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This is the cat’s news ticker page. This page aggregates newsfeeds from independent news sources like blogs, caches them and redistributes them in a fulltext rss2 feed and a complete export of the news ticker database. The intention of this aggregated blog news ticker is to spread alternative news as widely as possible to inform the public and make censorship harder as it has ever been before. For more information see the page “About the cat’s news ticker” or contact the cat.

NASA | ASTER Imagery Press Release With images from the L.A. Basin and the Himalayas. "The GDEM is produced with 30-meter 98-feet postings, and is formatted as 23,000 one-by-one- degree tiles. The GDEM is available for download from NASA's EOS data archive and Japan's Ground Data System." tags: NASA science ... [Link] [Cache]

Aside serving torrents the TorrentReactor team launched TorrentPrivacy last year, a service that allows BitTorrent users to download torrents anonymously. Unfortunately, the site itself now poses a security threat of its own. Websense reports that TorrentReactor has been injected with an IFrame that connects to a malicious site full of ... [Link] [Cache]

Founded in 2001, FTD is the largest Usenet community in The Netherlands with around 450,000 members. FTD and its software allows members to report material they find on Usenet along with its location. This material could include movies, music and TV shows and this made it a target for notorious ... [Link] [Cache]

by paradocs2 http://watchingthewatchers.org/article/16637/facts-health-insurance-in~ 07, 2009Most people are unaware how similar the major health insurers are to our failed Wall Street firms.They are corporate cash cows and have virtually no fiduciary responsibility and few activities for protecting or improving health or the health care system.They will devote their vast resources to ... [Link] [Cache]

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By Guy Lieberman, Haaretz CorrespondentHousing Minister Ariel Atias on Thursday warned against the spread of Arab population into various parts of Israel, saying that preventing this phenomenon was no less than a national responsibility."I see [it] as a national duty to prevent the spread of a population that, to say ... [Link] [Cache]

The Israeli Radio reported that an army spokesperson said that AMNESTY fell in a Hamas trap, and that it ignored the suffering of Israeli areas adjacent to the Gaza Strip, and subjected to Palestinian shells for more than eight years. The army also claimed that its soldiers practiced utmost efforts ... [Link] [Cache]

“[T]he U.S. government today is the greatest obstacle to the worldwide freedom movement, not its ally: any groups or media outlets it controls are merely extensions of U.S. foreign policy, subject to its machinations and sudden policy reversals, and ultimately fated to betray the cause of human liberty. We do ... [Link] [Cache]

I’m at the Aspen Ideas Festival and still trying to get a sense for how this conference works. I arrived late last night and spoke in one of the early sessions this morning, along with Brooke Gladstone and Clive Thompson. Good fun, but it means I’ve only experienced the conference ... [Link] [Cache]

The afternoon session at Aspen Ideas Festival today is a four hour “conversation”, involving a remarkable set of discussants. To give us a sense for gravitas, we open with “Fanfare for the Common Man”, played on timpani and brass. I guess this is to prepare us for speakers like Attorney ... [Link] [Cache]

The slain young woman was identified as Hiyam Abu Ayish, 17, and her brother was identified as Husam, 24. The sources added that the shell directly hit the house of Abu Ayish. The Israeli army claimed that Palestinian fighters fired several homemade shells, and that it is most likely that ... [Link] [Cache]

A listing of recent developments: DOMESTIC FRONT: Conservative cleric, Haddi Ghaffari, turns on Khamenei INTERNATIONAL FRONT: Despite $6 million in annual trade German firms flee Iran Sultan of Oman postpones Iran visit Jordan revokes Al-Alam, Press TV licenses Merkel likens Iran to repressive East Germany Ahmadinejad unwelcome in Egypt: lawyer ... [Link] [Cache]

MK Ariel Atias `HOW RACIST CAN IT GET??? By Guy Lieberman, Haaretz CorrespondentHousing Minister Ariel Atias on Thursday warned against the spread of Arab population into various parts of Israel, saying that preventing this phenomenon was no less than a national responsibility."I see [it] as a national duty to prevent ... [Link] [Cache]

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Mairead Maguire have given telephone interviews from their prison cells, where they await deportation. To arrange such interviews, contact Free Gaza Movement either Greta Berlin or Caoimhe Butterly, at +357 99 081 767 , who will also supply current news or information ... [Link] [Cache]

Declaration of Latin American Feminists Against the Coup D’Etat in Honduras Translation: Machetera July 2, 2009 We, the feminists and members of Venezuelan and Latin American women’s movements, who are committed to equity, equality, justice and peace for the people of our America, repudiate the conspiracy and coup d’etat in ... [Link] [Cache]

Below is my friend Karen Gadbois looking good! in a MoveOn.org video speaking on behalf of the public health insurance option. Karen is a breast cancer survivor and one of many New Orleanians suffering without proper healthcare since The Flood and what I call Recovery Stalling severely crippled the Charity ... [Link] [Cache]

By James Cogan Amid the chorus of denunciations in US and European ruling circles over the alleged theft of the Iranian elections, the Obama administration and its NATO allies are presiding over an election campaign in Afghanistan that is as corrupt as it is illegitimate. The campaign for the August ... [Link] [Cache]

Mel FrykbergRAMALLAH, occupied West Bank IPS - Twenty-one international peace activists were seized by Israeli naval frigates in international waters Tuesday as their boat The Spirit of Humanity tried to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza.The activists, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Irish Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Maguire, and ... [Link] [Cache]

Eva BartlettGAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip IPS - "They told us 'go west or we will shoot you,'" says Ashraf Sadallah. "Initially, we refused, so they began shooting very close all around our boat."At 6am on 16 June, Sadallah and his brother Abdel Hadi Sadallah, in their early twenties, went ... [Link] [Cache]

A seven-year-old Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip was martyred on Thursday when she was struck by a shell fired from an Israeli occupation tank.Hyam Ayash died and at least 11 people sustained wounds in the incident according to the report, one of them seriously, when the tank fired a ... [Link] [Cache]

Hezbollah criticized on Thursday UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for not condemning Israeli spy networks in his 10th report on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1701, saying that the latter's positions and stances were biased in favor of the Israeli enemy.In a statement it released, Hezbollah said that every ... [Link] [Cache]

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Israel postpones ‘drought tax’ Look at a topographical map of the region and note where the bulk of the water flows and you'll begin to understand that religion and "terrorism" are merely a smokescreen for official Israeli attachment to the Occupied West Bank and the Golan Heights. Simple demographic projections ... [Link] [Cache]

Israeli forces conducted 18 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. Israeli forces positioned at military checkpoints in the West Bank abducted 3 Palestinian civilians. 12 Palestinian civilians were injured by Israeli settlers. Israeli attacks in the West Bank: During the reporting period, 5 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children, ... [Link] [Cache]

How Racist can you get. Yet the U.S. keeps on supporting them. Housing Minister Ariel Atias on Thursday warned against the spread of Arab population into various parts of Israel, saying that preventing this phenomenon was no less than a national responsibility."I see [it] as a national duty to prevent ... [Link] [Cache]

The National Hungerstrike Youth Weekend 2009 is taking place in Tyrone from the 14 – 16 August. The weekend of events is being organised to coincide with the National Hungerstrike March, and will also fall on the actual 100th Anniversary of Na Fianna Éireann, Sunday 16th August.The main themes of ... [Link] [Cache]

Activists combined efforts for change on Canada Day, sharing literature, DVDs and friendly conversation on the important issues facing Canada today. Topics covered: SPP "Security Prosperity Partnership", The New World Order, and the lies and crimes of 9/11/01. Edmontonians were greeted with friendly encounters and informational packages that included: 9/11 ... [Link] [Cache]

The Jihad and Change Front one of the main jihad fronts in Iraq has announced the military campaign of its two factions against the American occupation forces which they called shale campaign to hit the occupation bases [Link] [Cache]

World leaders have universally condemned the illegal and forcible coup executed in Honduras against the elected President. Because the President is a leftist, the American right will say anything to justify the result. They turn language on its head and call the President elected by the People a “Dictator” and ... [Link] [Cache]

Oh alright, one more... Wexler: Settlement freeze would call Arab world’s ‘bluff’ Visiting Israel, Rep. Robert Wexler D-Fla. tells Herb Keinon of the Jerusalem Post that Israel should agree to a short-term settlement freeze -- and that it's a smart move to call the Arab states' bluff: "A request for ... [Link] [Cache]