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Thomas Paine

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

Thursday, December 23, 2010

23 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt 1

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IPS - Inter Press Services

  • POLITICS: Human Suffering Escalates in Ivory Coast
    For three days 25-year-old, Ousmane Traoré attended the private clinic in the populous district of Abobo, north of Abidjan. Suffering from gunshot wounds to the head and abdomen as a result of the Ivorian opposition demonstrations, he was forced to leave the main hospital in Treichvill ...
  • RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Life Sentence for Videla Culmina ...
    The life sentence handed down to former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla Wednesday was the culmination of a year marked by faster progress in trials of members of the armed forces accused of human rights violations committed during the country's 1976-1983 military regime.
  • Obama Scores Win with New START Ratification
    U.S. President Barack Obama scored key wins Wednesday in both foreign policy and domestic politics Wednesday as more than the required two-thirds of the Senate - including 13 Republicans who defied their party's leadership - voted to ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New STAR ...
  • Peace Must Be "Afghan-led and Afghan-owned", Diplo ...
    The U.S. move to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan may be seen in Washington as the only effective and viable strategy to stabilise the country, but not everyone in the diplomatic community here at U.N. headquarters agrees.
  • Legal Shortcuts Trap the Peruvian Anchovy
    Exports of fishmeal made from Peruvian anchoveta, or anchovy (Engraulis ringens), is so lucrative that fishers have sought -- and found -- legal shortcuts to obtain permits that would have been impossible through formal channels. This practice is exhausting even the contingency stock that the gove ...

Scoop - NZ

  • Woman prefer tradesmen over princes and millionair ...
    Australian women would much rather marry a tradie than a prince, a new survey by The Australian Women's Weekly has found. The survey of 1000 women found that Australian ladies also say they would take a tradesman over a millionaire, an actor or sportsman. Editor-in-chief Helen McCabe told Austra ...
  • Cliche of the Week from Chris Pash - journalist, c ...
    Life is a restless revolving door as we endlessly swap or discard our business leaders, sports stars and entertainers (Main article is here: http://bit.ly/hHpLGd)
  • NZRFU clears Andrew Hore to fight in Taranaki pub
    All Black hooker Andrew Hore has been given permission by the NZRFU to participate in one or more fights in or around his local hotel The Drencher’s Arms over the Christmas / New Year period. Hore, who has a record of 23 and 18 in bouts where security staff did not intervene, told reporters he was “ ...
  • ECB prepares for Spanish financial crisis
    The ECB said it would raise its subscribed capital by €5bn (£4.2bn) to €10.76bn, the first increase since the launch of the monetary union. "Basically they are insuring themselves in case they have to step up bond purchases, and that probably implies Spain," said Julian Callow from Barclays Capit ...
  • Afghanistan in review
    With the release of President Barack Obama's review of his administration's Afghanistan strategy review, the editors of AfPak Channel asked our own contributing experts to weigh in on the state of the war in Afghanistan. Below is a brief "review," ..

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  • California flooded after record rainfall
    A huge storm system dumped record amounts of rain on southern California and prompted concern the poor weather could spread across the US.
  • Nigeria drops Halliburton bribery charges
    Nigeria has has dropped charges against Dick Cheney, the former US vice-president, over bribery allegations involving the energy giant Halliburton after an out-of-court settlement was agreed.
  • Obama gets his way on gay troops and nuclear treat ...
    Barack Obama had double cause for cheer as he celebrated a burst of accomplishment which included the Senate ratification of a nuclear-arms treaty with Russia and congressional repeal of the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
  • Tensions mount on Gaza border after increase in ro ...
    Israel has appealed to the United Nations to send a strong message condemning an upsurge in rockets fired from Gaza, as tensions increase along its border with the Palestinian enclave.
  • Your country needs you, Obama tells gay troops
    As someone in the audience yelled "Thank you, Mr President!" Barack Obama yesterday put his signature to a new law to sweep aside all restrictions on gays and lesbians serving in the US military. Looking up briefly from a desk at the auditorium of the Interior Department, he beamed and said: "I cou ...

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Innovation Canada

  • Celebrating Arctic research
    When you turn 50, there’s a tendency to sit back and celebrate your accomplishments. But some 50-year-olds prefer to be bold and try new things. Such is the case for the University of Alberta’s Canadian Circumpolar Institute (CCI). Between building university-degree programs in the North and finding ...
  • The bright side of E. coli
    Mention the Escherichia coli bacterium, or E. coli, and many people immediately get anxious. After all, certain strains of E. coli, typically ingested through undercooked ground beef, have been associated with cases of severe diarrhea, kidney failure and even death. But a group of undergraduate stud ...
  • Getting to the root of HIV
    Daily, neurologist Chris Power at the University of Alberta in Edmonton boards an elevator in the lobby of the Heritage Medical Research Centre, gets off on the sixth floor and strolls down the corridor to a nondescript, but world-class, level-three-security biosafety laboratory (BSL-3). No one is g ...
  • When good stress turns bad
    Everyone experiences stress, whether it’s dealing with day-to-day annoyances, such as traffic jams or machines that just won’t work, or with truly life-altering events, such as the death of a loved one, a divorce or the loss of a job. Whatever the trigger, the initial response by the body and the br ...
  • Blowin’ in the wind

Signs of the times

  • A Holiday Message From Ricky Gervais: Why I'm an A ...
    Why don't you believe in God? I get that question all the time. I always try to give a sensitive, reasoned answer. This is usually awkward, time consuming and pointless. People who believe in God don't need proof of his existence, and they certainly don't want evidence to the contrary. They are happ ...
  • The Ghost Towns of China: Satellite Images Show Ci ...
    These amazing satellite images show sprawling cities built in remote parts of China that have been left completely abandoned, sometimes years after their construction. Elaborate public buildings and open spaces are completely unused, with the exception of a few government vehicles near communist au ...
  • Vatican Christmas Shocker! Pope says child rape is ...
    Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict's claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn't considered an "absolute evil" as recently as the 1970s. In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that chil ...
  • China Bars English Words in All Publications
    Chinese newspapers, books and websites will no longer be allowed to use English words and phrases, the country's publishing body has announced, saying the "purity" of the Chinese language is in peril. The General Administration of Press and Publication, which announced the new rule on Monday, said ...
  • Top Palin aide is on Soros' payroll
    Revealed: the surprisingly close link between the liberal billionaire and the Republican superstar Glenn Beck spent the past week denouncing the liberal billionaire and philanthropist George Soros as a "puppet master" who is orchestrating a coup "to bring America to her knees." Given Soros' allege ...

The Galloping Beaver

  • A question for Gary Lunn ...
    Just exactly to what type of professionals would you suggest we entrust vast expanses of an unspoiled British Columbia central coast? Decisions on the safety of supertankers transporting oil through B.C.'s northern waterways should be left to professionals instead of politicians muddying the wa ...
  • Harrods fires Santa Claus ...
    Santa Claus retaliates. The fashionable and famous London department store didn't like the behaviour of one of the employees dressed as Father Christmas in the toy department. So, he was sacked. He didn't take it well.
  • another headdesk moment
    I know it is only Wednesday, but this is going to be tough to beat for the stupidest thing I'm going to hear all week. "The armies of other nations...could allow homosexuals to serve in their military because we didn't allow them to serve in ours...We will no longer able to bail out these other ema ...
  • A visit from the Ghost of Christmas Present
    “Since there will never cease to be some in need on the earth, I therefore command you, "Open your hand to the poor and needy neighbour in your land. (Deut. 15:11).” I'm taking a lot of pictures for the newspaper this month this month of people donating to the local food bank, which is called on to ...
  • HIV progress . . .
    NAM AIDSMAP is a site that proclaims its goal to be: "NAM works to change lives by sharing information about HIV and AIDS. We believe independent, clear and accurate information is vital in the fight against HIV and AIDS"Anyway, they have a report that seems too good to be true: in Germany, a patien ...

Media Matters for America

  • Fox Distorts The Facts To Attack Cape Ha ...
    On�Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade falsely suggested that�if environmentalists have their way, North Carolina's Cape Hatteras "could be just left to the birds, or maybe some turtles." In fact, environmental groups do not seek to have all Cape Hatteras beaches closed, and regulations in place ...
  • With Friends Like These: Fox & Fr ...
    The past year found Fox & Friends solidifying its position as part of the campaign arm of the Republican Party through a barrage of attacks on President Obama, Islam, immigrants, health care, climate change, and by relentlessly campaigning for the GOP leading up to the midterm elections. Me ...
  • Sarah Palin: Winner Of The 2010 Glenn Beck Misinfo ...
    In selecting the 2010 winner of the Glenn Beck Honorary Award for Excellence in Misinformation, Media Matters weighed the vigor and meticulous detail the 2009 recipient, Glenn Beck, brought to the craft. Beck's dedication to fabricating facts to smear those he disagrees with is so complete, we at ...
  • Fox Still Reporting Myth That Census Director Repo ...
    Reviving a nearly two-year-old GOP falsehood, Fox News' White House correspondent Wendell Goler falsely reported that under the Obama administration, "the Census director report[ed] to former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel instead of the Commerce Secretary." In fact, the administration mad ...
  • Off The Rails: The Year In Fox News Misinformation
    As the year comes to a close, Media Matters offers a month-by-month look back at Fox News' most outrageous and factually challenged moments of 2010.January Hume Counsels Tiger Woods To Ditch Buddhism To "Make A Total Recovery."�On the January 3 edition of�Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume�commented�on ...

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TPM Cafe

  • Barbour, the Citizens' Councils, and the GOP
    Every few years it seems the public is treated to an unguarded moment by a southern Republican of a certain age expressing admiration for his political forebears. The latest is Mississippi governor Haley Barbour's celebration of the Citizens' Councils as a bulwark against racial violence during sou ...
  • Anti-Semitism, Islamo-Hatred & Glenn Beck
    Has anyone noticed that right-wingers are really exercised about anti-Semitism these days except when it emanates from right-wingers? This week in Forbes, Abigail R. Esman pens an utterly over-the-top column called "World To Jews: Drop Dead." Dead! She claims that, even here in the Un ...
  • An Iranian human right lawyer facing death
    The courageous Teheran lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is in solitary confinement and on hunger strike. It would be nice if Hugo Chavez, Lula, or other friends of the Islamic Republic of Iran took up her cause. Paging Sean Penn.
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  • New START Reflections, And Some Kudos
    The issues of nuclear weapons and arms control are basically where I got my start (sorry) in foreign policy. My formative experiences as an advocate were in the early-80s nuclear freeze movement. The core argument was pretty straightforward: there was no valid military or security rationale for havi ...

TruthOut

  • Cherish - and Work to Protect - Our Rights
    Bill of Rights Day was December 15, a time to reflect on constitutional freedoms. And as we enter the tenth year since 9/11, it's hard to be optimistic about the state of civil liberties and human rights in the United States.read more
  • Senate Passes Reduced-Cost, 9/11 Health Care Bill
    The Senate passed a bill today covering the cost of medical care of 9/11 first responders, who are now suffering from long-term or crippling illnesses after inhaling toxic fumes and smoke during their rescue work at ground zero.read more
  • News in Brief: President Obama Signs Repeal of "Do ...
    President Obama Signs Repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Into Lawread more
  • Historic START Treaty Wins Overwhelming Senate Vot ...
    Washington - The Senate Wednesday voted 71-26 to approve a historic U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty that mandates new reductions in both nations’ deployed strategic nuclear weapons. Thirteen Republicans joined 56 Democrats and two independents in giving an overwhelming bipartisan endorsement of the ...
  • Coburn: "We Don’t Have" The "Extra" Money Needed F ...
    The New York Daily News is reporting that, after a marathon negotiating session late last night and continuing into this morning, Senate Democrats have struck a deal to pass the 9/11 first responders bill with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), who has been blocking the bill because of its cost. Coburn, along ...

Planetsave

  • NASA Views Changing Seasons
    NASA is behind a lot of the satellites running around in orbit around our little blue planet, and in a new slideshow of images they showcase the change of seasons, as seen, from space. The full slideshow can be seen as an interactive scroll here or all in one page here. Vegetation Patterns Around La ...
  • Shark Finning Banned in U.S.
    We’ve got some good news this week regarding sharks. The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives just passed the Shark Conservation Act (apt timing considering our last 10 Friday Photos post was on sharks… and the fact that the lame duck session is drawing to a close soon in Congress). The Act w ...
  • World’s First Biodegradable Water Bottle?
    74% of recyclable water bottles end up clogging landfills, polluting the oceans, or littering our natural environments. Well, from what I’ve heard, one company is unveiling the world’s first biodegradable and recyclable water bottle in January to help address this issue. Canada-based redleaf Water w ...
  • Recycling PET Plastic [Game]
    On America Recycles Day (Nov. 15), green rewards program RecycleBank pledged to educate consumers about recycling right. Now, RecycleBank is using its “Learn & Earn” digital platform to educate consumers on recycling polyethylene terephthalate (or PET) bottles. Don’t get offended if you are a super ...
  • “DEEP GREEN: Solutions to Stop Global Warming Now” ...
    I haven’t seen this film yet, but the Los Angeles Times has called Deep Green âa templateâ for getting off fossil fuels and the Oregonian praises the film for âoffering hope instead of despair.â Sounds good. Here’s more on the film, a direct copy of an email I received from Lyla Foggia (looks like ...

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Axis of Logic

  • Bitter Memories of War on the Way to Jail - Antiwa ...
    The speeches were over. There was a mournful harmonica rendition of taps. The 500 protesters in Lafayette Park in front of the White House fell silent. One hundred and thirty-one men and women, many of them military veterans wearing old fatigues, formed a single, silent line. Under a heavy s ...
  • US complicit in India’s systematic use of torture ...
    21 December 2010 US diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks show that Washington has long had evidence of Indian authorities’ systematic use of torture against opponents of Indian rule over Jammu and Kashmir, but has chosen not to speak out against New Delhi’s gross human rights violations. ...
  • Julian Assange and the defense of democratic right ...
    21 December 2010 Over the past several months, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been the target of a state-orchestrated campaign based on trumped-up allegations of sexual misconduct. He was named in an international arrest warrant, detained in a London prison, initially denied bail and held ...
  • Medieval helpdesk - Science & Technology
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  • Private Links in Lawmaker’s Trip Abroad - United S ...
    WASHINGTON — When Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California, visited Honduras early this year to congratulate the newly elected president, the congressman showed up with an unusual delegation. There at his side was not just the typical collection of Washington foreign policy aide ...

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    A great achievement, but the repug faux opposition was all kabuki. "The US president has welcomed the US Senate's ratification of a much-delayed nuclear arms treaty with Russia. Barack Obama said the agreement, which will pave the way for new cuts in American and Russian nuclear arsenals, was the mo ...
  • DINO Chandler Exposes Himself to Students
    At Berea College, no less: Berea, which for more than 150 years has set the standard for personal integrity and strong character in Kentucky. Berea, where the students know a soulless hypocrite when it condescends to them. David M.F. Shankula catches ol' Wire Hanger and nails him: Ben Chandler (R-KY ...
  • You're a mean one, Mr. Mitch
    Today's daily reminder that the GOP sucks is brought to you by Mitch McConnell, Republican Senator from Kentucky. In case it hasn't been made blatantly obvious before, here's another slap of the cold reality that the GOP has spiraled down at an alarming rate to become the USDB (U.S. Douchebag Brigad ...
  • Saving Social Security
    Dean Baker_FDL First let me say this: �It is not my intent in this post to denigrate Mr. Obama's performance as a negotiator... in spite of the first sentence in the quote below. �I have my opinions in that regard and have stated them often enough. �Nor is my intention to beat the dead horse of tax ...
  • Remember who you're mad at
    So here we are, standing at the corner of "Constitutional" and "Crisis" in a bone-chilling rain with the President and his legal team preparing an Executive Order that will fix the rules for indeffinite detention of certain terrorism suspects currently being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President O ...

Care 2

  • Save America's Bats: Implement USFWS's WNS Nationa ...
    Please urge the US Fish and Wildlife Service to expedite the implementation of the plan and to ensure all agencies provide adequate funding and staffing to execute the plan before it is too late Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Urge Jimmy Choo to Ditch Exotic Skins ! PLEASE TAK ...
    Undercover footage obtained by Swiss TV station Schweizer Fernsehen shows snakes as they are skinned alive and crocodiles, alligators, and other reptiles as they are bludgeoned to death with hammers before their mutilated bodies are thrown onto a bloodySubmitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! ...
  • Stop top stores fuelling the Fur Trade ! PLEASE TA ...
    There is a misconception that the animals on fur farms, also called fur ranches, are treated humanely. Unfortunately, there is nothing humane about depriving animals of their behavioral and physiological needs. Fur farming is nothing more than Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Saving America's Mustangs' 2011 Rose Parade float
    In just 10 short days, our Saving America's Mustangs' 2011 Rose Parade float will officially be revealed to over 54 million viewers!!! We were in Pasadena, CA last week getting a sneak peek at our float that is nearly completed and WOW!! Submitted by Penelope Ryan to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add ...
  • Urge the Namibia SPCA to support the Cape Fur Seal ...
    I am shocked and saddened to learn of the lack of protection for the Cape Fur Seal from the Namibian SPCA. Tens of thousands nursing baby seal pups are slaughtered every year Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Smirking Chimp

Paul Krugman

No Quarter

  • Assange’s One-Way Open Thread
    A couple days ago, I laughed my way through “Julian Assange is A Black Pot,” Larry Johnson’s assessment of WikiLeaks principal Julian Assange’s rigid standards when it comes his own privacy. Today, I spotted this Salon.com commentary on the Black Pot, “Yes, Julian Assange actually is a criminal.” Th ...
  • Changing the world, one site at a time…
    HAPPY HOLIDAYS, CHILD BRIDES! THE GOP SAYS NO PROTECTION FOR YOU Well, well, well, isn’t that sweet. I was researching a story I saw in Roll Call titled “Women Saying ‘No’ to Palin.” What? Exactly my reaction. On what planet? Here’s the blurb in Roll Call: Women Saying ‘No’ to Palin? By Christina Be ...
  • Time and place of the Kimster’s choosing
    � The face-off on the Korean peninsula will continue because it is the best way the Kims have to shake down the US and South Korea for cash. Spoke with Gordon Chang and Bruce Bechtol, Sunday 19, and we watched with disgust the usual script play out. Bill Richardson of New Mexico in the Jimmy [...]
  • Who will win the 2012 presidency? The definitive a ...
    * Bumped Up * Editor’s Note: We welcome SeattleGonz’s first post at NoQuarterUSA.net. Tomorrow, look for her next post. ——————————— Palin will win. No, I mean Hillary will be the next president. Uh, no, Obama has it locked up. Well, I should say, Obama will win unless heâs running against Romney. Ro ...
  • Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest? The Obama Security Team
    If it shocks Diane Sawyer then it must be beyond the pale. So news broke yesterday that 12 muslims in Britain were detained on suspicion of terrorism. The details of what they were planning or doing are still not in the public domain (apparently, folks in British law enforcement don’t have Julian As ...

Environmental Graffiti

  • How Safe Is Our Drinking Water?
    Before a comparison of bottled vs tap water is made, it might be helpful to check the local tap water quality. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • 7 Amazing Discoveries from Kew's Royal Botanic Gar ...
    In keeeping with 2010 being celebrated as the International Year of Biodiversity, scientists and botanists at RBG, Kew made some great discoveries this year. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article ...
  • The Ugly Truth About Fish Supplements
    Something is fishy about the most popular food supplement. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • The Rust-Eating Bacteria Consuming the Titanic
    The Titanic shipwreck continues to capture public’s interest even after 98 years. New research reveals interesting facts about metal-eating bacteria. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
  • Is Santa Claus Canadian?
    Even though Santa is considered a universal entity, read how he got his Canadian citizenship... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

  • Resolving the Face-Off in Korea
    The United States can play an important role in dialing back tensions in the disputed waters between North and South Korea, writes columnist Christine Ahn.
  • Cultures of War
    There's a striking similarity between Japan's reckless decision to attack the United States and George W. Bush's disastrous decision to invade Iraq.
  • 60-Second Expert: Kashmir
    Washington needs to address this pivotal region of the world.
  • "Scam Fatigue" May Save Singh's Hide
    The 2G spectrum scandal has shaken India.
  • The Baby Trade
    Here's a solution to climate change: countries with the smallest carbon footprints should adopt U.S. babies.

Global Elite

Al Jazeera

Green Inc. - NYT

Dot Earth News

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

  • Metrodome collapse new video closeups panels rippi ...
    Is it Metrodome or Metropolis? No one was injured fortunately. New video closeups from the surveillance cameras posted - its a pretty clear sign of collapse eh? Part 1: Part 2 The damage could block DNC 2012, sure to cheer opponents of the convention. In a satirical press release Nature took credi ...
  • A New Week of Link Dump: Gnosis Whacks Gawker; Fed ...
    Before Wikileaks there wuz Hyperlinks: Lots of em. Let's lead off with the best thing in America: Prisoners Strike in Georgia - NYTimes.com. GO CHAMPS! Day 3 of Historic Prison Strike in Georgia-Blacked out By Media-Guards committing Violence Anyone can have a Tumbr hit! kim jong-il looking at thing ...
  • CIA Aircraft Shell Companies; FAA notices 119,000 ...
    via Evergreen B747 Supertanker�� : The World�s Fastest, Largest Aerial Firefighting And Multi-Use Application Vehicle Going back to 2005:C.I.A. Expanding Terror Battle Under Guise of Charter Flights - New York Times While posing as a private charter outfit - "aircraft rental wi ...
  • New Hong Videos! Including Today's Blizzard People ...
    Adventures today in the Minneapolis blizzard including snowshoes! I posted an uncut snippet I shot at the Pittsburgh G20 with some nice interviews as riot police from Palm Beach County mass up for crackdowns, gassing and overall uselessness. Part of this was used in 'Democracy 101'. Just a few ...
  • Mort Zuckerman, Charter Member of Generation of Sw ...
    I've noticed that the shadiest old men of the Establishment frequently make political arguments that boil down to 'GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DAMN KIDS'. For example, the corrupt paleo-reaganite federal judge in Minnesota who tossed the Shepard Road RNC lawsuit said he didn't care about illegal government ...

Daily Censored

  • Education, a new perspective
    Perspective is an interesting concept.  Where is the viewer relative to the vanishing point?  Move one or the other and the image changes dramatically.  I was moved this a.m.  I was moved by a feature piece about new technology and how it is affecting the third world. E-Readers were introduced to ch ...
  • Why we write: End unlawful US wars; demand justice ...
    source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Independent writers explain, document, and prove what all humanity will soon recognize as “emperor has no clothes” facts: US wars are Orwellian unlawful. The following are objective facts and independently verifiable. Indeed, the facts are uncontested and therefore ...
  • CENSORED IN 1981: THE GREAT AMERICAN MASS TRANSIT ...
    CENSORED IN 1981: LEARNING FROM THE PAST: THE GREAT MASS TRANSIT CONSPIRACY Our national dependency on the automobile has contributed to air pollution, the national trade imbalance, inflation, the deaths of 50,000 Americans annually, disabling injuries to millions more, and billions of dollars annua ...
  • The Hornet’s Nest Kicked Back – A Review of Susan ...
    Michael Collins Fiction delivers justice that reality rarely approaches. Victims endure suffering and emerge as victors after overcoming incredible challenges. Stieg Larsson’s gripping Millennium Trilogy weaves a story of revenge and triumphs for Lizbeth Salander, locked away in a mental institution ...
  • Decline and Fall … (Maybe) Dec 20
    We’re on our own. It’s official. The House of Representatives completed what the Senate began (which seems like the wrong way around). The giveaway to millionaires, also known as the Obama-Republican tax bill, is now law. The grand total is now $900 billion in tax cuts, a large sum of which comes fr ...

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Equality Trust

  • Why we need a Fairness Test of the cuts
    A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details...
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  • VAT rise would hit the poorest
    Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
  • Excessive pay and bonuses in public sector under s ...
    Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector. But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?

PDA AMERICA

  • Raising Hell for healthcare
    Get this book and raise some hell for Medicare for All! There’s only one force powerful enough to get us the change we want and voted for in 2008: populism. The sad fact is we can ...
  • ANOTHER VIEW: Where have America’s middle-cl ...
    By Tracy Emblem – For the North County Times American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter, according to a Commerce Department report. These profits are the ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 11/30/10 – 12/10/10
    Tip: Make sure to let your teams know that they can see what Issue Organizing Team’s they belong to or join new ones by clicking on the “Update your Profile” link at the bottom of ...
  • Support PDA with Your Holiday Shopping!
    Support PDA with Your Holiday Shopping! PDA’ers, Do you know that wearing a hat can help you reduce your carbon footprint? People lose heat through the exposed parts of the body, so wearing a soft knit skull-cap ...
  • Video: RNN – Will Progressive Democrats in ...
    Donna Smith: Social Security benefits are under attack and concern is whether the “man in the White House” will fight back More at The Real News

Marler Blog

  • More Bad News for Raw Milk Cheese Makers - FDA Ins ...
    OBSERVATION 1 - Employees did not wash and sanitize hands thoroughly in an adequate hand-washing facility after each absence from the work station and at any time their hands may have become soiled or contaminated. Specifically, the owner was observed throughout the day, to alternately perform chee ...
  • Raw Milk Poster Boy, Hartmann, Ordered to Destroy ...
    In the Order, the Court also found that Hartmann was the source of the E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks that sickened eight, hospitalizing four - one with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome. The real question is when are raw milk producers and supporters going to police their own?� The order is a shock for those ...
  • Food Safety Bill Passes 215 in favor, 144 against ...
    It has been a very long process.� It now goes to the President to sign.� Here was me in Spring 2008 making my pitch before the Committee that the bill eventually came from:
  • Terrorists Seek to Poison Food at U.S. Restaurants ...
    So, says the headline this morning. Apparently, the U.S. Homeland Security Department this year identified a terrorist plan to contaminate salad bars and buffets at restaurants and hotels with lethal materials. The strikes involving ricin and cyanide would have occurred during one weekend at a sig ...
  • Thanks to Marler Clark Clients Who Lobbied and Tes ...
    Listed here are victims of foodborne illness who have traveled to Washington, D.C to testify or lobby for food safety: Jeff Almer (MN) – Jeff testified in 2009 to The House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. His mother, Shirley died in 2008 from complicat ...

AutoblogGreen

  • AutoblogGreen for 12.23.10
    Michigan activists turn Chevy Volt into a political issue Governor-elect Rick Snyder, welcome to Lansing. Hyundai to debut i40 Blue Drive at Geneva Motor Show Automaker shooting for prime pe ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.22.10
    Moto Mundo's Nissan Qashqai Electric travels around the world to visit Detroit Auto Show Next time, it might be with methanol fuel cells. Avera Motors reveals specs for high-efficiency prototype ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.21.10
    Tesla catches Christmas spirit, gives away hundreds of Roadsters It's not what you think. West Virgina McDonald's to feature 2 plug-in charging stations Fill up while you fill up. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.20.10
    Fox News attacks first Nissan Leaf owner, engages in a lot of hate Yikes. Report: Cadillac working on plug-in hybird version of SRX Wonder if it real, or if we'll ever see it. ...
  • AutoblogGreen for 12.17.10
    A visit to Think City's electric car U.S. production plant in Eklhard, Indiana Who's ready for an EV madeo. in the U.S.? First Nissan Leaf owner sums up his drive time Choice quote: "Yesterd ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

  • President Obama’s Christmas Gift to AT&T (and Comc ...
    One of President Barack Obama’s signature campaign promises was to protect the freedom of the Internet. He said, in November 2007, “I will take a back seat to no one in my commitment to network neutrality, because once providers start to privilege some applications or websites over others, then the ...
  • Part II...Feminists Debate on the Sexual Allegatio ...
    As more details emerge about the sex crimes allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, we host a debate between two feminists: Jaclyn Friedman argues the sexual-assault allegations shouldn’t be dismissed just because they’re politically motivated while Naomi Wolf says, by going after As ...
  • Meet our 100,000th Facebook Fan: Barunesh Chandra
    Barunesh Chandra says it was through his interest in the Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy that led him to Democracy Now!, after finding the interview Amy Goodman conducted with Roy on the conflict in Kashmir several months ago on the Internet. âI am a big fan of Arundhati ⦠I fi ...
  • ‘Assangination’: From Character Assassination to t ...
    Despite being granted bail, WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange remains imprisoned in London, awaiting extradition proceedings to answer a prosecutor’s questions in Sweden. He hasn’t been formally charged with any crime. His lawyers have heard that a grand jury in the United States has been ...
  • Video: UN Guards Beat Reuters Photographer At Canc ...
    Democracy Now! videotaped UN security guards Friday beating a Reuters photographer who was arrested while covering a protest at the UN climate conference in Cancun. Guards seized Jorge Silva’s press credentials and then beat him while he was detained on a bus. The incident sparked a pro ...

Digg Green

  • Alien with size 440 Shoe among New UFO Sighti ...
    A giant alien with size 440 shoes is among extraterrestrial beings encountered over the past 60 years, according to previously secret documents made public by the New Zealand Defence Force on Wednesday.
  • 'Singing Mouse' Made With Genetic Modificatio ...
    The tweeting mouse, created by triggering mutations, could help shed light on how language evolved.
  • Teen birthrate hits record low
    Teen birth rate falls to record low as the overall rate at which U.S. women are having babies continued to fall, according to new federal report.
  • Scientists find evidence for 'chronesthesia,' ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to remember the past and imagine the future can significantly affect a person's decisions in life. Scientists refer to the brains ability to think about the past, present, and future as 'chronesthesia,' or mental time travel, although little is known about which par ...
  • Biosphere 2: One of the most lauded experimen ...
    the media and the science establishment seized upon the ways in which the project had failed. Chief among these was an inability of Biosphere 2’s atmosphere to sustain human life. As was true outside, the problem was signaled by rising carbon dioxide. By 1996 Biosphere 2 had passed into the han ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • What’s any of This got to do with That?
    By Les Visible Well, maybe it’s time for a general mea culpa of sorts along with various bits of evidence that might help in the general understanding. Some people want to know ‘when things are going to happen’. I suggest you look around and you will see that things are happening. It can take a [... ...
  • Fluoride in Water Linked to Lower IQ in Children
    Is this the end of water fluoridation? NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Exposure to fluoride may lower children’s intelligence says a study pre-published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (online December 1 ...
  • Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
    This is just a reminder, lest we forget, of what passes as science from the CRU.  It is actually funny in light of what is happening in the UK and Europe today… By Charles Onians Monday, 20 March 2000 Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow i ...
  • Wintry weather brings snow to Australia in midsumm ...
    By Bonnie Malkin, Sydney 11:24AM GMT 20 Dec 2010 Freezing winds from Antarctica, blown up to Australia by a low-pressure system in the Southern Ocean, gave the country a taste of the conditions that are causing havoc across Europe. Some 11 inches of snow fell at the ski fields in New South Wales, ra ...
  • Feds order farmer to destroy his own wheat crops: ...
    By Mike Adams In arguing for S.510, the “Food Safety Modernization Act,” there are all sorts of attorneys, legislators and internet commentators who keep claiming, “The government won’t try to control the food production of small farms.” They say, “Your backyard garden is safe” and that the feds won ...

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

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Twilight Earth

  • Monsanto Claus: A RoundUp-Resistant Christmas
    (To the tune of “The 12 Days of Christmas”) On the worst day of Christmas Monsanto Claus gave to me, six bucks per acre and toxic herbicides from some other company… Last year’s Monsanto Claus cartoon–“Monsanto Claus: Ho Ho Oh No!” …and the rest of my Monsanto-related cartoons. Follow on Twitter @Gr ...
  • WTF?! EPA Says RIP to Bee’s.
    EPA knowingly OK’s Bayer’s bee-killing pesticide. Related Links: The full Grist article whose text is in the cartoon. Wik-Bee Leaks: EPA Document Shows It Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees The Bayer Kills Bees! website. (They also kill democracy!) Yep, that’s Bee from the environment ...
  • Bears Protest to Save Nude Supermodels
    EARTH has PETA’s back. Keeley Hazell: Donât Wear Fur (PETA, NSFW) Naked protest against fur coats in Barcelona PETA Celebrates National Topless Day …Speaking of nudity, my last nude (sasquatch) cartoon Visit the rest of Joe’s environmental cartoons on JoeMohrToons.com. And follow him on Twitte ...
  • Climate Change Conference, Cancun Style! (cartoon)
    Will Cancun be more productive than Copenhagen? The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change takes place in Cancun until December, 10. I imagine a lot of productive days discussing much needed change… Not! (I am bringing back “Not!”–who’s with me?!) More on the UNFCCC Cancún Climat ...
  • Canned Spinach Killing Popeye! (cartoon)
    More on BPA… BPA Ban Blocked from Food Safety Bill Bisphenol A linked to diabetes, heart disease in humans BPA wikipedia site …and E. coli Long-Term Effects of E-Coli Food Poisoning Ground Beef: The Cartoon View all of Joeâs political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on T ...

Inhabitat

  • Dilapidated 18th Century Church Transformed Into a ...
    Sally Onions and Ian Bottomley purchased the dilapidated St. Nicholas Church (originally built in 1792) and turned it into a private residence. While renovation would have been a cheaper route, the couple opted instead for restoration, keeping key features like the high, vaulted ceilings, and origin ...
  • Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Last Minute Gi ...
    Christmas is only 3 days away – do you know where your presents are? If not, you might be scrambling to either A. get green gifts online (though they probably won’t arrive before the big day) or B. brave the mass pandemonium at your local mall (don’t forget to wear your riot gear). But wait! [...]
  • Brazilian Mopi School Has a Beautiful Branch Patte ...
    Read the rest of Brazilian Mopi School Has a Beautiful Branch Pattern Facadehttp://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: brazilian school, Eco Architecture ...
  • ENJOY Kitchen Utensils are Made of 90% Recycled PE ...
    These minimalistic Enjoy spatulas by London designer Sebastian Bergne just won the EPRO Best Recycled Product Award, and for good reason. Manufactured by Tefal, they’re made of 90% recycled PET and have been developed to use as little resin as possible. They’re also elegant and affordable and won a ...
  • Inhabitat Green Holiday Gift Guide: Eco-Friendly G ...
    If you’re on the hunt for the perfect green holiday gifts for all of the special ladies in your life, but have no idea where to begin, you’ve come to the right place. Whether you want to woo your wife, charm your mom, sweep your girlfriend off her feet or put a grin on granny’s [...]

Pogue's Posts

WIRED Magazine | Science

  • Early Reports From the ‘Dark Matter’ of the Genome
    A collection of new studies on the genomes of two model organisms has moved the frontiers of biology forward, and hints at methods that may someday make real the long-promised, as-yet-unfulfilled genomic revolution. Published in Nature and Science, the studies go far beyond the level of genes that ...
  • Video: Blue Eclipse on Mars
    Earth isn't the only planet graced with gorgeous eclipses. On Nov. 9, the Mars rover Opportunity watched the larger of Mars's two moons, Phobos, slip quietly in front of the sun.
  • Fossil Finger DNA Points to New Type of Human
    Continued study of an approximately 40,000 year old finger bone from Siberia has identified a previously unknown type of human — one that may have interbred with the ancestors of modern-day Melanesian people. The fossil scrap — just the tip of a juvenile female’s finger — was discovered in 2008 dur ...
  • 6 Strange Fossils That Enlightened Evolutionary Sc ...
    Critics of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution often cited the fossil record's lack of creatures “caught in the act” of evolution. And though fossils had been important to the development of Darwin’s evolutionary thoughts, these absences frustrated him.
  • Book Excerpt: The Dinosaur Fossils That Changed Ev ...
    Footprints and Feathers on the Sands of Time Humans have been finding the traces of extinct creatures for thousands of years. Unaware of their true identity, a variety of cultures have interpreted fossil footprints, shells and bones as the remnants of gods, heroes, saints and monsters. The cyclops, ...

PakAlert

  • Wake-Up Call: Top 11 Trends of 2011
    After the tumultuous years of the Great Recession, a battered people may wish that 2011 will bring a return to kinder, gentler times. But that is not what we are predicting. Instead, the fruits of government and institutional action ­ and inaction ­ on many fronts will ripen in unplanned-for fashio ...
  • Our World Leaders – A Masonic Picture Gallery
    The world will never make sense until you realize the 'powers that be' are all in on it together. If you're stuck in some right/left or us/them or good guy/bad guy paradigm you'll never get it. No, not everyone being used by the Illuminati are aware of it. Most at the lower levels of power think the ...
  • Are We Entering An Engineered Ice Age?
    "The western world's leading climatologists have confirmed reports of a detrimental global climatic change [cooling]. The stability of most nations is based upon a dependable source of food, but this stability will not be possible under the new climatic era. A forecast by the University of Wisconsin ...
  • Pakistan Warned United States and NATO, Test fires ...
    Pakistani military leaders are warning the United States to keep their troops on the Afghan side of the border, with officials cautioning that the long-standing anti-terror alliance between the two countries would be ended formally if the United States invades. On Same day, Pakistan successfully con ...
  • $2 Trillion Debt May Destroy more than 100 America ...
    Overdrawn American cities could face financial collapse in 2011, defaulting on hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowings and derailing the US economic recovery. Nor are European cities safe – Florence, Barcelona, Madrid, Venice: all are in trouble

Andy Worthington

  • Video: “Berkeley Says No to Torture” W ...
    Back in October, I traveled to the Bay Area for a fascinating week-long series of events, “Berkeley Says No to Torture” Week (covered in detail here), and I’m pleased to report that videos of one of the panel discussions that week, “Torture, Human Experimentation and the Department of Defense,” have ...
  • More Evidence of Medical Experimentation at Guantá ...
    In an investigative report for Truthout, my colleagues Jason Leopold and the psychologist and blogger Jeffrey Kaye have followed up on an important story they published three weeks ago, âControversial Drug Given to All Guantánamo Detainees Akin to ‘Pharmacologic Waterboarding’â (which I cross-poste ...
  • Guantánamo Prisoners Sacrificed in Political Horse ...
    How messed up is American politics? Well, here are a few clues. Two weeks ago, the House of Representatives passed a $1.1 trillion continuing resolution, which funds the government through to September 30 next year. As The Hill explained, the resolution was needed “because Congress failed to pass an ...
  • Lawyers for Ahmed Belbacha, Guantánamo Prisoner an ...
    In an attempt to bring to an end a nearly four-year deadlock in the case of Ahmed Belbacha, an Algerian prisoner in Guantánamo, lawyers at the London-based legal action charity Reprieve have “started high court proceedings to force the British government to disclose information that they say could ...
  • Is Bradley Manning Being Held as Some Sort of &#82 ...
    In disturbing reports from the US, it appears that Private First Class Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst accused of leaking the Afghan and Iraqi war logs, the US diplomatic cables and the “Collateral Damage” video, which have dominated headlines globally since WikiLeaks began making t ...

Environment _ National Geographic

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

  • Choosing a New Police Chief: No Local Ties, Please ...
    Do you want your town to look like The Dukes of Hazzard? Then again, maybe New Milford has been run by Boss Hogg and Roscoe P. Coltrane for a while. If that's not your idea of how a quaint New England town should be run, then help make sure the next police chief has no local ties - political or fa ...
  • WWWWWWWWW.boardofeducationobstruction.edu
    Click on the above link, and it will take you to an interesting place. A place where obstruction is the norm, bad lawyering is the standard, lack of preparedness is encouraged, and focusing on the main mission is discouraged. Sounds beautiful, doesn't it? Here's the real name of this magical cyber s ...
  • Party like it's Orwell's 1984
    This summer, I read George Orwell’s paranoid dystopia novel, 1984. I have no idea how I managed to graduate from high school, let along college, without reading it, but, there you go. (And, all literary genius aside, I’m so glad I wasn’t friends with Orwell. Somehow I doubt he was ever the life o ...
  • Landmark Ruling Last Week that YOU may not have he ...
    Zach Carter takes note of recent ruling in a case that shows pretty clearly how the banks, not just Wells Fargo BUT all banks, purposely rigged their overdraft system against you: Wells Fargo Overdraft Scam Makes Elizabeth Warren More Important Than EverA landmark court ruling on Wells Fargo's out ...
  • Throwing a Real Tea Party
    Funny or Die pretty much sums up what we are dealing with when we talk about the Tea Party: A slightly misogynist message (Probably a bit NSFW, too) to another aspect of the Tea Party that we have to deal with below... Passed around on Facebook... Composer By:Ben Schmit

SPL Center

  • Newest Extreme Right Demand: Bring Back McCarthyis ...
    Between 1950 and 1954, Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy led one of the most notorious political witch-hunts in U.S. history. Aided by the parallel activities of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), McCarthyâs anti-communist crusade divided politicians, captivated the media, and fanned ...
  • Defender of Hate Group Leader Campaigning to Head ...
    Saul Anuzis, leader of the Michigan GOP until last year, announced earlier this week that he would be challenging Michael Steele for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC). Anuzis had made a failed but significant run against Steele, the party’s first black leader, for the same ...
  • White Supremacist Turned FBI Snitch Turner Sentenc ...
    The sentence wasn’t as harsh as he feared, but neo-Nazi blogger and shock-jock radio host Hal Turner will spend 25 months in prison worrying about white racists he believes will be eager to snuff him for having been an FBI informant. Turner, 48, whose vicious rhetoric was much admired among white su ...
  • Better Homes and Aryans: April Gaede Wants to be a ...
    April Gaede, long-time white supremacist and Jill-of-all-Aryan-trades, is working on yet another new project. Perhaps the Aryan matchmaker service she was trying to launch in January isn’t working out so well, so Gaede is moving from breeding material to reading material. Her latest venture, which s ...
  • Extra! Extra! Shariah Takeover of U.S. Averted by ...
    The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced yesterday that it is suing Oklahoma over a newly adopted law banning the use of international or Islamic law in state courts. Islam-fearing websites went wild. Hereâs a sampling of headlines and excerpts from some of the more colorful postings Thu ...

change: org.

  • Dog Track Manager Thinks Cruelty Is in the Eye of ...
    For over sixty years, Tucson Greyhound Park has kept the off-track lives of their greyhounds well-hidden. The dogs' fate on the track was bad enough; last year, greyhound protection group, Grey2K USA, released a report documenting that a dog was injured every 3 to 4 days at the park — broken legs, f ...
  • New York's Hydrofracking Dilemma Gets Tossed to a ...
    As Change.org previously reported, outgoing New York State Governor David Paterson recently signed a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing (aka hydrofracking) in New York State. While the executive order was flawed — it only covers horizontal drilling, not vertical drilling — it's still a huge, frackin ...
  • Equality Utah's Amazing Year of Fighting Discrimin ...
    Earlier this year, Equality Utah launched a "Ten in 2010" campaign. The goal? To make sure that by December 31, 2010, there were at least 10 cities or municipalities in Utah that had anti-discrimination ordinances that included protections on the basis of sexual orientation. Salt Lake City, in Novem ...
  • US Guns Lead to Mexican Deaths
    For years the United States and Mexico have wrestled over issues related to the border, and when it comes to U.S. policy, the government places stringent restrictions on what moves north into the country, without much consideration for what travels the other way. So while agents crack down on the sm ...
  • Rite Aid's Sticking It to Workers All Over the Cou ...
    What is Rite Aid best known for? Probably toothpaste and greeting cards. But one thing everyone should know about the company is that it is developing a terrible track record of workers' rights violations. In other words, the people ringing up your discount laundry soap are not getting as good of a ...

Common Dreams -News

  • GOP Senator Tom Coburn To Block 9/11 Responders Bi ...
    by Nick WingSen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) plans to block legislation that would provide additional aid to cover the health care costs of 9/11 first responders, one of the senator's aides told The Wall Street Journal Tuesday morning.read more
  • Mercs Win Billion Dollar Afghan Cop Deal. Again.
    by Spencer AckermanThe solution for Afghanistan’s endlessly troubled police force? According to the Army, the same contractors that have trained them for the past seven years.read more
  • Ivory Coast's Ouattara Urges Civil Revolt
    by Dave ClarkABIDJAN - Beleaguered would-be Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday urged the Ivorian people to rise up in a campaign of civil disobedience against defiant strongman Laurent Gbagbo.In a statement issued from the hotel where it survives behind a wall of UN peacekeepers, Oua ...
  • Iraq Approves New Government
    Iraqi lawmakers have unanimously approved a new government to be headed by Nouri al-Maliki, the incumbent prime minister. The vote on Tuesday ended nine months of political deadlock after an inconclusive national election in March.read more
  • US Military Commanders Push for Ground Raids on Ta ...
    by Rob Crilly The plan has not yet been approved, they said, but could bring an intelligence windfall if they were allowed to launch cross-border attacks to capture insurgents inside Pakistan. Pakistani and Nato officials denied any such proposals were being considered. However, the demand ...

Lifehacker

  • VirtualBox 4.0 Simplifies Virtual Operating System ...
    Windows/Mac/Linux: VirtualBox 4.0 makes creating virtual operating systems a lot less bothersome. The interface is easier to get around, the virtual machines easier to move or wipe away, display and hardware compatibility is improved, and new ...
  • Most Popular Featured Workspaces of 2010 [Featured ...
    Each week we highlight the interesting workspaces of Lifehacker readers and companies around the world. Today we're looking back at the 16 most popular workspaces from 2010 for your browsing and idea-gathering enjoyment. More�� ...
  • Best Resource for Free Games? [Hive Five Call For ...
    It's that holiday time of year again; you've spent plenty of cash, so this weekend, we want you to relax with free games when you've got time to play them. We want to here where you go to score free computer games. More�� ...
  • From the Tips Box: Mac File Sharing, Smartphone Na ...
    Readers offer their best tips for sharing files between Macs, getting directions with your smartphone, and packing boxes for shipping. More��
  • Remains of the Day: Photo-Sharing App Instagram Is ...
    Popular iOS photo-sharing app Instagram is coming to Android devices, the FCC makes a lame claim that Android's openness somehow offsets wireless carriers shaping how you use your data connection, and more. More��

Water Privatization

Guardian

  • Homebuyers face 5% interest rates
    Bank of England official says people must be aware that rates will gradually rise to 'normalised position' of 5%Homeowners need to prepare for a series of interest rate rises to about 5%, a Bank of England official warned today.Paul Fisher, who is a member of the Bank's rate-setting Monetary Policy ...
  • Kettling video 'appalling' – watchdog
    Victoria Borwick encourages protesters at anti-student fees demonstration to make complaints against Metropolitan police after 'ghastly' incidentThe chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority's civil liberties panel has condemned video footage appearing to show protesters being crushed by police att ...
  • Can you remember 2010's top stories?
    It was a year of elections, iPads, ash clouds, an oil spill, WikiLeaks, spending cuts and protest. Click through the pictures to see how 2010 unfolded day-by-day
  • Radio review: iGod
    A quarter of an hour of the odd, the anarchic � and the often very, very funnyThere's an apocalypse each week in iGod (Radio4), and it only takes 15 minutes to unfold. Sean Gray's new comedy has lots going for it: a very silly pretext (all the apocalyptic events are triggered by the same man, Ian, p ...
  • US Senate approves nuclear control treaty with Rus ...
    Obama's key foreign policy legislation, a nuclear arms treaty with Russia, was passed with a Senate majority of 71 to 26 votesThe US Senate today voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia to reduce their nuclear arsenals.The treaty has been Barack Obama's ma ...

McClatchey

  • Obama's lame-duck lesson: 'We are not doomed to gr ...
    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama basked in a series of legislative victories on Wednesday, saying the lame-duck session of Congress drawing to a close was the most productive post-election period we've had in decades and capped the most productive two years that we've had in generations.
  • Southern Sudan prepares for secession referendum
    JUBA, Sudan — More than 7 million ballot papers arrived in southern Sudan's capital, Juba, Wednesday, marking one of the final steps of preparation for a highly contentious referendum next month that will allow Sudan's southern region to secede and form a new country.
  • Experts: START salvages U.S. 'reset' with Russia
    WASHINGTON — Senate approval Wednesday of a nuclear arms reduction pact with Russia has boosted President Barack Obama's long-shot initiative to rid the world of nuclear weapons and salvaged his drive to improve U.S.-Russian ties, experts said.
  • How the Fed let small banks take on too much debt, ...
    WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve Board, chastised for regulatory inaction that contributed to the subprime mortgage meltdown, also missed a chance to prevent much of the financial chaos ravaging hundreds of small- and mid-sized banks.
  • Moody's bungled ratings on community bank bonds, t ...
    NEW YORK — Billions of dollars in top-rated bonds backed by community banks have gone bust, debunking the defense offered by credit-rating agencies that wildly inaccurate ratings were limited to risky mortgage bonds that imploded and then triggered the U.S. financial crisis.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

  • Cancun: The chihuahua that roared
    �From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: If Copenhagen was the Great Dane that whimpered, Cancun has been the chihuahua that roared. And what a surprise it was. Before the summit, expectations were so low that simply keeping the UN show on the road was all many observers (and some players) ...
  • The chihuahua that roared
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: If Copenhagen was the Great Dane that whimpered, Cancun has been the chihuahua that roared. And what a surprise it was. Before the summit, expectations were so low that simply keeping the UN show on the road was all many observers (and some players) ...
  • Time to get down to [business] at Cancun
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: I've been rifling through the main documents that delegations are discussing here, with a view to finding out how far they have to travel if they're to leave here clutching a piece of paper more meaningful than a plane ticket. There are two key document ...
  • Unlikely marriage powers ahead
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico: No-one here really wants to be doom-laden about it, but it's a reality that more and more are having to face: the UN climate process could be grinding to a halt. Researchers from Scotland will look at the potential of marine energy in the Maldives If t ...
  • 'Terrific ten' given days to save the world
    From the UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico. Enid Blyton had five (and then seven) - Ocean had 11 (and then 12). Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa, president of the UN climate summit here, has gone for 10 - 10 people who have just three days to save the planet. The UK's Chris Huhne sa ...

The Wonk Room

  • House GOPers Announce Yet Another Symbolic Act Of ...
    The Republican communications machine has kicked into high gear trying to paint the GOP as the party of the Constitution. Last week, the incoming House leadership announced an at-best pointless plan to require every bill to be accompanied by “constitutional authority” statement. Rep. Michele Bachman ...
  • Executive Order Is First Step In Regaining Initiat ...
    Our guest blogger is Ken Gude, Managing Director of the National Security and International Policy Program at the Center for American Progress. The Obama administration’s forthcoming executive order on detention will establish a meaningful review process for Guantanamo detainees held in law of war d ...
  • Vitter Blames Undocumented Immigrants For Loss Of ...
    Yesterday, the Census Bureau released a new congressional apportionment map which gives more Congressional seats to the South and the West at the expense of the Northeast and the Midwest. One of the states that will lose a congressional seat is Louisiana. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) released a statemen ...
  • New START: Huge Win For Obama And Nuclear Disarmam ...
    The ratification of the New START treaty is a huge victory for President Obama and huge blow to Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and the Republican Senate leadership. START also confirms what progressives have been saying on other issues — namely, that when the White House stands and fights and refuses to give g ...
  • McConnell Tries And Fails To Undermine Don’t ...
    Yesterday, in a last minute effort to derail the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tried to attach an amendment to the stripped-down National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would have required the Service Chiefs to certify that implementation did n ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Canada Hands Minors to be Tortured, but it's WikiL ...
    Every single fucking time that WikiLeaks provides some transparency, some unfiltered look at the reality of the criminal wars launched by the bush II regime (and perpetuated by the nauseating Obama administration) some White House fuck-face or other scum-bag politician struts up to a microphone and ...
  • The Surveillance Society
    Alison at Creekside sent me this link in my comments section a couple of days ago. All I could say was "holy shit." Yes, the RCMP public relations guy is a joke. The RCMP has been disgracing itself for years, because it has been tolerating steroid-damaged apes like that Desmond Sandboe, and those f ...
  • Haiti, Cholera, and Canada
    What's the connection? Well, just like Canada along with the rest of NATO, wasn't able to meet the relatively modest demands of the Afghan people for a decent government, because our elites simply don't care about these people but only want to plunder them, so too, is our second-biggest internationa ...
  • Failure, failure, failure, and still more failure
    Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear (January 2008): Are we winning the battle against the insurgents in Afghanistan?Almost any Canadian soldier, diplomat or NATO official asked that question invariably answers: Yes, we are, but there is still a long way to go.Ah! But what a differ ...
  • Bliss It Is To Be Alive With YouTube
    Because it has allowed me to look at the following clip and think that for those people, there at that time: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!" I don't know. I find watching the thing to be monumental. I've got a similar post here.

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

  • S. 372 dies in Senate tonight
    We have received confirmation from two sources that a Senator has placed an anonymous hold on S. 372, the Senate's flawed version of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA). This hold effectively kills the bill as the Senate adjourned tonight until the next Senate is seated. Earlier thi ...
  • NWC Report Proves that Qui Tam Statutes Have "No N ...
    The National Whistleblowers Center (NWC) publicly released its report to the Securities and Exchange Commission entitled "Impact of Qui Tam Laws on Internal Compliance." This study was conducted in response to concerns from corporations and the SEC Commissioners about Dodd-Frank's potential impact ...
  • Capt. Dan Hanley says S. 372 is "sorely lacking"
    Captain Dan Hanley (center in photo) is the host of the Whistleblowing Airline Employees Blog Talk Radio Program and a leader of the Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association. He is a former United Airlines pilot, and succeeded in getting the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate impr ...
  • Bunny Greenhouse urges correction of S. 372
    When the Iraq was was about to begin, Bunny Greenhouse alone challenged the legality of awarding no-bid, no-compete, cost plus contract to Haliburton. The Army swiftly retaliated and she lost her career and position as the Army Corps of Engineers top procurement executive. Today Bunny spoke out ...
  • Dr. David Lewis says "Fix S. 372"
    My client, Dr. David L. Lewis, is issuing an open letter today urging the House of Representatives to correct the "the grievous and manifold shortcomings in S. 372 before voting on it." He also urges his fellow citizens to join him in taking action to share his concerns with their representatives. ...

Science Express

  • Fermi maps an active galaxy's 'smokestack plumes'
    If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant radio ...
  • Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
    The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
  • After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
    Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
  • Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
    A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
  • New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
    (PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...

TechDirt

  • EU's Main ACTA Supporter Caught Lying About ACTA
    As a few folks have submitted, EU Commissioner for Trade, Karel De Gucht -- the main EU politician backing ACTA -- has been caught lying about ACTA. As you may recall, the EU Parliament was quite skeptical of ACTA for quite some time. However, De Gucht convinced the EU Parliament to support ACTA b ...
  • Location Targeted Coupons: Patented
    I remember over a decade ago, talking with lots of folks in Silicon Valley about the idea of doing mobile coupons -- with the typical example being "imagine as you walked by a Starbucks, if it could pop up a coupon on your phone." Hell, all the way back in 2004, we were talking about this idea as b ...
  • JFK On Secrecy And Censorship
    Glyn Moody points us to a blog post that has a video/audio clip of a John F. Kennedy speech to the press about secrecy and censorship, which is getting some attention for the contrast to the way our government is responding to the Wikileaks controversy. The key paragraph is the one that ope ...
  • isoHunt Appeals Process Begins
    As we're still left scratching our heads over the US government's botched affidavit to seize Torrent-Finder, that includes numerous technical and legal errors -- and most importantly, does not take into account the First Amendment implications of domain name seizures -- it's worth remembering that a ...
  • DailyDirt: Many Hands Make Light Work... Prove It ...
    There are plenty of prizes to solve hard problems -- million dollar rewards for Millennium Prize Problems, etc. But there are also plenty of other problems (some with bigger prizes) that don't get as much attention. Also, it's not so easy to determine the winners sometimes. In any case, here are ...

VacTruth

  • Take Off the Billion-Dollar Blindfold
    Would you buy an unlabeled bottle of vitamins from a health food store? Would you give those vitamins to your child? Would you trust a stylist who didn’t ask about your own wishes for your appearance? Would you have confidence in a salesperson’s ability to give you sound advice about [...]
  • A Judge Sees Through The Emperor’s New Cloth ...
    Child welfare services had applied for a ruling to have four siblings immunized, despite their parents’ decision not to allow the treatment. Have we finally found a judge brave enough to rule with a conscience?
  • Christmas Time 2010
    A message from Vactruth.com to keep on “keeping on” in order to bring to light the ‘pseudo science’ that surrounds vaccines, vaccinations, and loss of sovereignty and self-determination in the care of our health, bodies, and children.
  • Police Arrested Twelve Year Old Boy for Refusing V ...
    A twelve year old boy was arrested by police after refusing to be vaccinated at school. Since when have schools become doctors?
  • Possible 400 Dead as UK Government Betrays Parents ...
    Toddlers are to be inoculated against six diseases at once in a bid to boost vaccination rates. Recently uncovered evidence suggests as many as 400 children have died from a vaccine and 21,000 experienced an adverse reaction in the UK alone.

BroadSnark

  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Read this! It covers so many things that have been on my mind lately.  It is, as the person who posted it says, long and academic.  But it is worth the time.  In short, it explains how middle and upper class women moved into the non-profit savior industry and how their liberation came at the [...]
  • Beliefs as Barrier
    I understand and respect the choices that many people within the anarchist community make.  I love the self expression and weirdness that is embraced in how people dress or act.  I completely respect the decision to be a vegan, to avoid chain stores, to criticize suburban homogeneity…. But there is ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Still recovering from a weekend of Santarchy madness.  Also, I just got back from the Really Free Market here in DC, which went off amazingly well considering the absurdly cold weather. Between all the activities and the pesky day job I probably still owe people some responses.  I’m working on it. ...
  • Fighting Words
    If I say blue, are you confused?  But I might be thinking cobalt while you are thinking cornflower. Maybe the person next to you is colorblind and can’t tell blue from green. Maybe the person next to them is completely blind and can’t understand color.  Maybe we weren’t talking about color at all. ...
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Before I start my links, let me just apologize that I have not been able to keep up with all the comments on my last post (not to mention the comments elsewhere on the internets).  I try to respond to everyone, but I’m a bit overwhelmed this week.  It is especially hard since many of [...]

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

Armies of Liberation

  • The blockade of South Yemen follows tactics of Saa ...
    As Yemen’s blockade on southern Yemen enters its third week, stocks of food, medicine and oil have dwindled to dangerous levels. Prices have skyrocketed and already malnourished children bear the brunt of the military action. The blockade began 17 days ago when the Western Armored Division establish ...
  • بقلم الكاتبة الامريكية جين نوفاك : ثلاثة أسابيع من ...
    مع دخول الحصار اليمني على اليمن الجنوبي أسبوعه الثالث ، إنخفضت المخزونات من المواد الغذائية والدواء و المشتقات النفطية الى مستويات تنذر بالخطر. و ارتفعت الأسعار و أصبح الأطفال يعانون بالفعل من سوء التغذية تحت وطأة العمليات العسكرية. وبدأ الحصار قبل 17 يوما عندما قامت وحدات المنطقة الغربية المدرعة بإ ...
  • السلام مع الكرامة في اليمن: هل يمكن ايقاف دوامه ال ...
    اÙسÙام مع اÙÙرامة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù: ÙÙ ÙÙ…Ù٠اÙÙا٠دÙام٠اÙØ­Ø±Ø¨Ø Ùتبت: جÙÙ ÙÙÙاÙ*- ÙصحÙÙØ© “إجسامÙÙر” ترجمة/ عبداÙÙ٠عبداÙÙÙاب ÙاجÙ- ترجمة خاصة بÙ: اÙمستشار Ùت Ù٠حرب م٠حرÙب صعدة اÙستة Ù٠اÙÙÙ…Ù ÙÙ Ùسخة Ù…Ùررة م٠ا ...
  • Peace with Dignity in Yemen, Can the Cycle of Endl ...
    Each of the six Sa’ada wars in Yemen was a photo copy of the one before, except the bombs got bigger, the children more frail and the jails more crowded. The Yemeni government systematically denied food, medicine and international aid to civilians in the northern Sa’ada province as a tactic of war s ...
  • Would Yemeni law find Anwar Awlaki guilty?
    Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

Dark Politricks

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

food and water watch

treehugger

  • Schoolkids' Bee Study Lands in Prestigious Journal
    Photo: fueg0 While most young students are happy just having their academic achievements displayed on the refrigerator door at home, there are others whose sights are set a little higher -- and I'm not talking about the freezer. A group of elementary schoolchildren in Devon, England recently mad ...
  • The Most Popular Posts in Green Tech & Gadgets in ...
    Photo by smeadli via Flickr Creative Commons Tech and gadget news is always interesting, and every week has its next-big-thing announcements. But there were a few stories and trends that really stood out from the crowd during 2010. Yes, that includes the iPad -- but also a ton of other neat stu ...
  • Is the UK's Storm Bad Weather or Climate Change?
    Photo: B. Alter The UK has been battered by a miserable snow storm: the worst since 1910. Airports have been closed since Saturday, people were marooned in their cars on the highway for hours and the line-up for the Paris-bound Eurostar was around the block. But was this storm the result ...
  • Two Men Fined After Rescuing Deer From Icy River
    Photo: U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region To many people, Jim Hart and Khalil Abusakran are heroes. When the two men from Maryland saw a deer stranded in the icy waters of the Patapsco River, they did what few others would dare. With an inflatable boat, the duo ventured out and r ...
  • Winter of 2010 - The Valley Forge Of Climate Activ ...
    Von Steuben training Continental troops in Valley Forge PA. Image credit:National Archives. Two Thousand Ten may well be looked back upon as the year US climate activists and published climate scientists lost their metaphorical Battle of Brandywine, and as the year in which it sunk in that rec ...

Biosingularity

  • Wandering Tumor Cells Predict Poor Outcome
    Women with metastatic breast cancer who have no tumor cells circulating in their blood after the first round of treatment live longer than those who do, French researchers report.Circulating tumor cells, or CTCs, are cells that break off from a tumor and escape into the bloodstream. These cells can ...
  • More Fruit and Veggies Now, Better Arteries Later
    Just in time for the holidays, here’s a new reason to get children to eat their veggies. Children who eat a lot of fruit and vegetables have healthier, less stiff arteries as young adults compared to children who don’t load up on fruit and veggies, according to a new study. Researchers say arterial ...
  • Timing is everything for cancer protein p53
    Since the early 1980s, cancer researchers have known that a protein called p53 plays a critical role in protecting cells from becoming cancerous. The protein is defective in about half of all human cancers; when it functions correctly, it appears to suppress tumor formation by preventing cells with ...
  • Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku
    The appeal of sudoku has spread to the prokaryotic world. A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles â with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, Japan. “Because sudoku has simple rules, we felt that maybe bacteria could solve it for us, as long as ...
  • Surgery Dramatically Lowers Blood Pressure
    A California company has shown how to dramatically lower blood pressure in hard-to-treat patients by destroying tiny nerves in the kidney. The nerves are located inside the main arteries leading to the kidney. They affect blood pressure by controlling the release of sodium and an enzyme called renin ...

CFACT

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Pruning Shears

  • This Week in Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Is it me or are the deaths of American soldiers not being reported as prominently these days? Seems like back in 2006 the death of seven Ameri ...
  • Building the shadow Internet
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The rise of Internet-enabled mobile devices has had some interesting consequences. On the face of it, smart phones and tablets are a boon. They allow people to access email and web sites anywhere, not just when tethered to a deskto ...
  • This Week in Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.Another week dominated by WikiLeaks. Interesting times, no? Raw Story has been all over it; here are some of their links and headlines:Conser ...
  • Spain as 51st state
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The WikiLeaks release of some (not all!) of the diplomatic cables in its possession has generated an unprecedented response. Glenn Greenwald did an excellent roundup of the different ways both public and private entities are putting ...
  • This Week In Tyranny
    No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this postOur image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims.The Wikileaks document dump was really tough to keep up with. Lots and lots of stories:We’re bombing Yemen, and Yemen’s government is covering ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • House Passes Final Food Safety Bill
    William Neuman reported in today's New York Times that, "The House of Representatives gave final approval on Tuesday to a long-awaited modernization of the nation's food safety laws, voting 215 to 144 to grant the Food and Drug Administration greater authority over food production.Click here to read ...
  • Stop GMO Contamination of Organic!
    GMOs & Organic Can't "Coexist" -- Strict Liability for Monsanto - take action here.Click here to read this article
  • USDA Announces Final Environmental Impact Statemen ...
    The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the availability of the final environmental impact statement (EIS) that evaluates the potential environmental effects of deregulating alfalfa genetically engineered (GE) to be resistant to the herbicide glyphosate, which is known commercially as Rou ...
  • USDA Recommends "Coexistence" with Monsanto: We Sa ...
    After 16 years of non-stop biotech bullying and force-feeding Genetically Engineered or Modified (GE or GM) crops to farm animals and "Frankenfoods" to unwitting consumers, Monsanto has a big problem, or rather several big problems. A growing number of published scientific studies indicate that GE f ...
  • Will the New Food Safety Bill Affect Organic Foods ...
    As the nation stands poised to watch the passing of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, the question comes to mind, 'is this really a good thing?' and 'how will this effect me?' Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

  • Dibujos animados de Disney para Navidad y Fin de A ...
    Desde hace algunos días, el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas está presentando diversas colecciones de fotografías de Chicas Santa Claus, wallpapers, archivos .gif, imágenes, y dibujos animados relacionados con Navidad y Fin de Año. Para continuar, les presento una serie de Disney con imágenes muy navideñ ...
  • Imágenes y fotografías de perritos IV (12 wallpape ...
    Para ver más imágenes de perritos, escoje un número. [1] [2] [3] [4]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y ...
  • Fotografías y wallpapers de los Grandes Lagos IV
    Para ver más fotos de lagos, escoja un número. [1][2][3][4]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ATENCIÓN: Para ver todas las fotos de esta serie, navegue usted hacia abajo y haga click sobre las imágenes que más le gusten para ampliar su tamaño y guardarla ...
  • Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes XXXI
    Si lo desea, escoja un número para revisar nuestro archivo de fotos sobre esta serie titulada 'Selecciones especiales del Banco de Imágenes'. [1]-[2]-[3]-[4]-[5]-[6]-[7]-[8]-[9]-[10]-[11]-[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la ...
  • Fotografías de caballos I (Equinos de Pura Sangre)
    ¿Le gustan a usted los Caballos Pura Sangre? Me imagino que 9 de cada 10 personas han contestado que sí. Pues para todos ustedes, presentamos el inicio de nuestra serie sobre estos hermosos equinos. En total, son más de 40 fotografías, pero empezaremos con 7 de ellas. No se pierda nuestras actualiza ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • Yakima Valley Releases Draft Air Quality Policy fo ...
    Unlike agricultural water discharges which are regulated for large farms defined as CAFO by the EPA and the Clean Water Act, most agricultural air emissions are not regulated. Water discharges and air emissions that are related to industrial scale agricultural operations in rural areas are big conce ...
  • No title
    By Julia DeBruicker Valliant On the front porch, boots stamp away snow, and then the farmer steps inside.  The glasses fog up.  Off comes the jacket, the cap, and out goes the hand in greeting.  After a season spent grazing cows and sheep and pasturing pigs, hens and turkeys, meat producers from ar ...
  • Happy Holidays from the Johns Hopkins Center for a ...
  • Looking at Food System Issues through a ‘Food Just ...
    I first came upon the term “food justice” from an organization in Oakland called People’s Grocery led by Brahm Ahmadi and others who were fighting against an unjust food system in the “food desert” of West Oakland. At the time, it was an area that left residents with liquor stores and [...]
  • Fair Food in Our 21st Century Economy
    Last Wednesday, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) held the last of a series of joint workshops on “Agriculture and Antitrust Enforcement Issues in Our 21st Century Economy.” This particular workshop was held at the USDA in Washington D.C. and focu ...

Norwegianity

  • Eyepatch Xmas
    Just got back from waiting around at Dunn Bros. to have coffee with a friend who didn’t show because, as her email indicated, she will be there NEXT Tuesday. That’s the problem with my zen lifestyle: long-term planning just isn’t a part of it. Still, the Dunn’s on Lake by the river is a very [...]
  • Pick one
    I’ve been asked to submit a post for inclusion with a bunch of other posts to honor the late “Jon Swift.” I pulled 17 urls of posts I did this last year that didn’t suck too much, then narrowed that pile down to these semifinalists: Guilty until proven innocent [March 4] Universally available, inten ...
  • Less compulsive with a hint of resent
    The compulsion to blog grows weaker. Politics drove much of what you’ve read here, and in the absence of politics, I find I have less to write about but what really killed this blog the last couple of days was my reviewing the past year’s output for a post to submit to a Jon Swift [...]
  • High dudgeons
    Sorry about the lack of posting but I’ve been too livid about the Assange rape allegation fatwa on Michael Moore to post anything these last 24 hours. Yes, this is about politics and that’s why I didn’t post about it, but no, that doesn’t mean I have much patience with so-called progs who strut arou ...
  • $, but no ¢
    From reader Jeff an interesting video on the history of wealth: Other than Hans Rosling sounding disturbingly like Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, it’s a fascinating video that unfortunately concludes with a pie in the sky scenario for the future that would be true if only the rich were not busy build ...

Public News Service

  • AZ Game and Fish Bids to Take Over Gray Wolf Recov ...
    AZ Game and Fish Bids to Take Over Gray Wolf Recovery Tucson, AZ – The Arizona Game and Fish Department wants Congress to eliminate federal protection for the endangered Mexican gray wolf and turn the controversial program over to the state. Conservation groups say the result could be extinction fo ...
  • A Holiday Wish: Protect America's Forests
    A Holiday Wish: Protect America's Forests Phoenix, AZ - A coalition of groups, including several active in Arizona, are asking President Obama for a holiday gift: making federal rules for National Forest land strong enough to "stand the test of time." New rules are expected next month. Comments from ...
  • Beware Grinches After Your Charity Donations
    Beware Grinches After Your Charity Donations Phoenix, AZ — Tis' the season for charitable giving and legal experts say that means there are also scammers out there, so they advise taking a moment to check out any charity before you donate. Comments from attorney Beverly Salhanick (Sal-HAN-ick).
  • Report: BLM on Track to Feed Energy Needs from AZ ...
    Report: BLM on Track to Feed Energy Needs from AZ Sun Phoenix, AZ – The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is getting kudos for its work on designating Solar Energy Zones (SEZs) on public lands in a new report from The Wilderness Society. Specifically, the Brenda area in western Arizona is profiled as a ...
  • Flagstaff Council Votes to Support Uranium Mining ...
    Flagstaff Council Votes to Support Uranium Mining Ban Flagstaff, AZ – A ban on uranium mining near the Grand Canyon has the support of the Flagstaff City Council. Members voted 6-to-1 this week to support a federal proposal to withdraw a million acres around the national park from mining for the nex ...

Center for Food Safety

  • Obama to Sign Landmark Food Safety Legislation
    Center for Food safety Applauds New Powers for the FDA. Tester-Hagan Amendment a Win for Consumers and Small, Local Food Producers and Processors The Center for Food Safety (CFS) applauds the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) by the United States Congress.  The bill which passed ...
  • USDA Releases Final Environmental Impact Statement ...
    AGENCY MAKES NO DECISION ON APPROVAL OF THE ROUNDUP READY CROP CITING HARM TO ORGANIC INDUSTRY AND PROLIFERATION OF SUPERWEEDS CFS URGES AGENCY TO CONTINUE BAN ON POTENTIALLY HARMFUL CROP The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Sta ...
  • Help Us Fight Monsanto and Protect Our Food and Fa ...
    This has been an incredible year for the Center for Food Safety, and our work protecting our farms, our food, and our environment from the potential hazards of genetically engineered (GMO) crops.  As you know, in April we battled Monsanto in the U.S. Supreme Court – and were victorious in maintainin ...
  • USDA Aims to Commercialize Genetically Engineered ...
    This week, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) led a coalition of farmers, activists, and consumers in a public comment campaign addressing USDA’s latest plan to commercialize illegal GE Roundup Ready Sugar Beets (RRSB).  Last month, USDA released a proposal aimed at commercializing RRSB in spite of in ...
  • Federal Court Orders First-Ever Destruction of a G ...
    Finds Government and Monsanto rushed to illegally plant herbicide resistant crop Today federal district judge Jeffrey S. White issued a preliminary injunction ordering the immediate destruction of hundreds of acres of genetically engineered (GE) sugar beet seedlings planted in September after findin ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

  • CARLOS IN DC: Censorship of Carlos in DC: Bye Blog ...
    CARLOS IN DC: Censorship of Carlos in DC: Bye Blogger
  • Borneo tribesman arrested in palm oil conflict - S ...
    Borneo tribesman arrested in palm oil conflict - Survival International An Iban tribesman in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder following an argument with workers from a palm oil company. Tribesman Liam Rengga denies the charges, and claims ...
  • Valerie Taliman: Taliman: Racist rhetoric fuels ha ...
    Taliman: Racist rhetoric fuels hate crimes | Indian Country Today | Opinion In Navajo culture, there is a teaching that “your words are like a prayer.” Words have the power to manifest our reality, to literally bring things into being. Growing up, our elders admonished us to be careful with our wor ...
  • Georgia Prison Strike Hits Third Day | News One
    Georgia Prison Strike Hits Third Day | News One Georgia — On Thursday morning, December 9, 2010, thousands of Georgia prisoners refused to work, stopped all other activities and locked down in their cells in a peaceful protest for their human rights. The December 9 Strike became the biggest prison ...
  • Attempts to prosecute WikiLeaks endanger press fre ...
    Attempts to prosecute WikiLeaks endanger press freedoms - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com: "During the Bush era, I frequently wrote about escalating attacks by the U.S. Government on press freedoms. The Bush DOJ vowed to prosecute whistleblowers while steadfastly refusing to do the same for the high-le ...

Pensieve

  • Change, by Futureshorts
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  • Colón Protesters Voluntarily Disperse
    Minutes before being forcibly removed by a large group of Honduran police and military, the protesters that had laid siege to the city of Trujillo for 11 days voluntarily dispersed. Had they not, at the very least, there would have been violence. Iâm glad to have been wrong in overestimating the zea ...
  • Trujillo in Siege, Violence Imminent
    Photo by samiq Armed “peasants”, alleged narcos, pro-Zelaya activists and assorted foreign troublemakers have laid siege to the city of Trujillo, Colon, for 11 days. The people of Trujillo are desperate as the only road to the city is blocked by protesters. Armored vehicles with cash for banks, truc ...
  • Don’t Read This If You Work for the US Govt.
    This article does not contain quotes from any secret US government documents, but does discuss and link to reproductions of them, in the press, and in the Google cache. I have been hesitant to publish any information related to Wikileaks in my blog, being sadly aware of the lengths to which the US p ...
  • President Lobo vs. Free Speech
    President Lobo is threatening to deny naturalized Hondurans their citizenship if they oppose him. He is twisting the Honduran constitution to do this. This is the article he is citing, which on the surface looks reasonable: âARTICLE 32: Foreigners cannot perform in the country international or nat ...

Green Times

  • Water lily
    Some myths say that nymphs will drown you if you try to pick a lily pad. This might not happen but each plant certainly looks the best in its natural habitat (directory/categories/Health%20 %20Beauty) and can follow its function in the specific ecosystem ( http://www.greentimes.com.au/glossary/wild ...
  • Variety of fresh fish at the market
    Fish is a healthy source of proteins and  important minerals like iodine, as long as it comes from an eco-friendly source. Fish farming is a precarious issue since most growers use antibiotics to optimise their sales volume. Meanwhile the oceans suffer of (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/20 ...
  • Industrial harbour
    Importing goods can harm our environment in many ways. The carbon (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-emission.html ) emission (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-emission.html ) during the transport is one of the biggest problems. Further the food industry for example, makes use of to ...
  • Snow in central Europe
    Around the world, strange weather patterns have been observed in the past few years . While Australia experience a cold summer start in comparison to last year’s heat, middle Europe has to handle unusual masses of snow. Some say Climate change (climate-change/we-need-your-ideas-a-call-for-di ...
  • Christmas dinner candles
    Christmas is a time of celebration... A great dinner is essential to make it a special day, but try not to waste food and use organic produce. Also use beautiful soy candles to create a festive atmosphere. To get your organic food supply for Christmas, check the home section (directory/categories/ ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Afghan bomb blast kills 2, injures 4
    ShareThisAfghan bomb blast kills 2, injures 4 23 Dec 2010 A massive explosion has rocked the northern province of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, killing two people and injuring four others. The huge blast rocked the capital city of Kunduz province at 8 a.m. local time, eyewitnesses told a Press TV ...
  • CIA launches task force to assess impact of U.S. c ...
    ShareThisCIA launches task force to assess impact of U.S. cables' exposure by WikiLeaks 22 Dec 2010 The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks. Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task Force. ...
  • WTF? OMG, LOL! CIA gives WikiLeaks taskforce naugh ...
    ShareThisWTF? OMG, LOL! CIA gives WikiLeaks taskforce naughty name --US spy agency forms taskforce to assess fallout from 250,000 leaked US cables 22 Dec 2010 The CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables. Its name? WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF for shor ...
  • UN to investigate treatment of jailed leaks suspec ...
    ShareThisUN to investigate treatment of jailed leaks suspect Bradley Manning --Office of rapporteur on torture confirms it is looking into complaint made by Manning supporter 23 Dec 2010 The United Nations is investigating a complaint on behalf of Bradley Manning that he is being mistreated while he ...
  • W.H.: Polar bears not 'endangered'
    ShareThisW.H.: Polar bears not 'endangered' 22 Dec 2010 The Obama�regime is sticking with a George W. Bush-era decision to deny polar bears endangered species status. In a court filing Wednesday, the Fish and Wildlife Service defended the previous administration�s decision to give the polar bear the ...

Daily Loaf

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • African Asylum Seekers in Israel
    Debbie Herdan is a former Tel Aviv resident who was very active in the organization Hagar and Miriam, which works with African women in Israel who are either pregnant or have recently given birth.  Debbie worked with Eritrean, Sudanese and Darfurian asylum seekers for several years and writes that t ...
  • Israeli government thanks Palestinians for help wi ...
    By Jesse Bacon ..By not recognizing their names and refusing them entry for award ceremony in their honor. . This should remind us just how arbitrary the whole edifice of permits and checkpoints is that it can keep out people who helped contain the horrible fires and prevent worse disaster. I am als ...
  • On Adeeb Abu Rahmah’s release
    By Rebecca Vilkomerson Video of Adeeb Abu Rahmah being released On a personal note, I remember very clearly the weekend that Adeeb was arrested. I was still living in Israel, and a friend from Anarchists Against the Wall was arrested with him.  This friend was detained for over 24 hours, blindfold ...
  • Letter from an Israeli military prison
    from Abdallah Abu Rahmah. Ed’s Note: As I participated in the December 10th TIAA-CREF Day of Action on Human Rights Day, I felt I had gained a new holiday to my calendar. At the end of the day, as I was unwinding, I received this letter from imprisoned leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah over email, and saw ...
  • Please Help the Enrichment Learning Program at the ...
    Dear Friends, We are appealing to you to ask your assistance in operating a learning enrichment program for the children of the cave-dwellers’ community of Umm-Fakra. For the last two years we have assisted in conducting an enrichment programs for children in the Bedouin communities of Umm El-Kheir, ...

Politics in the Zeros

  • Independent Voting
    Independent Voting is mobilizing against the barriers that block independents from having real representation, such as closed primaries and partisan control of districting. Why do independent voters need a voice? Although the U.S. Constitution makes no mention of political parties – and although Geo ...
  • Electric motorcycle goes from California to Las Ve ...
    Not just any electric motorcycle, either.
  • Dickies. Silent Night
  • Bloomberg sues ECB to force disclosure on Greece s ...
    Bloomberg News filed a lawsuit against the European Central Bank, seeking to make it disclose documents showing how Greece used derivatives to hide its fiscal deficit and helped trigger the region’s sovereign debt crisis. Bloomberg has been doing an exemplary job in exposing the financial fraud, cor ...
  • California lawmakers say good bye to the Governato ...
    Among the gifts they said Schwarzenegger gave in their “Big Five” negotiations were “eight accounting gimmicks,” “five bucks for schools,” “three furlough Fridays,” and “two vetoed bills.” As well as “six unions screaming” and “four smoke and mirrors”! Heh.

Coteret

  • Breaking the Silence’s landmark new book, no ...
    Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the introdu ...
  • Following local pressure, Adidas reconsiders spons ...
    This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers and then di ...
  • Maariv: How to build another nuclear reactor witho ...
    Like most of the world, Israel is facing a major energy crisis. Our population is growing and per-capita energy consumption is on the rise. Nuclear energy is emerging as the solution favored by the government, as reported in a December 8 2010 Maariv feature [full translation at the bottom of this po ...
  • Yediot’s legal editor cites Nuremberg Laws, ...
    Rabbis’ disgrace Analysis, Boaz Okon, Yediot, December 8 2010 [front-page; Hebrew original here and at the bottom of this post] In 1834, a clothes salesman in London refused to sell an article of clothing to a customer.  The refusal stemmed from the fact that the buyer was “just a Jew.”The Jewish bu ...
  • Yediot: “Security establishment” warns ...
    This appears to be a General Security Service (GSS) leak: The scenario that the security establishment is preparing for is threatening. The scenario envisions the security prisoners launching a hunger strike, setting fire to their cells, trying attack the guards, severing all contact with the prison ...

Deadline Live

  • This Day In History: December 23
    1783 â George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland. 1823 â A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, is published anonymously. 1901 – In Syria officials demanded that all Americans must revoke t ...
  • I’m A Denier (A song for Al Gore)
  • The Net Neutrality Coup
    The campaign to regulate the Internet was funded by a who’s who of left-liberal foundations. By JOHN FUND The Federal Communications Commission’s new “net neutrality” rules, passed on a partisan 3-2 vote yesterday, represent a huge win for a slick lobbying campaign run by liberal activist groups and ...
  • Geo Engineering? How a freak diversion of the jet ...
    For years we at Deadline Live has been asking the hard questions about “Climate Change”. Number ONE on our list: IS WEATHER MANIPULATION (Includes Chemtrails) altering world weather by accidentally (or by design) changing the direction of the Jet Stream? Hello? Its appalling that “Global Warmers” wi ...
  • Johnny Cry
    Sensitive guy, John Boehner, is leading the way in the American Dream. Boehner is just a regular guy who gits a little weepy now and then. He’s wrote a song about it. A Mark Fiore political animation.

The Air Vent

  • Smashmatiticians prove weather is climate!!
    Sometimes when you don’t feel like thinking about AGW extremist stupidity, and you find yourselves reading about some news article or another that makes your head want to explode, it’s good to have a blog.  Our leftist news and science (yes they collaborate) has gone so far outside of reality that ...
  • Fixing the basic AGW calcs II
    This comment was left in the thread of Judith Curry’s blog.  It is an explanation of the problems introduced when the simple black body sphere estimate for basic forcing is not used.  While Tomas makes the point that the solution is nonsense, these things can still be estimated and do have uses so ...
  • Fixing the basic AGW calculations
    Derek Alker, has kindly offered what is definitely the most skeptical thing I’ve ever posted here.  Please don’t interpret this as my work in any way as my views on these things differ, but as I have no time  at least it will make for interesting discussion.  Derek has obviously put a  huge amou ...
  • Lazy Redux – part Deux!!
    So in my last lazy post I asked, What is the amount of warming you expect for the next 100 years?  Thirty five comments before morning.. LOL, There were so many opinions, many with statistically significant trends.  I wonder how it is that someone like me who reads endless papers blog’s and opinio ...
  • On line
    Our article on Antarctic temperatures has finally made it on line: Some results and ALL of the code is archived here: http://www.climateaudit.info/data/odonnell/,  the SI can be down loaded from that link. A detailed analysis is presented of a recently published Antarctic temperature reconstruction ...

Focal Point

  • Julian Assange, Rape Allegations, and the Catch-22 ...
    Amanda Marcotte has a brilliant essay in Slate on the rape allegations against Julian Assange and the Catch-22 of why more victims don't come forward. We're bombarded with erroneous stereotypes about how "real victims" act, then we use those stereotypes to preemptively and unfairly smear accusers ...
  • Maybe Hold Off on the Eggnog 'Til Next Year...
    Against all odds and predictions the Food Safety and Modernization Act passed Congress this week. President Obama is expected to sign the legislation, the first major overhaul of the country's food safety laws in over 70 years. This year saw the largest recall of tainted eggs in American history: ...
  • Help Rick Smith Help The Homeless and Hungry this ...
    My friends at the Rick Smith Show ("Where Working People Come to Talk") are camping out in a supermarket parking lot in sub-zero temperatures to collect food and donations for needy people in their community. Please help them out: Homelessness and poverty continues to plague the region. That' ...
  • CA Judge OK's Festivus as Legit Religion
    A California judge signed off on Festivus as a legit religion: Locked up in a California jail, Malcolm Alarmo King wanted healthier meals. In an argument apparently made to a friendly court, he won a ruling from Superior Court Judge Derek Johnson that he should be fed double-portion kosher . ...
  • Julian Assange: "Krill to the Baleen of the Femini ...
    Who won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award in 2006? Whoever it was, it should have been Julian Assange for this self-description: Thu 29 Jun 2006 : Krill to the baleen of the feminine Krill: small, crunchy, easily sucked in... [Photo credit: Hanjeanwat, Creative Commons.]Read More

Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Improves Page Insights Visualization Accu ...
    Facebook is rolling out an update to the native data visualizations of its Page analytics tool Insights. The accuracy of counts for Page tab views and external referrers has been improved. Admins may now select a specific date range of which to view performance metrics in the native data visualizati ...
  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Meteor Games, Kontagent, Games Cafe, Luna Digita and wooga. Direc ...
  • Facebook Proposes Privacy Terms Changes for “Sugge ...
    In its first privacy policy update since October, Facebook has rephrased parts of a section around how it makes suggestions. Beyond a couple wording tweaks, the purpose is try to clarify how it is making use of data provided by users to target friends suggestions, photo-tagging recommendations and o ...
  • Facebook Security Terms Change Removes Risk for Th ...
    With the removal last week of a single phrase in its policy around reporting security issue, Facebook has made it easier for “white hat” security experts to help it find vulnerabilities. The policy, below, no longer contains this line: “and have not conducted research that would violate the terms of ...
  • Announcing the Afterparty at Inside Social Apps In ...
    January 25th | San Francisco Inside Social Apps InFocus 2011, our second conference on the future of monetization on social platforms, is happening January 25th in San Francisco. Often, the best way to understand an industry and its influencers is in an informal setting. We invite you to kick back a ...

Truthout - Tweets

ReDress News

  • Tell that to the USS Liberty's survivors, Mr Liebe ...
    Recalling the cold-blooded Israeli attack on the US warship the Liberty, Alan Hart considers what nuclear-armed Israel might do if its Moldovan bouncer-cum-foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, got the job he covets most, that of Israeli prime minister.
  • Julian Assange - a Christmas story
    Rachel Stephens argues that this Christmas people should "celebrate the continuing tradition of Christ, who railed against the law makers of his time in an attempt to bring love, hope and justice", by supporting and following the example of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in vowing "to spread the t ...
  • Who is the real Barack Obama?
    Lawrence Davidson argues that Barack Obama's transformation from a progressive before becoming president to an anti-progressive president is probably due to his having no firm principles in the first place, a matter that has led him to internalize the Washington political culture where expediency an ...
  • What US House Resolution 1765 tells us about the p ...
    Sama Adnan argues that efforts to educate the US public about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the need for a just solution to this conflict will remain incomplete and essentially toothless without pro-peace political actions committees that raise funds for congressional candidates who push for ...
  • Zionist lobby's new orders for Obama
    Alan Hart argues that new instructions issued to President Obama by Israel through its stooges in Congress, in the form of House Resolution 1734, might be a sign of panic that the White House is about to end its veto of UN Security Council resolutions which are critical of Israel and/or call for the ...

Amazon Rainforest

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

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

  • Podcast Show #36
    The Boiling Frogs Presents James Babb James Babb recounts the creation of the grassroots effort We Won’t Fly, and how he and cofounder George Donnelly, two regular dads, founded the group to oppose the full-body airport “porno”-scanners on grounds of privacy, ineffectiveness and health, and demand ...
  • Jamiol Presents
  • The New York Times: A Curious Case of Change of He ...
    Seeing the Light, Sanctioned Illusionary Game, or … I am going to stay true to my pledged position on Wikileaks related topics, and stick with questions rather than hasty analyses and interpretations. I’ve been highly puzzled by the recent position of and statements by the New York Times on Wikileak ...
  • On Wikileaks Strategy: Too Many Hors D’oeuvr ...
    Decreased Appetite & Increased Termination Risk before the Main Course As I have said before I am not ready to analyze or talk about Wikileaks’ recent exposé. It’s still too early, and so far too little with too insignificant implications has been released. I am still waiting for the highly revealin ...
  • A Parody for You: ‘Grandma Got Molested at the Air ...
    By Donny Aldridge- Singer, Songwriter & Political Satirist A friend sent me the following music clip; too real yet too funny. Enjoy it, let it be another reminder of how low we’ve stooped as a society, and keep up the spirit of resistance.   This site depends exclusively on readers’ support. Pleas ...

Afro Spear

  • “The State of Black Women in Politics Under ...
    Fascinating article by Duchess Harris Click on image for article.
  • A KIVA Success: Victoria Women’s Group B-2, ...
    In September of this year, I made a loan through KIVA with 166 others worldwide, to invest in the endeavours of Ruth Nankabirwa and the Victoria Women’s Group B-2 in Lugazi, Uganda. This loan was primarily used to purchase clothes for their clothing boutique. I was notified on December 15th that t ...
  • “Is Wikileaks wicked or hallowed?” by ...
    The world media is currently awash with sensitive, sensationalized and classified information. Many ‘unknowns’ are now known. Politicians, especially from ‘civilized and developed world’ and those from ‘wicked and doomed world’, have though in different taste and manner, their dirty linens in the ag ...
  • On The (NEW) Direction of the AfroSpear….
    Thank you to ALL of you who have responded to the post concerning changes here; those of you who asked how you can help and those of you who sent along good wishes. We need them. We need an active “group” of monitors, posters, people who are committed to tracking comments that we receive and [...]
  • sat’day riddymz
      Dedicated to the “First Lady of Soul” – Ms. Aretha FRANKLIN!

Expose the BNP

  • Expose the BNP: activists’ meeting
    Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a nation ...
  • Rotherham fascist leads secret double life
    A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep his po ...
  • Nick Griffin humiliated in Barking defeat
    The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative candidat ...
  • Ten questions that expose Nick Griffin
    On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...
  • Workshy Griffin left his parents penniless
    On yesterdayâs Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that âLiberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.â The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parentsâ finances as well. Griffi ...

Sen4Earth

  • No to Monsanto and GMO: Action Central
    "SEN is greatly concerned that Monsanto and GMO give rise to a threat that if unchecked could eventually prove as catastrophic to mankind and the sustainability of all life on earth as global warming. We must scream bloody murder, and do so with facts." -- Gregory Hilbert, Co-Founder Sustainability ...
  • Bill Gates On Climate Change & Energy: We Must and ...
    Whether you know a little or a lot about Climate Change (aka Global Warming), SEN urges you to watch this one-hour video, because you will learn a great deal either way. Gates lays out a sweeping set of ideas for reducing CO2 emmissions to zero. Gates is no fool when it comes to matters of [...]
  • Week 2 – Worldwide Campaign to Save the Gran ...
    The Grand Canyon is one of the world's most pristine and majestic treasures. Mother Nature needs our help to save it. We all need to act to protect the Grand Canyon. Pledge to do your part. Help us by adding your signature to the petitions and ask everyone you know and who cares for earth to do the ...
  • Seize BP Demonstrations Nationwide
    SEN believes these demonstrations will help awaken politicians to outrage over inadequate regulation and control of international corporations, even if they do not succeed in gaining temporary seizure of BP on the basis of national emergency and evidence of criminal neglect and fraud by BP.
  • Petition for Global Warming Facts on Fox
    SEN's Co-Founder Gregory Hilbert told Huffington bloggers Mary Ellen Harte PhD and John Harte PhD of cooltheearth, "The Discovery Palin Alaska petition-condemnation-boycott campaigns by Defenders of Wildlife, Credo, Change.org, Center for Biodiversity, Care2 Petitioners, Facebook groups and SEN have ...

If Americans Knew

  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed at ...
    Whenever Israel commits yet another atrocity, its defenders are quick to redirect public attention away from the grisly crime scene. Currently, there are headlines about allegedly anti-Semitic comments made by senior White House correspondent Helen Thomas. Pundits across the land evince outrage at h ...
  • An Open Letter to the Southern Poverty Law Clinic: ...
    I am disturbed by an article that the Center published in the fall 2007 issue of "Intelligence Report"--the Center's magazine. The item "Navy Extremist Disciplined--But Not for Extremism" is on page 11. The article focuses on Navy officer John Sharpe Jr.
  • NPR Watch: Linda Gradstein Has Done It Again on Ga ...
    NPR's reporter Linda Gradstein has done it again. She has managed to take a "must report" story on Israeli-Palestinian relations -- the new report by B'Tselem on the non-combatants, including children, killed by the Israeli military during the Israeli attack on Gaza -- and report it in a manner whic ...
  • The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
    John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
  • A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
    We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...

David J. Gregory

  • JFKto911.info
    Join our community page by CLICKING HERE, a social networking page of like minded individuals! Our page is intended to bring people together in an environment of less advertisement with a hope of sorting through propaganda in life and discovering the truth.
  • JFK deathbed confession | Big news Repost from Bor ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction, the best screenwriters that ever lived would never be able to come up with the truth of John F. Kennedy's assassination or that of 911.
  • Conservative Conundrum
    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
  • HURRAY FOR SHORT MEMORIES!
  • Never Forget: Bad Wars Aren’t Possible Unles ...
    This is a very good article from Michael Moore, what he delineates are the reasons we are still in such a mess as a Nation and a people. These reasons are blatant and should never be allowed to happen again. Even though Obama seems to be tied to the Bush Doctrine of appeasing the military-industrial ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • EnviroLeaks : Now Live
    EnviroLeaks is a repository of leaked information that fills the gap between what the mainstream media allow us to know about the environmentally destructive behaviour of the industrial system, and the often highly classified and largely political information from groups such as WikiLeaks. EnviroLea ...
  • EnviroLeaks – Coming Soon…
    Watch this space for more information. Secure email in advance to farnish [at] hushmail [dot] com Nothing is as it seems…
  • How to Remove Conduit Engine Search from Firefox 3 ...
    I know this isn’t a tecchie blog, but sometimes I come across a problem to which there isn’t a solution listed and have to work it out for myself. In this case I (ill-advisedly as it turned out) upgraded BitTorrent to version 7 (7.1 and 7.2 at present). This is sort of pertinent to The [...]
  • WIKILEAKS MIRROR SITES – IMPORTANT
    The Wikileaks servers are under constant pressure and attack: both the sheer weight of traffic and the efforts of various government agencies to bring the servers down, or damage the DNS records, are conspiring to make the main wikileaks.org site unavailable. But this is not really a problem for two ...
  • Wikileaks: Governments Apologising In Advance For ...
    Well, it seems that a few politicians have been saying rude things about each other, and now they are really desperate to cover it all up. I don’t know; we expect “our” representatives to be paragons of virtue and then damn Wikileaks spills the beans. Bad Wikileaks! On the other hand, given the shit ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Newt Comes Out As A Muslim-Baiter
    Early this week, disgraced former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned that “a commitment to religious freedom and God-given rights is being replaced by a secular oppression…”  Just hours after those words appeared on Human Events, Gingrich issued a statement forcefully opposing the constructi ...
  • Wealthy Far More Likely To Default On Mortgages
    crossposted at Political Correction For much of the past two years, Congressional Republicans have wasted few opportunities to blame poor and working class Americans for the financial meltdown and the subsequent recession. They’ve argued that through well-intentioned government initiatives, includ ...
  • GOP House Candidate: Mosque Near Ground Zero Is A ...
    Conservative activists and the Muslim-baiters among them are furious about a proposed Islamic community center to be built near Ground Zero.  The debate has become entirely unhinged and some of the more hateful folks are using the controversy as a rallying cry to oppose the construction of all futur ...
  • Ex-Muslim Ergun Caner Is A Fraud
    Ergun Caner is one of the most prominent figures in the evangelical movement. He is also one of the most deceptive. A self-professed Muslim convert to Christianity, Caner plays an important, and arguably dangerous, role in the community. After the 9/11 attacks, when many Americans were searching for ...
  • Aliou Kumbaya
    My brother Aliou Niasse has saved the day.  He was the first to spot smoke coming out of the Nissan Pathfinder that Faisal Shahzad intended to detonate in crowded Times Square. Thankfully, the incompetence of Shahzab and the alertness of Niasse and two other gentlemen, both of whom are Vietnam War v ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • NPR's Project Argo Creates National Content at the ...
    Jason and the Argonauts were the mythological Greek heroes who set off on a quest for the Golden Fleece. Like its namesake, NPR's Project Argo is off on another noble quest -- to strengthen local journalism, particularly on digital platforms. Project Argo is a partnership between NPR and member sta ...
  • Introducing Sourcerer: A Context Management System
    If you want to follow the news, the web has a lot to offer: a wide variety of information sources, powerful search tools, and no shortage of sites where people can voice their opinions. At the same time, though, the web can be overwhelming. Hundreds of links turn up in a Google search. Relevant inf ...
  • How OpenStreetMap Helps to Curb Haiti's Cholera Ep ...
    In order to respond to the current cholera epidemic in Haiti, it's essential that citizens, aid groups and others are aware of the locations of functioning health and sanitation facilities. The challenge is that maps showing this information don't currently exist -- at least not in a comprehensive a ...
  • Altering Docs? Now There's a Tool for That in Docu ...
    When we embarked on the DocumnetCloud project, tools for altering documents were the furthest thing from our minds. After all, a responsible journalist doesn't tweak source documents! But one of the first papers to embed material using DocumentCloud needed to do just that. The Chicago Tribune acc ...
  • CNN Fails to Correct Mistaken Identity for New Zea ...
    CNN's broadcasts are of packed with cheerleading for the network's viewer participation opportunities. You're encouraged to "share your story" at CNN iReport or "join a live chat" at Anderson Cooper's blog or check out CNN Heroes on Facebook or follow one of the network's nearly three dozen Twitter ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Islma on the Edge - Muslim family in Spain Sues ov ...
    According to media reports in Spain, a Muslim student accused his teacher of Islamophobia during a geography class at a school in Cadiz. The city is located near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula, in Andalucia. The teacher was giving a course on variations in climate and spoke of the fam ...
  • Pickens Plan and Windmills A Lot of Hot Air
    The Pickens Plan for arrays of windmills as a solution to transportation is far-fetched and mainly hot air. How much brain is needed to know that automobiles do not run on windmill power. True, they will create electricity for the grid and that is a good thing. But that has nothing to do with conver ...
  • Sleep on the Edge - Getting Ahead of the High Pric ...
    Danish sleep researchers at the University of Copenhagen and the Danish Institute for Health Services Research have examined the socio-economic consequences of the sleep disorder hypersomnia in one of the largest studies of its kind. The sleep disorder has far-reaching consequences for both the indi ...
  • The Roadway's Edge - Despite More Distracted-Drivi ...
    Over the past five years, road fatalities in the United States have fallen 22 percent, thanks primarily to the poor economy and the increased prevalence of air bags, according to University of Michigan researchers.“A reduction of such magnitude over such a short time has not occurred since road safe ...
  • America on Edge - New Study shows Illegal Drug Use ...
    Several important findings come out of this year's Monitoring the Future study, the 36th annual, national survey of American teens in a series that launched in 1975.Among the findings for this year were that the use of marijuana,�which had been rising among teens for the past two years, continues to ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

  • Happy As A Hangman
    By Chris HedgesThose who do not carry out acts of rebellion, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, are guilty of solidifying and perpetuating these crimes. Those who do not act delude themselves into believing they are innocent. They are not
  • WikiLeaks: What, Really, Is The Problem?
    By Alan HartAlan Harts vote of confidence for WikiLeaks and Julian Assange and an indictment on the mainstream media for the way it reported the leaks
  • Assange Rape Accuser Linked To Notorious CIA Opera ...
    By David EdwardsOne of the women that is accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of sex crimes appears to have worked with a group that has connections to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  • The Truth Will Always Win
    By Julian Assange In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth
  • The Arrest Of Julian Assange: Truth In Chains
    By Chris FloydWell, they got him at last. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the target of several of the worlds most powerful governments, turned himself into British authorities today and is now at the mercy of state authorities who have already shown their wolfish and lawless desire to destro ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Sharing the writing of another Stieber
    My younger brother, Zack, has been fascinated by the Chinese practice of Falun Gong and is hoping that this post could be used to spark a further discussion about it. � Thoughts on Falun Gong by Zack Stieber � Most of us are aware that in China things work differently then here. The main thing our [ ...
  • Article in FOR
    The following is the rough draft for an article I wrote, reflecting on the war in Iraq, that was published in the recent edition of the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s magazine. For more info on getting the full magazine, check out: http://forusa.org/fall-2010-renewing-movement   Rhetoric and Realit ...
  • Slate Interview: My Country Right or Wrong: Consci ...
    Interview I did with a fascinating writer for SLATE whose special interest is on transformation and how people come to admit they’re wrong:   Address to article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/archive/2010/12/16/my-country-right-or-wrong-conscientious-objector-josh-stieber-on-being-w ...
  • Dangerous Activity Thwarted in Afghanistan!
  • Tenth Year of War, March to Stop Deployment of Tra ...
    Thursday marked the beginning of the 10th year of war in Afghanistan. There is much to protest about U.S. action there–some performed a die-in to highlight the use of drones (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/200657/us-drone-kills-7-militants-in-nw-pakistan)–and a group of veterans of The Global ...

Yid With Lid

  • Federal Government Says Requiring Credit Checks fo ...
    When I got hired for my last job, before the job offer was final I had to submit to a drug test, and a background check which included a credit history. Employers look at a credit report for trustworthiness. They see the ability to pay bills in a consistent manner as an indication of whether you ...
  • Christmas is Evil !! The Religion of Peace At Work
    Holy Cow! If the folks at Fox News think there is a war against Christmas in the United States, they should try Great Britain. A Muslim hate group has launched a nation-wide poster campaign in the UK declaring that Christmas is responsible for rape, teenage pregnancies, abortion, promiscuity, crime ...
  • First Step Toward Single-Payer? Sebelius Moves Tow ...
    Based on statements made by President Obama as well as his progressive comrades, it is suspected that after the passage of the Obacare bill, the next step will be to squeeze health insurance companies out of business, "forcing" the government to "save the day" by coming up with a single payer-system ...
  • Leading Greek Priest Blames Lousy Greek Economy o ...
    Seraphim Mentzelopoulos, AKA The Metropolite of Piraeus Seraphima a leading Priest of the Greek Orthodox Church found a unique way to celebrate the spirit of the season. He went on TV and blamed the Jews for everything from Greece's financial problems to Hitler, yes according to this supposed man o ...
  • Arlen Specter's Sad, Bitter, Goodbye Speech, Reeks ...
    Today Arlen Specter said goodbye to the Senate, and in doing so he showed himself to be a bitter, defeated old man. I suppose such is the fate of political opportunists. Ironically he devoted part of his speech to bashing the "right wing" voters who seek to back candidates whose Conservatism was ...

The Real Agenda

  • What if… Ron Paul were President
    What if Americans woke up…  What if the citizens of the planet woke all up… Filed under: Uncategorized
  • Chinese Weather Manipulation Experiments To Increa ...
    RedOrbit.com Chinese officials have vowed to ramp-up efforts to control the weather, announcing on Thursday that they intend to try to use technology to reduce natural disasters and combat droughts. According to the Xinhua news agency, Zheng Guoguang, the director of the China Meteorological Adminis ...
  • Quantitative Easing Explained
    QE and QE2 have absolutely nothing to do with “saving” the economy. However, QE3 has already been announced. By Eric Woodell The massive “quantitative easing” by the Federal Reserve, sounds somewhat noble, even gentle, in its approach to helping restore the American economy.  Such terms almost sound ...
  • ‘El año Más Caliente en la Historia’, ...
    Por Christopher Booker Adaptación Luis R. Miranda Ãltimamente hemos oído la afirmación que 2010 ha sido “el año más caluroso en el registro”. Nadie ha hecho más para promover esta creencia de que el Dr. James Hansen, director del Instituto Goddard de Estudios Espaciales (GISS), responsable de ...
  • There’s a mini ice age coming
    It’s the Sun, Stupid!  Piers Corbyn not only predicted the current weather, but he believes things are going to get much worse, says Boris Johnson, London’s mayor Sidney Morning Herald The man who repeatedly beats the Met Office at its own game Well, folks, it’s tea-time on Sunday and for anyone in ...

Wind Watch

  • Prattsburgh residents updated on wind farm lawsuit
    Prattsburgh � An informational meeting Tuesday night on the status of a lawsuit between a wind energy company and the town of Prattsburgh drew sharp lines between a divided town and a divided town board. Ed Hourihan, the attorney defending the town in the lawsuit filed by wind farm developer Ecogen, ...
  • Wind mill noise limit still up in air
    As wind energy farms prepare to sprout in Tippecanoe County, some residents are fighting a proposal that would allow for more noise — and they fear nuisance — from the developments. “This is not just a ‘I can’t stand that mosquito’ kind of noise,” said county resident Julie Peretin. “This is about q ...
  • Landowners who sign leases with First Wind can&#82 ...
    BRIMFIELD � The Board of Assessors is seeking to deny property tax reductions to land owners who have Chapter 61 forestry designations on their properties but have also signed leases with First Wind to allow use of their land for a proposed wind farm atop West Mountain. The board also recently denie ...
  • DEP: Vinalhaven turbines too loud
    The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has found that three wind turbines on Vinalhaven have exceeded nighttime noise limits and has asked Fox Islands Wind LLC to modify its operations. The small island wind farm has proven controversial since it began operating a year ago, with some neigh ...
  • Caribou threatened by wind farms, expert says
    Ecologist warns building turbines in wintering habitat would jeopardize efforts to allow recovery of B.C. herds The wind-farm industry is putting threatened woodland caribou herds at increased risk by seeking to put their projects on the same windswept alpine ridges that represent critical wintering ...

Not My Tribe

  • As Wikileaks threatens establishment, Apple wields ...
    Remember when Apple pretended to be the defiant sledgehammer to 1984? Today as Julian Assange swings the hammer, Apple joins its big brothers on the giant screen as it removes the Wikileaks app for iPones and iPads. Did you think there were any heroes in the corporate firmament? Amazon, Paypal, Visa ...
  • War on SantaIn January 2009, President of the United State...Image via Wikipedia
  • Amazon pedophile guide author Phillip Greaves is g ...
    PUEBLO, CO – Self-published self-abuser Phillip R. Greaves is going to Disneyland! Do I mean Disney World –because the molestation e-book author is being extradited to Florida? Naw. Thanks to the gung-ho deviant-phobic Florida Polk County Sheriff, the Amazon-banned-infamous, now civil-liberty-abridg ...
  • Revisiting the Weather Underground’s 1970 pa ...
    Former Weatherman Bill Ayers, now a respected professor of education, was recently nominated for emeritus status but ran into trouble when a right wing blogger complained that a 1970 underground publication coauthored by Ayers, Prairie Fire, had been dedicated to Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Rober ...
  • John Pilger – The War You Don’t See
    We call it the Iraq War, as we did the Vietnam War, but America’s wars aren’t so-named in the host countries. It’s the Iraq Invasion, not War, and Afghanistan Invasion really, now Occupation, Decimation and Holocaust. Journalist filmmaker John Pilger subscribes to the theory that if a public is let ...

Debunking the Debunkers

  • Attacks against Geraldo and Napolitano expose esta ...
    As CNN observes ... It's rare that two media watchdogs – one on the left and one on the right – ever agree when it comes to assessing coverage on the cable news outlets. But both the conservative Newsbusters and liberal Media Matters are aiming fire at Fox News' Geraldo Rivera and Judge Andrew Napo ...
  • Pat Curley will Always be the Better Ringmaster
    Comment from Scootle: Over at the Screw Loose Change blog, Pat Curley has commented on 'Jesse's Pentagon Circus', I agree with many of his comments, but there are a few points that need addressing. Pat writes: The standdown witness is an LA building inspector? Of course, it makes complete sense t ...
  • Shirley they can't be serious!
    9-11 Victim Families Criticize Napolitano Comments http://mediamatters.org/blog/201011290030 No f-ing way! Shirley they can't be serious! (Sorry, couldn't resist) They are still playing the 'family members hate us' card?! ... Even though the thing they are supposedly debunking is a campaign started ...
  • Of Course, WTC7 Never Existed!
    "Every now and then I meet somebody [..] asking me about this Building 7, but I have no evidence that this really occured!" ~ Joe Lieberman Now this is what you call denialism! As if denying WTC7's demolition isn't bad enough, Joe Lieberman seems to be denying it even existed! So what about all t ...
  • The 9/11 Truth Experiment
    Here is a proposed experiment from a new "debunker" on YouTube, "Humantidote": Stand under it holding torches huh? As AE911Truth.org mechanical engineer Tony Szamboti just recently stated:"Fire can't melt steel except in the controlled circumstances of a blast furnace, or with a welding torch, or wi ...

Fooducate

  • Why Does Michelle Obama Think Honey Nut Cheerios i ...
    Last week,  First Lady Michelle Obama held a holiday reception with children, parents and staff at the Childrenâs National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Chit-chating with the kids, the subject of healthy breakfast came up. From the transcript: CHILD:  What’s your favorite thing to eat for br ...
  • Last Post on Yogurt for 2010 [Funny Video]
    We’ve written a lot about yogurt recently. We love yogurt. It’s really good for you. But sometimes it seems that industry is hammering on this one nail way too many times. And too hard. Many brands are dding all sort of additives that detract from the nutritional value of the original product. And ...
  • Are Omega-3 Enriched Foods Worth The Extra $$$?
    We all know omega-3 means healthy. Men need 1600mg per day, and women 1100mg. Most of us are not getting enough. Food industry to the rescue:  we’re seeing lots of foods boasting added omega-3. There is usually a premium price attached to these enriched products. But is the extra money we pay worth ...
  • FiberOne Yoplait – Zero Guilt? Not So Sure…
    Fiber is an important nutrient. Good sources of fiber are fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. We need 25 grams a day, but most of us fall short on this number because we don’t eat enough of the above. That’s why many food companies today push fiber into their processed products. Yogurt is a healt ...
  • Visualizing Portion Sizes
    This is a guest blog post by Larry Istrail Estimating portion sizes is arguably the most important, yet difficult aspect of approximating your daily caloric intake. Simply stated, the inability to assess serving sizes yields inaccurate caloric estimations and potentially less weight loss, or more we ...

Traffikd

  • How to Find Great Communities, Forums, and Blogs i ...
    To market your company effectively, you need to find out where your target audience is. In this post I’ll show you how you can do this. I like using examples, so in this case, I’ll assume you sell Star Wars merchandise.
  • Blogging Event Ideas to Spice Up Your Blog
    If you've ever gone to an industry conference, film festival, grand opening, or author signing, then you can appreciate the energy such events can create. Industry conferences gather together the best and brightest minds in order to share ideas and plan for the future. Film festivals celebrate great ...
  • Increasing Your Blog’s Interactivity: 10 Tips for ...
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari Success in attracting and retaining readers is often influenced by a blog’s level of interactivity. Many readers are more active than passive and want to feel like they have a role in affecting a blog’s content, design, structure, and overall ongoing conversation. Posts ...
  • 5 Facebook Apps That Really Make Money
    Guest post by Alexis Bonari If you aren't on Facebook by now, you are probably the only one who isn't. My grandmother has a Facebook page and anyone who can type, is able to start their own page with no problem. Most everyone uses Facebook as a social meeting place, but did you know that you coul ...
  • Online Profits Re-Opens (and now it’s free)!
    Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips started a membership site, Online Profits, last year to help people learn about making money online. Daniel has just re-launched and re-vamped Online Profits, and this time there is no charge to get all of the valuable content. The only requirement is that you open a ...

Survival International

  • WikiLeaks: US renewed Indonesia military ties afte ...
    Footage of Indonesian soldiers torturing two Papuans caused widespread outrage and revulsion. © Survival US government cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed that Indonesia threatened to derail President Obama’s visit to Jakarta this year unless America reversed its ban on military assistan ...
  • Nukak’s desperate plea to return home
    Many Nukak have been forced to flee their forest homes, and now live in refugee camps outside the forest. © Arnau Blanch/Survival A leader of the Nukak tribe from the Colombian Amazon has made a desperate appeal for his people’s survival before the country’s top human rights committee. ’We wan ...
  • Borneo tribes under threat from massive palm oil e ...
    Penan mother and child, Sarawak, Borneo. © Survival International The hunter-gatherer Penan and other tribes are under threat from new plans to expand palm oil plantations massively in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The Sarawak government has announced plans to double the area used for palm ...
  • Tribe reveals new evidence of uncontacted Indians ...
    Kayapó Indians dance at a protest against the Belo Monte dam © T Turner A tribe in the Brazilian Amazon has revealed new evidence showing that there are uncontacted Indians living in the area of the planned Belo Monte mega-dam, and has warned that these Indians are seriously threatened by the p ...
  • Success! USA is final country to support tribal ri ...
    All countries that opposed the Declaration, including Australia, now support it. It is a small step in creating real change for tribal people like this Aboriginal boy. © John Miles/Survival The United States has formally endorsed the UN Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, meaning t ...

TO DO

renewable recycling conservation
California approves novel reverse auction forrenewable energy projects
California Independent Voter Network
by Bob Morris The California Public Utilities Commission recently approved a unique way to spur development in renewable energy. Under the Renewable Auction ...
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UK renewables smash output records as wind capacity soars
Business Green
By Jessica Shankleman The renewableenergy industry was today celebrating as new figures revealed that it made its highest ever contribution to the UK's ...
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Naperville puts wind in sails of renewableenergy ordinance
TribLocal
By Mick Swasko TribLocal reporter Today at 6:58 am Naperville City Council members agreed to give residents a chance to experiment with renewable energy ...
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Airstreams Renewables, Inc. Announces Corporate Initiatives and Restructuring ...
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23, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- AirstreamsRenewables, Inc. (ARI) today announced details of the planned corporate restructuring to facilitate ongoing expansion ...
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HUMAN HABITAT

ecology water energy
State adopts Kittitas Co. water rule
Yakima Herald-Republic
YAKIMA -- The Department of Ecology on Wednesday made official previous announcements that new groundwater withdrawals in upper Kittitas County will be...
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The Lower East Side Ecology Center and Tekserve Team Up for 'After the ...
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22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning January 2nd and running through January 23rd, the Lower East Side Ecology Center and Tekserve, New York's largest ...
Ecology rule to expedite ...
AgInfo.net
Washington Ag Today December 22, 2010 State Ecology Director Ted Sturdevant has signed the Hillis Rule amendment to expedite the processing of water right ...
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Ecology groups seeking Church support
Cebu Daily News
By Candeze R. Mongaya ECOLOGYadvocates are looking to the Catholic Church to support their campaign against climate change and the impending operation of ...
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WATER POWER

water floods pollution
EPA to help develop checks on city water
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
The EPA establishes national guidelines for safe drinking water. Critics say the agency has been operating under a outmoded standard -- a maximum ...
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Storm lashes California and leaves pollutedwater
Wyoming Tribune
"It could well be but we will be monitoring and testing water and we won't recommend people go back there until we're sure it's safe....
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Low water pressure reported across Orleans Parish
WWL First News
The New Orleans Sewage and Water Board says they are experiencing problems at the Carrollton pumping station station. According to the S&WB, the entire NO ...
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Warren mayor has questions on water rates
Detroit Free Press
Warren Mayor Jim Fouts wants to know whether corruption in the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department has left suburban residents paying more for water than ...
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