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Organisations raising funds to benefit the Israeli army and illegal settlements in the West Bank enjoy tax-exempt status in Europe, an IPS investigation has shown.
After years of losing the war against animal traffickers and poachers, Malaysia has finally responded with the passage of a new wildlife conservation law. But experts say it might be too late for some of this South-east Asian country's endangered species.
She is now part of a group of artisan entrepreneurs, deals with people confidently, and earns enough for herself and her three children. But 20 years ago, Amir Unisha Begum was an unschooled, shy homemaker who rarely ventured out of her Indian slum neighbourhood.
The vigorous comeback of the opposition in Venezuela's newly elected parliament strengthens pluralism in this oil-rich country, although it may presage a new political crisis in the medium term, according to analysts.
Recent raids by federal agents on the homes and offices of peace activists are being viewed by civil libertarians and civil society groups as further proof that the U.S. is morphing into a "surveillance state" where the right to privacy and other constitutional protections are being quietl ...

Scoop - NZ

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We've been told that 9/11 changed everything. Is it true? Let's look: The Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11 (see this and this) The decision to launch the Iraq war was made before 9/11. Indeed, former CIA director George Tenet said that the White House wanted to invade Iraq long before 9/11 ...
President Barack Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan believes the current strategy can't work, according to a new book. The claim, published in the New York Times, is from a book by veteran reporter Bob Woodward. Reports say the book paints a picture of in-fighting in the administrat ...
Fonterra's Andrew Ferrier demonstrates the risk of 'foot in mouth' at the Fonterra results press conference... PLIGG_Visual_RSS_OriginalNews
America and Europe face the worst jobs crisis since the 1930s and risk "an explosion of social unrest" unless they tread carefully, the has warned. "The labour market is in dire straits. The Great Recession has left behind a waste land of unemployment,&quo ...

Independent - London

The United States is launching its first test of a new plan for responding to an enemy cyber-blitz, including any attack aimed at vital services such as power, water and banks.
A suicide car bomber killed a deputy governor and five other people in eastern Afghanistan today, police said.
Spanish police said today that they have arrested seven suspected members of the armed Basque group ETA, maintaining pressure on the organisation despite its recent ceasefire announcement.
Computers can go wrong, and everyone is used to it. But that's at home. We assume that the machines controlling the infrastructure that makes everything tick – power stations, chemical works, water purification plants – have rock-solid defences in place to deal with unexplained crashes or virus att ...
A prominent Irish poet has lived up to descriptions of her work as provocative, anarchic and untameable by sparking family divisions with her latest collection.

Rogue Government.com

Archaeologists say scrawl on the back of a letter recovered from a 17th century dig site reveals a previously unknown language spoken by indigenous peoples in northern Peru.
Perhaps after Nasa well and truly runs out of money our astronauts should ring up Richard Branson? The British professional rich person says that he plans to launch commercial space travel—space tourism, in other words— within the next 18 months . What do I have to do to be on that first flight?
The Great Staff Exodus of 2010 has begun. Even before the traditional post-midterm turnover point, President Obama's kitchen cabinet is in the middle of a significant refurbishment.
China and other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) wrapped up their largest ever anti-terrorism military drill Monday in Kazakhstan, the China News Service (CNS) reported.
As you read this, there is a bill before the U.S. Senate that has the potential to change the U.S. food industry more than any other law ever passed by the U.S. Congress.

Innovation Canada

How often do you use natural health products (NHPs) in your everyday life? You might take a vitamin or two and an omega-3 supplement. Or maybe you take a dose of glucosamine when your joints are sore or an echinacea tablet when you’re under the weather or rub aloe vera on your skin when you’ve been ...
Imagine a live improvised musical performance — in surround sound, with a computer manipulating and spinning instruments’ sounds around eight different speakers in real time. That’s being made possible through the University of Guelph’s new Advanced Digital Audio Production and Performance Studio. I ...
As alien invaders go, the giant hogweed is particularly nasty. The weed spreads quickly, growing up to seven metres high, and defends itself by spitting a toxic sap — a gooey concoction that causes painful skin blisters that last for weeks and purple scars that can remain visible for several years. ...
Talk about getting a bad rap. In the extensive scientific literature about songbirds, the purple martin has long been described as a leisurely migrant that takes its time each fall flying from breeding grounds in Canada and the northern United States to its winter home in Brazil or elsewhere in Sout ...
As one of the world’s most powerful natural forces, fire holds many different meanings to everyone. To some, it’s an instrument of destruction — and a cause for worry. For others, it means warmth during chilly weather, or just a way to roast marshmallows. But for George Hadjisophocleous, a Carleton ...

Signs of the times

Washington - The C.I.A. has drastically increased its bombing campaign in the mountains of Pakistan in recent weeks, American officials said. The strikes are part of an effort by military and intelligence operatives to try to cripple the Taliban in a stronghold being used to plan attacks against ...
Police sketch artists might soon be trading in the pencil and paper for a genetics lab. Forensic biologists say they may soon be able to reconstruct a criminal's profile from the DNA they leave at a crime scene. This would potentially render DNA databases obsolete, said molecular biologist Manfred ...
"My God! Is this the end? Is this the goal for which our fathers have striven and for whose sake all generations have suffered? Is this the dream of a return to Zion which our people have dreamt for centuries: that we now come to Zion to stain its soil with innocent blood?" Ahad Ha'am, 1921 Th ...
A day when doctors need only visible light instead of X-rays to view a patient's innards can now be more easily imagined, with the announcement of a way to decipher the little light that passes through opaque materials. Normally, one cannot see through opaque barriers such as paint, skin, fabric or ...
The University of Hawaii' at Mānoa's Pan-STARRS PS1 telescope on Haleakala has discovered an asteroid that will come within 4 million miles of Earth in mid-October. The object is about 150 feet in diameter and was discovered in images acquired on September 16, when it was about 20 million miles away ...

The Galloping Beaver

Honeslty, "Honest Jim", how much did you think we bought i n the first place? Scam artists are scam artists. And you are one of the accomplished ones. For an example we send you to TBogg .
Naw. The Tbogg Bassets win. Well, unless it comes from Scandinavia. The price of my loyalty is so cheap.
You know, this little gem could actually save a life. Be sure to pass it on to anyone you know who might benefit from a bit of peer support.
Some years ago, just after the Harper government won its first minority, someone with an ear to the ground in New York told me that the usually active and vocal Canada had gone silent and withdrawn. According to my source, our diplomats and representatives at the UN had been told to shut-up and the ...

Media Matters for America

Brit Hume falsely suggested that Christopher Coates was a political appointee in the Clinton administration, and thus has credibility in pushing the New Black Panthers Party phony story. In fact, Coates was hired as a career attorney during the Clinton administration, and reportedly became a "t ...
Five potential Republican presidential candidates that serve as Fox News contributors or hosts have made at least 269 appearances on the cable channel - compared to a total of six appearances on all other major news channels combined. "In-kind contribution": Potential 2012 GOP candidates "spea ...
Fox has dutifully adopted claims by GOP Reps. John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy that failing to immediately vote to extend Bush-era tax cuts injects "uncertainty" into the economy that hinders hiring, a claim which both Boehner and McCarthy made on Fox News Sunday . However, economists agree tha ...
The right-wing media is relying on completely unsubstantiated allegations about what Justice Department officials have said to accuse the DOJ of refusing to enforce voting-rights laws against racial minorities. However, the facts clearly show that the DOJ has, in fact, enforced vot ...
Fox News' Brit Hume claimed that the stimulus "manifestly failed" to "get the unemployment rate down." This claim flies in the face of the economic consensus, as economists believe the stimulus raised GDP and increased employment and "substantial[ly]" boosted GDP. Hume claims that the stimulus ...

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TPM Cafe

As the United States works to regain other nations' trust, it has to convincingly draw connections between American aims and the international common good and combat perceptions of completely self-serving policies. Key to this framework is the notion that the ideals of liberty are indeed universal r ...
Many are lauding President Obama's UN General Assembly speech highlighting America's rededicated, slightly shifting course on which countries to focus development aid on -- and which not. The US Global Leadership Coalition , which is having a mega conference this week on the focus of America's inte ...
As a Palestinian-American father of two daughters living in Al-Bireh, the twin city of Ramallah, no one on this earth more than I wish for Palestinians and Israelis to reach a lasting peace agreement. I suspect that the overwhelming majority of Israeli parents feel the same; I know my Israeli friend ...
The super-rich got even wealthier this year, and yet most of them are paying even fewer taxes to support the eduction, job training, and job creation of the rest of us. According to Forbes magazine's annual survey, just released, the combined net worth of the 400 richest Americans climbed 8% this ye ...

TruthOut

We rarely hear about the prisoners of Abu Ghraib and Bagram and Guantanamo. And what we generally hear is unlikely to confront US culpability for the full horrors experienced by the prisoners of American wars of empire and occupation. And what of American political prisoners at home? The ever-suspec ...
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The report of the fact-finding mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Israeli attack on the Gaza flotilla released last week shows conclusively, for the first time, that US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-s ...
New York - Hundreds of people who believe they were falsely detained and imprisoned by the Department of Justice in the wake of the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks are now seeking redress through the U.S. courts. The exact number of detainees is unclear, as no lists were ever released publicly. But according ...
The Democratic response to the Republican Pledge to America has been factual about its economics. The September 26, 2010, Sunday New York Times' editorial goes through the economic details, and Democrats have been citing the economic facts from the Congressional Budget Office. As Dan Pfeiffer report ...

Planetsave

We are all one. I know, we are each unique individuals, especially in the US. But, on another level, we are also all connected, and we can even say, on some level, all one. Even on a simple, physical level, look at how we can’t help but affect each other — if you’re in a... Read More...
The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill that shocked the world is fading into the background, but the effects of the disaster will long be felt. And now for the first time an independent study has confirmed the disastrous extent of the oil spill making it the largest marine oil accident ever. “We wanted ...
The mid-twentieth century saw the progressing warming of the globe come to an abrupt and for a time inexplicable hiatus. According to new research this temporary cooling was at least partially the result of a sudden cooling event centred over the North Atlantic between 1968 and 1972. “We knew that t ...
Over the past fifty years the amount of water that has been pumped out of the subterranean reservoirs that sustain many billions of people has more than doubled, according to a new global assessment of groundwater use. People are drawing so much water from underground that they are adding enough of ...
Avatar may have been a science-fiction story, but many of its themes were based off of some of the world’s biggest real-life struggles. One such struggle is going on in the Amazon, where a large dam, the Belo Monte Dam, is threatening the environment and tribes living in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest. ...

Water Quality - WordPress

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‘Everglades Restoration Program making tangible progress after 10 years; but challenges ahead
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Foreign Policy in Focus

Thought to be for show, Iran President Ahmadinejad's extreme pronouncements haven't been taken seriously by savvy Iran watchers.
IAEA states still refuse to pressure Israel to come clean about its nukes.
Secretary of Defense Gates lifts ban on working with Indonesia's brutal special forces.
Whoever began a cyber war with Iran started off with a bang.
Come hear about what really determines whether or not governments in Africa comply with U.S. military dictates.

Global Elite

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, August 20, 2009 An official UK government report –quoted extensively in Britain’s tabloid media– is warning the British public that there will be c ...
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 p ...

Al Jazeera

Russian president signs dismissal decree, capping weeks of tensions between him and the veteran politician.
Ailing N Korea leader Kim Jong-il promotes his son to general in advance of meeting to decide the country's leadership.
Voyage organised by European Jewish groups to condemn "collective punishment against 1.5 million Palestinians".
Chavez says his Socialist party won most of the votes in parliamentary polls, in which the opposition made big gains.
Suicide bomber targets deputy governor of Ghazni, a province hit by a sharp rise in violence levels.

Green Inc. - NOW

Stymied by the fact its operations are in urban skyscrapers rather than on a sprawling campus, Adobe installs about a dozen 100-kilowatt Bloom Energy fuel cells on top of a parking garage in downtown San Jose.
A study by the environmental group Oceana posits that the Atlantic coast has more energy to give as wind than it does as oil or gas,
Identifying threatened species and mapping life-or-death changes in snow pack, soil moisture and stream temperatures.
Japan will attempt to tap frozen methane gas deposits off its southeast coast by drilling a series of deep-sea test wells early next year, the Guardian newspaper reported today.
Clashing definitions of wildlife conservation can divide environmental groups as well as hunters.

Dot Earth News

A trio of young Britons wraps a Nantucket lighthouse in "caution" tape to demarcate the possible sea level in 2100.
The country's intellectual infrastructure is still eroding, a new report finds.
Do the world's wealthy have a moral obligation to help the world's poorest if they're far away?

source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com This article series explains what happened when I interacted with participants of a 9/11 event to welcome home US soldiers and honor the victims of 9/11, then provides the e-mail exchange with the sponsoring group’s leadership. Consistent with my last two years of w ...
For the longest time it has bothered me to see Google ads, which advance the very poison I had just written about, showing up in the middle of my article.Â My attempt to copy the ad failed due to embedded coding, but I have discovered that I don’t need to do that.Â They are placing [...]
The costs for the last G8/G20 event in Toronto are so outrageous, that you’d think they were joking. If only they were. The final tab ran over $1.25 billion. Some of the costs were: $80 million for food and accommodation $34 million on telecommunications and electronics $17 million for vehicle renta ...
I’m not waiting for Superman. Waiting for Superman, Davis Guggenheim’s new educational film is presently receiving a media blitz. Is big business behind its success?
In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came [...]

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Institute for Policy Studies

How is the Philippines responding to the "triple crises of vulnerability": the global economic crisis, the food crisis and the spreading environmental crises of water, forests, fisheries and climate?
Donald Kaul defends Keynes, Jim Hightower asks readers to help him overcome his loss for words, and William A. Collins shines a light on the government's domestic surveillance programs.
People living in "transition" cities and towns are working together to make their communities more resilient to economic and environmental uncertainty.
OtherWords contributor Karen Dolan isn't just smart. She's funny.
In California, our CEO pay report has become a bipartisan tool on the campaign trail.

Equality Trust

A group of charities, including the Equality Trust, Child Poverty Action Group, Barnardo's and the TUC are asking the coalition government to commit to a Fairness Test on any tax rises or spending cuts they introduce. Full details ...
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Bill Wilson's VAT motion to the Scottish Parliament reads as follows: That the Parliament notes the warning issued by Save the Children in Scotland that raising VAT to 20% could mean a £31 a week bill for the poorest families in Scotland and that the poorest 10% of the population currently spend ...
Daily Telegraph reports on bold moves in the public sector . But what about the private sector which originated the "crazy" bonus system and still leads the way on excessive top pay...?

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Marler Blog

Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 10:00 a.m. 2322 Rayburn House Office Building WRITTEN TESTIMONY BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE Chairman and members of the committee, my name is William Marler. I am a trial lawyer. My law firm Marler Clark, located in Seattle, Washington, specializes in r ...

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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, w ...

Democracy Now!

Former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped by FARC rebels and held hostage in rebel camps in the middle of the jungle for nearly six-and-a-half years before she was freed in a dramatic military rescue in July of 2008 that made international headlines. She has just publi ...
Journalist Jean Friedman-Rudovsky traveled to Ciudad Juarez to find out how children are coping with the staggering levels of violence in the region. Her article published by Village Voice media earlier this month is titled "Juarez’s children: Drugs, death, and fear." In this interview with Dem ...
Combat operations in Iraq are over, if you believe President Barack Obama’s rhetoric. But torture in Iraq’s prisons, first exposed during the Abu Ghraib scandal, is thriving, increasingly distant from any scrutiny or accountability. After arresting tens of thousands of Iraqis, often without charge, ...
BONN, Germany—When first lady Michelle Obama started an organic garden at the White House, she sparked a national discussion on food, obesity, health and sustainability. But the green action on the White House lawn hasn’t made it to the White House roof, unfortunately. Back in 1979, President Jimm ...
The ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States should serve as a moment to reflect on tolerance. It should be a day of peace. Yet the rising anti-Muslim fervor here, together with the continuing U.S. military occupation of Iraq and the escalating war in Afghanistan (and Pakistan ...

Farming Pathogens

You can now follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Twitter here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Farming Pa ...
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We might accept that viruses and bacteria at best instantiate the coincidental nature of such an alliance. The success of one bug might pave the way for another. But we’d be hard pressed to imagine that theyâd whittle the syllogism to a sharper point and activel ...
Follow ‘Farming Pathogens’ on Facebook here. Includes the latest in media reports and journal articles on agriculture, disease, evolution, dialectical biology, and the practice of science, as well as any appearances or new work by FP contributors. Filed under: Uncategorized
The Red Army Faction was a communist guerilla group operating 1970-1998 in, of all places, West Germany. The RAF engaged in a variety of operations in the 1970s, including assassinations and bombings, primarily around the German government’s material support of the U.S. war in Vietnam. As depicted i ...
The past may possess a power greater than prologue. Any one with a social networking account knows that. All of a sudden you find yourself daily interacting with people long thought boxed away. People mature, yes, but sensibilities remain largely intact and an old year, fine wine or vinegar, pours b ...

Suzie-Q

NATO Confirms Apache Helicopters Launched Attacks Against Pakistani Territory by Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com, September 26, 2010 NATO spokesmen are confirming tonight that a pair of US Apache helicopters crossed the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan, launching an attack against tribesmen in Pakista ...
Christine O’Donnell: ‘Evolution Is A Myth. Why Aren’t Monkeys Still Evolving Into Humans?’ (VIDEO) The Huffington Post |Â Â Nicholas Graham First Posted: 09-25-10 11:01 AMÂ Â Â |Â Â Â Updated: 09-25-10 11:07 AM Bill Maher has so far kept his promise to air an embarrassing clip of Tea Party favorite ...
SNL Returns with Christine O’Donnell as First Political Target with Masturbation Parody Crooks & Liars- By Heather September 26, 2010 04:00 AM Saturday Night Live started off their season premier with having a bit of fun at Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s expense and her r ...
Obama’s Massive Power Struggle with the American War Machine Asia Times / By Pepe Escobar Even if Barack Obama is seriously betting on his exit strategy, the Pentagon wants infinite war. September 24, 2010 | As that self-appointed court stenographer Bob Woodward reveals in his latest court opus Obam ...
12 of America’s Most Crooked Candidates on the Ballot in the 2010 Election Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington Here are some of the absolutely least deserving candidates for high office. September 16, 2010 | Since 2005, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), ha ...

Solari

By Jack Farchy in Berlin Europe’s central banks have all but halted sales of their gold reserves, ending a run of large disposals each year for more than a decade. The central banks of the eurozone plus Sweden and Switzerland are bound by the Central Bank Gold Agreement, which caps their collective ...
Levee Along Wisconsin River Fails; Extent of Possible Flooding Unkown CNN U.S. (27 Sept 10)

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

FBI counter-terrorism agents are offered perverse career incentives that pressure them to conduct actions against groups that pose no danger.
The government is attempting to criminalize the organizing of antiwar protests.
The Obama administration is drawing up legislation to make it easier for US intelligence services to eavesdrop on the Internet, including email exchanges and social networks.
The White House has invoked the state secret privilege to avoid a lawsuit on behalf of assassination target Anwar al-Awlaki.
The White House has invoked the state secret privilege to avoid a lawsuit on behalf of Anwar al-Awlaki, whose father charges the US government of targeting him for assassination.

Sideways News

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

Fabius Maximus

Summary:Â Every week provides more evidenceÂ supporting the Tea Party’s beliefÂ of the Constitution’s imperiled condition.Â But their failure to act shows their true colors.Â As for Team Obama, their own words indict themselves.Â Cry Baa, baa, baa while you read it, andÂ Â weep for our lost Repu ...
Please read this article.Â This has been said many times on the FM website, but never so well or so thoroughly: “Social Studies 50th Anniversary Symposium: Is There Hope for the Rule of Law in America?“, Brad DeLong, 26 September 2010 — Summary of remarks by Alan Gilbert (professor, Josef Korbel Sc ...
Summary: Time has proven wrong the initial FM analysis of the Assange rape charges. If it was a government ops, they correctly estimated our gullibility, and have dealt Wikileaks a severe blow. Even better, this example will warn future dissidents about the peril of angering the US government. Th ...
Summary:Â As we near the end of President Obama’s second year in office, we can total his accomplishments and assess his skills.Â Potentially a great leader, ruined by election to high office before he gained the necessary experience. Results to date:Â alientatedÂ his supporters AND enraged his o ...
We must get smarter if we hope to prosper in the the 21st century, an era that might prove unkind to fools. The pedestrian ‘push’ buttons at New York’s intersections don’t actually work. They were deactivated in the 1970s when computer-controlled automatic traffic signals were installed but left in ...

Daily Telegraph – North Koreaâs ailing dictator Kim Jong-il appointed his youngest son a four-star general on Tuesday, giving his country the first official hint that he will be their next leader. Hours after Kim Jong-un, 28, was given his first known official position the North Koreanâs 1.2m-st ...
The Guardian – Pakistan reacted angrily today after Nato said US helicopters had crossed into its territory from Afghanistan to attack militants, claiming to have killed more than 50 Taliban fighters. The admission that two incursions had taken place over the weekend by helicopters from the Nato-led ...
On Saturday 24th September, the editor of www.OpenYourEyesNews.com, James Fairbairn, made a guest appearance on ABC720 Radio in Perth, Western Australia to discuss with host, Siobhan, some of the key news events of recent days. Check out our latest interview on our new Podcast channel and please sub ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

Amerikan Cultural Hegemony Settles into Iraq by Liberation Frequency (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Ramadan is an Islamic holiday celebrated during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. At the heart of this tradition is the act of fasting, a time when Muslims of all stripes are expected to p ...
Dear MTW…retardation/mental disabilities (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) We received this letter from a reader, and comrade Iskra replies below: Hello. I hope this is the correct place to email this question. I can’t seem to find anyone who can answer it, then again, I haven’t looked around very ...
Music review from RAIM-Denver: (raimd.wordpress.com) [Last week, we posted the video, Obama Nation, the new single from UK hip-hop artist, Lowkey. The video itself generated some discussion which can be viewed below. Here is a comment by a RAIMer, Antonio, analyzing the content of the song:] Lowkey ...

PakAlert

US attack helicopters have killed more than 30 people inside Pakistan, diplomatic sources told Dawn on Sunday.
The global financial markets were startled this week when Brazilian oil giant Petrobras sold an astonishing $70 billion worth of stock in the largest stock sale in history. Petrobras will use the money to fund aggressive offshore drilling--the kind that is being hotly debated in the U.S. after the G ...
Russian army chief of staff Gen. N. Makarov broke the news on September 22 that Russia will not sell the S-300 air defense systems to Iran. Regardless of official explanations, it does not take an expert to realize that as a purely defensive system designed to shield a country from aircraft and crui ...
Connect the dots: the nukes at the 'hot spots' are ready, and the warning has been given many times. Poor innocent victims. Again and again! And all for power and profit. The financiers and other banksters hegemony-pipe-dream, of ruling the whole wold in this New World Order...
I am shocked that the US can come to attack Pakistan in this way and Pakistan does not even have the authority to question them on the deaths they are causing. The civilians in all these regions are extremely frightened and fearful. They can’t work in the day, nor can they sleep during the night. As ...

Yep - the local New Milford Democrats are lead by dumb dumbs. Their entire leadership team is continually outmaneuvered and outsmarted by the Republican Town Committee ( RTC ). Why they seek leadership positions year after year - and why they're re-elected by the membership - is beyond me. John Lil ...

Pamela Geller , the veteran Muslim-basher and co-founder of the rabidly anti-Muslim group Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), has won over a whole new set of supporters: American white supremacists. They just canât seem to get enough of her since her agitation began against a planned Islamic comm ...

change: org.

The Social Capital Markets Conference begins in less than a week. Already social entrepreneurs, angel investors, philanthropists and more are flying in to San Francisco from all parts of the world for meetings, reunions, and hopefully, the start of the next big thing. As the whole field converges on ...
Each year, high schools across the country pick a homecoming king and homecoming queen based on popular vote. At Mona Shores High School in Muskegon, Michigan, one candidate who had received an overwhelming number of votes for homecoming king was a senior named Oakleigh Reed. But, unfortunately ...
You are most likely reading this article on the internet. So, chances are good you have a Facebook account. Facebook has more than 500 million active users and, last month, U.S. internet users spent more time on Facebook than on any other website (including all Google sites combined) for the first t ...
September 28th marks the ten-year anniversary of the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the abortion drug, mifepristone. An alternative to surgical abortion, the pill provides a convenient and less-invasive way for women to terminate early pregnancies. Although opponents fought ardently to p ...
I just discovered the best reason I've heard yet for reading the Twilight series: It's number five on the American Library Association's list of Top 10 Challenged Books in 2009 . Though I've resisted friends' attempts to join the Twilight craze, nothing makes a book quite so appealing as finding out ...

Common Dreams -News

by Karen Hawkins CHICAGO -- Two anti-war activists said Saturday that a 12-hour search of their Chicago home by the FBI was an attempt to intimidate them and silence the peace movement. Joe Iosbaker and his wife, Stephanie Weiner, said the government targeted them because they've been outspoken agai ...
by Evan Perez The Obama administration was preparing a request on Friday to block a lawsuit over the scope of its targeted killing program for suspected terrorists, in a case that challenges the government's powers in its war on terror. U.S. officials say national security is threatened by Yemeni-Am ...
by Mark Townsend A United Nations investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan should be launched to identify and prosecute individuals responsible, says a former top-ranking UN official on extrajudicial killings. Philip Alston called for the UN Human Rights Council to investigate the "condu ...
by Aamer Madhani The artist whose poster of Barack Obama became a rallying image during the hope-and-change election of 2008 says he understands why so many people have lost faith. In an exclusive interview with National Journal on Thursday, Shepard Fairey expressed his disappointment with the presi ...
by Michael McCarthy in Lyon Stop economic growth in its tracks, start living locally, at a slower pace, and share more - that was the remarkable demand yesterday at the beginning of the Sustainable Planet Forum, a three-day international conference on environmental issues in the French city of Lyon, ...

Lifehacker

Headphones can do more than just drown out your coworkers. A study involving active practice and background exposure shows that listening to material related to a task, or just being around it, can improve your skills at that task. More ...
TechCrunch is reporting, from sources including one "close to Google," that an official Google Voice application received an App Store approval , allowing a full-featured Voice client to run on iPhones. If their report is correct, the app is a ...
Your brain isn't wired for quick-switching tasks, but it's what you want to do to avoid work you don't love. A multi-task researcher suggests assigning 15-minute minimums to your frequent click-overs, like email, to force yourself into making ...
Ubuntu Tweak is a handy way to automatically install and upgrade third-party apps and their auto-updating repositories, but it can also be used to wipe out updates that bring bugs into your system. More
One brave soul at USA Today researched and compiled all the fees charged by U.S. airlines, from check-in through landing, in a series of fairly comprehensive charts. Leg room, frequent flier usage, bag sizes, and more are covered in their wall ...

Water Privatization

Ang Kasangga Representative Teodorico T. Haresco has filed a resolution asking the House of Representatives to conduct an inquiry on the utilization, conservation and management of the country's water resources.

Guardian

As Ed Miliband prepares to give his first major speech as party leader, a new poll shows support for Labour on 40% compared with 39% for the Conservatives Ed Miliband received a boost today on the morning of his first major speech as Labour leader as a new poll showed the party pulling ahead of the ...
Company was licensed to supply Taser guns to Home Office for testing but not to supply them to police, Home Office says The company that supplied the Taser guns used by police in their standoff with Raoul Moat has had its licence revoked, the Home Office said today. The home secretary, Theresa May, ...
Dmitry Medvedev orders out veteran Yuri Luzhkov citing 'loss of confidence', bringing 18-year domination to an end President Dmitry Medvedev has sacked Moscow's embattled mayor Yuri Luzhkov today, dramatically ending the most captivating political soap opera in Russia for years. In the most audaciou ...
• Brazilian finance minister Guido Mantega speaks out against devaluations • Economists fear increasing currency volatility and instability The world is in the midst of an "international currency war" according to Brazil's finance minister as governments force down the value of their currencies to b ...
Naval personnel board boat carrying 10 Jewish activists who were trying to break sea blockade The Israeli navy today boarded a yacht carrying 10 Jewish activists who were attempting to break the sea blockade around Gaza , forcibly diverting the vessel to the nearby port of Ashdod. "There was no resi ...

Come January, President Hugo Chavez will lose the overwhelming majority he has enjoyed in congress since 2005 that has allowed him to recast his oil-rich nation as a model of "21st Century Socialism."
Ready your TV and your stomach for an hour of smears, self-aggrandizement and, with any luck, an airing of the issues facing California: Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown meet tonight in Davis for the first of three televised debates.
Following the lead of the U.S. Supreme Court, a panel of judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out evidence that federal prosecutors hoped would prove that former Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch violated his duty to Alaskans.
WASHINGTON — Under grilling by a presidential commission on the oil spill, BP's top official for oil production said he couldn't explain why the oil industry didn't develop technologies to shut down a deepwater oil spill.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

It seems that something new, and not altogether welcome, may be happening in the politicking over climate change. I have written before of the orchestrated villification that comes the way of climate scientists from some people and organisations who are unconvinced of the case for human-indu ...

The Wonk Room

UK’s People Management is reporting that the British army is advising the Pentagon’s Working Group on how best to eliminate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell — part of that group’s ongoing effort to review the experiences of open service in foreign militaries: Colonel Mark Abraham told PM that fears surroundi ...
Last week, after House Republicans released their “Pledge to America” — which waxed poetic about the need to reduce government spending — the plan’s architect, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), was unable to name a single program that he’d cut from the federal budget. McCarthy joined a whole host of House ...
Today, scientists, youth, and coalfield residents came together to protest the coal industry’s destruction of our future in a global day of action. In Washington, DC, top climate scientist James Hansen, who warned Congress of the coming scourge of global warming in 1989, joined over a hundred others ...
Earlier last week I wondered how the federal government could prevent insurers from ending child-only policies, speculating that it can do relatively little to assuage issuers’ fears about sicker children flooding the market. Today, Politico’s Pulse informs me that aside from writing yet another str ...

So the Toronto Sun has a columnist called Joe Wormington (or something like that). Recently, all the "leftists" on Toronto City Council expressed sentiments to the effect that if the absolute moron Rob Ford won the race for Mayor that they'd simply block his every move. There was also some talk abou ...
Yes, the global environmental crisis is upon us. At the same time, capitalism isn't capable of meeting the challenge (a la "green industries" to accommodate ecological reality) because capitalism is now at a stage where only financial wealth meets the demands of the profit maximizers. They aren't g ...
Most of us are still far too comfortable. Even those of us who know that the system is evil and doomed don't feel the dagger in our side telling us it's do or die. We feel that we can wait, or that, given the difficulties of the task (revolutions are messy, uncertain affairs) we have to wait, for ot ...

Whistleblowers Protection Blog

On behalf of the National Whistleblowers Center (NWC), David Colapinto and I filed a friend-of-the-court brief last week arguing that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) can protect corporate whistleblowers who make disclosures through the media. We filed the brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ni ...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report last Thursday, September 16 th , questioning the adequacy of the protection offered to whistleblowers by the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The report indicates that OSHA, created to ensure safe and healt ...
Tomorrow, September 21 st , the Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) will hear oral arguments in two cases Rhonda K. Conyers v. Department of Defense and Devon H. Northover v. Department of Defense for the first time in 27 years. According to the Make It Safe Coalition , the cases, decided under a ...

If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is that it lies nestled between a pair of giant radio ...
The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a study led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, provides additional evidence of the glo ...
Supermassive black holes found at the centers of distant galaxies undergo huge growth spurts as a result of galactic collisions, according to a new study by astronomers at Yale University and the University of Hawaii. Their findings appear in the March 25 edition of Science Express.
A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has solved the structure of a key protein from the virus that caused last year's "swine flu" influenza epidemic. The structure reveals that the virus shares many features with influenza viruses common in the early 20th c ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Fossils may provide tantalizing clues to human history but they also lack some vital information, such as revealing which pieces of human DNA have been favored by evolution because they confer beneficial traits - resistance to infection or the ability to digest milk, for example. T ...

TechDirt

Earlier this year. we wrote about a guy in the UK, Paul Chambers, who was arrested after he tweeted a message about blowing up his local airport if it didn't reopen in time for the flight he had to take the following week. The message was clearly a joke. Now, as I mentioned at the time, I have no ...

Doctor Nancy Snyderman, a very attractive, gregarious and outgoing physician, appeared on the MSNBC Today Show and promoted vaccines in a segment titled Vaccines 101. She said there was a small amount of "medicine" and salt water in the vaccines but forgot to mention this...
Researchers at the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology of the Nervous System, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Warsaw, Poland, examined the pharmacokinetics for mercury in the brain, liver and kidneys. Stunning information states Pharmacokinetic analysis revealed that Hg [mercury] from T ...
Numerous infants and toddlers suffer brain trauma with or without hemorrhages; brain swelling (edema); and cardio-respiratory events shortly after vaccinations to which the medical profession and civil authorities attribute some form of child abuse because of the terrible misconception that vaccines ...

BroadSnark

I was getting all ready to write a long diatribe in response to another one of those anti-porn feminists who claims that all porn is rape.Â You know, the people who refer to those of us who disagree as male-identified, “fun feminists.”Â This “feminist” was particularly irritating me.Â It’s bad en ...
Remember the woman in Vancouver who had acid thrown in her face.Â Turns out it was all a hoax.Â The nut threw acid in her own face.Â I had to comb through a few different versions of the story to find one that mentioned who she originally blamed for the attack – a random African [...]
I set up my first blog in a couple of minutes. It was mostly to keep people updated on our marathon trip through Latin America (all ten people who were interested). Eventually, the travel blogging died out and made way for BroadSnark. Finally, I had somewhere to write down all those conversations ...
Lately, I’ve been coming across a lot of articles on the effects of inequality.Â This one is quite good.Â I’m particularly interested in how he relates inequality, status seeking, consumerism, and crime.Â I’ve read a bit of the crime research he is referring to.Â Good stuff.Â And it relates to ...
Happy New Year!!!!! L’Shanah Tovah !!!!!* Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are the big deal Jewish holidays.Â If you work for a law firm, you might get those days off.Â If not, you’ll be working, but the token Jew in your office might not.Â (Note: If they are anything like me, they are not going to [. ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

By Cody Jones, Sky Shields, and Michelle Lerner Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, September 24, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 37
By Nancy Spannaus Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, September 24, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 37
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, September 24, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 37
By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, September 24, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 37

Gregory Viscusi and Brian Parkin Bloomberg April 19, 2010 Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Air France- KLM Group and industry groups pressed European governments to loosen the unprecedented closing of the region’s airspace from last week’s Icelandic volcanic eruption as losses from the grounding of aircraft p ...
John Lott’s Website April 19, 2010 This is just too bizarre: Diana Rehm (NPR): We do wonder whether there’s human involvement in all of these eruptions, earthquakes, storms - Elise Labott (senior State Department producer for CNN): – and how much global warming has a role in it. You know we’ve seen ...
Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers April 19, 2010 Already wary of the federal government, Americans have grown even more critical, less trusting and even fearful of Uncle Sam since President Barack Obama took office, according to an exhaustive new study being released Monday. The in-depth poll found ...

food and water watch

[...] elected officials across the region. He’ll be blogging from the road every day of the trip, so check back in with us to find out what’s he’s up to each [...]
In early February, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) pleasantly surprised small farmers and food protection advocacy groups alike by abandoning its National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS was a program put in place after a 2003 occurrence of mad cow disease with intention ...
Metro Vancouver recently took on the task of promoting the consumption of tap water over bottled water and is now battling it out with Coca-Cola at the Olympic games. As one of the Olympics biggest official sponsors, Coca-Cola, who claims their bottled water “doesn’t compete with tap water,” is of ...
It seems the Obama administration is starting to take some steps toward addressing the childhood obesity epidemic. The President recently requested the inclusion of an additional $1 billion in funding for child nutrition programs in the national budget. This commitment preceded the unveiling of Fir ...
Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoffÂ “Tap In,” a series of films and lectures about water privatization, access, and quality. An initiative of our Take Back the Tap campaign, the series will commence with a showing of, and discussion abou ...

treehugger

Image via Fallen Fruit Waaaaaay back in 2005, we reported on a very cool project called Fallen Fruit -- an organization that takes advantage of the free produce found in the public property of urban areas and maps out where to find the goods. If there was an orange tree with fruit-laden branche ...
photo: Bruce McAdam via flickr Northern Ireland just outlined how it hopes to get 40% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 and, apparently not to be outdone, First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond thinks that's not an ambitious enough target. Speaking to Reut... Read the full stor ...
The mangrove tree is quite simply an ecological superhero. It not only makes up highly productive ecosystems in tropical and sub-tropical tidal zones, but it serves as a vital renewable natural resource. It's a natural habitat for fauna and a spawning area for numerous species of fish. It helps ...
Images: Amo Amazonía With numerous dire (and relatively not-so-dire ) predictions about the fate of the Amazon being broadcast, it's not often that we hear something positive rising out of such a critical situation -- especially a multi-city "decentralized" festival that drew 31,000 people in its ...
Screengrabs via iTunes We were very excited when Google finally released a Bike There feature on Google Maps , where a cyclists could pick the best route for pedaling from place to place. However, there's competition. A new free iPhone app turns your iPhone into a cyclist's version of a TomTom ...

Biosingularity

Those who adhered to a diet low in carbohydrates but rich in animal-based fats and proteins increased their risk of death – especially by cancer, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, led by Simmons College nutrition professor Teresa Fung, Sc. D. This study is the first ...
Variation in our microbial inhabitants could help tailor efforts to treat illness. via Technology Review: You Are Your Bacteria.
In the depths of a former copper mine in Northern California dwell what may be the smallest, most stripped-down forms of life ever discovered. The microbes — members of the domain of one-celled creatures calledÂ Archaea — are smaller than other known microorganisms, rivaled in size only by a microbe ...
Genomic data will soon become a commodity; the next challenge — linking human genetic variation with physiology and disease — will be as great as the one genomicists faced a decade ago, says J. Craig Venter. via Multiple personal genomes await : Article : Nature.
Two new studies add to evidence that older people with low levels of vitamin D may be more likely to suffer from cognitive impairment. The hope is that vitamin D supplements may be able to slow mental decline — an intervention that one research team plans to put to the test this summer. Vitamin D [. ...

The federal government has spent tens of billions of taxpayer dollars on research that has completely failed to affect temperatures or demonstrate an empirical link between human CO2 emissions and global warming.

No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. American presidents are above the law . Via . God help you if you’re cannon fodder though. Scott Horton :The dilemma faced by the Justice D ...
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Last week the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the privacy of cell phone records. It seems at best a mixed bag; while the ACLU was largely happy with it, Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Kevin Bankston noted the decisi ...
No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Our image in the Muslim world would probably improve if we stopped killing so many Muslims. Also: Contrast that report from a government-friendly American outlet with this :The United States claims its drone attacks target militant ...

Organic Consumers.org

Buried in a prospectus inviting investors to buy shares in a fledgling biotech company is an arresting claim attributed to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. Click here to read this article
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent enforcement letters warning food makers that they cannot label their products as free of genetically modified or genetically engineered ingredients. Click here to read this article
Autumn 2010 is a time of disillusionment for many who deplore the USA's current political trajectory. Some who've been active for progressive causes are now gravitating toward hope that individual actions -- in tandem with higher consciousness, more down-to-earth lifestyles and healthy cultural alte ...
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This is the first election after the Citizens United decision which gave corporations complete freedom to spend as much money as they want to influence the outcome of elections. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

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If desired, choose a number to review our file on 'Special Selections Image Bank' series. They are more than 100 photos! [1] - [2] - [3] - [4] - [5] - [6] - [7] - [8] - [9] - [10] - [11] - [12] Note: Make click here or on the image to enter and view all photos. CLICK so ...

Center for a Livable Future

“So, where do the leftover veggies go?” It’s a common question around here, especially on Tuesdays. The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) operates a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, connecting students, faculty and s ...
FDA hosted a hearing on Tuesday, September 21 to discuss the hypothetical labeling of genetically engineered (GE) salmon. Just fifteen hours earlier the FDA finished hearing the debate on GE salmon approval, which gave the impression that FDA was moving faster on the issue than it actually is. This ...
In a chilly hotel ballroom in the Washington DC suburbs, the FDA this week is considering whether to allow genetically engineered (GE) animals in the human food supply. The test case is an Atlantic salmon that has been engineered with Chinook salmon genes to express a growth hormone. The result is a ...
Last Tuesday I spent the evening at the Clifton Mansion, home of Civic Works, the umbrella organization of Real Food Farm (RFF), a new urban agriculture project. The occasion was Digging for Data, an event held jointly by the Center for a Livable Future and Civic Works. Located on six acres of Clif ...
The principal deputy director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, notes “success against antimicrobial resistance will require a multifaceted approach that includes increased surveillance, more judicious use of antimicrobial drugs, and increase ...

Norwegianity

This just in: we’re fucked. Details are everywhere, ramifications abound. So yeah, let’s talk about how electing America-hating Republicans will fix all that. More links today because I just don’t have a rant in me this morning. - Econacies: Krugzilla on the Structure of Excuses Reich on structural ...
The big push is coming, but it’s coming from Karl Rove and I really don’t know how much more of his bilge voters can take. Especially given how the Democrats are planning to fight back: Democratic candidates across the country are opening a fierce offensive of negative advertisements against Republi ...
After over a dozen years of linguistic punditry and suggestions, we still don’t have a name for the first decade of this century. I think I just came up with the perfect nickname, a designation so apt and profane it will shame those who were responsible for making the 2000-2010 decade the What the F ...
The Strib writes about disembellishment, or dumbing down your resume. I left a comment: This is hardly something new From 1988-2002 I wrote resumes for over 7,000 clients. People have always dumbed down their resumes precisely because HR is clueless and more obsessed with cost than suitability. But ...
Stephen Colbert’s entertaining testimony before a humorless Congress has Fox News apoplectic: This afternoon, Fox News host Megyn Kelly invited Rep. Steve King (R-IA) to discuss Stephen Colbertâs testimony on Capitol Hill today about migrant labor conditions. King â who is a member of the House ...

Public News Service

Mortgage Delinquencies: Less Stigma, More Walk-Aways? Phoenix, AZ - Some Arizona lenders are aggressively pursuing homeowners who deliberately let their mortgages fall into delinquency – but a new survey from the Pew Research Center says in this economy, a growing number of Americans think it's acce ...
Debate Continues on the Impact of Merit Pay on Test Scores Phoenix, AZ – A study released last week by Vanderbilt University shows no link between test scores and bonus pay for teachers. An Arizona school boards official says the report was too limited to draw any conclusions. Comments from Janice P ...
AZ Voters to Decide Repeal of Early Childhood Programs Phoenix, AZ – Lawmakers are asking Arizona voters to reverse their 2006 approval of the “First Things First” early childhood health and development initiative. Money raised by the initiative’s cigarette tax would be diverted to the state’s gener ...
AZ Coalition Focuses on Kids With Parents in Prison Phoenix, AZ – A new statewide coalition is being formed to advocate for the 175-thousand Arizona children who are affected by incarcerated parents. A major emphasis will be on recruiting volunteer mentors. Comments from Dr. Wilson Goode (GOOD), nat ...
AZ Abuse Shelter Challenged by State Cuts Phoenix, AZ – Continuing cuts in state funding have prompted the nation’s largest domestic violence shelter to reduce available beds and put off expansion plans. However, the Phoenix-based Sojourner Center is still taking in 95-percent of women and children ...

My Care2 Picks

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The FBI is confirming that this morning they began a number of raids against the homes of antiwar activists in Illinois, Minneapolis, Michigan, and North Carolina, claiming that they are "seeking evidence". Why, and with what justification? Submitted by God Almost to US Politics & Gov't | Note-i ...
The Obama administration urged a federal judge early Saturday to dismiss a lawsuit over its targeting of a U.S. citizen for killing overseas, saying that the case would reveal state secrets. Civil liberties groups attempted to sue the US government. Submitted by God Almost to US Politics & Gov't | ...
The agricultural food belt of the country has been submerged. And we have six million children at risk of fatal diseases.This is a crisis that ought to have been contained.70 percent of funds given for dam maintenance was siphoned off. Submitted by John Farnham to World | Note-it! | Add a Com ...
Downblending Russian weapons-grade uranium to low enriched uranium for commercial reactor fuel has eliminated the equivalent of 16,000 nuclear warheads by recycling 400 tonnes of uranium. Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

palestinefreevoice: Persecution and death of immigrants accrue with the economic crisisWritten by LIT-CI Monday September 20 2010 16:48In the days of their economic boom, imperialist economies... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
Democracy Now! | Headlines for September 24, 2010CIA Drone Strikes in Pakistan Have Killed AmericansBob Woodward’s new book is reporting CIA drone strikes in Pakistan have killed many Westerners,... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
In Colombia, Drug Battle Spells Extinction - NYTimes.comThe drug trade and other domestic strife are wreaking havoc on Colombia’s dwindling population of indigenous peoples while also threatening the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
CA Dem Rep: Vietnamese And GOPers Are Trying To Take My Seat (VIDEO) | TPMDCIn a recent interview on Univision, Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) expressed outrage, in Spanish, at "the Vietnamese and the... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Leaked policy documents reveal that the United Nations plans to create a “green world order” by 2012 which will be enforced by a structure of global governance and funded by a gargantuan $45 trillion transfer of wealth from richer countries, as the globalists’ insidious plan to centralize power, cru ...
The topic tonight is "Government Sponsored Eco Terror, and how the so-called green movement is being used to control us and implement the New World Order Agenda 21 program.
The truth is what is important, and not blind allegiance to an organization that is "too big" to be wrong. Read the E.O. for yourself, and don't let others do your thinking for you. That is what the revolution is all about!

True/Slant Headline Grabs

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Citizens for Legitimate Government

ShareThis B*** me, Biden: Biden tells liberal base: 'Stop whining' 27 Sep 2010 Vice President Joe Biden on Monday urged Democrats to overcome their differences and support their candidates at the polls by telling them to "stop whining." During a fundraiser for New Hampshire Democratic candidates for ...
ShareThis Pakistan furious over Nato cross-border CIA raids 27 Sep 2010 Pakistan reacted angrily today after Nato said US helicopters had crossed into its territory from Afghanistan to attack militants, claiming to have killed more than 50 Taliban fighters. The admission that two incursions had tak ...
ShareThis Dem Whip: GOP majority will issue birther subpoenas 27 Sep 2010 House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) warned Republicans will investigate President Obama's birthplace if they take over Congress. Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, said Republicans will grind the governme ...
ShareThis More than 100 Arrested at White House Demanding End to Mountaintop Removal By lacymacauley 27 Sep 2010 More than 100 people were arrested today during Appalachia Rising , the largest national protest to end mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining. Arrests included Appalachian residents; reti ...
ShareThis 'Jews for Justice' aid boat sets sail for Gaza 26 Sep 2010 A boat carrying Jewish activists from Israel, Germany, the U.S. and Britain set sail on Sunday for Gaza, hoping to breach Israel's blockade there and deliver aid. Richard Kuper, an organizer with the U.K. group Jews for Justice for ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

The new book on the Crewe murders, Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story, is finally on sale. Available from Whitcoulls, PaperPlus, Take Note, Borders, The Warehouse, Dymocks and all good independent bookstores. The radio ad is available here: ThomasBook1
Launching 27 September...the cat will well and truly be set amongst the pigeons...
I've been too busy writing and editing the new Arthur Allan Thomas book to blog much in recent weeks, but couldn't resist this revelation about the old boys network's whitewash of Climategate. Here's how it happened...originally from Climate Audit, via...
Your comments and experiences are welcome

Mondo Weiss

Various sources are reporting that the "Irene," the catamaran carrying seven Jews to Gaza from Cyprus, was intercepted this morning by several boats in the Israeli navy, apparently in international waters, and forced to make course for Ashdod, in Israel. Reuters has an Israeli gov't spokesman compla ...
The following appears on pages 30 and 31 of the UN report into the Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Furkan Dogan, a nineteen-year old with dual Turkish and United States citizenship, was on the central area of the top deck filming with a small video camera when he was first hit with live ...
Last week I participated in an event at the Palestine Center called The New Media & the Palestine Question: Blogging Out of Conflict. The event also featured Jerome Slater, Stephen Walt and MJ Rosenberg. You can watch it in two parts below:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu writing in The Times in South Africa ahead of the University of Johannesburg's Senate vote on whether to sever ties with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Struggles for freedom and justices are fraught with huge moral dilemmas. How can we commit ourselves to virtue - before ...
A howler from today's NYT story about the expiration of the so-called settelement freeze:Israeli officials said that Mr. Netanyahu felt it important for his credibility not to extend the moratorium beyond 10 months. “It is a read-my-lips moment,” said Michael B. Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the U ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

The US Center For Disease Control suddenly finds itself at the center of a huge media storm, rocked by a recent scandal implicating Dr. Paul Thorsen, chief co-author of a 2003 Danish Study financed by the CDC (which is now recognized as THE flagship model ostensibly disproving the vaccine-mercury-a ...
Canadian health practitioners should soon expect a flood of adverse reactions to this year’s flu shot ‘Fluviral’. Not only does the GSK produced vaccine contain twice the Industry standard for Thimerosal considered to be an “acceptable”, formaldehyde, multiple toxic buffers & detergent; but with add ...
In the race to the top of the Vaccine manufacturing foodchain product side effects such as infertility are being overlooked in favor of scientific advancement. One competitor, U.S. firm Celldex Theraputics are vying for major positioning in the ranks with a radical new generation cancer vaccine now ...
The United States flu vaccine for 2010-2011/AFLURIA® will be manufactured by CSL Laboratories in partnership with Merck Pharmaceuticals. Ingredients: 24.5 mcg of thimerosal mercury (safe level for a 2450 pound adult), Neomycin & Polymyxin (antibiotics associated with Kidney Failure, hazardous to ...
Quinvaxem, a powerful 5 in 1 vaccine currently being distributed in India, containing live Diphtheria, Tetanus, Hib oligosaccharide (Haemophilus influenzae) & Hepatitis B virus plus an inactivated B. pertussis virus (heat treated or attenuated), has already caused the deaths of at least 5 children i ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

Dear Friend, I have just returned to Afghanistan and I’m writing to tell you about a new book project I’m working on and an important organization that I’m backing with this book. I hope you will too. ABOUT SOLDIERS’ ANGELS Soldiers’ Angels is a volunteer-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ...
Dan Rice and Guy Filippelli American commanders are preparing for a major offensive in Afghanistan to attack one of the most formidable enemies we face in country: corruption. Despite sincere efforts to promote governance and accountability initiatives, Afghanistan has slipped from 112th to158th ...
Michael Yon 20 June 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand Recent violence focused world attention on the Kingdom of Thailand. As the attention flowed in, foreigners poured out, even though fighting was tightly localized and not focused on travelers. Tourists literally had to search for trouble to find it. ...
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12 July 2010 Chiang Mai, Thailand During the Thailand fighting in May, the rain of media mixed with the dust of politics, creating mud that left honest people feeling bogged down. People desiring clarity slogged knee deep, then waist deep, and it kept coming. My reports avoided politics largely ...

The Killing Train

I'm reading Bruce Levine's "Surviving America's Depression Epidemic". The story of how I got the book is interesting. I was reading some psychology books a while back (Alfie Kohn, Alice Miller) and a reader of this blog suggested that no psychology reading list would be complete without Levine's "Co ...
Paul Kagame is headed for a landslide victory at the Rwandan polls. Exit polls indicate 93% of the electorate voted for him. If some Western media commentators could vote in Rwandan elections, the number would likely be even higher. Take Stephen Kinzer, who wrote a biography of Kagame subtitled “Rwa ...
An initial look at the first 76,000 records in the "Afghan War Diary" leaked by Wikileaks yields some important information, much of which has been known or suspected by analysts for years. Given the sheer size of the database, there is a great deal more to be learned, but here are some initial find ...
Just reading some of the 800+ hits on the drug war in Afghanistan, and these are real - the US is fighting a drug war in Afghanistan. There are DEA agents running around arresting people, there are troops eradicating poppy in farmers fields, and they are finding and burning piles of opium, heroin, h ...
[Analysis of the Wikileaks Afghan War Diary]. I pulled out the 170-or-so incidents that mention Pakistan and are actually in Pakistan. A lot of them involve coordination with the Pakistani military, getting it, failing to get it, etc. An observation post comes under indirect fire, they track the poi ...

treehugger

Image via Fallen Fruit Waaaaaay back in 2005, we reported on a very cool project called Fallen Fruit -- an organization that takes advantage of the free produce found in the public property of urban areas and maps out where to find the goods. If there was an orange tree with fruit-laden branche ...
photo: Bruce McAdam via flickr Northern Ireland just outlined how it hopes to get 40% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 and, apparently not to be outdone, First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond thinks that's not an ambitious enough target. Speaking to Reut... Read the full stor ...
The mangrove tree is quite simply an ecological superhero. It not only makes up highly productive ecosystems in tropical and sub-tropical tidal zones, but it serves as a vital renewable natural resource. It's a natural habitat for fauna and a spawning area for numerous species of fish. It helps ...
Images: Amo Amazonía With numerous dire (and relatively not-so-dire ) predictions about the fate of the Amazon being broadcast, it's not often that we hear something positive rising out of such a critical situation -- especially a multi-city "decentralized" festival that drew 31,000 people in its ...
Screengrabs via iTunes We were very excited when Google finally released a Bike There feature on Google Maps , where a cyclists could pick the best route for pedaling from place to place. However, there's competition. A new free iPhone app turns your iPhone into a cyclist's version of a TomTom ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Ban Ki-moon claims that calls for free and fair elections in Burma and the release of Suu Kyi are supported by Chinese, Indian and Thai ministers
Fighting erupts after Wa unit suspected of carrying drugs across Burma's border into Thailand refuses order to stop for searching
Insein prison court hands down guilty verdict to Monk Okkantha on same day that Burma marks the three-year anniversary of 2007's monk-led protests
Threat of force against New Mon State Party, which refused to transform into a border militia, changes the rules of engagement in eastern Burma
National Democratic Force leader claims Burma has 'passed the worse political era' and urges citizens to vote in the 7 November polls

Telegraph - Climate Change

The Oxfam chief executive says food shortages, climate change and a faltering recovery means the charity needs the support of donors and business even more.
Bill Bryson will honour scientists in a lecture celebrating 350 years of the Royal Society. He tells Max Davidson why his favourite is an obscure 18th-century vicar
Thousands of Britain's businesses could be hit by a new green tax to help raise money for the Treasury, a leading advisory body to the Government has warned.
CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2010 award winners.
Calls for IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri to resign over fears that his increasingly troubled tenure is hampering efforts to halt global warming.

National Geographic | Environment

Thousands of walruses gathered recently on an island strip in Alaska, probably because of extreme ice melting, scientists say. Video. Alaska - Walrus - United States - Arctic - Sea ice
The Gulf spill fouled a stretch of feeding habitat for whale sharks, possibly killing some of the world's largest fish, new research says. Fish - Whale shark - Gulf of Mexico - Biology - Flora and Fauna
Breeding rare Florida panthers with Texas cougars created tough hybrids that could save the subspecies from extinction, a new study says. Florida - Cougar - Texas - Florida panther - United States
Dead mice filled with a generic version of Tylenol are being airdropped to kill the invasive brown tree snake, U.S. officials say. Guam - Brown tree snake - United States - Tylenol - Invasive species
In response to the BP oil spill, U.S. farmers are flooding fields to create untainted wetland stopovers for migrating birds. Video. United States - Bird migration - Environment - Oil spill - Energy

Jurist - Legal Research

[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia [official website] declared a mistrial Monday in a murder case against two Blackwater [JURIST news archive] defense contractors after the jury failed to reach a verdict. The jury notified Judge Robert Doumar Monday morni ...
[JURIST] The Paris city council voted Monday to accept a deal in which former French president Jacques Chirac [official profile; JURIST news archive] will pay the city USD $741,000 in compensation for money he allegedly paid to supporters for whom he created false jobs. In exchange for the compensat ...
[JURIST] The Israeli Ambassador to the UN on Monday called for an end to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] investigation into Israeli actions during the 2008-2009 Gaza campaign [JURIST news archive], Operation Cast Lead, which resulted in the deaths of 1,400 Palestinians. The am ...
[JURIST] Kosovar President Fatmir Sejdiu [official website] resigned [press release] Monday following last week's Constitutional Court [official website] ruling [press release] that his dual roles as president and head of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) violated the country's constitution. Sej ...
[JURIST] Australian Director of Military Prosecutions Brigadier Lyn McDade announced Monday that she will charge three Australian special forces soldiers [press release] in the deaths of six Afghan civilians during a 2009 operation. The deaths occurred as Australian forces attempted to clear a compo ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

live-blogging from the Newseum In his Google-Politico interview with Mike Allen, GOP uber-strategist Ed Gillespie predicts a minimum of a 45 seat pick-up for Republicans in the House, giving the party at least a six-person majority in that chamber, and sees Republicans picking up as many as 10 addit ...
Liveblogging from the Newseum : 15:10 : Axe's favorite apps: MLB Live, Pacman, POLITICO, a lot of the news apps. 15:03 : Axe handicaps Rahm's prospects as a candidate for mayor. "He understands that if he does make that decision he's going to have to go door to door. One thing I know about Chicago ...
Gen. James "Hoss" Cartwright, the Marine who's now the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, comes off with a golden sheen in Bob Woodward's new book, Obama's Wars . Critically, it's Cartwright who seemed to have the first insight that the way to put leverage on Afghanistan's government was to ...
The former commanding general of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Gen. Stanley McChrystal (ret)., is coming out of the shadows after a short, self-imposed hiatus from public life. McChrystal, who resigned in June after his staff insulted White House officials in a Rolling Stone article, has plans to giv ...
In November, I'll make the transition from politics to the White House beat. My editors and I have ideas about how to approach the Obama White House, but our perspective will benefit from the thoughts of the people who will read what I'm going to write. Before you let me borrow your thoughts, I wan ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

When the Times’ John Markoff wrote about the Stuxnet worm and the impact that it was having on Iran, he sent me on a chase after an interesting article, The Hunt for the Kill-Switch, that described the method by which Israel may’ve “wormed” its way into Syria’s radar defense system, which allowed it ...
Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
The creators of Stuxnet seem to believe that they will not suffer any consequences for their deviltry. Â It is almost impossible to trace the worm to its original source. Â So the victims can’t even know for sure who their enemy is. Â Besides, if the culprit is Israel it has a formidable defense in ...
Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
Dershowitz Incites Hate Against Michael Lerner It is absolutely no accident that Alan Dershowitz singled Rabbi Michael Lerner out for special opprobrium in his most recent Jerusalem Post and Huffington Post column...

Ode Magazine

By: PeaceCorso It’s the week after Peace Day, and it’s never too late to plant a peace pole. The photo above is the peace pole at Gizah. I have one in my living room. Oh, not one of the big ones sunk into the floor! A small one on a stand. Here’s the wiki: ...
By: KimberlyTwardochleb Coastal litter poses a threat to the health of both wildlife and people. For the past 25 years, the International Coastal Cleanup, a grassroots effort, has been bringing real change to our beaches. Last year, almost half a million volunteers worldwide collec ...
By: VictoriaKlein Chic and sexy; extreme and awesome! I’m not talking about the latest pair of jeans or bottle of hair gel - these are carrots, baby. Or, more specifically, baby carrots . "A bunch of carrot farmers," (50, to be exact) have teamed up to launch ...
By: PeaceCorso Have a peace rose with a poem from a fellow world citizen ... For many, peace is only a John Lennon song, an impossible dream or as members of my family tell me "the United Nation's job." But we have the power - in our language, in our relation ...
By: VictoriaKlein You may feel better in the short term, but avoiding arguments can zap your well-being in the long run. At the American Psychological Association’s recent annual meeting, an unparalleled study compared the physical impacts of arguing versus avoidin ...

OpEd News

Christian clergy attempt to resist the IRS rule which prohibits them from promoting politicians from the pulpit. If they were sincere, they would give up their tax exempt status in order to say what they want. However, by resisting the government they are in violation of their own Bible.
REMEMBER THE ALAMO! Glenn Beck held a rally in front of the Alamo in San Antonio Texas on Tax Day last year. I've recently had conversations with a couple of Glenn Beckers and neither would or could make the connection between taxes and national infrastructure and services - they simply ranted abo ...
A GA state legislator wants the plum position of insurance commissioner, but knows little insurance regulation, and does not want to be informed. He just wants the power, the money, the pension. He is a good example of so many people distrust politicians.
Something unexpected has started to happen in the last few weeks.
Obama's Wars contains hints of another story, the significance of which seems to have eluded Woodward. The theme of that story is not whether Dick likes Jane, but whether the constitution remains an operative document. The constitution explicitly assigns to the president the role of commander-in-ch ...

Switchboard

Last week I posted an NRDC video showing the devastating impacts of floods, droughts, and wildfires in the United States, Pakistan, Russia, and China. For millions of people “This is What Global Warming Looks Like.” The build-up of heat-trapping pollution in our atmosphere is loading t ...
I can’t remember the exact moment I learned golden trout existed. I was in high school or college, had been fly-fishing for a number of years, and was quite familiar with rainbow, brown, brook, and cutthroat trout (the “big four,” if you will). Discovering that I shared this continen ...
When we talk about sprawl, we frequently consider water use, driving and auto dependency, and even personal activity and obesity. A significant aspect of sprawl, however, gets less attention: the impacts of expanding urbanization on animals and their habitat. Nearly 31% of imperile ...
Everybody loves before and after pictures, and during my recent trip to the Gulf of Mexico, I got to see the equivalent: I traveled by boat through a struggling marshland and then I floated through lush, green, wetlands full of grasses, birds, and even a few alligators. The fading mar ...
Last Thursday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), chaired by former NRDC attorney Mary Nichols, voted unanimously to accept local recommendations and adopt regional targets to reduce pollution from cars and light trucks. In doing so they met the deadline for the first major mi ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

The standard caveat applies:Â these analyses are designed for freshmen-level composition courses. Â I repeat:Â these analyses are designed for freshmen-level composition courses. Â The wheel will not be reinvented here. I begin the quarter teaching excerpts from Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics ...
Shorter Clive Crook: People would be perfectly happy with Obama, despite the dismal economy, if he were more like David Broder. Certainly, he cannot continue to be such a populist firebrand, always pandering to hippies. Oh, and he should definitely support extremely unpopular upper-class tax c ...
Son of a Nobel Laureate Adam Bellow continues to masterfully undermine the thesis of his own book. Related posts:Happy Jonah Goldberg Day! The Moral Clarity of Jonah Goldberg Why Does Jonah Goldberg Hate America? Related posts: Happy Jonah Goldberg Day! The Moral Clarity of Jonah Goldberg W ...
Meet New York Republican nominee Carl Paladino, who has some other things besides racist emails on his cv: She was talking about her husband’s affair, a subject she was ready, if not eager, to address. Since her husband, Carl, won the Republican nomination for governor of New York last week, the onl ...
School boards have gotten the green light from the Supreme Court to re-segregate, and so why not just abandon any pretense of caring and go back to the same “neighborhood school” polices that maintained segregated schools in the immediate wake of Brown? Related posts:The Collapse of the Post-Bro ...

Desert Research Institute

William Albright, Ph.D., DRI research hydrogeologist, is lead author of Water Balance Covers for Waste Containment Principles and Practice about selection and design of an innovative new method for final closure of solid waste landfills. The new cover designs offer reduced cost, excellent environmen ...
The Most Promising Engineer/Scientist Award will be presented to Dr. Karletta Chief at the 32nd American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Annual National Conference.
The latest update from Campbell Scientific features a cover article on DRI’s Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP), touting the program for providing information gathered by volunteers in near-real time and posting it to the program website.
The Viking landers found strange evidence that suggested the presence of life on Mars (later disproven). A new study about life's preference for left- or right-handedness could help scientists design better versions of the Viking life tests.
Dr. Eric McDonald his group of DRI scientists have partnered with West Point to develop a curriculum to teach cadets how to take soil samples and measurements with different geotechnical equipment, as well as manage large data sets.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

The roller coaster ride isn't over yet for plaintiffs' lawyers attempting to recover legal fees in the antitrust case against the parent company of BARBRI.
Law.gov — the fledgling movement to compile publicly available legal documents and resources on free Web sites — got a $2 million jumpstart from Google on Friday.
Our annual survey lists the law firms for Fortune 100 companies in five categories: corporate, contracts litigation, labor litigation, torts litigation and intellectual property. Plus, in-house counsel say they are collaborating more with law firms on fee arrangements; 17-lawyer Potter Minton of Tyl ...
The Mississippi Supreme Court is considering requiring attorneys to perform 20 hours of pro bono service or else pay a $500 fee. If adopted, Mississippi would be the only state to require pro bono service, according to the American Bar Association.
Some $70 million in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office fees will shift to the U.S. government's coffers unless Congress moves to let the agency keep the money by the fiscal year's end on Thursday.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

byÂ Abrahm LustgartenÂ Sept 8th, 2010 AsÂ debate over natural gas drillingÂ in the Marcellus shale reaches a fever pitch, state and federal authorities are warning Pennsylvania law enforcement that “environmental extremists” pose an increasing threat to security and to the energy sector.Â AÂ confide ...
Here’s a website that is keeping tabs on which PA politicians have been offered money fromÂ from the gas industry and which ones have accepted that money.Â Enjoy.
Gas Bubbling from River at Sugar Run – by David Keeler – 9/2/2010 Click here for video clip
September 9, Thursday— Keep the Promise Town Hall in Jersey Shore, Lycoming County between Williamsport and Lock Haven, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Robert H. Wheeland Center, 1201 Locust Street, Jersey Shore, PA 17740 (part of Citizens Hose Company, Station 45) www.station45.org/wheeland_center.htm To register a ...
EPA’s Public Meeting on Hydraulic Fracturing Study to Take Place in Binghamton, New York; Meeting Scheduled for September 13 and 15 at the Broome County Forum Theater Release date: 08/31/2010 Contact Information: John Senn, (212) 637-3667, senn.john@epa.gov New York, NY – The U.S. Environmental Prot ...

News Blaze

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon held talks today with the Foreign Minister of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, discussing the country's long-running dispute with neighbouring Greece over its official name.
Spec. Jeremy N. Morlock, 22, member of the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, videotaped and wrote statements to Army investigators that showed his part in killings, which took place in Kandahar province between January and May.
Best known as the current co-host of NPR's All Things Considered, she was recently honored with the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for The York Project: Race and the '08 Vote.
'This threat is too serious to trust the capacity of the Security Council, where the country that bears the highest responsibility for the crisis has relied on its ability to impose on others its own designs,' he declared.
'Those were two historic moments which laid the first markers of the right to intervene that has become the responsibility to protect, adopted by this Assembly by consensus in 2005.'

environment 360

A coalition of European nations has established a series of protected areas in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean where fishing would be banned, the first network of protected zones outside of the territorial waters of individual states. At a meeting in Norway, the OSPAR Commission , a coalition of 15 ...
When officials gather for an international summit on biodiversity next month, they might look to remind the world why species matter to humans: for producing oxygen, finding new drugs, making agricultural crops more productive, and something far less tangible — a sense of wonder. BY RICHARD CONNIF ...
A burgeoning human population has doubled the rate at which it is pumping dry sources of groundwater in recent decades, according to a new study. Relying on a global database of groundwater use and demand, the researchers from Utrecht University calculated that the rate of withdrawal of groundwater ...
Researchers say a sophisticated analysis of underwater video confirms that the BP oil spill was the largest marine spill in history. Using optimal plume velocimetry technology that allows for detailed calculations of fluid flow rates shown in video footage, researchers at Columbia University’s Lamon ...
Americans are exposed to the hormone-disrupting chemical, BPA, at levels eight times higher than those recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to a new study . Researchers from the University of Missouri and Washington State University reached that conclusion after tests s ...

Red Ice Creations

With a civilian population haunted by the Blitz and the Second World War still in the balance, it was one development Winston Churchill could have done without - An incursion into British airspace by an arrow-shaped metallic object feared to contain an invasion force of little green men.
Anthony Graber, a Maryland Air National Guard staff sergeant, faces up to 16 years in prison. His crime? He videotaped his March encounter with a state trooper who pulled him over for speeding on a motorcycle. Then Graber put the video — which could put the officer in a bad light — up on YouTube.
The household cleaning product giant Unilever has secretly placed GPS tracker transmitters in laundry detergent boxes to track consumers to their homes. With an array of electronic sensors, team of Unilever agents can now pinpoint the exact location of the GPS trackers and walk right up to your fron ...
A spectacular gathering of three of the brightest planets will be the chief celestial attraction in the evening sky during the next few days. Anyone with a clear and unobstructed view of the west-northwest horizon will be able to Venus, Mars and Saturn in a single glance. These three planets are des ...
Stargazing doesn’t get much better than this. The northern lights are expected to make an appearance in the night sky across Canada and the northern United States this week, thanks to a spectacular eruption on the surface of the Sun. Early on Sunday, the sun’s surface exploded in a phenomenon called ...

Russia Today

The global financial crisis buried all positive tendencies to minimize pirated items on sale in the Russian capital, where reportedly up to 24% of goods in some categories are replicas.
Renault Formula One team head Eric Boullier says he has not yet seen enough to convince him Vitaly Petrov is the right man for his team in 2011, AUTOSPORT.com reports.
The name of Russia’s biggest NBA star, Andrey Kirilenko, has recently been attached to a four-team trade also involving Denver, New Jersey and Charlotte.
Metallurg Magnitogorsk is hoping for another influential season from its biggest star, Sergey Fedorov. The three-time Stanley Cup winner came back to Russia last year to add yet another trophy to his collection.
Ten Israeli warships have forced a British aid boat carrying Jewish activists attempting to reach blockaded Gaza to divert to the port of Ashdod in Israel.

Dad2059′s Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica

Yesterday in Washington D.C. there was a meeting of former military personnel who used to work at secret nuclear missile launch sites. And their reason for meeting? To let the public know that UFOs (their versions/opinions of what UAPs are) might be tampering with the nuclear defences of the West in ...
The Chinese have a different take on UFOs; they call them UFOs. No mention of little green men, grays or any of that nonsense. From Technorati: China’s People’s Daily Online, the official news agency of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in China (CPC), is reporting that two students photo ...
When I read ‘Divided By Infinity’ eight years ago, I was in the ‘singularity’ stage of my sci-fi reading. Authors such as Greg Bear, David Brin, Greg Benford, Ian MacDonald, Iain Banks and even MichaelÂ Crichton and Stephen Coonts filled my bookcase during the late ’90s, early ’00s. The more technol ...
When our southern neighbor MexicoÂ celebrated their bicentennial last week, their military fly-overs had some unexpected company. Contributing Editor Prof. Ana Luisa CidÂ has sent us impressive images of unidentified flying objects reported during Mexico’s military parade conmemorating our southern ...
UFOs and nuclear weapons sites is a subject I’ve come across the past few years and probably to my detriment I passed it by without reading more about it. Of course I’ve read and heard the name Robert Hastings come up more than once and he’s had more than one interview on several of the [...]

Tippers News

This little boy need 10 day quarantine because of the recent outbreak of parvo that pups have been coming down with from this shelter. He need perhaps his left eye treated as it looks to be a cherry eye. Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Urge the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and President Obama to pass the International Violence Against Women Act (S. 2982/H.R. 4594). Submitted by Cher C. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Jack DeCoster, the man responsible for the recent massive egg recall, testified before Congress. Despite the horrible conditions found at DeCoster's Iowa egg facilities, his son Peter tried to blame the weather! Submitted by Robert S. to Health & Wellness | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Just a few days ago Doll and volunteer Debbie McCool (awesome real name) transported 65 dogs and 5 cats from IDA's Hope Animal Sanctuary to Every Creature Counts in Ft. Lupton, Colorado. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Meet Tonka, a 25-year-old elephant who has been used by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus since 1989. Since Tonka was born at Circus World-a failed circus theme park built by the owner of Ringling, who later sold it to the Mattel toy company Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Animals | No ...

The Freeman

“Painful cuts by overspending EU countries come head to a head with mounting social anger on Wednesday when labour leaders call angry workers onto streets right across the continent. Set for its largest Europe-wide protest for a decade is Brussels where labour leaders are planning to bring 100,000 p ...
“The measure gained ground in a Field Poll released Sunday, pulling ahead 49 percent to 42 percent among likely voters. The poll also found that Californians have become steadily more permissive toward the drug since pollsters began quizzing state residents about their attitudes 40 years ago.” (NBC, ...
When profits and losses redound to those responsible for making the decisions that produce them, market participants tend to grow more responsible and make better decisions.
“Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is âgoing darkâ as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Essentially, official ...
“As the mortgage market grew frothy in 2006 â leading to a housing bubble that nearly brought down the banking system two years later â ratings agencies charged with assessing risk in mortgage pools dismissed conclusive evidence that many of the loans were dubious, according to testimony given l ...

Teaching Online Journalism

Neerav Bhatt describes himself as a professional blogger, photographer, geek and qualified librarian. Okay, so he never says “journalist,” but if you read his post that accompanied the photo below, I think you’ll forgive my headline. He’s got some interesting choices (which he explains in his pos ...
This semester I took a course I have been teaching for 10 years and moved it to a WordPress.com blog. The students and I still meet in person once a week to discuss ideas, but otherwise, everything is on the blog. Each student was required to start his or her own WordPress.com blog, and all their a ...
My favorite word this week is heterarchy . I don’t think I’ve ever had a favorite word before, and I confess I was not familiar with the meaning of this one when I saw it in an article from one of those scholarly journals at which journalists like to scoff. So I turned to merriam-webster.com , as I ...
Poking around in The New York Times’s job listings, I found this description of three distinct internships “in the Web Newsroom of The New York Times”: Front-end Interactive Designer: full skill-set of client-side technologies including HTML, CSS and JavaScript/Prototype. Experience with Ruby on ...
In June I posted a ranked list of skills needed by todayâs journalists . In reviewing it today, I wondered whether it would be different if instead of saying journalist we said reporter . Say you want to hire a reporter — for a Web-only organization, a magazine, a newspaper, a TV or documentary o ...

Facing South

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered the Shaw Group, a Fortune 500 engineering and construction firm based in Louisiana, to improve the way it responds to safety complaints from nuclear plant workers. The NRC's order follows a ruling last year by the U.S. Labor Department th ...
By Phil Mattera, Dirt Diggers Digest In the mid-1990s business groups such as the American Trucking Association -- then led by Thomas Donohue, currently head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- launched a crusade to ban union corporate campaigns. The effort fizzled out, but now Wal-Mart may be tr ...
It's been clear for a while that the South's political clout will grow after the 2010 Census data was released next year and used to redo the nation's Congressional districts. But a new projection suggests the region's gains will be even bigger than had been estimated earlier, with Southern states p ...
When Big Oil talks, Louisiana politicians listen. Ed O'Keefe of The Washington Post reports that Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) is blocking President Obama's pick to head the Office of Management and Budget, Jack Lew . Why? Because Lew apparently doesn't buy claims being made by Louisiana polit ...
Date on which a Supreme Court ruling for the first time allowed corporations, unions and other organizations to spend unlimited amounts of money on behalf of political candidates: 1/2010 Amount that interest groups and political parties have reported spending on advertising ahead of the Novembe ...

Worldpress - Africa

Nigeria's election history is shambolic and corrupt. If the country's new national electoral body is to conduct a free and fair election in January, it has its work cut out for it.
Fifty years into African independence, African women still face a much more challenging existence than men, with significant political, social and economic changes needed for gender equality.
Sierra Leone has diverse tribal and cutural practices that works against the education of the nation's children.
Our children are taught right from wrong when growing up.
Despite war, we are doing our best to cope.

Canadian Encyclopedia

France was a colonial power in North America from the early 16th century, the age of great European discoveries and fishing expeditions, to the early 19th century, when Napol on Bonaparte sold Louisiana to the US. From
Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (
Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the
The Group of Seven was founded in 1920 as an organization of self-proclaimed modern artists. The original members - Franklin CARMICHAEL , Lawren HARRIS , A.Y. JACKSON , Franz JOHNSTON , Arthur LISMER , J.E.H.

How Can I Recycle This ?

Apologies for not posting yesterday – I was away on an “introduction to cheesemaking” course over the weekend and too tired to type yesterday ;) I’ve been making super-easy cheeses like paneer for a few years now but before I committed to anything that needed months of effort/ageing, I wanted to lea ...
We’ve had an email from Josie: My council (Suffolk) say they’ll only recycle glass bottles not other glass like windows. I’ve got an old glass coffee table to get rid of, what can I do with it? That’s a pretty standard glass recycling policy – only bottles and jars, not plate glass (like windows or ...
Following on from the discussion we had the other week about whether people would prefer less packaging or more packaging that was easier to reuse/recycle, I’ve been wondering: have you ever stopped buying something because of its packaging? One of the purposes of packaging is to attract us to buy t ...
With their semi-rigid sides & strong handle, plastic milk bottles are very easily reusable – which is useful since there are bajillions generated every day. We’ve had loads of great suggestions about them over the years but here are some of my favourites: 1. Pencil sorter Mentioned as a featured lin ...
We’ve had an email from Joanne: Hi, I have an old leather zipped wallet type purse which is old, worn and quite grubby. I would rather recycle it somehow than put it in the bin but am not sure how to do this. Do you have any ideas? First, it obviously depends on the state [...]

Mondo Weiss

Various sources are reporting that the "Irene," the catamaran carrying seven Jews to Gaza from Cyprus, was intercepted this morning by several boats in the Israeli navy, apparently in international waters, and forced to make course for Ashdod, in Israel. Reuters has an Israeli gov't spokesman compla ...
The following appears on pages 30 and 31 of the UN report into the Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Furkan Dogan, a nineteen-year old with dual Turkish and United States citizenship, was on the central area of the top deck filming with a small video camera when he was first hit with live ...
Last week I participated in an event at the Palestine Center called The New Media & the Palestine Question: Blogging Out of Conflict. The event also featured Jerome Slater, Stephen Walt and MJ Rosenberg. You can watch it in two parts below:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu writing in The Times in South Africa ahead of the University of Johannesburg's Senate vote on whether to sever ties with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Struggles for freedom and justices are fraught with huge moral dilemmas. How can we commit ourselves to virtue - before ...
A howler from today's NYT story about the expiration of the so-called settelement freeze:Israeli officials said that Mr. Netanyahu felt it important for his credibility not to extend the moratorium beyond 10 months. “It is a read-my-lips moment,” said Michael B. Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the U ...

Media Consortium

That’s the catch: the service is voluntary, and it only works if everyone’s on board. The big news sites can’t imagine that the relatively small number of early-adopter Kachinglers will make it financially worth it, but Kachingle can’t get more readers to sign up until they see their favorite sites ...
Apple Inc. is developing a digital newsstand for publishers that would let them sell magazines and newspapers to consumers for use on Apple devices, said two people familiar with the matter. ...The newsstand would be separate from Apple’s App Store, where people can buy some publications now, they ...

The idea that we shouldn’t carry out research on Egyptian mummies because we don’t have their consent is bonkers.

Via: Telegraph: Jimi Heselden, the owner of the Segway company, has died after riding one of the two-wheeled machines off a cliff and into a river. The multi-millionaire businessman, 62, fell into the River Wharfe while inspecting the grounds of his North Yorkshire estate on a rugged country version ...

President Obama has been talking a bit tougher about Wall Street these days -- prompting complaints from some quarters that he's being mean to investment bankers.

By Rachel Krueger Katy Perry’s boobs have been deemed unfit for audiences aged 1-6. Shocked, are we? The singer’s duet with Elmo, already disseminated via the Youtubes, won’t be appearing on Sesame Street after all. Perry sings a reworking of her song ‘Hot N Cold’ where lines such as ‘l ...
By Frank Moher Hello India. Canada here. Just chiming in to say, in a spirit of Empire solidarity: Ignore the critics of your upcoming Commonwealth Games. The keeners who arrive early will always find something to gripe about. We speak from experience. In the days before our Winter Olympics, a ...

Alistair Darling has urged Ed Miliband not to bow to trade union pressure to abandon the previous Government's plans to cut public spending and pay off Britain's record debts. Mr Darling (right) urged Labour to stay on the "centre ground of British politics" after Ed Miliband declared that the ...

Mary Shaw It's like McCarthyism all over again. On September 24, FBI agents raided the homes of some anti-war activists in Chicago and Minneapolis on suspicion that they were providing material support to terrorism. This follows only a few weeks after it was discovered that Pennsylvania's Office ...

WWH – In the series “Hippies may be the only sane and rational force left.” Autumn is here; Ahhh cool mornings, the changing of the leaves, kids back in school and harvest of late summer crops. I enjoy this time of year. But just as sure as the winds of winter are slowly sinking down from the [...]

Scientific American - News

In China.

Even I was surprised to see that the following books were banned (or attempts were made to ban them) once upon a time in a state or county far, far away (or maybe not so far): Gone With The Wind Forrest Gump Lord of the Rings (actually burned as a Satanic book, something it shares, I suppose wi ...

The new book on the Crewe murders, Arthur Allan Thomas: The Inside Story, is finally on sale. Available from Whitcoulls, PaperPlus, Take Note, Borders, The Warehouse, Dymocks and all good independent bookstores. The radio ad is available here: ThomasBook1

On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop denying ...

Survival International

The pool of Wilderness Safaris' new lodge in the CKGR. © Survival Survival today called for tourists to boycott Botswana until the government ends a brutal campaign of persecution against Kalahari Bushmen. The call coincides with World Tourism Day, September 27, which Botswana is using to ...

A newly discovered species of microbe is breaking down oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico much faster than scientists thought possible.

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Colonization, apartheid, refugees It is Israel that is breaking the law It's Israel that should be brought to justice! In Bordeaux, Perpignan, Mulhouse, Paris and Pontoise, certain activists are soon to appear in court due to their participation in the citizen and non-violent read more

Law experts in New Zealand, Britain and the United States have written a letter condemning the Government's earthquake response legislation

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