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KANO, Nov 28 (IPS) - Nigeria ratified the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1985 without reservations. But few of its citizens have ever heard of the document. Day-to-day life for women in Nigeria is shaped less by international conventions than it is by th ...

NOUAKCHOTT, Nov 27 (IPS) - Mauritania formally adopted the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in 2001, but in the eight years since, it has had limited effect on the status of women.

CAPE TOWN, Nov 27 (IPS) - More than seven months after the Cape High Court ruled in favour of the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), interdicting the police for harassment and arrests, sex workers are losing the daily battles against police and criminal elements on the streets ...

PRETORIA, Nov 27 (IPS) - The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) ended one of Africa's longest and complex civil wars, with nominal agreement reached on security, wealth sharing, and governance issues. But there are renewed fears that conflict could erupt again in the country as divisions b ...

VITERBO, Italy, Nov 28 (IPS) - ‘Angry’ is not the adjective that comes to mind when you first meet Nelly Damaris Chepkoskei.

The Bundesbank has told German banks to take advantage of renewed confidence while they can to prepare for likely losses of a4‚¬90bn (£81bn) over the next year, warning that the delayed shock waves of the economic crisis still pose a major threat to global recovery and bank finance. The venerab ...

One in every four combat soldiers quit the Afghan National Army (ANA) during the year ending in September, published data by the US Defense Department and the Inspector General for Reconstruction in Afghanistan reveals.That high rate of turnover in the ANA, driven by extremely high rates of desertio ...

The Goldstone report tells some uncomfortable truths about the way the Gaza conflict got started. But they are truths Stephen Smith would rather not hear, writes Jake LynchRecently a piece in the Fairfax media told of the "huge shock" the Israeli Government establishment is feeling as a result of th ...

Even observers with only the most modest passing interest in the media business would have noticed that the past decade has been harsh on media moguls. The established media has found competing in an environment where ''free'' is the most common price point pretty frustrating.This frustration has cl ...

Gareth Morgan and John McCrystal project their image of the future , and show that there is history for our self destructive ability .  »  PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews

Emergency workers said 22 people were killed and 55 others were injured yesterday when an express train was derailed as it travelled from Moscow to St Petersburg.

The leaders of Commonwealth countries meeting in Trinidad and Tobago were facing a scandal last night after it emerged that the organisation has withdrawn most of its funding for preventing HIV and Aids.

It was all supposed to be so different. Next week, on UAE National Day, the Burj Dubai was set to open. The 818-metre tower was to be a testament to everything the emirate has achieved.

The posters are considered racist and insulting to Islam, yet they are on public display in the streets and main squares of Switzerland's biggest cities ahead of tomorrow's hotly disputed referendum on whether to ban the building of minarets on mosques.

He presides over a state that is billions of dollars in debt and recently began issuing IOU notes to creditors after its coffers ran dry. Now it seems Arnold Schwarzenegger's iffy stewardship of public finances may extend to his private realm.

Summary: Some Iranian leaders see a trick in this, a way for the West to get hold of its uranium, then keep it. However the head of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei has said that Iran does have a proposal of its own. He said this week: "My understanding of Iran's position so far is that it is ready t ...

Summary: Soltanieh Iran's representative to the UN atomic energy has told RT, a new resolution condemning Tehran's nuclear program is a backwards step that will damage the chance of a future breakthrough. source: Russia Today read more

Summary: Face this fact. If Iran tomorrow announced a complete halt of its uranium enrichment program and ordered an immediate dismantling of its nuclear facilities under the full supervision of an IAEA safeguards army of inspectors ... we would still not cut the Islamic Republic any slack. We w ...

Summary: Beirut, Lebanon – While the United States and Europe have been struggling to find a path forward in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Afghanistan, and Iran, the strategic ground upon which their assumptions about the region rest has begun to shift dramatically. source: Christian Sci ...

Summary: IAEA governors have reportedly passed a new resolution against Iran over a nascent enrichment facility outside Tehran, which was fully inspected and cleared by UN nuclear officials in October. source: Press TV read more

In his famous lecture on Life in the Universe, Stephen Hawking asks: "What are the chances that we will encounter some alien form of life, as we explore the galaxy?" If the argument about the time scale for the appearance...

Nature has found a way send genetic information forward through time, and no, it doesn't involve Doctor Who finally getting with Rose. Tiny crustaceans can bury their young in the Earth for centuries, and scientists in the new and awesomely-named...

Some scientists are already looking beyond the Large Hadron Collider and onto the next generation of ultimega-atom-smasher. That's because scientists actually plan things and can concentrate for longer than four seconds, unlike the mass media which reports on them. One...

Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is the nearest giant, elliptical galaxy to the Milky Way, at a distance of about 11 million light-years. This beautiful and spectacular appearance is due to an opaque dust lane that covers the central part of...

"We didn't expect to see such warm temperatures, and we don't yet know in detail what caused them. But they indicate that Antarctica's climate may have undergone rapid shifts during past periods of high CO2." Louise Sime of British Antarctic...

(NaturalNews) The November 25 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute contains a report about the long-term side effects experienced by men who received cisplatin-based chemotherapy for testicular cancer. Severe neurological side effects, discoloration of the hands and feet when expose ...

(NaturalNews) The FDA has issued a warning about the high overdose risk from the opiate painkillers Darvon and Darvocet, but has stopped short of banning the drugs as the United Kingdom has done. Darvon and Darvocet contain a mix of an over-the-counter painkiller (either aspirin or acetaminophen) an ...

(NaturalNews) A recent French study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology has revealed that a "Mediterranean" diet rich in fruits and vegetables, fish, and olive and sunflower oils will reduce the risk of post-menopausal women developing cancer. Findings implicated the "Western" diet as ...

(NaturalNews) There are millions of things to be thankful for, and this week, we ask our NaturalNews Facebook team (http://Facebook.Naturalnews.com) to suggest what things they're thankful for. We were flooded with suggestions! I didn't get a chance to add my own suggestions to the list, so let me s ...

(NaturalNews) There's a drugless and side effect-free way to reduce inflammation in the body, restore the body's natural defense system, lose weight, possibly increase lifespan and improve or prevent diabetes, cardiovascular disease and kidney disease. What's more, you can get the benefits from this ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES has a report about what has been called a "computer hack" into the University of East Anglia’s Hadley Climatic Research Centre. Why should you care? Well, according to the Times, the revelations: are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate sc ...

Colvin's testimony was alarming and the Conservative Party response, true to form, abysmal and disgusting. But there are shoes yet to drop regarding Afghan prisoners. So far the discussion seems to be around what happens to prisoners after Canada hands them to the ANP or ANA. The next shoe to drop w ...

TPM HAS A REAL THIGH-SLAPPER — Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't Actually Win 2008 Election -- ACORN Stole It! According to Eric Kleefeld, The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think Presi ...

Last Rites: Even with God's help, this shopping center in Pahrump, Nevada, probably cannot be revived. THE DESIGN OBSERVER is one of the more thoughtful web sites dedicated to the appreciation of design of all kinds. Mark Dery has an article, titled " Dawn of the Dead Mall ", where he proclaims " T ...

THE LA TIMES HAS A DISTURBING REPORT: According to Alexandra Sandels in Beirut,  less than a year after authorities stormed the offices of Iranian human-rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi , taking sensitive documents and her computer, unidentified authorities have now allegedly taken the Nobel Peace Prize ...

On Fox News' Happening Now , co-host Jon Scott stated that climate scientists' emails that were apparently stolen by hackers from the UK's Climate Research Unit (CRU) suggest that "some scientists manipulate data on global warming." Scott then quoted an email sent by Phil Jones, head of the Cl ...

Glenn Beck falsely claimed that President Obama "suggested that [it] was OK" to "go into those pregnant women and pull the babies out of them and put a spike in the baby's head," echoing the oft-repeated right-wing falsehood that Obama did not support protecting babies who survived botched abortion ...

In three separate instances over two weeks, Sean Hannity has baselessly asserted that "this is one of the coldest years on record" to claim that climate change is a "hoax" or not "real." In fact, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA's Goddard Institute for Space St ...

A graphic posted on FoxNews.com suggested that President Obama is responsible for all of the $3.5 trillion in federal outlays for Fiscal Year 2009. In fact, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has stated that "much" of the 2009 increase in spending "results from legislation enacted in calen ...

The Drudge Report suggested that global warming is "junk science," by linking to a Washington Times editorial that falsely claims a series of emails that were reportedly stolen from the UK's Climate Research Unit [CRU] show that global warming is an "unproven theory." In fact, the validity of ...

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Europe united under the EU and NATO is to be strong enough to contain, isolate and increasingly confront Russia as the central component of U.S. plans for control of Eurasia and the world...

Right after Thanksgiving dinner, my son, Nick, asked if I had seen Lin-Manuel Miranda (the Latino creator, writer, and star of "In The Heights") perform his rap about Alexander Hamilton at the White House in front of the first family.... White House - Lin-Manuel Miranda - Thanksgiving - Latino ...

Prime Minister Netanyahu today announced a partial 10-month settlement freeze. And, understanding that Netanyahu's freeze is meaningless, the far right is backing him 100%. According to the New York Times, "A statement from Mr. Netanyahu's office said the moratorium would... Israel - West Bank ...

Jim Carroll's column (or poem, or blessing) for Thanksgiving. It is too lovely to link to. Here are his words in full: THANKSGIVING IS THE preferred American holiday not just because it is free of commercial pressures, denominational exclusiveness, and... Thanksgiving - United States - Holiday ...

It is horrific to contemplate what Gilad Shalit and his family have been subjected to for over three years. Not only has he been imprisoned but the ups and downs of the prisoner exchange negotiations must be torture for his... Gilad Shalit - Hamas - Israel - Middle East - Warfare and Conflict

Both Anne Applebaum and Dan Drezner have pinpointed Barack Obama's overarching foreign policy problem: sitting at the apex of the international pecking order brings a lot of headaches and apparently very little camaraderie. Neither of them quite hits the mark,... Barack Obama - United States - ...

Washington - The United Nations nuclear agency blasted Iran in a resolution Friday for obstructing investigations into its suspected nuclear-weapons program and demanded that the Islamic Republic stop enriching uranium at a once-secret facility. read more

Richard Wolffe, The Daily Beast reports that there is a reason China and the White House have announced they will go to Copenhagen with plans for emissions reduction. White House officials have now disclosed that while in China and in his visit with India's prime minister, Obama has been working qui ...

“It took a lot of courage on Kennedy’s part to defy the Pentagon, defy the military — and do the right thing,” said Col. Larry Wilkerson, USA (ret.), according to Robert Dreyfuss in his recent Rolling Stone article “ The Generals’ Revolt .” Wilkerson, who was chief of staff at the Stat ...

Thanks to AIG, some of the poorest residents of rural Kentucky learned you can always be made poorer by corporate villains. What are we getting in return for the bailout? So far, predatory credit card rates, exorbitant bank fees and obscene Wall Street bonuses. But we're being robbed in other, sne ...

Washington - Stop hyperventilating, all you climate change deniers. The purloined e-mail correspondence published by skeptics last week -- portraying some leading climate researchers as petty, vindictive and tremendously eager to make their data fit accepted theories -- does not prove that global wa ...

The Spicebush Swallowtail butterfly species was identified in September by Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department biologists. 1934 was the last Maine sighting of the butterfly.  The recent finding was in the hardwood swamps of Berwick and Wells. Read more of this story »

New findings, published in the October issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, indicate early Europeans enjoyed a much broader diet than first suspected. We have known for a long while that early man hunted big game such as mastodons, now prehistoric bone findings show that early man also ...

A recent study has produced some astonishing and disturbing results. Tuna was ordered from 31 sushi restaurants. Genetic tests were then used to identify the species of fish ordered. Nineteen of the restaurants surveyed incorrectly described or could could not indicate which species of fish they ...

Whether you are eating turkey or tofurkey this Thanksgiving, you cannot deny the great sacrifice that turkeys are making to fill dinner plates across the nation. I figured I would honor their sacrifice here on the eve of thanksgiving, with some fun turkey facts. More than 45 million turkeys ar ...

Bighead carp are one of two non-native species of Asian carp causing widespread concern among Great Lakes advocates. The other is silver carp. Great Lakes advocates are calling it a “ conservation emergency ” now that non-native Asian carp have been detected within seven miles of Lake Michigan ...

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Opportunities I mean – you wait forever for the one you want and then 2 come along at the same time…

Recently I was charged with researching whether towns could regulate the use of fertilizer on lawns.

Tree planters, grab your shovels and head out to Ballona Creek and Cochran Avenue tomorrow morning

Thursday saw the launch of a new research and policy journal, Urban Coast, put out by my friends and

By Kirsten Bokenkamp The chance that Congress will pass a US climate change bill before the global summit in Copenhagen is looking increasingly slim, but that does not stop us from individually minimizing our own impact on the earth. Green-up Your Life! is all about reminding us that as individuals ...

Texas Representatives, Senators, and other statewide elected officials, both locally and nationally, receive reimbursements for their on-the-job travels. They travel quite frequently to conduct business that benefits their constituents. Or at least that is what we hope they do. Some representatives ...

If you haven’t heard, Huffingtonpost.com has a contest to send a citizen journalist to Copenhagen called the “Hopenhagen Ambassador Contest”. HuffPost in conjunction with Hopenhagen.org is sending one person to Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change Conference to both represent concerns of peopl ...

Las Brisas Energy Center, a proposed pet coke power plant, is still in the midst of a protracted permitting process which most recently has taken the form of a state hearing. Opponents have claimed that projected pollution from the proposed plant has been under-estimated by engineers. Testimony ...

Statement of Tyson Slocum, Director, Public Citizen’s Energy Program *Note: Tyson Slocum is delivered this statement today at a public hearing held by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on regulating greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing industrial facilities under the Clean Air Act ...

Zob Ahan has reclaimed the Iranian Premier League's (IPL) top spot following a 1-0 narrow victory against Malavan at the Takhti Stadium in Anzali.

Iran plans to increase its natural gas output by investing about 750 million dollars in three gas refineries.

Russia has called on Iran to treat seriously a resolution from the UN nuclear watchdog over the construction of the country's Fordo enrichment facility.

Germany's former defense minister Franz Josef Jung has quit the cabinet over a deadly bombing in Afghanistan, a day after another official's resignation over the same issue.

Iraq is likely to postpone its general elections, supposed to be held in January, as the parliament still struggles to reach an agreement over an electoral law.

Good luck drafting Cheney...The DoD tried five times and never got him A group of far right lunatics, headed up by Christopher Barron, launched an effort today to get Dick Cheney on the ballot in 2012. That scratching sound you hear is Democrats all over the land hurriedly writing checks to assist i ...

Or has the Secret Service gotten a whole more lax in it's protection of this president than it was during the previous administration. From allowing people to show up armed to the teethat obstructionist rallies and hate sessions at presidential venues to this latest embarrassment... Mr. Obama seems ...

If you're avoiding the Black Friday crowds by starting your Christmas shopping online, remember that more overpriced stuff people don't need is even more ludicrously inappropriate than usual in these hard economic times. Even if you can afford to keep giving everyone on your list the latest hyped ga ...

I live across the street from a large, inner-city Catholic church that operates a food pantry and social services agency. This church is located in a gentrifying inner city neighborhood, so on the same block you my have two different three-story stone houses that look quite similar at first blush, b ...

"And it is my fervent hope - and my heartfelt expectation - that next Thanksgiving we will be able to celebrate the fact that many of those who have lost their jobs are back at work, and that as a nation we will have come through these difficult storms stronger and wiser and grateful to have reached ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Members of one of America’s oldest Protestant churches officially apologized Friday – for the first time – for massacring and displacing Native Americans 400 years ago. “We consumed your resources, dehumanized your people and dis.... Submitted by Kat Y. to Society & Culture  | ...

As the Director General of the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) I wanted to be the first to tell you about our exciting plans to build a new sanctuary in Pakistan so we can rescue bears from the horrors of bear baiting and give them a p Submitted by Tierney G. to Animals  |   Note ...

Aliens are already among us on Earth, say Bulgarian government scientists who claim they are in contact with them. Submitted by Ingrid Peeters to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

New evidence has made it more likely that remnants of Martian microbes were transported to Earth in a meteorite. Submitted by Ingrid Peeters to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) confirms that each year, the Japanese fleet begins whaling in mid-december and alternates each year between the Australian antarctic waters and the Antarctic ross sea. Submitted by Kathleen L. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

In the face of even more widespread water shortages and scarcity that already affect more than a billion people worldwide, there is some good news in the form of cost-effective, sustainable solutions to address water needs for everyone.

The addition of three new retailers last week brought the total of signatories aiming to reducing mining's environmental and social impact to 60, with more than $1.3 billion in U.S. jewelry sales represented by companies involved.

The mobile communications industry has released its Green Manifesto, setting out industry-wide goals for reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions while proposing policy recommendations for the upcoming U.S. conference in Copenhagen.

This report details the rationale for the Carbon Disclosure Project's new program, the CDP Water Disclosure, an initiative aimed at helping institutional investors better understand the business risks and opportunities associated with water scarcity.

Seeking to replicate its success in increasing voluntary reporting by companies on carbon emissions, the CDP develops a mechanism for corporate reporting on water use.

Last year's Mumbai attacks torpedoed hopes of a peace deal between India and Pakistan that might underpin a regional settlement for Afghanistan. Has President Barack Obama picked up the pieces? And if not, what is his back-up plan?

On the surface, Australia's opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull won the endorsement of his party when he put his job on the line over his bipartisan support for the PM's carbon trade plan. But dig deeper and the picture looks much bleaker.

German media have become gripped by a popularity contest between new foreign minister Guido Westerwelle, and conservative defence minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, whose globe-trotting has earned him the nickname "the other foreign minister".

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd may be a shoo-in to return to office late next year, but this week his reputation as a transformative leader will be on the line

The Austrian province that enjoyed a big payout from the part sale of Hypo Group Alpe Aldria during the reign of hard-right leader Joerg Haider now refuses to put more cash into the ailing bank.

No tab dump today. It's Thanksgiving! Barring any unforeseen news breaks, this blog will return Monday. In the meantime, I'm thankful for all of you, my long-suffering, much-appreciated readers.

I'm a well-known turkey skeptic, but this reader's Thanksgiving menu is enough to convert me: For the last three years, turkey has gone from the least interesting part of our meal to the star. We get a heritage bird from a local farm – red bourbon, I think. About 10 pounds. We use a Weber Grill ...

Over at U.S. News and World Report, Robert Schlesinger attaches some more numbers to the rise of the filibuster: The fact of the matter is that the frequency of filibusters has increased by a factor of 50 since the days of (then-Democrat) Strom Thurmond jaw-jacking for 24 hours to stop a civil righ ...

In the comments beneath my column applying behavioral economics to Thanksgiving, a couple of folks accuse me of trying to pretty much ban eating during the holiday, which is pretty obviously not the point of the column. In any case, it's a good excuse to post my Thanksgiving menu, and invite you all ...

It didn't fit in the last post, but I also wanted to quote this bit from David Leonhardt's column : Complaining that Congress and the White House aren’t doing enough to reduce the deficit is always a popular pundit game. So it’s no surprise that the last few weeks have been filled with knowin ...

Sure am sorry about your Giants last night BooMan. I know how sad you must feel. But maybe they can knock off the Cowboys and Eagles. I mean the Raiders beat the Eagles, and Kansas City almost beat the Boys, so how tough can it be? Sincerely, Your Friendly Neighborhood Broncos Fan

This does not surprise me. Washington (CNN) – A new group wants former Vice President Dick Cheney back in the White House. The organization - "Draft Dick Cheney 2012" - launched on Friday, and unveiled their new Web site. Their aim: To convince the former vice president to seek the Republica ...

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Here's something straight out of Porky's: A British woman lost her appeal Tuesday against a ban on her noisy sex sessions, after a court heard how her marathon romps that kept neighbours awake sounded like someone being murdered. Caroline and Steve Cartwright's "howling" lovemaking sounded "unna ...

 A Daily Review Of International Online Media Europeans on this date in history:1907 – Alberto Moravia,...

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Lamb or Turkey?...

Something I don't understand: we're constantly told here that our public finances are unsustainable, while...

Can you keep a secret? Despite being a total nerd, I somehow managed to grow up without playing a single full D&D adventure. It wasn’t because I was too cool for it or anything, I just didn’t have the right friends. But I wanted to, let me tell you. Desperately. So I bought sourcebooks. In case ...

For various reasons, I’m too short of time to do any blogging today, but I have a new voice to introduce to the Futurismic choir instead. You may have noticed me linking to and mentioning one Tim Maly quite a few times in the last few months, most recently for his post on the demise [...] Project ...

With its ability to allow us to take on new forms, appearances and identities, the metaverse is opening up as a whole new arena for discussions about cultural perceptions. Here’s a fresh example: a Second Life avatar skin designer released a collection of skins named “Battle Royale” on to the ...

Hey, writers – ever based a character on a friend, no matter how loosely? Well, you’d best be careful to stay friends with them if you get published, because there’s now a legal precedent for a character in a novel being considered as libel: A Georgia jury has ruled that Haywood Smith, author ...

Economic slump + increasing ubiquity of internet = ruthless tit-for-tat price war between Amazon and Wal-Mart: The tussle began last month as a relatively trivial but highly public back-and-forth over which company had the lowest prices on the most anticipated new books and DVDs this fall. By last w ...

A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Surgeons are typically charged with some of the most exacting demands in modern medicine and health technology, and often participate in complex and lengthy procedures that require a considerable level of concentration and focus. The trust that surgical clients place i ...

A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Feeling as though one has been given a different or inadequate set of opportunities, or different treatment, due to racial background or appearance can have a negative effect on one’s general outlook and happiness, though many who face such difficulties are sometime ...

By Mona Barbera, Ph.D., Internal Family Systems Therapy Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Mona and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile If you are in a multicultural marriage, you know how hard communication can be. Whether it’s about: • in-laws – how much influence and invol ...

By Sharon Fischer, LCSW Click here to contact Sharon and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or TF-CBT is a short-term evidence-based practice that is highly effective for children and adolescent survivors of trauma. Trauma is defined as sexual abuse, phys ...

A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Numerous studies have been conducted in the past which provide evidence for the efficacy of psychotherapy in improving clients’ quality of life, but many prospective clients and critics may cite the long-term costs of psychotherapy as reason to turn to other methods ...

Friends carry environmental message to Tennessee congregations Knoxville News Sentinel This 2005 file photo of National Coal Mine 7 at Campbell County's Zeb Mountain shows the destruction caused by mountaintop removal . ... and more »

Moore wraps up tour with Mockingbird Staunton News Leader Many of the people at the conference were opposed to mountain-top removal for coal strip mining operations. "I always appreciate people that are trying to ... and more »

Chattarati (blog) Mountaintop Removal Mining Protests Go National Common Dreams (press release) Over the objections of the local community, the site has been granted permits for mountaintop removal . Massey Energy began dynamiting peaks this week, ... End Mountaintop Removal : Sit-ins, Zombies, Pro ...

Chattarati (blog) Mountaintop Removal Mining Protests Go National Common Dreams (press release) Over the objections of the local community, the site has been granted permits for mountaintop removal . Massey Energy began dynamiting peaks this week, ... End Mountaintop Removal : Sit-ins, Zombies, Pro ...

Judge sides with environmental groups in coal case Plain Dealer ... violated federal environmental laws by failing to give the public enough of a say before issuing permits for two mountaintop removal coal mines. ... Mountaintop mining: Judge sides with opponents Bluefield Daily Telegraph all 76 n ...

Jeff Sessions / Washington Post : Sen. Jeff Sessions challenges double standard on judicial filibuster   —  Legal scholars have long debated whether the filibuster may be used to keep judicial nominees off the bench.  For practical purposes, that question was answered on May 23, 2005.  That n ...

New York Times : Uninvited Pair Met Obama; Secret Service Offers Apology   —  WASHINGTON — President Obama and his wife, Michelle, had a face-to-face encounter with the couple who sneaked into a state dinner at the White House this week, White House officials acknowledged on Friday.

Charlie Savage / New York Times : Justice Department Says Acorn Can Be Paid for Pre-Ban Contracts   —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned ...

Nia-Malika Henderson / The Politico : Obama orders review of crashers   —  President Obama has ordered a full review into how a Virginia couple managed to make their way into the White House for last week's state dinner without an invitation, even getting so far as to meet the president in the ...

Climate Progress : ­An open letter to graduate students and young scientists in fields related to climate research from Dr. Judith Curry regarding hacked CRU emails  —  I have known Dr. Judith Curry, Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, ...

In upstate New York, landowners’ conflict over whether to allow drilling for natural gas has set neighbor against neighbor, even spouse against spouse.

President Obama and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will attend the Copenhagen climate talks and have pledged new greenhouse gas emission targets.

When Congress mandated in 2007 that refiners blend a rising volume of ethanol into gasoline, fuel consumption had been growing for years. Then came the recession.

President Obama will offer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions “in the range of” 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, White House officials said.

With proposals to reduce emissions tied to climate change stalled in Congress, a state works on its own cap-and-trade plan.

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Chinese scientists claim to be able to control the weather. But is geoengineering more than wishful thinking? And, if so, should we be worried? David Adams reports. The unseasonal snow that fell on Beijing for 11 hours on November 1 was the earliest and heaviest there has been for years. It was also ...

Chewang Norphel has pioneered a simple method of creating artificial “glaciers” to irrigate farmland in high-altitude deserts. Athar Parvaiz reports from northwest India. In December 1997, when world leaders assembled in Kyoto to put in place the first treaty to address climate change, Chewang N ...

As new plant and animal species are discovered, others are vanishing. Many are threatened by climate climate, while others fall at the hand of man. Maryann Bird asks what future generations won’t ever see. Some extraordinary finds have been made recently in the natural world. Among them: a remarka ...

As crucial climate talks at Copenhagen approach, a growing gap has emerged between rich and poor nations. Tan Copsey spoke to Lumumba Stanislaus-Kaw Di-Aping, chair of the G77 group of developing countries. As the world approaches December’s crucial global climate-change summit in Copenhagen, the ...

From failed US presidential candidate to planetary crusader, Al Gore is a rock star of the climate debate. He talks to Oliver Burkeman about optimism, civil disobedience and Obama’s next move. Perhaps the best way to understand the extraordinary transformation of Al Gore is to study the changing r ...

Scary stuff.

You can tell a lot by what gets displayed in a case behind lock and key.

The chutzpah!

In addition to the demographics, Bush's legacy, Americans' continued distrust of the party on the issues, etc.

After complaints from everyone, including the mailman.

The Obama administration is seeking to reverse a federal appeals court decision that dramatically narrowed the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Justice Department officials are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider it ...

The document-leaking site Wikileaks says it’s preparing to release 500,000 intercepted wireless pager messages from a 24-hour period encompassing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Site operators say they plan to start rolling out the texts beginning at 3:00 a.m. New York time, paced to  ...

Welcome to the tinfoil hat club. That’s what a federal appeals court is telling Scott Tooley of Kentucky in dismissing his civil rights lawsuit. Tooley believes the government put him under blanket surveillance after he said the word “bomb” to an airline agent. Tooley sued the government on ...

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have filed a notice that they do not intend to pursue an appeal in the Lori Drew cyberbullying case, thus ending the controversial and lengthy case. “We have a notice with the 9th Circuit that we are withdrawing our notice of appeal in the case,” a spokesman f ...

If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create. At least that’s the message from the Motion Picture Association of America. It’s spelled out in a Thursday memo to the Senate Judiciary Com ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dubai's debt woes could further unhinge an already fragile U.S. commercial real estate, as it illustrates the importance of that tiny country to global investors in an increasingly interconnected world.

(SolveClimate) Three leading scientists who on Tuesday released a report documenting the accelerating pace of climate change said the scandal that erupted last week over hacked emails from climate scientists is nothing more than a "smear campaign" aimed at sabotaging December climate talks in Copenh ...

* Wife smashed car window with Golf club to get him out

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mayor Michael Bloomberg's narrower-than-expected reelection campaign cost the billionaire some $102 million, or about $183 per vote, The New York Times reported on Friday evening, making him the top-spending self-financed politician in U.S. history.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Friday congressional proposals to audit the Fed and strip it of regulatory powers as part of post-crisis reforms could damage prospects for economic and financial health in the future.

The following commentary is from Pravda , citing Utro.ru as the source. Europe Needs to Cast USA Aside Before It Is Too Late ©  Utro By Natalia Serova November 27, 2009 The European Union needs the joint all-European army. The subject surfaced in the beginning of the 1990s, when European countries ...

The following article is from The Times of India. Is Headley an American agent who turned rogue? ©   The Times of India November 27, 2009 NEW DELHI - It's a plot that could be straight out of the bluff-and-double-bluff worlds created by John le Carre and Frederick Forsyth. Only, it seems to have p ...

The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. Are Ukraine Black Death Cases the result of IMF Loans? ©   Global Research By F. William Engdahl November 26, 2009 The Ukraine Government has declared a state of emergency and medical examiners describe results of autopsie ...

The following perspective is reprinted with permission from World Socialist Web Site. The Palestinians and the perspective of Permanent Revolution ©   World Socialist Web Site By Chris Marsden November 26, 2009 Repeated attempts by Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah leadership to restore their flagging a ...

IntelTrends - The following article is reprinted with permission from Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.), Thailand. Wa, Mongla:  Don't mess with the beehive ©   S.H.A.N. November 25, 2009   11:49 Following a 4-day meeting between top leaders of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and National Dem ...

How About a War on Poverty Instead? By JAYNE LYN STAHL | From CounterPunch.org The local news was replete with images of First Lady Michelle Obama in the elegant, strapless designer gown she wore for this White ...

by Donna Smith | PDA Co-Chair, Healthcare NOT Warfare Campaign Those millions of us who support a Medicare for All, single-payer, reform for the healthcare crisis in this nation have some work to do over the ...

Now that a filibuster in the Senate is no longer an issue, some kind of health care bill is likely to pass and be signed into law. The fight to protect the right ...

Pennsylvania and Illinois Faculty Unions Endorse HR 676 Two faculty unions affiliated with the National Education Association (NEA) have endorsed HR 676, single payer healthcare legislation introduced by Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the Legislative Assembly ...

Tim Carpenter, PDA National Director appeared on the Nick and Paul show out of Santa Barbara CA. Hear Tim discuss his recent trip to DC and the on-going organizing by PDA members for Healthcare ...

A friend sent me the below Youtube videos of Larry King's visit with me and the mothers, and one grandmother, of children killed from eating E. coli O157:H7-tainted hamburger that ran last month.  This first video - the first ten minutes of the show - it then got a bit off-track as the hour went alo ...

I took the time today to read the Seattle Times article by Maureen O’Hagan, “Seattle lawyer turns into healthy food crusader,” and I was struck by a discussion I had with the reporter: Marler, … says he and his firm, Marler Clark, have pried $500 million in settlements out of companies that ...

State health departments, CDC, and the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) are investigating a multi-state outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections. On October 31, 2009, FSIS issued a notice about a recall of approximately 545,699 pounds of ...

The big news in China after I got home from this year's China Food Safety Conference is "Pair Executed Over China Tainted Baby Milk" that is running in paper's around the world this morning (not actual photo): Two men have been executed for their part in China's tainted milk scandal. Both men faced ...

VIDEO: Chevrolet Volt tests driver controlled audio warning system with the blind Beep! Electric Smart Fortwo gets shot in Berlin Just off the production line, the Smart Ed is already a star. ...

Quick Spin: Nissan Leaf the tip of mass market EV spear Ghosn's plan of attack makes sense, especially when the first shot is this silver (blue) bullet. Volt battery life affected by hot weather, but 10 y ...

Filed under: Hatchback , Nissan , Electric , Quick Spin Nissan Leaf - Click above for high-res image gallery Nissan has gone into a back room, pulled out its Ouija board and decided that the time is right to make a huge bet. The Japanese automaker, along with its partner Renault, wants to be the w ...

Prediction: In 2015, fuel cell vehicles "will be cheaper than a Rolls-Royce" Not for everyone, then? Chevy Volt to address America's school children in nationwide show-and-tell H ...

Aptera Update: Backstory uglier than we knew? Unanswered questions run deep, by the looks of it. POLL: Is the Tesla IPO for you? Money maker or bad idea? ...

Heavy on vision but light on the details, new workplace apps company emerges from Facebook tech talents. Originally posted at Webware

Why is it that as Thanksgiving approaches, when we should be focusing on the good things in our lives, journalists take the opportunity to talk about what's bad? I don't know, but I do know that I'm not immune to the trend. This week on the Reporters' Roundtable: tech business turkeys! Unlike t ...

Starting at 10 a.m. PST, Google plans to reveal technical details and launch plans for its upcoming operating system. CNET's Rafe Needleman will have a running commentary. Originally posted at Webware

When selling a company, it helps to know the buyer's sweet spot. We know Intuit's.

New Chroma theme, designed for short posts, available for free under the new TypePad Micro brand. Originally posted at Webware

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

California campuses have been rocked by protests this past week, provoked by massive student fee increases voted on by the University of California Board of Regents. After a year of sequential budget cuts, faculty and staff dismissals and furloughs, and the elimination of entire academic department ...

The Mail Tribune newspaper of Southern Oregon published a story on Amy Goodman’s tour stop in Ashland, Oregon. Reporter Paris Achen wrote, "Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! , told a crowd of about 300 people at Ashland’s Southern Oregon University Sunday night that print and TV media h ...

“In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger,” says a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) online video. It continues, “For the first time in humanity, over 1 billion people are chronically hungry.” The WFP launched the Billion for a Billion campaign this week, urging the 1 ...

The controversial TV anchor has resigned from CNN amid a campaign to force him off the air due to his reporting on Latinos and immigrants. Past Democracy Now! Coverage of Lou Dobbs: Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez’s 2007 interview with Lou Dobbs Amy Goodman’s column ‘The Dubious Mr. ...

Thanksgiving is around the corner, and families will be gathering to share a meal and, perhaps, enjoy another annual telecast of “The Wizard of Oz.” The 70-year-old film classic bears close watching this year, perhaps more than in any other, for the message woven into the lyrics, written during ...

What better way to medicate against a holiday’s genocidal origins and the hunger now swelling worldwide in the wake of a related banker-brought recession than with a bellyful of turkey, stuffing, yams, and pumpkin pie? Despite its rotten ambiguities Thanksgiving remains my favorite American holida ...

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.    As an epidemic ...

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?    It’s only since I’ve moved to the Midwest that I’ve learned that not only is that world p ...

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 ...

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 [... ...

These babies are a boon to environment: A full 63 percent of regional shuttle passengers would otherwise have driven solo to work, meaning 327,000 car trips were kept off the streets by these buggers.

There is more to being green than driving a Prius and buying local produce. Duncan Clark sheds further light on the eco-friendly messages we've come to take for granted

Roughly 1,000 years ago, Europe enjoyed several centuries of balmier average temperatures. Dubbed the "Medieval Warm Period," it was the last time before the present that agriculture could flourish in Greenland.

A detailed analysis of the potential economic impacts of rapid global warming, put together by insurance-industry experts and underwritten by the World Wildlife Fund and insurance giant Allianz, found that China stands to suffer a whopping $9 trillion in economic damage by 2050.

Scientific progress depends on accurate and complete data. It also relies on replication. The past couple of days have uncovered some shocking revelations about the baloney practices that pass as sound science about climate change.

By Les Visible   The Manchurian President, Barak Obama (rhymes with Osama) is going to Copenhagen because Lord Rothschild and his vampire and werewolf brotherhood needs financing for the government, which they intend to utilize to enslave the human race. They don’t actually need the money because ...

By James Delingpole I’ve just had a great, very sympathetic interview about Climategate on LBC radio (London’s main commercial news and talk station) with Petrie Hosken. She told me she has been simply inundated with callers, all of them utterly unconvinced that human influence has made any sign ...

By Michel Chossudovsky “It is a serious thing [vaccine] that has the potential to kill” according to Dr. Neil Rau, an infectious disease expert, in a CTV interview, but do not worry: “leading experts insist, the benefits of the H1N1 vaccine vastly outweigh the risks” (Swine Flu Support Cent ...

This is the second talk by Joe, the Webmaster,in a three-part series regarding the lies and deceptions of the 9/11 Commission. This talk is about the controlled demolitions of the World Trade Center towers and World Trade Center 7.

This is the third talk by Joe, the Webmaster,in a three-part series regarding the lies and deceptions of the 9/11 Commission. This talk is about the attack on the Pentagon.

. The entire vaccine industry, as it turns out, has been experimental. We did not know that we were causing damages – for us all.Clinically silent ischemic brain and body damages will happen Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Stories noted by the Care 2 GMO group : more links in 'France Finds Monsanto Guilty of Lying http://www.care2.com/news/member/410531040/1310409 comments Submitted by John Farnham to Health & Wellness  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Problem of biodiversity loss has been 'eased off centre stage' by focus on climate change, according to Prof Edward Wilson, the ecologist described as 'Darwin's natural heir' Submitted by Simone D. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Stand by for yet another attempt to persuade a resistant British public to consume genetically modified food. The Food Standards Agency - the same quango that constantly condemns the organic produce that people really do want - is about to organise, at mi Submitted by Karen S. to Science & Tech  |  ...

Monsanto, the company which spent an astounding eight million dollars last year on lobbying, is planning to flood the food market with poor quality omega 3 oils from its genetically modified (GM) soy beans. Submitted by Karen S. to Science & Tech  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

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 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 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 ... 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 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 »

Sara Steffens thought that labor negotiations were civilized affairs ... until her newsroom became a battlefield.

Senate Republicans have “thoughtfully’ provided immigration advocates with their strategy for opposing immigration reform in 2010.

The CIA ordered its secret prisons closed, but lawyers for terrorism suspects want them preserved as possible evidence -- and the CIA won't say what's going on.

All too often, prosecutors aid and abet the crimes of their informants. And that's just one disheartening outcome of American law enforcement's bungled dealings with snitches.

Stephen Goose, director of Human Rights Watch's arms division, called the decision to keep the Bush-era policy "an appalling decision."

An ancient theatre beneath the Acropolis, believed to be the birthplace of modern drama, is to recover some of its former glory thanks to a £5.4 million restoration project. The Theatre of Dionysos in Athens will be rebuilt by extending and modernising surviving stone seats, although no new perform ...

We all need a perk during the seemingly neverending last few hours of the afternoon. Take a look at our favourite animals for some light relief.

The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is rapidly approaching. Thousands of international business representatives will be attending. But do they really want to tackle climate change or does money remain their motivation? The Angry Mermaid thinks the latter is true.

Hackers broke into the email server of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA) last Friday 20th November, stealing 1,079 emails and over 3,800 documents. The material was posted onto an anonymous server in Russia, as well as on climate sceptic blog Air Vent .

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, along the Gulf Coast of the USA and most catastrophically in New Orleans, Florida, has led to it being classed as one of the deadliest hurricanes to have been recorded – and the scale and cost of the damage caused has caused some to classify it ...

Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom with three sections of hot news. Links to interesting news and analysis Quote of the day: Louis Napoleon is an example for us Feature article:  “Circular reasoning Afghanistan” by Yglesias Plus, an Afterword Also — you can now su ...

Summary:  President Obama has decided to expand the Af-Pak War and accept the Nobel Peace Prize, certifying himself to future generations as hypocritical scum, we must remember that he promised exactly this outcome.  And we elected him, so the responsibility is ours.  Like so many things, this w ...

Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom.  There are 3 sections, all with hot news.  Also — you can now subscribe, receiving posts by email — see the box on the upper right. Links to interesting news and analysis Doomster nonsense of the day: China May Demand Physical Gold Feature ...

A holiday classic from the archives of the FM website, originally posted 18 March 2008.  Timely, if not relevant to the Thanksgiving holiday. This series of articles speculations about our future based on history and the almost inevitable re-balancing of global economy (i.e., end of unconstraine ...

Summary:  Another in a series of posts about the swine flu hysteria (links to other chapters appear at the end).  This is an apt time to look at another would-be Cassandra, as the World Health Organization has noted “Signs That Swine Flu Has Peaked” (New York Times, 21 November 2009). The ...

sibeledmonds: Interview with Author & Journalist Kristina Borjesson:Drastic Decline in True Investigative Journalism;how & why http://boilingfrogspost.com

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sibeledmonds: Boiling Frogs: “Mr.President, please give these human beings half as much value as you give to your Turkey(s).” http://boilingfrogspost.com

sibeledmonds: RT @officialwire - Boiling Frogs’ 09 Thanksgiving Note To The President http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=35388

sibeledmonds: Boiling Frogs Post’s Thanksgiving Note to the President: Freedom & Life: Of Turkeys & Men http://boilingfrogspost.com

If you want to arm yourself with some nice science trivia for tonight’s dinner conversation, check out this lecture by Diane Bunce, a professor of chemistry at The Catholic University in Washington, DC. She gets off to a slow start, so you may want to skip the first two minutes. See Also: Top 10 ...

Thanksgiving is about eating, and though local, organic food might be what the cool kids are eating, most people are still eating products of the industrial food system. Whether you’re talking turkey, cranberries or potatoes, industrial-scale processes have been developed to drive down food costs ...

The Texas attorney general filed charges Monday against Laurie D’Alleva for allegedly selling prescription drugs like Botox from websites she owned, including discountmedspa.com. Agents descended on her Mansfield, Texas home and carried out boxes, computers, and other possible evidence for the ca ...

Major earthquakes occurring along the Cascadia subduction zone off the coast of Washington state could strike closer to the state’s urban areas than some models have suggested, a new study notes. GPS data gathered at dozens of sites throughout western Washington hint that slippage along the inter ...

The most thorough study to date of raptor talons reveals their feet to be extraordinarily specialized hunting tools, perfectly suited to their gruesomely amazing killing strategies. “Despite the ubiquity of raptors in terrestrial ecosystems, many aspects of their predatory behavior remain poorly ...

The United States, during the Bush administration, started a very serious change of course in its strategic relationship with India -- a huge democratic nation that has been at best ambivalent about relations with the United States for decades. Barack Obama's decision to throw his first State Dinne ...

Back in the heady days of 2006 some 30,000 cranes, roughly a quarter of total global capacity, were busy whirring away in Dubai. Today most of these devices have either left to find service in other parts of the globe, or lie silent, unused and unloved. In what is only the latest sign of the ongoin ...

Yesterday’s New York Times glossed one reason why some U.S. officials think we need to stay in Afghanistan in force: But for years, throughout the Bush administration and into the Obama administration, American officials have been making trips to Pakistan to reassure its government that the United ...

John Donnelly of Congressional Quarterly has a disconcerting piece out today noting that more US military personnel are dying from suicide than from either of the US military engagements in Iraq or Afghanistan. Donnelly writes: More U.S. military personnel have taken their own lives so far in 2009 ...

News this morning that Obama will attend the climate change meeting in Copenhagen next month, armed with a kind-of-sort-of-commitment-like statement that the U.S. will reduce carbon emissions in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020. Good times. I'm a bit nervous that, like his ill-fated attemp ...

President Obama has pledged to committing the U.S. to reducing carbon emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels in advance of traveling to Copenhagen Dec. 7 for the international climate conference, but between the parochial interests of individual senators and the energy industries they represent, ...

In the wake of the highest unemployment rate in 25 years, The Roosevelt Institute asked historians, economists and other public thinkers to reflect on the lessons of the New Deal and explore new, big ideas for how to get America back to work. TAPPED will be cross-posting the 10-part series with the ...

Can you spot the glaring problem in this AP story about last night's state dinner? First lady Michelle Obama chose to wear a gleaming silver-sequined, flesh-colored gown Tuesday night to the first state dinner held by her husband's administration. She was tending to her hostess duties in a strap ...

Dana Perino has some thoughts on terrorism, in particular the Ft. Hood shootings: PERINO: And we had a terrorist attack on our country. And we should call it what it is. Because we need to face up to it so that we can prevent it from happening again. HANNITY: I agree with you. And why wonâ ...

Atrios has the correct response to Kevin Drum 's rather odd claim that Social Security could somehow be "taken off the table" by instituting some benefit cuts and tax hikes: thinking that Social Security could ever be "reformed" to Fred Hiatt 's long-term satisfaction will work out about as well as ...

Last week I was delighted to talk to Linda Olson-Osterlund on KBOO FM in Portland, Oregon, for her show, “A Deeper Look,” which was broadcast on Wednesday. The show is available online here, and Linda and I discussed the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (dire ...

Last week I was delighted to talk to Linda Olson-Osterlund for KBOO FM in Portland, Oregon, for her show, “A Deeper Look,” which was broadcast on Wednesday. The show is available online here, and Linda and I discussed the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (dir ...

Binyam Mohamed is a British resident, seized in Pakistan in April 2002, who was held in Pakistani custody, supervised by US agents, until July 2002, when he was sent by the CIA to be tortured for 18 months in Morocco, and was tied in with a “dirty bomb plot” that never even existed. After his [. ...

No matter how it ends up being spun, Sir Christopher Meyer’s testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry today demonstrated, without a shadow of a doubt, how “regime change” in Iraq was agreed between George W. Bush and Tony Blair in April 2002, and how the rush to war by the US meant that furious attemp ...

Following up on my US tour promoting the new documentary, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself) and my appearance on ABC News, plus the slew of developments in recent weeks regarding Guantánamo — federal court trials for Khalid Sheikh Mohamm ...

Sarah Palin With the frenzy of what the mainstream media so adorably calls " Palinpalooza ," you had to have seen this coming. Due to the likely record-breaking number of distortions and falsehoods in her new book, Going Rogue: An American Life, Sarah Palin was a shoe-in for this week's GOP hypocrit ...

BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK The New York Post, The Washington Times For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America. The New York Post and The Washington Times are two of the most conserv ...

GREEN IS GOOD by Margaret Smith For many people, the holidays are the best time of the year. Food, fun, family, friends -- it's hard to imagine what's not to love. And then, you think about all those awkward family conversations that seem to snake their way onto the dinner table each and every year. ...

BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Catholic Bishop Publishes Extraordinary Letter Re: 'Obstinate' Kennedy's Abortion Support Tobin says to Kennedy.' Your position is unacceptable to the Church and scandalous to many of our members'" So much for that "priestly" vow of "confidentiality." I sure wouldn't ...

BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White McClatchy is reporting this morning that anonymous administration and military sources revealed President Obama has settled upon 34,000 as the number of troops to be sent to Afghanistan in the coming surge. As a fair warning, this math is far from official; indic ...

Earlier this week, Kevin Drum said that "nine times out of ten" Obama's policies are "pretty much what [he] expected" but that "the biggest one-time-out-of-ten where he's not doing what [he] expected is in the area of detainee and civil liberties issues."  Similarly, Andrew Sullivan cited  "acc ...

Britain is currently engulfed by a probing, controversial investigation into how their Government came to support the invasion of Iraq, replete with evidence that much of what was said at the time by both British and American officials was knowingly false, particularly regarding the unequivocal in ...

(updated below) John Bolton is the prototypical right-wing pseudo-tough-guy:  cheering on every war he can find without ever getting near any of them.  And as usual for this strain of play-acting, chest-beating warrior, all of the belligerence and craving of vicarious power masks a deep and p ...

Phillip Carter is a lawyer, a former Army Captain, a veteran of the Iraq War and a very harsh critic of the Bush administration's detention and interrogation policies.  He was a vigorous supporter of Barack Obama's campaign, and in 2008, became the Obama campaign's National Veterans Director.  In A ...

(updated below) Over at Daily Kos , Barbara Morrill complains that The Washington Post 's Richard Cohen "is Karl Rove dressed up in pseudo-sadness" because -- according to her -- Cohen today "whines that the Attorney General announced that the United States follows the rule of law" by giving ...

A wide range of stories again in this week’s Alchemist column on ChemWeb.com Absolute configurations reveal themselves through NMR spectroscopy using residual dipolar couplings in small molecules, according to an international team who have put it to work on an anticancer compound. Discussed also ...

According to the promoters of a new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London aimed at UK Scientific Heritage: “Scientists are no longer unrecognisable boffins” thanks to the Science in Focus exhibition, which runs until 17 January 2010. Well…I take issue with that remark! Which o ...

A couple of years ago, I re-posted an old article of mine about homeopathy discussing its ludicrous claims, its feeble attempts to provide a scientific explanation for those claims, and basically pointing out that no solid evidence has ever been found that infinitely diluted solutions of spurious in ...

Time to bring you up to date on the latest science headlines I’ve put together for other sites this last couple of weeks, so here’s a quick round-up: On the SpectroscopyNOW site, this issue, I covered natural chemicals that can help sunflowers soak up toxic cadmium from the soil (another example ...

The wastewater released from industry often contains high levels of toxic heavy metals, which can kill organisms, damage ecosystems, and accumulate in the foodchain. Electroplating, lead smelting, mining, and countless other processes produce enormous volumes of such wastewater. In a perfect world, ...

Whether you're still in the mood for holiday-style foods this weekend or you're ready to move on, vegan bloggers have you covered. And easyVegan.info has your canine companion's taste buds in mind too; the photo of Snickerpoodles at left is courtesy of Kelly. Read on for the rest! Easy Hash Brown Ca ...

Does global warming's impending threat of rising sea levels amount to genocide? According to the charismatic president of the low-lying island nation The Maldives , it does. President Mohamed Nasheed, whose country could be completely submerged by the end of the century if global warming continues u ...

Dogs stories have always been popular, but lately there have been more that are focused around animal shelters and adoption. Characters in books and movies get their dogs from shelters or off the streets, and TV is filled with animals being adopted, rescued, and rehabilitated, both fictionally and ...

Wild pigs are wreaking havoc across the country. These are not domestic pigs that broke free from a factory farm like asylum escapees; these are pigs that were introduced from Europe (and, later, interbred with their domestic cousins) for the sole purpose of hunting. Pigs tend to be rather prolific ...

Mad Cow. Bird Flu. Swine Flu. None of these diseases originated in the wild. Each of them is linked to the abuse and neglect of animals raised for food in factory farms. When our food system keeps spawning and spreading illnesses in epidemic proportions, it should be a pretty big hint that somethin ...

by Tim Reid WASHINGTON - President Obama will travel to Copenhagen next month to attend the climate change conference, ending weeks of uncertainty over whether he would go and after intense pressure from Europe for his presence. Mr Obama will join another 65 heads of state at the climate change conf ...

by John Nichols President Obama plans to formally announce on December 1 his decision with regard to the request from some of his more ambitious generals for a massive troop surge in Afghanistan. But indications are that the president who was elected to set a new course for the nation when it comes ...

by Lyndsey Layton Despite a new law that bans six chemicals from children's products and lowers the lead limit for them, a public interest group has found a number of toys at major retailers that contain the chemicals and illegal amounts of lead. read more

by Andrea K. Walker With consumers leery of piling up credit card debt, more and more retailers are reviving a service that had been given up for dead: layaway. Kmart began offering Internet layaway this year, and sister company Sears expanded its service to the Internet this year. Online site eLaya ...

by David Alexander WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has no plans to join a global treaty banning landmines because a policy review found the United States could not meet its security commitments without them, the State Department said on Tuesday. "This administration undertook a policy review and ...

Whether you're being shopped for or doing the shopping, good wish lists are very useful to have on-hand. This week we want to hear about your favorite tool for ensuring the lump of coal you get is the one you want. Photo by Genealogy Photos . The internet has ushered in an era of comparison shopping ...

Windows only: The Windows 7 taskbar is pretty convenient, but if you are running an older version of Windows (or are just looking for a cool mouse-based launcher), MouseExtender is a sleek program that launches with one click of the mouse. By default, MouseExtender is triggered by clicking the middl ...

When you're traveling around your own town or a distant city, Google's mobile search now offers you way more movie listing information and mobile-formatted trailers . Just search "movies" from your phone to check out Google's fuller, better movie results, complete with trailers, nearby theaters wh ...

It's getting cold outside in many regions, and gloves are becoming the norm. If you want to control your touchscreen phone without exposing your hands, or paying for specialty gloves , Instructables suggests grabbing a needle, and some conductive thread. Conductive thread—no, we'd never heard of i ...

Screenr is a web-based screencasting application that makes sharing short screencasts painless. You can see Screenr in action as we demonstrate how to search Lifehacker.com with Google. Screenr is Twitter-centric but sports a high-degree of functionality even if you don't actively use Twitter. You c ...

By Steve Hynd We've already covered some of the news on Afghanistan readers might have missed over Thanksgiving. Now, what about its neighbour Pakistan? Well, the big pre-Turkey story was Jeremy Scahill's expose of the involvement of a Blackwater subsiduary in gathering intelligence, drone operation ...

By Steve Hynd We hope all our American readers had a good Thanksgiving. But the news keeps rolling on despite holidays, so it's time to play catch-up with foreign policy and affairs. Let's start with Afghanistan and the ongoing U.S.-led occupation there. With Obama's speech on his new Afghanistan st ...

By Dave Anderson: The Obama Administration pinched several excellent bloggers for mid-level staff positions earlier this year. I approved of those decisions as I had read Phil Carter and the Balkinization crew for years and I trusted both their judgment and their integrity, especially on the matter ...

By Steve Hynd Our good friend Jeremy Scahill broke a truly massive story yesterday at The Nation. At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret p ...

By Steve Hynd McClatchy has the scoop - President Obama will announce on Dec 1 that he will order 34,000 additional troops sent to Afghanistan. As it now stands, the plan calls for the deployment over a nine-month period beginning in March of three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at F ...

The task force created by Gov. Sonny Perdue found that it would take at least eight years and hundreds of millions of dollars to bring new reservoirs online. And aggressive new conservation measures would not alone make up for the 280 million gallons a day the Atlanta area would lose if its supply f ...

The Sarasota Tiger Bay Club’s monthly meeting Nov. 19, which centered on the topic “Drilling for Oil,” fostered a heated debate among oil-drilling supporters and opponents — essentially economy versus the environment.

Metro Atlanta would be hardest hit by water losses

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s water task force has learned that losing Lake Lanier as source for drinking water could mean an annual loss of more than $26 billion for businesses.

Georgia's water task force has learned that losing Lake Lanier as source for drinking water could mean an annual loss of more than $26 billion for businesses.

  Dubai Woes to Hit India Hard? "No" Says India's Think Tank … Indian polic

CAN you really shop for doctors and hospitals the way you would for airfares and flat-screen TVs? He

It was once believed that India lives in its villages. . Now it is clear that India’s wealth l

Banks accept deposit from individuals and businesses and makes loan to individual and businesses for

Pay and the Free Market It came up again in conversation today:  someone was offended and upset over

WASHINGTON — The director of the Secret Service took the blame Friday for security failures that allowed a publicity-hungry couple from Virginia who weren't on the guest list for President Barack Obama's first state dinner to slip through security and directly encounter the president.

Fresno shoppers rush for Black Friday deals — Thousands of people across the Valley stayed up late or awoke early to seek Black Friday shopping deals on the day after Thanksgiving. Sisters Veronique Werz, 17, and Janna Melkonian, 19, of Fresno had been waiting outside the mall since 8:30 p.m. Werz ...

Gov. Mark Sanford has one final chance to be the kind of leader he long argued he was.

The art of creating a 4 a.m. shopping frenzy is a complex endeavor on par with creating the perfect Thanksgiving feast. Selecting the items to put on sale and pricing them right is the key to success.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will unveil his long-awaited Afghanistan strategy in a prime-time address from West Point, N.Y., on Dec. 1, the White House said Wednesday, but the administration's advance remarks have sparked concern that talk of an eventual U.S. withdrawal will encourage Isla ...

A fair bit of the doubt and confusion surrounding next month's UN climate summit has suddenly cleared, with the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters - the US and China - announcing pledges on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. As is set out in the Bali Action Plan - the agreement made at the ...

A fair bit of the doubt and confusion surrounding next month's UN climate summit has suddenly cleared, with the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters - the US and China - announcing pledges on curbing greenhouse gas emissions. As is set out in the Bali Action Plan - the agreement made at the ...

If you've spent the week following every change of direction in the political winds about the likely outcome of the forthcoming UN climate summit, you'll have seen more twisting than the average Chubby Checker song. Extending borrowing from the arts and entertainment world: "To bind or not to bind" ...

A couple of weeks ago, the cat came well and truly out of the bag: there would not be a legally binding treaty at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen next month. Or will there? During his meeting on Tuesday with China's President Hu Jintao, President Obama appeared to indicate that some sort of co ...

Here in London, we've reached that time of year when the Sun rises after you do and sets comfortably before you leave the office. And the hours in between are filled with grey, malevolent drizzle. Have the week's diplomatic moves shed more light than the Sun is currently doing here on the likelihoo ...

Washington, Nov 27 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's assertive counsel to stay the course in Afghanistan or risk 'catastrophic consequences' under an emboldened Taliban could play a decisive role in President Barack Obama's final determination about his new strategy in the region.

The Denver Post WASHINGTON — The week before a major presidential speech on Afghanistan strategy, Gen. Stanley McChrystal told lawmakers touring the combat zone that it could take at leas...

Jalalabad's governor, Gul Agha Shirzai, told Afghan tribal elders this month, “O.K., I want you guys to go out there and persuade the Taliban to sit down and talk.”

Taliban tribal leader, was killed Friday in a roadside bombing, the latest attack against pro-government militias near the Afghan border in northwestern

Jalalabad's governor, Gul Agha Shirzai, told Afghan tribal elders this month, “O.K., I want you guys to go out there and persuade the Taliban to sit down and talk.”

Can you keep a secret? Despite being a total nerd, I somehow managed to grow up without playing a single full D&D adventure. It wasn’t because I was too cool for it or anything, I just didn’t have the right friends. But I wanted to, let me tell you. Desperately. So I bought sourcebooks. In case ...

For various reasons, I’m too short of time to do any blogging today, but I have a new voice to introduce to the Futurismic choir instead. You may have noticed me linking to and mentioning one Tim Maly quite a few times in the last few months, most recently for his post on the demise [...] Project ...

With its ability to allow us to take on new forms, appearances and identities, the metaverse is opening up as a whole new arena for discussions about cultural perceptions. Here’s a fresh example: a Second Life avatar skin designer released a collection of skins named “Battle Royale” on to the ...

Hey, writers – ever based a character on a friend, no matter how loosely? Well, you’d best be careful to stay friends with them if you get published, because there’s now a legal precedent for a character in a novel being considered as libel: A Georgia jury has ruled that Haywood Smith, author ...

Economic slump + increasing ubiquity of internet = ruthless tit-for-tat price war between Amazon and Wal-Mart: The tussle began last month as a relatively trivial but highly public back-and-forth over which company had the lowest prices on the most anticipated new books and DVDs this fall. By last w ...

My counterpart in Indonesia, Emerson Yuntho, has been swept up in a flurry of police activity associated with the Third Conference of State Parties (CoSP) of the United Nation Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC).  I just met Emerson last month when he visited our offices at the National Whistlebl ...

[Canada] MacCharles, Tonda, Richard Colvin: Portrait of a whistleblower, theStar.com , November 21, 2009. Talk to people who know Richard Colvin and a few key traits emerge. Driven, committed to Canada's mission in Afghanistan. Knows his stuff. Takes copious notes. Sociable, yet discreet. Above all, ...

[UK] Develin, Kate, “NHS whistleblower ‘sacked for revealing dumped x-ray scans’,” Telegraph.co.uk, November 14, 2009. Dr Otto Chan, a consultant radiologist, believes that he was labelled a troublemaker after the revelations about the Royal London. He claims that hospital bosses decided to ...

The CIA has decided to pay Richard Horn $3 million for a unique settlement of a fifteen (15) year-old spying case. The government not only wants Horn to dismiss the case and release the CIA and State Department officials who spied on him, but the government also wants Horn to promise that he will no ...

  In the United Kingdom, a former investigator of the Royal Military Police (RMP), speaking anonymously, alleges that Senior British army commanders in Iraq refused to investigate Iraqi civilian abuse claims. According to BBC News on October 11 th , the whistleblower claims that while he has seen d ...

William S. Lind 23 November 2009 One of the ongoing themes of this column has been gangs and the role they play in a Fourth Generation world. Here in the United States they already serve as an alternative primary loyalty (alternative to the state) for many urban young men. Gangs will likely be a m ...

23 November 2009 Many thanks to everyone who wrote in.  My wife and I are deeply touched. We’ll try to find someone to at least take over the site as it is and keep the links intact.  Several people have contacted me with ideas.  In the meantime, I’ll leave everything up unless we start ...

Probably on Monday, November 23, depending on how my travels work out. Please go ahead and download any thing you’d like to keep — I’d particularly recommend Boyd’s briefings and the 4GW manuals. I have great faith in the growing number of bloggers and commentators who cover many of the s ...

William S. Lind 18 November 2009 In response to the killing of 13 American soldiers at Ft. Hood by an Islamic U. S. Army major, a number of senior officials have expressed their fear, not of Islam, but of a possible threat to “diversity.” “Diversity” is one of the many false gods of “Poli ...

Security guru Bruce Schneier has the right idea: We should treat terrorists like common criminals and give them all the benefits of true and open justice — not merely because it demonstrates our indomitability, but because it makes us all safer. Once a society starts circumventing its own laws, th ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered what leads to two genes fusing together, a phenomenon that has been shown to cause prostate cancer to develop.

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different regions of the human body and which aid us in physiological functions that contribute to our he ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A researcher at Iowa State University has discovered how a group of proteins from plant pathogenic bacteria interact with DNA in the plant cell, opening up the possibility for what the scientist calls a "cascade of advances."

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing. The work is published online today on the Science Express Web site.

We gently knocked Wil Wheaton recently for saying some things that we thought were a bit wrongheaded in terms of dealing with people copying his work -- while noting that for the most part he absolutely seemed to "get" where things were heading and had a long history of embracing that. Whatever you ...

When we talk about intellectual property issues, many maximalists on both the copyright and patent side of things have this inherent sense that "copying" is "bad." Not just "bad," it's downright immoral. You hear words like "freeloading," "parasites," "pirates," "thieves," "copycats," etc. Yet, t ...

Reader mick alerts us to the story of a small eight-person startup that makes a popular app for backing up your iPod music, which had been called "iPodRip" until Steve Jobs and Apple's lawyers got involved , demanding the company cease using the name and hand over its domain. It's even told the guy ...

Remember ACS:Law? The shakedown organization that appears to have taken over where Davenport Lyons left off (including using some of the identical documents), and who has "partnered" with DigiProtect, the company that gleefully admits that it purposely puts files on file sharing networks just to co ...

We were just talking about how pretty much any government database will get abused by government employees eventually. But it's not just on the accessing or revealing of data that this can happen. How about the collection of data as well? Jabberwocky alerts us to the news that police in the UK ha ...

"This is something we need to monitor, the change, the mutation of the virus. This is why reporting of the death rate must be really transparent."

It is also planned that 14 other bergen babies will be part of the experiment.

H1N1 Flu shot cripples teenager.

The U.S. military wants to establish regional teams of military personnel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus this fall, according to Defense Department officials.

If anti-bodies cause a stroke to the brain from chickenpox, why can't vaccines?

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Juergen and Rosemary Dudek of Archfeldt, Germany, were sentenced to 90 days in prison in July 2008 because they homeschool their children.

U.S. banks are earning money again, but they're writing fewer business loans, threatening a fragile economic recovery.

As has already been widely noted, the minutes of the most recent FOMC meeting reiterated the Fed’s eagerness to reverse, not extend, policy

Alien spies live among us’ says Bulgarian gov space boffin Say we must stop global warming

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Summary: Some Iranian leaders see a trick in this, a way for the West to get hold of its uranium, then keep it. However the head of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei has said that Iran does have a proposal of its own. He said this week: “My understanding of Iran’s position so far is that it is ready ...

The U.N. nuclear watchdog's board censured Iran on Friday, with 25 nations backing a resolution demanding that Tehran immediately freeze construction of its newly revealed nuclear facility and heed Security Council resolutions to stop uranium enrichment.

In one of his Gloomiest predictions, Faber, referred to as Dr Doom, said "the average family will be hurt by that, and then in order to distract the attention of the people, the governments will go to war".

Intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have access to weapons of mass destruction was received by the Government ten days before Tony Blair ordered the invasion of Iraq, the inquiry into the war was told yesterday.

Deborah Henderson likes to think about the Cuban capital of Havana when she goes in to work. Not the music or the beaches, per se, but the vegetables and the gardens. “Over 75 percent or more of the vegetables consumed in Havana are produced within the city,” claims Henderson. As the director of ...

(Reprinted with permission from ResearchLife, Summer 2009 issue, University of Manitoba, umanitoba.ca/research) It was 1952 when Aftab Mufti, a 12-year-old boy living in Karachi, Pakistan, began building bridges. His mother planted a vegetable garden that summer and to help her water it Aftab and hi ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ah to be an early riser: first to the paper, first to the coffee, and, of course, first to the occasional fireball scorching through the sky. Twice in as many mornings this week early birds have reported fiery objects in the atmosphere above Edmonton. On Thursday at about 7:15 a.m., a fireball was ...

Calves Had Skins Peeled Back, Organs Cleared From Rib Cage A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and law enforcement mystified. Four calves have been found dead in a pasture just north of the New Mexico state line in recent weeks. The dead calves had their skins p ...

Moscow: Iran expects Russia to deliver powerful S-300 air-defence missile systems within two months despite fierce objections from the United States and Israel, Tehran's ambassador to Moscow said on Friday. Moscow missed its initial deadline to deliver the S-300s, which could defend Iranian nuclear ...

Dhaka - At least 10 people were killed and dozens are missing after a ferry packed with over 1,000 passengers going home to celebrate Eid-ul Adha listed and partly sank in southern Bangladesh, police said. The accident occurred Friday after midnight as the MV Coco-4, one of the country's largest ...

Moscow - At least 10 people were feared dead and dozens injured when four carriages of a train travelling from Moscow to Russia's second city of St Petersburg derailed on Friday. A spokesman said the accident happened at 9:30 p.m. (1830 GMT) near the town of Bologoye some 350 km (200 miles) from Mo ...

The Obama administration is seeking to reverse a federal appeals court decision that dramatically narrowed the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Justice Department officials are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider it ...

The document-leaking site Wikileaks says it’s preparing to release 500,000 intercepted wireless pager messages from a 24-hour period encompassing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Site operators say they plan to start rolling out the texts beginning at 3:00 a.m. New York time, paced to  ...

Welcome to the tinfoil hat club. That’s what a federal appeals court is telling Scott Tooley of Kentucky in dismissing his civil rights lawsuit. Tooley believes the government put him under blanket surveillance after he said the word “bomb” to an airline agent. Tooley sued the government on ...

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles have filed a notice that they do not intend to pursue an appeal in the Lori Drew cyberbullying case, thus ending the controversial and lengthy case. “We have a notice with the 9th Circuit that we are withdrawing our notice of appeal in the case,” a spokesman f ...

If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create. At least that’s the message from the Motion Picture Association of America. It’s spelled out in a Thursday memo to the Senate Judiciary Com ...

Former Bush press secretary Dana Perino's jaw-dropping statement Wednesday that "we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term" didn't merely serve to confirm President Obama's terrible judgment in appointing her to the Broadcasting Board...

As Sarah Palin travels the country filling her coffers, the debate rages as to whether the former Alaska Governor is a victim or beneficiary of sexism (or possibly even both). But while her allies and Palin herself have left little...

As Sarah Palin travels the country filling her coffers, the debate rages as to whether the former Alaska Governor is a victim or beneficiary of sexism (or possibly even both). But while her allies and Palin herself have left little...

A funny thing has happened on America's way to health care reform. As Republicans promise a "holy war" to block supposed "government-run" health care that would "break the bank", Democrats in the House and the Senate offered reform plans that...

Earlier this year, the Pew Research Center published survey findings which revealed that only 6% of American scientists identify themselves as Republicans. There can be little doubt as to why conservatives are now an endangered species within the scientific community....

by Rick RozoffFeatured WriterDandelion SaladStop NATOhttp://rickrozoff.wordpress.com28 November, 2009Bosnia and Montenegro being incorporated as full NATO members and Macedonia following suit would expand the worlds only military bloc to 31 nations, almost twice that of ten years ago when it first b ...

Dandelion SaladHere are many videos on Global Warming that I have posted to the vodpod account but didn’t have time to post on Dandelion Salad.Lake Titicaca evaporating away – 27 Nov 2009Crock of the Week: The Big Mist TakeClimate change threatens Nepal – 22 Nov 09Climate change report urges r ...

with Peter B. Collins and Sibel EdmondsFeatured WriterDandelion Saladoriginally published by Boiling Frogs Post27 November 2009Kristina Borjesson relates her experiences and provides analysis of the current state of investigative and enterprise journalism in the US. She discusses the drastic decline ...

Scary stuff.

You can tell a lot by what gets displayed in a case behind lock and key.

Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi was shocked that his book about prosecuting George W. Bush was ignored, says David Swanson. November 25, 2009

Michael Winship gives thanks for anthropologist Jane Goodall and her groundbreaking studies of chimpanzees. November 25, 2009

Putting confessed 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial is a step toward restoring the Constitution, says Ivan Eland. November 24, 2009

Like JFK in 1963, President Obama is at a crossroads on a foreign war. Does he have the courage? asks Ray McGovern. November 24, 2009

There's a long dark history of what Afghans do to foreign armies that overstay their welcome, recalls Nicolas J S Davies. November 23, 2009

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas thanked Venezuela Friday for supporting the creation of a future Palestinian state as he rounded out a Latin American tour. The Palestinian leader also issued a warning to ...

On Thursday, Christian Peacemaker Teams observers responded to a call from vendors in the Old City of Hebron, saying a Palestinian man was being beaten by Israeli forces. When the observers arrived, a statem ...

Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday ordered the IDF to issue a temporary freeze order, but at the same time allowed the construction of 28 new public buildings in settlements. Meanwhile, the state is ex ...

Israeli forces opened fire on anti-wall protesters in two West Bank villages on Friday, according to news reports. Commemorating the UN's annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, ...

Vegetarians aren't the only ones who should be concerned; there's soy in just about everything you eat these days -- including hamburgers, mac 'n cheese and salad dressing.

After years of claiming that they needed no public support to build this plant, this claim has finally been proven false.

A group of water oligarchs engineered a disastrous privatization scheme to make a fortune out of California's most precious natural resource.

The culprit are tens of thousands of man-made ponds excavated to provide soil for flood protection.

Despite the happy face being put on by some of the bill's supporters, including Governor Schwarzenegger, I doubt anyone is truly happy with the end result.

The psychological meltdown in America is becoming epidemic. Man Gets 120 Days for Shooting Cyclist in the Head   related articles: 6 Ways to Reduce Your Chances of Getting Doored CORONA, Calif.—Police say road rage may have led to a fatal shooting near a freeway in Corona.

Iranian leaders are so insecure that the peace efforts of one of its own are a threat to their masculinity.  Robbing Shirin Ebadi of her internationally recognized Nobel Peace Prize, is really tacky.  This is not the first time Amadinejad, and the counsel that controls him, have acted out like the ...

The Texas Progressive Alliance as Thanksgiving week begins brings you this week’s highlights from the blogs. The Texas Cloverleaf clues you in on why you can’t breathe in Denton County– gas drillers! WCNews at Eye On Williamson has some Thoughts on Straus’ Interim Charges – including topic ...

It is certain that Barbara Ann Radnofsky will be on the ballot for the Democrats in 2010; we don’t know who will be on the ballot for the Republicans. Radnofsky will formally announce her candidacy for Texas Attorney General and her December 3 filling for the primary election in a five-city tour. ...

The Texas Progressive Alliance is starting to feel an odd craving for can-shaped servings of cranberry sauce as it brings you this week’s highlights from the blogs. TXsharon continues to follow the abuses of Aruba Petroleum in a Barnett Shale backyard and Wednesday the Wise County Messenger picked ...

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com 28 November

with Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boil

by Ed Ciaccio Dandelion Salad Featured Writer November 27, 2009 photo by Dandelion Salad We are not

Scott Horton Antiwar Radio with Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com 25 November

Science has come a long way in the quest to help patients who are in need of replacement body parts but now research has placed us on the verge of...

Up until now the powerful waves of plasma observed on the surface of the sun known as "solar tsunamis" were thought to be the result of an optical...

15 firefighters rushed to a property in Victoria, Australia on Tuesday night following reports of a gas leak. What they found instead was a 120-ki...

Putting new meaning to the slogan "Intel Inside", Intel researchers are planning to develop brain implants that can be used to control different g...

The same NASA team which discovered the famous Martian meteorite thought to contain evidence of microbial life has re-elevated the research follow...

Cooling the Earth with Food Sovereignty Agriculture ... will likely be a pivotal issue when the world’s leaders meet in Copenhagen this December to finish negotiating a global climate treaty. Grassroots International and our partners and allies are working hard to show that sustainable agriculture ...

Agriculture ... will likely be a pivotal issue when the world’s leaders meet in Copenhagen this December to finish negotiating a global climate treaty. Grassroots International and our partners and allies are working hard to show that sustainable agriculture can play a big role in stopping climate ...

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wfs-pic09.jpg In 1996 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) organized the first World Food Summit in Rome to, in their own words, “renew global commitment to the fight against hunger. The FAO called the Summit in respons ...

unitedstates200604-015.jpg As a founding member and part of the ad hoc steering committee, Grassroots International proudly announces the following Call from the US Working Group on the Food Crisis. The statement coincides with the World Food ...

Pachauri: Hacked Emails Don’t Tarnish Climate Science (Reuters) The head of the UN's panel of climate experts rejected accusations of bias in IPCC final reports, citing the scientific process of peer review and saying the hacked emails and documents in no way undermined evidence of humans’ ro ...

China Announces CO2 Targets Based on GDP (Guardian) China announced plans today to reduce the world’s biggest carbon footprint per unit of gross domestic product 40-45% from 2005 levels by 2020. Because of its economic growth rate, China's emissions will continue to rise rapidly, but the targ ...

California Unveils Draft Cap-and-Trade Rules (Reuters) California on Tuesday released draft rules for its cap-and-trade plan that will be the most ambitious U.S. effort to use the market to address global warming. US and India Pledge Common Action on Climate Change (Guardian) America and In ...

U.S. to Present Emissions Target Before Copenhagen (New York Times) The U.S. will propose a mid-term target for reducing CO2 emissions before Copenhagen next month, an administration official has said. Pres. Obama will announce the target "in coming days." EU: Climate Deal Hinges On US, China ...

65 Leaders to Attend Climate Summit (Financial Times) At least 65 world leaders have agreed to attend the Copenhagen summit, including leaders of most of the world's biggest economies, raising the stakes on a deal being reached. Scientist: Leak of Climate E-mails Appalling (AP) A leading cl ...

[ Note for TomDispatch Readers: On Friday evening, TomDispatch will be switching to an updated version of this site. It's possible that you might not be able to reach TD for some hours. If so, we expect to be back up on Saturday morning. Tom ] The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't) ...

It's now a commonplace of the Afghan War. Western leaders in London , Berlin, Amsterdam , and Washington , as well as on flying visits to Kabul or even Kandahar , excoriate Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the "corruption" of his government. In return for their ongoing support, they repeatedly ...

It can't get better than this, can it? A first printing of 1.5 million copies sent out into an otherwise dead book market. Possibly as much as $7 million dollars going to the author, who already has interviews lined up with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. A bus tour of the "real America" tha ...

Wars come home in strange, unnerving ways -- as Americans have just discovered at Fort Hood. Even before Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on his killing spree, that base, a major military embarkation point for our war zones, was already experiencing the after-effects of eight years of war and repeate ...

[ Note for TomDispatch Readers : A number of you have recently written in for clarification on contributing to this site through your purchases at Amazon.com. Here's my best shot at a useful explanation: If you click on any book image at this site -- like the book-cover image of The End of Vict ...

The heart that struggles with disappointment and sadness believes too easily that hope is a lie, a fraud, another hustler's pitch to the next sucker walking down the street. Disillusionment with Obama and the Democrats can turn dark in just this way. The audacity of hope is really the asperity of ...

In the cradle of civilization, young women have become terrified about having children. This is the news I take with me into Thanksgiving and the season of gratitude and family togetherness: that doctors in Fallujah, the Iraqi city we devastated in two military assaults in 2004, have begun documenti ...

The calendar has come around again to Thanksgiving, and families all over the country will be gathering around dinner tables to celebrate. Or try to, anyway. With unemployment above ten percent, and with actual unemployment closer to twenty percent, with foreclosures all over the place, with wages d ...

DAYTON, OHIO--I'm a cartoonist, columnist, writer and editor. So most of my friends are cartoonists, columnists, writers and editors. And a few publishers. One topic towers all over all others in my circle of friends: the future of journalism. Print media is in trouble; online media is ascendant. Bu ...

Seriously, I'm starting to think some people have watched too many Die Hard movies. OK, so for years we hear about how if everyone were armed, there'd be a lot less crime in this country, because either the criminals would be afraid of the armed people, or they could be shot by those armed people in ...

Hey what’s it like in the 21st century with your internet and all? Posted from the past with a tin can and a piece of fucking string.

In a new wrinkle instead of breaking, this time the storms just bring my connection speed down to dialup like levels (and intermittent flicking off and on at that). So talk amongst yourselves, as far as today is concerned I give up.

The people of Wrexham were already hostile to the EDL, but tensions increased after the racist demonstrators unfurled a large English flag, sang God Save The Queen, and chanted racist slogans such as “kill the Muslims”. One woman, laden with shopping bags, summed up the feelings of the whole tow ...

Human Rights Watch- British Complicity in the Torture and Ill-treatment of Terror Suspects in Pakistan Guardian on it (ht2 D-Notice) • It is inconceivable that the UK government was unaware of the systematic use of torture in Pakistan. • UK officials engaged in acts that virtually required they ...

Declan Walsh in the Guardian has done some more reporting on Dr Aafia Siddiqui, I would not say he has come to any definitive answers and reports official sources too uncritically (quite why you would take the word of US medical personnel when we know doctors & psychologists have been an integral p ...

The source of the current deficit matters when you try to figure out what kind of problem we have.

Dubai or not Dubai -- that is the question.

Dubai or not Dubai -- that is the question.

Wednesday Addams explains it all.

Why am I thinking about this historical episode? I'll leave that as an exercise for readers.

* bumped up because this is an infuriating story that every American should know about * I’ve been reading a book by the novelist, Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures. If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Flynn’s books, they typically deal with the CIA, Washington, DC, and how politics affect the intellige ...

Introduction Now that we are beginning the season of good tidings and cheer, with nary a penny in pocket oh dear, I thought I would share various musings of drear… I’ve come up with a new sniglet, an amalgam of: crummy/crappy Obama lobotomized economy: CrObonomy. Remember, you read about the CrO ...

* bumped up *   Suddenly Copenhagen.   The Obama administration suddenly reverses itself and announces, according to Simon Constable and Kelsey Hubbard, conversing with Stephen Power,, that POTUS will stop in Copenhagen to deliver an opinion on greenhouse gas emissions targets for the next decad ...

* bumped up * Well, it seems like it is finally happening. The world community to which Obama pandered during the campaign is starting to realize what many Americans now know (and some of us always did): He’s not all he’s cracked up to be. In this article from Spiegel, “Obama’s Nice Guy Act ...

I’ve been reading a book by the novelist, Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures. If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Flynn’s books, they typically deal with the CIA, Washington, DC, and how politics affect the intelligence community, following the exploits of the main protagonist, Mitch Rapp, as he works to ...

Obama's plans for change in defense spending are still mostly unrealized.

The two emerging economic giants India and China still have some unfinished border business.

FPIF's weekly update.

Critics lambasted Obama's deferential style. They missed the real story of the president's Asia trip.

The tragic effects of the policies that motivate those abroad to attack U.S. soldiers have finally hit home in a direct and devastating way.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At least 25 people killed and 87 others injured in a passenger train crash.

Indonesians in Sumatra angered by 'government failure' to rebuild and create jobs.

Asian and European banks distance themselves from Dubai World fearing debt default.

Ex-army general expected to be serious challenger to President Rajapaksa.

UN chief urges world leaders to attend final days of climate talks to seal deal.

A new report on state renewable energy regulations gives California, Colorado, New Jersey and Oregon top marks and failing grades for Georgia, Idaho and Texas.

Consumers might be more willing to bite into genetically modified apples if they were labeled differently, according to research published this month in the Journal of Food Distribution Research.

A new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Washington assesses the potential economic losses from shutting down Washington State's razor clam season in response to a harmful algal bloom.

From Colombia to Brazil, new funds are combining private contributions and state money to help protect the watersheds around cities.

With innovations such as burning leftover potato peels for natural gas and switching to alternative fuels, the food giant says it has made substantial cuts in emissions and waste, as well as energy and water use.

Graphics wizards map all of the e-mail connections disclosed in the hacked climate files.

A climate scientist offers advice on how to assess and engage climate skeptics.

A cartoonist's vision of the teams vying for victory in Copenhagen climate talks.

The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says hacked emails don't undercut the panel's conclusions on a human-warmed world.

Obama confirms his plan to visit the Copenhagen talks on a new climate treaty and offer a near-term target for United States emissions.

PETA is a deeply bad organization which attempts to vanguard around some edgy cultural iconography and save some animals, which all basically translates to trashy soft-core porn style imagery. Because what we all need is a certain "Girls Gone Wild" edge to social progress. This is a very good analys ...

In this season of thanks, we can always give thanks for leaks and lols. I really hate Secret Treaties . Secret Treaties Suck!!! The FDIC Is Broke - The Market Ticker . Oh noes! A coverup is needed immediately says Mishkin ! A hell of a story: Noted FBI provocateur Brandon Darby and a bullshit Grand ...

Creepy and unelected new EU President Von Rompuy talks about the delightful new role of the EU, the G20, climate control and Global Governance (or 'global management'). I definitely heard the sound of global governance over the LRAD at the G20, that's for sure! Some weirdo other stuff ...

Previously: Negative Return on Investment Economy: Katherine Austin Fitts and the fake war on drugs Katherine Fitts on Alex Jones, I grabbed this post off dprogram.net which is a sturdy little new aggregator site. Nicely done everyone... The world divided into the pro-centralization and anti-central ...

Have a lol. My buddy Robert & I put a lil sequence together :) Please repost!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rry_SlPW7oU and http://blip.tv/file/2859263 TC Indymedia gives a new look at the infamous Robert Erickson Tea Party punk with crowd reactions and the assault on a counter-protester in HD. ...

Michael Collins Dubai was to be the next Switzerland, an enclave for anonymous banking, a play ground for the super rich, and the ultimate gated community for those with so much wealth, they felt an overriding need for protection. Well, that’s all over now.  Dubai declared a debt moratorium un ...

The Danish parliament has passed a new law that goes into effect on 7 December that gives police the power to pre-emptively arrest people for acts of civil disobedience.  It also allows for extended custodial sentences upon arrest. Under the new powers, Danish police will be able to detain people f ...

CENSORED IN 1992: THE WORLD’S LEADING MERCHANT OF DEATH In the 1980’s, global arms spending rocketed to nearly $1 trillion annually — or, about $2 million a minute. The two leading arms merchants were the United States and the former Soviet Union. Now the Soviet Union is gone, but its p ...

Charter school proponents and defenders like to argue that any charter schools on the ‘fraud and abuse’ chopping block, are just ‘bad apples’ in an otherwise fully transparent, innovative charter system; however the evidence wholly disagrees, pointing to mounting evidence of widespread ...

Charter school proponents and defenders like to argue that any charter schools on the ‘fraud and abuse’ chopping block, are just ‘bad apples’ in an otherwise fully transparent, innovative charter system; however the evidence wholly disagrees, pointing to mounting evidence of widespread ...

Obama's plans for change in defense spending are still mostly unrealized.

The nation needs to commit itself to lasting Native American advancement.

A new powerful international campaign on Chevron presents an exciting new organizing model for corporate campaigners and human rights activists everywhere.

Despite some growth, many disparities remain among indigenous Americans.

A discussion on the governance and economic challenges facing Mexico in 2010.

The first Sunday of Advent is almost here.  Some of us have dusted off our Advent wreaths, bought new candles and prepared to begin the celebration.  Many of us however are new to this celebration and arn’t sure what to do.  Especially if you are celebrating with children you may be a li ...

The beginning of Advent is only a few days away and I thought that it was a good time to post links to various forms of lectionary readings that you might like to read throughout Advent and Christmas.  The readings vary depending on our tradition but all of them are intended to prepare us for [... ...

Today is one of the busiest travel days of the year here in the U.S. as families move across the country and sometimes even around the world to be together for Thanksgiving.  Tom & I are heading up to Camano Island this afternoon and will be giving ourselves an extra hour for the trip because [... ...

American Thanksgiving Day is on Thursday and many of my friends are preparing to get together with friends and family to celebrate and give thanks.  Some are struggling because they feel they have  very little to give thanks for this year – they have lost jobs and homes or loved ones.  Ma ...

Monasticism Remix: Traditional & Neo-Monastic Spirituality in the 21st Century Mustard Seed Associates invites you to an evening of prayers and explorations of Traditional & Neo-Monastic spirituality. In this event neo-monastic practitioners and traditional monastic sisters and brothers will come t ...

Banks will be forced to reveal how many of their staff earn more than one million pounds a year, under recommended reforms of the financial sector to be released today. Read more

Kate Green, Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group , writes for the TUC's Touchstone blog that "if we are to take seriously the issues of child poverty and child wellbeing then we need to tackle the high levels of inequality in this country." Read the rest of Kate's article

Over the last year we have watched as a bank-induced credit crunch morphed into debate on public services cuts. While the public have bailed out the bankers, whose flawed system led us into this mess, it is those least able to afford it who are facing the reality of having their pay and benefits fro ...

Six million people work for the state in Britain, in hundreds of professions. Find out how their incomes compare, from the top to the bottom. From the Guardian, Tuesday 17 November

The main party leaders have been setting out their visions of how to restore growth to the economy after the recession. A report by the left leaning pressure group Compass, criticises the policy of cutting public spending to curtail the recession. The group says gaps in public finances should instea ...

Pakistani spy agencies looking into oil, gas deals. Intelligence Community plans workforce of the future. Update on French ex-spy v. Dubai World Corp. legal saga.

Private mercenary firm Blackwater (recently renamed Xe) is part of a covert US program in Pakistan that includes planned assassinations and kidnappings of Taliban and al-Qaeda suspects. In fact, its role in the program is so secretive and compartmentalized that “senior figures within the Obama adm ...

A former NSA analyst and US Navy intelligence officer has alleged that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) domestic spying program was more widespread than originally thought, and that it was authorized by the Bush Administration prior to 9/11.

Legal problems facing CIA are no laughing matter. Aussie computer networks "most certainly" spied on. US still considering extraditing Philippine spy.

German federal and local detectives yesterday raided the homes of four Chinese residents of Munich, who are suspected of spying on the city’s Uighur Chinese community on behalf of the government in Beijing.

You Get What You Vote For! By Cindy Sheehan | Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox On Monday, November 30, the Peace of the Action Coalition will be sending out a press release condemning the escalation and announcing our Mother of all Protests (MOAP) that will begin in the spring. The so-called anti-war mov ...

Bill McKibben of 350.org wrote: Dear Friends, We don't organize events for their own sake--there needs to be a strategy to make them worth your effort, because your time is this movement's most precious commodity. Here's our sense of what will be happening at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen, ...

Single Payer Action held a news conference. The group seeks a single payer health system and calls on Congress to defeat health care reform legislation * Russell Mokhiber, Single Payer Action * Dr.Margaret Flowers, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) * Dr. Carol Paris, Physicians for a N ...

Senator Sanders on This Week Senator Bernie Sanders will be George Stephanopoulos’ guest Sunday on the ABC News program This Week to discuss the war in Afghanistan and the debate over health care reform. For more information on the health care debate visit Senator Sanders' Web site - click here . ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new unique movie search service from Google helps you find movies and show times.

International sporting icon Tiger Woods, seriously injured in car accident.

Shaqille O'Neal impacted by tragic murder of five-year-old Shaniya Davis.

How do the Nets stack up with the worst-starting teams in NBA history?

Three NFL teams looked great, three looked horrible on Thanksgiving.

Throngs of pre-dawn shoppers helped shoot life into Black Friday sales figures, even though big discounts were fewer than last year

In Helmand province, the Marines are getting Afghans to swear allegiance, one by one and document by document -- no matter how illiterate

Facing a soaring rabbit population, Sweden comes up with a novel way of heating its homes

Super low prices on LCD televisions, laptops, clothes and even books generate consumer excitement, but also contribute to overspending and indebtedness -- the very things that fueled the economic crisis

Reseachers have found that regulating the chemical can affect people's decisions on what will make them happy

"We're going to re-define the pro-life debate in the 2010 election," said Terry.

"We're going to re-define the pro-life debate in the 2010 election," said Terry.

The White House sent out a press release last night cataloging statements of praise by leaders in various fields for President Obama’s decision, announced yesterday, to go to Copenhagen for the international climate talks next month. These leaders include politicians — Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) ...

"The backlash towards our community is nowhere even close," Jamal Baadani said. "I attribute that to the intellect and the resiliency of the American people. And that's why I'm proud to be an American."

It’s one of the year’s slower news days, a perfect time for this rap from Hi Caliber. The best line, in my opinion: The population of the march was over a million and I have a new hero, his name is Joe Wilson. Video after the jump.

LEMME TELL YOU about a carbon tax you’re gonna love. Two such taxes, actually. I tell you, kid, Stephane Dion had the right idea, but the wrong sales pitch. The fun starts with the government giving you maybe $2,000 as a carbon dividend. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |  ...

Hate is everywhere, but the fundamental question of why one person can hate another has never been adequately studied, contends Jim Mohr of Gonzaga University, who is developing a new academic field of hate studies. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comm ...

Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Comment

Sure, agriculture provides us with the food we all eat every day. But do you know how those agricultural practices impact global warming? Turns out there's some pretty big impacts, on both the sustainable and industrial sides of the equation; employing su Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society ...

Former chef Josh Applestone and his wife, Jessica Applestone, are typical of the new butcher breed. He was a vegan, she was a one-time vegetarian when they founded Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston, N.Y., in 2004 Submitted by cowboss Left CareII to Society & Culture  |   Note-it! ...

Tony Blair and George Bush might have “signed in blood” their agreement to topple Saddam Hussein a year before the Iraq war, according to Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain’s former ambassador to Washington. By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter, The Telegraph/UK, Nov 26, 2009   Link to th ...

Tony Blair and George Bush might have “signed in blood” their agreement to topple Saddam Hussein a year before the Iraq war, according to Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain’s former ambassador to Washington. By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter, The Telegraph/UK, Nov 26, 2009   Link to th ...

I’m Thankful for You Thanksgiving is the appointed time for focusing on the good in our lives. In each of our days, we can find small blessings, but too often we overlook them, choosing instead to spend our time paying attention to problems. We give our energy to those who cause us trouble instea ...

This Thanksgiving, Hear What New Veterans Are Grateful For Huffington Post Paul Rieckhoff– Exec. Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) Posted: November 25, 2009 06:38 PM It’s time once again for that seasonal blend of gratitude and that deep longing for the familiar –fam ...

Wham- Last Christmas

Nov. 27 (Bloomberg)—Dubai’s debt woes may worsen to become a “major sovereign default” that roils developing nations and cuts off capital flows to emerging markets, Bank of America Corp. said. “One cannot rule out—as a tail risk—a case where this would escalate into a major sovereign ...

Nov. 26 (Guardian-UK) Fourteen years ago, a pasty Irish teenager with a flair for inventions arrived at Edinburgh University to study artificial intelligence and computer science. For his thesis project, Ian Clarke created “a Distributed, Decentralised Information Storage and Retrieval System”, ...

One of the many blessings of living in Hickory Valley, Tennessee is that I know, respect and like my Mayor and the members of my Town Council. The Council meets monthly and reviews and pay the bills as we have no staff other than our part-time Sheriff. Our fire department is all-volunteer and quite ...

Thanksgiving Day, presently celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863. It did not become a federal holiday until 1941. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the pilgrims survive the brutal winter. Th ...

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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 (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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...

The war on marijuana is insane; our officials keep sacrificing tax dollars, lives, civil liberties, and their own credibility in this misguided and losing effort.

Can ADHD stimulants like Adderall be the answer for college students looking to increase academic performance? They think so.

Perhaps the greatest athletic achievement while on a psychedelic journey, No Mas and artist James Blagden proudly present the animated tale of Dock Ellis' legendary LSD no-hitter.

The country's largest physician group, the AMA, has reversed its long-held position that marijuana has no medical worth.

Hundreds gather in Albuquerque to celebrate a new dawn of wider acceptance of drug reform, while still feeling a little nervous about the path ahead.

thanksgiving, green, videos, charlie brown, adam sandler, addams family, johnny cash Related posts: Green Wont Be The Norm, Until We Stop Calling Things Green EPA Helps God go Green with an Energy Star Label What’s Greener than Green? Brown.

Peat Moss. It's drying out in Indonesia, making that country the third largest producer of Greenhouse Gasses behind the U.S. and China. Related posts: EPA Welcomes Public Comments – Do Greenhouse Gases Contribute to Air Pollution? Landmark Statement, EPA Finds Greenhouse Gases Pose Threat to Pu ...

Twilight Earth is calling for a boycott of Black Friday on Nov. 27th, 2009. Black Friday is the largest shopping day of the year. Related posts: Boycott Black Friday and Celebrate Buy Nothing Day Nov 28th, 2008 Arbor Day – 2009, What Is It and Why Should We Celebrate it? Call For Entries: Wend M ...

I recently had the opportunity to interview one of my favorite musicians, Ted Garber. Ted recently released his new album "American Rail." Related posts: Barack Obama CBS 60 Minutes Interview Transcript and Video from Nov. 16th, 2008 Consumerism – Chasing That American Dream! Inspiration from E ...

Photo Sunday - Wind Related posts: Photo Sunday – When its Raining on Sunday Morning Photo Sunday – Take Me Home Country Roads Photo Sunday – Sunday Morning Coming Down. A Tribute to Everytown USA

In case you missed the big news in the wake of your Thanksgiving celebration, President Obama is, in fact, planning to travel to Copenhagen next month to deliver a speech and participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference! Armed with a tentative plan and an emissions reduction target fo ...

THE INHABITAT GREEN GIFT GUIDE IS HERE! It’s that time of year again! Today is Black Friday, the most infamous shopping day of the year, and the official kickoff to the holiday shopping season. This year, instead of dragging your tryptophan-infused body up at the crack of dawn, blearily driving yo ...

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! We can’t be believe that Thanksgiving has already come round again, and as we savor the holiday with friends and family we’d like to take a moment to pause and give thanks for all of the great things that the past year has brought! It’s been an incredible year for ...

Algae is often touted as the next big thing in biofuels, but the slimy stuff could also be the key to paper-thin biodegradable batteries according to researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden. Eventually, the bio batteries could compete with commercial lithium-ion batteries.Conducting polymers ha ...

Inhabitat has done a lot of coverage of living walls, particularly those of French botanist Patrick Blanc. They are complicated things, requiring pumps, hydroponics and a lot of care. If they don’t get it right they can fail, like the Paradise Park Childrens Centre in London did. Edouard Franço ...

This week, Palm released a follow up to the Pre, a cheaper, thinner, lesser phone called the Pixi. The official price is $100 with a two-year Sprint contract, but Amazon is selling the thing for - are you sitting down? - $25.

Some unexpected humor can be found in the reviews of the world's largest online retailer.

Why I use URL shorteners-even when not on Twitter.

Verizon's cellphones are designed in such a way that you can almost never avoid getting $1.99 charge on the bill for its mobile Web services, even if you immediately cancel the action.

Start a phrase in a Google and who knows how the search engine will complete it?

LA Times – Using his law enforcement experience and data drawn from the FBI’s behavioral analysis unit, Jim Kouri has collected a series of personality traits common to a couple of professions. Kouri, who’s a vice president of the National Assn. of Chiefs of Police, has assembled traits such a ...

The Guardian – It is little wonder that José Manuel Barroso is seldom seen without a grin on his face these days. For the European commission chief is one of the luckiest guys in international politics. First, the appointment of a low-profile Belgian as the EU’s first permanent president has ...

The Examiner – Climate scientists in New Zealand today accused the foremost climate-research institution in New Zealand of data manipulation of the same type as the East Anglia Climatic Research Institute (CRU) is alleged to have done. The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition today issued this pa ...

Herald Sun – ABC radio host Jon Faine explains why he will not even discuss a story which has: caused an international controversy;  shocked world leaders in climate science;  triggered calls for an inquiry by a former British Chancellor of the Exchequer;  caused fellow Leftis ...

Daily Mail – The recession is proving even deeper than feared, Alistair Darling will admit in next month’s Pre-Budget report. The Chancellor will forecast the steepest annual slump since modern records began.But he is likely to put a brave face on the outlook by declaring that Britain has finall ...

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British mining company on trial for torture of Peruvians (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) A British mining company, Monterrico Metals, is on trial in London, UK for torture of Peruvians that happened at the Rio Blanco mine in 2005. Protesters were detained and tortured at the outcast copper site ...

New poll: Capitalism not too hot (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) A recent poll has people talking. The results of the poll are a sharp contrast to the free-market triumphalism of the 1990s. Intellectuals were declaring the victory of capitalism. In the 1989 book, the End of History and the Last ...

Cuba, ALBA Nations Condone Sri Lanka, Revisionism Further Exposed (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Revisionism was on display in recent events. Recently Cuba gave an official statement reassuring its international relations with Sri Lanka. Both countries claim to be socialist in some sense. Depu ...

Smash the Amerikkkan Dream and all First Worldist lies! From Politics Are Over Posted in ..Politics Are Over, Communism, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo

Fears of a dangerous new phase in the economic crisis swept around the globe yesterday as traders responded to the shock announcement that a debt-laden Dubai state corporation was unable to meet its interest bill. Reported by Patrick Hosking and David Robertson Work has been halted on th ...

From Asia Times: “The other regional players [read China] are busily setting the stage for exploitation of Afghanistan’s natural resources, while the US remains bogged down with the war. This should change,” (former CIA Pakistan Station Chief Milton) Bearden said (to the U.S. Senate Foreign Re ...

by Bob Chapman Investors buy gold when there is inflation and when there is a flight to quality. They buy gold when they no longer trust currencies, due to government or central bank profligacy. Due to those and other reasons gold has broken out to new highs. It could well be that gold may [... ...

Business Intelligence -Middle East Marc Faber, the Swiss fund manager and Gloom Boom & Doom editor, said eventually there will be a big bust and then the whole credit expansion will come to an end. Before that happens, governments will continue printing money which in time will lead to a very hig ...

Atif F. Qureshi “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry Ford The curse of price inflation haunts us. There seems to be no respite for the common m ...

Close to 60 percent of the energy produced by burning fuels or generated by power plants is lost as excess heat.  Computers, cars and cell phones all have to get rid of excess heat to run properly, creating a significant energy waste.  Researchers at MIT believe they've developed a way to reclaim ...

The U.S. Military has recently expressed concern about Maryland offshore wind projects because radar could identify spinning turbine blades as low-flying aircraft, potentially disrupting its training missions in the area.  Turns out the UK Military is blocking wind projects for similar reasons.  ...

It has been assumed that compressed air cars are cleaner than battery electric cars,  but the reality is they are quite inefficient.  A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters reveals that while in theory compressed air cars seem like a potential competitor to EVs, when ...

A perfect way of storing electricity generated by wind turbines has been elusive so far.  Ideas like super-sized batteries , compressed air and hydroelectric storage have all been floated.  One company though thinks the answer could be as simple as making ice. Calmac has come up with a storage sy ...

The Jaguar XT5 computer, housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Knoxville, Tenn. and owned by the Department of Energy was just named the fastest computer in the world by the TOP500 list .  It has a performance speed of 1.759 petaflops or quadrillions of calculations per second and that po ...

This column required three passwords. One to activate my computer, another to access my work e-mails and yet one more to get into my personal e-mails (because you have to get the important stuff out of the way before starting work). It’s no big deal, because I am — sshhh — a password reneg ...

Cross a seahorse with the starship Enterprise and you get the SeaOrbiter — the world’s first vertical ship, which drifts through the sea allowing Man a closer view of the ocean.

Nasa scientists have produced the most compelling evidence yet that bacterial life exists on Mars.

A blind man fitted with a “bionic eye” in a trial at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital has delighted doctors by being able to read simple words.

A British doctor who is being sued for libel after criticising an American company’s research has pledged to turn the action into a test case for freedom of speech. Peter Wilmshurst, a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, told The Times that he aims to use a public-intere ...

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

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.

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.

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.

TRex has extracted and documented the bulk of the knowledge that can be had from Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue. Trust me on this, there is a valuable lesson to be had from her book that every Blogger, journalist and pundit should be sharing with anyone that is truly interested in the politic ...

TRex has extracted and documented the bulk of the knowledge that can be had from Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue. Trust me on this, there is a valuable lesson to be had from her book that every Blogger, journalist and pundit should be sharing with anyone that is truly interested in the politic ...

About 8 minutes before the shuttle blasts off : At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis and crew are nearing liftoff at Launch Pad 39A, prepared to begin the STS-129 cargo-delivery mission to the International Space Station. The countdown clock is holding at T-9 minutes. ...

I woke up today to the news that it has been a whole year that gay and lesbian couples have been allowed to share the same rights as everyone else in our State. The right to settle down, get married and live as a family has changed a lot of people's lives in Connecticut . I did a quick inventory o ...

We really want to know which way the wind blows, Joe? The other day you were dead set against the Public Option, much to the chagrin of Connecticut voters. And now? Sen. Joe Lieberman has reached a private understanding with Majority Leader Harry Reid that he will not block a final vote on healthca ...

Of all the fantastic musings and mutterings about the H1N1 flu and vaccine, few are more outrageous than the pronouncements of retired Army Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine III and his psychiatrist wife, Rima Laibow. They run a nonprofit organization called Natural Solutions Foundation, which warns of t ...

The American Family Association (AFA) usually frets about homosexuals and pornography, but in the aftermath of the shootings at Fort Hood last week, the ultraconservative religious right group has a new concern: Muslims in the U.S. military. Ban them, urges Bryan Fischer, AFA director of issues anal ...

Shawna Forde, the anti-immigration crusader who has been accused of murder in the home-invasion killings of an Arizona man and his 9-year-old daughter, got the full treatment on Sunday from her hometown paper. The full treatment — more than 5,000 words of it by reporter Scott North in The Herald o ...

An appeals court today overturned the decision of a federal judge who had released neo-Nazi leader Bill White on bond after setting several conditions. In making its decision, the three-member panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals characterized White as “a highly intelligent person appare ...

So secretive is Holocaust denier David Irving that he often doesn’t reveal the locations of his lectures until hours before they’re scheduled to begin — and even then, he only tells vetted guests. It must have been a blow, therefore, when his private E-mails appeared on the Internet, courtesy ...

By Felicity Clarke, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Carnival stands as Brazil’s great national holiday, but for all the music, dancing and dazzling spectacle it does fall short on one important holiday criteria: there’s no focus on food. In contrast, Thanksgiving, the major US national ho ...

By Jaylan Boyle, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - The family of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian national shot dead by London police in 2005, has settled ongoing litigation and been awarded damages, the sum of which is officially not being disclosed; some sources however are claiming the payme ...

By Bruno De Nicola, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - On November 17th, USAID and +UNIDOS (Mais Unidos) held a Workshop on Social Responsibility Partnerships with more than 30 U.S. companies presenting over 50 of their social projects. The event was held at the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) i ...

By Doug Gray, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO – It is an oft-discussed subject amongst the international community of Rio - how to make money in a city not known for its ease of business practice or its ready acceptance of overseas workers. In a country understandably protective of its workforce a ...

By Jaylan Boyle, Senior Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO - Rio’s anti-smoking state law 5.517/09, which took effect on the 17th of this month, has survived an eleventh hour challenge from a syndicate of bars and hotels, and appears to have met with overall compliance, with one exception reported. The law, ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2009 Mobilization for Climate Justice A broad and diverse coalition of organizations working for social, environmental, economic and racial justice has come together to call for urgent action on the global climate crisis based on equitable, democratic and science ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2009 CEPR The National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI), organizations that receive funding from the U.S. State Department, are planning on sending delegations to observe the November 29 elections in Honduras, according to ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 24, 2009 ACLU Records obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit reveal new information about the CIA's destruction of videotapes depicting the brutal interrogation of prisoners at CIA black sites, including the precis ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2009 Constitution Project Today, the Constitution Project and The Rutherford Institute filed a friend of the court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project. The case involves federal laws prohibiting "material support" of terrorist grou ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 23, 2009 ACLU The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a friend-of-the-court brief on behalf of the Carter Center, Human Rights Watch and several other human rights and humanitarian organizations in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the constitutio ...

by Ben White Thirty years ago, Israel minister Ariel Sharon told Knesset members that while they "shouted" about the settlements, "we lay another foot of pipe, another mile of road and build another house." Successive Israeli governments have agreed with the country's founding prime minister David B ...

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by Nicolas JS Davies Afghanistan is known as the "graveyard of empires." But just why do empires keep sending thousands of their young people to die in Afghanistan? American blood-letting in Afghanistan is generally explained in terms of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, but it was the earlier U.S. ...

by Robert Scheer Jail, anyone? Perhaps that's too harsh, and at any rate premature, but is anyone ever going to be held accountable for the behind-the-scenes sweetheart deals that passed tens of billions of taxpayer dollars through the AIG shell game to the very banks that caused the financial meltd ...

by Caroline Lucas It is easy to forget that the nine-year war in Afghanistan began its life as "Operation Enduring Freedom". In the discursive vacuum that followed 9/11, such trivialised and overblown rhetoric was commonplace - as were notions that security and democracy in Afghanistan and the Middl ...

Obama administration makes a big announcement about Copenhagen.

What the richest (Annex II) nations need to do to avoid another Africa walkout in Copenhagen.

World Resources Institute releases report on Annex 1 (developed) countries Copenhagen pledges.

This is the first in a series that examines both the promise and the pitfalls of the upcoming climate talks in Copenhagen.

Porifera may be the first to take new a nanotechnology to market, offering a viable solution for sequestering carbon.

JONESBORO — A Jonesboro businessman with a penchant for science, adventure and saving the planet is picking up and moving to Alaska, where his new job description should satisfy all three of those interests — and many more.

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 26, 2009) - Just one week before the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, a water conference taking place in Ottawa will highlight the need for better policies to protect water in Canada and around the world. Hundreds of participants from across Canada and allies ...

At its meeting Monday night, the Novato Sanitary District decided 5-to-0 to ask voters whether Veolia Water should operate the district’s new sewage-treatment plant.

Canada is moving towards privatizing its federally owned reactor maker. Who might want in, and why? Second of two.

Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi survived a confidence vote called to accelerate the passage of a law allowing private investors such as Suez SA to buy stakes in public water distribution companies.

International Atomic Energy Agency vote could form the basis for a future binding resolution by the UN security council Iran faced a display of rare international unity today when the UN's nuclear watchdog demanded it halt work on a secret uranium enrichment plant whose exposure highlighted concerns ...

Self-assessment procedure allowed foundation trust to award itself high marks despite high death toll and filthy conditions The Essex hospital condemned for excessive patient deaths and blood-spattered equipment was awarded high marks – 13 out of 14 – for "safety and cleanliness" in its annual h ...

Hello listeners, and a happy Friday to you all. We kick off this edition of Music Weekly with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne. The irrepressible singer was in London for a series of shows, but found time to tell Rosie Swash what makes a brilliant live show and why Do You Realize? was voted Oklahom ...

Space shuttle Atlantis arrives safely back on Earth after an 11-day mission to the International Space Station

A selection of the best images from around the world

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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 ...

Abdel Sattar Qassem, a professor and author of numerous publications on Palestinian history and Islamic thought, is well-known for his pungent critiques of Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). A ...

After the 11 September 2001 attacks there have been many books and articles regarding the misuse of justice and harsh treatment of Arab Americans and Muslims in the United States. Louise Cainka ...

NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (IPS) - More than two years after their refugee camp was destroyed in a war between the Lebanese army and the Islamist militant group Fatah al-Islam, Nahr al-Bared refugees Wedn ...

In reaction to reports alleging that a Palestinian trade union official has stated his reservations about the Palestinian civil society campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), the ...

Eitam, who since then has held several senior posts in the Israeli government, has recently toured the US as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "Special Emissary" to the "Caravan for D ...

The UN Human Rights Council votes to adopt the Goldstone Report on Israel's military incursion into Gaza.

Saudi Arabia is wary of terrorists, especially from neighboring states.

How some TV insiders view parents and children on reality television.

How African Anglicans might respond to the Vatican's offer.

US-China economic relations, Microsoft and Wall Street, and September home sales.

A new report from the Urban Institute argues that a “strong” public option triggered in the event that overall growth in national health spending exceeds a pre-determined target, may do more to control health care spending than the public option proposals offered in existing legislation: In the ...

Former-Bush-spokesperson/forever-Bush-flack Dana Perino made a pretty startling claim last night on Hannity in the course of questioning the Obama administration’s avoidance of the term “terrorism” in reference to the Fort Hood murders: PERINO: There is one thing that I would say about Fort H ...

The White House has announced that President Barack Obama will participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen, Denmark on Wednesday, December 9th, before accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Sweden. He will commit the United States to achieving greenhouse gas ...

An important facet of the Obama administration’s Race to the Top program (in which states compete for $4 billion in funding for innovative education reform efforts) is that, in order to qualify, states must remove their prohibitions on using student achievement data to evaluate teachers. Many stat ...

Canadian comedian Mary Walsh (playing the character of Marg Delahunty) attended a Sarah Palin book signing in the Midwest and asked the “thriller from Wasilla, the Alaskan Aphrodite” if she had “any words of encouragement for the Canadian conservatives who have worked so hard to try to diminis ...

From Patrick Cockbourn at CounterPunch.Org, we get a blistering criticism of the Afghan government, including my first hearing of retired general Karl W. Eikenberry: In a leaked cable to Washington sent last week, the US ambassador to Afghanistan, Gen Karl W. Eikenberry, argues that it would be a mi ...

This prisoner torture in Afghanistan isn't the most important issue before us as a nation. It's damned serious, but I'd say Canada's ancient policy of cultural genocide against the First Nations is the biggest issue. But on this issue the harpercons have clearly crossed the line and violated inter ...

Anyone who thinks this crisis is past us is dreaming in technicolour. The root causes of the "Great Recession" remain: the real economy has been squeezed almost to the limit, and the financial sector remains an unbalanced balloon stretched so thin that it can be burst by the tiniest of pin pricks. ...

Private Mann:"General Hillier, 'Amnesty International' has a scathing report about Afghan prison conditions." Hillier: "Those detestable peacenicks and bleeding-hearts! Why should I care about such second-hand information!!" Private Mann: "The PMO just called. Prime Minister Harper wants us conf ...

Private Mann:"General Hillier, 'Amnesty International' has a scathing report about Afghan prison conditions." Hillier: "Those detestable peacenicks and bleeding-hearts! Why should I care about such second-hand information!!" Private Mann: "The PMO just called. Prime Minister Harper wants us conf ...

by Chris Puplava. "Since the start of the decade gold has been in a strong secular bull market in which it has had only one negative year (2001) while the S&P 500 has had four. Gold’s strong performance has produced a cumulative return of 311.54% for an annualized return of 15.18% per annum this d ...

by Jeff Clark. "The Chinese government is telling people gold and silver are good investments that will safeguard their wealth. After last year's meltdown in the stock market, people believe it. After all, Chinese citizens don't receive government retirement money... "

by Deepcaster. "Its financial system had been revealed as insolvent under the weight of huge liabilities and worthless assets. The government refused to allow all the bankrupt institutions to fail, and thus permit the market to do its job of purging the rot from the system."

by Arnold Bock. "We are staring at a nascent but potentially and probably startling increase in the price of gold and precious metals mining stocks and warrants. Gold will reach mind- boggling levels because the actions of our political leaders and their academic and credentialed enablers are virtua ...

by Nick Barisheff. "The investment world is a risky and confusing place right now. Part 1 of this article (The Next Crisis: Spiralling Inflation) detailed the reasons why the next stage in the financial crisis will almost certainly be spiralling inflation."

Last week, The Hill reported that federal agencies have not been completely forthcoming with information requested by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) as part of the congressional auditing group's investigations. In a letter to Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), acting GAO...

Popular music has the Grammys, pro wrestling has the Slammies, and Bay Area Music magazine used to honor the California music scene with the Bammies. So when the Department of Justice makes its annual announcement of how much money the...

Could Wall Street Actually Lose in Congress? [The Stash] Fed Said to Ask Banks to Submit Plans to Repay TARP [Bloomberg] AIG's Rescue Bedevils U.S. [The Wall Street Journal] Comeback for White House choppers? [Politico] Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan...

Policy, portfolios and the investor lawmaker [The Washington Post] Republicans criticize dismissal of AmeriCorps watchdog [The Los Angeles Times] Lockheed Martin F-35 Fighter May Need More Money, Analyst Says [Bloomberg] Inquiries look into use of retired generals as advisers [Federal...

Back in May, POGO blogged about the tragic case of Lt. Col. Dominic "Rocky" Baragona, who was killed in Iraq in 2003 when his Humvee was struck by a supply truck driven by a Kuwaiti transport company that had contracts...

A new study released on Thursday shows that the number of physicians in Canada has increased by 8 per cent and the physician-to-patient ratio went up by 195 for every 100,000 Canadians.

Even with indicators that show Swine Flu is cresting across the country, 1,554 people were hospitalized between Nov. 15 and Nov. 21, says the latest bulletin from Public Health Agency of Canada. Total hospitalizations now stand at 6,992.

Dr. Richard Schabas, Ontario's former chief medical officer, "shakes his head" about money spent on the global H1N1 panic because it fails to meet pandemic criteria for illness and deaths. And there will be no third wave, he said.

Today opponents of the Hanlon Creek Business Park are wrapping up the "Five Days of Action to Celebrate the Hanlon Creek Wetland Complex' event. A noon hour concert was canceled but the community lunch and rally in front of city hall has just wrapped up.

The Toronto Police made a surprise raid on the Toronto Humane Society yesterday, arresting the President and four other key leading officials of the organization.

American culture is weird. Thanksgiving is a perfect example. Put aside all the token rhetoric about gratitude and think about the mainstream reality: a) An already morbidly obese and diabetic population rush to buy busloads of meat, etc. using credit cards that will later bankrupt them, b) then ...

The stories of the mobile homeless often go untold, their day-to-day struggles go unnoticed. Hiding is the name of the game, as being invisible is the only way to stay safe from those who may want to hurt (or arrest) them. It's a cruel irony, since most of us will never know the devastation of losin ...

There's something off about the recent vilification of a homeless charity in New York City. State attorney general Anthony M. Cuomo filed suit this week against the United Homeless Organization alleging fraud.  Cuomo accuses the organization of taking advantage of "the good intentions of people ...

Twenty-four turkeys, 100 pounds of sweet potatoes, 50 pounds of collard greens and all the fixings. This is the feast being prepared in Brooklyn for over 400 homeless men in Brooklyn. But this meal isn't being fixed by just anybody. It is being cooked by 12 men who used to stand in the soup kitchen ...

This video needs no introduction. It was created by Jill Hardman and Chloe Noble. In May 2009, they began walking across America to raise awareness of the LGBTQ homeless youth epidemic in the United States. Their walk is called Homeless Youth Pride Walk 2009 and Operation Shine. This video depicts s ...

On November 5, 2009 the United Nations pulled half of the staff it had in Afghanistan out of the country. A total of 600 of the 1,100 foreign UN workers currently in Afghanistan will now temporarily depart until the situation gets better. The UN also threatened to permanently remove all staff if th ...

Baghdad’s north is increasingly divided between Arabs and Kurds and, according to Human Rights Watch, is highly detrimental to the other minority populations living in Iraq. In a recent publication On Vulnerable Ground  the group explains that minorities remain vulnerable to attacks by Sunni ...

In the wake of the killing of five UK soldiers by an Afghan police trainee, PM Gordon Brown has called on Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai to step up efforts to tackle rampant corruption in the Afghan government. Though he emphasized the point that Britain’s commitment to Afghanistan remained fi ...

   The highly-controversial election in Afghanistan has added to concerns that the international mission in that country is doomed to failure. It is indicative of the fact that, despite the perceived power of the United States, it has been unable to ensure that Afghanistan’s reconstru ...

  With the end date of 2011, Canada’s Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk has ordered the beginning of the planning phase of Canada’s military pull out of Afghanistan. The move comes in light of the Harper government’s intent to stick to its end date on Canada’s military ...