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Saturday, October 16, 2010

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German Power Costs to Rise as Renewable Subsidy Leaps
BusinessWeek
- Oct 15, 2010
- 19 hours ago
Electricity consumers will pay an extra 3.53 euro cents (5 US cents) per kilowatt-hour of consumed power in 2011 to subsidize renewable-energy generation, ...
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California's Hospitality Industry Could Provide Renewable Energy Storage
CleanTechnica
- Oct 15, 2010
- 22 hours ago
With the 20% Renewable Energy Standard mandate expected to be on the grid by 2013, and an ongoing solar ramp-up to get to 33% by 2020, California now joins ...
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OSU to offer degree in renewable materials
The Register-Guard
- Oct 16, 2010
- 9 hours ago
Oregon State University an-nounced Friday that it will be offering a new degree, in renewable materials, to meet what it said is “a growing demand for ...
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China expresses 'regret' at US renewable energy policies probe
REVE
- Oct 16, 2010
- 1 hour ago
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) Saturday expressed "regret" over a US government decision to investigate China's renewable energy policies, ...
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Global Ecology Corporation Completes the First Domestic Demonstration of Its ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- Oct 15, 2010
- Oct 15, 2010
The clean potable water flowed from the MPWS at a rate of 15 gallons per minute using Global Ecology's exclusive, licensed natural solution, IMS1000. ...
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US Ecology Announces Schedule for Its Third Quarter 2010 Earnings Release and ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- Oct 14, 2010
- Oct 14, 2010
BOISE, ID, Oct 14, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- US Ecology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ECOL) today announced that it will release financial results for the third ...
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Ecology of Infectious Disease Grants Awarded by NSF, NIH
RedOrbit
- Oct 14, 2010
- Oct 14, 2010
"This broad approach to disease ecology," says Scheiner, "will provide the understanding necessary to deal with future threats. ...
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Danube will solve Hungary's environmental disaster - ecologists
RIA Novosti
- Oct 14, 2010
- Oct 14, 2010
The high-waters of the Danube River will neutralize the impact of Hungary's toxic waste spill, ecologists from Moscow, Chisinau and Kiev agreed on Thursday ...
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Water Power

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GOP taps water as wedge issue in Fresno County
San Jose Mercury News
- Oct 16, 2010
- 3 hours ago
"We're no longer being ignored," said Mario Santoyo of Reedley, director of the California Latino Water Coalition, which has allied itself with farmers in ...
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Fitch Rates Clearwater, FL's $47.6MM Water & Sewer Rfdg Revs 2010 'AA ...
Kansas City Star
- Oct 16, 2010
- 24 minutes ago
--The city's combined water and sewer system benefits from an ample water supply, significant excess treatment capacity, and a largely built-out service ...
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Council approves increases in water, wastewater rates
Kansas City Star
- Oct 15, 2010
- 13 hours ago
By JIM SULLINGER The Olathe City Council voted 4-2 this week to increase water and sewer fees a total of $3.30 a month next year for the average home. ...
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Denver Water says rates may jump 31.2 percent over 3 years
9NEWS.com
- Oct 16, 2010
- 2 hours ago
DENVER (DP) - Denver Water warned Wednesday that customer rates may rise by an average of 31.2 percent over the next three years, including more than 10 ...
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Innovation Canada

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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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

  • New Zealand government uses earthquake to enact sw ...
    New Zealand's parliament voted unanimously last month to pass the Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act (CERRA), which gives government ministers the power to override almost any law in the country's statute books. The conservative National Party government pushed through the legislation i ...
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    Does anyone remember the "cakewalk war" that would last six weeks, cost $50-$60 billion, and be paid for out of Iraqi oil revenues? Does anyone remember that White House economist Lawrence Lindsey was fired by Dubya because Lindsey estimated that the Iraq war could cost as much as $200 billion? L ...
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The Galloping Beaver

  • The Tea Party in mufti
    Honest. It's what George W. Bush apologists are wearing these days . A Republican congressional candidate from Ohio, countering criticism from a House GOP leader, said he did nothing wrong by wearing a Nazi uniform while participating in World War II re-enactments. Yeah, it's one politically astu ...
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  • Legacies . . .
    RECENTLY, THINGS HAVE BEEN very crunchy between Japan and China, with diplomatic hard-nosing. It seems that a shadow of what went down 116 years ago is still present today, as a cause of truculence. What went down, in 1894, was the Kowshing , a British-flagged transport ship chartered by China. It w ...
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Media Matters for America

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    Less than a week after revelations that conspiracy theories pushed by Glenn Beck and the right-wing media drove a California man to plot the assassination of Tides Foundation employees, Beck devoted an hour-long show to demonizing Tides. Beck's latest attacks come just hours after Tides release ...
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    Family Research Council president Tony Perkins recently suggested that gay youths who committed suicide after being bullied were actually responding to their "despair" after being told by gay-rights groups that "they are 'born gay' and can never change." The FRC has long sought to minimize ant ...
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    Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade defended Bill O'Reilly's recent appearance on The View by absurdly claiming that "not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims." In fact, there have been numerous domestic terror attacks committed by non-Muslims. Kilmeade falsely claims "all te ...
  • Fox takes care of its own: the full-court defense ...
    Since Bill O'Reilly appeared on the ABC's The View and said "Muslims killed us on 9-11," Fox News hosts and commentators have predictably defended the Fox News host. O'Reilly has also used his Fox News platform to defend his comments. O'Reilly on The View : "Muslims killed us on 9-11" Comment ...

Global Research.ca

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 ...
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    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 ...
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    I've been going door-to-door canvassing and it's not that bad. Really. It's actually kind of fun but only because I've found a way to break through people's cynicism. It is no wonder people are cynical. Crashing down from the sky are high hopes of two years ago. People are worried about jobs, the e ...
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    Washington - The next big thing from Detroit may not just be a new car, but a new car industry: Transformed, modern and competitive. This month, with traditional fanfare, Detroit is launching the new model year. More quietly, the Obama administration is preparing to help shape the cars we will be d ...
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    Daniel doesn't look like a typical activist. He sports a shaved head, stands over six-feet tall and moves with the leisurely gait of a man who isn't told to hurry up much. He exudes the calm badassery of someone who has listened to his share of punk music and can dissect Propagandhi lyrics for hours ...
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    Widespread reports about “robo-signers” — bank officials who would sign foreclosure forms without even reading them — have lead many business reporters to dub the crisis of potentially illegal bank foreclosures as “foreclosure-gate.” For example, a Bank of America official admitted in a bankruptcy c ...
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    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. The Obama administration also on Thursday asked U.S. Dist ...

Planetsave

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    This post is part of 2010′s Blog Action Day, where bloggers across the Internet pull together to raise awareness about one important issue. This year’s theme is water. With today being blog action day, I am reminded of this post I wrote in tears a year ago, in hopes to help save lives by donating... ...
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  • LOWKEY - OBAMA NATION - Global Empire
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    It is high time to bid good riddance to MINUSTAH (MIssion des Nations Unies pour la STAbilisation en Haďti), a colonialist army that has terrorized Haiti for the last six years and is currently overseeing the sham presidential and legislative elections in the country.  The most popular political ...
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Care 2

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Smirking Chimp

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No Quarter

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  • Being Fair to Joe and Valerie Wilson
    It was January 2003. I was at the Nixon Center in Washington, DC attending a small group discussion on the future of Iraq. Former Secretary of Defense (and CIA Director) Schlessinger was there. So too, Charles Krauthammer. Pat Laing, retired Colonel extraordinaire, was sitting on my left and Amb ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • After the Global Population Bomb
    Soylent Green was a movie of the 1973 depicting a bleak and overcrowded world. How far off base was it? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Is Oregano the Answer to Methane Gas Pollution?
    Greenhouse gas has unusual sources, like termites and rice paddies. Cows are the worst culprits for producing methane gas. New research has shown an innovative solution. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the arti ...
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  • Boxing Kangaroos!
    Bouncing nimbly on powerful hind legs, sizing each other up, the two opponents launch sudden combinations, jabbing and grappling with smart forelegs to gain the advantage read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the art ...

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Dot Earth News

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    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 ...
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    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

  • The Revenge of the Body Snatchers
    It reminds me of “The Body Snatchers.”   They sneak around and infiltrate the government so they can take over the country while no one is looking.  They tell you that there is no difference, so necessary to the deadly infection of apathy they are trying to spread.  They turn the people they have co ...
  • Privacy is Passé, so Broadcast Yourself (to Big Br ...
    “You had to live â you did live, from habit that became instinct â in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized,â Winston worries in George Orwellâs classic novel, 1984.  All Winston yearns for is a place outside of the all-s ...
  • “They don’t have the paper” Big Banks Blow it!
    Link Michael Collins Big banks have stopped foreclosures in 23 states due to legal challenges to their ownership of mortgage notes. On Wednesday, JP Morgan upped their total to 41 states in which foreclosure operations had ceased. Why the halt in foreclosures? It seems that the banks have ignored lo ...
  • 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 ...

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  • 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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    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 ...
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    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

  • Law firm (Marler Clark) in PCA case donates $25,00 ...
    I spoke with Dave Thompson of the Lynchburg News and Advance about our decision to donate $25,000 to Heritage High for Science Scholarships.  Here is his story: One of the legal firms that filed suit on behalf of victims in the Peanut Corp. of America salmonella case has donated $25,000 for scholar ...
  • Marler Clark - The Food Safety Law Firm
    What do you think of the new logo?
  • Non-E. coli O157:H7 STECS: What You Need To Know?
    So, said the headline in my favorite online magazine – Cattlenetworks yesterday. What the American Meat Institute thinks you need to know: On August 18, AMI sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack outlining a path FSIS should take to address nSTECs prior to making a regulatory decision. 1. ...
  • 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 ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 10.15.10
    Tesla CEO: Optimizing vehicle design for electric powertrains will give us better EVs No one's done it yet, says Musk. Hyundai Sonata Hybrid will qualify for $1,300 tax credit It's a limited ...
  • 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 ...

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!

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

  • Navigating the Housing Bubble
    By Catherine Austin Fitts When I was assistant secretary of HUD during Bush I and the lead financial advisor to the Federal Housing Administration under President Clinton, I watched from the position of an insider as the senior leadership of the U.S. financial system began to engineer today’s specta ...
  • Where’s Clif High?
    We have received several inquiries about Clif High and his Half Past Human site being missing-in-action. If you look today (Friday), he’s back, and here is his message: Visit the HPH website . . . George Ure of urbansurvival.com talks about Clif’s adventures . . . [scroll down the page]
  • I Think Continually Of Those Who Were Truly Great
    By Stephen Spender I think continually of those who were truly great. Who, from the womb, remembered the soul’s history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire, Should tell of the Spirit clothed from ...
  • Great Chinese State Circus - Swan Lake
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  • The Wheels Are Coming Off in MBS Land: All 50 Stat ...
    By Yves Smith I get on an airplane, and there are more dramatic developments by the time I land. Even though the headline item is the fact that the attorneys general in all 50 states are joining the mortgage fraud investigation, the real indicator that the banks are stressed is that they have start ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

  • Times Scare
    ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job. [. ...
  • Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
    Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan , Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban . ... and more��
  • Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
    BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency ? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
  • Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
    Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan , Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more��
  • Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing - GMA new ...
    Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • 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

  • More about the forecast for flooded cities in the  ...
    Summary:  Much of the efforts to fan climate hysteria rely on false descriptions of current climate science, most especially on the assertion of a consensus that does not exist.  The articles on the FM website puncture this simply and surely by showing a diversity of opinion expressed in presigious  ...
  • 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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • A new lead in malaria
    Nature (SciBX) – A consortium of researchers led by the Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases has identified a potent new class of antimalarials that could provide a much needed safeguard against parasites resistant to the largely artemisinin-based armamentarium of malaria drugs. The consortium’s ...
  • IMF chief’s warning of currency war ‘real threat’
    BBC – Global currency wars pose “a real threat” to economic recovery, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has warned. In an interview with the BBC, he said currency disputes showed countries were not co-operating as well as they had during the financial crisis. In re ...
  • Court to hear case over child interviews involving ...
    CNN — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an emotionally divisive dispute on when children can be interviewed about sex abuse allegations without a warrant and without parents present … early next year. But the judges noted the “delicate” balancing interests that will be weighed in the upcoming hig ...
  • Before ‘08 Mumbai attacks, U.S. was warned key fig ...
    Washington Post – Three years before Pakistani terrorists struck Mumbai in 2008, federal agents in New York City investigated a tip that an American businessman was training in Pakistan with the group that later executed the attack. Read article Related article: Mumbai terror suspect David Headley ...
  • US delays China ‘currency manipulator’ report
    BBC – The US government has delayed a report – which was expected on Friday – that could officially brand China a “currency manipulator”. The US Treasury releases two reports a year on the currency practices of its major trading partners. It has so far held back from naming China. The report is not ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

  • El hombre común americano
    El hombre común americano (llco.org, monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) “El hombre común americano” tiene un lugar especial en la conciencia americana. Es un personaje literario popular, el “héroe de la clase trabajadora” aparece en el cine, la televisión y el escenario. Ãl es valorizado por lo ...
  • Recenzja książki Malcolma Caldwella „Bogactwo niek ...
    Recenzja książki Malcolma Caldwella âBogactwo niektórych narodówâ – Prairie Fire (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Malcolm Caldwell byÅ jednym z kilku mieszkaÅców Zachodu, którzy kiedykolwiek odwiedzili KambodÅ¼Ä w trakcie wÅadzy Czerwonych Khmerów. Najbardziej znany jest jako akade ...
  • 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 ...

PakAlert

  • US Shuts Down New York City Airspace Over UFO ‘Thr ...
    A bizarre report prepared by the Federal Aviation Authority of the Russian Federation (FAA) on the “unexpected” closure by the United States of all the airspace over New York City yesterday says it was due to a “UFO flap” and was the cause of Air Berlin flight AB 8357 from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airpo ...
  • Russian Inflatable Tanks, Prophecy, and World War ...
    According to various News Reports Russia is building a "phantom" military using inflatable weapons that look like real armaments. The tank above is just one example.
  • Zardari believed ‘US was behind Taliban attacks in ...
    Zalmay Khalilzad, the former US envoy to Afghanistan, once brushed off Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s claim, that the US was “arranging” the (suicide) attacks by Pakistani Taliban inside his country, as ‘madness’, and was of the view that both Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who be ...
  • US Doom: ‘The nation is killing itself’
    The United States is killing itself through its economic policies, says Max Kesier.
  • The US bluffing game to coerce Pakistan
    People of America can no more be fooled since they now know that 9/11 was Jewish inspired, Bush led neo-cons under the influence of American Jews had indulged in falsehood and deception to pursue their commercial interests. They are convinced that it is owing to wicked intentions and designs of thei ...

Andy Worthington

  • Video: Andy Worthington and Justine Sharrock at “B ...
    As part of “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week (the largest gathering of anti-torture experts and activists since the Bush administration began its “War on Terror” over nine years ago), I was delighted to join Justine Sharrock, journalist and author of Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things, at R ...
  • 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

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

  • Anti-Immigrant Groups Continue Greenwashing Campai ...
    Progressives For Immigration Reform (PFIR) held its inaugural conference Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The small, invitation-only, one-day conference was entitled, “The First National Conference on Immigration, Conservation, and the Environment.” The conclave is just another ...
  • Apparent Eco-Terrorist Holding Hostages at TV Buil ...
    The gunman holding hostages in the Silver Spring, Md., headquarters of the Discovery Channel has been tentatively identified as James Jay Lee, an apparent eco-fascist who thinks that immigrants are breeding “filthy human children” and helping to wreck the planet. Lee, 43, had been arrested in Februa ...
  • Suicides and Gay-bashings: More Violence for LGBT ...
    The violence never seems to end. This past month has been downright horrifying, with at least five teenagers nationwide committing suicide as a result of anti-gay bullying. There were also two attacks against gay victims in New York City communities normally considered LGBT-friendly. A patron was g ...
  • Charges Against We Are Change Leader Belie Group&# ...
    We Are Change (WAC) is an organization that likes to quote Martin Luther King Jr., Einstein, Gandhi and others talking about the evils of war. It describes itself as a nonviolent âcitizens based grassroots peace and social justice movementâ and reacted angrily this year when the Southern Poverty ...
  • Fox News Host Embraces Conspiracist With Race War ...
    Gravelly voiced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones touts himself as one of the few daring souls willing to tell the “truth” about 9/11 being an inside job , the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s plans to intern dissidents in “death camps,” and the “New World Order” plot to exterminate 80% of the wor ...

change: org.

  • Can Urban Farms Make it in the Market? Dig Deep Fa ...
    Urban farming, as you’ve probably heard by now , is pretty cool. The press can’t seem to get enough of the trend. Philanthropies are excited about the potential of transforming concrete places into green spaces. City farms are swamped with volunteers. There’s just one hitch: Although popular, urban ...
  • Celebrate Fair Trade Month in October: Sugar Editi ...
    This is the third post of a weekly series celebrating October as Fair Trade Month. The series highlights the role of Fair Trade in ending human trafficking, the Fair Trade availability of commonly consumed foods, and how to encourage companies to go Fair Trade. Each Saturday we're bringing y ...
  • California Teachers Pay More than Ever For Classro ...
    The fact that teachers pay a significant amount out-of-pocket to do their jobs is hardly news. But in California, the cuts are so severe that even Time magazine can't help but notice: Teachers are asking businesses to donate logo-inscribed pens, entering supply-store competitions to win materials, a ...
  • Fight Drunk Driving: Repeal DUI Laws
    “I’m a good drunk driver!” You’ve likely heard this said before. You may have shook your head, reaching for their keys, or -- even if you don’t want to admit it-- you may have laughed. But what actually makes someone “drunk”? Is it the number of pints they throw back or how they act when compared to ...
  • Too Much Water Worsens Problem of Not Enough
    You might think that more water would be the last thing a flood victim would want to see, but gaining access to clean drinking water can mean the difference between life and death after a devastating deluge. Floods not only hold the devastating potential to displace thousands of people from their ho ...

Common Dreams -News

  • Afghan Peace Council Chief: Taliban Ready to Talk
    by Deb Reichmann KABUL, Afghanistan — A former Afghan president who heads a new peace council said Thursday that he's convinced the Taliban are ready to negotiate peace. Burhanuddin Rabbani told reporters in Kabul that the Taliban have not completely rejected the idea of negotiating a nonmilitar ...
  • US Spend-or-Cut Debate Rages on at World Knowledge ...
    by Edward Helmore Spend or cut? It is a debate that goes to the heart of the post-2008 economic crisis - and yesterday simmering tensions over the two opposing strategies, between a Nobel prize-winning economist and a best-selling economic historian, boiled over again on a stage in South Korea. read ...
  • Conservative Group, Flush with Funds, Turns to Hou ...
    by Dan Eggen The conservative group American Crossroads, which has been singled out for criticism by President Obama and other Democrats, said Wednesday that it has shattered its fundraising goals in the face of such attacks and will now expand its efforts into House races as a result. read more
  • Foreclosuregate: Time to Break Up the Too-Big-to-F ...
    by Ellen Brown Looming losses from the mortgage scandal dubbed "foreclosuregate" may qualify as the sort of systemic risk that, under the new financial reform bill, warrants the breakup of the too-big-to-fail banks. The Kanjorski amendment allows federal regulators to pre-emptively break up larg ...
  • US Weighs Endorsing Indigenous Rights Declaration
    by Matthew Berger WASHINGTON - Just over three years after having voted against it at the United Nations, the United States is in the process of reviewing its position on the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. read more

Lifehacker

  • Six Lessons I've Learned Since I Started Working f ...
    It's been nearly 2 years since I've received a corporate paycheck. I left that world in January of 2009 and haven't looked back since. Was it an easy jump? More��
  • Use a Lazy Susan to Easily Reach the Back of Your ...
    If you find that you're constantly reaching around your computer and fiddling with USB cords, reader Dave recommends putting your computer on a Lazy Susan to make it easier. More��
  • How to Enable Google Instant on Chrome for Mac [Vi ...
    Google Instant in Chrome is way more useful than it is on Google.com, but currently you can only enable it on Windows . Reader Rob Johnson offers a simple trick for enabling Instant on Chrome's latest dev release for Macs. More�� ...
  • Lose Weight by Sleeping More [Diet]
    A healthy diet and regular exercise make a great match, but it turns out getting eight and a half hours of sleep could make a significant difference in weight loss as well. More��
  • Spend $250 on These Tools to Avoid Trips to the Ha ...
    We're pretty big fans of do-it-yourself work around here, but having the right tools is imperative. The New York Times shows us that for about $250, you can outfit yourself with the dozen or so tools essential to home maintenance. More�� ...

Water Privatization

  • Privatization Not Answer to Water Crisis, Says WPN
    MANILA, Philippines – Advocacy group Water for the People Network (WPN) Friday said that contrary to the claim of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), allowing profit-oriented private corporations to take over the management and distribution of water resources will not address the water crisis. The (WP ...
  • 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.
  • 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. ...

Guardian

  • French protests jeopardise airport fuel supplies
    As strikes over pension plans hit infrastructure, ministers warn of fuel shortage at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport France's main airport has only a few days' worth of fuel left, it was announced today, as the strikes against government pension plans continued to hit infrastructure. The transport ...
  • Chinese miners trapped in fatal blast
    Explosion in Chinese coal mine kills 21 miners and traps 16 in central Henan province An explosion in a Chinese coal mine has killed 21 miners in central Henan province, state media reported. The accident occurred at 6am local time in a pit owned by Pingyu Coal and Electric based in Yuzhou city and ...
  • Equitable clients set to win £1.5bn
    Government package for investors who lost money in collapse of insurer would be more than three times recommended amount Investors who lost money in the collapse of the insurer Equitable Life are set to win a government compensation package of £1.5bn, more than three times the amount recommended by ...
  • Defence spared from deepest cuts
    George Osborne agrees that the Ministry of Defence will face cuts of 8% over the next four years Britain's multi-billion pound defence budget was finally settled tonight after a personal intervention by David Cameron, who ordered the Treasury to soften cuts due to be imposed on the armed forces. Lia ...
  • Premier League clockwatch - live!
    • Turn on our auto-refresh tool for the latest updates • Email simon.burnton@guardian.co.uk with your observations • Follow all of today's games with our live scores service 3.36pm: Reading 0 Swansea 1 (Scott Sinclair 35) As I picked my non-Premier-League games of the day I missed Brendan Rodgers' r ...

McClatchey

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Climate ship trims sails but keeps captain
    IPCC plenary meeting , Busan: So: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came to South Korea with Rajendra Pachauri in charge, and it leaves with Rajendra Pachauri in charge. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC�Webwise for full ...
  • 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 ...

The Wonk Room

  • Whitman’s Plan To Balance California’s ...
    I pointed out yesterday that California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman’s (R) job creation plan is based on a tax cut that economists don’t believe will create jobs or boost investment. Rather, it would amount to nothing more than a giveaway to California’s wealthy. But Whitman’s plan to balance ...
  • GOP May Seek To Undermine ACA By Weakening The Exc ...
    Yesterday, Scott Gottlieb and Tom Miller of the conservative American Enterprise Institute wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal in which they conceded that even if Republicans can’t repeal the Affordable Care Act, they can at least undermine its key feature: the state-based health insurance Exc ...
  • House Education Committee’s Ranking Member T ...
    Back in July, the Obama administration requested $1.4 billion to continue its Race to the Top program — which provides competitive grants to states to implement education reform — but the Senate and the House both refused to play along, with the former chopping funding for the program down to just $ ...
  • Gov 2010: Climate Deniers Threaten The Northeast R ...
    This is Part Three of a four-part Wonk Room series examining the implications for climate and clean energy policy of the 2010 gubernatorial races. Read Part One, on heartland states, Part Two, on Tea Party candidates, or view the full governor-race compilation. The northeastern United States remains ...
  • Michigan Civil Rights Commission Condemns Deputy A ...
    Since April, Michigan’s assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell has been engaging in a bizarre internet campaign against Chris Armstrong, an openly gay student assembly president at the University of Michigan. Shirvell has attacked Armstrong’s “radical homosexual agenda” and has published posts o ...

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

  • Appropriate Use of Science in Public Policy
    On October 27, 2010, Professionals for the Public Interest (PftPI) will present a panel discussion on the " Appropriate Use of Science in Public Policy. " Although the event will be free, registration is required . The event will be held at 4:00 pm at the American Association for the Advancement of ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...

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

  • If Fair Use Protects Free Speech, Shouldn't It Be ...
    We've talked a lot recently about questions concerning the conflict between copyright law and the First Amendment. Historically, the courts have argued that there are two "safety valves" on copyright law that protect it from running afoul of the First Amendment: the idea/expression dichotomy and fa ...
  • How Not To Connect With Fans: Have Gilbert Gottfri ...
    Robert Ring was the first to send in the news that Victory Records apparently had ridiculously annoying comic Gilbert Gottfried film a video "message" to file sharers telling them to "go fuck yourself" and using some ridiculous arguments. He claims that the reason people file share is because they ...
  • Would Copyright Work Better If It Was Treated More ...
    Lawyer Terry Hart, who we linked to last month for his discussion about whether or not it was okay to call infringement theft has now written another piece arguing that those of us who point out that copyright is not property may also be making a mistake. Specifically, he points to a recent paper b ...
  • French ISP Free Gives In, Will Send 3 Strikes Noti ...
    Well, it looks like the saga of the Hadopi loophole is now over. We had written how the French ISP 'Free' had been refusing to pass on Hadopi "three strikes" notices, realizing that the law did not mandate that ISPs pass on the notices, but the law did say that you couldn't have your connection dis ...
  • Former Music Industry Exec Says Album Prices Shoul ...
    Robert Katz was the first of a whole lot of you (really, this may be the story with the most submissions ever) to pass along the news that former Warner Music UK boss Rob Dickins is suggesting that the record labels lower the price of albums all the way down to �1 -- about $1.60. He points out that ...

VacTruth

  • Are Federal Grants Being Used For State Government ...
    The Obama Administration was pressured to officially declare a Stafford Act National Emergency. In turn, the emergency declaration automatically made millions of federal grant dollars monies available to state governments. So what happened with all of the money appropriated and made available to st ...
  • 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 ...

BroadSnark

  • Intellect as Evasion
    Normally, I like Jay Smooth.  But this video really irritated me. I understand why people are critical of the anti-intellectualism displayed by right wing populists who seem so disdainful of reading books, processing facts, or critical thinking of any kind.  But it amazes me when otherwise observ ...
  • 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 [.. ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

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

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

  • 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

  • Artist Weaves Weather Data Into Complex Baskets
    Images: Natalie Merbach In a world of ever-increasing information flow, we can't seem to get enough of diagrams and interactive maps that help us better organize and understand our world. Artist Natalie Merbach's fascinating sculptures -- which translate ecological, astronomical and meteorologica ...
  • Should Breast Cancer Awareness Turn to Prevention?
    A page from ' State of the Evidence ' shows the difficulty of linking risks to causes for breast cancer. Courtesy Breast Cancer Fund. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month , and you're likely to see pink ribbons along with fall colors, as groups raise money for breast cancer research and emp ...
  • Could Mushrooms Take the Place of Styrofoam?
    Photo: Sara Novak As Styrofoam begins to cover our planet in the same way that it has long covered our consumer products, innovative thinkers like Eben Bayer are looking for responsible materials that don't require fossil fuels and more easily biodegrade. Could mushrooms be the answer? His team ...
  • Vuvuzela Recycling Competition Gives New Life to S ...
    Submitted ideas for recycling vuvuzelas include (L to R) a portable water filter , a Christmas tree , and a cheese grater . Images via WoZela! . For better or worse, they provided the soundtrack to the World Cup 2010 matches in South Africa, generating an... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
  • Brave the Cold in Earthtec Winter Outerwear (Photo ...
    Earthtec Tuperlo Hooded Jacket. Photo: Earthtec Brrr ...soon it will be necessary to wrap up in a winter coat before braving the great outdoors. Earthtec apparel has just come out with a men's and women's activewear collection of jackets and hoodies, made from post consumer recycled water bottl ...

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 )

  • Natural resources fuel North Dakota's economic boo ...
    While the rest of the country suffers through unemployment, foreclosures, bank failures, and budget deficits, North Dakota is on a roll - thanks in large part to its abundant resources of oil and natural gas, almost all of which are on private land.
  • Environmental injustice en Español
    Liberal Latino pressure groups̢۪ campaign will drive up energy prices, kill jobs and hurt families. Driving up the cost of energy would impair job creation and retention, and virtually ensure brownouts and blackouts in the midst of heat waves and cold snaps.
  • The EPA's long war on chemicals
    Most manufacturing requires at least one chemical element, often several. Despite the indispensability of chemicals in society and commerce, however, there̢۪s a high likelihood that people born after 1960 grew up being told that chemicals are bad.
  • Black Crosses and black deaths
    The Black Cross Alliance stands for opposition to jobs, decent living standards and civil rights progress here in America and opposition to life-saving electricity for billions who have yet to enjoy any of the basic necessities and comforts that electricity brings.
  • Climate Depot in the news
    Marc Morano of CFACT's Climate Depot has been widely cited in the media this week.

Ria Novosti Online News

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Russian drifting polar station SP-38 opens in Chuk ...
    In the bitterly cold darkness more than a thousand kilometers above the Arctic Circle, a team of Russian scientists have inaugurated a floating research station that will be home to 15 researchers for up to a year.
  • Russia puts U.S. telecoms satellite into orbit
    Russia's Proton-M heavy carrier rocket put a U.S. Sirius XM-5 satellite into orbit on Friday, a spokesman for Russia's space agency, Roskosmos, said.
  • 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.

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

  • Sign-on Letter to the Gates Foundation Sponsored b ...
    Dear Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Although we share a recognition that hunger, poverty, and climate change are inter-related through the medium of agricultural policies, we are writing to express our strong concerns that the Foundation's approach to these issues-directly and through its Allia ...
  • Insecticides from Genetically Modified Corn Found ...
    In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cary Institute aquatic ecologist Dr. Emma Rosi-Marshall and colleagues report that streams throughout the Midwestern Corn Belt are receiving insecticidal proteins that originate from adjacent genetically modified ...
  • Nature and Humans Leaving Indelible Mark on Rivers
    Rivers and streams supply the lifeblood of ecosystems across the globe, providing water for drinking and irrigation for humans as well as a wide array of life forms in rivers and streams from single-celled organisms all the way up to the fish humans eat. But humans and nature itself are making it to ...
  • Monsanto's Fall from Grace Reveals the Weakness of ...
    Monsanto's once-celebrated product pipeline is looking empty. As I'll show below, its current whiz-bang seeds offer just tarted-up versions of the same old traits it has been peddling for more than a decade: herbicide tolerance and pest resistance. Meanwhile, judging from the company's recent report ...
  • The 'Troubled Waters' of Big Ag's Academic Influen ...
    Troubled Waters was held up, according to University Relations (the university's fundraising and PR office) to "allow time for a review of the film's scientific content." Yet the film's team had already thoroughly fact-checked the film, and followed the review process utilized by the PBS science pro ...

fotoFrontera

  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XVI
    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] [16] 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 ...
  • Tributo a la infancia (12 fotos de niñas y niños m ...
    Para quienes están en la búsqueda de fotos e imágenes de niñas y niños muy lindos , el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas se complace en presentar ' Tributo a la Infancia '. Un set con 12 fotografías impresionantes .Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. HAZ CLICK ...
  • Paisajes de ensueño parte II (7 imágenes gratis)
    Si lo desea, revise nuestro archivo. [Parte I] [Más paisajes increíbles] 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 imágene ...
  • Ciudades en la oscuridad I (luces de la noche)
    A estas alturas, cada vez son más las personas que saben que mi único objetivo es compartir con los demás. Por ello mismo, con frecuencia estoy lanzando nuevas colecciones con imágenes realmente diferentes y hermosas. Un claro ejemplo, es esta nueva serie titulada ' Ciudades en la oscuridad (luces d ...
  • Fotografías de la comida clasificada u ordenada po ...
    Ni por nada del mundo se pierda usted esta fascinante colección de 5 collages de fotos e imágenes donde la comida ha sido organizada en base a su color . Sin duda alguna, una verdadera delicia visual e informativa de la excelente artista y diseñadora gráfica Linda Lundgren .Nota: Haz click aquí o so ...

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

  • Gerson to Gorillaz, your day in G’s
    Michael Gerson personifies the two-faced nature of the Republican elites, eagerly fanning hateful memes while perched upon his lofty moral precipice from which he judges the dicks and the reds. Christopher Hitchens is a red. Christopher Hitchens is weaker on the personal and ethical challenge presen ...
  • 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.

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 ...

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

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • US state department defends Europe-wide terror ale ...
    ShareThis US state department defends Europe-wide terror alert 14 Oct 2010 The US state department today defended the decision to issue a terror alert covering all of Europe but admitted that it had no specific information of any plot or potential target. The alert issued on 3 October stated "curren ...
  • Six killed in Iraq bomb attacks
    ShareThis Six killed in Iraq bomb attacks 14 Oct 2010 Six people were killed on Thursday in separate bomb attacks in Iraq, one of which targeted an official from the secular Iraqiya [CIA] bloc of former premier Iyad Allawi, an interior ministry official said. In Jurf al-Nadaf, some 10 kilometres (6 ...
  • Afghan detainees mistreated in secret U.S. jail: r ...
    ShareThis Afghan detainees mistreated in secret U.S. jail: report 14 Oct 2010 Former detainees at a secret U.S. prison in Afghanistan say jailers mistreated them by depriving them of natural light, failing to provide proper food and withholding Red Cross visits, a report said Thursday. In the report ...
  • Soldier silenced for testimony in Afghan killings ...
    ShareThis Soldier silenced for testimony in Afghan killings probe --The Army is doing everything it can to limit the publicity its own explosive account created . 14 Oct 2010 First, Justin Stoner blew the whistle on his platoon. Now, the Army apparently wants to silence him. In photos obtained by CN ...
  • Security officers targeted in Iraq
    ShareThis Security officers targeted in Iraq 15 Oct 2010 Iraqi security officials say insurgents have been targeting the police and military in recent months, with even traffic officers being killed and maimed. The weapons of choice are bombs attached to cars with magnets, and handguns equipped with ...

Daily Loaf

  • Citizens win on community plans
    Citizens won fierce battles this week to protect community plans from developers who don't want to have to abide by a community's vision for how they should grow and which types of development should go where within their neighborhoods. Last night's hearing provided a good look at the stark differe ...
  • TIGLFF Movie Review: The Four-Faced Liar entertain ...
    A fast-paced, lighthearted look at relationships in a small group running woefully short on honesty and faithfulness.
  • Jim Norman thrown off the ballot by Tallahassee ju ...
    But Norman won't be going up to Tallahassee as planned now. And it's not because of cheap shots uttered by a political opponent, but a Circuit Court Judge in the state of Florida who said he has done wrong.
  • Rubio calls Crist’s version of why he became an in ...
    Meek asserted himself throughout the televised session as the voice of the working class, his natural Democratic party base that has been eroding ever since Governor Crist switched to become an independent in late April when he realized it was no longer possible that he could win as a Republican.
  • Green DIY: Make your own Halloween costume
    It’s almost two weeks until Halloween. What’s your costume situation? If you are still without a costume and a clue, don’t go buying one at the mall or online. Why shell out over fifty bucks for a cheap costume you might only wear once? Go the greener and economical route this year and make your [. ...

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

  • Spare the rod, spoil the Democrats
    The Republican Ogres are coming! This election is of colossal importance and is Very Important (see the diagram) and you must send buckets of money to Democrats then vote for them even though they’ve continually back-stabbed you. Remember, the Republican ogres are coming, so be scared, be very scare ...
  • Professional Leftists Blue Gal and Driftglass have ...
    All 40 podcasts now available at Professional Left They blog individually at Driftglass and Blue Gal and also contribute to Crooks and Liars. They’re doing fine work and afflicting the comfortable, so toss a fiver in their PayPal bucket while you’re there.
  • Jumping bikes 35 feet in air into pond
    Seems totally insane to me!
  • The joys of capitalism
    Trapped Chilean miners denied pay while underground
  • The little Maine house that triggered foreclosure- ...
    The foreclosure docs were robo-signed by an ethics-challenged drone at GMAC who said he ‘signed’ 400 a day and never reviewed any of them. GMAC calls this a “technicality” as does the Obama Administration. The stock markets would beg to differ, as banking stocks got clobbered today as everyone reali ...

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

  • Monsanto DENIES Blackwater Hire, ADMITS to monitor ...
    Nation Magazine Story, “Blackwater Black Ops” Refers to Monsanto and Security Firm From Monsanto home page: Monsanto did not hire Blackwater nor did we approve of the firm infiltrating any groups as was suggested in the Nation article. In 2008, 2009 and early 2010, a firm called Total Intelligence S ...
  • CIA Covert Ops Behind Mexico’s ‘War On ...
    by Tom Burghardt dissidentvoice.org - For decades, investigative journalists, researchers and analysts have noted the symbiotic relationships forged amongst international drug syndicates, neofascists and U.S. intelligence agencies, documenting the long and bloody history of U.S. complicity in the gl ...
  • Al-Qaeda Magazine Calls For Strikes On American Re ...
    The new Al-Qaeda magazine!!! Buy it at the nearest news stand!!! If this wasn’t so stupid, it would be scary… theweek.com - The second issue of Inspire, an English-language magazine produced by al Qaeda’s Yemen branch, has just hit virtual newsstands. Like its July predecessor, Inspire’s October edi ...
  • Released State Department Documents Mention &#8216 ...
    foreignpolicyjournal.com U.S. government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and recently posted on the website of the George Washington University National Security Archive shed some additional light on talks with the Taliban prior to the terrorist attacks of September ...
  • Europeans getting tired of Washington’s fake ...
    rt.com According to a report in the Guardian, a UK newspaper, the alleged purpose of the alert was to justify the recent spike in drone attacks inside Pakistan and the presence of the American troops in Afghanistan. This viewpoint is shared by historian F. William Engdahl, the author of the book Ful ...

The Air Vent

  • Where do winds come from?
    Again, some very important (and simple) confirmation of condensation driven winds.  When you see the top of clouds forming or evaporating, it should make you think.  The paper is open for scientific commentary there and blog commentary here. —————- Anastassia Makarieva Where do winds come from? A ...
  • Nice Job Russia — Good call.
    Fantastic news from our Russian friends, after all who wouldn’t want such a stable country and individual to be a nuclear power?! Russia to build nuclear power station in Venezuela I’m sure that our IPCC climatologist friends will agree that all countries and governments are created equal, and an en ...
  • 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 ...

Focal Point

  • Panic In Porn Valley as Actor Tests Positive for H ...
    At least five major porn studios have shut down after an actor tested positive for HIV this week. In my latest story for Working In These Times , I report on potential structural conflicts of interest in the industry-sponsored HIV testing program for straight porn in the San Fernando Valley. The in ...
  • 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 ...

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Roundup: Photos, Chat, Video, HTML5, Even ...
    Deleted Facebook Photos Around 16 Months Later – Jacqui Cheng from ArsTechnica wrote and update to a piece from a year ago where she wanted to see how long it takes to remove a deleted photo from a social networkâs servers. Turns out her deleted photo was still on Facebookâs server more than 16 ...
  • Facebook Like Buttons Begin Appearing in Online Ba ...
    The Like button has been available since late April, but Facebook and some of its advertisers are taking it a logical step further in a test rolling out today: Like buttons in banner ads. So if you’re reading an article a news site that runs banner ads for large advertisers like Mountain Dew and JC ...
  • As Source for Current Facebook Employees, Google H ...
    Yahoo is suffering more of a talent drain, and bigger companies like Microsoft have more employees to lose, yet Google is still the top past employer of current Facebook employees, according to LinkedIn data. This trend is not new. Engineer Justin Rosenstein helped kick it off in mid 2007 with an ou ...
  • Farmers Insurance Partners with Zynga’s FarmVille, ...
    The Farmers Insurance Group and Zynga have partnered to allow the insurance company to virtually appear in the FarmVille game. While it’s not the first virtual good to appear in FarmVille or other social games from a major brand, it does appear to be the first virtual good from an insurance company, ...
  • Business-Oriented Tools Appear on This Week’s List ...
    This week’s AppData list of emerging Facebook apps, defined as those still under a million monthly active users, is full of lightweight “for fun” apps and fewer actual games than usual. There are also, in the lists’s lower reaches, some more interesting and functional non-game apps. Take a look: Top ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • My oath to Israel's "Jewish democracy": why my fin ...
    Jonathan Cook describes his misgivings at having to swear an oath of loyalty to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state” and explains that the loyalty oath requirement may be the first in a series of steps planned by Israeli leaders to fulfil their vision of a racially pure country.
  • 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.

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

  • Thinking outside the box? No! Throw the Box Away!
    Breaking the Chain of Institutional Thinking   Largely as a result of the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” the traditional framework of the East-West political dialogue has broken and fallen entirely under the spell of the extremists on both sides. Since much of the West’s relationship was bas ...
  • China-Turkmenistan Score: Another Wave of US-Mujah ...
    Extreme Competitions May Bring More Familiar Extreme Measures Here is one of the latest on China-Turkmenistan Pipeline deals: China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) has announced the discovery of yet another gas field on the right bank of the Amu Darya River in Turkmenistan, holding in excess o ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Million Letter March: Just Say No!
    If anyone sends anything to you asking to join the Million Letter March, treat it like spam. Look, I’m being serious: it’s the idea of Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute, who’s primary driver doesn’t appear to be saving the global ecology or humanity in general, but saving civilization ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Turkey on the Edge - Implications for America in T ...
    On September 12, Turkey went to the polls to vote on constitutional amendments proposed by the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP). Nearly 38.3 million people turned out, with 21.8 million voting in favor of a variety of changes to the Turkish political system, from establishing constituti ...
  • Haiti on the Edge - K Street Lobbyists Assist Cons ...
    A number of construction and disaster-response firms have hired Washington lobbyists to help navigate the contracting process for rebuilding Haiti. In January 2010, Haiti suffered a devastating earthquake that left thousands dead and millions homeless. Since then, the U.S. government and its interna ...
  • Travel Safety - U.S. Pilots and Unions Nix Cockpit ...
    Eight federal water-management officials climbed into a Cessna 208B aircraft�in Montrose, Colorado, just after dawn on Oct. 8, 1997. They were headed to the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, but the chartered plane disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff. Two days later, searchers found the plane fla ...
  • Edwin Black on Farhud Tells the Fuller Story Too L ...
    I recently heard Edwin Black speaking on a radio show about his new book The Farhud . I have long heard the stories of the Mufti of Jerusalem. I have done some poking around on this topic. What I found was terrible. I for one had no idea that the relationship between the Nazis and the Arabs was so e ...
  • Midterm Elections - Who’s in Charge of the Tea Par ...
    Is it Sarah Palin and her lunch pail brand of God, guns, and the Constitution? Is it Dick Armey, the former House majority leader who danced to his own tune and was the mastermind behind the GOP’s Contract with America? Or is the Tea Party led by a few private mega-funders—a George Soros clan of the ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Know-How, Know-What And The Politics Of Knowledge ...
    By Michael Edwards In an age when wealth and power present a more diffuse and benign face to the world, the soft authority of knowledge is ever more important as a force for social change. The politics of knowledge how ideas are created, used and disseminated represents a key issue for the social ...
  • Future Chaos: There Is No Plan B
    By Chris Martenson The hard news is that there is no Plan B. The future is likely to be more chaotic than you probably think. This was the primary conclusion that I came to after attending the most recent Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) in Washington, DC in October, 2010
  • The Biggest Climate Conference Youve Never Heard O ...
    By Anirvan Chatterjee The world watched last years climate talks in Copenhagen with hope and trepidation. We spent the past two weeks following the ICAO Assembly, the aviation sectors climate talks in Montreal with equal anticipation. Unlike Copenhagen, there was little coverage, and very limited c ...
  • On The Road With Ahmadinejad In Lebanon
    By Franklin Lamb He came, he saw, he conquered
  • WikiLeaks Funding Blocked
    By David Leigh & 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 s ...

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

  • Saudi Prince Who Killed Servant Faces Death Penalt ...
    Boy oh boy, that religion of peace certainty has a great sense of justice. Especially the Wahhabi version of Islam practiced in the Saudi Kingdom. Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasir al Saud, 34, who is a grandson of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, is accused of killing Bandar Abdullah Abdulaziz in a to ...
  • Lisa Murkowski Runs Endorsement From Ted Stevens ( ...
    What is it with Senators who are trying to hang on too long, last week Harry Reid named two dead people as his greatest living Americans, today Lisa Murkowski begins running a commercial starring Ted Stevens, the former Alaska Senator who died in a plane crash weeks before Murkowski lost the GOP nom ...
  • The Pamela Geller Interview
    Those of you who are regular readers of this site know that I am a big fan of Pamela Geller. Pamela has caught much criticism since she became a leader in the effort to fight the ground zero mosque. Those people do not understand what motivates Pamela. There are people in the world who see a wrong, ...
  • How To Kill Americans: A Guide to the Really Effec ...
    The following was written by my friend and teacher Barry Rubin, it is a satire (or is it?) By Barry Rubin The new al-Qaida magazine, called Inspire , has created quite a stir with its articles explaining various ways to kill Americans. Yet despite the presence of no less than three Ameri ...
  • Orlando Sentinel Endorses Webster-Says Alan Grayso ...
    � Even before his campaign for reelection began running an ad that Factcheck declared as Rep. Grayson lowers the bar, the progressive congressman from Florida's 8th congressional district was an� embarrassment to his district, state and the legislature in which he sits. To put it succinct ...

The Real Agenda

  • Colonel Anthony Schaffer: Government Covered-up 9/ ...
    During an interview on Freedom Watch, Schaffer said a massive cover-up at the highest levels of the U.S. government exists regarding the September 11 attacks in 2001. Filed under: Corruption, War Zone
  • Cancer ‘is purely man-made’ say scient ...
    Mail Online Cancer is a man-made disease fuelled by the excesses of modern life, a study of ancient remains has found. � Tumours were rare until recent times when pollution and poor diet became issues, the review of mummies, fossils and classical literature found. A greater understanding of its orig ...
  • CBS News: Ground Floor Explosions Brought Down Twi ...
    Paul Joseph Watson Yet another 9/11 video that NIST tried to block from being released has emerged discussing bombs in the World Trade Center that led to the collapse of the twin towers, indicating once more that the organization attempted to preside over a cover-up to hide evidence of secondary exp ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Dial-a-BabyKiller service offered by Craigslist
    Actually, it was a post offering Body Armor published against C.L. rules (weapons are supposedly prohibited, and according to the Pig Establishment, body armor is an offensive weapon if used by a non-Police criminal, as opposed to the Criminals who make up the Pig Establishment) said he had been a C ...
  • So-called Free Market Capitalism doesn’t pay ...
    It instead leeches off Tax-supported Publicly paid enterprises like the Army and Police agencies, not coincidentally the only agencies they want to be continued to have Public Funding…Allow the wealthiest to not pay taxes on money they obtained through blatantly aggressive Government Interventions i ...
  • Power already knows the truth
    Nearing the election, I’m reminded of Ward Churchill’s rejection of a modern activist’s purported objective, as left-leaning voices speak up to validate the Democratic Party’s inherent claim to represent what the Republicans do not. As if the corporate status quo doesn’t know very well the reforms i ...
  • Marlon Brando’s lost Oscar speech
    In 1973 Marlon Brando declined his Godfather best actor award in solidarity with the American Indian. Yada yada yada, only that much we remember. Something to do with Wounded Knee, but the average American might be excused for confusing the massacre of 300 Lakota in 1890 with a contemporary deadly F ...
  • 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 ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Hello Everyone
    Hey everybody, my name is Fakeham and I'm just posting this as an introductory post to let everyone know that I am a new contributor to this blog. There's not much to tell about myself because everything important will be in my biography. I have a youtube channel and occasionally do videos on 9/11 r ...
  • Iraq Inquiry: your opportunity to demand a new 9/1 ...
    28 September 2010 From Reinvestigate 911 YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO DEMAND A NEW 9/11 INVESTIGATION Reinvestigate 911 is asking 9/11 truth activists worldwide to write to the Iraq Inquiry in London in support of our submission. Please forward this email to any politicians or journalists who may be inter ...
  • Debunking the Debunkers
    Permanent Top Post--Scroll Down for Newer Posts Comments are only open to blog contributors , but feel free to contact us here if you have a point of contention or some kind words you would like to share. Ad hominems will be ignored, but well-formed rebuttals may be addressed (and that is a subjec ...
  • What We Believe According to JREFers
    So I've just taken a look over at ae911truth.info to see if Mr. Joseph Nobles has been up to anything recently. His latest addition to his site concerns a post by someone on the JREF forum on a thread titled "Why do you still believe that a collapse due to fire wouldn't be possible?". I was ready to ...
  • Jim Garrison's (Kevin Costner's) Closing Argument ...
    We face the same situation today except the battle here is to have the public understand the truth about 911 after the assassination of the Twin Towers in 2001. When the truth about 911 wins over the cover-up we will see a large measure of justice served and an end to the War on Terror.

Fooducate

  • Today is World Food Day
    It’s World Food Day today. While here in the US most people have a problem with too much food intake, there are millions starving in third world countries. Save the Children, a non-profit whose mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and las ...
  • Product Review – Odwalla Heart Health Superfood Fr ...
    Odwalla, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Coca Cola Company, has been making juices, smoothies, and food bars since the mid 1980’s. A company representative reached out to us a few weeks ago regarding a new product with the very promising name you see in the title of this blog post. We had samples ...
  • Canada: BPA is Toxic!
    Kudos to our friends north of the border for a brave decision yesterday – Canada became the first country in the world to declare Bisphenol-A a toxin: In the order adding BPA to the toxic register, Health Canada identified dietary intake as the primary source of human exposure. It underlined conc ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Fighting Bob Fest Attracts Big Names
    By Tim Damos, News Republic Greg Palast doesn't pull any punches. His investigative stories are written in classic muckraker style; hard-hitting in both the juiciness they uncover and the language they use. Author of the New York Times best sellers "Armed Madhouse" and "The Best Democracy Money C ...
  • 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 ...

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • Bankers’ extortion
    And we as a society may be on the line for hundreds of billions more to sort out of the title clusterfuck as we can't afford to hurt the banksters' feelings by sacking, shaming, seizing assets and taxing their wealth.
  • You can generally count on Obama…
    … to do the wrong thing. The Obama administration said it plans to appeal a ruling striking down the law (DADT), and asked a federal judge for an emergency stay of her decision. And think the reason he has problems it that folks think he’s too left wing, but his policies were all good ones [...]
  • 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 ...
  • Bankers’ extortion
    And we as a society may be on the line for hundreds of billions more to sort out of the title clusterfuck as we can't afford to hurt the banksters' feelings by sacking, shaming, seizing assets and taxing their wealth.
  • You can generally count on Obama…
    … to do the wrong thing. The Obama administration said it plans to appeal a ruling striking down the law (DADT), and asked a federal judge for an emergency stay of her decision. And think the reason he has problems it that folks think he’s too left wing, but his policies were all good ones [...]

Age of Autism

  • AoA Book Tour Takes Us Back to the Source
    From Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill: The "Age of Autism Book Tour" hit Southern California this past week, with Dan signing books at the Defeat Autism Now! conference in Long Beach, then speaking at the TACA group in Poway just...
  • Special Edition: The Supreme Court, Bruesewitz v. ...
    Mary Holland, Esq. joins Teri Arranga with a report on this week's oral arguments heard by the Supreme Court in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth. Click HERE to listen. Special Edition: The Supreme Court, Bruesewitz v. Wyeth Originally Aired Thu, 10/14/2010 -...
  • Melissa Barton Asks Anthony Westbury: "Do You Real ...
    Managing Editor's Note: We learned that this school district hired Dr. Max Wiznitzer of University Hospitals of Cleveland on their behalf - which means against the family and child. Way to look out for the kids as usual Dr. Max....
  • Dr. Bob Sears: Why You Shouldn't Mix Flu Shots Wit ...
    Read Dr. Bob Sears' post, "Why You Shouldn't Mix Flu Shots With Other Vaccines" and comment at Huffington Post HERE It's that time of year again. No, not autumn, when all the leaves turn to beautiful shades of red and...
  • The Farce of Hyping Gene Studies
    By John Stone I could scarcely believe my eyes last week when BBC news made its principal story one morning last week a genetics paper purporting to “prove” the ADHD was a genetic disorder (HERE ). In fact, the study...

Global BDS Movement

  • Press Release: Five countries boycott tourism conf ...
    Five countries boycott tourism conference in Jerusalem FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 October 2010 • UK, Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, and Ireland will not attend controversial conference hosted by Israel • Many countries undecided or set to only send low-level delegations • OECD General Secretary wa ...
  • 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 ...

Farm Wars

Open Your Eyes News

  • IMF chief’s warning of currency war ‘r ...
    BBC – Global currency wars pose “a real threat” to economic recovery, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has warned. In an interview with the BBC, he said currency disputes showed countries were not co-operating as well as they had during the financial crisis. In re ...
  • Court to hear case over child interviews involving ...
    CNN — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an emotionally divisive dispute on when children can be interviewed about sex abuse allegations without a warrant and without parents present … early next year. But the judges noted the “delicate” balancing interests that will be weighed in the upcoming hig ...
  • Before ‘08 Mumbai attacks, U.S. was warned k ...
    Washington Post – Three years before Pakistani terrorists struck Mumbai in 2008, federal agents in New York City investigated a tip that an American businessman was training in Pakistan with the group that later executed the attack. Read article Related article: Mumbai terror suspect David Headley ...
  • US delays China ‘currency manipulator’ ...
    BBC – The US government has delayed a report – which was expected on Friday – that could officially brand China a “currency manipulator”. The US Treasury releases two reports a year on the currency practices of its major trading partners. It has so far held back from naming China. The report is not ...
  • US: States linking prescription databases, fight a ...
    AP — Starting next year, dozens of states will begin knitting together databases to watch prescription drug abuse, from powerful painkillers to diet pills. With federal money and prodding, states are being asked to sign onto an agreement allowing police, pharmacies and physicians to check suspiciou ...

L.A. Times - Greenspace

  • Nation's forests help offset greenhouse gas emissi ...
    U.S. forests sequester enough carbon every year to offset roughly 11% of the country's industrial greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new federal report. The inventory ranks California among the top states in forest carbon storage, not far behind its...
  • Prop. 23: Avatar's James Cameron kicks in $1 milli ...
    James Cameron, the director of Avatar, the environmental fable masquerading as a 3-D blockbuster, popped a million dollars Friday into the campaign to defeat Proposition 23, a California ballot initiative to suspend the state's global warming law. Cameron, who has...
  • Group races against clock to save redwoods from lo ...
    The Save the Redwoods League launched a campaign Friday to raise $7 million to purchase 426 acres that contain one of the last stands of old-growth redwoods in Mendocino County. If the group fails to raise the money by April...
  • Big Oil goes to college: a conflict of interest?
    Have hundreds of millions of dollars in grants from major oil companies compromised the ethics of energy research at such institutions as UC Berkeley, UC Davis and Stanford? That's what Jennifer Washburn, a longtime critic of academic conflicts of interest,...
  • $33 million in energy-efficiency funding at stake ...
    Battle lines are being drawn in a Riverside County superior court over the fate of $33 million in federal stimulus funding for residential energy-efficiency improvements. The funds were originally set aside for the beleaguered Property Assessed Clean Energy program, or...

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

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

  • We are Facing the Greatest Threat to Humanity: Onl ...
    Quite simply, human-centered governance systems are not working and we need new economic, development and environmental policies. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Nobel Peace Prize awarded to China dissident Liu X ...
    Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has been named the winner of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. The award, announced in Norway's capital Oslo, is certain to anger Beijing, which had earlier warned against the move... Submitted by Ben Oscarsito to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • 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? Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Latino Children in America are More Likely to be H ...
    It is shameful that a third of Latino children should have to worry about where they'll get their next meal.Nearly 30 percent of Latino children and their families receive assistance from Feeding America food banks each year. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a ...
  • Nobel Winner's Wife Under House Arrest
    China on Monday blocked European diplomats from meeting with the wife of the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner, cut off her phone communication and canceled meetings with Norwegian officials - acting on its fury over the award. Submitted by Naoko I. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Solar Energy / Energy Boom

  • The Renewable Energy Leaders Forum: Martin Ritchie ...
    With its Green Energy Act and precedent-setting feed-in tariffs , Ontario is not only becoming Canada's clean energy hub, but also a worldwide hotspot .� read more
  • Ikea Plans to Power its California Stores Using th ...
    IKEA has announced plans to install 20,000 solar panels on seven stores and a distribution center in California. read more
  • 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

News Blaze


libcom

  • Round 2 of the TEKEL struggle: workers against the ...
    The TEKEL struggle has restarted - this time in Istanbul. The TEKEL struggle which gave birth to the "Ankara Soviet", a collection of tents which workers gathered and lived around for 80 days in the center of Ankara, Kızılay, was one of ...
  • 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 ...

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

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

  • Former Countrywide Executives Settle SEC Charges a ...
    Just days before trial was scheduled to open, Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive officer and chairman of Countrywide Financial, once the nation's largest mortgage lender, has agreed to pay $67.5 million to settle claims by the SEC that he misled shareholders about the risks associated wit ...
  • Suit Against Law Firm Could Signal Next Wave of Mo ...
    Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy has sued a Los Angeles-area law firm for allegedly collecting illegal fees from a couple for a "forensic loan audit," promising to stop the foreclosure of their property -- which they quickly lost. The lawsuit accuses attorney Francisco Nogales of promising the audit w ...
  • The Lawyer Who Reined In the Rubber Stampers and R ...
    With a firestorm still raging over revelations that loan-servicing companies used "robo-signers" to churn out affidavits used to foreclose on massive numbers of homes, the origins of the controversy are becoming clearer. The allegations that lenders were using questionable practices began to crystal ...
  • 'Perfect' Is the Enemy of Green Initiatives
    Consultant and attorney Theodore Banks set the tone at the Green Matters conference in New Orleans as he reminded attendees that to successfully promote green programs, everyone must remember that "the perfect is the enemy of the good," reports Monica Bay, LTN editor-in-chief.
  • WaMu Shareholders Win Class Certification in Case ...
    While Washington Mutual shareholders wait anxiously for the Nov. 1 examiner's report in WaMu's Chapter 11 to find out if they have any hope of recovery through the bankruptcy process, things are looking very good in their securities class action against some very deep-pocketed defendants. A federal ...

Iranian.com

  • Friday 23 Mehr 1389 Oct 15, 2010
    Mohsen Sazegara Friday 23 Mehr 1389 Oct 15, 2010
  • یک پلنگ ایرانی شکار شد
    به گفته کارشناسان محیط زیست، تعداد پلنگ های ایرانی در جهان از ۱۳۰۰ قلاده تجاوز نمی کند که گفته می شود بین ۵۵۰ تا ۸۸۰ قلاده آنها در ایران زندگی می کنند.
  • Dominating Lebanon and more
    Beyond providing TV foot age of welcoming throngs of Hezbollah supporters, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Lebanon this week served a number of purposes -- none good. read more
  • Iran's Ahmadinejad Gets Hero's Welcome Near Israel ...
    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized Ahmadinejad's regime onABC's "Good Morning America" today, citing its nuclear program and its "support of terrorism." "So when the Iranian president goes to Lebanon, and we know that they are supporting financially and in every other way Hezbollah, which ...
  • «حزب‌الله و حماس همپيمان استراتژيک مردم ايران نيس ...
    نه تنها دولت‌ها بلکه گروه‌های سياسی و حتی گروه‌ها و سازمان‌های مقاومت می توانند اقتدارگرا و تماميت طلب باشند. حزب الله لبنان و گروه حماس از اين قبيل هستند. هيچ نشانه‌ای از اولويت دمکراسی و حقوق بشر در منشورها و بيانيه‌های اين گروه‌ها به چشم نمی خورد و از اين جهت هيچ هدف استرتژيکی read more

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 ...

Doug's Darkworld

  • The Ten Most Influential People in History?
    I saw this question on Yahoo Answers and it got me thinking. So my post about UFOs, Chilean Miners, the American Elections, Robert Gates and gays, and the nightmare in Mexico is going to have to wait. Who are the most influential people in history is a very debatable question, and honestly my knowle ...
  • 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 ...

FourWinds10

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

  • In Case You Missed It
    Join the forum discussion on this post In addition to the EPA’s decision to raise the allowed ethanol blends to 15%, there were three other energy-related stories of interest this week. Deep-Water Ban Ends The first was that the Obama administration has lifted the ban on deep-water drilling: Oba ...
  • 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.

Discovery Educator Network

  • 18 Free Screencasting tools to Create Video Tutori ...
    Tags: screencasting , tools , screencast , tutorial , screencapture , 18 by: Dean Mantz
  • Free music, free books, free games, free poems and ...
    Comments: "MORE THAN 800 BOOKS STRONG — IN ENGLISH, SPANISH AND CHINESE! MightyBook is a powerhouse of learning that's helping kids around the world read and speak English. With more than 800 animated stories, songs, games and puzzles - plus lesson plans and online quizzes -- MightyBook is one of ...
  • Interactive Folio: Romeo and Juliet
    Tags: Shakespeare , romeo , interactive , juliet , romeo_juliet , reading , language_arts , english by: Dean Mantz
  • DocsTeach
    Comments: Very interesting site for social studies and primary sources. - Dean Mantz Tags: history , socialstudies , research , primary sources , primary , primary_sources , docsteach , web2.0 by: Dean Mantz
  • SMART Board Website Resources
    Tags: smartboard , Interactive , IWB by: Cheryl Lykowski

Rodale News

  • Smart Choice? What Does That Mean?
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Earlier this year, when Froot Loops and Fudgsicles were dubbed healthy choices under the food industry's new "Smart Choices" front-of-package food labeling system , the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did a double take. The agency sent the Smart Choices' general manager a ...
  • Cyber-Bullying May Be More Damaging Than Schoolyar ...
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Cyber-bullying cases always seem to garner attention and outrage, but perhaps no more so than the recent, well-publicized tragedy at Rutgers University, where a student committed suicide after a friend and his roommate secretly filmed a compromising video of him and posted i ...
  • 5 Savory, Satisfying Recipes Using Parmesan Cheese
    RODALE NEWS, EMMAUS, PA—Firm and somewhat dry, but packed with tangy flavor, Parmesan cheese is an essential ingredient for many cooks (and not all of them live in Italy). Though Parmesan-type cheeses are manufactured around the world, Italy is the source of the most revered version of this cow’s m ...
  • 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 ...

big think

  • Enter to Win Subscriptions to Wired, Discover, Inc ...
    Dr. Kaku's Universe and Big Think want to make you even better informed than you already are with subscriptions to four great magazines. To enter, simply post a comment in the comment box in response to the question below.  You have to be a registered user of Big Think in order to post a comment ( . ...
  • NY Times on “Pushy” Atheists and The Strategic Blu ...
    At the NY Times today , beliefs correspondent Mark Oppenheimer reports on last week’s Council for Secular Humanism conference in Los Angeles.  His article discusses the infighting within the movement.  As I wrote last week , at issue is how secular humanists and atheists should participate as citize ...
  • Truth in Milk Labeling
    At the end of September, a federal court struck down an Ohio law forbidding companies from labeling dairy products as made from milk that is “rBGH free,” “rBST free,” or “artificial hormone free.” In its ruling, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said that the law violated dairy processors' First .. ...
  • Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of "Future Shock"
    On Thursday in Washington, several dozen futurists, military strategists, investors and journalists gathered to honor the inventors of futurism, Alvin and Heidi Toffler, and celebrate the 40th anniversary of Future Shock , first published in 1970. Future Shock is easily one of the most influential . ...
  • Is Iran Leading Israel Into A Trap?
    A thought occurred to me last night as I watched one of the BBC’s Diplomatic Correspondents, Mark Urban on the channel’s flagship current affairs programmes. Newsnight.  And it was that perhaps Iran is egging Israel on to attack her nuclear facilities? Urban’s report focussed on Iran’s big nuclear . ...

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...
  • Mother Calls 911 For Help, Cop Helps By Killing He ...
    It - just - doesn't - stop. FOX 10 News reports on the latest 911 victim: ...This all started at a trailer park near Central and South Mountain. A woman called 911 to report domestic violence on the part of her son, 29-year-old Danny Frank Rod...
  • 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...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

  • A Bit Of British Fair Play…
    …or so it seems from this story in the UK Daily Telegraph. Under new guidelines published on Tuesday, the BBC will henceforth be required to give “appropriate weight” to dissenting views on controversial subjectsâlike Anthropogenic Global Warming. Our God-Emperor is … Continue reading →
  • 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 →

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

  • Water blog action day
    Five facts about water Unsafe drinking water and lack of sanitation kills more people every year than all forms of violence, including war – that’s 42,000 deaths each week. More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. 2.5 billion people lack access to a toilet, which mean sewage spills ...
  • 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. ...

RFF Library

  • Geologic Storage Formation Classifications: Unders ...
    US Department of Energy http://tinyurl.com/23lwoqt [From executive summary] A need exists for further research on carbon storage technologies to capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2) from stationary sources that would otherwise be emitted to the atmosphere. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technolo ...
  • Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River B ...
    National Academies Press, Committee on Clean Water Act Implementation Across the Mississippi River Basin http://tinyurl.com/2e7rkjg (free PDF with registration) [From Report Website] Most water resources managers, scientists, and other experts would agree that nonpoint source pollution is a more pre ...
  • 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 ...

Scientific American - News

  • Taking Waves: FCC Green Lights Unlicensed Use of W ...
    Consumer electronics companies got an early Christmas present this year when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to grant unlicensed smart phones, computers and other wireless devices approval to connect to the Internet via vacant "white space" airwaves. Exactly which Christmas, howe ...
  • The spirit of Lindau: the past, present & future o ...
    The years following World War II were dark days for science in Germany. But in 1951, a light began to glimmer. Two physicians from the island of Lindau, supported by wealthy Swedish count Lennart Bernadotte, established a meeting of Nobel Laureates. At first they drew participants from Germany and i ...
  • 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 ...

RAWA News

  • AFP faces hard job to train corrupt candidates
    The Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIAN officers are training Afghan police who are corrupt, obtain money from the Afghan drug trade and are often sexually abused or sexual abusers, a new report says. The report, by the non-government organisation The Liaison Office in Afghanistan, comes as the Home A ...
  • Over 60pc Afghans suffer from mental health proble ...
    PAN: Over 60 percent of Afghans suffered from mental health problems and stress due to the decades of war, poverty, political vulnerability and poor health facilities, the health minister said on Sunday. Speaking at a ceremony marking the World Mental Health Day, Dr Suraya Dalil said 'major steps' h ...
  • Afghanistan Air Strikes Up 172 Percent
    ABC News Radio: The number of U.S. and NATO air strikes over Afghanistan has spiked since General David Petraeus replaced General Stanley McCrystal as commander of the war effort in June. U.S. Air Force statistics show a 172 percent increase, with 700 separate missions flown in September. A total o ...
  • Afghanistan going “from worse to worse&#8221 ...
    Straight Goods News: Those who feel it is good news that the Afghanistan government is secretly negotiating with the Taliban won't get any reassurance from Malalai Joya. A year after her last visit to Canada, the outspoken former member of Afghanistan's parliament risks her life every day by speakin ...
  • Afghan civilians killed in foreign air strike-poli ...
    Reuters: At least three civilians were killed along with 14 insurgents in a NATO air strike targeting a senior Taliban commander in southern Helmand province, Afghan authorities said on Monday. The raid comes only a day after another air strike by foreign forces targeting insurgents in Helmand which ...

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

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

  • Eric Cantor on Earmarks
    Eric Cantor explains today why he's obsessed with earmark reform even though it wouldn't have the slightest impact on federal spending: If we hope to preserve Social Security and Medicare for seniors, younger workers and our children, we must begin the conversation about common-sense ways to refo ...
  • Lunch at the White House
    �I just saw this picture on the New York Times front page: Seriously? Obama and Biden eat lunch with each other at opposite ends of a long table? I've seen that used as a joke in movies, but never in real life. Is there some kind of weird White House etiquette that prevents them from sitting righ ...
  • Friday Cat Blogging - 15 October 2010
    Back in the day, both Inkblot and Domino used to stroll around on top of the fence between our house and our neighbors. The only way they could get up, though, was to jump onto the air conditioning unit first and then jump from there to the fence. That all ended a couple of years ago when we got a n ...
  • Better Than a Radar Detector
    In the "news you can use" category, a study by Quality Planning, a San Francisco firm that services the auto insurance industry, provides us with a list of the cars most and least likely to get you a ticket. Here are the lists: Why is the Toyota Camry the 2nd most ticketed model? That's a stumper ...
  • Trouble in Bankster Land
    Felix Salmon has a fascinating post today on the ever expanding mortgage foreclosure scandal. His take goes beyond the foreclosure problems themselves, though. The background is this: back in the glory days, when banks bought up mortgages by the millions to repackage into MBS and CDOs, they'd hire a ...

Insanity Report

  • Brian Kilmeade Should Walk Into Traffic
    And he should take Bill O’Reilly with him. Seriously if you can’t see the ethnic/religious scare tactics going on here then you are a blind fool. I won’t even comment on Kilmeade’s ignorance because…well, he’s on Fox & Friends which is  scraping the bottom of the barrel of intelligence on a good da ...
  • The Reason I Haven’t Written Anything in a While
    You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t written anything in a while.  The truth is, I’ve been a little burned out.  Between the Podcast, Twitter discussions/debates, my actually 9-5 and working on Movie Trailer Reviews and the new site, I found myself having a little less motivation to actually wri ...
  • 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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Simple Climate

  • CO2 dominates Earth’s climate, NASA reveals
    Earth's temperature would fall 35°C in 50 years without CO2, as water vapour condenses into water and ice and the greenhouse effect collapses, show Andrew Lacis and colleagues at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, demonstrating that CO2 alone is the “thermostat” for climate change.
  • 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 ...

e!Science News

  • Shifting forms: Penn study shows how variations of ...
    How a T cell decides to make protein X, Y, or Z can have profound effects for fighting foreign invaders or staving off dire autoimmune reactions. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified the steps that control how different forms of an immune cell protein call ...
  • Images shed new light on inflammation
    Researchers at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine are using an innovative new imaging technique to study how white blood cells (called neutrophils) respond to inflammation, and have revealed new targets to inhibit the response. read more
  • NRL scientists unravel complex quantum dot-dopamin ...
    Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in conjunction with the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Ca., recently reported a detailed study of the interactions of water soluble semi-conductor quantum dots (QDs) with the electro-active neuro-transmitter dopamine. These biocompatible QD- ...
  • Study confirms: Whatever doesn't kill us can make ...
    We've all heard the adage that whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger, but until now the preponderance of scientific evidence has offered little support for it. read more
  • A river ran through it
    Rivers and streams supply the lifeblood to ecosystems across the globe, providing water for drinking and irrigation for humans as well as a wide array of life forms from single-celled organisms up to the fish humans eat. read more

unEarthed

  • Friday Finds: Breathing's More Fatal Than Air Cras ...
    It turns out airplane emissions will kill you before airplane crashes. Photo courtesy of Stock.Xchng Humans won't fly high on airplane emissions Good news, aerophobics . New research has found that more people die from plan ...
  • Spruce Mine Targeted By EPA Veto Recommendation
    Today signals a historic and hugely positive step taken�by the EPA�to protect�the people of Appalachia, who have suffered the harmful and grave consequences of mountaintop removal mining for too long. The news, just released, i ...
  • 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 ...

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 [...]

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...

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  • It’s not fascism, but…
    Notes on the anti-democratic movement in Israel Yedioth Aharonot’s weekend supplement devoted a large space yesterday (Friday) to the rise of the noxious anti-democratic wave in Israel, under the title “Fascism Won’t Pass! (Or, Maybe, it Will)” . This is in itself is commendable: all too often, new ...
  • Undercover IDF forces attack unarmed demonstration ...
    Undercover soldiers from the IDF’s special forces unit, Duvdevan, attacked the demonstration in Nabi Saleh as it was coming to an end. Four were arrested and four were injured. Patience certainly didn’t characterize the IDF’s behavior today during the weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh. The dozens o ...
  • Oct 15-16: Resuming settlement construction in Eas ...
    The Headlines: Ahmedinijad’s Biggest Fans > Another day of hysterical coverage of Iranian President Ahmedinijad’s visit to Lebanon. A former general draws [Heb] two conclusions from the visit: Israel should prepare for likely war and retain sovereignty over the Jordan Valley (and if you’re confuse ...
  • Wandering in the Fog: Israelis and History
    (Time is a bit short at the moment, so here’s a blast from the past. I do promise to write an actual post, or translate a recent one, on Saturday. Written and published in Nana News in December 2004.  Translated by Yossi Gurvitz, October 2007). A pamphlet is going around by email and [...]
  • AIPAC, a voice for the Israeli Right
    Some thoughts on the destructive role AIPAC and other “pro-Israeli” organizations play in Israeli politics New York, NY â Recently, I met a friend who works with the US office of an Israeli NGO. He told me of a conversation he once had with a top AIPAC official (since it was a private conversati ...

Sustainability,water,etc - Oz gov't

Matt Weidner Blog

  • Why Floridas Foreclosure Machine Is Slowing Down ( ...
    Published : Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:48 By : yahoo.com “At the George E. Edgecomb Courthouse in Tampa, Judge Sandra Taylor presides over one of the special courts set up to help work through Florida’s backlog of foreclosure cases. Sitting at a desk in a fifth-floor conference room, with a court assistant ...
  • Why is David J. Stern Not In Handcuffs? Stunning E ...
    Serious, pervasive, systemic fraud lies at the heart of the current foreclosure meltdown.  This fraud was not committed in shady backrooms, although it might have started there.  This fraud was carried out thousands of times a day in hundreds of courtrooms and courthouses all across the State of F ...
  • The Feds Settle With Countrywide Mortgage- Consume ...
    Countrywide Mortgage was among the worst of the actors in the Great American Mortgage Scam.  Countrywide was one of the first to be taken down when Attorneys General from 13 states, after finding the company engaged in grossly abusive practices against consumers, entered into the first weak and inef ...
  • Foreclosures hit all-time high in US
    “There was an unfortunate record set Thursday concerning foreclosures. There were more in September than any other month in history. This comes as all 50 states are investigating the foreclosure process. There were 100,000 homes repossessed in September in the U.S. It’s one thing when you hear the ...
  • Local attorney says lenders rushing home foreclosu ...
    Clearwater, Florida– Jeremy Cecere arrived home last month and couldn’t get inside. That’s because he says someone illegally changed the locks to all his doors. “Not only did they change the locks, but someone was in my house and broke in and let themselves in,” said Cecere, who rents the home on B ...

abelard - news

  • obama sings - must view | fun news at abelard.org
    "I am the very model of a US president". Video.
  • rip-off britain | politics uk news at abelard.org
    Compare and contrast: Swiss honest toil and socialist British slacking and graft.
  • if only brown the clown and obama had as much sens ...
    Maybe having a serious illness and reading so much on the net has put Fidel in touch with reality.
  • basel 2/3 kicks the ball far down the road to 2019 ...
    Trying to tie banks up in more knots so they never ever ever fail.
  • the obamas team up on junk food | fun news at abel ...
    Missus explains what should be done to improve diet, while Mister shows how to eat badly.

    Blacklisted News

    • Chinese McDonalds Are Holding Weddings Next Year, ...
      Imagine This: Fat sweaty meatsacks shuffling into Mc'Deez to have their wedding and shorten their lifespan all at once. Let's hope that this news article is just a teaser for the movie Idiocracy 2.
    • Medicare: Reform may cost seniors
      A Medicare official concedes that seniors may have to dig deeper into their wallets next year thanks to the health care law. The new analysis obtained by POLITICO finds the health care overhaul will result in increased out-of-pocket costs for seniors on Medicare Advantage plans.
    • Govt relies on Facebook "narcissism" to spot fake ...
      Pathetic : Can the government get a full picture of who you are by friending you on Facebook and monitoring your friends and family? The Department of Homeland Security thinks so, and is apparently willing to pose as that hot girl next door in order to become your friend.
    • BS Alert: Humans 'using one and a half planets' wo ...
      Human demands on natural resources have doubled in under 50 years and are now outstripping what the Earth can provide by more than half, a new report has warned. And humanity carries on as it is in use of resources, globally it will need the capacity of two Earths by 2030, the biennial Living Plane ...
    • Will the New Debt Commission Back a VAT?
      The new bipartisan federal debt commission is set to report on how the US should cut its deficit December 1, as Congress recesses without a budget for the fifth time in seven years after enacting massive deficit spending, and the Bush tax cuts are now subject to horse trading in a lame duck session. ...

    The Intelligence Daily

    My AntiWar

    CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

    • Irans “soft-power” increasingly checks US power
      Summary: Twenty years ago, Harvard’s Joseph Nye famously coined the term “soft power” to describe what he saw as an increasingly important factor in international politics—the capacity of “getting others to want what you want”, which he contrasted with the ability to coerce others through the ...
    • The Iran Report
      Summary: The new Iran NIE has been delayed a number of times because of conflicting demands from the CIA analysts involved and from the White House. The analysts, badly burned by the heavily politicized 2002 NIE on Iraq, which led to a war, and also nervous about the barrage of criticism of the ...
    • 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 ...

    The Daily Galaxy

    Natural News

    • Breast cancer awareness campaigns cause more harm ...
      (NaturalNews) For over 25 years, the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM) organization has been conducting campaigns to "promote breast cancer awareness, share information on the disease, and provide greater access to screening services." But since such campaigns began, breast cancer morta ...
    • Why patents on seeds and animals result in monopol ...
      (NaturalNews) When mankind is permitted to steal from nature and claim it as their own, only disaster awaits. And that is exactly what is happening around the world with crop seeds and animals, as biotechnology companies slice and dice genetic characteristics from natural sources and create new, pat ...
    • GM flax contamination now detected in 35 countries
      (NaturalNews) Since the Flax Council of Canada (FCC) first announced that genetically modified (GM) flaxseed not approved for human consumption had been detected in Europe, reports of such contamination have surfaced in a total of 35 countries. The variety of flax detected is known as FP967 or Triff ...
    • 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 ...

    Threat Level

    • Teen to Plead Guilty to Staging Bomb Hoaxes For Lu ...
      A North Carolina teenager has agreed to plead guilty to a federal conspiracy charge for phoning in hoax bomb threats to colleges, middle schools and FBI offices around the country for the amusement of a live internet audience. Ashton Lundeby, 17, and his associates staged bomb hoaxes from mid-2008 ...
    • Will 400,000 Secret Iraq War Documents Restore Wik ...
      After a brief quiescence, the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks is about to explode again onto the global stage with the impending release of almost 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War, marking the largest military leak in U.S. history. Measured by size, the database will dwarf the 9 ...
    • 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 ...

    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

    • The 'Teach-the-Dems-a-Lesson' Myth
      As some lefties vow to "teach the Democrats a lesson" on Nov. 2, few ask if that strategy has ever worked, notes Robert Parry. October 15, 2010
    • Treating Detainees Like Guinea Pigs
      The Bush administration's use of torture followed rule changes on human experimentation, write Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye. October 14, 2010
    • Leakers, Beware the Corporate Media
      The days of brave U.S. newspapers defying the government may be over, but the Internet offers new hope, says Ray McGovern. October 13, 2010
    • The Foreclosure Fraud Outrage Gap
      Given all the faux outrage these days, where's the fury over the banks' engaging in foreclosure fraud, asks Danny Schechter. October 12, 2010
    • Awe of Military vs. Free Speech
      A tiny right-wing church's grotesque behavior pits free-speech principles against reverence of the US military, notes Ivan Eland. October 12, 2010

    CounterPunch

    Institute for Middle East Understanding

    Water - AlterNet

    Public Citizen in Texas

    • Radioactive waste dump owner forks over another qu ...
      Rick Perry’s latest campaign cash report shows Harold Simmons has just given Perry another $250,000 at the same time that he’s seeking permission to expand his Andrews County radioactive waste dump so 36 other states can dump their “low-level” radioactive waste right here in Texas.  This brings Sim ...
    • Melissa Sanchez at Old Settlers Music Festival 200 ...
      Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Mellisa enjoys cooking in the rain
    • Power Plants Suck… (lots and lots of water)
      In 2009, a drought nearly emptied Lake Travis. People living and working in the surrounding communities remember businesses closing up as the economic activity around the lake ground to a halt. In 2010, a new threat to lake levels and local businesses has emerged. Despite rising temperatures and pro ...
    • Ramon A Sanchez: Solar Intern at Public Citizen [F ...
      Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Ramon Sanchez majors in math at the University of Texas at Austin.
    • TCEQ Status Update on Las Brisas Application an Ef ...
      This morning at a Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) hearing, Las Brisas Energy Center attempted to try to move their permitting process along by asking the commissioners to intervene in the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) process, but the SOAH Admininistrative Law Judge ...

    Unexplained Mysteries

    • Is cancer a product of modern civilization ?
      Researchers studying mummies have found very little evidence of cancer in the ancient world. Whereas cancer accounts for almost a third of all deaths ...
    • Goats climb near-vertical 160ft dam
      Herds of Alpine Ibex goats have been photographed climbing up a near vertical 160ft dam. The incredible site is testament to how skilled the goats are...
    • Inventor builds floating home from bottles
      An inventor has built himself an ideallic island in the Carribean from plastic bottles. Richard 'Rishi' Sowar used 120,000 plastic bottles to keep his...
    • Louis XVI relic tested for DNA
      A decorative gunpowder gourd is thought to contain the dried blood of French King Louis XVI. Scientists conducted DNA tests on the blood and found tha...
    • Man moves in to billion dollar house
      India's richest man has moved in to a massive 27-storey house worth over $1 billion. Mukesh Ambani is the world's fourth richest man and his new home ...

    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
      oaxaca.jpg For a week in late September, steady rain in the southern states of Mexico created mudslides and floods, affecting communities and farms in Oaxaca, Chiapas and surrounding southern states. Fortunately early reports overestimated the ...
    • 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

    GreenBiz

    • Life in the Real World after EDF Climate Corps
      People often remark on the incredible amount of financial savings uncovered by green MBAs participating in the EDF Climate Corps program. Just as remarkable is how these fellows parlayed their summer experiences into long-term careers at the nexus of business and the environment.
    • A Sustainability Checklist to Finish the Year and ...
      The fourth quarter presents important challenges and opportunities for business sustainability leaders, as it does for all executives and managers. It's often the time for planning, for budgeting for the coming year, and sometimes for spending remaining budget for the current year. Here are importan ...
    • 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.

    Reuters Global

    Booman Tribune

    • Gail Collins Has Amnesia
      Gail Collins ... How far back in a candidates history do we want to travel? Its pretty clear that kindergarten behavior is off-limits, although there are several people running for important offices this year who remind me of a preschooler I once knew who hated sharing so much that whenever ...
    • Back from Philly With Thoughts on War
      If you've noticed a scarcity of posts these last few days it's because I was attending a funeral for my Uncle (who I wrote about here ) just outside of Philadelphia. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to hook up with BooMan and the Mighty Finn (who I hear is teething -- welcome to parenthood Boo) but per ...
    • Open Thread
      Go Yankees!! Discuss
    • From One Malady to the Next
      During the early part of the housing boom I was living in a rowhouse in Philadelphia. Whenever I would venture into the suburbs, I would marvel at all the McMansions cropping up everywhere. Who were the people buying these monstrosities that cost more than a half a million dollars and what were th ...
    • Joke Line is Making Sense
      I guess Joe Klein agrees with me that the single most harmful thing a politician has done to our country since the invasion of Iraq was John McCain's decision to put Sarah Palin on the ticket. The Stupid has metastasized, and we're in for a world of hurt. We could do okay by replacing our 100 sena ...

    European Tribune

    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

    • 2010 Voice Awards: Entertainment Industry Casts Me ...
      A GoodTherapy.org News Headline This week, the 2010 Voice Awards recognized film and television writers and producers who have incorporated “dignified, respective and accurate portrayals of people with mental illnesses” into their work, including emphasis on recovery. The awards, which began in 2005 ...
    • Preventing, Not Just Reacting To, Aggressive Youth ...
      A GoodTherapy.org News Headline From taunting and bullying to fights and school shootings, students of all ages have shown a capability for a wide range of aggressive behavior toward their peers.  Part of mitigating these behaviors involves swift and effective response to early signs of bullying or ...
    • The Healing Power of the Therapeutic Relationship
      By Sarah Noel, MS, LMHC Person Centered/Rogerian Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Sarah and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Have you ever been in a relationship that challenged your assumptions and beliefs about yourself and the world around you? If so, then you know h ...
    • When Love Hurts
      By Felice Block, MA, LCPC Relational Recovery Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Felice and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The media is inundated with stories about domestic violence and the havoc that alcohol or drugs can cause with love relationships. However, there is little atten ...
    • Peers and Mental Health: In All Walks Of Life, Rea ...
      A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Humans are inherently social creatures, yet we often feel the need to hide feelings of depression, anxiety, grief and stress from those around us. What is it that keeps us from speaking our fears and feelings to friends, family, coworkers, or peers, let alone acting on ...

    Mountaintop Removal

    • Spruce Mine: Another Nail in the Coffin for Mounta ...
      Spruce Mine: Another Nail in the Coffin for Mountaintop Removal It's Getting Hot In Here Another nail in the coffin for mountaintop removal . We're part of a mass grassroots movement using legal, political, community and direct action tactics ... Anti- mountaintop removal activists plan 'mass non-v ...
    • W.Va. Gov. Manchin sues EPA over mountaintop remov ...
      FOXNews W.Va. Gov. Manchin sues EPA over mountaintop removal The Hill (blog) Joe Manchin (D) on Wednesday announced the state is suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its crackdown on mountaintop-removal practices by ... Would Sen. Byrd have supported Gov. Manchin's lawsuit against E ...
    • Community Cinema: "Deep Down" - Sheboygan Press
      Community Cinema: "Deep Down" Sheboygan Press ... Beverly May and Terry Ratliff find themselves at the center of a contentious community battle over a proposed mountaintop removal coal mine. ...
    • House Democrats Speak Out Against Mountain Top Rem ...
      New York Times (blog) House Democrats Speak Out Against Mountain Top Removal Care2.com (blog) In April, the EPA announced a set of actions to further clarify and strengthen environmental permitting requirements for Appalachian mountaintop removal and ... EPA Region 3 says "no" to vast mountaintop r ...
    • Appalachia Is Rising Up Against Mountaintop Remova ...
      Capitol News Connection Appalachia Is Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Huffington Post I was in Kentucky because the amazing group Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC) had asked me to come down to see firsthand what mountaintop removal ... Drew protests mountaintop removal Acorn ...

    Memeorandum

    • Sorry Folks, The Put-Back Apocalypse Ain't Gonna H ...
      John Carney / CNBC : Sorry Folks, The Put-Back Apocalypse Ain't Gonna Happen   —  You should probably be a buyer of Bank of America right now.  —  I never thought I'd find myself typing those words.  I've been a huge critic of Bank of America for years.  I'm bearish on the financial supermarket mo ...
    • O'Donnell says poll shows she's closing gap; still ...
      The Daily Caller : O'Donnell says poll shows she's closing gap; still down 11-points   —  Christine O'Donnell says a new poll shows she's closing the gap on her Democratic opponent, but the Tea Party-backed Republican is still down 11-points in the Delaware Senate race.  —  O'Donnell trails New Cas ...
    • Raese's Wife Loses W.Va. Voter Status (Los Angeles ...
      Los Angeles Times : Raese's Wife Loses W.Va. Voter Status   —  In an escalating residency controversy between West Virginia's Senate contenders, the wife of Republican businessman John Raese is being purged from the state's voter rolls because she is also registered to vote in Florida.
    • California Democrats cling to leads: Reuters/Ipsos ...
      Reuters : California Democrats cling to leads: Reuters/Ipsos   —  (Reuters) - Democratic candidates are clinging to narrow leads over their Republican rivals in two key California races with less than three weeks to go until November 2 elections, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found on Friday.
    • Treasury Defends HAMP Again - I Can't Stop Laughin ...
      David Dayen / Firedoglake : Treasury Defends HAMP Again - I Can't Stop Laughing   —  I see nothing.  (photo: sirtwitchalot2000 on Flickr)  —  So Ezra stepped out and pretty sharply criticized HAMP.  To him I say welcome.  But because he has a Beltway audience, the Treasury Department got right ang ...

    Energy & Environment News

    5+ quakes - 7 days

    • M 5.0, Izu Islands, Japan region
      Saturday, October 16, 2010 05:36:25 UTC Saturday, October 16, 2010 02:36:25 PM at epicenter Depth : 41.50 km (25.79 mi)
    • M 5.1, Izu Islands, Japan region
      Sunday, October 10, 2010 02:27:51 UTC Sunday, October 10, 2010 11:27:51 AM at epicenter Depth : 14.30 km (8.89 mi)
    • M 5.0, south of the Fiji Islands
      Saturday, October 16, 2010 03:24:00 UTC Saturday, October 16, 2010 03:24:00 PM at epicenter Depth : 474.50 km (294.84 mi)
    • M 5.0, Guatemala
      Friday, October 15, 2010 23:41:08 UTC Friday, October 15, 2010 05:41:08 PM at epicenter Depth : 60.50 km (37.59 mi)
    • M 5.6, Hokkaido, Japan region
      Thursday, October 14, 2010 13:58:55 UTC Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:58:55 PM at epicenter Depth : 46.70 km (29.02 mi)

    China Dialogue

    • “China must tax carbon”
      Chinese officials are reportedly preparing to introduce a levy on greenhouse-gas emissions. Energy finance expert Jiang Kejun tells Meng Si it cannot come soon enough. China ranks second in the Forbes 2009 Tax Misery & Reform Index , coming only behind France. But Jiang Kejun, senior researcher at t ...
    • 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 ...

    AlterNet Top Stories

    Threat Level

    • Teen to Plead Guilty to Staging Bomb Hoaxes For Lu ...
      A North Carolina teenager has agreed to plead guilty to a federal conspiracy charge for phoning in hoax bomb threats to colleges, middle schools and FBI offices around the country for the amusement of a live internet audience. Ashton Lundeby, 17, and his associates staged bomb hoaxes from mid-2008 ...
    • Will 400,000 Secret Iraq War Documents Restore Wik ...
      After a brief quiescence, the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks is about to explode again onto the global stage with the impending release of almost 400,000 secret U.S. Army reports from the Iraq War, marking the largest military leak in U.S. history. Measured by size, the database will dwarf the 9 ...
    • 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 ...
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      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 ...

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    • Chile's rescued miners mum on nightmare experience
      COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) - Chile's 33 miners began their first weekend above ground since a rescue that gripped the world, but were keeping silent on many of the hellish details of their 69-day ordeal trapped deep underground.
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      BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States fired the first shot in the currency war and the rest of the world must be on guard for its deliberate strategy to devalue the dollar, a Chinese economist said in an official newspaper on Thursday.
    • Bill Clinton stumps for ex-foe Brown in California
      LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton took to the stump on Friday night in support of former rival Jerry Brown as the two men publicly buried the hatchet ahead of the November 2 election for California governor.
    • Factbox: Countrywide's subprime lending
      LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Angelo Mozilo, the former head of Countrywide Financial Corp, and two former executives from the company on Friday agreed to a settlement of charges of duping investors.
    • U.S. backs off in currency dispute with China
      WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration backed away on Friday from a showdown with Beijing over the value of China's currency that would have caused new frictions between the world's only superpower and its largest creditor.

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    • 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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      Huge demand for spy balloons in Afghan war. The hottest US weapon in Afghanistan lacks a lethal capability, floats thousands of feet in the air and doesn’t carry troops. It’s a spy balloon. Similar contraptions have been making appearances at … Continue reading →
    • News you may have missed #436
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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 →

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    • Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Think
      By John Grant Psychoanalysis enables us to point to some trace or other of a homosexual object-choice in everyone. … It can be traced back to the constitutional bisexuality of all human beings. --Sigmund Freud If Sigmund Freud is right that all humans are “innately bisexual” and if Alfred Kin ...
    • Khadr case: Behind-the-scenes
      Behind-the-scenes negotiations in Khadr case Oct 15 2010 - Negotiations in the Omar Khadr case involve senior members of the Obama administration, as the White House continues to push for a plea deal and avoid a trial of Guantanamo’s youngest detainee, U.S. and Canadian sources have told the Toront ...
    • Will Sanity Be Restored and Fear Be Kept Alive?
      By David Swanson "It's not meant to ridicule activism," Jon Stewart tells NPR , speaking of his planned rally on the National Mall. But you can see where someone might have gotten that impression. In the video of Stewart's announcement of the event, he rejects crazy right wing ideas and the idea t ...
    • New Hearing Set for Sami Al-Arian
      New Hearing Set for Sami Al-Arian - by Stephen Lendman Earlier articles explained his ordeal, a man Bush administration prosecutors hounded, persecuted, and imprisoned on bogus charges. Articles on him can be accessed through the following links: http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2007/04/long-ordeal-of- ...
    • Admiring Ahmadinejad and Overlooking Activists: We ...
      By Bitta Mostofi, http://www.CommonDreams.org Every year during his visit to the United Nations General Assembly, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad holds a series of strategic dinners and meetings. This year, one of his dinners in New York was held for American anti-war, social justice and peace activists, and I ...

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    • Angry county could cut California out of $33 milli ...
      by Jonathan Hiskes. How lovely: California may lose $33 million in energy-efficiency funds because officials in Riverside County are upset they didn't get more than half of the sum for their region. Earlier this year the Western Riverside Council of Governments, which represents part of a county ...
    • How does population affect climate change?
      by Lisa Hymas. Population growth obviously has an impact on climate change, but there's been little rigorous study of exactly what that impact is. New research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences begins to fill that gap. The top-level takeaway: "lowing populati ...
    • 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 ...

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    • Some Weekend Climate Policy Reading
      Because everybody loves to read about climate policy on their days off, here’s a Politico discussion with key energy and climate wonks on whether Congress and the Obama administration should give up on pushing for a cap-and-trade bill. Enjoy!
    • Can Latino Republican Candidates Win Over Latino V ...
      Newsweek’s Arian Campo-Flores has an interesting piece today about how political parties and observers should interpret the success of Latino Republican candidates who support harsh anti-illegal immigration policies. Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio, New Mexico gubernatorial candidate Susana Mar ...
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      TWI has been following the Gulf oil spill claims process for months now. Though things seem to be improving at the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, frustration still abounds, as I reported this morning. This is Zade Marcrie’s story. Marcrie owns a fishing charter business in Little Sarasota Bay, Fla. In ...
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      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 ...
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      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 ...
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    • 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) ...
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      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 ...

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    • The Seagull Inspired LED Lamp Isn’t for the Birds
      The Seagull Light is a LED table lamp that takes the form of a flying seagull and functions similarly too. With two knobs on the main body – the front one for adjusting brightness and the back for adjusting lighting angles – the âwingsâ change positions in tandem with any lighting adjustments, ...
    • Anti-Fly Sphere Repels Insects With Refracted Ligh ...
      If you can’t stand the smell or deadly poisons that come with store-bought bug spray, then this surprisingly attractive Anti-Fly Sphere 2.0 may just the pest deterrent you’ve been looking for. Designed by Netherlands-based José de la O, the Anti-Fly was inspired by the taco kiosks in Mexico, which ...
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      People who live in private homes have the option to install solar panels and residential wind turbines on their roofs, but what about those of us who live in apartment buildings? Well, the Greenerator is a compact solar and wind energy collector that can be installed right on an apartment balcony. I ...
    • SolarPrint Develops Ready-To-Print Solar Cells
      Irish company SolarPrint has developed a new type of printable solar cells that can be produced quickly and easily and can even generate energy from fading sunlight. Since the dye-sensitized cells use less raw materials than traditional solar cells, costs can be kept down, and it is hoped that the s ...
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      Looking for an eye-catching alternative to a bicycle or motorcycle? Enter the Self-Balancing Unicycle (SBU), an electric contraption from Focus Designs that features a 1000 watt motor, three gyro sensors, and foot pegs instead of pedals. Read the rest of Self-Balancing Electric Unicycle Makes Green ...

    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

    • Cold, Dead Stars Could Help Limit Dark Matter
      Hunting for cold stellar corpses near the center of the galaxy or in star clusters could put new limits on the properties of dark matter. “You can exclude a big class of theories that the experiments cannot exclude just by observing the temperature of a neutron star,” said physicist Chris Kouvaris ...
    • Inside The Soviets’ Secret Failed Moon Program
      By Matt Hardigree, Jalopnik The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These rare photos from a lab inside the Moscow Aviation Institute show a junkyard of rarely-seen spacecraft, including a never-to-be-used Russian lunar lander. Soviet scientists wer ...
    • Antarctic Ice Sheet Preserves Invisible Mountain R ...
      Buried deep beneath East Antarctica’s ice sheet, the Gamburtsev Mountains are the world’s most invisible range. New research suggests that overlying ice like that hiding them from view today could have preserved their rugged topography for the past 300 million years. The work bolsters the counterin ...
    • Large Hadron Collider Starts Edging Out Rivals
      The Large Hadron Collider has made its first steps beyond the standard model of particle physics. With just four months of data gathered, the monster collider has already edged past the Tevatron, its particle-smashing rival. “The surprising thing for me is how quickly the experiments started to top ...
    • 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 ...

    The Progressive Realist

    • The EU as a Strategic Actor
      The EU makes for an easy target these days when it comes to being considered a strategic actor in global affairs. Many analysts, myself included, have a tendency to explain that by pointing to the union's lack of security bona fides. But there's more to it than just the question of how many division ...
    • Green Epiphany: Media Notices Energy Security
      Just in the last couple of weeks it seems the media has finally gotten the message on energy security, at least the logistical piece of it. The attacks on NATO oil tankers sparked most this conversation, which prompted a follow up story in the Times: Last week, a Marine company from California ar ...
    • Spoilers in Afghanistan
      The core of US strategy in Afghanistan is the idea that military wins against the Taliban will bring Taliban figures to the bargaining table allowing us to construct a political agreement with the Karzai government that brings enough actors into the circle to crush those who remain outside of it. Th ...
    • 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 ...

    TAPPED - The American Prospect

    • Lightning Round: Talking About My Generation.
      When you read stories like this one, about college-educated 20-somethings with very little in the way of decent job prospects, who overwhelmingly end up living with their parents again after finishing their degrees, you begin to appreciate the depth and severity of the economic catastrophe that's s ...
    • The Little Picture: TAP Loves Lucy.
      (Flickr/ Pamela J. Eisenberg ) A mural of Lucille Ball in Los Angeles. Fifty-nine years ago today, I Love Lucy premiered on CBS.
    • More on Impeachment.
      The thing about the possibility of a Republican House impeaching President Obama is this: The more you think about it, the more likely it seems. Not because it's definitely going to happen but because thinking about it allows one to come up with all kinds of horrific scenarios. Here's Kevin Drum's : ...
    • Expect More Footnotes.
      Justin Snow talks to a legal scholar about what to expect from the Supreme Court this year. Are there any upcoming cases on the docket of particular concern to liberals? I think the Arizona-Christian Schools case on whether the government can, through its tax system, subsidize religious schools, a ...
    • The Mis-Informant.
      If you have a few minutes to spare, you should watch Jack Black in "The Mis-Informant." The funniest part is when Glenn Beck gets owned by an 8-year-old girl. -- Jamelle Bouie

    Buzzflash

    • "The Ones Who are Bitching Loudest Today are Preci ...
      BARBARA'S BUZZ FROM ATLANTA http://www.smirkingchimp.com/ thread/david-michael-green/ 31807/how-do-you-take-your- tea-with-heaping-spoonfuls-of- irony-of-course "It's ironic, to begin with, that the ones who are bitching loudest today are precisely the people who created the mess we're in."  Eight ...
    • America's Founders Were Deistic Liberal Humanists ...
      HARVEY WASSERMAN FOR BUZZFLASH This is a Greco-Roman nation, gathered in a Hodenosaunee longhouse. As they wrap themselves in the Constitution they mean to shred, that is the self-evident Truth the Tea/GOP Party ultimately cannot face. Our legal godfathers--the ones Glenn Beck loves to conjure--were ...
    • Brash NJ GOP Gov. Christie Boldly Kills $9 Billion ...
      TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Supporters of this cancellation In both parties were rather few; The man with many appetites Bit off more than he could chew. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101008/ap_on_bi_ge/us_trans_hudson_tunnel In addition to Verse-Case Scenario, Tony Peyser writes about California ...
    • Supporting Republicans is Like Putting Your Trust ...
      PATRICIA A WELLER FOR BUZZFLASH Except for the rich, more than half the country may vote against their own best interests come November 2.  This is surely the result of the constant drumbeat of negative rhetoric and innuendos from the Republican Party, and the well funded and over reported Tea P ...
    • National Organization for Marriage's Anti-Gay, Pro ...
      BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH   Over the past week, the anti-gay organization founded by Maggie Gallagher has been on a bus tour across California stumping for the GOP's Senate Candidate, Carly Fiorina. Similar to its nationwide anti-same-sex marriage bus tour last summer, this one is also drawi ...

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    • Water blog action day
      Five facts about water Unsafe drinking water and lack of sanitation kills more people every year than all forms of violence, including war – that’s 42,000 deaths each week. More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. 2.5 billion people lack access to a toilet, which mean sewage spills ...
    • 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 ...
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    • Unlocking nano secrets
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    • Immigrant Advocates Highlight Efforts to Turn Out ...
      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2010 America's Voice Today, leaders from immigrant advocacy and civic participation organizations hosted a  press call  to highlight "Get Out the Vote" efforts to mobilize Latino, Asian, and immigrant voters in a number of battleground states, in time for the mid-te ...
    • European Court Will Review Macedonia's Role in Ext ...
      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 14, 2010 ACLU The European Court of Human Rights announced it will review Macedonia's role in the CIA's extraordinary rendition and torture of innocent German citizen Khaled El-Masri. As part of a case brought by the Open Society Justice Initiative, the Macedonian gover ...
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      by Marjorie Cohn On May 31, the Israeli military attacked a flotilla of ships in International waters. The vessels were carrying humanitarian supplies to the people in the Gaza Strip, who suffer under a punishing blockade by Israel. The stated aims of the flotilla were to draw international attentio ...
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    • Why Printing Money Makes Sense
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    • The 'Teach-the-Dems-a-Lesson' Myth
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    • UNSC Calls For More Troops For Afghanistan
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    • China, Pakistan and the war for "Pipelineistan"
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    • NATO allowed Taliban commander into Kabul
      NATO-led forces facilitated the passage of a senior Taliban commander to Kabul to hold talks with the Afghan government, a media report said Friday.
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      Taliban militants killed five soldiers Friday at a checkpost in Pakistan's South Waziristan region, hours after a rebel commander was killed in a US drone attack, Xinhua reported.
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    • 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 ...

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    on Government Oversight

    • Morning Smoke: FDA Rescinds Approval of Knee Devic ...
      FDA to Revoke Knee-Device Approval, Saying It Erred by Alicia Mundy [The Wall Street Journal] Watchdog Finds Treasury’s Reliance on Contractors Shielded Bailout Work from Scrutiny by Marian Wang [ProPublica] Obama Senate ally 'frustrated' with White House inaction on Afghanistan...
    • 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 ...

    Digital Journal

    • Poll: support for Afghan war hits new low
      A new poll from CNN and Opinion Research Corporation on the war in Afghanistan describes an increasingly wary public - just 37 percent of those polled support the war effort.
    • Commonwealth Games 2010: Third Nigerian fails drug ...
      Folashade Abugan became the third Nigerian to fail a drug test in Delhi, India after her team-mates Damola Osayemi, who had won the women's 100m, and 110m hurdler Samuel Okon previously failed tests
    • Today is Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
      Those in Canada living with advanced cancer face barriers from both knowledge and resources according to a survey of 41 medical oncologists from across Canada was conducted by Leger Marketing between July 23 and September 17, 2010.
    • Canada's UN fiasco
      In what may be considered a serious diplomatic blow, Canada has withdrawn from the contest to have a seat on the prestigious security council of the United Nations.
    • Canada fails in bid to get seat on UN Security Cou ...
      For the first time in the history of the United Nations, Canada has lost its bid to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council.

    End Homelessness | Change.org

    • Too Much Water Worsens Problem of Not Enough
      You might think that more water would be the last thing a flood victim would want to see, but gaining access to clean drinking water can mean the difference between life and death after a devastating deluge. Floods not only hold the devastating potential to displace thousands of people from their ho ...
    • All Too Often, Homeless Also Means Showerless
      Homelessness could often just as easily be described as refrigeratorless, bedless, air conditioningless or showerless. It's true. When one is homeless, the prospect of a shower can be terrifying, not in a Psycho way, but because it seems so far out of reach. Shelters have showers (bring your flip fl ...
    • Make a Decision Already, Before Homeless Families ...
      When I wrote about Washington, D.C.'s  impending winter housing crisis last month, I did so with what one might call "a shred of optimism." It appears that shred might have been misplaced. It's been more than a month since D.C. officials promised to improve the city's efforts to house homeless famil ...
    • 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 ...

    Ceasefire.ca

    • Little oversight for security contracts: U.S. Sena ...
      According to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, the Pentagon has little oversight over contracted security deals in Afghanistan and, as a result, local security deals between Western companies, American military commanders, and Afghan warlords with close connections to the Taliban are being ...
    • Steven Staples on CTV’s Power Play Discussing F-35 ...
      Steven Staples discusses the CCPA/Rideau Institute report on F-35 stealth fighters with the Globe and Mail's Jane Taber on CTV Power Play.
    • Media coverage of CCPA F-35 report by Steven Stapl ...
      Here are some links to media outlets reporting on the just released F-35 report: Jane Taber, “Defence expert decries purchase of ’shock-and-awe’ fighter jets,” Globe and Mail, 14 October 2010 Juliet O’Neill, “Scrap F-35s for cheaper drones, defence analyst argues,” Ottawa Citizen, 14 October 2010 ...
    • 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 ...

    Kevin Trudeau Show

    • New Book Exposes the Dirty Truth Behind Coca-Cola
      October 7th, 2010 Alternet.org By: Tara Lohan Coca-Cola spends $2.8 billion a year in advertising to make sure its soda is seen as the most iconic American drink — a beverage enjoyed around the world, virtual peace-building in a bottle. The company has spent 124 years polishing its image, but it too ...
    • In Canada, BPA Officially Labelled ‘Toxic&#8 ...
      October 14th, 2010 The Ottawa Citizen By: Amy Minsky The federal government has made good on a two-year-old promise to add bisphenol A, a hormone-disrupting chemical linked to some cancers, to the country’s list of toxic substances, in spite of industry opposition. In 2008, Canada became the first c ...
    • Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Paid to Help Run TARP
      October 14th, 2010 TheHill.com By: Silia Brush The Treasury Department has paid $437 million to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and private contractors to help run the Wall Street bailout program, a congressional oversight panel said in a report Thursday. The Congressional Oversight Panel said some of the 9 ...
    • GM Corn Destroys US Rivers
      October 14th, 2010 Natural News By: Ethan A. Huff 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 ...
    • New FDA Regulations to Destroy Small Organic Farms
      October 15th, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez A proposed law to bring farms more directly under FDA supervision could be the death of small organic farms, natural food advocates have warned. “How do we trust that the FDA is going to know about things that the San Francisco Bay Area has been ve ...

    Pambazuka News

    • March on Washington scheduled for November
      The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
    • USA: Black community activist faces possible 10 ye ...
      Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
    • Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
      Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...
    • 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...

    War in Context

    • Chas Freeman: Engaging the Middle East — after the ...
      By Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.), Tufts University, October 15, 2010 As an American, I look at the results of U.S. policies in the Middle East and they remind me of the T-shirt someone once gave me. It said: “Sinatra is dead. Elvis is dead. And me, I don’t feel so [...]
    • Gilad Atzmon joins forces with Robert Wyatt
      Yaron Frid writes: In 1963 a baby was born in Israel. In 1972 a man fell from the third floor (or the fourth – views are divided ) in England in the middle of the night. Both of them took off on the wings of music, and life would one day organize a surprising encounter between [...]
    • Obama’s escalating robot war in Pakistan is making ...
      Johann Hari writes: Imagine if, an hour from now, a robot plane swooped over your house and blasted it to pieces. The plane has no pilot. It is controlled with a joystick from 7,000 miles away, sent by the Pakistani military to kill you. It blows up all the houses on your street, and so barbecues [ ...
    • Michael Vlahos: Chilean transcendence
      By Michael Vlahos* Miners. Trapped. No way out. Miraculously rescued. Happy end. End of story. Not so fast. The resurrection of Chile’s lost miners is a testament to the power of belonging and meaning in human life. We humans live singularly evanescent lives. Our consciousness is like to the Mot ...
    • Israel’s identity problem
      Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, is calling for an end to Israel’s invisibility. Whatever Israel suffers from, invisibility is not among its problems. A country like Lesotho might wish for greater visibility, but Israel already claims a share of the world’s attention that vas ...

    Watts Up With That?

    • Arctic Ice Rebound Predicted
      Guest post by Verity Jones Man is not the primary cause of change in the Arctic says book by Russian scientists Forget the orthodox view of Arctic climate change – this book has a very different message. (h/t to WUWT … Continue reading →
    • How to solve attribution conflicts in climate scie ...
      Readers may recall this post: More dirty pool by NCDCâs Karl, Menne, and Peterson …where I take NCDC to task for not given proper attribution to the surfacestations.org and volunteer Russ Steele for use of a photo on the cover page … Continue reading →
    • Friday Funnies – triple quadruple the hilari ...
      Oh, we have a wide selection today. Tamino provides a chuckle extraordinaire, plus we have two cartoons from Josh. [Plus, I've added something from Steve McIntyre.] Happy Friday everybody! see www.cartoonsbyjosh.com for more. Now get this bonus extra from Steve … Continue reading →
    • My answer to Tamino’s question
      Tamino (Grant Foster) writes: I have a question for Anthony Watts: We have over 30 years of satellite data for arctic sea ice. Why do you consistently display the only data source I know of that covers less than 6 … Continue reading →
    • Another prominent Wikipedia editor has been climat ...
      I hadn’t noticed this yesterday, but the second most prolific climate revisionist at Wikipedia has also been banned from posting on the climate topic. By a vote of 4-3 Kim Dabelstein Petersen has been topic banned, just like RealClimate founder … 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 [...]
    • Eva Golinger: Coup in Ecuador and Election in Vene ...
      by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehanâs Soapbox October 10, 2010 (SOAPBOX #76) – Cindy sez: “We will be hosting Venezuelan/American Attorney and author Eva Golinger to talk about some recent South American events.”  Ms. Golinger is the autho ...

    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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      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

    • Cold, Dead Stars Could Help Limit Dark Matter
      Hunting for cold stellar corpses near the center of the galaxy or in star clusters could put new limits on the properties of dark matter. “You can exclude a big class of theories that the experiments cannot exclude just by observing the temperature of a neutron star,” said physicist Chris Kouvaris ...
    • Inside The Soviets’ Secret Failed Moon Program
      By Matt Hardigree, Jalopnik The Soviet lunar program was covered up, forgotten after failing to put a man on the moon. These rare photos from a lab inside the Moscow Aviation Institute show a junkyard of rarely-seen spacecraft, including a never-to-be-used Russian lunar lander. Soviet scientists wer ...
    • Antarctic Ice Sheet Preserves Invisible Mountain R ...
      Buried deep beneath East Antarctica’s ice sheet, the Gamburtsev Mountains are the world’s most invisible range. New research suggests that overlying ice like that hiding them from view today could have preserved their rugged topography for the past 300 million years. The work bolsters the counterin ...
    • Large Hadron Collider Starts Edging Out Rivals
      The Large Hadron Collider has made its first steps beyond the standard model of particle physics. With just four months of data gathered, the monster collider has already edged past the Tevatron, its particle-smashing rival. “The surprising thing for me is how quickly the experiments started to top ...
    • 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 ...

    Israeli Occupation Archive

    • Gideon Levy: Time to stick it again to the Arabs
      Underneath everything is hatred - hatred and contempt for Arabs ... Manifestations of hatred are received with sympathy or indifference, even by those who should be standing in the breach: the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
    • Netanyahu approves tenders for 238 homes east of G ...
      Israeli officials said they discussed the construction with the U.S. administration and cut the number of planned units to temper American displeasure. The Palestinian Authority has insisted that it... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
    • Kahane’s vision for loyalty oath was not so differ ...
      The extremist rabbi proposed every non-Jew wishing to become a naturalized Israeli would have to pledge to 'the State of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state in the spirit of the Declaration of... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
    • Jewish group makes ADL blacklist
      ADL's Foxman: "These groups are not promoting peace, they are spreading propaganda to assault Israel's legitimacy. We want to Americans to know who these groups are and what it is they really... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
    • 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, ...

    Ria Novosti - Military

    NewsWise

    • The American Society of Anesthesiologists to Honor ...
      The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) will salute its military members as well as all U.S. service members and their families during the Society's 2010 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, October 16 - 20. During ANESTHESIOLOGY 2010, the ASA will sponsor three events in which those who serve ...
    • UK College of Medicine Celebrates 50 Years
      The year 2010 marks a significant date in the history of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine as it celebrates its 50th anniversary. The festivities culminate on Oct. 15 with the Signature Event, held at the Keeneland Sales Pavilion in Lexington, Ky.
    • SAMHSA Awards Up to $6.7 Million in Grants to Expa ...
      The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) today announced it is awarding a total of up to $6.7 million for three years to up to six grantees to expand their behavioral health treatment systems using technology-assisted approaches in communities that can most benefit from ...
    • NIST's Arnold Receives Award for Smart Grid Leader ...
      George Arnold of NIST has been honored with a 2010 GridWeek Award for his work in advancing international Smart Grid cooperation and standards.
    • NIST Researcher Wins Presidential Award for Green ...
      Barbara Lippiatt, a NIST researcher, is one of eight winners of the 2010 GreenGov Presidential Awards given to workers or teams across the federal government.

    Natural Health News

    • The Cutest Twin Rabbits, Sitting in Twin Dixie Cup ...
      It’s impossible not to find these two bunnies absolutely adorable.
    • Kitten Versus the Giant Dog
      Kitten Larry decides to have some fun with his pal Peebuck’s ears.
    • After Mercury Removal -- What is the Best Materia ...
      By Dr. Lina Garcia, DDS, DMD For decades, it’s been known that mercury is dangerous to human health because it accumulates in the body and damages its cells. Mercury is a potent neurotoxin that can cause memory loss, headaches, loss of coordination, weakness, kidney damage, respiratory damage, ...
    • How Monsanto Controls the Future of Food
      Over the past 15 years or so, a collection of five giant biotech corporations -- Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow and DuPont -- have bought up more than 200 other companies, allowing them to dominate access to seeds. The takeover has been so dramatic that it is becoming difficult for farmers to f ...
    • New Study Finds this Fat Useful to Improve ADHD
      A clinical study in children with ADHD showed that they significant improved both their clinical scores and identified EEG patterns when their diets were supplemented with krill oil for a period of 13 weeks. The EEG patterns of the study participants were compared to a database of more than 400 chi ...

    Antemedius

    • Elena Kagan and the Supremes
      So far the newest Justice of the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan , is still pretty much an enigma as to her judicial philosophy. The former Solicitor General to President Obama has had to recuse herself from 25 of the 51 cases that will be heard by the Court this session. So far she has sided with the m ...
    • Drunk Driving and Highway Robbery on Wall Street
      Real News Network's Paul Jay talks with Sony Kapoor, Managing Director of Re-Define (Rethinking Development, Finance & Environment), an international Think Tank promoting financial system reform. Kapoor metaphorically compares the actions of Wall Street and the US Finance Industry to the psychology ...
    • 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 ...

    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

    • The AfPak Conflict and the Leadup to the December ...
      by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson I am currently underwater with some things and won’t be posting much, despite my interest in the debates over drones, targeted killing, and much else besides.  However, I wanted to suggest that, for those trying to make sense of US actions in AfPak - inclu ...
    • Louis Henkin (1917-2010)
      by Harold Hongju Koh by Harold Hongju Koh [Harold Hongju Koh is the Legal Adviser, United States Department of State; previously he was  Martin R. Flug ’55 Professor of International Law and Dean, Yale Law School (2004-09), as well as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights ...
    • 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 fa ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...

    Investigate - Breaking News

    • Urban heat island effect officially admitted
      Australian Met Office confirms Urban Heat Island effect responsible for higher temperature trends: MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 13 October 2010 Hot cities If you thought our cities are getting warmer, you’re right. “We can now confidently say that the reason our...
    • Limiting emissions not worth the cost - Economist
      An MIT economist and climate change believer has broken ranks, arguing that the costs of fighting climate change will outweigh the benefits: The sound and the fury that has characterized the public discourse on global warming often obscures a basic...
    • 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...

    My Care2 Picks

    • Scrubbing Micro-Bubbles Clean Polluted Lake
      Environmental remediation can take what feels like forever, and entirely removing an oil sheen from water is especially tough. An advanced technological process involving microbubbles could do the trick. ( Use with Costner's oil-water separator ? ) Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note ...
    • Use of Religion as a Tool of the State
      An important by-product of the ever-growing complexity that develops around the theology of religion is an increasingly sophisticated analysis of language that is generated as thinkers attempted to rationalise the ridiculous. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
    • "Third Eye Open: Care2 Save The World?" - New Care ...
      Petitions, phone calls, marching and protesting can be ignored by government leaders and business owners alike, but they cannot resist for very long the power of the human mind imposing systematic interference upon their decision-making! PLZ Join & Share. Submitted by Third Eye Open to US Politics & ...
    • Islam - a Threat ? This is the world turned upside ...
      http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_democracy_dies_lessons_from_a_master_20101011/?ln A comment from an excellent 'thread' of commentary on a Chris Hedges piece Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
    • Some things just never go away…
      Weve obsoleted many things …But some scams avoid the hatchet. The health insurance bureaucracy has become obsolete. Corporations, in their current form. Corporate Integrity.The creation of 501(c)(4)s.Private funding of political campaigns Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note ...

    Angry Indian News

    • RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Activists Wary of Plan to ‘Expor ...
      RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Activists Wary of Plan to ‘Export’ Asylum Centres - IPS ipsnews.net: MELBOURNE, Australia, Oct 15, 2010 (IPS) - As the Australian government steps up its efforts to establish a... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
    • Haiti's 1.3 Million Camp Dwellers Waiting in Vain ...
      Haiti's 1.3 Million Camp Dwellers Waiting in Vain - IPS ipsnews.net: GRAND GOÂVE, Oct 15, 2010 (IPS/Haiti Grassroots Watch) - Rosie Benjamin is just one of over 1.3 million people living in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
    • Anti-UN protesters block Haiti base - Americas - A ...
      Anti-UN protesters block Haiti base - Americas - Al Jazeera English: "Demonstrators have blocked the entrance to the UN military headquarters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, spraying anti-UN slogans on... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
    • Palestinians attacked by armed settlers in Burin | ...
      Palestinians attacked by armed settlers in Burin | International Solidarity Movement: "People from the village of Burin were attacked by 20 settlers, 5 of which had guns. They wanted to make a road... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
    • U.S. Weighs Endorsing Indigenous Rights Declaratio ...
      U.S. Weighs Endorsing Indigenous Rights Declaration - IPS ipsnews.net: WASHINGTON, Oct 15, 2010 (IPS) - Just over three years after having voted against it at the United Nations, the United States... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

    Farm Wars

    True/Slant Headline Grabs

    Citizens for Legitimate Government

    • US state department defends Europe-wide terror ale ...
      ShareThis US state department defends Europe-wide terror alert 14 Oct 2010 The US state department today defended the decision to issue a terror alert covering all of Europe but admitted that it had no specific information of any plot or potential target. The alert issued on 3 October stated "curren ...
    • Six killed in Iraq bomb attacks
      ShareThis Six killed in Iraq bomb attacks 14 Oct 2010 Six people were killed on Thursday in separate bomb attacks in Iraq, one of which targeted an official from the secular Iraqiya [CIA] bloc of former premier Iyad Allawi, an interior ministry official said. In Jurf al-Nadaf, some 10 kilometres (6 ...
    • Afghan detainees mistreated in secret U.S. jail: r ...
      ShareThis Afghan detainees mistreated in secret U.S. jail: report 14 Oct 2010 Former detainees at a secret U.S. prison in Afghanistan say jailers mistreated them by depriving them of natural light, failing to provide proper food and withholding Red Cross visits, a report said Thursday. In the report ...
    • Soldier silenced for testimony in Afghan killings ...
      ShareThis Soldier silenced for testimony in Afghan killings probe --The Army is doing everything it can to limit the publicity its own explosive account created . 14 Oct 2010 First, Justin Stoner blew the whistle on his platoon. Now, the Army apparently wants to silence him. In photos obtained by CN ...
    • Security officers targeted in Iraq
      ShareThis Security officers targeted in Iraq 15 Oct 2010 Iraqi security officials say insurgents have been targeting the police and military in recent months, with even traffic officers being killed and maimed. The weapons of choice are bombs attached to cars with magnets, and handguns equipped with ...

    The Briefing Room | Investigate

    • Urban heat island effect officially admitted
      Australian Met Office confirms Urban Heat Island effect responsible for higher temperature trends: MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday 13 October 2010 Hot cities If you thought our cities are getting warmer, you’re right. “We can now confidently say that the reason our...
    • Limiting emissions not worth the cost - Economist
      An MIT economist and climate change believer has broken ranks, arguing that the costs of fighting climate change will outweigh the benefits: The sound and the fury that has characterized the public discourse on global warming often obscures a basic...
    • 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...

    Mondoweiss

    • Neocon threatens withdrawal of “Dem Donor$&# ...
      Here is Michael Goldfarb's twitter feed. Goldfarb is a neocon and U.S. journalist, I believe for the Weekly Standard. The picture at the top of his twitter feed shows him standing with Norman Podhoretz or Bibi Netanyahu. Actually I think it is Netanyahu. My eyes are going. This post is going somewhe ...
    • ‘NYT’/Bronner push the legality of set ...
      In today's New York Times, Ethan Bronner writes that the United States AND JAPAN consider the settlements legal.The United States and Japan take no stand on the settlements’ legality, according to spokesmen of their embassies in Israel, although they oppose them on policy grounds.I checked with th ...
    • Annie’s awakenings
      Weiss asked annie, who often posts here, how she came to the Israel/Palestine issue: well, my i/p connection came about strickly because of my introduction to the internet. in 2003, i was heading off to thailand/india/europe w/ my son and wanted a cheap way to contact people back home and heard ema ...
    • We live in dark times
      I ran into an old friend at a NY party the other night, wealthy, conservative, and we had a polite conversation about his interests: hedge funds, corporate boards, the internet and the endurance of print media. Then another friend came along, and the conversation became more frank. The first guy sud ...
    • At NYU, Israel is held up as the model for US coun ...
      Is Israel a good counter-terrorism role model for the US? This question has been on my mind ever since the morning of September 12, 2001, when professors in two consecutive lecture classes told us first-year law students that we needn’t worry, that they had been talking to friends in Israel, fri ...

    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

    • Artist Weaves Weather Data Into Complex Baskets
      Images: Natalie Merbach In a world of ever-increasing information flow, we can't seem to get enough of diagrams and interactive maps that help us better organize and understand our world. Artist Natalie Merbach's fascinating sculptures -- which translate ecological, astronomical and meteorologica ...
    • Should Breast Cancer Awareness Turn to Prevention?
      A page from ' State of the Evidence ' shows the difficulty of linking risks to causes for breast cancer. Courtesy Breast Cancer Fund. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month , and you're likely to see pink ribbons along with fall colors, as groups raise money for breast cancer research and emp ...
    • Could Mushrooms Take the Place of Styrofoam?
      Photo: Sara Novak As Styrofoam begins to cover our planet in the same way that it has long covered our consumer products, innovative thinkers like Eben Bayer are looking for responsible materials that don't require fossil fuels and more easily biodegrade. Could mushrooms be the answer? His team ...
    • Vuvuzela Recycling Competition Gives New Life to S ...
      Submitted ideas for recycling vuvuzelas include (L to R) a portable water filter , a Christmas tree , and a cheese grater . Images via WoZela! . For better or worse, they provided the soundtrack to the World Cup 2010 matches in South Africa, generating an... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
    • Brave the Cold in Earthtec Winter Outerwear (Photo ...
      Earthtec Tuperlo Hooded Jacket. Photo: Earthtec Brrr ...soon it will be necessary to wrap up in a winter coat before braving the great outdoors. Earthtec apparel has just come out with a men's and women's activewear collection of jackets and hoodies, made from post consumer recycled water bottl ...

    Democratic Voice of Burma

    Telegraph - Climate Change

    National Geographic | Environment

    Jurist - Legal Research

    • Egypt cancels private permits to broadcast live te ...
      [JURIST] Egypt issued new media restrictions Wednesday that critics say effectively put all live television media, including talk shows and news shows, under government control. The telecommunications regulator cancelled the broadcast permits [Washington Post report] of all private media companies f ...
    • CVS to pay $75 million for failure to control sale ...
      [JURIST] The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) [official website] announced [press release] Thursday that CVS Pharmacy [corporate website] has agreed to pay a $75 million fine for sales of pseudoephedrine to individuals who used that compound to produce methamphetamine [NIDA backgrounder, PDF ...
    • DOJ to continue to prosecute drug crimes regardles ...
      [JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] has said the Department of Justice will continue to enforce the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) [materials] in California even if a state ballot measure legalizing marijuana passes in November, according to a Friday report [text] by the AP. ...
    • Prosecutors launch tax inquiry against Italy PM Be ...
      [JURIST] Italian prosecutors on Friday launched a tax inquiry against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] for tax declarations he made in 2003 and 2004 relating to the commercial broadcast company Mediaset [corporate website, in Italian], which Berlusconi founded. Ber ...
    • Judge approves settlement of health claims from 9/ ...
      [JURIST] Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] on Thursday approved a $47.5 million settlement [order text] between the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey [official website], which owns the World Trade Center site, and over 9 ...

    Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

    • Sharron Angle's Employment Program
      When Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle announced last week that her campaign had raised $14 million in a quarter, even Republicans were amazed that a candidate could raise so much off of a challenge to the emblem of Democrats, Harry Reid. But with the actual filings today, we know now that Ang ...
    • Can Tacking Right Save a Freshman Democrat in Virg ...
      During the debate over the passage of the cap-and-trade bill in the House, freshman Democratic Congressman Glenn Nye wrote one letter to a constituent expressing his support for the bill another to a different constituent detailing his opposition to it. Nye also, despite not being in Congress when i ...
    • 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 ...

    COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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    Tikun Olam

    • Settler Rabbi: Celebrating Murder of Palestinians ...
      You may remember during the 1991 Iraq war that Saddam launched several SCUDs which hit Tel Aviv and killed an Israeli.  There was dancing on the rooftops in the West Bank.  Israelis were aghast and used that for years as an indignant proof of the brutishness of the Palestinian national movement.  No ...
    • Links for 2010-06-05 [Digg]
      MV Rachel Corrie Forcibly Seized by Israeli Navy, Towed to A Malaysian NGO funding Rachel Corrie trip to Gaza reports she was seized a few mintues ago by Israeli navy and is being towed to Ashdod.
    • Avi Yakobov Finally ‘Outed’ by Israeli Media
      It took too long, but thanks to this blog and Yossi Gurvitz exposing Avi Yakobov, the IDF abuser in the YouTube video, Yediot Achronot has finally publicly named him and his role. Several oddball things about the report worth noting which reflect on Yakobov’s and the IDF’s true brutishness.  When Y ...
    • Possible Mossad Role in Deadly Iran Revolutionary ...
      One never knows how much to attribute such stories to Israel’s predilection for Psyops against their Arab enemies, but several credible Israeli sources are claiming that Israel’s Mossad had a hand in the blast that rocked the Imam Ali Revolutionary Guard missile base in Iran yesterday killing 18 and ...
    • Geller’s Multi-Million Dollar NYC, Florida Digs
      Pam Geller doesn’t suffer for her art.  Her N.Y. Times profile noted that she owns a full-floor Eastside Midtown condo (330 East 57th Street).  Condos in the same building have gone for nearly $2. 75-million with yearly maintenance fees over $100,000.  In addition, she appears to own a second res ...

    Ode Magazine

    • A tribute to Herman Scheer 1944 - 2010
      By: EmilyAviles Perhaps one of the most pivotal advocates of solar and renewable energy, German-born Hermann Scheer passed away Thursday, October 14, 2010. His sudden death is cause for sadness, and we gratefully recognize his dedicated efforts to promote the use o ...
    • 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 ...

    OpEd News

    • 5 Videos You Should See This Week (October 16th)
      This week in searching for videos to share I have come across some insightful videos that focus on media and political culture in America. The first two deal with the issues concerning "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" activism and the world economy. The last few focus on media. Enjoy.
    • The Sausage Factory
      From the very beginning of the mortgage crisis there has been this narrative repeated over and over on all the financial networks, and by conservative pundits and even by the President of the United States, "People bought homes they knew they couldn't afford from banks and lenders who pushed those b ...
    • On the Road with Ahmadinejad in Lebanon
      An eyewitness account of the Iranian Presidents historic two day visit to Lebanon and its impact on bi-lateral relations, the region and beyond
    • How we trashed an entire continent within 150 year ...
      But one thing really bothered me during my grand journey across America: within 150 years, we've turned this once pristine continent with all its inherent beauty, wildlife and treasures--into a giant garbage dump.
    • Employers Beware: Worksite Investigations Continue
      The word on the street is that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is forging ahead with many worksite investigations. By now, all employers are well aware of the fact that under the present administration, there has been a shift in immigration enforcement from the arresting of work ...

    Switchboard

    • China Environmental News Alert
      NRDC has been working in China for over twelve years on such issues as energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy technologies, environmental governance and public participation, and green supply chain issues. This China Environmental News Alert is a weekly compilation of news fr ...
    • The road to civilization leads through the sewer
      I was reading recently about toilets.  More specifically, about how Melinda Gates, wife of Bill Gates and co-Chair of their foundation , has been pushing hard to provide toilets to impoverished people in various regions of Africa and India.  Having observed that poor sanitation contrib ...
    • Tar sands, putting our waters in Jeopardy
      And for $200: Depletion or contamination of the Athabasca River, the Ogallala Aquifer, and local water sources in the U.S. Gulf Coast region could occur because of this piece of infrastructure. Ding!: What is the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline? *             *             *  ...
    • Protecting Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula and our tree ...
      Thanks to the support of our members, NRDC’s Revive a Rainforest  project in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula - one of the wildest places on earth - has gotten off to a very successful start!  Over the past several months our partners at Friends of the Osa (FOO) have been busy preparing the ...
    • Climate, Energy and Environment News from Latin Am ...
      Chile: Chile’s mining industry was the center of global attention this week, as the 33 trapped miners were rescued on Wednesday. ( New York Times , 10/13/10).  In addition, a new report found that in the past decade alone, Chile’s mining industry has almost doubled its greenhouse gas ...

    Lawyers,Guns,& Money

    • Those Who Forget the Lessons of History…
      While I try to figure out why TBS was showing a replay of Game 5 of the 1977 ALCS tonight, I thought this quote might be relevant: Tony, when you get into the playoffs this year [sic], tone down the aggressive baserunning a little bit. Aggressive baserunning does not work against a good team… [... ...
    • Deep Thought
      You know the Yankees are a great team when they can have the greatest pitcher athlete in Yankee known human history pitching long relief! …well, my praise of the Ranger bullpen certainly was prescient. Related posts:Deep Thought Hmmm… Performance of the Year Decade Century! Related posts: Deep ...
    • There We Go…
      Nice way to start an ALCS. Related posts:Goodbye, Kid Related posts: Goodbye, Kid
    • LCS Preview
      Ah, the time of year when even George W Bush can be unequivocally right about something for 10 days or so… YANKEES v. RANGERS. While I always think that the Twins have even less chance against the Yankees than the (fairly lopsided) paper matchup would suggest, I think the Rangers have a slightly bet ...
    • Always in the Last Place You Look…
      This could potentially have been a sitcom-worthy awkward situation. Tom Ricks and Hugh Shelton’s memoirs: First, he reports, a bit mysteriously, that late in the Clinton administration, the president’s authorization codes to use nuclear weapons strike were lost. He doesn’t really explain what happe ...

    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

    National Law Journal | U.S.

    • LABOR & EMPLOYMENT: Dodd-Frank offers key protecti ...
      Employers covered by the act must prepare for the likelihood of increased and publicized complaints.
    • Clerkship scramble
      Are the Wild West days of federal clerk hiring back? Some law school administrators and judges worry that the voluntary system whereby federal judges wait until September of the 3L year to hire clerks is teetering.
    • Trial lawyers don't retreat from Dems
      Trial lawyers are holding steady as one of the Democratic Party's biggest sources of campaign contributions, providing a cushion for the party as it struggles to maintain control of Congress in the midterm elections.
    • No last call for this argument
      Under fire from judges, DOJ lawyer in rum case takes battle to the briefs.
    • Countrywide former executives settle SEC charges a ...
      Angelo Mozilo, the former chief executive officer and chairman of Countrywide Financial Corp., once the nation's largest mortgage lender, has agreed to pay $67.5 million to settle claims by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that he misled shareholders about the risks associated with his co ...

    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

    environment 360

    • Most Americans Lack Basic Knowledge of Climate Iss ...
      The majority of Americans have limited understanding of the planet’s climate system and the causes and threats of climate change, according to a new study by Yale University. Only 1 in 10 of those surveyed by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication said they are “very well informed” about c ...
    • Starbucks In Trial Study To Begin Recycling Its Co ...
      Starbucks is testing a new recycling program at its 86 locations in New York City, a nine-week trial that company officials hope will eventually lead to the recycling of the 3 billion cups used by the chain annually in the U.S. The company has added separate recycling bins just for cups — and not ot ...
    • Clean Energy Spending Urged for 'Post-Partisan' Cl ...
      Experts from both sides of the U.S. climate debate are urging more federal investment in clean energy innovation — and the scrapping of cap-and-trade proposals — in the aftermath of the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass a climate bill. In a joint report, the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative ...
    • 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 ...

    Red Ice Creations

    • 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.
    • Is this how the EU got a Yes to Lisbon from the Ir ...
      The European Commission has just flown 15 Irish journalists to Brussels for a two-day ‘information visit’. Or as those of us who know Brussels and talk straight would put it, for a two-day, two-night taxpayer-funded propaganda junket at a four-star hotel. Ireland and the other eurozone countries mig ...
    • More "ET" Entertainment - BBC's Intriguing "Superp ...
      This is an interesting commercial for BBC's "Superpower" about "The Extraordinary Power Of The Internet". Showing how humanity is being turned into "Aliens"? It's just one more tidbit of "Alien" entertainment that we've been getting lately. Watch out they are Waging Peace! See their website: bbc.co. ...
    • The Odd Masonic Imagery of the 33 Chilean Miners’' ...
      The rescue of the 33 unfortunate Chilean miners has definitely turn into an international media event. All aspects of the rescue have been carefully staged to make the entire thing a spectacular show inspiring emotions, admiration and national pride. For those knowledgeable of Masonic and occult sym ...
    • Mysterious Light Pulse From Planet Gliese 581g - A ...
      The recent discovery of Gliese 581g, an alien planet in the habitable zone of another star, has been an exciting development for scientists probing the galaxy for signs of extraterrestrial life. At least one claim of a possible signal from the planet has already surfaced - and been met with harsh sk ...

    Russia Today

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

    • The Anti-Singularity
      Definition of Technological Singularity from Wikipedia: “A technological singularity is a hypothetical event occurring when technological progress becomes so extremely rapid, due in most accounts to the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligences, that it makes the future after the ...
    • 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 ...

    Tippers News

    • Targeted Dog Expected to Recover; Another Feared D ...
      On Saturday morning, "Shiloh" and "Weenie" went out in the fields across from their home on Ninepin Branch Road in Berlin as they normally do. But only "Shiloh" returned to the doorstep, and her owner discovered disturbing wounds. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
    • Dog Beating Charge Sends Key Largo Man To Jail
      A witness said Bubba upset Mitchell when he tried to run away. Mitchell caught the dog by the collar, the witness said, and dragged him so violently inside he damaged the dog's neck and esophagus. Then Bubba grabbed a steak from the kitchen counter. Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
    • Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist - ...
      Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist (Disabled myself). Doing Daily Internet Activism for Supporting Causes of Change. Talking about: Armchair Activism for Oil-Spill Animals. Submitted by Edward Janus to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
    • Access: Disability Rights Activists in Action
      Edward Janus | Disability Advocate and Activist (Disabled myself). Campaign and Mission is Fighting for Persons with Disabilities. Making Our Voices Heard. Access: Disability Rights Activists in Action posted by: Kristina Chew Submitted by Edward Janus to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
    • Evidence Refutes Bp's and Fed's Deception
      In August, Truthout conducted soil and water sampling in Pass Christian Harbor, Mississippi; on Grand Isle, Louisiana; and around barrier islands off the coast of Louisiana, in order to test for the presence of oil from BP's Macondo Well. [extremely high] Submitted by Ellyn S. to Environment �|� �N ...

    The Freeman

    • No Social Security For You!
      “More than 58 million retirees and disabled Americans will get no increase in Social Security benefits next year, the second year in a row without a raise. “The Social Security Administration said Friday inflation has been too low since the last increase in 2009 to warrant an increase for 2011. The ...
    • Bernanke Argues For More Economic Intervention
      “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made a case for new steps by the central bank to boost economic growth, saying inflation was running below the Fed’s objective of 2% and that the economy was on a course to grow too slowly to reduce unemployment.” (Wall Street Journal, Friday) Sure glad they le ...
    • The Charade
      The best phrase to sum up Barack Obama’s presidency is not "African anticolonial socialist" but "American Progressive corporatist."
    • 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? ...

    Teaching Online Journalism

    • Storytelling 101 with ‘The Annoying Orange’
      Let’s look at storytelling again. I always use this diagram to show students how to structure a very short video story or audio slideshow (120 seconds): Recently a student showed me this video, and I noticed that at about 1 min. 30 sec., it illustrates the story arc perfectly! ...
    • 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 ...

    Facing South

    • INSTITUTE INDEX: Taking on the mortgage banksters
      Number of states where attorneys general are investigating the mortgage-servicing industry following allegations that questionable documents and procedures were used to support home foreclosures: 50 Number of foreclosures nationwide where flawed documents may have been used: hundreds of thousand ...
    • 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 ...

    Worldpress - Africa

    Canadian Encyclopedia

    • Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
      Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
    • Hydroelectricity
      Hydroelectricity is obtained from the ENERGY contained in falling water; it is a renewable, comparatively nonpolluting energy source and Canada's largest source of ELECTRIC-POWER GENERATION . In N America in the 1850s the
    • Champlain, Samuel de
      Samuel de Champlain, cartographer, explorer, governor of New France (b at Brouage, France c 1570; d at Qu�bec City 25 Dec 1635). The major role Champlain played in the St Lawrence River area earned him the title of
    • Carr, Emily
      Emily Carr, painter, writer (b at Victoria 13 Dec 1871; d there 2 Mar 1945). Her parents were English people who had settled in the small provincial town of Victoria, where her father became a successful merchant and respected
    • King, William Lyon Mackenzie
      William Lyon Mackenzie King, politician, prime minister of Canada 1921-26, 1926-30 and 1935-48 (b at Berlin [Kitchener], Ont 17 Dec 1874; d at Ottawa 22 July 1950), grandson of William Lyon MACKENZIE. Leader of the LIBERAL PARTY

    How Can I Recycle This ?

    • What can I reuse or recycle to make small toys for ...
      From making dog toys last week to kids toys this week… We’ve had an email from Petra: Thank you for your very nice and useful site. You helped me before, but now I have a new (reverse) question: In a few months, my youngest daughter becomes 3 years old. On her day care, it is [...]
    • How can I reuse or recycle little pencil stubs?
      Over on the Suggest an Item page, Kate asked: What can I do with old pencil stubs, the used ones that are too small to write with any more? Stubs of old crayons are super easy to reuse – just melt a load down into a new, easy-to-hold shape and off you go – but [...]
    • 5 fantastic reuses: what to do with egg shells
      We’ve had loads of really good suggestions for what to do with egg shells over the years but here are some of my favourites: 1. Feed them back to your chickens (or lizards, or dogs…) Eggs shells contain a considerable amount of calcium – they’re 95% calcium carbonate, with the remaining 5% being a b ...
    • How can I reuse or recycle waxed paper sliced brea ...
      This one came to me in my sleep the other night – the waxed paper type wrapping you get on some loaves of sliced bread. I obsessed about it until morning so I wouldn’t forget to write it down and let me tell you, I had some weird packaging related dreams that night. ANYWAY, waxed [...]
    • How can I reuse or recycle straw coasters & placem ...
      We’ve had an email from Katy: Cleaning out my mum’s cupboards I’ve found some tatty straw tablemats and a set of coasters that must be as old as me! Can I compost them? Maybe. A cautious composter might want to leave them out – you don’t know if the straw has been treated with anything [...]

    Mondoweiss

    • Neocon threatens withdrawal of “Dem Donor$&# ...
      Here is Michael Goldfarb's twitter feed. Goldfarb is a neocon and U.S. journalist, I believe for the Weekly Standard. The picture at the top of his twitter feed shows him standing with Norman Podhoretz or Bibi Netanyahu. Actually I think it is Netanyahu. My eyes are going. This post is going somewhe ...
    • ‘NYT’/Bronner push the legality of set ...
      In today's New York Times, Ethan Bronner writes that the United States AND JAPAN consider the settlements legal.The United States and Japan take no stand on the settlements’ legality, according to spokesmen of their embassies in Israel, although they oppose them on policy grounds.I checked with th ...
    • Annie’s awakenings
      Weiss asked annie, who often posts here, how she came to the Israel/Palestine issue: well, my i/p connection came about strickly because of my introduction to the internet. in 2003, i was heading off to thailand/india/europe w/ my son and wanted a cheap way to contact people back home and heard ema ...
    • We live in dark times
      I ran into an old friend at a NY party the other night, wealthy, conservative, and we had a polite conversation about his interests: hedge funds, corporate boards, the internet and the endurance of print media. Then another friend came along, and the conversation became more frank. The first guy sud ...
    • At NYU, Israel is held up as the model for US coun ...
      Is Israel a good counter-terrorism role model for the US? This question has been on my mind ever since the morning of September 12, 2001, when professors in two consecutive lecture classes told us first-year law students that we needn’t worry, that they had been talking to friends in Israel, fri ...

    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 )

    • Intelligence Science Board Disbanded
      The Intelligence Science Board (ISB), an advisory panel established to ensure independent scientific advice to the US Director of National intelligence (DNI), is being abolished. The abolition raises concerns about a possible loss of independent advice to government on topics ranging from nuclear ...
    • Ruth’s Reviews: God’s Philosophers – James Hannam
      Ruth Francis, Nature’s Head of Press, is reviewing all the entries shortlisted for the Royal Society’s science book prize. She’ll be reading one per week and posting her thoughts on The Great Beyond every Friday between now and the prize ceremony on 21 October. Far from their reputation as ‘dark ...
    • 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 ...

    new geography

    • The Future of a Hub: Can Singapore Stay On Top of ...
      Viewed from abroad, historical perspective, Singapore’s position as a hub is far from inevitable or unassailable. History shows that hubs come and go. Malacca used to be the centre of the spice trade in Southeast Asia. Venice was the centre of East-West trade throughout the Middle Ages. Rangoon, ...
    • 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 ...

    GM Watch

    spiked

    Cryptogon

    • Gold and Gold Mining Shares As a Percentage of Glo ...
      Via: Precious Metals Warrants: From our readings of Casey Research we found a great chart and comments from Eric Sprott of Sprott Asset Management, we bring this to your attention: Eric Sprott – ….”The conventional wisdom is that gold is in a bubble. It isnât so. At the just-concluded Caseyâs Go ...
    • The Toyota Hilux: The Vehicular Equivalent of the ...
      We visited a very reputable used car dealership—that handles lots of Japanese used vehicles—and asked the owner: Why are there so few utes (pickups) available? The owner of the used car dealership told us, “Well heeled Pakistanis are pretty much outbidding everyone at the used vehicle auctions in Ja ...
    • BBC Ad from March (You’ll Love This)
      Britain: Another Primary School Presents Students with UFO Scenario Has There Ever Been This Much “Alien” Entertainment at Once? Via: BBC / YouTube: Related: BBC Superpower: Exploring the Power of the Internet Research Credit: AT
    • Family Farm Ordered to Destroy 50,000 Pounds of Ch ...
      Via: Poor Richard’s Blog: Morningland Dairy is the latest attempt by the FDA to fulfill the Healthy People 2020 objective to kill raw dairy. Morningland is owned by Joseph and Denise Dixon, who operate the cheese plant and make raw cheese from cows kept right on the property and managed by one of th ...
    • Alan Grayson to FBI: Bring Criminal Charges Agains ...
      Via: Market Ticker: October 14, 2010 Robert S. Mueller III Director Federal Bureau of Investigation 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20535 Robert O’Neill U.S. Attorney Middle District of Florida 400 North Tampa Street, Suite 3200 Tampa, FL 33602 Dear U.S. Attorney O’Neill and Director Muel ...

    The Economic Collapse

    • The Bernanke Speech
      When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives a speech about the U.S. economy, it gets a whole lot more attention than when Barack Obama gives a speech about the U.S. economy.  Why is this true?  Well, it is because Bernanke has a whole lot more control over the U.S. economy than ...
    • The Real Horror Story: The U.S. Economic Meltdown
      This October, millions of Americans are going to watch horror movies and read horror stories because they enjoy being frightened.  Well, if you really want to be scared, you should just check out the real horror story unfolding right before our eyes - the U.S. economic meltdown.  It ...
    • 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 ...

    Desertification

    • Food Sustainability in London (You Tube)
      Video   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZxkE8xxM0&feature=player_embedded#at=31   From a rooftop to your table Two London supermarkets are supporting the production of safe, healthy food by sourcing food locally, or growing it themselves. Jennifer Glasse reports from the British capital about the l ...
    • Need for global cooperation to combat hunger (UN N ...
      Read at : http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=36456&Cr=hung&Cr1=   On World Food Day, UN calls for united front against hunger   15 October 2010 â With nearly one billion people still suffering from food shortages around the globe, the world must take a united … Continue reading →
    • Desertification: History and Definitions (Page Ran ...
      Read at : http://pagerankstudio.com/Blog/2010/10/desertification-history-and-definitions/   Desertification: History and Definitions   Despite considerable uncertainty about its meaning, the importance of desertification for the peoples of the worldâs drylands should not be underestimated. First, ...
    • Water Resources by Shimon C. Anisfeld (IISD)
      Read at : Water Issues Announcement List New water resources book   I am pleased to announce the publication of the book Water Resources by Shimon C. Anisfeld, the latest title in the Foundations of Contemporary Environmental Studies series. … Continue reading →
    • Save the Children: the smart way to fight hunger
      A message from Hilary SAVERIN (Save the Children) : Thank you for posting our video on your Desertification blog. I thought you would be interested in a video we just got in from Mozambique, where there were food protests last … Continue reading →

    The Paper Trail

    backofthebook.ca

    • UN flop: Harper should be thanking Iggy
      By Alison@Creekside ... careful consideration of the reasons for Canada's failure to gain a seat on the UN Security Council continues among the Cons and their supporters in the media. . "Canada barely escaped with its integrity intact at the United Nations", writes Kelly McParland at NaPo, "A ...
    • 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 ...

    Worldnews

    • How to add Twitter to your website
      There are two kinds of people these days: those who understand Twitter, and those who don't. If you're still a doubter, keep in mind that everyone's first foray into the medium is pretty disappointing. Start following the right people, though, and it suddenly clicks into place. You're chatting ...
    • Heavy, not modest, drinkers' babies more like ...
      Washington, Oct 16 (ANI): A new study has found that babies born to women who drink heavily during their first trimester of pregnancy are more likely to have birth defects, compared to the babies of mothers who abstained from alcohol.� However, kids born to moms who drink occasionally during pr ...
    • Alicia Keys welcomes son
      Alicia Keys has given birth to a boy. The American singer and her husband, rapper Swizz Beatz, became the proud parents of son Egypt Daoud Dean on Thursday. Egypt is their first child together, with Swizz...
    • Alicia Keys gives birth to Egypt
      Alicia Keys has given birth to her first child, a baby boy called Egypt. The 'Empire State of Mind' singer and her husband Swizz Beatz were celebrating the safe...
    • Twitter removes celebrity-tracker JustSpotted ...
      SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter said that it has cut celebrity-tracking service JustSpotted off from a pipeline of "tweets" that could be tapped to map the whereabouts of stars. JustSpotted will launch Tuesday with an online map that pinpoints celebrity sightings in real...

    Alex in Wonderland

    MY Daily Apple

    • Benefits of Magnet Therapy for Depression Appear t ...
      A depression treatment called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), which uses magnetic pulses to the stimulate the brain, appears to work long-term when combined with antidepressant therapy, say researchers. The researchers randomly placed 301 people with major depression in either real or sham ...
    • What is expedited partner therapy?
      Expedited partner therapy provides treatment to the sex partners of someone diagnosed with an STD.
    • Salmonella Stealth Bomber
      Salmonella secretes a virulence factor, SipA, which helps it to invade epithelial cells of the gut. During invasion, the host cell is triggered into synthesizing and secreting the apoptotic enzyme … [Read more]
    • Successful Strategies For China, India To Be Revea ...
      Elsevier Business Intelligence, publisher of PharmAsia News, IN VIVO and "The Pink Sheet," has announced the agenda for Windhover's 2nd PharmAsia Summit (Oct. 25-26). This year's Summit will bring top biopharma leaders from Asia and the U.S. to San Francisco to share what works and what doesn't in C ...
    • Flexible retirement age is needed to tackle Europe ...
      (No abstract is available for this citation)

    Common Dreams

    • Afghan Peace Council Chief: Taliban Ready to Talk
      by Deb Reichmann KABUL, Afghanistan — A former Afghan president who heads a new peace council said Thursday that he's convinced the Taliban are ready to negotiate peace. Burhanuddin Rabbani told reporters in Kabul that the Taliban have not completely rejected the idea of negotiating a nonmilitar ...
    • US Spend-or-Cut Debate Rages on at World Knowledge ...
      by Edward Helmore Spend or cut? It is a debate that goes to the heart of the post-2008 economic crisis - and yesterday simmering tensions over the two opposing strategies, between a Nobel prize-winning economist and a best-selling economic historian, boiled over again on a stage in South Korea. read ...
    • Conservative Group, Flush with Funds, Turns to Hou ...
      by Dan Eggen The conservative group American Crossroads, which has been singled out for criticism by President Obama and other Democrats, said Wednesday that it has shattered its fundraising goals in the face of such attacks and will now expand its efforts into House races as a result. read more
    • Foreclosuregate: Time to Break Up the Too-Big-to-F ...
      by Ellen Brown Looming losses from the mortgage scandal dubbed "foreclosuregate" may qualify as the sort of systemic risk that, under the new financial reform bill, warrants the breakup of the too-big-to-fail banks. The Kanjorski amendment allows federal regulators to pre-emptively break up larg ...
    • US Weighs Endorsing Indigenous Rights Declaration
      by Matthew Berger WASHINGTON - Just over three years after having voted against it at the United Nations, the United States is in the process of reviewing its position on the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. read more

    The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

    Examine Religion - Tweets

    Energy Collective

    • My Interview with Sheeraz Haji of Cleantech Group
      Sheeraz Haji of Cleantech Group
    • Cost of Money for Nuclear Projects - Effect of $88 ...
      I have been musing a bit this morning about the impact of the cost of money for nuclear projects in the United States compared to the cost of money for other energy investments. I have a spreadsheet model that I built based on the methodology described in Appendix 5.A — Calculation of the Levelized ...
    • Schott Solar: Outsourcing, insourcing and hyprocri ...
      You hear a lot of griping about outsourcing, an idea so embedded in our culture that it has spawned an NBC TV comedy, Outsourced. Politicians complain about American companies that ship jobs overseas. The Senate voted last month for “Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act,” an effort to pe ...
    • CA Considers Feed-in-Tariff: Green Skeptic on FOX ...
      I was on FOX Business with Varney & Co this morning, trying to set the record straight on Feed-in-Tariffs (and why I don't like them: it's NOT about the money). It was a lively discussion -- and Stuart revealed that he has a wind turbine on his farm in New Zealand that is not only generating power, ...
    • Splitting the Baby on E15
      I've been going over the EPA's ruling yesterday partially granting the waiver request from Growth Energy, an ethanol trade association, to allow gasoline with up to 15% ethanol to be used in cars not specifically designed as flexible fuel vehicles.

    Green House - USA Today

    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

    • Yes indeed, show us all the map!
      By Alan Hart Better late than never, a very senior Palestinian official in Ramallah, Yasser Abed Rabbo, found the right way to challenge Israel and the U.S. As reported by AFP on 13 October, he said, "We officially demand that the US administration and the Israeli government provide a map of the bo ...
    • The Mammography Controversy: Selling Out Women?
      Cam Salis A Swedish study published this month maintains that mammograms for women in their 40s saves lives. It contradicts numerous studies done over the past 20 years, as well as recommendations from The American College of Physicians in 2007 and from the expert U.S. Preventive Services Task Forc ...
    • The Arab People Look for Peace and New Leadership
      Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. After deliberate absence of any serious efforts for peace-making, the US Obama administration has reconvened the Arab-Israeli peace talk without a defined agenda. It is unusual and strange peace adventure. Previously, Bush administration had claimed a media famed “road map ...
    • The Cuban 5: Victims of US State Terrorism
      by Stephen Lendman Two web sites, among others, provide information on their case, accessed through the following links: http://www.thecuban5.org/ http://www.freethefive.org/ In September 1998, Miami FBI agents arrested Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzales, and ...
    • Haunted by ghosts
      By Yaron Frid Atzmon, Wyatt, and Stephen Self-proclaimed anti-Israeli saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and prog rock legend Robert Wyatt have joined forces to make musical magic and "political noise" In 1963 a baby was born in Israel. In 1972 a man fell from the third floor (or the fourth - views are di ...

    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

    • Holder Says Feds Will Ignore Prop 19
      Holder: US will enforce marijuana laws despite how Californians may vote | Raw Story Less than three weeks before California voters hit the polls, the Justice Department issued a preemptive message concerning a ballot measure making worldwide headlines. “Attorney General Eric Holder says the federal ...
    • Whoopi and Joy Walk Off the Set
      A heated debate with Bill O’Reilly creates some tension on “The View.” See it unfold here.
    • The Life of American Vagabonds
      Recognize anyone?
    • Do You Really Want These Nazis, Witches and Racist ...
      No? You better get out and VOTE! Tea Party Set to Win Enough Races for Wide Influence | The New York Times Enough Tea Party-supported candidates are running strongly in competitive and Republican-leaning Congressional races that the movement stands a good chance of establishing a sizeable caucus to ...
    • Weekly Trivia
      A new Trivia Question will be posted every Friday at 8:00 pm (EST). You can post your answer in the comments section below the question and be entered into a chance to win a WWH Bumpersticker! This weeks question: Graduated from a Catholic high school for boys in 1967 — just in time for the Summer ...

    Michael Moore - Must Read

    • 'A Crime Beyond Denunciation'
      This appears in a new article in the New York Observer : "The first thing that needs to happen, I think, is to get these people out of their homes," a man wearing a bespoke blue-striped shirt, a Hermés tie patterned with elephants and Ferragamo loafers said recently. "Correct! I'll explain," the ...
    • 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 ...

    Salon

    • Why does Rand Paul hate the Department of Educatio ...
      Why, exactly, does GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul want to shut down the US Department of Education? It's a tiny operation by federal standards, charged primarily with administering student loans and deciding what schools get how much money. But the thing is, it was created by Jimmy Carter, which ...
    • Teen who strangled brother gets life in prison
      An Indiana teenager who admitted he strangled his 10-year-old brother and told police he identified with a TV serial killer was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole.
    • T.I. pleads with federal judge to avoid prison
      Rapper T.I. is asking a federal judge not to send him back to prison for violating his probation.
    • The Year in Sanity: Diane Ravitch
      It's hard to admit you were wrong. It's even harder to admit you were wrong in publicly backing the largest educational reform bill in a generation. So, it's all the more impressive that Diane Ravitch not only acknowledged that she had made a mistake by advocating the No Child Left Behind Act, bu ...
    • Mitt Romney made everyone buy thousands of copies ...
      It is important for Mitt Romney to prove that he is serious by writing a serious book, and it is important for Mitt Romney to prove that he is popular by getting that book on to the New York Times Best Seller List. Hiring a ghostwriter and a Heritage Foundation national security "expert" takes ca ...

    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

    • Brother André: His spirit carries on
      That he is still venerated in an era of declining church attendance is a testament to his reputation as a true folk hero.
    • Darts & Laurels
      CHRISTINE O’DONNELL: For trying to delete her record. The Republican candidate for the United States Senate was questioned in a televised debate this week about some of her past statements, including her expressed belief that the theory of evolutio ...
    • Strong signal on worker safety
      Charges should help ensure stronger adherence to safety standards and regulations.
    • Equality or barbarism?
      Ed Broadbent calls for a renewed emphasis on social and economic equality.
    • Contributing to debate
      Rocco Rossi can take pride in waging a sincere and imaginative campaign that never stooped to mudslinging.

    Energy Collective

    • My Interview with Sheeraz Haji of Cleantech Group
      Sheeraz Haji of Cleantech Group
    • Cost of Money for Nuclear Projects - Effect of $88 ...
      I have been musing a bit this morning about the impact of the cost of money for nuclear projects in the United States compared to the cost of money for other energy investments. I have a spreadsheet model that I built based on the methodology described in Appendix 5.A — Calculation of the Levelized ...
    • Schott Solar: Outsourcing, insourcing and hyprocri ...
      You hear a lot of griping about outsourcing, an idea so embedded in our culture that it has spawned an NBC TV comedy, Outsourced. Politicians complain about American companies that ship jobs overseas. The Senate voted last month for “Creating American Jobs and Ending Offshoring Act,” an effort to pe ...
    • CA Considers Feed-in-Tariff: Green Skeptic on FOX ...
      I was on FOX Business with Varney & Co this morning, trying to set the record straight on Feed-in-Tariffs (and why I don't like them: it's NOT about the money). It was a lively discussion -- and Stuart revealed that he has a wind turbine on his farm in New Zealand that is not only generating power, ...
    • Splitting the Baby on E15
      I've been going over the EPA's ruling yesterday partially granting the waiver request from Growth Energy, an ethanol trade association, to allow gasoline with up to 15% ethanol to be used in cars not specifically designed as flexible fuel vehicles.

    EU Times

    • ‘Islamization’ of Paris a Warning to the West
      Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force. This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the private security. But the police have been ordered not to intervene. It shows that eve ...
    • Gunmen fire on plane carrying aid workers in Congo
      Medical agency: Gunmen fire on plane with international aid workers landing in east Congo. Gunmen in eastern Congo fired Wednesday on a private plane carrying international aid workers who escaped into the forest and were later rescued, aid workers from the International Medical Corps told The Assoc ...
    • Tony Blair Calls for Iran Attacks
      Back in the public eye with the release of his memoirs, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair might lead one to believe it is 2003 all over again. Praising George W. Bush as a great leader and one of the most decisive men he had ever met, Blair also lauds the Iraq War. And if [...]
    • Record number in government anti-poverty programs
      Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand. More than 50 million Americans are on Medicaid, the federal-state program aimed principally at the poor, a survey of state data by USA TODAY s ...
    • Intel CEO Blasts Obama Administration, Says Anti-B ...
      Silicon Valley leans Democratic. Based on comments made by one of the Valley’s biggest hitters, that may be changing. Intel CEO Paul Otellini got a lot off his chest at the Aspen Forum last night–with most of his frustration directed at the business-stifling policies of the Obama administration and ...

    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

    • Fear and Loathing in Cologne
      This week while attending a trade fair in Cologne I got a first-hand look at how Überfremdung (excessive number of "foreigners") is ruining Germany.  Thilo Sarrazin has become a national hero in Germany for his thesis on how rapid breeding by racially inferior Turks and Arabas... Tags: islam mosques ...
    • Straightforward Ice Breaker Hen Party Games
      Ice breaking hen party games are a perfect way to urge the party started and acquire all the women laughing and chatting together and having a sensible time. There’s a good likelihood that not everyone has met each alternative before on a hen party as the hen will have...
    • Affordable Wedding Centerpieces Double As Party Fa ...
      In today’s economy, brides are searching for ways to cut costs but still have the wedding reception of their dreams. What is a wedding without stunning centerpieces, a knock-your-socks-off gown, and of course, wedding favors that your guests can take home as a memento? Each of... Tags: memento lemon ...
    • For Blessed Mary, A Saint-Mad Country
      Through the week before her formal declaration as Australia's first saint, images of Mary MacKillop have been beaming from Sydney's iconic Harbour Bridge -- just one of many conspicuous examples of an all-out frenzy Down Under in advance of tomorrow's historic canonization in... Tags: pilgrimage syd ...
    • Is there regular and dependable rail service daily ...
      I am attending a wedding in Londonderry in mid-April this year. My flight is arriving at Belfast International Airport in the morning. I wondered if train service is available and would be the easiest way to go to Londonderry. I prefer not to rent a car since I drive infrequently at... Tags: belfast ...

    Groklaw

    • 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 ...
    • Apple Awarded Text Message Filtering Patent
      The system's success depends on enforced grammatical correctness. As the patent notes, text messaging is difficult to filter because there's so much shorthand. Blocking dictionary words doesn't work because abbreviations like LOL and its ilk may not be in a standard dictionary file. To avoid this p ...
    • Microsoft posts video of customers criticizing Ope ...
      Though they flash past quickly, every quote is attributed to an individual, not to the software giant. After doing a little digging, we found that these quotes are actually from case studies and press articles from the last four years, most of which are hosted on Microsoft.com. (Links to these are b ...
    • Java 7 Vote
      It is really important to understand that the JCP EC does not have the power to grant Apache a TCK license, only Oracle can do that. If the JCP had the power, Apache would have had their TCK years ago. So at its essence, this is a contract dispute between the Apache Software Foundation and Sun Micro ...
    • A sad day for Open Standards
      With IBM surrendering to the Oracle bully, the Java Community Process is now as credible as Weekly World News, and basically nobody is safe. The spin pros have been busy focusing on a strengthened, renewed Java effort, and they conveniently (or should I say pragmatically?) forgot to mention how dang ...

    WideShut

    Waterkeeper Alliance

    Politics in the Zeros

    • Spare the rod, spoil the Democrats
      The Republican Ogres are coming! This election is of colossal importance and is Very Important (see the diagram) and you must send buckets of money to Democrats then vote for them even though they’ve continually back-stabbed you. Remember, the Republican ogres are coming, so be scared, be very scare ...
    • Professional Leftists Blue Gal and Driftglass have ...
      All 40 podcasts now available at Professional Left They blog individually at Driftglass and Blue Gal and also contribute to Crooks and Liars. They’re doing fine work and afflicting the comfortable, so toss a fiver in their PayPal bucket while you’re there.
    • Jumping bikes 35 feet in air into pond
      Seems totally insane to me!
    • The joys of capitalism
      Trapped Chilean miners denied pay while underground
    • The little Maine house that triggered foreclosure- ...
      The foreclosure docs were robo-signed by an ethics-challenged drone at GMAC who said he ‘signed’ 400 a day and never reviewed any of them. GMAC calls this a “technicality” as does the Obama Administration. The stock markets would beg to differ, as banking stocks got clobbered today as everyone reali ...

    TVNZ - Top Stories

    Just World News

    • U.S. supports Taliban talks; Still opposing Hamas? ...
      So here are Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and SecDef Bob Gates now saying they support-- and are giving active support to-- the Afghan government's initiative to negotiate with the Taliban. But the U.S. government continues to completely oppose any attempt by any parties, Palestinian or other, to r ...
    • 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 ...

    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

    • La crise d'Octobre 40 ans après ?
      avec Christian Vanasse des Zapartistes, Marc-André Cyr, historien et militant anarchiste et Réal Jodoin des communistes internationalistes KLASBATALO
    • 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 ...

    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

    • The 'Other' Salt: 5 Foods Rich in Potassium
      According to Time Healthland: " A recent report shows that consuming just 4.7 grams of "good salt" (potassium) is the equivalent of cutting out 4 grams of "bad salt" (sodium) in terms of reducing blood pressure. But there are only so many bananas (.5g each) you can eat. Just in time for lunch, h ...
    • FDA Sees Possible Risk of Fatal Bowel Problem With ...
      The Food and Drug Administration said preliminary results from a study in Mexico involving GlaxoSmithKline's Rotarix vaccine suggest an increased risk of a serious bowel problem that could be fatal. A statement posted to the FDA's website said the study showed an increased risk of intussusception ...
    • When Never EVER to Use Fish Oil
      Dr. Rudi Moerck is a drug industry insider and an expert on omega-3 fats. In this interview, Dr. Rudi Moerck explains why fish oil may not be your best source of otherwise healthful omega-3 fats.
    • If You Eat These Eggs, You are Being Ripped Off
      The Cornucopia Institute has released a report that exposes widespread abuses in the production of organic eggs, primarily by large factory farms. The study compares management practices employed by small organic egg farmers with those of large industrial operations that label eggs 'organic' that h ...
    • The Breast Cancer Screening Mistake Millions Make…
      A new study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that increased awareness and improved treatments rather than mammograms are the main force in reducing the breast cancer death rate. The study, medical experts say, is the first to assess the benefit of mammography in the context ...

    JAMA

    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

    • A courageous, skilful, and forthright politician
      Danyluk, 66, died this week at the Montreal General Hospital of a rare disorder the nature of which her family has not disclosed.
    • 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.

    Food World Order

    • media monarchy: interview w/ barbara peterson of f ...
      interview w/ barbara peterson : download /subscribe \archive the latest special interview episode from media monarchy features a great talk with writer/activist barbara peterson of farmwars.info & truth squad radio . this one-hour conversation gets into the " corporate shenanigans ... and in ...
    • 10/14 binge & purge: can't feel the beating
      warning to glenn beck: don't drink diet coke * video: beck sidekicks attempt to debunk aspartame controversy * roger beachy's evangelical push for gm foods * build the pressure on the gates foundation * what's driving monsanto's fall from grace? *
    • 3/4's of US obese or overweight by 2020, says alar ...
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    • wheat bread sales top white bread for first time
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    • cattle cloned from dead animals to produce 'that m ...
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    CrusadeWatch

    • Vatican Bank Investigated For Alleged Money Launde ...
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    • Pakistani Christians not beneficiary of Church run ...
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    • Vishal Arora: A Christian fundamentalist masquera ...
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    • Christian casteism: Only in India: A Brahmin groom ...
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    • 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 ...
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    • Berlusconi Pushing for Israeli Membership of the E ...
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    • 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

    • The Bernanke Speech
      When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives a speech about the U.S. economy, it gets a whole lot more attention than when Barack Obama gives a speech about the U.S. economy.  Why is this true?  Well, it is because Bernanke has a whole lot more control over the U.S. economy than ...
    • The Real Horror Story: The U.S. Economic Meltdown
      This October, millions of Americans are going to watch horror movies and read horror stories because they enjoy being frightened.  Well, if you really want to be scared, you should just check out the real horror story unfolding right before our eyes - the U.S. economic meltdown.  It ...
    • 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
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    • 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 ...

    CASSE

    The Talking Clock

    • Sunday Paper Review: 10th October 2010
      It's always fascinating when putting the paper review together. What you start spotting is trends and themes spreading out across the newspapers and - it seems - that immigration seems to be a dominant issue in the corporate media this week. It's a subject area into which we tread with much trepi ...
    • From the department of 'No sh*t, Sherlock': "Obama ...
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    • Geo-engineering (aka 'chemtrails'). So, what on ea ...
      Not going to discuss this too much, though welcome your comments. All I'll say is this. I do not believe the utter rot about 'man made global warming' (see also 'global taxes' and 'global government'). I do believe that any attempt at playing God / Mother Nature / take your pick can only le ...
    • Lord Monckton on Alex Jones, October 2010
      Just before we post this, we are not connected to Lord Monckton. Don't know him. Never met him. But we would buy him a pint if we did, or when we do...
    • Memo to British Armed Forces: Defend the National ...
      You know, sometimes mainstream news stories don't quite measure up to the promise they excitedly introduce themselves with in their preceding headline. Or do they? We were, at first, rather disappointed to discover that the Daily Telegraph's reference to a British "military revolt" was not - i ...

    Facing South

    • INSTITUTE INDEX: Taking on the mortgage banksters
      Number of states where attorneys general are investigating the mortgage-servicing industry following allegations that questionable documents and procedures were used to support home foreclosures: 50 Number of foreclosures nationwide where flawed documents may have been used: hundreds of thousand ...
    • 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 ...

    CenterLine

    • Today’s Terrorism News
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    • Today’s Terrorism News
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    • 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 →

    Short Sharp Science

    Tech Drive In

    • AWN Lucido is an Absolute Delight to Use, Install ...
      Avant Window Navigator(AWN) is an awesome dock application for Linux. Over the years, AWN has evolved a lot and is now the almost-perfect dock application for Ubuntu/Linux users. AWN Lucido is Awesome! AWN Lucido started of as an experimental branch of AWN and is now integrated into AWN st ...
    • Seabird - Mind Blowing Community Driven Mobile Pho ...
      We have featured a number of mobile phone concepts before, Nokia Morph Concept Phone for example. But Seabird concept phone from Mozilla is in a league of its own. Seabird is a community driven mobile phone concept that debuted at Mozilla Labs 'Concepts'. What is Mozilla Seabird? The Mozil ...
    • Hotot Twitter Client Feels Sophisticated, Install ...
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      Like two weeks ago, we featured some of best and most popular blender made short movies in our 8 stunning blender made short films and animations post. Now, let's take the road less traveled. The blender movies we are going to showcase here are those rare ones which you guys probably haven't seen b ...
    • Matrix in Your Terminal is Cool!
      If you like playing around with your Terminal, you will love this cute little program that can create a small Matrix style animation in your Terminal. Matrix in Your Terminal The screenshot above can give you a better idea. The program is called cmatrix. And it is available in the Ubuntu r ...

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