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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • BALKANS: Farming Prospers as Farmers Suffer
    BELGRADE, Mar 16 (IPS) - Official statistics put Serbian agriculture as the single most productive branch of the economy and one that not only survived the financial meltdown but chalked up a record trade surplus of almost a billion US dollars in 2009.
  • RIGHTS-BAHRAIN: Weak Laws Let Rapists Off the Hoo ...
    MANAMA, Mar 16 (IPS) - Cunning rapists in Bahrain can avoid victimising virgins so they could escape the maximum penalty provided by law, and those who force themselves on young girls can evade punishment by promising to marry their victims.
  • SRI LANKA: Managing Overseas Workers A Tough Bala ...
    COLOMBO, Mar 16 (IPS) - The extent of Sri Lanka’s dependence on its one million citizens who work abroad can be gauged from officials who gleefully count the dollars that come in to sustain the country’s economy.
  • ICELAND: They Also Serve Who Wait For a Prison S ...
    REYKJAVIK, Mar 16 (IPS) - After a nail-biting wait of more than a year Jon Palsson (not real name) is happy to have secured a place in the city jail and get an early enough chance to serve out a four-month sentence for drunk driving.
  • CUBA: Human Rights at the Eye of the Storm
    HAVANA, Mar 15 (IPS) - Cuba's government-controlled stepped up its media offensive Monday in response to what the government calls a well-orchestrated international campaign of misinformation carried out in the last few weeks against this socialist island nation.

Scoop - NZ

  • The Solar Water Heating revolution
    Statistics on solar water heating uptake that will make your mouth water . ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
  • Greens on brink of power in Tasmania
    This can't be right. Here is a man whose CV once might have won him a slacker award. What is he doing on the verge of controlling a Parliament? Nick McKim had an idyllic childhood messing about in boats and bush in a waterside Hobart suburb. He studied one year of an arts-economics degree, and then ...
  • Huff Post censors Ventura on 9/11
    Former governor, former wrestler...Jesse Ventura has worn many hats. Now he is trying to look out for those who question the official version of the events of 9/11. The Huffington Post calls him a conspiracy theorist, which is actually the name of his tv show. Anastasia Churkina interviewed Ventura ...
  • VIDEO: Fallujah Birth Defects, Cancer, US Weapons
    [ VIDEO ] Doctors in the Iraqi city of Falluja are handling up to 15 times as many birth defects as they were one year ago. The chronic deformities include multiple tumors, heart problems, nervous system anomalies and eye deficiencies. Residents of the city blame the surge in chronic deformities ...
  • From Counterculture To Cyberculture: Stewart Brand
    This post is the latest installment of my series on Bucky Fuller and was prompted by my reading Fred Turner's book "From Counterculture To Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism", which looks at the influence Bucky Fuller had on a range of people, in ...

Independent ( London )

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Cartoon of the week: Iran and Israel - spot the di ...
    Summary: Israel -- a country that has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -- has a secret stockpile of nuclear weapons, as revealed 23 years ago by Israeli nuclear technician Dr Modecai Vanunu, for which service to humanity he was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment. Since his release ...
  • Final destination Iran?
    Summary: Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. source: The Herald Scotland read more
  • China takes over from West as Iran's main economic ...
    Summary: China has emerged as Iran's top economic partner, investing heavily in the energy sector and filling the gaps left by Western firms forced out by international sanctions source: Africasia.com read more
  • Iran's spies show how it's done
    Summary: The dramatic arrest of Abdulmalik Rigi, Iran's most wanted man, on February 23 continues to be shrouded in mystery. But with information and insights gleaned from security sources in Tehran, Asia Times Online can reveal some of the most intricate background details leading to this stu ...
  • UN Iran sanctions may take until June: Kouchner
    Summary: Kouchner A U.N. resolution on new sanctions against Iran may not be ready until June and if a vote on it fails, European states could take unilateral measures instead, French and Finnish ministers said on Sunday. source: Reuters read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • Hubble: The New 3D Movie -"A Religious Experience" ...
    “Hubble 3D” offers an inspiring and unique look into the legacy of the Hubble Space Telescope and how it has changed our view of the universe and ourselves. Hubble 3D is a pretty simple movie. It's also one of the...
  • Hubble Unveils Universe 1.0 -Was it Destroyed by D ...
    No galaxies have been seen before at such early epochs as that seen in this deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The faintest and reddest objects (left inset) in the image...
  • The "Great Wall" Of Space -a Billion Light Years A ...
    The vastest structure ever is a collection of superclusters a billion light years away extending for 5% the length of the entire observable universe. It is theorized that such structures as the Great Wall form along and follow web-like strings...
  • SpaceX Poised for Historic Launch -Does It Signal ...
    Following a successful test of its Falcon 9 rocket over the weekend, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is set become an icon for the new commercial space era as the first non-governmental American agency to send a craft into orbit, an...
  • Image of the Day: The Ring Nebula
    Hundreds of years ago astronomers noticed a nebula with a most unusual shape that is now known as M57 or NGC 6720, the gas cloud roughly 500 times the diameter of our Solar System popularly known as the Ring Nebula...

Natural News

  • Charlotte Gerson speaks out about the cancer indus ...
    (NaturalNews) Dr. Max Gerson is known around the world as the father of natural cancer cures. Through his innovative and far-ahead-of-his-time natural healing therapies, many tens of thousands of people have cured their own cancers going all the way back to the 1930's. Today, the daughter of Dr. Ger ...
  • Testicular Cancer Treatments Worse than the Diseas ...
    (NaturalNews) Large numbers of men who undergo treatment for testicular cancer suffer serious and long-term side effects or illness, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Oslo and published in the journal BJUI .In the past, the rate of long-term side effects has not be ...
  • Does Cholesterol Really Matter?
    (NaturalNews) I'd like to shine the spotlight on one of medicine's sacred cows- the belief that lowering cholesterol with drugs protects against heart attacks and premature death. Our obsession with cholesterol began in the 1950s when studies linked high consumption of animal fat with high rates of ...
  • WHO Says Cell Phone Use Linked to Brain Tumors
    (NaturalNews) A large multinational research effort overseen by the World Health Organization has concluded that heavy mobile phone use significantly increases the risk of brain and salivary gland tumors. The Interphone studies surveyed 12,800 people in 13 countries between 2000 and 2004. Although t ...
  • Prevent Thin Hair and Balding and Grow Hair with N ...
    (NaturalNews) People lose about one hundred hairs each day. Because hair is made of many nutrients, those nutrients need to be replenished in the body in order for hair to grow. Hair contains protein, fat, water, and carbohydrates. Foods to prevent hair loss can be found in oats, molasses, liver, an ...

    The Galloping Beaver

  • Boulder Mountain drama... after the avalanche
    A grieving Alberta widow wants to know why , even after clear avalanche warnings, an event which was clearly dangerous, especially to a bunch of weekend thrill-seekers, went ahead. The executive director of the BC Snowmobile Federation provides an answer . "Right now it's personal choice," Les Aus ...
  • Neat Stuff
    JAMES LILEKS' WEB SITE IS A DELIGHT. He's a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and his site's been around since 1996 or so. His site is a fine look at Americana of yesteryear. One section is called " COFFEE & CHROME restaurants from the days before the chains ". Another section is " the ame ...
  • Dear Frank
    Good letter from Fern to Frank over at Dammit Janet : My Letter to the Hon. Frank Iacobucci Dear Sir, I am writing to you as one private citizen of Canada to another. As a former Supreme Court Justice and upholder of the Constitution, you must recognize that the government's move to employ you to ...
  • Guergis to sue Air Canada employees?
    For "slander", apparently, and "breach of privacy" for reporting her manic meltdown at Charlottetown Airport "They" will never let Helena "hell hole" Handbasket go through with it of course. Pity. h/t Buckdog
  • That could be on rye . . .
    WIRED MAGAZINE has a very disturbing report by Brendan I. Koerner, "Red Menace: Stop the Ug99 Fungus Before Its Spores Bring Starvation" . It's about a mutant fungus that originated in Uganda, discovered in 1999, that is starting to spread. Why should you care? Well, according to Mr. Koerner, Stem r ...

Media Matters for America

  • Quick Fact: O'Reilly falsely claims health bill w ...
    On his Fox News program, Bill O'Reilly claimed that the health care bill will "require American taxpayers to fund abortion." In fact, the Senate bill, now being considered by the House, prohibits health insurers from using federal subsidies to pay for abortion services restricted under the Hyde Ame ...
  • Right-wing media attack "Slaughter solution" as u ...
    Media conservatives have falsely characterized a legislative proposal reportedly being considered to finalize health care reform in the House as unprecedented, undemocratic, and unconstitutional. But the rule in question is an accepted part of House procedure, and Congress repeatedly used the r ...
  • Charen falsely claims health care reform "mandate ...
    Columnist Mona Charen falsely claimed that the House health care reform bill contains mandated "racial and ethnic quotas for medical schools and other federal contractors." In fact, the bill contains no quota mandates. Charen falsehood: House bill mandates "racial and ethnic quotas" From C ...
  • Myths and Falsehoods on budget reconciliation
    In recent weeks, conservative media have promoted a number of myths and falsehoods about the possible use of the budget reconciliation process to finalize passage of health care reform. Myth: Reconciliation is the nuclear option Myth: Reconciliation undermines democracy Myth: Reconciliation ...
  • Palin's new anti-health care reform Facebook post ...
    On March 14, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin posted a new anti-health care reform essay on her Facebook page that contains numerous falsehoods regarding reconciliation, House rules, and "federal funding of abortion." Palin rehashes falsehoods about the House vote, reconciliation, abortion fun ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • Linkage: Iran, Settlements, Health Care & Israel?
    Late yesterday afternoon, I participated in an hour long Alhurra discussion program with three other Middle East specialists: Edmund Ghareeb of American University, Ori Nir of Americans for Peace Now, and David Schenker who directs the Program on Arab Politics at the Washington Institute for Near E ...
  • Biden-Israel Blowup Backstory
    There is a much more complicated story emerging around the Israeli settlements issue that I just wrote about . Two months ago, General David Petraeus sent his top briefing team to see the Joint Chiefs . On Jan. 16, two days after a killer earthquake hit Haiti, a team of senior military officer ...
  • Keep The Heat On
    There are only two political parties in Israel, really, the party that dreads the loss of Greater Israel, i.e., the party of settlements, and, the party that dreads the isolation of global Israel, i.e., the party of America. Think of the country as paradigms, the first focused on Jerusalem's fire, t ...
  • A Broadband Jobs Bill
    As the FCC finishes its first-ever national broadband plan, Congress and commissioners would do the country a service to see it as a jobs bill --and to support it for that reason, if no other.As reported in the New York Times on March 3, 2010, prominent economist Larry Katz estimates that more than ...
  • AIPAC Blasts Obama Administration
    It's a standard AIPAC statement . Except this one is blasting the United States and not the Arabs. Not a word criticizing Israel, not a word supporting the President or the US government. It's an incredible document. This is the lobbying position AIPAC will be selling to Congress. It will be urgi ...

TruthOut

  • Toxic Hanford: A Trip to the B Reactor
    I spent a weekend last fall sitting inside an old nuclear reactor, gazing up at a wall that holds over 2,000 cylinder rods that once produced plutonium for our nation's atom bombs. Located just outside of Richland, in eastern Washington State, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation spans 586 square miles ...
  • Froma Harrop | Jihad Jane: Terror by Reason of Ins ...
    Consider the case of "Jihad Jane." Divorced twice (first marriage at 16), Colleen LaRose was arrested for drunkenness in Texas. She ended up living with a boyfriend in a Philadelphia suburb and taking care of his elderly father. Let's say that LaRose was not one of life's winners under conventional ...
  • Support Our Troops: Boycott the Israeli Occupation ...
    I don't know about all you commiepinkos, but I believe we should Support Our Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. General Petraeus, Admiral Mullen and Vice President Biden say that Israel's actions toward the Palestinians are putting our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq in danger. That's why, to Support Ou ...
  • Senate Unveils Its Financial Crisis Fix
    Washington - Eighteen months after Wall Street's brush with apocalypse, the Senate on Monday began to rewrite the nation's financial regulatory rules with the introduction of a sweeping bill designed to fix the causes of the deep economic crisis. "The stakes are far too high . . . for us to fail in ...
  • Why Punish Iran for What Israel Has Already Done?
    As the Western powers continue to criticize Iran for its nuclear enrichment program, and while they try to pressure Russia and China to impose stiffer economic sanctions, maybe it would be an opportune time to remember that for decades Israel has developed nuclear weapons and has tried to keep its p ...

Planetsave

  • How to Help the Environment
    If you are reading this article, I think you are probably more concerned about the environment than most others. I assume that you keep up with environmental news a bit, reading more than the miniscule amount covered in the mainstream media. However, I cannot make any guess as to how much you act ...
  • 7 Myths about Climate Change Science [& FUN VIDEOS ...
    The science of climate change is not really the question at hand anymore. Of course, there is always more to learn, but that highly accelerated climate change is real and that humans are the main cause of that are no longer questionable facts to the large majority of the scientific community. What ...
  • DE bottle refund law: Mend it, don’t end it, say ...
    A volunteer poses with the bottles and cans collected at a Massachusetts watershed cleanup. A month after the governor of Delaware proposed dumping the state’s beverage container refund law in favor of a new tax for community recycling, in-state and national environmental groups have come out a ...
  • Mann is Off the Hook, So Let’s Look at the Real Cr ...
    Michael Mann, the somewhat infamous climate scientist from Penn State, shouldn’t be so infamous after all, we find out yet another time! “An academic inquiry into the so-called ‘climategate’ email scandal has concluded that a well-known U.S. scientist [Mann] did not directly or indirectly falsify ...
  • Is A Pill Take-Back Law in Our Future?
    As the product stewardship movement gains steam, attention is turning to the issue of unsafe disposal of residue or unwanted consumer pharmaceuticals.  The widespread detection of pharmaceutical residues in public waters and fish has raised biologists’ concerns.  In Minnesota, the popularity o ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Anchia and Johnson: A challenge to build on solar ...
    Great joint op-ed by our friend McCall Johnson over at Environment Texas and State Rep. Rafael Anchia, winner of Public Citizen’s Legislator of the Year award.  Following on the heels of TXU’s announcement last week that it will offer customers an affordable solar leasing program, the gist of it is ...
  • DOE Throws $154 Million Down A Texas Hole
    The United States Department of Energy has sunk $154 million into a carbon capture and sequestration project in Texas proposed by NRG Energy near Houston. The “demonstration” project will be built on their existing Parish Generating Station in Thompsons, TX (one of the biggest and dirtiest coal plan ...
  • FACTCHECK: Governor Perry sends a letter to Congre ...
    Governor Perry sent a letter to Congressional leadership and the Texas delegation asking them to strip the EPA of the authority to regulate greenhouse gases, which they were told to do by the Supreme Court in 2007’s Massachusetts v. EPA. Governor Perry needs to check his facts a little more carefull ...
  • Drop by Drop: 7 Ways Texas Cities Can Conserve Wat ...
    The National Wildlife Federation and the Lone Star Chapter of the Sierra Club have created a splash with their latest report: Drop by Drop: 7 Ways Texas Cities Can Conserve Water. Austin should be proud. Out of 19 cities studied in this report, our capital city was highly ranked on outdoor water ord ...
  • Help Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
    Please join us in supporting ILoveMountains.org in their ongoing campaign to bring a halt to Mountaintop Removal (MTR) Coal Mining. There is a bill in front of the House of Representatives that would do a great deal to help stop this incredibly destructive operation. As you probably know, MTR is one ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Blind soldier 'sees' through his tongue
    A soldier blinded by a grenade attack in Iraq is helping test out a new device that allows him to 'see' with his tongue. A camera strapped to his head...
  • World's shortest man He Pingping dies age 21
    Holder of the title of world's shortest man He Pingping has died at the age of 21 following chest problems. At less than 75cm tall He Pingping was a w...
  • Korean man marries a pillow
    In a bizarre marriage this month Korean man Lee Jin-gyu married his pillow in a traditional ceremony. Its one of the most peculiar marriages for some ...
  • Human brains have started to shrink
    A reconstruction of a brain from a 28,000 year-old human skull has revealed that our brains are actually shrinking. The ancient skull housed a brain o...
  • Honey bees secret world of heat revealed
    A previously undiscovered type of bee has been found to be the key to regulating a hive's temperature. The "heater bees" act like living radiators by ...

Grassroots

  • International Day of Action for Rivers
    domkhedi_protestors.jpg Cultures in different parts of�our�planet have long held rivers to be life-giving. Early human civilizations are even known by their connection to the river systems whose banks they arose from�like the Indus-Ganga, the ...
  • Beating Hunger in Haiti with Seeds and Tools for S ...
    haiti200604-129.jpg On the cusp of Haiti’s spring planting season, we received urgent communications from our partners and allies in Haiti about their dire need for seeds and tools to ensure that food production might be enhanced in the immedi ...
  • Women on the March until we are All Free!
    World_March_of_Women.jpg Grassroots International ally the World March of Women has launched a Call to Action on the occasion of International Women's Day, March 8, 2010. The World March of Women is also a�close ally of many Grassroots Interna ...
  • Via Campesina calls for End to Violence against Wo ...
    Women_farmers_against_violence_and_agribusiness.jpg Grassroots International partner La Via Campesina celebrated international women's day, March 8, 2010 with a re-affirmation of their global campaign to end violence against women. Last Novemb ...
  • A Future for Agriculture, a Future for Haiti
    Outside Author Bio:� Beverly Bell is the founder and Coordinating Committee Member and Program Coordinator of Other Worlds, which is a Grassroots International ally. She is also an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, Education Coordinato ...

Climate

  • March 16, 2010
    Cap-and-Trade Plan in Compromise Climate Bill (Reuters)  A compromise climate bill that could be sketched out next week in the Senate will be anchored by a cap-and-trade plan for reducing CO2 emissions from utilities such as power plants, a key senator said. EPA Studying Own Carbon-Tradi ...
  • March 15, 2010
    Australia '0.7 Degrees Warmer Over Past 50 Years' (AFP) Australia's top science body said on Monday temperatures had risen about 0.7 degrees Celsius (0.44 Fahrenheit) in the last 50 years, describing the finding as "significant evidence" of climate change. Money Spent on Tar Sands Proje ...
  • March 14, 2010
    China Alleges Diplomatic Snub at Copenhagen Summit (AP) Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said he was snubbed at last year's Copenhagen climate conference and fired back Sunday at critics who accuse China of arrogance. Japan Faces Rocky Path to Emissions Trading System (Reuters) Japan f ...
  • March 12, 2010
    Japan's Cabinet Endorses Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill (Bloomberg) Japan's Cabinet has endorsed a climate draft law today that would cap industrial emissions and thrust the second-biggest economy into the $125 billion market for trading carbon credits. Meeting on Deforestation Boosts Moral ...
  • March 11, 2010
    U.S. Governors Ask Congress To Stop EPA Rules (Wall Street Journal) Governors of 18 U.S. states on Wednesday urged Congress to stop "harmful" EPA regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions, saying the agency isn't equipped to deal with "the very real potential for economic harm." Sen. Lev ...

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

  • Senators Versus Students
    As long as we're going to dump most of our money into wars and the military and Wall Street and health insurance bailouts, students are going to have to go into debt to afford college. But it would cost the students less and the government less, if private companies were not permitted to act as mid ...
  • Why Do They Still Hate America? Because Nothing Ha ...
    "The demilitarization of Europe--where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks that go with it--has gone from a blessing in the 20th century to an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st." --Robert Gates, New York ...
  • Capitalism Is Dying a Natural Death
    � from Axis of Logic The curtain is going down on the lone-superpower world we know and it is now a most urgent question if and when and how forces for true democracy, human rights, peace and civilization can come out and dissipate the cloud that has spread over what was once an almost decent way of ...
  • National Security Socio-Capitalism: The US Nationa ...
    "Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, in Proclamation 7463, with respect to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the continuing and immediate threat of further ...
  • Pentagon Tells Obama to Press Israel for Peace
    Israeli relations are worse now than they've been in 35 years, according to Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. And you've got to wonder why. Yes, right-wingers in the Israeli government launched a diplomatic grenade just as the U.S. was about to preside over the first, very tent ...

Ten Percent

  • Malalai Joya In The NYT
    Lacking access to broadcasters and the media within Afghanistan means that her message “for women’s rights, for human rights, against injustice and occupation,” can be spread only by telephone, by clandestine meetings in safe houses and through a poster campaign. The United States cited the status o ...
  • And Another White Terrorist
    Ex Territorial Army made bombs and possessed the White Resistance Manual, A firework containing a lightbulb, a plastic shell attached to a nine volt battery, an electrified wooden clothes peg, and a tub of aluminium powder were all found when officers searched his house in April last year. A polysty ...
  • The Re-Activation, Return & Relocation of The Mask ...
    After a fallow period The Mask of Anarchy blog, formerly of blogspot has returned, but like a Time Lord or franchise reboot it has changed, it has moved! The Mask is now calling WordPress its home (and to reassure his readers, yes already he is laying into Mad Mel P.), so amend your records, put [.. ...
  • Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strike To End On March 19
    From Black Women’s Rape Action Project via Harpy- NOTIFICATION OF SUSPENSION OF HUNGER STRIKE IN YARL’S WOOD IRC This is to inform the authorities and the public that the on-going hunger strike is to be suspended on the 19 March 2010 at 9.00 am. We are giving the authorities and immigration the chan ...
  • Christianists & Empire
    This passed me by at the time but his recent comments set me wondering and indeed, the current Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland Matt Baggott is a born again christian and chairman of the christian police officers association and vice president of the National Association of ...

Booman Tribune

  • Terrorism Sucks
    So, let's say that at least part of the point of the 9/11 attacks was to get the American people to focus on the plight of the Palestinians. I think we can support such a supposition by looking at bin-Laden's 1998 Fatwa in which he made the following assertion: The ruling to kill the Americans a ...
  • Flooded Basement Proves Global Warming
    My basement flooded last night. I blame global warming. Living in Western NY we missed most of the big snow storms that hit south and east of us earlier this winter, until earlier this month when we got hit with a lot of wet heavy snow. Not as much as some of you folks in Pennsylvania, but enou ...
  • Calling it Socialism
    It's amusing to see the Republicans complain about the rule the House of Representatives will use to pass health care reform. You can call it a sleight of hand if you want, because it is. The House doesn't like the Senate bill, especially the goodies set aside for senators Bill Nelson, Mary Landri ...
  • Froggy Bottom Cafe
  • Why Not Apologize?
    I admit that Saddam Hussein was a son of a bitch who treated his own people terribly and was no friend to his neighbors. There might be a few Iraqis who lost their privileged positions after the American invasion who miss the days of Saddam, but most Iraqis didn't have any love for him and wouldn't ...

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • From King’s Cross to Beijing by rail
    I love to travel by train, me. Though a habit born of necessity in my case (I never took my driving test), there’s so much to recommend it over cars or flying. Especially flying. [image by Let Ideas Compete] Well, the far edges of my potential-destinations sphere is going to grow considerably in the ...
  • Page-views as metric of journalistic quality
    GalleyCat quotes a speech at the Copyright Clearance Centre’s copyright conference by Gaby Darbyshire, Gawker Media’s COO of finance, legal, operations & business development, in which she discussed the recent change in pay structure wherein Gawker writers are remunerated in proportion to the page-v ...
  • Cleaning up for Street View
    The city of Windsor in Ontario, Canada has apparently requested Google reshoot some of its Street View footage in order to remove a murder scene (complete with Do Not Cross police tape barriers and bloody bandages) from the public record, prompting Mike Masnick of TechDirt to wonder… [... whether] t ...
  • Personal Information: episode 4
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 4 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
  • Downtime
    Just a quick note to say that there’ll be no posts from yours truly here at Futurismic for the rest of this week, as I’m off for a long weekend away from the computer in the company of The Lady and a fistful of books I’ve been itching to read for ages. I’ll be doing my [...] Project Wonderful - You ...

Therapy News

  • Anxiety Outcomes Scale Developed
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline One of the most important aspects of clinical practice, outcome scales provide practitioners and clients alike with key information about client progress and response to various stimuli and treatments. While there are many self-reporting scales for anxiety, one such ...
  • The Jungian Way
    By Dr. Joshua M. Simmons, Psy.D., Jungian Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Joshua and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile Carl Jung once remarked, “I’m glad to be Jung and not a Jungian.” While many might find Jung’s remark curious, upon closer inspection, it’s understanda ...
  • Misogyny for Sale – Misogyny for Healing
    GoodTherapy.org Featured Column written by Judith Barr, MA, LMHC Click here to contact Judith and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile March is here. March is Women’s History Month*… a month created to celebrate the gift that women are to our world and our civilization. But just a few weeks ago, on Fe ...
  • Mindfulness and Knowledge
    By Yael Schweitzer, LCSW, BC-DMT, Mindfulness Based Approaches / Contemplative Approaches Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Yael and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile When Eve was tempted to eat the apple way back at the Garden of Eden, she was faced with a choice of picking one of two ...
  • Tony: A Case Study – Why Can’t You Just BE With Me ...
    By Chris Tickner, MA, MFT, Somatic Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Chris and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile There comes a point and time in every growing therapist’s development when they have to let go of all the tools and tricks. They have to trust that what they h ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountaintop removal more hazard than inconvenience ...
    Daily Yonder (blog) Mountaintop removal more hazard than inconvenience Murray State News For the fourth year, KFTC called for an end to mountaintop removal mining. Mountaintop removal is a highly destructive form of coal mining in which ... Tweet Against Mountaintop Removal Mining This Thursday Ton ...
  • EPA Approves Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine - Water ...
    EPA Approves Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine Water World 1 would be one of the largest mountaintop removal mines ever proposed in Appalachia. It would clear more than 2200 acres of forestlands, bury more than ... Philadelphia activists rally & risk arrest to tell the EPA no more MTR It's Getting Hot ...
  • Alert: Call to end mountain top removal coal minin ...
    The People's Voice (blog) Alert: Call to end mountain top removal coal mining March 9, 2010 Examiner.com This week hundreds of activists are in Washington, DC taking action to end mountaintop-removal coal mining. You can be part of the action by picking up the ... Mountaintop Removal Concert Signal ...
  • EPA chief: Mountaintop-removal guidelines coming s ...
    ExecutiveGov EPA chief: Mountaintop-removal guidelines coming soon Charleston Gazette US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said Monday her agency is not seeking to halt mountaintop removal , but will "try to ... EPA's Jackson: Mining guidelines coming soon Charleston Gaz ...
  • US Senate candidates fighting for pro-coal label - ...
    Lexington Herald Leader US Senate candidates fighting for pro-coal label Lexington Herald Leader One of Mongiardo's favorite applause lines in Eastern Kentucky is, "It's not mountaintop removal ; it's mountaintop development. ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • House may try to pass Senate health-care bill with ...
    Washington Post : House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it   —  After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote o ...
  • Clinic: Cancer Patient Who Wrote to Obama Will Not ...
    Fox News : Clinic: Cancer Patient Who Wrote to Obama Will Not Lose Home, May Get Aid   —  Natoma Canfield, the cancer-stricken woman who has become a centerpiece of President Obama's push for health care reform, will not lose her home over her medical bills and will probably qualify for financial ...
  • It Figures... Obama's Rally Prop 'Natoma Canfield' ...
    Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit : It Figures... Obama's Rally Prop ‘Natoma Canfield’ Qualifies For Financial Aid; Is Patient At Top US Cancer Center; Won't Lose Home  —  Obama's Health Care Rally Prop Is In Hospital... Getting Care... Despite No Insurance.  —  Natoma Canfield is 50 years old.  She was d ...
  • GOP's Dick Armey Predicts Democrats Will Probably ...
    The Note : GOP's Dick Armey Predicts Democrats Will Probably Pass Health Care   —  ABC News' Matt Loffman reports:  —  Former Republican House Majority Leader and current Tea Party leader Dick Armey said today that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is “inept” but that Congress would likely still pass heal ...
  • Obama: We Will Get the Votes for Health Care Refor ...
    Karen Travers / ABCNEWS : Obama: We Will Get the Votes for Health Care Reform Bill   —  President Obama Tells ABC He Thinks Dems Will Pass Bill, in Exclusive Interview  —  President Obama told ABC News today he is confident that health care reform legislation will pass.  —  “I believe we are going ...

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China Dialogue

  • The urban dream
    David Owen is the author of a new book on the sustainability lessons of New York. In an interview with Jared Green, he argues the case for densely populated cities and says traditional environmentalists have got it wrong. Jared Green: In your new book, Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Cl ...
  • High-rise drama in Nanchang
    The unnecessary demolition of a 10-year-old hotel in south-east China exposes a shallow commitment to low-carbon development, argues Li Taige. It only takes eight seconds to demolish a four-star hotel. Nanchang , the capital of Jiangxi province in south-eastern China, which claims it is en rou ...
  • Jane Goodall: wild at heart
    It has been 50 years since the scientist turned eco-evangelist began her seminal work with chimpanzees in Africa. But, writes Stephen Moss, her work is far from finished. Jane Goodall , grey in complexion but resplendent in a red shawl, is sitting on the sofa in a dimly lit room in west London. The ...
  • Modern and mobile (2)
    African pastoralism has been dismissed as outdated and inefficient. But awareness of its social and environmental benefits is growing, says Ced Hesse. In many parts of dryland Africa, national governments are beginning to value pastoralism and the importance of mobility for productivity. Innovative ...
  • Modern and mobile (1)
    Nomadic pastoralism boosts African economies and protects livestock from drought. So why is it under threat? Ced Hesse explains. Mobile-livestock keeping, or pastoralism , plays a critical role in the economic prosperity of Africa’s drylands. Across east and west Africa, an estimated 50 million live ...

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Threat Level

  • Secret Document Calls Wikileaks ‘Threat’ to U.S. A ...
    Wikileaks presents a “threat to the U.S. Army” and publishes “potentially actionable information” for targeting military personnel, according to a classified intelligence report posted Monday on the whistleblowing site. The 32-page report entitled Wikileaks.org – An Online Reference to Foreign Int ...
  • FBI Hoaxes Boost Online Fraud
    Online fraud in the United States doubled to a reported $560 million in losses last year as illicit phishing expeditions by thieves posing as the Federal Bureau of Investigation represented the biggest consumer complaint, according to a Friday government survey. The e-mail phishing scams represented ...
  • NetFlix Cancels Recommendation Contest After Priva ...
    Netflix is canceling its second $1 million Netflix Prize to settle a legal challenge that it breached customer privacy as part of the first contest’s race for a better movie-recommendation engine. Friday’s announcement came five months after Netflix had announced a successor to its algorithm-improve ...
  • China Warns Google Over Search Censorship
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned Google against flouting the country’s laws on Friday, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cybersecurity. The chief executive of Google, Eric Schmidt, said this week he hoped to announce soon a result to talks with Chinese auth ...
  • TJX Hacking Conspirator Gets 4 Years
    Humza Zaman, a co-conspirator in the hack of TJX and other companies, was sentenced Thursday in Boston to 46 months in prison and fined $75,000 for his role in the conspiracy. The sentence matches what prosecutors were seeking. Zaman, a 33-year-old former programmer at Barclays Bank, was charged wi ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Fed seen renewing low rates, extended period vow
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates near zero on Tuesday and renew its pledge to keep rates very low for a long time, but it could note a brightening economic picture and hint at being closer to dropping the vow.
  • China denies yuan behind U.S. trade gap
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday shunned mounting U.S. demands for a stronger yuan, saying again that its currency is not the cause of its big trade surplus and vowing to keep the currency stable to shore up exports.
  • UPDATE 2-Aftershock hits off coast of Chile, no da ...
    SANTIAGO, March 15 (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.7 aftershock struck off the coast of Chile on Monday night about 45 miles (72 km) northwest of Concepcion, which was heavily damaged in an 8.8 magnitude quake on Feb. 27, but the national emergency office said no casualties or damage to infrastructure ...
  • U.S. to roll out major broadband policy
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators will announce a major Internet policy this week to revolutionize how Americans communicate and play, proposing a dramatic increase in broadband speeds that could let people download a high-definition film in minutes instead of hours.
  • Recession left "walking wounded" workers: study
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many workers around the world have given up hopes of advancing in their jobs, but the bad economy is keeping them from finding new ones.

Equality Trust

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  • Inequality: a threat to social cohesion
    As Edmund Conway comments in today's Daily Telegraph : "It is not merely, as Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett point out in their book The Spirit Level, that this damages health and encourages crime; in times of austerity, inequality can tear apart the social fabric."
  • Labour is running up a down escalator to tackle in ...
    Tackling society's inequalities is what Labour governments are supposed to be about, and this one has quietly redistributed billions worth of tax since 1997, much of it paid by those fatcat bankers, to alleviate the plight of the poorest. How much has it got to show for it? Read Michael White's ...
  • The five-star lifestyle: "horrible, soulless and w ...
    Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy. Read more here...
  • Lynda Gratton: The business case for greater incom ...
    Read Lynda Gratton in the Financial Times [Wilkinson and Pickett's] argument is that societies which are very unequal have all sorts of problems, and I have a feeling that the same is true for companies,” she says. “I think one has to be very careful about what you pay people ... We’ve put far t ...

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #309
    Iran claims arrest of US cyberspies. Nazis planned to infiltrate Vatican with spies. US misled even us on detainees, says ex-MI5 chief.
  • Reports of a possible rogue US DoD operation in Pa ...
    A New York Times article published yesterday alleges the existence of a clandestine intelligence network of private contractors, set up by a US Pentagon employee, possibly without supervision or approval by senior US Defense officials.
  • News you may have missed #308
    CIA boss warns of al-Qaeda changing tactics. New US TSA boss is a counter-intel specialist.
  • Analysis: Forged Irish passports have long history
    At least six of the nearly 30 Mossad assassins who killed Hamas military official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh last January in Dubai, used forged Irish passports to enter and leave the United Arab Emirates. This upset the Irish government, but did not surprise intelligence observers familiar with the long his ...
  • News you may have missed #307
    Aussie spy agency feels the strain as new recruits take key jobs. Secrets spies and steel in the Rio Tinto Case. Former Canadian National Research Council scientist denies spying for Iran.

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  • Obama Brings Dennis Kucinich On Air Force One For ...
    Obama Brings Dennis Kucinich On Air Force One For Health Care Speech By Sam Stein | Huffington Post Traveling to the Cleveland area to make yet another major speech for passing health care reform into law, President Barack Obama chose as a travel companion one very skeptical lawmaker. Rep. Dennis K ...
  • Healthcare Not Warfare Vigils in 82 Districts on M ...
    HEALTHCARE NOT WARFARE VIGILS IN 82 DISTRICTS ON MARCH 17 | Press Release Labor and advocacy groups organized "brown bag" lunch vigils against war funding in 22 congressional districts in January and 67 in February. Currently 82 are planned for March 17th, with more being added. Organizations part ...
  • Last Lost Empire
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Grist - News

  • Adding iron to sea boosts deadly neurotoxin, study ...
    by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- Adding iron to the world's oceans to capture carbon and fight global warming could do more harm than good, as the mineral appears to boost the growth of a plankton that produces a deadly neurotoxin, a study published on Monday shows. Researchers led by ...
  • ‘South by Southwest’ crowd told to sta ...
    by Agence France-Presse Valerie CaseyAUSTIN, Texas -- Techno-hip trend-setters that design online services, software, buildings, and other components of modern life were told Sunday to "get off the sidelines" and start saving the planet. Designers Accord founder Valerie Casey issued the rallyin ...
  • Seedy tactics in Iowa and Norway in the news this ...
    by Bonnie Azab Powell Monsanto's Roundup Ready soybean seedPhoto: Monsanto The first in a series of daylong federally sponsored workshops kicked off today in Ankeny, Iowa , to debate whether consolidation in agriculture -- in particular in the seed industry -- has stifled competition and harmed ...
  • The Climate Post: Uptick in denialism halts glacie ...
    by Eric Roston First things first: "The absence of an actual bill” is one impediment to the Senate taking up climate legislation, The Hill reported earlier this week. The climate leadership troika of Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) continue to wo ...
  • How many Venezuelan soldiers does it take to chang ...
    by Ashley Braun An entire army, apparently. El Presidente of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, put in big orders for energy efficiency when he commanded the country's lightbulbs get swapped for CFLs . Why the power play? A drought of hydropower has the nation in energy crisis and the military armed with ...

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Washington Independent

  • The Ginni Thomas ‘Controversy’
    I’m a little surprised to read exposes of how Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, has launched a Tea Party group, Liberty Central. After all, I reported on Liberty Central back on Feb. 24. When The Washington Post reports that “it was not until this past weekend, after a sto ...
  • The ‘Mullen Doctrine’ Takes Shape
    Mullen says the military should not be deployed without a complementary civilian effort.
  • Senate Moves One Step Closer to Passing Hiring Tax ...
    The Senate this evening took a long stride toward (finally) passing an $18 billion proposal designed to tackle the nation’s jobs crisis, voting to end debate on a bill granting tax credits to businesses that hire unemployed workers. The vote was 61 to 30 to block a GOP filibuster. It marks the secon ...
  • RNC Blacks Out ‘Paid for by RNC’ Line ...
    Last week, the “Take the Town Halls to D.C.” campaign got a small amount of negative attention for “LISTEN TO ME!” signs being distributed to activists by the Republican National Committee. I stopped by the Take the Town Halls HQ today and saw the RNC’s solution. Here are the old signs: d Note the l ...
  • House Panel Jumpstarts Reconciliation on Health Ca ...
    The House Budget Committee this afternoon approved a budget reconciliation bill that jumpstarts the process that Democrats hope will end in the Senate passing sweeping health care reforms by a simple majority. The reconciliation bill, which will be the vehicle for the health care “fixes” the Democra ...

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 for the farm animals to Society & Culture ...
  • 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 for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top sc ...
    Hackers recently broke into thousands of emails and internal documents from a leading climate research center and dumped them onto an anonymous Russian server. The hacked emails (160 MB worth, unzipped) came from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic R Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
  • We're expanding, while economy shrinks
    Americans now have another excuse for hitting the fast food establishments and getting farther out of shape by adding unwanted weight, and it's allegedly not their fault. The latest health discovery is called "recession pounds," and some researchers Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to So ...
  • 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 for the farm animals to ...

Suzie-Q

  • Reconciliation? Isn’t that just another word ...
    Reconciliation: Definition from the 1895 Edition of Funk & Wagnels Acquiescence is a legal term used to describe an act of a person in knowingly standing by without raising any objection to infringement of his rights, when someone else is unknowingly and honestly putting in his resources under the ...
  • AIPAC Lashes Out At President Obama
    AIPAC Lashes Out At Obama Administration Over Israel Statements Huff Post- First Posted: 03-15-10 09:21 AM   |   Updated: 03-15-10 09:54 AM The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobbying group, released a statement over the weekend lacing into President Obama for w ...
  • Ventura: ‘You’re not allowed to ask’ about 9/11
    By Muriel Kane, Raw Story, March 12, 2010 Former Minnesota governor and one-time professional wrestler Jesse Ventura has run afoul of the Huffington Post’s no-conspiracy-theory policy, and he’s not happy about it. “I can’t believe the Huffington Post today will practice censorship,” ...
  • Anti-Semitism – Zionist myth vs truth and reality
    By Alan Hart, Redress.cc, March 15, 2010 Alan Hart views the myth and reality of anti-Semitism and argues that the myth, created and propagated by Israel and Zionism, is the single biggest potential threat to Jews the world over. There are two definitions of [...]
  • Glenn Beck: Run From Any Church That Preaches &#82 ...
    Why Does Glenn Beck Hate Jesus? TIME/CNN- Swampland Posted by Amy Sullivan Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 4:40 am When Glenn Beck told listeners of his radio show on March 2 that they should “run as fast as you can” from any church that preached “social or economic justice” because those were code ...

Solari

  • US Intelligence Planned to Destroy WikiLeaks
    This document is a classifed (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. “The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikileaks.org cannot be ruled out”. It con ...
  • Water Wisdom
    By Vandana Shiva Since 1966 - and as a consequence of the introduction of the Green Revolution model of water-intensive, chemical farming - India has over-exploited her groundwater, creating a water famine. Intensification of drought, floods and cyclones is one of the predictable impacts of climate ...
  • Italy Derivatives Bomb Also Tickin
    Financial markets are gripped by the role derivatives have played in Greece’s debt crisis, but Italy also has a derivatives time bomb, and hundreds of cities are in the 24 billion euro blast zone. Continue reading Forget Greece: Italy Derivatives Bomb Also Tickin
  • Money & Markets - Week of 3.14.10
    Goldman Sachs Demands Derivatives Collateral It Won’t Dish Out Bloomberg.com (15 March 10) The $2 Trillion Hole Barron’s (15 March 10) Arrow To Reject Shell, PetroChina $3 billion Bid Reuters (15 march 10) How I Got the Goods on Madoff, and Why No One Would Listen Business Week (11 March 10) Cno ...
  • Precious Metals - Week of 3.14.10
    Adrian Douglas: More Fed Minutes Document Gold Market Manipulation GATA (14 March 10) Gold’s Cross-currency Strength Signals Its Evolution GATA (12 March 10) Morgan Not Building Shorts in Silver, Butler Tells King World News GATA (13 March 10)

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • International World Water Day 2010- March 22nd
    Billions of people live in the kind of squalor that was eradicated long ago in the rich world. It is a global water and sanitation crisis that deserves our undivided attention NOW Related posts: Toilets Help Stop Overpopulation – Heres How Pope Benedicts 2010 Message to the World: Environmenta ...
  • The Oath – Protect Defend and Preserve – The Envir ...
    Click below to listen to Adam Shake discuss the protection, defense and preservation of the environment. Related posts: EPA Seeks to Protect Children Through Airborne Lead Detection Standards Childrens Health Month Tips – Protect Children from Environmental Risks 100 Percent of Fish Tested, C ...
  • Whose Future is It?
    Guest Article by June Birch, author of “Everyone Can be a herO.” Guest Article by June Birch, author of “Everyone Can be a herO.” Related posts: The “Goracle” Speaks on Global Warming and Predicts The Future. Video We Must Start Adapting Now, to the Manifestations of Global Warming ...
  • Photo Sunday – Water – Wild and Wonderful
    Water, the giver of all life. Wild, wonderful. Related posts: Photo Sunday – Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday – Poems and Prayers and Promises
  • Podcast Spotlight – Green Talk Radio
    GreenTalk Radio is a play-on-demand audiocast (podcast) that helps listeners in their efforts to lead more eco-friendly lifestyles. Related posts: Green Living Ideas and Twilight Earth Form New Major Environmental Network, Simple Earth Media Green Wont Be The Norm, Until We Stop Calling Thi ...

Inhabitat

  • Unfinished Belgian Bell Tower Sprouts a Solar Powe ...
    During the 14th century the city of Antwerp commissioned the construction of a new cathedral. Due to a failing budget, the city ran out of money and construction was brought to a halt. While the structure did meet functionality, it unfortunately lost one of the towers planned in its original design. ...
  • Urban Biofilter Project Plants Bamboo Forests to C ...
    Bamboo forests are beautiful things — especially when they are cleaning urban air, soil, and water AND shielding communities from industry and heavily trafficked areas. Urban Biofilter creates bamboo forests on brownfields that are fed with wastewater. The harvested Bamboo then creates income in a ...
  • Solar Plant Uses Photosynthesis to Charge Your Gad ...
    Inhabitat reader Raven tells us about the Solar Plant – a flowerpot-shaped charger that uses photosynthesis to charge all of your portable electronic gadgets. This clever design from Ku Bon-Seop of South Korea features a set of solar panels that are mounted on the top of the charger. Just like real ...
  • How Economic Downturn Can be a Driving Force for S ...
    The world is currently experiencing an economic downturn or recession, but by examining The Great Depression in the 1920-30’s, one may find clues as to what lies ahead for the future of design. Like The Great Depression, this recession began with a market crash, affected almost every country, caused ...
  • Bold Type Chair Made from 100% Biodegradable Cardb ...
    Font junkies haven’t had reason to get this excited since the release of Helvetica. Designers at SanSanserif Creatius have just premiered their Bold Chair, a funky new seating module constructed from 100% biodegradable corrugated cardboard. Each chair is completely screw-free and is formed via stack ...

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Open Your Eyes News

  • Vietnam releases dissident priest Nguyen Van Ly
    BBC – One of Vietnam’s high-profile human rights activists has been released from prison, five years before the end of his sentence. Nguyen Van Ly, 63, suffered two strokes in 2009 that left him partly paralysed, and Western governments had demanded repeatedly that he be freed. His nephew told the B ...
  • Shock level of bullying of Northern Ireland’s spec ...
    Belfast Telegraph – Children with disabilities and special educational needs experience high levels of bullying at schools in Northern Ireland, according to a new report. More than 900 pupils with special needs across Ulster contributed to the It’s Good to Listen report, launched yesterday at the ...
  • Final destination Iran?
    Herald Scotland – Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport ...
  • I will only resign if Pope asks me, says defiant C ...
    Belfast Telegraph – The head of the Catholic church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, yesterday rejected growing pressure to resign over his involvement in the country’s latest clerical child abuse scandal, insisting that he would stand down only on the Pope’s orders. The position of Cardinal Brady i ...
  • Israel orders demolition of Nablus mosque
    Press TV – Israeli authorities ordered the demolition of an under-construction mosque in the northern West Bank village of Burin on Sunday, head of the Palestinian Authority’s settlement portfolio said. Ghassan Daghlas explained that the Israeli Civil Administration ordered a stop on construction wo ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • RAIM: Movie Review: Shutter Island (Martin Sorsese ...
    Movie Review: Shutter Island (Martin Sorsese, 2010) (raimd.wordpress.com) Shutter Island, the cinematic thriller by director, Martin Scorsese, adapted from a novel by Dennis Lehane, presents a choice between two narratives. Reality is skewed in the movie. Tension unfolds in an purposeful, ambiguous ...
  • Reviewing the revolutionary gender line for Intern ...
    Reviewing the revolutionary gender line for International Women’s Day (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Because of the massive inflow of value from the Third World, contradictions between First World populations have generally diminished across the board. The most glaring example of this is that t ...
  • Hit Squad kills Hamas leader, caught on tape
    Hit Squad kills Hamas Leader, caught on Tape (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) On January 19, 2010, Mahmoud Abdel Rauf al-Mabhouh, a Hamas senior military commander leader, was assassinated in his hotel room in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. According to reports, he was drugged with a strong sedativ ...
  • Points on People’s War
    Points on People’s War (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) 1. People’s war must be carried through to the end. People’s war cannot be turned  off and on. Once initiated, only two outcomes are possible. Either the people’s war is victorious and the new power conquers the old or the people’s war is d ...
  • Beware of Amerikkkans bearing gifts: Haiti and Afr ...
    Beware of Amerikkkans bearing gifts: Haiti and Africa (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The earthquake in Haiti was a natural event, but 200 years of imperialism turned it into a massive disaster that killed between 200,000 and 300,000 people. The tremendous death toll and loss of infrastructure ...

PakAlert

  • The Road To Armageddon
    The morons in Washington are pushing the envelope of nuclear war. The insane drive for American hegemony threatens life on earth. The American people, by accepting the lies and deceptions of “their” government, are facilitating this outcome. Paul Craig Roberts The Washington Times is a news ...
  • Why the CIA is the World’s Number One Terrorist Or ...
    by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The time has come to abolish the CIA –to smash it into a thousand pieces –as JFK had promised! Its leadership should be dismissed and investigated. Where there is probable cause, CIA members should be investigated and tried for crimes against humanity.Th ...
  • Fresh Evidence On The Unprovoked Indian Invasion O ...
    Bangladesh Leader Admits India Conspired To Invade East Pakistan Mujeeb’s daughter admits her father was a traitor, says Indian helped him raise an Indian-backed terror militia that raped and plundered in order to malign Pakistan Army India’s advocates in Washington and London have argued for ...
  • US-Israel agree privately–disagree publicly
    by Moin Ansari There are multiple news stories coming out of Middle East. On the one hand there are stories that the US has tacitly approved the construction of 1600 housing units in disputed East Jerusalem; on the other hand there is bluster from Hillary Clinton which threatens Israel with d ...
  • An Open Letter To American War Criminals And Other ...
    I am finally convinced that a huge percentage of the American people are the worst hypocrites imaginable ­ considering the fact that some 80% of us claim to be "Christians". The AVAILABLE facts that our barbarian young sons have murdered many thousands of COMPLETELY innocent women and children in Ir ...

ecogeek

  • China Planning Massive Asia-Europe Rail System
    China's high-speed rail plans get more ambitious by the day.  Not satisfied with having the world's most advanced and extensive rail line in the world, China is now planning to connect its rail system to 17 other countries in Asia and Eastern Europe where it will join the European rail network. Ch ...
  • Bead-Filled Washing Maching Uses 90% Less Water
    A new washing machine design uses 90 percent less water and reduces utility bills by 30 percent by cleaning clothes with tiny plastic beads. The machine by UK company Xeros Ltd uses 3mm-long nylon beads that can get into all crevices and folds of clothing and absorb stains and dirt.  Stephen Burki ...
  • Concentrated Solar Power Isn't Just for Deserts, I ...
    Usually when you read about concentrated solar power, it's referring to some large project destined for the Mojave Desert, but Syracuse's Center of Excellence in Environmental and Energy Systems (SyracuseCoE) has set out to prove that this technology can be used in smaller, colder settings. Syracu ...
  • Transonic Combustion Improves Gas Engine Efficienc ...
    Conventional gasoline engines are terribly inefficient things. Only 13% of the energy of the fuel actually moves the car. 62% is lost in the engine as waste heat, and driveline losses, accessories, and idling also reduce the efficiency. Transonic Combustion is planning to build automobile eng ...
  • Google Maps Adds Bicycle Information
    Beginning today, Google has begun providing bicycle directions for its Google Maps service with directions for cyclists in 150 cities in the United States. Google already incorporates public-transit and walking directions in addition to automobile driving directions, and the bicycling community ...

Buzzflash

  • Is Karl Rove Trying to Become Palin's Brain? -- Ba ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Conspiracy theory? Or search for the truth?� How does truth become "conspiracy theory"? Actually, when media and group think dismisses possibility :You didn’t see anything about it in the mainstream media, but two weeks ago at a conference in San Francisco, more ...
  • Taking pride in American liberalism
    Body For mass consumption, the GOP is usually better at its creative Reasoning of the Day, or at the very least, it usually sticks to just one hallucinatory invention at a time. Rare, indeed, is this sort of conflicting simultaneity, which is more than enough to stop even the chronica ...
  • Bill O'Reilly Defends FOX on Healthcare? He Must H ...
    BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph This past week, FOX received a rather excoriating criticism from former New York Times editor Howell Raines for the way the network has "overturned standards of fairness and objectivity that have guided American print and broadcast journalists since World War I ...
  • No Child Left Far Behind (a Couple of Thousand Yea ...
    BUZZFLASH DISCUSSION The Obama Administration has shifted toward trying to revamp No Child Left Behind to improve schools . With the far right turn in Texas textbooks and the influence Texas has on nationwide education , though, is there a chance of right-wing politics and theocracy being instituted ...
  • These Days, Deception is the Name of the News Game ...
    BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE A Partner For Peace? "Netanyahu appeared onstage with Pastor John Hagee in Jerusalem ." Hagee is a conservative American preacher who opposes the two-state solution and supports unlimited Israeli settlement expansion with millions of private American dollars. Hag ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • Obama threatens to veto greater intelligence overs ...
    (updated below) One of the principal weapons used by the Bush administration to engage in illegal surveillance activities -- from torture to warrantless eavesdropping -- was its refusal to brief the full Congressional Intelligence Committees about its activities.  Instead, at best, it wou ...
  • U.S.-Israel rift undermining some long-standing ta ...
    (updated below) The rather extraordinary dust-up between the U.S. and Israel has, among other benefits, shined a light on two of the most taboo yet self-evidently true propositions:    (1) our joined-at-the-hip relationship with Israel is a significant cause of anti-American sentiment in ...
  • Salon Radio: Manipulative use of the term "Terro ...
    There's a great paradox in the American political landscape:��the word that is used most frequently to justify everything from invasions and bombings to torture, indefinite detention, and the�sprawling Surveillance�State -- Terrorism -- is also the most ill-defined and manipulated word . �It has n ...
  • Salon Radio: Remi Brulin Transcript
    To read about and listen to this podcast discussion, go here . Glenn Greenwald : My guest today on Salon Radio is R�mi Brulin, who teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at NYU, and is currently working on and close to finishing his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled The US Discourse on Terrorism S ...
  • The warped platitude of DC "centrism"
    (updated below) The Washington Post 's Dana Milbank dresses up in idiotic costumes , and the overriding attribute of his commentary is adolescent, above-it-all snideness , and he's thus deemed a wild, unpredictable, creative "contrarian" in Beltway media circles. �In reality, he's one of ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Antimony, x-rays, childhood obesity
    Science news links for March 12-15, including the latest on my SpectroscopyNOW.com column: Feverish New World X-ray – X-ray crystallography has allowed US researchers to discover exactly how one type of New World hemorrhagic fever virus latches on to and infects human cells. The work offers a much- ...
  • Total alchemist
    A good, old-fashioned total synthesis of a natural product caught The Alchemist’s attention this week, as did the notion of spiking the hydrocarbon picene with potassium atoms to turn it into a superconductor. In a related carbon field, Chinese chemists have broken the rules to crack bucky eggs and ...
  • Whatever happened to the audiophile?
    Back in the 1970s my parents had friends who had stacks of hi-fi separates with gold contact wiring and speaker stands on metal spikes. They were only playing Perry Como on vinyl, but that was their idea of fun, so good luck to them. When the CD emerged on to the market with its claims [...] Whateve ...
  • Forensic saliva test within spitting distance
    The latest issue of SpectroscopyNOW is online. This week I cover everything from MRI for testicular cancer to egg-shaped carbon balls by way of energy molecules, copper proteins, secret writing, first up a forensic test for distinguishing saliva deposits from other substances at a crime scene: Non-d ...
  • Hacking your online identity
    Geo-location services are very useful, helping you find a post office, ATM, decent restaurant, or hooking up with friends. They are commonly used in conjunction with smart phones and other mobile devices that ping your location (based on network coordinates or the global positioning system, GPS) bac ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • CU and OCA Urge Action on Deceptive ‘Organic’ Labe ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2010 Consumer Advocates Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, and the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), today filed a petition with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting action on the widespread and blatantly deceptive labeling pract ...
  • CAF to Sen. Dodd: Call for Vote on Independent Con ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2010 Campaign for America's Future Senate Democratic leaders should conduct an up or down vote on the creation of an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency on the Senate floor, the co-directors of the Campaign for America’s Future said Friday. read more
  • Amnesty International Calls on President Obama to ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2010 Amnesty International - USA Amnesty International called on President Obama today to quickly establish an Office of Maternal Health to lead government action to reduce soaring pregnancy-related complications and maternal deaths nationwide.  The human rights organ ...
  • Indonesia: US Should Justify Training Counterterro ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2010 Human Rights Watch The US government should train members of Indonesia's elite special forces only if Indonesia takes sufficient steps toward accountability and reform to deter future abuses, Human Rights Watch said in two letters released today.   Ahead of Pres ...
  • National Broadband Plan Signals Progress But Hard ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 15, 2010 Free Press In response to the release of the executive summary of the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan, Free Press Executive Director Josh Silver made the following statement: read more

Common Dreams-Views

  • Labor's Leadership Lost
    by John Buell Remember when the U.S. model of "flexible" labor markets, deregulated transportation and innovative finance was supposed to be an example to the world? Freed from the constraints of minimum wages, burdensome product regulations and troublesome unions, American corporations would de ...
  • Pentagon Tells Obama to Press Israel for Peace
    by Ira Chernus Israeli relations are worse now than they've been in 35 years, according to Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren. And you've got to wonder why. read more
  • Feeding Dependency, Starving Democracy... Still
    by Nikhil Aziz Some of the advice for how Haiti ought to rebuild after the earthquake sounds hauntingly familiar, echoing the same bad development advice that Haiti has received for decades - even before the nation faced its current devastating situation. To avoid repeating the past failures, we ...
  • Yoo Besmirches Legacy of Jefferson
    by Ray McGovern Initially I was shocked at the thought of the University of Virginia welcoming former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo to the "Academical Village" founded by Thomas Jefferson. There was something very wrong about that picture. Was it not Mr. Jefferson who condemned tyrannical ...
  • Call for a Global Leaders Forum
    by International Civil Society International Civil Society Statement ahead of the 2010 G-20 Leaders Summit in Toronto The world urgently needs democratic and global decision-making that puts the international economic and financial system at the service of equity, economic and social justice, hu ...

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Local man out to replace plastic bottles (The Sent ...
    Convenience comes with a price. Brian Denton realized that three years ago and set out to make a change — not only in his own life, but also in the lives of others.
  • MWSS: Hydropower plant sale may affect Metro water ...
    MANILA, Philippines - The water utility regulator for Metro Manila raised concern on Monday that power generation has taken priority over domestic water use at the Angat dam, claiming problems could arise if the Angat hydroelectric plant is privatized on April.
  • MWSS: Hydropower plant sale may affect Metro water ...
    Metro Manila’s water utility regulator on Monday raised concern that power generation had taken priority over domestic water use at the Angat dam, saying problems could arise if the Angat hydroelectric plant is privatized next month.
  • Deer Creek students break WWF goal (The Edmond Sun ...
    Deer Creek High School students outdid themselves again recently as they shattered their fundraising goal for the 10th annual Wonderful Week of Fundraising. The school raised over $54,367 to provide assistance to refugees in the Oklahoma City area and clean water for the people of Haiti.
  • DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE: The Iranian Tsunami (The ...
    Earthquakes, like the recent Haitian and Chilean monsters, are not subtle events: They flatten buildings, crush houses, and turn infrastructures into concrete and steel confetti.

Guardian

  • Kidnapped British boy 'found wandering in field'
    British boy kidnapped in Pakistan nearly two weeks ago is found safe and well after release The five-year-old British boy kidnapped while on holiday in Pakistan nearly two weeks ago was today found wandering in a field after being released alone at 9am, police said. Sahil Saeed, of Oldham, Greater M ...
  • MPs seek Omagh intelligence inquiry
    • Inquiry should span Republic's borders, says committee • Families welcome report after Panorama programme A public inquiry should be established to examine if vital intelligence on the Real IRA was shielded from detectives investigating the Omagh bomb massacre .The Northern Ireland affairs committ ...
  • BA strike build-up: live updates
    • Unite is the 'new militant tendency inside Labour', the Tories claim • BA cabin crew will be banned from picketing at Terminal Five • BA and Unite are no nearer an agreement to head off Saturday's strike Follow live updates 12.24pm: Andy Sparrow on that Tory party press conference: Basically, it ...
  • Ministers reject EU deficit cuts call
    Liam Byrne says European commission proposals were 'too aggressive' and could cause 'irreparable damage' to public services The government today rejected a warning from the European commission that Britain will fail to cut its deficit in accordance with EU rules. According to leaks of a report last ...
  • Fox loses £22,500 expenses appeal
    Shadow defence secretary remortgaged his second home to pay for redecoration and claimed higher interest payments on expenses The shadow defence secretary, Liam Fox, today lost his appeal against a ruling that he should pay back £22,500 of expenses. Fox had repaid the cash, by far the highest amoun ...

McClatchey

  • 82-year-old former politician accused of molesting ...
    The lawyer for former Madera County Supervisor Harry Baker says police interviews show the 13-year-old girl he's accused of molesting and her parents agreed with Baker that he was set up.
  • Murder trial opens with details of how officer die ...
    Sheriff's gang Det. Ed Yee took off his jacket and tried to stop the blood pouring out his mortally wounded partner, Vu Nguyen, sprawled on top of a backyard chicken coop.
  • AARP offers job fairs for struggling older workers
    WASHINGTON — Unemployed workers 50 and older will get some much-needed help in their job searches beginning Tuesday, when the AARP kicks off a national series of free career fairs for mature job seekers.
  • Catholic bishops oppose health care plan over abor ...
    The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Monday it opposes the Democratic health care plan heading for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives because of its language on abortion.
  • Whitman, Poizner clash in California GOP gubernato ...
    COSTA MESA — In the first gubernatorial debate of the Republican primary, underdog candidate Steve Poizner sought Monday to establish himself as the true conservative of the race while rival Meg Whitman offered more moderate proposals on core GOP issues such as illegal immigration and the state's cl ...

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Can rhinos cure cancer?
    Last June, a group of five men drove into South Africa's Addo National Park and held up the rangers' station at gunpoint . They emerged with a small consignment of ivory and rhino horn worth an estimated 850,000 rand - about £75,000, or $114,000. The rhino horn - which came from animals that had d ...
  • Climate review seeks detatchment
    There's little doubt, I think, that the forthcoming review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) can make quite a lot of difference to the organisation itself. (This is the review that was demanded last month by ministers, and whose terms of reference and operating agency the UN h ...
  • EU - bloc vote or blocked vote?
    The somewhat abstruse and legal-jargon-adorned world of internal European Union politics is likely to have a key role to play in two big forthcoming decisions concerning some of the most charismatic life in the world's oceans. EU nations are supposed to adopt a common position on such issues, eithe ...
  • Troubled history tinges marine plan
    So what do you think: should the Chagos Islands archipelago be turned into a marine reserve, or shouldn't it? If you care either way, you have until the end of the week to give the UK government your views. If you don't care either way... well, read on, and perhaps you'll decide whether it matters ...
  • Tough love in a troubled climate
    Forget the Norfolk police's criminal investigation , reviews commissioned by universities in the UK and US , and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 's (IPCC) internal deliberations. Governments have now demanded - and will get - an independent review into how the IPCC conducts its work a ...

The Wonk Room

  • Pelosi: Bill Will Prevent Insurers From Imposing U ...
    This morning, during a discussion about health reform with progressive bloggers, I asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) if the Senate health care bill did enough to prevent insurers from jacking up health care rates between now and 2014, (when the exchanges become operational). Noting that insure ...
  • Will The Senate’s Abortion Language Undermin ...
    The Washington Post had an interesting article this morning examining the consequences of requiring insurers to collect a separate premium for abortion coverage. It turns out that when people need to send in a separate check for their abortion coverage, nobody really wants it: In North Dakota, wher ...
  • Armey Accuses Tancredo Of Being ‘Destructive,’ ‘Al ...
    Today, at a luncheon at the National Press Club on the future of the Republican Party in Washington, FreedomWorks chairman and tea party strategist Dick Armey slammed former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) and other anti-immigration activists for “alienating a ‘natural’ constituency [Latinos] that could he ...
  • How Does Dodd’s Latest Financial Reform Bill ...
    This post was co-written by David Min, Associate Director for Financial Markets Policy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, and Pat Garofalo. After months of intractable negotiations with Republicans that went nowhere, and growing impatience from Americans irate that regulatory reforms f ...
  • Does It Really Matter How The House Passes The Sen ...
    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sounded positive and upbeat about the prospects of health care reform passing the House at this morning’s briefing for progressive bloggers, telling the eleven of us gathered in her offices, “I have no intention of not passing this bill. Let me say it in a positive ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • This Might Be My Post For the Day
    It's not a bad use of a few minutes. Check out the bopping audience! (Although today they'd probably all be ignoring him or shouting over him, not even bothering to applaud at the end of each song.)
  • Quick Thoughts on George Monbiot's "Heat"
    " Heat : How to keep the planet from burning " I'm 3/5ths of the way through Monbiot's book and it's been well worth the effort. I don't think that civilization is going to respond in time. We're going to wait until the crisis is upon us, the tipping point has been reached, and the gases are bein ...
  • In Denial
    A lot to do today. But to post for today I direct you to this post from Canadian Cynic . He's pointing out the level of stupidity regarding right-wingers' responses to the Edmonton white-supremacist who shot-up the car dealership. You can read it it all for yourselves (whoever you might be), but ...
  • Canadian Values
    Commenting on a post at "Far and Wide" about the Iacobucci diversion, I asked about the moral significance of all of this for Canada. Are we really so morally and democratically bankrupt that our government believes there's political capital to be had in demonstrating contempt for Parliament's dema ...
  • We Won't Stop Them ...
    There's no real reason to get excited. Even if harper is sent packing, it'll be a Liberal minority. Just watch Michael "Internationalist" Ignatieff turn into harper-lite. Even if the NDP hold the balance of power, it'll be meaningless. Who could truly believe that the NDP wouldn't suddenly becom ...

Financial Sense Editorials

  • Market Observation: Dow Theory Update
    by Tim W. Wood. "As equities moved into their January highs, a very short-term Dow theory non-confirmation developed. The Transports made their January closing high on January 11th at 4,262.86 while the Industrials pressed higher marking their January closing high 5 trading days later at 10,725.43. ...
  • The Fall of the Roman Republic
    by J. R. Nyquist. "A couple of years ago Cullen Murphy wrote an elegant little book titled with the question, "Are We Rome?" He was not specifically referring to the Roman republic, but to the late Roman Empire. It is a distinction worth making, because Rome lost its freedom and its greatness long ...
  • The Big Dead-Cat Bounce
    by Doug Hornig. "It’s now been a year since the dark days of early March 2009, when, although no one knew it at the time, the stock market hit rock bottom. From there, all of the indexes went on a tear through the rest of the year, moving almost uninterruptedly higher before easing slightly in the f ...
  • Sultans of Swap: Smoking Guns & the Sting!
    by Gordon T Long. "There are 7 stages to executing a successful sting operation. Whether this is the modus operandi behind the Sultans of Swap operating in the $605 Trillion OTC Derivatives market or just simple coincidence, I will leave it to you shrewd reader to determine. The seven stages do how ...
  • Doug Casey on Surviving Financial Apocalypse Now
    by Louis James. "Doug, last time we spoke, you said quite a bit about debt, in the context of your expectation that the euro is on its way out. At the end of that conversation, you mentioned, of course, that the problem is not limited to Greece, nor the eurozone. America as a country has become a wo ...

on Government Oversight

  • Sen. Dodd Releases Financial Regulatory Bill
    At long last, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-CT) has released new draft legislation for overhauling the nation’s financial regulatory system. A summary of the legislation is available here. We’ll be going over the bill with a fine-tooth comb...
  • POGO Letter To NIH Director: Medical Researchers S ...
    POGO has sent a letter to Dr. Francis Collins, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), urging him to implement an idea he recently said he supported: a public database listing any financial arrangements, such as payment for...
  • Reason For Cautious Optimism about Auditing Across ...
    It looks like now President Obama is looking to supplement current government auditing. Robert Brodsky at Government Executive reported last week that President Obama has directed federal agencies to expand their use of Payment Recapture Audits to save taxpayers money...
  • Quote of the Day
    "You do it the same way you get to Carnegie Hall: practice." -- Norm Eisen, special counsel to the president for ethics and government reform, responding this morning to the question of how to move open government initiatives from rhetoric...
  • Morning Smoke: Sunshine Week Kicks Off With New Re ...
    Report Faults U.S.'s Efforts at Transparency by Eric Lichtblau [The New York Times] - Click here to learn more about the 5th annual Sunshine Week, and be sure to tune in this Friday for a webcast on building government transparency...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Txt 4 Help: Teen Homelessness Is No LOL'ing Matter
    This week, March 14th to March 20th, 2010, is National Safe Place week , which serves to raise awareness of the dangers of youth homelessness and has been supported by the U.S. Senate for the last 12 years. National Safe Place (NSP), headquartered in Louisville, KY, facilitates a national network th ...
  • Faulty Definition Leaves Millions "Out of the Home ...
    Statistics, when accurate, are both telling and powerful. We cannot help a population of people whose needs and crises we do not understand. However, statistics are open to manipulation. For example, the federal unemployment rate is not an enumeration of all people who are out of work. Instead, t ...
  • The Need to Modernize Data Collection in Homeless ...
    The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness is taking public comment on what the federal government should do to improve homeless services. While I applaud the USICH's effort to get the public's input, in the past the federal government has ignored the complaints of homeless service agenci ...
  • The Media Loves Business Class Homelessness
    Whether or not you believe that homeless can happen to anybody , it does occasionally strike someone who had previously been raking in six figures. The media loves this. A person may not be able to find a new job or keep his home, but he can become a minor celebrity. The latest example is 46-year-ol ...
  • A Homeless Shelter Is a Home, In Legal Terms
    A homeless shelter is a person's home, and homeless citizens are entitled to the same privacy protection as those in our country who have housing, a Massachusetts court has ruled . The case resulted from the prosecution of a 16-year-old boy based on evidence obtained by police during a search of the ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Close Combat Vehicle project revived?
    The Close Combat Vehicle project, which was recently reported to have been shelved, is now said to be back on the Army’s priority list: David Pugliese, “Plans for new fleet of armoured vehicles back on track,” Ottawa Citizen, 14 March 2010.
  • Stop-and-go on START treaty
    U.S. and Russian efforts to finalize a new strategic nuclear arms control agreement to replace the 1991 START treaty, which expired in December 2009, continue to drag on (Peter Baker and Mark Landler, “Delay on Arms Pact Slows Rest of U.S.-Russia Ties,” New York Times, 9 March 2010; see also Peter B ...
  • Ban nuclear weapons from Arctic: Report
    Arctic and nuclear weapon states need to work together to rid the Arctic region of nuclear weapons, finds a new report by security analysts Michael Wallace and Steven Staples. Ridding the Arctic of Nuclear Weapons: A Task Long Overdue was released today by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian ...
  • Canadians want military spending cut: poll
    A poll conducted at the beginning of March by Leger Marketing shows that a majority of Canadians want military spending to be reduced following the end of Canada’s mission in Afghanistan (Thane Burnett, “Canadians want military spending cut back: poll,” Toronto Sun, 5 March 2010). Almost 60% of tho ...
  • The Year of the Drone
    A recent report by Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann of the New America Foundation provides a detailed examination of the “secret” U.S. drone war in Pakistan. The report, Year of the Drone: Analysis of US Drone Strikes in Pakistan, 2004-2010, looks in particular at the civilian cost of the drone ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Predicting the Future with Gerald Celente
    This week, founder of the Trends Research Institute, Gerald Celente, visits the show to explain how he predicts events in the future. He already predicted the financial crash of 2009, and he was actually IN the 14th floor of a Chilean building during the recent earthquake! Learn what you can do to p ...
  • Citizens of Greece Protesting Government
    March 15, 2010 Mail Online Street clashes broke out between rioting youths and police in central Athens today as tens of thousands demonstrated during a nationwide strike against the cash-strapped government. Hundreds of masked and hooded youths punched and kicked motorcycle police, knocking several ...
  • Commercial Drug Comparison Studies Non-Existent
    March 15, 2010 Reuters Most of the so-called comparative effectiveness research is done at academic institutions or by other noncommercial enterprises, and less than 20 percent examine the safety of treatments, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. “Most of the com ...
  • Food Manufacturer Knew Plant Had Salmonella
    March 15, 2010 The Washington Post By Lyndsey Layton The company at the heart of a growing recall of processed foods knew that its plant was contaminated with salmonella but continued to make a flavoring and sell it to foodmakers around the country, according to inspectors at the Food and Drug Admin ...
  • Bone-Strengthening Drug Linked to Fractures
    March 15, 2010 ABC News BY CHRISTINE ROMO and LARA SALAHI Sandy Potter, 59 of Queens, New York, was jumping rope with neighborhood children when she felt her thigh bone snap. “I went up in the air and I came straight down to the ground,” Potter said. “The pain was excruciating.” Potter, who was diag ...

Pambazuka News

  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...
  • Global: It takes a Villager
    Owino Odhiambo left his tiny Kenyan village less than a decade ago to immerse himself completely in American culture. Equipped with American citizenship, two degrees, and five years experience working as a dedicated graphic designer in New York City,...
  • Honduras: Implications of coup for Afro-descendant ...
    Currently, the country of Honduras in Central America is experiencing its worst political crisis in decades. In the aftermath of the military coup that forcibly removed President Manuel Zelaya Rosales, there have been various developments that have r...
  • Guadeloupe: Demand for support for the independenc ...
    Felix Alain Flémin, secretary general of the Guadeloupe Communist Party (GCP) has called for international solidarity in support of the struggle for independence and self-determination of the people of those Caribbean islands under French colonial do...

War in Context

  • Netanyahu remains defiant
    As Bill Clinton famously said about Benjamin Netanyahu in 1998, “Who the fuck does he think he is? Who’s the fucking superpower here?” Twelve years later there is no sign that Bibi’s hubris has been tempered. In the midst of what Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has told the ...
  • Israel is putting American lives at risk
    In Foreign Policy, Mark Perry describes an extraordinary Pentagon briefing on Israel’s impact on conflicts across the Middle East. Here is an excerpt and following some comments of my own, the author has provided me with additional background on his reporting. On January 16, two days after a killer ...
  • Obama gets kind of tough with Netanyahu
    The Los Angeles Times says: “a dispute this week between the Obama administration and Israel has ballooned into the biggest U.S.-Israeli clash in 20 years.” Tom Friedman says: “what the Israelis did played right into a question a lot of people are asking about the Obama team: how tough are these gu ...
  • Washington’s cult of narcissism and Iraq
    Tom Engelhardt writes: Hubris? We’re bigger than that! We’ve now been at war with, or in, Iraq for almost 20 years, and intermittently at war in Afghanistan for 30 years. Think of it as nearly half a century of experience, all bad. And what is it that Washington seems to have concluded? [...] ...
  • Why did Joe Biden insult America’s friends?
    In an interview on CNN, Hillary Clinton was refreshingly blunt in saying that Israel insulted the US: But now that’s been clearly stated, why did Joe Biden have to cap the first insult by adding another when he said: “the United States has no better friend in the community of nations than Israel” ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Indianapolis wind power contract canceled
    In a statement made last Friday by EDF Energies Nouvelles (French Green Power Company), a power purchase agreement was terminated without explanation by Indianapolis Power and Light Company regarding the supply of wind energy by enXco,  a local EDF company. The contract was unilaterally terminat ...
  • Response to Ravetz and post-normal science
    People send me things. Here’s one from today’s mail. It is a response by Dr. Jaap Hanekamp to the essays by Oxford Professor Jerome Ravetz carried here on WUWT recently. Dr. Ravetz’s first posting on WUWT created quite a controversey. You can read it here: Climategate: Plausibility and the bl ...
  • Corned grief: biofuels may increase CO2
    From the “damned if you do, damned if you don’t department”. More Maize Ethanol May Boost Greenhouse Gas Emissions From the American Institute of Biological Sciences Read the full article (PDF) In the March 2010 issue of BioScience, researchers present a sophisticated new analysis of the effects ...
  • McIntyre accused by University of Queensland Prof ...
    Image source here From Andrew Bolt’s blog at the Herald Sun: Professor John Quiggin complains of smears by sceptics: In recent years, science and scientific institutions have come under increasingly vociferous attack, with accusations of fraud, incompetence and even aspirations to world dominatio ...
  • Academics fight back on climate issues
    Readers may recall this story last week: Ad hoc group wants to run attack ads Here’s their formal response. I’m providing this from: http://www.openletterfromscientists.com for all to see here and to discuss. – Anthony An Open Letter from Scientists in the United States on the Intergovernmental ...

Dandelion Salad

  • Bill Fletcher: The unions and Obama
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Bill Fletcher: The American trade union movement is in disarray Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a columnist, activist, author and labor organizer. He is the Executive Editor of The Black Commentator and his newest book, cowritten with Fernando Gapasin, is entitled “So ...
  • Israeli army chief visits Turkey to hold talks on ...
    Propaganda Alert compiled by Cem Ertür Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 16 March 2010 1) Israeli army chief Gabi Ashkenazi holds security talks in Turkey (16 March 2009) from the archives: 2) Israeli army chief Dan Halutz visits Turkey to discuss the Iranian threat (December 2005) ...
  • Pastor John Hagee Denounces Goldstone Report in Je ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Propaganda Alert! Pastor Hagee Denounces Goldstone in Jerusalem 3/8/10 Pt 1 mblumenthal March 09, 2010 This is part one of Pastor Hagee’s speech in Jerusalem before top members of the Israeli government and thousands of evangelicals. on vodpod: Pastor H ...
  • Israel Crackdown Puts Liberal Jews on the Spot by ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig March 15, 2010 The Israeli government, its brutal war crimes in Gaza exposed in detail in the U.N. report by Justice Richard Goldstone, has implemented a series of draconian measures to silence and discredit dissidents, leading intel ...
  • Eric Margolis: Wars sending U.S. into ruin
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://therealnews.com Eric Margolis: Obama the peace president is fighting battles his country cannot afford Eric Margolis is a journalist born in New York City and holding degrees from Georgetown the University of Geneva, and New York University. During the ...

Your New Reality

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    Detail of an avalanche on Mars : The Full Image Is Here
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    Philip K Dick : How To Survive A Totalitarian Society Philip K Dick, a 1 973 speech excerpt : If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would ...
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    They Call It Dominating "The High Frontier" NASA/US Air Force's Global Hawk, with a wingspan greater than a 737 -800, is now surveilling the planet from an official height of 19 kilometres : Imagine if, or when, the "robotic plane" is armed? Would NASA oppose it being loaded with heavy weaponr ...
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    As I looked through these Rare Star Wars photos , I found myself thinking, 'Wow, these are of great historical importance. This is history.' But they're only behind the scenes pics from the 1976 set of Star Wars. I had to remind myself, this was not a real historical event, it did not happen a long ...
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    "Copying The Past....How's That Rock N' Roll?" Yes, John Lennon is being used to sell cars, but what a fantastic message to get out to a new generation who don't really know what he was about : Hopefully when teenagers see the ad and curiously google John Lennon, they'll come across this song : ...

Wired - Science

  • Closest Ever Look at Martian Moon
    The sharpest images yet taken by the Mars Express spacecraft of Mars’ tiny moon Phobos reveal features as small as 4.4 meters across, the European Space Agency announced March 15. Some of the new images taken March 7 during one of several recent close flybys of the moon home in on the proposed land ...
  • You’re Leaving a Bacterial Fingerprint on Your Key ...
    The bacterial communities that live on human skin may form a bacterial fingerprint on the items that you touch. In a new study led by microbiologists Rob Knight and Noah Fierer of the University of Colorado, Boulder, researchers swabbed three different keyboards and nine mice for bacteria, then co ...
  • Gene That Lets Snakes See Heat Helps You Taste Was ...
    Genes that make mustard hot and spicy on human tongues also let snakes “see” heat, explaining the remarkable ability of some species to strike prey in total darkness. Until now, scientists knew that snakes’ heat perception involved the pit organ, a cavity found between the eyes and nostrils of boa ...
  • Research Reveals Early Signs of Autism in Some Kid ...
    BALTIMORE — Some infants headed for a diagnosis of autism, or autism spectrum disorder as it’s officially known, can be reliably identified at 14 months old based on the presence of five key behavior problems, according to an ongoing long-term study described March 11 at the International Conferenc ...
  • Big Earthquakes Cause Premature Births
    A new study of a 2005 earthquake in Chile supports the surprising hypothesis that pregnant women who experience earthquakes during the first trimester of their pregnancies have increased risk of premature birth and slightly smaller babies. While the drops in birth weight and gestation time are rela ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • IDF declares West Bank protest villages a ‘closed ...
    Amira Hass: The army has declared the West Bank villages of Bil'in and Ni'lin a 'closed military area' until August 17, it emerged Monday. In arresting a demonstrator on Friday, police cited a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Sheikh Jarrah demonstrations – updated 14 March 20 ...
    Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem - weekly protest The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more...
  • Gideon Levy: Israel’s Arabs have been misbehaving ...
    The ultimate Israeli dream is that the Coptis and Tibis will disappear from sight. If the so-called demographic problem can't be solved by driving Arabs out, we'll try to get rid of them another way:... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Zvi Barel: Israel demands peace from Palestinians ...
    The Strategic Affairs Ministry [General Yaalon] never ceases to bring us peace of mind. How nice to know that someone in Israel is monitoring Palestinian incitement, ensuring they "create an... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
  • Jonathan Cook: The Decline of Israel and the Prosp ...
    [Israel] is a democracy that historically gerrymandered its electoral constituency by expelling most of the indigenous population outside its borders – now referred to as the Palestinian refugees –... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

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NewsWise

Intel Trends

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  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: Peace Campaign Hyp ...
    The following comment is from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Reprinted with permission. Peace Campaign Hypes and the Rogue War-mongering Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 10, 2010 �17:46 �administrator Of Late, the invading forces led by America and their surrogates have l ...
  • Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism ©   Pravda By Sergey Balmasov February 10, 2010 Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade urged African leaders and the West to join forces in the fight against al-Qaeda's North African branch ...
  • IntelTrends 10-FEB-2010
    Military hospitals under pressure in advance of new offensive Telegraph, 10 Feb Military hospitals in Afghanistan and the U.K. are operating close to capacity as British forces prepare to launch a major offensive against the Taliban. Arab diplomat annuls wedding with hairy bride Al Arabiya, 10 ...
  • Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: On the So-called R ...
    The following opinion is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. On the So-called Re-integration Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 9, 2010 �08:56 �S.H. The recent American tactic to lure away members of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the nam ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • CU and OCA Urge Action on Deceptive 'Organic' Labe ...
    Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, and the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), today filed a petition with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting action on the widespread and blatantly deceptive labeling practices of several "organic" personal care brands that do n ...
  • Walmart Fires Cancer Patient for Legally Using Med ...
    Joseph Casias, 29, has sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor. Despite his condition, he has dutifully gone to work every day for the last five years at a Walmart in Battle Creek, Michigan, where in 2008 he was named Associate of the Year. Click here to read this article
  • Cities Sue Over Weed Killer in the Water
    As Change.org has previously reported, atrazine is as ubiquitous as it is dangerous. The most widely used weed killer in the country, it spreads swiftly to municipal water—where it has been found to lower sperm counts for men and increase the risk of breast cancer and fertility problems in women. Wh ...
  • The 'Femivore': New Breed of Feminist, or Frontier ...
    Have locavores and feminists -- factions that a few years ago, some bloggers believed to be fundamentally at odds -- become allies? Click here to read this article
  • OCA and Labor Activists at Shareholder Meeting Say ...
    At the Whole Foods Market shareholder meeting in Vancouver, BC, the Sustainable Supply Chain Coalition, an alliance of environmental groups, food activist organizations and labor unions, rallied today in support of four shareholder resolutions and called for a change in Whole Foods Market, Inc. and ...

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Executive Intelligence Review

Center for a Livable Future

  • AVMA leadership missing key facts on antibiotics i ...
    Dr. Ron DeHaven, CEO and Executive VP of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)*, spoke last week to the pork industry in Kansas City, MO. DeHaven opposes legislation to ban the use of non-therapeutic (growth promoting) antibiotics and antibiotics with human uses from food animal produc ...
  • Beyond “Museum” Gardens
    This post was originally published in the spring 2010 issue of Edible: East Bay. For the link to this article from that magaize - http://www.ediblecommunities.com/eastbay/spring-2010/food-for-thought.htm Beyond “Museum” Gardens With all of the coverage of Michelle Obama in the news lately, you wo ...
  • CLF provides House testimony on Maryland Bill 953 ...
    Dr. Keeve Nachman, Director of the Farming for the Future Program at the Center for a Livable Future gave invited testimony to the Maryland House of Delegates on Friday, March 5 on the public health risks of arsenic in poultry feed. Delegate Tom Hucker (D-Montgomery Co) introduced the bill, which al ...
  • “Animal Factory” Book Tour Stops at JHSPH
    When you hear Author David Kirby tell the stories behind the people in his latest book, you can’t help but to get caught up in his emotions. Tears welled up in his eyes several times last night as he described-often in graphic detail-to a riveted Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health audie ...
  • 2 School Farms: A Weekend of Community
    This past weekend, I witnessed hundreds of volunteers working in a very tangible way to take back the food system for a community. The ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu said, “the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” This was a stride. Two high schools in Richmond, Calif in the [. ...

Norwegianity

  • What he didn’t unallot, BridgeFail tithed to ...
    Gov. BridgeFail continues to be the kind of venal, backstabbing governor who necessitates the legislature having to pass hyperspecific legislation because it’s their only hope of forcing the fucker to do what the law tells him to do. Case in point, the lege just closed the loophole Pawlenty had expl ...
  • Still on God’s time
    Ian Masters interviewed Dennis Kucinich by phone and now he doesn’t think Dennis is anywhere near as crazy as our propagandists are saying. Yes, our side has propagandists too — always eager to apologize for truth and ready to compromise for that quarter-loaf. David Swanson has more on Kucinich’s ...
  • Early errands, late post
    Next year we may finally get rid of the seniority system in the Senate Democratic caucus. Two years ago that would have been good enough. Now it isn’t. The Caucus should apportion votes by population represented. Lets put an end to the tyranny of small state Senators with seniority once and for all ...
  • Saturday night pot blogging
    It occurred to me today that after years of every other blog doing cat blogging, it’s way past time for some serious pot blogging. Or at least acknowledging if I’m blogging while stoned. It’s been known to happen. This should go up at the other blog but you fuckers don’t read it. (And if you’re read ...
  • Cash and bash politics
    I’m feeling hopeful today. Not because things are going well, but because the cover ups are unraveling and the propaganda has shifted from the outrageous to the absurd. Big Rock Capitalist Mountain is being exposed as little more than a sugar coating on the world’s biggest shitpile. Click the links ...

The Seferm Post

  • Links for 2010-02-27 [del.icio.us]
    Here Are 10 Things Not to Share with Your Co-Workers There are certain things co-workers need not know about each other, including religious and political views as well as personal issues, but some folks just can't seem to keep their mouths shut. And don't forget -- a casual conversation can eas ...
  • Links for 2010-02-24 [del.icio.us]
    10 Top Things You Need To Know About 'Up In The Air' Movie The film is an adaptation, co-written by Juno director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Sheldon Turner, of a novel by Walter Kirn published in 2001, though Reitman tried to claim sole credit for writing it initially, until the Writer’s Gui ...
  • Links for 2010-02-11 [del.icio.us]
    Here Are 10 Things Not To Include In Your Resume And Why Employers don't have the time or the patience to sift through irrelevant information like your hobbies, interests or how many grandchildren you have. Just stick to the basics and you're good to go. Here are 10 things to leave off your résu ...
  • Links for 2010-02-10 [del.icio.us]
    Get Rid Of Browser Hijackers, Spyware, Malware Once And For All They're intrusive and often difficult to delete. Sometimes, people actually wipe their hard drives clean and start over again just to get rid of them. It's time to act! Winter Driving Safety Tips: How To Take Control Of Your Car ...
  • Facebook A Big Threat To Israeli Soldiers
    The military's added it is cracking down on soldiers' use of social networking Web sites and has launched a campaign warning of the dangers of sharing military classified information online.

The World We Live In

  • Israeli tanks cross technical fence near Lebanon
    Two Israeli tanks have crossed their technical fence near the border with Lebanon two kilometers south of the disputed Ghajar village. The United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon, also known as the UNIFIL, were present in the area along with Lebanese Armed Forces to make sure that the Israeli ...
  • Colonel Imam: ‘I have the Green Beret but the Tale ...
    Perhaps no man alive knows Mullah Omar, his Taleban insurgents and the American military quite so well as “Colonel Imam”, a battle-creased Pakistani officer who wears a faded British paratrooper’s jacket and a turban. As a top agent for the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, Colonel I ...
  • Muslims Are Their Own Worst Enemy
    Muslims are numerous but powerless. Divisions among Muslims, especially between Sunni and Shi’ites, have consigned the Muslim Middle East to almost a century of Western control. Muslims cannot even play together. The Islamic Solidarity Games, a regional version of the Olympics, which were to be he ...
  • A series of setbacks for the coalition in Afghanis ...
    Less To Cheer STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL, the famously self-controlled commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, could be forgiven if he let off an expletive when he heard that soldiers under his command had killed 27 civilians on Sunday February 21st. A missile strike on a three-vehicle convoy in an isolat ...
  • MQM Caught Spying On Pakistan
    Guest post sent in by Truth Seeker MQM caught spying red-handed for foreign nationals and smuggling classified state material outside Pakistan and violated Official Secret Act.  According to a report published in the press Waseem Akthar (MNA) and former advisor to the Chief Minister on poli ...

Center for Food Safety

  • More Than 200,000 NGOs, Farmers, Consumers, and Or ...
    Resulting contamination of non-GE and organic alfalfa hay and seed would devastate livelihoods and organic industry The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today announced that more than 200,000 people submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) critiquing the substance and ...
  • Lawsuit Filed to Bar GE Crops from National Wildli ...
    Delaware’s Bombay Hook Lacks Required Environmental Review and Justification A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service seeks to compel the Service to uproot genetically engineered (GE) crops from its Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. As many as 8 ...
  • Food Safety and Health Organizations Criticize Ela ...
    Food safety, consumer and health advocacy organizations blasted Eli Lilly subsidiary Elanco for claiming that prominent health organizations had endorsed use of the controversial artificial growth hormone rbGH,(rbST) on dairy cows when, in fact, they have not. Elanco’s report, from eight experts and ...
  • Farmers and Conservation Groups Seek to Halt Plant ...
    Earlier Court Decision Found Federal Approval of GE Sugar Beets to Be Unlawful Earthjustice and Center for Food Safety announced today that they filed court papers seeking a ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. The motion was filed in Federal Court on behalf of a coal ...
  • Supreme Court to Hear First Genetically Engineered ...
    Monsanto Takes Center for Food Safety Legal Victory to Highest Court Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear a first-time case about the risks of genetically engineered crops. Named Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms, No. 09-475, the case before the high court will be yet another step in an ongoi ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry X ...
    Editor's Note : These references are related to a ten-part series on the political abuse of the term "Anti-Semitism" by The Angryindian, Editor-in-Chief, Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo. The first installment of this work may be found here ... -- 1- “History has shown that wherever anti-Semitism ...
  • When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry X ...
    Editor's Note : This is the final installment of a ten-part series on the political abuse of the term "Anti-Semitism" by The Angryindian, editor-Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo. -- I don’t mind honest criticism, in fact I encourage it. Indigenist dialectics* demand that I consistently challenge ...
  • When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry X ...
    Editor's Note : This is a selection from a ten-part series on the political abuse of the term "Anti-Semitism" by The Angryindian, Editor-in-Chief, Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo -- It doesn’t stop there. A German pro-Nordic eugenicist named Alfred Ploetz went even further. His particular concept ...
  • When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry X ...
    Editor's Note : This is a selection from a ten-part series on the political abuse of the term "Anti-Semitism" by The Angryindian, Editor-in-Chief, Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo -- While this may be dismaying to his many legions of fans the fact remains that Gandhi did not regard issues of social ...
  • When Victims Become Victimisers: Zionism’s Angry X ...
    Editor's Note : This is a selection from a ten-part series on the political abuse of the term "Anti-Semitism" by The Angryindian, Editor-in-Chief, Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo -- Clearly this writer is not an adherent of any strain of anti-Jewish bias or school of thought. But in accusing me of ...

Pensieve

  • Strong Aftershock Strikes Chile
    This morning a very strong aftershock has struck very close to the epicenter of last month’s earthquake in Chile. The USGS is reporting it’s magnitude as 7.2 in the Richter Scale. There is very little data yet in the international media. I’ll be publishing more as I know more. Since the Richter Sca ...
  • Carol Cabrera Survives Second Murder Attempt
    Politically-motivated murders have been the grisly aftermath of the 2009 constitutional crisis in Honduras. Journalists, both in favor and against former President Manuel Zelaya have been killed in the last few months. Enzo Micheletti, the nephew of former President Roberto Micheletti was murdered a ...
  • Jobs Sues Google Through HTC
    Photo by acaben Steve Jobs could be on the verge of a self-destructive move that would ruin Apple. Again. The idolized CEO’s leadership led to his dismissal many years ago, from the company he founded. The buildup to this was aggravated by  his arrogant and unfriendly manner, and unwillingness to ...
  • Clinton Hails Honduras as Success
    Today Secretary of State Clinton called Honduras a success story, making explicit what some socialist critics have been denouncing since the crisis began. Whatever his leanings at home, Obama’s international policy is not leftist at all. “The Honduras crisis has been managed to a successful conclusi ...
  • Major Earthquake Rattles Chileans
    A major earthquake struck Chile early this morning, followed by a many aftershocks. The US Geological Survey has stated its magnitude as 8.8 in the Richter scale. Chile is much more prepared for earthquakes than Haiti, for its economy is first among emerging nations, approaching the level of a firs ...

Green Times

  • New Energy Efficiency Ratings Set To Impact Buildi ...
    Approximately twenty per cent of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions come from buildings, with commercial buildings accounting for ten per cent of those emissions…
  • Clean Up Australia: Inspiring The Next Generation ...
    Since 1992, tens of thousands of schoolchildren across Australia have cleaned up...
  • Environmental News - 25/02/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html)   - (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1964085,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct)British Airways and the US bioenergy company Solena are to establish Europe's first green jet fuel plant in ...
  • Insulation Scheme Revived – Shonky Operators Out
    Unless you’ve been locked away in a ceiling somewhere you have to be aware of the current commotion surrounding the government’s insulation scheme fiasco…
  • Environmental News - 23/02/10
    Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Climate scientists 'under cyber attack' (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/22/2826417.htm)- (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1964085,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct)An organised ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • GAO blocks contract to Blackwater to train Afghan ...
    Federal auditors on Monday put a stop to Army plans to award a $1 billion training program for Afghan police officers to the company [terrorist group] formerly known as Blackwater, concluding that other companies were unfairly excluded from bidding on the job. The decision by the Government Accounta ...
  • Pentagon spy network hired to 'track and kill'
    A Pentagon official has been accused of hiring a secret network of private contractors to spy on militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan so they could be hunted and killed . The employee is said to have paid firms using former members of the special forces and CIA under the cover of an innocuous ...
  • Obama threatens to veto intel bill if oversight is ...
    President Obama will veto a major intelligence funding bill unless lawmakers remove provisions that would toughen congressional oversight of spy agencies and require more stringent congressional notification of intelligence activities. At the top of the list are Senate provisions that expand con ...
  • U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks
    By Julian Assange This document (18 Mar 2008) is a classifed (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. "The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikilea ...
  • Diego Garcia bunker-busters meant to threaten Iran
    The Sunday Herald has reported that hundreds of powerful US "bunker-buster" bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia. In January, the US government signed a contract to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island, the Scottish newspaper wrote on March 1 ...

Daily Loaf

  • Interview: Filmmaker Talal Jabari explores his con ...
    Talal Jabari: "One of the biggest surprises for me as someone who considers myself analytical is that I adopted this technology without thinking much of it."
  • Cell phone tower protest in South Tampa, HART boar ...
    Late yesterday we were down at the corner of Manhattan and Henderson in South Tampa, where protesters upset about the Tampa City Council granting (on first hearing) a major variance for a cell phone tower in the area let their voice be heard; There was a lot of discussion at yesterday’s HART meeti ...
  • New music releases out Tuesday, March 16: Flobots, ...
    Lots out this week, including a White Stripes doc (check out video here!)
  • Could Hillsborough County saga create momentum for ...
    It's been a long, long road for those who support blowing up the current system of governance in the county, with the county mayor proposal. But as the commission continues to get bogged down in their own issues, the prospect of someone in charge of all of this never seemed so promising.
  • Gossip Girl recap: drugs, friends with benefits, a ...
    “Spotted Chuck Bass breaking bread with his mother. Looks like our little boy lost is finally found, for now at least.” -xoxo Gossip Girl Serena and Nate are quickly becoming the newest hot and heavy couple. Although they say they are trying to be in a real relationship, having each other for brea ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Levy: Palestinian Citizens of Israel “Misbeh ...
    By Jesse Bacon In a tongue in cheek article, Gideon Levy accuses the Palestinian Citizens of Israel of such “misbehaviors” as stating they do not feel they belong in Israel (Ajami director Tony Copti) or asking if Israeli Jews who killed civilians were terrorists (Member of the Israeli Parliament Ah ...
  • “Spotright:” Israel’s Right Wing ...
    By Eitan Isaacsoon After the alarming poll among high school students, where 56% of Jewish students said Arabs should be denied the right to run for office in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, it is only fitting to highlight some of the figureheads of this popular racism, and get a small peek ...
  • Entire Villages Declared “Closed Military Zo ...
    From the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee. Israeli Army: Bil’in and Ni’ilin a Closed Military Zone for a Six Months Period Dozens of masked soldiers raided the West Bank villages of Bil’in and Ni’lin this morning to post decrees designating the village’s lands as a closed military zone on Fri ...
  • “Most Atrocious” Military Ad Ever!
    By Jesse Bacon The Israeli Public Relations machine has been in full swing yesterday, what with ads comparing Israel to a man with undersized genitalia or a whole series of videos to debunk the supposed myths that Israelis ride camels, only eat kebabs, or are bombing people when it’s just really on ...
  • Shooting Back – Palestinian Videographers
    By Amir Terkel. Palestinian videographers, both professional and amateur, sometimes pay a heavy price trying to document their daily assaults at the hands of soldiers and settlers.. Watch a 3 minute preview here. Produced and Directed by Haggai Matar, Edited by Eitan Dorfman and filmed by Amir Ter ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Anti-perkipants report. southern California unempl ...
    Imperial County: Decrease in unemployment rate likely due to hiring seasonal agricultural workers. Consider what will happen to the rate when they are laid off at the end of the cool crop season. Heard in the trenches: Several CPA firms in Orange County plan to furlough staff to a 40% work week af ...
  • Strata: 40-story residential tower with built-in w ...
    The turbines will supply 8% of the building’s energy. Construction is scheduled to be completed in May in London. More from Strata.
  • Sea change. Facebook more popular than Google in U ...
    Hitwise Facebook reached an important milestone for the week ending March 13, 2010 and surpassed Google in the US to become the most visited website for the week.
  • The current Vatican death throes
    Andrew Sullivan quotes a German reader. [A major German newspaper has] a summary of an interview with the Regensburg Bishop, Gerhard Mueller, who says “Leutheusser is a liar,” referring to Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, the Justice Minister. He goes on to say that the justice minister is part o ...
  • Escalating drug violence or legalize marijuana. Th ...
    Two Americans killed at US Consulate in Mexico in drive-by shooting Thirteen murdered in Acapulco, including five machine-gunned police. Eight others were shot, four were beheaded. Last summer, a friend with major business and family ties in Mexico said Mexico City was getting dangerous, but the por ...

Coteret

  • Yediot exposes police lying on suppression of East ...
    After an interlude, the Jerusalem police resumed arrests of Sheikh Jarrah protesters last Friday (March 12 2010.) On Sunday, the Jerusalem Post, like many other Israeli media outlets, ran the police statement on the incident nearly verbatim Earlier on Friday, about 250 locals and left-wing protester ...
  • Einat Weizman: A Jewish and demographic state
    Einat Weizman is an actress living in Tel Aviv. She has a Masters in Culture Research and Political Communications from Tel Aviv University and writes regularly for Maariv. —– DNA politics [Hebrew version here.] Earlier this month (on March 3 2010) an expanded panel of High Court of Justice ju ...
  • Yediot’s Kadmon on Sheikh Jarrah, 1948 and t ...
    Yediot’s Sima Kadmon is second in stature only to Nahum Barnea and this Friday (March 12 2010) her column opened the paper’s influential weekend Political Supplement. Writing in the context of of the current US-Israeli crisis on East Jerusalem, she puts the symbolic, and more importantly, strategic ...
  • Sara Benninga’s rousing speech at the Sheikh ...
    In his succinct post on the March 6 2010 rally in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerry Haber at the Magnes Zionist wrote in my opinion, the highlight of the night was a speech delivered by young Israeli activist, Sarah Benninga, who spoke about the New Left and the New Right. I agree. It was rousing, articulating t ...
  • Yediot’s Barnea outlines the nightmare that ...
    Note that although Barnea’s primary assertion is that the apocalyptic implications of an Israeli strike would deter a rational Israeli government, he is concerned that Netnayahu may have rhetorically painted himself into a corner: Netanyahu has upgraded Ahmadinejad to the dimensions of a Hitler.  ...

Deadline Live

  • Deadline Live – March 15 2010
    Monday – Hour One: Another Monday, another massive Wall St Ponzi scheme uncovered. This one directly involves the FED. Maybe now we can audit the books? / Police guns end up the hands of Pentagon, and Vegas shooters…. Its all just “incompetence” Riiiiight. MORE Headlines from Deadlinelive.info Hour ...
  • Stimulus Money Used For Toll Road In Austin &#8211 ...
    Stimulus Money Used For Toll Road In Austin – Triple Taxation Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList
  • Marc Emery is in the House….of Commons that ...
    Today was an unprecedented day in the Canadian Parliament when Members of all 3 political parties tabled petitions with over 12,000 signatures on behalf of Marc Emery to stop his extradition to The U.S. Please go to http://freemarc.ca/ to find out you can help. Thanks to every who signed! Book Ma ...
  • Mexican Drug War – DEA & FBI Now Participati ...
    John Ross counterpunch.org Last July, in a meticulously planned raid reminiscent of classic guerrilla jail breakouts that are legend in Latin America, a commando of 20 heavily armed fighters freed 53 comrades from a prison in the northern state of Zacatecas. Were the perpetrators in fact guerrillero ...
  • Six U.S. Consulates in Mexico Ordered Evacuated Fo ...
    worldnewsvine.com Following the murder of three U.S. Consulate associates in Ciudad Juarez on Saturday, the U.S. State Department has issued an evacuation order for six U.S. Consulates in Mexico. Consulates in Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo and Matamoros, Tamaulipas and Monterrey, Nuevo Leon h ...

The Air Vent

  • Believers
    Reader MMLJ left a comment about this article on the last thread.  I doubt this post will generate much disagreement here but John Quiggen’s blog has attempted to place the blame for climategate on Steve McIntyre while simultaneously claiming nothing was done wrong.  I would have commented there b ...
  • More Impact from Climategate
    Having the blog on which Climategate was noticed is kind of fun.  At my request, my immediate family and friends don’t tell people about it though – haha.  It didn’t stop the big-brother British anti-terror cops from finding me.  Everyone in the media assumed that the tAV crowd doesn’t believe in ...
  • Global Gridded GHCN Trend by Seasonal Offset Match ...
    This post employs global gridded data using Seasonal Offset Matching.  RomanM’s recent posts on the topic might even become standard method in climate science.   Certainly the Met office should at least pay attention to his methods if they are planning on redoing the dataset.  Of course this exa ...
  • Evil Denialist Blog Polls
    I’m curious what the readers here think about the effect of CO2 on global warming.  Writing a poll which will please a bunch of natural skeptics is about as likely as the moon exploding tomorrow but I’m going to write one anyway.  The purpose of this isn’t to pick which item exactly fits your view ...
  • EE Editor Submission to UK Parliament
    Dr. Peiser’s complete submission to the UK Parliamentary Committee is complete below.  Dr. Peiser was editor of the journal which handled the fraud allegations on the urban warming papers by Jones and Wang. These papers were used to present urban warming as having a minimal effect on the surface te ...

Focal Point

  • CSI Microbiology: Germ Fingerprints Could Help Cat ...
    Each of us is unique and special. So too are the bacterial communities infesting our grimy palms. As we move through the world, we deposit a potentially incriminating microbial film on everything we touch. Scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder hope that our individual germ prints will ...
  • Welcome to Focal Point
    Hello, Big Think. Welcome to Focal Point, a blog about politics, ideas, photography, media, feminism, and more. I'm a freelance journalist in Brooklyn, New York. I do both print and photojournalism, hence the name of the blog.� I didn't set out to become a blogger. I started in 2004 while I was app ...
  • Is Depression an Adaptation?
    Jonah Lehrer argues in the New York Times Magazine that depression might be good for us . He's popularizing a theory advanced by two Virginia researchers who claim that depression is an adaptive mechanism that compels us to withdraw from the world and focus intently on our problems. The fact that d ...
  • Illegal Abortion Kills Kenyan Women
    Botched illegal abortions kill thousands of Kenyan women every year, according to a report released today by the Center for Reproductive Rights , a New York-based NGO dedicated to advancing reproductive freedom through U.S. and international law. The report is based on interviews with dozens of Keny ...
  • Untreated Chronic Pain Violates International Law
    Untreated chronic pain is not only an epidemic, it's a crime. According to a groundbreaking new report by Human Rights Watch, the majority of the world's population lacks adequate access to narcotic pain relief. Governments are letting their own people suffer needlessly and flouting international la ...

Inside Facebook

  • Jambool Talks About Localized Currencies, User Sta ...
    Jambool, the payments startup that offers in-game payments on Facebook through a product called Social Gold, recently announced that it has begun offering international currencies for players in other countries. Localized currencies are becoming more important for payments in social gaming, esp ...
  • WildTangent Moves Further Into Social Gaming With ...
    WildTangent is continuing its foray into Facebook and social gaming, now providing brand-advertising offers on developer Playdom’s Facebook app, Tiki Farm. The tropical island farming game is beginning to feature brands that sponsor particular existing virtual goods in the game. Instead of a user ...
  • LOLapps Hits a Quiz Grand Slam on This Week’s List ...
    They’re not good, but they are successful — and that’s all that matters, right? LOLapps is dominating this week’s AppData list of emerging Facebook apps still under a million monthly active users with four quizzes that have picked up a million new users, combined. They all appear to be made with ...
  • Facebook Roundup: Events, Facebook in D.C., Living ...
    Facebook’s Redesign Paid Off With Searches – Facebook’s redesign in early February seems to have paid off, as U.S. search queries grew by 10% last month with 436 million U.S. searches last month, according to comScore. We previously reported that Facebook’s search traffic grew 13% in January with ...
  • This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
    It’s a week of international imports and premieres for social startups. We have seen new levels of quality in synchronous games, automated fighting titles, and even some new lessons in tycoon zoology. Here are this week’s headlines from Inside Social Games: Monday, March 8th, 2010 CrowdStar Learns ...

    Blacklisted News

  • U.S., U.K. Move Closer to Losing AAA Credit Rating ...
    The governments of the two economies must balance bringing down their debt burdens without damaging growth by removing fiscal stimulus too quickly, Pierre Cailleteau , managing director of sovereign risk at Moody’s in London, said in a telephone interview.
  • The Video That Will Put Geithner Behind Bars
    If this doesn’t convince you that the Timothy Geithner knew about the securities shenanigans that were going on at Lehman, than I don’t know what will.
  • Gender-Bender Chemicals are Turning Boys Into Girl ...
    The government of Denmark has released a 326-page report affirming that endocrine disrupting chemicals are probably continuing to the birth of fewer males and the “feminization” of existing ones.
  • Child rape charge rocks TSA
    A Transportation Security Agency worker who pats down members of the flying public was charged with multiple child sex crimes targeting an underage girl yesterday.
  • US lobby group warns against row with Israel
    A major pro-Israeli lobby group in the United States has warned Washington against chilly remarks on US-Israeli ties, urging immediate action to ease apparent tensions with Tel Aviv.

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

Innovation Canada

  • Particle accelerating … in high school
    For Palak Suryavenshi, the grade-12 science lab was the first step in a journey that led to a chance to test a hypothesis on one of North America’s most advanced particle accelerators. In 2007, Suryavenshi and her classmates from Saskatoon’s Centennial Collegiate worked with researchers at the Unive ...
  • Nose jobs
    (Courtesy of Carleton University Magazine) People around the world ask the same question on a daily basis: “Is the milk bad?” A quick sniff gives us a fast and reliable answer. The sense of smell is very powerful and often taken for granted. We simply follow our nose, because it always knows…but so ...
  • Snow fall
    To the average Canadian, a research station getting completely buried in snow more than 1,500 metres high in the Cariboo Mountains might indicate that snow levels at this altitude are not at risk from global warming. But University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) professor Stephen Déry says look ...
  • The STEALTH advantage
    The average Olympic ski race lasts between 90 and 110 seconds, with skiers clocking speeds of up to 130 kilometres per hour. The difference between a gold-medal performance and a 10th-place finish is often measured in hundredths of a second. As University of Calgary geomatics engineering professor G ...
  • An accidental soft landing
    In February 2005, Aaron Coret was a third-year engineering student at the University of British Columbia (UBC) with a passion for snowboarding. His goal was to turn pro some day, but that dream changed instantly when he crashed while snowboarding in a Whistler Blackcomb terrain park, a playground of ...

Signs of the times

  • Obama agencies invoking secrecy provision more oft ...
    One day after being sworn into office, President Barack Obama instructed federal agencies to ensure government transparency by complying with the spirit of the Freedom of Information Act law. "All agencies should adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the ...
  • Bolide West of Sacramento area California 15MAR201 ...
    Mar 15th, at 05:13:33 PDT, a steep angle bright fireball exploded due west of Yuba City, California. The triangulation is current being calculated. Professor D. Kenyon will likely post a triangulation over a satellite view of California on the Fireball Network website located at Sierra College, R ...
  • Pope's ex-diocese suspends sex-abuse priest
    A priest who was accused of sexually abusing children -- and whose subsequent move from one location to another the pope approved when he was a German cardinal -- has been suspended, his archdiocese announced Monday. The priest was later convicted. The priest, identified only as H, violated the t ...
  • Fireball over Arizona
    Talk about nights at different extremes. Two nights ago had to rank as one of the most boring nights of the past 2 years. Not only were a small number (6) meteors seen by my deep cameras, no meteors were seen by my wide-angle fireball camera. For a clear night you should see at least 3 or 4 bright o ...
  • SOTT FOCUS: Yellow Journalism And Middle Eastern W ...
    An article in Sunday's UK Guardian newspaper tells the story of Observer reporter Farzad Bazoft, an Iranian who was hanged in Iraq as a spy 20 years ago by Saddam Hussein. In penning the article, the author Donald Trelford, who was editor of the Observer when Bazoft was arrested, seeks to "rememb ...

Threat Level

  • Secret Document Calls Wikileaks ‘Threat’ to U.S. A ...
    Wikileaks presents a “threat to the U.S. Army” and publishes “potentially actionable information” for targeting military personnel, according to a classified intelligence report posted Monday on the whistleblowing site. The 32-page report entitled Wikileaks.org – An Online Reference to Foreign Int ...
  • FBI Hoaxes Boost Online Fraud
    Online fraud in the United States doubled to a reported $560 million in losses last year as illicit phishing expeditions by thieves posing as the Federal Bureau of Investigation represented the biggest consumer complaint, according to a Friday government survey. The e-mail phishing scams represented ...
  • NetFlix Cancels Recommendation Contest After Priva ...
    Netflix is canceling its second $1 million Netflix Prize to settle a legal challenge that it breached customer privacy as part of the first contest’s race for a better movie-recommendation engine. Friday’s announcement came five months after Netflix had announced a successor to its algorithm-improve ...
  • China Warns Google Over Search Censorship
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned Google against flouting the country’s laws on Friday, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cybersecurity. The chief executive of Google, Eric Schmidt, said this week he hoped to announce soon a result to talks with Chinese auth ...
  • TJX Hacking Conspirator Gets 4 Years
    Humza Zaman, a co-conspirator in the hack of TJX and other companies, was sentenced Thursday in Boston to 46 months in prison and fined $75,000 for his role in the conspiracy. The sentence matches what prosecutors were seeking. Zaman, a 33-year-old former programmer at Barclays Bank, was charged wi ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Rove: No Bush War for Democracy in Iraq
    As millions of Iraqis braved bomb blasts and threats of violence to vote this weekend, voices across the political spectrum in the U.S. praised the democratic elections . But while President Obama announced that "Their participation demonstrates that the Iraqi people have chosen to shape their futu ...
  • Cheney, Romney and the Iran Sanctions Busters
    Three weeks ago, CBS 60 Minutes revealed Iran's continued success in acquiring sensitive, weapons-related U.S. technologies despite the American regime of sanctions. Now, the New York Times has documented a long list of multinational American companies receiving billions in federal contracts while ...
  • Hayworth Adds Horses to GOP's "Do Not Marry" List
    In Arizona, conservative radio host and former Congressman J.D. Hayworth is challenging Senator John McCain in the upcoming GOP primary. As it turns out, Hayworth is also battling fellow Republicans Rick Santorum and John Cornyn for the most ridiculous comparison of bestiality and same-sex marriage ...
  • The Chutzpah of Israel
    The United States and Israel share common interests, but not identical ones . That reminder was brought home last week by Israel's stunning announcement of expanded East Jerusalem settlements even as Vice President Joe Biden arrived to reaffirm the American commitment to both Israel and the Palesti ...
  • The Irreplaceable Ulysses S. Grant
    In the latest chapter in the decades-long conservative campaign to canonize Ronald Reagan, North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry proposed replacing the image of Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 bill with that of the Gipper. But as Sean Wilentz eloquently detailed Sunday in the NewYork Times, that recognit ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • The Youth by Cindy Sheehan + Peace of the Action T ...
    by Cindy SheehanFeatured WriterDandelion SaladCindy Sheehans Soapbox BlogCindy Sheehans SoapboxMarch 16, 2010Almost everywhere I go to speak, during the Q and A portion, someone asks me where are The Youth?Well, I have good news for all these people who have been lamenting over the lack of young peo ...
  • Countdown: Michael Moore on Wall Street and Health ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/mmflintMarch 15, 2010“[Chris Dodd] said today, well we don’t want to ‘punish’ Wall Street. Yes we do. Yes, that’s exactly what we need to do, because if we don’t do it, they won’t do anything to change. … Instead what we did was, we wrote them more checks and said ...
  • Sweatshops Won't Save Haiti
    The United Nations will host a Haiti donors' conference at the end of March. This conference will be quite different from last year's event, of course, coming as it does on the heels of the worst earthquake to strike Haiti in two centuries. An agenda has already begun to take shape: It's already cle ...
  • What We Need to Do to Counter Our Man-Made Apocaly ...
    We are finding a faith inside “Environmentalism” and “Earth Justice” and “Climate Change Activism.” A faith can support multiple movements, and carry hundreds of issues. A single belief system can sweep across culture and change us all. Christianity did this, and Marxism. And in the 60’s we witnesse ...
  • Increasing Evidence That Recession Has Caused Numb ...
    According to a new DHS report, 11.8 million unauthorized immigrants lived in the United States as of January 2007. By January 2009, that number had fallen to 10.8 million.

Consortium News

  • Spy Takes US-Israeli Secrets to Grave
    Israeli spymaster David Kimche's death means another lost witness to an alleged manipulation of U.S. politics, reports Robert Parry. March 15, 2010
  • 30 Years of US Mistakes in Afghanistan
    U.S. promises of Afghan nation-building ignore that three decades of U.S. policies helped destroy the nation, says James A. Lucas. March 13, 2010
  • How Big Business Dupes the Masses
    The Chamber of Commerce is rallying Americans behind the interests of Big Business, writes Bill Moyers and Michael Winship. March 12, 2010
  • WH Chief Helped GOP Sink 9/11 Trial
    White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel assisted Sen. Lindsey Graham in stopping the New York 9/11 trial, reports Jason Leopold. March 11, 2010
  • Taboo Inhibits Frank Iran/Israel Talk
    A Capitol Hill conference on troubled U.S.-Iran relations tip-toed around the topic of Israeli interests, reports Ray McGovern. March 11, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

TruthHugger

  • Texas Progressive Alliance Monday, February 22, 20 ...
    Monday, February 22, 2010 Texas Blog Roundup The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you that early voting runs through this Friday at 7 PM for the primaries as it brings you this week’s blog highlights. BossKitty at TruthHugger is amazed that anger is directed toward the Internal Revenue Servic ...
  • Tax and Defiance – Short Sighted Protester, Joe St ...
    Income Tax is Public money that is managed by our elected politicians, who also design the rules for how to use that money. The American Voter is where the ultimate responsibility lies. If the American voter cannot recognize they are complicit in creating a monster taxation system, they can throw ...
  • Military Sexual Offenses, Nothing New – Don’t Ask, ...
    How American’s deal with their sexual drives has a long twisted history of abuse and disinformation
  • Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Feb 8, ...
    The Texas Progressive Alliance congratulates the city of New Orleans for the Saints’ stirring Super Bowl victory, and reminds them that the “hair of the dog” trick doesn’t really help with the hangover. The Texas Cloverleaf highlights the sentencing of GOP Denton County Constable Ken Jannereth. P ...
  • American Theocracy divorces the US Constitution, p ...
    America wants to be ruled by TV Evangelist Bankers who are always holier than everyone else until they're caught! This is where Religion has buddied up with weapons manufacturers to promote killing in the name of Jesus.

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    U.S. still holding firm against Israeli settlements. "The US has said it is awaiting a "formal" response from Israel amid a row over its decision to build 1,600 new homes in occupied East Jerusalem. Israel angered the US by announcing the move during a visit by Vice-President Joe Biden aimed at back ...
  • History Is Written By The Winners: Texas Schoolboo ...
    The old story goes like this: In Texas in the late 1940s, two Hispanic men walk into a restaurant and sit, waiting to order. The wait person comes up and tells them, "We don't serve Mexicans." One of the men replies, "I don't want to eat a Mexican." Thankfully, it's been illegal since 1964 for Texas ...
  • Mythbusting Health Care Reform
    As you devote this week to demanding your congress critters vote yes on health care reform, you might need some facts to defend your position. The invaluable Paul Krugman provides a convenient busting of health care reform myths. But reform still has to run a gantlet of misinformation and outright l ...
  • Don't take your tap water for granted
    My nightmares involve infrastructure failures. Bridges, tunnels and water supplies, mostly. Especially water supplies . Historically, the greatest villains have always been those who would poisons the well and doom all in a settlement, human and animal alike, to the same dire fate because you can ...
  • Brown Bag Health Care Reform Wednesday
    Yeah, we've said it at least three times before, but it looks like this week really is Crunch Time on health care reform, with the House vote coming on Friday or Saturday. If you haven't told your representative and Senators to vote Yes on health care reform, do it today. �And if you'd like to make ...

Care 2

  • 10 Big Reasons to Stop Using Dead Trees
    As we all know, cutting down trees contributes to the release of greenhouse gases, whereas planting trees sequesters them. This, of course, can have a direct impact on the effects of global warming. While industry spokespeople like to say that the virgin Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Environment �|� ...
  • Save the Elephants: STOP BLOODY IVORY
    To the 175 parties of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species: As citizens from around the world, we call on you to reject any exemptions in the global ban on the ivory trade, to extend that ban for at least 20 years, and to take a Submitted by Jelica R. to Animals �|� �No ...
  • Cameroon: Poachers kill two rangers, 15 elephants
    Two park rangers and 15 elephants were found dead at the weekend at the Babandjida park in northern Cameroon, more than 1,000 kms from the capital, Yaounde, state television CRTV announced Monday. The rangers and elephants were reportedly killed by Submitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note ...
  • Tim Giago: Urban relocation another failed Indian ...
    In 1952 the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a subsidiary of the U. S. Department of the Interior, initiated a program for Indians living on reservations that sounded a heck of a lot like a pogrom used in Nazi Germany during World War II. America’s “pogrom” was Submitted by Lone Wolf to Society & Culture ...
  • Scientists Freeze Water with Heat
    Popular belief contends that water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius). Surprisingly, if water lies in a smooth bottle and is free of any dust, it can stay liquid down to minus 40 degrees F (minus 40 degrees C).... Submitted by Katie Miller to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...

GreenBiz

  • 4 Keys to a Successful Sustainability Strategy
    If you're of the mind that the global economy is an Energizer battery that will simply go, go, go -- without needing outside attention -- think again.
  • Why Consuming Smarter Means Consuming Less
    The Natural Resources Defense Council is taking a more active role in talking about consumption by encouraging people to eat less red meat and dairy, fly less, and use paper smarter, all actions that could put a big dent in greenhouse gas emissions. �
  • P&G Reformulating Herbal Essences to Limit Toxins
    Procter & Gamble is reformulating its Herbal Essences shampoos to reduce the amount of a carcinogenic chemical in them. �
  • Water-Saving 'No-Mix Toilets' Get Rave Reviews in ...
    An innovative new toilet system that helps to reduce pollution and save water has gotten widespread support in seven European countries, according to a new study.
  • How to Embed Sustainability Into Your Company's DN ...
    "The 21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability" makes the business case for why companies should be rethinking their corporate structures, processes and performance, while also offering advice and case studies of how companies are putting these practices to work.

Reuters Global

  • Defining Pakistan
    In all the discussion about policy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, perhaps we need to think about how we want Pakistan to end up and work backwards?
  • Pakistan getting ahead of itself on the Afghan che ...
    If you have been reading news reports and the blogs in recent weeks on Pakistan's Afghanistan strategy, you would think Islamabad has emerged at the top of the heap, holding all the cards to a possible endgame. But two experts caution against getting taken in by the hype and say Islamabad may be set ...
  • Thai protesters face impasse
    Supporters of former Premier Thaksin Shinawatra gather for a protest outside the base of Thai Army 11th Infantry Regiment in Bangkok March 15, 2010. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
  • North Korean leader Kim Jong-il says bye-bye bouff ...
    North Korean leader Kim Jong-il appears to have abandoned his trademark bouffant hairstyle.
  • Fresh reports surface of Taliban-al Qaeda rift
    According to the Los Angeles Times, a growing number of Taliban militants in the Pakistani border region are refusing to collaborate with Al Qaeda fighters, declining to provide shelter or assist in attacks in Afghanistan even in return for payment.

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • The FOX Factor
    Every now and then there are moments in the American media that defy description. Nevertheless they must be addressed. Case in point: Washington Post “media critic” Howard Kurtz’s article today about FOX News Channel’s “reporters’” growing discomfort with the shenanigans of FNC darling Glenn Beck, ...
  • Name That Third Party!
    All across the Internet, people are demanding a new political party. The Republicns mostly represents those on the far right. The Democrats mostly embrace those on the far left (and are largely ineffective, even though in power). Suppose a new party emerged that represented you. What would you ...
  • What A Loss; What A Life
    Recently, Ginger’s Friend was kind enough to send me the following article about a remarkable woman, Juanita Goggins, who made history here in South Carolina. I admit, I didn’t know her history (I’m originally from North Carolina), and what a history it was. Her story is appropriately told during ...
  • Paulie Abeles’ Radio Show Canceled Tonight
    Paulie has undergone major dental surgery and is recuperating. Her radio show will return next week. If you’d like to extend her your good wishes, please comment below. Thanks. And, if you’ve missed any of her shows, you can listen via our archived shows at BlogTalkRadio or iTunes. Instructions a ...
  • In 30 Minutes, Join No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Ce ...
    Join me tonight as I welcome Steve Megremis of The Daily Bail to No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle. I first spoke with Steve in mid-January. Given the pace of developments in Washington, on Wall Street, and at so many other points on our economic and political landscape, I am thrill ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • War on WikiLeaks? Nasty intelligence plan to destr ...
    Well this is grim! The ACIC or Army Counterintelligence Center published in March 2008 a National Security Information Special Report, under the auspices of the Department of Defense Intelligence Analysis Program (DIAP). Michael D Horvath of the Cyver Counterintelligence Assessments Branch d ...
  • Restored 1927 "Metropolis" adds new subplots on wo ...
    Frame by frame, the lost almost-complete version of Metropolis is coming out. METROPOLIS2710 It's an amazing & essentially perfect film, which created the bases for epic pop culture characters like Doc Brown, C3PO, as well as a powerful vision of utopian urbanism -- the film itself created a huge c ...
  • Young: "The Internet is a giant spying machine rig ...
    Got BitLocker? Feel a bit r00ted??? [It was later posted that this full Windows 7 law enforcement pack was actually originally posted on the very cool newer site PublicIntelligence.net: Microsoft Windows 7/Vista Advanced Forensics Guides for Law Enforcement | Public Intelligence ] In a continuation ...
  • Viddy Still from Michael Ruppert appearance in Min ...
    Its taking a while but I have a lot of footage from Michael Ruppert's visit to St Anthony Main for the screenings of Collapse last week... Overall it was quite awesome, with new items of geopolitics and a lot of jokes. Plus the lighting looks like the movie which is neat :) Standby on that one, I th ...
  • Bad time for Asian plots! Iran busts Jundullah rin ...
    Quick hits for the fans of stuff & things. Welcome to the Fishbowl says a sad federal judge upon the abandonment of the 4th Amendment. Alex Kozinski in the 9th Circuit has some integrity... via Reason : This is an extraordinary case: Our court approves, without blinking, a police sweep of a pe ...

Daily Censored

  • Let the games begin! Detroit
    During public comment prior to the Board’s closed session with attorneys community members present spoke out strongly, telling the board “You gotta do something for the people” and “You have the power, use it”. Speakers included teachers, parents, students, grandparents, great-grandparents, and bus ...
  • “Jeopardizing U.S. Standing” – the Petraeus Contro ...
    Michael Collins Leaks from a recent top level briefing by General David Petraeus are causing quite a controversy.  The general pointed out that, “Israeli intransigence on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was jeopardizing U.S. standing in the region.”  Mark Perry reported this on March 13 in  ...
  • No title
    For the last six months, Education Secretary Arne Duncan has cynically and dishonestly hidden behind the needs of poor, black and Latina/o students to receive equal, quality educational opportunities, to institute his controversial, unpopular and educationally indefensible plan to create a national ...
  • Economic fascism: corporate-directed health care i ...
    two videos live at source. Three out of five Americans want universal health care, as do three out of five US physicians. If corporate media were to communicate the cost-benefit analyses accurately, those numbers would increase because these studies assert that Americans would save between $100 bill ...
  • Minneapolis Schools: Lock Down!
    As one commentator immediately above noted, it would be worth our time to ‘stop and frisk’ our society and try to critically examine what’s causing the social despair, capitulation to “lock-down” policies, calls for military tribunals and the outsourcing of fear to law enforcement. If we don’t, we ...

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Pine River World News

  • Gordon Duff: Terrorism And The Fleecing Of The Fai ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . Terrorism And The Fleecing Of The Faithful � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today March 14, 2010 The "war on terror" has been like no other. America has kidnapped and tortured doz ...
  • Eva Golinger: Permanent Aggression - War on the ho ...
    [The following article is reprinted with permission from Eva Golinger. She is the author of "The Ch�vez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela" (2006 Olive Branch Press) and "Bush vs. Ch�vez: Washington's War on Venezuela" (2007, Monthly Review Press).] PERMANENT AGGRESSION: �War on the hori ...
  • Ramzy Baroud: An Alternative Reading of Murder in ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. An Alternative Reading of Murder in Dubai � �Ramzy Baroud March 10, 2010 The killing of Palestinian activist Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on January 19, 2010 was clearly a well-planned, violent and sadistic act, committed by Israeli assass ...
  • U.S./NATO offensive unravels in Afghanistan
    The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Workers World. U.S./NATO offensive unravels in Afghanistan � � Workers World By Sara Flounders March 7, 2010 The Pentagon offensive against the Afghan city of Marjah was public-relations media hype from the very first day. The sole purpo ...
  • Gordon Duff: America's Political Mess, Time To Sta ...
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . America's Political Mess, Time To Start Over � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today March 5, 2010 * �Term Limits, A Third Party Or Even Real Campaign Finance Rules Aren't Enough ...

    PDA AMERICA

  • No Insurance Company Left Behind
    By Katie Robbins – | HealthCareNOW.org On Tuesday, the Health Care for America Now (HCAN) coalition performed a “citizen’s arrest” of the insurance industry at a meeting of Americas Health Insurance Plans, the private health ...
  • More Healthcare, Less Warfare!
    Healthcare and warfare have been on the front burner this past week—for PDA and Congress. While Congress continues to dither on health insurance reform, I represented PDA at the “Labor Campaign for Single-Payer” conference in Washington, ...
  • IOT: Accountability and Justice March Call
    Accountability and Justice Issue Organizing Team conference call, 3/10/10 Over 80 PDA members joined this special call with Guest David Cobb, attorney and Green Party activist and a founder of Move to Amend, which has as ...
  • The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 3
    In the third installment of the Agitator Voices of PDA, Tim Carpenter interviews two PDA Advisory board members. Get the lowdown from the always witty and cheeky Jim Hightower. Following Jim, hear Rep. Donna ...
  • Michael Moore: There’s Going to Be a Second ...
    From AlterNet We interviewed Michael Moore on The Young Turks today and he was not shy about sharing his opinions. Anyone surprised? He had very strong words for the Democratic Party, the state of our ...

Marler Blog

  • E. coli victim Linda Rivera, like Lazarus, rises f ...
    Linda Rivera update from her brother-in-law: Linda will be discharged from her “home” of Desert Springs Hospital for the past year and to an unknown rehabilitation center. Her tracheostomy opening was closed and she is breathing room air on her own without difficultly, no supplemental oxygen. Linda ...
  • Food Poisoning Victims Speak to Congress about Foo ...
    Victims of foodborne illness gathered in the nation's capital last week to speak to Senators about the need to move food safety legislation forward. Senate bill 510 (S510, the Food Safety Modernization Act) passed unanimously out of committee in November, but has yet to come to the floor of the Sena ...
  • Whole Foods to Stop Raw Milk Sales in Several Stat ...
    My friend David Gumpert over at The Complete Patient broke the news tonight that Whole Foods will be stopping raw milk sales in its stores in several states - "Another Body Blow to Food Choice As Whole Foods Discontinues Raw Milk Sales in At Least Four States."   I am sure that the cessation of sale ...
  • Lombard Subway Sickens 50 with Shigella
    According to Chicago press reports , the number of people sickened by the Shigella outbreak traced to a Lombard sandwich shop is now at 50, DuPage County Health Department spokesman David Hass said this afternoon. Thursday's count was 49.� Hass added that all 10 people who were hospitalized for the ...
  • WSU Professor Tom Besser gets $1,000,000 to protec ...
    � � � � � � Go Cougs.

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 03.16.10
    Toyota releases preliminary test results in "runaway Prius" case "There are strong indications that the driver's account of the event is inconsistent with the findings." Audi Sees 5 Percent of its New C ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 03.15.10
    Tesla: Roadster production will be increased, sales will continue into 2012 Whew. Valmet presents their all-electric Eva concept Great, another awesome EV concept we wish were in production ...
  • Report: Unintended acceleration Prius case gets tw ...
    Second-gen Toyota Prius - Click above for high-res image gallery The unintended acceleration case of the second-generation Prius belonging to James Sikes now officially has an interesting backstory. Apparently, according to USAToday , Sikes' "case against Toyota is starting to look shaky." Why? T ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 03.12.10
    Scoripion King: 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty Power Stroke Diesel is cleanest ever How does an 18-25 percent fuel economy boost sound? Report: Japan's fuel cell market could grow 99-fold by 2025 ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 03.11.10
    Report: Porsche intent on building 918, if it's profitable Don't rush to your dealer, as it could still take five years. Fisker says 100,000 plug-in hybrids a year could be built at Delaware plant ...

Rafe's Radar

  • Reporters' Roundtable podcast: Future of laptops
    It's been four years since laptop computers passed desktop in unit sales in the U.S. But laptop vendors can't rest. The Netbook phenomenon swept the tech world in 2009, changing the rules for the category. And this year, tablets like the iPad might change the nature of personal computing yet agai ...
  • Springpad bookmarks the world
    Neat little clipping and saving service works on Web and iPhone.
  • Reporters' Roundtable podcast: The soul of Microso ...
    This week, just because I find it interesting: The soul of Microsoft. We have three guests to plumb the depths of Microsoft's spirit, two of whom have been at points in their careers tireless advocates and evangalists for the tech giant. First, in the studio, Robert Scoble, former tech evalngalis ...
  • Can you appeal a YouTube ban?
    A travel blogger gets banned from YouTube and doesn't know why. We get the ban reversed. Originally posted at CNET to the Rescue
  • Google acquiring Web-based photo editor Picnik
    Picnik, which makes an online photo editor, has announced on its blog that the company is being bought by Google. Originally posted at Webware ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • Right Now: Amy Goodman Taking Online Questions at ...
    Visit FireDogLake to ask Amy a question. Amy will be taking questions until 7 p.m. EST on Sunday.
  • Part II: Michelle Alexander on “The New Jim ...
    After our broadcast interview with legal scholar and civil rights advocate, Michelle Alexander, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez continued the conversation. Be the first to watch it here.
  • Rachel Corrie’s (Posthumous) Day in Court
    An unusual trial begins in Israel this week, and people around the world will be watching closely. It involves the tragic death of a 23-year-old American student named Rachel Corrie. On March 16, 2003, she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer. More
  • Midwestern Towns Sue Manufacturer of Atrazine Weed ...
    Sixteen Midwestern towns and cities have sued the manufacturer of a popular weedkiller over drinking water contamination. The weedkiller Atrazine manufactured by Syngenta is commonly used in Midwestern cornfields. The lawsuit was filed by towns and cities in Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missour ...
  • Part II: Leading Education Scholar Diane Ravitch o ...
    Diane Ravitch is a former Assistant Secretary of Education and counselor to Education Secretary Lamar Alexander under President George H.W. Bush and was appointed to the National Assessment Governing Board under President Clinton. She is the author of over twenty books, is research professor of edu ...

Farming Pathogens

  • King Leopold’s Pandemic
    The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...
  • The Expulsion
    In 1845 a diplomat delivered a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm to Louis Philippe of France protesting the insults leveled at the Prussian king by expatriates living in Paris. King Louis had the radicals’ newspaper closed down and the group, along with one Karl Marx, deported. This was not the first ti ...
  • Do Pathogens Time Travel?
    Evolution arises from a wealth of failure: 1) natural selection requires large and variable populations comprised largely of organisms that fail because their designs do not match their present problems and 2) chance destruction occurs at all spatiotemporal scales. So clearly strict optimization doe ...
  • 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 ...

Digg Green

  • Icebergs carved by the forces of nature
    These breathtaking photographs capture the natural majesty of enormous icebergs sculpted into architectural forms by the wind and rain of Antarctica. Photographer Steven Kazlowski, 40, witnessed these sights as he toured the world's most southerly continent on a 62-foot engined sailing boat
  • There Is No Overpopulation Problem...Is There?
    Fred Pearce argues that the focus on the population "problem" is a matter of the rich "downplay[ing] the importance of our own environmental footprint because future generations of poor people might one day have the temerity to get as rich and destructive as us."
  • England's Lost Wildlife [Pics]
    A new report from Natural England documents about 500 types of flora and fauna that have been lost completely from England. Here are some examples of those species, plus some that are threatened – and a few success stories, too
  • Landslide hits Northern Pakistan, Creates Artifici ...
    A landslide triggered by torrential rains in northern Pakistan has created a massive artificial lake in the Hunza valley, inundating several villages.Thousands of people are stranded in the highly mountainous region and forced to use boats to get around on icy waters.
  • Can Photos Inspire a New Generation of Environment ...
    One of the Environmental Protection Agency’s early projects was Documerica, an effort "to photograph America’s environmental problems" from 1971 to 1977. Now they’re releasing the 15,000 photos from the vault at the National Archives and posting them on Flickr.

Invisible Opportunity

  • Riding on the Rollercoaster of Cosmic Change.
    By Les Visible The ever increasing tide of individuals and organizations calling for 9/11 Truth are having a telling impact on the PTB. Jessie Ventura’s appearance on The View with the Disinfo Chicks was a powerful event due to the audience that twit fest reaches. Cracks are breaking in the wall of ...
  • CIA Ordered Visas For 9/11 Hijackers
    J. Michael Springmann, formerly chief of the visa section at the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has testified that he rejected hundreds of suspicious visa applications by Saudi Aabian men similar to those named as the 9/11 HijackersPatsies when we was head of the consular section of the US ...
  • CIA Shrinks Drugged the Unabomber
    It turns out that Theodore Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber, was a volunteer in mind-control experiments sponsored by the CIA at Harvard in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Michael Mello, author of the recently published book, “The United States of America vs. Theodore John Kaczynski,” notes that at s ...
  • CIA may have dosed entire French village with LSD
    A 50-year mystery over the ‘cursed bread’ of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment. An American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppe ...
  • Bruce Ivins’ attorney calls for case to be r ...
    by Tina Redlup on March 11, 2010 An attorney for the alleged anthrax killer Bruce Ivins has said that he does not believe that the case against Ivins should not be closed. “There’s not one shred of evidence to show he did it,” Paul F. Kemp, Ivins’ attorney, told AOLNews.com. Kemp said he doesn’t not ...

    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

Sideways News

  • 'Good care for more people'
    The entire social care system needs a major revamp, says think-tank The King's Fund in a report published today.�With councils under a lot of pressure -�partly due to an ageing population -�and home help and residential care currently being means-tested, only those with very severe problems get help ...
  • Drug could 'kiss' infertility goodbye
    An aptly named gene could have the potential to allow infertile women to have babies, researchers have found. Scientists at University College London said the "kiss" gene, also known as kiss-1, plays an important role in producing the hormone kisspeptin, which helps humans become sexually mature.
  • Report calls for civil society equality
    A new report calling for civil society to be treated as an equal partner to the state and commercial interests was published today by the Carnegie UK Trust. The report, entitled “Making Good Society”, has taken four years to prepare and looks ahead as far as 2025. It seeks to identify threats and op ...
  • Fuel poverty review 'urgently needed'
    Long-term fuel poverty can be best tackled by improving energy efficiency, a report has claimed. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said current initiatives to deal with the problem were "out of date", despite pledges to eradicate the issue by 2016. Describing the Government's Home Ener ...
  • 'Sunshine supplements' beat flu
    Avoiding the flu could be as simple as basking in the sun or popping so-called "sunshine supplements", research suggests. Doctors and scientists from Jikei University School for Medicine in Tokyo, Japan, ran a three-month trial during which one group of school children was given vitamin D supplemen ...

Fabius Maximus

  • The project to reform America: a matter for scien ...
    What  key can we turn to reform America?  Some believe the answer lies in theory.  What answers do political science and sociology give us about the causes of America’s problems?  Will scientists describe the solution, then we decide if and how to implement it?  Or do our elites and scientist ...
  • Why the U.S. cannot inflate its way out of debt
    Summary:  As we slowly become aware of our government’s debt load, we seek easy solutions.  How sad that there are no easy solutions.  America was born in a decision about debt.  Treasury Secretary Hamilton proposed that the United States assume the war debts of the states incurred during the R ...
  • Whose values do Dick and Liz Cheney share? Those ...
    This is a typically excellent from a blog worth putting on your reading list:  “Incompetent McCarthyism and Shared Beliefs“, Scott Horton, blog of Harper’s magazine, 8 March 2010 — Excerpt (red emphasis added): Back in 2008, Michael Goldfarb and others on the right tried a typically McCarthyite tac ...
  • FM newswire for March 14, interesting articles abo ...
    Today’s links to interesting news and analysis, collected from around the Internet. If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. “Does James Bond Have a License To Kill? The rules and regulations of British intelligence, explained“, Justin Shubow, Slate, 16 November 2006 “Blackwater ...
  • What’s the big lesson for American from the ...
    Here is an excerpt from an article that deserves to be read in full.  You’ll see in Hayes’ recommendation the vagueness that results from unwillingness to say that we’re responsible for our problems — and only we can fix them.  Instead he resorts to abstractions like “democratization”, long word ...

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WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Closest Ever Look at Martian Moon
    The sharpest images yet taken by the Mars Express spacecraft of Mars’ tiny moon Phobos reveal features as small as 4.4 meters across, the European Space Agency announced March 15. Some of the new images taken March 7 during one of several recent close flybys of the moon home in on the proposed land ...
  • You’re Leaving a Bacterial Fingerprint on Your Key ...
    The bacterial communities that live on human skin may form a bacterial fingerprint on the items that you touch. In a new study led by microbiologists Rob Knight and Noah Fierer of the University of Colorado, Boulder, researchers swabbed three different keyboards and nine mice for bacteria, then co ...
  • Gene That Lets Snakes See Heat Helps You Taste Was ...
    Genes that make mustard hot and spicy on human tongues also let snakes “see” heat, explaining the remarkable ability of some species to strike prey in total darkness. Until now, scientists knew that snakes’ heat perception involved the pit organ, a cavity found between the eyes and nostrils of boa ...
  • Research Reveals Early Signs of Autism in Some Kid ...
    BALTIMORE — Some infants headed for a diagnosis of autism, or autism spectrum disorder as it’s officially known, can be reliably identified at 14 months old based on the presence of five key behavior problems, according to an ongoing long-term study described March 11 at the International Conferenc ...
  • Big Earthquakes Cause Premature Births
    A new study of a 2005 earthquake in Chile supports the surprising hypothesis that pregnant women who experience earthquakes during the first trimester of their pregnancies have increased risk of premature birth and slightly smaller babies. While the drops in birth weight and gestation time are rela ...

The Progressive Realist

  • U.S. in Iraq: The New Israel?
    Just another quick afterthought to yesterday's post about how the U.S. presence in Iraq has altered the strategic logic of the U.S.-Israel relationship. Setting aside all of the non-strategic aspects of the relationship, which is admittedly a huge component, Israel has historically functioned as a U ...
  • Baradar's arrest: Cutting off a conduit to the Tal ...
    I was off the grid all day, so I'm just now getting a chance to respond to the reports that the Afghan government was negotiating with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar  when he was arrested by Pakistani and U.S. intelligence. Karzai "was very angry" when he heard that the Pakistanis had picked up Bar ...
  • Support for Israel Higher than Ever
    Jon Chait, who’s a great deal more conservative on Israel than I am, thinks Benjamin Netanyahu has blundered with his recent spat with the Obama administration over settlement construction in East Jerusalem. Kevin Drum, too, seems to think things may be close to a breaking point : “At some point eve ...
  • Europe’s Looming Pensions-Based Sovereign Debt Cri ...
    As Irwin Stelzer argued in a recent opinion article in the Wall Street Journal , Spain’s Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero seems to be an admirer of Charles Dickens’s character Mr. Micawber. When asked what he plans to do about Spain’s 11.4% fiscal deficit, first he promises to exten ...
  • Why Horse-Trading on the Terror Trials Is a Bad Id ...
    Is it just me, or does it seem really bizarre to be considering backpedaling on counterterror policy at the same time that it's having notable success in finding, killing, or capturing terrorists (oh, and also getting credit for it in the polls)? Here's my real question: do progressive political fi ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: I Deem the Health Care Endgame to ...
    Christopher Hayes ' short contribution to Time 's "10 Ideas for the Next Decade" feature looks behind the curtain of institutional failure in America and points out that it's the elites in virtually every pillar of society who have failed, accounting for widespread disillusionment. He also notes a ...
  • The Little Picture: Ginsburg.
    On June 14, 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg , then a judge on the U.S. D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals accepts her nomination to the United States Supreme Court while President Bill Clinton looks on. Ginsburg turns 77 today. ( wikimedia )
  • A New Southern Strategy.
    Sarah Jaffe profiles Anton Gunn : Anton Gunn's e-mail promises I won't have a hard time picking him out in the Starbucks in Richland County, South Carolina. He's right. Easily the biggest guy in the room, the former offensive lineman looms over an older man in an American Legion baseball cap with ...
  • Man-On-Horse in Arizona
    Via Steve Benen , we see that former Rep. J.D. Hayworth , who is challenging John McCain in the Republican Senate primary in Arizona, has some interesting ideas about what gay marriage will lead to: "You see, the Massachusetts Supreme Court, when it started this move toward same-sex marriage, actu ...
  • Regulatory Reform, the Chris Dodd Edition.
    As promised, Sen. Chris Dodd introduced financial reform legislation today with the aim of putting it through his Senate Banking committee on starting next Monday. His solo appearance in the Senate press gallery was eerily reminiscent of Max Baucus' one-man introduction of the Senate Finance Comitte ...

Andy Worthington

  • Republican Witch-hunters Embrace Dictatorship
    Are there no depths to which the Republican Party will not sink in its unprincipled assaults on President Obama’s counter-terrorism policies? The latest unconstitutional monstrosity from the right’s lunatic fringe came courtesy of Keep America Safe, a toxic organization headed by Liz Cheney, the dau ...
  • Six New UK Screenings of “Outside the Law: Stories ...
    Throughout this year, I’m touring the UK with former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes, showing the new documentary, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash). In the last few weeks, Omar and I (often accompanied by Polly) have screened the film in Lo ...
  • Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Diary
    To coincide with the publication of my article, “What Torture Is, and Why It’s Illegal and Not ‘Poor Judgment,’” in which I revisited the scandalous whitewash of the Justice Department report into the conduct of John Yoo and Jay Bybee (the lawyers who sought to redefine torture in the notorious “tor ...
  • What Torture Is, and Why It’s Illegal and Not “Poo ...
    It’s now over three weeks since veteran Justice Department lawyer David Margolis dashed the hopes of those seeking accountability for the Bush administration’s torturers, but this is a story of such profound importance that it must not be allowed to slip away. Margolis decided that an internal repor ...
  • A Tribute to Sarah Meyer, human rights activist
    I have just been informed that Sarah Meyer, a wonderfully supportive friend in the struggle for a better world, recently died of cancer. A retired UK registered homoeopath, Sarah had studied Jungian psychology for 30 years, while simultaneously studying Tibetan Buddhism, and, after retiring, worked ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • The view from here...
    Pretty sure you can guess where I am, Hope you had a nice green beer kind of weekend, :)
  • Grayson's Message Embraced By Florida Republicans
    That all mythical squishy middle centristy stuff that The Village preschoolers can not read or write beyond? The one that Obama keeps trying to to pander to and live off of while producing medicocre to pure crap legislation, IF he can get anything to pass at all, which is pissing everybody on all po ...
  • RIP Jon Swift
    A sad day for the entire Bloggosphere as Al Weisel, AKA Jon Swift, has passed away : The great Jon Swift has died. That's the "blogging" angle to a personal tragedy. In reality, the voice of Jon Swift - the hilarious faux conservative blogger whose talent and passion were evident in every post - bel ...
  • Where did the time go?
    If it seemed like today went by a little faster than usual it might be because it could very well have : The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth's rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday. The quake, the seventh stro ...
  • 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 ...

SPL Center

  • Leading Holocaust Denier Leaves German Prison
    Longtime Hitler enthusiast and Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel was released from a German prison on Monday after serving five years for the crime of inciting racial hatred. Zundel, who turns 71 next month, said he would be heading to his home in the Black Forest to regain his health. “It’s kind of a s ...
  • Mississippi House Again Backs Supremacist’s Resolu ...
    Mississippi lawmakers have short memories. That, at least, may be the kindest explanation for their latest decision to laud an occasion organized by a staunch white supremacist. In what has become an absurd yearly tradition , the Mississippi House voted last month to approve a resolution honoring hi ...
  • Paleocon Starts New Extreme-Right Magazine
    Hard to believe there’s a need for yet another far-right magazine or conference, but now there are both. Richard Spencer, who was editor at “Taki’s Magazine,” an online paleoconservative magazine, is now executive editor of a new online magazine called “Alternative Right.” He calls this venture “an ...
  • Second Hal Turner Trial Ends in Mistrial
    The federal trial of hate blogger Hal Turner ended in a mistrial late this afternoon — for the second time. After deliberating for three days in Brooklyn’s U.S. District Court, jurors decided they would not be able to reach a verdict, according to The Associated Press . Judge Donald Walter declared ...
  • He’s Back: Robert Stacy McCain and the Washington ...
    Robert Stacy McCain, a former key Washington Times editor who has suggested that “perfectly rational people” react with “altogether natural revulsion” to interracial marriage, apparently has returned as a free-lancer to the newspaper he left in January 2008. In a “Special to The Washington Times†...

change: org.

  • Coming Out Undocumented: An Evolution
    There is a new motto of the undocumented youth movement: Undocumented & Unafraid. This has been the unifying thread of our escalating action for the month of March, starting with National Coming Out Undocumented Day last Wednesday, and continuing this week with National Coming Out of the Shadows Wee ...
  • Single Mothers Trashed For Not "Choosing" to Marry
    Single mothers getting state benefits are "parasitic on the rest of society with more conventional families" and "taking support and services from other sectors without contributing very much in return," according to Geoffrey Dench , a Young Foundation research group fellow. According to his study, ...
  • Government Programs and Social Pressure Slim Down ...
    "Metabo" was one of the first bizarre hybrid words I heard while teaching at an all-women's university in Japan. The Japanese have a number of words which have been adopted from foreign languages and given Japanese pronunciation and characters (for example: "birru" for beer) and it always takes a mi ...
  • On Anniversary of Downed Cattle Ban, Pigs Want Rea ...
    One year ago, President Obama banned sick and injured cattle from entering the U.S. food supply. To celebrate the anniversary, Farm Sanctuary delivered a petition with over 15,000 signatures to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, asking President Obama to extend protection to all downed livestock. ...
  • Gaying Up Obama's Bully Pulpit
    President Obama should listen to 10-year-olds more often. Children do say the darndest things. And more often than not these days, they're saying things so profound they make our leaders look like amateurs. Such is the case with Will Phillips, the groovy 10-year-old from Arkansas who made a name for ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Clashes Break Out in East Jerusalem
    � Palestinians have clashed with Israeli police in two areas of occupied east Jerusalem after the Hamas movement called for a "day of rage" over the reopening of a synagogue in the Old City. Palestinians threw rocks at Israeli police who responded with stun grenades in the Shu-afat and Essawiyya nei ...
  • Texas Approves Curriculum Revised by Conservatives
    by James C. McKinley Jr. AUSTIN, Tex. - After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday voted to approve a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the ...
  • The 'Public Option': Democrats' Scam Becomes More ...
    by Glenn Greenwald A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what seemed to be a glaring (and quite typical) scam perpetrated by Congressional Democrats:  all year long, they insisted that the White House and a majority of Democratic Senators vigorously supported a public option, but the only thing ...
  • Appeals Court says 'Under God' Not a Prayer
    by Bob Egelko The federal court that touched off a furor in 2002 by declaring the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance to be an unconstitutional endorsement of religion took another look at the issue Thursday and said the phrase invokes patriotism, not religious faith. The daily schoolroom ...
  • Fed Appointees, Expect an Inquisition
    by Dean Baker The Obama administration announced its three picks for the vacant positions at the Fed last week. Not surprisingly, no one on the list was among those who had warned of the housing bubble. This is not surprising because there is virtually no overlap between the list of people who had w ...

Lifehacker

  • CyanogenMod Available for Motorola Droid [Rooting]
    Rocking a Motorola/Verizon Droid and want to get in on the same kind of unlocked, rooted, tethered, and generally awesome-d experience that G1, myTouch, and Nexus One users have seen? There's now a stable CyanogenMod build for the Droid that a ...
  • Create Polished Mind Maps at Bubbl.us [Mind Mappin ...
    Mind mapping is a fantastic way to sketch out ideas and do some really productive brainstorming. Don't let resistance to learning new software stop you from doing it, Bubbl.us is free, web-based, and simple to learn. More�� ...
  • Roast Coffee With A Drill and A Soup Can [DIY Crea ...
    When you're looking to roast your own coffee, a popcorn popper or heat gun can be called up for the job. Then again, as one intrepid DIY-er shows us, a drill, a soup can, and ingenuity can sub in just fine. More��
  • Send to Google Docs Uploads Files and Web Screensh ...
    Chrome: Google Docs' open 1 GB storage space can be a handy, centralized space for stuff you find on the web. The Send to Google Docs Chrome extension makes web capturing very fast with instant page-to-PDF and file uploading. More�� ...
  • Tumblr Now Allows Instant 100MB Video Uploads [Tum ...
    Tumblr, the fast and sleek way to start and maintain a no-stress blog , just added a direct video upload option , giving users 100 MB of space per clip to post to their tumblogs. That's not new or stunning, but once your ( H.264, MP4, or AAC) ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Paying not to quake in our boots
    at Chinese defense spending trends. 
  • U.S., Allies Responsible for Most Marjah Civilian ...
    By Derrick Crowe According to the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, U.S. and Allied forces have killed and injured more civilians than have the insurgents during Operation Moshtarak. Incredibly, the Pentagon continues to insist that this operation "protects the people." AIHRC's Feb. 23 pre ...
  • One in Three Killed By Drones in Pakistan Is a Civ ...
    By Derrick Crowe A new report from the New America Foundation states that one of every three people killed in the U.S.'s not-so-secret drone war in Pakistan is a civilian. The report also discloses that none of the strikes in 2009 targeted Bin Laden, and that they have had little impact on the Talib ...
  • Reeling in the proxy rebels?
    By Dave Anderson: I'm coming late to this party, but I want to highlight a couple of things. First, from Yorkshire Ranter from last week: Well, this is unusual; Londonstani confirms that the Pakistanis just arrested 50% of the Taliban high command, in so far as such a thing matters. Not only that, t ...
  • US and Pakistan Heading For A Clash Over Terror Ai ...
    By Steve Hynd Despite US analysis that has veared from optimistic to wildly over-optimistic, there's still a serious cloud over US/Pakistan relations in the form of reimbursement for Pakistani expenditure claims in pursuit of American objectives in the "War on Terror (tm)". Yesterday, Pakistani news ...

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Futurismic

  • From King’s Cross to Beijing by rail
    I love to travel by train, me. Though a habit born of necessity in my case (I never took my driving test), there’s so much to recommend it over cars or flying. Especially flying. [image by Let Ideas Compete] Well, the far edges of my potential-destinations sphere is going to grow considerably in the ...
  • Page-views as metric of journalistic quality
    GalleyCat quotes a speech at the Copyright Clearance Centre’s copyright conference by Gaby Darbyshire, Gawker Media’s COO of finance, legal, operations & business development, in which she discussed the recent change in pay structure wherein Gawker writers are remunerated in proportion to the page-v ...
  • Cleaning up for Street View
    The city of Windsor in Ontario, Canada has apparently requested Google reshoot some of its Street View footage in order to remove a murder scene (complete with Do Not Cross police tape barriers and bloody bandages) from the public record, prompting Mike Masnick of TechDirt to wonder… [... whether] t ...
  • Personal Information: episode 4
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 4 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
  • Downtime
    Just a quick note to say that there’ll be no posts from yours truly here at Futurismic for the rest of this week, as I’m off for a long weekend away from the computer in the company of The Lady and a fistful of books I’ve been itching to read for ages. I’ll be doing my [...] Project Wonderful - You ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • truthout reports WPEA being "hotlined"
    The independent journalism website, truthout.org, is reporting that the Senate is set to "hotline" the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), S. 372.  Hotlining is a procedure in which the Senate leaders agree that a bill is uncontroversial and they put the measure on the Senate floor to c ...
  • Blowing the Whistle on FBI Crime Lab Abuses
    Another Reason FBI Whistleblower Protections Should Not Be Weakened   The Washington Post and Associated Press are reporting that the Department of Justice failed to properly review more than 100 criminal cases that were prosecuted in the District of Columbia and which were suspected of being tai ...
  • New Jersey Supreme Court poised to punish for purl ...
    The New Jersey Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case where whistleblower Joyce Quinlan is asking for reinstatement of her $10 million jury verdict. An appellate court had vacated the verdict finding that Curtiss-Wright was justified in firing Quinlan for taking company documents for use ...
  • North Syracuse, New York, pays $260,000 to settle ...
    The Village of North Syracuse, New York, has agreed to pay former police officer Michael Stassi $260,000 to settle his whistleblower retaliation lawsuit.� Stassi had to blow the whistle in 2005 on time card cheating by his superiors. Syracuse.com reports that former Sgt. Daniel Keefe plead guilty to ...
  • Metro report finds "shoot the messenger" phenomeno ...
    Today's Washington Post (Metro page B-1) reports on "a blunt assessment" of Washington DC's Metro transit administration.� Retired Metro manager David L. Gunn wrote the report.� Among other problems, it finds a "shoot the messenger" phenomenon "that discourages employees from raising safety concerns ...

Science Express

  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...
  • RNA interference found in budding yeasts
    Some budding yeast species have the ability to silence genes using RNA interference (RNAi). Until now, most researchers thought that no budding yeasts possess the RNAi pathway because Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the protoypical model budding yeast does not.
  • Study: Vaccination of 70 percent of US population ...
    An aggressive vaccination program that first targets children and ultimately reaches 70 percent of the U.S. population would mitigate pandemic influenza H1N1 that is expected this fall, according to computer modeling and analysis of observational studies conducted by researchers at the Vaccine and I ...
  • Physicists Demonstrate Three-Color Entanglement
    (PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, physicists have demonstrated the quantum entanglement of three light beams, all of different wavelengths. Entanglement of two light beams of different wavelengths has already been demonstrated, but the researchers explain that going beyond two beams is important ...
  • Heart of a galaxy emits gamma rays
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Quite a few distant galaxies turn out to be cosmic delivery rooms. Large numbers of massive stars are born in the hearts of these starburst galaxies, and later explode as supernovae. In the remnants they leave behind, particles are accelerated to very high energies. Astrophysicists ...

TechDirt

  • Dan Bull Recaps How Home Taping Killed Music With ...
    Dan Bull , who wrote, recorded and made videos for his brilliant open letters to both Lily Allen and Peter Mandelson , was asked by UK ISP TalkTalk if he would be interested in creating a new song concerning the Digital Economy Bill. In response, Bull created this lovely song reminding us all about ...
  • Want To Know How Meaningless The FCC's Broadband P ...
    There was lots of press coverage about the FCC's broadband plan on Monday, as the commission released an exec summary of its nearly 400-page plan for broadband in the US. If you want to wade through the details, it's all there online for you . But, if you want a basic summary, it appears that, lik ...
  • Open Sourcing A Disease Diagnosis
    If you follow Larry Lessig on Twitter, you noticed that all day Monday he was putting messages on Twitter about how "JZ" was sick and was trying to "open source" his diagnosis. This pointed to a blog that only referred to "JZ" as "Z" and had some basic info on the symptoms of "the patient." There ...
  • UK Lords Pass Digital Economy Bill, Now Look To Ru ...
    As was widely predicted , it looks like the UK Lords have passed the controversial Digital Economy Bill , a piece of legislation written by the entertainment industry against consumer interests, to try to prop up an obsolete business model. Now they're planning to rush it through the Commons with l ...
  • The US Postal Service's Business Model Is Outdated ...
    Just recently, we discussed whether or not ceasing Saturday delivery was a good idea or not for the USPS. John Potter, the US Postmaster General, recently said that the postal service's business model is as outdated as the newspaper industry's . Potter said: "Twenty years ago we would laugh at ...

VacTruth

  • Ex-Pfizer Worker Cites Genetically Engineered Viru ...
    By EDMUND H. MAHONY The Hartford Courant March 14, 2010 Medical experts will be watching closely Monday when a scientist who says she has been intermittently paralyzed by a virus designed at the Pfizer laboratory where she worked in Groton opens a much anticipated trial that could raise ques ...
  • Is the FDA About To Eat Their Words on the Safety ...
    March 12th 2010 saw six very special women from around the world, present documents and research about the HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix to the FDA by request. Never before have the FDA turned to members of the public regarding vaccine safety but in an extraordinary move this is exactly what ...
  • The Roast of a Science Based Vaccine Skeptic
    . . . . . . . —–Original Message—– From: Jennifer Craig Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:58 AM To: Harriet Hall Subject: smallpox Would you please provide the mortality stats for smallpox in the UK in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and explain how smallpox vaccination affected those. The sma ...
  • Cervical Cancer Vaccine Documents Presented to FDA ...
    Documents Reviewed by the FDA on HPV Vaccines.
  • Merck to Build New Vaccine Plant With IBM, GM, UPM ...
    Press Release CONTACT: Wendy Zellner PHONE: (412) 586-9777 E-MAIL: ZellnerWL@upmc.edu Battelle, IBM, Merck Join UPMC’s Effort to Produce Vaccines to Protect Public Health 21st Century Biodefense Offers Innovative Solution to President Obama’s Call for Improved Response to Bioterrorism and Infectiou ...

BroadSnark

  • On Politics and Picking a Team
    Politics are like team sports. You pick a team based on some random fact like an accident of birth or the personal charisma of one of the team players.  Then, knowing little about the lives or beliefs of the people on your team, you put all your energy and quite a bit of your money into [...]
  • Are Atheist “Evangelizers” Feminists?
    I read an interesting letter by Jim Davidson that got me thinking (HT to @BradSpangler and Diana Culda).  In a nutshell, the letter asserts that abortion is indeed homicide, but that it is justifiable homicide.  I’ll let you read the letter and ponder his arguments on your own time.  Because that ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    First off, I’ve started an anarchist meetup group in DC.  If you are in the area, or know someone who is, check it out.  Our first meetup will be on March 28th. Second, I must apologize to all the women who responded to my post about a women focused gathering.  I wasn’t able to get a [...]
  • Step One – Understanding
    On Saturday night, I went to a friends birthday party.  The party was at a club in Temple Hills, Maryland.  Temple Hills is 85% African American.  It took the bfriend and I three tries before we found a cab willing to take us there.  (FYI – It is just outside DC and an easy 10 [...]
  • I’m Back!
    I made it back from Florida with my sanity and only a minor drinking problem, so things are good.  I’ll get back to my regular posting schedule next week.  In the meantime, you can check out a couple blog carnivals I participated in. Carnival of the Godless and Carnival of the Liberals (I know I’m ...

Executive Intelligence Review

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

food and water watch

  • USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
    In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
  • Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
    Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
  • Farm to School Needs More Support
    It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
  • Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
    Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff  “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...
  • USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
    The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...

treehugger

  • A Down-Payment On America's Future: Green Technolo ...
    This opinion piece is by Marian E. Hopkins, Senior Director at the Business Roundtable. A couple of weeks ago, President Obama met with Business Roundtable's member CEOs, and his speech reminded me of the "space race" of the 21st century - the development and deployment of green energy techno ...
  • ¿Can Cutting Native Forests for Furniture be OK? N ...
    Photos: Courtesy Nativas del Sur. Can you make super sleek furniture with wood from native ancient forests in a sustainable way? This project from Argentina that works with selective logging and super efficient use of wood suggests you can. More details inside.... Read the full story on TreeHug ...
  • Your Wall Becomes Storage With Pocket Wall
    PSFK shows us Pocket Wall, a storage system from Polish Designer Maja Ganszyniec . She describes it: Look at the house as if it were a package: the room is like a package and the wallpaper is like wrapping paper. The project turns the purely decorative layer of wallpaper into storage. But ...
  • Another Reason to Not Like Military Rule in Burma: ...
    photo: Traffic As if you needed another reason to not like the military junta in Burma, wildlife trade monitor group Traffic has just released a new report showing how a porous border with China allows for a "door-to-door delivery service for illegal wildlife products."... Read the full story o ...
  • High Speed Trains To Run From Beijing to London
    The Transport Politic; click to enlarge The Biggest Infrastructure Project in the World. Ever. It is the most extraordinary map from Transport Politic ; those yellow lines are proposed high speed rail links through India and Iran, right through to the European high speed rail network so that o ...

Biosingularity

  • Researchers develop dietary formula that maintains ...
    Researchers at McMaster University have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process. “As we all eventually learn, ageing diminishes our mind, fades our perception of the world and compromises our physical capacity,” says David Rollo, associate professor of ...
  • Chocolate lovers could be lowering their risk of s ...
    Giving chocolates to your Valentine on February 14th may help lower their risk of stroke based on a preliminary study from researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital. The study, which is being presented at the American Academy of Neurology in April, also found that eating chocolate may lower the risk of ...
  • Scientists synthesize unique family of anti-cancer ...
    Yale University scientists have streamlined the process for synthesizing a family of compounds with the potential to kill cancer and other diseased cells, and have found that they represent a unique category of anti-cancer agents. Their discovery appears in this week’s online edition of theJournal o ...
  • Mediterranean Diet May Prevent Stroke-Related Brai ...
    Avoiding potentially dangerous silent strokes may be another health benefit of following a Mediterranean diet. A new study shows people who most closely followed a Mediterranean-style diet were 36% less likely to have areas of brain damage linked to silent strokes than those who least closely follow ...
  • An Early Warning System for Cancer
    A new screening tool developed by scientists in Denmark may help detect the earliest stages of cancer by taking advantage of the body’s own defenses. The researchers constructed a microarray system that analyzes patients’ blood for a specific class of immune agents called autoantibodies. These are a ...

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The ACLU asked the president about his commitment to the rule of law. It probably cost more than $1000, but the lack of of a wingnut welfare shop’s imprimatur prevented it from getting any traction. Our image in the Muslim world wou ...
  • History, Ben Smith Style
    Smith : Barack Obama became president at some point before October 3rd, 2008 .  And for some truly superb hackery, the “massive bank bailout” hyperlink in “Obama administration’s massive bank bailout” points to the site “illegal-url-1”. UPDATE: Smith has changed it to simply “massive bank bailout” a ...
  • Strange Signals From Bair and Warren
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Two recent financial reform developments jumped out at me for the cognitive dissonance they caused. First, the Senate released a proposal to create a resolution authority for large financial firms. Yves Smith had previously dismiss ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The neocons may finally gone too far ( via ). There seems to be an actual backlash building against this latest smear. It’s kind of funny to observe what counts as “over the line” in Washington. Right wing lunatics have been casua ...
  • The Shocking Solution to Senate Obstructionism
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Induction :mathematical demonstration of the validity of a law concerning all the positive integers by proving that it holds for the integer 1 and that if it holds for an arbitrarily chosen positive integer k, it must hold for the in ...

Natural Health News

  • Experts Say U.S. Doctors Overtesting, Overtreating
    Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggests that many Americans are being overtreated. New evidence and updated guidelines are recommending a step back and more thorough doctor-patient talks about risks and benefits of screening te ...
  • Food Package Claims That Deserve a Double Take
    Here are some claims that warrant a closer look before you buy:  1. Foods claiming to "support your immune system." A food can carry this claim if it contains certain levels of nutrients that, when deficient in the diet, can negatively affect the immune system. But that doesn't mean that adding tho ...
  • The Killer Combination of Salt, Fat and Sugar
    Some scientists suggest that being overweight is your destiny -- if you’re fat, it’s because your body's "thermostat" is set high. If you lose weight, your body would try to get it back,. But this theory doesn’t explain why so many people, in the U.S. and UK in particular, are getting significantly ...
  • Calcium May Help You Live Longer
    Getting a bit more calcium in your diet could help you live longer, new research suggests. Researchers found that men who consumed the most calcium in food were 25 percent less likely to die over the next decade. None of the men took calcium supplements. The findings are in line with previous rese ...
  • How Much More FDA Abuse Can Americans Tolerate?
    If you ever wonder why a drug works so well in clinical trials, but then inflicts lethal side effects (and only mediocre efficacy) after FDA approval, one part of the answer is that the clinical trials themselves are often fraudulent. In a revelation widely reported by the news media, a crooked cli ...

Antemedius

  • Big Money Complicates Financial Reform Here And A ...
    With the release of Sen. Dodd’s (D-CT) proposed financial sector re-regulation we are on the path to some small steps to rein in our out of control banking system. The bill has some good features (forgive me that I have not had time to read the entire thing yet) though it is not quite as strong as m ...
  • Dear Brother Joe...
    On the Limits of Tax-Exempt Status [an extrapolation on current events, in personal narrative form] Some of you know that a few weeks ago my hubby and I flew out to Oklahoma to help get Mom-in-law moved into assisted living due to some issues with failing eyesight, short-term memory non-existence an ...
  • Gaining a Formal Voice for the Informal Sector
    Cross posted from Border Jumpers , Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. It's hard to believe that more than 90 percent of the workforce in Zimbabwe are part of the informal sector. These workers do everything from selling bananas and playing music to selling stone carvings and other crafts. Unfo ...
  • Where have you gone, Albert Einstein?
    Thus the comparison between the Great Depression and the current Great Recession falls flat, because the popular upheavals of the 1930s are only in evidence today among the least helpful segments of the population . This of course is a major reason why we can expect no FDR-like President to save u ...
  • Health Care Reform - Idealism Or Progress?
    There are two signs over the Dogs desk; one reads; “The man that favors the ideal over the real learns to achieve not his salvation but his ruin” the other reads “Ideals must be defended with idealism”. Yes, they seem to contradict each other yet to me they are the essence of politics and policy. ...

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

Opinio Juris

  • What were these “Secret Pacts” with Japan?
    by Duncan Hollis Yesterday, the Japanese Government (now led by the Democratic Party after nearly five-plus decades of rule by the Liberal Democratic Party) confirmed that in the 1960s Japan and the United States entered into a series of secret defense pacts.  Specifically, a committee of scholars ...
  • Shocker: UN Special Rapporteurs Oppose Military Co ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I’m not exactly surprised to read this: United Nations human rights investigators called on the Obama administration on Tuesday to prosecute the accused September 11 masterminds in a civilian court, declaring that U.S. military tribunals would not be fair. The White Hous ...
  • Harold Koh Speaks to ABA Committee
    by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein Given our past discussions about State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh on this list, I thought I’d pass along word of an upcoming event some might find of interest. My colleagues at the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and Natio ...
  • Do the Germans Still Owe the Greeks $70 Billion Eu ...
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku Amid the war of words between Germans and Greeks over a possible Greek bailout, the Deputy Prime Minister of Greece has accused the Germans of stealing “the Greek gold that was in the Bank of Greece, they took away the Greek money and they never gave it back…”  This was ...
  • The Falklands Dispute: Too Important for the ICJ
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The always knowledgeable Marko Milanovic, responding to an earlier post of mine, reviewed the possibility of an international tribunal resolving the Falklands dispute here, and concludes that no court decision will happen because  ”… the Falklands dispute is, as a po ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • BREAKING NEWS: Top Aussie climate scientist goes f ...
    One of Australia's most outspoken scientists has this week rubbished the team behind the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, describing the project as nothing more than a "nuclear billiards machine" and saying the money should be devoted to paying for...
  • Are glaciers uniformly receding?
    It's often claimed that glaciers are receding, and this is supposed to be taken as proof of human-caused climate change.But as one essayist is pointing out, not all glaciers are receding at all, and not all glaciers are monitored by...
  • STUDY: Amazon much tougher than IPCC report claime ...
    A new peer reviewed study based on satellite imagery has found the Amazon jungle shrugged off "the drought of a century" in 2005 and may be much more resistant to drought than the IPCC has claimed. Pic: The Amazon, Brazil...
  • BOMBSHELL: NASA admits their world climate data no ...
    Global warming believers have tried to downplay the errors in the CRU world climate database by pointing to the other major datasets as untainted by the scandal. Now that alibi has come crashing down as newly released emails show NASA...
  • Clamatologists find proof of Medieval Warm Period
    Credit to WattsUpWithThat for the info and the "clamatology", but the essence of the story is this. Scientists have found a more accurate way of measuring past temperature changes than the controversial tree ring method - using old clam shells....

Public News Service

  • Health Article Blames "Cheap Food" For Overweight ...
    Health Article Blames "Cheap Food" For Overweight AZ Kids Phoenix, AZ – Cheap food policies could play a major role in Arizona childhood obesity, according to a new article in Health Affairs Journal. The article states that the decades-old “cheap food” policy has helped create a broken U.S. food sys ...
  • Study: Kids Access to Dental Care Lags in AZ
    Study: Kids Access to Dental Care Lags in AZ Phoenix, AZ — Arizona gets a “C” on its dental policies for kids, according to a new national study. A pediatric dentist says too many kids, especially those from low-income families, aren't getting the preventive care they need. Comments from Dr. Jessica ...
  • Study: Women's Stroke Risk is Almost Triple Men's
    Study: Women's Stroke Risk is Almost Triple Men's Phoenix, AZ - For a few years now, medical research has pointed to women's increased risk of stroke as they age. A new study of 2200 adults ages 35-64 (from University of Southern California) has quantified it: women are 2.9 times more likely to have ...
  • Soup Leads to Independence for Arizonans with Auti ...
    Soup Leads to Independence for Arizonans with Autism Phoenix, AZ – Soups by famous chefs will soon be made and sold by adults with autism in Central Arizona. It’s part of a training program aimed at providing jobs and a better quality of life. Comments from Jeri Kendle, interim president for the Sou ...
  • Tax Preparer Scammer Alert from the IRS
    Tax Preparer Scammer Alert from the IRS Phoenix, AZ – It’s income tax season and, for some people, the only thing worse than rounding up all their receipts and documentation, is finding out too late that they hired someone to do their taxes who was either unqualified – or simply trying to rip them o ...

My Care2 Picks

  • End Cruel Farm Animal Confinement Nationwide ! TAK ...
    Farm animal welfare is of increasing concern to members of the public, including myself, and my friends, family and neighbors. We have been happy to see laws passed in several states to eliminate the cruel confinement of farm animals. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
  • Recipe for Kindness Does exposure to nature make u ...
    Want to be a better person? Connect with nature. Psychologist Richard Ryan and his colleagues at the University of Rochester have found that paying attention to the natural world makes people nicer. Submitted by Pam W. to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The Woman Who Just Might Save the Planet
    What if our economy was not built on competition? Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom talks about her work on cooperation in economics... Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Obama is losing India
    The Obama administration is trying to play catch-up in its relations with the country that could become its most important long-term ally. But it may be leaving it too late, after India last week agreed a $7 billion deal Submitted by Tigerman King to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Bananas could be key to stopping spread of Aids
    Bananas may hold the key to powerful new treatments that protect against the Aids virus. In laboratory tests, scientists found that a banana ingredient called BanLec was as potent as two existing anti-HIV drugs. Submitted by Shaktiva Irahs to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Jihad Jamie: Racial profiling under scrutiny after ...
    The Guardian: The use of racial profiling as a counterterrorism tool has been fatally undermined after a second white American woman was arrested over an alleged Islamist murder plot, critics of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • 'Shameful and vile': Broadway is rocked by racism ...
    The Observer: "Als, who is black, took umbrage at the play's use of racist insults by Walken's character, who is openly and proudly prejudiced. 'A Behanding… isn't in the least palatable; it's vile,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • South African court finds ANC's Julius Malema guil ...
    guardian.co.uk: "A prominent South African politician has been convicted of hate speech after claiming that the woman who accused President Jacob Zuma of rape had a 'nice time' because she stayed for... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • New Fraud Cases Point to Lapses in Iraq Projects
    NYTimes.com: "Investigators looking into corruption involving reconstruction in Iraq say they have opened more than 50 new cases in six months by scrutinizing large cash transactions — involving... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • International Women's Day - Using Video to Stop Vi ...
    The Hub: Up to 60% of women will experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetimes.  Whether in the form of domestic violence perpetrated by an intimate partner, mass rape used as a weapon of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Vaccine Safety Testing
  • GMO Quality Control
    Ever wonder how they determine if GMOs are safe? Look no further, here is the answer.
  • Christopher Walken: How to complete a census
    Thank you Ed, for this hilarious video!
  • GMO Database 2009
    The following table provides a listing of novel traits by crop species. In each case, the number of events with a particular trait is also provided. For additional information on each crop x trait combination, follow the relevant link under the "Crop Name" column.
  • Vilsack announces new budget for 2011 for USDA…..a ...
    The PPJ Gazette A March 2, 2010 Agriculture Committee hearing televised live on CSPAN  gives a clear picture of what’s ahead for domestic farmers, ranchers and herders in the US..  Deputy Secretary Kathleen A. Merrigan cheerfully announced the “new age of enforcement” citing the intent to increase ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • GAO blocks contract to Blackwater to train Afghan ...
    Federal auditors on Monday put a stop to Army plans to award a $1 billion training program for Afghan police officers to the company [terrorist group] formerly known as Blackwater, concluding that other companies were unfairly excluded from bidding on the job. The decision by the Government Accounta ...
  • Pentagon spy network hired to 'track and kill'
    A Pentagon official has been accused of hiring a secret network of private contractors to spy on militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan so they could be hunted and killed . The employee is said to have paid firms using former members of the special forces and CIA under the cover of an innocuous ...
  • Obama threatens to veto intel bill if oversight is ...
    President Obama will veto a major intelligence funding bill unless lawmakers remove provisions that would toughen congressional oversight of spy agencies and require more stringent congressional notification of intelligence activities. At the top of the list are Senate provisions that expand con ...
  • U.S. Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks
    By Julian Assange This document (18 Mar 2008) is a classifed (SECRET/NOFORN) 32 page U.S. counterintelligence investigation into WikiLeaks. "The possibility that current employees or moles within DoD or elsewhere in the U.S. government are providing sensitive or classified information to Wikilea ...
  • Diego Garcia bunker-busters meant to threaten Iran
    The Sunday Herald has reported that hundreds of powerful US "bunker-buster" bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia. In January, the US government signed a contract to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island, the Scottish newspaper wrote on March 1 ...

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Mondoweiss

  • Eran Shayshon says some criticism of Israel, inclu ...
    Eran Shayshon of the Reut Institute sent a response to a post we did that quoted Naomi Klein the other day: Several weeks ago I was interviewed on the CBC’s morning radio show about the danger of the trend to delegitimize Israel. In this context I was asked to refer to Toronto, in which we at [...] ...
  • NPR interviews two Israel lobbyists for story on s ...
    The New Jersey Department of State has 19 agencies and divisions, only one of which is devoted to relations with a specific foreign country. Put on your thinking cap, now! The agency is called, the New Jersey-Israel Commission, whose mission "is to foster economic, scientific, educational and cul ...
  • ‘J Street’ stands ’solidly behin ...
    I missed this yesterday. Jeremy Ben-Ami’s statement could be stronger, it could denounce the East Jerusalem expansion– "provocative actions" is weak– but J Street can’t alienate its conservative wing (body?). There is some overlap with AIPAC, of course; the let’s look at Iran stuff. Excerpt: Prev ...
  • Comparative Circular Grammar Studies
    An instinct of evasion so profound it would rather talk nonsense than specify: David Axelrod to Jake Tapper, March 14: "I believe that that region and that issue is a flare point throughout the region" Obama to student questioner in Tampa, January 28: "The Middle East is obviously an issue that ...
  • Podhoretz urges ‘wildly disproportionate&#82 ...
    I feel guilty whenever I point out that most of the money in the Democratic Party political process comes from Jews, per the Washington Post. Well John Podhoretz in Commentary is joining me in conveying that "wildly disproportionate" truth, I mean canard. But he’s telling the money boys to walk out ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • Petition: Parents of Vaccine Damaged Children say ...
    A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-de ...
  • Petition: Doctors & Nurses Say NO To Mandatory Vac ...
    A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determ ...
  • VRM: Photo Gallery
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