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Saturday, September 3, 2011

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Inside the Christian Right Dominionist Movement That's Undermining Democracy in US

Chip Berlet
AlterNet
Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:25 CDT
Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin have all flirted with Christian Right Dominionism, but there's lots of misinformation about just what that means.
Dominionists want to impose a form of Christian nationalism on the United States, a concept that was dismissed as eroding freedom and democracy by the founders of our country. Dominionism has become a major influence on the right-wing populist Tea Parties as Christian Right activists have flooded into the movement at the grassroots. At the same time, legitimate questions have been raised about whether or not potential Republican presidential nominees Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, or Sarah Palin have moved from a generic form of Christian Right Dominionism toward the more totalitarian form know as Dominion Theology.

Clueless journalists and crafty Christian Right pundits have mocked the idea that Dominionism as a religiously motivated political tendency even exists. Scholars, however, have been writing about Dominionism for over a decade, some using the term directly, and others describing the tendency in other ways.
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The Forbidden Food You Should Never Stop Eating

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"Feeding high doses of fat and cholesterol to omnivores, like rats and dogs, does not produce atherosclerotic lesions in them ... In fact, it turns out that people who have highest percentage of saturated fat in their diets have the lowest risk of heart disease ... The last word on this subject should go to Julia Child ... Enjoy eating saturated fats, they're good for you!"

 

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CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

  • Iran invites Libya rebel chief to Tehran
    Summary: Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has invited the head of the Libyan rebels' National Transitional Council (NTC) to visit Tehran, a Foreign Ministry statement said on Tuesday. source: Now Lebanonread more
  • Iran makes a u-turn on Syria
    Summary: After months of tacitly echoing Damascus' dismissal of the growing political opposition as armed gangs and foreign agents, Tehran has adjusted its policy by referring to the "legitimate demands" of protesters and the need for the embattled regime of Bashar al-Assad to respect "peopl ...
  • "Irhal Amreeka"
    Summary: The Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday demanded the immediate departure of Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa amidst growing international criticism of mass human rights violations in Bahrain. source: The Huffington Post read more
  • Iran sanctions: Much ado about nothing
    Summary: Almost five years have passed since the United Nations Security Council imposed its first round of sanctions against Iran over the allegations that Tehran might be moving toward developing nuclear weapons. Since that time, four rounds of devastative sanctions have been imposed on Ir ...
  • Libya is not an advertisement for intervention
    Summary: Nato – chiefly Britain – appears to have toppled the Gaddafi regime in Libya to "liberate" its people. The days are over where the mere triumph of arms justifies itself. The rightness of a war and the honesty of its methods are vital if the new "liberal interventionism" is to carry ...

The Daily Galaxy

  • Weekend Feature: Massive Lake Found on Mars (W ...
    The European Space Agency's Mars Express has captured fresh images of the planet's surface indicating the existence of a massive lake in the red planet's past. Contained in the Eberswalde crater, the lake's existence was theorised after the Express caught...
  • "Crunching the Cosmos" --A Leap Forward for Qu ...
    "Quantum computers have the potential to solve problems that would take a classical computer longer than the age of the universe." Almost two years ago Rainer Blatt's and Christan Roos' research groups from the University of Innsbruck recreated the properties...
  • The Universe Reveals a Twin to the Milky Way' ...
    Astronomers concluded that the center of the specatacular spiral galaxy, NGC 253, the largest member of the Sculptor Group of Galaxies, the nearest group to our own Local Group of Galaxies, hosts a twin of Sagittarius A*, the bright radio...
  • Image of the Day: The "Eye of Sauron" --Was it ...
    Dark matter not only had a role to play in fueling early primitive stars, it may have created "dark stars" so massive that they went on to spawn supermassive black holes found at the cores of the one trillion galaxies...
  • 'The Daily Galaxy' September Contest -- Win a ...
    Use it towards a purchase of an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Hundreds of Other Apple Products and Accessories. Users of Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon are invited to discover, review and share Daily Galaxy posts you love on...

Natural News

  • Doctor sues family of young girl he killed wit ...
    (NaturalNews) Dr. Kevin Buckwalter of Henderson, Nev., has a history of malpractice and shady dealings during the time when he still had a practice and a license to prescribe controlled substances. Now that he has lost both, Buckwalter has sunk to a new low by countersuing the family of Andrea D ...
  • Exposed: Military contractors hired to create ...
    (NaturalNews) A secret campaign to take out groups and organizations that oppose the policies and agendas of the US Chamber of Commerce (USCC) and the US government has been outed, thanks to an archive of private emails obtained by Think Progress. According to reports, USCC hired HBGary, Federal ...
  • The counterfeit culture - useful observations ...
    (NaturalNews) Through a devolving web of greed, self-serving power and a departure from fundamental ethics, Western culture has, over the last hundred years, become the counterfeit culture.Nothing is real anymore -- not the food, not the money, and certainly not the evening news. And because it' ...
  • Calendar of upcoming events for September, 2011
    (NaturalNews) September promises to be an action-packed month of natural health events, expos and conferences. Here are some of the most important events happening in September (many are internet based, so you can attend from anywhere):September 10th in Philadelphia, PA 6th Annual Greenfest Phi ...
  • All charges dropped against Detroit mom Maryan ...
    (NaturalNews) All charges have been dropped against Detroit mom Maryanne Godboldo, the woman who was SWAT team raided when Child Protective Services attempted to kidnap her daughter because Maryanne refused to "treat" her with psychiatric medications. An armed standoff ensued, and Maryanne ultim ...

Threat Level

  • U.S. Sources Exposed as Unredacted State Depar ...
    An encrypted WikiLeaks file containing 251,000 unredacted U.S. State Department cables is now widely available online, along with the passphrase to open it. The release of the documents in raw form, with the names of U.S. informants around the globe exposed in them, has raised concerns that doze ...
  • Feds, EFF Clash in Appeals Court Hearing on NS ...
    SEATTLE – A three-judge federal appeals court grilled government and civil rights lawyers while entertaining arguments here Wednesday concerning dozens of dismissed lawsuits alleging the National Security Agency illegally vacuumed American’s internet traffic and telephone calls from every major ...
  • Google Certificate Hackers May Have Stolen 200 ...
    Hackers who obtained a fraudulent digital certificate for Google may have actually obtained more than 200 digital certificates for other top internet entities such as Mozilla, Yahoo and even the privacy and anonymizing service Tor.
  • Couple Can Sue Laptop-Tracking Company for Spy ...
    An Ohio woman and her boyfriend can sue a laptop-tracking company that recorded their sexually explicit communications in an effort to identify thieves who stole the computer the woman was using. U.S. District Judge Walter Rice ruled last week against Absolute Software, which provides software a ...
  • This Week: Appeals Court to Weigh NSA Dragnet ...
    Whether the federal government and the nation’s telecommunication companies can be held accountable for allegedly funneling every American’s electronic communication to the National Security Agency without warrants is the subject of oral arguments scheduled for a federal appeals court Wednesday. ...

PERRspectives : Blog

  • GOP Debt Ceiling "Uncertainty" Fueled Grim Job ...
    On Friday, Republicans deployed two talking points - one new, one old - in response to the grim news that the U.S. economy added no new jobs in August. The same GOP leaders who in January gave credit to the "newly elected House Republican Majority" for the economy's strong performance in the fo ...
  • Unprecedented
    "Congressional historians said Mr. Boehner's move was unprecedented." While the New York Times was referring to Speaker John Boehner's refusal to grant the President's request for a September 7 address to joint session of Congress, "unprecedented" is apt description for the stone wall of Republ ...
  • Cheney Was For Auto Bailout Before He Was Agai ...
    In December 2008, Vice President Dick Cheney delivered a stern warning to Senate Republicans opposed to President Bush's proposed bailout of the U.S. auto industry then teetering on collapse. "If we don't do this," Cheney cautioned his GOP colleagues behind closed doors, "we will be known as th ...
  • Divine Intervention Becomes the Republican Pla ...
    Americans can be forgiven for assuming Michele Bachmann was deadly serious when she repeatedly joked this weekend that God was using an earthquake and hurricane to send a divine message to restrain federal spending. After all, Bachmann has not only proclaimed time and again that the Almighty ca ...
  • Bachmann Gives Away the GOP Game on Health Care
    Over the past week, Republican White House hopeful Michele Bachmann unleashed a tidal wave of campaign promises aimed at washing away the American social contract. After pledging to get gas under $2 a gallon, Bachmann announced she would make the U.S. the "king daddy dog" of energy by shutting ...

Blackspot News Feed

  • Planet Pulp
    I find several Favourite New Things a week.  This is the joy of living in 2011: a new Leyland Kirby album lands in my email inbox, brilliant photographers make new images and post them in my social streams, dozens of people mock Jamie McKelvie on Twitter and there’s even a hashtag for it. And t ...
  • Free chunk of book?  Course you bloody&he ...
    Free chunk of book?� Course you bloody do.� Cherie Priest: Everybody loves free stuff, right? Right. And I�m reasonably sure that everybody (or if not �everybody� then probably �a lot of people�) loves one or more of the following: dirty jokes, drag queens, magic, or kittens. So here�s some exce ...
  • SECRET AVENGERS 16 Sold Out
    SECRET AVENGERS sold out at distributor level yesterday, its day of release. What that means is, there were orders of X, and an “overprint” of Y, and enough shops sold out of X that they re-ordered from the stack of Y at the distributor’s, and the stack of Y was all ordered. So some comics [...]
  • In Wake of Irene, Rural New Yorkers Turn to Co ...
    A growing tropical depression that could drop 15 inches of rain on the Gulf Coast this weekend comes just a week after Hurricane Irene devastated parts of the East Coast. We look at one of the hardest-hit areas: the Catskills region of New York. While flood waters have largely receded, the clean ...
  • As Turkey Freezes Israel Ties, Critics Decry " ...
    Turkey has downgraded diplomatic ties with Israel and frozen military cooperation ahead of a long-awaited United Nations report on Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid ship in 2010. The report accuses Israel of "excessive and unreasonable" force in its attack—which killed nine people—on th ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

  • Congress Must Debate the Libya War
    The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the ...
  • News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wrigh ...
    Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manningread more
  • In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of ...
    In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...
  • Richard D. Wolff: "Personal Debts" (Video)
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  • Charmed Into Battle: How a Volunteering Vacati ...
    About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

  • Over 1,000 Sit-in at White House (+ Top Activi ...
    Check out these top tar sands activism stories, followed by the most recent email from 350.org on this topic and more activism news: Related posts:Daryl Hannah, Greenpeace USA Executive Director, & More Arrested at White House; Tim DeChristopher Sends Letter from Prison (+ Top Activism Stories ...
  • Don Cheadle as Crazy Captain Planet (Funny or ...
    This is a pretty funny video by the folks over at Funny or Die. Check it out (if you don't mind some 'harsh language'): Related posts:Funny, Funny Video of Australian Senator Stop The Environment! (Funny or Die Video) Gisele Bündchen “vs” Don Cheadle (WED Challenge)
  • Yes, Climategate was Science Denier B.S.
    For what I think is the 7th time, independent review has found that Dr. Michael Mann's work is completely scientifically sound and that climate gate was only a crime in that someone broke in and stole over a decade's worth of emails (and then someone else used them to try to frame climate scient ...
  • Astonish Me (Short Film)
    WWF recently released a new short film, Astonish Me, that is quite beautiful and awe-inspiring. Highly recommend watching: Related posts:YERT: Big Winner at Yale’s Environmental Film Festival Prehistoric Women Wore Short Short’s Too De Palma Brings the Atrocities of Iraq War to Venice Film Fes ...
  • Rhino Crisis Round Up: Syndicate ‘Kingpin’ Den ...
    There was encouraging news this week from South Africa: Has justice finally been served? Meanwhile, tragedy struck inside one of India's premier tourist destinations and a rhino horn display was stolen from a UK zoo. Related posts:Rhino Crisis Round Up: Pregnant Rhino Murdered, CITES Meeting C ...

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Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

  • The Nightowl Newswrap
    By BG & YD @GovernorPerry's platform laid out so simple even a teabagger can understand. And the pictures are hilarious. Julian Assange is going to end up in prison. The question is, on which continent? "Julian Assange could face prosecution in Australia after publishing sensitive information ab ...
  • Jon Stewart-The Poor's Free Ride Is over
    Lest we somehow forget what total douches Fox news and the rest of the "mainstream" media really are, we need to post this every week or two until the election. � I almost made it through without gagging until they popped Skeletor's anorexic sister, Ann Coulter on the screen. �Really, the things ...
  • Charts for the Factually Challenged
    This is all old news, well-known and obvious to us denizens of the reality-based world, but there's nothing like a simple, colorful graph for the anti-literate. Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: Problem: Your right-wing brother-in-law is plugged into the FOX-Limbaugh lie machine, and ...
  • "I've never seen anything like this ever"
    By @KYYellowDog Explain to me again how "job creators" like BP create jobs by poisoning an entire ocean watershed that used to sustain tens of millions of people? Lots of health care jobs, I guess - but aren't those terrible unionized public employees who are killing the economy? Funeral home jo ...
  • What's So Great About Petraeus?
    Government in this country today is nothing more than a freak show, the likes of which would be more at home on a 1930s carnival midway than in the seat of government of a major developed country and far from receding, the tsunami of corporatism, graft, corruption and smoke and mirrors that was ...

Care 2

  • Reforming industrial animal agriculture ! PLEA ...
    Reforming industrial animal agriculture to help our environment, communities and health Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tell the Obama Administration to Adopt Science ...
    Urge the Obama Administration to adopt the more protective clean air standards for ozone pollution, to guarantee cleaner, healthier, safer air for our families and communities. Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Stop the Gabriel Mining Project in Romania ! P ...
    Romania's Transylvania region, besides having a gothic Dracula-esque mystique in the minds of foreigners, is rich in mineral resources. Now, President Traian Besescu is supporting an aggressive plan to extract more of these resourcesSubmitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
  • One in 25 business leaders may be a psychopath ...
    One out of every 25 business leaders could be psychopathic. The study, conducted by the New York psychologist Paul Babiak, suggests that they disguise the condition by hiding behind their high status, playing up their charm and by manipulating others.Submitted by Pia M. to Business �|� �Note-it ...
  • Wildlife corridors enveloping the desert resor ...
    If you have been thinking you�re in an urban nexus with some fetching mountains on the fringes, what we�re about to tell you may be unsettling. Here in the greater Palm Springs area, you�re actually on an island � a puddle of urbanity surrounded by Submitted by Joseph M. to Green Lifestyle �|� ...

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No Quarter

  • Obama is SO Over * Open Thread
    If you want withering criticisms of Barack Obama, you do NOT need to tune in to Fox News anymore. You’ll hear enough on CNN and MSNBC to severely singe the ears of Obama. First, from MSNBC’s “The Last Word” tonight: Below the fold, the NYT’s Frank Rich with CNN’s Piers Morgan: The job message an ...
  • Obama Must Go
    The numbers are in and there is now no argument–Barack Obama is presiding over the collapse of the US economy. Today’s jobs report, which the AP last night anticipated would show the creation of almost 100,000 jobs, turned out to be a festering turd in the punch bowl. Per the Financial Times: Th ...
  • Jonah Growth Jobs
    Below the fold: “The White House scheduling manages to highlight the GOP debate and slight the jobs speech.” The DOJ move to block the No. 2 AT&T acquisition of the No. 4 T-Mobile presents an example of how the Obama administration and Washington in general do not and cannot understand how Ameri ...
  • Why I hate to visit my own website and …
    Author’s foreword. My dear old friend Bronwyn wrote today and asked me what I’ve been up to and what I think of the prospects for 2012. My short reply got me a suggestion to cross post something I wrote at Partizane back in July. First, let me assure you that I no longer hate to [...]
  • White House Insider: Hoax or Deep Throat?
    This article is the first No Quarter article about the Ulsterman blogs.  Any opinions expressed here are strictly my own.  No Quarter is not endorsing or advocating the Ulsterman blogs.  References to, or citations from, the “White House Insider” do not indicate that there is such a person, or t ...

Futurismic

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

Therapy News

  • Identifying Suicidal Behaviors in Teens Who Se ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Adolescence is a time of emotional turmoil and many young people use self-injurious behaviors as a way to cope with psychological distress. However, self-harm can lead to suicide, thus increasing the importance of treating this issue in these children. “Self-harm ...
  • Why Do Women in Committed Relationships Lose S ...
    How often do you want sex? And is that enough? Not wanting enough sex is the big problem for most women who consult me as a clinical sexologist. And most sex therapists will agree that having a low level of sexual desire is a problem.  But the majority of these women are heterosexual with male [...]
  • Growing Self-Compassion by Recognizing Your Limits
    Most people would agree that having a compassionate stance towards oneself is desirable, yet exactly how to go about cultivating such a stance is less clear. Before discussing how to cultivate compassion, let’s quickly define the term. In this article, compassion is defined as: a recognition of ...
  • Are You Steering Your Marriage or Have You Bee ...
    Let’s go for a ride. I am going to show you how the journey through marriage is analogous to the journey through life with a new car. This juxtaposition could really hit home for the guys; it may be a good way to help your spouse understand what happens to a marriage that is put [...]
  • Friend’s Gender Affects Positive Emotion in Bo ...
    A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Children learn crucial social skills from their peers and form alliances that serve as the foundation for future interactions. Sharing positive emotions (PE) with friends is a vital component of these relationships, and may impact girls more than boys, according t ...

Mountaintop Removal

  • STOKING FIRE: Mountaintop Coal Mining Leads to ...
    RH Reality Check (blog) STOKING FIRE: Mountaintop Coal Mining Leads to Birth Defects, Respiratory ... RH Reality Check (blog) As mountaintop removal [MTR] has horned-in on underground mining, the health maladies of residents of eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and southw ...
  • Letter: If we fight on, big-time polluters can ...
    Letter: If we fight on, big-time polluters can be stopped River Falls Journal Coal mining is a dirty, dangerous business, but mountaintop removal takes the devastation to new lows. After blowing up more than 500 mountains in Appalachia to uncover coal seams, mining companies have dumped million ...
  • Mountaineer football, coal and symbols - Charl ...
    Charleston Gazette (blog) Mountaineer football, coal and symbols Charleston Gazette (blog) When last we left my beloved West Virginia Mountaineers, the football program was forced to alter some special Nike uniform graphics to get rid of what apparently was meant to be images of mountaintop rem ...
  • Daryl Hannah arrested in White House oil prote ...
    USA Today Daryl Hannah arrested in White House oil protest 6abc.com Va., attend a mountaintop removal mining protest Tuesday, June 23, 2009 in Naoma, W.Va. They were among several hundred protesters who held a rally outside Marsh Fork Elementary school that sits about 300 feet away from a Masse ...
  • Checking North Anna - The Free Lance-Star
    Checking North Anna The Free Lance-Star Coal, also dirty, is dangerous to mine using traditional methods and devastating to the land when mountaintop removal is the methodology. Windmills kill birds, including eagles in California, and solar awaits a better battery. ... and more��

Memeorandum

  • Palin: "there's room for more" (audio) (O.Kay ...
    O.Kay Henderson: Palin: “there's room for more” (audio)  —  As former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin walked in the front door of The Machine Shed restaurant in Urbandale, Iowa, this evening, a reporter asked Palin what she thought about the current field of GOP presidential candidates.  —  “Happy ...
  • D.C. Circuit Judge Ginsburg to Join NYU Law Fa ...
    Zoe Tillman / The BLT: D.C. Circuit Judge Ginsburg to Join NYU Law Faculty  —  U.S. Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit Judge Douglas Ginsburg will be joining the faculty at New York University School of Law starting in January, the school announced today.  —  Ginsburg, who was appointed to ...
  • Amazon's Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I've Seen ...
    MG Siegler / TechCrunch: Amazon's Kindle Tablet Is Very Real.  I've Seen It, Played With It.  —  It's called simply the “Amazon Kindle”.  But it's not like any Kindle you've seen before.  It displays content in full color.  It has a 7-inch capacitive touch screen.  And it runs Android.
  • Rick Perry leads Mitt Romney in Nevada, poll f ...
    Alexander Burns / The Politico: Rick Perry leads Mitt Romney in Nevada, poll finds  —  With the important caveats that it's only one poll and it's difficult to poll the Nevada caucuses with any certainty, this is not a good sign for Mitt Romney: … Nevada is supposed to be the one sure thing in ...
  • WikiLeaks makes all its U.S. diplomatic cables ...
    Mark Seibel / McClatchy Washington Bureau: WikiLeaks makes all its U.S. diplomatic cables public  —  WASHINGTON — The whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks made public its entire cache of pirated State Department cables Thursday night in a torrent of once secret information that is sure to renew de ...

Energy & Environment News

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China Dialogue

  • Changes ahead in US corn belt
    As the American congress reviews 30 years of corn-ethanol subsidies, rising worldwide food costs and famine in east Africa are casting biofuel production in a negative light. Suzanne Goldenberg reports.There were times when Arlyn Schipper could almost feel heroic on his family farm in the heart ...
  • Hopes for a more humble Apple
    Campaigners fighting for cleaner IT in China would do well to study Apple’s own techniques – only when they get consumers on side, will they strike an effective blow, writes Guo Peiyuan.A coalition of Chinese environmental groups, including Friends of Nature and the Institute of Public and Envir ...
  • Apple: back under the spotlight
    In an investigative report, Chinese green NGOs claim that the consumer electronics giant has not addressed problems in its supply chain and ignored an expanding environmental footprint in China – with grave consequences. Meng Si reports. As Apple’s supply chain has expanded, so its pollution h ...
  • “Apple has made no progress at all”
    Today’s revelations about supply-chain violations in China are no bolt from the blue. Ma Jun – one of the report’s chief authors – tells Liu Jianqiang about the long-running investigation into the world’s most valuable brand.On August 31, five Chinese environmental groups published a report that ...
  • Can IT clean up its act?
    Renewed pressure on Apple over pollution shows that green activists in the developing world could transform attitudes to supply chain management in the IT industry, writes Erica Gies. Ideas like corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the “triple bottom line” (people, planet, profit) have been ...

AlterNet Top Stories

Threat Level

  • U.S. Sources Exposed as Unredacted State Depar ...
    An encrypted WikiLeaks file containing 251,000 unredacted U.S. State Department cables is now widely available online, along with the passphrase to open it. The release of the documents in raw form, with the names of U.S. informants around the globe exposed in them, has raised concerns that doze ...
  • Feds, EFF Clash in Appeals Court Hearing on NS ...
    SEATTLE – A three-judge federal appeals court grilled government and civil rights lawyers while entertaining arguments here Wednesday concerning dozens of dismissed lawsuits alleging the National Security Agency illegally vacuumed American’s internet traffic and telephone calls from every major ...
  • Google Certificate Hackers May Have Stolen 200 ...
    Hackers who obtained a fraudulent digital certificate for Google may have actually obtained more than 200 digital certificates for other top internet entities such as Mozilla, Yahoo and even the privacy and anonymizing service Tor.
  • Couple Can Sue Laptop-Tracking Company for Spy ...
    An Ohio woman and her boyfriend can sue a laptop-tracking company that recorded their sexually explicit communications in an effort to identify thieves who stole the computer the woman was using. U.S. District Judge Walter Rice ruled last week against Absolute Software, which provides software a ...
  • This Week: Appeals Court to Weigh NSA Dragnet ...
    Whether the federal government and the nation’s telecommunication companies can be held accountable for allegedly funneling every American’s electronic communication to the National Security Agency without warrants is the subject of oral arguments scheduled for a federal appeals court Wednesday. ...

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    Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...
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    Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon.   They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future in ...
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PDA AMERICA

  • Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Mon ...
    Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.â–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...
  • IOT: Healthcare for All Jan Call
    Call – Healthcare for All IOT Date – Jan 18, 2011 Agenda: 1. IntroductionsâDr. Bill Honigman, PDA Healthcare for All IOT coordinator and California State Coordinator 2. National Single Payer MovementâKatie Robbins, Healthcare-NOW! 3. States Single Payer Movement–Chuck Pennacchio, Healthcare ...
  • PDA Weekly Field Report 1/7/2011 – 1/18/2011
    Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...
  • War is a Crime: Join In For Justice
    WarIsACrime.org JOIN IN FOR JUSTICE! 1/17/11 Washington, D.C., and Quantico, Va. Protest of FBI Raids and Bradley Manning Imprisonment http://www.defendingdissent.org/action/Events.htm 1/18/11 Washington, D.C. Panel with Rep. Rush Holt, Emily Berman from the Brennan Center for Justice, Sha ...
  • An American Suicide Terrorist
    William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

  • California Walnuts Recalled in Canada Due to E ...
    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Johnvince Foods announced a recall on Thursday of some President's Choice and Reddi Snack walnuts because the products may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The raw, shelled walnuts products were imported from the U.S. and packaged in Canada, the CFIA ...
  • Colorado continues to have a Listeria problem ...
    Officials at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced today that the state health department has identified a sharp increase in the number of Listeria monocytogenes infections reported to public health agencies. Nine cases were reported during August, with seven of the ...
  • A bit(e) of history - It is now time for the U ...
    According to the CDC, E. coli O157:H7 causes 73,000 illnesses and 50 deaths every year in the United States. Another six E. coli strains - O26, O45, O111, O121, O145, and O103 - are considered less pervasive, sickening “only” an estimated 37,000 people a year and killing nearly 30. E. coli O157: ...
  • Del Monte Fresh's suit against Oregon is a fri ...
    I have a knack for being subtle. As reported by the AP, Del Monte Fresh (you will love the background music) has threatened to sue Oregon Public Health and its senior epidemiologist, William Keene, for playing a part in gathering evidence against the company’s cantaloupes that ten state health ...
  • Salmonella Agona Paypayas Sicken 106 in 25 States
    THe CDC reports that a total of 106 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Agona were reported from 25 states between January 1 and August 25, 2011. The number of ill persons identified in each state with the outbreak strain was as follows: Arkansas (1), Arizona (4), Califor ...

AutoblogGreen

  • Report: Elon Musk bets Dan Neil $1 million he ...
    Can a million dollars hold Elon Musks' feet to the fire? That's the value of a bet that Wall Street Journal auto journalist and all-around interesting guy Dan Neil and the Tesla Motors CEO reportedly have going over the release of the upcoming Model S. According to Green Car Reports, the ...
  • Report: Libyan rebels claim Ghaddafi's all-ele ...
    Libyan leader (ex-leader?) Muammar Qaddafi apparently had some unusual items in his personal collection. Rebel forces stormed his compound this week, and we now know he had a scrapbook dedicated to former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, lots of weapons and, oddly, a doorless, all-electri ...
  • Official: Audi spills the beans on production ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Audi Diesel-lovin' Audi is slowly, slowly coming to grips with this whole hybrid thing. Earlier this year, the "We're not against hybrids" automaker finally gave out some real information about its hybrid Q5 (after years of teases and killing the program once,) and we ...
  • Breaking: Ford, Toyota will partner on RWD hyb ...
    Filed under: Hybrid, Truck, Ford, Toyota Is the Prius V not big enough for you? Then you'll probably be interested to learn that Ford and Toyota announced a partnership today to develop a new hybrid system for SUVs and light trucks. The "equal partners" deal should result in a gasoline-electr ...
  • Video: Presidential candidate Bachmann promise ...
    Filed under: Etc. How's this for bold? Congresswoman Michell Bachmann, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination who won the Ames Straw Poll last weekend, has just stated that one thing we'd get with a Bachmann Administration is - ready? - cheap gasoline. According to Politico sh ...

Rafe's Radar

Camera Obscura

  • No title
  • 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 ...
  • The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and ...
    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 ...
  • Written on the screen: mediation and immersion ...
    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 rigo ...
  • Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmin ...
    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 ...

Democracy Now!

  • A Lifetime of Resistance in Syria
    Democracy Now! correspondent, Sharif Abdel Kouddous profiles renowned Syrian human rights lawyer, Haitham al-Maleh, for The Nation magazine. Below is an excerpt from A Lifetime of Resistance in Syria. Haitham al-Maleh, an 81-year-old Syrian human rights lawyer, has spent most of his lif ...
  • Army Widow Calls for Recognition of Husband's ...
    On Tuesday, Democracy Now! spoke with Ashley Joppa-Hagemann, the widow of a U.S. Army Ranger who confronted former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld about her husbandâs suicide on Saturday ahead of his eighth deployment overseas. In part two of our interview, Joppa-Hagemann calls for a ...
  • "Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Dark Art of Propagan ...
    By Amy Goodman Cheney remains staunch in his convictions on issues from the invasion of Iraq to the use of torture. Telling NBC News in an interview that “there are gonna be heads exploding all over Washington” as a result of the revelations in the book, Cheney’s memoir follows one by his ...
  • D.C. Protests That Make Big Oil Quake
    The White House was rocked Tuesday, not only by a 5.9-magnitude earthquake, but by the protests mounting outside its gates. More than 2,100 people say they’ll risk arrest there during the next two weeks. They oppose the Keystone XL pipeline project, designed to carry heavy crude oil from the ta ...
  • Egyptians Defend Viral Video Activist Charged ...
    Asmaa Mahfouz is one of Egyptâs most prominent activists. The 26-year-old helped co-found the influential April 6 Youth Movement in 2008 that helped pave the way for the revolution through years of grassroots organizing and street protests. A few days before January 25, she posted two videos on ...

Suzie-Q

  • Bachmann Doubles Down On Drilling In Everglade ...
    GOP presidential front runner Rep. Michele Bachmann’s (MN) new notion to drill for oil in the Florida Everglades is compelling the public, scientists, and even a few in her own party to raise their eyebrows at her “incredible faux pas.” Ever resilient against the onslaught of facts, Bachmann dou ...
  • Scientist: “The Murdoch Media Empire Has Cost ...
    The Australian is the country’s biggest-selling national newspaper.  It is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which “also owns the sole dailies in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin and the most popular metropolitan dailies in Sydney and Melbourne.” Michael Ashley investigates the national ...
  • NASA Scientist, Religious Leaders Arrested in ...
    Environment News WASHINGTON, DC, August 29, 2011 (ENS) – NASA climatologist Dr. James Hansen was arrested today in front of the White House where he was demonstrating in opposition to the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline that would bring thick crude oil from Alberta to refineries in Oklah ...
  • Defeating the Corporatocracy
    Three Things That Must Happen for Us to Rise Up and Defeat the Corporatocracy Truthout Friday 26 August 2011 by: Bruce E. Levine, Alternet | Op-Ed Most Americans oppose rule by the corporatocracy but don’t have the tools to fight back. Here are three things we need to create a real people’s move ...
  • Kucinich: Try NATO Commanders as War Criminals
    NEWSMAX Tuesday, 23 Aug 2011 Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, has been an outspoken critic of U.S. military action in Libya since it began six months ago, even saying President Barack Obama’s policy amounted to “an impeachable offense.” Now, as Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s regime appears to be ...

Solari

  • Transcript of Catherine’s Interview of A ...
    A transcript of Catherine’s August 18, 2011 interview of Adam Trombly on Entrainment, Subliminal Programming, and Financial Manipulation is now available to Solari Report Subscribers. Subscribers can navigate to the Subscriber Control Panel, after logging in, click on Previous Solari Reports, [...]
  • Quote du Jour
    “Call on God, but row away from the rocks.” ~ Hunter Thompson Related reading: Hunter Thompson Wikipedia
  • Federal Reserve Board Announces a Formal Enfor ...
    Released by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced a formal enforcement action against the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and Goldman Sachs Bank USA to address a pattern of misconduct and negligence relating to deficient practices in resi ...
  • Nevada Wallops Bank of America
    By Paul Kiel This post has been updated to reflect Bank of America’s response. The state of Nevada dramatically expanded its lawsuit against Bank of America today, turning the narrow case it filed late last year into a broadside that targets virtually all aspects of the bank’s mortgage operatio ...
  • Ex-Bush Official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: &#82 ...
    By Democracy Now! As former Vice President Dick Cheney publishes his long-awaited memoir, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. YouTube (30 Aug 11) Army Ranger Widow Confronts Rumsfeld over His Lies that Convinced Her Husband to Join th ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Sideways News

  • Could you be a 10:10 community champion?
    The Guardian Newspaper and Franny Armstrong, through the Guardian 10:10 campaign, challenge organisations and individuals to cut their carbon footprint by 10%.
  • Brit mums strict about eco-chores
    Families in the UK are increasingly likely to be nagged about doing eco-chores, a new study conducted on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust has revealed.
  • UK venue offers rainforest weddings
    Getting married in a luscious rainforest has never been easier or more eco-friendly, according to the Eden Project.
  • Battery recycling 'too difficult'
    The European Recycling Platform (ERP) reports that while only a third of households at present recycle batteries, four out of five said they would do so if it was made easier.
  • 10 green resolutions to save you money
    By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

  • Question time on the FM website
    Ask any question about geopolitics, broadly defined. We’ll attempt to answer it. Free answers, so you cannot overpay. Update: The first question is excellent, timely and important.
  • Important information in today’s jobs re ...
    Summary: Today’s jobs report has important lessons about the economic cycle that America remains locked in.  These are blindingly obvious lessons, which we refuse to see, which is why we remain locked in this cycle. Today’s jobs report astonishes Wall Street because they refuse to see the natu ...
  • Cyberwar: a Whole New Quagmire. Part 1: The P ...
    Summary:  In this article by guest author Marcus J. Ranum, he describes what might become one of the primary forms of conflict in the 21st century.  How real is the threat?  Is the Department of Defense approaching this in a logical way. “Mr. President, if that’s what you want there is only one ...
  • The hidden story about Libya, hidden behind th ...
    Summary:  Since the beginning it’s been clear to those paying attention that we’ve been fed lies about the Libyan War, concerning both events there and American goals and actions.  Most journalists ignored the facts, preferring to transcribe the stories fed them by government officials.  We ...
  • Our fears are unwarranted. America is in fact ...
    Summary:  The good news is our problems are relatively minor.  Our leaders probably will take the necessary reforms during the next few years.  Of course they will govern in the best interests of our plutocratic elites, not us.  We’re along for the ride, sliding towards the Third Republic ...

Open Your Eyes News

  • Vatican kicks out Roma on Easter
    Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported.  Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, calle ...
  • Euro strikes 16-month high against dollar
    Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point since mid-Dece ...
  • British pound devalues by 94% in 50yrs
    PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]
  • Peru suffers an ‘environmental tragedy’
    IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of 7,000 ...
  • Next step humans? Every new pet dog in Britain ...
    Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. A conf ...

The Progressive Realist

  • Peddling Fear: Frank Gaffney's World
  • Multipolarity Doesn’t Mean Intervention Is Dead
    Shashank Joshi, writing in The Telegraph, speculates that the rising power of BRIC countries may make Libya “the last place where the West is allowed to intervene.” Joshi highlights how different the international situation is now compared with a decade ago when NATO launched its assault on Belg ...
  • The Artificial Division Between Diplomacy and ...
    Protecting U.S. national security interests in the 21st century will require the integrated application of all the tools of American power â military, diplomatic, intelligence, development and homeland defense. As illustrated by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while American troops are the be ...
  • Afghan Security Faces Long-Term Challenges
    U.S.-led efforts to build Afghan security forces capable of preventing Taliban resurgence face a series of challenges, from the reluctance of southern Pashtuns to serve in a national army, to maintaining the billions of dollars in infrastructure and equipment provided by the U.S. and other ...
  • The Military Option for Iran: Be Careful What ...
    TIME Magazine has recently highlighted an analysis entitled “Invading Iran: Lessons from Iraq” by Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Leif Eckholm, who works in the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (the analysis was published by Stanford’s Hoover ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

  • Local News Is Awesome
    Even in the age of the Internet, local television news remains the top source of information for Americans. And it's almost undoubtedly the worst, a festering stew of fearmongering and triviality, with the occasional waterskiing squirrel thrown in. So for your Friday amusement, via The Hairpin, ...
  • Some Context on the Coming GOP Immigration Debate
    Could immigration be Rick Perry's Achilles' heel? Folks are beginning to ask. Republican primary voters, The Washington Post tells us, are pestering Republican presidential candidates about it. Ed Kilgore suggests it could be a problem for Perry in South Carolina. So we might be headed for a rep ...
  • What a Bad Politician Looks Like
    Hapless presidential candidate Rick Santorum is not a happy man. Watch how he talks about same sex marriage, even before being challenged, in this video taken at an event at Penn State (via Andrew Sullivan): "Does anybody go out there and make the argument as to why this a good thing, because ...
  • Seriously, Jon Huntsman Is Not a Moderate
    If there’s anything impressive about Jon Huntsman’s presidential campaign, it’s the extent to which he’s convinced the world of his moderation. For example, here’s the first sentence of The New York Times’ write-up on his recently released economic plan: “Jon M. Huntsman Jr. again showed h ...
  • The Party of Ideas
    Washington is full of people who try to get politicians to adopt their ideas. That's one of the reasons the Prospect was founded, in fact -- to create a forum for progressives to have serious discussions about government and politics, in the hopes that the ideas generated might eventually be tra ...

Buzzflash

  • Time to up the Ante: Restrict Individual Asset ...
    MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT If progressives -- who for the most part pretty much advocate for democracy and a level playing field for the economy -- are going to be accused of being radical socialists, why not have at it and restrict individual acquisition of wealth in the US ...
  • Someone Should Tell Eric Cantor That He's Not ...
    Body   Someone should tell Eric Cantor he's not in charge of us, not charged with making policy for the country and not some wise guru who keeps the secrets of the universe tucked away in an envelope he keeps in his breast pocket. Every time he tries to make his ideological ...
  • How Rick Perry Got Rich While Working for the ...
    BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Perry is putting together a powerful team made up of wealthy conservative funders and conservative Christian evangelicals. According to the Texans For Public Justice, "Perry might never have been governor - nor now be a presidential candidate - but for J ...
  • In Ireland, New Revelations Of Systemic Sexual ...
    TONY PEYSER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT   There aren't that many places of serious power But if you manage to corrupt two You're on your way to doing whatever horrors Your dark heart may want to do.   England's phone hacking scandal happened Because Murdoch's key positions Involved the manipulati ...
  • Why the Right Wing Bible Thumpers Are Betting ...
    The right-wing conservatives are betting against America's future. That's not a speculative observation; it's reality. When a core part of your political ideology is the denial of science - and science has been at the center of technological and economic advancements that made the US into an ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

The BiPartisan Report

Sciencebase

  • Not slippery when wet
    Not slippery when wet – Can our pruney bath fingers help us make safer tyres? Car tyres have rain treads. Shoes have rain treads. So, why don’t animals have rain treads? Here evolutionary neurobiologist Mark Changizi – and author of the new book having nothing whatever to do with rain treads, Ha ...
  • Catching up with The Alchemist
    Catching up with The Alchemist – Ancient oxygen levels were higher than The Alchemist thought, but they existed in submarine oxygen oases rather than in the atmosphere. We also learn this week that a sweet solution to modulating pharmaceutical activity is possible, that micro-onions could serve ...
  • Rise in top grades boosts GCSE record
    Rise in top grades boosts GCSE record – My son just returned with his GCSE results to a very proud Mum and Dad, and sister, with a clutch of excellent passes in his exams. Very pleased he got an excellent grade in chemistry, although he claims to hate "my" subject. One thing I will say, [...]Ris ...
  • More chemical wonders
    More chemical wonders – Yet more chemical wonders fall under the gaze of The Alchemist this week. First up, spray on radiators coming to a home near you to help cut heating bills by a third while ethanol-imbibing bacteria offer an important clue to preventing biofuel pipeline cracks. In the anal ...
  • Dissonant teaching changes environmental minds
    There are many educational and ethical issues regarding the environment and environmentalism that are generally not addressed, especially when it comes to teaching non-science students. Independent environmental services professional and college professor Chyrisse P. Tabone, who is based in Tamp ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

  • Obama Hits New Low by Abandoning Smog-reductio ...
    After intense lobbying from polluting industries, President Barack Obama today abandoned badly needed plans to reduce smog and improve public health around the country. In a statement this morning, the president told the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its draft Ozone National Ambien ...
  • CCR Denounces UN Report on Gaza Flotilla
    In anticipation of the expected release today of the Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident, which was leaked yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement:read more
  • President Obama Undercuts Science with Smog St ...
    President Obama today asked the Environmental Protection Agency to ignore its obligation under the Clean Air Act to update ground-level ozone pollution standards for the United States based on the best available science. Because of President Obama’s decision, the ground-level ozone standards wil ...
  • Jobs Numbers, Labor Day
    MAX FRAAD WOLFF, mfwolff at aol.comread more
  • Unemployment Report Requires Bold Jobs Plan fr ...
    Today’s bleak unemployment numbers for August demonstrate that President Obama must put forward a big, bold program for job creation when he addresses the nation next Thursday, said Roger Hickey, co-director of the Campaign for Americas Future in response to today’s data from the Labor Departmen ...

Common Dreams-Views

  • Obama Administration Delays Life-Saving Smog S ...
    Frances Beinecke Today the Obama Administration made a decision that will endanger the health of tens of thousands of Americans. Its choice to delay stronger standards for smog lets polluters off the hook and leaves Americans with sicker f ...
  • Famine in Somalia: A Man-Made Crisis
    Unni Karunakara The emergency unfolding in and around Somalia is being portrayed by many aid organisations and the media in one-dimensional terms, such as "famine in the Horn of Africa" or "worst drought in 60 years".read more
  • The Zero Economy
    Robert Reich The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports today no jobs were created in August. Zero. Nada. Well, not quite. The strike at Verizon reduced the labor force by 45,000. Minnesota government employees returned to work, adding 22,000. ...
  • Obama Better Give One Hell of a Speech
    John Nichols On the eve of a Labor Day that will mark the unofficial launching place of his 2012 reelection campaign, on the eve of an address to Congress that could be the most important of his presidency, there is no good economic news ...
  • Feeble President, Feeble Plans
    Robert Kuttner On Wednesday, I posted an item titled “How Not to Solve the Jobs Problem.” The case in point is President Barack Obama’s embrace of a state program called Georgia Works, which tries to turn unemployment insurance into a kind ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

Water Wars

  • Can Water Treaties Be Climate-Proofed?
    International agreements on how to manage rivers used by more than one country are too inflexible, making them poor tools to deal with changes in freshwater availability caused by climate change.
  • Lawmakers attend meeting about water
    Forsyth County was well represented at the recent meeting of the Joint Study Committee on Water Supply.District 23 state Rep. Mark Hamilton and District 27 state Sen. Jack Murphy, both Republicans from Cumming, attended the session, which focused on the tri-state water wars and on Gov.Nathan Dea ...
  • Isakson: States should be motivated for water ...
    jstone: August 25, 2011 9:30 p.m. Well, Isaakson just lost my vote. I didn't realize he wrote the AYP bill. My sister just retired from teaching and another family member is struggling to keep a job.
  • Film festival focuses on water wars and more
    Mark Twain once said, "Whiskey is for drinkin'. Water is for fightin' over."
  • Water Wars
    SPARKS – Dozens of Washoe County residents turned out at Sparks High School Thursday during the last of nine Bureau of Land Management (BLM) open house sessions to protest a proposed pipeline that would ship water from rural northeastern Nevada to Las Vegas, citing the loss of environmental, eco ...

WordPress | Economics

Electronic Intifada

  • How US "charities" break tax laws to fund Isra ...
    Mike Coogan The Electronic Intifada In spite of US government statements about its displeasure with the expansion of Israeli settlements, US based organizations are abusing the 501(C)3 section of US tax codes to provide billions in subsidies to do exactly�that.
  • Israeli harassment campaign masquerades as mur ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Jerusalem Israeli soldiers and security forces have conducted a string of arrests and violent raids at Jenin’s renowned Freedom Theater over recent weeks, in their investigation into the murder of actor and director Juliano Mer-Khamis.
  • Israel deports children to preserve "Jewish ch ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Jerusalem Israel is deporting the children of migrant workers out of “Zionist considerations” to ensure “the Jewish character of the state of Israel,” as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated.
  • Palestinians in Jordan refugee camp long to return
    John Ridley The Electronic Intifada Behind every door in Baqaa refugee camp, one finds tragedy as well as�perseverance.
  • Israeli court rejects al-Walaja's appeal again ...
    Jillian Kestler-D'Amours The Electronic Intifada Residents of the occupied West Bank village of al-Walaja are undaunted by a setback in their fight against home demolitions, the confiscation of land, the expansion of the nearby Jewish-only settlements of Gilo and Har Gilo and construction of a ...

The Wonk Room

  • Liberty University Professors: All Gays Are &# ...
    Matt Barber of the Liberty Counsel and Liberty University School of Law had a chat today with fellow Liberty University law professor Judith Reisman about how GLSEN’s anti-bullying efforts are “sexualing children” and “running interference for the pedophile movement.” They agreed that all of the ...
  • South Carolina Gov. Haley Insists On Disbandin ...
    South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) is leading the Republican rage against the National Labor Relations Board ever since it filed a complaint against Boeing for moving its operations to her “right to work” state as a retaliation against strikers in Washington state. Threatening to move facilitie ...
  • Eighth Circuit Strikes Down Much of South Dako ...
    In the latest blow to a line of state laws attempting to discourage women from having an abortion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit struck down much of a South Dakota law requiring doctors to provide women seeking an abortion with a series of scientifically questionable claims ab ...
  • Science Journal Editor Resigns, Admits A Paper ...
    Dr. Wolfgang Wagner, editor of Remote Sensing journal, has resigned after admitting that a recent paper casting doubt on man-made climate change should not have been published. The paper, by U.S. scientists Roy Spencer and William Braswell, claimed that “computer models of climate inflated proje ...
  • GOP Rep. Renacci Bars Cameras Used By People W ...
    During the August recess, a number of conservative members of Congress have gone to great lengths to avoid being questioned by their constituents or holding town halls altogether. In Ohio, Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) even had video cameras confiscated from his constituents so that they could not fi ...

thwap's schoolyard

  • Wrong About Everything: Toronto Sun on Jack Layton
    "No cuts. GUARANTEED!" Just thought I'd get that out of the way. Because I'm going to be writing about the Toronto Sun's attempt to set the record straight about the economics of Jack Layton's politics, and the first thing we should remember is that this is the same piece-of-shit newspaper th ...
  • Thank-you Jack Layton
    Jack, I was worried that your cancer battle would prevent you from forcing the election this past spring. Even though the outcome was horrible (a harpercon majority, which is an abomination no matter the silver lining of the NDP's becoming the official opposition) I am so glad that both you a ...
  • A Visit to Queen's Park
    Last fall, for reasons hazy and uncertain, I packed up the little fella into the bike-buggy and rode down to Queen's Park. The event that I had a vague recollection was supposed to be there wasn't there. So, on a lark, I decided to get a visitor's pass and go watch the events in the legislature. ...
  • Thoughts About Jack Layton
    While I preferred the Jack Layton who held Paul Martin directly responsible for homeless deaths, to the "serious" statesman who wouldn't let his MPs heckle the war-criminal criminal moron psychopath bush II when that piece of shit slithered across our border and was making noises about addressin ...
  • Oppressed People Complain Too Much
    Except for the REAL oppressed people that is: WHITE MALES Yeah, because EXCUSE ME, but First Nations peoples get to occupy buildings and land all the time, and they DON'T ALWAYS GET SHOT AND KILLED FOR IT!!! And Black People? Get a ticket on the "Clue Train": Racism was defeated in the Ame ...

on Government Oversight

Digital Journal

  • From graffiti vandal to cake master-Chef Duff ...
    Chef Duff Goldman was on stage today at the CNE talking about cakes and how he made it into the food biz talking to the thousands that waited for up to two hours to watch one of two shows.
  • Beyond Broadway ice show at CNE
    Beyond Broadway is this year's ice show at Toronto's Canadian National Expo (CNE) featuring the talents of Olympians Joannie Rochette and Vaughn Chipeur on ice, trapeze artists and vocals from Yvan Pedneault and Sabrina Ferland.
  • Canadian charged with spray painting name at G ...
    A Canadian man was charged after he allegedly spray-painted the first few letters of his name at a scenic overlook where the 'Duck on a Rock' formation is located in the Grand Canyon National Park.
  • Canadian woman accidentally gives co-workers p ...
    Three people were hospitalized after a Canadian woman unknowingly distributed brownies laced with marijuana at her office to her co-workers.
  • Costumed for the Cure at AIDS Walk for Life
    The AIDS Walk for Life will be receiving a little fundraising help from heroes and villains this year. These unlikely allies are clearing their weekends to walk for a noble cause.

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homeles ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe a ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling th ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demean ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 10 ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of th ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unp ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Granatstein: Don’t kill DND grants to academia
    Well-known Canadian military historian, commentator, and fan of the Rideau Institute (OK, we made that last bit up) Jack Granatstein is taking issue with the Harper government’s plan to cut Department of National Defence funding for the Security and Defence Forum (SDF), a program that supports a ...
  • Hundreds leave tributes to Jack Layton on Ceas ...
    I'm certain he will be remembered as second only to Tommy Douglas himself, one of Canada's greatest Canadians.
  • Jack Layton: Peace Activist
    Jack was a friend of the peace movement, and could be counted upon to find an alternative to war and to stand up for Canadian values of co-operation and diplomacy.
  • Australia’s F-35 order ‘up in the air’
    Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith has warned Parliament that repeated cost increases and delays in the F-35 programme were falling out of line with limits set by the government and military planners (Australia to decide on F-35 fighter purchase in 2012: Govt, Reuters, 17 August 2011). Sm ...
  • Peacekeeping contribution remains dismal
    Canada was once the largest single contributor to UN peacekeeping operations. Today, according to Canadians for Peacekeeping‘s third annual factsheet on Canada and UN peacekeeping, we rank 53rd among contributing countries. The ranking represents a slight drop in Canada’s position compared to la ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Story Keeps Changing By The Day
    May 3, 2011 Politico By Josh Gerstein The White House backed away Monday evening from key details in its narrative about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, including claims by senior U.S. officials that the Al Qaeda leader had a weapon and may have fired it during a gun battle with U.S. force ...
  • Was Bin Laden’s Killing Legal?
    May 3, 2011 Spiegel Online By Thomas Darnstädt US President Barack Obama gets precious few opportunities to announce a victory. So it’s no wonder he chose grand words on Sunday night as the TV crews’ spotlights shone upon him and he informed the nation about the deadly strike against Osama bin ...
  • Salmonella Fears Spark Grape Tomato Recall
    May 3, 2011 Reuters By Wendell Marsh A supplier of grape tomatoes for Taylor Farms Pacific, Inc. has recalled the product for possible salmonella contamination, the government said late on Monday. Products using the recalled tomatoes were sold in Albertsons, Raley’s, Safeway, Savemart, Sam’s Clu ...
  • Young Adults Dangerously Naive About Their Health
    May 3, 2011 WebMD By Bill Hendrick According to the American Heart Association, someone suffers a stroke every 40 seconds in the U.S.  Yet most Americans between 18 and 24 are dangerously naive about their health and assume they are healthy even though they eat too much fast food, drink too many ...
  • Improper Use Of Popular Painkillers On The Rise
    May 3, 2011 CBS News Only 41 percent of the people questioned in a new study said they read the labels of medications they take. That lack of knowledge about popular pain relievers — and ignorance, in particular, of acetaminophen being in more than 600 over-the-counter and prescription medicines ...

Pambazuka News

  • Haiti: Open Letter to Barack Obama - pre-election
    We - citizens of Haiti, political militants and unionists of the grassroots movement for democracy in our country - solemnly address ourselves to you on the eve of the election that will most likely make you the next president of the United States....
  • Brazil: The high price of clean, cheap ethanol
    Brazil hopes to supply drivers worldwide with the fuel of the future - cheap ethanol derived from sugarcane. It is considered an effective antidote to climate change, but hundreds of thousands of Brazilian plantation workers harvest the cane at slave...
  • Global: Guadeloupe paralyzed by widespread strikes
    Riot police from mainland France have arrived on the French Caribbean islands as protests threaten to paralyse tourism and spread further afield. Strikes on Guadeloupe and Martinique have closed shops and schools and the reinforcements will help loca...
  • Stop senate renege on black farmer compensation
    ColorOfChange.org - http://www.colorofchange.org/farmers/?id=1842-429864 is campaigning to ensure that a US senate bill to compensate black farmers in the South for discrimination gives them the money they deserve, rather than capping the total amount available at $100 million, which would only ...
  • Extradition threat for Black Liberation activist
    As the US opens up political channels with Cuba, Black Liberation Army - http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/freedomfighters.html activist Assata Shakur faces extradition from the country where she has lived under political asylum since 1984, writes Paul Scott. While the mainstream media portrays Shak ...

War in Context

  • Libyan rebel military chief says he was tortur ...
    Patrick Cockburn writes: The overthrow of Gaddafi has brought together strange allies, but few stranger than Abdulhakim Belhaj, the military commander of all rebel military forces in Tripoli, and Nato. An Islamist whom Gaddafi tried to have the US list as a terrorist, Mr Belhaj says he was tort ...
  • Women celebrate in Tripoli’s Martyrs’ square
    Farah Abushwesha writes: At this week’s conference on Libya in Paris, the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) and the international community talk about “inclusiveness” in the new country’s future. It seems strange, then, that half of the population – women – seem to be excluded from the ...
  • Do the Gaddafis hope to take refuge in Israel?
    As Hosni Mubarak approaches the end of his life inside a prison cell in Egypt, he might be having second thoughts about his decision to turn down an offer of asylum that came from Israel a few months ago. The idea that Israel has some affection for Arab tyrants might have something to do with a ...
  • Turkey expels Israeli diplomats, suspends mili ...
    Today’s Zaman reports: In the face of a leaked United Nations panel report on the Mavi Marmara incident, which includes accusations both against Israel and Turkey, Turkey on Friday announced that it is further reducing diplomatic relations and cutting military ties with Israel over the country’ ...
  • How Israel got away with murder on the Mavi Ma ...
    The long-delayed and long-awaited UN report [PDF] on the Mavi Marmara massacre has finally been released by the New York Times. I guess the newspaper feels a responsibility that it should spin this as much in Israel’s favor as possible before the report get’s officially released. “Report Finds ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Open Thread Holiday Weekend
    Since this is a holiday weekend, and after the bombshell Spencer and Braswell revelation today, there’s not much else besides watching tropical storm Lee and Hurricane Katia this weekend. I have several things to do in the home improvement realm … Continue reading →
  • Tropical storm Lee and hurricane Katia status ...
    Well it seems the Gulf coast is in for a wet and windy weekend, no joy though for Texas and rain. Katia has regained hurricane strength. Here’s the latest tracks and bulletins: Track: Tracking map in high definition (updates every … Continue reading →
  • Final 2011 sea ice outlook submitted to ARCUS
    While I’ve sent this to Helen Wiggins at ARCUS (and have confirmation of receipt), I’m also posting it here for the record. PAN-ARCTIC OUTLOOK  FROM WUWT (acronym for WattsUpWithThat.com) Extent Projection: 4.5 million square kilometers, which is down from 5.1 million … Continue reading →
  • BREAKING: Editor-in-chief of Remote Sensing re ...
    UPDATE: Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. weighs in with his opinions on this debacle here, additional updates are below from Dr. Spencer. September 2nd, 2011 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. SCORE: IPCC :1 Scientific Progress: 0 It has been brought … Continue reading →
  • UAH global temperature, down a bit in August
    UAH Global Temperature Update for August, 2011: +0.33 deg. C By Dr. Roy Spencer The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for August, 2011 retreated a little, to +0.33 deg. C (click on the image for a LARGE version): Note … Continue reading →

treehugger

  • Obama Caves, Abandons Proposal to Improve Nati ...
    Photo credit: Señor Codo via Fotopedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Congressional Republicans have been complaining relentlessly (and rather baselessly) that tightening smog standards, as Obama's EPA has sought to do, would cripple the economy. Studies have indicated that those improved anti-air pollution ...
  • Ralph Nader: Tar Sands Pipeline Would Usher in ...
    The two week-long tar sands pipeline protests are entering its final stages, and I'm in Washington D.C covering the action. Today, notable Keystone XL opponents Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, along with a number of the nation's religious leaders, accompanied hundreds of Americans to the White H ...
  • Weekday Vegetarian: Moroccan Stuffed Tomatoes
    Photo: Kelly Rossiter We've been eating tomatoes at pretty much every meal for the past two weeks, except last night when my husband cried "enough" and I made a Chinese stir fry with nary a tomato in sight. No doubt a lot of you are feeling the same way, but as I said to my Parentables edit ...
  • Is The Bank of America Tower "The World's Gree ...
    Images credit Ryan Browne Cook + Fox's Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in New York was the first skyscraper to attain LEED Platinum, and is loaded with green gizmos from high-tech glass to slag concrete to co-generation to a giant Calmac icemaker that makes ice at night and cools b ...
  • Baked French Toast with Honey-Poached Blueberries
    Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch This is my secret weapon when it comes to breakfast in bed. It is simple to make, tasty and it looks like you put in a lot of work. Honey-poached blueberries just melt in your mouth. They are so divine and so delicate, you will want to add them to everything. Of cours ...

Biosingularity

  • Best Healthy Foods You Aren’t Eating: Greek Yo ...
    Some foods are so healthy they star on every nutrition expert’s super food list. But often missing on those lists are some nutritional gems or underrated foods that don’t get the attention they deserve. Sorting out the best foods to eat is not always easy because the choices can be daunting. Add ...
  • Omega-3s Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
    A diet rich in certain omega-3 fatty acids may lower the risk of developing dementia, researchers report. In a study of more than 2,000 older women and men followed for nearly five years, the more omega-3-rich oily fish they ate, the lower their risk of developing dementia. The researchers looke ...
  • Obesity ‘leading driver’ of breast ...
    Obesity is the biggest driving force behind the most common form of breast cancer in older women, say researchers. Alcohol and then cigarettes are the next largest culprits, according to Cancer Research UK. One in eight women in the UK develop breast cancer in their lifetime, data shows, and the ...
  • Caltech researchers create the first artificia ...
    Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have now taken a major step toward creating artificial intelligence—not in a robot or ...
  • Researchers discover gene required to maintain ...
    University of Minnesota Medical School and College of Biological Sciences researchers have made a key discovery showing that male sex must be maintained throughout life. The research team, led by Drs. David Zarkower and Vivian Bardwell of the U of M Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Devel ...

CFACT

Ria Novosti Online News

  • UN blames Israel, Turkey, Freedom Flotilla org ...
    The UN secretary general's Panel of Inquiry on last year's incident involving a Gaza-bound flotilla that left nine Turkish activists dead laid the blame on Israel, Turkey and trip organizers.
  • CIS leaders to meet in Tajikistan
    The CIS presidents will meet in Dushanbe, Tajikistan's capital, on Saturday, to discuss further development of the post-Soviet association and urgent international problems, the Kremlin reported.
  • Russia, Tajikistan to develop cooperation - st ...
    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rakhmon are interested in strengthening the traditional relations of friendship and strategic partnership, said a joint statement by the leaders posted on the Kremlin website.
  • Over 16,000 police officers to ensure order at ...
    Over 16,000 police officers, Interior Ministry troops and police helpers will ensure order at City Day celebrations in Moscow on September 3-4, a deputy head of Moscow police said.
  • Burying the middle class, or the fall of the G ...
    The current economic downturn, like others before it, has shattered many dreams. But this is the first to have devastated so many people at once, regardless of class or social status - from pauper to prince. Thanks, globalization.

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

Pruning Shears

  • Weekend wrapup
    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.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Pfc. Jesse W. Dietrich, 20, of Venus, TX.Army Sgt. Andrew R. Tobin, 24, of Jacksonville, IL.Army ...
  • 'No on HB 194': Activism, fatigue, and the GOP ...
    Since the Wisconsin recalls there has been quite a bit of commentary about how folks want a break from politics, and maybe a campaign to oust Scott Walker early next year should be postponed. Some of it is just garden variety concern trolling by conservatives who understand just how devastating ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    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.Combat operations have concluded for:Marine Lance Cpl. Travis M. Nelson, 19, of Pace, FL.Army Spc. Joshua M. Seals, 21, of Porter, OK.Army ...
  • 'No on Issue 2': Yes, GOP, this is really happ ...
    Last week the Ohio politics blog Plunderbund had a series of posts about the sudden and dramatic sense of desperation that had seized the right. The panic began with an editorial from the conservative Columbus Dispatch. It was so completely at odds with reality that even a casual follower of s ...
  • Weekend wrapup
    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.Combat operations have concluded for:Army Spc. Spencer C. Duncan, 21, of Olathe, KS.Army Sgt. Alexander J. Bennett, 24, of Tacoma, WA.Army ...

Organic Consumers.org

  • Taking On Big Ag: Is Monsanto Useful?
    Ira Wallace and other small organic farmers have banded together to challenge an mighty agricultural giant, arguing that Monsanto's patented transgenic seeds do not benefit society.Click here to read this article
  • Healthy Eating Does Not Always Come Naturally
    If there's one thing Americans are used to hearing nowadays, from others as well as ourselves, it's that we're overweight, unhealthy and destroyers of the environment. The food discussion in this country has taken on considerable steam, with childhood obesity rates dwarfing those of most other c ...
  • Monsanto Seeks OK for Low-Fat Soybean
    DES MOINES, Iowa -- The soybean industry is seeking government approval of a genetically modified soybean that it says will produce oil lower in saturated fat, offering consumers a healthier alternative and increasing demand for growers' crops. Click here to read this article
  • Profits Before Environment
    I wasn't surprised when the administration of George W. Bush sacrificed the environment for corporate profits. But when the same thing happens under a Democratic administration, it's depressing. With little or no public input, policies that benefit corporations regardless of the consequences con ...
  • Dust Flying in Countryside Over USDA Animal ID ...
    Austin, TX: Forty-nine advocacy groups representing the interests of family farmers, ranchers, and consumers have formally requested that USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack extend the public comment period for a controversial new proposal that would require livestock producers in the U.S. to incur sign ...

Center for a Livable Future

  • The Genesis of Corn-Fed Cars
    This friction between the auto industry and the corn lobby will be one of the many fascinating developments to watch as corn ethanol continues to find its footing in our economy.
  • Do Genetically Engineered Foods Really Need to ...
    Nina Federoff, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and professor at Penn State University penned an opinion piece in the New York Times recently, asking for less regulation of genetically engineered (GE) crops. Professor Federoff would like to see more gra ...
  • Sweating the small stuff: engineered nano-mate ...
    Many public health hazards are too small to see.  This is especially true of engineered nano-materials, or ENMs.  As their name implies, these materials are small—no more than a few hundred nanometers in diameter.  (For perspective, one nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or one human hair sp ...
  • Dam Water in China: Water Losers
    Along the Keriya River, one of twelve waterways in western China where dam construction began last year, the mood is weary and palpably tense. For those on the bank, what the dams will bring remains uncertain; what they have taken away is already great. New York Times journalist Jim Yardley writ ...
  • Dam Water in China: Is It Worth It?
    In western China, massive dams are being built along 12 waterways. The dams are supposed to aid economic development—but experts are saying it’s likely that the dams will do more harm than good. When China pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40-45 percent of the 2005 levels at the Cop ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • Reviews of Breaking Silence by Ian Wishart
    REVIEWS OF BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE BY IAN WISHART Firstly, we are very glad to have read it and thankful that Wishart (and King) have written it. Wishart has done the entire body politic a great deal of good....
  • Climate study endorses central premise of Air Con
    A central premise of my book Air Con, from 2009, appears to have been validated by new peer reviewed research. My argument, which Climate Change minister Nick Smith and self-proclaimed climate expert - truffle grower Gareth Renowden, tried to challenge...
  • BREAKING SILENCE: what the Coroner was not all ...
    FROM AN EXTRACT OF BREAKING SILENCE Published in the latest Investigate HIS/HERS magazine... What you are about to read has been described as the most controversial book ever published in New Zealand. It wasn’t supposed to be. But news sent...
  • BREAKING SILENCE news release
    BREAKING SILENCE: THE KAHUI CASE By Ian Wishart $39.99, Howling At The Moon Publishing Ltd RELEASE DATE: Imminent Final opportunity to pre-order for delivery on Day One: www.howlingatthemoon.com The new book that shatters myths surrounding the Kahui murder case is...
  • News release from Ian Wishart: Book will be pu ...
    NEWS RELEASE FROM IAN WISHART Major bookstore chains have today been forced to cancel orders for the explosive new book on the Kahui twins murders, BREAKING SILENCE In response, Author and publisher Ian Wishart has confirmed the book will go...

My Care2 Picks

  • Merck vaccine scientist admits presence of SV4 ...
    In this shocking footage, a top Merck vaccine scientist (Dr. Maurice Hilleman) openly admits the presence of deadly SV40 in Polio vaccines. This guy is the developer of the MMR vaccine for Merck.Submitted by Agnes N. to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The federal government owns research chimps: i ...
    A thousand U.S. chimpanzees are suffering in laboratories, subject to invasive and unnecessary research. NIH is considering a policy change, to retire the chimps, but biomedical industry is fighting. Learn how you can help (and it doesn't involve $$!)Submitted by Dawn F. to Animals �|� �Note-it ...
  • Rosetta Stone to 9/11 disinformation
    promotes 9/11 conspiracy hoaxes, ignores �Crossing the Rubicon� and other quality investigations - [an expanded version of an original article written for Michael Ruppert's From the Wilderness]Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Why is this "Unsafe" Food Banned When It's 35, ...
    As you're probably aware of by now, there's a war being waged against raw milk. It's nothing less than an unconstitutional assault on one of your most basic rights, i.e. your right to choose what you want to eat and drink, and one of the excuses used...Submitted by Ellyn S. to US Politics & Gov' ...
  • FEAR INC ! Interlinked Media Programs
    Connecting the dots in ways that aren't usually completed : not just on incidents, but on historical trends No,,,it is not Politically CorrectSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Pan-African News Wire: South Africa Continues ...
    Pan-African News Wire: South Africa Continues Hostility Toward NATO Invasion of Libya: by Amiel Ungar - WikipediaIt was only with difficulty that the Western countries managed to extract permission... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • inteldaily.com: African Union Refuses Appeals ...
    African Union Refuses Appeals to Recognize Libya’s Rebels: VOA News - The African Union [AU] has rejected calls for recognition of Libya’s rebel Transitional National Council. The decision highlights... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Obama admin: Pardoning Garvey a waste of time ...
    Obama admin: Pardoning Garvey a waste of time and resources [uhurunews.com] The Obama administration has rejected a call for a posthumous presidential pardon for Marcus Garvey, calling it a waste of... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Peru passes "historic" indigenous rights law | ...
    Peru passes "historic" indigenous rights law | World War 4 Report: On Aug. 23, Peru's Congress unanimously approved a new law that guarantees indigenous peoples' right to free, prior and informed... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Nativist Leader Says Violence May be Needed to ...
    Nativist Leader Says Violence May be Needed to Save ‘White America’ | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center: While much of the political rhetoric on the right these days is laden with violent... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Fukushima Now Radiating Everyone: ‘Unspeakable ...
    Exposing the "unspeakable" realities of the Japanese catastrophe in this 60 Minutes program Sunday night during which leading nuclear scientist Dr. Michio Kaku said radiation from Fukushima will impact of all of humanity. The nuclear energy power industry violation of the right to health is appa ...
  • The Great Culling (Fluoride) by Paul Wittenber ...
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  • Top Organics and Non-GMO Guys Back Monsanto an ...
    The Green PolkaDot Box, selling products with ties to Monsanto and Halliburton, is supported by Natural News, OCA, and Institute for Responsible Technology.
  • Dead Men Walking – Update on Fukushima
    As I sit here thinking about Fukushima, I wonder what the people who caused this calamity to escalate into what, in essence, could very well be the final end game, are thinking. It seems clear that there is no running, and no hiding. Only a delay in the inevitability of an end to life as we know ...
  • TS Radio: Glenn Morton on Obamacare
    Join us Tuesday evening at 8 CST! Date / Time: 08-23-11 6:00 pm PST 8:00 pm CST 9:00 pm EST “My name is Glenn Morton, and I am President of Taylor, Levi, and Associates, an insurance brokerage firm in Maryland. I have been in the health care/health insurance business for almost 20 years, working ...

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • WikiLeaks disclosure reopens Iraqi inquiry int ...
    ShareThisWikiLeaks disclosure reopens Iraqi inquiry into US massacre of family --Allegations: US soldiers handcuffed and executed women and children during 2006 raid 02 Sep 2011 The Iraqi government is to launch a new investigation into one of the most controversial incidents egregious war crime ...
  • Brennan, King support NYPD after spy unit report
    ShareThisBrennan, King support NYPD after spy unit report 01 Sep 2011 President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser and the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee are offering support for the New York Police Department after an Associated Press investigation revealed a ...
  • U.S. issues worldwide 9/11 travel alert to Ame ...
    ShareThisU.S. issues worldwide 9/11 travel alert to Americans 02 Sep 2011 The U.S. State Department on Friday issued a worldwide travel alert ahead of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, calling on Americans living and travelling abroad to remain vigilant. The department said it had not id ...
  • After Lobbying by Industry, Obama to Follow Bu ...
    ShareThisAfter Lobbying by Industry, Obama to Follow Bush Standard on Clean Air Rules 03 Sep 2011 The Obama administration is abandoning its plan to immediately tighten air-quality rules nationwide to reduce emissions of smog-causing chemicals after an intense lobbying campaign by industry, whic ...
  • LulzSec and Anonymous police and FBI investiga ...
    ShareThisLulzSec and Anonymous police and FBI investigation sees two more arrested 02 Sep 2011 Two men have been arrested in connection with online attacks by hacking gangs Anonymous and LulzSec, Scotland Yard said. The men, aged 24 and 20, were arrested on Thursday in Mexborough, near Doncaster ...

Daily Loaf

  • 5 books that are sure to heat up your kitchen life
    I like to read — a lot. I could make lists counting the hundreds of books that make great reads. Unfortunately, we don’t have the time and you may not have the attention span for that. To keep it short and sweet, here’s a list of five books that I feel add depth and meaning [...]
  • Beer Review: Victory Hop Devil/Victory Hop Wallop
    Victory Brewing Company opened up fifteen years ago in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, but only recently entered the Florida market.  With such beers as their highly touted Prima Pils and Storm King Stout, Victory has earned a rightful place among the respected craft brewers in the United States.  ...
  • D’s nuts: Rays’ crazy defense feeds hitting, p ...
    Tampa Bay took the series victory against the Chicago with the win, getting back to .500 and improving to 2 games back in the American League East division. Rays look for sweep tomorrow.
  • Interview with Michael Foley about the Florida ...
    The Florida Dance Festival provides a springboard for raw talent and fresh ideas.
  • Just plain cheesy: Celebrate National Grilled ...
    April is National Grilled Cheese Month: an entire four weeks devoted to the American classic. The following sandwich recipe is from cheese expert and author Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese.

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5B – ...
    Article continued  from VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – Detoxification & Restoration of The Body Replenishing the vital mineral base We must look to children with Autism to determine the full extent of “vaccine toxicity” derived nutrient deficiencies incurred in the body. All vaccine d ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5A – ...
    Article intended to be read in conjunction with VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – Primary Aspects of Vaccine Toxicity Affecting The Body The Long Road To Recovery There are unfortunately no shortcuts to restoring natural, optimal health levels in the body, no quick fix solutions ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 5 – ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 4 – ...
    Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; hindering the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation (circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immune, lymphatic, muscular, nervous, reproductive, respiratory, s ...
  • VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix Part 2 – Demyelination, ...
    Article is intended to be read in conjunction with Part 1: VRM: Gardasil/Cervarix â A Legacy Of Shame Vaccines, by their composite nature, inherently damage & disrupt the body’s delicate neurological network; the complex functioning of the brain in maintaining all systems of operation ...

B.C. Preppers Network

  • You Know You're Getting Old When...
    A few weeks back we received our new high-efficiency front loading LG washer and dryer set and I have to say, I'm pretty impressed by them. The set was only around $1000 (on sale) but I felt like I'd gone from a Chevette to a Cadillac when compared to our old set.� A cute little luxury fe ...
  • Control Your Home Thermostat On the Internet!
    Today a fellow from our natural gas company came by to install a new thermostat as part of the Peaksaver program that we signed up for.�If you haven't heard of Peaksaver, basically what it does is allow the Ontario government electricity provider to turn off your central air conditioner ...
  • Happy Day!: The Water Bill Arrived!
    After being shocked a few months ago with a water bill of over $240 I decided to do a few things to cut down on our water use We converted our main toilet to a dual-flush and installed a water saving device on the second (haven't switched it over to a dual yet). We also installed a new ...
  • Strawberry Picking
    Our family went strawberry picking this morning, it's a fun thing to do once in a while and I think it's a good way to help our 3-year old daughter realize where food comes from. While my wife picked berries with our oldest I went for a walk around the farm with our youngest in the stroller ...
  • Pioneer Solar: PV System For Free?
    I received a flyer from Pioneer Solar in the mail the other day which claims to help people get a solar system installed on their house, farm, or business for free. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, like most things there's good and bad points about it and what might be a good deal f ...

Michael Yon

  • Mosquitoes
    Afghan Soldier caught by infrared flash with specially modified camera. 31 August 2011 Afghanistan A Soldier sleeps in a body bag to keep off the bugs. American and Afghan Soldiers share an Afghan family compound overnight in the heart of Taliban country. During the dark nights, the ...
  • We Need Better Pants
    30 August 2011 Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan Rip, rend and slash are all in a day�s work here.� Yet I have never seen so many troops with so many pairs of pants that are ready to fall off. Last week this mortar crew was firing at some people who were trying to kill us ...
  • The Art, Science, and Carpentry of Explosives
    Blocks of M112 C-4 prepared for mission beside roll of M456 detonation cord and accessories. 29 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan, 4-4Cav There is much to know about explosives.� A wealth of art, science, and carpentry has developed around uncountabl ...
  • Edvard Munch in the Marijuana Patch
    My heavily armed tent mates hours before the mission. 24 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan, 4-4Cav We live in tents.� Nice tents with air conditioning.� But not now; the electricity and air conditioning are out again and I�m sweating in a boiling ten ...
  • Tracer Burnout
    A Female Engagement Team (FET) at work in an Afghan compound. The notions that women should not, cannot, or do not go into combat, all are invalid. They should, they can, and they do. And here we need them. 22 August 2011 Zhari District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan Task Force Spartan, 4-4Cav ...

The Killing Train

  • Things they don't tell you about capitalism: a ...
    Published on ZNet Ha-Joon Chang is a development economist with a special interest in economic history. His most recent book, “23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism”, as well as previous books, have critiqued neoliberalism and laissez-faire economics. I interviewed him by telephone on A ...
  • Ultraviolent conflicts
    Between economic austerity and riot stories, my reading is out of sync with the headlines. I've been reading more about African conflicts, especially very recent and ongoing ones. Specifically: -Allen and Vlassenroot's book on the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. -Jason Stearns's book on the Co ...
  • Numeracy alert. Gravy drain.
    I read Metro Today on the subway today. There was a story blaming City of Toronto staff for squandering - wait for it - up to $1 MILLION dollars in sole-sourced contracts. So, Rob Ford is right, and there is waste to be cut, eh? Except that $1 million is, for example, 1/3 of what the KPMG report ...
  • The politics of economic self-destruction
    Sorry for the hiatus. Partly I've been busy with work and life and been unable to spend as much time doing articles. Partly I am trying to train myself to not relate to the world through 2000 word articles but to have a little more variety, including longer things (ie., books), one of which I am ...
  • Tories would rather shut down the CBC than ans ...
    This is a video that should be watched widely. These are Harper voters.

treehugger

  • Obama Caves, Abandons Proposal to Improve Nati ...
    Photo credit: Señor Codo via Fotopedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 Congressional Republicans have been complaining relentlessly (and rather baselessly) that tightening smog standards, as Obama's EPA has sought to do, would cripple the economy. Studies have indicated that those improved anti-air pollution ...
  • Ralph Nader: Tar Sands Pipeline Would Usher in ...
    The two week-long tar sands pipeline protests are entering its final stages, and I'm in Washington D.C covering the action. Today, notable Keystone XL opponents Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, along with a number of the nation's religious leaders, accompanied hundreds of Americans to the White H ...
  • Weekday Vegetarian: Moroccan Stuffed Tomatoes
    Photo: Kelly Rossiter We've been eating tomatoes at pretty much every meal for the past two weeks, except last night when my husband cried "enough" and I made a Chinese stir fry with nary a tomato in sight. No doubt a lot of you are feeling the same way, but as I said to my Parentables edit ...
  • Is The Bank of America Tower "The World's Gree ...
    Images credit Ryan Browne Cook + Fox's Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in New York was the first skyscraper to attain LEED Platinum, and is loaded with green gizmos from high-tech glass to slag concrete to co-generation to a giant Calmac icemaker that makes ice at night and cools b ...
  • Baked French Toast with Honey-Poached Blueberries
    Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch This is my secret weapon when it comes to breakfast in bed. It is simple to make, tasty and it looks like you put in a lot of work. Honey-poached blueberries just melt in your mouth. They are so divine and so delicate, you will want to add them to everything. Of cours ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • EU Kosovo authorities charge 10 for war crimes
    [JURIST] The European Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) [official website] on Friday charged 10 former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) with war crimes for their actions during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. The individuals were previously arr ...
  • UN report criticizes Israel for flotilla raid
    [JURIST] The UN on Friday criticized Israel for using excessive force [report, PDF] during a May 2010 flotilla incident [JURIST news archive], in which Israeli forces raided several Turkish ships bound for the blockaded Gaza Strip [BBC backgrounder]. In a UN-produced report released by the New Y ...
  • Federal appeals court partially upholds South ...
    [JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit [official website] on Friday partially upheld [opinion, PDF] a South Dakota law which expanded the requirements for informed consent for abortion [HB 1166 materials]. The court upheld the provision that requires doctors to tell patients pri ...
  • Obama withdraws EPA smog standards
    [JURIST] US President Barack Obama on Friday requested the withdrawal of national smog standards [press release] proposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [official website]. The draft Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards [materials] would have reduced the amount of smog e ...
  • Libya interim leaders pledge adherence to rule ...
    [JURIST] Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) [official website] assured world leaders on Friday that Libya will be a society of tolerance and respect for the rule of law. During a meeting [BBC report] in Paris chaired by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, NTC leader Mustafa Abdel Jalil [B ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • Washington Wants to Avoid Default, but It Can' ...
    With time running out, lawmakers still haven't crafted any bill that can raise the debt limit. Will they manage to pass one by Aug. 2? APThe aspirations don't match the situation.To hear them talk, the White House and every key player on Capitol Hill wants to avoid the first-ever default ...
  • Boehner: Tough to Revive Bipartisan 'Humpty Du ...
    The House Speaker said Republicans would press ahead with their own proposal should Obama continue to reject a two-tier plan With Asian markets set to deliver a verdict within hours on the U.S. debt crisis, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said on ...
  • Progress Toward a Debt Deal?
    With the clock ticking down to the reopening of the markets, Congressional leaders try to patch together a two-step agreement ...
  • Let Them Eat Cake Alive & Well in Beverly Hills
    I love Los Angeles (I know -- few seem to want to admit it), but I love Washington, DC more.  I love DC's intrigue and policy banter -- the passionate debates about Israel and Palestine, about nuclear vs. renewables, about Grover Norquist vs. big government Republicans (& MoveOn), about whethe ...
  • How to Be a Right-Leaning Journalist
    A libertarian guide for young reporters tells us how media, ideological or otherwise, should work in the digital age With the rise of ideological journalism over the past decade, a period when opinionated bloggers, Web journalists, and muckraking activists have changed the face of the profess ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • Turkey Expels Israeli Ambassador, Ends Militar ...
    Turkey today expelled Israel’s ambassador and announced it would downgrade relations between the two countries to the lowest level possible, while still maintaining them.  This development, which was expected, is part of a round of measures Turkish officials have promised in response to Israel’ ...
  • Palmer Report, Though Critical of Israel’s Mav ...
    The UN will release the Palmer Report about the Mavi Marmara massacre tomorrow.  One of my readers has offered me an advanced copy  (thanks LL).  Though the report is written in extremely guarded, cautious language not meant overly to inflame passions on either side, it is clear that it is hi ...
  • Eilat Terror Fashlah
    In idiomatic Hebrew, fashlah (which I presume derives from Arabic as so many of the most colorful phrases in Hebrew do) means a major screw-up.  It appears that there was a fashlah of catastrophic proportions regarding the Eilat terror attack.  I’ve written here before about the internecine ba ...
  • Wikileaks: IDF Intel Chief Regales U.S. Congre ...
    In case anyone wants an idea of how damaging the Wikileaks cables can be to U.S. interests, they have only to read the one I posted about last night in which Rep. Robert Wexler and two senior U.S. embassy representatives were regaled by IDF intelligence chief, Amos Yadlin, with the army’s plans ...
  • New Channel 10 News Interview on Abusisi
    Thanks to the producers of the Israeli TV news show, Tzinor Layla, for offering me another interview opportunity.  This time I spoke (the segment is in Hebrew, my interview in English) about Gabriel Gatehouse’s excellent BBC documentary on Dirar Abusisi. I advanced my theory, buttressed by much ...

If Americans Knew

  • Denying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento ...
    In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on accusations against a flier, but didn't include a response from the flier's authors.
  • Media omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is ...
    US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume that the murderers were Palestinian, and for this reason the incident is receiving major attention ...
  • Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the I ...
    Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
  • Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestini ...
    Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is made even more nightmarish by the l ...
  • As Israel kills and maims, Outrage is directed ...
    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 ...

David J. Gregory

  • " Flip Flopped"
    � Dear Editor, � The Chronicle on 8/22/11, stated that the Crystal River City Council was going to have the "first reading" on 8/22/11 of an ordinance that the council voted on at a previous meeting "to change flag displays to an unlimited number". � How can flying "an unlimited number"of U.S fl ...
  • Help to overcome
    SIGLER/Chronicle David Gregory has a condition that causes him to need a van equipped with a chair lift so he can access it from the driver’s seat of his vehicle. The van he currently uses is in poor shape, so he is in need of a new van. Friends have opened a bank account to [...]
  • USA PATRIOT Act: The Myth of a Secure European ...
    The U.S. is home to the world's largest technology companies, offering cloud services from simple storage to complex web applications to users across the world. But data held even in European datacenters, protected by strict European data laws, may still be vulnerable to inspection by U.S. autho ...
  • FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE REPOST
    by David Gregory on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 1:56pm For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years [...]
  • My Predicament
    For those who may not know, my name is David Gregory, I have Osteogenesis imperfecta (O.I.), a brittle bone disease. I use a Jazzy electric wheelchair and a 1993 Ford van. Both the chair and especially the van are on the last legs of years of service. Unfortunately, because I work I do not quali ...

Unsuitable Blog

  • English School Embraces iPads, Apple and Techn ...
    There is a rule in civilized society that goes something like this: Whenever something is compulsory then it must have something wrong with it. We see it all the time, in the school system and it’s one-size-fits-all approach to child indoctrination; in the application of statutory rules that are ...
  • The Consumer Culture Will Never Be Convicted
    November 28, 2008: As the recession really started to bite in the Western world, something was stirring in the minds of people across the USA. Black Friday, that time of year when, traditionally, retail businesses move from being in the “red” to being in the “black”, had taken on a Pavlovian sig ...
  • London 2012: Crass, Commercial and Completely ...
    The Olympic Charter reads as follows: Fundamental Principles of Olympism 1. Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of eff ...
  • Why So Few Unsuitablogs?
    I’ve been looking at the main page at pondering on the lack of recent posts. There is a reason for this – not the pondering, but the lack of posts – and it stems from the tension that arises between the part of an activist that writes about what is going on with the world [...]
  • Money for Nothing and Your Soul for Free
    We, the media and I, have an interesting relationship. They leave me alone for the most part, and I give them hell because for the most part they are an industry dedicated to anti-life propaganda. Sometimes, though, they will contact me for a quote, an interview and some advice on how to keep th ...

Subalternate Reality

  • Muslim-Baiters Don’t Want To Be Treated ...
    Over the weekend, I posted the following message on Twitter: âWhen a Muslim commits terror, every Muslim in the world somehow shares responsibility. When it’s a white Christian, he’s always a lone wolf.â I wasnât commenting on the tendency of commentators to use different words to describe the s ...
  • Keith Ellison’s Tears And Epistemic Closure
    Rep. Peter King’s hearings looking into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community, and the suggestion that the community doesn’t cooperate with law enforcement, was largely a waste of time and tax dollars. The affair didn’t produce a single insight into the actual and urgent issue of ...
  • Praying On Qasr al-Nil
    One of the more memorable scenes of the Egyptian revolution will surely be that of ordinary Egyptian’s praying on Cairo’s Qasr al-Nil Bridge as members of Egyptian state police direct their water cannons at them. Truly a remarkable sight. via Al Jazeera Filed under: Middle East Tagged: Al-Jazeer ...
  • “I Support Democratization, But…&# ...
    The Atlanticâs Jeffrey Goldberg â one of the key proponents of the disastrous invasion of Iraq â has some serious misgivings about the fledgling pro-democracy movement thatâs taken over the streets of Egypt. âI support democratization, but,â he cautions, âthe democratization we saw in Gaza (cour ...
  • All That Happens In The Middle East Can’ ...
    Uncertainly rules the day in Tunisia. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the countryâs strong-armed and authoritarian ruler since 1987, is in Saudi Arabia while the interim government struggles to restore some semblance of order.  âConfusion, fear and horror in Tunisia as old regime’s militia carries on ...

Idea Lab | Technology

  • Sourcemap Crowdsources Product Supply Chains, ...
    This post was authored by Matthew Hockenberry, who co-created Sourcemap as a visiting scientist with the MIT Center for Civic Media. Knowing where things come from is a fundamental part of humanity. Things are very different when they come from different places. The provenance of a work t ...
  • Journalists Should Join Google+ to Understand ...
    This month's Carnival of Journalism, a site that I've organized where bloggers can convene to all write about the same topic, was hosted by Kathy Gill, a social media consultant and senior lecturer at the University of Washington, who seized on the new social network that is Google+. Still in i ...
  • ATTN-SPAN Personalizes C-SPAN Footage of Your Reps
    Last month, I had the privilege of participating in the Mozilla-Knight Learning Lab. This four-week online lecture series pulled together 60 individuals interested in journalism and technology and got them to sit together watching an array of guest lecturers. The end product from each participan ...
  • Using Maps to Make Sense of the Unimaginable i ...
    Development Seed recently launched horn.wfp.org, a mapping tool that visualizes one of the worst famines in recent history that's unfolding in the Horn of Africa. We did this project in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), the food aid arm of the United Nations, to leverage data from ...
  • PANDA Aims to Make Data Analysis Easier for Jo ...
    What's got rows and columns and sucks at data? Excel. Though to be fair, we misuse it. Excel was built for spreadsheets, but it's become most folks' go-to kit for poking at data. It's installed on your computer. It opens CSV files. It's what you know. Of course, databases are great at data, b ...

Cutting Edge News

  • Pakistan on Edge - Pakistani Non-Muslims Seek ...
    Members of minority religions in Pakistan, which is predominately Muslim, are prepared to “take to the streets for the salvation of the Muslim Shahbaz Tasser", kidnapped a week ago. Tasser is the son of a prominent Muslim businessman and politician who was murdered earlier this year after he had ...
  • Medcial Edge - New Laser Technology will Zap A ...
    A laser developed at the University of Michigan is designed to melt fat without burning surrounding tissue. It could potentially be used to treat acne, researchers say. Its 1,708-nanometer, infrared beam takes advantage of a unique wavelength that fat can absorb more efficiently than water , whi ...
  • The Weapon's Edge - Laser Technology to Deflec ...
    Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences, Inc., which is a U-M spin-off company."Battlefield terrain in places like Afghanistan and Iraq can be so rough that our troops have often had t ...
  • The 2012 Vote - Opinion Survey shows Wide Marg ...
    In a wide-ranging opinion survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, Muslims living in the U.S. show little apprehension as the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches. Completed this year, the comprehensive public opinion survey found no indication of increased alienation or anger amo ...
  • Edge on Health - Commonly Prescribed Anti-Biot ...
    Adding a common antibiotic to the usual treatment regimen for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can reduce acute exacerbations –sudden onsets of worsened cough, wheeze, and labored breathing – and improve quality of life, reports a new clinical trial funded by the National Heart, Lung ...

High Country News

CounterCurrents

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  • Fear And Loathing In The Housing Market- The G ...
    By William HicksContinuing the recent run of bad economic news, an S&P/Case Shiller report on Tuesday confirmed that U.S. home prices in most major markets have resumed falling after stabilizing for a couple of years
  • Disastrous US Jobs Report Points To Deepening ...
    By Barry GreyUS payrolls grew by a paltry 54,000 in May and the official unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent, an increase of 0.3 percent since March, according to the monthly employment report released Friday by the Labor Department
  • A State For Jews
    By William James Martin Why are we providing almost incalculable support and sustenance to a state - Israel- which is a state for Jews, and exclusively for Jews, at the expense of the indigenous native Palestinians
  • Israelis Rush For Second Passports
    By Franklin Lamb Several studies in Israel and one conducted by AIPAC and another by the Jewish National Fund in Germany show that perhaps as many as half of the Jews living in Israel will consider leaving Palestine in the next few years if current political and social trends continue. A 2008 s ...

Contagious Love Experiment

  • Kill Team: The Bigger Picture
    Sorry to have been slacking on the blog. Here’s an article I wrote and forget to post… better late than never!   Kill Team: The Bigger Picture http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/06-8
  • Dear Mr. Beck, I Shook Hands with the Antichrist
    Dear Mr. Beck: I Shook Hands with the Antichrist Earlier this week, Michael Lind wrote an article for Salon about the misplaced energy in demeaning alarmists like Glenn Beck.1 Having friends and family who often revere the inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, and others as a light in ...
  • Practicing Peace in the New Year
    A friend, Frank Swift, that I met on my first journey has passed along some great practical steps towards peace for the new year. Frank has written a children’s book to help young people see an alternative to the competition and forcefulness that can too easily get instilled in our young people. ...
  • 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 o ...
  • 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 Re ...

Yid With Lid

  • A Hell-of-a-Loophole: Buffet's Berkshire Hatha ...
    The spokesman for the I want to pay more taxes campaign has a perfect opportunity to make himself very happy. Apparently his company Berkshire Hathaway is fighting the IRS over payment of back taxes totaling around $1,000,000,000 (that's one billion dollars for people who don't like to count zer ...
  • Newsbusters: Warren Buffett Demands, TAX THAT DOG!
    Presidential Adviser, Billionaire to the Stars and spokesman for the under-taxed Warren Buffet has a new scheme to close the budget-gap: canine taxation. Not all dogs, Buffett� wants to tax one particular puppy in Georgia. Learn all about this strange declaration in an exclusive report from Jodi ...
  • Why Supporting Unilateral Palestinian Independ ...
    By Barry Rubin Marwan Barghouti, leader of the Fatah West Bank grassroots' (Tanzim) group and under a life sentence in an Israel prison,�has said that if the United States vetoes a unilateral Palestinian statehood proposal at the UN, there will be massive riots. To underline the point, h ...
  • Grassley and Issa Gunrunner Investigation Gets ...
    If the Justice Department thought this weeks shakeup of the ATF would blunt the pressure from the Senator Grassley,� Rep Issa investigation of arguably the dumbest federal government program ever, they were very wrong.� Today the two Congressional investigators announced they were expanding thei ...
  • New Report Suggests Warming is NOT Man-Made (A ...
    So much for that climate change consensus nonsense. A new report co-produced by three non-profit research groups (Heartland Institute, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, and Science and Environmental Policy Project) casts doubt on on many of the claims of the Al Gore set ( ...

The Real Agenda

  • Produtos Químicos Altamente Tóxicos em Roupas ...
    NaturalNews.com 02 de setembro de 2011 Em Português Luis R. Miranda No início desta semana Greenpeace disse em seu relatório “Dirty Laundry 2″ que traços de substâncias químicas tóxicas têm sido detectadas em produtos feitos por 14 fabricantes de vestuário para grandes marcas. Estes pro ...
  • Productos químicos altamente tóxicos en ropa d ...
    NaturalNews.com 2 de septiembre 2011 En Español Luis R. Miranda A principios de esta semana Greenpeace anunció en la presentación de su informe “Dirty Laundry 2″ que rastros de productos químicos tóxicos se han detectado en los productos elaborados por 14 fabricantes de ropa de grandes marc ...
  • U.S. to Sue Banks over Mortgage Scam
    by Nelson D. Schwartz New York Times September 2, 2011 The federal agency that oversees the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is set to file suits against more than a dozen big banks, accusing them of misrepresenting the quality of mortgage securities they assembled and sold at the heig ...
  • Nações Unidas começa Campanha de Medo sobre a ...
    Não há evidências científicas significativas de que pode haver uma epidemia global, mas a FAO diz que a gripe H5N1 “pode” brotar novamente no outono e inverno. Reuters 29 de agosto de 2011 Em Português Luis R. Miranda ROMA (Reuters) – As Nações Unidas alertaram para um possível ressurgim ...
  • ONU Comienza Campaña de Miedo sobre Gripe Aviária
    No hay prueba científica significativa de que pueda haber un brote mundial, pero la FAO dice que la gripe H5N1 “podría” brotar de nuevo en el otoño y el invierno. Reuters 29 de agosto 2011 En Español Luis R. Miranda ROMA (Reuters) – Las Naciones Unidas advirtió de un posible resurgimiento i ...

Wind Watch

  • Wind farm no-go zones to be established
    The State Government is set to introduce new planning rules that will restrict where wind farms can be constructed. Sweeping changes to the rules governing the construction of wind farms in Victoria will be gazetted today. The Planning Minister, Matthew Guy, has amended local government planning ...
  • Wind farms under fire for bird kills
    Six birds found dead recently in Southern California�s Tehachapi Mountains were majestic golden eagles. But some bird watchers say that in an area where dozens of wind turbines slice the air they were also sitting ducks. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating to determine what kille ...
  • Blade gets splintered during ferocious storm
    CONNEAUT � Lightning damaged one of the blades on the gigantic wind turbine on Conneaut�s lakefront early Thursday morning, knocking the big generator out of commission, officials said. Composite material that coats the wooden blades was splintered by the bolt. Pieces of the material were jarred ...
  • Hundreds object to turbines proposal
    More than 500 people have objected to fresh plans for wind turbines on the edge of Cumwhinton. Bolsterstone Innovative Energy�s original proposals for three 377ft-high turbines, at Newlands Farm near junction 42 of the M6, were thrown out last year following a public inquiry. Now the renewable e ...
  • Court won’t enforce turbine noise rules
    The Morrow County Court stunned a crowd Wednesday when it refused to enforce an Oregon law that limits the noise a wind project can make at nearby homes. The court voted 2-1 that, although noise from the Willow Creek wind project exceeds state standards at a few homes, the violations did not war ...

Tippers News

  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against h ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Be a Voice for Coastal Louisiana's Wildlife ! ...
    Coastal Louisiana provides habitat to hundreds of wildlife species, including sea turtles, migratory birds, and manatees. But unfortunately, right now Louisiana is also experiencing the highest rate of land loss in the United States Submitted by Cher C. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a C ...
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    Interesting Information that you may find interesting With Love... Evelyn (:Submitted by Evelyn J. to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

The Freeman

  • U.S. Is Set to Sue a Dozen Big Banks Over Mort ...
    “In the years before 2007, “the market was so frothy then it was hard to find good quality loans to securitize and hold in your portfolio,” said David Felt, a lawyer who served as deputy general counsel of the finance agency until January 2010. . . . Fannie and Freddie had other reasons to buy [...]
  • White House Projects Lower Deficit
    “But the report says that the national debt, which stands at $14.6 trillion, would still continue to climb if a budget proposed by President Obama in February were enacted. The debt would rise to $24 trillion by 2021 — or 99 percent of the nation’s entire annual economic output. White House budg ...
  • Natural Disasters and Disastrous Economics
    The inability to imagine the unseen is the source of a great deal of bad economics.
  • $60 Billion Squandered in War Zones
    “The U.S. has squandered as much as $60 billion in less than a decade on contract waste and fraud during operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a special commission launched by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va.” (Richmond Times-Dispatch) War is a government program. FEE Timely Classic “Efficiency i ...
  • Government Challenges AT&T Bid for T-Mobile
    “President Obama vowed before he was elected to beef up the countryâs antitrust enforcement. By suing to block AT&Tâs $39 billion merger with T-Mobile, the Justice Department is making its highest-profile effort yet to keep that promise.” (Washington Post) The Competition Czar is displeased. FEE ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Getting that first job in journalism
    Internships. Portfolio. Real work (not work assigned in a class). Not necessarily paid work — but journalism work that some respectable organization saw fit to publish, with your name on it. Lacking these, a new journalism graduate is behind the curve. There are not so many jobs out there that ...
  • 5,000 followers on Twitter
    Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a little thrill when the zeros turn over. The screen capture above is from yesterday, July 31, 2011. See my recent posts about Twitter and journalism.   Sure, I’m no Andy Carvin (NPR’s social media guy), but I do feel a litt ...
  • 6 Proposals for Journalism Education Today
    I’ve spent a huge amount of time this year thinking about and working on journalism curriculum. From developing and teaching a four-week program to train journalism educators in Africa in the practice of online journalism, to helping with a major overhaul of the undergraduate curriculum in my o ...
  • Getting a journalism degree, getting a journal ...
    This is an endorsement I like to see: I have never once regretted studying journalism. And I am not alone. That comes from Elana Zak, writing at 10,000 Words on June 24. According to her post, she received a journalism degree in June 2007, got a job three months later, and has “been gainfully ...
  • Journalists, take another look at Tumblr
    For a long time I had trouble appreciating Tumblr, but I think I finally understand its strengths — and I must not be the only one. Tumblr is now one of the top 25 websites in the U.S., according to data from Quancast, as reported in a new article at TechCrunch. It gets close to 5,000 pagevie ...

Facing South

  • Who are America's top 10 gas drillers?
    By Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica Natural gas -- often touted as an abundant, comparatively clean source of domestic energy -- has come under intensifying public scrutiny in recent months, with federal regulators and reporters challenging some of the industry's rosy business projections. The Se ...
  • Americans for Prosperity continues to mislead ...
    On October 4, 2010 -- less than one month from Election Day -- the conservative activist group Americans for Prosperity unleashed more than $189,000 worth of mailers to voters in 19 legislative districts across North Carolina. AFP said the goal of the mailing blitz was to tell voters which cand ...
  • VOICES: Remembering the lessons of the Hamlet fire
    By Chris Fitzsimon, NC Policy Watch Twenty years ago this Saturday, 25 workers died in a fire at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina. They were trapped in the blaze, their footprints left on the locked door they couldn't force open before they died. The ow ...
  • Mississippi Gov. Barbour's relative committed ...
    A federal civil court ruled last week that a relative of Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) committed massive fraud against FEMA -- part of a larger pattern of the governor's associates profiting from the Katrina recovery. The case involved Rosemary Barbour (in photo), the wife of Charles Barbo ...
  • Nurses rally to heal America with Wall Street tax
    Nurses will gather across the U.S. on Thursday, Sept. 1 to urge Congress to tax financial transactions and use the revenue to fund social programs desperately needed amid the ongoing economic crisis. The nationwide event organized by the National Nurses United will include visits to some 60 con ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • Security and Islam in the New Libya
    Libya's new government will likely face threats from Gaddafi loyalists from outside it as well as a vying for power form Islamic forces inside it.
  • Viewpoints: Rebels Face a Post-Gaddafi Libya
    Muammar Gaddafi has been overthrown by rebel forces, and Libya's National Transitional Council now must confront the challenges of rebuilding a battered, liberated country.
  • Morocco: All Hail the (Democratic) King
    Morocco's recent constitutional referendum is not only being welcomed by the people, but could set an example across the Arab region in terms of the potential of reform.
  • North Africa and E.U. Energy Security
    Given the energy dependence of European countries on North African and Middle Eastern states, financial consequences of further upheavals in the Arab world could be global and deep.
  • Living with Disabilities in Uganda
    The plight of persons with disabilities in Uganda and other parts of Africa is exacerbated by the fact that PWD are discriminated against and not protected by the law.

Telegraph UK - oil

Ian Welsh

  • The basics
    To paraphrase many of the greatest religious and moral leaders, there is only one law: imagine you are in someone else’s shoes, then treat them as you would wish to be treated. Or, put another way, act towards everyone as if you loved them. The vast majority of political and economic commentary ...
  • Again, the absolute inability to consider obvi ...
    The NYTimes on solutions to the scarcity of important drugs which are generic and thus of little interest to big pharma: Beyond limited responses, like using the F.D.A.’s discretionary powers to expedite temporary imports of drugs that are sold overseas but not here, there are very few ways to e ...
  • Austerity kills
    On Friday, four people died in flash flooding in Pittsburgh.  Those deaths were preventable as the road that they were on is a known flood basin and the road most likely had blocked storm drains. Storm drains, especially drains at the bottom of a collection area will get blocked up with dirt, sa ...
  • Austerity kills
    On Friday, four people died in flash flooding in Pittsburgh.  Those deaths were preventable as the road that they were on is a known flood basin and the road most likely had blocked storm drains. Storm drains, especially drains at the bottom of a collection area will get blocked up with dirt, sa ...
  • RIP, Jack Layton, Federal New Democratic Party ...
    If you haven’t heard, Jack died of cancer.  I only saw him in person once, at a Toronto council meeting back when he was a city councilor, but he impressed me at the time as one of only three councilors who showed decent respect to the citizens giving testimony.  I didn’t know then, and don’t ...

Media Consortium

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terr ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NO ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli childr ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END F ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenome ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many mo ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world po ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Cool climate paper sinks journal editor
    The editor of the journal Remote Sensing resigned today, saying in an editorial that his journal never should have published a controversial paper in July that challenged the reliability of climate models used to forecast global warming. The paper, by Roy Spencer and William Braswell of the U ...
  • Agency to consider endangered listing for US r ...
    Posted on behalf of Meredith Wadman. In a small but significant first step published in the Federal Register today the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is opening the door to listing captive chimpanzees in the US as 'endangered.' The agency’s move comes in response to a March, 2010 petit ...
  • King’s brings back chemistry
    Posted on behalf of Katharine Sanderson. Eight years after its shock exit, chemistry at King’s College London has made a surprise return. The university closed its chemistry department in 2003, a move that angered the UK’s chemistry community, and was a continuing trend of the times, with ...
  • Report: NASA orbital debris office is struggli ...
    The threat of space junk has reached a tipping point, and NASA’s programmes to evaluate those risks are underfunded and understaffed, says a National Academies report released today. The panel, tasked with evaluating NASA’s orbital debris programme at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, ...
  • Tobacco company seeks access to secret data on ...
    The world's largest tobacco company is trying to force academics at the University of Stirling, UK, to hand over confidential research data about British teenagers' smoking habits (Independent, Telegraph, BBC). Philip Morris International is using Freedom of Information (FOI) laws to try to g ...

new geography

  • Millennials Have the Answer to the Country’s F ...
    America is about to enter a presidential campaign that promises to be filled with divisive rhetoric and sharp differences over which direction the nominees want to take the country. This will be the fourth time in American history that the country has been sharply divided over the question o ...
  • Supply of Tech Workers Greater Than Estimated ...
    CNBC reports the information technology (IT) sector is “where the jobs are.” And the Los Angeles Times writes that tech jobs in San Francisco are a “rare bright spot in the nation’s troubled economy.” EMSI’s most current data, however, paints a slightly less rosy picture. It’s clear that IT an ...
  • High-density Housing Reflects Dense Government ...
    Citizens in Australia�s major cities are becoming increasingly unhappy about what they perceive as the escalating deterioration in their quality of life - traffic congestion, overloaded public transport, unaffordable housing for young people, increases in the costs of basic services and over ...
  • How to Save Chicago
    The title raises the obvious question: Does Chicago need saving? I guess the answer is clear. Aaron Renn published a reviewofthe 2010 census, and for Chicago it was not pretty. Since 2000 the city lost over 200,000 people: nearly 7.5% of its Black residents, and almost 6% on non-Hispanic W ...
  • The Evolving Urban Form: Beijing
    China's capital, Beijing, has long been one of the world's largest urban areas. Some reports placed its population at over 1 million in 1800, which would have made Beijing the largest urban area  in the world at that time. Later in the nineteenth century, Beijing dropped below 1 million popu ...

GM Watch

  • It's official: Glyphosate used on GM crops fou ...
    It's official: Glyphosate used on GM crops found in US rivers, rainfall GM Freeze, 31 August 2011 http://www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/165/  Monitoring by the US Geological Survey (USGS) has revealed that glyphosate and its breakdown product Aminomethylphosphonic acid (known as AMPA) are frequ ...
  • It's official: Glyphosate used on GM crops fou ...
    It's official: Glyphosate used on GM crops found in US rivers, rainfall GM Freeze, 31 August 2011 http://www.gmfreeze.org/news-releases/165/  Monitoring by the US Geological Survey (USGS) has revealed that glyphosate and its breakdown product Aminomethylphosphonic acid (known as AMPA) are frequ ...
  • Response to Fedoroff's industry-sponsored myths
    NOTE: The New York Times has printed several letters in response to Nina Fedoroff's recent op-ed:http://nyti.ms/oD5Qba This excellent response from Bill Freese was not among them.  --- --- Letters to the Editor New York Times August 22 2011 In “Engineering Food for All” (op-ed, 8/18), Ms. Fedor ...
  • Response to Fedoroff's industry-sponsored myths
    NOTE: The New York Times has printed several letters in response to Nina Fedoroff's recent op-ed:http://nyti.ms/oD5Qba This excellent response from Bill Freese was not among them.  --- --- Letters to the Editor New York Times August 22 2011 In “Engineering Food for All” (op-ed, 8/18), Ms. Fedor ...
  • Response to Fedoroff's industry-sponsored myths
    NOTE: The New York Times has printed several letters in response to Nina Fedoroff's recent op-ed:http://nyti.ms/oD5Qba This excellent response from Bill Freese was not among them.  --- --- Letters to the Editor New York Times August 22 2011 In “Engineering Food for All” (op-ed, 8/18), Ms. Fedor ...

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Cryptogon

  • UK PMs Internet Censorship Insinuation Receive ...
    Via: ZeroPaid: You know your internet censorship plans are too strict when China praises you for it. I’ll say this right off the bat, if someone told me one month ago that I would end up writing a headline like that, I would have told them they were insane. I am simply stunned that it [...]
  • Hugo Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home Fr ...
    Via: Bloomberg: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as the metal rises to record levels behind a weakening U.S. dollar. Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 ...
  • Single Seat Electric Vehicle Sets 1,000 Miles- ...
    Via: PhysOrg: An experimental electric vehicle called “Schluckspecht” (“boozer,” or “tippler” in German) has set the record for achieving the longest drive in a battery-powered vehicle on a single battery charge. Its record-breaking distance was 1,013.8 miles (1,631.5 km). The trip lasted 36 hou ...
  • Long Beach Police Department Claims Authority ...
    The U.S. horror show is plumbing new depths of fascism now. This one will definitely cause you to skip a beat. Even I had to pause and re-read this one in disbelief. Via: Long Beach Post: Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures “with no apparent ...
  • Who—and What—Are Behind the &#8220 ...
    I just included a tiny piece of this. Click through, but be ready to for a lengthy and careful meditation on total absurdity of this fabricated spectacle. Via: Who What Why: The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, an ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Even Goldman Sachs Secretly Believes That An E ...
    Goldman Sachs is doing it again.  Goldman is telling the public that everything is going to be just fine, but meanwhile they are advising their top clients to bet on a huge financial collapse.  On August 16th, a 54 page report authored by Goldman strategist Alan Brazil was distr ...
  • 12 Things That We Can Learn From Hurricane Ire ...
    Whenever a major disaster or emergency strikes, millions of lives can be turned upside down in an instant.  Fortunately Hurricane Irene was not as catastrophic as originally projected, but millions of people did lose power and at least 35 people lost their lives.  Large numbers ...
  • 3, 2, 1: Global Debt Meltdown
    We are steamrolling toward a massive global debt meltdown, and at this point world leaders seem to be all out of solutions.  Over the last 30 years or so, the greatest debt bubble in the history of the planet has produced unprecedented prosperity in the western world.  But now t ...
  • Wake Up America! 10 Very Obvious Reasons Why T ...
    Do you have friends, neighbors and relatives that can't find work?  Well, unfortunately the current U.S. jobs famine is about to get a whole lot worse.  Right now there are approximately 13.9 million unemployed Americans.  That does not count those that "are not looking for work ...
  • 21 Signs That The New Reality For Many Baby Bo ...
    All over America tonight, millions of elderly Americans are wondering if their money is going to run out before it is time for them to die.  Those that are now past retirement age are not going to be rioting in the streets, but that doesn't mean that large numbers of them are no ...

Desertification

  • Wishing you a sunny weekend (Willem Van Cotthem)
  • Did you miss our new Facebook-group: DESERTIFI ...
    Why this group ? http://www.facebook.com/groups/273559399327792/ One can find a huge amount of information on desertification, drought and poverty on the internet.  Unfortunately, there is no particular site where interested people can find a collection of the existing best practices, the … Con ...
  • We’re running out of soil (ODE)
    Via a Facebook message of Nicol-André BERDELLé (Germany) : http://www.odemagazine.com/doc/69/dirt/ The joy of dirt Soil is as essential a natural resource as air and water. Yet weâre running out of healthy, fertile dirt at an alarming rate. One manâs odyssey … Continue reading →
  • Easy irrigation tools for African farmers (CS ...
    Via a Facebook message of Cynthia ODERA (Kenya) : http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Responsible-Tech/2008/0723/a-water-pump-for-the-people A water pump for the people Inventor Martin Fisher designs easy irrigation tools for African farmers. By Peter Smith, Correspondent for The Christian Scien ...
  • Long-Term Solutions for Dadaab (Google / Huffi ...
    Read at : Google Alert – images of the Africa Drought http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-lozman/from-dadaab-renewed-urgen_b_940210.html From Dadaab: Renewed Urgency for Long-Term Solutions Are Needed Yesterday, I went to the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya with a delegation including longtime ONE s ...

The Paper Trail

  • Did Perry double Texas budget?
    FactWatch Super PAC singles out Perry for 'doubling' Texas' budget, but doesn't have all the facts Screen shot from Keep Conservatives United ad titled 'Budget.' YouTube A pro-Bachmann PAC misleads viewers when it says Rick Perry doubled the size of Texas' budget from 20 ...
  • Windfalls of War: A decade of keeping governme ...
    Windfalls of War United Flight 175 collides with south tower of the World Trade Center. Chao Soi Cheong/AP As night fell on Sept. 11, 2001, angry flames still leapt high from a massive gash in the Pentagon and ash fell from the sky onto the rubble of the collapsed World ...
  • Obama halts controversial EPA regulation
    The Politics of Energy President Obama kills costly environmental proposals ahead of next week's Congressional session President Barack Obama waves from the East Room of the White House. � Carolyn Kaster/AP file President Barack Obama on Friday scrapped his administra ...
  • Weinberger discusses no-bid contracts on Democ ...
    iWatch in the News Reporter Sharon Weinberger discusses a decade of no-bid military contracting on DemocracyNow with Amy Goodman. Watch the segment here.
  • Obama-backed solar firm collapses: ABC segment
    SolyndraiWatch in the News President Obama's alternative energy darlilng, Solyndra, goes bankrupt.

backofthebook.ca

  • Jack Layton’s bequest to the West
    By Frank Moher As God's cruel jokes go, this one's a doozy. Jack Layton, having built the NDP into the Official Opposition and created a sense of hope for the resurgence of a genuine left in Canada, one that would keep the right from running roughshod over the poor, the middle-class, ...
  • Is CSIS replaying the Arar card?
    By Alison@Creekside A leaked 2004 CSIS report from LaPresse on Thursday purports to be a summary of a conversation between Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui  in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane enroute between Montreal and France. It has already been enthusiasticall ...
  • Designer Worms
    by Eric Pettifor Remember all those episodes of the various Star Treks where characters were genetically altered, either willingly or unwillingly, by some means or other? It would happen within the course of a single episode and be neatly fixed at the end, with a hypo from the lovely Dr. ...
  • Hinkle, Lilley, Mammoliti: So much Con Klown b ...
    By Montreal Simon Oh dear. What a dilemma eh? I just created my very own Con Klown Hypocrisy Award. But now I can't seem to decide who is this week's winner. So please help me out . Here are the candidates in no particular order: (1) PHILLIP HINKLE, the 64-year old Republican State ...
  • The Star and The Mark: open for shilling
    By Shannon Rupp The Toronto Star just announced that you can’t trust a thing you read on their website -- although that’s not quite the way they phrased it. Canada’s largest daily has joined forces with TheMarkNews.com, one of those free blogger sites, to acquire a small army of unpaid "commu ...

libcom

  • The rebellion in Chile
    Chile_anarquista.jpg A number of groups in the San Francisco Bay Area will hold a vigil and protest in front of the Chilean Consulate in San Francisco on September 9 at 4 p.m.. This flier explains o ...
  • Don't Riot Just Buy It
    Music Video inspired by the LONDON RIOTS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGZz3MdGBiY
  • Unions Call for House Committee Investigation ...
    Communications Workers of America (CWA) International President Larry Cohen and United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard issued the following statement today regarding their request to a member of the House Select Intelligence Commit ...
  • Anarcho-punk zine PunkWay #6, summer 2011 (ful ...
    punkway_zine_6_eng.jpg We do not need sympathizers. We do not need someone who like our magazine. We do not need people who carry it in a backpack. We need those people who are walking with us nip an ...
  • From Meta-Politics To Mass Murder – A New Righ ...
    It is horrible. The massacre on Utøya and attack in Oslo’s government district is the worst right-wing terrorist act directed against the Scandinavian labor movement. How could it happen? How could such an extensive and long-term terrorist plan go complete ...

Free Range International

  • Masters of the Obvious
    The day after E2 posted the droid post a new report by Afghan “experts” was released.  It is a complete crock of BS, which couples blindingly obvious facts to a set of recommendations that are so wrong they can easily be dismissed by reasonably intelligent eight year old children (but not our b ...
  • These Aren’t the Droids You’re Loo ...
    Over on the excellent Afghanistan blog, Ghosts of Alexander, Christian Bleuer has re-posted a piece written by an anonymous friend of his entitled, How to be an Afghan Expert. It’s a 12-point tutorial on how to portray yourself as an Afghanistan expert in order to land yourself a $1,000/day sala ...
  • Attention To Detail
    My good friend E2 has kept FRI alive, which enables me to throw up a post I’m dying to share.  I’m still going to stay mum about where I am and what we’re up to, but, we’ll complete our remaining projects in a few months allowing me to tell that story fairly soon…Inshallah from the [...]
  • Who’s the Enemy Here?
    Last week I wrote about how ordinary Afghans have much to fear from the villains when traveling on the highways and roads in this country.  This week, I’d like to address one of the biggest threats to those of us in the Kabul expat community: the Afghan government security apparatus.  I was insp ...
  • This Ain’t Route 66
    Since so many people in the western media have been freely tossing words like “Taliban” and “terrorist” around recently, I thought I’d give you all a slice of life glimpse into what it’s like to actually live here in Afghanistan with real terrorists.  We Americans have a love affair with cars, ...

The Story Behind the Story

  • Chuck Baldwin Hits the Nail SQUARELY!!
    � �Come Out Of Her, My People� By Chuck Baldwin August 18, 2011 Archived column: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3859 It is no hyperbole to say that the vast majority of today�s churches do not remotely resemble the New Testament pattern. In the first place, the Church was never intended to ...
  • Things That Make You Say HMMMMMMM!
    He served 10 presidents, but died alone in squalor: What happened to Theodoric C. James? White House Photo – Theodoric James Jr. worked in the White House for almost 50 years. His Northwest Washington neighbors never knew he catalogued important, sometimes sensitive, documents. By Christian Dave ...
  • A Message to Horowitz and Kane – the Ill ...
    You indeed are the masters of spin – the masters of lying hypocrisy – the masters of obfuscation and calling evil good and good evil. As Khazarian Double Agents, I highly doubt you have ever read The Bible – have you?  I doubt you have read Isaiah – so let me share his words: “WOE [...]
  • Zombie Apocalpyse – What Others Are Now ...
    I first reported on this immediately after the CDC issued its report.  Now others are also writing on this topic.  GREAT NEWS!!! A. True Ott, PhD THE MEANING OF CDC “ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE” PART 2 By Dr. Stephen C. L’Hommedieu August 17, 2011 NewsWithViews.com CDC Creating a âZombie Horrorâ Conscio ...
  • The Amazing TRUE STORY of Susan Lindauer. EXT ...
    Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq Susan Lindauer

du la bab - Now is the Time

  • Downsizing – downscaling? See these tiny ...
    Here’s a great company doing inspiring work www.tumbleweedhouses.com The company creator, Jay Shafer started off making a super small mobile home for himself measuring  just 89 square feet! Their video is a testament to less being more – they’re now selling ready made mobile cabins and the plan ...
  • Air powered environmentally friendly car being ...
    Sounds a little strange right – an air powered car – why isn’t this big news I wonder… There’s a great company in France operated by a former Formula 1 engineer now producing cars running on compressed air. They’re not great to look at, super fast, or I’m guessing really comfortable, but they’re ...
  • Deforestation – environmental & human ef ...
    There are many types of forest in the world from Temperate Forest to Tropical forest. The one thing all forests have in common is that the trees in them act as the lungs to our planet converting CO2 to Oxygen.  In addition, forests provide a canopy or shading of the earth which helps maintain te ...
  • Could cancer be Fungus? If so, maybe here&#821 ...
    Recently I visited a dear friend who has been dealing with breast cancer for over ten years. After a long attempt to avoid surgery and medication, she was forced to have a double mastectomy. She has chosen to avoid the chemo treatments. This takes a lot of courage given that the standard thing t ...
  • Doctors Warn about GM Food Risks
    It’s barely been a week since I wrote about the dangers of genetically modified (GM) foods and now the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) has released a strongly-worded warning about the health dangers associated with Frankenfoods. Calling for a moratorium on GM foods, the AAEM sa ...

Mansbridge One on One - CBC

Scotts Contracting

  • Bay Window Detail Drawing
    Custom Bay Window Detail by Scotty Scotts Contracting Dual Pane with Blinds in the Glass Energy Star Rated Windows for St Louis Area Advanced Framing Techniques All Exterior Joints Sealed with Caulk and Dow Window and Door Sealer 2×4 and 2×6 Framing Members 1/2 ” plywood sheeting Prefinished Oak ...
  • Dryer Net-Energy Saving Product-
    Two Senior citizens from Washington, MO have developed a new filter for an electric dryer. Jim and Sandy Atkinson were driving around and saw steam coming out of the side of homes. They thought, "What a waste of heat!" So, they started experimenting with different products and were not satisfied ...
  • Seeking NFL Fantasy Football Players-join leag ...
    Click here to join NFL Fantasy Football League Warriors Only When Prompted enter: League ID: 352267 League Password: football Warriors Only will use the following Scoring Options for the 2011-12 Season. Newly Added Defensive Point Scoring and Defensive Player Positions. Note: The Scoring Options ...
  • Attic Insulation
    - Proper Insulation Levels in your Attic coupled with Ventilation will save you Money on your Energy Bills. Certified Insulation Installer for: Batt Type, Spray Foam, Loose Fill- Green and Eco Friendly options are always available. US Department of Energy and the Green Building Initiative quote ...
  • Missouri Flunks! — Save EPA & Coal Ash R ...
    Subject: Missouri Flunks! — Save EPA & Coal Ash Rule — Landfill Update Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:05:26 +0000 Click to view this email in a browser Some news and information from Labadie Environmental Organization August 25, 2011

The View From Abroad

Foreign Policy in Focus - Military (US)

Law.com

Iranian.com

  • UN: Credible evidence Iran working on nuke weapons
    VIENNA -- The U.N. nuclear agency said Wednesday it is "increasingly concerned" about a stream of intelligence suggesting that Iran continues to work secretly on developing a nuclear payload for a missile and other components of a nuclear weapons program. In its report, the International Atomic ...
  • موافقت ترکیه با نصب رادار ضدموشکی ناتو در خاک خود
    ترکیه، همسایه شمال غربی ایران، با نصب رادار سامانه ضدموشکی سازمان ناتو در خاک خود موافقت کرد. نخستین هدف نصب این رادار هشدار اولیه «مقابله با تهدید موشکی جمهوری اسلامی ایران» قید شده، نکته‌ای که ترکیه در بیانیه خود به آن اشاره نکرده است. read more
  • Notes from the Underground
    "I think the Arabs are much braver than Iranians, especially in Syria." "Iran is going through a period of fermentation now. Ideas and values are evolving rapidly, and the regime is rotting. We can see it all around us."  "Most Iranians have not got to such a desperate point that they're wil ...
  • Exclusive: China curbs Iran energy work
    BEIJING (Reuters) - China has put the brakes on oil and gas investments in Iran, drawing ire from Tehran over a pullback that officials and executives said reflected Beijing's efforts to appease Washington and avoid U.S. sanctions on its big energy firms. The stakes are high for OPEC's second ...
  • 600 کشته و زخمی در تصادفات رانندگی ديروز
    آفتاب: جانشين راهنمايی و رانندگی کشور گفت: 600 نفر از هموطنان، ديروز - چهارشنبه - بر اثر تصادفات رانندگی کشته و زخمی شدند. سردار سرتيپ مهری با اشاره به اوج سفرهای دور دوم تابستانی افزود: از اين تعداد 59 نفر در صحنه تصادف جان خود را از دست دادند. read more

Most Revolutionary Act

  • The Bush EPA and Fluoride
    The following is a second excerpt from my submission to New Plymouth District Council on fluoridation. It describes a study the Bush EPA commissioned from the National Research Council that has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. Dental fluorosis - present in 41% of US teenagers The ...
  • Ending Water Fluoridation: One We Can Win
    At present the residents of New Plymouth (population 55,000) are embroiled in a battle to end water fluoridation. A group of about 90 of us have been organizing since April. You can visit our Facebook page Fluoride-free Taranaki at http://www.facebook.com/groups/207748655919333/ - you can even j ...
  • Sticking It to Ron Paul
    It’s open season on Ron Paul in the so-called “alternative” media, thanks to the Congressman’s strong showing in the Iowa straw polls. The venomous tone and absence of policy analysis is remarkably similar to the hatchet job the “alternative” media performed on Ralph Nader in 2004 and 2008. Cou ...
  • The Tyranny of Opinion Polls
    In many western democracies, government by the people has been replaced by government by public opinion polls. Opinion polls are meant to represent scientifically validated studies of the views of voters. However I believe their true purpose is to discredit (via low ratings) Democratic and prog ...
  • Gun Control and False Flags
      Virginia Tech Massacre   *** This is the last of three posts regarding the reasons some progressives oppose gun control. No discussion of gun control would be complete without mentioning the high rate of “lone nut” shooting sprees that occur in the US. I have always found it extremely ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • ABC's This Week, 8/21/11: David Axelrod Talks ...
    At 7:10: JAKE TAPPER: Progressive filmmaker Michael Moore had this question that he wanted me to ask you: "Are you aware of how profoundly disappointed so many of the President's supporters are? Do you realize that each time the President moves to the right, he picks up no votes and loses many ...
  • Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moor ...
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2011   Contact: Matt Smucker, 717.209.0445, jms@beyondthechoir.org   Statement by “V for Vendetta” author Alan Moore in Support of PFC Bradley Manning   Alan Moore, the world-renowned British author, issued the following statement today in support of accused WikiL ...
  • Letter from Environmental Leaders on the Perse ...
    Dear Friends, On July 26th 2011, climate activist Tim DeChristopher will be sentenced at the Salt Lake City federal courthouse. On March 3rd, Tim was found guilty of two felony counts for participating in a peaceful act of civil disobedience. A bright, charismatic young man could face up to ...
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address at Forbes Field ...
    ROOSEVELT: Mr. Chairman, Governor Earle, my friends of Pennsylvania: A baseball park is a good place to talk about box scores. Tonight I am going to talk to you about the box score of the Government of the United States. I am going to tell you the story of our fight to beat down the depression ...
  • Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film
    Revolution Truth Primary Contact: Tangerine Bolen, Executive Director Phone: 1-503-887-0773 Email: tangerine.bolen@revolutiontruth.org  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revolution Truth releases Wikileaks film 13 July 2011 - On the day that Julian Assange begins his appeal against extradition to Swe ...

Salon

  • Rick Perry goes it alone
    Although born and raised in a small town in the Finger Lakes region of New York, I'm the hybrid child of an upstate New York father and a mother from Texas -- they met at Fort Hood (then Camp Hood) during World War II. And you thought different species couldn't mate.
  • Vaccines still safe, non-celebrities with medi ...
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  • Will "Joe the Plumber" run for Congress?
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  • This Labor Day, we need protests
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  • The saddest Republican candidacy of them all
    There's a reason why George Pataki seems to be moving toward a presidential campaign, but "because Republicans want him to" is not it.

SMB News

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  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
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  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
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  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
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  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
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Toronto Star - Editorials

  • More stem cell donors wanted
    We need to do a better job building up the database of donors for transplants.
  • The leader the NDP needs now
    The party will have to broaden its appeal and challenge established dogma at the risk of angering true believers.
  • Sad end for a scrappy player
    The suicide of hockey defenceman Wade Belak should make league officials consider the psychological well being of their players
  • An unconvincing warning
    Frightening scenarios of drastic police layoffs needlessly frighten the public. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair should know better.
  • Enforce access to information laws
    It’s troubling the RCMP dropped an inquiry into why a federal aide stopped a reporter from getting files under the Access to Information Act.

Energy Collective

  • Rick Perry, Lyin’ and Denyin’
    �How can Texas governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry talk so irresponsibly about global warming�and get away with it?
  • How Small Is That Revised Marcellus Estimate?
    I see in The Hill that some critics of shale gas drilling are pointing to a revised estimate of the shale gas resources in the Marcellus formation as evidence that there's not enough gas to justify any risk from hydraulic fracturing.
  • Insurers and Climate Risk
    Climate Risk Disclosure by Insurers: Evaluating Insurer Responses to the NAIC Climate Disclosure Survey:
  • Energy Innovation: If You Don’t Fail Occasiona ...
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  • Killer Apps For The Smartgrid
    Silicon Valley is always chasing the next killer app, and it�s an activity that is very relevant to the Smart Grid.� What are the killer apps?� It depends on your perspective.� In some cases, the answer will be a technology breakthrough in materials science rather than an innovation in softw ...

EU Times

  • Muammar Gaddafi urges followers to turn Libya ...
    A defiant Gaddafi denounced rebels as ‘traitors’, and said tribes loyal to him would never surrender to ‘collaborators’. A defiant Muammar Gaddafi has issued his latest apocalyptic statement, urging his surrounded followers to “keep fighting” and promising to turn Libya “into a hell”. In an audi ...
  • Huge “Ocean” Discovered Inside Earth
    The discovery marks the first time such a large body of water has found in the planet’s deep mantle. The finding, made by Michael Wysession, a seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis, and his former graduate student Jesse Lawrence, now at the University of California, San Diego, will ...
  • Leaked Videos Show Missile Hitting Pentagon on ...
    On the verge of the 9/11 tenth anniversary, leaked videos confirm eye-witnesses’ accounts that the attack was made by a cruise missile rather than a passenger plane, an editor told Press TV’s US Desk. “There were 85 videos; another video was released yesterday (August 29). Now it hasn’t been car ...
  • Australian PM Julia Gillard hits out at asylum ...
    Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has hit out at a High Court decision that ruled an asylum deal with Malaysia was unlawful. Ms Gillard called the ruling “deeply disappointing” and said the court had “rewritten the Migration Act”. Under the deal, Australia would have sent 800 asylum-seeker ...
  • Scientist simulate Milky Way creation
    Scientists at the University of Zurich in Switzerland say they have created the world’s first realistic simulation of the formation of the Milky Way. Astrophysicists from the University of Zurich working with astronomers at the University of California maintain that their recent video simulation ...

Stonecipher News

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  • Natural Acne Remedies
    There are several health conditions that hinder many people’s lives and outlook everyday. Acne is a condition which can affect your self esteem and your life. I’ve known several friends and family members with terrible cases of acne. They would purchase expensive remedies prescribed by docto ...
  • Linguistic Observations: Mendoza's Gang Girls ...
    Homegirls by Norma Mendoza Denton is a fascinating, and yet, perplexing, view of gangs in the San Francisco Bay area. Over the course of the next few weeks, I'll be providing you incites on the inner workings of the gangs, symbolism of certain material items, and other such related details. ...
  • Normal Structure and Function of the Musculosk ...
    Mr. Ghaz says: Muscular dystrophies refer to a group of more than 30 genetic diseases which are characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal muscles..Studies and estimation show that after sustaining a hip fracture (as a result of osteoporosis) 20% of patients die withi ...
  • Reasons to Donate Blood
    Have you ever donated blood? If you have why did you do it? It may have been for a loved one or a friend. It could have been for the free coupons and gift certificates blood centers provide for donations. Maybe you’re required to donate blood being that you’re in the medical field. In actua ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

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    Via ABC News . “House investigators said they have uncovered evidence that White House officials became personally involved in an Energy Department review of a hot-button $535 million loan guarantee to the now-failed California solar company Solyndra. The allegation surfaced in a letter House E ...
  • Thank you for clarifying that, NASA
    I'm so not going to see Apollo 18 now that I've been told it's not actually real. What a rip-off. THR has this: "While NASA will often work with filmmakers who are showcasing space or the moon on a film, the agency is backing away from Dimension Films' Apollo 18. The science fiction horror film ...
  • Weprin's Congressional Campaign Caught Spying
    A poll showing the race to fill Anthony Weiner’s House seat tied between Republican Bob Turner and Democrat David Weprin has apparently prompted Weprin’s campaign to try some unorthodox tactics. The New York Post reports that four Weprin operatives have posed as reporters or student volunteers ...
  • Fear, terror, barbarity– and bravery– in Syria
    We’ve posted a lot about the Syrian uprising since it began in earnest last March. But nothing I’ve read about it captures the reign of fear, terror and barbarity imposed by the Assad regime, and the astonishing bravery of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have taken to the streets in an ...
  • Starz wanted you to pay more for Netflix
    Yesterday, Starz announced it would not be renewing its contract with Netflix that’s set to expire on February 28, 2012. From that date forward, Starz content in addition to movies from Disney and Sony will no longer be offered for instant streaming. In a statement, Starz said in so many words ...
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