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IPS - Inter Press Services

• MIDEAST: Nazi-Like Jews to the Fore
  Emotions are running high in this working class town on the Mediterranean adjacent to Tel Aviv, the Israeli metropolis that has long been the symbol of liberal laissez-faire Israel. Principally, anti-Arab emotions: Racism is on the march.
• ARGENTINA: Affordable Housing – A Distant Dr ...
  While real estate investment and the number of upscale apartments for sale or rent are growing in the Argentine capital, tens of thousands of poor families are living in crowded shanty towns, and are demanding affordable housing and access to mortgage programmes.
• RIGHTS: Guantanamo Closure Recedes Into Distance
  President Barack Obama's hopes of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility appear as far from being realised as ever in the wake of new legislation approved by Congress this week.
• Justice at Last for Peasant Environmentalists in M ...
  "I feel I can breathe more deeply and look more towards the future. I feel at peace," Mexican peasant Rodolfo Montiel told IPS, from somewhere on the west coast of the United States.
• Cholera Forces Haiti to Face Sewage Dilemma
  The cholera crisis is forcing Haitian authorities to address an unpleasant and now life-threatening problem – untreated feces.

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," ..

Independent - London

• Briton dies in Alps ski accident
  A British man has died in a skiing accident in the French Alps.
• Toyota to pay $10 million in runaway Lexus crash
  Toyota Motor Corp. agreed to pay $10 million to the family of four people killed in a runaway Lexus crash that led to recalls of millions of the automaker's vehicles, attorneys said today.
• 35 die as militants attack security posts
  Eleven soldiers and 24 insurgents were killed whe dozens of militants attacked five security posts in Pakistan's tribal area near the Afghan border overnight.
• The Year in Review: The other stories that had eve ...
• 'Cuddle class' – the cosier way to fly
  A new design that allows three economy seats to be turned into a bed has been unveiled by Air New Zealand.

Rogue Government.com

• Sacramento-area pilot punished for YouTube video
  An airline pilot is being disciplined by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for posting video on YouTube pointing out what he believes are serious flaws in airport security.
• New Jersey: Mobile Police Guard Towers
• Printing Ultra-Thin Circuits Into Banknotes Could ...
  Earlier this month, it came to light that the new high-tech U.S. $100 bill was so difficult to counterfeit that even the U.S. mint couldn’t properly master the production process, causing printing problems that eventually led the Treasury Department to quarantine $110 billion in new currency.
• Some investors fear collapse of municipal bonds ac ...
  Investors have fled municipal bonds in recent weeks, leading to rising fears about investments in state and local government debt and increasing the potential for higher rates for when governments look to borrow money.
• Skype blames service outage on 'supernode' problem
  Internet telephony giant Skype blamed its peer-to-peer interconnection system for a problem that some reports said resulted in millions of users being unable to make calls using the service on Wednesday.

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

• Ancient city unearthed in Socotra Island
  SANA'A, Dec. 24 (Saba) - Russian archaeological team has unearthed an ancient city in Socotra Island, the state-run 26sep.net reported on Friday. After four-year archaeological excavations, the Russian team managed to discover an ancient city called "Khajlah" and located near Hidibu city, the main ...
• Belarusian riot police actions against Russian jou ...
  Actions taken by Belarusian Special Police Forces against Russian journalists were not justified, a representative of Russian Embassy in Minsk said on Monday. Police detained a photographer from a St. Petersburg newspaper during Sunday's opposition riots in Minsk, the newspaper's website said on ...
• 5.4-magnitude quake shakes Puerto Rico
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck the U.S. Caribbean territory on Christmas Eve, rattling windows and doors across the island but causing no major damage, officials said. The quake occurred at a depth of 63 miles south-southwest of the capital of San Juan, according t ...
• Sacred site sex scandal
  A TERRITORY man said he could see into the future and told a Japanese tourist she would die if they did not have sex on a "sacred site", a court has heard. The woman said the man told her he could see her dying in hospital in three years' time if she rejected his advances while at Ubirr Rock, a po ...
• A question of force: Belarusian regime lashes out ...
  The main intrigue of Belarus' December 19 presidential election was not the number of votes cast for Alexander Lukashenko or for the opposition candidates, but the perennial question: who resorted to violence first and why. This came as a heavy blow to the country, which was just beginning to eme ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Saturday Morning Cartoons.
  Good morning, darlings -- a little Bugs Bunny with your coffee?
• Santa Tracker
  At the time of writing NORAD is placing Santa Claus at Goose Green in the Falkland Islands. (Nice, just what I need.) Follow NORAD's 2010 Santa Tracker here.
• Happy 75th!
  WIRED has an article by Jason Paur, "75th Anniversary of the Plane That Changed Everything". It's a commemoration of the first flight of the DC-3. The aircraft hit a "sweet spot" as a design, and changed how people traveled world-wide, and showed the airlines how technological improvements added to ...
• What would Christmas be without a classic?
• Christmas present from the CIA
  Think Wikileaks is a big name? Now it's a WTF big name. Courtesy of the US Central Intelligence Agency. H/T Jill

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 ...

Global Research.ca

• The Threat Of NATO Expansion
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The Rise in Temporary Employment. The Loss of Job ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• The 2010 Mideast People of the Year:The Oppressed.
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• 2011: Prospects for Humanity?
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Christmas Eve Prediction: Obama Easily Re-Elected
  It came to me as if in a dream. A year from now, President Obama's re-election will be assured. The GOP primary battle will be amusing, but -- like the GOP primaries in 1996 -- it will be clear that they are not nominating a President. None of their potential candidates is remotely electable. ...
• The Name of the Game Is Oligarchy
  If you have been wondering why Don't Ask, Don't Tell could be repealed, and nuclear arms control passed, by the same legislature that insisted on sustaining the Bush upper-crust tax cuts, the answer, in PoliSciese, is here. Jeffrey A. Winters and Benjamin I. Page of the political science department ...
• 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.

TruthOut

• EPA Sets Timetable For Refineries, Power Plants to ...
  Setting the stage for a New Year battle royale between Congress and the White House over greenhouse gas emissions, the US Environmental Protection Agency Thursday laid out a timetable for the nation's largest carbon emitters – power plants and refineries – to begin curbing those pollutants. Rep ...
• Returning Democratic Senators Unanimously Push For ...
  As the 111th Congress enters the history books, most retrospectives point to its major accomplishments, including health care reform and repealing the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. read more
• WikiLeaks: Army Opens Probe Into How Bradley Manni ...
  Washington - The U.S. Army has launched a wide-ranging investigation into how a private suspected of downloading thousands of secret reports and diplomatic cables and handing them over to WikiLeaks was able to do so and whether other soldiers should face criminal charges in the case, McClatchy h ...
• Why Peace Activists Should Take an Active Interest ...
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• Keeping State Secrets
  You’ve probably heard of Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Maybe even Bradley Manning, the Army private and former intelligence officer who allegedly turned over thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks. read more

Planetsave

• Global Weirding Link Drop: WikiLeaks, Citizen Kane ...
  Here we go again, our weekly link drop of global weirding stories we didn’t cover. For the numerous stories we did cover, check out: The year of living dangerously. Masters: âThe stunning extremes we witnessed gives me concern that our climate is showing the early signs of instabilityâ A year of dea ...
• Environmental News of the Week: Polar Bears, More ...
  Here’s our roundup of interesting (good & bad) environmental and wildlife news of the week, other than what we’ve covered already. White House: Polar Bears Not ‘Endangered’ The Obama administration is sticking with a George W. Bush-era decision to deny polar bears endangered species status. In a cou ...
• Reindeer (10 Friday Photos for Christmas)
  Photo Credit: J.E. Fee via Flickr Well, Christmas time has already started, so I decided to show you some photos connected to Christmas! I chose reindeer. I think that with them being one of the icons of winter and Santa Clause’s coming, they really remind me childhood. I can’t imagine there is a pe ...
• Good Christmas Present for Present & Future Genera ...
  This is clearly one of the best Christmas presents future generations could have asked for. The EPA announced, yesterday, a two-year plan to come up with clean air standards for power plants and oil refineries that will considerably cut global warming pollution. Here’s more from our sister site Clea ...
• Ring the Bells [Music Video]
  A nice video for this time of year. Maybe not 100% related to the environment, but creating peace in the world is also extremely beneficial to the environment, and the general idea of working together is clearly important for the environment as well. Hope you like it.

Water Quality - WordPress

• On Currituck Pond
  A darner is born from its nymphal skin on a breezy April day. In the background, the lonely fountain
• Cancer-Causing Chromium-6 Widespread in U.S. Drink ...
  WASHINGTON, DC, December 23, 2010 (ENS) – Tap water from 31 of 35 U.S. cities tested contains
• Two Videos featuring Andy Lipkis
  Here are a couple of videos that creek freaks will enjoy; both feature Andy Lipkis the founder and s
• Put Away Your Old Measuring Rod!
   “… it was a river… ” – Ezekiel 47:5 NKJV  Paul writes, ‘Now to
• Fracking: A Report from the You Won't Believe This ...
  A few months ago Plains Justice’s Tar Sands Pipelines blog reported on the many rock-your-worl

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Peace in Our Time: Obama’s Munich, Part III by Ste ...
  by Steven Jonas, MD, MPH Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted on Buzzflash.com December 24, 2
• 2011: U.S. And NATO To Extend And Expand Afghan Wa ...
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism D
• Superpower (2008; must-see)
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Image by Dandelion Salad via Flickr NoBrandProduction | Decembe
• Don't Go, Don't Kill (DGDK) by Cindy Sheehan
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
• Chris Hedges: Media exit from the War
  with Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 24, 2010 thomhartmann | December 23, 2010

Axis of Logic

• Obama Isn’t Spineless, He’s Conservative: Reflecti ...
  Chutzpah   Oh boy – so now he’s really gone and done it.  President Barack Obama has (as widely predicted) “caved-in” to  Republican demands for the preservation of George W. Bush’s arch-plutocratic, deficit-driving tax cuts for the wealthy few (at a cost of $900 billion to t ...
• 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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They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Where were Canada and Mexico in December 2000 when we needed them? "The West African regional bloc Ecowas has told incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo to stand down or expect to face "legitimate force". The statement came at the end of emergency talks on the crisis sparked by a disputed e ...
• A Christmas Carol In South Carolina
  From SC but I suspect it could apply in most states these days. Terry Plumb_Rock Hill Herald Bob Cratchit's South Carolina-style Christmas Dear Mr. Cratchit: I regret to inform you that as of Dec. 25, reimbursement for medical expenses incurred on behalf of your son, Tiny Tim, no longer will be a ...
• "On his brow I see that written which is Doom"
  If "A Christmas Carol" is the only Dickens you've ever read, you're missing some of the greatest investigative reporting ever published. Dicken's novels above all things exposed the inequities, hypocrisy and cruelty of the Victorian era. Few today write about the ugly reality of poverty and the wa ...
• Obama Answers Religious Right Critics on E Pluribu ...
  It was understated and subtle, just like our President. Maybe you noticed it too - that unmistakable FU that President Obama delivered, along with remarks on repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell, to all of those holier-than-thou holy rollers who attacked him earlier this month for quoting "E Pluribus Unum ...
• How To Build A Country Full Of Morans
  Preparing the commoners for their place in the new order. Robert Reich Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations. You've probably seen the reports. American studen ...

Care 2

• Lego Cute Animals
  LEGO artisan Sean Kenney�s latest masterpieces are currently on display at the Philadelphia Zoo, in the mesmerizing exhibit �Creatures of Habitat: Gazillion Piece Animal Adventure.�Submitted by Pedja S. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You
  Kneading on you: You may think this is cute, endearing and a sign of affection but your cat is actually checking your internal organs for any signs of weakness... Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Please Help Promise
  Hello Everyone, My name is Elizabeth. I am a dog groomer by trade and love helping animals. I have spent my life helping animals in need. Now one of mine is in need and I am at a loss financially. Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Disappearing Bees and Bayer: A Deadly Combo. What ...
  Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, "is the name given to the mysterious decline of honeybee populations around the world beginning around 2006." Since that time, "one-third of the U.S. honeybee population has died off or disappeared (more than twice what Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-i ...
• ACTION ALERT: End the Cruelty Exposed at Tucson G ...
  For over sixty years, the public has been prevented from seeing the terrible way dogs are treated at Tucson Greyhound Park. Last summer, our team of professional investigators finally got into to the kennel compound to learn the trutSubmitted by Simone D. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...

Smirking Chimp

• Jon Stewart Did What Pundits and Reporters Should ...
• Cartoon for December 24th, 2010: Hope and Change, ...
• Obama's Liberty Problem: Why Indefinite Detention ...
• Dictionary, Please: Wall Street's Wallison Doubles ...
• WikiLeaks and the Fight for Privacy

Paul Krugman

• Recent Trends in Government Spending
  Another surge that wasn't.
• Yes, There Are Prisons
  But things have failed to fall apart.
• I Can't Wait For Christmas
  Jingle bells, jingle go away -- please.
• Y Yes? Y Not?
  East Side story.
• Federal Employment in 2008
  It was about security.

No Quarter

• The Night Before Christmas
  For those preparing to celebrate Christmas I wish you a time of Peace, Intimacy and Joy with you family and friends. For those who don’t believe in Christmas and are on the outside looking in, well, have a good time too. Take advantage of stores being closed and life slowing down to get some rest. [ ...
• C’mas Eve Open Thread
  First up, here’s a toon that cracked me up … Charles Krauthammer may be giving me nightmares, but I fear Charles’s positive review of Obama’s performance lately is on mark … U.S. News compares the personalities (and any similarities) of Barack Obama and Bill Clinton … Senator Scott Brown (the Republ ...
• Romulan Boomers and Terminators
  Speaking John Bolton, Tuesday 21, re the New START Treaty that David Drucker of Roll Call tells me will now find consent from the Lame Duck Senate, with 9 Republican votes (or more) joining 57 Democrats. Ron Wyden is not voting, because of absence due to hospitalization. What is wrong with New START ...
• Changing the world, one site at a time…
  * Bumped Up * 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? [ ...
• Eve of the Eve Open Thread
  Oh that Greg Gutfeld. He always finds a unique perspective. Here’s his latest Fox News Red Eye nightly commentary, this one on DADT. The site describes the topic as “Gutfeld: Reid Goes Gaga for DADT — Senate majority leader puts looking cool ahead of the issues”: Watch the latest video at video.foxn ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Earth 350, the First Global Climate Art Show
  Earth 350 is the very first planetary art show centered on climate change. It is an approach no one has really looked at before. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• The Significance Christmas Plants
  Various evergreen plants are popular during the Christmas season. Here we talk their history and significance... read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
• What We Can Learn from Star Trek Movies
  Even imaginary, futuristic civilizations fought and failed against returning through the black hole of waste, expired natural resources and lost innovation. It happens. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the arti ...
• 5 Solar Eclipses Expected in 2026
  The history of viewing gravity-related phenomena when solar eclipses occur is lengthy, and the narratives surrounding an eclipse's "totality" are even more substantial. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the arti ...
• How Plastic is Preying on Albatross Chicks
  There is seaborne trash that threatens animals of the sea, but plastic debris seems to be the perceived threat for the albatross chicks. 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

• Immolations Draw Attention to WikiLeaks Tunisia Ca ...
  Can Tunisians turn the "Tunileaks" to their advantage?
• Immolations Draw Attention to WikiLeaks Tunisia Ca ...
  Can Tunisians turn the "Tunileaks" to their advantage?
• 60-Second Expert: Ireland
  The Celtic tiger is following the same trajectory as the Asian tigers. Is China next?
• Immolations Draw Attention to WikiLeaks Tunisia Ca ...
  Can Tunisians turn the "Tunileaks" to their advantage?
• Immolations Draw Attention to WikiLeaks Tunisia Ca ...
  Can Tunisians turn the "Tunileaks" to their advantage?

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

• Sudan's army claims rebel deaths
  Sudanese military says it has killed 40 rebels in clashes with coalition of Darfur militias, including JEM and SLA.
• US imam launches 'interfaith' tour
  Cleric building an Islamic centre near Ground Zero kicks off a charm offensive to promote coexistence and tolerance.
• South Korea frees Chinese fishermen
  Three crewmen detained after a deadly clash between their trawler and a South Korean patrol ship are released to China.
• Haiti reels from voodoo lynchings
  At least 45 people killed, accused of using "black magic" to spread cholera, an epidemic which killed some 2,400 people.
• Pakistan bomb attack kills dozens
  At least 40 people killed and dozens injured after a suspected suicide bomber attacks town in northwest of the country.

Green Inc. - NYT

• Nigeria Drops Bribery Charges Against Cheney
  Halliburton agrees to a $35 million settlement, but its legal headaches may not be over.
• Your Piece of the Keeling Curve
  Pretty much everyone on the planet is burning fossil fuels and contributing to the rise of greenhouse gases, but some of us are contributing a lot more than others.
• Does Lead Lurk in Your Tap Water?
  Even pipes that are made of brass or iron can contain small levels of lead, a New York City environmental official says. And faucets and fittings can contribute.
• Climate Change and 'Balanced' Coverage
  Despite news reports that imply the contrary, computer projections indicate that temperatures could potentially rise far more than 5 or 6 degrees.
• 9/11 Payments Must Start Next Month, Judge Says
  The first checks, which go to all plaintiffs who accepted a settlement, will amount to $3,250 apiece.

Dot Earth News

• Top of the World To You
  A pause to recharge, and to celebrate humanity's remarkable juncture.
• Covering Climate from Cancún to Katmandu
  Journalists from around the world explore the challenges in covering climate change and climate diplomacy.
• A Photographer Reflects on Press Beatings at Clima ...
  A photographer reflects on police orders to beat the press along with demonstrators at climate talks a year ago.
• Seeking a Meaningful Price on Carbon
  Students reflect on a recent gathering aimed at reshaping America's tax system to help curb carbon without hurting the economy.
• Lomborg Replies to Dot Earth Readers
  A "skeptical environmentalist" responds to Dot Earth critics.

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

• Waiting for Superrich-Man
  A willing public fights in defense of billionaires who are helping themselves to their - to our - hard-earned money. How has this happened? How has the public turned on itself, avidly supporting policies that tilt the "free market" against them?
• Book Review: The Great American Stickup, by Robert ...
  After the mid-term elections, President Obama made a further turn to the right in part in an attempt to placate the right wing populists. Many supporters, including critical supporters, of Obama were somewhat shocked at. They shouldn’t have been, and if they’d read Robert Scheer’s “The Great America ...
• 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 ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• US plans new nuclear talks with Russia
• Michelle Obama helps kids track Santa Claus
• White House confirms Sarkozy visit January 10
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• On Hawaii vacation, Obama reads up on Reagan

Institute for Policy Studies

• 'Tis The Season For Gay Rights
  Finally, a long-overdue step forward for civil rights achieved.
• 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.
• Yes, There is An Alternative
  More and more people, communities, and nations are taking steps to reduce their vulnerability to a volatile global economy.
• The Baby Trade
  Here's a solution to climate change: countries with the smallest carbon footprints should adopt U.S. babies.
• South Korea: Seeking Reunification by Live Fire?
  This week North Korea looks like the more rational of the two Koreas.

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

• 30 Ill in Illinois, 70 Ill in Wisconsin - Rolf's P ...
  According to a Christmas Eve FDA’s/Rolf’s Press Release: • Rolf’s Patisserie, a gourmet European style bakery located in Lincolnwood, Ill., is recalling all desserts made after Nov. 1, 2010. The products include tiramisu, cakes, cobblers, decorated cookies, tarts, pastries, and pies. • The dessert ...
• At least four sickened with E. coli O157:H7 by Zil ...
  According to a Marathon County Health Department press release, four persons have developed illness, including one hospitalization, from E. coli O157:H7 contracted from eating smoked ready-to-eat meat products processed at Zillman Meat Market in Wausau, Wisconsin. Persons who became ill ate ready-t ...
• 15 State Outbreak of Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:- Inf ...
  From November 1 to December 21, 2010, a total of 89 individuals with a matching strain of Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:- have been reported from 15 states and the District of Columbia. The number of ill people identified in each state with the outbreak strain is as follows: Connecticut (1), Dis ...
• 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 ...

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

• Cash is dead, says Dwolla
  Can an Iowa-based start-up undercut PayPal--and credit cards--by charging only a 25-cent-per-transaction fee?
• Oodle goes after Craigslist with social classified ...
  The company that runs the Facebook Marketplace is exporting its technology to the open Web.
• Avaak still trying to crack home Webcam market
  New version of ultra-small Internet-connected monitor camera finally gets motion sensor.
• Life in the Chromeosphere
  The hardware isn't ready and the OS is still beta, but Chrome OS notebooks look poised to steal the Netbook market from Microsoft.
• DivX plug-in does Flash video better than Adobe
  Add-on to Adobe's own add-on uses graphic processor and better software to play video with less CPU overhead.

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!

• As Ex-Argentine Dictator Sentenced to Life in Pris ...
  Former Argentine dictator Jorge Videla was sentenced to life in prison earlier this week. The 85 year old former army general ruled Argentina during the "dirty wars" of the seventies and eighties. Hebe de Bonafini is one of the founders of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an o ...
• 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 ...

Digg Green

• The Best Scientific Controversies of the Year ...
  Who doesn’t love a year-end list?  They’re easy to scan, fun to discuss, and they add a fleeting sense of historical context to your ceaseless march toward the grave. I want to preface this particular list by saying that its title is a little inaccurate. By saying “Best” scientific controversi ...
• Why is the north magnetic pole racing toward ...
  Finding Santa Claus 's home at the North Pole is easy on a globe—just look for the point on top where all the lines of longitude meet. But that is just the "geographic" North Pole; there are several other definitions for the poles , all
• Dead or Alive? The Eyes Hold the Answer - Sci ...
  Dead or Alive? The Eyes Hold the Answer - ScienceNOW
• World's Oldest Optical Illusion Found?
  Long before the famous duck-rabbit illusion (seen at right), prehistoric artists were creating mind-bending double images of their own, according to a new paper presented earlier this year at an international convention on rock art research.
• Strangest Telescope On Earth is Complete! [w/ ...
  It’s called ICE CUBE and it’s at the bottom of the World. Actually it’s IN the bottom of the World, and without doubt it’s the strangest telescope on Earth.

Invisible Opportunity

• Merry Christmas
  Merry Christmas, One and All!!!
• Here’s Why FBI Is Orchestrating Fake Terror Plots
  By Paul Craig Roberts Why does the FBI orchestrate fake “terror plots”? The latest one snared Osman Mohamud, a Somali-American teenager in Portland, Ore. The Associated Press report is headlined: “Somali-born teen plotted car-bombing in Oregon.” This is a misleading headline as the report makes it c ...
• New Zealand Climate Scientists Admit To Faking Tem ...
  Climate “scientists” across the world have been blatantly fabricating temperatures in hopes of convincing the public and politicians that modern global warming is unprecedented and accelerating. The scientists doing the fabrication are usually employed by the government agencies or universities, whi ...
• The Toxic, Cultural Waste Dumps of the World
  By Les Visible Welcome to the writhing and pustulating, mucoid surface of the Petri dish. Can you see your reflection? Probably not and it’s for the same reason you can’t see yourself on the surface of turbulent waters. The simmering slide show of microbe activity is burbling like an oil slick in a ...
• DNA is influenced by Words and Frequencies
  By Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf DNA Can Be Influenced And Reprogrammed By Words And Frequencies Russian DNA Discoveries The human DNA is a biological Internet and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such ...

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

• Pregnancy and Medical Marijuana: Can Pot Help Preg ...
  Suffering women will try anything to combat severe nausea during pregnancy--including marijuana. But drug laws and anti-abortion policies endanger their choices.
• Top 8 Drug Stories of 2010: Momentum Is Building t ...
  The debate around failed marijuana prohibition and the larger drug war arrived in a big way in 2010. Here are some of the most significant stories of the year.
• Momentum Is Building to End the Failed Drug War: T ...
  The debate around failed marijuana prohibition and the larger drug war arrived in a big way in 2010. Here are some of the most significant stories of the year.
• President Obama More Tightfisted With Clemencies T ...
  It would be a travesty for President Obama to lag behind President Bush when it comes to helping reunite families in time for the holidays.
• The War on Drugs Is a War on Poor People
  America doesn't have a drug problem. It has a poverty problem. Policy reform -- as salutary as it often is, and like the drug war before it -- risks mistaking symptom for cause.

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

• ‘Twas the Night Before (a Green) Christmas&# ...
  ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the green house “We’re not ready for Christmas yet!” the whole family groused They’d all been too busy working and living Seems like only a day had passed since Thanksgiving! But they knew they still wanted a green holiday So they prepared to celebr ...
• Extreme Christmas Tree Made of 400 Mountain Dew Ca ...
  In an act of extreme holiday recycling, David Barshow and his friends put together this one of a kind Christmas tree made of approximately 400 cans of Mountain Dew. It took them three months to drink all of the soda and four days of meticulous building, but we think the finished product speaks for i ...
• Crumbling Gingerbread Houses Highlight Homelessnes ...
  Most of us don’t think twice about going home for the holidays, but the idea is impossible for the millions of homeless people worldwide. In Sweden, the Stockholm City Welfare Mission joined forces with the Swedish Museum of Architecture to call attention to the issue of homelessness this Christmas ...
• Dome-Dotted Eco Resort is a Winter Wonderland in t ...
  Read the rest of Dome-Dotted Eco Resort is a Winter Wonderland in the Swiss Alpshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=better_feedptions-general.php?page=better_feed Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", ec ...
• World’s First Christmas Tree Powered by an E ...
  This time of year, holiday lights are sucking up power from the grid in enormous proportions – but that’s not the case with one very special Christmas Tree in Japan. Housed in an aquarium, this nifty holiday tree‘s lights are hooked up to an aluminum electrode inside the tank of an electric eel. ...

Pogue's Posts

• A Day With an E-mail Scammer
  An e-mail scammer meets his match in a British theater director with a wicked sense of humor.
• Phone Service Out? Call Customer Service, Of Cours ...
  A reader shares an exchange she had with Qwest customer service.
• Amazon Provides a Dose of Humor
  Some of the best laughs on the Internet come from Amazon reader reviews.
• Here's a Thought: Rollover Megabytes
  A Twitter follower comes up with a good idea: rollover megabytes for data on cellphones, like rollover minutes.
• Gorilla Glass, the Smartphone's Unsung Hero
  People carry their phones around in pockets with keys and change. People drop these things, toss them, scrape them. Why on earth don't they get totally scratched up?

WIRED Magazine | Science

• The Curious Evolution of Holiday Lights
  In 1882, the look of the holiday season changed forever. Instead of decorating a Christmas tree with candles, Edward H. Johnson, inventor and vice president of Thomas Edison’s booming electric company, strung 80 red, white and blue light bulbs on his scrawny evergreen. The whole thing rotated six t ...
• 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.

PakAlert

• 9/11 Video: Tower Explosions Occurred Prior to Pla ...
  The video shows us that we’re still away from the truth behind 9/11 and it clearly demonstrates that sometimes things are not what they seem to be. The official 9/11 story – like the WTC- is collapsing not by collisions but by explosive evidences. Seeing is believing… only if we have seen it all. ...
• America Warned Is Just Months Away From Financial ...
  The plan of the American Progressives, led by President Obama, to plunge the United States into economic chaos in order for their being able to ‘rebuild’ it from ‘the bottom up’ appears to be nearing success as new warnings have been issued stating that they are just months away from financial Armag ...
• Has The Financial Collapse Of Europe Now Become In ...
  What in the world is happening over in Europe? Well, it is actually quite simple. We are witnessing the slow motion collapse of the euro and of the European financial system. At this point, many analysts are convinced that a full-blown financial implosion in Europe has become inevitable. Ireland ...
• Insider Reveals 21st Century Illuminati Agenda
  In a book Henry Kissinger called "brilliant and provocative..difficult to dismiss," Illuminati Jewish insider Jacques Attali confirms that the Illuminati bankers are imposing a hideous "Brave New World" on mankind, one divorced from goodness, truth or reality.
• World’s time is up in 2012 as ‘Armageddon will des ...
  The world’s time is up in 2012, the year of Armageddon, according to both Nostradamus and Mayan prophesy.

Andy Worthington

• President Obama Loses the Plot on Guantánamo
  On December 22, during a largely self-congratulatory news conference by President Obama, dealing with a number of achievements notched up in the last session before the Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives (including the new START treaty, on arms control, and the repeal of “don’t a ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Magma Chamber Surprisingly Close to Hawaii's Surfa ...
  The source of Hawaii's copious lava has been found to be closer to the surface than any other known magma chamber, a new report says.
• Lightning Captured by X-Ray Camera—A First
  The first x-ray images of a lightning strike have been captured by a new, refrigerator-size camera, researchers say.
• Green Design Spree Aims to Trim U.S. Government's ...
  The U.S. government, the nation's biggest energy user, aims to use $4.5 billion in stimulus funds to make federal buildings into "a proving ground for what works" in clean, efficient power.
• Fat's Chance as a Renewable Diesel Fuel
  One of the world's largest meat companies, Tyson Foods, aims to make renewable diesel fuel out of an abundant waste product: Animal fat.
• African Elephant Really Two Wildly Different Speci ...
  "Big surprise": The two African elephant types seem to be as genetically different from each other as Asian elephants are from mammoths.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Dan Malloy scores first in Danbury
  Dan Malloy jumping off of the bench of the Danbury Whalers shortly after scoring the first goal in Whalers' history. [update] I have an interview from after the game at TK's. Let me say, in advance, that he was a bit reluctunt to give it since I am a political blogger... But as a hockey fan I prom ...
• Still All That I Want
  Something that gets lost in the news about the unemployed is the fact that much of what used to be the backbone of this nation's economic prowess, the middle class, is now the working poor: Imagine That: Working Poor On The Rise After the Republicans crashed to economy in 2008 one thing became imm ...
• 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 ...

SPL Center

• Assessing Muslim Terrorism: Lies, Damn Lies and Gl ...
  Are you prepared to believe there are 157 million Muslim terrorists in the world? You have a choice: You can take Fox News commentator and radio host Glenn Beckâs word for it â or you can insist on proof. Pausing in the midst of a meandering condemnation of the mainstream mediaâs failure to take him ...
• Rap-Loving Promoter Creates Whites-Only Facebook C ...
  It looks like Facebook. It apparently works like Facebook. But the Terms of Use, not to mention the name, might give you a clue that this definitely isnât Facebook. Meet AryansBook.com. âAryanBook [sic] is a racialist, WHITE ARYAN PRIDE Social Network for Whites Only! Niggers, Jews, Mexicans, and Mu ...
• Another Anti-Gay Activist Warns About Gays in the ...
  Just when it seemed the controversy over high-tech body scanners and âenhancedâ pat-down procedures at airports couldnât get weirder, along comes Eugene Delgaudio, a Loudoun County, Va., lawmaker who claims federal transportation officials were motivated to implement the new procedures by the âhomos ...
• Tony Perkins Defends Family Research Council, Sort ...
  I went up against Tony Perkins, the head of the hard-line anti-gay group Family Research Council (FRC), on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” last night. Perkins was there to defend his organization after the SPLC listed it as a hate group last week. The whole experience was like trying to nail ...
• New Intelligence Report Finds Gays Most Targeted f ...
  The FBI issued its 2009 Hate Crime Statistics report this morning. The report shows that the number of reported hate crime incidents fell from 7,783 to 6,604. But a pattern that has existed since the FBI started tallying these numbers remains: the LGBT community is, by far, the most victimized by vi ...

change: org.

• Victoria's Secret Earns PETA Award for Shedding Ex ...
  If you ask me, the most festive day of the year falls sometime after Thanksgiving and before New Year's. The annual celebration usually involves some big red bows, a few diamonds, and a Santa costume or two. The day I'm talking about is the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, of course. I needn't be ash ...
• Want to Mock Breast Cancer or Down Syndrome? There ...
  Earlier this week, I told you about an unbelievably offensive card for sale online. A user on Etsy — an online marketplace for handmade and vintage items — operating under the name "youstupidbitch" is selling cards that read "Congratulations. You've been bad touched" that are marketed to survivors o ...
• Last Push to Stop Eddy Zheng's Deportation
  Earlier this month, Eddy Zheng, an Asian American community activist, fought his 2007 deportation order at a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals hearing. Unfortunately, the final court decision could take months and judges are prohibited from considering significant facts, such as Zheng's contributions to ...
• Give the Gift of Citizen Science This Holiday Seas ...
  This year, if you want to do something really great to help the environment, grab those binoculars and head out to the forest. From December 14 through January 5th, you can be one of thousands of bird enthusiasts who join Audubon's 111th Christmas Bird count (see how to get involved here). It's a gr ...
• Death by Hand Soap: Triclosan Poisons You, Me, and ...
  Triclosan, an antimicrobial agent, winds up in a host of household products from face wash to dish liquid to deodorant. It's the stuff that makes antibacterial hand soap, well, antibacterial. In the germ-o-phobic society we live in, the chemical is literally everywhere. Despite the ubiquity of tricl ...

Common Dreams -News

• Fading Optimism in “New Normal” America
  by Bernd DebusmannOptimism is so deeply embedded in the American national psyche that it withstood the Great Depression in the 1930s and a string of recessions since then. But in the era some economists call “the new normal” in America, optimism is fading.read more
• US, UK Urged to Stop Training of Bangladeshi Force
  DHAKA, Bangladesh — The United States and Britain should immediately stop supporting a Bangladeshi anti-crime force blamed for killing hundreds of suspects without trial if there is no visible effort to reform it, a rights group said Thursday.The Rapid Action Battalion, or RAB, was responsible f ...
• North Korea Threatens 'Sacred War' if Attacked
  North Korea threatened Thursday to launch "a sacred war" against South Korea if attacked, just hours after the South launched massive air and ground firing drills near the countries' heavily fortified border.Defence chief Kim Yong Chun said North Korea is "fully prepared to launch a sacred war" - an ...
• New Gaza War 'Only a Question of Time'
  A senior Israeli army officer has told the BBC that as long as Hamas remains in control of the Gaza Strip, another war is "only a question of time".He said the Palestinian Islamist group had re-armed so much since the Israeli offensive two years ago that it was now in a stronger position militarily. ...
• Senate Ratifies START Treaty
  by Brian BeutlerBy a vote of 71-26 this afternoon, the Senate ratified the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), exceeding the two-thirds majority required for passage.The vote brings to an end a long, winding and at times hostile debate over the arms agreement, which enjoyed broad support among ...

Lifehacker

• Do You Pay to Remove Ads from Software/Media Conte ...
  Apps, TV, movies, and music are all available through various types of offerings. In some cases you can get free content in exchange for watching ads or giving up personal data. Alternatively, you can pay. Which option do you prefer? Mor ...
• The Best Media Streaming Apps for Your Android [An ...
  Skip the USB sync and keep your SD card clean. Streaming music and video to your Android is possible—from the web, from your living room, or any computer. Here are the apps to make it happen. More »
• The Best Media Streaming Apps for Your iPhone [Ios ...
  Why store media on your iPhone when you can stream it? Whether it's coming from the cloud, your computer, or a third-party service, these are our picks for the best media streaming apps for your iPhone. More��
• Set Up and Get to Know Your New Windows PC [Merryc ...
  After years of struggling with your old, sluggish Windows PC, you've finally unwrapped a shiny new computer. Here's how to get started tweaking your settings, installing programs, and beefing up security to keep it running like a dream. Mor ...
• Set Up and Get to Know Your New Mac [Merrychristma ...
  You've taken your requisite Apple product unboxing video and boasted about your brand new Mac on Facebook, but now it's time to get down to business. Whether you're new to the Mac or not, here's how to set up and get started. More�� ...

Water Privatization

• P.E.I. needs to protect its public water: report
  The Council of Canadians is calling on the P.E.I. government to take a stand to protect the Island's public water and sanitation services.
• Canada-EU Trade Talks Put Canada's Water Up for Sa ...
  OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 16, 2010) - Canada's already challenged public water systems are under threat from a broad free trade agreement being negotiated by Canada and the European Union (EU). A new report released today, Public Water for Sale: How Canada will privatize our public water s ...
• Research and Markets: GCC Power & Water Desalinati ...
  Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "GCC Power & Water Desalination Industry Overview 2010" report to their offering.
• Sparkling or flat? Sustainability book club says, ...
  Two weeks ago, the Macalester College Sustainability Book Club met over sandwiches and tap water to discuss Elizabeth Royte's latest book, "Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It." In "Bottlemania," Royte -- a veteran environmental writer who previously authored "Garbage Land" and ...
• Gov’t to rehab Agus-Pulangi at a cost of P3 billio ...
  The government plans to rehabilitate the Agus-Pulangi hydropower projects in Mindanao instead of pushing for its privatization

Guardian

• It's all politics, claims Julian Assange
  WikiLeaks founder says it would be 'politically impossible' for Britain to extradite him to the USJulian Assange said today that it would be "politically impossible" for Britain to extradite him to the United States, and that the final word on his fate if he were charged with espionage would rest wi ...
• Joanna Yeates: CCTV released
  Footage shows missing architect buying a pizza in Tesco the night she disappearedPolice hunting for the missing architect Joanna Yeates released new CCTV footage today showing her buying a pizza in a Tesco Express on the night she was last seen.The footage shows Yeates, 25, buying a Tesco Finest tom ...
• Dog savages woman to death
  Detectives say they urgently want to speak to the owner of Belgian mastiff that attacked woman in south LondonPolice have issued an urgent appeal to trace a man believed to have owned a Belgian mastiff that mauled a woman to death.The victim, a woman in her 40s named locally as Barbara Williams, was ...
• Dutch warship heads to Ivory Coast
  Dutch ministry spokeswoman says vessel will bring supplies to French and be on standby to help in any evacuation of EU citizensThe Netherlands today said it had sent a naval ship to the Ivory Coast which could evacuate Dutch and other European citizens if the post-election violence in the West Afric ...
• Shares on course for great Christmas
  An heroic effort in the final few minutes of trading saw the FTSE 100 index bounce back through the 6000 level today, ending 12.85 points higher at 6008.92.Barring any upsets in the final few days next week, the FTSE is on course for its best December since 1987, when it rose 8.5%.Not everyone is co ...

McClatchey

• Commentary: The end of a Christmas tradition
  My family is ending a 30-year tradition this Christmas.
• Commentary: Spanish language study is thriving on ...
  Good news for those of us who want increasingly closer U.S. ties with Spanish-speaking countries: a new study shows that more U.S. college students are enrolling in Spanish classes than in any other foreign language.
• For Christians in Iraq, a Christmas of mourning an ...
  BAGHDAD — Christmas will take place here on an altar of grief. The faces of the dead, 53 in all, stare out from photographs into the cold congregation hall, its stone floors dimpled from explosions, its ceilings still splattered with blood.
• China shifts stance in Sudan, advancing prospects ...
  JUBA, Sudan_Long Sudan's most powerful friend, China is shifting ties just weeks ahead of a key secession vote, cozying up to the nation's separatist southern region in what appears to be a pragmatic concession to the impending partition of Africa's largest country.
• Biden says public support for gay marriage 'inevit ...
  WASHINGTON-Attitudes toward same-sex marriage are "evolving," and a national consensus for gay marriage is inevitable, Vice President Joe Biden said Friday.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• Cancun splits opinion, but may mark way forward
  Does the Cancun outcome give real hope for curbing climate change? Views diverge... Within the last week we've run here on the BBC News website two articles by people knowledgeable about climate change that reach widely differing conclusions about the outcome of this year's UN climate summit. Last ...
• 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 ...

The Wonk Room

• As President Obama ‘Wrestles’ With The ...
  Christmas came early for gay rights advocates when Congress repealed the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy last week, and President Obama signed it into law on Wednesday. The administration’s comments since the bill-signing, however, are providing even more hopeful signs that full equality wil ...
• Exorcising Gale Norton
  Our guest blogger is Tom Kenworthy, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. It’s been too long in coming, but today Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is repealing a sneak attack on millions of acres of pristine public lands in the West launched by his Bush administration predec ...
• Global Boiling: Year 2010 In Climate Photos
  The headlines of 2010 were driven by global warming disasters — involving the dangers of fossil fuel extraction or the biblical might of the climate they have polluted. Hundreds of thousands of people died in climate disasters, and hundreds of millions more affected by floods, droughts, storms, and ...
• START Ratification Exposes Heritage’s Impote ...
  The hard right Heritage Foundation, one of the pillars of the conservative movement, made defeating START one of its top institutional priorities. Yet 13 Republican Senators ended up bucking Heritage and voted to ratify the START treaty. Heritage ended up so far to the right that it was unable to co ...
• Did Giuliani And Co. Provide ‘Material Suppo ...
  The Washington Post reports that four prominent Republicans — former New York mayor Rudy Guiliani, former Bush administration homeland security adviser Fran Townsend, former homeland security secretary Tom Ridge, and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey — told “a forum of cheering Iranian exiles” ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Overwhelmed
  I'd started a piece that was going to be called "I read the news today, oh boy" which was just going to be a survey of what was in the news recently, but time constraints and the enormity of it all, the sheer weight of things, overwhelmed me. I still want to mention them, so here they are in no par ...
• A Question About stephen harper Singing "The Seeke ...
  Has anyone yet pointed out that the song includes the lyrics "I won't get to get what I'm after till the day I die?" and made a snarky comment about his futile quest for a majority? You know, I'm often accused of thinking that I'm smarter than everyone else because I call so many people "stupid" or ...
• 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 ...

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

• Anyone Notice That Sites Don't Have To Rely On Goo ...
  One of the driving forces behind some of the legal attacks on Google is that Google is the defacto monopoly on being found online. We've heard over and over again a claim along the lines of "if you're not in Google, you're not online." And there may be some truth in that statement for many websi ...
• TSA Punishes Pilot For Videotaping Security Proble ...
  BackPackAdam alerts us to the news that a pilot in California is being disciplined by the TSA because he dared to film a video highlighting problems with security at San Francisco International Airport (SFO). The pilot himself was a Flight Deck Officer (FDO) and authorized to carry a gun on board ...
• Building A Censor-Resistant Web?
  With recent efforts to take down various websites, which we've been documenting here on Techdirt, there's been increasing discussions about ways to create a more "censor-proof" internet. We've discussed the idea of a decentralized DNS system and now Aaron Swartz is proposing a "censor-resistant we ...
• Monster Cable Keeps On Suing; Asks Court To Block ...
  By now, you must know that Monster Cable has a rather terrible reputation for threatening and suing all sorts of other companies over intellectual property issues -- often, it seems, with very little merit (remember when they went after "Monster Golf"? good times...). The latest is that Monster Ca ...
• DailyDirt: Playing Tricks With The Mind
  The human brain is a pretty interesting contraption. And generally, we learn about how it works when things "go wrong" with it. The results of brain mapping are pretty fascinating -- especially when we find out that many humans have common brain areas that perform the same tasks. Armed with this ...

VacTruth

• Sanofi Pasteur Plays Santa and Pays for Children t ...
  Sanofi Pasteur is playing Santa by paying parents this amount of money for enrolling their children in flu vaccine trials.
• 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?

BroadSnark

• Am I a Rapist?
  I don’t want to talk about the Assange rape charges. There are more than enough people doing that already. But I would like to talk about something that Jaclyn Friedman said during her debate with Naomi Wolf on Democracy Now. Friedman essentially said that a sleeping/unconscious person cannot consen ...
• 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. ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• Six LaRouche Democrats Announce Campaigns for 2012
  Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 24, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 50
• Nuclear Power in Asia Is a Matter of Survival
  By Marsha Freeman Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 24, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 50
• No EU Political Union, But a Europe of Sovereign S ...
  By Helga Zepp-LaRouche Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, December 24, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 50
• The LaRouche Show, December 18, 2010
  Sudan Is a Nation, Not a British Zoo! Waging War for National Sovereignty—Strategic Updates, Reports from Africa
• The LaRouche Show, December 11, 2010
  Exciting Perspective from the Pacific, on Defeating the British Imperial System

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

• By: Top 50 Global Food Security Blogs
  [...] Food and Water Watch: Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable. [...]
• By: Online Degree 30 Best Water Conservation Blogs
  [...] Food & Water Watch: The Food & Water Watch site advocates strong conservation measures, promoting policies that'll result in quality drinking water for everyone. [...]
• By: Food and Water | Roland's Ramblings
  [...] would also like to suggest you go over to read the blog of Food & Water Watch. You should find that to be very [...]
• By: Ecocentric’s Best of the Ecoblogosphere ...
  [...] Food and Water Watch: The latest info about food and agriculture policy from our favorite beltway insiders. [...]
• By: FutureEmergency.com
  [...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]

treehugger

• Bush Admin Officials Advised Retaliation Against E ...
  photo: Grüne Baden-Württemberg/Creative Commons More from Wikileaks of interest to the environmentally-minded, shedding light on the mindset of the Bush administration on the European Union's actions on genetically modified crops: US Ambassador to France recommended the US "calibrate a target l ...
• Sleep Snugly Behind 13 Foot Thick Walls In Convert ...
  Image credit: Sam Lucas Three years ago we wrote about the amazing conversion of an english Martello Tower into a home by Piercy Conner Architects. There wasn't a lot of information available about it at the time, but there is now; It was short-listed for a RIBA award and John Glancey, architec ...
• New Elements of War Video Game Uses Weather As Wea ...
  Image via Elements of War What happens when the government's attempts at controlling weather go horribly awry and cause havoc in global weather systems? Why...weather warfare, of course! It's the premise of a new game in which armies use weather systems, like hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and s ...
• Pretty Crazy Small, Hammock-Shaped Home With Recyc ...
  Photos: Andrea Parisi. If you've been to any part of South America you're probably familiar with the Paraguayan hammock, a sort of knitted textile bed hanging from two poles very typical of areas with hot weather. Inspired by this item Paraguayans are pretty proud of, architect Javier Corva ...
• EPA Announces 2010 Environmental Justice Awards
  Grand opening of San Francisco's EcoCenter, one of this year's EJ award winners Image: via EcoCenter at Heron's Head Park The EPA's environmental justice working group was only revived this year, but the agency has been giving out awards for leaders in the area for a few years. This year's winne ...

Biosingularity

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

CFACT

• Make your year-end contribution today!
  CFACT has become the preeminent organization presenting constructive alternatives to green radicalism that hold the left at bay. Your gift will have a direct impact on our educational programs and on our award-winning outreach.
• 'Cool it' with all the research dollars
  Preparation and adaptation for all climate change is the simple, common-sense, cost-effective and precautionary Plan B that all governments can - and should - support.
• End the ethanol subsidies
  Congressional inaction would save taxpayers $6 billion; lower beef, pork, poultry and egg prices; and save tens of thousands of gallons of water.
• CFACT to showcase experts at Cancun climate confer ...
  CFACT will feature two prominent experts on climate science and policy at COP 16, the UN conference on climate change which convenes next week in Cancun, Mexico.
• Biodiversity: Losing which species?
  The current wildlife extinction rate is the lowest in 500 years--according to the UN Environmental Program̢۪s own World Atlas of Biodiversity. Many species have actually expanded their ranges over the past century.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Russia's Medvedev congratulates Belarus President ...
  The Kremlin press office confirmed on Saturday that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had congratulated his Belarusian colleague Alexander Lukashenko with reelection.
• India's GSLV rocket launch ends in failure - TV
  India has again failed to launch its indigenous GSLV rocket with a communications satellite, the Indian state-run TV channel Doordarshan reported on Saturday.
• Russia adds record 5.5 bln barrels to prospected o ...
  Russia added a record 750 million tons (5.5 billion barrels) of oil to its prospected crude reserves in 2010, Natural Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev said on Saturday, citing preliminary geological prospecting data.
• Russia's air companies transport record 55 mln pas ...
  Air passenger conveyance by Russian airlines is expected to hit 55 million people in 2010, a record figure for air passenger transportation in modern Russia, Transport Minister Igor Levitin said on Saturday.
• RIA Novosti photo chart on the top events of 2010
  A look back at the main events in Russia in 2010, from the March suicide bombings on the Moscow Metro, the Polish president’s plane crash in April and the summer’s wildfires to FIFA’s decision in December to make Russia the host of the 2018 World Cup.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• Russia's Mission Control raises ISS orbit by 4.2 k ...
  Russia's Mission Control has adjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by raising it 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles), a spokesman for the control center said on Wednesday.
• Launch of new Russian navigation satellite postpon ...
  The launch of Russia's new-generation Glonass-K satellite has been postponed until 2011, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
• Russia's Mission Control to readjust ISS orbit
  Russia's Mission Control is preparing to adjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday by raising it 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles).
• Russian Soyuz craft docks with international space ...
  The Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli and NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman has successfully docked with the International Space Station.
• Russian Mission Control loses, regains communicati ...
  Russia's Mission Control Center lost contact with the International Space Station for about three hours on Thursday before resolving the problem.

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

• Toxic Trespass: Organic Farm Can Seek Damages from ...
  SAN JOSE - Four years ago, the president of Jacobs Farm/Del Cabo, Larry Jacobs, received an unfortunate phone call from Whole Foods. The retail giant notified him that it was rejecting the organic dill he had sold the chain because his culinary herb had tested positive for pesticides.Click here to r ...
• African Farmers Losing Land to Investors
  SOUMOUNI, Mali - The half-dozen strangers who descended on this remote West African village brought its hand-to-mouth farmers alarming news: their humble fields, tilled from one generation to the next, were now controlled by Libya's leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, and the farmers would all have to ...
• Salinas, California: The Salad Bowl of Pesticides
  SALINAS VALLEY, Calif. - Locals call this place the world's salad bowl. Dole, Naturipe and Fresh Express are here, where much of the global fruit and vegetable trade emerges in neat green fields just over the hills from the Pacific Coast.Click here to read this article
• Reversing Climate Catastrophe: A Conversation with ...
  Bill McKibben: Jim, more than a dozen nations have set new high-temperature records this year, and we've seen the all-time marks set for Asia (Pakistan at 129 degrees Fahrenheit) and Southeast Asia. Given that the global temperature has "only" gone up about a degree, can you explain how this kind of ...
• The Ten Most Hopeful Stories of 2010
  It was a tough year. The economy continued its so-called jobless recovery with Wall Street anticipating another year of record bonuses while most Americans struggle to get work and hold on to their homes. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continued, and spilled over into Pakistan and Yemen, and more ...

fotoFrontera

• Wallpapers para Navidad y Fin de Año VII (43 imáge ...
  Para ver más imágenes navideñas, escoja un número. [1][2][3][4][5] [6][7]Con esta entrega especial de 43 imágenes navideñas, damos por terminada esta colección que en total incluye más de 200 wallpapers en alta resolución para Navidad y Fin de Año. Por lo tanto, no me queda más que desearles a todos ...
• Wallpapers para Navidad y Fin de Año VI (13 imágen ...
  Para ver más imágenes navideñas, escoja un número. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]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 tam ...
• Wallpapers para Navidad y Fin de Año V (12 imágene ...
  Pare ver más imágenes navideñas, escoja un número. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]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 ...
• Wallpapers para Navidad y Fin de Año IV (20 imágen ...
  Para ver más Imágenes de Navidad, 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 g ...
• 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 ...

Center for a Livable Future

• New FDA Numbers Reveal Food Animals Consume Lion’s ...
  Antibiotics, one of world’s greatest medical discoveries, are slowly losing their effectiveness in fighting bacterial infections and the massive use of the drugs in food animals may be the biggest culprit. The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is largely due to the misuse and overuse of antibi ...
• 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 [...]

Norwegianity

• Merry Seasonal Greetings
  � And yes, there is now a ton of this kind of remix out there: � � No onset of adult diabetes yet? Try this one: � Rinse, repeat: � Now go smile at the relatives for a while. � MERRY APPROPRIATED PAGAN HOLIDAYS TO YOU AND YOURS! � �
• Xmas reading
  MnDOT’s map shows difficult traveling (and many closed roads) in southern Minnesota, and the folks’ driveway is so slippery Mom went off it this morning and then one of my nephews went off the road trying to pull her out with a pickup. Brother Jon got them both out with a tractor but yeah, I [...]
• Snow
  A one day travel reprieve thanks to the weather. Errands to do and probably more to come, but in the meantime here’s my worst poem ever as posted over at Canis Hoopus.    
• Ex-massy
  It’s pretty much official: the bid to make Biffy Clyro’s cover of John Cage’s 4’33″ has failed to hit #1 on the British pop charts. Too bad, Cage’s most popular composition nailed the reality of Christmas perfectly. - Christmassy: Mr. Fish Happy Holidays from TruthDig The typewriter looks like a coo ...
• 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 [...]

Public News Service

• Keep it Simple, Santa – Tips for Holiday Sho ...
  Keep it Simple, Santa – Tips for Holiday Shopping for Tots Phoenix, AZ – There's only one more weekend left for holiday shopping, and if you're looking for gifts for preschoolers, experts say you can give your kids an advantage in later life, while at the same time saving money, by steering away fro ...
• Report: AZ Out of Step on Pre-kindergarten Program ...
  Report: AZ Out of Step on Pre-kindergarten Programs Phoenix, AZ – Most states have maintained funding for pre-kindergarten programs despite their budget problems. A new report from the Pew Center on the States says Arizona is an exception, having totally eliminated funding for early childhood progra ...
• Pitfalls to Privatizing Parks?
  Pitfalls to Privatizing Parks? Phoenix, AZ - A state commission plans to recommend that Arizona consider privatizing some of its state parks to save money. Others say the result may instead be higher costs and less public benefit. Comments from Cristie Statler, director, Arizona State Parks Foundati ...
• Seniors: Don't Use Social Security to Cut the Defi ...
  Seniors: Don't Use Social Security to Cut the Deficit Phoenix, AZ – Workers and seniors nationwide and in Arizona are protesting a proposal from the President's Fiscal Commission to reform Social Security with "progressive" benefits and a raised retirement age. Comments from Karen Marie-Stella, AARP ...
• ‘Tis the Season for Medicare Drug Plan Sign- ...
  ‘Tis the Season for Medicare Drug Plan Sign-Up Phoenix, AZ – The deadline for open enrollment for the Medicare “Part D” prescription drug plan is fast approaching. December 31st is the last day to sign up. Comments from State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) counselor Stephanie Langguth (L ...

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

• Haiti, Cholera and Colonialsm: Gerald and Maas Sup ...
  Gerald and Maas Suppressed News December 22, 2010 Haiti: according to the World Health Organization the cholera death toll has exceeded 2500 people, and the epidemic continues to spread. U.N. health efforts are limited by concerns for their own security. Cuba has 1200 medical staff on the ...
• U.S. to apologize for STD experiments in Guatemala
  U.S. to apologize for STD experiments in Guatemala | Happily Natural x Black August Weekend U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge or permission more ...
• Michael Moore: Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Juli ...
  Michael Moore: Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange For those of you who think it's wrong to support Julian Assange because of the sexual assault allegations he's being held for, all I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey. Please - ...
• Viola Wilkins: Indymedia London | Articles | Show ...
  Indymedia London | Articles | Show | Catholic Workers "close" Dalston "Arcade of Death": "A merry band of London Catholic Workers and friends, fresh from shooting remakes of videos for John Lennon's anti-war classics 'Merry Christmas (War is Over)' and 'Give Peace a Chance' (watch this space for the ...
• International: United Nations Approves Two More Re ...
  International: United Nations Approves Two More Resolutions By Bolivia: Harmony With Nature And Indigenous Issues - Indigenous Peoples Issues and Resources Earlier this week, the General Assembly of the United Nations approved by consensus two resolutions presented by Bolivia. The first, entitled “ ...

Pensieve

• Change, by Futureshorts
  Related posts:Hope for Change? Related posts:Hope for Change?
• 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

• Drive safely this Christmas
    Should be compulsory watching for ANYONE who drives! On 10 December 1989 the first Transport Accident Commission (TAC) commercial went to air. Twenty years later, this five minute compilation of the road safety campaigns was produced. It features iconic scenes and images from commercials tha ...
• Environmental News 23/12/2010
  Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
• Sunset on the beach
  Let this day end with a beautiful sunset... Get your family, your friends and something tasty for a late picnic on the beach and enjoy the illuminating colours. To find some nice organic food and wine for your picnic, check the Green Times food and drink (directory/categories/Food%20 %20Drink) sect ...
• Cat in the garden
  Searching for a new hobby? Try out your green thumb! Gardening isn’t just a relaxing way to spend leisure time and enjoy the beauty of your own little paradise. It can also become the freshest source of tasty fruits and vegetables. First, check the Green Times directory and choose the right seeds ...
• Blue penguins
  There are many places in Australia (glossary/categories/lifestyle/green-australia.html) where you can see (blue) penguins in the wild. When you see one, don’t use the flash on your camera! A flash can blind the penguin and make it dangerous for them to go back in the water. Also, try not to dist ...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• Woman arrested at ABIA after refusing enhanced pat ...
  ShareThisWoman arrested at ABIA after refusing enhanced pat down 24 Dec 2010 Early Wednesday morning, a computer glitch shut down a security checkpoint for a couple of hours at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport...�� One of the first people in line after that shutdown never made it through. She ...
• At least 40 killed in suicide bombing in Pakistan ...
  ShareThisAt least 40 killed in suicide bombing in Pakistan - hospital 25 Dec 2010 A suicide bomber attacked a gathering of people receiving aid in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 40 dead, a hospital official said. "I myself have counted 40 bodies but the death could rise as sever ...
• 'West, US interests lie in Korea war'
  ShareThis'West, US interests lie in Korea war' 24 Dec 2010 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that the interests of the West and the US lie in creating tension on the Korean peninsula. "Only those whose interests depend on war are looking for creating tension in the region," President Ahmadi ...
• 12 Israeli jets violate Lebanon airspace
  ShareThis12 Israeli jets violate Lebanon airspace 24 Dec 2010 At least 12 Israeli military jets have repeated Tel Aviv's breach of an international resolution by violating the Lebanese airspace, Lebanon's army says. The Israeli jet fighters penetrated Lebanese airspace on Friday in defiance of the U ...
• Insulated Beverage Containers to Undergo Extra Sec ...
  ShareThisInsulated Beverage Containers to Undergo Extra Security at Airports --Thermoses Could Be Used to Conceal Weapons, TSA on Alert 24 Dec 2010 Travelers toting thermoses and insulated beverage containers through the nation's airports today might face heightened security measures, according to t ...

Daily Loaf

• Review of Ludacris’ Conjure cognac, plus cocktail ...
  It’s good hooch, with a fair amount of spice and hints of apples, though a little sweet for drinking straight, I think. And at around $34 a bottle, it’s far less expensive than most cognacs. Oh, and when you look closely at the bottle, you’ll see those designs are really tiny images of naked women.
• From garden to consumer: Interview with Tarpon Spr ...
  Code Green Community's Eric Stewart video interview with Adam Psihos, a market gardener who grows fresh and natural vegetables and fruit out of his backyard to sell at local farmers markets.
• Toy Story: What happens when Junior discovers Momm ...
  My son pointed at Mr. Rabbit and turned to me. “What’s this, Mommy?”
• From blue collar to blue plate special: Trailer tr ...
  I watched in horror as some local yokel dumped a packet of onion soup mix, a can of Coke and a bottle (yes, a whole bottle) of chili sauce on top of a big slab of beef and stuck it in the oven. But those modest blue collar ingredients had apparently reinvented themselves as a smooth, rich and zesty ...
• EarthTalk: 16 states limit phosphates in dishwashe ...
  Sixteen U.S. states now severely limit the amount of phosphates allowed in automatic dishwasher detergents due to their negative impacts on wastewater systems, water bodies and human health. While some do not clean as well as a result, Consumer Reports tested 24 leading low-phosphate offerings and ...

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

• Cellulosic ethanol reality begins to set in
  Biomass has low energy density relative to fossil fuels, and thus a conversion facility must have easy logistical access. In most cases, this means that biomass must be sourced close to the facility. This puts some limits on the size of biomass facilities, so they suffer from the lack of economies o ...
• Santa Claus is Coming to Town (Vocoder,Robot)
• Foreclosures on people who never missed a payment
  Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism. What the banks are doing is stealing property under the assumption that the government will do nothing to stop them. Bank Of America’s Christmas present: Foreclose even though not a payment missed. Even though BofA has sent an apology, somehow the foreclosure is still ...
• The difference between Communism and Capitalism
  In Communism, the State controls business. In Capitalism, business controls the State.
• Polizeros podcast. American exceptionalism. Afghan ...
  Large numbers of people say they believe in American Exceptionalism. But how does that help us solve any of our very real and growing problems? Plus it can lead to overconfidence and arrogance, such as the various wars we are not winning. Also, politicians on both parties often use this as a ploy to ...

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

• Zen and the Art of Celebrating Christmas
  Christmas was a magical time for me when I was a boy. Everything seemed so much more serene back then. We had time off school, time to spend with family and friends. There were times when we’d go out and play in the snow, build a snowman, have snowball fights, maybe do some sledding, but [...]
• The Grinch Who Stole Freedom (Video)
• Christmas in the Trenches
  Written and performed by John McCutcheon My name is Francis Tolliver, I come from Liverpool. Two years ago the war was waiting for me after school. To Belgium and to Flanders, to Germany to here I fought for King and country I love dear. ‘Twas Christmas in the trenches, where the frost so bitter hun ...
• MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND: The Truth About The OKC B ...
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZtfTIYlzR4
• China bars political dissident access to lawyers
  BEIJING – One of China’s most prominent human rights advocates, who was charged in June for subversion, has been denied access to his lawyers, a move that rights activists say sets the stage for a hasty and covert trial. Liu Xianbin, 42, was charged with “incitement to subvert state power” for his a ...

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 Roundup: DC, Fellowships, Sandberg, Video ...
  Facebook Makes DC Communications Hire – As we previously wrote, Facebook was looking to fill an Associate Manager for Policy Communications. Politico reports that Brooke Oberwetter was selected for the position, will begin in January and work under Andrew Noyes. She previously worked for the Competi ...
• Badoo’s Dating App Sees Big New Surge on Facebook
  Badoo has been around for years, mostly as a slickly-designed dating social network site, but it introduced a Facebook app version in October, and it’s recently been challenging many larger dating competitors. The app has had a huge December, growing from 3.19 million monthly active users and 365,00 ...
• Likes and Christmas Greetings Appear on This Week’ ...
  Our weekly AppData list of emerging Facebook apps, defined as those still under a million monthly active users, has a handful of seasonal and wall post apps, along with several interesting games: Top Gainers This Week Name MAU Gain Gain,% 1. Like This Like This 835,074 +336,481 +67% 2. FarmVille 中文版 ...
• Facebook Now Allows Merged Places Pages to Unmerge
  Facebook today added an unmerge option to Pages which had been merged with Places. Facebook has allowed an admin of a similar official Page and claimed Places location page to merge these two entities since the launch of the Places location-sharing services in August, but offered no way to undo the ...
• Why MixApp’s Listening Chat Rooms Could Change Mus ...
  Occasionally, entrepreneurs create a great social product but don’t have the resources to accrue the critical mass of users necessary to demonstrate its worth. MixApp by Square Products Corp., a free web service in which songs can be played to everyone in a chat room simultaneously, has developed ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: SEC Describes Possible Criminal Activity ...
  truthout: SEC Describes Possible Criminal Activity in Unprosecuted Hedge Fund Case http://bit.ly/fPdz04 #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: As UN Probes Whether His Confinement is ...
  truthout: As UN Probes Whether His Confinement is Torture, Bradley Manning Speaks http://bit.ly/dGyytw #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Moody's Bungled Ratings on Community Ban ...
  truthout: Moody's Bungled Ratings on Community Bank Bonds, Too http://bit.ly/hyVqG3 #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Keeping State Secrets http://bit.ly/eSdU ...
  truthout: Keeping State Secrets http://bit.ly/eSdUMc #Truthout #p2 #p2b
• truthout: Why Peace Activists Should Take an Activ ...
  truthout: Why Peace Activists Should Take an Active Interest in the Green Movement in Iran http://bit.ly/eFnxhE #Truthout #p2 #p2b

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

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• A Christmas Message
  A few months ago a friend and I had a very intense disagreement which led to some very harsh words being exchanged. A few days ago out of the blue (is it ever really just “out of the blue” ?) while on Facebook, he hit me up and now all is forgiven and forgotten. We are at peace. “According [...]
• “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 ...

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

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  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 ...
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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

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• Afghanistan on Edge - Afghan Government Disbands D ...
  The government of Afghanistan has announced its determination to shut down all private security companies operating in the country. Kabul has already disbanded 57 of them.An Interior Ministry official overseeing the campaign, General Abdul Manan Farahi, said the targeted companies, are all Afghan, a ...
• The Political Edge - For Obama, START is “Personal ...
  President Obama is making a final push to secure the votes for an arms treaty that stands not just as a political goal but a highly personal one. The president needs nine Republican votes to win the two-thirds Senate majority to ratify the New START treat with Russia, and Obama has continued to call ...
• Attempts to Wipe Away American Sign Language Are a ...
  Attempts to wipe away American Sign Language are an little more than assault against the Deaf. Genocide treaties make it clear that obliterating one group's culture is a form of genocide. I suggest people see Edwin Black's seminal work War Against the Weak to see how the most elite in our country mu ...
• Iran on Edge - Iran to Cut Diplomatic Ties with th ...
  Iranian lawmakers are moving forward with plans to sever diplomatic ties with the United Kingdom. Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said on December 21 that�lawmakers of the Islamic Republic need to send London a serious message, and that a bill aiming to cut ties with Britain would be discussed very ...

High Country News

• The way mom used to make them
  A mother’s brownies are remembered with love.
• Right on, Target!
  A 13-pound wild turkey in Colorado gets by despite the six inches of arrow protruding from either side of her breast.
• Save the refuge while there's still time
  President Obama should preserve the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a national monument for all Americans.
• Sportsmen protest New Mexico Antelope hunting syst ...
  New Mexico's system for doling out licenses to hunt pronghorn gets a poor grade from the state’s hunters.
• State trust lands serve public
  Some Western states still fund their schools partly through their state trust lands.

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

• Archeologists Find Revised Version of Constitution ...
  As I promised, during the next few days, I will be mixing in some of my favorite posts of 2010 in with my regular articles. The one below is IMHO my best satire of the year.� It was written to try and understand how the progressives justify the unconstitutional programs the shoved down our throats d ...
• A Jihad Christmas Two Must Watch Videos
  While it may be the time for "Peace on Earth" and "Good Will Toward Man" not everybody in the world believes in those holiday wishes.� The two videos below are satirical but ring very true as this week there are new warnings for travelers that there may be new attacks from Islamic fanatics.� (if you ...
• NY Mayor Bloomberg Was " In Cahoots" With Planner ...
  This past summer it seemed as if every day Michael Bloomberg, the arrogant, out of touch Mayor of New York was making another speech implying that the opponents of the ground-zero mosque were either stupid or bigoted.� And when he wasn't calling the mosque opponents names, he was� proclaiming ther ...
• Readers' Choice of The Top Fifteen "Lid" Posts of ...
  Since it the end of the year many of my favorite bloggers are making their choice of their favorite posts of the year. For example John Hawkins posted The 15 Most Popular Political Posts On Linkiest For 2010 and The 20 Most Popular Non-Political Links On Linkiest For 2010� this morning. As I will ...
• How Western Naivete (Or Incompetence or Ideology) ...
  By Barry Rubin If I had to pick one sentence to show what's profoundly wrong with Middle East coverage in the Western mass media, this is the one I'd choose. It's in a New York Times article entitled, "Israel: Tensions Rise Along Gaza Border" by Isabel Kershner. I'll put the sentence in bold: ...

The Real Agenda

• U.S. Hypocrisy: Billions in deals with Iran
  By Jo Becker NYT Despite sanctions and trade embargoes, over the past decade the United States government has allowed American companies to do billions of dollars in business with Iran and other countries blacklisted as state sponsors of terrorism, an examination by The New York Times has found. At ...
• China Owns U.S. and now Wants Europe
  Chinese have $2.7 trillion to bail-out bankrupt European nations Mail Online China has said it is willing to bail out debt-ridden countries in the euro zone using its $2.7trillion overseas investment fund. In a fresh humiliation for Europe, Foreign Ministry spokesman Jiang Yu said it was one of the ...
• 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 ...

Wind Watch

• Judge denies MATL use of eminent domain
  A district judge in Montana ruled Monday that a Canadian developer of a high-voltage power line has no authority to condemn private property for the project. The decision, filed Monday, is a victory for landowners trying to limit the impact of the Montana Alberta Tie Line. It also could carry ramifi ...
• Going green makes some blue; Many oppose wind ener ...
  Gary and Barb Jennissen are concerned. And they are not alone. While wind energy is the new �green� alternative type of energy that is taking storm across the Midwest, the Jennissens don�t believe its all its cracked up to be and vow it could even be hazardous to one�s health. �We have read many art ...
• Islanders see red
  MARYSVILLE — The green technology on Wolfe Island has its neighbours seeing red. The red, blinking aircraft navigation night lights atop many of the island’s wind turbines have attracted widespread condemnation in the area, from Howe Island, Kingston and even upstate New York. Not to mention a growi ...
• Iberdrola threatens to leave
  HAMMOND – If Hammond adopts a wind law that requires Iberdrola Renewables Inc. to compensate property owners who see drops in their land values, the company says it will scrap plans to build a proposed wind farm. “They’ve basically said if we pass this agreement, that they will pick up their tinker ...
• Farmers join ranks against wind farm
  A new battlefront has opened in the South Burnett and Western Downs as farming families take on Queensland’s largest proposed wind farm. Communities already fighting the booming coal seam gas industry say they are now under fire from the lucrative renewable energy sector. Farmers fear rows of 150m-h ...

Not My Tribe

• Peacekeepers on Earth and Our God’s Will to ...
  Merry Christmas.
• A Visit from Saint Nicholas IN THE ERNEST HEMINGWA ...
    It was the night before Christmas. The house was very quiet. No creatures were stirring in the house. There weren’t even any mice stirring. The stockings had been hung carefully by the chimney. The children hoped that Saint Nicholas would come and fill them.   The children were in their beds. Thei ...
• To Tennessee DHS, ACLU = Terrorists
  The Memphis Homeland Security fusion center has a map listing the Tennessee ACLU as a “Terrorist Event.” It goes beyond semantics when the label of terrorist means by executive order suspects can be detained without charges, indefinitely and without an enforceable standard of human rights. Think twi ...
• 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 Santa

Debunking the Debunkers

• Circular Rationalism
  In several Youtube debates I've had on a variety of different subjects, I've noticed the debunkers/skeptics have a number of vague buzzwords that they like to throw around. They include: 'Reason''Rationality''Debunked by Science''Freethinker' The third one is a common dismissal. "Those 9/11 truthers ...
• Merry Christmas from me, and from NORAD!
  Me (2007) NORAD (1965!) http://noradsanta.wikia.com/
• 'Debunker' Pat Curley: the King of Scientific Peer ...
  Pat "Yoda" Curley, ready to battle troofer stormtroopers from his Dagobah-like tract home in Phoenix. One of the peer-reviewers of the Active Thermitic Material paper has been identified. The current situation is surmised by "Sitting-Bull" on 911blogger.com: It took Prof. Griscom 4 long years to be ...
• ALERT: US State Department Cannot Afford Professio ...
  Written by John-Michael P. Talboo Friday, 03 December 2010 ae911truth.org Federal Government Website Offers Amateur Video by Student as Authoritative Analysis A new report has been released by the State Department website America.Gov in an effort to debunk the physical and forensic evidence presen ...
• The Year in Duh-Bunking: January
  Pat Curley of the Screw Loose Change writes: The Year in Troof: January The 1000th Clown joined Richard Gage's circus, only about 2-1/3rd years after Gage's predicted date. Not having learned his lesson, Box Boy promptly set a goal of having 2,000 members by summertime. Cindy Sheehan joined the Tr ...

Fooducate

• Merry Christmas!
  Happy holidays from all of us here at Fooducate! What tasty dishes are you preparing for the holiday? Are there any cool kitchen and cooking gadgets Santa will be bringing you? Please let us know! Get Fooducated: iPhone App RSS Subscription or Email Subscription Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/f ...
• What is “Natural” Food?
  One in four new products launched in 2010 had a label claiming it was “Natural”. But did you know that there is no regulatory definition for “Natural” foods? While there are strict standards for Organic labeling, it’s pretty much a wild west when it comes to the use of the word Natural. Hence you c ...
• 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 ...

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 ...

Greg Palast

• Palast ArrestedBusted by BP in Azerbaijan
  by Greg Palast BP's Azeri police arresting Palast for filming BP oil rig - Baku, Azerbaijan, December 2010"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM." Oh, no, no, not good. The enforcers here come in three colors:  the military police still wearing their old Russian ...
• The Real Wiki Hero
  by Marta Steele from OpEdNews with a Surprise P.S. from Greg Palast Is it not ironic that the same country that contributed Rupert Murdoch to the world has more recently donated Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks since 2007, when it was founded to "report on and publish important informat ...
• WIKI-CREEP ASSANGE, THE SCAMPPvt. Bradley, the Cha ...
  by Greg Palast for Truthout/Buzzflash I'm a "hero" and it makes me want to puke.  This week I was voted a "Hero of the Media" in one of those fairly harmless polls that are little more than thermometers of face time on the idiot box. But this Nation Magazine gong is shared with Julian Assange, imp ...
• Put a Little Palast in Your Stocking
  from Greg Palast For Chanukah, Christmas, Hajj 2010, Kwanzaa or whatever lights your candle, why not give the (tax deductible) gift of Truth? My latest disguise - fooled you? This year we have a few suggestions for Holiday gift-giving from the Palast Investigative Fund store: A Palast Gift Ca ...
• Debt Vultures Shot for ChanukahLiberia is saved bu ...
  by Greg Palast for In These Times We got’m. I can hardly believe it. Yesterday, the financial vultures, the carcass-chewers who were preying on the dirt-poor African nation of Liberia, gave up. Two shadowy vulture funds, which had won a $43 million court judgment against Liberia, agreed to accept ...

Telegraph UK - oil

• US government announces extension to gulf drilling ...
  The Obama administration will maintain a long-standing oil drilling ban in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida after considering loosening it before the BP spill, a senior administration official said on Wednesday.
• A fatal, familiar chain reaction
  The Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster were both caused by a string of human errors, says Geoffrey Lean.
• We can't avoid another Deepwater disaster
  In the desperate hunt for oil, danger and human error make a deadly cocktail, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• Brazil's Libra oil field may be biggest in America ...
  The Libra oil field in Brazil may be the biggest discovered in the Americas for more than 30 years, according to the country's industry regulator.
• Vladimir Putin calls for calm in battle for Arctic ...
  Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, called for calm in the battle for the Arctic's vast untapped energy resources, accusing unnamed forces of trying to stir up trouble.

Ian Welsh

• I am now an American Express Cardholder because of ...
  Since Mastercard and Visa, in cutting off Wikileaks from donations, decided that they knew better than me who I should be able to give money to, I applied for and have now received an American Express card.  Granted, American Express isn’t always a good actor, but at least they are willing to allow ...
• I am now an American Express Cardholder because of ...
  Since Mastercard and Visa, in cutting off Wikileaks from donations, decided that they knew better than me who I should be able to give money to, I applied for and have now received an American Express card.  Granted, American Express isn’t always a good actor, but at least they are willing to allow ...
• Because a lot of so-called Liberals don’t se ...
  Governments and individuals are different types of entities.   The presumption for government is that its proceedings and actions should be transparent to its citizens because it exists to serve its citizens, and they can only know that it is doing so, and doing so in ways they would approve of, if ...
• Why DADT Repeal Will Pass and Dream Won’t
  Gays dropped their votes to Dems significantly from 2008 levels.  Hispanics voted for Democrats at about 2008 levels despite horrible policies against them.  You only have leverage if you are willing to defect in a high profile fashion.
• Afghanistan’s 22% GDP Security Services
  If any nation that the US did not like and was not propping up spent 22% of its GDP on defense and projects to continue to spend at that level for most of a decade when its only enemy is an internal light infantry insurgency, the American foreign policy establishment would be very quick to [...]

Age of Autism

• Merry Christmas!
• UK 20 Year Old With Autism: 3 Days Respite Turned ...
  An update today says Steven is home. http://samedifference1.com/2010/12/22/steven-neary-is-home/ Managing Editor's Note: A parent in the UK brought this case to our attention. We share it with you as the nightmare of the aging autism population continues. As the parent of...
• National Autism Association Applauds Legislation E ...
  New Research Funding Must Target Prevention and Treatment of Fastest Growing Childhood Disorder WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2010 -- The National Autism Association (NAA) today expressed gratitude to Senator Christopher Dodd and his staff for their dedication and efforts in drafting...
• Street Corner Autism Debate
  You've got to watch this... CDC and pharma. Science. Knowledge. This doll kicks the dude's pl-ass-tic. Then Dude starts to feel less sure of his beliefs. His little plastic brain starts to melt. Doll woman won't Lego and Dude learns....
• Autism File Global Invites You To Subscribe
  The Autism File Global team would like to wish all our members and AOA readers very happy holidays and best wishes for the New Year. At AFG we have exciting plans for 2011. The Autism Media Channel will be ready...

Global BDS Movement

• Palestinian Civil Society reiterates call for a fu ...
  Occupied Palestine, 22 December 2010 - We, the undersigned Palestinian civil society organizations, including farmers’ unions, agricultural organizations and popular committees, reiterate the call of the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) for a full boycott of Carmel-Agrexco due to its complic ...
• Derail Israel's Unlawful A1 Train Project– End Int ...
  Occupied Palestinian Territory, 16 December 2010 - Israel’s A1 high-speed train project designed to connect Jerusalem and Tel Aviv violates international humanitarian law and human rights law. The A1 rail project forms a component of Israel’s ongoing plans to cement its regime of occupation, colonia ...
• Australian BDS Movement Begins to Emerge
  By Phil Monsour read more
• Palestinian refugees and Israel's A1 rail project ...
  The A1 rail project constitutes yet another step in the i read more
• BNC endorses findings of London session of Russell ...
  Occupied Palestine, 30 November 2010 - "May this tribunal prevent the crime of silence‟, pleaded intellectual Bertrand Russell at the first meeting of the citizens' War Crimes Tribunal that investigated US war crimes during its war on Vietnam.1 At a time when little was known in the wider public abo ...

Farm Wars

• USDA GMO Policy
  Monsanto, Vilsack, and the USDA GMO juggernaut.
• The Vote Is In: Congressional Mafia Rams Food Safe ...
  Food Safety legislation passes! Codex, here we come...
• Bribery and Graft abound as Reid attaches S.510 to ...
  S.510 Fake Food Safety bill was passed quickly late Sunday afternoon; a vote taken when the Senate could be assured few were watching or even aware that the vote on the criminalization of independent and family agriculture was taking place.
• Food Safety Sneak Attack! Passed by Unanimous Cons ...
  As reported above, the Senate on Sunday night simply took the revised food safety language that was approved by the House in the CR, substituted it to the language of HR 2751, one of the original "Cash for Clunkers" bills from last year, and approved it by unanimous consent.
• Conservation Easements (CEs)*:Read the fine print ...
  A basic Constitutional tenet of private property ownership in America is the landowner’s right to determine the use and disposition of his or her land. This ownership gives the property owner the right to occupy, use, lease, sell, develop, and deny public access to his or her land. Today, lando ...

Open Your Eyes News

• NY Premiere Zeitgeist Moving Forward
  NY Premiere ZMF Trailer from Jacqueline Carboni on Vimeo. Coming to Tribeca Cinemas January 16th – 21st, 2011 54 Varick Street NY, NY 10013 Online Ticketing Now Available: tzmnystate.com/?index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=280&Itemid=36 The System. The Culture. The Failure….. The Solution.
• USA Banks accused of illegally looting homes
  NY Times – ‘When a burglar goes in, they don’t take your photos and your husband’s ashes,’ says alleged victim of wrongful foreclosure. When Mimi Ash arrived at her mountain chalet here for a weekend ski trip, she discovered that someone had broken into the home and changed the locks. When she final ...
• Climate Fact Of The Day – Changes in frequen ...
  Summary: Have heat records increased and record low temperatures decreased as suggested by the IPCC greenhouse driven models? Reference Meehl, G.A., Byun, H.R., Tebaldi, C., Walton, G., Easterling, T., McDaniel, L., 2009, The relative increase of record high maximum temperatures compared to record l ...
• Beijing’s housing price fury goes viral
  Financial Times – The anger harboured by Beijingers about sky-high housing prices has been captured in a sardonic e-mail spreading in Chinese cyberspace calculating how long it would take peasants, thieves and prostitutes to buy a home. With consumer inflation in China topping 5.1 per cent in Novemb ...
• Boffins make ‘world’s smallest Christm ...
  ABC – Scientists have produced what they believe is the world’s smallest Christmas card. The nantotechnologists at Scotland’s University of Glasgow produced the card, which features a Christmas tree etched on a tiny piece of glass. Invisible to the naked eye, the card is so small that 8,276 of them ...

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African Huts Far From the Grid Glow WithRenewable Power

New York Times

As small-scale renewable energy becomes cheaper, more reliable and more efficient, it is providing the first drops of modern power to people who live far ...

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US meat company converts waste animal fat into renewable diesel fuel

Sify

The world's largest meat company, Tyson Foods, has entered a partnership to process waste animal fat to a renewable diesel fuel. ...

Taiwan To Invest NT$25 Bln In RenewableEnergy Next Five Years

Wall Street Journal

Taiwan's government plans to invest NT$25 billion ($838 million) over the next five years to promote renewable energy, and hopes to attract NT$200 billion ...

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California approves novel reverse auction forrenewable energy projects

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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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State Department of Ecology adopts rule on Kittitas County water

Seattle Times

The Washington state Department of Ecologyhas adopted a permanent rule that bars new groundwater withdrawals in upper Kittitas County unless they are ...

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Coal India wants end to ecology bar on mining

Business Standard

Government-owned Coal India would like an end to the policy of 'no-go' areas for mining, saying it was jeopardising its output targets....

Old-time residents cast eyes over a changing city

Brisbane Times

It is spending $100000 on the project, which will inform an urban ecology strategic action plan to conserve indigenous plant and animal species and identify ...

New gold and platinum fields found in Azerbaijan

Trend News Agency

New fields of gold and platinum have been found in Azerbaijan, Ecology and and Natural Resources Minister Huseyngulu Bagirov told journalists on Saturday. ...

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Ruptured water main soaks Roxbury street

Boston Globe

By Meghan E. Irons A water main break in Roxbury sent water gushing down Hampden Street, forcing its closure for more than 17 hours until it was reopened ...

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Pinellas residents cope with massive waterpipe break over holiday weekend

Tampabay.com

And on Thursday evening, her water supply was interrupted because of a huge water main break. "It's been quite a challenge," said Hooper's mother, ...

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Multi-Pure Water Filters Offer Effective Solutions for Reducing Dangerous ...

RedOrbit

News report of contaminant's widespread presence raises public drinking waterconcerns. Multi-Pure has solutions to health concerns in drinking water. ...

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Santa Claus Is Water-Skiing To Town

Sky News

A water-skiing Santa, complete with knee-boarding reindeer, has made a festive appearance near Washington DC. To view this content you need Flash and ...

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