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Thomas Paine

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Thursday, October 28, 2010

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My AntiWar

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • USIP's biased "Iran Primer"
    Summary: The US Institute of Peace has published an "Iran Primer" which could not be more biased and inaccurate when it comes to their coverage of the nuclear issue (I haven't read the rest so I can't judge the rest.) The main article onthe nuclear issue is totally written by David Albright of ...
  • Qatar urges US 'dialogue' with Iran
    Summary: Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani has urged the United States to resume negotiations aimed at resolving the nuclear standoff with Iran. source: Press TV read more
  • Iran needs stern lessons in freedom
    Summary: Just because we're covertly infiltrating and interfering in virtually every Muslim country on the planet -- and just because we're actively aiding rebel groups inside their specific country -- is no reason to suspect Americans who illegally enter their country of espionage. That just g ...
  • Poll: 80% of Lebanese approve Iran’s aid to the Le ...
    Summary: a rally in Beirut, October 13, 2010 A poll conducted by the Beirut Center for Research and Information revealed that a majority of Lebanese favored the historical visit made to the country by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as well as Iran’s initiative to provide the Lebanese Army ...
  • Iran and Honduras in the Propaganda System
    Summary: As we stated at the outset of Part 1, there is no better test of the independence and integrity of the establishment U.S. media than in their comparative treatment of Iran and Honduras in 2009 and 2010. source: MRzine read more

The Daily Galaxy

  • New Image of a Colossal Ancient Globular Cluster
    This new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the globular cluster known as NGC 1806. Comprised of tens of thousands of stars, it sits within the Large Magellanic Cloud - a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way -...
  • Monster Neutron Star Discovered -A Superdense "Cor ...
    There are believed to be millions of neutron stars in the Milky Way. The most massive known to date -a stellar corpse twice as massive as our Sun, has just been discovered. With all their mass packed into a sphere...
  • 62 Miles Beneath the Sea! Deepest Ocean in the Sol ...
    The deepest ocean on Earth is the Pacific Ocean's Marianas Trench, which reaches a depth of 6.8 miles awesomely trumped by the depth of the ocean on the Jupiter's moon, Europa, which some measurements put at 62 miles. That's deep!...
  • Image of the Day: Grand Canyon of Mars -Stretches ...
    Imagine a canyon that stretches from San Francisco to Washington DC, and you'll have an idea of the immensity of Mars' Valles Marineris, an enormous gorge first spotted by the NASA spacecraft Mariner 9 in 1972, and named in the...
  • The Daily Debate: "The idea of multiple universes ...
    "The idea of multiple universes is more than a fantastic invention—it appears naturally within several scientific theories, and deserves to be taken seriously," stated Aurelien Barrau, a French particle physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). What do...

Natural News

  • Placebo fraud rocks the very foundation of modern ...
    (NaturalNews) You know all those thousands of clinical trials conducted over the last few decades comparing pharmaceuticals to placebo pills? Well, it turns out all those studies must now be completely thrown out as utterly non-scientific. And why? Because the placebos used in the studies weren't re ...
  • Medical science discovers remarkable yet simple wa ...
    (NaturalNews) Here's good news that's just in time to help you avoid the temptation of sugary goodies served up at holiday parties. If you feel your willpower weakening as you pass the desserts piled high, just tighten up your muscles -- flex any of them, including your finger or calf muscles. Sound ...
  • NaturalNews invites new contributing writers to ap ...
    (NaturalNews) NaturalNews is expanding its audience and editorial reach, so we're ready to bring on new Citizen Journalism writers who want to see their stories published on NaturalNews.com. We currently publish from 4 - 6 stories each day that are contributed by Citizen Journalists. These writers e ...
  • Questioning Genetically Modified Foods - with Jeff ...
    (NaturalNews) The NaturalNews Talk Hour presents Genetic Roulette - The Dangers of GMO's - with our special guest Jeffrey Smith, bestselling author of the #1 rated book on the health dangers of genetically modified organisms (GMO's). This show will reveal how the largest biotech companies in the wo ...
  • NaturalNews.TV video recipe contest winners react ...
    (NaturalNews) One week ago we announced the winners of our Video Recipe Contest on NaturalNews.TV (http://www.naturalnews.com/030095_recipes_videos.html). The award checks have been sent out and all the prize products are on the way to these winners from Boku Superfood (www.BokuSuperfood.com) and Gl ...

Threat Level

  • Feds Let Google Off With Warning for Wi-Fi–Sniffin ...
    Federal regulators on Wednesday closed their investigation into Google’s collection of Wi-Fi traffic, without imposing any sanctions on the company. Google discovered earlier this year, after inquiries from German data authorities, that it had been eavesdropping on open Wi-Fi networks from its Stree ...
  • Sarah Palin E-Mail Hacker Seeks Probation, Feds Wa ...
    David Kernell, the Tennessee student convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account, has asked the court to forgo a prison sentence and give him probation for his crimes. Kernell, 22, was convicted earlier this year of misdemeanor computer intrusion and a felony count of obstructio ...
  • The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright ...
    Call it ingenious, call it evil or call it a little of both: Copyright troll Righthaven is exploiting a loophole in intellectual property law, suing websites that might have avoided any trace of civil liability had they spent a mere $105. That’s the fee for a blog or other website to register a DMC ...
  • LimeWire Shutters File Sharing Services After RIAA ...
    LimeWire on Tuesday finally shuttered its file sharing services months after a federal judge sided with the Recording Industry Association of America and found the New York company liable for a “substantial amount of copyright infringement” that the music industry claims amount to $1 billion. The 4 ...
  • Report: ‘Spear-Phishing’ Attacks Keep on Giving
    The number of targeted phishing attacks against individuals has risen dramatically in the last five years from one or two a week in 2005 to more than 70 a day this month, according to a new report from computer security firm Symantec. The industry most recently hardest hit by so-called spear-phishi ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • China 1, New Jersey 0
    On Tuesday, the residents of New Jersey saw the future - in China. On the same day that Governor Chris Christie killed funding for the badly needed second Hudson River rail tunnel, Beijing rolled out its fastest bullet train yet . As it turns out, Christie's budget ax is just the latest symptom o ...
  • For Conservatives, Sarah Palin is Pretty in Pink
    By now, Americans have grown accustomed to Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio saying (and doing) what most hard-line conservatives are only thinking. So when Sheriff Joe tweeted that he gave Sarah Palin a pair of pink underwear , right-wing eyebrows weren't the only things being raised. Of course, this ep ...
  • A Midterm Triple Whammy for Democrats
    This weekend, the New York Times and Washington Post offered almost identical assessments of the 2010 Congressional elections. While the Times announced "GOP poised to seize House, if not Senate," the Post predicted 'historic" losses with "more than 90 Democratic House seats are potentially in play ...
  • Obama the Snob Talking Point Returns for Midterms
    During the 2008, the campaign of multimillionaire and multiple home owner John McCain tried and failed to paint Barack Obama as "elitist" and "out of touch." But now that moribund Democrats are showing some signs of life as Election Day nears, the right-wing Obama as Snob meme is back with a vengea ...
  • Republicans Cut and Run on Spending Cuts
    When it comes to cutting the federal budget, talk is cheap. But as the New York Times is just the latest to report, across the country Republican candidates are talking tough about spending cuts they can't - or won't - explain . Yet even as they promise another $700 billion Treasury-draining wind ...

Blackspot News Feed

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

Consortium News

  • A Perjurer on the US Supreme Court
    An ex-girlfriend of US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ends a long silence and exposes his perjury, notes Robert Parry. October 23, 2010
  • Mystery of American Political Madness
    The crazy place where US politics now finds itself is the end of a long, winding and weird road, explains Bernard Weiner. October 23, 2010
  • The Financial Puzzle Behind 9/11
    The power struggle for Near East oil led to a twisted tale of financial intrigue and personal betrayal, writes David DeGraw. October 22, 2010
  • Is Israel Poisoning the Peace Talks?
    Israel's demand that Palestinians accept the "Jewish state" may be a new poison pill for peace talks, says Lawrence Davidson. October 21, 2010
  • A Clash Over 'Lesser-Evil' Voting
    Robert Parry responds to criticism of his article asking if the Left's punishing of Democrats at the polls has ever worked. October 20, 2010

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Water - AlterNet

Public Citizen in Texas

  • Renewables, renewables, my kingdom for renewables
    Dean Kamen is known for his many inventions, some of which have transformed the world, from the insulin pump and an all-terrain wheelchair to portable water purification systems and robotic prosthetic limbs. Of course, others, like his Segway self-balancing electric scooter (which visitors to the Te ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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.
  • Melissa Sanchez at Old Settlers Music Festival 200 ...
    Public Citizen Texas posted a photo: Mellisa enjoys cooking in the rain
  • State Rep Kino Flores found GUILTY, exposes holes ...
    From the Statesman: A Travis County jury today found South Texas lawmaker Kino Flores guilty of multiple counts of tampering with a governmental record and perjury in connection with omissions Flores made on financial disclosure forms required to be filed by state elected officials. Flores, a 14-yea ...

Unexplained Mysteries

  • Two planets, two stars, one system
    Astronomers have discovered two Jupiter-like planets orbiting two close sister stars. A discovery like this is unusual because binary star systems ten...
  • Columbus cleared of importing syphilis
    Christopher Columbus has been cleared of taking syphilis with him back to Europe from the Americas. Excavations taking place at St Mary Spital in East...
  • Horror film fans fairytale 'zombie wedding'
    A bride and groom exchanged vows while dressed as zombies in an unusual undead themed wedding. Tracey and Andy Monaghan opted to replace a traditional...
  • Paul the psychic octopus has died
    The octopus that rose to fame by predicting World Cup results this year has died. Paul the octopus gained a substantial following during the 2010 Worl...
  • Deep Impact spacecraft readies for comet
    The Deep Impact spacecraft will soon be making a close approach of the comet Hartley 2. Next week the spacecraft will be getting within 435 miles of t...

Grassroots

  • International Caravans for Life, Resistance, and E ...
    mexico200605-012.jpg The Via Campesina, along with their member organization the National Union of Autonomous Regional Peasant Organizations (UNORCA) – both Grassroots International partners – are organizing a march in Mexico for life and en ...
  • Outrage in a Time of Cholera
    haiti201005-142.jpg Many of us involved in the post-earthquake reality of Haiti have both feared and expected the kind of health crisis that recently surfaced in the news. In many ways, the seeming inevitability makes it all the more tragic – ...
  • US Food Sovereignty Alliance Launches in New Orlea ...
    1._sign_-_food_sovereignty_yes.jpg Grassroots International’s global partners like the Via Campesina have frequently told us: “You have to work hard to change things in the U.S. for our hard work to bear real fruit.” In other words, for anothe ...
  • 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 ...

Climate

GreenBiz

  • How Starbucks Took the Lead on LEED
    When the coffee giant announced its goal to get all of its new stores LEED-certified starting this year, it was the culmination of an effort to address its biggest environmental impacts.
  • Scott Dumps Toilet Paper Waste With Tubeless Rolls
    �Kimberley-Clark is eliminating waste from toilet paper rolls by getting rid of the cardboard tubes.
  • Growing Water Scarcity and Its 'Hidden' Risks to I ...
    Water scarcity in several U.S. regions poses hidden financial risks to investors in municipal bonds -- the key mechanism for financing the country's water and power infrastructure, according to a study by Ceres and global equity investor Water Asset Management.
  • Floating Islands: Using Garbage to Clean Polluted ...
    A small company based in rural Montana has big dreams for using post-consumer plastic waste to restore fish populations, sequester carbon, remove water pollution -- and create unlimited amounts of new waterfront property.
  • Fox Snares 2 Top Awards and 12 Other Honors in 'Gr ...
    Fox Filmed Entertainment was a big winner in the recent Environmental Media Association's annual awards ceremony with top honors going to the film "Avatar" and an episode of the TV show "Bones" and Green Seal recognition of 12 other Fox productions.

Reuters Global

  • Green energy aspirations for Obama’s India v ...
    When Barack Obama heads for India next month, he'll be carrying a heavy policy agenda. Rajendra Pachauri, the Nobel Peace laureate who heads the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, hopes the U.S. president has time to focus on clean energy too.
  • Clinton sees diplomats of the future in cargo pant ...
    Hillary Clinton has urged Congress to finance a major new U.S. push on overseas development aid, arguing that only by building up a global middle class will the United States increase its own national security.
  • Inside the Pirates’ Web
    Counterfeit commerce over the Internet has soared the past couple of years, turning what had been an irritant to businesses into a serious threat. Reuters journalists track the pirates from their websites to their shady workshops in China.
  • Numbed by Ciudad Juarez’s endless killings, ...
    The horrific killing of teenagers at a party in Ciudad Juarez deepens the despair in Mexico's worst drug war city, but authorities seem numbed into a state of inaction.
  • Obama in India next month;ripples in the region
    U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to India next month has set off ripples in the region, from Beijing to Islamabad.

Booman Tribune

  • The Stupid is Going to Kill Me
    I have to stop reading polling data or I am going to have a stroke. Why would women vote for the Republicans for the first time since they started polling that question in 1982? Are they into being curbstomped? How can 75% of the electorate have no opinion of the man they are about to make third- ...
  • Practicing My Sarah Tweets
    Also, too , every Republican has the right to ride in the passenger seat, not in the back seat. As everyone knows, the back seat is for colored folk like Rosa Parks. Since Republicans are not colored (excepting their chairman) they get to ride shotgun. And the president is a racist. Is that ...
  • Voting for the Opposite of What We Want
    Steve Benen : Republicans exist, in other words, to (a) cut taxes; and (b) prevent tax increases. It's a shallow, destructive charade, but that probably won't matter on Tuesday. No, it probably won't matter. People are going to vote for the exact opposite of what they want. They want balance ...
  • My Daughter is Scared
    My daughter is scared. Scared enough that she thinks we should move to Canada. Let me explain to you why she came to that conclusion to the best of my ability. But first let me tell you a little something about her so you can understand why she is so upset. My daughter is a bright, happy o ...
  • Canary in a Coal Mine
    The polling is just brutal. It kind of makes it hard to want to get out of bed in the morning. What's really frustrating to see is results like this from Pennsylvania: PA-Sen, PA-Gov (Ipsos for Reuters): Joe Sestak (D) 46%, Pat Toomey (R) 46%; Dan Onorato (D) 43%, Tom Corbett (R) 49% (Sestak ...

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

  • Tracing Children’s Psychological Adjustment to Par ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline An interesting study from Spain tracked children’s mental health and psychological adjustment, then traced those results back to four different types of parenting styles: authoritative (clear rules, very affectionate) and authoritarian (clear rules, not very affection ...
  • Depression: A Medical or Social Concern?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Recognizing the increased attention depression has received in recent years, Dr. Michael D. Yapko argued in a recent blog post that a dangerous majority of this attention emphasizes biology over social factors. “After all, no one is a biochemical island,” he wrote. “D ...
  • Mental Health Benefits from Preventative Measures, ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Summary As more Americans warm to the value of preventative health care for physical health, it’s a good time to address how prevention benefits mental health as well. In a report published in the American Journal of Public Health, researchers concluded that investments in “me ...
  • Kids Benefit From Resilience Programs Based On Pee ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Psychological and emotional resilience have been hot topics among therapists, counselors and social workers, especially in areas affected by trauma. Professor Michelle Slone, of the Department of Psychology at Tel Aviv University, has developed a template for teaching ...
  • Do Young Kids Get Depression?
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline It’s possible. Depression among preschool-aged children is something that’s not often talked about or recognized, but these young kids have more dynamic emotional lives than many adults realize. As our understanding of child development continues to evolve, so do the ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • Mountain Party candidate campaigns for US Senate s ...
    Mountain Party candidate campaigns for US Senate seat MU The Parthenon ... include solidifying the state's economy and education and working to solve environmental issues, such as mountaintop removal and clean energy. ... and more��
  • As election approaches, a continued focus on coal ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) As election approaches, a continued focus on coal Charleston Gazette (blog) I don't know if you were there, but my friend Wess Harris did a discussion of this sort on mountaintop removal a few years back at an Appalachian Studies ... and more��
  • Mountaintop removal must be stopped - The Tennesse ...
    Mountaintop removal must be stopped The Tennessean Now, Governor Bredesen has announced that he has petitioned the US Department of the Interior to ban mountaintop removal coal mining from the North ... Mountaintop removal destroys region The Eastern Progress Online (subscription) all 2 news artic ...
  • Mountain Top Removal Mining is Destroying Appalach ...
    Mountain Top Removal Mining is Destroying Appalachia allvoices By BMcPherson Mountain top removal (MTR) mining for coal is destroying the mountains and valleys of Appalachia. The practise carried out by coal companies ... and more��
  • EPA Recommends Denial of Water Permit for Disastro ...
    New York Times (blog) EPA Recommends Denial of Water Permit for Disastrous Mountaintop Removal Mine ... Common Dreams (press release) October 16 - In a blow to the largest mountaintop removal project ever proposed, a regional administrator at the Environmental Protection Agency has ... EPA Likely T ...

Memeorandum

  • 2010 Electorate Still Looking More Republican Than ...
    Lydia Saad / Gallup : 2010 Electorate Still Looking More Republican Than in the Past   —  GOP Election Day advantage aided by surge in independents who lean Republican  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup's latest figures on the composition of the 2010 electorate suggest that, consistent with an earlier Gall ...
  • President Obama Meets with Progressive Bloggers (J ...
    Jake Tapper / Political Punch : President Obama Meets with Progressive Bloggers   —  As the clock ticks down to the midterms and the White House tries to rally the base, President Obama this afternoon is meeting with five popular progressive bloggers.  —  Photo credit: J. Paul Tapper ©2010.
  • Matthews: How Long Before We See Tea Partiers Star ...
    Geoffrey Dickens / NewsBusters.org blogs : Matthews: How Long Before We See Tea Partiers Start Showing Up in Uniform, 1930s Style?   —  Chris Matthews, on Wednesday's Hardball, not so cryptically compared the actions of Republican volunteers to that of Nazi-style tactics from the 1930s as he claim ...
  • Midterm blowout: 50 or more Democratic seats set t ...
    Shane D'Aprile / The Hill : Midterm blowout: 50 or more Democratic seats set to fall in Tuesday's election   —  Republicans are headed for a blowout election win that seems certain to seize more than enough seats to knock out the Democrats and take control of the House.  —  The Hill 2010 Midterm E ...
  • Nevada voting machines automatically checking Harr ...
    Mark Hemingway / Beltway Confidential : Nevada voting machines automatically checking Harry Reid's name; voting machine technicians are SEIU members   —  Clark County is where three quarters of Nevada's residents and live and where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's son Rory is a county commission ...

Energy & Environment News

5+ quakes - 7 days

China Dialogue

  • The clamour for African coal
    Tete, in Mozambique, sits above one of the world’s largest reserves of high-quality coal. Money is pouring in and the mood is upbeat, writes Richard Lapper, but getting the product to market won’t be easy. Since the workers from Vale , Brazil’s giant mining company, started to drink at his bar, fort ...
  • Keeping within our earthly limits
    The Living Planet Report , produced by WWF and its partners, shows that humanity’s demands still outstrip the world’s natural resources – a trend likely to worsen. chinadialogue looks inside the 2010 edition. Populations of tropical species are plummeting and humanity’s demands on natural resources ...
  • Turning point in Tianjin
    Dozens of Chinese civil-society groups came together to host events at this month’s climate talks in Tianjin. Programme coordinator Lu Sicheng tells Meng Si it was a historic milestone. Lu Sicheng was the coordinator of “Green China, Race to the Future”, a series events organised by Chinese NGOs at ...
  • Peru’s water, UK’s asparagus
    Large-scale production of a luxury vegetable for European tables risks a water disaster in the dry Ica valley, an NGO warns. Felicity Lawrence explains the human impact of Britain’s reliance on “virtual water”. Asparagus grown in Peru and sold in the United Kingdom is commonly held up as a symbol of ...
  • Struggling to adjust
    The need for humans to adapt to climate change is clear, but the where, when and how remain fuzzy. Tan Copsey reports on existing – and hotly debated – plans for financing change in vulnerable countries. The climate is changing and human beings will need to change with it. People will have to adap ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • Feds Let Google Off With Warning for Wi-Fi–Sniffin ...
    Federal regulators on Wednesday closed their investigation into Google’s collection of Wi-Fi traffic, without imposing any sanctions on the company. Google discovered earlier this year, after inquiries from German data authorities, that it had been eavesdropping on open Wi-Fi networks from its Stree ...
  • Sarah Palin E-Mail Hacker Seeks Probation, Feds Wa ...
    David Kernell, the Tennessee student convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account, has asked the court to forgo a prison sentence and give him probation for his crimes. Kernell, 22, was convicted earlier this year of misdemeanor computer intrusion and a felony count of obstructio ...
  • The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright ...
    Call it ingenious, call it evil or call it a little of both: Copyright troll Righthaven is exploiting a loophole in intellectual property law, suing websites that might have avoided any trace of civil liability had they spent a mere $105. That’s the fee for a blog or other website to register a DMC ...
  • LimeWire Shutters File Sharing Services After RIAA ...
    LimeWire on Tuesday finally shuttered its file sharing services months after a federal judge sided with the Recording Industry Association of America and found the New York company liable for a “substantial amount of copyright infringement” that the music industry claims amount to $1 billion. The 4 ...
  • Report: ‘Spear-Phishing’ Attacks Keep on Giving
    The number of targeted phishing attacks against individuals has risen dramatically in the last five years from one or two a week in 2005 to more than 70 a day this month, according to a new report from computer security firm Symantec. The industry most recently hardest hit by so-called spear-phishi ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

IntelNews

  • Proposed US-Chinese telecom deal worries US legisl ...
    Three US Congress members have raised security concerns about a proposed deal between American and Chinese telecommunications companies, claiming that it could facilitate Chinese espionage in the United States. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #445
    WikiLeaks files show Iranian involvement in Iraq. WikiLeaks founder on the run. Money problems of US spies may threaten US security. Continue reading →
  • Greek-Cypriot spies behind largest document theft ...
    Agents of the Greek-Cypriot government were behind the largest document theft in the history of the United Nations, according to reports in the Cypriot and Turkish press. Continue reading →
  • News you may have missed #444
    Kyrgyz leader says spies tried to kill him. Pakistanâs ISI organized Mumbai attacks, say Indians. Russian sleeper agents receive highest state honor. Continue reading →
  • Mysterious Russian spy goes on trial in Poland
    The trial has started in Warsaw, Poland, of an unnamed Russian citizen accused of working for Russian military intelligence. Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

  • Calls for ''full investigation''
    If those who still call themselves republicans have managed to extend on the brain dead population of this country, quickly forgetting their two wars of choice and the emptying of the treasury, and even just win seats in congress the only thing left for this Country to do is Finally hold those Accou ...
  • Franklin Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights
    Franklin Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights - by Stephen Lendman Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution" deconstructed what framers, in fact, created, men he equated with a Wall Street crowd, given their economic status and prominence as bankers, merchants, lawyers, politicians, judges, and ...
  • Yo Listen Up Squad! Vermont's Charlotte Dennett B ...
    Remember Charlotte Dennett Who Aired This Prosecute Bush Ad in Vermont in 2008? She's back, and She's Going to Win on Nov. 2nd! Brothers and Sisters, read more
  • Emergency Demonstration: Protest Obama and Perriel ...
    The candidates don't want to talk about it, let's make it an issue when President Obama visits Charlottesville to campaign for Tom Perriello this Friday! Friday Oct. 29 4:30-7:30 In front of the Charlottesville Pavillion on the Downtown Mall (700 E. Main St. Charlottesville, Va) Bring a sign, we'l ...
  • DSCC Thinks You Have to Win Elections By 10 Percen ...
    How else to explain this Email: good info here: latest polls and last week's GOP spending. their spending is big, but we’re keeping pace and it’s working: - IL: Rove and friends spent $3.3 million, but we’re leading 41-39 - CO: Chamber and Rove spent $2.2 million, but we’ve tied it up, 47-47 - PA ...

Grist - News

  • The Biggest Loser (of energy waste): UNC dormitory
    by Jonathan Hiskes. Back in April the EPA launched a quirky little competition inspired by The Biggest Loser in which 14 buildings competed to see which could trim the most waste from their energy usage. The competitors were a 23-story Manhattan office building, a San Diego Marriott hotel, a C ...
  • The Senate livability bill has no teeth. That&#821 ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. The Obama administration is shifting federal transportation and housing funding away from its historical focus on sprawl-inducing highways and toward walkable, transit-friendly, mixed-use development. The work got started with the creation of the Partnership for Sustainable ...
  • States have clean-energy momentum, but it’s ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. For all the dysfunction , moral cowardice and hamfisted leadership in the fight for a federal climate bill, there's a good deal of ambitious work being done at the state level. Cleantech entrepreneurs are finding ways to build profitable businesses nearly everywhere, but part ...
  • Minnesota governor’s race: Dayton vs. Horner ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. When Sarah Palin and the "drill, baby, drill" chant rose to prominence at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, two leading Minnesota Republicans reacted in very different ways. And their responses represent two distinct directions that state voters could c ...
  • We’re tearing this highway down, Transportat ...
    by Jonathan Hiskes. It's one thing to talk about designing cities and towns for people instead of cars, as Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has done . It's another thing to make good on that pledge by tearing down elevated highways that prevent foot traffic and isolate neighborhoods from each ...

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Washington Independent

  • The Next Arizona
    After Arizona passed its crackdown law on illegal immigration, SB 1070, politicians across the country said they planned to introduce similar legislation in their states — even after the Justice Department sued Arizona for overstepping its authority to police immigration. Via Immigration Impact, pr ...
  • On Road to Unrestricted Campaign Donations, Social ...
    Ideological organizations often make for more sympathetic plaintiffs than business groups, and they've had considerable success in striking down campaign finance restrictions.
  • On the Frontline/ProPublica Oil Spill Documentary
    I just finished watching the Frontline/ProPublica documentary on BP. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s definitely worth your time. The documentary tracks BP’s spotty safety record, from a 2005 explosion at one of its oil refineries in Texas that killed four people to pipeline spills in Alaska to the ...
  • Which Races Could Latinos Decide on Tuesday?
    No one is quite sure how big an impact Latino voters will have on the upcoming elections. Polling early in the month pointed to low turnout among Latinos, who reported lower enthusiasm than voters overall for the Nov. 2 elections. There were reports that Latino voters would stay home if Congress fai ...
  • Oil Industry Blasts Obama EPA for Upcoming Climate ...
    The American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry’s national trade organization, criticized the Obama administration today — and the Environmental Protection Agency in particular — for its efforts to impose new limits on greenhouse gas emissions and ozone pollution. The group also targeted ...

Digg Green

  • 12 Surprising and Scary Examples of Genetic E ...
    Glow-in-the-dark cats? It may sound like science fiction, but they’ve been around for years. Cabbages that produce scorpion poison? It’s been done. Oh, and the next time you need a vaccine, the doctor might just give you a banana. Today, 45 percent of U.S. corn and 85 percent of U.S. soybeans a ...
  • Volvo Starts Development Of Fuel Cell Range-E ...
    Volvo has some ambitious plans for the future. In addition to the market launch of a plug-in hybrid in 2012, work is currently under way on evaluating the viability of an entirely electric-powered car and now we can add hydrogen-powered fuel cells to that list--but with a twist.
  • Officials Say Photo of Bear Chasing Half-Maul ...
    Why did the bison cross the road? To get the hell away from the 800-pound grizzly trying to eat him.
  • Hundreds of Ducks Die on Syncrude tailings Po ...
    At least 230 waterfowl had to be euthanized after landing on one of Syncrude's tailings ponds. "It's time to start eliminating these tailings lakes. The only safe toxic tailing lake is not a toxic tailing lake at all," said Greenpeace spokesperson Mike Hudema.
  • Impaled by comparison
    Many have seen the old portrait of the Hungarian nobleman who was impaled through the head by a lance yet survived. Recently, a medical team from Austria reported a remarkably similar case where the patient survived and recovered with no ill effects.

Invisible Opportunity

  • When Drug Trials Go Terribly Wrong: Lessons from a ...
    By Christopher Lane I sometimes get mail from readers wanting to tell me about their experiences with American medicine and psychiatry. The information they share can present all kinds of predicaments, due to what is said and how it’s conveyed. For one thing, it’s shared outside any medical or psych ...
  • Report: Iran loads fuel into 1st nuclear reactor
    Iran has begun loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant, state TV reported Tuesday. The English-language Press TV announced the injection of fuel into the core of the reactor at Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran. Amid great media fanfare, Iranian and Russian engineers s ...
  • 9/11:EXPLOSIVE_TESTIMONY – Mark Basile Chemi ...
  • LA Times pinkwashing reaches new low by pushing &# ...
    By Mike Adams Check this out: The LA Times is pinkwashing their entire website masthead with a pink ribbon set behind the word “Angeles,” which of course means “angels.” See it for yourself in this Fair Use screen shot: http://naturalnews.com/images/LATim… If that’s not enough pinkwashing, the LA Ti ...
  • TISSUE, SKIN, BONE AND ORGAN HARVESTING AT ISRAEL’ ...
    Body Parts and Bio-Piracy By NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES Editorial Note: Nancy Scheper-Hughes is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the doctoral program in medicine and society. Since 1996, she has been involved in active field research on the global traf ...

Global Insights

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

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Twilight Earth

  • Tea Party Actually Started by Two British Comedian ...
    Jokes on us. Those blokes from across the pond sure do give their all for a joke! View all of Joeâs political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related posts:Republican Energy Plan (cartoon) Can’t Spell HATE Without T-E-A (cartoon) Tea Partier ...
  • Republican Energy Plan (cartoon)
    Same old same old from the right side of the aisle. As Treehugger columnist, Brian Merchant recently shared, “they are the only major political party of any democracy in the world that gets away with denying climate science.” Scary. More on the ever-tan Mr. Boehner: John Boehner on the Issues (sc ...
  • 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 cartoonery ...
  • 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 pos ...

Inhabitat

  • BIG’s Sloped and Jagged World Village of Women’s S ...
    Read the rest of BIG’s Sloped and Jagged World Village of Women’s Sportshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture" ...
  • Brench is a Seat Between Two Living Trees
    Rather than using wood to make a chair, Andries Vanvinckenroye used two trees – and he didn’t even need to chop them down. The designer investigated how to use a living tree in its entirety to create seating without having to kill it or stunt its growth. The end result is âBrenchâ, a carbon-neutral ...
  • San Francisco Announces Bike Sharing Program to La ...
    Bay Area bike-lovers, rejoice — a $7.9 million bike-sharing pilot project will roll out next year in San Francisco, San Jose, Palo Alto, Mountain View and Redwood City! If all goes well, one thousand bikes will be available for participants who pay a membership fee in the program. Read the rest of ...
  • Handmade Human-Shaped Crayons For the Next Michela ...
    This isnât your everyday box of Crayolas – designed by Heli Hietala, “Colours” is an expressive collection of crayons modeled after lilliputian human beings. A handmade set consisting of 100 crayons, Hietalaâs colorful concept alludes to a greater message, signaling the wealth of creativity that can ...
  • ANNOUNCING: Ecouterre’s Recycled Denim Challenge F ...
    We’re excited to announce that our sustainable fashion website Ecouterre has just unveiled the finalists in the Recycled Denim Challenge! We asked readers to submit their most creative designs that repurpose old jeans, and the submissions that came pouring in were pure jeanius. It wasn’t an easy jo ...

Pogue's Posts

  • Office for Mac Isn't an Improvement
    Office 2011 for Mac is a big step backward. The new Outlook is the biggest disappointment.
  • 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.

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Physicists Vote to Run Tevatron for 3 More Years
    A group of high-energy particle physicists decided this week to recommend extending the life of the Tevatron, the second-most-powerful particle collider in the world, for 3 years. The panel’s recommendation goes to the Department of Energy, then Congress and ultimately to the White House. The fundi ...
  • Monkey Fossils Suggest Primates Came Out of Asia, ...
    The discovery of four ancient, lemur-like creatures in what is now Libya suggests the human family tree’s taproot is in the Middle East, not Africa. The conventional narrative of primate development places the origins of anthropoids — monkeys and apes, including humans — in Africa. Some paleontolog ...
  • Record-Breaking Neutron Star is a Clue to Exotic P ...
    A quick-spinning stellar corpse is the most massive of its kind ever seen. The dead star’s extra bulk could rule out several theories about what these dense stellar objects are made of, and provide a celestial lab to explore exotic matter. “For people who work in this field, it’s huge,” said neutro ...
  • Assassin Bug Eats Spiders After Feigning Capture
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK A species of assassin bug has been found which creeps onto spiders’ webs and pretends to be prey, then devours the spider when it comes to investigate. The creature, known to entomologists as Stenolemus bituberus, and actually in the spider family itself too, is the subje ...
  • Neuron Recordings Capture Brain Focus on Josh Brol ...
    By measuring the activity of single neurons, researchers have recorded what happens when people narrow their focus on subjects like Josh Brolin or Marilyn Monroe. The neuroscientists weren't interested in the actors, however, but rather the dynamics of attention.

The Progressive Realist

  • NATO Losing in Afghanistan
    �In a much-cited January 2008 report, the Atlantic Council warned, " Make no mistake, the international community is not winning in Afghanistan . Unless this reality is understood and action is taken promptly, the future of Afghanistan is bleak, with regional and global impact." Subsequent reports b ...
  • Mideast Peace Hoop Jumping
    So I got to thinking about the Netanyahu government's demand  for Palestinian affirmation of Israel's Jewish nature before a peace deal can be reached. Essential cornerstone for negotiations, or off-putting requirement for the other side to prove its legitimacy? The question of the day isn't the n ...
  • Confronting The Iraqi Nakba
    Surveying the vast trove of WikiLeaks Iraq documents , Steve Coll makes what I think is a great point about how “ American understanding of the Iraq war has so far been distorted, in a way, by the heavy scrutiny of American conduct, generalship, politics, and domestic narratives of who won and who l ...
  • Iraq Ranked Fourth Most Corrupt Country in the Wor ...
    On October 26, 2010 Germany’s Transparency International released its 2010 Corruption Index . This year’s survey included 178 countries. Each nation was given a rank from highly corrupt 0 to highly clean 10 based upon different sources. For the second year in a row Iraq was ranked the fourth most co ...
  • Afghanistan: A Tale of Two Wars
    A friend was commenting to me this morning that it's become nearly impossible to understand what's happening in Afghanistan today . . . because every news story seems to reflect an agenda-driven leak.  And right on cue we have these two headlines from the Washington Post . . appearing in the same pa ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Lightning Round: Bonfire of the Vanities.
    This Politico story on how endangered House Democrats are quietly promoting third-party runs to split the GOP vote would benefit from more hard data. As I've repeatedly said, Tea Party candidates have introduced a degree of uncertainty to the midterms, but these uncertainties need to be quantified. ...
  • The Little Picture: Calm After the Storm.
    Courtesy of writing fellow Jamelle Bouie , the view from the Prospect offices after a rainstorm.
  • Mark Schmitt Defends the Stewart/Colbert Rally.
    TAP Executive Editor Mark Schmitt defends Jon Stewart as an important truth teller.
  • What's in the Waterways.
    Over at Mother Jones , Keira Butler debunks a pro-life group's weird ploy to convince greenies that the birth control they take is causing problems for fish and otters, who have to deal with extra estrogen in waterways. Good luck debunking that myth; it's been around forever, and I hear it from as m ...
  • Scott Free.
    John Frank says the Florida governor's race is one of the most important in the nation -- and a low-flying hard-core conservative is looking to win. If Rick Scott wins in the Sunshine State, it will be a clean sweep for Republicans, who are expected to win the Senate race and already control the st ...

Buzzflash

  • We Don’t Need Government off Our Backs – We Need G ...
    SUE PASTIN FOR BUZZFLASH We Americans have too great a county, and too much to do, to let our country go backwards. We have to repair crumbling roads, bridges and schools - and we've only just gotten started! We must rebuild our economy and our manufacturing base, using solar and wind power more ...
  • Gay Log Cabin Republicans Get DADT Repealed, Only ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG BY MARK KARLIN It is an ironic detail lost in much of the coverage of the recent federal court ruling that found "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) to be an unconstitutional policy. The case was filed against the US Department of Defense in 2004 by the Log Cabin (LGBT) Republ ...
  • Afghan President Received Bags Of Money From Iran ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH I bet Hamid Karzai feels this statement Isn't a big lie that's drastic Because he arranged to only receive bags Made of see-through plastic. read more
  • Tea Party Parents: Instead of Food and the True Je ...
    BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG BY MARK KARLIN This is a time for white, working and middle-class voters, as Sharron Angle would say, "to man up." In the world of public policy - or just plain hateful politics such as stomping on the head of a MoveOn supporter at a Rand Paul debate - a man or woman has to ...
  • Billionaire Koch Brothers Allegedly Made Big Donat ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH Why pay someone who already believes as you do? Are you kidding? There's no need for remuneration when they already Do your bidding. Buying the influence of known right wingers --- you Know what? That makes as much sense as bribing a cop to eat a Donut. In addition to ...

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Sciencebase

  • When is yawning contagious?
    When is yawning contagious? – Apparently, yawns are most contagious at 7:30 pm. But, why? No one knows for sure even why we yawn, let alone why we yawn after seeing someone else yawn or even simply after seeing someone pretend to yawn. (If it were a change in air pressure or CO2 levels in [...] When ...
  • Six sexy science books
    Six sexy science books at least one or two of which would make perfect holiday gifts for the science geek, nerd, dweeb, or dork in your life. Remember Science is Vital and so are books. Science: The Definitive Guide by Piers Bizony – As a kid, I devoured books like this, you probably did too, [...] ...
  • Progress or PR
    Progress or PR? – SciDev.net recently published a “guide” for journalists on separating real progress from PR hype surrounding clinical trials. It’s a well-written and quite timely piece given the backlash against medical reporting in recent years. Unfortunately, this kind of advice is only ever tak ...
  • Scientists dodge Osborne’s axe
    Scientists dodge Osborne’s axe – The Science is Vital campaign has turned UK Chancellor George Osborne who recognised at the 11th hour that the £4.6 billion science budget should be maintained over the next four years. He accepted that research will be key to long-term economic growth. More to the p ...
  • GERD’s dirty little secret
    GERD’s dirty little secret – When omeprazole's patent expired AstraZeneca launched the optically pure version esomeprazole, which is apparently four times as active and gave them a new patent and a corner of the acid reflux market. Bizarrely, both forms of the drug (pro-drug in fact) are converted t ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Pakistan: Investigate Murder and Torture of Baloch ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2010 Amnesty International The Pakistani government must investigate the torture and killings of more than 40 Baloch leaders and political activists over the past four months, Amnesty International said today. Activists, politicians and student leaders are among ...
  • Former Saddam Hussein Officials Face Death Penalty
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2010 Amnesty International Amnesty International today called on the Iraqi authorities not to execute former Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and two other former officials sentenced to death by a Baghdad court. Tariq Aziz, Sadoun Shakir, a former Interior Minis ...
  • Arundhati Roy Responds to Threat of Arrest for Sed ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2010 Haymarket Books The following is a full statement by Arundhati Roy, Booker Prize-winning novelist and renowned global justice activist: read more
  • Federal Court Upholds Amazon Users' Privacy And Fr ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2010 ACLU A federal judge ruled late Monday that government requests for detailed information about Amazon.com customers violate Internet users' rights to free speech, anonymity and privacy. The ruling came in a lawsuit originally brought by Amazon to stop the N ...
  • Prop. 8 Ban Has No Legitimate Basis, Americans Uni ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2010 Americans United for Separation of Church and State California’s ban on civil marriage for same-sex couples is based on intolerance, pseudo-science and religious dogma, not legitimate public policy concerns, Americans United for Separation of Church and State h ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • A Response to the Threat of Arrest for Sedition
    by Arundhati Roy Kashmir, Oct. 26 -- I write this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning's papers say that I may be arrested on charges of sedition for what I have said at recent public meetings on Kashmir. I said what millions of people here say every day. I said what I, as well as other commentators ...
  • What's So Funny About Outsourcing?
    by John Feffer What were NBC executives thinking? The unemployment rate remains near double digits, and many Americans have simply stopped looking for work. And what does the network premier this fall but a sitcom called Outsourced about an American manager sent to run a ca ...
  • French Lessons for U.S. Workers
    by Shamus Cooke The world watches as France once again erupts in protests, demonstrations, and strikes. So much is at stake. If France's corporate-dominated government is able to increase the retirement age, other governments will be empowered to follow through with their plans to do the same.  ...
  • An Open Letter to Save Tareq Aziz
    by Felicity Arbuthnot An Open Letter: His Holiness Pope Benedict xvi, His Grace The Archbishop of Canterbury, His Grace the Archbishop of Westminster, The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon., David Cameron, The Deputy Prime Minister, The Rt., Hon., Nick Clegg, The Foreign Secretary, The Rt. Hon., William H ...
  • Wall Street Has Already Voted
    by Holly Sklar Before Wall Street drove our economy off a cliff, bullish Citigroup strategists dubbed the United States a "plutonomy." They said, "There are rich consumers, few in number, but disproportionate in the gigantic slice of income and consumption they take. There are the rest, the 'non-ric ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

  • Gorby on Afghanistan: Victory is Impossible
    By Steve Hynd The man who withdrew his nation's troops from Afghanistan, Mikhail Gorbachev, is pessimistic about America's adventure there, telling the BBC that a US victory "is impossible there". He added that the mess is, to a great extent, America's own fault. "We had hoped America would abide by ...
  • Taliban Talks: After The Hype, The Pullback
    By Steve Hynd Last week, the media was full of stenography of the official narrative that the awesomely Saintly General Petareus and his surge(tm) were forcing the Taliban to the negotiating table and the insurgency was in its last throes, with success just around the corner etc. etc. That was until ...
  • A One Trick Pony
    By Steve Hynd Andrew Exum, known as Abu Muqawama, is a fellow at the neoliberal, interventionist mothership - the Center for a new American Security. As such, he's a fairly influential voice within the D.C. "serious people" foreign policy set. So you'd think he could do better than his summary of th ...
  • Talking About Taliban Talks - Just Psyops?
    By Steve Hynd We've heard an awful lot about talks with Taliban leaders recently. There have been reports, deliberately leaked by the Pentagon, of senior leaders being smuggled into Kabul for talks by the US military. There have been rumors that Pakistan has released Mullah Baradar. There's been a l ...
  • The New York Times Hypes the Afghanistan War, Agai ...
    By Derrick Crowe The New York Times just published a story under the headline, "Coalition Forces Routing Taliban in Key Afghan Region" that could not include more Pentagon talking points if it were written by General David Petraeus himself. In both the broad outline of the story and in the part ...

Water Wars

  • Water wars for the city
    Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.
  • Water wars for the city
    Stan Miller thinks water rates should be equal. He’s suing because he believes strongly in his position.
  • The Other, Bigger, War
    October 27, 2010: Terrorism isn't the biggest cause of death and violence in Yemen, the water shortage and tribalism are. The high birth rate and growing production of Khat has increased poverty and water demands.
  • Our pick for attorney general: Ken Hodges
    Georgians deserve a take-charge pitbull with battle scars by CL staff WHY YOU SHOULD CARE: After 13 years of the spineless Thurbert Baker, Georgians need an AG willing to root out public corruption, help end the water wars and not use the office to further a political agenda. THE LOWDOWN: There was ...
  • 10 ways to survive a zombie economy
    Investors face a host of potential horrors, including looming debt, currency disasters and water wars. Here's how to face down the scary monsters and still make money.

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

Futurismic

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

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: Relatively Unknown Members of Congr ...
    Lobbyists Court Potential Stars of House Panels by Eric Lipton and David M. Herszenhorn [The New York Times] [F-35] Fighter jet purchase risky, Auditor-General says by Steven Chase [The Globe and Mail] Adviser to Consumer Agency Had a Role in...
  • Chief Pentagon Tester’s Memo Partly Directed at th ...
    J. Michael Gilmore, the Pentagon�s director of operational test and evaluation, has recently urged that �production-representative articles should be used for test and evaluation,� according to an October 18 memo by him. by In other words, the Defense Department should be testing weapons that co ...
  • Morning Smoke: SIGTARP: Treasury May Have Used Mis ...
    TARP watchdog questions AIG valuation; reveals that Treasury has appointed observers to monitor "deadbeat'' banks by Ryan Holeywell [BailoutSleuth] The Australian continues to mislead its readers about Defence and the F-35 by Eric Palmer [DOD Watch] Potential compromise offered on...
  • Morning Smoke: Treasury Shielding Citigroup with F ...
    Treasury Shielding Citigroup as Deletions Make FOIA Meaningless by Bob Ivry [Bloomberg] SEC Aims to Streamline Complaint Process by Suzanne Barlyn [The Wall Street Journal] Wall Street Sold ‘Tragically Deficient’ Product, Angelides Says by Phil Mattingly [Bloomberg] Editorial: Transparency essential ...
  • BLM Chief Asks Inspector General to Renew Investig ...
    Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Bob Abbey has responded to POGO’s request and asked the Department of the Interior's in-house watchdog to "renew its investigative inquiries regarding certain questionable activities" surrounding the departure of a former district manager. Interior’s...

Digital Journal

  • All about Toronto mayor-elect Rob Ford
    Rob Ford will be officially sworn in as mayor of Toronto on Dec. 1. In the mean time, Ford is beginning to announce his transition team but has also spoken to media outlets and the residents of Toronto about various issues.
  • Toronto man arrested during traffic stop for loade ...
    The strong aroma of marijuana led Toronto Police to arrest a man Tuesday in the Sheppard Avenue West area after looking for a speeding car.
  • Pamela Anderson addresses Oxford
    Pamela Anderson spoke to about 200 students about the benefits of vegetarianism when she visited Oxford University on October 25.
  • A tale of 2 Mayoral candidates the victory & conce ...
    On Monday, October 25th, the City of Toronto elected its 64th Mayor, Rob Ford, a now former city councillor and businessman from Etobicoke. The streak remains in tact, Toronto has never voted in a Mayor who did not hold an elected office.
  • Police checking out secretly filmed videos of wome ...
    Someone has been secretly filming women from behind as they walk around the area of Dalhousie University, and then posting the footage on YouTube. Police in Halifax are now reviewing the videos.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • The Bold & the Beautiful to Feature H ...
    Does Hollywood imitate life? Or does life imitate Hollywood? For the most watched television soap opera in the world (with 26 million+ viewers), the answer is, both. Beginning tomorrow, Oct. 28,  The Bold & the Beautiful will begin airing episodes featuring real homeless people. According to TV Guid ...
  • Scholarships for Homeless Students Provide So Much ...
    Know any homeless or formerly homeless students who have persevered despite remarkable challenges and are ready to thrive in college? The Horatio Alger Association , in partnership with Give US Your Poor: The Campaign to End Homelessness , is awarding 1,000 college scholarships this year to students ...
  • Salute! Iowa Non-Profit Proposes National Homeless ...
    Knoxville, Iowa could be transforming a former veterans' hospital into a new  national center for homeless veterans with 400 beds and federally-subsidized education and treatment programs. The proposed National Veterans Recovery Center would provide services to homeless and at-risk veterans for up t ...
  • Make Sure the National Resource Center on LGBT Agi ...
    Homeless advocates should be thrilled to learn of the creation of the new National Resource Center on LGBT Aging , the first resource of its kind for this population. This is important for homelessness for two reasons: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are more susceptible to homelessnes ...
  • My Homelessness Hero Is Still in the 7th Grade
    While I was driving around the country this summer, a young man who is currently in the seventh grade walked from Tampa to Los Angeles for homeless youth. That young man is  Zach Bonner , and Zach is one of the most amazing people I have ever met. This was not his first walk. In 2007, he walked from ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Auditor-General: F-35 purchase poses “risks”
    Auditor-General Sheila Fraser’s latest report describes the acquisition of Cyclone and Chinook helicopters as “troubling”, and details how government agencies presented the purchases as simple and low risk while continuously lowballing estimated costs in order have them approved.  This resulted in ...
  • New poll shows Canadians committed to peacekeeping
    A new Nanos research poll conducted for the Globe and Mail indicates that Canadians think peacekeeping is more important than combat missions (Campbell Clark, ”Canadians pick peacekeeping over combat,” Globe and Mail, 25 October 2010). According to the poll, Canadians are strongly opposed to sending ...
  • Canada backs NATO missile defence
    The Harper government has pledged its support for a proposed NATO missile defence system for Europe (Juliet O’Neill, “Canada backs European missile defence program,” Postmedia News, 20 October 2010): The Conservative government says it supports a European ballistic missile defence system proposed fo ...
  • Aerospace companies jump into the fray over F-35s
    From the Department of Dog-Bites-Man: The Aerospace Industries Association of Canada is warning Canadians not to cancel the Harper government’s plan to purchase F-35 fighters (“Cancelation [sic] of F-35 purchase threatens Canadian jobs,” Aerospace Industries Association of Canada communique, 14 Octo ...
  • Canadian troops destroyed villages to save them?
    A New York Times report (Carlotta Gall, “In Afghan South, U.S. Faces Frustrated Residents,” 16 October 2010) on the frustration and disillusion expressed by Afghan civilians in the region around Kandahar cites Canadian actions as one of the sources of complaints: Three years ago, Canadian troops bui ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Cordless and Cell Phones Can Cause Heart Irregular ...
    October 25th, 2010 Raw Story By: Eric Dolan Microwave radiation produced by digital cordless phones and other cordless devices, such as cellular phones, can cause irregular heartbeats and other symptoms, according to a little-noticed study published Friday in the peer-reviewed European Journal of On ...
  • French Cancer Patient Wakes Up 14 Hours After Bein ...
    October 20th, 2010 The Telegraph By: Henry Samuel Staff were so convinced that Lydia Paillard, 60, had passed away they asked her family if they could switch her life support machine off. Then she suddenly woke up. Mrs Paillard had walked into a clinic in Bordeaux, southwestern France, on Monday for ...
  • Big Pharma Trying To Convince Women to Buy “ ...
    October 24th, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez The pharmaceutical industry is in the midst of a major push to secure FDA approval for drugs to treat “female sexual dysfunction,” including a public relations campaign to convince women that the condition is real in the first place. “This is reall ...
  • British Prawns Getting High on Prozac in the Water
    October 25th, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez Contamination of British coastal waters with antidepressants is likely changing the behavior of prawns and other marine life, according to a study conducted by researchers from Portsmouth University. In recent years, scientists have become increasi ...
  • Diabetes Drug Researcher Admits Drug Trials are Un ...
    October 25th, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez A drug researcher who presided over the trial that first raised concerns over the diabetes blockbuster Avandia has warned that further tests of the drug’s safety would be unethical. In 2009, David Juurlink of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in To ...

Pambazuka News

  • Break the Silence Congo week
    The purpose of the Break the Silence Congo Week is to raise consciousness about the devastating situation in the Congo and mobilize support on behalf of the people of the Congo. Break the Silence Congo Week will take place from Sunday 17 October to S...
  • Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice by em ...
    On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
    Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...

War in Context

  • The latest display of Israeli contempt for non-Jew ...
    Imagine this: You want to move to a new town but before you can do so, you’ll have to submit an application to a committee that has to approve admission of new residents. And not just that — you can be excluded for the simple reason that in the committee’s opinion, you wouldn’t fit in. [...]
  • Taliban say “end is near” as they anticipate US wi ...
    The Pentagon won’t admit it, but it becomes increasingly clear that the US and the Taliban are now — by differing means — pursuing the same objective: finding a way to get American troops out of Afghanistan. The Washington Post reports: Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan ...
  • The challenge of religious pluralism in America
    Legal scholar, Stanley Fish, writes: The conflict between religious imperatives and the legal obligations one has as a citizen of a secular state — a state that does not take into account the religious affiliations of its citizens when crafting laws — is an old one…; but in recent years it has been ...
  • Tom Engelhardt: placing your global bets
    Handicapping the global midterms By Tom Engelhardt You can’t turn on the TV news or pick up a paper these days without stumbling across the latest political poll and the pros explaining how to parse it, or some set of commentators, pundits, and reporters placing their bets on the midterm elections ...
  • Israel’s vain quest for sovereignty
    Why is it that a country that defines itself in terms of existential threats and the need to provide a safe refuge for the Jewish people, nevertheless seems strangely remiss in securing its own autonomy? Even if Israel stands out as the preeminent military power in the Middle East, it has only been ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Dead terran spacecraft find new life in moon orbit
    From Science @NASA: A pair of NASA spacecraft that were supposed to be dead last year are instead flying to the Moon for a breakthrough mission in lunar orbit. “Their real names are THEMIS P1 and P2, but I call … Continue reading →
  • Ugly weather expected on Election Day
    The current weather forecast for November 2, 2010 looks ugly for the middle Atlantic East Coast with easterly winds and rain chances set up between a Canadian high pressure cell and a developing SE US low.  Temperatures there are expected … Continue reading →
  • The season of disinvitation continues: Chico State ...
    I wrote back on September 28th about how Dr. Roger Pielke Senior and Dr. Bob Carter had been invited to present their views on climate science, then after the organizers found out what might be discussed, redacted the invitations to … Continue reading →
  • Pew Poll: Belief in global warming as a serious pr ...
    From the Pew Research Center: Views about the existence and causes of global warming have changed little over the past year. A new Pew Research Center poll finds that 59% of adults say there is solid evidence that the earthâs … Continue reading →
  • Peas, thimbles, deletions, FOI, UEA, CRU, and all ...
    Note: I felt Steve’s essay deserved the wider audience that WUWT could provide. Be sure to go to this thread at CA to post comments. – Anthony Did Jones Delete Emails? By Steve McIntyre, Climate Audit It turns out that Muir … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Cenk Uygur: Noam Chomsky on American Foreign Polic ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TYTInterviews | October 26, 2010 Noam Chomsky on American Foreign Policy and US Politics see Chris Hedges: The Liberal Class + Death of the Liberal Class? (interview/debate) Why Should I Vote? By Timothy V. Gatto + Bob Avakian: The ‘voting trap’ under capitalism ...
  • Why Should I Vote? By Timothy V. Gatto + Bob Avaki ...
    By Timothy V. Gatto Featured Writer Dandelion Salad liberalpro.blogspot.com Oct. 28, 2010 I’ve been getting appeals for donations from “Bold Progressives” and other groups with names like “Americans for a Free Society” and others with like-sounding names. Basically however, they almost all represent ...
  • A tale of two families’ 9/11 deaths By Jerry Mazza
    By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com Oct. 27, 2010 The Bavis family, after filing for a trial in 2002, has finally received the first and only civil trial for their son, Mark, who died on United Airlines Flight 175 that hit Tower 2 on 9/11/2 ...
  • Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Accepts Intelligence Exp ...
    by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 25 October, 2010 On Saturday, during the press conference announcing Wikileaks’ release of nearly 400,000 classified US military field documents relating to the war in Iraq, Craig Murray, the human rights activist and form ...
  • The World Liberal Opportunists Made by Chris Hedge ...
    by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig October 25, 2010 The lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, which looks set to make sweeping gains in the midterm elections, is the direct result of a collapse of liberalism. It is the product of bankrupt liberal institutions, including the p ...

Your New Reality

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

Wired - Science

  • Physicists Vote to Run Tevatron for 3 More Years
    A group of high-energy particle physicists decided this week to recommend extending the life of the Tevatron, the second-most-powerful particle collider in the world, for 3 years. The panel’s recommendation goes to the Department of Energy, then Congress and ultimately to the White House. The fundi ...
  • Monkey Fossils Suggest Primates Came Out of Asia, ...
    The discovery of four ancient, lemur-like creatures in what is now Libya suggests the human family tree’s taproot is in the Middle East, not Africa. The conventional narrative of primate development places the origins of anthropoids — monkeys and apes, including humans — in Africa. Some paleontolog ...
  • Record-Breaking Neutron Star is a Clue to Exotic P ...
    A quick-spinning stellar corpse is the most massive of its kind ever seen. The dead star’s extra bulk could rule out several theories about what these dense stellar objects are made of, and provide a celestial lab to explore exotic matter. “For people who work in this field, it’s huge,” said neutro ...
  • Assassin Bug Eats Spiders After Feigning Capture
    By Duncan Geere, Wired UK A species of assassin bug has been found which creeps onto spiders’ webs and pretends to be prey, then devours the spider when it comes to investigate. The creature, known to entomologists as Stenolemus bituberus, and actually in the spider family itself too, is the subje ...
  • Neuron Recordings Capture Brain Focus on Josh Brol ...
    By measuring the activity of single neurons, researchers have recorded what happens when people narrow their focus on subjects like Josh Brolin or Marilyn Monroe. The neuroscientists weren't interested in the actors, however, but rather the dynamics of attention.

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Amira Hass: Want to weaken Hamas? Open Gaza’s gate ...
    It would be wrong to dismiss the wisdom of our leaders. Perhaps they've gotten exactly what they wanted - to strengthen Hamas in the Gaza Strip, both for perpetuating the intentional division between... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Far-right Israeli marchers clash with Arab youths
    "Many Jews come to Umm al-Fahm every day and we have no problem, but Marzel and his gang come as enemies and we want to tell them that they are not welcome to ..." Before he could finish his sentence... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Israeli Arab activist confesses to spying for Hezb ...
    Ameer Makhoul admits to charges of espionage, contact with a foreign agent and conspiring to assist an enemy, in plea bargain reached Wednesday. IOA Editor: This is a travesty of justice of the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...
  • Open Letter to Mike Leigh
    We are writing to you as a group of fellow filmmakers and academics, Palestinians, Israelis and others, to thank you for your principled and courageous step of withdrawing from the Jerusalem Sam... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
  • Israeli Arab eyes plea bargain over Hezbollah spyi ...
    According to Makhoul's brother Issam, a former MK for Hadash, his brothers' Attorneys ... will ask the prosecution to drop the severe charge of espionage in exchange for Makhoul's confession on... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • New Toolkit Provides a Practical Overview Guide on ...
    The Venous Disease Coalition is proud to announce the launch of a new toolkit that provides some of the key concepts about venous thromboembolism (VTE) and anticoagulant management. It may be accessed online at www.venousdiseasecoalition.org/vte-toolkit.
  • Scientists Call for Caution on Widely Used Flame R ...
    A statement signed by nearly 150 scientists from 22 countries raises concerns about occurrence, toxicity, and efficacy of a major class of flame retardant chemicals commonly found in upholstered furniture, foam carpet pads, textiles, televisions and other consumer electronics, airplanes, and automob ...
  • Tumor Suppressor Acts as Oncogene in Some Cancers
    Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida have found that a molecule long believed to be a beneficial tumor suppressor -- and thus a potential cancer drug target -- appears to act as an oncogene in some lethal brain tumors.
  • 'Smart Drug' Shrinks Aggressive Sarcoma and Lung C ...
    A new oral drug caused dramatic shrinkage of a patient's rare, aggressive form of soft-tissue cancer that was driven by an abnormally activated protein, report Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists in the Oct. 28 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
  • Anesthesiologists Suggest Airway Management Device ...
    An alternative anesthetic technique can be employed when conventional nasal intubation methods do not work.. The method involves a gum elastic bougie (GEB) device, which is useful for difficult airway management but seldom has been used for nasotracheal intubation.

Natural Health News

  • Doctor and Wife Sentenced in 'Pill Mill' Case
    Kansas doctor Stephen Schneider, who ran a clinic linked to dozens of overdose deaths, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. �His wife Linda Schneider received a 33 year prison term. They were convicted of unlawfully writing prescriptions, health care fraud and money laundering. Their money ...
  • Collards and Carrots Ward Off Breast Cancer
    Eating carrots and cruciferous vegetables (such as collard greens, cabbage, and broccoli) could reduce breast cancer risk.� They are particularly effective against the aggressive estrogen receptor-negative breast cancers common among African American women. Breast cancer is the second leading c ...
  • Independent Food Inspections Rife with Conflicts o ...
    The voluntary quality control system used to inspect food in the U.S. is rife with conflicts of interest.� Other problems include inexperienced auditors and cursory inspections that result in inflated ratings. As recalls due to food-borne illness increase, the use of private inspectors has lik ...
  • Are MRI Scans Too Sensitive?
    MRI scans could be resulting in women who have breast cancer having unnecessary operations, such as mastectomies. The scans may simply be over-sensitive. This was demonstrated by the results of a study which looked at breast cancer patients being considered for non-surgical treatment. BBC ...
  • Drug Company Pays 3/4 of a Billion Dollars for Sel ...
    Drug company GlaxoSmithKline is paying $750 million to settle allegations that it knowingly manufactured and sold adulterated drugs. Glaxo will pay $150 million in criminal fines and $600 million in civil penalties. �Several of the company�s drugs were adulterated at one of the company�s plants bet ...

Antemedius

  • A World Made by War
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com How Old Will You Be When the American War State Goes Down? When you look at me, you can�t mistake the fact that I�m of a certain age.� But just for a moment, think of me as nine years old.� You could even say that I celebrated my ninth birthday last week, wit ...
  • New Book By Innocent Prisoner Suggests Torture Wid ...
    Although U.S. officials have attributed the torture of Muslim prisoners in their custody to a handful of maverick guards, in fact such criminal acts were widely perpetrated and systemic, likely involving large numbers of military personnel, a book by a survivor suggests. Additionally, guards were re ...
  • Obama Administration Defending US Military's Iraq ...
    Earlier this week Amy Goodman of Democracy Now conducted an extensive interview with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks about his October 22,2010 release of the nearly 400,000 documents of Iraq War Logs . While the Obama administration is defending the US military’s record in Iraq, the allegations in the ...
  • Questioning Growth: "I Want You To Imagine A World ...
    " Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must. " "the only thing that has actually remotely slowed down the relentless rise of carbon emissions over the last two to three decades is recession." -- Tim Jackson British Economist T ...
  • The Living Dead Liberal Class
    Chris Hedges began a recent column, in these days just prior to congressional elections by announcing: "The lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, which looks set to make sweeping gains in the midterm elections, is the direct result of a collapse of liberalism. It is the product of bankrupt liberal ...

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

  • Philippines Supreme Court Threatens Law Faculty Wi ...
    by Julian Ku Back in July, I  noted this story out of the Philippines, which alleged that a justice of the Philippines Supreme Court had plagiarized (and distorted) an article by Evan Criddle and Evan Fox-Descent in the Yale Journal of International Law (and featured here at Opinio Juris). (see th ...
  • Governing Civil Society Symposium at Brooklyn Law ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Although everyone is justly excited about International Law Weekend, I wanted to mention another conference in New York that took place yesterday at Brooklyn Law School, Governing Civil Society: NGO Accountability, Legitimacy and Influence.  Congratulations ...
  • Recording of Seminar on Targeted Killing and Al-Au ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller On Thursday night I had the privilege of participating in a live webinar on targeted killing and Al-Aulaqi held by the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research.  The other participants included Yale’s Andrew March, Emory’s Laurie Blank, ...
  • Louis Henkin (1917-2010): The Power of His Ideas ...
    by Anne-Marie Slaughter and Catherine Powell [Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Director, Secretary’s Policy Planning Office, U.S. Department of State; Former Dean and (on leave) Professor, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs. Catherine Powell is Staff Member ...
  • Self-Defense and Non-International Armed Conflict ...
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson Over the past year, I’ve been spending much time on the questions of drone warfare and the legal issues raised - many talks, panel discussions, debates, and so on.  In the course of those discussions, as well as discussions with many experts one-on-one, I’ ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • A response to NZ Herald’s errors on Crewe book
    A week might be a long time in politics, but a month is an eternity in publishing. Since last month's editorial the new book Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story has finally hit the streets to a storm of controversy....
  • Something every driver should be forced to read
    This is the victim impact statement that New Zealand father Duncan Woods read out to a Christchurch court this week as a judge weighed up sentencing for Ashley David Austin, whose vehicle lost control and slammed into a mother and...
  • New lead in Swedish tourists cold case
    Latest Investigate magazine, on sale this morning...Missing Swedish tourist Heidi Paakkonen was last seen alive on Kawau Island in Auckland's Hauraki gulf, in the company of a man who was not David Wayne Tamihere...
  • NEWS: Previously unreported attempt on Jeannette C ...
    EXCLUSIVE KILLER TRIED TO MURDER CREWES TWICE SUB: Jeannette’s Brakes Cut In 1969 By Ian Wishart TGIF Edition The killer of Pukekawa farmers Harvey and Jeannette Crewe tried to murder the couple twice, and only succeeded on the second occasion....
  • New TGIF Edition: Crewe case bombshell
    The new TGIF Edition is now free, and available from this page, just click on the link labelled TGIF 22 October when the page opens and you will get the PDF version which you can save to disk for fast...

My Care2 Picks

  • Will Coming Diabetes Wave Bankrupt The USA health ...
    USA growing to 100 million diabetics and it may cause the health care system to bust Submitted by Jane S. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman : Rove Served fo ...
    As he swaggered toward his star turn on CBS�s Face the Nation - served with our subpoena sanctioned by the Secretary of the State of Ohio.Attorney, Cliff Arnebeck to ask about his role in the theft of the 2004 election and orchestration of tens of millio Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & G ...
  • One good reason Iranians might hate us
    The 1953 coup has often been depicted as a CIA venture to save Iran from international communism. In fact, it was a joint British-American venture to preserve the international oil cartel." Submitted by Margaret Mayer to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • ACTION ALERT: Days left to stop mass extinction ! ...
    A third of all animals and plants on earth face extinction -- endangered blue whales, coral reefs, and a vast array of other species. The wave of human-driven extinction has reached a rate not seen since the fall of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Submitted by Simone D. to Environment �|� �No ...
  • Humiliate,Strip,Threaten : UK Torture Manuals Unco ...
    This is the new torture paradigm and crucially they differentiate these methods of torture from others which they call �torture�. Provoke humiliation, insecurity, disorientation, exhaustion, anxiety and fear in prisoners Sensory deprivation is lawful Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! ...

Angry Indian News

  • Philippines: PIA 12 Leads Multi-Agency Infocaravan ...
    Philippines: PIA 12 Leads Multi-Agency Infocaravan For Residents Of Remote Village - Indigenous Peoples Issues and ResourcesAt least 12 government agencies, a mining firm, and a local government unit... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • New photographs reveal IDF's "purity of arms" clai ...
    New photographs reveal IDF's "purity of arms" claim to be a sick joke: [middleeastmonitor.org.uk] By Omar RadwanA new set of photographs taken by Israeli soldiers has appeared on the Facebook page of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • The WikiLeaks Release: U.S. Complicity and Cover-U ...
    The WikiLeaks Release: U.S. Complicity and Cover-Up of Iraq Torture Exposed[globalresearch.ca] On October 22nd, the whistleblowing web site WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 classified Iraq war... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Indigenous Peoples and Global Collapse: Waziyatawi ...
    Indigenous Peoples and Global Collapse: Waziyatawin � Culturite: "Waziyatawin, an incredible Dakota scholar, activist and one of my Indigenous Governance professors, will be speaking at the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • 57 dead, 3 million affected in Thailand floods
    57 dead, 3 million affected in Thailand floods | ClimateSignals: "Over three million people have been affected after heavy downpours caused riverbanks to burst, sparking the worst floods in... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Africa, Chocolate, Bill Gates, Monsanto, and the G ...
    The bait and switch routine, GM style. Give poor farmers some free technology in return for softening up the biotech patent laws in that country, then slam them with a food and land grab the likes of which we have never seen.
  • Watch What in the World are They Spraying!
    Watch the entire What in the World are They Spraying movie by Michael J. Murphy, Paul Whittenberger, and G. Edward Griffin.
  • How Collectivists Create their Own Opposition – an ...
    Collectivist strategists realize that, as the New World Order unfolds, there will be public opposition to many of their programs. They reason that it would be stupid to wait for this to spring from natural forces, because then it might become too powerful to overcome. Instead, they anticipate this t ...
  • Are Jews and Masons and Jesuits Conspiring to Cont ...
    People who accept the authenticity of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are not likely to be paying much attention to what is happening in the Rhodesian and Leninist camps – and that’s where the action really is.
  • The Freeman Perspective goes live on Republic Defi ...
    Republic Defiance Radio hits the airwaves Sunday night. Prepare to go back down the rabbit hole as Freeman of FreemanTV.com joins us live on Republic Defiance Radio Sunday October 24, 2010.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Midterm elections to usher in further shift by Oba ...
    ShareThis Midterm elections to usher in further shift by Obama to the right By Barry Grey 27 Oct 2010 There are indications that Obama would welcome a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives and a reduced Democratic majority in the Senate. He has conspicuously campaigned in the run-up to ...
  • UK should not put up with US airport security – BA ...
    ShareThis UK should not put up with US airport security – BA chairman 27 Oct 2010 Britain should stop "kowtowing" to US demands over airport security, the chairman of British Airways, Martin Broughton, said yesterday, adding that American airports did not implement some checks on their own internal ...
  • Porn fetish Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas wa ...
    ShareThis Porn fetish Supreme Court judge Clarence Thomas was 'raving alcoholic' ... until he quit booze and went downhill, says ex-girlfriend 26 Oct 2010 Clarence Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice caught in a long running sexual harassment fight, has been described by an ex-girlfriend as 'ravi ...
  • Bomb kills US-led soldier in Afghanistan
    ShareThis Bomb kills US-led soldier in Afghanistan 27 Oct 2010 A bomb explosion has killed a US-led soldier in war-torn Afghanistan as the number of attacks against Western troops in the country has soared significantly in the past months. The bomb went off in the north of the country on Wednesday, ...
  • Karzai: Blackwater behind terrorism
    ShareThis 'In fact we don't yet know how many of these blasts are by Taliban and how many are carried out by them (US security companies).' Karzai: Blackwater behind terrorism 25 Oct 2010 Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said US private security firms, including Xe Services LLC, formerly known as B ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • Something every driver should be forced to read
    This is the victim impact statement that New Zealand father Duncan Woods read out to a Christchurch court this week as a judge weighed up sentencing for Ashley David Austin, whose vehicle lost control and slammed into a mother and...
  • New lead in Swedish tourists cold case
    Latest Investigate magazine, on sale this morning...Missing Swedish tourist Heidi Paakkonen was last seen alive on Kawau Island in Auckland's Hauraki gulf, in the company of a man who was not David Wayne Tamihere...
  • NEWS: Previously unreported attempt on Jeannette C ...
    EXCLUSIVE KILLER TRIED TO MURDER CREWES TWICE SUB: Jeannette’s Brakes Cut In 1969 By Ian Wishart TGIF Edition The killer of Pukekawa farmers Harvey and Jeannette Crewe tried to murder the couple twice, and only succeeded on the second occasion....
  • New TGIF Edition: Crewe case bombshell
    The new TGIF Edition is now free, and available from this page, just click on the link labelled TGIF 22 October when the page opens and you will get the PDF version which you can save to disk for fast...
  • TGIF Edition tonight: Jeannette was victim of earl ...
    EXCLUSIVE. Only in TGIF Edition this weekend. Available for free by signing up to our Facebook page, or Twitter account. Tell your friends.

Mondoweiss

  • Report: Israeli soldiers burned Quran during night ...
    Doug Whitmore of Kansas City is a former member of Christian Peacemaker Teams who served in Jayyous in the occupied West Bank. Earlier today he received the following email from a friend in Jayyous. In passing it along, he removed the young man's name out of concern that he would suffer reprisal fro ...
  • Dear John Dennis: Here’s what a progressive ...
    I posted criticism of congressional candidate John Dennis' stance on Israel/Palestine. Dennis, who is running a libertarian, Republican, anti-war challenge to Nancy Pelosi, responded. My response: Dear John Dennis, I don't think I misrepresented your statements about Israel. It's true that I didn't ...
  • Goldberg regrets his story linking Saddam to al-Qa ...
    The Jewish Journal's Danielle Berrin interviews the most powerful Jewish journalist in America. Nay, the world! First the bullying excerpt, then the excerpt where he bullies the world. Emphases mine. Commenters will supply the subtext:Goldberg was raised in an assimilated middle-class home in a mixe ...
  • Sheikh Jarrah activists confront Jerusalem mayor o ...
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  • The ADL’s ‘top ten’ list is cons ...
    Recently, the Anti-Defamation League came out with a statement placing Students for Justice in Palestine on its top 10 anti-Israel organizations in the United States. As ADL has a history of spying and attempting to crush pro-Palestine, anti-apartheid activists working on issues of justice and civil ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 2 – Syne ...
    Toxicity is defined in the Medical lexicon as “a condition that results from exposure to a toxin or to toxic amounts of a substance that does not cause adverse effects in smaller amounts.” Vaccine-induced toxicity, while similar in some respects to this model, requires a deeper understanding in term ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Wikileaks: Statement from Office of U.S. Secretary ...
    This just came in my email from Geoff Morrell: "We deplore Wikileaks for inducing individuals to break the law, leak classified documents and then cavalierly share that secret information with the world, including our enemies. We know terrorist organizations have been mining the leaked Afghan docume ...
  • Surobi Sentinel - Oct 2010
    Published: 17 Oct 2010 Click here to view entire document. {loadposition user8}
  • 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 ...

The Killing Train

  • Azkintuwe and the Mapuche Struggle
    An interview with Pedro Cayuqueo Justin Podur and Manuel Rozental October 20, 2010 read more
  • 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 ...

treehugger

  • Amazon Rainforest Teeming With Undiscovered Life
    Photo: WWF The Amazon rainforest , one of the largest and most diverse ecosystem on the planet, has been a virtual treasure-trove for ambitious biologists aiming to uncover new species . In the last ten years alone, scientists have identified 1,200 remarkable organisms which were previously unkn ...
  • How Chinese Stink Bugs Helped Inspire One Man To S ...
    Chinese stink bugs sucking juices from a large Hubbard squash. Photo by John Laumer, Flickr. All rights reserved. I've written before about how people in the US Mid-Atlantic states hate Chinese Stink Bugs (which first hitch-hiked into the US State of Pennsylvania via crates or whatever from C ...
  • Beyond (or Beside) Environmentalism: Rise of the ' ...
    Photo: Michael Baird, Picasa , Creative Commons Last week, the climate writer Dave Roberts called for his readers and colleagues to leave suggestions for a new term to describe anyone who doesn't consider themselves a full-blown environmentalist, but is nonetheless concerned with climate and cl ...
  • Artist Prints Posters With Oil from BP Spill (Vide ...
    Photo: GulfofMexico2010 It's a cliched slogan applied to a novel idea -- and the result is a memorable bit of anti-oil spill message (not to mention a surefire PR coup). Artist Anthony Burrill took the ageless adage "Oil & Water Do Not Mix", created a stark design, and used actual oil from the ...
  • Is this the 7-Seat Toyota Prius MPV? (Leaked Photo ...
    Photo: Toyota, if this is really the Prius MPV... Some Have Been Waiting a Long Time for a Hybrid Minivan Autoblog Italy has a supposedly leaked pic of what could very well be the Prius hybrid's big brother, a Prius MPV with three rows of seats (we mentioned it here: Worldwide Prius Sales Top ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • South Korea rights commission finds military gay b ...
    [JURIST] The South Korean National Human Rights Commission (NHRCK) [official website, in Korean] has determined that the provision of the military penal code banning same-sex relationships is unconstitutional, according to a report released Wednesday. Under Article 92 of the South Korean Military Cr ...
  • Poland prosecutors grant terror suspect victim sta ...
    [JURIST] Polish prosecutors investigating the secret CIA prison [JURIST news archive] in Poland on Wednesday gave Saudi terror suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri [NYT profile, JURIST news archive] victim status, recognizing the validity of his claims that he was mistreated by interrogators. According t ...
  • Ninth Circuit strikes down Arizona voter registrat ...
    [JURIST] A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Tuesday struck down [opinion, PDF] a portion of an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration. The court held that the law, Proposition 200 [text, PDF], was inconsistent with t ...
  • Cambodia PM rejects further prosecution of Khmer R ...
    [JURIST] Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen [BBC profile] informed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon [official website] in a meeting Wednesday that the government will not allow the prosecution of low-ranking Khmer Rouge [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] officers by the Extraordinary Chambers in ...
  • GlaxoSmithKline settles false-claim lawsuit for $7 ...
    [JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] announced Tuesday that British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) [corporate website, JURIST news archive] and its subsidiary SB Pharmco Puerto Rico Inc., have agreed to plead guilty to civil and criminal charges [press release] ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Nuclear Fail: Is START In Trouble?
    Senate Republicans plan to seize on the news that a squadron of ICBMs controlled at Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming went on the blink Saturday morning to delay or even block ratification of the new strategic arms reduction treaty (START). "The recent failure reinforces the need for the United Sta ...
  • Lt. Dan Choi, Unplugged
    He's everyone's favorite gay-discharged Army soldier; he met his current boyfriend at a bathhouse; he's for sexual liberation, too; unabashed and in your face. While he chooses not to speak to his parents, he recently spoke at an Atlantic Loft event in New York. ...
  • Early Voting v. Likely Voters
    The Democratic National Committee's targeting team sent senior political strategists and White House officials another early voting memo today, and their bottom line is this: while there are states that Republicans can crow about--Florida is one of them, and Colorado is too, although more ambiguousl ...
  • Two Closing Argument Ads: Giannoulias and Toomey
    Which works better?
  • It's Freak Week!
    Everyone becomes the mayor of Crazyville the week before an election. Ethics get defenestrated. Moral principles get flushed down the drain. Campaigns and candidates are extremely tired and extremely desperate. The improbable becomes the likely. In two and a half days , we've been treated to the fol ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Tutu Calls for South African Opera to Boycott Isra ...
    There isn’t that much unusual in Desmond Tutu calling on a South African opera company to cancel its planned production of Porgy and Bess in Tel Aviv next month.  Tutu’s views on BDS are well-known.  But what I did find interesting is this oblivious statement from the Israeli opera company’s direc ...
  • Ameer Makhoul and Israel’s Sham Justice
    When you are a political activist facing a sentence of life to be handed down by a security state in which all the levers of power are arrayed against you; when you are a father and husband facing the prospect of never seeing your daughters till they themselves are grown, married and with children o ...
  • Koch-Related Fund Gave $18-Million to Distribute C ...
    Counterpunch has published an exposé about the Clarion Fund that takes the story to the next level.  This is a development I’ve been awaiting for two years.  We knew that Clarion was the ostensible producer of the three anti-Muslim films, Third Jihad, Obsession and the latest, Iranium (watch the ...
  • 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 Dichter’s Spanish Self-Expulsion, 1492/2010
    One of the most traumatic events of Jewish history was the Spanish expulsion of its large Jewish community beginning in 1492 by the newly triumphant Catholic monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand.  This event marked the beginning of the infamous Inquisition, one of the darkest moments in European history ...

Ode Magazine

  • Peace is a process, a sum of many acts
    By: PeaceCorso In 1963, president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, gave the commencement address at American University. Part of that address appears below: "I am not referring to the absolute, infinite concept of universal peace and good will of ...
  • Reading, writing and revelation
    How the written word helps refresh body, mind and soul. Photo: istockphoto.com/xaviarnau Whenever the stabbing pain in her knee becomes unbearable, 17-year-old Mackenzie Bearup picks up a book and starts to read. Usually, it’s a teen novel or a mystery. But Bearup will read “a ...
  • A planet is a terrible thing to waste
    Why caring about the ecosystem means caring for the ecosystem. A recent conversation with a friend got me thinking. This friend had just returned from a conference on species survival and habitat preservation. While there, he learned, to his great surprise, that among a small subset of s ...
  • Cosmic salad
    Bring the abundance of nature to your plate. Photo: Pieter de Swart The science of economics revolves around the concept of scarcity. How do you handle something you have too little of, like money? How do you distribute something that isn’t plentiful enough, like food? And how ...
  • Keeping carpets clean
    Child labor is common in rug factories in Nepal; GoodWeave wants to end that. Photo: Romano - www.romanophotography.com By the time Kusum, from Nepal, was eight, her mother had died from the physical abuse of her alcoholic father, her two sisters had been sold into forced lab ...

OpEd News

  • Why Should I Vote?
    not hours. This fact alone can spell disaster for the status quo. The most important part of bringing real change to Washington is organization. It matters very little who controls Congress for the next two years. The product of the corporate political parties will be the same: more wars and an ...
  • Midterms: money changes everything
    Apparently, Rove wasn't satisfied with only helping fabricate evidence to pave America's way into a war in Iraq, outing an undercover CIA agent, and "advising" the most dollar-drenched, demagogic, and incompetent executive office since Cleon of Athens. So he's returned to active involvement in our p ...
  • Election Defense Alliance's Jonathan Simon with th ...
    Our mission:bringing back publicly observable vote counting and ending the computerized era's wholesale vulnerability to election theft-is nonpartisan.Yet the realities we keep bumping up against:that the numbers always shift in the same rightward direction and the partisan pedigree of the equipment ...
  • In West Africa, a Kiss Is Not Just a Kiss
    n West Africa, where Hershey sources much of its cocoa, the scene is one of child labor, trafficking, and forced labor. The farmers in this region, which supplies the majority of the world's cocoa, live in poverty.
  • Fishermen Report Louisiana Bays Filled With Oil
    "We know what oil is," Dean Blanchard of Dean Blanchard Seafood Inc., said. "The Coast Guard should change the color of their uniforms, since they are working for BP. We've known they are working for BP from the beginning of this thing. None of us believe anything they say about this oil disaster an ...

Switchboard

  • Prop 21 Protects California's State Parks
    My favorite thing about New York was its parks. It’s funny if you think about it, because New York is far from being known for its parks – but they really were my favorite parts of the city and surrounding area. Well, that and the 24-hour delis and subway system. In a concrete jungle, ...
  • Pennsylvania: new information on threats to waters ...
    A researcher at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia recently investigated measures of ecological function in nine small watersheds in Pennsylvania, including three areas with no drilling, three with low density drilling activity, and three with  high density drilling activi ...
  • And the Winner Is...The Communities of San Pedro a ...
    Back in April of 2008, my colleague, David Pettit, wrote a post about the historic agreement between environmental, community, labor groups, and the Port of Los Angeles over the TraPac terminal expansion.   Over the past two and half years, the parties to this Memorandum of Understand ...
  • Ohio opens the gates to economic growth and GHG re ...
    What is the best way to use government dollars to speed the deployment of cutting edge renewable energy technologies while creating jobs and growth at home and not destroying private incentives?  It’s sort of a trick question in that there is no single answer and the strength of the Am ...
  • We Won't Identify Breast Cancer Risks from Chemica ...
    Here we are at the end of October, with another Breast Cancer Awareness month coming to a close. As a breast cancer survivor, I welcome attention being brought to the disease. But even as pink ribbons proliferate on ad campaigns, bumper stickers, and supermarket shelves, there is some ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • That Had to Hurt…
    This is like watching a puppy getting hit by a truck, except that the puppy pretty much deserved it. Related posts:Big Hurt, Pasta Diving, and Strategic Ressentiment That’ll Hurt That Had to Hurt… Related posts: Big Hurt, Pasta Diving, and Strategic Ressentiment That’ll Hurt That Had to Hurt…
  • What’s the Base?
    Just a note of mild irritation in response to a number of recent tweets on the subject; while failure of outreach to his base may have been a significant strategic error for the Obama administration, that’s not really the message of this poll: Critical parts of the coalition that delivered Presiden ...
  • Becoming Mark Millar
    My feelings about Mark Millar (with one notable exception) have been rehearsed often enough that you’ll probably be surprised that I allowed my students to talk me into teaching Kick Ass (the book and film) in my American Manga courses.* I hadn’t seen the film yet but knew from having read the boo ...
  • The Expected Utility is High
    Not as funny as the law school bit, but just as accurate: Via. Related posts:High School Maternity Leave Turning High School Biology into a Battleground Over the Existence of God Utility of Force Related posts: High School Maternity Leave Turning High School Biology into a Battleground Over th ...
  • Getcher Definitive World Series Predictions Here!! ...
    I dunno… let’s say, Rangers in six? I do know that Josh Hamilton’s health will in some way be decisive in the outcome, unless Roy Hallday’s pitching is more important. Related posts:Predictions and Reactions The World’s Most Famous Arena World Cup Predictions Foolishly Revisited Related posts: ...

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.

  • GlaxoSmithKline is the latest among recent health ...
    GlaxoSmithKline's $750 million settlement of federal civil and criminal charges involving adulterated drugs is the latest in a string of health care fraud settlements of at least a half-billion dollars during the past five years.
  • Attorney files amicus brief in Prop. 8 case challe ...
    An appellate attorney in Oakland, Calif., has filed a brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, arguing that California's same-sex marriage ban should be found invalid because the state's entire ballot initiative process was improperly voted into law 99 years ago.
  • Judge enjoins Mass. law banning online distributio ...
    A Boston federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against enforcement of a broad Massachusetts law banning Internet distribution of material "harmful to minors."
  • Proposed class action targets NCAA limits on schol ...
    A proposed class action has been filed against the National Collegiate Athletic Association alleging that the governing body is violating federal antitrust laws by conspiring with colleges and universities to impose artificial limits on scholarships, such as limiting the number of scholarships per ...
  • Law school files antitrust suit over competitor's ...
    A legal fight is brewing between two Southern California law schools that cater to working students with part-time, evening-only programs — highlighting the stiff competition some schools face in luring students.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Failing to Pass a Severance Tax…
    Below some comments from the press and PennFuture about the state of the State’s budget sans a tax on drilling. Inaction on drill tax has a bad odor to it Sunday, October 24, 2010 By Brian O’Neill, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette …. Its [PA's Legislature] latest gaffe is passing on collecting tens of milli ...
  • Stephanie Hallowich in National Geographic
    Stephanie Hallowich has had one of the worst experiences with natural gas drilling in PA and she has also been one of the loudest voices, speaking out for her family and others in the same situations. Her story was picked up by National Geographic and can be found at the below link. She had this [.. ...
  • The Right to Know!
    Do you know how to file a “Right to Know” request? Do you know why you might want to know how to do this? Since the gas drilling in Pennsylvania has taken off at full speed many people are finding the “Open Records Law” , also known as the “Right to Know Law”, a necessary [...]
  • Ya’ll Get Together Now, Ya Hear?
    Today I attended the Conservation PA event in Camp Hill, PA. I was sitting in the conference room among the other 100 or so attendees and trying to remember when I had first heard of the Marcellus Shale, or the term fracking. When I couldn’t dig up a memory of the beginning of my relationship [...]
  • 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 ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • In California’s Mojave Desert, Solar-Thermal Proje ...
    By year’s end, regulators are expected to approve a host of solar energy projects in California that could eventually produce as much electricity as several nuclear plants. In an interview with Yale Environment 360 , John Woolard, the CEO of the company that has begun construction on the world’s lar ...
  • Report Details Extinction Crisis And Lists Methods ...
    A fifth of all vertebrates on Earth and as many as a third of all sharks and rays face the threat of extinction , according to a comprehensive study of 26,000 species. The study , released at the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan, said that continuing habitat destruction, over-expl ...
  • More than 1,200 New Species Discovered in Amazon O ...
    Researchers discovered more than 1,200 new species of plants and animals in the Amazon during the last decade, a rate of about one new species every three days, according to a new report. Those discoveries, compiled by the conservation group WWF to coincide with the ongoing UN summit on biodiversity ...
  • Leading Scientists Accuse Think Tanks of Close Tie ...
    Twelve top experts on biodiversity and rainforests have accused two think tanks of acting as mouthpieces for the global logging and palm oil industry and of promoting “distortions, misrepresentations, or misinterpretations of fact” in their analyses of tropical forests and logging. The scientists, i ...
  • Island Nation Will Create Extensive Marine Mammal ...
    The Pacific Island nation of Palau has announced the establishment of a 230,000-square-mile marine mammal sanctuary that will protect whales, dolphins, and the endangered dugong — a relative of the manatee — from hunting and fishing. Harry Fritz, Palau’s Minister of the Environment, Natural Resource ...

Red Ice Creations

  • WikiLeaks: A Grim Portrait of Civilian Deaths in I ...
    The reports in the archive disclosed by WikiLeaks offer an incomplete, yet startlingly graphic portrait of one of the most contentious issues in the Iraq war - how many Iraqi civilians have been killed and by whom. WikiLeaks proved at least one thing through its release of nearly 400,000 U.S. milita ...
  • ’Former Reds’ Behind Red Mud
    As the Hungarian government continues its efforts to limit the consequences of a tragic toxic leak last week, it has also used the opportunity to attack a supposed former communist-turned capitalist oligarchy that allegedly runs the country’s economy.
  • Massive stretches of weathered oil spotted in Gulf ...
    The discovery, which comes as millions of birds begin moving toward the region in the fall migration, gave ammunition to groups that have insisted the government has overstated clean-up progress, and could force reclosure of key fishing areas only recently reopened.
  • The Grasdorf Pictogram Plates
    Farmer Werner Harenberg woke up early in the morning of July 23, 1991 to discover Germany’s first spectacular crop circle near the village of Grasdorf, Lower Saxony in the historic Teutoburger Wald Area, not far from Hannover. This location is not far from the prehistoric site of Externsteine, part ...
  • Randy Quaid and wife fear Hollywood "Star Whackers ...
    The couple told the immigration adjudicator they’re being persecuted in the United States. Evi Quaid said friends such as actors David Carradine and Heath Ledger have been "murdered" under mysterious circumstances and she’s worried something will happen to her husband. "We feel our lives are in dang ...

Russia Today

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

  • Zecharia Sitchin Passes
    From Sitchin.com: We regret to inform you that Zecharia Sitchin passed away on the morning of October 9th. A small, private family funeral was held the next day. The family asks that you respect its privacy during this difficult time and refrain from contacting family members directly. Instead, to o ...
  • FermiLab to prove Third Dimension an Illusion
    It has been postulated in the past few years that our reality, i.e., the “Third Dimension” is an illusion and thusly could be manipulated and it would be proven once and for all that we live in a multi-dimensional multi-verse. Now scientists at the FermiLab high energy research facility are building ...
  • The Electric Universe and Strawmen
    The Electric Universe Theory is very intriguing to me for the simple fact that it’s elegant, easy to grasp and can explain many anomalies that occur in Nature. In fact, I consider it an equal to Einstein’s Gravitic theories that is the mainstream thought today. Do I think it’s THE theory? No, but I ...
  • Impromptu Conversation Between Mike Clelland and C ...
    On October 13th last week, UFOs appeared over Manhattan Island as seemingly predicted by former military person Stanley Fulham. The mainstream media carried the UFO stories all day long, especially when it was found out the UFOs were nothing but balloons. Esoteric researchers Mike Clelland and Chris ...
  • The Secret Sun: Authors of the Impossible
    When it comes to writing articles and books of esoteric symbolism, archetypes and just plain, strange Fortean subjects in general, nobody beats Chris Knowles. But this time Chris acknowledges an author of supreme expertise in the area of the different; Jeff Kripal. In yesterday’s Secret Sun post, Ch ...

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

  • The Irrelevance of Private-Sector Experience
    What makes it possible for the entrepreneur succeed in the private sector and struggle in the public sector is precisely the same set of factors that make economic calculation under socialism impossible.
  • Obamacare Fosters Oligopoly
    Well, now. It seems Obamacare is increasing concentration in the medical industry. From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: The turn toward consolidation among insurance companies is not new, and neither is it among doctors, hospitals and other providers. Yet the health bill has accelerated these trend ...
  • Obama Mortgage Program Has Few Takers
    “The number of struggling homeowners who cut their mortgage payments in September through an Obama administration initiative fell to its lowest level in nearly a year, increasing debate about the program’s effectiveness.” (USA Today) Does anything work as the government expects? FEE Timely Classic “ ...
  • France Returns to Normal after Senate Pension Chan ...
    “Strike season in France appears to have ended with a whimper. The French Senate today finalized a vote on pension reform, a college students’ strike barely materialized, and workers at five of Franceâs 12 oil refineries voted to start work again. After a month of protests, which created excitement ...
  • Progressivism and the Criminal Law
    The development of the criminal law under Progressivism, which began more than a century ago, is revealing

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Best advice for Soundslides
    I was asking around recently, among my friends at other j-schools who teach photojournalism. Yes, they are still teaching Soundslides. The No. 1 reason is almost unanimous: It’s a great transition from making stills to making video. I think it also helps — a lot — with teaching storytelling. Right ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • N.C. GOP congressional campaign accused of poll in ...
    The campaign of the candidate challenging a two-term congressman from North Carolina is raising eyebrows over questionable and possibly illegal tactics. Poll workers associated with U.S. House District 13 candidate Bill Randall , a Republican businessman challenging incumbent Democrat Bra ...
  • Help Facing South watchdog the 2010 elections!
    The right to vote. Free and fair elections. Every person having a say. Growing up, this is probably what you learned democracy is all about. And millions of people -- like the civil rights veterans who founded the Institute for Southern Studies 40 years ago -- fought to make it a reality. But ...
  • A Pope of climate denial
    There's broad agreement among scientists nowadays that global warming is real and caused in large part by human activities like burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests. For example, a survey by university researchers published last year in EOS, the journal of the American Geophysical ...
  • European polluters financing Senate global warming ...
    Major European polluters are contributing generously to the campaigns of global warming deniers and climate bill blockers in the 2010 U.S. Senate race, according to a new report from Climate Action Network Europe. The companies examined in the report include Belgium's Solvay; Britain's BP ...
  • Still waiting for justice, black farmers rally in ...
    Black farmers gathered in a historic farming community in North Carolina over the weekend to draw attention to the continuing decline of black land ownership due to government policies -- including the ongoing failure by the Senate to fund a more than $1 billion race discrimination agreement. ...

Worldpress - Africa

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Great Depression
    Few countries were affected as severely as Canada by the worldwide Depression of the 1930s. It is estimated that between 1929 and 1933 Gross National Expenditure declined by 42%, by the latter year 30% of the LABOUR FORCE was
  • Riel, Louis
    Louis Riel, M�tis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION (b at Red River Settlement [Man] 22 Oct 1844; d at Regina 16 Nov 1885). Riel was educated at St Boniface and studied for the
  • Macdonald, Sir John Alexander
    Sir John Alexander Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada (b at Brunswick Place, across the Clyde R from Glasgow, Scot 10 Jan 1815; d at Ottawa 6 June 1891). He was the dominant creative mind
  • Confederation
    Confederation, the union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada (Canada being an earlier 1841 union of Lower Canada and Upper Canada), was achieved 1 July 1867 under the new name,
  • Vimy Ridge
    Vimy Ridge, battle fought 9-14 April 1917 during WORLD WAR I . The long, low ridge formed a key position linking the Germans' new HINDENBURG LINE to their main trench lines leading north from HILL 70 near Arras, France.

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • What can I reuse or recycle to make a moneybox/pig ...
    A couple of weeks ago on The Really Good Life, I was umming and ahhing about whether or not to buy an automatic chicken coop door. There were several reasons arguments for it but we don’t *need* one, it would just be a convenience – and I didn’t know whether convenience is worth £100. The [...]
  • Definitions for being green: you a treehugger, a h ...
    Over on The Really Good Life today, I’ve asked a question: I’m not self-sufficient, so what I am? I’m asking how people who grow their own food, making their own stuff, cook their meals etc define themselves — I might be alone on the issue but I don’t like calling myself “self-sufficient” because I’ ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic Nesquik tubs?
    Recycle This regular Lizzie has asked: Any suggestions for Nesquik tubs? I think Nesquik is probably the greenest solution to my chocolate milkshake addiction , but what, oh what can I do with the bright-yellow rectangular-ish tubs? Google informs me that there are several types of Nesquik tub but t ...
  • Fab free recycling posters – what you can an ...
    Illustrator Fee Harding (also known as Burntfeather) got in touch this morning to confess: I’ve been guilty of not recycling! This overwhelming guilt forced me to start looking into what I could and could not recycle and then set out to design a set of posters to blu tak above my recycling stash in ...
  • Green Halloween: How can I reuse or recycle Hallow ...
    Continuing in our Green Halloween series… Along with masks and costumes, the shops are full of Halloween decorations at the moment too. Plastic skulls & skeletons, plastic pumpkins, plastic spiders & bats, plastic ghosts & ghouls … lots of plastic. As with the masks, it’s far greener (and more fun!) ...

Mondoweiss

  • Report: Israeli soldiers burned Quran during night ...
    Doug Whitmore of Kansas City is a former member of Christian Peacemaker Teams who served in Jayyous in the occupied West Bank. Earlier today he received the following email from a friend in Jayyous. In passing it along, he removed the young man's name out of concern that he would suffer reprisal fro ...
  • Dear John Dennis: Here’s what a progressive ...
    I posted criticism of congressional candidate John Dennis' stance on Israel/Palestine. Dennis, who is running a libertarian, Republican, anti-war challenge to Nancy Pelosi, responded. My response: Dear John Dennis, I don't think I misrepresented your statements about Israel. It's true that I didn't ...
  • Goldberg regrets his story linking Saddam to al-Qa ...
    The Jewish Journal's Danielle Berrin interviews the most powerful Jewish journalist in America. Nay, the world! First the bullying excerpt, then the excerpt where he bullies the world. Emphases mine. Commenters will supply the subtext:Goldberg was raised in an assimilated middle-class home in a mixe ...
  • Sheikh Jarrah activists confront Jerusalem mayor o ...
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  • The ADL’s ‘top ten’ list is cons ...
    Recently, the Anti-Defamation League came out with a statement placing Students for Justice in Palestine on its top 10 anti-Israel organizations in the United States. As ADL has a history of spying and attempting to crush pro-Palestine, anti-apartheid activists working on issues of justice and civil ...

Media Consortium

  • PayPal Unveils Micropayments For Digital Goods, Fa ...
    t the company’s annual developer conference today, PayPal debuted its much awaited micropayments product. According to a release issued by the company, the new product is an “in-context, frictionless payment solution that lets consumers pay for digital goods and content in as little as two clicks, w ...
  • PayPal Unveils Micropayments For Digital Goods, Fa ...
    At the company’s annual developer conference today, PayPal debuted its much awaited micropayments product. The new product is an “in-context, frictionless payment solution that lets consumers pay for digital goods and content in as little as two clicks, without ever having to leave a publisher’s gam ...
  • When people are willing to pay for “almost nothing ...
    I want to point out a couple tweets of Marco’s that might tell us a little something about the paywalls we’ll see news organizations start erecting in greater quantities soon. Arment recently decided to start offering a paid model for Instapaper’s web service. He calls it an Instapaper Subscription, ...
  • AP’s “ASCAP for news” — new ecosystem, new revenue ...
    In a speech on Monday, Associated Press CEO Tom Curley announced that the AP would soon set up “an independent rights clearinghouse for news publishers to manage the distribution and use of their content beyond their own Web properties.” (Speech text in PDF link)
  • Traffic Bait Doesn’t Bring Ad Clicks - NYTimes.com

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 )

  • Low levels of bisphenol-A damage sperm
    More evidence has emerged that danger-chemical-du-jour bisphenol-A causes reproductive problems for human males. Pressure is growing on regulators to clamp down on ‘BPA’, but human studies on its impact on health are relatively few and far between. Canada recently became the first country to decl ...
  • Bench warrant issued for lab saboteur
    Vipul Bhrigu, a former postdoc at the University of Michigan who pleaded guilty to sabotaging the research of a student in his lab, failed to appear before the judge at Washtenaw County Courthouse (pictured), yesterday. As a result, a bench warrant has been issued for his arrest with bond set at ...
  • Report finds FDA still falling short on overseas d ...
    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) needs to make more progress inspecting drug manufacturing facilities outside the US, and improve on the data it uses to manage them, according to a US government report released on 26 October. Highlights of the report, by the Government Accountability O ...
  • Where are promised EU funds for food security?
    Europe needs to make good on its pledge to donate $3.8 billion to increase food security in the developing world, says a new report published yesterday. Eight of the world’s richest nations pledged $22.5bn to help combat hunger at a summit in L’Aquila, Italy, last year. But some nations, includin ...
  • New primate fossils point to great African migrati ...
    Long before human ancestors began leaving Africa, their primate forebears may have arrived there en masse from Asia, some 40 million years ago. An international team of palaeontologists excavating a rock formation in southern Libya have uncovered the fossil remains of several species of anthro ...

new geography

  • Prosperity Index Shows That Democracy Still Works ...
    With the Cold War well behind us, the real choice between systems lies in a growing variation in the form of capitalisms. Choices now range from the Chinese Leninist model – essential centrally planned exploitation of the greed gene – to various kleptocracies, divergent Anglo-American systems and v ...
  • Shifting Voter Demographics: America is a Differen ...
    As we head to the unpredictable 2010 elections, many pundits have been left scratching their heads and admitting that they really have no idea how this election is going to turn out. Nate Silver, today’s most careful analyst of election statistics and forecasting, examined a variety of indicators an ...
  • Portland's Runaway Debt Train
    Tri-Met, the operator of Portland's (Oregon) bus and light rail system has been in the news lately, and in less than auspicious ways. For decades, the Portland area’s media – as well as much of the national press – has been filled with stories about the national model that Tri-Met has created, espec ...
  • The Urban Bike Tribes of Los Angeles
    A recent Los Angeles Times article chronicled a showdown between drivers and bicyclists, inspired by the installation of bike lanes and — more significantly — the reduction of auto traffic lanes on a San Fernando Valley boulevard. The change was clearly intended to encourage cyclists, but I had to ...
  • A Price on Carbon: the New Greenmail
    Hidden from view during the Australian election, a carbon price is back on the political agenda. This comes as no surprise. Anyone following the debate, however, will see that it has nothing to do with the environment. For some time we have been urged to “act now”, but the grounds keep shifting and ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Woman Kills Baby Because He Cried While She Played ...
    Via: Florida Times Union: A Jacksonville mother charged with shaking her baby to death has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, was arrested after the January death of 3-month-old Dylan Lee Edmondson. She told investigators she became angry because the baby was crying whi ...
  • Congressional Staffers as Stock Pickers
    The point is that LOTS of people who arenât corporate insiders know the news before the market does. They buy before the news comes out. This happens every day. —Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets Via: Wall Street Journal: The Journal analysis showed that an aide to a Republican member ...
  • Humiliate, Strip, Threaten: UK Military Interrogat ...
    Via: Guardian: The British military has been training interrogators in techniques that include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions, the Guardian has discovered. Training materials drawn up secretly in recent years tell interrogators the ...
  • Large Number of 9/11 Reference Videos Going Up on ...
    Update: New Video of Building 7 Demolition I’m not absolutely sure that this hasn’t been out all along, but I’ve lost track of how many 9/11 documentaries I’ve seen, and I don’t recall ever seeing this clip. Wow. —End Update— I think that these are from the NIST dump the happened recently. A YouTube ...
  • Janitors With Ph.D.s
    Via: AlterNet: For politicians, boosting college graduation rates has always been a fairly uncontroversial goal to support. The Obama administration is doing so, rather relentlessly, through a number of initiatives designed to better prepare students for college and support them once they get there. ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Is Crime Making A Comeback? 12 Crime Statistics Th ...
    For about a decade and a half, crime rates in the United States have generally fallen.  That is the good news.  The bad news is that even during those "good" years, the United States still had the most car thefts, the most rapes and the most murders in the world.  And even though th ...
  • 27 Signs That The Standard Of Living For America&# ...
    If you still have a job and you can put food on the table and you still have a warm house to come home to, then you should consider yourself to be very fortunate.  The truth is that every single month hundreds of thousands more Americans fall out of the middle class and into poverty ...
  • 30 Reasons Why People Should Be Getting Really Ner ...
    The mainstream media is full of happy economic news these days.  The S&P 500 has shot up 16 percent since the beginning of July.  Ford Motor Company just reported a profit that jumped nearly 70 percent in the third quarter.  It was Ford's best third quarter performance ever and it w ...
  • 12 Ominous Signs For World Financial Markets
    Can anyone explain the very strange behavior that we are seeing in world financial markets right now?  Corporate insiders are bailing out of the U.S. stock market at a very alarming rate.  Investors are moving mountains of money into gold and other commodities.  In fact, there is su ...
  • 11 Long-Term Trends That Are Absolutely Destroying ...
    The U.S. economy is being slowly but surely destroyed and many Americans have no idea that it is happening.  That is at least partially due to the fact that most financial news is entirely focused on the short-term.  Whenever a key economic statistic goes up the financial markets su ...

Desertification

  • Africa has a real opportunity to achieve food and ...
    Read at : http://globalhealth.kff.org/Daily-Reports/2010/October/27/GH-102710-Food-Security.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kff%2Fkdghpr+%28Kaiser+Daily+Global+Health+Policy+Report%29 Report Notes Potential For African Agriculture, European Partnerships A new report ( ...
  • Land grabbing: damaging large scale acquisitions b ...
    Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/16731 Land grabbing â a killing blow to the fight against poverty in Africa APA | 27 October 2010 Land grabbing is expected to be discussed ahead of a meeting this week of African Union agriculture ministers … Continue reading →
  • Increasing number of foreign governments leasing o ...
    Read at : http://farmlandgrab.org/16736 Africaâs great land grab BBC | 27 October 2010 Recent years have seen an increasing number of foreign governments leasing or buying vast tracts of land in Africa for their own use â some say with … Continue reading →
  • To empower residents to actively and effectively p ...
    Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/10/27/creating-community-based-brownfield-redevelopment-strategies/ Creating Community-Based Brownfield Redevelopment Strategies Linked by Michael Levenston Includes Agriculture on Remediated Brownfields and Case Study, Urban Oaks Organic Farm By the America ...
  • Arable land is attracting wealthy investors all ov ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/the-new-land-rush-the-selling-out-of-americas-farmers/ The New Land Rush: The selling out of Americaâs farmers If the Chinese acquire large tracts of land here in the United States, food grown will be for import.  This w ...

The Paper Trail

backofthebook.ca

  • “Lay Off Officer Bubbles”: the video
    By Frank Moher Last week we reported on the ongoing saga of Officer Bubbles, the Toronto cop who became infamous during the G20 for threatening to bust a bubble-blowing protestor. Constable Bubbles, you will recall (or maybe not), has launched a 1.2 million dollar lawsuit against YouTube for host ...
  • Where’s my shower?
    By Jodi A. Shaw The last baby shower I went to was when I was a preteen. I went with my mom, and the shower was for a woman who went to our church. We played the clothespin game and some bizarre game with toilet paper and for the ...
  • Russell Williams: reality is reality
    By Frank Moher The Canadian news media have been engaged in a lot of hand-wringing and debate over the trial of Russell Williams and their own coverage of it. Should they have published photos of him dressed in his victims' lingerie? Should newspapers have kept the photos off the front page? ...
  • Officer Bubbles: the poem
    By Frank Moher The saga of Officer Bubbles continues. The Toronto Police Services constable (aka Adam Josephs) became notorious during the G20 for threatening to arrest a particularly pacific young woman if she continued to blow bubbles in his vicinity. "If the bubble touches me," he growled, "yo ...
  • Lay off Officer Bubbles
    Item: Officer Bubbles to sue YouTube Verse by Frank Moher Lay off Officer Bubbles The bubble busting cop He may be big on YouTube But as a tough guy he's a flop For the insults and derision And the giggling just won't stop So lay off Officer Bubbles The bubble busting cop Lay of ...

Worldnews

  • Brady receives warm welcome at Tea Party rall ...
    Republican Bill Brady got a boost Wednesday from three GOP governors in his challenge to Gov. Quinn at a rally in Homer Glen hosted by Tea Party groups where President Obama, Quinn and the Democratic-controlled Congress were the favored targets. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Mississippi Gov. Hal ...
  • HODGSON WARNS MAN UNITED OFF REINA
    Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson has warned Manchester United that goalkeeper Jose Reina is not for sale. The Spain international was linked with the Reds' arch rivals earlier this week and Arsenal have been mentioned as potential suitors in the past. Speculation over the future of Reina - and oth ...
  • Nissan recalls 2 million vehicles worldwide ...
    The Associated Press Share thefresnobee_994:/2010/10/28/2135777/nissan-recalls-2-million-vehicles.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name tool goes here 0 comments Similar stories: " tooltipId="mi_tt1"> Nissan introduces luxury hybrid, doubles mileage Nissan introduces luxury hybrid, doubles mil ...
  • How a vegetarian diet can prevent cancer
    Melbourne, Oct 28 (ANI): It's a known fact that vegetarian diet helps fight cancer, but a new research suggests that plants may protect us from cancer in a far more novel way - they may block a cancer's ability to grow.� Populations that consume less animal food and more plant food have a lower ...
  • Disillusioned Fernando Torres And Pepe Reina ...
    Share Share div#betting_widget_body div.partner_selector { display: inline; } - Betting Odds - Match Title Select League Select Match home - Draw - away - Fernando Torres and Pepe Reina feel they were lied to about Liverpool's ambition during contract negotiations and are prepared to invoke rel ...

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Common Dreams

  • Our Families Can’t Afford to Stay Home on Election ...
    by Sarah van Gelder If you're like me, this election doesn't feel anything like 2008. The excitement and hope of that historic election have been replaced by worry and disappointment. The 2008 campaigns at least occasionally addressed our country's serious problems. read more
  • Coffee Party Seeks to Outbrew Tea Party in US Poli ...
    WOODBRIDGE, Virginia -- A progressive infusion in US politics, the Coffee Party is brewing a strong counter-movement to the ultra-conservative Tea Party, just a week ahead of the US legislative elections. Born in January in reaction to the bashing President Barack Obama's proposed health care reform ...
  • Campaign Spending by Outside Groups Tops $257 Mill ...
    by David Lightman WASHINGTON - With a week to go before the elections, independent groups, most of them with sharp partisan leanings, have spent $257.7 million to influence political campaigns, nearly quadrupling such interest groups' total spending in the last midterm election, according to a Washi ...
  • Global Food Crisis Forecast as Prices Reach Record ...
    by John Vidal Rising food prices and shortages could cause instability in many countries as the cost of staple foods and vegetables reached their highest levels in two years, with scientists predicting further widespread droughts and floods. Although food stocks are generally good despite much of th ...
  • Planting Oases in a Land of Burgers and Fries
    by Matthew Berger WASHINGTON - Though close to a billion people remain undernourished worldwide, one in three U.S. children are overweight - a problem that First Lady Michelle Obama has made her priority over the first two years of her husband's administration. This rate of overweight or obese U.S. ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Ground broken on U.S’ first big solar power plant ...
    photo: Todd Woody In Yale Environment 360 on Wednesday, I interview John Woolard, chief executive of BrightSource Energy, the California solar developer that has begun construction of the first large-scale solar thermal power plant to be built in the United States in two decades:
  • Recipe for U.S. solar boom: policy, money + a litt ...
    photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. The United States is on the verge of a solar boom that could provide 4.3 percent of the nation’s electricity by 2020, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
  • Lithium projects galore
    I've been seeing a lot of investments this year on lithium-related production capacity coming from the chemical industry especially here in the US. Today, BASF broke ground on a $50+ million facility in Elyria, Ohio, to produce Nickel-Cobalt-Manganese (NCM) cathode materials for lithium-ion batte ...
  • China & Cancun
    Cancun is fast approaching and with the recently completed UN climate talks in Tianjin, China and the United States appear stuck in the same deadlock that mired Copenhagen and which many have blamed for its ultimate failure to achieve anything substantial. What is it that China is seeking from t ...
  • Green Jobs Aren't Renewable Energy's Value Proposi ...
    The recession and its aftermath have been simply awful for the emerging renewable energy industry, even though governments have tried hard to insulate the industry from the worst effects of the slowdown. Not only did the recession make it much harder for renewable energy projects and technologies t ...

Green House - USA Today

  • Kimberly-Clark rolls out tube-free Scott toilet pa ...
    The toilet paper industry is gearing up to go greener by testing tubeless rolls that will save lots of trash, reports USA TODAY colleague Bruce Horovitz .
  • An eco-friendly vending machine that sells fresh f ...
    Can vending machines really be eco-friendly? After all, they gobble lots of energy and sell candy, chips and soda in individually wrapped packages. Yet Sean Kelly, a freestyle-snowboarding champion and a biomedical engineer, thinks he's come up with a green solution.
  • Is flying or driving worse for climate change?
    Which is the bigger climate culprit -- cars or planes? A new study finds that driving increases global temperatures more in the longer-term than making the same long-distance journey by air. Yet in the first few years after the trip, flying increases global temperatures four times more than driving.
  • EPA picks college dorm as winner of waste-loss con ...
    The biggest loser? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which challenged 14 buildings nationwide to go on an energy diet, announced Tuesday that the winner is the Morrison Residence Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • Study: Scented consumer products emit toxic chemic ...
    Widely used scented products – including those that claim to be "green" – emit many chemicals not listed on the label, including some considered toxic and possibly carcinogenic, a study today says.

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

  • Anti-Defamation League Demagoguery and Islamophobi ...
    by Stephen Lendman Founded by B'nai B'rith in 1913, its stated mission is "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all," calling itself "the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency, (fighting) anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry...." ...
  • Strangelets, Black Holes and the GOD Particle
    http://environmentalarmageddon.wordpress.com/2010/10/24/black-holes-strangelets-and-ganesh-particles/ The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator that straddles the border of France and Switzerland, is quite busy lately playing with the most basic ing ...
  • Why do we hate the banks so?
    By Numerian posted by Michael Collins "The deadbeat accusation against defaulters says Americans should have known how much debt they were taking on and what the risks were for themselves if disaster should happen to them. The problem with this argument is that millions of Americans did know and ...
  • War is War, not Peace- President Obama
    Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. “It is the policy of the United States government to provoke violent extremist groups into action. Once they are in play, their responses can then be used in whatever way the government that provoked them sees fit. And we also know that these provocations are being used, a ...
  • Everyday is Halloween in Empire: The Zombie Apocal ...
    By Phil Rockstroh Because, at this time of the year, we take pleasure in being frightened, let's shuffle through the US Empire's House of Horrors. On our tour, we cringe before: Brain-eating zombies of exponential destruction; soul-sucking vampires of eternal self-justification; right-wing, talk sh ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • A Canada-EU trade deal could cost thousands of Can ...
    Canada already has a large bilateral trade deficit with the EU—$15 billion in goods and close to $4 billion in services, and loses some 70,000 jobs as a result. A new CCPA study by Jim Stanford finds a free trade agreement would make that imbalance worse. Out of Equilibrium: The Impact of EU-C ...
  • New videos on the facts & myths of medicare sustai ...
    Canadians are being told that public health care financing is not sustainable, and that the solution is a shift to more private health insurance and private delivery of services. On June 17, 2010 the CCPA and the Canadian Health Coalition hosted a breakfast lecture on the sustainability of medicar ...
  • Medicare Sustainability: Facts & Myths - with poll ...
    Canadians are being told that public health care financing is not sustainable, and that the solution is a shift to more private health insurance and private delivery of services. Renowned pollster Nik Nanos reviews the numbers, and Canada's pre-eminent health economist, Dr. Robert G. Evans, ...
  • The dangers of cutting municipal taxes
    On Policy Note, Keith Reynolds argues against the anti-tax logic of the Taxpayers' Federation. If municipalities go further down the road of tax cuts, we could end up like California: in deep financial trouble, with social services in disarray. Go to Policy Note to read Keith's full post on the dang ...
  • Canadian incomes flatlined; poverty unchanged
    Statistics Canada released 2008 income data for Canadians and finds median after-tax family incomes were flatlined and the number of families living in poverty remained virtually unchanged compared to the year before. Striking findings, considering most of 2008 represented an economic growth period ...

World Wide Hippies

  • If all registered voters voted, we’d be in m ...
    If all registered voters voted, we’d be in much better shape | Daily Kos CNN has a new batch of numbers. Check out the disparities between registered voters and likely ones: CALIFORNIA Likely voter – Registered Voter Governor Meg Whitman (R) 44 – 38 Jerry Brown (D) [...]
  • British Airways Sez “Enuff”
    BA attacks U.S. airport security demands | CNN The chairman of British Airways has launched an attack on “completely redundant” airport checks and said the UK should stop “kowtowing” to US demands for increased security. The comments by Martin Broughton reflect broader industry and passenger frustra ...
  • Put Assange In Guantanamo?
    Pack Assange off to Guantanamo, US conservatives tell Obama | The Independent The White House and the Pentagon have failed to confront and contain the threat to national security posed by WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange who should be arrested as an “enemy combatant”, voices on the US conser ...
  • The Nation’s Greatest Senior Moment
    What awaits us around the corner we call the “midterm elections” may bring a sigh of relief or inspire mass emigration. It is up to us. But it is going to take work, sincerity and perseverance. It can be done, but we haven’t much time left. It has taken many decades to achieve the progressive [...]
  • Kucinich: Stop The Afghan War Now!
    Karzai Offers Further Proof of the Immediate Need to End the War | Common Dreams Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement about Afghanistan President Karzai’s admission that he receives “bags of cash” from the Iranian government: “The Karzai regime is so corrupt; it doe ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • 9/11 Families Call for Immediate Acknowledgement o ...
    NEW YORK – October 23 – The following statement may be attributed to Colleen Kelly, a founding member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows The information made public by Wikileaks (NY Times, A Grim Report…10/22/10) emphasizes that 9/11 families have much in common with Iraqi civ ...
  • '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 ...

Salon

  • You've heard the lies, now believe the facts
    "Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." -- Will Rogers
  • Does Obama support legal pot or not?
    The Obama administration publicly opposes Proposition 19, the California ballot measure that would legalize pot. But the White House, perhaps fearful of angering the already frustrated Democratic base, is being conspicuously careful not to draw too much attention to its own stance on the issue.
  • O'Donnell threatens to sue station over video
    Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell's campaign threatened to crush a radio station with a lawsuit if it posted video of an interview with the tea party favorite on the Internet.
  • No, Matt Bai, Americans aren't yearning for daddy
    Generally, I'm happy to leave it to Jonathan Bernstein, whose blogging is often cross-posted here, to point out the inanity of Matt Bai's political analysis. But after reading Bai's latest effort in the New York�Times, I can't resist.
  • Al Franken presents the "ditch" speech
    Sen. Al Franken stopped being funny once he began his campaign for the U.S. Senate, but since taking office he has, every now and then, allowed himself to crack a joke. At a Mark Dayton rally in Minnesota recently, he performed his own version of Barack Obama's now-tiresome "ditch" routine. His l ...

SMB News

  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera saw ...
  • 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 ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • Tar sands: Ottawa has to step in
    Alberta’s rapidly expanding tar sands are creating double trouble: an environmental mess that feeds a public relations disaster. The latest example: hundreds more ducks were killed after landing in yet another tar sands tailings pond this week. ...
  • F-35 purchase: Auditor General raises red flag
    In Ottawa, when Auditor General Sheila Fraser talks, everyone listens. So it was this week when Fraser handed down her annual report, which included stinging criticism of the government purchase of military helicopters. The contracts have run way o ...
  • Toronto economy: Trouble below decks
    Mayor-elect Rob Ford and the new city council are taking the reins of a city that seems to have weathered the recession fairly well. But beneath that surface appearance of strength lies an inner frailty: a great many people are being left behind. ...
  • 905 results: All over the map
    The results in Monday’s elections in the 905 belt around Toronto were all over the map, literally and figuratively. Incumbent mayors were turfed in seven municipalities – Oshawa, Uxbridge and Clarington in Durham region; Aurora, Vaughan, and King i ...
  • Catholic trustees: Don’t misread the vote
    Six of eight incumbents on the scandal-ridden Toronto Catholic school board were returned to office Monday night. “The voters decided and that’s good,” said Angela Kennedy, who was recently found guilty of conflict of interest charges and kicked of ...

Energy Collective

  • Ground broken on U.S’ first big solar power plant ...
    photo: Todd Woody In Yale Environment 360 on Wednesday, I interview John Woolard, chief executive of BrightSource Energy, the California solar developer that has begun construction of the first large-scale solar thermal power plant to be built in the United States in two decades:
  • Recipe for U.S. solar boom: policy, money + a litt ...
    photo: Todd Woody I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. The United States is on the verge of a solar boom that could provide 4.3 percent of the nation’s electricity by 2020, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
  • Lithium projects galore
    I've been seeing a lot of investments this year on lithium-related production capacity coming from the chemical industry especially here in the US. Today, BASF broke ground on a $50+ million facility in Elyria, Ohio, to produce Nickel-Cobalt-Manganese (NCM) cathode materials for lithium-ion batte ...
  • China & Cancun
    Cancun is fast approaching and with the recently completed UN climate talks in Tianjin, China and the United States appear stuck in the same deadlock that mired Copenhagen and which many have blamed for its ultimate failure to achieve anything substantial. What is it that China is seeking from t ...
  • Green Jobs Aren't Renewable Energy's Value Proposi ...
    The recession and its aftermath have been simply awful for the emerging renewable energy industry, even though governments have tried hard to insulate the industry from the worst effects of the slowdown. Not only did the recession make it much harder for renewable energy projects and technologies t ...

EU Times

  • Japan Wary of China Military, Urges Closer US Ties
    Japan’s Defense Ministry stressed the importance of U.S. military forces in Japan and cast a wary eye on China’s military expansion in an annual report Friday, as diplomatic tensions with China rose following a collision near disputed islands. The annual defense policy report also said a group of So ...
  • Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs
    Global humanitarian reasons for current U.S. immigration are tested in this updated version of Roy Beck’s colorful presentation of data from the World Bank and U.S. Census Bureau. The 1996 version has been one of the most viewed policy presentations on the internet. Presented by author/journalist Ro ...
  • Are growing ethnic enclaves a threat to Canada?
    The University of Victoria’s Zheng Wu is leading an important study into one of the most profound challenges facing Canada, which has the highest per-capita immigration in the world. How can waves of newcomers to Canada feel they belong here? That question, explored by Wu and his sociological team, ...
  • Interpol Issues “Global Terror Alert” ...
    Interpol today warned its 188 member countries that there may be a higher threat of terrorism if a Florida fringe pastor burns Korans on Saturday as planned. “One of INTERPOL’s primary functions is to prevent crime, and given that we have been made aware of a significant threat to public safety – an ...
  • Interpol Issues “Global Terror Alert” ...
    Interpol today warned its 188 member countries that there may be a higher threat of terrorism if a Florida fringe pastor burns Korans on Saturday as planned. “One of INTERPOL’s primary functions is to prevent crime, and given that we have been made aware of a significant threat to public safety – an ...

Stonecipher News

  • What is Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)?
    According to Wright & Wright (2006): The definition of “least restrictive environment” did not change in IDEA 2004. Schools are required to educated children with disabilities in the least restrictive environment. Judicial decisions about “mainstreaming” and “least restrictive environment” (LRE) var ...
  • Rx - Nutritious Food and Some Important Tips for H ...
    I was surfing the net for alternative health articles when I came across my friend Ron Siojo's Factoidz page . "For centuries, bitter melon has been used therapeutically in China, India, Africa and the southeastern part of the US. It is useful in medicine as an anti-tumor, antiviral and anti-diabeti ...
  • PlayStation®Move
    This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of PlayStation MOVE . All opinions are 100% mine. Recently a little genie appeared to me one night while sleeping and gave my family the PlayStation®Move. Move Since I started using PlayStation®Move, my family and I have lost weight and spent more q ...
  • 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 ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Politics 2010 In Black And White
    By Alan Caruba In 2008, Barack Obama would not have been elected to the presidency if white voters had not reached a point since the days of the 1960s Civil Rights movement to think a black man could and should have a shot at the job. If race played a role in the election, it... Tags: politics midte ...
  • Don’t Let Allergies SPOOK You This Halloween!
    This is a guest post by registered dietitian Brooke Schantz . She blogs at Bitchin’ Nutrition about nutrition and healthy eating. photo credit: shawncampbell With Halloween coming up, many parents may feel stress and pressure with all the allergen-laden treats that are given out... Tags: halloween f ...
  • World Braces for Next Big Battle in the Currency W ...
    The financial markets are now focusing on the November 2-3 meeting of the US Federal Reserve over how it will manage its monetary policy. Already, the markets have anticipated another round of quantitative easy, or money printing on a large scale, to purchase US Treasuries and hold... Tags: liquidit ...
  • Alexander Hamilton's 1802 "The Grange"
    In 1800, a year after John McComb, Jr. designed Archibald Gracie’s country house – which would become known in the 20th Century as Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the Mayor of New York – and three years before he received the commission for New York’s City Hall, the... Tags: hamilton grang ...
  • Day 01 – Something I Hate About Myself
    I traced this blog idea back to here but I’m seeing tons of people doing it and finally decided that I was enjoying reading the entries too much on other blogs not to try it here. While I’ll do them in order, I’m not going to do them one right after another. And – I plan on...

Groklaw

  • Prosecutors Seek to Block Xbox Hacking Pioneer Fro ...
    Want a live tutorial on how to hack an Xbox by the guy who actually wrote the book on it? If so, you should plan to attend what likely will be the nation's first federal jury trial of a defendant accused of jailbreaking Xbox 360s - installing mod chips that allow the console to run pirated or home- ...
  • Blast Off! maddog goes to Rio for Hack and Beer ...
    All of the projects required an Arduino. The Arduino is an "open" hardware platform, so people can make various derivatives of the motherboard. Most of these derivatives tend toward units that are very easy to interface to breadboards, so people can build simple hardware "extensions." A software dev ...
  • PT: 'Gvt must stop breaking procurement rules and ...
    The advocacy group uncovered that five public administrations in 2009 spent more than 120 million Euro in total on proprietary software licences for operating systems and office applications, without properly following procurement rules. "It is illegal, and in these times of crises, such volumes are ...
  • How LimeWires Shutdown May Impact Urban Sustainab ...
    What may be less obvious is the impact that today's ruling will have on one of our favorite sites, Streetsblog.org, a crucial voice for urban sustainability and transit and livable communities. Limewire founder Marc Gorton is also the founder of the Streetsblog Network. Streetsblog today began a pl ...
  • Judge Tells LimeWire, the File-Trading Service, to ...
    In a statement Tuesday, the Recording Industry Association of America, the music industry's trade group that had managed the suit, said: "For the better part of the last decade, LimeWire and Gorton have violated the law. The court has now signed an injunction that will start to unwind the massive pi ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Traffic-straddling bus could come here
    This unique bus allows traffic to pass underneath it, is partly solar-powered, and greatly cuts congestion. China will have them next year, and the manufacturer wants to bring them to the US. I want to be in Los Angeles videoing when the first one rolls down the street, causing all manner of conster ...
  • Wall Street proprietary trading under cover: Micha ...
    The new law, surprise, has a giant loophole, compliments no doubt of its authors Dodd and Frank, both of whom are Democrats. What, you actually thought they championed reform? Silly you.
  • Living in an ultra-efficient 150 sq ft RV
    The RV has a microscopic environmental footprint. The owner explains how he does it, and has a utility bill of less than $5 a month!.
  • Barack Obama: The oligarchs’ president
    From Charles Ferguson, the director of “Inside Job” Nearly two years later, the Obama administration has established a clear record. Beginning almost immediately, the president consistently opposed any effort to control financial industry compensation — even for firms receiving federal aid, as most ...
  • Carve a pumpkin with a gun

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Istanbul, for all that ails you
    Today, I feel like maybe I died and went to heaven. I am sitting in an apartment that is perched on the heights of Istanbul's Cehangir neighborhood right across the Golden Horn from the Topkapi Palace. I stare out of the picture windows at the confluence of the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus. Ferry- ...
  • How can I not blog when (#2)--
    ... Britain's $1.6 billion-worth of brand-new nuclear submarine runs aground off the coast of Scotland while testing its sonar! Just put this $1.6 billion figure together together with the sad facts of what I just blogged about Haiti , and you'll see how totally askew the priorities of the so-calle ...
  • How can I not blog when--
    140 of our neighbors in Haiti have now certifiedly died of cholera , and hundreds of thousands of Haitians also badly affected by last December's earthquakes are also threatened by it. And it is not the case that cholera has been "endemic" in Haiti at all, any time in recallable history. This is t ...
  • Newsweek: 'Everyone needs' Hamas at the table
    A really significant article by Babak Dehghanpisheh in this week's Newsweek: The headline is: "A place for Mr. Meshaal: No one wants the leader of Hamas at the Mideast peace table. But everyone needs him there ." Of course, it is not true that "No one wants him" there... But we can let that go. De ...
  • Chas Freeman's somber look at U.S. Middle East pol ...
    I am happy to be able to publish here-- with his permission-- the text of the presentation that Amb. Chas W. Freeman, Jr., made at a conference on the Middle East held at Tufts University, October 14-15. Freeman's book America's Misadventures in the Middle East is, of course, the first title to be p ...

First Truths

  • The State Never Sleeps
    Oliver Stone's new film,� Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps , his interpretation of the collapse of the financial system, functions as a digest of the libertarian anarchist critique of state capitalism's banking element. In a piece issued by the Center for a Stateless Society , I argue that the suprem ...
  • Obamacare Feeds Insurance Oligarchs
    In a commentary piece, I argue that Obamacare, the result of Big Insurance lobbying efforts to insulate their bottom lines from competition, squeezes consumers and raises costs.
  • WikiLeaks Removes the Cloak
    My latest commentary lauds WikiLeaks for exposing the full scope of the Iraq war's horrors.
  • What It Means to be Anti-War
    Libertarianism is described variously as the philosophy of liberty, as individualism, and as anti-collectivism, and while all of those designations are accurate I want to suggest that libertarianism is at first anti-war. Even after explaining that mine is a social philosophy that makes the complet ...
  • Time to Rescind the Social Contract
    Coverage of the pension crisis in France has made a habit of implicating the hallowed "social contract" that citizens supposedly enjoy the benefits of in that country. With the French strikes as a reference point, I argue that social contract theory, the idea of implicit consent, cannot justify the ...

Media Co-Op

  • The spirit of Halloween
    The treat is a trick. The trick is the treat. � Once again the Halloween season is upon us and people are busy buying costumes made by children in sweatshops, buying plastic-wrapped nutritionally deficient "treats" made from sugar and cocoa g ...
  • Safety and Rights of Journalists in Canada
    Following the Toronto G20 protests last June, four journalists filed complaints with the Office of Independent Police Review Director, Ontario’s police watchdog. The complaints by Amy Miller, Daniel McIsaac, Jesse Rosenfeld and Lisa Walter include allegations of physical assaults, verbal abuse, gend ...
  • Ontario Coalition Against Poverty Gets Ready to Co ...
    Eight years of the progressive Mayor David Miller has meant little for the poorest people in Toronto. The former City Council and David Miller are responsible for 312 shelter beds for the homeless being cut with only 60 ever replaced. Promises of new shelters have been empty rhetoric, with people wa ...
  • Media Co-op Investor: October Part II
    We Scratch the Surface of ScotiaBank and Get Creeped out by Power Corporation Welcome to Media Co-op Investor! The Media Co-op Investor Series aims to help the general public understand the stock market, how it works and the major companies wh ...
  • The (Im)Possibilities of Winning with Coercion and ...
    The essay [PDF link ] below covers lessons from past revolutionary movements, in such a way as to point out what it takes to win, mostly via what lessons there are for us today to enable better eyes towards better directions. It uses much of its historic and contemporary examples (from the Anti-Nuke ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Wikileaks: has anybody given a thought about Iraq ...
    David Seaton's News Links In all the comments on Wikileak's Iraq revelations I've read, I haven't seen much of anything about their effect on Iraq and the Iraqis.� This seems strange to me, because from beginning to end the real victims of everything we've done are the Iraqis themselves and it isn't ...
  • Julian Assange and Wikileaks, a warning: How to hi ...
    The reports make it clear that the lethal contest between Iranian-backed militias and American forces continued after President Obama sought to open a diplomatic dialogue with Iran�s leaders� New York Times It seems to me that the most significant revelations from the massive WikiLeaks document du ...
  • China’s next president: Xi Jinping
    China�s next president: Xi Jinping Xi is China's heir-apparent, in line to succeed Hu Jintao in 2012 as China's top leader. This 56-year-old "princeling"�his father was former Vice-Premier Xi Zhongxun�earned a doctorate in Marxist theory from Tsinghua University but now has a reputation as a support ...
  • The "Big Lie"... How it works and what it is for
    The big lie kicks in: before and after Americans for Prosperity, the rightwing campaign funded in part by the energy billionaires the Koch brothers, is working with the Tea Party movement to increase its impact through the use of new media and social networking. The Guardian Rupert Murdoch has decla ...
  • 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 ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Throwing Good Money at Bad Land
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Oakland, Calif. -- A new Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis has found that a federal Bureau of Reclamation proposal to continue farming on a vast swath of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my ...
  • 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 into ...
  • 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 ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • Ugly Story Proves the Media is Lying to You About ...
    By Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earlier, ...
  • Make this Common Mistake While Sleeping and Risk G ...
    Keeping a light on at night could change your eating schedule, and the result could be extra pounds. Mice exposed to a dim light at night gained 50 percent more weight over an eight-week period than mice that slept in total darkness. The findings held up even when the amount of food and the physica ...
  • One of the Worst Parenting Mistakes You Can Make
    No matter how physically active a child is, time spent in front of the computer or television screen is associated with psychological problems. In other words, children can't make up for TV time by spending extra hours exercising. The findings also suggest that the way children spend their sedent ...
  • Amazing Jump Down a Mountain
    Have you ever wanted to fly? Jeb Corliss made that dream come true with his amazing wing suit.
  • Many 'All Natural' Foods Are Actually Heavily Proc ...
    If you think a food is "all natural" just because the label says it is, think again. So which foods really aren't as natural as they claim they are? When it comes to ice cream, as reported by Change.org, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has outed Ben & Jerry's as having ingredi ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Indians demand answers as Amazon is sold
    Oil exploration in Peru's Amazon has generated wide-scale indigenous protests. © David Dudenhoefer Peru’s latest Amazon auction has been challenged by indigenous groups after it emerged that they may not have been consulted before their land was sold off to foreign oil companies last week. An ...
  • Survival’s new petition for Botswana Bushmen goes ...
    Survival's petition has gathered signatures from more than 80 countries. © Survival A new petition calling on controversial holiday company Wilderness Safaris to move its luxury lodge off Bushman land in Botswana is gathering support from all over the world. While the Central Kalahari Bushmen ...
  • Richard Long designs T-shirt for Survival
    Actress and Survival supporter Gillian Anderson models our Richard Long T-shirt © Survival World-renowned artist Richard Long has designed a new t-shirt for Survival Internationalâs 2010 Christmas catalogue, modelled by actors Gillian Anderson and Sophie Okonedo. The design inspired by nature ...
  • Indonesian government admits its soldiers tortured ...
    The footage has caused widespread outrage and revulsion. © Survival The Indonesian government has admitted that the men seen torturing two Papuans in a video released on the internet this week are soldiers. The minister for security said the soldiers would be punished. An investigation into t ...
  • Troubled Vedanta loses appeal for controversial re ...
    Vedanta's plan to expand its refinery at the foot of the Niyamgiri hills has now been blocked. © Lewis Davids/Survival The Indian government has blocked FTSE 100 company Vedanta Resources’ plan to expand its highly controversial alumina refinery below the Niyamgiri hills in Orissa, in the late ...

Montreal Gazette

  • The answer, my friend, isn't blowin' in the wind
    Everybody wants sustainable, eco-friendly energy. But nobody wants to live next to a clanking, science-fictiony wind farm.
  • Consensus on language needs modernizing
    Sovereignist leaders know they can stir up votes by stirring up emotions over language. Accordingly, we hear an endless self-serving drumbeat of nationalist alarmism about French being "in danger," at least in Montreal.
  • One insurance policy that's not worth the price
    Thank you, Bernard Drainville, for your candour. The threat of separation from Canada is, the Parti Quebecois MNA has been saying, an "insurance policy," which gives Quebec the "balance of power" in its relations with the rest of the country.
  • One insurance policy that's not worth the price
    Thank you, Bernard Drainville, for your candour. The threat of separation from Canada is, the Parti Quebecois MNA has been saying, an "insurance policy," which gives Quebec the "balance of power" in its relations with the rest of the country.
  • One insurance policy that's not worth the price
    In the past few weeks Drainville, MNA for the south-shore riding of Marie Victorin, has told anyone who will listen that the prospect of independence is the "best insurance policy" the province has ever had. A provincial party that stops brandishing the prospect of sovereignty, Drainville sa ...

Food World Order

  • 9/30 binge & purge: 100% all-natural deception
    the nature conservancy & corporate donors: monsanto, nestle, altria & more * ben & jerry's taking 'all-natural' label off products * gm salmon frankenfish about to be unleashed into US food supply * ftc complaint charges deceptive advertising by pom * farmer, consumer outcry helping t ...
  • pacific northwest grocery stores setting up fake f ...
    from grist : Without a doubt, farmers markets have got a good thing growing . Unfortunately, sneaky copycats have been cropping up as they try to get their paws on the green that comes with that success. In June, Safeway supermarkets in Seattle set up stacks of fruits and veggies outside of their ow ...
  • eu food safety chief forced to quit gm lobby role
    from the ecologist : A key figure in charge of food safety within the EU has been forced to quit her director role at a pro-GM group . European Green MEPs had called for EFSA chair Diana Banati 's resignation after she had failed to disclose her seat on the board of directors of the International Li ...
  • natural news launches food investigations with 'ph ...
    from natural news : What do you get when you combine fast food with Big Pharma? Pharmaburger! That's the name of episode one of the new " Food Investigations " mini-documentary series created by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, editor of NaturalNews.com. Food Investigations features short documen ...
  • fda says you have no right to know if salmon are g ...
    from allgov : If the Food and Drug Administration decides to approve for the first time the sale of a genetically-modified animal (GMO) for Americans to consume, the deal will not include a requirement that producers or retailers label the food as such . FDA officials are still deciding whethe ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Christianity's contributions mostly negative, Amer ...
    source:  Christian Century, October 26, 2010 (RNS) When asked about Christianity's recent contributions to society, Americans cited more negatives than benefits, according to a new survey.
  • Evangelism as part of foreign political strategy
    source:  The organiser, Oct 3, 2010   By Manju Gupta Evangelical Intrusions, Sandhya Jain, Rupa & Co., Pp 251 (HB), Rs 395.00 THIS book comes at an opportune moment when repeated reports of religio-political violence in the north-eastern states are pouring in, accompanied by the ri ...
  • What science say about religious conversion
    source:  Helium.com,  October 20, 2010 For many, religious experiences lead to religious conversion. While conversion need not stem from such an experience, per se, many convertees have cited religious awakenings as leading to a new spiritual perspective. But while science accepts a religious ...
  • Beltangady: Three Booked for Inducing Religious Co ...
    source:  Daijiworld, October 18, 2010 Beltangady, Oct 18: The personnel of Venur police station have registered cases against three persons, based on a complaint received against them. The three reportedly visited a family, derided Hindu gods, and induced the family members to convert.
  • Vatican Bank Investigated For Alleged Money Launde ...
    source:  NPR.org,  September 21, 2010   Angelo Carconi /Associated Press Italian financial Police officers talk to each other in front of St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010.  (AP Photo/Angelo Carconi)

Whole Truth Coalition

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

The Economic Collapse

  • Is Crime Making A Comeback? 12 Crime Statistics Th ...
    For about a decade and a half, crime rates in the United States have generally fallen.  That is the good news.  The bad news is that even during those "good" years, the United States still had the most car thefts, the most rapes and the most murders in the world.  And even though th ...
  • 27 Signs That The Standard Of Living For America&# ...
    If you still have a job and you can put food on the table and you still have a warm house to come home to, then you should consider yourself to be very fortunate.  The truth is that every single month hundreds of thousands more Americans fall out of the middle class and into poverty ...
  • 30 Reasons Why People Should Be Getting Really Ner ...
    The mainstream media is full of happy economic news these days.  The S&P 500 has shot up 16 percent since the beginning of July.  Ford Motor Company just reported a profit that jumped nearly 70 percent in the third quarter.  It was Ford's best third quarter performance ever and it w ...
  • 12 Ominous Signs For World Financial Markets
    Can anyone explain the very strange behavior that we are seeing in world financial markets right now?  Corporate insiders are bailing out of the U.S. stock market at a very alarming rate.  Investors are moving mountains of money into gold and other commodities.  In fact, there is su ...
  • 11 Long-Term Trends That Are Absolutely Destroying ...
    The U.S. economy is being slowly but surely destroyed and many Americans have no idea that it is happening.  That is at least partially due to the fact that most financial news is entirely focused on the short-term.  Whenever a key economic statistic goes up the financial markets su ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Civil liberties: The ConDems become ZaNuLiebour II
    Well, we have already seen the bogus public consultation exercise asking us which bad laws (statutes, actually) we, the people wanted to have repealed... a consultation which Nick Clegg inadvertently but kindly exposed as being nothing but a sham PR-exercise. Yet how big a sham and bogus image de ...
  • Farage provokes poor, deluded Barroso into admitti ...
    We're all, no doubt, concentrating on news of what we can no longer afford as a nation with announcements which are reverberating across the land from the Pantomime Parliament at Westminster. Which is all very interesting. There were two budget announcements today. The one huge set - of British c ...
  • Daily Telegraph, you're having a larf!
    Oh my! Are the Daily Telegraph trying to make us all feel better about the European Empire by making us piddle our pants laughing with utterly comedic headlines..? They say of 'Cast Iron' Dave Cameron: "Our most instinctively Eurosceptic Prime Minister for 20 years faces a tricky set of challenge ...
  • Freemen, libertarians and constitutionalists: Now ...
    You do not have to be Newton or Faraday in order to spot the way of things - that the proverbial hit the fan a couple of years ago and - far from recovering - we're about three quarters of the way around the U-bend. Quite how heavy a turd we're in will no doubt become clearer later today. Many ...
  • (Pathetic) Quote Of The Day: Yes, you, Transport S ...
    Oh, sometimes it becomes painful and you think "will no-one make them stop?". Martin Broughton, Chairman of British Airways and Colin Matthews, Chief Executive of BAA, have been discussing and criticising some of the awful, degrading processes of humiliation that passengers have to go through whe ...

Facing South

  • N.C. GOP congressional campaign accused of poll in ...
    The campaign of the candidate challenging a two-term congressman from North Carolina is raising eyebrows over questionable and possibly illegal tactics. Poll workers associated with U.S. House District 13 candidate Bill Randall , a Republican businessman challenging incumbent Democrat Bra ...
  • Help Facing South watchdog the 2010 elections!
    The right to vote. Free and fair elections. Every person having a say. Growing up, this is probably what you learned democracy is all about. And millions of people -- like the civil rights veterans who founded the Institute for Southern Studies 40 years ago -- fought to make it a reality. But ...
  • A Pope of climate denial
    There's broad agreement among scientists nowadays that global warming is real and caused in large part by human activities like burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests. For example, a survey by university researchers published last year in EOS, the journal of the American Geophysical ...
  • European polluters financing Senate global warming ...
    Major European polluters are contributing generously to the campaigns of global warming deniers and climate bill blockers in the 2010 U.S. Senate race, according to a new report from Climate Action Network Europe. The companies examined in the report include Belgium's Solvay; Britain's BP ...
  • Still waiting for justice, black farmers rally in ...
    Black farmers gathered in a historic farming community in North Carolina over the weekend to draw attention to the continuing decline of black land ownership due to government policies -- including the ongoing failure by the Senate to fund a more than $1 billion race discrimination agreement. ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Khadr Is ‘Highly Dangerous,’ ‘Rock Star’ of Gitmo, Psychiatrist Testifies Testifying before a military jury at Guantanamo at the sentencing hearing of detainee Omar Khadr Tuesday, a forensic psychiatrist hired by the government said that Khadr is a young man … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Khadr Pleads Guilty; Deal Reportedly Caps Sentence at 8 Years Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo and reportedly the last Western citizen held there, pleaded guilty to five charges Monday, including the murder of a U.S. Special Forces medic … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    No Deal Announced Yet in Khadr Trial, But Expected After more than a week of speculation about a possible plea deal for Omar Khadr, the youngest detainee at Guantanamo who is due before a military commission there today, the Toronto … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    U.S. to Cut Aid to Pakistani Military Units Accused of Abuses The New York Times reports that the United States will withhold training and equipment from about half a dozen Pakistan Army units accused of killing unarmed prisoners and civilians … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Testimony in Ghailani Trial Provides ‘Vivid, if Dated,’ Look Inside al Qaeda The New York Times reports that a second day of testimony by an admitted al Qaeda trainer at the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, who is accused of participating … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Get a Feel of Firefox 4 in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick M ...
    Firefox 4 is all over over the news and the funny thing is, Firefox 4 final release has not even happened yet. Firefox 4 beta 6 was released recently and it boasts of key performance improvements and a number of new and useful features like Tab Candy . Let's do a quick look at the latest Firefox 4 i ...
  • Official Ubuntu Advert at Its Awesome Best!
    A really slick Ubuntu advertisement was shown during Mark’s keynote address at the Ubuntu Developer Summit 2010. It's a very well put together Ubuntu advert and gives you a quick preview of what Ubuntu is all about. Watch the video below. [image via Ubuntu 10.10 wallpapers ] [via omgubuntu ...
  • 12 Year Old Alex Miller Spots Major Firefox Securi ...
    Alex Miller is just 12 years old, but don't let his age fool you. This teenager has just made his mark in the technology world by spotting a major security bug in the world's second most popular web browser , Mozilla Firefox. And he might just be using Ubuntu at the age of 12! The window i ...
  • Compiz Will Find It's Way Into Ubuntu Unity, Aweso ...
    Compiz 0.9.2 was revealed recently with a number of major improvements, new features and even new plugins. But the future of Compiz became uncertain since both Gnome with its GNOME Shell and KDE with its new KWin has decided to go forward with the new integrated desktop approach. But hold on, Compiz ...
  • Dell's 7-inch Android Based Tablet Will be Release ...
    Get ready for yet another Android based tablet. This one is from Dell. The first ever Android tablet was introduced by Samsung, like 2 weeks ago, and it is called Samsung Galaxy Tab . Galaxy Tab had impressive hardware specifications that rivals Apple's iPad and many even consider it as a better alt ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • BAYERN LB MANAGEMENT TEAM FACE LEGAL ACTION OVER H ...
    Every member of the Bayern LB management team responsible for the decision to buy a controlling stake in Hypo Alpe Adria is to face unprecedented legal action for their role in buying a bank that ended up sucking in 3.7 billion euros of Bavarian tax payers’ money. The current BayernLB board decided ...
  • Ireland could call another EU referendum over Merk ...
    [Editor's Note: Vienna Economics Professor Franz Hörmann explained in an interview how banks create money out of thin air and how the bank debts are, therefore, paper debts. To ask for interest or government money on these paper debts is fraud. Under proposals to change the Lisbon Treaty by Bildeber ...
  • British payments to EU set to rise £900m next year
    The European Parliament voted through a budget rise yesterday that will cost Britain an extra £900 million next year – on the day George Osborne announced deep cuts to public spending.  By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels Published: 7:38PM BST 20 Oct 2010 The Telegraph A £6.5 billion EU budget rise that ...
  • Stuttgart 21 protests come to Berlin
    The Local: Updated: 26 Oct 10 15:14 CET In a bid to keep the national spotlight on their cause, hundreds of demonstrators against the Stuttgart 21 rail project marched through Berlin on Tuesday. About 600 activists caught a specially chartered train to the capital for a full day of protest. Demonstr ...
  • French police infiltrate pension protestors as age ...
    Mélenchon says police infiltrated the demonstrations Translated by Carolyn Dunning The Chairman of the Left Party, Jean-Luc Melenchon, said on France Inter and i-Télé on Sunday night (24th) that police had “instructions” to “infiltrate” and “throw stones” from within crowds demonstrating against the ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • When Drug Trials Go Terribly Wrong: Lessons from a ...
    By Christopher Lane I sometimes get mail from readers wanting to tell me about their experiences with American medicine and psychiatry. The information they share can present all kinds of predicaments, due to what is said and how it’s conveyed. For one thing, it’s shared outside any medical or psych ...
  • Report: Iran loads fuel into 1st nuclear reactor
    Iran has begun loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant, state TV reported Tuesday. The English-language Press TV announced the injection of fuel into the core of the reactor at Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran. Amid great media fanfare, Iranian and Russian engineers s ...
  • 9/11:EXPLOSIVE_TESTIMONY – Mark Basile Chemi ...
  • LA Times pinkwashing reaches new low by pushing &# ...
    By Mike Adams Check this out: The LA Times is pinkwashing their entire website masthead with a pink ribbon set behind the word “Angeles,” which of course means “angels.” See it for yourself in this Fair Use screen shot: http://naturalnews.com/images/LATim… If that’s not enough pinkwashing, the LA Ti ...
  • TISSUE, SKIN, BONE AND ORGAN HARVESTING AT ISRAEL’ ...
    Body Parts and Bio-Piracy By NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES Editorial Note: Nancy Scheper-Hughes is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the doctoral program in medicine and society. Since 1996, she has been involved in active field research on the global traf ...

Veterans Today

  • U.S. Marine Andrew Nguyen Encourages Other Marines ...
    WSI which is known for its non profit leadership is currently running a campaign, “Investing in America” which is aimed towards American veterans. The program offers the chance to purchase a WSI franchise at half the price. The campaign will run for a limited time.
  • USA Officially Joins the Corruption League
    Congratulations USA! Almost 10 years after 9/11, the business of fake terrorism, fraud, and corruption still flourishes and is showing no signs of slowing down in the good ole USA. In fact, it''s time to throw a corruption party!
  • PRESS CENSORSHIP ALERT: AUSTRALIA AND 9/11 (VIDEO)
    By Anthony Lawson — Veterans Today Aussie Trades Unionist Exposes 9/11 Cover-up Listen to an overbearing gatekeeper, Jon Faine, attempt to rubbish the genuine concerns of Australian Trades Union President, Kevin Bracken, in an attempt to stifle any debate about the many anomalies in the official 9/1 ...
  • U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contra ...
    No. 983-10 October 27, 2010  ——————————————– CONTRACTS NAVY                 Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding – Newport News, Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $67,145,839 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification (62793-07-C-0001) for continuation of fiscal 2011 advance planning eff ...
  • GORDON DUFF: DOMINATION BY INSECTS, THE REAL &#82 ...
    THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE HIVE By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor “The age of openness and freedom we were promised is a lie, we live in darkness, censorship, we live under dictatorship as pure as any Orwell could have imagined. The slaves of slaves tell other slaves they aren’t slaves.  We ha ...

electric politics

  • Óχi Euro
    Until fairly recently the Greek debt crisis wasn't so much in the news. Now, it's roiling markets and a lot of commentators are wringing their hands over the possibility that it could precipitate another world-wide financial crash. That's probably a baseless fear. Greece is mainly a Eurozone proble ...
  • Folk History
    To talk culture I turned to the award winning writer Luc Sante . Because Luc is Belgian, and therefore doubly an expert, I seized this opportunity to also talk about Tin-Tin comics, which I grew up on as a kid in the Belgian Congo and in Brussels. Among other topics we cover Luc's latest book, Folk ...
  • The F-35 Boondoggle
    A trillion dollar gold-plated warplane that can't do anything very well. But it looks slick. Brilliant! I'll have a dozen, please. If Mr. Obama and Mr. Gates were serious about containing Pentagon costs they'd cancel the F-35. If Congress were serious about budget deficits they'd stop funding it. I ...
  • A Political Marathoner
    If he'd won the presidency in 1988, today the U.S. would be a very different place. But Governor Michael S. Dukakis was too nice, too decent a guy, to grind George H. W. Bush into the dirt. And instead of cashing in after leaving politics, like most of them do, he's become an academic. More power t ...
  • Alaska's Libertarian Environmentalist
    Those in the Gulf region affected by BP's undersea gusher surely can learn something from Alaska's 1989 experience with the Exxon Valdez. So I turned to Charles Wohlforth , who reported on the Exxon Valdez for the Anchorage Daily News (Alaska's largest circulation newspaper), and who has subsequent ...

To Do

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Research and Markets: Asia Pacific Renewable Energy Policy Handbook 2010
SunHerald.com
- Oct 28, 2010
- 1 hour ago
Asia Pacific Renewable Energy Policy Handbook 2010 provides an in-depth analysis of the renewable policy initiatives in Asia-Pacific and the key countries ...
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Enel Cuts Price of Renewables IPO After Buyers Balk
Bloomberg
- Oct 28, 2010
- 37 minutes ago
Enel SpA cut the valuation of the renewable energy unit it's selling in an initial public offering to 8 billion euros ($11.1 billion) after money managers ...
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Honeywell's Envergent Technologies Selected by High North BioResources for ...
PR Newswire (press release)
- Oct 28, 2010
- 56 minutes ago
The High North facility, to be built in Alberta, Canada, will be the world's largest fast pyrolysis plant for renewable heat and power generation and is ...
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ABB profits drop but renewables fill order books
AFP
- Oct 28, 2010
- 6 hours ago
"Still, we see plenty of opportunities for growth, especially in areas like renewable energy and industrial efficiency, and in the fast-growing emerging ...
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Human Habitat

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State investigating oil spill at Fishermen's Terminal
Seattle Times
- Oct 27, 2010
- 17 hours ago
The Department of Ecology and the US Coast Guard are investigating a small oil spill Wednesday afternoon at Fishermen's Terminal. By Seattle Times staff The ...
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Dot Earth: World Bank Pushes to Include Ecology in Accounting
New York Times
- Oct 28, 2010
- 2 hours ago
By ANDREW C. REVKIN This is certainly a novel, and hopeful, development. At the 10th conference of parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, ...
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Fire crews control stubborn tire fire
MyNorthwest.com
- Oct 28, 2010
- 52 minutes ago
The cause of the fire hasn't been identified, but the Department of Ecology says there was no water contaminated due to the fire.
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US Ecology CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results €“ Earnings Call Transcript
TheStreet.com
- Oct 27, 2010
- 16 hours ago
By Seeking Alpha 10/26/10 - 04:20 PM EDT Good day ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Third Quarter 2010 US Ecology Earnings Conference Call. ...
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Water Power

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Friend: Crippen Race Water Much Hotter than Norm
CBS News
- Oct 28, 2010
- 11 minutes ago
(CBS) (CBS) The US swim team is still reeling from the sudden death of Fran Crippen, a world championship Bronze Medalist, during a grueling open-water race ...
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Suit over water study ends amicably
Mercury-Register
- Oct 28, 2010
- 7 hours ago
Butte County received a grant from the Department of Water Resources under Proposition 50 for a three-year study using monitoring wells, stream gauges and ...
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Green Energy Management Acquires Exclusive Rights to Proprietary Water Valve ...
MarketWatch (press release)
- Oct 28, 2010
- 2 hours ago
The valve lowers water and sewage costs by reducing the amount of air that flows through water pipes. Typically, pipes carrying water into residential, ...
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United Water's Edward J. Imparato Wins 2010 NJBIZ CFO of the Year Award
Business Wire (press release)
- Oct 28, 2010
- 1 hour ago
“I congratulate him in receiving this award for talent, leadership and dedication within our organization and within the water industry. ...
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