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IPS - Inter Press Services

• Following a Paper Trail Out of Homelessness
  While questions of funding and accountability shadow the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), some actors have taken matters into their own hands. On Wednesday, the Glasgow-based International Network for Street Papers (INSP) announced that it has helped 200,000 people t ...
• Rule of Law Prospers Most in Sweden, Least in Paki ...
  The rule of law - a critical element of good governance – thrives best in Sweden, the Netherlands and in several other wealthy nations but is sorely lacking in Pakistan, Kenya, and Liberia, among other poor countries, according to a major new index released here Thursday by the World Justi ...
• Sri Lanka Challenges Post-War Human Rights Probe
  When Sri Lanka's External Affairs Minister Gamini Lakshman Peiris was at the United Nations last month, he challenged human rights groups to appear before a government-appointed 'Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission' (LLRC) probing human rights violations during the country's civil ...
• SOUTH AFRICA: Satellite Preparing Scientists for N ...
  Though practically invisible to the naked eye, a uniquely South African satellite has been orbiting the earth for the past year, creating an archive of images and jumpstarting what its creators hope will be a space revolution in the country.
• SUDAN: U.S. Works to Avert Post-Referendum Bloodsh ...
  With just under three months before southern Sudan votes on whether to become an independent country, the U.S. is stepping up efforts to ensure the vote and post-vote resolution are peaceful and credible – and NGOs are stepping up pressure to ensure that Washington follows through.

Scoop - NZ

• Fonterra Environmental Policy
  A search for "fonterra environmental policy" reveals an interesting result. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• Bernard Hickey: Why we must abandon the economic o ...
  I feel like a priest who has been wrestling with his belief in god and has now decided god does not exist. It's time for me to recant and to say what I've been thinking for months: the economic god of completely free markets and capital flows is not worth believing in anymore and we must look for o ...
• Fonterra New Zealand
  "What nature creates, Fonterra exploits to bring the taint of industrial dairying to every corner of the world. Driving productivity at any cost is our life's work." ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
• Scott Horton Interviews Chris Floyd of Empire Burl ...
  Chris Floyd ...discusses the addition of neocon Frederick Kagan to the U.S. anti-corruption team in Afghanistan, the minimal proof needed to convince the MSM that the "surge" in Iraq or Afghanistan worked, the opportunity to really win hearts and minds by helping Pakistani flood victims ( ...
• Fraud Factories: How Banks Profit From The Foreclo ...
  US Congressman Alan Grayson talks about the fraudulent home foreclosures being carried out by the US Banks. Even Mortgage free homeowners are being fraudulently foreclosed on. There is one set of rules for the banks and another set of laws for everyone else. ��� PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

Independent - London

• Coming to Britain, Chile's new star of global poli ...
  The dramatic rescue in the Atacama Desert has made stars of the 33 miners who spent more than two months trapped underground with the eyes of the world upon them. But the remarkable outcome has also turned Chile's President into a Latin American hero with a truly global profile.
• Hollywood's bitchiest blogger has a new target: to ...
  Perez Hilton, the gorgon of Hollywood gossip who has built his widely feared and often despised internet empire on a reputation for shameless intrusions into the private lives of celebrities, intends to change his malicious ways – in part because he no longer wants to play the part of bully.
• Norgrove case a 'personal priority', says Nato chi ...
  The commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan pledged last night to make the investigation into the death of the British aid worker Linda Norgrove a personal priority.
• Clinton warns UK defence cuts may undermine Nato
  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last night voiced fears that the Coalition Government's determination to slash defence spending may threaten the capabilities of Nato.
• A bow and a wave signalled the end of an epic miss ...
  He waved to the camera, took a bow, then clambered into the last capsule out of the San Jose mine. The final man out, Manuel Gonzalez, yesterday told of the "unforgettable experience" of helping each of the 33 miners to reach safety after they had spent nearly 10 weeks underground in stifling 40C h ...

Rogue Government.com

• Middle classes hit again with tax raid on pensions
  The amount that people can pay into their pension pot every year and still receive tax breaks is to be capped at less than a fifth of its current level.
• Dollar tanks, stocks drop as Bernanke speech looms
  European and U.S. stock markets mostly fell Thursday as investors awaited a speech from the Federal Reserve chairman that is expected to give more clarity on what the central bank is planning to do to prop up the ailing U.S. economy.
• Department of Homeland Security’s “Social Networki ...
  Narcissistic tendencies in many people fuels a need to have a large group of “friends” link to their pages and many of these people accept cyber-friends that they don’t even know.
• US trade deficit widens sharply to $46.3 billion
  The U.S. trade deficit widened sharply in August, reflecting a surge in imports of consumer products as businesses restocked their shelves in hopes of a pickup in consumer demand.
• Secret Cold War plan included mass detentions
  At the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government crafted a top-secret plan to detain thousands of citizens with Communist links in the event of a national security threat, according to a joint CBC/Radio-Canada investigation.

Innovation Canada

• Sheer treasure
  Katherine Soucie gives hope to misfits. Like other eccentric adolescents, she discovered that being different can be an asset in adulthood, especially for an artist. Today, the Vancouver-based textile and garment designer collaborates with world-renowned designers, showcases her diaphanous garments ...
• Clean Green Electric Machine
  A small Jeep-like truck that runs entirely on an electric battery may soon offer a cleaner alternative to the diesel vehicles currently used to transport people and tools deep into Canada’s mines.The four-passenger vehicle, which can hold up to 225 kilograms of cargo, was recently developed with the ...
• A whale of a mystery
  What’s the next thing a graduate student should do after his master’s thesis solves a biochemical mystery that has befuddled zoologists for generations? This is a problem that 28-year-old Lawrence Szewciw recently faced after he and his professors at the University of Guelph determined the physiolog ...
• Illuminating bones
  David Cooper wants to know more about your bones. Specifically, the assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology at the University of Saskatchewan is trying to answer a chicken-and-egg question about osteoporosis: do changes in the density of cells within bones cause the disease, or does the dise ...
• Tools of the mind
  The first time neuroscientist Adele Diamond walked into a New Jersey classroom where teachers were using the Tools of the Mind curriculum, she was struck by the quiet self-control of the children. Most regular preschool and kindergarten classrooms are chaotic, noisy places, but in the Tools of the M ...

Signs of the times

• Neurons cast votes to guide decision-making
  We know that casting a ballot in the voting booth involves politics, values and personalities. But before you ever push the button for your candidate, your brain has already carried out an election of its own to make that action possible. New research from Vanderbilt University reveals that our brai ...
• Mutant gene discovery in Jews may stop brain damag ...
  BGU research finds gene in Jews of Moroccan and Iraqi origin that may cause serious mental retardation, epilepsy beginning at infancy. A mutant gene carried by one out of 40 Jews of Moroccan and Iraqi ancestries that - if found in both parents - may cause serious mental retardation and epilepsy ...
• New technologies confuse reality and fiction: Pope
  Pope Benedict XVI said on Thursday that the media's increasing reliance on images, fuelled by the endless development of new technologies, risked confusing real life with virtual reality. "New technologies and the progress they bring can make it impossible to distinguish truth from illusion and c ...
• Solar Wind Stream Heading Our Way And New Sunspot ...
  A solar wind stream flowing from the indicated coronal hole could reach Earth on or about Oct. 20th. New sunspot 1113 emerged over the sun's northeastern limb yesterday and immediately announced itself with a towering eruption. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the blast on Oct. 13t ...
• Montana Auroras
  On Oct. 11th, a bright curtain of Northern Lights unfurled along the US-Canadian border. Watching from Glasgow in northern Montana, Ben Fyngyrz took this picture: "The lights didn't make it all the way down to my latitude," he says , "but the side-view was interesting because it showed the vertic ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Halifax school officials with dents in their heads
  CBC : The parents of an eight-year-old Halifax boy who say he has been relentlessly bullied want him to be transferred to another school, but officials say that isn't necessary. Connor Eisenhauer, a Grade 3 student at Rockingstone Heights School in Spryfield, has been the victim of bullies at le ...
• Imagine . . . .
  giving peace a chance. Happy Birthday, John . . . .
• Pearson and the air force officer
  You meet the most interesting people in airports. London MP Glen Pearson found that out and relates a conversation he had with an air force officer. “Look, of course we want what’s supposedly the best out there ; we wouldn’t be a good military if we didn’t.� But I’m not convinced that with the h ...
• Hard time . . . hard times
  SLATE has a report by Sasha Abramsky, "Toxic Persons" , which is about the effect of America's prison mania on its society. The stats are chilling; they show the costs of a system that Stevie would love to inflict upon us. We now imprison more people in absolute numbers and per capita than any othe ...
• Do we still have the right not to have confessions ...
  Seriously,� because if we don't have right to have a non-police witness of some kind present at our interrogation by the police , then in practice the cops pretty much have carte blanche to do whatever they want to people. Without a right to a lawyer during interrogation, who knows how many people w ...

Media Matters for America

• Fox News' anti-Semitism problem
  Rupert Murdoch claimed in a recent speech that "the most virulent strains" of anti-Semitism "come from the left." However, his own Fox News personalities have a history of promoting anti-Semitic sources and mainstreaming people who have associations with anti-Semitic groups. Murdoch says worst ...
• FoxPAC: Morris uses Fox platform to fundraise for ...
  Earlier this month, Fox News political analyst Dick Morris announced the creation of Super PAC for America, whose goal is to raise $20 million to help Republicans win 100 House seats in this year's election. As he has numerous times before, Dick Morris is using his Fox News platform to promote and ...
• Working the refs: Conservative media rush to clai ...
  Following the debate between Delaware senatorial candidates Christine O'Donnell and Chris Coons, conservative media have rushed to paint the moderators as biased, either by providing no evidence or by pointing to a question that is commonly asked in debates, as proof of bias. Conservatives ref ...
• "The next, most important step": Right-wing media ...
  The New Republic 's Jonathan Chait predicts that the if the Republicans retake the House of Representatives this November, Fox News and the conservative media will drive them to impeach President Obama. Indeed, the conservative media has been banging the impeachment drum since as early as Marc ...
• Serial health care misinformer McCaughey now misle ...
  Betsy McCaughey -- best known for repeatedly misleading about health care reform -- made numerous false or misleading claims in order to attack the effectiveness of the stimulus bill. McCaughey falsely suggests state aid, unemployment benefits, food stamps are not stimulative McCaughey: Aid to sta ...

Global Research.ca

• “Reset” in US Russian Relations and "Missile Defen ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Poll: Most Americans Don’t Want War with Iran
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Afghanistan Air Strikes Up 172 Percent
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Spiralling Defense Budget. Congress Urges Cuts in ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Spain on the Ropes
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Senate Ratification of New START: What's At Stake
  The only thing standing between the New Strategic Reductions Treaty (New START) and its ratification by the Senate is a purely ideological far right opposition to any form of nuclear arms control. (You can follow the legislative drama at J osh Rogin's Cable blog.) As a political issue, arms control ...
• The Burden of Roth's "Nemesis"
  In 1943, Arthur Koestler published a little novel, which he called� Arrival and Departure . The story, actually a kind of dramatized essay, features a young protagonist, Slavek, a student leader from Eastern Europe (we assume Hungary), who escapes the local fascists after they had tortured him bruta ...
• AIPAC, AJC, ADL: To Hell With The Turks
  It must be fun being the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, or the American Jewish Committee. You can switch policies on a dime and everybody understands. For decades, these three have been unabashedly pro-Turkish. If Turkey was for it, they were for it. No ...
• Calling All Mayors: Congress Failed, But You Can L ...
  Lately, I've had a lot of conversations with elected officials urging them to put points on the board for new veterans and deliver real results to our community. I've heard a lot of talk, a lot of promises and a lot of "I support our troops and veterans." But I've seen very few concrete results. Th ...
• I'm Seeking Your Endorsement
  I am asking for your "vote." I posted on the CNN opinion page a call for a new antiwar movement , similar to the one against the war in Vietnam, teach-ins and rallies and all. If you find merit in the following, please consider (a) clicking "recommend" on CNN and (b) sharing with others. - - B ...

TruthOut

• How Two Civilian Sleuths Brought Foreclosure Probl ...
  Palm Beach, Forida - More than a year before lenders, law firms and document companies began owning up to widespread paperwork problems with their foreclosure filings, Lisa Epstein and Michael Redman already knew that something was wrong - very wrong. Redman, a former online automobile consultant, ...
• For a DREAMy, Wartime, National Service Draft
  Recently, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been sounding the alarm about the fact that the burden of "our" wars is being disproportionately borne by a very small slice of the population: soldiers and their families. Like, I am sure, many Americans, I have sharply conflicted feelings about this. ...
• David Swanson | Rule of Law Is Alive and Well Outs ...
  The World Justice Project on Thursday published a "Rule of Law Index," and there's no easy way to say this. Let me put it this way: as when rankings on education, infant mortality, work hours, lifespan, retirement security, health, environmental impact, incarceration rates, violence, concentration o ...
• Nick Turse | Publish or Perish: Getting a Read on ...
  Quick - name the five most important, influential, and best known books on the Afghan War. Okay, name three. Okay, I'll settle for two. How about one? While the American war in Vietnam raged, publishers churned out books whose titles still resonate. In 1967 alone, classics like Mary McCarthy's ...
• Backing Prop 19, California NAACP Calls Marijuana ...
  California's Proposition 19 would authorize possession of one ounce of marijuana for personal consumption by people twenty-one and older, legalize marijuana use in private homes, and allow marijuana growth in private residences for personal use. Supporters of Proposition 19 argue that legalizing and ...

Planetsave

• Carbon Dioxide Could Help Oil Recovery
  In what seems on the surface a little bit of a zero-sum solution, a British researcher has stated that oil recovery using carbon dioxide could be worth £150 billion (USD $240 billion) if acted upon immediately. By using carbon dioxide to enhance the recovery from existing North Sea oil fields, the n ...
• WWF Living Planet Report Released
  The World Wildlife Fund has released its eighth âLiving Planetâ report based on figures from 2007, the last year for which figures are available. In short, we need a second planet if we continue to grow and act the way we are at the moment. “Even with modest UN projections for population growth, ...
• Money Does “Buy” Happiness, Up to A Po ...
  According to a report that analyzed 450,000 responses from 151 nations, personal income is indeed related strongly to two categories of subjective experience:  “life evaluation” and “emotional well-being”…but only up to an annual income of 75, 000.00. Beyond that level, subjective reporting of emot ...
• WWF Living Planet Report Released
  The World Wildlife Fund has released its eighth âLiving Planetâ report based on figures from 2007, the last year for which figures are available. In short, we need a second planet if we continue to grow and act the way we are at the moment. “Even with modest UN projections for population growth, ...
• Chile Miners Rescued, 26 of 33 So Far
  Since we covered this story a couple times through its development, thought I’d share the great news here (if you haven’t seen it elsewhere) that 26 of the 33 miners that have been trapped half a mile underground in Chile for months are now safely above ground. “With remarkable speed â and flawles ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• Jesup FFA chapter aiding Lime Creek watershed prod ...
  Left to right: Bruce Bearinger, FFA advisor, and FFA chapter members Ryan Boies, Chelsea Bearbower,
• Clear Victory for Malibu Lagoon
  � The Coastal Commission voted 11-0 to support Lagoon plan. � The California Coastal Commi
• From paperwork to project: Malibu Lagoon restorati ...
  The title says it all, folks. I received a text that it was a unanimous yes vote for the lagoon rest
• Save the Date! "Antibiotics in Animals and People" ...
  [Source: Federation of Animal Science Societies-FASS] The FASS Science Policy Committee works to com
• “I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the ...
  This past weekend, I sat on a bench at a botanic garden and contemplated a tiny wetlands lake. It wa

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• What are Our Alternatives to the Corporate Control ...
  By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com Oct. 14, 2010 Who is Bar
• More of the Same, From the Tea Party and the Right ...
  by Sean Fenley Featured Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything Oct. 14, 2010 by Helen Co
• Death and Profits: The Utility Protection Racket b ...
  by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org Oct. 14, 2010 Pacific Gas
• Detainee 239 by Felicity Arbuthnot
  by Felicity Arbuthnot Featured Writer Dandelion Salad 13 October, 2010 Image via Wikipedia ”
• The Three-Decade US-Mujahideen Partnership Still G ...
  by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 13 Octob

Axis of Logic

• How one man changed the lives of hundreds of child ...
  He's a philanthropist, a fruit seller, an illiterate and he gave his village something priceless - a school. Harekela Hajabba lives in Newpadupu, 25 kilometers from Mangalore city (India). He single handedly changed the future for dozens of the village children.   There's nothing extraordinary ...
• Bank shares hit by foreclosure woes and Wall Stree ...
  Two News Reports back to back Bank shares hit by foreclosure woes By Dave Clarke and Steve Eder Reuters WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - Growing concerns over the handling of U.S. home foreclosures hit bank shares hard on Thursday, with analysts warning of harm to the fragile housin ...
• Are you a Social Network Freak? US "Homeland Secur ...
  Applying for Citizenship? U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Wants to Be Your “Friend”. EFF recently received new documents as a result of our FOIA lawsuit on social network surveillance, filed with the help of UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Clinic, that reveal two ways the government has been tracking p ...
• Cheek Swab May Detect Lung Cancer - Health/Medicin ...
  Arlington, VA (SPX) - Early detection is critical for improving cancer survival rates. Yet, one of the deadliest cancers in the United States, lung cancer, is notoriously difficult to detect in its early stages. Now, researchers have developed a method to detect lung cancer by merely shining d ...
• Obama lifts moratorium on deepwater oil drilling - ...
  14 October 2010 Six months after the Deepwater Horizon disaster began, the Obama administration has ended its moratorium on offshore oil drilling. The ban was lifted six weeks in advance of its scheduled end date of November 30. “We are open for business,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar decla ...

They Gave Us a Republic

• Jack Conway Could Learn a Lot from Ed Marksberry
  I'd say the state and national Democratic parties are missing a big opportunity by not backing Ed Marksberry to the hilt, but of course Ed Marksberry is a Real Democratic candidate, who puts people before the powerful, and that's exactly the opposite of what our repug-led KDP and corporate-owned DNC ...
• Proof that the "tea party" is a scam, fronted by m ...
  David Harmer, a corporate attorney running as a republican "tea party" candidate in California's 11th district - who is poised to win his election against incumbent Jerry McNerney - wants to keep Americans stupid by abolishing the public schools. Nick Bauman of Mother Jones uncovered the ten-year-o ...
• Headed Straight for Gilead
  Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is probably the only thing that comes close to describing what the freakazoid-led repugs have in mind for young women who have sex. Yes, ladies, you are whores and assumed guilty of blastocyst-murder, making false rape charges, sullying the chastity of pure youn ...
• All Over Rand Paul Like a Cheap Suit
  All the ads, all the claims, all the flips, all the lies, all the crazy ideas - all on video, plus analysis and snark, and all at Barefoot and Progressive and Page One Kentucky. The latest is this new ad from Rand Paul, of which Media Czech says: Rand Paul apparently thinks that he can just lie his ...
• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Chamber's foreign funding - and media's conservative bias - confirmed "Yesterday, the Chamber's chief lobbyist Bruce Josten, who has been spoon-feeding much of the media distortions about our report, went on Fox News (whose parent company donated $1 million to the Chamber recently for its ad campaig ...

Care 2

• Brazil to Auction Off Virginia-Sized Section of Am ...
  It may seem shocking, but according to reports by Reuters, Brazil is preparing to auction off big chunks of the Amazon rainforest to timber companies. By year-end 2.47 millions of acres of forests will go under private management, with 27 million acres... Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to Environment � ...
• Make Poverty History ! Help Pass Bill C-304 ! PLEA ...
  In every major city in Canada it is hard to avoid the shocking reality of homelessness even though we live in one of the richest countries in the world. Homeless people on the streets are only the tip of the housing crisis iceberg. Many more poor people Submitted by Cher C. to Society & Culture �|� ...
• GE Should Cleanup Its Mess in the Hudson River ! P ...
  From about 1947 to 1977, GE spent 30 years dumping 1.3 million pounds of toxic chemicals called PCBs in New York's iconic Hudson River Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• The True Size and Importance of Africa
  Don't Overlook Africa! Because of the way flat maps distort the size of countries (the closer they are to the poles, the more distorted they are), most people don't really know just how big the African continent is... Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comme ...
• What would you give up to help orphans?
  Meet Jordan, a college student giving up XBOX for http://www.ForgottenVoices.org Submitted by Brian Reilly to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

• Progressive Canaries in a Political Mine
  Take it from David Axelrod. "Almost the entire Republican margin is based on the enthusiasm gap," the president's senior adviser said last week. "And if Democrats come out in the same turnout as Republicans, it's going to be a much different election." But we don't get to have a different election. ...
• Press claims Chamber of Commerce story's too "conv ...
  Question: When are allegations of foreign sources funding American elections deemed to be deeply troubling and instantly newsworthy? Answer: When the money is allegedly flowing to Democrats. And when are the same type of allegations dismissed as perplexing and unbelievable? Yep -- when the money ben ...
• Cold Case File: Who Shot Down a 70-Year-Old Attack ...
  Heard the one about the Social Security Trust Fund that holds nothing but "IOUs"? That phony claim goes back to at least 1939, when a rabidly anti-Roosevelt journalist named John T. Flynn used a colorful analogy about a tin box in a drawer in order to argue that Social Security was a "monstrosity." ...
• Tomgram: Nick Turse, Making War By the Book
  from TomDispatch On January 1, 1970, when Noam Chomsky’s essay “After Pinkville” was first published in the New York Review of Books , reading was still an antiwar activity, and often a transformative one. Books and articles changed minds, altered lives, helped you mobilize, and then keep going. A ...
• Rule of Law Is Alive and Well Outside the United S ...
  The World Justice Project on Thursday published a " Rule of Law Index ," and there's no easy way to say this. Let me put it this way: as when rankings on education, infant mortality, work hours, lifespan, retirement security, health, environmental impact, incarceration rates, violence, concentration ...

Paul Krugman

• Still Traveling
  Trains and planes and automobiles.
• Interstellar
  To boldly go, now refereed.
• Seoul Feud
  My whereabouts.
• Special Bulletin: Fractions Have Denominators
  Dividing, some of us fall.
• Traveling
  Far far away.

No Quarter

• Beware of the Web Scrapers!
  Proving once again that privacy is stone cold dead, a booming business is figuring out who you really are and what you do and think despite all those wonderful pseudonyms you use on blogs. Itâs called “web scraping.” Here’s what they do. The Wall Street Journal has been investigating the selli ...
• SS Uninformed
  � Deeply strange revelation that grown-up males lavish money and time on the hobby of pretending to be SS troops on the Eastern Front, the 5th SS Panzer Division, the Wikings. The music track is pure hambone. �But the guys are sweaty and sober and fascinating. �This lands in the news cycle bec ...
• The Real Issues Behind the Foreclosure Crisis
  What is really going on in regard to the moratorium on mortgage foreclosures? A lot. Not all of it would qualify as the best of “sense on cents.” My thoughts include the following: 1. Can we now declare the HAMP (Making Home Affordable) program to be totally futile? How is it that everybody on W ...
• Led by Slimeballs
  * Bumped Up * OK, not my most attractive work, but it isn’t meant to be. I, like you, am enduring the attack ads by candidates from both parties against their opponents. The result feels dirty—no matter who wins we get another slimeball with power over our lives. Example: As a Californian, [.. ...
• Old Time Leftist Values – Where Are They Now ...
  The more things change, the more they stay the same, right? Well, yes and no. Sometimes the same arguments appear but in such a new form that we don’t recognize that it’s not new at all. Case in point. The following passage is from a famous, wonderful all-American novelist. The [...]

Environmental Graffiti

• Why Environmentalism Is Failing
  A critique on the fad of environmentalism and why we need it to change. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Ghost Town Devoured by the Namibian Desert
  Kolmanskop was once a booming diamond town in the center of the Namib desert - now it is a ghost town, slowly being consumed by the sand. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Great Mosque of Djenné: The Largest Mud Brick ...
  The Great Mosque in Djenné, Mali is not only the world’s largest mud brick building but also a model of ecofriendly and sustainable architecture. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Amazing Undersea Christmas Tree Worms
  Nature might seem festive sometimes, but these incredible aquatic worms really do look like Christmas trees! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• Carbon Capture: Could Solar Energy Convert CO2 Int ...
  How would carbon capping change if we could make CO2 a marketable resource? That possibility might be a step closer to reality. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Do Nuclear Weapons Keep India and Pakistan From Ea ...
  India and Pakistan's dangerous dance requires careful choreography.
• Aid Worker Linda Norgrove Victim of the "Entebbe F ...
  Grandiosity plus ineptitude equals a senseless death.
• How Will U.S. Handle Shortage of Tritium, aka Expl ...
  The National Nuclear Security Agency finds itself "unable to overcome technical challenges" to producing tritium.
• The Passing of the State, Part 47 -- It's Not Just ...
  Gangs, tribes, and sects -- aka, Other Guys -- only have to not lose to win wars.
• When It Comes to Terrorism, History Reveals U.S. I ...
  Savagery in the American Civil War was an early version of sectarian violence in Iraq.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• UN: DR Congo troops committing rape
  A high-ranking UN official has said that army troops are raping women who already experienced attacks this summer.
• Commonwealth Games end in New Delhi
  Australia top with 74 gold medals as 11-day event in Indian capital finishes without major glitches.
• Petraeus: Norgrove probe a priority
  US general says inquiry into death of UK aid worker in Afghanistan is 'personal priority' during talks with British PM.
• Gang busted in US healthcare fraud
  US authorities arrest 73 people linked to an Armenian gang that allegedly filed $163m worth of fraudlent charges.
• 'Plot' to kill Pakistan PM foiled
  Police officials say they have arrested seven men and foiled a plot to kill the prime minister and other leaders.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Environmentalists Join Mountaintop Fray
  Groups file a motion to take part in court proceedings in a suit filed against the E.P.A. by the National Mining Association.
• 52 Percent of Americans Flunk Climate 101
  The results "reflect the unorganized and sometimes contradictory fragments of information" that Americans absorb from the mass media and other sources, the researchers write.
• For Every Rescued Miner in Chile, Hundreds Far Les ...
  Mining is one of the world's most hazardous professions, with a checkered safety record.
• On Our Radar: Skepticism On Carbon Offsets
  Large numbers of credits have been given for the construction of hydroelectric dams in China, which experts call an abuse of the system.
• Will the New Gasohol Recipe Sell?
  Measured by volume, ethanol is cheaper than gasoline but yields less energy. So it will need to cost at least a third less to be equal in price per mile.

Dot Earth News

• New Climate Fight, Same as the Old One?
  A "post partisan" climate plan meets heated attacks. So much for post partisanship?
• The Mine Rescue: H. Sapiens at Its Best
  The best human traits turn a potential disaster into a moment of triumph.
• Obama's Haste On Resumed Offshore Drilling
  A moratorium on offshore drilling ends before three commissions studying the gulf gusher conclude their studies.
• 30-Mile Logjam on Malaysian River Hints at Forest ...
  An enormous logjam on Malaysia's largest river raises fresh questions about corruption in logging.
• China and U.S. Replay 'You First' Climate Skit
  In climate talks, Chinese officials compare the United States to a preening pig.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Cointelpro Gothic: Docs prove Iowa FBI's Wild Rose ...
  By Dan Feidt for Twin Cities Indymedia - More than 300 newly released pages of Iowa FBI investigation files confirm the existence of a busy network of federal agents across the Midwest dedicated to clamping down on political dissenters. A Freedom of Information Act request by Des Moines' David ...
• Avalanche of fed & local police state crackdown ac ...
  Stressful day in Minneapolis as feds raided antiwar activists with no actual charges in the offing. The day before the raids I checked out a weird police intelligence workgroup at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and with other threads coming together it was pretty freaky. But I managed to slap ...
• Turkish Neocon Conspiracy 1981 - Eagleburger Perle ...
  This is a pretty classic one. Turkey has suddenly passed big reforms as the nasty NATO-friendly military post-coup power structure gets knocked back a step. Ergenekon and the neocon network, etc etc. Perle and Wolfowitz, the creation of the American-Turkish Council came after this memo. Possibly b ...
• Video: Lawsuit Zombies fight state repression with ...
  Video release of sorts from the Minneapolis zombies, and a fun edit. 1min40s, brevity! Plz subscribe to Youtube & now Scribd document service as well. If you haven't yet, check out Scribd for a marvelous array of all sorts of documents (PDFs, office, etc)...w00pw00p. Press release: Zomb ...
• California rolls out heat cannon torture weapon Ac ...
  Oh Shit!!! Let's explain how the mass torture weapon deployment rollout program works in the global scientific dictatorship. First the weapons are used on brown people in the field by the military, then on military prisoners, then on domestic prisoners. Then on protesters, then on random people. Thi ...

Daily Censored

• So, You Think You Have A Chance? Ha!
  They move quickly from person to person and present no moving target at which to shoot.  They are like the head of the hydra.  Once the idea takes hold in a person, if you cut that person down at least two more arise in his or her place.   You cannot pin a target on an [...]
• Columbus Day: A Symbol of American Values
  Columbus Day: A Symbol of American Values There are myriad vile symbols floating throughout the American empire. Due to mass governmental programming, most Americans are oblivious to these symbols and just how reprehensible they are. From the image of the Cherokee murderer, Andrew Jackson, on the tw ...
• Peak Oil Experts Fear Big New U.S. Job Losses, Eco ...
  Ralph Nader helped conclude a cutting-edge energy conference here Oct. 9 on Peak Oil by describing what alternative energy proponents must do to reduce harsh new job losses and similar hardship for the public.
• US Military Continues to Embeds Active-duty PSYOPS ...
  Ten years ago in Censored 2001 yearbook reported on how U.S. Army’s Psychological Operations Personnel Worked at CNN. http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/3-us-armys-psychological-operations-personnel-worked-at-cnn/ From June 1999 to March 2000, CNN employed military specialists in ‘p ...
• How Dumb Are (you) We?
  There is actually an organization, a large effort to tell people what national media isn’t.  What is wrong with this picture?  News that isn’t.  Where is uncle Walter when we need him? This country has been at war now for ten years.  TEN YEARS folks, what is up with that?  Worse, we are not at [...]

AlterNet's Breaking News

• Backing Prop 19, California NAACP Calls Marijuana ...
• NH-02: Influence peddling and private stock
• UN says United States owes 1.2 billion dollars
• It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's ... SUPER PAC!
• Controversial For-Profit Schools Attack Community ...

Institute for Policy Studies

• How Will U.S. Handle Shortage of Tritium, aka Expl ...
  The National Nuclear Security Agency finds itself "unable to overcome technical challenges" to producing tritium.
• Why Filipinos Should be Worried
  The Philippines needs to become less vulnerable to the global economy and more rooted in local production for local consumption.
• The Tritium Deficit
  An expected tritium shortage may soon hamper the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
• The White Noise of War
  The hearts and minds of Pakistan have spoken. But they can't be heard above the white noise of war.
• Education Reform: Waiting for the Super Rich?
  Should our education system rely on the help of philanthropists like Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, to achieve meaningful reform?

Equality Trust

• Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
  A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details ...
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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...?

PDA AMERICA

• The only thing to fear is …
  A Republican House and Senate It’s like we’ve stepped right through the looking glass. With the election of Barack Obama and majorities in both the House and Senate just two years ago, voters gave a powerful ...
• Benjamin Jealous: One Nation, Moving Forward
  The One Nation rally this past weekend was intended to offer an alternative to anger and hate, to give progressives a way to come together to organize around the issue most pressing to nearly all ...
• Insurgency in the Democratic Party – What&#8 ...
  From Real News Political Independence The central task of all those fighting for fundamental changes in the U.S. is to participate in and help shape the impulses towards a third party. While third parties have always been ...
• IOT: End War and Occupations, Redirect Funding Oc ...
  Conor Boylan reviewed the One Nation rally in Washington DC and we all agreed that it was a good event. There was a question as to whether a sequel was planned to the One Nation ...
• PDA Weekly Field Report 9/24/10 – 10/2/10
  PDA had a very strong presence in DC and around the country at One Nation. I was personally on the ground in DC and want to thank all of our members who showed up for ...

Marler Blog

• Marler's free range (somewhat) chickens
  The six chickens (all do have names) have been in the Coop de' Ville (I stopped counting when the capital costs exceeded $5,000) for over a week and they (no roosters) seem to be adjusting well despite being fenced in with wired that goes underground over a foot (coyote and racoon prevention) and wi ...
• One year later LD Stidham and wife fight Salmonell ...
  KFVS TV 12 reports that more than a year after being stricken by a Salmonella infection , a Mississippi County man is taking encouraging steps toward his recovery. Stidham spends an hour a day, three to four times a week, trying to regain what a Salmonella infection took away. He communicates with ...
• October 17-20, 2010 Food Microbiology Symposium
  I usually sneak in and out of towns as I give food safety speeches . Apparently, however, River Falls had a slow news day when they reported on the Symposiun - Current Concepts In â¨Foodborne Pathogens and â¨Rapid and Automated Methods â¨in Food Microbiology . They also noted (ABA, please take ...
• The History of Salmonella Outbreak Litigation
  Salmonella is one of the most common enteric (intestinal) infections in the United States. Salmonellosis (the disease caused by Salmonella ) is the second most common foodborne illness after Campylobacter infection. It is estimated that 1.4 million cases of salmonellosis occur each year in the ...
• E. coli Outbreak Litigation - $500,000,000 Recover ...
  E. coli O157:H7 was identified for the first time at the CDC in 1975, but it was not until seven years later, in 1982, that E. coli O157:H7 was conclusively determined to be a cause of enteric disease. Following outbreaks of foodborne illness that involved several cases of bloody diarrhea, E. coli O ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 10.14.10
  Video: Okay, maybe the Chevrolet Volt is a hybrid But only by definition. MI Senator "thinks out loud" about eliminating CAFE in favor of a bolder clean vehicle mandate Levin makes a bold cal ...
• EPA says E15 is ready for prime time... and your n ...
  Filed under: Government/Legal A little number on your friendly local gas station pump might be about to change. Instead of 10 percent (E10), America's national gasoline supply can now contain a blend of fuel that contains up to 15 percent ethanol (E15) following an announcement by the Environment ...
• Senator Levin in favor of a bolder clean vehicle m ...
  Filed under: Hybrid , Government/Legal , Electric , Diesel Michigan Senator Carl Levin has been called the auto industry's best friend by detractors who say he's worked hard to obtain that title by defending the status quo. At the 2010 Business of Plugging In conference in downtown Detroit today, ...
• AutoblogGreen for 10.13.10
  Chevy Volt digs deeper into battery pack; uses "a little bit more" than 8 kWh Again, it's a performance thing. Toyota president: We are determined to lead the electric-drive segment Confiden ...
• AutoblogGreen for 10.12.10
  Flashback: Bob Lutz says the "batteries always drive" the Volt A short history lesson. Nissan Leaf to retain 40% of its original value after 3 years, 30k miles An early estimate. ...

Rafe's Radar

• Reporters' Roundtable: The Social Network
  Against the odds, the movie about the founding of Facebook, 'The Social Network,' is nearly universally admired. It got a 97% on the TomatoMeter at Rotten Tomatoes, and is considered a strong candidate for the Oscars. But is it accurate? Not just on the facts, but on the spirit and ethos of en ...
• Xmarks CEO: Knight-in-shining-armor rescue likely
  The company isn't going to make it, but the popular browser sync tool is likely to live on.
• Reporters' Roundtable: The Internet vs. Hollywood
  Today: The movie and TV industries vs the Internet! Who will win -- Studios, internet companies, consumers, manufacturers, or some combination? The entire entertainment industry is, of course, in the middle of shedding its skin. The old ways of distributing and charging for entertainment conten ...
• Reporters' Roundtable: How game mechanics are infe ...
  Today we're talking about game mechanics. Check-in apps like Foursquare use philosophies of game design to pull users deeper into engaging with them. The success of this concept has begun to infect other technologies, from consumer Web services to business applications. Software and services are ...
• Reporters' Roundtable: Deciphering Apple's develop ...
  On September 9, Apple rewrote its rulebooks for developers . In its revised developers agreement , it reversed a ruling that blocked developers from using all but a very few programming languages for iPhone apps. And it also made public for the first time the guidelines it uses for deciding if ap ...

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!

• John le Carré: Calling Out the Traitors
  John le Carré, the former British spy turned spy novelist, has some grave words for Tony Blair. More than seven years after the invasion of Iraq, the former British prime minister, now out of office and touring the world pushing his political memoir, is encountering serious protests at his book sig ...
• From Tuskegee to Guatemala Via Nuremberg
  News broke last week that the U.S. government purposefully exposed hundreds of men in Guatemala to syphilis in ghoulish medical experiments conducted during the late 1940s. As soon as the story got out, President Barack Obama phoned President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala to apologize. Colom called the ...
• Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's John King USA
  Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman to appear on CNN’s John King USA on Friday, October 1 at 7pm ET.
• WATCH: Jon Stewart Gets Haiti News from Democracy ...
  See all of Democracy Now!’s Coverage of Haiti
• BREAKING...Attempted Coup in Ecuador: On the Groun ...
  Sofia Jarrin works with the Latin American Association for Radio Education.

Farming Pathogens

• How Mayor Bloomberg Causes Obesity
  Yeah the doctors don’t know, but New York was killing me / Bunch of doctors coming round, they don’t know / That New York is killing me / Yeah I need to go home and take it slow in Jackson, Tennessee -Gil Scott-Heron On October 6 Mayor Michael Bloomberg asked the United States Department of [...]
• Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter
  You can now follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Farming Pa ...
• The Axis of Viral
  The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We might accept that viruses and bacteria at best instantiate the coincidental nature of such an alliance. The success of one bug might pave the way for another. But we’d be hard pressed to imagine that theyâd whittle the syllogism to a sharper point and activel ...
• Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook
  Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, and the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized
• Imperial Storm Scientists
  The Red Army Faction was a communist guerilla group operating 1970-1998 in, of all places, West Germany. The RAF engaged in a variety of operations in the 1970s, including assassinations and bombings, primarily around the German government’s material support of the U.S. war in Vietnam. As depicted i ...

Suzie-Q

• The Revolution Will Be Televised: Comedy Central T ...
  The Revolution Will Be Televised: Comedy Central To Air, Stream D.C. Rallies (VIDEO) Jason Linkins- Huff Post First Posted: 10-13-10 11:31 AM   |   Updated: 10-13-10 12:23 PM On last night’s “Daily Show,” host Jon Stewart announced that the upcoming Rally To Restore Sanity would be televised, ...
• CREW: 26 SITTING LAWMAKERS CORRUPTING THE HALLS OF ...
  Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Contact:  Garrett Russo // 13 Oct 2010 // Washington, D.C. - Corrupt lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are polluting the United States Capitol.  These members highlight the need for increased oversight by the Office of Congressional Et ...
• Rush Limbaugh says there will never be equality be ...
  Rush Limbaugh says there will never be equality because:”some people are just born to be slaves” Crooks & Liars- By John Amato October 09, 2010 07:00 AM How dare you say there’s racism in the Teabircher movement? I’m so offended by that notion. Isn’t what Rush Limbaugh just soooooo true? LIMBAUGH: T ...
• Glenn Beck Mocks Fire Victims, Reaches New Depths ...
  I’ve probably written and rewritten this opening paragraph about Glenn Beck and his morning zoo sycophantic sidekick Pat Gray four or five times with various sequences of compound obscenities and ad hominem insults. But I’m opting for more restraint at this point, even though neither of these jackal ...
• Mid-Term Elections Still In Play, With Dems Gainin ...
  Mid-Term Elections Still In Play, With Dems Gaining Momentum Crooks & Liars- By Susie Madrak October 04, 2010 09:00 AM Some good news for the Democrats. So taking over the House and the Senate isn’t quite as easy as Republicans hoped – or as Democrats feared. The situation is still fluid, and Dems n ...

Solari

• Money & Markets Charts ~ 10.14.10
  View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report tonight, Thursday, October 14, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency c ...
• Special Solari Report - Proposals for Annuitizatio ...
  Over the past few years, various proposals for annuitization of 401(k) and IRA accounts upon retirement and automatic enrollment in 401(k) programs have been made.  On September 14-15, 2010, the Departments of Labor and the Treasury held a joint hearing on Lifetime Income Options for Participants an ...
• ‪The Essence Of The Banking Industry…‬
  YouTube The International Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) pool their resources in an attempt to break up an international arms dealing ring financed by a high-profile bank. (Movie)
• Excerpts: Catherine in 2009
  YouTube (22 Nov 09)
• Foreclosure Scandal Far More Serious Than Media Is ...
  By Sam Smith If you were to sign a false legal document, the courts and police would not call it “flawed paperwork.” But that’s the term the Associated Press is using about the foreclosure situation  with similar soft pedaling by other major media. In fact, this is potentially one of the largest s ...

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

• Bureaucrats Use Government Databases to Snoop for ...
  Government employees just can’t seem to resist the temptation to pry into the private lives of high-profile figures.
• Comedienne Margaret Cho: Watching the Brady Bunch ...
  How network TV raised her race consciousness
• Exposing the GOP's Shameful Historical Role in the ...
  How the Native American extermination campaigns merged the dangerous forces of a standing army with the business/political interests of the Republican Party.
• New Book Exposes the Dirty Truth Behind Coca-Cola: ...
  Coke has been accused of violence against union members in South America, water pollution overseas, and contributing to child health problems. Is it true?
• The Conservative Movement Is Poised to Come to Pow ...
  We need a self-confident press to demand accountability from demagogues who prey on the ignorance of the uninformed.

Sideways News

• Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
  The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign , challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
• Brit mums strict about eco-chores
  Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
• UK venue offers rainforest weddings
  Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project .
• Battery recycling 'too difficult'
  The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
• 10 green resolutions to save you money
  By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become obsol ...

Fabius Maximus

• How good are our global senses, watching our chang ...
  Summary:   Our increasingly complex world creates new vulnerabilities.  New factors to watch.  New threats to which we must respond.  Can we manage the necessary coordinated global action?  The cost is trivial, especially compared to that of our wars.  This post examines one serious but little-known ...
• A background briefing about the foreclosure crisis ...
  Summary:  An introduction to the mortgage foreclosure fraud crisis.  At this time its size and importance remain unclear, but its evolution and resolution will tell us much about the state of America’s political and judicial systems. The story is complex, and well covered elsewhere (see links at ...
• America is the new Rome. Late Republican Rome (not ...
  Summary:  The past decade has taught us much about America, with its two recessions and the war on terror.  A new vision slowly emerges of America, its people, and our future. Polls show our loss of confidence in America’s institutions.  Compare the Gallup polls asking “how much confidence you ...
• Pain and misery builds discipline!
  Summary:  The War on Terror is often compared to Vietnam, with good reason.  But the War on Terror is remarkably similar to another movement in our nation’s past, a dark chapter in American history that most Americans don’t like to think about.  Slavery.  An article by the newest contributor ...
• The Army and Marines are breaking, but we don&#821 ...
  Summary:  The US Army and Marines are breaking.  It’s a slow inexorable process resulting from fighting 4GWs around the world too long with too few men.  Neocon war-mongers, national leaders, and the general public remain blind to the evidence, so they can express surprise when the results even ...

Open Your Eyes News

• JPMorgan net income jumps 23%
  Financial Times – JPMorgan Chase said on Wednesday that its third-quarter profits surged by 23 per cent from a year ago as the bank slashed its provision for credit losses. Net income at JPMorgan rose to $4.4bn, or $1.01 a share, from $3.6bn in the same quarter a year ago. That beat analysts expect ...
• States hit banks with mortgage probe
  Reuters – All 50 states launched a joint investigation of the mortgage industry on Wednesday, a move some experts fear may slow sales of foreclosed homes and threaten the recovery of the fragile housing market. The state attorneys general are looking at allegations some banks did not properly review ...
• US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,424
  The Associated Press — As of Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010, at least 4,424 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. Read Article
• Nestle joins the obesity battle – with KitKats for ...
  Daily Mail – Nestle has joined a Government campaign to combat obesity â by rewarding families for buying Kit Kats, Smarties and Milky Bars. The food firm is using the official Change4Life logo on a website linked to its own Get Set, Go Free promotion, designed to boost sales of confectionary and ...
• EPA approves more ethanol in gas
  AP-The Obama administration says gas stations can start selling fuel with more ethanol – a mixture of up to 15 percent – but it’s only recommended for cars and light trucks built since 2007. Motorists with older vehicles will need to watch what they’re pumping or risk damaging their engines with too ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• World hunger.. “Alarming”
  World hunger.. “Alarming” (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) A billion people went hungry this year, virtually all in the Third World, many in Africa and Asia. One hundred and twenty two countries were covered in a report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Of these, hunger ...
• Leading Light Circle (Mexico): Classic Marxist tex ...
  Leading Light Circle (Mexico): Classic Marxist Texts in Spanish Needed (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Leading Light Circle (Mexico) has requested help in acquiring Spanish translations of classic Marxist works. Specifically, what is needed are translations of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, C ...
• RAIM-GTA: On the founding of 3rd World 1st! (3W1)
  MSH has received the following from Third World First, the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement — Greater Toronto Area: On the founding of 3rd World 1st! (3W1) Chapter of the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement â Greater Toronto Area (RAIM-GTA) Revolutionary Greetings! September the 11th, 2 ...
• Bez odrzucenia nie może być odrodzenia
  Bez odrzucenia nie może być odrodzenia (trzeciswiat.wordpress.com) Poniższy tekst jest dość krótki, jednak jest bardziej poruszający niż którykolwiek z innych artykułów opublikowanych przez nas na portalu Trzeci Świat. Publikowaliśmy już teksty naukowe i publicystyczne, zawierające dokładne omówieni ...
• Lots-o-questions
  Lots-o-questions (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “Dear Maoist-Third Worldist, I by no means have any bones to pick with MTW but I’m curious about a few things, so don’t take this too harshly. You claim that MTW is for communism and that communism is the end of oppression. How, then, can you just ...

PakAlert

• The Great Gold Conspiracy and 911
  Reginald Howe was a Harvard educated attorney that lost his money betting on gold. After a thorough investigation, he concluded that a massive conspiracy was involved in suppressing the price of precious metals. He decided to file a lawsuit against the conspiracy
• Jerusalem in the Quran
  Jerusalem in the Qur’an is a great book that thrilled and delighted me in a number of ways. I am surprised that such a meticulously documented book had to wait for such a long time before seeing the light. It is now more than half a century since the Zionists began their appalling oppression and eth ...
• Video: Take the red pill and wake up before the sy ...
  Take the red pill and wake up before the system collapse.Go for the GOLD and Silver...paper money , FIAT money will collapse sooner than later
• Willow Smith: Next Illuminati Star?
  Willow Smith, heir of the Hollywood royalty couple formed by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett, is definitely being groomed for superstardom. The 9 year old has been signed to Jay-Z’s label Roc Nation and there are already signs of her becoming a mini-Rihanna – a young singer trained and dressed to propag ...
• Illuminati Underground City?
  The above "military grade" underground bunker can hold 2,000 people, up to 60 months worth of food, and has its underground power system. It also has its own air/water purification system and guaranteed to protect against nuclear, chemical and biological agents. The total cost is 160 million dollars ...

Andy Worthington

• Who Are the Remaining Prisoners in Guantánamo? Par ...
  This is the seventh part of a nine-part series telling the stories of all the prisoners currently held in Guantánamo (174 at the time of writing). See the introduction here, and Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, Part Five and Part Six. This seventh article tells the stories of 13 prisoners ...
• Liveblogging “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week: D ...
  Just keeping up with everything going on in “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week is hard enough, and this is in spite of the fact that my patrons at the World Can’t Wait have lined me up for as many of these events as possible on my week-long visit from London. The full schedule is [...]
• In the Case of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Torture Apo ...
  âTerror ruling threatens civilian prosecutions,â screamed the Los Angeles Times last Thursday. âRuling in ‘98 East Africa embassy bombings is setback for US,â wailed the Washington Post. The headline writers were referring to the federal court trial, in New York, of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, ...
• Liveblogging “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week: D ...
  The weather in the Bay Area is radiant — hot, sunny, and astonishing for mid-October — and, although a ten-hour flight from London and my usual paranoia about Homeland Security could hardly be described as constituting the best recipe for a relaxing welcome to the United States, I got off the plane ...
• Former Guantánamo Prisoner, Tortured by Al-Qaeda a ...
  Last June, in the District Court in Washington D.C., a ruling was delivered on the habeas corpus petition of a Syrian prisoner in Guantánamo, Abdul Rahim al-Janko (also identified as Abdul Rahim al-Ginco), which exemplified all that was wrong with the Bush administration’s detention policies in the ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Banking on Connections to Spur Offshore Wind
  Google and a team of investors and energy firms aim to bring an offshore wind power revolution to the East Coast of the United States.
• Surprising Ant "Mixing Bowl" Found in Manhattan
  At least 13 species of urban ants thrive along the bustling boulevards of the United States' biggest city, a new study has found.
• Pictures: Best Micro-Photos of 2010
  NoneA zebrafish nose, a wasp nest, and a mosquito heart took home top honors in the 2010 Small World Microphotography Competition.
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• Toxic Mud Spill Latest Insult to Polluted Danube R ...
  As cleanup continues in Hungary, experts weigh in on the environmental damage and future risks of mining and industry along Europe’s rivers.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• primary colors
  Primary season is finally over in CT. (Only 82 more days until the November elections!) The New Milford results are in. And while there's nothing particularly surprising about how the town voted, I am shocked at the low turnout. According to the tallies at the Danbury News-Times: 1497 registered R ...
• "Does Probate = Masterb-te," or "Are We Getting Je ...
  What's the deal with this primary for Probate Judge? Have you ever seen such energy put into an election campaign (Oops - I mean other than this spring's budget referendum)? Why are New Milford Republicans putting so much energy behind Judge Marty? Who stands to lose here - probate should be pretty ...
• salary salads
  Here’s some interesting news about salaries, concessions, and taxes. New Milford teachers and the Board of Ed have peacefully renegotiated teacher contracts for the 2011-2012 year. http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/New-Milford-teachers-agree-to-no-pay-increases-676941.php http://www.ne ...
• How Wrong Can One Person Be?
  I know it’s exciting when someone new walks in and turns everyone’s heads. They’re mysterious. That’s sexy. And, if they can put words together into complete, grammatically correct sentences, they (by today’s standards) are brilliant. So, suddenly, the known quantity of the person we’ve been wit ...
• Loving Books, Libraries, and the Internet
  If you read certain local blogs, or letters to the editor of local papers, you may notice a recurring theme from some disgruntled citizens. Libraries, and the books they contain, are our enemy. (Who knew?) And the best way to save money and preserve democracy from socialism is to stop buying books ...

SPL Center

• Does Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Machete’ Advocate ‘Race W ...
  Most film critics have come to a similar conclusion about Robert Rodriguezâs new film, âMachete.â With few exceptions, the movie has been received as a directorially accomplished and modestly enjoyable comic-book revenge fantasy â easy to look at, easy to laugh at, and easy to forget. There ...
• Anti-Semitic Activist Now Into ‘Liberty Villages,’ ...
  The last few years have been trying for New Mexico anti-Semite and militia proponent Clayton Douglas , but that hasn’t dampened his entrepreneurial spirit — or the high esteem in which he holds himself. Douglas, 64, is a motorcycle aficionado who used to publish a biker magazine called Thunder Rider ...
• The Words of Bishop Eddie Long
  Long before Bishop Eddie L. Long became embroiled this week in allegations of using his leverage as pastor and mentor to compel three teenage boys into sexual relationships, the leader of the Atlanta-area New Birth Missionary Baptist Church recorded a sermon â and sold copies of it in the church b ...
• League of the South Slammed by Former Board Member
  Ray McBerry, the longtime head of the Georgia chapter of the racist and secessionist League of the South (LOS), turned in his resignation this past Friday after being asked to quit the group’s board. In a long letter where he described loyally serving the league for 15 years, McBerry, sounding hurt, ...
• Political Mudslingers Populate Far-Right Miami Con ...
  MIAMI, Fla. — Self-described “birther king” and World Net Daily (WND) founder Joseph Farah said today that he thinks one or two states will pass legislation in the next year requiring presidential candidates to provide irrefutable proof that they are U.S. citizens in order to have their names placed ...

change: org.

• It's Time for the Big Apple to Back Paid Sick Leav ...
  On the New York City Council, a paid sick leave bill has support from 35 out of 51 council members. That's not just a majority, it's a veto-proof majority. Yet the bill still hasn't passed. Why not? In order for council members to vote in favor of the legislation, there has to be, well, a vote. And ...
• National School Lunch Week and the Chocolate Milk ...
  This week is National School Lunch Week , and there's one sugary war going on across the country that isn't so sweet. Schools are debating whether or not to eliminate flavored milks from cafeterias. The fight may be raging over pint-sized milk jugs, but the battle is shaping up to be pretty huge. Ri ...
• When Benefits Kick in at Midnight, Groceries Are B ...
  Just because you're eligible for SNAP benefits (food stamps) doesn't mean you get enough to eat. Just because you live paycheck to paycheck doesn't mean each paycheck can be stretched far enough. Need proof? Read or listen to any of the dozen stories about midnight grocery shopping from the past two ...
• Hey Oprah, Stop Spreading HIV Myths
  Oprah Winfrey, arguably one of the most powerful women in media, used a recent show to further promote dangerous myths and stereotypes about HIV. On the October 7th episode, entitled Why She Sued Her Husband for $12 Million and Won , the story of a woman, Bridget, who contracted HIV from her husband ...
• Washington Post's "Next Great Pundit": Same Old, S ...
  For the second year in a row, the Washington Post is holding its " Next Great Pundit " contest. This year, over 1,400 people of all ages and from 43 states threw their hat in the ring hoping to ultimately win the opportunity to be a blogger and columnist for the newspaper. Fifty applicants were chos ...

Common Dreams -News

• US Presses Allies on Missile Shield
  BRUSSELS – The United States urged NATO allies Thursday to invest in a missile shield and avoid harmful budget cuts at a rare meeting of defence and foreign ministers clouded by the war in Afghanistan. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defence Secretary Robert Gates made the plea, ec ...
• After Flood, Pakistani Children Face Winter Peril
  by Hasan Mansoor HYDERABAD, Pakistan — As winter approaches on Pakistan's flooded southern plains, thousands of malnourished children are living in dirty, spartan tents without prospect of a home, officials and UN workers say. Doctors treating thin and bedraggled youngsters say a lack of nutritio ...
• How 2 Civilian Sleuths Brought Foreclosure Problem ...
  by Tony Pugh PALM BEACH, Fla. - More than a year before lenders, law firms and document companies began owning up to widespread paperwork problems with their foreclosure filings, Lisa Epstein and Michael Redman already knew that something was wrong - very wrong. Redman, a former online automobile co ...
• WikiLeaks says Funding Has Been Blocked After Gove ...
  by David Leigh and Rob Evans The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government. Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to ...
• ‘Are You Guys Eventually Going To Disclose?’ Chamb ...
  by Faiz Shakir MSNBC’s Chuck Todd hosted the Chamber of Commerce’s chief lobbyist Bruce Josten this morning to discuss our reports documenting the Chamber’s foreign sources of funding . As he has done in the past, Josten resorted to name-calling as a defense for his organization, suggesting that w ...

Lifehacker

• Carry Drinks in a Muffin Tin for One Trip Refills ...
  If you want to take all the drinks out to the patio in one sweep, repurpose a muffin tray as a sturdy drink carrier and bring out all the drinks—or refills—in a single trip. More »
• Do You Video Chat? [Reader Poll]
  Almost every laptop comes with a built-in webcam nowadays, and whether it's Skype's new 10-way calling or FaceTime on the iPhone, the medium of video chat continues to advance. We're wondering, though, how many of you actually use it. More� ...
• Repurpose a Dining Room Table as a Two-Person Work ...
  When you're looking for a spacious desk, sometimes it pays to skip looking for a desk altogether and repurpose another surface. Today's workspace features a dining room table turned two-person workstation. More��
• Apartment Search Tool PadMapper Maps Out Crime Sta ...
  Previously mentioned Craigslist rental-mapping tool PadMapper can now overlay a heat map of reported crimes in select US cities. If you're looking for a new home plus you don't like getting mugged, PadMapper can help you out. More�� ...
• SuperOneClick Roots Virtually Every Android Phone ...
  Windows only: We recently featured Universal Androot , an app that rooted many Android phones, but had a few limitations (and Google's already killing it with a patch). Windows program SuperOneClick is the easiest, most universal rooting app w ...

Water Privatization

• Commission explores privatization of Alcova cabin ...
  The lack of water and a need for upgraded sewer facilities were two major concerns brought to the Natrona County Commissioners in a meeting last week over the proposed privatization of the 100 cabin sites at Alcova Reservoir.
• Water bottle ban complete, contract not yet finali ...
  By: Fernando Sioson The ban on the sale of single-use plastic water bottles on campus is official. But the contract re-negotiation between Aquafina, the Pepsi Corporation and Seattle University is far from over. ...
• Documentary series highlights personal, global wat ...
  By: Mike Velez, CORRESPONDENT From drinking fountains to fountains that exist and purely for decoration, displays of clean water can be found and throughout the USF and campus. However, many may not fully appreciate and the gift. ...
• USF Highlights Global Water Shortage at Film Event ...
  The films showcase the importance of water and the growing crisis around the globe.
• Newsweek: The race to buy up world's water
  As demand outstrips supply, water rights, plants and pipes are set to appreciate precipitously. According to a 2009 report by the World Bank, private investment in the water industry is set to double in the next five years; the water-supply market alone will increase by 20 percent.

Guardian

• Liverpool deal goes into extra time
  • NESV race to complete deal after high court ruling • Judge tells Hicks and Gillett to withdraw injunction Liverpool's prospective new owners were tonight scrambling to push through a deal that would end the tenure of Tom Hicks and George Gillett before this weekend's Merseyside derby following ano ...
• Clinton 'worried' by UK defence cuts
  US secretary of state says plans to cut the Ministry of Defence budget by 10% concern Washington The US has made an eleventh hour intervention in the highly charged defence review as Britain's top military brass launched a last ditch attempt to persuade David Cameron to water down the cuts. Hillary ...
• Ahmadinejad delights south Lebanon
  Iranian president taken to the town of Bint Jbeil near the Israeli border where he meets families of dead fighters The event was organised by Hezbollah, the "party of God" whose martyrs stared down from giant billboards in a specially built stadium. But as the helicopter carrying Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ...
• Quangos cut axes 192 organisations
  Scrapping key agencies in health, justice and consumer rights has raised alarm The government was tonight accused of making unjustifiable cuts in its much anticipated "bonfire of the quangos" after it couldn't say how much money would be saved. Francis Maude, the cabinet office minister, outlined pl ...
• French woman involved in niqab row
  Prosecutors call for €750 penalty and suspended jail term against teacher who admits confronting veiled woman from UAE Prosecutors have called for a 63-year-old French woman to be given a two-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of €750 (£659) after she admitted tearing a full Islamic veil fro ...

McClatchey

• Two tales show bank's role in prolonging mortgage ...
  WASHINGTON — Maria Perez and Donald Reece live on opposite ends of the country and are nearly as far apart on the income ladder. Yet they both face foreclosure and serve as telling examples of how lenders are taking actions that harm the economy and prolong the nation's housing crisis.
• To avoid GOP romp, Democrats must get out black vo ...
  WASHINGTON — African-American voters could have a major impact on the outcome of 20 House of Representatives races and 14 Senate contests if they can reverse a pattern of low turnout in nonpresidential election years, according to a report that the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies rel ...
• Pentagon halts enforcement of gay ban amid legal c ...
  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Thursday halted enforcement of its "don't ask, don't tell" policy pending an appeal of a federal court order prohibiting the government from expelling gays and lesbian soldiers who disclose their sexual orientation.
• Young voters vent frustration to Obama in MTV foru ...
  WASHINGTON — If Democrats are counting on young and minority voters to keep them in power in next month's elections, the under-30 audience at a nationally televised youth forum Thursday showed President Barack Obama that they're feeling dissatisfied, too.
• Bank repossessions jump nationally
  Banks were more aggressively foreclosing on homes both in Whatcom County and across the U.S. in the third quarter of 2010, according to a new national report.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Climate body seeks new wardrobe
  IPCC plenary meeting in Busan: The future of the world's climate science authority is being decided behind the glass and steel facade of a modern conference centre in South Korea's second city. The BEXCO centre 's principal event this week is the Busan International Footwear and Textile Fashion Sho ...
• Tianjin talks and a 'global work party'
  This Sunday - 10/10/10, if you care to write dates that way - is set for what's probably the biggest mass event ever in pursuit of curbing climate change. At the heart of things is 350.org, which is calling the event a "global work party" : "It’s been a tough year: in North America, oil gushing int ...
• Bluefin numbers shift in murky waters
  A fascinating document has fallen into my lap from a meeting now going on in Madrid looking at tuna stocks and catches. Tuna in fish market The question it asks - perhaps without intending to - is this: can the Mediterranean bluefin industry ever be properly monitored? With the bluefin having becom ...
• Livestock: Lengthening the shadow?
  The environmental impact of meat is something of a well-done dish. Rajendra Pachauri , head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and Sir Paul McCartney are just two of the public figures who have called on us all to eat less meat in order to curb the rate at which the world warms ...
• Campaigning explodes as climate process risks disi ...
  This week marks a first for China - the first time that the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, and therefore (you can argue) the country whose decisions will most affect the global climate over the next few decades, has hosted a meeting of the UN climate convention .   Whether the locati ...

The Wonk Room

• Wellpoint Continued To Cancel Policies Of Breast C ...
  The Los Angeles Times is reporting that “prosecutors Wednesday accused the parent company of insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross of California of falsely stating that it had changed its procedures for canceling the policies of patients after they become sick.” Wellpoint’s denials, issued earlier this ...
• Federal Employees Can Purchase Health Insurance Fo ...
  This morning, federal employees who are insured through the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program received an email from Aetna advertising their new pet insurance plans. “In these challenging economic times, it’s good to know you can get some financial protection for unexpected illness an ...
• Florida Judge Dismisses Part Of Health Care Lawsui ...
  Earlier today, Judge Roger Vinson, a federal trial judge in Florida, issued a mostly procedural opinion ruling on the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss a group of right-wing state officials’ lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act.  His opinion dismisses three of the state officials cla ...
• Whitman’s Job Creation Plan Revolves Around ...
  A key plank in California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman’s (R) job creation plan is completely eliminating her state’s capital gains tax. Such a move would blow a $4 to $4.5 billion annual hole in the budget over the next five years (and the losses would get bigger after that), but Whitman is c ...
• Denise Bode: Recovery Act Saved 40,000 American Wi ...
  Recent stories and campaign ads have challenged renewable energy tax credits: Guest blogger Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Alliance, responds. Representing 85,000 people working in the American wind industry, we can say unequivocally that the Recovery Act’s 1603 tax credit has been one ...

thwap's schoolyard

• This Week's "Economist" Cover
  The weekly news journal, Britain's Economist generally has tons of factual detail and excellent, quality writing. Oftentimes they provide information and analysis on current events that is essential for understanding the world around us. BUT, their overall world view is nonsense. They subscribe to ...
• Thoughts on Ezra Levant, Kory Nyuk,Hyuk, and etc.,
  When it comes to sheer brain power, I'd match up our homegrown Canadian right-wing shit-heads against the sputtering, brainless, scumbags of the USA, any day. O'Reilly or Coulter or Beck or Hannity or Kristol vs. Levant, Frum, Coren, DiManno? They're all so intellectually insignificant that even an ...
• James O'Keefe (Nothing Important)
  Still have a lot to say about a lot of important stuff, but no time. No time. No time. So, just for shits n' giggles, I present (for those who missed this mini-event) this guy: James O'Keefe's plan to "punk" a female CNN reporter who wants to do a story on young conservatives. James O'Keefe is ...
• On the harpercons' Embarrasing Failure to Win a Se ...
  Over at Dawg's blog they're having great sport imagining the harpercons' attempts to explain away the unprecedented failure of Canada to win a seat on the United Nations' Security Council (which Canada tended to win every ten years). To hear the harpercons yammering about it, the UN is nothing but ...
• Interview With Oskar LaFontaine
  I can't speak or understand German, but if anyone who reads this can, you can check this out. (I liked what I read about this guy.) Yeah, I'm still busy.

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Secretary Solis answers concerns about DOL's Whist ...
  Last July, the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) joined with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) and the Government Accountability Project (GAP) in submitting a letter to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis . The letter raised concerns about whether the Department of Labor (DOL) w ...
• President Obama signs the Veterans' Benefits Act o ...
  The White House has announced that today President Barack Obama signed into law the Veterans' Benefits Act (VBA) of 2010. Among other improvements in the law for veterans, the VBA enhances the employee protections of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). USERRA prot ...
• Supreme Court grills attorneys on protecting oral ...
  Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on this question: Does the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) protect employees from retaliation when they verbally complain about wage and hour violations? My friend Jim Kaster of Minneapolis, Minnesota (pictured) argued the case for the employee, ...
• Michigan judge takes the Fifth, 222 times
  Lori Shemka began working for the Wayne County Circuit Court in Southgate, Michigan, on January 2, 2010. A month later, she was promoted to be a magistrate of the court. Soon, she began to raise concerns that 28th District Judge James Kandrevas was abusing his position. Shemka raised concerns that K ...
• Settlement Leaves Seattle Teacher Victorious
  On September 22nd, a settlement was reached between Sean Taeschner and the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle. ( See previous blog post on Mr. Taeschner’s case.) The diocese had initiated its own investigation, following the claims made by Mr. Taeschner. The auditor hired by the diocese, however, confi ...

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

• Obvious News Is Obvious: Polls That Only Call Land ...
  I remember, way back during the 2004 election, reading stories about how the rising number of people cutting the cord when it came to their landline phone meant that phone-based surveys were not all that accurate any more. So now, six years later, research has come out saying exactly the same thing ...
• Why Do The Various Copyright Pre-Settlement Lawsui ...
  Earlier this year we noted, with some amusement, that the US Copyright Group (the biggest name among the recent glut of copyright pre-settlement shakedown letter factories popping up all over the country) had apparently copied the code for its settlement website from a competitor, the Copyright Enfo ...
• Can GM Legally Ignore Others' Patents, Thanks To U ...
  Years ago, we wrote about how the US gov't used a "state secret" claim to simply ignore patents from a startup that may have been infringed by Lucent, so that it could use a startup's patented technology without getting a license ( Updated to clarify that it wasn't Lucent's patents). Of course, the ...
• France Gets Taxpayers To Subsidize Music Downloads
  Nicolas Sarkozy had talked in the past about taxing Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to fund the recording industry. Apparently, in the meantime, he's just going to tax citizens instead. The EU has apparently given approval to a plan that will have the French government paying half the cost of special ...
• Wait, So The RIAA Is Offended That Google Won't Do ...
  The RIAA and the IFPI have been going on and on for years about just how ridiculous it is for people to suggest music should be "free." They will go on, at great length, to talk up the "value" of music and how it should be paid for. But, apparently, they don't think that applies to anyone else. T ...

VacTruth

• Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has history of sell ...
  How many judges have links and financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry? Chief Justice Roberts recently sold $15,000 of his shares in the company Pfizer enabling him to participate in a court case today.
• Chief Justice John Roberts cashes in Pfizer stocks ...
  Chief Justice John Roberts Jr has recently sold his stock holdings in Pfizer Inc. He did this to participate in two up vaccine cases. The implications are enormous as they decide if anyone suffering a vaccine injury can ever – under any circumstances - sue a pharmaceutical company.
• Vaccinations: Much To Do About Nothing?
  The pharmaceutical industry regards the ever-increasing, publicized downside of vaccines as “much to do about nothing.” “Nothing” can be further from the facts, according to emerging statistical information and parents-turned-advocates whose children have been damaged or killed by vaccines...
• Hope On The Horizon
  Even though HBOT has been around for about 75 years, not many healthcare consumers are aware of it or how it works. As a result of HBOT treatments, Alexis now can do math problems that she couldn't prior to her treatment with HBOT. How could that be possible when all the medication she received else ...
• Do vaccines cause autism?
  Do parents trust studies Japanese and British studies showing data proving that vaccines do indeed cause Autism? Or do parents believe the government, who are lap dogs for big pharma, paid to say that vaccines do not cause Autism?

BroadSnark

• Things You Might Have Missed
  The Renewing the Anarchist Tradition (RAT) conference is being held next month in Baltimore.  I’ll be there.  Hopefully, some of you will be too. Unfortunately the RAT conference means that I won’t be able to go to the Positive Force punk rock flea market.  But if any of you are in the DC area an ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Kids can be so incredibly mean.  What would your parents have done if they found out kids at your school were torturing you?  What if they found out you were torturing other kids? Related to that, this post calling the church out for “saving families” by being anti-gay marriage while ignoring the ...
• Owning the Edges
  A few weeks ago, I attended a Busboys and Poets A.C.T.O.R. on Islamaphobia.  Six local Muslim panelists talked about their personal experiences.  Inevitably, the subject of what to do in the face of extremism came up. As an atheist who keeps a toe in the atheist blogosphere, I have read quite a few ...
• Things You Might Have Missed
  Every time I see the amount of money SEIU has put into politics, it makes me want to cry. In news of the creepy -  They are training children to be cops in Argentina, using eye scanners on the U.S. Mexico border, and giving overzealous parents easy access to home drug testing kits.  What kind of [.. ...
• What is Pornography?
  I was getting all ready to write a long diatribe in response to another one of those anti-porn feminists who claims that all porn is rape.  You know, the people who refer to those of us who disagree as male-identified, “fun feminists.”  This “feminist” was particularly irritating me.  It’s bad en ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Jammu and Kashmir: Victim of Britain's Imperial Le ...
  By Ramtanu Maitra Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 39
• The Remedy to This Crisis: Glass-Steagall and NAWA ...
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 39
• Schiller Institute Conference: Full-Steam Ahead To ...
  By Stephan Ossenkopp Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 39
• Science & Drama! What Is Sense-Perception?
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 39
• LaRouche: Fight To Overcome Our National Tragedy
  Statement by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, October 8, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 39

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

• By: FutureEmergency.com
  [...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]
• 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 ...

treehugger

• Weekday Vegetarian: Swiss Chard, Onion and Cheese ...
  Photo: Kelly Rossiter Our cottage neighbours, the Johnson family , have been raising chickens for a year or so. Their young sons were keen to start a little business and they thought they would like to sell eggs. I thought they had six chickens, and not too many eggs. It turns out that they hav ...
• Colorful Lobster Trio a "1 in 900 Quintillion" Sig ...
  Images courtesy of the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk That's '9' followed by 20 zeroes The probability of a lobster being born with a blue shell are about 1 in a million. For a calico or pumpkin-orange colored lobster, the odds are in the excess of 1 in 30 million. The chances of seeing all three ...
• Did a Betrayal from Inside the White House Kill th ...
  Photo: WN , Creative Commons In the months that have passed since the ignominious death of the Senate climate bill , there's been speculation abound as to what, exactly, caused its demise. Some argued that oil and coal interests were just too strong, or that public opinion was never strong enou ...
• $100 Million Class Action Filed Against LEED and U ...
  Henry Gifford, photo by Travis Roozee Henry Gifford has been a thorn in the side of the US Green Building Council for a couple of years, since he wrote an article claiming that LEED rated buildings used 29% more energy than conventional buildings . LEED has changed a lot since then, but not eno ...
• Walmart's Newest Sustainability Initiative Focuses ...
  Image: Flickr via mjb84 Walmart announced the next steps it will take toward sustainability today, with a series of changes focused on increasing local produce in its stores and improving relationships with small- and medium-size farmers. The chain has divided the latest goals into three mai ...

Biosingularity

• Amino Acid Supplement Makes Mice Live Longer
  When mice are given drinking water laced with a special concoction of amino acids, they live longer than your average mouse, according to a new report in the October issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication. The key ingredients in the supplemental mixture are so-called branched-chain amino ...
• Low Carb Diet Rich in Animal Fat and Protein Incre ...
  Those who adhered to a diet low in carbohydrates but rich in animal-based fats and proteins increased their risk of death – especially by cancer, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, led by Simmons College nutrition professor Teresa Fung, Sc. D. This study is the first ...
• Novel sensing mechanism discovered in dendritic ce ...
  Dendritic cells are the grand sentinels of the immune system, standing guard 24/7 to detect foreign invaders such as viruses and bacteria, and bring news of the invasion to other immune cells to marshal an attack. These sentinels, however, nearly always fail to respond adequately to HIV, the virus c ...
• New Research Finds Evidence of Charitable Behavior ...
  Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard and from Boston University have discovered that charitable behavior exists in one of the most microscopic forms of life—bacteria.  Their findings appear in the current issue of Nature. In studying the development of ...
• Exercise, calorie restrictions can rejuvenate olde ...
  Harvard researchers have uncovered a mechanism in mice through which caloric restriction and exercise delay some of the debilitating effects of aging by rejuvenating the connections between nerves and the muscles that they control. The research, published online by the journal Proceedings of the Nat ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• Land war in the West heats up
  Uintah County in Utah is suing the Interior Department, alleging that the federal government is illegally withholding federal lands in the county from oil and gas exploration. The land is within the boundary of a proposed wilderness area that has never been approved by Congress.
• Greens shackle national security - and renewable e ...
  Now environmentalists say we need the minerals that they̢۪ve been locking up for decades. China currently produces fully 97% of the world̢۪s rare-earth oxides, the raw materials needed for a variety of defense and high-tech applications.
• Federal government's land grab faces growing resis ...
  Fearful that the federal government̢۪s already pervasive presence in their state could expand dramatically, Montanans are rising up against another looming Washington land grab.
• Using biotech to survive mega-droughts
  The world will need drought and salt tolerant bio-crops in the not too distant future. High-yield farming research is needed to meet growing world food demands.
• Renewables are unsustainable
  “Renewableâ€Â energy subsidies may sustain the jobs of lobbyists, activists, politicians, bureaucrats and politically connected companies. But they will kill millions of other people’s jobs.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Two killed, 5 injured in head-on collision near Mo ...
  Two people were killed and five injured after two cars collided in the Moscow Region, to the west of the Russian capital.
• Russian, Indonesian top diplomats to meet in Mosco ...
  The foreign ministers of Russia and Indonesia will discuss in Moscow a forthcoming visit of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to Russia.
• Main news of October 8
  A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours
• Top stories of the day
• Dog Fashion: Trends in Japan and Germany
  On October 11, Tokyo held a dog fashion show that gathered around 30 dogs and their owners. All the visitors could look at new trends in clothes and accessories for their pets.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia launches U.S. telecoms satellite
  A Russian Proton-M heavy carrier rocket with a U.S. Sirius XM-5 satellite blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Thursday, a spokesman for Russia's space agency, Roskosmos, said.
• Twitter plans Russian-language interface
  Representatives of the micro blogging site Twitter told Russian bloggers at a meeting in San-Francisco that a Russian-language interface will be launched, without specifying when, a Russian blogger said on Tuesday.
• Political obstacles for Sea Launch overcome - Ener ...
  International consortium Sea Launch plans to resume Zenit-3SL carrier rocket launches from its floating platform in the Pacific Ocean in 2011, the head of the Russian Rocket and Space Corporation Energia said Monday.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger’s visit to Russia
• Space hotel project to be launched after contract ...
  The implementation of the project to build the first space hotel will only start after a contract between Russian state-owned rocket and space corporation Energia and Moscow-based company Orbital Technologies is signed, the Energia head said.

Pruning Shears

• Why not a Nobel for Western dissidents?
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post In recent years the Nobel committee has been willing to wade into controversies. A couple of years ago it awarded its economic prize to Paul Krugman, in what appeared to be a swipe at a sitting president and the still (inexplicably) ...
• Homework
  Fifty extra credit points to the first enterprising citizen who forecloses on Vikram Pandit’s house .
• This Week In Tyranny
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Last week I quoted Catch-22, and what do you know - the news sent me another real life excerpt this week. What’s next, The Syndicate? Say No ...
• Assassination is the new torture
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Andrew Sullivan recently posted a brief defense of Barack Obama’s assassination program and received a sharp response by Glenn Greenwald. The ensuing debate (I believe this and this are the latest) at times has felt depressingly fam ...
• Excerpt from Lies by Al Franken
  Linked from here . Franken notes the first World Trade Center attack happened 38 days into Clinton’s first term. More from pp. 109-10: The way Clinton responded to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center was to capture, try, convict and imprison those responsible. Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Mura ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Industrial Agriculture and Human Survival: The Roa ...
  Industrial Agriculture and Human Survival Click here to read this article
• Just Say No to GMO! Video
  "Just say no to GMOs is the Battle Hymn for our new Organic Republic. Take action against Monsanto and their mad scientists and indentured politicians." - Ronnie Cummins, Director, Organic Consumers Association www.OrganicConsumers.org Click here to read this article
• Demand Fair Trade From Your State Government!
  Each year, institutions, from municipal and state governments to universities, hospitals and school districts, spend billions of dollars purchasing commodities, like coffee, tea and sugar. An estimated $8 billion dollars was spent on institutional coffee purchases alone in 2009. Institutional purcha ...
• VIDEO: Why Buying Organic Matters
  If you value your drinking water, food, local economy, farmers, children, adults, animals, lakes, streams, oceans, heck, anything about the natural world at all, from the tiny microbes in the soil to the largest whales in the ocean, you'll want to take three minutes to see a new video that debuted a ...
• Organic Consumers Association Hosts Reception for ...
  This Friday, October 15 at 6:30pm, The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) will host an informational reception at Natural Products Expo East for the Fair World Project (FWP). The new organization will promote fair trade in commerce, especially in organic production systems in developing countries a ...

fotoFrontera

• Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XV
  Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos. [1] -[2] -[3] -[4] -[5] -[6] -[7] -[8] -[9] -[10] -[11] -[12] [13] [14] [15] 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 OPCIO ...
• Autos para millonarios parte I (7 fotos únicas)
  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.1m4g3n3 ...
• Jardines y flores (5 fotos para compartir en Faceb ...
  Con estas 5 fotografías hermosas, damos inicio a nuestra nueva serie titulada ' Jardines y Flores '. Manténgase usted a la espectativa porque muy pronto habrá más imágenes lindas que sin duda deseará compartir. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLIC ...
• Paisajes de ensueño parte I (8 fotos preciosas)
  He aquí otra nueva serie de imágenes que he llamado ' Paisajes de Ensueño '. En otras palabras, se trata de una excelente recopilación de paisajes inigualables que promete reunir más de 100 fotos en total . Espero sinceramente que sean de su agrado y utilidad. Saludos. Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre l ...
• Texturas para diseño gráfico y páginas web I (10 a ...
  En el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas, siempre estamos innovando. Para justificar mi argumento, permítanme presentarles la primera parte de nuestra nueva colección titulada ' Texturas para diseño gráfico y páginas web '. Iniciamos con 10 fondos muy útiles y en breve tendremos algo más para fomentar su c ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Agricultural Biotech and Chemical Industry Put on ...
  In mid-October of every year, Iowa State and Central Iowa sees its fair share (or more) of dignitaries, current and former agricultural lobby folks, Farm Bureau top brass and even usually a cabinet officer or two. This is not the presidential primaries, but the World Food Prize week. This year, over ...
• CLF Knows What’s in the Nation’s Chicken
  On Thursday, CLF Director Dr. Robert S. Lawrence joined, Dr. David Kessler, former FDA Commissioner, and, Urvashi Rangan, PhD (JHSPH ‘95), Consumer Reports, on the Dr. Oz Show’s segment entitled “What’s in the Nation’s Chicken?” The guests on this national broadcast began by discussing the additive ...
• Straight Talk About The Risks of Feeding Antibioti ...
  It is time for some straight talk about the risks of using massive amounts of antibiotics in livestock and poultry. I don’t know one infectious disease expert who would disagree that there are direct links between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in people. Period. If you don ...
• Food & Dignity
  “So, where do the leftover veggies go?” It’s a common question around here, especially on Tuesdays. The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) operates a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, connecting students, faculty and s ...
• Reading between the lines: FDA indicates consumer ...
  FDA hosted a hearing on Tuesday, September 21 to discuss the hypothetical labeling of genetically engineered (GE) salmon. Just fifteen hours earlier the FDA finished hearing the debate on GE salmon approval, which gave the impression that FDA was moving faster on the issue than it actually is.  This ...

Norwegianity

• Michele Bachmann wearing black men’s clothin ...
  Former Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has new book out in which he accuses Rumsfeld of gross incompetence. The US had no reason to invade Iraq in 2003, and only did so because of “a series of lies” told to the American people by the Bush administration, says Gen. Hugh Shelton, who served [...]
• Fighting cancer with beer (& other urban myths tha ...
  Unlike our economy, the buried Chilean miners are finally seeing the light of day. Americans, otoh, are just getting buried under more and more bullshit. Maureen Dowd is so worried she actually wrote a column that doesn’t knee Democrats in our collective groin: So now the Republican president who bu ...
• OK, OK, the post is up!
  I have to say I’m already getting very tired of the Villagers’ new meme that Dems are scrambling to protect their safe seats. The Village, as usual, is making shit up as it goes, but by constantly talking about the Dems being in trouble, they’re assuring voters will think so as well. Good. Nothing w ...
• Incredible video
  Banksy wrote and directed the opening to last night’s season premiere of The Simpsons: I can’t imagine how Matt Groening got them to air this. UPDATE: Via BDM in the comments, here’s a [for now] working link.
• Master baiters
  f job-creating government spending has failed to bring down unemployment in the Obama era, itâs not because it doesnât work; itâs because it wasnât tried. â Paul Krugman So if the feds don’t have all the money, who does? [C]orporations and affluent individuals are pouring tens of millions ...

Public News Service

• AZ Latinos Dispute "Apathetic" Voter Label
  AZ Latinos Dispute "Apathetic" Voter Label Phoenix, AZ – A national survey last week painted Latino voters as “less motivated” to go to the polls this fall. Arizona Latinos say that may be true elsewhere, but not in the Grand Canyon State. Comments from “One Arizona” spokesperson Tania Marquez (MAR- ...
• AIDS Walk Reflects Changing Attitudes Toward Disea ...
  AIDS Walk Reflects Changing Attitudes Toward Disease Phoenix, AZ – The annual AIDS Walk Phoenix will be held Sunday morning. One local activist says such events have attracted more mainstream support as understanding of HIV/AIDS has grown. Comments from Barbara McCullough-Jones (muh-CULL-uh Jones), ...
• Watchdog Group: AZ Needs Health Reform Ombudsman
  Watchdog Group: AZ Needs Health Reform Ombudsman Phoenix, AZ – With federal healthcare legislation taking effect, an Arizona consumer watchdog group wants to see the state ombudsman’s (OM-buds-mun’s) office expanded to deal with complaints and concerns about the new law. Comments from Serena Unrein ...
• New Census Data Shows Poverty Growing in Arizona
  New Census Data Shows Poverty Growing in Arizona Phoenix, AZ – Last week, the Census Bureau reported Arizona’s poverty rate is second-highest in the nation. This week, detailed figures show the state’s situation is getting worse. Comments from Cynthia Zwick, director of the Arizona Community Action ...
• FDA Poised to Inject Guidelines into Livestock Ant ...
  FDA Poised to Inject Guidelines into Livestock Antibiotic Use Phoenix, AZ - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to weigh in on the routine use of antibiotics in livestock production in a matter of months, and the new guidelines will limit the routine use of the medications in healthy a ...

My Care2 Picks

• Tools of the MInd
  A Canadian researcher is studying a novel American preschool curriculum to see how it might help Canadian children get ahead. Neuroscientist Adele Diamond was struck by the quiet self-control of the children. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Water.org Water Facts
  Todays water crisis is not an issue of scarcity, but of access. More people in the world own cell phones than have access to a toilet. And as cities and slums grow at increasing rates, the situation worsens. Every day, lack of access to clean water and s Submitted by Water Tanks to World �|� �Note ...
• The Right Thing in Iraq?
  When the intelligence community was unable to establish Iraq-al-Qaeda links Wolfowitz appointed neocons Abram Shulsky and Douglas Feith to manufacture evidence Colin Powell, called upon to make the case for war exploded in indignation This is bullshit. Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov' ...
• Broken Promises: Thousands of Veterans Denied Cruc ...
  More than $1 trillion has been spent on Iraq/Af/pak conflicts.91,384 have been wounded in conflict or evacuated from the war zone for treatment of wounds or illnesses.Veterans' advocates say Congress is in no way prepared to compensate them Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note ...
• How to be a data journalist
  Data journalism represents the convergence of a number of fields which are significant in their own right - from investigative research and statistics to design and programming. The idea of combining those skills to tell important stories is powerful. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture ...

Angry Indian News

• French petrol firms seek emergency supplies
  BBC News - French petrol firms seek emergency supplies: "French petrol distributors have urged the government to release emergency fuel stocks following strikes that have blocked most French oil... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Hitler exhibition breaks Germany's last taboo
  Hitler exhibition breaks Germany's last taboo - Europe, World - The Independent: "The first German exhibition since the Second World War to deal exclusively with the taboo subject of Adolf Hitler... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Whistleblower reveals ‘systematic’ humiliation of ...
  Whistleblower reveals ‘systematic’ humiliation of detainees | Raw Story: "A former US soldier in Iraq has come forward with video of his fellow soldiers subjecting Iraqi detainees to what he... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Racist E-mails Lead to Resignation of a Florida Po ...
  Racist E-mails Lead to Resignation of a Florida Police Chief | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center:An embattled South Florida police chief — already serving a 30-day unpaid suspension for using... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Venezuela’s Communes: Not as Radical as You Might ...
  Venezuela’s Communes: Not as Radical as You Might Think | venezuelanalysis.com: "Under President Hugo Ch�vez, Venezuela has been no stranger to controversy. However, one of Ch�vez’s proposals has... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• Just Say No to GMO!
  Music Video
• Mr. Ed McWhinney Burgers
  Mr. Ed McWhinney Burgers - yum!!!
• Food as a Weapon with Professor Poochenstein
  Food as a Weapon Power Point Presentation with Professor Poochenstein.
• The Truth Squad Radio Show with Special Guest Mich ...
  This Sunday we will be talking about chemtrails with our special guest Michael J. Murphy, co-producer of the film "What in the World are they Spraying?"
• Seed Savers Exchange and the Svalbard Doomsday Vau ...
  Seed Savers' members' heirloom seed collection is being pirated into the Svalbard seedbank, under the UN FAO treaty.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• The stupidity of crowds helps kill a planet - Todd ...
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• How to save a fishery: owning, renting, and expand ...
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• ‘Gossip Girl’ unethical because of threesome? - La ...
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Citizens for Legitimate Government

• DHS scoured social media sites during Obama inaugu ...
  ShareThis DHS scoured social media sites during Obama inauguration for 'items of interest' --EFF documents reveal�broad range of targets�including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace 14 Oct 2010 An electronic rights advocacy group is expressing concern over what it contends was an overly broad surveillanc ...
• U.S. to Let Insurers Raise Fees for Sick Children
  ShareThis U.S. to Let Insurers Raise Fees for Sick Children 14 Oct 2010 The Obama administration, aiming to encourage health insurance companies to offer child-only policies wh*ring for the insurance cartel once again, said Wednesday that they could charge higher premiums for coverage of children wi ...
• As Terror Alert Continues, NYPD Holds Drill to Pre ...
  ShareThis As Terror Alert Continues, NYPD Holds Drill to Prep For Mumbai-Style Attack --New York Terror Exercise Simulates Commando Assault On Wall Street 14 Oct 2010 As US officials proclaim an alleged European [but actually CIA-based] terror plot still active, New York City police conducted a dril ...
• Supreme Court won't take case of pair ejected from ...
  ShareThis Supreme Court won't take case of pair ejected from Bush speech 12 Oct 2010 Over the objections of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a case brought by two people who said they were barred from a speech given by President [sic] Ge ...
• Trapped 68 Days, First Chilean Miners Taste Freedo ...
  ShareThis Trapped 68 Days, First Chilean Miners Taste Freedom 13 Oct 2010 With a look of sturdy calm, the first of the 33 miners trapped nearly half a mile underground stepped out of a narrow rescue capsule and onto the surface at 12:11 a.m. on Wednesday, hugging his family, the nation’s president a ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Crewe murders bombsell: Rochelle asks police to re ...
  For the first time in 40 years, the little girl left alone in her cot by the killer of her parents has broken her silence on the case. Rochelle, the only daughter of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe, has come forward...
• Conspicuous by her absence
  Forbes magazine today released its list of the top 100 most powerful women in the world. It features notables like Singapore's Ho Ching at #30, Finland president Tarja Halonen at #62, Icelandic leader Johanna Sigurdardottir at #80, and even reformed...
• First published review of Arthur Allan Thomas: The ...
  I'll add more reviews as they come in, but here's the first, courtesy of Newstalk ZB today: Books - Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story 29/09/2010 Whether you concur with Wishart or not, you need to read this book. Arthur...
• I hate Ian Wishart because...
  For some years now I've "enjoyed" a growing amount of internet 'hate mail' biffed my way on websites, virtually all from people I've never met and most from people who've never actually read my work themselves but who've relied on...
• Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story...a cop kill ...
  The new book on the Crewe murders, Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story, is finally on sale. Available from Whitcoulls, PaperPlus, Take Note, Borders, The Warehouse, Dymocks and all good independent bookstores. The radio ad is available here: ThomasBook1

Mondoweiss

• When will Americans be informed of what is stirrin ...
  This is reportedly a Gush Shalom ad in Haaretz: A state That declares war On a fifth Of its citizens – Can it be called “Democratic”? A state That persecutes Its minority – Can it be called “Jewish”? Tomorrow, Saturday evening, we shall demonstrate against the racist laws. Starting at 7.00 pm from G ...
• The yearly settler festival of destroying the Pale ...
  and other news from Today in PalestineSettlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Abbas pressures U.S. to aid in stopping Israel settlement building The Palestinian president says Israel is 'still putting obstacles' in the path of peace talks, singles out West Bank settle ...
• Blogging for the enemy
  The author has done a couple of earlier posts. First here, then here. � With this post I include my name and not just my nom de blog, wondering jew. �Weeks ago when�I informed a right wing Israeli friend of mine that I had visited a West Bank settlement for a Shabbat, he commented that unlike [.. ...
• ‘The Palestinians have won’
  A friend in Jerusalem just told me: The Israelis won't negotiate because they won't give up land. They'll fudge and fret but this time their intransigence will be made plain to the world. The world is behind the '67 borders, and Israel can't go near that position. The world sees that. And the Palest ...
• Can you support the Palestinians when you live on ...
  Every time I would tell my girlfriend (she's Palestinian) about a famous Israeli activist or writer or she would ask why they still call themselves Israeli. She tells me things like, "See. They still call themselves Israeli. When they use that word they are automatically erasing Palestine." I always ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: The Awakening Has Begun
  On the heals of Ukraine’s 2009 Black Lung Infection, a mysterious variation of flu which bypassed trachea, targeting the lungs directly, a “bilateral pneumonia, the result of viral distress syndrome, i.e the total destruction of the lungs.” (1.3 million infected, over 75,000 hospitalized), eye witn ...
• VRM: GlaxosmitheKline Herpes Vaccine Fails Safety ...
  GlaxoSmythKline recently conducted safety trial studies on their new experimental Genital Herpes vaccine ‘Simplirix’. 8,323 women aged 18-30 years participated in the trial at 50 sites in the US & Canada. Based on the results the product has failed miserably. The question is why were these women inf ...
• VRM: Closed Door CDC Meeting Reveals Industry Cove ...
  VACCINE INDUSTRY COVER-UP EXPOSED – Selected vaccine authorities from CDC, FDA, and manufacturers discussed, in a closed meeting, the possibility of neurodevelopment disorders resulting from vaccine components. Documents released through the Freedom of Information Act detail the transcript of a meet ...
• VRM: Former Pharmaceutical Representative Gwen Ols ...
  “The Pharmaceutical Industry is in the business of disease maintenance & symptom management. They are not in the business to cure Cancer, to cure Alzheimer’s, to cure heart disease, because if they were they would be in the business of putting themselves out of business; and that in fact doesn’t mak ...
• VRM: Medical Martial Law In The US – Sleepin ...
  “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endange ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• You Know You're Getting Old When...
  A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury featur ...
• Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
  Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for. � If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner fo ...
• Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
  After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new low- ...
• Strawberry Picking
  Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller. T ...
• Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
  I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal for o ...

Michael Yon

• Soldiers' Angels and Inside the Inferno
  I am very proud that with my publisher we have been able to send a check for almost $5000.00 to Soldiers' Angels because you have helped by buying my new book Iraq: Inside the Inferno 2005 - 2008 . You may pre-order order copies of my book here .But we want to raise more for Soldiers' Angels because ...
• The Linda Norgrove Rescue Tragedy
  Published: 11 October 2010 Ms. Linda Norgrove was kidnapped on 26 September during an ambush in eastern Afghanistan.� A trusted and knowledgeable source told me he expected there was a high likelihood she would be killed by these particularly brutal people.� Several days ago, during a rescue attemp ...
• To Follow these Steps
  I first met Steve Shaulis about 27 years ago during Special Forces training.� We’ve been friends ever since and have traveled many places together. Back in 2001, six months before the 9/11 attacks, we were at his U.S. home in Vero Beach, Florida.� We were preparing to swim out into the night in ...
• Our Muslim Friends Suffer, Too
  Terrorism knows no bounds.� This atrocity happened in Iraq and the sadness still lingers in many hearts. I republish these two emails with permission of CSM Jeffrey Mellinger. Mohemmed's name has been changed to protect his family.� May God cherish his brave Soul. From: Mellinger Jeffrey J CS ...
• Iraq: Inside the Inferno
  Dear Friend, I have just returned to Afghanistan and I’m writing to tell you about a new book project I’m working on and an important organization that I’m backing with this book. I hope you will too. ABOUT SOLDIERS’ ANGELS Soldiers’ Angels is a volunteer-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ...

The Killing Train

• Isabel McDonald and Lou Dobbs!
  My friend Isabel did a fantastic story for the Nation about the anti-immigration pundit Lou Dobbs who had undocumented workers caring for his horses and grounds , and she had the chance to talk to Lou Dobbs about it on MSNBC. Check it out. read more
• Bruce Levine on Surviving America's Depression Epi ...
  I'm reading Bruce Levine's "Surviving America's Depression Epidemic". The story of how I got the book is interesting. I was reading some psychology books a while back (Alfie Kohn, Alice Miller) and a reader of this blog suggested that no psychology reading list would be complete without Levine's "Co ...
• The Rwandan Election
  Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher. Take Stephen Kinzer, who wrote a biography of Kagame subtitled “Rwa ...
• The Afghan War Diary Data - an initial look
  An initial look at the first 76,000 records in the "Afghan War Diary" leaked by Wikileaks yields some important information, much of which has been known or suspected by analysts for years. Given the sheer size of the database, there is a great deal more to be learned, but here are some initial find ...
• The Drug War in Afghanistan - the Dyncorp connecti ...
  Just reading some of the 800+ hits on the drug war in Afghanistan, and these are real - the US is fighting a drug war in Afghanistan. There are DEA agents running around arresting people, there are troops eradicating poppy in farmers fields, and they are finding and burning piles of opium, heroin, h ...

treehugger

• Weekday Vegetarian: Swiss Chard, Onion and Cheese ...
  Photo: Kelly Rossiter Our cottage neighbours, the Johnson family , have been raising chickens for a year or so. Their young sons were keen to start a little business and they thought they would like to sell eggs. I thought they had six chickens, and not too many eggs. It turns out that they hav ...
• Colorful Lobster Trio a "1 in 900 Quintillion" Sig ...
  Images courtesy of the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk That's '9' followed by 20 zeroes The probability of a lobster being born with a blue shell are about 1 in a million. For a calico or pumpkin-orange colored lobster, the odds are in the excess of 1 in 30 million. The chances of seeing all three ...
• Did a Betrayal from Inside the White House Kill th ...
  Photo: WN , Creative Commons In the months that have passed since the ignominious death of the Senate climate bill , there's been speculation abound as to what, exactly, caused its demise. Some argued that oil and coal interests were just too strong, or that public opinion was never strong enou ...
• $100 Million Class Action Filed Against LEED and U ...
  Henry Gifford, photo by Travis Roozee Henry Gifford has been a thorn in the side of the US Green Building Council for a couple of years, since he wrote an article claiming that LEED rated buildings used 29% more energy than conventional buildings . LEED has changed a lot since then, but not eno ...
• Walmart's Newest Sustainability Initiative Focuses ...
  Image: Flickr via mjb84 Walmart announced the next steps it will take toward sustainability today, with a series of changes focused on increasing local produce in its stores and improving relationships with small- and medium-size farmers. The chain has divided the latest goals into three mai ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Concern greets new Security Council arrivals
  India and South Africa prepare to take their seats at the UN Security Council but vested interests and past histories concern Burma observers
• Suu Kyi fights law with law
  Nobel laureate says that under Burmese law she cannot vote, while party members take to the country to spread the elections boycott
• Kachin court clears Yuzana tycoon
  Judges accuse Htay Myint's brother of land grab as defence team claims that court is attempting to save face of powerful business tycoon
• On the campaign trail
  With less than a month to go until the elections in Burma, parties are busy campaigning on the streets of urban areas across the country. Reuters photographer Soe Zeya Tun documented candidates for the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), the National Unity Party (NUP) and National Democra ...
• Flood victims in need of drinking water
  Floodwaters begin to subside but around 2000 are hospitalised in Mandalay as the Burmese government announces record rainfall levels

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Is climate change activism dead?
  A year ago climate change activists were storming Parliament. This year they are holding meetings with cupcakes and copious amounts of tea. So is climate activism dead or has it just been sleeping?
• Tropical species decline by 60 per cent
  The exotic birds and animals of the tropics are disappearing at a catastrophic rate as the rich world strips poor countries of their natural resources, the WWF has warned.
• BBC told to ensure balance on climate change
  Climate change sceptics are likely to be given greater prominence in BBC documentaries and news bulletins following new editorial guidelines that call for impartiality in the corporation's science coverage.
• Global warming summit heads for failure amid snub ...
  World leaders have snubbed the next round of international climate change negotiations in Mexico next month amid fears the talks will collapse.
• Ed Miliband is the costliest politician in British ...
  When Ed Miliband won the Labour leadership, the commentators overlooked his most startling achievement, says Christopher Booker.

National Geographic | Environment

• Banking on Connections to Spur Offshore Wind
  Google and a team of investors and energy firms aim to bring an offshore wind power revolution to the East Coast of the United States.
• Surprising Ant "Mixing Bowl" Found in Manhattan
  At least 13 species of urban ants thrive along the bustling boulevards of the United States' biggest city, a new study has found.
• Pictures: Best Micro-Photos of 2010
  NoneA zebrafish nose, a wasp nest, and a mosquito heart took home top honors in the 2010 Small World Microphotography Competition.
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• Toxic Mud Spill Latest Insult to Polluted Danube R ...
  As cleanup continues in Hungary, experts weigh in on the environmental damage and future risks of mining and industry along Europe’s rivers.

Jurist - Legal Research

• Federal judge rules Texas Pledge of Allegiance con ...
  [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Wednesday that the words "one state under God" in the Texas Pledge of Allegiance do not violate the First Amendment [text] of the US Constitution, upholding a 2009 district court opinion [text, PDF]. A Tex ...
• Ontario high court rules witnesses may wear niqab ...
  [JURIST] The Court of Appeal for Ontario [official website] ruled [judgment, PDF] Wednesday that a witness does not have to remove her niqab [JURIST news archive] unless the failure to do so will prevent the accused from receiving a fair trial. The court stopped short [CBC report] of issuing a rulin ...
• Indonesia court strikes down law allowing governme ...
  [JURIST] The Indonesian Constitutional Court [official website, in Bahasa] on Wednesday overturned [press release, in Bahasa] a law that has allowed the Indonesian government to ban books it deemed controversial for nearly 50 years. The court found [Jakarta Post report] that giving the Attorney Gene ...
• State AGs to investigate foreclosure practices
  [JURIST] Attorneys general from all 50 states and the District of Columbia announced [joint statement, PDF] Wednesday that they have formed a bipartisan group called the Mortgage Foreclosure Multistate Group (MFMG), which will be investigating allegations of procedural defects committed by mortgage ...
• Sweden court begins first war crimes trial of form ...
  [JURIST] The Stockholm District Court on Wednesday began proceedings in the the country's first war crimes trial of Swedish citizen and former Bosnian prison guard Ahmet Makitan [Trial Watch profile]. Makitan is accused [JURIST report] of violating the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Obama Faces a Critical Decision on 'Don' ...
  According to news reports, the Justice Department is preparing to ask a federal judge to stay her ruling ending enforcement of the Pentagon's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy banning gays in the military. But my sources insist that, as of last night, the White House, meaning President Obama, had not s ...
• When Consultants Cost Candidates Their Races
  We can officially add the "Gate" suffix to "Hicky." Today, the hullabaloo over what seemed to be a casting agent's unfortunate choice of words recruiting people for an ad campaign against Gov. Joe Manchin, the Democrat running for Senate in West Virginia, became a scandal. The casting agent says tha ...
• A Critical Decision Faces Obama On DADT
  According to news reports, the Justice Department is preparing to ask a federal judge to stay her ruling ending enforcement of the Pentagon's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy banning gays in the military.� But my sources insist that, as of last night, the White House, meaning President Obama, had not si ...
• Will Anti-Incumbent Fervor Take Down a Popular Dem ...
  It is often--and correctly--said that voters dislike Congress but like their own representatives. In this election cycle, Ike Skelton, a 17-term incumbent Democrat who represents a Missouri district that gave more than 60 percent of its votes to George W. Bush and John McCain, represents everything ...
• What's Next for Michelle Rhee?
  Michelle Rhee has a plan. Hours after she stepped out of the maelstrom that is the D.C. public schools system, her patron, Mayor Adrian Fenty, having been bounced out of office, she launched a Twitter feed and a website , teasing would-be followers to find out what she'll be doing next. Rhee is ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] Success! AntiCANSEC arms-bazaar campaign - ...
• [COAT] Raging Grans video: CANSEC-NO CANSEX-YES!&q ...
• [COAT] Arms Bazaar in Ottawa Citizen, letters-to-e ...
• [COAT] Oppose the CANSEC War Machine! - coat
• [COAT] Letters-to-Editor needed re:CANSEC weapons ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• US and Vietnam sign nuclear energy agreement | Ass ...
• SKorea on alert after ship hit by mysterious blast ...
• Obama administration may send U.S.-Russia arms tre ...
• Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the nation's energy ...
• More tritium found at Vt. Yankee, NRC plans closed ...

Tikun Olam

• Geller’s Wealth from Corruption, Fraud; Dealership ...
  Pam Geller’s N.Y. Times profile reveals her enormous wealth including a $4-million divorce settlement, a $5-million life insurance on the death of her ex-husband, Michael Oshry (her married name was Pamela G. Oshry), and a portion of the $2-million sale of the Hewlett Harbor home she jointly owned w ...
• IDF Military Exercise Prepares for Syrian Invasion ...
  The next time any of my pro-Israelist readers seek to make the argument that Israel only wants peace and only engages in defensive military operations, they’ll have to deal with this important speech (Hebrew) delivered by Gaby Ashkenazi to a military audience: Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi ...
• Pam Geller Lies About Her Site Stats
  Funny thing…Pam Geller is whining at her blog about the profile the Times did her the favor of publishing.  She even says they lied about her. Well, Pam is a liar herself…about her site stats.  And the N.Y. Times took her word for it and published the following false statement: Atlas Shrugs…gets a ...
• Justice Captain George-Style: Excusing ‘Family Hon ...
  I exposed here the fact that Doron Zahavi aka Captain George, the notorious torturer of Mustafa Dirani and assorted Lebanese prisoners when he served in military intelligence, became the Jerusalem Police Arab affairs liaison.  His new role put him in a position to impose on East Jerusalem’s Palesti ...
• N.Y. Times Profiles Geller, Coulter on Same Day
  Bill Keller must be reading the polls and expecting the era of Obama to be over.  How else to explain the noxious news that both Pam Geller and Ann Coulter were profiled in the Times today.  Not one, but both, and on the same day!  Can there be much that is more disgusting? I actually [...] Rel ...

Ode Magazine

• Inspiration through images: week 2
  By: VictoriaKlein Dedicated to the power of pictures, Inspiration thorough images is a new series of posts here on Ode Magazine . We all come to Ode looking for the positive, the inspirational, and the enjoyably optimistic. Each week, “Inspiration through Images” f ...
• The youthful spirit of a super grandma
  By: Anne Thomas Igarashi Asayo San (Mrs. Asayo Igarashi, in English) is an 82-year-old widow. She wears kimonos everyday and spends a lot of time attending to them. I first heard about Igarashi San from one of my adult students, who is a speech therapist. Igarashi ...
• Lighten up!
  Should we stay out of the summer sun? Not at all, according to a growing group of physicians. Sunlight can be good for you. We’ve been hearing about the dangers of sun exposure for decades. Yet people still swarm to outdoor cafés, parks and beaches during the summer months, eager to catc ...
• The yoga of writing
  By: Chintana In Eat, Pray, Love , Elizabeth Gilbert chronicled her search for solace as she journeyed alone to Italy, India and Indonesia. While we can all be inspired by her book or the movie, most of us can't afford to hop on a plane and land in exotic locations ...
• QE II: royalty for peace
  By: PeaceCorso Elizabeth Windsor, a.k.a. Queen Elizabeth II, appeared at the United Nations this past summer. In my household, we call her Liz. Liz has been the Queen of England for 58 years. At age 84, she has seen all sorts of political and cultural trends come a ...

OpEd News

• Israel Raid on Gaza Flotilla: US Failure to Condem ...
  If Iran had attacked a humanitarian flotilla in international waters and killed 9 people, there would be certain retaliation from Washington. Until our government stands up to the powerful Israel lobby in the United States, the Palestinian people, and our own humanity, will continue to be held hosta ...
• Don't Act, Don't Lead: Obama Stiffs Gays in the Mi ...
  On 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' as on almost every political issue, President Obama's mantra seems to be: Don't Act, Don't Lead.
• What Liberalism Needs
  Liberalism was originally built upon a deep vision of the good in human life. American liberalism needs to regain the capacity to articulate that vision of the good --one that resonates and inspires-- and to tie that vision together with its political program.
• 13th World RJ Conference, Day Two
  The diversity of approaches being used to implement restorative practices was at the heart of the second day of the 13th IIRP World Conference on restorative justice in Hull, U.K. While punitive justice takes a one-size-fits all approach to conflict and crime, namely punishment, restorative justice ...
• Violence, Greed and Corruption: The Treacherous, D ...
  Not your father's kind of America is it? No, the America of years past was different; it had a greater sense of meaningful purpose that is missing in our current highly materialistic society. Sure, America was never the epitome of perfection, but in times past, ethics, honesty and morality occupied ...

Switchboard

• Evaluation of California CFL Program Is Too Pessim ...
  A Recent Evaluation of a Key California Efficiency Program Is Far Too Pessimistic   In an earlier blog , I described how a recent evaluation of a key energy efficiency program that promoted compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) concluded that nearly half of the reported savings would have o ...
• Gulf Coast Disaster - Thursday, October 14
  - Commission paralyzed on future of offshore drilling - Informal poll: 90 percent support lifting drill moratorium - SEC warns oil spill victims on scams - Feinberg pays out $1 billion to oil spill victim - Commission: Award oil leases based on safety records - Jack Lew nomination in l ...
• Images of hope from a town where 'reinvention is t ...
        Today's post concludes the two-part story of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a once-prosperous steel town whose population has declined by nearly ninety percent and much of whose community fabric has been under serious decay for decades.  Candidly asserting that 'reinvention is the onl ...
• Mission Accomplished Chile
  Today, the world celebrates with Chile as the 33 trapped miners, one by one, reached the earth’s surface and reunited with their families.  The 68-day ordeal has drawn global attention to Chile, and today’s success highlights the remarkable spirit and admirable innovation of the Chilea ...
• CSR or the Price of Wills in Patagonia?
  The following is the first half of an award-nominated article written by guest author Patricio Segura, journalist and head of the Citizen's Coalition for Aysen's Life Reserve in Chile.  The second part will be published tomorrow, Thursday, October 14th.  You can read his Spanish blogs ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

• On the Potential Impeachment Of Obama
  I have some wonky thoughts about the possibility that a Republican Congress would impeach Obama over at TAPPED. The answer: maybe! Given prior assumptions about presidential politics it’s very unlikely, but it’s not clear that these assumptions still hold. Certainly, the conservative media ...
• What Could This Agency Have Done With Dick Cheney?
  Via Plumer, I award this the Lee Atwater memorial award for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence in negative advertising: The city deserves an NHL team again for this alone! Related posts:And Dick Cheney’s black heart continues to gurgle Dick Cheney robot heart watch Dick Cheney is ...
• See you in hell, rinderpest
  Nice: Scientists working for the UN say that they have eradicated a virus which can be deadly to cattle. If confirmed, rinderpest would become only the second viral disease – after smallpox – to have been eliminated by humans. Rinderpest is prevalent in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The UN’s Foo ...
• The Smartest Guys in the Room
  Obviously, the increasing share of the nation’s wealth that went to the finance sector was the result of a strict meritocracy. Related posts:Theoretical Innovations in the Field of Nice Guys and Bitchy Women “This is nothing like it was in my room.” Shaving the Big Shaggy Related posts: Theore ...
• There’s No Pleasing Some People
  Shorter Rabbi Yehuda Levin:   I used to think that Carl Paladino was a guy who stood up for traditional family values.   But then I heard that his enjoyable emails might involve people having sex with horses of the same gender.   That would be perverted!   In fairness, Paladino does say that ...

Desert Research Institute

• DRI Researcher Develops Bioengineering Company
  DRI’s Joseph J. Grzymski, Ph.D. partnered with Adam G. Marsh, Ph.D. from the University of Delaware to develop Evozym Biologics, a company created to bridge the gap between research and innovation and commercial value.
• DRI Researcher Authors New Book
  William Albright, Ph.D., DRI research hydrogeologist, is lead author of Water Balance Covers for Waste Containment Principles and Practice about selection and design of an innovative new method for final closure of solid waste landfills. The new cover designs offer reduced cost, excellent environmen ...
• The American Indian Science and Engineering Societ ...
  The Most Promising Engineer/Scientist Award will be presented to Dr. Karletta Chief at the 32nd American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Annual National Conference.
• Innovative Equipment Manufacturer Features Work wi ...
  The latest update from Campbell Scientific features a cover article on DRI’s Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP), touting the program for providing information gathered by volunteers in near-real time and posting it to the program website.
• Dr. Henry Sun: Looking for Life on Mars
  The Viking landers found strange evidence that suggested the presence of life on Mars (later disproven). A new study about life's preference for left- or right-handedness could help scientists design better versions of the Viking life tests.

Earth Techling

• Fossil-Fuel Focused NETL: Going Clean?
• App Takes Mystery Out Of What CFL Type
• Chevy Volt Charger Not A Cheap Offering
• Easy Recycling Of Computer Memory?
• South Africa Wants Massive Solar Park

National Law Journal | U.S.

• The former WolfBlock prevails in fee dispute
  A former WolfBlock client has failed to convince a Massachusetts appeals court that the firm overcharged him for online legal research conducted on his behalf.
• Technology company executives, VCs bearish on hiri ...
  Technology leaders are cautiously optimistic about an economic recovery, but they generally don't expect to increase hiring, up their spending on research and development, or see a return to the heyday of venture capital financing.
• UNC adds international LL.M.
  The University of North Carolina School of Law is joining the LL.M. party. The board of governors of the UNC system has signed off a new LL.M. program for international students — the first LL.M offered by the law school.
• 2010: THE PLAINTIFFS' HOT LIST
  The fallout from the financial system collapse features prominently in this year's edition of our annual spotlight on firms who've done exemplary, cutting-edge work on the plaintiffs' side.
• Settlement close in Native American farmers' discr ...
  The Justice Department is nearing a comprehensive class settlement with a class of Native American farmers who filed a discrimination suit against the federal government in 1999.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

• Do ‘Environmental Extremists’ Pose Criminal Threat ...
  by Abrahm Lustgarten Sept 8th, 2010 As debate over natural gas drilling in the Marcellus shale reaches a fever pitch, state and federal authorities are warning Pennsylvania law enforcement that “environmental extremists” pose an increasing threat to security and to the energy sector. A confide ...
• Marcellus Money
  Here’s a website that is keeping tabs on which PA politicians have been offered money from from the gas industry and which ones have accepted that money.  Enjoy. http://www.marcellusmoney.org/
• Gas Bubbling from the Susquehanna River
  http://74.95.82.237:591/rconline/FMPro?-db=RCOnline.fp5&-format=record_detail.html&-Lay=Detail&CurrentRecordID=12635350&-find Gas Bubbling from River at Sugar Run – by David Keeler – 9/2/2010 Click here for video clip
• Keep the Promise Town Hall-PA Severance Tax!
  September 9, Thursday— Keep the Promise Town Hall in Jersey Shore, Lycoming County between Williamsport and Lock Haven, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Robert H. Wheeland Center, 1201 Locust Street, Jersey Shore, PA 17740 (part of Citizens Hose Company, Station 45) www.station45.org/wheeland_center.htm To register a ...
• EPA’s Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing
  EPA’s Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing Study to Take Place in Binghamton, New York; Meeting Scheduled for September 13 and 15 at the Broome County Forum Theater Release date: 08/31/2010 Contact Information: John Senn, (212) 637-3667, senn.john@epa.gov New York, NY – The U.S. Environmental Prot ...

News Blaze

• Missouri River Bugle Boys of Lewistown, Montana
  This time of year I love to travel to the Slippery Ann Elk Viewing Area north of Lewistown, Montana. It's about an hours north of town on Hwy. 191. I'd call it a scenic drive...
• Under Secretary Maria Otero Highlights New Partner ...
  More than half of all primary schools in developing countries do not have adequate water facilities and nearly two-thirds lack adequate sanitation.
• 120,000 Troops to Counter Growing Terrorism By The ...
  In a unanimously adopted resolution, similar to last year's call when the force numbered barely half its current strength at 67,700, the 15-member body recognized 'the need to further strengthen ISAF to meet all its operational requirements.'
• Paula to Drown Keys, South Florida
  AccuWeather.com reports Paula will bring torrential downpours, flooding, and travel problems to the Keys and South Florida into Friday, while still affecting Cuba.
• Deadly Cattle Plague on Brink of Extinction
  Although rinderpest does not directly affect humans, its ability to cause swift, massive losses of cattle and other hoofed animals has wreaked havoc on agriculture for millennia, resulting in famine and economic destruction.

environment 360

• Antarctic Krill Embryos Severely Affected by Ocean ...
  Antarctic krill, the key link in the food chain of the Southern Ocean, could face a grave threat should ocean acidification reach high levels in the future, according to a study by the Australian Antarctic Division. Scientists discovered that krill embryos failed to hatch when concentrations of CO2 ...
• Hungarian Sludge Spill Is Captured in NASA Satelli ...
  A new satellite image released by NASA shows the extent of the toxic sludge spilled after a waste-retaining wall broke at the Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant in southern Hungary on Oct. 4. In the image, a red-orange streak measuring several miles is visible running west from the plant following the ...
• U.S. Offshore Wind Could Provide 20 Percent of Ele ...
  Click to enlarge USDOE Potential offshore wind resources The U.S. could generate 20 percent of its electricity from wind energy by 2030 if it develops offshore wind farms in the coastal waters of 26 states, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab . D ...
• Water Cycle Pushed to Limit In Southern Hemisphere ...
  Soils in large areas of the Southern Hemisphere have been drying up in the past decade as temperatures have risen in Australia, Africa, and South America, according to the first major study of evapotranspiration on a global basis. The study found that from 1982 to 1998, the evaporation of water from ...
• The Promise of Fusion: Energy Miracle or Mirage?
  The U.S. has invested billions of dollars trying to create a controlled form of nuclear fusion that could be the energy source for an endless supply of electricity. But as a federal laboratory prepares for a key test, major questions remain about pulling off this long-dreamed-of technological feat. ...

Red Ice Creations

• Hungarian village evacuated as second wave of toxi ...
  Hungary's premier said today the northern wall of a red sludge reservoir which burst and flooded several towns with toxic waste is showing ever-larger cracks and is 'very likely' to collapse. Prime Minister Viktor Orban described the situation as 'dramatic' and said the town of Kolontar, which sits ...
• The National Ignition Facility
  "Creating a miniature star on Earth" is the goal of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), home to the world's largest and highest-energy laser in Livermore, California. On September 29th, 2010, the NIF completed its first integrated ignition experiment, where it focused its 192 lasers on a small cyl ...
• Two tone river: Shocking images reveal the deadly ...
  Aerial images over the river Danube reveal the overbearing disaster that pushed Hungary into a state of emergency. The torrent of toxic sludge which tore through three villages 160 km west of Budapest has killed seven people after an 81-year-old man died today from injuries sustained from the river. ...
• No pay, no spray: Firefighters let home burn
  Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn’t paid a $75 fee. Firefighters did eventually show up, but only to fight the fire on the neighboring property, whose owner had paid the fee.
• The October Crisis - Martial Law in Canada
  In October 1970, the nation held its collective breath as events in Quebec unfolded. The October crisis, initiated by the kidnappings of James Cross and Pierre Laporte by the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), was one of the most stunning events of the period, and the subject of intense discussion ...

Russia Today

• 10% of Germans want Führer back - survey
  Every tenth German would like to see a Führer in power; they see dictatorship as the best option for the country, a survey has revealed.
• Ahmadinejad makes “provocative” visit to Lebanon
  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is on his first visit to Lebanon, a trip widely viewed as provocative.
• Predicted UFO sighting shocks New Yorkers
  Crowds in New York have had their eyes to the skies in an alleged UFO sighting.
• Britons have lost their liberty reflex – Conservat ...
  The UK is witnessing a shift in relations between the state and citizens, manifested by intrusive surveillance, the necessity of which most Britons do not understand, believes Conservative Party MP Dominic Raab.
• Worm Armageddon: Kremlin grills governor over dinn ...
  The Kremlin security service is seeking to disprove the online report about a live worm being served to a guest at a Kremlin reception. If the tweet is found to be fake, the poster may be in trouble.

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

• Gliese 581g Discoverer Stands By His Claim
  In a rebuttal to claims that Gliese 581g doesn’t exist, Dr. Steven Vogt, leader of the team that detected Gliese 581g said he respects the work of those who interpret the data differently, but until they publish a paper stating their case, he stands by himself and his team’s work: “I stand by our d ...
• Does Gliese 581 g Exist?
  The excitement last month surrounding the discovery of a possible life supporting planet in the nearby Gliese 581 red dwarf system raised the expectations of meeting neighbors. Many scenarios were discussed on the InnerTubes, one including a possible laser light message from closeby to the area in w ...
• Dark Matters Radio: Nick Redfern’s ‘Fi ...
  This was originally broadcast on Don Ecker’s Dark Matters Radio last week in which Don interviews Nick Redfern and they discuss Nick’s new book ‘Final Events, and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife’ .  Such discussion includes the Collins Elite, Jack Parsons (Father of JP ...
• The Year One Million and the Galactic Internet
  When I first read this post on the Daily Galaxy, I chuckled to myself. How could anyone in their right mind guess about human civilization in the Year One Million? Chances are, we wouldn’t be human at all, but a descendant branch of humanity, perhaps one of many branches. Also, what kind of technol ...
• Those evil, soul harvesting ETs
  As a kind of continuation of my previous post (Dolan on Malstrom), the possible interference of UFOs/inhabitants in the US nuclear missile force is a meme that is gaining traction in our culture and ties in with another meme that is also getting attention; the idea that UFO beings are demonic in nat ...

Tippers News

• The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
  The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True Hero Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't ...
• BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
  'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings? Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't ...
• CNN's Larry King Interview with Iran's President A ...
  America is setting up the platform for a WAR on IRAN. Due to Previous, Mainstream Media's Propaganda,Lies and Bias news, before an attack ; I wish to HIGHLIGHT All Interviews for American People to make up their OWN MINDS about IRAN and Its President Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't �|� ...
• The backlash begins against the world landgrab
  Western corporations exploit the 3rd World (as ever.) Seen on http://www.maxkeiser.com/ Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• GM Food: Facts Not Crops. Take Action!
  To the President of the European Commission J.M. Barroso: We call on you to put a moratorium on the introduction of GM crops into Europe and set up an independent, ethical, scientific body to research the impact of GM crops .. Sign the petition! Submitted by Graeme that's Graeme to Green Lifesty ...

The Freeman

• Banks Foreclosure Troubles
  “At Citigroup and GMAC, dotting the iâs and crossing the tâs on home foreclosures was outsourced to frazzled workers who sometimes tossed the paperwork into the garbage.” (New York Times, Wednesday) The hidden cost of regulation? FEE Timely Classic: “Regulatory Overkill” by Doug Bandow
• September Foreclosures Top 100,000
  “The number of homes taken over by banks topped 100,000 for the first time in September, though foreclosures are expected to slow in coming months as lenders work through questionable paperwork, real estate data company RealtyTrac said on Thursday.” (Reuters, Thursday) The hidden cost of regulation? ...
• Don’t Personalize the Political
  A rhetorical trap that many people, including libertarians, fall into is blaming individuals for problems that are ultimately attributable to the political-economic structure.
• Fed Will Continue Expansionary Monetary Policy
  “Most Wall Street analysts expect the Fed to decide, at its meeting in early November, to resume the debt-buying strategy known as quantitative easing, in which the Federal Reserve would purchase Treasury securities to make borrowing cheaper. But while that outcome is possible, it is not certain, ac ...
• Intelligence Agencies Wasted “Billions&#8221 ...
  “‘The American public would be outraged if they knew,’ Sen. Christopher S. Bond, Missouri Republican, told The Washington Times. ‘Billions and billions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted.’ Mr. Bond said he was unable to provide details or exact figures because the programs are classified. ‘I wish ...

Teaching Online Journalism

• Journalism education: Irrelevant, or lacking conte ...
  Journalism students around the world seem to be very similar. Many of them say this: Personally, I enrolled in a journalism course because I wanted to get into magazines or newspaper column writing — less hard news, more conversational. That comes from a June 2010 column at MediaShift, written b ...
• Boring old news media: Still boring, still old
  I was just rereading a post by Steve Yelvington — whom I used to call the smartest man in online journalism (and he may still be — it’s just that there are so many more people in it now, it’s hard to name just one). Steve’s post ( A tablet revolution: It’s like it’s the ’70s all over again ) has se ...
• Contents of a journalist’s backpack
  Neerav Bhatt describes himself as a professional blogger, photographer, geek and qualified librarian. Okay, so he never says “journalist,” but if you read his post that accompanied the photo below, I think you’ll forgive my headline. He’s got some interesting choices (which he explains in his pos ...
• Teaching Twitter to students
  This semester I took a course I have been teaching for 10 years and moved it to a WordPress.com blog. The students and I still meet in person once a week to discuss ideas, but otherwise, everything is on the blog. Each student was required to start his or her own WordPress.com blog, and all their a ...
• Smacking down the hierarchies
  My favorite word this week is heterarchy . I don’t think I’ve ever had a favorite word before, and I confess I was not familiar with the meaning of this one when I saw it in an article from one of those scholarly journals at which journalists like to scoff. So I turned to merriam-webster.com , as I ...

Facing South

• Gulf spill fund offers little information to claim ...
  By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Many claimants seeking compensation for damages from the Gulf oil spill say they are struggling to get basic information about what is happening with their claims. Dozens of claimants have told ProPublica they are having trouble getting information about their sub ...
• Blessed to Have a Pope
  James "Art" Pope is probably the most important conservative benefactor in North Carolina -- and, increasingly, one of the most influential in the country, thanks to his leadership in national groups like Americans for Prosperity. Yet North Carolina conservatives, while grateful for Pope's g ...
• Tomato pickers secure path-breaking deal with Flor ...
  By Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes The farmworker group Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced this week it has reached a landmark deal with a Florida tomato grower to govern conditions in the fields. The agreement greatly expands the proportion of Florida's $500 million tomato crop that will be ...
• Politics and the lifting of the offshore drilling ...
  The Obama administration lifted the moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling on Tuesday, a month and a half before its originally scheduled Nov. 30 expiration date. In announcing the move -- which comes as oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster that led to the ban continues to was ...
• Is Big Business reluctant to invest in Tea Party c ...
  One of the big stories of the 2010 elections is the record amount of campaign cash flooding into races, especially "independent expenditures" from corporate-backed outfits like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ($ 12.4 million and counting ). But so far, corporate PACS and donors have been ski ...

Worldpress - Africa

• Nigeria's Delicate Presidential Election Transitio ...
  Nigeria's election history is shambolic and corrupt. If the country's new national electoral body is to conduct a free and fair election in January, it has its work cut out for it.
• Africa's Women Turn 50
  Fifty years into African independence, African women still face a much more challenging existence than men, with significant political, social and economic changes needed for gender equality.
• Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Life Su ...
  Sierra Leone has diverse tribal and cutural practices that works against the education of the nation's children.
• Re: Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Lif ...
  Our children are taught right from wrong when growing up.
• Re: Public Schools in Sierra Leone Gasping for Lif ...
  Despite war, we are doing our best to cope.

Canadian Encyclopedia

• New France
  France was a colonial power in North America from the early 16th century, the age of great European discoveries and fishing expeditions, to the early 19th century, when Napol�on Bonaparte sold Louisiana to the US. From
• Native People: Eastern Woodlands
  Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
• Fur Trade
  Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (
• Canadian Pacific Railway
  Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the
• Group of Seven
  The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. The original members - Franklin CARMICHAEL , Lawren HARRIS , A.Y. JACKSON , Franz JOHNSTON , Arthur LISMER , J.E.H.

How Can I Recycle This ?

• How can I reuse or recycle wooly winter scarves?
  Brr! For few days last week, it felt like we were getting a last minute reprieve from summer’s sayonara but now it feels very autumnal indeed. I guess it’s time to shift into winter mode – I’ve got a list of insulating chores to complete, the garden needs more tidying, I need to make soup, [...]
• What can I reuse or recycle to make a chair?
  We’ve had an email from Adele: For my Product Design A2 level I am aiming to create a chair made from recycled materials. Iâve got to be able to collect them in a fairly short time, and of course it would be very helpful if the items were free…Iâve got an open mind about it, [...]
• How can I reuse or recycle aluminium foil/tin foil ...
  Every now and then I search for something on Recycle This and am floored when I find we’ve not covered it. The most recent example: tin foil. We’ve talked about possibly recycling aluminium foil for charity and about related items such as easter egg/chocolate wrapping foil, foil trays for pet food o ...
• How can I reduce my use of disposable razors/razor ...
  We’ve kinda touched on this topic before when talking about reusing and recycling disposable razors but that was a long time ago and I thought it might be worth bringing it up again. As when we were talking about it in 2007, I still use disposable razors occasionally – perhaps one a month since I’m ...
• How can I reuse or recycle tea towels?
  We’ve had an email from Louise W: Our church hall has accrued dozens and dozens of tea towels over the years, I don’t know where they come from. We usually tear the tatty ones in half and use them for cleaning rags but I was wondering if you had any ideas for other things we [...]

Mondoweiss

• When will Americans be informed of what is stirrin ...
  This is reportedly a Gush Shalom ad in Haaretz: A state That declares war On a fifth Of its citizens – Can it be called “Democratic”? A state That persecutes Its minority – Can it be called “Jewish”? Tomorrow, Saturday evening, we shall demonstrate against the racist laws. Starting at 7.00 pm from G ...
• The yearly settler festival of destroying the Pale ...
  and other news from Today in PalestineSettlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Abbas pressures U.S. to aid in stopping Israel settlement building The Palestinian president says Israel is 'still putting obstacles' in the path of peace talks, singles out West Bank settle ...
• Blogging for the enemy
  The author has done a couple of earlier posts. First here, then here. � With this post I include my name and not just my nom de blog, wondering jew. �Weeks ago when�I informed a right wing Israeli friend of mine that I had visited a West Bank settlement for a Shabbat, he commented that unlike [.. ...
• ‘The Palestinians have won’
  A friend in Jerusalem just told me: The Israelis won't negotiate because they won't give up land. They'll fudge and fret but this time their intransigence will be made plain to the world. The world is behind the '67 borders, and Israel can't go near that position. The world sees that. And the Palest ...
• Can you support the Palestinians when you live on ...
  Every time I would tell my girlfriend (she's Palestinian) about a famous Israeli activist or writer or she would ask why they still call themselves Israeli. She tells me things like, "See. They still call themselves Israeli. When they use that word they are automatically erasing Palestine." I always ...

Media Consortium

• New Voices: What Works
  A report on how to fund community-based journalism startups--worth a read!
• Maximizing the Value of Digital Editions - Digital ...
  The iPad is a game changer and the release of other tablets in the future will continue to advance digital publishing. But it remains early days (a recent FOLIO: blog quoted editors of The New Yorker as saying "writing for the iPad is like producing TV after WWII") and the "traditional" digital edit ...
• Putting the 'Ad' in iPad - Digital Editions @ Foli ...
  Some have referred to the current marketplace as the ‘golden age’ of online advertising, with the advent of 3G technology and the iPad craze. But the publishing industry seems to be missing out on at least part of what could be a $50 billion ad spend. Time spent with print media accounts for 12 perc ...
• Building Mobile Newsstands and Subscription Models ...
  Good news for the magazine industry: Apple is developing a digital newsstand that would allow publishers to sell magazines across the iPad and possibly other Apple devices. The bad news: negotiations with Apple are anything but certain, and Apple’s insistence on controlling customer data could be ...
• Checking In on Kachingle : CJR
  That’s the catch: the service is voluntary, and it only works if everyone’s on board. The big news sites can’t imagine that the relatively small number of early-adopter Kachinglers will make it financially worth it, but Kachingle can’t get more readers to sign up until they see their favorite sites ...

Reality Asserts Itself

• Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
  My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terroriz ...
• PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NOT TH ...
  A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli children w ...
• FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END FEAR ...
  I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenomena ( ...
• PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. Gen ...
  Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many more l ...
• China and the end of the end of history
  Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world politi ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

• Canadian government declares bisphenol A 'toxic'
  Canada has become the first country in the world to officially declare bisphenol A (BPA) – a common plasticizer found in food containers – to be a toxic substance. ( Globe and Mail ) BPA has been linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans. And animal studies have ...
• IPCC: Pachauri carries on
  Rajendra Pachauri will continue as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “I can say with confidence that I will stay until the end of my term in 2014,” the Indian economist said today at a press conference in Busan, South Korea, where delegates from more than 100 count ...
• ‘Bonfire of the quangos’ singes science advice
  The full list of bodies offering scientific advice, oversight and scrutiny to the UK government that are to be axed or reformed was released today, a part of the final account of the new coalition’s ‘bonfire of the quangos’. As previously announced, among the high profile casualties are the respe ...
• Cattle plague goes the way of smallpox
  The planet is rid of rinderpest, a devastating livestock disease targeted for eradication in the mid-1990s. “This is the first animal disease virus that’s been eradicated through a vaccination campaign,” and only the second viral disease, after smallpox, to have been wiped from the earth, says ...
• Big pharma acknowledges neglected tropical disease ...
  Pharmaceutical companies are in a giving mood this week. GlaxoSmithKline announced plans to donate one billion doses of a drug that treats intestinal worms to poor countries each year. GSK already gives away 600 million doses of albendazole to treat schistosomias, and the additional tablets will ...

new geography

• London Special Report: Britain Drifts South – and ...
  The British Broadcasting Corporation wants 1500 of its staff to move to its new ”MediaCity” headquarters in Salford, near Manchester in northwest England. The Corporation, they say with some justification, is too southern, too much part of the metropolitan elite. The move ”addresses concerns that th ...
• London Special Report: The Making of the Hundred M ...
  (Part I of II.) The writer Ford Madox Ford summarised the inventiveness of the early twentieth century in an essay The Future of London (1909) by lambasting what he called the “tyranny of the past.” “The future,” he argued on the other hand, wages a ceaseless war against the monuments of the past’. ...
• North America's Fastest-Growing Cities
  The U.S. and Canada's emerging cities are not experiencing the kind of super-charged growth one sees in urban areas of the developing world, notably China and India. But unlike Europe, this huge land mass' population is slated to expand by well over 100 million people by 2050, driven in large part ...
• The Hudson Tunnel: Issues for New Jersey
  New Jersey Governor Chris Christie sent shockwaves through the transportation industry on last Thursday when he cancelled the under-construction ARC (Access to the Regional Core) rail tunnel under the Hudson River from New Jersey to New York (Manhattan). The Governor accepted the Access the Regiona ...
• Cruising Into Student Debt
  I once calculated that, for the cost of four years of education at a private American university, a student could take 105 cruises around the world. For the comparison, I chose only cruises that cost about $1,900, as who wants to go through college stuck with an inside cabin? As I imagine it, Crui ...

GM Watch

• U.S. evangelical push for GM foods
• States rip apart EU bid to speed up GM crop approv ...
• Scientists under attack - Film review
• rbGH milk ruled "compositionally different" by Ohi ...
• Build the pressure on the Gates Foundation

spiked

• Well, that proves Cameron is not the ‘new Th ...
  The Cameron set’s bizarre handling of the child-benefit backlash shows that it lacks both the ethos and experience to govern decisively.
• Removing the red tape is the easy part
  The Lib-Cons’ war on the health-and-safety cult is welcome. But the problem runs deeper than they think.
• A very conservative approach to innovation
  ESSAY: The Lib-Con coalition is more concerned with controlling behaviour than forging a brave, hi-tech future.
• ‘Red Ed’ can’t disguise the fact ...
  Don’t let the flurry of debate about what Ed Miliband will do next distract from the real story: the historic crisis of social democracy.
• The myth of male postnatal depression
  Dr Ellie Lee picks apart the social and media construction of a biological impossibility.

Cryptogon

• India’s Richest Man Moves Into “Home&# ...
  You have to see the picture of this thing. I was thinking, “Where have I seen this. I looks somehow familiar.” Check out the cover of The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Note to self: Consider a Future Dystopias Today category. Via: Telegraph: The richest man in India, Mukesh Ambani, has moved into ...
• Department of Homeland Security’s “Soc ...
  Via: EFF: Narcissistic tendencies in many people fuels a need to have a large group of “friends” link to their pages and many of these people accept cyber-friends that they don’t even know. This provides an excellent vantage point for FDNS to observe the daily life of beneficiaries and petitioners w ...
• Canada: Secret Cold War Plan Included Mass Detenti ...
  Via: CBC: At the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government crafted a top-secret plan to detain thousands of citizens with Communist links in the event of a national security threat, according to a joint CBC/Radio-Canada investigation. The secret contingency plan, called PROFUNC, allowed police ...
• Gold: New Record High, $1388
  Warning: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Continuing its sharp decline, the U.S. Dollar Index is nearing an important “make or break” level as indicated on the monthly interval chart below. This pattern is a massive bearish pennant, but as you can see, ther ...
• Cryptogon Readers Send Contributions
  Thanks to MercOut.com for sending NZ$100. Thanks also go to CS who sent �10.

The Economic Collapse

• Foreclosure Fraud: 6 Things You Need To Know About ...
  The foreclosure fraud crisis seems to escalate with each passing now.  It is being reported that all 50 U.S. states have launched a joint investigation into alleged fraud in the mortgage industry.  This is a huge story that is not going to go away any time soon.  The truth is that i ...
• Currency War
  Are you ready for a currency war?  Well, buckle up, because things are about to get interesting.  This week Japan fired what is perhaps the opening salvo in a new round of currency wars by publicly intervening in the foreign exchange market for the first time since 2004.  Japan's bo ...
• Is America In Decline? 24 Statistics About The Uni ...
  Does anyone really want to hear that America is in decline?  For decades, most of us have been raised to believe that the United States is "number one" and that anyone who doubts that fact is a "gloom and doomer" that should just pack up and move to "Russia" or "Iraq" or some other ...
• 10 Reasons Why Ordinary Hard-Working Americans Are ...
  American families better get ready to tighten their belts again.  There is every indication that we are all going to really start feeling the squeeze in the months ahead.  The price of gas is starting to spike again.  The price of food is moving north.  Health insurance premium incr ...
• Foreclosuregate
  If you work in the mortgage industry or for a title insurer, you might not want to make any plans for the next six months.  Foreclosuregate is about to explode.  It is being alleged that many prominent mortgage lenders have been using materially flawed paperwork to evict homeowners. ...

Desertification

• Intersections of Biodiversity and Desertification ...
  Read at : Land Degradation Announcement List   Land Day 3: Exploring the Intersections of Biodiversity and Desertification The conservation of biological diversity and combating desertification and land degradation are mutually reinforcing. Land Day 3 will explore the intersec ...
• Learn how to safely grow food inside environmental ...
  Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/10/14/dickson-despommier-speaks-about-the-vertical-farm/ Dickson Despommier speaks about The Vertical Farm Linked by Michael Levenston http://www.verticalfarm.com/ The Vertical Farm, Despommierâs new book âThe time is at hand for us to learn how to safel ...
• The best approach to reducing poverty is the simpl ...
  Read at : http://www.iied.org/sustainable-markets/blog/adaptation-finance-why-not-just-give-it-poor?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duesouth+%28Due+South%3A+IIED+Blog%29   Adaptation finance: Why not just give it to the poor? Submitted by Rachel Godfrey Wood on Thu, 14/10/ ...
• Where School Farms Aren’t Such a New Idea (with sp ...
  Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/10/14/the-philippines-where-school-farms-arent-such-a-new-idea/   The Philippines â Where School Farms Arenât Such a New Idea Linked by Michael Levenston http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatingasia/2010/09/pampanga-philippines-edible-schoolyard-school-farm. ...
• Desertification, hunger, malnutrition and poverty: ...
  Enthusiasm for development aid has always been cherished in my heart.  It made me producing numerous efforts to combine my professional duties at the University of Ghent (Belgium) with my responsibilities for the correct execution of development aid projects all … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

• Teachers’ Union Spends Big Bucks to Defeat B ...
  A reader in Denver alerted us to an ad that went up yesterday in Colorado by the NEA Advocacy Fund, blasting Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck for his views on education funding.
• Nat’l Organization for Marriage Flyer Upsets ...
  Poet Shel Silverstein once noted that, “Some kind of help is the kind of help we all can do without.” While candidates targeted by independent ads are often the loudest critics of them, sometimes the intended beneficiaries are not enamored with them either. A reader in Maine wrote to alert us to ...
• FDIC Proposes Big Bank, Brokerage Liquidation Proc ...
  The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. sketched out today a set of proposed regulations for liquidating in an orderly way any big banks, brokerage firms, insurors, or financial companies whose demise could rattle the U.S. financial industry.
• AFSCME Invests Big in Wisconsin House Race
  AFSCME , the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees labor union, is spending a whopping $750,000 on a 30-second ad in Wisconsin’s 8th Congressional District race — more than either candidate has spent since the start of the 2010 campaign cycle, according to AFSCME filings with ...
• Small Investors To Get Bigger Megaphone at SEC
  For the average Main Street investor, the roots of the 2008 financial collapse remain murky. The impact, though, was not: houses foreclosed, banks shuttered, pension funds depleted and investment and retirement plans that went the way of a market in freefall.

backofthebook.ca

• Imaginary friend time
  By Chris Bowman I was driving with my friend the other day to get his tuxedo fitted for his wedding. Naturally, we were talking about all his old girlfriends. He told me he’d done some online dating. A couple years ago he made a profile on plentyoffish.com to see what ...
• Canada’s UN flop is well-earned
  By Alison@Creekside It would seem that such international policies as 1) unstinting support for everything Israel 2) actively undermining the Copenhagen summit climate talks 3) delaying debt relief to Africa to advance the interests of a Canadian mining company 4) flip flopping hostility to ...
• Good news for Ralphie
  By Bev Schellenberg A revolution is underway in our classrooms. No one’s walking around with pithy statements on picket signs; no one’s blasting headlines across newspapers. But the reality is our school system is undergoing a monumental transition, and you may not even know it. How come I kno ...
• Chopping StatsCan
  By Alison@Creekside Who didn't see this coming? CP: Statistics Canada is cutting five of its surveys after being told by the federal government to chop its budget by $7 million. The surveys include environmental and business statistics, and are in addition to other belt-tightening at the trou ...
• The further persecution of Gary McCullough
  By Alison@Creekside By the time G20 arrestee Gary McCullough has his next court date in December, he will have spent six months locked up without bail for no other reason than the police and courts are unable to admit they should never have arrested him in the first place. Police admitted with ...

Worldnews

• Nigella is right to take on those nightmare n ...
  That monster leylandii that blocks out your lightThe neighbours whose pets bark,and shriek in the nightThe wretches next door who won’t recycle or tidyThe man up the street who gets drunk every FridayThe bin lids, the bullies, the bicycles strewnThose who park with abandon on your road to ruin. ...
• Mobile OS vs. Windows 7: Mobile OOBE Wins
  As Microsoft and its partners get ready to hit the market with Windows-based tablets to compete with the iPad, my thoughts have turned to the all-important out-of-box experience (OOBE) that will create consumer’s first impressions of such products. Tablets are different from PCs in the way they ...
• Wash your hands! It's Global Handwashing Day ...
  Mom was right. Washing your keeps you healthy. That's why countries around the world — 80 in all — will celebrate Global Handwashing Day on Friday, Oct. 15. In the United States, we may scoff at a day to celebrate handwashing, but in many developing countries, handwashing in no joking matter. E ...
• Festive food
  Ingredients Chicken drumstick 4 pieces Onions 1 medium size Ginger garlic paste 25gm Tomatoes 2 large Green chillies 4 Mustard oil 20ml Bay leaf 1 Small cardamom 2 Cinnamon 1 stick Turmeric powder 1tsp Red chilli powder ½tsp Salt to taste Star anise 2gm Method: Cut onion and tomato into large c ...
• Michael McCarthy: A celebration of the Englis ...
  Why might one feel passionate about English apples, but not about English green beans? For if you examine the proposition, is it not the case that Cox's Orange Pippins excite enthusiasm in many people when even the juiciest and most flavoursome English runner bean is unlikely to do so, although ...

Alex in Wonderland

• Report: Active-Duty Army PSYOPS Soldiers Embedded ...
  To better manufacture consent, U.S. Army soldiers are embedded as intern and fellows at local TV affiliates, along with previously reported newspapers and national outlets.
• Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
  News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire
• Report: U.S. Troops ‘Still Killing Civilians’ in I ...
  A U.S.-Iraqi night raid results in the deaths of eight civilians weeks after U.S. combat operations were announced as over.
• Military Welfare Budget Won’t Thin Any Time ...
  Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy
• Because the System’s Not Rigged Enough for Cops an ...
  Kevin Carson on the criminal injustice system 'shrills' pushing the narrative that the letter of the law aides criminals against so-called 'crime fighters'.

MY Daily Apple

• PRAMIPEXOLE DIHYDROCHLORIDEtablet [Mylan Pharmaceu ...
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• PRAMIPEXOLE DIHYDROCHLORIDEtablet [TEVA Pharmaceut ...
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• MIRAPEX (Pramipexole Dihydrochloride) Tablet [Lake ...
  Updated Date: Oct 12, 2010 EST
• AAFP Resources Guide Members in Coding, Getting Pa ...
  As of Aug. 25, a new group of patients became eligible for Medicare Part B benefits for tobacco and smoking cessation counseling. In response, the AAFP has created resources to help family physicians navigate Medicare coding for these services.

Common Dreams

• US Presses Allies on Missile Shield
  BRUSSELS – The United States urged NATO allies Thursday to invest in a missile shield and avoid harmful budget cuts at a rare meeting of defence and foreign ministers clouded by the war in Afghanistan. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defence Secretary Robert Gates made the plea, ec ...
• After Flood, Pakistani Children Face Winter Peril
  by Hasan Mansoor HYDERABAD, Pakistan — As winter approaches on Pakistan's flooded southern plains, thousands of malnourished children are living in dirty, spartan tents without prospect of a home, officials and UN workers say. Doctors treating thin and bedraggled youngsters say a lack of nutritio ...
• How 2 Civilian Sleuths Brought Foreclosure Problem ...
  by Tony Pugh PALM BEACH, Fla. - More than a year before lenders, law firms and document companies began owning up to widespread paperwork problems with their foreclosure filings, Lisa Epstein and Michael Redman already knew that something was wrong - very wrong. Redman, a former online automobile co ...
• WikiLeaks says Funding Has Been Blocked After Gove ...
  by David Leigh and Rob Evans The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government. Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to ...
• ‘Are You Guys Eventually Going To Disclose?’ Chamb ...
  by Faiz Shakir MSNBC’s Chuck Todd hosted the Chamber of Commerce’s chief lobbyist Bruce Josten this morning to discuss our reports documenting the Chamber’s foreign sources of funding . As he has done in the past, Josten resorted to name-calling as a defense for his organization, suggesting that w ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

• Roberto Luongo
• Wendel Clark
• Tegan and Sara
• Lee Daniels
• James Cameron

Examine Religion - Tweets

• ExamineReligion: Failed marriages: Failed marriage ...
  ExamineReligion: Failed marriages: Failed marriages in Las Vegas have escalated from the census taken in the year 2000 from 13.8 to... http://exm.nr/ctikkO
• ExamineReligion: Go Ghost Hunting at the Haunted L ...
  ExamineReligion: Go Ghost Hunting at the Haunted Lewis County Historical Museum in Chehalis, WA: Join the PIHA "Grey Team" for 2 ex... http://exm.nr/cKsckF
• ExamineReligion: Despite campaigns, MS schools, pu ...
  ExamineReligion: Despite campaigns, MS schools, public offices still not open to coming out:             If you’ve read or watched ... http://exm.nr/9JyOFi
• ExamineReligion: Samhain ritual and potluck in Nor ...
  ExamineReligion: Samhain ritual and potluck in North Grafton, Saturday October 23: Join the Society of Elder Faiths in celebrating ... http://exm.nr/a9mvtU
• ExamineReligion: The Episcopal House of Bishops sp ...
  ExamineReligion: The Episcopal House of Bishops speaks on security: The House of Bishops isn't against border security.  They don't... http://exm.nr/apkpe7

Energy Collective

• EDF’s Peter Goldmark: “My generation has failed.” ...
  Guest blogger Dominique Browning’s interview with Peter Goldmark is reposted from her EDF blog.� I served as Goldmark’s special assistant when he was President of the Rockefeller Foundation two decades ago.� He is one of the best thinkers and speakers on climate I know.
• Doc alert: Addressing the Major Skeptic Arguments
  New DBCCA whitepaper addressing the climate change skeptics: The purpose of this paper is to examine the many claims and counter-claims being made in the public debate about climate change science.
• The Next Bipartisan Energy Agenda
  Published by National Journal Energy & Environment Expert Blog By Teryn Norris October 14, 2010
• Natural gas, helium, offshore wind power, and cap- ...
  A handful of stories of interest:
• Sources of nuclear cost saving from small and adva ...
  There are eight primary sources of nuclear costs:The cost of the land upon which the nuclear power plant (NPP) is built. Costs related to designing the NPP Cost related to the materials from which the NPP is built.Labor costs related to manufacture and construction.The cost of obtaining regulator ...

Green House - USA Today

• Starbucks tests recycling paper cups in New York s ...
  Starbucks started a pilot program in New York City locations to test the logistics of recycling its paper cups, which include about 3 billion cups each year company-wide, GreenBiz reports.
• How to teach kids to want less, recycle more?
  "Everyone else has it," is perhaps one of the most common refrains parents hear from children asking for the trendiest gadget. How can you hold them off? On Monday, a new Web series begins that aims to teach kids to recycle more and buy less.
• Second earth will soon be needed, warns WWF
  The over-use and pollution of Earth's natural resources have become so extreme that, at current rates, a second planet will be needed by 2030 to meet the world's needs, a new report warns.
• IKEA expands solar power to eight California locat ...
  IKEA plans to expand its use of renewable energy this year by installing nearly 20,000 solar panels on eight of its California locations.
• EPA OKs more ethanol in gasoline
  The Environmental Protection Agency approved blending more ethanol into gasoline for 2007 vehicles or newer cars and light trucks Wednesday, allowing the fuel to be up to 15% of mixtures.

Prior Art

• Paul Allen v. The Internet
  Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
• Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recuse Hi ...
  With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been selec ...
• Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Public ...
  seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed in E ...
• Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and big p ...
  Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free softw ...
• What's so bad about "business method" patents? Sma ...
  Those who have read the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bilski decision know that — a four-justice minority that wanted to ban business method patents. While that's an ill-defined term, it's clear that such a ruling would have effectively invalidated many patents already involved in litigation. Lawsu ...

Peoples Voice

• "Deepening crisis"
  by Khalid Amayreh in Occupie Palestine The bleak mood in Ramallah that preceded the Sirte Arab Summit in Libya became even more sombre as Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas discovered that the Arab leaders whose help he was seeking were themselves helpless and could do next to nothing ...
• The Israeli Knesset's Anti-Democratic Agenda
  by Stephen Lendman An earlier article discussed the Mossawa Center calling the current Knesset the most racist in history, accessed through the following link: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/alarming-racism-in-israel.html It reviewed 2008 and 2009 legislation violating Israeli Arab ...
• Foreclosure Scandal Exposes Systemic Derivatives F ...
  by John Hoefle Filing false documents in courts to obtain illegal foreclosures, breaking into homes and changing the locks while the residents are still legally living there, and even foreclosing on homes which have no mortgages—these are just some of the things the derivatives arms of the giant ba ...
• Obama/Donilon: Staring down the generals
  Eric Walberg What is United States President Barack Obama’s new National Security Adviser to make of the latest news from AfPak? In the past 10 days, 150 NATO-bound oil tankers were torched in Pakistan, mostly by Taliban but some apparently by their own drivers, who siphoned and sold the fuel and ...
• Boston University's Islamophobic Pro-Israeli Confe ...
  by Stephen Lendman A personal note. I grew up in Boston from the mid-1930s - mid-1950s through college. Then after military service and summer courses at BU, out-of-town grad school followed in the fall. It was a different time, good and bad. Eisenhower was still president. Unemployment was ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

• Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada
  A new report by the CCPA and the Rideau Instittute says the planned purchase of 65 F-35 stealth fighter jets is the result of a ‘pilot error’ by the Canadian government. Pilot Error: Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada carefully examines all of Canada’s current and future security requ ...
• Study: Nova Scotia must change energy cost politic ...
  Halifax, Nova Scotia – It is time for Nova Scotia to focus on real energy affordability instead of the dubious and opportunistic politics of energy price increases.� In a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS) Energy Cost Politics and the Environment in Nova ...
• New book about women, written by Canadian women
  Prominent Canadian women have a message for Prime Minister Stephen Harper: they refuse to be silenced. The women – feminists, activists, academics, economists, and former politicians – responded to last spring's advice from Senator Nancy Ruth to keep quiet on women's issues by writing essays for a ...
• What we're reading: Spark
  Here at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, we’re voracious readers.� Our latest favourite is Frank Koller's Spark (2010), from Public Affairs Books. CCPA Research Associate Jim Stanford’s read on it: This extremely readable book was written by Frank Koller -- one of the most thoughtfu ...
• Coincidence? Indigo-sponsored survey concludes par ...
  A new commentary by Erika Shaker asks whether an Ipsos Reid poll indicating overwhelming public support for corporate sponsorship of public school libraries has anything to do with the sponsor of the poll: Indigo Books.� Click here to read about the campaign.

World Wide Hippies

• Rape in Marriage? No Such Thing!
  What do you think, Ladies? And would this apply to gay marriage as well? Oh, wait…. Rape ‘impossible’ in marriage, says Muslim cleric | The Independent A senior Muslim cleric who runs the country’s largest network of sharia courts has sparked controversy by claiming that there is no such thing as ra ...
• People prefer scanners to the full body pat down
  New business idea: lead underwear. Manchester Airport body scanners in all three terminals | BBC Body scanners will be installed at all three terminals at Manchester Airport following a year-long trial. By the end of October the equipment will be introduced to all security areas. The Equality and Hu ...
• Melvyn Bragg talks to one of the great men of Amer ...
  Gore Vidal on the death of the American way | New Statesman Vidal, who is 85, now lives in the Hollywood Hills, where I spent time with him a year or so ago, but for this interview the encounter was brokered by the telephone. Melvyn Bragg MB: I want to talk about three things – politics, literature ...
• California’s Prop. 19 would bring real refor ...
  Schwarzenegger’s Pot Reform Doesn’t Cut It — We Need the Whole Enchilada of Legalization | Alternet Schwarzenegger’s reducing marijuana to an infraction is great, but it doesn’t go far enough. Prop. 19 would bring real reform, converting a black market into a legitimate industry with jobs, tax reven ...
• How UnFair And UnBalanced Can You Get?
  News Corp. Shareholder Objects to G.O.P. Donations | The New York Times A private foundation that owns a small amount of stock in the News Corporation has written a letter to the company’s board objecting to its political contributions to Republican causes. The Nathan Cummings Foundation, which prom ...

Doug's Darkworld

• The aliens are coming and other news from outer sp ...
  A former NORAD officer claims that on October 13th aliens will make their presence on Earth unmistakably known with “a massive UFO display over the world’s principal cities.” I have my doubts, but hey, it will certainly be fodder for any number of blog posts should it happen. And San Francisco is ce ...
• Liu Xiaobo Wins Nobel Peace Prize
  If the gentle reader wants to read a fawning endorsement of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize choice, pretty much any western mainstream media has it covered in spades. Fortunately my readers don’t come here for fawning endorsements of anything. I am troubled on a  number of levels by the Nobel committ ...
• No brainer, it’s just common sense that maki ...
  “It’s just common sense” is probably one of the most seductive and deadly false arguments out there. When someone says “it’s just common sense” what they are really saying is “reality conforms to my idea of what makes sense.” Yes, often times reality does indeed operate in a perfectly “sensible” mat ...
• A Hard Act to Follow
  Well, my last post has turned out to be my most successful post ever, more than 40,000 hits so far. So now what do I do? Rest on my laurels? Sounds painful, don’t laurels have thorns? It’s especially curious in that it wasn’t a particularly well thought out or researched post, it was just something ...
• “This October has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and ...
  Well, isn’t that an amazing little factoid? I read that on line and did what everyone else did, passed it along to delight and edify my readers. And it’s posted all over the Internet, often with dozens of comments and jokes about how cool it is and how it’s a great month to enjoy the [...]

FourWinds10

• UPDATE ON THE GULF OIL SPILL CATASTROPHE
  The volumes of oil spilled have been grossly underestimated from the beginning. Corexit 9500 has been a valuable part of the coverup because it binds to oil and carries the oil below the surface of water where it is less visible. The fact that Corexit is so toxic it has been banned in Great Britain ...
• What Constitutes Overpopulation In America? - Part ...
  After years of scientific study, six continents of world travel, having lived in Antarctica while working with the world's top scientists-I find it unsettling, if not disturbing that individuals reading Freedom's Phoenix and countless millions of Americans cannot grasp the overpopulation equation fa ...
• BP Gulf Oil Spill - WILMA SUBRA - Environmental Sc ...
  It is not enough that BP destroys the environment and take food and lively hood from the people of the Gulf, BP also forces people to destroy their own health. VIEW VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt4Zbrto86c Oct. 12, 2010
• Fish Kills and Dead Zones Create Confusion in the ...
  Earlier this week, thousands of fish died and floated to the surface of Bayou Robinson in the Plaquemines Parish area of southern Louisiana. The massive die-off was the third found near the parish in a week, prompting outrage from local leaders who want to know if leftover oil and toxic dispersants ...
• "WORST CASE SCENARIO": "Oil may be emerging on to ...
  Critical Ocean Life Threatened by Oil on Gulf Floor, CNN, August 17, 2010: LARRY MCKINNEY, TEXAS A&M'S HARTE RESEARCH INST. FOR GULF OF MEXICO STUDIES: ... [T]hey do tend to support some of our greatest concerns about the fate of these underwater plumes that were discovered back in June, and that is ...

Crisis Maven

• Economic Musings VI: Modern Economies – Dyin ...
  There is a great debate in the history of economics whether there can be under-consumption in any real historic moment of the state of an economy and if so, whether it has detrimental effects and if so, what is to be done about it. And modern economists seem to have found a magic wand with [...]
• Blogs and Web Sites you may want to follow
  The following is a list of blogs and websites that CrisisMaven has followed and observed over the last few months and that readers may want to check out from time to time. Note: neither the sequence of how the blogs are listed here nor any comments by CrisisMaven are an endorsement nor criticism of ...
• Economic Musings VII: Marketing doesn’t adve ...
  Have you ever wondered if marketing and advertising are the same, if not, what’s the difference and which is the more important of the two? And why should you care? The most successful economic model is without doubt the market economy. It is the consequence of the wealth effects of the division of ...
• CrisisMaven’s Blog News 2010-03-07: Over 25,000 We ...
  Yesterday around 16:37 GMT we passed the 25,000 threshold … - next report will probably be posted when we’re past the 50,000 mark. Thanks to all avid readers: on 2010-03-18 at around 19:25 GMT we went past our first 20,000 views on our blog in about eight weeks since we began publishing! After that, ...
• Economic Musings VIII: Is there a limit to economi ...
  Something which puzzles many thinkers and frightens many young people concerned about waste or the pillaging of our natural resources is the question: can “an economy” (whatever that is – we’ll come to that in a minute) grow indefinitely? How can there be unlimited economic growth if we’ve never hea ...

Capital Flow Analysis

• Stock buybacks are bad for investors: Further evid ...
  In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted. The following ...
• Why Obama’s healthcare scheme portends stagflatio ...
  The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest bus ...
• How long would it take to work off the US trade de ...
  The rest of the world holds $16.8 trillion in US financial assets, according to Federal Reserve release Z.1, as of Q1 2009. [...]
• Why Bernanke’s flawed “exit strategy” policy porte ...
  In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the current crisis. This articl ...
• Stocks surge on spurious earnings reports: Q2 2009
  No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings were ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

• EPA Grants E15 Waiver for Newer Vehicles
  Join the forum discussion on this post The news was just announced: EPA Grants E15 Waiver for Newer Vehicles WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today waived a limitation on selling fuel that is more than 10 percent ethanol for model year 2007 and newer cars and light truc ...
• The Gas Cartel Idea: On the Road to Another OPEC?
  Join the forum discussion on this post The following guest analysis was written by the staff of Global Intelligence Report. ————————- As oil sees its image tarnished from the disastrous oil spills that took place off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Dalian, China, and as the m ...
• Solazyme CEO Clarifies Costs
  Join the forum discussion on this post Prior to publishing the previous essay, U.S. Navy Pays Big Bucks for Biofuels, the editor for Consumer Energy Report asked why I didn’t go with a more descriptive title like “U.S. Navy Pays $425 per Gallon for Biofuels.” I told him that the reason I didn’t is ...
• U.S. Navy Pays Big Bucks for Biofuels
  The U.S. military, as the single biggest consumer of fossil fuels in the world, are particularly interested in alternatives due to supply risks and price security.
• Oil Infrastructure and Terrorism – Part III
  Join the forum discussion on this post The secretary of Russia’s National Security Council is now warning that militants have joined forces with pirates to carry out attacks on key maritime oil transport hubs like the Strait of Hormuz and the Suez Canal. According to the EIA, the Strait of Hormuz “ ...

Discovery Educator Network

• SMART Board Website Resources
  Tags: smartboard , Interactive , IWB by: Cheryl Lykowski
• Science Netlinks: Lesson Index
  Tags: science by: Cheryl Lykowski
• Web 2.0 List Of Web Based Applications
  Comments: Great collection of Web 2.0 tools/sites/resources by category. - Dean Mantz Tags: web2.0 , web , tools , applications , resources by: Dean Mantz
• Ushering iPad into the Classroom -- THE Journal
  Tags: ipad , classroom , education , technology , ipads , journal by: Dean Mantz
• An Educators Guide To Twitter
  Tags: twitter , educators , guide , education , livebinder by: Dean Mantz

Rodale News

• What's the Big Deal about GMOs Anyway?
  RODALE NEWS, BETHLEHEM, PA—Sometimes, protecting the future means going back to your roots…and back to the soil, to the seeds. That's how Vandana Shiva, PhD, world-renowned physicist and relentless eco-crusader, is leading the charge to save her country from a corporate GMO takeover. (GMO refers to ...
• Your Car Could Be Wrecked by New Corn Oil Ruling
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA— The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the agency will permit more corn-based ethanol in certain vehicles. Critics say that the decision will put some consumers' cars at risk, and that it will make us more reliant upon GMOs, or genetically modified org ...
• The Nickel Pincher: How to Make Your Own Vinegar
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Most of us think of vinegar as something you buy in the bottle at the store, and have never considered making it from scratch. That’s a shame, because making your own is very easy, and it can be a great way to turn the last bits of wine, juice, or any other leftover beverage ...
• Report: Moms Give Up Breastfeeding Too Soon
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Thanks to baby formula recalls and increased research on the health and economic
• How to Cook with Wild Mushrooms, Plus 3 Fantastic ...
  RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—"Magic" mushrooms may bring to mind crazy days in the '60s, or a camping trip ended too quickly due to some uninformed foraging. But mushrooms have been found recently to have some pretty magical benefits for your health. White button, oyster, and maitake mushrooms have comp ...

big think

• Do Women Value Ethnicity Over Income in a Mate?
  The very first post on Dollars and Sex asked the question: " Do Women Really Value Income Over Looks in a Mate ?"  The research we talked about in that post also addresses the issue of interracial dating, so I thought it would be interesting to return to that paper again and ask a new question: D ...
• Ohio State Study: Fox News Promotes Belief in Fals ...
  A survey analysis released today by Ohio State researchers finds that Fox News viewing contributes significantly to the spread of false rumors about the New York City mosque.  Moreover, respondents who held these false beliefs were not only more likely to oppose the NYC mosque but also more likely . ...
• New eruption begins at Piton de la Fournaise
  We spoke a few weeks ago about how Piton de la Fournaise on Reunion Island was looking like it might erupt soon. Well, "soon" was a little later than predicted - it was initially thought an eruption could come in days - but now a few weeks later the volcano has erupted  ( french ). New reports comin ...
• Oct. 15: Global Blog Action Day to Focus on Water
  Here's an interesting event taking place tomorrow as bloggers across the world collectively focus on the topic of water.  Watch the video below and go to the Blog Action site for more.   Read More
• Volcanoes from space: Russian rumblers and the rec ...
  Well, when it rains it pours in the world of the NASA Earth Observatory - and this week we've been treated to three great images of volcanoes or volcanic landscapes from space. I thought I'd spotlight them and add some of my thoughts of the images. From Russia: Two images came from the ever-active ...

Information Liberation

• The Government Would Rather You Die If It Nets Mor ...
  An absolutely astonishing story was quietly reported recently without much fanfare. The story was unquestionably viral, it made the rounds on the internet, but it never got the major boost of coverage from the major media to propel it into the natio...
• Capitalism Saved the Miners
  A fantastic piece in the WSJ by Daniel Henninger. If those miners had been trapped a half-mile down like this 25 years ago anywhere on earth, they would be dead. What happened over the past 25 years that meant the difference between life and death f...
• Applying for Citizenship? U.S. Citizenship and Imm ...
  EFF recently received new documents as a result of our FOIA lawsuit on social network surveillance, filed with the help of UC Berkeley's Samuelson Clinic, that reveal two ways the government has been tracking people online: surveillance of social net...
• Gallup: 46 Percent Say U.S. Government 'Poses Imme ...
  (CNSNews.com) - The percentage of Americans who think the federal government poses "an immediate threat" to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens has*increased*significantly over the last seven years, rising from 30 percent to 46 percent, acco...
• 'Gold is the best asset class to be in'
  The trouble with chasing performance is that you often join the party too late. Yet gold continues to defy the odds and if the great and the good of the investment world are to be believed, the gold price has further to go. Last week, the analyst ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

• Should Governments Fund Science?
  With this topic, we are getting close to the heart of the whole matter. The history of government funding for the arts and sciences closely parallels the 20th-century transition of Western governments from liberal democracies to social democracies I discussed … Continue reading →
• Another Scientist Jumps Ship
  I was horrified to hear on the grapevine yesterday that Al Lewis has resigned from the American Physical Society. A likeable New Yoiker rogue, Lewis in his letter of resignation to APS president Curtis G Callan Jr, reportedly said of … Continue reading →
• The Decade of Hype
  I need to get away from AGW for a day or so. So I thought I’d ruminate briefly on the media hype surrounding what would have been John Lennon’s seventieth birthday today. It’s been said that if you can remember … Continue reading →
• Is Cancún Still Happening?
  I ask this because I have read precisely zero about it lately in all the mainstream media. Even the Wikipedia article on it is confined to four terse paragraphs. I get the impression governments, business and the MSM have pretty … Continue reading →
• How Can You Not Laugh?
  Splattergate! I’ve seen the film once. and not really had the stomach for a second viewing. But the Richard Curtis-directed short promo on behalf of the 10:10 movement is turning out to be one of marketing’s all-time disaster stories. On … Continue reading →

FAS - Secrecy News

• DNI Disbands the Intelligence Science Board
  The Intelligence Science Board (ISB), which was established in 2002 to provide independent scientific advice to the Director of National Intelligence, has been disbanded by the new DNI, James R. Clapper Jr., as part of a process of reorganizing and streamlining the ODNI organization. “My understandi ...
• A Look Back at the Soviet Army
  “The Soviet Army is the best prepared force in the world to conduct both offensive and defensive NBC [nuclear, biological and chemical] operations,” according to a 1984 U.S. Army manual (large pdf) that is newly available online. The three-part manual, based on Soviet military literature and other o ...
• Secrecy and Deception in a Detainee Ruling
  After a court issued a ruling last spring that a Yemeni detainee held in U.S. custody should be released, the opinion was briefly published in the case docket and then abruptly withdrawn for classification review.  When it reappeared, reporter Dafna Linzer discovered, it was not only redacted but h ...
• The History of MI-6, Authorized and Unauthorized
  Two histories of the early decades of MI-6, the United Kingdom’s foreign intelligence service, have recently been published.  “MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949″ by Keith Jeffery is the authorized version, prepared with the cooperation of the Service.  “Six: A History o ...
• Federal Conspiracy Law, and More from CRS
  Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily to the public include the following (all pdf). “North Korea: Legislative Basis for U.S. Economic Sanctions,” September 29, 2010. “China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund: Developments and Policy Implications,” Septe ...

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

• String, energy, and cats
  It was inevitable that the “Dummies” series of books would get around to String Theory for Dummies. Intriguingly, it’s written by the physics guide at About.com, Andrew Zimmerman Jones (with Daniel Robbins). The Dummies guide explains the basic concepts of what the cover refers to as the controversi ...
• Blue skies science, pie in the sky?
  Lucy Marcus is the Founder and CEO of Marcus Venture Consulting, Ltd, a company that endeavours to foster sustainable success for funding organisations. She is non-executive chair of the Mobius Life Sciences Fund and chair of the audit committee for BioCity Nottingham. As the Science is Vital campai ...
• Science is vital
  More news that proves science is vital: Is your dog a "bowl half full" kind of dog" – Dogs are either optimists or pessimists, according to a new study that helps explain why some dogs are less than calm when you leave them alone. They see the bowl as half empty rather than half full. [...] Science ...
• Unlocking nano secrets
  An open or shut case for nanotechnology secrets Should nanotechnology R&D be more open to allow it to thrive in the commercial world, or should companies working in this field be more secretive? Paradoxically, the answer seems to be that keeping secrets stifles innovation and reduces patent success. ...
• Current science news
  A few grabs from the current science news: My interview with Lucy Marcus on funding blue skies research – My interview with Lucy Marcus on why blue skies research should receive continued funding is now online in The Euroscientist magazine Tabloid reporting goes pear-shaped – The newspapers have ext ...

RFF Library

• Beyond Copenhagen: Reconciling International Fairn ...
  Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Jing Cao http://tinyurl.com/2bppg4m Time to respond to the severe threat posed by global climate change is running short. Though the most recent international climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC ...
• Post-Partisan Power: How a Limited and Direct Appr ...
  American Enterprise Institute, Breakthrough Institute / by By Steven F. Hayward, Mark Muro, Ted Nordhaus, Michael Shellenberger http://www.aei.org/paper/100149 [From a Climate Wire article by Saqib Rahim, subscription required] A paper out today says energy innovation is the way to bridge the partis ...
• EPA FY 2011-2015 Strategic Plan
  US EPA http://www.epa.gov/ocfo/plan/plan.htm [From press release] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued its fiscal year (FY) 2011 to 2015 strategic plan, which provides a blueprint for advancing EPA’s mission and Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s priorities. This plan presents five ...
• The Problem of the Commons: Still Unsettled After ...
  Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Robert N.  Stavins http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/files/StavinsDP43-2.pdf The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led off the first issue of the America ...
• Avoiding the Glorious Mess: A Sensible Approach to ...
  Duke University, Nicholas Institute / by Jonas Monast, Tim Profeta, and David Cooley http://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/climate/policydesign/avoiding-the-glorious-mess [From a Greenwire article by Gabriel Nelson, subscription required] Though the Obama administration will be challenged no matter how ...

Scientific American - News

• Tell-Trail: Astronomers Discover Debris Tailing a ...
  On January 6 an asteroid-spotting telescope at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico detected a new and unusual object in the night sky. Towing a streaky debris tail, the object was classified as a comet, although its orbit belied a different origin. Visible comets generally have elongated orbits ...
• Student Surveys Contradict Claims of Evolved Sex D ...
  For more than three decades evolutionary psychologists have advanced a simple theory of human sexuality: because men invest less reproductive effort in sperm than women do in eggs, men's and women's brains have been shaped differently by evolution. As a result, men are eager for sex whereas women ar ...
• Randy Rotifers: Environmental Variation Prompts Mo ...
  Sex can be a costly endeavor--biologically, that is. Combining genetic material can of course bring beneficial new combinations, but even for tiny organisms that are barely visible to the naked eye, mating is fraught with all kinds of hazards, such as a long wait for offspring, sexually transmitted ...
• Turning the Tables at the Lindau Nobel Meeting
  Nobel laureates questioned a panel of young scientists about the challenges they face today and what they think about the future. This video was filmed at the 2010 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany in association with Nature Outlooks . [More]
• Snaring the Wealth: Can Negotiators Reach a Unifor ...
  High in the Cederberg Mountains of South Africa grows a bristly shrub that embodies the tug-of-war taking place between industrialized and developing nations over the value of genetic resources--the genes found in plant, animal or microbial cells used for research as well as in commercial products, ...

RAWA News

• Afghans say Nato “as bad as the Taliban&#822 ...
  The Guardian: Last week marked the ninth anniversary of the United States's invasion of Afghanistan, and the beginning of the 10th year of the current international engagement there. In the coming months, the US, Nato and its international allies will take a hard look at the current military counter ...
• ISI pushing Taliban to fight US troops in Afghanis ...
  PTI: Pakistan's ISI is pushing the Taliban to attack US troops and their allies based in Afghanistan, the media here has said, close on the heels of a White House report that slammed Islamabad for not doing enough to battle terrorists holed up near the Af-Pak border. Several similar charges against ...
• Nine children among 10 killed in Kandahar
  CNN: Nine children were among 10 people killed Tuesday when explosions rocked a residential area near the city of Kandahar, an Afghan government official said. Zalmai Ayoubi, spokesman for the Kandahar provincial governor's office, said 25 people also were injured, including children and four police ...
• Afghanistan’s Reservoir Dogs: security firms ...
  The Guardian: The two Afghan warlords were referred to as “Mr White” and “Mr Pink”, the characters from Quentin Tarantino's movie Reservoir Dogs. They were well named, every bit as ruthless and bloody as their namesakes in the 1992 film. Their activities are documented at length in a US Senate commi ...
• Protesters rally against war in Afghanistan
  Washington Square News: Peace activists held an anti-war press conference at the CUNY Graduate Center yesterday, marking the ninth anniversary of the U.S.-NATO invasion of Afghanistan. The group of veterans, community groups and global justice organizations said U.S. military presence in Afghanistan ...

frogblog

• Why I’m sore and tired
  Last night, along with 60 others, I slept rough in downtown Auckland as part of Lifewise’s Big Sleep Out to raise money and awareness for homelessness. I slept on cardboard in a car park and used my jacket as a pillow. Having a young child I know what sleepless nights are all about ...
• Launching the Illegal Logging Petition!
  This week I launched the Green petition to ban the import and trade of illegal logging outside the “ForestWood” Conference at Te Papa. The conference was organised by the Forest owners Association and Woodco. The Forest owners have been strong supporters of the call for a ban on the ...
• Giving the three-fingered salute to oil
  They say the human body is about 60% water. What percentage of New Zealand’s economy would be oil? Oil is the grease that lubricates our modern society. It’s given us tremendous power and freedom but now we’re hooked on it. One of the most serious yet ignored issues of our age is th ...
• General debate, October 14, 2010
• Small Green victory on Health and Disability Bill
  Had an intersting experience today – got my first Supplementary Order Paper (amendment to a Bill) passed. The NZ Public Health and Disability Amendment Bill generally does sensible things. It establishes the framework for the Minister to require DHBs to collaborate, and it establish ...

Patronus Analytical

• Greek aid worker kidnapped in Pakistan
• Aid worker killed in Iraq
• Update on kidnapped Greek aid worker
• NGO worker beaten to death in Dhaka
• Canadian aid worker murdered in Honduras

J Kozy

• As Western Civilization Lies Dying
  The Western commercial system exists to extract more from consumers than it supplies in products and services. Its goal is profit and has never been the improvement of the human condition but to exploit it. When governments institutionalize this system, they place their nations on suicidal paths, be ...
• Is Perfect Research Possible
  Some claim that there is no hope of doing perfect research. So, is there hope of doing perfect research? Of course there issometimes! It all depends on the whetherwhether the subject is limited and whether the researcher can write and is intelligent enough to adequately evaluate the evidence. ...
• The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: Last Gasp of ...
  No civilization in history that collapsed after a period of greatness has ever regained its dominance. Egypt lasted for three millennia; today it is little more than a field for archeological study. The Persian Empire, which lasted for more than three hundred years, became the largest and most p ...
• Specie, Script, and War: The Contradictory Practic ...
  Wars are fought for business, but business and the economy are synonymous. Wars will continue to be fought for the economy as long as this economy is not abandoned. War is a logical consequence of it, not a means utilized by it. No attempt to eliminate war and preserve the economy can succeed. A ...
• Knowledge, Truth and Human Action: America Hits th ...
  Americans have a problem with the truth. They seem to be unable to accept it. Beliefs somehow always overwhelm it, even when they are so contradictory that any effective action becomes impossible. By calling people with opinions experts and relying on adversarial debate between them, not only is ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

• School Testing Followup
  Yesterday I wrote a gloomy post about education, suggesting that despite decades of punditry that identify heroes and villains with abandon, "You can go down the list of every ed reform ever touted, and they either can't scale up, turn out to have ambiguous results when proper studies are done, or s ...
• Politics as Entertainment
  James Fallows watched the O'Donnell-Coons debate on TV and concluded that Christine O'Donnell is a true creature of the 21st century: Sarah Palin was wounded by Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson in their 2008 interviews because she seemed at some level aware of what she didn't know.....[But] in this ...
• Quote of the Day: Secret Corporate Donors
  From Chamber of Commerce lobbyist Bruce Josten, explaining why they keep the names of their donors secret: Corporations, as I said, have employees, vendors, suppliers, and shareholders of all political stripes. They’re not trying to alienate anybody. They’re looking for representative organizations ...
• How They Win
  Via Jon Chait, a new study shows that the good looking guys really do get all the hot chicks votes. Three researchers did a study to find out if attractive political candidates were more likely to win elections, and in order to eliminate a source of bias they asked Americans and Indians to rate the ...
• Quote of the Day: Congress and its Discontents
  In an interview with Ezra Klein, car czar Steve Rattner tells us what he thinks about America's lawmakers: EK: Tell me about dealing with the Congress. SR: When you actually deal with them to try and get something done? It's impossible. It is so divisive, so parochial and so petty. If you look at t ...

Insanity Report

• IC 202: Please Don’t Be Fat
  Topics for the show: Ryce is back Making fun of Dylan Pt 2 Ryce tells the story of the fat guy at the airport Don’t blame it on disease, blame it on the double cheese burger 3year old Chinese kid who weighs in over 100 pounds The Vibe Article about gays, homophobia and Morehouse College [...]
• FacePalm of the Week: Carl Paladino – Homophobia… ...
  There’s been a lot of talk recently about increased homophobia in the country.  From high profile suicides of gays to the fight over Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, it’s been all in the news.  You would think with these high profile cases (and just out of basic human decency) that politicians would handle ...
• Movie Trailer Review: Saw 3D
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• IC 201: 8 Reasons To Date a White Man…And Other S ...
  "The new Sweet Tea Party. Being a member means you support Gay Marriage"
• Michael Steele the Sellout
  “As the first congressional election during his party chairmanship approaches, Michael Steele is dancing as fast as he can, trying to charm independent voters and tea partiers while never losing sight of his real master and paycheck provider: the Republican National Committee” That’s what Lawrence O ...

Simple Climate

• Seeds of doubt flourish as climate debate hots up
  Vested interests want the US to think scientists are still arguing about climate change, says Edward Maibach, director of George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication.
• Global warming gives tropical lizards energy probl ...
  Small temperature changes make a big difference to ectotherms – also known as “cold-blooded” creatures – around the equator, scientists based in the US and Germany find.
• Naturalists show climate effects from beyond the g ...
  Not zombie scientists, but museum collections provide data on how climate change is affecting timing of natural events like flowering
• I don’t care what the weatherman says, when ...
  Many people trust weathercasters' professionalism when it comes to climate change - but researchers' survey of US weathercasters' response to the Climategate scandal shows political outlook had a greater influence than professional credentials on how it affected their certainty that global warming i ...
• But, how do we know this is right?
  Peer-review weeds out bias – and peer-reviewed scientists talk to Simple Climate

e!Science News

• Code RED for biodiversity
  While not an outright failure, a 2010 goal set by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) for staunching the loss of the world's species fell far short of expectations for "The International Year of Biodiversity." read more
• Temperature rhythms keep body clocks in sync, UT S ...
  Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that fluctuations in internal body temperature regulate the body's circadian rhythm, the 24-hour cycle that controls metabolism, sleep and other bodily functions. read more
• Low beta blocker dose can put patients at risk for ...
  For nearly 40 years a class of drugs known as beta blockers have been proven to increase patients' survival prospects following a heart attack by decreasing the cardiac workload and oxygen demand on the heart. In a breakthrough study released in the American Heart Journal , Northwestern Medicine car ...
• From handwritten CAPTCHAs to 'smart rooms,' tech s ...
  Buy something online, enter your credit card number and mailing address. Simple. Then you come to the box with the CAPTCHA, the Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart. Here, the website attempts to confirm that you're a human, not some robot about to commit a cyb ...
• UCSB physicists detect and control quantum states ...
  Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have succeeded in combining laser light with trapped electrons to detect and control the electrons' fragile quantum state without erasing it. This is an important step toward using quantum physics to expand computing power and to communicate over long distances without ...

unEarthed

• Are Oil Dispersants, Like, Magic? Or Toxic?
  Third-generation shrimp fisherman Clint Guidry. Credit: Matthew Preusch/Gulf Restoration Network Yesterday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazer lifted the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling and declared the Gulf of Mexico " open ...
• Nation Will Suffer if California's Prop 23 Passes
  Earthjustice usually stays clear of election-year politicking, but we're making a strong exception this year because of a California ballot proposition that would kill the nation's strongest climate change regulations. Financed ...
• Salazar Turns Gulf Oil Spigot Back On
  Only days before BP's oil well blew in the Gulf of Mexico, Interior Sec. Ken Salazar was on the Gulf Coast wearing a 10-gallon cowboy hat and preaching the good news about oil drilling in the Gulf. Soon after his sermon, Salazar ...
• Monday Reads: The BP Baby Turtle Evacuation Editio ...
  As animal births go, sea turtles arguably top the cuteness scale. Watching a hundred teeny turtles emerge from the sand, scrambling straight towards the sea in a gleeful mad dash for the future is nothing short of incredible: From the sandy shore, each season’s new hatchlings embark on the same j ...
• Gov. Manchin Likes Shootin’ Stuff, Hates Cap And T ...
  Gov. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. West Virginia’s Democrat governor and Senate-hopeful Joe Manchin is one thugged-out, coal-representin’ gangsta. Seriously, this dude ain’t messing around; he’s too busy poppin' caps into the ...

Brave New Climate

• SNE 2060 – are uranium resources sufficient?
  In the previous SNE2060 post, I considered four possible scenarios for expansion of ‘Generation III’ thermal nuclear power reactors for the period 2010 to 2060. I attached no probability to them, but obviously not all are equally plausible. For instance, I strongly doubt that the TR2 scenario, which ...
• TCASE Video – Interactive discussions about ...
  Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy (TCASE) is a series of posts I’ve built up over the last year on BNC (and continue to add to). This has also branched off into a live seminar series (described in detail in this post), hosted by the Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus), and has proven t ...
• Discussion Thread – can nuclear be kick star ...
  I’ve split this discussion from Open Thread 6. I want to use this post to focus comments on whether lower-cost Gen II+ (e.g. via the Chinese CPR-1000 and Indian PHWR) are a better current option to be pursuing than higher-cost Gen III+ (like the AREVA EPR and any US proposal that you’d care to think ...
• IFR FaD 8 – Two TV documentaries and a new f ...
  Want to know more about the Integral Fast Reactor technology from the comfort of your lounge room chair? Then these two fascinating videos, recently transcoded and uploaded by Steve Kirsch to the “ifr.blp.tv” website, are for you. You can watch online, or download in .MP4 format (choose the format a ...
• Challicum Hills wind farm and the wettest Septembe ...
  I’m back on my BNC blog tonight, albeit briefly. You see, I’ve been on annual leave since Wednesday, and have spent the last few days on a motoring tour (with my parents and my two boys, Billy and Eddy, aged 11 and 8) around western Victoria — Castlemaine, Ararat, Lake Fyans, the spectacular Grampia ...

Indigenist Opinion

• Doing Exactly As They Have Been Trained
  Doing Exactly As They Have Been Trained | CommonDreams.org : "Disturbing videos of detainee abuse - subtle, mental and degrading, not Abu-Ghraib-brutal - has been released by Ethan McCord, the veteran who wrote the 'Open Letter of Reconciliation & Responsibility to the Iraqi People' after his Bravo ...
• Cuba: Mensaje de Fidel Castro
  #Cuba: Mensaje de Fidel Castro � Yohandry’s Weblog : Lo último que podía esperarse eran las noticias de la expulsión de los gitanos franceses, víctimas de la crueldad de la extrema derecha francesa, que eleva ya a siete mil de ellos, las víctimas de otra especie de holocausto racial. Es elemental ...
• Pentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destro ...
  Pentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destroying Every Copy of Military Memoir : [gawker.com] "The Pentagon is so worried about revelations in a new memoir about the War on Terror that it's considering buying 10,000 copies — the entire first printing — and destroying them. Sounds like a good b ...
• Inside the killing fields of Queensland
  Inside the killing fields of Queensland | The Australian The discovery of a memoir by Steele Rudd's father sheds new light on the murderous collision between settlers and Aborigines on the Darling Downs At one time we had a blackfellow skull decorating the veranda, and not until it was removed woul ...
• Columbus statue vandalized with red paint
  Columbus statue vandalized with red paint | Turn to 10 : "PROVIDENCE -- Portions of a statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence were covered in red paint, police said. The statue stands at the fork at Elmwood and Reservoir Avenues. A sign that read 'murderer' was also put around the statue's w ...

Republicans are a Disease

• Think Republicans Are On Your Side?
  If you think Republicans are on your side, you are either a billionaire, in which case it is true, or you are mentally retarded, and you should be in an institution.
• No Income Tax = 83 Of America’s 100 Largest ...
  83 of the nations largest 100 companies paid zero income tax last year. When the teabaggers to to Washington to try to take their country back, who is it that truly controls their country? I haven’t seen any anti corporate control, anti lobbyist signs at their rallies. Do they even know who their re ...
• Tea Bagger Zombies Will Be Disappointed!
  Do you want to know what is sad? After the billionaires and Corporate America pour hundreds of millions into the campaigns of “conservatives” do you think when push comes to shove they won’t get their handouts? Their tax cuts? Their loopholes? Their subsidies? When the tea baggers work so hard to ge ...
• Republicans Do Create Jobs
  In China.
• Mitch McConnall Doing His Best to Defend the Rich
  “We canât let the people whoâve been hit hardest by this recession and who we need to create the jobs that will get us out of it foot the bill for the Democratsâ two-year adventure in expanded government” is what ‘ol Mitch said on the Senate floor. In fact her personally knows more than [...]

Appalachia Rising

• Day of Action and Conference Vision Statements
  Appalachia Rising: Day of Action September 25 – 27, 2010, Washington DC Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining. It is a culmination of the national movement against surface mining and a found ...
• Press Conference to be Held on June 15
  Thousands to March in DC Calling for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Press Conference June 15 in Charleston, WV Announces Mass Mobilization Appalachia Rising WHEN: June 15, 10:00 AM WHERE: WV State Capitol Back Steps Near Fountain, Charleston, WV CONTACTS: West Virginia Bo Webb – 304-237-2688 o ...
• Press Inquiries
  All media inquiries should be sent to Bo Webb webb.bo@gmail.com Set up interviews via email. Previous Press Releases and Media Public Launch Press Conference Report Back, with video Press Conference Held on June 15 Announces Appalachia Rising Video June 15 Appalachia Public Launch Press Conference H ...
• New Flier for Appalachia Rising
• Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachian ...
  Appalachia Rising Uniting Celebrities, Appalachians, and Scientists for the Abolition of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Ashley Judd, Woody Harrelson, Gloria Reuben, Kyra Sedgewick, Kevin Bacon, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Mattea, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, James Hansen, and Darryl Hannah rallying behind coalfi ...

Amped Status

• Inside the Global Banking Intelligence Complex, BC ...
  Here is Part II of David DeGraw’s new book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.” The BCCI scandal gave citizens of the world a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the covert global banking intelligence power structure, revealing power politics in its purest form.
• Bill Moyers on The Economic Elite Vs. The People o ...
  On March 1st, Bill Moyers gave his first public speech in three years, as the final speaker in the Dowmel Lecture series. In his speech, he addressed what he feels is "the greatest threat" to our country: the staggering inequality of wealth and the death of the middle class.
• WAKE UP MEDIA! Lehman Report is Further Evidence o ...
  How much more evidence of a financial coup and the theft of trillions of dollars do we need before the media and our politicians do something, anything , to restore a rule of law in this nation? What is it going to take?
• Jon Stewart & Dylan Ratigan: How Wall Street Robs ...
  Why are Jon Stewart and Dylan Ratigan the only two sources on US television who consistently report on the biggest theft of wealth in history? Consider this a devastatingly accurate introduction to the economic coup, or the Daily Show's Economic Coup for Dummies.
• The Best Way to Rob a Country, Own a Bank
  The best way to understand the theft of trillions of our dollars, listen to William Black on The Real News Network...

+972

• Watching ‘Budrus’ in Gaza (by Jared Malsin)
  Gaza – I just got back from a screening in Gaza of Budrus, Julia Bachaâs film about grassroots resistance against the Israeli separation wall in the West Bank village of the same name. Some 100 people, Palestinians and a few foreigners, came to the screening in the courtyard of the French Cultural ...
• Nabi Saleh protester to remain in jail despite lac ...
  Jamal Sameeh Yassin from the village of Beit Rimma was arrested more than three months ago in connection with Nabi Saleh demonstrations. He remains in jail without any evidence being presented in his trial to date. Yassin was arrested from his home on July 13th, 2010, during a military night rai ...
• Between the Lines (Oct 14): Iranian President Visi ...
  The Headlines: Hedgehog Day > The headlines today are practically identical to yesterday’s headlines. The rescue of miners in Chile is still the lead story. And here are the results of today’s hyperbole contest: last place – Ha’aretz (“World Celebrates”); third place – Ma’ariv (“Victory of Hope”) ...
• A Mediterranean Pantoum and another little gem
  This week I learned what a “pantoum” is. Yeah, yeah. Say what you want. Ignorant, blah blah. But better late than never, right? I learned what it was because I bought the book of a friend, Shachar-Mario Mordechai, who recently won a national poetry competition [Heb] and just published his first bo ...
• Between the Lines (Oct 13): US cautious about Isra ...
  The Headlines: Celebrity Politics > All the newspapers open with the rescue of miners in Chile. > The Israeli media has a love-hate relationship with Iranian President Ahmedinijad. They hate the person, but love to cover him. The reporting on his visit to Lebanon, starting today, is remini ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

• Uluru tourism plan maps out exciting directions
  Exciting new visitor experiences are on the cards for Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, with the release today of a plan to guide future tourism development in the park.
• Derwent Estuary Program wins top river prize
  The Derwent Estuary Program has been awarded the 2010 National Riverprize for outstanding catchment management activities.
• $4.5 Million for Dubbo City Stormwater Harvesting ...
  Water supplies in the City of Dubbo have been given a boost today with the Federal Labor Government committing $4.5 million for an innovative and water efficient stormwater harvesting scheme.
• $22 million for water savings in metering pilot
  The Gillard Government will provide $22 million in funding to the NSW Government for a pilot water metering project in the upper Murray.
• Ministers officially open major upgrade to facili ...
  A multi-million dollar upgrade of visitor facilities at Fraser Island's popular Lake McKenzie has been completed in time for school holidays.

Matt Weidner Blog

• US Congressman Grayson Calls for Criminal Investig ...
  10.14.10 Grayson Demands Swift Legal Action Against Foreclosure Fraud Factories – NEWS RELEASE Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• 7:30 am Tomorrow Morning Live on Democracy Now TV
  Wake up with me tomorrow morning on Democracy Now TV. Click Here to Find The Channel In Your Area Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
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• Watch The Democracy Now TV Interview
  Click the link below to watch the latest Democracy Now interview! Tweet this! Share and Enjoy: Scridb filter
• Globe and Mail Article: Foreclosure freeze adds to ...
  Article: by GRANT ROBERTSON â BANKING REPORTER Globe and Mail Update Published Friday, Oct. 08, 2010 7:09PM EDT “Just as it seemed the U.S. housing crisis couldnât get any worse, the largest bank in the United States is halting all sales of foreclosed houses as of this weekend, amid growing al ...

  Blacklisted News

• Pipeline Geopolitics. Betting and Bluffing in the ...
• The New York Times Defends Assassinations. The Rig ...
  In its main editorial Sunday, the�New York Times, the major voice of what passes for liberalism in America, openly defends the right of the US government to assassinate anyone it pleases. The only restriction the�Times suggests is that the president should be required to have his selection of m ...
• Machines of War: Blackwater, Monsanto, and Bill Ga ...
  A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater's Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational Monsanto. It remains the largest private contractor of the U.S. Depa ...
• Family branches tie Obama, Palin, Limbaugh
  The family tree for U.S. President Obama shows he's related -- distantly -- to two of his harshest critics, Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, Ancestry.com said.
• Mexico: Assassins on the 'Cheap'
  Hired assassins in Mexico are willing to work for suppressed wages not so much out of economic desperation but because murder-for-hire has proven to be a gateway to more lucrative criminal activity. Factor in the uncontrollable flow of arms and the unlikelihood of criminal prosecution, and the assas ...

The Intelligence Daily

• Swiss Finish Sets New Standard for Global Bank Reg ...
  Analysis by Global Intelligence Report staff INCIDENT: The traditional Swiss finishing school...
• IntelFilter: October 13, 2010
  Economy Students join mass pension protests across France The great American mortgage crisis...
• 10 Reasons Why Ordinary Hard-Working Americans Are ...
  By Michael T. Snyder American families better get ready to tighten their belts again.  There is...
• Afghanistan: Global NATO’s First Ground War In Its ...
  By Rick Rozoff The military alliance that 61 years ago identified its core mission as to “promote...
• Fraud in America
  By Stephen Lendman A systemic problem, it’s everywhere, especially in savage...

My AntiWar

• Environmental Groups Confront Oil Industry-Backed ...
  We turn to Proposition 23, a ballot initiative that would effectively repeal California’s landmark global warming emissions law. Two Texas oil companies with refineries in California, the Valero and Tesoro corporations, launched a campaign to suspend implementation of the law until state unemploymen ...
• Ananya Roy on California’s Education Battle ...
  Protests were held on several California campuses last week as part of the National Day of Action to Defend Public Education and Social Services. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also restored some $300 million of funding following months of statewide protests, rallies and walkouts over the ...
• Backing Prop 19, California NAACP Calls Marijuana ...
  California’s Proposition 19 would authorize possession of one ounce of marijuana for personal consumption by people twenty-one and older, legalize marijuana use in private homes, and allow marijuana growth in private residences for personal use. Supporters of Proposition 19 argue that legalizing and ...
• Green Party Candidate Excluded from California Gov ...
  While governor hopefuls Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman debated on Tuesday night in San Rafael, the Green Party candidate for governor was being arrested outside the hall. Police charged Laura Wells with trespassing after she tried to get into the debate that she was not allowed to participate in. [incl ...
• Republican Ex-CEOs Challenge Veteran Dems in Calif ...
  California’s gubernatorial contest has already become the most expensive non-presidential race in US history. The billionaire Republican candidate, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, has reportedly spent an unprecedented $140 million of her own fortune, nearly fourteen times as much as her challenger Jerr ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• President Sleiman: Lebanon appreciates Iran's supp ...
  Summary: President Sleiman welcomes President Ahmadinejad “Lebanon appreciates Iranian support in the confrontation with Israeli aggression, particularly after the July 2006 war which enabled Lebanon to withstand the enemy. That was by virtue of [Lebanon’s] army, people, and Resistance and its a ...
• LEVERETTS AT YALE—AN INTERVIEW ON IRAN AND THE NUC ...
  Summary: Recently, The Politic—the “Yale Undergraduate Journal of Politics”—asked us to sit for an interview about Iran, focusing on the nuclear issue. Founded in 1947, The Politic “has served Yale and the larger intellectual community by providing top-notch analysis of international relations, ...
• Iran's envoy: President Ahmadinejad's Lebanon visi ...
  Summary: A billboard welcomes President Ahmadinejad Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's emphasis on the resistance and consolidation of unity among the Lebanese has outraged Israel, says Iran's ambassador to Beirut. "President Ahmadinejad's visit to Lebanon is aimed at fostering unity among ...
• US Threat To Attack Iran With Nukes Is "Criminal"
  Summary: war with Iran When Obama administration officials, like those of the Bush regime before it, say “all options are on the table,” they are threatening nuclear war and that is prohibited by international law, says Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois ...
• Media disinformation: Washington's "regime change ...
  Summary: Honduran people protest against the US-sponsored coup in June 2009 It would be hard to find a better test of the integrity of the establishment U.S. media than in their comparative treatment of Iran and Honduras over the past couple of years (2009-2010). source: MRZine read more

The Daily Galaxy

• Is the Milky Way's Halo a Fossil of Smaller Galaxi ...
  "We still have a lot to understand." Masashi Chiba of Japan's Tohoku University. If gazing up at the Milky Way can make you feel dizzy, it could be because the outer galaxy has been discovered to be a mix of...
• Get Your Daily Dose of Awe @The Daily Galaxy Faceb ...
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• Sci, Space, Tech Fans: Win a Free $500 Apple Gift ...
  Use it to Buy an iPhone, iPad or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Digg are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on any one or combination of the...
• Two of the Universe's Most Massive & Ancient Galax ...
  Astronomers using the South Pole Telescope report that they have discovered the most massive galaxy cluster yet seen at a distance of 7 billion light-years. The cluster (designated SPT-CL J0546-5345) weighs in at around 800 trillion Suns, and holds hundreds...
• Mystery of "Object X" Solved by Hubble: 1st Known ...
  At first, world chatter thought it was an unknown, possibly alien, object or a rogue comet. But close ups of an X-shaped objected spotted by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope between January and May 2010 showed the object P/2010...

Natural News

• Say no to GMOs by contributing to the Institute fo ...
  (NaturalNews) Today I'm pledging $10,000 in matching donations to support the non-profit Institute for Responsible Technology. This is the non-profit that's standing up to Monsanto and the GMO industry by exposing the truth about the dangers of genetically engineered foods. Jeffrey Smith, who was re ...
• Dangerous foods revealed on the next NaturalNews T ...
  (NaturalNews) The NaturalNews Talk Hour presents Food Poisons - Industry Insider Speaks Out - with our special guest Carol Hoernlein, Food Scientist. Carol used to work at some of the largest food manufacturers in the world. No longer bound by corporate secrecy, Carol will expose the hidden truth ab ...
• GM corn is destroying US rivers
  (NaturalNews) New research reveals that genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) are destroying both human health and the environment. According to Emma Rosi-Marshall from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., GM corn crops are leeching a toxic bacterial gene into the environment, ...
• Just Say No to GMO music video features Health Ran ...
  (NaturalNews) As part of the October Non-GMO month, the Health Ranger has released a new rap music video called "Just Say No to GMO." Written and performed by Michael Adams (the Health Ranger), this new song takes aim at the biotech industry by exposing the dangers of genetically engineered foods wh ...
• Researcher warns: watching medical TV shows can ma ...
  (NaturalNews) According to a new study out of the University of Rhode Island (URI), watching a lot of television can be bad for your health. And, no, this isn't more research about how being a couch potato and munching on junk food while watching the boob tube is unhealthy. Instead, this study zeroe ...

Threat Level

• Supreme Court Won’t Review President’s Right to Ej ...
  The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a legal challenge by two Americans ejected from a President George W. Bush event in 2005 for having a “no more blood for oil” bumper sticker on their vehicle. Only two justices voted Tuesday to review a lower court’s ruling that said the pair had no First Amendm ...
• School District Pays $610,000 to Settle Webcam Spy ...
  A suburban Philadelphia school district is agreeing to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits brought by students who were victims of a webcam spying scandal in which high school-issued laptops secretly snapped thousands of pictures of pupils. The agreed payout by the Lower Merion School District come ...
• Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker ...
  A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigat ...
• Expert: ACTA No Longer Gutting Internet Freedom
  The United States is caving on the internet section of a proposed international intellectual property treaty, meaning its one-time quest to globally dictate Draconian copyright rules has come to an abrupt halt. That’s what Michael Geist, an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement expert at the Universit ...
• Hacked Voting System Stored Accessible Password, E ...
  An internet-based voting system that was hacked last week by researchers at the University of Michigan stored its database username, password and encryption key on a server open to attack. Alex Halderman, a computer scientist at the university, has detailed the vulnerabilities and hacking techniques ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• Being Dick Cheney Means Never Having to Say You're ...
  On Thursday, the Washington Post literally offered a blast from the past with its profile of vice presidential buckshot recipient Harry Whittington . As the Post reports, "Nearly five years on, he's still waiting for Dick Cheney to say he's sorry" for accidentally shooting him the face during a 200 ...
• The GOP Presents Stupid Millionaire Tricks
  It's awfully tough to present your party as the champion of populist fury when the centerpiece of your 2010 campaign is another $700 billion tax cut windfall for the wealthiest two percent of Americans. Alas, for Republicans, that steep challenge is getting much worse. After all, at a time of reco ...
• GOP Obstructionism Fueling State and Local Job Los ...
  While today's employment report showed the private sector added jobs for the ninth straight month, those gains were more than offset by the deep cuts by state and local governments . But those layoffs, the biggest in 30 years , didn't have to be this severe. After all, President Obama in June aske ...
• Sorry, Newt: Democrats are the Party of Paychecks
  In his latest effort to rebrand both the Republican and Democratic parties, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has also rewritten history. Labeling his GOP " the party of paychecks " and Democrats " the party of food stamps " in advance of his upcoming campaign swing, Gingrich declared "we have his ...
• Poll Reveals Democrats' Working Class White Out
  Somewhere, Wall Street Journal columnist and What's the Matter with Kansas author Thomas Frank is shaking his head. In 2004, Frank detailed how the GOP successfully turned to divisive social issues and fear-mongering to persuade working class whites in his home state to consistently vote against th ...

Blackspot News Feed

• The Tea Party's Misinformation Superhighway Runs T ...
  I met Delaware Tea Party dynamo Christine O'Donnell in the "green room" set up for right-wing bloggers attending Americans for Prosperity's "Right Online" conference at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas in late July. The free-market-loving, climate-change-denying group launched by Kansas oil billionai ...
• Speaking in Tongues: Bilingual Education and Immig ...
  " America has evolved for the better. She will pretty much meet you on your terms. In fact, I think she has finally come to the conclusion that Blacks, Mexicans, Indians, etc. are here to stay. And the only way to perceive them is to accept them and their existence as valid. Acceptance, that's real ...
• Bicentennial Nothing to Celebrate, Say Indigenous ...
  Mexico City, Sep 24, 2010 - "I don't understand why we should celebrate [Independence]. There will be no freedom in Mexico until repression against indigenous peoples is eliminated," says Sadhana, whose name means "moon" in the indigenous Mazahua language. read more
• Untitled
  Click through to a video interview with the other Warren Ellis and Nick Cave. Scrub through to 6.10, to discover what Nick Cave thinks should happen to me. (Also, a nice plug for the French edition of my novel.)
• "Waiting for 'Superman'": A simplistic view of edu ...
  In the eyes of some education observers, "Waiting for 'Superman'" oversimplifies the problems facing US students and implies an education reform silver bullet for struggling public schools. read more

Consortium News

• A Long History of America's Dark Side
  The "dark side" of American counterinsurgency warfare has a long and grim history, according to Peter Dale Scott and Robert Parry. October 7, 2010
• Indian Genocide and Republican Power
  The post-Civil War army and business greed combined to slaughter Indians and build Republican power, notes Thomas J. DiLorenzo. October 7, 2010
• What a GOP Majority Would Mean
  Republican obstructionism may be rewarded in November, but the new political reality may prove costly, writes Don Monkerud. October 6, 2010
• Petraeus's New Afghan War Ploy
  Gen. David Petraeus suggests that his Afghan War "surge" is forcing the Taliban to the peace table, but is it so, asks Ivan Eland. October 5, 2010
• An Inside Look at the Afghan War Debacle
  Bob Woodward's new book reveals President Obama's national security team adrift on the Afghan War, says Melvin A. Goodman. October 5, 2010

CounterPunch

• :
• Alexander Cockburn : Autumn of the Driveler
• Carl Ginsburg : Life in the Low to Mid-Teens
• Alexander Cockburn : Loose-Lip McChrystal Did Obam ...
• Alexander Cockburn : He Should Have Kept His Mouth ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Is the one-state solution viable? (Al Jazeera)
• But the coffins do come in (Mohammed Omer, Inter ...
  Samir Tahseen Al-Nadeem died after waiting 35 days for an exit permit for treatment for his heart condition. He was 26. The medicines he needed could not get in. But the coffins do. The h ...
• Barghouthi: Declare Palestinian state immediately ...
  Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustafa Barghouthi called for the "immediate declaration of an independent democratic Palestinian state" on all territories occupied by Israel in 19 ...
• Rights group asks Netanyahu to vow not to 'transfe ...
  The Association for Civil Rights in Israel has written to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asking he make clear his government has not discussed the transfer of Israeli Arab citizens to ...
• Can the OECD stand up to Israel? (Sam Bahour and ...
  What can be said for the state of international law when international organisations such as the OECD find themselves unable to prevent a member country from bringing its unlawful practi ...

Water - AlterNet

• 3 Countries in South America Defending Local Right ...
  Communities in Ecuador, Brazil and Peru all threatened by massive water-related projects.
• US Lifts Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Drilling Ban
  Drilling will resume but with stricter rules, among them an obligation that companies "certify that the rig has complied with all new and existing rules."
• New Book Exposes the Dirty Truth Behind Coca-Cola: ...
  Coke has been accused of violence against union members in South America, water pollution overseas, and contributing to child health problems. Is it true?
• Sludge Not So Dirty After All: Clean Energy from W ...
  From sludge-derived biodiesel to microbial fuel cells, it seems like the possibilities for wastewater are endless.
• Is Gulf Seafood Really Safe to Eat? Government Wit ...
  Outside scientists, eager to perform independent evaluations of the government's findings, complain the information released contains far too many unknown variables.

Public Citizen in Texas

• TCEQ GETTING A STATUS UPDATE ON LAS BRISAS
  Tomorrow  at 9:30 a.m. the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will have a hearing at their headquarters off Interstate 35 and Parmer Lane in north Austin regarding a status-update on the air permit application for the controversial Las Brisas coke-fired coal plant proposed for Corpus Christi. ...
• Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El ...
  Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Matt Johnson at Al Armendariz welcome party in El Sol Y La Luna
• CPS Energy adds another 30 MW of Solar to its gene ...
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• Solar power is coming to President Barack Obama’s ...
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• Perry Banks on Texas Politics through Appointments
  Governor Perry has raised over $17 million in political donations from people he gave jobs to-- in the government! Call it cronyism, call it kickbacks-- whatever it is, it's unethical and should be erased from our political sphere and replaced with public financing for public office.

Unexplained Mysteries

• Mona Lisa's remains 'now in rubbish tip'
  The remains of the woman who Leonardo painted as the Mona Lisa may have been found 30 years ago. Giuseppe Pallanti has spent 30 years attempting to lo...
• UFO sighted over New York City
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• SpaceShipTwo makes first solo glide flight
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• Bomoh capture nine 'djinns'
  Two shamans have allegedly captured several spirits in a house in Malaysia it has been reported. The incident revolved around a 22-year old woman who ...
• Spate of UFO sightings around Edinburgh
  Ron Halliday has revealed details of numerous UFO sightings in and around Edinburgh in Scotland. Several of the sightings were of a similar round-shap...

Grassroots

• Insights - Fall 2010
  An important victory is unfolding: the US Food Sovereignty Alliance is officially being launched on World Food Day, October 16. More than three years in the making, this event represents not only a first for the US, but a much awaited step forward for the food sovereignty movement worldwide. Read mo ...
• Update from Mexico since the September Mudslide
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• People Across the U.S. Celebrate Indigenous People ...
  marcelina_sirien_xinico.jpg The below press release from Grassroots International's ally the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) discusses some of the events that were held on Indigenous Peoples' Day. IEN�is a network of indigenous peoples ...
• Communities in Oaxaca Buried in Mud
  oaxaca.jpg The hillsides of Oaxaca literally slipped into mud and slid through community villages nearby.�Among those affected by the deluge are Grassroots International partners: Mixe Peoples' Services ; Center to Support the Popular Movement ...
• Via Campesina Denounces Gates Foundation, Monsanto ...
  Outside Author Info Outside Author Bio:� The Via Campesina is an international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers. The Via is a Grassroots International pa ...

Climate

• Europe Contemplates Raising Carbon Target to 30%
  Source:� BusinessGreen read more
• U.S. Clean Energy Sector Buffeted by U.S. Election ...
  Source:� Reuters U.S. business leaders, venture capitalists and government officials echo a similar concern: political uncertainty is roiling an industry once brimming with promise.
• Oil Spill Panel Chief Defends Report After White H ...
  Source:� The Hill The co-chairman of the presidential commission probing the BP oil spill is defending draft staff findings critical of the federal spill response that drew heavy White House pushback.
• EU Suggests Drilling Ban in Case of Safety Doubts
  Source:� AP EU governments should stop deepwater drilling projects if they have any safety doubts, the EU said Wednesday, stopping short of an outright ban.
• California Tops ACEEE State Rankings for a Fourth ...
  Source:� GreenBiz California again leads the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy's annual list of the states that do the most to advance energy efficiency, but Massachusetts is closing in.

GreenBiz

• Starbucks Tests How Coffee Cups Fare in NYC's Recy ...
  �Starbucks is using New York City as a testing ground for recycling its ubiquitous coffee cups. If successful, it could mean the 3 billion cups it uses each year go to the recycling bin instead of landfill.
• California Tops ACEEE State Rankings for a Fourth ...
  California again leads the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy's annual list of the states that do the most to advance energy efficiency, but Massachusetts is closing in on the Golden State and its four-year claim to the top spot.
• States' Critical Role in Fostering Energy Efficien ...
  For businesses to go green, it doesn't just take a smart CEO and savvy business plan. It also takes strong state leadership to ensure that the best incentives, policies, and programs are in place to help businesses improve both the sustainability and profitability of their companies.
• More than 55 Hospitals Enlist in Green OR Movement
  Launched just five months ago, the Greening the OR Initiative has been adopted by more than 55 hospitals and healthcare facilities in the United States.
• Panasonic Sets Ambitious Green Goals for 100th Ann ...
  The company's new 'Green Plan 2018' furthers its goal of becoming the world's greenest technology company, setting goals for 99.5 percent waste reduction and hitting peak carbon emissions by 2018.

Reuters Global

• Going global in India’s chaotic way
  For the umpteenth time, a centuries-old history bubbled under the surface of this emerging global power, a pressure cooker of India's own eccentricities and ills that seem to avoid blowing up, despite straining at the seams.
• Hillary Clinton stops to see Bill’s statue i ...
  Hillary Clinton stopped on Bill Clinton Boulevard to view one of Kosovo's main attractions: the Bill Clinton Statue.
• In Mexico’s richest city, drug violence grow ...
  Residents of Mexico's richest city Monterrey are placing thousands of candles along a busy pedestrian street in the city's downtown in a spontaneous protest against growing drug war violence.
• George Clooney, UN Security Council descend on Sud ...
  George Clooney has been roughing it recently, on the latest of his trips to Sudan to highlight the problems there. The Hollywood superstar and U.N. Goodwill Ambassador was touring semi-autonomous south Sudan ahead of a planned January 2011 referendum on whether southerners in Africa's biggest co ...
• Pakistan: street rage and sectarian bombings
  Pakistan's national debate is getting angrier, creating a combustible environment ripe for exploitation by militants seeking to create sectarian divisions.

Booman Tribune

• Unbelievable Polls
  It's embarrassing that The Hill commissioned a poll from Mark Penn and Doug Schoen. Guess what it purports to show? Likely voters in battleground districts see extremists as having a more dominant influence over the Democratic Party than they do over the GOP. This result comes from The Hill ...
• Minimal Wages For ALl
  Here's another reason to vote in the mid-term elections this November: Conservatives think you need a pay cut. As I've said once or twice before, conservatives' bottom line message is simple: America has economic problems because too many people have had it good for too long; and when they're worse ...
• Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos
  There are intended and unintended consequences of the Party of No Strategy that was hatched by Mitch McConnell prior to Obama's inauguration. Their goal, said Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the Democratic whip, is to slow down activity to stop legislation from passing in the belief th ...
• They Hate Us
  Jon Ralston is the best political reporter in Nevada, and he's pretty alarmed about what he's seeing both there and in the country. I think he's on to something when he takes issue with Sharron Angle's latest press release. Sharron Angle produced one of the most successful single quarters of fu ...
• Casual Observation
  Everyone loves to hate the Yankees, and I fully understand the resentment. But I hope people on the left, at least, understand that the Texas Rangers are the greater evil.

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 15 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1926 - birth of...
• Thursday Open Thread
  It is Thursday. How tremendous....
• Rutte I and the Old Boys Network
  Source More than 4 months after the Dutch general elections in June, the new Dutch...
• Teabagging is the new black
  Remember when everyone in Europe was ridiculously falling over themselves in their attempt to ride...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 1 ...
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1926 - A A...

Futurismic

• Personal Information: episode 24
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy: Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
• Arguments against life extension
  Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
• Daddy, where does innovation come from?
  Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
• Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
  Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
• How to be a futurist
  The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...] Follow ...

Therapy News

• Studying Tai Chi
  By Kalila Borghini, LCSW and Ordained Yoruba Priest, Spirituality Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Kalila and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I recently started studying Tai Chi with a Sensei (Master) who’s almost 69 years old. He moves gracefully and powerfully and also looks great ...
• Part II: EMDR Alphabet Soup
  By Sarah Jenkins, MC, LPC, EMDR Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Sarah and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Like we talked about last month, the alphabet soup of degrees, licenses, and various organizations related to all things EMDR. But, while that information is important, as you ...
• Mind over Matter: Nature Scenes Ease Physical Pain
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline A new report in the Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine illustrates  the value of mental and emotional serenity, even in times of physical pain. Patients undergoing a painful bone marrow procedure showed lower levels of pain if given a nature scene and m ...
• Childhood Hardships May Trigger Lifelong Susceptib ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary In yet another study that links mental and physical well-being, researchers from Brown University have found that people who experience adversity during childhood are more susceptible to stress throughout the rest of their lives. The study measured specific stress horm ...
• For Youth With Eating and Food Issues, Is Self Har ...
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline One might imagine that youth being treated for an eating issues are more often referred to therapy and counseling for additional harmful behaviors than those teens not being seen by a doctor. But a startling report from Stanford University Medical Center indicates tha ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Citizen groups intervene in coal industry lawsuit ...
  Citizen groups intervene in coal industry lawsuit over EPA crackdown on ... Charleston Gazette (blog) ... a motion seeking to intervene in the National Mining Association's lawsuit over the Obama administration crackdown on mountaintop removal coal mining. ... Fifty members of Congress sign letter ...
• Fifty members of Congress sign letter in support o ...
  Fifty members of Congress sign letter in support of EPA crackdown on ... Charleston Gazette (blog) Southern West Virginia Congressman Nick J. Rahall continues to brag that he's the only thing stopping legislation that could end mountaintop removal coal ...
• US HOUSE CANDIDATE CONVERSATIONS — Nick Rahall - B ...
  CleanTechnica US HOUSE CANDIDATE CONVERSATIONS — Nick Rahall Beckley Register-Herald I defended, it was called strip mining in those days, now it's called MTR, or mountaintop removal . I defended that practice and allowed it to continue when ... Google Hits Geothermal Jackpot in West Virginia Clean ...
• 50 Dems urge EPA to continue fight against mountai ...
  50 Dems urge EPA to continue fight against mountaintop removal mining The Hill (blog) Mountaintop removal mining — in which companies blast away Appalachian peaks to access coal and push the debris into adjacent valleys — has been a boon to ...
• Gov. Manchin expected to sue EPA over efforts by O ...
  FOXNews Gov. Manchin expected to sue EPA over efforts by Obama to reduce mountaintop ... Charleston Gazette (blog) This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 6:58 pm and is filed under Legal actions, Mountaintop Removal , Politics. You can follow any responses ... Governor Manchin: Pickin ...

Memeorandum

• GLENN BECK CALLS FOR 'LARGEST DAY OF FUNDRAISING' ...
  Jonathon M. Seidl / The Blaze : GLENN BECK CALLS FOR ‘LARGEST DAY OF FUNDRAISING’ FOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE   —  Fed up with unsubstantiated accusations claiming the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is funneling foreign money into political campaigns, Glenn Beck is encouraging his listeners to shower the Cha ...
• Judge lets states' healthcare suit go forward (Tom ...
  Tom Brown / Reuters : Judge lets states' healthcare suit go forward   —  (Reuters) - U.S. states can proceed with a lawsuit seeking to overturn President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare reform law, a Florida judge ruled on Thursday.  —  U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson had already indicated at ...
• Unexpected Turns for Suit Over 'Don't Ask' Rule (L ...
  Lizette Alvarez / New York Times : Unexpected Turns for Suit Over 'Don't Ask' Rule   —  The timing could not have been worse.  Just as the Log Cabin Republicans' lawsuit challenging “don't ask, don't tell” was finally racing out of judicial limbo in 2009, the group was in disarray.  —  The promine ...
• Whitney is 'Whitey' on some ballots (Dave McKinney ...
  Dave McKinney / Chicago Sun Times : Whitney is ‘Whitey’ on some ballots   —  SPRINGFIELD — The last name of Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney is misspelled as “Whitey” on electronic-voting machines in nearly two dozen wards — about half in predominantly African-American areas — and e ...
• Why don't the markets care about the foreclosure c ...
  Ezra Klein : Why don't the markets care about the foreclosure crisis?   —  The foreclosure mess really looks pretty bad.  Here's one vision of the worst-case, bad-case and even not-so-bad scenarios.  They're all grim.  Here's a “doomsday scenario.”  The words “TARP” and “two” are getting thrown ar ...

Energy & Environment News

• Green: Activists Join Mountaintop Fray
  Environmental groups file a motion to take part in court proceedings in a suit filed against the E.P.A. by the National Mining Association.
• Green: 52 Percent of Americans Flunk Climate 101
  The results "reflect the unorganized and sometimes contradictory fragments of information" that Americans absorb from the mass media and other sources, the researchers write.
• Green: For Every Rescued Miner in Chile, Hundreds ...
  Mining is one of the world's most hazardous professions, with a checkered safety record.
• E.P.A. Struggles Over Fuel Ratings for Plug-In Car ...
  Just two months before Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf enter showrooms, how the E.P.A. will measure the cars’ fuel economy remains a question.
• Silicon Valley’s Solar Innovators Retool to ...
  As California companies begin mass production of a new solar cell, the industry has been changed — by China.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.0, Tocantins-Goias border region, Brazil
  Friday, October 8, 2010 20:16:55 UTC Friday, October 8, 2010 06:16:55 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
• M 5.4, Hokkaido, Japan region
  Thursday, October 14, 2010 13:58:53 UTC Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:58:53 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.10 km (21.81 mi)
• M 5.2, Comoros region
  Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:03:31 UTC Thursday, October 14, 2010 01:03:31 PM at epicenter Depth : 15.30 km (9.51 mi)
• M 5.1, Greece
  Saturday, October 9, 2010 19:04:52 UTC Saturday, October 9, 2010 10:04:52 PM at epicenter Depth : 26.60 km (16.53 mi)
• M 5.0, offshore Valparaiso, Chile
  Friday, October 8, 2010 07:21:02 UTC Friday, October 8, 2010 03:21:02 AM at epicenter Depth : 16.60 km (10.31 mi)

China Dialogue

• Obama’s mixed signals
  Jake Schmidt is an expert in international climate policy. Catching up with Meng Si in Tianjin, he talked about America’s low-carbon prospects, and the need for major powers – including China – to agree on transparency. Jake Schmidt is international climate policy director at the US-based Natural Re ...
• Pakistan’s push for climate cash
  Flood-hit Pakistan is seeking priority access to climate-change aid, challenging the United Nations’ definition of the neediest countries. Rina Saeed Khan reports. As Pakistan struggles to recover from recent devastating floods, it is pushing for recognition in United Nations climate negotiations as ...
• An alliance worth striving for
  In the week of high-level talks between China and Europe, Bernice Lee and Nick Mabey argue the two parties have the power to accelerate global action on climate change – as long as they can work together. Today, the imperative of meeting global energy and climate security needs is driving a third in ...
• Tianjin by numbers
  Mistrust between the United States and China dominated last week’s climate talks. After another disappointing round of negotiations, Sam Geall considers the figures behind the impasse. Disappointment lingered in the air of Tianjin's Meijiang centre on Saturday morning, as pervasive as the polluted h ...
• Stepping up the fight for life (2)
  In the conclusion of Olivia Boyd and Joydeep Gupta’s interview with Ahmed Djoghlaf, the UN biodiversity chief argues rich nations have both a moral duty and selfish reasons to help developing countries prevent species loss. Joydeep Gupta: Developing countries continue to say the money they are being ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• Did a Betrayal from Inside the White House Kill th ...
  This story first appeared on Treehugger.com. In the months that have passed since the ignominious death of the Senate climate bill, there’s been speculation abound as to what, exactly, caused its demise. Some argued that oil and coal interests were just too strong, or that public opinion was neve ...
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  Food aid floods agricultural markets and destabilizes fragile local economies. But there is a solution: The U.S. can buy food aid crops directly from local farmers in Africa.
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  Beware the sophistry of budget talking points -- especially those seeking to deter any criticism of defense spending.
• Smashing the Glass Ceiling -- Why I'm Running for ...
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• Liars Revealed: Video Footage Proves Koch Brothers ...
  This post first appeared on Hullabaloo. Liars: The billionaire Koch brothers have long claimed that they have no direct connection to the Tea Party, denying that their vast oil wealth is directly funding corporate front groups like Americans For Prosperity (AFP), the key organizers of the fak ...

Threat Level

• Supreme Court Won’t Review President’s Right to Ej ...
  The Supreme Court is refusing to hear a legal challenge by two Americans ejected from a President George W. Bush event in 2005 for having a “no more blood for oil” bumper sticker on their vehicle. Only two justices voted Tuesday to review a lower court’s ruling that said the pair had no First Amendm ...
• School District Pays $610,000 to Settle Webcam Spy ...
  A suburban Philadelphia school district is agreeing to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits brought by students who were victims of a webcam spying scandal in which high school-issued laptops secretly snapped thousands of pictures of pupils. The agreed payout by the Lower Merion School District come ...
• Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker ...
  A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was being targeted in a terrorism investigat ...
• Expert: ACTA No Longer Gutting Internet Freedom
  The United States is caving on the internet section of a proposed international intellectual property treaty, meaning its one-time quest to globally dictate Draconian copyright rules has come to an abrupt halt. That’s what Michael Geist, an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement expert at the U
  

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  • Hacked Voting System Stored Accessible Password, E ...
    An internet-based voting system that was hacked last week by researchers at the University of Michigan stored its database username, password and encryption key on a server open to attack. Alex Halderman, a computer scientist at the university, has detailed the vulnerabilities and hacking techniques ...

  Reuters - Most Popular Articles

  • Judge lets states' healthcare suit go forward
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  IntelNews

  • News you may have missed #438 (Stuxnet edition)
    Stuxnet cyber superweapon moves to China. The Stuxnet computer virus, dubbed the world’s “first cyber superweapon” by experts, and which may have been designed to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, has found a new target: China. The computer worm has infecting … Continue reading →
  • Iran announces arrests of alleged nuclear spies
    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | The Iranian government has announced the arrest of an unspecified number of alleged nuclear spies, reportedly in connection with a sophisticated virus that infected computers used in Iranâs nuclear energy program. The arrests were … Continue reading →
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    By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | Computer forensics specialists are split as to the purpose and initial target of a sophisticated computer virus that infected computers used in the Iranian governmentâs nuclear energy program. The virus, named Stuxnet, was discovered … Continue reading →

  After Downing Street.org

  • Anti-War Conference Planned in NYC
    www.nationalpeaceconference.org AFTER THE ELECTIONS: Join us for a discussion of a NEW kind of UNIFIED & INCLUSIVE antiwar movement that can challenge the wars abroad AND AT HOME Regional ANTIWAR Conference Saturday NOV. 6 12 NOON to 4 pm St Mark’s Church on the Bowery k 10th St & 2nd Ave, New York ...
  • MESSAGE FOR OBAMA
    by Joan Wile, author, "Grandmothers Against the War: Getting Off Our Fannies and Standing Up for Peace' (Citadel Press 2008) President Obama often expressed during his campaign that if he became President he wanted we, the people, to let him know when we thought he needed a reality check. Accordin ...
  • Don't Act, Don't Lead: Obama Stiffs Gays in the Mi ...
    By Dave Lindorff Candidate Barack Obama, running for president, vowed to end the ludicrous Pentagon policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which, since it was established in 1993 by President Clinton has required gay and lesbian members of the uniformed services to hide their sexual orientation or be d ...
  • Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff 1997-2001 Says I ...
    The US had no reason to invade Iraq in 2003, and only did so because of "a series of lies" told to the American people by the Bush administration, says Gen. Hugh Shelton, who served for four years as the US's top military officer. Shelton, who was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 ...
  • Want to Stop Stop-Loss for Good?
    Dan Froomkin writes : Stop loss is now winding down. Of the three services, only the Army is still using it and the last soldiers held back against their will are scheduled to finally go home in March 2011. The Pentagon now uses the Deployment Extension Incentive Pay program to encourages soldiers t ...

  Grist - News

  • How does population affect climate change?
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  • Wisconsin governor’s race: Barrett vs. Walke ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. For a glimpse at the future of Wisconsin, look to the recent past of Milwaukee. The city's mayor, Tom Barrett (D), is running for governor against Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker (R). The two have disagreed plenty in the past, and their local clashes over clean en ...
  • Australia, Pacific kick off global climate action
    by Agence France-Presse. SYDNEY -- With tree plantings in Australia's biggest city Sydney and gardening near its iconic Bondi Beach, hundreds took part Sunday in what organizers say will be the world's biggest day of climate change action. The 10/10/10 event known as the "Global Work Party ...
  • China and U.S. blame each other as climate talks c ...
    by Agence France-Presse. TIANJIN, China - The United States and China clashed on the final day of climate change talks on Saturday, accusing each other of blocking progress ahead of a major summit next month on global warming. The world's two biggest greenhouse-gas polluters sparred throughout t ...
  • China warns trust ebbing from climate talks
    by Agence France-Presse. TIANJIN -- China on Friday warned that trust and confidence were being sapped from long-running U.N. talks aimed at forging a global deal on climate change, amid a grinding standoff with the United States. The latest round of negotiations in the Chinese city of Tianjin ...

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  Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

  • The Chilean Mining Story Isn't the Real Disaster
    Should the Chilean miner story get more coverage than US job loss?
  • Perez Hilton: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?
    How far will Perez Hilton and Lady Gaga take their gay political publicity campaign to promote "Born This Way?"
  • I'll Give Up Books When They Pry My Cold Dead Fing ...
    Change is bad. The advent of the electronic book reader and the imminent demise of print has got to be a sign of the apocalypse.
  • Baseball Has Been Very Very Good to (the Fan In) M ...
    Call it luck or karma, but I've been there for some amazing moments.
  • Former TV Producer Turned Rapper Pony Boi Gets Pap ...
    Pony Boi is transitioning from a very successful network reality show producer and filmmaker to a Hip Hop recording artist.

  Time - Top Stories

  • The Rescued Miners: Winning Respect for Chile's Wo ...
    Chile likes to celebrate its billionaires, but the San Jos� rescue saga displayed the dignity and leadership of its underserved laborers
  • The Israeli Loyalty Oath: What is Netanyahu Up To?
    Israel's Prime Minister is backing a controversial loyalty oath. But what has it got to do with the peace talks?
  • Can the Black Vote Pull It Out For Obama This Time ...
    This was the subject of a report released this morning from David Bositis, one of the nation's foremost experts on black voter trends, at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington
  • Will More Fed Easing Help or Hurt Markets?
    World markets are practically giddy in their expectation for a new round of easing by the U.S. Federal Reserve
  • Study: People in Love Feel Less Pain
    Do you believe that love conquers all? If you do, you probably won't be surprised by the following study

  Washington Independent

  • Gutierrez Not Running for Chicago Mayor
    Immigrant rights advocates can breathe a sign of relief: Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) announced this afternoon he will not leave Congress to run for Chicago mayor. The longtime supporter of comprehensive immigration reform was considering entering the field to replace Mayor Richard Daley, who announ ...
  • Are Homeowners in Default to Blame for Foreclosure ...
    Reuters notes that Wall Street types are complaining that coverage of the current foreclosure crisis — in which banks might have taken houses away from homeowners without the proper documentation — elides the fact that the defaulters are in fact in default. “If you didn’t pay your mortgage, you shou ...
  • Report: Immigrants and Their Children Becoming Mor ...
    Immigration Policy Center released a study today contending that “new Americans,” defined as recent naturalized citizens and U.S.-born children of immigrants from Latin America and Asia since 1965, are becoming increasingly powerful in elections as their numbers grow. In 2008, these groups made up a ...
  • The Long-Term Impacts of the Chilean Mining Rescue ...
    The Guardian reports today that the BBC spent so much money covering the rescue of 33 Chilean miners this week that it will have to cut back on coverage of a number of important upcoming events. One of the first items on the chopping block: key United Nations climate talks in Cancun at the end [...]
  • Lower- and Middle-Income Americans Tighten the Pur ...
    A new Gallup poll shows that lower- and middle-income Americans — those making less than $90,000 a year — have tightened their purse strings yet again, facing high rates of unemployment and stagnant wages. All in all, lower- and middle-income Americans cut daily spending last month $6 from August an ...

  Digg Green

  • 5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Green ...
    There are reams of documents written about green lighting, but myths still abound. The mere variety of bulbs can be a surprise, and each comes with its own advantages, costs and even dangers.
  • EPA says E15 is ready for the gas pump, and y ...
    A little number on your friendly local gas station pump might be about to change. Instead of 10 percent (E10), America's national gasoline supply can now contain a blend of fuel that contains up to 15 percent ethanol (E15) following an announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency today. ...
  • US Hispanics live longer
    U.S. Hispanics can expect to outlive whites by more than two years and blacks by more than seven, government researchers say in a startling report that is the first to calculate Hispanic life expectancy in this country.
  • Oxygen! Its Evolution on Earth
    Scientists are getting closer to unlocking the secrets of oxygenation of the Earth's biosphere -its oceans and atmosphere- with new research shows that shows that organisms like vascular plants may have appeared and evolved under lower oxygen conditions than previously...
  • The US electrical grid is too crappy to be vu ...
    The US government worries that terrorists could take down the country's electrical grid just by hitting a small node in the system. But a new study reveals the grid is too unreliable for that kind of attack.

  Invisible Opportunity

  • The Vampire Bankers host the Invisible Siren Choru ...
    By Les Visible The primary, flesh-based enemy of humanity is the bankers and chief among them is the central banks. There are various other consortiums like the IMF which are dedicated to world wide economic slavery of anyone and everyone but themselves. They are joined by those who operate and feed ...
  • McDonald’s Happy Meal bought by Sally Davies ...
    Looking almost as fresh as the day it was bought, this McDonald’s Happy Meal is in fact a staggering six months old. Photographed every day for the past half a year by Manhattan artist Sally Davies, the kids meal of fries and burger is without a hint of mold or decay. In a work entitled [...]
  • Chicago Reporters Work as Rahm’s Press Thugs ...
  • Big Ag lobbyists wrote UK government’s repor ...
    By  David Guiterrez Agribusiness lobbyists took an active role in writing a U.K. government report on genetically modified (GM) foods, two former members of the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA’s) steering group have revealed. Dr. Helen Wallace of Genewatch U.K. and Professor Brian Wynne both resigned ...
  • About ‘Fluoride’ — Truth Every M ...
    by A. True Ott Fluoride used by Nazis to sterilize inmates and make them docile. Fluoride a key dumbing down ingredient of Prozac and Sarin nerve gas — poisons of choice for tyrant rats. First of all, it needs to be stated that the ‘substance’ referred to as ‘Fluoride’ is a misnomer – there is [...]

  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

  • Schwarzenegger's Pot Reform Doesn't Cut It -- We N ...
    California's Prop. 19 would bring real reform, converting a black market into a legitimate industry with jobs, tax revenue and economic development.
  • Dianne Feinstein Tries to Play the Big Villain in ...
    Feinstein is the poster figure against Prop 19, trotting out lame-duck allies and hackneyed, incorrect arguments.
  • The Prop. 19 Battle Lines Are Drawn: Will Californ ...
    Prop. 19 would make California the first state to legalize marijuana.
  • Taxation and Regulation Might Not Be Fun to Talk A ...
    It's time to end the legal harassment, discrimination, and criminal prosecution of adult marijuana users in California simply because they are healthy -- Prop 19 will do that.
  • Pot Legalization in CA Polling Over 50% -- This Th ...
    Everyone from former law officers to single parents and young adults are pushing for California to legalize pot this November.

  Twilight Earth

  • Here Comes Trouble (cartoon)
    Recent news of the habitable planet that circles a star called Gliese 581, and the ensuing article in the Huffington Post, by James Napoli inspired this little cartoon. The news is also reminiscent of one of my favorite children’s books Wump World, by Bill Peet. Look out Wumps! Here we come! New ...
  • Republican Clouds (cartoon)
    Obama announced recently that he plans to add solar panels to the White House. I can’t see anyone or anything standing in the way. White House gets into 10/10/10 spirit with solar-panel plan Obama: âNo industry with more potential to create jobs now than clean energyâ Follow Joe Mohrâs cart ...
  • Big Oil and Big Coal’s Favorite Toy (cartoon)
    Find me a liberal in the Big Coal and/or Oil biz and I’ll never draw another cartoon again! Republican governor candidates deny climate change On climate change, it’s the Republicans versus reality Follow Joe Mohrâs cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related p ...
  • Wrong Way for Right Whales
    Mysterious whale die-off is largest on record Gandhi quotes Follow Joe Mohrâs cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com and on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related posts:Dances With the Moon: Earth Day is Coming! Can’t Spell HATE Without T-E-A (cartoon) Tea Partiers and Suicide Bombers (cartoon) ...
  • Can’t Spell HATE Without T-E-A (cartoon)
    Opposition to health care reform, threats of holy book burning, anti-immigration legislation, opposition to gay marriage, and the growing influence of the horrifically xenophobic Hate-Everyone-Not-Like-Me Party…WOW! Is this 2010 or 1810??? We are on a fast track to SCARY!!! These hate-children of P ...

  Inhabitat

  • Staybull Makes Recycled Wood Flooring Out of Lumbe ...
    Recycled flooring manufacturer Staybull Flooring is working to cut out the waste cycle in the flooring industry by salvaging over 20 species of discarded lumber from mills across the world. The strips are fused together with VOC-free adhesives and finished to create an eco-friendly flooring product ...
  • DOI Approves First Solar ‘Power Tower’ in the US
    The Department of the Interior (DOI) has just approved the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the first large-scale solar energy project in the United States to utilise ‘power tower’ technology. The solar ‘power tower’ has been proposed for the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, Californ ...
  • LEGO Letterpress Makes Ultra-Unique Pixelated Desi ...
    We love old letterpresses and LEGO blocks, so we were extremely excited to see the combination of the two in the LEGO Letterpress - a letterpress that makes pixelated art with a little help from our favorite colorful block. The hand-cranked letterpress uses a Vandercook and a monospace grid, and the ...
  • BOOM CASE: A Boombox Made From an Old Suitcase
    From suitcase chairs to suitcases that grow food, our fascination with portmanteaus seems to know no boundaries – and these amazing Boom Cases are no different! Hidden inside an old suitcase, the set of powerful speakers has a built-in battery that can blast (or play softly, depending on your mood) ...
  • Awesome Animated LED Clock Unveiled in Tokyo (VIDE ...
    Sadly, the centerpieces of many modern shopping centers are stone fountains that hark back to the Roman ages. Lucky for us, there’s one designer out there who is taking this underutilized space to a whole new level. Designed by Hiroshi Yoneya, the Hikari no Tokei Gate is an incredible new LED clock ...

  Pogue's Posts

  • Farewell, GOOG-411
    On Nov. 12, Google will turn off its free, voice-activated directory-assistance service forever. There are several options for those intending to soldier on in the post-GOOG-411 world.
  • Shifting Time Zones on Online Calendars
    Making an appointment in one time zone does not mean your calendar will remind you at the right time if you travel to another time zone-unless you adjust a setting.
  • How Do You Test a Battery?
    Help David Pogue design a protocol for testing the battery life of a smartphone running Flash videos.
  • Testing Videos on Cellphones - With Flash
    Flash on Android cellphones makes a world of watchable content available. Except for Hulu videos.
  • Verizon Comes Clean
    Verizon acknowledges its $2 accidental-key-press problem on mobile phones - the same problem it denied last December.

  WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Love Makes You Increasingly Ignorant of Your Partn ...
    BASEL, Switzerland — Long-lasting marriages may thrive on love, compromise and increasing ignorance about one another. Couples married for an average of 40 years know less about one another’s food, movie and kitchen-design preferences than do partners who have been married or in committed relations ...
  • How to Make a White Hole in Your Kitchen Sink
    That ring of water in your kitchen sink is actually a model white hole. For the first time, scientists have shown experimentally that liquid flowing from a tap embodies the same physics as the time-reversed equivalent of black holes. When a stream of tap water hits the flat surface of the sink, it ...
  • Human Genome Still Chock-Full of Mysteries
    BOSTON — No one really knows all the genetic parts needed to make a human being. Exactly how many genes make up the human genome remains a mystery, even though scientists announced the completion of the Human Genome Project a decade ago. The project to decipher the genetic blueprint of humans was s ...
  • Implants May Help Heroin Addiction
    People addicted to heroin or prescription opiates might have a hands-free device for getting through the rigors of drug withdrawal. The medication buprenorphine implanted under the skin and released over 24 weeks can ease drug cravings and helps some patients stay clean, researchers report in the O ...
  • The Year’s Best Fossil Finds
    See Also: 2-Billion-Year-Old Fossils May Be Earliest Known Multicellular Life Shark-Bitten Crocodile Poop Fossils Found (No, Really) Stunningly Preserved 165-Million-Year-Old Spider Fossil Found 67 Million-Year-Old Snake Fossil Found Eating Baby Dinosaurs Inkayacu â Peru’s Giant Fossil Penguin an ...

  The Progressive Realist

  • Technology Gets Less Open in Egypt
    While not exactly a haven of free speech before, it looks like Egyptian authorities are cracking down on communications technology in the lead-up to parliamentary elections: Egypt's National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) has imposed new restrictions aimed at tightening control over ...
  • The UNSC and the Shift in Global Power
    Judy Dempsey offers a typically insightful piece on the challenges facing the EU at the U.N. these days. Ironically, Dempsey pivots off of Germany's election as a non-permanent member of the council, whereas the real news of this year's batch of non-permanent members is the presence of India and Sou ...
  • Mercs at Work in Somalia
    The African Union does not have any helicopters in Somalia. The Somali Army does not have any helicopters that actually work in Somalia. So why is it we keep seeing helicopter attacks in Somalia? Because the TFG has hired western security companies as mercenaries. Here is the latest attack informati ...
  • The Ongoing Disconnect Between Military Operations ...
    Read Josh Foust’s piece on developments in northern Afghanistan: How We Lost Afghanistan’s Once-Peaceful North – Joshua Foust – International – The Atlantic Unfortunately, in most places in the north where security has deteriorated, one finds the common theme of Western inattention. The ISAF has f ...
  • The Blogs of War (Afghanistan Edition)
    Later this week, I will be participating in a roundtable discussion with my esteemed colleagues Juan Cole , Manan Ahmed , Joshua Foust and Madiha Tahir on "The Blogs of War: The Analytical Terrain of the Af-Pak Blogosphere" at the annual conference on� South Asia at the University of Wisconsin , Mad ...

  TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Your Tax Dollars at Work.
    Much like the taxpayer receipt , I think addressing the top five myths about federal taxation would go a long way toward clearing up misinformation. To be clear, I don't believe this would generate widespread support for liberal proposals but rather generate confidence in the public. Treating peopl ...
  • The Little Picture: Sheriff Joe Struck Down Again.
    (Flickr/ SearchNet Media ) Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio , who has been widely criticized for conducting immigration roundups and detainee abuse. Today, a federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling finding that prisons overseen by the sheriff failed to meet basic constitutional standa ...
  • Tea Partiers and Their Ethnocentric Views.
    At the Tea Party 9/12 rally, a libertarian-minded student from UCLA took the time to snap a photo of each sign present. As the Washington Post reports , she found little in the way of racism: Ekins photographed about 250 signs, and more than half of those she saw reflected a "limited government eth ...
  • What Are You Talking About?
    I haven't been doing it as much lately, but there was a time when I would regularly go on radio and television to debate conservatives on one issue or another. One of the simple tactics I used was to ask my opposing number to get specific about whatever sweeping claim they were making. Simply saying ...
  • Political Science and Impeachment.
    As Paul notes below , Jon Chait argues that a Republican-controlled House will impeach Obama (although they would have no chance to remove him from office). First of all, Chait does address Paul's response in the subscriber-only section: The Republicans wouldn’t dare repeat the mistake they made ...

  Buzzflash

  • Another Thought About Fox Not Allowing Republican ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH I wasn't born yesterday or even the day before. Murdoch's ownership of the GOP is factual; But it gets a bit more ominous when we discover These relationships are actually contractual.   http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42745.html  
  • The 15% Solution Serialization, Ninth Installment. ...
    This is the ninth installment of a project that is likely to extend over a two-year-period from January, 2010.  It is the serialization of a book entitled The 15% Solution: A Political History of American Fascism, 2001-2022 .  Under the pseudonym Jonathan Westminster, it is purportedly published in ...
  • Dr. J.'s BF Commentary No. 155: The Wages of Hate: ...
    Homophobia has been around for a long time.  It turns up in the Old Testament of the Bible as well as in the New.  The Republican Religious Right relies on that view in support of its homophobia, and cites chapters and verses in support of it.  (Not every religious scholar agrees with that inter ...
  • Exploiting a Recession
    Body The current administration is a convenient target for anger, the originating causes of our troubled economy given short shrift by restless voters who just want jobs. Still it is hard to fathom, in the face of a projected election tsunami, how a decision to empower a party whose p ...
  • Trumped by Donald? Are Bankruptcy and a Bad Toupee ...
    DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH Okay, I am so sick of these softball interviews with people claiming to be serious contenders to lead this country.  Questions like, "how has God inspired you to run?" or "what does your family think of you running?" have taken the place of questions like, "what would you do ...

  Glenn Greenwald - Salon

  • The Wars on Drugs and Terror: mirror images
    The deceit and propaganda which justify both wars are identical, as are the harms they cause
  • Robert Gibbs, hypocritical transparency crusader
    The press secretary now decries concealed campaign funders -- but was once a champion of it
  • Kagan's first steps on the Court
    In two important cases, the newest Justice refuses to join with Ginsburg and Sotomayor
  • They hate us for our occupations
    A new study by a University of Chicago professor reveals the obvious about what actually causes terrorism
  • Collapsing Empire watch
    The U.S. now ranks 49th in the world in life expectancy

  The BiPartisan Report

  • Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
  • Nihilism 1 American People Nil
  • Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
  • Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
  • Those holier than thou Conservatives

  Sciencebase

  • String, energy, and cats
    It was inevitable that the “Dummies” series of books would get around to String Theory for Dummies. Intriguingly, it’s written by the physics guide at About.com, Andrew Zimmerman Jones (with Daniel Robbins). The Dummies guide explains the basic concepts of what the cover refers to as the controversi ...
  • Blue skies science, pie in the sky?
    Lucy Marcus is the Founder and CEO of Marcus Venture Consulting, Ltd, a company that endeavours to foster sustainable success for funding organisations. She is non-executive chair of the Mobius Life Sciences Fund and chair of the audit committee for BioCity Nottingham. As the Science is Vital campai ...
  • Science is vital
    More news that proves science is vital: Is your dog a "bowl half full" kind of dog" – Dogs are either optimists or pessimists, according to a new study that helps explain why some dogs are less than calm when you leave them alone. They see the bowl as half empty rather than half full. [...] Science ...
  • Unlocking nano secrets
    An open or shut case for nanotechnology secrets Should nanotechnology R&D be more open to allow it to thrive in the commercial world, or should companies working in this field be more secretive? Paradoxically, the answer seems to be that keeping secrets stifles innovation and reduces patent success. ...
  • Current science news
    A few grabs from the current science news: My interview with Lucy Marcus on funding blue skies research – My interview with Lucy Marcus on why blue skies research should receive continued funding is now online in The Euroscientist magazine Tabloid reporting goes pear-shaped – The newspapers have ext ...

  Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Uzbekistan: Journalist’s Conviction Threatens Free ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2010 Human Rights Watch (HRW) The Uzbek authorities should quash the conviction for criminal defamation and insult of the veteran journalist Vladimir Berezovskii and allow him to exercise his right to freedom of speech, Human Rights Watch said today. On October 13, ...
  • How Upton Sinclair Helped Energize the New Deal: L ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) GREG MITCHELL Mitchell wrote the book The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics . A new edition has just been released. Excerpts of the book and rele ...
  • Seattle University Goes Bottled Water Free
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2010 Corporate Accountability International and Seattle University Today, Seattle University became the first college or university in the state of Washington to go bottled-water free. The university has removed bottled water from vending machines, concession stands ...
  • Reforming Quality of Global Food Aid Critical to F ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2010 Doctors Without Borders The world’s top food aid donors, including the United States, Canada, Japan, and the European Union, continue to supply and finance nutritionally substandard foods to developing countries, despite conclusive scientific evidence of their ...
  • Protecting OUR WATER Through Action and Implementa ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2010 Council of Canadians People from across Ontario brought their concerns - and their local drinking water - to a rally at Queen's Park today to tell Premier Dalton McGuinty that they want their water protected from polluting industry, unsustainable business-as-us ...

  Common Dreams-Views

  • America's Dish Detergent Wars
    by Amanda Marcotte Political observers trying to understand the conservative backlash movement in America known as the Tea Party certainly have their work cut out for them. It's a movement primarily composed of Medicare recipients who object to "government-run healthcare". Its leaders claim they're ...
  • Why the Boycott of Arizona Continues
    by Zack de la Rocha and Salvador Reza As the November general elections near, the international boycott of Arizona has become a central issue in several key elections, including the race for Arizona governor. This is not only because of the dramatic loss of revenue to the state from the cancellation ...
  • Former Guantánamo Prisoner, Tortured by Al-Qaeda a ...
    by Andy Worthington Last June, in the District Court in Washington D.C., a ruling was delivered on the habeas corpus petition of a Syrian prisoner in Guantánamo, Abdul Rahim al-Janko (also identified as Abdul Rahim al-Ginco), which exemplified all that was wrong with the Bush administration’s detent ...
  • For a DREAMy, Wartime, National Service Draft
    by Robert Naiman Recently, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been sounding the alarm about the fact that the burden of "our" wars is being disproportionately borne by a very small slice of the population: soldiers and their families. Like, I am sure, many Americans, I have sharply conflicted feelin ...
  • Publish or Perish: Getting a Read on American War
    by Nick Turse Quick -- name the five most important, influential, and best known books on the Afghan War.  Okay, name three.  Okay, I’ll settle for two.  How about one? read more

  Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Admission Aid Worker Was Killed By U.S. Grenade On ...
    By Steve Hynd Marc Ambinder and others are now confirming the Guardian story today that a U.S. SEAL killed kidnapped aid worker Linda Norgrave when he threw a fragmentation grenade instead of a smoke one, fatally wounding her. Marc writes: A senior military official tells me that a preliminary inves ...
  • A Last Patrol In "The Devil's Playground"
    By Steve Hynd Today's must-read is "The Last Patrol", an account of the last day on the frontline in Afghanistan for a unit from the 82nd Airborne by imbedded reporter Brian Mockenhaupt. It's deeply harrowing, emotional and detailled - the kind of coverage of the occupation of Afghanistan that is la ...
  • UNSC Calls For More Troops For Afghanistan
    By Steve Hynd If General Petraeus wanted cover for "staying the course" - indeed, for doubling down - in Afghanistan, then he just got some from a major source - the UNSC. The Security Council today extended the mission of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan for another ...
  • China, Pakistan and the war for "Pipelineistan"
    By Steve Hynd I heartily recommend Pepe Escobar's piece China's Pipelineistan "War" over at Mother Jones today. Not only is it an informative read, but it also opens up questions about US threats to take the Af/Pak war fully into Pakistan. Would China stand idly by? Not likely. Here's an extended ex ...
  • The Next Escalation Of A Failed War - Into Pakista ...
    By Steve Hynd It is a central tenet of counter-insurgency operations that they cannot be successful while the insurgents have a safe haven to operate from. It seems logical on the face of it, but from Laos to Cambodia to Afghanistan - in every situation where those safe havens exist aplenty in a hos ...

  Water Wars

  • Shelby Wades into Water Wars Dispute
    Sen. Richard Shelby says the Army Corps of Engineers must remain neutral in the water wars dispute between Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
  • Florida Appeals In Water Wars
    Florida is appealing a judge's decision that protects Georgia from demands that it release more water from a series of dams to protected threatened or endangered species downstream. Florida filed its notice of appeal Monday in federal court in Orlando, Fla. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's...
  • Barnes may push for extension in ruling over water ...
    No comments have been posted. http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/ encourages readers to interact with one another. We will not edit your comments, but we reserve the right to delete any inappropriate responses.
  • Water wars over neighborhood annexation in Rock Hi ...
    The city of Rock Hill wants to annex two neighborhoods and a church  along the Highway 161 corridor in York County.  Homeowners are fighting annexation.
  • Water supply woes
    During the Tampa Bay water wars of the 1990s, one Pinellas County commissioner famously announced, "Keep the Suwannee River cold, because we're coming for it."

  WordPress | Economics

  • Why Trade and War Are Different
    There is lots of talk about trade wars lately. We especially need to get tough on China, our politic
  • Oil rallies as investors dump dollar - Upstream On ...
    Oil rallies as investors dump dollar – Upstream Online.
  • Dollar Falls, Commodities Rise on Fed Speculation; ...
    Dollar Falls, Commodities Rise on Fed Speculation; Stocks Drop – Bloomberg.com. Um, we know th
  • No Trains Running
    Photo by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid What with New York public transportation being cut, and prices r
  • Realstic Retirement Planning
    My cipherin’ indicates that committing a non-violent felony without using a weapon is the best

  Electronic Intifada

  • Shooting in "buffer zone," air strikes across Gaza
    Israeli snipers shot a Palestinian boy collecting scrap building material in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. The shooting follows several air strikes across the Gaza Str ...
  • Israel conducts population transfer training exerc ...
    Israel secretly staged a training exercise last week to test its ability to quell any civil unrest that might result from a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority requir ...
  • Surplus of coffins, shortage of medicines in Gaza
    GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Samir Tahseen al-Nadeem died after waiting 35 days for an exit permit for treatment for his heart condition. He was 26. The medicines ...
  • Book review: diary from pre-Nakba Palestine
    A Young Palestinian's Diary 1941-1945: The Life of Sami 'Amr is an interesting departure from the growing number of Palestinian memoirs published in English. Asa Winstanley ...
  • Ten years later, no justice for October 2000 killi ...
    Ten years since 13 Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed by the Israeli police force during nonviolent demonstrations at the outset of the second Palestinian intifada, ...

  Afghanistan Sun

  • US soldiers find American in Afghanistan wildernes ...
    An American who claimed to have fled his Taliban kidnappers has been found in a wild area out of Kandahar in Afghanistan.
  • Pakistan Taliban release video of kidnapped profes ...
    Militant group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Thursday released a video of a university professor it kidnapped in the country's restive northwest, Xinhua reported.
  • Karzai pardons Pakistani would-be suicide bomber
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai pardoned Thursday a Pakistani child who had been arrested by the security forces after he attempted to carry out a suicide attack in the country, the presidential palace said.
  • Afghan Taliban Ready to Negotiate War's End
    Clinton, Gates, Cautious on Afghan-Taliban Peace Contacts A senior leader in Afghanistan says he believes Taliban insurgents are willing to negotiate an end to the country's nine-year war. Former Afgh...
  • 8 NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan
    Eight NATO soldiers have been killed in a spate of attacks in Afghanistan, the alliance says, bringing to 589 the number of personnel killed this year.The US-led International Security Assistance Forc...

  Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 24
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy: Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • Arguments against life extension
    Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
  • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
    Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
  • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
    Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
  • How to be a futurist
    The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...] Follow ...

  geopolitics | geoeconomics

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

  • Second Annual Whistleblower Film Series Kicks Off ...
    The second annual Whistleblower Film Series is just around the corner! The Series—part of the 10th annual DC Labor FilmFest—showcases films that explore the valuable role of whistleblowers at a critical time in the effort to restore and modernize protections...
  • Morning Smoke: Pentagon Senior Mentor Program to S ...
    Financial disclosure ordered for military mentors by Tom Vanden Brook [USA TODAY] — check our blog post from earlier this morning for analysis GAO: Contractors get federal business despite violations by Joe Davidson [Federal Diary] Treasury awarded more TARP aid...
  • Pentagon's Senior Mentors to File Public Financial ...
    The Defense Department (DoD) will now require any newly hired senior mentors who are paid more than $119,554 by the Department to file public financial disclosure reports, according to a Pentagon letter obtained by POGO. USA Today’s Tom Vanden Brook...
  • Col. T.X. Hammes Says Private Security Contractors ...
    Among the reasons for his opposition to security contractors, Hammes said the widespread use of security contractors has “made it easier to go to war,” because it is less difficult politically to deploy contractors than members of the military.  He also said that the U.S. government cannot conduct e ...
  • A Bungled Ethics Ruling at the Bureau of Land Mana ...
    BLM Director Bob Abbey recently saying that BLM's administrative options are limited at this point, but POGO found that BLM had nearly a month to act—hell, at least issue a slap on the wrist in the form of administrative leave or a warning—and chose to do nothing, sending the message to his employe ...

  Digital Journal

  • Pet seller convicted of animal cruelty has more do ...
    A man who sold pets in Prince Edward Island for many years had 17 dogs seized from his property, just four days after he was convicted of cruelty to animals.
  • NHL first pro sports league on Foursquare
    The National Hockey League has become the first professional sports league with a full-time presence on Foursquare, providing fans with another way to communicate with one another and the league.
  • Who To Blame For Worldwide Pension Fiasco-Boomers ...
    Despite constant unremitting propaganda to the contrary, baby boomers and the union movement are still not responsible for financial woes many nations find themselves in. The real culprits hide behind their exalted status as ministers and CEO's, unseen.
  • Mayoral candidates Ford, Rossi receive F grades on ...
    The Toronto Environmental Alliance has evaluated and graded more than 200 city council candidates and 30 mayor hopefuls in terms of their position on six environmental issues. Who did the best? Who did the worst?
  • Montreal Symphony Orchestra's tribute to Gustav Ma ...
    Gustav Mahler is being feted with three performances of the composer-conductor's major works; his 1st, 5th and 6th symphonies, all performed by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. This article reviews the second concert in the series.

  End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Twitter Users Attack the Homeless ... Again
    We're Twitter addicts. The micro-blogging site allows us to catch up on the world in mere seconds. But it's not perfect. Plenty of people use the site to spew hatred. The latest case in point — the trending topic  #myhomelesssignwouldsay . Users post their thoughts on what they would write on their ...
  • Homeless Students Need Shelter for the 16 Hours an ...
    Do you know how long it is from when the last bell rings at the end of the school day to when the first one rings the next morning? Homeless students do. In Rock County, Wisconsin it's sixteen hours and 49 minutes . Taking its cue from that important number is the documentary "16:49:00," a local fil ...
  • Vacant Buildings Could, Should, Would Be Affordabl ...
    In New York City, as in most places , there is an extreme shortage of affordable housing. This leads to homelessness for many vulnerable New Yorkers. At the same time there are hundreds of vacant buildings throughout the city. This just doesn't make sense to many homeless advocates, so they're takin ...
  • How Songwriting Brought a Musician to Homeless Act ...
    Michelle Chappel was once voted the "Most Inspirational Professor of Psychology" at UC Santa Cruz. She then did the next logical thing: quit teaching to pursue a career in the music business. "I don't write songs," she says. "I kind of feel like they write themselves." That's how she recalls the cre ...
  • San Francisco Considers Criminalizing Homelessness ...
    San Francisco — arguably the most progressive city in the country — is poised to follow its vote to ban same-sex marriage with another vote for more discrimination. This time the target is the homeless. On November 2nd, residents of San Francisco will go to the polls to vote on the Sit-Lie Ordinance ...

  Ceasefire.ca

  • Get your copy — Pilot Error: Why the F-35 Stealth ...
    We do not need ‘flying cadillacs’ to provide security to Canada and North America. The government, air force, and defence companies have made it clear why they want them, but not why Canada needs them, and why Canadians should pay for them.
  • Canada’s loss at the UN - What’s your reaction?
    UN members denied Canada a coveted seat at the UN Security Council Tuesday. In a last ditch effort to avoid a complete defeat, Canada withdrew its bid before what was expected to be a complete drumming by member states as support swung to Portugal over Canada. At home, the Stephen Harper’s governme ...
  • No seat at the table for Harper foreign policy
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper came into office vowing to “bring Canada back as a credible player on the world stage“.  Today in New York, however, Canada’s chance to play a role at the UN Security Council came to an abrupt end when UN members considered the record of his government and voted to giv ...
  • Steven Staples on Canada’s secret military base fi ...
  • Communist Chinese threaten Vietnam
    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is visiting Vietnam to discuss how to respond to the actions of an “increasingly assertive China” in the region (Thom Shanker, “In Vietnam, Gates Faces Balancing Act With Assertive China,” New York Times, 10 October 2010): Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates land ...

  Kevin Trudeau Show

  • CVS to Pay $77.6 Million in Meth Case
    October 14th, 2010 CNNMoney.com By: Blake Ellis CVS Pharmacy Inc. has agreed to pay $77.6 million in fines and returned profits in a case alleging improper control in the sale of an ingredient used to make methamphetamine, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles ...
  • FDA Warns That Bone Drugs May Cause Fractures
    October 14th, 2010 CNN By: Sandra Young A class of osteoporosis drugs appears to increase the risk of bone fracture, the Food and Drug Administration cautioned doctors and patients Wednesday. The agency has requested a labeling change in the Warnings and Precautions section of all bisphosphonate pr ...
  • Coconut Oil Can Help Alzheimer’s
    October 5th, 2010 The Alliance for Natural Health How worried should drug companies be about supplements eating into their monopoly profits? A lot—as this story will show. Please share it with anyone you know who is suffering from Alzheimer’s or is worried about it. Of course, just about everyone wo ...
  • Sugared-up Chocolate Milk Now Sold as “Infan ...
    October 14th, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez A new sugared toddler formula is drawing fire from parents and nutritionists who warn that it may prevent children from developing healthy eating habits. Mead Johnson Nutrition’s Enfagrow Premium toddler chocolate and vanilla formulas are designed ...
  • Blaming Bad Genes for Breast Cancer is a Medical M ...
    October 14th, 2010 Natural News By: Jonathan Benson It is common to hear both medical professionals and the population at large talk about certain diseases as if they are inherited from the family genes. Breast cancer is one such disease for which many women assume they have no control over its deve ...

  Pambazuka News

  • Black Congress to convene in D.C. to set black age ...
    As criticisms of President Obama’s war and economic policies mount, the group that first questioned his intentions regarding the concerns of the black community is holding a national Congress to define a black agenda to serve the interests of black p...
  • Haiti: Women demand role in reconstruction
    Women's civil society groups were noticeable by their absence from the landmark Haiti donor conference on 31 March, which secured pledges of US$5.3 billion over the next two years to support the country’s post-quake recovery. Their lack of a presenc...
  • African diplomats reject anti-Cuba resolution pass ...
    The ambassador of the Republic of Congo to Cuba, Pascal Onguemby, rejected the lies included in an anti-Cuba resolution recently approved by the European Parliament. Addressing participants in the inauguration of the Eleventh International Conference...
  • USA: Black coalition to protest expanding U.S. war ...
    A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The rally and march are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy ini...
  • Brazil: Bloggers on why there is still racism in t ...
    Two weeks ago, Global Voices Online reported the story of Januário Alves de Santana, a black man who had been beaten and punched by security guards of one of the largest international retailers in Brazil. He was waiting for his family in the car park...

  War in Context

  • Ahmadinejad in Lebanon
    While the Iranian president’s visit to Southern Lebanon is being portrayed in the Western media largely in terms of an act of provocation directed at Israel by an antagonist and intruding regional power, the historical ties between that part of Lebanon and Iran span centuries. Nicholas Blanford wri ...
  • Nick Turse: making war by the book
    Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com On January 1, 1970, when Noam Chomsky’s essay “After Pinkville” was first published in the New York Review of Books, reading was still an antiwar activity, and often a transformative one.  Books and articles changed minds, altered lives, helped you mobil ...
  • How did 1938 turn out to be such a long year?
    “It’s 1938 and Iran is Germany and it’s racing to arm itself with atomic bombs,” Benjamin Netanyahu declared four years ago. By 1942, Germany had snared itself in the disastrous Battle of Stalingrad — but let’s allow Netanyahu some latitude in his metaphor and assume that it’s still 1938 and that I ...
  • Might the US be holding a fugitive Mossad agent in ...
    Eight months after the murder of the Hamas commander, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, in Dubai, two reports in the last few days present intriguingly contradictory pictures. First came a Wall Street Journal report on Friday with the headline, “In Global Hunt for Hit Men, Tantalizing Trail Goes Cold.” The Jour ...
  • Israel is ceasing to be a Jewish state and turning ...
    Carlo Strenger has an interesting op-ed in Haaretz. It’s worth reading the whole piece (part of which appears below). Comments of mine follow. There is nothing left to say about how bad, harmful and useless the new citizenship law is: Labor Party Minister Isaac Herzog has warned that it is another ...

  Watts Up With That?

  • William Connolley, now “climate topic banned ...
    Bishop Hill had the news first, which is fitting since Mr. Connolley is based in Britain. In a vote of 7-0, The most prolific climate revisionist editor ever at Wikipedia, with over 5400 article revisions has been banned from making … Continue reading →
  • NASA GISS in Science Express: CO2, Climate’s ...
    From the press package: The findings confirm that carbon dioxide is the most potent greenhouse âcontrol knobâ This seems like a last ditch effort (in the face of falling public opinion) from Gavin Schmidt et al. to make CO2 more … Continue reading →
  • BBC given a mandate: balanced climate change cover ...
    At Last: BBC Told To Ensure Balance On Climate Change The Daily Telegraph, 13 October 2010 by Neil Midgley Climate change sceptics are likely to be given greater prominence in BBC documentaries and news bulletins following new editorial guidelines that … Continue reading →
  • Patchy refuses to resign, intends to complete next ...
    From the BBC’s Richard Black: And the train keeps on chugging along… … But while some figures outside the IPCC have called for Dr Pachauri’s head, government delegates here supported him continuing in post. “I not only have the mandate … Continue reading →
  • BoM embraces UHI
    They join the UK Met office in embracing UHI now. Of course, my friend Jim Goodridge, former California State Climatologist, had this nailed in 1996 with his study of surface temperature in California: MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 13 October 2010 Hot … Continue reading →

  Dandelion Salad

  • More of the Same, From the Tea Party and the Right ...
    by Sean Fenley Featured Writer Dandelion Salad The Anything and Everything Oct. 14, 2010 by Helen Cox, used with permission © All rights reserved. It goes by many names neoliberalism, neoserfdom, libertarianism, globalization — Naomi Klein calls it corporatism in the Shock Doctrine — and third world ...
  • Hey Nan, how’s that liberal agenda going for you? ...
    by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox October 13, 2010 Open Memo To: Nancy Pelosi From Cindy Sheehan Hey Nan, How’s that “liberal agenda” going for you these days? You have had quite a run as the first female Speaker of the House, haven ...
  • Democracy is Coming… to the USA By Timothy V ...
    By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com Oct. 13, 2010 It’s about time that Americans get over themselves and look to Latin America with a new eye. The changes that are happening to the nations of South America are astounding. Hugo Chavez is not the strongman dicta ...
  • The goal? Corporate domination of resources and ma ...
    by Bruce Gagnon featured writer Dandelion Salad Organizing Notes Oct. 11, 2010 I am writing from Nagpur on Oct 10 but not certain when I will be able to post this, as I have no Internet connection at this time. I am staying in a guesthouse that the state ministers use when they come to [...]
  • Peace talks pushed past US elections
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://therealnews.com Talks between Israel and PA postponed past US midterm elections despite alleged US concessions. While on a North America tour promote his new book, The Punishment of Gaza renowned Israeli journalist Gideon Levy spoke in Canada. The Real New ...

  Your New Reality

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    Republicans Finally Outdo Nazis For War Propaganda The 'Ground Zero Mosque' is actually one floor of an office tower, blocks away from the still empty World Trade Centre site, and the Republicans know it. But this is a religious war, after all. Note that the ad clearly states that the entire Mus ...
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    Life under occupation :
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    If you've found your way here after listening to my 'Weird & Unusual News' spot on ABC Newcastle today, here are links to the two main stories that were discussed : 'Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's Spiritual Day Of Reckoning On August 15' 'Five Human Senses? Actually, We Have More Than 2 ...
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    Creating new realities? It's the CIA's main mission, isn't it?
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    This is as close to a video of an actual nightmare as I've ever seen. Chris Cunningham's Rubber Johnny : What Chris Cunningham has been working on lately : "I've been living next to the railway line for 12 years and I've become obsessed with the harmonics of the trains on the lines. "For yea ...

  Wired - Science

  • Love Makes You Increasingly Ignorant of Your Partn ...
    BASEL, Switzerland — Long-lasting marriages may thrive on love, compromise and increasing ignorance about one another. Couples married for an average of 40 years know less about one another’s food, movie and kitchen-design preferences than do partners who have been married or in committed relations ...
  • How to Make a White Hole in Your Kitchen Sink
    That ring of water in your kitchen sink is actually a model white hole. For the first time, scientists have shown experimentally that liquid flowing from a tap embodies the same physics as the time-reversed equivalent of black holes. When a stream of tap water hits the flat surface of the sink, it ...
  • Human Genome Still Chock-Full of Mysteries
    BOSTON — No one really knows all the genetic parts needed to make a human being. Exactly how many genes make up the human genome remains a mystery, even though scientists announced the completion of the Human Genome Project a decade ago. The project to decipher the genetic blueprint of humans was s ...
  • Implants May Help Heroin Addiction
    People addicted to heroin or prescription opiates might have a hands-free device for getting through the rigors of drug withdrawal. The medication buprenorphine implanted under the skin and released over 24 weeks can ease drug cravings and helps some patients stay clean, researchers report in the O ...
  • The Year’s Best Fossil Finds
    See Also: 2-Billion-Year-Old Fossils May Be Earliest Known Multicellular Life Shark-Bitten Crocodile Poop Fossils Found (No, Really) Stunningly Preserved 165-Million-Year-Old Spider Fossil Found 67 Million-Year-Old Snake Fossil Found Eating Baby Dinosaurs Inkayacu â Peru’s Giant Fossil Penguin an ...

  Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Jonathan Cook: Israel conducts population transfer ...
    Dov Chenin: "A few years ago, only the extreme right-wing parties talked about transferring Arab citizens, but now we see that even the security forces are preparing concrete plans for carrying out... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Rights group asks Netanyahu to make ‘no population ...
    ACRI's move follows an Israel Prisons Service drill last week that had wardens practicing dealing with numerous Israeli Arabs being detained after a wave of riots. According to Israel Radio, the ... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Gush Shalom: An extreme right racist militia is ac ...
    Carmiel Deputy Mayor: "Carmiel is a Jewish city, plain and simple. It was founded for the purpose of Judaizing the Galilee. In my opinion it is not proper for Arab families to live here. In recent... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s other ‘peace’ plan
    A ghost of the Camp David talks of summer 2000 haunted the meeting of the Arab League in Libya, as its foreign ministers decided to give a little more time to the peace talks between Israel and the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • PA adopts textbook, banned in Israel, offering bot ...
    "Ramallah approved the project only after PA officials read the textbook, while in Israel the book was banned even though officials in Jerusalem did not even check its contents," said one official.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

  Ria Novosti - Military

  • Next Bulava missile test postponed until later thi ...
    Russia will not carry out the next test launch of its troubled Bulava ballistic missile in late October, as was previously planned, the chief of Russia's Armed Forces General Staff said on Thursday.
  • Russia to deploy Iskander missiles in all military ...
    The Russian military plans to deploy Iskander-M tactical missiles in all four of its future military districts, the chief of Russia's Armed Forces General Staff said on Thursday.
  • Russia could buy helicopter carriers by yearend - ...
    Russia could sign a contract on the purchase of multipurpose helicopter carriers by the end of 2010, the chief of Russia's Armed Forces General Staff said on Thursday.
  • Russia remains leader in arms deliveries to India
    A Russian think tank put Russia in the first place on the list of major arms suppliers to India in 2002-2009.
  • Israeli firm sells UAV assembly components to Russ ...
    Israel Aerospace Industries said on Wednesday it has signed a contract with the Russian defense firm Oboronprom on the delivery of assembly components and servicing for aerial drones.

  NewsWise

  • Robot to Have First Clinical Trial Test in Prostat ...
    Researchers say the robot - the first worldwide to be tested in patients - is designed to be consistently accurate in placement of radioactive seeds during prostate brachytherapy.
  • House Ear Institute's Sound Partners Program Launc ...
    At the 129th AES Convention, House Ear Institute is returning for its 13th year to provide hearing conservation education and screenings to thousands of Audio Engineering Society (AES) members, as well as launching a free and confidential help-line for audio pros.
  • Magnets Used To Treat Patients With Severe Depress ...
    Loyola Non-invasive therapy requires no anesthesia or sedation; can be done in a half hour in psychiatrist's offic
  • Questions Fuel 'Ask a Biologist' Website Success
    An online science 'Ask a' format atrracts more than a million uses a year to Arizona State University's portal 'Ask A Biologist,' proving the power of providing science information that the public, quite literally, asks for.
  • Tech Solutions Start With Pattern Recognition
    Buy something online, enter your credit card number and mailing address. Simple. Then you come to the box with the captcha. You dutifully copy down the warped, watery-looking letters. Incorrect. Another captcha appears. You try again. Also incorrect.

  Natural Health News

  • Amazing Jump Down a Mountain
    Have you ever wanted to fly?� Jeb Corliss made that dream come true with his amazing wing suit.
  • Pets Can Improve Your Health
    There are many stories about the benefits animal companions have on human health, whether they are service animals, therapy animals or family pets. �The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, part of the National Institutes of Health, is in the midst of an e ...
  • Retire Early and Risk Losing Your Mind
    Data from the United States and 12 European countries, according to a paper by two economists, suggest that the earlier you retire, the more quickly your memory declines. �This supports the theory that if you wish to keep your memory and reasoning ability, you may have to keep active. Not everyone ...
  • Supreme Court Considering Vaccine Case
    The United States Supreme Court is weighing a case which could have implications for hundreds of lawsuits alleging a link between vaccines and autism. �While the case is not specifically related to autism, it could determine the course of these cases through the court system. The subject under cons ...
  • Baby Bulldog Figuring Out Its Legs
    This pint-sized bulldog is learning how to walk.

  Antemedius

  • Separation of Powers Game of Chicken
    Here is the argument for President Obama to appoint Peter Diamond, the Economics Nobel laureate , to the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve and make other appointments that have been blocked by the obstructionist Republicans and some blue Dog Democrats. Dr. Diamond's confirmation has been blo ...
  • Fox News and the Dumbing Down of America
    ABC commentator Sam Donaldson on “This Week” in 1994 bemoaned the “dumbing down of America” and cited entertainment trends such as the popular film “Forest Gump” and the television comedy hit “Beavis and Butthead.” Now 16 years later an examination of what is happening in television reveals a far mo ...
  • The Republican Right's Mad Tea Party
    It has gone beyond referring to the rabidly self-righteous group as the Tea Party. This is something out of Lewis Carroll. Call it the Mad Republican Tea Party. Just when some believed that things could not get anymore weird, along comes Republican Mad Tea Party congressional candidate Rich Iott o ...
  • TN Wingnuts - Islam Is Not A Religion
    It is odd for an Atheist to be defending religious freedom. I have a very negative opinion of all religion, but I have a strong, well, faith, for lack of a better word in the idea that everyone should be allowed to practice or not as they choose. Neither I nor anyone else should be the arbiter of wh ...
  • R.I.P. Tony Curtis
    Actor Tony Curtis dies at Las Vegas-area home AP, September 30, 2010 The Oscar-nominated actor died Wednesday evening of cardiac arrest at home in the Las Vegas-area city of Henderson, Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy said Thursday. He was 85. "He died peacefully here, surrounded by those who love ...

  Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks more tr ...
    ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
  • How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
    What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking g ...
  • What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
    A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
  • Schools call for a “balanced teaching of global wa ...
    USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:

  Opinio Juris

  • Louis Henkin RIP
    by Roger Alford Terribly sad news today on the death of Louis Henkin. Here's the message from Columbia Law School Dean David Schizer: I'm very sorry to report that our colleague, Lou Henkin, passed away this morning. Lou has been a towering presence here at the Law School since he joined the ...
  • No More Non-Citizen Law Clerks?
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro That appears to be the upshot of section 704 of Public Law 111-117, a doorstop appropriations measure enacted last December: SEC. 704. Unless otherwise specified during the current fiscal year, no part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall be ...
  • Apologizing to Guatemala — and Perjury at Nurember ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Obama apologized on Friday for experiments conducted in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948 in which American scientists deliberately infected prison inmates, prostitutes, and mental patients with syphilis without their consent.  The apology is a striking remin ...
  • Drones as Force Protection in AfPak, and the Dream ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Adam Entous, Julan E. Barnes, and Siobhan Gorman have an outstanding piece of national security reporting on the front page of the weekend Wall Street Journal, “CIA Escalates Campaign in Pakistan: Pentagon Diverts Drones to Afghanistan to Bolster Campaign ...
  • Coded language
    by John Lentz by John Lentz I am interested in the issue of “coded language.”   As a protestant minister who preaches from sacred texts often using theological language concerning, for example, “sin” “redemption” “judgement,” etc., am I to interpret that this theological language is “coded?”  ...

  Investigate - Breaking News

  • Crewe murders bombsell: Rochelle asks police to re ...
    For the first time in 40 years, the little girl left alone in her cot by the killer of her parents has broken her silence on the case. Rochelle, the only daughter of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe, has come forward...
  • Conspicuous by her absence
    Forbes magazine today released its list of the top 100 most powerful women in the world. It features notables like Singapore's Ho Ching at #30, Finland president Tarja Halonen at #62, Icelandic leader Johanna Sigurdardottir at #80, and even reformed...
  • First published review of Arthur Allan Thomas: The ...
    I'll add more reviews as they come in, but here's the first, courtesy of Newstalk ZB today: Books - Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story 29/09/2010 Whether you concur with Wishart or not, you need to read this book. Arthur...
  • I hate Ian Wishart because...
    For some years now I've "enjoyed" a growing amount of internet 'hate mail' biffed my way on websites, virtually all from people I've never met and most from people who've never actually read my work themselves but who've relied on...
  • Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story...a cop kill ...
    The new book on the Crewe murders, Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story, is finally on sale. Available from Whitcoulls, PaperPlus, Take Note, Borders, The Warehouse, Dymocks and all good independent bookstores. The radio ad is available here: ThomasBook1

  The World We Live In

  • Domain Name Being Changed
    Some of your might have noticed that i have not been posting for a while. It was mostly out of frustration, you see when i started this site, I figured i would use it as a space to publish information, that i felt needed more attention in our life’s. New, views or even just facts [...]
  • 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 ...

  Center for Food Safety

  • Federal Court Strikes Down Ohio Ban On rBGH-Free L ...
    Relying on evidence of compositional differences between milk from cows treated with rbST/rbGH and milk from untreated cows, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals today struck down an Ohio state ban on labels pertaining to the use of artificial hormones in dairy products (IDFA et al v. Boggs, U.S. Cour ...
  • Center for Food Safety Testifies at Congressional ...
    Congress Sharply Critical of USDA’s Biotech Crop Oversight Failures, Calls for New Regulations  Live webcast: “Are ‘Superweeds’ an Outgrowth of USDA Biotech Policy? (Part II),” at: http://domesticpolicy.oversight.house.gov, 2pm EDT. Today the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Oversight and G ...
  • Thirty Eight Representatives And Senators Call On ...
    Over Fifty Organizations and Businesses Endorse Congressional Letters;  CFS Calls upon FDA to Reject Approval of GE Salmon The Center for Food Safety applauds the 38 Representatives and Senators for requesting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) halt the approval of the long-shelved AquaBoun ...
  • Federal Court Finds USDA Broke The Law In Allowing ...
    Court To Consider Appropriate Remedy For Industry’s Rush To Plant Monsanto’s Herbicide Resistant Crop Late yesterday, Judge Jeffrey White, federal district judge for the Northern District of California, ruled that Plaintiffs Center for Food Safety, Organic Seed Alliance, High Mowing Organic Seeds, a ...
  • Misguided FDA Opposition to Labeling Could Leave P ...
    Recent Poll Shows 91% of Americans Oppose GE Animals; CFS calls for clear, mandatory labeling After a two-day public hearing on the approval of the first genetically engineered (GE) animal intended for human consumption, the AquAdvantage GE salmon, FDA held a public hearing today to discuss whether ...

  Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • Doing Exactly As They Have Been Trained
    Doing Exactly As They Have Been Trained | CommonDreams.org : "Disturbing videos of detainee abuse - subtle, mental and degrading, not Abu-Ghraib-brutal - has been released by Ethan McCord, the veteran who wrote the 'Open Letter of Reconciliation & Responsibility to the Iraqi People' after his Bravo ...
  • Cuba: Mensaje de Fidel Castro
    #Cuba: Mensaje de Fidel Castro � Yohandry’s Weblog : Lo último que podía esperarse eran las noticias de la expulsión de los gitanos franceses, víctimas de la crueldad de la extrema derecha francesa, que eleva ya a siete mil de ellos, las víctimas de otra especie de holocausto racial. Es elemental ...
  • Pentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destro ...
    Pentagon Considering Buying and Immediately Destroying Every Copy of Military Memoir : [gawker.com] "The Pentagon is so worried about revelations in a new memoir about the War on Terror that it's considering buying 10,000 copies — the entire first printing — and destroying them. Sounds like a good b ...
  • Inside the killing fields of Queensland
    Inside the killing fields of Queensland | The Australian The discovery of a memoir by Steele Rudd's father sheds new light on the murderous collision between settlers and Aborigines on the Darling Downs At one time we had a blackfellow skull decorating the veranda, and not until it was removed woul ...
  • Columbus statue vandalized with red paint
    Columbus statue vandalized with red paint | Turn to 10 : "PROVIDENCE -- Portions of a statue of Christopher Columbus in Providence were covered in red paint, police said. The statue stands at the fork at Elmwood and Reservoir Avenues. A sign that read 'murderer' was also put around the statue's w ...

  Pensieve

  • Tascon List Documentary
    Those who defend Hugo Chávez need to see this documentary. The Tascón list is a list of all the voters who put their name, their fingerprint, and their social security numbers, in the 2004 recall referendum against Chávez. They were branded as “traitors” and summarily stripped of all government jobs ...
  • Cobalt Bomb in Honduras!?
    Photo by Doug Wallick I completely disbelieve this news report. In it, it said that the residents of Las Tapias, Francisco Moraz�n are being evacuated because of radiation from a cobalt bomb. A cobalt bomb is a type of nuclear weapon with little blast capacity, but enormous contamination from fallou ...
  • Banksy Writes on Springfield’s Walls
    Banksy, the famous British graffiti artist and activist, created this opening sequence for The Simpsons; it is brilliant, and sobering at the same time. Of course it is overstated…that’s the heart of comedy. South Korea is prosperous in comparison even to China. But, I venture to guess that most peo ...
  • More Evidence of Nuclear Cover-Up in Venezuela
    Photo by Daniella Zalcman Hugo Chavez seems to believe the clichéd proverb: “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. For years there have been underreported accounts of Chavez’s collabroation with Iran’s “secret” nuclear program. Venezuela has the world’s largest uranium deposits in the mountains where ...
  • Google TV Arriving Soon
    I am angry that the MPAA and RIAA punish the world by creating a byzantine bureaucracy in their licensing…which leaves us who live outside the US in the dark. Hopefully Google TV will figure out a way to break that. If it did, it could sweep Apple TV away completely. Related posts:Google Chrome is n ...

  Green Times

  • Environmental News 15/10/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 14/10/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 07/10/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, A Green Hero Off-Screen
    Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the biggest good guys around – a real hero – and super green to boot!
  • Get inspired
    Get inspired by famous influential people! Believe in your dreams, like Martin Luther King did. And show your inspiration in your everyday actions. "Be the change you want to see in the world", Ghandi. If you hope for a greener planet, buy organic food (glossary/food-drink/organic-food.html), recy ...

  Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • DHS scoured social media sites during Obama inaugu ...
    ShareThis DHS scoured social media sites during Obama inauguration for 'items of interest' --EFF documents reveal�broad range of targets�including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace 14 Oct 2010 An electronic rights advocacy group is expressing concern over what it contends was an overly broad surveillanc ...
  • U.S. to Let Insurers Raise Fees for Sick Children
    ShareThis U.S. to Let Insurers Raise Fees for Sick Children 14 Oct 2010 The Obama administration, aiming to encourage health insurance companies to offer child-only policies wh*ring for the insurance cartel once again, said Wednesday that they could charge higher premiums for coverage of children wi ...
  • As Terror Alert Continues, NYPD Holds Drill to Pre ...
    ShareThis As Terror Alert Continues, NYPD Holds Drill to Prep For Mumbai-Style Attack --New York Terror Exercise Simulates Commando Assault On Wall Street 14 Oct 2010 As US officials proclaim an alleged European [but actually CIA-based] terror plot still active, New York City police conducted a dril ...
  • Supreme Court won't take case of pair ejected from ...
    ShareThis Supreme Court won't take case of pair ejected from Bush speech 12 Oct 2010 Over the objections of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a case brought by two people who said they were barred from a speech given by President [sic] Ge ...
  • Trapped 68 Days, First Chilean Miners Taste Freedo ...
    ShareThis Trapped 68 Days, First Chilean Miners Taste Freedom 13 Oct 2010 With a look of sturdy calm, the first of the 33 miners trapped nearly half a mile underground stepped out of a narrow rescue capsule and onto the surface at 12:11 a.m. on Wednesday, hugging his family, the nation’s president a ...

  Daily Loaf

  • Top Chef Podcast: Just Desserts Ep. 5 – Edible fas ...
    Hear the hilariously irreverent new episode of the Top Chef Podcast where we kvetch about the newest season of Top Chef: Just Desserts .
  • Arne Duncan comes to Tampa to praise local school ...
    Later Arne Duncan heaped more praise on the Hillsborough District, saying, "They are making it unbelievably desirable to be a teacher. They're providing a huge amount of support....they're setting a high bar...their empowering parents."
  • Concert review: Vampire Weekend with Beach House a ...
    As the days get shorter and a comfortable chill starts to hit the air, reminders that summer’s over are everywhere. I’m pretty sure someone forgot to send the memo to Vampire Weekend and Beach House, because Tuesday’s sold-out show at Jannus Live was packed with about as much summery pop as anyone ...
  • Movie Review: Red, starring Bruce Willis, John Mal ...
    Hot topic on the movie blogs these days is the rehash the 2010 summer movie season. Turns out the discussion isn't over yet, though, as Red has just arrived to the summer party. Better late than never. Contributor Kevin Hopp has the CL review …
  • The science of climate change in 2010
    I often strictly write about peak oil in my blog posts. Today I’d like to shift gears and focus on climate change. Last year with the failure of Copenhagen and illegitimate claims of Climategate, climate change movement has been blown off the tracks in the political arena causing no significant cha ...

  Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Settler-style thugs operating inside Israel
    by Jesse Bacon One after another, the parallels to fascism pile up in Israel, like the sticks (which is what the root of Fascism means) on a fire. Now a town in Israel has adopted perhaps the most visible feature of many a dictatorship: paramilitary police. The settlers have long functioned in this ...
  • Premiere of a Film Documenting Relationships betwe ...
    Tuesday, September 28th, brought us at the Villages Group great satisfaction. On that day, we and many of our friends in Susiya had the pleasure of attending the world premiere of the film “The Human Turbine” at the Haifa International Film Festival. Over a period of two years from 2008 to 2010, a f ...
  • Works in progress: the partitions of Iraq and Pale ...
    By Rela Mazali Works in Progress: - The partition of Palestine (most recently into Gaza Strip; East Jerusalem; West Bank) - The partition of Iraq In Iraq, the occupation is attempting “ethnic” partition. See: Statement issued this week (October 10, 2010) by the BRussels Tribunal, stating among ot ...
  • “We will not be citizens of a fascist state ...
    From Gush Shalom October 10, 2010 A protest rally against the government’s “Loyalty Oath Bill” was held outside the Tel Aviv house where Ben-Gurion read the 1948 the Declaration of Independence. There, today, the “Declaration of Independence from Fascism” was signed. “We are citizens of the Israel w ...
  • Abdallah Abu Rahmah gets one year in prison despit ...
    from the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee Bil’in protest organizer Abdallah Abu Rahmah was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment today, for his involvement in his village’s unarmed struggle against the wall. Abdallah Abu Rahmah was sentenced today to 12 months in prison, plus 6 month ...

  Politics in the Zeros

  • Challenges that third parties face: the non-electo ...
    (My latest from CAIVN, reprinted in its entirety) Some third parties prefer to work outside the electoral system, focusing on organizing, direct action, and working towards fundamental changes in society. They would perhaps agree with Emma Goldman’s famous / notorious statement, “If voting changed a ...
  • Banksters hired burger-flippers to robo-sign mortg ...
    At JPMorgan Chase & Company, they were derided as “Burger King kids” â walk-in hires who were so inexperienced they barely knew what a mortgage was. At Citigroup and GMAC, dotting the iâs and crossing the tâs on home foreclosures was outsourced to frazzled workers who sometimes tossed the pape ...
  • Support “Behind the News” on WBAI — really!
    Doug Henwood of Left Business Observer and WBAI’s excellent Behind the News needs your help today. It’s pledge time and his show could get bumped by the lunatics at the asylum. But not if there are lots of pledges. Pledge today on his show. Full details on his blog
  • Old email scam going around again
    I got an email from a friend yesterday saying she was in Europe, had been mugged, had no money and the hotel wouldn’t let her go until she paid. It seemed an obvious scan, so I called her and left a message saying to change your email account password. What I didn’t think to do [...]
  • Aloha from the Big Island
    Like they’d have to tell me to evacuate if a tsunami was coming?

  Coteret

  • Yediot: NIS 9 million for settlement “touris ...
    The fact that these grants will fund highly politicized and inflammatory projects is best exemplified by the NIS 2 million slated for the “City of David” project in Silwan. This East Jerusalem settlement in the guise of an “archeological park” is at the cutting edge of efforts to insert Israelis i ...
  • Yediot: Despite Berlusconi’s promises, Italy ...
    Paper sanctions Menahem Ganz, Yediot, September 14 2010 [page 19, Hebrew original here and at bottom of post] Rome — Half a year after returning from a visit to Israel, in the course of which Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised to act to reduce the volume of trade between Italy and Ira ...
  • Yediot to Abe Foxman: Are we anti-Semitic too?
    Not exactly, but close. For those of you who have missed the latest chapter of what Matt Duss calls “the continuing attempt to redefine ‘blood libel’ as ‘saying things about Israel I don’t particularly like’”, here’s a brief: This week’s TIME Magazine cover story was a feature by Karl Vick, entitle ...
  • The new frontiers of Israeli diplomacy: Lieberman ...
    This morning’s Israel Hayom reports: (full translated text at bottom): a decision was made that, for the first time, the Foreign Minister will address the UN General Assembly in New York at the end of the month You don’t need to be an expert to understand that this is not a very wise matching of [.. ...
  • Maariv: French and American envoys working to re-s ...
    Maariv summarizes a news item from the Lebanese A-Safir. It’s unclear, however, whether the section on Mitchell visit is also from that source. The byline is unusual. Bardenstein is the junior diplomatic affairs correspondent and probably does not speak Arabic. Items based on direct monitoring of ...

  Deadline Live

  • Atty: Poppy seeds led to drug-related baby seizure
    NEW CASTLE, Pa. – The American Civil Liberties Union is representing a woman who says her newborn baby was seized by county welfare workers after she failed a drug test because she ate a poppy seed bagel. ACLU attorney Sara Rose tells WPXI-TV that Lawrence County Children and Youth Services official ...
  • G8/G20 Communique: Alex Hundert remains in jail af ...
    G20 defendant Alex Hundert remains in jail after his Sept 17, 2010, re-arrest for refusing to sign what he deemed to be overly restrictive, excessive bail conditions that would have triggered his release — Hundert was already out on bail when he was re-arrested after his participation in a Septembe ...
  • Judge allows states’ healthcare suit to proc ...
    (Reuters) – States can proceed with their lawsuit seeking to overturn President Barack Obama’s landmark reform law, a Florida judge ruled on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson had already indicated at a hearing last month that he would reject parts of a motion by the Justice Department to di ...
  • The View Fight: Joy & Whoopi Walk Off Over O&#8217 ...
  • Pak Newspaper: Aide Worker Killed By Special Force ...
    Akhtar Jamal pakobserver.net - Islamabad—Militant sour-ces inside Afghanistan asserted on Tuesday that the Scottish-British lady, Linda Norgrove, who was killed in Kunar province following a rescue bid by U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan was “ in fact a CIA agent”. The sources also added that Lind ...

  The Air Vent

  • Continuing Copygate Discussions
    Climate Audit reader Geoff left this in the comments at the excellent CA copygate thread.  Not sure if this is Geoff Sherrington or not. Geoff Posted Oct 13, 2010 at 8:45 AM | Permalink | Reply I note the comment from the Office of Research Integrity of the US Department of Health & Human Services: ...
  • Incrementally Dumber
    Stupidity like this is what happens when you let greens take over your economy.  Lessee, high unemployment, costs rising everywhere, and we’re going to add cost to food and gas production – for no reason. EPA to allow 15% ethanol in gasoline, up from 10% now    
  • Drewskinator
    The great thing about the Air Vent is that the readers here value reality above the argument itself.  Drewski left a little gem for us “‘ignorant bloggers”. Loud and wrong are two traits one should endeavor to disassociate with the greatest vigor.  In the spirit of possible incorrectness by myself ...
  • When the TRUTH hurts
    This is a little reply to Michael Mann’s recent op-ed.  Since our government friendly papers wouldn’t consider carrying honest writing on the topic, I’ll post it here, on my free blog in the middle of nowhere. Get the anti-science bent out of politics By Michael E. Mann Friday, October 8, 2010 As a ...
  • As Copygate turns
    I’ve spent the last several hours looking at references and such from the alleged plagiarism included in the Wegman report.  Deep climate has been ranting on about it for a long time now, I’ve found the discussion both tedious and uninteresting but primarily the lack of organization of the story co ...

  Focal Point

  • Boobs Against Breast Cancer: Dubious "Awareness" C ...
    Something I wrote for this week's edition of the Weekly Pulse health care newsletter. The gimmicky, pink breast cancer "awareness" stunts are getting old.  October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. The National Cancer Institute estimates that over 207,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer ...
  • It's a Trap! NYC Law Would Force "Crisis Pregnancy ...
    Excellent: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Councilwoman�Jessica S. Lappin (D) have introduced legislation to require so-called " crisis pregnancy centers " in New York City to disclose that they are not full-service reproductive health centers.� CPCs are self-proclaimed sub-specialty of th ...
  • Pregnant 13-year-old Peruvian Rape Victm Denied Me ...
    Republican senate candidate Sharron Angle says that teenagers who are raped should make lemonade out of lemons by bearing their attackers' children. Angle is one of several senate candidates who do not believe that abortion should be legal under any circumstances, even in cases of rape or incest. ...
  • Candidate Visits Mailbox "HQ" of American Future F ...
    Rep Bruce Braley (D-Ia) paid a visit to the "headquarters," of the American Future Fund , a shadowy 501(c)4 group that has spent nearly $1 million to defeat him in the upcoming election. American Future Fund , a conservative nonprofit based in Des Moines, has repeatedly attacked Braley in the h ...
  • Bullying PSA: It Gets Worse
    You may have heard about Dan Savage's video outreach campaign, "It Gets Better." The campaign was inspired by a spate of news stories about gay teens committing suicide in the face of bullying, and by Focus on the Family's bizarre assertion that anti-bullying programs are a conspiracy to turn kids g ...

  Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Careers: Vietnam Growth and Financial Pla ...
    Facebook looks to be expanding its Vietnam operations and financial planning this week, as we take a look at the Facebook Careers Page. First off, a Corporate FP&A position which seems to be based in Palo Alto, CAlif. is being advertised for someone who will be “responsible for all aspects of corpor ...
  • Browse Your Facebook News Feed and Phonebook Throu ...
    The new Skype version 5.0 for Windows allows Facebook users to sign in and update their status, browse their news feed, or view their phonebook. Users can click on “SMS” or “Call” buttons next to user names in the feed or phonebook to contact them via Skype. The partnership benefits Skype users by a ...
  • Involver Raises $8 Million Third Round to Expand F ...
    Aiming to expand along with its advertising clients efforts on Facebook and elsewhere on the web, social media services company Involver is announcing today that it has raised an $8 million third round of funding, led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The San Francisco company provides a suite of applic ...
  • Design then Buy Your Dream Bracelet with Pandora’s ...
    The Pandora Bracelet Designer application lets users design a high quality silver or gold bracelet with accompanying precious and semi-precious charms right on Facebook. Once your bracelet is complete thereâs a variety of ways to interact with your design, ranging from sharing on Facebook or Twitt ...
  • New Credits Partner PlaySpan Will Bring 20 More Pa ...
    Virtual goods monetization service company PlaySpan is the latest partner for Facebook Credits, following a long string of others, most recently Sometrics. Announced as part of a larger expansion of the virtual currency today, PlaySpan will begin providing 20 more payment options within the main Cre ...

  Truthout - Tweets

  • truthout: Backing Prop 19, California NAACP Calls ...
    truthout: Backing Prop 19, California NAACP Calls Marijuana Legalization a Civil Rights Issue (Video) http://bit.ly/9kDe8O #Truthout #p2 #p2b
  • truthout: For a DREAMy, Wartime, National Service ...
    truthout: For a DREAMy, Wartime, National Service Draft http://bit.ly/aDEpis #Truthout #p2 #p2b
  • truthout: How Two Civilian Sleuths Brought Foreclo ...
    truthout: How Two Civilian Sleuths Brought Foreclosure Problems to Light http://bit.ly/b0mBdc #Truthout #p2 #p2b
  • truthout: Nick Turse | Publish or Perish Getting a ...
    truthout: Nick Turse | Publish or Perish Getting a Read on American War http://bit.ly/9xTpev #Truthout #p2 #p2b
  • truthout: David Swanson | Rule of Law Is Alive and ...
    truthout: David Swanson | Rule of Law Is Alive and Well Outside the United States http://bit.ly/cHFhR4 #Truthout #p2 #p2b

  ReDress News

  • Israeli forces test ethnic cleansing scenario
    Israel has secretly staged a training exercise to test its ability to quell any civil unrest that might result from a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority requiring the forcible transfer of many Arab citizens, the Israeli media has reported.
  • Mr Hague, is it not your responsibility to keep se ...
    Stuart Littlewood reminds British Foreign Secretary William Hague of recent acts of piracy by the Israeli navy against unarmed aid ships, including the sadistic assault on the Jewish boat, the Irene, and asks him what the UK government and its partners are doing to keep the seaways open and guarante ...
  • Israel's other “peace” plan: arm-twisting Obama
    Jonathan Cook argues that by rejecting Obama’s reckless and extravagant incentives to Israel in return for a temporary freeze on settlement-building, Netanyahu hopes to persuade the White House “to reaffirm a promise made in a 2004 letter from … George W. Bush that Israel will not be required to wit ...
  • Three faces of Binyamin Netanyahu
    Uri Avnery considers the three faces of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu: the unprincipled conman, the street-wise trickster and the advocate of Greater Israel. He concludes that while Netanyahu displays all three faces, the third is the one that represents him most.
  • Arab regime credibility hanging by its last invisi ...
    Alan Hart views the state of Arab impotence in the face of Israel and the Zionist-lobby-controlled US, arguing that if the Arabs were serious and united, the mere threat of their using the oil weapon would have been sufficient to galvanize the US into reigning in Israel.

  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

  • Friends-Enemies-Both? Our Foreign Policy Riddle
    The Three-Decade US-Mujahideen Partnership Still Going Strong In the last few weeks I’ve been reading and talking about the latest developments in Central Asia and the Caucasus. I am planning to post a few updates on the status of the score board in this region (pipeline rivalries, military base ‘er ...
  • American Conservative Magazine Beats UK Papers in ...
    UK-US Media Reports⦠Only When itâs Safe to Publish? Yesterday this made the headlines in UK: Britain Held Secret War Talks With US Generals 11 Months Before Iraq Invasion America’s most senior general flew into Britain for top secret talks on the invasion of Iraq 11 months before the attack on ...
  • 9/11 Commissioner’s Turkey Baste: Chicken or the E ...
    The Roots of Lee Hamilton’s Six Figure Earnings We all know the relevance and importance of a solid and sound background check when it comes to our elected and appointed officials and commissioners. Of course we all want to know about that big ‘conflict of interest’ factor. Okay, not all of us, espe ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • ‘This’ is the ‘Real’ Picture of Our War: Isn’t it ...
    Seeking Unison in Justified Outrage   Please take a moment and look at these pictures. Really look at them. Not just a cursory glance or a rushed and distracted glance. Isn’t it heartbreaking looking at them? Isn’t it revolting and outrageous?  Next, please read, process, and think about the followi ...

  Afro Spear

  • “My Challenge to the Race Hustlers” By ...
    Op-ed submission by Project 21 At a recent press conference sponsored by the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Walter Fauntroy blasted Glenn Beck’s August 28 “Restoring Honor” rally by saying that when one refers to the Ku Klux Klan and the tea party movement, âyou have to use [the term ...
  • Black Blogger Network Monthly Blogging Contest
    Hello Afrospear family, I am Jessica Ann Mitchell, the facilitator of The Black Love Speak Column (BlackLoveSpeak.com). A few months ago I started another website, BlackBloggerNetwork.com. The purpose of the site is to support the initiatives of Black Bloggers. In an effort to encourage healthy dial ...
  • More on U.S. experiments on people of African desc ...
    Thanks to Ana for sharing this information. This article at The Silver People Chronicle: The Back Punch Revisted-”We can End the Silence”, is shockingly eye-opening by revealing the experiments that were done on people of African descent in Panama by the U.S. government.   On Friday, October 1st 2 ...
  • sat’day riddymz
  • If They’d Do Syphilis, Why Not AIDS?!
    From Black Agenda Report… “…Nearly forty years after the Tuskegee horror was made widely known, on October 1, 2010 the Obama administration acknowledged that from 1946 to 1948, United States government scientists infected prisoners and mental patients with syphilis in the central American nation of ...

  Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a nation ...
  • 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 ...

  Sen4Earth

  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainability ...
  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must and ...
    Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
  • Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the Gran ...
    The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do the ...
  • 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 ...

  If Americans Knew

  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed at ...
    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 ...
  • 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 ...

  David J. Gregory

  • Conservative Conundrum
    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
  • HURRAY FOR SHORT MEMORIES!
  • Never Forget: Bad Wars Aren’t Possible Unles ...
    This is a very good article from Michael Moore, what he delineates are the reasons we are still in such a mess as a Nation and a people. These reasons are blatant and should never be allowed to happen again. Even though Obama seems to be tied to the Bush Doctrine of appeasing the military-industrial ...
  • Truth for Tea Baggers!
    War Machine, all the money for killing, nothing for helping to save lives, war is much more profitable, especially when you supply both sides! Sheeple time to wake up….
  • Rand Paul the road to disaster
    Do you remember Rand Paul? He’s the Republican candidate for Senate in Kentucky that went on Rachel Maddow to oppose provisions in the Civil Rights Actafter his surprise victory in the primary. He’s taken max-out checks from Citizens United – the group whose lawsuit led to the new avalanche of corpo ...

  Unsuitable Blog

  • What I Am Doing For 10/10/10
    After all, it is a special day.
  • Brilliant Rant About Symbolic Action and 10:10
    I have been sent a link to this wonderful “rant” – no, it’s not a rant, it’s telling it like it is – on the Powershift forum. Here’s the Richard Curtis video he refers to, and if Mr Curtis would like my opinions on 10:10 then I would love him to bring his little red [...]
  • Reveal Handbags : Revile Fashion
    > Dear Keith, > For your next high-fashion piece, consider REVEAL, the hottest eco-luxury handbags. made of recycled plastic bottles. REVEAL just launched their new Recycled Collection, and it’s perfect for women who are SEXY with SUBSTANCE. You know which women we are referring to. it’s your super ...
  • 10 Things That Will Actually Make a Difference On ...
    As I write, thousands of activities are being planned around the world to coincide with the date 10 October 2010, which has been fortuitously chosen for its parallels with the aim to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 10% by the end of 2010 (well that’s one plan blown, then). Anyone on any ma ...
  • Rebecca Spillson’s Propaganda Machine Underm ...
    Everything’s fine on the Alabama coast, especially at Gulf Shores / Orange Beach, especially now it’s Shrimp Festival time. Hey! Those persistent organic toxins aren’t going to eat themselves: Yes, that really was posted on YouTube in the last few days, [dreamily] almost as though nothing had happen ...

  Subalternate Reality

  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
  • Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
    crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
  • GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
    Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
  • 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 ...

  Idea Lab | Technology

  • 577 U.S. News Sites Now Using hNews
    The San Francisco Chronicle was founded in 1865. It is the only daily broadsheet newspaper in San Francisco -- and is published online at SFgate.com . In the 1960s Paul Avery was a police reporter at the Chronicle when he started investigating the so-called "Zodiac Killer." Earlier this year Mark ...
  • Student Team -- Including Five "Programmer-Journal ...
    In December 2008, a class of Northwestern University journalism master's students -- including two Knight "programmer-journalist" scholarship winners -- unveiled a prototype news Web site called News Mixer . The site, one of the first to integrate Facebook Connect as a system for identity managemen ...
  • LocalWiki to Create Collaborative, Community-Owned ...
    So much of the unique knowledge and experiences we acquire through years of living in a community gets spread only by word of mouth, or worse it just stays "locked up" in our heads. But this is great stuff, valuable expert knowledge that can benefit everyone. After all, when it comes to the communit ...
  • 'Sourcing Through Texting' Brings Public into Radi ...
    If a large truck illegally barrels through a neighborhood and no reporters are around to see it, does it make the news? It does if local residents with mobile phones can text truck sightings to a local public radio station. This is the premise behind a new pilot project called Sourcing Through T ...
  • How to Build a Website: One Piece at a Time
    The likelihood that an online video editing site, a 21st century technological innovation if ever there were one, would draw inspiration from a 34-year-old Johnny Cash song about a broken-down, piece of junk Cadillac is, admittedly, a tad anachronistic. But as my partner, Nonny de la Peña, and I ...

  Cutting Edge News

  • The Edge of Terrorism - Common-Sense Security Meas ...
    The recent warnings by the U.S. government of possible terrorist attacks in Europe illustrate the fact that jihadist terrorism is a threat the world will have to live with for the foreseeable future. Certainly, every effort should be made to disrupt terrorist groups and independent cells, or lone wo ...
  • The Terrorism Edge - Terrorism, Vigilance, and the ...
    The U.S. government issued a warning on October 3 advising Americans traveling to Europe to be “vigilant.” U.S. intelligence apparently has acquired information indicating that al Qaeda is planning to carry out attacks in European cities similar to those carried out in Mumbai, India, in November 200 ...
  • Book Review - Hitler's First War--Another Hitler B ...
    Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War. Thomas Weber. Oxford University Press. 2010. 416 pages. Early on in reading this book, I showed it to a colleague who teaches a course in Nazi Germany, offering to pass along the galleys when I was through. "No ...
  • Book Review - Makers of Ancient Strategy: the Weav ...
    Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome. Victor Davis Hanson. Princeton University Press. 2010. 298 pages. Affluent Western democracies have âdifficulty maintaining popular support for costly counterinsurgency wars,â laments Victor Davis Hanson, the accomplished his ...
  • Authors on Tour - Author Edwin Black Culminates To ...
    Renowned investigative writer and journalist, Edwin Black, the author of numerous books and investigations including War Against the Weak , is kicking off his multi-city book tour to launch his latest work: The Farhud: The Roots of The Arab-Nazi Alliance During the Holoca ust , which promises to roc ...

  High Country News

  • The way it is for some people
    Life on the other side of the border is hard, even for dentists.
  • Gas drilling has blighted my life
    We need energy -- but not at the cost of clean water
  • In defense of wood heat
    Why not burn trees where they'll do some good -- in your woodstove?
  • The birds and the bee(tle)s
    A controversial tamarisk control program is shut down over worries that it threatens rare southwestern willow flycatchers.
  • Down the Black Hole
    This summer, journalist Jeremy Miller descended two notorious Utah slot canyons with an equally notorious guide.

  CounterCurrents

  • Islamic Identity In Secular India
    By Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer In this complex web of castism, communalism and regionalism it is secularism which gives hope for unity and co-existence. Not only minorities but a large number of majority Hindus also realize this and Islamic identity in secular India faces acute crisis in certain criti ...
  • Israeli Forces Test Transfer Scenario
    By Jonathan Cook Israel secretly staged a training exercise last week to test its ability to quell any civil unrest that might result from a peace deal with the Palestinian Authority requiring the forcible transfer of many Arab citizens, the Israeli media has reported
  • The Brave Chilean Miners
    By Partha Banerjee This episode unfolding in a distant corner of the world forced corporate media to tell the story to us all, as is, even though they did their best to censor some important points. It is now our role to fill people in with the missing information and analysis
  • Top Ten Questions About Chile Mine Collapse
    By Juan Cole The corporate mass media (especially television) did not treat the Chilean mine collapse as a labor story but rather as a feel-good human interest story. It not only avoided asking hard questions about why the near-disaster occurred and why the mine workers could be treated like guine ...
  • Chiles Ghosts Are Not Being Rescued
    By John Pilger The rescue of 33 miners in Chile is an extraordinary drama filled with pathos and heroism. It is also a media windfall for the Chilean government, whose every beneficence is recorded by a forest of cameras. One cannot fail to be impressed. However, like all great media events, it is ...

  Contagious Love Experiment

  • Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!
  • Tenth Year of War, March to Stop Deployment of Tra ...
    Thursday marked the beginning of the 10th year of war in Afghanistan. There is much to protest about U.S. action there–some performed a die-in to highlight the use of drones (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/200657/us-drone-kills-7-militants-in-nw-pakistan)–and a group of veterans of The Global ...
  • WAR IS OVER… If You Claim It?
    In the midst of pleasant nods about “the end of the Iraq War,” Mr. Stephen Colbert celebrates in style… (Click The Word-What if they threw a peace and nobody came) The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – What If You Threw a Peace and Nobody Came? www.colbertnation.com Colbert Repo ...
  • Vigiling in Afghanistan
    More amazing work from Our Journey to Smile
  • 92219 Pieces of my Broken Afghan Heart
    The following letter was sent to me from the young people in Afghanistan who tried to come to the U.S. this summer for our speaking tour. The U.S. embassy flatly denied them, but their voices continue to cry out. The official narrative of the Afghan War is that it has greatly served the people of A ...

  Yid With Lid

  • Joy Behar Leads Walkout During "The View" O'Reilly ...
    Joy Behar comedienne/turned political commentator with her own show on Headline News, so often turns out to be unintentional comic relief. It's a wonder how someone this ignorant is let out of the house without wearing a helmet. And she is on two different TV shows. What, did everyone else in the wo ...
  • BREAKING NEWS: David Axelrod is Revealed to Have B ...
    There is a dangerous trend moving through the top most ranks of the Obama administration, and no I am not talking about Socialism. Just because this progressive administration believes that government should control industry and our personal lives does not mean that our President is a socialist. An ...
  • Iran-Syria Bloc Consolidates Alliance With Turkish ...
    By Barry Rubin Here's one more in a whole series of Iranian and Syrian statements that Turkey--which means the current Islamist-oriented regime in Ankara--is now a strategic ally of these two radical states. Question: Can you be simultaneously an ally of the United States and an ally ...
  • Not Everyone in Lebanon Welcomes Ahmadinejad
    Thousands have cheered the arrival of Iranian President Ahmadinejad in Lebanon on Wednesday. The 2 day visit is expected to boost Hezbollah's position in Lebanon. Yet among the cheering voices there are many protests for this public visit, the first for Ahmadinejad since he became ...
  • Nancy Pelosi's Historical Hypocrisy is Bad For Ame ...
    �Most people don't need lots of convincing when they hear the phrase, Nancy Pelosi is a hypocrite. After all in the last poll conducted by liberal media outlet CBS News , the speaker of the house received an approval rating of 15%. That same poll reported that 35% of all voters will be making an a ...

  The Real Agenda

  • Invasive Cyber Technologies and Internet Privacy
    A blurb on In-Q-Tel's web site informs us that "Recorded Future extracts time and event information from the web. The company offers users new ways to analyze the past, present, and the predicted future." The company "scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the re ...
  • Compuesto en Berros “apaga” proteína q ...
    Mientras un tumor canceroso se desarrolla, crece más rápidamente de lo que su suministro de sangre puede alimentarlo. Así que una proteína llamada Factor Inducible por Hipoxia (HIF) es liberada y envía señales que causan que los tejidos circundantes normales crien nuevos vasos sanguíneos en el tumor ...
  • Watercress Compound Stops Tumor Development
    "This is not a cure for cancer but it may well help to prevent the disease," said Professor Packham. "We carried out this study with a handful of breast cancer survivors but it has the potential to have the same effect with other cancers too."
  • Gobiernos se Preparan para Confiscar Pensiones
    Por Luis R. Miranda Octubre 12, 2010 Mientras las organizaciones financieras supranacionales se afianzan más en el poder, y los países miembros sucumben ante sus directrices, la clase media y media alta en todas las naciones miembros sufren el embate de la más grande redistribución de recursos en la ...
  • Researcher of Colony Collapse Study Funded by Baye ...
    Bromenshenk's company, Bee Alert Technology, which is developing hand-held acoustic scanners that use sound to detect various bee ailments, will profit more from a finding that disease, and not pesticides, is harming bees. Two years ago Bromenshenk acknowledged as much to me when I was reporting on ...

  Wind Watch

  • Frasers looking for relief from wind turbines
    LINGAN — Sitting at their kitchen table Bruce and Janet Fraser stare out the window to see five sleek giants just beyond their backyard, churning in a counter-clockwise direction and changing line with the wind speed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It’s become the couple’s nightmare. “It’s in you ...
  • Proposals for National Forest draw questions
    VERONA — The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday night outlined the six proposals for management of George Washington National Forest that have divided conservationists, industry, localities and the public. The forest service is scheduled to decide on a comprehensive plan of action for the 1-million-acre ...
  • Italy supervisor sees progress in lawsuit
    Italy, N.Y. — Town Supervisor Brad Jones says he’s satisfied with the way things went during a Sept. 27 courtroom session in Rochester before Judge John J. Ark. Ark is presiding over the case filed by Ecogen LLC against the Town of Italy. Ecogen is trying to force the town to permit the construction ...
  • County sets tight standards on large wind
    Goodhue County commissioners agreed to impose rigid new standards on commercial wind developers Tuesday, in a narrow vote aimed at influencing the stateâs upcoming permitting decision on the proposed Goodhue Wind project. The County Board voted 3-2 in favor of an updated county wind ordinance, whi ...
  • For those near, the miserable hum of clean energy
    VINALHAVEN, Me. — Like nearly all of the residents on this island in Penobscot Bay, Art Lindgren and his wife, Cheryl, celebrated the arrival of three giant wind turbines late last year. That was before they were turned on. “In the first 10 minutes, our jaws dropped to the ground,” Mr. Lindgren said ...

  Not My Tribe

  • Real Manly Macho Robust Christian Men…
    According to the Tennessee Fire-non-Fighter who watched his neighbors’ house burn to the ground, with the fire crew standing around to make sure fire didn’t spread to their own properties, called his actions “Robust, Masculine Christianity” a new-old method of trying to justify ones evil deeds by re ...
  • American Nazis get fewer recruits
    Congratulations to Norway for booting the Israeli weapons program from Norwegian deep water testing facilities. Norway declared last week that German-manufactured submarines destined for Israel would not be permitted to use its submarine base on the southern coast, on account of the ongoing Israeli ...
  • If foreign citizens aren’t allowed to vote..
    … and the “U.S.” Chamber of Commerce is opposed to Undocumented Workers unless they can really exploit them heavily, and use their presence to exploit the OTHER American Workers, Why then has the Chamber been accepting and funneling into congressional races HUGE amounts of campaign contributions fro ...
  • The Census and Original Intent of the Founding Ari ...
    Since we have a lot of loudmouth Know-it-all know-nothings running their collective head, in chorus, paid by the richest men in America to cement the notion of an American Aristocracy based on personal wealth, Who tell us every hour of every day that they, and ONLY They, know the original intent of ...
  • Muddy wellies across white canvas
    Norway prides itself on its ubiquitous and egalitarian middle class, making of its opera house a celebration of folkstheatre –and it’s no empty boast– a Norwegian newspaper addresses eight pages to culture versus only one to sport. But the architects behind the glacier-slopped Oslo Opera House have ...

  Debunking the Debunkers

  • Debunking Young Debunka
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog pointed out today that Kevin Barrett's son has a blog called Debunking Dad . As I've pointed out before, I disagree with Barret on many issues , but on this one I'm gonna go with pops. Pat singles out the post " Free-Fall Fallacy ," where Barret's son (AKA Y ...
  • Three Pictures ... Your Argument is Invalid!
    How retarded do you have to be to think this is paint ?
  • Why Do People Ask Retarded Questions?
    Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change blog asks : "How Retarded Do You Have To Be? To think there's no way the iron microspheres could have come from this:" Well Pat, here is a picture for you, and what Steven Jones had to say back in 2007 . It has also been suggested that thermate may ha ...
  • Skeptics Society Tag Lines [Satire]
    Boredom has prompted me to have some fun parodying the skeptics. I think my banner is much better than the one on the Skeptic Magazine website ! I love that quote from Shermer (from the History Channel hitpiece), if he really believes it then it doesn't say much for skepticism! And here's some tag ...
  • How to handle a 9/11 deniar!
    RP4409 YouTube.com September 16, 2010 Help us build the 60x8 9/11 was an inside job banner at http://www.formula4409.com Please make sure Terry Gilberg at [ terrygilberg@clearchannel.com ] gets this video and many others She is just another mouth piece for the establishment No Shelton, those 1 ...

  Fooducate

  • Only Four Nutrients that Really Matter
    Big news in nutrition labeling this week. More precisely, in Front of Pack labeling (FOP). You know, the icons on a package that tell you a product is healthy, scores well, or is a smart choice. The idea is to simplify nutrition information into on simple score or check mark and thus facilitate maki ...
  • Let’s Meet in Boston – Annual Dietitians’ Conferen ...
    Next month, the American Dietetic Association will be holding it’s annual convention in Boston. The Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE) is a gathering of thousands of dietitians from across the country Nov 6-Nov 9. It’s a great opportunity to meet and hear directly from the experts on the ...
  • The Downside of Gluten-Free Food
    Had you been living on a remote tropical island for the past 10 years and just returned home, you’d be surprised by some of the changes on your local supermarket shelves. One of the hottest trends in the last few years is the growth in availability of gluten-free products. Gluten is a protein found ...
  • Rethinking the Multivitamin
    For years, many people opted to take a daily multivitamin as an insurance policy. Physicians and dietitians alike said that if it won’t help, at least it won’t hurt. But two new studies show that this may not be true. The first, a review of 63 randomized, controlled trials (the gold standard resea ...
  • Five Food Industry Tactics to Downplay Contributio ...
    To avoid public criticism and forestall government intervention, the food and beverage industry hopes that self-regulation is sufficient and also seeks to establish public-private partnerships. This reaction is common in industries under threat and can take helpful or harmful forms… This is the th ...

  Traffikd

  • Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
  • 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
  • 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 ...

  Survival International

  • UN warned about oil pipeline in Peru
    Peru's isolated Indians are highly vulnerable to diseases brought in by outsiders. © Anon Survival is warning the United Nations of massive oil operations in the northern Peruvian Amazon that could decimate uncontacted tribal people . ‘By permitting companies to operate in this region Peru’s g ...
  • Survival publishes ‘Top 5 Hall of Shame’ for Colum ...
    Peru's isolated Indians have made it clear they want outsiders to stay out. © Heinz Plenge Pardo / Frankfurt Zoological Society Survival is marking Columbus Day (October 12th/ October 11th in US) by publishing its ‘Top 5 Hall of Shame’ – the key companies violating tribal peoples’ rights worldw ...
  • Aboriginal anger at gas project plans
    The proposed gas project in Western Australia has become highly contentious © Keith Wood/ Wilderness Society Preliminary work has started on a controversial gas project on the Western Australian coast. The state’s premier has aroused fury by announcing that land for the development will be comp ...
  • Mapuche hunger strike ends
    Mapuche protests are often met with a violent police response © Flickr user antitezo, Creative Commons license Many of the 34 Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike in Chile have ended their protest, after reaching an agreement with the Chilean government. Around ten of the prisoners, however, sa ...
  • US Congress’ historic hearing on Papuan human righ ...
    The US Congress held an open hearing last week to hear testimonies from Papuans and academics about human rights violations in West Papua. The hearing, hosted by the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, was titled, ‘Crimes against humanity: When will Indonesia’s military be ...

  Greg Palast

  • Greg Palast Wows Thousands in Wisconsin
    Watch Greg Palast talk at the outdoor 2010 Fighting Bob Festival in Baraboo, Wisconsin.
  • Crisis in EcuadorGreg Palast Interviews President ...
    Ecuador news today Ecuador's president attacked by police. Country's leader trapped in hospital after assault, as government declares a one-week state of emergency. In February 2008 Greg Palast met with Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. They discussed the Lawsuit against Chevron, Eradicating F ...
  • Tonight: Palast on Firedoglake.comLive-Chat on New ...
    Join the conversation tonight. Greg will be discussing Big Easy to Big Empty - The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans. You can ask Greg questions on live-chat tonight at 8pm ET on the Firedoglake.com homepage. If you're not already registered, go to Firedoglake.com and register to get your ...
  • Palast at the 2010 Fighting Bob Fest
    Watch Greg Palast's speech at the Barrymore Theater on September 10, 2010 for the opening of the annual Fighting Bob Fest Festival in Wisconsin. *** Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Palast is a Nation Institute/Puffi ...
  • Bush'd again? New Orleans, Mr. O and Mr. Go
    by Greg Palast for The Huffington Post Five years ago this week, a beast drowned New Orleans. Don't blame Katrina: the lady never, in fact, touched the city. The hurricane swept east of it. You want to know the name of the S.O.B. who attacked New Orleans? Locals call him "Mr. Go" - the Mississippi ...

  Telegraph UK - oil

  • Vladimir Putin calls for calm in battle for Arctic ...
    Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, called for calm in the battle for the Arctic's vast untapped energy resources, accusing unnamed forces of trying to stir up trouble.
  • Deepwater lessons
    Telegraph View: It is crucial that we learn from the oil-spill catastrophe.
  • Greenpeace claims to have shut down Greenland oil ...
    Greenpeace claims its activists have shut down a ''dangerous'' oil drilling operation by a British energy company in the Arctic.
  • BP handout 'saved the summer' in Florida
    Visitor numbers in Florida have risen despite the BP oil spill, thanks to a £20m promotion, reports Richard Luscombe.
  • Microbe eating spilled oil in Gulf of Mexico
    A newly discovered species of microbe is breaking down oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico much faster than scientists thought possible.

  Ian Welsh

  • Washington State May Cut Medicaid Drug Benefits
    I notice that of the solutions suggested, raising taxes on the rich isn’t one of them. Truly, such a thing is unthinkable: far more unthinkable than poor people dying because they don’t have medication. Interesting set of priorities. I also strongly suspect that the savings will be less than the gov ...
  • Apparently Axelrod and the Administration Want a D ...
    Seriously, when the Administration says they oppose a countrywide freeze on foreclosures only weeks before the election, it’s hard to interpret their statements any other way. I’m guessing the calculation is that Obama’s squeeze of entitlement spending for the middle class is more likely to pass if ...
  • Apparently Axelrod and the Administration Want a D ...
    Seriously, when the Administration says they oppose a countrywide freeze on foreclosures only weeks before the election, it’s hard to interpret their statements any other way. I’m guessing the calculation is that Obama’s squeeze of entitlement spending for the middle class is more likely to pass if ...
  • How the Foreclosure mess would play out in an actu ...
    Here’s how this plays out in an actual free market society which follows the law (ie., not this one.) You go through and figure out if you can prove title to the property. If you can’t, those who were insured go to the title insurance companies.  A huge legal battle ensures, with the title insuranc ...
  • How the Foreclosure mess would play out in an actu ...
    Here’s how this plays out in an actual free market society which follows the law (ie., not this one.) You go through and figure out if you can prove title to the property. If you can’t, those who were insured go to the title insurance companies.  A huge legal battle ensures, with the title insuranc ...

  Age of Autism

  • The Real Lessons from Medicine’s Long History of H ...
    By Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill Yesterday, the heads of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) joined the chorus of senior administration officials apologizing for human medical experiments on Guatemalan men...
  • New York Needs Effective Autism Insurance Coverage ...
    (New Yorkers (only please) are invited to contact Gov. Paterson at the end of this post) "Any" autism insurance coverage is not necessarily good coverage. A while a win for Autism Speaks seems like it would be good for our...
  • Should Vaccines Be Exempt from Product Liability? ...
    The vaccine landscape is quite different in 2010 from 25+ years ago, when the vaccine court was created. Vaccines are now a major growth opportunity area for pharmaceutical companies. Like our food, energy, healthcare, who comes first, the consumer and...
  • British Teens Torture Boy with Asperger's: Judge S ...
    Read and comment at The Daily Mail HERE. Evil teenagers who 'tortured' autistic boy, 17, for three days free to roam streets after judge fails to lock them up By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 8:48 PM on 11th...
  • Anyone Can Take a Stab At Scientific Studies... Ex ...
    As long as you're not trying to find real answers for autism, you too can get grant money for studies. Why it's just..... bananas! ;)

  Global BDS Movement

  • Palestinian Civil Society Urges COOP to Boycott Ag ...
    COOP ITALIA Via del Lavoro 6/8 40033 Casalecchio di Reno BOITALIA 7 October 2010 Dear COOP board members, read more
  • Open letter to UK Trades Union Congress General Se ...
    4th October 2010 Brendan Barber General Secretary Trades Union Congress Congress House Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS   Dear Mr Barber,   The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), of which all of Palestinian trade union federations are members, war read m ...
  • TIAA-CREF: Divest from Injustice
    Occupied Palestine, October 4th 2010 - The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), on behalf of its constituent organizations and unions representing the majority of Palestinian civil society, calls upon the US non-profit pension fund TIAA-CREF to li read more
  • Czech public figures call on Václav Havel: “Do not ...
    [ ISM Czech Republic ] - In response to news about Václav Havel’s support for an international campaign to fight so-called ’delegitimisation’ of Israel and to fight against the worldwide boycott movement against Israelinitiated by the former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, ISM Czech Republ ...
  • Open letter to OECD regarding decision to host tou ...
      18 September 2010   read more

  Farm Wars

  • Just Say No to GMO!
    Music Video
  • Mr. Ed McWhinney Burgers
    Mr. Ed McWhinney Burgers - yum!!!
  • Food as a Weapon with Professor Poochenstein
    Food as a Weapon Power Point Presentation with Professor Poochenstein.
  • The Truth Squad Radio Show with Special Guest Mich ...
    This Sunday we will be talking about chemtrails with our special guest Michael J. Murphy, co-producer of the film "What in the World are they Spraying?"
  • Seed Savers Exchange and the Svalbard Doomsday Vau ...
    Seed Savers' members' heirloom seed collection is being pirated into the Svalbard seedbank, under the UN FAO treaty.

  Open Your Eyes News

  • JPMorgan net income jumps 23%
    Financial Times – JPMorgan Chase said on Wednesday that its third-quarter profits surged by 23 per cent from a year ago as the bank slashed its provision for credit losses. Net income at JPMorgan rose to $4.4bn, or $1.01 a share, from $3.6bn in the same quarter a year ago. That beat analysts expect ...
  • States hit banks with mortgage probe
    Reuters – All 50 states launched a joint investigation of the mortgage industry on Wednesday, a move some experts fear may slow sales of foreclosed homes and threaten the recovery of the fragile housing market. The state attorneys general are looking at allegations some banks did not properly review ...
  • US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,424
    The Associated Press — As of Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010, at least 4,424 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. Read Article
  • Nestle joins the obesity battle – with KitKa ...
    Daily Mail – Nestle has joined a Government campaign to combat obesity â by rewarding families for buying Kit Kats, Smarties and Milky Bars. The food firm is using the official Change4Life logo on a website linked to its own Get Set, Go Free promotion, designed to boost sales of confectionary and ...
  • EPA approves more ethanol in gas
    AP-The Obama administration says gas stations can start selling fuel with more ethanol – a mixture of up to 15 percent – but it’s only recommended for cars and light trucks built since 2007. Motorists with older vehicles will need to watch what they’re pumping or risk damaging their engines with too ...

  L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Meg Whitman wants to "fix" California's global war ...
    For weeks, Meg Whitman, California's Republican gubernatorial candidate, has said that if elected she would suspend the state's 2006 global warming law for a year. But in Tuesday's debate with Democratic candidate Jerry Brown, at Dominican University in San Rafael,...
  • Proposition 23: Opponents surge ahead in fundraisi ...
    California green technology companies and wealthy environmentalists are pouring money into a campaign to defeat Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative that would suspend the state's global warming law. So far, opponents of Prop 23 have raised $16.3 million, nearly...
  • EPA's ethanol decision sparks controversy
    On the face of it, having a federal agency get behind renewable fuel seems like it should elicit cheers from environmentalists, and from pretty much anyone who is leery of our dependence on foreign oil. Not quite. Here's what happened:...
  • BP, Arco, Best Buy to install fast chargers for el ...
    It's no coincidence that the fast charger unveiled Wednesday is called Blink. The 480-volt electric-vehicle charger from the San Francisco firm ECOtality is capable of fully recharging a vehicle in 15 to 28 minutes. "We think this is going to...
  • EPA grants waiver for more ethanol in auto fuel
    The Environmental Protection Agency has approved blending higher concentrations of ethanol into gasoline for newer vehicles, allowing mixtures with as much as 15% of the corn-based fuel at the pump. The current maximum blend is 10%. The EPA announced Wednesday...

  water.org

  • What causes more death than war? (Change.org)
    What causes more death than war? (Asnycnow Radio/Change.org) – This summer, the United Nations voted to make access to clean water a recognized human right. This was welcome news to those fighting the disturbing reality that more people die each year from contaminated water than all forms of violenc ...
  • Filmmakers Gear Up for ‘One Day on Earth’ (Wired)
    DIY Filmmakers Gear Up for âOne Day on Earthâ (Wired) – Anyone who registers at the One Day on Earth site can submit footage, which will be archived for perusal by other members of the projectâs online community. [T]he One Day on Earth project is backed by the United Nations, American Red Cros ...
  • ‘One Day on Earth’ project (NYTimes)
    Numerology Meets Filmmaking in âOne Day on Earthâ Project (New York Times) – What will you be doing on 10-10-10? The organizers of One Day on Earth donât care what the answer is as long as you videotape yourself doing it. The goal: To compile an online archive and subsequent feature film showc ...
  • Write a post for clean water (Mashable)
    Write a Post for Clean Water [Blog Action Day 2010] (Mashable) – On October 15, thousands of bloggers across more than 100 countries will participate in Blog Action Day to debate, brainstorm and raise awareness around clean water. Blog Action Day has set up its very own Twitter account, @blogactiond ...
  • Reducing poverty through water, sanitation (MediaG ...
    Reducing poverty through water and sanitation (MediaGlobal) – Nicole Wickenhauser, senior manager at Water.org, told MediaGlobal, âClose to half of all people in developing countries are suffering at any given time from a health problem caused by water and sanitations deficits. Lack of access to c ...

  Before It's News

  • Why_Let_Corporate_Fictions_Bully_You
  • Sheriffs_Duty_By_Oath_Sworn_To_Uphold_The_Constitu ...
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  • For_Your_Part_In_The_Foreclosure_Fraud,_Woe_Unto_Y ...
  • Announcing_Law_Enforcement_For_9_11_Truth

  Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

  • The Deniers on CBC Radio's 'Ideas'
    The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley break ...

  Margaret's News

  • Israel makes settlement offer; Palestinians say no
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered the Palestinians a trade off on Monday to revive peace talks they quit -- a new freeze on building in settlements if they recognize Israel as a Jewish state. The Palestinians rejected that offer. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • MALAWI: Welfare of Poverty-Stricken Families Depen ...
    For HIV-positive Tereza Chatsilizika, the monthly cash grant of 10 dollars she receives means that she can educate her disabled daughters and put food on the table.Since the 2006 introduction of a social cash transfer scheme by an NGO and government, thou Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to World �|� �N ...
  • Malnourished Children Swell Ranks of World's Hungr ...
    With the number of hungry people growing to more than a billion last year, the world is "nowhere near" reaching the objectives outlined in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) released Monday. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �| ...
  • Two American cities under Sharia law
    Nevada GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle told a crowd of Tea Party rally-goers last week that two cities -- Dearborn, Michigan and Frankford, Texas - are under Sharia law, the sacred law of Islam. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Mich. Asst. Attorney General Andrew Shirvell Targ ...
    BIZARRE case of stalking a gay college student by Michigan Assistant Attorney, Andrew Shirbell. Assistant State Attorney is so homophobic, racist, a cyber stalker and public employee yet not FIRED. Submitted by Margaret Mayer to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

  Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • U.S. Solar Capacity Expected to Exceed One Gigawat ...
    A new report from the Solar Energy Industries Association and GreenTech Media Research estimates that the United States' solar capacity will reach more than one gigawatt this year -- enough to power 200,000 homes. read more
  • Time for Solar to Push Back
    Solar now enjoys a powerhouse set of assets that many industries spend dearly to acquire: explosive growth, wide and deep public support, and a base of authentic citizen advocates – many of whom aren’t in the industry but see it as a ...
  • American Sporting Centers Going Solar
    The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has created tools, guidelines and comprehensive software to help American sports franchises reduce their carbon footprint, specifically the NRDC has been pushing solar power. read more
  • Raymond Schonfeld: Thailand's Developing Solar Ind ...
    Energy independence, that is a country's ability to meet its energy demand by producing its own energy, is seen by many as a vital global development.� Beyond politics, since oil and gas reserves are not located in every country of th ...
  • United Solar Completes One of the Largest Solar Ro ...
    United Solar (UNI-SOLAR), a subsidiary of� Energy Conversion Devices (NYSE: ENER ), has completed one of France's largest rooftop solar installations in Paris. read more

  News Blaze

  • Missouri River Bugle Boys of Lewistown, Montana
    This time of year I love to travel to the Slippery Ann Elk Viewing Area north of Lewistown, Montana. It's about an hours north of town on Hwy. 191. I'd call it a scenic drive...
  • Under Secretary Maria Otero Highlights New Partner ...
    More than half of all primary schools in developing countries do not have adequate water facilities and nearly two-thirds lack adequate sanitation.
  • 120,000 Troops to Counter Growing Terrorism By The ...
    In a unanimously adopted resolution, similar to last year's call when the force numbered barely half its current strength at 67,700, the 15-member body recognized 'the need to further strengthen ISAF to meet all its operational requirements.'
  • Paula to Drown Keys, South Florida
    AccuWeather.com reports Paula will bring torrential downpours, flooding, and travel problems to the Keys and South Florida into Friday, while still affecting Cuba.
  • Deadly Cattle Plague on Brink of Extinction
    Although rinderpest does not directly affect humans, its ability to cause swift, massive losses of cattle and other hoofed animals has wreaked havoc on agriculture for millennia, resulting in famine and economic destruction.

  Historical Notes

  • Fidel Castro
  • Fidel Castro History Archive
    Tab seemed to migrate to others !
  • Castro Speech database

  libcom

  • Brutal repression in the Acropolis as riot police ...
    Riot police beats and tear-gases workers within the Acropolis, one journalist injured. The moment was acutely symbolic for a country that brags as the cradle of democracy and indicative of the Greek government's loss of measure in face o ...
  • The mood in the Royal Mail sorting office - Roy Ma ...
    royal-mail-sorting-006.jpg Vince Cable has spoken: Royal Mail is to be privatised. Postal worker Roy Mayall and his colleagues wonder whether things can get any worse, and describe the demoralisation cau ...
  • General Strike In France
    Yesterday - 12th October - there was a General Strike in France - the third in 5 weeks (the others were Sept. 7th , & Sept. 23rd (see Developing Struggles in France ). Possibly as many as 3,500,000 marched in the streets for the withdrawal of the extension o ...
  • OCT. 7TH MANKATO STUDENT STRIKE
    This Thursday students of Minnesota State University, Mankato walked out of class to protest the $8 million being slashed from their budget. This Thursday students of Minnesota State University, Mankato walked out of class to protest the ...
  • Greek police officer convicted of Alexandros murde ...
    police.jpg The police officer charged with the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, which sparked heavy writing across the country, has been found guilty. Al Jazeera reported that i ...

  Free Range International

  • What A Mess
    I’m not referring to the controversy surrounding the attempted rescue of Linda Norgrove which is currently consuming the news cycle. My experience is that Special Operations folks do not attempt rescue operations unless the odds are stacked in their favor.  I don’t know anything about what happened ...
  • Meet a Couple of Hero’s
    Hero is one of those terms which comes up often in reporting about the military.  Not every service member is a hero nor is every hero we encounter in our lives associated with the military.  I point this out because the label “hero” is at risk of becoming a meaningless cliche as we approach the [ ...
  • Five Hundred Meter War
    Herschel Smith at the Captains Journal has put up a great post which addresses a topic near and dear to my heart; infantry tactics. The post is The Five Hundred Meter War which had the video below from James Foley, a professional journalist writing at Global Post embedded in it.  His full report ca ...
  • A New Way Forward?
    A very tense week for those of us outside the wire has finally passed which means it is time for some good news.  We have been on a restricted movement routine (for the first time in five years) which provided the opportunity to digest a report from The Afghanistan Study Group entitled A New Way For ...
  • Rocky Road
    As the summer started I was optimistic regarding the chances that we would see some indications that we are gaining ground in Afghanistan but that has not happened.  Incident rates are skyrocketing which in and of itself is not a negative thing if it is our side who are instigating the incidents but ...

  The Story Behind the Story

  • INSIDERS REPORT: OBAMA SUFFERING FROM SEVERE DEPR ...
    So you state that President Obama is depressed?  How did you come by this information?  From a direct source still working within the White House on a daily basis.  As I had stated previously, tensions at the White House have reached a critical stage.  The infighting among staff is off the charts.  ...
  • Obama Begins Cashing in On Carbon Credits in KENYA
    The new world currency apparently will be tied to “carbon credits” as the standard of value.   Never mind that global warming (aka CLIMATE-GATE) is a massive hoax and fraud.  Rather than issue worthless fiat paper money, why not issue ‘carbon credits’ on a global scale.  Keep in mind that any an ...
  • America’s Entitlement Elitists
    America is Great —– Because America is Good!! By  A. True Ott, PhD, June 1, 2010 The famous French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled widely through America in the year 1832.  Following his tour of America, he wrote extensively about what he saw and experienced here. ...
  • SENATORS TO BE ADDED TO UNEMPLOYMENT ROLLS
    ALL the senators on this list need to be OUT OF OFFICE by November 15. It will soon be payback time for these senators – forward this list to everyone you know.  Don’t forget.  November 2nd  is “Take out the trash day” !!!!!! The following senators voted against making English the official langua ...
  • IMPORTANT BREAKING NEWS — Horowitz and Kane ...
    In a most cowardly and dastardly fashion, Leonard G. Horowitz and his consort/accomplice Sherri Kane have chosen to target me, A. True Ott, PhD in a clear and actionable case of libel where they accuse me of being “A Satanist” with only the flimsiest of circumstantial hearsay as their “evidence”.  ...

  du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny hou ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plans fo ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being pro ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re in ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human effect ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain temper ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here’s ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing to do ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM says t ...

  Mansbridge One on One - CBC

  • James Cameron (Oct 2, 2010)
    He's one of Hollywood's most powerful figures, and, he's been one of the oil sands most vocal critics. That combination had the oil industry on edge when Avatar director, Canadian James Cameron visited Alberta.
  • Robert Fowler, Held Hostage by al Qaeda in Africa ...
    Kidnapped by al Qaeda. The very thought causes shudders. But it happened to this week's guest: one of Canada's former senior diplomats in Africa on a special mission for the United Nations. The challenge: solving a dispute between the government of Niger and the rebel movement MNJ. This week, the Un ...
  • Steve Nash, Two-time NBA MVP (Sept 19, 2009)
    He's one of the best basketball players on the planet, and he's made millions at it. But there's more to this week's guest than just the game. A lot more. This Canadian now makes his name on the courts, in the movies, and doing some pretty good things around the world. This week, he's our guest.
  • Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada (Sept ...
    We know it was a recession, but do we know if it's really a recovery? And what about that huge deficit? A dollar again approaching parity with its US counterpart? And the unemployment rate -- could it soon be in double digits? Difficult questions for this week's guest, the man who has to consider th ...
  • Dr. Shana Kelley, University of Toronto (October 3 ...
    Research labs around the world are on the constant hunt for new ways of fighting one of the world's great killers - cancer. In one lab in Toronto, exciting promise on a new technique for early detection. The possibilities are endless: for fighting cancer, and other diseases, both here in our world, ...

  Scotts Contracting

  • Senate climate bill death
    On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Anatomy of a Senate climate bill death President Barack Obama took office with four major domestic agenda items: a plan to prevent the recession from growing worse and … Continue reading →
  • Obama Rolls Out Neighborhood Revitalization Initia ...
    On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Obama Administration Rolls Out the Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative Tags: Community PlanningPlacemakingPolicyUrban Economics October 8, 2010 by Next American City 0 Sociologists have long understood the effects of ...
  • Suntech Solar Begins Manufacturing in the USA
    On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: Solar Panel Maker Suntech Begins Manufacturing in the United States 10/13/2010 GOODYEAR, AZ. and SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., the world’s largest producer of … Continue reading →
  • Stop Big Bank Bonuses!
    On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Scott’s Contracting wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Andrew, Care2 Action Alerts wrote: Care2 subscriber since Aug 29, 2010 | Take Action Hi Scotts, Hundreds of billions … Continue reading →
  • 10 Future Green Building Areas
    Futures Trading Itâs hard to predict what products, technology, and systems will be important in the next 10 years, but green experts say the looming energy crisis can give us a pretty good idea. By:Nigel F. Maynard Credit: Brian Stauffer … Continue reading →

  The View From Abroad

  • Statist Policies Cause More Harm Than Good
    A sure fire way to make a situation worse is to involve the government.
  • Republican Proposals Reaffirm the Party’s Commitme ...
    The House Republican's "A Pledge to America" is a pathetic policy proposal.
  • Deregulation Did Not Cause the Financial Crisis, W ...
    Statists criticize "libertarian" deregulation for the financial crisis. It's all a smokescreen to hide the real cause: the welfare state.
  • Deregulation did not Cause the Financial Crisis, W ...
    Statists criticize "libertarian" deregulation for the financial crisis. It's all a smokescreen to hide the real cause: the welfare state.
  • Obama’s Policies Hurt the Working Class
    The unintended consequences of Obama's Cash for Clunkers and credit card reform are hurting the working class.

  Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

  • When It Comes to Terrorism, History Reveals U.S. I ...
    Savagery in the American Civil War was an early version of sectarian violence in Iraq.
  • The White Noise of War
    The hearts and minds of Pakistan have spoken. But they can't be heard above the white noise of war.
  • How Green Grows My War Economy
    Not for the first time, the Defense Department announced a green initiative.
  • Backed-up NATO Vehicles Stood in Mute Testimony to ...
    6,500 halted vehicles an indication of the power of veto Pakistan has over the war in Afghanistan.
  • Mock Drone Attack
    IPS'ers take to the streets to show the public what a drone attack looks like from the point of civilians.

  Law.com

  • Judge: Pa. University Administrators Must Answer C ...
    A federal judge has ruled that a trio of high-ranking administrators at Pennsylvania's East Stroudsburg University must answer to claims that they conspired to cover up allegations by six male students that they were sexually harassed by a male administrator. The suit alleges that Isaac Sanders used ...
  • Settlement Close in Native American Farmers' Discr ...
    The Justice Department is nearing a comprehensive class settlement with Native American farmers who filed a discrimination suit against the federal government in 1999. Lawyers for the plaintiffs and DOJ attorneys met for a status conference this week in Washington federal district court. A lead plai ...
  • Freddie Mac Halts Referrals to Foreclosure Firm Af ...
    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants, have temporarily stopped using a large South Florida foreclosure law firm that is among several firms being investigated by the Florida attorney general. The Law Offices of David J. Stern in Plantation, Fla., and three other firms have been accused of ...
  • The Careerist: Bond Like the Big Boys
    Check out some of the latest posts on the lawjobs.com blog, The Careerist. Bond Like the Big Boys Also Unsexy Jobs, Part 2: How about court reporter or bedbug expert? And Ladies Get Lucky in Washington
  • In-House Counsel Expect More Regulatory Litigation ...
    In-house counsel are bracing for a jump in litigation stemming from stricter government regulations, according to a survey of law departments released Wednesday. Fulbright & Jaworski polled 275 in-house counsel in the United States, and found banking, health care and energy companies are especially ...

  Iranian.com

  • شنبه زاده و اجرای رقص و موسیقی بوشهر در غرب آمریکا
    سعید شنبه زاده و گروه او، پسرش نقیب و حبیب مفتاح بوشهری، نوعی از رقص و موسیقی ایرانی را برای شنوندگان غربی به ارمغان آورده اند که تا امروز در مرکز توجه قرار نداشته است. read more
  • Interview: Mehdi Karroubi on Iran’s Green Movement
    When I started visiting Iran, in 2004, Mehdi Karroubi was widely viewed as the most conservative figure among the reformists. He was a white-turbaned, populist clergyman from the agricultural province of Lorestan, and, though he was concerned about protecting Iranians’ political rights and freedoms, ...
  • The Ups and Downs of the Symphonic Orchestra of Te ...
    A Talk about The Ups and Downs of the Symphonic Orchestra of Tehran, The Latest David Fincher Film "The Social Network" and other Cultural News and Updates
  • THE IRAN REPORT
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  • غزل خوانی سخنگوی وزارت خارجه بریتانیا به مناسبت بز ...
    بری مارستن، سخنگوی فارسی وزارت امور خارجه بریتانیا، این هفته در کلاس زبان فارسی خود غزلی از اشعار حافظ آموخته است و در این ویدئوبلاگ به مناسبت روز بزرگداشت حافظ این غزل را می خواند.

  Most Revolutionary Act

  • Chinese Investment in Africa
    I have just read a fascinating article, “Africa’s Eastern Promise” in Foreign Affairs , published by the Council on Foreign Relations ( http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65916/deborah-brautigam/africa%E2%80%99s-eastern-promise ). I hear people groaning already, as most activists view the CFR – ...
  • Bankrupt the CIA: Boycott Heroin
    The above title is an example of a novel international counterculture offensive called “culture jamming” or “meme warfare,” popularized by the Vancouver-based Adbusters Magazine and Adbusters Media Foundation ( https://www.adbusters.org/ ). A “meme,” as defined in Adbusters founder Kalle Lasn’s 2000 ...
  • Addressing Overpopulation: Too Important to Leave ...
    I have blogged before about chronic disease (and the need to produce extra farm labor) being the primary population pressure in the third world. Demographers seeking to understand first world population pressures simply look at the US with its 2.1 fertility rate – compared to a 1.1 – 1.4 rate in the ...
  • Dropping Fertility Rates: A Capitalist’s Wo ...
    The most famous “involuntary” solution to population explosion is China’s infamous “one-child” policy, accompanied by mandatory abortion for women who conceive a second child. The main problem I see with such a policy in western democracies is achieving majority support for it. Without majority su ...
  • Population and Resource Wars: Lessons from the Old ...
    In the 18 th century political, economist Thomas Malthus made the observation that human beings have always outstripped their food supply. He also observed that when populations reach the limit of their ability to provide for themselves some external force – usually famine, epidemics, or war – inter ...

  Free Movement

  • Winding down
    I have taken the surprisingly easy decision to wind down Free Movement. For reasons that continue to escape me and which have never been explained by John O, formerly of NCADC, he left that organisation in April 2010 and set up a website called, imaginatively enough, Free Movement. It can be found a ...
  • New Immigration Rules laid
    New Immigration Rules have just been laid in Statement of Changes CM 7944. The main change is that the English language requirement for spouses and partners has been introduced, as expected. It takes effect for new applications made on or after 29 November 2010. Those with applications in before tha ...
  • Zimbabwe removals still suspended
    As recently as 14 September 2010 the Government’s position was that it is not enforcing returns to Zimbabwe. In a debate in the Commons on that day the following question and answer were given: Keith Vaz (Leicester East) (Lab): Given the critical situation in Zimbabwe, does it remain the Government’ ...
  • Entry clearance deception refusals
    Practitioners have seen a considerable increase in the number of applications for entry clearance that have been refused on the general grounds for refusal. The reasons are often opaque at best. Some simply refer to the contents of a Document Verification Report (DVR) and do not disclose this report ...
  • New Zimbabwe fact finding report
    UKBA has published a new fact finding report on the situation in Zimbabwe. It is, probably not by co-incidence, just in time for the new test case on Zimbabwe, due to begin on 20 October 2010 and in which the Immigration Advosory Service are again acting. Presumably, UKBA will be seeking to argue th ...

  Michael Moore - Must Read

  • The “I” Word ...by Cindy Sheehan
    Once, when my children were young, one of them rushed into me and said: “Mama, so-and-so, said the ‘K’ word.” I don’t remember which one of my children was the tattler, or which one was the tattlee, but I remember the “k” word. I could never figure out what the “k” word was, because neither of the ...
  • Impeachment Marcher Reaches Washington – “Hello Ma ...
    John Nirenberg, who has spent the last forty days and nights walking south on Route 1 from Boston to Washington D.C., has reached the outskirts of his goal, Nancy Pelosi’s office. And rather than the last stumbling steps of exhaustion, or steps glad to be finishing up and moving on, the final ...
  • Cheney Impeachment
    Bangor Daily News Over the past 18 months, a core group of Democrats and others from the left has steadfastly maintained that President Bush and Vice President Cheney should be impeached. Mainstream Democrats in Congress are sympathetic to their arguments, but most have bowed to the political r ...
  • 'And the Oscar Goes To...' ...by Cindy She ...
    ...Hillary Clinton! For phoniest display of belated emotion in a Presidential campaign! Hillary’s recent emotion at the tanking of her multi-million dollar; mass pandering campaign reminded me of a scene in Mike Myers’ Wayne’s World where he, as Wayne, throws water on his face and emotes abou ...
  • Why I Believe Bush Must Go
    Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse. By George McGovern / Washington Post As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president. A ...

  Salon

  • British Anti-Islam group seeks U.S. Tea Party ties
    Tentative links are developing between supporters of the Tea Party movement in the United States and right-wing fringe groups in Britain that are opposed to what they call the "Islamification" of Europe.
  • Anti-Defamation League beclowns itself, again
    Last time we checked in on the Anti-Defamation League, the group was arguing against the Islamic community center near ground zero and trying to stop Muslims from learning about the Holocaust.
  • Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg fail with Bill O'Rei ...
    After watching the story explode on Twitter and Facebook, I was really looking forward to seeing Bill O'Reilly get owned by Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg on "The View" Thursday morning. I despise O'Reilly and his hour of bullying, "The O'Reilly Factor," while "The View" is my favorite talkfest on ...
  • Tyson plans to be a boxing ambassador in China
    Just call him Ambassador Iron Mike.
  • Media got Cheney face-shooting story wrong
    The Washington�Post's Paul Farhi today has an excellent profile of Harry Whittington, the elderly Texas lawyer who was shot by Dick Cheney in a quail hunting accident back in 2006.

  SMB News

  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the disq ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, believed ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage to t ...
  • Nato’s 27 fuel tankers torched in Shikarpur
    For SMB News Nato’s 27 fuel tankers torched in Shikarpur SHIKARPUR: More than 27 oil tankers, meant for Nato’s fuel supply and three other vehicles, have been torched after some unidentified attackers fired rockets, which resulted in eruption of raging ablaze, meanwhile two men suffered injuries in ...
  • Obama to demand India for Kashmir issue resolution
    For SMB News Obama to demand India for Kashmir issue resolutionWASHINGTON: Go for a Kashmir solution and help bring stability to the region for a ticket to UN Security Council membership and fulfilling your big power aspirations. That’s the broad message President Barack Obama will be bringing to Ne ...

  Toronto Star - Editorials

  • UAE dispute: Holdup at Camp Mirage
    Did Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government botch talks with the United Arab Emirates over landing rights at Canadian airports? Just maybe. But the UAE hasn’t helped by evicting Canadian troops next month from the Camp Mirage airbase near Dubai, ...
  • Eco fee reversal: Recycling costs won’t go away
    When the province announced Tuesday that it was scaling back a new recycling program and getting rid of the unpopular “eco fees” for good, consumers cheered and opposition parties crowed over the end of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s “eco tax grab.” ...
  • Chilean mine rescue: Human spirit triumphs
    In a triumph of human spirit, and modern ingenuity, a group of Chilean miners buried alive for more than two months began emerging — one by one — to a jubilant reception on Wednesday. Millions around the world watched with anticipation akin to that ...
  • Canada’s UN bid: Blames lies with Harper
    Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been undermining Canada’s bid for a United Nations Security Council seat since he was first elected back in 2006. Our embarrassing loss to Portugal merely confirms that our image as a progressive, even-handed, nati ...
  • Flaherty’s update: Belief versus reality?
    Jim Flaherty’s annual fall update – delivered Tuesday not in Parliament but at a business lunch in Mississauga -- was full of self-congratulatory rhetoric about Canada’s economic performance.

  Energy Collective

  • EDF’s Peter Goldmark: “My generation has failed.” ...
    Guest blogger Dominique Browning’s interview with Peter Goldmark is reposted from her EDF blog.� I served as Goldmark’s special assistant when he was President of the Rockefeller Foundation two decades ago.� He is one of the best thinkers and speakers on climate I know.
  • Doc alert: Addressing the Major Skeptic Arguments
    New DBCCA whitepaper addressing the climate change skeptics: The purpose of this paper is to examine the many claims and counter-claims being made in the public debate about climate change science.
  • The Next Bipartisan Energy Agenda
    Published by National Journal Energy & Environment Expert Blog By Teryn Norris October 14, 2010
  • Natural gas, helium, offshore wind power, and cap- ...
    A handful of stories of interest:
  • Sources of nuclear cost saving from small and adva ...
    There are eight primary sources of nuclear costs:The cost of the land upon which the nuclear power plant (NPP) is built. Costs related to designing the NPP Cost related to the materials from which the NPP is built.Labor costs related to manufacture and construction.The cost of obtaining regulator ...

  EU Times

  • U.S. wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq
    A $40 million prison sits in the desert north of Baghdad, empty. A $165 million children’s hospital goes unused in the south. A $100 million waste water treatment system in Fallujah has cost three times more than projected, yet sewage still runs through the streets As the U.S. draws down in Iraq, it ...
  • Hate Crimes in US: More Attacks on Caucasians Than ...
    You certainly won’t see this make any headlines in the state-run media. According to the FBI there are more hate crimes against Caucasians than against Muslims in the United States. McClatchy reported: Hate crimes directed against Muslims remain relatively rare, notwithstanding the notoriety gained ...
  • Prince of Wales calls for population control in de ...
    The Prince of Wales has called for greater population control in the developing world and hailed the success of “family planning services” in some countries. He said more needs to be done because of the “monumental” problems that face the environment as population numbers “rocket” and traditional so ...
  • Former President Madagascar sentenced to Lifetime ...
    Former President of Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana who lives in exile, Saturday (28/08/2010), was sentenced to hard labor for life for their part in the incident known as the murder of February 7, 2009. “Ravalomanana has sentence without his presence to forced labor for life for murder and additional ...
  • Brewer condemns report to UN mentioning Ariz. law
    Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer demanded Friday that a reference to the state’s controversial immigration law be removed from a State Department report to the United Nations’ human rights commissioner. The U.S. included its legal challenge to the law on a list of ways the federal government is protecting hu ...

  Stonecipher News

  • Washington State Fathers Network Annual Conference
    The Fathers Network is a group of men who have children that have a disability. According to Roseberg & Wilcox (2006), “The Washington State Fathers Network (WSFN) has served over 1,000 families in the past 20 years. Founded on the belief that men are crucial in the lives of children, WSFN is a pow ...
  • Your Child Has A Learning Disability. So What's Ne ...
    From my Factoidz page : Learning Disabilities was included in the 1975 authorization of the federal law Individual with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) after an organization of parents formed the first Association of Children with Learning Disabilities (Heward, 2009). In the text, Exceptional Chil ...
  • Dumbing Down Society Pt 2: Mercury in Foods and Va ...
    According to Vigilant , "Even though mercury is known to degenerate brain neurons and disrupt the central nervous system, it is still found in processed foods and mandatory vaccines. In this second part of the series examining the intentional dumbing-down of society, this article will discuss the pr ...
  • Waking up Teens
    According to Science Daily, "Teenagers' morning drowsiness is often caused by out-of-tune body clocks, in a condition known as "delayed sleep phase syndrome." Scientists now say that timing exposure to blue light -- avoiding it during the first two hours of being wake, then getting a good dose of it ...
  • The Special Education Profession
    From my Factoidz page : Persons who desire to become special educators do so for numerous reasons. Whether making a decision to become a special educator as the initial step into the educational system, or move to special education from the ranks of general education, the teacher that chooses this f ...

  Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • A new kind of aloha for UCLA basketball in 2011
    UCLA is among 12 teams to score an invite for the expanded 2011 Maui Invitational, the Thanksgiving week tournament college basketball fans and players dream of experiencing. Four of the participants might end up feeling like turkeys. That's because they won't actually be... Tags: maui thanksgiving ...
  • Color Confusion: Where and How to Find Perfect Wed ...
    Pastels feel homey and comfortable, vibrant shades tend to be royal, and black is definitely in style this year. If you ask wedding planners, photographers and even your relatives, each person will have his or her own opinion on what color is great for weddings. Some base it on luck,... Tags: pastel ...
  • Youngstown State At Western Illinois: Game Previe ...
           Youngstown State University (3-3, 1-2 MVFC) takes to the road in hopes of breaking a two-game losing streak.  The Penguins have lost back-to-back nailbiters to Missouri State and North Dakota State.  They are also winless on the road (0-2) in their 2010 campaign.  The... Tags: penguins macomb ...
  • Halloween Costume Shopping in Downtown L.A.
    Photo by Susana Benavidez. Halloween is right around the corner. Stressing about whether that online order will fit? Don’t want to deal with the hassle of returns if the costume doesn’t look the way the picture did? Then shop in your own Downtown backyard. On my quest for... Tags: halloween costumes ...
  • How to Write Your Wedding Thank You Notes – ...
    Gift giving is customary to honor and celebrate the commitment of a marriage. And who doesn’t love to receive gifts, especially wedding gifts? Here is an opportunity for the bride and groom to exchange a simple thank you note with a usually more than generous wedding gift. All the... Tags: thank you ...

  Groklaw

  • IBM, Oracle and Java: The QandA
    It's the inevitability to this week's events that surprises. With the benefit of hindsight, the enterprise dominance of Sun's creation can better be perceived as unnatural. Java was, after all, the product of a single commercial entity. Unlike projects such as Linux which are the product of collabor ...
  • Did the Java Community Just Become Sharecroppers?
    IBM, Oracle and Java : The Q&A - Excellent summary of the situation from O'Grady (as usual). The only thing lacking is speculation about the new power distribution in the community. With Oracle winning the bet that might would defeat right, there seems space for some analysis of whether the Java com ...
  • Moody on Oracle OpenOffice Announcement
    Surreal: Oracle says says its "growing team... will continue developing... OpenOffice.org as open source". Hm. - Glyn Moody, identi.ca
  • JCP - Pragmatism or Bust
    Given these three options, Eclipse has chosen the pragmatic option, and plans to vote for Java SE 7 to move on. I fully expect all other JCP EC voters that vote Yes to follow similar logic. As Sacha Labourey said - pragmatic, pragmatic, pragmatic. I'd like to offer up a fourth option however. Wer ...
  • Global CIO: In Oracle Trial, HP Might Pay Higher P ...
    Three things are certain regarding the Oracle-SAP trial slated to begin in the Bay Area in less than three weeks: SAP will have to pay Oracle a pile of money-and possibly a huge pile; Hewlett-Packard's ongoing quest for normalcy will be postponed by its new CEO being a key witness; and Oracle's witn ...

  WideShut

  • EU Superstate: WideShut Webcast On Resistance Radi ...
    On this week's show Keelan Balderson exposes the EU Superstate and the faux sovereignty legislation being proposed by Bilderberg William Hague.
  • 7/7 Inquest: Causing More Questions Than Answers
    7/7 inquest raises more questions about alleged DNA evidence than it answers, and ignores important anomalies that shed doubt on official story.
  • Should I Drink This?
    An investigation in to the use of Fluoride in our drinking water.
  • Introducing Resistance Radio
    Resistance Radio Network launched with MistrBrit, Keelan Balderson, 9/11 researcher Tod Fletcher and more.
  • Hague’s British Sovereignty Legislation Is S ...
    Why William Hague's new British Sovereignty Legislation does nothing to halt the EU superstate, and how the media are framing the debate.

  Waterkeeper Alliance

  • Siphoning at Savannah River raises unanswerable qu ...
    Siphoning at Savannah River raises unanswerable questions
  • Organization to focus on cleaner water�
    Organization to focus on cleaner water�
  • Biosolids plan gets blessing of state
    Biosolids plan gets blessing of state
  • Ga senators file legislation aimed at fixing water ...
    Ga senators file legislation aimed at fixing water woes
  • Canadian Nuclear Association clings to inaccurate, ...
    Canadian Nuclear Association clings to inaccurate, unsupported claims

  Politics in the Zeros

  • Challenges that third parties face: the non-electo ...
    (My latest from CAIVN, reprinted in its entirety) Some third parties prefer to work outside the electoral system, focusing on organizing, direct action, and working towards fundamental changes in society. They would perhaps agree with Emma Goldman’s famous / notorious statement, “If voting changed a ...
  • Banksters hired burger-flippers to robo-sign mortg ...
    At JPMorgan Chase & Company, they were derided as “Burger King kids” â walk-in hires who were so inexperienced they barely knew what a mortgage was. At Citigroup and GMAC, dotting the iâs and crossing the tâs on home foreclosures was outsourced to frazzled workers who sometimes tossed the pape ...
  • Support “Behind the News” on WBAI — really!
    Doug Henwood of Left Business Observer and WBAI’s excellent Behind the News needs your help today. It’s pledge time and his show could get bumped by the lunatics at the asylum. But not if there are lots of pledges. Pledge today on his show. Full details on his blog
  • Old email scam going around again
    I got an email from a friend yesterday saying she was in Europe, had been mugged, had no money and the hotel wouldn’t let her go until she paid. It seemed an obvious scan, so I called her and left a message saying to change your email account password. What I didn’t think to do [...]
  • Aloha from the Big Island
    Like they’d have to tell me to evacuate if a tsunami was coming?

  TVNZ - Top Stories

  • Families of two missing helicopter men hopeful
    The families of two men whose helicopter went missing in Southland yesterday remain hopeful they are alive
  • Student who supplied James Webster with alcohol na ...
    The Auckland King's College student who supplied James Webster with two bottles of spirits the night he died after binge drinking, can now be named
  • Two injured as bus brakes fail in Auckland
    Two people have been taken to hospital after the brakes failed on an Auckland bus causing it to crash into a number of cars
  • Four fishermen rescue from the sea off Greymouth
    There has been a dramatic rescue off the West Coast of the South Island after fire engulfed a fishing boat with four people on board
  • Brownlee expected to give quake victims update on ...
    There should be developments today for Canterbury residents affected by September's 7.1 magnitude earthquake

  Just World News

  • Jones's departure-- linked to dog-wagging?
    I am still trying to get my head around why-- less than a month before a crucial mid-term election, Obama's national security adviser Gen. Jim Jones felt he should leave. Of course, it is not clear at all whether he took the initiative to leave the White House, or was pushed. But the timing looks ...
  • Chas Freeman book: Buy it on Amazon!
    We've done it! The paperback version of Amb. Chas Freeman's book, America's Misadventures in the Middle East , is now available for purchase through Amazon . The paperback, hardcover, and e-book versions of the book will all be available through other sales channels in the near future. But for now ...
  • When is an act of war not an act of war?
    The inimitable Matt Duss has a great post on Wonk Room today in which he notes that recent polling data from CBS News and Vanity Fair "indicates pretty strongly that Americans are not in favor of a U.S. war with Iran ." He adds, however, that supporters of a U.S. war on Iran realize that a "war", a ...
  • 23% of Israelis ready to leave Israel at any hint ...
    In the latest issue of the always informative journal Middle East Policy , University of Pennsylvania prof Ian Lustick expresses the notable observation that, Last year, a poll by David Menashri of the Iran center at Tel Aviv University reported ... that 70 percent of Israeli Jews said they would n ...
  • That all-American urge to punish
    On Thursday afternoon I took the long drive down to the far southeastern corner of Virginia and took part in solemn observances to mark-- and protest-- our state's killing of one of its citizens, Teresa Lewis. It was a big and moving event. I was there not only as an individual but also in my capac ...

  First Truths

  • Mortgage Liens On Our Lives
    The state, though it assures us of the goodwill behind its housing policies, has succeeded in a master stroke of subterfuge that further condenses wealth in the troves of the elite. The mortgage fiasco once again demonstrates that the state will mobilize when the interests of its club members are im ...
  • Terrorism By Any Other Name
    In federal court on Tuesday, Faisal Shahzad, whose attempt to bomb Times Square with homemade explosives was thwarted back in May, was handed a life sentence. In a statement made during a hearing, Shahzad, an American radicalized by the United States’ sanguinary, terroristic crusade against the Mu ...
  • Sounding Off
    In a society that fully and consistently honors individual sovereignty, observing the nonaggression principle, an independent right to free speech is unnecessary and redundant. By making the coercive land monopolization of government impossible, libertarian anarchism preempts free speech as an issue ...
  • The Pretended Populism of Politics
    In contemporary politics, populism implies, and is drawn on to justify, the boundless proliferation of statism. And, though the irony is seldom acknowledged, there is something thoroughly perverse about the idea that an organization of exclusivity, every action of which plants more deeply the roots ...
  • Experts in the Ministry of Crime
    A few days ago, I was reminded of a New York Times column, The Establishment Lives! , in which David Brooks, trumpeting the efficacy of the omnipresent, total state, wrote: If you wanted to devise a name for this approach, you might pick the phrase economist Arnold Kling has used: Progressive Cor ...

  Media Co-Op

  • Alex Hundert Declines Bail, Refuses Conditions aga ...
    "Despite incarceration, my commitment to these struggles is only strengthened, as are our movements." Almost a month after having been thrown back in jail for giving a talk at Ryerson University, Alex Hundert declined bail yesterday because of ...
  • Indigenous Wikárika People demand Vancouver based ...
    http://yuratanews.blogspot.com/2010/10/in-defense-of-wirikuta-declaratio... In Defense of the Wirikuta Version en Español DECLARATION IN DEFENSE OF THE WIRIKUTA. Issued by the Wikárika People from the three states of Jalisco, Nayarit and Durango represented by the Waut+a community -- San Sebastián T ...
  • Proposed Alsaka mine raises ire of fishers
    In Southwest Alaska, a debate between mining and fishers is heating up.� At the center of this conflict is the promise of jobs in the midst of a down economy, and potential threats to the environment in the wake of the Gulf oil spill. The debate could have major implications for jobs throughout West ...
  • The political bombings of the George Jackson Briga ...
    Not your hipster’s Seattle The George Jackson Brigade was an underground revolutionary collective active in the Seattle area. They set off 15 bombings in solidarity with the prison and labor movement in the mid-seventies. Most of their bombing ...
  • 10 Indigenous Struggles Canadian Climate and Envir ...
    Statement from Climate Justice Montreal for October 12 Day of Action for Climate Justice 10 INDIGENOUS STRUGGLES    Canadian climate and environmental activists should support A RECLAIM COLUMBUS DAY STATEMENT by CLIMATE JUSTICE MONTREAL ...

  David Seaton's News Links

  • Observations of and on the rich
    "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand." F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
  • "Chicken Little of the Week (Year?)" Award
    BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling operation may have triggered an irreversible, cascading geological Apocalypse that will culminate with the first mass extinction of life on Earth in many millions of years. The oil giant drilled down miles into a geologically unstable region and may have set the stage ...
  • Er, uh... it seems the world is coming to an end.. ...
    Chart from ClusterStock We are witnessing (how) a peak in a parabolic finance/asset/stock bubble of world proportions, is going to pan out. I think the entire credit crisis can be looked at from that perspective. We are merely witnessing the relentless unwinding of the biggest financial bubble in hi ...
  • Reading Don Quixote, while Iceland takes a leak
    � Gustavo Doré's Don Quixote David Seaton's News Links This summer I am rereading the world's first, and still probably the world's best novel, " Don Quixote ", by Miguel de Cervantes. The first time I read it, my Spanish was nothing like it is today, nor is the life experience that I bring to the b ...
  • America: if it's broken, fix it
    Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) - Vedute di Roma Every time I come back to the United States, the airports, the roads, the public spaces look to me more tattered, battered, old-fashioned. Modernity is no longer self-evidently here. Timothy Garton-Ash, The Guardian At a time when China is bui ...

  EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • EWG Asks FDA Advisors to Back Sunscreen Regulation ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs – 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, -- Environmental Working Group (EWG) asked a prestigious expert advisory panel to urge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue long-awaited regulations for... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...
  • 50 Groups Challenge Government Grant to Pro-Pestic ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 OAKLAND, Calif. – More than 50 organizations concerned about the risks of pesticides to human health and the environment have joined forces to fight California officials’ award of a $180,000... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Few Sunscreens Shield From UVA Rays
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. â With fall here, millions of Americans are outside at football and soccer games, cross-country meets, school fairs, picking apples and raking leaves. As temperatures lower and bathing suits go in ...
  • Three Top Scientists Honored with Prestigious Hein ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. -- Among this year’s recipients of the prestigious Heinz Family Philanthropies Global Change Awards are three preeminent scientists working to advance our understanding of the impacts that chemical exposures hav ...
  • Pesticide Industry to Use Tax Dollars to Attack Cr ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs â 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The California Department of Food and Agriculture has awarded $180,000 in federal funds to finance an agribusiness-chemical industry plan to combat its critics – Environmental Working Group and other hea ...

  Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • World’s Scariest Bridges
    Per Travel & Leisure: This bridge is practically brand new, but it's amazing it hasn't been shut down. During a violent storm in May 2010, the roadway began to shake and oscillate, in a similar manner to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge before it collapsed in 1940. The rippling roadway caused cars to be t ...
  • Is Diet the Key to Living Long? Find out from Wor ...
    Walter Breuning turned 114 years old on September 21. According to Wikipedia , Mr. Breuning is the fourth-oldest living person in the world and the world's oldest living male. Born in 1896, Walter has lived in three separate centuries. View the video to see how sharp this gentleman still is at 11 ...
  • Got Thyroid Problems? Then Stop Consuming This "He ...
    In this video, I discuss a very important topic that is fraught with confusion and controversy, namely whether or not soy is a health food.
  • Cute Little Girl with the Catchiest Dance You Ever ...
    This�tiny tyke has more backup dancers than a Broadway musical!
  • Twins Die Minutes after Measles Vaccination
    Nine-month-old twins in Ghaziabad, India reportedly died within minutes of receiving a measles vaccine. Avika and Anika Sharma were given the vaccinations at a private nursing home by Dr. Satyaveer Singh. Within about 15 minutes, both little girls were dead. Dr. Singh disappeared shortly after the ...

  JAMA

  • A 29-Year-Old Woman With Flulike Symptoms [Clinica ...
    (No abstract is available for this citation)
  • Racial Differences in Rates of Severe Sepsis [Lett ...
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  • Racial Differences in Rates of Severe Sepsis--Repl ...
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  • Ambulatory Surgical Centers and Infection Control ...
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  • Ambulatory Surgical Centers and Infection Control- ...
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  Survival - tribal peoples

  • UN warned about oil pipeline in Peru
    Peru's isolated Indians are highly vulnerable to diseases brought in by outsiders. © Anon Survival is warning the United Nations of massive oil operations in the northern Peruvian Amazon that could decimate uncontacted tribal people . ‘By permitting companies to operate in this region Peru’s g ...
  • Survival publishes ‘Top 5 Hall of Shame’ for Colum ...
    Peru's isolated Indians have made it clear they want outsiders to stay out. © Heinz Plenge Pardo / Frankfurt Zoological Society Survival is marking Columbus Day (October 12th/ October 11th in US) by publishing its ‘Top 5 Hall of Shame’ – the key companies violating tribal peoples’ rights worldw ...
  • Aboriginal anger at gas project plans
    The proposed gas project in Western Australia has become highly contentious © Keith Wood/ Wilderness Society Preliminary work has started on a controversial gas project on the Western Australian coast. The state’s premier has aroused fury by announcing that land for the development will be comp ...
  • Mapuche hunger strike ends
    Mapuche protests are often met with a violent police response © Flickr user antitezo, Creative Commons license Many of the 34 Mapuche prisoners on hunger strike in Chile have ended their protest, after reaching an agreement with the Chilean government. Around ten of the prisoners, however, sa ...
  • US Congress’ historic hearing on Papuan human righ ...
    The US Congress held an open hearing last week to hear testimonies from Papuans and academics about human rights violations in West Papua. The hearing, hosted by the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, was titled, ‘Crimes against humanity: When will Indonesia’s military be ...

  Montreal Gazette

  • Stalker gets off far too lightly
    Montrealers should be astonished at the kid-glove treatment being accorded to the city employee who stalked lawyer Myriam De Blois for more than a year.
  • Chilean miners unite a fractious world
    The fractious and squabbling people of the planet have rarely been as united as we are this week rejoicing as long-trapped Chilean miners emerge, one by one, from the bowels of the Earth.
  • This year's winner deserves the peace prize
    The Nobel Peace Prize's excellent decision to give this year's award to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has already had an electrifying effect.
  • Quebecers thirst for an alternative
    French-language media buzzed with reports last week that Legault, his former cabinet colleague Joseph Facal, and others have approached a number of prominent Quebecers to discuss what could evolve into a political party.
  • No easy fixes for health system
    As a perennial political hot potato, the health system is rivalled in Quebec by only la question nationale, and elsewhere in Canada by no other issue. Pollster Nik Nanos reports that last month 35 per cent of Canadian called health care their top issue of Canada-wide concern, far ahead of th ...

  Food World Order

  • 3/4's of US obese or overweight by 2020, says alar ...
    from natural news : America is already on the verge of drowning in sick-care bankruptcy, but the situation is about to get even worse. According to a new study released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , three-fourths of Americans will be obese or overweight by 2020 . Tha ...
  • wheat bread sales top white bread for first time
    from allgov : For the first time in consumer history, Americans are buying more wheat bread than white bread . From July 2009 to July 2010, sales of wheat bread increased 0.6%, totaling $2.6 billion, while white bread sales declined 7%, to $2.5 billion. Americans seem to be turning to wheat bread fo ...
  • cattle cloned from dead animals to produce 'that m ...
    from bbc : Some of the cattle cloned to boost food production in the US have been created from the cells of dead animals , according to a US cloning company. Farmers say it is being done because it is only possible to tell that the animal's meat is of exceptionally high quality by inspecting its car ...
  • fda uses massive egg recall to push for egg pasteu ...
    from natural news : Amid the massive egg recall currently underway over potential salmonella poisoning, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been working hard to push its pasteurization agenda . The agency recently made an announcement recommending that all grocery stores and restaurants ...
  • 8/19 binge & purge: sour, sugar & service
    'fructose-slurping' cancer could sour the soda business * gm salmon: aquabounty tech seeks fda approval of fast-growing salmon * sugar beetdown; monsanto wins again * dems may use food-stamp money to pay for michelle's nutrition initiative * US food crops absorb toxic pharmaceuticals & p ...

  CrusadeWatch

  • Vatican Bank Investigated For Alleged Money Launde ...
    source:  NPR.org,  September 21, 2010   Angelo Carconi /Associated Press Italian financial Police officers talk to each other in front of St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010.  (AP Photo/Angelo Carconi)
  • Pakistani Christians not beneficiary of Church run ...
    source: Pakistan Christian Post, May 17 2010 Lahore: May 17, 2010. (PCP) The admissions are underway in convents and other missionary schools administered by Catholic Church of Pakistan and Church of Pakistan in major cities of Punjab province of Pakistan. The Christian parents are standing i ...
  • Vishal Arora: A Christian fundamentalist masquera ...
    source:  Sathya Sai blog, 19 May 2010 Vishal Arora is an independent & freelance journalist and writer living in New Delhi, India. Vishal Aroras articles have appeared in Hindustan Times , The Indian Express , The Deccan Herald , The Tribune , The Statesman , Mint , Indo-Asian News ...
  • Christian casteism: Only in India: A Brahmin groom ...
    source:  Times of India, May 16, 2010 MUMBAI: When Winnie D'Souza wanted to marry her daughter into a decent' family, she scanned the matrimonial columns of Catholic periodicals in Panaji. After shortlisting a few young men, D'Souza made inquiries about their caste. She wanted her dau ...
  • Rwanda: Will the Vatican Ever Accept That Genocide ...
    source: AllAfrica.com, 27 May 2010 Tom Ndahiro Kigali This church's lack of courage and humility made it develop what philosopher Bertrand Russell, in his book "The Conquest of Happiness" termed "persecution mania" which he says is "a recognised form of insanity."

  Whole Truth Coalition

  • Police Officers Sent on Hypnosis Courses in the &# ...
    Officers are being encouraged to sign up to a course by Tom Silver, who is better known as a ‘celebrity hypnotherapist’ on American chat shows, in an attempt to gain more information from suspects. Mr Silver, who has appeared on the Montel Williams and Ricki Lake chat shows on US TV, where he gave a ...
  • Plan to Oust Saddam Drawn up Two Years Before the ...
    ‘A secret plan to foster an internal coup against Saddam Hussein was drawn up by the Government two years before the invasion of Iraq, The Independent can reveal. Whitehall officials drafted the “contract with the Iraqi people” as a way of signalling to dissenters in Iraq that an overthrow of Sadda ...
  • Berlusconi Pushing for Israeli Membership of the E ...
    Italian Prime Minister says Israel should join the European Union, in a u-turn from his earlier remarks criticizing Israel’s settlement policy as an impediment to peace. “My greatest desire, as long as I am a protagonist in politics, is to bring Israel into membership of the European Union,” said Si ...
  • Iceland President Accuses England, Holland of Fina ...
  • Child Rapists Protected By The State
    In the October 2009 print edition of the UK Column, we reported in our article “BBC Hides Truth of Girl’s Sexual Abuse Ordeal” the shocking ordeal of Downs Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who was horribly abused by an Aberdeen paedophile ring, over a period of ten years. After investigating and planni ...

  The Economic Collapse

  • Foreclosure Fraud: 6 Things You Need To Know About ...
    The foreclosure fraud crisis seems to escalate with each passing now.  It is being reported that all 50 U.S. states have launched a joint investigation into alleged fraud in the mortgage industry.  This is a huge story that is not going to go away any time soon.  The truth is that i ...
  • Currency War
    Are you ready for a currency war?  Well, buckle up, because things are about to get interesting.  This week Japan fired what is perhaps the opening salvo in a new round of currency wars by publicly intervening in the foreign exchange market for the first time since 2004.  Japan's bo ...
  • Is America In Decline? 24 Statistics About The Uni ...
    Does anyone really want to hear that America is in decline?  For decades, most of us have been raised to believe that the United States is "number one" and that anyone who doubts that fact is a "gloom and doomer" that should just pack up and move to "Russia" or "Iraq" or some other ...
  • 10 Reasons Why Ordinary Hard-Working Americans Are ...
    American families better get ready to tighten their belts again.  There is every indication that we are all going to really start feeling the squeeze in the months ahead.  The price of gas is starting to spike again.  The price of food is moving north.  Health insurance premium incr ...
  • Foreclosuregate
    If you work in the mortgage industry or for a title insurer, you might not want to make any plans for the next six months.  Foreclosuregate is about to explode.  It is being alleged that many prominent mortgage lenders have been using materially flawed paperwork to evict homeowners. ...

  CASSE

  • The Big Population Question
    Herman Daly doesn't dodge tough topics or prickly problems. In this post he provides perceptive perspectives on population and a hopeful future for humanity.
  • Food and Agriculture in a Steady State Economy
    Fossil-fueled factory farms and livestock slums slip out of style in a steady state economy
  • Muddled Media Messages
    Puzzling product placements and pernicious prevarications permeate mainstream media.
  • Steady State Transportation: Closing the Door on t ...
    The trouble with transportation is petroleum, and the problems are providing a chance for true transformation.
  • Opportunity Cost of Growth
    Herman Daly swims upstream like a salmon, fighting the flow of fallacious philosophy from growth economists -- you won't want to miss his final refrain on this one.

  The Talking Clock

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    Where's Guy Fawkes when you need him? Lord Stoddart of Swindon has received a written reply to his question to the Government over the European Investigation Order. Baroness Neville-Jones tells him: "The European Investigation Order is not an agreement between national Governments but a draft ...
  • Will the last Labour Party politician to be referr ...
    Oh dear. Yet another Labour MP has been referred to the police over their expense claims. This time, it's former Europe Minister Denis MacShane. We won't comment on his individual case - read the story on any of the mainstream news sources including the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Stand ...
  • How Parliament voted against Douglas Carswell's at ...
    Late last night, we were very focused on what happened with the attempt to get a debate on the smoking ban. There was, however, an even bigger vote that took place in the House of Commons yesterday. The MP most loved by this blog - Conservative MP Douglas Carswell - had tabled an amendment to ...
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    Good grief. They've already got their FBI-style cops training here, now here come their troops: Of course, foreign troops would be in the best interests of a malevolent and totalitarian regime. After all, British troops and British police would find it emotionally difficult - normally - to engage i ...
  • Electoral Fraud: Warsi's bold assertion
    The Conservative Chairman, Baroness Warsi, has said that electoral fraud, quote, "predominantly within the Asian community" was partly the reason for the Conservatives failing to win an outright majority at the General Election. That, and Cast Iron Dave's surrender to the European Empire, eh Saye ...

  Facing South

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    By Sasha Chavkin, ProPublica Many claimants seeking compensation for damages from the Gulf oil spill say they are struggling to get basic information about what is happening with their claims. Dozens of claimants have told ProPublica they are having trouble getting information about their sub ...
  • Blessed to Have a Pope
    James "Art" Pope is probably the most important conservative benefactor in North Carolina -- and, increasingly, one of the most influential in the country, thanks to his leadership in national groups like Americans for Prosperity. Yet North Carolina conservatives, while grateful for Pope's g ...
  • Tomato pickers secure path-breaking deal with Flor ...
    By Mischa Gaus, Labor Notes The farmworker group Coalition of Immokalee Workers announced this week it has reached a landmark deal with a Florida tomato grower to govern conditions in the fields. The agreement greatly expands the proportion of Florida's $500 million tomato crop that will be ...
  • Politics and the lifting of the offshore drilling ...
    The Obama administration lifted the moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling on Tuesday, a month and a half before its originally scheduled Nov. 30 expiration date. In announcing the move -- which comes as oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster that led to the ban continues to was ...
  • Is Big Business reluctant to invest in Tea Party c ...
    One of the big stories of the 2010 elections is the record amount of campaign cash flooding into races, especially "independent expenditures" from corporate-backed outfits like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ($ 12.4 million and counting ). But so far, corporate PACS and donors have been ski ...

  CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Embassy Bombing Survivors Testify at Ghailani Trial More than half a dozen survivors of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania testified Wednesday at the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, who is accused of being part of an al-Qaeda … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Reports: Police Look for “Hit Team”; Officials Say Plot Not Imminent, “Largely Aspirational” The Wall Street Journal reports that âEuropean police are searching for a suspected terror hit team believed to be in Europe and possibly planning a shooting spree … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Report: Officials âPlay Downâ Suspicion of Mumbai-Style Plot against UK The Associated Press, citing a Pakistani intelligence official, reports that â[e]ight Germans and two British brothers are at the heart of an al-Qaida-linked terror plot against European cities, but the … Continue reading ...
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    U.S., Japan Issue Travel Alerts for Europe The U.S. State Department issued a broad travel alert Sunday to Americans living in or traveling to Europe, stating that â[c]urrent information suggests that al-Qaida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks,â … Continue reading →
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    Supreme Court Declines to Hear Request for NSA Info The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the appeal of Thomas B. Wilner, an attorney who has represented detainees at Guantanamo, and 22 other attorneys over whether the National Security Agency … Continue reading →

  Short Sharp Science

  • Today on New Scientist: 14 October 2010
    All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't planet, toxic splendour, Jesus's bones, and more
  • Coal state fires at the cap-and-trade bill. Litera ...
    A new study shows West Virginia has plenty of geothermal energy to be tapped – but local Senate candidates stick with anti-green, pro-coal message
  • Romanian moon 'rockoon' finally takes off
    In a bid to win $20 million in the Google Lunar X Prize, a Romanian team has used a balloon to launch a rocket from 14 km above the Black Sea
  • Physicists win Nobel using sticky tape and pencil
    Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov have won the Nobel prize for discovering graphene, the atom-thick sheets of carbon graphite with exotic properties
  • 'Buoyancy bazooka' wins James Dyson prize
    A device that takes inspiration from a grenade launcher to fire a floating ring to drowning victims has won the annual Dyson award for invention

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