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UK News

• Cameron makes unannounced visit to Egypt
• Libya security 'at any price'
• LFW: Anna Wintour loves fun British fashion
• Drink deaths warning
• London Mayor welcomes mobiles on the tube
• Blood pressure 'wrist watch' plan
• Charles visits stairlift manufacturers
• Town changes name from "Speed" to "Speedkills"
• Sheen: I pray for my son Charlie
• Palaces, posh accents boost "King's Speech" shot at Oscars

  BBC - England

• Network Rail admits crash guilt - 8 hours agoNetwork Rail has admitted health and safety failings over the 2002 Potters Bar crash, in which seven people died.
• Bank refunds dead woman's money - 8 hours agoA bank repays £13,000 to the family of a woman who died in the Dominican Republic after the BBC learns several withdrawals were made from her account.
• Velodrome for 2012 Games to open - 2 hours agoThe 6,000-seat velodrome for the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics will open on Tuesday.
• Life sentence for arson murderer - 9 hours agoA man is jailed for life for murdering a woman who died in an arson attack on her home.
• Blast victim wife 'feels no hate' - 2 hours ago

BBC - Home

• Renewed clashes hit Libya capital - 21 minutes agoRenewed fighting breaks out in Libya's capital as senior diplomats defect, putting intense strain on Colonel Gaddafi's regime.
• Egypt seeks Mubarak assets freeze - 7 hours agoEgypt's top prosecutor requests the freezing of the foreign assets of Hosni Mubarak, 10 days after he was forced to stand down amid mass rallies.
• Lahore shooting suspect 'was CIA' - 4 hours agoA US man held in Pakistan over the shootings of two men in Lahore was secretly working for the CIA at the time, reports quoting unnamed US officials state.
• Bahrain GP off after civil unrest - 6 hours agoThe Bahrain Grand Prix has been called off due to anti-government protests.
• 'Dozens killed' in Afghan bombing - 9 hours ago

  Reuters

• Ride the royal bus tour of Kate Middleton's life  - 3 hours agoLONDON (Reuters) - The seats were mostly taken by the press and the only "tourists" were a few interested locals, but the bus tour around the hometown of British Prince William's fiancee Kate Middleto...
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• Suicide bomber kills 30 as Afghan violence spreads  - 3 hours agoKUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least 30 people in a government office in northern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, with violence spiralling across the country even be...
• Gaddafi under threat as revolt hits Tripoli  - 4 hours agoTRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's four-decade-old rule appeared in increasing jeopardy Monday when days of anti-government protests reached the capital for the first time and securit...
• Small rate rise now may avert bigger move - Bank's Weale  - 5 hours agoLONDON (Reuters) - Tightening Bank of England monetary policy now could reduce the need for interest rates to rise more sharply in the future, Bank policymaker Martin Weale said on Monday.
• MI5 had no inkling of 7/7 attacks, top spy says - 5 hours ago

San Jose Mercury News

• Roadshow: How to steer out of a skid - 14 hours agoSafety instructor says you should steer in the direction you want to go.
• Rep. Mike Honda calls for U.S. apology for Chinese Exclusion Act - 16 hours agoOn Sunday -- a day after the 69th anniversary of the executive order incarcerating Japanese-Americans -- Rep. Mike Honda of San Jose called on Americans to end the scapegoating of immigrants, and call...
• Honda calls for repeal of Alien and Sedition Acts - 17 hours agoOn Sunday '“ a day after the 69th anniversary of the executive order incarcerating Japanese-Americans '“ Congressman Mike Honda called on Americans to end the scapegoating of immigrants, and called fo...
• Santa Clara moving to protect redevelopment money for Niners stadium - 18 hours agoThe city and the team say they have no Plan B if Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to close redevelopment agencies is approved by the Legislature.
• Fisher: The environmental generation gap - 19 hours ago

 Afghanistan Sun

• People killed in Afghanistan blast - 12 hours agoAround 30 people have been killed in the northern province of Kunduz in ...
• US drone strikes kill 15 militants in Pakistan - 2 hours agoTwo US drone strikes Monday killed at least 15 alleged militants linked to Al Qaeda in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border, intelligence officials ...
• NATO airstrike kills six civilians, says Afghan official - 11 hours agoA NATO airstrike targeting a group of alleged insurgents mistakenly killed an Afghan family of six, an Afghan official said ...
• Taliban bomber kills 31 at Afghan office - 3 hours ago

 Jurist - US Legal News

• Federal prosecutors end criminal investigation of Countrywide executive - 3 hours ago[JURIST] Federal prosecutors have dropped a criminal investigation against former Countrywide Financial Corporation [JURIST news archive] executive Angelo Mozilo, concluding that he was not involved i...
• Utah House passes Arizona-style immigration bill - 3 hours ago[JURIST] The Utah House of Representatives [official website] on Friday approved an Arizona-style immigration law by a 58-15 majority vote. Sponsored by Representative Stephen Sandstrom (R) [official ...
• Wyoming Senate approves bill banning same-sex marriage recognition - 3 hours ago[JURIST] The Wyoming Senate [official website] on Friday approved a bill [text, PDF], that would void in Wyoming any same-sex marriages and civil unions [JURIST news archive] performed in other jurisd...
• Federal judge upholds detention of Yemeni Guantanamo inmate - 3 hours ago[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] on Friday denied [opinion, PDF] a petition for writ of habeas corpus of a Yemeni man currently detained at Gu...
• US military tribunal sentences Guantanamo prisoner to 14 years - 3 hours ago

 RAW Story

• Mexican drug war erupts: At least 30 die in separate incidents - 1 week 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week agoSpeaking to conservatives, 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 - 1 week 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 - 1 week ago

  EW Worldwire

• Pipistrel Introduces Second Generation Electric Glider - 4 days agoTaurus Electro G2 is the only electric 2-seat airplane in serial production available on the market.
• Suzuki Electric Scooter Prototype Offers Bicycle Convenience, No Pedaling - 4 days agoE-Let's prototype has maximum speed of up to 30 km/hr and range up to 30 km.
• Proprietary Powder Could End Electric Car 'Range Anxiety' - 4 days agoUK-based Inova Power reveals material that when mixed with water, produces hydrogen gas for fuel cell range extender.
• Obama Budget Includes $200M for EV Communities - 4 days agoThe $200 million for grants is to 'help communities across the country become early adopters of electric vehicles.'
• Porsche Panamera S Hybrid to Go On Sale in 2011 - 4 days ago

No Quarter

• “Brothers Won’t Work As Hard As Mexicans…” - 3 hours agoOh, man – did SC State Senator Robert Ford (D) really say this? Talk about your classic “foot in mouth” disease. Needless to say, a whole bunch of people aren’t happy with him about his comment. Ford ...
• We Hardly Knew You, Scott Brown - 7 hours agoThe complete video of Leslie Stahl’s interview is below the fold. You. You handsome, together man. Who tore out all of Massachusetts’ deep-rooted, old-fashioned liberal Kennedy roots, and with your ...
• Union Whining in Wisconsin - 19 hours agoThe facts on this are quite simple–the current Wisconsin Governor, who was elected four months ago, campaigned and won on the platform he is currently pursuing. This is no sneak attack. He did not pro...
• Fire Jumps Kuwait (+ Larry Johnson on radio tonight) & Open Thread - 23 hours ago* Bumped Up to include OPEN THREAD * Editor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s nationally syndicated radio show TONIGHT at around 10:05 to 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming ...
• REPLAY: Is Health Reform Newspaper on the Bird Cage Floor? - 1 day ago

 Global Post

• 5 die in Moroccan protests - 41 minutes agoRABAT, Morocco – Five people died in anti-government protests in Morocco and many buildings were damaged, but the nation-wide marches were not met with harsh repression from King Mohammed VI’s gover...
• American held in Pakistan for murder is CIA agent - 1 hour agoRaymond Davis, the American who fatally shot two men in Pakistan last month and who has been described publicly as a diplomat, is a security contractor for the CIA who was part of a secret agency te...
• Yemen: Students hold sit-in to call for resignation of Ali Abdullah Saleh - 1 hour agoSANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s president rejected mounting demands for his resignation Monday as thousands of students held an overnight sit-in at Sanaa University, the first of its kind. "If they want ...
• Israel mulls dangers of allowing Google Street View - 4 hours agoIsrael says it is considering ways to allow Google Street View to photograph Israeli cities, despite concerns the popular 3D-mapping service could be used to plot terror attacks. Israeli cabinet...
• Egypt freezes assets of Hosni Mubarak and family - 5 hours ago

Yahoo! News

• Yahoo! Wants a Stock Exchange for Ads and Page Views - 50 minutes agoThe latest shot in the online ad wars.
• Yahoo Engineer Complains About Lack Of Innovation At Yahoo - 17 hours agoRight now Yahoo engineer Jeremy Johnstone is my hero. Frustrated with with Flickr's lack of HTML5 support on the web, Johnstone -- whose position is currently "Technical Yahoo!" on the Yahoo For Good ...
• Yahoo! Mail Beta (2011) - 6 days agoYahoo Mail's redesigned interface is a pleasure, it's faster, and packs a ton of features, but can it match Hotmail and Gmail?
• Google, Yahoo! BabelFish use math principles to translate documents online - 7 hours agoGoogle, Yahoo! BabelFish use math principles to translate documents online.
• Yahoo Livestand Digital Newsstand: Hands On - 5 days ago

 
The Green Life

• Daily Roundup: February 18, 2011 - 2 days agoImmunity Challenge: State legislators are considering a bill that would make Kentucky a "sanctuary state" exempt from EPA regulations. Bloomberg and Lexington Herald-Leader Worthy Tradeoff...
• GreenChill Certification: The EPA's Way of Greening Grocery Stores - 2 days agoEco-conscious consumers know that carefully reading the labels of the foods they buy can help determine their environmental impact. With the GreenChill certification , shoppers can now ensure they're ...
• (No Title) - 3 days ago(Click twice for a larger view.)
• Movie Review Friday: Winter's Bone - 3 days agoEscape to the movies with one of our  Movie Review Friday  selections. Each week we review a film with an environmental theme that's currently in theaters or on DVD. Winter's Bone (2010) ...
• Daily Roundup: February 17, 2011 - 3 days

Gawker

• The Humble Return of Ashley Judd [Trade Roundup] - 45 minutes agoThe brainiac renegade from Southern royalty is back in a big(ish) leading role. Also today: lots of TV pilot casting news, as it is the season f...
• Libyan Diplomats Break with Qaddafi over 'Genocide' [Crises] - 51 minutes agoLibya's UN delegation has broken with dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi over his "crimes against humanity and crimes of war" and "genocide" against Lib...
• What Are the World's Most Livable Cities? [Urban Studies] - 55 minutes agoEvery year the Economist Intelligence Unit looks at all the cities in the world and ranks their livability based on stability, health care, cultu...
• The Pentagon Papers Donald Rumsfeld Doesn't Want You to See [Exclusive] - 1 hour agoWhen Donald Rumsfeld released his memoir Known and Unknown , he made a big deal out of putting thousands of documents from his archives...
• Arizona's' 'Civility Institute' Will Tame State's Insane Masses [Solutions] - 1 hour ago

 MercoPress

• Brazil’s main daily admits having supported military coup in 1964 - 4 hours agoBrazil’s leading daily Folha de Sao Paulo celebrating its 90th anniversary openly admitted on its Monday edition that in 1964 it supported the military coup that ousted constitu...
• Gold above 1.400 USD and silver at 30 year record as investors take refuge - 5 hours agoGold climbed above 1,400 US dollars an ounce to the highest price in almost seven weeks in London as unrest in the Middle East and North Africa spreads. Silver reached a 30-year...
• Krill sex caught on camera in 700 metres deep Antarctic waters - 5 hours agoIn a world first, the sex life of Antarctic Krill in the wild has been caught on camera revealing the shrimp-like creatures are able to mate deeper in the ocean than previously ...
• Pod of 107 pilot whales have died stranded on south New Zealand island - 5 hours agoA pod of 107 pilot whales stranded on New Zealand’s south island have died, including 48 killed by authorities, reports said Monday.
• Ibero-American Secretary Iglesias recovering from vascular accident - 6 hours ago

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• OIL RAIN” CONFIRMED by NASA chief mission scientist: Clouds from Gulf did “RAIN OIL” on land (VIDEO) - 31 minutes ago"Leifer thinks this oil rain is an unprecedented oil spill phenomenon - a combination of the Gulf's high humidity and the columns of thick smoke from burning oil." ... Read more
• Research Tests: Corexit is reponsible for most volatile compounds that cleanup workers were exposed to — “Very interesting” (VIDEO) - 1 hour agoToxic Tide – Discovering the Health Effects of the Deepwater Disaster, Part 2, Living on ... Read more
• “It looks like there’s a significant amount of gas” NORTHEAST of the well — Methane is “smeared” through the ecosystem - 8 hours agoMethane From Oil Spill Migrating Undigested?, Science, February 19, 2011: Some researchers have concluded in recent ... Read more
• GRAPHIC: Another cleanup worker hospitalized — James ‘Catfish’ Miller (VIDEOS) - 10 hours agoWarning Graphic – This is What Happens When You Are Infected With Gulf Toxins, deniselngbch, ... Read more
• Spill Children: Untold Stories of the BP Gulf Disaster (VIDEO, Part 1) - 15 hours ago

Headlines

• One Nation, Under Repression: The Arab World and the 'Palestine effect' - 0 minutes ago"...while there seems to be a domino effect taking place throughout the region, there were clearly common concerns which moved people across national boundaries and so it should perhaps be expected th...
• Abbas' Little Victory - 0 minutes ago"...if Arab leaders have learned anything from all the turmoil, it is that stagnant and corrupt autocracies cannot last. Let’s hope our own leadership has taken this lesson to heart."
• The Change We Need - 0 minutes ago"Unless our political leaders can put aside “politics as usual” and end their callous disregard for the suffering of Palestinians; unless leaders are willing to challenge their political fears and do ...
• America: Change your policies in the Middle East or lose it - 0 minutes ago"Given America’s political history it’s not hopeful that America will change its policy in the near future, but once the Arab monarchies in the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia fall, America will be the ...
• Western hypocrisy with pro-democracy movement - 0 minutes ago

Voltaire

• Ex-CIA Analyst Brutalized at Hillary Clinton's Free Speech Lecture - 1 day agoAs Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her speech at George Washington University yesterday condemning governments that arrest protestors and do not allow free expression, 71-year-old Ray McGovern...
• Two-thirds of Iranians behind Ahmadinejad - 1 day agoThe International Peace Institute recently released the results of a telephone survey of Iranians. According to the poll, Iranians are clearly split in a one third/two thirds ratio. The majority came ...
• The Myth of the U.N. Creation of Israel - 2 days agoMany of the historical beliefs, which have percolated down to us, are based on distortions, half-truths or on no truths at all. According to political analyst Jeremy R. Hammond, the predominant view r...
• 'US backs crackdown in Bahrain' - 3 days agoThe Bahraini regime cannot violently suppress its own people without the US support, a political expert says amid the escalation of pro-democracy protests in the Persian Gulf Arab state. “Bahrain is a...
• Somalia: "pirates" or struggling fishermen? - 3 days ago

 Kerkuk.net

• Speaker's office denies Nujaifi to meet Iraqi opposition in Damascus - 8 hours agoThe media office of Parliament Speaker Osama Al-Nujaifi denied reports that Nujaifi intends to hold talks with Ba'athist leaders and some armed elements in Syria during his visit to Damascus this week...
• Al-Maliki talks to the youth at the Ministry of Youth and Sports party - 8 hours agoPrime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on the young Iraqis to be aware of the extent of challenges facing Iraq.
• Vital to hold Arab Summit on time - 8 hours agoThe Arab League stressed Friday the importance of holding the Arab Summit scheduled to take place in Baghdad under accelerating changes seen by the Arab region.
• Department of Justice helps return Iraqi artifacts to the Iraqi Embassy in Washington - 9 hours agoWithin the framework of cooperation agreement signed with Iraq, the United States works hard to help Iraq return artifacts stolen from Iraq during the Gulf War.
• US official in Iraq to discuss support of energy sector - 9 hours ago

 Transcend

• One Love | Song around the World - 23 hours agoFrom the award-winning documentary, "Playing for Change: Peace through Music", comes an incredible rendition of the legendary Bob Marley song "One Love" with Keb' Mo' and Manu Chao.
• United Nations, an Organisation on Life-Support? - 23 hours agoWhile a mass uprising was toppling a dictatorship in Egypt and tens of thousands were marching for radical change at the World Social Forum in Dakar, a high-level group of ambassadors and experts came...
• In Egypt and Tunisia Nonviolence Has Been the Motor of Transformation - 23 hours agoThe most important thing to happen in these weeks, hasn’t been the departure of Presidents Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak, the most important thing has been the union of the people in non-violent protest, ...
• Chevron’s Dirty Fight in Ecuador - 23 hours agoThe giant oil corporation has been fined $8.6bn for an environmental disaster that has been called 'the Amazon's Chernobyl'. But guess what? It may end up paying nothing.
• Egypt Decides to Open Gaza Crossing Partially - 23 hours ago

BPS Research Digest

• How to cheat a brain-scan-based lie detector - 13 hours agoCheating the scanner is relatively easy Sure, it's possible to differentiate patterns of truth-telling brain activity from patterns of lying-related activity . But contrary to media hype , exper...
• When a client confesses to murder - 4 days agoDr. Jennifer Melfi : What line of work are you in? Tony Soprano : Waste management consultant. Client confidentiality in psychotherapy only goes so far. If a client threatens the therapist, another ...
• Milgram's obedience studies - not about obedience after all? - 5 days 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 - 6 days 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 - 6 days 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...

Top Documentary Films

• Inside LSD - 4 hours agoCould LSD be the next drug in your doctor's arsenal? New experiments have a few researchers believing that this trippy drug could become a pharmaceutical of the future. Outlawed in 1970, t...
• How Beer Saved the World - 16 hours agoDid you know that beer was critical to the birth of civilization? That’s right - beer. Scientists and historians line up to tell the amazing, untold story of how beer helped create math, poetry, py...
• Can You Hack It? – Hackers Wanted - 1 day agoHackers Wanted is an unreleased American documentary film. Directed and written by Sam Bozzo, the film explores the origins and nature of hackers and hacking by following the adventures of...
• Clash of the Gods - 1 day agoClash of the Gods is a documentary series that premiered in 2009 on the History channel. The program covers many of the ancient Greek and Norse Gods, monsters and heroes including Hades, H...
• The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews - 2 days ago

Red Tape Chronicles

• An iPad for $2.82, or illegal gambling? - 3 days agoHere's a puzzler: How can a website sell a $10 Walmart gift card for 26 cents and still make money? Or sell an Apple iPod worth $100 for $3.30 and make an enormous profit? Welcome to the wild world ...
• Car leases make comeback, with new traps - 6 days 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 - 2 weeks 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 ago

Frontier Post

• Moonis granted protective bail - 16 minutes agoF.P. Karachi Office KARACHI: Moonis Elahi, one of the accused in the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam has been granted a three week ...
• PM chairs PPP, allies meeting - 16 minutes agoF.P. Report ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Monday reiterated the PPP-led government?s resolve to continue the policy of reconciliation ...
• 2 Judges in AJK HC appointed - 16 minutes agoISLAMABAD (INP): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani as Chairman of the Azad Jammu & Kashmir Council has advised the President of Azad Jammu & Kashmir ...
• Kunduz blast kills 30 Afghans - 16 minutes agoKUNDUZ (Agencies): A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to an Afghan government office on Monday, killing at least 30 people. Many were waiting ...
• No compromise on sovereignty: Gilani - 16 minutes ago

 Press CORE

• The EU – brainchild of top Nazi economists and industrialists, as a means of acquiring dictatorial power over Europe and now the U.S. - 1 day agoA writer who was collecting material for a fictional book based around the premise that top Nazis, seeking to preserve their power at the end of the second world war, conspired to create a Fourth Re...
• Canadian government used witness intimidation and proroguing to cover up Canadian war crimes. - 4 days agoAn inquiry into the actions of the Canadian military in Afghanistan was launched in February 2007 by commissioner Peter Tinsley, head of the Military Police Complaints Commission (MPCC), who has sin...
• Washington’s new star wars weapon of mass destruction linked to climate change. - 1 week 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. - 1 week 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. - 1 week ago

 Cage Prisoners

• US drone strike kills seven in Pakistan - 7 hours ago  Attack in South Waziristan is first since arrest of Raymond Davis, the US embassy employee who shot two Pakistanis
• Yorkshire Young Muslim Writers presents an evening with Moazzam Begg - 7 hours agoWednesday, 2nd March 2011
• Supreme Court to Hear Material Witness Case - 8 hours ago  GRAND TERRACE, Calif. — When the director of the  Federal Bureau of Investigation ,  Robert S. Mueller III , gave Congress a  progress report in early 2003 on the agency’s success in “identif...
• ACTION ALERT: Email UK detainees - 10 hours agoHas the time not come for our brothers to receive from us a good word, to let them know that they have our support?
• The Uninvited Visitors - 1 day 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 - one month 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: coleman.sam@epa.gov August 27, 2010 Re: Documentation of continued dispersant spraying in near shore and inlan...
• 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

China Digital Times

• China Police Show Up En Masse at Hint of Protest - 19 hours agoMessages from an unknown source that called for protests in 13 cities around China generated a heavy police and media presence but few protesters . From the Los Angeles Times: By 2 p.m. Sunday, hun...
• Nepal Caught Between China and India - 1 day agoNepal’s historic relationship with India is facing a challenge from an increasingly influential China , the Los Angeles Times reports: Early this month, after 17 attempts to name a prime minister, ...
• China President Calls For More Internet Oversight - 1 day agoFrom Reuters: Hu told a meeting attended by top Communist Party leaders that despite rising prosperity, China was facing deepening social conflicts that would test the party’s ability to maintain fi...
• Activists Detained as China Web Users Call for ‘Jasmine Revolution’ (Updated) - 1 day agoMessages spread through Chinese cyberspace calling for laid-off workers and other disgruntled citizens to publicly protest on Sunday in 13 cities to join in the “Jasmine Revolution” that is fueling pr...
• Father of China’s Great Firewall Discusses Being Persona Non Grata - 2 days ago

Yahoo! Politics

• Government shutdown threat looms over budget fight (Reuters) - 10 hours agoReuters - Senior Senate Democrats slammed Republicans on Sunday for a "reckless" threat to shut down the government amid deepening political posturing on both sides over federal spending and the budge...
• Neither side budging in Wisconsin union fight (AP) - 2 hours agoAP - No resolution appeared imminent Monday to the stalemate over union rights in Wisconsin, leaving Senate Republicans resigned to forge ahead with less-controversial business such as tax breaks for ...
• The Fast Fix: A judge of few words (The Newsroom) - 19 hours ago

Yahoo! Business News

• BP partners Reliance in $7.2 billion Indian oil hunt (Reuters) - 5 hours agoReuters - BP lined up one of the biggest foreign direct investments in India to date with a $7.2 billion tie-up with the country's Reliance Industries to explore for deepwater oil and gas.
• Blockbuster gets $290 million "stalking horse bid" (Reuters) - 42 minutes agoReuters - Movie rental chain Blockbuster Inc , which filed for bankruptcy last year, said it has started the process to sell itself and has entered into an agreement with "stalking horse" bidder Cobal...
• Libya turmoil prompts oil surge, hits equities (Reuters) - 5 hours ago

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• Ad Wars: Yahoo Wants A Pageview/Ad Stock Exchange (conceivablytech.com)
• Mailgate Continues: iPhone Also Victim of Yahoo Mail Woes (pocketnow.com)
• "Qaddafi's Son Warns of Civil War" and related posts (nymag.com)
• Windows Phone data problems traced to Yahoo! mail app (we knew that) (liveside.net)
• Yahoo Mail gets YouSendIt integration (slashgear.com)
• Libyan U.N. diplomats: Qaddafi should resign (cbsnews.com)
• Internet Access Cut Off for Several Hours in Libya (circleid.com)
• Vancouver remains world's most livable city: survey (globaltvbc.com)
• "Get out": Libya's deputy UN ambassador says Qaddafi must go (hotair.com)
• "CNN's Candy Crowley somewhat surprised by Donald Rumsfeld's ignorance of Obama's good global image" and related posts (latimesblogs.latimes.com)
• Donald Rumsfeld: Obama Didn't Deserve The Nobel (huffingtonpost.com)
• U.S. to Track Health of Gulf Cleanup Workers (online.wsj.com)
• More Proposals for Nanotechnology in Addressing Oil Spills (spectrum.ieee.org)
• Everything you wanted to know about microbes and oil spills but were afraid to ask (physorg.com)
• Gulf Oil Spill Caused Inches of Dead Animals & Oil to Coat Seafloor (treehugger.com)
• Gulf of Mexico Still Choked by BP Oil, Research Shows (news.yahoo.com)
• Bacteria also removed spilled methane from Gulf (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
• The most FAQs about microbes and oil spills (news.bioscholar.com)
• BP Took Advantage Of Cleanup Workers, Lawsuit Says (huffingtonpost.com)
• White flags with the word 'peace' fluttered in Pearl Square + Uneasy calm settles on Bahrain's capital after week of unrest by Finian Cunningham (dandelionsalad.wordpress.com)
• How a broken social contract sparked Bahrain protests - Christian Science Monitor (news.google.com)
• Shifting balance of power in the Persian Gulf (redantliberationarmy.wordpress.com)
• Nouri al-Maliki's Retirement Fund? (emptywheel.firedoglake.com)
• Iraqis protest in Kurdish region, capital (reuters.com)
• "Kicking off in "democratic" Iraq" and related posts (jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com)
• Milgram's obedience studies - not about obedience after all? (bps-research-digest.blogspot.com)
• Minecraft film documentary makers release clip; seeking more funding (news.bigdownload.com)
• CITIES WERE AN EXPERIMENT THAT FAILED (via Bryan Francoeur)[profanity alert]:: (brothersjuddblog.com)
• Inside the Center for the History of Psychology (ahp.apps01.yorku.ca)
• What Are The Best Documentary Film Festivals? (brighthub.com)
• Tips on How to Make a Documentary Film (brighthub.com)
• The Brain: a Secret History - history's most sinister experiments (telegraph.co.uk)
• You: Preparations afoot to observe 'Kashmir Day' on Feb. 5 (nation.com.pk)
• You: Gilani invites Kuwaiti entrepreneurs to invest in Pakistan (nation.com.pk)
• You: Politics plagues AJK superior judiciary (nation.com.pk)
• India, Pakistan to hold talks on all issues (hindu.com)
• BP Genetically Modifying the Gulf of Mexico (coto2.wordpress.com)
• A Deadly Trade-Off: Toxic Dispersants or Ecological Damage (sierraclub.typepad.com)
• BP: Gulf oil spill payments are too generous (money.cnn.com)
• BP to Feinberg: stop paying people so much (switchboard.nrdc.org)
• Scientists warn that Earth could be "unrecognizable" by 2050 (salon.com)
• China gets nervous, squashes 'Jasmine Revolution' (americablog.com)
• Instant View: BP agrees to buy 30 perce stake in Reliance blocks (reuters.com)
• BP in deal with major Indian firm (independent.co.uk)
• Reliance Industries to invest $30 bln over 5 yrs-report (reuters.com)
• Libyan deputy ambassador to the UN: 'What's happening is genocide' - BBC News (news.google.com)