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IPS - Inter Press Services

• ANGOLA: Togo Footballers Attacked
  LUANDA, Jan 9 (AJ/IPS*) - Armed men have opened fire on a bus carrying Togo's national football squad to the Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Angola, killing the driver and wounding at least two players, officials have said.
  
• SUDAN: U.S. Voices Growing Concern over North-So ...
  WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (IPS) - U.S. and other Western officials expressed growing concern Friday over the fate of the peace accord signed five years ago this week by Khartoum and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM).
  
• NIGERIA: Lake Communities Left High and Dry
  DORON-BAGA and KANO, Nigeria, Jan 8 (IPS) - The fittest are fleeing the shores of Lake Chad: Adamu Modu, a young fisherman, is joining a stream of able-bodied men heading south to find work in the southern part of the country.
  
• URUGUAY: Coming Together to Tackle Climate Change
  MONTEVIDEO, Jan 8 (IPS) - Fighting the front line battle against global warming, with the participation of all sectors of society, is the cornerstone of a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) pilot project in Uruguay that is drawing attention from the rest of the world.
  
• BOLIVIA: Evo Morales, the Best Ally of the Middle ...
  LA PAZ, Jan 8 (IPS) - Just five years ago, an alliance between an indigenous leader and Bolivia's small but influential middle class seemed virtually impossible.
  

Scoop - NZ

• Heinberg: The Meaning of Copenhagen
  It was the pivotal international conference of the new century. Tens of thousands showed up, including heads of state, officials at all levels of government, representatives of environmental organizations, and ordinary citizens from nearly 200 countries. Scientists had warned that, without a strong ...
  
• British fury after Iceland blocks repayment
  Iceland's president stunned his nation yesterday by refusing to sign off on a plan to repay £2.3bn owed to the British taxpayer, reigniting a major diplomatic row with London and leaving Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling mortally embarrassed at the latest twist in the saga of Reykjavik's banking me ...
  
• H1N1: Ukraine Fatalities Spike to 805
  The above update is from the Ukraine Ministry of Health. The number of deaths was 38 more than Sunday's report. Donetks had the largest increase. The 11 deaths in the past two days in the oblast brings the season total to 108, which is the highest in Ukraine. Donetks shares a border with Russia ...
  
• BBC casts doubt on Lockerbie evidence
  A BBC investigation has cast doubt on key evidence in the case against the Libyan convicted of blowing up a US jet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, the broadcaster said Wednesday.A tiny fragment of the timer allegedly used to blow up Pan Am flight 103 - crucial in linking Abdelbaset Ali ...
  
• Renovation resolutions
  Forget giving up smoking, and losing weight, this year New Zealanders have been making the resolution to renovate and repair their homes and tidy up their gardens.Builderscrack.co.nz, a site where homeowners get quotes from tradespeople, has reported their strongest ever start to the year.Builderscr ...
  

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Independent ( London )

• CIA bomber shared US and Jordanian secrets
  A Pakistan television station today showed what it said was the suicide bomber double agent who killed CIA agents in Afghanistan sitting with the Pakistani Taliban leader, and reported he shared US and Jordanian state secrets with militants.
  
• Sudan dismisses warnings by activists of possible ...
  Sudan dismissed warnings from aid groups and activists that it was sliding back to war, as it marked the fifth anniversary of a faltering peace deal with the south and prepared for two divisive votes.
  
• China says it achieved its goal in Copenhagen clim ...
  Chinese negotiators achieved their goal at Copenhagen climate talks in ensuring financial aid for developing nations was not linked to external reviews of China's environmental plans, its top climate envoy said today.
  
• Afghan president presents second Cabinet list
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai presented a second slate of nominees to fill his Cabinet today after parliament rejected 70 per cent of his first picks.
  
• US warns of attack threat to Sudan-Uganda flights
  The United States has warned that "regional extremists" were planning a deadly attack on Air Uganda flights between southern Sudan and Kampala.
  

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• The Mushroom Effect
  Summary: One could be forgiven for thinking that the neoconservatives who nudge us towards war with Iran are under the effect of the magic mushroom. Obsessed with Iran, their trips take on the shape of a 'mushroom cloud'. source: CASMII read more
  
• China blocks Iran sanctions over its nuclear plans
  Summary: CHINA HAS blocked western efforts to impose a fresh round of UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme, saying diplomatic efforts to stop Tehran building atomic weapons are ongoing. source: Irish Times read more
  
• UN Sanctions Hit Hospitals: Iran Running Out of Li ...
  Summary: Tehran's Shariati Hospital Trade sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program are affecting treatment of people suffering from heart and kidney disease and various cancers. Some 850,000 patients are at risk because the country is running out of radioactive isotopes essential to ra ...
  
• New Revelations Tear Holes in Nuclear Trigger Stor ...
  Summary: Porter New revelations about two documents leaked to the Times of London to show that Iran is working on a "nuclear trigger" mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian nuclear weapons program. sourc ...
  
• Clinton says US still open to talks with Iran
  Summary: Hillary Clinton Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Obama administration is not closing the door on possible negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme, despite intransigence from Tehran. Speaking to reporters at the State Department today, Clinton said it is clear ...
  

The Daily Galaxy

• The Pandora Project: Zeroing in on Earth's Twin - ...
  "It's only a matter of time before more Kepler observations lead to smaller planets with longer period orbits, coming closer and closer to the discovery of the first Earth-analog." John Morse, head of the astrophysics division at NASA headquarters in...
  
• Giant 13-Billion-Year-Old Galaxy Found at Very Edg ...
  Scientists have located a giant 13-billion year old galaxy at the edge of the observable universe. Detecting this huge galaxy was a challenge because of the massive quantities of light coming from the black hole, and if you think you...
  
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• Stephen Hawking: "The Human Species Has Entered a ...
  Although It has taken homo sapiens several million years to evolve from the apes, the useful information in our DNA, has probably changed by only a few million bits. So the rate of biological evolution in humans, Stephen Hawking points...
  
• Mars Climate Supported Warm Lakes 3 Billion Years ...
  "Most of the research on Mars has focused on its early history and the recent past. Scientists had largely overlooked the Hesperian Epoch as it was thought that Mars was then a frozen wasteland. Excitingly, our study now shows that...
  

Natural News

• NaturalNews Reader's Choice "Best of 2009" Awards ...
  (NaturalNews) The votes have been cast: It's time to announce the results of the NaturalNews Reader's Choice "Best of 2009" Awards! These awards are given to the top companies and products in seven categories: Best Health Products Retailer, Best Herbal Product Line, Best Natural Protein, Best Skin C ...
  
• Do Statin Drugs Cause Vitamin D Deficiency?
  (NaturalNews) Many in the medical profession are beginning to recognize that people who take cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are becoming vitamin D-deficient. Cholesterol is required by the body to synthesize vitamin D and statin drugs are are responsible for eliminating it, leading many to specul ...
  
• Herbs Help Treat Diabetes: Bilberry, Gymnema, Gink ...
  (NaturalNews) Many herbal remedies are used to treat symptoms of diabetes and have shown results in naturally lowering blood sugar levels. Scientific research is now shedding new light on the mechanisms used since ancient times to treat diabetes with herbs and nutrition. Diabetes was noted as far ba ...
  
• Are AIDS / HIV tests a hoax? Documentary footage f ...
  (NaturalNews) Brent Leung's myth-shattering AIDS documentary, House of Numbers continues to roil conventional AIDS propagandists who cannot tolerate anyone questioning their "scientific" theories. (They're not exactly "scientific" if they can't stand up to a little questioning, are they?) Adding to ...
  
• Carotenoids in veggies and fruits improve eyesight ...
  (NaturalNews) Countless moms have told their children to eat their veggies -- especially carrots -- in order to help their eyesight. It turns out that "old wives' tale" is actually sound science. According to a study just published in the Journal of Food Science , a publication of the Institute of ...
  

  TheGallopingBeaver

• Elections and the LPC
  TGB Press - Despite a resounding 74% showing in recent polling, and a record surge in party donations and memberships, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff indicated today that his party would not vote to defeat the governing Conservatives through confidence motions for the forseeable future, if ever. ...
  
• QOTD
  "Harper would not be the first leader in history prepared to enhance his own power by hiding the savaging of his country’s system of government behind the laurels of young athletes." - James Laxer
  
• Prorogue Poll - CFRA radio
  Go. (h/t Dawg)
  
• Downfall update...
  Been waiting for this: (h/t CC )
  
• At the going down of the Sun, and in the morning.. ...
  With condolences and respect to the families and friends of Private Garrett William Chidley , 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry; Corporal Zachery McCormack , The Loyal Edmonton Regiment; Sergeant George Miok , 41 Combat Engineer Regiment; Sergeant Kirk Taylor , 84 Indepe ...
  

Media Matters for America

• Conservatives' fevered claims about extending cert ...
  Conservative media figures Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Newt Gingrich have recently attacked President Obama for issuing an executive order designating the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) as a public international organization; these conservatives asked "what special i ...
  
• Fox's Napolitano falsely claims Senate bill would ...
  While guest-hosting Fox News' Glenn Beck , Andrew Napolitano claimed that under "the Senate version of the health care bill," "everyone who receives health care from their employer" would have to "pay an income tax on the value of that health care." In fact, the Senate bill would tax benefits ...
  
• Fox & Friends, NY Post compl ...
  Fox & Friends ' hosts and the New York Post editorial board complained that the "near-five-hour delay" (or "three-and-a-half hour delay") of President Obama's press conference addressing the intelligence review of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's alleged attempt to set off a bomb on a Northwest Airlines ...
  
• Conservative media accuse Obama of not taking att ...
  Numerous right-wing media figures have attacked the Obama administration's response to the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight by baselessly accusing the administration of not having initially been "serious" in its response. However, President Obama took several immediate actions f ...
  
• Myths and falsehoods surrounding the Christmas Da ...
  Conservative media figures have politicized the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack to criticize President Obama's handling of national security matters. But their assertions about Obama's and former President Bush's handling of terrorism and national security are replete with myths and fal ...
  

Global Research.ca

• Local Currencies: The Key to Economic Recovery
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  
• VIDEO: A Message for Peace
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  
• VIDEO: The Breakup of Yugoslavia
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  
• Environmental Coverup: Radioactive Groundwater Con ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  
• Climate Science: Observations versus Models
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
  

TPM Cafe

• What We Missed -- The Top TPMCafe Posts Of 2009
  2009 was an exciting, thought-provoking year here at the Cafe. We're hoping to bring in a new slate of bloggers to ensure that 2010 is just a strong. But before we look at the top posts of the year, let's... Barack Obama - United States - Politics - TPMCafe - Jon Taplin
  
• Republicans: Party Before Country
  It becomes more clear every day that the Republican opposition - in Congress and the media - is not interested in solving any of America's problems. Their only goal is to bring down the Democrats. Some might respond that this... United States - Republican - Democratic - George W. Bush - United ...
  
• Aggregate hours show economy has bottomed out
  The jobs number for December are hardly great news, but if you look at total aggregate hours of work in the economy -- a more stable number that better accounts for economic activity since it doesn't worry about the mix... Working time - Economics - Great Depression - United States - Government
  
• Presented By:
• Austerity Advocate, Peter G. Peterson, Buys "Media ...
  On Thursday, December 31, the last day of 2009, The Washington Post published an article, presented as a news story, which could be a signal of the death of the Post as an independent and objective news source.  The piece,... Washington Post - Senator Conrad - Social Security - United States - ...
  

TruthOut

• Go
  I've been writing about unbelievably bad news for more than a decade now, so when the New Year came around this time, I made up my mind to try and come up with something to write about that was optimistic, positive, more upbeat, or something. It's all been so grim for so long now, with recent events ...
  
• Three Approved GMO's Linked to Organ Damage
  In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers have linked organ damage with consumption of Monsanto's GM maize. All three varieties of GM corn - Mon 810, Mon 863 and NK 603 - were approved for c ...
  
• Army Imprisons Soldier for Singing Against Stop-Lo ...
  Army Specialist and Iraq war veteran Marc Hall was incarcerated by the US Army on December 11, 2009, in Liberty County Jail, Georgia, for recording a song that expresses his anger over the Army's stop-loss policy. Stop-loss is a policy that allows the Army to keep soldiers active beyond the end of t ...
  
• After Years in Guantanamo Prison Without Charge, F ...
  Although President Obama came into office last year promising to close down the infamous prison camp at Guantanamo, nearly 200 men are still imprisoned there. On Tuesday, Obama noted that the would-be Christmas Day airline bomber had received training in Yemen and emphasized his links to a Yemeni br ...
  
• Double Standards: How Our Lawlessness Strengthens ...
  We have failed to even investigate torturers, yet we have prosecuted and imprisoned millions for lesser offenses. And we allow mass murderers the benefit of constitutional rights that we deny detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. Until policymakers examine and fix these double standards, they w ...
  

Planetsave

• Killer Whales Are Evolving Into Two Different Spec ...
  Scientists have found that Killer Whales in the North Atlantic Ocean differ in both diet and genetic makeup. In fact, they’re in the process of splitting into two different species all together. Researchers examined the teeth of 62 whale skeletons, some that were hundreds of years old. They found ...
  
• Japanese Whalers Strike, Sink Sea Shepherd’s $2 Mi ...
  All five crew aboard the Ady Gil, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s new intercepting vessel are safe, but the fate of the prized new boat is in doubt after a collision with a Japanese harpoon vessel left it disabled off the coast of Antarctica. Anti-whaling activists, the Sea Shepherd Conser ...
  
• Barn Owl’s Wisconsin Appearance A Rare Event
  The Common Barn Owl is not so common in Midwestern states where it’s considered vulnerable. A recent surprise appearance in Wisconsin highlighted the species’ fragile status in the region. A raptor listed as an endangered or threatened species in seven Midwestern states made a rare appearance in W ...
  
• Michigan Offshore Wind Proposal Stirs Waves
  A map prepared for Michigan’s Great  Lakes Offshore Wind Council shows areas of high wind power production potential in the state’s offshore waters. One of the first proposals for a major offshore wind project in America’s freshwater has surprised Michigan regulators and begun to stir oppositi ...
  
• Friendship between LION, TIGER and BEAR
  This post contains additional media. Click here to view the full post . . If we could all just get along like these three unusual friends, we would live in a much different world. In human society, people often do not like others simply because they are different. Humans kill over this matter. In ...
  

Water Quality - WordPress

• Compliance and Enforcement Annual Results 2009 Fis ...
  US EPA http://www.epa.gov/compliance/resources/reports/endofyear/eoy2009/index.html [From press rele
  
• Why plastic bags should be banned--tragic otter pu ...
  Save our Shores from Santa Cruz posted this horrific blog entry yesterday entitled Ever wonder how p
  
• From the Newsletter (Vol. 1, Iss.5): CSU-ILE Resea ...
  [Source: Sarah Lupis for ILE's The Salt Lick, Vol. 1 Iss. 5] In excess, nitrogen can harm sensitive
  
• Watching our water
  Quietly, behind the scenes in Helena, the legislative process churns along with little notice. Fifte
  
• News and Events - 6 January 2010
  SOME RECENT CREEK FREAK NEWS: >Heal the Bay executive director Mark Gold’s Spouting Off blo
  

Public Citizen in Texas

• Year in Review: The Little Climate Bill That Could ...
  EDITOR’S NOTE: At this rate, we may actually finish reviewing the year in blog 2009 by the end of January 2010– just how we wanted to start the year!!  But… stuff keeps happening…. and we can’t blog! Or we have to blog about the important, breaking news stuff!  So, sorry for dragging this out, but ...
  
• Austin Scores $4.8M in Stimulus Funds for Green Jo ...
  On Wednesday, Rep. Lloyd Doggett announced that the city of Austin will receive $4.8 Million in stimulus funds to train 1,000 workers in energy efficiency and clean energy jobs.  Workers will be trained for jobs at solar plants in Austin, San Antonio and surrounding cities and states, and but the tr ...
  
• Perry, Shaw Blow Smoke About Proposed Ozone Rule
  In response to the EPA’s announcement today of a proposed rule for tougher ozone standards, Governor Perry and his appointee to the TCEQ, Bryan Shaw, have been blowing a lot of smoke and hot air about what the rule would mean for Texas.  Specifically, Perry and Shaw have stated incorrectly that the ...
  
• EPA: They did it, they did it, they did it, yeah!
  Just following up on our post yesterday that the EPA was going to announce a new air quality standard limiting ozone pollution: they did it! The United States Environmental Protection Agency today proposed the strictest health standards to date for smog…The agency is proposing to set the “primaryâ ...
  
• Year in Review: Solar Power
  Part 4. Sunny With a Chance of Economic Development: Solar Potential, the Solar Session that wasn’t, and City of Austin Solar Plant Last spring, our minds were budding with thoughts of birds, bees, and… Texas’ solar potential (didn’t you know, a robust solar program would put Texans back to work and ...
  

Press TV

• Iran says regional states responsible for security
  The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council said Saturday regional states are responsible for the security of the oil-rich Middle East.
  
• Natalie Portman doesn't like casts in Holocaust fi ...
  The Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman says that she has always tried to stay away from playing Jewish women in Holocaust movies.
  
• Al-Quds Brigades warns Israel over Gaza attacks
  The military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine has warned that armed Palestinian groups will confront Israel if its attacks on Gaza continue.
  
• Iran to develop, improve biotech drugs
  IIran's Health Ministry has pitched a multi-year action plan to promote the development of biotechnology medicines for malignant diseases such as cancer.
  
• Iran, Turkey plan to set up joint industrial zone
  Iran and Turkey plan to set up a joint industrial zone on their shared border, a Turkish official has announced.
  

Axis of Logic

• Earth’s Oceans: Our Largest Plastic Landfills
  
  
• The Mafia Is Running the Giant World Casino
  
  
• How the United States Lost the Wars in Iraq and Af ...
  
  
• How Western anti-Muslim bigotry became respectable ...
  
  
• U.S. Venezuelan Relations: Imperialism and Revolu ...
  
  

They Gave Us a Republic

• The OLC Does Not Have a Head. Does It Need a Body ...
  The executive branch has its very own team of lawyers theoretically dedicated to providing the very best legal advice.  In practice it seems to offer more rationalization and obfuscation than gold plated counsel.  What exactly is the value to the public? For more on pruning back executive power see ...
  
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  U.S. Criminal Justice System 2, Underwear Bomber 0. "A "not guilty" plea has been entered on behalf of the Nigerian man accused of attempting to detonate a bomb on a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day. A Detroit judge took the action after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab declined to enter a plea during ...
  
• Reason Number ONE why I am proud to call KC Home
  Calvin Trillin calls it home, too.  
  
• A Cloning Experiment Gone Horribly Wrong
  From a Bartcop Link comes a damned good reason to outlaw cloning in this country.  
  
• Government Gridlock
  Here is a question for you.  What is the likely dynamic in Washington should the fragile Democratic caucus fall below the all-important 60 vote threshold, as we are told is likely in 2010? My prediction: Total, absolute, ungovernable gridlock. Should Democrats lose the ability to break a filibuster, ...
  

Care 2

• A Global Disaster From The Perfect Solar Storm (Th ...
  The best current scientific estimate for the next solar maximum is 2012. If this estimate is correct, there is still a few years to try and prevent the potential of a future global disaster. A disaster that would begin on the surface of the sun and could Submitted by Kristijan Miskovic to Science & ...
  
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• North Sea conditions could be harming puffins
  A recent crash in puffin numbers on islands off the coasts of northeast Britain could be down to worsening conditions in the North Sea, say scientists. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
• Last Moments of the Ady Gil before being rammed by ...
  This video clearly shows what happened the last moments before the shonan maru rammed the Ady Gil causing it to sink. Note how at the start of the clip, Pete asks the person at the helm to stop the ship, and how the Shonan Maru is far behind them. Submitted by Claudia Peters to Environment  |   N ...
  
• Australia tells Japan: stop whaling
  Australian authorities have officially told Japan to stop whaling in the wake of a dramatic high-seas clash. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
• ACTION ALERT: BLM Assault On Utah's Wild Horses Po ...
  We are now at a turning point in the battle to preserve America 's wild horses and burros. It's time to redouble our efforts! The Calico horses are still under attack, with 424 horses already captured and over 2,000 more in the BLM's sights. Submitted by Simone D. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |    ...
  

GreenBiz

• Why the Triple Bottom Line Matters More Than Ever
  The concept of a triple bottom line, where social and environmental factors are considered along with economic ones, is also getting a lot of attention. Is this another business fad? I don't think so.
  
• NYC's '1,000 Green Supers' Program Lands $2.8M Fed ...
  The U.S. Labor Department's release this week of $100 million in Recovery Act funds for green job training includes a nearly $3 million grant to New York City's innovative energy efficiency education program for building superintendents.
  
• 2010: The Year for a Surge in Energy Efficiency
  With a new-found awareness of the potential of energy efficiency, 2010 promises to be a year of action to green buildings. There are three key factors that get people to act: incentives, funding and solutions that are proven to work.
  
• Why Stewart Brand's New Book is a Must-Read
  Praise for the book Whole Earth Discipline is remarkable since the book argues that we need nuclear power to combat global warming, we need biotechnology to feed the world and that we need to take geo-engineering seriously — ideas that are anathema to much of the environmental movement that the book ...
  
• What Are You Excited Most About in 2010?
  As the sun began to set on 2009, we asked some of our readers and partners to share their innovations, commitments, and passions for the coming year.
  

Reuters Global

• Kashmir gunbattle underscores India-Pakistan tensi ...
  A gunbattle this week between militants and security forces in the centre of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, is a powerful reminder of the tensions in the region at the heart of enmity between India and Pakistan.
  
• Interview with North Korea border crosser Robert P ...
  North Korea said on Tuesday it had detained a U.S. citizen who entered its territory, apparently confirming a report that an American activist crossed into the tate to raise awareness about Pyongyang's human rights abuses. Robert Park, 28, walked over the frozen Tumen river from China and into the ...
  
• Allah, Antarctica and Ancient Inca-The best reads ...
  A great read should tell readers something they don't already know, enlighten them about the world and its people, inform them about the human condition. Readers should be moved to laughter, tears, anger, action through superb writing and extraordinary reporting.
  
• Failed airline attack raises fresh questions about ...
  The failed Christmas Day attack on a flight to Detroit has renewed a debate on how best to tackle al Qaeda and its Islamist allies.
  
• Was Nigerian bomber a one-off?
  Although Nigeria is the world's sixth biggest Muslim country by population, there are reasons why it is not likely to produce a rash of bombers like the London-educated Nigerian who tried to blow up a plane.
  

Paul Krugman

• Click the links!
  They're there for a reason.
  
• The health insurance excise tax
  Bottom line: the details of the excise tax should be fixed, but it's on balance a good idea.
  
• Bubbleheads
  Bad calls on housing.
  
• One health care reform, indivisible
  There's hardly anything arbitrary about the health care reform.
  
• Payrolls and paradigms
  Each successive bad jobs report adds to the evidence that the pessimists were right.
  

No Quarter

• Shame’s Sorry Effects on People
  Islamic extremists, like extremist Christians, seek a state of unadulterated purity. Since their earliest childhood memories, they’ve been taught to be ashamed of their animalistic urges, especially sex. Do I think that many young Muslim men are attracted to terrorism because they’re sexually repres ...
  
• Meet Scott Brown, Senate Candidate For Massachuset ...
  We have published posts in support of the Democratic candidate Martha Coakley, and many of our writers and readers are her strong supporters. However, we should also take a look at Sen. Scott Brown, who is now closing in on Attorney General Coakley, in good part because Republicans and Independents ...
  
• Crisis at the Checkpoint: A Failure to both “Colle ...
  Editor’s Note: John Huey is security professional involved with Aviation Security issues for over 28 years. Learn more about John Huey and his constructive critiques in his first post published at NoQuarterUSA.net on January 5, 2010: “From An Insider: The Need for Risk-Analysis, High-Threat Screenin ...
  
• Larry Johnson on CNN Today: The Trial of Umar Faro ...
  From Larry Johnson’s remarks today on CNN Newsroom with host Kyra Phillips: Look, the FBI — I’ve got a lot — even though I’m former CIA, former State Department, lots of friends in the FBI. The FBI has very good investigators. They’re actually the ones who know how to interrogate subjects. The C ...
  
• Should Uncle Sam Bail Out California?
  Should 49 states bail out one? Should the American public be compelled to cover the fiscal disaster of our largest state? Will America ever face reality? The ticking time bomb that is the fiscal disaster of the state of California is making its way to Washington. As reported in yesterday’s Wall Stre ...
  

Environmental Graffiti

• Sacred Valley
• Crazy Nigerian Fishing Festival
• The Insane Designs of Signtology
• Bridges Devoured by Cloud
• Birds Vs Birds

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Obama's Surge and Pakistan
  U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan is built on two coups, one in Kabul and the other in Islamabad.
  
• Honduran Elections a Parody of Democracy
  The recent elections are the latest act in the Honduran theater of the absurd, reports columnist Laura Carlsen.
  
• Crapshoot in Copenhagen
  FPIF's weekly update.
  
• The AfPak Train Wreck
  The president's goals in escalating the war in Afghanistan are deeply flawed. Just ask the Russians.
  
• Africa and the Economic Crisis
  While the world focuses on Afghanistan, Africa is addressing the global economic crisis in new ways.
  

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Togo 'withdraw' from Africa cup
  Football team reportedly decide to pull out of tournament after gun attack in Angola.
  
• Egypt bans Gaza aid convoys
  No convoys to be allowed passage in future following clashes over Viva Palestina.
  
• Iran leader for action over riots
  Ayatollah Khamenei calls on security forces to deal firmly with protesters.
  
• CIA attack 'revenge for Mehsud'
  In a video, bomber says Afghan base hit in response to Pakistani Taliban leader's death.
  
• Togo weighs Africa cup withdrawal
  Football team to decide on tournament participation after gun attack in Angola.
  

Green Inc. - NYT

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• White House Awards $2.3 Billion in Tax Credits for ...
  President Obama announced the awards as part of a broader push by his administration to stimulate job growth.
  
• Q&A: Brookings Expert on Energy Policy
  Charles Ebinger of the Brookings Institution in Washington talks about the Obama administration's energy policy, which he assessed in a recent essay.
  
• Reflections on China's Oil Sands Bid
  A member of the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission comments on China's forays into Canada's giant oil patch.
  
• Small British Company Bets on Tidal Power
  Marine Current Turbines is raising cash to build a five-kilowatt array based on its "SeaGen" prototype.
  
• Carbon Market Grew as Prices Fell in 2009
  The global carbon market grew last year, although its total value remained unchanged as carbon prices dropped.
  

Dot Earth News

• A Rebuttal to a Cool Climate Paper
  A new paper challenges a cool forecast by a prominent skeptic of dangerous global warming.
  
• Scientists Reject Mountaintop Mining Methods
  A dozen scientists call for no new permits for mountaintop coal mining until practices change.
  
• Anti-Whaling Speedboat Wrecked in Collision With W ...
  A collision wrecks an anti-whaling speedboat, and the whale wars heat up once again.
  
• Cold Arctic Pressure Pattern Nearly Off Chart
  Forecasters say cold and snow are largely the result of a rare pressure pattern in and around the Arctic.
  
• Pioneering Greenhouse Analyst Appraised
  A fresh view of a pioneer in studies of the climate impact of human-generated greenhouse gases.
  

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• TSA goon loses notebook tracing blogger leaks; hon ...
  Next time at the airport: "resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand"..... But first, Crush the Bloggers with Fake Tweets!!! "Sent Blog Message to entice M... [?] to respond" --Randomly found TSA investigator notebook re manipulating Twitt ...
  
• New TSA leak PDF; False Flag ops for Detroit Chris ...
  An interesting confluence of events as Obama suddenly grants INTERPOL diplomatic immunity of sorts, while an apparent airport false flag operation or at least 'shady biz as usual' unravels pretty quickly. Good times in the shadow state for 2010. We found some snippets on the case from two noted jo ...
  
• First protest of 2010: Palestinian popular committ ...
  With a new year comes renewed awareness of the various interlocking scams and awful scenes continuing to unfold around the world. The activities in Gaza are also prompting more action in the West Bank - today's demonstration vs Israeli settler colonial operations near Bethlehem is the first protest ...
  
• Corrupt Transportation Security Administration goo ...
  The Transportation Security Administration is a headless corrupt golem that threatens the safety of all Americans. No one is even in charge of this messed up agency, however like many of the federal security-oriented bureaucracies, its security divisions have become bloated and aggressive. Becaus ...
  
• ORBIES DOWN UNDER: Mysterious orbs or dust on the ...
  I got a message from YouTube user Stanley0306173 of Perth Australia , who has posted a ton of videos of what he claims are "orbies" or spirits or aliens or something, whizzing around his apartment. He has posted lots of these videos, and invited people to come check it out. Unlike other ghost hunt ...
  

Daily Censored

• Transforming education right in front of your eyes ...
  What I will describe has been an ideological undertaking hatched in the back rooms of Wall Street in an effort to back hand the public. Schooling has now been transformed into a business plan and an ominous one at that, if one is interested in safeguarding anything public. The whole plan goes ...
  
• No title
  When addressing issues of employment and collective bargaining with classified and certified staff, some states allow their charter schools to bargain independently and directly with staff while others do not. In Arkansas, for example, charter schools are bound by school district collective bargaini ...
  
• “Conspiracy or cock up?” White House reaction to ...
  Michael Collins The underpants bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is a curious terrorist.  He became disillusioned with his privileged life as the son of a bank chairman and member of the Nigerian elite, it would seem.  Rather than pursuing his studies in London, he retreated to Yemen to learn the w ...
  
• Refugees in U.S. Prisons
  The Department of Homeland Security detains asylum seekers while their claims go through the adjudication system. These asylum seekers are often detained for many months (sometimes over a year) in prison or prison-like conditions without legal charges.
  
• Ontario Teachers’ Federation Hires Lorna Earl Desp ...
  By Guest Blogger George Thompson OTF, the umbrella group for Ontario’s teacher unions has recently hired Lorna Earl, despite the fact that her conflict of interest case has yet to be resolved. The contract, given to her by OTF with money paid by the Ministry to survey teachers about “assessment”, ...
  

AlterNet's Breaking News

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Institute for Policy Studies

• Yemen: Latest U.S. Battleground
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Pine River World News

• Paul Craig Roberts: Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth ...
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth? ©  Paul Craig Roberts January 8, 2010 What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blunderi ...
  
• Pakistan fed up with U.S. diplomats and embassy st ...
  Pine River World News / IntelTrends January 8, 2010 Pakistani police and the general public are fed up with U.S. diplomats, embassy staffers, and, yes, even 'private security contractors' claiming "diplomatic immunity" whenever they're stopped by police investigating suspicious activities. These en ...
  
• Why Americans Must Soon Die in Yemen
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. Why Americans Must Soon Die in Yemen ©  Stanislav Mishin Source: Mat Rodina January 6, 2010 Yes, I am sorry to say, to my American readers, but it is that time again, that v ...
  
• Ramzy Baroud: Media Vultures Coming
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Media Vultures Coming ©  Ramzy Baroud January 6, 2009 As you flip through a range of channels on your TV or browse through a stack of newspapers and magazines at a newsstand, you may feel lucky about living in a world where such ...
  
• F. William Engdahl: The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behin ...
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. The Yemen Hidden Agenda:  Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint ©  F. William Engdahl Source:   Global Research January 5, 2010 On December 25 U.S. authorities arrested a Nigerian named Abdulmut ...
  

PDA AMERICA

• Sing It If You Understand
  Cross-posted from Docudharma When Obama needed the votes of progressives to get elected, his message was Change We Can Believe In.  But now that he no longer needs us, now that he has power, he has ...
  
• Looking into the Continuing Financial Crisis – Wha ...
  by Randy Shannon | Treasurer, PA 4th CD Chapter Progressive Democrats of America December 30, 2009 The chart at the right from the St. Louis Federal Reserve shows that banks have record low liquid assets, and that ...
  
• Tax on Health Care Will Erode Coverage for Middle ...
  Cross-posted from the ALF-CIO Blog A new year brings with it lots of hope. Let’s hope 2010 brings a health care reform bill that does not penalize working families with a tax on their coverage. Because right ...
  
• Tim Carpenter on the Nicole Sandlers Show, Air Ame ...
  Tim Carpenter discusses the recent developments in the Health Care debate in Washington.
  
• There They Went Again & Again & Again…
  Cross-posted from Docudharma In another arrogant collusion to once again deny us any possibility of what we want — real health care reform, single payer, public option — those who do what they want, but not ...
  

Marler Blog

• "All the Food that's not Fit to Eat" - Pasta Salad ...
  Stephanie Gaskell of the New York Daily News reported last week that the “New York Times cafeteria food may be past its deadline.”  According to the Daily News, “[t]he Health Dept. is investigating cases of possible food poisoning at the New York Times cafeteria. …The dining room at the paper's hea ...
  
• Newark Iberia Peninsula Restaurant Sickens Several ...
  According to Newark health officials, Salmonella contamination caused many people to suffer food poisoning at Iberia Peninsula restaurant in the Ironbound section of the city.  Dozens of patrons got sick and a few were even hospitalized after attending parties there around Christmas.  Health inspect ...
  
• E. coli O157:H7, My Constant Companion for 17 Year ...
  Along with most of the country, I was introduced to E. coli O157:H7 suddenly in 1993, when hundreds of people became ill and four children died after eating Jack in the Box hamburgers. However, the then little-known strain of bacteria was first recognized as a new food-related threat more than a dec ...
  
• Top 100 Trial Lawyers
  This plaque just arrived today.  My guess is that my mom is on the selection committee.
  
• Two Reasons to get up early in the Morning
  One is the view from my kitchen window: The other is for the email I received from the family of E. coli victim, Linda Rivera : 1-6-2009 @ 9:35pm Linda’s condition is amazingly improved. Though still seriously disabled, she actually has a reasonable prospect of a decent rehabilitation and restor ...
  

AutoblogGreen

• Auto Expo 2010: Chevrolet e-Spark, an electric car ...
  Chevrolet e-Spark - Click above for high-res image gallery The Reva NXG concept car looks aggressive, like it wants to hunt down anyone who says that all electric cars needs to look silly. The Chevrolet Spark concept , too, looks pretty darn good for a little car. The two companies are working t ...
  
• AutoblogGreen for 01.08.10
  Greenlings: What's the point of concept cars? All those crazy ... things automakers bring to NAIAS and other shows have a purpose. Something Fishy: Suzuki to show scaley Alto at International Green Week i ...
  
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• AutoblogGreen for 01.07.10
  Think CEO Richard Canny talks about Indiana plant deal, electric car plans for the U.S. American-built Think vehicles will roll out in early 2011. Video: Former Earthrace biodiesel boat nearly sunk by Jap ...
  
• Detroit Preview: HP2g Revenge Verde Super Car
  Filed under: Detroit Auto Show , Coupe , Performance Last year, the HP2g E85-powered Mustang was at the Detroit Auto Show , and things were looking pretty good for Doug Pelmear and his 110 miles-per-gallon equivalent plan. He was participating in the Automotive X Prize and was confident he would a ...
  
• AutoblogGreen for 01.06.10
  Eco Boost: Ford gains hybrid share, sales up 147% over 2008 Something legitimate to crow about. Officially, official: Think will build City electric car in Elkhart, Indiana Hoosiers get a boo ...
  

Rafe's Radar

• CES: Decipher your car's idiot light with CarMD
  Updated automobile diagnostic tool also gets a refreshed Web service
  
• Reporters' Roundtable podcast: Elements of tech de ...
  This week, the Roundtable is live from CES in Las Vegas. Topic: Design. My two guests, Gregor Berkowitz of MOTO Development (and author of the Design Review blog), and Max Burton of Frog Design, talk with me about design vs. engineering, why Apple's designs are so successful, and how companies ba ...
  
• CES: AR.Drone helicopter controllable by iPhone
  Coolest toy ever? This remote-control helicopter has a video camera that streams to your iPhone or iPod Touch.
  
• CES: Psion concept reborn in PsiXpda
  Smaller and more expensive than a Netbook, the PsiXpda will be very appealing to a small group of buyers.
  
• TechCrunch 50, Demo collide again in 2010
  The three-year rivalry between the competing start-up conferences continues to entertain, with the shows running on the same dates in 2010. ...
  

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

• HOWARD ZINN: "Holy Wars"
  Howard Zinn is an American historian, social critic, and activist. He is best known as author of the best-seller A People’s History of the United States . He spoke at Boston University on November 11, on the subject of American “Holy Wars.” Thanks to Robbie Leppzer for filming this event.
  
• Sick With Terror
  The media have been swamped with reports about the attempt to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day. When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, now dubbed the “underwear bomber,” failed in his alleged attack, close to 300 people were spared what would have been, most likely, a horrible, viole ...
  
• The Fight Against Hydraulic Fracturing is Heating ...
  Dozens of New York State and City legislators and environmental activists gathered on the steps of City Hall on Monday to urge Governor Paterson to step back from the Department of Environmental Conservation’s “Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement” (SGEIS), otherwise known as t ...
  
• Coming Up: Dr. Atul Gawande
  Dr. Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and staff writer for the New Yorker magazine joins us to discuss health care reform and his new book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.
  
• The Poetic Justice of Dennis Brutus
  Dennis Brutus broke rocks next to Nelson Mandela when they were imprisoned together on notorious Robben Island. His crime, like Mandela’s, was fighting the injustice of racism, challenging South Africa’s apartheid regime. Brutus’ weapons were his words: soaring, searing, poetic. He was banned, he w ...
  

Farming Pathogens

• We Are All Astronauts Now
  Five years ago I gave copies of this essay to a few friends and family as a year-end holiday gift. As a first stab I think it’s aged well, despite its ignorance of the work of Berger, Harvey, Reichenbach, among others. I offer it now to everyone else in a similar spirit–all in good fun, [...]
  
• Pigs Do Fly! Implications for Influenza
  The influenza genome is segmented. Eight pieces of single-stranded RNA encode for 11 proteins: PB2, PB1, PB1-F2, PA, HA, NP, NA, M1, M2, NS1, and NS2. The segmentation allows influenza of different subtypes infecting the same host to trade segments like card players on a Friday night. Most of the re ...
  
• Breeding Influenza: The Political Virology of Offs ...
  What better way to medicate against a holiday’s genocidal origins and the hunger now swelling worldwide in the wake of a related banker-brought recession than with a bellyful of turkey, stuffing, yams, and pumpkin pie? Despite its rotten ambiguities Thanksgiving remains my favorite American holiday. ...
  
• A Visitation of the Influenza
  In seeping through the world’s every nook and cranny, pandemics have a way of forcing themselves into our lives as a lurking presence. Even the most insular of functionaries, who typically makes his living solving problems by ignoring them, straightens up and takes notice.    As an epidemic wave a ...
  
• I Do Like Green Eggs and Ham
  Much of what we’ve addressed on this blog has focused on the epidemiological failures of industrial farming. But what of the alternatives? Can we farm in another way? Is another world possible?    It’s only since I’ve moved to the Midwest that I’ve learned that not only is that world possible, it’ ...
  

Digg Green

• World's First Laser-Guided Wind Turbine Cuts CO2 b ...
  Scientists have successfully tested the world’s first wind turbine with a built-in laser-based anemometer. This roughly translates to increased revenue of about $39,000 per year for a 4MW wind turbine. This advancement could cut CO2 emissions by 25,000 tons by 2025.
  
• Frozen Britain seen from above - MUST SEE!
  A striking satellite image from Nasa shows the UK deep in the clutches of the current cold snap.
  
• Coral reefs are evolution hotspot
  Coral reefs give rise to many more new species than other tropical marine habitats, say scientists. They report that new species originate 50% faster in coral reefs than in other habitats.
  
• Cold Iguanas Free-Fall From Trees
  Hollywood, Fla. -- Iguanas plummeting from the treetops in cold weather have long been a Floridian urban legend..While these iguanas appeared dead, experts said they are not. When temperatures drop below 40 degrees, iguanas go into a type of hibernation in which their bodies essentially turn off .. ...
  
• Trash To Gas: Landfill Energy Projects Increasing ...
  Hundreds of trash trucks across California are rumbling down city streets using clean fuel made from a dirty source: garbage.The fuel is derived from rotting refuse that San Francisco and Oakland residents and businesses have been discarding in the Altamont landfill since 1980. Since November, the m ...
  

Invisible Opportunity

• Global Cooling in 2009 – 375 Headlines
  2009 was another year of global cooling, which saw numerous low temperature and high snowfall records smashed. The Dutch canals froze over for the first time in 12 years, record cold came to Al Gore’s home town and ironically a blizzard dumped snow on the Copenhagen convention where world leaders me ...
  
• SNOW CHAOS: AND THEY STILL CLAIM IT’S GLOBAL ...
  By Martyn Brown AS one of the worst winters in 100 years grips the country, climate experts are still trying to claim the world is growing warmer. With millions of Britons battling through snow and ice to get to work today, scientists claim that the cold conditions should not be used as evidence a ...
  
• Breaking: Dutch Authorities Claim No Accomplice in ...
  by Larry O’Connor According to Reuters, Dutch authorities have announced that Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the terrorist who penetrated the Dutch security system on Christmas Day on Flight 253 to Detroit, acted alone with no accomplices at the Amsterdam airport. This directly contradicts the first-h ...
  
• Revisiting the Swine Flu Lies and Hysteria
  By Karen DeCoster Along with the U.S. government’s numerous military entanglements, there are a series of “smaller” wars that the state carries out against the people who reside within its borders. These “wars” all bear the crisis logo, and they are always targeted at protecting you from something — ...
  
• Germany, Holland, Switzerland, France desperately ...
  By Dominika Pszczółkowska (Gazeta Wyborcza) Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, France – European governments increasingly trying to sell influenza A/H1N1 vaccine, of which they bought too much. The case evokes heated controversy among others on the Seine River. Disproportion between the number ...
  

Insurgency Watch - Posts

• InsurgencyWatch moving to True/Slant
  In the coming days, InsurgencyWatch will be moving to True/Slant, “an original content news network tailored to both the ‘Entrepreneurial Journalist’ and marketers who want a more effective way to engage with digital audiences.” (That’s what the official about page says.) It’s not a decision I’ve ma ...
  
• Kerry-Lugar’s First Victim
  If true, this is total bullshit: After strong criticism on the Kerry-Lugar bill in Pakistan, the government has decided to replace Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani and the announcement in this respect is expected within the next two days. There’s nothing in the bill reasonable Pakist ...
  
• Pakistan’s Civil War Heating Up
  In the aftermath of this weekend’s assault on the Pakistani General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the Taliban hit again in Alpuri, in the Shangla district east of Mingora in Swat. According to military sources who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to talk to the press, a 13- or ...
  
• At Home with a Swat Lashkar
  I just finished up a few days in Swat and while I’m working on a story about it, I thought you might like to see a few pictures I took while there. Enjoy. Share/Save
  
• FACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in Pakistan ...
  Washington PostFACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in PakistanReutersBy this time he is thought to have fled the region for the safe haven of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. * Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader ...Pakistan to Target Taliba...
  

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Dorm Room Dealers: A Peek into the Drug World of t ...
  Fascinating new book explores why college kids on the path to success would peddle pot or pills. Answer: They're not much at risk -- they're rich and white.
  
• Fear Mongers Attack a NYC Harm Reduction Pamphlet ...
  Arguments by top level city and federal law enforcement agents against harm redution pamphlet have little scientific merit.
  
• Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics & Spiri ...
  Entering the world of "Dead Time," the period a convict spends in the county jail awaiting shipment to the penitentiary system which doesn't count towards the overall sentence.
  
• The Best Chance Yet for Legalizing Marijuana
  Tax Cannabis 2010 faces hurdles as it prepares for its test on the California ballot next November.
  
• The Year In Pot: Top 10 Events That Will Change th ...
  There has been a tidal shift in politics and on Marijuana laws in America, from Obama lightening up on pot prosecutions to the recognition of cancer prevention properties.
  

Twilight Earth

• Fast Food Strikes (Out) Again
  A recent article in the Huffington Post has me completely infuriated. What did it say about soda? Are you sitting down? Related posts: Putting the Gross in Groceries – Food Inc. the Documentary The Beef Stops Here at Sacred Heart Hospital Good News Monday – Bloggers Donate 720 Cans of Food to Food ...
  
• U.S. Department of Labor Rolls Out New Green Jobs ...
  Under the leadership of U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis, green jobs have become a priority at the U.S. Department of Labor. Related posts: 15,000 Green Jobs Coming to London Site Update for Twilight Earth: Change In the Air EPA Seeks Comments on Greener Site Cleanups
  
• Senior Citizen Tells Youth – Dont Make the Mistake ...
  A heartfelt letter from Gene Steele to the next generation. Related posts: Global Youth Video to World Leaders: Youre Not Done Yet and Neither are We Twilight Earth Exclusive Cop15 Video – China Youth in Copenhagen Senior Citizens March 25 Miles Against Mountaintop Removal
  
• Report: 31 Million Pounds of Toxins Released Into ...
  A study released in 2009 lists the Ohio River as leading the nation in total toxic discharges. Related posts: 2009 Global Climate Change Impact Report Released Coleman “Natural” Beef recalls 1 Million Pounds of Hamburger U.S. Petroleum Industry Responsible for 25% of Toxic Pollutants in North Am ...
  
• Flow – For the Love of Water: Full Documentary
  The full documentary film "Flow - For the Love of Water." This award winning documentary is a must see film about what is becoming one of the most important issues of our time. Related posts: Food Inc. – Full Documentary The World According to Monsanto – Full Documentary WaterCheck Clean Water Gi ...
  

Inhabitat

• The New California Craftsmen Going Green in Stride
  The New California Craftsmen have begun to make a name for themselves on the Los Angeles design scene, thinking up one-of-a-kind creations made from re-purposed scraps and found materials. Collaborators since first meeting in art school years ago, James Cerasani and Justin Murphy pride themselves ...
  
• Tafoni Prefab Floating House is Inspired by the Ca ...
  Houseboats are a staple of the San Francisco Bay Area, but many people find them too cramped to be a permanent residence. The Tafoni Floating Home, designed by Joanna Borek-Clement aims to change that with a design that is both spacious and compact. The home, which is inspired by smooth, oval Califo ...
  
• Recycly Robots take the Guesswork out of Recycling
  Even the greenest among us sometimes scratch our heads when it comes to knowing how to recycle certain objects. Recycly Robot Waste Containers, conceptualized by Oomy Design, help take the guesswork out of recycling by educating children (and adults alike) with how to properly recycle waste. These f ...
  
• Iconic SF Coca-Cola Billboard Gets a Green Makover
  Ever pass by the giant glittery Coca-Cola billboard in downtown San Francisco and wonder just how much energy it sucks up? Not nearly as much as it used to, now that the whole thing has been replaced with an LED display that is 80% more energy efficient than the original sign.The new 70 foot long, [ ...
  
• Sony Unveils Ultra-Green Vaio W Series Laptop at C ...
  If you keep up with the latest gadget news, you’ve undoubtedly heard about some of the innovative products coming out of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show. One of our favorites is the Sony Vaio W series “Eco Edition”, an ultra-green mini laptop that even comes in a green-tinted plastic enclosure ...
  

Pogue's Posts

• Reader Responses to Review of Google's Nexus One
  Reader feedback about my review of Google's new cellphone was unusually voluminous and, in some sectors, vitriolic.
  
• Check-in Done Right
  How one hotel uses already-collected information to help streamline your arrival.
  
• Verizon's New Motto: Why Not Be Evil?
  Verizon Wireless continues in its efforts to be the least-liked mobile carrier in America.
  
• Verizon Responds to Consumer Complaints
  The wireless carrier addresses two issues raised by consumers and this blog.
  
• Should e-Books Be Copy Protected?
  The issues involved with copy protection haven't changed. They're the same on e-books as they are with everything else.
  

Open Your Eyes News

• Saudi warplanes hit N Yemen districts again
  Press TV – Saudi fighter jets have launched another round of aerial bombardment of Houthi positions in northern parts of Yemen along the border with the oil-rich kingdom. According to a statement released by the fighters on Thursday, Saudi forces carried out 13 aerial raids on Jebel al-Madood as wel ...
  
• Judge Allows Apartheid Suit Against Corporations
  Courtroom News Service – A federal judge in Manhattan again allowed a lawsuit to proceed against several corporate giants for their alleged role in aiding South Africa’s oppressive apartheid regime. Daimler AG, General Motors, Ford Motor Co. and IBM are accused of “aiding and abetting” human rights ...
  
• Judge reinstates Argentina central bank chief
  BBC – A judge has ordered the reinstatement of Argentina’s central bank governor and blocked the president’s plan to use currency reserves to pay public debt.The court said Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s emergency decree on Thursday dismissing Martin Redrado should be suspended until Congress vote ...
  
• Italian Riots: Migrants and Residents Clash in Sou ...
  Daily Telegraph – Clashes in the Calabrian town of Rosarno, which erupted on Thursday during a protest by mainly African farm labourers, had injured 18 policemen and 19 foreigners in two days, authorities in Reggio Calabria province said. Around 100 locals armed with batons and metal bars, and some ...
  
• US military deaths in Afghan region at 868
  Associated Press – As of Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, at least 868 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The AP count is the same as the Defense Department’s tally, ...
  

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• Movie Review: Avatar (James Cameron, 2009)
  Movie Review: Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) by Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) is part of a long tradition of “going native” movies. In this sense, Avatar has been correctly described as “Dances with Wolves in space.” Nonetheless, there is more to Avatar ...
  
• United Snakes meddles in Middle East, Iran and Yem ...
  United Snakes meddles in Middle East, Iran and Yemen.. First Worldist “left” cheers (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The Obama administration is increasing the US involvement in the affairs of both Iran and Yemen. This should be no surprise to anyone since the Obama administration is as fund ...
  
• RAIM: Fuck the border
  Posted in ..Monkey and the Troublemakers, ..RAIM-Seattle, Communism, Latin America, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo, Mexican Liberation, North America
  
• Τζο ο «Μέσος Αμερικάνος»
  Τζο ο «Μέσος Αμερικάνος» Πηγή:monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com Αυθεντικός τίτλος: The average Joe Amerikan (in English) (in Polish) Ο «μέσος Τζο» κατέχει ειδική θέση στην αμερικάνικη συνείδηση.Ο εν λόγω λογοτεχνικής έμπνευσης ,δημοφιλής χαρακτήρας, «ήρωας της εργατικής τάξης», εμφανίζεται σε ταινί ...
  
• Αληθινός εναντίον ψεύτικου Μαρξισμού όσον αφορά τη ...
  Αληθινός εναντίον ψεύτικου Μαρξισμού όσον αφορά τη Σοσιαλιστική διανομή Πηγή:monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com Αυθεντικός τίτλος: Real versus fake Marxism on Socialist distribution. (English) (French) Μια παγκόσμια, σοσιαλιστική διανομή του παγκόσμιου πλούτου,σίγουρα θα πλησιάζει μία ισότιμη διανομ ...
  

PakAlert

• Earth ‘to be wiped out’ By Supernova Explosion
  The Earth could soon be wiped out by the explosion of a star more than 3,000 light years away, according to American scientists. By Ben Leach | telegraph.co.uk T Pyxidis Photo: NASA The star, called T Pyxidis, is set to self-destruct in an explosion called a supernova with the force of 20 ...
  
• Ukraine Swine Flu Fatalities Jump to 827 – 100,000 ...
  3,905,542 Infected 225,925 Hospitalized 827 Dead The above update is from the Ukraine Ministry of Health.  The 24h increases included 22 more deaths and over100,000 new cases.  Much of the activity is in the eastern half of the country, with the biggest increases in cases, 6,563 to 343,583, and deat ...
  
• Norway Time Hole “Leak” Plunges Northern Hemispher ...
  Russian scientists are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that the high-energy beam [photo top left] fired into the upper heavens from the United States High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HHARP) radar facility in Ramfjordmoen, Norway this past month has resulted in a “catastrophic ...
  
• An Open Letter To The Pakistani Media – How Far Wi ...
  Dr. Mahru Khalid As I sit in my room writing this, I can hear Indian music playing on the television outside. I know that it is a Pakistani channel,and I can hear snatches of people singing praises of how wonderful Indian music and artists are. It has been going on for the last2 hours and may [...] ...
  
• India’s Cold Start Strategy: Limited Strikes Again ...
  by Moin Ansari | Rupee News Much of this so called “Cold Start Strategy” is based on the Israeli strategy which it tried to implement in Lebanon. Israel was unable to implement its objectives in Lebanon and had to withdraw even from the Litani River. Israel failed to achieve its goals in Lebanon. I ...
  

ecogeek

• Starfish: Carbon Storage Heroes
  According to a new study by British researchers, starfish and their fellow echinoderms (sea urchins, sea lilies, etc) act as a significant sink for CO2.  The ocean bottom-dwellers store about 2 percent of annual human CO2 emissions. Researchers knew echinoderms store large amounts of calcium carbon ...
  
• Why Antarctica Isn't Melting Like the Arctic...Yet
  You've probably noticed that you read a lot of stories on Arctic melt , how quickly it's progressing, opening up shipping lanes and hurriedly moving towards ice-free summers.  But what you don't read much about is melting of Antarctica's ice sheets.  If global warming is causing polar ice melt - wh ...
  
• 4 Great Moves by the EPA, and 1 Step Backwards
  In most respects, this adminstration's EPA is getting things done.  They're regularly throwing out bad policies and implementing better ones .  Here are four things the agency has announced recently that made us cheer and one that made us boo - loudly. The Good 1.  They're overhauling the Toxic Sub ...
  
• 2 Signs the Time has Come for Alternative Transpor ...
  Two interesting pieces of news came out this week showing that Americans are becoming more open to car-less travel:  (1) the Earth Policy Institute released a study showing that car ownership dropped by 4,000,000 vehicles in 2009 and (2) the Upper West Side of New York City will be converting 240 p ...
  
• GM to Open Michigan Battery Pack Plant Tomorrow
  Tomorrow morning, General Motors will take a significant step in furthering the country's EV industry.  It will start operations at the nation's first battery pack plant run by a U.S. automaker.  The plant in Brownstown Township, MI will assemble the battery packs for the Chevy Volt. GM chose Janua ...
  

Times Online - Science

• Baroness Greenfield loses her job in Royal Institu ...
  Baroness Greenfield has lost her job as the director of one of Britain’s oldest and most venerable scientific institutions, The Times has learnt.
  
• Landmark DNA study of 3,000 people to unlock myste ...
  The genetic roots of type 2 diabetes are to be explored in unprecedented depth to help to find better ways to diagnose and treat a disease that affects more than 2 million people in Britain.
  
• Kepler telescope finds five new worlds
  A space telescope that hunts Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars has scored its first success, with the discovery of five new worlds beyond the solar system.
  
• Presence of Martian lakes three billion years ago ...
  Mars featured large lakes of melted ice about 3 billion years ago, according to new research suggesting that the planet reached its present, dry state more recently than previously thought.
  
• Celebrities named and shamed for crazy comments in ...
  From special diets and miracle cures to chemicals, vaccines and evolution — there seems to be no limit to the subjects on which some celebrities will speak. But while some may be talented actors, athletes, TV presenters and pop stars, science is not their forte.
  

Environment _ National Geographic

• North America's Cooling Due to Natural Causes in 2 ...
  An unusually long cooling of the Pacific Ocean lowered temperatures across North America—but it's not proof that global warming has slowed down, scientists say.
  
• "Lost" Amazon Complex Found; Shapes Seen by Satell ...
  Hundreds of circles, squares, and other geometric shapes once hidden by forest hint at a previously unknown ancient society that flourished in the Amazon, a new study says.
  
• Melting Glaciers Nourishing Oceans With Ancient Ca ...
  Alaska's marine animals have an unexpected nutrient in their diets: ancient carbon from glacier melt, a new study says.
  
• Giant Salamanders Helped to Spawn
  A new program in Japan is helping giant salamanders get past dams built to control flooding so the rare amphibians can lay their eggs upstream. Video.
  
• PHOTOS: Dolphin "Drive Hunts" Continue in Japan, E ...
  Dolphin "drive" hunts, a bloody tradition denounced in the recent documentary The Cove, continue in Japan and Denmark's Faroe Islands.
  

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Free Marketeers Against Healthcare? Go Galt and ta ...
  “We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, …” I assume they were not discussing welfare payments for high ranking military officers when they mention "promot ...
  
• Is Little Green Footballs a Communist Blog now?
  "The American right wing has gone off the rails, into the bushes, and off the cliff. I won’t be going over the cliff with them." From LGF's Charles Johnson: Why I Parted Ways With The Right 1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (se ...
  
• Will Teabagger anti-immigration agnst spill over t ...
   Smells like Teabaggrrrr spirit... Peter Schiff is well known for his for far right wing way out there libertarian Ron Paul-like views . You have to wonder if some of Teaba grrrrr angst will spill over to the GOP primary battles and burn Peter Schiff here in Connecticut ? Jim Gilchrist, founder of ...
  
• Valuable Lesson From Sarah Palin's Book
  TRex has extracted and documented the bulk of the knowledge that can be had from Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue. Trust me on this, there is a valuable lesson to be had from her book that every Blogger, journalist and pundit should be sharing with anyone that is truly interested in the politic ...
  
• Would you drive this car?
  More importantly, would you buy and drive this car? Tata Motors May Launch Nano In America: Special Editions In The Works Efficient, light, and affordable. That is the philosophy behind the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car, and one of the smallest as well. Launched earlier this year in Tata’s ho ...
  

SPL Center

• Turner Case Ends in Mistrial
  Hal Turner’s case ended in a mistrial today after a jury was unable to decide whether the hate blogger was guilty of threatening three federal judges. A new trial is set for March 1 in Brooklyn, according to The Associated Press. The jury voted 9-3 for acquittal, according to the only juror who spok ...
  
• Opening Arguments: Turner’s FBI Role to be Central
  BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Domestic terrorist who encouraged fellow white supremacists to kill federal judges? Or shock jock who provided valuable information to the FBI? Government prosecutors and defense lawyers offered strikingly different portraits of Hal Turner (for a short 2003 profile, go here), the Ne ...
  
• The Last Word: Hatewatch’s 3rd Annual Smackdown Aw ...
  It’s that time of the year again, and Hatewatch’s intrepid staff is just now climbing out of the protective moonsuits needed to trawl through the year’s worst from the filth-spewing hate-mongers and fellow travelers who populate the radical right in America. Once more, we’ve done our best to go beyo ...
  
• Dobbs Courts Latino Support, Angers Nativists
  Think back to Jennifer Anniston’s distress when Brad Pitt dallied with Angelina Jolie; Debbie Reynolds’ angst when Eddie Fisher strayed with Elizabeth Taylor. Now meet the latest big-name heartbreaker: Lou Dobbs. No, he hasn’t left his wife. But some of his most ardent anti-immigration support ...
  
• Alleged Killer of Abortion Doctor Fights for Neces ...
  Scott Roeder, who has confessed to the fatal shooting of a Kansas abortion provider, is fighting prosecutors’ attempts to ban the so-called necessity defense at his trial. Roeders’ attorney filed a motion stating that Roeder should be allowed to argue that the killing was necessary to prevent Tille ...
  

change: org.

• Listen Up, The Economist: Whose Feminism Are You T ...
  Apparently I missed the memo: there's a new feminism in town. At least, so says Adrian Wooldridge of The Economist : " The new feminism contends that women are wired differently from men, and not just in trivial ways . ... Feminist texts are suddenly full of references to tribes of monkeys, with the ...
  
• Social Safety Net Doesn't Include Diapers
  Wait -- what? Diapers aren't covered by WIC? Nope, says The Nation , pointing to the worthy six-month-old non-profit Help a Mother Out . The organization exists to collect and distribute disposable diapers to needy moms in California (and spreading). Help a Mother Out was started by a small group of ...
  
• Catholic Bishops Play to Win on Immigration Reform
  Over on the Women's Rights blog , America's conservative Catholic bishops are definitely on our naughty list. But when it comes to immigration reform, they're gearing up for a good year. Though technically in favor of comprehensive immigration reform for years, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop ...
  
• Walt Whitman Tends to the Wounded
  Lately I've been wrestling with that inner turmoil common among American patriots who wish for an end to war, political violence, and empire. That means it's time to take that dusty copy of poetry by Walt Whitman out of the library and give it a hard read by lantern light. Home for the holidays with ...
  
• Heart Surgery Meets Its "Avatar"
  In the movie Avatar , the wheelchair-bound hero's mind is transported to an alien body that's fully functional, taller, stronger and a calming blue. It's him, only better. What if arteries had avatars? You would think they would be clot-resistant, flexible enough to withstand huge blood pressure swi ...
  

Common Dreams -News

• Iraq Confiscates Arms in Private Security Crackdow ...
  by Khalid al-Ansary BAGHDAD  - Security forces confiscated hundreds of rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition and other military gear in a crackdown on private security contractors in Iraq, officials said on Saturday. Police raided three locations in Baghdad on Friday, a week after Iraqi authorit ...
  
• Did Jesus Oppose Capitalism, as Moore Argues?
  by Andrew Clumpus Would Jesus Christ - the founder of the largest religion in the world, unequivocally recognized as a messenger of peace and love - support capitalism? It's one of the questions filmmaker Michael Moore, the well-known creator of documentaries such as Bowling for Columbine and Sicko, ...
  
• Hurricane Propels Jackson's Justice Quest at EPA
  by Dina Capiello More than four years after Hurricane Katrina, the single-story brick rancher in Pontchartrain Park where Lisa Perez Jackson grew up stands empty. Floodwaters long ago ate away the walls of her corner bedroom, where the current head of the Environmental Protection Agency once hung Mi ...
  
• Sanders a Growing Force on the Far, Far Left
  by Sasha Issenberg WASHINGTON - The Senate may pride itself on a reputation as the world's most exclusive deliberative body, but it is turning into just about the only place in America where a self-described socialist can wield raw power. read more
  
• Courts Roll Back Limits on Spending in Election La ...
  by David D. Kirkpatrick WASHINGTON - Even before a landmark Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance law expected within days, a series of other court decisions is reshaping the political battlefield by freeing corporations, unions and other interest groups from many of the restrictions on their adv ...
  

Lifehacker

• Google's "Near Me Now" Knows Where You Are, Searc ...
  Say you're standing outside a restaurant and want to quickly look up information about it before committing to it. You could google it by name (and do all that tedious typing), or you could just hit the new "Near me now" link. "Near me now" uses your location aware cellphone (currently only iPhone ...
  
• Dotz Cord Organizers Keep Your Cords Tidy and Lab ...
  Dotz Cord Organizers are like evolved zip ties. They're reusable, color-coded, label-able, but they'll still organize your cords like nobody's business. There's not much else to say. They're a similar solution to the basic zip tie as these velcro ties we're also big fans of. I'd actually prefer zip ...
  
• Xint Text Editor Offers Color Coding, Hotkeys, an ...
  Windows: If you're looking to replace Notepad with a lightweight alternative that has some extra bells and whistles, Xint is a capable replacement. Notepad is ubiquitous but rather underpowered, Xint is a freeware alternative that sports a host of added features to make text editing easier. You can ...
  
• Best DVD-Ripping Tool? [Hive Five Call For Conten ...
  Physical formats are so constraining—good luck trying to shove your DVD into your iPod, Zune, or other mobile device, let alone back up that disc to save your kids from deep sixing Little Nemo. Photo by Yoppy . Two years ago we had a Hive Five on best DVD ripping tools . It's time to dust off the to ...
  
• Android 2.1’s Best Features in Screenshots [Scree ...
  The new Nexus One is a sleek, awesome handset, but the most important ingredient in touchscreen smartphones is software. The screen is just a canvas that software paints on, and Android 2.1 is a work of art. Coming from the chunky G1, the thin and flat Nexus One hearkens back to my iPhone days. (In ...
  

Newshoggers - AfPak

• The Good News: We're Only Killing One Kid A Day In ...
  By Steve Hynd The Afghan Rights Monitor says that an average of three children under the age of 18 are killed every day in Afghanistan. Children are the biggest victims of the war in Afghanistan, with more than 1,050 people under 18 years old killed last year alone, according to an Afghan human righ ...
  
• CIA Bomber Provided Drone Strike Intel
  By Steve Hynd The more information surfaces about Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the spy-cum-suicide bomber who blew himself, three guards (at least two of whom were Blackwater mercs), his Jordanian handler and four CIA operatives to bits at a CIA base in Afghanistan last week, the more bizarre t ...
  
• Sustainability and Afghanistan
  By Dave Anderson: The basic US strategy in Afghanistan is to use a surge of forces to create temporarily more favorable facts on the ground against the Taliban, Pashtun tribal militias and other armed groups that are not favorably disposed to the current Kabul government while the Kabul goverment gr ...
  
• Revisiting Defensive Legalization
  By Dave Anderson: In August 2008, I argued that drug prohibition is counter-productive and stupid as well as expensive, especially as it applies to marijuana because it creates and sustains a massive black market. The black market has norm enforcement through violence instead of lawyers, and the fun ...
  
• Revisiting Defensive Legalization
  By Dave Anderson: In August 2008, I argued that drug prohibition is counter-productive and stupid as well as expensive, especially as it applies to marijuana because it creates and sustains a massive black market. The black market has norm enforcement through violence instead of lawyers, and the fun ...
  

Water Wars

• Water Wars Negotiations To Be Kept Confidential (W ...
  A judge has granted confidentiality for water wars negotiations.
  
• Judge rules water wars negotations between Alabama ...
  U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson issued a ruling Thursday allowing the states to negotiate privately. He said that confidentiality is often needed in such a "complicated and inflammatory case."
  
• Judge grants states confidentiality in water wars ...
  Georgia, Alabama and Florida have asked a judge to keep their negotiations in the long-running regional legal fight over water rights confidential. The states said in a motion filed this week that th...
  
• Eric Holt Gimenez: Hunger, Jobs, and Water Wars (T ...
  By Eric Holt-Gimenez and Zoe Brent FRESNO, CALIFORNIA: Food aid is rolling in to the breadbasket of California. In Fresno County, the state's most productive...
  
• Water Wars Continue: Judge Grants Confidentiality ...
  ATLANTA (AP) -- A judge has granted a request from Georgia, Florida and Alabama to keep their negotiations in the long-running regional legal fight over water rights confidential.
  

WordPress | Economics

• The Tax Collector
  It only takes the innocence of the young to remind us of the evil of the income tax. Recently, I was
  
• It's Nice to Know They Care
  The Obama-Reid-Pelosi Troika is welcoming 2010 with seventy-three new tax increases that went into e
  
• Everybody loves Canada (Canada's euro bond sale fi ...
  Boyd Erman at G&M noted in “Canada’s euro bond sale finds big demand” (emphasi
  
• Scotiabank: Canada's biggest publisher
  Andy Willis at G&M has this observation, Call them the accidental publishers: Bank of Nova Scoti
  
• The Recruiters, Part 11: Epilogue
  Fortis finally got to see a message bird. It came low across the water, surprisingly fast. In front
  

Electronic Intifada

• Will Egypt's underground wall end the Gaza tunnel ...
  A subterranean wall being built by Egypt along its border with Gaza is meant to hack the tunnel structures, which extend from the Egyptian side of the border to the Gaza's side for distances that rang ...
  
• Imprisonment as political pressure: Addameer's Sah ...
  The Palestinian nongovernmental organization Addameer was founded in 1992 to promote and protect the rights of political prisoners. The Electronic Intifada interviewed Sahar Francis, a human rights la ...
  
• Miss Palestine's mistaken rebellion
  One of the travesties of living in a colonized environment is that the inferior, or oppressed, aspire to win admittance to the Western world. There seems to be an emerging trend of this type of appeas ...
  
• "No army, no prison and no wall can stop us"
  I mark the beginning of the new decade imprisoned in a military detention camp. Nevertheless, from within the occupation′s holding cell I meet the New Year with determination and hope. I know that Isr ...
  
• My husband: jailed for protesting Israel's wall
  On International Human Rights Day in 2008, my husband Abdallah Abu Rahmah was in Berlin receiving a medal from the World Association for Human Rights. Last year on the same day, 10 December, Abdallah ...
  

CS Monitor - News

• podcast091204
  Fewer US jobs lost in November and impact on economy.
  
• October 16, 2009
  The UN Human Rights Council votes to adopt the Goldstone Report on Israel's military incursion into Gaza.
  
• October 19, 2009
  Saudi Arabia is wary of terrorists, especially from neighboring states.
  
• October 20, 2009
  How some TV insiders view parents and children on reality television.
  
• October 21, 2009
  How African Anglicans might respond to the Vatican's offer.
  

The Wonk Room

• Cool Graphic Reminder: U.S. Still Spending Far Mor ...
  On Tuesday, the Center For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a report indicating that the recession has slowed the growth of health care spending. U.S. health spending grew 4.4 percent in 2008, its slowest rate in nearly 50 years. Overall health spending reached $2.3 trillion in 2008 or ...
  
• Kyl Blocking Treasury Nominees Because He Doesn&#8 ...
  Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) evidently doesn’t like online gambling very much, and in 2006, he helped craft a law banning the processing of online wagers. The law and its corresponding regulations were supposed to go into effect last month, but the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve pushed back the ...
  
• REPORT: Health Care Reform Could Create 250,000 &# ...
  On Tuesday, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) characterized the administration’s efforts to pass health care reform as a “mistake” and argued that the nation would have been better served if Congress spent more time strengthening the economy and creating jobs. Well today, a new report by David Cutler and Neera ...
  
• A Self-Described ‘Wiser Lou Dobbs’ Sup ...
  Former CNN anchor and anti-immigration reform crusader Lou Dobbs appeared on the O’Reilly Factor last night with an interesting announcement. Dobbs told host O’Reilly that he supports immigration reform with a path to citizenship and also lamented his “combative nature” during the 2007 immigration ...
  
• Despite California’s Example, Gov. Perry Pro ...
  Last month, Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) took to the House floor to proclaim that California’s Proposition 13 — which requires that a two-thirds majority of the state legislature approve any tax increase — should be a “guiding light” for the nation. And Lungren is evidently not the only one who believes ...
  

thwap's schoolyard

• Please Read
  I first posted this excerpt from this recent post . But I think it got lost in the shuffle of the reporting on General Natynczyk's about face on whether we'd actually detained and transferred that one suspect over to his Afghan abusers. The thing is, this account of CF actions in the field [dating ...
  
• Online Petition For Public Inquiry Into Torture
  Pursuant to the goal of bringing accountability and the rule of law to Canada, and starting the process of getting the harpercons into the prison cells they're inevitably going to be thrown into, Alison at Creekside has a link to an online petition for a public inquiry into torture . Please sign it ...
  
• Parallels
  I've just finished reading Antony Beevor's The Fall of Berlin 1945 . There was one passage that struck me. Now, before I get to it, I want to assure everyone that I'm well aware of Godwin's silly law about internet discussions and the Nazis. I also want to assure everyone that I'm not going to pu ...
  
• Harper Fucks It Up Again ...
  In the CBC report about General Natynczyk changing his story , stephen harper madly attempts to spin the significance of this incident into something completely irrelevant: But Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the facts confirm what the government has been saying, that when the Canadian Forces see ...
  
• So stephen harper is Above the Law is he?
  In response to my stated desire to see stephen harper and all the relevant cabinet ministers in the harpercon government put behind bars for their complicity in war crimes, many, many, many people are convinced that it'll never happen. Given the fact that ignorance is no defence against war crimes, ...
  

Financial Sense Editorials

• Why You Should Care About DJIA Priced in Gold
  by Elliott Wave Int. "Of the many forward looking market indicators we at EWI employ, one of the most interesting tools (and least discussed in the financial media) is the DJIA priced in gold -- "the real money," as EWI's president Robert Prechter calls it."
  
• Get Your Gold the Hell Outta Here!
  by Doug Hornig. "It seems that everyone these days wants gold. Real, physical gold coins that they can hold in their hands, or bars that they’re assured are resting safely in a well-guarded vault. HSBC’s New York vault, for example, buried deep below its 5th Avenue tower, where it has stored people’ ...
  
• Learning From Mistakes
  by J. R. Nyquist. "As Northwest Airlines Flight 253 approached Detriot, passengers heard what sounded like a firecracker. Then someone shouted "fire!" Passengers then noticed smoke coming from the crotch of a Nigerian man holding a device."
  
• Market Observation: Beyond the Headline Data
  by Michael Panzner. "Economists cheered today’s report from the U.S. Department of Labor, which showed that weekly initial and continuing jobless claims continue to work their way lower from the peaks hit in March and June of 2009, respectively. But for some reason, the “experts” keep ignoring the o ...
  
• Market Observation: Stocks Start the New Decade St ...
  by Robert McHugh, Ph.D.. "The S&P 500 rose decisively above previous resistance at 1,120 Monday, January 4th, 2010, which means there is a good chance it will rise sharply toward its 1,200 upside targets from two different Bullish patterns we have been showing for weeks, the Bullish Head & Shoulders ...
  

on Government Oversight

• Salazar Has Reforms; We Still Want More
  On Wednesday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced another round of reforms to improve how the Department of the Interior (DOI) manages oil and gas leasing. The new policy increases environmental review and public participation prior to the Bureau of Land...
  
• Morning Smoke: Geithner's New York Fed Pressured A ...
  The Fed’s culture of secrecy [Felix Salmon]; Geithner's dubious AIG cover up [Naked Capitalism]; Tim Geithner "Protects America From Itself" By Forcing Elimination Of Material AIG Disclosure [Zero Hedge]; Frank: Fed's Role in AIG 'Troubling' [Bloomberg] Gates to stay at...
  
• DOE Gives Nuclear Labs One Heck of a Long Winter V ...
  If your kid accidentally blew apart a building, would you give them less supervision? This hands-off approach is exactly what the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is doing by giving the contractors who manage the nation’s eight...
  
• Morning Smoke: Gates Orders a Delay in F-35 Progra ...
  Gates Calls for Delay in Pentagon Purchases of Lockheed F-35s [Bloomberg] Gates Acts on F-35 Delays [Aviation Week] Geithner's New York Fed Told AIG to Limit Swaps Disclosure [Bloomberg] Stricter Rules for Oil and Gas Leasing on Federal Land [ProPublica]...
  
• Morning Smoke: UBS Whistleblower Asks DOJ to Inves ...
  Ex-UBS Banker Asks Review of the Handling of His Case [The New York Times] Senate panel nears agreement on role of Fed [Reuters] Audit Faults Interior Office's Oversight of Appraisals [The New York Times] GMAC May Post $10 Billion Annual...
  

Science Express

• Bcl6 gene sculpts helper T cell to boost antibody ...
  Expression of a single gene programs an immune system helper T cell that fuels rapid growth and diversification of antibodies in a cellular structure implicated in autoimmune diseases and development of B cell lymphoma, scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported toda ...
  
• Scientists discover gene mutation responsible for ...
  University of Utah researchers and their colleagues have identified the gene that is mutated in a hereditary form of a rare neuroendocrine tumor called paraganglioma (PGL). The gene, called hSDH5, is required for activation of an enzyme complex that plays a critical role in the chemical reactions th ...
  
• Researchers identify itch-specific neurons in mice ...
  Historically, many scientists have regarded itching as just a less intense version of pain. They have spent decades searching for itch-specific nerve cells to explain how the brain perceives itch differently from pain, but none have been found.
  
• Sustained quantum information processing demonstra ...
  Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically charged atoms (ions). The new work, described in the August 6 issue of Science Express ...
  
• Dark Matter May be Easier to Detect than Previousl ...
  (PhysOrg.com) -- The Milky Way, like many other galaxies, is thought to be embedded in massive, lumpy amounts of dark matter that release gamma rays and other emissions. Although at first these emissions seem too faint to detect, recent observations have shown that they may be stronger than previous ...
  

TechDirt

• Can The US Continue To Innovate At A Necessary Rat ...
  Chris Tolles points us to what I have to say is an absolute must read piece by Jim Manzi (who I haven't always agreed with in the past), exploring the biggest challenge the US faces in going forward . It's difficult to express how important and worthwhile analysis this is. I don't agree with every ...
  
• Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning Off WiFi And Cel ...
  For years, we've heard of people freaking out about WiFi or mobile phones, claiming they have "electromagnetic sensitivity" to those things. The only problem is that in double-blind tests, there is no evidence that any sensitivity is due to electromagnetic waves. And yet, people keep insisting it ...
  
• Fox News Sued For Copyright Infringement; Complain ...
  It's always funny how those organizations that seem to be against the concept of fair use have it come back to bite them. You may remember, a few months ago, as part of his campaign against "aggregator" sites that "steal" from him, Murdoch commented that fair use would likely be barred in the cour ...
  
• BMI Sues T-Mobile, Claims It Needs To Pay Up Over ...
  I'm still in the camp of folks who doesn't quite understand "ringback tones" -- the ugly stepchild of ringtones, where it's not what music your phone plays, but what music a caller hears when they call you and are waiting for you to pick up. While ringbacks have been a big deal in Asia, they're stil ...
  
• Viacom: Court Should Grant Summary Judgment Over Y ...
  The Viacom vs. Google/YouTube lawsuit has become something of a running joke in legal circles over the amount of time it's taken to run through the discovery process and actually get the lawsuit moving. However, people are now expecting the case to finally move forward. Both Google and Viacom have ...
  

VacTruth

• Big Pharma Planning to Fund Hollywood Production
  Diet Drug Maker Glaxo to Pay for a Film on Eating By BROOKS BARNES NYTimes.com January 7, 2010 LOS ANGELES — GlaxoSmithKline is getting into the movie business, pursuing an unusual and most likely controversial strategy to increase interest in a weight-loss drug. Glaxo, the pharmaceutical giant b ...
  
• Autism cluster found in Santa Clara County linked ...
  . . . By Lisa M. Krieger Mercury News 01/06/2010 Silicon Valley’s concentration of autism cases has triggered a spate of theories, from neighborhood contamination to a “geek gene.” But a team of researchers from the University of California-Davis has found one factor that unites this and nine other ...
  
• Governments don’t lie, do they?
  . . . Christina England vactruth.com 01/06/2010 How many damaged children does the world have to see before the answer to this question becomes obvious? Yes, Governments do lie! They lie every time a child is vaccinated by assuring parents vaccines are completely safe. We have a world of the unheal ...
  
• Red Bluff man loses his driver’s license aft ...
  . . . Tang Lor Contra Costa Times 01/04/10 With a number of people getting flu shots all sorts of side effects and reactions have been reported, but most people don’t end up losing their driver’s license because of a flu shot. Red Bluff resident Robert Roof claims the shot is what triggered a serie ...
  
• Nemeroff & The First House That Glaxo Built?
  . . . Ed Silverman Pharmalot 01/05/09 Yesterday, we wrote that Charles Nemeroff, the controversial psychiatry professor at Emory University in Atlanta, had just purchased a $1.9 million, six-bedroom, seven-bath home in the Coconut Grove section of Miami, as he prepares for his new job at the Univer ...
  

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  Great post by Jason Laning In Defense of Anarchism.  In response to the idea that anarchists wouldn’t be able to “resist power-seekers who want to dominate and control others” he says, That is, his hypothetical scenario of an anarchist society doesn’t seem to have many anarchists in it. Instead, ...
  
• Anarchism – What’s in a Name?
  With all the stigma attached to the world anarchism, why call yourself an anarchist? Anarchists are bound to ask themselves that question at some point.  Perhaps you run across another news report where anarchists are blamed for some random violence.  Maybe some pundit compares anarchists to terro ...
  
• Happy New Year
  
  
• What You Liked, 2009 Edition
  Breaking news isn’t really my thing, but it does bring the traffic.  The article I wrote after attending CATO/Glenn Greenwald’s release of the Portugal decriminalization study was the most popular post this year.  And the snowball war post came in at number three. White America’s Existential Crisi ...
  
• Poor Man Can’t Eat, Rich Man Can’t Sle ...
  I used to shoplift as a kid.  When I was about fourteen, I was busted with a purse full of makeup and banned from Rite Aid for life. My father was unusually rational about the whole incident.  Clearly, all the crap I had in my room could not have been purchased with my babysitting money.  And [...]
  

Executive Intelligence Review

• Germany Needs 21st-Century Technology, Not a New M ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
• Four Power Plan Can Defuse ME War Threat
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
• British Monarchy Marching in the Shadow of Edward ...
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
• Bad Times for Some: Poor Paul Krugman
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
• 2010: The Turning Point
  By John Hoefle Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  

Armies of Liberation

• US Sanctions Iran Based al Qaeda, Zawahiri Promise ...
  The US Treasury Department placed financial sanctions on Saad bin Laden, thought to be in Pakistan, and three alleged al Qaeda operatives in Iran including a Yemeni. The terrorist designation Friday froze their assets within US jurisdictions and prohibits Americans from financial dealings with the ...
  
• Arabian Peninsula al Qaeda groups merge
  In the face of Saudi Arabia’s success against the al Qaeda organization, many Saudi operatives have fled to the more hospitable climate in Yemen, joining others who recently arrived from Iraq, Somalia, and Pakistan. Al Qaeda in Yemen announced its merger with Saudi Arabia’s al Qaeda organization to ...
  
• Yemen strikes multi-faceted deals with al Qaeda
  Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently struck a deal with Ayman Zawahiri, and Yemen is in the process of emptying its jails of known jihadists. The Yemeni government is recruiting these established jihadists to attack its domestic enemies as it refrains from serious counter-terror measures aga ...
  
• Yemen’s Multi Faceted Deals with Al Qaeda (A ...
  اليمن تعقد صفقات متعددة الوجوه مع القاعدة كتبت: جين نوفاك – فبراير/ 2009 عبدالله عبدالوهاب ناجي- ترجمة خاصة بالمستقلة عقد الرئيس اليمني علي عبدا لله صالح مؤخرا صفقة مع ...
  
• Yemen’s three terror fronts
  By Jane Novak March 28, 2009 3:18 PM Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took credit in an internet statement Friday for a pair of suicide attacks that targeted South Koreans in Yemen. A teen-aged suicide bomber killed four South Korean tourists in Shibam, Hadramout on March 15. A second terror att ...
  

Dark Politricks

• TSA funding airport mind-reading scanners
  Daniel Tencer Raw Story Saturday, January 9th, 2010 Amid the media furor over the attempted Christmas Day attacks and a renewed political focus on enhancing airport security, attention is turning to a technological advancement that will have civil rights activists — or, for that matter, anyone ...
  
• Carville: Airport scanners can ‘measure my penis’
  Christina Wilkie The Hill Saturday, January 9th, 2010 The debate over full body security scans just got a lot more graphic, thanks to Democratic political strategist and frequent flyer James Carville.  Speaking on The Tony Kornheiser Show Friday, Carville laid out, or unzipped, his vision for airpo ...
  
• Drudge: Big Sis Wants to See Under Your Clothes
  Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 9, 2010           Drudge ran these photos with the headline: “Big Sis Wants to See Under Your Clothes.”     Drudge hit the nail right on the head. It headlined a Reuters story as follows: “Big Sis Wants to See Under Your Clothes.” The website put up a ...
  
• Cancer Risks Debated for Type of X-Ray Scan
  MATTHEW L. WALD NY Times Saturday, January 9th, 2010 The plan for broad use of X-ray body scanners to detect bombs or weapons under airline passengers’ clothes has rekindled a debate about the safety of delivering small doses of radiation to millions of people — a process some experts say is certain ...
  
• Airline Group Protests Airport Body Scanners, Aust ...
  Nichola Saminather Bloomberg Saturday, January 9th, 2010 The Asia-Pacific airline industry group is protesting the introduction of full-body scanners at airports, saying it treats all passengers as potential terrorists, the Australian newspaper reported. The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines said ...
  

food and water watch

• Melamine in Chinese milk…here we go again
  The recent revelation that China has once again hidden a major food safety incident involving melamine in dairy products for over a year clearly demonstrates that its food safety system cannot be trusted. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration maintains a staff in China to monitor the safety of food, ...
  
• Briscoe vs. Environmentalists
  As an intern for Food and Water Watch, I attended a meeting in November titled  “Water and Agriculture: Developing Word Solutions” sponsored by Johns Hopkins University. The guest of honor was John Briscoe, a former World Bank Senior Water Advisor, and a current professor at Harvard. He discussed th ...
  
• ‘Why we took to the streets’
  I would like to share this op-ed with you, co-written by our Board member Maude Barlow, about the situation in Copenhagen.  Thank you for reading and Happy New Year! –Wenonah Hauter Why we took to the streets Inaction from business interests and political leaders in Copenhagen has forced the rebirth ...
  
• Day 1 in Rome
  Hello from Roma, viva Roma. I am Dave Andrews, Senior Representative for Food & Water Watch. I am in Rome for the World Food Summit which is taking up the issue of one billion hungry people in the world, most of them farmers and most of them women. The solution of the US is high [...]
  
• Day 4 in Rome
  The official FAO meeting began on the 16th of November with the Pope followed by Libya’s Gaddafi, an interesting pairing! The Kings and Presidents (but not Obama) had the roads of Rome closed off for them, getting near the FAO was a big challenge so I waited until things calmed down later in the day ...
  

treehugger

• Fair Trade Farmers Spearhead Climate Adaptation Ef ...
  Image credit: AdapCC One of the stranger memes to come from the recent influx of climate skeptic/denialist commenters on this blog has been the idea that the developing world can't afford robust action to cut emissions. Yet the evidence keeps on mounting that the poor will be hit hardest by climat ...
  
• Teens Address Harmful Chemicals in Cosmetics at Na ...
  Credit: Teens Turning Green Remember when we were young and thought we could change the world? Well teens across the country are not holding their breath for a more sustainable future, they are taking action towards one with Teens Turning Green . The national movement is both relevant to teenagers ...
  
• CES 2010 - EcoNation and Terracycle Turn Out Green ...
  I kinda have to eat my words here. I called EcoNation's cardboard speakers greenwashed awhile back . And, while I'm sticking to the 5 DIY alternatives I mentioned, I have to admit that upclose, these speakers are oh, so cute and tempting. And oh, so much more green than similar quality speakers in ...
  
• African Soccer Team Jerseys by Puma will Promote B ...
  Puma and the UN Environment Programme unveil The Africa Unity Kit to support the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity. Photo via unep.org. Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com 's Naturally Green section. What do you get when you mix soil samp ...
  
• CES 2010 - CEA Backs Stance on NYC e-Cycling Lawsu ...
  When it comes to the impact of electronics on the planet, we have to tread carefully. We love strong regulations behind e-waste and e-cycling, designs that focus on cradle-to-cradle, manufacturers making drastic improvements on efficiency of energy consumption, embodied energy, manufacturing waste ...
  

Biosingularity

• Pomegranates May Stall Breast Cancer
  Eating pomegranates or drinking pomegranate juice may help prevent and slow the growth of some types of breast cancer. A new study shows a group of phytochemicals called ellagitannins found in abundance in pomegranates inhibited the growth of estrogen-responsive breast cancer in laboratory tests. vi ...
  
• Epigenetics research takes aim at cancer, Alzheime ...
  Two mice. One weighs 20 grams and has brown fur. The other is a hefty 60 grams with yellow fur and is prone to diabetes and cancer. They’re identical twins, with identical DNA So what accounts for the differences? It turns out that their varying traits are controlled by a mediator between nature and ...
  
• New biosensors reveal workings of anti-psychotic d ...
  Scientists have resolved a question about how a popular class of drugs used to treat schizophrenia works using biosensors that reveal previously hidden components of chemical communication in the brain. Although delusions and hallucinations characterize the illness, people with schizophrenia also st ...
  
• Stem cell transplants treat ‘incurable&#8217 ...
  A previously incurable blood disorder – sickle-cell disease – has been successfully treated in 9 of 10 adults who received stem cells transplanted from tissue-matched siblings. via Stem cell transplants treat ‘incurable’ blood disorder – health – 10 December 2009 – New Scientist.
  
• Technology Review: Blogs: TR Editors blog: Magneti ...
  Researchers at Yale have demonstrated a device that uses a magnetic liquid to separate blood cells based on their size and shape in just minutes.The device applies a magnetic field to a liquid containing magnetic nanoparticles. The nanoparticles create waves that carry cells along depending on their ...
  

CFACT

• Not a hair of truth to dioxin claims
• Cruising down the road on a paper mill sludge
• RFK, Jr. Looking to make bacon on hog lawsuits
• No breeze for off-shore wind farm in Britain
• Off-shore oil rigs: a boon to aquatic species?

Ria Novosti Online News

• 115-yr-old building collapses in Mumbai
  A portion of an old five-storey building collapsed in Mumbai, India's largest city, on Saturday, PTI reported.
  
• Over 1,500 intl. observers registered for presiden ...
  Ukraine's electoral commission has registered 1,583 foreign observers who will monitor the January 17 presidential election, Kyiv Post reported Saturday.
  
• China urges U.S. to stop arms sales to Taiwan
  China urged the United States on Saturday to reverse its decision to sell arms to Taiwan, Xinhua reported.
  
• Tehran urges greater regional security
  Iran's top security official said Saturday regional security was interdependent and key to regional development.
  
• Last missing mountaineer found dead in Russia's N. ...
  The body of the last missing mountaineer was found in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria on Saturday, a local emergencies spokesman said.
  

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia to launch three Glonass satellites
  The Proton carrier rocket with three Glonass navigation satellites will be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Monday, a spokesman for the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.
  
• NASA prepares to launch orbital telescope
  NASA is set to launch a Delta II rocket on Monday carrying a space observation telescope that scientists hope will show up previously hidden cosmic objects.
  
• Russia launches Proton rocket with three Glonass s ...
  A Proton M booster rocket with three Glonass M navigation satellites blasted off from the Baikonur space center on Monday in this year's final launch.
  
• Russia orbits three new Glonass navigation satelli ...
  A Proton-M carrier vehicle on Monday orbited three new Glonass-M navigation satellites, a spokesman for Russia's space agency said.
  
• China launches first public-welfare mini satellite
  China has put into orbit its first public-welfare mini satellite, Chinese official news agency Xinhua reported.
  

Pruning Shears

• The OLC Does Not Have a Head. Does It Need a Body?
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post According to its web site , the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) “provides authoritative legal advice to the President and all the Executive Branch agencies.” Its home page gives a brief, readable description of its functions, which ba ...
  
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The TSA subpoenaed a blogger who posted a new screening directive, then backed down . This doesn’t have as much to do with procedures at the TSA (though it has something to do with that) as the outsized sense of authority that feder ...
  
• Best Music of 2009
  Introduction If you dig these songs please consider buying them. Most can be had for less than a buck. All these were downloaded freely and legally this year so I’m posting them in good faith. Links will be live for a week. If you hold the copyright on one and would like it removed, please let me ...
  
• A Bold Prediction
  I’m going to go out on a limb here and say the Wall Street Journal will not have an article on December 30th, 2010 detailing the ways in which various stakeholders attempt to coordinate end-of-life decisions in order to take advantage of the nearly expired estate tax holiday.
  
• Through the Looking Glass With the DOJ
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The case of Guatánamo detainee Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi took a bizarre turn last week. He is represented by habeas lawyer H. Candace Gorman and is, as Andy Worthington pointed out , overwhelmingly likely to be innocent. He has neve ...
  

Natural Health News

• How to Avoid Common Cause of Killing Yourself With ...
  When pouring out doses of medicine, use an exact measuring device rather than a common kitchen spoon.  A new study suggests that depending on the spoon’s size, people tend to pour too little or too much. The study involved nearly 200 university students who were asked to pour a teaspoon of liquid m ...
  
• Wrong Spoon Size Common Cause of Medicine Mistakes
  When pouring out doses of medicine, use an exact measuring device rather than a common kitchen spoon.  A new study suggests that depending on the spoon’s size, people tend to pour too little or too much. The study involved nearly 200 university students who were asked to pour a teaspoon of liquid m ...
  
• Hazards of Obesity Now Rival Smoking in U.S.
  Obesity now poses as great a threat to Americans' quality of life as smoking, a new study shows. Researchers analyzed 1993-2008 data that included interviews with more than 3.5 million adults. The results showed that the quality-adjusted life years lost to obesity are equal to, or greater than, thos ...
  
• Are You Using Your Fireplace Safely?
  Cold winter nights lead many to light a fire for heat and comfort. But an outmoded fireplace or wood stove not only pollutes the outdoors, but the indoors as well. Old fireplaces and stoves can emit eight times as much dangerous microparticulate matter per hour as new ones that meet the EPA's standa ...
  
• The Hidden Benefits of Exercise
  Regular workouts may help fight off colds and flu, reduce the risk of certain cancers and chronic diseases, and slow the process of aging. A growing body of research is showing that regular exercise can boost your body's immune system, increasing the circulation of natural killer cells that fight o ...
  

Antemedius

• Toward a method of activism
  "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings." -- Shakespeare The overall state of dialogue on the left is incredibly banal. It is narrow. It is ahistorical. Our current condition comes at the tail-end of a long deterioration. At its best, left politics ...
  
• Rep. Cantor - "Lets Do It Like El Al"
  This morning Minority Whip Eric Cantor (the Mini-Me to Minority Leader Boehner’s Dr. Evil) was on Faux News spouting off about how American airport security is too lax. He is of course ignoring the fact that he and his party where in power when the TSA was created and the current rules were implemen ...
  
• FOIA Request Filed for OPR Report on Bush's Lawyer ...
  An organization of attorneys, journalists, and advocates today filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act requesting the long-suppressed report from the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) regarding the conduct of President Bush's top lawyers in the Office ...
  
• 2010 A Year Of Doom For Dems? Not So Much.
  Is 2010 going to be a slaughter for Democrats? Listening to shows like Hardball and reading headlines like CNN’s “Democrats Dropping Like Flies” might tend to make you think so at first blush, but it is a hell of a lot more complex than that. So the Dog thought it might be worthwhile to take a look ...
  
• Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Blowback Effect, 2020
  Originally published at TomDispatch.com You can already see a new style of writing about China emerging in our American world.  The New York Times set it off recently by publishing a front-page piece on a $3.4 billion Chinese investment in one of the planet’s last great copper reserves -- in Afghani ...
  

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

• UnderpantsGate: Big Oil, the CIA and the Attempted ...
  Also see: American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism By Alex Constantine (Supplementary revisions, 12-30-09, 1:29 pm) It’s All, Once Again, About Big Oil and a Pipeline … Abdulmutallab’s exploding unmentionables “Why Was Umar AbdulMutallab in Houston in August 2008? Whom Did He Visit There? What Did H ...
  
• Celebrities Lead Charge against Scientology
  Hollywood figures quit ‘rip-off’ church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities Peter Beaumont in London, Toni O’Loughlin in Sydney, and Paul Harris in New York The Observer | 22 November 2009 The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the Jo ...
  
• Baltimore: Cultist Withdraws Guilty Plea in Baby&# ...
  BALTIMORE — A former member of a defunct religious cult has backed out of a plea deal and will face trial on charges he and others starved a toddler to death. Marcus Cobbs had agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of accessory after the fact. But his attorney abruptly withdrew the plea Friday mo ...
  
• What’s Wrong with this RFID Chip?
  RFID chip brought to you by the Carlyle Group and Matrics, Inc.
  
• Will Donor Scandals Doom Crist’s Senate bid?
  ” … Three of Crist’s top fund-raisers have been hamstrung by federal investigations in the past nine months, and a fourth, Jupiter sports agent and real estate investor Marc Roberts, is facing a federal lawsuit alleging he defrauded a business partner out of $100 million to support his own ‘lavish p ...
  

Climategate

• The National Domestic Extremism Team may be watchi ...
  The UK government believes that Climate Change "Deniers" are extremists, and the NETCU, who reports to ACPO's Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee, is watching them. No related posts.
  
• 2009: The year Copenhagen cooled the world on glob ...
  Global Warming didn't really work out very well last year, did it? Such a shame too, it was supposed the year Copenhagen saved the world. PopularTechnology.net today has posted some charts, and links to 375 articles that show just how damn bitter ass cold 2009 was. Related posts: Global warming ac ...
  
• South Pole temps in the UK speed innovation in car ...
  From the nation that brought you East Anglia climate remodeling, is the latest in ecodesign and homebuilding: the Global Warming Cooling Changing "Carbon Neutral" home.
  
• As climategate becomes “pressgate,” questions for ...
  Andrew Breibart's Big Journalism has an excellent article today, with questions for the media on their coverage of climategate.
  
• The oceans are dissolving! Take a breath, no, they ...
  The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI)--a DC think tank--has has debunked this latest junk science of Ocean Acidification. The level-headed folk over at SPPI offer a thorough report in a science-based critique.
  

Opinio Juris

• National Journal on Predator Drone Strikes
  by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson The National Journal has a two part cover story, January 9, 2010, on Predator drone strikes — required reading for those following the targeted killing and Predator drone developments, and although it is behind a subscription wall, no question that this Nat ...
  
• Whatever Happened to Biosphere 2?
  by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen With all the talk about the environment and climate change and the with success of eco-themed TV show Life After People, I was struck by this blog post/ photo essay at BLDGBLOG on the degradation of Biosphere 2, the experiment in building a self-contained ecologica ...
  
• Thomas Franck Tribute
  by Roger Alford by Roger Alford The New York University Law Review has just published an issue in tribute to Thomas Franck. It includes reflections by Richard Revesz, Thomas Buergenthal, Normen Dorsen, Michael Glennon, Harold Koh, Miriam Shapiro, Chris Borgen, Peter Gutherie, and Michael Mattler ...
  
• When Cooperation Fails
  by Kal Raustiala by Kal Raustiala At Greg Shaffer’s invitation I’m joining the discussion to make a couple of small points about some of the concepts used in Greg and Mark’s very interesting and carefully researched book. The first concerns the GMO case as an example of a “regime complex.” When D ...
  
• Call for Papers: Women in International Criminal L ...
  by Kevin Jon Heller My friend and IntLawGrrl contributor Beth van Schaack has asked me to post the following call for papers: Call for Papers: Women & International Criminal Law Special Issue of the International Criminal Law Review Dedicated to Judge Patricia M. Wald The International Criminal ...
  

  Blacklisted News

• IS ISRAEL CONTROLLING PHONY TERROR NEWS?
  Who says Al Qaeda takes credit for a bombing?  Rita Katz.  Who gets us bin Laden tapes?  Rita Katz.  Who gets us prettymuch all information telling us Muslims are bad?  Rita Katz?  Rita Katz is the Director of Site Intelligence, primary source for intelligence used by news services, Homeland Securit ...
  
• Afghan govt. demands arrest of US "death squad" wh ...
• US forges alliance with Saddam Hussein officers to ...
  American counter-terrorism specialists and Saddam Hussein's former intelligence officers have forged an unlikely alliance in Yemen to tackle al-Qaeda.
  
• Detroit attack: US border guards knew alleged terr ...
  US border officials were aware that an alleged extremist was on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day and were ready to question him on landing, according to a report in the the Los Angeles Times.
  
• C-SPAN: WHITE HOUSE ALLOWED ONLY 'ONE HOUR' OF HEA ...

The Intelligence Daily

• “Conspiracy or cock up?” White House reaction to e ...
  By Michael Collins The underpants bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is a curious terrorist. He... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  
• U.S., NATO Expand Afghan War To Horn Of Africa And ...
  By Rick Rozoff (WSWS) — In parallel with the escalation of the war in South Asia –... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  
• Housebreaking the Corporations
  By John Michael Greer One obstacle to constructive change in the face of peak oil I didn’t discuss... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  
• Israeli Theft of Palestinian Property
  By Stephen Lendman Adalah, meaning justice in Arabic, is the legal center for Arab Minority Rights... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  
• CIA takes revenge with missile strikes in Pakistan
  By Bill Van Auken (WSWS) — In an apparent campaign of revenge at least 20 people have died in... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
  

My AntiWar

• The Mushroom Effect
  Summary: One could be forgiven for thinking that the neoconservatives who nudge us towards war with Iran are under the effect of the magic mushroom. Obsessed with Iran, their trips take on the shape of a ‘mushroom cloud’. source: CASMIIread more
  
• ‘Afghan Insurgency Can Sustain Itself Indefi ...
• Expert: Arab Nation May Be Going Nuclear
• Slain Veteran’s Family Leaves US as Wife&#82 ...
• Norad Scrambles Military Jets Again Over Unruly Pa ...

Rogue Government.com

• Israel launches air strikes in Gaza - Hamas
  Israel launched three air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, witnesses and the Islamist group Hamas said, after a day in which about a dozen mortar bombs and rockets fired from the territory struck inside the Jewish state.
  
• Flying Has Become A Nightmare Thanks To The CIA N ...
  For the millions of Britons who will soon be obliged to submit to the indignity of full body scans every time they take a flight, the overwhelming temptation will be to curse the al-Qaeda masterminds responsible for the increased disruption to our normal travel routines.
  
• Cybersecurity: Here's What Really Worries The Pen ...
  In Washington, “cybersecurity” is a term that’s come to have a thousand meanings, and none at all. Any crime, prank, intelligence operation, or foreign-government attack involving a computer has become a “cyber threat.”
  
• Ann Coulter says she's afraid of anal, foreskin b ...
  
  
• National security adviser: Airline bomber report ...
  White House national security adviser James Jones says Americans will feel "a certain shock" when they read an account being released Thursday of the missed clues that could have prevented the alleged Christmas Day bomber from ever boarding the plane.
  

Innovation Canada

• Decade in review
  The first decade of the 21st century will be remembered as a decade of breakthroughs in science and technology. “It’s well known that discoveries in science are often drivers for important technological developments; for example, fuel cells,” says Thomas Ellis, director of research at the Canadian L ...
  
• i2eye with James Hesser
  Two years ago, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2009 the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, people around the globe have been marking the 400th anniversary of the first use of an astronomical telescope by Galileo Galilei. Laypeople, especially children ...
  
• Model scientists
  When hurricane season officially blew to a close in the Atlantic basin at the end of November, two Quebec researchers did not exhale in relief. That’s because René Laprise and Louis-philippe Caron were still looking for hurricane data from the past to help create a tool to predict future storm patte ...
  
• i2eye with Andrew Weaver
  As a child growing up in Victoria, if Andrew Weaver had to choose between watching a hockey game or a Jacques Cousteau program, the ocean explorer won out every time. Now a professor and Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, Weaver has joined a crew o ...
  
• Extreme exposure
  It’s about 5°C in the chamber, and Geoff Hartley, wearing a burlap tunic and sandals, is trying with numb fingers to put small pegs in small holes. It’s just another day of chillin’ out at the Brock University lab of Stephen Cheung, a world-renowned scientist who studies the impacts of extreme tempe ...
  

Signs of the times

• Slovak airport test turns man into bombing suspect
  A 49-year-old electrician has emerged as an unlikely symbol of what can go wrong in the war on terror after authorities in Slovakia planted an explosive in his backpack to test airport security -- then let it travel all the way to Ireland. The incredible chain of events included a pilot taking off ...
  
• Fireball seen over Montreal
  A meteor crashing through the Earth's atmosphere could be responsible for sightings of a fireball over Montreal Thursday night, astronomers said. Montrealer Humberto Dramasino witnessed the sight as he was driving home in the city's St-Laurent district around 7:30 p.m. "I saw a fireball just below ...
  
• BEST OF WEB: CIA counter-insurgency in Afghanistan ...
  More than 5,000 people demonstrated in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad Thursday to protest the deaths of four children and wounding of scores of others in an explosion that ripped through a crowd in a nearby village the day before. The crowd blockaded the main highway to the Pakistan border fo ...
  
• A Dangerous Spin On The Cancer Risks Of Sugar-Free ...
  On January second this year, in a heavily advertised special health-theme issue of People Magazine, Kraft announced a new campaign on Crystal Light, a sugarless powdered drink mix which can easily be poured into tap and bottled water drinks, besides tea and coffee. Crystal Light's ingredients includ ...
  
• SOTT FOCUS: The Underwear Bomber - Crushing Freedo ...
  Strange as it may seem, a couple of weeks ago as I ruminated on Obama's broken promise to bring the troops home, his attempt to out-warmonger the Bush administration and his plummeting popularity, I thought to myself: "ya know, what that guy (or rather the disgruntled US public) needs is a good ol ...
  

Threat Level

• Online Gambling Boss Gets 33-Year Sentence
  The chief executive of an overseas, online gambling operation was sentenced by a U.S. judge to 33 months imprisonment after pleading guilty plea to racketeering, the government announced Friday. David Carruthers, 52, the former executive of BetonSports, was handed the sentence Friday in a St. Louis, ...
  
• Court to FCC: You Don’t Have Power to Enforce Net ...
  A federal appeals court gave notice Friday it likely would reject the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to sanction Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer applications. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suggested as much during oral arguments from the FCC and Co ...
  
• Senator Demands IP Treaty Details
  That a U.S. senator must ask a federal agency to share information regarding a proposed and “classified” international anti-counterfeiting accord the government has already disclosed is alarming. Especially when the info has been given to Hollywood, the recording industry, software makers and even s ...
  
• Bank Thieves Foiled by GPS-Spiked Cash
  Forget exploding dye packs. Three thieves who made off with about $9,000 in cash from an Illinois bank were thwarted by a GPS device inserted in the cash that led authorities straight to their door, according to the Chicago Tribune. Timothy Rucker, 33, Phillip Griffen, 31, and Brandon Barnes, 25, e ...
  
• Web Censor Seeks $2.2 Billion for China Hack
  A California web-filtering company says it is the victim of “one of the largest cases of software piracy in history.” Lawyers for adult- and violent-content web-filtering company CYBERsitter claim in a federal lawsuit that the Chinese government purloined some 3,000 lines of its code from its server ...
  

PERRspectives : Blog

• On Terror, GOP Goes from Oprah to Donald Trump
  Witnessing the Republican reaction to the Obama administration's handling of the failed Christmas bombing is like watching reruns of The Apprentice. Like Donald Trump, each conservative talking head proclaims "You're Fired!" to members of the Obama team. Of course, when...
  
• For Redemption, Tiger Woods Should Become a Republ ...
  Fox News anchor Brit Hume is rightly being mocked for suggesting that the road to redemption for a philandering Tiger Woods begins with his conversion to Christianity. But Hume's on-air evangelical fervor doesn't merely show his religious bigotry in general...
  
• 10 Moments in GOP Terrorism Accountability
  On Tuesday, President Obama described the failed Christmas airliner attack as a "potentially disastrous" failure of the system, one "that's not acceptable, and I will not tolerate it." Unsurprisingly, the usual mouthpieces of the right like Peter King and Ron...
  
• Ohio State Makes Oregonian Columnist Eat Rose Bowl ...
  The University of Oregon has a great football team. And with 18 returning starters on both sides of the ball, next season the Ducks will be one of the pre-season favorites to win the national championship. But for all of...
  
• GOP to Wealthy: Die Here, Die Now, Pay Less!
  In its December 30 article "Rich Cling to Life to Beat Tax Man," the Wall Street Journal reminded the wealthiest of its readers that 2010 will be an excellent year to die. The estate tax, which in 2009 impacted only...
  

Blackspot News Feed

• Ridge Defends Napolitano From Right-Wing Attacks: ...
  Tom Ridge, who served under President Bush, defended Napolitano, explaining that blame for the incident does not rest solely on her shoulders.
  
• Deported for a Tablet of Xanax? Immigrants Face Re ...
  Is being charged twice with possession enough to warrant deportation? Many U.S. courts think so.
  
• Bechyovinka
  There is a secret town in Kamchatka. One can get here only by sea or a helicopter… Yet another amazing photo-essay at English Russia, this time depicting the abandoned "submariners’ town" of Bechyovinka: Pure post-civilisation artporn.
  
• Obama Pushes Excise Tax, House Dems Fight It
  President Obama remains steadfastly committed to forcing the Senate's Chevy tax on health plans over the House's millionaire's surtax.
  
• Links for 2010-01-07
  Plastic Logic aims QUE e-reader at business crowd"Plastic Logic on Thursday unveiled a long-anticipated QUE electronic reader aimed at giving business travelers a "paperless briefcase.""(tags:computing ) French panel: Tax Google to fund the arts"How to help prop up the ailing music industry? Tax Goo ...
  

Consortium News

• Answering Helen Thomas on Why
  Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas broke through the terrorism boilerplate by asking why, Ray McGovern says. January 8, 2010
  
• California's Dysfunctional Future Shock
  The Republican Party has made a dangerous calculation that obstruction works politically, as Michael Winship sees in California. January 8, 2010
  
• The Botched 9/11 Intell 'Reforms'
  The 9/11 Commission's intelligence "reforms" added bureaucratic layers that made matters worse, writes Melvin A. Goodman. January 7, 2010
  
• Endless Double Standards on Cuba
  Cuba's arrest of a U.S. contractor is condemned by the U.S. news media which never sees its own hypocrisy, says William Blum. January 7, 2010
  
• Why Counter-Terrorism Is in Shambles
  The debate over who's to blame for missing the Christmas Day bomb plot misses the point, say Ray McGovern and Coleen Rowley. January 5, 2010
  

CounterPunch

• Alexander Cockburn : Acting Responsible
• Alison Weir : Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandh ...
• Peter Linebaugh : Some Principles of the Commons
• Missy Beattie : Shall We Gather at the CIA?
• Charles R. Larson : Is Tash Aw the Malaysian Graha ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Come the iron wall (Saleh Al-Naami, Al Ahram Week ...
  Maged Ibrahim hurried to his sister's house metres away from his own to fetch empty plastic containers. This university professor was out of time. As soon as his nephew, Adham, gave him three containers, Ibr ...
  
• "A badge of honour from a tin pot dictatorship" ( ...
• US urges new Mideast peace talks (Al Jazeera)
  The United States has urged Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace talks and to focus immediately on borders and Jerusalem, suggesting this could break their deadlock over Jewish settlement building. Wh ...
  
• Sale of land to Israel threatens to split church ...
  Israel's bid to keep occupied East Jerusalem under its sovereignty and prevent its incorporation into a future Palestinian state has been boosted over the years with the acquiescence of the Greek Orthodox Ch ...
  
• YNET reports George Mitchell is threatening Israel ...
  YNET is reporting that the US is considering sanctions against Israel. This is based on an interview George Mitchell recently did with Charlie Rose. From the article " Mitchell: Mideast stagnation endangers ...
  

Water - AlterNet

• Companies Are Going All Out to Convince People Nat ...
  But the industry is leaving behind a wake of law suits and contaminated water.
  
• USDA Data Dispels Myth that California's West Side ...
  An "Astroturf" agribusiness group has relentlessly promoted the myth that crops grown on drainage-impaired land on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley "feed the nation."
  
• Why Just About Everything You Hear About Californi ...
  The media and the governor are warning of the "worst drought in history" in California We're being lied to.
  
• Water Is the New Oil -- And That's Going to Be Bad ...
  With the impending freshwater scarcity crisis, world politics and human civilization is undergoing another turbulent sea change.
  
• Schwarzenegger Uses State of the State Address To ...
  He gushed about the legislative package that clears the path for a peripheral canal, new dams and the destruction of the California Delta as one his major "accomplishments."
  

TruthHugger

• Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Jan 4, ...
  The Texas Progressive Alliance is still somewhat amazed to be living in the year we make contact, and we hope we’re all still going strong when Odyssey Three rolls around. Texas has most drilling, worst regulation. Texas made national news this week in the ProPublica investigative report and they us ...
  
• Weary Soldiers At Risk, They Know This
  A poignant editorial on Al Jazeera seems to have more in depth observations than America’s Corporate media.  Mainstream media must follow the money, toe the line for sponsors and political perks that promise ’scoops’. ‘The US military is exhausted” By Sarah Lazare The call for over 30,000 more tro ...
  
• Darth Vader Strikes Again
  The botched terrorist attack on Christmas Day is NOT Obama's fault.
  
• Try To Remember America
  Well, few public schools, and few private schools, will fill in the gaps between America the fantasy and America the reality.  The name of America has been invoked with reverence when describing its history of righteous endeavors.  What is seldom included in these filtered history lessons, is some o ...
  
• Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Dec 14, ...
  TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS helps you follow the money to see why Governor Perry and others want Texans to keep breathing toxic air. BossKitty at TruthHugger is proud to give a Hat Tip to Houston – Annise Parker inherits a City of Progress. The Stonewall Democrats of Denton Coun ...
  

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Daniel Ellsberg
  with Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boil
  
• Trampled Tamils lack election appetite by Suren Su ...
  by Suren Surendiran Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.tamilsforum.com crossposted on guardi
  
• On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses Guant ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 8 January 2010 Today,
  
• Howard Zinn: Myths of the Good Wars (Three 'Holy' ...
  by Howard Zinn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad PHubb September 15, 2009 Historian, Author, Playwrigh
  
• Guantánamo and Yemen: Obama Capitulates to Critics ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 7 January 2010 For the
  

Unexplained Mysteries

• How did Earth avoid falling in to the sun ?
  Astronomers have determined how in its infancy the Earth managed to escape being incinerated from falling in to the sun. A new modeal has demonstrated...
  
• Rare self-rolling snow balls found in UK
  Large self-rolling snowballs are a phenomenon usually found in remote, frozen regions but now they are turning up in the UK. In something akin to the ...
  
• Turning wood in to bone
  Scientists have developed a new method with which to turn a certain type of wood in to bone that is nearly identical to that in humans. The new artifi...
  
• "Real El Dorado" uncovered in the Amazon
  The remains of a long lost civilization have been uncovered by deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Some are calling it the real El Dorado in what ...
  
• Toddler has chopstick removed from brain
  A toddler in China has undergone successful surgery to remove a chopstick that became wedged up his nose after he fell on it. 14-month-old Li Jingchao...
  

Grassroots

• Gaza Freedom March -- No Token Delegation
  Nitin Sawhney, a friend of Grassroots International and long time activist for Palestinian rights, was one of the 100 delegates, from the over 1300 international delegate-members of the Gaza Freedom March, chosen to go into Gaza through a last minute intervention by Suzanne Mubarak, wife of Egyptian ...
  
• Gaza Freedom Marchers await entry, keep vigil
  Hedy-sign.jpg   Starting on New Year’s Eve, the Gaza Freedom March (sponsored by Grassroots International and scores of other organizations) was set up to be an amazing international show of solidarity for the Palestinian people trapped in thi ...
  
• Remembering Dennis Brutus
  dennisbrutus.jpg South African poet, anti-apartheid and human rights activist, climate change warrior, and Grassroots International founder, Dennis Brutus passed away in Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday, December 26, 2009. He was 85. Accord ...
  
• Money’s Coming to Cool the Planet
  Subheadline:  What’s the Winning Spending Plan? Outside Author:  Daniel Moss Previous publication:  Foreign Policy in Focus ...
  
• Cooling the Earth with Food Sovereignty
  Outside Author:  Loie Hayes Previous publication:  Insights, Vol. 23 #2 (Fall 2009) brazil200907-332.jpg   read mor ...
  

Climate

• January 8, 2010
  U.S. EPA Plans to Tighten Bush-Era Smog Limits (Reuters) The EPA has proposed a new standard to limit smog between 60 and 70 parts per billion measured over eight hours — a move that would hit coal plants, ships and locomotives hardest. Study: Mountaintop Mining Damage 'Pervasive and Irrevers ...
  
• January 7, 2010
  Experts: Cold Snap Doesn't Disprove Global Warming (AP) Scientists say the current cold snap worldwide doesn't disprove global warming at all — it's just part of natural variability and will weaken in a week or two. FTSE 100 Firms on Track For CO2 Target (Reuters) Companies in the FTSE 100 ...
  
• January 6, 2010
  Salazar to Toughen US Drilling Rules (Wall Street Journal) Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is expected to announce today that the government will require oil and natural gas companies to clear more regulatory hurdles before they can drill on federal land. Energy Bills Likely, But Cap-and-Trade ...
  
• January 5, 2010
  New BLM Rules to Limit Wind Power in Wyoming (Reuters) Wind energy development is "functionally precluded" in about 20 percent of Wyoming under new Bureau of Land Management guidelines laid out to protect a threatened bird, the governor's office said. New French Carbon Tax Draft Will Exempt E ...
  
• January 4, 2010
  UK Prime Minister: Climate Change Deal Still Possible (Reuters) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he has an idea for moving forward with a global agreement to combat climate change in spite of the limited results of last month's Copenhagen meeting. Sun, Wind, Wave: EU Unites on Renewab ...
  

TomDispatch

• Tomgram: 'This Administration Ended, Rather Than ...
  [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: On Friday evening, TomDispatch will be switching to an updated version of this site. It's possible that you might not be able to reach TD for some hours. If so, we expect to be back up on Saturday morning. Tom ] The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't) ...
  
• Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Afghanistan as a Patr ...
  It's now a commonplace of the Afghan War. Western leaders in London , Berlin, Amsterdam , and Washington , as well as on flying visits to Kabul or even Kandahar , excoriate Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the "corruption" of his government. In return for their ongoing support, they repeatedly ...
  
• Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, How Palin Became a Rogue
  It can't get better than this, can it? A first printing of 1.5 million copies sent out into an otherwise dead book market. Possibly as much as $7 million dollars going to the author, who already has interviews lined up with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. A bus tour of the "real America" tha ...
  
• Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.
  Wars come home in strange, unnerving ways -- as Americans have just discovered at Fort Hood. Even before Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on his killing spree, that base, a major military embarkation point for our war zones, was already experiencing the after-effects of eight years of war and repeate ...
  
• Tomgram: Droning On
  [ Note for TomDispatch Readers : A number of you have recently written in for clarification on contributing to this site through your purchases at Amazon.com. Here's my best shot at a useful explanation: If you click on any book image at this site -- like the book-cover image of The End of Vict ...
  

Smirking Chimp

• The duck and cover age
  The lone psycho has really been taking a bite out of society as of late. These are people who, for one reason or another, decide to take their frustrations out on an unsuspecting public, the preferred method being opening fire in a crowded place. Since 1991 there has been at least one (but usually s ...
  
• Prescription for 2010: A New Democratic Narrative
  Ten months before the 2010 mid-term elections, Democrats are gritting their teeth in anticipation of net losses in both the House and Senate. How can Dems change the tide that's running against them? Move out of wonk mode and start talking to Americans from a foundation of progressive values. Over ...
  
• The Threat of Tone Deafness
  Right now, I'd say the number one short-term problem facing the Democratic Party is sheer tone deafness (longer-term problems include corporate cronyism, cronyism and lack of vision). We've seen this from the Obama administration in its gentleness towards the financial industry and we've seen it fro ...
  
• Weird Science: Why Politicians and Pundits Cling t ...
  The theory behind the "Cadillac tax" on health plans is little more than wishful thinking based on dubious research. Advocates believe that forcing employers to cut benefits will lead to cheaper, better care. That's like preventing rain by outlawing umbrellas. Yet the President has reversed his ca ...
  
• Tim Geithner: Henhouse Fox. Thanks Again, Obama!
  So not only do we get news today that Obama's Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, when head of the NY Fed in 2008, tried to hide the slightly inflammatory (ironic understatement) payoff of 100% in government-rescue funds by AIG to its banking counterparties's exposures. No, there's more: we get the ou ...
  

Ten Percent

• Friday! Portishead- Mysterons
  Sublime!
  
• Hell Is Round The Corner Where I Shelter
  Adam Curtis, Yemen- The Return Of Old Ghosts. Richard Murphy on the acquisition rent seeking plots of the corporations & banks to come in 2010. Jeffrey Kaye, Torture moves to the Homeland now with added ’scientific research’ paging Dr. Mengele…
  
• Self-Immolation Still Rising Among Afghan Women
  RAWA- More Afghan women are choosing suicide to escape the violence and brutality of their daily lives, says a new human-rights report prepared by Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department. The 2008 annual assessment paints a grim picture of a country where violence against women and girls is common, des ...
  
• Jean Charles de Menezes Permanent Memorial Unveile ...
  More @ Harpymarx and her Flickr stream. Almost lost in the seasonal fog was the news that Cressida Dick was awarded a Queen’s Police Medal for distinguished service, yes really. Such is the level of sincere contrition from our establishment at executing Jean Charles, ie None. RIP Jean Charles de Men ...
  
• NYT’s Dishonest Coverage Of Palestine
  This is how they report the Viva Palestina convoy, by Ethan Bronner who has been taken to task extensively on Mondoweiss. Not remotely surprising but just thought it worth re-mentioning.
  

Booman Tribune

• Scattershot Ideas on the Political Landscape
  Here is something Thomas Frank wrote back in March 2004: There was a time, of course, when populism was the native tongue of the American left, when working-class people could be counted on to vote in favor of stronger labor unions, a regulated economy and various schemes for universal economic s ...
  
• Tax Cuts Killed California
  Once upon a time, there was a Golden State which had the arguably the best public schools and the best public higher education system of state colleges and universities. People longed to move there for its natural beauty, its climate, its good schools, its many jobs in the entertainment, defense an ...
  
• Casual Observation
  I think it is probably time to start a Michael Steele death watch. If it's not one thing, it's another. That's just how a brother rolls. I can empathize right on my behind.
  
• Charlie Cook is a Bit Off-Base
  Charlie Cook is a decent analyst but he seems to have modestly Republican preferences that sometimes shade his analysis. Come November, Senate Democrats' 60-vote supermajority is toast. It is difficult, if not impossible, to see how Democrats could lose the Senate this year. But they have a 50-5 ...
  
• The Things They Say
  Newt Gingrich was trying to praise RNC Chairman Michael Steele, but he unintentionally admitted something quite damning about the typical Republican. "Michael Steele makes a number of old-time Republicans very nervous," Gingrich said. "He comes out of a different background. He went to seminary . ...
  

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 9 ...
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1928 – Domenico Modugno,...
  
• Friday Open Thread
  Cheerful news for the week-end: wages to double......
  
• UK allocates licences for large scale offshore win ...
  Big guns win UK Round 3 offshore wind zones A who’s who of major wind...
  
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 8 ...
   A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1905 – Giacinto Scelsi,...
  
• Thursday Open Thread
  So, what say you?...
  

Futurismic

• Science fiction, religion and rationality
  As if to mirror the wider (and louder) debate of science versus religion (which I remain convinced is a false dichotomy in some respects), the science fiction scene seems to be turning its attention to the deeper philosophical underpinnings of the genre. Here are a couple of stimulating viewpoints: ...
  
• America’s decline, and how to prevent it
  Internet serendipity strikes again! Hot on the heels of my questions about the political fragmentation and polarisation of the United States comes a long but lucid article from one James Fallows at The Atlantic, in which he discusses the nation’s seemingly perpetual worries about its own decline, an ...
  
• Why we reject stories
  I’ve been reading and responding to Futurismic fiction submissions for going on five years now, and hundreds and hundreds of stories have passed through our slushpile. If you do something long enough, you start to see patterns, and I thought I’d write up a list of common reasons for rejection that ...
  
• North Dakota vs Minnesota: interstate economic war ...
  To a nominal Brit like myself, reading about the American governmental system is a constant stream of surprises. It’s one thing to understand that a country comprised of fifty-odd states (which are themselves the size of some sovereign countries) will have baked a certain degree of local independenc ...
  
• Citizen status for dolphins?
  Well, maybe not… but researchers who work with dolphins have long proclaimed their high level of intelligence, suggesting that they’re the second smartest critter on Earth (after ourselves, natch). Now some are saying that they should be granted a suite of basic rights as befits “non-human persons”. ...
  

Therapy News

• How Your Brain Interferes with Managing Conflict
  By Jim Hutt, Ph.D., Family Problems Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jim and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Your partner isn’t the problem, your BRAIN is! Imagine that. And the irony is that your brain is just doing its job! Alright, so here’s the deal: We have not just one, but ...
  
• Therapy Advocates Continue Fight Against Chinese I ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though the man accused of attempting to smuggle several kilograms of heroin into China has been executed by the state despite the pleas of his family and British political leaders, some people in the mental health communities worldwide are continuing their calls for r ...
  
• “Mind” Mental Health Group Advocates for Choice in ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Though the prevalence of therapists and other dedicated mental health professionals is growing in many places throughout the world, many people facing personal concerns first discuss such issues with a general practice physician who may not have or know of local resou ...
  
• Therapy Beats Drugs for Mild Depression, Study Sho ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Concerns over the rate of prescriptions for anti-depressant medications in the United States have been steadily rising for some time, as critics suggest that the treatment option alone is sometimes unnecessary or inadequate, and may not provide long-term solutions. Rec ...
  
• Charity Encourages Therapists, Professionals to Gi ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have show remarkable rates of depression, stress-related concerns, and other issues including suicide, and the military has scrambled to respond with adequate measures as the mental health of its returning soldiers is incre ...
  

Mountaintop Removal

• Mountaintop Removal Creates Problems - istockAnaly ...
  Mountaintop Removal Creates Problems istockAnalyst.com (press release) The term surface coal mining glosses over a more descriptive term - mountain top removal (MTR). MTR is an invasive method of coal mining that leaves a trail ...
  
• Friday roundup, Jan. 8, 2010 - Charleston Gazette ...
  Charleston Gazette (blog) Friday roundup, Jan. 8, 2010 Charleston Gazette (blog) This week, I wanted to give a quick roundup of coverage of the Science journal article about mountaintop removal , so Coal Tattoo readers can see what other ... and more »
  
• Daily Briefing: Fri. - Mother Nature Network (blog ...
  The Guardian Daily Briefing: Fri. Mother Nature Network (blog) Mountaintop removal , widespread in Appalachian coal mining, works thusly: Forests atop mountains are clear-cut. Explosives are then used to obliterate the ... Briefing: Ship sinks, but whaling protesters to press on Pioneer Press all ...
  
• 'Avatar': no fantasy - True/Slant
  True/Slant 'Avatar': no fantasy True/Slant Take a look at a real-world situation that tracks Avatar's concerns rather closely: mountaintop removal coal mining. This week, a group of scientists ... and more »
  
• Mountaintop removal to mine coal "show" set for We ...
  Mountaintop removal to mine coal "show" set for Wednesday The Tennessean The Mountaintop Removal Road Show will take place tomorrow night (Wed., Jan. 6) featuring a multimedia presentation with Appalachian music and a look at a ... and more »
  

Memeorandum

• NEVADA U.S. SENATE POLL: Reid hits new low in poll ...
  Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal : NEVADA U.S. SENATE POLL: Reid hits new low in poll   —  Rating is worst in R-J's surveys for 2010 election  —  More than half of Nevadans are unhappy with Sen. Harry Reid, according to a new poll commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  It's the worst ...
  
• Scott Brown swearing-in would be stalled to pass h ...
  Frank Quaratiello / Boston Herald : Scott Brown swearing-in would be stalled to pass health-care reform   —  It looks like the fix is in on national health-care reform - and it all may unfold on Beacon Hill.  —  At a business forum in Boston today, interim Sen. Paul Kirk predicted that Congress wou ...
  
• Loud Protests on NPR's 'Tea Party' Cartoon (NPR Bl ...
  NPR Blogs: NPR Ombudsman : Loud Protests on NPR's ‘Tea Party’ Cartoon   —  For nearly two months, the animated political cartoon sat on npr.org virtually unnoticed.  And then someone discovered it, was disgusted and launched it into the blogosphere — making it a raucous rallying point for conservat ...
  
• What the GOP Can Learn from a Pizza Chain (Jonah G ...
  Jonah Goldberg / National Review : What the GOP Can Learn from a Pizza Chain   —  America is about second acts.  We love contrition and redemption.  —  This is one of those rare moments when the conventional wisdom in Washington is right.  The Democrats are poised to have a bad year; the only argum ...
  
• 9 reasons why the Dec. jobs report is bad news for ...
  James Pethokoukis : 9 reasons why the Dec. jobs report is bad news for Dems   —  Talk about one last gasp from the horrible year that was 2009.  On the political front, the December jobs numbers were terrible news for the White House and congressional Democrats in a midterm election year.  Here's h ...
  

Energy & Environment News

• By Degrees: Emissions Disclosure as a Business Vir ...
  A nonprofit tracks emissions and persuades some companies to change policies before governments step in.
  
• Politics: Air Quality Guidelines Face Unexpected C ...
  California’s battle against greenhouse gases is likely to come to the Bay Area soon, but some fear that a new set of guidelines may have unintended consequences.
  
• The Pulse: City Tests LED Lamps in Wicker Park Are ...
  City Hall is considering installing white lights to replace the yellowish-orange lamps along Chicago’s streets and alleys.
  
• China Tries a New Tack to Go Solar
  The country is taking tentative steps to master an alternative energy industry: using mirrors to capture sunlight, produce steam and generate electricity.
  
• Newport Journal: By Landing Fleet, Small Port Sets ...
  Newport, Ore., has been named the new home of the federal oceanic agency’s Pacific Fleet, irking it’s neighboring state of Washington and three ports there.
  

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, Solomon Islands
  Saturday, January 9, 2010 11:59:16 UTC Saturday, January 9, 2010 10:59:16 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  
• M 5.1, Solomon Islands
  Friday, January 8, 2010 13:00:05 UTC Saturday, January 9, 2010 12:00:05 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  
• M 5.1, Tonga
  Thursday, January 7, 2010 15:48:21 UTC Friday, January 8, 2010 05:48:21 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  
• M 5.0, Solomon Islands
  Wednesday, January 6, 2010 05:22:03 UTC Wednesday, January 6, 2010 04:22:03 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
  
• M 5.1, Solomon Islands
  Wednesday, January 6, 2010 04:29:56 UTC Wednesday, January 6, 2010 03:29:56 PM at epicenter Depth : 32.50 km (20.19 mi)
  

China Dialogue

• Saving water in America (1)
  A dam-building fervour in the south-western United States nearly killed its rivers, before a concerned public started a campaign to nurture them back to health. Zhang Kejia explores the lessons for China. The Colorado River is one of the most dammed in the world. Over the last two hundred years, for ...
  
• When China said “no”
  Some observers say that China wrecked the climate negotiations at Copenhagen. But the reality is more complex, argues Cao Haili. If climate change were only an environmental issue, there would be a far easier solution. However, the interplay of national interests that are involved – involving politi ...
  
• The end of idealism
  The failure of climate talks in Copenhagen exposed some uncomfortable truths about the current global order, argues Tang Wei. UN-led climate talks drew to a close in Copenhagen on December 19. Although a weak outcome had been widely predicted, many were still shocked by just how little the conferenc ...
  
• Seeing the future in Yunnan
  The inadequacy of efforts to address water pollution in south-west China exposes failures of imagination and foresight among policy-makers, argues Zhou Lei. China’s National Audit Office (NAO) recently published a report on the last seven years of efforts to deal with pollution in the Liao, Hai and ...
  
• Can consumers save our climate?
  After Copenhagen, can market forces – and consumers in particular – help address global warming? John Elkington looks at the promises and pitfalls of “green” consumption. Many of the business and government leaders who gathered in Copenhagen for the United Nations climate talks believe that market f ...
  

AlterNet Top Stories

• Cerberus Capital: Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor ...
  How one company made $1.8 billion by paying peanuts to human plasma donors and then manipulated the market by restricting supply to the desperately ill.
  
• Is Whole Foods Bad for the Planet?
  CEO John Mackey is a climate change denier. Meanwhile, companies scorned by Whole Foods' main customer base have stepped up efforts to deal with climate change.
  
• Factory Farmed Meat Can Trigger a Global Pandemic ...
  The chicken and pork industries have wrought unprecedented changes in bird and swine flu. Billions could die in a deadly flu pandemic, the likes of which we have never seen.
  
• Fox News' Shameless Christian Crusade
  At Fox News, religion is easy: Christianity is right and good and must be defended from its relentless persecutors, and other faiths are dangerous, inadequate, or a joke.
  
• Obama's Election Struck a Huge Blow Against Racism ...
  Author: "Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year."
  

Threat Level

• Online Gambling Boss Gets 33-Year Sentence
  The chief executive of an overseas, online gambling operation was sentenced by a U.S. judge to 33 months imprisonment after pleading guilty plea to racketeering, the government announced Friday. David Carruthers, 52, the former executive of BetonSports, was handed the sentence Friday in a St. Louis, ...
  
• Court to FCC: You Don’t Have Power to Enforce Net ...
  A federal appeals court gave notice Friday it likely would reject the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to sanction Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer applications. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suggested as much during oral arguments from the FCC and Co ...
  
• Senator Demands IP Treaty Details
  That a U.S. senator must ask a federal agency to share information regarding a proposed and “classified” international anti-counterfeiting accord the government has already disclosed is alarming. Especially when the info has been given to Hollywood, the recording industry, software makers and even s ...
  
• Bank Thieves Foiled by GPS-Spiked Cash
  Forget exploding dye packs. Three thieves who made off with about $9,000 in cash from an Illinois bank were thwarted by a GPS device inserted in the cash that led authorities straight to their door, according to the Chicago Tribune. Timothy Rucker, 33, Phillip Griffen, 31, and Brandon Barnes, 25, e ...
  
• Web Censor Seeks $2.2 Billion for China Hack
  A California web-filtering company says it is the victim of “one of the largest cases of software piracy in history.” Lawyers for adult- and violent-content web-filtering company CYBERsitter claim in a federal lawsuit that the Chinese government purloined some 3,000 lines of its code from its server ...
  

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Fourth church attacked in Malaysia as Allah row de ...
  KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Arsonists in Malaysia struck a fourth church on Saturday as the government tried to soothe tensions arising from a row over the use of the word "Allah" to refer to the Christian God.
  
• Wireless industry in flux as Google steps in
  SAN FRANCISCO/LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - The smoke has finally cleared on Google Inc's highly anticipated Nexus One smartphone, but the ramifications of the Internet company's new role as a mobile phone vendor are still hazy.
  
• Arrest in Newark airport security breach
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Authorities on Friday arrested a man suspected of triggering a security scare that shut down Newark's international airport this week.
  
• Chavez says Venezuela jets intercepted U.S. plane
  CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez said he ordered two F-16 jets to intercept a U.S. military plane that twice entered Venezuelan skies on Friday, but Washington said none of its planes flew over the South American country's airspace.
  
• E-reader makers seek bestseller but may end up dud ...
  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Remember the Dell DJ MP3 player? Or Sony's Clie digital assistant? It's likely dozens of the electronic readers debuting at the Consumer Electronics Show may go the way of these defunct gadgets by next year.
  

Equality Trust

• The importance of economic equality - Time.com
  Read the Time.com Q&A with ichard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.
  
• Call for fundamental rethink of the value of work
  Hospital cleaners are worth more to society than city bankers, according to a new method of calculating the value of different jobs published today. The new economics foundation (nef) called for a "fundamental rethink" of how the value of work was recognised and rewarded. The think tank said its s ...
  
• The Spirit Level - New Statesman book of the decad ...
  Wilkinson and Pickett's study gave scientific weight to a long-held claim of the left: that people are happier and healthier when they live in societies where wealth is distributed more equally. But the book's influence stretches across party lines and its findings are likely to shape political deba ...
  
• Levelling the bankers' bonuses
  Read a letter by Malcolm Clark, Director of the One Society Campaign in today's Guardian, about the positives for bankers of losing their bonuses. Peter Preston (The rewards of banking, 7 December) has a point: bankers are human too. Most of them want exactly the same as us: a decent quality of life ...
  
• Dr Lynne Friedli on the impact of inequality on me ...
  Dr Lynne Friedli talks about the impact of inequality on mental health, in a discussion with John Humphrys on the Today Programme - scroll down to 07.33 Listen to the discussion
  

IntelNews

• Analysis: Germany’s spies struggle to adapt to pos ...
  Nearly everyone in Germany recognizes that the global intelligence landscape has changed, almost beyond recognition, in the years since the end of the Cold War. Current challenges are far more underground in nature, far more flexible, far more unpredictable. The question is, has Germany's primary in ...
  
• News you may have missed #0247
  US government lowers threshold for inclusion on no-fly lists. CIA starts sharing data with climate scientists. How the KGB tried to recruit an NBC News reporter.
  
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• Comment: Is CIA Lying About its Blackwater Contact ...
  After CIA director Leon Panetta revealed last summer that private contractor Blackwater was part of a covert CIA hit squad, tasked with summary killings and assassinations of al-Qaeda operatives, the CIA vowed to sever its contacts with the trigger-happy security firm. But did it do so? It doesn’t l ...
  
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Grist - News

• The policy and politics of Obama’s $2.3 bill ...
  by David Roberts Today the Obama administration unveiled $2.3 billion in new tax credits to clean energy manufacturing companies. There were 183 projects selected out of some 500 applications; one-third were from small businesses; around 30% are expected to be completed this year. The winners are ...
  
• EPA gets tough on smog
  by Agence France-Presse The EPA sees the light.Photo: jordansmall via FlickrWASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed tougher standards for how much smog can be in the air, a move the agency said would save money and protect health, especially in children. "EPA is ...
  
• U.S. breaks with ‘drill anywhere’ ener ...
  by Agence France-Presse Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.Mike Disharoon via FlickrWASHINGTON -- The United States is moving away from the "drill anywhere, whatever the cost" energy policy of the previous administration, officials said Wednesday as they announced reforms in the way oil and gas leases ...
  
• U.S. car fleet shrank by four million in 2009
  by Lester Brown America’s century-old love affair with the automobile may be coming to an end. The U.S. fleet has apparently peaked and started to decline. In 2009, the 14 million cars scrapped exceeded the 10 million new cars sold, shrinking the U.S. fleet by 4 million, or nearly 2 percent in one ...
  
• Richard “Dick” Pombo running for Congr ...
  by Lisa Hymas Pombo and an old pal.Enviros were thrilled when Richard Pombo, a Republican who represented California's 11th congressional district for seven terms, was ousted from his seat by a renewable-energy geek in 2006.  Pombo had been deemed Public Enemy No. 1 by the environmental community, ...
  

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Time - Top Stories

• Yemen: America's Most Fragile Ally in the War on T ...
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  But please, not by videophone. On second thought, if you could just send me a text, that would be great
  
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Washington Independent

• Steele Couldn’t Have Finished His Book Befor ...
  Eric Kleefeld has the goods on Michael Steele’s really absurd fib that he “wrote this book before” he took over the RNC on January 29, 2009. On Tuesday, I noted that Steele makes an early, score-settling reference in the book to the special election in NY-23 and the gubernatorial races in New Jersey ...
  
• More Inconsistencies in the AIG Email Scandal
  Here’s the New York Fed telling Bloomberg News yesterday that the agency didn’t force the 2008 decision to delay disclosure of AIG payments to other Wall Street firms using taxpayer money. “Our position has always been that if AIG’s securities lawyers determine that AIG is legally obligated to ma ...
  
• Scott Brown on Hannity
  The GOP candidate in the Massachusetts special election for Senate will be on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show tonight, according to David Bernstein of the Boston Phoenix. This is all becoming extremely reminiscent of the conservative push for Doug Hoffman in NY-23: After flying under the radar for week ...
  
• Gibbs: AIG Bailout ‘Did Not Rise to [Geithne ...
  Here’s White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, responding today to questions about Tim Geithner’s role in the New York Fed’s 2008 decision to censor AIG payments to other Wall Street firms: Secretary Geithner was not involved in any of these e-mails. These decisions did not rise to his level at the Fed. ...
  
• MoveOn Rolls Into Massachusetts
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CowBoss' Brain Food

• Change, They Say, Is Good. But Is It?
  It's said that Alexander the Great wept when he realised there were no more lands left for him to conquer. In other words, there was nothing new to challenge him; there was no raison d'être. It's a laughable thought today, isn't it? Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-i ...
  
• Teacher breaks 4th grader’s arm for ‘forgetting Iq ...
  LAHORE: A female teacher of a private school thrashed Muhammad Jahanzeb, a fourth grade student when he was unable to explain a poem by Allama Iqbal, causing multiple fractures in his arm. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment
  
• We're expanding, while economy shrinks
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• Reports call for radical rethink on food policy to ...
  The food and farming sector is not pulling its weight when it comes to tacking climate change and food shortages could be the consequence if we fail to make fundamental changes to the way we farm, process, distribute and eat our food over the next 20 year Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society ...
  
• TV host curious about attacks on animal ag (audio)
  “Anybody from a city, in my opinion, who spends a day, a week, maybe even just a few hours on a working farm is going to be quickly disabused of a lot of what they believe,” Rowe told AgriTalk radio host Mike Adams last week. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |  ...
  

Suzie-Q

• 60 Minutes: Steve Schmidt Reveals Palin Was Not F ...
  Steve Schmidt: Palin Debate Was Nearly ‘Debacle,’ Kept Calling Rival ‘O’Biden’ (VIDEO) The Huffington Post |  Rachel Weiner First Posted: 01- 7-10 05:25 PM   |   Updated: 01- 7-10 06:26 PM On CBS’s “60 Minutes” Thursday night, Republican strategist Steve Schmidt revealed some of the behind- ...
  
• National Tea Party Convention
  Guess Who’s Headlining The First ‘National Tea Party Convention’? WONKETTE 10:41 AM on Thu January 7 2010 By Juli Weiner No one guessed anyone besides Sarah Palin, right? This thing is taking place next month in Tennessee and also features Michele Bachmann plus Others. And, uh, it is the “first eve ...
  
• Olbermann: LA Times Reports Extremist Links Uncove ...
  
  
• Terror is the price of support for despots and dic ...
  Egypt’s complicity in the Gaza’s siege underlines the role of western support for such regimes in the spread of war Seumas Milne, The Guardian/UK, Jan 7, 2010 An an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor had gone on hunger strike in support of a besieged people in another part of the world, and hundreds of ...
  
• Republicans Record On Terrorism Is Twisted And Dan ...
  The Republican record on terrorism is pretty damn terrible. Naturally, this hasn’t stopped them from milking whatever remains of their purely cosmetic tough-guy reputation in order to fear-monger the failed Underpants Bomber incident irrespective of their lengthy history of failure, cowardice and st ...
  

Solari

• Americans Oppose Proposals to Limit 401(k)s, ICI S ...
  By Jeff Plungis U.S. investors oppose federal initiatives that would force them to give up control over their 401(k) accounts, the Investment Company Institute said. Seven in 10 U.S. households object to the idea of the government requiring retirees to convert part of their savings into annuities g ...
  
• Switzerland: the Rule of Law Prevails
  By Elena Logutenkova, Joseph Heaven and Klaus Wille Switzerland’s financial markets regulator broke the law when it ordered UBS AG to give data on 255 of the bank’s clients to the U.S. last year, a court ruled. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, known as Finma, exceeded its authority ...
  
• JP Morgan “Rigs” Food Stamps Too!
  Christopher Paton, who runs JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s public-sector benefit payments business, talks with Bloomberg’s Margaret Brennan about trends in food-stamp use in the U.S. Click to View Video Continue at JPMorgan’s Paton Sees `Huge’ Increase in Food Stamp Use: Video YouTube (08 Jan 10) Pretty co ...
  
• Geithner Will Be “Charbroiled” Not Jus ...
  By Hugh Son Timothy Geithner was asked to testify before Congress about the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s efforts to limit American International Group Inc.’s disclosures of bailout payments to banks as President Barack Obama defended the Treasury secretary through a spokesman. Geithner, 48, w ...
  
• AIG Has Become A Figurehead Of All That Is Broken ...
  By Tyler Durden The latest observation on our depressing economic reality, behind the glitzy headlines and the 3D TV screens, comes from Bloomberg’s Jonathan Weil who rightfully asks “if AIG executives repeatedly claimed the stock was worthless, how do the executives, auditors, regulators, and, ult ...
  

Global Insights

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• The Georgia Guidestones
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
  
• The Creation
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• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
  
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
  Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more »
  
• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
  BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
  
• Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
  Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »
  
• Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
  Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »
  
• An Evolving Afghan Policy - American Chronicle
  An Evolving Afghan Policy American Chronicle ... triumph for the forces of Islamic extremism, al-Qaeda would once again gain a foothold, and the return of the Taliban would likely destabilize Pakistan . ...
  

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Obama's Election Struck a Huge Blow Against Racism ...
  Author: "Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year."
  
• The TSA Is Funding Airport Mind-Reading Scanners
  The risks to personal privacy inherent in mind-reading technologies should concern the public about abuse of their rights.
  
• Did a Court Just Deal a Fatal Blow to Tasers for P ...
  The ruling may signal the end of Tasers for law enforcement agencies who are now more vulnerable to civil and criminal action then ever before.
  
• How to Avoid Another Waco: Keeping the Peace in 10 ...
  John Joe Gray has been in a standoff for 10 years, raising the question of when it's worth risking bloodshed to enforce the law.
  
• Not Only Is Profiling for Terrorism Racist, It's T ...
  Instead of succumbing to the right-wing drum beat of calls for profiling Muslims, we should adopt a more rational approach to profiling for terrorism based on behavior.
  

Sideways News

• Winner of the Week: Thom Yorke sings for Tibet
  Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has penned three new songs for upcoming film documentary, When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun, which follows the Free Tibet movement’s ongoing struggle with China. Directed by Dirk Simon, of Between the Line fame, the film gives an insider’s view of the Tibetian movement ...
  
• Shorty Awards open for votes
  Voting has opened for the second annual Shorty Awards, which aim to recognise the authors of the best 140-character Twitter updates. Known as the "Twitter Oscars", the awards cover a variety of categories including News, Politics, Science, Journalist, Innovation, Humour, Celebrity and Advertising. I ...
  
• Cold weather has people looking for love
  The cold weather has prompted an increasing number of people to head online to find someone to cuddle up with. Figures from a number of dating sites suggest that while temperatures may be plummeting outside, things are heating up among their members, especially with a large number of people housebou ...
  
• Animal testing for medical advancement
• Coral reefs 'generate' new species
  While coral reefs have long been known to attract a diverse range of species, the undersea areas also act as cradles of evolution, according to new research. Scientists from the US and Germany, including Wolfgang Kiessling from Humboldt University in Berlin, used fossil records stretching back 540 ...
  

Fabius Maximus

• FM newswire for 9 January, hot articles for your m ...
  Today’s links to interesting news and analysis… We are slow learners:  “New Research on Mortgage Modifications and Principal Reduction“, Calculated Risk, 6 January 2010 –  Two years of futile policy measures lead to research that shows what was already known before the mortgage crisis began in ...
  
• A real “loaves to fishes” miracle, tak ...
  Today’s quote of the day: What has become of the American nation? Conceived with the vision of liberty and justice for all, we have descended in the clutches of corporate and other special interests to a second world state defined by K Street instead of Independence Square. Our government doesn’t ...
  
• FM newswire for 8 January, hot articles for your m ...
  Today’s links to interesting news and analysis… Guess who are “The Biggest Losers“, Wall Street Journal, 3 January 2009 — “Behind the Christmas Eve taxpayer massacre at Fannie and Freddie” Scary title, but the article provides good news (that the bad news is wrong):  “Where Are The Corpses?“, W ...
  
• About the coming crisis in public pensions
  Nicely said, by Nick Gillespie in article #2 below: ‘There is a looming showdown in American society between public-sector employees and the rest of us, in terms of job security and, especially, unsustainable gold-plated retirement and health benefits that are working hard to bankrupt whole states.” ...
  
• FM newswire for 7 January, hot articles for your m ...
  Today’s links to interesting news and analysis… Big news:  AQ is not SPECTRE, THRUSH, or COBRA:  “Whether it’s AQ or not, nobody in Arab media cares“, Marc Lynch, blog of Foreign Policy, 27 December 2009 Seeking the economist’s Holy Grail:  “What Makes a Nation Rich? One Economist’s Big Answ ...
  

sibeledmonds - tweets

• sibeledmonds: Dan Ellsberg on Boiling Frogs Show: ...
  sibeledmonds: Dan Ellsberg on Boiling Frogs Show: Was he conned by Obama? Does this make Pres. Obama a Con Man? Listen here: http://boilingfrogspost.com
  
• sibeledmonds: Boiling Frogs Show Presents Pentagon ...
  sibeledmonds: Boiling Frogs Show Presents Pentagon Papers’ Dan Ellsberg: Was he conned by Candidate Obama? Find out here: http://boilingfrogspost.com
  
• sibeledmonds: Coming Up- Boiling Frogs Show: Dan E ...
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WIRED Magazine | Science

• Hominids Went Out of Africa on Rafts
  ANAHEIM, Calif. — Human ancestors that left Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago to see the rest of the world were no landlubbers. Stone hand axes unearthed on the Mediterranean island of Crete indicate that an ancient Homo species — perhaps Homo erectus — had used rafts or other seagoing vess ...
  
• Bee Colony Collapse May Have Several Causes
  When suspiciously large numbers of honeybee colonies started collapsing in late 2006, the search began to find the culprit behind the mysterious deaths. Now it seems a whole web of problems may be causing what’s known as colony collapse disorder. It’s becoming clear that there is no single parasit ...
  
• Human Genome Is Part Bornavirus
  People may not be quite the humans they think they are. Or so suggests new research showing that the human genome is part bornavirus. Bornaviruses, a type of RNA virus that causes disease in horses and sheep, can insert their genetic material into human DNA and first did so at least 40 million year ...
  
• TigerCam: First-Ever Video of Sumatran Tigress and ...
  A Sumatran tigress and her cubs took a special interest in a World Wildlife Federation camera, sniffing and possibly licking it during a brief sequence released in late December. The video was released as a prelude to the WWF’s Tx2: Double or Nothing campaign to call attention to plight of the tige ...
  
• Chinese Coal Formed During Earth’s Greatest Extinc ...
  A seam of coal formed 250 million years ago during the worst extinction event on record appears to be responsible for the anomalously high lung cancer death rates among women in the rural Chinese county of Xuan Wei in Yunnan Province. It’s long been known that the lung cancer mortality rates in the ...
  

The Progressive Realist

• Has Obama Abandoned the Obama Doctrine?
  In the run up to the 2008 Election, Spencer Ackerman wrote the defining piece on the Obama campaign's intellectual approach to foreign policy, appropriately titled, "The Obama Doctrine." The Obama foreign-policy team describes it as "the politics of fear," a phrase most advisers used unprompted i ...
  
• China and Copenhagen: What Actually Happened?
  Two weeks ago, just after the Copenhagen talks wrapped up, I mentioned the very provocative article in the Guardian contending that Chinese officials had intentionally and alarmingly torpedoed the prospects of a deal, which included going out of their way to thwart Barack Obama's last-minute persona ...
  
• Leading Indicators: Off the Radar News Roundup
  - China released draft regulations designed to rationalize government investment in infrastructure, in part by submitting proposed government construction projects to public and expert scrutiny. The measures are clearly an anti-corruption/anti-pork initative, and the public has been invited to weigh ...
  
• No, Those War Drums Aren’t Just In Your Mind
  Today the Jerusalem Post has a blockbuster story about the looming U.S. war with Iran : US PREPARING FOR POSSIBLE IRAN CONFLICT Jan. 8, 2010 Hilary Leila Krieger, JPost correspondent in Washingon The US does not want to see confrontation with Iran but is still preparing its military for that possi ...
  
• Review of Security Situation In Mosul - 2009
  In a recent study of security statistics , Iraq Body Count found that Mosul was the most violent city in Iraq in 2009. Mosul, with a population of around 1.8 million people had 735 deaths in 2009, compared to 1,488 deaths in Baghdad that has a population of around 6.5 million. Mosul also had more v ...
  

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: It Takes a Nation of Millions to ...
  In today's segment of the Michael Steele /RNC train wreck, we learn that Steele a) "didn’t seek this job. I didn’t ask for it," instead merely following God's calling , b) wrote a book on Republican strategy that no one in the Republican party knew about, and c) could face a challenge (again) from ...
  
• ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Library Of Congress Ove ...
  A former military commissions prosecutor turned prominent military commissions critic, Col. Morris Davis claims he was fired from his position at the Congressional Research Service for criticizing the Obama administration's revival of military commissions for suspected terrorists. In December, the ...
  
• McCain and His Motives.
  Remember when we all thought John McCain was a steadfastly principled man who didn't play that nasty political game? Yeah, I know – it seems like so long ago. But let's take a gander at what he's saying in a new radio ad. " President Obama is leading an extreme left-wing crusade to bankrupt America, ...
  
• The Internet is Falling! The Internet is Falling!
  There's just really very little in the way of actual evidence in Larry Downes' CNET op-ed today that claims that the Obama administration is "clearly backtracking" on a commitment to turning the principle of net neutrality into enforceable policy. Downes' column is of a piece with a new ta ...
  
• The Battle for Voting Rights.
  Adam Serwer asks if the reassignment of the Bush-era head of the Justice Department section could mean real change on voting rights: Sometime during Christmas week, Christopher Coates , the chief of the Voting Rights Section of the Justice Department, was quietly reassigned to an 18-month detail in ...
  

Andy Worthington

• Andy Worthington Discusses the Yemenis Trapped in ...
  On Wednesday I was delighted to talk once more to veteran progressive radio host Peter B. Collins, for another of his mercifully ad-free podcasts, which allow interviewer and interviewee the breathing space to discuss important stories in detail. In his introduction to the one-hour interview, availa ...
  
• Guantánamo 8th anniversary: Demo at US embassy, Pa ...
  On January 11, 2010, the 8th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, the following events will be taking place in London: 12.30 to 2 pm: The London Guantánamo Campaign will hold a demonstration outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London, W1 The demonstration will call on the US ad ...
  
• Screening of “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantá ...
  On Tuesday January 12, at 7.30pm, at the Friends Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, SACC (Scotland Against Criminalising Communities) presents an open meeting and screening of the new documentary film “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthingt ...
  
• On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington Discusses Guant ...
  Today, I made my way to a TV studio in central London to hook up with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez in New York to discuss the recent uproar over the release of Yemeni prisoners from Guantánamo, and the Pentagon’s most recent claims that 1 in 5 released prisoners have engaged in terrorist activities ...
  
• Guantánamo Recidivism: Mainstream Media Parrot Pen ...
  Last May, the New York Times uncritically published a front-page story entitled, “1 In 7 Detainees Rejoined Jihad, Pentagon Finds,” in which Elisabeth Bumiller, relying on an unpublished Pentagon report, stated that “74 prisoners released from Guantánamo have returned to terrorism, making for a reci ...
  

Buzzflash

• The shamelessness of modern conservatism
  Body After meeting with red-faced advisers on Tuesday, President Obama noted that there was no inadequacy in the amount of their assembled security intelligence -- indeed, the NY Times' David Brooks has pointed out the staggering fact that "the National Security Agency alone now gathers ...
  
• Tribune Company Dumbs Down Politics on TV to Win B ...
  BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK Tribune Company For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America. Are these the new faces of political discourse ?So what happens when you put a shock jock in c ...
  
• Ben Pavone Takes on Credit Card Customer Abuse to ...
  WINGS OF JUSTICE Ben Pavone For those who have been upset over reduction in credit card limits or increases in interest rates, meet Ben Pavone. Ben Pavone is a lawyer in San Diego who got hit with both by Bank of America, a bank that has been under a significant cloud for some time now. Pavone's int ...
  
• Michael Winship: California, Here We Come
  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Michael Winship A number of years ago, when I would travel to California on business with my friend the late journalist and comedy writer Eliot Wald, we always carved out time to visit a couple of those massive Los Angeles grocery chains, such as Ralph's or Vons. It was ...
  
• Junk Food, Cheap Ad Space: Kentucky Fried Chicken ...
  BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White Their grub may be "finger-lickin' good," but will Kentucky Fried Chicken's secret recipe make a dent in the financial woes of struggling American cities? The restaurant chain announced a new advertising strategy this week seeking to take advantage of budget short ...
  

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• Helen Thomas deviates from the terrorism script
  (updated below) Following up on Thursday's post concerning our collective refusal to discuss how American actions and policies fuel Terrorism:   at a White House press conference yesterday with Janet Napolitano and John Brennan, Helen Thomas shows -- yet again -- that she's one of the very fe ...
  
• More cause and effect in our ever-expanding "war"
  If it is taboo to discuss how America's actions in the Middle East cause Terrorism -- and it generally is -- that taboo is far stronger still when it comes to specifically discussing how our blind, endless enabling of Israeli actions fuels Terrorism directed at the U.S.  An article in yesterday's N ...
  
• The backfiring of the Surveillance State
  Every debate over expanded government surveillance power is invariably framed as one of "security v. privacy and civil liberties" -- as though it's a given that increasing the Government's surveillance authorities will "make us safer."  But it has long been clear that the opposite is true.  As nume ...
  
• Cheney's stenographers fight back
  Throughout the year, Politico has repeatedly published as "news articles"  comments from Dick Cheney , which its "reporters" faithfully write down and print with virtually no challenge, skepticism or contradiction .  So extreme has this behavior become that even Beltway TV personalities such as Chr ...
  
• Civilian trials and the so-called rule of law
  I was wondering if someone could reconcile these three things: From Obama terrorism adviser John Brennan, on this weekend's Meet the Press :   MR. GREGORY: Why isn't [Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab] being treated as an enemy combatant instead of a criminal? MR. BRENNAN: Well, because, first of all, w ...
  

The BiPartisan Report

• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives
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• Betsy’s Bullshit, Round 2

Sciencebase

• Scientists torn between cash and kudos
  With ailing banks propped up by billions in taxpayers’ money and nations rolling through the mud of economic recession is it any surprise that we get mightily frustrated to hear of their enormous bonuses and golden pension pots? Of course not… But, here’s a thought… As the lines drawn between com ...
  
• Cancer, pneumonia, regulations, theranostics
  The 1st of January issue of SpectroscopyNOW is live: MRI nanoparticles seek and destroy cancer cells – A single nanoparticle can be tracked using real-time MRI as it homes in on cancer cells. A fluorescent dye used to tag the nanoparticle couples with heat therapy to kill the targeted cells. Naomi ...
  
• Classic musical science and Stradivarnish
  It won’t necessarily be music to the classical purist’s ear, but chemists have been instrumental in revealing the secret beneath the varnish on a Stradivari violins, and the secret is: there is no secret. Antonio Stradivari is perhaps the most famous instrument maker of all time. He is especially c ...
  
• Most useless machine ever
  The most useless machine ever has rapidly become the internet’s first viral hit of the New Year. Essentially, it’s a little wooden box with a switch, but you’ve got to watch the video to see it in action: But, of course, it’s anything but a useless machine, it’s the embodiment of at least one prin ...
  
• Intute hot topics in physical science
  Over on the Intute site in the physical sciences section you will find the December science news round up from yours truly: What’s the buzz at the LHC? – After a frustrating false start, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) finally got it up and running in its underground home at CERN on the Swiss-Frenc ...
  

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• CREW Sues SEC for Records of Reforms in Wake of Ma ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2010 CREW Today, CREW filed a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), challenging the SEC’s failure to produce records in response to CREW’s October 6, 2009 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records related to reforms the SEC has tak ...
  
• President Obama to Renominate Dawn Johnsen and Oth ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 7, 2010 People For the American Way (PFAW) The White House announced today that President Obama will renominate Dawn Johnsen, his choice to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), along with other nominees whose confirmations were obstructed by Repu ...
  
• Industry, Labor and Consumer Groups Unite to Raise ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 7, 2010 Free Press An ad hoc group of industry, labor and public interest organizations from both the Left and the Right expressed grave concern about the proposed Comcast takeover of NBC in an open letter to President Obama and Congress. read more
  
• CAIR: Another Hijab-Wearing Muslim Traveler Report ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 7, 2010 CAIR A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy group today sent a letter to President Obama seeking action on concerns that Muslim travelers wearing religious head scarves, or hijab, are now being automatically singled out for additional security mea ...
  
• Seven Hundred Killed from Hypothermia Annually in ...
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 7, 2010 National Coalition for the Homeless The National Coalition for the Homeless has just released its report, Winter Homeless Services: Bringing Our Neighbors in from the Cold, to raise awareness of the dangers and often fatal consequences of hypothermia on people e ...
  

Common Dreams-Views

• Common Sense on Prison, Education Funds
  by Derrick Z. Jackson Calling state prison and education funding priorities "out of whack,'' Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California proposed a constitutional amendment this week barring the state from spending a higher percentage on prisons than higher education. He said that in the last 30 ye ...
  
• Filibusters Could Be Fun
  by Christopher Brauchli Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one senator seldom proclaims his own inferiority to another, and still more seldom likes to be told of it. - Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry A ...
  
• Democrats and the Corporate Media: Looking for Gre ...
  by Dave Lindorff So much for economic "green shoots." The Obama administration and the Federal Reserve, along with the servile corporate media, have been quick to grasp at and trumpet every little suggestion that things might be improving, as they did when the Labor Dept. announced last week that ne ...
  
• Speaking Truth to Power
  by Kathy Kelly There's a phrase originating with the peace activism of the American Quaker movement: "Speak Truth to Power."  One can hardly speak more directly to power than addressing the Presidential Administration of the United States. This past October, students at Islamabad's Islamic Internati ...
  
• California, Here We Come
  by Michael Winship A number of years ago, when I would travel to California on business with my friend the late journalist and comedy writer Eliot Wald, we always carved out time to visit a couple of those massive Los Angeles grocery chains, like Ralph's or Vons. read more
  

Karl Burkart

• Top 10 environmental films of all time
  A countdown of the most important environmental films ever made.
  
• And God said, 'Let there be Tablets'
  A religious aura surrounds tablet products at this year's CES and chipmaker Nividea unveils powerful Tegra, announcing 'Year of the Tablet.'
  
• China Syndrome: the original inconvenient film
  One of the most influential environmental films ever made proved eerily prophetic.
  
• Top 6 rumors about the Apple tablet
  Is the great mobile-computing convergence finally happening, or will it be just another pretty tablet?
  
• CIA to spy on the environment
  CIA revives MEDEA.. a partnership between the nation’s top spies and environmental scientists.
  

Water Privatization

• North Chicago eyes privatized water department (La ...
  NORTH CHICAGO -- Short of money and short of options, this city is considering privatizing its water and street departments.The City Council approved a study on outsourcing operation and maintenance of the water department, a move that angered city employees who are represented by Service Employees ...
  
• Also in global health news: Museveni on Uganda ant ...
  The Associated Press reports that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said that the anti-gay bill to be considered late next month or early March by the country's parliament "is too harsh and [he] has encouraged his ruling National Resistance Movement Party to overturn the death sentence provision ...
  
• Budget cutting looks to dominate legislative sessi ...
  ATLANTA — During the coming 40 work days the General Assembly will be dominated by a debate over what government services to eliminate or cut back as lawmakers grapple with a budget deficit caused ...
  
• Mayoral hopefuls spar at union forum (Santa Fe New ...
  Get FREE Daily Headlines by email! Santa Fe mayoral candidates quickly staked out positions on privatization, annexation and future taxation on Wednesday at the first forum of the 2010 municipal election.
  
• City ending privatization of sewer, water systems ...
  After 17 years of private management, Evansville’s sewer and water systems will fall back under the direct control of the city.Mayor Jonathan Weinzapfel said that ending the privatization of the systems will save the city $14 million over the course of five years.“We will be able to better control c ...
  

Guardian

• Killer of CIA agents 'calls for revenge'
  Video aired posthumously shows former Jordanian militant urging attacks on US to avenge killing of Taliban chief The suicide bomber who killed eight people at a US base in eastern Afghanistan has called for revenge attacks on US targets in a video aired posthumously on Pakistan television. Private t ...
  
• Togo quits tournament after attack
  • Bus driver and two members of staff killed in attack • Players return home and call for teams to boycott tournament Togo have withdrawn from the Africa Cup of Nations following the gun attack on the team bus that killed the driver and two staff members yesterday as it crossed the border from the D ...
  
• Three held in Heathrow bomb threat
  Armed police board Dubai-bound Emirates flight after 'verbal threat' made to air crew Three men have been arrested on suspicion of making a bomb threat on a plane as it readied for take-off at Heathrow airport .Armed counter-terrorist officers boarded the Dubai-bound Emirates flight last night after ...
  
• Lauren Luke's best buys: Vampy nails
  Get your claws out and make your mark Lauren Luke
  
• To us, she was Emily
  Nick Hinton and his partner chose termination after tests showed their baby had Down's syndrome. The decision would gradually tear their family apart It was 23 December. Not a good day for a funeral. I remember the cold, the threat of rain (or even snow), the chivvying wind – an unremitting dismaln ...
  

McClatchey

• Commentary: Sharpton plays the race card correctly ...
  Who is the man you loathe most in the world for, in your view, injecting race into every issue?
  
• Commentary: Starting the year with a mess to clean ...
  A new year stretches before us, a swath of time still innocent of human folly. Yet if 2010 is like 2009, it won't be long before the calendar is splattered with more foul-ups and catastrophes, with the odd bit of good fortune occasionally tossed in.
  
• Commentary: Sexual abuse of incarcerated youth mus ...
  We must put a stop to the rape of young people behind bars.
  
• Commentary: America's can't-do list
  Lately, I've been studying the melting of glaciers in the greater Himalayas. Understanding the cascading effects of the slow-motion downsizing of one of the planet's most magnificent landforms has, to put it politely, left me dispirited.
  
• Commentary: Octomom and the hoarders
  Just when we thought we knew everything there was to know about Nadya Suleman, there's suddenly another Octo-news flash. In an accusation of gross negligence filed by the Medical Board of California against Michael Kamrava, the Beverly Hills doctor who performed the in-vitro fertilization procedures ...
  

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Conservation contemplates the pre-emptive strike
  Among those who work on and care about the preservation of nature's plants and animals, the word "endangered" is an absolute touchstone. Endangered species will in general have more conservation resources devoted to them. There may be political or community or scientific action aimed at saving them ...
  
• Arctic roots of 'upside-down' weather
  It's cold in Kirkcaldy , freezing in Frankfurt and brass monkeys in Bryn Mawr... a winter spell with weather that's unusually - well - wintry. But not everywhere; in fact, other places in the Northern Hemisphere are seeing weather that's unseasonably warm. In Goose Bay in Newfoundland, it's barely ...
  
• 2010: Intruders on a biodiverse year?
  In a somewhat dank and dreary London back garden, I've just been watching grey squirrels carrying off and eating bits of stale Christmas cake that we'd left out for them and the birds. If we'd been quick enough with the camera, it would have made a fantastic picture, with the bushy-tailed squirrel ...
  
• Best wishes from a white land
  Just a quick note, today, to say "best wishes" to everyone about to celebrate Christmas or some other winter festival. Here in London, it's been refreshing (in more ways than one!) to see snow on the ground and kids out playing in it - a reminder of childhood days. For me, it's time to put the lap ...
  
• COP15: (No) Hopenhagen?
  Everywhere you go in Copenhagen, you're met with two kinds of advertising poster. One sells lingerie, the morning walk to the railway station bringing a sequence of scarcely clad models smiling unfeasibly in the freezing morning air. The other sells hope. "Hopenhagen" has been the city's alterna ...
  

Afghanistan Sun

• US security consultants charged over Afghan killin ...
  Two US men have been charged over the murder of two Afghans.
  
• Pakistani investigators probe local links in Khost ...
  Islamabad, Jan. 9 : Pakistani investigators have started looking for the local links of the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA officers at a US base in Afghanistan last week.
  
• 'Swat Taliban might be setting up base in Kar ...
  Islamabad, Jan. 9 : In a bid to escape the Pakistani military's offensive in Malakand division, a large number of terrorists have fled to Karachi and South Waziristan, according to military commanders and militants' families.
  
• Karzai presents new list of cabinet nominees
  Kabul, Jan 9 (DPA) Afghan President Hamid Karzai's new cabinet lineup was formally presented Saturday to the country's parliament after the legislators rejected 17 designated ministers last week.
  
• Two bombings kill 12 in Pakistan
  Islamabad, Jan 8 (DPA) At least 12 people were killed and several more injured Friday in two bombings in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi and a tribal district near the Afghan border, officials said.
  

Futurismic

• Science fiction, religion and rationality
  As if to mirror the wider (and louder) debate of science versus religion (which I remain convinced is a false dichotomy in some respects), the science fiction scene seems to be turning its attention to the deeper philosophical underpinnings of the genre. Here are a couple of stimulating viewpoints: ...
  
• America’s decline, and how to prevent it
  Internet serendipity strikes again! Hot on the heels of my questions about the political fragmentation and polarisation of the United States comes a long but lucid article from one James Fallows at The Atlantic, in which he discusses the nation’s seemingly perpetual worries about its own decline, an ...
  
• Why we reject stories
  I’ve been reading and responding to Futurismic fiction submissions for going on five years now, and hundreds and hundreds of stories have passed through our slushpile. If you do something long enough, you start to see patterns, and I thought I’d write up a list of common reasons for rejection that ...
  
• North Dakota vs Minnesota: interstate economic war ...
  To a nominal Brit like myself, reading about the American governmental system is a constant stream of surprises. It’s one thing to understand that a country comprised of fifty-odd states (which are themselves the size of some sovereign countries) will have baked a certain degree of local independenc ...
  
• Citizen status for dolphins?
  Well, maybe not… but researchers who work with dolphins have long proclaimed their high level of intelligence, suggesting that they’re the second smartest critter on Earth (after ourselves, natch). Now some are saying that they should be granted a suite of basic rights as befits “non-human persons”. ...
  

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
  
  

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Birkenfeld enters jail after initiating disclosure ...
  At 2 pm today UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld surrendered to U.S. authorities and commenced serving a three-year and four-month sentence at the Schuylkill County Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pennsylvania. Stephen M. Kohn, the Executive Director of the National Whistleblo ...
  
• Stephen Kohn appears on Democracy Now about Birken ...
  Attorney Stephen Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, and an attorney for UBS whistleblower Brad Birkenfeld, appeared on Democracy Now this morning. TAKE ACTION by sending a letter to Attorney General Holder
  
• University of Phoenix settles whistleblowers' frau ...
  The U.S. Department of Justice has announced a settlement with the University of Phoenix over its abuses in student recruitment.  The university will pay $67.5 million, of which $19 million will go to two whistleblowers, Mary Hendow and Julie Behn.  Hendrow and Behn were University of Phoenix employ ...
  
• Franken Amendment passes both houses of Congress
  Sen. Al Franken's amendment to bar use of mandatory arbitration agreements by defense contractors has now passed both houses of Congress.  Franken introduced his amendment in response to Halliburton/KBR's treatment of Jamie Leigh Jones. When Jones was 19, she began working for a Halliburton subsidia ...
  
• DC Council improves whistleblower protection law
  On Monday, the District of Columbia Council approved the Whistleblower Protection Amendment Act of 2009 , which strengthens the DC Whistleblower Protection Act (DC Code § 1-615.51 et seq.) and The Employees of District Contractors and Instrumentality Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998 (DC Code § 2 ...
  

Defense and the National Interest

• On War #323: Milestone
  William S. Lind 23 November 2009 One of the ongoing themes of this column has been gangs and the role they play in a Fourth Generation world. Here in the United States they already serve as an alternative primary loyalty (alternative to the state) for many urban young men. Gangs will likely be a m ...
  
• DNI to close — update
  23 November 2009 Many thanks to everyone who wrote in.  My wife and I are deeply touched. We’ll try to find someone to at least take over the site as it is and keep the links intact.  Several people have contacted me with ideas.  In the meantime, I’ll leave everything up unless we start having mo ...
  
• DNI to close
  Probably on Monday, November 23, depending on how my travels work out. Please go ahead and download any thing you’d like to keep — I’d particularly recommend Boyd’s briefings and the 4GW manuals. I have great faith in the growing number of bloggers and commentators who cover many of the same subjec ...
  
• On War #322: What Is “Political Correctness?”
  William S. Lind 18 November 2009 In response to the killing of 13 American soldiers at Ft. Hood by an Islamic U. S. Army major, a number of senior officials have expressed their fear, not of Islam, but of a possible threat to “diversity.” “Diversity” is one of the many false gods of “Political Corr ...
  
• What should we do with terrorists?
  Security guru Bruce Schneier has the right idea: We should treat terrorists like common criminals and give them all the benefits of true and open justice — not merely because it demonstrates our indomitability, but because it makes us all safer. Once a society starts circumventing its own laws, the ...
  

Digital Journal

• Air Canada Ordered to Provide Nut-Free "Buffer-Zon ...
  The Canadian Transportation Agency has ruled that Air Canada must now provide nut-free zones on flights, to accommodate passengers with severe nut allergies.
  
• Portuguese Parliament Votes to Legalize Same-Sex M ...
  Portugal looks set to become the sixth country in Europe to legalize same-sex marriage after the country's parliament passed a bill Friday approving same-sex wedding ceremonies that now needs ratification by the Portuguese President before becoming law.
  
• The challenge facing Vancouver's hydrogen-powered ...
  While having the largest fleet of hydrogen-powered buses sounds very green, when the plans are on paper the numbers aren't adding up for Vancouver's Olympic transit promises.
  
• Canwest's Canadian Newspapers Under Bankruptcy Pro ...
  The Winnipeg-based Canwest Global Communications has placed its newspaper division under creditor protection. Canwest says that putting the newspaper division under bankruptcy protection is in the best interests of the company.
  
• RCMP arrest one, search Alberta farm
  The arrest and search conducted on a rural Alberta farm are in relation to a series of bombings of natural gas pipelines in northeastern B.C.
  

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Homeless "Check Runners" Arrested
  Two men were arrested outside Savannah, Georgia on New Year's Eve for attempting to commit check fraud. What's interesting for us is that two accomplices who have not been punished committed a worse crime -- exploiting the homeless. The arrested men, Rodmon Taylor, 44, and James Bass, 28, are both h ...
  
• They're Not Camping; They're Homeless
  Homeless people who choose to live in tents present a complex set of issues: they refuse to enter shelters for a variety of reasons, they face unique health risks and they're rarely seen by the public. One of them, profiled in the Washington Post today , is Gala Crum, 21 and pregnant, who moved out ...
  
• Feeding Frenzies and Pecking Orders at the Bottom
  On Christmas morning, a man showed up where homeless people usually gather to hand out $20 bills. He said he used to be out there, but is doing better now and wanted to share. He just didn't expect to share with so many. So he gathered people into groups of four, asked who was the "most responsible ...
  
• Visit Beautiful St. Paul, Squatters!
  St. Paul is hanging out the "welcome" sign for squatters. An article in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune , meant to illustrate how bad the problem really is, makes occupying an abandoned home sound mighty appealing. "I can almost guarantee you that there are at least 1,000 homes available to s ...
  
• Homeless Children, In Their Own Words
  Each year, one in 50 kids experiences homelessness, according to the National Center on Family Homelessness. This disturbingly high number proves that youth homelessness is more common than many know or see. But it is important to remember that the prevalence of youth homelessness does not diminish ...
  

Ceasefire.ca

• Budget “adjustments” miss obvious defence spending ...
  As noted in an earlier post, all three branches of the Canadian Forces (Army, Navy, Air Force) are currently conducting budget “adjustments”, amounting to $190 million, that have to be made by the end of March. As part of this process, the Army is “adjusting” its budget by $80 million, and the Res ...
  
• Harper on Canada’s role in Afghanistan post-2011
  In an interview with the Canwest News Service a few days ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper made some of his most definitive statements to date on the future of the Canadian presence in Afghanistan. He pledged that Canada would continue to maintain humanitarian and development missions in the countr ...
  
• Discontent in the prorogue state
  Two public opinion polls released on Thursday show that Canadians are not happy about the Prime Minister’s decision to prorogue Parliament until March 3rd. According to the poll conducted by EKOS Research Associates, 67% of Canadians are aware of the decision to prorogue Parliament (including 52% “c ...
  
• Canadians unhappy with Harper on climate change
  A new Angus Reid poll shows that Canadians are generally unhappy with the results of last month’s Climate Change Summit (press release; full report). According to the poll, 48% of Canadians are dissatisfied with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s performance at the conference (including 33% who are v ...
  
• Tsutomu Yamaguchi dead at 93
  Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only official survivor of both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, died Monday at the age of 93. Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business on August 6th, 1945 when the first atomic bomb was dropped. He returned to his home in Nagasaki the following ...
  

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Obama Orders $1 Billion To Be Spent On Airport Bod ...
  January 08, 2o1o Toledo Blade President Obama yesterday ordered intelligence agencies to streamline how terrorism threats are pursued and analyzed, saying the government has to respond aggressively to the failures that allowed a Nigerian man to ignite an explosive on a jetliner on Christmas Day. Mr. ...
  
• Asian Airline Association Warns Against Use of Ful ...
  January 08, 2010 Flight Global By Leithen Francis The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) has warned against regulators over reacting in the wake of the recent terrorist attempt on a Delta Air Lines passenger aircraft bound for the USA. “It takes real political maturity to remain calm and no ...
  
• Pomegranate Reduces Risks of Breast Cancer
  January 8, 2010 Reuters By Xavier Briand An acid found in pomegranates appears to block aromatase, an enzyme that converts androgen to estrogen, a hormone that plays a role in the development of breast cancer, the researchers wrote in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.   “We identified some of ...
  
• Goldman Sachs Bonuses Larger Than Earnings
  January 08, 2010 Raw Story By Daniel Tencer A lawsuit filed against investment bank Goldman Sachs by a shareholder alleges that the company spent more money on corporate bonuses than it earned in 2008. Shareholder Ken Brown’s lawsuit is one of two suits filed against the company this week over its c ...
  
• Inverted Body Scanners Show Naked Body in Full Liv ...
  January 08, 2010 Info Wars By Paul Joseph Watson The full body scanners that President Obama last night authorized to be rolled out in airports across the country at a cost of over $1 billion dollars not only produce detailed pictures of your genitals, but once inverted some of those images also dis ...
  

Pambazuka News

• Katrina victims face eviction
  Following reports of federal government plans to repossess temporary housing from Katrina victims, the US Human Rights Network - http://www.ushrnetwork.org has called for the Obama administration to reverse this decision and provide those affected with substantive directive support.
  
• Extradition threat for Black Liberation activist
  As the US opens up political channels with Cuba, Black Liberation Army - http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html activist Assata Shakur faces extradition from the country where she has lived under political asylum since 1984, writes Paul Scott. While the mainstream media portrays Shakur h ...
  
• Stop senate renege on black farmer compensation
  ColorOfChange.org - http://www.colorofchange.org/farmers/?id=1842-429864 is campaigning to ensure that a US senate bill to compensate black farmers in the South for discrimination gives them the money they deserve, rather than capping the total amount available at $100 million, which would only cove ...
  
• Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
  The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of true an ...
  
• Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
  Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...
  

War in Context

• Al Qaeda’s strategic advantage
  The bomber’s wife By Adem Demir and Christopher Dickey, Newsweek, January 7, 2010 Soft-spoken and composed, but unmistakably angry, the wife of the suicide bomber who killed himself and seven employees of the CIA in Afghanistan on Dec. 30 says flatly, “My husband was anti-American; so am I.” About t ...
  
• What’s the difference between Obama’s anti-terrori ...
  What’s the difference between Obama’s anti-terrorism policies and Bush’s? By Jacob Sullum, Reason, January 6, 2010 If Obama is pretending we are not at war, he is not doing a very good job of it. “Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred,” he declared in h ...
  
• Egypt ‘deports aid convoy leader’
  Egypt ‘deports aid convoy leader’ Al Jazeera, January 8, 2010 George Galloway, the British MP leading the Viva Palestina international aid convoy to the Gaza Strip has been forced to leave Egypt, the group has said on its website. Galloway was apparently picked up by Egyptian officials at the Rafah ...
  
• Two defense contractors indicted in shooting of Af ...
  Two defense contractors indicted in shooting of Afghans By Jerry Markon, Washington Post, January 8, 2010 Two defense contractors working for a subsidiary of the former Blackwater Worldwide were charged with shooting and killing two Afghan citizens in Kabul and wounding a third, prosecutors said Thu ...
  
• Iraq bars 15 political parties with Baathist ties ...
  Iraq bars 15 political parties with Baathist ties from upcoming elections By Leila Fadel and Qais Mizher, Washington Post, January 8, 2010 At least 15 parties will be banned from upcoming parliamentary elections because they have been linked to Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party or have promoted Baathist ...
  

Watts Up With That?

• LED Stoplights’ Failing in Winter
  LED Lights Don’t Melt Snow on Traffic Lights, Hiding Signals From Drivers By ELISABETH LEAMY and VANESSA WEBER Jan. 8, 2010 From ABC News A huge swath of the country is getting snow and it’s raised an unusual and potentially dangerous problem for motorists. Click picture to see report Communitie ...
  
• Global Lower Tropospheric Temperature Report: Dece ...
  
  
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  Reposted from Roger Pielke Sr.’s Blog January 8, 2010 The December 2009 and year 2009 University of Alabama at Huntsville lower tropospheric MSU temperature data is available. Thanks to Phillip Gentry and John Christy for alerting us to these figures]. I have several comments following the figure ...
  
• Peer-to-Peer Review: How ‘Climategate’ Marks the M ...
  Posted by Patrick Courrielche Jan 8th 2010 at bigjournalism.com How a tiny blog and a collective of climate enthusiasts broke the biggest story in the history of global warming science – but not without a gatekeeper of the climate establishment trying to halt its proliferation. It was triggered at ...
  
• Climategate: Statement from Norfolk Police
  Jan 8, 2010 From Bishop Hill This morning I contacted Norfolk Constabulary with a view to finding out if they had yet ascertained whether the breach at the Climatic Research Unit was a leak or a hack. I have just received a response which is frankly amazing: Norfolk Constabulary continues its invest ...
  
• Black Hole is Eating Our Galaxy Slower Than Previo ...
  From Daily Tech Jason Mick (Blog) – January 6, 2010 4:50 PM The Milky Way’s black hole is causing a mess, but isn’t gobbling matter as fast as was thought One of the most complex and intriguing astrophysical phenomenon is the supermassive black hole.  A superdense cluster of mass, the supermassive ...
  

Dandelion Salad

• “Let the Plunder Begin”: The Return of ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Mike Whitney Global Research, January 8, 2010 - 2010-01-07 “Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.” – John Maynard Keynes There’s no denying that the economy ...
  
• Noam Chomsky: Obama, the Middle East, and the Pros ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Boston University December 8, 2009 Hosted by School of Education and Axis of Hope In a lecture reaching far beyond the designated topic of Middle East peace prospects, Noam Chomsky is sharply critical of Israel, India, Pakistan, President Obama, and the United ...
  
• Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth? By Paul Craig Robe ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Paul Craig Roberts ICH January 08, 2010 What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blundering and implausible plots to bring down an airliner seem far remov ...
  
• Bill Moyers Journal: David Corn and Kevin Drum + G ...
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Bill Moyers Journal January 8, 2010 David Corn and Kevin Drum MOTHER JONES journalists David Corn and Kevin Drum offer a hard look at the obstacles to real reform of the financial industry. video and transcript: Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS Part 2 ...
  
• These candidates are largely to blame for destroyi ...
  by Suren Surendiran Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://www.tamilsforum.com crossposted on The Independent 7 January 2010 As far as we Tamils are concerned, this is not the right time for any sort of election, regardless of who the candidates are. Those in the traditional homeland are still rec ...
  

Your New Reality

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  Assassinator Robot Wasp No Longer Drug-Induced Hallucination The future is now....that super-weird science fiction future where flying killer robot insects can undertake missions that humans with a steady hand and a sniper rifle once had to take care of : The Air Force Research Laboratory set out in ...
  
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  Don't Get Them Started On '33% Off '' If this seems to you a sad and depressing thing to see in a Walmart store, December, 2009 : Wait till You See The Whole Sign. (via Reddit )
  
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  In Louisiana, a mother and son went to jail for growing this : More at The Boston Daily Enterprise. That's all. That pathetic little plant. How could the arresting police officers feel anything but humiliation that they are ordered to arrest people for such a 'crime'? Perhaps they enjoy their w ...
  
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  Dylan Moran : I didn't have a whole lot of religious belief to begin with: we were the only family on the street who didn't go to church. But it was a big part of Irish society. When I was born, something like 96% of Ireland went to mass every week. It's not like that now, partially because the chur ...
  
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  The Christmas Incident By Darryl Mason All I got for you is this series of twoots collected from Twitter last night , about a shocking gun-related early Christmas morning incident. Heard something on the roof. Sounds like hooves or something. I'm loading the shotgun. I'm going to have a look. Sho ...
  

Wired - Science

• Hominids Went Out of Africa on Rafts
  ANAHEIM, Calif. — Human ancestors that left Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago to see the rest of the world were no landlubbers. Stone hand axes unearthed on the Mediterranean island of Crete indicate that an ancient Homo species — perhaps Homo erectus — had used rafts or other seagoing vess ...
  
• Bee Colony Collapse May Have Several Causes
  When suspiciously large numbers of honeybee colonies started collapsing in late 2006, the search began to find the culprit behind the mysterious deaths. Now it seems a whole web of problems may be causing what’s known as colony collapse disorder. It’s becoming clear that there is no single parasit ...
  
• Human Genome Is Part Bornavirus
  People may not be quite the humans they think they are. Or so suggests new research showing that the human genome is part bornavirus. Bornaviruses, a type of RNA virus that causes disease in horses and sheep, can insert their genetic material into human DNA and first did so at least 40 million year ...
  
• TigerCam: First-Ever Video of Sumatran Tigress and ...
  A Sumatran tigress and her cubs took a special interest in a World Wildlife Federation camera, sniffing and possibly licking it during a brief sequence released in late December. The video was released as a prelude to the WWF’s Tx2: Double or Nothing campaign to call attention to plight of the tige ...
  
• Chinese Coal Formed During Earth’s Greatest Extinc ...
  A seam of coal formed 250 million years ago during the worst extinction event on record appears to be responsible for the anomalously high lung cancer death rates among women in the rural Chinese county of Xuan Wei in Yunnan Province. It’s long been known that the lung cancer mortality rates in the ...
  

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Egypt bars Gaza-bound aid convoys
  Egyptian FM Abul Gheit: "Egypt will no longer allow convoys, regardless of their origin or who is organising them, from crossing its territory"... Egypt accused Galloway, who once called at a London... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  
• Henry Siegman: Imposing Middle East Peace
  Israel's relentless drive to establish "facts on the ground" in the occupied West Bank, a drive that continues in violation of even the limited settlement freeze to which Prime Minister Benjamin... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  
• Abdallah Abu Rahmah: “No army, no prison and no wa ...
  I mark the beginning of the new decade imprisoned in a military detention camp. Nevertheless, from within the occupation′s holding cell I meet the New Year with determination and hope... The price I... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  
• Amira Hass: Pro-Gaza activists under siege – impos ...
  I wondered: Were the [Hamas] restrictions an order from above, or an unwise interpretation by lower ranks? Does Hamas think it can entirely prevent the few visitors - clearly pro-Palestinian - from... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
  
• Anshel Pfeffer: In Israel, racial profiling doesn’ ...
  Many Israelis have no problems with this: Let the Muslims suffer for the sins of their brothers. But those of us who like to think of ourselves as liberal humanists find it too easy to ignore the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  

Ria Novosti - Military

• CIA chief confirms deaths of 7 agents in Afghanist ...
  CIA chief Leon Panetta has confirmed in an official statement that seven CIA operatives were killed and six others wounded in a recent terrorist attack in eastern Afghanistan.
  
• N. Korea urges dialogue on nuclear-free Korean Pen ...
  North Korea stressed dialogue in improving relations with the United States as a key step toward a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula in a New Year's message on Friday
  
• Russia's Nerpa sub passes final trials
  Russia's Nerpa nuclear attack submarine, damaged in a fatal accident during tests in November last year, has successfully passed final trials.
  
• Russia eyes new arms markets in Asia-Pacific regio ...
  Russia is planning to strengthen its positions as a key supplier of weaponry in the Asia-Pacific region by seeking new customers at a major arms show in Malaysia, state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has said.
  
• Iran's nuclear program
  
  

NewsWise

• Paper Strips Can Quickly Detect Toxin in Drinking ...
  A strip of paper infused with carbon nanotubes can quickly and inexpensively detect a toxin produced by algae in drinking water.
  
• It's Not Too Late to Vaccinate against H1N1 and Se ...
  It is not too late for those who have not been immunized against the novel H1N1 influenza A virus or seasonal influenza to protect themselves from a potentially serious and possibly fatal illness. "Flu is very unpredictable," said Dr. Peter Wenger, an associate professor in the departments of Preve ...
  
• Abundance of a Look-alike Species Clouds Populatio ...
  New findings cast uncertainty on previous population size assessments for the severely overfished white marlin and call for reassessment of international recovery efforts.
  
• Researchers Pinpoint Best Time to Begin Toilet Tra ...
  Researchers at The Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital (BMSCH) at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) and UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (UMDNJ-RWJMS) have completed a study that pinpoints the period between 24 and 32 months of age as most effective time frame for parents ...
  
• The Magic of Jared Sherlock Presents Night Games
  Illusionist Jared Sherlock, a junior at Saint John's University, will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, and Saturday, Jan. 23, in Escher Auditorium, Benedicta Arts Center of the College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, Minn.
  

Intel Trends

• IntelTrends 08-JAN-2010
  U.S. hunt for Haqqani network 'a nightmare for Pakistan' Reuters, 08 Jan Moroccan king proposes to divide country to regions for solution of Sahara problem APA, 08 Jan IRAN: Rapid Release of 3 U.S. Nationals Unlikely Fars, 08 Jan North Caucasus militants must be eliminated - Medvedev RIA, 08 Jan Sa ...
  
• Pakistan fed up with U.S. diplomats and embassy st ...
  Pine River World News / IntelTrends January 8, 2010 Pakistani police and the general public are fed up with U.S. diplomats, embassy staffers, and, yes, even 'private security contractors' claiming "diplomatic immunity" whenever they're stopped by police investigating suspicious activities. These en ...
  
• Statement: Response of the Islamic Emirate of Afgh ...
  The following statement is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Response of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to Ban Ki-moon's Assertions About Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan Source:  Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan January 7, 2010   10:55   administrator UN Secret ...
  
• Al-Qaeda recruited Abdulmutallab in London not Yem ...
  The following article is from Yemen News Agency (SABA), Sana'a. Al-Qaeda recruited Abdulmutallab in London not Yemen:  security official ©   SABA January 7, 2010 SANA'A, Jan. 07 (Saba) - A senior Yemeni official revealed on Thursday that Nigerian Omar Faruq Abdulmutallab, a key suspect in the attem ...
  
• IntelTrends 07-JAN-2010
  Israel Defense minister 'missing' for 2 days Jerusalem Post, 07 Jan Rumors are flying about a purported mystery trip Defense Minister Ehud Barak may have made during an otherwise unaccounted-for two days on Sunday and Monday. - - - - - IntelTrends - - [Russian newspaper Novosti reported 04 Jan. ...
  

Organic Consumers.org

• Outside the Inside Classroom
  Since 1965, the far-reaching hand of the U.S. Department of Education 'Elementary and Secondary Education Act' [ESEA], better known today as 'No Child Left Behind' [NCLB], has pledged to provide "all children with a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education" in the ...
  
• States Ban Practices that Support CAFOs
  Several states recently banned specific practices that are common in CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations), taking small steps to level the playing field for more sustainable farms. Click here to read this article
  
• New Report Calls for Atrazine Review
  An important new report on atrazine was published yesterday and it's about time. Pesticide Action Network and Land Stewardship Project have brought together the science and farming communities to make a strong statement about the need for a new review of the herbicide atrazine and to outline alterna ...
  
• Behind Mass Die-Offs, Pesticides Lurk as Culprit
  In the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level exposure to pesticides could be contributing to this rash of epidemics. Click here to read this article
  
• New Study Indicates that Nanosilver Migrates from ...
  Silver nanoparticles used as antimicrobials in fabric can leach out of clothes as they are being washed. One brand lost over half of its silver content from the fabric with just two washings. The discovery raises questions about potential affects of human and environmental exposures. Click here to r ...
  

fotoFrontera

• Así recibieron el año nuevo 2010 en el mundo...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Supongo que la mayoría de mis lectores conocen el verdadero potencial de la serie " The Big Picture " propiedad del sitio Boston.Com . En esta ocasión, hago réplica de su colección " Welcoming 2010 ". Descubra de qué man ...
  
• El talento y la creatividad de Eugenio Recuenco
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Para mi, es difícil describir la creatividad cuando sobrepasa los límites de mi propia imaginación. Este es el caso de Eugenio Recuenco , un verdadero artista capaz de satisfacer al más exigente espectador o conocedor de ...
  
• Increíbles fotografías de acantilados alrededor de ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Esta es una bellísima colección de fotografías basadas en acantilados o clifftop en Inglés. Descubra interesantes lugares al borde del precipicio. Viaje hasta Ronda España , Bonifacio Corsica, Castellfolit de la Roca tam ...
  
• Fotografías tomadas con una cámara HP Photosmart M ...
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Toca el turno presentar a Photo PT , un blog muy interesante donde su autor coloca las fotografías que ha tomado con su cámara HP Photosmart M22 . Descubra que muchas veces, no es necesario poseer una cámara profesional ...
  
• Darker my love en blogspot
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Darker my love , se presenta como un interesante blog donde su autor va colocando las fotografías que toma en sus viajes cotidianos. Por lo tanto, será común encontrar fotos de diversos países acompañadas de breves desc ...
  

Executive Intelligence Review

• Germany Needs 21st-Century Technology, Not a New M ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
• Four Power Plan Can Defuse ME War Threat
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
• British Monarchy Marching in the Shadow of Edward ...
  By Jeffrey Steinberg Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
• Bad Times for Some: Poor Paul Krugman
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  
• 2010: The Turning Point
  By John Hoefle Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, January 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 1
  

Center for a Livable Future

• 10 in 10: Consider Heating Your Home with Biomass
  A new decade brings new opportunities and challenges. The interaction between diet and health received significant attention during “The Aughts.” What will we do during this next decade to respond to the call for action for a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle? This is the first in a continuin ...
  
• 10 in 10: Create Consumer Demand for Local, Organi ...
  A new decade brings new opportunities and challenges. The interaction between diet and health received significant attention during “The Aughts.” What will we do during this next decade to respond to the call for action for a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle? This is the second in a continui ...
  
• Is CAFO Meat Legal?
  The New York Times’ Mark Bittman poses the interesting question in yesterday’s column, “Could Industrially Raised Meat Be Illegal?” Bittman pontificates that if the EPA has classified greenhouse gases as a human health hazard “as the EPA has declared, and the 1976 Toxic Substances Control A ...
  
• Oyster restoration and aquaculture: Follow up fro ...
  After the December 7, 2009 post about the Eastern oyster’s (Crassostrea virginica) decline in the Chesapeake Bay, Dr. Kelly Goodwin, a scientist at NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC), informed me of a parallel story for California abalone species. Dr. Goodwin says: The peak decades for ...
  
• Pew to Brief Congress of CAFO Impacts on Workers, ...
  On the heels of CLF’s Congressional Briefing Dec. 2, the Pew Environmental Group will be holding a Capitol Hill briefing tomorrow to discuss the impact on workers and communities of CAFO’s. The briefing, Industrial Animal Farms and Worker Health and Safety, is being held in collaboration with Rep. ...
  

Norwegianity

• Correcting the course
  Slight link backlog thanks to not getting around to a second post yesterday. Batched for your selective amusement/outrage. - Informed comment: Bob Herbert on the enduring legacy of Bush-Cheney and de-funding the states Charles Blow on the death of the Republican party and the ascent of the paranoid ...
  
• Executive pork futures
  “The people who make these companies go work really hard,” adds one of my friend’s former colleagues. “They think: I’m making lots of money to support my family, but I’m not with my family. I can’t go to the soccer games or the dance recitals. Stop paying them well, and they’ll [...]
  
• Links’n'gripes
  Not a lot of time today but content was light and I don’t think I’m missing much. - Don’t forget the naughts, because this decade, no matter what anyone on the right might say, was conservatism on trial. You want less taxes? You got less taxes. You want less regulation? You got less regulation. [ ...
  
• The return of reality
  Clusterfuck Messiah? How much can a nation not get it? Would $100 oil ignite a new orgy of “consumer” spending and another round of investment in commercial real estate? Welcome to the Futility Economy. This is the economy where Nature and its material companion, Reality, punish us for our stupid ...
  
• Inverted outrage
  War, homeland security, birtherism? No, not a curdled worsten. This puddle of outrage is courtesy of Sally Quinn, Grand Duchess Pudenda of the Village Harrumphing Society. Click here to see which blow against decorum warranted this crit-fit. - - More news of how the Bushies betrayed humanity: guess ...
  

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NM Utility to Refile Renewable Energy Plan

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- Jan 08, 2010

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The agreement will be the basis for a renewable energy plan PNM will file with the state Public Regulation Commission by Jan. 25. ...

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Renewable Portfolio Standard is expanded

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- Jan 09, 2010

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By LARRY RULISON, Business writer ALBANY -- In a big win for renewable energy developers in the state, the Public Service Commission has expanded the ...

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Google to Dive into Green Energy Market

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- Jan 08, 2010

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From search engines, to cell phones, to renewable energy. Is Google crafting plans for interstellar domination? Google is one of the most successful ...

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UK Takes Energy Leap With Huge Offshore Wind Projects

Wall Street Journal

- Jan 08, 2010

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By Selina Williams Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)--The UK took a massive step forward towards boosting its renewable energy capacity Friday after ...

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American Ecology to Present at Needham and Company Growth Stock Conference on ...

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- Jan 06, 2010

- Jan 06, 2010

American Ecology Corporation (NASDAQ: ECOL) today announced that Jim Baumgardner, President and Chief Executive Officer; Steve Welling, ...

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New $15M `Ecology Park’ Coming Near Belt Parkway, Jamaica Bay

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

- Jan 08, 2010

- 19 hours ago

"This investment will greatly improve the ecology of the Paerdegat Basin area," said Environmental Protection Commissioner Cas Holloway. ...

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Ecology proposes change to pesticide permit for irrigators

Access Washington

- Jan 08, 2010

- 20 hours ago

OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) invites the public to comment on a proposed modification to the Aquatic Pesticide Irrigation ...

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Ark. Environmental Chief Backs Delay in Air Rules

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- Jan 08, 2010

- 17 hours ago

... said in a news release Friday that she is recommending that the state Pollution Control and Ecology Commission grant a variance from the state's current ...

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- Jan 08, 2010

- 16 hours ago

They were brought to Gulf World Marine Park, where they will stay warm in a holding pool until they can be released back into more pleasant water. ...

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NASA study: Lake Tahoe water temps warmer

San Jose Mercury News

- Jan 09, 2010

- 8 hours ago

A recent NASA study showed Lake Tahoe's water is warming twice as quickly as regional air temperature, lending weight to predictions of warming lake ...

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Cold, snow crack water mains, delay openings

Washington Post

- Jan 08, 2010

- 9 hours ago

By Martin Weil Cold and snow plagued the Washington area on many fronts Friday, delaying school openings, cracking water mains, and, according to news ...

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America's Dwindling Water Supply

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- Jan 08, 2010

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By Mark Strassmann People can survive 30 days without food, but only about three days without water. As world population grows, Americans need to pay more ...

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