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MEXICO: Women Package the Sweet Taste of Nostalgi ...
AYOQUEZCO, Mexico, Nov 7 (IPS) - Years ago, when Catalina SÃ¡nchez saw an opportunity to earn an income and improve her family’s living conditions by growing and selling nopales - an edible cactus native to Mexico - she probably never imagined that her idea would spawn three businesses.
POLITICS: Thai-Cambodia Diplomatic Row Bares Dec ...
BANGKOK, Nov 7 (IPS) - Thailand’s swift and strong response to Cambodia’s decision to appoint ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as an economic adviser exposed an emotional faultline rooted in decades of mutual suspicion and hatred.
SRI LANKA: Colombo’s Diplomatic Sparring G ...
COLOMBO, Nov 7 (IPS) - One thing that has set apart the current administration of President Mahinda Rajapaksa from those of his predecessors is its diplomatic duals with international heavyweights.
CLIMATE CHANGE-US: Too Little, Too Late for Copen ...
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (IPS) - The momentum that U.S. climate change legislation has picked up in recent weeks will not be enough to get it through prior to the Copenhagen climate talks that kick off Dec. 7. It has also come at a steep price for those most committed to seeing such legislation pass.
HONDURAS: Unilateral "Unity Government" Announced ...
TEGUCIGALPA, Nov 6 (IPS) - Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said Friday that the agreement reached last week to solve the four-month crisis triggered by a coup d'etat was "dead."

Scoop - NZ

"Biggest fraud to hit Mississippi since Worldcomm"
The courtroom heated up today in Yazoo City as a hearing on several motions filed in the Evans case was held this morning. Several revelations were made during testimony provided under oath by employees of Mississippi Valley Title Insurance Company.BankruptcyThe first bombshell to drop was a revelat ...
Quiggin: Libertarians .. and Delusionism.
This post from TokyoTom deplores the fact that (TT excepted) supporters of the Austrian School, and for that matter libertarians in general, are almost universally committed to delusional views on climate science. The obvious question is why. As TT points out, there are plenty of political opportuni ...
News Corp revenue slumps 4.1%
Rupert Murdoch loves to be positive: so his 2009/2010 first quarter profit report was upbeat with his preferred measure, consolidated operating income of $US1.04 billion, rising 9% from the $US953 million earned in the September quarter of 2008.Revenue fell 4.1% to $US7.2 billion, with advertising a ...
WP: Bring the troops home
Barack Obama didn't set out to be a "war president," but that's what history compels him to be. The nation and the world are fortunate that he doesn't have the reckless, ready-fire-aim mentality of George W. Bush. But Afghanistan doesn't present the kind of "false choices" that Obama, by nature, hab ...
Boyle: Afghanistan's Saigon trap
The belated declaration of Hamid Karzai as the winner of Afghanistan's election is a disaster for American and British efforts to find a way out of their never-ending mission there. An election that had been designed to bolster the legitimacy of the Afghan government has had precisely the opposite e ...

Independent ( London )

Sacked ex-employee goes on shooting spree
A sacked employee went on a shooting spree in a US office complex, killing one person and injuring five others before being caught by police.
Military base gunman remains in critical coma
The military psychiatrist responsible for a shooting spree that left 13 dead remained in a coma today, frustrating attempts to work out what made him kill.
Mark Hughes In Baltimore: Just minutes after I arr ...
Just 15 minutes after stepping off the train at Baltimore's Penn station I found myself standing behind the yellow crime-scene tape after a shooting. We had been alerted to the attack on N Milton Avenue, in the east of the city, via Twitter. In the UK, the micro-blogging site is used mainly by peop ...
UN chief sending Gaza war crimes report to Securit ...
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday he will send a report calling for Israel and the Palestinians to investigate alleged war crimes during last winter's conflict in Gaza to the UN Security Council "as soon as possible."
Honduran 'unity' cabinet collapses
An agreement to end a four-month political crisis in Honduras collapsed early yesterday after the two rival leaders failed to form a unity cabinet to heal the damage from a coup in June.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

Israel’s Deputy FM Insists Threats to Attack Ira ...
Summary: Amid speculation that Israel’s threats to attack Iran, which have persisted for years, are just a bluff, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon insisted that the threat of an attack is very real. source: Anti War read more
Mohamed ElBaradei insists there is ‘nothing to f ...
Summary: United Nations inspectors found “nothing to be worried about” during their inspection of an underground uranium enrichment site in Iran, according to the head of the organisation’s atomic watchdog. source: Times-on-line read more
Iran wants to be seen as regional power: ElBaradei
Summary: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is only intended to generate electricity, is an attempt to force the world to acknowledge it as a regional power, U.N. nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei said on Wednesday. source: Reuters read more
Update on Iran Negotiations: Gareth Porter says U ...
Summary: Gareth Porter, independent historian and journalist for Inter Press Service, discusses Iran’s counter-proposal to the IAEA enrichment deal, the ambiguous meaning and political sensitivity of nuclear “breakout capability,” continued defense of the 2007 Iran NIE by U.S. intelligence ...
Israel’s European Lobby
Summary: Having for decades successfully steered policymaking in Washington in a pro-Israel direction, Israel’s American Lobby has more recently turned its attention to Europe. Despite its brief presence in Brussels, it appears to have already had marked success in influencing the nascent fore ...

The Daily Galaxy

The Lost World of Antarctica's Lake Vostok - NASA' ...
Lakes of Antarctica Isolated for Millions of Years ...
Like a modern, micro version of The Thing, Antarctica's icy lakes have been discovered to house a surprisingly diverse community of viruses, including some that were previously unidentified. The finding could shed light on whether microbial life evolved independently in...
Image of the Day: A Spectacular Starburst Galaxy
N 2403 is a showy face-on spiral starburst galaxy in Camelopardalis- The Giraffe, with numerous many bright emission nebulae which can be seen as bright pink regions in the spiral arms. This galaxy is estimated to be around 12 million...
Strange Neutron Star Solves Mystery of Milky Way's ...
Scientists have finally identified the mysterious source of X-ray emissions at the center of our galaxy’s youngest supernova: Inside the remains of Cassiopeia A sits a baby neutron star surrounded by a thin layer of carbon. Discovered in Chandra's "First...
Extragalactic Solar Systems: Signals Observed Shin ...
With exoplanets apparently all around us (galactically speaking), a global team of researchers have kicked it up a notch. Signals shining across millions of light years, from other galaxies, indicate the birth of solar systems - and we can see...

Natural News

Associated Press declares war on alternative medic ...
(NaturalNews) The Associated Press has declared war on alternative medicine, publishing a series of stories attacking everything from nutritional therapies to bioidentical hormones. These stories, which are syndicated across thousands of websites around the world, are prefaced with the following hig ...
Why Health Care Costs are So High (Opinion)
(NaturalNews) Recently, USA Today has been running an interesting series of articles on our ridiculous health care system or, as reality would put it, our "disease care" system. While more and more Americans are concerned with the increasing costs of the U.S. health care system, hawked as the best m ...
Corn Ethanol Biofuels Contaminated with Antibiotic ...
(NaturalNews) Byproducts from the production of corn for ethanol biofuels have been found to be contaminated with antibiotics. "Ethanol's drug problem is just the latest of many reasons to impose a moratorium on production of fuels from grains," wrote Stan Cox for the Land Institute's Prairie Writer ...
Vaccines for the rich! Wall Street gets H1N1 vacci ...
(NaturalNews) It seems the financial bailout isn't the only bailout happening on Wall Street these days. News has now leaked that investment firms Goldman Sachs and Citigroup both received preferential H1N1 swine flu vaccines even while local clinics that treat school children had no supply. The upr ...
What's really in that burger? E.coli and chicken f ...
(NaturalNews) There are 14 billion hamburgers consumed each year in the United States alone. The people who eat those burgers, though, have little knowledge of what's actually in them. Current USDA regulations, for example, openly allow beef contaminated with E. coli to be repackaged, cooked and sol ...

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TheGallopingBeaver

Staring at Goats Dep't.
WIRED'S DANGER ROOM covers all sorts of stuff that is of interest to those of us concerned about security. David Hambling has a very interesting report titled "Inside the Army’s Far-Out Acid Tests" that almost defies belief, if you aren't already acquainted with programs like MK Ultra . The C ...
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"National Toast" or "So Long and Thanks for All th ...
It looks like curtains for the Canada's most right wing national rag . As much as I bleed ink and hate the thought of another newspaper closing down, I will not shed a tear for the National Post - I only hope the courts refuse to allow the Aspers to tie this anchor around the collective neck of thei ...
Our head spook isn't happy
CSIS DIRECTOR RICHARD FADDEN isn't happy with you and me. He feels like Rodney Dangerfield — just can't get no respect . According to Ian Macleod of the OTTAWA CITIZEN, Ricky believes "Almost any attempt to fight terrorism by the government is portrayed as an overreaction or an assault on libe ...
The Fat Lady practices the Mikado
THE TELEGRAPH IN THE UK has an article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, titled " It is Japan we should be worrying about, not America ", that is worthy of your consideration. Japan is drifting helplessly towards a dramatic fiscal crisis. For 20 years the world's second-largest economy has been able to bo ...

Media Matters for America

Media continue to misrepresent abortion provision ...
Media figures continue to falsely claim that a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the House health care reform bill would only have the effect of prohibiting government money from being used to pay for abortions, echoing a myth previously advanced about a proposed amendment to a prior version ...
Right-wing media respond to Fort Hood shooting by ...
Right-wing media figures have used the shooting at Fort Hood as an excuse to attack Islam and American Muslims in particular, with Debbie Schlussel, for example, urging readers to think of the alleged shooter "whenever you hear about how Muslims serve their country in the U.S. military." Additional ...
Farah falsely claimed official "confirm[ed]" WND ...
WorldNetDaily CEO and editor-in-chief Joseph Farah claimed that WND's false report that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan "advised" the "Obama transition" -- previously debunked by Media Matters for America -- had been subsequently "confirm[ed]" by an official with the Homeland Security Po ...
Fox News advances false claim that "House Call" pr ...
Fox News has repeatedly advanced, and in Sean Hannity's case adopted, Rep. Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) false claim that her November 5 House Call protest in opposition of health care reform was "organic" and "spontaneous." In fact, the protest was organized by House Republicans in collaboration with ...
Fox Nation, conservative media launch political at ...
Following the shootings at the Fort Hood Army Post, the Fox Nation and right-wing blogs launched political attacks on President Obama's remarks at a the Tribal Nations conference at the Interior Department, in which he addressed the tragedy after making introductory remarks. Right-wing media atta ...

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TPM Cafe

VIDEO: Media Matters on The Craziness of the GOP a ...
This Media Matters video from Thursday's hate fest sums up the GOP today. Even Nixon and Goldwater would not recognize these whack jobs. And here is a Media Matters video on the racism of Fox news.... Republican - Richard Nixon - Barry Goldwater - United States - GOP
On U.S Middle East Policy and Amateurism
This was not a good week for the Obama administration's Middle East peace efforts. Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem last Saturday, Secretary Clinton seemed to be praising the distinctively partial limitations that Israel was willing to implement... Middle East - ...
Holocaust and Health Care - Cut it Out or Else!
Yesterday the National Jewish Democratic Council's (NJDC) President, David A. Harris, released a statement outlining the outrageous behavior of the crowd at the Tea Party "press conference" sponsored by the GOP House leadership. The crowd held signs noting that "Obama... Republican - National J ...
The New Normal
Here is a scary thought. The Pareto Principle in economics says that 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. In practical terms it might mean that 20% of your movies at Warner Bros. would generate 80% of... Warner Bros - Pareto Principle - Barack Obama - Economics - United States
Hindery Report on Effective Unemployment: 19.2%
Each month when I get the official unemployment figures from the US government, I quickly search in my inbox for a note from former cable network CEO and senior economic adviser in the John Edwards and Barack Obama campaigns Leo... Barack Obama - John Edwards - Federal government of the United ...

TruthOut

Unemployment Hits 10.2 Percent, Economy Sheds 190, ...
The strong wage growth reported for October was probably an aberration. The unemployment rate crossed 10.0 percent for the first time since early 1983, hitting 10.2 percent in October. The establishment survey showed the economy losing another 190,000 jobs, with most of the job loss in construction ...
The GOP at War With Itself
Washington - Democrats have some thinking to do after Tuesday's elections, but Republicans don't have time to think. They're too busy trying to survive the party's internal purge and avoid being shipped off to political Siberia. read more
Dead Last: Hawaii Gets an "F" in Education
Hawaii's public schools are in crisis. Simply put, there isn't enough money to keep them open full-time. With the State of Hawaii facing a $1 billion budget deficit through the middle of 2011 and a $468 million budget cut to Hawaii's Department of Education, in September the Hawaii State Teachers As ...
The Big Banks Get Drunk, the Little Ones Wasted
By refusing to increase its key interest rate, the Federal Reserve indirectly admits the fragility of the financial system: while the big banks - which have taken refuge in trading activities - are coping, the smallest banks - in contact with the real economy - pay the price for unemployment and ban ...
How Patriotism Can Save America
As a soldier in the United States Army, I have often pondered what it means to be patriotic, what it means to serve our country and what it means to love America. In "Will War Ever End?" I described a dangerous misconception of patriotism that I witnessed while deployed in Baghdad. read more

Planetsave

Environmentalist, Conservationist, Or Neither?
Darby Nelson, a member of a Minnesota state panel that advises the Legislature on fish, game and wildlife habitat spending, is a classic conservationist. Almost 40 years after the first Earth Day, the term environmentalist is in some disrepute. Once a badge of honor for public-spirited citizens se ...
NASA to Irradiate Monkeys. Horrible Animal Experim ...
When I first read the news that NASA was going to start experimenting on monkeys with radiation to study the effects of deep space travel, my heart sunk. As an anthropologist who has studied non-human primates I have seen up close the emotions, the feelings, and the physical qualities we share wit ...
Great Lakes Get $475 Million in New Money, Questio ...
Pollution from industrial facilities like this one at East Harbor in Indiana up to the 1970s left a legacy of contamination still in need of cleanup from new Great Lakes restoration funding. Giving President Obama a major victory, Congress on Thursday sent him a spending bill containing $475 milli ...
Study Suggests Insecticide Causes Lupus and Arthri ...
New research out of Philadelphia suggests a link between women’s exposure to household insecticides (including roach and mosquito killers) and the autoimmune disorders rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. Previous research has shown a link of agricultural pesticides to higher risk of rheumatoid arthr ...
An Ocean of Effort
Ocean trash is one of the problems photographed by Christopher Swain on his 1,000-mile ocean advocacy and education journey. As the Obama Administration’s Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force moves into its sixth public meeting on an interim report in Cleveland this week, one determined ocean adv ...

Water Quality - WordPress

Streaming in from the blogosphere
A couple of updates from the blogosphere: Meredith McKenzie posts an update at ArroyoLover from two
The Sea Otter Stormwater Challenge: Great Success!
Sea Otter at Dawn, flickr user chuqui Back when I was reading Stormwater Management Plans (SWMPs) fo
November 2009 - IBM, EPA Ireland Team For Smarter ...
IBM and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ireland are teaming up to enable smarter water man
New Study: Nitrogen Pollution Affecting Health of ...
A new study on how air pollution is changing the health of Rocky Mountain National Park’s alpine lak
Sponge Filters
Most breeders of Bettas use sponge filters in the tanks they raise their fry in. I use them in my 30

Public Citizen in Texas

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Public Citizen Texas Honors Texas’ Outstanding P ...
AUSTIN – Public Citizen Texas will be honoring the recipients of this year’s Texas Outstanding Public Service (TOPS) Awards at the organization’s 25th anniversary dinner today. The awardees are local visionaries, recognized experts and celebrated advocates who have aided in the effort to help ...
Dr. Al Armendariz named Region 6 Administrator of ...
Environmental Groups Applaud EPA Choice New Regional Administrator could signal change in direction for polluted state DALLAS – Environmental advocates across several states are applauding the Obama Administration’s choice of Dr. Al Armendariz to lead Region 6 of the Environmental Protection Age ...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Externalities of Coal
Coal has been used by man for several centuries as a means of warmth, transportation (via Watt’s steam engine) and most recently electric power. It is currently used nearly exclusively for the generation of electricity in the US (in 2001: 86% of total US coal production). It has always been claim ...
Green-Up Your Life! Walk more and drive smarter
By Kirsten Bokenkamp According to the Environmental Defense Fund, driving leads to more than 330 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year in the United States alone. This amounts to more than 20% of the nation’s carbon dioxide emissions! In an effort to cut down on greenhouse gases ...

Press TV

Azeri Religious committee bans call to prayer
Azerbaijani police have reportedly shut down the Islamic call to prayer at the overwhelmingly-Muslim country's mosques on claims that the religious rite "disturbed the peace."
Anti-government rally held in Georgia
About 500 demonstrators have taken to the streets of Tbilisi to commemorate the anniversary of a police attack on opposition supporters in Georgia.
Many Italian physicians reject swine flu vaccine
Italian family physicians refuse to prescribe the A/H1N1 vaccine for their patients, claiming that the risks of the vaccine outweigh its benefits.
Plant-based foods can fight asthma, diabetes
Consuming fiber-rich foods as well as probiotic and prebiotics supplements can boost intestinal bacteria and immunity, keeping asthma and diabetes at bay.
Saudis continue attacks on northern Yemen
Saudi forces say they have launched a major attack on Houthi positions, leaving an unknown number of fighters dead in the northern parts of the country.

Axis of Logic

They Gave Us a Republic

Because It All Depends on the Jobs
"One in 10 Americans is unemployed." That's a headline we haven't seen in 26-1/2 years. But it's one we'll look back on with nostalgia a year from now if the Obama administration doesn't face reality and force Congress to pass a massive, all-jobs economic stimulus. And if that stimulus doesn't pas ...
Afghanistan Is About More Than The War
Troop levels and insurgency strategies have dominated the discussion about Afghanistan, but there may be an important ulterior motive for those in favor of a ramped up military effort. For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears . No Associated Press content was harmed in the writi ...
The Nightowl Newswrap
The reality of "pro-life" religious rule. "Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth. Abas Hussein Abdirahman, 33, was killed in front of a crowd of some 300 people in the port town of Merka. An official from the al ...
"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: your Friday news dump
This is the twenty-first post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB Your Friday news dump from th ...
"A Gentleman's Agreement"?: nothing succeeds like ...
This is the twentieth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB At the end of 2007, with a few n ...

Care 2

Natural Remedies - Non-medicinal Cures for Colds a ...
If the worrying news about over-the-counter cough syrup has you down, try this natural alternative: Add three tablespoons of dried thyme to one pint of boiling water. Let cool, then add one cup of honey. Take one teaspoon every hour as needed Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Health & Wellness | Not ...
We are no lab rat : Say No to GM food - Naresh Kad ...
Please do not test this technology on us as we are NO LAB RAT and we refuse to eat GM food. We urge you to put an immediate stop to all GM food trials in India as also on GM food imports into the country.Say No to GM foods on this globe, support the issue Submitted by Kadyan Naresh to Health & Welln ...
50,000 dead starfish found on Irish beach
Extreme weather conditions have killed tens of thousands of starfish and left them strewn across a sheltered beach. A carpet of pink and mauve echinoderms, a family of marine animals, appeared yesterday morning on Lissadell Beach in north Co Sligo. Submitted by Katie Miller to Environment | Note ...
Fort Hood shootings suspect alive; 12 dead - The m ...
A solider suspected of fatally shooting 12 and wounding 31 at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday is not dead as previously reported by the military. Hasan was scheduled to be deployed to Iraq "and appeared to be upset about that," Do you blame him for that? Submitted by David Buchan to US Politics & Gov ...
Humming Bird With an Incredible Tail Does a Mating ...
It's Friday, and therefore time to sit back and enjoy some sigh-worthy beauty compliments of Mother Nature. This is the spatuletail hummingbird - one of the rarest birds, with an absolutely amazing tail...and mating dance. Check out how this little guy ma Submitted by Daphna Yanez to Animals | N ...

GreenBiz

Nike Debuts Latest Collection of 'Considered Desig ...
Nike will debut a new collection of athletic footwear Saturday made with environmentally preferred materials. A portion of revenue from the N7 line will support Native American youth sports through the N7 Fund.
Diversey Ups Emissions Reductions Investments, Ear ...
One year after setting a goal to cut corporate emissions by 8 percent before 2013, Diversey CEO today announced the company had already surpassed that target, and upped the goal to a 25 percent reduction in the same time frame.
The Green Building Market and Impact Report 2009
This second annual report, by Rob Watson and the GreenBiz.com editorial team, explores the impacts that LEED-certified buildings have already had on energy, water, waste and employee productivity -- and projects those impacts for the next 20 years.
Business Owners Beware: Quick Fixes Can Cost More ...
Looking to save a little money this fall and winter by turning down the thermostats in your offices? Think again before you fiddle with those temperatures settings. Doing that alone could cost you far more than you save, especially if employees take their workplace comfort into their own hands.
Cadbury and Sprint to Save Tons of Waste with New ...
Cadbury will abandon its customary round metal tins in favor of square, recyclable cardboard boxes for its Roses and Heroes chocolate lines, while Sprint's new recyclable casing for its wireless accessories will save the company about $2.1 million a year.

Reuters Global

Getting to grips with the post-Cold War security t ...
In the 20 years since the Berlin Wall fell, there are far more sources of insecurity than there were during the Cold War. The uncertainty this generates means that crises are more recurrent and the nature of the potential crises we face is constantly evolving. Are we prepared?
The “hostile racket” that comes with North Kor ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (L) inspects eggs at a chicken farm in North Pyongyan province in North Korea in this undated photo released the the state's KCNA news agency.
Forget about light bulbs! Iran wants a seat at the ...
For years Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and outgoing head of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency, has warned the United States and other Western powers against jumping to conclusions about Iran's nuclear program. While Washington, Israel and their allies see increasing indica ...
Berlin Wall went down with a party — rather ...
The Berlin Wall went down without bloodshed or a single shot being fired - one of the most amazing aspects about the evening in which the Cold War ended.
The Berlin Wall 2.0
As Germany prepares to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we will be following a team of multimedia journalists as they report from across Berlin. They will be live blogging from the city as well as sending back video reports, pictures, audio clips and other social media ...

Ezra Klein

A very bad deal to pass a very good bill
The final compromises before a bill comes to the floor are never very pretty. This one, however, is worse than I anticipated. Opposition from anti-abortion Democrats, driven in large part by aggressive activism from the Catholic Church, forced Democratic leadership to allow a vote on Bart Stupak's ...
The critical votes come home for the House's healt ...
Rep. Jim Cooper, a moderate Democrat from Tennessee, has been skeptical of the House's health-care reform bill from the beginning. But a press release sent moments ago by his office announced his intention to vote for health-care reform. And it's not because he supports this bill. It's because he do ...
Tab dump
1) Entitlement reform is health-care reform. 2) The meaninglessness of shootings. 3) Health-care strategery. 4) Bruce Bartlett on deficit commissions. Recipe of the day : A tomato soup that includes blue cheese and sriracha. The House might pass health-care reform this weekend. Exciting!
Can Congress control costs?
One of the more sophisticated arguments against health-care reform is that for all the sharp policies and elegant initiatives contained in the bill, none of it will work because Congress will vote to roll back the cost savings. The evidence comes from Medicare's Sustainable Growth Rate formula , w ...
Socialism in action
At Thursday's tea party march protesting government-run health care, a participant suffered a heart attack about 20 minutes into the proceedings. As Dana Milbank reports , medical personnel from the Capitol physician's office rushed over, attaching electrodes to the man's chest and giving him oxyg ...

Booman Tribune

House Health Care Debate
You should watch C-SPAN. Rep. Tom Price of Georgia is yelling "I object" over and over again to prevent to the House from being able to proceed, or even talk.
Price for Health Care, Women Under Bus
So, it turns out that the price of passing health care reform in the House is selling women down the river. There will be a vote on the Stupak Amendment after all. And, no doubt, that amendment will pass. Private insurers will have to drop abortion coverage from plans that have it (which is most ...
Pathetic Democrats
Ezra Klein has a good breakdown of the three types of Democratic hold-outs in the House on health care reform. But it's a bit more than three types. There are anti-choicers who want to cordon off federal funds from reimbursing abortion providers. There are members of the Hispanic caucus who want u ...
Answer Me This
It's pretty sad that even with a public option not tied to Medicare reimbursement rates (i.e., not robust), the House leadership is struggling like hell to prevent 40 Democrats from defecting and voting with John Boehner. You can lay the blame for that in a number of places, including the White Hou ...
Quote of the Day
Brilliant: "[Cornyn's] trying to find candidates who can win. Im trying to find people who can help me change the Senate," said Jim DeMint of South Carolina, a leader of the conservative bloc. "To think we can grow the party by picking people who are more liberal and dont share our core value ...

European Tribune

European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 7 ...
A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1918 Birth of...
Friday Open Thread
It's Friday and it's November...
European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 6 ...
A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1938 Dumitru Rusu,...
Thursday Open Thread
Enough discussion. More chatter....
Mark Steyns World Meets Reality
Little wonder Mark Steyn and his demagogue on Eurabia havent been able to make much...

Futurismic

Designer drugs develop faster than designer legisl ...
I’m not sure whether I’m supposed to be proud or ashamed of this one, but apparently Britain has been declared the “designer drugs capital of Europe” by the EU drug agency. [image by Greencolander] This new generation of online “head shops” is at the centre of a rapidly growing market in ...
The Anonymous Hunters: corporate critics and whist ...
Have you ever bad-mouthed a big company in an internet comments thread? If so, the Wragge and Co. law firm of Birmingham, UK may be hot on your tail (provided the comment is vitriolic enough to provoke the company to spend money, one assumes) – they’ve just announced a new legal “task force” ...
Second Llife Enterprise: virtual worlds behind the ...
Here’s an interesting development in the metaverse – Linden Lab, creators of Second Life, have announced the formal launch of their “Second Life Enterprise” platform, which is essentially a fragmented piece of the virtual world that runs on corporate servers behind the firewall. Private, her ...
Transhuman equality? Athletes with a prosthesis do ...
Remember all the fuss last year about Oscar ‘Bladerunner’ Pistorius, the amputee athlete who was banned from competing against able-bodied runners in the Olympics because the authorities were concerned that his prosthetics might give him an unfair advantage? Well, it turns out that the authoriti ...
Second Llife Enterprise: virtual worlds behind the ...
Here’s an interesting development in the metaverse – Linden Lab, creators of Second Life, have announced the formal launch of their “Second Life Enterprise” platform, which is essentially a fragmented piece of the virtual world that runs on corporate servers behind the firewall. Private, her ...

Therapy News

What Style of Hypnotherapy is Right for You?
By Holly Holmes-Meredith, D. Min., MFT, Board Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Hypnotherapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Holly and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile There are several styles of hypnotherapy that are commonly adopted by practitioners and not all styles work well f ...
Angry Because You Can’t Get What You Want?
By Jeanette Raymond, Ph.D., Anger Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Jeanette and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile I do what you want, but you never let me do what I want! Duncan had his heart set on the new BMW sports car, but Estelle wondered whether it was the best way of spending ...
The ABC’s of Apologizing to Your Spouse
By Pamela Lipe, MS, LP, Relationships & Marriage Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Pam and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Somehow you have ended up on the wrong side of the “whose fault was it” argument with your spouse. You know it was your fault but you have lots of really goo ...
In Crisis: Where to Begin When You’ve Just Found ...
By Dana Vince, LMHC, Infidelity Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Dana and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Where do you begin when you’ve just found out your spouse has had an affair? Or, what if you are the one who’s had the affair and your partner has just found out? If youâ ...
EMDR As a Healing Tool in Traumatic Grief
By Beth S. Patterson, MA, LPC, Grief & Loss Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Beth and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile The intense and painful experiences of grief are generally considered “normal.” However, when those experiences are extremely distressing, unduly interfere with ...

Mountaintop Removal

Gibson will carry powerful message about mountaint ...
More than 14,000 people have visited Larry Gibson on Kayford Mountain to see the tragic moonscape surrounding what is left of his ancestral home. Coal companies have blasted away more than 12,000 acres of Kayford Mountain by the most destructive form of surface mining - mountaintop removal.
Mike Roselle and 'Tree Spiker' (Los Angeles Times)
In his book, Roselle details his work with Earth First! and other direct-action environmental groups. Mike Roselle is in his element -- fighting a controversial coal industry practice called mountaintop removal mining in the town of Rock Creek, W. Va. "I had to bail some people out of jail," the 55- ...
Jeff Biggers: Cowed Interior to Consider Mountaint ...
It's funny how these embarrassing announcements always come on late Friday afternoon. While anti-mountaintop removal protests spread across the nation and at the EPA headquarters...
Interior Department Spins its Wheels on Mountainto ...
Washington, D.C. -- The U.S. Department of the Interior intends to delay issuing a rule that would protect Appalachian streams and communities from mountaintop removal coal mining, giving even more urgency to the need for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take action to address this destr ...
Mountaintop Removal Mining Protests Going National ...
by Vicki Smith MORGANTOWN, W.Va . - Activists with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network and other groups planned protests at Environmental Protection Agency headquarters and across the country Friday to demand the end of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia. An online map showed more than ...

Memeorandum

Democrats to resolve abortion impasse on the House ...
Lori Montgomery / Capitol Briefing : Democrats to resolve abortion impasse on the House floor — House Democratic leaders agreed Friday night to settle an impasse over abortion by letting the entire House vote on a proposed solution, a risky decision that could determine the fate of their tri ...
She Ran to Gunfire, and Ended It (James C. McKinle ...
James C. McKinley Jr / New York Times : She Ran to Gunfire, and Ended It — KILLEEN, Tex. — The police officer who brought down a gunman after he went on a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army base here was on the way to have her car repaired when she responded to a police radio report o ...
Vulnerable Democratic freshman abandon the health ...
On Politics : Vulnerable Democratic freshman abandon the health care bill — Some of the most vulnerable Democrats in the House are starting to flake off the health care bill. — There are a dozen first-term Democrats representing districts that Republican presidential nominee John McCai ...
House Democrats win round on abortion (Dana Bash/C ...
Dana Bash / CNN : House Democrats win round on abortion — Washington (CNN) — Anti-abortion Democrats will be allowed to offer an amendment during the House health care debate Saturday that would ban most abortion coverage from the public option and other insurance providers in the new so- ...
Dr. No threatening to have bill read on Senate flo ...
Chris Frates / The Politico : Dr. No threatening to have bill read on Senate floor — Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who developed a close friendship with President Obama when they served together in the Senate, is threatening to have the entire health care bill read on the Senate f ...

Energy & Environment News

Cleansing the Air at the Expense of Waterways
The pollutants that coal plants are scrubbing from their smokestacks are finding their way into water instead.
Philadelphians Reap Rewards from New York’s ...
About 2,500 tons of garbage from New York are dumped daily at a complex of landfills near Philadelphia, bringing with it host fees, donations and other perks.
Energy Producer Reaches Buyout Deal
Denbury Resources, an oil and natural gas company based in Plano, Tex., said it would buy Encore Acquisition for about $4.5 billion.
Halt to Puerto Rico’s Northeastern Nature P ...
Puerto Rico’s governor canceled the designation of part of the island’s northeastern coastline as a nature reserve, opening the door to large-scale development.
Democrats Push Climate Bill Through Panel Without ...
The move suggested that President Obama and Democratic supporters of the bill will have serious problems assembling the votes needed to enact it when it comes to the Senate floor.

5+ quakes - 7 days

M 5.1, Santa Cruz Islands
Saturday, October 31, 2009 13:03:32 UTC Sunday, November 1, 2009 12:03:32 AM at epicenter Depth : 128.30 km (79.72 mi)
M 5.1, south of the Fiji Islands
Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:38:12 UTC Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:38:12 PM at epicenter Depth : 519.90 km (323.05 mi)
M 5.4, Taiwan
Thursday, November 5, 2009 11:34:21 UTC Thursday, November 5, 2009 07:34:21 PM at epicenter Depth : 22.10 km (13.73 mi)
M 5.0, Ryukyu Islands, Japan
Thursday, November 5, 2009 09:50:14 UTC Thursday, November 5, 2009 06:50:14 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)
M 6.0, Macquarie Island region
Thursday, November 5, 2009 09:43:21 UTC Thursday, November 5, 2009 08:43:21 PM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

“China needs time”
On Thursday, Graciela Chichilnisky proposed that the carbon market is used to avoid a stand-off between the US and China at Copenhagen. Here, Simon Zadek responds. Graciela Chichilnisky’s proposal (see “ Saving Kyoto ”) offers food for thought, and an innovative mechanism of moving money elega ...
Saving Kyoto
The carbon market can be used to avoid a stand-off between the major emitters at Copenhagen and forge a consensus among nations. Graciela Chichilnisky sets out her proposal. As nations get ready for the climate-change showdown at Copenhagen in December, the pieces are falling into place for a major ...
Corporate values, green governance
The failure of companies to report environmental pollution in China exposes challenges for governments in the developed and the developing world, writes Tang Hao. Eighteen multinational and Chinese companies, all of them listed in last year's Fortune Global 500 or Fortune China 100 – including She ...
“There’s no doubt it’s getting warmer”
Receding glaciers increase the risks to already perilous lives and livelihoods high in the Himalayas. Joydeep Gupta reports from the mountains of north-west India. The annual monsoon that is the lifeline of south Asia stops at the 5,000-metre slopes of the Pir Panjal range in the Himalayas. The Tibe ...
Hard times in Siberia
For 1,000 years, Nenets people have herded reindeer on Russia’s Yamal peninsula. But their survival in the remote region is under serious threat as ancient permafrost melts, Luke Harding reports. It is one of the world’s last great wildernesses, a 700-kilometre-long peninsula of lakes and squelc ...

AlterNet Top Stories

With Unemployment at 40 Percent, Afghan Teens Enli ...
In a matter of weeks, Afghanistan's boys can go from high school students, to uniformed soldiers.
If Tea-Baggers Are Such Populists, Why not Vent Fu ...
Or maybe their anger is misdirected.
The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging ...
Because of its health benefits, many more people are turning to raw milk. But there's one hitch: Raw milk is illegal.
10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Ha ...
Wild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.
Instant Sex: Has the Digital Age Destroyed Relatio ...
Digitally-enabled mating culture has opened up the mate-finding process while also generating a whole new set of dating anxieties.

Threat Level

Report: Cyber Attacks Caused Power Outages in Braz ...
Electrical blackouts impacting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were caused by hackers targeting control systems, according to the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. In a show set to air Sunday night, CBS blames a two-day outage in Espirito Santo in 2007 on a hack attack. The blackout affect ...
National Data Breach Laws Move Through Senate
A national data breach law got closer to passage this week. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved two bills Thursday that address data security and breach notification, according to Government Information Security. The legislation was drafted in response to the plague of data thefts that have occu ...
Lawsuit Accuses Facebook of Conspiring to Break Vi ...
A Texas woman has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the company conspired with Blockbuster to violate a federal law protecting customer video-rental and sale records. The suit, filed by Cathryn Harris in U.S. District Court in Dallas, accuses Facebook of working with Blockbuster in violatio ...
Here’s That Leaked Copyright Treaty Document
The secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement document we wrote about on Wednesday appeared on Wikileaks today, and our source has cleared us to publish it here as well. We wrote that the document, (.pdf) if true, amounted to policy laundering at its finest -– that the United States was pushing t ...
Video: Raid on Romanian Bank Card Skimming Ring
Police in Romania this week swooped in on 19 members of an alleged international credit and debit card skimming ring that’s been active in Switzerland, Italy, France, and the U.S., according to local reports. Romania’s national Directorate for Countering Organized Crime staged 23 coordinated ra ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

U.S. Army gunman's act "impossible" - gr ...
AL-BIREH, West Bank, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on Saturday he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the act. "He is a doctor and loves the U.S." Ismail Mustafa H ...
U.S. Army gunman's act "impossible": grandfather
AL-BIREH, West Bank (Reuters) - The grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on Saturday he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the act.
UPDATE 2-Big California bank fails, has China bran ...
* Big San Francisco bank serving Chinese community closed
Rihanna describes night of attack by Chris Brown
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - R&B singer Rihanna broke her silence on Friday about the night her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown attacked her, saying he had bitten her, put her in a headlock and left her bleeding and swollen.
WRAPUP 3-US House Democrats scramble for healthcar ...
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Pine River World News

Wall Street bonuses to rise by 40 percent
The following commentary is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. Wall Street bonuses to rise by 40 percent © World Socialist Web Site By Patrick Martin November 6, 2009 The authors of the biggest financial catastrophe in world history - executives and traders at U.S. investme ...
Mossad hacked Syrian laptop to steal nuke plant se ...
The following article is from The Register, UK. Mossad hacked Syrian laptop to steal nuke plant secrets / Evil Maid attack led to air raid © The Register By John Leyden November 6, 2009 Mossad reportedly used a Trojan to hack into a Syrian official's laptop while he stayed in a London hotel. Th ...
Eva Golinger: Official U.S. Air Force Document Rev ...
IntelTrends - [The following article is reprinted with permission from Eva Golinger. She is the author of "The Chávez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela" (2006 Olive Branch Press) and "Bush vs. Chávez: Washington's War on Venezuela" (2007, Monthly Review Press).] Official U.S. Air Force ...
C.I.A.'s 'Blackwater' unit anchored in Peshawar
IntelTrends - The following article is reprinted with permission from Kavkaz Center, Caucasus mujahideen media. Embedded photo link appears in original article. C.I.A.'s 'Blackwater' unit anchored in Peshawar Source: Kavkaz Center November 4, 2009 Former (?) high-ranking intelligence officer of ...
Europe, Japan and USA To Trigger Major Debt Crisis
The following commentary is from Pravda, Moscow, citing RBK Daily as the source. Europe, Japan and USA To Trigger Major Debt Crisis © RBK Daily November 3, 2009 The world may face another crisis of confidence, this time in the governments of continental Europe, Great Britain, Japan, and the USA. ...

MSM Blogging

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PDA AMERICA

Diagnostic tools for Maine’s controversial g ...
This week, Maine rolled back gay marriage rights, just as California did last year with Prop 8. Many of our members have contacted us to request information on how to investigate the Maine election. Here ...
REP. WEINER WITHDRAWS SINGLE PAYER AMENDMENT FROM ...
Washington, DC â Today, Representative Anthony Weiner (D – Brooklyn and Queens), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, released the following statement on his decision to withdraw his single payer amendment ...
Chairman Waxman’s Statement on Rep. Weiner’s S ...
WASHINGTON, DC — Today Chairman Henry A. Waxman released the following statement in response to Rep. Anthony Weiner’s decision not to offer a single-payer amendment to the House Democratic health care legislation: “Rep. Anthony Weiner has ...
Rep. Conyers Applauds Rep. Weiner for Heroic Effor ...
Washington, DC – Today, Representative John Conyers, Jr.(D – MI) released the following statement applauding the work of Representative Anthony Weiner (D- NY) to promote the cause of single-payer national health care: “I want to thank ...
Pelosi Statement on Congressman Anthony Weiner’s ...
Pelosi Statement on Congressman Anthony Weiner’s Single Payer Alternative Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on Congressman Anthony Weiner’s single payer alternative: “Within the next few days, the ...

Marler Blog

Comparing the Food Safety Record of Pasteurized an ...
Part 1 and Part 2 of this series examined the historical context of the debate surrounding dairy product food safety, and the mechanisms by which pasteurized or raw dairy products may become contaminated with foodborne pathogens. Part 3 compared foodborne illnesses and disease outbreaks linked to ra ...
Food Poisoning is Serious - Read Mari's Story of a ...
I am in Beijing at yet another food safety conference. It is odd really that at each of these conferences - regardless the continent - all tend to talk about the victims of food safety failures in the abstract. Mari's story is jarringly real. Click on the below and read the three part story of a ...
Lawsuits Filed in Multistate Outbreaks of E. coli ...
I am heading to a food safety conference here in Beijing sponsored by the Chinese Government. However, we still had time to keep on top the food safety situation in the United States. The parents of Andrea Munro, 12, of Marshfield, say their daughter became infected with E. coli after eating Fairb ...
E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Grows
ABC News Reports the growing E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak is spreading West after killing two and sickening dozens in the Northeast.
E. coli Outbreak Update - Two Deaths and Twenty-Si ...
The CDC now says that two deaths and 26 other illnesses may be linked to contaminated ground beef recalled by Fairbank Farms. Lola Scott Russell, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says one of the deaths involved a New York adult with several underlying health conditi ...

AutoblogGreen

AutoblogGreen for 11.06.09
LA Auto Show Design Challenge entrants reveal Youthmobile 2030 designs And you thought the Aptera looks futuristic... CAFE credits for EVs - will we repeat the E85 system? It's not a rule yet ...
AutoblogGreen for 11.05.09
Smart Fortwo: World's Most Fuel Efficient Drift Car? The iconic city car will get tested in a scene in Night and Day , starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. SAM begins rebirth as Re-Volt in Poland ...
AutoblogGreen for 11.04.09
STUDY: Lots of local, green electricity possible for most of the U.S. Cost is an issue, but energy independence is totally possible. Driving for Economy: Suzuki Alto gets 117 mpg in Global Green Challenge ...
AutoblogGreen for 11.03.09
Editorial: Henderson's fuel cell 10X cost comments are out of context Why the cost of the Volt and the Equinox should not be compared directly. REPORT: Mini's future models roadmapped; big, small, efficie ...
Contradiction in Terms: Green in NASCAR equals 5 m ...
Filed under: Motorsports NASCAR has already gone solar and wants to help you (not themselves) use less fuel , but the cold hard reality is that those ovals are being made in cars that get around five miles per gallon. Not exactly hybrid SUV territory there. So, to reduce the amount of fossil fuel ...

Rafe's Radar

Reporters' Roundtable 9: The business of app store ...
This week on the Roundtable: the App Store revolution. Something funny has happened to software. While the model we all grew up with for the distribution of software was mostly to buy it through retail channels or other resellers, or maybe direct from manufacturers, another model emerged and has ...
Personal services get business flavor: Xobni and S ...
IT pros will often tell you that a lot of consumer technology isn't ready for the enterprise. It's not secure, it's not priced correctly, it can't be administered, yada yada. That doesn't stop businesspeople from using consumer tools in their jobs, though. It just stops ...
BT's Ribbit releasing Google Voice competitor
Sure, Google Voice is cool, but it's not necessarily the best Web-meets-phone service one can imagine, is it? The field is still open, and switchboard-in-the-cloud company Ribbit (a division of BT ) will stir things up when users get their hands on Ribbit Mobile, a new telephony service for c ...
Reporters' Roundtable: Future of the book
This week: Books, future of . With the success of the Kindle and its store, and the announced upcoming release of the Barnes & Noble Nook, there are very interesting question for consumers and publishers: What is the future of the book? To discuss this on the Roundtable I have two experts on dig ...
Let's kill the OS upgrade disc
I love upgrades. But I hate upgrade discs and upgrade pricing. Let's find a way to do away with both, or at least make the upgrade transaction a bit cleaner. Operating system upgrades The reason I'm writing this column won't be a surprise to anyone one who ...

Camera Obscura

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

Democracy Now!

"First as Tragedy, Then As Farce": Philosopher and ...
Dubbed by the National Review as “the most dangerous political philosopher in the West” and the New York Times as “the Elvis of cultural theory,” Slovenian philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek has written over fifty books on philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and po ...
The Tortured Logic Continues
“Extraordinary rendition” is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered” by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year. Just this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York City, dismissed Arar ...
The War Condolences Obama Hasn't Sent
U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Chancellor Keesling died in Iraq on June 19, 2009, from “a non-combat related incident,” according to the Pentagon. Keesling had killed himself. He was just one in what is turning out to be a record year for suicides in the U.S. military. Read More Listen to this Col ...
Afghan Peace Activist Malalai Joya Speaks on "Cris ...
Malalai Joya is one of Afghanistan’s leading democracy activists. In 2005, she became the youngest person ever elected to the Afghan parliament. She was suspended in 2007 for her denunciation of warlords and their cronies in government. She has just written her memoir, “A Woman Among Warlords: ...
Trick or Treat for Climate Change
Halloween is around the corner, and children will soon be dressing up and chanting “trick or treat,” their demand for candy backed up by the threat of a prank. Climate-change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are doing the same. Read More Listen to this Column

Farming Pathogens

A Visitation of the Influenza
In seeping through the world’s every nook and cranny, pandemics have a way of forcing themselves into our lives as a lurking presence. Even the most insular of functionaries, who typically makes his living solving problems by ignoring them, straightens up and takes notice. Â Â As an epidemic ...
I Do Like Green Eggs and Ham
Much of what we’ve addressed on this blog has focused on the epidemiological failures of industrial farming. But what of the alternatives? Can we farm in another way? Is another world possible? Â Â It’s only since I’ve moved to the Midwest that I’ve learned that not only is that world p ...
Heart of Modeling
Greed is often mistaken for humanity’s heart of darkness. Look instead to the rationalization that transforms the most rapacious pillaging into an act of benevolence. A one-ton bomb dropped on a peasant wedding party is dissembled into regret without responsibility or, baser yet, a tough love offe ...
Bird Flu’s Industrial Revolution
Public talks can be private affairs. In sharing our work we bare the triumphs and limits of a thinking born in long hours alone or with a few fellow conspirators sworn to secrecy. But in breaking our oaths we are able to take the next step. In talking bird flu twice this past month I learned [... ...
The Agro-Industrial Roots of Swine Flu H1N1
Mexico appears ground zero for an outbreak of deadly human-specific H1N1. Of the over 1400 people that have been reportedly infected there so far, 86 have died. Short chains of transmission of the virus have also been reported in California, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, New York City, Canada and New Zeal ...

Digg Green

US Refuses to Budge Over Climate Change Deal
The US has refused to sign up to a deal on climate change unless poorer countries also cut levels of pollution.
Digital TV Switch Causes 70% Rise in e-Waste
This year, the council has recycled 50,000 analogue TVs thrown away by households, of which 30,000 could have been upgraded to receive digital TV signals
Family Wind Turbines Gain Momentum (Vid)
Part of a growing trend, a Danish family of seven has installed its own wind turbine to produce all the electricity the family needs while reducing its carbon footprint.
The World's 200 Dirtiest Power Plants [Interactive ...
Sixty percent of the world's electricity comes from plants burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon. The world's 200 biggest carbon offenders among power plants. Roll over any plant for more information.
Incredible Iceberg Photography [SLIDESHOW]
David Burdeny's iceberg series shows that these frozen giants are far more than platforms for penguins: They are floating sculptures that are becoming increasingly endangered.

Invisible Opportunity

From Fort Hood to Ramakrishna. Don’t be Dece ...
By Les Visible Humanity how have you fallen so low. I saw on the S&MSM that Glenn Beck was the new Oprah. I saw that he resonates with people. Can you possibly be that stupid? You make me angry- or someone is lying about you- who can tell in these times? I am frightened for you, humanity. [...]
“Recipe” that Fosters Higher Interest and and ...
Here is part of a power point presentation from the CDC – the recipe for creating demand for vaccines. As you can see it is merely a marketing strategy with no limit to the lies and deception used. 1.Influenzaâs arrival coincides with immunization âseasonâ (i.e., when people can tak ...
All schoolchildren may be vaccinated against swine ...
By Owen Bowcott All healthy schoolchildren may be vaccinated against swine flu, the Department of Health revealed today, as it issued guidance on how to help pregnant women who catch the infection. Confirmation that the government is considering extending the vaccination programme came as the Conser ...
Has Baxter Released A BioWeapon In Ukraine?
Evidence appears to suggest that Baxter International may be responsible for a new deadly outbreak of viral pneumonia in Ukraine. (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aTo3LbhcA75I) In February of 2009, Bloomberg reported that Baxter “accidentally” sent vaccine material contain ...
Absolute Perfection: Goldman Loses Money On Just O ...
The Goldman 10-Q is out, providing numerous interesting datapoints for those willing to scour through them. The key one: Goldman lost money on just one trading day in Q3, making money on all the other 64. As a reminder, even in Q2 Goldman lost money on two trading days. The statistical probability d ...

Cognitive Research - Sciences

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Care2 Picks

Green Energy Act could create $4.5 billion in valu ...
A detailed analysis of the business case for power generators, transmitters and local distribution companies following the introduction and enactment of Ontario's Green Energy Act, finds the act has the potential to create significant value. Submitted by David Meiser to Green Lifestyle | Note-it ...
Battle at Coal River Mountain Explodes
Start of the destruction of the range slated for wind project, blasting and forest clearing reported : mining involves hazard of release of reservoirs of toxic ash deposits threatening flood of death and groundwater poisoninghttp://opitslinkfest.blogspot. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment | ...
THE TRUTH | Gather
This gentleman is amazing, and I would highly recommend that you not only read this particular post by him but, also, further explore his portfolio to read other ones of his writings. Submitted by Ainsley Jo Phillips to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Israel in Canada: Promised Lands
On the occasion of filmmakers withdrawing last month from the Toronto Film Festival in protest of Israeli involvement in the event, Eric Walberg takes a radical look at Israel's cultural and political connections in Canada Submitted by Eric W. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
War is peace, ignorance is strength
Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to his impressive record. In Afghanistan, his agents routinely extinguish wedding parties.... Submitted by Eleanor B. to US Politics & Gov't | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
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 Afghanistan Sri Lanka ...
Officials: Campus blasts perplexing - United Press ...
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 new ...
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 »
An Evolving Afghan Policy - American Chronicle
An Evolving Afghan Policy American Chronicle ... triumph for the forces of Islamic extremism, al-Qaeda would once again gain a foothold, and the return of the Taliban would likely destabilize Pakistan . ...
Schools close in Pakistan following university bom ...
Schools close in Pakistan following university bombings Emirates Business 24/7 ... in Pakistan after suspected militants bombed a university close to the capital, sowing fear across the country as the army presses a major anti- Taliban ... and more »

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

Claim: CIA Sent Prisoners Abroad to Be Boiled Aliv ...
Former British ambassador alleges CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan.
"My Kids Want to Hide Their Identity; They're ...
American Muslims, especially those who wear religious clothing such as hijabs, are often targets of hate crimes.
NYC Marathon Raises Question of Who Is American En ...
Who gets to choose who is American or American enough? And how will they choose?
23 CIA Agents Convicted in Italy for Kidnapping Eg ...
The CIA's Milan station chief at the time, Robert Seldon Lady, was sentenced to eight years in prison and othersto five years, all in their absence in the landmark trial.
The Execution of a Potentially Innocent Man Less S ...
There's something really rotten in the state of Texas.

Sideways News

Winner of the Week: Kids get growing
Although we might be told that most modern children prefer gaming to gardening, and wouldn't know a potato from a pear, the emergence of a growing tribe of eco-kids across the UK appears to be countering those perceptions. Spearheading the "grow your own" movement, these young ones are doing their ...
Santa shortage
As Christmas approaches, it appears that the UK could this year be facing an acute Santa shortage.
Baking and knitting draws students to WI
Making jam, darning and flower-arranging sound like the pastimes of a 70-year-old grandmother, not a young woman in her twenties. Yet across the UK, the Women's Institute (WI) has seen a surge in membership from students and twenty-somethings, keen to learn the age-old skills of cross-stitching and ...
First World War records put on net
The Army service records of two million British First World War soldiers who served from 1914 to 1920 have been published online for the first time. Full military careers, including medical data and service history, are contained in an average of 16 pages per soldier on the Ancestry.co.uk website. B ...
'Space lift' competition takes place
A competition has been held in the US to prove that creating an elevator that could be used to send people into space is possible.

Fabius Maximus

Recommended weekend reading
Some posts you might find of interest. “How Complex Systems Fail“, Richard I. Cook (MD, Cognitive technologies Laboratory, U Chicago), 21 April 2000 — “A Short Treatise on the Nature of Failure; How Failure is Evaluated; How Failure is Attributed to Proximate Cause; and the Resulting New Un ...
More media madness: rich fat bankers get flu vacc ...
One reason the mainstream media is dying:Â they ignore hot stories (ACORN helping child prostitution rings) while garbling those they do report.Â Covering the first provides a useful service to society, which they pass up for partisan reasons.Â Their mob-like coverage of the swine flu distr ...
Some reading recommendations!
These are all articles about which I wanted to write, but will never find the time.Â I recommend them for your reading pleasure. “DDT, Eggshells, and Me“, Ronald Bailey, Reason Magazine, 7 January 2004 — “Cracking open the facts on birds and banned pesticides.”Â A balanced look at a ...
Bernard Finel shows how to end the Af-Pak in days. ...
“IMHO, This is the Strongest Case for the Afghan War“, by Bernard Finel, 2 November 2009 — which refers to — “A Feminist Case for War?“, Michelle Goldberg, 27 October 2009 — “Women’s rights activists are conflicted over a continued U.S. presence in Afghanistan.”Â Excerpt: But ...
Update about the killings in Texas, perhaps anothe ...
As the news flows in, the Texas incident mightÂ be another example of “Sudden Jihad Syndrome” (SJS), a term coined by Daniel Pipes.Â This is the second (or 3rd) publicly-known such incident in the US military.Â Is this another crack in the structure of the US military, as predicted by th ...

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sibeledmonds: For Evening Twitters: Richard Armitage Takes Over from Scowcroft- The New Chairman of American Turkish Council http://boilingfrogspost.com
sibeledmonds: Just Out: Another Neocon is Cashing ...
sibeledmonds: Just Out: Another Neocon is Cashing in & Makes Turkish Ties & Connections Official- Richard Armitage http://boilingfrogspost.com
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sibeledmonds: Breaking News:Richard Armitage is the New Chairman of the Premier Turkish Lobby in the US-Cashing In Officially http://boilingfrogspost.com
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sibeledmonds: Coming Up Soon: Another Neocon Cashes in, becomes an Agent for Foreign Lobby. Stay Tuned...http://boilingfrogspost.com
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sibeledmonds: On Boiling Frogs Show: Stephen Kohn, one of the nation’s foremost experts on whistleblowers & WB protection law http://boilingfrogspost.com

WIRED Magazine | Science

Glow-in-the-Dark Shark Turned on by Hormones
The safe answer to how a lantern shark turns its luminescence on and off is: “Any way it wants.” Now researchers have looked into the belly of the beast and found that three hormones act as on-off switches for these glow-in-the-dark sharks. It is the first discovery of hormones controlling b ...
Vet School 2.0: Stick Your Hand Up a Virtual Cow B ...
There’s nothing tidy about sticking your arm deep into a cow’s backside, getting up to your elbows in warm and gooey bovine innards. digg_url ="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/haptic-cow/"; But for new vet students, there’s no avoiding the procedure: To diagnose pregnancy or check f ...
Signature of Antimatter Detected in Lightning
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Designed to scan the heavens thousands to billions of light-years beyond the solar system, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has now recorded some more down-to-Earth signals. During its first 14 months of operation, the flying observatory has detected 17 gamma-ray flashes ass ...
Close Encounter with Saturn Moon’s Fantastic Plu ...
Earlier this week, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took its deepest dive ever through the center of the icy plume shooting out from the southern pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. NASA reports that the spacecraft survived Monday’s flyby in good health, and is now transmitting eagerly awaited data and ...
Out of the Blue: Islands Seen From Space
> Islands are some of the most beautiful, peaceful, violent, desolate and unique places on Earth. While experiencing a tropical island from its sandy beaches, or a volcanic island from its towering peaks is wonderful, experiencing them from above [...]

The Progressive Realist

Weekly Standard Prepping for War With Russia
Russian soldier in Kosovo Justin Logan observes that The Weekly Standard seems to have spun its Great Wheel of Enemies again and today we’re supposed to be getting ready to fight not Iran or North Korea but Russia . After three paragraphs of suggesting that we should be doing more to get in ...
The Role of a United Europe
"We need partners. We need allies -- and our natural ally is Europe," former Ambassador Nicholas Burns said to the audience at a European Institute at Columbia University event. During his speech, part of the Donald and Vera Blinken lecture series , Burns addressed Europe's critics."It's so fashiona ...
Arabs Angry with Obama's Middle East Peace Strateg ...
It has been truly disappointing to watch our Middle East strategy visibly collapse these last few weeks as American officials have turned a blind eye to Israeli settlement building. To their credit, the Obama administration had initially been relatively clear, at least for several months , on the ne ...
Winning Turkey’s Support on Iran
There’s enough Turkey for everyone this season. The United States has Ankara’s support for stopping the spread of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, and the Islamic Republic of Iran enjoys Ankara’s backing of the Iranian nuclear program. One day, however, Turkey will need to choose whose sid ...
Trying to Get Beyond the Afghan Civil War
For some time, I have been writing that the US has lost site of its al Qaeda-rationalized strategic objectives in Afghanistan and stumbled into a civil war. Recently resigned US official Matthew Hoh also frames the challenge in Afghanistan as that of a 35 year old civil war in which the forces are ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

Lightning Round: It's a Center-Right Nation, and W ...
Kevin Drum takes a look at the arduous process to extend unemployment benefits, noting that after weathering three filibusters, the legislation passed unanimously . It's a good example of modern Republican obstructionism, and a handy reminder that institutional reform is something Democrats in Cong ...
Why Cost Control for Medical Devices Is Likely To ...
As Ezra noted earlier this week, much of the reason that American health care is so expensive is because we pay so much per-unit of care, whether it's a prescription or a CT scan. In order to insure health care remains affordable and that reform is sustainable in the long term, these costs need to b ...
Salam: Hasan's "Other Victims" Are "Millions Of Mu ...
Reihan Salam weighs in on the Ft. Hood shootings: The danger is that Hasan 's despicable crime will subtly and slowly change these perceptions for the worse. Overnight, Twitter feeds and message boards pulsed with anti-Muslim anger. This kind of venting is important to a free society. But it could ...
Adam Schiff, Ted Poe, Introduce HOPE Legislation.
Mark A.R. Kleiman 's book, When Brute Force Fails , has been making the rounds in the blogosphere, from Matt Yglesias to The Economist to The Volokh Conspiracy . The book is about how to improve criminal justice policy so that America has "less crime and less punishment." A centerpiece of Kleiman's ...
Obama's So Speedy, It Looks Like He's Hardly Moved ...
David Brooks has a column on the independents in the wake of Tuesday's election, deploying his usual technique of communing with them via stereotypes -- "They’re looking for a safe pair of hands." The piece is economically unserious and also follows the time-tested pundit model of demanding politi ...

Andy Worthington

Italian Judge Rules “Extraordinary Rendition ...
In an unprecedented ruling in a courtroom in Milan, at the end of a trial that — in fits and starts — has lasted for over two years, 22 CIA agents and a US Air Force Colonel received sentences of between five and eight years (and two Italian agents received three-year sentences) for their involv ...
Military Commissions Revived: Don’t Do It, Mr. P ...
I was so delighted that the Defense Authorization Act, signed into law by President Obama last Wednesday, included a hard-won concession that the administration can transfer prisoners from Guantánamo to the mainland to face trials (even though the legislation still bears the fingerprints of interfe ...
Guantánamo Uighurs In Palau: First Interview And ...
In the first interview with one of the six Uighurs recently released from Guantánamo to the Pacific nation of Palau, Radio Free Asia in Washington D.C. spoke by phone to Anwar Hassan, who revealed that, although the men were enjoying their new-found freedom, they were all concerned that they were u ...
Who Are The Six Uighurs Released From Guantánamo ...
At the weekend, six of the remaining 13 Uighurs in GuantÃ¡namo — Muslims from Chinaâs Xinjiang province — were released to resume new lives in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau (population: 20,000). I have written at length about the plight of GuantÃ¡namoâs Uighurs, innocent men cau ...
Justice Denied: Voices from Guantánamo – ne ...
In summer, ACLU representatives traveled to the UK to interview five former Guantánamo prisoners: Moazzam Begg and Omar Deghayes (both featured in my new film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” co-directed by Polly Nash), plus Bisher al-Rawi, Ruhal Ahmed and Shafiq Rasul (the latter ...

Buzzflash

An 'authentic GOP': bamboozling swing voters, as a ...
Body "President Obama and the Democratic leadership in Washington have rebranded themselves as the party of economic irresponsibility." Thus wrote, in a ruthless affront to recent history, Republican strategist Alex Castellanos. It came in the third paragraph of a rather compressed, poss ...
All Opinions Are Not Equally Relevant
Body The mainstream media has a tendency to talk about news sources as if they were just expressing opposing views of a given issue, even though it should be apparent by now that nothing of the sort is true. There are even those in the general population who acquiesce in some tortured se ...
A short trip through the cyberland of right-wing d ...
Body How much do we really know about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the 39-year-old Army psychiatrist who went on a killing spree yesterday at Fort Hood, Texas? Not much. He was born and raised in Virginia, was medically trained by the Army, became disillusioned with his career and employer wh ...
What Defeated Gay Marriage Advocates in Maine Coul ...
BE ELECTED by Meg White No one should be surprised by voters in Breckenridge, CO voting for the decriminalization of marijuana at the polls yesterday. After all, the area strongly supported a failed effort in 2006 to legalize state-wide . But for those of us who have lived in Colorado, the fact that ...
BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 4, 2009
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Glenn Greenwald - Salon

A media orgy of rumors, speculation and falsehoods
Last night, right-wing blogger (and law professor) Glenn Reynolds promoted this media analysis from right-wing blogger (and Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney) Patterico regarding coverage of the Fort Hood shootings. Patterico wrote: "Whenever there is breaking news, it’s good to kee ...
Pulsating diversity of views on the Post Op-Ed pag ...
"I know many readers, particularly liberals, feel we have too many conservative voices on the page. On the other hand, I hear from a lot of conservative readers who think we have too many people they consider too liberal (Dionne, Robinson, Meyerson, Marcus, et al.). We try to provide a range of vi ...
Criminal convictions of 22 CIA agents in Italy
(updated below) The criminal conviction of 22 CIA agents (and 2 Italian intelligence officers) by an Italian court yesterday -- for the 2003 kidnapping of an Islamic cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, off the street in Italy and his "rendition" to Egypt to be tortured -- highlights several vi ...
Stephanopoulos and Ledeen: together in the most a ...
(updated below - Update II) Michael Ledeen of National Review & American Enterprise Institute, writing in "Pajamas Media," January 4, 2007 : BREAKING NEWS -- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, is dead. Associated Press, January 7, 2007 -- 3 days later : Khamenei addre ...
Extreme unintended irony from a WH official
From Ben Smith's Politico article on the surprisingly narrow victory by Michael Bloomberg in the New York mayoral race: Bloomberg’s meager five-point win left Democrats pondering what might have been if New York’s Democratic donors hadn’t turned their back on Thompson, if its politicians h ...

The BiPartisan Report

Betsy’s Bullshit, Round 2
The difference between politics and governing
The GOP and Dems win, conservatives lose
How the future of the GOP is being decided in New ...
It’s kinda odd when you think about it. The future of the Republican Party is being played out in two places that look very different at first glance: liberal New York and conservative... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Time to boycott Rush Limbaugh sponsors
The boycott of Glenn Beck’s sponsors seems to be effective. Last I heard the man was running out of advertising options. CNN, after getting rid of Beck, is now looking to dump Lou Dobbs for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Sciencebase

Alchemical Anomalies
In the current issue of The Alchemist we learn how to stick methane molecules to metals without breaking carbon-hydrogen bonds and how to make impossible carbene catalysts without the usual prerequisite of an attendant metal centre. Another seeming impossibility comes to light: a new microscopy tech ...
Twitter science list categories
The manually compiled Scientwists list of science people on Twitter grew from around 100 of my contacts in January 2009 to almost 700 members, who asked to join or who retweeted the link as of October. Justin Reid helped automate the inclusion of bios and photos and 2020science did some amazing anal ...
My Whole Cell Twitter Interview
Laura Bonetta wrote and excellent article for the science journal Cell recently in which she quoted various science types who use Twitter on the subject of whether or not scientists should be tweeting. It’s a topic I’ve discussed more generally regarding scientists’ use of social media and onl ...
Categories for science tweeps
Okay. Okay. Pressure was on to categorise my scientwist list…so I’ve made a start. First off, the spillover (lots of tweeps in the T to Z group from the TweepML.org version of my scientwist list, which has 650 members of thereabouts) have now each been given a category as I cannot squeeze them i ...
Scientists on Twitter
Regulars will know that I’ve compiled and recompiled lists of science types on Twitter for mutual benefit. It started out as a list of 100 of my own Twitter friends back in January 2009, who happened to be in science and gradually grew to well over 600 members by November 2009. However, just as I ...

change: org.

Surprise! Farmers Grow Hearty Crops to Survive War
Subsistence farmers in African war zones keep themselves alive in dangerous circumstances by leaning on intuition and age-old farming logic that goes like this: when in tough conditions, reuse whatever field you've got, grow the hardiest plants and when fleeing, take the hardiest seeds with you. Doi ...
A View from (Under) the Bridge
On paper, Leonard Grant might say that a combination of unemployment, addiction, and mental health caused his homelessness. But that's not the whole story. Even these reasons for homelessness can have their own causes. You see, Grant tragically lost his son in a car accident, which sent his world sp ...
The Senators -- and the Yankees -- Need to Get On ...
The New York Yankees may be World Champions, but they’re noteworthy this year for another reason: they have come up with the most obnoxious way to prolong games. All other teams in baseball have “mound conferences” -- timeouts when the catcher, the pitcher and sometimes the pitching coach m ...
Tragedies and Gun Laws
Two tragic, violent shooting sprees in two days. Even in a country as desensitized to violence as the U.S., the events of this week have been jarring. These tragedies should remind us why gun control laws are important and should be expanded. First, I want to say that the victims of these horrible c ...
My Name is Maria and I am Undocumented
[This week's DREAM Act guest post comes from Maria, who believes that undocumented students deserve the chance to prove themselves. Visit Dreamactivist.org to find out how you can help pass the DREAM Act ]. The year of 1996 was the year when I began to try new things, the year when my mother, two-ye ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

CREW Asks for Investigation Into Why Wall Street I ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 5, 2009 CREW Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to investigate why the Center for Disease Control (CDC) approved the distribution of the H1NI vaccine to Wall Street firms a ...
Gulf Coast Communities Praise EPA Plan to Limit PV ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 5, 2009 Earthjustice Edgar Mouton, 74, has lived in Mossville, Louisiana for all his life and for most of those years he's lived near a PVC plant. In his community Mr. Mouton said there are unnatural rates of cancer, lung disease and asthma -- which he believes is dir ...
Proposed Carlsbad Desalination Project to Cost Up ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 5, 2009 Food & Water Watch Water produced at Poseidon Resources proposed desalination facility in Carlsbad, Calif. could cost up to three times more than previously claimed by the company, according to an independent expert analysis released today by Food & Water Watch ...
EU Says Hopes Are Fading for a Legally Binding Cli ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 5, 2009 Oxfam International Responding to the announcement by the EU that hopes are fading for a legally binding climate deal in Copenhagen, Antonio Hill, climate advisor for Oxfam International said: "Today is ground-hog day. We have been here before. Two years ago, r ...
Ohio Elections Commission Pursues Frivolous Case A ...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 5, 2009 Food & Water Watch Today, the Ohio Elections Commission acted to deny Food & Water Watch's constitutional right of free speech to discuss the connection between confined animal feeding operations (CAFO) and swine flu. The Commission's panel decided to allow the ...

Common Dreams-Views

The Republican Party Has Failed–And That’s Not ...
by Chris Edelson The Republican party's failure has me thinking of a Seinfeld episode, the one where Kramer is upset about a Kenny Rogers Roasters restaurant featuring a bright neon sign that lights up his apartment at night . Jerry has an old college friend who winds up working as an assistant ma ...
I’ll Bet the 10.2 Percent Can’t Keep What They ...
by Donna Smith Hey There, Congress and Mr. President. It's your citizens. Lots of us are losing jobs and benefits. We cannot keep the benefits we've got when we lose our jobs. In fact it's really hard to keep paying all the bills without a job and an income. The new jobless numbers are alarming ...
Three Steps to Save Wall Street
by Mike Lapham For the first time in decades, Washington is daring to tackle financial reform. It took the collapse of the whole sector and the resulting public outrage to get them started, and it will take pressure to keep them going. It’s not certain that Congress and the Obama administration wi ...
2014 or Bust: In Afghanistan, The Pentagon Digs In
by Nick Turse In recent weeks, President Obama has been contemplating the future of U.S. military operations in Afghanistan. He has also been touting the effects of his policies at home, reporting that this year's Recovery Act not only saved jobs, but also was "the largest investment in infrastructu ...
Economic Growth Has Failed Us. What's the Alternat ...
by Tim Jackson Economic growth is supposed to deliver prosperity. Higher incomes should mean better choices, richer lives, an improved quality of life for us all. That at least is the conventional wisdom. But things haven't always turned out that way. Growth has delivered its benefits, at best, uneq ...

Karl Burkart

Mom and son face off with the law for biking to sc ...
Saratoga Springs school district prohibits kids from biking to school, but a mom and her son defied the law. A state trooper was there to greet them.
Plant some virtual carbon seeds
A model for future carbon calculators, Bloom offers a wide array of 'carbon seeds' visualizing how little actions can add up to something big.
Greyhound's eco-bus vs. flying...
Which one is greener?
Winds of Change in Denmark
Australia ABC TV's in-depth look at how Denmark is going carbon neutral.
Corporate watchdogs target Ronald McDonald
Corporate Accountability International launches 'Where's Ronald' scavenger hunt to document direct-to-child marketing of junk food.

Water Privatization

Official warns against water privatization (The Da ...
PELL CITY — A national food and water watch official says the city is moving in the wrong direction by hiring a private company to manage one of its vital resources — water.
Decision could be made soon on water privatization ...
PELL CITY — Mayor Bill Hereford said no decision about hiring a private company to manage the city’s water department was made, but the hiring process is moving forward.
Privatizing water would cost city millions each ye ...
Privatizing the Milwaukee Water Works could cost water customers at least $17 million more each year than the city would bring in from a long-term lease, says a study by privatization opponents. But that study assumes that the state would approve a rate increase of more than 50% above today's prices ...
Flashback - Nov. 1999-2003 (Saipan Tribune)
Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio issued fresh instructions to Cabinet officials to tighten public spending during a meeting he convened yesterday to assess the financial condition of the government amid the absence of a fiscal budget for year 2000. The Cabinet meeting-the first in more than two months-also dis ...
Spin Cycle - Taking action in a ‘global economy ...
Everything is spiritual. That was the thought stuck in my head after listening to a recent lecture at the University of Waterloo by Dr. Vandana Shiva, an “eco-feminist” who has fought for a democracy that doesn’t allow for the exploitation of food and water sources.

Guardian

Police unit faces calls to end 'culture of impunit ...
Of more than 5,000 complaints against squad, less than 0.18% were upheld Scotland Yard faced calls for an "ethical audit" of all officers in its controversial riot squad tonight after figures revealed that they had received more than 5,000 complaint allegations, mostly for "oppressive behaviour". De ...
Obama calls for calm after Fort Hood
President joins calls for calm across the US in wake of Fort Hood shooting spree that left 13 dead Barack Obama today joined calls from across America for calm amid fears of a backlash in the wake of the shooting spree by a Muslim soldier at the Fort Hood that left 13 dead and 28 wounded. Obama, spe ...
PM wants global bank bailout fund
The prime minister tells G20 taxpayers must be protected from bearing the cost of failure by world's banks The prime minister, Gordon Brown, has called for a new "economic and social contract" with the world's banks to ensure that the cost of their failure would never again be borne by taxpayers. Ad ...
Euromillions pair win £45m each
Ticketholders come away with record prize, each of which eclipses previous biggest jackpot by £10m Two British ticketholders have each won a record-breaking jackpot of more than £45m in the latest EuroMillions draw. They will each receive £45,570,835.50 – making them the UK's biggest ever lotte ...
Murder hunt over house fire
Cornwall mother Mary Fox was trapped in burning house after saving her son, who may have been target of attack Police have launched a murder inquiry after a woman died in a house fire caused by a firework pushed through the letterbox. Mary Fox, 59, became trapped in the house in Carpenter Court, Bod ...

Diigo | Green Community

U.N. Talks in Spain Seek to Salvage Climate Deal
Climate negotiators from 175 nations meet in Spain next week for a final session to try to break deadlock between rich and poor and salvage a U.N. deal due in Copenhagen in December. Comments: Climate negotiators from 175 nations meet in Spain next week for a final session to try to break deadlock b ...
EU Agrees Final Stance For Copenhagen Climate Talk ...
European Union leaders agreed an offer Friday to put on the table at global climate talks in Copenhagen in December after healing a rift over how to split the bill. Comments: European Union leaders agreed an offer Friday to put on the table at global climate talks in Copenhagen in December after hea ...
French Firm Pushes Carbon Capture Solution at us C ...
Eyeing lucrative markets in China, India and beyond, French firm Alstom on Friday unveiled the world's largest carbon capture facility at a coal plant -- a technology backers hope will fuel a new multi-billion dollar industry and keep the coal industry alive. Comments: Eyeing lucrative markets in Ch ...
S.Africa's Tutu criticizes world leaders on climat ...
Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu criticized European Union leaders on Friday for standing in the way of a global deal to combat climate change. Comments: Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu criticized European Union leaders on Friday for standing in the way of a global deal to combat climate change. ...
Will U.S. go empty-handed to world climate talks?
Without a new law requiring cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. could end up going empty-handed to the international climate talks in December. Comments: Without a new law requiring cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. could end up going empty-handed to the international climate talks i ...

Electronic Intifada

Sussex University students vote to boycott Israeli ...
Students at the University of Sussex, England have voted to boycott Israeli goods. The decision follows the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, which calls up ...
UN vote overwhelmingly supports Goldstone report
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last winter is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill ...
Gaza students organize for justice
In order to find sustainable alternatives to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict a new group calling itself the Justice Makers has been formed across the law departments in Palestinian universitie ...
Israeli soldiers, settlers violate Palestinian wom ...
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territ ...
Interview: Living under constant fear of arrest
Mohammed Ahmed Issa Yassen, 20, lives in the occupied West Bank village of Bilin, where he works in his family's car garage business as a mechanic. He is also a student at the al-Quds Open University, ...

CS Monitor - News

October 16, 2009
The UN Human Rights Council votes to adopt the Goldstone Report on Israel's military incursion into Gaza.
October 19, 2009
Saudi Arabia is wary of terrorists, especially from neighboring states.
October 20, 2009
How some TV insiders view parents and children on reality television.
October 21, 2009
How African Anglicans might respond to the Vatican's offer.
October 23, 2009
US-China economic relations, Microsoft and Wall Street, and September home sales.

The Wonk Room

House Democrats Will Consider Stupak’s Abort ...
During yesterday’s all-night marathon hearing before the House Rules Committee to consider which amendments would be introduced during floor debate of the House health care bill, the Committee agreed to allow the full House to vote on Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-MI) amendment to effectively ban plans ...
Jon Stewart Joins Critics: The Science Of SuperFre ...
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart has joined the critics who found that SuperFreakonomics got climate science wrong. When economist Steven Levitt came on the show to promote the book on October 27th, Stewart defended his work, wondering if critics were just part of a “secular religion.” Levitt had ...
Joe Wilson And GOP Colleagues Lie About Immigrants ...
Today, Rep. Joe ‘You Lie’ Wilson (R-SC) staged a press conference with several other Republican congressmen during which Wilson and his colleagues repeatedly lied about taxpayers funding the health care coverage of 2.5 million additional undocumented immigrants under H.R. 3962. WILSON: I am so ...
Rep. Virginia Foxx Suggests It’s Better To B ...
During this afternoon’s Rules Committee hearing to determine which amendments would be introduced during floor debate of the House health care bill, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) suggested that it’s better to be uninsured than enrolled in the government’s Medicaid program. “I want to ask you if ...
Panel: Iran Will Look To Repair Regional Appeal Da ...
The unrest and repression in Iran following the country’s controversial elections is reversing some of the regional political gains that the Islamic regime enjoyed as a result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a panel at the University of Maryland today. Speaking at the symposium After t ...

thwap's schoolyard

Making Things Easy for Ezra Levant ...
... to understand. Ezra, imagine this: The Liberal Party of Canada returns to power. Traumatized by the years of cruel bullying they endured at the hands of the psychopathic harper, and determined to use their power to make sure they're never put in such a painful position ever again, they decide ...
Life's a Bitch, and Then You Die
That is all.
Jeffrey Simpson, Rick Hillier and Brian Platt
I don't have a whole heckuva lotta time for Jeffrey "Public Healthcare is Expensive!!!!" Simpson, but yesterday he had something interesting to say. It seems there's a bit of a difference between how former CF head Rick Hillier sees his contribution to Canada's getting mixed-up in Afghanistan and ho ...
I'm Not Even Sure if This is a Good Version
I'm just posting something for the sake of posting something ...
Excellent Murray Dobbin Editorial
I'm linking to this editorial at "The Tyee" so that I can find it more easily when I want to: " Canada Must Forge Its Own Economic Fate " I don't agree with everything in it, particularly some of his pessimism about the US economy, but the overall idea, .... that our geniuses in politics and busines ...

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Blacklisted News

Blackwater hiring ex-Pak security officials on min ...
According to The Nation, the US firm has offered some of the retired Pakistani officials a whopping salary package of 60,000 dollar per month.
Auto Execs Urge Government to Tax Fuel up to $8/Ga ...
CEO at leading parts supplier: "Energy independence...ultimately means that fuel has to be more expensive"
Mission accomplished! ExxonMobil-led consortium ne ...
An ExxonMobil-led consortium has beaten rival Russian, French and Chinese groups to bag initial rights to develop Iraq’s West Qurna field, the Oil Ministry said.
Why Does The U.S. Have An Empire In Asia?
The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate.
US unemployment soared to a 26-year high of 10.2% ...
The unemployment rate in the U.S. soared to a 26-year high of 10.2 percent in October and employers cut more jobs than forecast, underscoring why Federal Reserve policy makers say interest rates will remain low until the labor market recovers.

The Intelligence Daily

Five more banks fail - 120 for the year
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Let's Postpone those elections: Ukraine epidemic k ...
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Nothing left to say: Bravo, Chancellor Merkel - A ...
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UK: Sex and drug lessons from age 5
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My AntiWar

Afghans Have Serious Doubts About US Escalation
Israel?s Deputy FM Insists Threats to Attack Iran ...
Summary: Amid speculation that Israel?s threats to attack Iran, which have persisted for years, are just a bluff, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon insisted that the threat of an attack is very real. source: Anti Warread more
Three Former Defense Chiefs Slam British PM’ ...
UN Chief: Contrary to Reports, UN Not Leaving Afgh ...
Taliban Turns Screws on UN in Afghanistan

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Rogue Government.com

Mission accomplished! ExxonMobil-led consortium n ...
An ExxonMobil-led consortium has beaten rival Russian, French and Chinese groups to bag initial rights to develop Iraq’s West Qurna field, the Oil Ministry said, adding momentum to Iraq’s bid to unlock its oil riches.
Counter-terror plans will be revised to reflect F ...
A soldier turning on his comrades at Fort Hood, an Afghan policeman killing the British soldiers who trained him - two uncannily similar events in two days, but incidents which, across the Western world, security authorities have been planning for and dreading.
Jobless Rate Tops 10 Percent
The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 -- and is likely to go higher.
12 Killed 31 Wounded In Fort Hood Shooting
Pentagon pursuing new investigation into Bush pro ...

Innovation Canada

Viral control
Depending on whom you ask, the H1N1 flu virus that is making its way around the globe could be anything from a particularly virulent form of influenza to the next worldwide pandemic. As virologists scramble to understand the virus and develop vaccines against it, a Halifax facility is already on the ...
Fear factor
Let’s say you’re wandering through a deserted alley late one foggy October night. You turn a corner, and lo and behold, you’re surrounded by a crowd of brain-thirsty zombies. Your pulse quickens, your amygdala fires, your respiration is off the charts. You try to run, but you trip and fall. As ...
Fuels of the future?
A recession-related dip in flight demand might actually be considered a green blessing. Just a small one, mind you. The David Suzuki Foundation estimates that aviation is responsible for up to nine percent of the total global climate-change impact of human activity, so it would take a huge drop to ...
i2eye with Bif Naked
The last few years have been a roller-coaster ride for Bif Naked. After two years of touring, TV work and datelessness following her 2005 album Superbeautifulmonster, the Vancouver-based alt-rock singer-songwriter — whose real name is Beth Walker — met and married her husband, sportswriter Ian W ...
Cultural evolution
When Jane Goodall reported her observations of tools use by chimps to famed anthropologist Louis Leakey, he responded by saying, “Now we must redefine tool, redefine man or accept chimpanzees as humans.” Leakey would have likely had a similar reaction to the current work of University of Calgary ...

Signs of the times

Babies are found to cry in their mother tongue
They may not be old enough to talk, but babies less than a week old know how to cry in their native language. Researchers have known that infants have the ability to mimic speech starting around 12 weeks of age. Babies also show a preference for spoken language that mirrors the rhythm, melody and i ...
7 Afghans killed during missing U.S. troops search
KABUL (Reuters) - NATO forces mistakenly killed seven Afghan soldiers and police in an air strike during a battle while searching for two missing American soldiers in Afghanistan, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Saturday. The NATO-led force said none of its troops were killed but five were woun ...
US: boy, 10, allegedly shot father in head
A recording of a six-minute call to emergency dispatchers obtained today reveals the moments after a 10-year-old boy allegedly shot his father in the head. "Just get a doctor over here!" the boy is heard to say. "Please hurry up. It looks like he's dying." His father, 42-year-old Byron Hilburn, wa ...
Families Suffer From Problem Gambling
Many people perceive gambling to be a harmless recreational activity. However, it is estimated that six to eight million people in the United States personally suffer from a gambling related problem. This problem seems to grow tentacles, extending out to wreak havoc and can profoundly impact the phy ...
Physical Education Key To Improving Health In Low- ...
School-based physical education plays a key role in curbing obesity and improving fitness among adolescents from low-income communities, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley. The study, which identifies opportunities for adolesce ...

Threat Level

Report: Cyber Attacks Caused Power Outages in Braz ...
Electrical blackouts impacting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were caused by hackers targeting control systems, according to the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. In a show set to air Sunday night, CBS blames a two-day outage in Espirito Santo in 2007 on a hack attack. The blackout affect ...
National Data Breach Laws Move Through Senate
A national data breach law got closer to passage this week. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved two bills Thursday that address data security and breach notification, according to Government Information Security. The legislation was drafted in response to the plague of data thefts that have occu ...
Lawsuit Accuses Facebook of Conspiring to Break Vi ...
A Texas woman has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the company conspired with Blockbuster to violate a federal law protecting customer video-rental and sale records. The suit, filed by Cathryn Harris in U.S. District Court in Dallas, accuses Facebook of working with Blockbuster in violatio ...
Here’s That Leaked Copyright Treaty Document
The secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement document we wrote about on Wednesday appeared on Wikileaks today, and our source has cleared us to publish it here as well. We wrote that the document, (.pdf) if true, amounted to policy laundering at its finest -– that the United States was pushing t ...
Video: Raid on Romanian Bank Card Skimming Ring
Police in Romania this week swooped in on 19 members of an alleged international credit and debit card skimming ring that’s been active in Switzerland, Italy, France, and the U.S., according to local reports. Romania’s national Directorate for Countering Organized Crime staged 23 coordinated ra ...

PERRspectives : Blog

Bush to "Replenish the Ol' Coffers" as Motivationa ...
Back in September 2007, George W. Bush revealed his plans for life after the White House. First, Mr. Bush said, "I'll give some speeches, just to replenish the ol' coffers." The following July, Kathryn Jean Lopez, one of his bath...
Gingrich and Perry Tout Texas Health Care Mess
Everything, they say, is bigger in the Texas. So it is with the failure of the health care system. Leading the nation with a jaw-dropping 25% of its residents uninsured, Texas ranked 46th in the Commonwealth Fund's 2009 scorecard of...
Republican Malpractice Myths
In recent days, Republican leaders have scored a series of political victories in their eternal quest for tort reform. Last week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) told Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) that an onerous package of malpractice curbs he championed...
Gingrich and Perry Tout Texas Health Care Mess
Everything, they say, is bigger in the Texas. So it with the failure of the health care system. Leading the nation with a jaw-dropping 25% of its residents uninsured, Texas ranked 46th in the Commonwealth Fund's 2009 scorecard of state...
Limbaugh Calls Obama a "Man-Child." Again.
Rush Limbaugh is like a faulty septic tank, always overflowing and spewing s**t everywhere. In addition to his frequent racist diatribes, Limbaugh's effluence routinely contains such on-air vulgarisms as "grab the ankles" and "bend over." Now, the right-wing radio host...

Blackspot News Feed

With Unemployment at 40 Percent, Afghan Teens Enli ...
In a matter of weeks, Afghanistan's boys can go from high school students, to uniformed soldiers.
If Tea-Baggers Are Such Populists, Why not Vent Fu ...
Or maybe their anger is misdirected.
Instant Sex: Has the Digital Age Destroyed Relatio ...
Digitally-enabled mating culture has opened up the mate-finding process while also generating a whole new set of dating anxieties.
10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Ha ...
Wild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.
The Push to Drink Raw Milk Really Is Revolutionary
Because of its health benefits, many more people are turning to raw milk. But there's one hitch: Raw milk is illegal.

Consortium News

How Two Elections Changed America
Secret Republican operations around elections in 1968 and 1980 set the U.S. on today's troubled course, says Robert Parry. November 4, 2009
Heeding George Kennan's Sage Advice
Famed diplomat George Kennan's early warning about Vietnam applies as well to Afghanistan today, writes Ray McGovern. November 3, 2009
Will a Surge Work in Afghanistan
Washington insiders are pressing President Obama to order a "surge" in Afghanistan, but Ivan Eland questions that wisdom. November 3, 2009
Chomsky Doubts Change from Obama
Noam Chomsky says Barack Obama alone cannot change the course of U.S. foreign policy, Mamoon Alabbasi reports. November 3, 2009
The Incredible Shrinking Public Option
Congressional concessions to the insurance industry have shrunk the public option to almost nothing, says Robert Parry. November 2, 2009

CounterPunch

Institute for Middle East Understanding

U.S. State Department: Israel is not a tolerant so ...
Israel fails the requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department. Despite boasting religious freedom and protection of all holy sites, Israel lacks t ...
UN endorses Gaza war crimes report (Al Jazeera)
The United Nations General Assembly has voted in favor of resolution endorsing a UN-sponsored report into war crimes committed during Israel's war on Gaza. The Goldstone report, which accuses both Israel an ...
Palestinians who see nonviolence as their weapon ...
Every Friday, Mohammed Khatib's forces assemble for battle with the Israeli army and gather their weapons: a bullhorn, banners - and a fierce belief that peaceful protest can bring about a Palestinian state. ...
Abbas' move highlights failure of peace process ( ...
Who can replace Abbas? (Ali Waked, Ynet News)
In the wake of Mahmoud Abbas' inclination not to run for-reelection as Palestinian Authority president, the rumor mill is working overtime in respect to possible replacements. Should Abbas follow through on ...

Water - AlterNet

Why Natural Gas Is Not a Clean Energy Panacea
Natural gas is "clean" only in contrast to coal -- just as a bacon cheeseburger can only be regarded as healthful compared with a double bacon cheeseburger.
Three Gorges Dam: The World's Largest Boondoggle t ...
After 27 million cubic meters of concrete have been poured, 1.3 million people have been displaced and up to $88 billion have been spent, it is now time to take stock.
New Remarkable Numbers Released: Water Use in the ...
It is possible to improve the efficiency of water use and such improvements eliminate the need for expensive and environmentally damaging new supply.
Who Is Stealing California's Water?
We must stop pretending that water is free and unlimited, available to anyone who can put a siphon in a river or drill another groundwater well.
Water, Forests and Farms in New York State Threate ...
The future of this ecologically rich area is now in the hands of oil and gas companies that have leased thousands of acres to drill in the Marcellus Shale.

TruthHugger

We Have One Twisted Health System, Living Organ Do ...
The status quo for health insurers is minimalist investment in customers, maximum investment into political influence.Â Greasy palms are the face of public health insurance in congress.Â Genuine discussion about cost effectiveness and practical application take a back seat to the fears of equi ...
Barbara Ann Radnofsky Launches New Campaign Websit ...
For Immediate Release [...]
Arrogant Health Care Insurers make Public Option n ...
Uninsured human beings are the greatest threat to Public Health. Healthy conservatives just don't get it.
Sabotage Experts: US Coast Guard Exercise on 9/11, ...
Coast Guard to review exercise after Potomac security scare Security incident on Potomac River prompted by “training exercise,” two police sources say Coast Guard told them. With the nation already on edge and somewhat paranoid on September 11 each year, what is the LAST thing you want to do? ...
Texas Progressive Alliance August 31, 2009
It’s the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here are this week’s highlights. The Texas Cloverleaf wonders why only one person showed up to a budget meeting where taxes are being increased in Denton County. No ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

Uighur prisoner asks what is the difference betwee ...
by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 4 November 2009 At the
Greg Palast: Somebody Has Been Sitting on the FBI ...
by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com GregPalastOffice November 03, 2009
Climate Change and the Ventura Case Study By Nikki ...
By Nikki Alexander Featured Writer Dandelion Salad http://nikkialexander.wordpress.com Nov. 6, 2009
Talking with Activist Howard Zinn + The People's H ...
Interview with Howard Zinn Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Nov. 6, 2009 Eight Forty-Eight Today, we
Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires or just a gr ...
By William Bowles Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Creative-i 6 November 2009 “The US does not need a

Unexplained Mysteries

Large Hadron Collider broken by bread
In a bizarre turn of events the Large Hadron Collider has suffered from overheating when a passing bird dropped a piece of baguette on to the equi...
Socorro UFO witness Zamora dies
Policeman Lonnie Zamora, a witness to one of the most well known UFO incidents, the Socorro incident of 1964, has died of a heart attack. Zamora's...
Is feeling grumpy good for you ?
An Australian psychology expert has found that being grumpy is actually beneficial in that it helps us think more clearly, in his study of emotion...
Colossal "sea monster" unearthed
The massive fossilised skull of a gargantuan predatory sea creature, the pliosaur, has been unearthed along the UK's Jurassic Coast. The creature ...
Space junk increases danger for future
British space experts have warned that the growing amount of debris flying around in space represents an increasing risk of an orbital crash in ad...

Grassroots

The U.S. Can Still Do the Right Thing in Honduras
Honduras_detenidos_22_Sept.JPG Despite a press release from the office of Senator Jim DeMint yesterday evening declaring that he has secured a commitment from the Obama Administration to recognize the Nov. 29th elections in Honduras regardless ...
Investing in Food Commodities = Betting on Hunger
Commodity_Casino.JPG As the food crisis showed us last year, adding food to the speculation market can have serious -- and sometimes deadly -- consequences when the bubble bursts. Surprisingly, the food and gas crises weren’t caused by a sho ...
Congress, Accountability, and the Goldstone Report
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Grassroots International partner Via Campesina rec ...
Via-prize-small.jpg At a gathering of food and trade activists from around the United States and Canada, Grassroots International's partner, the Via Campesina, receieved the 2009 Food Sovereignty Prize for its relentless struggle for the right ...
Judge Goldstone Refutes Allegations in Congression ...
On Tuesday, November 3, a bipartisan resolution ( HR 867 ) cosponsored by Reps. Howard Berman (D-CA) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) in the House will be likely voted on that condemns the Goldstone report released in September by the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict .read more

Climate

November 6, 2009
UN Climate Chief: Climate Deal May Take Another Year (Bloomberg) The deadline for a new global-warming accord may slip by as much as one year, as negotiators hold back on pledges to slash emissions or pay financial aid to poor nations, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer says. APEC to Call for Emissio ...
November 5, 2009
Senate Environment Committee Moves Climate Bill Without GOP (Hearst) The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 10-1 to approve the Kerry-Boxer climate bill. Democrat Max Baucus was the lone no vote; the committee's Republicans refused to attend the session. US Chamber Backs Parts ...
November 4, 2009
Cost Analysis to Delay Senate Climate Vote (Hearst) Senate Leader Harry Reid has committed to requesting a cost analysis of the climate bill that could take five weeks — a plan that would delay full Senate debate on the proposal until after next month's international climate talks in Copenhagen ...
November 3, 2009
Sen. Boxer Starting Markup, but Offers Olive Branch to GOP (ClimateWire) Hoping to avert a partisan meltdown, Senate Environment and Public Works Chair Barbara Boxer extended a deadline for amendments to the climate bill and will suspend markup at 2 p.m. to hear EPA testimony. Climate Talks T ...
November 2, 2009
Climate Envoys May Want Chinese Actions to Be Binding (Bloomberg) UN climate negotiators meeting this week in Barcelona will debate how far they can push developing nations such as China and India to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming. EU Officials Meeting Obama to Di ...

TomDispatch

Tomgram: Nick Turse, In Afghanistan, the Pentagon ...
In our day, the American way of war, especially against lightly armed guerrillas, insurgents, and terrorists, has proved remarkably heavy. Elephantine might be the appropriate word. The Pentagon likes to talk about its "footprint" on the geopolitical landscape. In terms of the infrastructure it ...
Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, Why Your Child May N ...
This week, the Obama White House released a very partial record of those who had visited since January 20, 2009. This it hailed as "transparency like you've never seen it before" and as the beginning of a new White House visitor transparency policy. Unfortunately, the policy applies mainly to po ...
Tomgram: Afghanistan as a Bailout State
[ Note for TomDispatch Readers: Last week, at an event in Santa Fe sponsored by the Lannan Foundation , I interviewed TomDispatch regular Rebecca Solnit. You can catch the audio by clicking here . The event was, in part, in honor of her superb new book, A Paradise Built in Hell , a tiny version ...
Tomgram: Dilip Hiro, Is Obama's Iran Policy Doome ...
[ Note to TomDispatch Readers: Recently, I launched one of this website's little campaigns to get more subscribers. Thanks to so many of you who, in response to my pleas, urged others to sign up for the email notice that goes out every time TD posts a piece, we got hundreds of new subscribers. O ...
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Great Superpower Melt ...
Think of us as just having passed through the failed era of "must" in Washington. For almost eight years, George W. Bush made speeches and appearances in which he hectored this or that country, or enemy, or people about what they "must" do. Never, I suspect, has an American president lectured mo ...

Smirking Chimp

Focusing on Ft. Hood Killer's Beliefs Is an Easy O ...
It’s hard to pinpoint what’s the most shocking thing about Major Malik Nadal Hasan’s shooting rampage in Fort Hood, Texas. I’ll start with this: there’s nothing all that ground-breaking about it. Happens all the time, it’s just that we’re a nation of amnesiacs who forget all the unplea ...
Can You Hear Us Now?
So, let me see if I have this straight. One year ago, the Democrats won commanding victories resulting in control of the presidency and lopsided majorities in the House and Senate. One year ago, the Republican brand was so weak that the party was on death watch, literally capable of sliding into the ...
Dithering While America Sneezes: Failure on H1N1 H ...
NEW YORK--America's scandalous lame (non-)response to the swine flu pandemic isn't a big deal. Not compared to, say, the melting of the polar ice cap. It isn't torture. Or war. It pales next to giving hundreds of billions of dollars to wealthy bankers and nothing to homeowners facing foreclosure. Bu ...
10.2 percent jobless: Obama must take on the banks
The jobless pain now increases to 10.2 percent of the nation. One hundred and ninety-thousand more jobs lost. The American people are in a state of deep worry and major backlash that will now grow greater against Washington and Wall Street. The president should do what he should have done long ago: ...
Eight Reasons the Democrats Lost Virginia and New ...
Losing the Virginia and New Jersey governorships hurt. Local factors played a part, but these are major states. So it matters why the Democrats lost them. Here are eight reasons, with lessons on how to reclaim the momentum of just a year ago: Bad candidates. The consensus choice, but worth stating ...

Ten Percent

Friday! Zachary Murray & Erika Fontana- The Advent ...
It’s never too early to corrupt young minds! (ht2 Dangerous Minds)
Candle In The Wind
It is very apparent there is an underlying intermittent fault on my phone line that after years has never been repaired, so in times of high wind (like now) my connection is tenuous, flickering on and off. Intermittent faults are the most tedious to diagnose and solve thus BT Open Reach are in no ru ...
Stop Fascists in Wrexham
EDL/WDL are saying they will hold a march in Wrexham on November 21st, this is what went on in October in Swansea Oct 18 2009 by Catherine Mary Evans, Wales On Sunday:- THEY denied being fascists ahead of their first Welsh march – but at yesterday’s Welsh Defence League protest against Islamic e ...
New Chief
North Wales Police has a new chief constable, Mark Polin,Â who says things like this- “An unorganised mind environment is not for me I’m afraid.” This will be interesting.
USA Tops Financial Secrecy Index
Which means it is the leader in the elite’s class war against 99% of the people on planet Earth. Financial Secrecy Index.

Paul Krugman

Why not a WPA?
It might be worth discussing whether we shouldn't try to include a public option in stimulus, too.
Nominally misguided (wonkish)
When you're in a liquidity trap, focusing on nominal magnitudes doesn't clarify matters; it obscures them.
Obama's trap
Was Mr. Obama really led to believe that his stimulus proposal was as bold as he claimed it was?
The lost generation
On the right, the politically correct thing is to pretend that nothing good happened until Reagan came along.
I'm not sure what the moral of this is, but ...
Dire warnings from the distant past.

No Quarter

More Heroes at Fort Hood
Reverend Amy wrote about the heroic civilian police officer Sgt. Kim Munley, barely five feet tall, in “The Fort Hood Shooting, And Its Hero.” And, below, I have added a NEW story published today about Sgt. Munley, courtesy of the Houston Chronicle which offers a truly detailed account of exact ...
Jihadist Wannabe
(This post is bumped up from Friday.) Major Nidal Malik Hassan short circuited yesterday and we had more American soliders killed in one day at Fort Hood than have been killed in Afghanistan in a single day this year. So much for the dangers of combat. Hassan is not a Post Traumatic Stress Disorde ...
Too Big to Get the Flu?
First the taxpayers’ treasure was raided to bail out Wall Street firms. Now it’s happening to 13 of them again, this time by putting their employees ahead of the highest risk groups among us ordinary folks to receive the H1N1 vaccine. Melanie Sloan, the Director of Citizens for Responsibilit ...
NY Yankees Win 27th World Championship, and the US ...
(Yong Kim/ MCT) Due to the tragic events at Fort Hood yesterday, this post was delayed out of respect for those who were lost and wounded. Our thoughts and prayers are with their families, friends, and all those serving at Fort Hood. Bleary eyed, but sated with my celebratory Belgian pecan waffles, ...
Unemployment Report: November 6, 2009
The widely anticipated November Unemployment Report covering the month of October was just released. Let’s dive right in and take a look at the numbers . . . I. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE July: 9.5% August: 9.4% September: 9.7% October: 9.8% - November Consensus Expectation: 9.9% - November Actual:10.2 ...

Environmental Graffiti

Foreign Policy in Focus

Underlying Causes of Insecurity in Afghanistan
Much of the Afghanistan debate has been centered in the U.S. But what do Afghans think?
Review: 'Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation ...
The breadth of A.Q. Khan's nuclear proliferation is revealed in Gordon Corera's provocative expos�.
UN Report Misleading on Afghanistan's Drug Problem
A new report gives the impression that the opium trade is the main reason why the Taliban are gaining in strength, absolving the United States and NATO of their own responsibility in fomenting the insurgency.
Bipartisan Attack on International Humanitarian La ...
A House resolution on the Goldstone report represents Bush's foreign policy legacy.
Clash on Investment
Guest columnist Sarah Anderson served on an Obama advisory group on economic policy. Here's the inside story.

Global Elite

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

Al Jazeera

Deadly Saudi-Yemen border clashes
Medics say seven Saudis and a number of Houthi fighters have been killed.
Lebanon nears unity government
Lebanon's political opposition agrees to latest cabinet line-up under Saad Hariri.
Youth lured to fight in Somalia
Kenya accused of secretly training young men of Somali origin to battle al-Shabaab.
Kabul rejects 'foreign criticism'
International demands on government "violate national sovereignty", foreign ministry says.
Yemen group 'seizes Saudi troops'
Riyadh yet to respond to Houthis' claim, saying its forces are "focused on infiltrators".

Green Inc. - NYT

More Readers Air Their (Clean) Laundry
In our fourth installment, Green Inc. readers respond to our post on efficiency, clothes dryers, and the resurgence of backyard line-drying with pictures of their clotheslines.
Defining 'Sustainable' Palm Oil Production
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil upset some conservationists when it concluded its annual meeting this week without including greenhouse gas emissions standards in its certification process.
Syngas With Carbon Capture at Cook Inlet
As the nation looks for ways to burn coal without producing so much carbon dioxide, developers, researchers, and environmentalists are looking at underground coal gasification, or U.C.G., with cautious optimism.
Study: Managing Emissions Intensity
A new World Bank study finds that some countries have managed to de-link economic growth and CO2 emissions.
On Our Radar...
The aesthetics of the Prius (or lack thereof) and other energy and environment stories from around the Web.

Dot Earth News

New York State Official Moves to E.P.A.
Judith Enck, Gov. A. Paterson's deputy secretary for environment has been appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency as the administrator of Region 2.
Religion's Role in the Climate Challenge
Leaders of the world's major religions seek climate commitments at Windsor Castle.
Al Gore's Climate Choice
Al Gore's new book finds the core of the climate challenge, and solutions, in the human brain.
E.P.A. Lawyers Challenge 'Cap and Trade' for Clima ...
Two government environmental lawyers say global warming needs a big response, just not the one pushed by President Obama and Democrats in Congress.
Fresh Warnings on Climate Overstatement
Scientists point to the risks of glossing over climate complexity in warnings on warming.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

Collapse, conspiracy, concern trolling, commidifie ...
"I have heard much of the nefarious, and dangerous plan, and doctrines of the Illuminati, but never saw the Book until you were pleased to send it to me." "It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On t ...
The new Boiling Frogs Post/Sibel Edmonds site; Joh ...
Sibel Edmonds & co have set up a new website called Boiling Frogs Post and they're going to be looking at a lot of shady stuff. The podcasts that have been going for a while have been really good & detailed material from whistleblowers and journalists about what's going on. [BTW here is a good recen ...
Ooky spooky Soviet bioscience: 1940 Soviet Zombie ...
In all likelihood this Soviet propaganda video is fake, but it has a Zombie Dog head. I gotta say they should have had a better angle at the dog head, but it does kinda look real. Via this list of 25 scariest scientific experiments on io9.com. Tuskegee, Mengele and Unit 731 are all noted in the rund ...
A time for truth: New York Times reports Brother K ...
I was a bit surprised to see the New York Times report this evening that embattled Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother has been taking mad CIA cash for some time. [Or rather, the three journalists who did the story are oddly emphasized, 'compartmentalized' on this risky exposure.] Earlier Willia ...
A quick hit from the G20: Democracy 101 by Indymed ...
I was proud to help contribute some footage to this video - soon enough there will be more video out from what happened at the G20. For now please just check this out. It's certainly a "rough cut" and needs some help in the narrative & so forth, but it's a great intro to the widespread police abuse ...

Daily Censored

Foreign Contributions and the Supreme’s Overdue ...
Michael Collins The Supreme Court of the United States will soon announce a major decision on our lightly controlled system of campaign funding. Will it retain some limitations on corporate influence or will the court blow the lid off and cause a perpetual flood of unrestricted corporate co ...
Lost in the Shuffle – A Marxist Analysis of the ...
From the far right to the radical left, all sorts of analyses of the ongoing economic crisis have been put forward. These range from the claim on the far right that too many poor people were allowed to buy houses to the claim that the mere existence of the Federal Reserve Bank (the “Fed”) is [.. ...
The Global Privatization of Education Policy: Lorn ...
By Guest Writer, George Thompson Introduction The recent conflict of interest case of Lorna Earl in Ontario is merely the symptom of a growing trend in Canada and the rest of the world: the privatization of educational policy itself. Earl’s complete bafflement as to why her case was sent to the ...
Afghanistan: Sad Incongruities
âAll we have to do is send two mujahedeen [warriors] to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth saying âal-Qa’idaâ in order to make generals race there, and we cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses â without their achieving anything of note!â ...
Obama’s Clover Over Dover
It’s been eighteen years since the media was accustomed to exhibiting the rituality and solemnity that surrounds the act of transporting fallen soldiers to their final resting place. In the desolate hours of the morning on October 28th, President Obama made an unannounced and unexpected trip to D ...

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Biggest Challenge to Climate Change in Congress: T ...
A first-hand account of a House meeting on Copenhagen and climate change.
Clash on Investment: Global Trade and an Opportuni ...
Guest columnist Sarah Anderson served on an Obama advisory group on economic policy. Here's the inside story.
Happy Anniversary, Obama. Now Sign a Climate Deal.
Developed countries have an obligation to direct financial and technical support to developing nations to enable them to shift to low-carbon growth pathways.
'A World Without Nuclear Weapons' Might Still be P ...
Real U.S. negotiations with Iran should begin with a call for a nuclear weapons-free zone across the Middle East — no exceptions.
Talking Points: The Midwest, Mideast, and a New Bo ...
The dangers of another, even greater, U.S. escalation in Afghanistan are rising; the continuing war in Iraq is exploding anew; the possibilities-but-still-dangers in U.S. engagement with Iran remain hopeful but tense; and U.S. diplomatic engagement in the Middle East is still designed to fail.

Godspace

Practicing everyday Justice
Tom & I are just finishing off our time here at Eastern Mennonite University. We have enjoyed sharing with the students about how live on purpose in our consumer driven world. I have particularly been impressed with some of the green initiatives on the campus here. Their campus garden provides g ...
What Would Jesus Eat
It seemed appropriate that just after I added my last blog post I received this information from Mike Morrell. Â He and Kevin Beck are hosting a presentation with Lucas Land Thursday evening 8pm New York Time entitled What Would Jesus Eat Lucas is doing a full-immersion internship at a sustainable ...
Junk Food Spirituality – Are We Addicted to ...
Following my post yesterday Fruit That Will Last, my friend Andy Wade commented I wonder, what would the difference look like between highly processed fruit and whole foods w/o all the junk? What are the parallels between how our bodies respond to processed foods and how our souls respond? It was a ...
Fruit That Will Last
Tom and I are now at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg Virginia still trying to get our clocks turned around from the trip to Australia. This is definitely not the best way to model a balanced way of life though I am really looking forward to our time here. Part of my morning Bible rea ...
Coming Challenges in the Global Economy
I realize that most of you do not live in the Seattle area but for those that do I would like to extend an invitation to join us for the first of MSA’s new Turbulent Times–Ready or Not! Conversation Series. Â We are planning to record the event so those of you who are not able [...]

Equality Trust

Equality, not education, is the key to individual ...
"Political parties fail to understand or address the root causes of the country's failing education system" writes Lynsey Hanley
Interview: Why inequality is bad for you
Read an interview with Kate Pickett in the Radical Anthropology Journal
Sheffield: A city split for rich and poor
Divisions between rich and poor in Sheffield are growing wider - with the situation today worse than it was 40 years ago, a shock new report reveals. Read more at www.thestar.co.uk
Warren Buffett on Bonuses and Equality
Interesting thoughts from the Sage of Omaha here ...
Diversity and equality are not the same thing
"Racism, homophobia and sexism are on the wane, but Britain is more unequal than ever" writes Deborah Orr

IntelNews

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Kalmanovic was Shin Bet informant, says Ha'aretz. Court date for US couple accused of spying for Cuba. CIA responds to declassification request...20 years later.
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CIA settles DEA agent's lawsuit for $3 million. US wants to set up spy base in Afghanistan, says Afghan lawmaker. UN to help Colombia sort through spy files.
Israeli commandos seize ship allegedly carrying to ...
A ship apprehended off the coast of Cyprus by Israeli commandos in a predawn raid on Wednesday was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons, according to the Israeli Navy. Israel insisted that the weapons, which include missiles and rockets, originated from Iran and Syria and were bound for Hezbollah.
News you may have missed #0169
An intel officer's view on Fort Hood shooter. Coup rumors circulating in Paraguay. US embassy in Panama looking for spy cameras.
Comment: Why the Italian Convictions of CIA Agents ...
An Italian court has convicted 22 CIA agents and a US Air Force officer involved in the abduction of a Muslim cleric from Milan in 2003. All but three Americans tried in the case received jail sentences ranging from five to eight years, for kidnapping Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr in broad daylight and ...

After Downing Street.org

How to End Wars
By David Swanson Around the United States, peace groups are engaged in effective campaigns against proposed new military installations, local funding of weapons companies, and the routine destruction of the environment and of workers' health by such companies. Activists are building better media ou ...
Rep. Israel Condemns Tea Party Protest Holocaust S ...
Just in case you missed the despicable, outrageous signs, see them at around 7:00 mins into this video: read more
Rep. Weiner Folds on Single-Payer; Pelosi & Conyer ...
Rep. Weiner withdraws single payer amendment | Submitted by Michael Munk | www.MichaelMunk.com Representative Anthony Weiner | November 6, 2009 Rep. Weiner Withdraws Single Payer Amendment from Current Health Care Debate |Press Release Today, Representative Anthony Weiner (D - Brooklyn and Queens), ...
Kucinich: Why Is It We Have Finite Resources For H ...
Kucinich: Why is it we have Finite Resources for Health Care but Unlimited Money for War? | Press Release Following a statement on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement: “Why is it we have finite resources for health care ...
Video: Maine Demands End to Wars
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Grist - News

Europe places outcome of Copenhagen squarely on Ob ...
by Brendan DeMelle The chief negotiator for the European Commission announced this afternoon in Barcelona that the failure of the U.S. Congress to pass legislation before December has doomed the chances for success in Copenhagen . A climate protest at the Barcelona talks: World leaders with \'big ...
Cash for Clunkers brought us ... more clunkers!
by Jonathan Hiskes So how did Cash for Clunkers work out from an environmental standpoint? You don’t want to know. The $3 billion federal program was kinda sorta supposed to send inefficient, high-polluting, belchy vehicles to an early grave. Instead it put a lot of new large, inefficient vehicle ...
Senate Democrats push climate bill through committ ...
by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats on Thursday pushed through a sweeping climate change bill, maneuvering an end-run around opposition Republicans who continued their boycott of deliberations. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved the Kerry-Boxer bill by a v ...
Why developing countries cannot afford failure in ...
by Brendan DeMelle The African delegation insisted today in Barcelona that its decision to walk out on negotiations Tuesday was necessary in order to jolt the intransigent European Union and other developed nations to move forward with serious discussions, rather than obstruct progress by bringing ...
U.S. puts onus on China for climate deal
by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON - The United States will not agree to targets cutting greenhouse-gas emissions unless developing countries, particularly China, make similar moves, U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern warned Wednesday. "No country holds the fate of the Earth in its hands more than China ...

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Blog Focus: Fort Hood
As more information about Major Nidal Malik Hasan emerge, bloggers give their two cents on what occurred at Fort Hood
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UNM Soccer Player Elizabeth Lambert Suspended Ind ...
Was UNM defender Elizabeth Lambert competing in soccer or the WWF? You be the judge.
Android Won't Take Over The World
DTN protocol will be used with Google's OS to increase interplanetary communication.
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Time - Top Stories

The Ft. Hood Hero: Who is Kimberly Munley?
Sgt. Kimberly Munley, 34, a civilian Department of Defense police officer at the base, is credited with stopping the firing rampage of U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan at the Soldier Readiness Center within a few minutes after he launched his attack
Palin Previews Her Book Tour Rap
She is still starting her speeches with a slew of local references (especially about sports), just as she did during the campaign.
Free Shipping: The Online Deal-Closer
Online shoppers really like free shippingâ and apparently, stores are willing to oblige
Opening Up North Korea
Cell phones, fast food and microbrew. Could it be that things are changing in North Korea?
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Washington Independent

Democratic Congressman Demands Apology from Bachma ...
Flush off of the upset Democratic victory in NY-23, which he had a big hand in, Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), who is Jewish, is demanding that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) apologize for sponsoring Thursday’s anti-health care reform rally, which brought to the hill signs comparing health reform to ...
Gary Bauer: Ft. Hood Suspect Was ‘Sleeper&#8 ...
Add another conservative activist to the ranks of people blaming the Ft. Hood massacre on Islam. Here’s Gary Bauer, in his end-of-day email sent to supporters, arguing that while some Muslims are all well and good, “there are also ’sleeper cells’ or ’sleeper individuals’ who are jihadist ...
The Final Stages of Afghanistan-Pakistan Deliberat ...
Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy thinks he sees light at the end of the Obama administration’s strategy and resource review tunnel: Reliable sources tell The Cable that the review has entered its final stages, with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and National Security Advisor Jim Jones now taking the l ...
Steve King to Lead Another March on Congress
Erick Erickson of RedState, whose stature in the conservative movement has risen with the Doug Hoffman insurrection, blasts out an announcement of a second anti-health care bill protest on the steps of Congress. Whole e-mail after the jump: Tomorrow at one p.m. Congressman King will join his Republ ...
Obama Signs Proclamation Honoring Ft. Hood Victims
Just released from the White House press office: Our Nation’s thoughts and prayers are with the service members, civilians, and families affected by the tragic events at Fort Hood, Texas. The brave victims, who risked their lives to protect their fellow countrymen, serve as a constant source of st ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

Rogers Elementary School Students Targeted By Anim ...
Washington Today Rogers Elementary School, located in the Detroit suburb of Auburn Hills, has joined the long list of schools targeted by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, as the radical animal rights group complains about circus animals that Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & C ...
Hard-boiled animal activists could threaten vaccin ...
In the post-9/11 world, the phrase "national security" conjures up images of dirty bombs, jihadists, white powder and biohazard labels. It should also bring to mind another picture: an egg. Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Culture | Note-it! | Add a Comment
On Farmers, Activists and Scary Food Issues
I must confess that before I traveled to Iowa earlier this month, I had rubbed elbows with quite a few farmers, but by and large, they were not typical. Many of them were organic producers. Many were young. Probably a statistically disproportionate number Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Business | ...
The Carnivores Dilemma
IS eating a hamburger the global warming equivalent of driving a Hummer? This week an article in The Times of London carried a headline that blared: Give Up Meat to Save the Planet. Former Vice President Al Gore, who has made climate change his signatur Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & ...
Veal, cast in a kinder light
Eating veal -- or not eating it, to be more accurate -- is one thing many carnivores and vegetarians can agree on. For most, the methods used to produce tender, milky-colored meat aren't a worthwhile trade-off. But what if eating veal were no less ethical Submitted by cowboss at wscc to Society & Cu ...

Suzie-Q

Bipartisan Attack on International Humanitarian La ...
Professor Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy In Focus, November 4, 2009 In a stunning blow against international law and human rights, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Tuesday attacking the report of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s fact-finding missio ...
CIA agents convicted in Italy rendition trial
Morning Star Online, Thursday 05 November 2009 by Paul Haste Prosecutor Armando Spataro speaking in court in Milan An Italian court’s conviction of 23 CIA agents for extraordinary rendition has been hailed by human rights campaigners as a “historic repudiation” of the US intelligence ag ...
Hope, Change And One Year Later
“The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America — I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you — we as a people will get there. There will be [...]
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Afghanistan: Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose Immanuel Wallerstein, Agence Global, November 1, 2009 The war in Afghanistan is a war in which whatever the United States does now, or that President Obama does now, both the United States and Obama will lose. The country and its president are in a situat ...
Michael Hilton Broke And No Corporate Backing For ...
/h2> Hilton Admits: I’m Broke And Had No Corporate Backing for Jail Bid TPMMuckraker– Zachary Roth | November 2, 2009, 9:57AM “I’m out of the game. I’m done,” Michael Hilton has told the Associated Press in a phone interview. The California grifter had just testified in court that he ...

Solari

Air Force: ‘Overwhelm Enemy Cognitive Abilit ...
By Katie Drummond - Wired.com (4 Nov 09) The Air Force is looking to harness advances in bio-science so they can “degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive abilities.” It’s all part of a $49 million dollar bio-research effort unveiled last month by the Air Force Res ...
Climate Change Talks and Obama’s China Visit
View the article at Stratfor.com . . .
“GM’s Money Trees”-Brazil and th ...
View the story at Democracy Now . . .
La Grace du Ciel
[La Grâce du Ciel is a French interpretation of Amazing Grace (literally:The Grace of Heaven) written by David E. Marcantel andperformed by Southwest Louisiana singing group, Les Amies Louisianaises.]
On The Edge With Catherine Austin Fitts
Catherine with Max Keiser at maxkeiser.com.

Global Insights

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

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InsurgencyWatch moving to True/Slant
In the coming days, InsurgencyWatch will be moving to True/Slant, “an original content news network tailored to both the ‘Entrepreneurial Journalist’ and marketers who want a more effective way to engage with digital audiences.” (That’s what the official about page says.) It’s not a deci ...
Kerry-Lugar’s First Victim
If true, this is total bullshit: After strong criticism on the Kerry-Lugar bill in Pakistan, the government has decided to replace Pakistan’s ambassador to the US Hussain Haqqani and the announcement in this respect is expected within the next two days. There’s nothing in the bill reasonable Pa ...
Pakistan’s Civil War Heating Up
In the aftermath of this weekend’s assault on the Pakistani General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the Taliban hit again in Alpuri, in the Shangla district east of Mingora in Swat. According to military sources who asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to talk to the press, a 1 ...
At Home with a Swat Lashkar
I just finished up a few days in Swat and while I’m working on a story about it, I thought you might like to see a few pictures I took while there. Enjoy. Share/Save
FACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in Pakistan ...
Washington PostFACTBOX: Uzbek militant leader killed in PakistanReutersBy this time he is thought to have fled the region for the safe haven of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. * Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader ...Pakistan to Target Taliba...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

Letting the Science, Not the Politicians, Decide A ...
The federal govt. is still blocking the process that would allow the marijuana plant to be brought to market as a prescription medicine.
Pot Is More Mainstream Than Ever, So Why Is Legali ...
Obama's drug czar has said "legalization" isn't in his vocabulary. Here's why it should be.
The Case for Marijuana Legalization and Regulation
An exclusive look at the historic testimony prepared for a special hearing on legalizing marijuana to the California Assembly.
Busted for Handing Out Clean Needles? Courageous A ...
Two passionate drug reformers are looking at serious jail time for trying to save lives.
President Obama And Gov. Paterson Get Love For Rec ...
We are obviously a long way from elected officials being honest and principled when it comes to dismantling the disastrous drug war. But the tides seem to be turning.

Twilight Earth

Massey Energy is Blasting on Coal River Mountain, ...
Appalachia's West Virginians unite to stop Massey Energy Mountain Top Removal Related posts: Residents to Protest at Massey Energys Toxic Coal Sludge Dam Coal Country Film: Inside Modern Coal Mining West Virginians Come to DC to Protest Mountaintop Removal at the EPA
Big Coals Effects on Your Families Air – Indoor ...
130,000 people in the U.S. die every year from fine particulate matter from Coal burning power plants. How does it effect your families indoor air quality? Related posts: What Color Is Your Air Quality Today? Beefs Effects on People, the Environment and Society Foreclosures Effects on People and t ...
German Chancellor says Take Down Those Walls of Gl ...
On the eve of the anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, German Chancellor Merkel is calling on the world to reach a deal to combat Global Warming. Related posts: The Global Warming Debate is Over Caribou Herds Getting Smaller as a Result of Global Warming We Must Start Adapting Now, to t ...
Kilimanjaros Snows Melting at Accelerated Pace
Kilimanjaro has lost 85 percent of the snow and ice that makes up the mountaintop glaciers and could be completely bare in 15 years. Related posts: NASA Arctic Satellite About to Die? Here Comes Operation Ice Bridge Rising Sea Levels and Loss of Coastal Areas Report – Biofuel Industry Could Be ...
NRDC Announces Second Annual Growing Green Awards
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has just announced its second annual Growing Green Awards for 2010. Related posts: Planet Green Announces New Green Materials Guide Green Wont Be The Norm, Until We Stop Calling Things Green Big Coal is in Trouble – Says 1st Annual Coal Summit

Inhabitat

re:Use Canopy Upcycled from Plastic Cups by BIOS D ...
One of the main principles of permaculture is that “the problem is the solution.” Problem: tons of waste cups created by attendees of the OutsideLands concert in San Francisco. Solution: a fabulous recycled cup canopy. BIOS Design Collective tapped a keg and invited their friends over for a cano ...
NeighborGoods: Your New Virtual Tool Shed
Practically every household in America has its own tool set, drill, and ladder… but why? Most people don’t use these things on a daily basis, and due to their hardworking heritage these items tend to last forever; when’s the last time you wore out a hammer? Enter NeighborGoods, a service that ...
LAST CHANCE to Vote for Your Favorite Green Hallow ...
Our Green Halloween Costume Contest ends TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT! Today is your LAST CHANCE to vote in our Green Halloween Costume contest, and the competition is fierce! Our top 15 amazingly crafted submissions are currently vying for fame, glory, and some great green prizes – and we’re leaving it ...
Transport System Runs on Super-Strong Magnetic Fie ...
Instead of moving goods on resource-intensive trains, Spain-based technology company Novateq Guerrero SNL wants to build out a different kind of transportation network–one that uses super-powerful magnets to propel vehicles. Novateq has already developed a prototype of its system, which uses Neody ...
2009 World Architecture Festival Winners Announced
The 2009 World Architecture Festival took place this week in Barcelona, drawing great minds to discuss, learn, share and award excellent architectural designs and completed projects. This year’s theme dealt with how to achieve Less With More and the relationship between cities and architecture, wi ...

Pogue's Posts

Cleaning Up the Clutter Online
A new Web tool strips away all the flashing and the blinking and leaves you with clean, readable prose.
Medical Apps for the iPhone
Last week, I spoke at the TED MED conference. My assignment was to speak for 18 minutes about medical apps for the iPhone. Sounds easy, right? Only one problem: there are about 7,000 medical apps.
Return to Sender
Have an amazing idea? Here's why Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer and Sergey Brin don't want to hear about it.
Are You Nice or Am I Famous?
Do columnists or other prominent people get special white-glove treatment from customer-service reps? Hard to say, but anecdotally, the evidence is thin.
Pogue Answers Reader Questions on Windows 7
Whenever I review something that affects so many people, I can count on getting a lot of feedback - and I did, even though the review appeared only last night. Here's a sampling, with my responses.

Open Your Eyes News

All UK schoolchildren may be vaccinated against sw ...
The Guardian – All healthy schoolchildren may be vaccinated against swine flu, the Department of Health revealed today, as it issued guidance on how to help pregnant women who catch the infection. Cases of the disease in England increased only marginally this week to 84,000, according to official ...
FLASHBACK – 27th December 2002 – The real reas ...
BBC (27/12/02) – An agreement has been signed in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, paving the way for construction of a gas pipeline from the Central Asian republic through Afghanistan to Pakistan. The building of the trans-Afghanistan pipeline has been under discussion for some years but plans have ...
Ottawa councillor wants military to conduct swine ...
CBC – An Ottawa city councillor wants to call in the Armed Forces to help conduct swine flu vaccinations.Â Coun. Bob Monette said Thursday he has written to federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq asking if doctors, nurses and medics from the Canadian Forces could be deployed in cities across Can ...
Canadian Olympic protesters are ‘terrorists’
Victoria News – People who protest the Winter Olympics are nothing more than âterroristsâ with âlimited intellect,â Liberal Burquitlam MLA Harry Bloy said in the legislature Monday. Read Article The Historian – Isn’t freedom of speech such a great concept?
DR Congo army ‘used aid as bait’
BBC – The Democratic Republic of Congo army has used vaccination clinics as “bait” to attack civilians, says aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). Thousands of Hutu civilians were targeted when they visited sites set up to combat a measles epidemic, in areas controlled by the rebels, MSF ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

Third World countries protest First World countrie ...
Third World countries protest First World countries over climate change (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) 50 African countries walked out of a UN working meeting on climate change in Barcelona, Spain. The African and 70 other Third World countries have been protesting U.N. climate negotiations th ...
Lackeys in Iran: Help! Obama! Help!
Lackeys in Iran: Help! Obama! Help! (monkeysmasheshheaven.wordpress.com) This week witnessed demonstrations in the streets of Tehran. According to reports, these are the first significant ones since the end of demonstrations surrounding the contested presidential elections months ago. The recent pr ...
Sa Liyab ng Libong Sulo
Sa Liyab ng Libong Sulo (amihanmalaya.wordpress.com) Ang “Sa Liyab ng Libong Sulo” ay isang bidyu-dokumentaryo na gawa nuong 1996 at hango sa librong, “Lipunan at Rebolusyong Pilipino,” ni Amado Guerrero. Inilalarawan nito ang kasaysayan ng pakikibaka ng sambayanang Pilipino magmula nuong ...
The demolition of the Thälmann Memorial in Ziegen ...
The demolition of the ThÃ¤lmann Memorial in Ziegenhals (in Brandenburg, Germany, near Berlin) must be prevented! (www.mona-lisa.org) Declaration of human rights and peace prize bearers of the Society for the Protection of Civil Right and Human Dignity (GBM), and the circle of friends “Ernst ThÃ ...
Sa pagkamatay ni Corazon Aquino.
Sa pagkamatay ni Corazon Aquino. (amihanmalaya.wordpress.com and monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Namatay si Corazon Aquino nuong nakaraang lingo. Pinaguusapan ng buong bayan ang pagkamatay ng isang dating papet. Ang midya ay muli na namang nagsimula ng kampanya para purihin siya. Ginagampanan ng ...

PakAlert

FLASHBACK – India, Israel linked to Pakistan plo ...
In 2002. it was learned from highly placed intelligence sources that India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Israel’s Mossad are collaborating to train several hundred militants to be used in an attempt to destabilize the administration of President General Pervez Musharraf. Oct 8, 2002 I ...
Lage Raho Media Bhai!
The article below is an excellent example of taking the media to task for ignoring the real stories that are affecting our lives and instead hawking wild conspiracy theories and unfounded rumors. I suppose with our TV anchors so comfortable with their fame and riches, they don’t even see the real ...
Will Pakistan be fragmented? This Is How Democracy ...
Now even outsiders are laughing at Pakistan’s messed up ‘democracy’ and the country’s fake democrats. Will Pakistan be fragmented? Sandwiched between United States, European, Israeli and Indian designs and Pakistani Quislings. By Latheef Farook SriLankaGuardian.org Will Pakistan, the only ...
Who Controls Obama, Congress And The UN?
It is blatantly obvious that both Israel and the US are looking for another war in the Middle East. If one could even imagine WW3 centred on the Middle East with today’s weaponry that have the ability to write off the entire region, including the possible instigators themselves (Israel). - by Pe ...
Swine Flu Escalate: 86 Dead, 148,000 New Cases In ...
KIEV (AFP) – Eighty-six people have died in Ukraine from flu and respiratory infections, the health ministry said Wednesday, in an epidemic the World Health Organisation said could be largely due to the A(H1N1) virus. The ministry said that almost half a million cases of flu and acute respiratory ...

ecogeek

Desklamp Powered by a Phone Jack
From my perspective, they very fact that this is possible is the news here. It's a "reading" lamp that can be powered by a phone jack. That's right, your phone jack has a tiny amount of power that comes through along with the phone signal to power things like ringers and speakers and microphones. I ...
US Government Surpasses Google for Geothermal Fund ...
More than $300 million in funding for research and development of geothermal energy has been announced by U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu. This now pushes Google.org into second place behind the government in domestic geothermal R & D funding. The projects funded by this progra ...
Solar Projects Battling for Water
Construction of renewable energy projects has revealed some serious environmental issues that will have to be dealt with as we speed toward a clean energy future. We recently wrote about the conflict between land conservation efforts and renewable energy projects in deserts out west. Land that ...
Bright Doling Out Advice to Army, Automakers
Bright Automotive, best known for its 100-mpg IDEA plug-in utility van, announced a new $1.4 million contract with the U.S. Army to build a plug-in hybrid for non-combat use. The PHEV will be designed to cut Army fuel consumption as well as to demonstrate how an EV could potentially feed power ba ...
Dell Plants Solar Trees in the Parking Lot
Dell is doing it again, this time on-site, with a series of solar trees that will not only help power it's headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, but also serve to charge electric vehicles parked there. Of course, there aren't currently any electric vehicles parking in the Dell lot, but hopefully that w ...

Times Online - Science

Science Minister: Professor Nutt should not have b ...
Alan Johnson should not have sacked David Nutt as his chief drugs adviser without consulting government colleagues responsible for science policy, the Science and Innovation Minister, said today.
Government backs down on science freedom demands
The Government is to endorse a set of principles guaranteeing independence and academic freedom to its expert advisers demanded by leading scientists following the sacking of David Nutt, The Times has learnt.
The future was never going to be the C5
There was a wonderful moment in Micro Men, BBC Four’s peerless drama about Sir Clive Sinclair and the invention of the home computer. After some initial success flogging personal calculators, Sir Clive’s protÃ©gÃ©, Chris Curry, hits upon a daredevil plan. Why not give computers the same ...
Melting snow shrinks Mont Blanc
Western Europe’s tallest mountain is 18in (45cm) shorter than two years ago, according to a survey.
I never gave up hope of solving the riddle of my s ...
I met Patrick Aubourg 30 years ago and, although we did not always see eye to eye, I was certain that here was a genius who one day would find the key to the riddle of ALD. It is premature to speak of a cure, but Aubourg’s breakthrough with gene therapy proves that, even in the most dread conditi ...

Environment _ National Geographic

Crime-Fighting Leech Fingers Perp
Police in Australia say a blood-engorged leech, through DNA testing, led them to a man responsible for the robbery eight years ago of a 71-year-old woman. Video
Alligators Sing to Set Up Singles Clubs? (With Vid ...
Only an alligator could truly understand the allure of this thunderous "chorus." But a new study says the song may be an invitation to reptilian romantic networking.
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Leaves "Magnetized" by Air Pollution, Study Finds
Although they wouldn't be physically attracted to a magnet, "magnetic" tree leaves along heavy traffic routes may offer a quick, cheap way to test for air pollution, a new study says.
PICTURES: Best Mountain Photos of 2009 Announced
A steam-shrouded bison, a bikini-clad diver, a seven-year-old shepherd, and other wild wonders stalk our selection of winning pictures from the latest Banff Mountain Photography Competition.

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Note to Simmons and McMahon: Crystal Balls and Tea ...
Smash mouth political commentary from Linda McMahon and Rob Simmons : "Isn't it sad that after 30 years in Washington, Chris Dodd is still writing letters and putting out press releases after the fact,'' Ed Patru, spokesman for Linda McMahon, said in a press release. "The H1N1 shortage didn't just o ...
Single Payer Activists Arrested at Lieberman's DC ...
They came, they sat, they chanted : 8 Protesters backing a universal health care system briefly occupied Sen. Joe Lieberman's office this morning. Protesters were arrested, one by one, and dragged out of his office amid chants of "Everyone in and noone out, universal healthcare now!" and "Represe ...
Lamont In - Rell Out There Somewhere?
Still waiting on word from Rell on whether or not she will be running - presumably she is having trouble forming an opinion on whether or not to run without Dautrich first poll testing the ideas - but, via Paul Bass, it looks like Lamont is getting ready to run for Governor : Ned Lamont, who took o ...
Banks - Breaking up is hard to do:
Via the LA Times: Britain is forcing breakups of bailed-out major banks The British government -- spurred on by European regulators -- is forcing Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Northern Rock to sell off parts of their operations. The Europeans are calling for more and smaller ba ...
Free Marketeers Against Healthcare? Go Galt and ta ...
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, …” I assume they were not discussing welfare payments for high ranking military officers when they mention " ...

SPL Center

Dutch Lawmaker Brings His Anti-Muslim Spiel to U.S ...
A Dutch lawmaker notorious for his Muslim-bashing is scheduled to speak tonight at Temple University in Philadelphia. Geert Wilders, who has repeatedly compared the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, was for months banned from Britain because of concerns that his anti-Islamic views would trigger violen ...
Westboro Baptist Attacks ‘Filthy Jews’ in New ...
Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) has ratcheted up its recent campaign against Jews with the release of virulently anti-Semitic music videos. This latest gimmick is somewhat of a departure for the rabidly anti-gay group from Topeka, Kan. For years, Westboro has been notorious for disrupti ...
Paranoia: Now It’s a Game
Conspiracy theorists and aspiring domestic terrorists now have their very own online game. It’s called “Obama’s Coup Fails,” and it is the centerpiece of a new online site called United States of Earth. The year is 2011. President Obama has outlawed private gun ownership, dissolved the Cons ...
Aha! Extremist Crowd Uncovers Another Sinister Gov ...
Holy cow! Another sinister plot by our government to enslave citizens has been unearthed by fans of radio talk show conspiracist Alex Jones. This one entails livestock. The Austin, Texas-based Jones posted a short news item on his Infowars.com website on Sunday about plans by officials in Oklahoma a ...
A Night at the Ritz: White Supremacists, a Knife F ...
In what may be the latest sign of simmering tensions in Florida between two prominent racist skinhead groups, two men suffered knife wounds this week during a speech by Holocaust denying historian David Irving at a luxury Palm Beach County hotel. Irving spoke to about three dozen invited guests in ...

Gringo Times - Rio

Barra de Tijuca’s New Cidade Jardim
By Tricia L Chaves, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Any Realtor will agree that the location of your home or investment purchase is just as important as the property itself. With incredibly close proximity to the 2016 Olympic village combined with a grand neighborhood plan, Barra de Tijuca’ ...
A New Name - The Rio Times
By Doug Gray, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - The Gringo Times will have a new name, but it is not a change that was taken lightly. Following last week’s story about the meaning of the word “Gringo”, and the survey participation of over 100 of readers, the polls are in, and Rio’s only ...
Brazil Plans Another Nuclear Plant
By Jaylan Boyle, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - A second Brazilian power station is to be built in the northeast of the country, at an as yet undisclosed location close to the coastline between the cities of Recife and Salvador, confirmed the president of the state-owned company Brazilian El ...
Ilha Grande Eco Escape
By Tricia L Chaves, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Ilha Grande (the Big Island), was a decades-long home of a prison before the structures were destroyed in the 1950s. Now, its remote location creates the ultimate natural respite from Rio‘s bustling intensity. This getaway is ideal for the ...
Mangueira Samba School
By Bruno de Nicola, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Pink and Green are the colors that represent the EstaÃ§Ã£o Primeira de Mangueira, Rio de Janeiro’s most famous and infamous Samba School, home of many Brazilian music idols and TV celebrities. Certainly the most glamorous and advanced, ...

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Surprise! Farmers Grow Hearty Crops to Survive War
Subsistence farmers in African war zones keep themselves alive in dangerous circumstances by leaning on intuition and age-old farming logic that goes like this: when in tough conditions, reuse whatever field you've got, grow the hardiest plants and when fleeing, take the hardiest seeds with you. Doi ...
A View from (Under) the Bridge
On paper, Leonard Grant might say that a combination of unemployment, addiction, and mental health caused his homelessness. But that's not the whole story. Even these reasons for homelessness can have their own causes. You see, Grant tragically lost his son in a car accident, which sent his world sp ...
The Senators -- and the Yankees -- Need to Get On ...
The New York Yankees may be World Champions, but they’re noteworthy this year for another reason: they have come up with the most obnoxious way to prolong games. All other teams in baseball have “mound conferences” -- timeouts when the catcher, the pitcher and sometimes the pitching coach m ...
Tragedies and Gun Laws
Two tragic, violent shooting sprees in two days. Even in a country as desensitized to violence as the U.S., the events of this week have been jarring. These tragedies should remind us why gun control laws are important and should be expanded. First, I want to say that the victims of these horrible c ...
My Name is Maria and I am Undocumented
[This week's DREAM Act guest post comes from Maria, who believes that undocumented students deserve the chance to prove themselves. Visit Dreamactivist.org to find out how you can help pass the DREAM Act ]. The year of 1996 was the year when I began to try new things, the year when my mother, two-ye ...

Common Dreams -News

Noam Chomsky: 'US Foreign Policy is Straight Out o ...
by Seumas Milne Noam Chomsky is the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar. A philosopher of language and political campaigner of towering academic reputation, who as good as invented modern linguistics, he is entertained by presidents, addresses the UN general asse ...
Coal Ash from U.S. Blamed for Dominican Town's Bir ...
by Frances Robles ARROYO BARRIL, Dominican Republic -- Maximiliano Calcano is 2 and was born with no arms. "When I was pregnant, I was dizzy, vomiting and could barely walk,'' said Maximiliano's mother, Anajai Calcaño, 20. ``My tooth cracked and fell out. Then my baby was born like that, without ar ...
Recovery? The 10.2% Without Jobs Might Beg to Diff ...
by Kevin G. Hall WASHINGTON - As bad as Friday's jobs report was, showing October's unemployment rate jumping sharply to 10.2 percent, the outlook is likely to worsen for American workers well into next year. Economists expect the jobless rate to keep climbing, perhaps above 11 percent, as employers ...
Democrats to Resolve Abortion Impasse on the House ...
by Lori Montgomery House Democratic leaders agreed Friday night to settle an impasse over abortion by letting the entire House vote on a proposed solution, a risky decision that could determine the fate of their trillion-dollar overhaul of the nation's health care system. read more
Italy Convicts Former CIA Agents in Renditions Tri ...
MILAN - An Italian judge sentenced 23 former CIA agents to up to eight years in prison Wednesday for the abduction of a Muslim cleric in a symbolic ruling against "rendition" flights used by the former U.S. government. The Americans were all tried in absentia after the United States refused to extra ...

Lifehacker

Keep Dishonest Landlords at Bay with Your Camera ...
Even if your landlord seems happy-go-lucky upon moving in, there's always a chance they won't be so nice when you move out. Keep all parties accountable and in check for a hassle-free lease with a little help from your camera. Photo by Lara604 As much as we'd like to say every landlord out there ha ...
Boxee to Launch Beta Early Next Month with Loads ...
Boxee has taken the media center world by storm in the last year, which is why it's always a surprise when we're reminded that it's still only an alpha release. Until December 7th, that is, when Boxee is rolling out an official beta release, in which you can expect a new interface, better navigation ...
Moo0 DiskCleaner Removes Unwanted Files [Download ...
Windows only: System cleaning utility Moo0 DiskCleaner's dead-simple interface makes short work of clearing out all those unwanted temporary files, cookies, browser history, and MRU lists. Once you've installed and launched the application, just check the boxes for everything you'd like to clean up ...
Reset Your Lost Password in OS X Redux [Passwords ...
It's not a great place to find yourself, but if you ever lose or forget your password for OS X, you're not out of luck. Weblog AppleDoes details how to quickly and easily reset your password. All you'll need is your installation DVD. From there, the process is dead simple: Insert the DVD to the tr ...
Turn Scrap Wood Into An Awesome Laminate Table [D ...
Armed with some basic tools, a supply of scrap or salvaged wood, and a few weekends to devote to the project, you too can have an awesome laminate wood table with loads of character and good looks. Instructables user Wholman wanted to create a laminate table but without the hassle and expense of tra ...

Newshoggers - AfPak

James L. Jones: "Generals Always Ask For More Troo ...
By Steve Hynd In a new interview with German mag Der Spiegel out today, Obama's National Security Adviser, Gen. James L. Jones, is sounding skeptical about the McChrystal escalation request for extra troops in Afghanistan. He says, dismissively, that "generals always ask for more troops". SPIEGEL: T ...
New Afghan Compact Is A Clunker
By Steve Hynd The Obama administration has a new so-called Afghan Compact which is designed to increase good governance in Afghanistan and reduce corruption. The main problem, though, is that any compact needs two sides agreeing to implement it. The success of the so-called "Afghanistan Compact" wil ...
Full Spectrum Dominance and COIN
By Dave Anderson: Robert Farley is optimistic and wrong in his argument that the US adapting a formal strategic emphasis on COIN will decrease the number of stupid wars that we get involved in. Here is his argument: Along these lines, I think it's important to push back on a particular line of COIN ...
UK Losses In Afghanistan Approach Falkland War Lev ...
By Steve Hynd Another British soldier has died for Bush and Blair's Afghan adventure - the one neither Obama nor Brown have the balls to admit they should get out of. 230 British soldiers have now died in Afghanistan. For reference, the number of British servicemen killed during the Falkland War was ...
Isolate and Concentrate, UN edition
By Dave Anderson: Isolate and concentrate. This is the goal of both the insurgent force and the counterinsurgent force as both seek to force their opponents to stand alone and tightly packed. The difference is the counterinsurgent force wants to physically isolate large groups of insurgents so that ...

Water Wars

California water bill falls short (Ventura County ...
Winston Churchill paid tribute to the young fighter pilots who staved off Nazi Germany’s aerial assault on England during the Battle of Britain with characteristic eloquence: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” California politicians’ machinations ov ...
Wolk upset with Delta plan (The Daily Democrat)
While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made the rounds Wednesday, touting the water deal approved by the Legislature earlier that morning, representatives of the Delta area lambasted the entire package as a "boondoggle.
Ingrid Newkirk: Come on Al, Steak or the Earth? (T ...
Considering that the meat industry produces 40 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than all the world's transportation systems, we see no reason to back down in our criticism of Al Gore, among others.
California water plan aims to change Gold Rush thi ...
California legislators on Wednesday struck a truce in their water wars that could set off the biggest spending spree on water in half a century and aims to satisfy environmentalists, unemployed farmers and the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Local leaders Wolk, Yamada voice displeasure with ...
While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made the rounds Wednesday, touting the water deal approved by the Legislature earlier that morning, representatives of the Delta area lambasted the entire package as a "boondoggle."While the governor and legislative leaders say the package, including an $11.

WordPress | Economics

Stocks eye retailers as jobless ranks swell
NEW YORK (Reuters) – As unemployment in the United States edges above 10 percent, anxious inve
Diversion of Theory from Reality
The article showcases that commonly accepted economic measurements are divorced from our experiences
Ecosystems, economics and ethics
At the moment, we’re doing some research on the future of web services. One of the things I wa
Epistemic limits of scientific enquiry
Had attended a talk the other day by Dr. Jayant Haritsa from the CSA department, on using textual re
From Fort Hood to Ramakrishna. Don't be Deceived.
Humanity how have you fallen so low. I saw on the S&MSM that Glenn Beck was the new Oprah. I saw

McClatchey

Police: College student beat roommate to death wit ...
SACRAMENTO — A police synopsis filed in court papers sheds startling new light on what happened the day Quran Mahammed Jones allegedly beat Scott Hawkins to death in their dorm suite before he was shot by police officers responding to a report of a disturbance.
Florida's Crist may be front runner in Senate race ...
MIAMI — The press release from the Florida Democratic Party called Thursday "Charlie Crist's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.''
Commentary: We need to prevent future Greensboro m ...
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre. We need to recall it so something like it never happens again.
Commentary: Child hunger rates are appalling. Why ...
One in 5 Tarrant County children might not get to eat at home without help from food stamps.
Commentary: Poverty and disability greatly correla ...
Hard economic times are even harder when you have a disability. But poverty and disability don't have to be synonymous — if we design our policies well.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

Copenhagen Countdown: 31 Days
Most of those concerned with climate have had their eyes on Barcelona this week, where delegates from 192 countries plus hundreds of observers, campaigners, lobbyists - and journalists - convened for the final session of preparatory talks before the UN climate summit in Copenhagen . As I've reporte ...
All's fair in the climate blame game
At the UN climate negotiations in Barcelona. It's a story that's been coming for the last few months; now that it's being written , the first cards of the blame game are being played. Remember the UN climate conference in Bali two years ago , and the road that stretched from there to Copenhagen? ...
Climate talks: To the wire and beyond
At the UN climate negotiations in Barcelona. It looks like the UN climate summit in Copenhagen is shaping up to be another final-night, early-hours, last few seconds kind of affair. On the surface, what we're witnessing here at the final preparatory session in Barcelona is a stand-off between a pa ...
Copenhagen countdown: 38 days
This post - my second weekly round-up of political moves as we approach December's UN climate summit - is a little delayed, partly because the week's most important event took place on Thursday and Friday. "File on final whistle," as editors say to football correspondents - most of whom are much be ...
Magnetic attraction of climate 'scepticism'
There's been interest on this blog and elsewhere about a meeting organised on Wednesday by Piers Corbyn , the independent UK weather forecaster who argues that the sources of modern-day climate change lie in magnetic interactions around the Earth rather than greenhouse gas emissions on it. So - a g ...

Afghanistan Sun

25 NATO soldiers wounded in possible friendly fire ...
The attack occurred when NATO troops were engaged in a search for two missing U.S. soldiers who are believed to have drowned.
Afghan gov't says UN representative out of li ...
(IDM) KABUL (AP) — Pushing back against international criticism, Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the top U.N. official in the country overstepped his authority by giving instruct...
'We Will Not Solve the Problem with Troops Al ...
US National Security Adviser James L. Jones talks to SPIEGEL about his skepticism regarding calls for more US troops to be sent to Afghanistan, the chances of Pakistan's nuclear weapons falling into t...
Afghan gov't says UN representative out of li ...
By HEIDI VOGTAssociated Press Writer KABUL (AP) - Pushing back against international criticism, Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the top U.N. official in the country overstepped ...
NATO Airstrike Mistakenly Kills Afghan Soldiers, C ...
KABUL Afghanistan's Defense Ministry said Saturday that a NATO airstrike in the western province of Badghis mistakenly hit a joint base housing coalition troops and Afghan security forces, kill...

Futurismic

Designer drugs develop faster than designer legisl ...
I’m not sure whether I’m supposed to be proud or ashamed of this one, but apparently Britain has been declared the “designer drugs capital of Europe” by the EU drug agency. [image by Greencolander] This new generation of online “head shops” is at the centre of a rapidly growing market in ...
The Anonymous Hunters: corporate critics and whist ...
Have you ever bad-mouthed a big company in an internet comments thread? If so, the Wragge and Co. law firm of Birmingham, UK may be hot on your tail (provided the comment is vitriolic enough to provoke the company to spend money, one assumes) – they’ve just announced a new legal “task force” ...
Second Llife Enterprise: virtual worlds behind the ...
Here’s an interesting development in the metaverse – Linden Lab, creators of Second Life, have announced the formal launch of their “Second Life Enterprise” platform, which is essentially a fragmented piece of the virtual world that runs on corporate servers behind the firewall. Private, her ...
Transhuman equality? Athletes with a prosthesis do ...
Remember all the fuss last year about Oscar ‘Bladerunner’ Pistorius, the amputee athlete who was banned from competing against able-bodied runners in the Olympics because the authorities were concerned that his prosthetics might give him an unfair advantage? Well, it turns out that the authoriti ...
Second Llife Enterprise: virtual worlds behind the ...
Here’s an interesting development in the metaverse – Linden Lab, creators of Second Life, have announced the formal launch of their “Second Life Enterprise” platform, which is essentially a fragmented piece of the virtual world that runs on corporate servers behind the firewall. Private, her ...

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