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Thomas Paine

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Monday, December 27, 2010

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  • MAURITIUS: They Do Politics Differently
    "I do politics every day, but partisan politics? No, thank you," says Jane Ragoo, long-time trade unionist and social worker. She believes in working to bring about change in society and improve people's lives but has no interest in clambering onto a truck to campaign for office.
  • INDIA: Life Term for Activist a Setback for Human ...
    The life sentence served on Dr Binayak Sen on charges of helping Maoist rebels in eastern India has rattled people and organisations fighting to strengthen human rights in a country that prides itself on being the world's biggest democracy.
  • PERU: Decades On, Women Remain Last in Line for Ju ...
    Investigations of the raping of women in the 1980s during Peru's counterinsurgency war have ground to a halt, even though the national Truth and Reconciliation Commission filed the respective complaints in 2004. Not one sentence has been handed down for the soldiers alleged to have committed ...
  • BALKANS: Political Pieces Assemble a Teenager
    Mila looks like the thousands of teenage girls who visit the newly-opened, glamorous shopping mall in downtown Sarajevo. She's discreetly dressed in black trousers and jacket, with carefully manicured fingernails. The 19-year- old's name means "sweet" or "kind". The name is in harmony with he ...
  • BIODIVERSITY: Sealed With a Comeback
    After 50 years of near absence, grey seals are coming back to Polish coast of Baltic Sea. Not everyone is happy about it.

Scoop - NZ

  • Forex scam: Wikipedia
    Currency trading "has become the fraud du jour" as of early 2008, according to Michael Dunn of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.[1] But "the market has long been plagued by swindlers preying on the gullible," according to the New York Times.[2] "The average individual foreign-exchange-t ...
  • AEP: Germany must accept a euro-debt union or leav ...
    If Germany and its hard-money allies genuinely wish to save the euro – which is open to doubt – they should stop posturing, face up to the grim imperative of a Transferunion, and desist immediately from imposing their ruinous and reactionary policies of debt deflation on southern Europe ...
  • Citigroup: fresh wave of sovereign defaults / ban ...
    Citigroup has warned of a fresh wave of bank failures and a string of sovereign defaults in Europe unless EU leaders come up with a credible response to the crisis.
  • Afghanistan: time to face reality
    Ranj Alaaldin argues that only the drastic curtailment of Nato ambitions in Afghanistan, and some unpalatable choices, will secure any semblance of stability in the country.
  • Ghost Towns Haunt Banks in Spain
    It is a measure of Spain’s giddy construction excesses that 250 row houses carpet a hill near this tiny rural village about an hour by car outside of Madrid. Most of these units have never sold, and though they were finished just three years ago, they are already falling into disrepair, the conc ...

Independent - London

  • Suicide bombings kill 17 in Iraq
    Twin suicide bombings rocked a government compound in Iraq's western city of Ramadi on Monday, killing as many as 17 people, a police source said.
  • Alleged US missiles kill 12 in Pakistan
    Suspected US missiles struck two vehicles in a Taliban stronghold on Pakistan's side of the border with Afghanistan killing 12 alleged militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
  • Twin blasts kill seven in Iraq
    Two suicide bombers blew themselves up and killed seven people today at the government compound in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, local officials said.
  • Former Russian oil tycoon found guilty
    A judge has found Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty of theft and money laundering charges, a verdict that will likely keep the oil tycoon who was once Russia's richest man behind bars for several more years.
  • Travel alerts as blizzards hit US eastern seaboard
    A swath of America's eastern seaboard was last night in the grip of an intensifying winter storm that was dumping heavy snow as it swept northwards.

Rogue Government.com

  • Lawmakers seek cash during key votes
    Numerous times this year, members of Congress have held fundraisers and collected big checks while they are taking critical steps to write new laws, despite warnings that such actions could create ethics problems.
  • Homeland Security chief defends airport security
    The use of full-body scanners and invasive pat-downs at airports around the country will not change for the "foreseeable future," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
  • US to step up security at hotels and malls
    The United States is stepping up security at "soft targets" like hotels and shopping malls, as well as trains and ports, as it counters the evolving Al-Qaeda threat, a top official said Sunday.
  • DEA transformed into Global Intelligence Organizat ...
    The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation so expansive it has to fend off foreign politicians who want to use it against their political enemies, according to sec ...
  • Air Force Doles Out Cash to Microwave Computers
    Nice work if you can get it. BAE Systems just won $150,000 to bombard computers with high-powered electromagnetic radiations to see whether they’ll fritz out. The objective: learn how to fry the other guy’s electronics while protecting your own.

Innovation Canada

  • Celebrating Arctic research
    When you turn 50, there’s a tendency to sit back and celebrate your accomplishments. But some 50-year-olds prefer to be bold and try new things. Such is the case for the University of Alberta’s Canadian Circumpolar Institute (CCI). Between building university-degree programs in the North and finding ...
  • The bright side of E. coli
    Mention the Escherichia coli bacterium, or E. coli, and many people immediately get anxious. After all, certain strains of E. coli, typically ingested through undercooked ground beef, have been associated with cases of severe diarrhea, kidney failure and even death. But a group of undergraduate stud ...
  • Getting to the root of HIV
    Daily, neurologist Chris Power at the University of Alberta in Edmonton boards an elevator in the lobby of the Heritage Medical Research Centre, gets off on the sixth floor and strolls down the corridor to a nondescript, but world-class, level-three-security biosafety laboratory (BSL-3). No one is g ...
  • 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

Signs of the times

  • Record spike in EMU default risk on Portugal downg ...
    The disputed claim came as Fitch Ratings downgraded both Portugal and Hungary and placed five Greek banks on negative review. Fitch cut Portugal's rating one notch to A+, warning that the economy is caught in a low-growth trap. Plans to cut the structural budget deficit by 4pc of GDP next year " ...
  • Betting in the Endgame
    There is a difference between betting in the endgame and betting on the endgame. The former is a fool's avocation whereas the latter is a once in a lifetime opportunity. The endgame of capitalism is a uniquely different environment where investors find themselves faced with increasingly dangerous o ...
  • Israeli Foreign Ministry Plans New Hasbara Effort ...
    Haaretz reports that the Israeli Foreign Ministry has officially launched a diplomatic campaign to dissuade the international community from recognizing an independent Palestinian state along 1967 borders and possibly catalyzing the passage of a UN Security Council resolution against settlement buil ...
  • Israel Set To Build And Market 5000 Units In Occup ...
    The Israeli Housing Ministry is planning to build and market nearly 5000 new units for Jewish settlers in occupied East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. Lawyer Qais Yousef Nasser, a specialist in Construction and Planning Laws, stated that the Israeli Housing Ministry sold in 2010 more than 1 ...
  • December set to be coldest in UK since 1890!
    As the icy weather set to continue, the UK could be heading for its coldest December since 1890, forecasters said. Temperatures were expected to remain below freezing on Boxing Day with spells of rain, sleet and snow in northern Ireland, Scotland and parts of west Wales and far west England, spread ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • At the going down of the sun ...
    With condolences and respect to the family and friends of Corporal Steve Martin, 3rd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment, serving with 1st Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment Battle Group. Killed due to enemy action. Je me souviens
  • The future is chocolate . . .
    IF YOU LOVE CHOCOLATE, listen up: according to Alasdair Wilkins' article in io9, "Newly sequenced chocolate genome reveals the secrets of better candy", the boffins have cracked the cocoa code, and they're starting to tinker . . . it actually might be a good thing, take a minute and check it out.The ...
  • Did the Canadian Forces and Airshow...
    ...just permit and encourage a Canadian civilian to kill Taliban, via a large field gun? Hockey icon fires live shell at Taliban Reading the Ottawa Citizen headline, one cannot help but think a Mr. Don Cherry,� ornery geezer and politically partisan celebrity hockey commentator, not a member of the ...
  • It's official! The US military is entering a new c ...
    Meaning they will have finally caught up to the rest of the modern world. Don't Ask Don't Tell is officially repealed in a Senate vote of 65 - 31 in favour of eliminating the policy. The 65-31 vote came after an earlier procedural vote that brought the milestone in gay rights to the Senate floor. ...
  • So, the University of Maryland does a study ...
    Which tells us something we pretty much already knew: Fox News intentionally spews political misinformation at a phenomenal rate. In short, they invent stuff and then peddle it as "fact". The whole entity is a propaganda machine. CNN and MSNBC fared a little better in the study, but the level of mis ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Distorts The Facts To Attack Cape Ha ...
    On�Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade falsely suggested that�if environmentalists have their way, North Carolina's Cape Hatteras "could be just left to the birds, or maybe some turtles." In fact, environmental groups do not seek to have all Cape Hatteras beaches closed, and regulations in place ...
  • With Friends Like These: Fox & Fr ...
    The past year found Fox & Friends solidifying its position as part of the campaign arm of the Republican Party through a barrage of attacks on President Obama, Islam, immigrants, health care, climate change, and by relentlessly campaigning for the GOP leading up to the midterm elections. Me ...
  • Sarah Palin: Winner Of The 2010 Glenn Beck Misinfo ...
    In selecting the 2010 winner of the Glenn Beck Honorary Award for Excellence in Misinformation, Media Matters weighed the vigor and meticulous detail the 2009 recipient, Glenn Beck, brought to the craft. Beck's dedication to fabricating facts to smear those he disagrees with is so complete, we at ...
  • Fox Still Reporting Myth That Census Director Repo ...
    Reviving a nearly two-year-old GOP falsehood, Fox News' White House correspondent Wendell Goler falsely reported that under the Obama administration, "the Census director report[ed] to former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel instead of the Commerce Secretary." In fact, the administration mad ...
  • Off The Rails: The Year In Fox News Misinformation
    As the year comes to a close, Media Matters offers a month-by-month look back at Fox News' most outrageous and factually challenged moments of 2010.January Hume Counsels Tiger Woods To Ditch Buddhism To "Make A Total Recovery."�On the January 3 edition of�Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume�commented�on ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • It's the Revenue, Stupid
    Today The New York Times' editorialists ratify one of the top, upcoming bogus stories for 2011 -- the fiscal crisis of the states. The bogosity lies not in the fact of crisis, but in the purported remedies, remedies sought after by our financial overlords. These touted remedies do not follow logic ...
  • Christmas Eve Prediction: Obama Easily Re-Elected
    It came to me as if in a dream. A year from now, President Obama's re-election will be assured. The GOP primary battle will be amusing, but -- like the GOP primaries in 1996 -- it will be clear that they are not nominating a President. None of their potential candidates is remotely electable. ...
  • The Name of the Game Is Oligarchy
    If you have been wondering why Don't Ask, Don't Tell could be repealed, and nuclear arms control passed, by the same legislature that insisted on sustaining the Bush upper-crust tax cuts, the answer, in PoliSciese, is here. Jeffrey A. Winters and Benjamin I. Page of the political science department ...
  • Barbour, the Citizens' Councils, and the GOP
    Every few years it seems the public is treated to an unguarded moment by a southern Republican of a certain age expressing admiration for his political forebears. The latest is Mississippi governor Haley Barbour's celebration of the Citizens' Councils as a bulwark against racial violence during sou ...
  • Anti-Semitism, Islamo-Hatred & Glenn Beck
    Has anyone noticed that right-wingers are really exercised about anti-Semitism these days except when it emanates from right-wingers? This week in Forbes, Abigail R. Esman pens an utterly over-the-top column called "World To Jews: Drop Dead." Dead! She claims that, even here in the Un ...

TruthOut

  • Mexico Buys Corn Futures to Ensure Tortilla Prices ...
    Mexico City - In 2007, massive impromptu street protests threatened the popularity of Mexican President Felipe Calderón. But it was not drug violence or kidnappings that prompted the outcry. It was the price of corn tortillas. Now the Calderón administration faces a repeat scenario. High corn price ...
  • Coal Ash in Our Stockings
    It’s the naughty children who get coal in their stockings, and it seems like Americans must have been naughty this year. Because across the country, we’re awash with coal, carcinogens, and other toxins. And our government is not doing to much to change that. Waste Notread more
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  • The Baby Trade
    When Ok Chin was a child, her mother brought her to an orphanage. The family was poor, and her mother heard that the girl would get fed and clothed. Ok Chin would get an education. Maybe if the family’s fortunes improved, she could rejoin her brothers and sisters.read more
  • Bush Intelligence Chief: Obama "Has Been as Aggres ...
    For the past two years, conservatives have repeatedly attacked President Obama for supposedly endangering American lives by not being aggressive enough in going after terrorists. But a year after the failed bombing attempt on Christmas Day for which Obama received immense criticism from the right, a ...

Planetsave

  • Climate Action Calculator Goes One Step Further
    Here’s a cool website I recently found out about. I’m sure you’ve probably seen carbon or ecological footprint calculators before, but a new one from Climate Action takes us one significant step further. First, like many such calculators, you input certain info regarding your electricity usage, gas ...
  • Filibuster Reform is Good for the Planet
    (From our sister blog, Red Green & Blue) We can’t protect the planet if popular measures supported by majorities of Americans can’t even come up for a vote in the Senate. Which is why it’s good that all 53 returning Democratic Senators have signed on to a letter calling for filibuster reform. The fi ...
  • Huge Win for Southern U.S. Forests (& the World)
    90 million acres of Southern hardwood forests, along with 600,000 acres in 11 endangered forests and special areas in the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Eco-Region, recently got a big boost in protection. Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific (GP) has announced that “it will no longer purchase trees from endangered f ...
  • Doctors Ask for Bike Infrastructure Improvements
    I’ve mentioned the great health benefits of bicycling on here a number of times. With the health benefits being so clear, you’d think more health professionals would be pushing for better biking infrastructure… Well, a number of them are starting to. Check out this email/news release I received from ...
  • AIDS News Coverage Losing Out to Climate Change, S ...
    Remember AIDS awareness ads like the one above? Newspaper articles and PSAs were appearing with increasing frequency in newspapers and magazines in the early 1990′s. But that trend has been dramatically reversed, according to recent findings. In a survey of newspaper (broadsheet) content conducted b ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Cuba Provided the Greatest Medical Aid to Haiti af ...
    Cuba was the first to come into Haiti with medical aid when the January 12, 2010, earthquake struck. Among the many donor nations, Cuba and its medical teams have played a major role in treating Haiti’s earthquake victims. Public health experts say the Cubans were the first to set up...
  • China to invest 30 billion dollars in water saving ...
    Beijing (AFP) Dec 25, 2010 China plans to invest 30 billion dollars on water conservation projects in 2011 to reduce the impact of natural disasters on grain production, state media said Saturday. The report comes after severe flooding and droughts across the country this year des ...
  • Seven New Year’s resolutions to make your neighbor ...
    I don't know about you, but the prospect of trying to improve myself every damn New Year is daunting. I'm not saying I'm going to give up entirely, but I think I may already be as good as I'm going to get. So this year, I've settled on a different...
  • Public Water for Sale: How Canada Will Privatize O ...
    A report to provincial, territorial and municipal governments regarding the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement December 2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The federal, provincial and territorial governments in Canada are currently negotiating a Comprehensive Economic and Trad ...
  • Christmas joy despite tragedies in Venezuela. - C ...
    After heavy rains left tens of thousands homeless in Venezuela, the government is providing humane solutions. Humane Solutions New homes were provided this week for hundreds of Venezuelans displaced by the rains last month, as constructions began nationwide to solve t ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Norquist Is Ready To Throw Out The Bathwater_Anyon ...
    Tonight I was spending my solitary Xmas evening researching the effect of conservative fiscal policies on public employees, specially in regard to �pension plans and found that I had been scooped by Karoli at C&L. �OH well... I'm nothing if not totally mule headed so I'm going to go ahead and thrash ...
  • It isn't Christmas...
    ...Until Darlene Love sings Christmas Baby on Letterman. ...Now it's Christmas. Have a wonderful day, whether you celebrate the holiday or are just enjoying a day off. We will be around should the vice president shoots someone in the face or something, but the odds of that went way down a couple ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    Where were Canada and Mexico in December 2000 when we needed them? "The West African regional bloc Ecowas has told incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo to stand down or expect to face "legitimate force". The statement came at the end of emergency talks on the crisis sparked by a disputed e ...
  • A Christmas Carol In South Carolina
    From SC but I suspect it could apply in most states these days. Terry Plumb_Rock Hill Herald Bob Cratchit's South Carolina-style Christmas Dear Mr. Cratchit: I regret to inform you that as of Dec. 25, reimbursement for medical expenses incurred on behalf of your son, Tiny Tim, no longer will be a ...
  • "On his brow I see that written which is Doom"
    If "A Christmas Carol" is the only Dickens you've ever read, you're missing some of the greatest investigative reporting ever published. Dicken's novels above all things exposed the inequities, hypocrisy and cruelty of the Victorian era. Few today write about the ugly reality of poverty and the wa ...

Care 2

  • Homeland security coming to hotels, malls
    The United States is stepping up security at "soft targets" like hotels and shopping malls, as well as trains and ports, as it counters the evolving Al-Qaeda threat, a top official said Sunday Submitted by Jae A. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Tell Japan To Stop Killing Whales a ...
    Call or fax this heartless scumbag Yamada and tell him to stop killing whales and dolphins! Tel 81-3-3502-8111 Fax 81-3-3502-8220 Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Deadly Afghan year takes toll on 101st Airborne
    FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. � The 101st Airborne Division, a force in America's major conflicts since World War II, is seeing its worst casualties in a decade as the U.S. surge in Afghanistan turns into the deadliest year in that war for the NATO coalition. Submitted by Jae A. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �No ...
  • A No Kill Shelter is possible in Allegany County M ...
    The Philosophy of No-Kill commits to euthanizing ONLY companion animals that are either irremediably injured or terminally ill, as determined by a board-certified doctor of veterinary medicine, in good standing with the Local Government, and in Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • WikiLeaks:DEA reach goes global, and beyond drugs
    The US Drug Enforcement Administration has grown into a global intelligence organization whose reach extends far beyond international drug trafficking.. Submitted by Jae A. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Obamacare Scare * Open Thread
    We hope you had a warm, loving Christmas Eve and Day … Don’t miss Larry Johnson on the radio tonight … Oh no! The “end of life” issue is being regenerated by Obama et al. … and my views on how the elderly’s medical needs should be treated, even if they’re old as the hills [...]
  • 1 in 500
    Editor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show TONIGHT at around 10:05 to 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming details and “how to listen” instructions at the end of this post.   Watching a handful of lost boy Somalis get themselves into trouble will-nilly: “The men, ...
  • Give or Take
    Giving is Selfish.. OR.. Under the Layers of a Liberal Onion is a Tea Party Heart Note: Eastan McNeal is a moderate who has been an independent since first voting registration. Eastan has worked in national democrat, republican and third party campaigns. Giving makes you feel good. Admit it. If you ...
  • Prisoner of Pretense
    Editor’s Note: Don’t miss the revelations below the fold — John’s sources have been passing along some very interesting stories about Obama.   The THREE BIG POLITICAL STORIES OF 2010 according to WSJ political desk in DC: the Tea Party; the 501 (c)4s; the GOP surge in the mid-terms. All good. Harder ...
  • The Night Before Christmas
    * Bumped Up * For those preparing to celebrate Christmas I wish you a time of Peace, Intimacy and Joy with you family and friends. For those who don’t believe in Christmas and are on the outside looking in, well, have a good time too. Take advantage of stores being closed and life slowing down [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • Earth 350, the First Global Climate Art Show
    Earth 350 is the very first planetary art show centered on climate change. It is an approach no one has really looked at before. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Significance Christmas Plants
    Various evergreen plants are popular during the Christmas season. Here we talk their history and significance... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • What We Can Learn from Star Trek Movies
    Even imaginary, futuristic civilizations fought and failed against returning through the black hole of waste, expired natural resources and lost innovation. It happens. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the arti ...
  • 5 Solar Eclipses Expected in 2026
    The history of viewing gravity-related phenomena when solar eclipses occur is lengthy, and the narratives surrounding an eclipse's "totality" are even more substantial. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the arti ...
  • How Plastic is Preying on Albatross Chicks
    There is seaborne trash that threatens animals of the sea, but plastic debris seems to be the perceived threat for the albatross chicks. 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

  • Saying 'No' to Excessive Packaging
    Having just hauled a trash bag of various bits of holiday wrapping paper, boxes and protective plastic sleeves to the basement for recycling and disposal, a reporter pauses to reflect.
  • Nigeria Drops Bribery Charges Against Cheney
    Halliburton agrees to a $35 million settlement, but its legal headaches may not be over.
  • Your Piece of the Keeling Curve
    Pretty much everyone on the planet is burning fossil fuels and contributing to the rise of greenhouse gases, but some of us are contributing a lot more than others.
  • Does Lead Lurk in Your Tap Water?
    Even pipes that are made of brass or iron can contain small levels of lead, a New York City environmental official says. And faucets and fittings can contribute.
  • Climate Change and 'Balanced' Coverage
    Despite news reports that imply the contrary, computer projections indicate that temperatures could potentially rise far more than 5 or 6 degrees.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Metrodome collapse new video closeups panels rippi ...
    Is it Metrodome or Metropolis? No one was injured fortunately. New video closeups from the surveillance cameras posted - its a pretty clear sign of collapse eh? Part 1: Part 2 The damage could block DNC 2012, sure to cheer opponents of the convention. In a satirical press release Nature took credi ...
  • A New Week of Link Dump: Gnosis Whacks Gawker; Fed ...
    Before Wikileaks there wuz Hyperlinks: Lots of em. Let's lead off with the best thing in America: Prisoners Strike in Georgia - NYTimes.com. GO CHAMPS! Day 3 of Historic Prison Strike in Georgia-Blacked out By Media-Guards committing Violence Anyone can have a Tumbr hit! kim jong-il looking at thing ...
  • CIA Aircraft Shell Companies; FAA notices 119,000 ...
    via Evergreen B747 Supertanker�� : The World�s Fastest, Largest Aerial Firefighting And Multi-Use Application Vehicle Going back to 2005:C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights - New York Times While posing as a private charter outfit - "aircraft rental wi ...
  • New Hong Videos! Including Today's Blizzard People ...
    Adventures today in the Minneapolis blizzard including snowshoes! I posted an uncut snippet I shot at the Pittsburgh G20 with some nice interviews as riot police from Palm Beach County mass up for crackdowns, gassing and overall uselessness. Part of this was used in 'Democracy 101'. Just a few ...
  • Mort Zuckerman, Charter Member of Generation of Sw ...
    I've noticed that the shadiest old men of the Establishment frequently make political arguments that boil down to 'GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMN KIDS'. For example, the corrupt paleo-reaganite federal judge in Minnesota who tossed the Shepard Road RNC lawsuit said he didn't care about illegal government ...

Daily Censored

  • Waiting for Superrich-Man
    A willing public fights in defense of billionaires who are helping themselves to their - to our - hard-earned money. How has this happened? How has the public turned on itself, avidly supporting policies that tilt the "free market" against them?
  • Book Review: The Great American Stickup, by Robert ...
    After the mid-term elections, President Obama made a further turn to the right in part in an attempt to placate the right wing populists. Many supporters, including critical supporters, of Obama were somewhat shocked at. They shouldn’t have been, and if they’d read Robert Scheer’s “The Great America ...
  • Education, a new perspective
    Perspective is an interesting concept.  Where is the viewer relative to the vanishing point?  Move one or the other and the image changes dramatically.  I was moved this a.m.  I was moved by a feature piece about new technology and how it is affecting the third world. E-Readers were introduced to ch ...
  • Why we write: End unlawful US wars; demand justice ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Independent writers explain, document, and prove what all humanity will soon recognize as “emperor has no clothes” facts: US wars are Orwellian unlawful. The following are objective facts and independently verifiable. Indeed, the facts are uncontested and therefore ...
  • CENSORED IN 1981: THE GREAT AMERICAN MASS TRANSIT ...
    CENSORED IN 1981: LEARNING FROM THE PAST: THE GREAT MASS TRANSIT CONSPIRACY Our national dependency on the automobile has contributed to air pollution, the national trade imbalance, inflation, the deaths of 50,000 Americans annually, disabling injuries to millions more, and billions of dollars annua ...

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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

  • Raising Hell for healthcare
    Get this book and raise some hell for Medicare for All! There’s only one force powerful enough to get us the change we want and voted for in 2008: populism. The sad fact is we can ...
  • ANOTHER VIEW: Where have America’s middle-cl ...
    By Tracy Emblem – For the North County Times American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter, according to a Commerce Department report. These profits are the ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 11/30/10 – 12/10/10
    Tip: Make sure to let your teams know that they can see what Issue Organizing Team’s they belong to or join new ones by clicking on the “Update your Profile” link at the bottom of ...
  • Support PDA with Your Holiday Shopping!
    Support PDA with Your Holiday Shopping! PDA’ers, Do you know that wearing a hat can help you reduce your carbon footprint? People lose heat through the exposed parts of the body, so wearing a soft knit skull-cap ...
  • Video: RNN – Will Progressive Democrats in ...
    Donna Smith: Social Security benefits are under attack and concern is whether the “man in the White House” will fight back More at The Real News

Marler Blog

  • Sprouts, please hold the Salmonella and E. coli O1 ...
    For those who like lists, here is a fairly complete list of outbreaks linked to sprouts in the United States and Canada the last 20 years. Year Type Pathogen Cases 1990 Alfalfa S. Anatum 15 1995 Alfalfa S. Stanley 128 1995 Alfalfa S. Newport 133 1995 Alfal ...
  • What do Alfalfa Sprouts, Frozen Rodents and Pot Pi ...
    You guessed it - Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:-. The recent Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:- Outbreak linked to sprouts served at Jimmy John’s restaurants is the third I 4,[5],12:i:- outbreak in the last two years. Multistate Outbreak of Human Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:- Infections Linked to Alfalfa Sprouts sol ...
  • Jimmy John's Alfalfa Sprouts Linked to Salmonella ...
    Since 1996, there have been at least 30 reported outbreaks of foodborne illness associated with different types of raw and lightly cooked sprouts. Most of these outbreaks were caused by Salmonella and E. coli. Here are a few that we have been involved in: Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches E coli Ou ...
  • 30 Ill in Illinois, 70 Ill in Wisconsin - Rolf's P ...
    According to a Christmas Eve FDA’s/Rolf’s Press Release: • Rolf’s Patisserie, a gourmet European style bakery located in Lincolnwood, Ill., is recalling all desserts made after Nov. 1, 2010. The products include tiramisu, cakes, cobblers, decorated cookies, tarts, pastries, and pies. • The dessert ...
  • At least four sickened with E. coli O157:H7 by Zil ...
    According to a Marathon County Health Department press release, four persons have developed illness, including one hospitalization, from E. coli O157:H7 contracted from eating smoked ready-to-eat meat products processed at Zillman Meat Market in Wausau, Wisconsin. Persons who became ill ate ready-t ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 12.27.10
    ABG's Green Car Concept Puzzle How many can you identify? Detroit Preview: Toyota's Prius Family will grow by two, the MPV and a new concept Fill up while you fill up. ...
  • Ford expanding stop-start technology to non-hybrid ...
    Filed under: Technology, Ford Given the multifaceted approach to making more efficient vehicles favored by Ford, an automaker that employs everything from EcoBoost to hybrids, pure electrics to less thirsty gas models - it's not that surprising to learn that the company is announcing that it is e ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.23.10
    Michigan activists turn Chevy Volt into a political issue Governor-elect Rick Snyder, welcome to Lansing. Hyundai to debut i40 Blue Drive at Geneva Motor Show Automaker shooting for prime pe ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.22.10
    Moto Mundo's Nissan Qashqai Electric travels around the world to visit Detroit Auto Show Next time, it might be with methanol fuel cells. Avera Motors reveals specs for high-efficiency prototype ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.21.10
    Tesla catches Christmas spirit, gives away hundreds of Roadsters It's not what you think. West Virgina McDonald's to feature 2 plug-in charging stations Fill up while you fill up. ...

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!

  • As Ex-Argentine Dictator Sentenced to Life in Pris ...
    Former Argentine dictator Jorge Videla was sentenced to life in prison earlier this week. The 85 year old former army general ruled Argentina during the "dirty wars" of the seventies and eighties. Hebe de Bonafini is one of the founders of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an o ...
  • President Obama’s Christmas Gift to AT&T (and Comc ...
    One of President Barack Obama’s signature campaign promises was to protect the freedom of the Internet. He said, in November 2007, “I will take a back seat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality, because once providers start to privilege some applications or websites over others, then the ...
  • Part II...Feminists Debate on the Sexual Allegatio ...
    As more details emerge about the sex crimes allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, we host a debate between two feminists: Jaclyn Friedman argues the sexual-assault allegations shouldn’t be dismissed just because they’re politically motivated while Naomi Wolf says, by going after As ...
  • Meet our 100,000th Facebook Fan: Barunesh Chandra
    Barunesh Chandra says it was through his interest in the Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy that led him to Democracy Now!, after finding the interview Amy Goodman conducted with Roy on the conflict in Kashmir several months ago on the Internet. âI am a big fan of Arundhati ⦠I fi ...
  • ‘Assangination’: From Character Assassination to t ...
    Despite being granted bail, WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange remains imprisoned in London, awaiting extradition proceedings to answer a prosecutor’s questions in Sweden. He hasn’t been formally charged with any crime. His lawyers have heard that a grand jury in the United States has been ...

Digg Green

  • Six years after the 2004 tsunami disaster, te ...
    Six years after the tsunami disaster of Dec. 26, 2004, the set-up of the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System for the Indian Ocean (GITEWS) has been completed.
  • New Study: Placebo Effect Works Even If Patie ...
    Study suggests patients benefit from the placebo effect even when told explicitly that they're taking sugar pills...
  • Sculptor Wall of Galaxies-The Clue to the Mis ...
    In May of 2010, Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton detected a vast reservoir of gas lying along a wall-shaped structure of galaxies about 400 million light years from Earth.
  • The Best Scientific Controversies of the Year ...
    Who doesn’t love a year-end list?  They’re easy to scan, fun to discuss, and they add a fleeting sense of historical context to your ceaseless march toward the grave. I want to preface this particular list by saying that its title is a little inaccurate. By saying “Best” scientific controversi ...
  • Why is the north magnetic pole racing toward ...
    Finding Santa Claus 's home at the North Pole is easy on a globe—just look for the point on top where all the lines of longitude meet. But that is just the "geographic" North Pole; there are several other definitions for the poles , all

Invisible Opportunity

  • The Amazing Grace Christmas Light House – Of ...
  • On Christmas Day, 2010
    By Les Visible Now comes the year of transition. We approach whatever personal myth we may be anticipating or in apprehension of with the coming of 2012. It stands to reason that 2011 is going to prove to be as life changing as anyone might expect, being the year of entry into the year of [...]
  • Merry Christmas
    Merry Christmas, One and All!!!
  • Here’s Why FBI Is Orchestrating Fake Terror Plots
    By Paul Craig Roberts Why does the FBI orchestrate fake “terror plots”? The latest one snared Osman Mohamud, a Somali-American teenager in Portland, Ore. The Associated Press report is headlined: “Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Oregon.” This is a misleading headline as the report makes it c ...
  • New Zealand Climate Scientists Admit To Faking Tem ...
    Climate “scientists” across the world have been blatantly fabricating temperatures in hopes of convincing the public and politicians that modern global warming is unprecedented and accelerating. The scientists doing the fabrication are usually employed by the government agencies or universities, whi ...

Global Insights

  • Less Than a Week Away
    We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware.George Green will be a featured speaker.September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CAClick here for Tickets & Reservations 
  • The Georgia Guidestones
    On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
  • The Creation
    THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
  • The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
    In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
  • About George Green
    Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Monsanto Claus: A RoundUp-Resistant Christmas
    (To the tune of “The 12 Days of Christmas”) On the worst day of Christmas Monsanto Claus gave to me, six bucks per acre and toxic herbicides from some other company… Last year’s Monsanto Claus cartoon–“Monsanto Claus: Ho Ho Oh No!” …and the rest of my Monsanto-related cartoons. Follow on Twitter @Gr ...
  • WTF?! EPA Says RIP to Bee’s.
    EPA knowingly OK’s Bayer’s bee-killing pesticide. Related Links: The full Grist article whose text is in the cartoon. Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Document Shows It Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees The Bayer Kills Bees! website. (They also kill democracy!) Yep, that’s Bee from the environment ...
  • Bears Protest to Save Nude Supermodels
    EARTH has PETA’s back. Keeley Hazell: Donât Wear Fur (PETA, NSFW) Naked protest against fur coats in Barcelona PETA Celebrates National Topless Day …Speaking of nudity, my last nude (sasquatch) cartoon Visit the rest of Joe’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com. And follow him on Twitte ...
  • Climate Change Conference, Cancun Style! (cartoon)
    Will Cancun be more productive than Copenhagen? The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change takes place in Cancun until December, 10. I imagine a lot of productive days discussing much needed change… Not! (I am bringing back “Not!”–who’s with me?!) More on the UNFCCC Cancún Climat ...
  • Canned Spinach Killing Popeye! (cartoon)
    More on BPA… BPA Ban Blocked from Food Safety Bill Bisphenol A linked to diabetes, heart disease in humans BPA wikipedia site …and E. coli Long-Term Effects of E-Coli Food Poisoning Ground Beef: The Cartoon View all of Joeâs political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on T ...

Inhabitat

  • Asia’s First School Made of Plastic Bottles is 3x ...
    Read the rest of Asia’s First School Made of Plastic Bottles is 3x Stronger than Concretehttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: bottle architecture, ...
  • Historic Defense Tower Transformed Into Modern Hom ...
    This ancient defense tower in Suffolk, England has been transformed from a historic marker of a war-faring age into a remarkable one-of-a-kind home. The home’s designer and owner Duncan Jackson worked closely with Piercy Conner Architects to create a comfortable, contemporary living space that maint ...
  • Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Last Minute Gi ...
    Christmas is only 3 days away – do you know where your presents are? If not, you might be scrambling to either A. get green gifts online (though they probably won’t arrive before the big day) or B. brave the mass pandemonium at your local mall (don’t forget to wear your riot gear). But wait! [...]
  • What to Do With All That Stuff After Christmas
    Want to get a P.H.D. in what to do with your P.H.W.? That’s short for post holiday waste in case you didn’t know. While you may not have heard of the term (we kind of just made it up), we’re pretty sure you know what we’re talking about. The crumpled wads of giftwrap, the withering [...]
  • How to Recycle Your Holiday Wrapping Paper
    Ah, the day after Christmas – if you’ve been greening your holiday thus far, why stop now? One of the simplest ways to keep up the great eco-work is to recycle that colorful mound of ripped-up wrapping paper left in the aftermath of Christmas day. If you need ideas, we’ve got 5 easy ways to [...]

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • The Curious Evolution of Holiday Lights
    In 1882, the look of the holiday season changed forever. Instead of decorating a Christmas tree with candles, Edward H. Johnson, inventor and vice president of Thomas Edison’s booming electric company, strung 80 red, white and blue light bulbs on his scrawny evergreen. The whole thing rotated six t ...
  • Early Reports From the ‘Dark Matter’ of the Genome
    A collection of new studies on the genomes of two model organisms has moved the frontiers of biology forward, and hints at methods that may someday make real the long-promised, as-yet-unfulfilled genomic revolution. Published in Nature and Science, the studies go far beyond the level of genes that ...
  • Video: Blue Eclipse on Mars
    Earth isn't the only planet graced with gorgeous eclipses. On Nov. 9, the Mars rover Opportunity watched the larger of Mars's two moons, Phobos, slip quietly in front of the sun.
  • Fossil Finger DNA Points to New Type of Human
    Continued study of an approximately 40,000 year old finger bone from Siberia has identified a previously unknown type of human — one that may have interbred with the ancestors of modern-day Melanesian people. The fossil scrap — just the tip of a juvenile female’s finger — was discovered in 2008 dur ...
  • 6 Strange Fossils That Enlightened Evolutionary Sc ...
    Critics of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution often cited the fossil record's lack of creatures “caught in the act” of evolution. And though fossils had been important to the development of Darwin’s evolutionary thoughts, these absences frustrated him.

PakAlert

  • Nickelodeon’s Illuminati-Themed Show “House of Anu ...
    Nickelodeon’s hit show House of Anubis, already airing in Belgium and Netherlands is due to air in the US for the first time in January 2011. An official trailer has been released and, boy oh boy, its hard to make things more obvious.
  • Video: Hollywood and the War Machine – Full docum ...
    War is hell, but for Hollywood it has been a Godsend, providing the perfect dramatic setting against which courageous heroes win the hearts and minds of the movie going public. The Pentagon recognises the power of these celluloid dreams and encourages Hollywood to create heroic myths; to rewrite ...
  • Nine 2011 Predictions
    4. The real estate market in Canada will finally begin its collapse suddenly after the new year celebrations are over, mimicking the real estate crash of the U.S. that began in late 2008. Over heated markets like Vancouver will suffer the most as the average house price there is around $1 million Ca ...
  • Prepare: New Nuclear War Preparedness Guide FedGov
    There is a new nuclear preparedness guide from the FedGov and sponsored by a group called the National Association of Government Communicators. Check it out here. It's in PDF format which means you will need Adobe reader which is free. In case you don't have the time, here's a synopsis of the repo ...
  • 2011 – The beginning of the End of America – Doubl ...
    2011 - The United States begins its decent from prosperity to economic stagnation / depression in 2011 as the economic recovery stalls and a double dip recession occurs. The expiration of the Bush Tax cuts reinforces the economic decline and unemployment spikes over 10% again. 2011 is just the begin ...

Andy Worthington

  • Christmas at Guantánamo
    Ten days ago, when I traveled to Sheffield with my friend, the former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes, for a screening of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with Polly Nash), I asked Omar what Guantánamo was like at Christmas, as I knew that he ...
  • President Obama Loses the Plot on Guantánamo
    On December 22, during a largely self-congratulatory news conference by President Obama, dealing with a number of achievements notched up in the last session before the Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives (including the new START treaty, on arms control, and the repeal of “don’t a ...
  • Video: “Berkeley Says No to Torture” W ...
    Back in October, I traveled to the Bay Area for a fascinating week-long series of events, “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week (covered in detail here), and I’m pleased to report that videos of one of the panel discussions that week, “Torture, Human Experimentation and the Department of Defense,” have ...
  • More Evidence of Medical Experimentation at Guantá ...
    In an investigative report for Truthout, my colleagues Jason Leopold and the psychologist and blogger Jeffrey Kaye have followed up on an important story they published three weeks ago, âControversial Drug Given to All Guantánamo Detainees Akin to ‘Pharmacologic Waterboarding’â (which I cross-poste ...
  • Guantánamo Prisoners Sacrificed in Political Horse ...
    How messed up is American politics? Well, here are a few clues. Two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed a $1.1 trillion continuing resolution, which funds the government through to September 30 next year. As The Hill explained, the resolution was needed “because Congress failed to pass an ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Dan Malloy scores first in Danbury
    Dan Malloy jumping off of the bench of the Danbury Whalers shortly after scoring the first goal in Whalers' history. [update] I have an interview from after the game at TK's. Let me say, in advance, that he was a bit reluctunt to give it since I am a political blogger... But as a hockey fan I prom ...
  • Still All That I Want
    Something that gets lost in the news about the unemployed is the fact that much of what used to be the backbone of this nation's economic prowess, the middle class, is now the working poor: Imagine That: Working Poor On The Rise After the Republicans crashed to economy in 2008 one thing became imm ...
  • Choosing a New Police Chief: No Local Ties, Please ...
    Do you want your town to look like The Dukes of Hazzard? Then again, maybe New Milford has been run by Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coltrane for a while. If that's not your idea of how a quaint New England town should be run, then help make sure the next police chief has no local ties - political or fa ...
  • WWWWWWWWW.boardofeducationobstruction.edu
    Click on the above link, and it will take you to an interesting place. A place where obstruction is the norm, bad lawyering is the standard, lack of preparedness is encouraged, and focusing on the main mission is discouraged. Sounds beautiful, doesn't it? Here's the real name of this magical cyber s ...
  • Party like it's Orwell's 1984
    This summer, I read George Orwell’s paranoid dystopia novel, 1984. I have no idea how I managed to graduate from high school, let along college, without reading it, but, there you go. (And, all literary genius aside, I’m so glad I wasn’t friends with Orwell. Somehow I doubt he was ever the life o ...

SPL Center

  • Tally Grows of Viewers Moved to Violence by Beck’s ...
    Through countless diagrams and diatribes, chalk-wielding Fox News commentator Glenn Beck has made it his mission to inform his audience that left-wing progressives are purportedly on the brink of revolution. Many of Beck’s fans take him seriously. In the past two years, at least three have decided t ...
  • Glenn Beck: A Quarter of Americans May Face Starva ...
    Cranking up his doomsday predictions to a new fever pitch, Glenn Beck this week warned that by January some 75 million Americans could be starving. “race yourself. We went to two or three experts yesterday,” the Fox News Channel host said in his Wednesday radio broacast. “[O]ne of them said that by ...
  • Assessing Muslim Terrorism: Lies, Damn Lies and Gl ...
    Are you prepared to believe there are 157 million Muslim terrorists in the world? You have a choice: You can take Fox News commentator and radio host Glenn Beckâs word for it â or you can insist on proof. Pausing in the midst of a meandering condemnation of the mainstream mediaâs failure to take him ...
  • Rap-Loving Promoter Creates Whites-Only Facebook C ...
    It looks like Facebook. It apparently works like Facebook. But the Terms of Use, not to mention the name, might give you a clue that this definitely isnât Facebook. Meet AryansBook.com. âAryanBook [sic] is a racialist, WHITE ARYAN PRIDE Social Network for Whites Only! Niggers, Jews, Mexicans, and Mu ...
  • Another Anti-Gay Activist Warns About Gays in the ...
    Just when it seemed the controversy over high-tech body scanners and âenhancedâ pat-down procedures at airports couldnât get weirder, along comes Eugene Delgaudio, a Loudoun County, Va., lawmaker who claims federal transportation officials were motivated to implement the new procedures by the âhomos ...

change: org.

  • Alaska's Big Problem With Polar Bears
    Between shrinking habitats and dwindling numbers, it must be pretty hard to be a polar bear these days. And perhaps the toughest part about being a polar bear is that part of what little space you have left happens to be in Alaska. If there's one thing we know about Alaska, it's that they tend to ge ...
  • Sex Trafficking Victims Arrested by L.A. Cops
    Police walk into a shady club full of women "dancers," including at least one minor, being paid next to nothing, forced to make up selling quotas with sex acts, without proper immigration documentation. They arrest the 81 women and aim most toward deportation proceedings, while the club is free to h ...
  • North Carolina Poultry Plant May Destroy Property ...
    I wrote last month about the battle in North Carolina over a proposed poultry processing plant. Nash County officials are courting Sanderson Farms for the plant because they covet the 1,100 jobs the company promise. Those (low-paying) jobs, however, come at a cost of incredible environmental destruc ...
  • UK Climate Activists Blockade Coal Mining Site
    It officially looks like UK climate activists are taking the lead on activism of the Julia Butterfly Hill brand. Along with the 114 climate activists who were planning to shut down the UK's 3rd-largest coal power plant for one week last year, the 6 climate activists who scaled and graffitied the Kin ...
  • Tell Hershey Not to Grinch Up Christmas with Slave ...
    Christmas in my family means lots and lots of chocolate. I can't remember a Christmas where we didn't make chocolate peanut butter balls, chocolate toffee brickle, and chocolate fudge. Even the Advent calendar's little doors hide chocolate. But according to the Department of Labor's ninth annual Fin ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Foreclosures Still Dragging Down Housing, Economy
    by Chris ArnoldThe housing market has remained at the center of the nation's economic troubles throughout 2010. The housing market started the year flat on its back, and it's ending the year in nearly the same condition. Home sales are still depressed, home-building remains ne ...
  • Jewish Activist Faces Jail for West Bank Resistanc ...
    by Donald Macintyre in Tel AvivIt is not every day that a leading Palestinian activist issues an emphatic statement of support for a Jewish Israeli - "this friend, whose friendship I am proud to share" - facing prison.But then Jonathan Pollak, who could be jailed for between three and six months whe ...
  • Panama Row Reveals US Drug Agency's Power
    by Stephen FoleyDiplomatic cables published by the website WikiLeaks have plunged the United States into a diplomatic row with Panama over the secret intelligence-gathering work of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in the Central American country.read more
  • Top Ten Myths about Afghanistan, 2010
    by Juan Cole10. "There has been significant progress in tamping down the insurgency in Afghanistan." read more
  • Rare Earth Metals Mine is Key to US Control over H ...
    by Suzanne GoldenbergIt's a deep pit in the Mojave desert. But it could hold the key to America challenging China's technological domination of the 21st century.At the bottom of the vast site, beneath 6 metres (20ft) of bright emerald-green water, runs a rich seam of ores that are hardly househo ...

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Macomb County officials want Detroit water board r ...
    Sterling Heights looks to recoup money allegedly paid to no-work contractor in 15 Mile Road sewer project
  • Heise calls for DWSD fix
    Back in the fall, when he was a candidate for the seat in the state House 20th District, Kurt Heise outlined a plan to revamp the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, giving suburban customers more input into a department that serves the water needs of some 87 communities.
  • Sterling Heights looks to recoup money allegedly p ...
    For years, Macomb County officials have been suspicious of the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department's record of continual rate increases and construction work cost overruns.
  • Heise calls for DWSD fix
    Back in the fall, when he was a candidate for the seat in the state House 20th District, Kurt Heise outlined a plan to revamp the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, giving suburban customers more input into a department that serves the water needs of some 87 communities.
  • Macomb County officials want Detroit water board r ...
    Sterling Heights looks to recoup money allegedly paid to no-work contractor in 15 Mile Road sewer project

Guardian

  • Nine men in court over terror raids
    Men arrested last week after several months of surveillance and monitoring by police and MI5 officersNine men are due to appear in court in London today charged with conspiracy to cause explosions and other terrorism offences.They are among 12 men arrested a week ago in raids by counter-terrorism po ...
  • Khodorkovsky found guilty
    Oil tycoon found guilty of theft and money laundering charges by court in Moscow A judge declared Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty of theft and money laundering charges today, a verdict that will likely keep the oil tycoon who was once Russia's richest man behind bars for several more years.It was clear ...
  • The what-a-year-that-was bumper quiz
    You think you know news? We've got 70 questions on the events of 2010. Yes, 70Simon Jeffery
  • Australia v England - live!
    �� Bash F5 or use the auto-refresher for the latest updates �� Click here for the full scoreboard from Melbourne �� Discuss the day's action on our daily Ashes blog �� Send your thoughs to rob.smyth@guardian.co.uk105th over: England 317-5 (Trott 76, Prior 14) Trott inside edges Hilfenhaus right onto ...
  • 'Traditional' weather benefits wildlife
    Conservationists express relief as insects, birds and other wildlife flourish because of cold winter and decent summerThis year's weather may not always have been to everyone's taste but for British wildlife and plant life, at least, a return to four "traditional" seasons has been good news, conserv ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Cancun splits opinion, but may mark way forward
    Does the Cancun outcome give real hope for curbing climate change? Views diverge... Within the last week we've run here on the BBC News website two articles by people knowledgeable about climate change that reach widely differing conclusions about the outcome of this year's UN climate summit. Last ...
  • Cancun: The chihuahua that roared
    �From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: If Copenhagen was the Great Dane that whimpered, Cancun has been the chihuahua that roared. And what a surprise it was. Before the summit, expectations were so low that simply keeping the UN show on the road was all many observers (and some players) ...
  • The chihuahua that roared
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: If Copenhagen was the Great Dane that whimpered, Cancun has been the chihuahua that roared. And what a surprise it was. Before the summit, expectations were so low that simply keeping the UN show on the road was all many observers (and some players) ...
  • Time to get down to [business] at Cancun
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: I've been rifling through the main documents that delegations are discussing here, with a view to finding out how far they have to travel if they're to leave here clutching a piece of paper more meaningful than a plane ticket. There are two key document ...
  • Unlikely marriage powers ahead
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: No-one here really wants to be doom-laden about it, but it's a reality that more and more are having to face: the UN climate process could be grinding to a halt. Researchers from Scotland will look at the potential of marine energy in the Maldives If t ...

The Wonk Room

  • Senate GOP’s Christmas Gift To Central Illin ...
    The Senate adjourned earlier this week, even though it confirmed only half of the 38 judicial nominees awaiting a vote on the Senate floor. And the overwhelming majority of the blocked nominees cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee without a single negative vote. This failure to confirm even many o ...
  • As President Obama ‘Wrestles’ With The ...
    Christmas came early for gay rights advocates when Congress repealed the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy last week, and President Obama signed it into law on Wednesday. The administration’s comments since the bill-signing, however, are providing even more hopeful signs that full equality wil ...
  • Exorcising Gale Norton
    Our guest blogger is Tom Kenworthy, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. It’s been too long in coming, but today Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is repealing a sneak attack on millions of acres of pristine public lands in the West launched by his Bush administration predec ...
  • Global Boiling: Year 2010 In Climate Photos
    The headlines of 2010 were driven by global warming disasters — involving the dangers of fossil fuel extraction or the biblical might of the climate they have polluted. Hundreds of thousands of people died in climate disasters, and hundreds of millions more affected by floods, droughts, storms, and ...
  • START Ratification Exposes Heritage’s Impote ...
    The hard right Heritage Foundation, one of the pillars of the conservative movement, made defeating START one of its top institutional priorities. Yet 13 Republican Senators ended up bucking Heritage and voted to ratify the START treaty. Heritage ended up so far to the right that it was unable to co ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Liberal Win in Winnipeg North a Sad Day for Canada
    I'm working on a bigger post about CSIS director Judd's shit-headed comments about Canada's "Alice in Wonderland" mentality about terrorism. But for now, I'd just like to say that unless you were a fan of the explosion of homelessness, and the decline of our public health care system under Chretien ...
  • Whatever
  • Overwhelmed
    I'd started a piece that was going to be called "I read the news today, oh boy" which was just going to be a survey of what was in the news recently, but time constraints and the enormity of it all, the sheer weight of things, overwhelmed me. I still want to mention them, so here they are in no par ...
  • A Question About stephen harper Singing "The Seeke ...
    Has anyone yet pointed out that the song includes the lyrics "I won't get to get what I'm after till the day I die?" and made a snarky comment about his futile quest for a majority? You know, I'm often accused of thinking that I'm smarter than everyone else because I call so many people "stupid" or ...
  • Canada Hands Minors to be Tortured, but it's WikiL ...
    Every single fucking time that WikiLeaks provides some transparency, some unfiltered look at the reality of the criminal wars launched by the bush II regime (and perpetuated by the nauseating Obama administration) some White House fuck-face or other scum-bag politician struts up to a microphone and ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • Pilot documents security problems, gets investigat ...
    An unnamed pilot posted videos on YouTube showing how baggage handlers can access aircraft just by swiping their ID cards at a door.� Meanwhile, TSA subjects pilots to thorough searches, even those some pilots are permitted to carry firearms on-board, and have access to a hand ax in the cockpit. Now ...
  • S. 372 dies in Senate tonight
    We have received confirmation from two sources that a Senator has placed an anonymous hold on S. 372, the Senate's flawed version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). This hold effectively kills the bill as the Senate adjourned tonight until the next Senate is seated. Earlier thi ...
  • NWC Report Proves that Qui Tam Statutes Have "No N ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) publicly released its report to the Securities and Exchange Commission entitled "Impact of Qui Tam Laws on Internal Compliance." This study was conducted in response to concerns from corporations and the SEC Commissioners about Dodd-Frank's potential impact ...
  • Capt. Dan Hanley says S. 372 is "sorely lacking"
    Captain Dan Hanley (center in photo) is the host of the Whistleblowing Airline Employees Blog Talk Radio Program and a leader of the Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association. He is a former United Airlines pilot, and succeeded in getting the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate impr ...
  • Bunny Greenhouse urges correction of S. 372
    When the Iraq was was about to begin, Bunny Greenhouse alone challenged the legality of awarding no-bid, no-compete, cost plus contract to Haliburton. The Army swiftly retaliated and she lost her career and position as the Army Corps of Engineers top procurement executive. Today Bunny spoke out ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant radio ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...

TechDirt

  • Apple Has eBay Kill Off Auctions Of Steve Jobs Fig ...
    Remember, a few weeks back, how Apple went after a Chinese company making Steve Jobs figurines and forced it to stop selling them? As you might expect, the attention from the legal threat only served to create much more interest in the figurines, and the few folks who got their hands on them befor ...
  • Dutch Court Dismisses Criminal Charges Against P2P ...
    We've certainly voiced our concerns over the US government's growing involvement in copyright infringement lawsuits that really should be civil matters between copyright holders and those they accuse of infringement. However, with our government often believing just about anything Hollywood tells ...
  • Anyone Notice That Sites Don't Have To Rely On Goo ...
    One of the driving forces behind some of the legal attacks on Google is that Google is the defacto monopoly on being found online. We've heard over and over again a claim along the lines of "if you're not in Google, you're not online." And there may be some truth in that statement for many websi ...
  • TSA Punishes Pilot For Videotaping Security Proble ...
    BackPackAdam alerts us to the news that a pilot in California is being disciplined by the TSA because he dared to film a video highlighting problems with security at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The pilot himself was a Flight Deck Officer (FDO) and authorized to carry a gun on board ...
  • Building A Censor-Resistant Web?
    With recent efforts to take down various websites, which we've been documenting here on Techdirt, there's been increasing discussions about ways to create a more "censor-proof" internet. We've discussed the idea of a decentralized DNS system and now Aaron Swartz is proposing a "censor-resistant we ...

VacTruth

  • Sanofi Pasteur Plays Santa and Pays for Children t ...
    Sanofi Pasteur is playing Santa by paying parents this amount of money for enrolling their children in flu vaccine trials.
  • Take Off the Billion-Dollar Blindfold
    Would you buy an unlabeled bottle of vitamins from a health food store? Would you give those vitamins to your child? Would you trust a stylist who didn’t ask about your own wishes for your appearance? Would you have confidence in a salesperson’s ability to give you sound advice about [...]
  • A Judge Sees Through The Emperor’s New Cloth ...
    Child welfare services had applied for a ruling to have four siblings immunized, despite their parents’ decision not to allow the treatment. Have we finally found a judge brave enough to rule with a conscience?
  • Christmas Time 2010
    A message from Vactruth.com to keep on “keeping on” in order to bring to light the ‘pseudo science’ that surrounds vaccines, vaccinations, and loss of sovereignty and self-determination in the care of our health, bodies, and children.
  • Police Arrested Twelve Year Old Boy for Refusing V ...
    A twelve year old boy was arrested by police after refusing to be vaccinated at school. Since when have schools become doctors?

BroadSnark

  • Am I a Rapist?
    I don’t want to talk about the Assange rape charges. There are more than enough people doing that already. But I would like to talk about something that Jaclyn Friedman said during her debate with Naomi Wolf on Democracy Now. Friedman essentially said that a sleeping/unconscious person cannot consen ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Read this! It covers so many things that have been on my mind lately.  It is, as the person who posted it says, long and academic.  But it is worth the time.  In short, it explains how middle and upper class women moved into the non-profit savior industry and how their liberation came at the [...]
  • Beliefs as Barrier
    I understand and respect the choices that many people within the anarchist community make.  I love the self expression and weirdness that is embraced in how people dress or act.  I completely respect the decision to be a vegan, to avoid chain stores, to criticize suburban homogeneity…. But there is ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Still recovering from a weekend of Santarchy madness.  Also, I just got back from the Really Free Market here in DC, which went off amazingly well considering the absurdly cold weather. Between all the activities and the pesky day job I probably still owe people some responses.  I’m working on it. ...
  • Fighting Words
    If I say blue, are you confused?  But I might be thinking cobalt while you are thinking cornflower. Maybe the person next to you is colorblind and can’t tell blue from green. Maybe the person next to them is completely blind and can’t understand color.  Maybe we weren’t talking about color at all. ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
    As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
  • بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
    مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
  • السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
    اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة اÙستة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙ Ùسخة Ù…Ùررة م٠ا ...
  • Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
    Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
  • Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
    Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

treehugger

  • Would Bike-Only Boulevards Be All Bad?
    Photo courtesy frankh via flickr and Creative Commons license. While the debate rages on about whether New York's bike lanes are working right or hardly working at all, out here on the west coast in Bike City, U.S.A. (aka Portland, Oregon) there's a different question to ponder as the New Year ...
  • Taj Mahal Threatened by Pollution
    Photo: hot hottest The Taj Mahal in Agra, India is one of the world's great sights, but it is in danger of being irreparably damaged by air and water pollution. Twelve years ago the government started a programme to save the monument, with Bill Clinton saying that pollution had done "what ...
  • Cate Blanchett Invests in Solar, January Jones Sup ...
    Photo: Thore Siebrands/Creative Commons Investing in a new company can make even celebrities anxious, but for Cate Blanchett, backing green energy has paid off: In 2008, she agreed to invest in West Coast solar power company Sungevity, which has since increased its market share from 0.4 percen ...
  • No Break for Polar Bears on Christmas: Habitat Sac ...
    Image: The Last Cookie via flickr First, the Obama administration this week upheld the much-lambasted Bush-era decision to label polar bears as threatened rather than endangered. Then, it opened up critical polar bear habitat to offshore drilling. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
  • Herman Miller Blocks Celebrate Eames, Nelson and G ...
    Images credit House Industries Show and Tell No doubt you will see these someday on Unhappy Hipsters in the hands of cute little children in a minimalist Japanese home. Herman Miller in Japan is selling these lovely childrens' blocks celebrating George Nelson, Charles Eames and Alexander Girard ...

Biosingularity

  • Decloaking perforin, the protein assassin
    When the immune system identifies a cell that needs to be eliminated, such as a virus-infected cell or cancer cell, natural killer cells descend and puncture the offending cell, injecting toxic enzymes to spell its doom. At the centre of this immune response is a crucial protein called perforin, whi ...
  • Healthy Lifestyle May Cut Colorectal Cancer Risk
    Following a healthy lifestyle, which means exercising, eating healthfully, keeping the waistline trim, limiting alcohol intake, and avoiding smoking, could reduce the risk of colorectal cancer by 23%, according to a study from Denmark. via Healthy Lifestyle May Cut Colorectal Cancer Risk.
  • First Human Liver Grown in Lab
    For the first time, human cells have been used to create a lab-grown liver. It’s a milestone on the way to creating a new source of livers for transplant, Wake Forest University (WFU) researchers say. Last June, a different research team reported growing a liver from animal cells. But if the goal is ...
  • New virus ‘jumps’ from monkey to scien ...
    A never-before detected strain of virus that killed more than one-third of a monkey colony at a U.S. lab appears to have ‘jumped’ from the animals to sicken a human scientist, researchers report. Although it’s an unusual move for that type of virus and does warrant further monitoring, the researcher ...
  • Cancer Drug Zeroes In on a Genetic Mistake
    At some point in Karen Pihl’s life, one of her lung cells made a potentially fatal misstep. As the cell duplicated its DNA in preparation to divide, part of the gene for one protein became erroneously attached to part of the gene for another. The genetic malfunction bestowed the cell with the abilit ...

CFACT

  • Make your year-end contribution today!
    CFACT has become the preeminent organization presenting constructive alternatives to green radicalism that hold the left at bay. Your gift will have a direct impact on our educational programs and on our award-winning outreach.
  • 'Cool it' with all the research dollars
    Preparation and adaptation for all climate change is the simple, common-sense, cost-effective and precautionary Plan B that all governments can - and should - support.
  • End the ethanol subsidies
    Congressional inaction would save taxpayers $6 billion; lower beef, pork, poultry and egg prices; and save tens of thousands of gallons of water.
  • CFACT to showcase experts at Cancun climate confer ...
    CFACT will feature two prominent experts on climate science and policy at COP 16, the UN conference on climate change which convenes next week in Cancun, Mexico.
  • Biodiversity: Losing which species?
    The current wildlife extinction rate is the lowest in 500 years--according to the UN Environmental Program̢۪s own World Atlas of Biodiversity. Many species have actually expanded their ranges over the past century.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • This Week in Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.While it’s satisfying to settle on a single culprit for the continuing abomination of Guantánamo, the president of the moment (Bush or Obama) ...
  • This Week in Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Is it me or are the deaths of American soldiers not being reported as prominently these days? Seems like back in 2006 the death of seven Ameri ...
  • Building the shadow Internet
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The rise of Internet-enabled mobile devices has had some interesting consequences. On the face of it, smart phones and tablets are a boon. They allow people to access email and web sites anywhere, not just when tethered to a deskto ...
  • This Week in Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Another week dominated by WikiLeaks. Interesting times, no? Raw Story has been all over it; here are some of their links and headlines:Conser ...
  • Spain as 51st state
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The WikiLeaks release of some (not all!) of the diplomatic cables in its possession has generated an unprecedented response. Glenn Greenwald did an excellent roundup of the different ways both public and private entities are putting ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Toxic Trespass: Organic Farm Can Seek Damages from ...
    SAN JOSE - Four years ago, the president of Jacobs Farm/Del Cabo, Larry Jacobs, received an unfortunate phone call from Whole Foods. The retail giant notified him that it was rejecting the organic dill he had sold the chain because his culinary herb had tested positive for pesticides.Click here to r ...
  • African Farmers Losing Land to Investors
    SOUMOUNI, Mali - The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya's leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, and the farmers would all have to ...
  • Salinas, California: The Salad Bowl of Pesticides
    SALINAS VALLEY, Calif. - Locals call this place the world's salad bowl. Dole, Naturipe and Fresh Express are here, where much of the global fruit and vegetable trade emerges in neat green fields just over the hills from the Pacific Coast.Click here to read this article
  • Reversing Climate Catastrophe: A Conversation with ...
    Bill McKibben: Jim, more than a dozen nations have set new high-temperature records this year, and we've seen the all-time marks set for Asia (Pakistan at 129 degrees Fahrenheit) and Southeast Asia. Given that the global temperature has "only" gone up about a degree, can you explain how this kind of ...
  • The Ten Most Hopeful Stories of 2010
    It was a tough year. The economy continued its so-called jobless recovery with Wall Street anticipating another year of record bonuses while most Americans struggle to get work and hold on to their homes. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continued, and spilled over into Pakistan and Yemen, and more ...

fotoFrontera

  • Wallpapers para el año nuevo 2011 (escribe tu mens ...
    Para ver más imágenes navideñas, escoja un número. [1][2][3][4][5] [6][7]Para todos aquéllos que acostumbran enviar mensajes personalizados sobre el Fin de Año 2010 e inicio del Año Nuevo 2011, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas trae en exclusiva 16 wallpapers en alta resolución para que usted escriba s ...
  • Colección de mensajes para el año nuevo 2011
    En esta ocasión, le presentamos a usted una bonita colección con 10 mensajes del año nuevo 2011 sobre bellísimas imágenes navideñas. Observe con cuidado las diversas combinaciones y no olvide compartir estos hermosos wallpapers con todos sus amigos a través de los sitios web, páginas, blogs y redes ...
  • Wallpapers para Navidad y Fin de Año VII (43 imáge ...
    Para ver más imágenes navideñas, escoja un número. [1][2][3][4][5] [6][7]Con esta entrega especial de 43 imágenes navideñas, damos por terminada esta colección que en total incluye más de 200 wallpapers en alta resolución para Navidad y Fin de Año. Por lo tanto, no me queda más que desearles a todos ...
  • Wallpapers para Navidad y Fin de Año VI (13 imágen ...
    Para ver más imágenes navideñas, escoja un número. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tam ...
  • Wallpapers para Navidad y Fin de Año V (12 imágene ...
    Pare ver más imágenes navideñas, escoja un número. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • New FDA Numbers Reveal Food Animals Consume Lion’s ...
    Antibiotics, one of world’s greatest medical discoveries, are slowly losing their effectiveness in fighting bacterial infections and the massive use of the drugs in food animals may be the biggest culprit. The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is largely due to the misuse and overuse of antibi ...
  • Yakima Valley Releases Draft Air Quality Policy fo ...
    Unlike agricultural water discharges which are regulated for large farms defined as CAFO by the EPA and the Clean Water Act, most agricultural air emissions are not regulated. Water discharges and air emissions that are related to industrial scale agricultural operations in rural areas are big conce ...
  • No title
    By Julia DeBruicker Valliant On the front porch, boots stamp away snow, and then the farmer steps inside.  The glasses fog up.  Off comes the jacket, the cap, and out goes the hand in greeting.  After a season spent grazing cows and sheep and pasturing pigs, hens and turkeys, meat producers from ar ...
  • Happy Holidays from the Johns Hopkins Center for a ...
  • Looking at Food System Issues through a ‘Food Just ...
    I first came upon the term “food justice” from an organization in Oakland called People’s Grocery led by Brahm Ahmadi and others who were fighting against an unjust food system in the “food desert” of West Oakland. At the time, it was an area that left residents with liquor stores and [...]

Norwegianity

  • Blue Christmas
    Driving down to Iowa there was a mile long stretch east of St Ansgar where snow in the air turned everything light blue. It wasn’t snowing; the wind was saturated with fine dry snow creating a transparent fog-like effect. And blue, a very pronounced light blue. Pro: The best Christmas movie ever [wa ...
  • Merry Seasonal Greetings
    � And yes, there is now a ton of this kind of remix out there: � � No onset of adult diabetes yet? Try this one: � Rinse, repeat: � Now go smile at the relatives for a while. � MERRY APPROPRIATED PAGAN HOLIDAYS TO YOU AND YOURS! � �
  • Xmas reading
    MnDOT’s map shows difficult traveling (and many closed roads) in southern Minnesota, and the folks’ driveway is so slippery Mom went off it this morning and then one of my nephews went off the road trying to pull her out with a pickup. Brother Jon got them both out with a tractor but yeah, I [...]
  • Snow
    A one day travel reprieve thanks to the weather. Errands to do and probably more to come, but in the meantime here’s my worst poem ever as posted over at Canis Hoopus.    
  • Ex-massy
    It’s pretty much official: the bid to make Biffy Clyro’s cover of John Cage’s 4’33″ has failed to hit #1 on the British pop charts. Too bad, Cage’s most popular composition nailed the reality of Christmas perfectly. - Christmassy: Mr. Fish Happy Holidays from TruthDig The typewriter looks like a coo ...

Public News Service

  • Poll: Americans Ready to Deep Six the Death Penalt ...
    Poll: Americans Ready to Deep Six the Death Penalty? Phoenix, AZ – Arizona executed its first prisoner in three years in October. Now a recent poll by the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C. shows growing support for alternatives to the death penalty. Executive director Richard Die ...
  • Keep it Simple, Santa – Tips for Holiday Sho ...
    Keep it Simple, Santa – Tips for Holiday Shopping for Tots Phoenix, AZ – There's only one more weekend left for holiday shopping, and if you're looking for gifts for preschoolers, experts say you can give your kids an advantage in later life, while at the same time saving money, by steering away fro ...
  • Report: AZ Out of Step on Pre-kindergarten Program ...
    Report: AZ Out of Step on Pre-kindergarten Programs Phoenix, AZ – Most states have maintained funding for pre-kindergarten programs despite their budget problems. A new report from the Pew Center on the States says Arizona is an exception, having totally eliminated funding for early childhood progra ...
  • Pitfalls to Privatizing Parks?
    Pitfalls to Privatizing Parks? Phoenix, AZ - A state commission plans to recommend that Arizona consider privatizing some of its state parks to save money. Others say the result may instead be higher costs and less public benefit. Comments from Cristie Statler, director, Arizona State Parks Foundati ...
  • Seniors: Don't Use Social Security to Cut the Defi ...
    Seniors: Don't Use Social Security to Cut the Deficit Phoenix, AZ – Workers and seniors nationwide and in Arizona are protesting a proposal from the President's Fiscal Commission to reform Social Security with "progressive" benefits and a raised retirement age. Comments from Karen Marie-Stella, AARP ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Obama to Sign Landmark Food Safety Legislation
    Center for Food safety Applauds New Powers for the FDA. Tester-Hagan Amendment a Win for Consumers and Small, Local Food Producers and Processors The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) by the United States Congress.  The bill which passed ...
  • USDA Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement ...
    AGENCY MAKES NO DECISION ON APPROVAL OF THE ROUNDUP READY CROP CITING HARM TO ORGANIC INDUSTRY AND PROLIFERATION OF SUPERWEEDS CFS URGES AGENCY TO CONTINUE BAN ON POTENTIALLY HARMFUL CROP The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Sta ...
  • Help Us Fight Monsanto and Protect Our Food and Fa ...
    This has been an incredible year for the Center for Food Safety, and our work protecting our farms, our food, and our environment from the potential hazards of genetically engineered (GMO) crops.  As you know, in April we battled Monsanto in the U.S. Supreme Court – and were victorious in maintainin ...
  • USDA Aims to Commercialize Genetically Engineered ...
    This week, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) led a coalition of farmers, activists, and consumers in a public comment campaign addressing USDA’s latest plan to commercialize illegal GE Roundup Ready Sugar Beets (RRSB).  Last month, USDA released a proposal aimed at commercializing RRSB in spite of in ...
  • Federal Court Orders First-Ever Destruction of a G ...
    Finds Government and Monsanto rushed to illegally plant herbicide resistant crop Today federal district judge Jeffrey S. White issued a preliminary injunction ordering the immediate destruction of hundreds of acres of genetically engineered (GE) sugar beet seedlings planted in September after findin ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • John John: The View From Occupied Canada #334
    B.C. Indian bands give thumbs-down to Enbridge pipeline - The Globe and Mail Several B.C. Indian bands have rejected Enbridge ENB-T offer of a stake in its controversial Northern Gateway pipeline, throwing new hurdles before the project that would ship oil sands bitumen to Pacific Rim markets. WikiL ...
  • Maan News Agency: Jesus was Palestinian and why it ...
    Maan News Agency: Jesus was Palestinian and why it matters - Jehanzeb Dar: "Because of modern alarmist reactions to the word “Palestine,” many non-Arabs and non-Muslims take offense when it is argued that Jesus was a Palestinian (peace be upon him). Jesus’ ethnicity, skin color, and culture often a ...
  • MIDEAST: Racist Jews to the Fore - IPS ipsnews.net
    MIDEAST: Racist Jews to the Fore - IPS ipsnews.net: "BAT YAM, Dec 25, 2010 (IPS) - Emotions are running high in this working class town on the Mediterranean adjacent to Tel Aviv, the Israeli metropolis that has long been the symbol of liberal laissez-faire Israel. Principally, anti-Arab emotions: Ra ...
  • Black Folks' Guide to Understanding Christmas
    Black Folks' Guide to Understanding Christmas�(FinalCall.com) - It's Christmas, but where's Jesus? When did they kick Him out of His own birthday party, and how did St. Nick, Kris Kringle, and the Grinch who stole Christmas get invitations? And why are many Blacks still dreaming of a white Christmas ...
  • Haiti, Cholera and Colonialsm: Gerald and Maas Sup ...
    Gerald and Maas Suppressed News December 22, 2010 Haiti: according to the World Health Organization the cholera death toll has exceeded 2500 people, and the epidemic continues to spread. U.N. health efforts are limited by concerns for their own security. Cuba has 1200 medical staff on the ...

Pensieve

  • Change, by Futureshorts
    Related posts:Hope for Change? Related posts:Hope for Change?
  • Colón Protesters Voluntarily Disperse
    Minutes before being forcibly removed by a large group of Honduran police and military, the protesters that had laid siege to the city of Trujillo for 11 days voluntarily dispersed. Had they not, at the very least, there would have been violence. Iâm glad to have been wrong in overestimating the zea ...
  • Trujillo in Siege, Violence Imminent
    Photo by samiq Armed “peasants”, alleged narcos, pro-Zelaya activists and assorted foreign troublemakers have laid siege to the city of Trujillo, Colon, for 11 days. The people of Trujillo are desperate as the only road to the city is blocked by protesters. Armored vehicles with cash for banks, truc ...
  • Don’t Read This If You Work for the US Govt.
    This article does not contain quotes from any secret US government documents, but does discuss and link to reproductions of them, in the press, and in the Google cache. I have been hesitant to publish any information related to Wikileaks in my blog, being sadly aware of the lengths to which the US p ...
  • President Lobo vs. Free Speech
    President Lobo is threatening to deny naturalized Hondurans their citizenship if they oppose him. He is twisting the Honduran constitution to do this. This is the article he is citing, which on the surface looks reasonable: âARTICLE 32: Foreigners cannot perform in the country international or nat ...

Green Times

  • Overfilled garbage container
    Australians have the second highest waste production per capita; recent research (http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_pol_mun_was_per_cap-pollution-municipal-waste-per-capita) claims. Careless disposal of waste onto the streets may endanger animals that can get stuck in wrapping material whi ...
  • Shelves of cleaning chemicals
    Dish washing liquids, washing powders and other cleaning products consist of a variety of toxic ingredients like phosphates (glossary/categories/wildlife/phosphates.html ) which destabilise our ecosystem (directory/categories/Arts%20 %20Culture). But there is actually no need in chemical or syn ...
  • Sun behind leafless tree
    World’s forests get constantly harmed by human destruction when we should be grateful as plants keep us alive by transforming carbon dioxide (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-dioxide.html) during their photosynthesis into life-necessary oxygen. Environmental pollution like acid rain, ...
  • Eco painting art
    Painting an handicraft offer you a relaxing and meditative leisure time. For eco friendly paper and non toxic paints have a look at the green Art Craft supplies (directory/categories/Arts%20 %20Culture) of the Green Times directory. Would you rather  view or purchase art by green thinking a ...
  • Dangerous beach section
    Apart from capricious waves and rips, the Australian coastline possesses a variety of natural dangers to swimmers and surfers. Sharks, box jellyfishes and other toxic species inhabit the reefs. But since we are the ones to use their habitat, it is our responsibility to respect the environment an ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Gap between rich and middle class larger than ever
    ShareThisGap between rich and middle class larger than ever 23 Dec 2010 The gap between the rich and the middle class is larger than it has ever been due to the bursting of the housing bubble. The richest 1% of U.S. households had a net worth 225 times greater than that of the average American house ...
  • Executive order for indefinite detention reviews b ...
    ShareThisExecutive order for indefinite detention reviews being drafted 22 Dec 2010 President Barack Obama said Wednesday his administration is trying to figure out what to do with detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who can't be prosecuted but are 'too dangerous' to be release ...
  • Unauthorized US strike kills 4 Pakistanis
    ShareThisUnauthorized US strike kills 4 Pakistanis 27 Dec 2010 At least four people have lost their lives in a non-UN-sanctioned US drone strike in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt of North Waziristan, a report says. The incident took place after a CIA-operated drone fired four missiles into the are ...
  • US-led soldier killed in Afghanistan
    ShareThisUS-led soldier killed in Afghanistan 27 Dec 2010 A US-led soldier has lost his life in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, bringing to 704 the number of foreign troops killed in the war-torn country so far this year. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said i ...
  • Obama Returns to End-of-Life Plan That Caused Stir
    ShareThisObama's death panels quietly return: Obama Returns to End-of-Life Plan That Caused Stir 26 Dec 2010 When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over "death panels," Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama ad ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • African Asylum Seekers in Israel
    Debbie Herdan is a former Tel Aviv resident who was very active in the organization Hagar and Miriam, which works with African women in Israel who are either pregnant or have recently given birth.  Debbie worked with Eritrean, Sudanese and Darfurian asylum seekers for several years and writes that t ...
  • Israeli government thanks Palestinians for help wi ...
    By Jesse Bacon ..By not recognizing their names and refusing them entry for award ceremony in their honor. . This should remind us just how arbitrary the whole edifice of permits and checkpoints is that it can keep out people who helped contain the horrible fires and prevent worse disaster. I am als ...
  • On Adeeb Abu Rahmah’s release
    By Rebecca Vilkomerson Video of Adeeb Abu Rahmah being released On a personal note, I remember very clearly the weekend that Adeeb was arrested. I was still living in Israel, and a friend from Anarchists Against the Wall was arrested with him.  This friend was detained for over 24 hours, blindfold ...
  • Letter from an Israeli military prison
    from Abdallah Abu Rahmah. Ed’s Note: As I participated in the December 10th TIAA-CREF Day of Action on Human Rights Day, I felt I had gained a new holiday to my calendar. At the end of the day, as I was unwinding, I received this letter from imprisoned leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah over email, and saw ...
  • Please Help the Enrichment Learning Program at the ...
    Dear Friends, We are appealing to you to ask your assistance in operating a learning enrichment program for the children of the cave-dwellers’ community of Umm-Fakra. For the last two years we have assisted in conducting an enrichment programs for children in the Bedouin communities of Umm El-Kheir, ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • ‘Don’t Go, Don’t Kill’
    In the past few weeks a series of reforms have been passed which some are saying justify President Obama’s, the Democratic Party’s, and American liberals’ extreme moderation and corporatism (or, in some cases, a mere subservience to, if not an outright embrace of, this horribly corrupt form of capit ...
  • Wind turbines could boost agricultural output
    Preliminary research indicates that wind turbines aid in the growth of certain crops due to measurable effects upon the climate surrounding the fields. The turbines push air downwards, giving the crops faster, cooler air which keeps them slightly warmer in cold weather and cooler in hot weather.
  • Solar powered rainbow machine
  • There’s a monster on the loose, it’s got our heads ...
    So said Steppenwolf in the 60′s, in prescient lyrics. Newshoggers reviews The Monster Do you like a good crime novel â a corporate crime novel? If so The Monster: How a gang of predatory lenders and Wall Street bankers fleeced America â and spawned a global crisis by Michael W. Hudson is for you. Un ...
  • Excess wind power to create hydrogen to power Dani ...
    The island of Lolland in Denmark was generating 50% more power than it needd from wind turbines. Under a visionary plan, that power is phased in to split water into hydrogen and water, then use the hydrogen to power fuel cells. When the plan is complete, an entire town will get electricity and power ...

Coteret

  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: ‘ ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that this i ...
  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book, no ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the introdu ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders spons ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and then di ...
  • Maariv: How to build another nuclear reactor witho ...
    Like most of the world, Israel is facing a major energy crisis. Our population is growing and per-capita energy consumption is on the rise. Nuclear energy is emerging as the solution favored by the government, as reported in a December 8 2010 Maariv feature [full translation at the bottom of this po ...
  • Yediot’s legal editor cites Nuremberg Laws, ...
    Rabbis’ disgrace Analysis, Boaz Okon, Yediot, December 8 2010 [front-page; Hebrew original here and at the bottom of this post] In 1834, a clothes salesman in London refused to sell an article of clothing to a customer.  The refusal stemmed from the fact that the buyer was “just a Jew.”The Jewish bu ...

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The Air Vent

  • Merry Christmas Friends
    May your holiday’s bring you joy and happiness.  
  • Smashmatiticians prove weather is climate!!
    Sometimes when you don’t feel like thinking about AGW extremist stupidity, and you find yourselves reading about some news article or another that makes your head want to explode, it’s good to have a blog.  Our leftist news and science (yes they collaborate) has gone so far outside of reality that ...
  • Fixing the basic AGW calcs II
    This comment was left in the thread of Judith Curry’s blog.  It is an explanation of the problems introduced when the simple black body sphere estimate for basic forcing is not used.  While Tomas makes the point that the solution is nonsense, these things can still be estimated and do have uses so ...
  • Fixing the basic AGW calculations
    Derek Alker, has kindly offered what is definitely the most skeptical thing I’ve ever posted here.  Please don’t interpret this as my work in any way as my views on these things differ, but as I have no time  at least it will make for interesting discussion.  Derek has obviously put a  huge amou ...
  • Lazy Redux – part Deux!!
    So in my last lazy post I asked, What is the amount of warming you expect for the next 100 years?  Thirty five comments before morning.. LOL, There were so many opinions, many with statistically significant trends.  I wonder how it is that someone like me who reads endless papers blog’s and opinio ...

Focal Point

  • Julian Assange, Rape Allegations, and the Catch-22 ...
    Amanda Marcotte has a brilliant essay in Slate on the rape allegations against Julian Assange and the Catch-22 of why more victims don't come forward. We're bombarded with erroneous stereotypes about how "real victims" act, then we use those stereotypes to preemptively and unfairly smear accusers ...
  • Maybe Hold Off on the Eggnog 'Til Next Year...
    Against all odds and predictions the Food Safety and Modernization Act passed Congress this week. President Obama is expected to sign the legislation, the first major overhaul of the country's food safety laws in over 70 years. This year saw the largest recall of tainted eggs in American history: ...
  • Help Rick Smith Help The Homeless and Hungry this ...
    My friends at the Rick Smith Show ("Where Working People Come to Talk") are camping out in a supermarket parking lot in sub-zero temperatures to collect food and donations for needy people in their community. Please help them out: Homelessness and poverty continues to plague the region. That' ...
  • CA Judge OK's Festivus as Legit Religion
    A California judge signed off on Festivus as a legit religion: Locked up in a California jail, Malcolm Alarmo King wanted healthier meals. In an argument apparently made to a friendly court, he won a ruling from Superior Court Judge Derek Johnson that he should be fed double-portion kosher . ...
  • Julian Assange: "Krill to the Baleen of the Femini ...
    Who won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award in 2006? Whoever it was, it should have been Julian Assange for this self-description: Thu 29 Jun 2006 : Krill to the baleen of the feminine Krill: small, crunchy, easily sucked in... [Photo credit: Hanjeanwat, Creative Commons.]Read More

Inside Facebook

  • Platform Update: Third-Party ID Deadline Extension ...
    In this week’s Platform Update on the Facebook Developer blog, Facebook announced a one-month extension of the deadline for implementing third-party identifiers, an index for these identifiers, a new ad providers list, and the migration to timezone-less Events for the Graph API. Facebook also formal ...
  • This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
    Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, December 20th, 2010 At 48 Million Players, CityVille Could Pass FarmVille Within Days Preview: Pocket God Is Coming to Faceboo ...
  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this weekâs highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Wooga, Games Cafe, Kontagent, and Meteor Games and Luna Dig ...
  • Facebook Roundup: DC, Fellowships, Sandberg, Video ...
    Facebook Makes DC Communications Hire – As we previously wrote, Facebook was looking to fill an Associate Manager for Policy Communications. Politico reports that Brooke Oberwetter was selected for the position, will begin in January and work under Andrew Noyes. She previously worked for the Competi ...
  • Badoo’s Dating App Sees Big New Surge on Facebook
    Badoo has been around for years, mostly as a slickly-designed dating social network site, but it introduced a Facebook app version in October, and it’s recently been challenging many larger dating competitors. The app has had a huge December, growing from 3.19 million monthly active users and 365,00 ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • US national image and its contradictions
    Lawrence Davidson analyses the reasons behind the widening gulf between the US national self-image as "the world’s prime purveyor of good government, stability and progress" and the reality of imperial power, hypocrisy and double standards.
  • WikiLeaks and the press
    Paul J. Balles views the self-serving criticism of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, offered by a range of media but argues that, ultimately, the whistleblower website's exposure of cover-ups and promotion of transparency justify its actions.
  • Tell that to the USS Liberty's survivors, Mr Liebe ...
    Recalling the cold-blooded Israeli attack on the US warship the Liberty, Alan Hart considers what nuclear-armed Israel might do if its Moldovan bouncer-cum-foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, got the job he covets most, that of Israeli prime minister.
  • Julian Assange - a Christmas story
    Rachel Stephens argues that this Christmas people should "celebrate the continuing tradition of Christ, who railed against the law makers of his time in an attempt to bring love, hope and justice", by supporting and following the example of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in vowing "to spread the t ...
  • Who is the real Barack Obama?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Barack Obama's transformation from a progressive before becoming president to an anti-progressive president is probably due to his having no firm principles in the first place, a matter that has led him to internalize the Washington political culture where expediency an ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #36
    The Boiling Frogs Presents James Babb James Babb recounts the creation of the grassroots effort We Won’t Fly, and how he and cofounder George Donnelly, two regular dads, founded the group to oppose the full-body airport “porno”-scanners on grounds of privacy, ineffectiveness and health, and demand ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The New York Times: A Curious Case of Change of He ...
    Seeing the Light, Sanctioned Illusionary Game, or … I am going to stay true to my pledged position on Wikileaks related topics, and stick with questions rather than hasty analyses and interpretations. I’ve been highly puzzled by the recent position of and statements by the New York Times on Wikileak ...
  • On Wikileaks Strategy: Too Many Hors D’oeuvr ...
    Decreased Appetite & Increased Termination Risk before the Main Course As I have said before I am not ready to analyze or talk about Wikileaks’ recent exposé. It’s still too early, and so far too little with too insignificant implications has been released. I am still waiting for the highly revealin ...
  • A Parody for You: ‘Grandma Got Molested at the Air ...
    By Donny Aldridge- Singer, Songwriter & Political Satirist A friend sent me the following music clip; too real yet too funny. Enjoy it, let it be another reminder of how low we’ve stooped as a society, and keep up the spirit of resistance.   This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Pleas ...

Afro Spear

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  • A Christmas Message
    A few months ago a friend and I had a very intense disagreement which led to some very harsh words being exchanged. A few days ago out of the blue (is it ever really just “out of the blue” ?) while on Facebook, he hit me up and now all is forgiven and forgotten. We are at peace. “According [...]
  • “The State of Black Women in Politics Under ...
    Fascinating article by Duchess Harris Click on image for article.
  • A KIVA Success: Victoria Women’s Group B-2, ...
    In September of this year, I made a loan through KIVA with 166 others worldwide, to invest in the endeavours of Ruth Nankabirwa and the Victoria Women’s Group B-2 in Lugazi, Uganda. This loan was primarily used to purchase clothes for their clothing boutique. I was notified on December 15th that t ...
  • “Is Wikileaks wicked or hallowed?” by ...
    The world media is currently awash with sensitive, sensationalized and classified information. Many ‘unknowns’ are now known. Politicians, especially from ‘civilized and developed world’ and those from ‘wicked and doomed world’, have though in different taste and manner, their dirty linens in the ag ...

Expose the BNP

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

Sen4Earth

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

If Americans Knew

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

David J. Gregory

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    Join our community page by CLICKING HERE, a social networking page of like minded individuals! Our page is intended to bring people together in an environment of less advertisement with a hope of sorting through propaganda in life and discovering the truth.
  • JFK deathbed confession | Big news Repost from Bor ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction, the best screenwriters that ever lived would never be able to come up with the truth of John F. Kennedy's assassination or that of 911.
  • Conservative Conundrum
    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
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Unsuitable Blog

  • Undermining in 2010: How Did I Do?
    There is something very human in looking back over a specific period of time and reflecting on what you have achieved, failed in or could just have done a bit better. It’s part of the learning process that civilization discourages, because if we really did look back and reflect upon what really matt ...
  • EnviroLeaks : Now Live
    EnviroLeaks is a repository of leaked information that fills the gap between what the mainstream media allow us to know about the environmentally destructive behaviour of the industrial system, and the often highly classified and largely political information from groups such as WikiLeaks. EnviroLea ...
  • EnviroLeaks – Coming Soon…
    Watch this space for more information. Secure email in advance to farnish [at] hushmail [dot] com Nothing is as it seems…
  • How to Remove Conduit Engine Search from Firefox 3 ...
    I know this isn’t a tecchie blog, but sometimes I come across a problem to which there isn’t a solution listed and have to work it out for myself. In this case I (ill-advisedly as it turned out) upgraded BitTorrent to version 7 (7.1 and 7.2 at present). This is sort of pertinent to The [...]
  • WIKILEAKS MIRROR SITES – IMPORTANT
    The Wikileaks servers are under constant pressure and attack: both the sheer weight of traffic and the efforts of various government agencies to bring the servers down, or damage the DNS records, are conspiring to make the main wikileaks.org site unavailable. But this is not really a problem for two ...

Subalternate Reality

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

Idea Lab | Technology

  • NPR's Project Argo Creates National Content at the ...
    Jason and the Argonauts were the mythological Greek heroes who set off on a quest for the Golden Fleece. Like its namesake, NPR's Project Argo is off on another noble quest -- to strengthen local journalism, particularly on digital platforms. Project Argo is a partnership between NPR and member sta ...
  • Introducing Sourcerer: A Context Management System
    If you want to follow the news, the web has a lot to offer: a wide variety of information sources, powerful search tools, and no shortage of sites where people can voice their opinions. At the same time, though, the web can be overwhelming. Hundreds of links turn up in a Google search. Relevant inf ...
  • How OpenStreetMap Helps to Curb Haiti's Cholera Ep ...
    In order to respond to the current cholera epidemic in Haiti, it's essential that citizens, aid groups and others are aware of the locations of functioning health and sanitation facilities. The challenge is that maps showing this information don't currently exist -- at least not in a comprehensive a ...
  • Altering Docs? Now There's a Tool for That in Docu ...
    When we embarked on the DocumnetCloud project, tools for altering documents were the furthest thing from our minds. After all, a responsible journalist doesn't tweak source documents! But one of the first papers to embed material using DocumentCloud needed to do just that. The Chicago Tribune acc ...
  • CNN Fails to Correct Mistaken Identity for New Zea ...
    CNN's broadcasts are of packed with cheerleading for the network's viewer participation opportunities. You're encouraged to "share your story" at CNN iReport or "join a live chat" at Anderson Cooper's blog or check out CNN Heroes on Facebook or follow one of the network's nearly three dozen Twitter ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Assange and Blaxthos Poster Boys for Internet Legi ...
    The Wikileaks debacle courtesy of Julian Assange, Wikipedia revisions on Holocaust topics courtesy of those such as Blaxthos, and newspaper comment pages have become poster boys for legislative reform on Internet accountability and liability. We need to plug the gaps. In some countries, legislation ...
  • Edge on Terror - Threat of Food Contamination by A ...
    Top security personnel of major hotel and restaurant chains were briefed this year by Homeland Security officials about an Al-Qaeda terrorist plot to poison food over a single weekend in the United States. The hospitality industry in the US is reportedly taking steps to counter the threat to its cus ...
  • The Political Edge - When Not to Turn the Other Ch ...
    One of the most effective ways to overturn a culture is not to take it on directly, but to undermine it gradually. If you carry out a full-frontal assault on majority opinion, people become alarmed and fight back. But when you do it slowly, step-by-step, you can make your destruction look harmless e ...
  • Great American Meetings - Historic Miami Conferenc ...
    Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, a nonprofit organization formed by scholars seeking to dispel violent racism and anti-Semitism, is planning an unprecedented interdisciplinary academic conference to be held in Miami FL in January 2011. The focus of the coming conference will be on the diplomat ...
  • Ground Zero on Edge - Beware of Imam Feisel Abdul ...
    A profile titled �A Gift of Reconciliation� in the New York Times Style Magazine is about none other than the man behind the mosque at Ground Zero. Brainwashing? You bet. The propaganda campaign in favor of Islam is intense, subtle, clever, elegant, vulgar, massively well-funded, and incredibly well ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Happy As A Hangman
    By Chris HedgesThose who do not carry out acts of rebellion, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, are guilty of solidifying and perpetuating these crimes. Those who do not act delude themselves into believing they are innocent. They are not
  • WikiLeaks: What, Really, Is The Problem?
    By Alan HartAlan Harts vote of confidence for WikiLeaks and Julian Assange and an indictment on the mainstream media for the way it reported the leaks
  • Assange Rape Accuser Linked To Notorious CIA Opera ...
    By David EdwardsOne of the women that is accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes appears to have worked with a group that has connections to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  • The Truth Will Always Win
    By Julian Assange In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth
  • The Arrest Of Julian Assange: Truth In Chains
    By Chris FloydWell, they got him at last. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the target of several of the worlds most powerful governments, turned himself into British authorities today and is now at the mercy of state authorities who have already shown their wolfish and lawless desire to destro ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing our [ ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Realit ...
  • Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Consci ...
    Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-being-w ...
  • Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!
  • Tenth Year of War, March to Stop Deployment of Tra ...
    Thursday marked the beginning of the 10th year of war in Afghanistan. There is much to protest about U.S. action there–some performed a die-in to highlight the use of drones (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/200657/us-drone-kills-7-militants-in-nw-pakistan)–and a group of veterans of The Global ...

Yid With Lid

  • Blame Barney Frank for the "Great" Recession, Not ...
    The progressive Democrats in power must believe that the citizens of this country are absolute morons, either that or they haven�t read a newspaper in two years and don�t realize that George Bush is no longer president. The Democratic party plans on retaining their change message for their 2010. The ...
  • Worse Than A Crime It's a Blunder: Understanding ...
    By Barry Rubin Some of my readers are always bothered when I say that mistakes in Western Middle East policy are caused by stupidity and ignorance�abetted by ideology�and want to argue that the shortcomings are due to deliberate sabotage or evil intentions (often against Israel). I can ...
  • My Son’s Textbook Denies Ronald Reagan and Pope Jo ...
    As I promised, during the next few days, I will be rerunningome of my favorite posts of 2010. While many news outlets had run stories of textbooks that skew history, this was not a news story, this was my own son's text book, I was confronted by this fake version of history myself.I spent much time ...
  • Archeologists Find Revised Version of Constitution ...
    As I promised, during the next few days, I will be mixing in some of my favorite posts of 2010 in with my regular articles. The one below is IMHO my best satire of the year.� It was written to try and understand how the progressives justify the unconstitutional programs the shoved down our throats d ...
  • A Jihad Christmas Two Must Watch Videos
    While it may be the time for "Peace on Earth" and "Good Will Toward Man" not everybody in the world believes in those holiday wishes.� The two videos below are satirical but ring very true as this week there are new warnings for travelers that there may be new attacks from Islamic fanatics.� (if you ...

The Real Agenda

  • Brazil heading calls for Global Internet Regime
    Marxist Luiz Inacio Da Silva is serving as the globalists’ pawn to bring about internet governance By Alex Newman The New American The United Nations and some of its most oppressive member states are clamoring for global regulation of the Internet, including possible censorship. Toward that end, the ...
  • Almost all BP Oil Spill on the Sea Floor
    by Washington’s Blog BP and the government famously declared that most of the oil had disappeared. But as I’ve noted, as much as 98% of the oil is still in the ocean. I have repeatedly pointed out that BP and the government applied massive amounts of dispersant to the Gulf Oil Spill in an effort [.. ...
  • Chemtrails: The Consequences of Toxic Metals
    by Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri For decades, we have known that heavy metals and chemicals can cause grave physical harm. Going back to Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” we have known and been amply warned of the serious consequences of using or being exposed to these poisons in our daily activities. ...
  • U.S. Hypocrisy: Billions in deals with Iran
    By Jo Becker NYT Despite sanctions and trade embargoes, over the past decade the United States government has allowed American companies to do billions of dollars in business with Iran and other countries blacklisted as state sponsors of terrorism, an examination by The New York Times has found. At ...
  • China Owns U.S. and now Wants Europe
    Chinese have $2.7 trillion to bail-out bankrupt European nations Mail Online China has said it is willing to bail out debt-ridden countries in the euro zone using its $2.7trillion overseas investment fund. In a fresh humiliation for Europe, Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiang Yu said it was one of the ...

Wind Watch

  • Hundreds attend wind turbine meeting in Stratford
    Stephana Johnston is 80 years old and sleeping on her son�s couch because she can�t go home. Everytime she goes home she gets a �stuffiness� in her ears and a �buzzing� in her brain. Her home is on the north shore of Lake Erie and surrounded by 18 wind turbines. She�s convinced they�re the source of ...
  • Wind farm opponents vow to continue fight in Tazew ...
    BLUEFIELD, Va. � The opponents of a proposed wind turbine farm on East River Mountain say they will continue their fight against Dominion Resources. �I am certainly saddened by the fact that I see this in the newspaper and that they are coming back and operating as they are,� Dr. Teresa Paine, a mem ...
  • Grange Moor wind turbine plans rejected
    The views of more than 1,000 objectors for plans to site a pair of huge turbines in a rural Huddersfield village were heeded this afternoon as councillors gave the controversial plans the boot. More than a thousand people had written to Kirklees Council to object to the proposals for Grange Moor. Th ...
  • Trouble brewing for wind farms?
    PRINCETON � The future development of wind farms in Bureau County could be up in the air. After hearing complaints at Tuesday night�s meeting from Ohio residents Todd and Deb Anderson about the Big Sky wind farm, the Bureau County Board discussed the need to re-evaluate the county�s zoning ordinance ...
  • Sterling College staff, students oppose wind proje ...
    Craftsbury, Vermont – Students and faculty at one of Vermont’s “greenest” colleges are speaking out against a wind power project. Green Mountain Power wants to put up to two dozen wind towers in Lowell. Voters there have approved the plan. But there is still strong opposition, including from 29 facu ...

Not My Tribe

  • AFTENPOSTEN exclusive Wikileaks cache reveals US c ...
    Norway’s AFTENPOSTEN newspaper claims to have received the entire cache of Cablegate diplomatic cables. So far they’ve restricted themselves to releasing correspondence relating to US-Norwegian relations, revealing who is doing America’s bidding, in spite of being considered by “some very senior U.S ...
  • Christmas gift suggestions
    To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. -Oren Arnold
  • The War, on illiteracy. High School Seniors unable ...
    So the predicted backlash of BushCoNomics War on Education is coming out. “Throwing money at” education was deemed inefficient and ineffective. Making sure that schools which were struggling to educate the next generation of Coolies and Cannon Fodder for the Corporate machine, not performing well en ...
  • Peacekeepers on Earth and Our God’s Will to ...
    Merry Christmas.
  • A Visit from Saint Nicholas IN THE ERNEST HEMINGWA ...
      It was the night before Christmas. The house was very quiet. No creatures were stirring in the house. There weren’t even any mice stirring. The stockings had been hung carefully by the chimney. The children hoped that Saint Nicholas would come and fill them.   The children were in their beds. Thei ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Visibility 9-11: Debunking the Debunkers (5/5/2009 ...
    Decided to upload this after realizing I could upload videos longer than 15 minutes on Youtube. Related links: Visibility 9-11 Welcomes John-Michael Talboo and Stewart Bradley of Debunking the Debunkers Debunking the Rebunking
  • Neighbourhood Irrationalist
    'Neighborhood Rationalist' has tried to debunk me over at "the official blog for the growing Facebook group, '9/11 conspiracy theories are BS'", a facebook group with 1,217 members (we have more than that just in Ae911truth!). As I pointed out recently, people who call themselves 'rationalists', u ...
  • Debunking the Debunkers
    Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors, but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subject ...
  • The Argument of the 911 Truth Debunkers as Analogo ...
    These are some of the debunker "arguments" that have been made against the existence of the physical evidence proving nanothermite explosives, the freefall collapses of the towers, the evidence of melted steel etc: "Your car has a poor choice of tires, no sensible person could call that thing a car ...
  • What is it terrorists hate about us again?
    ... O yeh ... Our freedoms! SAS hit squads at UK's malls SAS hit squads are today protecting packed shopping centres from terrorists - with orders to shoot to kill. The regiment's elite troops are poised to foil any al-Qaeda bid to cause Mumbai-style carnage amid Britain's Christmas crowds. The ...

TO DO

renewable recycling conservation
Ind. ethanol plant starts after long halt on work
Chicago Tribune
Pekin, Ill.-based Aventine Renewable Energy produced its first ethanol on Nov. 30 at the Mount Vernon plant, which it started building in late 2007. ...
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Illinois Continues To Expand Use OfRenewable Energy
Gov Monitor
Governor Pat Quinn has announced that long-term agreements have been executed to advance the state's ongoing efforts to expandrenewable energy use, ...
Price hit puts wind projects in limbo
Herald Sun
The plummeting price of renewable energy certificates has hit Australia's wind farm industry. Picture: AFP Source: The Australian AT least $1.5 billion ...
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Choosing renewable energy can now save money as well as power
Philadelphia Inquirer
At least seven power suppliers entering Peco's newly deregulated residential market are offering packages partly or entirely derived from renewable energy. ...
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HUMAN HABITAT

ecology water energy
Green: Out With the E-Waste, In With the ...
New York Times (blog)
But next month, the Lower East Side EcologyCenter in New York City plans 10 e-waste recycling events throughout the boroughs at which any type of working ...
State Department of Ecology adopts rule on Kittitas County water
Seattle Times
The Washington state Department ofEcology has adopted a permanent rule that bars new groundwater withdrawals in upper Kittitas County unless they are ...
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State budget woes won't hurt Bellingham waterfront cleanup - yet
Bellingham Herald
Katie Skipper, spokeswoman for the Washington Department of Ecology, acknowledged that $20 million in state funds that had been set aside for environmental ...
Weather forecast in Azerbaijan for New Year publicized
Trend News Agency
... is not expected, Azerbaijani Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry's National Hydrometeorological Department official Umayra Tagiyeva told Trend today. ...
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WATER POWER

water floods pollution
EPA Likely to Toughen Drinking WaterStandards
SustainableBusiness.com
Last week, the Environmental Working Group released a study that analyzed drinking water across the country. The five cities with the highest levels of ...
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Families prepare for water shortages
Herald.ie
By Cormac Murphy DUBLINERS were bracing themselves for further waterrestrictions as the big freeze gave way to the big thaw. Dublin City Council said today ...
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Arizona water crisis begins in 2011
Tucson Citizen
27, 2010, under Three Sonorans Tucsonwater comes from the CAP, which comes from the Colorado river, which comes from Lake Mead upstream. ...
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Pinellas County water safety rules
Examiner.com
Water quality test results show that tap waterin Pinellas County is now safe to drink and use for most county residents. The exception is 38 properties ...
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