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Thomas Paine

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

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • LATIN AMERICA: Women Peacekeepers Have a Vital Rol ...
    In June 2009, Chilean army captain Andrea Fuentes travelled to the city of Cap-Haïtien, in north Haiti, to serve for six months in her country's contingent in the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH).
  • COLOMBIA: Voices of Women Peace Activists Silenced
    "When we women speak out, without showing fear, we pay a high price: living with that fear," says one peace activist in Colombia. "The threats will not stop us from working for peace and social justice," says another.
  • BURMA: Ahead of Poll, Junta Faces Off with A Famil ...
    As military-ruled Burma heads towards its first general election in two decades in November, its citizens are tuning in to their enduring faith in the old communication order – the power of the radio.
  • RIGHTS-CHINA: Jury Still Out On Fewer Crimes Punis ...
    China's top legislative body is considering scrapping the death penalty for 13 non-violent crimes, including tax evasion, tomb raiding and animal smuggling. But the impact these changes will have on the total number of prisoners the country puts to death is uncertain.
  • EGYPT: Gag Tightens on Media Ahead of Elections
    Media watchdogs see the "invisible hand" of the ruling party behind a string of firings and resignations that have removed some of Egypt's most prominent government critics from their soapboxes just weeks before parliamentary elections.

Scoop - NZ

  • Fonterra Environmental Policy
    A search for "fonterra environmental policy" reveals an interesting result. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Bernard Hickey: Why we must abandon the economic o ...
    I feel like a priest who has been wrestling with his belief in god and has now decided god does not exist. It's time for me to recant and to say what I've been thinking for months: the economic god of completely free markets and capital flows is not worth believing in anymore and we must look for o ...
  • Fonterra New Zealand
    "What nature creates, Fonterra exploits to bring the taint of industrial dairying to every corner of the world. Driving productivity at any cost is our life's work." ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Scott Horton Interviews Chris Floyd of Empire Burl ...
    Chris Floyd ...discusses the addition of neocon Frederick Kagan to the U.S. anti-corruption team in Afghanistan, the minimal proof needed to convince the MSM that the "surge" in Iraq or Afghanistan worked, the opportunity to really win hearts and minds by helping Pakistani flood victims ( ...
  • Fraud Factories: How Banks Profit From The Foreclo ...
    US Congressman Alan Grayson talks about the fraudulent home foreclosures being carried out by the US Banks. Even Mortgage free homeowners are being fraudulently foreclosed on. There is one set of rules for the banks and another set of laws for everyone else. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • Limbaugh Says Obama Looks Demonic
    The ever-quotable Rush Limbaugh has fired a new zinger, this time at President Barack Obama.
  • US wants to ease telecom wiretapping: report
    An Obama administration taskforce is seeking to overhaul a federal law requiring telephone and broadband carriers to ensure their networks can be wiretapped, The New York Times reported Tuesday (link) .
  • Pakistani ISI Involved In Mumbai Terror Attacks
    Pakistan 's powerful intelligence services were heavily involved in preparations for the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 2008, according to classified Indian government documents obtained by the Guardian.
  • New Tax Man: Wall Street Banks And Hedge Funds
    Nearly a dozen major banks and hedge funds, anticipating quick profits from homeowners who fall behind on property taxes, are quietly plowing hundreds of millions of dollars into businesses that collect the debts, tack on escalating fees and threaten to foreclose on the homes of those who fail t ...
  • Wall Street Is the New Tax Collector? Governments ...
    Wall Street titans have found a new way to screw over the poor and middle class -- as surrogate tax collectors.

Innovation Canada

  • Sheer treasure
    Katherine Soucie gives hope to misfits. Like other eccentric adolescents, she discovered that being different can be an asset in adulthood, especially for an artist. Today, the Vancouver-based textile and garment designer collaborates with world-renowned designers, showcases her diaphanous garments ...
  • Clean Green Electric Machine
    A small Jeep-like truck that runs entirely on an electric battery may soon offer a cleaner alternative to the diesel vehicles currently used to transport people and tools deep into Canada’s mines.The four-passenger vehicle, which can hold up to 225 kilograms of cargo, was recently developed with the ...
  • A whale of a mystery
    What’s the next thing a graduate student should do after his master’s thesis solves a biochemical mystery that has befuddled zoologists for generations? This is a problem that 28-year-old Lawrence Szewciw recently faced after he and his professors at the University of Guelph determined the physiolog ...
  • Illuminating bones
    David Cooper wants to know more about your bones. Specifically, the assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology at the University of Saskatchewan is trying to answer a chicken-and-egg question about osteoporosis: do changes in the density of cells within bones cause the disease, or does the dise ...
  • Tools of the mind
    The first time neuroscientist Adele Diamond walked into a New Jersey classroom where teachers were using the Tools of the Mind curriculum, she was struck by the quiet self-control of the children. Most regular preschool and kindergarten classrooms are chaotic, noisy places, but in the Tools of the M ...

Signs of the times

  • Farmville Developer Zynga Sued
    Class-action lawsuit filed against the game developer for deliberate sharing of user information The advent of targeted advertising, the toast of interactive media, has rendered data regarding age, sex, location and other habits and preferences of users a highly coveted commodity. With everybody an ...
  • Lectins and Auto Immune Disease
    What are lectins? Lectins are proteins that adhere to components of a plant's immune system. Lectins are natural plant guardians that help fight molds, parasites and disease agents. Most of these invaders have a sugar molecule component. The lectin attaches to this and this compound blocks the forei ...
  • Complex societies rise and fall sequentially
    This means that societies developed in incremental steps: small family groups would have developed into tribes, then chiefdoms, then more complex chiefdoms, and so on, until finally reaching the complex societies most of us live in today. Until now, many anthropologists making do with incomplete ar ...
  • NASA advisory council recommends establishment of ...
    Washington - NASA should establish a Planetary Defense Coordination Office to lead efforts should the Earth be threatened by asteroids and comets, a U.S. report says. The report, by the Ad-Hoc Task Force on Planetary Defense of the NASA Advisory Council, offers suggestions on how the agency should ...
  • Fighting the Limb Harvesters
    Journalist Vicky Ntetema exposed witch doctors who harvest albinos' body parts for good-luck potions snapped up by Tanzania's wealthy. Roja Heydarpour on the intrepid work that won her and three others Courage Awards. Two teenage girls lay still in their beds last year and listened to the swift, ef ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Policy Pretzel?
    I wonder if there is any veracity to this report : Canadian officials are being tight-lipped over claims a suspect in the killing of a Hamas leader in Dubai earlier this year has been arrested in Canada. Lt.-Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, the Dubai police chief, told broadcaster Al-Arabiya that Canada ...
  • University of Winnipeg hypocrisy
    Erin Larson: Go you good thing! A valedictory address that criticized the University of Winnipeg for bestowing an honorary degree on Manitoba Conservative MP Vic Toews has caused ripples in the community. .. "I'm extremely honoured to be selected as the valedictorian [but] I have to admit I'm ...
  • Halifax school officials with dents in their heads
    CBC : The parents of an eight-year-old Halifax boy who say he has been relentlessly bullied want him to be transferred to another school, but officials say that isn't necessary. Connor Eisenhauer, a Grade 3 student at Rockingstone Heights School in Spryfield, has been the victim of bullies at le ...
  • Traffic tie-up . . .
    JALOPNIK has a nice overall coverage of the recent border closure by Pakistan, stopping military supplies bound for Afghanistan, with an article, "How Pakistan Disrupts Our Fight Against The Taliban" . As the picture indicates, FUBAR reigns supreme.
  • Pearson and the air force officer
    You meet the most interesting people in airports. London MP Glen Pearson found that out and relates a conversation he had with an air force officer. “Look, of course we want what’s supposedly the best out there ; we wouldn’t be a good military if we didn’t.� But I’m not convinced that with the h ...

Media Matters for America

  • I Want the Facts: Ray Griggs' I Want Your Mon ...
    In his documentary� I Want Your Money, � filmmaker Ray Griggs employs an all-star cast of right-wing misinformation propagators who fill the film with long-parroted and thoroughly debunked�conservative myths about U.S. economic history and President Obama's economic policies. Griggs falsely c ...
  • Not net neutral: News Corp. blocked website access ...
    As part of its dispute with Cablevision over fees for carrying News Corp. channels on Cablevision systems, News Corp. briefly blocked Cablevision's Internet customers from accessing content on News Corp.-owned websites, including Fox content on Hulu.com. This action mirrors its Fox News employees' ...
  • "Party on!" Fox relentlessly promotes Tea Party E ...
    Despite Rupert Murdoch's statement that he doesn't think Fox "should be supporting the tea party," Fox News and Fox Business have relentlessly promoted the Tea Party Express in recent days, devoting numerous segments to the launch of its latest tour as well as hosting its chairman for softball ...
  • Beck smears Soros for holding position economists ...
    In his latest conspiracy theory, Glenn Beck claimed that George Soros supports a devalued dollar for the sole purpose of "betting against America" for personal profit. In fact, many economists -- including Nobel laureate Paul Krugman -- have said that a weakened dollar can p ...
  • Fox's Nazi fetish: Beck, O'Reilly, others repeated ...
    Led by Glenn Beck -- who was once condemned by the Anti-Defamation League for saying Al Gore used "the same tactic" as Adolf Hitler -- Fox News personalities have frequently invoked Nazi Germany in their political commentary, often comparing progressives to Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, and the Nazi "br ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Rare Earth Materials and China: Housing Bubble Den ...
    It seems the main qualification for being a top economic policy maker is being wrong about economic policy. It certainly is the only trait that this group has had in common over the last three decades. The latest big item in their proliferation of errors is their failure to take economic security ...
  • The Perfect Storm
    It's a perfect storm. And I'm not talking about the impending dangers facing Democrats. I'm talking about the dangers facing our democracy. First, income in America is now more concentrated in fewer hands than it's been in 80 years. Almost a quarter of total income generated in the United States ...
  • The Feds New Bubble (Masquerading As A Jobs Progra ...
    The latest jobs bill coming out of Washington isn't really a bill at all. It's the Fed's attempt to keep long-term interest rates low by pumping even more money into the economy ("quantitative easing" in Fed-speak). The idea is to buy up lots of Treasury bills and other long-term debt to reduce l ...
  • Conspiracism American Style: The Daniel Levy Deba ...
    Anyone who has spent considerable time in the Arab Middle East will soon run into the fact that conspiracy theories are part of the currency of communication and social networking. During my trips to the region, I have been dumbfounded and really shocked by some of the stories that are spun about A ...
  • The Liar Lien Crisis
    The foreclosure paperwork crisis puts the tragedy of modern American democracy in full living color. Politicians are being cruelly torn between the concerns of the people who will vote in the election next month and the bankers who pay for their campaigns. The basic story is simple. The bankers ...

TruthOut

  • News in Brief: Alleged Anti-Gay Assaults in New Yo ...
    Alleged Anti-Gay Assaults in New York City Classified as Hate Crimes read more
  • France: Support for the Protest Movement Is Still ...
    Far from being on the ebb, social anger against the French government’s pensions reform grows stronger every day. The IFOP poll we publish today shows that 57% of French people want discussions to start fresh over “another pensions reform project”. Only 16% simply want the bill to be withdrawn, proo ...
  • Stephen Pitt | Dow Up, Liberty Down
    Click the image to view larger version. Sharron Angle, Joe Miller and Christine McDonnell: Dow Up, Liberty Down
  • A Robin Hood Tax to Pay for the Wars
    Two weeks until Election Day, and no one is talking about the wars, The New York Times reports . (Of course, that's not quite true: as the Washington Post reports , for example, this former Army Green Beret is running for Congress in Missouri on a platform of ending the war in Afghanistan.) Unsurpr ...
  • The Power of Figures and Ideas
    As the divorce between Sarkozy and the majority of the French people is turning into a war, it is now clear that decisive progress has been made since the day when the government first made public the details of its plan for pensions reform and the raising of the retiring age from 60 to 62. Within a ...

Planetsave

  • Much of the Globe Threatened with Drought
    A large percentage of heavily populated countries could suffer severe and prolonged drought in coming decades, according to a new study which analysed 22 computer climate models and a mass of information concerning current drought conditions worldwide. The study, conducted by National Center for Atm ...
  • Best Way to Improve Indoor Air Quality
    I recently had the chance to interview Dr. Mark Sneller, an expert on the topic of indoor air quality (IAQ) and author of the new book Greener, Cleaner Indoor Air: A Guide to Healthier Living (Wheatmark, 2010). He gave me such in-depth answers on this critical topic that I decided I’d publish them i ...
  • Going Green Tip #8: Get a Home Energy Audit
    Going Green Tip #7 comes from Reggie Norris, Executive Vice President & General Counsel for Clean Energy Experts. Clean Energy Experts is a firm dedicated to accelerating the adoption of cost-effective energy saving products and technologies through education and awareness. A home energy audit is a ...
  • Republican Energy Plan (cartoon)
    Same old same old from the right side of the aisle. As Treehugger columnist, Brian Merchant recently shared, “they are the only major political party of any democracy in the world that gets away with denying climate science.” Scary. More on the ever-tan Mr. Boehner: John Boehner on the Issues (scrol ...
  • Temperature on Earth Controlled by Carbon Dioxide
    We know that water vapour and clouds are major contributors to Earth’s greenhouse effect, providing the feedback mechanisms to power the warming that keeps us from another ice age. A new study however has shown that it is carbon dioxide – which only accounts for 20 percent of the greenhouse effect, ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • The Loss of a Jazz Warrior -- Abbey Lincoln, 1930- ...
    Editor's note: The lyrics for "Driva'Man and some words given up for Abbey below the video.  - lmb     Abbey Lincoln : "Driva'Man" and "Protest" Driva’ man Driva’ man he made a life Git to work and root that stump Driv ...
  • Solar Roadways: The Prototype - Science & Technol ...
    Solar Roadways: The Prototype The Solar Roadways project is working to pave roads with solar panels that you can drive on. Co-founder Scott Brusaw has made some major steps forward since a first visit back in 2007, so he was visited again earlier this year for an exclusive update on...
  • "Angela" Davis, by John & Yoko/ Plastic Ono Band ...
    Lyrics..."Angela" Album: Sometime In New York City Angela, they put you in prison, Angela, they shot down your man. Angela, youre one of the millions Of political prisoners in the world. Sister, theres a wind that never dies, Sister, we ...
  • Angela Davis on the Prison Abolishment Movement, F ...
    Angela Davis on the Prison Abolishment Movement, Frederick Douglass, the 40th Anniversary of Her Arrest and President Obama’s First Two Years For over four decades, Angela Davis has been one of most influential activists and intellectuals in the United States. An icon of the 1970s black lib ...
  • The Psychopaths Are Trembling - Global Empire
    Playwright and poet Harold Pinter, in his Nobel prize acceptance speech on 7 December 2005, at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, made an unforgettable speech, fiercely condemning the Bush/Blair attack on Iraq and, in general, U.S. arrogance and lawlessness, saying “The invasion of Iraq was a band ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    An example we should follow, not attempt to compensate for. "Harrier jump jets, the Navy's flagship HMS Ark Royal and planned Nimrod spy planes are to be axed and 42,000 MoD and armed forces jobs cut by 2015. Unveiling the strategic defence review, PM David Cameron said defence spending would fall b ...
  • O'Donnell On The First Amendment: This Says A Lot
    I had anticipated that once all these Tea Party candidates for Congress start having to open their mouths and wing it during campaigns, they would be revealed as the rank amateurs they are. As plastic and grubby as professional politicians can be sometimes, politics is a profession better left to pr ...
  • Fighters Win
    Uh, no. Democrat Jack Conway's aggressive television ad raising questions about opponent Rand Paul's religious faith could hurt Conway more than it helps him at a crucial time in the U.S. Senate race, political observers said Monday. Yep, that's exactly the kind of don't-upset-the-bullies advice th ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    What U.S. protesters need is the power to shut down fuel supplies. That'll get their attention. "About 1,500 petrol stations in France have run dry or are about to close as fuel supplies are hit by strikes over government pension reforms, officials say. A blockade of oil refineries has lasted a week ...
  • Repugs: If It Works, Kill It
    Steven Benen questions the recent wingnut enthusiasm for privatizing the VA: I'm not sure why the right decided to launch this anti-VA nonsense, but so long as conservatives are pushing this line, it's worth setting the record straight. Why privatizie one of the most successful departments in the f ...

Care 2

  • ACTION ALERT: Strong Recovery Plan for the Ocelot ...
    Let the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service know that you support a strong recovery plan for the endangered Ocelot. Note: This alert is open to International E-activists. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Racist Extremist Tancredo Surges in Colorado Gover ...
    This was the guy who, at the Tea Party Nation convention in Memphis earlier this year, advocated a return to literacy tests for voter registration, a practice that was used and abused for decades in the South to keep African-Americans from the voting bo Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to US Politics & G ...
  • Predators of the TIGER TRAIL
    In a historic judgment a Delhi court awarded six years imprisonment - the maximum term mandated by the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act - to notorious wildlife trader Sansar Chand, also known as the Veerappan of north India. The case dates back to 1995 Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it ...
  • SCOTLAND: Seabird colonies devastated after diffi ...
    Some of Scotlands most important seabird colonies were devastated by this years miserable summer, the RSPB has warned. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • TAKE ACTION! Keep oil and gas companies out of Ve ...
    Tell the BLM to uphold its decision to protect Vermillion Basin from oil and gas development. This gem in the northwest corner of Colorado provides habitat for many wildlife species, unparalleled recreational opportunities and irreplaceable historical art Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment ...

Smirking Chimp

  • Cut the "enthusiasm gap" crap!
    Here's what Republicans have done "for" America: 1. Resisted minimum wage and living wage proposals, thereby guaranteeing that our poverty rate would reach record levels. 2. Exported our jobs overseas, leaving only dust, rust, and the whistling wind in former factory towns from coast to coast. 3. Fo ...
  • Obama Team: "We Don't Need No Stinkin' Messages"
    "Agreed, we have an insular White House that fails Messaging 101," commented a close friend, "but where are examples of good messages that frame positive, progressive moral politics." Admirable challenge to all us ungrateful "professional leftists" addicted only to complaining. Readers, pipe up, thr ...
  • Another Monday, another week of the rich fucking t ...
    Hotel workers in Chicago, Hawaii, and San Francisco are staging strikes and walk-outs to protest what they call “cheap recession contracts.” Basically, union leaders say Hilton is exploiting workers even though the company received huge taxpayer-provided bailouts. Hilton is owned by Blackstone Group ...
  • Neo-cons Make Last Ditch Effort to Inject Israel I ...
    With unemployment still high, the economy not yielding relief for most Americans, health care reform not yet providing supportive numbers for the Dems, and the Democratic Party on the defensive, it would seem like a Republican slam dunk in the mid-term elections. Nevertheless, GOP supporters and str ...
  • Report Shows Drones Strikes Based on Scant Evidenc ...
    WASHINGTON, Oct 18, 2010 (IPS) - New information on the Central Intelligence Agency's campaign of drone strikes in northwest Pakistan directly contradicts the image the Barack Obama administration and the CIA have sought to establish in the news media of a programme based on highly accurate targetin ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • CIA Autopsy of an Intelligence Failure
    Leon Panetta sent around a memo today warning CIA employees not to say anything about the soon to be released news reports on the intelligence failure at the Khost base in Afghanistan, which killed seven CIA employees. Of course, that applied to everyone but Leon. He assembled the press corps this ...
  • The Races Get Hotter * Open Thread
    Patty and Dino’s Washington State Senate Race Is Getting Hotter, Hotter, Hotter ⦠Obama Gets Slammed by Blowback from Business Community ⦠Surprise, Surprise! Joe Sestak Is Now Ahead of GOP Opponent in Pennsylvania (and it’s in part due to the negative effect of Christine O’Donnell nationwide — ...
  • This is Progressive Intelligence?
    Here’s the basic theme–if you are conservative you are backwards, stupid and parochial. Conversely, if you are a “PROGRESSIVE” or “LIBERAL” you are smart, edgy, cosmopolitan and uber intellectual. Got it? So you can understand the hooting and hollering on the lefty side of the blogosphere and twee ...
  • Struggle
      Unusual hesitation by Amy Walter, ABC News Political Director, who remarked that Barbara Boxer was showing weakness with a one point lead in California against the scrambling and resolute Carly Fiorina. Boxer is outmaneuvered but she is not out-financed, and she is using her cash to pour d ...
  • Don Jerry
    � Bill Clinton, bone-thin and bone-tired on the campaign trail, is a man for all seasons, and he campaigns relentlessly from Philadelphia to Little Rock to Morgantown to Los Angles for the Democratic State machines the Clintons will need again in the event of a surprising development at the ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • Paper Sculptures that Look Like Metal and Stone
    Shawn Agosta's amazing recycled paper sculptures seem to pull emotions out of the viewers that they weren't aware were within them. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Paranormal Activity: The Bizarre Pseudoscience of ...
    They're weird, creepy and bizarre: not the ghosts themselves, but the people who claim to hunt them. But what, if any, is the science behind ghost hunting? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Could the Gliese 581 Star System be Home to Alien ...
    Are we so along in the universe - or could there be other planets like Earth that could support life? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • After the Global Population Bomb
    Soylent Green was a movie of the 1973 depicting a bleak and overcrowded world. How far off base was it? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Is Oregano the Answer to Methane Gas Pollution?
    Greenhouse gas has unusual sources, like termites and rice paddies. Cows are the worst culprits for producing methane gas. New research has shown an innovative solution. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the arti ...

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Cointelpro Gothic: Docs prove Iowa FBI's Wild Rose ...
    By Dan Feidt for Twin Cities Indymedia - More than 300 newly released pages of Iowa FBI investigation files confirm the existence of a busy network of federal agents across the Midwest dedicated to clamping down on political dissenters. A Freedom of Information Act request by Des Moines' David ...
  • Avalanche of fed & local police state crackdown ac ...
    Stressful day in Minneapolis as feds raided antiwar activists with no actual charges in the offing. The day before the raids I checked out a weird police intelligence workgroup at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and with other threads coming together it was pretty freaky. But I managed to slap ...
  • Turkish Neocon Conspiracy 1981 - Eagleburger Perle ...
    This is a pretty classic one. Turkey has suddenly passed big reforms as the nasty NATO-friendly military post-coup power structure gets knocked back a step. Ergenekon and the neocon network, etc etc. Perle and Wolfowitz, the creation of the American-Turkish Council came after this memo. Possibly b ...
  • Video: Lawsuit Zombies fight state repression with ...
    Video release of sorts from the Minneapolis zombies, and a fun edit. 1min40s, brevity! Plz subscribe to Youtube & now Scribd document service as well. If you haven't yet, check out Scribd for a marvelous array of all sorts of documents (PDFs, office, etc)...w00pw00p. Press release: Zomb ...
  • California rolls out heat cannon torture weapon Ac ...
    Oh Shit!!! Let's explain how the mass torture weapon deployment rollout program works in the global scientific dictatorship. First the weapons are used on brown people in the field by the military, then on military prisoners, then on domestic prisoners. Then on protesters, then on random people. Thi ...

Daily Censored

  • Legend of the Fall: Snapshots of What’s Wrong in t ...
    Bill Maher presents viewers of his HBO series, Real Time, with a mix of satire and serious considerations of topics and ideas often ignored in our wider public discourse. During his 15 October 2010 episode—with panelists John Legend, Markos Moulitsas, Dana Loesch, and Dan Neil—Maher shifted the disc ...
  • Podcast: understanding US economic crimes, obvious ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Dr. James Fetzer interviewed me on his radio show and podcast, The Real Deal, in discussion of the central problems and solutions of the US economic crisis. The interview is here.  Dr. Fetzer has published more than 100 articles and reviews, and is author to 20 book ...
  • The Rise of the Tea Partiers: A Long Time in Comin ...
    As is always the case during any time of crisis, a far-right, populist movement is developing in the United States. It calls itself the Tea Party, after the famous Boston Tea Party of 1773 – a protest of colonial settlers against British colonialism. Cultural and Political Traditions The cultural an ...
  • CENSORED IN 1994: THERE’S A LOT OF MONEY TO BE MAD ...
    CENSORED IN 1994: THERE’S A LOT OF MONEY TO BE MADE IN POVERTY Want to know what is the hottest new profit center for big blue-chip corporations like ITT, General Motors, American Express, and others? The acceptable term is “fringe banking,” the less acceptable, but more accurate, term is “loan shar ...
  • The Revenge of the Body Snatchers
    It reminds me of “The Body Snatchers.”   They sneak around and infiltrate the government so they can take over the country while no one is looking.  They tell you that there is no difference, so necessary to the deadly infection of apathy they are trying to spread.  They turn the people they have co ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

  • What Obama can Learn from W.
    Obama needs to put his heart on his sleeve to regain the approval of voters.
  • Not-So-Magical Realism
    The printed word, as historians and archivists and lawyers will tell you, can be very powerful indeed.
  • UN Panel to be a Dangerous Disappointment
    How much money is on the table to combat climate change, where it comes from and how it flows will be at the heart of global climate negotiations at the end of this year in Cancun.
  • The Lineup: Week of October 18-24, 2010
    Andrew Korfhage calls on Congress to get chocolate companies to stop using suppliers that rely on enslaved child labor while Jim Hightower explains that Afghanistan remains the world's biggest producer of poppies--the main ingredient in heroin.
  • Nuclear Testing and the Rise of Thyroid Cancers
    Drinking nuclear waste-contaminated milk most likely contributed to hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens developing thyroid cancer.

Equality Trust

  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details ...
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  • VAT rise would hit the poorest
    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
  • Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
    Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector . But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?

PDA AMERICA

  • GRIT TV: Ari Berman and Karen Finney: How the Dem ...
    Well as the Tea Partiers continue to prove they may be more than just a passing trend – at least in the fast-approaching midterms – we ask, where did the Democrats go so wrong in ...
  • In the souls of the people
    ‘In the Souls of the People’ By Michael Moore, Michael Moore’s Blogs 16 October 10   This is video of Michael Moore’s acceptance speech, given at San Jose State University, of the John Steinbeck Award. Mike’s talking revolution here. ...
  • Why a peaceful, people’s revolution is the only wa ...
    Why a peaceful, people’s revolution is the only way to take back our government By Carmen Yarrusso In God-blessed America, the land of the free, our founding fathers’ sacred idea of a government “of the people, by ...
  • The only thing to fear is …
    A Republican House and Senate It’s like we’ve stepped right through the looking glass. With the election of Barack Obama and majorities in both the House and Senate just two years ago, voters gave a powerful ...
  • Benjamin Jealous: One Nation, Moving Forward
    The One Nation rally this past weekend was intended to offer an alternative to anger and hate, to give progressives a way to come together to organize around the issue most pressing to nearly all ...

Marler Blog

  • Wright County and Hillandale Eggs Sicken 1,813 wit ...
    In July 2010, CDC identified a nationwide sustained increase in the number of Salmonella Enteritidis isolates with PFGE pattern JEGX01.0004 uploaded to PulseNet, the national subtyping network made up of state and local public health laboratories and federal food regulatory laboratories that perform ...
  • FDA Authorizes Hillandale Farms to Begin Shipping ...
    And, the guy who took the fifth gets to keep shipping eggs?  The FDA is releasing a letter sent to Hillandale Farms of Hampton, Iowa, dated October 15, 2010. Hillandale Farms is one of two companies that recalled eggs in August 2010. This letter authorizes Hillandale Farms to ship eggs to the tabl ...
  • FDA Sends Warning Letter to "Quality Egg"
    Quality Egg still does not seem to get it. According to Bloomberg News, Quality Egg LLC, the producer tied to a salmonella recall, may face U.S. enforcement action unless it fixes health violations at its facilities, regulators said. Conditions that may cause salmonella weren’t addressed when regu ...
  • Minnesota and Wisconsin, States seemingly awash in ...
    I am heading to Wisconsin via Minnesota in the morning and it got me thinking just how much of my law practice (specifically E. coli and Salmonella cases) over the years has centered on these two states in the upper midwest. E. coli AFG / Supervalu E. coli Outbreak - Minnesota Cargill E. coli O ...
  • Good deeds, but also good marketing
    Food Safety News and the Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database turned a year old a few weeks ago. Like most of the things I do in life, both of them began out of an attempt to do good deeds that fortuitously also became good marketing. What do I mean by that? Let me give you a peek into my philoso ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.20.10
    Amp Electric Vehicles leads plug-in conversion pack with Equinox EV Just who is the start-up company working with on the next SUV? For your consideration: EPA's E15 label Warning! Warning! Wa ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.19.10
    Chevy Volt tagline: "More Car Than Electric" How's that sound? Video: NEVs lookout, Onya Cycles' Front End Loader is the new electric grocery getter in town It's quirky and fun, if that's wh ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.18.10
    LA Auto Show preview: Wheego Whip LiFe electric car to hit the stage Who thinks it's worth $32,995? Report: Hyundai eyes small-scale production, retail sales of fuel cell vehicle by 2012 Mor ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.15.10
    Tesla CEO: Optimizing vehicle design for electric powertrains will give us better EVs No one's done it yet, says Musk. Hyundai Sonata Hybrid will qualify for $1,300 tax credit It's a limited ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 10.14.10
    Video: Okay, maybe the Chevrolet Volt is a hybrid But only by definition. MI Senator "thinks out loud" about eliminating CAFE in favor of a bolder clean vehicle mandate Levin makes a bold cal ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable: The Social Network
    Against the odds, the movie about the founding of Facebook, 'The Social Network,' is nearly universally admired. It got a 97% on the TomatoMeter at Rotten Tomatoes, and is considered a strong candidate for the Oscars. But is it accurate? Not just on the facts, but on the spirit and ethos of en ...
  • Xmarks CEO: Knight-in-shining-armor rescue likely
    The company isn't going to make it, but the popular browser sync tool is likely to live on.
  • Reporters' Roundtable: The Internet vs. Hollywood
    Today: The movie and TV industries vs the Internet! Who will win -- Studios, internet companies, consumers, manufacturers, or some combination? The entire entertainment industry is, of course, in the middle of shedding its skin. The old ways of distributing and charging for entertainment conten ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: How game mechanics are infe ...
    Today we're talking about game mechanics. Check-in apps like Foursquare use philosophies of game design to pull users deeper into engaging with them. The success of this concept has begun to infect other technologies, from consumer Web services to business applications. Software and services are ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: Deciphering Apple's develop ...
    On September 9, Apple rewrote its rulebooks for developers . In its revised developers agreement , it reversed a ruling that blocked developers from using all but a very few programming languages for iPhone apps. And it also made public for the first time the guidelines it uses for deciding if ap ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • BREAKING: Pentagon instructing recruiters to accep ...
    In a victory for gay rights advocates, the Pentagon is instructing military recruiters to accept the applications of gay men and lesbians who wish to join the military. See all of our coverage of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell here
  • Part II..."Slavoj Zizek: Far Right and Anti-Immigr ...
    Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. He is author of dozens of books; his latest one from Verso Books is called Living in the End Times . This is Part II of this conversation. Watch Part I here. AMY GOODMAN: In these economically stressed times, h ...
  • John le Carré: Calling Out the Traitors
    John le Carré, the former British spy turned spy novelist, has some grave words for Tony Blair. More than seven years after the invasion of Iraq, the former British prime minister, now out of office and touring the world pushing his political memoir, is encountering serious protests at his book sig ...
  • From Tuskegee to Guatemala Via Nuremberg
    News broke last week that the U.S. government purposefully exposed hundreds of men in Guatemala to syphilis in ghoulish medical experiments conducted during the late 1940s. As soon as the story got out, President Barack Obama phoned President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala to apologize. Colom called the ...
  • Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's John King USA
    Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman to appear on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, October 1 at 7pm ET.

Farming Pathogens

  • How Mayor Bloomberg Causes Obesity
    Yeah the doctors don’t know, but New York was killing me / Bunch of doctors coming round, they don’t know / That New York is killing me / Yeah I need to go home and take it slow in Jackson, Tennessee -Gil Scott-Heron On October 6 Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked the United States Department of [...]
  • Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter
    You can now follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Farming Pa ...
  • The Axis of Viral
    The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We might accept that viruses and bacteria at best instantiate the coincidental nature of such an alliance. The success of one bug might pave the way for another. But we’d be hard pressed to imagine that theyâd whittle the syllogism to a sharper point and activel ...
  • Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook
    Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, and the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized
  • Imperial Storm Scientists
    The Red Army Faction was a communist guerilla group operating 1970-1998 in, of all places, West Germany. The RAF engaged in a variety of operations in the 1970s, including assassinations and bombings, primarily around the German government’s material support of the U.S. war in Vietnam. As depicted i ...

Suzie-Q

  • AZ-03: Shocking Democratic Pickup Opportunity
    Daily Kos- by kos Mon Oct 18, 2010 at 11:20:03 AM PDT Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos. 10/16-17. Likely voters. MoE 3.8% (No trend lines) Ben Quayle (R) 44 Jon Hulburd (D) 46 Yeah, that was a real WTF moment for us in this open seat being vacated by conservative icon John Shadegg. Completely [.. ...
  • The Revolution Will Be Televised: Comedy Central T ...
    The Revolution Will Be Televised: Comedy Central To Air, Stream D.C. Rallies (VIDEO) Jason Linkins- Huff Post First Posted: 10-13-10 11:31 AM   |   Updated: 10-13-10 12:23 PM On last night’s “Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart announced that the upcoming Rally To Restore Sanity would be televised, ...
  • CREW: 26 SITTING LAWMAKERS CORRUPTING THE HALLS OF ...
    Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Contact:  Garrett Russo // 13 Oct 2010 // Washington, D.C. - Corrupt lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are polluting the United States Capitol.  These members highlight the need for increased oversight by the Office of Congressional Et ...
  • Rush Limbaugh says there will never be equality be ...
    Rush Limbaugh says there will never be equality because:”some people are just born to be slaves” Crooks & Liars- By John Amato October 09, 2010 07:00 AM How dare you say there’s racism in the Teabircher movement? I’m so offended by that notion. Isn’t what Rush Limbaugh just soooooo true? LIMBAUGH: T ...
  • Glenn Beck Mocks Fire Victims, Reaches New Depths ...
    I’ve probably written and rewritten this opening paragraph about Glenn Beck and his morning zoo sycophantic sidekick Pat Gray four or five times with various sequences of compound obscenities and ad hominem insults. But I’m opting for more restraint at this point, even though neither of these jackal ...

Solari

  • ‘No Groping Me and No Naked Photos’
    By Michael Roberts My name is Michael Roberts, and I am a pilot for ExpressJet Airlines, Inc., based in Houston (that is, I still am for the time being). This morning as I attempted to pass through the security line for my commute to work I was denied access to the secured area of the terminal [... ...
  • Banks Load Up on Government Securities
    Continue reading the article . . .
  • FX Wars Escalate: Brazil Cancels Participation In ...
    Zerohedge - Tyler Durden (18 Oct 10) The latest currency war escalation does not come from any of the usual suspects (the Fed-PBoC-BOJ-ECB-SNB hate pentagongram) but from non-axis player Brazil. And it’s a doozy - the country’s top economic officials have decided to cancel their trip to Seoul in wh ...
  • Wall Street Pay: A Record $144 Billion
    By Liz Rappaport, Aaron Lucchetti and Stephen Grocer Continue reading the article . . . [Note from CAF: Keeping individual compensation at high levels is one of the benefits of Wall Street protecting individuals from most civil and all criminal liability for ongoing frauds and assuming civil fines ...
  • Father of Fractal Geometry Passes
    Benoit Mandelbrot 20 November 1924  14 October 2010 Born in Poland, he moved to France with his family when he was a child. Mandelbrot spent much of his life living and working in the United States, acquiring dual French and American citizenship Mandelbrot was most famously known for his work in e ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
  • 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��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign , challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project .
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become obsol ...

Fabius Maximus

  • About our operations in Kandahar – all that& ...
    Summary:  After trying so many tactics in Afghanistan, including search and destroy sweeps, we’re back to that Vietnam era:  clear and hold.  A fog of vivid language disguises this from the American people.  We rely on Afghanistan security forces to hold what they cannot clear. Although the curr ...
  • Kuber-Ross gives us a good perspective on the evol ...
    Summary:  What stage is the Af-Pak War in our minds?  As it did during the Iraq War, Kuber-Ross stages of stages of dying provides perspective. In November 2006 an analysis on this website described America as moving through five of the stages of dying into bargaining with respect to its expedit ...
  • A situation report about two headine issues &#8211 ...
    Summary:  Economic and political conditions have slowly evolved since the major nations began massive stimulus programs in early 2009.  Now the pace may be accelerating.  This post briefly looks at three major issues in the US (more coming later).  As usual on the FM website, this states analysis an ...
  • Looking into the past for guidance about warnings ...
    Summary:  As we tremble in fear at the forecasts of climate apocalypse in 2030, let’s not forget the horrific forecasts made in the past.  Such as this made in 1989 for conditions in 2010. “Stormy weather“, Suzy Hansen, Salon, 23 October 2001 — “Floods, droughts, hurricanes and disease outbreaks — ...
  • More about the forecast for flooded cities in the  ...
    Summary:  Much of the efforts to fan climate hysteria rely on false descriptions of current climate science, most especially on the assertion of a consensus that does not exist.  The articles on the FM website puncture this simply and surely by showing a diversity of opinion expressed in presigious  ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • The New Tax Man: Big Banks And Hedge Funds
    Huffington Post – Nearly a dozen major banks and hedge funds, anticipating quick profits from homeowners who fall behind on property taxes, are quietly plowing hundreds of millions of dollars into businesses that collect the debts, tack on escalating fees and threaten to foreclose on the homes of th ...
  • French President Orders Lifting of Fuel Depot Bloc ...
    New York Times – Faced with widespread protests over his plans to reform the pension system, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday that he had ordered the authorities to end blockades of fuel depots that have left a third of the countryâs gas stations dry. In a statement seemingly designed t ...
  • Longer-lasting options to treat drug addiction
    AP — New treatments for addiction to heroin or narcotic painkillers promise longer-lasting relief that may remove some day-to-day uncertainty of care: A once-a-month shot is now approved and a six-month implant is in the final testing phase. The main treatment options have long been once-a-day medi ...
  • Diagnostic Techniques Help Inflammatory Bowel Dise ...
    ScienceDaily â At the American College of Gastroenterology’s (ACG) 75th Annual Scientific meeting in San Antonio, Texas, several studies of the effectiveness of non?X?ray techniques to evaluate Crohn’s disease revealed that diagnostic strategies such as capsule endoscopy (CE) and magnetic resonanc ...
  • Pakistan temporarily suspends 125 lawmakers
    Daily Telegraph – A Pakistani watchdog said on Tuesday it had suspended 125 lawmakers, including three cabinet ministers, for failing to submit details of their assets. “According to our official data 125 members of the national and four provincial assemblies cease to function now,” Afzal Khan, a sp ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • Ashamed to be an Amerikkkan?
  • MSH moving
    MSH moving (Leading Light Communist Organization llco.org) Over the next month, MSH will be moving over to the website of the Leading Light Communist Organization (llco.org), which is currently under construction. Eventually, this blog will be shut down. Thank you, MSH Editors
  • Trzy twierdze
    Trzy twierdze -Michał Rakulski (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) „W przeszłości przejęliśmy władzę polityczną i zmieniliśmy strukturę środków produkcji. To są dwa wielkie zwycięstwa. Jednakże jeśli ograniczymy się do tych dwóch zwycięstw, a nie dokonamy rewolucji w ideologii oraz nie doprowadzimy rewolucj ...
  • Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści – jesteście nacjona ...
    Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści – jesteście nacjonalistami (Leading Light Communist Organization llco.org) “Drodzy trzecioświatowi maoiści, Wasza pozycja jest bardzo interesująca. Wasz blog jest nacjonalistyczny, co ukrywacie pod socjalistyczną retoryką. Linia mas nie jest substytutem rewolucyjnego p ...
  • Next Korean Monarch Groomed
    Next Korean Monarch Groomed (llco.org) Last week, Kim Jong-un made his first appearance in front of the world’s media. Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of the current “dear leader” Kim Jong-il, is expected to succeed his father. His public “coming out,” days before the celebration of the 65th anniversa ...

PakAlert

  • Video: The Gold Dinar and The Future of Money
    Abū Bakr ibn Abi Maryam reported that he heard the Messenger of Allah say: "A time is certainly coming over mankind in which there will be nothing (left) that will be of use (or benefit) save a Dinār (i.e., a gold coin) and a Dirham (i.e., a silver coin). [This prophecy clearly anticipates the event ...
  • Pakistani Military Wins Gold Medal For Toughness
    At an event organized by the British Army for world militaries to compete in toughness, with 750 soldiers participating from worldwide, Pakistani soldiers bagged the Gold Medal for being the toughest soldiers capable of patrolling in the most difficult conditions.
  • Cancer ‘is purely man-made’ say scientists
    Cancer is a man-made disease fuelled by the excesses of modern life, a study of ancient remains has found. Tumours were rare until recent times when pollution and poor diet became issues, the review of mummies, fossils and classical literature found. A greater understanding of its origins could lead ...
  • Steve Quayle: America Heading Towards Total Chaos ...
    Appearing for the full 4 hours, author and researcher Steve Quayle discussed the precarious world economic situation, escalating tensions, and covert warfare, as well as how supernatural events & prophecies from the Bible are being played out. According to one of his sources, we're seeing "the syste ...
  • Global Economic Crisis: Towards a Worldwide Proces ...
    In this issue, our team introduces the annual "country risk" update in the light of the crisis. Based on an analysis incorporating eleven criteria this year, this decision-making tool has already demonstrated its relevance in faithfully anticipating developments over these past twelve months. The id ...

Andy Worthington

  • “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week: Day Five – Hum ...
    In the five years that I have spent researching Guantánamo and writing about it, my aims have been simple: to close Guantánamo (with the remaining 174 prisoners either released or put forward for federal court trials), to make sure no experimental prison like Guantánamo is ever allowed to exist agai ...
  • Video: “The Giant John Yoo Debate” at “Berkeley Sa ...
    Just up on YouTube (and posted below) are three edits of “The Giant John Yoo Debate,” which took place last Tuesday as part of “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week. This excellent piece of political theater involved a group of legal experts and activists, introduced by Stephanie Tang of the World Can’ ...
  • Former Guantánamo Prisoner David Hicks Describes H ...
    As publicity for the newly-published memoir, Guantánamo: My Journey by the Australian David Hicks, who was held at Guantánamo from January 2002 until April 2007, when he was repatriated after accepting a plea deal at his trial by Military Commission, Hicks’ publishers have released three excerpts fr ...
  • “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week: Day Four – The ...
    Last Wednesday, on Day Four of âBerkeley Says No to Tortureâ Week — the largest gathering of anti-torture experts and activists since the Bush administrationâs âWar on Terrorâ began over nine years ago — one of the obstacles to attracting support for a mass movement against the crimes and ...
  • Video: Andy Worthington and Justine Sharrock at “B ...
    As part of “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week (the largest gathering of anti-torture experts and activists since the Bush administration began its “War on Terror” over nine years ago), I was delighted to join Justine Sharrock, journalist and author of Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things, at R ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • For those who argued against Catholic Parishioners ...
    to the Catholic Church... Is it more than just political donations and actions that the church is trying to hide? A Roman Catholic priest in Connecticut has been arrested on charges he stole $1.3 million in church money over seven years to use for male escorts, expensive clothing, and luxury hotel ...
  • rope-a-what?
    Wow, our chattering class sure loves horse races, doesn't it? Even when there's not a pony in sight. Guess what? Richard Blumenthal remains ahead of Linda McMahon! By about the same, comfortable but not Delaware-style oh-my-god-we-can't-possibly-pull-the-lever-for-the-crazy-lady-wide margin as he ...
  • primary colors
    Primary season is finally over in CT. (Only 82 more days until the November elections!) The New Milford results are in. And while there's nothing particularly surprising about how the town voted, I am shocked at the low turnout. According to the tallies at the Danbury News-Times: 1497 registered R ...
  • "Does Probate = Masterb-te," or "Are We Getting Je ...
    What's the deal with this primary for Probate Judge? Have you ever seen such energy put into an election campaign (Oops - I mean other than this spring's budget referendum)? Why are New Milford Republicans putting so much energy behind Judge Marty? Who stands to lose here - probate should be pretty ...
  • salary salads
    Here’s some interesting news about salaries, concessions, and taxes. New Milford teachers and the Board of Ed have peacefully renegotiated teacher contracts for the 2011-2012 year. http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/New-Milford-teachers-agree-to-no-pay-increases-676941.php http://www.ne ...

SPL Center

  • Veterans Against Jihad Takes on ‘Threat’ of Sharia ...
    The latest fairy tale to emerge from the paranoid right is the idea that the United States legal system is haunted by the specter of Sharia law. Although strict Islamic legal codes are the rare exception even among Muslim-majority nations, anti-Muslim groups and individuals â including well-known ...
  • Homophobic Megachurch Pastor Accused of Exploiting ...
    If the allegations in two lawsuits filed Tuesday in Georgiaâs DeKalb County are true, staunchly anti-gay megachurch leader Bishop Eddie L. Long told two teenage boys that, according to Holy Scripture, it was cool for them to have sex with him. Maurice Robinson, 20, and Anthony Flagg, 21, have ac ...
  • Lying About Auschwitz: The Barnes Review on the Na ...
    You probably thought you knew a thing or two about Auschwitz: It was a nightmarish Nazi extermination camp in Poland where more than 1 million people were murdered, most of them gassed to death with Zyklon-B and then cremated. Dr. Josef Mengele performed horrible medical experiments on live humans t ...
  • Feds Charge Alleged Accomplice in 1998 Skinhead Mu ...
    On July 4, 1998, two women invited anti-racist skinhead pals, Lin âSpitâ Newborn, 25, and Dan Shersty, 21, to a late-night party in the desert outside of Las Vegas. But there was no party: Newborn and Shersty were shot to death in what police and prosecutors called a planned execution by the lea ...
  • Antigovernment Texan Allegedly Shoots Deputies
    A reclusive West Odessa, Texas, man with ties to an antigovernment group allegedly shot and wounded two Ector County sheriffâs deputies and a private citizen on Friday during a 22-hour long standoff at his home. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), the shooter, Victor Dewayne ...

change: org.

  • 2009 Worst Year Ever for Refugees
    Refugees have a hard time making the evening news without the mesmerizing beauty of a Hollywood superstar like Angelina Jolie propelling the TV cameras toward them, but the latest stats should be enough to open some eyes on their own. According to United Nations refugee chief Antonio Guterres, 2009 ...
  • 14-Year-Old Girl Raped in Bathroom After Being Use ...
    I'm feeling some kind of déjà vu here: haven't I used this headline like this before? Oh right: " Teen Raped After Being Used by School as 'Bait .'" Nope, it's not the same teenager. It's not the same school. But the same act of idiocy and disregard for the well-being of female students? Yep, there' ...
  • Sea Ice Melts, Polar Bears Sink...and Alaska Sues ...
    Fact: Two-thirds of polar bears will likely be dead by 2050 if their Arctic sea-ice habitat keeps melting at expected rates. So, is the great white bear endangered? Or is it merely "threatened"—as the Bush administration declared in 2008? Or is it just completely fine, as the state of Alaska, Big O ...
  • AOL News Airs Flawed Research About Children of LG ...
    AOL News on October 17 ran an article by Paul Kix titled, " Study: Gay Parents More Likely to Have Gay Kids ." It reports on the research of Walter Schumm, a professor of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University. The problem is, there is little validity to any of Schumm's claims ...
  • Where Are All the Young, Hot Farmers?
    It seems like scientists, non-profits, and even students consistently receive government grant money. Small farmers, however, rarely see Uncle Sam reach into his wallet and hand them a fat wad of dough. That discrepancy could be poised to change through a relatively new program from the U.S. Departm ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Rachel Corrie Case: Israeli Soldier to Testify Ano ...
    by Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem The Israeli soldier at the controls of a bulldozer that crushed to death 23-year-old Rachel Corrie in Gaza in March 2003 is due to give evidence tomorrow in the civil lawsuit brought by the American activist's family. However the judge hearing the case in Haifa has ...
  • Canada-US Pipeline on Hold Amid Oil's Recent Woes
    by James MacPherson and Josh Funk Bismarck, N.D. - The steel is staged, and crews are waiting to lay the last and most expensive leg of TransCanada Corp.'s multibillion-dollar pipeline network that would carry Canadian oil to refineries along the Gulf Coast. Yet final U.S. government approval for th ...
  • Merkel Says German Multi-Cultural Society Has Fail ...
    BERLIN - Germany's attempt to create a multi-cultural society has failed completely, Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the weekend, calling on the country's immigrants to learn German and adopt Christian values. Merkel weighed in for the first time in a blistering debate sparked by a central bank boa ...
  • 'Key Time' to Solve Nature Crisis ‎
    by Richard Black Species are going extinct at 100-1,000 times the natural rate, key habitat is disappearing, and ever more water and land is being used to support people. Some economists say this is already damaging human prosperity. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting will discuss ...
  • Independent Groups Set Record Pace for Outside Spe ...
    by Evan Mackinder Ideological groups, business associations and unions have set a record pace for outside spending in a midterm election cycle, according to a fresh analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics .As of today, these independent groups combined have spent  more than $167 million on in ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • H20 debate to boil at World Water Congress
    A call to end the privatization of municipal water is expected to spill onto the streets Monday outside the World Water Congress in Montreal.
  • Privatization Not Answer to Water Crisis, Says WPN
    MANILA, Philippines – Advocacy group Water for the People Network (WPN) Friday said that contrary to the claim of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), allowing profit-oriented private corporations to take over the management and distribution of water resources will not address the water crisis. The (WP ...
  • Commission explores privatization of Alcova cabin ...
    The lack of water and a need for upgraded sewer facilities were two major concerns brought to the Natrona County Commissioners in a meeting last week over the proposed privatization of the 100 cabin sites at Alcova Reservoir.
  • Commission explores privatization of Alcova cabin ...
    The lack of water and a need for upgraded sewer facilities were two major concerns brought to the Natrona County Commissioners in a meeting last week over the proposed privatization of the 100 cabin sites at Alcova Reservoir.
  • Water bottle ban complete, contract not yet finali ...
    By: Fernando Sioson The ban on the sale of single-use plastic water bottles on campus is official. But the contract re-negotiation between Aquafina, the Pepsi Corporation and Seattle University is far from over. ...

Guardian

  • British aid worker freed in Somalia
    Frans Barnard, who was working for Save the Children, is said to be on his way to a 'place of safety' A British aid worker abducted by masked gunmen in Somalia is said to be "on his way to a place of safety" six days after his ordeal began. Frans Barnard, who was working for Save the Children, was a ...
  • Courts to rule on prenup agreements
    Test case sees Nicolas Granatino pushing for prenuptial agreement signed in Germany in 1998 to be overruled A landmark divorce case could today change the face of British divorce law, with prenuptial agreements finally considered to be legally-binding in England and Wales if the Supreme Court rules ...
  • BA staff to vote on deal to end strikes
    Sources say Unite to put proposal to British Airways union members which could end year-long row over cost cutting British Airways cabin crew are to vote on a proposed deal aimed at ending their long-running industrial dispute, it was revealed today. Sources told the Press Association that union lea ...
  • French protests continue
    After more than 1 million people took to the streets yesterday to protest at Nicolas Sarkozy's pension reforms, rolling strikes continue today, causing widespread disruption to schools and transport and adding to a growing fuel crisis. Follow live updates 9.36am: There's been more tough talking from ...
  • British soldier killed in Afghanistan
    Serviceman from 33 Engineer Regiment died yesterday morning after being caught in an explosion in Helmand province A soldier has died while clearing explosive devices in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said today. The serviceman, from 33 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance), died yesterday mo ...

McClatchey

  • Bank of America CEO resists investors' cries on bu ...
    Addressing the latest hot-button issue in the nation�s housing crisis, Bank of America chief executive Brian Moynihan on Tuesday pledged to resist investors who want banks to buy back potentially defective mortgage loans.
  • U.S. soldier held in probe of Taliban detainee's d ...
    KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. military detained an American soldier and launched a criminal investigation Tuesday after Afghan President Hamid Karzai publicly accused U.S. forces of shooting and killing a Taliban leader in his southern Afghanistan jail cell.
  • Israelis, Palestinians agree not to embarrass Obam ...
    JERUSALEM — The Obama administration has secured pledges from senior Mideast leaders to continue their fitful peace negotiations until after next month's U.S. midterm elections, largely to avoid handing the Obama administration an embarrassing diplomatic setback before the Nov. 2 elections.
  • Former California congressman Gary Condit could te ...
    WASHINGTON — Former California congressman Gary Condit would draw an avid crowd at Chandra Levy's murder trial, but his testimonial weight is uncertain.
  • Poll: Sen. Murray has 1-point lead in Washington s ...
    WASHINGTON — With two weeks to go, the Washington state U.S. Senate race is a virtual dead heat, with Democratic Sen. Patty Murray holding a 1-point lead, 48-47 percent, over Republican challenger Dino Rossi among likely voters, according to a McClatchy-Marist poll released Tuesday.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Marine protection: The legal route
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan: The oceans may cover three-quarters of the world's surface, but they make a tiny contribution towards the total extent of area that governments have put under protection in order to promote conservation. Despite a number of int ...
  • Solving nature loss: Child's play?
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan: "The children are the future," says Homer Simpson in a favourite quote from the TV series. "We've got to stop them now..." � At the opening ceremony here , there was lots of talk of children being the future. The caveat wa ...
  • Folding the hopes of thousands
    From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya, Japan: Everywhere in Nagoya, there is origami. Arriving at the airport, I was presented with an origami crane; more of them adorn my hotel room. Origami cranes symbolise hopes for agreement on protecting the real thing At the co ...
  • Climate ship trims sails but keeps captain
    IPCC plenary meeting , Busan: So: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came to South Korea with Rajendra Pachauri in charge, and it leaves with Rajendra Pachauri in charge. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC�Webwise for full ...
  • Climate body seeks new wardrobe
    IPCC plenary meeting in Busan: The future of the world's climate science authority is being decided behind the glass and steel facade of a modern conference centre in South Korea's second city. The BEXCO centre 's principal event this week is the Busan International Footwear and Textile Fashion Sho ...

The Wonk Room

  • Judge Denies Administration Request To Put Injunct ...
    Earlier tonight, California District Court Judge Virginia Phillips officially rejected the government’s request to stay her injunction against enforcing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, arguing that the defendants “have not shown” “a likelihood they will suffer irreparable harm.” Phillips had issued her injun ...
  • Is The ACA To Blame For Boeing Shifting Health Cos ...
    Boeing is now walking back claims that it’s changing its health care plan in response to the Affordable Care Act, telling reporters that it was considering altering its plans before reform became law. Late last week, the company had written a letter to employees blaming “the newly enacted health car ...
  • Republican Spending Plan Would Cut Billions From P ...
    A cornerstone of the House Republican pitch on economic policy — first introduced by House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and reinforced in the Pledge to America — is immediately returning non-defense discretionary spending to its 2008 level. The GOP claims that this will reduce federal spendin ...
  • Pentagon Tells Recruiters To Accept Gay And Lesbia ...
    In an effort to comply with Judge Virginia Phillips’ injunction against enforcing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the Department of Defense is instructing recruiters to accept gay and lesbian applicants. Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith tells the AP that “top-level guidance has been issued to recruiting co ...
  • Iran: Like The USSR, Only Much, Much Weaker
    Carnegie’s Karim Sadjadpour has a really smart piece looking at the three most common historical models used to understand the nature of the Iranian challenge to U.S. foreign policy, Red China, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union: The chosen metaphor pretty much dictates the proposed response, and mo ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Remember Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
    Everyday, Obama comes up with new ways to demonstrate the betrayal of hope. Everyday, the harpercons manage to embarrass themselves (and us) in previously unimagined ways while continuing to drag the country's political culture down into the gutter. Today, Alex Hundert is living under enforced bans ...
  • Winston Churchill & Spider Bites
    Just some random stuff that i thought i'd share: The first involves a dream i had recently where Winston Churchill put in an appearance of sorts. As a boy, i grew up on the romantic notion of Churchill leading the mother-country democracy Britain standing alone with its fellow democratic former colo ...
  • Financialization
    The folks at the Marxist journal Monthly Review have some important things to say about the INEVITABILITY of financialization for a mature capitalist economy. Financialization refers to the growing importance of the financial sector in the economy (a process most exemplified by the USA and UK econom ...
  • Cold Meat and a Missed Opportunity
    I was standing in line at the liquor store when I found myself beside a case of "Moosehead" beer. There was some blurb on the price tag about the malts and hops in it and the awesome flavour and etc., as well as a suggestion to serve it with cold meat. The phrase "cold meat" gave me a bit of a shud ...
  • No title
    This is going to be something of a rambling post. (What else is new, 'eh?) I've just got a lot of stuff on my mind. First of all, I'm reading Rick Hillier's biography A Soldier First . I'm only about one-third of the way through it and he's just been promoted to brigadier-general to take command of ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Is your boss using a "key logger"? Find out.
    A "key logger" is a computer program that keeps a record of every keystroke someone types on a computer. Hackers can use key loggers to infiltrate a computer system, or to steal someone's identity. They might use a key logger as part of a computer virus, and once a computer is infected, the hacker c ...
  • Appropriate Use of Science in Public Policy
    On October 27, 2010, Professionals for the Public Interest (PftPI) will present a panel discussion on the " Appropriate Use of Science in Public Policy. " Although the event will be free, registration is required . The event will be held at 4:00 pm at the American Association for the Advancement of ...
  • Secretary Solis answers concerns about DOL's Whist ...
    Last July, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Government Accountability Project (GAP) in submitting a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis . The letter raised concerns about whether the Department of Labor (DOL) w ...
  • Secretary Solis answers concerns about DOL's Whist ...
    Last July, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Government Accountability Project (GAP) in submitting a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis . The letter raised concerns about whether the Department of Labor (DOL) w ...
  • President Obama signs the Veterans' Benefits Act o ...
    The White House has announced that today President Barack Obama signed into law the Veterans' Benefits Act (VBA) of 2010. Among other improvements in the law for veterans, the VBA enhances the employee protections of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). USERRA prot ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant radio ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
  • 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 ...

TechDirt

  • Death Of ACTA
    As promised in our case study on Dan Bull , he's now released his latest song, entitled Death of ACTA . Better yet, the video was filmed on an actual pirate ship: And, of course, you can download and share the MP3 freely, and if you want his album you can download that too (or pay him for ...
  • Asthmatic Kitty Clarifies: It Never Meant To 'Guil ...
    A few weeks back, we had written about the small indie label Asthmatic Kitty, who earlier this year, had impressed us with a really forward-looking attitude , when it came to the music industry, saying (in part): I operate under the conviction that people buy records because they want to own them ...
  • Court Allows German Website To Link To Software Co ...
    Having recently been in Germany, and discussing the state of the law there, I have to say that I was pretty stunned with the level of liability placed on third parties in Germany. I was told, repeatedly, that German law places tremendous liability on third parties, holding them responsible for acti ...
  • Using MySpace Photo Of Debtor's Daughter As An Int ...
    Collections agencies are pretty notorious for pulling out all sorts of tricks to get people to pay up, including finding out info about family members. However, apparently one collections agency went too far in two specific ways: first, by spoofing the caller-ID to pretend to be a phone call from t ...
  • Choruss Goes From Vaporware To Nowhere
    Well, well. Back in 2008, we noted that Warner Music had hired Jim Griffin to put together a sort of skunkworks project to create what sounded like a mandatory ISP tax to allow file sharing, which was eventually dubbed Choruss. We say "sounded like," because (as you will see), any time we tried to ...

VacTruth

  • New Evidence States H1N1 Vaccine Has Elevated Risk ...
    A recent news report suggests that the UK government's position has changed regarding the H1N1 vaccine and related cases of Guillian-Barre Syndrome (GBS).
  • Do Drug Firm Bribery Charges Implicate the U.S. FD ...
    How can anyone have implicit faith in the science and products produced by BIG Pharma when they are charged with bribing government officials?
  • Are Federal Grants Being Used For State Government ...
    The Obama Administration was pressured to officially declare a Stafford Act National Emergency. In turn, the emergency declaration automatically made millions of federal grant dollars monies available to state governments. So what happened with all of the money appropriated and made available to st ...
  • Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has history of sell ...
    How many judges have links and financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry? Chief Justice Roberts recently sold $15,000 of his shares in the company Pfizer enabling him to participate in a court case today.
  • Chief Justice John Roberts cashes in Pfizer stocks ...
    Chief Justice John Roberts Jr has recently sold his stock holdings in Pfizer Inc. He did this to participate in two up vaccine cases. The implications are enormous as they decide if anyone suffering a vaccine injury can ever – under any circumstances - sue a pharmaceutical company.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    This is going to be a short one, as I just got back from New Orleans and haven’t been reading much the last few days.  Also, tonight is my fourteenth anniversary and I have to get back to the bfriend. While I was in NoLa, I ran into some people who had just visited DC and [...]
  • Intellect as Evasion
    Normally, I like Jay Smooth.  But this video really irritated me. I understand why people are critical of the anti-intellectualism displayed by right wing populists who seem so disdainful of reading books, processing facts, or critical thinking of any kind.  But it amazes me when otherwise observ ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    The Renewing the Anarchist Tradition (RAT) conference is being held next month in Baltimore.  I’ll be there.  Hopefully, some of you will be too. Unfortunately the RAT conference means that I won’t be able to go to the Positive Force punk rock flea market.  But if any of you are in the DC area an ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Kids can be so incredibly mean.  What would your parents have done if they found out kids at your school were torturing you?  What if they found out you were torturing other kids? Related to that, this post calling the church out for “saving families” by being anti-gay marriage while ignoring the ...
  • Owning the Edges
    A few weeks ago, I attended a Busboys and Poets A.C.T.O.R. on Islamaphobia.  Six local Muslim panelists talked about their personal experiences.  Inevitably, the subject of what to do in the face of extremism came up. As an atheist who keeps a toe in the atheist blogosphere, I have read quite a few ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
    As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
  • بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
    مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
  • السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
    اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة ...
  • Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
    Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
  • Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
    Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

Dark Politricks

  • Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
  • Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
    Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
  • Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
    Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
  • NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
    John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
  • Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
    Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...

food and water watch

  • By: FutureEmergency.com
    [...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]
  • 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 ...

treehugger

  • Lightbulb Lunacy: Is "Heatball" Art or Affront?
    Image: heatball.de Banning old lightbulbs seems like low-hanging fruit, an easy way to significantly reduce energy usage with little to no loss of lifestyle comforts. But the bulb bans persistently promote protest, and bring out the curmudgeons resistant to change. European regulators jumpe ...
  • Why Hayes Valley Farm Doesn't Care About Growing F ...
    Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch In many ways, a community garden is less about the "garden" and more about the "community," and such is the case with San Francisco's Hayes Valley Farm . Once the site of a freeway damaged in the 1989 earthquake, the unused space was going to be turned into housing. Ins ...
  • Please Don't Plant These Solar Trees on my Street
    Photo: bdonline Cambridge University in England, home to some of the most exquisite and ancient buildings in the world...and now this. These "solar trees" have just been installed to help power the Cambridge University Library's archive storage and will provide 10% of its energy needs. Su ...
  • Bioneers 2010: "The Shift Has Hit The Fan"
    Audience member applauding at Kenny Ausubel's opening speech at Bioneers 2010. Photo via Jaymi Heimbuch Kenny Ausubel is one of the founders of Bioneers and he along with his partner Nina Simons are the backbone of the event. So it's no surprise that one of the most awakening and inspiring spee ...
  • Designers And Bees Build Crib Together, Call it "I ...
    Images via Vanessa Harden and Dezeen What, I hear you ask, is an 'Interspecies Collaboration'? Well, RCA design graduates Vanessa Harden , Kevin Hill and Ben Faga have the answer in their project Built By. This amazing endeavour see humans and

Biosingularity

  • Examining Individual Tumor Cells
    Despite decades of research into cancer biology, researchers still dont fully understand what happens to the malignant cells DNA as they mutate. Its not an idle question: The better biologists appreciate how DNA changes, the better they can create therapies that specifically target the disease. Now ...
  • Olive Oil May Cut Risk of Ulcerative Colitis
    Two or three tablespoons a day of olive oil may help protect against ulcerative colitis, preliminary research suggests.In a new study, people with the highest consumption of oleic acid — a monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid found in olive oil, peanut oil, and grapeseed oil, as well as in butter and ...
  • You Are Your Bacteria
    Variation in our microbial inhabitants could help tailor efforts to treat illness. via Technology Review: You Are Your Bacteria.
  • Weird, Ultra-Small Microbes Turn Up in Acidic Mine ...
    In the depths of a former copper mine in Northern California dwell what may be the smallest, most stripped-down forms of life ever discovered. The microbes — members of the domain of one-celled creatures called Archaea — are smaller than other known microorganisms, rivaled in size only by a microbe ...
  • Multiple personal genomes await
    Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims .Those links came from the Citizens for Legitimate Government daily email. You can sign up by writing Editor-in-Chief Lori Price (signup at l ...
  • Why not a Nobel for Western dissidents?
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post In recent years the Nobel committee has been willing to wade into controversies. A couple of years ago it awarded its economic prize to Paul Krugman, in what appeared to be a swipe at a sitting president and the still (inexplicably) ...
  • Homework
    Fifty extra credit points to the first enterprising citizen who forecloses on Vikram Pandit’s house .
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Last week I quoted Catch-22, and what do you know - the news sent me another real life excerpt this week. What’s next, The Syndicate? Say No ...
  • Assassination is the new torture
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Andrew Sullivan recently posted a brief defense of Barack Obama’s assassination program and received a sharp response by Glenn Greenwald. The ensuing debate (I believe this and this are the latest) at times has felt depressingly fam ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • UN Conference Confronts Dramatic Loss Of Biodivers ...
    Delegates from 193 nations have opened a UN meeting in Japan to discuss how to address Earth's dramatic loss of animal and plant species. Click here to read this article
  • Civil Society Calls for a Moratorium on Geoenginee ...
    One of the hottest issues before the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan is a set of crucial decisions that could bring about a moratorium on proposed experiments in geoengineering, a set of high-risk climate technofixes. Click here to read this article
  • T-Mobile's Big Lie
    T-Mobile is playing fast and loose with kids' health when it comes to "planting" microwave cell phone towers - especially as the company, shall we say, has a penchant for setting up their eyesores by elementary schools and parks, despite accumulating evidence that cell phone towers are linked with r ...
  • Is the National Organic Standard Board Embracing N ...
    Allowing nanotechnology would seemingly destroy the credibility of the organic label with consumers. Yet, the National Organic Standards Board Materials Committee issued a proposal for public comment recently requesting that the USDA's National Organic Program hold a symposium on whether nanotechnol ...
  • For Organic Hops Farmers in Wash., Gov. Obstacles
    A small handful of Yakima Valley organic hop growers are struggling against federal regulations that allow brewers to use less expensive non-organic hops to make beer that can be sold under the organic label. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XVII
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos. [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO ...
  • Barcos, yates y veleros parte VI (8 fotos para tod ...
    Escoja un número para ver más fotos de yates y veleros | [II] |[III] [IV] [V] [VI] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de es ...
  • Aviones supersónicos (10 fotos de máquinas del air ...
    En el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, no escatimamos en ofrecerle a usted las mejores colecciones de fotografías . Prueba de ello, es esta nueva serie titulada ' Aviones Supersónicos '. Disfruta y comparte. Muchas gracias. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ...
  • Paisajes de ensueño parte III (9 fotos de alta res ...
    Si lo desea, revise nuestro archivo. [parte I] [parte II] [parte III] [más paisajes] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XVI
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos. [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Better Beef, It’s What’s For Lunch? Kids in Four o ...
    It looks like the “Eat less meat, eat better meat” motto, first coined by sustainable cattle rancher and author Nicolette Hahn Niman, is catching on. According to School Food FOCUS, a national initiative dedicated to helping urban school districts buy healthier, more sustainable and locally sourced ...
  • Agricultural Biotech and Chemical Industry Put on ...
    In mid-October of every year, Iowa State and Central Iowa sees its fair share (or more) of dignitaries, current and former agricultural lobby folks, Farm Bureau top brass and even usually a cabinet officer or two. This is not the presidential primaries, but the World Food Prize week. This year, over ...
  • CLF Knows What’s in the Nation’s Chicken
    On Thursday, CLF Director Dr. Robert S. Lawrence joined, Dr. David Kessler, former FDA Commissioner, and, Urvashi Rangan, PhD (JHSPH ‘95), Consumer Reports, on the Dr. Oz Show’s segment entitled “What’s in the Nation’s Chicken?” The guests on this national broadcast began by discussing the additive ...
  • Straight Talk About The Risks of Feeding Antibioti ...
    It is time for some straight talk about the risks of using massive amounts of antibiotics in livestock and poultry. I don’t know one infectious disease expert who would disagree that there are direct links between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in people. Period. If you don ...
  • Food & Dignity
    “So, where do the leftover veggies go?” It’s a common question around here, especially on Tuesdays. The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) operates a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, connecting students, faculty and s ...

Norwegianity

  • Joe Miller actually makes Sarah Palin look good
    By comparison, obviously, but still. Today we have learned that Joe: lies uses guards who are active-duty military and therefore prohibited from serving as goons at a political rally [more] uses security goons from an unlicensed security company is a tax cheat and is canceling a campaign appearanc ...
  • On the farm, every day smelled like an election ad
    Politico can’t handle the truth. The truth is that not only are teabaggers wound too tight, they’re emotionally immature as well. Yes, let’s talk about Joe Miller, he who was anointed by Sarah of Palin, the Joe Miller who just made a statement to CNN about that matter that Tony Hopfinger was handcuf ...
  • Fuck Joe Miller and his iron dream for America
    Just watch this video and then ask yourself why you would ever vote for any Republican ever. This is Bush-Cheney’s privatized America where private security assholes outrank every day citizens.
  • What is God trying to tell us?
    This happens over 600 times a year? [via Schmelzer] - Politics: Joe Miller flips out and has his “security” detail detain and handcuff an Alaskan journalist (who was immediately released when the real police arrived but it was already too late for the journalist’s video which has disappeared) [more ...
  • Groveling will be mandatory (ass kissing will repl ...
    It’s official: the new meme is that the teabaggers are so filled with rage that it won’t end on election day. Frank Rich: n the final stretch of 2010, the radical rightâs anger is becoming less focused, more free-floating â more likely to be aimed at âgovernmentâ in general, whatever the loc ...

Public News Service

  • Nat’l Conservation Landscape Check-Up: Popul ...
    Nat’l Conservation Landscape Check-Up: Popularity Increases Phoenix, AZ – It’s been five years since the first “check-up” on the health and management of the National Landscape Conservation System – which includes the Agua Fria (AH-wah FREE-ah) and Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monuments in Arizo ...
  • AZ Latinos Dispute "Apathetic" Voter Label
    AZ Latinos Dispute "Apathetic" Voter Label Phoenix, AZ – A national survey last week painted Latino voters as “less motivated” to go to the polls this fall. Arizona Latinos say that may be true elsewhere, but not in the Grand Canyon State. Comments from “One Arizona” spokesperson Tania Marquez (MAR- ...
  • AIDS Walk Reflects Changing Attitudes Toward Disea ...
    AIDS Walk Reflects Changing Attitudes Toward Disease Phoenix, AZ – The annual AIDS Walk Phoenix will be held Sunday morning. One local activist says such events have attracted more mainstream support as understanding of HIV/AIDS has grown. Comments from Barbara McCullough-Jones (muh-CULL-uh Jones), ...
  • Watchdog Group: AZ Needs Health Reform Ombudsman
    Watchdog Group: AZ Needs Health Reform Ombudsman Phoenix, AZ – With federal healthcare legislation taking effect, an Arizona consumer watchdog group wants to see the state ombudsman’s (OM-buds-mun’s) office expanded to deal with complaints and concerns about the new law. Comments from Serena Unrein ...
  • New Census Data Shows Poverty Growing in Arizona
    New Census Data Shows Poverty Growing in Arizona Phoenix, AZ – Last week, the Census Bureau reported Arizona’s poverty rate is second-highest in the nation. This week, detailed figures show the state’s situation is getting worse. Comments from Cynthia Zwick, director of the Arizona Community Action ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Federal Court Strikes Down Ohio Ban On rBGH-Free L ...
    Relying on evidence of compositional differences between milk from cows treated with rbST/rbGH and milk from untreated cows, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today struck down an Ohio state ban on labels pertaining to the use of artificial hormones in dairy products (IDFA et al v. Boggs, U.S. Cour ...
  • Center for Food Safety Testifies at Congressional ...
    Congress Sharply Critical of USDA’s Biotech Crop Oversight Failures, Calls for New Regulations  Live webcast: “Are ‘Superweeds’ an Outgrowth of USDA Biotech Policy? (Part II),” at: http://domesticpolicy.oversight.house.gov, 2pm EDT. Today the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Oversight and G ...
  • Thirty Eight Representatives And Senators Call On ...
    Over Fifty Organizations and Businesses Endorse Congressional Letters;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety applauds the 38 Representatives and Senators for requesting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) halt the approval of the long-shelved AquaBoun ...
  • Federal Court Finds USDA Broke The Law In Allowing ...
    Court To Consider Appropriate Remedy For Industry’s Rush To Plant Monsanto’s Herbicide Resistant Crop Late yesterday, Judge Jeffrey White, federal district judge for the Northern District of California, ruled that Plaintiffs Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, High Mowing Organic Seeds, a ...
  • Misguided FDA Opposition to Labeling Could Leave P ...
    Recent Poll Shows 91% of Americans Oppose GE Animals; CFS calls for clear, mandatory labeling After a two-day public hearing on the approval of the first genetically engineered (GE) animal intended for human consumption, the AquAdvantage GE salmon, FDA held a public hearing today to discuss whether ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Doing Exactly As They Have Been Trained
    Doing Exactly As They Have Been Trained | CommonDreams.org : "Disturbing videos of detainee abuse - subtle, mental and degrading, not Abu-Ghraib-brutal - has been released by Ethan McCord, the veteran who wrote the 'Open Letter of Reconciliation & Responsibility to the Iraqi People' after his Bravo ...
  • Cuba: Mensaje de Fidel Castro
    #Cuba: Mensaje de Fidel Castro � Yohandry’s Weblog : Lo último que podía esperarse eran las noticias de la expulsión de los gitanos franceses, víctimas de la crueldad de la extrema derecha francesa, que eleva ya a siete mil de ellos, las víctimas de otra especie de holocausto racial. Es elemental ...
  • Pentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destro ...
    Pentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destroying Every Copy of Military Memoir : [gawker.com] "The Pentagon is so worried about revelations in a new memoir about the War on Terror that it's considering buying 10,000 copies — the entire first printing — and destroying them. Sounds like a good b ...
  • Inside the killing fields of Queensland
    Inside the killing fields of Queensland | The Australian The discovery of a memoir by Steele Rudd's father sheds new light on the murderous collision between settlers and Aborigines on the Darling Downs At one time we had a blackfellow skull decorating the veranda, and not until it was removed woul ...
  • Columbus statue vandalized with red paint
    Columbus statue vandalized with red paint | Turn to 10 : "PROVIDENCE -- Portions of a statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence were covered in red paint, police said. The statue stands at the fork at Elmwood and Reservoir Avenues. A sign that read 'murderer' was also put around the statue's w ...

Pensieve

  • CNN drops the C-bomb
    Photo by BY-YOUR-â It’s not the four letter word. Iâm a bit tired of this topic, but this article seems to need a few comments. After announcing a nuclear cooperation with Russian President Medvedev to build a nuclear plant in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez continues his tour of Asia by visiting Iranian ...
  • Tascon List Documentary
    Those who defend Hugo Chávez need to see this documentary. The Tascón list is a list of all the voters who put their name, their fingerprint, and their social security numbers, in the 2004 recall referendum against Chávez. They were branded as “traitors” and summarily stripped of all government jobs ...
  • Cobalt Bomb in Honduras!?
    Photo by Doug Wallick I completely disbelieve this news report. In it, it said that the residents of Las Tapias, Francisco Moraz�n are being evacuated because of radiation from a cobalt bomb. A cobalt bomb is a type of nuclear weapon with little blast capacity, but enormous contamination from fallou ...
  • Banksy Writes on Springfield’s Walls
    Banksy, the famous British graffiti artist and activist, created this opening sequence for The Simpsons; it is brilliant, and sobering at the same time. Of course it is overstated…that’s the heart of comedy. South Korea is prosperous in comparison even to China. But, I venture to guess that most peo ...
  • More Evidence of Nuclear Cover-Up in Venezuela
    Photo by Daniella Zalcman Hugo Chavez seems to believe the clichéd proverb: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. For years there have been underreported accounts of Chavez’s collabroation with Iran’s “secret” nuclear program. Venezuela has the world’s largest uranium deposits in the mountains where ...

Green Times

  • Living green on a budget
    You may think that living green is not suitable for people with a small budget. Think again! There are many ways to be green, even when you don’t have that much money. Take shorter showers, walk (climate-change/vote-with-your-feet-walk-against-warming.html) or ride a bike and shop in secondhand sho ...
  • Plastic in the ocean
    This image, displayed in the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, shows the great amount of plastic floating in the Ocean and the terrible impact it has on the wildlife. To find out more about this issue, watch a video about the Plastic Soup (videos/plastic-soup.html), and read our article Midwa ...
  • Save Joey!
    When the public came to know about the inhumane methods of slaugther that seals were subject to, they lobbied their governments to intervene. What a lot of people don’t know is that a similar thing happens to the Australian (glossary/categories/lifestyle/green-australia.html) national icon, the kang ...
  • What's On 18 October 2010
    Taking a shower, doing your dishes, drinking a cup of tea… you use water for all these daily things. This week is National Water Week, hoping to raise public awareness and improve understanding of water issues in Australia with lots of activities and events all around the country.
  • Greatest and greenest city in the world
      The greatest, greenest big city in the world. That's what New York has to become, according to NY planning authorities, citizen activists and politicians. NY is getting walk, bike and transit friendlier. They have improved the bicycle infrastructure, introduced bus rapid transit t ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Virginia Thomas Leaves Anita Hill a Voicemail Aski ...
    ShareThis Virginia Thomas Leaves Anita Hill a Voicemail Asking for An Apology -- Hill Says No 19 Oct 2010 A few days ago, Brandeis University professor Anita Hill received a message on her voice mail at work. "Good morning, Anita Hill, it's Ginny Thomas," said the voice. "I just wanted to reach acro ...
  • GOP-Linked 'Latinos for Reform' Airs Nevada Ads Ur ...
    ShareThis GOP-Linked 'Latinos for Reform' Airs Nevada Ads Urging Hispanics Not to Vote 19 Oct 2010 A third-party group headed by a GOP operative is out with a new Nevada ad spot encouraging Latinos in the state not to cast votes in this year's midterm elections. Robert de Posada, president of Latino ...
  • Police look for links between Pentagon, museum sho ...
    ShareThis Police look for links between Pentagon, museum shootings --Pentagon shooting is currently treated as 'random event' 19 Oct 2010 Someone with a rifle fired shots at the Pentagon early Tuesday, days after a similar incident at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle. Police and f ...
  • Militants torch NATO trucks in Pakistan
    ShareThis Militants torch NATO trucks in Pakistan 19 Oct 2010 Pakistani militants have torched tankers carrying supplies to the US-led foreign troops stationed in Afghanistan for the second time in less than 24 hours. Police say the gunmen targeted two vehicles in Dasht Bado town in Pakistan's south ...
  • Three US-led troops killed in Afghanistan
    ShareThis Three US-led troops killed in Afghanistan 19 Oct 2010 Three US-led service members have lost their lives in separate attacks in the troubled southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) says. The US-led forces said one soldier was killed in an attack by Talib ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Mike Leigh joins the growing Israeli boycott festi ...
    By Jesse Bacon You could already have a quite a film festival with the stars supporting the Ariel settlement boycott. Now one of my favorite directors Mike Leigh, has refused to come to Israel at all. On the same weekend that I heard JVP advisory board member Udi Aloni speak about artists who let th ...
  • Settler-style thugs operating inside Israel
    by Jesse Bacon One after another, the parallels to fascism pile up in Israel, like the sticks (which is what the root of Fascism means) on a fire. Now a town in Israel has adopted perhaps the most visible feature of many a dictatorship: paramilitary police. The settlers have long functioned in this ...
  • Premiere of a Film Documenting Relationships betwe ...
    Tuesday, September 28th, brought us at the Villages Group great satisfaction. On that day, we and many of our friends in Susiya had the pleasure of attending the world premiere of the film “The Human Turbine” at the Haifa International Film Festival. Over a period of two years from 2008 to 2010, a f ...
  • Works in progress: the partitions of Iraq and Pale ...
    By Rela Mazali Works in Progress: - The partition of Palestine (most recently into Gaza Strip; East Jerusalem; West Bank) - The partition of Iraq In Iraq, the occupation is attempting “ethnic” partition. See: Statement issued this week (October 10, 2010) by the BRussels Tribunal, stating among ot ...
  • “We will not be citizens of a fascist state ...
    From Gush Shalom October 10, 2010 A protest rally against the government’s “Loyalty Oath Bill” was held outside the Tel Aviv house where Ben-Gurion read the 1948 the Declaration of Independence. There, today, the “Declaration of Independence from Fascism” was signed. “We are citizens of the Israel w ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Cancer ‘is purely man-made’ say scientists
    This after finding almost no trace of disease in Egyptian mummies
  • Solar glass tiles heat homes
    The glass tiles heat homes via air slots in the black canvas it is mounted on.
  • Is California an Idiocracy?
    CalWatchdog is equally honked at both Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman, given their campaigns have been comprised of inanities and accusing each other of things that are basically irrelevant. Plus, I might add, both have studiously mentioned virtually nothing of substance about the budget and pension pro ...
  • Nissan Leaf
    I just contracted to buy all the gasoline I want at 24 cents a gallon. No, I have not struck oil in my backyard, or come into an inheritance from a long lost Kuwaiti relative. That is the de facto price that PG&E is billing me for a full charge on the all-electric Nissan Leaf [...]
  • California banks make millions in fees off of welf ...
    When most of us withdraw money from an ATM, we aren’t charged fees. Yet, welfare recipients in California are routinely charged to make withdrawals. Banks are making nearly $1.5 million a month in fees for the same service they give regular customers for free. Plus, this is essentially risk-free for ...

Coteret

  • Yediot: NIS 9 million for settlement “touris ...
    The fact that these grants will fund highly politicized and inflammatory projects is best exemplified by the NIS 2 million slated for the “City of David” project in Silwan. This East Jerusalem settlement in the guise of an “archeological park” is at the cutting edge of efforts to insert Israelis i ...
  • Yediot: Despite Berlusconi’s promises, Italy ...
    Paper sanctions Menahem Ganz, Yediot, September 14 2010 [page 19, Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] Rome — Half a year after returning from a visit to Israel, in the course of which Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised to act to reduce the volume of trade between Italy and Ira ...
  • Yediot to Abe Foxman: Are we anti-Semitic too?
    Not exactly, but close. For those of you who have missed the latest chapter of what Matt Duss calls “the continuing attempt to redefine ‘blood libel’ as ‘saying things about Israel I don’t particularly like’”, here’s a brief: This week’s TIME Magazine cover story was a feature by Karl Vick, entitle ...
  • The new frontiers of Israeli diplomacy: Lieberman ...
    This morning’s Israel Hayom reports: (full translated text at bottom): a decision was made that, for the first time, the Foreign Minister will address the UN General Assembly in New York at the end of the month You don’t need to be an expert to understand that this is not a very wise matching of [.. ...
  • Maariv: French and American envoys working to re-s ...
    Maariv summarizes a news item from the Lebanese A-Safir. It’s unclear, however, whether the section on Mitchell visit is also from that source. The byline is unusual. Bardenstein is the junior diplomatic affairs correspondent and probably does not speak Arabic. Items based on direct monitoring of ...

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History – October 20
    1818 – The Convention of 1818 signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the Canada – United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length. 1910 – The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the H ...
  • Thinking, It’s not For Humans Anymore
    It doesn’t matter what I think. Really. If it did, we’d all be living free right now. We’d all have domain over our bodies and minds. We wouldn’t be paying taxes. We wouldn’t be worried about the penalties for questioning the authority of strangers who claim to represent our interests. We’d be able ...
  • Foreclosure-Gate: A National Socialist Housing Mar ...
    Discussing whether the banks are headed for disaster with a new round of government intervention, with Barry Ritholtz, Fusion IQ; Chris Whalen, Institutional Risk Analytics and CNBC’s Jane Wells.
  • In New Attempt to Build a Practical Military Laser ...
    DO YOU WANT THESE WEAPONS IN THE HANDS OF MONSTERS? By Rebecca Boyle Posted 10.12.2010 Pop Sci Laser-Powered Warfare Lockheed’s RELI laser, developed under a DARPA contract, works like an inverse prism to focus several different wavelengths of laser light. Lockheed Martin Lasers can be powerful weap ...
  • Markets! Finance! Scandal! China? (Video)

The Air Vent

  • Momentary Lapse of Reason
    Read the following with caution but this is potentially the most important story the Air Vent has carried.  A paper for open review by Makarieva A.M., Gorshkov V.G., Sheil D., Nobre A.D., Li B.-L. in open discussion here, has revealed what appears to be a gaping hole in climate models.  In previous ...
  • Circular Reasoning Explained
    Dr. Roy Spencer has in interesting explanation regarding CO2 as the only real driver of greenhouse warming. Does CO2 Drive the Earth’s Climate System? Comments on the Latest NASA GISS Paper There was a very clever paper published in Science this past week by Lacis, Schmidt, Rind, and Ruedy that uses ...
  • Denying the Catstrophe
    A very nice essay by Warren Meyer is linked below.  In context is Hegerel’s recent talk highlighted on Bishop Hill where she is quoted as saying: …What is frustrating to me as a scientist is that the objections raised by the skeptics groups are scientifically so stupid often…it would be really much ...
  • Robust?
    I continue to learn new details of paleoclimate.  The Ljungqvist proxies have been great fun so far.  I can’t plot them individually because some are confidentially revealed but I can average them.  One surprise I had was when I took all tree proxies and all non-tree proxies and created nearly id ...
  • Where do winds come from?
    Again, some very important (and simple) confirmation of condensation driven winds.  When you see the top of clouds forming or evaporating, it should make you think.  The paper is open for scientific commentary there and blog commentary here. —————- Anastassia Makarieva Where do winds come from? A ...

Focal Point

  • Madison Young, a Hardhat on a Construction Site is ...
    Tracy Clark-Flory interviews porn performer and producer Madison Young about condoms in porn. Young argues that individual performers should be allowed to decide whether to use condoms on set: CLARK-FLORY: What do you think of the push to mandate condom use in the industry? YOUNG: I think it cou ...
  • The Counterproductive Condom Conjecture and Other ...
    Sady Doyle has a piece in the Atlantic about how the latest case of HIV in the porn industry has revived public concern about the lack of condoms in straight porn. An actor tested positive for HIV last week. The news sparked panic in the industry because he has reportedly worked with dozens of big s ...
  • Panic In Porn Valley as Actor Tests Positive for H ...
    At least five major porn studios have shut down after an actor tested positive for HIV this week. In my latest story for Working In These Times , I report on potential structural conflicts of interest in the industry-sponsored HIV testing program for straight porn in the San Fernando Valley. The in ...
  • Boobs Against Breast Cancer: Dubious "Awareness" C ...
    Something I wrote for this week's edition of the Weekly Pulse health care newsletter. The gimmicky, pink breast cancer "awareness" stunts are getting old.  October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. The National Cancer Institute estimates that over 207,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer ...
  • It's a Trap! NYC Law Would Force "Crisis Pregnancy ...
    Excellent: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Councilwoman�Jessica S. Lappin (D) have introduced legislation to require so-called " crisis pregnancy centers " in New York City to disclose that they are not full-service reproductive health centers.� CPCs are self-proclaimed sub-specialty of th ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Groups: A Consumer Feature that Doubles a ...
    The following is a brief excerpt from the October 2010 edition of the Facebook Marketing Bible, the comprehensive guide to marketing your company, app, or brand on Facebook. Facebook Groups — and much of Facebook itself — was not originally intended for marketing purposes. And yet, people all over t ...
  • Facebook Changes Photo Memories to No Longer Show ...
    In response to numerous complaints, Facebook has changed its Photo Memories sidebar module to no longer display friends who a user was formally listed as in a relationship with. The feature shows thumbnails of old photos tagged with friends while a user browse photos, friends, or other sections of t ...
  • Loopt’s Location App Now Displays, Publishes Faceb ...
    The latest version of Loopt’s location service app for iPhone and iPod Touch now lets users view and create Facebook Places check-ins through an integration with the Places API. The app’s users see both Loopt and Places check-ins on their map, and Loopt check-ins published to Facebook will appear on ...
  • Top 20 Gaining Facebook Pages: YouTube, Eminem, Sh ...
    We had a few big name brands, a handful of TV and movie Pages and lots of musicians on our list of Top 20 Gaining Facebook Pages this week. Music Pages made up more than half of the list, leaving little room for brands and media to slip their way in — although nothing can [...]
  • LivingSocial Acquires Urban Escapes, Expands Into ...
    LivingSocial announced the acquisition of New York-based trip planning company Urban Escapes today. Chief executive Tim O’Shaughnessy says the acquisition will help the company offer its 10 million subscribers around the world opportunities to take advantage of fun things to do in their own communit ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Linda Norgrove – victim of UK's Afghanistan policy
    Christopher King argues that the botched attempt by US troops in Afghanistan to rescue British aid worker Linda Norgrove, which resulted in her being killed by her American "rescuers", should be seen as an omen for the future of London's subservience to Washington: disaster for Britain.
  • Britain hangs out "welcome" sign to war criminals
    Stuart Littlewood views the efforts of Israel's stooges at the heart of the British government, William Hague and the Conservative Friends of Israel, to amend UK law so that Israeli officials accused of serious war crimes could visit Britain without fear of prosecution.
  • Israeli police look to settlers to fill ranks: fir ...
    As US-sponsored peace talks have stalled over the issue of settlements, Jonathan Cook reports that Israel's national police force is turning to the very same illegal communities in its first-ever drive to recruit officers from among the settlers.
  • Why Israel will never show a map of its borders
    Alan Hart explains that Israel will never produce a map of its internationally-recognized borders because no Israeli leader would ever have the courage and leadership to stand up to and remove Jewish squatters from the occupied territories.
  • Pentagon author exposes Zelikow’s key role in 9/11 ...
    Maidhc Ó Cathail views recent evidence provided by a former US intelligence official indicating that Philip Zelikov, executive director of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, had deliberately withheld key evidence from the 9/11 Commission.

Amazon Rainforest

  • Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
    A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
  • Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
    President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
  • Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
    In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
  • Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
    The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
  • Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
    Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • ‘Kosher’ Schakowsky: Still AIPAC’s Number One Darl ...
    Fierce Competition Between Two Jewish Candidates in Chicago According to the latest reports the degree of allegiance to Israel and its lobby has taken center stage in two Chicago election campaigns for a congressional seat. As far as the two candidates, the incumbent Jan Schakowsky and the Republica ...
  • Weekly Round Up for October 17
    The ‘Obvious’ Silence of the Times, China’s Pipelineistan War, Mujahedin’s Penetration of Tajikistan The other day our friend Metem brought to my attention a story that had made it to the Project Censored list, ‘US Funds & Supports Taliban.’ Here are two excerpts from the introduction which are rela ...
  • Thinking outside the box? No! Throw the Box Away!
    Breaking the Chain of Institutional Thinking   Largely as a result of the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” the traditional framework of the East-West political dialogue has broken and fallen entirely under the spell of the extremists on both sides. Since much of the West’s relationship was bas ...
  • China-Turkmenistan Score: Another Wave of US-Mujah ...
    Extreme Competitions May Bring More Familiar Extreme Measures Here is one of the latest on China-Turkmenistan Pipeline deals: China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has announced the discovery of yet another gas field on the right bank of the Amu Darya River in Turkmenistan, holding in excess o ...
  • Friends-Enemies-Both? Our Foreign Policy Riddle
    The Three-Decade US-Mujahideen Partnership Still Going Strong In the last few weeks I’ve been reading and talking about the latest developments in Central Asia and the Caucasus. I am planning to post a few updates on the status of the score board in this region (pipeline rivalries, military base ‘er ...

Afro Spear

  • Back to the Future: Chinese Neocolonialism in Afri ...
    While the world watched and celebrated the rescue of 33 Chilean miners on Wednesday, 11 Zambian miners were shot and wounded by Chinese managers on Friday when they were presenting their grievences about poor working conditions. This same mine was shut down in January of this year because of a chole ...
  • sat’day riddymz
  • Dr. Aafia Siddiqui: “Injustice in the age o ...
                  Article by Cindy Sheehan. From English Al Jazeera:   “Face it, we all know that since 9/11, there have been numerous false “terror” alerts and lies leading to the capture and torture of hundreds of innocent individuals - and the heinous treatment we have all witnessed to from Abu [... ...
  • “My Challenge to the Race Hustlers” By ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 At a recent press conference sponsored by the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Walter Fauntroy blasted Glenn Beck’s August 28 “Restoring Honor” rally by saying that when one refers to the Ku Klux Klan and the tea party movement, âyou have to use [the term ...
  • Black Blogger Network Monthly Blogging Contest
    Hello Afrospear family, I am Jessica Ann Mitchell, the facilitator of The Black Love Speak Column (BlackLoveSpeak.com). A few months ago I started another website, BlackBloggerNetwork.com. The purpose of the site is to support the initiatives of Black Bloggers. In an effort to encourage healthy dial ...

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a nation ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep his po ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well ...

Sen4Earth

  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainability ...
  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must and ...
    Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
  • Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the Gran ...
    The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do the ...
  • Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
    SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
  • Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
    SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...

If Americans Knew

  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed at ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage at h ...
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...

David J. Gregory

  • Conservative Conundrum
    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
  • HURRAY FOR SHORT MEMORIES!
  • Never Forget: Bad Wars Aren’t Possible Unles ...
    This is a very good article from Michael Moore, what he delineates are the reasons we are still in such a mess as a Nation and a people. These reasons are blatant and should never be allowed to happen again. Even though Obama seems to be tied to the Bush Doctrine of appeasing the military-industrial ...
  • Truth for Tea Baggers!
    War Machine, all the money for killing, nothing for helping to save lives, war is much more profitable, especially when you supply both sides! Sheeple time to wake up….
  • Rand Paul the road to disaster
    Do you remember Rand Paul? He’s the Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky that went on Rachel Maddow to oppose provisions in the Civil Rights Actafter his surprise victory in the primary. He’s taken max-out checks from Citizens United – the group whose lawsuit led to the new avalanche of corpo ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • NAU Receives $1 Million to Teach Native Kids How G ...
    Northern Arizona University have been given $1 million by the National Science Foundation to create a program to teach rural and indigenous people (you know, those people whose land was stolen from them in order to extract minerals and oil, and grow industrial scale crops) science and technology. Th ...
  • Million Letter March: Just Say No!
    If anyone sends anything to you asking to join the Million Letter March, treat it like spam. Look, I’m being serious: it’s the idea of Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute, who’s primary driver doesn’t appear to be saving the global ecology or humanity in general, but saving civilization ...
  • What I Am Doing For 10/10/10
    After all, it is a special day.
  • Brilliant Rant About Symbolic Action and 10:10
    I have been sent a link to this wonderful “rant” – no, it’s not a rant, it’s telling it like it is – on the Powershift forum. Here’s the Richard Curtis video he refers to, and if Mr Curtis would like my opinions on 10:10 then I would love him to bring his little red [...]
  • Reveal Handbags : Revile Fashion
    > Dear Keith, > For your next high-fashion piece, consider REVEAL, the hottest eco-luxury handbags. made of recycled plastic bottles. REVEAL just launched their new Recycled Collection, and it’s perfect for women who are SEXY with SUBSTANCE. You know which women we are referring to. it’s your super ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
  • Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
    crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
  • GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
    Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
  • Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
    Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
  • Aliou Kumbaya
    My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day.  He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Basetrack Pushes Off to Follow Marines in Afghanis ...
    Safi Airways flight 4Q-52. Sept 28, 2010 at 20:00 GMT -Zulu -- I'm airborne and en route to link up with First Battalion, Eighth Marine Regiment (a.k.a. "one-eight," the subject of our Knight News Challenge grant ), in southern Afghanistan. We're at cruising altitude, somewhere between Hungary an ...
  • BookBrewer Makes Major Self-Publishing Deal with B ...
    This has been one of the most amazing, rewarding and surreal weeks of my life. Borders has chosen BookBrewer -- the first product of my startup, FeedBrewer , which grew out of a News Challenge grant -- to power the engine for its e-book self-publishing service. You can read about our partnership in ...
  • 577 U.S. News Sites Now Using hNews
    The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865. It is the only daily broadsheet newspaper in San Francisco -- and is published online at SFgate.com . In the 1960s Paul Avery was a police reporter at the Chronicle when he started investigating the so-called "Zodiac Killer." Earlier this year Mark ...
  • Student Team -- Including Five "Programmer-Journal ...
    In December 2008, a class of Northwestern University journalism master's students -- including two Knight "programmer-journalist" scholarship winners -- unveiled a prototype news Web site called News Mixer . The site, one of the first to integrate Facebook Connect as a system for identity managemen ...
  • LocalWiki to Create Collaborative, Community-Owned ...
    So much of the unique knowledge and experiences we acquire through years of living in a community gets spread only by word of mouth, or worse it just stays "locked up" in our heads. But this is great stuff, valuable expert knowledge that can benefit everyone. After all, when it comes to the communit ...

Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Safety - Sleep and Fatigue Endangers A ...
    Accidents happen in a matter of seconds. An airplane pilot takes a moment too long to react in an emergency. A trucker who has been on the road all day wanders across the median. A train engineer is lulled to sleep by the isolation and monotony of the job and misses a signal. It’s impossible to say ...
  • Midterm Elections - Organized Labor Increases Spen ...
    Unions are joining the air war of radio and television ads surrounding this year's mid-term election. Over the last week, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) spent at least $200,000 on billboard signs, direct mail and radio ads, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records. Th ...
  • Mexico on the Edge - Sex-Trafficking is Mexico's O ...
    The “War on Drugs” as viewed in Mexico and the U.S. is changing. No longer are President Felipe Calderón, the police, and Mexican military forces fighting just drug trafficking; now they must do battle against the rising trafficking of sex. Over the past decade there has been a dramatic rise in viol ...
  • Turkey on the Edge - Implications for America in T ...
    On September 12, Turkey went to the polls to vote on constitutional amendments proposed by the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP). Nearly 38.3 million people turned out, with 21.8 million voting in favor of a variety of changes to the Turkish political system, from establishing constituti ...
  • Haiti on the Edge - K Street Lobbyists Assist Cons ...
    A number of construction and disaster-response firms have hired Washington lobbyists to help navigate the contracting process for rebuilding Haiti. In January 2010, Haiti suffered a devastating earthquake that left thousands dead and millions homeless. Since then, the U.S. government and its interna ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • The Politics Of Hunger
    By Sadanand Patwardhan About a billion people or 1/6th of humanity goes to sleep hungry each day. Most assume it is because not enough food is there to go around. Though this may become true in future unless we have an urgent course correction, at the moment this abomination is the result of lack o ...
  • Focus On Hunger
    By Natasha Burge An interview with Vandana Shiva
  • Policy Reform To 350
    By Bill McKibben Lets imagine for a moment that we are at 2100, and the atmospheric CO2 level is slowly subsiding back toward 350, and the worst is over. Lets try to figure out how we got there reverse-engineer a century of halting but ultimately decisive progress
  • Yes Indeed, Show Us All The Map!
    By Alan Hart Better late than never, a very senior Palestinian official in Ramallah, Yasser Abed Rabbo, found the right way to challenge Israel and the U.S. As reported by AFP on 13 October, he said, We officially demand that the US administration and the Israeli government provide a map of the bo ...
  • US Agencies Ignored Warnings Before Mumbai Terrori ...
    By Patrick Martin US intelligence agencies had numerous advance warnings about the activities of the Islamic fundamentalist group that carried out the terrorist attack in Mumbai, India in December 2008, according to lengthy reports in the American press Sunday. An American informant had a high-lev ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!
  • Tenth Year of War, March to Stop Deployment of Tra ...
    Thursday marked the beginning of the 10th year of war in Afghanistan. There is much to protest about U.S. action there–some performed a die-in to highlight the use of drones (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/200657/us-drone-kills-7-militants-in-nw-pakistan)–and a group of veterans of The Global ...
  • WAR IS OVER… If You Claim It?
    In the midst of pleasant nods about “the end of the Iraq War,” Mr. Stephen Colbert celebrates in style… (Click The Word-What if they threw a peace and nobody came) The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – What If You Threw a Peace and Nobody Came? www.colbertnation.com Colbert Repo ...
  • Vigiling in Afghanistan
    More amazing work from Our Journey to Smile
  • 92219 Pieces of my Broken Afghan Heart
    The following letter was sent to me from the young people in Afghanistan who tried to come to the U.S. this summer for our speaking tour. The U.S. embassy flatly denied them, but their voices continue to cry out. The official narrative of the Afghan War is that it has greatly served the people of A ...

Yid With Lid

  • Must Watch Video:Dana Loesch Makes Elliot Spitzer ...
    Former Assistant US Attorney, NY Governor and Client #9 Eliot Spitzer made the mistake of having Dana Loesch on his Parker&Spitzer CNN show tonight. Not that Dana's appearance was anything short of her usual intelligent, forceful, and entertaining advocacy of the conservative position, but because s ...
  • On The Rick Moran Show: Attack of the Prune Juice ...
    Tonight I once again got to experience the true joy of being a guest on the Rick Moran Show. Joining other guests such as� Jazz Shaw, and Larrey Anderson, our discussion covered Political Gaffes, Not Ready to Face the Media Candidates, Harry Reid's Stupidity,The Middle-East Peace process that isn't ...
  • New Harry Reid Ad Takes Swing at Angle But Hits De ...
    Oops the law of unintended consequences has come to the state of Nevada. Harry Reid is running a new ad attacking Sharon Angle saying "Sharron Angle voted to protect sex offenders." Without realizing it, he is also attacking NV-3 incumbent Democrat Dina Titus The ad says that Ang ...
  • Internal Polls Show Alan Grayson Losing by 16%
    More bad news for the Village Idiot of Congress, Alan Grayson. Internal RNCC polls show that he is losing his battle for re-election by 16%. In fact this poll information leaked by the Washington Post show many supposedly strong incumbants in deep trouble. (incumbents in bold): FL-8: Daniel ...
  • Treasury Department: Obama Has Increased National ...
    The Progressive Democrats enjoy blaming the national debt on President Bush, and it is true our debt grew much too much during the Bush administration, but the fact is during the twenty-one months that Barack Obama has been President our national debt grew faster than any time in our history. It t ...

The Real Agenda

  • Hay que Matar Bebes para Salvar el Planeta
    Tras ser revelado un plan de las Naciones Unidas que describe como reemplazar alarmismo sobre el calentamiento global con la amenaza de la sobrepoblación, un informe de la revista Scientific American imita exactamente el punto del que habla este informe, empujando la idea de que los programas de abo ...
  • Scientific American Magazine: Kill More Babies To ...
    Following the leak of a United Nations blueprint which outlined the plan to replace fearmongering about global warming with the contrived threat of overpopulation, a Scientific American report mimics precisely that talking point, pushing the notion that programs of mass abortion and birth control ne ...
  • Experimentos Médicos dos EUA sobre os guatemalteco ...
    Já foi amplamente revelado que os Estados Unidos realizaram experiências médicas em prisioneiros e doentes mentais na Guatemala em 1940. Realizado por um médico do governo que trabalhava em um hospital psiquiátrico, os experimentos envolviam infectar guatemaltecos intencionalmente com sífilis (e out ...
  • Composto em Agrião “desliga” Proteína ...
    Por Luis R. Miranda Enquanto um tumor canceroso se desenvolve, cresce mais rápido do que seu suprimento sangüíneo pode alimentá-lo. Assim uma proteína chamada Fator Inducivel Hipóxia (HIF) é liberada e envia sinais que causam que o tecido normal circundante crie novos vasos sanguíneos ao red ...
  • Governos se Preparam para Confiscar Fundos de Pens ...
    Em preparação para roubar os fundos de previdência privada, os governos agirão da mesma forma como o governo argentino, em 2008, nacionalizou os planos de previdência privada no país, conhecidos como AFJP, e confiscou a riqueza de milhões de pessoas. "Não temos dúvida de que isso violaria o direito ...

Wind Watch

  • Properties ‘virtually unmarketable’
    A survey by a local realtor may have confirmed the worst suspicions of Stan Mundy, whose home is closest to Chevron’s wind farm northeast of Casper. Glen Taylor, of Equity Brokers in Casper, did a real estate survey Sept. 10, 2010, and concluded properties directly adjacent to the Chevron Wind Tower ...
  • Lookout Mountain residents fighting plan for wind ...
    Lookout Mountain residents near Ga. 157 have been contacted about a potential wind turbine farm being located in the area. Residents were approached last week (Sept, 13-17) by a representative of Iberdrola Renewables, which claims to be the worldwide leader in wind turbines, with their turbines in 2 ...
  • Mineral County Commission, U.S. Wind Force, Allegh ...
    KEYSER — Mineral County Commissioners once again heard from both sides of the wind farm issue as they gathered information this week in regard to the independent consultant required to conduct a study of what it would take to decommission — or dismantle — the turbines at Pinnacle Wind Farm once they ...
  • Turbines make ‘lousy neighbours’
    Rick Vezina and his wife Judy love peace and quiet. They found it 12 years ago, settling with their two children into a dream home on the Graham Sideroad in what is now Kingsville’s Gosfield North. “We searched hard to find this place – it’s perfect,” Vezina says. “The property is treed in, no neigh ...
  • County council extends ban on large wind turbines
    WHATCOM COUNTY, Wash. — No large wind-turbine projects will be popping up in Whatcom County in the next six months. The county council on Tuesday night extended a moratorium for large wind energy systems. Council members Barbara Brenner and Ken Mann have been working on long-term solutions. âIâm ...

Not My Tribe

  • Judge not lest ye also be judged…
    Which is a distillation of the basic part of Jewish law. When one brings an accusation against another in before the priests (judges) both parties are supposed to be judged. Equally. Leviticus goes on and on about using the same measurements to sell as you use to buy. Standardized weights in every f ...
  • Has Faulkner bin beatin’ his old lady?
    Who knows? Gary Faulkner will undoubtedly get more Due Process from Colorado’s courts (Go ahead, Gary, THANK us “bleeding heart do-gooder Liberals” for not just turning over Due Process meekly and without protest to your Fascist Whore-lords) than he was willing to give Osama bin Dead_for_8_years. Wh ...
  • Dial-a-BabyKiller service offered by Craigslist
    Actually, it was a post offering Body Armor published against C.L. rules (weapons are supposedly prohibited, and according to the Pig Establishment, body armor is an offensive weapon if used by a non-Police criminal, as opposed to the Criminals who make up the Pig Establishment) said he had been a C ...
  • So-called Free Market Capitalism doesn’t pay ...
    It instead leeches off Tax-supported Publicly paid enterprises like the Army and Police agencies, not coincidentally the only agencies they want to be continued to have Public Funding…Allow the wealthiest to not pay taxes on money they obtained through blatantly aggressive Government Interventions i ...
  • Power already knows the truth
    Nearing the election, I’m reminded of Ward Churchill’s rejection of a modern activist’s purported objective, as left-leaning voices speak up to validate the Democratic Party’s inherent claim to represent what the Republicans do not. As if the corporate status quo doesn’t know very well the reforms i ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • "Jacque Fresco Exposed" Debunked
    Well, I made a few videos and was persuaded to post them so I will. They are debunkings of a guy named PeterWhitlock on Youtube. The videos are about The Venus Project and The Zeitgeist Movement, if you haven't heard of either of them, you can watch the documentary "Zeitgeist: Addendum": or go t ...
  • Jesse Ventura: The Constitution Says They Can Do I ...
    Bill O'Reilly says Muslims killed us on 911 on the View. Whoopi Goldberg & Joy Behar Walk Off the set Jesse Ventura afterward on the Joy Baher Show... Related Info: TruTV's 'Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura' - 9/11
  • Hello Everyone
    Hey everybody, my name is Fakeham and I'm just posting this as an introductory post to let everyone know that I am a new contributor to this blog. There's not much to tell about myself because everything important will be in my biography. I have a youtube channel and occasionally do videos on 9/11 r ...
  • Iraq Inquiry: your opportunity to demand a new 9/1 ...
    28 September 2010 From Reinvestigate 911 YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO DEMAND A NEW 9/11 INVESTIGATION Reinvestigate 911 is asking 9/11 truth activists worldwide to write to the Iraq Inquiry in London in support of our submission. Please forward this email to any politicians or journalists who may be inter ...
  • Debunking the Debunkers
    Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors , but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subjec ...

Fooducate

  • Not All Calories are Equal. Indeed?
    In mathematics, there are certain axioms, universally accepted truths. For example the shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line. 2 +2 =4. These axioms serve as the foundation for science and engineering progress. In nutrition, the “calorie axiom” states that a calorie is a calorie no m ...
  • Confusing Egg Labels
    We’re big on eggs here at Fooducate. They are a cheap and reliable source of protein, especially for meat avoiders. They are one of few foods naturally containing vitamin D and they are also a good source of vitamin A, riboflavin, folic acid, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, choline, iron, calcium, phosph ...
  • Which is Better for Me: Coke or Diet Coke?
    The obvious answer is: neither. Drink water. Drink tea. Yadda yadda… For most people that answer is not good enough. They aren’t going to make the switch to water, at least not completely. They need their fizzy sweetness. Yes, they know better. And yet… They want to choose the lesser of 2 evils. So ...
  • ADA and Hershey Partnership Raises Questions About ...
    This a guest blog post by Carol Plotkin, MS, RD, CDN Like many of my colleagues, I have a mixed reaction to the partnership between my professional organization, the American Dietetic Association (ADA), and the Hershey Center for Health and Nutrition. Many dietitians are up in arms over this l ...
  • Today is World Food Day
    It’s World Food Day today. While here in the US most people have a problem with too much food intake, there are millions starving in third world countries. Save the Children, a non-profit whose mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and las ...

Traffikd

  • Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
  • 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
  • Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
    Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits , last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open ...
  • 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
    This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...
  • Cloud Living Now Available From Glen Allsopp
    One of my friends has just launched a new product that I think may be of interest to many Traffikd readers. Glen Allsopp has written an e-book, Cloud Living , based on his experiences from making a five-figure monthly income from his websites. Cloud Living is actually more than an e-book, it i ...

Survival International

  • Shocking video of Papuan torture prompts calls for ...
    The footage has caused widespread outrage and revulsion. © Survival Disturbing and graphic footage of two tribal Papuan men being tortured, allegedly by Indonesian soldiers, has led to widespread demands for an independent inquiry. One of the victims is an elderly man. The incident is believed ...
  • Quentin Blake designs Christmas cards for Survival ...
    Illustrator and and Survival supporter Quentin Blake has designed cards for Survival's Christmas catalogue © Survival The world’s best-loved illustrator Quentin Blake has designed three exclusive Christmas cards for Survival’s 2010 Christmas catalogue. The three designs inspired by tribal peop ...
  • Finsbury wins ‘PR Disaster of the Year’ award
    Two Naâvi protested outside Vedantaâs AGM. © Survival On the eve of the PR Week Awards, Survival has presented its ’PR Disaster of the Yearâ Award to Finsbury PR and its founder Roland Rudd for their work with FTSE -100 mining company Vedanta Resources . Finsbury is the retained PR age ...
  • UN warned about oil pipeline in Peru
    Peru's isolated Indians are highly vulnerable to diseases brought in by outsiders. © Anon Survival is warning the United Nations of massive oil operations in the northern Peruvian Amazon that could decimate uncontacted tribal people . ‘By permitting companies to operate in this region Peru’s g ...
  • Survival publishes ‘Top 5 Hall of Shame’ for Colum ...
    Peru's isolated Indians have made it clear they want outsiders to stay out. © Heinz Plenge Pardo / Frankfurt Zoological Society Survival is marking Columbus Day (October 12th/ October 11th in US) by publishing its ‘Top 5 Hall of Shame’ – the key companies violating tribal peoples’ rights worldw ...

Greg Palast

  • Decision 2010:Tim Griffin and Voter Caging
    Reported by: Melissa Simas, KARK 4 NBC News After two years, and several resignations among Department of Justice staffers, in July, a special prosecutor wrapped up her investigation of the nine U.S. Attorneys fired in 2006. Bud Cummins, a Republican from Arkansas, was one of the U.S. Attorneys f ...
  • Tonight on NBC TV:Greg Palast busts Rove's Caging ...
    Tim Griffin, Congressional candidate, exposed Catch the report tonight on KARK 4 Little Rock 7pm Eastern, 6pm local Arkansas. It's not Tim Griffin's day. In 2004, BBC Television exposed Karl Rove's crony Tim Griffin, for running an operation to challenge the right to vote of active duty soldiers ...
  • Fighting Bob Fest Attracts Big Names
    By Tim Damos, News Republic Greg Palast doesn't pull any punches. His investigative stories are written in classic muckraker style; hard-hitting in both the juiciness they uncover and the language they use. Author of the New York Times best sellers "Armed Madhouse" and "The Best Democracy Money C ...
  • Greg Palast Wows Thousands in Wisconsin
    Watch Greg Palast talk at the outdoor 2010 Fighting Bob Festival in Baraboo, Wisconsin.
  • Crisis in EcuadorGreg Palast Interviews President ...
    Ecuador news today Ecuador's president attacked by police. Country's leader trapped in hospital after assault, as government declares a one-week state of emergency. In February 2008 Greg Palast met with Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. They discussed the Lawsuit against Chevron, Eradicating F ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Repudiating Liberalism or Obama
    We’re coming up on the midterms, and the Republicans are cruising.  Odds are very high that  they will retake the House, there is an outside chance they will retake the Senate.  This is being spun as, is being seen as, a repudiation of liberalism and progressivism. Back in early 2009 I told other ...
  • Repudiating Liberalism or Obama
    We’re coming up on the midterms, and the Republicans are cruising.  Odds are very high that  they will retake the House, there is an outside chance they will retake the Senate.  This is being spun as, is being seen as, a repudiation of liberalism and progressivism. Back in early 2009 I told other ...
  • Bankers’ extortion
    And we as a society may be on the line for hundreds of billions more to sort out of the title clusterfuck as we can't afford to hurt the banksters' feelings by sacking, shaming, seizing assets and taxing their wealth.
  • You can generally count on Obama…
    … to do the wrong thing. The Obama administration said it plans to appeal a ruling striking down the law (DADT), and asked a federal judge for an emergency stay of her decision. And think the reason he has problems it that folks think he’s too left wing, but his policies were all good ones [...]
  • Washington State May Cut Medicaid Drug Benefits
    I notice that of the solutions suggested, raising taxes on the rich isn’t one of them. Truly, such a thing is unthinkable: far more unthinkable than poor people dying because they don’t have medication. Interesting set of priorities. I also strongly suspect that the savings will be less than the gov ...

Age of Autism

  • Alert your Lawmaker That Vaccine Safety Is an Amer ...
    Alert your candidates and legislators that a new study found that 89% of parents place vaccine safety at the top of the list of medical priorities today. TAKE ACTION HERE! (The link brings you to the easy to use, pre-written...
  • Temple Grandin's Logical Mind on Early Interventio ...
    Below is a wonderful interview with Temple Grandin on a variety of topics. She will be presenting at the All Ages and Abilities Autism/Asperger's Conference this weekend in New York City. From The Charlotte Observer. By Karen Garloch kgarloch@charlotteobserver.com At...
  • Fox News On Bruesewitz v Wyeth and the Fundamental ...
    Supreme Court Vaccine Side-Effect Case in Bruesewitz, v. Wyeth
  • Back When Autism was A Rare, Life-Long, Institutio ...
    By Julie Obradovic Cleaning the basement last weekend I came across my college psychology book. Simply named "Psychology", the second edition had a copyright of 1991 and was written by four of the leading professors at my alma mater, The...
  • The Autism Area Street Sign
    A post ran in the Autism Examiner run by Robin Hauser Morris last August. Ms. Morris asked, "Do you think the 'Autism Area' street sign is a good idea or not?" It's a simple question and a valid one. We...

Global BDS Movement

  • BNC releases Memo and Recommendations for OECD cou ...
    Israel’s accession to OECD: encouraging impunity, rewarding war crimes read more
  • Press Release: Five countries boycott tourism conf ...
    Five countries boycott tourism conference in Jerusalem FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 October 2010 • UK, Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, and Ireland will not attend controversial conference hosted by Israel • Many countries undecided or set to only send low-level delegations • OECD General Secretary wa ...
  • Palestinian Civil Society Urges COOP to Boycott Ag ...
    COOP ITALIA Via del Lavoro 6/8 40033 Casalecchio di Reno BOITALIA 7 October 2010 Dear COOP board members, read more
  • Open letter to UK Trades Union Congress General Se ...
    4th October 2010 Brendan Barber General Secretary Trades Union Congress Congress House Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS   Dear Mr Barber,   The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), of which all of Palestinian trade union federations are members, war read m ...
  • TIAA-CREF: Divest from Injustice
    Occupied Palestine, October 4th 2010 - The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian civil society, calls upon the US non-profit pension fund TIAA-CREF to li read more

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • French President Orders Lifting of Fuel Depot Bloc ...
    New York Times – Faced with widespread protests over his plans to reform the pension system, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday that he had ordered the authorities to end blockades of fuel depots that have left a third of the countryâs gas stations dry. In a statement seemingly designed t ...
  • Longer-lasting options to treat drug addiction
    AP — New treatments for addiction to heroin or narcotic painkillers promise longer-lasting relief that may remove some day-to-day uncertainty of care: A once-a-month shot is now approved and a six-month implant is in the final testing phase. The main treatment options have long been once-a-day medi ...
  • Diagnostic Techniques Help Inflammatory Bowel Dise ...
    ScienceDaily â At the American College of Gastroenterology’s (ACG) 75th Annual Scientific meeting in San Antonio, Texas, several studies of the effectiveness of non?X?ray techniques to evaluate Crohn’s disease revealed that diagnostic strategies such as capsule endoscopy (CE) and magnetic resonanc ...
  • Pakistan temporarily suspends 125 lawmakers
    Daily Telegraph – A Pakistani watchdog said on Tuesday it had suspended 125 lawmakers, including three cabinet ministers, for failing to submit details of their assets. “According to our official data 125 members of the national and four provincial assemblies cease to function now,” Afzal Khan, a sp ...
  • Officials Push to Bolster Law on Wiretapping
    NY Times – Law enforcement and counterterrorism officials, citing lapses in compliance with surveillance orders, are pushing to overhaul a federal law that requires phone and broadband carriers to ensure that their networks can be wiretapped, federal officials say. The officials say tougher legislat ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Keeping spray cans out of landfills
    The soda can, beer bottle and newspaper all end up in the same place nowadays -- the recycling bin. But what about the roughly 3 billion aerosol cans sold in the U.S. annually? Odds are they go into landfills. Hence,...
  • TV campaign on California climate law revs up
    Backers of Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative to suspend California's aggressive global warming law, are launching a statewide television offensive Wednesday with a new infusion of cash. The Yes on 23 campaign, funded mainly by oil refiners, has been...
  • Gulf oil spill: Six-month milestone brings disaste ...
    How time flies when you're up to your gills in oil. Wednesday marks the six-month milestone of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, which killed 11 men and was responsible for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Greenpeaceis highlighting the...
  • Living green in L.A.: Home retrofits that worked - ...
    For two years, I masqueraded as the Realist Idealist, using my L.A. home as a living experiment to test sustainable home retrofits for the Los Angeles Times. The results of my experiences raising chickens and harvesting rainwater, installing solar panels,...
  • GM partners with Envision Solar for Chevy Volt rec ...
    "Every electric vehicle is the equivalent of one or two single-family residences in terms of impact on the electric grid," said Desmond Wheatley, president of Envision Solar in San Diego. To help offset that impact, Envision has partnered with General...

water.org

  • BeAHero challenge for charities (CNN)
    Readers take the #BeAHero challenge for charities (CNN) – This morning we asked complete strangers to step up to the plate to become an everyday hero. Today’s challenge – the first of several – was inspired by a report that donations to the United Statesâ 400 biggest charities plunged last year by ...
  • What do I write about for Blog Action Day? (Change ...
    What Do I Write About for Blog Action Day? (Change.org) – The good news is that there are great organizations working on solutions and new tools that empower people to do their part to address the water crisis. Building Wells: Organizations like Water.org and charity: water are leading the charge in ...
  • Water heroes making a difference (Building Ord.)
    Good news Friday: Water heroes making a difference on Blog Action Day 2010 (Building Ordinary) – Matt Damon and Gary White, cofounders of Water.org, think we can help communities worldwide get safe, clean water in our lifetime. Today is Blog Action Day 2010: Water. That means bloggers, tweeters and ...
  • Blog Action Day: Working to solve water crisis (4Y ...
    Blog Action Day: Working together to solve the water crisis (Four Years.Go)Over the past 20 years, Water.org has transformed thousands of communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by providing access to safe water and sanitation. We deliver innovative solutions for long-term success and our Wat ...
  • What causes more death than war? (Change.org)
    What causes more death than war? (Asnycnow Radio/Change.org) – This summer, the United Nations voted to make access to clean water a recognized human right. This was welcome news to those fighting the disturbing reality that more people die each year from contaminated water than all forms of violenc ...

Before It's News

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley break ...

Margaret's News

  • TAKE ACTION - End the endless wars
    Ending the Endless Wars Repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Force. - Please urge your representative to cosponsor this legislation. Submitted by James Bond to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Cleaning house at the local level
    No less than 44 candidates in the last local government elections have been sentenced at some point to prison, which should have rendered their candidacy ineligible, and 29 candidates declared bankruptcy in the past. Some of the candidates in these two ca Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �N ...
  • 60 Minutes marks the end of the two-state soluti ...
    Last night's 60 Minutes story marks the dawning recognition that the two-state solution is no longer possible. Lesley Stahl's opening was a subtle introduction to the idea that the supposed solutions of the past, no longer fit today's reality. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • Uganda Tabloid Urges "Hanging of Homos"
    A Ugandan tabloid has published photos of 100 allegedly homosexual men, including their addresses and workplaces, calling for their hanging. The weekly has sold freely around the country. Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Support the Afghan Women Empowerment Act ! PLEASE ...
    Urge the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and President Obama to pass the Afghan Women Empowerment Act (H.R.2214, S.229). Submitted by Cher C. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

News Blaze

Historical Notes

libcom

  • Protest of Hospital Sanitary Workers in Starachowi ...
    zrzutekranu-634.png Workers protest against outsourcing of jobs. A group of orderlies from a hospital in Starachowice have been protesting for a week over plans to outsource their ...
  • South African Communist Party Attacks Road Blockad ...
    333087.JPEG The South African Communist Party (SACP), long considered one of the most Stalinist Communist Parties anywhere, has joined the liberal NGOs in their attempt to rally public opinion against a ...
  • Autonomous Community Oaxaca on the TV Fri 22 Oct C ...
    Unreported World Mexico's Indian Rebellion Friday 22nd October 7.30pm Channel 4 In the mountains of southeastern Mexico, Unreported World finds 400 members of an indigenous community, who are fighting for independence, holed up in b ...
  • Round 2 of the TEKEL struggle: workers against the ...
    The TEKEL struggle has restarted - this time in Istanbul. The TEKEL struggle which gave birth to the "Ankara Soviet", a collection of tents which workers gathered and lived around for 80 days in the center of Ankara, Kızılay, was one of ...
  • Brutal repression in the Acropolis as riot police ...
    Riot police beats and tear-gases workers within the Acropolis, one journalist injured. The moment was acutely symbolic for a country that brags as the cradle of democracy and indicative of the Greek government's loss of measure in face o ...

Free Range International

  • Inchon
    Inchon is the call sign for the 1st Marine Regiment which is currently deployed in southern Helmand Province.  They are  operating out of a large FOB in the middle of nowhere, about 50 kilometers from the Provincial capitol of Lashka Gah, named Camp Dwyer.  Unlike other FOB’s I have visited this ...
  • The Going Is Getting Tough
    The ongoing saga about banning security contractors continues with the need for them is so obvious even CNN has gotten a clue.  Many of the reconstruction projects in the country are grinding to a halt and let me tell you something – the local people are sick and tired of this.  We have been at [. ...
  • What A Mess
    I’m not referring to the controversy surrounding the attempted rescue of Linda Norgrove which is currently consuming the news cycle. My experience is that Special Operations folks do not attempt rescue operations unless the odds are stacked in their favor.  I don’t know anything about what happened ...
  • Meet a Couple of Hero’s
    Hero is one of those terms which comes up often in reporting about the military.  Not every service member is a hero nor is every hero we encounter in our lives associated with the military.  I point this out because the label “hero” is at risk of becoming a meaningless cliche as we approach the [ ...
  • Five Hundred Meter War
    Herschel Smith at the Captains Journal has put up a great post which addresses a topic near and dear to my heart; infantry tactics. The post is The Five Hundred Meter War which had the video below from James Foley, a professional journalist writing at Global Post embedded in it.  His full report ca ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • INSIDERS REPORT: OBAMA SUFFERING FROM SEVERE DEPR ...
    So you state that President Obama is depressed?  How did you come by this information?  From a direct source still working within the White House on a daily basis.  As I had stated previously, tensions at the White House have reached a critical stage.  The infighting among staff is off the charts.  ...
  • Obama Begins Cashing in On Carbon Credits in KENYA
    The new world currency apparently will be tied to “carbon credits” as the standard of value.   Never mind that global warming (aka CLIMATE-GATE) is a massive hoax and fraud.  Rather than issue worthless fiat paper money, why not issue ‘carbon credits’ on a global scale.  Keep in mind that any an ...
  • America’s Entitlement Elitists
    America is Great —– Because America is Good!! By  A. True Ott, PhD, June 1, 2010 The famous French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled widely through America in the year 1832.  Following his tour of America, he wrote extensively about what he saw and experienced here. ...
  • SENATORS TO BE ADDED TO UNEMPLOYMENT ROLLS
    ALL the senators on this list need to be OUT OF OFFICE by November 15. It will soon be payback time for these senators – forward this list to everyone you know.  Don’t forget.  November 2nd  is “Take out the trash day” !!!!!! The following senators voted against making English the official langua ...
  • IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS — Horowitz and Kane ...
    In a most cowardly and dastardly fashion, Leonard G. Horowitz and his consort/accomplice Sherri Kane have chosen to target me, A. True Ott, PhD in a clear and actionable case of libel where they accuse me of being “A Satanist” with only the flimsiest of circumstantial hearsay as their “evidence”.  ...

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny hou ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plans fo ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being pro ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human effect ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain temper ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here’s ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing to do ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM says t ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Record-Breaking Solar Cell Efficiencies, Part 1
    On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: What’s Behind Record-Breaking Solar Cell Efficiencies, Part 1 By Jennifer Kho, Contributor | October 8, 2010 | In this two-part series on solar cell efficiencies, we examine laboratory … Continue reading →
  • Connecting Small-scale Renewables to the Smart Gri ...
    On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: By Dick DeBlasio, NREL Smart grid enthusiasm is everywhere, and much is rooted in the opportunity to increase reliance on renewable energy sources such as biomass, geothermal heat, … Continue reading →
  • Illinois smart grid collaborative effort reaches c ...
    On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Knoxville, Tenn., October 7, 2010 â EnerNex Corp., selected by the Illinois Commerce Commission as the facilitator for the Illinois statewide Smart Grid Collaborative, has finalized a two-year … Continue reading →
  • Gateway List for Energy Star Commercial Equipment
    On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Compiled List for Energy Star Commercial Equipment Web Site Links Commercial Appliances Commercial Clothes Washers · ENERGY STAR-Qualified Model List · Sample Procurement Language · Savings Calculator Commercial … Con ...
  • Google.org-backed Drilling Geothermal Technique
    On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: September 22, 2010 Company founded by geothermal legend Bob Potter Potter Drilling seeks to make geothermal exploration and development cheaper and more efficient $5 million in Recovery Act … Continue reading →

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • Fla. Foreclosure Firm Undergoes Shake-Up as Chairm ...
    Several top executives of Florida's largest foreclosure processing company resigned and Chairman David Stern was replaced Tuesday, amid a national controversy over foreclosure filings and possible wrongdoing by lenders, law firms and others. DJSP Enterprises' main customer is The Law Offices of Davi ...
  • Federal Judge Refutes Justice Department's Critici ...
    A New York federal judge has rebutted a top Justice Department official's criticism that many federal judges have "lost" their "moorings to the sentencing guidelines" in major fraud cases. In a 16-page "statement of reasons" for a fraud sentence, Eastern District Judge John Gleeson wrote that the di ...
  • Nev. Judge Passes Boies Fee Dispute to New York
    Boies, Schiller & Flexner has suffered a setback in a $5 million fee dispute arising out of founder David Boies' alleged neglect of a client's lawsuit now that a judge in Nevada has ceded jurisdiction to New York courts to decide who should arbitrate the fight. Before being told of the Nevada ruling ...
  • Politicians' Domain Names Prey to Cybersquatters
    A survey by the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse found that fewer than half the members of the House and Senate have registered their own dot-com domain names. This may have an adverse effect on this year's election contests, according to Rivkin Radler partner Shari Claire Lewis.
  • Former Jenkens & Gilchrist Lawyer Pleads Guilty in ...
    A former Jenkens & Gilchrist lawyer pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy and tax evasion as part of a cooperation agreement with the U.S. government. Erwin Mayer, gave a long allocution before New York Judge William Pauley, admitting that he helped market and defend illegal tax shelters in a scheme ...

Iranian.com

  • A Gold Rush in Tehran
    No one knows what political epitaph would eventually describe Mahmound Ahmadinejad's colourful tenure as President of the Islamic Republic in Iran. However, judging by his Panglossian optimism, which borders on naiveté, one may suggest the following: ' He was undone by his illusions.' read more
  • News Agency Editor: 'We Would Publish The News Ups ...
    In February, Iran's Intelligence Ministry announced the arrest of seven members of "counterrevolutionary satellite network organizations and Zionist media," whom it said were affiliated with the opposition Green Movement. The ministry said the detained, whom it accused of having been trained in "var ...
  • Master of Persian music protests with song
    BEIRUT – During a tour of Europe last year, Iran's undisputed master of Persian classical music performed a song with a distinctly modern theme — "Brotherhood in Arms" — calling on Iranians to unite. The song is one of several composed by Mohammad Reza Shajarian that criticize the Iranian governmen ...
  • Iran is set to assume OPEC presidency in 2011
    Looks like 2011 could turn out to be quite a year. Peter Schiff, the man who called the mortgage crisis years in advance, is predicting that the dollar will lose 50-70 percent of its value and unemployment will continue to rise in 2011. If that weren't bad enough, Bloomberg is reporting that Iran wi ...
  • Dubai's next black hole?
    The United Arab Emirates' new crackdown on business with Iran will no doubt draw applause in Washington but alarm in Dubai. New regulations preventing transactions with Iranian banks means trade between the two nations has all but come to a standstill in recent weeks, according to those affected. In ...

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Obama Whitehouse: A Sinking Ship?
    There is growing concern about the growing number of resignations from the Obama White House, another significant sign his administration is in deep trouble. Especially as seven of the resignations have occurred within the last six months. Both parties try to avoid major White House changes in the s ...
  • What’s Really Happening in France
    It’s extremely hard to get good information about the present massive labor unrest in France. US media coverage of the month of rolling strikes is full of half-truths and distortions. Many progressives feel this relates to the specific focus of the strikes – the efforts by the French government to ...
  • Chinese Investment in Africa
    I have just read a fascinating article, “Africa’s Eastern Promise” in Foreign Affairs , published by the Council on Foreign Relations ( http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65916/deborah-brautigam/africa%E2%80%99s-eastern-promise ). I hear people groaning already, as most activists view the CFR – ...
  • Bankrupt the CIA: Boycott Heroin
    The above title is an example of a novel international counterculture offensive called “culture jamming” or “meme warfare,” popularized by the Vancouver-based Adbusters Magazine and Adbusters Media Foundation ( https://www.adbusters.org/ ). A “meme,” as defined in Adbusters founder Kalle Lasn’s 2000 ...
  • Addressing Overpopulation: Too Important to Leave ...
    I have blogged before about chronic disease (and the need to produce extra farm labor) being the primary population pressure in the third world. Demographers seeking to understand first world population pressures simply look at the US with its 2.1 fertility rate – compared to a 1.1 – 1.4 rate in the ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • Through Thick and Thin, from UFOs to PC Gay Bashin ...
    Poot, the UFOs didn’t show up as promised. Well, except for some escaped mylar balloons in NYC apparently. Yes, the aliens cleverly disguised their spacecraft to look like balloons, then brainwashed some hapless human into thinking they had lost some balloons. All part of the alien’s diabolical, and ...
  • The Ten Most Influential People in History?
    I saw this question on Yahoo Answers and it got me thinking. So my post about UFOs, Chilean Miners, the American Elections, Robert Gates and gays, and the nightmare in Mexico is going to have to wait. Who are the most influential people in history is a very debatable question, and honestly my knowle ...
  • The aliens are coming and other news from outer sp ...
    A former NORAD officer claims that on October 13th aliens will make their presence on Earth unmistakably known with “a massive UFO display over the world’s principal cities.” I have my doubts, but hey, it will certainly be fodder for any number of blog posts should it happen. And San Francisco is ce ...
  • Liu Xiaobo Wins Nobel Peace Prize
    If the gentle reader wants to read a fawning endorsement of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize choice, pretty much any western mainstream media has it covered in spades. Fortunately my readers don’t come here for fawning endorsements of anything. I am troubled on a  number of levels by the Nobel committ ...
  • No brainer, it’s just common sense that maki ...
    “It’s just common sense” is probably one of the most seductive and deadly false arguments out there. When someone says “it’s just common sense” what they are really saying is “reality conforms to my idea of what makes sense.” Yes, often times reality does indeed operate in a perfectly “sensible” mat ...

FourWinds10

Crisis Maven

  • Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – Dyin ...
    There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
  • Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
    The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism of ...
  • Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t adve ...
    Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division of ...
  • CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,000 We ...
    Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After that, ...
  • Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to economi ...
    Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never hea ...

Capital Flow Analysis

  • Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further evid ...
    In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The following ...
  • Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagflatio ...
    The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest bus ...
  • How long would it take to work off the US trade de ...
    The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
  • Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy porte ...
    In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This articl ...
  • Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
    No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings were ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

  • In Case You Missed It
    Join the forum discussion on this post In addition to the EPA’s decision to raise the allowed ethanol blends to 15%, there were three other energy-related stories of interest this week. Deep-Water Ban Ends The first was that the Obama administration has lifted the ban on deep-water drilling: Oba ...
  • EPA Grants E15 Waiver for Newer Vehicles
    Join the forum discussion on this post The news was just announced: EPA Grants E15 Waiver for Newer Vehicles WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today waived a limitation on selling fuel that is more than 10 percent ethanol for model year 2007 and newer cars and light truc ...
  • The Gas Cartel Idea: On the Road to Another OPEC?
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest analysis was written by the staff of Global Intelligence Report. ————————- As oil sees its image tarnished from the disastrous oil spills that took place off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Dalian, China, and as the m ...
  • Solazyme CEO Clarifies Costs
    Join the forum discussion on this post Prior to publishing the previous essay, U.S. Navy Pays Big Bucks for Biofuels, the editor for Consumer Energy Report asked why I didn’t go with a more descriptive title like “U.S. Navy Pays $425 per Gallon for Biofuels.” I told him that the reason I didn’t is ...
  • U.S. Navy Pays Big Bucks for Biofuels
    The U.S. military, as the single biggest consumer of fossil fuels in the world, are particularly interested in alternatives due to supply risks and price security.

Discovery Educator Network

Rodale News

  • 5 Recipes for Healthy, Yummy Fruit Bars
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Fruit bars are superconvenient to have on hand. They’re great for snacks and desserts, and even work nicely as part of a quick, portable breakfast. But you don’t have to buy processed, packaged fruit bars made with white flour, corn syrup, artificial flavorings, or other add ...
  • How to Clean Up Your Toxic Shower
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—You don't want your bathing experience to be dirty. But between harmful chemicals in many shampoos and soaps and the way they can react with the chlorine in our tap water to create more chemical chaos, business as usual in the bathroom needs to change. One easy way you can d ...
  • 5 Recipes for Aromatic, Antioxidant-Rich Rosemary
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—The needle-like leaves of the rosemary plant are intensely fragrant, with a woodsy scent that smells a little like pine and gives recipes with rosemary a distinct flavor. This member of the mint family (that originated in the Mediterranean region) has historically been used ...
  • Start a Daily Walking Program…Today!
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PAâMondays are great for making new commitments, according to the Healthy Monday Campaign : You're starting a new week, you're refreshed after a weekend off, and if you're not up for a change on any given Monday, there's always another one coming around. So today we're sugges ...
  • Hidden Syndrome Doubles Your Risk of Early Death
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—How healthy is your heart? A recent study from the American Society of Hypertension found that a third of adults have hypertension without knowing it, and a quarter unknowingly have pre-diabetes . And what those adults may not know is that having those two conditions, along ...

big think

  • John Amaechi: Basketballer, Psychologist, Jedi?
    Ever since he came out to the public in February 2007, former NBA player John Amaechi says he has been "that big gay guy." But there is much more to the 6'10" former center than that. Aside from being the only openly gay NBA player, past or present, he is also one of the very few with a Ph.D.—after ...
  • Lehman Sisters Wouldn't Have Failed
    Even as high-profile, high-profit professions like medicine and the law have edged toward gender parity, the financial firms on Wall Street continue to be dominated by men. But research indicates that women may be better suited than men, biochemically, to succeed as traders and fund managers. "It ...
  • Seeds of Destruction: Dustup at the Tate Modern
    Art is good for the soul, but sometimes it can be bad for your health. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei ’s Sunflower Seeds installation at the Tate Modern in London aroused curiosity before it began affecting visitors’ respiratory systems with the porcelain dust it threw off. Sadly, this is just the latest ...
  • Update on commenting
    So, the folks here at Bigthink have been working on improving commenting for Eruptions (and all the BT blogs). I am happy to say that we've had a number of changes that will help - and some bugs are still being ironed out. A quick summary of what is new and improved: - Linebreaks (preserved) and .. ...
  • Injuries at "eruption" in northwest Colombia
    I've just run into brief reports about a new "eruption" in Colombia - but not the normal kind of eruption. Now, the one of the articles in English that I have found describes the 25 injuries as a result of people trying to "escape the lava." However, it is pretty clear in other reports that this was ...

Information Liberation

  • 911 Called to Help Stabbing Victim, Police Help by ...
    [Updated Below: After 2 days of silence the police have finally responded. They say he had a knife and "ignored" their commands to drop it, implying, it seems, that therefor inherently justifies the shooting. See my response below.] Police show...
  • D.A.R.E. to Snitch on Your Parents and Get Taken b ...
    Welcome to Soviet America, where instead of learning math and science, schoolchildren are taught by police to snitch on their parents for non-crimes like smoking marijuana. An elementary school student, taking part in the government's "D.A.R.E."...
  • Pilot Stands up to TSA: 'No Groping Me and No Nake ...
    October 15, 2010 * My name is Michael Roberts, and I am a pilot for ExpressJet Airlines, Inc., based in Houston (that is, I still am for the time being). This morning as I attempted to pass through the security line for my commute to work I was d...
  • G20 'Officer Bubbles' sues YouTube and users over ...
    When he first saw a video of a Toronto constable threatening to arrest a G20 protester for blowing bubbles, one YouTube user was so livid, he couldn't stop writing comments. In fact, the man, who uses the alias "theforcebewithme," can't even remem...
  • NYPD Holds Drill To Prep For Mumbai Style Attack
    As US officials proclaim an alleged European terror plot still active, New York City police conducted a drill Thursday that simulated a Mumbai-style attack on civilians on a crowded street in Manhattan's financial district. Police Commissioner Ra...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • Has Multiculturalism Failed?
    It has, if you believe the words of German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week. Multikulti, the concept that we are now living side by side and are happy about it, she declared, has failed utterly. For a modern German leader to … Continue reading →
  • The Dragon And The Chrysanthemum
    It is the world’s fastest-growing economy. Within our lifetimes, it will become the largest. And yet, the face China presents to the world belies the truth of the lives of 1.4 billion people. To speak of broad generalities and the … Continue reading →
  • A Bit Of British Fair Play…
    …or so it seems from this story in the UK Daily Telegraph. Under new guidelines published on Tuesday, the BBC will henceforth be required to give “appropriate weight” to dissenting views on controversial subjectsâlike Anthropogenic Global Warming. Our God-Emperor is … Continue reading →
  • Should Governments Fund Science?
    With this topic, we are getting close to the heart of the whole matter. The history of government funding for the arts and sciences closely parallels the 20th-century transition of Western governments from liberal democracies to social democracies I discussed … Continue reading →
  • Another Scientist Jumps Ship
    I was horrified to hear on the grapevine yesterday that Al Lewis has resigned from the American Physical Society. A likeable New Yoiker rogue, Lewis in his letter of resignation to APS president Curtis G Callan Jr, reportedly said of … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

  • Confronting Overclassification
    The problem of overclassification — in which inappropriate restrictions are imposed on the disclosure of information in the name of national security — is at the root of many current disputes over access to government information, including controversies over leaks, FOIA litigation, prepublication r ...
  • A Double Standard in Leak Inquiries?
    It seems that some disclosures of classified information can lead a person to poverty, ignominy and a jail sentence, while others provide a royal road to fame and fortune.  Some leaks are relentlessly investigated, while others are tolerated or encouraged. This apparent inconsistency, as notably ill ...
  • CIA Sues Author in Prepublication Review Dispute
    The Central Intelligence Agency has filed a lawsuit against one of its own former employees after he published a book on intelligence without first getting the CIA’s prior approval, the Washington Times reported today. A book called “The Human Factor: Inside the CIA’s Dysfunctional Intelligence Cult ...
  • DoD Sees No Intelligence Compromise from Wikileaks ...
    The unauthorized release of tens of thousands of classified U.S. military records from the war in Afghanistan last July on the Wikileaks website did not result in the disclosure of sensitive intelligence sources, according to a mid-August assessment by the Department of Defense that has just been ma ...
  • Revisiting the Decision to Go to War in Iraq
    It is to be expected that national intelligence services will sometimes fail to identify and discover a threat to the nation in a timely fashion.  But when intelligence warns of a threat that isn’t really there, and then nations go to war to meet the phantom threat — that is a serious, confounding ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

  • GERD’s dirty little secret
    GERD’s dirty little secret – When omeprazole's patent expired AstraZeneca launched the optically pure version esomeprazole, which is apparently four times as active and gave them a new patent and a corner of the acid reflux market. Bizarrely, both forms of the drug (pro-drug in fact) are converted t ...
  • Science news
    Yet more science: Antibiotics and budgets – Seven days. That's the usual length of an antibiotic scrip – 3 pills a day for a week – 21 pills. But would 20 pills be okay? Would that eradicate the bacterial infection just the same? That's a 5% saving. What about 19 pills? 18? Fifteen even? The [...] S ...
  • Water blog action day
    Five facts about water Unsafe drinking water and lack of sanitation kills more people every year than all forms of violence, including war – that’s 42,000 deaths each week. More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. 2.5 billion people lack access to a toilet, which mean sewage spills ...
  • String, energy, and cats
    It was inevitable that the “Dummies” series of books would get around to String Theory for Dummies. Intriguingly, it’s written by the physics guide at About.com, Andrew Zimmerman Jones (with Daniel Robbins). The Dummies guide explains the basic concepts of what the cover refers to as the controversi ...
  • Blue skies science, pie in the sky?
    Lucy Marcus is the Founder and CEO of Marcus Venture Consulting, Ltd, a company that endeavours to foster sustainable success for funding organisations. She is non-executive chair of the Mobius Life Sciences Fund and chair of the audit committee for BioCity Nottingham. As the Science is Vital campai ...

RFF Library

  • The Effect of CO2 Pricing on Conventional and Non- ...
    University of Cambridge, Electricity Policy Research Group / by Aurélie Méjean and Chris Hope http://www.eprg.group.cam.ac.uk/working-paper-eprg1029/ What would be the effect of CO2 pricing on global oil supply and demand? This paper introduces a model describing the interaction between conventional ...
  • The Economic Benefits and Fiscal Impact of Parks a ...
    Trust for Public Land http://www.tpl.org/tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=23719&folder_id=188 The Trust for Public Land’s latest economic analysis concludes that Long Island parks and open space provide a $2.74 billion annual economic benefit to local governments and taxpayers. Additionally, the conserv ...
  • The Value of Statistical Life : a Contingent Inves ...
    World Bank / by by Hua Wang and Jie He http://tinyurl.com/27ecwly Economic analyses of development projects and policies often involve assigning an economic value to changes in the risk of loss of human life. A typical term used in the economic analyses is the value of statistical life, which reflec ...
  • Taxation, Innovation and the Environment
    OECD (RFFers can access this report on OECDiLibrary — if prompted, user ID and password are on the library’s landing page) http://tinyurl.com/26kgkeb Solving the worldâs environmental problems could take a significant toll on economic growth if only todayâs technologies are available. We know th ...
  • The Impact of Environmental Performance Rating and ...
    World Bank / by Yanhong Jin, Hua Wang and David Wheeler http://tinyurl.com/26yemsg Environmental performance rating and disclosure has emerged as a substitute or complement for traditional pollution regulation, especially in developing countries. Using data from China’s Green Watch program, this stu ...

Scientific American - News

  • Flower Power: Genetic Modification Could Amply Boo ...
    Human activities currently add about nine gigatons of carbon to the atmosphere yearly. Photosynthetic organisms on land and in the ocean absorb about five of those gigatons through the natural uptake of CO2, leaving to humans the task of dealing with the rest. But no matter how much carbon there is, ...
  • New Real-Time Blood Monitoring May Lessen the Need ...
    A patient on the operating table starts bleeding profusely. Medical staff use sponge after sponge to soak up the blood, unsure of exactly how much has been lost. Should the attending physician order a transfusion ? The patient may still have enough red blood cells for the rest of the surgery, but a ...
  • Contingent Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Ou ...
    Some years ago, at a college where Claudia was teaching a nonfiction writing course, she found herself working without an assigned office space. All college teachers require a dedicated corner where they can confer with their students. And Claudia's specialty--journalism training--is particularly de ...
  • U.S. Forests Soak Up Carbon Dioxide, but for How L ...
    MISSOULA, Mont.--U.S. forests offset roughly 11 percent of the nation's industrial greenhouse gas emissions, storing "significant amounts" of carbon that would otherwise pollute the atmosphere, according to new government data. The findings, released last week, estimate the nation's expanding forest ...
  • Stretchable Light-Emitting Sheets Could Form the B ...
    An international team of researchers has devised a way to embed tiny light emitters and light sensors into stretchable, bendable, twistable sheets. The flexible systems might someday find use as implanted sensors to keep tabs on biological processes. [More]

RAWA News

  • Afghanistan: Victims’ Families Denounce U.S. ...
    Time: Details of the gruesome crimes in Afghanistan that have resulted in 12 U.S. Army soldiers facing trial at a base near Seattle have been slowly making their way into the public domain. Dozens of photos to be introduced as evidence in the case allegedly show men from a self-styled "kill team" ac ...
  • Afghan War, Afghan Holocaust & Afghan Genocide 9th ...
    The Nation: The Afghan War has now entered its 10th year. It has become the longest US war. As of 7 October 2010, the 9th Anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan, the human cost of the Afghan War has been estimated as about 4.9 million violent deaths or non-violent avoidable deaths from Occupi ...
  • AFGHANISTAN: Little relief for growing number of c ...
    IRIN: Over 100,000 people have been forced out of their homes by clashes in different parts of Afghanistan over the past 12 months but by no means all of them have received aid, according to aid agencies and affected people. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says civilians are trap ...
  • Afghanistan Air Strikes Up 172 Percent
    ABC News Radio: The number of U.S. and NATO air strikes over Afghanistan has spiked since General David Petraeus replaced General Stanley McCrystal as commander of the war effort in June. U.S. Air Force statistics show a 172 percent increase, with 700 separate missions flown in September. A total o ...
  • 25 Afghan lawmakers accused of vote fruad
    AFP: Afghanistan’s election watchdog confirmed Sunday that more than 170 candidates who stood for parliament, including 25 current lawmakers, have been accused of electoral fraud. The Electoral Complaints Commission (EEC) said they have registered 4,149 complaints since polling day on September 18. ...

frogblog

  • State of the libraries
    I love libraries. Sure I’m the bookish type – but I think everyone loves them for one reason or another: to meet friends, listen to music, borrow a DVD, browse a magazine, to take a class, attend a public meeting and soon borrow an e-book for your digital reader. Even actor Michael ...
  • Message to young queers: It gets better
    Today is the day for “wearing purple to stand up against anti-gay bullying”, created in response to the recent wave of suicides by young gay people in the United States. Not to be confused with “wearing a pink shirt day, to take a stand against bullying”, which was on 28th April, as ...
  • GE: Will the people’s moratorium hold?
    I recently sent in my submission on Scion’s proposal to test 4000 genetically engineered (GE) pine trees, currently being reviewed by ERMA.  It’s been a good opportunity to reflect on this historically important issue for the Greens and see if our old arguments still hold water. Per ...
  • Govt celebrates World Statistics Day by ignoring s ...
    Today is the first ever World Statistics Day, and Statistics Minister Maurice Williamson is celebrating. So how does he explain his colleague Steven Joyce’s determination to proceed with funding roading projects that the statistics show have significantly greater costs than benefits and the statisti ...
  • Ugly, inaccurate and incomprehensible
    This unidentified billboard has appeared in Cable Street: ugly, inaccurate and incomprehensible.  Perhaps that’s why no one was prepared to put their name to it.  I can only guess that it is has been paid for by the First-Past-the Post lobby that is pushing to get rid of proportion ...

Patronus Analytical

J Kozy

  • As Western Civilization Lies Dying
    The Western commercial system exists to extract more from consumers than it supplies in products and services. Its goal is profit and has never been the improvement of the human condition but to exploit it. When governments institutionalize this system, they place their nations on suicidal paths, be ...
  • Is Perfect Research Possible
    Some claim that there is no hope of doing perfect research. So, is there hope of doing perfect research? Of course there issometimes! It all depends on the whetherwhether the subject is limited and whether the researcher can write and is intelligent enough to adequately evaluate the evidence. ...
  • The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Last Gasp of ...
    No civilization in history that collapsed after a period of greatness has ever regained its dominance. Egypt lasted for three millennia; today it is little more than a field for archeological study. The Persian Empire, which lasted for more than three hundred years, became the largest and most p ...
  • Specie, Script, and War: The Contradictory Practic ...
    Wars are fought for business, but business and the economy are synonymous. Wars will continue to be fought for the economy as long as this economy is not abandoned. War is a logical consequence of it, not a means utilized by it. No attempt to eliminate war and preserve the economy can succeed. A ...
  • Knowledge, Truth and Human Action: America Hits th ...
    Americans have a problem with the truth. They seem to be unable to accept it. Beliefs somehow always overwhelm it, even when they are so contradictory that any effective action becomes impossible. By calling people with opinions experts and relying on adversarial debate between them, not only is ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

  • Is Gridlock Good?
    Bruce Bartlett celebrates divided government: Too bad we didn’t have more gridlock in 2001 through 2006, when Democrats retook the House and Senate; it might have saved the country from two unnecessary wars, a lot of dead servicemen and women, a vast amount of spending that the country couldn’t aff ...
  • The New Normal
    I didn't see last night's debate between Harry Reid and Sharron Angle, but the consensus seems to be that both speakers were terrible. However, Angle may have benefited from galactically low expectations. "Angle repeatedly found herself in verbal cul-de-sacs which she only escaped by returning to we ...
  • Barack Obama and the Chamber of Secrets
    Ezra Klein doesn't think that Democratic attacks on the Chamber of Commerce are doing them any good: A MoveOn.org poll showing that voters respond negatively when asked, "If a candidate is backed by anonymous or corporate groups, which run ads that mask their identity, does that make you more likel ...
  • California Propositions
    I know that only a small slice of my readers live in California, so I hope the rest of you will indulge me while I go through my periodic review of California ballot initiatives today. There are nine of them up for a vote next month, so this is going to be a bit of a long post. As longtime readers k ...
  • Quote of the Day: Impeachment!
    From Thoreau: What are your predictions? I’m tempted to say “Serious predictions only”, but it’s not clear what the actual line between fantasy and reality is here... The topic here is, "What excuse will some insane tea party faction in the House use to bring impeachment charges against Barack Ob ...

Insanity Report

Simple Climate

  • CO2 dominates Earth’s climate, NASA reveals
    Earth's temperature would fall 35°C in 50 years without CO2, as water vapour condenses into water and ice and the greenhouse effect collapses, show Andrew Lacis and colleagues at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, demonstrating that CO2 alone is the “thermostat” for climate change.
  • Seeds of doubt flourish as climate debate hots up
    Vested interests want the US to think scientists are still arguing about climate change, says Edward Maibach, director of George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication.
  • Global warming gives tropical lizards energy probl ...
    Small temperature changes make a big difference to ectotherms – also known as “cold-blooded” creatures – around the equator, scientists based in the US and Germany find.
  • Naturalists show climate effects from beyond the g ...
    Not zombie scientists, but museum collections provide data on how climate change is affecting timing of natural events like flowering
  • I don’t care what the weatherman says, when ...
    Many people trust weathercasters' professionalism when it comes to climate change - but researchers' survey of US weathercasters' response to the Climategate scandal shows political outlook had a greater influence than professional credentials on how it affected their certainty that global warming i ...

e!Science News

  • Why the leopard got its spots
    Why do leopards have rosette shaped markings but tigers have stripes? Rudyard Kipling suggested that it was because the leopard moved to an environment "full of trees and bushes and stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows" but is there any truth in this just-so story? read more
  • Docs not immune to drug marketing: Study co-author ...
    Pharmaceutical promotion may cause doctors to prescribe more expensively, less appropriately and more often, according to a new study co-authored by York University professor Joel Lexchin. read more
  • Shock tactics: Bioelectrical therapy for cancer an ...
    Stem cell therapies hold increasing promise as a cure for multiple diseases. But the massive potential of a healthy stem cell has a flip side, as faulty regulation of stem cells leads to a huge range of human diseases. Even before birth, mistakes made by the stem cells of the foetus are a major caus ...
  • New UGA research shows people are better at strate ...
    When we make decisions based on what we think someone else will do, in anything from chess to warfare, we must use reason to infer the other's next move—or next three or more moves—to know what we must do. This so-called recursive reasoning ability in humans has been thought to be somewhat limited. ...
  • Recycling pacemakers may alleviate burden of heart ...
    Millions worldwide die each year because they can't afford a pacemaker. Meanwhile heart patients in the United States say they'd be willing to donate theirs after death to someone in need. read more

unEarthed

  • 40 Years Later - Still A Breath of Fresh Air
    Take a deep breath and say "Happy Birthday" to one of our nation's most successful environmental laws. The Clean Air Act turns 40 this year, and we should all be thankful for what this monumental law has accomplished. According ...
  • Florida's Former Environment "Protectors" Are Pals ...
    Green slime caused by polluted waters The EPA committed to set these new limits after Earthjustice, representing Florida Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club, Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Environmental Confederation of South ...
  • Hawaii To Start Paying For Roof-Top Solar Electric ...
    European homeowners, especially those in Germany and Spain, may be ahead of America when it comes to switching over to rooftop solar electric panels, but Hawaii is on its way to catching up. That's because the Hawaii Public Uti ...
  • Large Kill-Off of Bluefin Tuna Tied to Gulf Oil Sp ...
    An estimated 20 percent of Atlantic bluefin tuna, spawned this year in the Gulf of Mexico, died because of BP's oil spill according to an assessment based on satellite images. The European Space Agency, in league with the Ocean ...
  • EPA Ends Era of Bad Air Quality Rules in SJ Valley
    Smoggy sunrise over San Joaquin Valley After years of fighting with the EPA and the local air district to improve air quality in California's smoggy San Joaquin Valley—and often feeling like all of our progress was being made ...

Brave New Climate

  • Who crippled the Murray Darling Basin?
    Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy. If I see another fruit tree, I’ll throw up! I guess that most people have seen information about the eco-footprint of different foods ...
  • SNE 2060 – are uranium resources sufficient?
    In the previous SNE2060 post, I considered four possible scenarios for expansion of ‘Generation III’ thermal nuclear power reactors for the period 2010 to 2060. I attached no probability to them, but obviously not all are equally plausible. For instance, I strongly doubt that the TR2 scenario, which ...
  • TCASE Video – Interactive discussions about ...
    Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy (TCASE) is a series of posts I’ve built up over the last year on BNC (and continue to add to). This has also branched off into a live seminar series (described in detail in this post), hosted by the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus), and has proven t ...
  • Discussion Thread – can nuclear be kick star ...
    I’ve split this discussion from Open Thread 6. I want to use this post to focus comments on whether lower-cost Gen II+ (e.g. via the Chinese CPR-1000 and Indian PHWR) are a better current option to be pursuing than higher-cost Gen III+ (like the AREVA EPR and any US proposal that you’d care to think ...
  • IFR FaD 8 – Two TV documentaries and a new f ...
    Want to know more about the Integral Fast Reactor technology from the comfort of your lounge room chair? Then these two fascinating videos, recently transcoded and uploaded by Steve Kirsch to the “ifr.blp.tv” website, are for you. You can watch online, or download in .MP4 format (choose the format a ...

Indigenist Opinion

  • Doing Exactly As They Have Been Trained
    Doing Exactly As They Have Been Trained | CommonDreams.org : "Disturbing videos of detainee abuse - subtle, mental and degrading, not Abu-Ghraib-brutal - has been released by Ethan McCord, the veteran who wrote the 'Open Letter of Reconciliation & Responsibility to the Iraqi People' after his Bravo ...
  • Cuba: Mensaje de Fidel Castro
    #Cuba: Mensaje de Fidel Castro � Yohandry’s Weblog : Lo último que podía esperarse eran las noticias de la expulsión de los gitanos franceses, víctimas de la crueldad de la extrema derecha francesa, que eleva ya a siete mil de ellos, las víctimas de otra especie de holocausto racial. Es elemental ...
  • Pentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destro ...
    Pentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destroying Every Copy of Military Memoir : [gawker.com] "The Pentagon is so worried about revelations in a new memoir about the War on Terror that it's considering buying 10,000 copies — the entire first printing — and destroying them. Sounds like a good b ...
  • Inside the killing fields of Queensland
    Inside the killing fields of Queensland | The Australian The discovery of a memoir by Steele Rudd's father sheds new light on the murderous collision between settlers and Aborigines on the Darling Downs At one time we had a blackfellow skull decorating the veranda, and not until it was removed woul ...
  • Columbus statue vandalized with red paint
    Columbus statue vandalized with red paint | Turn to 10 : "PROVIDENCE -- Portions of a statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence were covered in red paint, police said. The statue stands at the fork at Elmwood and Reservoir Avenues. A sign that read 'murderer' was also put around the statue's w ...

Republicans are a Disease

  • Fascism Is Finally Here
    Wait until all the corporate mobsters drop by the offices of the Republican tools they paid to have elected, and want more handouts, tax breaks, and subsidies. Do you think billionaires, and corporations spent all those anonymous millions on Republicans so said Republicans can serve the “people” ...
  • Think Republicans Are On Your Side?
    If you think Republicans are on your side, you are either a billionaire, in which case it is true, or you are mentally retarded, and you should be in an institution.
  • No Income Tax = 83 Of America’s 100 Largest ...
    83 of the nations largest 100 companies paid zero income tax last year. When the teabaggers to to Washington to try to take their country back, who is it that truly controls their country? I haven’t seen any anti corporate control, anti lobbyist signs at their rallies. Do they even know who their re ...
  • Tea Bagger Zombies Will Be Disappointed!
    Do you want to know what is sad? After the billionaires and Corporate America pour hundreds of millions into the campaigns of “conservatives” do you think when push comes to shove they won’t get their handouts? Their tax cuts? Their loopholes? Their subsidies? When the tea baggers work so hard to ge ...
  • Republicans Do Create Jobs
    In China.

Appalachia Rising

  • Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
    Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a found ...
  • Press Conference to be Held on June 15
    Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-2688 o ...
  • Press Inquiries
    All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conference H ...
  • New Flier for Appalachia Rising
  • Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachian ...
    Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind coalfi ...

Amped Status

  • Inside the Global Banking Intelligence Complex, BC ...
    Here is Part II of David DeGraw’s new book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.” The BCCI scandal gave citizens of the world a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the covert global banking intelligence power structure, revealing power politics in its purest form.
  • Bill Moyers on The Economic Elite Vs. The People o ...
    On March 1st, Bill Moyers gave his first public speech in three years, as the final speaker in the Dowmel Lecture series. In his speech, he addressed what he feels is "the greatest threat" to our country: the staggering inequality of wealth and the death of the middle class.
  • WAKE UP MEDIA! Lehman Report is Further Evidence o ...
    How much more evidence of a financial coup and the theft of trillions of dollars do we need before the media and our politicians do something, anything , to restore a rule of law in this nation? What is it going to take?
  • Jon Stewart & Dylan Ratigan: How Wall Street Robs ...
    Why are Jon Stewart and Dylan Ratigan the only two sources on US television who consistently report on the biggest theft of wealth in history? Consider this a devastatingly accurate introduction to the economic coup, or the Daily Show's Economic Coup for Dummies.
  • The Best Way to Rob a Country, Own a Bank
    The best way to understand the theft of trillions of our dollars, listen to William Black on The Real News Network...

+972

  • Please, don’t send your kid on a Birthrigth ...
    I ask this as an Israeli, who is trying to make Israel a better place, who served his country, and continues to struggle for a better society, for peace, for human rights and civil equality. Please, don’t send your children to Birthright Israel (“Taglit”), The Israeli Experience, or any similar proj ...
  • Oct 19: Netanyahu: Loyalty for Jews as well
      The Headlines: Jews will have to take loyalty oath > Netanyahu has decided that the proposed loyalty oath for naturalized citizens, to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic” state, will also apply to Jewish immigrants. Previously, the proposal was intended for non-Jews only. This revision seems u ...
  • 60 Minutes reports on Silwan, East Jerusalem
    Silwan is a dangerous neighborhood. Not only because of the simmering political tensions between the Palestinians and the Jewish settlers occupying houses in the city, but also because the neighborhood is one of the centers of the drug trade. But of all the cities and villages in the West Bank, the ...
  • Oct 18: Arab poverty on the rise, Barak’s pr ...
    The Headlines: Guilt and Innocence > The State Attorney has decided not to retroactively acquit Margalit Harshefi, who was convicted for knowing in advance about the intention to assassinate Prime Minister Rabin in 1995, and doing nothing to stop it. Influential columnist Nahum Barnea suggests reop ...
  • Between the Lines (Oct 17): Thousands Protest ‘Loy ...
    The Headlines: Demonstration against Racism > Thousands demonstrated against the proposed loyalty oath bill, and other racist and anti-democratic proposals. > The US and other major countries have expressed disappointment at the decision to resume settlement construction in East Jerusalem. A plann ...

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Matt Weidner Blog

  • Consumer attorneys see flaws in foreclosure reboot
    Published: Tuesday, 19 Oct 2010 “SAN FRANCISCO – Consumer attorneys say there are fresh examples of documentation problems in U.S. home foreclosure cases, even as major banks resume legal proceedings against delinquent borrowers. Bank of America and GMAC Mortgage, two of the largest serv ...
  • Federal Action of Florida Fraudclosure Gate
    I am taking serious heat and feel tremendous anxiety and pressure for the grave concerns I’ve expressed about how foreclosures are being implemented IN SOME COUNTIES AND IN SOME INSTANCES IN FLORIDA. My comments were not intended to be a repudiation of all courts or the entire state court system, I ...
  • THE NEWEST JACK BOOTED THUGS CASE.
    Please read the attached story that was just delivered by my clients.  I want everyone to understand just how widespread and pervasive these crimes are.  Our country has gone wild and out of control. My elderly clients who drafted this terrifying letter are terrified.  I frankly am terrified. The ba ...
  • DAVID J. STERN REPLACED AS CHAIRMAN OF DAVID J. ST ...
    According to a news release, David J. Stern has been replaced!  OH NO!  How can the company that bears one’s name function without the man behind the name?  Whoever will be in charge of performing the “non legal functions” of the enterprise?  What can this mean? On the conference call just a few ...
  • An Excellent Local News Story on Rocket Docket Abu ...
    Charlotte County Rocket Docket Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter

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The Parallel Parliament

  • New Digs
    Only a couple of months to go before I have to clear out of my office and into the new Promenade building on Sparks Street.  All of West Block – the building I’m in at present - will be gutted and eventually the House Chamber itself (where Question Period is held) will be moved over to [...]
  • Sudan – Late To The Game
    Our view on Africa is about ready to face a litmus test on a massive scale.  It might turn pretty ugly, or usher in a new era of hope on a troubled continent. Africa’s largest nation of Sudan is set to launch an exercise in democracy that will remind many of the heady era of [...]
  • “Quiet Crisis”
    The maddening distraction begins again, as Parliament resumes today.  You’ll hear about jet fighters, the gun registry, the long-form census, and other issues 24/7.  There will be virtually nothing about the increasing gap between rich and poor, the down-on-their-luck Nortel pensioners, the lack of ...
  • Angels On The Hill
    Opening day of the fall session of Parliament sees the MPs exchanging friendly greetings before the wars begin in earnest at Question Period in the afternoon.  I was fortunate enough first thing in the morning to run into some of the maintenance and planning staff in West Block – the building that h ...
  • Realigning Our Sights
    Sad to say, Ottawa’s coming to a standstill today â and over something as simple as a gun registry.  With all the more significant issues going on in the country, but avoided in this town, we are going to permit ourselves to be dominated for a time with something the present government has determ ...



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Renewables to contribute to Saudi power mix
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- Oct 20, 2010
- 19 minutes ago
By Reem Shamseddine RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia expects renewable sources to contribute to its energy mix as its need for power triples over the next ...
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Green revolution starts to take root
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- Oct 20, 2010
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A massive green rush is under way in South Africa, with major energy, construction and finance companies setting up specialised renewable energy units in ...
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Power Line for Renewable Energy to Generate 400 New Jobs in Nevada
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- Oct 19, 2010
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Renewable energy and new jobs are the reasons. Earlier this year, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger visited a tiny Mojave Desert outpost to help ...
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71400-panel solar farm planned for Salem County
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- Oct 20, 2010
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Consumer group: Chemical hazards lurk in walls, floors
Detroit Free Press
- Oct 20, 2010
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The Ecology Center of Ann Arbor said its findings show that there should be restrictions on dangerous substances in a wide range of home improvement ...
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Enviro Groups Press for Expanded EPA Oversight of Household Toxins
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A new report by the Ecology Center, a member of the broader coalition lobbying for greater US EPA power over hazardous substances, found that household ...
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Fight over rural water use faces critical decision
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It's over: Harbor-Works officially no longer exists
Peninsula Daily
- Oct 20, 2010
- 6 hours ago
... on the state Department of Ecology to ensure that environmental cleanup of Rayonier Inc.'s former pulp mill site doesn't continue to face delays. ...
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Blue Water ridership up 18.7%
Port Huron Times Herald
- Oct 20, 2010
- 3 hours ago
By JASON ALEXANDER The Blue Water train is going full speed ahead. That's because the Amtrak rail line between Port Huron and Chicago has had a record year ...
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Lindsay residents protest water-rate hike
Visalia Times-Delta
- Oct 20, 2010
- 3 hours ago
Resident Yolanda Flores paid $147 for her water bill in August and is looking at a $160 bill for September, she said. Lindsay residents, like those in ...
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Farmer has some advice for ministers
The Australian
- Oct 20, 2010
- 1 hour ago
Farmer Mike Carberry, who opposes water allocation cuts, in his wheat fields at Narrabri, northern NSW, yesterday. Picture: Vanessa Hunter Source: The ...
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DEP, Cabot argue over Dimock water contamination
Citizens Voice
- Oct 20, 2010
- 6 hours ago
In a press release also sent Tuesday, Cabot spokesman George Stark said that water tests performed by Cabot and DEP showed only four of the 18 water wells ...
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