a strategy for United States activities in outer space? A specially-convened workshop of experts has initiated a dialogue on how to develop a U.S. National Space Strategy.
  • Teaching a Foreign Language? Best in the Accent of ...
    Perception of second language speech is easier when it is spoken in the accent of the listener and not in the 'original' accent of that language, shows a new study from the University of Haifa. The study was published in the prestigious Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.
  • Tobacco Use Linked to Worse Outcomes in HPV-Positi ...
    Patients with head and neck cancer linked to high risk human papillomavirus, or HPV, have worse outcomes if they are current or former tobacco users, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Intel Trends

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    * * Effective 10-FEB-2010 this blog is moving to Blogger. * * The new URL is: http://inteltrends.blogspot.com RSS subscribers need to "re-subscribe" to the updated newsfeed URL. http://feeds.feedburner.com/inteltrends Thank you for your patience during the transition. Steve Permalin ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: Peace Campaign Hyp ...
    The following comment is from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Reprinted with permission. Peace Campaign Hypes and the Rogue War-mongering Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 10, 2010 �17:46 �administrator Of Late, the invading forces led by America and their surrogates have l ...
  • Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism ©   Pravda By Sergey Balmasov February 10, 2010 Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade urged African leaders and the West to join forces in the fight against al-Qaeda's North African branch ...
  • IntelTrends 10-FEB-2010
    Military hospitals under pressure in advance of new offensive Telegraph, 10 Feb Military hospitals in Afghanistan and the U.K. are operating close to capacity as British forces prepare to launch a major offensive against the Taliban. Arab diplomat annuls wedding with hairy bride Al Arabiya, 10 ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: On the So-called R ...
    The following opinion is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. On the So-called Re-integration Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 9, 2010 �08:56 �S.H. The recent American tactic to lure away members of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the nam ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • New USDA Rules Establish Strong Organic Standards ...
    After over 10 years of lobbying, family farmers across the country, who produce organic milk, are celebrating the release of strict new USDA regulations that establish distinct benchmarks requiring the grazing and pasturing of dairy cows and other livestock. Many hope that the new rule will put an e ...
  • Who Do We Believe?
    We need to listen to ourselves. We know that our communities and our kids are being poisoned, and we are the ones that should be able to do something about it. If we all could convince our municipal and county governments to take action to protect us from these corrupt and polluting industries, the ...
  • Organic Flowers for Valentine's Day? Why Some Shop ...
    According to the Society of American Florists, 187 million roses are produced for Valentine's Day alone, but only a fraction are sustainably or organically grown. As the base of eco-conscious consumers grows, flowers are joining paints, cabinets, floors and cleaning products in the realm of green sh ...
  • New Standards for Natural Home Care Products to be ...
    A growing number of home-cleaning products that call their ingredients "natural" are hitting store shelves. Now, an industry group is trying to clarify what the term means and whether manufacturers are using it appropriately. Click here to read this article
  • GM Wheat Rejected by 233 Consumer, Farmer Groups i ...
    233 consumer and farmer groups in 26 countries have joined the "Definitive Global Rejection of GM Wheat" statement to stop the commercialization of genetically modified (GM) wheat and remind the biotechnology corporation Monsanto that genetically modifying this major crop is not acceptable to farmer ...

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  • Cómo encontrar imágenes gratuitas de alta resoluci ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Leyendo la sección Enter 2.0 en Eltiempo.Com, descubrí un excelente artículo que escribe Iván Luzardo sobre algunos de los bancos de imágenes gratuitos donde podemos encontrar una gran diversidad de recursos sin gastar n ...
  • Imágenes de Amor para el 14 de febrero
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. A sólo dos días del 14 de febrero Día del Amor y la Amistad , ponemos a su disposición nuestra recopilación de Imágenes de Amor . En total, hemos logrado coleccionar más de 100 imágenes, postales, dibujos, ilustaciones, ...
  • Coloca tus fotografías en estas imágenes .PNG
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre el collage para entrar y descargar todas las imágenes. Con frecuencia, he visto a muchas personas buscando imágenes para utilizarlas como fondo o frames donde puedan colocar sus propias fotografías a través de Photoshop. Por ello mismo, les presento el día de hoy la segu ...
  • Fotografías del Amor en blanco y negro
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. 'Ámame sin límites' decía una canción que cantaba mi abuelita mientras se bañaba en el río de agua clara. No puedo negar que la llegada del día del amor y la amistad me pone romántico y un poco loco. Por ello mismo, el d ...
  • Imágenes de Geishas y Kimonos by NonSoloKawaii
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Desde hace mucho, pero mucho tiempo me han gustado las Geishas . Su manera de vestirse tan elegante y exótica, provoca en mi reacciones inesperadas por descubrir la magia que encierran más allá de sus miradas. Por eso mi ...

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Center for a Livable Future

  • CBS Evening News Investigative Report Highlights U ...
    I hope every lawmaker on Capitol Hill had a chance to watch CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric’s two-part investigative series on the risks of using antibiotics as growth promoters in food animals. After viewing both pieces it would be difficult for most people to question the immediate need to pa ...
  • CBS Airs First Segment, “Animal Antibiotic Overuse ...
    In the first installment of a two-part series, CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric investigates the connection between the use of antibiotics in factory farms and the incidence of MRSA in humans. Couric talks to a worker at an Arkansas poultry processing facility who developed MRSA; discusses the u ...
  • Green Lecture Series at National Building Museums ...
    I recently attended the lecture series at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.  The topic of the talk was urban agriculture.  What I found most interesting was that the lecture series was targeted at architects, planners and builders; even though the ¬¬topic seemed to be directed at the ...
  • New analysis claims Monsanto skewed GM corn findin ...
    Monsanto conducted studies to evaluate the toxicity of genetically modified (GM) corn on rats as part of European regulatory registry of GM food and feed, prior to commercialization. To our knowledge, only a summary of the findings were made available to the public (for examples see European Food Sa ...
  • Baltimore Food Makers potluck
    On the recommendation of a friend, I had to good fortune to attended the Baltimore Food Makers monthly potluck this Saturday to share home-grown, home-preserved and home-made food with a group of ~30 “food makers.”  Before eating we all gathered around the spread of food and each maker discussed w ...

Norwegianity

  • No love to be found (politics as usual)
    Dan Balz continues to believe in Sarah Palin with all his heart. Very few brain cells, however, were sacrificed when he penned his Valentine’s Day note to Sarah pure and simple. Kathleen Parker must be jealous of Palin because instead of a mash note, she wrote about how Palin exploits her grandson T ...
  • VD and some haters
    Frank Rich on Sarah Palin and that will have to hold you for a while because I’m hitting the warehouse thanks to a record turnout on Valentine’s Day Eve at my client’s restaurant. Lord only knows what the crowds will be like today. - Unsurprisingly, Wall Street helped cover up Greece’s economic sins ...
  • A long post with a gajillion links and 3 rants
    Sebastian Jones explains The Lobbying-Media Complex and yes, you do want to read this one. Here’s a deeply buried nugget that caught my eye: For [Aaron] Brown, though, the lack of disclosure is symptomatic of larger problems in cable journalism, rooted in the shift to putting numerous analysts and s ...
  • Mnrants
    OK, am I the only person who finds today’s Google’s Winter Olympics art to be a bit creepy given the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili? - I don’t have to drive during rush hour so I rarely do, but on those rare occasions when I do have to be out and about, nothing infuriates me more than selfish [...]
  • Cap’n Amerika & Patriotic Correctness
    Al Franken Paul Krugman on the lying liars: Even as Republicans denounce modest proposals to rein in Medicare’s rising costs, they are, themselves, seeking to dismantle the whole program. And the process of dismantling would begin with spending cuts of about $650 billion over the next decade. Mat ...

The Seferm Post

  • Links for 2010-02-10 [del.icio.us]
    Get Rid Of Browser Hijackers, Spyware, Malware Once And For All They're intrusive and often difficult to delete. Sometimes, people actually wipe their hard drives clean and start over again just to get rid of them. It's time to act! Winter Driving Safety Tips: How To Take Control Of Your Car ...
  • Links for 2010-02-09 [del.icio.us]
    Google Counterpunches Facebook, Twitter With Gmail 'Buzz' Release Search giant Google is upgrading its Gmail program to add social-media tools similar to those found on Facebook including photo and video sharing within the Gmail application
  • HOW TO: Setting Up And Customizing Google Buzz (Pa ...
    GOOGLE BUZZ PART 2: Start conversations about the things you find interesting. Share updates, photos, videos, and more. Welcome To Google Buzz.
  • Getting Rid Of Obesity Should Start In The Cradle: ...
    The study recommends that health care providers begin screening for excessive weight gain "as early as possible" in order to prevent childhood obesity, rather than trying to reverse it once a weight problem as "spiralled out of control."
  • Top 10 Things Millionaires Will Always Conceal Fro ...
    And two-thirds of all millionaires have a net worth of $2.5 million or less, according to research firm TNS. So what does it take to feel truly rich? The magic number is $7.5 million, according to Fidelity.

The World We Live In

  • MQM Caught Spying On Pakistan
    Guest post sent in by Truth Seeker MQM caught spying red-handed for foreign nationals and smuggling classified state material outside Pakistan and violated Official Secret Act.  According to a report published in the press Waseem Akthar (MNA) and former advisor to the Chief Minister on poli ...
  • US drones killed 123 civilians, three al-Qaeda men ...
    Monday, February 01, 2010 By Amir Mir LAHORE: Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis. The remaining two successfu ...
  • War Begets War, Don’t Call it Terrorism
    Slate | By William Saletan | 11 January 2010 Traitor, Bomber, Soldier, Spy Stop crying “terrorism� every time we’re attacked. Afghan police officers inspect the site of a blast in Khost province Photo: REUTERS Two weeks ago, a Jordanian suicide bomber blew up seven CIA employees at a U.S. m ...
  • Indian army doesn’t posses ability to fight in nig ...
    NEW DELHI: While the Indians celebrate 62nd Army Day, country’s Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor, just after a couple of weeks of announcing a new war doctrine of Indian army to eliminate Pakistan and China in matter of hours even if it has to fight on simultaneous fronts, outrageously admitted I ...
  • Freedom of Speech for a Fiction
    By CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM I often correspond with a long-time Washington DC operator named Leigh Ratiner, who spent 40 years in government, serving under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Reagan, with cabinet-level posts in the Defense Department, under the Secretary of the Interior, in the ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Farmers and Conservation Groups Seek to Halt Plant ...
    Earlier Court Decision Found Federal Approval of GE Sugar Beets to Be Unlawful Earthjustice and Center for Food Safety announced today that they filed court papers seeking a ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. The motion was filed in Federal Court on behalf of a coal ...
  • Supreme Court to Hear First Genetically Engineered ...
    Monsanto Takes Center for Food Safety Legal Victory to Highest Court Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear a first-time case about the risks of genetically engineered crops. Named Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms, No. 09-475, the case before the high court will be yet another step in an ongoi ...
  • Tell USDA That You Care About GE Contamination of ...
    In 2006, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) sued the Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its illegal approval of Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa. The federal courts sided with CFS and banned GE alfalfa until the USDA fully analyzed the impacts of the plant on the environm ...
  • USDA AGAIN AIMS TO ALLOW UNLIMITED PLANTING OF GEN ...
    Center for Food Safety to lead coalition to protect public, farmers and environment from GE crop hazards The Center for Food Safety today announced that it will lead a coalition of concerned farmers, consumers and environmentalists to hold USDA accountable in its responsibility to protect all farme ...
  • Center for Food Safety and Institute for Agricultu ...
    Groups Urge Government Ban of Common Additives Used in Feed for Chicken, Turkeys and Hogs Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), filed a petition with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) calling for the immediate withdrawal of approvals ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Mohawk Splitting the Sky: Attempted Citizen's Arre ...
    Splitting The Sky: Exposing The Bush-Cheney Cabal from Steve Poole on Vimeo .
  • Free climate prisoners! Sydney solidarity action
    Sydney activists call for the release of Copenhagen climate prisoners at Danish Consulate on Monday December 4th 2010.
  • Laie Kuleana Re Occupation
    Aunty Dawn Wasson makes a heartfelt plea for the land of her ancestors Dawn K. Wasson, Kupuna o Laiewai Today mark your calendars I will enter the Battle of this Century between an Indigenous Hawaiian Woman and the entity of the Mormon Church, Hawaii Reserves Incorporated. Adverse Possession i ...
  • Bolivia: ‘We are here to serve people, not capital ...
    Federico Fuentes Pledging to move the country towards “communitarian socialism”, Bolivian president Evo Morales proclaimed the death of the “colonial state” during the January 21 inauguration of his second term as president. He said “a new plurinational, autonomy and solidarity-based state is being ...
  • Robbie Thorpe ft M1 (Dead Prez) at Trades Hall
    Robbie Thorpe and m1 (Dead Prez) speak out against the Northern Territory Intervention at Trades Hall, Melbourne, 26th Jan 2010.

Pensieve

  • Chavez Shuts Down RCTV…Again
    Not content to shut down RCTV on the public airwaves when their broadcasting license expired, by quietly ignoring their repeated attempts at renewing it, Chavez has forced cable TV companies to stop carrying the channel as well. The following CNN report talks about it, in a balanced tone they denied ...
  • Generals Absolved, Big Surprise?
    The President of the Honduran Supreme Court has freed the five commanders of the armed forces of penal responsibility about an hour ago. They were guilty of violating the constitutional protection of Honduran citizens from exile or extradition when they forced Manuel Zelaya to Costa Rica. I was nerv ...
  • A Big Day For Honduras
    The day has finally come, Porfirio Lobo’s inauguration day. Tension is at its peak. Manuel Zelaya has called for protests at the airport where he is expected to board a plane for the Dominican Republic, and then Mexico City. Two students are dead in Venezuela during protests against the shutd ...
  • Lobo Inaugurated as Honduran President
    After a religious service, President Porfirio Lobo took the oath of office in the National stadium, under strict security, in a ceremony attended by the President of Taiwan and dignitaries from various countries, including the US. Deposed president Manuel Zelaya was transported to the airport, and h ...
  • Amnesty International’s Recommendations for Lobo
    Much as I resent Amnesty International for defending the vandals who defaced and burnt down buildings and set buses and cars alight only to get media attention, I agree with them that President Lobo must begin investigating the police who were responsible for excessive force in repressing them. I ha ...

Green Times

  • Don`t forget the little creatures!
    The Brush-tailed Phascogale is listed as a threatened species in NSW. These creatures, like many others, are very vulnerable to loss of habitat.  When we operate in the environment we should remember that we operate a big change in the fragile life of animals.
  • The Rights of Nature
    Under our law both nature and non-human animals are property, which by definition can be bought, sold, exploited or destroyed in satisfaction of human preferences. The notion of ‘rights for nature’ is an emerging theory of law termed Earth Jurisprudence which challenges us to shift our thinking and ...
  • Suburban Chooks
    The suburban ‘chook' is making its new appearance. This environmentally sustainable pet turns your leftover scraps into up to 6 eggs per chook per week. There is nothing like the taste of a fresh egg from your beloved pets.
  • Green Painters
    Good news! Painting one of the most toxic and polluting sectors of the construction industry, leading to contamination of water and air using poisonous and unhealthy chemicals is matter of the past! New products available in the market will greatly reduce the problem.
  • Become a green energy producer
    Many people are seeking ways of minimising their carbon footprint, reducing energy bills and making their home self sustainable. A solution – solar energy. Solar panels are increasingly being installed in Australian homes, allowing residents to use solar energy to generate electricity as well as pro ...
 
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Council announces renewable boost
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- Feb 15, 2010

Perth and Kinross Council has said it plans to invest £100000 in renewable energy over the next year. The council said it was particularly keen to fund ...
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Obama Defends Clean Coal, Tells Renewables Activist "Don't Be Stubborn"
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The audio is poor, so here's a transcript: "It's got to be renewable energy. No more clean coal. [Inaudible: It's a unicorn. It doesn't exist. ...
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By RP Siegel | February 15th, 2010 View comments Comments Just in time for Valentine's Day, for those of you who already believed that chocolate was the ...
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SunPower to acquire SunRay Renewable Energy
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By Dana Hull San Jose-based SunPower, Silicon Valley's biggest solar panel manufacturer, announced Thursday an agreement to buy SunRay Renewable Energy, ...
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Ecology study ordered for sports complex plan
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A restoration plan for the area, near 2200 North, will be reviewed by a team of ecology experts before being subjected a public review, according to a news ...
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Evanston Ecology Center avoids closure, future looks secure
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- Feb 15, 2010

By Rebecca Cohen When Evanston resident Anne Weisberg's children were young, they often visited the Evanston Ecology Center. Based on recent City Council ...
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Becker to invite ecology experts to review sports complex plan
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As mandated by the City Council, riparian habitat experts and other ecology professionals will be allowed to weigh in. "This complex will serve youth and ...
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Why love birds 'dance' to the Sun
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- Feb 15, 2010

The Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology study suggests the birds actively use the Sun in their displays. Pedro Olea, a scientist from the IE University ...
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Sen Dianne Feinstein's fishy water deal
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- Feb 14, 2010
Dianne Feinstein should drop her end-run bid to ship delta water south for farming. Her plan defies court rulings, endangered-species protections and ...
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- Feb 14, 2010

PAHOA, Hawaii — Water haulers are keeping busy on the Big Island of Hawaii as a drought forces some residents to have water delivered. ...
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- Feb 15, 2010

An advisory sent out Friday by the Wilmington Water Division for 2500 residents north of the city to boil water before using it after a water main break ...
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Austin Water will begin this week a $31.8 million stimulus-funded treatment plant project that will create 150 jobs, increase energy efficiency and reduce ...
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