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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 ...
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 ...

A suicide car bomber killed a deputy governor and five other people in eastern Afghanistan today, police said.
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

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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 ...
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 ...

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

Image via Wikipedia Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning
‘Everglades Restoration Program making tangible progress after 10 years; but challenges ahead
The Fund welcomes preproposals for projects that identify a specific improvement to the health of th
World Resources Institute / Marta Miranda, Amanda Sauer, and Deepa Shinde
Malibu Lagoon, 2008. Image: Google Earth, 2010. Back when I was involved in native planting projects

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

by Jason Miller Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Thomas Paine’s Corner Sept. 28, 2010 At the request
by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 28 Septe
by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad finian.cunningham@yahoo.com 27 September, 2010
by Greg Palast Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.gregpalast.com 27 September, 2010 Watch Greg Pala

Axis of Logic

Visalia, Calif. (AP) -- It's a question rekindled by the recession: Are immigrants taking jobs away from American citizens? In the heart of the nation's biggest farming state, the answer is a resounding no. Government data analyzed by The Associated Press show most Americans simply don't app ...
Activists from across Appalachia are in Washington, DC, this week to call attention to mountaintop removal coal mining, the controversial practice of blowing up mountains to reach coal reserves. Appalachia Rising participants will march from the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters to the Wh ...
Editor's Note: One of the many problems we have with Amy Teibel's corporate news report is her clever title: "Israel navy halts Gaza-bound boat without violence." We added the question marks. The very act of stopping the boat by any means is a violent act as is the cutting off...
Government issues guidelines for new measure to "save socialism" by loosening restrictions on private employment. Cuba has announced plans to expand its private sector, issuing guidelines for free enterprise activities in 178 fields, ranging from watch repairs to providing transport, state media ...
Poverty has been in the news recently. In the US 14 per cent, or one in eight Americans, fell below the nations' poverty line. These are the worst American statistics since the Great Depression. Not only are more American poor but almost 50 million have no health insurance in...

They Gave Us a Republic

They weren't armed. They weren't demanding blood be spilled in a violent overthrow of the government. They didn't spout lies or twist history or whine about taxes. They performed peaceful civil disobedience in support of communities being murdered by corporate greed. From the Herald: About 100 peopl ...
L.A. staggers under record-shattering heatwave Temperatures soared to 113 degrees this afternoon in Los Angeles. That is the highest temperature ever recorded in downtown L.A. since records started being kept in 19877. The previous high for the city was 112, and that record was set on June 26, 1990. ...
Sometimes it feels like I grew up with a gun in my hand...probably because I did. Everyone I knew did. Going out in the woods? Wear sturdy boots and take the .410 snake charmer because there are copperheads and timber rattlers out there, just leave the black snakes alone - or if you get a chance cat ...
Brad Reed at Crooks and Liars has the best sex metaphor yet for voting Democratic in November. You see, people get mad when there's 10% unemployment and a quarter of mortgages are underwater. They get even angrier when they see their government bail out the gigantic financial institutions that got u ...
Judging from what the polls are telling us, the American people are on the verge of being rendered a drooling mass of chumps yet again -- by Republicans once more calling for continued low taxes on the wealthy and big corporate interests, while relentlessly whittling away at the labor arrangements a ...

Care 2

The creatures that inhabit the world's oceans run the full spectrum of colors--often in intricate patterns, advanced camouflage, and varying degrees of transparency. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Right now the only thing standing between BP and the next drilling disaster is the Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar. The company dodged the recent moratorium on new offshore drilling in Arctic waters off Alaska by proposing to drill from a gravel is Submitted by Daf Jind to Environment | N ...
What looks red all over and has a long tongue and tail, a pair of horns on his head and holds a huge fork? This creature is very bad thats why he was banished to a very hot place called hell. Submitted by Bojan R. to Green Lifestyle | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Dead mice packed with drugs were recently airdropped into Guam's dense jungle canopy--part of a new effort to kill an invasive species of snake on the U.S. Pacific island territory. Submitted by Michelle Matthews to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment
Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS) is a volunteer-based organization that provides for the comprehensive needs of companion animals for low-income persons with disabling HIV/AIDS and other disabling illnesses, as well as senior citizens. Submitted by Ginger Geronimo to Animals | Note-it! | Add ...

Smirking Chimp

The White House boasts bunglers more inept than its economic wizards: its team of public relations losers. They've only lost nearly every messaging battle against the relentless, but not exactly genius Rightwing Noise Machine. Whether about fighting the wrong overseas enemies, "Obama's" TARP, fai ...
Revelations the US Central Intelligence Agency is operating a secret, 3,000-man Afghan mercenary force whose mission is assassinating Taliban and al-Qaida fighters has caused a major stir in the United States. This dramatic report comes in an authoritative new book, "Obama's Wars," by investigative ...
from TomDispatch We know the endpoint of the story: another bestseller for Bob Woodward, in this case about a president sandbagged by his own high command and administration officials at one another’s throats over an inherited war gone wrong. But where did the story actually begin? Well, here’s th ...
US-led forces in Afghanistan sure did a bang-up job this week at promoting the concept of Western "democracy." The so-called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the puppet intelligence agency of the Afghan government, between them, arrested and held three journalists, Rahmatullah Nekz ...
What if you told your local congress critter you'd oppose them if they funded more war, and they funded more war, but their opponent is even worse and a Republican? Tom Perriello, first-term Democratic congress member from Virginia's Fifth district, is widely expected to lose his reelection bid, in ...

Paul Krugman

Lack of personal interest? So what?
Important people have no special insight.
Full Monty, not.
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Memories of Kocherlakotas past.

No Quarter

* Bumped up * If you were waiting for proof that Obama favors an anti-America, global view of reality, his speech to the UN General Assembly should settle the matter. Let’s start with Obama’s inept handling of the Declaration of Independence preamble before an Hispanic Conference and his perfect (an ...
A GOP Star Breaks Rank Handsome, precious Paul Ryan, six-term Republican from the safe-as-apple pie Janesville, Wisconsin, has fallen into a pout that worries his friends and entertains his enemies in the family feud that is the House GOP. Eric Cantor, John Boehner & Paul Ryan (AP Photo 3)R ...
One just has to feel some sympathy for Shepard Fairey. During the campaign his wildly popular poster of Barack Obama rallied millions to campaign for hope and change. Yet Fairey was soon to be sued by the Associated Press for altering their copyrighted photo. Then he witnessed his creation being ...
She’ll be back next Monday.
17 fire & police officials in Yonkers, NY earn between $204,034 and $230, 616 … Oregon’s principal executive of human affairs earns $296,472 … “[t]here are 182 employees earning more than $100,000 in Ohioâs Mental Health Department, including one who earned $234,000 and $83,000 in overtime pay” … ...

Environmental Graffiti

Olek creates unique and wonderful artworks with only a creative mind and a crochet hook. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
See the full moon captured in all its glory in photographs taken all over the world! read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
As good as offsetting is, it can never solve the fundamentally polluting nature of the aviation industry. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
If you're worried about whether offsetting works then why not get involved and manage your own project? read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article
We must ensure that we protect the world for the future - but we also need to make changes today to prevent disaster. read more This is just a brief summary, please visit Environmental Graffiti to see the full, formatted version of the article

Foreign Policy in Focus

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 ...

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?
Even if researchers refine methods for countering global warming, who gets to set the thermostat?
An environmental educator and an energy entrepreneur team up to help cut schools' energy bills.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

This is a pretty classic one. Turkey has suddenly passed big reforms as the nasty NATO-friendly military post-coup power structure gets knocked back a step. Ergenekon and the neocon network, etc etc. Perle and Wolfowitz, the creation of the American-Turkish Council came after this memo. Possibly b ...
Video release of sorts from the Minneapolis zombies, and a fun edit. 1min40s, brevity! Plz subscribe to Youtube & now Scribd document service as well. If you haven't yet, check out Scribd for a marvelous array of all sorts of documents (PDFs, office, etc)...w00pw00p. Press release: Zomb ...
Oh Shit!!! Let's explain how the mass torture weapon deployment rollout program works in the global scientific dictatorship. First the weapons are used on brown people in the field by the military, then on military prisoners, then on domestic prisoners. Then on protesters, then on random people. Thi ...
"In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had the ...
Crossposted - Barclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations 18 August 2010 Court filings: Barclays Bank Forfeits $298 Million for Aiding Rogue Nations Department of Ju ...

Daily Censored

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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Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
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...?

PDA AMERICA

David Swanson was our Guest Star, talking about war powers. We discussed HR 104, introduced in Jan '09, by Rep. John Conyers and cosponsored by 50 others, which calls for a commission to study presidential ...
We had our final planning call for people going to DC for the Oct 2 One Nation March or planning regional events around it. Please tune in for important information on all of this.
On this call we looked at Israel's apartheid policies towards the Palestinians and how to approach US corporations that enable Israeli policy. We'd like to get a vote in December from chapters, with the goal ...
Adam Klugman speaks with Progressive Democrats of America Director Tim Carpenter, on the eve of Fighting Bob Fest, September 10, 2010, Madison, WI. Listen to Mad as Hell in America at MadasHellinAmerica.com
Cross-posted from Progressive Radio Network Columnist, author, and radio host Norman Solomon talks with PDA Deputy Director Laura Bonham about progressive organizing and the upcoming elections. From Progressive Radio Network, Political Analysis: From the grassroots ...

Marler Blog

After nearly 18 years doing foodborne illnesses cases, I have been frustrated by the lack of any prosecutions against many of these corporations who poison and kill us. When will a prosecutor step-up? It really is left to the blunt instrument of civil litigation, and punitive damages in particular ...
My chicken coop for my six chickens is a bit over budget. With the purchase of the chickens, food, etc., and the coop, this is pressing on $5,000. I am beginning to question the price per egg, and I have not yet tested the chickens and the eggs for Salmonella.
I spent most of the week in the “other Washington.” It all does make you wonder, as one Congressman quipped some time ago: "Who needs Al-Qaeda when you have got E. coli?" What would happen if we stopped the petty bickering and actually did something about food safety like: Growers: 1. Develop an ...
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 ...
This may well pop up in a few ads in D.C. this next week.

AutoblogGreen

Report: GM will sell diesel passenger car in the U.S. This could get interesting. Kia releases more pics of bubbly Pop electric city car concept It's all fun, isn't it? ...
Report: Chevy Volt will only go 25 miles on battery power - or maybe 50 Ah, yes, the all-important "up to" is important here. Brammo attracts $12.5 million in investment, millions in pre-orders ...
Filed under: Hybrid , Chevrolet , Electric 2011 Chevrolet Volt - Click above for high-res image gallery When the Chevrolet Volt was unveiled back in January 2007 , here's what we wrote based on the information General Motors was giving out: The Volt has a range of about 40 miles on the battery a ...
Nissan reaches 20,000 Leaf pre-orders; will stop taking reservations today Anyone have fence-sitter's regret? Here are all the details we could get about BMW's ActiveE program Lease-only, pr ...
Filed under: BMW , Electric BMW ActiveE concept - Click above for high-res image gallery The evolution of BMW 's electric vehicle program, Project i, goes sort of like this: from Mini E concept to leasing that car to happy customers to the ActiveE concept to field tests of the larger sedan next ye ...

Rafe's Radar

Today we're talking about game mechanics. Check-in apps like Foursquare use philosophies of game design to pull users deeper into engaging with them. The success of this concept has begun to infect other technologies, from consumer Web services to business applications. Software and services are ...
On September 9, Apple rewrote its rulebooks for developers . In its revised developers agreement , it reversed a ruling that blocked developers from using all but a very few programming languages for iPhone apps. And it also made public for the first time the guidelines it uses for deciding if ap ...
Demo Fall 2010 sees the excellent demo of Foound, a clean mobile app for planning "hangouts" with friends.
Customers of a company called Dynamics are preparing to release credit and debit cards with programmable, rewritable magnetic stripes. ...
At Demo Fall 2010, E-Fuel Corporation is showing off its home and business "reactor" that converts organic waste into ethanol or electricity. ...

Camera Obscura

September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so fre ...
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 ...

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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 ...
By Heidi Blake A space ambassador could be appointed by the United Nations to act as the first point of contact for aliens trying to communicate with Earth. Mazlan Othman, a Malaysian astrophysicist, is set to be tasked with co-ordinating humanity’s response if and when extraterrestrials make contac ...
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Insurgency Watch - Newswire

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

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 ...

Open Your Eyes News

City Life – Fourteen anti-war activists may have made history today in a Las Vegas courtroom when they turned a misdemeanor trespassing trial into a possible referendum on Americaâs newfound taste for remote-controlled warfare. The so-called Creech 14, a group of peace activists from across the co ...
PhysOrg.com – After damage to certain areas of the brain in some stroke victims, nearby areas can take over the function of the damaged cells, according to a University of South Carolina study. The findings counter the long-held notion that stroke damage is permanent, much as recent research on reco ...
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 ...

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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 ...
Cholera epidemic, a symptom of underdevelopment in Nigeria and the Third World (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Cholera has killed 87 and infected 1,315 over the past month in Nigeria. The two northern states affected most are Bauchi and Borno. In Bauchi alone 47 are dead and 1,200 infected. Born ...
About sectarianism (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) (Polish) (Angielski) "Dear trzecioświatowi Maoists, Your website is sectarian. You criticize so many other groups. How can you treat you seriously? * Thank you for your question. Many liberals take criticism of other groups for de ...

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 ...

Andy Worthington

Back in March, when Judge James Robertson of the District Court in Washington D.C. granted the habeas corpus petition of Guantánamo prisoner Mohamedou Ould Slahi, there was uproar in Congress. For many years, Slahi, a Mauritanian national who had lived in Germany and Canada, was touted by the Bush a ...
Remember, John Yoo, the smug, shameless apologist for unfettered executive power who once claimed that, if he so desired, the President of the United States could crush a child’s testicles and there was nothing that anyone could do about it? It was John Yoo, a follower of former Vice President Dick ...
Iâm cross-posting below an extraordinary account by former GuantÃ¡namo prisoner (and Cageprisoners director) Moazzam Begg of his first visit to Pakistan since he was abducted from his house in Islamabad on January 31, 2002, and subsequently held in US custody — in Afghanistan and at GuantÃ¡namo — ...
I’m not sure quite how long I’ve known photographer Edmund Clark. I think we met in 2008 when he had published a book of photographs, Still Life: Killing Time, taken in British prisons, which captured the essence of his work: objects or places, beautifully photographed, with seemingly effortless cla ...
Last week, I was delighted to be reunited on air with two of my favorite talk show hosts: the ever irascible Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio, and the more measured, but forensically disappointed Peter B. Collins. My 25-minute interview with Scott Horton is here, and my hour-long interview with Peter B ...

Environment _ National Geographic

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

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

If you read certain local blogs, or letters to the editor of local papers, you may notice a recurring theme from some disgruntled citizens. Libraries, and the books they contain, are our enemy. (Who knew?) And the best way to save money and preserve democracy from socialism is to stop buying books ...
Say what you will about Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, but they are perhaps the smartest journalists working in comedy, or the most soulful comedians working in journalism. Yes, they are wickedly funny. Yes, they make sometimes jokes best appreciated by a fourteen year-old boy. But Jesus ...
Steven D at the BooMan Tribune pointed out this interesting video on a campaign to raise awareness concerning the grave situation in the Congo: Profiting from the worst war on the planet that no one in America knows anything about by purchasing "conflicts minerals" from the Congo for their products: ...
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 ...
Just a quick picture, from a Pew Research poll conducted from July 29 to August 1 , of where the Republican party, the Tea Party and Sarah Palin have failed even more than Barack Obama in their messaging: Americans love pork. Even the GOP voters. The sound you just heard in the back of your mind ...

SPL Center

A string of attacks against Muslims and their religious centers has broken out over the past few weeks, apparently inspired by the protests in New York City over the planned Muslim community center and mosque near where the 9/11 attacks took place. Leaders of those protests have repeatedly made hate ...
You probably thought you knew a thing or two about Auschwitz: It was a nightmarish Nazi extermination camp in Poland where more than 1 million people were murdered, most of them gassed to death with Zyklon-B and then cremated. Dr. Josef Mengele performed horrible medical experiments on live humans t ...
Recent weeks have seen one attack and one stymied attack on abortion clinics around the country. Both have shared a subplot of anti-Muslim extremism. On Sept. 2, in the small central California city of Madera, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the local Planned Parenthood building, the first such att ...
A reclusive West Odessa, Texas, man with ties to an antigovernment group allegedly shot and wounded two Ector County sheriffâs deputies and a private citizen on Friday during a 22-hour long standoff at his home. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), the shooter, Victor Dewayne ...
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.
MONTREAL - A call to end the privatization of municipal water is expected to spill onto the streets Monday outside the World Water Congress in Montreal.
MONTREAL - A call to end the privatization of municipal water is expected to spill onto the streets tomorrow.
Water is such an important part of life that it has long been regarded as a public good worth entrusting only to public entities. But given the mixed track record of municipal, regional and national governments to properly manage water resources, outsourcing to private companies is becoming more com ...

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 ...

McClatchey

Yemen’s Foreign Minister Abu Baker al Qirby urged Anwar Awlaki to turn himself to be tried under Yemeni law, vowing that no Yemeni citizen would be extradited to the US or any other country. The US announced last week that it had authorized Awlaki’s kill or capture, having determined he is an active ...

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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 ...

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. It is the first "potentially hazardous ...

" America has evolved for the better. She will pretty much meet you on your terms. In fact, I think she has finally come to the conclusion that Blacks, Mexicans, Indians, etc. are here to stay. And the only way to perceive them is to accept them and their existence as valid. Acceptance, that's real ...

Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

"As parents, we know that education is often more effective than punishment, and in some cases punishment is not effective at all."

In just a few days, the FDA is deciding whether or not to approve genetically engineered salmon. If it goes through, this would be the first GE animal approved for human consumption. We’re doing everything we can to stop it and we need your help. Today we are holding a rally and press conference in ...

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 ...

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