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• JAPAN: Economic Woes Hover Over Yearend Revelry
  Japanese employees are marking the countdown to the new year with the usual parties that they traditionally indulge in to 'forget the past and start afresh'. But how they celebrate – and how much they spend on these ‘bonen-kai' celebrations – are a harbinger of the state of the economy.
• MALAWI: Women Claim Equal Share of Family Property
  Seated on a wooden bench at her Katoto township house in Mzuzu, Grace Mkandawire's face reflects the traumatic experiences she has endured since her husband's death in 1998. She looks lost and confused and as she narrates her story there is fear, hatred and resignation that Malawi's Mari ...
• DEVELOPMENT-INDIA:: Less Water, But More Rice
  When French Jesuit priest and passionate agriculturist Henri de Laulanie developed the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of cultivation for Madagascar's poor farmers in the 1980s, he probably had no idea that millions of farmers elsewhere in the world would one day benefit from it as wel ...
• PERU: Army's Version of Civil War Events Questione ...
  A decade after the end of Peru's 20-year counterinsurgency war was officially declared, the army broke its silence, to give its own version of events.
• CUBA: Opposition 'Needs to Reflect' on U.S. Critic ...
  The internal dissident movement in Cuba faces some big challenges in 2011, after ending the year with low marks from the top U.S. diplomat in Havana, according to confidential cables made public by Wikileaks, some of which were published on the official government website cubadebate.cu.

Scoop - NZ

• Online anonymity breeds contempt
  A Facebook staff member writes about trolls and says online anonymity should be stopped.
• Europe Tries to Quell Debt Crisis
  Fears over the European financial crisis began to spread Tuesday from the weaker countries to healthier ones, including Italy and Belgium, and even much stronger Germany, spurring a stepped up search for a solution to the economic problems putting a strain on Europe’s decade-old monetary union. D ...
• US home prices still 30% above long-term average
  The typical American family is facing the biggest economic uncertainty since the Great Depression and must feel like their lives are in a washer spin cycle.  Many unemployed Americans are now entering a stage where unemployment insurance is being cut off which will send tens of thousands of peop ...
• Ghost towns of China: Satellite images show cities ...
  In what could be argued as a clear sign of China's property bubble, there are no cars at all in most of the images and thousands of flats and homes lie empty.
• Apple sued over iPhone / iPad apps that snoop on u ...
  Apple is being sued sued over claims that applications for the company's iPhone and iPad transmit users' personal information to advertising networks without customers' consent.

Independent - London

• Swedish terror plot foiled
  Four people were arrested today suspected of planning a terror attack against the Danish newspaper that printed the controversial Prophet Mohammed cartoons.
• Major airports start to clear backlog after thousa ...
  New Yorkers struggled to get back to normal yesterday after the sixth-biggest snowstorm in the city's history, while thousands of stranded travellers hoped finally to board long-delayed flights after a blizzard buried the US north-east.
• Tasmania may introduce new law to become world's f ...
  Smokers in Tasmania have an extra incentive for quitting on New Year's Day: the island state, which already has some of the world's strictest anti-smoking laws, is considering banning tobacco altogether.
• Independent Appeal: No place for violence in class ...
  School ought to be a safe place to get an education. This idea, which seems simple enough, couldn't be further from reality for millions of children in Africa.
• Chinese government shuts down blogger's cutting-ed ...
  The Chinese authorities have shut down a fashionable and influential magazine run by one of the world's most popular bloggers, whose subtle questioning of power in China appears to have irritated the ruling Communist Party.

Rogue Government.com

• Socialized America: Gluttonous Hogs Suckling At Th ...
  Americans once were fiercely independent and would never consider running to the government to solve their problems. Today we are a sad lot of whinny cry babies looking for someone to hand out free pacifiers.
• The Naked Truth About Scanners
• Baby Boomers Retirement In Jeopardy
• Non-US banks gain from Fed crisis fund
• Top Chinese blogger shuts down country's first pri ...
  China's first private magazine, which was launched by famous blogger Han Han in a bid to break monopoly of the tightly-controlled official media, has shut down apparently after its printing was blocked by authorities.

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

• Khodorkovsky's website attacked amid announcement ...
  Ex-Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky's press service website was hacked on Monday amid the announcement of the former oil tycoon's sentencing. "Tech support specialists told us that the website [khodorkovsky.ru.] was unavailable due to a DDos attack," a spokesperson for Khodorkovsky's press service sa ...
• Russia hits back at hypocritical western criticism ...
  Russia's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday called international criticism of the guilty verdict in the trial of tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky an "unacceptable attempt to exert pressure on the court". Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man and at one time seen as a potential political threat to Prime Minis ...
• Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky found guil ...
  Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev were declared guilty at the culmination of their second new trial in Moscow's Khamovniki Court on Monday. The two men, who have already spent seven years behind bars for tax evasion in a related trial, face up to seven m ...
• Australians evacuate flood-hit Queensland towns
  Flooding in north-eastern Australia has forced residents to evacuate towns and closed down more than 300 roads. In one town, Theodore, 300 residents are being flown out by a fleet of helicopters after floodwaters swamped buildings. The floods have caused hundreds of millions of dollars worth of da ...
• Asia to Gaza humanitarian aid convoy being held ba ...
  "Asia to Gaza" convoy activists say Egypt is not cooperating and has yet to issue permits. Egyptian officials say the paper work is incomplete The 'Asia to Gaza' aid convoy is waiting for Egyptian officials to permit their entry into the country. Activists who joined the convoy said today on thei ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Here there be weasels . . .
  WikiLeaks has some cables pertaining to the murder of a former K.G.B. officer, Alexander V. Litvinenko, by Polonium poisoning. According to the NYT's Alan Cowell's article, "Cables Shed Light on Ex-K.G.B. Officer’s Death", a senior Russian official asserted that Moscow had been tailing his killers b ...
• The mullahs are mad . . .
  THE MAD MULLAHS OF QOM: Barney Henderson at The Telegraph reports in "Iranian soldier captured in Afghanistan" that A member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has been captured supplying weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan for attacks on British and American troops.It is the first reported instan ...
• A Spanish inquisition . . .
  WIKILEAKS: according to Carol Rosenberg's article in the Miami Herald, "WikiLeaks: How U.S. tried to stop Spain's torture probe", there's a fly in the gazpacho. It seems there are five Gitmo prisoners that are of concern to the Spanish, and there's an on-going investigation to see how American neo-c ...
• Flaherty. An idea a minute.
  It's just that we can't keep up to his ever changing timepiece. Last June, the provincial and federal governments said they would look at a three-pronged reform: financial literacy, regulatory changes to give the private sector more freedom to offer low-cost savings options and gradually enhan ...
• Canada at War in the 21st Century
  Peel away the hockey and one sees Don Cherry as a loud man fond of violence and flamboyant suits. He wears outrageous costume as he advocates that fit young men wearing uniforms be allowed to commit public acts of violence against each other. He himself is not subject to that violence, yet he voyeur ...

Media Matters for America

• Equality Matters Looks At Civil Rights Ac ...
  In light of legislation repealing the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, Equality Matters reviews achievements in civil rights laws that were accomplished during the 19 years between racial integration of the military and the Supreme Court decision striking down laws prohibiting interracial m ...
• Frum Bungles Key Immigration Facts to Justify Kill ...
  In a CNN.com opinion piece, CNN contributor David Frum attempted to justify the defeat of immigration reform bills, including the DREAM Act, by suggesting such measures would not help the United States attract highly skilled immigrants. In fact, both the DREAM and comprehensive immigration reform b ...
• 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 ...

Global Research.ca

• The Dream Of Democracy
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Economic Crisis: Public Sector Unions and Canada' ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• NATO Trains Afghan Army To Guard Asian Pipeline
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Journalism of Appeasement. Corruption, Smoke and M ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The UN Mission in Haiti
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Marty Peretz Pays The Price
  New York magazine has a terrific piece on what has become of Martin Peretz since he was exposed as a racist. He is ostracized at Harvard, pushed out at the New Republic, mocked in the Jewish community, even his Muslim-bashing blog is about to be discontinued. I am delighted to see this bigot ...
• 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 ...

TruthOut

• This Modern World: Year in Review Part Two
• Federal Judge Dismisses Miller's Election Suit in ...
  After requiring Alaska's GOP U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller to file his federal lawsuit by Monday (yesterday), the federal judge in the case has now dismissed it without even waiting for the reply from the state, which was ordered due by Wednesday (tomorrow). From Anchorage Daily News as posted w ...
• Jim Hightower | Amazing Stupidity Syndrome in Texa ...
  Good grief, it's spreading! Another Texas politician has come down with the tragic disease known as "Amazing Stupidity Syndrome." A.S.S. attacks the lobe of the brain that controls one's ethical behavior, apparently causing the moral synapses in that region to go on the fritz, thus allowing the stu ...
• Recovery Noises and Political Taboos
  The end of 2010 brings renewed Washington rhetoric, media hype and academic me-too declarations about the US economy "recovering." We've heard them before since the crisis hit in 2007. They always proved wrong. But recovery noises are useful for some. Republicans claim that government should do less ...
• Iraqi PM Says US Troops Must Leave on Time
  Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said that all US troops must be out of Iraq by the end of 2011 as originally planned and that his new government and its security forces are capable of confronting any threats to the country's security and unity, according to The Wall Street Journal. read mo ...

Planetsave

• Fun, Informative System for Making (& Sticking to) ...
  Want to make a green New Year’s resolution? Of course you do. A cool site powered by Fashioning Change (a startup “working to create positive systemic change by engaging people on a daily basis to engage, and grow, in green living”) gives you a number of good options, incentives and tips to commit ...
• Top 10 Global Weirding & Environment Stories of 20 ...
  This is a difficult list to come up with when you cover these topics every day. There are so many big stories, many of which never even hit the mainstream media. Well, I know these are popular (I’m drawn in to them, too) and it’s always useful to reflect a little… So, here’s my Top... Read More...
• Do Something Green & Win a Smart Car
  Here’s a simple way to possibly win a Smart Car. Make a green pledge on the Billion Acts of Green® website. Share your pledge with friends on Twitter, Facebook, and/or email. Easy, eh? The pledge options certainly aren’t that challenging either (not the list I probably would have come up with). The ...
• NY Times on GOP’s Intention to Attack EPA & Countr ...
  It is pretty clear that the environment and all those in the U.S. trying to protect it are going to be facing a full court press when the 2011 Congress moves in. As Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) recently said, “if they think itâs bad now, wait till next year.” The New York Times has ...
• Jaws-Climate Change Remix
  Think there’s no connection between Jaws and Climate Change? Think again. The mastermind behind the website DenialDepot has done excellent work linking the two in a hilarious “movie review” of Jaws. Check it out below or via the link above: – — – Synopsis A group of so-called government funded “expe ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• More Interesting Facts! About Trees of course!
  Image by Or, to save on postage... via Flickr via SavATree Trees as everyone knows, are the longest
• Green Street Sidewalks in Downtown L.A.
  When Creek Freak posted our article about the city of Los Angeles’ recent Riverdale green stre
• If I can't use bacteria, how can I defend my pond ...
  If I canât use bacteria, how can I defend my pond while the water is cold? Mary – Hudson, CO I
• The Problem With Silt’s Water
  � Should I drink this water? � I don�t think many people read the Citizen Telegram but the
• Congratulations: River Expeditions, Elmer Avenue, ...
  Recent recognition for some of Los Angeles’ creek freak heroes: Click to go to the L.A. River

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• North Korea As Pretext: U.S. Builds Asian Military ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism D
• Digging Deeper in Years into Wikileaks’ Treasure C ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 3 Decemb
• Myth of “American Exceptionalism” – The Ultimate, ...
  by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net December 3, 2010 God’s mysteriou
• Out of the diplomatic bag By William Bowles
  By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad williambowles.info 3 December, 2010 Wikileaks has
• Chris Hedges: The Road to Modern Feudalism
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 3, 2010 order here talkingsticktv | Decembe

Axis of Logic

• BDS 2010: More powerful than the sword - Palestine
  Boycott Divestment and Sanctions is a two-edged sword, bringing relief to starving Gazans, and starvation to the occupier, discovers Eric Walberg December 28, 2010 It was two years ago today, 27 December, that Israel launched its invasion of Gaza, carrying out 22 days of ...
• Perlitz sentenced to nearly 20 years for sex abuse ...
  NEW HAVEN -- It's a story filled with chapters on hope, dark desires, courage and persistence. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton wrote another one -- on justice -- sentencing Douglas Perlitz, the humanitarian-turned-sex predator, to 19 years and seven months in federal prison fo ...
• 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...

They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Lots of American companies are hiring...they're just doing so overseas. "Corporate profits are up. Stock prices are up. So why isn't anyone hiring? ... Actually, many American companies are - just maybe not in your town. They're hiring overseas, where sales are surging and the pipeline of orders is ...
• Peace in our time...
  Every year during the lead up to the holiday season when my spouse asks me what I'd like for a gift I reply, "Peace on Earth." This year my gift was a quilt wall hanging: Fabric, stone, glass beads, sterling silver wire. Machine pieced, raw edge applique, machine quilted. 24 inches x 24 inches. The ...
• The Ark and the Czech
  If you are not reading Media Czech's blanket coverage of the mushrooming Flintstones Truther Park story, you are missing the best entertainment around. Because each day brings a new revelation that is even more ridiculous than the last. �Just when you think it can't get any more ludicrous, it does. ...
• "Marvin...What do we do now?"
  I have said for a couple of months now that the real fun would be had when the "tea party" whack-a-doodles took their seats and commence with trying to govern, which takes more than platitudes and slogans short enough to fit on bumper stickers. When the republicans came out with their "pledge to Ame ...
• America re-fighting Civil War over "slave question ...
  I'm a big Civil War buff, and among my most memorable and moving moments were visits to the Antietam and Gettysburg battlefields. So, I get the continuing fascination and commemoration of the battles and soldiers, both Blue and Gray, that make up this great American tragedy. � But dressing up in ant ...

Care 2

• CHINA: Researchers Race Toward Renewable Energy
  Researchers in China, the world�s leading provider of wind turbines and solar panels, are working toward making renewable energy cheaper, more efficient and a bigger part of the country�s power grid.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• HEALTHCARE/SOCIAL PROGRAMS :: Care2 Groups (Health ...
  Health care is very likely to be on the legislative agenda for 2011. We have another chance to make the health care bill right this time. Let's make our voices heard! We welcome all members who can respect the Care2 Code of Conduct! Submitted by Hans Mueller to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� � ...
• Manatees paddle to warm water to escape Fla. chill
  Manatees � those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails � are swimming out of the chilly Gulf of Mexico waters and into warmer springs and power plant discharge canals. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Protect North Carolina Puppy Mill Dogs ! PLEASE TA ...
  During the bitterly cold North Carolina winter, many puppy mill dogs are almost certainly suffering horribly. Too many are confined to cages and not provided with protection from the cold while winds howl and low temperatures make teeth chatter Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
• DNA says new human relative roamed widely in Asia
  NEW YORK � Scientists have recovered the DNA code of a human relative recently discovered in Siberia, and it delivered a surprise: This relative roamed far from the cave that holds its only known remains. Submitted by Dana H. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• My 2011 Resolutions
• GOP Not Allowed to Talk About the "Will of the Pub ...
• Samuelson on Social Security: An Artifact From a S ...
• Pat Robertson: Snow Is God's Way of Punishing Amer ...
• Jesus would be a liberal, right?

Paul Krugman

• Bad Advice From Duke Ellington
  Personally, I take the Airtrain to Jamaica, then the LIRR.
• Rule by the Ridiculous
  What's the Greek for that?
• Yes, They're Frauds
  Deficit hawks, deficit fakes.
• Nobody Believes in Supply and Demand
  Prices fluctuate -- and that's normal.
• Partying Like It's 1923: Or, The Weimar Temptation
  Of drunks, streetlights, and the monetary base.

No Quarter

• Yep, Two Feet of Global Warming
  To those of you up to your actual ass in snow, cheer up. This ain’t a new ice age. Nope, it is global warming. Don’t believe me? Well, if Time magazine says it is so it must be true: It’s become as much a winter tradition as eggnog at Christmas and champagne on New Year’s [...]
• 2011: Real Change Or More PR? *Open Thread*
  With the New Year only days away, you can smell the change is in the air. Or, is that just more PR? All natural, but the process Let the change begin with snack foods.  Well maybe not.  Apparently we consumers are ‘howling’ for natural.   Or at least the absence of artificial – as in additives, [... ...
• Bring it down a notch CIA
  The Islamabad station chief of the Central Intelligence Agency hastily departed from Pakistan last week after his cover was blown due to a suspected deliberate leak by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence. This act is the latest evidence of the tense relationship between the two spy agencies.  It ...
• Art is Subjective
  It’ll soon be clear, if it isn’t already, that polls lie. This and the journalistic corruption that takes a faulty poll and inflames it without regard for the truth will be a constant message of mine. I can’t help it. America, and all democracies, rely on a free and independent press to inform the v ...
• Bad Luck Cadet #11 – The Red Shirts Bring Pain
  The Red Shirts Bring Pain is the eleventh in a series of posts on my misadventures in becoming a police officer. The first in this series is Accidents Happen. I became a police officer while suffering a midlife crisis in my forties. I became a detective a few years later. Crime in my small town [... ...

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

• Memo to US -- You've Been Out-Adapted. Go Home!
  The U.S. is unable to adapt to the Taliban's ability to adapt.
• Israel Represses Israelis and Congress Approves
  Congress has turned a blind eye to the Israeli government's repression of its own citizens.
• The 2010 "Are You Serious?" Awards
  Top news stories and newsmakers of dubious distinction.
• Korean Brinkmanship, American Provocation, and the ...
  The exchange of artillery fire between South and North Korea on 23 November, 2010 had predictable results
• The U.S. Deserves Its Share of Blame for Fate of A ...
  The U.S. invaded Iraq despite warnings that its Christians would suffer reprisals.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  Jurriaan Maessen. Infowars. July 24th, 2009 On September 7, 1992, two term President of the European Commission Jacques Delors gave a speech to the Royal Institute of International Affa ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  Barbara Minton, Natural News, July 21st, 2009 Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the d ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 7th, 2009 Although international law prohibits the use of chemical and bacteriological weapons, America has had an active biological warfare progr ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  Papers, Please! June 2, 2009 As of today, June 1, 2009, even U.S. citizens are officially prisoners in the USA, or exiles barred from entering our own country without the government’s p ...

Al Jazeera

• Triple suicide bombing hits Mosul
  A steady stream of attacks hit Iraq's security forces as US troops prepare to leave the country in 2011.
• Australian towns flooded out
  Hundreds of Australians are being evacuated by military helicopters as Queensland sees worst flooding in 50 years.
• Gabon 'siphoned funds' to France
  Millions stolen from African bank went into political parties' coffers, leaked cables quote US embassy source as saying.
• Dubai faced 'dilemma' over murder
  Cables released by WikiLeaks show UAE authorities debated whether to keep quiet about Hamas commander's assassination.
• US travel plans frozen by snow
  Three major airports reopen but travellers feel ripple effect of transport chaos across the country.

Green Inc. - NYT

• A Lower-Carbon Route to Replacing Oil
  A San Francisco company is pursuing an alternative method of converting natural gas to an oil substitute that would also involve releasing less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
• More Blue Crabs, but Chesapeake Bay Is Still at Ri ...
  Chesapeake Bay has improved on an number of environmental measures, but is still imperiled, a new report finds.
• On Our Radar: Liquified Gas Imports Climb in Brita ...
  Britain may be forced to import 70 percent of its gas by 2020, according to a utility there.
• Nuclear Builders Keep Their Options Open
  Nuclear companies may not be certain they want to build, but they are doing the groundwork anyway.
• In the Job-Starved West, a Debate Over Uranium's L ...
  Is uranium a victim of emotional prejudice or a dangerous and unwelcome energy source?

Dot Earth News

• Putting a Siberian Snow Connection to the Test
  A forecaster seeing links between warming, Siberia and outbreaks of cold weather offers a fresh prediction.
• Wintry Weather and Global Warming
  More from the "weather is still not climate" files.
• Top of the World To You
  A pause to recharge, and to celebrate humanity's remarkable juncture.
• Covering Climate from Cancún to Katmandu
  Journalists from around the world explore the challenges in covering climate change and climate diplomacy.
• A Photographer Reflects on Press Beatings at Clima ...
  A photographer reflects on police orders to beat the press along with demonstrators at climate talks a year ago.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Russia & China not buying BIS Fractional Reserve G ...
  A bit of Xmas cheer pushin back against LA school district police brutality: How a Google Engineer (and Reddit) Got a Teenager Out of Jail for Christmas Fiddlesticks: It's Over: Jason Rosenbaum: BREAKING: FCC breaks Obama's promise, allows corporate censorship online with fake Net Neutrality Previou ...
• Robert Erickson: Featured Pic for Top 10 Political ...
  Friend of mine says this is still a running gag at her office six months later! :-D My mom is happy the Christmas tablecloth went a bit viral! Star Tribune featured the penny drop as the most photogenic political moment in Minnesota politics for 2010! The boring 2010 campaign season featured one hi ...
• 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 ...

Daily Censored

• Why we write: End Orwellian US economics and imple ...
  source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com The central economic solution to unleash trillions of dollars for the US economy is simple:  Our Robber Baron-era monetary system must be recognized as a national “debt supply” that only profits the banks that create the debt. This Orwellian opposite of a national m ...
• 1 in 3 American families “low-income”: US economic ...
  source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com The Working Poor Families Project has just released their policy brief for the winter of 2010-11. The new US Census Bureau data is that 30% of US families are now earning less than 200 percent of the official poverty threshold, and are thereby defined as “low-incom ...
• Wrong Questions = Wrong Answers: Legend of the Fal ...
  Newsweek journalist Daniel Lyons posed a series of questions recently to Bill Gates, a leading and powerful voice in the new school reform movement, and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers—highlighting not what we need to address in our public schools but proving furth ...
• A $32 rant
  How much is $32 these days?  It turns out that $32 is too much.  Pretty soon that “government option” will be the only option.  Oh yeah, I forgot, we didn’t get that one. Paying for healthcare can be one of the first things to go for families dealing with constrained finances. Over 50% of those [... ...
• 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?

AlterNet's Breaking News

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Institute for Policy Studies

• The Lineup: Week of December 27, 2010-January 2, 2 ...
  William A. Collins reviews the gun lobby's gains and Jim Hightower urges readers to move their money to small, locally based financial institutions.
• Not Much to Celebrate with Obama's Tax Deal
  It could spell trouble for Social Security.
• No Tax Holiday for the Working Poor
  There's not much to celebrate with Obama's tax deal.
• Obama's Afghanistan Review: A Whitewash of a Disas ...
  According to the Obama administration, nothing can happen in the U.S. war in Afghanistan that doesn’t mean good news.
• 'Tis The Season For Gay Rights
  Finally, a long-overdue step forward for civil rights achieved.

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

• Perhaps after three Sprout Outbreaks, Jimmy John's ...
  Salmonella and E. coli are fecal bateria - think about it. According to today’s report from the CDC, between November 1 through December 27, 2010, 94 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:- have been reported from 16 states and the District of Columbia. ...
• Outbreak of Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:- Infection Sp ...
  With the number of Salmonella or E. coli Outbreaks linked to sprout consumption nearly 40 in the last few decades by my count, perhaps banning sales of sprouts across state lines would both limit the size of these outbreaks and jump-start small, local, sustainable agriculture? This recent Outbreak, ...
• "Little Bear," J&D Produce, Inc. recalls 7,000 cas ...
  The "precautionary, voluntary recall" announced Monday pertains to cilantro and parsley from J&D Produce, Inc., packed between November 30 and December 6, by the Edinburg, Texas-based company. The J&D Produce recall came after independent tests found salmonella on the company's parsley in Quebec an ...
• CDC and FDA link Tiny Greens Brand Alfalfa and Spi ...
  In a press release this afternoon, the FDA warned - "Don't Eat Tiny Greens Brand Alfalfa Sprouts or Spicy Sprouts." • The FDA is advising consumers not to eat Alfalfa Sprouts and Spicy Sprouts (which contain alfalfa sprouts mixed with radish and clover sprouts) from Tiny Greens Organic Farm of Urba ...
• 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 12.28.10
  Opinion: Why early electric vehicle adopters deserve tax credits Just in case Fox News is listening... Nissan: "Everyone in their Leaf" by end of summer Will this promise come true? ...
• 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 ...

Rafe's Radar

• Cash is dead, says Dwolla
  Can an Iowa-based start-up undercut PayPal--and credit cards--by charging only a 25-cent-per-transaction fee?
• Oodle goes after Craigslist with social classified ...
  The company that runs the Facebook Marketplace is exporting its technology to the open Web.
• Avaak still trying to crack home Webcam market
  New version of ultra-small Internet-connected monitor camera finally gets motion sensor.
• Life in the Chromeosphere
  The hardware isn't ready and the OS is still beta, but Chrome OS notebooks look poised to steal the Netbook market from Microsoft.
• DivX plug-in does Flash video better than Adobe
  Add-on to Adobe's own add-on uses graphic processor and better software to play video with less CPU overhead.

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!

• TONIGHT: Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA
  Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King USA on Tuesday, December 28 at 7pm EST.
• India's Most Famous Political Prisoner Dr. Binayak ...
  Renowned Indian physician and human rights activist Dr. Binayak Sen has been sentenced to life in prison. On Friday, Dr. Sen and two others were convicted in India on charges of sedition and conspiracy. Described as Indian’s most famous political prisoner, Dr. Binayak Sen is known as the "physici ...
• 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 ...

Digg Green

• Where Stars Are Born (PIC)
  This mosaic image is the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of the starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82).
• Breakthrough in breathalyzers for medical dia ...
  Researchers have overcome a fundamental obstacle in developing breath-analysis technology to rapidly diagnose patients by detecting chemical compounds called 'biomarkers' in a person's respiration in real time.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger backs down on gutting o ...
  In the face of withering media coverage, the Schwarzenegger Administration has pulled an about-face on the gutting of new chemical regulations by the state's Department of Toxic Substances Control. "A wide range of stakeholders, including those from industry, environmental groups, scientists, ...
• Finest chocolate may get better: Cacao tree g ...
  The production of high quality chocolate, and the farmers who grow it, will benefit from the recent sequencing and assembly of the chocolate tree genome.
• Windbelt, Cheap Generator Alternative, to Pow ...
  Shawn Frayne, saw the need for small-scale wind power to juice LED lamps and radios in the homes of the poor. Conventional wind turbines don't scale down well—there's too much friction in the gearbox and other components. "With rotary power, there's nothing out there that generates under 50 wat ...

Invisible Opportunity

• Julian Assange and Abe Foxman get Married
  By Les Visible Well now, I was wondering what I might write about today when I saw this. It’s impossible for me to resist an opportunity like this, so I’m going to go on record and say that Wikileaks is an Israeli scam and Andy Warhol Jr., better known as Julian Assange, is a Rothschild [...]
• Swine flu pandemic outbreak sweeping through Brita ...
  By Mike Adams A swine flu pandemic is sweeping through Britain despite the fact that 70 percent of Britain’s over-65 population was vaccinated against swine flu last year. This year, that number is nearly the same — 68.5% — but flu vaccine proponents insist that until everyone is vaccinated, the flu ...
• Egypt uncovers ‘Israeli spy ring’
  I bet you haven’t seen this tidbit in any of your local media outlets… State prosecutor Hisham Badawi said Tareq Hassan was charged with harming Egypt’s national interests. The two Israelis were charged in absentia. It comes a day after Egyptian sources said an alleged spy cell, with four Egyptians ...
• WIKIWEASEL II-THE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA CRUSHES WIKILE ...
  By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor “We know what has been released. The genuinely sensitive material held by Wikileaks, that tying Israel to actions against America in Iraq, tying Israel to the drug trade in Afghanistan and tying Israel to terrorism in Pakistan, have yet to be seen. Will Assa ...
• WikiLeaks: The 9/11 of the Internet
  When America was ‘under attack’, we got the Patriot Act domestically, and never-ending war internationally – the Constitution was shredded along with international law. That was a very big response. What kind of response can we expect when the ‘international community’ is declared to be ‘under attac ...

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

• How America Turned into a Nation of Speedfreaks an ...
  An excerpt from Mick Farren's new book exploring the drug that dominates the lives of millions of schoolchildren, soldiers on the battlefield and freelance writers.
• How America Turned into a Nation of Speedfreaks
  An excerpt from Mick Farren's new book exploring the drug that dominates the lives of millions of schoolchildren, soldiers on the battlefield and freelance writers.
• WikiLeaks Cables: Drug Enforcement Agency Goes Glo ...
  The US Drug Enforcement Administration has grown into a global intelligence organization whose reach extends far beyond international drug trafficking.
• Pregnancy and Medical Marijuana: Can Pot Help Preg ...
  Suffering women will try anything to combat severe nausea during pregnancy--including marijuana. But drug laws and anti-abortion policies endanger their choices.
• Top 8 Drug Stories of 2010: Momentum Is Building t ...
  The debate around failed marijuana prohibition and the larger drug war arrived in a big way in 2010. Here are some of the most significant stories of the year.

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

• Colorful Indonesian Clinic and Library Made from S ...
  Shipping containers are sturdy, versatile structures that have traveled the world over the course of their lifespans. The Contertainer is a poly-clinic and public library designed by Indonesian firm, dpavilion architects, that repurposes these adventurous vessels to house books, which serve as “wind ...
• Prefabricated Hangar Homes are Micro Houses on Whe ...
  This stylish mobile home designed by Hangar Design Group will be hitting the markets soon – which means you could actually have one of your very own! These prefabricated microâhouses on wheels were conceived as an exercise in industrial design that combine a sophisticated aesthetic with a quality gu ...
• New Yeast Strain Doubles the Efficiency of Biofuel ...
  A team of researchers has developed a new strain of yeast that could make the production of biofuels two times more efficient by breaking down an elusive sugar chain present in plant stems called xylose. Up until now, two processes have been used to break down all of the sugars contained in plants — ...
• Eathouse: A Fresh, Local Take on Edible Architectu ...
  This amazing edible Eathouse is a literal take on urban agriculture by Stuurlui Stedenbouw and Atelier GRAS!. Spotted over at Plataforma Arquitectura, the locally-grown garden home is bursting forth with green walls bearing a variety of edible fruits and veggies. The modular structure is designed to ...
• Purrrfect Cat Beds Made from Vintage Suitcases
  If you forgot to buy your favorite feline a holiday gift, you can always make it up to them by treating them to one of these adorable cat beds made from vintage suitcases. Made by Atomic Attic, each bed is crafted from secondhand suitcases and comes with a removable, machine washable, fluffy cushion ...

Pogue's Posts

• A Day With an E-mail Scammer
  An e-mail scammer meets his match in a British theater director with a wicked sense of humor.
• Phone Service Out? Call Customer Service, Of Cours ...
  A reader shares an exchange she had with Qwest customer service.
• Amazon Provides a Dose of Humor
  Some of the best laughs on the Internet come from Amazon reader reviews.
• Here's a Thought: Rollover Megabytes
  A Twitter follower comes up with a good idea: rollover megabytes for data on cellphones, like rollover minutes.
• Gorilla Glass, the Smartphone's Unsung Hero
  People carry their phones around in pockets with keys and change. People drop these things, toss them, scrape them. Why on earth don't they get totally scratched up?

WIRED Magazine | Science

• The World’s Biggest, Iciest Particle Detector
   See Also: Elusive Neutrino Change-Up Finally Detected Searching for Alien Neutrino Messages Dark Matter May Be Building Up Inside the Sun Underground Lab Probes How Matter Licked Antimatter New Supernova Image Reveals Third Dimension
• Rare Cambodian Elephant Captured on Video
  runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience728070529001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); A rare Cambodian elephant has finally been caught on video. The footage was taken in August by photographer Allan Michaud for the Wildlife Conservation Societ ...
• Brain Volume Linked to Social Networking
  By Yun Xie, Ars Technica The size of your amygdala might indicate how large and complex your social network is. Amygdala volume has been connected to social network and behavior in past research, as scientists have found that nonhuman primate species with larger social groups tend to have greater a ...
• Gigantic Storm With Huge Tail Erupts on Saturn
  An enormous storm has erupted in Saturn’s northern hemisphere. Amateurs first sighted the storm earlier this month, but the Cassini spacecraft moved into a good position on Dec. 24 to photograph it from about 1.1 million miles away. Earth received the raw and unprocessed shots today. The storm has ...
• Honeybees May Be Spreading Disease to Wild Bees
  Eleven species of wild pollinators in the United States have turned up carrying some of the viruses known to menace domestic honeybees, possibly picked up via flower pollen. Most of these native pollinators haven’t been recorded with honeybee viruses before, according to Diana Cox-Foster of Pennsyl ...

PakAlert

• Video: The Big Blizzard – 32 Inches Of Snowfall In ...
  Watch the snow from this week's blizzard build up in a backyard in Belmar, N.J., courtesy of photographer Mike Black. He took one frame every five minutes for about 20 hours, then put them together into one of the coolest time-lapse videos I've ever seen.
• U.S. Prepares For New Decade Of War In Asia
  The United States is engaged in the longest war in its 234-year history in Afghanistan, one that will begin its eleventh calendar year in two weeks. Like the war that had been America’s longest before now, that in Indochina, the current one is in the Asian continent.
• Hopi & Other Indian Prophecies
  One of the most fascinating set of prophecies comes out of the Hopi nation located in the Southwestern United States. Many prophecies foretold by the Hopi appear to have come true. Some of these are:
• 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 ...

Andy Worthington

• With Indefinite Detention and Transfer Bans, Obama ...
  With just two weeks to go before the ninth anniversary of the opening of the “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo, almost everyone in a position of authority in the US has failed to resolve, in a satisfactory manner, the bitter legacy left by the Bush administration. In fact, to judge by two recent ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Can Geothermal Energy Pick Up Real Steam?
  Developers say we have a 'window of opportunity' to mine heat from Earth’s white-hot core, but lagging investment and environmental questions pose significant obstacles.
• New Species Photos: Fangless Snake, Bald Bird Near ...
  NoneScientists working in Asia's Mekong River Basin are finding new species of bats, birds, snakes, and more at a "staggering" rate.
• Magma Chamber Surprisingly Close to Hawaii's Surfa ...
  The source of Hawaii's copious lava has been found to be closer to the surface than any other known magma chamber, a new report says.
• Lightning Captured by X-Ray Camera—A First
  The first x-ray images of a lightning strike have been captured by a new, refrigerator-size camera, researchers say.
• Green Design Spree Aims to Trim U.S. Government's ...
  The U.S. government, the nation's biggest energy user, aims to use $4.5 billion in stimulus funds to make federal buildings into "a proving ground for what works" in clean, efficient power.

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

• AFA’s Fischer Doubles Down on Anti-Gay Lies
  Like a desperate gambler who simply can’t make himself fold an obvious losing hand and instead increases his bet, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association apparently has concluded that the best defense for being caught in lies is to further inflate them. The Southern Poverty Law Center last ...
• A Poll of Their Own: Family Research Council Takes ...
  Tony Perkins, president of the anti-gay Family Research Council (FRC), was on the attack again today. In a live event broadcast from the FRC political arm’s website, Perkins announced that a new FRC poll had found that almost 63% of “active duty and retired military families oppose overturning the p ...
• AFA’s Fischer Recycles Lies in Support of Anti-Gay ...
  For those who perpetrate lies about gays and lesbians, old habits are apparently hard to break. Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association’s loquacious director of issue analysis for government and public policy, responded on Nov. 26 to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s publication a few days ea ...
• Arkansas House Speaker Salutes Failed Racist Candi ...
  Outspoken white racist Billy Roper, the neo-Nazi founder of White Revolution and former deputy outreach coordinator at the now-defunct National Alliance (NA), failed miserably Nov. 2 as a write-in candidate for governor of Arkansas. But he did get a nice consolation prize: a letter from the speaker ...
• White Revolution Chief Seeks Kinder, Gentler Ode t ...
  In the ranks of white supremacists, Dec. 8 is a day of celebration. But being who they are, racist skinheads and other neo-Nazis generally treat what they call Martyr’s Day — an event meant to honor those who have died for the cause of white nationalism — as just another excuse for a beer-swilling, ...

change: org.

• This Holiday Season, Let's Get Toxins Out of Butte ...
  Over the holidays, many folks reach for the butter to make cookies, spread over toast for breakfast, add to mashed potatoes, and for a hundred other uses. I know my family uses a ton. So it was particularly disturbing to see that there might be high amounts of flame-retardant chemicals in butter. A  ...
• A Greener Spirit: Global Christian Leaders Speak O ...
  “A Greener Spirit” is a Change.org series profiling the growing faith-based environmental movement. We began last week with profiles of several pro-environmental evangelical pastors, and continue today with a look at climate stances from the world's three largest Christian denominations. Still to co ...
• Airline Pilot Leads the Opposition to TSA Security ...
  Airline pilot Charlie Liu saw what he viewed as a major flaw in the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) safety procedures at San Francisco International Airport: while pilots and flight attendants have to go through pat-downs and X-ray machines, the ground crew is able to bypass security ...
• Can We Grow a Greener Grassroots in 2011?
  The Change.org community joined green groups to mobilize on many important environmental, health and safety measures in late 2010, with hopes that the lame duck Congress would pass them after dawdling for almost 2 years. Congress's reply? Thanks, but no thanks. With a few happy exceptions, what foll ...
• Our Chance to Advance and End Homelessness
  I was recently profiled in the Washington Post for using the Internet and social media like Facebook and Twitter to advocate for Washington, DC's homeless community. It has brought out the best and worst in people. On the one hand, the article has gone viral. It's been translated and published in Fr ...

Common Dreams -News

• From the Pentagon to the Private Sector
  by Bryan BenderWASHINGTON - An hour after the official ceremony marking the end of his 35-year career in the Air Force, General Gregory "Speedy'' Martin returned to his quarters to swap his dress uniform for golf attire. He was ready for his first tee time as a retired four-star general.read more
• Tax Cut Bill Signed By Obama Packed With Obscure S ...
  WASHINGTON - The massive new tax bill signed into law by President Barack Obama is filled with all kinds of holiday stocking stuffers for businesses: tax breaks for producing TV shows, grants for putting up windmills, rum subsidies for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.There is even a tax break for ...
• Pakistan Suicide Bomb Kills Scores
  by Haroon Siddique and agencies A female suicide bomber killed more than 40 people today at a food distribution centre near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said.The attack, believed to be the first suicide bombing by a woman in Pakistan, took place in Bajur, a tribal region ...
• Fading Optimism in “New Normal” America
  by Bernd DebusmannOptimism is so deeply embedded in the American national psyche that it withstood the Great Depression in the 1930s and a string of recessions since then. But in the era some economists call “the new normal” in America, optimism is fading.read more
• US Changes How It Measures Long-Term Unemployment
  by Rick HampsonSo many Americans have been jobless for so long that the government is changing how it records long-term unemployment. Citing what it calls "an unprecedented rise" in long-term unemployment, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), beginning Saturday, will raise from two years t ...

Lifehacker

• Empty iLife's Trashes to Free Up Space on Your Mac ...
  We've shown you a few ways to clean up your Mac's hard drive, but Macworld reminds us of a very simple tip that many of us probably forget about often: empty the trash in your favorite iLife apps. More��
• QuietWrite is a Mostly Blank, Aqua Blue Space to T ...
  It's a strange thing, so many apps competing to be the "quietest" writing space. QuietWrite might have a shot at the title, though. It's just your auto-saved text, a menu (if you move the cursor), and public publishing, if you want it. More ...
• SwipeGood Donates Your Loose Change to Charity [Ch ...
  If you want to give to charity but don't have the time to think about it, free service SwipeGood will round up your change from every credit card purchase and donate that to the charity of your choice. More��
• Know the Post-Christmas Return Policies at Major R ...
  Lame gift this year? Clothes that don't fit, or tech gear that doesn't quite fit your life? The Consumerist blog helpfully patched together a list of return policies at the stores where you're most likely to be standing in line. More�� ...
• Voice Search for Chrome Searches and Fills Input B ...
  Chrome only: Got a microphone? Got a knack for talking faster than you type? Even if you don't, you might enjoy trying out Voice Search, an experimental Chrome add-on that uses your voice as text input, just like on Android. More�� ...

Water Privatization

• Privatization of city slaughterhouse eyed
  ILOILO City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog is eyeing the privatization of a city-owned slaughterhouse if a contractor-supplier charged P100 million or more for the upgrading of equipment and facilities of the abattoir. Mabilog also asked Francis N. Celones of FNC Food and Beverages Machinery Technology a ...
• 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.

Guardian

• Joanna Yeates may have left flat with two people
  �� Police investigating report of three people seen leaving home �� Crimestoppers put up £10,000 reward for information Detectives searching for the killer of landscape architect Joanna Yeates are investigating a report that three people were seen leaving her home on the night she vanished.The land ...
• NI water shortage to last for days
  Northern Ireland Water says it is working 'as fast as we can' to restore running water to 40,000 people affected by burst pipesLarge numbers of homes in Northern Ireland are likely to be without water for days to come, the national provider said, after a thaw in icy conditions caused pipes to burst. ...
• England retain Ashes in Australia
  �� England win by innings and 157 runs �� Victory ends 24-year wait to retain Ashes in Australia �� Read Rob Smyth's over-by-over report of day fourThis is not yet done. The scenes at the Melbourne Cricket Ground half an hour before lunch were unforgettable: a joyful celebration of victors and their ...
• Four held over Danish terror 'plot'
  Men arrested in connection with suspected plot to attack a newspaper that published cartoons of Prophet MuhammadDenmark's intelligence service has arrested four people suspected of planning an "imminent" terror attack against a newspaper that printed the controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons.The D ...
• Gawker was 'hacked six months ago'
  Server was cracked using 'local file inclusion' weakness and hacking group then worked through system to access passwords and source code, sources say Gawker was hacked early in December. Photo by DBreg2007 on Flickr. Some rights reservedHackers had access to the gossip site Gawker's content managem ...

McClatchey

• South Korea indicates willingness to resume six-pa ...
  BEIJING — South Korea's president suggested on Wednesday that his administration was willing to resume multi-lateral talks that include North Korea, a sign that troubles could be subsiding in the face of worries about war breaking out on the Korean Peninsula.
• N.C. Republicans blast Sen. Burr for his 'don't as ...
  Some county commissioners are upset with fellow Republican and U.S. Sen. Richard Burr's vote to repeal a Pentagon ban on gays serving openly in the military.
• WikiLeaks cables highlight Cuba's health care issu ...
  In one Cuban hospital, patients had to bring their own light bulbs. In another, the staff used "a primitive manual vacuum" on a woman who had miscarried. In others, Cuban patients pay bribes to obtain better treatment.
• Release of Sarah Palin's e-mail records remains in ...
  The governor has come and gone, another has assumed the office and then has been elected in his own right, and activist Andree McLeod, four journalists and an author are still waiting for the state to release the public record of Sarah Palin's e-mails.
• Pilot who angered TSA with YouTube video goes publ ...
  SACRAMENTO — The pilot who posted a cell phone video on YouTube revealing potential loopholes in airport security identified himself Monday and said he is "pretty shocked" by the national uproar he has caused.

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

• Upton Argues Obama Plans To Destroy America In The ...
  In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, incoming energy chair Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) joined Americans For Prosperity (AFP) president Tim Phillips, a global warming denier, to support the lawsuits by global warming polluters against climate rules. One of the companies leading the charge against the Environme ...
• Rep.-Elect Walsh Joins Just Four Other Republicans ...
  Responding to Rep.-elect Andy Harrisâ (R-MD) hypocritical demand for government-sponsored health coverage last month, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) circulated a letter among his colleagues calling on Harris and other members of Congress who want to repeal President Obama’s health care law to forgo their o ...
• New Science Chair Ralph Hall Praises ‘Tremen ...
  Incoming science chair Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX) plans to put big oil back in charge of his committee. In an interview with the Dallas News this month, the climate zombie declared his intention to use the House Science and Technology Committee to investigate the “false statements” of climate scientists ...
• 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 ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Sunday Afternoon Rocking Out!!!
  To tired and busy to write much today. So here's some embedded videos that other people put up on YouTube of artists other than themselves. First up: Gumby's First Music Video! Thank the gods for that quickly placed towel when Gumby got out of the shower. I don't even want to think about what Gu ...
• A Liberal-NDP Coalition is the Best We Can Hope Fo ...
  The corrupt harpercons are trying to ram through some more stupid pro-crime legislation (or they're purposefully dangling legislative garbage before the opposition parties knowing that they'll reject it so that they [the harpercons] can yammer and howl about how the opposition parties are "soft on c ...
• There's something to be said for this sort of thin ...
  "Today you, .... tomorrow me." From Youngfox Canada.
• Nauesating Canadian Hypocrisy on Haiti
  The latest abomination: Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says the international community "cannot do everything in Haiti" and urged the country's leadership rivals to respect the democratic process "with respect and calm." ... it's important for the people of Haiti to assume their respo ...
• I Guess it's Safe to Say That All Ottawa Cops are ...
  Via The Fifth Column: "'Circle wagons,' union boss tells officers. Colleagues being 'stomped on' need support: Boucher" In an interview Thursday night, union leader Steve Boucher said he sent the e-mail to remind officers to keep their heads up, serve with pride and look after each other on the j ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• 4th Circuit says FCA gives no protection for filin ...
  The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, issued an opinion yesterday that denies protection to employees who file retaliation claims under the False Claims Act (FCA). The three judges ignored the friend-of-the-court brief I submitted that argued how the plain language of the F ...
• 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 ...

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

• 'Spinning' Trademarked; Gyms Being Threatened For ...
  If you've been to a gym lately, you've probably seen how "spinning" classes have become quite popular these days. When I first heard of them, I couldn't figure out why they called them "spinning," rather than just "stationary bike" classes, but now I know: apparently "spinning" is a trademarked ter ...
• Algerian Gets Patent On Building Pyramids?
  Someone who prefers to be anonymous passed on this short, and not very detailed blurb, claiming that a doctor in Algeria, Assia Bennouar-Abdedaim, figured out "the secret of pyramid building techniques" and has now received a patent on it. Again, the description is lacking in a lot of details, but ...
• Class Action Fishing: Apple Sued Over Third Party ...
  One of those class action specialist lawsuit firms, who seem to file lawsuits mostly designed to make the lawyers money, rather than correct any sort of improper actions, has sued Apple and some app makers over supposed privacy violations. At issue is the fact that some apps pass on the unique UDID ...
• Spanish Politicians Already Planning To Bring Back ...
  We already noted how a Wikileaks cable exposed the US's significant role in pushing for new copyright laws in Spain that matched what the US entertainment industry was demanding. The news of US involvement apparently helped convince the Spanish legislature to reject that part of a larger bill. Of ...
• Encrypted Civil War Message Finally Decrypted, 147 ...
  When talking about encryption, people often talk about just how long it would take a certain level of computing to crack the code, so there may be some interest in the fact that it apparently took 147 years to decipher a coded Civil War message... but it turns out that the main reason it took so lon ...

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

• Things You Might Have Missed
  Racialicious posted a great TED video of Tony Porter talking about the man box. Most of you will find something to object to in this report by the United Nations on access to land and security of tenure.  (I know I skipped the recommendations part.)  But it is worth a read for how it frames the [... ...
• 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. ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Saudi Arabia's Terror: What Hillary Clinton Knows
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 17, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 49
• Sovereignty Trumps the Euro; Irish and Germans Mus ...
  By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 17, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 49
• A Russian Dialogue with LaRouche & Friends: The Cu ...
  Dialogue with Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. and others Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 17, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 49
• Science's Next New Undertaking: What Makes Sense?
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 17, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 49
• EIR Features LaRouche Dialogue with Russian Edior ...
  EIR News Service press release.

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

• By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
  [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
• By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
  [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
• By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
  [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]
• By: Ecocentric’s Best of the Ecoblogosphere ...
  [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]
• By: FutureEmergency.com
  [...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]

treehugger

• Wearing Food is a New Fashion
  Photo: oddity.com Just when you thought that you had eaten enough for the next month...we bring you Hunger Pains. It's fashion and food photography coming together in a vegetarian way. Photographed by Ted Sabarese, a New Yorker, he is portraying his fascination with people and the food tha ...
• Seals Returning to Baltic Coast After 50 Year Hiat ...
  Photo: Tambako the Jaguar / CC There was once a time when seals thrived in the cold waters of the Baltic sea, near the coast of Poland, but fishermen in the region didn't appreciate the competition. For decades, they drove away and killed thousands of seals until eventually there were none to be ...
• Rare Gyrfalcons Fly Again After Smuggling Bust
  Photos via IFAW 'Tis the season for heart-warming stories. This one is about eight endangered gyrfalcons, who were recently released back to the wild after being seized by customs officials in Moscow. The birds were found "swaddled in cloth, hooded and packed four to a box," according to the Inte ...
• Ford is Bringing Stop-Start Technology to Non-Hybr ...
  Hey Ford, I think you need a better graphic designer. The SUV looks like it comes from a GIF file, and the logo on the left isn't even centered. Image: Ford Cars That Truly Stop at Red Lights Stop-start technology, aka anti-idling or idle-stop, turns off the engine of a vehicle when it stops a ...
• Stephen Baldwin Sues Kevin Costner Over BP Oil Mac ...
  Photo: MSNBC One of the few amusing side notes in the BP Gulf spill saga was Kevin Costner riding to the rescue with an oil-sucking machine his scientist brother had built. Even more surprising was news that the machine was deemed effective, and

Biosingularity

• Eliminating dopamine turns fruit flies into masoch ...
  Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that seems to have been around from about the time of the very first nerves. Every animal we’ve looked at, including some that branched off prior to the Cambrian, seems to express the dopamine signaling machinery in its nerves. So you might expect that eliminating dopa ...
• Toxic House Cats?
  Toxoplasmosis is a serious disease when transmitted from a pregnant mother to the unborn fetus, potentially resulting in stillbirth, brain damage, or long-term eye damage that can lead to blindness. Even worse, it’s extremely common in a most common animal, the house cat—and it’s easily transmissibl ...
• The code for survival
  When cells are exposed to life-threatening stresses, they take quick action to save themselves. Among other defenses, they start manufacturing proteins that perform critical tasks such as repairing DNA. Researchers at MIT and the University of Albany have now discovered one way that cells boost prod ...
• Wandering Tumor Cells Predict Poor Outcome
  Women with metastatic breast cancer who have no tumor cells circulating in their blood after the first round of treatment live longer than those who do, French researchers report.Circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, are cells that break off from a tumor and escape into the bloodstream. These cells can ...
• More Fruit and Veggies Now, Better Arteries Later
  Just in time for the holidays, here’s a new reason to get children to eat their veggies. Children who eat a lot of fruit and vegetables have healthier, less stiff arteries as young adults compared to children who don’t load up on fruit and veggies, according to a new study. Researchers say arterial ...

CFACT

• India and the next green revolution
  Until recent decades, India was famous for its famines, not its computer industry. India̢۪s dense population and erratic monsoon rainfall put it constantly at food risk. Tomorrow, India̢۪s farmers will need another Green Revolution to feed India as it becomes the world̢۪s most populous country ...
• 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.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russian Press - Behind the Headlines, December 29
  Ukrainians protest topless against Yanukovych/ Russia’s Mi-17: helicopter of choice for Afghanistan / Russia's bullish prospects for 2011
• RusAl to nominate Voloshin again for Norilsk board
  RusAl, one of the core shareholders of Russia's largest nickel producer Norilsk Nickel, will propose Alexander Voloshin as a candidate for Norilsk board of directors again at an extraordinary shareholders' meeting on March 11, RusAl's core owner Oleg Deripaska said on Wednesday.
• Aeroflot cancels flights amid ongoing chaos at She ...
  Russia's flagship airline Aeroflot has canceled over 40 flights from Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on Wednesday, riling stranded passengers even more.
• Flight delay chaos in Moscow airports
• A tale of two night witches and one war
  The Soviet Union’s all-female air regiments flew more than 30,000 missions and dropped 3,000 tons of bombs along the Eastern Front in World War II.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia's Mission Control raises ISS orbit by 4.2 k ...
  Russia's Mission Control has adjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by raising it 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles), a spokesman for the control center said on Wednesday.
• Launch of new Russian navigation satellite postpon ...
  The launch of Russia's new-generation Glonass-K satellite has been postponed until 2011, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
• Russia's Mission Control to readjust ISS orbit
  Russia's Mission Control is preparing to adjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday by raising it 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles).
• Russian Soyuz craft docks with international space ...
  The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli and NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman has successfully docked with the International Space Station.
• Russian Mission Control loses, regains communicati ...
  Russia's Mission Control Center lost contact with the International Space Station for about three hours on Thursday before resolving the problem.

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

• Year-Round Farmer's Markets Spreading Across the U ...
  A growing number of farmers markets are extending their operation into and through the winter months.Click here to read this article
• Study Maps Chemical Residues in European Children' ...
  In a single day, a 10-year-old child in Europe may be exposed through food to 128 chemical residues of 81 different substances. Forty-two of these substances are classified as "possibly or probably carcinogens", and five as "certainly carcinogens". No fewer than 37 substances are endocrine disruptor ...
• Organic New Year's Resolution Videos
  Here are videos to inspire your organic New Year's resolutions.Click here to read this article
• 2011: A Larger, More Intrusive Police State by Pau ...
  The year 2011 will bring Americans a larger and more intrusive police state, more unemployment and home foreclosures, no economic recovery, more disregard by the U.S. government of U.S. law, international law, the Constitution, and truth, more suspicion and distrust from allies, more hostility from ...
• EPA Swats Away Controversy Over Bee-Killing Pestic ...
  The EPA has posted its response to the controversy over a leaked document regarding clothianidin, Bayer's widely used blockbuster pesticide that has come under suspicion as a primary cause of the mass honeybee die-off known as colony collapse disorder. (For a full telling of the long, checkered sto ...

fotoFrontera

• Animales del Bosque de Chapultepec: Camello
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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

• No, not the porn star, the _other_ Lina Romay
  It was never my intent to post irregularly but absent politics, I find myself less driven to post and am thinking that this blog is now sliding into the petite mort of posting when I feel like it, the first of the Seven Steps for Effectively Killing Your Fucking Blog Once and for All Time. [...]
• 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.    

Public News Service

• Keeping the Flu Bug Away: Tips for Arizona Residen ...
  Keeping the Flu Bug Away: Tips for Arizona Residents Phoenix, AZ – Worries over the spread of the H1N1 flu virus forced many Arizona parents to be extra cautious when it came to protecting their children last flu season. Experts say with flu season upon us again, parents should work to keep their ki ...
• New FCC Rules on an Open Internet Called "Fake"
  New FCC Rules on an Open Internet Called "Fake" Washington, D.C. – The FCC approved new rules for an 'open Internet' last week, but many of the same groups that pushed for such regulations say what they got was a "fake" set of rules drafted with help from the companies they're meant to regulate. Com ...
• 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 ...

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

• More on Haiti's Raging Cholera, Electoral Fraud an ...
  More on Haiti's Raging Cholera, Electoral Fraud and Deportations :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "Haitians remains plagued by a perfect storm combination of earthquake devastation, crushing poverty, raging cholera, electoral fraud, exp ...
• White supremacists urge Thor boycott over casting ...
  White supremacists urge Thor boycott over casting of black actor as Norse god | Film | guardian.co.uk: "'It [is] well known that Marvel is a company that advocates for leftwing ideologies and causes,' the site reads. 'Marvel frontman Stan 'Lee' Lieber boasts of being a major financier of leftwing ...
• Misión Milagro: una operación de ojos a cambio de ...
  Misi�n Milagro: una operaci�n de ojos a cambio de adoctrinamiento � ELPA�S.com: El Gobierno de Venezuela, con la ayuda de médicos cubanos, puso en marcha a finales de 2005 un proyecto llamado Misión Milagro. Su objetivo consistía en recoger por toda América Latina a personas de bajos recursos con pr ...
• Bryce Edwards : Foreign meddling laid bare - Natio ...
  Bryce Edwards : Foreign meddling laid bare - National - NZ Herald News: "The Wikileaks US Embassy cables given to the Herald on Sunday provide a fantastic insight into the governance of New Zealand and the role of foreign diplomats here. Political scientists and historians will pore over these cabl ...
• WikiLeaks Archive - Cables Show D.E.A.’s Global Re ...
  WikiLeaks Archive - Cables Show D.E.A.’s Global Reach - NYTimes.com ¶In Panama, an urgent BlackBerry message from the president to the American ambassador demanded that the D.E.A. go after his political enemies: “I need help with tapping phones.” ¶In Sierra Leone, a major cocaine-trafficking prosec ...

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, ...
• Painting Eco Art
  Creating a painting offers you a relaxing and meditative way to spend your 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 gr ...
• Dangerous beach section
  Apart from capricious waves and rips, the Australian coastline poses a variety of natural dangers to swimmers and surfers. Sharks, box jellyfish and other toxic species inhabit the waters. But since we are the ones to use their habitat (glossary/wildlife/habitat.html), it is our responsibility to ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• 'Plot to bomb London Eye': Nine in court accused o ...
  ShareThis'Plot to bomb London Eye': Nine in court accused of planning Christmas terror blitz 27 Dec 2010 Nine terror suspects plotted a Christmas bomb blitz in London, a court heard yesterday. Potential targets included the London Eye tourist attraction, the Stock Exchange and Mayor Boris Johnson, i ...
• Navy tests off West Coast to endanger whales, envi ...
  ShareThisNavy tests off West Coast to endanger whales, environmentalists fear 27 Dec 2010 Environmentalists worry that plans to expand Navy testing off the Washington, Oregon and California coasts will pose a danger for whales. A proposal for increased sailor training and weapons testing, as well as ...
• Terror in Rome: Bomb found at Greek embassy as mul ...
  ShareThisTerror in Rome: Bomb found at Greek embassy as multiple embassies have package scares 27 Dec 2010 A package bomb has been found at the Greek Embassy in Rome, three days after mail bombs exploded at two other embassies injuring two people. Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman Gregoris Delavekour ...
• 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 ...

Daily Loaf

• Miranda running for re-election for Tampa City Cou ...
  Hello everybody, welcome back to a new edition of MPR- back after nearly two weeks off, most of it spent in the San Francisco Bay Area that was my home until 2000. We’re back blogging for today and tomorrow, and then come back fully loaded next Monday, the beginning of 2011. A few items for you t ...
• DIY Green: Turn a wooden pallet into a patio chair ...
  Need new outdoor furniture for your Spring and Summer fêtes? Don't buy new ones -- make them instead! Wow your guests with these patio chairs made from wooden pallets.
• Why Vinyl Fever’s demise is bad for Tampa rock mus ...
  Vinyl has become big over the past half decade, and if not for that revival perhaps Vinyl Fever would have bitten the dust earlier than this coming February. But obviously it hasn't been enough to keep the store (named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 25 top such stores in the nation) in th ...
• California observations as a new era begins
  And speaking of the "Governator", his seven year term in office ends in a number of days as well. And he's not going out on top. In that respect, he's a lot like the guy he replaced in the Golden State's special recall election in 2003, Democrat Gray Davis. The state had a lot of issues in '03, ...
• Charlie Miranda announces for re-election for Tamp ...
  Miranda doesn't go as far back in Tampa politics as mayoral candidate Dick Greco, but close. He was first elected to the council in 1974, and has served over 15 years on that body. In 2003, he finished fourth in the race for mayor, trailing Pam Iorio, Frank Sanchez and Bob Buckhorn.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Keep the fight for democracy going
  Support peace with your tax-deductible year-end gift today. Donate by December 31st and your gift will help The Only Democracy’s sponsor Jewish Voice for Peace meet a $100,000 matching gift. Your gift helps us keep bringing on the ground reports, commentary, and interviews from Israeli, Palestinian, ...
• Four cases against Israeli democracy
  By Jesse Bacon While I was away on vacation, four cases of the continuing slow death of Israeli democracy occurred. Taken together, they represent a good spectrum of the responses to democracy activists by Israel, all negative. First, Matan Cohen, Israeli-American activist, member of Young, Jewish, ...
• 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 ...

Politics in the Zeros

• Scotland on track for 80% renewable energy by 2020
  We can do that here too. We have the resources and know-how. All we need is the consensus and determination to do it. Then we would have copious amounts of clean energy produced with our own resources within our own borders. Scotland already gets 29% of its energy from renewables. By 2020 it will be ...
• Assam tea taste, crop yields affected by climate ...
  The yield for Assam tea is dropping fast despite being grown on more land, and the tea is losing its distinctive flavor. Climate change, as well as changing fertilizer and cultivation methods, are the apparent suspects. With the taste gone, international sales will surely drop. Average temperatures ...
• Quora. Something new in blogging?
  Scoble thinks so, posing the question Is Quora the biggest blogging innovation in 10 years? then answering Yes. Quora is a bloggy-like platform, where you ask questions, get answers, and can follow people as well as topics. It is simple to use but quite powerful. You can find friends on Facebook and ...
• Get out of the echo chamber!
  If you’re trapped in the beltway echo chamber, whether in DC itself or you’ve just been watching too much CNN since you got snowed in, read this.  Maybe it will wake you up.  Read the whole thing here. The wars? I was talking to the father of a warrior the other day. I dutifully expressed [...]
• Expect lawsuits as census may have overlooked 1.5 ...
  California officials claim their more careful census shows that the population of California is 38.8 million, 1.5 million more than the federal census figure of 37.3 million. This discrepancy is more than just an academic interest, as the federal population count is used to determine the number of r ...

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 ...

Deadline Live

• Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIqjzK7qbkc
• Victim Of Israeli Military Fights Back
  December 28, 2010 CBC News
• 7/7: Mind The Gap
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgXivdffCYU
• Silenced: TWA Flight 800 And The Subversion Of Jus ...
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-s5kUN52BE
• This Day In History: December 29
  1721 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (d. 1764) was born. 1808 – Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States (d. 1875), was born. 1813 – British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York during the War of 1812. 1835 – The Treaty of New Echota is signed, ceding all the [...]

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

• Facebook’s Year in Acquisitions: Ten and Counting
  Facebook stepped up acquisitions by tenfold this year, after its first two yielded talent that went on to create the company’s iPhone app and a much more elegant way for third-party developers to interact with the platform. After turning free cash-flow positive in September of last year, Facebook us ...
• Now Showing: Activity Story for Friendship After U ...
  Facebook is testing a new type of activity feed story which describes how two users became friends after attending the same Event. Automatically posted to the Recent Activity section of both users’ walls, the story says “[User X] and [User Y] are now friends after both attending [Event].” The story ...
• Facebook’s Year in Mobile: Seeking Ubiquity on Dev ...
  Central to the next era in Facebook’s growth, the company’s mobile team took a much more visible role this year with the launch of Places, deals with hundreds of carriers, and a bid to become an integral social layer for mobile experiences the way it is becoming on the web. It more than doubled the ...
• The Year Plays Back Out in This Week’s List of Fas ...
  Now that Christmas and the various other denominational holidays are mostly past, all that’s left is to look back over 2010 and wait for the calendar year to change. Most of the fastest-growing apps (but not games) on this week’s AppData list by monthly active users are year-in-review titles of vari ...
• Facebook Requires Developers to Choose Third-Party ...
  A couple weeks ago, Facebook quietly introduced a new page to its developer site, listing all of the ad networks that it has approved for developers to use in applications — meaning those that have signed on to the ad provider platform terms. The page, and a company developer blog post published las ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: Iraqi PM Says US Troops Must Leave on Ti ...
  truthout: Iraqi PM Says US Troops Must Leave on Time http://bit.ly/f9HS6G #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies and, Along W ...
  truthout: Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies and, Along With it, Reason and Justice http://bit.ly/eqV4te #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: News in Brief: Key Pakistani Party to Qu ...
  truthout: News in Brief: Key Pakistani Party to Quit Cabinet on Tuesday, and More ... http://bit.ly/ebPQ7P #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Bittersweet Revitalization: Oakland's Re ...
  truthout: Bittersweet Revitalization: Oakland's Reincarnation http://bit.ly/glP20r #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Iran Executes Two Men, One for Allegedly ...
  truthout: Iran Executes Two Men, One for Allegedly Spying for Israel http://bit.ly/hyuQsg #Truthout #p2 #p2b

ReDress News

• Jesus recruited for "ethnic cleansing" forest: God ...
  Jonathan Cook views the role of the so-called "God-TV" channel and other Christian evangelical extremists, such as the Israel lobbyist pastor John Hagee, in the ethnic cleansing of Israel's own Bedouin citizens from the Negev.
• If Obama could put America's own real interests fi ...
  Alan Hart argues that if US President Barack Obama was able to put America's own real interests above those of Israel, he would win the hearts and minds of the overwhelming majority of Arabs and Muslims.
• 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.

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

• Naked Airlines
  The Ultimate Answer by “Loose Bruce” Kerr This site depends exclusively on readersâ support. Please help us continue by contributing directly and or purchasing Boiling Frogs showcased products.
• 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 ...

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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• 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

• Wikileaks on the Edge - WikiLeaks Revelations Do N ...
  Julian Assange has declared that geopolitics will be separated into pre-“Cablegate” and post-“Cablegate” eras. That was a bold claim. However, given the intense interest that the leaks produced, it is a claim that ought to be carefully considered. Several weeks have passed since the first of the dip ...
• The Tax Edge - Why the VAT Is Not Pro-Saving
  President Barack Obama’s unsustainable near-term fiscal policies are now preamble to the massive and longstanding long-term fiscal problems highlighted in the Bowles–Simpson Commission report, the Domenici–Rivlin report, and elsewhere. As Europe in similar straits is now demonstrating that, in the i ...
• The Nuclear Edge - On Arms Control, Learn from Rea ...
  START skeptics are driven by something else: the idea that arms-control treaties should serve our security interests now and in the longer term. New START does neither. That is why the Senate should consider the full record of the negotiations before voting to approve a treaty that will: 1. encumber ...
• Book Review - Edwin Black's 'The Farhud' Makes for ...
  The Farhud: Roots of the Arab Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. Edwin Black. Dialog Press. 2010. 464 pages. Buy it here.“This book is a nightmare... I regret that I was the one who had to write it. I hope it never becomes necessary to write another like this one.’ These are among the opening words to ...
• China and Europe - China Ready to Help Europe Retu ...
  China says it is ready to do what it can to help European countries deal with the financial crisis that has shaken confidence in the euro. The statement follows reports that China is ready to buy billions of dollars worth of Portuguese bonds. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu says China supports ...

High Country News

• Celebrating the 30th anniversary of protecting hug ...
  A landmark law passed 30 years ago settled Native land claims in Alaska in ingenious and still-controversial ways.
• High Country Views, Big solar marches on
  Cally Carswell talks with HCN contributing editor Judith Lewis about the muscle the feds are putting behind solar energy development on public land.
• The way mom used to make them
  A mother’s brownies are remembered with love.
• Right on, Target!
  A 13-pound wild turkey in Colorado gets by despite the six inches of arrow protruding from either side of her breast.
• Save the refuge while there's still time
  President Obama should preserve the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a national monument for all Americans.

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

• Whoopi Goldberg, PLEASE Change Your Stage Name You ...
  As I promised, during the next few days, I will be rerunning some of my favorite posts of 2010. One of my favorite targets this year has been The View's Whoopi Goldberg. For a woman smart enough to become a major star, she says the most asinine things. And even worse because of the last name she ch ...
• There is Absolutely No Such Thing As Pre-1967 Isra ...
  Palestinian President Abbas is refusing to have face to face talks with Israel unless the Jewish State freezes all construction outside the pre-1967 borders. What Abbas knows but won�t admit is that there is no such thing as pre-1967 borders. That �green line� running through the West Bank is the 19 ...
• Those Tiny Little Minds Who Bring You the News
  This is another one of my favorite posts of the year. In this article I try to understand how do the Mainstream Media get so much about the tea parties so wrong. The only thing I could come up with is that they have tiny cranial capacities.� Trying to write eight-ten articles a day makes on ...
• Sorry Liberals, Jewish Tradition is Most Compatibl ...
  As one of the few Jews willing to admit to a politically conservative slant, I get asked the same question all the time,��How can you be both politically conservative and a Jew?��Most of the questioners are either liberal Jews who consider me something of a heretic, or a non-Jewish fellow conse ...
• Just What the Heck is Kwanzaa?
  If you are like me you woke up one day and the "holiday season" Christmas and New Year's became a trio with the addition of something called Kwanzaa.� Oh� sure there were rumblings of a new holiday, but who would have thought that something invented by a Black separatist group in 1966 will now ...

The Real Agenda

• Food Safety Act Invokes Codex Alimentarius Harmoni ...
  The naysayers complain that there’s nothing in the bill about Codex Alimentarius. They are lying. It’s on page 195 NaturalNews.com Of all the talk about S.510, virtually no one has actually read the language in the bill — especially not those lawmakers who voted for it. The more you read from this b ...
• D.E.A., the Intelligence Agency
  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 secret ...
• 70 percent of Flu patients in Britain got vaccinat ...
  Flu vaccines provide weakened viruses to the immune system (along with other preservative chemicals that can be extremely dangerous to neurological health). It's sort of like working out your muscles at the gym but having your trainer do all the heavy lifting for you. Obviously you're not going to h ...
• 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 [.. ...

Wind Watch

• Winds of change loom in Somerset County; Proposed ...
  Some people view imminent wind power development in Somerset County as a way to boost the economic stability of the region. Others decry its perceived adverse health effects and detriment to the landscape. Either way, change is looming. Between $1 billion and $2 billion worth of wind energy projects ...
• Residents file noise complaint on Notus Clean Ener ...
  A group of 30 residents filed a noise complaint over the Notus Clean Energy wind turbine in Falmouth Technology Park last month, which is being investigated by the Falmouth Building Commissioner, and will soon have their complaint heard before the Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals. Todd A. Drummey of ...
• 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 ...

Not My Tribe

• 2 AM, time to piss off the Navy.
  So this is the USN “crackerjack” work uniform blouse, from behind. Notice the two stars on a broad field of blue. That’s, according to my brother the Sailor, symbolic. The stars stand for the two times the USN fought the Royal Navy, and won. The extra large field is to make room for more stars [...]
• Jeju Island antiwar resisters under attack today b ...
  Activist Bruce Gagnon reports that Jeju Island villagers face eminent attack today from US and South Korean navy who’ve been determined to seize the Jeju coast for an Aegis destroyer base in the American bid for a militarized encirclement of China. Local antiwar ally Sung-Hee Choi is among the peace ...
• 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

• This should be a laugh...
  It seems Michael Shermer is making a documentary about 'conspiracies'. My Day in Dealey Plaza: Why JFK was Killed by a Lone Assassin http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shermer/my-day-in-dealey-plaza-wh_b_796812.html There is no more to the Pearl Harbor conspiracy theory than there is that Presid ...
• The Year in Duh-Bunking: March
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog has published the March installment of his "Year In Troof" series. Faith summed up the major point he is raising quite well on this blog back on March 6th, stating: Out of the thousands of people who believe that we were fed a load of bull from the governme ...
• Charles Lewis
  So, Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog seems to have taken Scootle's advice and did some further reading on Charles Lewis, who says there he overheard radio chatter at Los Angeles International Airport on 9/11 saying that "NORAD had not responded, because it had been 'ordered to stand down'" ...
• 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 ...

Fooducate

• Is White Whole Wheat Flour an Oxymoron?
  IF you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know we advocate eating whole grain breads. In our five part bread minisereies back in November, we tried to cover the seemingly simple task of choosing bread at the supermarket. While some breads are easy to classify as healthy (100% whole grains) ...
• Boxed Milk, Safe as Refrigerated?
  Longtime reader Justine wanted to know about Horizon Boxed Milk: I buy these for my daughter (just the regular 2% milk) and have always wondered why they don’t need/are never refrigerated. Is there some weird ingredient they are sneaking in that I should know about? Good question! What you need t ...
• How to Advertise to Kids While Pretending Not to [ ...
  OK, the above is a bit extreme, but how about commercials for junk food while your child is watching American Idol with you? There is no shortage of means for junk brands to get to your kids if they really want to. Get Fooducated: iPhone App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us ...
• Merry Christmas!
  Happy holidays from all of us here at Fooducate! What tasty dishes are you preparing for the holiday? Are there any cool kitchen and cooking gadgets Santa will be bringing you? Please let us know! Get Fooducated: iPhone App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/f ...
• What is “Natural” Food?
  One in four new products launched in 2010 had a label claiming it was “Natural”. But did you know that there is no regulatory definition for “Natural” foods? While there are strict standards for Organic labeling, it’s pretty much a wild west when it comes to the use of the word Natural. Hence you c ...

Traffikd

• How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blogs i ...
  To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
• Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
  If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate great ...
• Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
• 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
  Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
• Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
  Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits, last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open a ...

Survival International

• WikiLeaks: US renewed Indonesia military ties afte ...
  Footage of Indonesian soldiers torturing two Papuans caused widespread outrage and revulsion. © Survival US government cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed that Indonesia threatened to derail President Obama’s visit to Jakarta this year unless America reversed its ban on military assistan ...
• Nukak’s desperate plea to return home
  Many Nukak have been forced to flee their forest homes, and now live in refugee camps outside the forest. © Arnau Blanch/Survival A leader of the Nukak tribe from the Colombian Amazon has made a desperate appeal for his people’s survival before the country’s top human rights committee. ’We wan ...
• Borneo tribes under threat from massive palm oil e ...
  Penan mother and child, Sarawak, Borneo. © Survival International The hunter-gatherer Penan and other tribes are under threat from new plans to expand palm oil plantations massively in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The Sarawak government has announced plans to double the area used for palm ...
• Tribe reveals new evidence of uncontacted Indians ...
  Kayapó Indians dance at a protest against the Belo Monte dam © T Turner A tribe in the Brazilian Amazon has revealed new evidence showing that there are uncontacted Indians living in the area of the planned Belo Monte mega-dam, and has warned that these Indians are seriously threatened by the p ...
• Success! USA is final country to support tribal ri ...
  All countries that opposed the Declaration, including Australia, now support it. It is a small step in creating real change for tribal people like this Aboriginal boy. © John Miles/Survival The United States has formally endorsed the UN Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, meaning t ...

Greg Palast

• Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
  by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Russian ...
• The Real Wiki Hero
  by Marta Steele from OpEdNews with a Surprise P.S. from Greg Palast Is it not ironic that the same country that contributed Rupert Murdoch to the world has more recently donated Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks since 2007, when it was founded to "report on and publish important informat ...
• WIKI-CREEP ASSANGE, THE SCAMPPvt. Bradley, the Cha ...
  by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash I'm a "hero" and it makes me want to puke.  This week I was voted a "Hero of the Media" in one of those fairly harmless polls that are little more than thermometers of face time on the idiot box. But this Nation Magazine gong is shared with Julian Assange, imp ...
• Put a Little Palast in Your Stocking
  from Greg Palast For Chanukah, Christmas, Hajj 2010, Kwanzaa or whatever lights your candle, why not give the (tax deductible) gift of Truth? My latest disguise - fooled you? This year we have a few suggestions for Holiday gift-giving from the Palast Investigative Fund store: A Palast Gift Ca ...
• Debt Vultures Shot for ChanukahLiberia is saved bu ...
  by Greg Palast for In These Times We got’m. I can hardly believe it. Yesterday, the financial vultures, the carcass-chewers who were preying on the dirt-poor African nation of Liberia, gave up. Two shadowy vulture funds, which had won a $43 million court judgment against Liberia, agreed to accept ...

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The Big List: 2010's Biggest RenewableEnergy Projects

RenewableEnergyWorld.com

By Renewable Energy World Network Editors | 2010-12-28 20:00:00.0 | 0 Comments Here we give you the biggestrenewable energy projects that came online in ...

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Neste Oil, ZeaChem, BlueFire Renewables, Sapphire Energy win Project of the ...

Biofuels Digest

The Project of the Year went to Neste Oil for the completion and start-up of its massive 240 million gallon renewable diesel plant in Singapore. ...

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UK could meet renewable energy target, say statistics

uSwitch

UK renewable energy levels reached an all-time high this autumn, meaning that the government could reach its 2010 targets, according to statistics. ...

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CEO of NCGA Talks About Future ofRenewable Energy

Hoosier Ag Today

As the renewable energy industry continues to develop, production costs will go down. That's a plus, but aside from production costs there are many ...

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WA intervenes in coal-export port upgrade appeal

Bloomberg

The Department of Ecology on Tuesday filed a motion to intervene in an appeal of the county's decision to allow the upgrade. The department said it wants to ...

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Reclamation and Ecology extend comment period for Odessa Subarea

Othello Outlook

The Bureau of Reclamation and Washington State Department of Ecology's Office of Columbia River released the Odessa Subarea Special Study Draft ...

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Highline hunkers down in 2010

Highline Times

The City Council is awaiting plan approval by the state Department of Ecology. By Eric Mathison The previous year saw the oversized ceremonial scissors ...

Forest catches fire in Azerbaijani Zagatala region

Trend News Agency

"There are difficulties in extinguishing the fire, as it covered a forest area in the hard-to-reach mountain areas," the regional office of the Ecology ...

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New lawsuit takes aim at EPA water quality rules

The Florida Independent

By Virginia Chamlee | 12.29.10 | 10:39 am Less than a month ago, four of Florida's top officials filed suit against the EPA over its proposed water quality ...

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Wet December brings nearly double the snowpack

Los Angeles Times

State's mountain snow levels are 198% of normal, water officials say, and more rain is expected. Esther Amparan wades through heavy mud toward her home on ...

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Kan. rescinds water rights moratorium for aquifer

Bloomberg

(AP) — The Kansas Department of Agriculture's water resources division has lifted a six-year moratorium on new permits to draw water from the Ozark aquifer ...

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Anger grows at Northern Ireland watershortage

The Guardian

There was growing anger against Northern Ireland Water as up to 40000 homes and businesses were still without water supplies today after a thaw in icy ...

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