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Thomas Paine

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Monday, January 10, 2011

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  • AFPAK: People Turning Against Taliban
    The Taliban once regarded as true jihadists here are rapidly losing popularity in response to their ongoing targeting of mosques, schools and innocent people.
  • CAMBODIA: Chinese Dams Challenge Western Developme ...
    A steady rise of new dams in Cambodia is becoming a platform for the country's prime minister to showcase where the Southeast Asian kingdom's ties with China - a late arrival among Cambodia's foreign aid and development partners - is headed.
  • Unrest Spreads to Algeria
    At least three Algerians have died and hundreds have been injured in four days of protests over housing shortages, rising food prices and failing economic policies that only three months ago won praise by the International Monetary Fund and other Western financial institutions.
  • Afghanistan Solutions Lead to Central Asian Crisis
    International efforts to replace poppy fields with food crops and improve living standards in impoverished northern Afghanistan seem undeniable progress in the conflict-ridden country. But some experts worry that these efforts will have unintended negative consequences for the nation's neigh ...
  • INDIA: 100-Dollar Laptops Bring In Distant Kids
    Responding to the lack of computer training in Mukteshwar's schools, Veena Sethi, a retired Delhi University professor, set up two used personal computers in the basement of her home with the aim of bringing the basics of computing to school children.

Scoop - NZ

  • Towards a written British constitution
    Views are being sought by January 10th on a document being described by some as the first step towards a British codified constitution. The 150-page draft cabinet manual, drawn up on 14 December, aims to set out how the UK is governed.
  • Youth jobless rate hits 19.4%
    New Zealand's youth unemployment rate has surged to nearly 20 per cent – one of the highest levels in almost 20 years. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) figures for the September quarter last year showed 19.4 per cent of Kiwis aged between 15 and 24 were unemployed – ...
  • The Hobbit and New Zealand's heritage industry
    We are accustomed to think of movies as part of our leisure activities rather than terrains on which political battles are enacted. However, in a highly commercialised globe that has turned image and sound into pathways to political inclusion and global recognition, films have become politicized are ...
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  • US Army "Spiritual Fitness" Test Under Fire
    An experimental, Army mental-health, fitness initiative designed by the same psychologist whose work heavily influenced the psychological aspects of the Bush administration's torture program is under fire by civil rights groups and hundreds of active-duty soldiers. They say it unconstitutionally req ...

Independent - London

  • Picture of the Day: Catholics flock to statue
    Nearly 600 people were injured in Manila yesterday when more than a million Catholics formed a raucous procession to honour a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ, which they believe possesses mystical powers. Barefoot devotees surged over iron railings to try to touch the 404-year-old figure, whic ...
  • Historic hotel in Israel flattened for settlements
    Israeli bulldozers yesterday demolished a large part of a historic Palestinian hotel in Arab East Jerusalem as part of an internationally condemned plan to establish 20 new homes for Jewish settlers.
  • 27 killed in Acapulco as drug turf wars heighten
    The image of the beach mecca of Acapulco has taken a new hit from Mexico's drug violence, with 27 people killed in less than a day, including 14 men whose bodies were found with their heads chopped off at a shopping centre.
  • Half of passengers survive Iranair jet crash
    An Iranair passenger plane crashed in the north-west of the country yesterday, but about half of the 95 people on board survived with only light injuries.
  • German minister vows to find dioxin culprit
    Germany's Agriculture Minister vowed to take tough legal action against those responsible for contaminating livestock feed with dioxin-laced fat.

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • The year in review
    Welcome to 2011! Before we launch into a new year of covering cutting-edge Canadian research, we’re going to rewind and look back at some of the success stories we featured on InnovationCanada.ca in 2010.  Some recurring themes in Canadian research this year were: biodiversity, aboriginal culture, a ...
  • 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 ...

Signs of the times

  • Australia: Queensland Residents On Edge As Floodwa ...
    Sodden Queensland continues to battle its week-long flood crisis, with one town facing its second inundation since Christmas, residents forced to evacuate in several areas and waters receding ever so slowly in other drenched cities. Toowoomba in the state's south-east is currently in shock after a ...
  • Switzerland hit by three minor quakes
    Three small earthquakes shook the west of Switzerland overnight but there were no reports of damage, Swiss police said on Sunday. The quakes, which registered between 2.8 and 3.3 on the open-ended Richter scale, were recorded in the Valais canton.
  • FLASHBACK: The TMI Presidency: How Much Transparen ...
    During a presidential campaign, there's no such thing as over-sharing. Barack Obama promised to run the most transparent White House in history - disclosing donations, shunning lobbyists, and broadcasting important meetings on C-SPAN. Transition captain John Podesta reiterated the point Tuesday whe ...
  • FLASHBACK: Plugging the Leaks
    Barack Obama hates leaks, and thanks to a tenacious prosecutor, the Justice Department is on its way to setting a record for leak prosecutions. On New Year's Eve in 2005, a small group of CIA officials had their evening plans cut short by an urgent message from the White House. President Bush's a ...
  • Castro is not the Evil Zionist you might have thou ...
    Recently it was revealed that Fidel Castro was super critical of the Iranian President's views on Israel. When this became public the accusations came flying from every server on the Web... Fidel is a zionist, Fidel is senile, Fidel has lost his mind! Today he proved that all of the above is false, ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Pc Green....
    Sometimes...good things happen. The trial of six green campaigners has collapsed after an undercover policeman who had infiltrated their group offered to give evidence on their behalf. Funny thing about hanging around green types, one does start to learn and love the planet a little and notice ...
  • US rightwing fantasy vs. reality
    The US right, fortunately, mostly still inhabits a world of rhetorical violence. You see, despite the rhetoric and the history, precious few wingnuts are actually willing to move beyond talk and engage in real political violence. Theirs is an unreality where, despite their relative wealth and afflu ...
  • The lunacy . . .
    Nick Kristof of the NYT has some ascerbic observations in his piece "The Big (Military) Taboo".The intelligence community is so vast that more people have “top secret” clearance than live in Washington, D.C.The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in ...

Media Matters for America

  • Dobbs Falsely Blames Blue Shield Premium Hikes On ...
    Appearing on Fox News, Lou Dobbs falsely blamed the health care reform law for premium increases announced by Blue Shield of California. In fact, a Blue Shield spokesman said the rate increases "have almost nothing to do with the federal health reform law" and "reflect trends that were building lon ...
  • The Truth About "The Truth About Fox News Viewers"
    John Lott has penned a FoxNews.com op-ed criticizing as "a mess" a recent University of Maryland study which found that Fox News viewers were more likely to be misinformed than those who did not watch the network. However, the op-ed makes its case by misinforming readers on the economic stimulus, h ...
  • Dick Morris Ignores Economists To Claim Spending ...
    On Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Dick Morris declared that government spending has led the country "deeper into the recession" and that the only way out is "budget cuts." However, stimulus spending has been credited for averting a worse recession, and numerous economists have argued that ...
  • Fox Suddenly Silent On Reported GOP Plans To Use ...
    Fox News' extensive coverage of the new Republican House majority has so far ignored the fact that the GOP is reportedly embracing the use of the self-executing rule -- commonly referred to as "deem and pass" -- to mandate federal budget limits. By comparison, Fox figures repeatedly attacked De ...
  • Krauthammer Advances Baseless "Doc Fix" Argument T ...
    Charles Krauthammer claimed that the Congressional Budget Office's finding that the Affordable Care Act reduced the deficit was based on a "gimmick" because Democrats did not include the so-called "doc fix" in the bill. In reality, the "doc fix" was proposed prior to the debate on the Affordable Ca ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Bil'in: Deadly Political Theater
    Friday afternoon in Bil'in. I have to say I left the demonstration feeling more perplexed than inspired, given the many deaths the cause has occasioned. I left, that is, wondering if I had not just participated in something so highly ritualized, in which each of us was playing to form, knowing that ...
  • How the Republican Assault on Health Care Could Ba ...
    When it comes to health care, Republicans should be careful what they wish for. Their upcoming vote to repeal the health-care law will be largely symbolic -- they don't have the votes to override President Obama's certain veto. The real thing happens later, when they try to strip the Department o ...
  • Darrell Issa's Ominous Past & Twitter Avatar: Top ...
    Darrell Issa's Ominous Past & Twitter Avatar: Top 10 reasons Issa is the perfect Obama watchdogDon't let Darrell Issa's verbal ineptitude or crime-ridden past fool you: The last person Obama wants investigating him is the cunning California�Don't let Darrell Issa's verbal ineptitude or crime-ridde ...
  • Plutocracy Rising
    It's quite fitting that yesterday two top Republican Congressmen thought it more important to be at a fundraiser than at their Swearing In Ceremony. It looks like we have arrived back at the K-Street Plutocracy that got Tom Delay busted just three short years ago. What was Darrel Issa's first commun ...
  • Warning To Dems: Stop Mocking Boehner's Tears
    I found myself strangely moved by the way John Boehner assumed the Speakership yesterday and I think any objective observer would have to agree that his humility was touching. Including the tears. (I loved the way Speaker Pelosi seemed moved by how moved Boehner was. Of course, I love everything abo ...

TruthOut

  • How AT&T, Verizon and the Telecom Giants Have Capt ...
    In a recent AlterNet article, we detailed how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) helped increase the “FCC Line Charge” (SLC), now capped at $6.50 per line, that is imposed on every residential and business phone line. It is a charge that is usually hidden among the “taxes and surcharges” se ...
  • CBO: Repealing Health Care Would Increase Deficit ...
    The new Republican-controlled House has laid out its first major target - the federal law aimed at overhauling the health-care system. But an analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warns that the repealing health care legislation could increase the federal deficit by $230 bi ...
  • Millions of Flood Victims in Pakistan Now Face Har ...
    Reports indicate that the hardships from Pakistan's earlier monsoon floods have been exacerbated by the onslaught of winter. The floods impacted 20 million of Pakistan's population of just over 180 million people. As the temperature dips, hundreds of thousands of displaced children and adults are su ...
  • Shooting of Jewish Congresswoman Giffords Is Not J ...
    It's part of a right-wing assault on government and the liberals and progressives who support it.�read more
  • Thousands of Egyptian Muslims Show Up as "Human Sh ...
    On New Year’s Day, a devastating terrorist bombing at a Coptic church in Egypt killed 21 people and injured 79 others. Although the identity of the culprits was not known, it was assumed that they were Muslim extremists, intent on targeting those they saw as heretics. Religious tensions immediately ...

Planetsave

  • Climate Change Will Continue to Year 3000
    According to new research published in the latest edition of the journal Nature Geoscience the current impact of CO2 on the atmosphere will have lasting effects for the next thousand years, in the best case scenario. Within the proposed thousand years, the computer simulations created saw climate ch ...
  • Stop Monsanto Again–GM Alfalfa Threatens to Contam ...
    More info and opportunities to take action on GM Alfalfa.From Rodale: Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Could Be Growing in U.S. Fields by Spring From EatDrinkBetter: URGENT: Stop Monsantoâs GM Alfalfa From Food and Water Watch: Take Action: Ask President Obama to Protect Organic and Stop Monsanto’s GE ...
  • College Students Do Not Understand Environmental B ...
    A new study led by researchers new and old from Michigan State University has found that college students in the United States do not understand the basic science of the carbon cycle, amongst other basic scientific issues such as the conservation of matter. “Improving students’ understanding of thes ...
  • U.S. Manatee Deaths Hit Record Level in 2010
    In concluding the International Year of Biodiversity, the good news is that manatees are still with us, the bad news is that manatee deaths in U.S. waters continue to climb. In 2009, there were 429 reported manatee deaths, which was about double the number from 2008.  As of December 2010, however, m ...
  • Giffords Shooting: Crazy Talk Leads to Crazy Acts. ...
    (From our sister-blog, Red Green and Blue) Why did a crazy person shoot at Democratic Elected officials? Is it just because he’s crazy? Or could it just possibly be because Republican elected officials call Democrats  tyrants, power-grabbers and traitors, and talk about taking up guns and doing s ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Arizona assassination spree tied to political righ ...
    10 January 2011 Mounting evidence has linked the 22-year-old gunman who severely wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, killed a federal judge and killed or wounded 18 others in Tucson, Arizona to the political right. According to a memo issued by the Department of Homeland Securi ...
  • The Tucson shootings: A warning to the American pe ...
    10 January 2011 The shooting rampage on Saturday in Tucson, Arizona was clearly an act of right-wing terrorism. The gunman shot a total of 20 people, critically wounding Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killing Federal Judge John M. Roll and five others. In his first stat ...
  • Setting the Record Straight on Venezuela and Hugo ...
    With so much misinformation circulating in different media outlets around the world about Venezuela and President Hugo Chavez, it's time to set the record straight. Venezuela is not a dictatorship and President Chavez is no dictator. Just last evening the Venezuelan head of state participated in a m ...
  • Venezuela: A People's Assembly - Bolivarian Republ ...
    Venezuela’s new National Assembly took office on Wednesday, promising interesting debates between the 40% opposition minority coalition and the 60% pro-Chavez majority According to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, 2011 will be the year of “popular victory” in the country’s legislative body, the Nat ...
  • Prisoners at Supermax Ohio Penitentiary Begin Hung ...
    AMY GOODMAN: Four prisoners in the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary have launched a hunger strike to protest what they call their harsh mistreatment under solitary confinement. The prisoners—Bomani Shakur, Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Jason Robb and Namir Abdul Mateen—were sentenced to death for their i ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    We want to trot out one of Sarah Palin's greatest hits on the violent imagery charts -- the sociopathic bitch can't even talk about basketball without employing it. "To the teams that desire making it this far next year: Gear up! In the battle, set your sights on next season's targets! From the shot ...
  • I'm Not Going To Be Surprised If This Is For Real
    This is from a no byline article on HUFFPO. �They stop just short of taking actual "credit" the way terrorist groups like to get credit for their atrocities. Unfortunately, I can't say what I'm thinking about the WBC right now or I would be just as guilty as they are. Westboro Baptist Church To Pick ...
  • I know I *always* reload my surveyor's transit, an ...
    Perhaps the most ridiculous and pathetic attempt by the Palinista shitheads is their desperate attempt to protect the Queen of Mean by pretending that the crosshairs of a rifle scope to "target" Democratic House members who voted in favor of the Affordable Care Act -- including Gabrielle Giffords -- ...
  • The Rule of Twos
    Just about everything in America these days comes in twos. �Yep, two tiers or levels of just about everything there is from education to criminal justice... and especially the economy. In the main for example, there are two total different economies... Economy A for the rich which features unbridled ...
  • No, "both sides" DON'T do it
    The false equivalence has already started, with Village analpundits bleating about "both sides" needing to dial down the rhetoric. What they refuse to admit is that only one "side" repeatedly uses violent, eliminationist language and images to attack the other. Threats of violence are the province o ...

Care 2

  • Bizarre Ways to Beat Stress and Unwind
    Most people know their stress culprits. Issues involving money, balancing work and family, and life�s breakneck speed are all key factors that keep us on edge - but Check out some of the more bizarre things people do to calm themselves down, and why ...Submitted by Caree C. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Study: Spacing babies close may raise autism risk
    Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children.Children born less than two years after their siblings were considerably more likely to have.....Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness ...
  • Indian Kitchen may cure Cancer, says Study
    According to a latest research, it has been revealed some of the ingredients found in the Indian kitchem may help in curing Cancer. They included Turmeric, Ginger, Garlic, Saffron and Capsicum. Submitted by Anna Smith to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tree-like giant is largest molecule ever made
    Complex macromolecules abound in nature and PG5 is about the same size as tobacco mosaic virus. Submitted by Katie Miller to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 10 Most Flagrant Science Frauds of All Time
    When you read about a scientific study in a book or a magazine, you probably take for granted that the methods used to conduct it or gather the information were, in fact, sound and honest.Submitted by Katie Miller to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Rightwing Incites Violence?
    Thank you Reverend Amy for a dynamite piece that captured the absurd, irresponsible attack of the mainstream media in their continuing effort to discredit Sarah Palin and convince themselves that a hoard of crazed rightwing zombies are itching to grab their guns and start shooting the shit out of Wa ...
  • Uh, Hello: There Will Always Be Bad People * Open ...
    If I owned one of the cable news networks, I would dare to diversify the news stories rather than unceasingly, repetitively airing the same sparse facts about the Tucson shootings, and the precious, ultimately meaningless pontifications on the crime. Larry Johnson said it all in his title: “Suspecte ...
  • How Much is That Doggie?
    Now that Christmas is over and done with, the tree has been dragged to the trash and decorations are back in the attic, some gifts have been left behind. We spend a lot of time bemoaning our human problems, but my friend who works at a local shelter reminds me that our furry friends need [...]
  • Glock Fire
    Editor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show TONIGHT at around 10:05 to 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming details and “how to listen” instructions at the end of this post. The Tucson shootings will undoubtedly be part of the discussion. Spoke Thaddeus McCotter, D ...
  • John Batchelor Tonight, Shooting a Topic
    Editor’s Note: Geesh. I’m a day ahead of myself. Larry’s on Sunday nights. However, do tune in to John’s show since he has a knack for finding info others miss. Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show TONIGHT. John’s show begins at 9 p.m. “How to listen” help is below. ________ ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • 6 Nursery Rhymes With Sinister Origins
    Torture and animals being cooked alive aren't what most parents consider good bedtime story subjects. Yet they have been loved for centuries in nursery rhymes. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Finding Vegan Alternatives to Soy
    A few vegan alternatives to soy, dairy and meat. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Amazing Navigational Skills of the Leatherback ...
    Leatherback turtles' amazing odyssey is achieved by traveling in a straight line with incredible navigation. But how does it work? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Mysterious Disappearance of the Bumblebee
    Recent research carried out in the US adds further concern about the global decline of bees, whose role as pollinators is central to ecosystems around the world. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • Boiling and Freezing Bodies: Two Bizarre New Funer ...
    Burial practices have been quite diverse throughout history. Resomation and promession are the latest funeral options currently being offered. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • A Snake Invasion? Debating the Risks
    Climate models alone suggest that there is a significant risk that nine species could disturb ecosystems, two researchers say.
  • Cape Wind is Cleared for Takeoff - Mostly
    The offshore wind project has obtained its final government permit but still faces the hurdle of selling roughly half the power.
  • Detroit's Electric Jump-Start
    The Big Three hope for a reinvention that will rescue the American auto industry.
  • The Call of the Bayou
    A reporter finally grasps the pull of the teeming gulf waters.
  • Hold that Megawatt!
    A company has opened a plant in Johnson City, N.Y., that sells frequency regulation -- that is, the ability to fine-tune the system that keeps the supply and demand for electricity in balance.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Seize the Year!! It's ours!! Now with Fractal Ante ...
    The last piece of litter I noticed in 2010 was a Four Loko can by the Hiawatha Franklin station. Had a nice New Years roundabout. Basement foursquare. Bonsai tree, Heatbox. Cabooze. Loud basement jamming. Wookiefoot. Igorrr. Stranvisky Conducts Firebird And the new Fractal microwave cloaking dev ...
  • 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 ...

Daily Censored

  • Death Panels, Palin’s Targets, and Political Assas ...
    Michael Collins The attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords raises the bar for political lies and hate to a new level. Previously, incendiary political lies stopped just short violent imagery. Sarah Palin’s Take Back 20 campaign presented a violent threat in the form of rifle si ...
  • AN INTERVIEW with Robert Meeropol, son of Julius a ...
    By Dennis Bernstein The U.S. Justice Department is now considering charging WikiLeaksâ founder Julian Assange with espionage under the 1917 Espionage Act. In a recent interview, syndicated on Pacifica Radio’s Flashpoints show, I spoke to Robert Meeropol, founder of the Rosenberg Fund For Children. M ...
  • Project Censored Covers Women and Gender Issues Ye ...
    Kate Raphael host for Women’s Magazine radio show on KPFA January 3, reported that Project Censored didn’t notice Women and Gender stories in 2010. Actually we had extensive coverage of women and gender news during the past year.  The quote on the KPFA program website states that,  âOn Project Cen ...
  • The Censorship of Mark Twain
    It was recently announced that the United States would be releasing a new version of Huckleberry Finn that will omit the words nigger and injun. Naturally, this decision is controversial. When you start down the path of open and blatant censorship, the results are never good. It doesn’t matter what ...
  • A Conversation with Howard Zinn
    A classic interview with Dr. Howard Zinn from the archives of Your World News Media: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2009/10/11/a-conversation-with-howard-zinn Howard Zinn was many things such as an educator and civil rights champion—-among so many other positive things. However, at the ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

Institute for Policy Studies

  • A Lousy New Year for Workers
    General Motors executives could claim today that what's good for their company is good for the country if they referred instead to China.
  • No Ordinary Cross Hairs
    A neighbor though that Rep. Giffords' community event would be of interest to this young, budding public servant.
  • An Opening for Progressives? Obama to Step up Outr ...
    An opening for progressives in the U.S. and in Africa to push the Obama Administration on its short-sighted Africa policy might exist in 2011.
  • Negotiating with Evil
    You think negotiating with North Korea is difficult? Try sitting down with Jon Kyl (R-AZ).
  • The Lineup: Week January 3-9, 2011
    Janet Redman compares the recent lackluster climate talks in Cancun with a car wreck and Donald Kaul takes exception to latest trend in Republican flag waving.

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

  • Video: Peak Oil and a Changing Climate
    Cross-posted from The Nation The scientific community has long agreed that our dependence on fossil fuels inflicts massive damage on the environment and our health, while warming the globe in the process. But beyond the damage ...
  • Peter B Collins: Final Podcast of 2010: Progress ...
    Listen to Podcast:  Click Here Prof. David Coates of Wake Forest University and Tim Carpenter of Progressive Democrats of America discuss the new political mix in Washington and offer advice on how to confront the challenges ...
  • You + PDA = Success
    Happy New Year! Friends, At this time of the year, our email boxes are overflowing with messages pronouncing how great a particular organization is, ticking off all the wonderful things that organization accomplished in the last year, ...
  • January 2011 Accountability and Justice IOT News
    January 2011 Accountability and Justice IOT News PDA Issue Organizing Team Accountability and Justice Conference Call https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/309/mtglistproc.asp?formid=meet&caleventid=18964 When Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Time: 9:00 PM ET, 8:00 PM CT, 7:00 PM MT, 6:00 PM PT Note new ...
  • Put the fix on the Senate
    Help Us Make History on January 5 Dear Friend, The Senate is broken. A minority of 41 Republican Senators has virtually stopped reform in its tracks: • If Democrats try to pass something without Republican input, Republicans filibuster. • If Democrats ...

Marler Blog

  • Raw Milk Wars in California - Perhaps Humboldt Cou ...
    Soon the Humboldt County Supervisors will be considering a request from Mark McAfee, Founder and CEO of Organic Pastures Dairy (one of two raw milk dairies in California), to allow raw milk sales in Humboldt County. I have not found Mr. McAfee’s petition, but I did find a fairly blistering response ...
  • Food Safety - "Where's the Cash?"
    The Food Safety Act of 2010 (an amalgam of S. 510, with Tester/Hagen Amendment, and H.B. 2749) was quietly signed into law by President Obama, along with a few dozen other bills, upon his return from Christmas and New Years in Hawaii. The quiet signing ceremony of legislation that passed overwhelmin ...
  • Nevada E. coli O157:H7 victim may require a liver ...
    Linda Rivera, an E. coli O157:H7 victim, was told today to consider a liver transplant and to ask if her three boys would be the donors.� Linda, who Senator Reid profiled several times in the fight for the food safety bill, has remained hospitalized since May of 2009.� Medical bills to date are over ...
  • Number Three in the 50 Top Agriculture Blogs
    Must be my week.� Goes to show that someone other than my mom reads my blog. Marler Blog: Food is a powerful component of our culture; it has the power to make or break its consumers. For those moments when food happens to harm us, we advise looking to blogs like this one to keep you informed and e ...
  • Jimmy John's and Tiny Greens Alfalfa Sprout Salmon ...
    Yesterday, we filed the fist lawsuit in Illinois stemming from the expanding Salmonella outbreak. Now today, according to the CDC, from November 1, 2010, through January 4, 2011, 112 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:-, whose illnesses began (onset da ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 01.10.11
    Consumer Reports tests aging 2002 Prius Turns out, the car "retains its youth." As new Congress opens, Republicans disband global warming committee *Feigned shock* ...
  • Banned Four Loko energy drink recycled into ethano ...
    Filed under: Etc. Straight from the "Never Expected To See This" file is a story regarding plans for all those banned and discontinued cans of alcoholic energy drinks that were taken off the market late last year. Instead of bring poured on the ground in honor of all the parties that will forever ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.07.11
    A study of developed nations suggests they have hit 'peak travel' After "peak oil," it's almost expected. VIDEO: Tesla Motors releases totally hawt Model S engineering pr0n Fill up while you ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 01.06.11
    GM drives your Volt before you do Don't worry if you see a few miles on the odometer. Three Renault execs suspended over electric vehicle industrial espionage questions More details, please. ...
  • Hypermiler Wayne Gerdes: After 2,269 miles and 59 ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Etc., Hyundai 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid Cross Country Blue Drive - Click above for image gallery Last fall, hypermiler Wayne Gerdes proposed to Hyundai that he drive a 2011 Sonata Hybrid across the country to help the automaker get the vehicle from the media launch lo ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Dr. Atul Gawande on Obama's 'Frustrating' Record o ...
    Renowned surgeon and author Dr. Atul Gawande discusses his frustrations with President Obama’s on healthcare reform, the ethical conundrums of learning and practicing medicine and his most recent book, The Checklist Manifesto. Part 1 of interview Part 2 of interview
  • Darrell Issa, Step Away From the Corporations
    Remember “freedom fries”? That’s what the House Republicans, when they were last in the majority, renamed french fries, after France refused to support the invasion of Iraq. It seems like renaming fries might be just about the extent of food regulation that some in Congress are willing to support. ...
  • Prisoners at Supermax Ohio Penitentiary Begin Hung ...
    Four prisoners in the supermax Ohio State Penitentiary have launched a hunger strike to protest what they call their harsh mistreatment under solitary confinement. The prisoners—Bomani Shakur, Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Jason Robb and Namir Abdul Mateen—were sentenced to death for their involvement i ...
  • A Special Message to our Facebook Fans from Amy Go ...
    As 2010 draws to a close, I want to thank you for watching Democracy Now! and for choosing a news source that’s committed to the truth. Five days a week, Democracy Now! delivers headlines directly to your Facebook page for free, keeping you and your friends up-to-date with the latest news from arou ...
  • ‘The Comeback Kid’ and the Kids Who Won’t
    President Barack Obama signed a slew of bills into law during the lame-duck session of Congress and was dubbed the “Comeback Kid” amid a flurry of fawning press reports. In the hail of this surprise bipartisanship, though, the one issue over which Democrats and Republicans always agree, war, was co ...

Digg Green

  • No Such Thing as a Free Parking Spot
    The world may be headed to 2 billion vehicles this century, thanks to the burgeoning love affair between the Chinese and the automobile. But consider this: where will all those cars park?
  • Has overfishing ended?
    (AP) -- For the first time in at least a century, U.S. fishermen won't take too much of any species from the sea, one of the nation's top fishery scientists says.
  • APOD: 2011 January 9 - The Antikythera Mechan ...
    What is it? It was found at the bottom of the sea aboard an ancient Greek ship. Its seeming complexity has prompted decades of study, although some of its functions remained unknown. Recent X-rays of the device have now confirmed the nature of the Antikythera mechanism, and discovered several s ...
  • NASA Antarctica Discovery Might Foreshadow Po ...
    A 2009 discovery at the bottom of the world could have implications on the search for extraterrestrial life. NASA researchers were astounded to find an amphipod swimming beneath a massive Ross Ice Shelf, about 12.5 miles away from open water.
  • APOD: The Helix Nebula
    A mere seven hundred light years from Earth, in the constellation Aquarius, a sun-like star is dying. Its last few thousand years have produced the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), a well studied and nearby example of a Planetary Nebula, typical of this final phase of stellar evolution. A total of 10 h ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • They Dare Not Speak Its Name … Rothschild Zi ...
    By David Icke – Davidicke.com I have written and spoken extensively about the agenda behind the unfolding global financial crisis and here I will expose the coordinating force, or at least the prime one, behind that agenda and so much else, including 9/11. Most conspiracy researchers either don’t re ...
  • Piers Corbyn Warm Weather Not Causing Cold
    Piers Corbyn of http://www.weatheraction.com most famous for predicting our current weather anomalies by using a Solar Lunar predictive method, explains here how the Climate Warming scare was a contrived hoax.
  • Veteran Journalist Thomas Resumes Column in News-P ...
    Legendary journalist and 50-year veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas has come out of a seven-month retirement to resume her weekly political affairs column today, published in print and online exclusively in the Falls Church News-Press. Thomas’ first column back appears on Page 13 of this ...
  • Unused swine flu vaccine turns into hazardous wast ...
    Stuck with thousands, of unused swine flu shots, local health care providers are faced with the problem to discard flu vaccine for the first time in recent memory. Background: Swine flu vaccine left over from the winter 2009/2010 vacination campaign expires these days and therefore has to be dispose ...
  • USS Liberty Memorial
    On June 8, 1967, US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was suddenly and brutally attacked on the high seas in international waters by the air and naval forces of Israel. The Israeli forces attacked with full knowledge that this was an American ship and lied about it. Survivors have been forbidden fo ...

Global Insights

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Stop Monsanto Again–GM Alfalfa Threatens to Contam ...
    More info and opportunities to take action on GM Alfalfa.From Rodale: Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Could Be Growing in U.S. Fields by Spring From EatDrinkBetter: URGENT: Stop Monsantoâs GM Alfalfa From Food and Water Watch: Take Action: Ask President Obama to Protect Organic and Stop Monsanto’s GE ...
  • Fox News Serving Up Climate Skepticism
    Related Articles: From Ecopolitology: Fox News Editor Tampers with Climate Reporting: Where is Conservative Outrage Now? From ClimateProgress: National Journal: âThe GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the gl ...
  • When I Was Your Age…
    View all of Joe’s political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related posts:Tea Party Actually Started by Two British Comedians (cartoon) Republican Energy Plan (cartoon) Election Day Cartoon Caption Contest Related posts:Tea Party Actually Starte ...
  • 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 ...

Inhabitat

  • Porsche 918 RSR Hybrid Race Car Unveiled at Detroi ...
    Read the rest of Porsche 918 RSR Hybrid Race Car Unveiled at Detroit Auto Showhttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: 2011 detroit auto show, 918 rsr, ...
  • ITC Royal Gardenia: The World’s Largest LEED Plati ...
    Bengaluruâs newest seven-star super luxury hotel brings green design to life through its thematic hospitality concept, which is rooted in the historical tradition of its home country, India. Conceived as an ode to the Garden City of Bengaluru, the hotel’s design is inspired by the cityâs flowers, bi ...
  • Pete Oyler’s Rip + Tatter Chair Wants You to Unlea ...
    © Matthew Williams 2010 If you’ve got a few destructive tots hanging around the house, you’re probably not looking to invest in high-end, designer furniture. But here’s one cool and modern alternative that’s just begging to be torn to bits by those little hands. Designed by Pete Oyler, his Rip + T ...
  • Is Drinking Bottled Water Worth Trashing the Plane ...
    The Environmental Working Group (EWG) recently posted their 2011 Bottled Water Scorecard, and the results show that most water companies are still not disclosing some of the most basic questions — “Where is this water from?”, “Is the water purified? How?”, “Have tests found any contaminants in the w ...
  • Architect Recycles Rubber Bands into Bauhaus-Inspi ...
    In this digital age, you’d be hard set to find anyone still using rubber bands. But despite the stretchy stuff’s near extinction, that doesn’t mean the forgotten office supply can’t find an inspired new use. Case in point, New York architect Margarita Mileva has found a brilliant new way to turn mor ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Video: Solar Eclipse Seen From Space
    runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperience741816659001', 'anId');brightcove.createExperiences(); The Earth-orbiting satellite Hinode caught this stunning video of the annular solar eclipse Jan. 4. An annular eclipse occurs when the moon is slightly farthe ...
  • Dying Trees Make Way for Mice With Deadly Disease
    SALT LAKE CITY — Recent diebacks of aspen trees in the U.S. West may end up increasing the risk posed by a lethal human pathogen, a new study suggests. A tree-killing syndrome called sudden aspen decline that has wiped out swaths of trees across the West in the past decade has also changed the [. ...
  • Drill Close to Reaching 14-Million-Year-Old Antarc ...
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Lake Vostok, which has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years, is about to be penetrated by a Russian drill bit. The lake, which lies 2.5 miles below the icy surface of Antarctica, is unique in that it’s been completely isolated from the other 150 subglacial ...
  • Forensic DNA Test Can Decipher Criminals’ Hair Col ...
    A new genetic test can reveal the hair color of unseen criminal suspects or unidentifiable victims. The new analysis used a collection of recently discovered mutations linked to hair color, and it can predict the hue of an unknown person’s hair with about 80 to 90 percent accuracy. “This could ...
  • Shark Conservation Act Becomes Law
    The Shark Conservation Act has finally become law, giving much-needed protection to some of the ocean’s most magnificent creatures. Signed by President Obama Dec. 4, the law closes a major loophole in an existing U.S. ban on shark finning. That gruesome practice involves fishermen cutting off shark ...

PakAlert

  • Video: Trends for 2011 by Gerald Celente
    Gerald Celente trends for 2011 : gold and silver will keep its rally up and up and up, Gerald Celente very bullish on Gold is forecasting Gold $2000 and global currency crisis that's going to be so bad that they might call for a Bank Holidays we will continue to see defaults nation wide from states ...
  • Top 10 Survival Downloads You Should Have
    There are tons of good downloads in the Survival Database Download section of this website. For this article – I have selected 10 that everyone should have either printed and put away, or placed on a USB drive – or better yet both. So – let’s get to it:
  • The Transhumanist and Police State Agenda in Pop M ...
    Today’s pop music is filled with symbols and messages aimed to shape and mold today’s youth. Apart from the occult symbolism discussed in other articles, other parts of the elite’s agenda are communicated through music videos. Two of those parts are transhumanism and the introduction of a police sta ...
  • 63 Percent of Americans Oppose War In Afghanistan
    Opposition to the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time high, with 63 percent of the public now opposed to U.S. involvement there, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey. Just 35 percent of survey respondents say they still support U.S. involvement.
  • 10 Modern Methods of Mind Control
    The more one researches mind control, the more one will come to the conclusion that there is a coordinated script that has been in place for a very long time with the goal to turn the human race into non-thinking automatons. For as long as man has pursued power over the masses, mind control has bee ...

Andy Worthington

  • Human Rights Groups and Individuals Tell Obama: Cl ...
    With the start of the tenth year of operations at Guantánamo on Tuesday January 11, and no end in sight for the bleak prison opened at the height of the hubris of the Bush administrationâs âWar on Terror,â Iâm delighted — while here in the US campaigning for the closure of Guantánamo — to be [...]
  • On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington and Katie Galla ...
    This morning, as part of my current US tour to raise awareness of Guantánamo, in the week that the 173 men still held in the “War on Terror” prison begin their tenth year of detention, I was delighted to be invited to speak to Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez on Democracy Now! Amy and Juan [...]
  • In the Guardian: Bringing Guantánamo Detainees to ...
    Below is an article I wrote for the Guardian’s Comment is free America, after editor Matt Seaton got in touch to ask if I’d be interested in writing a short article promoting the screening of my film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash) at Revolution Bo ...
  • Podcast: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo and ...
    To coincide with my induction as a trusted author on Op-Ed News, I spoke to Rob Kall, Op-Ed News’ executive editor and publisher on Tuesday, for a 75-minute podcast, which will also be broadcast, in some form or other, on Rob’s Bottom Up Radio Show on WNJC 1360 AM, which runs from 9-10 pm EST [...]
  • Psychologists Protest the Torture of Bradley Manni ...
    My colleague Jeff Kaye — or to give him his proper title, Dr. Jeffrey Kaye — amazes all who know him by being an extraordinary freelance journalist while holding down a full-time job as a psychologist. As I have previously reported, Jeff has spent many years digging away at the largely submerged sto ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • A Real Public Option In Connecticut?
    And so it would seem.The other day for an open thread at ePluribus Media I commented on "the intended public option that should be Sustinet in Connecticut," and it would seem that is to be the case if the Sustinet Health Partnership Board of Directors get their way according to the report they hande ...
  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • Critic: King’s Proposed Hearings on Muslim ‘ ...
    U.S. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), known for his incendiary remarks about Muslim Americans, has asked for a round of hearings into the radicalization of Muslim America – a move at least one member of Congress worries smacks of a Joseph McCarthy-style witch hunt. In an editorial published this week in Ne ...
  • David Duke, Huffing About Sexual Mores, Calls the ...
    Now that he’s gaining in years, former Klan boss and longtime white supremacy advocate David Duke, who in his youth gained a notorious reputation as a womanizing playboy, is apparently now shifting to a more traditional role of moralizing geezer. Witness his most recent video “lecture,” wherein he p ...
  • Who is Jared Lee Loughner?
    Is Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged mass murderer who shot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, a right-wing extremist? It’s hard to say. When you look at the Internet material he purportedly produced, the first impression you get is that the 22-year-old now in custody for the shooting of 19 peop ...
  • Newest Extreme Right Demand: Bring Back McCarthyis ...
    Between 1950 and 1954, Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy led one of the most notorious political witch-hunts in U.S. history. Aided by the parallel activities of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), McCarthyâs anti-communist crusade divided politicians, captivated the media, and fanned ...
  • Defender of Hate Group Leader Campaigning to Head ...
    Saul Anuzis, leader of the Michigan GOP until last year, announced earlier this week that he would be challenging Michael Steele for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Anuzis had made a failed but significant run against Steele, the party’s first black leader, for the same ...

change: org.

  • New Zealand's Next Top Model Mocks Animal C ...
    In crush videos, kittens and other small animals are crushed, trampled, impaled and tortured by women wearing high-heeled shoes to appeal to a sick sexual fetish. Sound amusing? Didn't think so. But apparently the advertising brain trust for New Zealand's Next Top Model doesn't agree. They recently ...
  • Hey Republicans: Food Safety is Good for Business
    The trials never end for the beleaguered food safety bill. Now having finally been signed by the President after a series of near-death experiences, Congressional Republicans have threatened not to fund the legislation. As we previously reported, Rep. Jack Kingston (R - GA), incoming chair of the su ...
  • Two Canadians Bring NOH8 to Calgary
    A Calgary model and fashion photographer are teaming up to bring the NOH8 campaign to Canada. In its first trip up north, the campaign will feature Canadians with its trademark NOH8 logo on their faces and duck tape across their mouths. The pictures will then be published in a variety of LGBT spaces ...
  • BP's Disaster Down Under
    Australians continue to raise their barbie sticks to say "no" to the proposed liquified natural gas (LNG) plant in the country's pristine, untouched Kimberley region, off its west coast. Currently, the massive area's sprinkling of residents enjoy the company of endangered marine life, including snub ...
  • Starbucks Ignores Customer Demands for More Fair T ...
    This week, Starbucks announced the release of yet another coffee product -- their VIA French Roast. And yet again, their new offering is not Fair Trade. As the economy recovers and coffee sales grow, will Starbucks begin to listen to consumer demand for more Fair Trade coffee? Or will the java giant ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Bottled Water Labels Lack Key Data, Group Says
    by Kelly ZitoThat bottled water you're drinking could have come from a faucet the next town over or from a company with a history of bacterial contamination.But you wouldn't know that from the label, according to an environmental group that examined 173 different brands of bottled water on the marke ...
  • The Coming Hunger: Record Food Prices Put World 'i ...
    by Sean O'Grady, Economics EditorFood riots, geopolitical tensions, global inflation and increasing hunger among the planet's poorest people are the likely effects of a new surge in world food prices, which have hit an all-time high according to the United Nations.The UN's index of food prices - an ...
  • GOP State Legislators Aim to Redefine Citizenship
    by Brian BennettWASHINGTON - A group of Republican state legislators came to Washington on Wednesday to unveil a blueprint for state immigration laws that might force a Supreme Court review of the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil, regardless of the parents' leg ...
  • US Will Respond to Chinese Military Build-Up
    by David Eimer in Beijing Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, was speaking as he arrived in Beijing on Sunday for four days of talks aimed at renewing ties between the US and Chinese armed forces. However his visit has been overshadowed by a series of announcements by the Chinese about ...
  • Haiti One Year On: Suffering, Lost Opportunities a ...
    by Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent Government dithering and lack of coordination between aid agencies and donors have crippled rebuilding efforts in Haiti, leaving the country in ruins almost a year after the earthquake, a report says today.read more

Lifehacker

Water Privatization

  • Students battle bottled water
    Green ideas: New Westminster Secondary School students and Marie-Claire Massicotte, left, and Hannah Crisp want bottled water sales banned at their school.
  • War of words over water at Westhill: Barlow debate ...
    In 1809, Joel Barlow wrote, “If we estimate its magnitude by the length of its course and the quantity of water it throws into the sea, it is much the greatest river that has hitherto come to our knowledge.” The same could be said as a metaphorical statement about the debate team from the high schoo ...
  • Students battle bottled water
    Green ideas: New Westminster Secondary School students and Marie-Claire Massicotte, left, and Hannah Crisp want bottled water sales banned at their school.
  • Review urged on privatization laws and prospective ...
    MANILA, Jan. 7 (PNA) -- With the series of increases in utility costs, including the use of Metro Manila's light rail mass transport and its expressway system, a party-list lawmaker on Thursday recommended a review on existing laws on privatization, build-operate-transfer (BOT) scheme and other rela ...
  • War of words over water at Westhill: Debate team t ...
    In 1809, Joel Barlow wrote, “If we estimate its magnitude by the length of its course and the quantity of water it throws into the sea, it is much the greatest river that has hitherto come to our knowledge.” The same could be said as a metaphorical statement about the debate team from the high schoo ...

Guardian

  • Jared Lee Loughner note reveals aim to kill
    Investigators are examining whether far-right organisations played a role in Tucson shooting that killed six peopleA note written by Jared Lee Loughner ahead of his shooting rampage in Tucson appears to show that he made careful preparations to assassinate Gabrielle Giffords, the congresswoman grave ...
  • Flash floods hit north-east Australia
    One person killed and others trapped in cars as Queensland continues to deal with worst flooding in decadesFlash floods swept through a north-east Australian community today, killing one woman, trapping others in cars and leaving some clinging to trees in a region battling its worst flooding in deca ...
  • Deadly violence mars Sudan vote
    At least 23 people killed in fighting near Sudan's north-south border during vote on southern independenceAt least 23 people have died in clashes with Arab nomads near Sudan's north-south border, leaders in the contested Abyei region said today, on the second day of a week-long referendum on souther ...
  • Youngest death in custody reviewed
    Case of Adam Rickwood will re-examine circumstances in which forcible restraint can be used against childrenA second inquest into the death of the youngest person to die in custody begins today after a high court battle. Adam Rickwood was just 14 when he died in August 2004. He was found hanging in ...
  • Virgin won't pay landing fees
    The airline has said it will not pay landing and parking charges until the results of an internal inquiry into the disruptionVirgin Atlantic is to withhold some landing fees from Heathrow because of the chaos caused by the airport's shutdown last month.Sir Richard Branson's airline said it is not go ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • A big bite for conservation
    � Overall, you'd have to conclude that 2010 was a better year than most for sharks. Just before the Christmas season began, both houses of the UN Congress passed the Shark Conservation Act, which basically aims to end the practice of shark finning in US waters by making it illegal. Conservation gr ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • The WonkLine: January 10, 2011
  • Public Land Zombie Rob Bishop on the March
    Our guest blogger is Tom Kenworthy, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. The lords of yesterday have their knickers in a twist over Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s new policy that reinstates the departmentâs ability to provide interim protections for wilderness quality federal lands ...
  • Joe Barton’s Zombie Caucus Attacks Upton&#82 ...
    Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), who failed in his bid to take the chairmanship of the House energy committee from Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), has begun the new congress with a new assault on his fellow Republican. In the first day of the 112th Congress, Barton led a pack of 13 anti-innovation Republicans with t ...
  • As Financial Reform Repeal Rhetoric Begins, Clevel ...
    One of many items on the GOP wish-list for repeal is the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, which was passed to upgrade the nation’s regulatory structure after the 2008 financial crisis. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has even introduced a repeal bill, co-sponsored by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Todd Aki ...
  • Blue Dogs Show Their True Colors: Vote For HCR Rep ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Quick Sunday Post
    Living with 5 other dudes for a year-and-a-half in your parents' rec-room. They're trying to prepare for a manned mission to Mars.
  • Christie Belchforth's new book
    Saw a picture of Christie Belchforth the other day. Good god! She looks like some the clearly demented hostess of an ancient children's program that's been running for decades too long. Anyway, apparently the idiot has produced a new book. In her own words, it's not about the merits of the Six Nati ...
  • Cherry in Afghanistan: Canadian political culture ...
    Many, many, many, other bloggers have already done a fine job of deriding the obnoxious Don Cherry's nauseating buffoonery in Afghanistan: The 76-year-old Cherry worked the mostly French-Canadian troops at each stop with the Kandahar version of his long-running Coach’s Corner segment that airs du ...
  • Whatever
  • Overwhelmed
    I'd started a piece that was going to be called "I read the news today, oh boy" which was just going to be a survey of what was in the news recently, but time constraints and the enormity of it all, the sheer weight of things, overwhelmed me. I still want to mention them, so here they are in no par ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • WikiLeaks Scandal Demonstrates Need for Whistleblo ...
    Today, Stephen Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, issued the following statement expressing his concern about the rise in retaliatory investigations in the wake of the WikiLeaks scandal: The WikiLeaks scandal is being used to justify a witch hunt against federal employe ...
  • Can anybody spell "witch hunt?"
    The BBC is reporting today that the Obama administration is developing a "test" to detect whistleblowers. "Clearly there are different reasons why people leak information, the public spirited uncovering of wrong-doing being one of them," BBC reporter Olivia Lang writes. Based on documents obtained b ...
  • NIH Whistleblower Wins Right to Federal Court Tria ...
    On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled in favor of a sickle cell disease researcher who blew the whistle on improper cloning of blood cell lines. The decision clears the way Dr. Duane Bonds (pictured) to proceed with her claim that the National Institutes of Healt ...
  • New NWC interns arrive with enthusiasm
    The National Whistleblowers Center received a new group of interns today.� They arrived with marked enthusiasm to help individuals and the common good.� Here they are: In the top row are David, Sabrina, Whitney and Zach. Seated are Katie, Andrew and Sabeen.� Welcome and thank you for your decisio ...
  • Obama Signs Landmark Whistleblower Protections in ...
    Today, President Obama signed the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (H.R. 2571), which contains landmark whistleblower protections for food safety employees. Highlights of the Food Safety Whistleblower Provision: � Covers all employers "engaged in the manufacture, processing, packing, tr ...

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

  • Is The UK Finally Going To Fix Its Awful Libel Law ...
    For many years, there's been talk about how the UK really needed to fix its libel laws, which place much of the burden on the accused. This allows people and companies to often shut down fair and open debate on a subject, just by charging someone with libel. On top of that, it created a serious pr ...
  • Marcus Carab's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
    I came up with several concepts and themes for my Favorites column, but none of them came together quite as neatly as I hoped, so I’ve opted to play without rules. These five posts are selected for different reasons and presented in no particular order, alongside some of my thoughts on each. If it d ...
  • The Amazing Ability Of People To Simply Ignore Dat ...
    Nate Silver, who, before he became famous as a political data analyzer on his FiveThirtyEight website (now hosted by the NY Times), was famous to a much smaller group of folks for his similar data analysis of baseball data at Baseball Perspectus. Every so often, he jumps back to baseball analysis, ...
  • Mimi & Eunice: Ye Olde Technologie Killing Culture ...
    Last month a well meaning friend in San Francisco wrote to me:Netflix hurts and an idiot student told me last spring,"Why pay too see Sita at the Red Vic when I can watch it on the Internet for free."� I tried to be polite in my answer...� I fear theInternet, Netflix, and other forms of amusement ar ...
  • Feds Subpoena Twitter For Info On Wikileaks-Suppor ...
    In the feds continued efforts to find something (anything!) to charge Wikileaks with, its latest fishing expedition apparently involves issuing a subpoena to Twitter asking for info on the account of Birgitta Jonsdottir, a Member of Iceland's Parliament, who had been instrumental in helping Wikileak ...

VacTruth

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I’m sure you all know what a clusterfuck it is in Northern Mexico right now. I wonder if a student movement, or any kind of people movement, can turn it around. (HT @maymaym) As long as we are on southern border issues, the Penn and Teller video in this post on Colorlines is hilarious. And [...]
  • 2010 in Review
    It has been an interesting year.  Thanks to all of you who have stuck around to converse.  I’ve learned a lot from you. My thinking has changed so rapidly in the last couple years, I can barely imagine what I am going to be writing two years from now.  The posts that got the most [...]
  • 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 [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

treehugger

  • Cleaning Your Tap Water of Toxins Has Toxic Conseq ...
    Photo courtesy mrhayata via flickr and Creative Commons license. This recent NPR story headline, "Chlorine Substitutes in Water May Have Risks," is pretty low-key, considering that the message it delivers is fairly alarming. Since the 1970s, water managers have realized that their all-time favo ...
  • Witches Use Natural Products to Put a Hex on Polit ...
    Photo: allvoice If you are a Romanian politician, don't mess with the witches. Witches in that country are reacting strongly and with great venom to the introduction of taxes on their business. In response, a dozen of them cast spells against the government. They threw poison mandrake p ...
  • Solar Energy Champion Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Shot ...
    photo via AP Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and 17 others, was shot today at a public event in her district. The horrible crime is being condemned all over the country by civic leaders, and it is a grim reminder of the violence that can be unleashed by hateful, irresponsible rhetoric ...
  • Marine Stewardship Council "Dupes" Consumers on Su ...
    Image: Good Life Vancouver One of the main bodies that issues certifications for sustainable seafood, the Marine Stewardship Council, is potentially doing more harm than good, according to Greenpeace. Mat's written about the skepticism of MSC before—he called it the sustainable seafood smackdow ...
  • Renewables Law Unlikely to Tap Turkey's Potential
    Turkey could be one of the biggest solar-energy producers in the world. Photo: Mountain/\Ash (R Walker) / Creative Commons Just before the end of the year, the Turkish Parliament passed a long-pending renewable energy law that Energy Minister Taner Yıldız boasted would create jobs and encourage ...

Biosingularity

  • The Deadliest Diets
    Two specific eating patterns increase the risk of death for older adults, a 10-year study finds. Compared to people who ate healthy foods, men and women in their 70s had a 40% higher risk of death if they got most of their calories from high-fat dairy foods or from sweets and desserts. University of ...
  • 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 ...

CFACT

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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.Since my previous update combat operations have concluded for:Sgt. Jose M. Cintron RosadoSpec. Jose A. Delgado ArroyoLance Cpl. Maung P. ...
  • Help a blogger out
    DCblogger could use some help.� Please do something if you can.
  • Recalibrating convenience, privacy and security
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postWe will probably always have to balance computer security and ease of use. Ideally security is baked in, and we go on our merry way without having to think about it. This is the case with viruses. Users were once expected to downlo ...
  • 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.Re: the “Accounts Diverge Sharply” article by the Times above, such resolutely neutral treatment smacks of the kind of “some claim earth is rou ...
  • Best Music of 2010
    IntroductionIf you dig these songs please consider buying them. Most can be had for less than a buck.All these were downloaded freely and legally this year so I’m posting them in good faith. Links will be live for a week. If you hold the copyright on one and would like it removed, please let me k ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Organic New Year's Resolution Videos
    Here are videos to inspire your organic New Year's resolutions.Click here to read this article
  • The Scoop on Neotame - Not Allowed in Organics
    Neotame, as a synthetic additive, is not allowed in organic foods, contrary to the Internet rumor.Click here to read this article
  • Let EPA Know That it's Time to Ban Triclosan
    Your voice is critical in generating public comments on a petition, published in the Federal Register, to ban the antibacterial chemical triclosan. As you may know, this chemial, now found in the bodies of 75% of the US population, is linked to endocrine disruption, bacterial and antibiotic resistan ...
  • US Says Too Much Fluoride in Water
    Fluoride in drinking water - credited with dramatically cutting cavities and tooth decay - may now be too much of a good thing. Getting too much of it causes spots on some kids' teeth. Click here to read this article
  • Tell Your Grocer: We Want GMOs & Factory Farm Prod ...
    Please send this letter to the top 6 US food retailers to urge them to support Truth-in-labeling.Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Tributo a nuestro planeta I (Paraísos Naturales)
    Para ver más imágenes de paisajes, escoja un número. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su ...
  • Fotografías de caballos III (Equinos de Pura Sangr ...
    Si desea ver más fotos de caballos, escoja un número. [1] [2]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardar ...
  • Las flores de mi jardín V (8 imágenes gratis para ...
    Para ver más fotos de flores, escoja un número a continuación. [1][2][3][4][5]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su ...
  • Wallpapers de música disco II (Imágenes de Colores ...
    Si desea ver más wallpapers de música, escoja un número. [1][2]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guard ...
  • ¿Aún buscando el Paraíso? ¡Descubre las Islas Malv ...
    Si aún continúas buscando el paraíso, te invito a descubrir Las Islas Malvinas. Un verdadero edén rodeado por hermosas playas de color azul turquesa, aguas cristalinas, lujosos hoteles, días soleados, noches bohemias, chicos atractivos y mujeres hermosas. A través de 27 fotografías, explora este inc ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Are you learning your food habits at home? Doesn’ ...
    When I was a teacher, a common gripe among the staff was that the parent’s “weren’t doing their job” at home and how were “we,” the teachers supposed to make up for students whose parents didn’t read to them or encourage them to do their homework. This ongoing blame game ranged from discussions of r ...
  • 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 ...

Norwegianity

  • More on that
    Authorities identified the dead as U.S. District Judge John Roll, 63; Christina Greene, 9; Giffords aide Gabe Zimmerman, 30; Dorothy Morris, 76; Dorwin Stoddard, 76; and Phyllis Scheck, 79. Roll had just stopped by to see his friend Giffords after attending Mass. But officials said they believed tha ...
  • Republican power grows out of the barrel of a gun
    If I were religious, I’d pray for her death. There is no good outcome from this kind of wound. New mast. Not because this is like the Reichstag fire, but because this is like what came before the Reichstag fire. My guess is that we’re less than 18 months away from these bastards setting fire [...]
  • Then and the art of political flatulence
    Not a particularly great game last night but the seats were fantastic and the pre-game bench sit was actually pretty interesting (I had no clue Tom was such a Bill Lambeer fanboy). Pictures and more commentary at Canis Hoopus. More sports: LeBron and The Heatles (worst parody since MinnToast, all th ...
  • Extra ticket time
    Just got two free tickets for tonight’s Portland-Wolves game and so far no takers for the second ticket but the catch is you have to get to Target Center by 5 pm for a pre-game bench sit. It would make for a long evening with no guarantee of a Wolves win, so a love of [...]
  • Felonious Monk
    They finally came for me. My ISP forwarded an email from some Cali jerkwad lawyers who’re sending Notices of Claimed Infringement to every IP address that downloaded True Grit. Who me? Why not Inception or Nude Nuns with Big Guns, the other two Top 10 Most Shared Movies on BitTorrent currently resid ...

Public News Service

  • Official: Repealing Health Care Reform Law Would C ...
    Official: Repealing Health Care Reform Law Would Cost Billions Phoenix, AZ – As the U.S. House prepares to vote on repealing the new health care reform law, Arizonans may feel justifiably confused after listening to the pro and con arguments. Some say repeal will save money, while others say it will ...
  • New Year's Resolution to Quit Smoking? – Tip ...
    New Year's Resolution to Quit Smoking? – Tips to Help Kick the Habit for Good Phoenix, AZ – It’s the first week of the New Year and a crucial time for those who resolved to quit smoking – which takes an average of 7-8 tries before most people are successful. The American Lung Association offers seve ...
  • Tossing Arizona's Wild Birds a Winter Lifeline
    Tossing Arizona's Wild Birds a Winter Lifeline Phoenix, AZ – When the weather turns cold, wild bird populations in Arizona, especially in the mountains, have to work hard to find enough food to survive. Now is the time that Arizonans can help by putting out feeders and keeping them full this winter. ...
  • Driving Issues with Elders? Gentle Discussion Tips ...
    Driving Issues with Elders? Gentle Discussion Tips Phoenix, AZ – The holidays may be the only time all year that all your loved ones are under one roof. It could also be the best time to assess an older family member's driving skills, and whether it may be time to have that difficult conversation a ...
  • What's the Potential Economic Impact of the Tax De ...
    What's the Potential Economic Impact of the Tax Deal? Phoenix, AZ – What effect on the economy would the tax plan compromise agreed to by President Obama and congressional Republicans have, in Arizona and elsewhere? Comments from Andrew Fieldhouse, federal budget policy analyst with the Economic Pol ...

Center for Food Safety

  • In Wake Of Pending FDA Approval Of GE Salmon, Cali ...
    Bill Would Require Labels on All Genetically Engineered Salmon   Dissatisfied with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) current review of the first-ever proposed commercialization of genetically engineered (GE) salmon, today California State Assemblymember Jared Huffman introduced an Assemb ...
  • 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 ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Can We Please Bring These People Home??
    Crooks and Liars The Pentagon released the names of nine service members killed in Afghanistan: US Army SGT Michael J Beckerman, 25, Ste Genevieve, MO US Marines LCpl Maung P Htaik, 20, Hagerstown, MD US Marines Cpl Jacob A Tate, 21, Columbus, OH US Army SGT Jose M Cintron Rosado, 38, Vega Alta, ...
  • Guant�namo Is “A Piece of Hell That Kills Everythi ...
    Guant�namo Is “A Piece of Hell That Kills Everything”: A Bleak New Year Message from Yemeni Prisoner Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "On Christmas Day, I wrote an article reminding readers of the plight of the ...
  • American Indian Movement Icons Protest FBI Raids
    American Indian Movement Icons Protest FBI Raids: "American Indian Movement veterans Clyde Bellecourt and Russell Means provided context of decades-long FBI interference during yesterday's protests in downtown Minneapolis against the FBI raids against peace activists on Friday."
  • Canadian Zionists and Their Stooges
    Canadian Zionists and Their Stooges by Hanna Kawas for [pacificfreepress.com] It seems that the Canadian Zionists are not satisfied with the results of their pro-Israel “advocacy”, “rebranding”, “public affairs” and “hasbara” work. The Zionist paper, The Canadian Jewish News, recently reported the f ...
  • The Nation joins the campaign against Julian Assan ...
    The Nation joins the campaign against Julian Assange [wsws.org] The Nation magazine in the US, with its publication of “The Case of Julian Assange” by columnist Katha Pollitt (posted December 22, 2010), has joined the right-wing campaign against WikiLeaks co-founder Assange, a campaign directed by t ...

Pensieve

  • Grand Canyon from Hopi Point
    I wasn’t expecting to go to the Grand Canyon over Christmas break. But, since my nephew Oscar and his wife Natalie now live in Phoenix, my brother invited me to join them in visiting him for the first time. The trip over there was grueling, especially after sitting in a bus for 14 hours. But, [...] ...
  • 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 ...

Green Times

  • Environmental News 10/01/2011
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Green New Year Resolutions for 2011
    That is it! 2010 is over and now our thoughts start going back to the beginning of last year…
  • Water lily
    Some myths say that nymphs will drown you if you try to pick a lily pad. This might not happen but each plant certainly looks the best in its natural habitat (directory/categories/Health%20 %20Beauty) and can follow its function in the specific ecosystem ( http://www.greentimes.com.au/glossary/wild ...
  • Variety of fresh fish at the market
    Fish is a healthy source of proteins and important minerals like iodine, as long as it comes from an eco-friendly source. Fish farming is a precarious issue since most growers use antibiotics to optimise their sales volume. Meanwhile the oceans suffer of (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010 ...
  • Industrial harbour
    Importing goods can harm our environment in many ways. The carbon (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-emission.html ) emission (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-emission.html ) during the transport is one of the biggest problems. Further the food industry for example, makes use of to ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • 5 civilians killed in Afghanistan clashes
    ShareThis5 civilians killed in Afghanistan clashes�09 Jan 2011 Fresh clashes between US-led foreign forces and Taliban militants have left at least five civilians, including a child, dead in southern Afghanistan. Three other civilians were also injured during the incident that took place in Helmand' ...
  • 3 Afghan policemen killed in car bomb
    ShareThis3 Afghan policemen killed in car bomb 10 Jan 2011 At least three Afghan border police guards have been killed in a car bombing in the Spin Boldak district of troubled Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan. The Monday attack is the second assault in four day ...
  • Jared Lee Loughner note reveals aim to assassinate ...
    ShareThisJared Lee Loughner note reveals aim to assassinate Gabrielle Giffords --Investigators are examining whether far-right organisations played a role in Tucson shooting that killed six people 10 Jan 2011 A note written by Jared Lee Loughner ahead of his shooting rampage in Tucson appears to sho ...
  • Stop and search powers to return
    ShareThisStop and search powers to return --Police powers to stop and search people at random are likely to be revived under new counter-terrorism legislation. 10 Jan 2011 (UK) The controversial measures under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 have not resulted in any prosecutions but have led to ...
  • Doves fall from sky in Italy
    ShareThisDoves fall from sky in Italy 08 Jan 2011 More than 1,000 turtledoves are among the birds found dead in northern Italy and all had blue tinge to their beaks, officials said. Scientists said the blue colorization indicates poisoning or hypoxia, which is a lack of oxygen that can confuse anima ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • East Jerusalem update: 1 Palestinian organizer dro ...
    By Jesse Bacon Adnan Gheith, whose plight we mentioned earlier, dropped his appeal with the Israeli Supreme Court and will be expelled for four months from East Jerusalem. Ha’aretz reporter Mairav Zonszein linked to that of Jonathan Pollak refusing to plead for mercy in his own case. While it is a t ...
  • Israeli Army’s anonymous version of Jawaher& ...
    By Jesse Bacon One of the proudest moments on this blog for me came when we were among the people covering the Rachel Corrie’s attempt to bring desperately needed supplies to Gaza in the aftermath of the 9 killings aboard the Mavi Marmara. Covering the event live on twitter as the Israeli army jamme ...
  • Horrible start to a new year: Palestinian woman ki ...
    from the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Jawaher Abu Rahmah, 36, was evacuated to the Ramallah hospital yesterday after inhaling massive amounts of tear-gas during the weekly protest in Bil’in, and died of poisoning this morning. Abu Rahmah was the sister of Bassem Abu Rahmah who was als ...
  • 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, ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Not-for-America Ford Ranger diesel tows 160 ton tr ...
    Gas 2.0 has the details. Under the hood of the global Ranger (codename T6) is a 3.2 liter inline-five cylinder turbo diesel engine with 190 horsepower and a whooping 346 ft-lbs of torque. This vehicle is designed for markets like Australia, Asia, and other places where full-size pickups are not used ...
  • Domestic terrorism. It’s not just about guns
    Vermont was the first state to allow concealed weapon carry without a permit and to my knowledge there have been few if any crazed gunmen or mass slaughters there. So, gun violence isn’t just about the availability of guns. Most studies have found no correlation between the strictness or laxity of g ...
  • Political Circlejerk: Democrats and Republicans ar ...
    Poli-Tea Following the shooting of an Arizona congresswoman, a federal judge and up to ten others outside a supermarket in Tucson, it didn’t take long for the deluded partisans of the Democratic and Republican parties to begin their now formally ritualized circlejerk on the political motivations and ...
  • Realizing Eutopia: teach the children to move a mo ...
    Blending enlightened visions into the real world, the crux of eutopian desire. Back in 1993-94, I embarked on an exciting journey with my first experience in public service through helping a public teacher friend of mine. I was working in the entertainment field and was introduced by orchestral cond ...
  • Jared Loughner, the Arizona shooter
    Business Insider has info on Jared Loughner. His YouTube profile lists the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf as favorite books and he posted an odd video about currency. Left or Right or insane in the membrane? TPM has more of his videos.

Coteret

  • “Rejectionist front”: Maariv details N ...
    As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of  Israeli government spokespeople. Here’s the latest example, from a ...
  • 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 ...

Deadline Live

  • THE MEN WHO KILLED KENNEDY – PT8 (THE LOVE A ...
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  • This Day In History – January 10
    1645 – Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London. 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil. 1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I. 1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represe ...
  • Right on Time: Patriot Act Being Used to Crack Dow ...
    Wire Source: FreedomsPhoenix.Com 1.9.11 The U.S. government is using Patriot Act to get Twitter to hand over some Wikileaks supporter’s individual account information, private messages, ip addresses etc. The subpoena itself is an unusual one known as a 2703(d). Recently a federal appeals court ruled ...
  • Terrorists in ties tell you to shut up or more peo ...
    By ATS – January 9, 2011 America 20xy 1/9/11 By Andrew Steele This afternoon pundits on MSNBC, along with certain politicians, have been hungrily picking the meat off the Tucson, AZ tragedy for all its worth, trying to associate Jared Loughner with Tea Party activists, though most of his Internet po ...
  • SPLC’s Potok Refers To David Icke As A Right ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4xpsPiEJ8o

The Air Vent

  • EIV/TLS Regression – Why Use It?
    This is a guest post reprinted with permission from Roman M’s blog statpad.  I found this to be the best explanation I’ve read of the difference in OLS and EIV methods and it has the additional benefit of discovering that the solutions of the EIV regression are dependent on the input scaling.   T ...
  • Let it Rain
    Anastassia Makarieva has been graciously keeping me up to date on the goings on with their recent publication.  She sent me an email today with a bit of a surprise. Dear Colleagues Recently news sneaked in here and there that a “secret” project in Abu Dhabi has successfully created artificial rains ...
  • Tell us what you really think
    Judith Curry has a post on Libertarians and environment.  Apparenlty, I’ve been keeping my opinions to myslef too much lately because after reading the following sentence, I let loose with a chapter size description of my opinions.  It’s like I don’t have a blog or something. So why do Libertarian ...
  • A half million dollar coverup – and going
    SPPI sent me their press release on Cuccinelli’s efforts to make Michael Mann’s email public.  I don’t for a minute believe that Cuccinelli is interested in protecting government money already spent – which is what the law is supposed to protect – he’s trying to make public Mann’s emails.   This s ...
  • Kicking Puppies
    Recently at WUWT, I made a post on a thought experiment about the greenhouse effect.  It was fun IMO, despite less than optimal wording. People got to vote on a couple of different situations which help them sort the reasons that ‘greenhouse’ is a misnomer.  Well of course in the wild blue of the ...

Focal Point

  • Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) Shot in Head at Tuc ...
    Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head and severely wounded by a gunman who ran up to her at a campaign event in a Tucson supermarket parking lot and started shooting. Several others were wounded in the attack and one of Giffords' aides was reportedly killed. (Update: The Washington ... ...
  • There's a Sucker Born Every Minute
    Dwight Garner wins the Lede of the Day Award for his scathing and accurate assessment of the New York Times Book Review's self-help bestseller list: The New York Times Book Review’s advice and miscellaneous best-seller list — the place where self-help books go to eyeball one another — is a ... ...
  • Senate Dems Unveil Roadmap for Filibuster Reform
    Open Congress has the latest on the senate Democrats' filibuster reform plan: Senators Tom Udall [D, NM], Tom Harkin [D, IA] and Jeff Merkley [D, OR] have released an official outline of their filibuster reform package. As expected, it would force senators who want to filibuster to actually .. ...
  • 100,000 Dead Fish: Take the Quiz
    This simple quiz neatly divides the world into two kinds of people. A hundred thousand unexplained dead fish is a job for: a) theology; or, b) ichthyology. [Photo credit: psyberartist, Creative Commons.]Read More
  • Dear NYT: No Means No; Shoving A Dick Into An Unco ...
    Katrin Bennhold of the New York Times has a heartwarming piece for anyone planning a New Year's Eve hookup. According to Bennhold's friends, consenting to any sex with a dude is the equivalent of giving him an all-access pass to your orifices for the rest of the night, if not the rest of your life ...

Inside Facebook

  • This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
    Check out the top headlines and insights this week from Inside Social Games â tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, January 3rd, 2011 CityVille Becomes Facebook’s Biggest Game Ever More Growth for Successful Titles on This Week’s List of Fast ...
  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at A Bit Lucky, Arkadium, Menue, Nanigans, PlaySpan, and Ubisoft. QA ...
  • Thanks to Our Sponsors
    Inside Facebook extends a big thank you to our sponsors for supporting the continued growth of Inside Facebook. Check them out below! Joyent provides public cloud hosting for social application and game developers. New Relic provides on-demand application performance management tools. Votigo offers ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Loading Time, HuffPo, Congress, ...
    Facebook Site Loads Fastest – Facebookâs home page loads faster than all other social networking sites, according to a recent survey from AlertSite. Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 Facebookâs home page loaded at an average rate of 1.06 seconds. YouTube followed, then LinkedIn, Twitter and MySpace. [Image ...
  • Platform Update: Out with the Old Insights, Furthe ...
    Facebook announced the discontinuation of the old Insights dashboard, an extension of the deadline for migration away from deprecated APIs, and a revamp of the Facebook for Wesbsites introduction documentation in its weekly Platform update on the Facebook Developers Blog. Old Insights Dashboard to b ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Israeli parliament launches McCarthyist witch-hunt ...
    Uri Avnery views the alliance of racists and fascists behind a bill, recently adopted by the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, to investigate the funding sources of human rights and civil liberties groups but not the settler organizations that are financed by US evangelical sects and Russian mafiosi.
  • Sacking Dahlan - a blow to Israel, a gain for Pale ...
    Rod Cox argues that Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's decision to suspended Mohammed Dahlan from a key body of the ruling Fatah faction pending an investigation into allegations that he was plotting a coup deprives Israel of a principal tool and removes a stumbling block ...
  • Obama administration's double standards
    Lawrence Davidson views a prime case of US double standards: the failure of the Obama administration to prosecute prominent US Republicans for lending support to an Iranian group that is on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations, while simultaneously prosecuting Americans with connec ...
  • Weapons of mass deception: time to turn to alterna ...
    Paul J. Balles looks at the hazards of relying on the mainstream media, which are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a small number of conglomerates and moguls, such as Rupert Murdoch, and suggests some websites and commentators in alternative media.
  • Israel's racial courts: the imprisonment of human ...
    Nasser Rego views the case of Palestinian civil liberties activist Nuri al-Oqbi to highlight the racist underpinnings of the Israeli judicial system and draw attention to the use of the courts as instruments of ethnic cleansing and delegitimization of a section of Israeli society, the Bedouin citize ...

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

  • Weekly Round Up for January 9
    Obama’s Whistleblower-Hunt, ‘Rent-A-Generals’ Industry, A Great Example of Intentionally Awful Journalism, One-Tip-Based Terror Watch List & More! A belated happy new year to all our readers and friends here at Boiling Frogs Post. As you can tell I am just coming up for air. The holiday season happe ...
  • The “Exceptionally “Redacted 9/11 Commission Inter ...
    Newly Released 9/11 Commission Files at Cryptome.Org Last week John Young’s information site Cryptome.Org began publishing documents related to the interviews conducted by the 9/11 Commission which were released for the first time. On January 3, Cryptome posted the 9/11 Commission’s report on my int ...
  • Turkish Intel Chief Exposes CIA Operations via Isl ...
    âIn the 1990s Gulenâs Madrasas sheltered 130 CIA agents” in Kyrgyzstan & Uzbekistanâ Yesterday Washington Postâs Jeff Stein published a very interesting but incomplete story regarding a recently published memoir by former Turkish Intelligence Chief Osman Nuri Gundes. Here is the title of his post: I ...
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Afro Spear

  • Violence
    A deeper prespective from Sister Ana: Poverty is violence Hunger is violence Injustice is violence Racial/Ethnic/Religious Discrimination is violence Ignorance is violence Backwardness is violence War is violence Sickness without the proper medical attention is violence Lack of sanitary conditions i ...
  • “Welcome South Sudan, then Darfur” by ...
    South Sudan’s seceding is more a fact that a thought. It is unstoppable. Come January 9th, southerners, as they’ve already indicated, will vote for freedom. Yeah. Freedom. Everybody wants to be free and, of course, everybody deserves to be free. Freedom means, among other things, honour, sense of be ...
  • Sudan Referendum
    Interesting documentary about Sudan and it’s upcoming referendum on January 9th.
  • Don’t Leave the Church with Your Hands Throw ...
    I read a while back that Anne Rice, the writer of the Vampire Chronicles, and who is/was a Catholic, has decided to leave the church because of the rampant hypocrisy that she sees there. In an article of the Los Angeles Times dating back to August 2010, Anne was quoted as saying: “The author Anne [. ...
  • This Song Sometimes Makes Me Wanna Believe…
    Lawd knows if I could – I would. I can’t, but ever since I heard this joint back in the day, I felt it, felt it deep down in my soul. I hear the work song, the crack of the whip, the holla, the praise shout, the squeal, the love that can’t be concealed. I [...]

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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    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

  • The Unsuitablog’s Worst of 2010
    Taking a cue from all the awards and “looking back on”s going on at the moment, it seems like just the right time to pick the very worst ethical hypocrites of 2010. Taking the year as a whole, there is a huge selection to choose from even when just looking at the pages of The [...]
  • 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 [...]

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

  • LocalWiki: Laying the Groundwork
    A few of you have been wondering what we've been up to since our Kickstarter pledge drive ended, so we want to give you a quick update on our Knight-funded project, LocalWiki. For those of you who are more technically inclined, we hope to also provide an insight into these early stages of our proces ...
  • 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 ...

Cutting Edge News

  • China Rising - China's Military Modernization is C ...
    As Secretary of Defense Robert Gates prepares to go to China and President Obama prepares to host Chinese leader Hu Jintao, it is important that they recognize that the Chinese leadership has an increasingly capable military at its disposal. Worse, the factors shaping that military remain opaque.A n ...
  • The Way We Are - Love Me, Love My Car--and Guns To ...
    The way people treat their possessions looks like love, according to a new study.�"Is it possible for consumers to be in love with their possessions?" ask authors John L. Lastovicka of Arizona State University and Nancy J. Sirianni of Texas Christian University. When it comes to cars, computers, bic ...
  • The Urban Edge - Racial Segregation Causes Higher ...
    Older people who live in racially segregated neighborhoods with high crime rates have a much higher chance of developing cancer than do older people with similar health histories and income levels who live in safer, less segregated neighborhoods.That is one of the key findings of a new study conduct ...
  • Edge on Religion - If You are Angry at God, You ar ...
    The notion of being angry with God goes back to ancient days. Such personal struggles are not new, but Case Western Reserve University psychologist Julie Exline began looking at "anger at God" in a new way."Many people experience anger toward God," Exline explains. "Even people who deeply love and r ...
  • Black's Farhud Book a Necessary Nightmare
    Lyn Julius' review of Edwin Black's new book The Farhud (see Edwin Black's 'The Farhud' Makes for Uncomfortable but Necessary Reading, Arts December 27, 2010) prompted me to purchase a copy. The reviewer was most appropriate in quoting Black introductory remarks. Black wrote and Julius quoted: "This ...

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BlueFire Renewables Completes Banner Year; Sets Sights on Even More ...
PR Newswire (press release)
- Jan 10, 2011
- 1 hour ago
BlueFire rebranded itself as BlueFire Renewables, Inc. in order to more clearly illustrate the company's vast capabilities in renewable energy. ...
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Deer Hunters, Get Ready
Baristanet
- Jan 10, 2011
- 34 minutes ago
... and other steps being taken to preserve and restore the forest ecology in Essex County’s open spaces as well as enhance safety on the county roads. ...
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Sharad Pawar's Lavasa is about conflict of interest, not ecology
Daily News & Analysis
- Jan 09, 2011
- 21 hours ago
By Abhay Vaidya | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA The prima facie observation by an inspection team from the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) ...
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Ecology issues fine for illegally burning dock on public land
Access Washington
- Jan 07, 2011
- Jan 07, 2011
SPOKANE — The Moccasin Bay Association received a $13500 penalty from the Department of Ecology (Ecology) for illegally burning a 12-slip boat dock at ...
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Share your king tide photos with state agency
TheNewsTribune.com
- Jan 09, 2011
- 23 hours ago
That's what the state Department of Ecology is asking the public to do, for a couple of reasons. First, Ecology officials would like to have visual images ...
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New recommendations for fluoride in tap water
ABC2 News
- Jan 10, 2011
- 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON, DC - Is there too much fluoride in your tap water? The federal government says that might be the case. Officials are recommending lowering the ...
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Ask Angie: No-salt water softeners
Kansas City Star
- Jan 10, 2011
- 3 hours ago
By ANGIE HICKS What is your opinion of the "new" no-salt water softeners? Is there real science behind their operation? A water softener is a water ...
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Standard & Poor's Initiates Factual Stock Report Coverage on American Water ...
Business Wire (press release)
- Jan 10, 2011
- 28 minutes ago
American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYS:AWK) owns utilities that provide water and wastewater services to residential, commercial and industrial customers. ...
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Montana-Wyoming water fight goes to Supreme Court
Valley News Live
- Jan 10, 2011
- 1 hour ago
(AP) - Attorneys from Montana and Wyoming are set to square off before the US Supreme Court Monday in a cross-border dispute over the region's scarce water ...
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