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Thomas Paine

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Friday, June 11, 2010

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • MEXICO: In Juárez, Years of Seeking Justice for Mu ...
    CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico, Jun 11 (IPS) - "Sometimes I'm cheerful, but other times I see no reason for working in the community or even for life," said Paula Flores, who has become the symbol of the fight for justice for the hundreds of women who have been murdered or disappeared in this nort ...
  • HEALTH-ASIA: New Infectious Diseases a Challenge t ...
    SYDNEY, June 11 (IPS) - While successful immunisation programmes worldwide have saved millions of lives, the threat of new infectious diseases and drug-resistant strains of existing diseases is posing a major challenge to governments, especially in developing regions like Asia, in meeting ...
  • CHINA: Spate of Factory Suicides Exposes Sorry Pli ...
    BEIJING, June 11 (IPS) - Ma Xiangqian, a 19-year-old migrant from the eastern Chinese province of Henan, worked the 11-hour night shift, seven days a week, putting together electronic parts for Foxconn Technology, the world’s biggest contract maker of information technology goods.
  • Argentine Football Violence Exported to South Afri ...
    BUENOS AIRES, Jun 10 (IPS) - No one admits to providing them with support, but hundreds of Argentine football hooligans known as "barras bravas" flew to South Africa for the World Cup and are threatening to cause disturbances if the football clubs do not get them tickets to the games.
  • AFGHANISTAN: The News Is Bad
    WASHINGTON, Jun 10 (IPS) - While U.S. officials insist they are making progress in reversing the momentum built up by the Taliban insurgency over the last several years, the latest news from Afghanistan suggests the opposite may be closer to the truth.

Scoop - NZ

  • Auckland bus does u turn on hybrids
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  • US housing crisis to linger for years
    The housing market won't hit bottom until the third quarter and a true turnaround in new home-building is not foreseen until 2013, key economists said today. "The bottom will be long and flat," said Stan Humphries, chief economist for Zillow.com, at the Austin Hilton during the National A ...
  • Reich: Falling Into Double-Dip Recession
    We're falling into a double-dip recession. The Labor Department reports this morning that the private sector added a measly 41,000 net new jobs in May. (The vast bulk of new jobs in May were temporary government Census workers.) But at least 100,000 new jobs are needed every month just to keep up w ...
  • US Housing Already Double Dipping
    The market was ecstatic on Wednesday in anticipation of Friday's big jobs report. But while the market rallied 2.5%+ there was a potentially far more important story than the census driven jobs report: the real estate data. While the data came in "better than expected", primarily due to th ...
  • War on the World: Obama's Surge in State Terror
    And that is why our highly intelligent and cool, pragmatic president is now vastly expanding the use of secret war, subversion, sabotage and murder into even more countries around the world, and giving America's secret, unaccountable death squads and covert operators even more power to carry out the ...

Independent ( London )

Rogue Government.com

Innovation Canada

  • Paleo art
    All that’s left of the most numerous, diverse and successful creatures that ever walked the face of the Earth are bones. Dinosaurs left behind on YouTube videos, photographs or even cave drawings. Yet we can get a glimpse into the natural existence of these “terrible lizards” through the work of Alb ...
  • Pollution solution
    The Walkerton disaster of May 2000 was a cautionary tale for all Canadians concerned about the safety of their drinking water. When a deadly strain of E. coli from farm runoff contaminated the Ontario community’s water supply, seven people died and nearly half the town’s residents became ill before ...
  • Chemical switch
    As a “green chemist,” Philip Jessop spends his days trying to help the chemical industry create products in a less expensive and more environmentally friendly way. That’s why the Queen’s University professor of inorganic chemistry has high hopes for an innovative solvent he’s developed that may yiel ...
  • Postpartum relief
    When Nicole Letourneau’s second child was born with cancer in 2001, she was, in theory, well equipped for such devastating news. As a nurse, her graduate studies had looked at aspects of family care, such as the impact of a mother staying overnight in hospital with her sick child. She had also worke ...
  • Project waste water
    Last fall, they were just four guys with an assignment to complete as part of their final year of chemical engineering studies at Toronto’s Ryerson University. This spring, they are the award-winning designers of a new process for treating waste water that could be used to remove a number of hazardo ...

Signs of the times

  • Gulf Leak Estimate Now Closer To 1 Million Gallons ...
    Pick a number: 12,600 barrels . . . 20,000 . . . 21,500 . . . 25,000 . . . 30,000 . . . 40,000 . . . 50,000. Scientists put every one of those numbers in play Thursday as they struggled to come up with a solid estimate of how much oil is gushing each day from the black geyser at the bottom of the Gu ...
  • Gulf Oil Spill 'Could Go Years' If Not Dealt With
    The Obama Administration and senior BP officials are frantically working not to stop the world's worst oil disaster, but to hide the true extent of the actual ecological catastrophe. Senior researchers tell us that the BP drilling hit one of the oil migration channels and that the leakage could ...
  • Volcano Expert Warns of Another Icelandic Eruption
    A volcano expert warned yesterday that another Icelandic eruption could be imminent, raising the prospect of summer holiday flight chaos. Dr Hazel Rymer has been monitoring a volcano called Askja 180 miles north of Eyjafjallajokull - the volcano that caused a complete shutdown of most of Europe's ...
  • BPA Present in Most Canned Foods
    Readers of this blog are familiar with issues surrounding the highly ubiquitous and estrogenic chemical bisphenol A - known commonly as BPA - a compound in nearly every consumer product. Now, headlines are discussing what we have long been saying: BPA can be found in most canned foods. Here is how B ...
  • Saudi Court Convicts Man for Kissing Woman in Mall ...
    A Saudi court convicted a man and sentenced him to four months in prison and 90 lashes for kissing a woman in a mall, a government-owned daily reported Thursday. Saudi religious police arrested the man and two women after seeing them on mall cameras "engaging in immoral movements in front of other ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • We have seen the future, and it sucks . . .
    NEWGEOGRAPHY IS A SITE DEVOTED TO THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT, with an article by Joel Kotkin, "The Future of America's Working Class". However, it's about the problems of white, blue-collar England, and what they portend for North America. Worth the read. As you walk through Watford, midday drinkers ling ...
  • Is there something in the water supply in Arizona?
    Or are people there just being taught to be racist dingbats? Apparently an elementary school in Prescott, Az., allowed the students to vote on what kind of mural they would like to decorate the school with and the kids chose a painting of themselves. Professional artists were called in and worked wi ...
  • The History of the Blogosphere
    The latest installment of The Maple Syrup Revolution - In which RossK and Rev. Paperboy discuss the history of blogging �- is now available for your listening pleasure.
  • Hands Across the Sand as the Cons rewrite history
    Go to your beach on June 26 at noon. Join hands. That's it. NO to Offshore Oil Drilling, YES to Clean Energy Hands Across the Sand began in Florida in February to "protest the efforts by the Florida Legislature and the US Congress to lift the ban on oil drilling in the near and off shores of Flori ...
  • Fred Reid, again
    A DELIGHTFUL READ FROM MR. REED: "Meddling Where We Oughtn't" . God bless him, a truly sane Americano: Mexico, if left alone, would be a reasonably successful and stable country of the upper Third World. It isn’t Haiti, isn’t Bangla Desh, isn’t a dying patient with multiple tubes in every orifice. I ...

Media Matters for America

  • Beck crops video to absurdly claim "the mask is c ...
    Glenn Beck played cropped video of a speech by Green for All CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins to suggest she admitted that there is a "plan to take over the country." In fact, the full context of her speech reveals that Ellis-Lamkins' agenda is one of equality -- not government takeover. Beck crops spee ...
  • The Wall Street Journal's extensive ...
    The Wall Street Journal editorial page has used the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to criticize government regulation of industry. This is merely the latest in a long history of using environmental and industrial disasters to attack government and advocate for less regulation. Wall Street Journ ...
  • Wash. Times distorts Kagan's record to c ...
    The Washington Times distorted Elena Kagan's record to claim that "a vote for Ms. Kagan for the Supreme Court is another vote against gun rights." Wash. Times distorted Kagan's memo to Justice Marshall to claim she's anti-gun From a stated : Until the Fifth Circuit's decision in United States ...
  • Did the GOP commission Fox to rewrite the history ...
    Appearing on Fox & Friends , purported business expert Stuart Varney made extensive revisions to U.S. economic history, among them: the false suggestion that President Obama has not cut taxes; the false suggestion that President Bush presided over strong job growth; and the false claim that after ...
  • Fox & Friends runs with attack on gov ...
    Fox & Friends attacked the Obama administration for not immediately purchasing a manufacturer's oil containment boom. However, the company has not previously manufactured oil boom, their product reportedly "differs from other designs being used," and BP has reportedly "ordered a trial run" of t ...

Global Research.ca

TPM Cafe

  • California Plutocracy
    In the good old days of Tamany Hall politics, an enterprising politician could buy a vote for a 50 cent beer. Meg Whitman's 1,101,528 votes in the California Republican Governor Primary came at the cost of $77 per vote, most of the money coming from her own fortune. So what is she willing to spend ...
  • Three More Reasons For The President To Take Contr ...
    1 Why hasn't BP moved more of its rigs and tankers to the site? Because BP's first responsibility is to maximize shareholder value, and moving more rigs and tankers would be too expensive. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the government's man on the scene, said BP planned to move another rig to the s ...
  • Why Economic Advisors Are Paid To Be Economic Advi ...
    Say you're a high government official with some responsibility for advising the President on what he should be doing and saying about the economy. You know the economy is still in a deep hole, the deepest since the Great Depression. The jobs report for May was dismal -- a mere 41,000 new private sec ...
  • The lesser of evils . . . still evil
    Am I the only one revolted by voter suppression in the Arkansas Democratic primary? Whose victorious winner is that supreme hack Blanche Lincoln? On top of which, the profane Rahmbo has presented a platter of raspberries to the Democratic Party's most loyal constituents in the labor movement? 14- ...
  • Israel's Ambassador: After Flotilla, It's No More ...
    In an interview published today, Israel's ambassador, Michael Oren, warns that Israel will not continue behaving with restraint if it keeps getting criticized. "Our critics don't get it," Oren said. "In Jenin, we went house-to-house and sent 23 soldiers to their death. But if we're going to be cal ...

TruthOut

  • Brazil's Thirst for Renewable Energy
    Sao Paulo, Brazil - Brazil’s Belo Monte dam could flood more than 500 square kilometers of Amazon rainforest, displacing tens of thousands people and disrupting the lives of thousands of indigenous tribes. But the Brazilian government, with its booming economy and growing electricity needs, is dete ...
  • Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Gua ...
    The recently released Final Report of President Obama's Guant�namo Review Task Force was supposed to provide a cogent and definitive analysis of the status of the remaining 181 prisoners, given that it took 11 months to complete and involved "more than 60 career professionals, including intelligence ...
  • VIDEO: Anti-Tax Voters Bring Hard Times in Colorad ...
    The city of Colorado Springs has long persisted as an ultra-conservative, anti-tax bastion. When voters rejected the latest proposal to raise taxes to maintain city services, the bottom fell out of the city budget. Now, hundreds of thousands of citizens are struggling to live without basic services. ...
  • News in Brief: BP and Officials Block News Coverag ...
    Journalists attempting to cover the BP oil spill have found themselves turned away not only by BP and its contractors, but also by the Coast Guard, local law enforcement and government officials, reported The New York Times. According to Rhonda Panepinto, whose company Southern Seaplane was denied a ...
  • The Strange Story of Sally Hartman
    On 26 October, [redacted], an employee of the [redacted], contacted the Office of the Inspector General here at the Agency and related the following information. His wife, whose maiden name is [redacted], was previously married from 1955 until 1960 to [redacted], who was employed by CIA at that time ...

Planetsave

  • Cycling Shorts? Not For These Sexy Riders!
    Yes, that’s right, the 7th annual World Naked Bike Ride is approaching and you won’t need any cycling shorts or Lance Armstrong cycling clothes for this sexy (maybe) extravaganza. National Bike Month may have just ended in the US, but the World Naked Bike Ride is coming up — it will be on Saturday ...
  • Oil Spill Could Worsen Dead Zone
    The disastrous and tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico might enhance the regions already environmentally threatening dead zone. According to researchers who just happened to have been in the area when the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig blew out and sank on April 20, th ...
  • 10 Crazy Statements about the BP Oil Spill from CE ...
    Unfortunately, the BP oil spill in the Gulf isn’t helping everybody to learn from their mistakes (or the mistakes of those who they support). Tony Hayward, Sarah Palin (who increasingly reminds me of Paris Hilton), Rush Limbaugh and Representative Don Young have a host of ridiculously sad statemen ...
  • Hundreds Killed in India from Heat Waves, New Hott ...
    Hundreds died in India in May due to heat waves with record high temperatures. Meanwhile, a town in Pakistan set the new record for highest temperature ever recorded in Asia! Following the hottest April and hottest January-April on record , monthly heat records have been set for May across the glo ...
  • ABC Nails BP for Having 760 “Egregious, Will ...
    ABC and Jon Stewart of the Daily Show tear into BP for a ridiculous amount of serious safety violations and for lying on TV about them. Watch the video below. ABC News nails BP in an interview with CEO Tony Hayward, showing that BP had 760 “egregious and willful” safety violations in the past 3-4 ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Axis of Logic

  • Kosovo: drugs for Europe - Europe
    Two years ago a joke was being circulated on the Runet that a heroin producer has recognized its distributor’s independence. It was about Afghanistan, which was to the first to recognize the independence of the Serbian province of Kosovo which had illegally separated from Yugoslavia. Kos ...
  • Neocons Claim Osama is a Guest of Iranian Governme ...
    It’s an urban — or in this case, rural — myth that refuses to die. Osama bin Laden is alive and living under the protection of our most dreaded enemy, or one of them anyway — Iran. “Osama bin Laden and his top aides are hiding in a mountainous town...
  • Fighting for equal pay and justice in 21st century ...
    Sanna Andrew is the Socialist Alliance candidate for Fremantle, Western Australia, in the coming federal elections. She joined the Socialist Alliance in 2007. She is a qualified social worker and has worked in community-based mental health service provision for more than a decade. Andrew ...
  • British Mercenary given death sentence in Africa - ...
    Mercenary given death sentence The Independent (UK) by Matt Williams June 11, 2010 Two mercenaries, one of them British, were sentenced to death by a Congolese court yesterday for allegedly killing their driver. Joshua French, 28, who has dual British and Norwegian nationality, and T ...
  • Israeli request for more arms from US raises fears ...
    Israel has approached the United States for more bombs and asked Washington to increase an emergency arms cache stowed on Israeli soil by 50 per cent, according to the leading newspaper Ha'aretz. The approach, made by Defence Minister Ehud Barak during a recent visit to Washington, reflects ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • "Globs of death out there"
    Brian Sonenstein at Firedoglake: For weeks, we've been inundated with images of bright orange booms floating idly in the Gulf. We've tried to digest images of plane after plane dumping endless gallons of chemical dispersant into already-polluted waters. We've sat helplessly as we watch long slicks o ...
  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    This is why 'catastrophic clusterfuck' simply won't do for describing Afghanistan anymore "The United States Defense Department has dismissed Wednesday's militant attack on a US convoy in Pakistan that destroyed about 60 trucks as "not going to have an effect" on overall operations in Afghanistan. . ...
  • When BP Spills Coffee
    As Josh Marshall wrote: Painfully funny.
  • "America is not, in any sense, founded on the Chri ...
    Two hundred and thirteen years ago today, President John Adams signed the Treaty of Tripoli, which included the following statement: Article 11 reads: Art. 11. As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,-as it has in itself no character ...
  • Tom DeLay Pointed the Way in Radicalization of GOP
    The results are in from Tuesday's primaries and the conventional wisdom is that the inexorable inertia of the Republican Party to the far right continues apace. The Washington Post's torture-apologist Marc Thiessen brags that the Tea Party movement was "the driving force in so many GOP primaries tod ...

Care 2

  • The BP Disaster Marks the End of the Age of Arroga ...
    This spill will mark the time we started to learn about ecocide; a turning point in our realization that our industrial, carbon-dependent way of life cannot last. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Coming Soon to a Classroom Near You: 10 Things To ...
    What could be coming to a classroom or online portal near you? Here are 10 things to know about robot teachers. Submitted by Katie Miller to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Record haul of cocaine seized in Gambia
    Police in Gambia have seized a record haul of Europe-bound cocaine worth hundreds of millions of dollars, a statement from British authorities said Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Animal Hoarders
    According to the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS), nearly 250,000 animals are victims of animal hoarding each year. What makes this crime different from other types of animal cruelty is that most animal hoarders believe they are helping, saving, or resc Submitted by Michele Hollow to Animals �|� ...
  • Roly The American Bulldog Has World's First Prosth ...
    Roly the rescue dog lives with retired engineer Dennis Hoy and his wife, Susan, at their home in Farnborough. The first time the couple noticed something was wrong was when poor Roly stopped walking on his left hind leg, lifting it up in the air and Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note- ...

GreenBiz

Reuters Global

  • AUSTRALIAN PM RUDD A BAD BET?
    Australians love to gamble, infact they say Ausssies would bet on two flies crawling up a hotel wall. But even the most hardened Aussie gambler would be shocked at Prime Minister Kevin's odds plunge. Rudd's voter support has nosedived and he risks beoming the first, one-term prime minister since 1 ...
  • An Indian in Kabul
    India and Pakistan are both competing for influence in Afghanistan in a modern-day version of the Great Game that has complicated the search for a settlement, but on the streets of Kabul the Indians still seem to evoke greater goodwill.
  • Pakistan’s Ahmadi killings and the conscienc ...
    A discussion about the killings of Ahmadis in Lahore last month is widening into a broader debate about the nature of Pakistani society and, whether secular liberals have any voice left to stem a rising tide of religious conservatism
  • Taliban talks and the lobster quadrille
    "The Americans are signalling rather loudly that they want to talk to the Taliban. But will the Taliban talk?"
  • Political risk in Asia: What to watch this week
    Risks to watch this week

Booman Tribune

  • Be Patient, It's Coming
    The Census Bureau released some preliminary data on the minority population of the country and it's tough news for real Americans. Much of the nation's demographic change is seen among children. In California, minorities make up 72% of those under age 15. In 2000, they made up 65%. Nationally ...
  • A Hard Sell
    I hate to say it, but this just seems absurdly stupid to me: On Thursday, during a visit to NATO headquarters here, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal admitted that preparations for perhaps the most critical operation of the war -- the campaign to take control of Kandahar, the Taliban's birthplace -- wer ...
  • Stupid Republicans
    One of the stranger things to do is listen to Republicans talk among themselves as they do at The Corner or at American Enterprise Institute seminars. Let me ask you something. If it were not for social issues like legal abortion, gay rights, school prayer, and the church/state balance, where woul ...
  • Scary Republicans
    Hopefully, you have better things to do on this beautiful day than watch senators bloviate on CSPAN. However, you should know that the Senate is spending six hours today debating whether or not the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can regulate greenhouse producing emissions under provisions of ...
  • Casual Observation
    Glenn Beck is the new Martin Luther King, just without all those foreign African genes messing up his "Real American" genome.

European Tribune

Futurismic

  • Physical gender not determined by XY chromosomes a ...
    Via Cheryl Morgan, news of recent research that’s blown holes in a lot of our preconceptions about how the physical sex of a mammal is determined by genetics. I’ll quote Cheryl rather than the article, because she uses less sciencespeak: We have known for a long time that physical sex is much more c ...
  • The multiphrenic world: Stowe Boyd strikes back on ...
    … which is really a neologism for its own sake (a favourite gambit of Boyd’s, as far as I can tell). But let’s not distract from his radical (and lengthy) counterblast to a New York Times piece about “gadget addiction”, which chimes with Nick Carr’s Eeyore-ish handwringing over attention spans, as m ...
  • Cisco’s City-in-a-Box for the Asian expansion
    Most urban environments have accreted gradually over decades and centuries, but the changing economies of the Far East demand modern city infrastructure for millions of people where none existed before, and fast. Enter Cisco Systems, the network hardware people, and their new ‘product’: an off-the-s ...
  • Cisco’s City-in-a-Box for the Asian expansio ...
    Most urban environments have accreted gradually over decades and centuries, but the changing economies of the Far East demand modern city infrastructure for millions of people where none existed before, and fast. Enter Cisco Systems, the network hardware people, and their new ‘product’: an off-the-s ...
  • Critique, Mentors, Practice, and a Million Words o ...
    Do writers who use critique groups do better than writers who don’t? Do writers need mentors? What differentiates a bad writer from a good writer, and a good writer from a great writer? Does it always take time to develop writing skills, or do some people just have them right off? All good questions ...

Therapy News

  • Anxiety Shown To Impact Attention Processes
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A recent study conducted by the University of Granada shows that certain types of anxiety have different affects on people’s attention levels. The study looked at the two major types of anxiety: state anxiety (getting anxious in response to a stressful situation) and ...
  • Nonverbal Communication – “A Picture is Worth a Th ...
    By Irina Firstein, LCSW, Communication Problems Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Irina and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I have been realizing of late how much nonverbal cues effect us at work and socially. We therapists don’t really focus on this. I think it is a good idea to pay ...
  • Do Video Games Increase Aggression or Complement P ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary The psychological impact of video games depends largely on who is playing them, according to the Review of General Psychology. The journal devoted its June issue to comprehensive explorations of the various ways in which people, especially children and adolescents, are ...
  • Smoke and Psychology: Second Hand Smoke Impedes Me ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new study confirms that exposure to second hand cigarette smoke increases likeliness of future mental illness and psychological distress in otherwise healthy adults. The findings connecting passive smoking to mental health risks were published in the Archives of Gen ...
  • Dating: an Old Fashioned Concept for a Modern Age
    By John Sovec, LMFT, LGBT Issues (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact John and/or see his GoodTherapy.org Profile You are out at a bar and you met someone who is attractive, seems interesting and interested in you. He asks you for your number and you o ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Legislative chambers divided over stance on federa ...
    Legislative chambers divided over stance on federal law The Tennessean Killed an attempt to revive a bill that would ban " mountaintop removal " coal mining. The recall motion by Sen. Andy Berke, a Chattanooga Democrat, ... and more��
  • Tenn. bill to opt out of fed health care law fails ...
    Tenn. bill to opt out of fed health care law fails BusinessWeek Andy Berke of Chattanooga to resurrect a bill to curb mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee. All 99 House seats are up for election this year, ... and more��
  • Green diary rescue & open thread: oil and wildlife ...
    New York Times (blog) Green diary rescue & open thread: oil and wildlife don't mix Daily Kos (blog) Starstruck rperks gave us the pregame in Ashley Judd and the Hope of Removing Mountaintop Removal : "First, my dear friend Ashley Judd -- OK, we're not there ... Stop Assault On Coal by EPA Wheeling ...
  • EPA Proposes New Rule for Coal Ash Storage - Water ...
    EPA Proposes New Rule for Coal Ash Storage Water World Earlier, EPA proposed guidelines to clarify and strengthen environmental permitting requirements for Appalachian mountaintop removal and other surface coal ... and more��
  • Lights, Camera, Action: Ashley Judd vs. Mountainto ...
    Digital Spy Lights, Camera, Action: Ashley Judd vs. Mountaintop Removal Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Then she lowered the boom: "I am here to tell you, mountaintop removal coal mining simply would not happen in any other mountain range in the United States. ... Ashley Judd criticizes fe ...

Memeorandum

  • Obama BP gambit could fall short (Josh Gerstein/Th ...
    Josh Gerstein / The Politico : Obama BP gambit could fall short   —  The Obama administration's latest anti-BP volley is a call on the oil giant to pay up big time — not just for economic damages from the Gulf spill but also for lost wages of workers idled by the president's drilling moratorium.
  • Pentagon Manhunt - Blogs and Stories - Anxious tha ...
    Philip Shenon / The Daily Beast : Pentagon Manhunt   —  Blogs and Stories  —  Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange.  Philip Shenon reports.  —  Pentagon investigators a ...
  • Billions for 'green jobs,' whatever they are (Byro ...
    Byron York / Washington Examiner : Billions for ‘green jobs,’ whatever they are   —  Buried deep inside a federal newsletter on March 16 was something called a “notice of solicitation of comments” from the Bureau of Labor Statistics at the Department of Labor.  —  “BLS is responsible for developin ...
  • Run Jerry Run - I ran into Jerry Brown the other d ...
    Doug Sovern / Sovern Nation : Run Jerry Run   —  I ran into Jerry Brown the other day.  Or, rather, he ran into me.  Literally.  —  I was out for a bike ride in the Oakland hills and stopped at Redwood Regional Park to fill up my water bottle.  Suddenly, up jogs Jerry, in his sweats, chugging along ...
  • Under Pressure, Teachers Tamper With Test Scores ( ...
    Trip Gabriel / New York Times : Under Pressure, Teachers Tamper With Test Scores   —  The staff of Normandy Crossing Elementary School outside Houston eagerly awaited the results of state achievement tests this spring.  For the principal and assistant principal, high scores could buoy their career ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

China Dialogue

  • Lessons from controversy (1)
    The United Nations’ decision to deny a clutch of Chinese wind farms Clean Development Mechanism status has exposed structural failures in this carbon-cutting device, argue He Gang and Richard Morse. China’s wind-power has expanded rapidly in recent years, almost doubling in size every 12 months sinc ...
  • Second chance summit
    The 1992 Rio Conference inspired hopes for a fairer future – before two decades of unequal, unsustainable development ruined the dream. Now, another meeting must revive the ambition, says the Green Economy Coalition. In 1992, the first Rio Summit – a United Nations-led meeting also known as the Eart ...
  • Giving up the ghost fleet
    In California, rusting US navy ships that were poisoning bay waters for decades are being cleaned up, moved and recycled – thanks to a legal victory by local environmental groups. Jan McGirk reports. It’s clear that the health risks from a fleet of decrepit US navy troop ships and tankers, moored fo ...
  • From muck to riches
    A growing group of green entrepreneurs is turning elephant dung into a valuable resource. Anna da Costa went to meet an Indian businessman making paper – and profits – from animal waste. "Do you have something to wrap around your face?” asked Vijendra Singh Shekawat, my host for the afternoon, as he ...
  • Listed demands
    Two think tanks are urging the Hong Kong stock exchange to tighten disclosure requirements on public companies caught polluting in mainland China. Here, the Asia Water Project summarises the arguments. Better environmental disclosure requirements from Hong Kong’s stock exchange, the Hong Kong Exchan ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • ‘I Can’t Believe What I’m Confessing to You’: The ...
    On May 21, 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning initiated a series of online chats with former hacker Adrian Lamo after a story on Lamo was published at Wired.com. The chats continued over several days, during which Manning claimed that he was responsible for leaking classified mate ...
  • Suspected Wikileaks Source Described Crisis of Con ...
    On his last full day of freedom before Army CID investigators took him into custody, 22-year-old Bradley Manning pondered what would happen if his secret life as a self-described Wikileaks “hacktivist” were ever exposed. “What would you do if your role [with] Wikileaks seemed in danger of being blo ...
  • New York AG Suing Social Network Tagged.com for Ch ...
    New York’s attorney general Andrew Cuomo accused the social networking site Tagged.com on Thursday of not responding to user reports of child pornography and sexual solicitation of minors, which has allowed the popular site to become a place where sexual predators can exploit children. Cuomo sent a ...
  • AT&T Exposes Data on 100,000 iPad 3G Owners
    It looks like oil in the gulf isn’t the only thing spilling at the moment. A security hole in AT&T’s website has leaked out data on more than 100,000 iPad owners, including government and military officials, corporate CEOs, and media executives, according to Gawker, which calls the leaked informati ...
  • State Department Anxious About Possible Leak of Ca ...
    The State Department and personnel at U.S. embassies around the world are reportedly waiting anxiously to find out if an Army intelligence analyst was telling the truth when he boasted that he had supplied 260,000 classified State Department diplomatic cables to the whistleblower site Wikileaks. If ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • FBI begins probe into AT&T iPad security breach
    WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened a probe into a security breach of Apple Inc's iPad that exposed personal information of AT&T Inc customers, including those of several high-ranking government officials.
  • WRAPUP 10-U.S. doubles Gulf oil spill estimate
    * UK's Cameron to discuss spill with Obama this weekend
  • Mandela great-grandchild killed in crash
    JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela's 13-year-old great granddaughter was killed in a car crash on Friday after leaving a concert ahead of the World Cup kick off, the Nelson Mandela Foundation said.
  • BP shares in focus after U.S. doubles spill estima ...
    HOUSTON (Reuters) - Shares in British energy giant BP will be in the spotlight again on Friday after U.S. government scientists doubled their estimate of the amount of oil gushing out of its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well.
  • Geithner signals U.S. patience waning on China cur ...
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner indicated U.S. patience on China's currency policy was wearing thin on Thursday as a key lawmaker warned that he would move soon on legislation that would penalize Chinese goods.

Equality Trust

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  • VAT rise would hit the poorest
    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
  • Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
    Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector . But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?
  • Splendid: government targets second homes
    As reported in today's Daily Telegraph , proposed hike in capital gains tax aims to part-fund increase in tax allowances for those on lower incomes. David Cameron describes second homes as "not .... necessarily splendid" for the economy.
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PDA AMERICA

  • Winograd Supporters Greet Harman at Mar Vista Farm ...
    y the time Jane Harman arrived, Winograd for Congress supporters were everywhere at the Mar Vista Farmers Market on the West side of Los Angeles. Holding signs that read “Jobs, Not Wars” and “Stop ...
  • Suspend to Amend Corporate Personhood Call
    On the May 26 Suspend to Amend Corporate Personhood call, participants heard from David Cobb of Movetoamend.org and John Bonifaz of freespeechforpeople.org as each made their case for amending the constitution to limit corporate personhood. ...
  • PDA Special “KitchenTable” Call
    On this call with began work on finalizing the agenda for the national conference in Ohio.
  • 72 Congressional Candidates Join Coalition Against ...
    72 Congressional Candidates Join Coalition Against War Spending in First Week, Teabaggers Have 79 After a Year Seventy-two congressional candidates and 24 national organizations are opposing any more funding for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, ...
  • Voices Raised in Protest at White House Rally, Re: ...
    Voices Raised in Protest at White House Rally, Re: Israeli Attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla from William Hughes on Vimeo. The recent attack by Israeli Military Forces on a humanitarian six-boat flotilla, in international waters, ...

Marler Blog

  • Salmonella Radio
    For more information generally about Salmonella, visit www.about-salmonella.com .� To hear the mellow tones of me talking Salmonella, click below:
  • Subway Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Fresh Produce ...
    That would mean actual illnesses are now 2741 (as I was told this morning that "the right number is 38.6 cases of Salmonella infection for each culture-confirmed case, and not 38.5, see, http://www.cdc.gov/enterics/publications/374-voetscha1.pdf ").  According to Andy Nelson of The Packer: The numb ...
  • A new political "farce" - the "teat party"
    The raw milk drinkers and I have not been getting on well lately. Since this is my blog, I do not have to write down all their descriptions of me. However, a few moments on www.thecompletepatient.com will give you a sense of their animus. I must admit that I am not blameless. I recently describe ...
  • Subway Sickens at least 2,618 with Salmonella Hvit ...
    No, really - keep reading.  According to the Illinois Department of Health, the outbreak of Salmonella sicknesses in Illinois linked to Subway restaurants is spreading. To date, there are 68 confirmed cases, of which 24 had been hospitalized. People with the illness reported eating at Subway locatio ...
  • Minnesota Department of Health Responds to Hartman ...
    Yesterday after giving a speech to NEHA on the dangers of the industrialized beef supply, I received the following email statement from the Hartmann Dairy which is at the center of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Minnesota that has sickened at least five. Here is the relevant part of the email: Not ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 06.11.10
    250 Smart EDs coming to U.S. this fall with $599/month leases attached The numbers don't bode well for this one. Ask ABG: Why are electric vehicles so expensive? We know you don't want to he ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.10.10
    Video: Jay Leno's EcoJet visits All GM Show in California Lucky. Report: Renault shoots for annual target of 200,000 EVs by 2016 Optimism is contagious. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.09.10
    Michelin expects electric car to make up 5% of the market in 2020 Is the middle of the road right? How much does software add to the cost of today's vehicles? How about tomorrow's electric cars? ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.08.10
    Alan Mulally explains why most people won't be driving electric cars soon Three reasons: cost, cost and infrastructure. Utility Review: 2010 Honda Fit Sport actually does "fit" it all in Pac ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 06.07.10
    Nissan says majority of Leaf hand-raisers are current Prius owners Nissan thinks people "are interested in going to the next level." Dutch study claims that 50 mph speed limit would cut CO2 by 30% ...

Rafe's Radar

  • CNET to the Rescue: Flip that phone
    Josh is going to tell us how to get out of a mobile phone contract, what to do with an old phone, and how to connect an XBox to a PC with a crossover cable. Plus, road tests (iOS, a new iPad case, and yellow, sticky, gross keyboard cleaning goo) and your questions answered! Listen now: Dow ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: What is artificial life? (p ...
    This week, artificial life! Last month, of course, Craig Venter announced that he had modified a living organism by replacing its DNA with a synthetically-created genome . The J. Craig Venter Institute project took Mycoplasma capricolum bacteria and completely rewrote its genetic code of more than ...
  • CNET to the Rescue: Reminders and to-do lists
    This time, Rafe and Josh's favorite apps for keeping track of stuff. Also, we answer questions on Synergy, domain names, waking up snoozing Macs, calendar apps for Thunderbird, and more. Thanks to Tales (from the chat room) for saving our bacon! Listen now: Download today's podcast Subsc ...
  • Reporters' Roundtable: App stores are good for sof ...
    The working title for this show was, "How app stores are killing software." But the conversation, with Evernote CEO Phil Libin and SoftTech venture capitalist Jeff Clavier , painted exactly the opposite picture. These two execs, both of whom are making money from software in the current economy, s ...
  • Coming June 24: CNET Showcase on tablets, slates, ...
    Don't miss our hands-on event and discussion on the newest in small and slim computing. Originally posted at CNET Showcase

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!

  • The Images Israel Didn't Want Seen: Video and Phot ...
    In the wake of the commando raid that left nine dead, the Israeli government confiscated every recording and communication device it could find–thus allowing the state to control what the world learned about the assault. Democracy Now! has interviewed some of the reporters, filmmakers, and photogr ...
  • The Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Framing the Narrative
    They called it “Operation Sea Breeze.” Despite the pleasant-sounding name, Israel’s violent commando raid on a flotilla of humanitarian aid ships, which left nine civilians dead, has sparked international outrage. The raid occurred in the early-morning hours of May 31, as the six vessels laden with ...
  • The Future of Turkish-Israeli Relations in the Wak ...
    Following the Israeli commando attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla and the death of nine Turkish citizens, popular outrage has swept the streets of Turkey. The Turkish government has demanded accountability and an apology from Israel for its deadly assault on the Mavi Marmara. Israel has refu ...
  • Inspired by Gaza Blockade, Roger Waters Records Ne ...
    British musician Roger Waters of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd sings a new version of "We Shall Overcome" in a music video cut to footage from the upcoming documentary, "Roadmap to Apartheid." Watch the full video
  • The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity and "Deca ...
    The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity is an environmentally friendly theatre festival playing shows from June 3 until June 29. Located in NYC, this festival strives to produce 'Theatre for a cause,' as it is committed to showing thought-provoking plays while giving back to the community. A por ...

Farming Pathogens

  • The Alan Greenspan Strain
    First, a question with which few biogeographers bother. If a goodly chunk of their discipline is dedicated toward obfuscating the impact capitalism imposes on the natural world (discussed here and here), how can researchers interested in paying their bills study the crises that threaten the croupier ...
  • 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, [...]

Suzie-Q

  • Sarah Palin Demands Hardball Regulations and a Tak ...
    On her Facebook page this week, Sarah Palin outlined a pretty solid case for tough government regulations against corporations. (By the way, none of the sentences ended with the word “also,” nor did the entry read like a really bad local newspaper letter to the editor, so I assume it was ghost-writt ...
  • Pilger: The master illusionists of war
    John Pilger, Morning Star Online, June 6, 2010 How do wars begin? With a “master illusion,” according to Ralph McGehee, one of the CIA’s pioneers in “black propaganda” – known today as “news management.” In 1983, he described to me how the CIA had faked an “incident” that became the “conclusive proo ...
  • Louisiana Oil Spill 2010 PHOTOS
    Louisiana Oil Spill 2010 PHOTOS: Gulf Of Mexico Leak Reaches Land Huff Post- First Posted: 06- 1-10 01:24 PM   |   Updated: 06- 8-10 09:47 AM The catastrophic explosion that caused an oil spill from a BP offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico has reached the shoreline. Efforts to manage the spi ...
  • Afternoon Jukebox- Rock The Casbah
    The Clash – Rock The Casbah
  • BP’s Long History Of Destroying The World
    BP’s Long History Of Destroying The World Huff Post- Ryan Grim First Posted: 06- 8-10 12:45 PM   |   Updated: 06- 8-10 02:48 PM The oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is a final onslaught launched from the grave of colonialism, perpetrated by a corporation that can compete with Goldman Sachs ...

Solari

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
  • 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��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Kim Jong-Il becomes fashion icon
    State-controlled media has declared North Korea’s Supreme Leader as a trendsetter of a global fashion craze. The Uriminzokkiri website reported that the dictator’s zip-up, monotone suits were sweeping the globe as must-have outfits. The website went on to quote an unnamed French fashion pundit as sa ...
  • Divorce fails to blunt domestic dream
    Children of the "divorce generation" have kept faith in marriage, a survey has claimed, with most hoping to walk down the aisle in the mid-20s. The Marriage and Wedding Survey, commissioned by More magazine , found that more than 80% of young women with separated parents still dream of getting marri ...
  • Sharks hang around for love
    Scientists claim that great white sharks may hang out in a Pacific Ocean "cafe" to find a partner. A team of researchers working for the Census of Marine Life maintain that the sharks travel thousands of kilometres to spend six months at what they have dubbed the White Shark Cafe, which is situated ...
  • Breast screening 'saves lives'
    Research into the benefits of breast cancer screening have found that two lives are saved for every one case of overdiagnosis. The study was carried out in response to claims the NHS screening programme does not save lives. Some forms of cancer cause no harm, while others grow so slowly that a woman ...
  • Leek and Roquefort pizza bread
    Taken from the Riverford Farm Cook Book Serves 4 Although making bread requires a bit of effort, and it's important to follow the procedure to get best results, it's well worth it - and this dish also combines delicious Roquefort and aromatic leeks to great effect. � Ingredients

Fabius Maximus

  • FM newswire for June 11, interesting articles abou ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis, much of which is catch-up from the past week. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague.  Everyone but us smells the stench of hypocrisy in US foreign policy:  “U.S. demands civilian trials — except in the U.S.“, Glenn Greenw ...
  • The new estimate of the Deepwater Horizon spill ra ...
    Summary:   The most credible estimate for the leak before the riser pipe was cut on June 3 is 20,000 to 40,000 barrels a day.  The technical team hasn’t yet calculated the volume beyond June 3. Based on the midpoint of the latest approximation of 30,000 barrels, from April 22 when the Deepwater Hori ...
  • The President’s big stick (domestic): their Nation ...
    Summary:  There has been too much nonsense written about this important subject.  For the real story let’s look at the Congressional Research Service report “National Emergency Powers“, updated 30 August 2007. This discusses the law (which Presidents have too often ignored, a separate problem), an ...
  • FM newswire for June 10, interesting articles abou ...
    Todayâs links to interesting news and analysis, much of which is catch-up from the past week. If you find this useful, please pass it to a friend or colleague.   ”U.S. not accepting foreign help on oil spill“, Josh Rogin, blog of Foreign Policy, 6 May 2010 — The spill started on April 20. Forty ...
  • Is there any way out from the burden of government ...
    Summary:  One in a series of thought-starters about this era, the end of the post-WWII era.  A harsh but accurate analysis of the lush for savings and austerity that has — too late — gripped the West.  And a pessimistic forecast. Excerpt from Global Macro Investor, Raoul Pal (an At-team hedge fun ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Suicide attack kills 40 at Afghan wedding party
    The Independent – A suicide bomb ripped through a wedding party in full swing in the Taliban’s heartland in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens more, officials said today. The blast occurred late yesterday in a housing compound where men had gathered during the festi ...
  • UK One in three secondary schools fingerprinting p ...
    Daily Mail – One in three secondary schools is forcing children to swipe their fingerprints just to register in class or take out library books, it emerged yesterday. Figures diclosed under the Freedom of Information Act show how ‘Big Brother’ technology is becoming widespread in schools. Thirty per ...
  • Bhopal disaster verdicts spark outrage in India
    AFP – Indian politicians, campaigners and newspapers expressed outrage today at two-year prison terms handed to those found guilty over the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster that left thousands dead. Anger focused on the 25-year delay in the convictions, the perceived leniency of the sentences and the f ...
  • Diabetes May Double Cancer Risk in Women
    ScienceDaily — Type 2 adult-onset diabetes causes insulin-like hormones to circulate through the body. A new study finds this has a surprisingly positive effect on reducing the rate of prostate cancer in men, but is bad news for women: Type 2 diabetes may double the risk of female genital and other ...
  • Anti-Islam Wilders in line for Cabinet role as Lib ...
    Times – The Freedom Party of the anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders emerged as the third force in Dutch politics last night, nearly doubling its number of seats in Parliament in the countryâs general elections. Mr Wilders won 21 seats, up from 9, pushing the Christian Democrats, led by the outgoing Prime ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • “Lud a rewolucja”, Tkaczowa
    âLud a rewolucjaâ, Tkaczowa – Rakulski (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) âNatychmiast potem [tj. po rewolucji] dana klasa rewolucyjna staje siÄ konserwatywnÄ…â â Karol Marks, âNÄdza filozofiiâ. I zasadniczo tym wÅaÅnie cytatem zajmuje siÄ w swojej pracy Piotr Tkaczow. Ten cytat może st ...
  • Teoría del MIM no. 1: “¿Los Proletarios Blan ...
    Teoría del MIM no. 1: “¿Los Proletarios Blancos?” Teoría Maoista en español PDF.
  • Review of Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s Eyes of the Hea ...
    Review of Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s Eyes of the Heart (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) What was natural about the disaster that struck Haiti on 12 January, 2010? An estimated three million were affected by the earthquake. The Haitian government reported hat an estimated 230,000 had died and 300,00 ...
  • Review of Magpie’s Goodbye to Old Ohio
    Review of Magpie’s Goodbye to Old Ohio (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Magpie is a folk music trio made up of Terry Leonino and Greg Artzner. In 2000, Magpie released a folk opera that follows the exploits of John Brown and those around him at Harpers Ferry. In other words, all the songs on the ...
  • Czy komuniści powinni popierać Dżihad?
    Czy komuniÅci powinni popieraÄ Dżihad? –Aleksander Iwanow (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) W dzisiejszym, ogarniÄtym âwojnÄ… z terroryzmemâ Åwiecie kwestia stosunku komunistów do dżihadu i islamizmu staje siÄ sprawÄ… najwyższej wagi. Jednak wiÄkszoÅÄ pseudokomunistów stanowczo potÄpia i ...

PakAlert

  • Warning Signs Of Full Spectrum Collapse Are Everyw ...
    n this article we will look at some of the latest and most disturbing moves by governments and financial institutions, as well as tell-tale signs in our own local cities, which signal that a full-spectrum collapse of world markets and possibly our own currency is not only in progress, but nearing co ...
  • Alert: Russia Orders Troops To Prepare For War Wit ...
    Reports circulating in the Kremlin today state that Prime Minister Putin [photo top left] has ordered Russian military forces to prepare to confront American military forces in Afghanistan over what Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov warns is the “greatest threat to International peace and security ...
  • Vultures Over Pakistan
    “It is essential that we strike and crush Pakistanis, enemies of Jews and Zionism, by all disguised and secret plans,” – David Ben Gurion, first Prime Minister of Zionist entity. Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/
  • Evidence Points To BP Oil Spill False Flag
    - Sales of shares and stocks in days and weeks beforehand - Halliburton link, acquisition of cleanup company days before explosion - BP report cites undocumented tampering with well sealing equipment - Government uses disaster to push for Carbon Tax, Nationalization talk Read More at http:// ...
  • Important Links of the Week – 08 June 10
    Important Links Of the Week - 08 June 10 Read More at http://pakalert.wordpress.com/

ecogeek

  • Students Build an EV in 10 Weeks
    Graduate students at Stanford University designed and built an EV in 10 weeks as their master's thesis.  They're calling the vehicle, which can hit 35 mph and has a range of around 20 miles, the WENG, which stands for "Where Everyone Needs to Go." The WENG's motors are located in its rear wheels, ...
  • Electric Jet Ski: All of the Fun, None of the Oil ...
    Jet skis are fun, but they're also dirty.  They've been known to leak oil and offer up a nice dose of air and noise pollution.  To change all that, Silveira Customs has debuted their all-electric personal watercraft called the Green Samba. Silveira Customs found that creating an electric jet ski t ...
  • GM Sets Up Venture Capital Subsidiary
    General Motors is seeking to further shake its image as a corporate dinosaur with the creation of a venture capital subsidiary, General Motors Ventures, LLC . The new company " plans to invest in start-up companies working in a variety of fields, including renewable fuels, information and enterta ...
  • Apple Patents Solar-Powered iPod, iPhone
    Forget the iPhone 4 that everyone is talking about today, there is a far cooler Apple-related news item to discuss. Apple has filed a patent for a full range of "media players with integrated touch sensor solar panel surfaces."  Basically, we may soon be seeing solar-powered iPods, iPhones and eve ...
  • Urban Farming Concept with Rooftop Pods
    While we are intrigued by the idea and we like some of the eye-catching images, we don't believe that current conditions make sense for tall urban buildings to be built expressly for growing food . That's not to say that we are in any way opposed to the idea of growing food in cities, closer to w ...

Buzzflash

  • Getting Ahead of the Hype
    Body � With all the hype surrounding the recent primaries it seemed as if the country were about to be taken over by forces resembling those virulent plants in the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers. � In the aftermath, media and political pundits have provided nonstop analyses about ...
  • Mainstays of eBay & Hewlett Packard Win GOP Primar ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Meg Whitman & Carly Fiorina’s problem ?It seems to me is: Having tons of money doesn’t mean you Have any ideas. read more
  • Charges Filed in Case of Death Threats Against Rep ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Family values are in full swing When all here is said and done; It wasn’t just some loony loser But a loony dad & his loony son .read more
  • We Won't Fix the Oil Spills, Until We Fix Our Oil ...
    STEPHEN PIZZO FOR BUZZFLASH If Americans hate anything, it’s restraint, especially imposed restraints. Once world-class producers, we’ve morphed over the last half century into world-class consumers. It was no accident that, in the immediate wake of the 9/11 attacks, then Prez George W. Bush rushed ...
  • Glenn Beck is a National Gaper's Block. We Would D ...
    Glenn Beck It's quite simple. Glenn Beck is the Media Putz not just of the week, but of the last year. Yet, all of us, including BuzzFlash, bear some of the blame for turning him into a national gaper's block. Beck is no fool. He's a calculating entertainer who has the Roger Ailes touch for merging ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The Democratic Party and Blanche Lincoln
    (updated below) The run-off between Democratic Senate incumbent Blanche Lincoln and�challenger Bill Halter, which culminated on Tuesday night in Lincoln's narrow victory, brightly illuminates what the Democratic Party establishment is. �Lincoln is supposedly one of those "centrist"/cons ...
  • A growing part of the Obama legacy
    (updated below) Physicians for Human Rights yesterday released a report documenting (while relying on heavily redacted material) that "medical professionals who were involved in the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogations of terrorism suspects engaged in forms of human research and ...
  • Our hard-core, adversarial press corps
    (updated below) On Friday, CNN's Ed Henry posted a series of giggly, adolescent updates on his Twitter feed, describing the events that took place at a "beach" party thrown by Joe Biden, at the Vice�President's mansion, for various "reporters" and White House officials.�� Digby excerpte ...
  • Congrats to Rush Limbaugh on his fourth traditiona ...
    Rush Limbaugh,�October 6, 2009 : Look, we found another Obama oddball. Obama's nominee to become commissioner for the equal opportunity employment commission is Chai Feldblum. She's an outspoken gay rights activist, Georgetown University law professor, and she has praised polygamy and conte ...
  • How Israeli propaganda shaped U.S. media coverage ...
    It was clear from the moment news of the flotilla attack emerged that Israel was taking extreme steps to suppress all evidence about what happened other than its own official version.  They detained all passengers on the ship and barred the media from speaking with them, thus, as The NYT put it , " ...

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Three decades of major oil spills
    How does the ongoing saga of the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon disaster compare with three decades of major oil spills. An infographic from the oil spill timeline page of Iglu Cruises provides a visual comparison using data apparently sourced from the BBC. Unfor ...
  • Materials, nanotechnology, iPhone app
    Science news links for June 3rd through June 8th, including my latest contributions to Materials Today magazine: Nanotechnology fights cancer – Functionalised single-walled carbon nanotubes, rather than being a health risk, cause T cell antigens to cluster in the blood and stimulate the body's nat ...
  • Testing tests
    Teaching is meant to help students learn, usually about a specific subject, but more broadly about social interactions, working in a team, under duress, about life in general. They say that your schooldays are the best days of your lives, but perish the thought I’ve never been one for clichés and ...
  • My latest SpectroscopyNOW science news
    These are my links for June 1st from 19:03 to 19:09: Therapeutic science – X-ray crystallography has been used to determine the structure of a new, improved protein that could be employed in the purification of therapeutic antibodies and to reveal details of its complexes with antibodies. The work ...
  • Mumps, vax, quacks #science
    A few science news snippets: Mumps vaccination and teenage swelling – Clinical evidence suggests that we should best avoid mumps in teenagers, could a booster vaccine at age 12 or thereabouts be the answer? Martin Gardner RIP – Debunker of quacks and pseudoscientists and an unequalled mathematical ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Trial for 27 Anti-Torture Activists Who Protested ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 11, 2010 Witness Against Torture On Monday, June 14 twenty-seven will face trial stemming from arrests at the U.S. Capitol on January 21, 2010 — the date by which President Obama had promised the closure of the Guantanamo detention camp. The human rights activists will hol ...
  • Twenty-Seven to Go on Trial for Protesting the Oba ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 10, 2010 Witness Against Torture On Monday, June 14 twenty-seven will face trial stemming from arrests at the U.S. Capitol on January 21, 2010 — the date by which President Obama had promised the closure of the Guantanamo detention camp. read more
  • Obama Administration Might Hold Non-Afghan Detaine ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 9, 2010 ACLU According to a Los Angeles Times report, a senior U.S. official said the Obama administration wants to detain and interrogate non-Afghan terrorism suspects captured in countries outside Afghanistan in a section of the Bagram prison, even after it turns the pri ...
  • Task Force: End the Archaic FDA Blood Ban Now
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 9, 2010 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force At a press conference today, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force called for an end to the Food and Drug Administration's lifetime ban on blood donations from any man who has had sex with another man since 1977. At its Jun ...
  • Wolves in Northeast Denied Protection Again
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 9, 2010 Center for Biological Diversity In response to a petition from a group of concerned citizens, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a finding today that because there is not currently a breeding population of wolves in the northeastern United States, the popula ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Remembering Jacques Cousteau: Carrying on the Lega ...
    by Jean-Michel Cousteau My father, Captain Jacques Cousteau, would have been 100 years old today. He was a man of undeniable charisma, a man who always achieved his objectives, a man of such single-minded determination that he would not give up on a goal until he had achieved it. His lifelong vis ...
  • Prison Education Cuts Hurt More Than Just Inmates
    by Malik Alayube I'm an inmate at High Desert State Prison who was on track in pursuing my associate's degree until the prison college programs were recently reduced. State's budget cuts have taken away educational opportunities in prisons. Teachers were laid off. College correspondence courses ...
  • Racism and Recession in Europe
    by Jayati Ghosh Of the many undesirable effects of the ongoing — and increasingly policy-induced — recession in Europe, has received relatively less public attention: the resurgence of racist and xenophobic attitudes. This was already something of a problem, especially in Western Europe in the past ...
  • Scholar Soldiers in Afghanistan Are on Dangerous T ...
    by James Denselow David Cameron says Afghanistan is his number one priority .read more
  • An Ugly Jobs Report, and a Complacent Congress
    by Roger Bybee When will the White House push for real job creation? As if the spread of oil across the Gulf of Mexico was not sufficiently disastrous, the nation's latest job report contained some very bad news. read more

Karl Burkart

Water Privatization

  • Seniors hear budget briefing
    WESTFIELD - A municipal budget briefing for senior citizens earlier this week was enlightening to some, while changing the opinions of others concerning downtown tree removal and the possible privatization of trash collections.
  • Japanese minister steps down over postal reform: r ...
    Japanese postal reform minister Shizuka Kamei, leader of a minority party in the governing coalition, announced he was stepping down on Friday in a row over postal privatization, reports said.
  • Holding The Tigers
    By: John Browne Senior Market Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital, Inc. In the arc of history, all great powers have their day. Even confining our glance to the modern era, countries such as Spain, France, and Great Britain all had periods of unrivalled power across the world stage.
  • Cyber War: Microsoft a weak link in national secur ...
    "Microsoft has vast resources, literally billions of dollars in cash, or liquid assets reserves. Microsoft is an incredibly successful empire built on the premise of market dominance with low-quality goods." Who wrote those lines? Steve Jobs? Linux inventor Linus Torvalds? Ralph Nader? No, the autho ...
  • 'Water, Rivers and People' opening
    Show plunges into water issues With oil spilling out of the Gulf of Mexico, drought besieging West Africa's Sahel region and more bad news about the increasingly instability of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the David Brower Center's "Water, Rivers... Africa - Sacramento � San Joaquin River ...

Guardian

  • Mandela pulls out of World Cup
    Former president to miss World Cup opener after death of Zenani, 13, as police charge driver with drink-driving A heartbroken Nelson Mandela has pulled out of today's football World Cup opening ceremony in South Africa after the death of his great-granddaughter in a car crash. Zenani Mandela, 13, wa ...
  • BP oil spill twice as bad as thought
    US government figures show twice as much oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico than earlier estimations suggested The oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico is even worse than previously thought, with twice as much oil spewing into the ocean than earlier estimations suggested, figures show. Latest estimates ...
  • Live blog: today in politics
    Andrew Sparrow with all today's political news – including David Cameron in Afghanistan, Nick Clegg in Spain, and details of Frank Field's poverty review 11.58am: A judge has ruled that three former MPs and a peer cannot use parliamentary privilege to stop them being prosecuted over claims they abu ...
  • Missing lone sailor, 16, found safe
    Abby Sunderland activated emergency beacons on her boat Wild Eyes in stormy seas, 2,000 miles off Madagascar A 16-year-old Californian girl attempting to sail solo around the world has been found alive and well following a desperate overnight search in a remote part of the Indian Ocean, her parents ...
  • South Africa's party for the world kicks off
    Click refresh for all the latest World Cup and news and views. Post your thoughts below the line or email sean.ingle@guardian.co.uk . Follow all our World Cup coverage 12.10pm Meanwhile, more of your emails. Mary Kobrak sends in with a link to this lovely interview in El Pais . And apologies to Jona ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Climate talks eye level playing field
    From the UN climate talks in Bonn: On the final day of this two-week session, a new text [304KB PDF] emerges - which is likely to form the basis of the most difficult negotiations between now and the end of this year's UN climate summit, in Cancun, Mexico, in December. If you want the official tit ...
  • Bonn's obscured climate vision
    From the UN climate talks in Bonn : Halfway along the temporal road from Copenhagen to Cancun: is the glass half-full or half-empty? There's been lots of chat of that kind in the corridors here. The incoming head of the UN climate convention, Christiana Figueres, reckoned it is less than half ...
  • Snakes, seascapes, and the value of nature
    It's called an "enigmatic" decline: animal species and populations dying away for no reason that anyone can discern. When there's a trend without an apparent cause, the questions come thick and fast. One senses that herpetologists all around the world will be asking some of those questions now, in ...
  • Bridging the energy gulf
    The Deepwater Horizon rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is causing questions to be asked further afield about the place of oil and oil exploration. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has just released its demand for a global moratorium on exploration in any "ecologically ...
  • Profiting from nature's portfolio
    We've had a fair bit of chat here in recent months about diversity in the natural world, and why it matters - with some regular posters asking whether in fact it matters at all. I've tried to lay out some of the evidence - there is quite a lot - showing that diverse ecosystems tend to be more robus ...

The Wonk Room

  • The Minnesota Nurse’s Strike: Hospitals Will ...
    Some 12,000 nurses in Minnesota went on strike today after failing to reach an agreement with 14 Minnesota hospitals about pensions, wages and, most importantly staff-to-patient ratios. The nurses are arguing that they take care of too many patients and work in too many departments, sometimes perfor ...
  • In Defense Of DOJ’s Decision To Delay Court ...
    Over at AmericaBlog, Joe Sudbay and John Aravosis criticize the the Department of Justice, “which has aggressively defended the discriminatory Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law” for asking the court to delay its ruling in light of Congress’ recent action on the issue: The problem with that is, of course, t ...
  • Architect Of Arizona Immigration Law Kris Kobach F ...
    Local Kansas newspapers are reporting that Kris Kobach, the architect of the Arizona immigration law and candidate for Kansas Secretary of State, is being criticized by the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) for the financial management of the Kansas Republican Party during his tenure as chairman. ...
  • GOP Extenders Bill Preserves Corporate Tax Loophol ...
    Senate Democrats have been having a devil of a time this week drumming up votes to pass their version of a tax extenders package that extends unemployment benefits, vital social safety net programs, and a handful of popular tax credits and infrastructure programs. Deficit hysteria has led the entir ...
  • REPORT: Supporters Of DADT Didn’t Fight Very ...
    uncan Osborne has an article in Gay City News highlighting the remarkable enthusiasm gap between supporters of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and advocates for its repeal. While repeal groups spearheaded an impressive campaign micro targeting six swing senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee, “tight- ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Stupid Obama
    I'm calling him "stupid" because as a Harvard trained constitutional scholar and a master of understanding and appealing to his fellow human beings, Barack Obama ought to have been smart enough to know that he's destroying his presidency with each passing day by resorting to the same old, cynical, i ...
  • Canadian Labour Congress Supports Abousfian Abdelr ...
    A heartening sign that the union movement still has what it takes! (FWIW: I gave Mr. Abdelrazik some cash myself!) Oh yeah, and Lawrence Cannon is a scumbag.
  • Legal Reality of Israel's Attack
    From Glenn Greenwald , Craig Murray : A word on the legal position, which is very plain. To attack a foreign flagged vessel in international waters is illegal. ... The Law of the Sea is quite plain that, when an incident takes place on a ship on the high seas (outside anybody's territorial waters) ...
  • Return to Recession?
    A great CounterPunch article by Mike Whitney about how the reactionary policies of international "investors" and governments in the USA, Europe, and China, might be bringing back the Great Recession of 2008-09.
  • Livid about this ...
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/liberals-lay-down-your-arms/article1572110/ Blahhr!!! I'm trying to contain my rage! Perhaps a critique tomorrow.

Financial Sense Editorials

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  • Market Observation: The Long and Short of It
    by Brian Pretti. "It has been a very long while since I’ve taken up a big chunk of a discussion to write about crude oil. The time is now for a multiplicity of reasons. You know the old market truism that after bear markets in equities, old leadership rarely emerges as new leadership. And of course ...
  • Goldman Sachs Charged With Fraud, Part 3
    by Elliott Wave Int. "With the market’s downtrend recently in abeyance, these transgressions failed to capture the imagination of the public or the scrutiny of law enforcement. But the extreme recriminatory power of the next leg down in social mood suggests that Goldman’s dealings will become a ligh ...
  • A Short Philosophy of History
    by J. R. Nyquist. "The founder of analytic psychology, Carl Jung, proposed the existence of something he called the collective unconscious. He said it was the most misunderstood of his empirical concepts. Its reality could be inferred from the presence of archetypes, most readily discoverable in dr ...
  • Market Observation: Fear Strikes Out
    by Martin Goldberg, CMT. "The markets are heading straight up without even taking a breather. As of Thursday after completing the January correction, there have been 34 days up and only 13 days down. Over that timeframe the S&P has gained about 16%. None of the down days were particularly scary and ...

on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: Internal Documents Show BP Repeated ...
    Reporter: Documents Show Years of BP Neglect [Fresh Air] SEC's regional offices present managerial problems, become an obstacle to reform by Zachary Goldfarb [The Washington Post] Scientists offer varied estimates, all high, on size of BP oil leak by Joel...
  • Feast Your Eyes on FAPIIS
    If you’ve been wondering what the government’s new contractor integrity and performance database, the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS), looks like—wonder no more. FAPIIS is off-limits to the public, but POGO obtained some screen shots of the...
  • Over Half of Financial Reform Lobbyists Worked in ...
    The Center for Public Integrity reports today that 52 percent of financial reform lobbyists are former employees of the government. The Center was able to identify 1,556 former members of Congress, Capitol Hill staffers and executive branch employees among the...
  • Small Business Bailout Program Needs Big Oversight
    At a recent ceremony honoring small business owners from across the country, President Obama announced a batch of initiatives to encourage greater lending to small businesses, which have been hit particularly hard by the economic downturn. The most prominent of...
  • Morning Smoke: SEC Looking Into Another Goldman CD ...
    Goldman Sachs Hudson CDO Said to Be Target of Second SEC Probe by Joshua Gallu and Christine Harper [Bloomberg] Increase in inspectors hasn't kept pace with boom in offshore U.S. oil rigs and projects by Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Released From the Hospital, He Says He's Stranded, ...
    Paul is homeless in Hollywood. We met in front of the CNN building where a group of homeless people gather outside to watch TV. The TVs play audio outside and people watch the news, of course CNN. I think it's awesome and I was happy to hear the security guards are cool. Paul is a cancer survivor, y ...
  • NIMBYism Is Alive and Well
    On Wednesday, the cities of Tulsa and Dallas both held hearings on proposed permanent supportive housing units for the homeless. And in both cities, residents with a serious case of "not in my backyard" syndrome worked themselves into a frenzy protesting them. In Dallas, residents are furious about ...
  • The Knoxville 911 Blues
    "911 calls to homeless shelter generate concern for residents."  This headline about the Knoxville Area Rescue Mission illustrates the kinds of stories about homelessness that are frequently reported in the media. Let's dissect, shall we? One, the headline implies that it is surprising that homeless ...
  • A Widower With No Place to Go
    I met Rich in Boulder, Colorado. He's a widower who, three years after his wife died, gave their home away to a single mother. That was when he set out on his journey of homelessness. He hoped to live six years after the death of his wife; that was 15 years ago. Since then, he's lived in various sit ...
  • Abuse or Homelessness? For Many, That Is the Quest ...
    At least 25 percent of homeless women (pdf) in America are homeless because of domestic violence. It's a hard number to swallow. What's worse, unlike with some subsections of the homeless population (the mentally ill , for instance), we know just how to provide immediate help to domestic violence su ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Canada ranked 14th in world in peacefulness
    New Zealand was the country most at peace last year according to the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace. Canada ranks 14th on the index’s assessment of 149 countries, while the United States ranks 85th, roughly on par with Angola, and Iraq ranks last: ...
  • DND wants to skip competition, buy Joint Strike Fi ...
    Le Devoir reports that the Department of National Defence wants to skip a competition to choose a replacement for the CF-18 Hornet and quickly sign a deal to buy the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (Alec Castonguay, “Avions de chasse: l’armée a fait son choix,” Le Devoir, 7 June 2010). A ...
  • And the big fool said to push on
    More talk of retaining a Canadian military role in Afghanistan following the scheduled end of the Kandahar mission in 2012 (Matthew Fisher, “Canada could fill training role in Afghanistan post-2011, MPs say,” Canwest News Service, 3 June 2010): Liberal foreign affairs critic Bob Rae has provided th ...
  • City of Ottawa Profiting from the Arms Industry
    Send your letter to Ottawa mayoral candidates: Commit to end CANSEC Today Canada’s largest arms show opens in Ottawa. CANSEC has grown tremendously over the last few years because of the war in Afghanistan and steep increases in military spending. But it has also grown with the help of Ottawa City ...
  • Inside CANSEC and Canada’s arms industry (2003)
    A video produced in 2003 using footage from CANSEC, the Abbotsford Airshow and Airshow Canada, and the companies themselves. Polaris Institute.

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 6-9-10
    Today, Kevin reveals the secrets of surviving the looming economic catastrophe that they don’t want you to know about!   Self Help: Nontoxic Make Up   Pure Beauty Products   Heal Yourself   Information Is Key   Natural Solutions   Health: Cleaning Products Cause Asthma   Dangers of Artificial Sweete ...
  • FDA Wants More Money To Actually Do Their Job
    ABCNews.go.com As Dr. Richard Besser reported today on “Good Morning America, ” the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs more authority, money and efficiency in order to help protect the public from food-borne illness outbreaks, according to a report released Tuesday by the Institute of Medicine ...
  • Pain Relievers Can Raise Heart Risks
    BusinessWeek.com by Ed Edelson Healthy people who take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to relieve minor aches and pains may raise their risk of dying from heart-related problems, a Danish study finds. The American Heart Association and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration already warn people w ...
  • Radiation Causes Breast Cancer
    NaturalNews.com by S.L. Baker It’s well-established that exposure to ionizing radiation can trigger mutations and other genetic damage and cause normal cells to become malignant. So it seems amazing how mainstream medicine frequently dismisses the idea that medical imaging tests from mammograms to C ...
  • 8 Foods That Pack On Muscle
    AOLHealth.com If muscles were made from chips and beer, we’d look huge. But they aren’t, and we don’t — unless you count that sack o’ fat up front and dead center. If not Doritos and double bock, then what? We decided to delve deep into the human anatomy to find the secret spot on every muscle where ...

Pambazuka News

  • Global: US city opens doors to Cuban 5
    On Saturday March 13, in the auditorium of the Lavonya DeJean Middle School, in the City of Richmond California, a large number of people gathered to commemorate International Women's Day for the third consecutive year. Under the title "Women in Soli...
  • Ekiti must hold free, fair elections
    The North America-based Ekiti Focus Group has strongly condemned election violence and intimidation in Nigeria’s Ekiti State, describing reported cases of ‘arson, maiming, ballot stuffing, ballot hijacking, and shooting’ as ‘barbaric acts’. In a statement the group called for ‘the release of true an ...
  • Global: Why Haiti can't forget its past
    Thank you for the attention you have brought to the country of Haiti. In response to your New York Times op ed piece I wanted to widen your perspective a bit. I don't pretend to represent anyone. I've been living in Haiti since 1985. I grew up in New...
  • Global: Conference will establish African Socialis ...
    On the weekend of May 22-24, African organizers from across the U.S. and Canada will converge on Washington, D.C. for a conference recognizing African Liberation Day (ALD) with the theme, “One Africa, One Nation: Separated by Colonial Slavery, Reunit...
  • Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes
    Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...

War in Context

  • Cultures of Resistance video of the Israeli attack ...
    Israeli Attack on the Mavi Marmara, May 31st 2010 // 15 min. from Cultures of Resistance on Vimeo.
  • An execution-style shooting on the Mavi Marmara?
    A video started making the rounds yesterday with the title, “THE 19 YEAR OLD FURKAN’S MOMENT OF DEATH.” It shows Israeli soldiers who appear to be kicking and then shooting someone on the upper deck of the Mavi Marmara. I have now located earlier footage from Turkey’s Cihan News Agency from which t ...
  • Israel’s “self-defense” narrative falls apart
    On May 31, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the actions of IDF soldiers who had conducted the raid on the Mavi Marmara, killing at least nine of its passengers, as “a clear case of self-defense because as our soldiers were inspecting these ships, they were attacked – they were al ...
  • A Turkish revival
    “Israel must pay the price of the blood it shed,” said Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan this week as he honored the lives of those who were “martyred” defending the Mavi Marmara. The clash between Turkey and Israel comes at a moment when the state which was once the seat of the Ottoman ...
  • Israeli soldiers executing an American?
    A video is circulating on Facebook. It purports to show the moment at which Furkan Dogan, a nineteen year-old Turkish young man who was also a US citizen, was killed. Click the image below to watch the video. This much seems clear: Israeli soldiers on board the Mavi Marmara are pummeling someone ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Global warming’s impact on Asia’s rive ...
    Freshwater flow dominated by monsoon rains rather than glacier run-off. Reposted from naturenews (nature.com) Richard A. Lovett Although global warming is expected to shrink glaciers in the Himalayas and other high mountains in Central Asia, the declining ice will have … Continue reading →
  • La Niña Is Not The Opposite Of El Niño – The Video ...
    Reposted from: Bob Tisdale on Climate Change and Global Warming Blog By Bob Tisdale Thursday, June 10, 2010 La Niña Is Not The Opposite Of El Niño â The Videos Weather noise and seasonal variability have stifled my previous attempts … Continue reading →
  • Concentration vs. Extent
    By Steve Goddard The sea ice concentration game. Arctic Ice is more concentrated in 2010 than in past years The record low Arctic Oscillation during the past winter led to a very tightly compacted central Arctic ice mass â which … Continue reading →
  • Quote of the Week: Sen. Lindsey Graham’s 180 ...
    Wow. This one is really something. Graham goes from supporter to skeptic in the space of a few weeks. Here’s the quote: “I think they’ve oversold this stuff, quite frankly. I think they’ve been alarmist and the science is in … Continue reading →
  • Climate Craziness of the Week – cool (E)moti ...
    A group called http://www.coolemotion.org/ got funding from WWF to build a giant sculpture on an iceberg. As of May 6th the iceberg was still trapped in pack ice; http://coolemotion.blogspot.com/2010/05/iceberg-still-stuck.html But now they claim that the iceberg sunk/melted after just a … Continue ...

Dandelion Salad

  • The second worst thing that ever happened to the J ...
    http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1103771 by William Blum Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.killinghope.org 11 June, 2010 The Anti-Empire Report The worst thing that ever happened to the Jewish people is the Holocaust. The second worst thing that ever happened to the Jewish people is the state ...
  • Cowardly Progressives by Joel S. Hirschhorn
    by Joel S. Hirschhorn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.foavc.org June 7, 2010 After listening to a number of speeches at a national conference of progressives I come to this conclusion: Progressives are more than eager to take credit for electing President Obama and even to complain about the man ...
  • New Report Reveals How Bush Torture Program Involv ...
    by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 7 June, 2010 In a 27-page report, “Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Program” (available here), the organization Physicians for Human Rights has ...
  • Dennis Kucinich: Congress Must Act to Protect Amer ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Jun 7, 2010 Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today released the following statement about unemployment benefits that are expected to expire for hundreds of thousands of Americans if Congress fails to act soon: “The Sta ...
  • Dennis Kucinich: Is the U.S. Paying for Attacks on ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Congressman Dennis Kucinich Washington, Jun 7, 2010 Congress Must Stop War Funding After the New York Times reported that investigators in Afghanistan and Washington D.C. believe that private Afghan security companies, with close connections to the Karzai gove ...

Your New Reality

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    It's 2021, you've been flagged as a lawbreaker and you're being pursued by dozens of these baby robodogs armed with tasers, where do you run?
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    An interesting claim of almost forgotten recent American history :
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    Just Another Massacre Of Unarmed Civilians By Israel Spiegel : Israeli commandos killed at least 10 people when they stormed an activist flotilla carrying aid to the Gaza Strip on Monday. The European Union has called for an inquiry into the incident, while German Foreign Minister Guido Weste ...
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    For fans of industrial decay, here's an amazing series of photos from the abandoned Russian 'Space Shuttle Factory' at Baikonur : The Russian Buran space shuttle program only managed to lob one shuttle into brief orbit around the Earth in 1988. The cosmodrome was abandoned in 1992. Go Here For M ...
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    As you may have read elsewhere by now, the Russians used underground nuclear detonations to close off massive oil and gas leaks over recent decades. Here's how they did it :

Wired - Science

  • Random Guy Allegedly Steals Astronaut Sally Ride’s ...
    A Texas man was indicted for stealing one of famed astronaut Sally Ride’s flight suits. Calvin Dale Smith kept the one-piece garment in a suitcase for an unknown number of years, federal investigators allege. He is believed to have obtained the suit during a stint working for the Boeing division th ...
  • Oil Disaster Shows Need for Endangered Species Act ...
    Of the many regulatory problems that helped make the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster possible, the Endangered Species Act’s shortcomings have received little attention — but fixing its flaws and loopholes could help prevent future catastrophes. Oil companies never considered the impacts of a massive sp ...
  • Exoplanet Hunters Finally Catch One in a Star’s De ...
    A giant planet lurks in the dust and debris surrounding a young, nearby star — and astronomers have finally seen it in action. Using the Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers took infrared images of the planet in two different positions around its star in 2003 and late 2009. “It’s so exciting ...
  • No Progress on Better Chemicals for Oil Disaster C ...
    Almost three weeks after federal orders to find less toxic chemicals to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico, no progress has been made. The same dispersant chemicals are still being used. British Petroleum barely tried to test an alternative, and the EPA’s own testing results on the toxicity and eff ...
  • Japanese Spacecraft Deploys First-Ever Solar Sail
    The unfurling of a Japanese solar sail, the first demonstration of a new space propulsion technology, went exactly according to plan. According toJAXA’s blog posts and photos from the event, the IKAROS spacecraft’s sail appears to be in place. It’s a big step in its attempt to travel driven only by ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Advocate of war crimes to head IDF enquiry
    IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi has appointed Maj-Gen (ret.) Giora Eiland to head “external inquest into deadly raid of Gaza flotilla”. Gen. Eiland is the main author of the Dahiya... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Israeli MKs offer response to PA boycott
    Will Palestinian soon pay price for boycott? A new bill submitted by 25 Knesset members Wednesday would see money slated for transfer to the Palestinian Authority used to compensate Israelis hurt by... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Jamal Zahalka, Haneen Zoabi: an Appeal to Parliame ...
    MK Haneen Zoabi (BALAD) faces death threats as the Israeli Knesset House Committee votes to revoke her parliamentary privileges for participating in the Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Noam Chomsky: The Real Threat Aboard the Freedom F ...
    Like other states, Israel has the right of self-defense. But did Israel have the right to use force in Gaza in the name of self-defense? International law, including the U.N. Charter, is unambiguous:... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • At CICA summit, Israel faces further isolation
    As [Istanbul] hosted the third summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), it was clear that Israel, at the receiving end of global condemnation for last... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • U-M Selects Leader for North Campus Research Compl ...
    One year after purchasing a 174-acre research campus once used for pharmaceutical development, the Univ. of Michigan has selected a leader to steer the site's transformation into a home for academic and private-sector research.
  • Popular Cancer Drug Can Cause Kidney Damage
    The widely used cancer drug bevacizumab may cause severe loss of protein from the kidney into the urine that can lead to significant kidney damage and can compromise the efficacy of cancer treatment, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephro ...
  • Widely Used Cancer Drug May Increase Risk for Prot ...
    Cancer patients treated with the chemotherapy agent bevacizumab (Avastin) may be at an increased risk of severe loss of protein from the kidney into the urine that can lead to significant kidney damage.
  • Gout Drug Benefits Kidney Disease Patients
    A drug commonly used to treat gout may help maintain kidney disease patients' health, according to an analysis appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN). The research is the first to show that allopurinol treatment in patients with chronic k ...
  • Youth Clubs Strengthen Kids' Self Image to Keep Th ...
    When children belong to a youth club, they gain a stronger sense of who they are as a person, a new study revealed. Results suggest that even small improvements in self concept go a long way toward keeping children out of trouble.

Intel Trends

  • NOTICE: IntelTrends is moving to Blogger
    * * Effective 10-FEB-2010 this blog is moving to Blogger. * * The new URL is: http://inteltrends.blogspot.com RSS subscribers need to "re-subscribe" to the updated newsfeed URL. http://feeds.feedburner.com/inteltrends Thank you for your patience during the transition. Steve Permalin ...
  • 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

  • Stop Organic Fraud in the Health & Beauty Aisle!
    WFM's action will greatly improve organic integrity in the health & beauty sector, especially if distributors like United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) and Tree of Life (TOL), trade associations like the Organic Trade Association (OTA), and the mislabeled organic brands themselves, quickly follow Whol ...
  • The BP Disaster Marks the End of the Age of Arroga ...
    We dreamed we were living in a fabulous mansion but we wake up in a greasy gutter. The ecological and economic catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico makes our most infamous oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, look minuscule by comparison. This time we have fouled our nest on an epic scale. Click here to read ...
  • Endosulfan to be Banned, Poses 'Unacceptable Risks ...
    The EPA, declaring that endosulfan is unsafe for farm workers, moves to ban one of the last organochlorine pesticides left in the United States. Like DDT, endosulfan accumulates in the environment and in the bodies of people and wildlife, and is transported around the world to remote places. EPA off ...
  • Call on Office Depot, Office Max and Staples to Re ...
    ArborGen's GE eucalyptus has not been adequately evaluated by the USDA for potential environmental impacts. In fact, GE trees have the potential to be far more damaging than any other genetically engineered plant to date. Pollen from GE trees can travel hundreds of miles, contaminating communities a ...
  • The Poison Crib: When Protective Chemicals Harm
    Do you let your baby girl smoke cigarettes in her crib? Do you allow your son to light up in his stroller, after a tough morning at daycare? Do you nurse your child while puffing on a Marlboro Light? f not, you may be interested in what's happening in a few top research labs around the world, where ...

fotoFrontera

  • La derrama de petróleo, alcanza los lagos de Louis ...
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  • Más allá de la imaginación (19 Imágenes Fantástica ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK sobre cada imagen si deseas AMPLIAR SU TAMAÑO OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www. ...
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Climategate

Opinio Juris

  • IDF: Okay, So Maybe They Weren’t Al-Qaeda After Al ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller This would be amusing, were the Obama administration not backing Israel’s insistence that any investigation into the attack on the flotilla be conducted (read: whitewashed) by Israel itself: When placed under journalistic scrutiny, the IDF is being forced ...
  • Will the Gaza Flotilla Dispute Go to the ICJ?
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The Jerusalem Post reports that the Turkish government, in collaboration with Hamas, is considering applying to the International Court of Justice over the Gaza Flotilla incident. The agreement to work together against Israel reportedly came in a Thursday telephone conve ...
  • Life Sentences for Two Genocide Convictions at ICT ...
    by Peggy McGuinness by Peggy McGuinness The news out of The Hague today is the genocide convictions of Popovic and Beara, both of whom the ICTY trial chamber found to be key leaders of the Srbrenica massacre of 1995.  Each was sentenced to life imprisonment, the longest sentences yet for the ICTY ...
  • Horton and Alston Talk Drones (and Murder and Expe ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I haven’t had enough time to blog about Philip Alston’s excellent report on drone warfare, but interested readers should check out today’s conversation between Scott Horton and Alston at Harpers.com.  Here’s a taste of one of Alston’s answers: Of course, c ...
  • So How is the ICC Review Conference Going?
    by Julian Ku by Julian Ku I couldn’t make it to Kampala for the review conference (not that anyone invited me), but luckily, the magic of the internet means I don’t have to go to find out how things are going.  For two really different takes on the negotiations, I highly recommend you follow EJI ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • The environmentalist who doubts global warming the ...
    Meet Peter Taylor, author of "Chill": The science around climate change is not as settled as it’s presented as being. I used to think it was, until about 2003 – and then, feeling that the remedies being proposed for climate...
  • ETS Campaign heats up, unlike climate
    ETS Meetings: Come to one of John Boscawen's next Public Meetings. Join the movement to defer the ETS well armed with the facts, not the mistruths National are peddling. Paihiatua - Wednesday 9 June - 10.00am, Tararua Club, 15 Tararua...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Drowning islands claim debunked by ...
    Claims worldwide of drowning tropical islands because of rising sea levels have been dealt a death blow by new research. Geographer Associate Professor Paul Kench has measured 27 islands where local sea levels have risen 120mm -- an average of...
  • The Israeli attack - a video perspective
    I have mixed views on the Israeli incident. On the one hand, it happened in international waters. It shouldn't have. The Israelis had no right to intercept the boat until it crossed into Israeli territory. Having said that, everyone -...
  • Seismic cracks appear in global warming camp
    This from the Times of London: Britain’s premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind’s contribution to rising temperatures. The Royal Society has appointed a panel to...

Public News Service

  • Court Axes Match Money for AZ’s Publicly-Fun ...
    Court Axes Match Money for AZ’s Publicly-Funded Candidates Phoenix, AZ – The U-S Supreme Court has blocked the matching-funds part of Arizona’s publicly-funded Clean Elections system. The move puts incumbent Governor Jan Brewer at a major disadvantage to a wealthy businessman challenging her in the ...
  • Local Lawmen Dispute AZ Politicians’ Claim o ...
    Local Lawmen Dispute AZ Politicians’ Claim of Cartel Border Violence Phoenix, AZ – In their campaigns, several Arizona politicians are claiming that Mexico’s drug wars have spilled over into Arizona. But border city law enforcement officials say there’s been no increase in violence. Comments from Do ...
  • AZ Reps Push for Green Energy From Brownfields
    AZ Reps Push for Green Energy From Brownfields Phoenix, AZ – Arizona’s disturbed public lands should be priority sites for generating wind and solar power. That’s the position of the state’s Democratic members of Congress, who are urging federal land managers to steer green energy projects to places ...
  • AZ Public Health Advocates Back Drug Treatment Ove ...
    AZ Public Health Advocates Back Drug Treatment Over Jail Phoenix, AZ - President Obama recently announced a new national policy to treat drug abuse more as a public-health issue, increasing the emphasis on prevention and treatment. Arizona public health advocates have a long record of pushing for su ...
  • AZ "Moms 2 B" Get Parenting Tips by Cell Phone
    AZ "Moms 2 B" Get Parenting Tips by Cell Phone Phoenix, AZ – A cell phone can be a handy reminder for better maternal and child health. That's the goal of the "Text4Baby" program, a new joint effort between health providers, corporations and local governments. It sends short, health and safety-relat ...

My Care2 Picks

  • VIDEO: Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Atakapa-Ishak Trib ...
    Fishing and shrimping is at a standstill, and the oil keeps creeping into the marshes. We make our living from the harvest of the waterways and our food.Native American tribe - like others - is not recognized and exists on subsistance. Submitted by John Farnham to Green Lifestyle �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
  • How To Wash Pesticides Off Fruit & Vegetables: Eas ...
    Some interesting tips. Submitted by Orsola CK to Health & Wellness �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Food and Depopulation: Rockefeller Family
    Outline of how the elites, and the Rockefellers in particular, are using food as a weapon.GMO has saturated American farmlands. Our water is polluted, containing over 60,000 chemicals, most of which have never been tested for safety.(2) Our air is toxic, Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellne ...
  • Israel asked U.S. to increase weapons supply, Haar ...
    Israel also requested JDAM bombs, seeking to significantly increase the number of such munitions already in its arsenal. The JDAM bombs have been used increasingly in recent operations, including in the Second Lebanon War in 2006 and Operation Cast Lead Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & G ...
  • "In Defense of Helen Thomas"
    She has a fifty-year history of tough-minded journalism and is one of the very few journalists in the mainstream press who has had the guts to question US policy towards Israel. On Monday she was pressured into resigning, "effective immediately". Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� � ...

Angry Indian News

  • Israeli request for more arms from US raises fears ...
    Israeli request for more arms from US raises fears of regional violence - Middle East, World - The Independent: "Israel has approached the United States for more bombs and asked Washington to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Israeli document: Gaza blockade isn't about securi ...
    Israeli document: Gaza blockade isn't about security | McClatchy: "JERUSALEM — As Israel ordered a slight easing of its blockade of the Gaza Strip Wednesday, McClatchy obtained an Israeli government... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Viola WIlkins: A Young Lord Remembers
    A Young Lord Remembers | libcom.orgIn the 1960s and 70s, Latino youths in New York City organized themselves into the Young Lords Party. Like the Black Panthers, this organization practiced direct... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Israel’s atomic lies and apartheid
    Israel’s atomic lies and apartheid | SocialistWorker.orgSASHA POLAKOW-Suransky, a senior editor at Foreign Affairs magazine (produced by the very mainstream Council on Foreign Relations), has issued... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Hamas: Obama offer cheap publicity
    Hamas: Obama offer cheap publicity(PressTV) The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has described US President Barrack Obama's offer of a 400-million-dollar aid package to Gaza as "cheap... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Secret highly toxic ingredients of chemical disper ...
    On the toxicity question, you could hardly find a more dangerous combination of poisons to dump into the Gulf of Mexico than what has been revealed in Corexit. The Corexit 9527 product has been designated a "chronic and acute health hazard" by the EPA. It is made with 2-butoxyethanol, a highly toxic ...
  • BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil ...
    The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse.
  • Obama Smiles While the Gulf Dies
    BP executives and governmental regulators had to have known just how deadly their dispersant Corexit would turn the Gulf waters, by creating monstrously large, oily, rushing underwater plumes. These plumes are hundreds of square miles of poisonous, oily micro-particles that go unseen by satellite ...
  • Are You Supporting a Hellish CAFO?
    The irony is, if a single person treats an animal like this, he/she is charged with animal cruelty, fined, and faces possible jail time if the situation is severe enough. Why then, do the big money-making corporations get to treat their animals in an intensely inhumane way and get away with it? In f ...
  • WHO scandal exposed: Advisors received kickbacks f ...
    This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to declare a pandemic, resulting in billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Italian flotilla journalist: My credit card was us ...
    ShareThis Italian flotilla journalist: My credit card was used after IDF confiscated it --Journalist Manolo Luppichini has written Netanyahu, Peres, Barak, Lieberman and Israel's ambassador in Italy over the matter . 11 Jun 2010 Manolo Luppichini was aboard the Sfintoni-8000, one of the smaller boat ...
  • New Estimates Double Rate of Oil That Flowed Into ...
    ShareThis New Estimates Double Rate of Oil That Flowed Into Gulf 10 Jun 2010 A government panel on Thursday essentially doubled its estimate of how much oil has been spewing from the out-of-control BP well, with the new calculation suggesting that an amount equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster co ...
  • Cameron abandons visit to military base after 'ass ...
    ShareThis Cameron abandons visit to military base after 'assassination plot' uncovered 11 Jun 2010 A Taliban plot to kill David Cameron in Afghanistan was foiled by intelligence officers yesterday. They tapped into a telephone call that revealed a plan to down a helicopter at a forward base the Prim ...
  • Plight For Pelicans: Oil Puts Nesting Season At Ri ...
    ShareThis Plight For Pelicans: Oil Puts Nesting Season At Risk 09 Jun 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil is menacing one of the best wildlife recovery stories: brown pelicans. Biologists are saving as many individual birds as they can, but they say the oil has arrived on Louisiana's coast at the worst possi ...
  • At least $500 million spent constructing prison ca ...
    ShareThis At least $500 million spent constructing prison camps, renovating Guantanamo Bay 07 Jun 2010 At the U.S. naval station here, a handsome electronic sign hangs between two concrete pillars...The cost of the marquee, along with a smaller sign positioned near the airfield: $188,000. Among othe ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • The environmentalist who doubts global warming the ...
    Meet Peter Taylor, author of "Chill": The science around climate change is not as settled as it’s presented as being. I used to think it was, until about 2003 – and then, feeling that the remedies being proposed for climate...
  • ETS Campaign heats up, unlike climate
    ETS Meetings: Come to one of John Boscawen's next Public Meetings. Join the movement to defer the ETS well armed with the facts, not the mistruths National are peddling. Paihiatua - Wednesday 9 June - 10.00am, Tararua Club, 15 Tararua...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Drowning islands claim debunked by ...
    Claims worldwide of drowning tropical islands because of rising sea levels have been dealt a death blow by new research. Geographer Associate Professor Paul Kench has measured 27 islands where local sea levels have risen 120mm -- an average of...
  • The Israeli attack - a video perspective
    I have mixed views on the Israeli incident. On the one hand, it happened in international waters. It shouldn't have. The Israelis had no right to intercept the boat until it crossed into Israeli territory. Having said that, everyone -...
  • Seismic cracks appear in global warming camp
    This from the Times of London : Britain’s premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind’s contribution to rising temperatures. The Royal Society has appointed a panel to rewrite the 350-year-old instit ...

Mondoweiss

  • Schumer on Gazans: ‘Strangle them economical ...
    Collective punishment is sometimes too nice. Because the Gazans voted for Hamas, says NY Senator Schumer, "to strangle them economically until they see that's not the way to go makes sense." (I wonder what he would do to Helen Thomas to get her to change her mind?) Also calls for "regime change" in ...
  • Margulies: Turks know the difference between Jews ...
    After the flotilla raid last week, Radikal, a Turkish daily, interviewed Roni Margulies, a Turkish Jewish intellectual famous for his anti-Zionism. Interviewer: Pinar Ogunc. (Translation provided by El Lonsico, and approved by Margulies): ...Do you feel a responsibility to speak in such situations? ...
  • Emily Henochowicz was shot while holding Turkish f ...
    Today's Washington Post report on Emily Henochowicz, 21, the Cooper Union art student blinded in one eye by the Israeli army on May 31, includes this account: demonstrators who witnessed the incident said the canister was fired directly at Henochowicz from about 10 to 15 yards away. She was holding ...
  • ‘Guardian’ offers more clues on how th ...
    The chilling video that was posted by Paul Woodward here earlier has been circulating around the internet, and shows Israeli commandos kicking and beating someone and then firing shots.� The shots seem to be fired at extremely close range.�People are claiming that the victim in the video is the 19-y ...
  • With US mood turning, Israel lobbyist urges approa ...
    Things are getting desperate in the U.S. Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi of the Israel Project, an Israel lobby group, writes in the Jerusalem Post that America will never be the same, and it's time to remember Israel's shared values with the Russians: The pro-Israel community must internalize... new realit ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Vanishing Sperm Count
    There has been an alarming drop in the male sperm count over the past few decades; as much as a 50% reduction in most studies. As vaccine uptake continues, the systemic exposure to Bisphenal A Plastics, Sodium Fluoride, toxic chemicals & pesticides, GMO foods coupled with the widespread elimination ...
  • VRM: World Health Organization & Vaccine Manufactu ...
    A stunning new report reveals that top scientists who convinced the World Health Organization to declare H1N1 a global pandemic held close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines. This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ...
  • VRM: Lupus Disease – Natural Cure Succeeds W ...
    Lupus Disease is a chronic degenerative disease caused by systemic auto-immune breakdown in the body; where-by the immune system of the body attacks its own cells and tissues. Specifically, the joints, skin, kidneys, lungs, heart, nervous system, and other organs of the body are affected. While beli ...
  • VRM: Meningitis Vaccine To Be Forced On 7th Grader ...
    A substantial new Bill to require meningitis vaccine for 7th graders and ALL college students is gaining momentum in Albany, New York http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=5472 Bill S7156 passed the Senate Health Committee and is due for a floor vote. Bill A10313 will be voted on the Assembly Health ...
  • VRM: Cancer Cures That The FDA Cannot Deny You
    A hundred years ago less then 1 in 1000 people died of cancer. In 2007, cancer claimed the lives of about 7.6 million people in the world. In 2008 nearly 1,500,000 died of some form of cancer in the United States, in Canada upwards of 75,000 deaths. In the UK on average 1 in [...]

B.C. Preppers Network

  • Still think Organic Lawn Care Doesn't Work?
    Wonder if they still think I'm nuts for planting clover, not mowing my lawn as short as possible and not using "weed and feed"? Sure mine still has some brown but it's a lot less than the other yards.� Now that we've had a couple days of rain my yard is completely green while the others are ...
  • Welcome to the Waterpik Experience!
    A few days back my wife mentioned that the showerhead was getting clogged again and that we'd need to soak it in vinegar again. Our last waterbill is still on my mind so when she told me this I thought, "What a great excuse to get a new water-saving showerhead!". The model that had gotten bloc ...
  • Simple Living: CDs and DVDs
    If like me, you were a teen in the 90's, you probably have a huge stack of CDs like I do. I would also bet that, like me, you rarely listen to any of those CDs. Over the last few years I've also noticed the same thing with my DVDs. I had a whole shelf of CDs and DVD but never touched 99% of ...
  • The Newest Excitement In My Life: Dual-Flush Toile ...
    Last week I got my quarterly municipal water bill: $ 240 ! That's about $1000 a year I'm paying for water which dries out my skin and reeks of chlorine. This was ample motivation for me to finally get around to installing a dual-flush adapter to our existing toilets. I picked this thing ...
  • My Quick and Easy Square Foot Garden
    Here's my little garden that I did last week. �It's a modified square foot garden where instead of a 4 x 4 bed this is 1 x 28. I have a small 50x 50 lot so there isn't room for anything much larger. The walls of the bed are plastic fake stones. �They're $15 for 9 feet at Walmart and Cana ...

Michael Yon

  • The Bridge
    Shah Wali Kot, Afghanistan 11 March 2009 The military axiom that “amateurs talk strategy while professionals talk logistics” has special meaning in Afghanistan. During the Soviet war, though the Bear comprised Afghanistan’s entire northern border, the Afghan resistance was frequently able to bloc ...
  • Gobar Gas
    (Abridged version 1) Brunei, Afghanistan, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam Published: 08 June 2010 Michael Yon A Gurkha Idea Among the more interesting coalition forces fighting in Afghanistan are the legendary Nepalese Gurkhas. Trained and fielded by the British, as they have been since colonia ...
  • Michael Yon in Squidge Magazine
    This Article was written by ED and published in Squidge Magazine on 03 June 2010 . Michael Yon Where are you now and what’s happening with your embeds since your last one was cut off? Today in Singapore but recently was covering the serious fighting in downtown Bangkok in which about 86 p ...
  • Statement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Re ...
    Published: 3 June 2010 Sami Kovanen Senior Information Analyst Indicium Consulting Afghanistan 0700-645294 Statement of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Regarding the Convening of the So-called Consultative Jirga in Kabul Jamadi-us-Sani 17, 1431 A.H, Tuesday, June 01, 2010 In the Name ...
  • Spitting Cobra
    15 January 2010 Cobra Battery at FOB Frontenac Arghandab, Afghanistan Artillery is called “The King of Battle.”  When it comes to the delivery of force, probably nothing outside of nuclear weapons can outmatch the sustained delivery of extreme brutality.  Cannons also can deliver small atomic we ...

The Killing Train

  • Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Jewish People"
    I just read Shlomo Sand's "The Invention of the Jewish People". It could easily be in my top 20 books. It is really awesome - historically rich, beautifully written, clearly looks at the past, and has a beautiful vision for the future, even though the author is pessimistic (realistic) about the pros ...
  • Dan Freeman-Maloy on Israel's Flotilla Raid
    Dan discusses the international aspects of the raid. His website is notesonhypocrisy.com
  • Israel's Flotilla Massacre
    Overnight, Israeli commandos attacked an aid flotilla in the high seas, some 65km from Israel. The commandos killed at least 10 people and injured dozens of others, mostly Turkish nonviolent activists bound for Gaza who were aiming to break Israel's siege with humanitarian supplies. Israel attacked ...
  • Contested spaces worth defending
    Introductory Note: The Sociology and Equity Studies in Education (SESE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Graduate Student Conference this year took place on April 3, 2010. It had the theme “Contested Spaces: The (Re)Organization of Schooling Under Neoliberalism”. From the con ...
  • Slumdogs vs. Millionaires: Sainath in Toronto
    The lecture hall slowly filled up as slides of families of the 200,000 farmers who committed suicide in India between 1997-2005 played on the flat screens on the side of the room. P Sainath, the day's speaker, was the journalist who brought the farmer suicides to wide attention. He opened his talk b ...

treehugger

  • Massive Flow of Bullshit Continues from BP: The On ...
    Image credit: The Onion Apparently it's not just BP failing f***ing booming school we have to worry about anymore. Nor the terrible effect that the oil spill is having on UK pensions (I hope someone told the sea turtles!). If The Onion is to believed, there's an even more menacing threat. B ...
  • The Week in Pictures: BP Could Go Bankrupt Over Gu ...
    In BP oil spill news this week, the media is making much of the fact that the company's daily profits are higher than its daily cleanup costs. But that's changing fast, it's possible that the Gulf spill will end up bankrupting the oil giant. An oil spill expert and animal biologist says, "Kill, ...
  • World Cup: What to Wear When Watching It
    Image from Philosophers Football Sic transit. We asked this important question in 2006 when the World Cup for football (soccer) was held in Germany and here we are again still pondering the universe, as the championship moves to South Africa. We know that the teams will be sporting jerseys b ...
  • Solar Panels Fatally Attractive to Aquatic Insects
    Photo: Flickr , CC "Like going to the most amazing 3D movie you've ever seen and you can't leave" A new study discovered that solar panels are apparently mesmerizing to certain types of insects (mostly aquatic). What happens is that solar panels reflect light in a way that is similar to how wa ...
  • Coffee Table Doubles as Hand-Cranked Paper Shredde ...
    Design*Sponge Pigeontail Design shreds your junk mail or those annoying bill that you want to avoid into attractive colourful strips of shredded paper. It's hand-cranked, too. They call it the Papervore. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • NYC reaches $712.5 million settlement with World T ...
    [JURIST] New York City reached a settlement [overview, PDF; materials] Thursday with the 10,000 rescue and cleanup workers who became sick or injured from responding to the 9/11 attacks [JURIST news archive]. The agreement follows two failed settlement attempts between the parties. The city's insure ...
  • Obama calls for new pollution laws in wake of oil ...
    [JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] on Thursday called for new oil pollution laws [statement] in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. Speaking at a meeting of congressional leaders from both political parties, Obama emphasized the ...
  • Canada high court upholds publication ban on evide ...
    [JURIST] The Supreme Court of Canada [official website] on Thursday upheld [judgment text] a defendant's right to a publication ban that applies to the evidence and information produced at a bail hearing. Canadian media organizations have claimed that the statutory ban, codified under § 517 of Canad ...
  • Countries call for return of property seized durin ...
    [JURIST] Forty-three countries on Wednesday announced their support for a new set of guidelines [text, PDF] to ensure a more diligent effort is made to return real property seized by the Nazis during the Holocaust [JURIST news archive] to its rightful owners or heirs. The guidelines, first proposed ...
  • Second Circuit rules NYC can withhold documents fr ...
    [JURIST] A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] on Wednesday ruled [opinion, PDF] that the city could withhold documents related to the arrest of 1,800 protesters during the 2004 Republican National Convention. In granting the city's petition for a writ of manda ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • The Night Beat: A Meeting Is Set
    Good evening. 1.� President Obama meets next Wednesday with the senior leadership of BP at the White House. The meeting will likely include discussion of BP's June 21 dividend payout; administration lawyers and members of Congress are trying to figure out if there's a way to make sure that the money ...
  • Clapper Meets Feinstein; Hearings in the Fall?
    President Obama's nominee for the nation's top intelligence job has begun to meet with key senators who have expressed skepticism about his commitment to the position's independence. Gen. James Clapper (ret). had a "cordial" meeting with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chairman of the Senate Select Commi ...
  • Reality Checks: Iran, the Gulf, Afghanistan
    Yesterday, there was a bit of discussion in the White House senior staff meeting about why the United Nations Security Council resolution adopting new sanctions on Iran wasn't likely to get much coverage by the press that day.� (It didn't; the musings were correct.) The answer, maybe, is that the "s ...
  • Homeland Security's Cyber Bill Would Codify E ...
    At the beginning of the year, the chances that some sort of cybersecurity legislation would reach the President's desk by the end of the year were remote. But as of today, there are a half dozen such bills circulating, and the sense of urgency is there, thanks to a huge and largely unremarked upon p ...
  • The Night Beat: Mullen 'Genuinely Concerned&# ...
    Good evening. Both sides predict that the vote on Sen. Lisa Murkowski's amendment to the Environmental Protection Agency's fiscal 2010 spending bill --�"disapproving" of the EPA's carbon-as-pollutant finding , thus knee-capping the agency from regulating greenhouse gas emission -- is likely to be c ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • Mavi Marmara: Video as Ammunition in the Battle fo ...
    This is a follow-up on last night’s post and video which appears to show (at least according to those who edited and captioned the video) the murder of a ship passenger by an IDF commando. Thanks to new video footage Paul Woodward has discovered, I’m going to backtrack somewhat on the claims I mad ...
  • IDF Executed Mavi Marmara Victims
    In my earlier posts about the killings aboard the Mavi Marmara, I used terms like “kill shot” and “execution-style” to describe these events. I based my judgment on the narratives told by eyewitnesses and the Turkish autopsy reports. Some readers were taken aback and accused me of overstatement, ...
  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
  • Israeli Concert Producer Claims Boycott=Cultural T ...
    I don’t know whether to pity or despise Shuki Weiss, Israeli concert promoter, who’s losing international stars to the Israeli boycott faster than he can replace them. The IDF’s conspicuous disregard for Arab life doesn’t seem to be helping his cause very much. But Weiss isn’t doing himself any fav ...
  • Shin Bet: Sleeping Your Way to the Top and Other S ...
    It appears there are two ways to rise to the top of the Shin Bet. Either you can specialize in torturing Israeli Palestinian terrorists (otherwise known as “citizens”) by tying them to chairs, depriving them of sleep, and tormenting them with threats to expel them to Gaza; or you can sleep your way ...

Ode Magazine

  • Harmful chemicals we can do without
    Companies need to start caring as much about human health as they do about profits. When I was a child, my parents gave me a “science kit” that contained samples of rocks, minerals and metals. It was wonderful. I’d pull out a sample of quartz and memorize what it looked l ...
  • Kick it around for a while
    Four Harvard University students are bringing portable, sustainable power to off-grid areas in developing countries—through soccer balls that store energy. While in an engineering science class, Jessica Lin, Julia Silverman, Jessica Matthews and Hemali Thakkar created th ...
  • The power of hope
    Freeing yourself from fear helps build the physical strength needed to fight disease and engage fully with life. I received a moving letter from a friend. “Big shock in October: breast cancer. Eighteen months of treatment. I’ll spare you the details… Everything should be ...
  • The song remains the same
    Two tales about the magic of music. The stand-in singer (Sent by Murali) The story goes that tickets were all sold out for the presentation by a famous tenor, but on the big day, with the house filled to capacity, it was discovered that a traffic problem would ...
  • The writing on the wall
    According to the Israeli government, the wall dividing Israel from the Palestinian territories is a protective measure. Meanwhile, critics point to the painful consequences. Palestinians are no longer able—at least not without huge delays—to visit their families, get to ...

OpEd News

  • While Israel Kills and Maims ... The Outrage at He ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage at h ...
  • President Obama, A Unique Black Man
    This article is about how the public, more so the White public would like President Obama to act. The article discusses a reason why some people might want him to act a certain way, which dates back to slavery. Quite simply, for the first time in history we have an African-American Man of Color as P ...
  • Letapos;s Try Heresy
    Do not sell your vote in November
  • SMOKING ADDICTED TWO YEAR OLD REMINDS ME OF OUR BI ...
    What does a 2-year old chain-smoker have to do with the global economic mess we are witnessing?
  • God, I Love a Parade
    There is no recovery, only an illusion of recovery. You can shock the heart and pump the chest full of shots of adrenaline but it doesnapos;t mean that the victim is going to get up off the table and walk away any time soon. It only means that the body is being manipulated. Free money and government ...

Switchboard

  • The case for rentals over homeownership
    Richard Florida , chronicler of societal trends and Twitter addict (follow him at your peril), believes that there is a strong case to be made that America should shift somewhat away from homeownership and toward more rentals, perhaps achieving a 50-50 balance between the two.  In the ...
  • Coming Soon: "The Coal War"
    There have been a slew of great mountaintop removal coal mining documentaries, most recently two amazing films with which NRDC has been proud to partner:  Coal Country and Deep Down .  Now comes another powerful story from the director of the award-winning film Leveling Appalachia .  T ...
  • The Choice to Move Forward on International Effort ...
    Every day a huge amount of oil is spewing into the Gulf of Mexico in the US.  This is symbolic of the energy choices that we have made to date.  And it shows the dramatic implications of that energy choice.  But those energy choices are also having devastating impacts which are less vi ...
  • China Environmental News Alert
    NRDC has been working in China for over twelve years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and green supply chain issues. This China Environmental News Alert is a weekly compilation of news fr ...
  • Delta Pumps Taking More Fall-Run Salmon
    In the environmental field, “I told you so” moments aren’t very satisfying.  They usually come in the form of bad news.  This is one of those occasions.  Recently, a federal judge blocked ESA protections in the Bay-Delta system for winter-run salmon, spring-run salmon, steelhead, green ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • More Thoughts on Whistle-Blowing and National Secu ...
    The outing of Army Specialist Bradley Manning for his alleged role in leaking classified documents to Wikileaks raises a number of questions in my mind about the relationship between whistle-blowing, human rights and national security. I don’t have a lot of answers, so this post is mostly food for c ...
  • Social Media, Politics, and the Academy
    With apologies for the terrible audio on my end. I’m traveling so this comes to you from a noisy space through a low quality mike. Henry Farrell and I ramble about Wikileaks, Facebook, academic blogging and whether or not humans may reap positive externalities during the coming zombie plague if the ...
  • LGM World Cup Reminder
    The World Cup kicks off with Mexico-South Africa tomorrow morning, giving you precious few hours to register and/or update your LGM World Cup Challenge entry. League Name: Lawyers, Guns and Money Password: zevon Related posts:Bowl Mania Reminder Final Tourney Reminder LGM Baseball Challenge Remind ...
  • Getcher Hot Links!
    I wouldn’t say that Huckelberry Graham has replaced his buddy Joe Lieberman as America’s Most Odious Preening Politician.    But he’s up there. This review becomes even funnier and more pathetic when you remember that Podhoretz strongly objects to being called an aesthetic Stalinist. Ann gets t ...
  • How many Texans does it take to decide whether a u ...
    Nineteen, it seems. This story has evidently been making the rounds for a few weeks now, though I somehow managed not to hear about it. For background detail, the place to begin is with Thomas Russell, a law professor at Denver University who recently finished a paper (available here) detailing the ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Kendrick Taylor Named Chief Scientist for Antarcti ...
    The National Science Foundation has again selected DRI's Kendrick Taylor, Ph.D. to be chief scientist for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide Ice Core Project, a crucial step in defining the influence of changes in greenhouse gases on climate.
  • Jianting Zhu Named Maki Chair in Hydrologic Scienc ...
    Jianting “Julian” Zhu, Ph.D. was just named the Maki Chair in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences. Zhu has been with DRI since 2004 and is an accomplished researcher with numerous articles published.
  • Doctoral Student Todd Caldwell Earns 2010 Warden A ...
    Todd Caldwell was named the 2010 winner of the Colin Warden Memorial Endowment Award for his paper titled “Spatial structure of hydraulic properties from canopy to interspace in the Mojave Desert".
  • The Mojave Desert Book Earns PROSE Award
    The Mojave Desert , edited by DRI researchers Lynn Festermaker and Eric McDonald, gives readers one of the most comprehensive looks at North America's driest desert.
  • Mercury Depletion Events at the Dead Sea
    Researchers characterize atmospheric mercury depletion events at the Dead Sea in Israel and the atmospheric chemistry responsible for these events.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • California Toyota litigation coordinated in Los An ...
    Dozens of sudden-acceleration lawsuits filed against Toyota Motor Corp. in California's state courts will be coordinated in Los Angeles. The order issued by California Chief Justice Ronald George will please plaintiffs' lawyers, most of whom had argued for Los Angeles. Related federal multidistrict ...
  • Lawyer for NFL Players Association talks about fig ...
    The NFL Player Association's outside counsel, Jeffrey Kessler, who chairs Dewey & LeBoeuf's global litigation department and co-chairman of the sports litigation practice group, spoke with The National Law Journal about the complaint and the status of the players' collective bargaining talks with th ...
  • LCD price-fixing investigation snares Taiwanese co ...
    A federal grand jury in San Francisco has indicted the largest Taiwanese manufacturer of thin-film transistor LCD screens and six company executives for alleged participation in a price-fixing conspiracy that the U.S. Department of Justice contends boosted prices.
  • Suit revived against partner who walked around law ...
    A Louisiana appeals court has revived a civil suit brought by a receptionist against the law firm where she used to work and where she alleged that she was raped by a partner. According to testimony from former employees, the firm's office atmosphere was anything but conventional. For example, there ...
  • Baker Donelson, partner dodge bullet on sex affair ...
    A prominent law firm and its former president have dodged a claim for breach of fiduciary duty brought by former client in an ugly battle alleging adultery and betrayal. The Supreme Court of Mississippi held that the plaintiff, Sam Seay, formerly a friend of Baker Donelson partner William Reed, did ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Gasland in Elmira
    The film “Gasland” about the Marcellus Shale drilling will play one night only at the Elmira Heights Theater on Wednesday, June 9th, with a  Q&A with the writer/director Josh Fox.  Admission fee: $5.00.
  • Increased Gas Drilling Activities Bringing New Cha ...
    HARRISBURG, Pa., May 24, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Counties and municipalities across Pennsylvania where natural gas drilling is taking place â particularly in the Northern Tier region â are also struggling to meet a number of additional challenges associated with the industry’s increas ...
  • HB 2213 Proposal
    On May 25th the Pennsylvania House environmental committee passed crucial legislation to protect our rivers and streams from dangerous gas drilling.  This proposal, HB 2213, does several important things, including: • Prohibiting gas drilling near rivers, lakes and drinking water sources;  • Requiri ...
  • A Couple of Editorials….
    1. The gas companies that want to drill in the Marcellus Shale all know, just like other businesses, that they must spend money in order to make money. In 2008 they contributed a total of $36 million to candidates in national elections, and spent $133 million on lobbying. In 2009 they spent a whoppi ...
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY PROTECTION AND RESTORATION
    If you live in PA and are not aware of it…most of Eastern PA all the way up to New York is part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary______________________________________________ For Immediate Release             May 12, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER- – - ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • Melting Glaciers in Asia To Have Widely Variable I ...
    Melting glaciers in the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau will decrease river flows and possibly cause food shortages in some regions of South Asia , but will not severely impact other river basins farther east, according to a study by Dutch scientists. Using satellite observations of glacial retrea ...
  • Global Warming Deniers and Their Proven Strategy o ...
    For years, free-market fundamentalists opposed to government regulation have sought to create doubt in the public’s mind about the dangers of smoking, acid rain, and ozone depletion. Now they have turned those same tactics on the issue of global warming and on climate scientists, with significant su ...
  • Interview: The Oil Spill’s Growing Toll On Marine ...
    Marine biologist Thomas Shirley of Texas A&M University has spent most of his career studying the aquatic life of the Gulf of Mexico. Indeed, shortly before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Shirley was part of a team of 140 scientists from 15 countries that completed an all-species inventory of the ...
  • The Oil Spill’s Growing Toll On Sea Life in the Gu ...
    A prominent marine biologist says the impacts of the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico will persist for years, no matter when the flow finally stops. What’s more, scientist Thomas Shirley says that most of the damage remains out of sight below the surface, as creatures succumb to the toxic effects ...
  • Activists Escalate Protests Against Bluefin Tuna F ...
    Environmental activists this week escalated their protests against fishing of the endangered bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean, prompting numerous encounters with fishermen that resulted in at least one injury. In one incident, fishermen threw a fishing gaff at Greenpeace members attempting to free ...

Red Ice Creations

Russia Today

  • Mystery vessel hijacker names mastermind
    An Estonian businessman contracted the hijacking of the merchant vessel “Arctic Sea”, a suspect has told a Moscow court. The pirate attack, which drew worldwide media attention in June 2009, was done for ransom.
  • Swine flu “conspiracy”: I (don’t) want to believe
    Last year the global media told a wonderful scare story: swine flu was a pandemic and it was threatening the world. Now the UN’s health authority is being accused of fear mongering on the behalf of drug companies.
  • US activists direct anger over Gaza at US Congress
    Following last week's deadly attack on the Gaza-bound “Freedom Flotilla” that was carrying humanitarian aid, protesters in the US have stepped up their campaign against the Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory.
  • Yenisei River: Siberia’s blessing and curse
    Russia’s Southern Siberian republic of Khakassia is home to more than 300 rivers, including one of the world's largest – the Yenisei.
  • Russian police find and destroy cop-killing gang
    Russian police said on Friday that they have found and surrounded the gang of cop killers that they have been chasing through the forests of the Far East over the past days.

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

  • Lester Holt does real-life Syfy Channel show
    Lester Holt, mainstream media broadcast host, does some “core story” meme dispersion on Sunday July 11th: In an interesting case of cross-network synergy, Syfy has recruited NBC News anchor Lester Holt to host a documentary special, “Inside Secret Government Warehouses: Shocking Revelations.” The s ...
  • Interview with John Alexander
    The US military has been involved with Fortean studies for many decades, despite many proclamations to the contrary. The testing and utilization of PK abilities such as remote viewing, bending metal and mind control have had many names such as MK-ULTRA and STARGATE and paperwork for them can be obta ...
  • UFO Flies Into Jet Contrail
    Slow day today. Plus I’m running late. So I checked out my ol’ pal Rick Philips at Barf Stew and he had this neat little YouTube video up. … Rotating UFO Flyby Airliner Netherlands 7th March 2010 ] … Hmm..must be checking out the content of the jet exhaust. Why?
  • Ancient Bracewell Probe in Solar System
    A Bracewell probe is an interstellar probe theorized by Ronald Bracewell in 1960 that is sent to prospective nearby solar systems to study for life, or primitive civilizations. If the probe finds either, they (it) sends a message back to its parent civilization. Are we being scanned by a Bracewell p ...
  • Australian UFOs and Falcon 9
    It seems that SpaceX’s Falcon 9 not only provides political controversy in the States, it also gives a little entertainment on the other side of the world. Observers in Australia spotted a little “spiral”, like what happened in Scandinavia last fall, giving the Aussies a little light show and specu ...

Tippers News

  • Convict Jeff Bass & his henchmen at Robeson County ...
    We are trying to gather enough signatures to make the governor of of NC Beverly Perdue stand up & take notice. There is video taped evidence of their crimes of hundreds of animals that have been cruelly inhumanely murdered Submitted by Cynthia W. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Urge North Bay to Ban Circuses That Use Animals! P ...
    Animals used in circuses are denied everything that is natural and important to them. Elephants, lions, tigers, and other animals spend the majority of their time shackled in chains or confined to small cages. TAKE ACTION !! Submitted by Tippers A. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • PETITION ! Macon County Animal Shelter Planning Cr ...
    Declawing is a cruel and painful procedure that deprives cats of everything that is natural and important to them. It involves 10 separate painful amputations of the last joint of each toeincluding the bones, not just the nails. !! TAKE ACTION !! Submitted by Tippers A. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �| ...
  • It Takes an Army: BP gears up to win over Washingt ...
    As sloppy as BP has been with little things like safety and disaster prep out in the real world, the company is one plugged-in player in the land of power and perception. Submitted by Roseann D. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Republican Minority Speak of the House, John Boehn ...
    In response to a question from TPMDC, House Minority Leader John Boehner said he believes taxpayers should help pick up the tab for the clean up. Submitted by Roseann D. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • You Really Want Government Drilling for Oil?
    You’ve got to hand it to the people who really dislike free markets. They see markets everywhere, and especially wherever any serious problem arises. That no free market exists within a thousand miles makes no difference whatsoever.
  • Mexican Teenager Killed by U.S. Border Agent
    “Mexican leaders on Wednesday condemned the fatal shooting of a Mexican teenager by the U.S. Border Patrol at the border in El Paso, as U.S. officials scrambled to investigate the circumstances surrounding the second killing of a Mexican by a U.S. agent in two weeks. According to preliminary reports ...
  • Beware Unsustainable Debt, Bernanke Says
    “The U.S. economy continues a slow, painful recovery, but Congress must prepare to address an âunsustainableâ level of debt in the federal budget, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke cautioned Wednesday.” (Washington Post, Thursday) The accomplice issues a warning. FEE Timely Classic “Whatâ ...
  • Competition and Cooperation
    Competition and cooperation are often juxtaposed, yet in the market they are two sides of the same activity.
  • Obama Finds Himself with Empty Economic Toolbox
    “At a moment when many economists warn that the American economic recovery is likely to be imperiled by prolonged high unemployment and slow growth, President Obama is discovering that the tools available to him last year â a big economic stimulus and action by the Federal Reserve â are both now ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Online video still growing, gaining viewers
    Just because comedy or humorous videos are the most popular among U.S. adults ( source ) does not mean journalists should wring their hands and despair about public tastes. What’s more important, I think, is that among people who have broadband Internet access at home, 75 percent watch online video ...
  • Is J-school relevant? (#wjchat)
    @killbutton Q1 Yes, because the foundation of journalism is SO important. Journos need a strong foundation in ethics! #wjchat @dnvolz Brian Williams never got any college degree and is considered a top journalist even in an ever-changing market #wjchat @mhinojosa Q1 Yes, I think it’s more importa ...
  • Top Teaching Online Journalism posts: Past 6 month ...
    According to Google Analytics, this is what you’ve been reading here (Dec. 1, 2009, up to today): 21 examples of Flash journalism A few words about digital audio recorders Now printable! Reporterâs Guide to Multimedia Proficiency Recording phone calls: For reporters Why does anyone major in ...
  • Tips for HTML5, part 6: A look at CSS3
    Although I hear there are still some journalism programs where CSS is not taught, I’m going to assume that all those Luddites are working on bringing their design and presentation curriculum into the 21st century. CSS is essential to design and presentation for the Internet. In this post I’m just g ...
  • Two good books for learning JavaScript, jQuery
    Since about March this year, I’ve been searching for a few good, clear books to recommend to journalists and students who are interested in learning to use jQuery — with an eye toward getting ready for HTML5. You could just leap straight into jQuery, but I think it would make more sense to get a ha ...

Facing South

  • BP hires company to handle oil spill claims whose ...
    Publicly, BP has said it intends to be generous in compensating those affected by the Gulf oil spill: CEO Tony Hayward has pledged to pay all "legitimate" claims resulting from the disaster, even offering to waive the $ 75 million cap on liability for economic damages. But to handle claims from the ...
  • Justice in Mississippi: Curtis Flowers starts reco ...
    An African American man, Curtis Flowers, made history this week when he became the first person in U.S. history to ever go on trial for murder six times for the same crime. Mr. Flowers has been in jail in Mississippi since 1996, accused of the murder of four people at a furniture store. Jury selec ...
  • ANALYSIS: 3 lessons from the Halter campaign
    Labor unions are taking a beating from political pundits today in the wake of Tuesday's Arkansas primary, which saw incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln eking out a 4-point victory over labor-backed Bill Halter. Of course, one can question what, if any, deep lessons about labor and U.S. politics can� be ...
  • In Arkansas, labor gambles big against Democratic ...
    In a year when political protest has been defined by the Tea Party and challenges from the political right, tomorrow's Democratic run-off between Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Lt. Gov. Bill Halter has become 2010's marquee battle for progressives. And progressives -- mostly in the form of labor, but als ...
  • 20-year-old oil spill liability law creates "incen ...
    No one knows the economic damage the Gulf oil spill will inflict on fishing fleets and coastal communities -- most observers simply say it will cost "billions" of dollars, and today, President Obama only allowed that the economic consequences will be "substantial" and "ongoing." But not as much ...

CowBoss' Inconvenient Truths - Food

  • So Baby Jesus says - Don't shop at supermarkets fo ...
    A distinctly British story, BUT maybe you could "just substitute the name of your BIG box store" in place of "Tesco" and it will "ring true." cowboss� If you like Christmas, you probably fancy a good old-fashioned one (the good old postmodern Christmas is so over). Mince pies, wassail, rosy cheeks ...
  • FDA Petitioned to Ban Arsenic from Animal Feed
    Groups Urge Government Ban of Common Additives Used in Feed for Chicken, Turkeys and Hogs You, my regular readers know this is an important issue to cowboss.� I am�pleased to see that action is being taken in the US, I do hope that the FDA will do the responsible thing and Ban this ridiculous prac ...
  • The Mouse In The House ~ Author unknown
    A compelling story! �I Bet You Never Thought About It That Way Before - But "Hopefully" You Will Now! .... cowboss A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package. "What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered. He was devastated to discover it was a m ...
  • Missouri government plots undercover sting operati ...
    "To you, it's just a gallon of milk. But to these farmers, it's their livelihood. Think about that for a minute before you go slapping handcuffs on the very same people who put food on your mama's table." Imagine being watched by two undercover cops as you engage in an illicit deal in a deserted p ...
  • "Marketing 101 to the Max" or Meaningful Change at ...
    Yes, Yes and Yes, BUT the Fundamental Question remains -- What have you (Maple Leaf Foods) done about�complying with CFIA's warnings and stopping�the�use of US Feces (Shit) Fed Beef in the manufacturing of your "Processed Meats"? "CANADA - Maple Leaf Foods yesterday announced the establishment of i ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
    Zimbabwean diamonds mined with complete disregard for basic human rights are currently being sold in jewelry stores with
  • South Africans Remember Mandela's Release
    Twenty years after his release form prison, Nelson Mandela remains an important and symbolic figure for South Africans. Many still remember his release.
  • Guinea Making Steps toward Democracy
    In a country that has seen a succession of brutal military leaders, the sudden prospect of fair elections forthcoming gives the people of Guinea new hope.
  • The Real Evils
    While the world
  • Global Hunger
    When food is treated as simply a commodity, a huge chunk of the population cannot afford it. People in the South die every day from hunger and related diseases, while an equal number in the North consume in excess.

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Prohibition
    Prohibition was an attempt to forbid by law the selling and drinking of intoxicating beverages. It was enacted in Prince Edward Island in 1901 and in the remaining provinces, the Yukon, and Newfoundland during the First World
  • Seven Years' War
    The Seven Years' War, 1756-63, was the first global war. The protagonists were Britain, Prussia and Hanover against France, Austria, Sweden, Saxony, Russia and eventually Spain. Britain declined to commit its main forces on
  • Physiographic Regions
    Physiography originally meant "the study of natural phenomena," but later usage limited its application to PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY in particular and, more recently, to landforms alone. Physiographic regionalization is here
  • Cartier, Jacques
    Jacques Cartier, navigator (b at St-Malo, France, between 7 June and 23 Dec 1491; d there 1 Sept 1557). Cartier led 3 voyages of exploration to the St Lawrence region in 1534, 1535-36 and 1541-42. He is usually credited with
  • Laurier, Sir Wilfrid
    Sir Wilfrid Laurier, lawyer, journalist, politician, prime minister of Canada (b at St-Lin, Canada E 20 Nov 1841; d at Ottawa 17 Feb 1919). As leader of the LIBERAL PARTY 1887-1919 and prime minister 1896-1911, Laurier was the

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle an old pushchair/stroll ...
    Walking down the road the other day – on the way to lunch, I spotted the wheels of a pushchair sticking out of a skip. The next time I walked past, the skip had gone so I couldn’t grab it – but it got me thinking all the same. I’d like to think that if [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle short, narrow plastic t ...
    So after the chicken killing on Friday night, we spent Saturday playing with pig guts. It was an unusual weekend. We were playing with hog parts because we were on a sausage making course at Old Sleningford Farm in North Yorkshire. It was a very interesting and fun course in a lovely location – [. ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle medical supplies/packag ...
    We’ve had an email from friend of Recycle This and frequent commenter Bobbie: I’m attaching a photo of a medication shipment I get every 3 months. The medicine has to be refrigerated and so that in itself creates all this waste. Please ignore the bookmark though, it is used to cover some private in ...
  • General Election 2010 (#ge2010): Environmental Pol ...
    I know I said the other day that I try to keep politics out of this blog but I’ve struggled to find side-by-side comparisons of each party’s environmental policies so I thought I’d put this together here. Personally, I’m a member of the Green Party but I can’t vote for them here as they’re [...]
  • How can I reduce the amount of meat I eat?
    In the light of the two recent meat-heavy posts, I thought it would be fitting to have a post about reducing the amount of meat we eat ;) We’ve both actually been vegetarian for extended periods over the last decade (frustratingly not always at the same time!) so personally have an assortment of mea ...

Mondoweiss

  • Schumer on Gazans: ‘Strangle them economical ...
    Collective punishment is sometimes too nice. Because the Gazans voted for Hamas, says NY Senator Schumer, "to strangle them economically until they see that's not the way to go makes sense." (I wonder what he would do to Helen Thomas to get her to change her mind?) Also calls for "regime change" in ...
  • Margulies: Turks know the difference between Jews ...
    After the flotilla raid last week, Radikal, a Turkish daily, interviewed Roni Margulies, a Turkish Jewish intellectual famous for his anti-Zionism. Interviewer: Pinar Ogunc. (Translation provided by El Lonsico, and approved by Margulies): ...Do you feel a responsibility to speak in such situations? ...
  • Emily Henochowicz was shot while holding Turkish f ...
    Today's Washington Post report on Emily Henochowicz, 21, the Cooper Union art student blinded in one eye by the Israeli army on May 31, includes this account: demonstrators who witnessed the incident said the canister was fired directly at Henochowicz from about 10 to 15 yards away. She was holding ...
  • ‘Guardian’ offers more clues on how th ...
    The chilling video that was posted by Paul Woodward here earlier has been circulating around the internet, and shows Israeli commandos kicking and beating someone and then firing shots.� The shots seem to be fired at extremely close range.�People are claiming that the victim in the video is the 19-y ...
  • With US mood turning, Israel lobbyist urges approa ...
    Things are getting desperate in the U.S. Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi of the Israel Project, an Israel lobby group, writes in the Jerusalem Post that America will never be the same, and it's time to remember Israel's shared values with the Russians: The pro-Israel community must internalize... new realit ...

Media Consortium

  • Making connections: How major news organizations t ...
    Wikipedia has a 5,000 word linking style guide. That might be excessive, but at least it’s thorough. I wondered what professional newsrooms thought of linking, so I contacted a number of them and asked how they were directing their reporters to use links. I got answers — but sometimes vague answers.
  • Behind The Atlantic's Brand Reinvention - Consumer ...
    A dramatic multi-platform overhaul of the brand starting in 2007 has put it back on track to profitability. In his keynote address today at the Folio: Show, Atlantic Media president Justin Smith said The Atlantic is projected to have a profitable fourth quarter and a "multi-million dollar" profit in ...
  • Mag Industry JV Next Issue Media’s More-Than-Teeth ...
    Next Issue Media, the magazine industry JV meant to develop content and formats for the next generation platform devices, is having a lot of teething troubles, though a late course correction may help, according to multiple sources we have spoken to over the last few weeks.
  • Why Did The NYT Get The Pulse News Reader Yanked F ...
    NYT’s counsel says the commercial use—Pulse is $3.99 a download—and the the framing of NYTimes.com and Boston.com within the app violates the sites’ Terms of Service. In the complaint, Samson notes “the app is delivered with the NYTimes.com RSS feed preloaded, which is prominently featured in the sc ...
  • Times Company Objects to News-Reader App - Bits Bl ...
    On Monday afternoon, after Steven P. Jobs himself had highlighted Pulse in his keynote speech at the Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple received a letter from a Times Company lawyer and removed Pulse from the App store. The main problem, as the lawyer said in his letter, was that the applicatio ...

Reality Asserts Itself

  • On reality and bitter truths
    I'm often asked what I mean by "real news" or "reality". I receive a decidedly skeptical "Do you think you have the 'real' truth?" I don't think there's an absolute truth. But I do think there's an objective world and there are facts. I know we will always have a partial understanding of things. Bu ...
  • A SHOE HEARD 'ROUND THE WORLD – My interview with ...
    Muntadhar al-Zaidi is the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush at a Baghdad press conference on December 14th, 2008. I recently interviewed him in Beirut. I asked him why he did it. He said "I was exposing the occupation with my pen, however I didn't think my pen was reaching the ...
  • A billion for G20 security "is worth it" - just wh ...
    According to AP, Canada's Conservative government said Thursday the nearly $1 billion it plans to spend on security at the G8 and G20 summits next month is "worth it". The Canadian government has budgeted up to $930 Canadian (US$885 million) for the summits. By comparison, the stated amount spent ...
  • ISRAELI ATTACK ON GAZA AID SHIP VIOLATES INTERNATI ...
    Last night, Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish aid ship on its way to Gaza. It is reported that they killed ten to fifteen activists and injured thirty more. The flotilla was attacked in international waters, 65km off the Gaza coast.� Organizers said the flotilla was carrying 10,000 tones of huma ...
  • BEYOND THE PALE - The murder of Furkan Dogan
    Not all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism. But some is. All one has to do is read some of the comments on this blog that were not published, to know that Judenhass ("Jew-hatred") is alive and well. It cannot be overestimated how thousands of years of hatred and Nazi genocide weighs with a n ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

The Intelligence Daily

My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • A needless provocation
    Summary: Driven by myopia and sheer bloody-mindedness, the United States and 11 other members of the United Nations Security Council have voted to tighten sanctions on Iran. Brazil and Turkey, which recently brokered an important fuel swap agreement with Tehran, voted against the sanctions reso ...
  • Tougher Sanctions on Iran
    Summary: Similar measures in the past have failed to move Tehran to inch its chair even a few centimetres nearer to the negotiating table. The stance taken by Brazil, whose representative spoke of far softer tactics and an ongoing process of dialogue aimed at coaxing it back into the mainstream ...
  • Targeting Muslim Iran
    Summary: THE UN sanctions imposed on Iran by the Security Council on Wednesday highlighted once again the discriminatory approach of the major powers towards the Muslim states. It is unfortunate because such sanctions have never achieved anything positive and all that will happen is that Iran w ...
  • More sanctions on Iran
    Summary: The only way of pre-empting Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons — that is if that intention indeed exists — is to engage with Tehran on the issue of uranium enrichment. Turkey and Brazil were therefore right in seeking to pave the way to a negotiated settlement by entering into a nuc ...
  • Balancing Iran
    Summary: Brazil voting against To the surprise of nobody the UN Security Council has imposed a fourth round of sanctions on Iran as a result of its failure to comply with a range of requirements regarding its nuclear programme. The west says that Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon, Iran ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • The Daily Flash -Eco, Space, Tech (6/10)
    World Oceans Day: Marine Wildlife Threatened Globally More than 245 marine scientists from 35 countries say the world needs a system of large, protected marine reserves, the Global Ocean Legacy, a project of the Pew Environment Group, said today. In...
  • New, Unknown Viruses Found in Antarctica's Ancient ...
    Like a modern, micro version of The Thing, Antarctica's icy lakes have been discovered to house a surprisingly diverse community of viruses, including some that were previously unidentified. The finding could shed light on whether microbial life evolved independently in...
  • "The Year Without Summer" - What Caused the Mini ' ...
    Global warming is our current focus, but from 1810 to 1819, people worried because the planet was far colder than usual, with the planet cooling almost a full degree Fahrenheit. 1816 according to climate historians was known as "the year...
  • The Great Oort Cloud Comets Discovered to Have Ext ...
    Many of the most well known comets, including Halley, Hale-Bopp and, most recently, McNaught, may have been born in orbit around other stars, according to a new theory by an international team of astronomers led by a scientist from the...
  • "There Was No Big Bang!" Say Several Leading Cosmo ...
    "What banged?" Sean Carroll, CalTech -Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology & Physics Several of the worlds leading astrophysicists believe there was no Big Bang that brought the universe and time into existence. Before the Big Bang, the standard theory assumes,...

Natural News

  • Toxic Corexit dispersant chemicals remained secret ...
    (NaturalNews) After weeks of silence on the issue, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally decided to go public with the list of ingredients used to manufacture Corexit , the chemical dispersant used by BP in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. There are two things about this announcemen ...
  • Swedish girl grows her face back after side effect ...
    (NaturalNews) Four years after a rare drug reaction caused her face to turn black and fall off, 19-year-old Eva Uhlin has beaten the odds and made a nearly full recovery. In September 2005, Uhlin took a capsule of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol and marketed in the United States as Tylenol) ...
  • Top organic gluten-free snacks
    (NaturalNews) Good-tasting, wheat-free crackers, breads and cookies are hard to come by. Sure, there is an ever-growing amount of gluten-free products available, but many of these products have an unpleasant taste and texture that turns people off to the idea of eating anything that is gluten-free. ...
  • New research: Electropollution can cause diabetes ...
    (NaturalNews) Most people are familiar with type-1 diabetes and type-2 diabetes, but did you know researchers have discovered a third type of diabetes? Type-3 diabetes, as they are calling it, affects people who are extra sensitive to electrical devices that emit "dirty" electricity. Type-3 diabetic ...
  • Antidepressants dramatically raise risk of catarac ...
    (NaturalNews) Of the 35 million Americans who are age 65 or older, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) claims about 7 million of them suffer from clinical depression -- and millions are on the prescription antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) such as Proz ...

Threat Level

  • ‘I Can’t Believe What I’m Confessing to You’: The ...
    On May 21, 22-year-old Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning initiated a series of online chats with former hacker Adrian Lamo after a story on Lamo was published at Wired.com. The chats continued over several days, during which Manning claimed that he was responsible for leaking classified mate ...
  • Suspected Wikileaks Source Described Crisis of Con ...
    On his last full day of freedom before Army CID investigators took him into custody, 22-year-old Bradley Manning pondered what would happen if his secret life as a self-described Wikileaks “hacktivist” were ever exposed. “What would you do if your role [with] Wikileaks seemed in danger of being blo ...
  • New York AG Suing Social Network Tagged.com for Ch ...
    New York’s attorney general Andrew Cuomo accused the social networking site Tagged.com on Thursday of not responding to user reports of child pornography and sexual solicitation of minors, which has allowed the popular site to become a place where sexual predators can exploit children. Cuomo sent a ...
  • AT&T Exposes Data on 100,000 iPad 3G Owners
    It looks like oil in the gulf isn’t the only thing spilling at the moment. A security hole in AT&T’s website has leaked out data on more than 100,000 iPad owners, including government and military officials, corporate CEOs, and media executives, according to Gawker, which calls the leaked informati ...
  • State Department Anxious About Possible Leak of Ca ...
    The State Department and personnel at U.S. embassies around the world are reportedly waiting anxiously to find out if an Army intelligence analyst was telling the truth when he boasted that he had supplied 260,000 classified State Department diplomatic cables to the whistleblower site Wikileaks. If ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • Fiorina's Pro-Choice Views are So Yesterday
    Just a day after winning the Republican nomination for Senate in California, former HP CEO Carly Fiorina lost a contest with an open microphone. She inadvertently told the world that fellow Republican Meg Whitman's appearance on the Sean Hannity show was "bizarre" and that Democratic opponent Barba ...
  • Palin to Obama: Call Me on Oil Disaster
    On Tuesday, half-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin weighed in again on the BP disaster, urging President Obama to " call me ." Given her shocking ignorance about the subject, President Obama could be forgiven for calling her uninformed, a poser, a fraud or even a pathological liar. After all, the w ...
  • Heirs of Texas Billionaire Reap Windfall from Laps ...
    Thanks to obstructionist Republicans in Congress and their perpetual campaign to kill the estate tax , the United States Treasury stands to lose billions in revenue in 2010. And as the New York Times reported this week, a large chunk of it won't be coming from a single family. The heirs of Texas p ...
  • Bush's Last Laugh
    Somewhere in a gated community in Dallas, a former President of the United States is laughing very hard right now. A new ABC/Washington Post poll gives the Obama administration even lower marks for its response to the BP oil spill than to George W. Bush's calamitous bungling of the Hurricane Katrin ...
  • A Very Bad Week for Foes of Gay Adoption
    The past few days have not been kind to hard line conservatives determined to prevent gay and lesbian Americans from adopting children. In Florida, emails released Thursday show that Attorney General and GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bill McCollum ignored his staff's warnings against hiring Rentboy cli ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • A Loser White House, Guilty by Association By Robe ...
    by Robert S. Becker Featured Writer Dandelion Salad rbecker@cal.net May 20, 2010 Long before Year One ended, progressives understood President Obamas focus was routine wheeling and dealing, not regrowing the New Deal. Between victory and governance, Obama reform switched from promises to make govern ...
  • Root Cause of Voters’ Revolt: Congress, Obama, GOP ...
    The revolt across the political landscape on Tuesday against incumbents wasn’t just an attack against the Washington establishment, but an outpouring of rage against political elites of all stripes who haven’t realized the economic crisis still gripping American workers. As Katrina vanden Heuvel, ed ...
  • Capping the devils cauldron By Jerry Mazza
    By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com May 20, 2010 If I were a religious man, I would take the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the spilling of millions of gallons of oil and gas, their engulfing of the Gulf of Mexico waters and de ...
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    There's a huge push to market over-the-counter genetic tests. But the faulty tests can cause more harm than good.
  • Six Myths About Immigration That Just Won't Die
    We need to straighten out our thinking about some of the basic issues in order to have a useful and serious policy argument.

Consortium News

  • Standing Up for Helen Thomas
    Iconic White House reporter Helen Thomas made a dumb remark on Israel, but her independence will be missed, says Robert Parry. June 8, 2010
  • Terrorism and Israel's Attack at Sea
    Israel's harsh blockade of Gaza and its 1.5 million people may be pushing the line on what's considered terrorism, argues Ivan Eland. June 8, 2010
  • Israel's Attack and the Cycle of Blame
    Israel's assault on a Gaza relief ship recalls the intractable debate over the ancient lands of Israel/Palestine, writes Michael Winship. June 7, 2010
  • Bush's Torture Experiments Criticized
    A doctors' group demands a probe of the Bush administration's use of detainees for torture experiments, reports Jason Leopold. June 7, 2010
  • Wall Street Reform Under Siege
    Despite its devastating collapse, Wall Street wants to resume business as usual and is poised to get its way, warns Danny Schechter. June 7, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

  • The price of defying Israel (Paul Larudee, The Hu ...
    I was one of those who chose to defy Israeli forces when they attacked and took our Freedom Flotilla ships that were trying to deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid to civilian organizations in the Israeli blockaded Gaza Strip. Most of us resisted, to varying degrees, for which we paid a pric ...
  • New footage depicts attack on Mavi Marmara (Beatr ...
    Blasts from a megaphone accompany the sounding of alarms, a woman's voice repeatedly pleading, "We are civilians, we have no guns...we need help for people...please don't attack." Brazili ...
  • Where is Israel taking its occupation? (Hussein I ...
    While world attention has been heavily focused on efforts to break the siege of Gaza, Palestinians in the West Bank are pursuing a series of new, nonviolent, strategies challenging the Is ...
  • Spain seeks EU backing on plan to lift Israeli blo ...
    Spain is drawing up new proposals for lifting Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip as the EU scrambles to forge an effective policy following international outrage over the killing of nine ...
  • Israel opens border for snack foods, but Gazans ar ...
    Israel's move impressed almost no one in this impoverished seaside territory and even left some embittered, accusing Israel of tossing them a few scraps to score points with the outside w ...

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Memorial Day Energy Star Sales Tax Holiday!!
    I’ve told my parents and now I’m telling you. ¡Si se compran una lavadora o un aire condicionado marcado Energy Star este weekend, no tienen que pagar sales taxes! If you buy an Energy Star appliance this Memorial Day weekend you won’t have to pay a sales tax! Representative Veronica Gonzalez annou ...
  • Get Involved in the Texas Sunset Advisory Commissi ...
    You’ve probably heard by now.  The TCEQ has failed to adhere to the federal Clean Air Act, jeopardizing our health, our safety, and the quality of our air. This is why, on Tuesday, May 25, the EPA took over the TCEQâs authority to grant clean air permits for 40 facilities across the state of Texa ...
  • Resolution Undermining Clean Air Act Faces Senate ...
    Tomorrow, Thursday June 10, Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) “Disapproval Resolution” will be voted on in the Senate. If passed, it would overturn the EPA’s “endangerment finding”, undermining the Clean Air Act- which by the way is the most successful piece of environmental legislation- and strippin ...
  • Cap Metro’s debut at the Sunset Commission
    Cap Metro’s hearing at the Sunset Advisory Commission on Tuesday wasn’t the public flogging many might have expected, given the mass transit authority’s myriad problems over the past several years. It came as a shock to no one as Sunset staff delivered testimony that centered on the financial crisis ...
  • Jim Hightower, Roger Duncan, Tom Smitty Smith, and ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo:

Unexplained Mysteries

  • UFOs filmed over Vatican by guards
    On June 7th three security guards filmed a strange formation of lights over the Vatican using a cell phone. The sighting comes at a time when UFO repo...
  • Long lost Soviet robot found on Moon
    NASA have discovered the whereabouts of the long lost Lunokhod 1 that landed on the moon 40 years ago. The Soviet robot landed on the lunar surface in...
  • UK scientists launch major radio telescope
    A new radio telescope is being constructed in the UK to help solve the mysteries of the universe's origin. The European Low Frequency Array or (Lofar)...
  • Privacy concerns raised over brain scans
    Legal experts have expressed concerns over brain scanning devices being used to invade people's privacy. Brain scans are already being used to scan de...
  • World's oldest shoe discovered
    A 5,500 year-old leather shoe has been discovered in a cave in Armenia and is the oldest leather shoe ever found. The shoe is so old that it predates ...

Grassroots

Climate

  • June 11, 2010
    New U.N. Climate Text Omits Deepest 2050 Carbon Cuts (Reuters ) Negotiators from 185 nations will end two weeks of talks on a new climate treaty on Friday, with a new blueprint for a pact that omits the most draconian options for greenhouse gas cuts by 2050.  Legally Binding Climate Deal ...
  • June 10, 2010
    Senate Votes on Blocking EPA Greenhouse Gas Regs (AP)  In the absence of congressional action on climate change, the Senate is heading toward a much-watched vote on whether the Obama administration should be allowed to go ahead with regulations curtailing greenhouse gas emissions. Energ ...
  • June 9, 2010
    BP Spill Response Plans Severely Flawed (AP) BP's 582-page regional spill plan for the Gulf and its 52-page site plan for the Deepwater Horizon rig are riddled with omissions and glaring errors, according to an AP analysis that details how BP officials have pretty much been making it up as ...
  • June 8, 2010
    Reid, Pelosi Head for Climate Clash (The Hill) Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are headed for a clash over climate legislation, as Reid is poised to move an energy bill to the Senate floor that would not include a cap-and-trade program. Obam ...
  • June 7, 2010
    Coast Guard Sees Cleanup of Spill Lasting Until the Fall (New York Times) The Coast Guard commander in charge of the federal response to the oil spill warned on Sunday that even if the flow of crude was stopped by summer, it could take well into autumn to deal with the slick. Dead, Oiled Birds ...

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

  • First They Came for the Cranky White House Columni ...
    This is why a lot of people think Jews control the media. Not me. I've worked in the media most of my life. So I know that the media is controlled by morons. Still, what happened to Helen Thomas will feed the rants of wild-eyed conspiracy theorists. On June 7th the professional life of Helen Thomas ...
  • Why does the Los Angeles Times hate Obama?
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  • Does the Ruling Class Really Want to Commit Suicid ...
    Last March I went to the Left Forum in New York, which is a yearly gathering of liberals, progressives, anarchists, socialists, communists, hippies, punks, mystics, conspiracy theorists and anti-conspiracy theorists who are all trying to figure out how to get to a decent future from the indecent pre ...
  • I Come to Praise Helen Thomas, Not to Bury Her
    � from Truthout I am not going to try and defend the comments Helen Thomas made about getting the Jews out of Palestine and sending them to Germany and Poland; that was an unbelievably stupid thing to say, not just to a rabbi, but to anyone. Thomas is a Lebanese-American with very strong views on Is ...
  • Contempt of court: William Kunstler's daughters re ...
    He was the best of lawyers. He was the worst of lawyers. He was the lawyer for war resisters, free-speech advocates, Native American dissenters and radicals of conscience. But he was also the lawyer for Mob boss John Gotti, child murderer Wayne Williams and the "Blind Sheik" Omar-Abdel Rahman. He fo ...

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Coast Guard Logs Indicate White House Knew Early o ...
    Any investigation ultimately comes back to two questions: 1. What did they know? 2. When did they know it? In order to determine the answers to these critical questions, investigators need to have real transparency and integrity in their pursuit of information. To this end, I welcome adding a link t ...
  • Our Next Financial Fallout?
    Nouriel Roubini has a piece at Financial Times (registration required) about sovereign debt. Now, governments everywhere are releveraging to socialise private losses and jump-start private demand. But public debt is ultimately a private burden: governments subsist by taxing private income and wea ...
  • Only In South Carolina?
    Recently, South Carolina has been in the news for our “wacky” politics, especially amid allegations of impropriety on behalf of Rep. Nikki Haley. Haley is now in a runoff for Republican candidate for Governor by two men, one of whom worked for her competitor. Despite these allegations, and an upcom ...
  • Obama Shies from Real Intel Reform
    Editor’s Note: Republished from Consortium News with the express permission of Mel Goodman, whose biography is at the end of this post. Consortium News Editor’s Note: President Obama has sought to counter right-wing and Republican attacks on him as “soft” on national security by staffing top positi ...
  • Obama, No, It’s Not Complicated, Really
    The folks at Hot Air have christened Barky as CAPTAIN KICK ASS. An appropriate image for a man rapidly transforming himself into a cartoon figure. Well, it is not only folks on the right teeing off on the Golden Child. Please check out another brilliant gem from Jon Stewart. Avoid drinking [...]

Environmental Graffiti

  • Incredible Toilet Seat Art
    Not sure what to do with your old toilet seat? Here's someone who is. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Devastating Aftermath of a Sinkhole
    Sinkholes prove that the very ground you walk upon could have been quietly eroding beneath your feet for decades. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 5 Natural Alternatives to Viagra
    Don't bother with those spam emails in your inbox, nature has all the rocket fuel you'll ever need... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Animal Hairstyles
    Hair shaped, cut and dried to look like animals? What kind of stylist could have the chops to pull that off? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Sacred Status of Cats in Ancient Egypt
    The story of cats in Ancient Egypt... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

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Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

  • Parsing Europe's New Biofuel Rules
    Companies producing biofuels have broadly cheered the introduction on Thursday of a certification system by the European Commission. The system is supposed to ensure that the industry doesn't lay waste to forests and drain peat lands or destroy other zones of environmental value. But the system doe ...
  • A Stimulus Package with No Jobs?
    Is it possible to botch spending stimulus dollars on renewable energy projects? Florida and the federal Department of Energy have found a way, according to the Energy Department's inspector general.
  • The Oil Supply Picture, Post-Spill
    The International Energy Agency has released some preliminary projections on the disaster's impact on oil supplies. So far, it does not seem to be a game changer, but it is too early too know for sure.
  • On Our Radar: BP's Safety Record
    Documents suggest that BP repeatedly disregarded safety and environmental regulations over the past decade.
  • Will New York Rebel Against Fracking?
    A well blowout that shot gas and water polluted with drilling fluids as high as 75 feet into the air in Pennsylvania is a vivid reminder how a new generation of gas drilling known as hydraulic fracturing is becoming more of a presence in the Northeast.

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Video inside lethal Israeli Gaza flotilla raid on ...
    Journalists aboard the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, part of the Gaza humanitarian flotilla, documented Israel's lethal military attack, and were able to smuggle out an hour of footage. The video is being released presently at a United Nations press conference by Iara Lee, a filmmaker from Cultures ...
  • Fort Snelling Undercover Fail; Ollie's 1985 Gander ...
    Special greetings to Rule of Law Radio / Axxiom for Liberty listeners! We had a great time chatting last Friday for moar than an hour about every cutting edge dimension of the military-industrial police state, hosted by Kaye Beach and her friend (nickname Matrix? I forget). Get the live recording of ...
  • New videos: Mayday Immigrant Rights March, Keith E ...
    Oh hai, thanks for visiting... A lot of things going on and thus little time (if any) for posts. I got some neat events taped around MayDay weekend in Minneapolis, including the Immigrant Rights March around downtown & Loring Park. Also had my video of US Rep. Keith Ellison (DFL-MN5) describing th ...
  • The biggest scandal in world history; WANTAGATE, L ...
    Draft conspiracy post note - this rough draft story lacks links but I want to get it up anyways... Have fun everyone! UPDATE: Hi to everyone from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Leo_Wanta/ - keep it up :)       This guy, Leo Wanta / Lee Wanta / Ambassador Leo Wanta, could be the key to the big ...
  • 2010 Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy Notes for Ap ...
    Jesse Trentadue : …who’s testifying about Howe had reported that the plan to bomb the Murrah building four months in advance, had gone with Strassmeir and others to scout the target – the first thing the U.S. Attorney does when Graham stops testifying is ask the judge to seal the transcript, and the ...

Daily Censored

  • Detroit: Financial Manager to take the stand, the ...
    BAMN  Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights & Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb will take the stand tomorrow, 6/11/2010 at 11:00 in Judge Wendy Baxter’s courtroom for the fourth day of hearings in the case of the Detro ...
  • Time for law abiding American citizens to stop pay ...
    source with video and better formatting. David Degraw has written an outstanding comprehensive explanation of whatâs really happening in the US economy. Heâs given me permission to reprint it here. I also recommend his site ”For Our Economy“ for citizen grass-roots activism for economic justic ...
  • Why does Ken Salazar still have a job?
    That one is easy to answer. Because President Obama hasn’t fired him and Salazar refuses to resign in shame. (Image) The real question is what is so wrong with President Obama that he keeps Ken Salazar on as Secretary of the Interior? Salazar should have given Obama a strong heads up about the majo ...
  • Israel is a lying, rogue nuclear state enabled by ...
    source with outstanding PuppetGov video, “The Uprising.” Israel was accepted as a member of the United Nations (UN) in 1948 contingent upon their acceptance of UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 194, which included:    11. Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at ...
  • A Reply To The Fosters Of This Country
    I wrote a blog about my concerns that between the Tea-Baggers and the Supreme Court, that unless something changes dramatically in the very near future, I fear greatly for this country. The blog was (and entitled) “Short, but not so sweet.”  I snagged one of those selfish bastards I am so worried ab ...

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Institute for Policy Studies

Pine River World News

  • Fidel Castro: On the threshold of tragedy
    This English translation of Fidel Castro's latest article is courtesy of Granma Internacional news agency, Havana, citing Cubadebate as the source. Reflections of Fidel: On the threshold of tragedy � �Fidel Castro Ruz Translated by Granma Internacional Post date: �June 9, 2010 SINCE the day of Mar ...
  • Afghanistan: Funding both sides
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Eric Walberg. Afghanistan: �Funding both sides � � Eric Walberg June 8, 2010 Delegates in Shangra-La pledge eternal war in Afghanistan, as the U.S. creates new and very dangerous allies there, reports Eric Walberg War junkies popped their cha ...
  • BP and the Gulf of Mexico: America's Chernobyl
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. America's Chernobyl � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina June 6, 2010 The similarities between the Fall of the Soviet Union and the upcoming Fall of the United States ar ...
  • Spanish activists for Gaza say Israel 'targeted' M ...
    The following article is reprinted with permission from Kavkaz Center, Caucasus Emirate news agency. Underlined emphasis added. Spanish activists for Gaza say Israel 'targeted' Muslims in boat Source: � Kavkaz Center June 5, 2010 Three Spanish citizens, who survived the "Israeli" operation on Gaza ...
  • Ramzy Baroud: Facebook and Muslim Outrage
    The following column is reprinted with permission from Ramzy Baroud. Facebook and Muslim Outrage � �Ramzy Baroud June 4, 2010 'Any depictions of the prophet are considered blasphemous by Muslims,' wrote Agencies, as reported readily by Aljazeera.net English. The above statement is meant to fully s ...

IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #373 (CIA edition)
    CIA forerunner's sabotage manual released. CIA misread South Korea signs, documents show. Ex-CIA top official's op-ed supports Miranda rights.
  • News you may have missed #372
    Afghan interior minister and spy chief removed. Analysis: Fight looms over new US intelligence chief. Analysis: The dangers of turning spies into generals.
  • Israeli Navy insiders deplore Gaza flotilla raid
    A day after a former Mossad officer described last week’s Israeli raid on a fleet of Gaza-bound aid ships as “stupid”, former and current Israeli Navy insiders have strongly criticized the bloody operation.
  • US Army intel analyst arrested over Wikileaks prob ...
    Speaking last Thursday at the annual Personal Democracy Conference in New York, Daniel Ellsberg said he was amazed that the US National Security Agency “can’t crack” Wikileaks. The former Pentagon employee, who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, was referring to the activist website that anonymous ...
  • Analysis: Israel’s flotilla raid involved espionag ...
    The intense worldwide debate about last Monday’s Israeli raid on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla has concentrated relatively little on the operation’s intelligence facets. As I explain in an article published yesterday at Daily News Corner, this is puzzling, considering that the intelligence aspects of th ...

After Downing Street.org

  • We May Have Just Learned How Perriello Is Voting o ...
    By David Swanson Last June, Congressman Tom Perriello wanted to vote against war funding, because -- much as he loves wars -- he opposed the IMF bailout attached to it. So, the White House and the Democratic Party gave him a choice. He could vote No and be cut out of the family, "dead to us." Or ...
  • Hey Congress, Karzai Doesn't Want the Next $33.5 B ...
    Karzai, non-puppet puppet governor of a corner of Afghanistan, is fed up with the United States and turning to Pakistan or the Taliban, or something.� Will Congress vote another $33.5 billion for a war whose puppet admits it can't be won, just as our ambassador and National Security Advisor and othe ...
  • Wilkerson on Cheney
    This is one of those must watch discussions, and Wilkerson is a Repub., one who Truly is what once was or as close as possible, but nary exists anymore and for a long time! One of the extremely few who speak out for the Country on that side of the politics of the Country! � Lawrence Wilkerson is a r ...
  • It's Not a "Defense" Department
    By David Swanson The U.S. military budget, and the add-on war budget, and the total of the two have all been headed upwards for years and have been headed upwards for the past year and a half. Yes, I know, all you hear about is the one airplane that the so-called Secretary of Defense doesn't want b ...
  • Milo Minderbinder in Afghanistan
    By John Grant 1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder
: "We're gonna come out of this war rich!" Yossarian: 
"You're gonna come out rich. We're gonna come out dead." -From the Buck Henry screenplay of Catch 22 No one has captured the absurd spirit of US war-making better than Joseph Heller in Catch 22. Here’s o ...

Grist - News

  • Libertarian answer to oil spill: Privatize the oce ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. If there's one thing the leaking gash in the Gulf of Mexico seems to make clear, it's that private companies shouldn't be left unwatched to meddle with the messy innards of our planet. They shouldn't be allowed to open a hole they can't close , as William Saletan ...
  • Backstreet Boys and KORN boycott BP. Oil problem s ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Press release of the week : The Backstreet Boys join popular hard rock band KORN to boycott the purchase of BP oil. Currently on a 35+ North American tour in support of their new album, THIS IS US, BSB promises to embark on a BP free tour. "I'm devastated by wha ...
  • Oil disaster not ‘a source of tension’ ...
    by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- The United States on Thursday dismissed the notion that the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster involving British energy giant BP had become a source of tension between London and Washington. Antipathy in Washington toward the British-registered global company i ...
  • What’s up with Murkowski and Graham? Formerl ...
    by Randy Rieland. He's the senior senator from South Carolina, a smooth-talking one-time Air Force attorney and JAG instructor whom a lot of Republicans don't trust and call a RINO (Republican in Name Only).   She's the senior senator from Alaska, first appointed to the Senate by her father, con ...
  • BP: We don’t know why our stock is falling
    by Jonathan Hiskes. "BP notes the fall in its share price in US trading last night. The company is not aware of any reason which justifies this share price movement." --June 10 company statement on its falling stock value . Related Links: Obama to assemble expert panel on ass-kicking: A ...

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    On the eve of World Cup 2010 in South Africa, FIFA and its showcase quadrennial tournament are more powerful than governments or the multinational corporations that queue up to sponsor the games
  • Gulf Oil Spill: Damages Claims May Hinge on BP's W ...
    BP has promised to pay oil-spill damages in what it calls all 'legitimate' claims, but defining that word will shape legal battles for years to come
  • Euro Crisis: Tension over Currency for Sarkozy, Me ...
    The Franco-German alliance has always been a friendship filled with bickering and compromise. But with the two nations taking contrasting stands on how to deal with the euro crisis, their partnership is showing serious signs of strain

Washington Independent

  • Bachmann: ‘No Question’ Obama Is Worst ...
    Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) appeared on the conservative “Ben Shapiro Show” yesterday and assessed president Obama’s place in history among his 42 predecessors. “Is President Obama better or worse than Jimmy Carter?” Shapiro asked. “Worse. Easily worse,” responded Bachmann. Shapiro continued, “I ...
  • Left-Right Defense Wonk Coalition Looks to Cut $96 ...
    Few communities of Washington wonks run into greater structural and institutional obstacles than advocates of reduced defense spending. Defense companies put billions into PR campaigns for the necessity of this or that project that runs over cost. Legislators have every career incentive to lard the ...
  • Disgrace at Arlington
    The Washington Post: Army investigators at Arlington National Cemetery have found more than 100 unmarked graves, scores of grave sites with headstones that are not recorded on cemetery maps, and at least four burial urns that had been unearthed and dumped in an area where excess grave dirt is kept. ...
  • Household Income Off $11.4 Trillion From Peak
    The Federal Reserve released its flow-of-funds report yesterday, and the document shows household net worth has fallen $11.4 trillion from its 2007 bubble-era peak, though it has gained $6.3 trillion since the 2009 trough. Most of the decline comes from the cratering value of residential real estate ...
  • Meet the Next NSA Top Lawyer
    Following up on our stories earlier this week about the legal vacancy at the National Security Agency, Mark Hosenball at Newsweek finds that the Justice Department is sending some relief to Fort Meade. Declassified has learned that the Obama administration has now asked a career Justice Department l ...

Digg Green

Invisible Opportunity

  • You’re talking bollox, Mr Regev
    By Stuart Littlewood 9 June 2010 Stuart Littlewood deconstructs the Israeli propaganda that has been flooding the airwaves following Israel’s murder of humanitarian activists aboard the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla, most notably from the orifice of the Israeli prime minister’s spokesman, Au ...
  • Bilderberg Wants Americans Disarmed And Dependent ...
    Paul Joseph Watson Monday, June 7, 2010 As part of Bilderberg’s agenda to “Europeanize” America and turn it into a socialist welfare state wherein its citizens are completely dependent on the government, the elite are celebrating President Obama’s support for a UN small arms treaty, which many fear ...
  • Food and Depopulation: Rockefeller Family
    Cassandra Anderson June 8, 2010 The purpose of this article is to give a brief outline of how the elites, and the Rockefellers in particular, are using food as a weapon. Bill Gates has teamed with the Rockefellers, Monsanto and the government of Norway in the Doomsday Seed Vault, in which organic se ...
  • The Really Creepy People Behind the Billionaire Se ...
    June 2, 2010 What happens when Americans plunder America and leave it broken, destitute and seething mad? Where do these fabulously wealthy Americans go with their loot, if America isn’t a safe, secure, or even desirable place to spend their riches? What if they lose faith in their gated communities ...
  • Illuminati’s Biggest Crime? Suppressing Tesl ...
    by Christian Soderberg ‘In 1911, Nikola Tesla revealed he was working on an anti gravity “flying machine”. “My flying machine will have neither wings nor propellers. You might see it on the ground and you would never guess that it was a flying machine. Yet it will be able to move at will through the ...

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 ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Dances with the Moon: Does Oil Clot?
    Follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons Follow the Dances with the Moon series here. Related posts:Dances with the Moon: Earth Has BAD Gas! Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is Coming! Dances with the Moon: Another Spill (cartoon) Related posts: Dances with the Moon: Earth Has BAD Gas! Da ...
  • New Report: What Americans Think of the Smart Grid
    “Separating Smart Grid from Smart Meters? Consumer Perceptions and Expectations of Smart Grid” is the eighth in EcoAlign's EcoPinion series of surveys on energy sector consumer perceptions. Related posts: Living Off-Grid: Micro Hydro Electric Alternative Energy System Americans at Bottom of ...
  • Eco Art Exhibit – Millions of Pieces: Only One Puz ...
    Online exhibition for UN World Environment Day Reveals Rwandaâs Triumphs and Challenges Related posts: Spains Exhibit in Copenhagen Invites Citizens to Record Messages About Climate Change Documentary: The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning The Largest Green Plan To Date – The “Gree ...
  • A Memorial Day Tribute to My Fallen Comrade David
    Some know, others may be surprised to learn that I spent over a decade serving in the Army. Related posts: This Soldier Remembers a Fallen Comrade on Veterans Day-2008 A Twilight Earth Tribute to David Suzuki – Eco Warrior Photo Sunday – What do the Vietnam Memorial and Environmental Devastat ...
  • Water Website Spotlight – Blue Living Ideas
    Blue Living Ideas is the ultimate Web resource for information, tips, news, and events related to Earthâs most precious resource â Water. Related posts: Green Living Ideas and Twilight Earth Form New Major Environmental Network, Simple Earth Media Eco Child Website Spotlight – Eco Childs ...

Inhabitat

  • World Cup 2010 Carbon Footprint Will Be Whopping 6 ...
    According to a startling infographic made for EU Infrastructure and a report by the Norwegian Embassy, the carbon footprint of this year’s World Cup in South Africa will be a whopping 6 times that of the last competition that took place in Germany 4 years ago. Many factors come into play – construct ...
  • The Crib Prefab Inspired By Traditional American C ...
    The Crib prefab is another cool example of a small sustainable structure designed for a backyard residence, studio, or  remote cabi. Inspired by the traditional American architecture of corn cribs, a common farm building used to store and dry corn, The Crib uses prefabricated steel beam architecture ...
  • INHABITAT IS LOOKING FOR A PHP DEVELOPER!
    Hey wordpress / PHP gurus! Inhabitat needs tech help. We’re currently looking for one or more awesome PHP stars to fill ongoing, part-time, freelance developer positions with potential for full-time work, working on Inhabitat’s backend tech support and website development. Wordpress plugins, PHP, ...
  • Modern Japanese Home Borrows From the Past With an ...
    Under the modernist skin of this Japanese home is an updated interpretation of traditional Japanese building with a very unique feature. Spotted on Dezeen, this home by Architect Masato Sekiya features a timber frame structure set to a grid. Rather than just using the traditional floor grid of 3�6 t ...
  • LA Box Collective Showcases Modern Eco Furniture i ...
    Formed in January of 2008, LA Box Collective is a group of professional furniture designers and makers that are committed to environmentally–conscious design and production. Their first collection “So Happy Together” debuts this Saturday at the Fifth Floor Gallery in Los Angeles. Careful attention ...

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Random Guy Allegedly Steals Astronaut Sally Ride’s ...
    A Texas man was indicted for stealing one of famed astronaut Sally Ride’s flight suits. Calvin Dale Smith kept the one-piece garment in a suitcase for an unknown number of years, federal investigators allege. He is believed to have obtained the suit during a stint working for the Boeing division th ...
  • Oil Disaster Shows Need for Endangered Species Act ...
    Of the many regulatory problems that helped make the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster possible, the Endangered Species Act’s shortcomings have received little attention — but fixing its flaws and loopholes could help prevent future catastrophes. Oil companies never considered the impacts of a massive sp ...
  • Exoplanet Hunters Finally Catch One in a Star’s De ...
    A giant planet lurks in the dust and debris surrounding a young, nearby star — and astronomers have finally seen it in action. Using the Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers took infrared images of the planet in two different positions around its star in 2003 and late 2009. “It’s so exciting ...
  • No Progress on Better Chemicals for Oil Disaster C ...
    Almost three weeks after federal orders to find less toxic chemicals to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico, no progress has been made. The same dispersant chemicals are still being used. British Petroleum barely tried to test an alternative, and the EPA’s own testing results on the toxicity and eff ...
  • Japanese Spacecraft Deploys First-Ever Solar Sail
    The unfurling of a Japanese solar sail, the first demonstration of a new space propulsion technology, went exactly according to plan. According toJAXA’s blog posts and photos from the event, the IKAROS spacecraft’s sail appears to be in place. It’s a big step in its attempt to travel driven only by ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Treatment of Detainees Continues to Tarnish Americ ...
    The Obama administration seems to be operating under the theory that Gitmo was so unpopular in the Muslim world (and beyond), and was thus such a strategic liability, because it was located in the Carribbean; that the gross violations of human rights that occurred at that venue were only abusive be ...
  • Bush’s National Security Adviser Hadley Urges Repu ...
    Today at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing George W. Bushâs National Security Advisor for his entire second term, Stephen Hadley , called on the Senate to ratify the New START treaty. Hadley’s endorsement is another significant blow to Senator Jon Kyl and others on the far right who w ...
  • Understanding The India-Pakistan Water Dispute
    Late last month, Pakistani extremists staged protests along the India-Pakistan border , rallying against what they called India's unfair use of the shared waters of the Indus River. In an e-mail interview, Harvard School of Public Health Professor and former World Bank Senior Water Advisor John Bris ...
  • One Year On, Green Movement in Iran Shows Progress ...
    WASHINGTON —Although the Green Movement’s path ahead remains long, it already has transformed Iran’s human rights dynamics and gained important ground in several important respects. First, the Green Movement has produced what can be considered a psychological shift. Human rights violations and repre ...
  • Global Insider: The India-Pakistan Water Dispute
    Late last month, Pakistani extremists staged protests along the India-Pakistan border , rallying against what they called India's unfair use of the shared waters of the Indus River. In an e-mail interview, Harvard School of Public Health Professor and former World Bank Senior Water Advisor John Bris ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Letter from the Hotel Zamenhof.
    Gershom Gorenberg on the the family fight between the hawkish Jewish establishment and other American Jews : Meyer Landsman lives in the Hotel Zamenhof. Landsman is the hero of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, in which the Jews lost the 1948 war in Palestine and have taken refuge in ...
  • Luck Will Out.
    TAP talks to filmmaker Jeffrey Blitz about his new documentary on the lottery, and how luck and hard work interact in America : I think the way my idea of luck changed wasn't personal but cultural. I came to feel that social policy based on a diminished sense of luck in the world was actually very ...
  • Conference and Institutionalists.
    Though we learned yesterday that using a conference committee to harmonize the House and Senate version of a bill is not so rare as I had originally thought, it's not quite the Schoolhouse Rock preference it ought to be, for a variety of reasons. According to Democrats in the Senate, conference can ...
  • McChrystal On Bagram.
    Spencer Ackerman points to a press briefing with General Stanley McChrystal where he throws cold water on the idea of using Bagram for detentions of terror detainees from outside Afghanistan: A year ago we were in the detention business and we really didn’t have a plan for transitioning that to the ...
  • Lightning Round: Better Limited-Government Argumen ...
    The radicalization of the Republican party has consequences beyond fringe candidates. There are policy outcomes, like� Lindsey Graham surveying the Republican base and concluding that the party should � vociferously oppose any effort to put a price on carbon emissions. Not that this lets Graham ...

Andy Worthington

  • A Voice from Iraq: Former Guantánamo Prisoner Spea ...
    In a fascinating interview with Mohammed Furat, the Iraqi editor of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), an Iraqi and former Guantánamo prisoner (one of the three Iraqis released from Guantánamo in January 2009), told his story. His account is fascinating on his own terms, as it provides ...
  • Guantánamo Uighurs Thank Bermuda; Supporters Ask U ...
    As I have explained in two recent articles, a global scramble by the Obama administration to find new homes for 17 Uighurs (Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province) who were, or are held in the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, has had mixed results. The men won their habeas corpus petitions in a US court ...
  • Suicide or Murder at Guantánamo?
    On June 2 last year, the Pentagon announced that a Yemeni prisoner at Guantánamo, Mohammed al-Hanashi (also known as Muhammad Salih) had died, reportedly by committing suicide. He was the fifth reported suicide at Guantánamo, following three deaths on June 9, 2006 and another on May 30, 2007, and he ...
  • Quarterly Fundraising Appeal: Please Support my Gu ...
    Please support my work! Every three months I appeal for financial support to help me continue my research into Guantánamo and related issues (including secret prisons and the British anti-terror laws), and the articles that I write on a daily basis. If you can help out at all, please click on ...
  • New Report Reveals How Bush Torture Program Involv ...
    In a 27-page report, “Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Program” (available here), the organization Physicians for Human Rights has brought into sharp focus the role played by US medical personnel in torture and human exper ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Two Polls and Two Really Bad Jokes
    Poll 1. Research 2000 just pretty much confirmed the state of the Connecticut Senate race between Blumenthal and McMahon: Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 5/24-26. Likely voters. MoE 4% ( 1/11-13 results) Dick Blumenthal (D) 52 (56) Linda McMahon (R) 33 (34) It'd been a while since we polled Co ...
  • Movin' On!
    Just to the other side of town. :) I am at the point where I can choose to live in a half empty house with only a computer and a lot of furniture (minus the drawers of "stuff" that are already moved) or live in a house with a TV and no furniture inside (though we do have our patio furniture moved ...
  • McMahon Gushes Over Deregulating Oil
    McMahon Campaign Literature From TheDay.com According to The Day and at the same time that we are witnessing the results of the typical Republican deregulation-run-amok of anything that moves money to these Multinational Oil Corporations wash in ashore as tar balls and dead dolphins on American shor ...
  • An Arizona Minutemen Group Folds
    Apparently, either they were shocked that people answered their calls to violence or they are broke from their profiteering leaderships' greed. The only question in my mind is "how will they reincarnate their particular brand of crazy?" Because as long as there are crazy people around there wil ...
  • Support The Troops - Pay Your Taxes
    Connecticut Man1 It is the tax deadline and this stuff is pretty self explanatory. You pay taxes and they get beans, bullets and valuable training that might just save their lives. When you want tax cut after tax cut? The active duty soldiers serving overseas, in training here or elsewhere and the ...

SPL Center

  • Strange Bedfellows See Affirmative Action in Beaut ...
    Does an ardent Jewish neo-conservative ever agree with an anti-Semite who despises neo-conservatives? We didn’t think so, until the Miss USA contest showed that Muslim-bashing author Daniel Pipes and racist radio host James Edwards do indeed share some common ground. The men suggested on their respe ...
  • Louisiana KKK Leader Pleads Guilty to Killing Recr ...
    The murder trial of Louisiana klansman Raymond âChuckâ Foster ended abruptly Wednesday when he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the slaying of a new recruit and was immediately sentenced to life in prison. Fosterâs plea brings an end to a case in which seven people were arrested initi ...
  • The FAIR Files: Founder Proposed ‘European-America ...
    Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), has fiercely defended the groupâs founder and current board member, John Tanton, despite his long history of racism. Just this past September, Stein told The Washington Post that Tanton is a âRenaissance manâ of wid ...
  • The FAIR Files: Is Race Destiny? Group’s TV Show A ...
    In 1996, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) undertook an experiment, creating its own TV talk show about immigration called “Borderline.” The program ran for one year on NET, a satellite TV station put together by archconservative Paul Weyrich , an anti-gay bigot who has also been ...
  • Anti-Semitic Pub Cribs Copy from ‘Elite-Controlled ...
    American Free Press , the anti-Semitic weekly that bills itself as “America’s Last Real Newspaper,” insists that it is battling a mainstream media secretly in the thrall of powerful globalists. A statement on its website screams “THE MEDIA IS THE ENEMY.” It continues: “That’s why American Free Press ...

change: org.

  • Solar Panels Luring Insects to Their Deaths
    The siren call of polarized light from solar energy panels — in this case, masquerading as water to the hapless insects buzzing by — seems to be cooking bugs sunny side up.  New research from Michigan State University shows that solar panels are beckoning bugs to their death. Attracted by water-mimi ...
  • To Solve Budget Woes, Cut Prison Spending
    We write a lot about how the prison industrial complex penalizes non-violent offenders at disproportionate rates. Men of color are far more likely to be incarcerated, and families broken apart by incarceration face more obstacles than most. So wouldn't it be nice if we could solve some of these issu ...
  • From Vogue to Vegan: U.S. Designer Ditches Leather
    It was recently announced that John Bartlett — named U.S. Designer of the Year by the American Apparel and Footwear Association — has gone vegan. Bartlett, who stopped using "fur as fabric" back in 2000, has now not only changed his personal style, but will also  discontinue the use of leather in hi ...
  • A Thank You To Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns
    Carl Wilkens is part of Change.org's Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. Many of you might remember this time last year — today actually — when Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns was murdered while on duty at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In hono ...
  • Big Ag Fails to Learn its Lesson About GMOs and He ...
    Earlier this week, I covered how weeds are becoming resistant to Monsanto's Roundup Ready herbicide. The situation's gotten so out of control that herbicide-resistant "superweeds" are choking out cotton, soybean, and corn crops throughout the U.S., sending farmers into a toxin-spraying tizzy to cont ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Ordinary Gazans, Not Hamas, Hurt Most by 3-Year Bl ...
    by Karin Laub and Diaa Hadid GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Three out of four factories in Gaza have closed because they can't import or export. Legitimate businesses have been replaced by a Hamas-controlled black market economy. Millions of gallons of sewage are pumped into the sea every day because a lac ...
  • Hope for Two-State Solution 'Beginning to Erode': ...
    WASHINGTON – Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas warned that lack of progress toward Middle East peace was eroding faith that a two-state solution could end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A day after meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House, Abbas said the stagnation of the pea ...
  • Volley of US Missiles Hits NW Pakistan in Two Sepa ...
    by Rasool Dawar DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A volley of U.S. missiles killed 15 alleged militants in an extremist stronghold in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, the second such strike in less than 12 hours, officials said. The Obama administration regards missile attacks from drone aircraft as a ke ...
  • In Afghanistan: The News is Bad
    by Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - While U.S. officials insist they are making progress in reversing the momentum built up by the Taliban insurgency over the last several years, the latest news from Afghanistan suggests the opposite may be closer to the truth. read more
  • Devastating BP Oil Spill was Inevitable as Governm ...
    by Juan Gonzalez A catastrophic oil spill was waiting to happen. That's what one expert who has studied government data on the huge and growing number of Gulf of Mexico spills is saying. "There have been thousands of spills from 1990 to 2009," said Walter Hang, head of Toxics Targeting, an Ithaca, N ...

Lifehacker

  • Keep Flash 10.1 in Full Screen on a Second Monitor ...
    With hardware-accelerated Flash 10.1 final now available , it's a good time to try out some full-screen Hulu or other videos. But click anywhere else, and the window-filling frame goes away. Here's how to keep videos playing full screen using ...
  • Keep Money in Your Pocket by Avoiding These Grocer ...
    Grocery stores go to great lengths to keep prices low while still padding their bottom line. Check out these tricks grocers use to inflate the value of their products and learn how to keep your hard-earned cash in your pocket. More�� ...
  • Google Mobile Answers Questions and Settles Bar Be ...
    Google's standard search box is learning to answer questions and show its sources, and now its mobile version is learning to do the same . Type certain types of questions into your Android search box, the Google app on iPhone, or at m.google.c ...
  • Put Up Better "Fences" Around Your Freel ...
    When you work from outside a traditional office, you lose the traditional boundaries of an office. Your clients, coworkers, and family co-exist in your inbox, on IM, and want you available any time. Learn how to raise better fences around your ...
  • Automatically Post Flickr Photos to Facebook for E ...
    You like how Flickr handles and displays your photo uploads, but far more friends are on Facebook than Flickr. A new integration between the two services makes it easy to have your photo geekery and share it, too. More�� ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Secretary Gates, Backpedaling
    By Derrick Crowe Defense Secretary Gates wants to extricate himself and the president from the impending P.R. disaster shaping up around the flailing Kandahar operation set for this Summer Fall. "I think it's important to remember that Kandahar is not Afghanistan," Gates said in comments that appear ...
  • The Peace Jirga: A Pretense At Sovereignty
    By Steve Hynd Well, Hamid Karzai has had his peace jirga and like any political conference packed with yes-men it delivered exactly what he wanted it to. But how much use will it be? Well, Karzai will use the jirga as a reason to ask for one heck of a lot of money at the upcoming Kabul Conference, t ...
  • The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Mutilated Our Econom ...
    By Derrick Crowe $1,000,000,000,000.00 As of today, that's how much we've spent just in direct costs so far on the stupid wars in Iraq and Afghanistan . One trillion dollars, gone. And we're just getting warmed up...there are trillions more in future direct and indirect costs coming. ...
  • One Trillion Bucks For War
    By Steve Hynd This Sunday, May 30, at a little after 10 a.m., the National Priorities Project's Cost of War counter will hit the $1 trillion dollar mark for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. What would you do with $1 trillion dollars, the amount that's been spent on America's invasions and long occu ...
  • Marjah A "Bleeding Ulcer": McChrystal
    By Steve Hynd When McChrystal was bulldozing his surge through the White House, some people - notably Karl�Eikenberry - forecast it would be a disaster. Eikenberry is looking increasingly prescient : a tour last week of Marjah and the nearby Nad Ali district, during which McClatchy had rare acc ...

Water Wars

  • New column lets you know what's going on this summ ...
    As a recent college graduate, managing my money is more important to me than ever, but I still want to a memorable and fantastic summer. I cant help but wonder: Is it possible to have a fun summer without sinking deeper into debt?
  • Judge Hears More Water War Testimony
    Protection of endangered species downstream from Georgia into Florida was the issue in front of a federal judge this week in Jacksonville. Its the latest court hearing in the tri-state water wars. Federal judge Paul Magnuson heard oral arguments over whether endangered mussels and other...
  • Law, policy enforcement can help plug water crisis
    As the country waits with bated breath for a normal monsoon this year, experts believe that not only India, but the whole....
  • The Les Grossman School of Branding
    Branding veteran David Brier shares how Les Grossman (played by Tom Cruise) showed us how a highly unrefined, foul-mouthed Hollywood heavyweight producer can steal the show at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards ... while leaving behind some branding lessons to live by. Les Grossman is that highly unrefined, ...
  • Entertainment a big part of SummerFest
    SummerFest events get underway Friday morning with Burgers on the River along South Union Avenue

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

  • Physical gender not determined by XY chromosomes a ...
    Via Cheryl Morgan, news of recent research that’s blown holes in a lot of our preconceptions about how the physical sex of a mammal is determined by genetics. I’ll quote Cheryl rather than the article, because she uses less sciencespeak: We have known for a long time that physical sex is much more c ...
  • The multiphrenic world: Stowe Boyd strikes back on ...
    … which is really a neologism for its own sake (a favourite gambit of Boyd’s, as far as I can tell). But let’s not distract from his radical (and lengthy) counterblast to a New York Times piece about “gadget addiction”, which chimes with Nick Carr’s Eeyore-ish handwringing over attention spans, as m ...
  • Cisco’s City-in-a-Box for the Asian expansion
    Most urban environments have accreted gradually over decades and centuries, but the changing economies of the Far East demand modern city infrastructure for millions of people where none existed before, and fast. Enter Cisco Systems, the network hardware people, and their new ‘product’: an off-the-s ...
  • Cisco’s City-in-a-Box for the Asian expansio ...
    Most urban environments have accreted gradually over decades and centuries, but the changing economies of the Far East demand modern city infrastructure for millions of people where none existed before, and fast. Enter Cisco Systems, the network hardware people, and their new ‘product’: an off-the-s ...
  • Critique, Mentors, Practice, and a Million Words o ...
    Do writers who use critique groups do better than writers who don’t? Do writers need mentors? What differentiates a bad writer from a good writer, and a good writer from a great writer? Does it always take time to develop writing skills, or do some people just have them right off? All good questions ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • False Claims Act Seminar CLE Credit Approved for P ...
    Our upcoming seminar titled “Integrating the False Claims Act into Your Law Practice” is now approved for CLE credit in Pennsylvania and Ohio for attorneys who choose to attend the seminar in our offices in Washington, D.C. Attorneys also have the option to attend via teleconference, but not for CLE ...
  • Ellsberg ciriticizes Obama for prosecution of whis ...
    Speigel Online is today releasing an interview with Daniel Ellsberg in which Ellsberg criticizes the Obama administration for increasing the use of criminal prosecutions against whistleblowers.� Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers to reveal how numerous previous administrations had resorted to lyi ...
  • Senator Grassley Backs UBS Whistleblower, Swiss Pa ...
    *This post was drafted by Meryl Grenadier (NWC fellow) In the past 24 hours there have been significant developments in the case of UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld . Three years ago, the former UBS banker provided the U.S. government with detailed information on how to identify the names o ...
  • US government arrests another whistleblower
    The U.S. government has arrested another whistleblower. Wired.com reports that the government is holding Specialist Bradley Manning in detention in Kuwait pending charges that he supplied a classified video to WikiLeaks.org.� I reported here in April that this video depicts US armed forces killing a ...
  • ALI proposes a duty of loyalty threatening to whis ...
    The American Law Institute (ALI) is a private organization of establishment lawyers and law professors that seeks to influence the law by publishing “restatements” of the law. In its noblest work, it seeks to make the law of the 50 united states more uniform by “restating” the law in a cogent organ ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant radio ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
  • 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 ...

TechDirt

  • Judge Says DHS Can't Hang Onto Travelers Laptops T ...
    We just had a story about a court ruling saying that it was okay for customs agents to take a laptop away and search it somewhere else if they had reasonable suspicion . This has followed a string of controversial court decisions , which say there are no 4th amendment rights against unreasonable se ...
  • European Privacy Czar Very Worried About ACTA
    Michael Scott points us to IPKat's coverage of a report put out by the European Data Protection Supervisor, which is in charge of privacy interests in Europe, about some serious concerns in ACTA . The report actually came out a few months ago, but just recently showed up in the Official Journal of ...
  • Canadian Court Notes That Keyword Advertising On C ...
    There have been lots of lawsuits over the concept of buying search ads based on a competitor's trademarked term as the keyword, and more and more courts seem to be realizing that there is nothing wrong with this, so long as the ads themselves are not designed to confuse users. It looks like a court ...
  • Group Claims Google Had 'Criminal Intent' In WiFi ...
    Pickle Monger points us to the news that the group Privacy International is now claiming that Google had "criminal intent" in its accidental data collection from unencrypted WiFi access points. This is, frankly, ridiculous. It takes away pretty much all credibility from Privacy International. The ...
  • SCO Loses Yet Again; Is It Finally Over?
    Is the bogus "we own Linux" lawsuit from SCO finally, finally over? I guess we can never say never, because it keeps coming back from the dead. However, it's taken another head shot. As you may recall, many years back SCO claimed to own the copyrights on Unix, and sued IBM and some other Linux us ...

VacTruth

  • HPV vaccine comes under spotlight in S. Korea
    People’s Daily Online 06/08/2010 The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, though a bit of a tongue-twister, has been one of the latest buzzwords for South Korean obstetricians and gynecologists. Many of them have lately jumped on the global bandwagon of promoting the HPV vaccines designed to protect ...
  • Only one third of young girls get HPV vaccine
    Jim Dryden Washington University in St. Louis 06/01/2010 Only about one in three young women has received the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to help prevent cervical cancer, according to a new report from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The findings are pub ...
  • Free vaccine against AH1N1 now available – D ...
    Joy Hernandez Philippine Information Agency 06/04/2010 (Editor’s note: Pay special attention to the language for words such as “erradicate, safe, efficacious, proven, etc.” as they are all propaganda language “triggers.”) San Fernando City, Pampanga (4 June) — In a bid to totally eradicate A(H1N1), ...
  • Recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Imm ...
    Cynthia A. Janak Renew America 06/06/2010 This report just makes my blood boil because of all the misinformation that they provide to make these vaccines appear to be safe. The recommendations in this portion of the document prove that the health and wellbeing of our children come in second to prof ...
  • Top 10 vaccine stories of the year (so far)
    There are many stories concerning vaccines. We took the liberty of taking the top 10 stories of the year for the first six months of 2010. Enjoy!

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    I really wish I wrote this article on marriage. Here is an inside look at boot camp.  Seem to be quite a few people out there who became anarchists because of their military experience.  Perhaps we should station ourselves outside forts and hand out copies of anarchist texts? Just kidding.  Prett ...
  • Anarchy, Disability, Purity, and Doubt
    I’ve been thinking about the Americans with Disabilities Act and about a conversation I recently had about social security.  You would think that, as an anarchist who wants a stateless society, I would be against both.  That would be the ideologically pure position, no?  To be honest, I’ve had a ...
  • Vilifying Palestinians, Erasing Movements
    There is no justification for the actions that the Israeli government took this week.  There is no justification for the blockade on Gaza.  There is no defense for allowing settlers to invade Palestinian land, eating it up piece by piece.  The apartheid in Israel/Palestine is immoral, unjust, inh ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Issue number 5 of the ALLiance journal is out.  This issue focuses on radical labor, especially the IWW.  Some good stuff in there (and I’m not just saying that because they included one of my articles). I wanted to stand up and cheer when I read this article about misogyny in radical movements.  ...
  • Neruda on Memorials
    Nothing I could say today that Neruda didn’t say better. (My crap English translation is below.) Sangrienta fue toda tierra del hombre. Tiempo, edificaciones, rutas, lluvia, borran las constelaciones del crimen, lo cierto es que un planeta tan pequeño fue mil veces cubierto por la sangre, guerra o ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
    As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
  • بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
    مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
  • السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
    اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة ...
  • Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
    Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
  • Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
    Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

Dark Politricks

  • Establishment Exploits OKC Bombing Victims To Push ...
  • Knee-Jerk No Fly Ban Discredits Global Warming Ala ...
    Fearmongering by Met Office voodoo scientists about planes dropping out of the sky contradicted by numerous successful test flights Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 19, 2010 With European governments coming under increasing pressure from airline groups to re-open airspace follow ...
  • Air France, Lufthansa Press for Airspace Re-Openin ...
    Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
  • NPR and CNN worry that Global Warming may have cau ...
    John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
  • Poll: Americans’ distrust of federal government is ...
    Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...

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

  • Massive Flow of Bullshit Continues from BP: The On ...
    Image credit: The Onion Apparently it's not just BP failing f***ing booming school we have to worry about anymore. Nor the terrible effect that the oil spill is having on UK pensions (I hope someone told the sea turtles!). If The Onion is to believed, there's an even more menacing threat. B ...
  • The Week in Pictures: BP Could Go Bankrupt Over Gu ...
    In BP oil spill news this week, the media is making much of the fact that the company's daily profits are higher than its daily cleanup costs. But that's changing fast, it's possible that the Gulf spill will end up bankrupting the oil giant. An oil spill expert and animal biologist says, "Kill, ...
  • World Cup: What to Wear When Watching It
    Image from Philosophers Football Sic transit. We asked this important question in 2006 when the World Cup for football (soccer) was held in Germany and here we are again still pondering the universe, as the championship moves to South Africa. We know that the teams will be sporting jerseys b ...
  • Solar Panels Fatally Attractive to Aquatic Insects
    Photo: Flickr , CC "Like going to the most amazing 3D movie you've ever seen and you can't leave" A new study discovered that solar panels are apparently mesmerizing to certain types of insects (mostly aquatic). What happens is that solar panels reflect light in a way that is similar to how wa ...
  • Coffee Table Doubles as Hand-Cranked Paper Shredde ...
    Design*Sponge Pigeontail Design shreds your junk mail or those annoying bill that you want to avoid into attractive colourful strips of shredded paper. It's hand-cranked, too. They call it the Papervore. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Biosingularity

  • Novozymes reveals knowledge on new antibiotic agai ...
    Scientists from Novozymes have now found the mechanism by which plectasin, an anti-microbial peptide, kills bacteria that cause severe infections in humans. Peptide antibiotics such as plectasin have retained antibiotic activity throughout evolution. The new knowledge shows that plectasin and other ...
  • First Self-Replicating, Synthetic Bacterial Cell C ...
    Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute JCVI, a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell. The team synthesized the 1.08 million base pair chromosome of a modified Mycoplas ...
  • Bran Reduces Heart Disease Deaths
    People with diabetes who eat plenty of bran-rich whole grains appear to have a reduced risk of death from heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular causes, a new study shows. Researchers from Harvard University followed almost 8,000 nurses with type 2 diabetes for almost three decades. They fou ...
  • Examining Individual Tumor Cells
    Despite decades of research into cancer biology, researchers still dont fully understand what happens to the malignant cells DNA as they mutate. Its not an idle question: The better biologists appreciate how DNA changes, the better they can create therapies that specifically target the disease. Now ...
  • Olive Oil May Cut Risk of Ulcerative Colitis
    Two or three tablespoons a day of olive oil may help protect against ulcerative colitis, preliminary research suggests.In a new study, people with the highest consumption of oleic acid — a monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid found in olive oil, peanut oil, and grapeseed oil, as well as in butter and ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

  • Once a government pet, BP now a capitalist tool
    Now that BP̢۪s oil rig has caused the biggest environmental disaster in American history, the Left is pulling the same bogus trick it did with Enron and AIG: Whenever a company earns universal ire, declare it the poster boy for the free market.
  • CFACT update from Bonn climate talks
    Discord, blame and profiteering at UN Bonn climate conference as UN scrambles to get climate treaty back on track; calls for developed nations to repay 'climate debt' and an 'international court of climate and environmental justice' to prosecute developed world.
  • Ken Cuccinelli v. 810 academics
    There is simply no room in science, academia or public policy for manipulation, falsification or fraud. Academic freedom does not confer a right to engage in such practices, and both attorneys general and research institutions have a duty to root them out, especially in the case of climate change re ...
  • Presidential chemo-phobia?
    Don̢۪t look for any new science in this new President̢۪s Report. There isn̢۪t any. It̢۪s just the same old fears and alarms that have circulated since Rachel Carson.
  • BP Oil Spill Resources
    Who is helping to contain the Gulf oil spill disaster?

Ria Novosti Online News

  • Shaghai Cooperation Organization
    The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a regional intergovernmental security alliance involving Russia, China and four Asian states.
  • Russia, Ukraine to set up joint aircraft venture s ...
    Russia and Ukraine may set up a joint venture to promote Ukrainian aircraft in the near future, the Russian ambassador to Kiev said on Friday.
  • American democracy and Iraqi economy
    In the beginning of US intervention in Iraq there was talking that democratization will lead to the economic prosperity. In practice it turned out to be wrong.
  • AVTOVAZ to take part in Chechen car holding
    Russia's largest car maker, AVTOVAZ, plans to take part in creation of an 12 billion rouble automotive holding in the Chechen Republic, according to project documents.
  • The Specter of Revanchist
    Last May Minister-President of Bavaria Horst Seehofer stated officially that he would visit the Czech Republic. The seemingly unremarkable announcement in fact made a sensation of regional proportions due to its relation to the theme of World War II.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Will public anxiety on the oil spill be harnessed ...
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post One of the striking features of contemporary Washington is the unwillingness to appeal to a sense of common purpose or shared sacrifice (except in the perennially favored Beltway project to shred what’s left of the safety net). Mayb ...
  • Maybe They're Planning a Coast-To-Coast Spending S ...
    Ben Bernanke (emph. added): “Right now I don’t think is the time — this very moment is not the time — to radically reduce our spending or raise our taxes because the economy is still in recovery mode and needs that support.” Could he explain how Dan Duncan’s descendants will provide a superior macr ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Abbreviated “power outage during usual blogging time” edition. To the extent that Barack Obama is expanding the nature and scope of America’s use of violence he is a much, much more lawless and bellicose president than his predecesso ...
  • Miscellany
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I’m on semi-vacation this week, so here’s a semi-post. The worst case is not leaking until Christmas . The worst case is leaking until all the oil is gone. We ought to make that our default assumption and only adjust it in the face ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Remember the Cato institute’s “I have little to worry about , of course, because I’m not an illegal immigrant”? I wonder if Eduardo Caraballo has the same placid view of the situation. This is an era of nativism, and supposedly res ...

Natural Health News

  • Long-Term Study Links Chronic Insomnia to Increase ...
    People with chronic insomnia have an elevated risk of death. Research indicates that the adjusted hazard ratio for all-cause mortality was three times higher in people with chronic insomnia. The risk of death was elevated for all subtypes of insomnia. The risk of death was highest in individuals wi ...
  • B Vitamins Lead to Happier Seniors
    Increased intakes of B vitamins could reduce the risk of seniors developing depression. In a recent study, for every 10 milligram increase in the intake of vitamin B6 and for every 10 microgram increase in vitamin B12, the risk of developing symptoms of depression were decreased by 2 percent per y ...
  • Bright Light Therapy Improves Sleep Disturbances i ...
    Bright light therapy can have significant effects on sleep disturbances associated with combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder. Bright light therapy was also shown to produce a moderate improvement in PTSD symptoms and depression. A study looked 16 soldiers with combat-related PTSD.� Eight o ...
  • Australia's Chief Medical Officer Declares Flu Vac ...
    Australia's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jim Bishop, has announced that after considering the results of a comprehensive study regarding the safety of seasonal flu vaccine, he has advised the suspension of season flu vaccination for healthy children under the age of five years. The investigatio ...
  • Popular Pain Pills Increase Heart-Related Deaths
    A large study has found that some of the most popular pain pills are associated with a higher risk of heart-related deaths. Researchers investigated the health records of more than a million healthy people over the age of 10.� They found some pain medications were linked to more heart-related deat ...

Antemedius

  • BP's Perjury Corner - Hardball With Mike Papantoni ...
    As oil continues to gush from the BP site in the Gulf of Mexico, so do the lies coming from the BP spin machine. Attorney Mike Papantonio is working to hold British Petroleum accountable for the damage that they are causing the environment, and working on a class action suit against BP on behalf of ...
  • Mass Murder in Charlottesville, Virginia
    By David Swanson During the past five years since I moved back to Charlottesville, Virginia, I had yet to observe the slightest violent incident, prior to the recent spree of horrific mass murders. There was crime, but I hadn't ever seen it. I had only heard about it in the local media. First there ...
  • It’s All About the Process
    Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet . Zambian grocery stores are filled with processed foods from around the world, from crackers made in Argentina and soy milk from China to popular U.S. breakfast cereals. In addition to these foreign foods, however, are also variety of l ...
  • Traditional Food Crops Provide Community Resilienc ...
    Thanks to Dr. Soul Shava, Training Manager at the Aurecon Training Academy, in Pretoria, South Africa for sharing a recent study , by researchers from Rhodes and Cornell Universities and the Sebakwe Black Rhino Conservation Trust , on indigenous crops with the Nourishing the Planet project. We encou ...
  • Mother Mother Ocean
    A couple of weeks ago on May 17 we heard and saw Ritter Professor of Oceanography and Director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Jeremy Jackson talk about and show us the shockingly overfished, overheated, and polluted state of our ocea ...

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 ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • The Push for More School Food Production Gardens c ...
    On Saturday, June 5th, DC Prep Academy Charter School and Rails to Trails Conservancy teamed up to add another urban/school garden into the growing rolls of urban agriculture taking place around the country. The 1000 square foot garden set in Northeast D.C.’s Edgewood community will combine an edibl ...
  • Oil disaster may not affect seafood prices drastic ...
    The Deepwater Horizon/ BP oil rig has been leaking for seven weeks and counting, and is already responsible for one of the worst environmental disasters in our nation’s history. The spill, among other things, highlights our intimate connection to aquatic ecosystems. Last week, the National Oceanog ...
  • AVMA Member Hopeful Association Will Revisit Antim ...
    U.S. industrial animal agriculture routinely incorporates low-dose concentrations of antimicrobials into the feed or water of healthy production animals for the purposes of growth promotion and feed efficiency, an application approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This practice sel ...
  • Eat Less Meat, Eat Better Meat
    The list of Meatless Monday supporters continues to grow across the globe, and surprisingly to some, many of the latest enthusiasts make their living either cooking meat, such as chef Mario Batali or producing it, like rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman. What makes Meatless Monday so successful is its sim ...
  • Nearly 1,000 Chefs Answer First Lady ‘s Call to Ad ...
    History was made Friday in Washington, DC as hundreds of chefs from more than 37 states descended on the South Lawn of the White House in hopes of accomplishing one thing — bringing an end to childhood obesity. Each of these gastronomical experts answered the call of First Lady Michelle Obama to ado ...

Norwegianity

  • Nothing says justice like additional legal fees
    Koua Fong Lee’s new lawyer, Brent Schafer, wants a new trial. Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner refuses to acknowledge her office’s wrongful prosecution of Koua Fong Lee for criminal vehicular homicide despite our now knowing Lee’s real crime was that of having purchased a Toyota. A Toyota that ...
  • Thursday night random porn
    Another week another randomly generated iPorno: Clinique des Phantasmes ***** Starring the irrepressible Alban Ceray opposite the ever doable Brigitte Lahaie. No details as to the storyline as the download didn’t have subtitles (or much of a plot). Bonus stars for foot fetishism, laundrogyny, phon ...
  • Why isn’t anyone asking about the voting mac ...
    It wasn’t just Vic Rawls losing to Alvin Greene. South Carolina’s Jim Clyburn says there were two other mystery Democratic candidates who ran in the Democratic primaries and one of them also won a huge upset. Unlike Greene, who appears to have mounted no campaign at all, Brown actually mustered a ca ...
  • Beating up Helen Thomas (because Pat Buchanan&#821 ...
    Give the right/establishment credit. Given a chance to stomp someone, they put on their heaviest boots. James Wolcott and others pick up on Robert Scheer’s defense of Helen Thomas, then Wolcott mixes in some of Gary Leupp’s allegations. Astonishingly, NPR’s ombudsperson has warned the White House no ...
  • All the results that money could buy
    The bad news is that Blanche Lincoln survived, the good news is that it was close enough that none of the election night summaries bother to tell you how close. 10,000 votes. That’s close, and had the state party not done it’s damnedest to prevent voting in Halter’s stronghold county, it would have ...

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

  • One Facebook, Two Faces: A Piece By A Virtually De ...
    I had been banned from Facebook and my account had been disabled a night before Facebook was banned in Pakistan. Before all this happened, I visited the blasphemous page “Draw Muhammad Day” and the content on the page hurt me badly. Once again a certain group of westerners called it the “freedom of ...
  • New Chemical Element Discovered In Pakistan
    Pakistani researchers have discovered the heaviest element yet known to science. The new element, so far only discovered and found in Pakistan , has been named Zardarium (Symbol = Zm). It has one Presitron, 1 Priministron, 77 Ministrons, 98 deputy Ministrons, 298 National Assemblions, and 100 Senatr ...
  • At least we are not Dubai
    We haven’t got a lot to be thankful for these days in Pakistan. But at least we are not Dubai. Fed up with loadshedding, bombs, and TV cynicism pervading Pakistan, I recently escaped to Dubai for a holiday. Big mistake. Huge. Ten days later I returned, gasping for Karachi’s polluted, but far sweete ...
  • 9/11 Hijackers Not on Flight Manifests?
    The claim that no Arab names appeared on the flight manifests for the planes hijacked on the morning of September 11, 2001 arose shortly after the terrorist attacks, and variations on the theme have persisted to this day. The claim initially arose when lists of passengers published by CNN, The Guar ...
  • Video of girl’s flogging in Swat was ‘fake’
    A resident of Swat, who claims to have prepared the fake video of flogging of a girl in Swat, has termed it drama and revealed that he received Rs0.5 million for doing so before the launch of military operation âRah-e-Rastâ. Before the operation âRah-e-Rastâ, an NGO financed preparation of f ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Leahy and DeFazio Circulate “Dear Colleague& ...
    ACTION ALERT: Senator Leahy and Representative DeFazio are circulating a Congressional sign-on letter in the House and Senate “Asking USDA to Maintain the Ban on Genetically Engineered Alfalfa.”   Contact your Senators and Representative today and ask them to sign on!  Filed under: GE Crops, GE Fo ...
  • Update: CFS Fighting Monsanto in the Supreme Court ...
    On Tuesday April 27, 2010 the United States Supreme Court heard argument in the Center for Food Safety’s case against Monsanto (Monsanto v Geertson Seed Farms), the first-ever Supreme Court case about genetically engineered crops. Watch a short message from CFS Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell, an ...
  • Special Messages from Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiv ...
        Filed under: Factory Farming, Food Safety, GE Crops, GE Food, Organics, Politics and Policy, Take Action
  • CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY PRESENTS ARGUMENTS BEFORE S ...
    High Court Hears Arguments In First-ever Case on Genetically Engineered Crops States, Scientists, Organic and Conventional Farmers, Food Companies, Exporters, and Legal Scholars File Briefs in Support, Oppose Monsanto Today the Center for Food Safety (CFS) faces off against Monsanto in the U.S. Supr ...
  • Happy Earth Day!
    This Earth Day, we wanted to take a moment to thank you for your continued support! We are honored by how many of you have joined and supported us in our efforts towards a just and sustainable food supply that supports both healthy people and a healthy planet. One of the primary reasons CFS challeng ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • WHO’S KNOCKING ON EASTERN DOOR?
    MNN. Nov. 7, 2009. Are we Mohawks unwitting pawns in a power struggle between colonial thugs? We are the Keepers of the Eastern Door of Great Turtle Island. Agents are hanging around us all the time trying to gather information. Why? How to disrupt a Mohawk community. Kanehsatake was declared as hav ...
  • EXCLUSIVE: New Video Smuggled Out from Mavi Marmar ...
    EXCLUSIVE: New Video Smuggled Out from Mavi Marmara of Israel's Deadly Assault on Gaza Aid Flotilla-Democracy Now! : "In a Democracy Now! exclusive, we bring you a sneak preview of previously unseen raw footage from the Mavi Marmara that will be formally released at a press conference at the United ...
  • Arizona: For Whites Only?
    Arizona: For Whites Only? | The Atlanta Post by R. L’Heureux Lewis Recently, I penned a piece discussing the need for Black folks to join in with the fight against Arizona’s racist immigration bill SB 1070. My goal was to challenge Black folks, to think beyond the immediate immigration bill to the ...
  • Justice: Policing the innocent, domestically and a ...
    altmuslim - Justice: Policing the innocent, domestically and abroad By Muneera Shariff Gardezi, June 9, 2010 Oscar could be you Los Angeles, California “You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.” - Ho Chi Minh We’ ...
  • Young Sid: "I did it for my city".
    �By Omar Hamed Source South Auckland rapper Young Sid has just released his second album What Doesn’t Kill Me. The songs provide a gritty sequel to Smashproof’s The Weekend and provide the listener with new maps of the south Auckland underworld. In this review Omar Hamed argues that Young ...

Pensieve

  • Agatha’s Aftermath in Tegucigalpa
    Over the weekend, tropical storm Agatha, the first of 2010, deluged Central America. Rain had already been falling for weeks in some localities, which brought a level of devastation unheard of since Hurricane Mitch 12 years ago. Over a hundred people lost their lives, 17 or 18 of them in Honduras. H ...
  • Lobo Will Go But Not Attend EU Summit
    The BBC has clarified my confusion around Honduran President Porfirio Lobo’s presence in the EU Summit. He will attend a parallel event, but not the summit itself. This is to appease the Chavez block who seemingly will never forgive Honduras for removing their ally Manuel Zelaya from office. His coa ...
  • False Report, Lobo Attending EU Summit
    To my relief, the report in the Proceso Digital newspaper that I blogged about earlier was false. Mr. Lobo has confirmed that he will attend the summit, criticizing those who oppose his presence as “arrogant” and “pretentious”. It is unclear to me whether Lobo changed his mind, or that the Proceso ...
  • Lobo Defers To Chavez Bullying
    Porfirio Lobo Sosa has reportedly eliminated much of the advantage he once had over Hugo Chavez after declining an invitation to an EU Summit. A blustering Hugo Chávez had threatened a 10-nation-strong boycott of the event should Lobo attend. I hope this news item proves to be false! Mr. Lobo has sp ...
  • Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer
    A post pointing to the the obvious lack of innovation in Hollywood through the use of a You-Tube video. Related posts:Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sexual Harassment? YouTube Taking Forever Related posts: Adorable Little Girl Recites Psalm 23 Link: Inter-species Sex ...

Green Times

  • Environmental News -10/06/10
    Environmental News Snakes may be in decline worldwide Distinct populations of snake species on three continents have crashed over the past decade, raising fears that the reptiles might be in global decline. The pattern across the eight species monitored was alarmingly similar despite th ...
  • What’s on 7 June 2010
    In the past few years a growing number of environmental films and documentaries has been produced and screened around the world, with sustainability, climate change, green living and environmental protection being increasingly hot topics. The 2010 Sydney Film Festival confirms this trend with the sc ...
  • River Red Gums Triumph
    Home to one of the largest ecosystems in Australia, the River Red Gum forest in NSW has been a political battleground…
  • Environmental News -02/06/10
    Environmental News Plastics found in the seas around Antarctica Man-made plastics have found their way to the most remote and inaccessible seas in the world off the coast of Antarctica, scientists have discovered. The seas around continental Antarctica are the last place on Earth scient ...
  • Inspired to Stay Grounded
    Stay grounded [pun intended], save money and save the environment! We take a look at an inspiring business initiative: Fly Free Week!

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Italian flotilla journalist: My credit card was us ...
    ShareThis Italian flotilla journalist: My credit card was used after IDF confiscated it --Journalist Manolo Luppichini has written Netanyahu, Peres, Barak, Lieberman and Israel's ambassador in Italy over the matter . 11 Jun 2010 Manolo Luppichini was aboard the Sfintoni-8000, one of the smaller boat ...
  • New Estimates Double Rate of Oil That Flowed Into ...
    ShareThis New Estimates Double Rate of Oil That Flowed Into Gulf 10 Jun 2010 A government panel on Thursday essentially doubled its estimate of how much oil has been spewing from the out-of-control BP well, with the new calculation suggesting that an amount equivalent to the Exxon Valdez disaster co ...
  • Cameron abandons visit to military base after 'ass ...
    ShareThis Cameron abandons visit to military base after 'assassination plot' uncovered 11 Jun 2010 A Taliban plot to kill David Cameron in Afghanistan was foiled by intelligence officers yesterday. They tapped into a telephone call that revealed a plan to down a helicopter at a forward base the Prim ...
  • Plight For Pelicans: Oil Puts Nesting Season At Ri ...
    ShareThis Plight For Pelicans: Oil Puts Nesting Season At Risk 09 Jun 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil is menacing one of the best wildlife recovery stories: brown pelicans. Biologists are saving as many individual birds as they can, but they say the oil has arrived on Louisiana's coast at the worst possi ...
  • At least $500 million spent constructing prison ca ...
    ShareThis At least $500 million spent constructing prison camps, renovating Guantanamo Bay 07 Jun 2010 At the U.S. naval station here, a handsome electronic sign hangs between two concrete pillars...The cost of the marquee, along with a smaller sign positioned near the airfield: $188,000. Among othe ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Israel about to criminalize BDS
    What is Israel’s reaction to the growing nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, and sanctions? Well criminalize it, of course! We just learned new bill has been introduced in the Israeli Knesset by 25 Knesset members, that would criminalize all BDS activities or even BDS advocacy inside or outs ...
  • Helen Thomas response, hypocrisy here and there
    By Cecilie Surasky, crossposted from Muzzlewatch.com It’s impossible to defend White House Grande Dame of journalism Helen Thomas’ recent off the cuff statement that Israeli Jews should go back to Germany…..or Poland. (She said Israel should get out of Palestine, but it wasn’t clear if she mea ...
  • Our 2 Op-Eds in the Israeli Press about Israel&#82 ...
    (crossposted on Daily Kos) In April, in anticipation of Israel’s independence day, fellow Israeli activist Ofer Neiman sent us an op-ed for feedback. I ended up co-signing the article. It appeared on Ynet, the website of Israel’s largest daily. I planned to translate it to English but was too busy. ...
  • The Banality of Occupation
    While the world has been rightfully focused on the Gaza Flotilla, the banality of occupation goes on.  In this video (originally posted on Coteret), a twelve year old boy is arrested in Bil’in.  An international activist and the boy’s mother plead with the soldiers to release him, but the soldiers ...
  • Links and Video about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
    Documents explaining international law and law of sea applicable to the Flotilla: Video: Daniel Machover, Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights, summary of analysis of international law applicable to flotilla attack. Downlaodable Documents: Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights document analyz ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Border shooting video of 15 year old killed suppos ...
    From Naked Capitalism This video from a Mexican news broadcast… illustrates one of the mechanisms of propaganda: how the non or under reporting of key facts is used to manage popular perceptions. This video appears getting play only on CNN and some local newstations in the US. The newswoman says t ...
  • Marine techie: Drop the Mother Of All Bombs down t ...
    Use a 21,000-pound megamunition to generate a king-sized shock wave that would force those leaking pipes on the seabed shut. Deploying the GBU-43 MOAB â known as the “Massive Ordnance Air Burst” or “Mother of All Bombs” â would be “proven, safe and ‘green,’” Gayl tells our pal David Axe, of War ...
  • Rainproof solar LED bulb
    Nokero hopes their solar LED will allow those in the developing world to have cheap, clean, safe light, by replacing dangerous, toxic kerosene lamps.
  • BP spills coffee
    This is a hoot.
  • Afghanistan: What Happens When Our Allies “Do More ...
    As the US campaign in Helmand and Kandahar, blame has increasingly shifted toward allies like NATO, Karzai, and Pakistan. The US wants them to "do more." But they are doing more. The problem is not our allies, but the war itself.

Coteret

  • Fellini in Bilin
    Watch this video from the suppression Friday’s  (June 4 2010) anti-Barrier protest at the West Bank village of Bilin. From 01:40 begins a scene which could have come straight from Satyricon: A group of helmeted, visored, and armored soldiers with long rectangular shields assaults a parade float o ...
  • Hasbara Derangement Syndrome
    Watching yesterday’s (June 6 2010) Israeli Channel Ten TV evening news, I had the dubious pleasure of watching a Caroline Glick and her merry band of Hasbaristas celebrate. They were sitting around Glick’s kitchen table, clinking champagne glasses. At one point, the hostess banged on the table and a ...
  • Caroline Glick’s “We Con the World&#82 ...
    On Friday (June 4 2010,) uber-blogger Andrew Sullivan of the Atlantic published a post entitled Israel Derangement Syndrome III. It linked to We Con the World, a remarkable video clip produced by Latma, the right-wing satire project lead by Caroline Glick, who doubles as The Jerusalem Post’s De ...
  • Elliott Abrams to Maariv: Obama’s policies b ...
    Last weekend, Sheldon Adelson’s Israel Hayom featured Newt Gingrinch warning Israelis that Obama’s policies could lead to “a second Holocaust.” Now, Elliott Abrams is in Israel for an event organized by Dore Gold’s neoconservative institute, the JCPA, and the competition, Maariv, interviews him o ...
  • Maariv and Yediot: Erdogan landed military planes ...
    This appears to be an extraordinary story, from this morning’s Yediot (June 2 2010, full translated text below, Hebrew original here and at bottom of post): Yesterday, the Turkish authorities demanded that Israel release all 350 of the Turkish citizens who were among the 600 foreign detainees.  For ...

Deadline Live

  • “Truth Movement” A band by Corey Feldm ...
    http://www.myspace.com/technologyanalogy TRUTH MOVEMENT TO TOUR THIS SUMMER!!! TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED BELOW!!!! At long last TRUTH MOVEMENT’S TOUROLOGY ANALOGY IS HERE!!!!! Finally after years of anticipation, Truth Movement is touring America this summer!!!The album Technology Analogy is available ...
  • This Day In History – June 11
    1184 BC – Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes. 1594 – Philip II recognizes the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paves way to the creation of the Principalía (i.e., elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Ph ...
  • Karachi-gate: The story Nicolas Sarkozy wishes wou ...
    Executives from the company known as Heine, who would have played the roll as a channel for the Agosta submarine contract commissions to fund the Edouard Balladur campaign in 1995, wrote to French government leaders in 2006, requesting “instructions” and stressing the “great urgency to act.” - By An ...
  • Sting, Soros, Montel and More: We Are the Drug Pol ...
    ED Note: Is George Soros attempting to cut the legs out from under the Old World Order. What would the old guard do w/ out their dope money? It’s time now for DPA to launch a new organizational identity that fully expresses each of our roles as agents of change. By Ethan Nadelmann, AlterNet Posted ...
  • MKULTRA – The Strange Story of Sally Hartman
    Thursday 10 June 2010 by: H.P. Albarelli Jr., t r u t h o u t | Interview On 26 October, [redacted], an employee of the [redacted], contacted the Office of the Inspector General here at the Agency and related the following information. His wife, whose maiden name is [redacted], was previously marri ...

The Air Vent

  • More UN alarmism exposed by Climatequotes blog
    Reposted from Climatequotes blog, click the headline for the original. TEEB report has multiple errors in first chapter alone, Part #1 It’s been quiet here for over a month. This has been a busy time for me, I am now a college graduate (and looking for a job, know of any?). I intend to continue [... ...
  • Pollarizing the discussion
    Sorry folks, no time to play today — again.  Has anyone paid any attention to the idiotic climate poles lately? Stanford survey finds more doubt global warming And from more leftists at Grist. New poll shows (again) that public likes clean energy, doesnât like taxes
  • Natural Warming
    Roy Spencer has another interesting post where he uses PDO, AMO and SOI to predict the warming post 1978. He used the 3 factors and temperature to calculate a weighting factor in pre-1960 and it resulted in a prediction of warming in the post 1978 timeframe.  Recently Eric Steig challenged us to be ...
  • No more free speech, Obama thinks it should cost
    We have to get these corrupt liberals out of office asap.  This is as evil as anything any government can do, and is nothing less than a full takeover of the media. A link to the official documents is here. new-staff-discussion[1] It’s bad enough that our extremist in chief doesn’t need to answer d ...
  • A little truth would be nice
    Ok, Climate Audit has a post on a reply from Ronald Oxburgh (of the Oxburg coverup of climategate) to a request from Steve McIntyre for documentation of papers and procedures in the investigation.  Steve did a fine job venting on it – it turns out that Canadians do get wound up on occasion, but the ...

Focal Point

  • BP Spills Coffee (Video)
    UCB Comedy shows what happens when someone upends a cup of joe at BP HQ. Photo credit: Flickr user TN Something Special Cakes , licensed under Creative Commons.
  • U.S. Intel Analyst Arrested Over Release of Combat ...
    A 22-year-old U.S. intelligence analyst has been arrested for allegedly giving classified combat footage of a U.S. helicopter crew killing civilians to Wikileaks , an online repository of leaked documents. The footage made international headlines because it appeared to show a helicopter crew deliber ...
  • The Capitalist Conspiracy Against Glenn Beck
    As a shock jock radio DJ, Glenn Beck he called his rival's wife to make fun of her recent miscarriage on the air. It's that humanistic spirit that has suffuses Beck's broadcasting career to this day--whether he's ridiculing 11-year-old Malia Obama , stoking paranoia about "czars", shilling for gold ...
  • Caught on Tape: NYPD Cooking the Books and Cocking ...
    God bless whistleblowers. Graham Rayman and the Village Voice obtained hundreds of hours of covertly recorded audio from one disgruntled Bed-Stuy cop: Two years ago, a police officer in a Brooklyn precinct became gravely concerned about how the public was being served. To document his concerns, ...
  • A Pelican Crucified: A Pulitzer for Wildlife Photo ...
    Charlie Riedel of the Associated Press deserves a Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the oil-slicked pelicans of the Louisiana coast. It would be an unconventional choice. Human subjects have consistently hogged the spotlight in Breaking News Photography and Feature Photography . These aren't just pi ...

Inside Facebook

  • Creative Games Dominate This Week’s List of Emergi ...
    Only four non-game apps grace this week’s list of emerging Facebook apps, defined as those still under a million monthly active users. As is usually the case, that’s not because of a total lack of creative apps — several interesting ones are listed in lower rankings — but because this is [...]
  • Investment Opportunities in Social Apps – Not Just ...
    Smaller developers have been getting bought right and left this spring, and companies of all sizes are upping their bets on social gaming with new funding rounds. The industry is well on its way to contribute $835 million to the $1.6 billion US virtual goods market this year.  And even though man ...
  • Facebook’s Video Stats Show Growth in Uploads and ...
    Facebook disclosed this week that more than 20 million videos are uploaded to the social networking site every month, helping to generate more than 2 billion video views over the same period. The pace at which people are uploading videos to Facebook has started to grow a lot more quickly in 2010 th ...
  • Facebook Integration Now Live in Bing Social Searc ...
    Microsoft search engine Bing has just launched a new social sub-site (http://www.bing.com/social), allowing users to search through Facebook Page updates and links publicly posted to personal profiles. These results are posted alongside tweets on the Social home page, which Microsoft hopes will beco ...
  • Brazil’s Growth Rate Fell, While Other Latin Ameri ...
    [Editor's Note: The following stats are excerpted from Inside Facebook Gold, our membership service tracking Facebook's business and growth around the world. Click here to learn more about our complete data and analysis offering.] Growth rates for some of Latin America’s largest countries remain ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Moral failure of American liberals. A defence of H ...
    Jonathan Cook argues that the overreaction of the US political and media elite to Helen Thomas’s unguarded comments that Jews ought to leave Palestine and return to the countries whence they came highlights the moral failure of American liberals and a blindness to the relations of power in the US, a ...
  • Pro-peace lobbying in US Congress conspicuous by i ...
    Sama Adnan argues that the failure of American pro-peace organizations to extend their work to lobbying in Congress has allowed the Israel lobby to control the US legislature as well as the state and defence departments because the Senate “through confirmation hearings for the president’s appointees ...
  • Israeli MP who joined flotilla faces witch-hunt
    Jonathan Cook reports that an Israeli Arab MP, Haneen Zoubi, who has testified that she had seen passengers on board the Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara shot in the head by Israeli soldiers and others left to bleed to death, is now facing a possible trial and revocation of her citizenship f ...
  • Israel’s cult of victimhood. “Barefoot” soldiers o ...
    Jonathan Cook considers the collective psychosis which leads Israelis to view Jews by definition as victims even when they are aggressors and the gentile victims of Jewish violence as Jew-haters set on eliminating the Jews.
  • You’re talking bollox, Mr Regev. A short primer on ...
    Stuart Littlewood deconstructs the Israeli propaganda that has been flooding the airwaves following Israel’s murder of humanitarian activists aboard the Gaza-bound international aid flotilla, most notably from the orifice of the Israeli prime minister’s spokesman, Australian-born Mark Regev, and deb ...

Amazon Rainforest

  • Second rancher sentenced for contract kill of Doro ...
    A second rancher has been sentenced for his role in the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun who was gunned down in 2005 for her efforts on behalf of poor farmers in the Amazon Rainforest. Regivaldo Galvao was sentenced to 30 years in prison by a jury in the city of Pará. Last month [...]
  • Yasuni National Park- SAVED!
    President Raphael Correa now has approved an agreement to leave Ecuador’s largest oil reserves, amounting to some 900 million barrels, underground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for more than $3 billion. Under the unprecedented agreement, known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, the government of Ec ...
  • Amazon watchgroups SILENT over new Chevron oil spi ...
    In the space of a week, a Chevron technical team has discovered two fresh oil spills in Ecuador’s oil-producing Amazon region. One covers three hectares (7.4 acres) near state-owned oil company Petroecuador’s Guanta production station in the heart of Cofan indigenous country. The other impacts half ...
  • Amazon River dolphin new stunning photos!
    The Amazon River dolphin (Bufeo, Bufeo Colorado, Boto, Boto Cor de Rosa, Boutu, Nay, Tonina) or Pink River Dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), is a freshwater River dolphin endemic to the Orinoco, Amazon and Araguaia/Tocantins River systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. These we ...
  • Belo Monte dam auction proceeds despite protests!
    Bidding for electricity generated by Brazil’s planned Belo Monte Dam in the Amazon rainforest has been marked by protests and legal confusion. A court injunction issued late Monday suspended the dam auction overnight, throwing the bidding process into a state of chaos. Just moments before the aucti ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Jamiol Presents
    Here is a great toon from Paul Jamiol, originally posted here: http://jamiolsworld.com/ ; I recommend bookmarking his website, and of course check it out daily!  
  • Podcast Show #29
    The Boiling Frogs Presents Peter Phillips   Peter Phillips describes Project Censored, its mission, operational style and funding, then talks about what he has coined as ‘Truth Emergency,’ and provides examples such as the intentional misreporting of the number of civilian deaths in the Iraq war, ...
  • Updates & Multi-Week Round Up for May 31
    Still Alive & Kicking, A Scholar For All Seasons Or Agendas?, Terrorization & De-Terrorization Flip This is going to come as a relief to some and as a major disappointment to others: I am alive and almost back! As my long-term readers know I almost never share personal details here, and I am not abo ...
  • Thinking the Unthinkable in the Aftermath of Kanda ...
    The Battle for Kandahar & The “Perceptions” of American Victory The upcoming campaign for the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar will be the crucial test for the United States’ military and the Obama administration’s AfPak strategy. It will clearly be an epic military battle and a test of the intellectu ...
  • Jamiol Presents

Afro Spear

  • Should Black Women Stop Getting Abortions?
    Excellent article at The Black Love Speak Column. Although I am sharing it here, I encourage comments to be made also at the original article. If you live in Atlanta, Macon, or Augusta GA, you may have come across one of these signs. Black & Unwanted billboards are springing up in various areas of G ...
  • Why is AU doing Bashir’s dirty laundry?
    This is none than African Union (AU) Chief Jean Ping. This gentleman originates from Gabon, the country that suffered a great deal more thanks to be manned and ruined by one dictator, that was succeeded by his son after his death. Thus, he’s suffering from this experience of being timid and an inst ...
  • The Poured Out Life of Michael Jackson
    In the days since Michael Jackson passed, I have been thinking alot about his genius. He was a fantastic dancer and had an unmistakable and beautiful singing voice. I have enjoyed his talent since the beginning. I’m an old school fan having listened to “ABC” and the rest. He was also the greatest pe ...
  • sat’day riddymz
    In memory and honor of the innocent people injured or killed in the recent conflict in Jamrock.
  • White Approval Addiction–You Got it!
    You know you’re addicted.  Tell me you’re not, and I’ll tell you that you are.  You actually need a white person to approve of you as a black person in order to feel good about yourself. That’s why you’re so mad that there are still racists out there.  It’s so upsetting to you because you [...]

Expose the BNP

  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep his po ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well ...
  • Nick Griffin: “If Hitler hadn’t been s ...
    The following is a transcript of Dominic Carmen’s speech given at the Expose the BNP media briefing, held at the NUJ headquarters on 7th April. At the 1987 General Election, the BNP put up two candidates and received 553 votes. It was beaten hands down by the Monster Raving Loony Party which put up ...

Sen4Earth

  • Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
    SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
  • Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
    SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
  • Gulf Oil Disaster Action Central
    The Gulf Oil Disaster is the latest symptom of the madness being unleashed on Mother Earth, Mankind, Wildlife and Life itself. SEN will here post links to every action you can take. Visit often because more will arise in coming weeks and months. If you learn of one we've missed, please enter it in a ...
  • Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox News, PLU ...
    SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...
  • Climate&Energy “Speak Up&Out” Results
    In April SEN published “Drill Oil and the USA and World to Hell?” To our users we said “Tell Sustainability Education Network’s sen4earth.org what YOU believe and what YOU Demand of government in Energy & Climate policy and legislation.” “SEN will report the overall results to you and to media, AN ...

If Americans Knew

  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...
  • Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
    This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.

David J. Gregory

  • SANE VS INSANE
  • Neo-Cons decades of deceit
    The neo-cons unbridled success with the JFK coup, led them to the 911, who knows what else they have in store for us, do you want your children to pay the consequences?
  • Government should not abdicate RESPONIBILITIES
    reliance on greedy and shameless entities magnifies both the human and monetary cost of war
  • Government should not abdicate it’s Responsibiliti ...
          Blackwater is just the tip of the iceberg. Tuesday deadline to stop reckless outsourcing. Submit a public comment by noon EDT on Tuesday, June 1. Submit a public comment to move us away from the Bush-era practice of dismantling our government and giving free rein to Blackwater and companies li ...
  • Time is short…
    "It doesn't take DNA to make a dad," she said. He was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone disease.

Unsuitable Blog

  • What On Earth Are Timberland Talking About?
    What is it we make better? It is our boots. Our shoes. Our clothing. Our gear. Out communities. Our environment. And our business practices. But once you put on our gear, it is the journey. It is getting from point A to point B. And onto point C. And D. and E. And on to wherever [...]
  • It’s a Gusher: Outrage Erupts at D.C. Green Groups ...
    This had to be republished, for it reinforces many of the things The Unsuitablog has been going on about for years now. As I said a short while ago, the reason I keep raising the hypocrisy of so-called “environmental” NGOs is because organisations like The Nature Conservancy, Conservation Internati ...
  • A Church Full of Underminers, and George Monbiot
    At 10.28 on Saturday 28th May 2010, there were three people sitting on chairs in the small church of St John’s, Llangollen…I wasn’t too worried, as the Dark Mountain Journal was being launched in the large hall up the street, and was running over by about 10 minutes – maybe I would get the 20 [...]
  • Climbing The Dark Mountain
    At the crack of dawn tomorrow (Friday 28th May) I leave for Wales; taking a bus into Edinburgh, a train to Crewe, another train to Chester, yet another train to Ruabon, and finally a bus to Llangollen. More civilised people might consider this to be a slightly excessive response to not wishing to d ...
  • How To Sue An Oil Company (from The Washington Pos ...
    I have very little faith in any of the instruments of civilised society; but when you are faced with something like the BP Deepwater Oil Tide⢠then a combination of both civilised and uncivilised activities may well be the best course of action – if only to allow one to mask the other… How to sue ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
    Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
  • Aliou Kumbaya
    My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day.  He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...
  • Exploring The Idea Of The “Intolerant Muslim”
    In his column today, the New York Times Ross Douthat takes Comedy Central and others to task for censoring depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.  Douthat sees a double standard afoot, pointing out that while our sensibilities are routinely satirized, “Islam is just about the only place where we draw a ...
  • Lingering Racism Against African-Iraqis
    Today, the New York Times posted a rather disturbing article about the level racism in Iraq.  There are an estimated 1.2 million African-Iraqis. By and large, nearly all are treated like second-class citizens.  In fact, the discrimination is so engrained “that they are commonly referred to as “abd” ...
  • Galbraith: 2nd Stimulus Needed
    University of Texas economics professor James Galbraith appeared on Al Jazeera today to discuss his vision for economic recovery.  The first priority, said Galbraith, is to fill state budget gaps.  While the concern over of the growing deficit and the national debt is important, ultimately, “unless ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Pew: 27% of Americans Use Digital Tools to Talk to ...
    Special Invite - Join the Pew Internet and American Life report author in a special Q and A discussion on the Locals Online community of practice now ! Cross-posted at blog.e-democracy.org (with additional links). According to the just released Neighbors Online report from Pew Internet an ...
  • Pondering Online Communities and Fluid Social Grou ...
    A friend once told me that if I were a superhero I would be called "The Includer." She was right, I'm usually the one trying to get more people involved in whatever is about to happen. Superhero or not, my crowd-mongering has taught me one thing: Groups are complicated. I'm sure you know what I mea ...
  • Community Centered Ads Boost Engagement, Funding a ...
    The beauty of starting something from scratch is the iterative and agile process I've talked about since before "Spot.Us":http://www.spot.us began. In this post I'm going to discuss two new developments at Spot.Us. One is an exciting feature and revenue stream. The other is in relation to our expans ...
  • Freedom Fone Adopted by Bulawayo's Pioneering Voic ...
    I had visions of Bulawayo , Zimbabwe being a sleepy little hollow, and perhaps in some ways it is. But last week, after arriving at Radio Dialogue offices in Pioneer House in Bulawayo's central business district, I was very pleasantly surprised. We were in the City of Skies to run a practical two-da ...
  • How a Test Suite Can Help Your Open Source Project ...
    At CityCircles , we've been fortunate to work with a local developer who is passionate about our project's goal of developing hyper-local communication tools for mass audiences. Our first implementation of that is a platform for light rail passengers in Phoenix, Arizona. That said, one person can ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Inside Iraq - Iraq Heads toward a Unity Government ...
    Eleven weeks after the March 7, 2010, elections, Iraq appears to be headed toward a sprawling "unity" government that values stability and inclusiveness over efficiency or decisiveness. Despite being an arguably safer bet for Iraq at a delicate and dangerous moment, this approach will pose several c ...
  • Edge on Narco-trafficking - Drug Policy and Violen ...
    Two prevailing narratives have emerged in the American discourse over Mexico’s plague of drug violence. On the one hand, there are those who laud President Calderón’s hard-line anti-drug crusade while blaming Mexico’s plight entirely on Mexicans – on their “record of corrupt, weak and incompetent go ...
  • The Hamas Flotilla - Video Shows Gaza Flotilla Att ...
    A� YouTube video shows members of the crew and activists on board the Turkish vessel "Mavi Marmara" repelling Israeli boarders before Israeli troops rappelled onto the ship that was attempting to take supplies to the Gaza Strip, in violation of the blockade imposed by both Israel and Egypt. The vid ...
  • National Security on the Edge - Where is the Obama ...
    I had originally planned on writing an article about the National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair’s resignation on May 20th after only 16 months in that position, which came reportedly at President Barack Obama's request. Then, like any good plan following its agenda, only six days later the Assi ...
  • The Hamas Flotilla - The Gaza Flotilla Prepared Fo ...
    At first glance, the takeover by the Israeli Navy of the “humanitarian flotilla” heading toward Gaza is just one more of the disputed crises between Israel and its foes. As in all previous incidents, the spiral of accusations will eventually reach bottom. While media attention will highlight the tac ...

High Country News

  • Fighting fire and memories
    A seasoned Forest Service firefighter remembers Colorado's South Canyon Fire and the lives lost in it 16 years ago.
  • Springtime in the Rockies
    The beautiful spring in Colorado's San Luis Valley is a bitter contrast to the tragedy unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Boots on the trail ought to pay up
    The hikers who are loving Colorado’s fourteeners to death need to repair the damage they’re doing and help out either physically or financially.
  • One Tough Sucker
    Human beings are the greatest threat -- and the only hope -- for the Colorado River's razorback sucker.
  • A boring diagram
    An extraordinary 1,500-ton machine will create a new water intake from drought-stricken Lake Mead to thirsty Las Vegas

CounterCurrents

  • Americas Space Fighter: New Threat To Humanity
    By Zhengyan Fang People have too much reason to worry about the U.S, its pursuit of absolute superiority in space, and its attempt to build up an absolute dominance at a height from which it can threaten the globe
  • Gulf Oil Slick Worst In US History
    By Matthew Wild Early reports are indicating that BPs risky bid to plug its Gulf of Mexico well appear to be working but the subsequent oil slick may be far greater than anyone dared fear. US officials have reportedly confirmed that the well appears to be no longer leaking but at the same time its ...
  • Ecological Denial On The Gulf Oil Disaster: U.S. P ...
    By Jan Lundberg The impact of the Gulf oil disaster on the national psyche and the economy have barely begun. When Florida, a more substantial state than Louisiana, is hit by the unprecedented pollution assured to have lasting effects, the quickened erosion of confidence in government, industry an ...
  • Have You Looked At Barsa Lakhmas Face?
    By Nirmalangshu Mukherji The Hindu, 25 May, posted the above photograph of a person on its frontpage under the head Six Naxals held for Dantewada massacre. The person, Barsa Lakhma, is alleged to be a Naxal leader, a commander who is said to be involved in the gunning down of 76 security personnel ...
  • Rape And Murder At Shopian, One Year Later
    By Concerned Citizens Open letter to the Chief Justice of India , Chairperson, National Commission for Women and Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission demanding ustice in the case of rape and murder of Aasiya Jan and Neelofer Jan in Shopian, J&K, 29 May 2009

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Day 1: The People’s Journey Begins where The ...
    As the wheels of the airplane met the Californian ground, memories of the last time I was in San Francisco came to mind. The last time, Conor and I had reached the coastal city by the power of our own two feet on the walking/biking trip we completed in Novemeber. It seemed like more than [...]
  • The Next Step: Responsibility and Reconciliation
    Last week was filled with interviews where myself and, at times, another member of the company I deployed with, talked to as many people as we could about the Collateral Murder video, focusing on three points. 1. The video, in context, is not a case of soldiers breaking from the system 2. With the t ...
  • OPPORTUNITY TO HELP OUR FRIENDS IN AFGHANISTAN
    An amazing opportunity is available for communities across the country: The videos from Our Journey to Smile which I’ve been posting on here have been compiled into one long film. On 3/27 at 9pm (est), we will be showing the film along with others groups across the US. Additionally, we will be live ...
  • The Ink People
    Last week, my friend from Eureka, CA, Dave Berman informed me that the community organization where Conor and I spoke on Halloween night was hit by a 6.5 earthquake. The Ink People are, as Dave said, ” limping along”: They are “only able to find temporary space for some admin work and a few of its ...
  • You might just find that you get what you need
    Throughout these intense past few years, there have been times when I have nearly lost any kind of faith. Sometimes what I was seeing on a day to day basis looked far to ugly for there to be a God. Though questions still abound, I understand that sometimes it takes the worst kind of suffering to [.. ...

Yid With Lid

  • Unlike Democrats, Mike Pence Challenges POTUS on I ...
    When the chips are down you really find out who your friends are. Since the President of the United States began his assault on Israel last year, with rare exceptions the only words of support for the Jewish State have come from the Republican side of the Aisle. Since the IHH terrorist attack o ...
  • Voters To Washington: Hands Off The Press!
    If there is anything scarier than a news media so in love with the progressive point of view that they mindlessly repeat each of their talking points, its a media actually owned by the federal government. According to a new poll conducted by Rasmussen, America's message to the Government is hands of ...
  • Obama Meets Abbas: Shows He Understands Neither Ha ...
    By Barry Rubin President Barack Obama has announced an additional $400 million in aid for housing, school construction and business development in Gaza and West Bank in his meeting with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. Calling the status quo in Gaza unsustainable, Obama said he was t ...
  • Obama Administration Hubris and American Protecti ...
    If any country in the world would be able to help the US clean up the BP Oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico it would have to be the Netherlands. They have been controlling the North Sea for over 2000 years. Twenty-five years ago, they created an entire new province via their mastery of dikes and pumps. ...
  • New Evidence of Dept. Of Justice Cover-up of ACORN ...
    The good news is the FBI did gather much evidence showing serious allegations of corruption and voter registration fraud by ACORN.� FBI documents released in March show serious allegations of corruption and voter registration fraud by ACORN.� But Obama's Justice Department, had to protect the Pres ...

The Real Agenda

  • The Footprint of the Establishment
    In 1871 in the book called "Descent of Men" Darwin said 95% of the people were inferior and only 5 % were evolving. From this way of thinking came the teachings of Sr. Francis Galton, the father of Eugenics, from whom men like H.G Wells and William Huxley took off to write their famous "scholarly" w ...
  • David Cameron ready to bail-out BP
    Adopting a more emollient tone, David Cameron, UK prime minister, said on Thursday that the British government stood ready to help BP with its clean-up efforts and that he completely understood US frustration. Speaking on a visit to Kabul, he said he would be discussing the “environmental catastroph ...
  • The Other Gulf Oil Spill: Ocean Saratoga Rig
    al.com The Deepwater Horizon is not the only well leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico for the last month. A nearby drilling rig, the Ocean Saratoga, has been leaking since at least April 30, according to a federal document. While the leak is decidedly smaller than the Deepwater Horizon spill, a 10-m ...
  • The New Global Financial Order Begins in Europe
    The intervention powers, however, will only come into play in strictly defined circumstances in which concerns have been flagged. Diplomats cite, for example, the situation in which a country revises its figures at short notice and without a clear explanation for this as a possible case for interven ...
  • Estudio de Berkeley: Las Mamografías causan Cáncer
    Investigadores del Departamento de Energía de Estados Unidos, en el Laboratorio Lawrence Berkeley National (Berkeley Lab) han descubierto que la exposición a la radiación puede alterar los microambientes de las células (el entorno que rodea las células) y eso aumenta grandemente las probabilidades f ...

Wind Watch

  • Windfarm turbines deadly for birds, bats
    “Shockingly high” numbers of bird and bat deaths caused by one of Canada’s biggest wind farms should serve as a warning to planners of other projects that may be built in crucial wildlife zones, one of the country’s key conservation groups says. The 86 huge turbines on Wolfe Island, just outside Kin ...
  • Wind farms vs. doppler radar
    LINCOLN — Last year a weak tornado touch-downed near Holder in eastern McLean county. That’s near the Twin Groves wind farm, one of the largest in the state. Chris Miller, Warning Coordinating Meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Lincoln explains what happened next. “When that stor ...
  • Wind power not easy win for birders; Ridgetop turb ...
    Birders tend to be sympathetic to whatever protects the ecosystem. For that reason, “clean” energy schemes that provide power without pollution should be an easy win with the birding community. Ridgetop wind turbines, however, have many birders worried. Tall structures are known to kill birds during ...
  • Wind farm flunked
    A three-turbine wind farm planned for the Água de Tábuas area of Tavira has been rejected by the government after protests from local residents and environmental organizations such as the Portuguese Society for the Study of Birds, and ‘Probaal’. Tavira Mayor Jorge Botelho said he has not yet read th ...
  • Over €340,000 for bogslide damage caused by constr ...
    A woman whose farm was damaged by a massive bogslide which occurred during the construction of the Republic’s largest wind farm has secured €341,830 damages at the High Court. Mr Justice Eamon de Valera made the award yesterday to Mary Curley, whose family have farmed 16 acres at Derrybrien, Gort, ...

Not My Tribe

  • A year later, Briseña Flores Still Dead, Minutemen ...
    That would include the three trigger pullers, and also their accomplices, including their Fellow Travellers in the Ku Klux Klan, the American National Socialist White Person’s Party, the Tea Party and the Republican Party. The listed groups have common leadership and even at the Astroturf Roots leve ...
  • Think of it as enhanced evolution, Un-natural sele ...
    The debate turns now to whether or not to rescue marine animals from the oil. Pelicans and gulls specifically, but there’s more. Of course, animals that took millions of years to be what they are, should learn to mutate themselves a lot faster. Seagulls and turtles and manatees and sea-otters, fish ...
  • “My Country right or wrong” guarantees ...
    Because it gives the warmonger faction a free pass to do whatever they wish with a built in automatic “patriotic” support. Wrap political bullshit with “The Flag” and all you get is a filthy smelly flag. The same with the notion that a foreign nation, say, a puppet state like Israel, can do no wrong ...
  • Would you sell your kid for 253 dollars?
    That’s what the people of Bhopal India were told to do when the “compensation” was announced 24 years ago. That’s after 2 years of LawyerFights over Limited Liability and “Tort Reform”. The Reaganites including Ron Paul, the Dad-part of the Paul and Paul Father-son Hate Team, rather than celebrate t ...
  • Pentagoon Thugs in Global War On Truth Arrest Army ...
    For providing the footage of the “Suicide By Cop” Helicopter Murders of Reuters reporters and civilians in Iraq. The person who snitched him off for money ,a former high-profile hacker, Adrian Lamo, said he didn’t want to “obstruct justice” as in, actually have Murderers punished for their crimes. T ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • The UK Election Puppet Show [Updated]
    In the US, when a party is in power, the other party at least pretends to be opposed to the globalist agenda that the party in power is carrying out. Here in the UK they don't even give us that! The leaders of all three of the major parties (Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat) are blatantly ...
  • Top Construction Firm: WTC Destroyed By Controlled ...
    Respected Middle East expert and former BBC presenter Alan Hart has broken his silence on 9/11, by revealing that the world’s most prominent civil engineering company told him directly that the collapse of the twin towers was a controlled demolition. Speaking on the Kevin Barrett show yesterday, Ha ...
  • Don't be a Slacktivist!
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog writes today: "133... That's how many people sent in letters/faxes to the NYC District Attorney requesting an investigation of WTC-7, per the request from NYC-CAN . One hundred and thirty-three. I mean, let's put that in perspective. NYC-CAN claimed to have ...
  • Debunking the Debunkers' Free Fall Fallacies
    One central argument debunkers have raised over the years is that the WTC buildings could not have been brought down with explosives because that would have caused the buildings fall in free fall. However, a video made by debunker AlienEntity actually disproved the notion that free fall is a necc ...
  • SEC Found No Sign 9/11 Conspirators Traded on Plot
    Nobody at 911blogger.com as of me posting this is impressed , however on March 7 of this year I stated that I thought this issue had been effectively debunked . SEC Found No Sign 9/11 Conspirators Traded on Plot Joseph Schuman aolnews.com (April 30) -- Nearly nine years, two recessions and thou ...

Fooducate

  • A Visual of Twinkie’s 37 Ingredients
    You’re looking at the 37 ingredients that make up a Twinkie, photographed by Dwight Eschliman, who grew up in a vegan home but has since loosened up a bit. Try to match the ingredient list to the individual images! Enriched Bleached Wheat Flour [Flour, Reduced Iron, B Vitamins (Niacin, Thiamine Mo ...
  • Did You Know? The FDA Hasn’t Got the Right to Reca ...
    That’s right! The FDA doesn’t have the legal power to require companies to recall their tainted products. How’s that for a food safety loophole? Companies that discover a food safety issue in their products may voluntarily recall them and issue a notification to the FDA, but they don’t have to. Whil ...
  • Chocolate Cheerios, Corporate Growth, and Obesity
    Once upon a time there was “Cheerios”. For almost 40 years, up until the late 1970’s, consumers had only one Cheerios flavor to choose from. And then General Mills, corporate owner of the Cheerios brand, introduced Honey Nut Cheerios. It was an instant success. Sweeter (mostly due to sugar, not hon ...
  • Olive Oil Labeling
    Olive oil is growing in popularity in the United States. Sourced from the Mediterranean and part of that famous diet, it has been shown to be a healthy source of fat when compared to fats from animal sources. It is also more expensive to manufacture compared to canola and soy oils. Like wine, compl ...
  • 9 Tips For Choosing a Better Salad Dressing
    Spring will shortly turn to summer and salad season is shifting into full gear. With plenty of fresh greens at reasonable prices, there is really no excuse not to get your daily (or twice daily) fix. Build a meal around a good mix of leafy vegetables with the usual assortment of tomatoes, cucumbers ...

Traffikd

  • Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
    Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits , last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open ...
  • 3 Ways to Ensure Internet Marketing Continues to W ...
    This is a guest post by Susan White Gone are the days when Internet marketing was perceived as the bold, new and innovative way to market and publicize your products and services. Today, email marketing and other forms of pushing your products on the web are passé. The Internet is growing faster th ...
  • Cloud Living Now Available From Glen Allsopp
    One of my friends has just launched a new product that I think may be of interest to many Traffikd readers. Glen Allsopp has written an e-book, Cloud Living , based on his experiences from making a five-figure monthly income from his websites. Cloud Living is actually more than an e-book, it i ...
  • 5 Reasons New Bloggers Should Use Niche Social Med ...
    I've been talking to some new bloggers recently and I've been asked questions about how they should work on growing their blog, increasing subscribers, and getting more visitors. Most bloggers know about the potential impact of social media and some even spend considerable amounts of time on sites l ...
  • Blog Design Showcase
    The typical post topics covered here involve topics related to social media marketing or blogging . One way to increase traffic to your site is to use an attractive design that will draw a lot of attention. Web design galleries and showcase blog posts like this one send considerable amounts of visit ...

Clearreaching

  • Love
    The discussion on communication gave me the impulse to reflect a little on the concept of romantic love between two people. What is this love? Let’s explore. When we tell someone “I love you”, we are in fact stating that we feel the chemistry between us, which is mutually based on acceptance and ad ...
  • Communication
    As I surf around the blogs of my newly acquired Opera friends, I see how their posts reflect ideas, beliefs, maxims, thoughts, emotions etc. drawn either from a more philosophical or a more real-life context, depending on each person’s composure. That’s normal – even typical. At the same time, tha ...
  • A conversation (cont.)
    Do you think it matters who the person is you go into that deep commitment with? No. Just that both are willing. Not even both. One is enough. Even if you both say you want commitment, each will have a different idea of what commitment means. You talk about staying, right? I talk about not movi ...
  • A conversation
    To E. I have lots of questions about relationships. We all have. One of the questions I have is about how I often feel that I want to give more affection to other people than they want to receive. Do you want something from the other? Yes. So what do you want when you give more affection than ...
  • Science - no fiction
    During the past two years or so, I’ve been reading in parallel two kinds of books. One was rather metaphysical (mainly Florian Tathagata’s trilogy, “Being”, “Given” and “Space”) and the other one popular medicine (e.g. Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor’s “My stroke of insight” and Norman Doidge’s “The brain tha ...

Survival International

  • China’s largest bank to fund devastating Ethiopian ...
    The Karo (or Kara), with a population of about 1000 - 1500 live on the east banks of the Omo River in south Ethiopia. Here, a Karo mother sits with her children. © Eric Lafforgue/Survival China’s largest bank, the Industrial and Commercial bank of China , is to give a loan of around $400 millio ...
  • Bushmen face agonizing wait for right to water
    The Bushmen will have to wait to hear the result of their court case. © 2004 Stephen Corry/Survival A High Court judge today reserved judgement on the Kalahari Bushmenâs bid to gain access to a borehole which they rely on for water. The Bushmen were at the Botswana High Court to hear their ...
  • Survival urges Malaysia to uphold tribes’ rights
    Penan man, Malaysia. © Andy Rain/Nick Rain/Survival Survival’s director Stephen Corry has written to the Malaysian government, urging it to uphold the rights of the Penan and other tribes of Sarawak . Malaysia’s Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said last mo ...
  • Botswana Bushmen appeal to Prince William
    The Bushmen have appealed to Prince William for help. © Survival The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve have appealed to Prince William ahead of his visit to Botswana this month. In a letter to the prince, the Bushmenâs organization, First People of the Kalahari , said, âLast ...
  • Indian fishing ritual recognized as cultural herit ...
    Enawene Nawe men preserve fish. © Fiona Watson/Survival Yãkwa , one of the most important rituals practiced by the Enawene Nawe Indians , has been officially recognized as part of Brazilâs historic and cultural heritage by Brazilâs Ministry of Culture. Yãkwa lasts four months and is the ...

Greg Palast

  • Getting into Massa's Drawers:Truly Creepy Detailsa ...
    Exclusive for Buzzflash.com by Greg Palast For the two weeks before tickle-and-grope charges busted open on him, and before his resignation from Congress, our BBC Television investigations team was hunting for Representative Eric Massa. We wanted to know what he had hidden in his drawers. Not his ...
  • Stop Feeding the Vultures
    by Greg Palast for In These Times I get the idea that Eric Hermann doesn’t want to talk to me. When I came to his office suite, his hedge fund’s name plaque had been unbolted from the building’s wall, the suite number removed and all the employees locked in. I’m not surprised. Hermann is a vulture ...
  • Vulture Financier AttacksBanned in Britain
    by Greg Palast April 8 - London - Update for In These Times We've stuffed the bird and nailed it to the wall: Today, the British Parliament effectively banned financial vulture funds from the British Isles. The law, merely awaits the expected touch of the Queen's scepter. "Vulture funds" are int ...
  • Heart of Coal
    by Greg Palast from Armed Madhouse We've seen this dreadful movie before. In 2005, another coal mine in West Virginia imploded. We wrote about it then .... War is hell, especially class war. Just ask the Sago mine workers. Billionaire Wilbur Ross purchased Sago of West Virginia in November 200 ...
  • Behind the Arizona Immigration Law:GOP Game to Swi ...
    Our investigation in Arizona discovered the real intent of the show-me-your-papers law. by Greg Palast for Truthout.org [Phoenix, AZ.] Don't be fooled. The way the media plays the story, it was a wave of racist, anti-immigrant hysteria that moved Arizona Republicans to pass a sick little law, ...

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Ian Welsh

  • Holy Sweet Lord, Turkey has announced they will se ...
    If they actually do this, it is the very definition of throwing down. Wow. Does Israel want a war with Turkey?  They can’t win it, short of using nukes, and Turkey is a NATO member, if Israel attacks NATO ships, Turkey can invoke Article V (in fact, they can invoke it already, since the ships were ...
  • A Gaffe: saying the truth in the worst way possibl ...
    As with Helen Thomas when asked what she thought about Israel.  “I think they should get the hell out of Palestine.” Israel is a colonial power occupying a land whose population was, prior to their getting rid of many of them, majority non-Jewish.  This is why “right of return” is a non-starter, b ...
  • America’s Future Now: We have to get the public to ...
    The interesting thing about the conference so far is the message: if only we organize, we can change what the public thinks and with the public behind us make the President and Congress do what we want. This was epitomized by a “debate” between Darcy Burner and Deepak Bhargava, where they both agree ...
  • Reality, red lines and minimalism
    The most important facts in Afghanistan right now is that we are approaching Peak Foreign Fighters (PFF) within the next couple of weeks.  US forces are still flowing in-country for McChrystal’s attempt at a Surge ™ and NATO forces are not leaving yet.  PFF is aimed at creating a temporary bubb ...
  • Quick thoughts on potential Turkish responses
    Ian believes that in a conventional war between Turkey and Israel that has escalated to full-scale armored warfare, the Turks have a significant advantage of having a larger, well trained, NATO-equipped army that actually has successful combat experience against guerrilla forces.  The Turkish order ...

Age of Autism

  • Olmsted on Autism: Day in Court
    By Dan Olmsted It was possible, walking out of federal appeals court into the bright sunshine in Washington on Thursday, to imagine Michelle Cedillo getting a fair shake after all – to imagine the three appeals court judges ordering the...
  • Chivalry is Alive and Well in Gardasil for Boys: B ...
    Hollywood, California, June 7, 2010 — In the four years since the approval of Gardasil there has been 18,229 adverse reactions and 70 deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Reporting System (VAERS) with an estimated 1 to 10% of the...
  • Vote for SafeMinds to Share in $50K Ebay Tournamen ...
    Please vote for SafeMinds to share in $50,000 prize from the E-Bay Social Media Fundraising Tournament for environmental organizations. Did you know for every 1,000 pounds of environmentally-released mercury there was a 43% increase in the rate of special education...
  • Zack Gonzalez to Interview Dan Olmsted and Kim Sta ...
    This Saturday, June 11, 2010 call in to listen to "It's On With Zack" on BlogTalk rado LIVE as he interviews special guest Dan Olmsted, Editor of Age of Autism. Along with Zack Gonzalez, guest hosts include Kim Stagliano ,...
  • An Invitation to Attend the Oral Argument in Cedil ...
    Dear Age of Autism Readers, Please come to the oral argument in the Cedillo v. HHS appeal next week in Washington, DC on Thursday, June 10 at 10:00 am. It's important to show the Court, and the press, and the...

Global BDS Movement

  • Labor for Palestine Condemns Gaza Freedom Flotilla ...
    http://www.laborforpalestine.net/wp/2010/06/07/gaza-flotilla-massacre/ To endorse this statement, click here: http://www.laborforpalestine.net/wp/2010/06/07/gaza-flotilla-massacre/#s... To donate to Labor for Palestine, click here: http://laborforpalestine.net/wp/2009/12/trumka-letter/#donate ...
  • Australia: Israeli diplomat expelled over fake pas ...
    Emma Rodgers [ ABC News ] 24 May 2010 - The Federal Government is expelling an Israeli diplomat after it found Israel faked Australian passports that were used in a hit on a top Hamas leader in Dubai. � read more
  • PACBI Applaudes UCU's Historic BDS Resolution
    30 May 2010 - The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel ( PACBI ) expresses its profound appreciation for the courageous positions in support of Palestinian rights taken by the membership of the University and College Union (UCU) at its Congress today in Manchester. ...
  • UCU Passes important BDS Resolution
    ( link to full text of resolution below ) - 31 May 2010 [BRICUP] - The University and College Union, representing approximately 120,000 teaching and related staff in colleges and universities in the UK, has passed new policies supporting boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. The ...
  • Violent attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla - Isra ...
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Farm Wars

  • Secret highly toxic ingredients of chemical disper ...
    On the toxicity question, you could hardly find a more dangerous combination of poisons to dump into the Gulf of Mexico than what has been revealed in Corexit. The Corexit 9527 product has been designated a "chronic and acute health hazard" by the EPA. It is made with 2-butoxyethanol, a highly toxic ...
  • BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil ...
    The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse.
  • Obama Smiles While the Gulf Dies
    BP executives and governmental regulators had to have known just how deadly their dispersant Corexit would turn the Gulf waters, by creating monstrously large, oily, rushing underwater plumes. These plumes are hundreds of square miles of poisonous, oily micro-particles that go unseen by satellite ...
  • Are You Supporting a Hellish CAFO?
    The irony is, if a single person treats an animal like this, he/she is charged with animal cruelty, fined, and faces possible jail time if the situation is severe enough. Why then, do the big money-making corporations get to treat their animals in an intensely inhumane way and get away with it? In f ...
  • WHO scandal exposed: Advisors received kickbacks f ...
    This report, published in the British Medical Journal, exposes the hidden ties that drove WHO to declare a pandemic, resulting in billions of dollars in profits for vaccine manufacturers.




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Gavilon Enters into Commercial Agreement with Hankinson Renewable Energy
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- Jun 11, 2010
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OMAHA, Neb., Jun 11, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Gavilon, LLC today announced it has entered into a commercial agreement with Hankinson Renewable Energy, LLC, ...
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Massachusetts suspends state-only rule for renewable energy
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- Jun 11, 2010
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By James Cartledge Massachusetts has suspended its requirements for utilities to source renewable energy from inside state boundaries. ...
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OSU-OKC to offer renewable energy program
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Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City has a new degree program that focuses on renewable and sustainable energy technology. ...
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Eskwitt: Renewable energy deals must be fair
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By Scott Eskwitt Returning from yet another “Renewable Energy in Indian Country” conference, I was struck by what passes for a “fair” or “equitable” ...
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Snakes in Decline, Shows Recent Study
The Epoch Times
- Jun 10, 2010
- 22 hours ago
The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology published a report including findings from biologists in Italy, France, Nigeria, and Australia showing that snakes are ...
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Value of Gulf Coast Ecology Dwarfs Value of BP
Daily Green
- Jun 10, 2010
- 16 hours ago
By Dan Shapley The term "ecological services" is bandied about frequently by environmental advocates trying to protect nature. ...
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Surf's Up for Sea-Faring Crocodiles
CBS News
- Jun 08, 2010
- Jun 08, 2010
The findings are published in the newest edition of the Journal of Animal Ecology. Researchers monitored the behavior of 27 adult estuarine crocodiles, ...
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Ongoing Gulf oil spill wreaking havoc for marine ecology
Sify
- Jun 09, 2010
- Jun 09, 2010
The continuing oil spill disaster in Gulf of Mexico is becoming a reason for serious worries as researchers are beginning to collect data on how it is ...
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As Summer Heats Up, American Water Offers 10 Tips For Consumers to Keep Water ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- Jun 11, 2010
- 2 hours ago
VOORHEES, NJ, Jun 11, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Summer is just around the corner, and as the temperature rises, so does water use, as Americans head outdoors ...
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Panel: Restore some water to central Maui streams
The Associated Press
- Jun 10, 2010
- 13 hours ago
HONOLULU — The state water commission on Thursday ordered the state's last sugar plantation and a private Maui water company to divert less water from ...
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Deputies: Man trapped by fallen water buffalo head
MiamiHerald.com
- Jun 11, 2010
- 40 minutes ago
Deputies responding to a 911 call in the Florida Keys made an unusual find: A man trapped in a recliner chair after the stuffed head of a water buffalo fell ...
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Study: Shrinking glaciers to spark food shortages
The Associated Press
- Jun 10, 2010
- 11 hours ago
The reason for the discrepancy, scientists said, is that some basins surrounding the Himalayas depend more on rainfall than melting glaciers for their water ...
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