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Thomas Paine

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • BURMA: Suu Kyi’s Trial Gives Rare Glimpse i ...

    BANGKOK, Aug 1 (IPS) - A political trial in Burma that could prolong its pro-democracy icon’s isolation by five more years has opened a rare window for the international community to judge the quality of justice in the military-ruled country.

  • MEXICO: Green Therapy on the Rooftops

    MEXICO CITY, Aug 1 (IPS/IFEJ) - In the last two years a Mexico City hospital, kindergarten and municipal government office building have experimented with plant-covered rooftops. Today, workers and visitors are enjoying the benefits.

  • PHILIPPINES: Filipinos Mourn Cory Aquino, Democra ...

    MANILA, Aug 1 (IPS) - An icon of democracy whose unexpected rise to power in 1986 gave birth to the term "people power" in the world’s political lexicon. A reluctant president and survivor of six coup attempts. A moral force known for her stubbornness even if told she was wrong.

  • RIGHTS: U.N. Body Relentlessly Pursues Women's Eq ...

    UNITED NATIONS, Jul 31 (IPS) - The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is known to publicly castigate countries accused of gender discrimination or violating international conventions governing women's rights.

  • RIGHTS-CHILE: New Wave of Mapuche Land Conflicts

    SANTIAGO, Jul 31 (IPS) - The southern Chilean region of Araucanía has been shaken in the last few days by occupations of land by Mapuche activists claiming it as part of their ancestral territory, attacks on vehicles, and the resurgence of an anti-Mapuche paramilitary group.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Filling the glass

    Walkerton, Ont., North Battleford, Sask., and the Kashechewan First Nation Reserve, in Northern Ontario, have all become high-profile — and tragic — examples of what can go wrong when a community’s drinking water becomes contaminated. Surprisingly, they are not alone. At any given time, 1,700 ...

  • i2eye with Bartha Maria Knoppers

    “Don’t plan your career — be curious.” That’s the credo that Bartha Maria Knoppers, the new director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, espouses — and one she lives by. Knoppers turned her love of books into a master’s in c ...

  • Environmental legacy

    (Article courtesy of University of Regina) University of Regina biologist Chris Somers is fascinated by how humans and wildlife interact and how animals respond to human-modified environments. “My research often combines animal ecology in the field, environmental chemistry and genetics,” explain ...

  • Rebooting the search for dark matter

    “This is just a regular day at the office,” says researcher Chris Jillings as a two-kilometre-long cable lowers an elevator down into a maze of sweltering passageways leading to the “clean rooms” at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, or SNOLAB. “But every so often, I realize this is all rea ...

  • Seeking the perfect storm

    Mother Nature always has the upper hand — and sometimes the last laugh. John Hanesiak knows this well. When asked about the most memorable weather he’s tracked, the University of Manitoba atmospheric scientist and storm chaser points out that he’s witnessed several tornadoes, but the event t ...

Signs of the times

  • Teen indicted in alleged rape of girl in Phoenix

    Authorities say a 14-year-old Liberian refugee has been indicted in connection with the alleged rape of an 8-year-old girl in a storage shed of a Phoenix apartment complex. Police say the boys lured the girl to an empty storage shed on July 16 with the promise of chewing gum and then restrained h ...

  • Guantánamo Bay: The Inside Story

    There's a McDonald's on the high street, suburban houses, rats the size of dogs, and 229 of the world's most high-profile prisoners. Six months after President Obama declared that he would close it down, Naomi Wolf heads to Guantánamo Bay to see whether anything has changed Six months ago this wee ...

  • (No) Surprise! Wal-Mart weighs role in U.S. H1N1 v ...

    Wal-Mart Stores Inc is discussing with U.S. health officials the possibility of putting vaccination sites at some of its stores for an H1N1 swine flu inoculation campaign this fall, a company official said on Thursday. Federal officials met with Wal-Mart executives on Wednesday in Arkansas to discu ...

  • Is it safe? U.S. vaccine experts want to build tru ...

    When advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration met to discuss a new vaccine against H1N1 swine flu last week, some of the biggest critics of vaccination were not only in the room, but at the table. Likewise for a meeting on Wednesday of advisers who decide who will be first in line to get t ...

  • Sawtooth Shadows On Saturn's Rings

    Jagged looking shadows stretch away from vertical structures of ring material created by the moon Daphnis in this image [Full-Res: PIA11547] taken as Saturn approaches its August 2009 equinox. Daphnis (8 kilometers, or 5 miles across) is a bright dot casting a thin shadow just to the left of the ce ...

Threat Level

  • Researcher’s “Open Sesame” Hack Bypasses Doo ...

    LAS VEGAS — Security researchers have spent a lot of time the last couple of years cracking building access systems from the level of the user device — RFID and smartcards, for example. But a researcher in Texas found that he could crack one electronic access system at the network control level ...

  • DefCon: ‘Credit Hackers’ Win the Credit Card G ...

    Hundreds of “credit hackers” are legally gaming financial institutions by taking advantage of loopholes in the U.S. credit-reporting system, a security researcher says — warning that identity thieves could follow suit. Christopher Soghoian, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, took a secur ...

  • Jury Dings File Sharer $675,000, RIAA Prevails

    A federal jury on Friday concluded that a 25-year-old college student must pay $675,000 — or $22,500 for each of the 30 songs he was found liable of infringing, Ben Sheffner reports from the courthouse. After a week-long trial and nearly three hours of deliberations, the Massachusetts jury con ...

  • Pentagon Hacker Gary McKinnon Loses Extradition Ap ...

    Britain’s High Court on Friday rejected two appeals by Pentagon hacker and 9/11 truther Gary “Solo” McKinnon, who’s trying to avoid extradition to the U.S. for cracking nearly 100 Pentagon, NASA and civilian computers in 2001 and 2002. McKinnon, 43, faces anywhere from six months to six-and- ...

  • Security Camera Hack Conceals Heists Behind Dummy ...

    LAS VEGAS — Technology has caught up with Hollywood heist films in a new hack being demonstrated at DefCon Friday, which involves hijacking IP video streams and seamlessly replacing them with new content. In its simplest form, the hack — conducted with two free tools developed by researchers at ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • The Selective Amnesia of John McCain

    Saturday's Wall Street Journal features a fascinating interview with John McCain by editor Stephen Moore. Fascinating, that is, as a study of revisionist history and selective amnesia by both men. While Moore now praises McCain as "one of the lead...

  • Birther Movement Just the Latest Southern Patholog ...

    In a jaw-dropping DaliyKos/Research 2000 poll released today, a stunning 58% of Republicans did not believe (28%) or were unsure (30%) that President Barack Obama was in fact born in the United States. To be sure, this is a Southern...

  • GOP Turns to Scare Tactics, Double-Talk on Medicar ...

    In his latest fear-mongering on health care reform, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned that Democrats are intent on "sticking it to seniors with cuts to Medicare." Of course, McConnell's statement isn't merely false, it is comically so. After all,...

  • The Perpetual Republican War on Medicare

    Even as Republicans wage their new war against the latest efforts at health care reform, they are still fighting the last one. 44 years after the passage of Medicare, Republicans leaders like Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) are attacking Democratic proposals...

  • Obama Fails Marketing 101 on Health Care Reform

    Seven years ago, President Bush's chief of staff Andy Card famously explained the administration's post-Labor Day campaign for war with Iraq, "'From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August." As cynical and deceitful as the...

Blackspot News Feed

Consortium News

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Planetsave

  • Spider Monkeys Invent Medicinal Tools.

    For years and years, humans considered themselves the one and only makers of tools. Homo sapien literally means “wise man” because we were so intelligent that it was us humans, and us humans alone, who could even have the brain capacity to create a tool. It was considered the key feature of th ...

  • Horses Stolen and Brutally Butchered for Meat in F ...

    Since January, nearly 20 horses have been stolen and brutally killed in Florida. The latest horse was stabbed in the neck and most likely still alive when butchered. Officials believe the mutilated horses are being killed for their meat which is being sold on the black market. Buying or selling ...

  • Waste Water Mud the New ‘Green’ Fuel

    Wastewater treatment facilities end up dumping a lot of mud that is extracted from the in-flowing water. And, like everything else, that mud takes up space. Space that could be used for other things, even at the dumping yards. But researchers from the Rovira i Virgili University (URV) have suggest ...

  • Abandoned Mines Could Be Used for Other Purposes: ...

    Coal power supplies most of the electricity that we use here in America. It’s been that way for a long time. Because of coal’s popularity as a source of power, mines, both active and abandoned, lay scattered across the nation. And now, with coal’s popularity waning, the number of abandoned mi ...

  • (Free) Green iPhone Apps Reviewed. Part 1: Free Ap ...

    Before I get into this topic, please read my article on cancer dedicated to someone special to me, each view constitutes a larger donation to cancer research. http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/07/27/help-me-fight-cancer/ The “green movement” is gaining some steam in the general public, and hey I ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Public Citizen Urges Supreme Court to Uphold Campa ...

    Overturning Campaign Finance Restrictions Would Allow Corporations to Dominate Elections WASHINGTON, D.C. – Public Citizen joined a team of other attorneys in submitting a friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court today, urging the court to adhere to its precedents and reaffirm the longs ...

  • Local Power/Energia Mia Update

    Here is the latest update from the Local Power/Energia Mia Coalition: CPS has a meeting today at Firefighters Union Hall (8925-IH10 WEST) from 6:00-8:00 pm. Anyone from District 8 is encouraged to attend and speak for the cause. Each person gets three minutes of talk time and the Local Power/Energ ...

  • Nuclear plans hurting Texas power companies’ (al ...

    Power companies’ plans to pursue new nuclear projects are damaging their credit ratings, which may mean higher costs will be shifted onto ratepayers. In a new report by Moody’s Investors Service titled “New Nuclear Generation: Ratings Pressure Increasingâ€�, the firm raises concerns ...

  • Good Day, (for Texas) Sunshine [Flickr]

    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: This morning marks a good day for Texas sunshine! Public Citizen Texas gives you the early morning scoop -- late last night the Texas Senate passed through HB 1423, a net metering bill to provide owners of solar installations with fair buy-back rates for the ex ...

  • Jon Stewart gets ACES Right!

    If you missed Tuesday night’s episode of The Daily Show, you did not get to see John Stewart and guest Steven Chu (Obama’s Nobel Prize winning Secretary of Energy) discuss the Waxman-Markey climate bill and America’s energy future. For those who missed it here are some highlights: Jon S ...

Press TV

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • Single-payer to get actual floor vote

    I will be damned. No, it won't pass, but no, it's not just symbolic. This is historic. This is fucking amazing. This is proof that single-payer advocates are not just tin-foil-hat crazies. This is proof that single-payer health care is a legitimate policy alternative supported by mainstream membe ...

  • Did coal companies just get even dirtier?

    Yellow Dog has gotten me interested in this subject and I've increased my email and news feeds to include more info on it. The following is from an email feed from the Sierra Club. I knew these big coal guys were crooks and miscreants to varying degrees but I've long lumped them in with all the oth ...

  • This Time, Ignoring Mexico's Crisis Will Be Fatal

    I think it was former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau who said that living next to the United States was like sleeping next to a bear - you notice every twitch. For Mexico, it's been more like getting regularly crushed by that bear. In the Nation, Jeff Faux examines how the perverted incentiv ...

  • American vs. Medieval Justice: Compare and Contras ...

    A history of the 14th century sketches out a judicial process that helps to illuminate some of our current practices. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears . No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I started reading A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tu ...

  • The Nightowl Newswrap

    There are legal remedies for lobbying firms that forge letters from community organizations in an attempt to influence legislation As freshman congressman Tom Perriello was deliberating how to vote on ACES, he received six letters from influential organizations that represent the interests of minor ...

Care 2

  • Backpackers take green vacations on European farms

    Backpackers pining for European adventure have discovered life on the farm, shoveling manure, feeding pigs and making butter as a recession-beating way to sate their wanderlust. Submitted by Debra L. to Green Lifestyle | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Sacramentan buys old vinyl 45s, finds out they wer ...

    The lick-on label was unmistakable. Paul Campfield was reading his mother's name and the address of his childhood San Lorenzo home Submitted by Terry West to Offbeat | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Regulators shut down banks in Ohio and 4 other sta ...

    -- Regulators on Friday shut down banks in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma and Illinois, boosting to 69 the number of federally insured banks to fail this year amid the pressures of the weak economy and mounting loan defaults Submitted by Terry West to Business | Note-it! | Add a Comment

  • Golden eagle tagged in conservation plan found poi ...

    Police raided a Highland grouse moor today after a golden eagle that had been satellite-tagged as part of a government-funded project was found poisoned with illegal pesticides. The grouse moor, keepers' cottages and vehicles on the Millden estate Submitted by Simone D. to Animals | Note-it! ...

  • ACTION ALERT: Puerto Rico – New Source For Primat ...

    I am dismayed to learn about a proposed primate breeding center in Guayama City. I understand Bioculture, a Mauritius-based primate supply firm, intends to ship long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in for research. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

GreenBiz

  • Green Wineries Embrace Innovation from the Fields ...

    Solar-powered vineyards, biodynamic farming, organically grown grapes and innovative packaging put several California wineries on the leading edge of sustainable wine production. Their remarkable results offer valuable lessons for green leaders in any industry.

  • Coca-Cola Enterprises Emissions Reductions, Recycl ...

    The bottling, marketing and distribution arm of the beverage giant has set a goal to reduce CO2 emissions by 15 percent before 2020, as well as to recover 100 percent of its bottles for recycling.

  • Report Urges Efficiency as a Solution to Californi ...

    A new study by the Pacific Institute shows ways that California farmers can cut their water use by as much as 17 percent without cutting the productivity of the nation's most productive agricultural region.

  • Sustaining California Agriculture in an Uncertain ...

    This report from the Pacific Institute details the ways that California farmers can implement water efficiency practices to reduce water use by 17 percent while maintaining current levels of productivity.

  • Cash for Killing Your Lawn: Cities Get Creative on ...

    In Las Vegas, the biggest desert city in the U.S., and still one of the fastest-growing regions in the nation, the local water utility is offering cash incentives to replace water-sucking lawns with drought-resistant landscapes.

Reuters Global

Ezra Klein

  • Tab Dump

    • Did the Supreme Court create the health-care mess? • What lessons does the Clean Air Act hold for cap-and-trade? • Mark Schmitt examines Barack Obama's "cockeyed optimism" about American government. • What would a "common sense" health-care reform look like? • Good beer is bad politi ...

  • How Do You Decide to Run for President?

    The Post has published an excerpt from Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson's new book, " The Battle for America 2008 ," which has some extended ruminations from the winner of that battle. In particular, I'm always interested in the decision-making process that candidates go through when they choose to run ...

  • Am I a Radical?

    To make a related point to the previous post, I'm not sure I'd term calls for procedural reform "radical," much less " revolutionary ." The history of Congress is, in part, a history of procedural reforms. Newt Gingrich made a bunch of changes in 1994. Democrats made a bunch of changes in 1975. John ...

  • Misremembering the Filibuster

    Conor Friedersdorf mounts a very standard attack on those of us advocating procedural reforms in the Congress: What is most striking is the short memory of progressive bloggers on these matters. Isn’t Social Security a “serious, foreseeable and solvable” threat to America’s fiscal health? D ...

  • Klein Smackdown Watch

    A reader who seems to know what he's talking about e-mails: I enjoy reading your blog and think you are one of the more responsible and honest journalist I have read recently. But this is why I was so surprised by today's blog post on AIG and the approving link to Mary Williams Walsh's article. I ...

Booman Tribune

  • Millions May Lose Unemployment Benefits

    That recession may be coming to an end for Wall Street, but for millions of Americans it is about to get much worse: Over the coming months, as many as 1.5 million jobless Americans will exhaust their unemployment insurance benefits, ending what for some has been a last bulwark against foreclosur ...

  • Your Liberal Media

    I watched a segment on CNN this morning that had historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and former CNN White House Bureau Chief Frank Sesno Jr. on as guests. The subject was a retrospective on Obama’s first two hundred days in office. The conversation level was uneven. There was some insightful commenta ...

  • Froggy Bottom Cafe

  • GE and Fox cut deal: Censor Olbermann

    You can read all the details here via Glenn Greenwald. But the short story is that Charlie Rose brokered a deal between News Corp CEO, Rupert Murdoch and GE's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, to get Olbermann to stop attacking Bill O'Reilly and to get O'Reilly to stop attacking -- GE, the friendly folks who br ...

  • Deep Thought

    Having lived through the right-wing insanity of the Clinton years, I should have been better prepared for the insane response of the Republicans to a Democratic administration. For some stupid reason I guess I thought the Bush years woulda learned these people sumpthin'.

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Your vat-grown burger will be ready in a decade, s ...

    We’ve mentioned the potential of vat-grown meat here before, but I thought it worth bringing up again in light of an article at Wired UK that goes into more technical detail about the processes involved in growing cultured muscle for human consumption. [image by Marshall Astor] “We’re developi ...

  • Your vat-grown burger will be ready in a decade, s ...

    We’ve mentioned the potential of vat-grown meat here before, but I thought it worth bringing up again in light of an article at Wired UK that goes into more technical detail about the processes involved in growing cultured muscle for human consumption. [image by Marshall Astor] “We’re developi ...

  • Re-engineering biology

    As I’ve mentioned before, we’re entering a new phase of technological progress: engineers and technologists are not just seeking inspiration in the mechanisms of the natural world, but are actually reverse- and re-engineering biology to improve synthetic technology. In this case researchers in G ...

  • Re-engineering biology

    As I’ve mentioned before, we’re entering a new phase of technological progress: engineers and technologists are not just seeking inspiration in the mechanisms of the natural world, but are actually reverse- and re-engineering biology to improve synthetic technology. In this case researchers in G ...

  • Racism and genre fiction

    This week is apparently International Blog Against Racism Week. During this year’s tumultuous RaceFail debate in the genre fiction community (and other smaller ones before it) I predominantly kept my mouth shut and tried my best to just listen; as far as middle-class white Western privilege goes, ...

Yahoo! Canada News

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • The Food, Energy and Environment 'Trilemma'

    While advances in genetic engineering and biotechnology could expand the market for "second-generation biofuels," scientists warn of hurting the environment and of diverting vast tracks of arable land.

  • 'Cash for Clunkers': One Dealer's Tale

    After the popular auto trade-in program burned quickly through its cash, one auto dealer reports "all sorts of problems," and also questions whether the program's environmental goals were sufficient.

  • For Wind Turbines Trucks, Trains Pose Hazard

    In Nebraska this week, a train traveling at 60 miles per hour hit a semi carrying part of a wind turbine tower -- and this is not the first time trains have posed hazards to the transportation of wind turbines.

  • For Community Colleges, Wind Technician Training I ...

    Wind turbine technicians and solar installers are strongly in demand - and community colleges are moving quickly to fill the need.

  • New Jersey Plans Doubling of Solar Power

    PSE&G Solar, a subsidiary of a big New Jersey utility, plans a large solar power push that will maintain New Jersey's position as the nation's second-ranked solar state.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Hat tip for Joaquin Phoenix conspiracy

    Not a bad idea! Which makes this potentially one of the greatest performances any modern actor has ever given -- or at least one of the most baldly courageous. The closest comparison would have to be Andy Kaufman's utter commitment to his obnoxious Tony Clifton persona, but Phoenix is going Kaufman ...

  • Tough times south of the border

    Duly noted: Mexican TV reporter ducking stray bullets: Hat tip to the thoughtful Texas farmer Don , who knows what you ought to know about the War On Drugs. This video was recently the #1 most discussed from Mexico on YooToob... Plus, don't miss the five stages of complete social collapse! http://c ...

  • Pirate Bay Trial and Kopimi: The Kopimi Manifesto

    I can't say I get it. But I like it. In these apocalyptic and bitchy times, it is high time to get some sarcastic Swedish hacker philsophy out there. Now is the time. The spectrial is apparently the place. How could we forget the Pirate Bay Spectrial?! They released a Pirate Bay Manifesto - POwr, Br ...

  • Some notes from the Abyss; Fusion Centers going to ...

    We're on the brink of disaster | Salon! As people lose confidence in the ability of markets and governments to solve the global crisis, they are likely to erupt into violent protests or to assault others they deem responsible for their plight, including government officials, plant managers, landl ...

  • From ADD to Virtual Eschatonism: Twitter and rando ...

    First up! Fargo flood. 'We will beat this challenge,' flood battle continues as officials plead for help | INFORUM | Fargo, ND Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service: Eastern North Dakota/Grand Forks: Red River of the North at Fargo One of my stronger memories from back in school was cleaning up in ...


AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Researcher’s “Open Sesame” Hack Bypasses Doo ...

    LAS VEGAS — Security researchers have spent a lot of time the last couple of years cracking building access systems from the level of the user device — RFID and smartcards, for example. But a researcher in Texas found that he could crack one electronic access system at the network control level ...

  • DefCon: ‘Credit Hackers’ Win the Credit Card G ...

    Hundreds of “credit hackers” are legally gaming financial institutions by taking advantage of loopholes in the U.S. credit-reporting system, a security researcher says — warning that identity thieves could follow suit. Christopher Soghoian, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, took a secur ...

  • Jury Dings File Sharer $675,000, RIAA Prevails

    A federal jury on Friday concluded that a 25-year-old college student must pay $675,000 — or $22,500 for each of the 30 songs he was found liable of infringing, Ben Sheffner reports from the courthouse. After a week-long trial and nearly three hours of deliberations, the Massachusetts jury con ...

  • Pentagon Hacker Gary McKinnon Loses Extradition Ap ...

    Britain’s High Court on Friday rejected two appeals by Pentagon hacker and 9/11 truther Gary “Solo” McKinnon, who’s trying to avoid extradition to the U.S. for cracking nearly 100 Pentagon, NASA and civilian computers in 2001 and 2002. McKinnon, 43, faces anywhere from six months to six-and- ...

  • Security Camera Hack Conceals Heists Behind Dummy ...

    LAS VEGAS — Technology has caught up with Hollywood heist films in a new hack being demonstrated at DefCon Friday, which involves hijacking IP video streams and seamlessly replacing them with new content. In its simplest form, the hack — conducted with two free tools developed by researchers at ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

Godspace

  • Driving as Spiritual Practice

    The weather has cooled down considerably here in Seattle and everyone feels that things are back to normal. Â A little rain would be appreciated – yes we do have days and in this case months without rain in the Pacific NW. Â The garden is flourishing but definitely crying out for a good soakin ...

  • Yoga & Jesus: This is a spiritual practice

    I continue to be challenged and stretched by the ways that people connect to God and to Jesus Christ. The posts below are by Christina Whitehouse-Sugg. I found them particularly intriguing because of my growing interest in Christian meditation and as you know I am also passionate about Henri Nou ...

  • Spiritual Discipline – Serving At the Pantry

    Well yesterday afternoon all my good intentions went out the window. I had expected to post another of the excellent articles still being submitted for the series on What is a Spiritual Discipline but two things happened to change all that. First the temperature in Seattle climbed to an all time ...

  • Making Space for the Rabbi

    Today is likely to be a busy day on my blog – not because of those who read it but primarily because I am going away for a couple of days tomorrow and there is so much that I want to post before that – including book reviews, thoughts on Jimmy Carter’s statement about leaving [...]

  • Jimmy Carter – Losing My Faith For Equality

    Jimmy Carter, president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 has just left the Southern Baptist Convention because of their discrimination against women. I have always admired him for his involvement in peacemaking and concern for the poor. This stand has increased my estimation of him 10 fold ...

Pine River World News

  • Pentagon's 21st Century Counterinsurgency Wars: La ...

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Pentagon's 21st Century Counterinsurgency Wars: Latin America and South Asia © Global Research By Rick Rozoff August 1, 2009 More than half a year after the departure of the George W. Bush administration the United Stat ...

  • JIHAD IN NIGERIA: Boko Haram financier reportedly ...

    Pine River World News / IntelTrends August 1, 2009 As reported yesterday, Bokok Haram sect leader Muhammed Yusuf was killed in police custoday hours after his arrest. The organization Human Rights Watch , in an article titled Violence Between Security Forces and Islamist Group in Northern Nigeria , ...

  • SRI LANKA: Tigers' arsenal amazes Army

    [ Blogmaster note : This is a very interesting article considering the variety of weapons and end-user certificates.] The following article is from The Island, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Tigers' arsenal amazes Army © The Island By Shamindra Ferdinando August 1, 2009 Sri Lankan forces yesterday said t ...

  • Israeli Conundrum: 'How to Deal with Iran'

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Israeli Conundrum: 'How to Deal with Iran' © Ramzy Baroud July 31, 2009 Israeli officials face a conundrum that may take more than military muscle-flexing to resolve: how to deal with Iran? The solution to this dilemma will ...

  • Strange case of North Carolina "jihadists" used to ...

    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Strange case of North Carolina "jihadists" used to heighten terror scare © World Socialist Web Site By Bill Van Auken July 31, 2009 Based on what appears to be scant evidence, U.S. federal authorities rounded u ...


Blacklisted News

Project Censored

  • WALTER CRONKITE: THE END OF AN ERA – JULY 17, 20 ...

    WALTER CRONKITE: THE END OF AN ERA – JULY 17, 2009 The end of an era is a term too often over-used. But it is a term that is properly used when discussing the passing of Walter Cronkite. It is truly the end of an era in journalism. No other journalist could do what Walter did. He could cal ...

  • You Can Now Find Our Investigative Research at the ...

    You can now find all of the investigative research that we have done over the years at our new and exciting Media Freedom International Website Please check the website often for news and updates.

  • Analysis of Project Censored: Are We a Left-Leanin ...

    By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” –Frederick Douglass ...

  • Infotainment Society: Junk Food News and New ...

    By Mickey Huff and Frances A. Capell We can do the innuendo We can dance and sing When it’s said and done We haven’t told you a thing We all know that crap is king Give us dirty laundry! Don Henley, Dirty Laundry, 1982 The late New York University media scholar Neil Postma ...

  • A Black President Doesn’t Mean Racism is gone in ...

    By Peter Phillips Racial inequality remains in the US. People of color continue to experience high rates of poverty, significant unemployment, police profiling and repressive incarceration. School segregation is a continuing concern among race scholars as well. According to a new Civil Rights re ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Power companies "profiteering"

    Power companies have been increasing their charges at a higher rate than inflation and continue to do so. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

  • Vodafone plans faster network

    In what looks like a reaction the Telecom's XT network, which brought Telecom's network up to the standard of Vodafone's, Vodafone are planning a new upgrade as soon as trials are finished which will bring speeds of about 21Mbit/s. Telecom plans to do the same at Christmas. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_Orig ...

  • Scammers charging for non existant advertising

    Some company has been calling various businesses and demanding payment for advertising which never happened. » PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

  • US Loan Approvals Dropping

    A new survey shows American banks cutting down on lending, as concerns over the health of the country's economy remain.The study conducted by The Wall Street Journal found that the total loans held by 15 large US banks plunged by 2.8 percent in the second three months of the year.Financial giants su ...

  • The Incredible Shrinking Boomer Economy

    Mercedes is the quintessential boomer brand. Drive down an American highway, and odds are good that the person piloting the Benz in the next lane was born between 1946 and 1962. And Mercedes-Benz (DAI) has prospered right along with America's huge postwar generation. Back in 1986, when the first bab ...

Independent ( London )

  • 100 election protesters go on trial in Iran accuse ...

    Around 100 prominent moderates, arrested shortly after Iran's disputed June presidential election, were put on trial yesterday, charged with trying to overthrow the clerical establishment.

  • Cory Aquino, the woman who beat a dictator, dies

    Corazon Aquino, who was propelled by the assassination of her husband into a crusade that saw her defeat Ferdinand Marcos, the then president of the Philippines and one of the 20th century's most corrupt dictators, died yesterday. She was 76.

  • Battle for Europe's last ancient forest

    Acontest between competing needs of conservation and economic growth is threatening the future of large parts of Europe's last ancient forest. The 380,000-acre Bialowieza Primeval Forest, which straddles the border between Poland and Belarus, is one of the largest unpopulated woodlands remaining in ...

  • UK in Afghanistan for decades, says our man in Was ...

    Britain must concentrate all its efforts on the military campaign to conquer the Taliban as its attempts to achieve a wide-ranging "rescue" of Afghanistan have failed miserably, an influential committee of MPs warns today.

  • Five Britons hurt in French road collision

    Five Britons were taken to hospital in France today after being struck by a suspected drunken driver.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • U.S. briefs Israel on new Iran nuke sanctions

    Summary: American officials briefed Israel this week on the administration's ideas for intensifying sanctions against Iran if it fails to respond to President Barack Obama's offer of dialogue China soon to try to enlist Beijing to join the coalition. source: Haaretz read more

  • US ‘Not Happy’ as Iraq Announces Plans to Clos ...

    Summary: Camp Ashraf US officials are reportedly “not happy” with the situation unfolding in the MEK’s Camp Ashraf, following yesterday’s deadly raids by Iraqi forces. Today, the Iraqi government says that it plans to close the camp down entirely. source: Anti War.Com read more

  • Iraqi forces raid Iran exile camp

    Summary: Iraqi forces have raided a camp north of Baghdad which for years has housed an exiled Iranian opposition group. source: BBC read more

  • Middle East Show of Farce

    Summary: Bush/Cheney foreign policy turned the Middle East into an analog of Cold War Europe, and incredibly, they managed to cast pismire Iran as the second coming of the Soviet Union. That the Obama administration is conducting the same clownish statecraft is a sure sign that the American Empi ...

  • Gates Threatens ‘Tough Sanctions’ Against Iran

    Summary: Gates Following meetings with top Israeli officials, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said the US would seek tough new sanctions against the Iranian government if it rejected the US offer for talks. Gates vowed that such measures would not be incremental. source: Anti War.Com read mo ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Will Amazon's Kindle Will Replace the Book -Pundit ...

    The Kindle 2 is a “fundamentally better experience than inked paper did. Jeff Bezos—Amazon’s founder and C.E.O.—has built a machine that marks a cultural revolution. Printed books, the most important artifacts of human civilization, are going to join newspapers and...

  • NexGen AI -A Threat to Human Civilization?

    What could a criminal do with a speech synthesis system that could masquerade as a human being? What happens if artificial intelligence technology is used to mine personal information from smartphones? AI is becoming the stuff of future scifi greats:...

  • Will Ridley Scott's New "Alien" Prequel Mimic Will ...

    FADE IN: DEEP SPACE - THE FUTURE: The silent field of stars -- eclipsed by the dark bulk of an approaching ship. CLOSER... William Gibson's "Alien 3" Screenplay 20th Century Fox is rebooting its "Alien" franchise with Jon Spaihts to...

  • Galaxy Fans - You Can Now Follow Us Daily on Faceb ...

    I've started posting our daily editorial content on our Facebook Wall, which makes it much easier to share posts you like with your friend list. Our best, Casey Kazan, editor. The Daily Galaxy/Facebook Page

  • Mars Climate-Change Cycles in 3-D

    Climate cycles persisting for millions of years on ancient Mars left a record of rhythmic patterns in thick stacks of sedimentary rock layers, revealed in three-dimensional detail by a telescopic camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Researchers using the High...

Natural News

  • Naturally Preventable Metabolic Syndrome May Cause ...

    (NaturalNews) Discovering that physiological changes found in about 47 million Americans could be causing breast cancer may not sound like good news, but it is. Here's why: new research just published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention , a journal of the American Association for Cance ...

  • Grocery Store Takes Back Product Packaging

    (NaturalNews) The U.K. supermarket chain Tesco has launched a pilot program encouraging shoppers to leave behind any product packaging that they would rather go without, so that the store can recycle it for them. The program, modeled on a similar program that has met success in Germany, will run for ...

  • Discover the Power of Cocoa Powder

    (NaturalNews) A cup of hot cocoa may not do much to cool you down from the summer swelter, but it may cool down your blood pressure. According to a new report filed in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry , hypertensive rats fed a moderate dose of powdered chocolate dropped their systolic ...

  • The Mothers Act Disease Mongering Campaign - Part ...

    (NaturalNews) This is part three of a four-part investigative article series by award-winning journalist Evelyn Pringle. Read part one (http://www.naturalnews.com/026634_drugs_suicide_adhd.html) or part two here (http://www.naturalnews.com/026707_health_disease_depression.html). In an article titled ...

  • Additive Used in U.S. Meat Production May Be Too D ...

    (NaturalNews) The latest session of the U.N. Codex Alimentarius ended without final adoption of a maximum residue level for ractopamine, a feed additive widely used in pork and beef production. The commission agreed to review additional information on the drug to be submitted by China, a country tha ...

Webhosts

TheGallopingBeaver

  • The Only Thing Between You and Your Doctor Is . . ...

    A high-paid lobbyist, no doubt. One of the few real journalists left has been running a series of programs on US health care "reform" the past few weeks. I'm just catching up on my podcasts after travelling last week, and this Bill Moyers piece with Trudy Lieberman and Dr. Marcia Angell is great. ...

  • Stimulating the Funnybone . . .

    Apparently the Canadian Medical Association has weighed in on the new economic stimulus package.... The Allergists voted to scratch it, but the Dermatologists advised not to make any rash moves. The Gastroenterologists had sort of a gut feeling about it, but the Neurologists thought the gove ...

  • Money, Military and Madness . . . .

    Currently I'm reading and just about to finish The Sorrows of EMPIRE – Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson. It's a great book with a look at US militarism and global monetary manipulation and their repercussions both at home and abroad. The author's explanat ...

  • Now, you know

    Tobacco Smoke Enema (1750s-1810s) The tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patient’s rectum for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims. A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards t ...

  • Oy Vey . . . .

    A trip south of the 49th to the United States of Expensive Health Care was required due to some still-retained properties in Florida. While here, between accomplishing some outside chores in the 90+F (32+C) heat and matching humidity, I dash in to the air-conditioned comfort of the house for a brea ...

Media Matters for America

  • Malkin distorts Michelle Obama biography to attac ...

    In her new book, Culture of Corruption , conservative columnist Michelle Malkin claims that first lady Michelle Obama "was literally born into the Chicago political corruptocracy," suggesting that because her father was a volunteer precinct captain and held a city job, she was a party to crony ...

  • Media echo serial misinformer McCaughey's false ...

    On July 16, Betsy McCaughey falsely claimed that the House health care reform bill would "absolutely require" end-of-life counseling for seniors "that will tell them how to end their life sooner." Since then, numerous media figures have echoed McCaughey's claim -- even after the falsehood was d ...

  • Hannity just can't "get over" his Rev. Wright obs ...

    Sean Hannity -- who claimed he "broke the story" about President Obama's controversial former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, during the 2008 campaign -- has mentioned Wright on at least 45 different episodes of his Fox News show* since Obama's inauguration. Indeed, his repeated references to Wri ...

  • Fox, WSJ personalities shocked by arts gr ...

    Several media figures on Fox News and Fox Business -- including Glenn Beck -- have blasted the National Endowment for the Arts for awarding Recovery Act grants to San Francisco arts organizations, claiming the grants will pay for "porn." However, those personalities ignored significant facts: D ...

  • Facts get in the way of Klein's claim that Dobbs ...

    CNN representatives -- among them CNN president Jonathan Klein -- have disavowed responsibility for the conspiracy theories aired on Lou Dobbs' radio show by declaring that it is "separate" from what is aired on CNN and that CNN has no "control" over it. But Dobbs regularly uses his TV show to ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Heritage Foundation: House Plan will Cut Health Co ...

    Okay, that's not their headline, but the Heritage Foundation is promoting this study that does state-by-state analysis of the reduced revenue for hospitals and doctors due to the House health care plan,the American Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R.... Sponsored Topics: Heritage Founda ...

  • Decline of the American Empire

    f ever we needed evidence of the Cost of Empire, Floyd Norris's scary chart of Durable Goods Production from the U.S. Economy is it. We have so hollowed out our industrial plant that the only thing we are now producing... Sponsored Topics: Floyd Norris - United States Economy - United State ...

  • Culture and Race in New Orleans

    Cheryl asks for comments on rebuilding the culture of the city. My experience here, knowing a lot of musicians, some writers, an artist or two, and some filmmakers, is that the culture of this place is rebuilding itself even better... Sponsored Topics: NewOrleans - HurricaneKatrina - Mardi Gras - ...

  • The Ones That Got Away

    Once upon a time, TPMCafe collected the best reader posts of the week and put them together in an easily digestible round-up. Today, we're reviving that age-old tradition. For people who like beer -- and beer puns -- this was... Sponsored Topics: Beer - TPMCafe - Iraq - Drink - Food

  • John Bolton Opposed to Israel Nukes!

    The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cJohn Boltonwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorJoke of the Day Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton appeared Wednesday this week on The Daily Show for a third time and... Sponsored Topics: Israel - John Bolton ...

TruthOut

  • But Here's the Funny Part

    President Barack Obama addresses the US economy at the White House July 31, 2009. (Photo: Reuters) read more

  • House Votes to Clamp Limits on Wall Street Bonuses

    Washington - Bowing to populist anger, the House voted Friday to prohibit pay and bonus packages that encourage bankers and traders to take risks so big they could bring down the entire economy. Passage of the bill on a 237-185 vote followed the disclosure a day earlier that nine of ...

  • "The Cove": A Documentary of Dolphin Slaughter

    'The Cove' Reviewed by Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times Film Critic Filmmakers assemble a team of experts to surreptitiously capture the events. "The Cove" is a powerful and effective piece of advocacy filmmaking, but it's difficult to watch it without thinking of subt ...

  • Restoring Democracy in Honduras

    Hillary Clinton's attempts to resolve the crisis in Honduras have failed. It's time for Latin America to take the lead. read more

  • Afghan War Spreads to Residential Areas: UN Report

    Geneva - The Afghan battlefield is spreading into residential areas where more people are being killed by air strikes, car bombs and suicide attacks, according to a U.N. report published on Friday. The U.N. Assistance Mission to Afghanistan said that 1,013 civilians were killed on t ...

The Heathlander

  • The latest anti-Hamas meme: “child brides”

    Last week, Hamas sponsored a mass wedding celebration in Gaza, perhaps in an attempt to reverse its flagging poll ratings: ‘Nearly a thousand Palestinians celebrated marriage on Thursday night in a ceremony organised by Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip. Hamas dignitaries including Mahmud Zahar ...

  • Chomsky on the ‘Responsibility to Protect’

    Earlier this week Noam Chomsky participated, along with Jean Bricmont, Gareth Evans (former Australian FM and long-time President of the International Crisis Group) and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, in a UN panel on the doctrine of ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P). You can watch the three hour discussio ...

  • How to lose friends and alienate people

    Hiring paid hasbaratchiks to “spew forth bullshit” online, parading out Ehud Olmert to convince Americans that opposing settlement construction is like opposing rainbows and kittens, launching a smear campaign against Human Rights Watch, one of the most conservative human rights organisations ar ...

  • Breaking the Spin

    The BBC’s report on the ‘Breaking the Silence’ testimonies of IDF soldiers describing the commission of serious war crimes during Operation Cast Lead is pretty representative of its output on the topic: there’s nothing outrageous, but there is nonetheless a systematic bias that underplays or ...

  • Global march on Gaza

    When Gandhi’s doctrine of non-violent resistance (satyagraha) is invoked in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict, it is invariably as a propaganda weapon intended to undermine the legitimacy of Palestinian resistance and shift the blame for the continuing occupation on to its principal vic ...

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Republicans Have Government Insurance, Why Can’t ...

    For weeks I have been listening to all the BS Republicans have spewed about health care reform. Republicans shouted it was socialized medicine and when that didn’t work they came up with other untruths. The fact of the matter is all members of Congress use the public option plan. Republicans are w ...

  • Retire Early In Self Defense Could Be A Mistake †...

    /h3> Collect Now, or Later? Timing Your Social Security Benefits With the current state of US and world economy, the alternative to jumping out a window, committing a heinous crime or planting your pup tent under an overpass, is retire early and collect your meager social security check at gene ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – July 13, 2009

    It’s Monday and it’s time for another version of the Texas Progressive Alliance weekly highlight reel. Off the Kuff suggests that a pro-science PAC could do a lot of good, nationally and in Texas. WCNews at Eye On Williamson reminds us that despite the brouhaha over transportation during the rec ...

  • Protect Us From Another Celebrity Death and Networ ...

    The world is reeling from political upheaval, economic meltdown and environmental catastrophe. What does the national media focus on for two weeks? The high drama of a controversial musical artist who has the audacity of dying. News that effects each and every person on this planet is buried un ...

  • Texas Progressive Alliance – July 6, 2009

    Now that we’ve celebrated another birthday for America, it’s time for the weekly Texas Progressive Alliance blog roundup. Here are your highlights from the holiday week. The loss of Ron Artest from the Rockets to the Lakers (essentially a trade for Trevor Arista) is a bad deal, writes PDiddie a ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Mystery object crashes in Ottawa river

    A mystery object was seen by dozens of witnesses in Canada's capital city this week, the object smashed in to the Ottawa River with a 'thunderous boom...

  • Jellyfish may help keep planet cool

    Jellyfish and other similar marine creatures could be helping to curb the effects of global warming by stirring up the oceans, mixing the warmer surfa...

  • Dream therapy in psychiatry

    A European Science Foundation workshop has found that dream therapy could be useful in psychiatric treatment following the discovery of similarities i...

  • Seeking the lost tomb of Genghis Khan

    A group of researchers with funding from National Geographic and armed with a plethora of technology and gadgets are undertaking an expedition to loca...

  • Delivering a 'vaccine' through bites

    Scientists have carried out an experiment in Europe involving the use of mosquitoes to deliver a malaria vaccine through their bite. The results were ...

Grassroots

  • Honduras Crisis Exposes the Weakness of US Democra ...

    While Honduras is on the brink of a civil war, politics-as-usual in Washington, D.C. threaten, quite literally, to block US support for democracy in that country. It also threatens to squelch democracy here as well. On Thursday, the office of Sen. Richard Lugar sent a letter to Secretary of State ...

  • No, We Can't: Latin America Must Take the Lead

    The junta in Honduras is still in power and shows little real sign of budging. And the human rights situation has only gotten worse with the military and police cracking down on peaceful protestors, arrests, alleged torture and forced exile of social movement leaders who have had to flee the repress ...

  • "Generation 3.0" of Intervention in Haiti: What Is ...

    trinidadandtobago200904-132.jpg Below is a blog by Salena Tramel, Grassroots International Program Coordinator for the Middle East and Haiti. It originally appeared on Huffington Post . Here in Haiti, a country all too often characterized by ...

  • [Cassava] Bread and Roses: Brazilian Farmers Seek ...

    brazil200907-300.jpg During our visit to Brazil earlier this month, Saulo Araujo and I met with Grassroots International’s partners and the communities in which they work. I had prepared myself to talk about a range of issues, from Creole se ...

  • Call to Action for the International Community

    Below is a letter received from one of our Honduran colleagues asking for support to end human rights violations in the country. As she describes, the situation is worsening. Please visit our action page now to send a letter to President Obama. Thank you. By Wendy Cruz read more

Climate

  • July 31, 2009

    Koch Industries Fueling K St. Lobbying Boom - And Some Dems (Wonk Room) Oil and natural gas interests are pumping money into lobbying firms to influence climate change legislation at a furious pace, $82.2 million in just the first half of 2009 compared to $132.2 million in all of 2008, and that†...

  • July 30, 2009

    Analysis: Green States See Fewer Rewards in Climate Bill (Reuters) The U.S. climate bill would give states that are heavily reliant on greenhouse-gas emitting fuels, like coal, more carbon credits on a per capita basis than those that use clean fuels, an analysis from the Georgetown Climate Cen ...

  • July 30, 2009

    Analysis: Green States See Fewer Rewards in Climate Bill (Reuters) The U.S. climate bill would give states that are heavily reliant on greenhouse-gas emitting fuels, like coal, more carbon credits on a per capita basis than those that use clean fuels, an analysis from the Georgetown Climate Cen ...

  • July 29, 2009

    Federal Court Approves Gulf of Mexico Oil Drilling Plan (Reuters) In a big win for oil companies, a U.S. appeals court said it will allow the Interior Department to move forward with oil and natural gas leasing plans for the Gulf of Mexico created by the Bush administration. US-China Talks En ...

  • July 28, 2009

    TVA Ignored Ash Spill Warnings for 20 Years (AP) The TVA failed for more than 20 years to heed warnings that might have prevented a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee, then allowed its lawyers to stifle a $3 million study into the disaster's cause to limit its legal liability, an inspector gen ...

TomDispatch

  • Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Dismantling the Empire

    The Obama administration's plan to end production of the F-22 Raptor has received plenty of press coverage , but the Pentagon budget itself, even though it's again on the rise, hardly rates a bit of notice. In fact, amid the plethora of issues large and small -- from health care reform to Gates-g ...

  • Tomgram: Juan Cole, Empire's Paranoia About the P ...

    These days, it seems as though the United States is conducting its wars in places remarkably unfamiliar to most Americans. Its CIA-operated drone aircraft, for instance, have been regularly firing missiles into Waziristan , where, in one strike in June, an estimated 80 tribespeople were killed wh ...

  • Tomgram: An American Hell

    Don't Turn the Page on History Facing the American World We Created By Tom Engelhardt We've just passed through the CIA assassination flap, already fading from the news after less than two weeks of media attention. Broken in several major newspapers , here's how the story goes: the Agency, evi ...

  • Tomgram: David Bromwich, America's Serial Warrior ...

    Here's part of the way that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently defended his decision to stop production of the F-22 Raptor, the U.S. Air Force's giant boondoggle of a fighter jet. "Consider," the secretary of defense said, "that by 2020, the United States is projected to have nearly 2, ...

  • Tomgram: The Face in the Mirror

    b[ Note for TomDispatch readers: Last year, at my birthday, I wrote "When I'm 64...," a post about war and (lack of) peace in my time. Another year has rolled around, as it tends to do, so think of what follows as further scribbled notes, stuffed in an e-bottle, and set afloat, all part of a fut ...

Smirking Chimp

  • The Bastards Never Die

    A short history of why we eat oil, can't smoke pot, and why assault weapons are so expensive in our hour of need (With running commentary by THE SCREAMING MAN) Well, for starters, the above title is a damned lie, since this little screed is not a history. It's just rumination on the tilting point at ...

  • President While Black

    Sometimes I depart from writing fake news when the real news is too ridiculous to top. This is one of those times. Barack Obama sure knows how to throw a bad party. Last night's Rose Garden get-together was the most awkward beer bash in history. It was as if Obama invited a couple over and didn't kn ...

  • Of Blue Dogs and Pink Jellyfish

    What's the difference between a Blue Dog Democrat and a progressive Democrat? One is a vertebrate with a spine and a willingness to bite. The other is a jellyfish with no spine and no teeth. This difference has been glaringly apparent in the current fight over health care reform. The Blue Dogs in Ho ...

  • Obama gets C-plus at six-month mark

    It was just more than six months ago, on Jan. 20, when I stood in the cold of Washington with a ringside seat to history as Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as this nation's 44th president. When President Obama finally said the words of the oath of office after a botched rendition by Chief Justice ...

  • Declaring Victory, Going Home

    Decades ago, while a callow young reporter, I noted favorably that "the late, great Senator George Aiken" had once famously and wisely offered a solution to America's Vietnam quagmire: "Declare victory and go home." I was wrong on two counts: first, what Aiken -- a conservative Republican who was V ...

Ten Percent

  • Aung San Suu Kyi, Verdict Delayed

    Now would be a good time to contact the Myanmar Mission in your country and let them know of your concerns, here is the list. (note the London email link creates a faulty address, try- melondon at btconnect.com) (IPS) – A political trial in Burma that could prolong its pro-democracy icon’ ...

  • Instant Show Trials

    From Naj- The parliament was not informed of this trial. Even the accused were not aware of this; their families and lawyers were unaware, although they were not even given a chance to seek counsel regarding their charges. This is a rare display that can only find parallel in the forgotten medival t ...

  • Friday! The Cure- Boys Don’t Cry

    Goff! Could post GerBillions of Cure songs but this one worked with the poster below which I liked, it’s Friday, relax everybody. From CrimethInc. (ht2 Earwicga)

  • Shock Doctrine: The Motive

    Money. (CBS) Several financial giants that received federal bailout money in the last year paid out bonuses to employees in 2008 that greatly exceeded the amount of profit generated by the banks, according to a study on executive compensation released by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo ...

  • Whitewash Manufacturers Say Recession Is Over

    An independent inquiry into Britain’s role in the Iraq war has opened in London, with its chairman promising to call Tony Blair, the UK prime minister at the time of the 2003 invasion, as a witness. Sir John Chilcot, a former civil servant, said he would “not shy away” from criticising decisio ...

Paul Krugman

  • Health reform made simple

    Kudos to the Times for a story that, for once, emphasizes the remarkable unity of vision health reformers are showing, rather than the squabbles that are an inevitable part of passing major legislation. The essence is really quite simple: regulation of insurers, so that they can't cherry-pick only t ...

  • Scaling Michelle Malkin

    When I saw that Michelle Malkin will be on the Stephanopoulos panel this week, my first thought was that nobody as far to the left as she is to the right would ever appear on such a panel. But then I started to wonder (a) what I mean by that (b) if it's true. I don't [...]

  • More birther stuff

    David Weigel does some more number-crunching, and concludes that as many as three-quarters of Southern whites either asserted that Obama wasn't born in the United States, or at least had doubts. Btw, Research 2000 is a reputable polling organization - and I hear that other pollsters are finding sim ...

  • The invisible program

    Matthew Yglesias leads us to a commenter at Marginal Revolution who looks at life expectancy and concludes that "semi-socialized medicine" is good for the young but bad for the old. Tyler Cowen made the same argument in the Times a while back: On average, European systems are relatively good for the ...

  • Growth and unemployment

    A few commenters have asked how it's possible to have a recovery with rising unemployment; also there seems to be some confusion about what I meant by saying that the unemployment rate isn't much out of line. So I thought I'd offer a chart - and I learned something in the process. So here's what eco ...

No Quarter

  • TNR Fellates Obama

    The New Republic discovers a new way to get that tingle running up and down their magazine leg as they take their sexual fantasy about Barack Obama to crazier extremes. Check this out: Whether he is shaping the White House’s message on Iran, or personally cajoling Asian leaders to crack down on N ...

  • NQ First Responders - Sadly overlooked articles

    This round-up includes a real “teachable moment” for the media with its double standard towards two famous black women that differs solely because of their politics, the aristocratic scolds who are the most upset about the blue-collar Sgt. Crowley’s treatment of Henry Louis Gates, and the “ ...

  • Obama Walk of Shame?

    American Thinker has two photos that raise fascinating questions about the relative compassion of Barack Obama vice George Bush. I am stunned that the official White House Blog published this picture and that it is in the public domain. The body language is most revealing. Sergeant Crowley, the s ...

  • Important PSA About Cars.Gov

    This is just shocking. I’m not kidding - this is really frightening. And it is important information as a follow-up to my post about the “Cash for Clunkers” program (major H/T to NQ reader, Politicalidentitycrisis for this link). You are absolutely NOT going to believe this. Don’t be pu ...

  • NRO points to Larry Johnson’s birth certificate ...

    The National Review Online’s Andrew McCarthy has posted a “keeper”: “Suborned in the U.S.A.:The birth-certificate controversy is about Obama’s honesty,not where he was born.” Casting aside the speculative pitfalls that have the left and the mainstream media pointing at “birthers” ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Therapy News

  • Stress-Free Spaces are Created through Fragrance

    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline While not everybody subscribes to the idea that aromatherapy is all it’s cracked up to be, a study recently performed in Japan has revealed that fragrances can indeed result in lower levels of stress. Working with laboratory mice, the research team tested the effica ...

  • GoodTherapy.org Considers Petitioning State Licens ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Update As most GoodTherapy.org members and frequent visitors know, our organization was born out of the desire to reduce harm to consumers of therapy. The more training, consultation, and personal work therapists do, the less likely clients will suffer an abuse of power or a b ...

  • Analysis Shows General Practice Doctors Botch Depr ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary In the medical professions, making an exact diagnosis can sometimes be a difficult task. But a team of researchers from the University of Leicester has recently stumbled upon a remarkable fact: general practice doctors mis-diagnose cases of depression more frequently t ...

  • A Triumph for Positive Reinforcement

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary It’s generally agreed among most teachers, coaches, mentors, therapist and related mental health professionals that the benefits and results of positive reinforcement are far more effective than punishment. However, there are clearly some influential circles of profe ...

  • Short-Term Lack of Sunlight May Hinder Ability to ...

    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary A short period, such as a few days or weeks, without a natural amount of sunlight and exposure can produce a gloomy mood in many people, and some may experience especially low thoughts and feelings during the winter months. But while feeling a little blue when the weat ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Film features Meigs segment (Gallipolis Daily Trib ...

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The documentary “Coal Country,” which recently made its premiere at the West Virginia Cultural Center in Charleston, contained a segment filmed in Meigs County. The documentary...

  • Fight to save Jesse Morrow mountain still alive an ...

    This drawing shows the area of Jesse Morrow Mountain that will be impacted if Cemex is granted permission to build a gravel mining operation. The environmental impact report is scheduled to come before the Fresno County Board of Supervisors next month.

  • Jeff Biggers: Big Coal Gone Wild: Bizarre New Real ...

    Dissing Dolly. Forging letters to Congress. Jumping out of airplanes. Violently attacking peaceful coalfield mothers and residents. Calling climate change "superstition." Blocking cemetery entrances. Stand...

  • Fight to save Jesse Morrow mountain still alive an ...

    This drawing shows the area of Jesse Morrow Mountain that will be impacted if Cemex is granted permission to build a gravel mining operation. The environmental impact report is scheduled to come before the Fresno County Board of Supervisors next month.

  • Miners Boycott Tenn. Over Bid to Stop Mountaintop ...

    The lush, rolling contours of the Great Smoky Mountains are Tennessee's pride and joy, and a major source of tourism revenue. But Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) says he is afraid of seeing those mountains transformed by the region's coal industry -- their tops blasted off for mining, rivers clogg... ...

Memeorandum

  • Palin Divorce Gossip 'Completely False' (Robert St ...

    Robert Stacy McCain / AmSpecBlog : Palin Divorce Gossip ‘Completely False’ … PREVIOUSLY (5:08 p.m.): “Completely false,” said a source close to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in response to claims by Web sites that she and husband Todd are divorcing. — The rumor appears to have ori ...

  • Proposed Counseling for Seniors in Health Plan Spu ...

    Ceci Connolly / Washington Post : Proposed Counseling for Seniors in Health Plan Spurs New Battle — Provision for End-of-Life Counseling Is Described by Right as ‘Death Care’ — A campaign on conservative talk radio, fueled by President Obama's calls to control exorbitant medical bi ...

  • Palin Spokespeople Deny Divorce Rumor (CBS News)

    CBS News : Palin Spokespeople Deny Divorce Rumor — Describe Blog Report That Former Alaska Gov. and Husband Will Divorce as “Categorically False” — (CBS) An attorney for former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has denied a report that she and her husband are planning to divorce.

  • Palin Camp Shoots Down Ridiculous Divorce Rumors S ...

    Tim Lindell / Conservatives4Palin.com : Palin Camp Shoots Down Ridiculous Divorce Rumors Spread by CNN Stringer Dennis Zaki — From Governor Palin's Facebook page: … The release is in response to a ludicrous rumor being spread by Alaskan CNN stringer Dennis Zaki. Zaki, who previously bou ...

  • Exclusive! Sarah and Todd Palin are Splitsville! ( ...

    Gryphen / The Immoral Minority : Exclusive! Sarah and Todd Palin are Splitsville! — Earlier this week one of my best sources claimed to have explosive new information for me. — It took all week for us to finally get together, but last night we finally sat down for an amazing convers ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Green growth in the Himalayas

    In the cold desert valleys of Ladakh, simple greenhouses provide fresh vegetables year round, writes Maryann Bird. For its innovative work in India, France’s GERES has won an Ashden Award for sustainability. When winter comes and the temperatures plummet to -25º Celsius in Ladakh , in the dry, re ...

  • Facing Asia’s water woes

    Concerns over water scarcity are particularly acute in Asia, writes Saleem H Ali. But despite the potential for conflict, there are also prospects for ecological cooperation. As countries prepare for the climate change conference in Copenhagen later this year, water scarcity concerns that are likely ...

  • Geoengineering: mirror, mirror

    Firing trillions of reflective discs into space sounds like science fiction, but some people think it could protect the earth. chinadialogue reports. What’s the big idea? Shooting 16 trillion glass discs into space. It sounds like a giant disco ball, but it’s actually supposed to create a 10 ...

  • Rumble in the jungle

    Could uncontacted Amazonian tribes in Peru be wiped out by oil giants? Not if they don’t exist. If they do, they could impede the country’s quest for a windfall. Rory Carroll reports. Stand on the muddy riverbank at Copal Urco just before dawn and it is easy to see why the Amazon breeds legends. ...

  • Designing a greener China

    Hu Jie is the landscape architect of the 680-hectare Olympic Forest Park in Beijing. In an interview with Jared Green, Hu explains the philosophy behind its design and discusses the importance of ecological ideas and Chinese tradition. [This interview was first published by the American Society of L ...

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  • Taboo News and Corporate Media

    Taboo News and Corporate Media By Peter Phillips The corporate media in the United States are ignoring valid news stories, based on university quality research. It appears that certain topics are simply forbidden inside the mainstream corporate media today. To openly cover these news stories woul ...

  • A truce between MSNBC and Fox News?

    Read the full story at Think Progress MSNBC and Fox News have long taken shots at each other, with Keith Olbermann and Bill O’Reilly at the center of the feud. Olbermann consistently names O’Reilly his “Worst Person in the World,” and O’Reilly can’t even stand it when someone mentions Ol ...

  • RNC Adopts Wingnut Agenda: Calls ‘Obamacare’ S ...

    Read the full story at Think Progress This weekend, the Republican National Committee is gathering for its summer meeting in San Diego, the first for the RNC under Michael Steele’s leadership. In his speech to RNC members yesterday, Steele complained, “Think about all the crap we’ve taken from ...

  • NAACP-Forgery Group, Bonner & Associates, Has A De ...

    A DC-based consulting firm has been exposed for forging letters in opposition to the American Clean Energy and Security Act. The letters, replete with letterhead and made-up identities, purported to be from Virginian minority organizations including the NAACP. Rep. Tom Periello (D-VA) received multi ...

  • U.S. Military Accused of Atrocities Against Iraqi ...

    Chris Johnson and Lou Chibbaro Jr. report in the Washington Blade, which is the oldest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender newspaper in the country, that the US military is being accused of atrocities against Iraqi gays as revealed by Iraqi refugees. Members of a stunned audience in Lebanon were ...

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Godspace

  • Driving as Spiritual Practice

    The weather has cooled down considerably here in Seattle and everyone feels that things are back to normal. Â A little rain would be appreciated – yes we do have days and in this case months without rain in the Pacific NW. Â The garden is flourishing but definitely crying out for a good soakin ...

  • Yoga & Jesus: This is a spiritual practice

    I continue to be challenged and stretched by the ways that people connect to God and to Jesus Christ. The posts below are by Christina Whitehouse-Sugg. I found them particularly intriguing because of my growing interest in Christian meditation and as you know I am also passionate about Henri Nou ...

  • Spiritual Discipline – Serving At the Pantry

    Well yesterday afternoon all my good intentions went out the window. I had expected to post another of the excellent articles still being submitted for the series on What is a Spiritual Discipline but two things happened to change all that. First the temperature in Seattle climbed to an all time ...

  • Making Space for the Rabbi

    Today is likely to be a busy day on my blog – not because of those who read it but primarily because I am going away for a couple of days tomorrow and there is so much that I want to post before that – including book reviews, thoughts on Jimmy Carter’s statement about leaving [...]

  • Jimmy Carter – Losing My Faith For Equality

    Jimmy Carter, president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 has just left the Southern Baptist Convention because of their discrimination against women. I have always admired him for his involvement in peacemaking and concern for the poor. This stand has increased my estimation of him 10 fold ...

Equality Trust

Human Habitat

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The Rise of Restoration Ecology
Science Magazine
- Jul 30, 2009
- Jul 30, 2009
In ecology, the stakes are arguably much higher: Our planet's future may depend on the maturation of the young discipline of ecological restoration. ...
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Ecology and Duwamish Shipyard reach cleanup agreement
Access Washington
- Jul 31, 2009
- Jul 31, 2009
BELLEVUE – Duwamish Shipyard, Inc. and the Department of Ecology (Ecology) have signed an agreement to test soil, groundwater, surface water and adjacent ...
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BioBlitz, Ecology Day Aug. 8
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
- Jul 31, 2009
- Jul 31, 2009
The city of Sioux Falls will host a BioBlitz and Ecology Day from 10 am to 2 pm Aug. 8 at the Perry Nature Center. The free event is an educational program ...
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Pandas face uncertain future after China quake
The Associated Press
- Jul 27, 2009
- Jul 27, 2009
... inhabitants," said Xu, whose article written with six other researchers was published in the ecology journal, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. ...
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Water Power ( blogged Aug 2 because of difficulty loading )

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Perdue plots a water strategy
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Aug 02, 2009
- 5 hours ago
Interviews with Perdue, business leaders, attorneys and others fighting the water war reveal a more ambitious, longer-term plan to ensure water flows across ...
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Canadian water polo protest denied by FINA
National Post
- Aug 01, 2009
- 13 hours ago
The Canadian women's water polo team will have to settle for the silver medal at the world aquatics championships in Rome after the sport's governing body ...
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TV Preview – Discovery Channel - Shark Week 2009 - Blood In The Water
Blogger News Network
- Aug 01, 2009
- 16 hours ago
I have lived by the open waters all my life and have never personally had to deal with any sort of shark problems but I have heard some pretty gory tales ...
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Water » The state's irrigation law, written a century ago, allows ...
Salt Lake Tribune
- Aug 01, 2009
- 13 hours ago
Stringham is among many canal owners who has an application into the Utah Division of Water Rights for a low-cost loan for improvements to his canal. ...
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