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Thomas Paine

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Saturday, November 27, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • HAITI: Do Elections Equal Reconstruction?
    Posters cover almost every conceivable surface, even tombs in graveyards. Trucks mounted with loud speakers blare campaign jingles. Candidates' faces are everywhere. It's elections "à la américaine", complete with polls and whistle-stops.
  • Genetic Flight of Nature's Jewels from Chile
    Cactus, bushes, flowers and countless other plants are taken out of Chile daily to be studied, improved, marketed and patented. Due to the lack of regulations, the country can only stand by and watch them go.
  • DEVELOPMENT: Economic Boom Worsened De-industriali ...
    Least developed countries (LDCs) in Africa did not use the commodity export boom of the mid-2000s to diversify their economies from commodity dependence to manufacturing value-added products. Significantly, the agricultural sector has also not benefited, with the result that LDC reliance on ...
  • THAILAND: Photo Exhibition Captures Human Rights & ...
    In this fast-developing South-east Asian country where dizzying neon signboards and glass-clad skyscrapers have been overshadowed only by a colourful political battle, a group of young photographers are hoping their work behind the lens can bring human rights back into focus.
  • CAMBODIA: EU Trade Access Goes A Long Way
    When the European Union slapped crippling anti-dumping duties on Vietnamese bicycle exports in 2006, one factory's Taiwan- based owner decided enough was enough.

Scoop - NZ

  • Pashtuns Lose Parliamentary Majority
    Most of the results of the disputed parliamentary election in Afghanistan were announced on Wednesday. Altogether 24 candidates were disqualified from parliament because the Independent Electoral Commission found them guilty of fraud. Some 1.3 million of the 5.6 million votes were tossed out as inva ...
  • Cole: Scammed in Afghanistan
    The announcement by the New York Times that one of the supposedly prominent Taliban with whom the Karzai government has been negotiating turns out to be an impostor is only the latest depressing indication that the whole Afghanistan boondoggle is shot through with flimflammery. The US gave a man cla ...
  • BP oil spill victims denied right to sue
    Victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster won't be able to sue BP or any of the other companies involved with the Deepwater Horizon rig if they accept a final payment from BP's $20bn (�£12.6bn) compensation fund. The new rules are in a 12-page document posted on the website for the Gulf Coast Clai ...
  • UK banks hit as Irish rescue falter
    British banks lost billions of pounds in value on Monday after the Irish bail-out was thrown into jeopardy over concerns that the country's government might collapse before a rescue deal can be agreed. The share prices of Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds fell sharply as stock markets took fright a ...
  • Krugman: There Will Be Blood
    Former Senator Alan Simpson is a Very Serious Person. He must be - after all, President Obama appointed him as co-chairman of a special commission on deficit reduction. So here's what the very serious Mr. Simpson said on Friday: "I can't wait for the blood bath in April. ... When debt limit t ...

Independent - London

Rogue Government.com

  • EU Rescue Costs Start to Threaten Germany Itself
    The escalating debt crisis on the eurozone periphery is starting to contaminate the creditworthiness of Germany and the core states of monetary union.
  • Investors wonder: Is the stock market rigged?
    The Wall Street insider trading investigation may lead everyday investors — already rattled by a stock market meltdown, a one-day "flash crash" and the Madoff scandal — to finally conclude that the game is rigged.
  • Afghan "peace talks" impostor paid by MI6: report
    A man posing as a Taliban leader who had talks with Afghanistan's president was paid and promoted by British intelligence, a newspaper said on Friday.
  • Oxygen found on Saturn's moon Rhea
    A spacecraft has tasted oxygen in the atmosphere of another world for the first time while flying low over Saturn's icy moon, Rhea.
  • Report Says 92 Percent of Afghan Men Have Never He ...
    The report, by the International Council on Security and Development (ICOS), found that 92 percent of 1,000 men surveyed in Helmand and Kandahar provinces -- where the military surge against the Taliban has taken place -- have no knowledge of the 2001 attacks, Reuters reports.

Innovation Canada

  • When good stress turns bad
    Everyone experiences stress, whether it’s dealing with day-to-day annoyances, such as traffic jams or machines that just won’t work, or with truly life-altering events, such as the death of a loved one, a divorce or the loss of a job. Whatever the trigger, the initial response by the body and the br ...
  • Blowin’ in the wind
  • Studying sturgeon
    It can live 150 years, can grow up to six metres long and has not changed in more than 100 million years. The white sturgeon, North America’s largest freshwater fish, is also in such critical decline from overfishing, pollution and habitat destruction that many remaining populations have been declar ...
  • Talking Fish
    When the Atlantic cod fishery was closed in 1992, politicians and fishermen assumed the stock would recover and the bounty of fish would return to Newfoundland within a decade. But almost 20 years later, cod stocks remain low, and scientists are still trying to determine exactly why.The cod saga is ...
  • Bridge Building
    You’ve seen them, driven over them, walked through them, but you’ve probably never given them a second thought. Yet culverts — those corrugated steel arches buried under roads that allow rivers and streams, vehicles, people and animals to pass through — are a critical piece of infrastructure that we ...

Signs of the times

  • Oregon: Feds Stop Somali-Born Teen Who Plotted Car ...
    Feds: Somali-born teen plotted car-bomb attack in Oregon's biggest city A Somali-born teenager plotted to carry out a car bomb attack at a crowded Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland on Friday, but the bomb turned out to be a dud supplied by undercover agents as part of a sting, ...
  • Shots Fired At Haiti Election Rally
    Shots were fired Friday during a rally by one of the presidential candidates in Haiti's election. Michel Martelly, one of the leading candidates and a popular singer in Haiti, was leaving his final campaign rally Friday when shots were fired. It was the second such recent incident. Mirlande Mani ...
  • Korean War Could Involve Canada
    Old UN military alliance could require Canadian participation If war breaks out on the Korean peninsula, Canada could become embroiled because of a half-century-old United Nations military alliance, federal documents reveal. Canada's military obligations in the volatile region are outlined in a ...
  • The Hazardous Gas in Your Mouth: Is This the First ...
    Costa Mesa, California is the first city in the United States to call for an immediate end to dental amalgam. Dental amalgam is a filling material that is 50 percent mercury. The resolution calls on federal and state agencies to eliminate amalgam, and asks dentists in Costa Mesa to switch to non-to ...
  • The NEW Battle Strategy to Get Rid of Mercury Once ...
    We are at a critical time in the fight against mercury fillings. Thanks to your efforts at making your voice heard, on July 15, 2010, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chose a mercury-free dentist by the name of Michael Fleming to be on the Dental Products Panel, which will be th ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • Saturday, 27 November, 2010 is a day to mark on yo ...
    Just put a red X on that date and stare at it for a minute. Read this and know that it was predictable. Here's why. At 1900 hrs AFT on 27 December, 1979, 30 members of KGB Spetsgruppa Z, 24 members of GRU Spetsgruppa A, 520 men from the 154th Separate Spetsnaz Detachment of the Soviet Ministry of D ...
  • In a world of Grope and Fly . . .
  • Just awesome...
    Nine years of blood and treasure, including the deployment of the most sophisticated intelligence organisations in the history of the world, for this: The fake Taliban commander, said to actually be a Pakistani shopkeeper, received thousands of dollars in goodwill payments from the Afghan govern ...
  • A sense of humour . . .
    DUH concept: Don't mess with men's balls.
  • Crows...cats...
    Crows know things...about Mortal Kombat!

Media Matters for America

  • Fox continues its all-out assault on the Dream Ac ...
    Continuing its assault on the Dream Act, Fox News has repeatedly attacked and pushed falsehoods about the bill, which would provide a path to legal status for certain immigrants who came to the United States as children.Dobbs falsely claims Dream Act "permits those who have avoided their deporta ...
  • Beck tells audience to ruin Thanksgiving dinner w ...
    While advising his Fox News viewers to talk about inflation at their Thanksgiving dinners, Glenn Beck falsely claimed that the government removed food and energy prices from its measure of inflation to hide rising prices, that a survey showed economists are "worried" about inflation, and that S ...
  • "I say nuke 'em": Conservatives bang the drum for ...
    Following a North Korean attack on a South Korean island, conservative voices have appeared on air and online to promote the use of U.S. strikes against North Korea. Right-wing media: Act "like a superpower" and attack North Korea Scheuer implores U.S. to act "like a superpower" and "destroy" Nor ...
  • Predictable: Right-wing media respond to Park51 g ...
    The right-wing media responded to reports that the Park51 project is applying for a federal grant with anti-Islamic smears and baseless accusations.Right-wing resort to Islamophobia in Park51 grant reaction Geller: "Jihadist Developers of Ground Zero Mosque Hit Up 9/11 Fund to Rebuild Lower Ma ...
  • Fox News hosts tell Buffett to "quit lecturing" t ...
    Fox News figures seized on Warren Buffett's comment that "people at the high end -- people like myself -- should be paying a lot more in taxes" to attack him and other millionaires who support ending the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy. Fox has repeatedly defended the tax cuts for the wealth ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • J Street: Time For An American Plan
    TPM readers know of my high regard for J Street. Its leadership has just released a statement that is worth reading with no comment from me, except to say how fervently I agree with it. In the coming days or weeks, the United States may reach agreement with Israel on an extension of the limited m ...
  • Rabin's Son Presents Peace Plan
    This looks promising Yuval Rabin, Yitzhak Rabin's son, a political centrist who seemed to favor Netanyahu in the last election because he believed he could, if he wanted to, deliver peace, is now pushing his own peace plan. Contrary to what Americans might think, the name Rabin is not golden ...
  • This Thanksgiving, Looking Back at George Washingt ...
    I know it sounds really corny, but this Thanksgiving, I'm grateful that George Washington was our first President -- and that Barack Obama who like GW can be austere and seemingly distant from common folks but yet is smart and chameleon-like in his ability to forge compromises can still get a great ...
  • Is Wall Street Socially Useful?
    The New Yorker's John Cassidy got a fair amount of attention this week when he quoted the Chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority as saying that much of Wall Street is engaged in "socially useless activity". John Mack the President of Morgan Stanley counters that that Wall Street is criti ...
  • Obama's Humiliating Offer To Netanyahu
    Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's government has repeatedly treated even the most polite requests to live up to its international commitments (i.e., freezing settlements) with contempt. So now the Obama administration has escalated from simple requests to a version of "pretty please, with a cherry ...

TruthOut

  • How Are the Kids? Unemployed, Underwater, and Sink ...
    In some cultures asking how the kids are doing is a colloquial way of asking how the individual is faring, acknowledging that the vitality of the younger generation is a good metric for the well-being of society as a whole. In the United States, the state of the kids should be an important indicator ...
  • CBO: Recovery Act Raised GDP and Lowered Unemploym ...
    ABC News reports that the Congressional Budget Office this week released its latest report on the effects of the Recovery Act and found that it “raised the GDP, lowered unemployment, and increased the number of people with jobs.” According to the report, CBO estimates that the Recovery Act’s policie ...
  • On Eve of Egypt Polls, Mubarak's Ruling Party Tigh ...
    �Egypt's opposition politicians and their supporters have faced a steady stream of harassment in the lead-up to Sunday's parliamentary election. There's an upbeat mood in offices of the National Democratic Party (NDP) ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections.read more
  • Robert Reich | Sarah Palin’s Presidential Strategy ...
    Monday night, Sarah Palin watched from the audience as daughter Bristol danced on ABC. Twenty-three million other Americans joined her from their homes. Tuesday, the former vice-presidential candidate started a 13-state book tour for her new book, "America By Heart," which has a first printing of 1 ...
  • The Horror of Bush and the Problem for the Rest of ...
    I have long been an avid reader of the writings of William Rivers Pitt, whose strong moral voice and incisive intellect have never been more necessary than in this time of horrendous political and cultural corruption. And I have no doubt that his assessment of Bush and his reign of destruction will ...

Planetsave

  • Tigers (10 Friday Photos, doubled)
    In honor of the recent, historic tiger summit this month, this week’s 10 Friday Photos post is on tigers. And since the country leaders meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia decided to set the goal of doubling the number of wild tigers by 2022 (the next Year of the Tiger), we are doubling our photos th ...
  • Visualizing Sustainable Water Resource Management
    Water will become the most contentious and increasingly scarce resource. 3D modeling technology can help manage our most vital resource. This past summer the United Nations issued a declaration proclaiming access to clean water and sanitation as a fundamental human right. The declaration further adv ...
  • Leonardo DiCaprio Giving $1 Million to WWF for Tig ...
    A historic tiger summit took place this week in St. Petersburg, Russia, with key countries committing to double the number of wild tigers by 2022, the next “Year of the Tiger” in China. From about 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century to approximately 3,200 today, tigers have been hunted mer ...
  • Hunt Official Caught on Camera Beating Hound
    There’s basically one way to describe this, disgusting. The League Against Cruel Sports reports: On 18th November, our Operations Team were monitoring a hunt in the north Cotswolds, close to the village of Weston sub Edge. They witnessed a red-coated hunt official relentlessly laying into one of the ...
  • Chef Biker Delivering Soup by Bicycle
    SoupByCycle is the name of a business, and it all started due to a Louisville chef, Ian Richie, losing his job. Starting off delivering homemade soup to his friends via cargo bike and cooler, Richie’s little homegrown business has taken off.. (okay, I’m sure he’s not a millionaire yet, but his busin ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Afghanistan: the pipeline factor. Multibillion dol ...
    Of the many possible reasons for Canada to stay in Afghanistan — ending terrorism, liberating women, educating girls, spreading democracy, keeping NATO from failing — one dynamic is rarely discussed. The TAPI pipeline project has long been the elephant in the closet, quietly supported by Western pow ...
  • Bill Clinton: Haiti’s Neo-Colonial Overlord - Hait ...
    Ashley Smith is a featured speaker at a “Day of Outrage in Harlem” rally and march in support of the people of Haiti, on November 20. The theme of the protest is, “U.S. Out of Haiti – Clinton Out of Harlem.” The corporate media portrays former President Bill Clinton as...
  • Eva Golinger: US using democracy promotion as disg ...
    Source: RT News...
  • U.S. : Fast food, fat profits - Health/Medicine
    One out of every three Americans is obese, but food revolutions are underway and some are fighting back. Obesity in America has reached a crisis point. Two out of every three Americans are overweight, one out of every three is obese. One in three are expected to have diabetes by. ...
  • Daily aspirin dose 'for everyone over 45' - Health ...
    Everyone aged over 45 should consider a small daily dose of aspirin to help protect themselves against heart disease and cancer, a panel of experts suggested yesterday. Evidence is building that the benefits for many healthy middle-aged and older people “far outweigh” the side effects, a ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Because even the vicious fuckers can see there's no upside to Korean War II. "China's Foreign Ministry has begun working to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula, holding a series of talks with Washington, Seoul and Pyongyang. Officials said their priority was to avoid a recurrence of Tuesday's viol ...
  • Hold the Broadcasters Responsible
    Fixing the foundational cracks in American democracy revealed by the recent election is going to require multiple efforts on multiple fronts, ranging from reinvigorating the Democratic grassroots on the precinct level to passing and ratifying a Constitutional amendment barring the corporate purchase ...
  • And I'm back...
    There are two kinds of people in this country. Those who participate in the retail madness that started as early as midnight, and those of us who don't. I have never - not once in my adult life - participated in the nonsense, although I must say that it evolved organically. For practically my entir ...
  • Can We talk For A Minute About Real Health Care Re ...
    These links are courtesy of Kevin Drum at Mother Jones. �They make for some interesting reading if you're interested in covering all the bases. �Insurance companies aren't the only ones to profit hugely from the situation. �somewhere in about third place... right after the killer drug companies... w ...
  • Tom DeLay's Contempt for Rule of Law is Indictment ...
    When the owner of a Ruth's Chris Stake House informed a cigar puffing Tom DeLay back in 2003 that federal law prohibited smoking in restaurants, a defiant Republican House Majority Leader told the owner to take the complaint elsewhere because, said DeLay: "I AM the federal government." One year lat ...

Care 2

  • Creating a Greener City, One Rooftop at a Time
    Putting a green roof on a landmark building -- the city hall in Toronto or Chicago, a convention center in Vancouver, San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences -- has long been a highly visible way for cities to gain some green cachet...Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to Society & Culture �|� �Note ...
  • Police strip search video prompts outrage! Video!
    Public anger is mounting after the release of a video showing Ottawa police strip-searching a woman in the presence of male officers Submitted by Cher C. to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Ask the Government of Ontario to pass stronger exo ...
    On November 1 2010, MPP Dave Levac introduced a private members bill in the Ontario Legislature. If passed, Bill 125 - the Exotic Wildlife in Captivity Act - would give the Ministry of Natural Resources the ability to licence the keeping of exotic animalsSubmitted by Michelle Matthews to Animals �| ...
  • Frankenfood or futurefood? - Globe and Mail online ...
    Canadian-made Enviropigs and super-sized salmon are on pace to become the first genetically modified animals allowed into the food system: Are you ready to eat them? Submitted by Elena P. to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Colorado weighs difficulties of pot regulations | ...
    Colorado is working toward becoming the first state to regulate production of medical marijuana. Regulators say pot consumers deserve to know what they're smoking, and producers should have safety regulations such as pesticide limits for plants destined Submitted by John Cause to Health & Wellness ...

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Black Friday Open Thread
    Medicare’s future grows grimmer, with more and more physicians turning away Medicare patients … If you think that the TSA pat-downs are bad for passengers, so do the TSA agents … Karl Roves weighs in on Sarah Palin’s latest strategic moves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]
  • Will Obama Blink on North Korea?
    Is the joint U.S/South Korea military exercise scheduled to commence later this week a response to North Korea’s artillery shellacking last week of an island controlled by South Korea? No. It is simply a serendipitious coincidence. How do I know? Planning for any kind of military exercise, especiall ...
  • Some Days Are Just Special
    We all have bad days on the job. My most recent bad day started with a fender bender on a muddy road. Well, actually, it started when I said I would work patrol for another officer so he could take his wife to a medical appointment. It got worse when a passing car declined to [...]
  • DeLay Who?
    “And, Number 2, I’m not going to blame anybody,” remarks the convicted conspirator to launder money in Texas, Tom DeLay. The Texas prosecutors cooked this trial to fit the facts. Partisanship Texas-style is a sound clue. The facts of the case are not in dispute.  Tom DeLay, former Majority Leader of ...
  • Thanksgiving Open Thread
    A toast to a classy Republican congressman who lost his office on November 2nd because he refused to play the character assassination game (even though we do sometimes, eh?) … a choice list of the 30 worst “hacks” in the op-ed business … . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • Amazing Driftwood Sculptures
    Forget paper pulp and bottle banks, artist Heather Jansch gives recycling a breathtaking beauty with her life-sized animal sculptures made from natural materials. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • 6 Fastest Animals on Earth
    We all know how fast the cheetah is when hunting prey, but actually this animal is fairly slow compared to feathered hunters. Here there the fastest of their kind on eart read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...
  • Liquid Drops Forming Incredible Figures Frozen in ...
    Macro photography can produce incredible images of moments faster than the blink of an eye. Corrie White is a truly great exponent of this breathtaking art form. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Could Artificial Photosynthesis Ease Our Energy Cr ...
    Can we utilize photosynthesis to create carbon-based fuels? It all depends on the light... frequencies. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Khumbu Icefall: Mount Everest's Death Trap
    One of the most treacherous parts of the climb up Mount Everest isn't the summit - it's actually crossing the glacier at the mountain's base! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • A 'Crazy Bad' Day in Beijing
    After coal-fired heating kicks in, a tweet from the United States Embassy describes high levels of air pollution.
  • Explaining Norfolk's Creeping Tides
    Both land sinkage and the rising sea levels that scientists link to global warming seem to have played a role in tidal encroachment.
  • Medical Panel Urges a Low-Carbon Diet
    A network of leading medical academies urges nations to adopt policies to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, saying it will pay substantial health dividends, particularly in poorer regions.
  • The Sea Otter's Fate in California
    A legal settlement advances an effort to declare an experiment in limiting the southern sea otter's movements a failure. The goal now is to let the otters decide for themselves where they should live.
  • A Reprieve for Missing 9/11 Plaintiffs
    A federal judge appoints a lawyer to help locate and brief people who may want to opt into a settlement of health claims, even though a deadline has passed.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Foreign Policy Wisdom of the Late Great Chalmers J ...
    One of my favorite analyst/writer type people has been Chalmers Johnson. He passed away on Nov 20th. His books Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis were just fantastic, and it's pretty much due to him that the idea of Blowback got out there - the idea that imperial schemes cause messes that come right back ...
  • TC Indymedia Exclusive: Secret 'Trigger' & bluepri ...
    VIDEO! up now! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGMgAFJGxH0 National Level Exercise 2011 docs found on Army Corps fileserver prove upgrade for Secret 'Civil Disturbance Operations CONPLAN 3502' the Master Pentagon Blueprint for RNC/G20 Lockdowns, Policing Disasters & More By Dan Feidt for Twin Cities ...
  • Friday Evening: It's time to expose teh secret ops ...
      Hey everyone, the big story is finally getting released. This should clarify a lot of confusing dimensions to what's really been going on. And a huge relief to deal with - after months of work! It's a messy one - but really important. Tune into RuleOfLawRadio.com tonite, Fri Nov 19th  -- if ...
  • Waterfall New World Order Resistance of Minneapoli ...
    What can I say? I like street art – when it breaks up the unspeakable horror of the modernist nightmare, the endless, colorless flat planes composing our concrete public existence. So it was a surprise to go looking and find these big New World Order stencils around the Hennepin Avenue bridge ...
  • Storm the Boards! Applications Nearly Due for Comp ...
    I spent quite a while writing up all the open boards and appointments in Minnesota. The official post is here - http://tc.indymedia.org/2010/nov/storm-boards-applications-nearly-due-compensated-citizen-slots-panels-and-agencies Just for fun I'll crosspost the whole thing below. Worth yr effort ...

Daily Censored

  • Letters from Inside
    REMEMBER ME BY WESLEY C. LOGAN Most taxpayer’s of the golden state believe in California politician’s good common sense, in theory, but some how they can’t apply it to your daily lives, their failures are recorded every millisecond on the state budget meter as a constant reminder, something is radic ...
  • Baby, You Can Touch My Junk or Fear Not the Friend ...
    By Will Shonbrun Like all of you I was born totally immodest. For a few years there I didn’t care who saw, or for that matter handled, my so-called private parts. Naked came we and propriety be damned. Then we learned that was b-a-d; we were not to go flouncing our nakedness about. We were [...]
  • Jobs? You Want Jobs?
    Illegals hold seven million jobs, according to the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.  Seven million Hispanics are paying taxes for services, most of which they will never get. One notable exception, education.  As education is paid by property taxes, these illegals pay for education, ...
  • Detroit Teachers say ‘NO’ to privatization and a s ...
    Picture of Robert Bobb, Chief Financial Administrator and Eli Broad henchman along with David Bing, conservative mayor of Detroit and an employee of corporate Houghton Mifflin discussing their privatization efforts.   Press Release                                      For Immediate Release Detroit F ...
  • Yes, “There Will Be Blood.”
    We have arrived.  Recently, I wrote about Mt Clemens, Michigan that is going bankrupt.  That city only has 17,000 people, but the problem is that Mt Clemens is but one of many.  Because of the total obstructionist attitude of the Tea Party/Republican/Blue Dog Democrats, however, the Federal Governme ...

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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

  • PDA Board member David Swanson: PNAC calls for the ...
    PDA Board member David Swanson: PNAC calls for the assertion of American military might around the globe
  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 13: Interview ...
    This podcast is the second part of PDA’s election analysis. John Bonifaz of Freespeechforpeople.org is interviewed by PDA national director Tim Carpenter. In the last segment, PDA co-founder Steve Cobble gives us his take on ...
  • War Is A Lie
    Donate $75 or more and receive War Is A Lie Enter War Is A Lie in the “special fund” box I am about to publish a new book called War Is A Lie that takes on ...
  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 12: An Interv ...
    Now that the dust has settled following Election Day, PDA presents a two-part election analysis podast. In this episode, PDA National Director Tim Carpenter interviews author and journalist John Nichols and PDA field coordinator Conor ...
  • IOT: End the War and Occupations November Call
    On This Call… David Swanson: 1. Don’t use the term “Defense” spending when referring to military spending. 2. No one lost any of their elections because they failed to support the wars. 3. Warned about the ...

Marler Blog

  • Olivia Henderson, Corning, California E. coli vict ...
    According to Derek Demo of KHSL TV 12 in Chico-Redding E. coli O157:H7 victim Olivia Henderson is out of the hospital, but not out of the woods. "It's just hard to put into words. You hear of people having E. coli, but you never think of it actually happening to a member of your family” said Sue He ...
  • The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network ...
    And, what will the numbers be in 2011 when the CDC releases new estimates of foodborne disease? In 1999 the CDC using FoodNet estimated that foodborne diseases caused approximately 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths in the United States each year. These numbers are ci ...
  • Taking a Whack at Raw Milk - Again
    I must admit that I am a bit perplexed by the proponents of raw milk. On average it seems that they spend a disproportionate amount of time twittering on Twitter and posting angry comments on blogs – mine in particular - about “Food Nazis” – of which I am apparently one, along with a long list of p ...
  • E. coli Illnesses in Arizona (19), California (3), ...
    The Outbreak The CDC posted a few moments ago an update on the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to Bravo Gouda Cheese sold at Costco.� To date thirty-eight persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 have been reported from five states. The number of ill persons identified in each ...
  • Mason Jones E. coli O157:H7 death still causing an ...
    Most of you likely have not followed the story of Mason Jones, who in 2005 at the age of five died of E coli O157:H7 poisoning after eating a school lunch. I have followed it closely, in part because over the last few years, as I have spoken at Food Safety Conferences in Wales and England, Mason’s ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 11.24.10
    LA 2010: more details on the Honda Fit, including that weird extra fob Plus extra info on the tests Honda will do before the car comes out. X-Prize in-fighting goes public as Li-Ion Motors tries to back o ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.23.10
    LA 2010: Coda says all-electric production delay is a good thing for the final product Here's how you spin. Nissan Leaf snags 99 mpg rating on official EPA sticker How's that for best in cla ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.22.10
    Motley Fool says consider selling Tesla stock before it's too late But what do they know? GE's electric vehicle order to trigger fleet purchasing trend Tens of thousands of orders will do th ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 11.19.10
    LA 2010: Chevy Volt wins 2011 Green Car of the Year title Another sign the electric car era is here. LA 2010: Elon Musk says Tesla-powered Toyota RAV4 EV is good for Model S Partnership with ...
  • 2011 Chevy Volt wins Green Car of the Year title i ...
    Filed under: LA Auto Show, Hybrid, Sedan, Chevrolet, GM, Electric Joel Ewanick, VP, U.S. Marketing for General Motors, and the Chevy Volt with the Green Car of the Year Award The Chevrolet Volt drove off with the 2011 Green Car of the Year Award at the LA Auto Show this morning, beating out tough ...

Rafe's Radar

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!

  • The Health Insurance Industry’s Vendetta Against M ...
    Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, makes great movies but they are not generally considered “cliff-hangers.” All that might change since a whistle-blower on the “Democracy Now!” news hour revealed that health insurance executives thought they may have to implement a plan “to pu ...
  • Amy Goodman Interviewed on National Public Televis ...
  • MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Interviews Whistleblower W ...
    Following our interview with Wendell Potter, the former chief spokesman for CIGNA, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann invited Potter on his show to discuss the health insurance industry’s attack on Michael Moore and his film SiCKO . Watch here.
  • A Cry From Argentina: ‘Close Guantanamo’
    “Gitmo is going to remain open for the foreseeable future,” said an unnamed White House official to The Washington Post this week. For guidance on the notorious U.S. Navy base in Cuba, President Barack Obama should look to an old naval facility in Buenos Aires, Argentina. When Ana Maria Careaga wa ...
  • "Push Michael Moore Off A Cliff:" Health Insurance ...
    When Academy Award-winning film director Michael Moore announced he would be making a documentary about the American healthcare system in 2004, it put the health insurance industry on high alert. One person who immediately went on the offensive was Wendell Potter, who at the time was the chief spok ...

Farming Pathogens

  • Virus Dumping
    Man came to shake my hand / and rob me of my farm –Ryan Bingham Dumping grain on another country is a classic maneuver in economic warfare. When a country’s borders are opened by force or by choice, by structural adjustment or by neoliberal trade agreement, when tariffs and other forms of protection ...
  • We Can Think Ourselves into a Plague
    The power of the mind is a New Age staple. But, really, can I concentrate enough to levitate myself (much less get my laundry done today)? The materialist answers, funny you mention it, but, yeah, you can. A few minds thought through the ideas that produced the airplane and perhaps soon enough the p ...
  • 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 actively ...

Suzie-Q

  • 5 Ways to Deal With Your Conservative Relatives Th ...
    5 Ways to Deal With Your Conservative Relatives This Thanksgiving How does one deal with the conservatives at the family table while avoiding a massive food fight? Stay calm and relaxed, and follow these simple guidelines. AlterNet / By Sarah Seltzer and Lauren Kelley November 24, 2010 | Maybe your ...
  • Why Do Americans Keep Getting Suckered By Right-Wi ...
    Why Do Americans Keep Getting Suckered By Right-Wing Lies? The Nation / By Danny Goldberg Until progressives change the mind sets of the tens of millions who believe right-wing mythology, elections will be disappointing regardless of who is in the White House. November 21, 2010 | Ideas don’t happen ...
  • Bernanke Calls On Congress To Help The Economy &#8 ...
    Bernanke Calls On Congress To Help The Economy — For At Least The Fourth Time In Five Months Huff Post William Alden & Shahien Nasiripour First Posted: 11-20-10 09:01 AM   |   Updated: 11-20-10 01:55 PM NEW YORK — For at least the fourth time since June, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke p ...
  • The American Ruling Class
     Rolling Stone feature discusses issues explored in The American Ruling Class facebook�July 16, 2009 by Alive Mind The American Ruling Class has never been more relevant to the current news cycle or to the collective consciousness of the American public. Goldman Sachs is announcing record profits a ...
  • When Your ‘Junk’ Is Touched at the Air ...
    Cable news reached an all new level of self-satire and hackery this week as various daytime “serious” anchors mindlessly repeated the phrase “touch my junk” over and over. Years of journalism training, internships and advanced education and they’re repeating “touch my junk” in the context of a video ...

Solari

  • Giving Thanks
    Thanksgiving Day, presently celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863. It did not become a federal holiday until 1941. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the pilgrims survive the brutal winter. Th ...
  • Living Proof: Vitamin C - Miracle Cure?
    The amazing story of a King Country dairy farmer who caught swine flu and very nearly died. Intensive care specialists were all set to pull him off life support, saying there was no hope. But his family refused to give up. They demanded the doctors try high doses of Vitamin C, a radical treatment w ...
  • Bailout vs Economic Hit?
    Is the bailout of Ireland really a bailout, or is it instead an economic hit designed to harvest the assets of Ireland at rock bottom prices? Those considering this question might find this earlier interview of Greg Palast about IMF deals in Latin America to be of interest. - Catherine Transcript of ...
  • Study Finds Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick
    All deciduous trees in the Western world are affected. By René Schoemaker Radiation from Wi-Fi networks is harmful to trees, causing significant variations in growth, as well as bleeding and fissures in the bark, according to a recent study in the Netherlands. All deciduous trees in the Western wor ...
  • Quote du Jour
    Armies and bombs do not scare me, but a man with an idea I have not thought of does. ~ Chairman Mao Related reading: Mao Zedong Wikipedia

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 AfghanistanSri Lanka Gu ...
  • 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

  • A look at America’s lost decade
    Summary:  When the new Congress takes their seats in January, the Tea Party-dominated House will have many goals.  Jobs for the unemployed is not among them (they prefer to trust in the Blue Fairy).   The numbers paint a sad story, of little interest to our ruling elites. Let’s look at America’s ...
  • Why the Turkey is not our national bird, and a rem ...
    Summary: For our Constitutional regime to survive the coming troubles we’ll need social cohesion.  That means remembering who we are as a people and nation.  Remembering our shared history.  And most of all, remembering that America belongs to us, its citizens.  No matter how powerful our eli ...
  • A Thanksgiving Day note
    Summary:  Don Vandergriff tells us about a well-deserved Medal of Honor presented to SSG Giunta by President Obama.  As a contrast, Obama awards an undeserved Medal of Freedom to money, in the person of Warren Buffett. For those of us not able to be present when this young NCO received the Medal of ...
  • The Republicans are serious about the budget. The ...
    Summary:  After Obama taught the Democrats not to believe in change, they’re confident that the new Republicans are just as bogus.  The Democrats might be disappointed when the budget debates show us their true values, wisdom, and strength of will.  The results might prove unpleasant for Am ...
  • For Rome to prosper it must first burn
    Summary:   This is post #1701 on the FM website.  It’s a summary, guessing about the future of America based on the evidence and theories presented here (and at DNI) during the past 7 years.  The title describes the theme; at the end are links to more information. Most modern systems are robu ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Russian parliament condemns Stalin for Katyn massa ...
    BBC – Russia’s lower house of parliament has condemned Joseph Stalin by name for the mass execution of Poles at Katyn during World War II. The Duma declared that the Soviet dictator and other Soviet officials had ordered the “Katyn crime” in 1940. The statement, which comes weeks before a Russian pr ...
  • Toxic waste cargo ship ‘failed safety inspection’
    ABC – The Maritime Union of Australia is concerned about workers loading toxic waste from the Orica plant onto a ship bound for Denmark. The ship, Beluga Fascination, currently off the New South Wales coast, is preparing to take up to 3,000 tonnes of the waste from Sydney to the Danish port of Nybor ...
  • Second-hand smoke kills 600,000 a year: WHO study
    Reuters – Around one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking, which kills an estimated 600,000 people a year, World Health Organization (WHO) researchers said on Friday. In the first study to assess the global impact of second-hand smoke, WHO experts found that children are more heav ...
  • BP Oil Spill Incident Commander Killed in Plane Cr ...
    AAP – An executive helping to guide BP’s recovery from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a top Texas lawyer and his mother-in-law have been killed in a small plane crash in waters off northern Florida, officials said on Wednesday. James Patrick Black, 58, died about a mile from the Destin airport in th ...
  • Final draft of Iraq gas deal with Shell within 10 ...
    Reuters – The final draft of Iraq’s multibillion-dollar deal with Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote) to capture flared gas at southern oilfields will be completed within 10 days, a senior Iraqi oil official said on Friday. Read Article

The Progressive Realist

  • Stuxnet: All Signs Point to Russia
     No smoking gun cleanly identifies the author of Stuxnet but three broad streams of evidence suggest it is unlikely to be the usual suspects of Israel, the US, or China.  The code characteristics, the delivery mechanisms, and the geopolitical effects suggest one look for a state open to using proxie ...
  • Latest Events on the Korean Peninsula
    Several noteworthy events took place surrounding Korean Peninsula tensions over the last 24 hours. Reuters discusses the first two issues in this report. "We oppose any military act by any party conducted in China's exclusive economic zone without approval," China's Foreign Ministry said in an onli ...
  • How Much Does Ireland Produce?
    Can Ireland pay what it owes under any policy regime? One reason to doubt it is that as Simon Johnson argues, a lot of Ireland’s GDP is basically tax evasion rather than production: At least 20 percent of Irelandâs G.D.P. is from âghost corporationsâ that have little or no real activity in Ireland. ...
  • Oversight Fail: It Is Easier to Issue Claims of Pr ...
    When we launched the Afghanistan Study Group project and presented our first report in September, I read the following quote from one of America’s commanding generals in Afghanistan: “What we’re doing is moving to a more classic counterinsurgency strategy here in Afghanistan…That’s a fairly signific ...
  • Oversite Fail: It is Easier to Issue Claims of Pro ...
    When we launched the Afghanistan Study Group project and presented our first report in September, I read the following quote from one of America’s commanding generals in Afghanistan: “What we’re doing is moving to a more classic counterinsurgency strategy here in Afghanistan…That’s a fairly signific ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • More People Switch To Community Banks.
    I'm home for Thanksgiving, which means I'm reading about my Patriots big win yesterday in the Boston Globe. The paper also has coverage of another of my interests: consumer finance. Working off a Zogby survey -- I'm a bit skeptical of online surveys, but there you go -- the paper reports that mor ...
  • The Little Picture: Happy Thanksgiving.
    (Flickr/Guest Family) From all of us here at TAP, Happy Thanksgiving.
  • Ron in Reserve.
    Tim Fernholz explains why the GOP and Ron Paul finally set aside their differences to bash the Federal Reserve. Now, when Congress reorganizes in January, Paul is likely to be placed in charge of the House panel that oversees the Federal Reserve, and his fellow Republicans, led by Rep. Paul Ryan, a ...
  • Republicans to Go After Consumer Protection.
    In an unsurprising move, House Republicans are gearing up to hinder the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, established this past summer by the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation: While they have little hope of repealing the new consumer agency—which has broad powers to write rul ...
  • Off the Mark.
    Jamelle Bouie says conservatives ranting against earmarks are really promoting big government. But for all of their yelling about small government and a broken political process, conservatives seem to have missed an important point. Despite their modern association with corruption, earmarks are a g ...

Buzzflash

  • Five Reasons to Care about Haiti’s Sham Elections
    BILL QUIGLEY AND NICOLE PHILLIPS FOR BUZZFLASH Haiti needs legitimate leaders right now.  Unfortunately, the elections set for November 28, 2010 are a sham.  Here are five reasons why the world community should care. First, Haitian elections are supposed to choose their new President, the entire ...
  • The Lesson of Tom DeLay: a Jury of Our Peers Can W ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG FOR TRUTHOUT BY MARK KARLIN Justice may often be delayed, but it finally caught up with Tom DeLay. Convicted on counts of conspiracy and money laundering, a Texas jury decided that DeLay - the former GOP House Majority leader nicknamed "The Hammer" - was guilty of having v ...
  • Right Wing is Ginning Up the Outrage Against TSA t ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG FOR TRUTHOUT BY MARK KARLIN No one wants to be groped in order to board an airplane or go through a body scan that will cause exposure to radiation (although the level of danger is subject to a hot debate). And it doesn't help public opinion that bigwigs like John Boehner, ...
  • Please Mr. President: Don't Double Down on Your Mi ...
    DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH I have tried so hard to be a defender of President Obama but I think I have finally come down to my last straw!   I am so saddened by the news that the Obama White House is planning to cave in to the Republicans on tax cuts for the rich.  I am now convinced that these p ...
  • The Chertoff Connection: Body Scanners Are About P ...
    JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH It's amazing what our government has forced us to accept in the name of "security". They've bankrupted our treasury to chase down a hundred or so Islamic extremists hiding in the mountainous caves of Afghanistan.  The reasoning for this insanity is that "We must get t ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Six science books for the holiday season
    Six science books for the holiday season subjects as diverse as molecular biology pioneer Sydney Brenner, the question of antimatter, how scientists can better explain their research to non-scientists, a history of the chemical elements, scientific feuds and how innovators exploit business and techn ...
  • More thoughts on science from sciencebase
    My latest science news updates Low-allergy wine, true blood, boronic butterflies – The Alchemist learns of low-allergy wines could one day be possible thanks to the discovery of glycoproteins in the tipple that seem to trigger the sniffles and headaches in susceptible drinkers. In analytical news tr ...
  • Pharma industry could thrive in open
    The pharmaceutical industry is facing tough times. The patents for many of the billion-dollar blockbuster drugs have expired, generics have taken market share. Health insurance companies and national health services are under increasing pressure to cut costs. Manufacturers and governments in the dev ...
  • More thoughts on science from sciencebase
    My latest science news updates Alternative medicine and the law – The science, history, politics, religion, and culture that mean it is legal to sell quackery in many parts of the world. NHS.uk allowing Google, Facebook, and others to track you – The UK's National Health Service has implemented vari ...
  • Science sightings from sciencebase
    My latest science news updates First stem cell trial in stroke patient, how did the media do – In its regular assessment and critique of reporting on medical happenings, NHS Choices looked at the recent early test of stem cell therapy for a stroke victim and reports (amazingly) that "In general, the ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Teen Supported by NRA Lawsuit Fills Facebook Page ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2010Brady CampaignViolent images and messages fill the Facebook pages of the 18-year-old Texan, who has brought a lawsuit, joined by the National Rifle Association, to give 18-20 year-olds a constitutional right to carry concealed weapons in public, according to ...
  • Korean Conflict
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2010Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) THOMAS P. KIM Kim is executive director of the Korea Policy Institute and professor of politics and international relations at Scripps College. JOHN FEFFERread more
  • Broad Coalition Reinforces Opposition to Radioact ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2010Beyond NuclearA broad coalition of groups in both the U.S. and Canada took full advantage of an opportunity provided by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) to voice continued opposition to the shipment of radioactive steam generators on the Great ...
  • Lawsuit Filed Over EPA Refusal to Address Lead Poi ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2010Center for Biological DiversityConservation and hunting groups today sued the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to regulate toxic lead that frequently poisons and kills eagles, swans, cranes, loons, endangered California condors and other wild ...
  • Tribunal finds American and International Business ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2010CODEPINKOn Monday, November 22, The Russell Tribunal on Palestine announced its verdict after weekend deliberations on corporate complicity in Israeli violations of international law.  Juror Michael Mansfield QC, who chaired the concluding press conference, ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • The Health Insurance Industry’s Vendetta Against M ...
    by Amy GoodmanMichael Moore, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, makes great movies but they are not generally considered "cliff-hangers." All that might change since a whistle-blower on the "Democracy Now!" news hour revealed that health insurance executives thought they may have to implem ...
  • Another Taxpayer-Funded Thanksgiving Feast for Wal ...
    by Les Leopold"Thus the real reason for Thanksgiving, deleted from the official story, is: Socialism does not work; the one and only source of abundance is free markets, and we thank God we live in a country where we can have them." ~ "The Great Thanksgiving Host," The Ludwig Von Mises Institute ...
  • They May Not Work, But They Do Cause Cancer: Invas ...
    by James RidgewayAre you one of the millions of Americans flying this Thanksgiving weekend? Are you thinking about joining the national protest to opt-out of being run through an airport X-ray scanner? If you're worried about the alternative--getting groped by TSA screeners at the checkpoint--y ...
  • Fail and Grow Rich on Wall Street
    by Robert ScheerWelcome to the brave new world of post-bailout capitalism. The Commerce Department announced Tuesday that corporate profits are at their highest level in U.S.read more
  • Coal Battle over Blair Mountain Battlefield
    by Jeff BiggersAs we huddle around our Thanksgiving dinner tables on Thursday, reflecting on the bounty of our nation, recently elected US Sen. Joe Manchin will have the choice to either break bread with West Virginia coal miners or dine at the table of the faltering and violation-ridden Richmon ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Bad Hippies! No December Afghanistan Review For Yo ...
    By Steve Hynd Karl Eikenberry is the latest administration official to tell us that the thorough review of progress that Obama promised the nation a year ago when he ordered the Afghan surge will instead be just a rubberstamp of "staying the course" for another Friedman Unit. I won't prejudge the De ...
  • Subliminal Messaging On Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd A report last week by veteran Af/Pak analyst Ahmed Rashid, nicely timed for the Lisbon summit at which NATO rolled out its "aspirational" date of 2014 for an Afghan transition, says that Afghan president Hamid Karzai has never been so anti-Western and anti-American in his views. In an ...
  • Taliban Negotiator Was Imposter, Received "A Lot O ...
    By Steve Hynd It sounds like something from The Onion, but it's by Dexter Filkins in the NYT: For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because of the appearance of a certain insurgent leader at one end of the tab ...
  • In Afghanistan, The Occupation Is The Problem
    By Steve Hynd Your Af/Pak "must-read" for today is by analyst Alex Strick van Linschoten, who lives in Kandahar. In a piece entitled "Five Things David Petraeus Wants You To Believe" he sets out the problems with Petraeus happy-talk about "momentum" in Afghanistan. It's essentially un-excerptable so ...
  • If 2015, Why Not Now?
    By Steve Hynd The editors of the UK's Independent newspaper are making a lot of sense: Nato's new policy of disengagement is neither as clear nor as quick as it should be, but it is a welcome recognition that the end state in Afghanistan is never going to be perfect and that an open-ended commitment ...

Water Wars

  • In the thick of it
    Tributes to 'seen-it-all' writer who got behind the story
  • Water wars for the city
    Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.
  • Western states edge ever-closer to water conflicts
    A water war may soon erupt among Western states, and Colorado could end up losing. Demand for water is increasing, supplies are shrinking, and cities including Colorado Springs, Phoenix and Las Vegas are bracing for battle on the political and legal fronts. Seventy percent of Colorado Springs’ drink ...
  • Nov. 14 Friends & Neighbors
    St. Cecilia School: Kindergarten event Tuesday
  • Federal judge to no longer oversee Detroit water d ...
    The federal judge who has refereed water wars between Detroit and its suburbs for more than three decades has stepped down from the case, raising questions about the operation of the agency that provides water to 4 in 10 Michigan residents.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 24
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • Arguments against life extension
    Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
  • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
    Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
  • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
    Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
  • How to be a futurist
    The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Follow F ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Industry's Payments to NIH's Medical Researchers M ...
    To borrow a phrase taken from Dr. Samuel Johnson, privacy may be the last refuge of a scoundrel. Some federally funded medical researchers have managed for years to keep their financial arrangements with drug companies hidden from the public and...
  • Department of Justice Announces Fraud Recovery Num ...
    The Department of Justice just made its annual announcement of fraud recoveries under the False Claims Act for the previous fiscal year. The Department of Justice claims it secured $3 billion in civil settlements and judgments in cases involving fraud...
  • Morning Smoke: "Top Kill" Doomed from Start Due Ba ...
    Spill Fix Doomed to Fail by Siobahn Hughes [The Wall Street Journal] House Dems press Interior to finish probe over fears of second Gulf spill by Darren Goode [The Hill] Hedge Funds Raided in Probe by Susan Pulliam, Michael Rothfeld...
  • Let's Get Small: SBA Puts GTSI Co-Conspirators in ...
    Last week, the Small Business Administration (SBA) suspended EG Solutions and MultimaxArray FirstSource, temporarily barring the two companies from bidding on new federal contracts. The two companies are alleged to have been a part of contracting schemes carried out by...
  • More Secrecy Surrounding TSA Case?
    Recently we wrote an article about how the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) has invoked “sensitive security information” in an effort to seal former Federal Air Marshal Manuel V. Alcaraz’s employment case before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). As it...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demeaning, ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 su ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of the Do ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high; it ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unpunis ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a school ...
  • The Human Right to Housing Revisited
    On December 10th, 2008 the D.C. Council declared Washington, D.C. to be the first human rights city in the nation. Sadly, the Council still has not taken any steps beyond that to enforce any human rights, least of all the human right to housing. One of my first posts here was about the human right t ...
  • Texas Town Delays and Weakens Plans for a Homeless ...
    When they say everything is bigger in Texas, you would hope that would also mean a larger sense of compassion. But when it comes to dealing with homelessness, that's not always the case. The City Council of Lubbock, Texas, has once again stalled on proposed plans to establish a homeless committee to ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Is the Defence Department feeling the heat over F- ...
    The Defence Department has commenced a public relations campaign to sell the Canadian public on the Harper government’s decision to buy the F-35 fighter (Steven Chase, “PR blitz aims to sell “skeptical public” on need for F-35 fighter jets“, Globe and Mail, 24 November 2010). Roundtables targeting ...
  • WikiLeaks strikes again
    After WikiLeaks’ controversial release in October of 400,000 Pentagon reports pertaining to the Iraq war, Washington is gearing up to respond to the release of another batch of secret files. Washington is also doing damage control in preparation for the release of internal documents that may conta ...
  • Peace talks with Taliban imposter?
    Reports surfaced this week in the New York Times and Washington Times indicating that one of the high-ranking Taliban officials said to be leading the Taliban side of the informal peace talks with the Afghan government and coalition forces, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, was instead a shopkeeper fr ...
  • Raging Grannies protest in Ottawa
    Photos from the Raging Grannies protest last weekend in front of the Prime Minister’s Office and in Ottawa’s Byward Market. The group was protesting the planned extension of Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan.
  • North Korea fires at South Korean island
    North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday. The exchange was begun by North Korea, which fired at a South Korean island near their western border. South Korea returned the fire, and South Korean officials are accusing North Korea of violating the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean W ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • My Holiday Gift Ideas!
    Thanksgiving is upon us and you know what that signifies! It’s that time again to open up your wallet and show people how much you care with elegantly wrapped presents. So, why not show them how much you really care by improving their health habits, too? Personally, I buy Fred Van Liew’s water filt ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-24-10
    Today, Kevin gives you the inside story behind America’s involvement in the Haiti earthquake and behind the most famous conspiracy theories in our history. Permanent Latisse Side Effects Cause for Alarm Non-Stick Pans Linked to Thyroid Disease Plus, Dr. R. Geoffrey Broderick of Cornucopia Express ex ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 11-23-10
    Today, fresh & tan from The Dominican Republic, Kevin gives you the secrets behind success in network marketing. Find out what the number one cause of cancer is and what you can do to prevent it from happening to you! GM Crops Cause Organ Damage Obama Breaks Transparency Promise The 545 People Respo ...
  • Galeos Caesar Dressing Not What It Claims To Be
    November 22nd, 2010 WalletPop By: Mitch Lipka Galeos Miso Caesar Dressing, a supposedly low-calorie and low-fat product hyped on NBC’s reality show “The Biggest Loser” and endorsed by trainer Jillian Michaels, among others, is neither low-cal nor low-fat, lab tests commissioned by Consumer Ally foun ...
  • FDA Pulls Painkiller Darvon Over Safety Risks
    November 22nd, 2010 AOL News By: Matthew Perrone The maker of the painkiller Darvon is pulling the drug off the market under pressure from public health officials who say it causes dangerous heart rhythms. The Food and Drug Administration says the drugmaker Xanodyne will halt marketing of Darvon and ...

Pambazuka News

  • Break the Silence Congo week
    The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
  • Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice by em ...
    On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
    Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...

War in Context

  • Obama’s national security state
    Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and adjunct professor of law at Columbia University Law School, interviewed by International Socialist Revew: ISR: Let’s start with the Obama administrationâs policies on habeas corpus and on torture. As a presidential candidat ...
  • The misunderestimation of Sarah Palin
    In The Nation, Melissa Harris-Perry writes: I assigned Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue in my course on women in contemporary US media and politics. I spent the week walking around town, riding the train and dashing through airports with the book tucked under my arm. “Isn’t she awesome?” gushed a waitress ...
  • Crisis on the Korean peninsula or business as usua ...
    Steven Borowiec writes: South Korean officials promised “enormous retaliation” if more North Korean attacks follow the shelling Tuesday of tiny Yeonpyeong island. For more than one reason, they can be glad that hasn’t happened. To match the North’s aggression would cause a destructive conflict; to ...
  • Cyber-con
    In the London Review of Books, James Harkin writes: Does Twitter have the power that is claimed for it? Some evidence from the contested Iranian election is presented in Death to the Dictator!, the first book-length account of the activist movement’s rise and fall. The book claims to be the work of ...
  • Iran tests its checks and balances
    Jamsheed K. Choksy writes: Casual Iran observers tend to portray the country’s most prominent political division as that between fundamentalist hard-liners and secular moderates. In reality, however, the struggle for Iran’s future is a three-way fight waged by the different branches of conservative ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Pielke Jr. on Trenberth’s Book Review
    Dr. Roger Pielke Junior sent this along with the options to ignore it, or to publish in whole or in part. Apparently, Dr. Kevin Trenberth can’t account for the facts in the book, The Climate Fix, and it’s a travesty … Continue reading →
  • Does Hadley Centre Sea Surface Temperature Data (H ...
    Guest post by Bob Tisdale In advance of the UN negotiations next week in Cancun, the press and blogs today have included numerous elaborations on the UK Met Office press release Scientific evidence is Met Office focus at Cancun. The … Continue reading →
  • Friday Funny: “Pay up, Suckas”
    From the “I have first dibs on Uranus” department: From Yahoo News/AFP: Spanish woman claims ownership of the Sun MADRID (AFP) â After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner — a woman from Spain’s soggy region of … Continue reading →
  • NYT’s sort-of-clarity on Norfolk sinking aka ...
    This is a map and photo of Sharp’s Island and its sinking lighthouse in Chesapeake Bay, we’ll get back to that after the main article about Norfolk. GreenHell Blog writes: In an above-the-fold, front-page story, the Timesâ Leslie Kaufman tried … Continue reading →
  • Examination of CRU data suggests no statistically ...
    Readers may recall this quote from Dr. Phil Jones of CRU, by the BBC: Q: Do you agree that from 1995 to the present there has been no statistically-significant global warming A: Yes, but only just. I also calculated the … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Michael Parenti: The Myth of the Founding Fathers ...
    by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org Nov. 27, 2010 www.radio4all.net As the United States government claims to spread democracy around the world and is deeply involved in ghost writing constitutions for other countries, the spotlight falls back on this country. ...
  • The Harvest: Farming Sustainably in New York
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ lauraflanders | November 24, 2010 Eating less meat might be better for the world, but it can definitely be delicious. Buckwheat is actually a fruit, a grain substitute that can be excellent for those with gluten sensitivities, or just a nice alternative to the us ...
  • Truth About Global Economic Crisis: Book Review by ...
    by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org Nov. 26, 2010 You want to read The Global Economic Crisis The Great Depression of the XXI Century, edited by Michel Chossudovsky and Andrew Gavin Marshall, if you meet these criteria: you welcome information and analysis about crit ...
  • Cut to the political heart of a U.S. holiday on th ...
    by Roxanne Amico Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Spiritmorph Studio Nov. 25, 2010 This is a post I wrote on âThanksgiving Day.” [Before that is this very important reminder that ânatural gas frackingâ (DRILLING) has already been proven lethally dangerous to all land, air, water, food, and the commun ...
  • Derrick Jensen: It’s Very Important for Us to Star ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Nov. 26, 2010 Author and Activist Derrick Jensen: “The Dominant Culture is Killing the Planet…Itâs Very Important for Us to Start to Build a Culture of Resistance” We speak with Derrick Jensen, who has been called the poet-philosopher of the ecolog ...

Your New Reality

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    Very soon, this could be what you find when you go to your favourite independent news site to load up on truth to help fight the daily barrage of lies. Piracy prosecutions can and will be used to close down news sites. Not CNN or FoxNews of course. I mean the ones that carry actual, real news. ...
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    The "structure" discovered at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy :
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    Where icebergs are 'born' : From the Earth Observatory
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    David Foster Wallace : "Human beings are narrative animals: every culture countenances itself as culture via a story, whether mythopoeic or politico-economic; every whole person understands his lifetime as an organized, recountable series of events and changes with at least a beginning and middle ...

Wired - Science

  • How to Make an All-Instant Thanksgiving Dinner
    It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and you forgot to reserve a turkey. Or maybe you are short on time, or just really lazy and don’t want to actually cook the meal. Either way, modern food science has the entire turkey day menu covered: Just add water. We put together an all-instant menu, made up o ...
  • How to Catch Microbes Hitchhiking to Mars
    Microbial stowaways on Mars rovers could raise false alarms for astrobiologists hoping to find evidence of life — or worse, could wipe out native Martians waiting in the soil. A new study suggests that current techniques for cleaning Mars rovers could let some of the hardiest life forms, single-cel ...
  • Aerial Art Sends Climate Message
    See Also: Exclusive Excerpt: Hack the Planet Scientists Still Waiting to Hear From Journalists Covering Copenhagen Yes Men Want Scientists to Get Political Russian Heat, Asian Floods May Be Linked The Psychology of Climate-Change Denial Brandon’s Twitter stream, reportorial outtakes and citizen-fu ...
  • Pulsing Stars Could Fill in for GPS Satellites
    To find your favorite coffee shop in an unknown city, getting directions via satellite works like a charm. But that technology won’t get you from Earth to Jupiter. So theorists have proposed a new type of positioning system based on blinking stars instead of satellites. By receiving radio blips ...
  • Zoom in on Top 8 Ultra-High-Resolution Science Pan ...
    Via: National Geographic See Also: Astronomers Make 5-Gigapixel Image of Milky Way Beautiful 17-Gigapixel, 96.5-Gigabyte Image of Yosemite 570-Megapixel Camera Prepares to Hunt for Dark Energy Earth as Art: Stunning New Images From Space Follow us on Twitter @davemosher and @wiredscience, and on ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Publish it Not
    Jonathan Cook, reporting on Israel and the Occupation for over a decade now, provides a comprehensive review of the many ways in which Israel attempts to suppress, control, shape and bias media... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Publish it Not – Part II
    Jonathan Cook, reporting on Israel and the Occupation for over a decade now, provides a comprehensive review of the many ways in which Israel attempts to suppress, control, shape and bias media... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Images: News
    A selection of images from the news The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Judith Butler: “What shall we do without exile” Ma ...
    The sixth Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture organized by the Department of English and Comparative Literature, American University in Cairo, by Judith Butler. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA ...
  • Israeli referendum bill uses public as peace deal ...
    Knesset approves bill mandating referendum before decision to withdraw from Israeli territory, but does not enable appeal against decision to reject a peace agreement... The wording of the question... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Seeds of Gulf Dead Zones Are Draining from U.S. Fa ...
    A study recently published in the Journal of Environmental Quality by a team from Cornell University and the University of Illinois-Urbana found that tile drainage systems in upper Mississippi farmlands - from southwest Minnesota to Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio - are the biggest contributors of ...
  • A High-Yield Biomass Alternative for Making Chemic ...
    With a new process, chemical engineers can make valuable chemicals such as benzene, toluene and xylenes from pyrolytic oils, the cheapest liquid fuels available today from biomass. This could reduce or eliminate reliance on fossil fuels to make industrial chemicals worth an estimated $400 billion.
  • Media Availability for Dr. Hotez: NEJM Commentary: ...
    Recent events in Haiti illustrate the urgent need for countries to stockpile and distribute cholera vaccines. Dr. Peter Hotez, President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and distinguished research professor and chair of The George Washington University Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropi ...
  • Three NIST Scientists Earn Presidential Early Care ...
    Three NIST researchers have been chosen to receive Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
  • 2010 Baldrige Award Winners Announced
    Seven organizations have been selected to receive the 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest Presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improvement and visionary leadership. This marks the first year that three small businesses have been selected at ...

Natural Health News

  • Antioxidants Reduce the Inflammatory Effects of Al ...
    An antioxidant-rich diet could reduce levels of the amino acid homocysteine and counter the detrimental inflammatory effects associated with Alzheimer�s disease. �A new study found that daily consumption of an antioxidant-rich drink for eight months was associated with a smaller increase in homocyst ...
  • To Reduce Pain and Alter Your Brain, Try Meditatio ...
    Meditation is a known painkiller, and a new study has revealed why -- meditation changes the way your brain processes pain signals. Researchers report that practicing mindfulness meditation for just four days affects pain responses in your brain. Brain activity decreases in areas devoted to monitor ...
  • Diabesity and the Rising Obesity Epidemic
    Obesity and diabetes are both continuing to rise at an alarming rate. �Given the relationship between the two problems, researchers have coined a new word � diabesity, or diabetes occurring in the context of obesity. � It is also commonly referred to as obesity-dependent diabetes. Concern is mounti ...
  • Soft Drinks are not a Solution for Malnutrition
    A bizarre article in the journal Pediatrics, entitled �Malnutrition and the role of the soft drink industry in improving child health in sub-Saharan Africa,� advocates for fortifying soft drinks with vitamins and minerals to stave off malnutrition.� It makes this proposal even after explaining how c ...
  • When Unhealthy Foods are Advertised in a Healthy C ...
    A new study examining the wider context in which foods are advertised on television.� It found that the �incidental� foods shown in the background are usually significantly healthier than the primary foods being advertised. About two-thirds of food advertisements do not contain any incidental food ...

Antemedius

  • Sen. Kyl Plays Politics With Nuclear Safety, And W ...
    What do you do when you get everything you ask for in a negotiation? Do you take the deal or do you continue to push and delay? Well if you are a Republican in the Senate it is obviously the latter. It does not matter if the issue is, oh, say the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. You know it is n ...
  • The Last Refuge of Failed Economic Empires and Ban ...
    Laura Flanders of GRITtv.org talks with economist & Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington Dean Baker about the Obama Administration deficit commission's recommendations for massive cuts across the budget, most significantly to Social Security and health care progra ...
  • WaPo's Gerson Hacks Up Another Fur Ball Into Natio ...
    Michael Gearson of the Washington Post Editorial page really phones one in today. I know it is the day after Thanksgiving and there is a tendency to just rehash old arguments in an effort to get a column or blog post out, but really this is beautiful example of false equivalency and intellectual laz ...
  • Extend Bush Tax Cuts? Don't Call it Compromise, i ...
    Barack Obama as an Illinoisan who is also America’s first African American president could be expected to be absorbed by Doris Kearns Goodwin’s historical work on Lincoln, “Team of Rivals”. An impressive entry on Obama’s student resume was serving as president of the Harvard Law Review. In that s ...
  • The US $200-Trillion Debt Which Cannot Be Named
    From The Daily Bell The scary real U.S. government debt ... Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff says U.S. government debt is not $13.5-trillion (U.S.), which is 60 percent of current gross domestic product, as global investors and American taxpayers think, but rather 14-fold higher: $200- ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks more tr ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking g ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of global wa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

Opinio Juris

  • A Response to Jean-Marc Coicaud by Ramesh Thakur
    by MJIL by MJIL Dr Jean-Marc Coicaud is one of the more thoughtful and reflective UN officials, and his response shows why. Broadly speaking, I agree with all three of his comments The conceptual, political and operational relationship between law and legitimacy will be treated differently by pol ...
  • Understanding the Legitimacy Crisis of the UN — Th ...
    by MJIL by MJIL [Dr Jean-Marc Coicaud is the Director of the United Nations University Office at the United Nations in New York.] Professor Thakur highlights what he claims to be today the weak legitimacy of the United Nations. He does so not only by stressing the gap between the principles upon ...
  • ‘Law, Legitimacy and United Nations’ by Professor ...
    by MJIL by MJIL [Ramesh Thakur is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada.] The UN is the site where power should be moderated by lawful authority. Legitimacy connects authority to po ...
  • Melbourne Journal of International Law, Vol. 11-1: ...
    by MJIL by MJIL We are delighted to introduce the second online symposium issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law hosted by Opinio Juris. This week will feature three pieces published in our most recent issue — issue 11(1). The issue was generalist in its focus and saw articles on top ...
  • A Response to Beth Van Schaack by Douglas Guilfoyl ...
    by MJIL by MJIL I am grateful to Professor Van Schaack for her thoughtful and considered response. It strikes me as an entirely fair criticism that – albeit in a short commentary focusing on the standards governing the use of force by governments – I neglected to explore fully issues of combatan ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • RIP, men
    Our sympathies and prayers are with those left behind in the mine, and their families. Could NZ have done it better? Only an inquiry will tell us now. One thing I want to make clear, however. Much as I might...
  • Methane didn't seem to scare US rescuers as much
    Armchair OSH apologists in the media and in Sci-blogs have been trying to justify the lack of a rescue in Greymouth because of the dangers from gases. I'm no mining engineer, so I stand to be corrected, but like many...
  • Mine Blast: Cowardice in NZ Police
    I am staggered that police have so far failed to enter the mine because of poisonous gas. One man with breathing gear could sort this out. Hopeless.
  • MINE BLAST: Australians and Brits among missing
    THe news conference on the NZ coal mine explosion has been told a number of foreigners, including Australians and British nationals, are among the missing.
  • BREAKING: At least 29 missing
    Initial reports that up to five people survived yesterday's Pike River coalmine blast were wrong. The mine's CEO has just told a news conference only two people have surfaced, and three men who were expected to come out never did....

My Care2 Picks

  • Chalmers Johnson Podcast on his book on Empire
    2003 ? interview on militarization of the world and proliferation of secret U.S. bases - institution of the military-industrial complex repeatedly warned about back to MadisonSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Journalists arrested at U.S. 'School of the Americ ...
    -Two journalists from the Moscow-based broadcast outlet Russia Today were arrested on November 20 while covering a protest against the U.S. military training center formerly known as the "School of the Americas" at Fort Benning, GeorgiaSubmitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Communication or communion?
    A blogger introduces conversation on the need for real communication - the ironies and perversities of life - and perhaps even share the desire 'to unscrew the inscrutable.'Submitted by John Farnham to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tunkashila 4 of 13
    Tunkashila is a documentary about sovereignty and self empowerment.Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Coal-Fired Power Plants Affect Our Health ! PLEASE ...
    A new study has shown that fine particle pollution from coal-fired power plants could cause an estimated 13,200 deaths in 2010 alone. That's on top of the 20,000 heart attacks and 9,700 hospitalizations that are expected each year as a result of exposureSubmitted by Cher C. to Health & Wellness �|� ...

Angry Indian News

  • Federal troops, police prepare Rio slum offensive ...
    Federal troops, police prepare Rio slum offensive | Reuters: "(Reuters) - Backed by armored personnel carriers and 800 army soldiers, police prepared a major offensive on Friday to occupy one of Rio... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • WikiLeaks has announced release of Secret Correspo ...
    WikiLeaks has announced release of State Department Secret Correspondence [globalresearch.ca] Whistleblower website WikiLeaks, which has published hundreds of U.S. war logs, has announced a pending... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Bibiton: Diskin to Mossad � Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: ...
    Bibiton: Diskin to Mossad � Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place Bibiton clearly has a favored candidate to replace Meir Dagan as new Mossad chief. He’s Yuval Diskin, who’s been... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Hundreds farewell Tiwi football identity - ABC New ...
    Hundreds farewell Tiwi football identity - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "Hundreds of mourners have remembered Matthew Wonaeamirri as a devoted Tiwi Islands leader, committed father... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Zodiac actor placed on terror list for opposing oi ...
    Zodiac actor placed on terror list for opposing oil drilling method | Raw Story Indie actor Mark Ruffalo says he found himself on the Pennsylvania Homeland Security office's terror watch list for... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Court asked to order probe of Guantanamo psycholog ...
    ShareThisCourt asked to order probe of Guantanamo psychologist 24 Nov 2010 A court was asked Wednesday to force an investigation into whether an Army psychologist [John Leso] developed abusive interrogation torture techniques for detainees prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and should be stripped of his li ...
  • 80 from Guard company in St. Cloud heading to Iraq
    ShareThis80 from Guard company in St. Cloud heading to Iraq 26 Nov 2010 Several dozen Minnesota National Guard members based in St. Cloud will be shipped out this weekend as part of Operation New Dawn, which is the winding down [?!?] of U.S. military operations in Iraq. The 80 soldiers of Company B, ...
  • 'Dummy' explosive supplied by FBI operatives to US ...
    ShareThis'Dummy' explosive supplied by FBI operatives to US terrorist --FBI thwarts terrorist their own bombing attempt at Portland holiday tree lighting, authorities say 26 Nov 2010 The FBI thwarted an attempted terrorist bombing in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square before the city's annual tree ...
  • US teenager held in Oregon over Christmas 'bomb pl ...
    ShareThisUS teenager held in Oregon over Christmas 'bomb plot' --Fake supplied by FBI agents 27 Nov 2010 A teenager has been arrested in the US state of Oregon after allegedly plotting to carry out a car bomb attack at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Somali-born Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was ar ...
  • MI6 paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to Taliba ...
    ShareThisMI6 paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to Taliban impostor: Report 26 Nov 2010 A senior Afghan official has blamed the British secret service for bringing a Taliban impostor to sensitive, high-level peace talks with the Afghan government, newspapers reported Friday. The fake Taliban comma ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • RIP, men
    Our sympathies and prayers are with those left behind in the mine, and their families. Could NZ have done it better? Only an inquiry will tell us now. One thing I want to make clear, however. Much as I might...
  • Methane didn't seem to scare US rescuers as much
    Armchair OSH apologists in the media and in Sci-blogs have been trying to justify the lack of a rescue in Greymouth because of the dangers from gases. I'm no mining engineer, so I stand to be corrected, but like many...
  • Mine Blast: Cowardice in NZ Police
    I am staggered that police have so far failed to enter the mine because of poisonous gas. One man with breathing gear could sort this out. Hopeless.
  • MINE BLAST: Australians and Brits among missing
    THe news conference on the NZ coal mine explosion has been told a number of foreigners, including Australians and British nationals, are among the missing.
  • BREAKING: At least 29 missing
    Initial reports that up to five people survived yesterday's Pike River coalmine blast were wrong. The mine's CEO has just told a news conference only two people have surfaced, and three men who were expected to come out never did....

Mondoweiss

  • This beats turkey and cherry pie
    At last. Wikileaks is set to dump leaked classified documents, cables, n love letters involving Israel and the U.S. Both countries are said to be "tense". I guess Julian Assange gets it. Haaretz:The United States Embassy in Tel Aviv has informed the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem that the whistle-blo ...
  • Neverending spectacle entails night raids, mosque ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Apartheid / Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic CleansingPalestinian Child Hospitalized After Being Violently Attacked By Israeli Policemen A 7-year-old Palestinian child from Silwan neighborhood, south of the Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Je ...
  • Mamas, dont let your boychicks grow up to be pundi ...
    You have to hand it to Hebrew School. What a training ground those late weekday sessions have shown to be. Salon produced its Hack Thirty List-- "our all-star team--of the most predictable, dishonest and just plain stupid pundits in the media"--and by my reckoning at least 16 of the 30 are Jewish. E ...
  • ‘NYT’ says that US support for Israel ...
    The New York Times says that Israel was "one of the big winners" in the midterm elections, due to the Republicans who support Netanyahu's hellbent course. It mentions Eric Cantor without saying anything about his pledge of allegiance to Netanyahu, and God forbid it should say a word about the religi ...
  • God isn’t finished with me yet
    The headline is intended to inoculate me against the immaturity charge. This is a picture of the head of the Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, at Angry Arab. It's getting passed around.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Vaccine Clinic – A Concise Compendium To The ...
    PRIMARY FACTORS WHICH DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF VACCINE RELATED NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE: 1. POINT OF ENTRY Vaccines are injected into deep muscle tissue, a route which literally bypasses one’s natural defences altogether. Thus the body is left vulnerable to live viruses, heavy metals, antibiotics, deterge ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 2 – Syne ...
    Toxicity is defined in the Medical lexicon as “a condition that results from exposure to a toxin or to toxic amounts of a substance that does not cause adverse effects in smaller amounts.” Vaccine-induced toxicity, while similar in some respects to this model, requires a deeper understanding in term ...
  • VRM: The Awakening Has Begun
    On the heals of Ukraine’s 2009 Black Lung Infection, a mysterious variation of flu which bypassed trachea, targeting the lungs directly, a “bilateral pneumonia, the result of viral distress syndrome, i.e the total destruction of the lungs.” (1.3 million infected, over 75,000 hospitalized), eye witn ...
  • VRM: GlaxosmitheKline Herpes Vaccine Fails Safety ...
    GlaxoSmythKline recently conducted safety trial studies on their new experimental Genital Herpes vaccine ‘Simplirix’. 8,323 women aged 18-30 years participated in the trial at 50 sites in the US & Canada. Based on the results the product has failed miserably. The question is why were these women inf ...
  • VRM: Closed Door CDC Meeting Reveals Industry Cove ...
    VACCINE INDUSTRY COVER-UP EXPOSED – Selected vaccine authorities from CDC, FDA, and manufacturers discussed, in a closed meeting, the possibility of neurodevelopment disorders resulting from vaccine components. Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act detail the transcript of a meet ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury featur ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner for ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new low- ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller. T ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal for o ...

Michael Yon

  • Perspectives on Afghanistan
    Published: 24 November 2010 Please click here to view the entire Article.   {loadposition user8}
  • A Moment of Peace
    23 November 2010One evening last year in Laos, I saw this monk reading in a window.� With the holiday season upon us, I remembered this moment of peace and thought you might like to share it.Please click to download a free Moment of Peace. {loadposition user8}
  • Moonshine on Ama Dablam
    22 November 2010 Recently, I published an image that became popular.� While perusing the photos from that night in the Himalaya in Nepal, a similar but better image popped up.� The moon shining off the mountain grabbed and held my eye, and I thought some people might like to share this moment. �Moo ...
  • Michael Yon invited by Brits and US to embed again
    Published in The US Report at theusreport.com Published on June 24, 2010 by Kay B. Day Michael Yon has been invited to embed again by both Great Britain and the US.Michael Yon isn’t a correspondent who sparks a neutral reaction in the reader. You either love him or you don’t. There’s not much of an ...
  • Heavenly Shower
    Published: 16 November 2010 The Himalaya near Mount Everest are ruthless and serene, while the stars tracing above are without love or grudge.� Seasonal tides of fair and foul weather wash in thousands of trekkers, and more ambitious climbers who kletter by night and day.� Many reach their aspiratio ...

The Killing Train

  • Political theory interlude
    Manuel suggested I read Norberto Bobbio, an Italian socialist writer on democracy. So I picked up his "Which Socialism?" In it, Bobbio argues that there's no necessary connection between democracy and socialism. Contrary to what socialists would like to believe, democracy doesn't automatically happe ...
  • Canadian democracy - procedural tricks to kill the ...
    Canada's weak climate change bill was killed by the Senate today (see the star article for example). The Harper people's vision for the country isn't compatible with trying to stop climate change. This is known, and unsurprising. What is interesting to me is the procedural trick used to make this c ...
  • The Haditha Massacre in the Iraq War Diary
    I did a query of the Iraq War Diary for all entries on November 19, 2005 (there were 179). Among them was this entry on the Haditha massacre. It has been seriously redacted, possibly more than other entries, as it appears quite incomplete, with no explanation of how the casualties came about: Report ...
  • The First Battle of Fallujah 2004 in the Iraq War ...
    Below I look at incidents in April 2004, during “The First Battle of Fallujah”. In some ways the account of the battle in the war logs confirms what was reported, but some of the details (such as when ceasefires were announced) are different. The war logs probably understate civilian deaths. They do ...
  • Citation thoughts
    I spent some time looking at Yves Engler's "Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy" and "Canada and Israel" and noticed that he cites work in a non-standard way. Dawn Paley's recent review of the Black Book, posted on the Vancouver Media Co-op, describes it this way, and I agree: read more

treehugger

  • London Designer Brings Semi-Permanent Inflatable B ...
    Image courtesy of Airclad.com Need a spare room, but only for a few months? Want to make your outdoor jacuzzi an indoor one for the winter? Thanks to Airclad, by Inflate, now you can. The London based designer, which has been producing temporary inflatable structures (marketed for events and co ...
  • Crack Garden is Not What You Think
    Photo: asla This crack garden is not what it sounds like... It's a sustainable, simple and cheap answer to a design problem. How to make a garden out of a concrete slab without spending a fortune. Created in the small back yard of a San Francisco apartment building, it was inspired by t ...
  • Teenager on a Mission to Save Endangered Parrots
    Photo via The Stamford Times While some teenagers spend their time mulling over which sports team to root for or pop-star to obsess over, others are up to more important things -- like working to save endangered species. Sure, it's a long way from the halls of a middle-school in Connecticut to t ...
  • Turn Black Friday Green, Part II: Green Silence
    Photo Credit: Neil Chambers Shopping the day after Thanksgiving is typically frowned on by many in the "responsible" movement. But if you just can't help yourself - do it with a little green flair. Buy that sports enthusiast a pair of Green Silence by Brooks for the holidays. Light in weight ...
  • Turn Black Friday Green, Part I: KIND Towels
    Photo Credit: Joel Fitzpatrick If you must shop the day after Thanksgiving, at least buy something sultry and green. Joel Fitzpatrick, famous for making Hush Puppies a household name, has launched KIND towels to put a little desire back into your cloth goods. The line is all-natural, un-dyed, ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Swedish appeals court upholds Pirate Bay convictio ...
    [JURIST] The Swedish Svea Appeals Court [materials, in English] Friday upheld [press release, in Swedish] the copyright convictions of Fredrik Neji, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstroem for their involvement in running The Pirate Bay [official website], a file-sharing website. The Swedish appeals court a ...
  • Advocacy groups petition for investigation of Guan ...
    [JURIST] The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) [advocacy website] and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) [advocacy website] petitioned a court on Wednesday to investigate a Guantanamo Bay psychologist who allegedly engaged in activities amounting to professional misconduct. The CJA ...
  • Guatemala foreign ministry defends attempts to ext ...
    [JURIST] The Guatemalan Foreign Ministry [official website, in Spanish] on Thursday defended its handling [press release, in Spanish] of the extradition of former interior minister Carlos Vielmann. A Spanish judge ordered Vielmann's release [JURIST report] Tuesday after Guatemalan authorities failed ...
  • Rights group urges US to join landmine treaty
    [JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] on Wednesday urged the US [press release] to become a state party to the Mine Ban Treaty [text], repeating a plea made in March [JURIST report]. The call was prompted by the release of "Landmine Monitor 2010" [materials], an annual report detailin ...
  • Texas jury convicts DeLay of money laundering and ...
    [JURIST] A jury for the 331st Criminal District Court [official website] of Texas found former US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) [JURIST news archive] guilty of money laundering and conspiracy Wednesday, after deliberating for 19 hours. The charges stemmed from $190,000 donated by corporate ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • After North Korean Attack, Obama Waits for Beijing
    In the wake of North Korea's artillery fusillade, President Obama's foreign-policy team is looking to see whether China, which has the most leverage with the isolated regime, responds in a way that the administration considers productive. MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: Ostrich Oversight? ...
  • I Am a Blogger No Longer
    This is my final blog post for The Atlantic. Five years ago, as a way to boost the competitive metabolism of The Hotline, Chuck Todd hired me away from ABC News to create "Hotline On Call."  I was to be the first political reporter working for a mainstream news organization whose output would be exc ...
  • Billy Joel Explains the Election
    What explains the partial collapse of the Democratic Party in the industrial Midwest? Billy Joel, in Allentown, caught the moment decades before it happened...the last time the economy in Pennsylvania transitioned away from coal and steel.  Educated, hard-working people. The generational tension. Th ...
  • Obama Considers Staff Changes, Ever So Carefully
    Despite urgent pleas from Democrats that he shake up his White House staff, President Obama will proceed with a plan he put in place before the election, one that calls for a careful review the structure of his office before making changes.  Chief of Staff Peter Rouse is leading the review, and Obam ...
  • 2012! It's Never Too Early for Mitt-Chif
    Item: Someone has set up this website: http://mittromneyflipflops.com/ Item: An advertisement for displaying Romney's congratulations to Michigan's governor elect, Rick Synder, shows up on people's Facebook page.  This is odd because Romney never endorsed Snyder; he endorsed Rep. Pete Hoekstra in th ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Pimping the Settlement Brand
    A West Bank regional development council has produced a slick promo for settlement tourism which earnestly flogs the Occupation brand.  The film, Harvest Time, is being screened regularly at a new $1-million visitor center established at the Psagot Winery.  The plot involves a ragingly successful ...
  • Bibiton: Diskin to Mossad
    Bibiton clearly has a favored candidate to replace Meir Dagan as new Mossad chief.  He’s Yuval Diskin, who’s been working ‘wonders’ over at Shabak as chief knuckle-buster of Israeli Palestinian security suspects.  The far-right Israeli publication must so admire Diskin’s work securing Israel’s int ...
  • Jonathan Cook’s Favorable Mention of Tikun Olam
    In an extensive article about anything and everything to do with covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the western media, Jonathan Cook makes favorable mention of Tikun Olam: The final battleground in Israelâs âspin warâ is outside Israelâon internet sites and in overseas newsrooms, especiall ...
  • IDF Officers Believe Cast Lead ‘War Criminal List” ...
    The IDF magazine, Bamachaneh confirmed today that the list of IDF officers who served in Cast Lead and allegedly committed war crimes, was leaked through an army source.  This contradicts attempts by Israel apologists to rebut the charges and information contained in the list by saying some of thos ...
  • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
    MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.

Ode Magazine

  • Grow your own - seaweed that is
    Photo: Roos Koole Proteins—found in meat, dairy products and meat substitutes like tofu—are crucial nutritional building blocks. While soy is a prominent source of protein, it is not an effective one. Eleven pounds (five kilograms) of soy are needed to produce two pounds (a k ...
  • Self-confidence: signed, sealed, delivered
    Employees at Mirakle Couriers in Mumbai may be deaf, but they deliver.Photo: Mirakle Couriers Every afternoon, 22-year-old Bhupesh Boir heads out to a warehouse on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, to bring a batch of mobile phone bills to the offices of his employer, Mirakle C ...
  • Reading, writing and revelation
    How the written word helps refresh body, mind and soul. Photo: istockphoto.com/xaviarnau Whenever the stabbing pain in her knee becomes unbearable, 17-year-old Mackenzie Bearup picks up a book and starts to read. Usually, it’s a teen novel or a mystery. But Bearup will read “a ...
  • All you can eat
    Author Jonathan Bloom offers fresh thinking on how to reduce food waste. Salad bars are big waste makers, according to Jonathan Bloom: "If food is served by someone else, it can be donated. If it's self serve, you can't. Buffets are a killer.Photo: Mario Savoia/Dreamstime.com ...
  • How the Stirling engine works
    A Stirling engine uses internal gas that’s alternately heated and cooled to produce energy. Hydrogen, for instance, is sealed in a chamber connected to a series of pistons. When the hydrogen is heated, it expands, driving the pistons through the chamber. When the hydrogen is cooled, it ...

OpEd News

  • Haiti elections and UN Cholera
    Obama denounced the recent "elections" in Burma as "neither free nor fair." The November 28 sham elections are neither free nor fair, denies Haitians the right to self-determination, will not provide legitimate leaders respected by the people of Haiti and the international community is only adding t ...
  • AIPAC Spying, Why Is The FBI Looking The Other Way ...
    AIPAC is the most feared organization in Washington and most powerful, above any law. A former employee of AIPAC, Steve Rosen, who AIPAC claims was a spy, more appropriately a "caught" spy, now claims his former employer does nothing but spy.
  • Losing the Real Bradley Manning Story
    Manning virtually predicts that, because he will probably be held incommunicado and without a chance to speak for himself as he is tried in the media, his biggest problem to be to tell his side of the story.
  • 5 Videos You Should See This Week (November 27th)
    Pixar employees, TSA, London mounted police, Christian Right, and NATO in Afghanistan -- Enjoy.
  • Chalmers Johnson On Our Imperial Presidency
    Take a few minutes to watch and listen to the late Chalmers Johnson condemn America's fading empire of military bases, its evaporating status as the world's lone superpower and its unchallenged and unconstitutional Imperial presidency, which answers only to the corpocracy ~ a society dominated polit ...

Switchboard

  • India Climate Change and Energy News - Week of Nov ...
    Climate Change India can Lead the Way in Green Energy, Says Al Gore “Pitching for greater eco-friendly initiatives, the former United States Vice-President, Al Gore, on Saturday said India can lead the way in adopting energy-efficient solutions for everyday needs and accelerate a shi ...
  • China stands firm on unconditional climate fundi ...
    NRDC has been working in China for fifteen years on such issues as climate, energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy, governance and law, health, and green supply chain issues. This China Environmental News Alert is a weekly compilation of news from around the world on China an ...
  • Being thankful for polar bears
    Today brought some much needed good news for Alaska’s polar bears.  In response to a lawsuit brought by NRDC, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Greenpeace, the Obama Administration finalized the designation of 187,000 square miles of “critical habitat” for the polar bear. As ...
  • Yellowstone grizzlies: don't shoot the messenger
      Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, a self-proclaimed Bible-based advocacy organization, has a solution to this year’s unusual fatal grizzly bear attacks season:  “shoot these man-eaters on sight.”  This mass slaughter of bears, according to Mr. Fisher, is directly san ...
  • India at Cancun - What The Global Community Should ...
    India will join other countries next week at Cancun to try and work towards solutions for global climate change. Over the past year India has already shown leadership on this critical problem, and we expect that it will continue to be positive and proactive at the upcoming Sixteenth Co ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Sentiment Appreciated
    Well, this is unfortunate… Via Chet. Related posts:What Would Qualify As An Anti-Muslim Sentiment? The More Things Change… A Jolly Old Nuclear Missile Toting Elf Related posts:What Would Qualify As An Anti-Muslim Sentiment? The More Things Change… A Jolly Old Nuclear Missile Toting Elf
  • Is there texting in this class?
    When I read articles like the one Margaret Soltan linked to about texting in class, I can’t help but be thankful that I once tookâand took to heart what I learned inâa course on feminist pedagogy. I’m not going to address whether I consider circling up my students a challenge to [...] Related ...
  • “Murderer’s Row” Was the Nicknam ...
    Shorter Verbatim OSU president Gordon Gee: “it’s like murderer’s row every week for these schools. We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor. We play very fine schools on any given day.” Among the powerhouses played by OSU this year (Sagarin ranking): Marshall (109) Eastern Michigan (167, bett ...
  • Annual Post Arguing That Thanksgiving Does Not Req ...
    Ron Rosenbaum provides some new content: White meat turkey has no taste. Its slabs of dry, fibrous material are more like cardboard conveyances, useful only for transporting flavorsome food like stuffing and gravy from plate to mouth. It’s less a foodstuff than a turkey app, simulated meat, a hyperl ...
  • Happy Thanksgiving!
    Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers from everyone at LGM, except for Scott who has a bad attitude about turkey and is Canadian in any case. Related posts:Happy Thanksgiving! Annual Post Arguing That Thanksgiving Does Not Require Bland Food Happy Thanksgiving! Related posts:Happy Thanksgivi ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Taking Your Home’s Energy Temperature
    An article authored by DRI Associate Research Professor Emeritus Charles “Fred “Rogers, Ph.D., outlines the best practices for homeowners who are looking to save money on their home heating and cooling bills.
  • DRI Researcher Earns National Science Foundation M ...
    DRI Research Professor Hans Moosmüller, Ph.D. and colleagues received $649,801 from the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to develop a Photo-Acoustic Light Absorption and Albedo Spectrometer (PALAAS) for the characterization of aerosol radiative forcing in the ...
  • DRI Researcher Develops Bioengineering Company
    DRI’s Joseph J. Grzymski, Ph.D. partnered with Adam G. Marsh, Ph.D. from the University of Delaware to develop Evozym Biologics, a company created to bridge the gap between research and innovation and commercial value.
  • DRI Researcher Authors New Book
    William Albright, Ph.D., DRI research hydrogeologist, is lead author of Water Balance Covers for Waste Containment Principles and Practice about selection and design of an innovative new method for final closure of solid waste landfills. The new cover designs offer reduced cost, excellent environmen ...
  • The American Indian Science and Engineering Societ ...
    The Most Promising Engineer/Scientist Award will be presented to Dr. Karletta Chief at the 32nd American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Annual National Conference.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • ADR: What providers can do to promote efficiency
    Topping the list is adopting rules limiting arbitration time, extensive discovery and motion practice.
  • On Borrowed Time
    EEOC members are unconfirmed, but agenda is still ambitious.
  • Globalization: Law schools get serious
    Nearly 130 of the 200 American Bar Association-approved law schools offer ABA-sanctioned programs in foreign countries during breaks in the regular school year, and now the organization is weighing whether to offer accreditation to overseas law schools.
  • Legal Times 150
    With the recent passage of financial and health care reform, Washington may look like the land of legal opportunity. But even in D.C., firms have shed lawyers at a nearly unprecedented clip. Our annual ranking of the largest law offices in the nation's capital reports a 4.5% reduction in headcount f ...
  • CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING & BANKRUPTCY: A SPECIAL RE ...
    No magic bullet, but case law may show a way to get around protections for public pensions.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Under the Influence of Fracking?
    In addition to the environmental and health threats posed by gas drilling, driving on PA roadways is also becoming more dangerous.  The Pennsylvania State Police and the Department of Environmental Protection announced that during an October three-day joint safety enforcement operation, three out of ...
  • Speaking Out on Water Issues
    Tiadaghton Audubon Society is pleased and privileged to have Sean Saville, National Field Director of the National Audubon Society speak on the Gulf Oil Spill at our annual meeting on Wednesday November 17 at 7:30PM in Mansfield Pa at the Holy Child Church, 242 South Main St. He has extensive and in ...
  • DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transparent
    COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dept. of Environmental Protection Commonwealth News Bureau Room 308, Main Capitol Building Harrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/1/2010 CONTACT: Jamie Legenos, Department of Environmental Protection 717-787-1323   DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transpare ...
  • Failing to Pass a Severance Tax…
    Below some comments from the press and PennFuture about the state of the State’s budget sans a tax on drilling. Inaction on drill tax has a bad odor to it Sunday, October 24, 2010 By Brian O’Neill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette …. Its [PA's Legislature] latest gaffe is passing on collecting tens of milli ...
  • Stephanie Hallowich in National Geographic
    Stephanie Hallowich has had one of the worst experiences with natural gas drilling in PA and she has also been one of the loudest voices, speaking out for her family and others in the same situations. Her story was picked up by National Geographic and can be found at the below link. She had this [.. ...

News Blaze

  • Canada Recognizes The Right to Health Among Indige ...
    The International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 169 (1991) Article 3 states that indigenous peoples must fully enjoy fundamental human rights without obstacles or discrimination.
  • Danes Embrace Hinduism
    'One example is yoga, which is a complex system of exercises designated as a disciplinary process of the ego, and in a wider perspective the reunion of the self and the universe. Especially, the physical exercises of yoga have won approval among th
  • Serbia and Croatia Agree to Resolve Refugee and Re ...
    Serbia has been host to one of the largest populations of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Europe, according to the agency.
  • Inter-Korean Dialogue to Resolve Asylum-Seekers ...
    The Special Rapporteur said he also heard the desire on the part of the Government and people of ROK to address the situation of abductees and look at the issue of human rights in the DPRK, and learned of initiatives being undertaken by some parliam
  • 3,000 Nepalese Child Soldiers to Be Discharged Fro ...
    Chairmen of political youth wings agreed to work with the UN to find ways to end the use of children below the age of 18 in potentially violent political activities and to exclude schools, school children and school personnel from strikes and other

environment 360

  • Interview: A Blunt Warning On the Risks of BPA in ...
    The synthetic chemical Bisphenol A, or BPA, is found in everything from plastic bottles, to the linings of aluminum cans, to cash register receipts. But in addition to being a mainstay of the plastics industry, BPA is a potent, estrogen-mimicking compound. One of the world’s leading researchers into ...
  • The Warming of Antarctica: A Citadel of Ice Begins ...
    The fringes of the coldest continent are starting to feel the heat, with the northern Antarctic Peninsula warming faster than virtually any place on Earth. These rapidly rising temperatures represent the first breach in the enormous frozen dome that holds 90 percent of the world’s ice. BY FEN MONT ...
  • Green Tech Sector Advances Despite Failure of Clim ...
    While the collapse of climate legislation in Congress was a setback for some green businesses, many others are moving ahead with projects to develop renewable energy. One major reason: The clean-tech sector is rapidly growing worldwide, and U.S. companies don’t want to be left behind. BY JOHN CARE ...
  • Indian Temperatures Could Rise Significantly by 20 ...
    A new report forecasts that average temperatures in India could climb 2 degrees C (3.6 F) within two decades, with even higher temperatures projected for some coastal regions. According to the Indian In India, a Clear Victor on The
Climate Action FrontIn the struggle over the nation’s climate polic ...
  • Interview: A Shark Conservationist On Targeting th ...
    As Asian economies have boomed in the last two decades, demand for sharks fins — a prized delicacy — has soared, leading to severe overfishing of many shark species. As many as 70 million sharks are killed Sonja Fordham annually, a toll that is driving an estimated one-third of the world’s 1,044 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Medical Mystery or Hoax: Did "Flu Shot" Cheerleade ...
    Desiree Jennings was living a dream come true. The 25-year-old had a marketing job at a major company, was married to a handsome, successful man, and had challenging hobbies: she was an avid runner, and a cheerleading ambassador for the Washington Redskins football team. But almost overnight Jenning ...
  • Michael Jackson’s New Album Cover: Rife with Symbo ...
    Since Michael Jackson’s untimely death, we have observed some rather insidious "tributes" to him, which, once decoded, were in fact thinly veiled references to his ritual sacrifice. His memory has indeed been hijacked by those who, in my humble opinion, killed him. This fact becomes obvious when loo ...
  • FDR Wasn’t FDR ... Until His Hand Was Forced By Ci ...
    Progressives are disappointed that - contrary to the hype - Obama is no FDR. But FDR himself wasn’t who we think of as FDR until he was forced by protests, strikes and other forms of civil disobedience. Without a national crisis—economic destitution and rebellion—it is not likely the Roosevelt Admin ...
  • Stonehenge builders used ball bearings to move gia ...
    Neolithic engineers may have used ball bearings in the construction of Stonehenge, it was claimed today. In a new theory, scientists showed how balls placed in grooved wooden tracks would have allowed the easy movement of stones weighing many tons. No-one has yet successfully explained how the heavy ...
  • Startling new study ’proves’ that we can see the f ...
    You may already know this, but psychic powers might really exist. Research suggests that far from being a trick employed by fairground fortune tellers, many of us are blessed with the ability to see into the future. Influencing events before they happen is also within our remit, the study by a respe ...

Russia Today

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

  • Taking week off
    Due to the holiday this week, ol’ Dad is taking the week off for the family and catch up on some schoolwork. I can now say this with some confidence in that visitors can take advantage of my now extensive archive of interesting articles and posts. Enjoy the holidays and don’t be afraid to leave [... ...
  • Rebuttal: What did NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Tele ...
    On November 15th 2010 this past Monday, NASA released a finding that the Chandra X-Ray Telescope discovered an infant black hole in our “nearby” galactic neighborhood (50 million light-years). Black holes are the theoretical “singularity” in which when a super-massive star explodes (goes nova) the r ...
  • Secret Map of Britain
    I don’t usually use the Above Top Secret site as a reference, but this came through The Debris Field and a site named ‘what’s all this, then?’ and it piqued my curiosity. The title of the article is “The Secret Map of Britain” and it’s not entirely what you think it is: A recent thread [...]
  • Inexplicata: Uncanny Mexican UFOs
    UFOs are a tradition in Mexico and Latin America at large as this uncanny video show. Notice how the UFO splits apart into two “stages”, perhaps indicating the nuts and bolts theory of UFOs. However in a witness interview the person indicates the UFO came down and “healed” him, which appeals to the ...
  • The Paracast: Dr. Frank Salisbury
    This past Sunday Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien interview Dr. Frank Salisbury and discuss nuts n’ bolts UFOs, the paranormal theory of UFOs, Jacques Vallee, the Skinwalker Ranch, the “greys” theology and parallel dimensions. Excellent interview. Dr. Frank Salisbury Interview

Tippers News

  • Why Did Aggie Boys Buy Sex at the Chicken Ranch?
    The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Texas A&M football team celebrates a win with a visit to their local brothel, the Chicken Ranch. The Aggie Boys are fSubmitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Two survivors of human trafficking share their sto ...
    She fiddles with her cell phone. In mid conversation, she holds it out, showing off who�s on the screen. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Trip to India inspires Everson woman to help victi ...
    EVERSON - Touched by her own memories of being adopted as an orphan, Sue Ann Heutink took her first overseas venture to help victims of human trafficking. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Free Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan From Lif ...
    Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. Submitted by Rose Earth to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • PLEASE HELP FREE GHILAD SHALIT...THANK YOU
    It is news in HEBREW and you may not understand what it is written, but please go to "The petition site\human rights\peace and nonviolence,activist, and please sing.Also:human rights\international justice,activist IT IS URGENT! THANK YOU. Submitted by Evelyn J. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...

The Freeman

  • Plenty to Be Thankful For
    Despite all of that gloom and doom, there’s still lots of good news to be found.
  • Does Saving Reduce GDP?
    Warren C. Gibson’s article, “GDP: Who Needs It?” in the May 2010 edition of the Freeman, asserts an inconsistency. He correctly denigrates the Keynesian notion of promoting consumption spending as a means of promoting GDP growth: “The predominance of consumption seems to have spawned the bizarre not ...
  • Rules, Regulation, and Mixed Martial Arts
    The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) illustrates well the benefits of limiting rules and regulations, and provides an example of immense success despite—rather than because of—government intervention. The UFC, which hosts mixed martial arts (MMA) events, has grown immensely popular in recent yea ...
  • Rare Earth Elements: Stockpile or Markets?
    Quick, what do you know about lanthanum, praseodymium, neodymium, or dysprosium? If you said they are chemical elements, you are right: numbers 57, 59, 60, and 66, to be exact. They and their neighbors on the periodic table, collectively “rare earths,” were once mere curiosities tucked in between ba ...
  • This Is Your Country On Drugs: The Secret History ...
    Americans really like to get high, and they’ll go out of their way to do so even when the government threatens to punish them. That’s the theme that comes through strongest in Ryan Grim’s This Is Your Country On Drugs, a look at the relationship among Americans, the drugs they use, and their governm ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Advice for journalism educators in Africa
    While I was attending the annual Online News Association conference a week ago, one of several great panels I sat in on was titled “From Earthquakes to Coups: Tools for Crisis Reporting.” I’ve been interested in crisis mapping and other crowdsourced efforts during disasters ever since I learned how ...
  • Best advice for Soundslides
    I was asking around recently, among my friends at other j-schools who teach photojournalism. Yes, they are still teaching Soundslides. The No. 1 reason is almost unanimous: It’s a great transition from making stills to making video. I think it also helps — a lot — with teaching storytelling. Right ...
  • Storytelling 101 with ‘The Annoying Orange’
    Let’s look at storytelling again. I always use this diagram to show students how to structure a very short video story or audio slideshow (120 seconds): Recently a student showed me this video, and I noticed that at about 1 min. 30 sec., it illustrates the story arc perfectly! ...
  • Journalism education: Irrelevant, or lacking conte ...
    Journalism students around the world seem to be very similar. Many of them say this: Personally, I enrolled in a journalism course because I wanted to get into magazines or newspaper column writing — less hard news, more conversational. That comes from a June 2010 column at MediaShift, written b ...
  • Boring old news media: Still boring, still old
    I was just rereading a post by Steve Yelvington — whom I used to call the smartest man in online journalism (and he may still be — it’s just that there are so many more people in it now, it’s hard to name just one). Steve’s post (A tablet revolution: It’s like it’s the ’70s all over again) has seve ...

Facing South

  • One thing we're thankful for
    Thanksgiving is here, Facing South readers -- time to start your ovens, pick your football games and bone up on your Thanksgiving knowledge. It's also, of course, time to reflect on the people and things for which you're grateful. For us at Facing South, that's an easy one: We're thankful ...
  • 5 top Election Watch 2010 stories at Facing South
    Thanks to our generous supporters (you can still donate today!), Facing South's Election Watch 2010 was a huge success. In case you missed them, here were some of the big stories we covered and broke about the changing Southern political landscape in 2010: 1 - HOW TO BUY A STATE LEGISLATURE ...
  • After a long fight, the Senate funds justice for b ...
    Two years after Congress promised to help late petitioners in a federal discrimination lawsuit brought by black farmers, the Senate has finally approved the money. On Friday evening, the Senate allocated $1.15 billion to settle charges that the U.S. Department of Agriculture discriminated ...
  • Hurricane recovery loans go to Baton Rouge refiner ...
    By Ariella Cohen, The Lens The Louisiana Bond Commission voted last week to issue ExxonMobil Corporation $12 million more in tax-free, low-interest bonds to finance an upgrade of the petro giant's Baton Rouge facility. The $12 million approved Thursday comes on top of $300 million in Gulf Oppo ...
  • A huge win for clean energy in Kentucky
    Clean energy activists are elated over a big victory in the heart of coal country, where a Kentucky power cooperative has agreed to cancel plans to build a new coal-fired power plant. The East Kentucky Power Cooperative struck a deal with an alliance of grassroots activists and others to ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Preventing Maternal Deaths in West Africa
    Dr. Fredanna M'Cormack and her Bele Uman Project are working in Sierra Leone to save the lives of pregnant mothers and their babies.
  • Interview with Kumi Naidoo
    The Greenpeace executive director talks about connections between the environment, poverty, peace, and how the interconnectedness of these issues can drive civil society.
  • Zimbabweans Still Suffering
    On a daily basis, the people of Zimbabwe face starvation, poverty, corruption and oppression, and their government is highly unlikely to bail them out anytime soon.
  • Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
    We are seeing a steadily growing tide of discontent with the Kimberley Process.
  • Re: Conflict Minerals: the New Blood Diamonds
    I believe that the senators dont know the real issues on the ground and their well-intended legislation will be useless without knowledge of the actual situation.

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Physiographic Regions
    Physiography originally meant "the study of natural phenomena," but later usage limited its application to PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY in particular and, more recently, to landforms alone. Physiographic regionalization is here
  • Rebellions of 1837
    The Rebellions of 1837 took place in both Upper and Lower Canada. In LOWER CANADA the rebellion was in large part an expression of a resurgent FRENCH CANADIAN NATIONALISM . The French Canadian majority constituted the
  • Prohibition
    Prohibition was an attempt to forbid by law the selling and drinking of intoxicating beverages. It was enacted in Prince Edward Island in 1901 and in the remaining provinces, the Yukon, and Newfoundland during the First World
  • Seven Years' War
    The Seven Years' War, 1756-63, was the first global war. The protagonists were Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Russia and eventually Spain. Britain declined to commit its main forces on
  • Native People: Northwest Coast
    The Canadian portion of the Northwest Coast is a region of extremes in topography, from wide beaches to deep fjords and snowcapped mountains. Temperatures are moderate, the January mean above freezing and July less than 18�

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Perk up your garden with ash from Bonfire Night fi ...
    Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night in the UK – also known as Bonfire Night. Up and down the country, people will be setting fire to stacks of wood and sending millions of £££s up in smoke in firework form, just getting a short “ooh” and “aah” (and occasionally “arrgh!!”) in return. It’s not all waste-wa ...
  • 5 fantastic reuses: the best recipes for using up ...
    It’s all to easy to cook too much rice but thankfully there are lots of ways to use it up. Food safety warning: bacteria, specifically Bacillus cereus, loves cooked rice – and it can quickly grow to dangerous levels. Minimise it’s growth by cooling it quickly, put it in the fridge as soon as possibl ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle curtain swatches?
    We’ve had an email from Stephannie: Just having our lounge curtains replaced and got a lot of fabric swatches to check out colours etc before hand. Not sure what to do with them now. They’re mostly about A4 size with fractions of big patterns on. Thought about little coin purses or pin cushions but ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle baby stair gates and pl ...
    We’ve had an email from Karen: How can I recycle a baby cot, stair gate and play pen?? Cant bear to throw them away but seems difficult to give away!! It doesn’t have to be difficult to give them away – join your local Freecycle/Freegle group, post an “offer” message and chances are someone will [.. ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle clothes patterns?
    Carol sent us an email explaining: I often see huge bins of clothes patterns at thrift stores. Most helplessly outdated or missing instructions. I have used them in the past as packing material but was wondering if there was any other uses. Seems like there has to be some use for the tissue type pap ...

Mondoweiss

  • This beats turkey and cherry pie
    At last. Wikileaks is set to dump leaked classified documents, cables, n love letters involving Israel and the U.S. Both countries are said to be "tense". I guess Julian Assange gets it. Haaretz:The United States Embassy in Tel Aviv has informed the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem that the whistle-blo ...
  • Neverending spectacle entails night raids, mosque ...
    And other news from Today in Palestine:Apartheid / Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic CleansingPalestinian Child Hospitalized After Being Violently Attacked By Israeli Policemen A 7-year-old Palestinian child from Silwan neighborhood, south of the Al Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Je ...
  • Mamas, dont let your boychicks grow up to be pundi ...
    You have to hand it to Hebrew School. What a training ground those late weekday sessions have shown to be. Salon produced its Hack Thirty List-- "our all-star team--of the most predictable, dishonest and just plain stupid pundits in the media"--and by my reckoning at least 16 of the 30 are Jewish. E ...
  • ‘NYT’ says that US support for Israel ...
    The New York Times says that Israel was "one of the big winners" in the midterm elections, due to the Republicans who support Netanyahu's hellbent course. It mentions Eric Cantor without saying anything about his pledge of allegiance to Netanyahu, and God forbid it should say a word about the religi ...
  • God isn’t finished with me yet
    The headline is intended to inoculate me against the immaturity charge. This is a picture of the head of the Shas party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, at Angry Arab. It's getting passed around.

Media Consortium

  • ProPublica Takes Press+ Out For A Spin | paidConte ...
    ProPublica is going public today as the latest customer of Press+, the payment platform from Journalism Online.The investigative nonprofit is the most high-profile addition so far from a recent grant by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation designed to encourage its grantees to try new methods ...
  • Jim VandeHei Talks Politico Pro : CJR
    An interview w/Jim VandenHei about Politico Pro, which will provide 'high-impact, high-velocity reporting on the politics of energy, technology and health care reform' for political and policy professionals. At what price? $2,495 for the first subscriber to a single vertical such as energy; and afte ...
  • Discounted memberships: A short term gain with lon ...
  • The Newsonomics of membership " Nieman Journalism ...
    New journalism is hungry for new business models. Beyond millions in foundation start-up support, what will sustain these enterprises? One answer: membership. The notion is borrowed from NPR (née National Public Radio), which we must remind ourselves is no “experiment.” While the daily press is te ...
  • Chart: How Newspaper E-Editions Are Faring | paidC ...
    One circulation metric that wasn’t down year-over-year for U.S. newspapers during the first half of 2010: the total number of subscribers to their e-editions, a broad category that includes digital replicas, online-only subscriptions, Kindle subscriptions, and products like Times Reader. Leading th ...

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terroriz ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NOT TH ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli children w ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END FEAR ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenomena ( ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. Gen ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many more l ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world politi ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • US polar bears mark their territory
    Posted on behalf of Hannah Hoag More than two years after Alaskan polar bears were given a protection status of “threatened species” by the US Endangered Species Act, the Obama administration set aside on Wednesday 24 November 484,330 sq kilometres — twice the size of the UK — in Alaska as “criti ...
  • Europe bans bisphenol-A from baby bottles
    The European Commission on Thursday agreed to ban the common chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) from baby bottles across the European Union (EU) by mid-2011. The decision follows a ‘better safe than sorry’ approach taken by many countries, manufacturers and consumers in the past few years, as a steady st ...
  • Research trip to the Antarctic: Boarding ship
    Science journalist Jane Qiu is travelling to the Palmer ecological research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, joining researchers investigating how climate change has affected the region in recent decades. Please check back for her dispatches from the bottom of the world. Welcome to Punta Arena ...
  • Obama orders review of Guatemala syphilis experime ...
    President Barack Obama today asked his bioethics commission to dig into the recent discovery that US government-funded scientists intentionally infected subjects with syphilis in a study in Guatemala in the 1940s. "The research was clearly unethical," Obama wrote in a memorandum to Amy Gutmann ...
  • Would cholera vaccines have helped in Haiti?
    Three leading researchers today called for the United States to create a national stockpile of cholera vaccines that could be quickly deployed worldwide whenever an outbreak occured, In an opinion article published online by the New England Journal of Medicine the researchers – Matthew Waldor, a ch ...

To Do

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Solar Energy Storage Part of Smart-Grid Research Under Way in New Mexico
Solar Home & Business Journal
- Nov 27, 2010
- 6 hours ago
The New Mexico utility PNM is joining with two educational partners and the Sandia National Laboratories in one of a growing number of renewable-energy ...
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Mass. approves Cape Wind price
Block Island Times
- Nov 26, 2010
- 9 hours ago
11/27/10 - The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) approved a 15-year contract for the sale of Cape Wind's power and renewable energy credits ...
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SRP to review policy on renewables
Arizona Republic
- Nov 26, 2010
- 12 hours ago
The Corporation Commission requires utilities under its jurisdiction to get 15 percent of their power from renewables by 2025 and separately to reduce the ...
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GUEST VIEW: Pass renewable electricity bill
South Coast Today
- Nov 26, 2010
- 9 hours ago
The bill would establish a nationwide renewable electricity standard (RES) that would have utilities produce 15 percent of their power with renewable ...
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Human Habitat

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Woman is UI's first Marshall scholar since 2007
Chicago Tribune
- Nov 26, 2010
- 9 hours ago
AP An Urbana woman whose wide-ranging interests include ecology, chemistry and music, and who is also a top runner, is the first University of Illinois ...
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San Diego beaches part of coastal-ecology study
San Diego Union Tribune
- Nov 25, 2010
- Nov 25, 2010
Scientists are in the early stages of identifying the material and comparing it to samples collected from the previous beach-ecology study more than three ...
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Wash. fines Okanogan gold mine for false reports
BusinessWeek
- Nov 23, 2010
- Nov 23, 2010
The Washington Department of Ecology has fined a mining company $22000 for submitting inaccurate test results of water discharge from its gold mine in ...
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Ecology starts review of Renton's shoreline program update
Access Washington
- Nov 24, 2010
- Nov 24, 2010
BELLEVUE – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) seeks public comment on the City of Renton's recently updated Shoreline Master Program, ...
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Federal judge in Detroit leaves post overseeing city water, sewerage department
The Detroit News
- Nov 27, 2010
- 14 minutes ago
The position overseeing the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department gave Feikens a powerful role in the daily lives of Metro Detroiters, ...
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US Senate Okays Taos Pueblo water right settlement
Taosnews.com
- Nov 27, 2010
- 1 hour ago
By JR Logan Taos Pueblo Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, also knows as the Abeyta Settlement, was included in legislation approved by the US Senate, ...
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Higher storm water fees move forward in Des Moines
DesMoinesRegister.com
- Nov 27, 2010
- 3 hours ago
The second of three required votes on a two-year plan to boost storm water rates to accelerate flood protection plans and comply with federal clean water ...
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Barstow probes water problem, source of water contamination still a mystery
Contra Costa Times
- Nov 27, 2010
- 1 hour ago
Now that a ban has been lifted that prohibited Barstow residents from consuming tap water, officials will continue the investigation into the source of the ...
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