- Iran nuclear programme 'solely civilian' - Turkish ...
Summary: Erdogan The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has told the BBC that he believes Iran has no intention of developing nuclear weapons. source: BBC read more
- This US-Israeli Crisis Has Yet To Peak: Diverging ...
Summary: Narwani Every time Obama has sought to advance his Mideast agenda, Israel has managed to put a new cog in his wheels. The US president started off his term insisting that Arab-Israeli peace be dealt with before Iran's nuclear issue, and has had to reverse his plan due to Israeli pressu ...
- Brazil steps between Israel and Iran
Summary: Lula Lula and Obama had seemed to be in synch on Iran, starting from their meeting on the sidelines of a Group of Eight plus five meeting in L'Aquila, Italy, nine months ago. Then, Obama even encouraged the Brasilia-Tehran dialogue, as long as Brazil pressed on Iran the commitment to a ...
- Cartoon of the week: Iran and Israel - spot the di ...
Summary: Israel -- a country that has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -- has a secret stockpile of nuclear weapons, as revealed 23 years ago by Israeli nuclear technician Dr Modecai Vanunu, for which service to humanity he was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. Since his release ...
- Final destination Iran?
Summary: Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. source: The Herald Scotland read more
- Lost Antarctica "Alps" Hint at Hyper-Speed Global ...
An international team of experts have mapped a huge, incredibly old location, mentioned in the notes of a Russian explorer from half a century ago, buried under hundreds of meters of ice. In an amazing break with tradition this process...
- The Dark Universe: Milky Way's Ghostly Halo
Most of the mass of the Milky Way (and the Universe) is believed to be in the form of dark matter — an invisible component that has so far been only indirectly detected through the effects of its gravity on...
- NASA's Infra-Red Eye Unveils Most Primitive Superm ...
Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known, based largely on observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. "We have found what are likely first-generation quasars, born in a dust-free...
- Deadly Companions: Animal Microbes Pose Threats of ...
“Microbes are always going to be one step ahead of us. Their generation time is 24 hours, ours is 30 years. They mutate, they change, they will find a way. They are amazing opportunists.” Dorothy Crawford -Professor of Medical Microbiology...
- New Exoplanet Discovered- Size of Jupiter - Orbing ...
A new planet the size of Jupiter, called CoRoT-9b, was discovered by using the CoRoT space telescope satellite, operated by the French space agency, The Centre National d'Études Spatiales. The newly discovered planet orbits a star similar to our sun...
- Heal yourself in 15 days with the "Attitude of Gra ...
(NaturalNews) So far in this 15-day self healing series, we've talked about healing yourself through many innovative methods that help protect you from threats to your health while activating the inner healing potential you already possess. Today, in part twelve of this series, we're going to explor ...
- Virtually all kidney disease patients on dialysis ...
(NaturalNews) Research abounds that adequate vitamin D is essential for good health (http://www.naturalnews.com/Vitamin_D.html). Unfortunately, however, millions of Americans are not getting enough of this so-called "sunshine" vitamin. Now it turns out that one group in particular is almost universa ...
- Junk Food Nearly as Addictive as Heroin
(NaturalNews) Junk food appears to be almost as addictive as heroin, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Scripps Research Institute and presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. "This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addic ...
- NaturalNews connects readers with premium astaxant ...
(NaturalNews) As many NaturalNews readers already know, I've been a strong advocate of the amazing super-antioxidant nutrient astaxanthin for several years. And the source I have consistently recommended is Nutrex Hawaii , the name brand of the Cyanotech corporation based on the Big Island of Hawaii ...
- Pfizer Hid Evidence That HRT Causes Cancer
(NaturalNews) A Philadelphia jury has found drug giant Pfizer Inc. guilty of deliberately ignoring evidence that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drug Prempro increased women's risk of breast cancer, ordering it to pay unspecified damages to defendant Connie Barton. Millions of women used Prempro a ...
- Ill-equipped
They're springing leaks fast and furious now. An anonymous government official outlines three scenarios the Liberal feared in 2005 regarding Afghanistan detainees . He said the Liberal government looked at three options as it considered moving Canadian troops to the embattled Kandahar province fr ...
- Corporations are people too!
PR Watch : "After the US Supreme Court declared that corporations have the same rights as individuals when it comes to funding political campaigns, the self-described progressive firm, Murray Hill, Inc. , took what it considers the next logical step: running for office in Maryland’s 8th Congressiona ...
- Because that's what they do...
This I believe. I'm not surprized in the slightest. It will underscore the point made earlier by many that the Chief of Defence Staff of the day was aware that the prisoner transfer agreement he had entered into was, shall we say, seriously flawed. It will also cause the monosynaptic whipheads at ...
- Weaselry
HELLACIOUS HELENA'S HUBBY has beat the rap! The egregious Rahim Jaffer is the mysterious beneficiary of a get-out-of-jail-free card issued by some weasel. According to the G&M: He was initially charged with driving while having more than 80 milligrams in one hundred millilitres of blood, speeding an ...
- That weird feeling...
Was You Tube abuser and abysmally bad Beatles cover artist, Steve Harper, blowing scripted sunshine up your ass. Kady first: Oh, I know what some of you are thinking: "Aha! You control freakish mainstream media types just don't want Canadians to be able to hear the prime minister speak without a fi ...
- Hours after Fox corrected the record, Beck perpet ...
On his Fox News show, Glenn Beck falsely claimed that The New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) said that 46 percent of primary care physicians would consider leaving their profession if the Democrats' health care reform bill passes. In fact, as Fox News' Megyn Kelly had noted three hours ea ...
- Siegel uses "not scientific" IBD/TIPP pol ...
Fox News' Marc Siegel said he believed the findings of a 3-month-old email survey which found that 46 percent of primary care physicians would consider leaving their profession if health care reform passes despite the survey's questionable methodology because its findings were similar to a Septembe ...
- WND distorts Wallis to falsely claim he "labeled" ...
A WorldNetDaily article distorted a passage from a book by Rev. Jim Wallis to falsely claim that he "previously labeled the U.S. 'the great captor and destroyer of human life.' " In fact, Wallis, a member of President Obama's faith council, referred to "the powers of the world" that "demand unco ...
- Media falsely attribute doctor survey to New ...
Conservative media figures and outlets have falsely claimed a New England Journal of Medicine ( NEJM ) survey found that 46 percent of primary care physicians would consider leaving their profession if Democrats' health care reform bill passes. In fact, NEJM says that the 3-month-old email "su ...
- Fox News anchors can't grasp "pretty simple" legis ...
On March 16, Fox News anchors during their self-described daytime "news hours" repeatedly forwarded the false suggestion that, by using a legislative procedure known as the "self-executing rule" to finalize health care reform in the House, Democrats would be passing health care reform "without actu ...
- Book Review: Zionism's Invented State
Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism by M. Shahid Alam Palgrave Macmillan, 272 pp., £55.00 Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism arrived in the mail shortly after I completed sending a thank you note to two other authors and friends, Kathleen and Bil ...
- Reflections from Fort Hood on Seven Years in Iraq
There's a place in central Texas where valor runs deep and life is deeply connected to something known as "warrior ethos." It's also an area known for its warm greetings, wide open spaces, exceptional football and damn good music . And, it's a far cry from the nearby SXSW festival taking place this ...
- What Do Israel and Iran('s Nuclear Weapons / Progr ...
Yesterday I wrote a post with the narrow purpose of picking apart a manipulative and nonsensical conservative talking point regarding the spike in tensions between the US and Israel. Bottom line: completely separate from how any of us feels about the relationship with Israel, it is a complication fo ...
- AIPAC Asks Congress To Back Netanyahu, not Obama + ...
The diplomatic crisis over Israeli settlements is going into its second week and there is no sign that either side is backing down. It started when the Israeli government announced that it would expand settlements in East Jerusalem while Vice President Joseph Biden was visiting Israel. And, no su ...
- What Do Israel and Iran Have to Do With Each Other ...
...well, a lot, obviously. But when it comes to immediate-term US foreign policy objectives -- particularly the current flap over Israeli settlements -- the two are quite separate tracks. I feel compelled to stress this point because of a VERY strained connection that House Minority Whip Eric Cantor ...
- How Two Little-Known Offices Will Shape the Vote o ...
Washington — The complex, highly partisan closing push for healthcare reform is, in many ways, coming down to two Washington institutions whose devotion to nonpartisanship and a mastery of the arcane make them virtually inside-the-Beltway priesthoods: the Congressional Budget Office and the Senate P ...
- Insurer Targeted HIV Patients to Drop Coverage
Washington - In May, 2002, Jerome Mitchell, a 17-year old college freshman from rural South Carolina, learned he had contracted HIV. The news, of course, was devastating, but Mitchell believed that he had one thing going for him: On his own initiative, in anticipation of his first year in college, h ...
- The Lies of Karl Rove
Joseph Goebbels, the leading propagandist of the Third Reich, believed in the power of the lie; the greater the lie, the greater the power. Goebbels would have loved Karl Rove's "Courage and Consequences: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight," a pastiche of lies, fabrications and distortions desig ...
- Obama's Regulatory Czar Deliberately Stalling Toxi ...
It may be unsettling to some that the man most responsible for overseeing coal ash regulation within the Obama administration has a track record of siding with polluters instead of the people most affected by toxic waste. His name is Cass Sunstein read more
- Robert Reich: Expect 10% Unemployment Until 2011 ( ...
The Commonwealth Club of California January 22, 2010�
- Paper or Plastic? Neither
Green Cities California (GCC) announced today the release of its Master Environmental Assessment (MEA) on Single Use and Reusable Bags. The MEA, commissioned by GCC and developed by ICF International’s Sacramento office, summarizes existing studies on the environmental impacts of single use plastic ...
- How to Help the Environment
If you are reading this article, I think you are probably more concerned about the environment than most others. I assume that you keep up with environmental news a bit, reading more than the miniscule amount covered in the mainstream media. However, I cannot make any guess as to how much you actua ...
- 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 agai ...
- 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 d ...
- International Day of Action for Rivers
domkhedi_protestors.jpg Cultures in different parts of�our�planet have long held rivers to be life-giving. Early human civilizations are even known by their connection to the river systems whose banks they arose from�like the Indus-Ganga, the ...
- Beating Hunger in Haiti with Seeds and Tools for S ...
haiti200604-129.jpg On the cusp of Haiti’s spring planting season, we received urgent communications from our partners and allies in Haiti about their dire need for seeds and tools to ensure that food production might be enhanced in the immedi ...
- Women on the March until we are All Free!
World_March_of_Women.jpg Grassroots International ally the World March of Women has launched a Call to Action on the occasion of International Women's Day, March 8, 2010. The World March of Women is also a�close ally of many Grassroots Interna ...
- Via Campesina calls for End to Violence against Wo ...
Women_farmers_against_violence_and_agribusiness.jpg Grassroots International partner La Via Campesina celebrated international women's day, March 8, 2010 with a re-affirmation of their global campaign to end violence against women. Last Novemb ...
- A Future for Agriculture, a Future for Haiti
Outside Author Bio:� Beverly Bell is the founder and Coordinating Committee Member and Program Coordinator of Other Worlds, which is a Grassroots International ally. She is also an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, Education Coordinato ...
- March 18, 2010
Deal Nearing on Senate Climate Bill: Sen. Kerry (Reuters) The Senate is close to wrapping up talks ahead of introducing a compromise climate bill, said Sen. Kerry, after meeting with a coalition that represents automakers, forestry and paper companies, Big Oil, steel, mining, electricity and ...
- March 17, 2010
First Solar Joins Desertec Solar Project (Reuters) U.S. solar power company First Solar has joined the Desertec solar power project, which hopes to supply 15% of Europe's power by 2050 via a network of renewable energy sources. House Republicans Hit SEC on Climate Disclosure (The Hill) ...
- March 16, 2010
Cap-and-Trade Plan in Compromise Climate Bill (Reuters) A compromise climate bill that could be sketched out next week in the Senate will be anchored by a cap-and-trade plan for reducing CO2 emissions from utilities such as power plants, a key senator said. EPA Studying Own Carbon-Tradi ...
- March 15, 2010
Australia '0.7 Degrees Warmer Over Past 50 Years' (AFP) Australia's top science body said on Monday temperatures had risen about 0.7 degrees Celsius (0.44 Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years, describing the finding as "significant evidence" of climate change. Money Spent on Tar Sands Proje ...
- March 14, 2010
China Alleges Diplomatic Snub at Copenhagen Summit (AP) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said he was snubbed at last year's Copenhagen climate conference and fired back Sunday at critics who accuse China of arrogance. Japan Faces Rocky Path to Emissions Trading System (Reuters) Japan f ...
- 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 ...
- Expecting Gen. McChrystal to Cut Afghan Civilian D ...
Three months after it initially lied about the murder by US forces of eight high school students and a 12-year-old shepherd boy in Afghanistan, and a month after it lied about the slaughter by US forces of an Afghan police commander, a government prosecutor, two of their pregnant wives and a teenage ...
- Waiter, There Is Toxic Sludge in my Organic Soup!
Fifteen years ago, the Center for Media and Democracy in my book Toxic Sludge Is Good for You first exposed the deceptive PR campaign by the municipal sewage industry that has renamed toxic sewage sludge as " biosolids " to be spread on farms and gardens. Unfortunately, the scam continues to fool ...
- The media myth of Obama's "falling poll numbers"
The release of an Associated Press poll last week that showed President Obama enjoying a healthy job approval rating of 53 percent didn't generate much news beyond the wire service and produced even less commentary among the media's chattering class. Then again, neither did another piece of polling ...
- Lame Bill From a Lame Duck
� from Truthdig If you think health care reform has been an unsatisfying test of the government's ability to deal with our pressing problems, brace yourself for bigger disappointment in its attempt to bridle Wall Street. This is when the true heavies go to work, and, as opposed to the medical indust ...
- Nuke pushers to Vermont: "Drop Dead"
The nuclear power industry is sending a clear and forceful message to the citizens of Vermont: "Drop Dead." The greeting applies to Ohio, New York, California and a nation under assault from a "renaissance" so far hyped with more than $640 million in corporate cash. The Vermont attack includes: 1 ...
- In Speaking, To Listen
Or- Too Long for Twitter again. So to this absolute must read, and I mean that, you must read it, there will be a written test and all those failing will be barred from the interwebs for a week! Yes, I have that power… A progressive left blog from Pakistan who say this about themselves- We [...]
- Malalai Joya In The NYT
Lacking access to broadcasters and the media within Afghanistan means that her message “for women’s rights, for human rights, against injustice and occupation,” can be spread only by telephone, by clandestine meetings in safe houses and through a poster campaign. The United States cited the status o ...
- And Another White Terrorist
Ex Territorial Army made bombs and possessed the White Resistance Manual, A firework containing a lightbulb, a plastic shell attached to a nine volt battery, an electrified wooden clothes peg, and a tub of aluminium powder were all found when officers searched his house in April last year. A polysty ...
- The Re-Activation, Return & Relocation of The Mask ...
After a fallow period The Mask of Anarchy blog, formerly of blogspot has returned, but like a Time Lord or franchise reboot it has changed, it has moved! The Mask is now calling WordPress its home (and to reassure his readers, yes already he is laying into Mad Mel P.), so amend your records, put [.. ...
- Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strike To End On March 19
From Black Women’s Rape Action Project via Harpy- NOTIFICATION OF SUSPENSION OF HUNGER STRIKE IN YARL’S WOOD IRC This is to inform the authorities and the public that the on-going hunger strike is to be suspended on the 19 March 2010 at 9.00 am. We are giving the authorities and immigration the chan ...
- Administration Over a Barrel
I'm sure that Labor knows it, but they're now in a position of maximum leverage, with the White House desperate to take another pound of flesh out of the the so-called Cadlillac health care plans in order to pay for more robust subsidies and other goodies not in the Senate bill. It's not the bigges ...
- Drones
They really are drones. There are dozens of articles available from various right-wing media outlets (yes, that now applies to the Washington Post) that all make the same basic argument that the House procedural move (deem and pass) might be unconstitutional and will allow Democrats to avoid admitt ...
- Glenn Beck: Conservatism's Snake Oil Salesman
(Or "CPAC: Sideshow and Snake Oil, Pt. 2") The circus sideshow that was CPAC folded its tent and left Washington weeks ago. However, its apparent ringmaster and chief snake oil salesman still sweats, struts, and sobs across the "stage" of conservative media — that medicine show never stops rolling ...
- Cyclical Craziness
I thought there was something about the Clintons that made people on the right crazy. At the time, the press reported this as some kind of generational thing. Clinton was the first president too young to have served during World War Two, and this was supposed to be a big deal. Other accounts focu ...
- Kucinich Reluctantly Endorses Health Bill
Dennis Kucinich called a press conference this morning and announced that despite really pretty much hating the health care bill that he will vote for it both because it moves the ball forward and because the president needs this to be effective on every other pressing issue facing the country. I t ...
- Autoplaying ads: an apology
Hey, folks; I’ve had a few comments and emails from regular readers informing me that they were seeing ads on the site that were autoplaying video and audio, and which in some cases were hard or impossible to close down. I want to thank those of you who got in touch for doing so; Futurismic’s [...] ...
- Human skin as broadband data conduit
Forget broadband-over-power-lines or wi-fi; how cyberpunk would it be to transmit 10mbps of data through the human body itself? Very cyberpunk, fo’ sho’. The researchers placed two electrodes 12 inches apart on a subject’s skin and were able to clock data transmission rates of 10 megabits per seco ...
- Self-assembling silicon circuits
Photolithography is running up against its limitations, as logic circuits become so small that the wavelength of light itself is too large to mask the patterns accurately. MIT boffins reckon they have a solution, though: self-assembling semiconductor circuits [via NextBigFuture]. Berggren and Ross’ ...
- Welcome to the Dropout Economy
This one’s doing the rounds everywhere at the moment (I spotted it thanks to Chairman Bruce and John Robb), and with good reason: it’s a provocative piece, especially coming from Time Magazine. Welcome to the Favela Chic future, American style: Middle-class kids are taught from an early age that th ...
- Orbital Legislation 101
Via BoingBoing, The Guardian highlights a new module available to law students at Sunderland University on “law and the legal system beyond Earth’s atmosphere”: Topics already arising in the field include gaps in health and safety for potential space tourists, and damage to satellites from other obj ...
- Australian Group Wants Melancholia in the DSM-V
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline As criticism has been rising over excessive diagnosis an potentially harmful and unnecessary treatments within the psychiatric field, many professionals are hoping that the publication of the new DSM-V, which is promising to remain open to community critique, will he ...
- Psychologist Decries “Online Psychotherapy”
A GoodTherapy.org News Headline As issues of access to psychotherapeutic care become more pressing, many professionals and entrepreneurs are devising new ways to bring soothing treatments to potential clients, some of which are necessarily more effective than others. A major trend in alternative tre ...
- Family Travels
By Lynne Silva-Breen, MDiv, MA, LMFT, Family Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynne and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The weather’s slowly warming across the country, and along with snow melt and longer days comes that familiar family travel time known as Spring Vacation. ...
- Connection to Nature and Feelings to Get Beyond Ou ...
By Laurel Vogel, M.A., Ecotherapy / Nature Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Laurel and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I spoke to a friend the other day who, like many others, has been hit hard by the economic downturn. In spite of health problems and the great difficulties ...
- Wendy and Peter Turn Thirty
By Lynn Somerstein, PhD, RYT, Object Relations Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Lynn and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The magical age thirty scares people. Women especially start hearing their biological clocks ticking louder and louder, the alarm goes off, and they get frantic a ...
- Chicago's Coal Free Future: Clean Energy Coalition ...
Chicago's Coal Free Future: Clean Energy Coalition Lights the Way AlterNet (blog) Just this week, the National Council of Churches, representing over 40 million Americans, called on President Obama to end the reckless mountaintop removal ... and more��
- At Lunch with EPA's Lisa Jackson, Mountaintop Remo ...
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) At Lunch with EPA's Lisa Jackson, Mountaintop Removal on the Menu Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) For example, as I've blogged previously, it's easy to see parallels between the heedless extraction of 'unobtanium' in the movie and mountaintop remova ...
- Important new study details mountaintop removal co ...
Treehugger Important new study details mountaintop removal coal mining's huge carbon ... Charleston Gazette (blog) It's a real eye-opener about the relationship between mountaintop removal coal mining and global warming. The paper, Terrestrial Carbon Disturbances from ... EPA Data Shows Streams Nea ...
- Blasting Rocky Top? - Natural Resources Defense Co ...
Blasting Rocky Top? Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) While it's certainly true that the vast majority of mountaintop removal coal mining takes place in West Virginia and Kentucky, make no mistake: coal ...
- EPA delays action on mountaintop removal plan - Wa ...
Earthtimes (press release) EPA delays action on mountaintop removal plan Water World 7--The Obama administration has delayed action on a set of broad-ranging and specific measures to reduce the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal , ... EPA approves mountaintop removal coal mine in West Vir ...
- Jobs Bill Passes in Senate With 11 Votes From Repu ...
Carl Hulse / New York Times : Jobs Bill Passes in Senate With 11 Votes From Republicans — WASHINGTON — The Senate approved and sent to President Obama on Wednesday what Congressional Democrats hope will be the first in a series of bills spurring employment by providing tax breaks and other hirin ...
- Kucinich Remarks as Prepared for Delivery (Congres ...
Congressman Dennis Kucinich : Kucinich Remarks as Prepared for Delivery — Each generation has had to take up the question of how to provide for the health of the people of our nation. And each generation has grappled with difficult questions of how to meet the needs of our people. I believe he ...
- Why's Obama going on Fox? (Michael Calderone/Micha ...
Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog : Why's Obama going on Fox? — With Robert Gibbs appearing on “Fox News Sunday” and Timothy Geithner stopping by Fox Business yesterday, it's clear that top administration officials are willing to engage the much-criticized network a lot more these day ...
- Breaking: Kucinich To Vote Yes (Greg Sargent/The P ...
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line : Breaking: Kucinich To Vote Yes — In a big get for House Dems, Dennis Kucinich just made it official: He's voting for the Senate bill, making him the first member to go on record fliping his vote from No to Yes. — “In the past week it's become clear that the vote ...
- McConnell Strategy Shuns Bipartisanship (New York ...
New York Times : McConnell Strategy Shuns Bipartisanship — WASHINGTON — Before the health care fight, before the economic stimulus package, before President Obama even took office, Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader, had a strategy for his party: use his extensive knowledge ...
- M 5.2, Los Lagos, Chile
Thursday, March 18, 2010 09:32:24 UTC Thursday, March 18, 2010 06:32:24 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
- M 5.1, south of the Fiji Islands
Thursday, March 18, 2010 09:14:07 UTC Thursday, March 18, 2010 09:14:07 PM at epicenter Depth : 168.30 km (104.58 mi)
- M 5.0, Minahasa, Sulawesi, Indonesia
Thursday, March 18, 2010 08:36:23 UTC Thursday, March 18, 2010 04:36:23 PM at epicenter Depth : 24.90 km (15.47 mi)
- M 5.1, Molucca Sea
Thursday, March 18, 2010 07:07:32 UTC Thursday, March 18, 2010 03:07:32 PM at epicenter Depth : 61.20 km (38.03 mi)
- M 5.1, off the west coast of the South Island of N ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010 06:42:08 UTC Thursday, March 18, 2010 05:42:08 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
- Causing a stink in Shanghai (1)
A multinational leather company in eastern China has been breaching pollution standards and troubling locals with a pungent stench. Xu Shuda investigates. Fifty-six-year-old Feng Min had never smelt anything like it. “It’s like pitch mixed with cat’s urine,” she says, standing at the gate to the Juf ...
- The urban dream
David Owen is the author of a new book on the sustainability lessons of New York. In an interview with Jared Green, he argues the case for densely populated cities and says traditional environmentalists have got it wrong. Jared Green: In your new book, Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Cl ...
- High-rise drama in Nanchang
The unnecessary demolition of a 10-year-old hotel in south-east China exposes a shallow commitment to low-carbon development, argues Li Taige. It only takes eight seconds to demolish a four-star hotel. Nanchang , the capital of Jiangxi province in south-eastern China, which claims it is en rou ...
- Jane Goodall: wild at heart
It has been 50 years since the scientist turned eco-evangelist began her seminal work with chimpanzees in Africa. But, writes Stephen Moss, her work is far from finished. Jane Goodall , grey in complexion but resplendent in a red shawl, is sitting on the sofa in a dimly lit room in west London. The ...
- Modern and mobile (2)
African pastoralism has been dismissed as outdated and inefficient. But awareness of its social and environmental benefits is growing, says Ced Hesse. In many parts of dryland Africa, national governments are beginning to value pastoralism and the importance of mobility for productivity. Innovative ...
- Court: State Can Dump Non-Sex Offenders Into Regis ...
Georgia’s Supreme Court is upholding the government’s right to put non-sex offenders on the state’s sex-offender registry, highlighting a little-noticed (but growing) nationwide practice. Atlanta criminal defense attorney Ann Marie Fitz estimated that perhaps thousands of convicts convicted of non-s ...
- Judges Approves $9.5 Million Facebook ‘Beacon’ Acc ...
A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $9.5 million settlement to a class action lawsuit challenging Facebook’s program that monitored and published what users of the social networking site were buying or renting from Blockbuster, Overstock and other locations. The case concerned allegations Facebo ...
- Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely
More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments. Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit o ...
- SEC: Hacker Manipulated Stock Prices
U.S. regulators are moving to freeze the assets and trading accounts of a Russian accused of hacking into personal online portfolios and manipulating the price of dozens of stocks listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market and New York Stock Exchange. A New York federal judge on Tuesday sided with the Securi ...
- Undercover Feds on Social Networking Sites Raise Q ...
The next time someone tries to “friend” you on Facebook, it may turn out to be an undercover fed looking to examine your private messages and photos, or surveil your friends and family. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained an internal Justice Department document that describes what law e ...
- If it does matter where CO2 is released, cities ar ...
by Jonathan Hiskes There’s some fascinating new research about “CO2 domes,” invisible clouds of carbon pollution that hover above urban areas. Bradford Plumer at The New Republic does a great job setting the context : Does it matter where carbon dioxide is emitted? From a climate perspective ...
- Bolivia summit to seek global climate change refer ...
by Agence France-Presse Bolivian President Evo MoralesLA PAZ -- An alternative "people's conference" on climate change in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba in April will seek to advance an international global warming referendum, organizers said Tuesday. "The only thing that can save mankind fro ...
- Sanyo sets up solar parking lots for electric bike ...
by Agence France-Presse Credit: SanyoTOKYO -- Japanese electronics giant Sanyo said Tuesday it had opened two "solar parking lots" in Tokyo where 100 electric hybrid bicycles can be recharged from sunlight-powered panels. The system uses lithium-ion batteries to charge 100 of Sanyo's "eneloop" ...
- Adding iron to sea boosts deadly neurotoxin, study ...
by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- Adding iron to the world's oceans to capture carbon and fight global warming could do more harm than good, as the mineral appears to boost the growth of a plankton that produces a deadly neurotoxin, a study published on Monday shows. Researchers led by ...
- ‘South by Southwest’ crowd told to sta ...
by Agence France-Presse Valerie CaseyAUSTIN, Texas -- Techno-hip trend-setters that design online services, software, buildings, and other components of modern life were told Sunday to "get off the sidelines" and start saving the planet. Designers Accord founder Valerie Casey issued the rallyin ...
- White House Shifts Away From ‘War on Drugs&# ...
"We finally had a sense they were listening," one advocate says of the White House shift in tone.
- Holder vs. McChrystal: What Would We Do with Bin L ...
Attorney General Eric Holder had a testy exchange yesterday with House Republicans determined to paint him as weak for his faith in civilian courts that have convicted many orders of magnitude more terrorists than military commissions. It took a baroque turn when Holder fielded a hypothetical questi ...
- RNC Poll: ‘Backroom Deals’ Are Least P ...
I noticed in Massachusetts that the idea of “backroom deals” and horse-trading to bring on extra votes in the Senate — to get the bill to 60 — was far more unpopular than any aspect of the bill itself. An internal RNC poll, released to the press this afternoon, backs that up. By far, senators [...]
- Neocons vs. Rand Paul
Rand Paul takes a little less relish in arguing with neoconservative foreign policy hawks than his father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), does. (The elder Paul’s debate confrontation with Rudy Giuliani was a pivotal moment in his insurgent presidential campaign.) But supporters of both Pauls generally des ...
- Senators Unveil Outline of Climate Bill
In a closed-door meeting with industry groups today, the three senators crafting climate legislation revealed the broad strokes of their bill and met with general approval. E&E News (sub. req’d.) reports: Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) shared an eigh ...
- Snail pie is tastier, more nutritious than beef
Malnutrition and iron deficiency among schoolchildren in developing countries could be reduced by serving up generous portions of delicious, bargain-priced snail pie and other handy beef alternatives. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- CO2, Methane Ousted as Worst Global Climate Change ...
Move over CO2—you’ve been ousted, along with methane, as the biggest offenders of global climate change. The majority of “greenhouse gases” are created by humans. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- '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 ...
- Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Co ...
Sahil Kapur, Raw Story, March 17, 2010 Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU. The notification came in a letter [...]
- Remembering Rachel Corrie
by Neve Gordon, The Nation, March 17, 2010 Seven years ago yesterday, Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by a Caterpillar D9R Israeli bulldozer while nonviolently protesting the demolition of Palestinian homes in Rafah, Gaza Strip, along with other members of the International [...]
- NY Times Reporter Confirms Obama Made Deal to Kill ...
Miles Mogulescu | Huff Post | March 16, 2010 For months I’ve been reporting in The Huffington Post that President Obama made a backroom deal last summer with the for-profit hospital lobby that he would make sure there would be no national public option in the final health reform legislation. (See he ...
- Happy La Fheile Padraig! (St. Patrick’s Day ...
St. Patrick’s Day HISTORY: Must-Know Facts, Trivia For Irish Holiday (PHOTOS) Huff Post- Posted: 03-17-10 11:50 AM Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Today, March 17, 2010, La Fheile Padraig (St. Patrick’s Day in Irish) is being celebrated around the world. St. Patrick’s Day is a great excuse to party, wh ...
- Glenn Beck Attacks Bruce Springsteen (VIDEO)
- Quote du Jour
“He is appointed to some petty office in one of the city departments, and presently is himself nominated for an elective office. By this time he has also found his way on to the ward committee, whence by degrees he rises to sit on the central committee …. Once a member of the [...]
- Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, UBS Are Charged With Frau ...
By Elisa Martinuzzi and Sonia Sirletti Deutsche Bank AG, JPMorgan Chase & Co., UBS AG and Hypo Real Estate Holding AG’s Depfa Bank Plc unit were charged with fraud linked to the sale of derivatives to the City of Milan. Judge Simone Luerti scheduled the trial of the four firms, 11 bankers and two f ...
- Community Call to Prayer
La Seine a Port-Villez ~ By Claude Monet Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. ~ II Peter 3:13 Everyone is welcome to join this weekly fifteen-minute Thursday gathering, live on the conference line or from wherever you are. ...
- A *Very Serious* Warning to Nancy Pelosi
By Karl Denninger I know you’re not going to listen to me. I’m going to say it anyway, because as a concerned citizen of The United States of America, I must. You are making a grave, perhaps nation-ending mistake. Attempting to “deem” the Health Care bill passed when it has not actually been vote ...
- “The BBC Movie: The Last Days of Lehman̶ ...
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- Less Than a Week Away
We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations
- The Georgia Guidestones
On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
- The Creation
THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
- The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
- About George Green
Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...
- Dirt – The Movie – DVD Giveaway
DIRT! THE MOVIE is an astonishing, humorous and substantial look at the glorious and unappreciated ground beneath our feet. Related posts: Win a Copy Of Disney Natures EARTH DVD – Twilight Earth Giveaway Disneynature “Earth” Movie Plants a Tree in Brazilian Rainforest for Each Ticket How th ...
- International World Water Day 2010- March 22nd
Billions of people live in the kind of squalor that was eradicated long ago in the rich world. It is a global water and sanitation crisis that deserves our undivided attention NOW Related posts: Toilets Help Stop Overpopulation – Heres How Pope Benedicts 2010 Message to the World: Environmenta ...
- The Oath – Protect Defend and Preserve – The Envir ...
Click below to listen to Adam Shake discuss the protection, defense and preservation of the environment. Related posts: EPA Seeks to Protect Children Through Airborne Lead Detection Standards Childrens Health Month Tips – Protect Children from Environmental Risks 100 Percent of Fish Tested, C ...
- Whose Future is It?
Guest Article by June Birch, author of “Everyone Can be a herO.†Guest Article by June Birch, author of “Everyone Can be a herO.†Related posts: The “Goracle” Speaks on Global Warming and Predicts The Future. Video We Must Start Adapting Now, to the Manifestations of Global Warming ...
- Photo Sunday – Water – Wild and Wonderful
Water, the giver of all life. Wild, wonderful. Related posts: Photo Sunday – Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday – Poems and Prayers and Promises
- Water Harvesting Skyscrapers to Solve Sudan’s Drou ...
Read the rest of Water Harvesting Skyscrapers to Solve Sudan’s DroughtPermalink | Add to del.icio.us | diggPost tags: "sustainable architecture", architecture for sudan, drought-proof architecture, Eco Architecture, eco design, green architecture, green design, H3AR architecture, polish architect ...
- 100% Recyclable Planting Bag Lets You Create a Gar ...
Are you an urban dweller aching for a garden of your own? You don’t have to move to the suburbs or pester your landlord to let you up on the rooftop anymore. Designer Godefroy de Virieu and landscapers Louis de Fleurieu and Virgile Desurmont have come up with a flexible alternative to the traditiona ...
- Philips Lumiblade Reflections OLED Mirrorwall Now ...
Read the rest of Philips Lumiblade Reflections OLED Mirrorwall Now AvailablePermalink | Add to del.icio.us | diggPost tags: Eco, efficient, Electricity, green, green lighting, lumiblade, mirror, mirrorwall, OLED, Philips, pholed, reflection, renewable energy, Sustainable
- Affresol Makes Modular Homes Out of Recycled Plast ...
While a party guest suggests to Dustin Hoffman’s character in The Graduate that “There’s a great future in plastics,” nobody could have predicted that they’d one day be used to make houses! Plastic waste is a class-A environmental problem, and putting recycled plastic to new use is one way of limiti ...
- Smart Folding Plug Wins 2010 Brit Insurance Design ...
Min Kyu Choi recently took home the top prize in this year’s Brit Insurance Design Awards with his smartly designed, material efficient, “Folding Plug.” The elegant and simple design features the necessary 3 prongs, but with way less material. When folded up, the plug is less than 1 cm thick — much ...
- Corporate Debt Coming Due May Squeeze Credit
NY Times – When the Mayans envisioned the world coming to an end in 2012 – at least in the Hollywood telling – they didn’t count junk bonds among the perils that would lead to worldwide disaster. Maybe they should have, because 2012 also is the beginning of a three-year period in which more than [ ...
- Pregnancy helps liver?
The Scientist – Pregnancy boosts the regenerative capacity of the liver in mice, a finding that may shed light on a process entirely separate from pregnancy — aging, researchers report in a study published this week in Genes and Development. The findings are “really unexpected,” said Nikolai Timchen ...
- Full-body scans at airports likely to become stand ...
Dispatch – All airline passengers in the U.S. eventually will be required to undergo a full-body scan before boarding planes, just as metal detectors became a standard part of the screening process at airports decades ago, the federal transportation security chief in Chicago said yesterday. As a bod ...
- Women, girls rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – When the young woman needed to use the toilet, she went out into the darkened tent camp and was attacked by three men. “They grabbed me, put their hands over my mouth and then the three of them took turns,” the slender 21-year-old said, wriggling with discomfort as she nur ...
- Carbon-capture scheme could cause toxic blooms
 Nature – Findings raise more concerns over proposals to boost plankton growth in the oceans. The controversial idea of adding iron to the oceans to help suck up atmospheric carbon dioxide faces yet another hurdle, with the finding that the extra iron may spark blooms of toxic plankton. The finding ...
- Reactionaries close John Brown park
Reactionaries close John Brown park (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) In 1859, a handful of revolutionaries, White and Black, declared war upon the United Snakes in order to liberate the enslaved Black Nation from Amerika’s murderous clutches. The leader of this small army was John Brown, a White ...
- Mga punto sa Digmang Bayan
Mga punto sa Digmang Bayan (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (english) 1. Ang digmang bayan ay kailangang itaguyod hanggang wakas. Ang digmang bayan ay hindi maaaring ibukas-sara. Kapag nasimulan, dalawang kahihinatnan ang maaari lamang mangyari. Maski ang digmang bayan ay magtagumpay at malu ...
- Runda 3: Pierwszoświatowi hodżaiści kontra trzecio ...
Runda 3: PierwszoÅ›wiatowi hodżaiÅ›ci kontra trzecioÅ›wiatowi maoiÅ›ci o pierwszoÅ›wiatowej “klasie robotniczej” i czytaniu Marksa Ostatnio odbyÅ‚a siÄ™ debata pomiÄ™dzy pierwszoÅ›wiatowymi hodżaistami i trzecioÅ›wiatowymi maoistami. Dyskusja objęła szereg tematów. Dwa główne tematy w niej po ...
- RAIM: Movie Review: Shutter Island (Martin Sorsese ...
Movie Review: Shutter Island (Martin Sorsese, 2010) (raimd.wordpress.com) Shutter Island, the cinematic thriller by director, Martin Scorsese, adapted from a novel by Dennis Lehane, presents a choice between two narratives. Reality is skewed in the movie. Tension unfolds in an purposeful, ambiguous ...
- Reviewing the revolutionary gender line for Intern ...
Reviewing the revolutionary gender line for International Women’s Day (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Because of the massive inflow of value from the Third World, contradictions between First World populations have generally diminished across the board. The most glaring example of this is that t ...
- The Road To Armageddon
The morons in Washington are pushing the envelope of nuclear war. The insane drive for American hegemony threatens life on earth. The American people, by accepting the lies and deceptions of “their” government, are facilitating this outcome. Paul Craig Roberts The Washington Times is a news ...
- Why the CIA is the World’s Number One Terrorist Or ...
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The time has come to abolish the CIA –to smash it into a thousand pieces –as JFK had promised! Its leadership should be dismissed and investigated. Where there is probable cause, CIA members should be investigated and tried for crimes against humanity.Th ...
- Fresh Evidence On The Unprovoked Indian Invasion O ...
Bangladesh Leader Admits India Conspired To Invade East Pakistan Mujeeb’s daughter admits her father was a traitor, says Indian helped him raise an Indian-backed terror militia that raped and plundered in order to malign Pakistan Army India’s advocates in Washington and London have argued for ...
- US-Israel agree privately–disagree publicly
by Moin Ansari There are multiple news stories coming out of Middle East. On the one hand there are stories that the US has tacitly approved the construction of 1600 housing units in disputed East Jerusalem; on the other hand there is bluster from Hillary Clinton which threatens Israel with d ...
- An Open Letter To American War Criminals And Other ...
I am finally convinced that a huge percentage of the American people are the worst hypocrites imaginable considering the fact that some 80% of us claim to be "Christians". The AVAILABLE facts that our barbarian young sons have murdered many thousands of COMPLETELY innocent women and children in Ir ...
- LED Lighting Would Save America $120 Billion
A Department of Energy report on light emitting diode (LED) technology has some pretty startling numbers to digest. First, 7% of America's electricity is used to light our homes and businesses. That number is down significantly in the last few years because of the adoption of efficient lighting. Bu ...
- China Planning Massive Asia-Europe Rail System
China's high-speed rail plans get more ambitious by the day. Not satisfied with having the world's most advanced and extensive rail line in the world, China is now planning to connect its rail system to 17 other countries in Asia and Eastern Europe where it will join the European rail network. Ch ...
- Bead-Filled Washing Maching Uses 90% Less Water
A new washing machine design uses 90 percent less water and reduces utility bills by 30 percent by cleaning clothes with tiny plastic beads. The machine by UK company Xeros Ltd uses 3mm-long nylon beads that can get into all crevices and folds of clothing and absorb stains and dirt. Stephen Burki ...
- Concentrated Solar Power Isn't Just for Deserts, I ...
Usually when you read about concentrated solar power, it's referring to some large project destined for the Mojave Desert, but Syracuse's Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (SyracuseCoE) has set out to prove that this technology can be used in smaller, colder settings. Syracu ...
- Transonic Combustion Improves Gas Engine Efficienc ...
Conventional gasoline engines are terribly inefficient things. Only 13% of the energy of the fuel actually moves the car. 62% is lost in the engine as waste heat, and driveline losses, accessories, and idling also reduce the efficiency. Transonic Combustion is planning to build automobile eng ...
- Bill O'Reilly Defends FOX on Healthcare? He Must H ...
BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph This past week, FOX received a rather excoriating criticism from former New York Times editor Howell Raines for the way the network has "overturned standards of fairness and objectivity that have guided American print and broadcast journalists since World War I ...
- No Child Left Far Behind (a Couple of Thousand Yea ...
BUZZFLASH DISCUSSION The Obama Administration has shifted toward trying to revamp No Child Left Behind to improve schools . With the far right turn in Texas textbooks and the influence Texas has on nationwide education , though, is there a chance of right-wing politics and theocracy being instituted ...
- These Days, Deception is the Name of the News Game ...
BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE A Partner For Peace? "Netanyahu appeared onstage with Pastor John Hagee in Jerusalem ." Hagee is a conservative American preacher who opposes the two-state solution and supports unlimited Israeli settlement expansion with millions of private American dollars. Hag ...
- Final Thought On Departed Rep. Massa -- Verse-Case ...
I like to think he had a pet program Which in his hands he clutched That isn’t well known but is called Leave No Behind Untouched .read more
- A right-wing earthquake in the making?
Body Bear with me. This is a bit dry, but relevant -- more relevant than many appreciate. In the mid-1950s, Bill Buckley founded the National Review in response to a crisis: conservatism, as broadly defined, could not in fact be broadly defined, except in terms of internal warring. Fo ...
- Those authoritarian, torture-loving French
French documentarians conducted an experiment where they created a faux game show -- with all the typical studio trappings -- and then instructed participants (who thought it was a real TV�show) to administer electric shock to unseen contestants each time they answered questions incorrectly, with ...
- Obama threatens to veto greater intelligence overs ...
(updated below) One of the principal weapons used by the Bush administration to engage in illegal surveillance activities -- from torture to warrantless eavesdropping -- was its refusal to brief the full Congressional Intelligence Committees about its activities. Instead, at best, it wou ...
- U.S.-Israel rift undermining some long-standing ta ...
(updated below) The rather extraordinary dust-up between the U.S. and Israel has, among other benefits, shined a light on two of the most taboo yet self-evidently true propositions: (1) our joined-at-the-hip relationship with Israel is a significant cause of anti-American sentiment in ...
- Salon Radio: Manipulative use of the term "Terro ...
There's a great paradox in the American political landscape:��the word that is used most frequently to justify everything from invasions and bombings to torture, indefinite detention, and the�sprawling Surveillance�State -- Terrorism -- is also the most ill-defined and manipulated word . �It has n ...
- Salon Radio: Remi Brulin Transcript
To read about and listen to this podcast discussion, go here . Glenn Greenwald : My guest today on Salon Radio is R�mi Brulin, who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at NYU, and is currently working on and close to finishing his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The US Discourse on Terrorism S ...
- Real chemistry at the periodic table party
Teaching chemistry has changed so much since my day. This classic Youtube clip highlights the way the elements might interact at a periodic table party. Carbon is popular with the hydrogens, the noble gases are the emo wallflowers, but it’s the fight that breaks out between potassium water that even ...
- What causes the seasons?
Outside the tropics we experience four seasons – Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Fall, and Winter. These occur because the Earth’s axis about which it rotates once a day is tilted at an angle relative to the Earth’s orbit around the sun. Because the axis always points towards the north star throughout th ...
- Antimony, x-rays, childhood obesity
Science news links for March 12-15, including the latest on my SpectroscopyNOW.com column: Feverish New World X-ray – X-ray crystallography has allowed US researchers to discover exactly how one type of New World hemorrhagic fever virus latches on to and infects human cells. The work offers a much- ...
- Total alchemist
A good, old-fashioned total synthesis of a natural product caught The Alchemist’s attention this week, as did the notion of spiking the hydrocarbon picene with potassium atoms to turn it into a superconductor. In a related carbon field, Chinese chemists have broken the rules to crack bucky eggs and ...
- Whatever happened to the audiophile?
Back in the 1970s my parents had friends who had stacks of hi-fi separates with gold contact wiring and speaker stands on metal spikes. They were only playing Perry Como on vinyl, but that was their idea of fun, so good luck to them. When the CD emerged on to the market with its claims [...] Whateve ...
- Family Members Ask Court to Reconsider Dismissal o ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2010 Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Last night, the families of two men who died at Guantánamo in June 2006 asked the district court in Washington, D.C. to reconsider its February 16 ruling dismissing their case, which seeks to hold federal officials and the U ...
- CREW Urges Support of ‘Faster FOIA Act’ to Reduce ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2010 CREW Today, CREW and transparency-advocates wrote to Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and John Cornyn (R-TX), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, expressing support for the proposed Faster FOIA Act. The Act would establish an advisory com ...
- Task Force: Congress Must Pass Comprehensive Immig ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2010 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a longtime advocate for comprehensive and humane immigration reform, is joining thousands of people from across the country for the March 21 mass mobilization on the nation's capital to ...
- Antiwar Activity Sees Surge for 7th Anniversary of ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2010 Peace, Justice & Environment Project Peace Justice and Environmental Project (PJEP) organizers along with the representatives of 38 networks and 2 coalitions that comprise PJEP, contribute to a surge in grassroots anti war and pro peace activity that marks th ...
- Seven Years Into the War in Iraq, MIlitary Familie ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2010 Military Families Speak Out With the war in Iraq entering its 8th year, members of Military Families Speak Out, the largest organization of military families to speak out against a war in this country's history, are calling on Senators and Representatives to t ...
- Obama Threatens to Veto Greater Intelligence Overs ...
by Glenn Greenwald One of the principal weapons used by the Bush administration to engage in illegal surveillance activities -- from torture to warrantless eavesdropping -- was its refusal to brief the full Congressional Intelligence Committees about its activities. Instead, at best, it would c ...
- The Unmaking of the Palestinian Nation
by Juan Cole On March 10, I posted on the humiliation heaped on Vice President Joe Biden by the Israeli government of far-right Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu . Biden went to Israel intending to help kick off indirect negotiations between Netanyahu and Palestine Authority president Mahmoud Abba ...
- Another Summer, Another Food Crisis?
by Tom Laskawy Corn prices peaked during the run up to the 2008 economic crisis at $7.88 per bushel and as the prices of corn and other commodities rose we saw food riots worldwide. Commodity prices soon came back the earth — corn is currently trading at about $4 a barrel. Given that we’re in the ...
- Support Our Troops: Boycott the Israeli Occupation
by Robert Naiman I don't know about all you commiepinkos, but I believe we should Support Our Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. General Petraeus, Admiral Mullen, and Vice-President Biden say that Israel's actions toward the Palestinians are putting our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq in danger. Tha ...
- The Great Forest Die-Off
by Jim Robbins For many years, Diana Six, an entomologist at the University of Montana, planned her field season for the same two to three weeks in July. That's when her quarry - tiny, black, mountain pine beetles - hatched from the tree they had just killed and swarmed to a new one to start th ...
- Hague 'knew' about Lord Ashcroft's tax status
Leaked Cabinet Office papers apparently seen by the BBC show Tory chief whip told then-Tory leader about deal to grant Ashcroft's peerage in July 2000 William Hague, the former Conservative leader, was kept in the loop at the time about negotiations of Lord Ashcroft's tax status, according to report ...
- Catholic church urged to hold sex abuse inquiries
Angela Merkel becomes most senior politician to speak out over abuse by priests as pope to release pastoral letter on subject The crisis gripping the Catholic church deepened today, with calls for national inquiries to be held in Germany and Ireland to fully disclose the detail and extent of sexual ...
- BA strike looms as bosses raise stakes
Company raises stakes in dispute by not guaranteeing that union officials at heart of industrial action will keep their jobs A strike by BA cabin crew looks certain to go ahead after the airline refused to guarantee it would not sack union officials at the heart of the industrial action. In a move t ...
- Sahil Saeed reunited with father
Five-year-old handed over to father at British high commission in Islamabad after £110,000 ransom Sahil Saeed, the five-year-old British boy kidnapped in Pakistan, was reunited with his father today in Islamabad after his family had earlier paid a ransom of £110,000 for his release. Television pictu ...
- Nissan's Sunderland plant to build electric car
Hundreds of jobs created as north-east plant wins battle to produce Nissan Leaf in Europe Hundreds of new jobs will be created in Sunderland where Nissan will build its new electric car, the Leaf. The Japanese carmaker said today the Leaf will be the world's first mass-produced zero-emission car. Ar ...
- Climate ads far from divine
Some interesting perspectives on communication, information and climate change emerge this week from Africa and the UK. A survey for the BBC World Service Trust (the corporation's international charitable arm) shows that although many Africans are noticing progressive changes to their weather, they ...
- Can rhinos cure cancer?
Last June, a group of five men drove into South Africa's Addo National Park and held up the rangers' station at gunpoint . They emerged with a small consignment of ivory and rhino horn worth an estimated 850,000 rand - about £75,000, or $114,000. The rhino horn - which came from animals that had d ...
- Climate review seeks detatchment
There's little doubt, I think, that the forthcoming review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) can make quite a lot of difference to the organisation itself. (This is the review that was demanded last month by ministers, and whose terms of reference and operating agency the UN h ...
- EU - bloc vote or blocked vote?
The somewhat abstruse and legal-jargon-adorned world of internal European Union politics is likely to have a key role to play in two big forthcoming decisions concerning some of the most charismatic life in the world's oceans. EU nations are supposed to adopt a common position on such issues, eithe ...
- Troubled history tinges marine plan
So what do you think: should the Chagos Islands archipelago be turned into a marine reserve, or shouldn't it? If you care either way, you have until the end of the week to give the UK government your views. If you don't care either way... well, read on, and perhaps you'll decide whether it matters ...
- Conservatives Use Kucinich’s Support To Argu ...
Over at The American Spectator blog, Phillip Klein isn’t very surprised about Kucinich’s new-found support for the Senate legislation.”There’s no shock that every single-payer advocate in Congress would talked tough for over a year will ultimately support the final bill,” he writes. The legislation ...
- Boehner Urges Banks To Fight Regulatory Reform: &# ...
This week, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) released the latest version of his financial regulatory reform bill, which aims to correct the deficiencies in the financial system that led to 2008’s economic crisis. The House of Representatives has already passed a comprehensive regul ...
- Republican Congressman Makes Strong Case For Singl ...
Conservatives sometimes try to rally progressives to oppose the Senate health care bill by characterizing the legislation as a give away to private insurers. But this morning, retiring Congressman John Shadegg (R-AZ) took this manufactured outrage to new heights, telling MSNBC’s David Schuster that ...
- ANALYSIS: Student Loan Reform Would Inject More Th ...
Our guest blogger is Ulrich Boser, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Over the coming days, congressional leaders will be debating the virtues of the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act (SAFRA), which would end costly subsidies to student-loan companies and reinve ...
- Climate Crime Scene Declared At Opening Of Smithso ...
Today, the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History unveiled a new exhibit named after right-wing billionaire polluter, David H. Koch. Greenpeace dispatched its Climate Crime Unit at the opening of the $20.7 million David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins in search of Koch, the billionaire scion of Koch ...
- This Might Be My Post For the Day
It's not a bad use of a few minutes. Check out the bopping audience! (Although today they'd probably all be ignoring him or shouting over him, not even bothering to applaud at the end of each song.)
- Quick Thoughts on George Monbiot's "Heat"
" Heat : How to keep the planet from burning " I'm 3/5ths of the way through Monbiot's book and it's been well worth the effort. I don't think that civilization is going to respond in time. We're going to wait until the crisis is upon us, the tipping point has been reached, and the gases are bein ...
- In Denial
A lot to do today. But to post for today I direct you to this post from Canadian Cynic . He's pointing out the level of stupidity regarding right-wingers' responses to the Edmonton white-supremacist who shot-up the car dealership. You can read it it all for yourselves (whoever you might be), but ...
- Canadian Values
Commenting on a post at "Far and Wide" about the Iacobucci diversion, I asked about the moral significance of all of this for Canada. Are we really so morally and democratically bankrupt that our government believes there's political capital to be had in demonstrating contempt for Parliament's dema ...
- We Won't Stop Them ...
There's no real reason to get excited. Even if harper is sent packing, it'll be a Liberal minority. Just watch Michael "Internationalist" Ignatieff turn into harper-lite. Even if the NDP hold the balance of power, it'll be meaningless. Who could truly believe that the NDP wouldn't suddenly becom ...
- Market Observation: Dow Theory Update
by Tim W. Wood. "As equities moved into their January highs, a very short-term Dow theory non-confirmation developed. The Transports made their January closing high on January 11th at 4,262.86 while the Industrials pressed higher marking their January closing high 5 trading days later at 10,725.43. ...
- The Fall of the Roman Republic
by J. R. Nyquist. "A couple of years ago Cullen Murphy wrote an elegant little book titled with the question, "Are We Rome?" He was not specifically referring to the Roman republic, but to the late Roman Empire. It is a distinction worth making, because Rome lost its freedom and its greatness long ...
- The Big Dead-Cat Bounce
by Doug Hornig. "It’s now been a year since the dark days of early March 2009, when, although no one knew it at the time, the stock market hit rock bottom. From there, all of the indexes went on a tear through the rest of the year, moving almost uninterruptedly higher before easing slightly in the f ...
- Sultans of Swap: Smoking Guns & the Sting!
by Gordon T Long. "There are 7 stages to executing a successful sting operation. Whether this is the modus operandi behind the Sultans of Swap operating in the $605 Trillion OTC Derivatives market or just simple coincidence, I will leave it to you shrewd reader to determine. The seven stages do how ...
- Doug Casey on Surviving Financial Apocalypse Now
by Louis James. "Doug, last time we spoke, you said quite a bit about debt, in the context of your expectation that the euro is on its way out. At the end of that conversation, you mentioned, of course, that the problem is not limited to Greece, nor the eurozone. America as a country has become a wo ...
- Why Do So Many Female Veterans End Up Homeless?
With the recent decision by military officials to allow women to serve on Navy submarines, women in the armed forces have now broken through every barrier -- the camouflage ceiling -- except for SEAL teams and traditional frontline combat roles . While these are amazing accomplishments for women se ...
- Musician Couple Facing Jail Time for ... Sleeping!
A pair of homeless musicians in Santa Cruz, CA, Miguel DeLeon and Anna Richardson, face possible jail time for breaking the city's ban on sleeping outdoors after 11 p.m. The couple has taken a stand against laws aimed at controlling "transients." Now they face punishment of 15 days in jail, 240 ho ...
- Musician Couple Facing Jail Time for ... Sleeping!
A pair of homeless musicians in Santa Cruz, CA, Miguel DeLeon and Anna Richardson, face possible jail time for breaking the city's ban on sleeping outdoors after 11 p.m. The couple has taken a stand against laws aimed at controlling "transients." Now they face punishment of 15 days in jail, 240 ho ...
- The Inaugural World Homeless Day Is 10/10/10
There seems to be an international day for this or that all the time. Sometimes even an entire week or month is devoted to focusing our attention on an issue or group of people in need. But there hasn't been an international day focusing on homelessness ... until now. World Homeless Day , a worldwid ...
- Txt 4 Help: Teen Homelessness Is No LOL'ing Matter
This week, March 14th to March 20th, 2010, is National Safe Place week , which serves to raise awareness of the dangers of youth homelessness and has been supported by the U.S. Senate for the last 12 years. National Safe Place (NSP), headquartered in Louisville, KY, facilitates a national network th ...
- CADSI calls for defence industrial strategy
The Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI) released a report last week on the challenges and opportunities facing the Canadian defence industry with respect to military procurement. Canada’s Defence Industry: A Vital Partner Supporting Canada’s Economic and National Interest ...
- Close Combat Vehicle project revived?
The Close Combat Vehicle project, which was recently reported to have been shelved, is now said to be back on the Army’s priority list: David Pugliese, “Plans for new fleet of armoured vehicles back on track,” Ottawa Citizen, 14 March 2010.
- Stop-and-go on START treaty
U.S. and Russian efforts to finalize a new strategic nuclear arms control agreement to replace the 1991 START treaty, which expired in December 2009, continue to drag on (Peter Baker and Mark Landler, “Delay on Arms Pact Slows Rest of U.S.-Russia Ties,” New York Times, 9 March 2010; see also Peter B ...
- Ban nuclear weapons from Arctic: Report
Arctic and nuclear weapon states need to work together to rid the Arctic region of nuclear weapons, finds a new report by security analysts Michael Wallace and Steven Staples. Ridding the Arctic of Nuclear Weapons: A Task Long Overdue was released today by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian ...
- Canadians want military spending cut: poll
A poll conducted at the beginning of March by Leger Marketing shows that a majority of Canadians want military spending to be reduced following the end of Canada’s mission in Afghanistan (Thane Burnett, “Canadians want military spending cut back: poll,” Toronto Sun, 5 March 2010). Almost 60% of tho ...
- Trends Forecaster, Gerald Celente
Click the picture or link below to hear Kevin’s interview with Gerald Celente and click here to learn more about The Trends Research Institute. Gerald Celente 03/17/10
- The Kevin Trudeau Show: 3-17-10
Today, Kevin explains how far the FDA will go to protect the profits of the precious drug companies and why red bull is banned in France and Demark. Daily Finance Claims Alternative Medicine is Ineffective… “or Worse” Over a Million UK Patients Addicted to Pain Killers Government Workers Feel No Eco ...
- Sunny Florida Welcomes Kevin!
March 17, 2010  - CHICAGO, IL – The Kevin Trudeau show is proud to announce that starting March 21st, 2010, it will be airing on WTMY 1280AM in Sarasota, FL! The show will air on WTMY every Sunday from at 8am! Listeners have compared Kevin Trudeau’s radio show to the best parts of Michael Savage ...
- Daily Finance: Alternative Medicine is Ineffective ...
February 23, 2010 Daily Finance By Melly Alazraki Disturbing news about alternative medicine has been in the air lately. Just the other day, and a few years too late, the Food and Drug Administration issued a stern warning about ear candling — the practice of using lit cone-shaped candles to suppose ...
- Cost of Failed Cancer Treatments Hit $90 Billion
March 17, 2010 USA Today By: Liz Szabo The cost of cancer treatment is “skyrocketing” — both for individual patients and the nation, a new analysis shows. From 1990 to 2008, spending on cancer care soared to more than $90 billion from $27 billion. The increase was driven by the rising costs of sop ...
- 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
- Haiti: Private contractors 'like vultures coming t ...
Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging "shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporation...
- How NGOs are profiting off a grave situation
It's now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be ...
- Global: New murders and fumigations in ancestral A ...
In only two weeks, four Afro-Colombian leaders have been murdered, and several subjected to death threats. Fumigations have caused the internal displacement of more than 100 Afro-Colombians. The violation of Afro-Colombian fundamental rights continue...
- Katrina victims face eviction
Following reports of federal government plans to repossess temporary housing from Katrina victims, the US Human Rights Network - http://www.ushrnetwork.org has called for the Obama administration to reverse this decision and provide those affected with substantive directive support.
- Talking to terrorists
The Washington Post has a passage from Mark Perry’s new book, Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage With Its Enemies. As Perry notes, talking to groups that the US government has labelled as “terrorists” is not only necessary but is a choice that has already been pursued and shown highly e ...
- A trial for Saddam and a bomb for bin Laden
The Associated Press reports: Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive. In testy exchanges with House Republicans, the attorney general compared terrorists to mass murderer Charles Ma ...
- Where’s Joe Biden?
Has the vice president gone missing? Or is he hiding in a secure undisclosed location? Strong words delivered by Joe Biden during his visit to Israel were widely reported last week. “This is starting to get dangerous for us,” Biden warned his Israeli hosts. “What you’re doing here undermines the s ...
- Talking to terrorists
The Washington Post has a passage from Mark Perry’s new book, Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage With Its Enemies. As Perry notes, talking to groups that the US government has labelled as “terrorists” is not only necessary but is a choice that has already been pursued and shown highly e ...
- Israel is empowering al Qaeda, Petraeus warns
As erupting violence in Jerusalem suggests a third intifada may soon take hold, the CENTCOM commander Gen David Petraeus, testifying before the US Senate Armed Services Committee today, gave a grave warning about the wider impact of a conflict that has been the epicenter of Middle East hostilities e ...
- Mister Mean Green
On this green St. Paddy’s day, finally, something that explains some of the operators of, and commenters on, some other blogs. Now, if I can just find some fair trade carbon credits to offset my corned beef and cabbage… From the Guardian: How going green may make you mean Ethical consumers less lik ...
- Medieval Warm Period seen in western USA tree ring ...
Here is just one more indication that despite what some would like you to believe, the MWP was not a regional “non event”. From a University of Arizona press release, Giant Sequoias Yield Longest Fire History from Tree Rings California’s western Sierra Nevada had more frequent fires between 800 ...
- Another UHI effect – thunderstorms & lightni ...
The March-April edition of WeatherWise magazine has an interesting article in it regarding UHI (Urban Heat Island) effects of enhancing thunderstorm formation in the downwind heat plume. It Stems from this paper (PDF) published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. I saw a similar ...
- IPCC’s Pachauri swarmed by reporters – ...
This video is from Reuters India: Click image for video: Here’s the details of the story: Pachauri refuses to step down (01:03) Report March 16 – Chairman of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), R K Pachauri, said he would not resign for making claims that the Himalayan glaciers wou ...
- Sat tracking of ultraviolet light shows increase s ...
UV exposure has increased over the last 30 years, but stabilized since the mid-1990s From NASA Goddard press release here NASA scientists analyzing 30 years of satellite data have found that the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching Earth’s surface has increased markedly over the last thr ...
- Holder Defends Decision To Try 9/11 Suspects In Fe ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ American Civil Liberties Union March 16, 2010 Tells House Subcommittee That Final Administration Decision On Trials Still “Weeks Away” FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (202) 675-2312 or media@dcaclu.org WASHINGTON – In testimony before a House Appropriations Sub ...
- Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner: Joe Wong ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ MoxNewsDotCom March 17, 2010 http://MOXNews.com/ March 17, 2010 C-SPAN Joe Wong All American Immigrant Headliner Radio & Television Correspondents’ Dinner pt.1 Joe Wong All American Immigrant Headliner Radio & Television Correspondents’ Dinner pt.1 Joe ...
- Michael Moore: Health Care Bill is Horrible + What ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ photo by Dandelion Salad The Health Care Bill Is Horrible! Michael Moore Interview pt.1 MoxNewsDotCom March 17, 2010 The Health Care Bill Is Horrible! Michael Moore Interview pt.1 *** What We’re Doing In Afghanistan Is Wrong & Immoral! Michael Moore In ...
- US official: Turkey has international responsibili ...
Propaganda Alert compiled by Cem Ertür Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 18 March 2010 1) US Assistant Secretary of State: Turkey has international responsibilities that extend beyond its immediate neighbourhood (17 March 2010) 2) US Ambassador to Ankara welcomes Turkey to the U.N. ...
- Iran, Pakistan sign gas pipeline deal
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ PressTV March 16, 2010 Iran and Pakistan have signed a deal to construct a pipeline connecting the two neighboring countries, a project that was strongly opposed by the US. Pakistan has argued that the pipeline, which will connect Iran’s South Pars gas field w ...
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ABC News Disappointed To Find No Ranting Violent Wackos At 9/11 Truth Convention By Darryl Mason The ABC News story turns out be more balanced than many were expecting, though it seems primarily focused on trying to find Truthers who spout violent, ant-government rhetoric, so as to forge a neat li ...
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9/11 Truthers Are Dangerous Former members of the US Air Force, the Marines, senior officials of the CIA, the FBI, firefighters, police officers, pilots, engineers, architects, Republican and Democrat congressmen and former members of the 9/11 Commission have all expressed doubts about the Bush ad ...
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Do Schools Kill Creativity? Ken Robinson : Kids will take a chance. If they don't know, they'll have a go. They're not frightened of being wrong. I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. ....if you're not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anythi ...
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2012 London Olympics Will See Deployment Of 'Copyright Cops' By Darryl Mason The police paid for by the people of London will be deployed during the 2012 Olympics to stop punters carrying "non-sponsor items" into venues. Moves to safeguard company trademarks and stamp out ambush marketing, to ...
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Stunning video from a freak weather event in Melbourne a few hours ago : Chinaapek details on the above incredible vid of flash flooding in Melbourne : I was there having coffee, the sky turned grey within seconds. Withinsecond, hail storm. Within 3 minutes, the street has gone chaos. It was a wa ...
- The Oldest Trees on the Planet
> Trees are some of the longest-lived organisms on the planet. At least 50 trees have been around for more than a millenium, but there may be countless other ancient trees that haven’t been discovered yet. Trees can live such a long time for several reasons. One sec ...
- Cool: New Exoplanet Is Near Habitable Zone
Extrasolar planet hunters are excited about a not-so-hot discovery. For the first time, they’ve found a relatively cool extrasolar planet that they can study in detail. The finding is a milestone, says study co-author Hans Deeg of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Tenerife, Spain, becaus ...
- Seminal 70s Environmental TV Series Now Online
Every episode of what was probably the environmental movement’s first television series is now available on the Web. Our Vanishing Wilderness first aired almost 40 years ago. The eight half-hour episodes were broadcast by the New York public channel, National Educational Television, beginning in Oc ...
- Quantum Physics Used to Control Mechanical System
By using a quantum device to control a mechanical object, researchers have linked the mind-bending laws of quantum physics to the tangible, everyday world. Until now, quantum physical behaviors were observed at atomic and subatomic scales, or in medium-sized molecules. Now they’ve been found in som ...
- Red in Jupiter’s Spot Not What Astronomers Thought
The best thermal images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot yet captured have revealed surprising weather and temperature variation within the solar system’s most famous storm. The darkest red part of the spot turns out to be a warm patch inside the otherwise cold storm. The temperature variation is slight ...
- Jordan king says Jerusalem is ‘red line’
Jordan’s King Abdullah II: “Jerusalem is a red line and the world should not be silent about Israel’s attempts to get rid of Jerusalem’s Arabs residents, Muslims or Christians,” the king told... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
- Images: “Arabized” Israeli units suppressing Pales ...
Images of special "Arabized" units [Arabic: "مستعربون"; Hebrew: "מסתרעבים"] of the Israeli occupation forces suppressing Palestinian protest in Jerusalem and the West Bank. "Arabized" units are... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
- Images: Israeli suppression of Palestinian protest ...
Images of Israeli occupation forces suppressing Palestinian protest in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Originally published in PalToday - 16 March 2010 The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA web ...
- Images: Gaza Palestinians protest the Israeli take ...
Images of Gaza Palestinians protesting Israeli take over of, and Jewish settlement activities in, East Jerusalem. Originally published in PalToday - 16 March 2010 The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to ...
- ‘Softened’ Nakba law passes 1st reading
MK Taleb El-Sana (United Arab List-Ta'al): [The law] "proves the failure of Zionism, which needs to legislate a law in order to force the Zionist narrative and to rewrite history during which the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
- NOTICE: IntelTrends is moving to Blogger
* * 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 ...
- AVMA leadership missing key facts on antibiotics i ...
Dr. Ron DeHaven, CEO and Executive VP of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)*, spoke last week to the pork industry in Kansas City, MO. DeHaven opposes legislation to ban the use of non-therapeutic (growth promoting) antibiotics and antibiotics with human uses from food animal produc ...
- Beyond “Museum” Gardens
This post was originally published in the spring 2010 issue of Edible: East Bay. For the link to this article from that magaize - http://www.ediblecommunities.com/eastbay/spring-2010/food-for-thought.htm Beyond “Museum” Gardens With all of the coverage of Michelle Obama in the news lately, you wo ...
- CLF provides House testimony on Maryland Bill 953 ...
Dr. Keeve Nachman, Director of the Farming for the Future Program at the Center for a Livable Future gave invited testimony to the Maryland House of Delegates on Friday, March 5 on the public health risks of arsenic in poultry feed. Delegate Tom Hucker (D-Montgomery Co) introduced the bill, which al ...
- “Animal Factory” Book Tour Stops at JHSPH
When you hear Author David Kirby tell the stories behind the people in his latest book, you can’t help but to get caught up in his emotions. Tears welled up in his eyes several times last night as he described-often in graphic detail-to a riveted Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health audie ...
- 2 School Farms: A Weekend of Community
This past weekend, I witnessed hundreds of volunteers working in a very tangible way to take back the food system for a community. The ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said, “the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” This was a stride. Two high schools in Richmond, Calif in the [. ...
- Rancor sores
I think I’ve managed to pin down the source of my anger. Barack Obama is Jimmy Carter II (or Jimmy III, depending on how you see Bill Clinton). After years of horribly shitty authoritarian leadership, the Democrats, faced with an opportunity to take power, once again shifted to the center and told t ...
- A nation at war with itself
Prickly would be a polite word for how I feel lately. Spring does that to me but mostly this is about the corporate media spinning their asses off for big healthcare insurance douche bags. Unlike your average corrupt and craven Blue Dog, Dennis Kucinich got one hell of a lot more than earmarks for h ...
- The budget-fu of whacking off
“Anyone who looked closely at sub-prime mortgages could see trouble coming: They were destined to fail when their teaser interest rates jumped, or because they were non-amortizing, or simply because the borrowers never had the means to pay them in the first place. As early as 2004, the FBI warne ...
- & the Stooges, too
Forward to a Stribber you know: [h/t Vick] - A pair of Digby’s you don’t want to miss: Father FOXy [more from PZ (scroll down)] Cult of Gold Other stuff: emptywheel on wtf Obama/Anthrax Bob Herbert on Toyota’s California plant closing One in every four Californians lack health insurance Shilling fo ...
- What he didn’t unallot, BridgeFail tithed to ...
Gov. BridgeFail continues to be the kind of venal, backstabbing governor who necessitates the legislature having to pass hyperspecific legislation because it’s their only hope of forcing the fucker to do what the law tells him to do. Case in point, the lege just closed the loophole Pawlenty had expl ...
- Links for 2010-02-27 [del.icio.us]
Here Are 10 Things Not to Share with Your Co-Workers There are certain things co-workers need not know about each other, including religious and political views as well as personal issues, but some folks just can't seem to keep their mouths shut. And don't forget -- a casual conversation can eas ...
- Links for 2010-02-24 [del.icio.us]
10 Top Things You Need To Know About 'Up In The Air' Movie The film is an adaptation, co-written by Juno director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Sheldon Turner, of a novel by Walter Kirn published in 2001, though Reitman tried to claim sole credit for writing it initially, until the Writer’s Gui ...
- Links for 2010-02-11 [del.icio.us]
Here Are 10 Things Not To Include In Your Resume And Why Employers don't have the time or the patience to sift through irrelevant information like your hobbies, interests or how many grandchildren you have. Just stick to the basics and you're good to go. Here are 10 things to leave off your résu ...
- 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 ...
- Facebook A Big Threat To Israeli Soldiers
The military's added it is cracking down on soldiers' use of social networking Web sites and has launched a campaign warning of the dangers of sharing military classified information online.
- Israeli tanks cross technical fence near Lebanon
Two Israeli tanks have crossed their technical fence near the border with Lebanon two kilometers south of the disputed Ghajar village. The United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon, also known as the UNIFIL, were present in the area along with Lebanese Armed Forces to make sure that the Israeli ...
- Colonel Imam: ‘I have the Green Beret but the Tale ...
Perhaps no man alive knows Mullah Omar, his Taleban insurgents and the American military quite so well as “Colonel Imamâ€, a battle-creased Pakistani officer who wears a faded British paratrooper’s jacket and a turban. As a top agent for the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, Colonel I ...
- Muslims Are Their Own Worst Enemy
Muslims are numerous but powerless. Divisions among Muslims, especially between Sunni and Shi’ites, have consigned the Muslim Middle East to almost a century of Western control. Muslims cannot even play together. The Islamic Solidarity Games, a regional version of the Olympics, which were to be he ...
- A series of setbacks for the coalition in Afghanis ...
Less To Cheer STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL, the famously self-controlled commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, could be forgiven if he let off an expletive when he heard that soldiers under his command had killed 27 civilians on Sunday February 21st. A missile strike on a three-vehicle convoy in an isolat ...
- 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. Â According to a report published in the press Waseem Akthar (MNA) and former advisor to the Chief Minister on poli ...
- Court Rules in GMO Sugar Beet Case
Today, federal district Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California denied a request by a coalition of organic seed growers, and conservation and food safety groups seeking a temporary ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. While Judge White denied the pr ...
- More Than 200,000 NGOs, Farmers, Consumers, and Or ...
Resulting contamination of non-GE and organic alfalfa hay and seed would devastate livelihoods and organic industry The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today announced that more than 200,000 people submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) critiquing the substance and ...
- Lawsuit Filed to Bar GE Crops from National Wildli ...
Delaware’s Bombay Hook Lacks Required Environmental Review and Justification A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service seeks to compel the Service to uproot genetically engineered (GE) crops from its Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. As many as 8 ...
- Food Safety and Health Organizations Criticize Ela ...
Food safety, consumer and health advocacy organizations blasted Eli Lilly subsidiary Elanco for claiming that prominent health organizations had endorsed use of the controversial artificial growth hormone rbGH,(rbST) on dairy cows when, in fact, they have not. Elanco’s report, from eight experts and ...
- 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 ...
- Jessica Yee: Why I’m a REALLY angry Native in Cana ...
- Required Reading - By Racialicious Special Correspondent Jessica Yee: -- http://www.racialicious.com/2010/03/16/why-im-a-really-angry-native-in-canada-right-now/ Right now I’m owning the title/stereotype/image/whatever you conjure up in your mind about “angry Natives” because along with the usual ...
- When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry X ...
Editor's Note : These references are related to a ten-part series on the political abuse of the term "Anti-Semitism" by The Angryindian, Editor-in-Chief, Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo. The first installment of this work may be found here ... -- 1- “History has shown that wherever anti-Semitism ...
- When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry X ...
Editor's Note : This is the final installment of a ten-part series on the political abuse of the term "Anti-Semitism" by The Angryindian, editor-Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo. -- I don’t mind honest criticism, in fact I encourage it. Indigenist dialectics* demand that I consistently challenge ...
- When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry X ...
Editor's Note : This is a selection from a ten-part series on the political abuse of the term "Anti-Semitism" by The Angryindian, Editor-in-Chief, Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo -- It doesn’t stop there. A German pro-Nordic eugenicist named Alfred Ploetz went even further. His particular concept ...
- When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry X ...
Editor's Note : This is a selection from a ten-part series on the political abuse of the term "Anti-Semitism" by The Angryindian, Editor-in-Chief, Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo -- While this may be dismaying to his many legions of fans the fact remains that Gandhi did not regard issues of social ...
- Ted Williams Show Launches Website
The Ted Williams Show, a Monterrey rock band I play keyboards for, has released a new website, in Spanish, called “El Show de Ted Williams“. It is a very modest embryo of a website, but hopefully I’ll be able to expand it to include bios, a blog, a lyrics section, and who knows what else. The [...] ...
- Strong Aftershock Strikes Chile
This morning a very strong aftershock has struck very close to the epicenter of last month’s earthquake in Chile. The USGS is reporting it’s magnitude as 7.2 in the Richter Scale. There is very little data yet in the international media. I’ll be publishing more as I know more. Since the Richter Sca ...
- Carol Cabrera Survives Second Murder Attempt
Politically-motivated murders have been the grisly aftermath of the 2009 constitutional crisis in Honduras. Journalists, both in favor and against former President Manuel Zelaya have been killed in the last few months. Enzo Micheletti, the nephew of former President Roberto Micheletti was murdered a ...
- Jobs Sues Google Through HTC
Photo by acaben Steve Jobs could be on the verge of a self-destructive move that would ruin Apple. Again. The idolized CEO’s leadership led to his dismissal many years ago, from the company he founded. The buildup to this was aggravated by  his arrogant and unfriendly manner, and unwillingness to ...
- Clinton Hails Honduras as Success
Today Secretary of State Clinton called Honduras a success story, making explicit what some socialist critics have been denouncing since the crisis began. Whatever his leanings at home, Obama’s international policy is not leftist at all. “The Honduras crisis has been managed to a successful conclusi ...
- US troops can hold Afghan detainees for 14 days in ...
Longer detention 'an option' A controversial policy that gives U.S. forces in Afghanistan four days to question detainees is being changed to give soldiers more time to interrogate the captives, Gen. David Petraeus said Tuesday. Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee that American tr ...
- Afghanistan confirms blanket pardon for war crimes
Afghanistan confirmed for the first time publicly on Tuesday that it had enacted into law a blanket pardon for war crimes and human rights abuse carried out before 2001 . Human rights groups have expressed dismay that the law appeared to have been enacted quietly, granting blanket immunity to m ...
- US officials make contradictory remarks on bin Lad ...
Only a day after a top Obama administration official described the chances of capturing al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] leader Osama bin Laden alive as "infinitesimal", the top US commander in Afghanistan says the military still wants to capture him alive. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday ...
- Tehran aiding al Qaeda links, Petraeus says
Iran is assisting 'al Qaeda' by facilitating links between senior terrorist leaders and affiliate groups, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East told Congress on Tuesday. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Central Command, also said Iran's nuclear program is facing prob ...
- UK premier admits misleading Iraq war inquiry
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown admitted on Wednesday that he provided false information to the Iraq Inquiry during his recent testimony. When addressing the question of adequate funding for the UK armed forces for their invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, Brown had told the Inquiry on Marc ...
- Israeli Think Tank Drops “Sabotage” La ...
 “What’s in a name?† Shakespeare’s Juliet famously asks. “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet …” A related observation can be made about the word-changing antics of Israel’s leading think tank, the Reut Institute, in their policy report, “The Deligit ...
- Biden’s “Insulted,” What About P ...
By Jesse Bacon The United States and Israel are having a lovers’ quarrel, between grotesquely overprivileged and dysfunctional lovers at that. The decision of Israel to announce new construction in Occupied East Jerusalem during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden was met with disbelief and ruef ...
- A Psalm of Protest in Silwan
By Jeremy Siegman A few weeks ago, as the rain poured down on Jerusalem, a small group of Israelis and Palestinians gathered in a fluorescent-lit basement in Silwan, East Jerusalem. They were participating in the newest dialogue initiative of Combatants for Peace: working non-violently to counter ...
- More Context on Sheikh Jarrah and the “New&# ...
The reflection from Rebecca Kirzner, below, puts the large demonstration in Sheikh Jarrah last weekend in context—both politically, and by reminding us that it was just one demonstration among many. Â Much of the coverage of the protest spoke of the rise of a “new Israeli left” that had “never been ...
- Levy: Palestinian Citizens of Israel “Misbeh ...
By Jesse Bacon In a tongue in cheek article, Gideon Levy accuses the Palestinian Citizens of Israel of such “misbehaviors” as stating they do not feel they belong in Israel (Ajami director Tony Copti) or asking if Israeli Jews who killed civilians were terrorists (Member of the Israeli Parliament Ah ...
- The Meth Project
Two years after launching the Meth Project in Montana, adult Meth use has declined by 72% and Meth-related crime has decreased 62% They did this by mass advertising and most importantly, by listening to what teenagers told them. Our first campaign focused on the impact Meth has on the individual—t ...
- Cleantech and renewable energy links
First Solar joins Desertec Initiative, a gigantic solar and wind power project in the Sahara to power Africa and Europe. Comprehensive article on LEDs. Overview of geothermal energy. Solar water heaters. Microbes that eat pollution. Energy-generating self-heating roadway.
- The Great Catholic Cover-Up
Hitchens:The pope’s entire career has the stench of evil about it. In 1979, an 11-year-old German boy identified as Wilfried F. was taken on a vacation trip to the mountains by a priest. After that, he was administered alcohol, locked in his bedroom, stripped naked, and forced to suck the penis of ...
- Hey, check out my Amazon Store!
It features books that have been discussed here, gadgets, music, with lots more coming. Click here (or “Amazon Store” in the top menu.)
- The climate change movement is dead. Al Gore kille ...
From The BreakThrough Institute, a progressive environmental think tank that thankfully does not walk the now-crumbling mainstream path of climate change politics. One of the country’s most respected liberal foreign policy voices, Walter Russell Mead, blames Al Gore for the magical climate thinking ...
- Yediot exposes police lying on suppression of East ...
After an interlude, the Jerusalem police resumed arrests of Sheikh Jarrah protesters last Friday (March 12 2010.) On Sunday, the Jerusalem Post, like many other Israeli media outlets, ran the police statement on the incident nearly verbatim Earlier on Friday, about 250 locals and left-wing protester ...
- Einat Weizman: A Jewish and demographic state
Einat Weizman is an actress living in Tel Aviv. She has a Masters in Culture Research and Political Communications from Tel Aviv University and writes regularly for Maariv. —– DNA politics [Hebrew version here.] Earlier this month (on March 3 2010) an expanded panel of High Court of Justice ju ...
- Yediot’s Kadmon on Sheikh Jarrah, 1948 and t ...
Yediot’s Sima Kadmon is second in stature only to Nahum Barnea and this Friday (March 12 2010) her column opened the paper’s influential weekend Political Supplement. Writing in the context of of the current US-Israeli crisis on East Jerusalem, she puts the symbolic, and more importantly, strategic ...
- Sara Benninga’s rousing speech at the Sheikh ...
In his succinct post on the March 6 2010 rally in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerry Haber at the Magnes Zionist wrote in my opinion, the highlight of the night was a speech delivered by young Israeli activist, Sarah Benninga, who spoke about the New Left and the New Right. I agree. It was rousing, articulating t ...
- Yediot’s Barnea outlines the nightmare that ...
Note that although Barnea’s primary assertion is that the apocalyptic implications of an Israeli strike would deter a rational Israeli government, he is concerned that Netnayahu may have rhetorically painted himself into a corner: Netanyahu has upgraded Ahmadinejad to the dimensions of a Hitler. ...
- Anomaly Aversion
This is just a short post on why people like Roman and Tamino are interested in calculating the offset for temperature anomaly calculation and why I’m interested in applying it to global temperature. I hope it can put to rest some of the anomaly aversion that exists in skeptics. I’ve already finis ...
- Science be Damned
Ok, the math post which seems to suck hours of time isn’t done yet. It’s not even that amazing, except that it’s fun to try and improve a temperature series. I found this on line from a link in email, I don’t agree with some of Lord Monkton’s science, it seems to me that he’s [...]
- Wierd Review Literachur
More wierd review literature in this guest post from Climatequotes. ———————– IPCC coordinating lead author’s own paper falsely cited in AR4 Adil Najam Yesterday I posted about a contributing author’s own paper being incorrectly cited in the AR4. However, I have now found something worse than th ...
- NOAA- Here comes the flood.
This post is copied from the NOAA site linked here. Apparently the above average snowfall is going to create the expected springtime results. —— NOAA: Imminent Flood Threat in Midwest, South and East Also at Risk March 16, 2010 Major flooding has begun and is forecast to continue through spring in p ...
- Believers
Reader MMLJ left a comment about this article on the last thread. I doubt this post will generate much disagreement here but John Quiggen’s blog has attempted to place the blame for climategate on Steve McIntyre while simultaneously claiming nothing was done wrong. I would have commented there b ...
- "Femivores"? Spare Me
The other day my Triscuits came with a package of basil seeds glued into the box. According to the instructions, these could be used to start my very own "home farm" (sic): "Let’s all join in and help grow the Home Farming movement together. It can all begin when you plant your free basil and dill ...
- CSI Microbiology: Germ Fingerprints Could Help Cat ...
Each of us is unique and special. So too are the bacterial communities infesting our grimy palms. As we move through the world, we deposit a potentially incriminating microbial film on everything we touch. Scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder hope that our individual germ prints will ...
- Welcome to Focal Point
Hello, Big Think. Welcome to Focal Point, a blog about politics, ideas, photography, media, feminism, and more. I'm a freelance journalist in Brooklyn, New York. I do both print and photojournalism, hence the name of the blog.� I didn't set out to become a blogger. I started in 2004 while I was app ...
- Is Depression an Adaptation?
Jonah Lehrer argues in the New York Times Magazine that depression might be good for us . He's popularizing a theory advanced by two Virginia researchers who claim that depression is an adaptive mechanism that compels us to withdraw from the world and focus intently on our problems. The fact that d ...
- Illegal Abortion Kills Kenyan Women
Botched illegal abortions kill thousands of Kenyan women every year, according to a report released today by the Center for Reproductive Rights , a New York-based NGO dedicated to advancing reproductive freedom through U.S. and international law. The report is based on interviews with dozens of Keny ...
- Applications on Facebook Feed The March Madness Co ...
You’ve probably already been solicited at the office to fill out a March Madness bracket now that the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is upon us, and the scene is no different on Facebook. NCAA Tourney bracket apps are all over the place, giving you a chance tochallenge friends for the best picks, ...
- Facebook Makes Slight UI Updates to Performance Ad ...
Large and small organizations looking to reach Facebook through its self-serve performance advertising tool will now see a few upgrades to the second step in the ad tool user interface. For example, now you can clearly select “All” instead of male, female, or both male and female for some targeting ...
- Facebook Putting Frequently Reported Applications ...
Over the course of the last couple years, Facebook’s approach to Platform governance has been consistently evolving. In the beginning, Facebook tried a quantitative stick-based approach based on user feedback – if enough invitations and notifications got reported as spammy, those channels got cut of ...
- Local to National, TV Content is Popular on Facebo ...
Television broadcasters of all sorts are reporting that Facebook is helping to drive traffic, and third-party measurement firms like Nielsen and Hitwise are saying the same thing. However, this is people watching live-streams on the site, and sharing video clips, articles and other content on the s ...
- Games and Mobile Lead This Week’s Top Gaining Face ...
With the exception of Static FBML, the roster of this week’s AppData list is held entirely by two categories of Facebook apps: games and mobile. It’s Wednesday, so the gains we’re talking about are of daily active users (DAU), a smaller but more important group than monthly actives. The games ca ...
- New study: Air pollution as a possible inhibitor o ...
In the world of climate change there is much debate over the reality of greenhouse gases and the volatile nature of toxic chemical emissions. However, in a new study, published February 17, 2010, scientists are beginning to look at air pollution as a possible inhibitor of global warming. The thick b ...
- Amazonia!
The Amazonia represents over half of the planet’s remaining Rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical Rainforest in the World. The Amazon River stretches more than 6.4oo km. The tropical Rainforest of its watershed is home to millions of species of plants and ...
- The first systematic study of surveillance techniq ...
The first systematic study of surveillance techniques for the insect vector of Chagas disease in Amazonia, conducted by researchers from the Fiocruz Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and colleagues, concl ...
- Amazonia- Chevron refused to receive 325.ooo petit ...
On Sunday, Emergildo Criolo, an Indigenous leader of the Cofan people in Ecuador, traveled from his home in the Amazon rainforest to personally deliver a message to the oil giant’s new CEO John Watson. Yesterday, Emergildo Criollo (with international group of supporters) boarded a donated bio-diesel ...
- Amazonia- Belo Monte dam will cost $2B more!
Officials say the cost of building a huge dam in Brazil’s Amazon has jumped $2 billion because of new environmental protections. The Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on a tributary of the Amazon river will be the world’s third largest. Environmentalists are sharply opposed to its construction. They ...
- Riots erupt across Jerusalem as Hamas leader calls ...
Hundreds of Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces across east Jerusalem on Tuesday in the worst rioting in years , as a senior Hamas leader called for a new "intifada" or uprising.
- Suspicion over Murdoch’s pan-Arab foray in Egypt
In a country where film and television attract some of the largest audiences across the Arab world, the tycoon's foray into the Middle East is widely seen in cultural circles as a ruse to benefit Israel.
- Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Co ...
The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004 , addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and CIA Director George J. Tenet. The ACLU described it as a fax sent by David Addington, then-counsel to former vice president Dick Cheney.
- Hillary Clinton contracts purchases of $5.4M in cr ...
Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department is spending $5.4 million to buy fine crystal stemware for American embassies -- but it won't give the US economy much of a boost.
- New RFID tech tracks you to the tomb
A new product, the RosettaStone ( www.personalrosettastone.com ), guarantees that RFID will follow you straight to your grave.
- Disappearing act
(Courtesy of Frontier magazine, University of British Columbia) A commitment to both discovery and education places the Beaty Biodiversity Centre in a unique position to safeguard our natural heritage by bringing together outstanding researchers, exceptional facilities, and the public to better un ...
- Particle accelerating … in high school
For Palak Suryavenshi, the grade-12 science lab was the first step in a journey that led to a chance to test a hypothesis on one of North America’s most advanced particle accelerators. In 2007, Suryavenshi and her classmates from Saskatoon’s Centennial Collegiate worked with researchers at the Unive ...
- Nose jobs
(Courtesy of Carleton University Magazine) People around the world ask the same question on a daily basis: “Is the milk bad?” A quick sniff gives us a fast and reliable answer. The sense of smell is very powerful and often taken for granted. We simply follow our nose, because it always knows…but so ...
- Snow fall
To the average Canadian, a research station getting completely buried in snow more than 1,500 metres high in the Cariboo Mountains might indicate that snow levels at this altitude are not at risk from global warming. But University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) professor Stephen Déry says look ...
- The STEALTH advantage
The average Olympic ski race lasts between 90 and 110 seconds, with skiers clocking speeds of up to 130 kilometres per hour. The difference between a gold-medal performance and a 10th-place finish is often measured in hundredths of a second. As University of Calgary geomatics engineering professor G ...
- A third of U.S. is waterlogged and ripe for floodi ...
One-third of the United States faces the possibility of "historic flooding" in coming weeks, especially the upper Midwest states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa, government forecasters said. "Once again we are delivering an urgent message to get ready," John Hayes, director of the ...
- Iran's Natural Gas Riches: US Knife to the Heart o ...
The scheduled start of drilling this month by China National Petroleum Company (CNPC) in Iran's South Pars gas field could be both a harbinger and explanation of much wider geopolitical developments. First of all, the $5 billion project - signed last year after years of foot dragging by western ene ...
- International Team of Scientists Reports Discovery ...
Santa Barbara, California - - An international team of scientists, including several who are affiliated with UC Santa Barbara, has discovered a new planet the size of Jupiter. The finding is published in the March 18 issue of the journal Nature. The planet, called CoRoT-9b, was discovered by usi ...
- US Drone Strikes Kill 10 in Pakistan
Pakistani security officials say U.S. drone strikes have killed at least 10 militants in North Waziristan -- the second such round of attacks in two days. The officials say an unmanned aircraft fired five missiles Wednesday at a vehicle carrying militants near North Waziristan's main town Miran Shah ...
- FLASHBACK: Two new studies on aspartame and diet d ...
The Cancer Research Center of the European Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences in Bologna, Italy reported this week that a long-term study to evaluate the potential carcinogenic effects of aspartame demonstrates the chemical sweetener "induces an increase in lymphomas and leukemias in ...
- Court: State Can Dump Non-Sex Offenders Into Regis ...
Georgia’s Supreme Court is upholding the government’s right to put non-sex offenders on the state’s sex-offender registry, highlighting a little-noticed (but growing) nationwide practice. Atlanta criminal defense attorney Ann Marie Fitz estimated that perhaps thousands of convicts convicted of non-s ...
- Judges Approves $9.5 Million Facebook ‘Beacon’ Acc ...
A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $9.5 million settlement to a class action lawsuit challenging Facebook’s program that monitored and published what users of the social networking site were buying or renting from Blockbuster, Overstock and other locations. The case concerned allegations Facebo ...
- Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely
More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments. Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit o ...
- SEC: Hacker Manipulated Stock Prices
U.S. regulators are moving to freeze the assets and trading accounts of a Russian accused of hacking into personal online portfolios and manipulating the price of dozens of stocks listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market and New York Stock Exchange. A New York federal judge on Tuesday sided with the Securi ...
- Undercover Feds on Social Networking Sites Raise Q ...
The next time someone tries to “friend” you on Facebook, it may turn out to be an undercover fed looking to examine your private messages and photos, or surveil your friends and family. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained an internal Justice Department document that describes what law e ...
- Before Badgering Obama, Bret Baier Compared Bush t ...
The conservative blogosphere is abuzz over the Bret Baier's contentious interview Wednesday with President Obama . Of course, Baier's repeated interruptions and confrontational tone should come as no surprise. After all, the Fox News hatchet man established his partisan bona fides two years ago in ...
- Liz Cheney Fails David Rivkin's Crazy Test
That former Clinton inquisitor Ken Starr admonished Liz Cheney for her stunning and shameless attack on the Obama Justice Department tells you all you need to know about her " Al Qaeda 7 " and "Department of Jihad" slanders. But to truly appreciate the depth of Cheney's descent into the political g ...
- Republicans Sick and Tired of the Sick and Tired
As the health care reform debate heads into its final days, the Republican opposition is turning on the sick themselves. This week, the right-wing echo chamber blasted an 11 year old boy whose mother passed away due to lack of health insurance. And a day after the conservative blogosphere proteste ...
- Republicans Blasted U.S. Allies Over Iraq War
While the U.S. continues its pushback against Israel's humiliating settlements announcement last week, Republicans in Congress predictably rushed to defend the Netanyahu government. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor branded the Obama administration "irresponsible" and claimed its treatment of the spe ...
- Rove: No Bush War for Democracy in Iraq
As millions of Iraqis braved bomb blasts and threats of violence to vote this weekend, voices across the political spectrum in the U.S. praised the democratic elections . But while President Obama announced that "Their participation demonstrates that the Iraqi people have chosen to shape their futu ...
- The Youth by Cindy Sheehan + Peace of the Action T ...
by Cindy SheehanFeatured WriterDandelion SaladCindy Sheehans Soapbox BlogCindy Sheehans SoapboxMarch 16, 2010Almost everywhere I go to speak, during the Q and A portion, someone asks me where are The Youth?Well, I have good news for all these people who have been lamenting over the lack of young peo ...
- Countdown: Michael Moore on Wall Street and Health ...
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/mmflintMarch 15, 2010“[Chris Dodd] said today, well we don’t want to ‘punish’ Wall Street. Yes we do. Yes, that’s exactly what we need to do, because if we don’t do it, they won’t do anything to change. … Instead what we did was, we wrote them more checks and said ...
- Sweatshops Won't Save Haiti
The United Nations will host a Haiti donors' conference at the end of March. This conference will be quite different from last year's event, of course, coming as it does on the heels of the worst earthquake to strike Haiti in two centuries. An agenda has already begun to take shape: It's already cle ...
- What We Need to Do to Counter Our Man-Made Apocaly ...
We are finding a faith inside “Environmentalism” and “Earth Justice” and “Climate Change Activism.” A faith can support multiple movements, and carry hundreds of issues. A single belief system can sweep across culture and change us all. Christianity did this, and Marxism. And in the 60’s we witnesse ...
- Increasing Evidence That Recession Has Caused Numb ...
According to a new DHS report, 11.8 million unauthorized immigrants lived in the United States as of January 2007. By January 2009, that number had fallen to 10.8 million.
- Lawmaker Wants To Stiffen Penalty For Horse Neglec ...
It's already a felony to abuse companion animals. Horses could soon be included in that group if a new bill passes, but the piece of legislation is facing opposition from the Farm Bureau. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- PREMARIN: A PRESCRIPTION FOR CRUELTY
There are about 100 ranches in remote areas of North Dakota and Canada that house thousands of pregnant mares who produce urine for Premarin and Prempro.(1,2) For most of their 11-month pregnancies, these horses are confined to stalls so small that they Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-i ...
- Act Now to Stop War and End Racism - March 20: Sta ...
Join us on Saturday, March 20 in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities to say: FREE PALESTINE - END COLONIAL OCCUPATION FROM IRAQ TO AFGHANISTAN AND EVERYWHERE - END U.S. AID TO ISRAEL! - STOP THE "SETTLEMENTS" NOW! Submitted by David Buchan to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note ...
- New Pentagon Effort Targets Illicit Wildlife Trade
U.S. troops heading to Iraq and Afghanistan will soon be trained to confront a new enemy, the trade in products made from endangered animals. Submitted by Simone D. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- US plans to give high-speed broadband to every Ame ...
US regulators have unveiled the nation's first plan to give every American super-fast broadband by 2020. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which will now submit the plan to Congress, said broadband was the "greatest infrastructure challenge" Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to Science & ...
- Toddler In Chief Throws A Temper Tantrum
That would be Obama, of course. The title above may seem like hyperbole, but if you check out this one, you will see it is not: Barack Obama Threatens To Withdraw Support From Wavering Democrats; Barack Obama has said he will not campaign for any Democratic congressmen who fails to support health c ...
- Bret Baier, Yowza!
VIDEO #1: Fox News Exclusive: President Obama Part 1: The president sits down with FNC’s Bret Baier to discuss the health care reform bill (Part 2 and the transcript are below the fold.) Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Finally, a journalist with some balls who can ask tough questio ...
- Panic
From the blog for The John Batchelor Show. Listen live via iTunes or check out the archived podcasts. Unconvinced. Hoyer does not have 216 on St. Patrick’s Day, and this brings a nervous grin from Minority Whip Cantor. Source writes that the Democrats are boasting they have 211 as of We ...
- Is President Obama Happy He Got Elected? Reality ...
What a difference a year makes. While President Obama, flanked by the arrogant and clueless Pelosi and Reid, endeavors to ram through his health care disaster, two articles from vastly different sources make clear Obama has lost the spring in his step and been blindsided by his inability to move m ...
- Barack Obama Has Ben Bernanke by the Balls
Is the White House now in charge of both fiscal and monetary policy? The Federal Reserve just released its March statement confirming no change in its monetary policy and little change in economic outlook. A brief overview of the Fed’s statement includes the following: >> Maintains the Fed Funds ran ...
- Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
- President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
- Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
- Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
- Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...
- War on WikiLeaks? Nasty intelligence plan to destr ...
Well this is grim! The ACIC or Army Counterintelligence Center published in March 2008 a National Security Information Special Report, under the auspices of the Department of Defense Intelligence Analysis Program (DIAP). Michael D Horvath of the Cyver Counterintelligence Assessments Branch d ...
- Restored 1927 "Metropolis" adds new subplots on wo ...
Frame by frame, the lost almost-complete version of Metropolis is coming out. METROPOLIS2710 It's an amazing & essentially perfect film, which created the bases for epic pop culture characters like Doc Brown, C3PO, as well as a powerful vision of utopian urbanism -- the film itself created a huge c ...
- Young: "The Internet is a giant spying machine rig ...
Got BitLocker? Feel a bit r00ted??? [It was later posted that this full Windows 7 law enforcement pack was actually originally posted on the very cool newer site PublicIntelligence.net: Microsoft Windows 7/Vista Advanced Forensics Guides for Law Enforcement | Public Intelligence ] In a continuation ...
- Viddy Still from Michael Ruppert appearance in Min ...
Its taking a while but I have a lot of footage from Michael Ruppert's visit to St Anthony Main for the screenings of Collapse last week... Overall it was quite awesome, with new items of geopolitics and a lot of jokes. Plus the lighting looks like the movie which is neat :) Standby on that one, I th ...
- Bad time for Asian plots! Iran busts Jundullah rin ...
Quick hits for the fans of stuff & things. Welcome to the Fishbowl says a sad federal judge upon the abandonment of the 4th Amendment. Alex Kozinski in the 9th Circuit has some integrity... via Reason : This is an extraordinary case: Our court approves, without blinking, a police sweep of a pe ...
- Treason in America Conference: organizing the pain ...
two videos from news coverage at source. If evidence of treason by American political “leadership” was obvious, do you have the integrity and courage to follow your heart and mind’s most virtuous expression of what you should do about it as an American citizen? That wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were ...
- No title
The way privatization of education was done in New Orleans is the model for the billionaires and Race to the Top today. If we are not educated as to the circumstances within which we make these choices and well informed as to the implications for our society and our children that each educational c ...
- Mortgage Lending Reforms – Consumer Protection Req ...
Consider the statistics of how many Americans are “self employed or independent contractors”* and that’s the percentage of the population that has been cut out of the mortgage market/lending market. We cant refi, we cant purchase , we cant even get equity out of our properties when the equity in pr ...
- Sen. Dodd’s new bill sacrifices Wall Street Invest ...
After reviewing Sen. Dodd’s most recent proposed bill, clearly it has been watered down to such a degree that it’s nearly pointless in respect to Finance Reforms and Wall Street Investor Regulations. In terms of consumer protection, in order to be effective you have to start with Wall Street Inv ...
- Let the games begin! Detroit
During public comment prior to the Board’s closed session with attorneys community members present spoke out strongly, telling the board “You gotta do something for the people” and “You have the power, use it”. Speakers included teachers, parents, students, grandparents, great-grandparents, and bus ...
- Obama's cynical pursuit of health care "reform"
The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Obama's cynical pursuit of health care "reform" � � World Socialist Web Site By Kate Randall March 17, 2010 For the third time in a week, Barack Obama took to the stage to stump for his health care overhaul, this ...
- Georgia: Simulating War Or Provoking It?
The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Rick Rozoff. Georgia: �Simulating War Or Provoking It? � � Rick Rozoff March 16, 2010 On the evening of March 13 Georgia's Imedi television channel ran a 30-minute prime time "simulated" newscast about a Russian invasion of the South Cauca ...
- Gordon Duff: Terrorism And The Fleecing Of The Fai ...
The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . Terrorism And The Fleecing Of The Faithful � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today March 14, 2010 The "war on terror" has been like no other. America has kidnapped and tortured doz ...
- Eva Golinger: Permanent Aggression - War on the ho ...
[The following article is reprinted with permission from Eva Golinger. She is the author of "The Ch�vez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela" (2006 Olive Branch Press) and "Bush vs. Ch�vez: Washington's War on Venezuela" (2007, Monthly Review Press).] PERMANENT AGGRESSION: �War on the hori ...
- Ramzy Baroud: An Alternative Reading of Murder in ...
The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. An Alternative Reading of Murder in Dubai � �Ramzy Baroud March 10, 2010 The killing of Palestinian activist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on January 19, 2010 was clearly a well-planned, violent and sadistic act, committed by Israeli assass ...
- No Insurance Company Left Behind
By Katie Robbins – | HealthCareNOW.org On Tuesday, the Health Care for America Now (HCAN) coalition performed a “citizen’s arrest†of the insurance industry at a meeting of Americas Health Insurance Plans, the private health ...
- More Healthcare, Less Warfare!
Healthcare and warfare have been on the front burner this past week—for PDA and Congress. While Congress continues to dither on health insurance reform, I represented PDA at the “Labor Campaign for Single-Payer” conference in Washington, ...
- IOT: Accountability and Justice March Call
Accountability and Justice Issue Organizing Team conference call, 3/10/10 Over 80 PDA members joined this special call with Guest David Cobb, attorney and Green Party activist and a founder of Move to Amend, which has as ...
- The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 3
In the third installment of the Agitator Voices of PDA, Tim Carpenter interviews two PDA Advisory board members. Get the lowdown from the always witty and cheeky Jim Hightower. Following Jim, hear Rep. Donna ...
- Michael Moore: There’s Going to Be a Second ...
From AlterNet We interviewed Michael Moore on The Young Turks today and he was not shy about sharing his opinions. Anyone surprised? He had very strong words for the Democratic Party, the state of our ...
- Report: Nissan Leaf priced at U.S. $38,500+ in Jap ...
Filed under: Concept Cars , Japan , Nissan , Electric Nissan Leaf - Click above for high-res image gallery Interest in, and " pre-orders" for , the Nissan Leaf remains high, but a report from the Japanese newspaper the Mainichi Shimbun might put a damper on things. Apparently, the price for the al ...
- AutoblogGreen for 03.17.10
Valentin Technologies releases teaser images of 170 mpg IngoCar The claim is it can go 1,000 miles on six gallons. Is it possible - or a good idea - to make good jokes about a speeding Prius? ...
- AutoblogGreen for 03.16.10
Toyota releases preliminary test results in "runaway Prius" case "There are strong indications that the driver's account of the event is inconsistent with the findings." Audi Sees 5 Percent of its New C ...
- AutoblogGreen for 03.15.10
Tesla: Roadster production will be increased, sales will continue into 2012 Whew. Valmet presents their all-electric Eva concept Great, another awesome EV concept we wish were in production ...
- Report: Unintended acceleration Prius case gets tw ...
Second-gen Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery The unintended acceleration case of the second-generation Prius belonging to James Sikes now officially has an interesting backstory. Apparently, according to USAToday , Sikes' "case against Toyota is starting to look shaky." Why? T ...
- 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 ...
- NYC’s Jihad Against Debbie Almontaser
Debbie Almontaser has won a victory in her battle against discrimination. She was the founding principal of the first Arabic-language public school in the United States, until a campaign of hate forced her out. She is well known for her success in bridging cultural divides, bringing together Muslim ...
- Right Now: Amy Goodman Taking Online Questions at ...
Visit FireDogLake to ask Amy a question. Amy will be taking questions until 7 p.m. EST on Sunday.
- Part II: Michelle Alexander on “The New Jim ...
After our broadcast interview with legal scholar and civil rights advocate, Michelle Alexander, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez continued the conversation. Be the first to watch it here.
- Rachel Corrie’s (Posthumous) Day in Court
An unusual trial begins in Israel this week, and people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of a 23-year-old American student named Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer. More
- Midwestern Towns Sue Manufacturer of Atrazine Weed ...
Sixteen Midwestern towns and cities have sued the manufacturer of a popular weedkiller over drinking water contamination. The weedkiller Atrazine manufactured by Syngenta is commonly used in Midwestern cornfields. The lawsuit was filed by towns and cities in Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missour ...
- King Leopold’s Pandemic
The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...
- The Expulsion
In 1845 a diplomat delivered a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm to Louis Philippe of France protesting the insults leveled at the Prussian king by expatriates living in Paris. King Louis had the radicals’ newspaper closed down and the group, along with one Karl Marx, deported. This was not the first ti ...
- 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 ...
- Rachel Corrie 5th Grade Speech “I’m he ...
Rachel Corrie, a true hero was murdered by the State of Israel. Rachel Corrie was killed by the state of Israel, and by its brutal regime that practices not only ‘mass punishment’ but also ‘ethnic cleansing’. The same regime that has displaced over 4 million Palestinians, and killed many thousand ...
- International Effort to Grab Your Guns
- 1991-1992: Possible Link between Racist Harassment ...
In 1991, Ayaad Assaad is a scientist working at USAMRIID, the US Army’s top bioweapons laboratory. He is a Christian and a long-time US citizen, but he was born in Egypt and his Middle Eastern background and appearance apparently bothers some other scientists at USAMRIID. Around Easter 1991, not lon ...
- Monsanto admits their technology doesn’t work!
For years Monsanto has been shouting that the main – read only – benefit of Bt cotton in India (the only genetically engineered crop planted here) was the reduction in pesticide use. Well, it seems they have just admitted this is not true. Pink bollworm, a serious pest for cotton farmers in India, i ...
- Sebelius Asks Media to Censor Autism Debate
By Katie Wright “There are groups out there that insist that vaccines are responsible for a variety of problems, despite all scientific evidence to the contrary. We (the office of Secretary of Health and Human Services) have reached out to media outlets to try to get them not to give the views of th ...
- 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 . ...
- Pedalling for climate change
With Mayor Boris Johnson as a pedalling evangelist, London is becoming a cycling city. Yet, the thought of tiring hills and sweaty work gear has the majority of the city's population choosing public transport. But things are about to change. The combination of a generation of health-obsessed baby bo ...
- GSK publishes responsibility report
GlaxoSmithKline published its 2009 Corporate Responsibility Report yesterday, the second time it has published online as the primary medium instead of in print. The report highlights the company's CSR activities in line with its membership of the United Nations Global Compact and focusses upon its e ...
- Separate number one and number two
Behold the NoMix: the toilet with a built-in urinal and wall which separates urine from faeces and turns it into fertiliser. Recycling gone mad? Not according to recent reviews. A pilot scheme was carried out in seven European countries, with 2,700 people trying out and having their say about the ne ...
- Call for sovereign debt arbitration
A new policy document has renewed calls for the implementation of an independent arbitrator with the power to mediate in disputes involving sovereign wealth funds. The policy has been put together by a number of leading debt and development NGOs, including EuroDAD and the Jubliee Debt Campaign, and ...
- Mystery solved over tissue healing
A group of scientists in the US believe they may have solved the mystery surrounding spontaneous tissue healing. The research shows that humans and other mammals may have the ability to regenerate parts of their body after sustaining injury. The scientists believe the breakthrough could pave the way ...
- About models, increasingly often the lens through ...
Here is one of Paul Krugman’s many brilliant essays. It’s one with broad applicability today, as we grow increasingly dependent on mathematical models. Such as science, public health, banking, and public finance. Yet both practitioners and laypeople too-seldom understand their strengths and w ...
- Recommended reading about the Constitution
I cannot provide a useful excerpt of this. The opening appears below. Please read it in full. “No Exit: Laurence Tribe and ‘The Invisible Constitution’“ By Daniel Lazare, The Nation, 20 October 2008 What does the Constitution mean? This is not a trick question. Yes, the document opens with a sti ...
- FM newswire for March 16, interesting articles abo ...
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. Why do we pay attention to these people? “Defending the Reagan Deficits“, Brian Riedl, Heritage Foundation, 16 June 2004 Potentially serious, certainly ...
- The project to reform America: a matter for scien ...
What key can we turn to reform America? Some believe the answer lies in theory. What answers do political science and sociology give us about the causes of America’s problems? Will scientists describe the solution, then we decide if and how to implement it? Or do our elites and scientist ...
- Why the U.S. cannot inflate its way out of debt
Summary: As we slowly become aware of our government’s debt load, we seek easy solutions. How sad that there are no easy solutions. America was born in a decision about debt. Treasury Secretary Hamilton proposed that the United States assume the war debts of the states incurred during the R ...
- The Oldest Trees on the Planet
> Trees are some of the longest-lived organisms on the planet. At least 50 trees have been around for more than a millenium, but there may be countless other ancient trees that haven’t been discovered yet. Trees can live such a long time for several reasons. One sec ...
- Cool: New Exoplanet Is Near Habitable Zone
Extrasolar planet hunters are excited about a not-so-hot discovery. For the first time, they’ve found a relatively cool extrasolar planet that they can study in detail. The finding is a milestone, says study co-author Hans Deeg of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Tenerife, Spain, becaus ...
- Seminal 70s Environmental TV Series Now Online
Every episode of what was probably the environmental movement’s first television series is now available on the Web. Our Vanishing Wilderness first aired almost 40 years ago. The eight half-hour episodes were broadcast by the New York public channel, National Educational Television, beginning in Oc ...
- Quantum Physics Used to Control Mechanical System
By using a quantum device to control a mechanical object, researchers have linked the mind-bending laws of quantum physics to the tangible, everyday world. Until now, quantum physical behaviors were observed at atomic and subatomic scales, or in medium-sized molecules. Now they’ve been found in som ...
- Red in Jupiter’s Spot Not What Astronomers Thought
The best thermal images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot yet captured have revealed surprising weather and temperature variation within the solar system’s most famous storm. The darkest red part of the spot turns out to be a warm patch inside the otherwise cold storm. The temperature variation is slight ...
- The Civilian Nuclear Deal Iran Threw Away
A senior U.S. official Wednesday confirmed that the United States offered the first civilian nuclear cooperation with Iran in three decades under the terms of a deal that Iran walked away from last fall. Daniel Poneman, Deputy Secretary of Energy, said that had Iran accepted the deal - under which i ...
- Turkey’s Warm Ties with Iran: A Brief History
WASHINGTON —The 1990s were marked by hostile relations between Iran and Turkey, which was the direct outcome of Turkish foreign policy elite’s conviction that Iran was supporting the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) and had a campaign to export Islamic revolution to Turkey. Iran was perceived as posing ...
- Israel and Iran Optics: Obama’s Got a Squeeze Box?
Yet another episode of quotable Daniel Larison : One of the most irritating memes in conservative commentary these days is the idea that Obama subverts allies and aids rivals. They have been pushing this one right from the beginning. This is a pretty blatant accusation of treachery and/or naivete, ...
- Understanding Thailand’s Troubles
A very unique sort of blood drive is currently underway in Bangkok. Outside Government House, hundreds of Thais have lined up to donate their blood to the cause- the political cause, that is. The bags of blood are not intended for medical use, but are instead being ceremoniously splattered on the g ...
- What Did Sunday's Regional Elections in Russia Mea ...
One of the things that struck me in looking at the results was the similarities to Mexico's elections back in the day when the Institutionalized Revolutionary Party (PRI) held sway. The ruling party would maintain its predominance, but opposition parties that were part of the system would be able to ...
- Lightning Round: The Process Has Been Vindicated.
" Dennis Kucinich ’s flip on the health care vote this morning is symbolic of a broader shift among liberals," says the analysis accompanying a new PPP poll which finds support for health-care reform among self-identified liberals to be nearly universal, with only three percent claiming they are op ...
- TAP Talk: How Can We Expand Broadband Access?
This week, the National Broadband Plan debuted. Nancy Scola read it for you, and now, she talks about it with Paul Waldman -- The Editors
- The Little Picture: Must-See TV.
The White House hosts a screening of HBO World War II miniseries "The Pacific" in the Family Theater. (White House/Pete Souza)
- McChrystal: We Want Osama Alive.
Pushing forward on the extreme hypothetical of ever capturing Osama bin Laden alive, Gen. Stanley McChrystal says he'd like to see it happen: When McChrystal was asked whether the U.S. had given up on capturing bin Laden alive, he said, "Wow, no." If bin Laden enters Afghanistan, "we would certain ...
- A Decline in Prison Populations.
For the first time in 40 years, the number of prisoners in state prison systems has dropped , according to a new report from the Pew Center on the States. During the past four decades, the number of prisoners rose precipitously -- by more than 700 percent -- as more people were sent to prison and ke ...
- Vindictive judge gives Muslims prison sentences fo ...
Getting even vaguely carried away at a political protest has always had a tendency to attract the wrath of judges in the UK, but recent activities by the British police, and by a judge in a courtroom in Isleworth, are nothing short of despicable. In response to a protest about the Israeli attack on ...
- Republican Witch-hunters Embrace Dictatorship
Are there no depths to which the Republican Party will not sink in its unprincipled assaults on President Obama’s counter-terrorism policies? The latest unconstitutional monstrosity from the right’s lunatic fringe came courtesy of Keep America Safe, a toxic organization headed by Liz Cheney, the dau ...
- Six New UK Screenings of “Outside the Law: Stories ...
Throughout this year, I’m touring the UK with former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes, showing the new documentary, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash). In the last few weeks, Omar and I (often accompanied by Polly) have screened the film in Lo ...
- Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Diary
To coincide with the publication of my article, “What Torture Is, and Why It’s Illegal and Not ‘Poor Judgment,’” in which I revisited the scandalous whitewash of the Justice Department report into the conduct of John Yoo and Jay Bybee (the lawyers who sought to redefine torture in the notorious “tor ...
- What Torture Is, and Why It’s Illegal and Not “Poo ...
It’s now over three weeks since veteran Justice Department lawyer David Margolis dashed the hopes of those seeking accountability for the Bush administration’s torturers, but this is a story of such profound importance that it must not be allowed to slip away. Margolis decided that an internal repor ...
- The view from here...
Pretty sure you can guess where I am, Hope you had a nice green beer kind of weekend, :)
- Grayson's Message Embraced By Florida Republicans
That all mythical squishy middle centristy stuff that The Village preschoolers can not read or write beyond? The one that Obama keeps trying to to pander to and live off of while producing medicocre to pure crap legislation, IF he can get anything to pass at all, which is pissing everybody on all po ...
- RIP Jon Swift
A sad day for the entire Bloggosphere as Al Weisel, AKA Jon Swift, has passed away : The great Jon Swift has died. That's the "blogging" angle to a personal tragedy. In reality, the voice of Jon Swift - the hilarious faux conservative blogger whose talent and passion were evident in every post - bel ...
- Where did the time go?
If it seemed like today went by a little faster than usual it might be because it could very well have : The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday. The quake, the seventh stro ...
- 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 ...
- American Renaissance Finds New Venue for D.C. Conf ...
After being cancelled because its organizers couldn’t find a venue willing to host it, this weekend’s white nationalist American Renaissance conference is back on again — this time at a Washington D.C. hotel where two similar events were recently held. Jared Taylor , who heads American Renaissance, ...
- Student Activists Confront Anti-Semitic California ...
Students at Cal State Long Beach are launching a campaign against a faculty member known for his anti-Semitic writings and, most recently, for his leadership of a white supremacist political party. Aiming to force Kevin MacDonald ’s departure from the university, student activists this week began ur ...
- Ally: Minutemen Leader Knew Defamatory Video Was F ...
To hear San Diego Minutemen leader Jeff Schwilk’s crony and fellow nativist extremist Ray Carney tell it, Schwilk’s alleged defamation in December – for the second time – of a civil rights activist was no case of mistaken identity. In fact, Carney says, he warned Schwilk that a video in which a woma ...
- Answering Our Critics: SPLC ‘Smear’ Dissected
This Thursday, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) — a Washington, D.C., think tank that describes itself as “pro-immigrant” but pumps out an endless stream of papers claiming that immigration is hurting America in a myriad of ways — plans to issue a “report” attacking the Southern Poverty Law ...
- Leading Holocaust Denier Leaves German Prison
Longtime Hitler enthusiast and Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was released from a German prison on Monday after serving five years for the crime of inciting racial hatred. Zundel, who turns 71 next month, said he would be heading to his home in the Black Forest to regain his health. “It’s kind of a s ...
- New Regulations and Lawsuits Bite Flea and Tick Pr ...
Several lawsuits have been filed over the past few months against companies that make flea and tick products. In the most recent case , five pet owners are suing Hartz Mountain and Summit VetPharm for selling flea and tick treatments laden with pesticides "known to poison animals." The defendents in ...
- Help Pass the Refugee Protection Act!
"The Refugee Protection Act of 2010 would go a long way toward restoring the United States as a human rights leader and a welcoming nation for those fleeing danger," says Mary Meg McCarthy, Director of Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center. When refugees flee disaster or persecution ...
- South Africa Fast Tracks Trafficking Law to Prep f ...
The World Cup is starting in South Africa in just a few short months, and no one knows how much human trafficking will accompany it. Will there be up to 20,000 victims trafficked in for the event, as some groups have predicted? Or will additional trafficking be minimal, as others have claimed. One t ...
- Terms "Vagina" and "Down There" Banned from T.V. A ...
Kotex decided to "break the cycle" of bad tampon ads with a new campaign to ditch the euphemisms and ridiculous scenes of happy, dancing women in favor of real talk and some gold old-fashioned self-mockery. Unfortunately, television networks would really prefer that they stick to the euphemisms and ...
- To Alleviate Poverty, Give the Poor Cash. What's W ...
For all the world's much-vaunted desire to alleviate poverty -- and the never-ending quest to figure out how -- donors still shy away from perhaps the most straight-forward solution out there: give poor people money. Okay, so maybe that's not surprising. It's not a very decorative act, giving away c ...
- In Details of Dodd Bill, Some Loopholes and Unansw ...
by Keith Epstein, Ben Protess and David Heath The fine print in the sweeping overhaul of the U.S. financial system proposed by Sen. Christopher Dodd reveals loopholes, ambiguities and unanswered questions about some key players – among them a new consumer protection bureau, credit-rating companies a ...
- US Is Reining In Special Forces in Afghanistan
by Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Rod Nordland KABUL, Afghanistan — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal , the top American commander in Afghanistan, has brought most American Special Operations forces under his direct control for the first time, out of concern over continued civilian casualties and disorganization ...
- The Biggest Dump in the World
by Ed Cumming The world’s biggest rubbish dump keeps growing. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch – or the Pacific Trash Vortex – is a floating monument to our culture of waste, the final resting place of every forgotten carrier bag, every discarded bottle and every piece of packaging blown awa ...
- House Has Long History of Political Cowardice, Pro ...
by Ryan Grim Congressional Democrats have done a bit of homework and found, not so surprisingly, that the House has a long history of using parliamentary tactics to avoid tough votes. The lack of courage exhibited by today's members, it turns out, is nothing special. read more
- Documents Detail Law Enforcement Collection of Dat ...
by Marcia Hofmann EFF has posted documents shedding light on how law enforcement agencies use social networking sites to gather information in investigations. The records, obtained from the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Justice Criminal Division, are the first in a series of documents t ...
- LangLadder Aids Foreign Language Students with Rea ...
Firefox: LangLadder is a smart Firefox extension designed to aid you with your foreign-language studies, teaching you vocabulary and improving your reading skills. More��
- Keep Projects Manageable by Limiting Scope and Fea ...
It's easy to want your creations—whether software or new direction for your company—to do everything and be everything for everyone. Kill off features and refocus to reach completion faster. More »
- Get Your Caffeine Kick on the Cheap [Caffeine]
Coffee, tea, cola, energy drinks, and even pills, people love the energy and focus boosting properties of caffeine. If you're in it for kick and not for the love of a good latte, it's time to find the cheapest buzz possible. More�� ...
- Drinks That Don't Destroy Your Diet [Drinking]
Besides listening to The Pogues and wearing green, St. Patrick's Day revelers do a lot of something that's pretty rough on their nutrition ambitions. Want to enjoy without gorging? The Cheap Healthy Good blog has some reasonable draft and cock ...
- CutMP3.Net Extracts Audio From Files Entirely Onli ...
Need a quick ringtone or an isolated snippet of audio from a bigger file? CutMP3.Net does it with a file upload button, two sliders, and a "Cut" button, and does it all on the web. More��
- Paying not to quake in our boots
at Chinese defense spending trends.
- U.S., Allies Responsible for Most Marjah Civilian ...
By Derrick Crowe According to the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, U.S. and Allied forces have killed and injured more civilians than have the insurgents during Operation Moshtarak. Incredibly, the Pentagon continues to insist that this operation "protects the people." AIHRC's Feb. 23 pre ...
- One in Three Killed By Drones in Pakistan Is a Civ ...
By Derrick Crowe A new report from the New America Foundation states that one of every three people killed in the U.S.'s not-so-secret drone war in Pakistan is a civilian. The report also discloses that none of the strikes in 2009 targeted Bin Laden, and that they have had little impact on the Talib ...
- Reeling in the proxy rebels?
By Dave Anderson: I'm coming late to this party, but I want to highlight a couple of things. First, from Yorkshire Ranter from last week: Well, this is unusual; Londonstani confirms that the Pakistanis just arrested 50% of the Taliban high command, in so far as such a thing matters. Not only that, t ...
- US and Pakistan Heading For A Clash Over Terror Ai ...
By Steve Hynd Despite US analysis that has veared from optimistic to wildly over-optimistic, there's still a serious cloud over US/Pakistan relations in the form of reimbursement for Pakistani expenditure claims in pursuit of American objectives in the "War on Terror (tm)". Yesterday, Pakistani news ...
- Autoplaying ads: an apology
Hey, folks; I’ve had a few comments and emails from regular readers informing me that they were seeing ads on the site that were autoplaying video and audio, and which in some cases were hard or impossible to close down. I want to thank those of you who got in touch for doing so; Futurismic’s [...] ...
- Human skin as broadband data conduit
Forget broadband-over-power-lines or wi-fi; how cyberpunk would it be to transmit 10mbps of data through the human body itself? Very cyberpunk, fo’ sho’. The researchers placed two electrodes 12 inches apart on a subject’s skin and were able to clock data transmission rates of 10 megabits per seco ...
- Self-assembling silicon circuits
Photolithography is running up against its limitations, as logic circuits become so small that the wavelength of light itself is too large to mask the patterns accurately. MIT boffins reckon they have a solution, though: self-assembling semiconductor circuits [via NextBigFuture]. Berggren and Ross’ ...
- Welcome to the Dropout Economy
This one’s doing the rounds everywhere at the moment (I spotted it thanks to Chairman Bruce and John Robb), and with good reason: it’s a provocative piece, especially coming from Time Magazine. Welcome to the Favela Chic future, American style: Middle-class kids are taught from an early age that th ...
- Orbital Legislation 101
Via BoingBoing, The Guardian highlights a new module available to law students at Sunderland University on “law and the legal system beyond Earth’s atmosphere”: Topics already arising in the field include gaps in health and safety for potential space tourists, and damage to satellites from other obj ...
- Federal judge awards truck driver $153,870 plus re ...
Federal Administrative Law Judge Daniel Leland issued an order yesterday reinstating truck driver Cynthia Ferguson to her job with New Prime, Inc. He also awarded her $26,601 in back pay, $2,269 in compensation for her personal property, $50,000 in compensatory damages, and $75,000 in punitive damag ...
- NWLDEF to Host Training Seminar April 1, 2010
JOIN OUR LAWYERS & THE MEDIA TRAINING SEMINAR Thursday, April 1, 2010 12:00 - 2:00 pm EST Sponsored by the National Whistleblowers Legal Defense & Education Fund Lawyers & the Media: Strategies that Work and Pitfalls to Avoid in Whistleblower Cases Whistleblowers who come forward to exp ...
- truthout reports WPEA being "hotlined"
The independent journalism website, truthout.org, is reporting that the Senate is set to "hotline" the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), S. 372. Hotlining is a procedure in which the Senate leaders agree that a bill is uncontroversial and they put the measure on the Senate floor to c ...
- Blowing the Whistle on FBI Crime Lab Abuses
Another Reason FBI Whistleblower Protections Should Not Be Weakened The Washington Post and Associated Press are reporting that the Department of Justice failed to properly review more than 100 criminal cases that were prosecuted in the District of Columbia and which were suspected of being tai ...
- New Jersey Supreme Court poised to punish for purl ...
The New Jersey Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case where whistleblower Joyce Quinlan is asking for reinstatement of her $10 million jury verdict. An appellate court had vacated the verdict finding that Curtiss-Wright was justified in firing Quinlan for taking company documents for use ...
- New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...
- RNA interference found in budding yeasts
Some budding yeast species have the ability to silence genes using RNA interference (RNAi). Until now, most researchers thought that no budding yeasts possess the RNAi pathway because Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the protoypical model budding yeast does not.
- Study: Vaccination of 70 percent of US population ...
An aggressive vaccination program that first targets children and ultimately reaches 70 percent of the U.S. population would mitigate pandemic influenza H1N1 that is expected this fall, according to computer modeling and analysis of observational studies conducted by researchers at the Vaccine and I ...
- Physicists Demonstrate Three-Color Entanglement
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, physicists have demonstrated the quantum entanglement of three light beams, all of different wavelengths. Entanglement of two light beams of different wavelengths has already been demonstrated, but the researchers explain that going beyond two beams is important ...
- Heart of a galaxy emits gamma rays
(PhysOrg.com) -- Quite a few distant galaxies turn out to be cosmic delivery rooms. Large numbers of massive stars are born in the hearts of these starburst galaxies, and later explode as supernovae. In the remnants they leave behind, particles are accelerated to very high energies. Astrophysicists ...
- Disgruntled Ex-Auto Dealer Employee Hacks Computer ...
Ah, the fun of the electronic age. A few years back we started hearing about tools to remotely disable a car. These were talked about as a security system to recover stolen vehicles , but also as a device to put on leased cars, in case they need to be repossessed. Of course, once you put that tec ...
- Reporting On Someone Claiming An Opponent 'Lies' I ...
Reporter Amy Wallace wrote an article late last year for Wired Magazine about the extremely heated and somewhat controversial debate over child vaccinations . In the course of the article, she quotes people from both sides. At one point, when one of the main doctors who supports vaccinations discu ...
- Peeling The Layers Off 'Piracy'
We often see critics or industry folks make absolute statements like, "copyright infringement is stealing and it's bad." Of course, this is wrong for any number of reasons, but rather than jumping all the way to why such statements are obviously wrong and misleading, why not peel back that onion on ...
- UK's Times Online Starts Blocking Aggregators Hour ...
There's been something of a battle going on in the UK over news aggregators. Obviously, we've all heard about the various threats by companies like News Corp. in the US to sue Google over its Google News product, but a lot of this has already been playing out on a smaller scale in the UK. Last yea ...
- ACS:Law Keeps Sending Out More Threat Letters -- C ...
Just as Davenport Lyons lawyers are being sent for disciplinary action over the firm's practice of sending large numbers of "pay up or we sue" pre-settlement letters, ACS:Law, the shady firm that effectively spun out of Davenport Lyons to do the same thing is ramping up its efforts. This isn't a hu ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
Just making arrangements for next month’s anarchist book fair in New York. If any of you are going to be there, drop me an email (mel@broadsnark.com). Lots of people refer to Gandhi as a “philosophical anarchist.” Josh Fattal looks at the evidence. In Anarchist Out and Proud, welshboi contradict ...
- On Politics and Picking a Team
Politics are like team sports. You pick a team based on some random fact like an accident of birth or the personal charisma of one of the team players. Then, knowing little about the lives or beliefs of the people on your team, you put all your energy and quite a bit of your money into [...]
- Are Atheist “Evangelizers” Feminists?
I read an interesting letter by Jim Davidson that got me thinking (HT to @BradSpangler and Diana Culda). In a nutshell, the letter asserts that abortion is indeed homicide, but that it is justifiable homicide. I’ll let you read the letter and ponder his arguments on your own time. Because that ...
- Things You Might Have Missed
First off, I’ve started an anarchist meetup group in DC. If you are in the area, or know someone who is, check it out. Our first meetup will be on March 28th. Second, I must apologize to all the women who responded to my post about a women focused gathering. I wasn’t able to get a [...]
- Step One – Understanding
On Saturday night, I went to a friends birthday party. The party was at a club in Temple Hills, Maryland. Temple Hills is 85% African American. It took the bfriend and I three tries before we found a cab willing to take us there. (FYI – It is just outside DC and an easy 10 [...]
- 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 ...
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- 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 ...
- USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
- Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
- Farm to School Needs More Support
It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
- Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...
- USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...
- News From Mother Jones: The Future of Meat
Hi, TreeHuggers. Here's what's new over at Mother Jones ' Blue Marble blog: Meat Production Set To Double by 2050 : A new report offers insights into meat's environmental impact. A key finding: The livestock sector, including feed production and transport, is responsible for about 18 percent ...
- Where Have All the Flowers (Daffodils) Gone?
Image from Mail Online This is England, the parks and gardens and countryside are supposed to be filled with golden daffodils by now. This is why we live here. But where are they? With this year's never ending winter and the long cold spell just beginning to end, the flowers haven't bloome ...
- The Electric Bicycle World Tour and What The World ...
Guim Valls Teruel is travelling 5 continents on an electric bicycle to promote the use of cleaner energy and the non-reliance on fossil fuel worldwide. Currently in New Zealand, the Electric Bicycle World Tour has already clogged quite a lot of mileage so we decided to see how Guim's getting on ...
- Auto Alliance Says Hands Off EPA's Ability to Regu ...
photo via flickr In a surprising but welcome move, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers today sent a letter to House and Senate leadership stating its opposition to Sen. Lisa Murkowski's efforts to take away the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The EPA has the ability, kn ...
- Japan and China Help Defeat Shark Conservation Pro ...
Photo via rumpleteaser China, Japan, Russia and a handful of other countries are at the heart of a defeat of a proposal that would have benefited sharks by requiring increased transparency in the shark trade. Finning - the practice of cutting off just the fins of sharks and throwing the rest of ...
- Researchers develop dietary formula that maintains ...
Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process. “As we all eventually learn, ageing diminishes our mind, fades our perception of the world and compromises our physical capacity,” says David Rollo, associate professor of ...
- Chocolate lovers could be lowering their risk of s ...
Giving chocolates to your Valentine on February 14th may help lower their risk of stroke based on a preliminary study from researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital. The study, which is being presented at the American Academy of Neurology in April, also found that eating chocolate may lower the risk of ...
- Scientists synthesize unique family of anti-cancer ...
Yale University scientists have streamlined the process for synthesizing a family of compounds with the potential to kill cancer and other diseased cells, and have found that they represent a unique category of anti-cancer agents. Their discovery appears in this week’s online edition of theJournal o ...
- Mediterranean Diet May Prevent Stroke-Related Brai ...
Avoiding potentially dangerous silent strokes may be another health benefit of following a Mediterranean diet. A new study shows people who most closely followed a Mediterranean-style diet were 36% less likely to have areas of brain damage linked to silent strokes than those who least closely follow ...
- An Early Warning System for Cancer
A new screening tool developed by scientists in Denmark may help detect the earliest stages of cancer by taking advantage of the body’s own defenses. The researchers constructed a microarray system that analyzes patients’ blood for a specific class of immune agents called autoantibodies. These are a ...
- This Week In Tyranny
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The ACLU asked the president about his commitment to the rule of law. It probably cost more than $1000, but the lack of of a wingnut welfare shop’s imprimatur prevented it from getting any traction. Our image in the Muslim world wou ...
- History, Ben Smith Style
Smith : Barack Obama became president at some point before October 3rd, 2008 . And for some truly superb hackery, the “massive bank bailout” hyperlink in “Obama administration’s massive bank bailout” points to the site “illegal-url-1”. UPDATE: Smith has changed it to simply “massive bank bailout” a ...
- Strange Signals From Bair and Warren
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Two recent financial reform developments jumped out at me for the cognitive dissonance they caused. First, the Senate released a proposal to create a resolution authority for large financial firms. Yves Smith had previously dismiss ...
- This Week In Tyranny
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The neocons may finally gone too far ( via ). There seems to be an actual backlash building against this latest smear. It’s kind of funny to observe what counts as “over the line” in Washington. Right wing lunatics have been casua ...
- The Shocking Solution to Senate Obstructionism
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Induction :mathematical demonstration of the validity of a law concerning all the positive integers by proving that it holds for the integer 1 and that if it holds for an arbitrarily chosen positive integer k, it must hold for the in ...
- Diet and Exercise Beat Drugs for Diabetes Heart Ri ...
More than 1 in 10 American adults have diabetes. But the multibillion-dollar blockbuster drugs marketed as treatment for diabetes haven't proved to be so successful against the biggest cause of death related to it: heart disease. Four new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine ar ...
- Are You Getting the Right Type of Omega-3 Fats?
Fifty years ago, two Danish epidemiologists pondered why Greenland's native Inuit had a very low rate of heart attacks despite eating a high-fat diet full of whale and seal meat. They flew to Greenland and collected blood samples from 130 Inuit. Back in the lab, they found chemicals in the samples ...
- Impotence is a Strong Predictor of Heart Attacks
Impotence is a strong predictor of heart attack and death among high-risk patients, researchers have said. A study of more than 1,500 men who already had cardiovascular disease found those who were also impotent had twice the risk of a heart attack or death as the rest. Impotence is linked to inad ...
- Beware of the Agave Nectar Health Food Fraud
Many people interested in staying healthy have switched to agave as a safer “natural” sweetener. They want to avoid well documented dangerous sweeteners like HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) but are unaware that agave is actually WORSE than HFCS. So just what is agave? Blue agave is an exotic plant ...
- Modern Day Defense Fighting to Make Yourself Attac ...
In the video linked below, Harry Hurt III learns how to defend himself in a class on ki chuan do. Ki chuan do claims that it teaches how to react in real-world situations. The first rule of ki chuan do: try to avoid dangerous situations in the first place.
- On The Protection Of Hateful Speech -Westboro Bapt ...
A couple of days ago someone pointed out that I had two differing views on a topic in the same post. It came from my need to give some credence to the ideas that disagree with mine, but it is not the only time I find myself in conflict with myself. Take the situation with the incredibly vile and to ...
- In Zimbabwe, the Voice of the Worker
Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. Imagine being one of only five opposition voices in a country of thirteen million people, where all radio, print and television is strictly controlled by the government. That's Ben Madzimure’s uphill battle everyday as edito ...
- 1000 Words About Durban, South Africa
We spent a couple of days in Durban which is the third largest city in South Africa. We arrived exhausted from Maputo, Mozambique after a 24-hour bus ride on Intercape (gotta love when they breakdown for hours in the middle of the journey and you have to jump on a replacement bus seven hours later). ...
- Pelosi Under Pressure From Progressives on Public ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insists that the public option is dead, but progressive organizations are mounting an aggressive campaign to resurrect it as Democratic lawmakers gear up to pass a final health care bill this week via a budgetary process known as reconciliation. Democracy for America, Cred ...
- By the Standards of his Hero Nixon, is Rove a Trai ...
With Karl Rove arrogantly proclaiming not only that he did nothing wrong, but that he is very much on the correct side of history, it is interesting to look back and see how he would fare in accordance with the standards of his first political hero, Richard M. Nixon. As a young man growing up in Sal ...
- 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 ...
- Congress Proposes to Take Over Negotiations of U.S ...
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I am not a huge fan of restrictive and protectionist trade policy, but I can’t offer any serious legal quarrel with the recently proposed Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment Act by the growing anti-trade bloc in the U.S. Congress.  As Lori Wallach ...
- Bluefin Tuna, Polar Bears, and Elephants at the Pa ...
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Sure there is some dispute about settlements in East Jerusalem, or something, but here are some international law disputes that really matter. At CoP15, or the 15th Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species - currently goin ...
- What were these “Secret Pacts” with Japan?
by Duncan Hollis Yesterday, the Japanese Government (now led by the Democratic Party after nearly five-plus decades of rule by the Liberal Democratic Party) confirmed that in the 1960s Japan and the United States entered into a series of secret defense pacts. Specifically, a committee of scholars ...
- Shocker: UN Special Rapporteurs Oppose Military Co ...
by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’m not exactly surprised to read this: United Nations human rights investigators called on the Obama administration on Tuesday to prosecute the accused September 11 masterminds in a civilian court, declaring that U.S. military tribunals would not be fair. The White Hous ...
- Harold Koh Speaks to ABA Committee
by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Given our past discussions about State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh on this list, I thought I’d pass along word of an upcoming event some might find of interest. My colleagues at the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and Natio ...
- Arizona Bucks Trend of Fewer State Prison Inmates
Arizona Bucks Trend of Fewer State Prison Inmates Phoenix, AZ – For the first time since 1972, the number of state prison inmates in the U.S. has gone down, according to a new report from the Pew Center on the States. But Arizona’s inmate population continues to rise. Comments from Adam Gelb, Pew’s ...
- Center Offers Families Break from 24-7 Care of Lif ...
Center Offers Families Break from 24-7 Care of Life-Threatened Kids Phoenix, AZ – Families caring full-time for a child diagnosed with a life-threatening condition will be able to get a needed break when Ryan House opens later this month in central Phoenix. The facility will focus on making kids com ...
- Lawmaker: Single People Deserve Equal Chance to Ad ...
Lawmaker: Single People Deserve Equal Chance to Adopt Phoenix, AZ – A bill giving adoption priority to married couples has passed the Arizona House and awaits a hearing in the Senate. One lawmaker rejects the idea that a mom and dad are always the ideal situation for an adopted child. Comments from ...
- Program Promises Lower Energy Bills for Low-Income ...
Program Promises Lower Energy Bills for Low-Income Arizonans Phoenix, AZ – Arizona is getting 57-million dollars in federal stimulus money to weatherize more than six-thousand low-income Arizona households. Those families stand to save up to 25-percent each year on heating and cooling. Comments from ...
- Time Out Called to Protect Abused Arizona Creek
Time Out Called to Protect Abused Arizona Creek Prescott, AZ – Since being restored to a free-flowing stream five years ago, central Arizona’s Fossil Creek has become a recreation magnet, attracting not only people, but also trash and vandalism. New regulations taking effect today (Monday) are the ...
- Islam Online goes offline
The abrupt takeover of Islam Online, the Muslim world's most widely read news and information website, speaks volumes about the inability of conservative power brokers to adapt to modernity ( try 'suppress' jf )broader perspectives, and critical analysis Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cultur ...
- Unsung Hero of World War II: Hiram Bingham IV
An American Vice-Consul stationed in Marseille, France in 1940,Hiram Bingham IV defied U.S. policy and issued false life-saving visas for thousands of Jews fleeing the Nazis.Washington lost patience with him and shuffled him off to Buenos Aires, Argentina Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Cultu ...
- It's Now Official: I'm A Victim Of Anti-Science Ha ...
I'm a cellular biologist working on further understanding the intracellular signals which regulate cell survival and death in intestinal/colon epithelial cells. ( Budget cuts deny the prof funds : fewer awards ) Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- End Cruel Farm Animal Confinement Nationwide ! TAK ...
Farm animal welfare is of increasing concern to members of the public, including myself, and my friends, family and neighbors. We have been happy to see laws passed in several states to eliminate the cruel confinement of farm animals. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
- Recipe for Kindness Does exposure to nature make u ...
Want to be a better person? Connect with nature. Psychologist Richard Ryan and his colleagues at the University of Rochester have found that paying attention to the natural world makes people nicer. Submitted by Pam W. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
- Riga battle remembrance march sparks Nazi controve ...
guardian.co.uk: Around 1,000 people took part in a flower-laying ceremony in Riga today to remember fallen comrades on what is the most-contested date in the Baltic political calendar, as hundreds... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Biden: You Don't Have to be Jewish to be a Zionist
Post submitted by IIN UK Correspondent Cem Ertur:--Israel National News: "U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden on Tuesday laid a wreath at the tomb of Theodor Herzl. He is the first world leader to do so,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Malerba introduced as Mohegan Tribe's 17th chief
Submitted via reader Chimène C. from theday.com:-- Lynn Malerba, the current Mohegan Tribal Council Chair, gets hugs from her daughters Angela, left, and Elizabeth after a press conference officially... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- Asia ‘leading world out of slump’
akiranews.com: BBC News Asia 'leading world out of slump' BBC News Leaders have gathered in Singapore for the annual meeting of the 21 nations that make up the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- China growth forecast raised to 9.5% by World Bank
BBC News: "The World Bank has raised its 2010 economic growth forecast for China to 9.5% from 9%.It said consumption by both businesses and households would grow strongly, even though government... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
- US troops can hold Afghan detainees for 14 days in ...
Longer detention 'an option' A controversial policy that gives U.S. forces in Afghanistan four days to question detainees is being changed to give soldiers more time to interrogate the captives, Gen. David Petraeus said Tuesday. Petraeus told the Senate Armed Services Committee that American tr ...
- Afghanistan confirms blanket pardon for war crimes
Afghanistan confirmed for the first time publicly on Tuesday that it had enacted into law a blanket pardon for war crimes and human rights abuse carried out before 2001 . Human rights groups have expressed dismay that the law appeared to have been enacted quietly, granting blanket immunity to m ...
- US officials make contradictory remarks on bin Lad ...
Only a day after a top Obama administration official described the chances of capturing al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] leader Osama bin Laden alive as "infinitesimal", the top US commander in Afghanistan says the military still wants to capture him alive. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday ...
- Tehran aiding al Qaeda links, Petraeus says
Iran is assisting 'al Qaeda' by facilitating links between senior terrorist leaders and affiliate groups, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East told Congress on Tuesday. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Central Command, also said Iran's nuclear program is facing prob ...
- UK premier admits misleading Iraq war inquiry
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown admitted on Wednesday that he provided false information to the Iraq Inquiry during his recent testimony. When addressing the question of adequate funding for the UK armed forces for their invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, Brown had told the Inquiry on Marc ...
- Katrina to Birthright to Gaza–a young Jew ...
Morgan Elzey is a young restaurateur and activist in LA. Weiss met him at JFK last December en route to Gaza and Elzey told him about his progress. Convinced that Palestinian solidarity offers young idealistic Jews a way to be engaged in world problems, in a great Jewish tradition, Weiss urged Elz ...
- Winds of change took 25 years
Gilad Isaacs, an NYU student who grew up in South Africa, spoke at NYU two weeks ago at an Israeli Apartheid Week event. Lately he posted a version of his speech. In these excerpts, he recovers some interesting history: On the 3rd of February 1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan gave a sp ...
- NPR’s Robert Siegel opens a door I want to g ...
Why is Martin Indyk saving Americans, and Netanyahu, too, from Netanyahu’s brother-in-law’s statement that Obama is "anti-semitic"? On NPR tonight, Indyk was interviewed by Robert Siegel, and described Netanyahu’s "chevra – the people he lives with–" as hardline Zionist rightwing ideologues. For ins ...
- TNR says it’s Obama who’s endangering ...
Sober Yossi Klein Halevi (a favorite of Isabel Kershner’s in the New York Times) writing in the New Republic about the new blood libel, the idea that Israel’s brutal occupation is in any way, shape, fashion or form, endangering American security: The administration, according to a report in the I ...
- Switcheroo at Khalil Gibran school prompts call fo ...
Communities in Support of the Khalil Gibran International Academy responds to the news that the current principal of the Arab-language public school, Holly Anne Reichert, is stepping down to make way for a principal at another public school to take over the job: Beshir Abdelatiff. What is the Dep ...
- VRM: Media Spin & Swine Flu Hysteria
“Canada’s vaccine uses an adjuvant, which consists of squalene (shark liver oil), DL-alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) and polysorbate 80 (an emulsifier also used in ice cream). An adjuvant is a chemical product that boosts the immune response. There were claims that squalene, used in the anthrax vac ...
- Petition: Parents of Vaccine Damaged Children say ...
A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-de ...
- Petition: Doctors & Nurses Say NO To Mandatory Vac ...
A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determ ...
- VRM: Photo Gallery
‘We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determination. Any attempted violation of this trust must be construed a ...
- VRM: Your Testimonials On Vaccine Carnage – ...
Vaccine Damage Updates: An opportunity to contribute your testimonials from around the world: Charting Physiological & Neurological reactions, including all related trauma to the H1N1 shot & other vaccines. Charting miscarriages resulting from vaccines – Pregnant women are at a heightened risk o ...
- A Reader Asks How to Pay Off Student Loans
A� Next Best West reader posted this in the comments which I think deserves a post of it's own as a reply: "I borrowed 12,250 for my college education to become a Registered Nurse. I took out these loans in the early 90s and after three deferments and consolidation I owe 30,000. I want to go ...
- The Ladies Will Be On the Family Preparedness Guid ...
Last Saturday American Prepper , WVSanta , Matt and Bob were interviewed on James Stevens' Family Preparedness Guide radio show on Blog Talk Radio. They did a great job explaining the ins and outs of prepping and why we do it. Kudos guys!!! If you missed the show, you can download it here . This Sa ...
- Riverwalker's Back!!!
It's like the best teaming up since Lewis & Clark!!! Riverwalker & the CPN!!! Riverwalker, usually found "staying above the water line" over at Stealth Survival , is coming to Canada and bringing lots of holiday gifts!!! Stay tuned for more details!!!
- Riverwalker/Stealth Survival Holiday Give-a-way!
Check out this post at the CPN for a message from Riverwalker of Stealth Survival for a great holiday give-a-away! Make sure to leave a comment and you could be the winner of a fireplace accessory of your choice!!!
- The Do 1 Thing Program
If you haven't already checked out Scarecrow's posts at the Ontario Preppers Network (OPN) - you really should! Scarecrow has some of the best Canadian-specific, prepping information available on the net!!! Below are links to Scarecrow's latest masterpiece - his summary of The Do 1 Thing Program wh ...
- Man Dogs
Kandahar, Afghanistan 15 March 2010 In David Galula’s 1964 book, Counterinsurgency Warfare, THEORY AND PRACTICE , he states: “The ideal situation for the insurgent would be a large, land-locked country, shaped like a blunt-tipped star, with jungle-covered mountains along the borders and scattere ...
- Army to Army
American Colonel Writes to Spanish Colonel 15 March 2010 Kandahar, Afghanistan Responding to a document first published here on 08 March, U.S. Army Colonel Robert J. Ulses writes to Spanish Army Colonel Jesus De Miguel Sebastian. The letter from Colonel Ulses contradicts the previous memo by a U. ...
- Moon Over Kandahar
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- Colonel (R) Robert L. Howard
24 Feburary 2010 From: Mellinger, Jeffrey J CSM MIL USA Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Today, at Arlington National Cemetery, we lay to rest COL(R) Robert L. Howard. The link for the interview is at the end of this email. Read a bit about Howard at one of these links: The Robert ...
- The Bridge
Shah Wali Kot, Afghanistan 11 March 2009 The military axiom that “amateurs talk strategy while professionals talk logistics” has special meaning in Afghanistan. During the Soviet war, though the Bear comprised Afghanistan’s entire northern border, the Afghan resistance was frequently able to bloc ...
- News From Mother Jones: The Future of Meat
Hi, TreeHuggers. Here's what's new over at Mother Jones ' Blue Marble blog: Meat Production Set To Double by 2050 : A new report offers insights into meat's environmental impact. A key finding: The livestock sector, including feed production and transport, is responsible for about 18 percent ...
- Where Have All the Flowers (Daffodils) Gone?
Image from Mail Online This is England, the parks and gardens and countryside are supposed to be filled with golden daffodils by now. This is why we live here. But where are they? With this year's never ending winter and the long cold spell just beginning to end, the flowers haven't bloome ...
- The Electric Bicycle World Tour and What The World ...
Guim Valls Teruel is travelling 5 continents on an electric bicycle to promote the use of cleaner energy and the non-reliance on fossil fuel worldwide. Currently in New Zealand, the Electric Bicycle World Tour has already clogged quite a lot of mileage so we decided to see how Guim's getting on ...
- Auto Alliance Says Hands Off EPA's Ability to Regu ...
photo via flickr In a surprising but welcome move, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers today sent a letter to House and Senate leadership stating its opposition to Sen. Lisa Murkowski's efforts to take away the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The EPA has the ability, kn ...
- Japan and China Help Defeat Shark Conservation Pro ...
Photo via rumpleteaser China, Japan, Russia and a handful of other countries are at the heart of a defeat of a proposal that would have benefited sharks by requiring increased transparency in the shark trade. Finning - the practice of cutting off just the fins of sharks and throwing the rest of ...
- Rights group urges Cuba to revoke laws restricting ...
[JURIST] Human rights group Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] on Wednesday urged [press release] Cuban authorities to "revoke laws that restrict freedom of expression, assembly and association and to release all dissidents unfairly detained by the authorities." AI called on President R ...
- Iraq ruling coalition alleges fraud in parliamenta ...
[JURIST] The State of Law Coalition led by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki [official website, in Arabic] on Wednesday asked the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) [official website] to recount ballots cast in the March 7 parliamentary election [JURIST news archive], alleging fraud. St ...
- Serbia police arrest 9 suspected of Kosovo war cri ...
[JURIST] Spokesperson for Serbia's Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor [official website] Bruno Vekaric Saturday announced the arrest of nine individuals suspected of committing war crimes during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. The nine, members of the Serbian para ...
- US, Russia leaders look ahead to new nuclear arms ...
[JURIST] In a telephone conversation Saturday, US President Barack Obama and Russia President Dmitry Medvedev [official profiles] approved [press release, in Russian] of progress towards the first nuclear weapons reduction treaty since 1991. Wrapping up talks on the treaty to replace the recently ex ...
- Italy court refuses to restore Berlusconi coalitio ...
[JURIST] Italy’s highest administrative court, the State Council [official website, in Italian], announced Saturday that it would not restore a candidate list from the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive]. The candidate list for the region of Lazio ...
- Karl Rove, Overexposed
Karl Rove's book is out on Tuesday, and although it is still acceptable to call it "long-awaited," I would venture to say that it is probably quite a bit less "long-awaited" than it was a year ago. That's because, since he's left the White House, Rove has turned from a mysterious Machiavelli, one of ...
- Sunday Snapshot: Do the Dems Dance Together?
Sometimes, the spin gets it: The Republicans are correct to point to this comment by Rep. Jason Altmire , Democrat of Pennsylvania, who said of his colleagues in the Senate:� They have " given us a lot of reason not to trust them.� Certainly that's a key component of the dynamic of getting the vote ...
- Keeping Coke out of Kids' Tummies -- It's Sort of ...
With President Clinton standing at its side, the American Beverage Association announced today that it has successfully reduced the calories consumed by kids, per day, at school, from their members' carbonated drinks. ( Read the report here .) Or, rather, that kids may have consumed 88% fewer soda-r ...
- A Coffee Party Candidate for Republicans
When Stu Rothenberg, political prognosticator extraordinaire, finds that his latest candidate interview is the most " refreshing and unusual " of his 20 year career, that ought to make even the harshest cynics of the politics game sit up and take notice. Rothenberg is referring to a construction com ...
- Has the White House Surrendered on Terror Trials?
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