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IPS - Inter Press Services

• RIGHTS-CHINA: Crackdowns Do Little to Address Sex ...
  Authorities in China are lauding a sweeping crackdown on prostitution across the country in recent months. But the sex trade continues to thrive in this booming nation, while services and support for women working in the industry remain inadequate, experts say.
• BURMA: Junta's Drug ‘Exports' to China Test ...
  As military-ruled Burma prepares to unveil its new political cast, an enduring link between the junta and the country's notorious drug lords is poised to come under the spotlight.
• SOUTH AMERICA: Closer to a Palestinian State
  With the string of announcements in South America of recognition of a Palestinian state this month, the region's integration process showed a new interest in and capacity to reach common positions in the realm of foreign policy.
• A Caribbean Cinderella: St. Domingo's Colonial Zon ...
  Santo Domingo de Guzmán was the New World's first colonial city, the Spanish Empire's capital, the Catholic Church's Rome in the West Indies, and Francis Drake's most coveted prize.
• EDUCATION: Student Drop Out Rate on the Increase D ...
  2010 will go down in history as the year when the first batch of pupils to benefit from the government's introduction of free primary education sat for their Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE).

Scoop - NZ

• India: 25% Drop in New Home Sales
  India’s new home sales fell as much as 25 percent after prices reached a record earlier this year and aren’t expected to recover in the next six months following six interest rate increases, Knight Frank LLP said.
• 2010 Hindsight: A One-Eyed Review | Scoop News
  2010 HINDSIGHT: A one-eyed review of events of the year, based loosely on true stories, Twitter, and the author's imagination
• Online anonymity breeds contempt
  A Facebook staff member writes about trolls and says online anonymity should be stopped.
• Europe Tries to Quell Debt Crisis
  Fears over the European financial crisis began to spread Tuesday from the weaker countries to healthier ones, including Italy and Belgium, and even much stronger Germany, spurring a stepped up search for a solution to the economic problems putting a strain on Europe’s decade-old monetary union. D ...
• US home prices still 30% above long-term average
  The typical American family is facing the biggest economic uncertainty since the Great Depression and must feel like their lives are in a washer spin cycle.  Many unemployed Americans are now entering a stage where unemployment insurance is being cut off which will send tens of thousands of peop ...

Independent - London

• Estonia to enter new era with euro adoption
  Estonia was gearing up today for historic New Year's festivities to celebrate the tiny country becoming the first former Soviet republic to adopt the euro.
• Athens night club damaged by bomb blast
  Police in Greece said a powerful bomb has exploded outside a closed night club in Athens, causing no injuries, in an attack linked with criminal extortion groups.
• Obama's 'car Tsar' settles bribes case
  Steven Rattner, the hedge fund industry grandee who was last year appointed by the Obama administration to oversee the restructuring of the car industry, has agreed to pay $10m to settle lawsuits over his role in a bribery scandal.
• Ivory Coast forces block UN access to mass graves
  A day after Ivory Coast's new ambassador to the United Nations warned that post-election chaos has left his country on the "brink on genocide," peacekeepers yesterday claimed forces loyal to the incumbent president are blocking access to mass graves.
• Former Israeli president is guilty of rape
  Moshe Katsav, a former president of Israel, was convicted yesterday on two counts of raping an employee while he was a cabinet minister in a case that has shocked the country but is seen as a milestone victory by women's groups.

Rogue Government.com

• Reality Of Illusion 4: Julian Assange The White Br ...
  Short documentary film from Josh Reeves detailing information on Julian Assange, Theosophy, the Council for National Policy, the new Tron film among other topics.
• U.S. Government Wants to Archive Information on Al ...
  In September, FinCEN, an agency component of the Department of the Treasury, proposed a set of rules (pdf) that would require banks and money transmitters to report to the government any cross-border electronic funds transfer.
• Europe to ban hundreds of herbal remedies
  Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a “discriminatory and disproportionate” European law. 
• Internet groups fear UN could threaten cyberspace
  Officials from 18 countries held an impromptu, late-night meeting earlier this month at the United Nations office in Geneva, and made a decision that rattled Internet technocrats around the world.
• 2010 Worst Year For Bank Failures Since 1992

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

• Freezing Rain: Russian Ministry Says 21,205 People ...
  Residents in the Moscow region continued to face power outages after disruptions caused by freezing rain on Dec. 26, leaving 21,205 people in 140 towns without electricity as of 6 p.m. yesterday, the Russian Emergency Ministry said on its website. OAO MRSK Holding, which manages Russia's interregio ...
• Poll: French find Carla Bruni's 'grande bourgeoise ...
  Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is now the country's most irritating celebrity, according to a poll released on Thursday. The Italian-born singer-model came top of a list of "personalities you want to smack" published by the French magazine VSD, with a slap-rating of 52 per cent. Behind her came the actors ...
• Winds Cause Damage, Snow Falls in El Paso, Texas
  Days of above normal temperature gave way to winds gusting above 60 miles and and snow flurries on Thursday. Heavy snow fell in the upper valley and west El Paso Thursday afternoon as a cold front moved through the borderland area. Trans Mountain is closed until further notice, according to TxDOT ...
• Feeling Safer Yet? Powerful New Tasers Creating Co ...
  Tasers have become a tool for nearly every police department in the country. Now an advanced generation of Tasers, which pack more firepower, is heating the debate over Tasing safety and potential misuse of the devices. More than 400 people have died in Taser-related incidents since 2001. On Oct. ...
• BEST OF THE WEB: Mark Twain: The War Prayer
  It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and sputtering; on every hand and far down the receding ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Seasonal treats
  It just doesn't get any better than this. Kady gives us all a Christmas present.
• They keep on trying . . .
  ACCORDING TO THE INDEPENDENT'S Tony Paterson, in his article, "Five suspects arrested over Danish cartoon 'massacre plot'", there are members of the Umma who are still plenty chuffed over the Mo cartoons, five years after their publication. Jakob Scharf, the head of Denmark's intelligence service, t ...
• Feel-good stories of the holidays
  Via the always terrific Mock, Paper, Scissors we read of a health clinic in California that took the high road to helping the poor this Christmas. Christmas in that neck of the woods just got a lot merrier. Hurrah for Pierre Karl Peladeau! Kinda reminds me of the last time Saddam Hussien was electe ...
• Russian Method . . .
  No Airshow here. The grandkids of the gang that dug 'em out of Berlin can still play hardball. The video shows Russian Navy commandos on a Somalian pirate ship shortly after the pirates had captured a Russian oil tanker. The Euro Union navy that patrols these waters would not interfere because t ...
• Here there be weasels . . .
  WikiLeaks has some cables pertaining to the murder of a former K.G.B. officer, Alexander V. Litvinenko, by Polonium poisoning. According to the NYT's Alan Cowell's article, "Cables Shed Light on Ex-K.G.B. Officer’s Death", a senior Russian official asserted that Moscow had been tailing his killers b ...

Media Matters for America

• 15 Whoppers Beck Did Not Get Fired For In 2010
  In 2010, Glenn Beck repeatedly made up facts on Fox News show -- a barrage of lies that would force any credible news outlet to fire him. Media Matters counts down 15 of the most notable fibs that Beck told this year on Fox News, culminating with the biggest lie of all.No. 15 The Fed Hoards Its Pro ...
• Eight Out Of Nine Countries Allowing Sam ...
  Following the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell,�Equality Matters�finds�that�most countries to legalize same-sex marriage first�allowed gays soldiers to�serve�openly. Of the nine countries that allow same-sex marriage and have a standing military, eight of them first allowed gays and lesbians to serve ...
• Equality Matters Looks At Civil Rights Ac ...
  In light of legislation repealing the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, Equality Matters reviews achievements in civil rights laws that were accomplished during the 19 years between racial integration of the military and the Supreme Court decision striking down laws prohibiting interracial m ...
• Frum Bungles Key Immigration Facts to Justify Kill ...
  In a CNN.com opinion piece, CNN contributor David Frum attempted to justify the defeat of immigration reform bills, including the DREAM Act, by suggesting such measures would not help the United States attract highly skilled immigrants. In fact, both the DREAM and comprehensive immigration reform b ...
• 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 ...

Global Research.ca

• Washington’s Appalling Kosovo Policy in Support of ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Official: US, NATO Now in Control of Narcotic Trad ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• In Korea, Planning for the Worst: Mass Evacuation
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• President Obama and the US Generals in Search of N ...
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Poll: 63 Percent of Americans Oppose Afghan War
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.

TPM Cafe

• Arab Nazareth, Israeli Democracy--Bundist Dreams
  A little over three weeks ago (around the time this blogger went quiet, in this season of reflection), Sidra and I took a little road trip to the Israeli Arab town of Nazareth, where we spent the weekend in a funky little inn, the Fauzi Azar. I haven't stopped thinking about it since. When you get a ...
• On New START, Fantasy Versus Reality
  In the age of 24-hour news cycles and content-free shouting heads, there will be a tendency to forget last week's historic vote to ratify the New START nuclear arms reduction agreement and move on to other subjects. We should resist that tendency. New START will make us all safer by reducing U. ...
• Talk Radio Kabuki Play
  Ever since last November's election I've been trying to understand the role of right wing populism in our democracy. This is a movement that arguably began with George Wallace's 1968 and 1972 Presidential campaigns, began to flourish when Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves in 1984 and perhaps reache ...
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• Jeff Goldberg Despairs About Israel
  I rarely, if ever, agree with the Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg about the Middle East. He is the staunchest advocate of Israel's case in the media today. How big is Goldberg? So big that when Fidel Castro decided to improve relations with Israel, he invited Goldberg to Cuba and said nice things ab ...

  TruthOut

• Government Report: Rich White Men Are Most Likely ...
  Good news! You’ve got a pretty good chance of surviving a terrorist’s nuclear blast in your city -- especially if you’re a rich white man. Women, ethnic minorities and lower socioeconomic classes are more likely to be “stricken by psychiatric disorders,” and once they start going crazy they’re less ...
• The "Family" - Who Really Is Behind This Secret Or ...
  What if someone were to tell you that your Congressman routinely bandies around phrases such as "Jesus plus nothing,"� used to mean the complete rule of Jesus, and compares the desired reach to that of Hitler or Ho Chi Minh? If this makes you at all apprehensive, then Jeff Sharlet's "C Street: The F ...
• Ten Holiday Attacks on Public Employees
  If you haven't already noticed, there is a corporate/conservative campaign underway to convince the public that public employees are living high on the taxpayer's dime and should have their pay and pensions cut back. Even during the holidays this attack does not let up. Background: The Reagan Revol ...
• Sell Local
  Local and state finances receive very little national attention. During the most recent economic crisis, local government finances have taken an epic battering. The situation in California has received some attention, although less than it deserves. The terrible toll of past policy and present econo ...
• News in Brief: Corporate Executives Asked Obama to ...
  Corporate Executives Asked Obama to Authorize a "Tax Holiday" for Their Firmsread more

Planetsave

• Solar Compared (Gram for Gram) to Nuclear and Coal
  Susan Kraemer of our sister site Cleantechnica recently covered an interesting story, a comparison of solar to nuclear and coal by weight. Take a guess which one wins. Here’s the intro from Susan. An interestingly novel way of comparing solar power with nuclear power finds that solar easily bests nu ...
• Belize Puts Complete Ban on Bottom Trawling
  Bottom trawling is an extremely destructive industrial fishing practice. Belize has now become one of the first countries, and perhaps the most significant country, to ban bottom trawling. Earlier this month the fisheries minister of Belize announced that all forms of trawling will be banned in Beli ...
• Top 30 Planetsave Posts of 2010
  I know, you are extremely curious to find out which posts on Planetsave got the most views in 2010. I was too. Here they are, the top 30. Did you read them all? 30. Amazon River (10 Friday Photos) People love pretty pictures, (especially of the Amazon). 29. Top Environmental Organizations in the Uni ...
• Global Warming is Titanic 2
  A great analogy, well-explained, from Obama’s Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu. h/t Peter Sinclair of Climate Denial Crock of the Week Photo credit on homepage: Artamir 
• When I Was Your Age…
  View all of Joe’s political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on Twitter at @GreenCartoons

Water Quality - WordPress

• Officials: Don\'t drink the water in Barstow
  Officials: Don\’t drink the water in Barstow via Officials: Don\’t drink the water in Ba
• More Interesting Facts! About Trees of course!
  Image by Or, to save on postage... via Flickr via SavATree Trees as everyone knows, are the longest
• Green Street Sidewalks in Downtown L.A.
  When Creek Freak posted our article about the city of Los Angeles’ recent Riverdale green stre
• If I can't use bacteria, how can I defend my pond ...
  If I canât use bacteria, how can I defend my pond while the water is cold? Mary – Hudson, CO I
• The Problem With Silt’s Water
  � Should I drink this water? � I don�t think many people read the Citizen Telegram but the

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Happy as a Hangman by Chris Hedges
  by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig December 6, 2010 Innocence, as defined by l
• WikiLeaks: Numerous Reasons to Dismiss US Claims t ...
  by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 3 December, 2010 Image
• Matt Taibbi and David Swanson interviewed by Cindy ...
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
• Grope-a-Palooza by Cindy Sheehan
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
• Michael Parenti: The Spanish American War (1990)
  by Michael Parenti Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.michaelparenti.org December 4, 2010 Image via

Axis of Logic

• The Nation joins the campaign against Julian Assan ...
  30 December 2010 The Nation magazine in the US, with its publication of “The Case of Julian Assange” by columnist Katha Pollitt (posted December 22, 2010), has joined the right-wing campaign against WikiLeaks co-founder Assange, a campaign directed by the highest levels of the American state. ...
• The New Orleans fire and the conditions of youth i ...
  30 December 2010 Five young men and three young women perished in a fire in an abandoned warehouse early Tuesday morning in New Orleans after lighting a fire to keep warm in the freezing temperatures. Flames engulfed the structure. Before firefighters could extinguish the blaze they were all dea ...
• Dilma: Brazil's First Woman President Takes Office ...
  New Brazil leader adds to LatAm ’woman’s touch’ AFP - Brazil’s first female president Dilma Rousseff, who takes up the helm on January 1, will lead a small but powerful group of women taking on the political challenges facing Latin America. When she is inaugurated as the head of the. ...
• Caribbean has to be prepared for big quake – seism ...
  The Acting Director of the Seismic Research Centre of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Dr Joan Latchman, is warning Caribbean countries to be prepared for an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0, according to the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC). CMC said that the warning came after Trinid ...
• Where are the jobs? For many companies, overseas U ...
  Corporate profits are up. Stock prices are up. So why isn't anyone hiring? Actually, many American companies are — just maybe not in your town. They're hiring overseas, where sales are surging and the pipeline of orders is fat. More than half of the 15,000 people that Caterpillar Inc ...

  They Gave Us a Republic

• The Nightowl Newswrap
  Elections alone, in the absence of established civic institutions, cannot magically create democracy. "UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned supporters of Ivory Coast incumbent Laurent Gbagbo not to attack his rival Alassane Ouattara's HQ. An attack - threatened for Saturday - could spark civi ...
• Wall Street Sticking It To The Working Class As Al ...
  And nobody's interested in doing an effing thing about it. �So what else is new? Serfing USA: Corporate America is Robbing American Workers__Dave Lindorff_This can't Be Happening Along with the staggering theft in broad daylight of Americans' assets that has occurred in the course of the ongoing fin ...
• Just How Stupid Does Steve Beshear Think You Are?
  Public Policy Polling shows Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear up 14 points in approval rating just 10 months before the voters decide whether to keep him or throw his ass to the fire-breathing dragons at the Flintstones Truther Park. Kentucky Democrat Steve Beshear who's up next year is unusually popu ...
• Breaking! The Neocon Concern Troll is Concerned!
  Jennifer Rubin is in high dudgeon. I know, I know -- horribly aggrieved is her normal state of being. She is terribly worried any time a Democrat inside the beltway shows any signs of flexing a muscle or stiffening a spine. And last night, after the President named six recess appointments proved to ...
• "Successful" Lame Duck Left Middle Class Worse Off
  Every football season, there are several games in which the winning team scores the most points despite being outplayed by the losing team in every statistical category: time on offense, yards gained, passes completed, first downs, sacks, penalties - the losing team "won" everything. Except the game ...

Care 2

• Year of the Tiger to the year to the year of the R ...
  A worker displays a baby tiger and a baby rabbit to visitors at Malabon Zoo in northern Manila, capital of the Philippines on Dec. 28. Many Asian counties have traditions to mark the coming of the lunar New Year. Now, Submitted by Tarequl I. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Wall Street bankers, publicly modest, eye fancy to ...
  Wall Street executives may face smaller bonuses and a public that still eyes them with suspicion, but that isn't stopping them from rediscovering their love of luxury cars, oceanfront homes and private jets. Submitted by Jae A. to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Wall St's 10 Biggest Lies of 2010
  What a great year for Wall Street: profits up, bonuses up and, best of all, criticism down. Somehow Wall Street has much of America believing its lies and rationalizations.Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Business �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Countless Juarez residents flee 'dying city'
  CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico � The mother of four raised a finger, pointing out abandoned and stripped concrete homes and counting how many families have fled the Western Hemisphere's deadliest city on her street alone."One, two, three, four, here, and two ..Submitted by Jae A. to World �|� �Note-i ...
• The Law of Conservation of Energy, As Applied to M ...
  What can clean energy activists learn from the world of physics? For starters, they might consider a well known precept called the law of the conservation of energy. Simply put, it states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it�s foreverSubmitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note- ...

Smirking Chimp

• Next: Digital Totalitarianism - The Conspiracy to ...
• A Year of Fall and Decline
• Time Magazine Editor-At-Large: "We thought [auster ...
• The New York Times' Versailles Manifesto
• Serfing USA: Corporate America is Robbing American ...

Paul Krugman

• Take That, Umberto Eco
  Un-American, indeed.
• Rosie the Riveter Has Died
  Time marches on.
• Sacred Cows
  Epidemics are a liberal fraud, or something.
• Bloomberg's Katrina
  Nobody could have predicted ...
• Ireland = Nevada
  Similar, except for the scenery.

No Quarter

• Fox News Ultimate Irony Moment
  The folks at FOX really are clueless. Megyn Kelly just had Ambassador John Bolton on to talk about President Obama’s recess appointments. The crawl at the bottom of the screen? GROWING OUTRAGE OVER PRESIDENT OBAMA’S RECESS APPOINTMENTS. Who does Barack Obama think he is? My, my. How short are Republ ...
• Bad Luck Cadet #12 – Small Acts of Defiance
  Small Acts of Defiance is the twelfth in a series of posts on my misadventures in becoming a police officer. The first in this series is Accidents Happen. I became a police officer while suffering a midlife crisis in my forties. I became a detective a few years later. Crime in my small town skyrocke ...
• Judith Miller, Delusional Liar
  Judith Miller already proven to be a hack reporter and propagandist who helped persuade the American public to swallow the Bush Administration lie about the need to go to war with Iraq is back at it, spilling more nonsense in the pages of the Wall Street Journal attacking Valerie Plame Wilson. This ...
• An Economic Truth in Conflict with a Rosy Sales Pi ...
  The joy of the season eludes many in dire economic straits. NY Times columnist Bob Herbert points out as much is his latest piece The Data and the Reality. Lamenting “data zealots” who use impressive holiday sales figures as evidence of an economic turnaround, Herbert stresses the vital need to focu ...
• Looking back
  As we approach the dawn of a new year and near the official advent of campaign 2012, I wanted to look back. Gently though, my stomach cannot handle a hard return, a reliving of those hateful days of the *cough* *cough,* hope-filled, dream candidacy of Barack Obama. First I wanted to note, for all of ...

  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

• Will the Tunisian President Go the Way of Ceausesc ...
  According to the Guardian, Ben Ali's regime has a fin de siecle feel.
• Postcard from...Koza
  An anti-American riot in Okinawa in 1970 still has ripple effects on the island today.
• Will the Tunisian President Go the Way of Ceausesc ...
  According to the Guardian, Ben Ali's regime has a fin de siecle feel.
• Will the Tunisian President Go the Way of Ceausesc ...
  According to the Guardian, Ben Ali's regime has a fin de siecle feel.
• WikiLeaks XXV: Security Firms in Iraq Making a Kil ...
  Private security firms in Iraq's southern Basra province are reaping millions protecting foreign investors.

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 recalls Darfur negotiators
  Government delegation withdraws from Qatar-sponsored talks with Darfur rebels but says it is committed to peace process.
• Sentence extended for Russia tycoon
  Former Russian oil tycoon receives six more years in prison after money laundering and embezzlement conviction.
• Haiti's cholera deaths increase
  Latest official statistics show more people dying nearly two months after the earthquake struck.
• Blasts kill Iraqi Christians
  Ten explosions target Christians across Iraqi capital, killing two and wounding 18, days after al-Qaeda renewed threat.
• Ivorian leader warns of 'civil war'
  Incumbent president says international pressure on him to resign threatens to push country into civil war.

Green Inc. - NYT

• An Evangelical Backlash Against Environmentalism
  Some evangelists argue that Christians must resist the "Green Dragon" of environmentalism.
• New York State Buys Conservation Rights for 89,000 ...
  New York State paid $30 million to secure conservation rights on tens of thousands of acres of forest in the Adirondacks.
• Another Setback for a West Coast Coal Port
  The state of Washington has blocked a proposed coal export terminal in Cowlitz County.
• A Last-Minute Choice by Texas and Vermont
  Vermont and Texas say they will go ahead with a plan to allow 36 other states to dump waste at a site under development in Texas.
• On Our Radar: Fishing Nets Killed More Turtles Tha ...
  Fishing nets killed more sea turtles than the BP oil spill did, says the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

  Dot Earth News

• On Warming, Antarctica, Clouds and Peer Review
  With peer review in place of shouting matches, climate science moves forward a notch or two.
• Putting a Siberian Snow Connection to the Test
  A forecaster seeing links between warming, Siberia and outbreaks of cold weather offers a fresh prediction.
• Wintry Weather and Global Warming
  More from the "weather is still not climate" files.
• 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.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Russia & China not buying BIS Fractional Reserve G ...
  A bit of Xmas cheer pushin back against LA school district police brutality: How a Google Engineer (and Reddit) Got a Teenager Out of Jail for Christmas Fiddlesticks: It's Over: Jason Rosenbaum: BREAKING: FCC breaks Obama's promise, allows corporate censorship online with fake Net Neutrality Previou ...
• Robert Erickson: Featured Pic for Top 10 Political ...
  Friend of mine says this is still a running gag at her office six months later! :-D My mom is happy the Christmas tablecloth went a bit viral! Star Tribune featured the penny drop as the most photogenic political moment in Minnesota politics for 2010! The boring 2010 campaign season featured one hi ...
• 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 ...

Daily Censored

• Struggle, Resistance and Progress: 2010 Recap and ...
  www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news Please Join us this Thursday December30th at 9:00 PM EST. If you cannot listen LIVE you can listen on Archive 2010 was a particularly tough year within the stolen borders of American, and throughout the globe—for that matter. The global economic crisis, caused b ...
• It’s Scary Where The Mind Can Run
  Oooops, there is another problem with bank foreclosures.  If the water has not been turned off and vandals have not yet broken into the homes to steal the copper plumbing, the pipes could freeze and break.  Ah, but of course, if the people did not pay their bills the water most certainly would be tu ...
• To Fix Education: Fire Human Teachers, Hire Hologr ...
  “50 years later, our generation’s Sputnik moment is back,” President Obama declared at a recent speech at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; this time, however, we aren’t just losing to the formidable U.S.S.R., but now are being beaten senseless by wimpy little nat ...
• Why we write: End Orwellian US economics and imple ...
  source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com The central economic solution to unleash trillions of dollars for the US economy is simple:  Our Robber Baron-era monetary system must be recognized as a national “debt supply” that only profits the banks that create the debt. This Orwellian opposite of a national m ...
• 1 in 3 American families “low-income”: US economic ...
  source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com The Working Poor Families Project has just released their policy brief for the winter of 2010-11. The new US Census Bureau data is that 30% of US families are now earning less than 200 percent of the official poverty threshold, and are thereby defined as “low-incom ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• RNC Candidate Priebus’s Law Fir ...
• Fake article prompts NYC mosque opponents to boyco ...
• If the Justice Department Is Investigating Manning ...
• Gingrich-buster among President Obama's recess app ...
• The Year in Racism

Institute for Policy Studies

• The Lineup: Week of December 27, 2010-January 2, 2 ...
  William A. Collins reviews the gun lobby's gains and Jim Hightower urges readers to move their money to small, locally based financial institutions.
• Not Much to Celebrate with Obama's Tax Deal
  It could spell trouble for Social Security.
• No Tax Holiday for the Working Poor
  There's not much to celebrate with Obama's tax deal.
• Obama's Afghanistan Review: A Whitewash of a Disas ...
  According to the Obama administration, nothing can happen in the U.S. war in Afghanistan that doesn’t mean good news.
• 'Tis The Season For Gay Rights
  Finally, a long-overdue step forward for civil rights achieved.

  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

• Put the fix on the Senate
  Help Us Make History on January 5 Dear Friend, The Senate is broken. A minority of 41 Republican Senators has virtually stopped reform in its tracks: • If Democrats try to pass something without Republican input, Republicans filibuster. • If Democrats ...
• 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 ...

Marler Blog

• Blog Release - Marler Clark Pledges $10,000 to Int ...
  Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, announced today that it is pledging $10,000 to the International Sprout Growers Association (ISGA) to assist in the development of a safer method for the production of sprouts. The contribution comes on the heels of a nationwide Salmonella outbreak caused by c ...
• "First Class Foods" Recalls 17 Tons of E. coli O15 ...
  First Class Foods, Inc., a Hawthorne, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 34,373 pounds of organic ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The following products ...
• Does this recent Sprout Salmonella Outbreak show a ...
  The CDC has confirmed that there are presently 94 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:- from 16 states and the District of Columbia. The number of ill people identified in each state with the outbreak strain is as follows: California (1), Connecticut (1) ...
• Perhaps after three Sprout Outbreaks, Jimmy John's ...
  Salmonella and E. coli are fecal bateria - think about it. According to today’s report from the CDC, between November 1 through December 27, 2010, 94 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:- have been reported from 16 states and the District of Columbia. ...
• Outbreak of Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:- Infection Sp ...
  With the number of Salmonella or E. coli Outbreaks linked to sprout consumption nearly 40 in the last few decades by my count, perhaps banning sales of sprouts across state lines would both limit the size of these outbreaks and jump-start small, local, sustainable agriculture? This recent Outbreak, ...

AutoblogGreen

• Report: Facing high gas prices, dealers get cautio ...
  Filed under: Car Buying, SUV, Crossover The average gas price in the U.S. is over $3 right now, and there's a good chance it'll go higher before too long. What do you do in this situation if you're a car dealer with a lot full of SUVs and big crossovers? You start being cautious. That's the ta ...
• AutoblogGreen for 12.30.10
  42 years of waiting, and working, for an electric car pays off Some people know just how big a deal the first Volt and Leaf deliveries really are. Alyssa Milano to buy both Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt ...
• Rumormill: BMW's production Vision Concept to be c ...
  Filed under: Coupe, Hybrid, BMW, Rumormill, Electric, Diesel BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept - Click above for high-res image gallery We have heard that BMW has has registered a series of "i+number trademarks (i1, i2, i3, i4, i5, i6, i7, i8 and i9) to use for its fuel efficient MegaCity range ...
• AutoblogGreen for 12.29.10
  Tesla pushing Toyota to be faster, better when it comes to electric cars So, a start-up and a giant OEM walk into a bar... Debate over electric car viability revived in Canada Pictured: an E ...
• AutoblogGreen for 12.28.10
  Opinion: Why early electric vehicle adopters deserve tax credits Just in case Fox News is listening... Nissan: "Everyone in their Leaf" by end of summer Will this promise come true? ...

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!

• A Special Message to our Facebook Fans from Amy Go ...
  As 2010 draws to a close, I want to thank you for watching Democracy Now! and for choosing a news source that’s committed to the truth. Five days a week, Democracy Now! delivers headlines directly to your Facebook page for free, keeping you and your friends up-to-date with the latest news from arou ...
• ‘The Comeback Kid’ and the Kids Who Won’t
  President Barack Obama signed a slew of bills into law during the lame-duck session of Congress and was dubbed the “Comeback Kid” amid a flurry of fawning press reports. In the hail of this surprise bipartisanship, though, the one issue over which Democrats and Republicans always agree, war, was co ...
• WATCH: Amy Goodman on CNN’s John King USA
  Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman discusses the East Coast snowstorm, the war in Afghanistan, and more on CNN’s John King USA on Tuesday, December 28.
• TONIGHT: Amy Goodman on CNN's John King USA
  Democracy Now!’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will appear on CNN’s John King USA on Tuesday, December 28 at 7pm EST.
• India's Most Famous Political Prisoner Dr. Binayak ...
  Renowned Indian physician and human rights activist Dr. Binayak Sen has been sentenced to life in prison. On Friday, Dr. Sen and two others were convicted in India on charges of sedition and conspiracy. Described as Indian’s most famous political prisoner, Dr. Binayak Sen is known as the "physici ...

Digg Green

• Europe launcher puts Spanish, S.Korean satell ...
  An Ariane 5 heavy rocket lifted off from Europe's space base on French Guiana Wednesday and put into orbit the South Korean Koreasat 6 and Spanish Hispasat 1E telecommunications satellites.
• Google Earth Engine Tracks Environmental Chan ...
  Search engine giant, Google, has been making news again in December 2010. First, it unveiled Google eBooks and then, a week later at the COP16 talks in Cancun, the company announced Google Earth Engine. The new, free online technology tracks environmental changes worldwide by comparing sattel ...
• Manatees paddle to warm water to escape Fla. ...
  People aren't the only ones in Florida who don't like cold weather. Manatees - those giant aquatic mammals with the flat, paddle-shaped tails - are swimming out of the chilly Gulf of Mexico waters and into warmer springs and power plant discharge canals.
• Food Allergies on the Rise in the U.S.
  Food allergies are more common today than ever, with the biggest offenders being peanuts, eggs, milk and shrimp.
• The Year in Amazing Scientific Discoveries Th ...
  That we can even have this category has nothing to do with science “failing,” but with how science has been sucked into the 21st century information cycle. Call it the 24-hour-newsing of science. Maybe it has a little to do with science being awesome and normal people now being served science n ...

Invisible Opportunity

• 9/11 skeptics say Julian Assange being manipulated ...
  By Michael Cosgrove Various 9/11 truthers are changing their previously positive opinion of Julian Assange and Wikileaks. He is now being disowned by this clique and even being regarded as a paid agent. Regular readers of the press will be aware that supporters of recent decisions by Wikileaks and J ...
• Damn! It’s The MSG! Stop Poisoning Me!
  By Dick Allgire KITV Reporter – Honolulu 12-29-10 I am very careful about what I eat. Some would call me picky or even compulsive. But, having learned from Dr. Russell Blaylock and from personal experience, I avoid MSG. At least I try. I make my own veggie broth. (* Recipe below.) I cook most of [.. ...
• Christmas Day One Year Later-The Underwear Bomber- ...
  By Kurt Haskell Since it can be almost certainly accepted that the FBI/CIA planted Umar with a fake bomb we must ask a few more questions. Who was the Sharp Dressed Man? The answer is now certain that it was a U.S. Government agent sent to ensure that Umar boarded the plane. Obviosuly, the entire [. ...
• Christian coalition founder Pat Robertson calls fo ...
  By Ethan Huff Sending young people to prison for marijuana possession and use is not a good thing, said 700 Club founder Pat Robertson on a recent segment. Also founder of the Christian Coalition and former Republican candidate for President, Robertson expressed opposition to the current war on drug ...
• Pomegranate juice components block cancer cell mig ...
  By S. L. Baker One of the most dreaded consequences of cancer is when the disease metastasizes — meaning it spreads from the primary site where it started to other parts of the body. But University of California, Riverside (UCR) scientists have announced what could be a major breakthrough in halting ...

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

• Reading Charlotte's Web as a Parent and an Activis ...
  Charlotte realized that the only way to save Wilbur's life was to make people care about Wilbur. If someone is nameless, we can treat them in the worst ways.
• Vision: The Idea That Drug Addicts Should Be Treat ...
  The U.S. and Canada are making significant strides towards mainstreaming harm reduction, but there are still walls to knock down.
• The Idea That Drug Addicts Should Be Treated, Not ...
  The U.S. and Canada are making significant strides towards mainstreaming harm reduction, but there are still walls to knock down.
• How America Turned into a Nation of Speedfreaks an ...
  An excerpt from Mick Farren's new book exploring the drug that dominates the lives of millions of schoolchildren, soldiers on the battlefield and freelance writers.
• How America Turned into a Nation of Speedfreaks
  An excerpt from Mick Farren's new book exploring the drug that dominates the lives of millions of schoolchildren, soldiers on the battlefield and freelance writers.

Twilight Earth

• When I Was Your Age…
  View all of Joe’s political/environmental cartoonery at JoeMohrToons.com Updates on Twitter at @GreenCartoons Related posts:Tea Party Actually Started by Two British Comedians (cartoon) Republican Energy Plan (cartoon) Election Day Cartoon Caption Contest Related posts:Tea Party Actually Starte ...
• 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 ...

Inhabitat

• Architect Jean Nouvel Unveils Masterplan for Segui ...
  Read the rest of Architect Jean Nouvel Unveils Masterplan for Seguin Island in Francehttp://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: atelier jean nouvel, fren ...
• Top 6 Green Architecture Stories of 2010 – Vote fo ...
  It’s been a groundbreaking year for green architecture as Inhabitat has covered everything from innovative new construction technologies to underground homes to underwater skyscrapers. Although these approaches may seem disparate at first glance, one thing they all share is a vision of how architect ...
• Top 6 Green Technology Stories of 2010 – Vote for ...
  Green technology has moved far beyond solar panels over the past decade, and the breakthroughs we’ve seen just over the last year have been nothing short of amazing. But the big ideas that made headlines this year weren’t just conceptual — in fact, many of the most impressive developments are or are ...
• Dodoplan’s Exquisite Holiday Ornaments Made of Loc ...
  Dorota Januszek, Iza Brola and Honorata Poznanska, the creative trio that make up Dodoplan.com, created these exquisite holiday ornaments from locally sourced materials such as straw, tissue and yarn. The band of designers decided to shun the global unification of holiday symbols and rituals, and in ...
• House-Shaped Sticky Notes Made from Construction W ...
  Even if e-mail and the iPhone are taking over the world, Post-it notes are still an indispensable form of communication. Whether used to leave a cute note for your loved one, a written lashing for the roommate who ate your last banana, or to tag a page in your favorite book – here’s a new [...]

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

• Climate Models Miss Effects of Wind-Shattered Dust
  Clumps of dust in the desert shatter like glass on a kitchen floor. This similarity may mean the atmosphere carries more large dust particles than climate models assume. Dust and other airborne particles’ effect in the atmosphere is “one of the most important problems we need to solve in order to p ...
• Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2010
  In a year full of major advances, over-hyped findings and controversial studies, Wired Science had a tough time choosing which breakthroughs were the biggest in 2010. So we've collected the ones that stood out the most to us. From synthetic life and three-parent embryos to the possibility of a new h ...
• U.S. Science Funding Boost Faces Uncertain Future
  Despite coming under attack by Congressional republicans, federal science funding has received a major and mostly overlooked boost. The America COMPETES Act, passed by Congress shortly before Christmas, calls for $46 billion in science and technology research funding over the next three years. Fina ...
• The Weirdest Indicators of Serious Medical Risks
  As databases of information about people’s lifestyles and medical ailments grow, ever-stranger omens of our health seem to emerge. Today’s computer-powered studies allow researchers to look beyond obvious health risks of the past. New analyses show, for example, that finger length, grip strength an ...
• The World’s Biggest, Iciest Particle Detector
   See Also: Elusive Neutrino Change-Up Finally Detected Searching for Alien Neutrino Messages Dark Matter May Be Building Up Inside the Sun Underground Lab Probes How Matter Licked Antimatter New Supernova Image Reveals Third Dimension

  PakAlert

• Video: Trends for 2011 by Gerald Celente
  Gerald Celente trends for 2011 : gold and silver will keep its rally up and up and up, Gerald Celente very bullish on Gold is forecasting Gold $2000 and global currency crisis that's going to be so bad that they might call for a Bank Holidays we will continue to see defaults nation wide from states ...
• Top 10 Survival Downloads You Should Have
  There are tons of good downloads in the Survival Database Download section of this website. For this article – I have selected 10 that everyone should have either printed and put away, or placed on a USB drive – or better yet both. So – let’s get to it:
• The Transhumanist and Police State Agenda in Pop M ...
  Today’s pop music is filled with symbols and messages aimed to shape and mold today’s youth. Apart from the occult symbolism discussed in other articles, other parts of the elite’s agenda are communicated through music videos. Two of those parts are transhumanism and the introduction of a police sta ...
• 63 Percent of Americans Oppose War In Afghanistan
  Opposition to the war in Afghanistan is at an all-time high, with 63 percent of the public now opposed to U.S. involvement there, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey. Just 35 percent of survey respondents say they still support U.S. involvement.
• 10 Modern Methods of Mind Control
  The more one researches mind control, the more one will come to the conclusion that there is a coordinated script that has been in place for a very long time with the goal to turn the human race into non-thinking automatons. For as long as man has pursued power over the masses, mind control has bee ...

Andy Worthington

• Hounding a Torture Judge: A Report by Susan Harman ...
  Holding Bush administration officials accountable for torture is an unfashionable thought in Obama’s America, as was signaled even before Barack Obama took office, when he told the New York Times about his “belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.â After a promising early ...
• With Indefinite Detention and Transfer Bans, Obama ...
  With just two weeks to go before the ninth anniversary of the opening of the “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo, almost everyone in a position of authority in the US has failed to resolve, in a satisfactory manner, the bitter legacy left by the Bush administration. In fact, to judge by two recent ...
• Christmas at Guantánamo
  Ten days ago, when I traveled to Sheffield with my friend, the former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes, for a screening of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I co-directed with Polly Nash), I asked Omar what Guantánamo was like at Christmas, as I knew that he ...
• 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 ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• National Snow and Ice Data Center Gets a Cool Make ...
  Its servers process information that's key to charting climate change, but the center had a climate problem of its own to solve.
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• Can Geothermal Energy Pick Up Real Steam?
  Developers say we have a 'window of opportunity' to mine heat from Earth’s white-hot core, but lagging investment and environmental questions pose significant obstacles.
• New Species Photos: Fangless Snake, Bald Bird Near ...
  NoneScientists working in Asia's Mekong River Basin are finding new species of bats, birds, snakes, and more at a "staggering" rate.
• 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.

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

• AFA’s Fischer Doubles Down on Anti-Gay Lies
  Like a desperate gambler who simply can’t make himself fold an obvious losing hand and instead increases his bet, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association apparently has concluded that the best defense for being caught in lies is to further inflate them. The Southern Poverty Law Center last ...
• A Poll of Their Own: Family Research Council Takes ...
  Tony Perkins, president of the anti-gay Family Research Council (FRC), was on the attack again today. In a live event broadcast from the FRC political arm’s website, Perkins announced that a new FRC poll had found that almost 63% of “active duty and retired military families oppose overturning the p ...
• AFA’s Fischer Recycles Lies in Support of Anti-Gay ...
  For those who perpetrate lies about gays and lesbians, old habits are apparently hard to break. Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association’s loquacious director of issue analysis for government and public policy, responded on Nov. 26 to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s publication a few days ea ...
• Arkansas House Speaker Salutes Failed Racist Candi ...
  Outspoken white racist Billy Roper, the neo-Nazi founder of White Revolution and former deputy outreach coordinator at the now-defunct National Alliance (NA), failed miserably Nov. 2 as a write-in candidate for governor of Arkansas. But he did get a nice consolation prize: a letter from the speaker ...
• White Revolution Chief Seeks Kinder, Gentler Ode t ...
  In the ranks of white supremacists, Dec. 8 is a day of celebration. But being who they are, racist skinheads and other neo-Nazis generally treat what they call Martyr’s Day — an event meant to honor those who have died for the cause of white nationalism — as just another excuse for a beer-swilling, ...

  change: org.

• Victory! The Scott Sisters Freed!
  It took over 16 years, but  Gladys and Jamie Scott are finally free to go home to Florida after Republican Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour suspended their life sentences. Gladys and Jamie Scott were teenagers when they were arrested and sentenced on circumstantial evidence for reportedly taking p ...
• Chris Brown Apologizes for Homophobic Tweets
  Yesterday was a war of words between Chris Brown and RazB, two musicians with a combined Twitter following of over 1.2 million. There's not much love lost between the two artists, and yesterday the two engaged in quite the Twitter battle. But what could have been just a feud between two celebrities ...
• U.S. Politicians Provide Material Support for Terr ...
  Given that New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani ran a whole failed presidential campaign on his supposed war on terror-fighting credentials – he was in office when 9/11 happened, or so I've heard -- one might reasonably wonder: why is the former GOP candidate flying to Paris and publicly praising the M ...
• North Carolina Council of Churches Elect Gay Presi ...
  The North Carolina Council of Churches recently elected an openly gay man as its new president. The group chose Stan Kimer to head up the council. This is the first time a Southern state church council has elected an openly gay person as a leader. Kimer, 55, is a Raleigh resident and a retired IBM s ...
• The Law of Conservation of Energy, As Applied to M ...
  What can clean energy activists learn from the world of physics? For starters, they might consider a well known precept called the law of the conservation of energy. Simply put, it states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it’s forever undergoing conversion from one state to another. ...

Common Dreams -News

• Season of Hardship Connects Struggling Workers in ...
  by Michelle ChenMillions of Americans barely scraped by this holiday season, stuck in poverty-wage jobs or mired in unemployment. But the latest retail sector reports show that we did manage to shop a little more, perhaps because people are resorting to the material comforts of consumption to make ...
• Army Edits Its History of the Deadly Battle of Wan ...
  by Greg Jaffe The Army's official history of the battle of Wanat - one of the most intensely scrutinized engagements of the Afghan war - largely absolves top commanders of the deaths of nine U.S. soldiers and instead blames the confusing and unpredictable nature of war. read more
• US Declined to Cooperate in Dubai Probe of Mabhouh ...
  by Yossi MelmanThe United States declined a request from the United Arab Emirates to assist an investigation into the assassination of a top Hamas commander.Dubai suspects Israel's Mossad agency to have been behind the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhoh in a Dubai hotel in January 2010. Israel has neither ...
• Sudan Must Avoid a Backslide Into All-Out War afte ...
  by Madeleine BuntingHere is unfinished business. The British created the enormous country of Sudan out of a bundle of geographical regions, and bequeathed one of the world's longest civil wars, which was only brought to a grudging halt in 2005.read more
• That "Sanders for President" Talk is Real Enough, ...
  by John NicholsVermont Senator Bernie Sanders finished 2010 with a filibuster that highlighted his differences with the Obama administration when it comes to economic policy.read more

Lifehacker

• Most Popular Firefox Extensions and Posts of 2010 ...
  Firefox isn't the only browser for power users anymore, but that didn't stop it from having a great year of updates, extensions, and tweaks in 2010. Here's a look back at the most popular Firefox extensions and posts. More�� ...
• Subscribe to Our Newsletter for a Free Daily Read ...
  That left-hand link to "Get Lifehacker in your inbox"? Sure, it sends each day's top stories to your inbox. But it also contains one story—photos, text, and all—that you can easily read on your phone, iPad, or other device. More » ...
• How to Root Your NookColor to Access the Marketpla ...
  Want to read Kindle ebooks on a color screen? Or download Android apps? One man rooted his NookColor (which runs Android), and loaded on the Kindle app. More��
• Self-Insure Your Pets Instead of Buying Insurance ...
  If you've ever been stung by a stiff bill from the vet, pet insurance can seem mighty appealing. But socking away one dollar per day on your own may be just as effective, and unused money doesn't go to waste. More��
• Empty iLife's Trashes to Free Up Space on Your Mac ...
  We've shown you a few ways to clean up your Mac's hard drive, but Macworld reminds us of a very simple tip that many of us probably forget about often: empty the trash in your favorite iLife apps. More��

Water Privatization

• Privatization changing its ways
  Privatization changing its ways
• Empty promise of reform in S’gor water service
  This concession agreement was approved by the Federal Government in 2005. In fact, the Barisan Nasional government privatised the water industry to four different companies from 1996 onwards but this privatization has resulted in corruption..
• MWSS pays P3.67 billion in retiree benefits from o ...
   MANILA, Philippines – Since its privatization in 1997, the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) has paid P3.67 billion in retirement benefits to more than 2,000 employees without any subsidy from the national government.   Macra Cruz, MWSS OIC administrator, said funds for the agency’ ...
• MWSS pays P3.67 billion in retiree benefits from o ...
  MANILA, Philippines - Since its privatization in 1997, the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) has paid P3.67 billion in retirement benefits to more than 2,000 employees without any subsidy from the national government.
• Privatization of city slaughterhouse eyed
  ILOILO City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog is eyeing the privatization of a city-owned slaughterhouse if a contractor-supplier charged P100 million or more for the upgrading of equipment and facilities of the abattoir. Mabilog also asked Francis N. Celones of FNC Food and Beverages Machinery Technology a ...

Guardian

• Yeates landlord: police get more time
  Officers granted another 12 hours to question Chris Jefferies, who lived above flat of woman found dead on Christmas DayPolice have been granted extra time to question Joanna Yeates's landlord, who is being held on suspicion of her murder.Officers will be able to quiz the retired public school teach ...
• Cameron warns of 'difficult' 2011
  David Cameron says 2011 can be year Britain 'gets back on its feet', but warns terrorist threat remains 'as serious as ever'David Cameron has said 2011 will be a "difficult year", in his first new year's message to the country as prime minister.He warned that the terrorist threat to the UK was "as s ...
• Floods and bushfires hit Australia
  Flooded area of north-east Australia is bigger than France and Germany, as southern states face tinder dry conditionsFloodwaters have risen across a vast area of north-east Australia, affecting 22 towns, forcing 200,000 residents out of their homes and closing an important sugar export port.Flooding ...
• House prices end year little changed
  Nationwide reports surprise rise in December after two months of falling prices The UK housing market has ended a volatile 2010 roughly where it began, after the Nationwide reported a surprise 0.4% rise in house prices in December.The seasonally adjusted increase in the price of the average UK home ...
• In praise of … an alternative NYE
  The big night approaches and this year everything will be different ... or will it?The rigmarole of dressing up to go out in weather that laughs at anything not the colour of sludge. Why bother? The cold, cheerless journey that deep down you already know is not worth the hassle. Whose idea of a good ...

  McClatchey

• 2 charged in prison killing of Mechelle Linehan ca ...
  ANCHORAGE — Two men have been charged in connection with the 2008 prison slaying of John Carlin III, who was serving a 99-year prison term after being convicted, as was Mechele Linehan, in a 1996 slaying, according to an indictment released this evening.
• Wachovia accused of looking other way in Florida P ...
  MIAMI — As George Theodule lured hundreds of people to invest with him, using his heritage, a network of churches and his radio show as bait, the bank through which he operated his massive Ponzi scheme looked the other way, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court this month.
• Farewell to 2010 - bring on 2011!
  2010 will soon be in the rear-view window.
• Tom Vandergriff, mayor who brought Texas Rangers t ...
  ARLINGTON, Texas — Tom Vandergriff, once known as Arlington's "boy mayor," died Thursday afternoon at Texas Health Harris Methodist Fort Worth.
• 23 accused of stealing oil from wells in North Tex ...
  FORT WORTH — Twenty-three sealed felony indictments have been returned by a grand jury in Montague County against 10 people in the theft of more than $1 million worth of oil from North Texas wells.

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

• Foreclosures Increase As Mortgage Modification Pro ...
  Even with the foreclosure moratoriums that a few of the nation’s biggest banks instituted following the robo-signing scandal, foreclosures for this year will likely top one million. According to a report released yesterday by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Sup ...
• NC Lawmaker Lashes Out At Burr For DADT Repeal Vot ...
  During his re-election bid this past November, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) said that he supported the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy and expressed concern about “changing the accommodations for troops if the policy changed.” But following the Pentagon’s review of the ban and the testimony of military lea ...
• Proposed House GOP Rules Give Rep. Ryan ‘Stu ...
  The incoming Republican majority in the House of Representatives has laid out a series of changes it would like to make to the House rules, including replacing the current “pay-go” rules — which require all spending increases to be offset with spending cuts or tax increases — with a rule called “cut ...
• Gaffney Accuses Observant US Muslims Of ‘Sed ...
  In a recent Newsweek interview, the Cordoba Initiative’s Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf shared what lessons he drew from the past summer’s controversy over the planned Park 51 Islamic Cultural Center: We learned a number of lessons, the most important of which is this: the real battlefront is not between th ...
• Upton Argues Obama Plans To Destroy America In The ...
  In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, incoming energy chair Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) joined Americans For Prosperity (AFP) president Tim Phillips, a global warming denier, to support the lawsuits by global warming polluters against climate rules. One of the companies leading the charge against the Environme ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Weisbrot: Wikileaks and Haiti
  A good read. People who do not understand US foreign policy think that control over Haiti does not matter to Washington, because it is so poor and has no strategic minerals or resources. But that is not how Washington operates, as the WikiLeaks cables repeatedly illustrate. For the state departm ...
• A Belated Appreciation For a Jim Coyle Editorial
  I was working on a lot of stuff when this came out: "Political contempt paves way for public disgust" ... Give it a read. Coyle details some of the worst examples of contempt for democracy, thuggery, and boorishness, exhibited at the federal, provincial, and local levels, and hopes that at least a ...
• Ottawa Police Scandal: How Right-Wing Authoritaria ...
  So, in response to the major public relations disaster of the Ottawa Police FORCE being investigated for numerous assaults on innocent people, some dim-bulb (no doubt a blubbering, self-pitying cop or one of their moronic relatives or friends) has put together one of those xtranormal instant animati ...
• Two Commenters at the National Post or "Someone is ...
  Argh. The scum-bag, money-losing, propaganda rag, the National Post has an article about Rob Ford mouthing-off about another subject he knows nothing about. It's one of the least objectionable of his utterances, except for the implications in his simple-minded recommendations. Ford states that if it ...
• Listen Up NDP: NO DEALS WITH hARPERCON SCUM
  Far and Wide talks about how, in the face of Ignatieff's apparent eagerness to force an election, the harpercons are cuddling up to the NDP. Far and Wide's take on it is that it's surprising, given all the stuff about Ignatieff's unpopularity and the Liberals' moribund polling, that it's the harperc ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• 4th Circuit says FCA gives no protection for filin ...
  The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, issued an opinion yesterday that denies protection to employees who file retaliation claims under the False Claims Act (FCA). The three judges ignored the friend-of-the-court brief I submitted that argued how the plain language of the F ...
• Pilot documents security problems, gets investigat ...
  An unnamed pilot posted videos on YouTube showing how baggage handlers can access aircraft just by swiping their ID cards at a door.� Meanwhile, TSA subjects pilots to thorough searches, even those some pilots are permitted to carry firearms on-board, and have access to a hand ax in the cockpit. Now ...
• 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 ..
  

  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

  • New Year's Message: From Pessimism To Optimism... ...
    A couple months back, I had a really fascinating experience. I had two meetings in a row, each with incredibly successful content creators -- people who have embraced new business models and new technologies to amazing results, both creatively and monetarily. We were discussing the state of the en ...
  • Predictions Of Today From 80 Years Ago
    It's the time of the year when nearly every media publication puts out some form of predictions. We've always avoided doing predictions posts, because it seems a little silly -- and it's rare that people really go back and look to see how good their predictions really were. However, a few folks se ...
  • The History Of Intellectual Property Based On Its ...
    Google recently announced its funky Books Ngram Viewer, which lets you put in various terms, and see how often they appear in books throughout history. Just for the hell of it, I decided to see how often the terms patents, copyright, trademark and intellectual property appeared in books from 1776 ...
  • DailyDirt: Medical Curiosities
    While the fundamental mysteries of the universe seem pretty far from being fully understood, one might assume a more practical science like the field of medicine should be a bit easier to grasp. But that's not really the case at all. There are a vast number of medical curiosities which are only st ...
  • Does Google Design AdSense Contract So You're Almo ...
    We've noted numerous times in the past that one of Google's major faults is that it's absolutely dreadful at customer service. To much of the outside world, Google represents something of a big white monolith, with very little human face. When something goes wrong, such as people locked out of the ...

  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

  • 2010 in Review
    It has been an interesting year.  Thanks to all of you who have stuck around to converse.  I’ve learned a lot from you. My thinking has changed so rapidly in the last couple years, I can barely imagine what I am going to be writing two years from now.  The posts that got the most [...]
  • Things You Might Have Missed
    Racialicious posted a great TED video of Tony Porter talking about the man box. Most of you will find something to object to in this report by the United Nations on access to land and security of tenure.  (I know I skipped the recommendations part.)  But it is worth a read for how it frames the [... ...
  • 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 ...

  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
  • LaRouche Webcast: After Tuesday: Last Chance To Av ...
    By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 45-46
  • LPAC-TV Interview with Sam Vaknin: Obama Is a Mali ...
    Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, November 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 45-46

  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

  • The Do Lectures' Bold Designer Posters Deliver Mot ...
    Images via The Do Lectures It's that time of year when, after days of lounging and eating and eating and lounging, we are struggling to get up from our oh so comfy sofas and get moving. 2011 is almost upon us - say goodbye to
  • Give Something Back in the New Year
    Photo: pencils of promise It's new year's eve, time to think about those resolutions for 2011. Some for you (diet? gym? less computer?) and some for others. Under that category there are so many worthy and important causes that one can donate to--here are just a few. Pencils of Promise, a ...
  • National Snow and Ice Data Center Greens Up How it ...
    Photo via Ron Weaver, NSIDC One of a data center's biggest problems is keeping servers cool, and that's true even for the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), which offers data products to researchers and businesses about Arctic and Antarctic snow and ice. Of course, it doesn't want to be ...
  • Conservative City Slicker Explores Urban Goat Farm ...
    Image credit: The Urban Conversion From backyard slaughter to urban bees TreeHugger is more than familiar with the idea of growing food in the cities where we live. On Wednesday I posted about a video tour of a serious aquaponics project in Denver, Colorado. It turns out that this video was par ...
  • Formalitees Merge Formal Wear and T-Shirts
    Photo: Formalitees T-shirt company Formalitees is kicking the stiffness out of formal wear. In fact, they're taking the tie and leaving the rest. Enter the Tie Tee, an alternative to the modern business suit, it is an organic t-shirt with an attached tie that swings free from the neck and Forma ...

  Biosingularity

  • What Happens When You Breathe In Nanoparticles
    Scientists have tracked the flow of nanoparticles from the lungs to the bloodstream for the first time. The work could lead to the development of new drugs and help researchers understand how pollution can cause respiratory problems Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Harva ...
  • FDA Advisory Panel Backs New Lupus Drug Benlysta
    At the end of a day of often emotional testimony, an FDA advisory panel overwhelmingly voted to recommend the approval of a new drug for the treatment of systemic lupus. If the FDA follows the panel’s advice, the drug, belimumab, will be the first drug approved in more than 50 years for the chronic ...
  • Timing is everything for cancer protein p53
    Since the early 1980s, cancer researchers have known that a protein called p53 plays a critical role in protecting cells from becoming cancerous. The protein is defective in about half of all human cancers; when it functions correctly, it appears to suppress tumor formation by preventing cells with ...
  • Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku
    The appeal of sudoku has spread to the prokaryotic world. A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria can now solve the logic puzzles â with some help from a group of students at the University of Tokyo, Japan. “Because sudoku has simple rules, we felt that maybe bacteria could solve it for us, as long as ...
  • Surgery Dramatically Lowers Blood Pressure
    A California company has shown how to dramatically lower blood pressure in hard-to-treat patients by destroying tiny nerves in the kidney. The nerves are located inside the main arteries leading to the kidney. They affect blood pressure by controlling the release of sodium and an enzyme called renin ...

  CFACT

  • The Cancun climate con
    The UN seeks to redistribute wealth, while CFACT works to reduce energy poverty.
  • Hype versus reality on Indian climate change
    Long-term perspectives support natural, cyclical variation - not manmade disasters.
  • Seeing the face of energy poverty, up-close, in Ca ...
    On one side of this tropical strip, UN delegates, media, and observers shuttle between luxurious hotels, posh restaurants, a white sandy beach with turquoise water, and a modern convention center where they spend their time bemoaning man-made climate change
  • A Cancun Christmas Carol
    Kyoto was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of its burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Japan announced it. Old Kyoto was dead as Jacob Marley, which is to say, as dead as a door-nail.
  • From Cancun: Leadership is the courage to say no
    With any luck COP 16 will be the last UN sponsored climate conference, and we can all just go home, and focus on what really matters - working towards a better future for all of us - including the future of the least fortunate among us.

  Ria Novosti Online News

  • Opposition leader Limonov detained by police ahead ...
    The opposition leader of Another Russia, Eduard Limonov, told Ekho Moskvy radio station that he has been detained ahead of a protest scheduled on Moscow's center Triumfalnaya Square on Friday.
  • Police cordon off Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow ah ...
    Police have cordoned off downtown Moscow's Triumfalnaya Square shortly before two rallies are to be held at 6 p.m. Moscow time (15:00 GMT), a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Friday.
  • Chechnya's Kadyrov orders 100 dumptrucks of snow f ...
    Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has instructed the North Caucus republic's government to "import" snow into the capital of Grozny so that children could play in the snow for New Year's.
  • Transaero asks Russia's chief doctor not to fly it ...
    Russia's second largest airline Transaero on Friday told the country's head doctor Gennady Onishchenko not to use its services in the future.
  • Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

  Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

  • Ariane 5 puts 2 communication satellites into orbi ...
  • 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.

  Pruning Shears

  • Best Music of 2010
    IntroductionIf you dig these songs please consider buying them. Most can be had for less than a buck.All these were downloaded freely and legally this year so I’m posting them in good faith. Links will be live for a week. If you hold the copyright on one and would like it removed, please let me k ...
  • 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.While it’s satisfying to settle on a single culprit for the continuing abomination of Guantánamo, the president of the moment (Bush or Obama) ...
  • 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 ...

  Organic Consumers.org

  • Factory Farms Massing in Missouri, Kansas, New Rep ...
    In Greeley County in western Kansas, voters last week overturned a 12-year-old referendum that prohibited large hog farms from locating there. But in northwest Missouri, a new health ordinance in Andrew County now limits where factory farms can build.Click here to read this article
  • From Snowstorms to Heat Waves, How Global Warming ...
    AMY GOODMAN: Much of the East Coast is still struggling to recover from the massive blizzard that slammed into hundreds of cities and towns from the Carolinas to Maine the day after Christmas. Six states-Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina and Virginia-declared states of emerg ...
  • More than 25% of Kids and Teens in the U.S. Take P ...
    These days, the medicine cabinet is truly a family affair. More than a quarter of U.S. kids and teens are taking a medication on a chronic basis, according to Medco Health Solutions Inc., the biggest U.S. pharmacy-benefit manager with around 65 million members. Nearly 7% are on two or more such drug ...
  • America in Decline: Why Germans Think We're Insane
    As an American expat living in the European Union, I've started to see America from a different perspective.Click here to read this article
  • 2010: A Precedent-Setting Year In the Fight Agains ...
    It was another tough year for the coal industry. In the last 25 months not one coal-fired power plant broke ground for construction in the United States. In 2010 alone a total of 38 proposed plants were erased from the drawing board, the most ever recorded in a single year. Utilities also announced ...

  fotoFrontera

  • Nuevo wallpaper con mensaje para el Año Nuevo 2011
    Para ver más wallpapers Año Nuevo 2011, escoja un número: [1][2][3][4] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.
  • Hermoso wallpaper con mensaje de Año Nuevo 2011
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.
  • 20 wallpapers para el Año Nuevo 2011 (Parte IV)
    Para ver más wallpapers Año Nuevo 2011, escoja un número: [1][2][3][4] Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ver el LINK de DESCARGA directa. OTRAS OPCIONES PARA USTED, (elija por favor) 1.- Conozca el origen de estas imágenes y vea más fotografías 2.- Conozca nuestro fotoblog oficial (www.1 ...
  • Wallpapers e Imágenes para el Año Nuevo 2011
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ver el LINK de DESCARGA. Quizás también le interese: - Colección de mensajes para el año nuevo 2011 - Wallpapers para el año nuevo 2011 (escribe tu mensaje) - Wallpapers para el año nuevo 2011 (segunda parte)
  • Una calle de la ciudad con efecto Vintage (Imagen ...
    Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para ampliar el tamaño de este wallpaper.

  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

  • Rantmas
    Culled from Battochio’s Jon Swift tribute and comments and etc.: BradBlog: NYT Public Editor Finally Admits ACORN “Pimp” Hoax Reporting Failure Comrade PhysioProf: Militant Atheism Jurassic Pork: Sweet Jesus, I Hate America World-O-Crap: Abortion Seeking Women: Won’t Someone Think of the Man-Child? ...
  • Bring out the dead
    The Jon Swift Memorial Roundup is up at Vagabond Scholar. You’ll have to scroll a while before you get to mine but you could spend a couple of days clicking on the all the good links so you might want to drag that link to your desktop. I’m not sure what Al Wiesel would have [...]
  • No, not the porn star, the _other_ Lina Romay
    It was never my intent to post irregularly but absent politics, I find myself less driven to post and am thinking that this blog is now sliding into the petite mort of posting when I feel like it, the first of the Seven Steps for Effectively Killing Your Fucking Blog Once and for All Time. [...]
  • Blue Christmas
    Driving down to Iowa there was a mile long stretch east of St Ansgar where snow in the air turned everything light blue. It wasn’t snowing; the wind was saturated with fine dry snow creating a transparent fog-like effect. And blue, a very pronounced light blue. Pro: The best Christmas movie ever [wa ...
  • 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! � �

  Public News Service

  • Keeping the Flu Bug Away: Tips for Arizona Residen ...
    Keeping the Flu Bug Away: Tips for Arizona Residents Phoenix, AZ – Worries over the spread of the H1N1 flu virus forced many Arizona parents to be extra cautious when it came to protecting their children last flu season. Experts say with flu season upon us again, parents should work to keep their ki ...
  • New FCC Rules on an Open Internet Called "Fake"
    New FCC Rules on an Open Internet Called "Fake" Washington, D.C. – The FCC approved new rules for an 'open Internet' last week, but many of the same groups that pushed for such regulations say what they got was a "fake" set of rules drafted with help from the companies they're meant to regulate. Com ...
  • Poll: Americans Ready to Deep Six the Death Penalt ...
    Poll: Americans Ready to Deep Six the Death Penalty? Phoenix, AZ – Arizona executed its first prisoner in three years in October. Now a recent poll by the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C. shows growing support for alternatives to the death penalty. Executive director Richard Die ...
  • 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 ...

  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

  • 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 “ ...
  • American Indian Movement Icons Protest FBI Raids
    American Indian Movement Icons Protest FBI Raids: "American Indian Movement veterans Clyde Bellecourt and Russell Means provided context of decades-long FBI interference during yesterday's protests in downtown Minneapolis against the FBI raids against peace activists on Friday."
  • Canadian Zionists and Their Stooges
    Canadian Zionists and Their Stooges by Hanna Kawas for [pacificfreepress.com] It seems that the Canadian Zionists are not satisfied with the results of their pro-Israel “advocacy”, “rebranding”, “public affairs” and “hasbara” work. The Zionist paper, The Canadian Jewish News, recently reported the f ...
  • The Nation joins the campaign against Julian Assan ...
    The Nation joins the campaign against Julian Assange [wsws.org] The Nation magazine in the US, with its publication of “The Case of Julian Assange” by columnist Katha Pollitt (posted December 22, 2010), has joined the right-wing campaign against WikiLeaks co-founder Assange, a campaign directed by t ...
  • granma.cu - R e f l e c t i o n s o f F i d e ...
    granma.cu - R e f l e c t i o n s   o f   F i d e l   C a s t r o:The battle against cholera I am halting a number of important analyses that are currently taking up my time, to refer to two issues that should be known to our people. The United Nations Organization, at the instigation of the United ...

  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

  • Environmental News 29/12/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • Environmental News 28/12/2010
    Environmental News You Shouldn't Miss
  • 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 ...

  Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Police demand new powers to stop and search terror ...
    ShareThisPolice demand new powers to stop and search terror suspects�29 Dec 2010 Police have asked the government for a new counter-terrorism power to stop and search people without having to suspect them of involvement in crime, the Guardian has learned... A previous law allowing counter-terrorism ...
  • Moshe Katsav convicted of rape, faces long jail te ...
    ShareThisMoshe Katsav convicted of rape, faces long jail term --Court overwhelmingly accepts complainants' testimony, calls defendant a bully, a liar and a repeat sexual predator 31 Dec 2010 The eighth president of the state, Moshe Katsav, was convicted on Thursday of rape, sexual harassment, commit ...
  • Terrorist watch list: One tip now enough to put na ...
    ShareThisTerrorist watch list: One tip now enough to put name in database, officials say --440,000 on list 29 Dec 2010 A year after a Nigerian man allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials say they have made it easier to add individuals' names to a terrorist watch list and impro ...
  • '1,100 Palestinian kids arrested in 2010'
    ShareThis'1,100 Palestinian kids arrested in 2010' 30 Dec 2010 Nearly 1,100 Palestinian children have been arrested by Israeli troops in 2010, a new report by the Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Detainees' Affairs shows. The ministry said on Wednesday that about 500 of the above-mentioned fig ...
  • Bomb blasts kill 2, injure 18 in Iraq
    ShareThisBomb blasts kill 2, injure 18 in Iraq 31 Dec 2010 As violence continues in different parts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a series of blasts have killed two civilians and injured several others. The worst attack was in the central district of al-Ghadir, where a homemade bomb killed two peopl ...

  Daily Loaf

  • Do It This Weekend: Ring in a happy and healthy 20 ...
    Tampa Bay celebrations big and small (and weird) ring in the New Year. Plus, you can celebrate the King's birthday with Elvis impersonators Sunday.
  • Must-click links for Thurs., Dec. 30, 2010: 10 Bes ...
    All the news that fits from CL contributor Anthony Nicholas.
  • Dining Guide: Where to eat and drink along St. Pet ...
    Make the best of the recession, hop on over to one of our great beaches and feel like a tourist in your own backyard. To help you along in your staycation (or day trip), here's a guide to dining and drinking on St. Pete Beach and Pass-a-Grille.
  • Top 10 Movies of 2010: Kevin Hopp’s list
    CL Contributor Kevin Hopp counts down the top 10 movies he saw during the year that was 2010.
  • Convivial cocktails and party punches to help ring ...
    Though bubbly is the traditional drink on New Year's Eve, why not spice things up a bit and try something new for the occasion?

  Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

  • Keep the fight for democracy going
    Support peace with your tax-deductible year-end gift today. Donate by December 31st and your gift will help The Only Democracy’s sponsor Jewish Voice for Peace meet a $100,000 matching gift. Your gift helps us keep bringing on the ground reports, commentary, and interviews from Israeli, Palestinian, ...
  • Four cases against Israeli democracy
    By Jesse Bacon While I was away on vacation, four cases of the continuing slow death of Israeli democracy occurred. Taken together, they represent a good spectrum of the responses to democracy activists by Israel, all negative. First, Matan Cohen, Israeli-American activist, member of Young, Jewish, ...
  • 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 ...

  Politics in the Zeros

  • College students and loans they can not pay
    Now our economy is facing the biggest student loan debt bubble in the history of the world, and when our new college graduates enter the “real world” they are finding out that the good jobs they were promised are very few and far between. Then they discover they are tens of thousands of dollars in [ ...
  • Hydrogen from concentrated solar
    A new technique creates hydrogen at much high efficiency from concentrated solar. The hydrogen can then be used to power fuel cells and create energy. The researchers involved specifically designed the hardware to be easy to manufacture in bulk and incorporate into a industrial-size facility, so it ...
  • Commercial satellite for the world’s poor
    Ahumanright.org is bidding on a commercial satellite that it wants to use to beam cheap bandwidth to the poor and disenfranchised of the planet. Their founder says Ahumanright is charged with promoting Internet access as a human right. The organization also promotes endeavors that can ensure everyon ...
  • LED light fixtures replace wi-fi
    The municipal offices of St. Cloud, Minnesota are the first in the country to install a visible light communication system in place of Wi-Fi. The system, which uses LED fixtures to connect office computers to the internet, is saving lots of energy, and the city of St. Cloud lots of money on energy b ...
  • Bank elites and control fraud
    William Black on the lack of criminal prosecutions by DOJ What has gone so catastrophically wrong with DOJ, and why has it continued so long? The fundamental flaw is that DOJ’s senior leadership cannot conceive of elite bankers as criminals. The feds confuse the bank with the banker. The bankers wal ...

  Coteret

  • New Yorker editor David Remnick to Yediot: ‘ ...
    On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. Note that this i ...
  • 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 ...

  Deadline Live

  • China preparing for armed conflict ‘in every ...
    “In the coming five years, our military will push forward preparations for military conflict in every strategic direction,” said Liang Guanglie in an interview published by several state-backed newspapers in China. “We may be living in peaceful times, but we can never forget war, never send the hors ...
  • Obama makes recess appointment of lawyer who compa ...
    The man who ran on a promise to âchange the way Washington worksâ has once engaged in the cynical practice of making recess appointments. And controversial ones at that. The president’s appointment of James Cole, who was nominated for the post of Deputy Attorney General back in May, has reopened que ...
  • Deadline Live – December 30 2010
    News and commentary this 30th day of December 2010 from ‘Our Narrator and Radio Gun’, Jack Blood. In the second hour the Michael J. Murphy joins Deadline to discuss his film ‘What In The World Are They Spraying?’. http://truthmediaproductions.blogspot.com/
  • This Day In History – December 31
    1225 – The Ly Dynasty of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor Tran Thai Tong, husband of the last Ly monarch, Ly Chieu Hoang, starting the Tran Dynasty. 1695 – A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax. 1759 [... ...
  • Calling a Spade a Tyrant
    Anyone who plays cards knows what the suits look like. They know what a spade, club, heart and diamond are. Yet some slick talking people might try to confuse the issue at times. Depending on rules to games and what they are trying to accomplish, some people might point out the similarities between ...

  The Air Vent

  • Dot Earth on O10
    Andy Revkin of Dot Earth has published a post on our Antarctic results among other things. Eric Steig has placed some far more detailed comments on our results on line with it. 2) The results appear to confirm all of the key results in our 2009 Nature paper, notably the significant warming in West A ...
  • Botched predictions of the past
    Fox news has an interesting post on extremist environmental claims of the past two decades.  It’s fun because they contacted some of the scientists for their responses.  Who knew bikes could be pedaled backwards with such vigor. Eight Botched Environmental Forecasts One wonders if these intellectu ...
  • Projection , Regression
    You would never believe what the government will fund and peereviewlitrachur will approve of. Title: “A scaling theory for the size distribution of emitted dust aerosols suggests that climate models underestimate the size of the global dust cycle” regressomatic. wow.
  • Merry Christmas Friends
    May your holiday’s bring you joy and happiness.  
  • 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 ...

  Focal Point

  • Dear NYT: No Means No; Shoving A Dick Into An Unco ...
    Katrin Bennhold of the New York Times has a heartwarming piece for anyone planning a New Year's Eve hookup. According to Bennhold's friends, consenting to any sex with a dude is the equivalent of giving him an all-access pass to your orifices for the rest of the night, if not the rest of your life ...
  • 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 . ...

  Inside Facebook

  • Facebook Adds More Companies to List of Approved A ...
    Earlier this month, Facebook introduced a list of advertising providers that it has approved for developers to use for offers, banner ads and other forms of advertising in their platform applications. The initial list was quite short, with a number of long-time providers missing — but it has been ad ...
  • Facebook is Top Search Term and Most Visited Websi ...
    Experian Hitwise released statistics yesterday indicating that “Facebook” was the most frequently searched term for the second year in a row, besting YouTube, Craigslist, and MySpace. Among the top ten searched terms, four were variations of Facebook, including “Facebook login” showing that users fr ...
  • Facebook Career Posts: Intellectual Property, Adve ...
    An interesting round of new posts on Facebook’s Career Page this week, right before the end of the year, especially couple of interesting intellectual property principal positions that opened up. The two positions — one based in Palo Alto, Calif. and the other in Austin, Texas —are tasked with helpi ...
  • Facebook Mobile Apps for Windows Phone 7 and Palm ...
    Places functionality is included in the most recent updates to Microsoft and Palm’s official Facebook mobile apps, allowing more Facebook users to begin sharing their location. Facebook for Windows Phone 7 Version 1.1 also includes photo tagging, and Palm’s Facebook for HP webOS Version 1.5 builds ...
  • Highlights This Week from the Inside Network Job B ...
    The Inside Network Job Board is dedicated to providing you with the best job opportunities in the Facebook Platform and social gaming ecosystem. Here are this week’s highlights from the Inside Network Job Board, including positions at Kontagent, Peanut Labs, Storm8, and Luna Digita. Enterprise Sales ...

  Truthout - Tweets

  • truthout: Eugene Robinson | Politicians Stalked by ...
    truthout: Eugene Robinson | Politicians Stalked by Snowstorms http://bit.ly/fGEqFh #Truthout #p2 #p2b
  • truthout: Alexander Cockburn | Honor the WikiLeake ...
    truthout: Alexander Cockburn | Honor the WikiLeakers http://bit.ly/fsODKd #Truthout #p2 #p2b
  • truthout: David Sirota | A Snow-Filled Glimpse of ...
    truthout: David Sirota | A Snow-Filled Glimpse of America's Future http://bit.ly/eR343q #Truthout #p2 #p2b
  • truthout: E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Celebrating the New G ...
    truthout: E.J. Dionne, Jr. | Celebrating the New GOP Majority http://bit.ly/hnZBXy #Truthout #p2 #p2b
  • truthout: Sell Local http://bit.ly/feowav #Truthou ...
    truthout: Sell Local http://bit.ly/feowav #Truthout #p2 #p2b

  ReDress News

  • Western double standards: the cases of Khodorkovsk ...
    Yvonne Ridley highlights Western hypocrisy and double standards in criticizing a Russian court for convicting tax dodger, money launderer and thief Mikhail Khodorkovsky, while harbouring or condoning the kidnap and illegal detention of Muslims in Guantanamo concentration camp.
  • Jesus recruited for "ethnic cleansing" forest: God ...
    Jonathan Cook views the role of the so-called "God-TV" channel and other Christian evangelical extremists, such as the Israel lobbyist pastor John Hagee, in the ethnic cleansing of Israel's own Bedouin citizens from the Negev.
  • If Obama could put America's own real interests fi ...
    Alan Hart argues that if US President Barack Obama was able to put America's own real interests above those of Israel, he would win the hearts and minds of the overwhelming majority of Arabs and Muslims.
  • US national image and its contradictions
    Lawrence Davidson analyses the reasons behind the widening gulf between the US national self-image as "the world’s prime purveyor of good government, stability and progress" and the reality of imperial power, hypocrisy and double standards.
  • WikiLeaks and the press
    Paul J. Balles views the self-serving criticism of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, offered by a range of media but argues that, ultimately, the whistleblower website's exposure of cover-ups and promotion of transparency justify its actions.

  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

  • Naked Airlines
    The Ultimate Answer by “Loose Bruce” Kerr This site depends exclusively on readersâ support. Please help us continue by contributing directly and or purchasing Boiling Frogs showcased products.
  • 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 ...

  Afro Spear

  • “African honchos lapse the year 2010 in styl ...
    African rulers are like magicians when it comes to surprises even wonders. My apologies for using the word “rulers” in lieu of leaders. My my belief is, Africa is currently ruled and ruined by rulers, not led by leaders as we dreamed at the time we acquired our political independence. If one asks me ...
  • christ’mas riddymz
  • 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 ...

  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

  • MERRY CHRISTMAS
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  • JFKto911.info
    Join our community page by CLICKING HERE, a social networking page of like minded individuals! Our page is intended to bring people together in an environment of less advertisement with a hope of sorting through propaganda in life and discovering the truth.
  • JFK deathbed confession | Big news Repost from Bor ...
    Truth is stranger than fiction, the best screenwriters that ever lived would never be able to come up with the truth of John F. Kennedy's assassination or that of 911.
  • Conservative Conundrum
    Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With his first swallow of water, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because s ...
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  Unsuitable Blog

  • Undermining in 2010: How Did I Do?
    There is something very human in looking back over a specific period of time and reflecting on what you have achieved, failed in or could just have done a bit better. It’s part of the learning process that civilization discourages, because if we really did look back and reflect upon what really matt ...
  • 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 ...

  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

  • Wikileaks on the Edge - WikiLeaks Revelations Do N ...
    Julian Assange has declared that geopolitics will be separated into pre-“Cablegate” and post-“Cablegate” eras. That was a bold claim. However, given the intense interest that the leaks produced, it is a claim that ought to be carefully considered. Several weeks have passed since the first of the dip ...
  • The Tax Edge - Why the VAT Is Not Pro-Saving
    President Barack Obama’s unsustainable near-term fiscal policies are now preamble to the massive and longstanding long-term fiscal problems highlighted in the Bowles–Simpson Commission report, the Domenici–Rivlin report, and elsewhere. As Europe in similar straits is now demonstrating that, in the i ...
  • The Nuclear Edge - On Arms Control, Learn from Rea ...
    START skeptics are driven by something else: the idea that arms-control treaties should serve our security interests now and in the longer term. New START does neither. That is why the Senate should consider the full record of the negotiations before voting to approve a treaty that will: 1. encumber ...
  • Book Review - Edwin Black's 'The Farhud' Makes for ...
    The Farhud: Roots of the Arab Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. Edwin Black. Dialog Press. 2010. 464 pages. Buy it here.“This book is a nightmare... I regret that I was the one who had to write it. I hope it never becomes necessary to write another like this one.’ These are among the opening words to ...
  • China and Europe - China Ready to Help Europe Retu ...
    China says it is ready to do what it can to help European countries deal with the financial crisis that has shaken confidence in the euro. The statement follows reports that China is ready to buy billions of dollars worth of Portuguese bonds. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu says China supports ...

  High Country News

  • 2010: the year of food politics
    Food safety was a major concern this year as the federal government moved toward greater regulation of food producers.
  • Forecasting 2011
    Columnist Ed Quillen peers into his crystal ball to see what's in store for the West next year.
  • Conservation has become a core American value
    Conservation was a surprising winner at many local and state levels.
  • Celebrating the 30th anniversary of protecting hug ...
    A landmark law passed 30 years ago settled Native land claims in Alaska in ingenious and still-controversial ways.
  • High Country Views, Big solar marches on
    Cally Carswell talks with HCN contributing editor Judith Lewis about the muscle the feds are putting behind solar energy development on public land.

  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

  • The Sky Still Isn't Falling --Top Ten Failed Globa ...
    By now we should have seen something,� we were supposed to begin seeing effects from the "man made global warming. The predictions were all there, and they were made long enough ago that we can figure out if the sky is falling and the Manhattan skyline will be under water a week from Tuesday. So how ...
  • Dopes of the Day: Fooled by Syria...Twice
    By Barry Rubin Since I have written about how easily fooled Western politicians, officials, journalists, and academics are by Middle Eastern radicals, I'm going to try to provide examples in a regular feature called Dopes of the Day. This is a good starting point. There is a newspaper i ...
  • Maybe it’s Time For Jews to Fess Up: We DO Run The ...
    I have to admit, back in July when I first heard about the Oliver Stone interview where he accused the Jewish Lobby of controlling the Media and US foreign policy, an uneasy chill ran down my spine. In editorials across the Arab world, Stone was praised as being accurate and scholarly. Last we ...
  • GOProud Participation in CPAC Incites SOME Conserv ...
    The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally � not a 20 percent traitor. -Ronald Reagan Last year, while attending my first ever CPAC,� (Conservative Political Action Conference)� Ryan Sorba of California Young Americans for Freedom preached intolerance, whe ...
  • Things You Need To Know About the Middle East As ...
    By Barry Rubin The Egyptian government so arranged the parliamentary elections that the share of seats held by the opposition declined from 20 percent for Muslim Brotherhood supporters alone to only 3 percent for all of the half-dozen opposition parties put together. In other words, the reg ...

  The Real Agenda

  • Food Safety Act Invokes Codex Alimentarius Harmoni ...
    The naysayers complain that there’s nothing in the bill about Codex Alimentarius. They are lying. It’s on page 195 NaturalNews.com Of all the talk about S.510, virtually no one has actually read the language in the bill — especially not those lawmakers who voted for it. The more you read from this b ...
  • D.E.A., the Intelligence Agency
    The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and an eavesdropping operation so expansive it has to fend off foreign politicians who want to use it against their political enemies, according to secret ...
  • 70 percent of Flu patients in Britain got vaccinat ...
    Flu vaccines provide weakened viruses to the immune system (along with other preservative chemicals that can be extremely dangerous to neurological health). It's sort of like working out your muscles at the gym but having your trainer do all the heavy lifting for you. Obviously you're not going to h ...
  • Brazil heading calls for Global Internet Regime
    Marxist Luiz Inacio Da Silva is serving as the globalists’ pawn to bring about internet governance By Alex Newman The New American The United Nations and some of its most oppressive member states are clamoring for global regulation of the Internet, including possible censorship. Toward that end, the ...
  • Almost all BP Oil Spill on the Sea Floor
    by Washington’s Blog BP and the government famously declared that most of the oil had disappeared. But as I’ve noted, as much as 98% of the oil is still in the ocean. I have repeatedly pointed out that BP and the government applied massive amounts of dispersant to the Gulf Oil Spill in an effort [.. ...

  Wind Watch

  • Prospect backs moratorium on wind farms
    PROSPECT â The Town Council on Tuesday endorsed a resolution that calls for state legislators to immediately submit legislation to place a moratorium on wind energy projects until state minimum standards are created. The council voted 9-0 to approve a draft resolution written by a four-member subcom ...
  • Wind power could put birds at risk
    One of the nation’s largest bird conservation groups says rapid construction of wind energy projects will endanger several avian species. That includes the whooping crane, a famous migratory bird and annual visitor to central Nebraska. Officials with American Bird Conservancy on Wednesday cited data ...
  • Hammond wind panel adopts home guarantee
    HAMMOND – Is the Hammond Wind Committee nailing the coffin on the town’s chances of hosting an Iberdrola-owned wind farm? The committee voted 9 to 1 Tuesday evening – with committee member and leaseholder, Michele W. McQueer, casting the lone dissenting vote – to adopt the controversial Residential ...
  • Wind farm apathy turns to anger
    Apathy has turned to anger in Allendale East with residents forming a group to ��ght the development of a multi-million dollar wind farm on their doorstep. Acciona Energy announced the $175m development of 47 wind turbines following community consultation and approval by the Grant District Council i ...
  • Turbines troubling for group
    BEDFORD – A proposed wind turbine project atop a nearby ridge has put the Dutch Corner Rural Historic District on a list of 11 at-risk places throughout the state, nonprofit historical preservation organization Preservation Pennsylvania announced recently. While most of the at-risk places on the lis ...

  Not My Tribe

  • I remember nothingk, of, Lili Marlene
    On the subject of historical misconceptions, you might say I’m hugely sentimental. So the tale of Lili Marlene catches me up like a honey trap. What does the name conjure for you? A Nazi Mata Hari? A fictional musical persona beloved by soldiers on both sides of the Good War? While even antiwar sent ...
  • Remembering Wounded Knee
    In the shine of photographs are the slain, frozen and black � on a simple field of snow. They image ceremony: � women and children dancing, old men prancing, making fun. In autumn there were songs long since muted in the blizzard. In summer the wild buckwheat shone like fox fur and quillwork, and du ...
  • 2 AM, time to piss off the Navy.
    So this is the USN “crackerjack” work uniform blouse, from behind. Notice the two stars on a broad field of blue. That’s, according to my brother the Sailor, symbolic. The stars stand for the two times the USN fought the Royal Navy, and won. The extra large field is to make room for more stars [...]
  • Jeju Island antiwar resisters under attack today b ...
    Activist Bruce Gagnon reports that Jeju Island villagers face eminent attack today from US and South Korean navy who’ve been determined to seize the Jeju coast for an Aegis destroyer base in the American bid for a militarized encirclement of China. Local antiwar ally Sung-Hee Choi is among the peace ...
  • AFTENPOSTEN exclusive Wikileaks cache reveals US c ...
    Norway’s AFTENPOSTEN newspaper claims to have received the entire cache of Cablegate diplomatic cables. So far they’ve restricted themselves to releasing correspondence relating to US-Norwegian relations, revealing who is doing America’s bidding, in spite of being considered by “some very senior U.S ...

  Debunking the Debunkers

  • A Critical Review of the "9/11 Mysteries Viewer's ...
    We've all seen the film 9/11 Mysteries Part 1: Demolitions. Likewise, I'm sure we have also all seen the 9/11 Mysteries Viewer's Guide, which claims to refute the entire film. Many have obviously read this Guide and believed it to debunk the entire film. Well, I've read the Guide also, and I wasn't ...
  • Knee Deep in Crap
    Thanks for walking us through that Conspiracies R Not Us. I just had a look at their reply to Scootle's reply yesterday and here is mine, and I'm not "in a fuss" I assure everyone. "Neighborhood Rationalist" at CRNU states that Scootle's "generally speculative characterization of the plane’s maneu ...
  • 'Terror' in My Home Town
    The Shires re-opens after bomb squad blow suspect package up Shoppers and staff have been allowed back into The Shires shopping centre in Trowbridge after bomb disposal experts blew up an abandoned suitcase shortly before 3.30pm today. The controlled explosion was initiated by the Royal Logistics ...
  • Anonymous really are frickin' stupid!
    I've never cared much for 4chan. The place is so full of hate and immaturity it puts JREF to shame. It's like some pathetic cult of sick, perverted, shallow, dehumanized geeks. The first time I visited the site I stumbled upon a disgusting, graphic photo of some old man having sex with a dead body ...
  • Action Alert: Send This Letter to Any Architects a ...
    As AE911Truth has stated before, "Its easy! Just look them up in the phone book or on the Internet and send them an email (like the one below)." 1,388 (check site for up to date number) architectural and engineering professionals calling for a new 9/11 investigation Hello, Here is the website of ...

  Fooducate

  • Fooducate’s TOP TEN Blog Posts in 2010
    The year is ending, and we thought it would be interesting to see what our community has read the most in 2010. Here are our most popular posts from 10 up on to 1: 1862 – 2010: A Brief History of Food and Nutrition Labeling – where we review the major developments in nutrition labeling and [...]
  • Coming in 2012: Nutrition Labels on Cuts of Meat
    Good news from the USDA. Meat and poultry, which to date have not been marked with nutrition information, will begin including them in 2012: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced that it will be making important nutritional information read ...
  • Frito Lay Announces “All Natural” Junk Food
    As the new year approaches, and with it a multitude of resolutions for a healthier behavior, we will be seeing many new announcements about nutrition, foods and exercise contraptions. Getting a head start is Frito-Lay, the savory snack stalwart owned by PepsiCo. Yesterday the company announced majo ...
  • Is White Whole Wheat Flour an Oxymoron?
    IF you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know we advocate eating whole grain breads. In our five part bread minisereies back in November, we tried to cover the seemingly simple task of choosing bread at the supermarket. While some breads are easy to classify as healthy (100% whole grains) ...
  • Boxed Milk, Safe as Refrigerated?
    Longtime reader Justine wanted to know about Horizon Boxed Milk: I buy these for my daughter (just the regular 2% milk) and have always wondered why they don’t need/are never refrigerated. Is there some weird ingredient they are sneaking in that I should know about? Good question! What you need t ...

  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

  • Stasis off Somalia
    In 2008, piracy off the Somali coast became a medium size news story.  The International Maritime Bureau has the data: The 2008 figures surpass all figures for hijacked vessels and hostages taken recorded by the PRC since it began its worldwide reporting function in 1992. In 2008 there was a worldwi ...
  • Centrists don’t want to the do the right thing
    Stuart Zechman, writing about centrists such as Obama, states: It’s not that they desire or welcome obscenely high foreclosure and unemployment rates –don’t get me wrong– but it’s that they don’t agree that New Deal-style policies to help ordinary people are worth the cost in terms of shifting gover ...
  • No title
    Stuart Zechman, writing about centrists such as Obama, states: It’s not that they desire or welcome obscenely high foreclosure and unemployment rates –don’t get me wrong– but it’s that they don’t agree that New Deal-style policies to help ordinary people are worth the cost in terms of shifting gover ...
  • Surging Backwards
    The goal of the US campaign this year was to increase the number of secure districts so that ISAF and hopefully the Karzai government can distribute a wide variety of public goods in order to gain legitimacy.  That is why the US has committed its strategic ground reserve as part of a counter-insurge ...
  • Surging Backwards
    The goal of the US campaign this year was to increase the number of secure districts so that ISAF and hopefully the Karzai government can distribute a wide variety of public goods in order to gain legitimacy.  That is why the US has committed its strategic ground reserve as part of a counter-insurge ...

  Age of Autism

  • Age of Autism Awards 2010: Local Heroes
    Editors Note: All this week we've honored national groups, individuals and causes. But much of the day-to-day work of making life better for people with autism and their families -- and trying to stem the rise of an undeniable epidemic...
  • Beautiful Autism Support and Hope Video from TACA: ...
    We are proud to call TACA a sponsor of Age of Autism. Like all of our dedicated sponsors, TACA is a shining example of what a "kitchen table" organization (wo)manned by parents in the trenches can do for individuals and...
  • Flu Shot Lacks Efficacy: More Deadly Choices from ...
    ...Two recent studies published by the Cochrane Collaboration are supporting what earlier evidence has shown - and what some national public health officials have begun to acknowledge - there's no evidence flu shots work effectively, especially in reducing flu-related deaths...
  • AOA 2010 Award: Mason Allen Medlam Foundation; Lor ...
    The stories seem to come faster now, and with almost numbing regularity. An autistic child goes missing, and there is no happy ending. Ninety-two percent of autistic children wander, and the number one cause of death of those who do...
  • The CDC versus The MOM – a Case Study in Ignoring ...
    By Dan Olmsted One of the highlights of being out and about talking about our new book (“The Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine and a Man-made Epidemic,” co-authored with Mark Blaxill) has been meeting so many people who have followed...

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Government Policies Can Shift Southern US from Coal to Renewables

GreenBiz.com

- Dec 31, 2010

- 15 minutes ago

By Robert Kropp, SocialFunds.com ATLANTA, GA — It is widely agreed that strategies addressing climate change through the adoption of renewable energy ...

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Give renewables a fighting chancein energy market

Arizona Daily Sun

- Dec 31, 2010

- 2 hours ago

Despite the slow economy, it's been an eventful year on the local renewable energy front. In part, that momentum has been driven by state mandates and ...

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China & The US: Opportunity or Threat in the Green Revolution?

RenewableEnergyWorld.com

- Dec 30, 2010

- 22 hours ago

Virginia, USA -- China now stands alone as the most attractive market for renewable energy investment in the world, a position it had previously jointly ...

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Emmetsburg honored for promoting renewable fuels

KTIV

- Dec 30, 2010

- 12 hours ago

EMMETSBURG, Iowa (KTIV) -- A northwest Iowa town has been named community of the year for its participation in renewable energy. ...

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Nonprofit Says City Took Revenge for Airing Views

New York Times

- Dec 30, 2010

- 11 hours ago

Arc Ecology, whose headquarters in a faded white storefront are protected by metal bars in the Bayview neighborhood's crime-ridden Third Street commercial ...

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MT gov wants to meet with WA officials about port

Bloomberg

- Dec 30, 2010

- 20 hours ago

On Tuesday, the Washington Department of Ecology petitioned to intervene in the appeal filed by Earthjustice. Ecology spokeswoman Kim Schmanke says the ...

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Ecology fines Greenstone over trees

The Spokesman Review

- Dec 30, 2010

- Dec 30, 2010

... Liberty Lake shoreline merits a $15000 fine against Greenstone Development Co. and owner Jim Frank, the Washington Department of Ecology said Wednesday. ...

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Ecology gets good ratings

AgInfo.net

- Dec 29, 2010

- Dec 29, 2010

Washington Ag Today December 30, 2010 Washington Department of Ecology permits set reasonable conditions, and agency staff give helpful and professional ...

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N. Ireland water company to hold water crisis meeting

CNN International

- Dec 31, 2010

- 26 minutes ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- The board of the state-funded water company in Northern Ireland was preparing Friday for an emergency meeting to discuss ...

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Water regulation fees expire, could cause budget problems

KRCG

- Dec 31, 2010

- 57 minutes ago

by Newsdesk KRCG Fees paid by thousands of Missouri businesses to help fund state water regulation expire Friday, which has some fearful of delays and red ...

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Robert Pattinson Water for Elephants Teaser

Teens Press

- Dec 31, 2010

- 6 hours ago

A new trailer for Robert Pattinson's new movie, 'Water for Elephants', has been released online. It follows another teaser trailer released a while ago. ...

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Zemke captures On The Water title

Oshkosh Northwestern

- Dec 31, 2010

- 4 hours ago

Zemke became just the second Knights' wrestler to win a title at the On the Water Classic, defeating Wilmot Union's Ryan Gartner 2-1 in double overtime in ...

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