Wednesday, November 25:

Elayne Clift: Women Scientists and the Nobel Prize The bad days of ignoring women scientists may be over, but there are still invisible barriers to overcome.

Noeline Clayfield: CLIMATEGATE & POTENTIAL RELEASE OF FREE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY There has been very little media coverage of the recent release of information hacked from Global Warming Facility CRU, Anglia, UK,which has blown open the fraudulent activities of secret government and corporation promoting global warming and climate change. Now there is the potential release of free energy technology hidden and ignored for the last 100 years.

Allan Goldstein: I Could be Even More Thankful A short, satirical to-do list for the holiday season. Go ahead, it's okay. You can laugh and still get to heaven one fine day. It might even help.

Harvey Wasserman: Still more fluff, lies and radiation from TMI and the new nuke media machine Like this vast core of green groups, Moody's, Standard & Poor, Citibank and a powerful cohort of financial analysts see atomic power as a horrific investment that can only be described as, well, radioactive. The risks of building a new reactor, says a recent Citibank report, "are so large and variable that individually they could each bring even the largest utility company to its knees."

Tuesday, November 24:

Lawrence Velvel: Let Us Now Seek Competent Men. (2 comments) Let us now seek competent men.

Sunday, November 22:

Thomas Farrell: *The Catholic Bishops' Views About Contraception and Abortion in the First Trimester Are Ridiculous (3 comments) The Catholic bishops are wrong to ban artificial contraception and abortion in the first trimester. Therefore, American Catholics should disregard what the Catholic bishops say.

Bryant Welch: Fort Hood: A Harbinger Of Things To Come? (6 comments) If we can identify the real problem that caused the tragedy at Ford Hood we can possibly prevent such episodes in the future. Our troops have been through enough.

Jerry West: A Fish Story What remains to be seen is if the government has the ability to follow science and do the right thing, or if it will play politics with our fishery to protect the interests of those who profit from over exploiting it.

PETA: 4-H: Cruel to animals and kids What does it say about society's mindset when children are encouraged to participate in a program that ultimately means the death of an animal they've befriended and whose trust they actively courted? 4-H programs teach the wrong lessons about animals—and they should have no place in our schools.

Ann Garrison: Planting bio-fuels, in Rwanda, while Rwandans go hungry Rwanda's greatest natural resource is its fertile agricultural land, but most is centralized in the hands of government elites and planted in export crops, coffee, tea, flowers, and soon, bio-fuels----while Rwandans go hungry.

Saturday, November 21:

Emily Spence: Towards Resolving Thanksgiving Contradictions (2 comments) Why not avoid cutesy repugnant myths concerning "Indians" and Pilgrims? Instead, one might consider the suffering that arose after the "New World" became seen as a land of opportunity -- a fresh spot to environmentally plunder while removing natives. One might, also, reflect on the debt that we, connected in myriad ways, owe to each other. Assuredly, it's especially obliged by people who have cornucopian bounty in their lives.

Susan Galleymore: Melissa - Raped! -- For Band of Buddies War Series (3 comments) MELISSA stopped drinking water in the early afternoon so she didn't have to walk to the latrines after dark. Women were being raped by members of their own battalion and she didn't want to risk that. She knew the risk of dehydration in 120 degree heat but " raped by fellow troops? Wasn't going to happen to her.

Thursday, November 19:

Bob Patterson: Ambush Alert! (1 comments) Are the electronic voting machines going to be used to ambush Latino voters in Colorado?

Tuesday, November 24:

Iran's Nuclear Ambassador: 'We Have Nothing to Hide' Ali Asghar Soltanieh serves as Iran's ambassador to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He said,"We need guarantees that we will get fuel in return for our uranium. Given the way we've been treated by the West over the last 30 years, we have plenty of reasons to be mistrustful."

Saturday, November 21:

Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming'? The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet.

Friday, November 20:

DDT: The Silent Killer...Only When It Was Gone The chemical that saved the most lives in history is DDT.

Tuesday, November 24:

Don Lieber: Depleted Uranium, The Emerging Radiation Crisis in Iraq and US Students: Vermont Takes Lead with Divestment The University of Vermont voted to divest from companies which produce Depleted Uranium weapons, as reports from Iraq are beginning to detail an emering radiation crisis. The U of V appears to be the first US Universityh to take this action.

Various Agencies Waking Up to Bedbug Resurgence While education is critical, there is consensus that concerted efforts are needed on the part of public agencies across the country, from county health departments to the CDC, to update laws and regulations and come up with a coordinated response. In New York, for example, it is often not clear whether the tenant or the landlord is responsible for treating an infestation

Monday, November 23:

Roger Shuler: What on Earth is the Appeal of Sarah Palin? (4 comments) Sarah Palin's book tour stops in Alabama today. Why are people standing in long lines for a chance to catch a glimpse?

Radiation Found At Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, Site Of '79 Partial Meltdown The commission sent investigators to the central Pennsylvania plant after a small amount of radiation was detected. About 150 employees were sent home Saturday afternoon, but officials say there is no public health risk.

Saturday, November 21:

The War on Soy: Why the 'Miracle Food' May Be a Health Risk and Environmental Nightmare (1 comments) It's not that all soy is bad; in fact, eating it in small doses can be quite healthy, if it's fermented. But when it's not, that's where the problems begin. Soy is a legume, which contains high amounts of phytic acid. Phytic acid binds to minerals (like calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc), interfering with the body's ability to absorb them (which is usually a bad thing). Soy is also known to contain "antinutrients,"

Friday, November 20:

Scientists restart Big Bang machine A team of scientists in Switzerland have restarted the world's largest sub-atomic particle collider for the first time since the nearly $10bn machine suffered a massive malfunction last year.

Water – Not Oil is Central Asia's Most Precious Resource Most foreign investors have been focused on Central Asia's vast hydrocarbon resources and the extractive industries of energy and Minerals. But water is an issue of rising concern throughout the region as after years of soviet mismanagement geopolitical tensions are running high. These regional problems present outside companies willing to think outside the box with an incredible opportunity and a guaranteed red carpet

James Fox: Abandoned Pets Since 2007 Estimated at 1 to 2 Million (1 comments) Abandoned pets since December 2007 has been estimated by the ASPCA at one to two million. Animal shelters and rescues have been struggling as donations and funds dry up.

OilGuy: The Great Geopolitical Battle Over Energy Transit Routes (1 comments) An extraordinary game of Geo-strategy is underway to lock in long term agreements in the energy sector. At a global level, the transit routes of future oil & gas pipelines become the object of a power struggle involving not only the suppliers and end-users but also the transit countries.

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