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UK News

• Youth unemployment reaches record high
• Sex offender safety 'not weakened'
• CBS reporter assaulted in Egypt
• Voting reform showdown looms
• PM asks school leavers to volunteer
• European rocket launch delayed
• Tinie Tempah celebrates Brits win
• Boss Forced To Sell Home For 'Thief's' Payout
• Google starts digital content subscription service
• Frankie Muniz in 'domestic dispute'

 BBC - England

• Hospitals to stop child heart ops - 2 hours agoChild heart surgery will stop at some hospitals across England to ensure patient safety under official plans put forward.
• Missing man spotted by helicopter - 52 minutes agoA British tourist who survived five days in the New Zealand wilderness sparking a massive search and rescue mission is reunited with his family.
• Swann not guilty of drink-driving - 4 hours agoEngland cricketer Graeme Swann is found not guilty at Nottingham Magistrates' Court of drink-driving.
• Cameron condemns Manchester cuts - 50 minutes agoDavid Cameron criticises Manchester City Council, saying it should cut bureaucracy and its chief executive's pay before making cuts to services.
• Boss pays out over 'thief' sign - 6 hours ago

 BBC - Home

• Protests rock Libya's second city - 1 hour agoHundreds of anti-government protesters clash with police and pro-government supporters in the Libyan city of Benghazi, amid ongoing unrest in the region.
• Clashes at Iran protester funeral - 4 hours agoFresh clashes erupt in Tehran during the funeral of a student killed in anti-government protests on Monday, Iranian state television says.
• Sun unleashes huge solar flare - 2 hours agoThe Sun has unleashed its strongest flare in four years, observers say.
• Bahrain protesters boost presence - 1 hour agoThousands gather in demonstrations in the Bahraini capital Manama, as the funeral is held of a second victim of clashes with police.
• Berlusconi unfazed over sex trial - 4 hours ago

Reuters

• Bank forecasts pave way for eventual rate hike  - 29 minutes agoLONDON (Reuters) - New Bank of England forecasts opened the door on Wednesday
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  for interest rates to rise slowly later this year but Governor Mervyn King told investors not to assume the central bank w...
• Iceland parliament backs deal to repay UK, Dutch  - 1 hour agoREYKJAVIK (Reuters) - Icelandic lawmakers backed a deal on Wednesday to repay $5 billion (3 billion pounds) to Britain and the Netherlands for debts from a banking crash, bringing the island closer to...
• Human rights laws to be reviewed after sex ruling - 2 hours agoLONDON (Reuters) - The government said on Wednesday it will review the way European human rights rules are interpreted in British law after Prime Minister David Cameron said he was appalled by a rulin...
• More Britons out of work, wage growth subdued  - 2 hours agoLONDON (Reuters) - The number of Britons claiming unemployment benefit unexpectedly rose in January for the first time in four months, while wage growth slowed at the end of last year and youth unempl...
• Egypt-inspired protests gain pace across region - 2 hours ago

 San Jose Mercury News

• Berkeley council rejects proposal to invite Guantanamo detainees to live in city - 41 minutes agoBerkeley's City Council Tuesday night voted not to invite two former Guantanamo Bay Naval Base terror detainees, who have bee
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• Berkeley condemns treatment of alleged WikiLeaker - 41 minutes agoThe Berkeley city council has approved a resolution calling for the 'immediate end to the cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment' of an Army private accused of leaking classified documents.
• VA office in Palo Alto evacuated after letter found with suspicious substance - 1 hour agoAuthorities evacuated a three-story office building at the
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  Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System campus Tuesday after an employee opened an envelope containing a suspicious substance and fell ...
• San Jose officials warn of massive police and fire layoffs - 14 hours agoSketching out a worst-case scenario of San Jose’s budget meltdown, city officials warned this week that they could lay off as many as 349 cops and 145 firefighters, slashing close to a quarter of the ...
• Herhold: San Jose's generous policy on sick leave is crazy - 14 hours ago

Afghanistan Sun

• Petraeus may quit post of commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan by year end - 7 hours agoGeneral David Petraeus plans to quit his post as commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan as a part of changes to be introduced by the ...
• Afghanistan, US to hold bilateral meeting in Washington sans Pakistan - 12 hours agoPakistan has been excluded from the high-level Afghan-Pak-US trilateral meeting, as the United States and Afghanistan have decided to hold bilateral talks on the same scheduled ...
• Oklahoma Soldiers Headed For Afghanistan - 4 hours agoOKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? Family members and friends will converge on Oklahoma City for a farewell ceremony for more than 3,200 Oklahoma National Guard members headed for Afghanistan.Officials say ...
• Tributes For Soldier Killed In Afghan Blast - 4 hours ago

 JURIST - U.S. Legal News

• Federal appeals court overturns Guantanamo detainee release order - 4 hours ago[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the District of
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  Columbia Circuit [official website] on Tuesday overturned [opinion, PDF] a lower court's decision to grant habeas corpus to Yemeni Guantanamo Bay [...
• Guantanamo detainee pleads guilty to terror charges before military tribunal - 4 hours ago[JURIST] Sudanese Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Noor Uthman Mohammed [DOD materials] pleaded guilty
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  [press release] before a military tribunal Tuesday to terrorism charges. Mohammed en...
• House votes to extend controversial Patriot Act surveillance provisions - 4 hours ago[JURIST] The US House of Representatives [official website] voted 275 to 144 [roll call vote] Monday to extend surveillance provisions of the USA Patriot Act [text; JURIST news archive] which could ex...
• Ecuador judge orders Chevron to pay $8.6 billion in pollution case - 4 hours ago[JURIST] A judge for the Provincial Court of Sucumbios in Ecuador ordered US oil company Chevron [corporate website; JURIST news archive] to pay $8.6 billion in damages, finding that Texaco, which was...
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  Hawaii House passes bill recognizing same-sex civil unions - 4 hours ago

 RAWStory

• Mexican drug war erupts: At least 30 die in separate incidents - 3 days agoAt least 30 people died in a staggering surge in drug-related violent crime in Mexico rocking the cities of Monterrey and Guadalajara, and the northern state of Chihuahua, police said Saturday. The at...
• White House reiterates demand that Iran allow protests - 3 days agoA senior White House official on Saturday criticized Iran's refusal to let opponents of the regime hold a rally in support of Arab uprisings. "By announcing that they will not allow opposition protest...
• Ron Paul wins CPAC presidential straw poll - 3 days agoSpeaking to conser
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  vatives, Paul warns US government 'in the process of failing' For the second year running, Texas congressman Ron Paul came out on top among conservative Republicans in a "straw poll"...
• FBI can obtain phone records without oversight, Justice Dept memo claims - 3 days agoWithout court oversight, the nation's top law enforcement agency can obtain domestic records of telephone conversations made to international receivers, the Justice Department claimed recently. "[The ...
• American’s imprisonment delayed US-Afghan-Pakistan meeting - 3 days ago

 Ev Worldwire

• It's Time America Adopted An Idea from 1905: The Electric Car - 1 day agoFormer deputy assistant to George Bush comes out in support of electric vehicles with a brief review of their early history.
• In-Wheel Motors for Electric Vehicles Gaining Market Acceptance - 1 day agoDr. Peter Harrop provides overview of state of technology development in electric hub motors.
• Electric Cars Get Boost From Obama Budget - 1 day agoElectric car buyers would immediately qualify for up to $7,500 rebate rather than having to wait to file for federal tax credit.
• Smith Electric Ownership Moves to USA - 1 day agoSmith Electric Vehicles US acquired its UK parent company on January 1, 2011 for $15m.
• Wind-powered Electric Car Crosses Australia - 1 day ago

  No Quarter

• Tweet Heart Tehran - 2 hours agoVALENTINE’S DAY 2011 NOT. Speaking Melik Kaylan, WSJ, re how the Tehran regime bans Valentine’s day and anything else it can figure to ban — cheeseburgers, rock and rap music, holding hands in public,...
• Congressional Humors Spawn Comic Cottage Industry (& Open Thread)_ - 15 hours ago* Bumped Up * My eyes honed in like laser beams at the  Breaking News .  President Obama’s advisor, and MIT economist, Jonathan Gruber was (via  AP ): “…turning to comic books to help...
• Curveball Comes Clean and Rumsfeld Forgets - 17 hours agoYes America, you were lied into an unnecessary war in Iraq. The U.K.’s Guardian is out today (Tuesday) with news that the source of the intel used by Colin Powell to sell the U.N on the case for going...
• Like I Said - 1 day agoNiall Ferguson’s appearance on Morning Joe is garnering lots of well deserved attention today. Here’s the full unedited appearance: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the ...
• Mutilated Firewall (& Open Thread) - 1 day ago

Global Post

• David Petraeus quitting? - 21 minutes agoPentagon denies reports that Afghanistan War commander Gen. David Petraeus is leaving. read more
• Jaime J. Zapata, US immigration agent, shot and killed in Mexico (VIDEO)
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  - 50 minutes agoJaime J. Zapata, a U.S. immigration agent, was shot to death in an ambush in central Mexico on Tuesday and another American was wounded. Zapata was one of two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforc...
• Lara Logan, American TV reporter, suffers "brutal and sustained" sexual assault in Egypt (UPDATES) - 2 hours agoAmerican TV reporter Lara Logan "suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault" covering the resignation of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, according to CBS News. read more
• Mubarak may be in a coma: news reports (UPDATES) (VIDEO) - 2 hours agoFormer Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak "has given up and wants to die," according to new reports. read more
• Brazil names "Marta," a woman, as police chief - 3 hours ago

Yahoo! News

• Yahoo! Mail Beta (2011) - 1 day agoYahoo Mail's redesigned interface is a pleasure, it's faster, and packs a ton of features, but can it match Hotmail and Gmail?
• Chat with your Facebook friends in Yahoo! Messenger 11.0 - 1 week agoI guess this is something that is no longer new but, just like me who would not update my Yahoo! Messenger regularly this can be an exciting feature of YM version 11. I have been scouting for an IM ap...
• Yahoo CTO on What It Takes to Compete - 18 hours agoSince his appointment as Yahoo's CTO last June, Raymie Stata has been on an intense ride.
• Analysts Welcome Clarity on Yahoo BOSS Plans - 1 day agoYahoo has gone a long way toward further dispelling the uncertainty around its BOSS search developer program with the establishment last week of a fee structure for it and with the pledge to upgrade i...
• D-Link Media Player Offers Yahoo TV to Older DTVs - 14 hours ago

 Green Life

• Green Your Presidents' Day: Install Those Panels - 3 hours agoWe honor our country's leaders on Presidents' Day. While we do rely on them to achieve change, each of us is responsible for improving our world. This week, we'll use our presidents as inspiration for...
• Daily Roundup: February 15, 2011 - 15 hours agoFarm Fight: A battle to preserve California’s protected rural areas is creating an unusual coalition between environmentalists and farmers. At stake are 16 million acres that could end up under asp...
• Wanna See the North Pacific Gyre's Trash Patch for Yourself? You Can. - 18 hours agoIn recent years, plastic pollution in our oceans has gained a lot of attention. Some say the size of the "garbage patch" in the North Pacific is twice the size of Texas. Others aren't so sure about th...
• The Sierra Club's Written History Gets Digitized - 21 hours agoThe Sierra Club has always made communication with its members a priority. The first Sierra Club Bulletin was published in 1893, and some version of this compilation of outdoor-adventure tale...
• Green Your Presidents' Day: Climb that Peak - 23 hours ago

Gawker

• Justin Bieber Lets His Pro-Life and Pro-Canada Freak Flags Fly [Quoted] - 32 minutes agoJustin Bieber , mop-topped wunderkind of the wooded north, fell into a political booby trap at the hands of March's Rolling Stone , decl...
• Texas Refuses to Compensate Man Wrongly Imprisoned for 18 Years [Injustice] - 42 minutes agoThe good news is that Anthony Graves was released from prison back in October after serving eighteen years on death row for a murder that prosecu...
• Nir Rosen Blows Up His Career by Mocking Lara Logan [Pundits] - 1 hour agoYesterday afternoon, CBS broke the news that its correspondent, Lara Logan , was beaten and sexually assaulted while covering the Egyptian revolu...
• Media Restaurant Wars: Graydon Carter vs. Dan Abrams and Dave Zinczenko [Feuds] - 1 hour agoIt was only a year ago that mini blog mogul Dan Abrams and Men's Health editor and serial plagiarist Dave Zinczenko signed on as investo...
• Which Actress Has an Especially Filthy Sex Tape? [Blind Items] - 1 hour ago

Merco Press

• New attempt in the US Congress for an Air Passenger Bill of Rights - 2 hours agoAirlines in the United States will carry a billion passengers a year by 2021, the Federal Aviation Administration predicted Tuesday raising the prospect of even more flight dela...
• Argentina’s first gay-lesbian cruise leaves Buenos Aires December 2011 - 2 hours agoArgentina’s first official gay ‘Ego’ cruise will leave the port of Buenos Aires December 2011 and will be calling at Uruguay’s capital Montevideo and the international resort of...
• Leading oil companies turn up at Uruguay Round II pre-bidding process - 3 hours agoSome of the world’s leading oil companies turned up at the Uruguay Round II informative session for operators interested in participating in the biding process for offshore expl...
• Up to 10% of rice sold in Chinese markets tainted with heavy metals - 3 hours agoRecent research has concluded that 10% of the rice sold in China’s markets is likely to be tainted with heavy metals, but agricultural experts said the pollution is confined to ...
• Brazil cuts defence budget but purchase of 36 new jets remains on the agenda - 4 hours ago

 Florida Oil Spill Law

• Concentration of PAHs in lagoon’s soil has tripled since August - 3 hours agoSampling Revisit of Southeast Pass, Lower Mississippi River Keeper, February 14, 2011: Follow up sampling performed ... Read more
• BP, Feds say NO further treatment? Oil anywhere you look on Orange Beach — “They’re going to leave us high and dry” says official (VIDEO) - 4 hours agoBeach Communities Worry BP Leaving Town, WKRG, February 15, 2011: … [A] 35 page report prepared ... Read more
• 22 y/o Paul Doomm to be placed in medically induced coma (VIDEO) - 6 hours agoPlease Pray for Paul, Coastal Warriors, February 15, 2011: Paul Doom [sic] was the young man ... Read more
• Shrimper says it’s the “worst he has ever seen” — Only 4 buckets of small shrimp in 3 hours - 1 day agoAfter Spill, Grand Isle Ready For Tourists Again, WDSU, February 14, 2011: James Santiny has been ... Read more
• “People are getting sick down here” says business owner — “They left the oil here… oil’s still all around us” - 1 day ago

Headlines

• The Worst Thing Ever Invented - 0 minutes ago"A central problem with the idea that wars are needed to combat evil is that there is nothing more evil
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  than war. War causes more suffering and death than anything war can be used to combat. Wars don'...
• After Egypt: Arab Voices Matter - 0 minutes ago"Arabs have been inspired by Egypt and empowered to believe that their voices must be heard and respected. It will make life more complicated for Western and some Arab policy makers. But if this compl...
• Setting Egypt on fire - 0 minutes agoThankfully, all the chatter about how Egypt's revolution would not have been possible without the (quick intake of breath) "new media", has been dampened by those who know it best. "Tunisians took to ...
• US, Al-Qaida and the Arab Revolt - 0 minutes ago"Angry and frustrated, some Arabs will want to oppose their tyrannies by violent means. Others may swell the ranks of al-Qaida, convinced that they cannot defeat the ‘near enemy’ unless they first wea...
• The Winds of Change should shift our sail too - 0 minutes ago

Voltaire

• Cairo & Jerusalem - 2 days agoWill the wave of non-violent protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak also herald the end of the anti-Muslim fear mongering that has served as a pretext for U.S. and Israeli imperial crimes? London-based I...
• Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's speech to his nation - 6 days agoCairo, Egypt 10 February 2011 In the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate, dear fellow citizens, my sons, the youth of Egypt, and daughters, I am addressing you tonight to the youth of Egypt...
• Underwater Fiber Optic Cable Reaches Cuban Shores - 6 days agoSANTIAGO DE CUBA, Cuba, Feb 9 (acn) Cuba and Venezuela are now physically connected by an underwater fiber optic cable that reached Cuban shores on Wednesday, in the Siboney beach of the eastern provi...
• Book with Fidel's Reflections Published in Japanese - 6 days agoHAVANA, Cuba, Feb 10 (AIN) The information sent from Tokyo that 22 reflections by the leader of the Cuban Revolution have been translated into Japanese for the book “Fidel dice” (Fidel Says) has had g...
• The Division of Egypt: Threats of US, Israeli, and NATO Military Intervention? - 6 days ago

Kerkuk.net

• Interview with Iraqi Turkmen Front Turkey Representative Dr. Hicran Kazancı - 1 hour agoInterview with Iraqi Turkmen Front Turkey Representative Dr. Hicran Kazancı 
• Ex-judge to head Egypt reform panel - 1 day agoMilitary rulers appoint retired judge as head of committee tasked with suggesting changes to country's constitution.
• Aydınlı,attended the meeting on the Humanitarian Consequences of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict - 1 day agoITF EU Representative, Dr. Hassan AYDINLI, attended the meeting on the Humanitarian Consequences of the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
• Rescue work halted at site of open mine collapse in Turkey - 2 days agoSearch and rescue operations for nine people missing after a land collapse in a coal production area in the southern province of Kahramanmaraş were halted Sunday.
• Iraqi lawmakers approve new ministers; key security posts still remain - 2 days ago

 Transcend

• It’s Not Radical Islam That Worries the US – It’s Independence - 2 days agoThe nature of any regime it backs in the Arab world is secondary to control. Subjects are ignored until they break their chains.
• (Spanish) ¿Quién le Corta la Cabeza a la Serpiente? - 2 days agoEl
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  “mensajero” de Obama para la última pantomima de Mubarak fue Frank Wisner, un ex diplomático y ex ejecutivo del American International Group (AIG), muy próximo al sistema oligárquico de Mubarak, y ...
• Has The Pro-Israel Lobby Subverted Australian Democracy? - 2 days agoSo, was there an elaborate plot, involving the active connivance of pro-Israel groups, the US embassy, the mining industry and the Right faction of the ALP, and kept successfully secret, to bring Rudd...
• How People Become Monsters … Or Heroes - 2 days agoPhilip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it ...
• The Apostate - 2 days ago

 BPS Research Digest

• Milgram's obedience studies - not about obedience after all? - 4 hours agoStanley Milgram's seminal experiments in the 1960s may not have been a demonstration of obedience to authority after all, a new study claims. Milgram appalled the world when he showed the willingne...
• Extras - 1 day agoEye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut : Tipping estimate/guidance on a restaurant bill increases diners' generosity . Pain helps assuage feelings of guilt . How workers...
• Learning new faces - A mental ability that doesn't peak until the early thirties - 1 day agoCognition researchers should beware assuming that people's mental faculties have finished maturing when they reach adulthood. So say Laura Germine and colleagues, whose new study shows that face learn...
• A week of sin - 1 day agoClick for full feature Welcome to the menu for Sin Week on the Research Digest blog, which started on 8 February 2011. Each day for Seven days (with a break on Sunday, naturally) we post...
• Jesse Bering - my Lust - 2 days ago

 Top Documentary Films

• The Computer Programme - 11 hours agoThis BBC documentary from 1982 tries to bring people closer to the - back then - just emerging micro computers by showing how computers already helped out creating a more efficient society. This do...
• The Canary Effect - 23 hours agoThe Canary Effect is a 2006 documentary that looks into the effects of that the United States and its policies have on the Indigenous peoples (Native Americans) who are residents. It premi...
• Contempt of Conscience - 1 day agoContempt of Conscience is a project started by Joe Jenkins before he joined the Peace Tax Seven and the ongoing campaign for a judicial review has become a major part of it. In early 2003,...
• The Marvels of Madagascar - 1 day agoDiscover the unique cultures, places, landscapes and critters that make Madagascar one of the most marvelous places on earth! Aussie Adventurer and Award-winning Newsman, Greg Graingers passion for...
• Outlaw Comic: The Censoring of Bill Hicks - 1 day ago

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 Red Tape Chronicles

• Car leases make comeback, with new traps - 1 day agoCar leasing is back. If you've watched any major sporting event on television recently, you've seen the evidence.  Advertisements constantly screech that drivers can get a new car for under $300, $2...
• Survey: Consumers say ID theft down 28% - 1 week agoConsumers say the volume of identity theft crimes plummeted sharply last year, according to a survey released Tuesday by Javelin Strategy & Research.  The number of victims fell from an estimated 11 m...
• Told in tweets, Egypt conflict riveting, confusing - 1 week agoOnce you look, it's hard to look away. The tweets seem to come right from the center of the conflict in Egypt: "Despite the blood and the pain, spirits here are sky-high. People singing the anthem &...
• Lawsuit: iPhone users systematically overcharged - 2 weeks agoEver get the feeling that the itemized charges on your cell phone bill aren't quite right? A new class-action lawsuit filed against AT&T claims that often, they aren't -- and the mistakes could be cos...
• Buy a new car and get $5,000? - 2 weeks ago

 Frontier Post

• US to certify immunity of Davis in court Kerry arrives to seek release: trilateral meeting put off due to Pak cabinet reshuffle - 19 hours agoWASHINGTON (INP): The United States will present a petition in the court tomorrow (Thursday) to certify that Reymond Davis has diplomatic immunity and ...
• Taliban warns Pakistan - 19 hours agoISLAMABAD (Reuters): The
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• Govt officials defying court orders: CJ - 19 hours agoF.P. Islamabad Office ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed counsel for Federation to convey result of his communications with the Prime Minister ...
• Blast on main line disrupts rail traffic for seven hours - 19 hours agoF.P Report LAHORE: The trains operation was remained suspended for over seven hours owing to the protest of the cash-strapped employees protest for
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• Egypt army seeks 6-month handover, Mubarak ailing - 19 hours ago

PRESS Core

• Washington’s new star wars weapon of mass destruction linked to climate change. - 1 day agoWorld renowned scientist Dr. Rosalie Bertell confirms that “ US military scientists are working on weather systems as a potential weapon. The metho...
• The deadly truth about genetically modified foods and vaccines – reproductive genocide. - 3 days agoThe World Health Organization has a Task Force on the Regulation of Male Fertility. In 1990 a paper was published in Lancet, a well-regarded British medical journal detailing the use of testosterone...
• Technology available today to drive a gas-electric hybrid for up to 8 hours on just 2 gallons of fuel. - 6 days agoFerdinand Porsche in 1900 developed the Lohner-Porsche Mixte Hybrid, the first gasoline-electric hybrid
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  automobile in the world. The Lohner-Porsche was first unveiled at the Paris World Trade Fair i...
• Treaty banned weather modification system now being used by the U.S. to achieve geopolitical objectives - 1 week agoWeather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025 is a report written in 1996 (under the Clinton Administration) for the United States Air Force that states: “ In 2025, US aerospace force...
• Stephen Harper commits treason. Signs secretive deal with U.S. to remove Canada’s sovereignty. - 1 week ago

Cage Prisoners

• Hiding horrific tales of torture: Why the US government reached a plea deal with Guantánamo prisoner Noor Uthman Muhammed - 16 hours agoAndy Worthington on what lies behind the plea deal of Guantanamo prisoner Noor Uthman Muhammed in his Military Commission trial.
• Blacklisted: Targeted sanctions, pre-emptive security and fundamental rights - 1 day ago  Meeting: Monday, 21 February 2011 at 6:30pm Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ
• Blacklisted: Targeted sanctions, preemptive security and fundamental rights - 1 day agoEuropean Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) have released a new critical report today on terrorism listing, written by Gavin Sullivan and Ben Hayes with a foreword by Martin Scheini...
• Pentagon: Captive might not go home after sentence - 1 day ago  GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba --  A confessed al Qaeda cook serving a two-year terrorism sentence will not automatically go home to his native Sudan in July 2012 when his punishment ends, a ...
• Joint NGO letter to Gibson Detainee Inquiry - 2 days ago

Riki Ott

• BP's Promise Versus What BP Really Means: Some Insights on Making People Hole (Whole) and Just Us (Justice) in the Gulf - 3 weeks agoSanta Rosa Beach, Florida. When Louisiana fisherman Michelle Chauncy called the BP claim office (Kenneth Fineberg's Gulf Coast Claims Facility) last Friday to check on the status of her claim for Mic...
• Bio-Remediation or Bio-Hazard? Dispersants, Bacteria and Illness in the Gulf - 3 months agoOcean Springs, MS -- A grandmother made me rethink all the bio-remediation hype. The "naturally-occurring oil-eating bacteria " have been newsworthy of late as they are supposedly going to come to th...
• An Open Letter to US EPA, Region 6 - 3 months agoSam Coleman U.S. EPA, Region 6 1445 Ross Ave. Dallas, TX 75202-2733 Via email: cole
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• Seafood Safety and Politics Don't Mix: Opening of Gulf Fisheries at Odds With Evidence of Harm - 4 months agoEight days after returning home from his Gulf oil-spill response job, Jason Brashears has flashbacks of a scene that he witnessed one day in Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana: Thousands of fish gasping at ...
• Oilgate! BP and All the President's Men (Except One) Seek to Contain Truth of Leak in the Gulf (PHOTOS)(VIDEO) - 4 months ago

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  Chinese Bear Bile Backlash - 9 hours agoThe furious response to a major bear bile producer’s proposed stock market listing may be indicative of changes in attitudes toward animal welfare. From The Telegraph : Gui Zhen Tang, a pharmaceut...
• Controlling Yangtze Floods: A New Approach - 9 hours agoA new study for World Resources Report describes recent changes in approach to flood control along the Yangtze River: After nearly a millennium of efforts to control floods in the Yangtze River ba...
• Chinese Officials Learn to Spin - 10 hours agoBulk orders from government offices have propelled “The Art of Guiding Public Opinion”, by journalist-turned-of
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• Reporters Roughed Up Near China Activist’s Home - 11 hours agoFollowing last week’s release of a secretly-filmed video of activist Chen Guangcheng, foreign journalists have been forcibly prevented from visiting him at his home in Shandong , where he is under hou...
• Caijing Hits Bold with New Report - 21 hours ago

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oo! Politics

• Is Obama's tough talk enough to help Iran's protesters? (The Christian Science Monitor) - 17 hours agoThe Christian Science Monitor - President Obama on Tuesday spoke carefully about demonstrations in Iran, lending support to peaceful Iranian protesters but refraining from calling for the overthrow of...
• The Fast Fix: Another government shutdown? (The Newsroom)
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• In a reversal, more blacks moving back to South (AP) - 9 hours ago

Yahoo! Business

• Wall Street rises on M&A, Dell earns (Reuters) - 1 hour agoReuters - U.S. stocks advanced on Wednesday after stronger-than-expected Dell earnings and a flurry of deal news.
• Producer prices hint at inflation pressures (Reuters) - 3 hours agoReuters - U.S. core producer prices in January rose to their highest rate in more than two years, hinting at a build-up in inflation pressures as the recovery gathers pace, a potentially troubling dev...
• Borders files for bankruptcy, to close stores (Reuters)

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