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IPS - Inter Press Services

• EAST EUROPE: "Inevitable" Budget Cuts Anger Union ...
  
  BUCHAREST, Mar 28 (IPS) - Trade unions in Romania and Bulgaria are embarking on a spring of protests in response to the governments’ anti-crisis measures involving considerable cuts in budget expenditure.
• DEVELOPMENT: And How the Miracle Multiplied
  
  NEW DELHI, Mar 27 (IPS) - Most of these women had never known what it is to have the dollar a day everyone speaks of. And last year, they were seen as good enough between them to be lent a billion and a half dollars.
• DEVELOPMENT: The Caribbean Trembles
  
  KINGSTON, Mar 27 (Tierramérica) - Better known for its hurricanes, the region that extends from the Cayman Islands in the west to the chain of Windward and Leeward Islands in the east is home to one of the earth's principal seismic belts.
• HUMAN RIGHTS: UN Complains of Scant Progress by M ...
  
  MEXICO CITY, Mar 26 (IPS) - Mexico has failed to make significant progress on human rights issues like violence against women, abuses by military troops involved in policing work, and attacks on journalists, the United Nations Human Rights Committee stated Friday.
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Ousted President or Coup Leader ...
  
  GUATEMALA CITY, Mar 26 (IPS) - The Central American Parliament (Parlacen) has been caught up in the political confrontation in Honduras between Manuel Zelaya, the president who was ousted on Jun. 28, and the leader of the coup government, Roberto Micheletti, because the regional body is havi ...

Scoop - NZ

• USA: Deflationary signs re-appearing again
  
  Despite signs of economic cooling in Q1 (around 2.5% growth and half the Q4 pace) and lower inflation expectations, the 10-year Treasury note yield is ratcheting up (in a destabilizing fashion) and devoid of any bearish economic data (for a range of technical/fund flow reasons as was the case in the ...
• More ACT Infighting: An Early Election ?
  
  It's getting nasty in the ACT party. According to the NBR [not online], Rodney Hide was left stranded the other day when speaking to an ACT audience on electoral reform. He spoke in support of FPP only to find his views overwhelming rejected by his audience, which supported a democratic, proportion ...
• Australian scientists unearth T. Rex
  
  Australian scientists say they have discovered the first evidence that an ancestor of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex once roamed across Australia. The finding, published today in the journal Science, fills a major gap in the evolutionary history of T rex and overturns the theory the giant predator wa ...
• Oil Reserves 'Exaggerated by One Third'
  
  Earlier this week, the UK Telegraph reported: Oil reserves 'exaggerated by one third' The world's oil reserves have been exaggerated by up to a third, according to Sir David King, the Government's former chief scientist, who has warned of shortages and price spikes within years. The article g ...
• Home Prices Double Dip in 12 US Cities
  
  Twelve U.S. cities, including Boulder, Colorado, and Providence, Rhode Island, are showing extended declines in housing values, reversing signs of a sustained recovery last year, according to Zillow.com. The number of markets in a "double dip" jumped in January from five in December, data released ...

Independent ( London )

• MPs call time on the 'special relationship' with U ...
  
  More than 60 years after Winston Churchill first coined the expression to describe Britain's alliance with the United States, MPs today finally called time on the "special relationship".
• Zookeeper hospitalised after Giraffe headbutt
  
  A US zookeeper was treated at a hospital for minor head injuries and released after butting heads with a giraffe.
• Hundred of civilians were killed in Congo massacre
  
  A human rights group said at least 321 civilians were killed by the Lord's Resistance Army in Congo in a previously unreported massacre in late 2009.
• Berlusconi faces test in local elections
  
  Voters began casting ballots today in Italy's regional elections, which are being seen as an important test of popularity for prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
• The halo effect: Who are the real philanthropists ...
  
  Leonardo DiCaprio will be there, rubbing shoulders with Stella McCartney, who will no doubt stop for a polite chat with Tobey Maguire and Sigourney Weaver. This will not be another awards ceremony – replete with glad-handing and mutual backslapping – but one of the biggest-ever charity events, inte ...

Rogue Government.com

• U.S. Plunges Central America Back To Era Of Coups ...
  
• WikiLeaks to release video of civilians, journali ...
  
• NEW EU GESTAPO SPIES ON BRITONS
  
• Gun Rights Supporters Tote Weapons at Rally Outsi ...
  
• Ford To Sell Volvo To Chinese Company
  

Innovation Canada

• The power of autism
  
  (Courtesy of Le Devoir)   Montréal researchers have uncovered previously unsuspected intellectual potential in many people with autism, a discovery that opens doors to new approaches for education.   A new approach to research, which looks at the neural disorder not in terms deficits, but in terms o ...
• Disappearing act
  
  (Courtesy of Frontier magazine, University of British Columbia)   A commitment to both discovery and education places the Beaty Biodiversity Centre in a unique position to safeguard our natural heritage by bringing together outstanding researchers, exceptional facilities, and the public to better un ...
• Particle accelerating … in high school
  
  For Palak Suryavenshi, the grade-12 science lab was the first step in a journey that led to a chance to test a hypothesis on one of North America’s most advanced particle accelerators. In 2007, Suryavenshi and her classmates from Saskatoon’s Centennial Collegiate worked with researchers at the Unive ...
• Nose jobs
  
  (Courtesy of Carleton University Magazine) People around the world ask the same question on a daily basis: “Is the milk bad?” A quick sniff gives us a fast and reliable answer. The sense of smell is very powerful and often taken for granted. We simply follow our nose, because it always knows…but so ...
• Snow fall
  
  To the average Canadian, a research station getting completely buried in snow more than 1,500 metres high in the Cariboo Mountains might indicate that snow levels at this altitude are not at risk from global warming. But University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) professor Stephen Déry says look ...

Signs of the times

• AP Investigation: Cautionary tale from CIA prison
  
  More than seven years ago, a suspected Afghan militant was brought to a dimly lit CIA compound northeast of the airport in Kabul. The CIA called it the Salt Pit. Inmates knew it as the dark prison. Inside a chilly cell, the man was shackled and left half-naked. He was found dead, exposed to the col ...
• It Is Their Land And It's All About The Land!
  
  "Land Day" commemorates the killing of six Palestinians, 96 wounded and 300 arrested on March 30, 1976, in the Galilee. The anticipated peaceful demonstration by Palestinians was a response to Israeli authorities that had announced the confiscation of 5,500 acres of their land which Israel classifie ...
• Israeli army to impose full closure on the West Ba ...
  
  By instructions from the Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and after military estimations on eve of the Jewish Passover, the Israeli Occupation army plans to impose a complete closure on the West Bank areas starting today at midnight and is expected to take effect until next Tuesday. A strong po ...
• Iraq election results in doubt as winners face dis ...
  
  Iraq's election results could be called into question today, as a committee that seeks out members of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime is set to call for the disqualification of some candidates who won parliamentary seats on March 7. The Justice and Accountability Commission, which recommended that ...
• The internet: Closing the frontier
  
  China may be public enemy number one when it comes to internet censorship. But ask executives at Silicon Valley's leading companies about other countries that cause them concern and the first name that springs to many lips may seem surprising: Australia. In the name of suppressing child pornography ...

The Galloping Beaver

• Fun in the sun . . .
  
  THERE'S THIS CHAP ERINGER , Robert Eringer, who has some interesting tales to tell about his time, starting in 2002, as the spymaster for Prince Albert of Monaco .Eringer’s brief was simple, if complex in its execution: To ensure the Prince would be well informed not only during his extensive foreig ...
• Srebrenica massacre?
  
  Blame it on the queers. So says a retired US general and frothing lunatic about the contentious showing of the Dutch army in the 1995 Serbian massacre of civilians in the former Yugoslavia.
• Matt Weighs In . . . .
  
  Matt Taibbi weighs in on the "Vati-scum" - aka, "bennie and the jerks" - in action. A sample: That’s all the church is. They’re a giant for-profit company using predatory salesmanship to sell what they themselves know is a defective, outmoded, basically unnecessary product. The full article here ...
• Japan 1 Bluefin 0
  
  THE NEW YORK TIMES has a sad report, "U.N. Rejects Export Ban on Atlantic Bluefin Tuna" , by David Jolly and John Broder. If you're a polar bear, it's also a bummer, too. Delegates at a United Nations conference on endangered species in Doha, Qatar, soundly defeated American-supported proposals on T ...
• "We have shot an amazing number of people...
  
  ...but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat," said Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who became the senior American and NATO commander in Afghanistan last year. His comments came during a recent videoconference to answer questions from troops in the field about civilian casualties." ~ New ...

Media Matters for America

• RNC chair Steele promotes Hannity's book after ye ...
  
  In a recent email sent out by the Republican National Committee, RNC chairman Michael Steele promoted Sean Hannity's latest book, Conservative Victory , telling recipients, "I cannot recommend it enough." Hannity himself has a long history of using his media perch at Fox News to promote Steele ...
• "Conservative Woodstock?" Fox News' all-day promot ...
  
  On March 27, Fox News continued its political activism by aggressively promoting that day's Tea Party Express rally, which targeted for defeat Sen. Harry Reid and other members of Congress who support health care reform. The rally was sponsored by a political action committee run by Republican c ...
• Fox advances "anti-free speech" attack on NLRB no ...
  
  Fox News advanced the attack that Obama nominee Craig Becker would be an "anti-democratic and anti-free speech" member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) because he believed "employers should have no role in union-organizing elections at all." But during a congressional hearing on his ...
• Quick Fact: Beck distorts Obama to falsely claim h ...
  
  Glenn Beck again distorted President Obama's comments to falsely claim that he told tea party protesters to "get out of the way." However, in the speech Beck cited Obama was discussing "folks on the other side of the aisle" who created the financial "mess", not tea party protesters. Beck claims ...
• "You need to riot": Right-wing pushes violent rhe ...
  
  In the wake of reported threats on Democratic officials due to their health care votes, Media Matters for America takes a look back at the right-wing media's history of promoting violence. Right-wing media figures call for "riots," "revolution," and push other violent rhetoric Right-wing bl ...

Global Research.ca

• War Games: Israel gets ready to Strike at Iran's N ...
  
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• Chavez: Clinton thinks US owns 'the continent'
  
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• We Need to End Insurance Market-based Health Care
  
  For more details, please click on the link to read the article.
• Beijing Challenges the US-NATO-Israel Military Age ...
  
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• The CIA's Strategy to Manipulate European Public O ...
  
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TPM Cafe

• Happy Passover from Gaza
  
  In 2010, Jews in Israel and around the world will celebrate Passover beginning on March 30th. Passover is the seven-day holiday of the Feast of Unleavened Bread commemorating the ancient Hebrews' escape from enslavement in Egypt. (In Israel, March 30th is also Land Day: the day when Palestinians ...
• Obama to Liberals: Learn When to Let Race Go
  
  If there's a page that Jimmy Carter and Frank Rich should have taken by now from Barack Obama's playbook, it's the one showing that righteous anti-racism is sometimes as counterproductive as racism itself -- not least in assessing the virulent opposition to health-care reform. Yes, racism is a bi ...
• What Do Israel and Iran (and Brazil) Have to Do Wi ...
  
  Ace national security reporter that he is, Michael Hirsh of Newsweek has pulled back the curtain on the recent US-Israeli flare-up. His finding: that the administration's chief frustration with the Israeli government -- and main focus of the Biden visit -- was the danger of undercutting the delicate ...
• U.S. Green Dreams Pricked By Tough International R ...
  
  I don't know the figure myself but someone should compute how much of every federal $ committed to non-agricultural, non-nuclear renewable energy sticks inside the U.S. vs. how much leaks out to Germany, China, India, and Scandinavia. The Washington Post 's Steve Mufson -- who once served as the ...
• Fox University
  
  Thomas Jefferson stated an essential truth of democracy when he said, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." So what are we to think of the incredible level of ignorance across our land as evidenced in the latest Harris ...

TruthOut

• Welcome to Glennbeckistan
  
  Where the Tea Party Rule and the Tea-hadis Roam read more
• Arundhati Roy: Becoming Internal Security Threats
  
  Novelist, activist, journalist, internal security threat? Arundhati Roy joins us for a special conversation about her journey into the forest in the heart of India to talk to Maoist revolutionaries. read more
• As Congress Takes Break, Obama Names 15 Recess App ...
  
  Washington - President Barack Obama reignited a partisan fight over appointments Saturday when he announced his intention to fill 15 key vacant administration positions -- that normally require Senate approval -- while Congress is adjourned for vacation. Saying he was tired of obstructionist Republ ...
• Reagan Redux Could Pay for Health Care
  
  "A fiscal Frankenstein"; so said Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) about the health care bill just passed by the Congress. Soulmate Republicans echoed his warning, predicting budgetary doom. But GOP legislators who cry fiscal wolf are twice trapped. For eight years, they aided and abetted as President B ...
• Sarah Palin's Gun-Imagery Takes Aim at Political T ...
  
  Caught in Sarah Palin's rifle sights, liberals warn of the threat of violent rhetoric. Will it marginalize passionate discourse, or will demonizing hot-headed conservatives backfire at the voting booth? Atlanta -�Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's use of gun-imagery like rifle cross-hairs to target p ...

Planetsave

• Paper or Plastic? Neither
  
  Green Cities California (GCC) announced today the release of its Master Environmental Assessment (MEA) on Single Use and Reusable Bags. The MEA, commissioned by GCC and developed by ICF International’s Sacramento office, summarizes existing studies on the environmental impacts of single use plastic ...
• How to Help the Environment
  
  If you are reading this article, I think you are probably more concerned about the environment than most others. I assume that you keep up with environmental news a bit, reading more than the miniscule amount covered in the mainstream media. However, I cannot make any guess as to how much you actua ...
• 7 Myths about Climate Change Science [& FUN VIDEOS ...
  
  The science of climate change is not really the question at hand anymore. Of course, there is always more to learn, but that highly accelerated climate change is real and that humans are the main cause of that are no longer questionable facts to the large majority of the scientific community. What ...
• DE bottle refund law: Mend it, don’t end it, say ...
  
  A volunteer poses with the bottles and cans collected at a Massachusetts watershed cleanup. A month after the governor of Delaware proposed dumping the state’s beverage container refund law in favor of a new tax for community recycling, in-state and national environmental groups have come out agai ...
• Mann is Off the Hook, So Let’s Look at the Real Cr ...
  
  Michael Mann, the somewhat infamous climate scientist from Penn State, shouldn’t be so infamous after all, we find out yet another time! “An academic inquiry into the so-called ‘climategate’ email scandal has concluded that a well-known U.S. scientist [Mann] did not directly or indirectly falsify d ...

Water Quality - WordPress

• About the Dust Jacket of The Mississippi: A Visual ...
  
  Dust Jacket featuring Lansing Big Lake The dust jacket of The Mississippi: A Visual Biography featur
• Otter makes headlines, but Simpson get things don ...
  
  This is about Idaho drinking water and also how Idaho’s Representative Simpson is the one who
• March 2010 monitoring
  
  March 27 was a beautiful day to be outside! Quite different from 6 weeks earlier, our last monitorin
• Public Meeting on Gas Drilling
  
  On Wednesday,  March 31 st, the Dallas United Methodist Church is sponsoring a public information me
• Will Certain Septic Permits Go on Hold for a Year?
  
  by jhwygirl Ravalli County Health Department is considering postponing the issuance of certain septi

Public Citizen in Texas

• Week in Review
  
  After Week in Review’s SXSW hiatus, our weekly blog update is back in action, keeping you posted on Public Citizen’s energy advocacy work. Carol Geiger presented the interns a workshop on grant writing, providing an enormous amount of detail and critical distinctions between direct service, outreach ...
• Party In The Dark During Earth Hour
  
  Worried about your environmental impact? This Saturday, March 27th at 8:30pm is your chance to participate with millions of people around the world during Earth Hour. “What do I have to do?” Simply turn off the lights for one hour. During this hour we can universally flip the switch on dirty air, ...
• TCEQ Commissioners want Tax Breaks for Polluters, ...
  
  An eye opening story from KHOU earlier this week gave more insight into what’s the matter at TCEQ.  It’s worth your 5 minutes to watch the entire thing but here are the highlights: Valero installed a pollution scrubber to create lower sulphur fuels in one of their Houston refineries.  The problem? ...
• Licensing Board to Hear Oral Arguments on STP Appl ...
  
  An Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) panel will hear oral argument regarding a hearing in the South Texas Project Combined License (COL) proceeding on April 7 in Bay City, Texas. The ASLB is the independent body within the NRC that presides over hearings where the public can challenge propose ...
• NRG’s investment in STP contributes to stock downg ...
  
  According to the Wall Street Journal, Citigroup has downgraded shares of NRG Energy (NRG) to “Hold” from “Buy” and cut price targets to $25 from $27 on the stocks. Shares of NRG today are off 34 cents, or 1.6%, at $20.83. Citigroup analyst Brian Chin warns that NRG’s investment in the South Texas Pl ...

Unexplained Mysteries

• Cuts cast doubt on asteroid plan
  
  Plans to determine the trajectory of an asteroid that might hit Earth in 2036 may be foiled by funding cuts. The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico co...
• Tiny cube to tackle space debris
  
  A new device called the CubeSail has been developed to tackle space debris by dragging it out of orbit. The small device can be fitted to debris and w...
• Reading minds through mapping eye movements
  
  New research suggests that its possible to determine what someone is thinking by tracking their gaze. A study carried out at the University of Melbour...
• Starchild skull "not entirely human" ?
  
  A recent DNA test performed on the Starchild skull has allegedly revealed that the father wasn't human. The highly controversial skull has been the fo...
• Chemicals blamed for bee colony collapse
  
  Toxic chemicals and pathogens are likely to blame for bee colony collapse according to new research. The mystery as to why some hives appear to be com...

Grassroots

• Water Rights -- What's Wrong?
  
  bechtel-water.jpg Frankly,�a lot! read more
• Combating Hunger by Reforesting Haiti
  
  � Last August, I stood in Haiti’s Artibonite valley with several peasant organizers and looked out at the mountains leading up to the Central Plateau. The older leaders in the group explained in depth how green the mountains once were, while the younger organizers and I listened in amazement. The tr ...
• Demand Accountability and Transparency of US Aid t ...
  
  Haiti_eaction_pic_small.jpg Some say that the devastating earthquake in Haiti that killed more than 230,000 and displaced more than a million people has left Haiti with a "blank slate."��� read more
• International Day of Action for Rivers
  
  domkhedi_protestors.jpg Cultures in different parts of�our�planet have long held rivers to be life-giving. Early human civilizations are even known by their connection to the river systems whose banks they arose from�like the Indus-Ganga, the ...
• Beating Hunger in Haiti with Seeds and Tools for S ...
  
  haiti200604-129.jpg On the cusp of Haiti’s spring planting season, we received urgent communications from our partners and allies in Haiti about their dire need for seeds and tools to ensure that food production might be enhanced in the immedi ...

Climate

• March 28, 2010
  
  Tuvalu to Taiwan; Nations Switch Off for Earth Hour (Reuters) Landmarks such as Sydney's Opera House, Beijing's Forbidden City and Taiwan's Taipei 101 office tower temporarily went dark on Saturday as nations dimmed the lights for Earth Hour 2010 to call for action on climate change. Ne ...
• March 26, 2010
  
  Senators Outline U.S. Utility Carbon Market for Climate Bill (Bloomberg) Senators Lindsey Graham and Joseph Lieberman outlined U.S. climate legislation that would have power companies buy and sell pollution rights in a carbon market and force oil companies to pay fixed fees for emissions. ‘C ...
• March 25, 2010
  
  Senate Climate Update: Meetings and Meetings But No Text in Sight (The Hill) Senate meetings on planned climate legislation continued at a fast clip Wednesday but the bill’s architects are not far along enough to release a long-awaited draft before the Spring recess that begins Monday. Califo ...
• March 24, 2010
  
  U.S. Senate Climate Bill Details Still Unfinished (Reuters) Senators negotiating climate and energy legislation struggled over details on Tuesday as lawmakers approached a two-week break without a full legislative proposal in hand. EPA to Seek More Data on Emissions (New York Times) The EP ...
• March 23, 2010
  
  Democratic Senators Push for Climate Bill This Year (Bloomberg) Twenty-two Democratic senators urged that the Senate take up energy and climate legislation this year focused on "jobs and reduced dependence on foreign oil." Graham: Colleagues Will Be 'Risk Averse' Following Health Care Debate ...

TomDispatch

• Tomgram: 'This Administration Ended, Rather Than ...
  
  [ Note for TomDispatch Readers: On Friday evening, TomDispatch will be switching to an updated version of this site. It's possible that you might not be able to reach TD for some hours. If so, we expect to be back up on Saturday morning. Tom ] The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't) ...
• Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Afghanistan as a Patr ...
  
  It's now a commonplace of the Afghan War. Western leaders in London , Berlin, Amsterdam , and Washington , as well as on flying visits to Kabul or even Kandahar , excoriate Afghan President Hamid Karzai for the "corruption" of his government. In return for their ongoing support, they repeatedly ...
• Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, How Palin Became a Rogue
  
  It can't get better than this, can it? A first printing of 1.5 million copies sent out into an otherwise dead book market. Possibly as much as $7 million dollars going to the author, who already has interviews lined up with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. A bus tour of the "real America" tha ...
• Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Surveillance State, U.S.A.
  
  Wars come home in strange, unnerving ways -- as Americans have just discovered at Fort Hood. Even before Major Nidal Malik Hasan went on his killing spree, that base, a major military embarkation point for our war zones, was already experiencing the after-effects of eight years of war and repeate ...
• Tomgram: Droning On
  
  [ Note for TomDispatch Readers : A number of you have recently written in for clarification on contributing to this site through your purchases at Amazon.com. Here's my best shot at a useful explanation: If you click on any book image at this site -- like the book-cover image of The End of Vict ...

Smirking Chimp

• The GOP's Double Standard on Anger
  
  In the wake of the bitter health-care debate and some ugly incidents of violence against Democratic members of Congress, there have been some belated – and halfhearted – appeals from Republican leaders to tamp down the fiery rhetoric on the Right.   In a statement on Wednesday, House Minority Lead ...
• Dwindling food for thought: Woe betide the animals ...
  
  As nations around the world continue to destroy entire species, woe betide the animals that become a delicacy Fish don’t vote. Neither do tigers, polar bears, sharks, elephants or any other endangered animals whose plight was addressed at the UN meeting on endangered species in Doha. Because wildlif ...
• We Won a Robust Public Option ... on College Loans
  
  We won! When President Obama signs the healthcare reconciliation bill on Tuesday, we can crow about a robust public option - en route perhaps to a more inclusive, cost-effective single-payer system. Soon, private profiteers (and subsidies to them) will be sidelined, and the government will save taxp ...
• Does the Obama Nuclear Posture Review Go Far Enoug ...
  
  The Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) will soon be made public after numerous delays, apparently caused by deep divisions within the administration on the use of these apocalyptic weapons. Some people want them drastically reduced, others want to maintain the existing stockpile and the facilities to quic ...
• Palin Warns: "Anyone Who Threatens Violence is in ...
  
  TEMPE, ARIZONA (The Borowitz Report) - Speaking at a McCain for Senate campaign rally, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin issued the following warning to the most extreme elements in the Tea Party movement: "Anyone who uses threats of violence will be in my crosshairs." But she was was quick to add that ...

Ten Percent

• 7 Years Since Aafia Siddiqui Was First Abducted
  
  Supporters have named this Aafia Siddiqui Day, Andy Worthington has a good post and asks these pertinent questions- Was she indeed kidnapped with her three children in Karachi on March 28, 2003, and subsequently rendered to a secret prison, where she was raped and tortured for five years? Binyam Mo ...
• D’oh, Canada
  
  Apartheid torturer allowed to settle and practice medicine in Canada…finally is brought to book for sex crimes, it reminds me of the joke (I think by Mark Steel) about all those white South Africans fleeing democracy. Topically it is reminiscent of the Vatican’s practices, I think one of the key asp ...
• Obama Admin Repeats Bush War Rhetoric To Justify D ...
  
  (AFP) – The US government for the first time has offered a legal justification of its drone strikes against Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, citing the right to “self-defense” under international law. The CIA attacks by unmanned aircraft in Pakistan, Somalia and elsewhere have sharply increased unde ...
• Friday! BriTANicK- Academy Award Winning Movie Tra ...
  
  When formula becomes so obvious.
• UK Taser Use More Than Doubles
  
  …new statistics record the use of the devices for the third quarter of 2009 and show they were used 402 times by specially trained units from July to September, up from 169 in the previous quarter. Officers discharged them 67 times over the period, compared to 36 for the preceding period. Units ha ...

Booman Tribune

• Retrospective: Harry Reid and the Public Option
  
  Surprisingly, the Las Vegas Sun has a bit of a fluff-piece on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's role in passing health care reform. Amazingly, it never once mentions the 'evil' Rahm Emanuel. Yet, it does provide some interesting insights into the behind the scenes negotiating that Reid carried o ...
• Bayh Was A Troll
  
  It's always interesting to speculate about politicians who have a 'moderate' profile. The vast majority of them represent swing districts or states, and while their votes and positions may reflect their constituencies, you can't help but wonder if their principles lie further to one side or the oth ...
• Obama Makes Recess Appointments
  
  Obama made fifteen recess appointments today. President Obama currently has a total of 217 nominees pending before the Senate. These nominees have been pending for an average of 101 days, including 34 nominees pending for more than 6 months. The 15 nominees President Obama intends to recess a ...
• Serious Question
  
  I'm confused. If you've lost your job, then you aren't paying any taxes. If the government spends other people's tax dollars to try to create some jobs, why would you complain about it?
• The Low-Education White Vote
  
  Ron Brownstein: Compared with earlier presidents, Obama focused his case less on helping the uninsured and more on providing those with coverage greater leverage against their insurers. That shift was especially evident in his final drive toward passage. And yet, polling just before the bill's ...

European Tribune

• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 29 ...
  
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1891 – Birth of...
• Lazy Sunday Open Thread
  
  It's Sunday afternoon, and we've entered summer time...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 28 ...
  
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1942 – Mike Newell,...
• Saturday Open Thread
  
  is wide open...
• European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 27 ...
  
  �A Daily Review Of International Online Media�Europeans on this date in history:1920 – Birth of...

Futurismic

• Personal Information: episode 6
  
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 6 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
• It’s a man’s life in the global pseudocorporate cy ...
  
  PC Pro has an interesting insight into the daily goings-on at a defunct scareware corporation from Ukraine [via SlashDot], which – if it’s to be taken at face value – demonstrates how similar such blackhat operations are to many (arguably more legitimate) organisations, at least as far as flim-flamm ...
• A dialogue with a book pirate
  
  Nancy Kress was tipped off about a website offering unlicensed ebook versions of her novels, and decided to get in touch with the person in charge. It’s an interesting insight into the mindset of the ideologically-motivated (but nonetheless confused) content pirate: … permit me to point out a fundam ...
• Destroying malaria… with frickin’ LASERS
  
  Malaria remains one of the great unsolved health problems of the developing world, with the disease stubbornly resisting all attempts at eradication. So why not focus on the vector instead: the blood-hungry mosquitoes that spread malaria around? And why not use an idea straight from the science fict ...
• Black Cloud Computing: botnets dwarf legitimate cl ...
  
  Via SlashDot, another reminder of the sheer scale and clout of botnets, all just sitting out there waiting to be rented, no questions asked: … the biggest legitimate cloud provider is Google, based on Joffe’s information, made up of 500,000 systems, 1 million CPUs and 1,500 gigabits per second (Gbps ...

Therapy News

• Dutch Study Suggests Bullies are After Status, Aff ...
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Many studies have been performed on the mental and emotional effects of bullying on children, but understanding how bullying is initiated in the behaviors of bullies themselves is also important in the effort to end school violence. a recent study performed at the Uni ...
• History of Psychotherapy Probed Beyond Freud
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline When describing the history of the psychotherapeutic field, may are likely to begin with the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud, though some argue that examples of psychotherapeutic treatment can be traced well before the famous doctor’s time. Pointing to the di ...
• Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up – 3/26/2010
  
  A GoodTherapy.org Psychotherapy News Weekly Round-Up We are pleased to share with you ten of the week’s top news pieces related to mental health, psychology, and therapy. Happy reading! • Soldiers Take Psychiatric Medications for Stress • Packing Your Troubles Away Actually Works, Study Finds †...
• Modern Impatience May be Linked to Fast Food
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Many people opt to eat fast food not only for its sometimes addicting taste, but for the convenience it offers, as well. In fact, the availability of quick food has skyrocketed in recent decades, leading to the expectation that a meal can take only a few minutes out of ...
• Boys Being Pushed Too Hard in Early School, Expert ...
  
  A GoodTherapy.org News Headline As the medication of young children for psychiatric concerns becomes a greater issue around the world, interest in how and why some children exhibit certain undesirable behaviors is growing. Part of the underlying cause of such behaviors may be rooted in the early sch ...

Mountaintop Removal

• Two words: MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL - AlterNet (blog)
  
  AlterNet (blog) Two words: MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL AlterNet (blog) Mountaintop removal is so uncomfortable that it is sometimes shortened to MTR, like a company or the initials of a President. That is a mistake. ...
• EPA Wants To Revoke A MTR Permit; RAN Launches Its ...
  
  EPA Wants To Revoke A MTR Permit; RAN Launches Its Mountain Pledge Treehugger Mountaintop removal was again in the news this week after the EPA announced that it wants to overrule the Army Corps of ... “Clean Coal” Looking More Like a 21st Century Dinosaur CleanTechnica all 2 news articles�� ...
• US proposes to veto mountaintop removal coal mine ...
  
  US proposes to veto mountaintop removal coal mine Raw Story The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed an unprecedented veto to restrict or prohibit mining at a major proposed US mountaintop removal coal mining ...
• Mountaintop Removal Redux: Bobby vs. Blankenship I ...
  
  Mountaintop Removal Redux: Bobby vs. Blankenship II Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) In a reprise of the debate between NRDC's Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Massey Coal CEO Don Blankenship over mountaintop removal coal mining, the Washington ... Round 2: Blankenship versus RFK Jr. on Mountaint ...
• The Carbon Footprint of Mountaintop Removal Coal M ...
  
  Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) The Carbon Footprint of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) Mountaintop removal is without a doubt the world's worst coal mining -- responsible for landscape destruction, habitat loss and water pollution throughout ... Bo ...

Memeorandum

• RNC RAISES MONEY FOR HANNITY.... Former Bush speec ...
  
  Steve Benen / Washington Monthly : RNC RAISES MONEY FOR HANNITY.... Former Bush speechwriter David Frum, recently fired from AEI for telling Republicans what they didn't want to hear, noted the other day, “Republicans originally thought that Fox [News] worked for us, and now we are discovering we w ...
• FBI raids in Washtenaw, Lenawee counties tied to M ...
  
  Lee Higgins AnnArbor.com / AnnArbor.com News : FBI raids in Washtenaw, Lenawee counties tied to Michigan militia group   —  The FBI conducted raids Saturday night in Washtenaw County and Lenawee County in an investigation involving members of Hutaree, a Christian-oriented militia group based in Le ...
• Washington Post poll finds split on health-care la ...
  
  Washington Post : Washington Post poll finds split on health-care law remains deep   —  Americans overwhelmingly see the new health-care law as a major shift in the direction of the country, but they remain as deeply divided today over the changes as they were throughout the long congressional deba ...
• Graham: Obama done 'almost nothing' on immigration ...
  
  Josh Gerstein / Politico Live's Blog : Graham: Obama done ‘almost nothing’ on immigration   —  The lonely leader for immigration reform legislation among Senate Republicans, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, is chafing at what he views as the White House's unwillingness to put political muscle be ...
• Obama Presses Karzai for Crackdown on Corruption ( ...
  
  Helene Cooper / New York Times : Obama Presses Karzai for Crackdown on Corruption   —  WASHINGTON — President Obama made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, his first as commander in chief to the site of the war he inherited and has stamped as his own.  —  Air Force One landed at nightti ...

Energy & Environment News

• Green Inc. Column: Can Business Do the Job All by ...
  
  The environmental spotlight is not just on parliaments and presidents but also on boardrooms and executive suites.
• Seoul Mayor Pins Political Hopes on Green Growth
  
  The mayor of Seoul, Oh Se-hoon, is seeking to build defining legacy for his mayoralty, and has sought to improve his city’s environment.
• Tracing the Demise of Cap and Trade
  
  The market-driven system was the preferred policy for tackling climate change a year ago, but now it is in wide disrepute.
• Audit Finds Vulnerability of EnergyStar Program
  
  Congressional auditors posing as companies found it easy to win the official stamp of approval for energy-saving products.
• Average Con Edison Bill to Rise by $10 Over 3 Year ...
  
  Higher rates were approved by the New York State Public Service Commission.

5+ quakes - 7 days

• M 5.5, offshore Maule, Chile
  
  Sunday, March 28, 2010 21:43:16 UTC Sunday, March 28, 2010 05:43:16 PM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.9, offshore Maule, Chile
  
  Sunday, March 28, 2010 21:38:32 UTC Sunday, March 28, 2010 05:38:32 PM at epicenter Depth : 21.10 km (13.11 mi)
• M 5.1, Sulawesi, Indonesia
  
  Sunday, March 28, 2010 21:13:46 UTC Monday, March 29, 2010 05:13:46 AM at epicenter Depth : 40.60 km (25.23 mi)
• M 5.0, offshore Maule, Chile
  
  Thursday, March 25, 2010 13:57:53 UTC Thursday, March 25, 2010 09:57:53 AM at epicenter Depth : 35.00 km (21.75 mi)
• M 5.2, offshore Maule, Chile
  
  Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:10:39 UTC Thursday, March 25, 2010 07:10:39 AM at epicenter Depth : 10.00 km (6.21 mi)

China Dialogue

• A personal one-child policy?
  
  Family size is the great unmentionable of the campaign for greener lifestyles, writes Oliver Burkeman. Westerners need to consider that babies are consumers, too, with their own carbon footprints. Twelve years ago, the American author Bill ­McKibben published a short book entitled Maybe One: A Perso ...
• Security alert
  
  The US government’s recent defence review shows new levels of attention being given to climate change. Xie Yanmei talks to two experts about the implications. The United States’ Department of Defense has started studying the implications of climate change for national security and military planning. ...
• Sorrows of Sumatra
  
  Intensive deforestation in Indonesia – fuelled by corruption – is scarring the landscape and wrecking a vital resource. Andre Vltchek went to see the devastation. Tin-mine pits are like enormous open wounds dominating the landscape of island Bangka , near Sumatra and only 40 minutes flight from the ...
• Dissecting the sceptics (2)
  
  An appreciation of human nature – not just hard science – is needed to fight the rising tide of climate-change denial, argues Bill McKibben. The climate deniers come with a few built-in advantages. Thanks to Exxon Mobil and others with a vested interest in debunking climate-change research, their ...
• Dissecting the sceptics (1)
  
  As global warming science has strengthened, so too has the powerful – and often vicious – lobby of deniers. Bill McKibben analyses the phenomenon. Twenty-one years ago, in 1989, I wrote what many have called the first book for a general audience on global warming. One of the more interesting reviews ...

AlterNet Top Stories

• 15-Minutes Are Up: National Minuteman Border Group ...
  
  After a five-year run, the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps is calling it quits, their president announced this week.
• Maliki Defeated in Iraq Elections: Former Prime Mi ...
  
  Five years ago he was denounced as an American puppet, but Iyad Allawi, the former Iraqi prime minister, is set for a surprising return to the center-stage of Iraqi politics.
• Interview with “Wild Man” of Animal Pr ...
  
  Rosenberg: Here in Chicago, you are known as the “Wild Man” who staged alternative whale shows with inflatable orcas outside the Shedd Aquarium in the 1990s and who went to jail for disrupting a bird shoot with a powered paraglider. Now, both issues are back in the news. Hindi: At the time we held [ ...
• NYC School Bake Sale Fiasco
  
  This post first appeared on Food Politics. I’ve had several requests to comment on the new New York City Board of Education restrictions on what foods parents can bring to school bake sales.  Home-baked goods are forbidden.  Instead, parents may bring fruits and vegetables (fine) or any of 27 com ...
• Learn to Speak Tea Bag
  
  Check out Mark Fiore’s latest cartoon video — it’s spot on: “Learn to Speak Tea Bag: “You too can speak Tea Bag, and what better time to learn than now? The pathway to health care reform is through appropriate language!” Report This Post

Threat Level

• Check the Hype — There’s No Such Thing As ‘Cyber’
  
  How can you tell the difference between a real report about online vulnerabilities and someone who is trying to scare you about the security of the internet because they have an agenda, such as landing lucrative, secret contracts from the government? Here’s a simple test: Count the number of times ...
• Hacker Sentenced to 20 Years for Breach of Credit ...
  
  BOSTON — Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years on Friday for his role in breaches into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and other companies. The sentence will run concurrently with a 20-year sentence he received on Thursday in two other cases involving hacks into TJX, Of ...
• TJX Hacker Gets 20 Years in Prison
  
  BOSTON — Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole more than 90 million credit and debit card numbers from TJX and other retailers. The sentence for the largest computer-crime case ever prosecuted is the lengthi ...
• WIPO: Dope-Vaporizer Seller Not Bogarting Domain N ...
  
  The German producer of a popular device used to vaporize marijuana is claiming a North American dealer is bogarting its domain names. But the World Intellectual Property Organization on Thursday sided against Storz & Bickel, the maker of the Volcano Vaporizer, ruling that MSI Imports’ four dozen Vol ...
• ACTA Draft: No Internet for Copyright Scofflaws
  
  The United States is nudging the international community to develop protocols to suspend the internet connections of customers caught downloading copyrighted works, according to a leaked draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The United States is leading the 2-year-old, once-secret negoti ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

• Obama sees progress on first Afghan trip as presid ...
  
  KABUL (Reuters) - President Barack Obama made the first trip of his presidency to Afghanistan on Sunday, where he said the military campaign had made progress but President Hamid Karzai still had to tackle corruption.
• Obama did not snub Israeli PM: Axelrod
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama did not give Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the cold shoulder when they met in the White House last week, a top Obama aide said on Sunday.
• Bikini-clad wife puts Roddick in the shade
  
  MIAMI (Reuters) - Andy Roddick was initially bitter when his wife Brooklyn Decker graced the cover of Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit issue last month in a tiny yellow bikini -- and it was not because of her skimpy attire.
• Obama makes 15 recess appointments
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Saturday announced he would make 15 recess appointments held up by Republicans, including two top Treasury Department positions and two on the National Labor Relations Board that have been vacant for more than a year.
• Geely signs $1.8 billion deal for Ford's Volvo
  
  GOTHENBURG, Sweden (Reuters) - Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, China's largest private-run car maker, agreed on Sunday to buy Ford Motor's Volvo car unit for $1.8 billion, the country's biggest overseas auto purchase.

Equality Trust

• The Equality Trust in the news
  
  Please visit our new Media section for the latest details.
• Inequality: a threat to social cohesion
  
  As Edmund Conway comments in today's Daily Telegraph : "It is not merely, as Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett point out in their book The Spirit Level, that this damages health and encourages crime; in times of austerity, inequality can tear apart the social fabric."
• Labour is running up a down escalator to tackle in ...
  
  Tackling society's inequalities is what Labour governments are supposed to be about, and this one has quietly redistributed billions worth of tax since 1997, much of it paid by those fatcat bankers, to alleviate the plight of the poorest. How much has it got to show for it? Read Michael White's ...
• The five-star lifestyle: "horrible, soulless and w ...
  
  Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy. Read more here...
• Lynda Gratton: The business case for greater incom ...
  
  Read Lynda Gratton in the Financial Times [Wilkinson and Pickett's] argument is that societies which are very unequal have all sorts of problems, and I have a feeling that the same is true for companies,” she says. “I think one has to be very careful about what you pay people ... We’ve put far t ...

PDA AMERICA

• The Agitator: Voices of PDA Episode 4 – Marc ...
  
  Agitator Voices Episode 4 ~ Marcy Winograd, Tracy Emblem, Conor Boylan In this episode of Agitator Voices, Tim Carpenter turns our attention to the midterm elections and PDA’s endorsed candidates for Congress, Marcy Winograd and Tracy ...
• Podcast: Focus 2/21/10 Leo Maley with Tim Carpent ...
  
  Union organizer, PDA-member, and progressive radio host Leo Maley interviews PDA’s Tim Carpenter about the growing national movement of "Brown Baggers" calling for an end to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and for single-payer ...
• Lies, Damn Lies, and the Media
  
  Lies, Damn Lies, and the Media By David Swanson ACORN is shutting down because of a fraudulent video pimped by the corporate media. U.S. forces in Afghanistan have heroically laid seige to and conquered a fictional ...
• Healthcare Reform has just begun— next steps for M ...
  
  The health reform bill passed by the 111th Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama does far more than fall short of extending healthcare to all. See Rose Ann DeMoro’s analysis of the ...
• Getting into Massa’s Drawers: Truly Creepy D ...
  
  Getting into Massa’s Drawers: Truly Creepy Details about the Congressman Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Exclusive for Buzzflash.com by Greg Palast For the two weeks before tickle-and-grope charges busted open on him, and before his resignation from Congress, our BBC Television ...

Marler Blog

• Chicks and Ducks can carry Salmonella
  
  Though they are cute and soft and associated with the arrival of spring, baby chicks or ducklings can carry harmful salmonella bacteria, health officials warn. “We strongly discourage giving chicks or ducklings as gifts,” said Dr. Alan Melnick, Clark County health officer. “To prevent possible inf ...
• Smith vs Cargill E. coli Trial 2010
  
  Saint Cloud Times last week reported: A Cold Spring woman who nearly died after getting E. coli from a tainted hamburger is asking for more than $56 million in her lawsuit against Cargill. Stephanie Smith, 23, was left paralyzed from the waist down and with extensive, long-term injuries that one d ...
• Lombard Subway Shigella Outbreak Hits 116 - Expect ...
  
  The number of affected people continues to grow as more come forward to report shigella infections after eating at a Lombard Subway restaurant. Dave Hass of the DuPage County Health Department said there are currently 116 confirmed shigella cases linked to the Subway restaurant as of today. Of thos ...
• Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database to Launch Soon
  
  The Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database should be up and running fully in the next few weeks.� We still have a few "bug" to work out.� Click on the image below and search for your favorite outbreak or vector.� Please feel free to send me comments.
• Marler quote of the week - Consumer Recall Notific ...
  
  Had an opportunity to speak with Tom Lutey of the Billings Gazette this week between traveling in Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska about recalls and how government and industry could do better. The discussion comes on the heals of the HVP recall: • The FDA Web site, www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/H ...

AutoblogGreen

• AutoblogGreen for 03.26.10
  
  Hummers are for Horses: Artist reimagines the monsterous SUV [w/video] Gives "Futurama" a new meaning. Infiniti EV to be built on Leaf platform, release scheduled for 2014 One more step in Nis ...
• AutoblogGreen for 03.25.10
  
  GM unveils three futuristic, urban EN-V concepts A typical GM vehicle this is not. Customer ignorance convinces BMW that front-drive is OK Eighty percent of 1 Series drivers thought the car ...
• AutoblogGreen for 03.24.10
  
  Mitsubishi announces UK pricing for i-MiEV: �33,699 Early adopters are helping to subsidize the future... if they can afford the present. Local police agree, runaway Prius in NY caused by driver error ...
• AutoblogGreen for 03.23.10
  
  Ford to attempt 1,000-lap challenge at Bristol Speedway with V6 Mustang You can even place bets on how many laps the car will be able to do. Hold the Hybrids: Two-mode Ram officially dead Fia ...
• AutoblogGreen for 03.22.10
  
  Survey says: Only one-quarter of Americans would consider an electric car Would you? Once lowly four-cylinder gains market dominance over bigger engines Vrooooo ooom . ...

Rafe's Radar

• Demo debrief: Rafe and Josh's favorites
  
  This year's Demo Spring conference has come to a close, and we take a minute to look back at some of our favorites. Originally posted at Webware ...
• Neverend Media builds smart new e-book format
  
  It's arguably a better format than PDF for electronic books. But is it better enough to get traction?
• At Demo, three examples of why the iPhone needs ba ...
  
  These apps would probably be on the iPhone if it had background capabilities.
• Medl Tech portable monitor gives idea for iPad
  
  Company at Demo presents a 13-inch, battery-powered, USB-driven portable computer monitor. Is there a market for it?
• Motolingo brings telematics to clunkers
  
  Motoriety combines car diagnostics data with your smartphone's GPS to give you more data than you thought possible about how you use your car. ...

Camera Obscura

• Pathos and pathology: the cinema of Todd Haynes.
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so fre ...
• The incredible shrinking star: Todd Haynes and the ...
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces of ...
• Written on the screen: mediation and immersion in ...
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigorous ...
• Traumatic postmodern histories: Velvet Goldmine's ...
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of pro ...
• Dangerous spaces: Safe.
  
  http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935029/dangerous-spaces-safe.html September 1, 2004... For me, the problem is always in content; we want to define the perspective of a film solely through its content, and not through its form. --Todd Haynes No matter how much we desire, w ...

Democracy Now!

• Indonesian Media Reports Journalist Allan Nairn Fa ...
  
  A leading TV news network in Indonesia is reporting the Indonesian military is planning to charge journalist Allan Nairn with “smearing [its] good name.” In an appearance on Democracy Now! last week, Allan exposed that US-backed Indonesian armed forces assassinated a series of civilian activists ...
• Obama’s Bad Prescription for Indonesia
  
  President Barack Obama dedicated the signing of health care legislation to a number of people, including his mother, S. Ann Dunham Soetoro, who, he said, “argued with insurance companies even as she battled cancer in her final days.” The health care legislative process and its frenetic endgame prom ...
• Amy Goodman on CNN's _John King, USA_
  
  Click here to see Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman talking about health care on CNN’s new program, John King, USA , on Tuesday, March 23rd.
• Part II: Scholar Norman Finkelstein on Next Steps ...
  
  Norman Finkelstein is author of several books on the Israel Palestine conflict. His latest is This Time We Went Too Far: Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion. In Part II of our conversation, Finkelstein discusses lessons he learned from Gandhi, the role of public opinion in politics, and mo ...
• Amy Goodman to appear on CNN's _John King, USA_
  
  Democracy Now! ’s award-winning host Amy Goodman will be a guest on CNN’s new program, John King, USA , on Tuesday, March 23rd at 7pm Eastern Time. Amy will be discussing the news of the day.

Farming Pathogens

• King Leopold’s Pandemic
  
  The origins of HIV offer a great example of the ways treating human impact as an afterthought—discussed in our previous post—locks the study of pathogens into limited and oftentimes downright drunken trajectories. In 2006 Beatrice Hahn and her colleagues identified the likely source for the SIVcpz p ...
• The Expulsion
  
  In 1845 a diplomat delivered a letter from Friedrich Wilhelm to Louis Philippe of France protesting the insults leveled at the Prussian king by expatriates living in Paris. King Louis had the radicals’ newspaper closed down and the group, along with one Karl Marx, deported. This was not the first ti ...
• Do Pathogens Time Travel?
  
  Evolution arises from a wealth of failure: 1) natural selection requires large and variable populations comprised largely of organisms that fail because their designs do not match their present problems and 2) chance destruction occurs at all spatiotemporal scales. So clearly strict optimization doe ...
• We Are All Astronauts Now
  
  Five years ago I gave copies of this essay to a few friends and family as a year-end holiday gift. As a first stab I think it’s aged well, despite its ignorance of the work of Berger, Harvey, Reichenbach, among others. I offer it now to everyone else in a similar spirit–all in good fun, [...]
• Pigs Do Fly! Implications for Influenza
  
  The influenza genome is segmented. Eight pieces of single-stranded RNA encode for 11 proteins: PB2, PB1, PB1-F2, PA, HA, NP, NA, M1, M2, NS1, and NS2. The segmentation allows influenza of different subtypes infecting the same host to trade segments like card players on a Friday night. Most of the re ...

Digg Green

• Beijing to Shoot Giant Deodorant Guns at Smelly La ...
  
  The city of Beijing is installing 100 giant deodorant guns at its Asuwei dump site to address complaints it has received about the smell. Beijing, F@ck Yeah!
• The Rapid Demise of Cap and Trade
  
  The market-driven system was the preferred policy for tackling climate change a year ago, but now it is in wide disrepute.
• War Paint, Anyone? Indian Tribes Battle Against Wi ...
  
  Citing customs and religious practices recorded since the earliest contact with Europeans, two local tribes have blocked, at least for now, America's first planned offshore wind farm and the Obama administration's efforts to promote renewable sources of energy.
• Hollywood's "Riviera" Now A Toxic Dump
  
  Set beside the Imperial Valley in southeastern California, the Salton Sea area was supposed to be Hollywood's answer to the Riviera back in the '50s. But its developers failed to anticipate the raw sewage that would run up the New River from Mexico and make survival impossible for many aquatic speci ...
• Death of coral reefs could devastate nations
  
  Coral reefs are dying, and scientists and governments around the world are contemplating what will happen if they disappear altogether.

Invisible Opportunity

• Nassim Haramein – At Rogue Valley 2003
  
  This is long but well worth your viewing.  If you want to save some time, the second video has a lot more interesting info… If you are not yet familiar with Nassim Haramein’s exciting work, prepare yourself for an exhilarating odyssey into hyperspace and beyond. Haramein, who has spent his lifeti ...
• It’s not a Total Wasteland Yet
  
  By Les Visible It’s some kind of a trend. I’ve been noticing it for awhile; a year or two, maybe more. Lately the incidents have been getting more frequent. Is it a population increase or are they just getting louder? Someone showed up at my seldom visited Facebook page last night, wishing to harang ...
• 9/11 The Military Knows Israel Mossad and rogue US ...
  
  Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former director of studies at the US Army War College says that the military brass now know that Israel and those traitors within our nation committed the 911 attack http://thy-weapon-of-war.blogspot.com… Very important info, our government leaders have dual citizenship to Isra ...
• 911 Clues EVERYONE MISSED
  
• Future News: Massachusetts makes disobedience vacc ...
  
  By Mike Adams (Editor’s Note: This story is a fictional future news story that depicts one possible future under an American medical dictatorship.) Taking aim at the growing spread of Obedience Defiance Disorder (O.D.D.) — a mental disease striking both children and adults — Massachusetts health aut ...

Global Insights

• Less Than a Week Away
  
  We encourage you to register for Awake and Aware. George Green will be a featured speaker. September 19th & 20th • Burbank, CA Click here for Tickets & Reservations  
• The Georgia Guidestones
  
  On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...
• The Creation
  
  THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...
• The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catas ...
  
  In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...
• About George Green
  
  Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...

AlterNet - DrugReporter

• Marijuana Legalization on the CA Ballot: Separatin ...
  
  Brace yourself for a blast of alarmist hot air from the drug war status quo, a nine-month onslaught of distortions, half-truths and real whoppers.
• Another Senseless Drug War Death
  
  Stunning developments in the 2009 police shooting of Georgia pastor Jonathan Ayers.
• You Can't Understand Drug War Bloodbath in Mexico ...
  
  "Living on the border can cripple a person's emotional range. I grow more numb with each passing day."
• Not Feeling Well? Perhaps You're 'Marijuana Defici ...
  
  Scientists have begun speculating that the root cause of disease conditions such as migraines and irritable bowel syndrome may be endocannabinoid deficiency.
• The Future of Drug Reform Is Bright
  
  The Students for a Sensible Drug Policy conference in San Francisco was a major demonstration of youthful, activist energy to change the drug paradigm.

Twilight Earth

• Photo Sunday – Green Spring Gardens Nature Center
  
  Sometimes, when you can't get away for an extended drive, visiting a local nature center is the next best thing to being in the wilderness. Related posts: The First Day of Spring, 2009 – Photo Sunday Photo Sunday – Sounds of Nature First Day of Spring – 2010 (Photo Essay)
• Win a Trip to Washington DC for Earthday!
  
  Our friend Nathan Winters just told us about an exciting contest where you can sign up for a chance to win a trip for two to the Earth Day Celebration in Washington DC. Related posts: Solar Decathlon on the Mall in Washington DC Photo Sunday – Washington DC Fireworks Was George Washington G ...
• We Live Inside Borders – But Have We Bordered Up O ...
  
  We live in a land of borders, but have we bordered up our minds? Do we care about what happens next door? Related posts: Coal Country Film: Inside Modern Coal Mining John McCain Quotes Live From The RNC Convention Floor Speech Live Dispatch from the Climate Express : The IPCC is not the Univ ...
• SweatFree DC – Calling on DC to Stop Sweatshop Pur ...
  
  The DC Sweatfree campaign is calling on Mayor Fenty and local elected officials to join the Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium. Related posts: Green Wont Be The Norm, Until We Stop Calling Things Green Toilets Help Stop Overpopulation – Heres How Dont Stop the Drilling to Save the Polar Bears ...
• First Day of Spring – 2010 (Photo Essay)
  
  It's been a hard winter for many of us, and that makes Spring smell so much sweeter. The birds are singing and the world (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) is going through a renewal. Related posts: The First Day of Spring, 2009 – Photo Sunday Photo Sunday – Sounds of Nature Permafrost, Me ...

Inhabitat

• 2010 Pritzker Prize Awarded to SANAA
  
  Read the rest of 2010 Pritzker Prize Awarded to SANAAPermalink | Add to del.icio.us | diggPost tags: 2010, 2010 pritzker prize winner, Architecture, Contemporary Art Museum, Daylighting, eco design, green design, pritzker architecture laureate, Pritzker Prize, pritzker prize winner, rolex learnin ...
• GIVEAWAY: Win a Canopy Verde Freesia Portfolio Bag ...
  
  If you want to add a little zing to your spring step, then the Freesia Portfolio just may be that bit of magic you’re looking for. Made from an organic cotton/bamboo blend and ecologically tanned leather, you could be the one lucky reader who walks away with this fresh little handbag (worth $169) fr ...
• Inhabitat’s Managing Editor Mike Chino Gives Us So ...
  
  This may surprise you, but Inhabitat has got some seriously stylish staff members. Miles away from tie-dye tees and hemp hats, our very own managing editor Mike Chino leads the pack in more ways than one. As a dashing fashion darling, Mike opens up his closet and shows us how to get a sustainable lo ...
• Top Ten Green Twitterers To Check Out!
  
  If you want up to the minute info about the green scene, Twitter is the perfect resource. But with millions of tweeters, it’s hard to keep track of which ones provide the best information. To make it a bit easier, we’ve hand selected 10 of the most insightful green twitterers that you may not have [ ...
• 14 Ways to Green Your Wardrobe Military Style
  
  If you have been keeping an eye on all the runway shows, then you must know that this spring is all about an army inspired wardrobe. From volatile vegan combat boots to handmade epaulettes to a brazen military mini, we’ve got 14 eco-friendly wearables that will knock your style quotient from private ...

Pogue's Posts

• Why the Line2 App is Up and Down
  
  An explanation of the ups and downs of Line2, the popular iPhone calling app.
• A Bigger Sensor for a Coat-Pocket Camera
  
  Samsung's NX10 takes the necessary next step in the development of a small camera that takes SLR-quality photos.
• A Tech-Filled Life, Without Power
  
  My family has now been without electricity, heat or hot water for five days. I gotta tell you: it's getting old.
• Photo Tip: Slowing a Babbling Brook
  
  Try photographing a babbling brook on a sunny day. Here's the trick to avoiding an overexposed shot.
• Why I Prefer External Chargers
  
  Is it better to have in-camera battery rechargers or external recharges?

WIRED Magazine | Science

• New RFID Tag Could Mean the End of Bar Codes
  
  Lines at the grocery store might become as obsolete as milkmen, if a new tag that seeks to replace bar codes becomes commonplace. Researchers from Sunchon National University in Suncheon, South Korea, and Rice University in Houston have built a radio frequency identification tag that can be printed ...
• What’s It Like to Fly the Space Shuttle? We Find O ...
  
  As a person who really enjoys flying airplanes, I never thought I would ever say this, but flying a simulator can be as much fun as flying the real thing. Of course it helps when the simulator is a replica of the space shuttle cockpit at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. On a recent assignment [ ...
• Lab-Quality Booze Detector Fits in a Suitcase
  
  Ever found yourself staring down a punch bowl at a frat party and wondering just how spiked it might be? What you needed was the AlcoQuick 4000, a briefcase-sized infrared spectrometer that can accurately determine the alcohol content of a wide variety of beverages in just 60 seconds, according to ...
• Ron Howard Was Wrong: Apollo 13 Would Have Burned, ...
  
  The Apollo 13 module, had it not been for NASA’s heroic efforts to get it back on course, would have missed Earth and tumbled into the depths of cold, lonely space. At least that’s been the story repeated in popular, academic, and cinematic accounts of the ill-fated mission, like Ron Howard’s Apoll ...
• Laser-Guidance Adds Power to Wind Turbines
  
  The wind industry may soon be dependent on a different kind of environmental awareness that has more to do with lasers than ecology. A new laser system that can be mounted on wind turbines allows them to prepare for the wind rushing towards their blades. The lasers act like sonar for the wind, boun ...

The Progressive Realist

• Russia and India
  
  Putin recently made a trip to India and signed a plethora of deals worth $10 billion. The deals include contracts for several nuclear power plants and military material worth $4 billion in total. I find the Western media's over-reaction to this trip to be interesting. A common theme seems to be t ...
• Foreign Public Opinion
  
  This is tangential and kind of nitpicky, but in the opening to his otherwise excellent post on the importance of WikiLeaks - one of those few internet operations with the potential to live up to all the hype about the Web's democratizing potential - Glenn Greenwald talks about a leaked CIA report de ...
• Update on the Sinking of the South Korean Ship
  
  According to Korea Times , a US vessel will be joining search and rescue efforts, although at this point it's very hard to be optimistic about finding any survivors. Efforts to determine the cause of the sinking continue: The cause of the incident remains under investigation. Defense Minister Ki ...
• And Your Friends, Bibi, They Treat You Like a Pest
  
  Mr. Netanyahu wanted badly to go to Washington. He wanted to warm himself in the worship of thousands of delegates at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual convention, far from the cacophony of his unruly ruling coalition. He knew that if he didn’t get White House time during his ...
• Obama Makes Recess Appointments, but Leaves a Big ...
  
  John Bolton is now formally and appropriately addressed as "Ambassador Bolton" because of the right of the executive branch to make recess appointments in the wake of inaction by Congress on presidential nominations. Bolton never got a confirmation vote in the Senate. And fast forward a few years ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

• Lightning Round: When Contrarian Ideas become Conv ...
  
  A very strange conversation between four Brookings senior fellows, alluded to yesterday. Jonathan Rauch starts with the observation that despite ideological calcification, the country's problems are too big for one party to handle alone, and thus what President Obama really needs is "Speaker Boehne ...
• A Failure in Communications.
  
  The Hill reports that in response to a probing letter sent from the ranking Republican on the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet Cliff Stearns , the head of the FCC, Julius Genachowski revealed that the flawed National Broadband Plan he recently delivered to ...
• Why the President's Next Big Thing Should Be Jobs.
  
  Few presidents get a second honeymoon of their own making. Barack Obama ’s victory on health-care reform has breathed new life into his administration, recharged the Democratic base, and given the rest of America a sense of someone who fights for average working people. The question now is: What ...
• More Than Green.
  
  Justin Charity talks to Joan Fitzgerald about making cities more sustainable: The stimulus package passed by Congress last year included $43 billion in sustainable-energy investments, and a bill meant to reduce the country's contribution to climate change now waits in the Senate. But is national po ...
• The Little Picture: Roses for Nancy.
  
  Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turns 70. Liberal supporters sent thousands of roses to her office to celebrate her birthday. The speaker split the roses between the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and hill staffers to "thank them for all their hard work on the health reform legislation." (Flic ...

Andy Worthington

• Protests worldwide on Aafia Siddiqui Day, Sunday M ...
  
  Today is the seventh anniversary of the day that Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and her three young children were reportedly abducted in Karachi, leading to Aafia’s disappearance for over five years — when she was apparently held in secret prisoners and subjected to appalling abuse — ...
• Video: Omar Deghayes Discusses British Complicity ...
  
  I’ve just returned from a week-long tour of Scotland, showing the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by filmmaker Polly Nash and myself), with former prisoner Omar Deghayes. I’ll be writing up a report soon, describing how Omar and I had a wonderful time trave ...
• When Rhetoric Trumps Good Sense: The GOP’s Counter ...
  
  In the dark farce that is the Obama administration’s counter-terrorism policy, decisions are now, it seems, being made by whoever makes the most noise, regardless of whether what they are shouting for actually makes sense. Since last November, when Attorney General Eric Holder first announced that ...
• Seven Years of War in Iraq: Still Based on Cheney’ ...
  
  Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, but by now, it seems, the American people have become used to living in a state of perpetual war, even though that war was based on torture and lies. Protestors rallied across the country on Saturday, but the anti-war impetus of ...
• “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”: 500 tu ...
  
  If you’re looking for confirmation that discussions of torture and imprisonment without charge or trial can galvanize the public, then a crowd of 500 students in Kent watching a film about Guantánamo on Thursday evening ought to provide conclusive proof. The film in question is the new documentary f ...

Environment _ National Geographic

• Earth Hour 2010: Record 121 Countries to Go Dark
  
  In the biggest Earth Hour yet, millions of businesses and homes around the world will participate in a voluntary blackout to show support for action against global warming.
• Texas Pioneers Energy Storage in Giant Battery
  
  Uniquely prone to electrical outages, Presidio, Texas, deploys a first-of-its-kind solution.
• Global Warming Making People More Aggressive?
  
  Forget anger over leaked emails: Murders and assaults could jump by a hundred thousand cases a year in a warmer world, a new study says.
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• Gorillas Extinct in Ten Years in Central Africa?
  
  Gorillas may soon go extinct across much of central Africa, due in part to Chinese timber demand, the ape-meat trade, and mining, a new study says.

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

• Boughton the populist!
  
  Cough!!! Cough!!! Will we find old naked photos of him in Cosmo too? "Boughton enters GOP gubernatorial race as pickup-truck populist"
• Judge Orders Breitbart Brat Home to Mommy and Dadd ...
  
  Co-conspirators Stan Dai and James O'Keefe seen leaving the courthouse in a photo that O'Keefe did not have a chance to tamper with before I could: After getting caught messing with the phone lines in Senator Landrieu's Louisiana office , even videoing his and his co-conspirators with their pant ...
• Rep. Anthony Weiner Teaches Lieberman To Spell
  
  In his own special way : Sharp-eyed Ben was reading my story when he noticed something I had missed: Lieberman managed to misspell the name of Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), who, I swear, has uttered the phrase "As long as you spell my name right" in my presence. Wrote Lieberman: "I fear the people who ...
• After waiting 6 months for Franken to join the Sen ...
  
  Months and months of obstruction that the Democratic party had to sit through waiting for Norm Coleman to give up what he had lost in the elections, a reality of election law that the Dem party had to deal with in Minnesota and in the Senate waiting for a 60th vote. And Scotty Brown is out there mak ...
• Some things are worth crowing about:
  
  Via Tengrain at Mock, Paper, Scissors : Our own Cassie is now a published author! Read Cassie’s article in Mother Jones, and be sure to leave a comment for her there . Go Cassie! And the article is worth the read... The Parent Trap — Flickr/kapungo (Creative Commons) We love seeing bad parents ...

SPL Center

• White National Event Canceled Yet Again
  
  After being jilted by yet another hotel, the white nationalist American Renaissance conference was cancelled again last week — this time, for good. The conference, scheduled for Feb. 19-21, had been held biannually since 1994 and featured prominent academic racists, far-right politicians and other e ...
• Former Militiaman in Alabama Called for Breaking D ...
  
  It wasn’t quite the shot heard around the world, but the sound of glass shattering at Democratic Party offices around the country has put the spotlight on former militiaman Mike Vanderboegh, who furiously called on followers last Friday to protest health care reform by breaking Democratic windows. V ...
• IRS Long a Target of Antigovernment Extremists
  
  This morning’s attack by Joseph Andrew Stack against an IRS office building in Austin, Tex., is a reminder again of how extreme hatred of government can morph into violence. Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has documented 75 domestic terrorist plots, ...
• Ally: Minutemen Leader Knew Defamatory Video Was F ...
  
  To hear San Diego Minutemen leader Jeff Schwilk’s crony and fellow nativist extremist Ray Carney tell it, Schwilk’s alleged defamation in December – for the second time – of a civil rights activist was no case of mistaken identity. In fact, Carney says, he warned Schwilk that a video in which a woma ...
• Racists Holding Event at Former Justice Roy Moore’ ...
  
  This coming Saturday, the Foundation for Moral Law (FML) in Montgomery, Ala., will be the site of the 2010 Alabama Secession Day Commemoration , featuring speakers tied to the League of the South , a neo-Confederate hate group that considers slavery “God-ordained” and advocates for “the cultural dom ...

change: org.

• Innovative teachers use technology for reading, wr ...
  
  In Minnesota, a suburban school district is experimenting with social media in teaching first through third graders. Too young? Hardly. "[Students spend] a lot of their own time creating content, reading and writing. Last time I checked, those are things we really wanted kids to do," says Ann Flynn, ...
• Life After Homelessness: Learning to Leave Violenc ...
  
  This is the first of a five-part series looking at the lives of young people making the journey out of long-term homelessness at Hospitality House in Australia. At Hospitality House , we work with a small number of people who can't move out of homelessness using the traditional shelter system and n ...
• Will New York Fix Legal Defense for the Poor?
  
  Forty-seven years after the Supreme Court ruled in  Gideon v. Wainwright that all criminal defendants have a right to counsel, that right is in tatters. Budget shortfalls for public defenders are well-documented , and the need is acute: more than 80% of felony defendants in large states are too poor ...
• Is the Social Sector Going Through Its Own Age Of ...
  
  At his keynote presentation at re:Vision 2010 last night in Toronto, "How To Change The World," author David Bornstein made a fascinating historical analogy. For him, the broad shift in the nonprofit and social enterprise space from guesswork to knowable results and measurable impact is akin to the ...
• Where Immigration Reform and Economic Justice Over ...
  
  Last Sunday, March 21 wasn't an ordinary Sunday on Capitol Hill. The House Democratic leadership was busy shoring up the majority needed to pass the health insurance reform bill. Protesters outside were shouting slogans and waving signs, egged on by some House Republicans. Meanwhile, an estimated 20 ...

Common Dreams -News

• US Lobbies a Hurdle in Mexico Drug War: Calderon
  
  Powerful groups in the United States appear to be blocking efforts to stem the flow of assault weapons fueling Mexico's drug war, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Calderon, who has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers and police to fight drug cartels, tol ...
• Obama, Medvedev Seal Deal on Nuclear Arms Pact
  
  by Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sealed an agreement on Friday on a landmark nuclear arms reduction treaty and will meet to sign it on April 8 in Prague, the White House said. After months of deadlock, a breakthrough deal on a replacement f ...
• No Change on Jerusalem Policy: Netanyahu
  
  JERUSALEM - Israel vowed its policy on Jerusalem would not change as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday convened his security cabinet to craft a response to US demands for peace-promoting concessions. Netanyahu returned from Washington on Thursday after a tense visit that appeared to deepen ...
• US Plans Big Expansion in Effort to Aid Homeowners
  
  by David Streitfeld The Obama administration on Friday will announce broad new initiatives to help troubled homeowners, potentially refinancing several million of them into fresh government-backed mortgages with lower payments. Another element of the new program is meant to temporarily reduce the pa ...
• HUD Study: Rent Assistance Cheaper Than Shelters
  
  by Renee C. Lee When helping first-time homeless, it's cheaper for some communities to house individuals and families in rental apartments than in emergency shelters or transitional housing, according to a federal study released Thursday. In Houston, for example, it cost almost $1,400 a month to ...

Lifehacker

• The File Cabinet Standing Desk [Featured Workspace ...
  
  If you want the health benefits of a standing desk but you have no money in the budget to buy or build one, you're out of luck. Unless, of course, you use a little ingenuity to repurpose some file cabinets. More��
• Recycle an Old Book Into a Journal [Crafts]
  
  We've featured a number of things to do with old books , but what better use for an old book than turning into a new book? Craft blog Craftzine highlights the best way to turn an old book into a new, blank journal. More�� ...
• Ask the Commenters Roundup [Hive Mind]
  
  Is there a method to scan all of my Firefox bookmarks and delete broken or duplicate ones? How can I tell if I'm getting the most speed out of my internet plan? Are there any good ways to use my tech expertise to earn a couple extra dollars? How do I connect my Nintendo DS to the in ...
• Build an $800 Corner Desk for Less than $50 [DIY]
  
  Lifehackers like us need lots of space, and you've probably seen the awesome-but-expensive corner desks many of our featured workspaces sport—thankfully, DIY blog Knock Off Wood has detailed plans for building one yourself, for a fraction of i ...
• Use Old Milk Cartons to Send Delicate CDs Through ...
  
  It's a law of the universe that whenever you need a jewel case, there are none to be found. If you find yourself needing to mail a CD, make an envelope out of a milk carton to keep them protected. More��

Newshoggers - AfPak

• Bush & Blair Killed The Special Relationship
  
  By Steve Hynd Renowened British national security reporter Michael Smith - he off "Downing Street Memos" fame - notes in the London Times today that a report by the Commons foreign affairs committee says that using the term "special relationship" to describe Britain's relations with the U.S. “is pot ...
• Pakistan Sends More Troops To Indian Border
  
  By Steve Hynd Just days after Hillary Clinton's giggling presser with Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Pakistan is already walking back any real co-operation with American interests - and, as always, Pakistani fears of India are the prime motive. The Financial Times eports: Pakistan has sent extra troops to it ...
• NATO Tries to Silence a Truth-Teller in Afghanista ...
  
  By Derrick Crowe Q: Why would U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan go out of their way to smear a journalist? A: Because he told the truth about a night raid that killed Afghan civilians, including pregnant women. Last week, I spoke with Afghanistan-based journalist Jerome Starkey about his reporti ...
• Paying not to quake in our boots
  
  at Chinese defense spending trends. 
• U.S., Allies Responsible for Most Marjah Civilian ...
  
  By Derrick Crowe According to the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, U.S. and Allied forces have killed and injured more civilians than have the insurgents during Operation Moshtarak. Incredibly, the Pentagon continues to insist that this operation "protects the people." AIHRC's Feb. 23 pre ...

Water Wars

• World at war over water (The New Statesman)
  
  The most bitter conflicts of the next 50 years won’t be over oil. The prize commodity of the future is the stuff of life – water. How we manage it now will determine if we’ll survive tomorrow.
• There are plants that sip water but never guzzle i ...
  
  Ever since settlers turned the first clump of dirt west of the Rockies, there have been water wars. These conflicts grow even more turbulent in periods of prolonged drought. During the 20th century, water needs escalated as immigrants flooded in. Westerners have been sensitive to water consumption l ...
• There are plants that sip water but never guzzle i ...
  
  Ever since settlers turned the first clump of dirt west of the Rockies, there have been water wars. These conflicts grow even more turbulent in periods of prolonged drought. During the 20th century, water needs escalated as immigrants flooded in. Westerners have been sensitive to water consumption l ...
• There are plants that sip water but never guzzle i ...
  
  Ever since settlers turned the first clump of dirt west of the Rockies, there have been water wars. These conflicts grow even more turbulent in periods of prolonged drought. During the 20th century, water needs escalated as immigrants flooded in. Westerners have been sensitive to water consumption l ...
• There are plants that sip water but never guzzle i ...
  
  Ever since settlers turned the first clump of dirt west of the Rockies, there have been water wars. These conflicts grow even more turbulent in periods of prolonged drought. During the 20th century, water needs escalated as immigrants flooded in. Westerners have been sensitive to water consumption l ...

WordPress | Economics

• Ron Paul Inquisitions the Fed: The Keynesians Have ...
  
  An inquisition took place the past few days in the hearing rooms of the House Financial Services Com
• Obamacare can and should be repealed
  
  In a comment on my post about how “deluded” (not) opponents of the Democrats’ soci
• Economics: A Qualitative Approach
  
  If economics is the study of the dynamics involved in the production, distribution, and consumption
• Science and Soul: Bloom Box
  
  I admit, I have been absolutely awful about posting as of late.  I apologize.  Work and assignments
• two more responses to toolbox
  
  As I continued reading the introduction to the Toolbox, I jotted down these quick responses to some

Electronic Intifada

• Restaurant attacked for barring armed Israeli sold ...
  
  An Arab-owned restaurant in the Israeli city of Haifa has been caught in a whirlwind of legal action and threats of violence after staff refused to serve a soldier in unifo ...
• Lebanese army encircling Baddawi refugee camp
  
  The relationship between the Lebanese government and the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon is changing. The process of redefining the old relationship began explosively with the ...
• Visions of Palestine's present and future in "Invi ...
  
  The recent Hollywood films Invictus and Avatar inspire reflection on the past, present and future hopes of the Palestinian nation. The response to these movies among audiences arou ...
• Rights groups dispute Israel's story in Hebron kil ...
  
  RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - In early February, 41-year-old Fayez Ahmed Faraj, a father of nine from the city of Hebron, 30 miles south of Jerusalem, in the southern West B ...
• Israel's inclusion in economic organization a thre ...
  
  Membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which includes 30 of the world's most developed countries, does not provide money or any special eco ...

Afghanistan Sun

• Obama in Afghanistan discusses corruption
  
  US President Barack Obama has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan.
• Taliban fighters are 'conditioned' to di ...
  
  A former insurgent in Afghanistan has claimed that Taliban fighters are conditioned to die in battle.
• Prince Harry one step closer to returning t ...
  
  Prince Harry has come one step closer to his dream of returning to serving again in Afghanistan after being judged talented enough to fly the lethal Apache attack helicopters.
• British troops to be shifted from Helmand under Mc ...
  
  Under a new plan being drawn up by NATO commander in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal, British troops would be withdrawn from Helmand province and be replaced by US Marines.
• 'At war' US justifies drone attacks in ...
  
  Amid growing discontent in Pakistan over the continuous drone attacks in the ungoverned tribal regions near the Afghan-Pak border, the United States has justified the Central Investigation Agency (CIA) operated missile hits against Al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists citing the right to "self-defence" u ...

Futurismic

• Personal Information: episode 6
  
  Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 Personal Information: episode 6 Share and Enjoy: Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0.00 ...
• It’s a man’s life in the global pseudocorporate cy ...
  
  PC Pro has an interesting insight into the daily goings-on at a defunct scareware corporation from Ukraine [via SlashDot], which – if it’s to be taken at face value – demonstrates how similar such blackhat operations are to many (arguably more legitimate) organisations, at least as far as flim-flamm ...
• A dialogue with a book pirate
  
  Nancy Kress was tipped off about a website offering unlicensed ebook versions of her novels, and decided to get in touch with the person in charge. It’s an interesting insight into the mindset of the ideologically-motivated (but nonetheless confused) content pirate: … permit me to point out a fundam ...
• Destroying malaria… with frickin’ LASERS
  
  Malaria remains one of the great unsolved health problems of the developing world, with the disease stubbornly resisting all attempts at eradication. So why not focus on the vector instead: the blood-hungry mosquitoes that spread malaria around? And why not use an idea straight from the science fict ...
• Black Cloud Computing: botnets dwarf legitimate cl ...
  
  Via SlashDot, another reminder of the sheer scale and clout of botnets, all just sitting out there waiting to be rented, no questions asked: … the biggest legitimate cloud provider is Google, based on Joffe’s information, made up of 500,000 systems, 1 million CPUs and 1,500 gigabits per second (Gbps ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

• Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
• Swine Flu
• Putin and the Geopolitics of the New Cold War: Or ...
• The Fake Oil Crisis of 1973
• Fossiles Erdöl
  
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Whistleblowers Protection Blog

• Stephen M. Kohn breaks down S. 372 on Boiling Frog ...
  
  Last week, Stephen M. Kohn was invited by Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs Post to debate Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform on the controversial “Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act” (S. 372). In Mr. Eisen’s absence (he declined the invitation to par ...
• Fred Whitehurst converses on his legacy at the FBI ...
  
  Fred Whitehurst is the whistleblower who revealed that the crime lab at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) failed to live up to its reputation for scientific integrity, and sometimes even resorted to falsifying results. Today Jeff Stein of the Washington Post's Spy Talk blog calls Whitehurst ...
• RCG dialysis company pilfered $19.4 million
  
  A federal judge in Tennessee has found that a dialysis company bilked the federal government out of $19.4 million. U.S. District Judge William J. Haynes Jr. issued the order against Renal Care Group, Renal Care Group Supply Co. and Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. The order concluded that the co ...
• Whistleblower complaint prompts DaimlerChrysler to ...
  
  The Detroit Free Press is reporting that DaimlerChrysler and U.S. government attorneys have reached an agreement in which the company will pay $185 million to settle charges that it paid bribes to foreign officials to obtain at least $50 million in business profits. Company auditor David Bazzetta ob ...
• Maryland Senate passes watered-down state False He ...
  
  The Maryland Senate yesterday passed a state version of the False Claims Act (FCA) by a vote of 37 in favor and 8 against. Before passing this bill, however, the Senate watered it down with an amendment. The Maryland False Health Claims Act of 2010, SB 279 , as amended, no longer allows the state (o ...

Science Express

• Pollution from Asia circles globe at stratospheric ...
  
  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 ...
• After growth spurt, supermassive black holes spend ...
  
  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.
• Research team finds structure of 'swine flu' virus
  
  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 ...
• New approach precisely tracks evolution's footprin ...
  
  (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 ...
• RNA interference found in budding yeasts
  
  Some budding yeast species have the ability to silence genes using RNA interference (RNAi). Until now, most researchers thought that no budding yeasts possess the RNAi pathway because Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the protoypical model budding yeast does not.

TechDirt

• Hollywood Seeks To Kill Off 3D Golden Goose With M ...
  
  Ah, Hollywood. While the movie business has been doing quite well at the box office lately, many in the industry still haven't quite realized why . Obviously the rise of 3D flicks has given people a reason to actually leave the home and go to the theater -- in part because the experience is much b ...
• EA's Own Employees Annoyed At Pointless DRM Soluti ...
  
  We were among those who were disappointed that EA -- a company that has tried to suggest it had learned that DRM was bad -- decided to move forward with a required internet connection on Command & Conquer 4 , even after many people had complained last summer, when such plans were leaked. Howeve ...
• Mardis Gras Indians Claim Copyright Protection Ove ...
  
  A bunch of folks have sent over the recent NY Times article about the "Mardis Gras Indians" -- a group of folks in New Orleans who create elaborate costumes that they wear to a few events each year (with Mardis Gras being a big one, obviously). With the costumes being so elaborate, they're often ph ...
• Is A Moron In A Hurry Confused Between Plastic Bui ...
  
  Tom Kintop was the first of a few of you to send in the news that LEGO, makers of the plastic bricks -- and rather well known for its overly aggressive intellectual property enforcement attempts, which often get shot down -- has sued a small non-profit organization in Minneapolis called Project Leg ...
• Fixing Class Action Lawsuits
  
  For a long time, we've noted that while class action lawsuits do serve a useful purpose, it seems like all too often they're abused. Quite frequently, we see the only "class" that really benefits from such lawsuits are the lawyers who file the lawsuit, who end up taking the bulk of any "settlement. ...

VacTruth

• Ocular Motor Damage
  
  Langes Clinical Neurology A small portion from a study on how Polio affected the midbrain
• GSK Push Tasteless Propaganda Ad for Cervical Canc ...
  
• GSK Push Tastless Propaganda Ad for Cervical Cance ...
  
• Rotarix vaccine banned by UAE
  
  . . . Kamilah Qasimi TopNews Arab Emirates 03/25/2010 On Wednesday, Dr Amin Al-Amiri, CEO for Medical Practice and Licensing at the Ministry announced the UAE Ministry of Health has taken the decision to suspend utilization of GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix vaccine for some time. The vaccine was found t ...
• Revenues from global vaccine market register UD$27 ...
  
  Global Vaccine Market Forecast to 2012 03/25/2010 Vaccine has emerged as one of the most profitable business segments in the healthcare industry. The segment registered revenues of around US$ 27 Billion in 2009. The growth has been driven by the emergence of some new chronic diseases and increasing ...

BroadSnark

• Why the Legal System Does Not Work For You
  
  On Monday I wrote about how car contracts work and how people end up getting screwed.  The logical question, and the one that started this all, is why doesn’t the legal system work for you?  And the answer is…it isn’t meant to. Who writes the laws?  Legislators.  Who are the legislators?  They ...
• Watts Towers Closing Down
  
  I don’t usually post on Thursdays, but I just heard that they are closing the Watts Towers (and a bunch of other art centers in L.A.) and it really bums me out. You’ve may have heard of the Watts riots or seen Menace to Society.  But even if you live in L.A., you probably haven’t actually [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  
  I spent my lunch hour (o.k., several hours) over at CATO watching a premier of 10 Rules For Dealing with Police.  Very useful info.  Usually, CATO puts up podcasts of their events.  Nothing up there yet, but I’ll give you the link here, in case they put it up. Another video I would highly recomme ...
• Car Contracts 101
  
  A recent post over on Aretae got me thinking about the law.  Considering that I worked in it for ten years, it’s a bit odd that I don’t spend more time on it.  So let me dive in with a little 101 on my experiences with contract law. For about four and a half years, I [...]
• Things You Might Have Missed
  
  Just making arrangements for next month’s anarchist book fair in New York.  If any of you are going to be there, drop me an email (mel@broadsnark.com). Lots of people refer to Gandhi as a “philosophical anarchist.”  Josh Fattal looks at the evidence. In Anarchist Out and Proud, welshboi contradict ...

Executive Intelligence Review - LaRouche

• The Only Thing Obama Fears Is Lyndon LaRouche
  
  By Debra Freeman Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• LaRouche to Private Washington Seminar: Sovereign ...
  
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• LaRouche Webcast: The Ides of March 2010
  
  By Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• London's `Our Men' in Moscow Keep Poisoning Russia ...
  
  By Rachel Douglas Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12
• Russia: What Comes Next?
  
  Editorial, by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Reprinted from Executive Intelligence Review, March 26, 2010, Vol. 37, No. 12

Armies of Liberation

• US Sanctions Iran Based al Qaeda, Zawahiri Promise ...
  
  The US Treasury Department placed financial sanctions on Saad bin Laden, thought to be in Pakistan, and three alleged al Qaeda operatives in Iran including a Yemeni. The terrorist designation Friday froze their assets within US jurisdictions and prohibits Americans from financial dealings with the ...
• Arabian Peninsula al Qaeda groups merge
  
  In the face of Saudi Arabia’s success against the al Qaeda organization, many Saudi operatives have fled to the more hospitable climate in Yemen, joining others who recently arrived from Iraq, Somalia, and Pakistan. Al Qaeda in Yemen announced its merger with Saudi Arabia’s al Qaeda organization to ...
• Yemen strikes multi-faceted deals with al Qaeda
  
  Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh recently struck a deal with Ayman Zawahiri, and Yemen is in the process of emptying its jails of known jihadists. The Yemeni government is recruiting these established jihadists to attack its domestic enemies as it refrains from serious counter-terror measures aga ...
• Yemen’s Multi Faceted Deals with Al Qaeda (A ...
  
  اليمن تعقد صÙ�قات متعددة الوجوه مع القاعدة كتبت: جين نوÙ�اك – Ù�براير/ 2009 عبدالله عبدالوهاب ناجي- ترجمة خاصة بالمستقلة عقد الرئيس اليمني علي عبدا لله صالح مؤخرا صÙ�قة مع ...
• Yemen’s three terror fronts
  
  By Jane Novak March 28, 2009 3:18 PM Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took credit in an internet statement Friday for a pair of suicide attacks that targeted South Koreans in Yemen. A teen-aged suicide bomber killed four South Korean tourists in Shibam, Hadramout on March 15. A second terror att ...

Dark Politricks

• CAROL DUFF: HERE IS A NEWBORN BABY THAT HAS BEEN D ...
  
• U.S. and Israel sign massive arms deal
  
  From  Haaretz, via Norman Finkestein Here”s how Democracy works: We give them U.S.-taxpayer money in the form of “aid.â€� They use the “aidâ€� to purchase goods from American merchants of death. And the politicians and media babble about whether Netanyahu insulted Biden. Exclusive / Despite ro ...
• Ratzinger is the Perfect Pope – A leering ol ...
  
  By Richard Dawkins 28th March 2010 "Should Pope Benedict XVI be held responsible for the escalating scandals over clerical sexual abuse in Europe?" Yes he should, and it's going to escalate a lot further, as more and more victims break through the guilt of their childhood indoctrination and come ...
• Why I’m happy the Special Relationship might ...
  
  by Dark Politricks One piece of news I have heard over the weekend has really cheered me up. It was a report by the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee that said that the government should be “less deferential” toward the Americans and that the overused and totally phony term "the speci ...
• The end of the “special” relationship ...
  

food and water watch

• USDA Goes Back to the Drawing Board On Better Trac ...
  
  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 ...
• Two options for tap water at Vancouver Olympics: O ...
  
  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 ...
• Farm to School Needs More Support
  
  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 ...
• Food & Water Watch Partners With University of New ...
  
  Today, Food & Water Watch and the University of New Hampshire’s Office of Sustainability kickoff  “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 ...
• USDA Admits Lack of Food Safety Follow-Through
  
  The USDA finally admitted to a small group of consumer group representatives last week that its official policy is to take very little action when it finds ground beef contaminated with E. coli in commerce. That is, unless several human illnesses have already been identified with the product. I pre ...

treehugger

• Cameron and Gore Discuss the Amazon, Avatar 2
  
  This weekend, Avatar director James Cameron spoke at an assembly gathered in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon to speak on topics ranging from sustainability and the power of cinema, to the prospects that there will be a sequel to his blockbuster, green-themed film . No stranger to the environme ...
• Big Cats and Dolphins win Humane Society Media Awa ...
  
  Winner Tippi Hedron with daughter Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas at Genesis Awards. Photos by Long Photography Every year the Humane Society toasts Hollywood for good deeds at the Genesis Awards , a fundraiser that recognizes ethical animal-friendly stories on television, in film and pri ...
• Top 10 Earth Day Swag Items That Are Eco-Friendly ...
  
  Credit: www.asicentral.com/earth Earth Day has taken on a (corporate) life of its own. This April 22, the 40th anniversary, is likely to feature a lot of "stuff" generated just for the occasion. And all that swag kind of defeats the purpose of the holiday. But what if the logo-laden give-aways ar ...
• Photographer David Liittschwager Documents Amazing ...
  
  A sampling of the species found around a coral reef in French Polynesia. Photo by David Liittschwager via National Geographic . Even a small patch of dirt in the middle of a big city can be full of natural wonders -- if you look closely enough. That's what photographer David Liittschwager did, ...
• The Godfather of Efficiency Could Get His Own Unit ...
  
  Image: LA Times Seen by many as the godfather of energy efficiency, an international group of scientists has proposed that Arthur Rosenfeld deserves his own unit of electricity savings. The 54 authors of an article, published in Environmental Research Letters, suggest that one "Rosenfeld" equal t ...

Biosingularity

• Light Switches for Neurons
  
  Just five years ago, scientists at Stanford University discovered that neurons injected with a photo-sensitive gene from algae could be turned on or off with the flip of a light switch. This discovery has since turned hundreds of labs onto the young field of optogenetics. Today researchers around th ...
• Crafting Light-Sensing Cells from Human Skin
  
  Think twice the next time you wipe a few flecks of dandruff from your shoulder. You might be shedding cells that may someday restore human vision. Thomas Reh and colleagues at the University of Washington, in Seattle, have generated light-sensing retinal cells, called photoreceptors, from adult huma ...
• Medpedia launches new clinical trial platform
  
  The Medpedia Project today announced Medpedia Clinical Trials, a platform for patients and physicians to receive information about the thousands of clinical trials that are in process or about to begin. Other online sources already allow for searching clinical trials, but the Medpedia platform allow ...
• Coffee Break Boosts Memory
  
  - A coffee break after an important meeting or class may be just the thing your brain needs to digest new information and improve memory. A new study suggests that resting while awake aids in memory consolidation and improves memory recall, much like getting a good night’s sleep has been shown to ...
• Monitoring Cell Death Could Help Cancer Treatment
  
  When it comes to aggressive cancers, in the brain or lung for example, oncologists know that the sooner they can determine whether a treatment is unsuccessful, the sooner they can reevaluate and, if necessary, prescribe a new course of action. But typically, it takes two months or more to do the bef ...

CFACT ( Panned by SourceWatch )

• An independent review for the IPCC?
  
  With adversaries like this – you don’t need friends
• Environmentalists attack nickel mine
  
  A proposed nickel and copper mine in Michigan̢۪s economically hard-hit Upper Peninsula will never see the light of day if a coalition of environmental groups get their way.
• Utah protests federal land control
  
  Lost jobs and tax revenues have made withstanding the current recession all the more difficult.
• India sets up independent global warming panel
  
  Prediction: The Indian science panel will hasten the end for the IPCC̢۪s once-dominant view of man-made climate change.
• A chill hits wind power
  
  How likely is it that wind turbines can add to Oregon̢۪s generating capacity in the midst of the winter electricity demand surge, and offset the hydroelectric generating restrictions? Not very.

Ria Novosti Online News

• Israel gets ready to strike at Iran's nuclear site ...
  
  Israeli air force have practiced simulated strikes at Iran's nuclear facilities using airspace of at least two unidentified Arab countries.
• Arab League approves plan to "save" Jerusalem from ...
  
  Arab leaders have adopted a series of political and legal measures to confront Israel's settlement policy in annexed east Jerusalem.
• Main news of March 28
  
• Obama urges Afghan government to continue fighting ...
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama, who unexpectedly arrived in Afghanistan earlier on Sunday and met with his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai, said he wanted to see progress continue on Afghan efforts to tackle corruption and drug-trafficking.
• Situation in Afghanistan
  

Ria Novosti - Science & Technology

• U.K. could become Russia's major hi-tech partner - ...
  
  The U.K. could become one of Russia's leading partners in innovative technologies, the head of the country's hi-tech government corporation Rosnano told RIA Novosti.
• Kazakhstan says Russian Proton launches to continu ...
  
  Kazakhstan has no objection to launches of Russia's Proton carrier rockets from its territory while a new environmentally-friendly launch pad is being put into operation, the head of the Kazakh space agency said on Wednesday.
• NASA sets shuttle Discovery launch for April 5
  
  NASA has given the final go-ahead for the launch of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station (ISS) scheduled for April 5, NASA said on its website on Saturday.
• Russia to boost share in global space market
  
  Russia wants to increase its share in the global space market by building a new space center, the head of Russia's Energia space corporation said on Friday.
• Russian Volga region moves to produce flying sauce ...
  
  The government of the Ulianovsk Region in the Volga area has approved a five-year program to produce so-called "flying saucers" - a bizarre hybrid of a helicopter and an aerostat.

Pruning Shears

• This Week In Tyranny
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Jane Mayer dismantled Marc Thiessen’s book “Courting Disaster”: In order to make the case that America was blind to the threat of Al Qaeda in the days before 9/11, Thiessen skips over the scandalous amount of intelligence that reache ...
• Political Rehabilitation and Financial Reform
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Republicans may be at their lowest point since 1964. Sure, they got walloped in 2006 and again in 2008, but afterwards seemed to project an attitude of “beaten but unbowed.” Now though, there is an air of capitulation about them, w ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  
  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. I don’t want the military to be above criticism, so I don’t have a problem with this . It is worth noting, though, that a similarly sharp cr ...
• Will Bloggers Rescue the Lehman Story?
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post Last year I wrote about Mark Mitchell’s story of Deep Capture , a complex tale of financial corruption centered around the use of illegal naked short selling and phantom stock. It was (and is) a difficult story to write about becaus ...
• This Week In Tyranny
  
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The ACLU asked the president about his commitment to the rule of law. It probably cost more than $1000, but the lack of of a wingnut welfare shop’s imprimatur prevented it from getting any traction. Our image in the Muslim world wou ...

Natural Health News

• How to Prevent Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Natur ...
  
  Studies have found that vitamin D plays an important role in mediating immune function via a number of pathways, including enhancing the release of antimicrobial peptides in your skin. � New research now shows that low serum vitamin D levels increase the risk of nasal carriage of methicillin-re ...
• High Fructose Corn Syrup Linked to Liver Scarring
  
  High fructose corn syrup, which some studies have linked to obesity, may also be harmful to your liver, according to research. Increased consumption of high fructose corn syrup was associated with scarring in the liver, or fibrosis, among patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).  A ...
• Should You Eat Many Small Meals Each Day?
  
  The notion behind eating smaller, more frequent meals is simple -- the notion is that spreading out your daily calories over six meals stimulates your metabolism, keeping it going at a faster pace and thereby burning more calories. Some studies have found modest health benefits to eating smaller m ...
• Spice Up Your Health
  
  A new study finds that the sauces you use to marinade your meat may provide unforeseen health benefits -- especially if you never fire up the barbecue. Common marinades may be more than just tasty sauces -- they can also provide a major source of natural antioxidants. Foods rich in antioxidants pla ...
• Caesarean Births Hit Record High in 2007
  
  Nearly 1.4 million babies born in the United States in 2007 were delivered by Caesarean section, a record U.S. high and a larger number than in most other industrialized nations. In 2007, nearly one-third of all births were Caesarean deliveries, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s ...

Antemedius

• Journalistic Integrity: Helen Thomas On The Run Up ...
  
  Yesterday we saw Helen Thomas talking with Paul Jay of The Real News about US Foreign Policy in the Middle East and her "one question" for Barack Obama about nuclear weapons in the region. Today in part 2 of the interview Helen discusses with Jay the virtually total capitulation of US media to the B ...
• When Was the Last Time You Visited Iraq?
  
  Originally published at TomDispatch.com Exporting American Democracy to the World Recently, I wrote about a crew of pundits and warrior-journalists eager not to see the U.S. military leave Iraq.� That piece appeared on the� op-ed page �of the� Los Angeles Times �(and in a longer version �at TomDisp ...
• What Democrats and their sycophants have brought u ...
  
  As Jane Hamsher reports : Pelosi and other Democrats are bragging about how very conservative the newly-passed health insurance mandate really is. When the "best" that can be said about Obamacare is how conservative it is, Democratic Party hacks might want to rethink their support for it. Quoting G ...
• How the universe began...
  
  Some say that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. But what do we know about our early universe and how we got here? How do we know that our ideas about the early universe are right? What is dark matter and dark energy and why do we think it exists in the first place? All of ...
• Credibility: Helen Thomas On Her One Question For ...
  
  In part one of his interview with Helen Thomas, longest-serving member of the White House Press Corps, The Real New Network's Paul Jay asks her about her first question for President Obama. The question, asking President Obama to name all the countries in the Middle-East that have nuclear weapons, ...

Son of Alex Constantine's Blacklist

• UnderpantsGate: Big Oil, the CIA and the Attempted ...
  
  Also see: American Sponsorship of Global Terrorism By Alex Constantine (Supplementary revisions, 12-30-09, 1:29 pm) It’s All, Once Again, About Big Oil and a Pipeline … Abdulmutallab’s exploding unmentionables “Why Was Umar AbdulMutallab in Houston in August 2008? Whom Did He Visit There? What Did H ...
• Celebrities Lead Charge against Scientology
  
  Hollywood figures quit ‘rip-off’ church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities Peter Beaumont in London, Toni O’Loughlin in Sydney, and Paul Harris in New York The Observer | 22 November 2009 The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the Jo ...
• Baltimore: Cultist Withdraws Guilty Plea in Baby&# ...
  
  BALTIMORE — A former member of a defunct religious cult has backed out of a plea deal and will face trial on charges he and others starved a toddler to death. Marcus Cobbs had agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of accessory after the fact. But his attorney abruptly withdrew the plea Friday mo ...
• What’s Wrong with this RFID Chip?
  
  RFID chip brought to you by the Carlyle Group and Matrics, Inc.
• Will Donor Scandals Doom Crist’s Senate bid?
  
  ” … Three of Crist’s top fund-raisers have been hamstrung by federal investigations in the past nine months, and a fourth, Jupiter sports agent and real estate investor Marc Roberts, is facing a federal lawsuit alleging he defrauded a business partner out of $100 million to support his own ‘lavish p ...

Center for a Livable Future

• Maryland’s Grocery Store Tax Credit Bill Could Imp ...
  
  Maryland House Bill 1135, the Grocery Store Property Tax Credit Bill, passed the House yesterday with 138-0 votes! The bill grants a property tax credit to grocery stores throughout the state located in low-income areas. Delegate Justin Ross, the main sponsor of the bill, represents Prince George’s ...
• Urban Chicken Farming
  
  This past Saturday, the Baltimore Food Makers held their monthly potluck in Northeast Baltimore at the home of an urban chicken farming couple. Our hosts distilled a lifetime of farming know-how into a short tour of their backyard chicken coop, and fielded questions about their three hens, poultry h ...
• JHU’s Ambitious Sustainability Plan Needs Help fro ...
  
  Johns Hopkins University reached a major sustainability milestone March 11 when President Ron Daniels announced a commitment to reduce the University’s carbon footprint by more than half by 2025 - which will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 81,000 metric tons a year. That is equivalent to the annu ...
• AVMA leadership missing key facts on antibiotics i ...
  
  Dr. Ron DeHaven, CEO and Executive VP of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)*, spoke last week to the pork industry in Kansas City, MO. DeHaven opposes legislation to ban the use of non-therapeutic (growth promoting) antibiotics and antibiotics with human uses from food animal produc ...
• Beyond “Museum” Gardens
  
  This post was originally published in the spring 2010 issue of Edible: East Bay. For the link to this article from that magaize - http://www.ediblecommunities.com/eastbay/spring-2010/food-for-thought.htm Beyond “Museum” Gardens With all of the coverage of Michelle Obama in the news lately, you wo ...

Norwegianity

• Smokin’
  
  Yes, a new header (sorry Mick). Attention must be paid and Obama finally did something to justify his getting paid. No, not the just barely (not really) acceptable health care reform bill he signed twice last week, but his entirely sane decision to recess appoint fifteen highly qualified individuals ...
• Septicism
  
  A couple of stories raced through the blogosphere yesterday with remarkably alacrity. One was the back story on David Frum’s firing from the American Enterprise Institute think tank. Frum famously ripped on Republicans earlier this week for their unyielding stance on healthcare reform. Think Progres ...
• Sinead O’Connor on il Papa
  
  The more reporters learn about Pope Natzinger’s handling of the Rev. Peter Hullermann pedophilia case, the harder it is to pretend that our former Hitler Youth Corps Pope ever gave a shit about buggered choir boys. It’s an evil church. It has always been evil from its earliest days of being coopted ...
• The return of Johnny Ass®ocket
  
  Brian Lambert on Hinderaker’s latest eruption: As you might expect, John Hinderaker at Power Line has been melting down his keyboard railing against the “disaster” that is “Obamacare.” In his most recent post, the topic is “political violence,” in the news (and being exploited by liberals, he ...
• Do overs
  
  By now I’m sure you’ve heard that GOoPer nitpickers have sent the reform bill back to the House for fixes. Well I’m certainly torn. This is the usual horseshit but if somehow (and I don’t think this will) derail healthcare . . . well, it’s not like the Republicans won’t totally and completely own th ...

The Seferm Post

• Links for 2010-02-27 [del.icio.us]
  
  Here Are 10 Things Not to Share with Your Co-Workers There are certain things co-workers need not know about each other, including religious and political views as well as personal issues, but some folks just can't seem to keep their mouths shut. And don't forget -- a casual conversation can eas ...
• Links for 2010-02-24 [del.icio.us]
  
  10 Top Things You Need To Know About 'Up In The Air' Movie The film is an adaptation, co-written by Juno director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Sheldon Turner, of a novel by Walter Kirn published in 2001, though Reitman tried to claim sole credit for writing it initially, until the Writer’s Gui ...
• Links for 2010-02-11 [del.icio.us]
  
  Here Are 10 Things Not To Include In Your Resume And Why Employers don't have the time or the patience to sift through irrelevant information like your hobbies, interests or how many grandchildren you have. Just stick to the basics and you're good to go. Here are 10 things to leave off your résu ...
• Links for 2010-02-10 [del.icio.us]
  
  Get Rid Of Browser Hijackers, Spyware, Malware Once And For All They're intrusive and often difficult to delete. Sometimes, people actually wipe their hard drives clean and start over again just to get rid of them. It's time to act! Winter Driving Safety Tips: How To Take Control Of Your Car ...
• Facebook A Big Threat To Israeli Soldiers
  
  The military's added it is cracking down on soldiers' use of social networking Web sites and has launched a campaign warning of the dangers of sharing military classified information online.

The World We Live In

• Palestinians urge global action against Israel
  
  The Palestinian Authority has called on international bodies and the Arab League summit in Libya to protect East Jerusalem al-Quds against Israeli settlement activities. Acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas, speaking at the opening of a two-day Arab League summit in the Libyan city of Sirte, called on int ...
• Bling Faith or Emotional Pull ?? | Teeth Maestro
  
  Recent debates, especially on facebook , regarding Zaid Hamid and his relations with a convicted blasphemer who died in jail almost a decade ago have certainly caught the Pakistani youth by surprise. They find themselves locked in an argument which is taking a heavy toll on their intellect and ener ...
• Israeli tanks cross technical fence near Lebanon
  
  Two Israeli tanks have crossed their technical fence near the border with Lebanon two kilometers south of the disputed Ghajar village. The United Nations peacekeeping forces in Lebanon, also known as the UNIFIL, were present in the area along with Lebanese Armed Forces to make sure that the Israeli ...
• Colonel Imam: ‘I have the Green Beret but the Tale ...
  
  Perhaps no man alive knows Mullah Omar, his Taleban insurgents and the American military quite so well as “Colonel Imam�, a battle-creased Pakistani officer who wears a faded British paratrooper’s jacket and a turban. As a top agent for the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI, Colonel I ...
• Muslims Are Their Own Worst Enemy
  
  Muslims are numerous but powerless. Divisions among Muslims, especially between Sunni and Shi’ites, have consigned the Muslim Middle East to almost a century of Western control. Muslims cannot even play together. The Islamic Solidarity Games, a regional version of the Olympics, which were to be he ...

Center for Food Safety

• Court Rules in GMO Sugar Beet Case
  
  Today, federal district Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California denied a request by a coalition of organic seed growers, and conservation and food safety groups seeking a temporary ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. While Judge White denied the pr ...
• More Than 200,000 NGOs, Farmers, Consumers, and Or ...
  
  Resulting contamination of non-GE and organic alfalfa hay and seed would devastate livelihoods and organic industry The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today announced that more than 200,000 people submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) critiquing the substance and ...
• Lawsuit Filed to Bar GE Crops from National Wildli ...
  
  Delaware’s Bombay Hook Lacks Required Environmental Review and Justification A lawsuit filed today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service seeks to compel the Service to uproot genetically engineered (GE) crops from its Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware. As many as 8 ...
• Food Safety and Health Organizations Criticize Ela ...
  
  Food safety, consumer and health advocacy organizations blasted Eli Lilly subsidiary Elanco for claiming that prominent health organizations had endorsed use of the controversial artificial growth hormone rbGH,(rbST) on dairy cows when, in fact, they have not. Elanco’s report, from eight experts and ...
• Farmers and Conservation Groups Seek to Halt Plant ...
  
  Earlier Court Decision Found Federal Approval of GE Sugar Beets to Be Unlawful Earthjustice and Center for Food Safety announced today that they filed court papers seeking a ban on genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets and sugar beet seeds. The motion was filed in Federal Court on behalf of a coal ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

• Marianne Mackay speaks at rally for Mr Ward 17-3-1 ...
  
  Marianne Mackay, Deputy Co-Chair DICWC (WA) Inc addresses the crowd gathered at Parliament House in Perth on 17 March 2010 calling for compensation to be paid to the family of Mr Ward immediately, and end to the G4S contract and to deaths in custody. The Ward Campaign for Justice ...
• Flawed justice: The case of Leonard Peltier
  
  Flawed justice: The case of Leonard Peltier By Peter Worthington Toronto Sun http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/peter_worthington/2010/03/13/13219481.html Leonard Peltier is now starting his 35th year in prison. He is 65, and more than half his life has been spent as a prisoner. Impassi ...
• Re Leonard Peltier. Official Submission for the Cl ...
  
  United Nations Universal Periodic Review: Official Submission for the Cluster Report on “U.S. Political Prisoners and Domestic Repression”. 15 March 2010 The United States claims to be a government of law, promoting within its integral processes guarantees of fairness and justice. Through the U.S. ...
• Simon Power at the UN: bullshit and subterfuge
  
  By Kittyhawk Source New Zealand’s minister for justice, Simon Power, fronted up before the United Nations Human Rights committee this week to give the annual report about the state of NZ’s human rights. He tried to cover up the government’s assault on fundamental freedoms, basic human rights and ...
• Jessica Yee: Why I’m a REALLY angry Native in Cana ...
  
  - Required Reading - By Racialicious Special Correspondent Jessica Yee: -- http://www.racialicious.com/2010/03/16/why-im-a-really-angry-native-in-canada-right-now/ Right now I’m owning the title/stereotype/image/whatever you conjure up in your mind about “angry Natives” because along with the usual ...

Pensieve

• Chigüire Bipolar Hacked, Bad Week for Freedom
  
  This week has seen the demise of Google China, the arrest of Guillermo Zuolaga, the president of Globovisión, Venezuela’s last opposition channel, and the reelection of Jose Miguel Insulza as the leader of the OAS. In a much smaller and more personal level, my website was hacked. But that the Chigà ...
• My Site Was Hacked, sorry
  
  Apparently my site was hacked. I removed 17 links to malware and have resubmitted this site to Google, hopefully everything will be ok soon. Related posts:Presidential Island, by El Chigüire Bipolar What! (Google Suggest oddity) Here Comes Another Bubble Related posts: Presidential Island, by E ...
• Presidential Island, by El Chigüire Bipolar
  
  El Chigüire Bipolar is a Venezuelan spoof news website inspired by The Onion and the Colbert Report. It has probably been the cause of Hugo Chavez’s latest attack on the freedom of Venezuleans, his threat to censor the internet. Thanks Gringa for leading me to find this! If your browser is warning ...
• Ted Williams Show Launches Website
  
  The Ted Williams Show, a Monterrey rock band I play keyboards for, has released a new website, in Spanish, called “El Show de Ted Williams“. It is a very modest embryo of a website, but hopefully I’ll be able to expand it to include bios, a blog, a lyrics section, and who knows what else. The [...] ...
• Strong Aftershock Strikes Chile
  
  This morning a very strong aftershock has struck very close to the epicenter of last month’s earthquake in Chile. The USGS is reporting it’s magnitude as 7.2 in the Richter Scale. There is very little data yet in the international media. I’ll be publishing more as I know more. Since the Richter Sca ...

Green Times

• Earth Hour 2010
  
  It’s an issue of climate change, it’s not about what country you come from, it’s about what PLANET you’re from! Now it’s showtime…
• Environmental News - 26/03/10
  
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Consortium to consider Vic ethanol plant (http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-business/consortium-to-consider-vic-ethanol-plant-20100324-qvwt.html)-The Victorian government has linked up with ...
• Environmental News - 24/03/10
  
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Retail giants dragged into bungled batts saga (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/energy-smart/retail-giants-dragged-into-bungled-batts-saga-20100322-qr9r.html)-Major retailers and building compani ...
• Environmental News - 23/03/10
  
  Environmental News (http://www.smh.com.au/business/red-faces-over-green-home-loans-20100205-nikz.html) Artist places sculptures on melting Arctic iceberg (http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62I4GS20100320)-A Dutch artist arranged two large sculptures on an iceberg in Greenland on Friday to rai ...
• Why We Should Buy Australian Owned and Made
  
  Take a look in your kitchen cupboard, surprisingly, a large number of those familiar brands in there are actually foreign owned – but how can you tell...

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• KBR Bills $5 Million For Mechanics Who Work 43 Min ...
  
  By Adam Weinstein The Department of Defense agreed to pay the megacontractor KBR $5 million a year to repair tactical vehicles, from Humvees to big rigs, at Joint Base Balad, a large airfield and supply center north of Baghdad. Yet according to a new Pentagon report , what the military got was ...
• U.S. looks to export drone technology to allies
  
  Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday he hoped to export coveted U.S. drone technology to allies, despite legal hurdles, and played down the threat from rival drone programs in nations like Iran. Gates, testifying at a Senate hearing, said it was in the U.S. interest to try to help fri ...
• GOP: We'll Kill the Liars Who Say We Are Inciting ...
  
  'Where does it say in the Constitution that you can't use the 'n-word?' Satire by R J Shulman Republican leaders are vehemently denying their tactics and rhetoric have been responsible for the major recent increase in political violence... "The liberal press has it all wrong when they accuse me ...
• Obama appoints new chief for war court at Guantana ...
  
  MacDonald repeatedly testified at Congress as bullish backer of tribunal system In the clearest sign yet that the Obama administration is re-energizing tribunals for captives at a Guantanamo it wants closed, the Pentagon this week installed a retired three-star admiral with national security and ...
• No assent given to US drone attacks: Pakistan
  
  Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik says the US drone attacks in the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan are carried out without the consent of Islamabad. Speaking to reporters outside the Lahore High Court on Friday, Malik said the controversial issue of US drone attacks was to ...

Daily Loaf

• Concert review: Robert Earl Keen at State Theatre ...
  
  Somewhere in the midst of my typical schedule of 12 to 15 concerts a month, there are the ones I count my favorites. Last week's show by Texas-born songwriter Robert Earl Keen wins this month's vote, hands down.
• Did TBARTA break the law in voting to oppose Homet ...
  
  It's not surprising that TBARTA (Tampa Bay Area Regional Transit Authority) passed a resolution opposing Amendment 4, also known as Florida Hometown Democracy — but it may be illegal. And even if it's not technically illegal, TBARTA's action is just plain wrong. As Carl Hiaasen says, our politician ...
• Florida U.S. Senate Debate takes center stage
  
  After watching Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio this morning on Fox News Sunday, it was clear voters have a choice. Unfortunately the choice is between two flawed candidates. One who is a big-spending liberal when it comes to policy, the other is a big-spender with other people’s money who doesn’t se ...
• Honda Grand Prix interviews: Meet the parents of l ...
  
  UPDATE #2: Following the Star Mazda race, thunder, lightning and pelting rain caused racetrack officials to evacuate the stands. A whole lot of wet folks in improvised raingear made a mass exodus. UPDATE #1: Hayden Duerson and Nick Andries were both retired from the Star Mazda race. Hadyen’s car h ...
• The Green Community week in review: Energy efficie ...
  
  Read what you might have missed last week in CL's Green Community.

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

• Israel Tries to Expel People For Their Beliefs
  
  By Noam Sheizaf, cross-posted from his Promised Land blog with permission. Pay close attention to this item. It doesn’t seem like much, but it’s an important one: Two international activists, Ariadna Jove Marti (from Spain) and Bridgette Chappell (Australia), who are living in Bir Zeit in the Wes ...
• In West Bank Palestinian Childhood Is Cut Short &# ...
  
  Palestinian Child Being Arrested In the West Bank, there is a two-tiered system of justice, including for minors.  For settler children, justice is administered according to Israeli domestic law, with all the due process protections that affords.  They  cannot be  charged as adults until they re ...
• Quarreling Lovers Make Up Over Missiles
  
  The United States and Israel may be fighting, but fear not. These BAF (Best Allies Forever) have the equivalent of a bunch of roses to reconcile over, a sweetheart deal to buy fighter jets. The US supplies the cash, and Israel buys the weapons. It’s like a gift certificate! For your own store. That ...
• Gaza Students Can’t Study in Gaza, Can&#8217 ...
  
  From Gisha’s Gaza Gateway Between March 1 and March 5, 2010, the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt was open, and 4427 people passed through the crossing, including 461 students. Of these students, 100 were returned to Gaza by the Egyptians either because Egypt believed that they would ...
• At-Tuwani: Where Walking to School is An Act of R ...
  
  Here is another report from the Christian Peacemaker Team, who look out after the children in the area of the At-Tuwani village in the southern Hebron hills  as they try to make their way to school.   Once again, the Israeli military fails to patrol the children as they are required to do to protect ...

Politics in the Zeros

• The Catholic Church is a criminal enterprise
  
  Taibbi unleashed. The Church is selling snake oil, knows it, and can’t change or they lose their authority and (no rapidily disintegrating) power over people. He suggests the Church be prosecuted under RICO and have their tax-exempt status yanked. Taxpayers, via tax-exemption, should not be forced t ...
• Will O’ The Wisp
  
  He’ll be here soon. You don’t really believe everything They tell us, do you?
• Why our political system is dysfunctional
  
  The two major parties spend inordinate amounts of time blaming each other. Which conveniently means they never have to do much because the Other Side is always mucking things up. Plus, such an approach lends itself well to constant fund-raising while demonizing the opposition. Consider the following ...
• Lest you think deserts are lifeless
  
  Hedgehog cactus in bloom. More photos on my Tucson Flikcr set, including bobcats and Mexican wolf taken at the amazing Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. It’s world class. And maybe one of a kind too.
• Does the US want to remain “The Saudi Arabia of Co ...
  
  The pro-nuclear power Atomic Insights Blog on why coal is dirty, pollutes massively, and is a poor energy source in the first place. Coal is an inherently dirty fuel that is naturally contaminated with many dangerous and polluting chemicals. It has a relatively low energy density, even when compare ...

Coteret

• Arrested for Post Zionism
  
  Cross posted from Promised Land. Editors note: Note how the charge resembles Yuval Diskin’s definition of the Shabak’s mandate. —– Pay close attention to this item. It doesn’t seem like much, but it’s an important one: Two international activists, Ariadna Jove Marti (Spain) and Bridgette Chappel ...
• Searching for scapegoats, Netanyahu now tries to l ...
  
  In May 2007, the current head of Israel’s internal security agency, the General Security Service (GSS aka Shabak and Shin Bet), Yuval Diskin, unilaterally revolutionized his agency’s mandate.  Disken was responding to a request by Adalah to clarify the scope of the GSS’s authority to investigat ...
• MK’s Passover proposal for migrants and refu ...
  
  Fitting that this proposal was circulated in the run-up to Passover by an “observant” MK. It is becoming increasingly clear that for the fundamentalist strain of Jewish Orthodoxy and its secular nationalist allies, the only problem with our history of persecution is that Jews were the victims. How c ...
• Elliot Abrams and local neoconservatives to Israel ...
  
  In a Tuesday (March 16 2010) interview with the Jerusalem Post, the Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman took criticism of the US administration’s handling of the current confrontation to a new frontier Israel should immediately battle a charge emerging in the US that its actions are endangering the ...
• Yediot exposes police lying on suppression of East ...
  
  After an interlude, the Jerusalem police resumed arrests of Sheikh Jarrah protesters last Friday (March 12 2010.) On Sunday, the Jerusalem Post, like many other Israeli media outlets, ran the police statement on the incident nearly verbatim Earlier on Friday, about 250 locals and left-wing protester ...

Deadline Live

• City to Conduct 3 Month Search for 9/11 Remains at ...
  
  NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Family members of 9/11 victims received word Friday afternoon that the city will conduct a three month search for remains at the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island. Full Article Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati [...]
• Obama Bypasses Senate Process, Filling 15 Posts
  
  WASHINGTON — President Obama, making a muscular show of his executive authority just one day after Congress left for spring recess, said Saturday that he would bypass the Senate and install 15 appointees, including a union lawyer whose nomination to the National Labor Relations Board was blocke ...
• PATRIOT Act may be used against tea party
  
  According to Douglas J. Hagmann, writing for Northeast Intelligence Network, a “federal intelligence source” revealed that “high-level discussions between top lawmakers and agency heads are ‘exploring the application of the Patriot Act against any right-wing individual or group that poses a dange ...
• Resistance can develop fast with swine flu: report
  
  (Reuters) – The H1N1 swine flu virus can develop resistance quickly to antivirals used to treat it, U.S. doctors reported on Friday. Government researchers reported on the cases of two people with compromised immune systems who developed drug-resistant strains of virus after less than two weeks ...
• Family Learns Pre-Existing Conditions Apply at Bir ...
  
  Houston Tracy, a 12-day-old boy, has already survived a rare birth defect, a feeding tube and open heart surgery. Now his family is waiting to see how the battle with an insurance company will fare. Last week, Houston’s parents found out that the term “pre-existing condition” can apply the momen ...

The Air Vent

• New Surface Temperature Page
  
  I’ve started a new surface temperature documentation page.  Currently it contains only Roman’s offset global anomaly calculation but I will be adding to it periodically starting with a standard anomaly style calculation. If people have links to different raw and finished data and methods, I would l ...
• GHCN Global Temperatures – Compiled Using Of ...
  
  This code is cleaned up and runs turnkey from top to bottom. In order to run it you need to download 3 files from the following FTP site: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ghcn/v2/ v2.mean.z v2.country.codes.z v2.temperature.inv.z Unzip them to the folder of your choice using a free zip software, an ...
• Don’t forget to not read this on electronic ...
  
  From WUWT,  North Korea takes the gold in Bobsledding, hockey, 100 meter butterfly, nope– Earth hour. Congratulations to the world leader in not consuming electricity.  Nothing like a planned economy to make things greener. For my part, I’ll run a green company again this year which we can only ...
• Talk to the Hand
  
  By email, I received anonymous notice of a complaint against GRL which seems to indicate Climategate style business as usual at their office.  This is with respect to a paper submitted in July09, well prior to climategate, a rebuttal by Foster (Tamino) and crew, and a rejected reply by the original ...
• Developing Technology
  
  Tom Fuller’s blog has me on a roll this morning.  Tom has an economist which he interviewed who calculated that the best way to save the world is to tax CO2, and Copenhagen is a good thing.  Naturally, that get’s me all wound up but I can’t finish my thoughts there without running into the [...]

Focal Point

• The FDA Ignores Court Order on Emergency Contracep ...
  
  In March 2009, a federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration to reassess the arbitrarily imposed and scientifically unjustified age restrictions on access to emergency contraception (aka "the morning after pill" or Plan B). Nominally, EC is available over the counter, but on ...
• Skeptic and Magician James Randi Escapes the Close ...
  
  Skeptic and magician James Randi has pulled off yet another daring escape. The famous debunker of scam psychics has emerged from the closet at the age of 81. Randi made the big announcement on his blog last Sunday. After all these years, Sean Penn's biopic Milk inspired him to finally go public. "I ...
• House Passes Sweeping Health Care Reform Bill
  
  Last night, House Democrats passed comprehensive health care reform legislation. After decades of fruitless struggle, the U.S. is finally poised to extend insurance to 32 million people and curb the worst abuses of the health insurance industry. President Obama is expected to sign the bill tomorrow. ...
• "Jihad Jane" is Not A Feminist
  
  On Slate's XX Factor blog, Hanna Rosin argues that "Jihad Jane" (aka Colleen LaRose) is a feminist because she's part of a cohort of female terrorist wannabes who have been pushing al Qaeda for a larger role in murder and mayhem.  Rosin writes: "Even the [original Daily Beast ] headline [" Femin ...
• Community Papers Launch Bitter, Bitter PR Campaign
  
  Print is officially dead. I held out hope longer than most, but I knew it was all over yesterday when this ad appeared at my New York City subway stop: � The art shows the back of a skinny kid negotiating a hospital corridor on crutches. The copy reads: " Football? Nope. Broken sidewalks. Broken ...

Inside Facebook

• This Week’s Headlines on Inside Social Games
  
  Check out the top headlines and insights this week fromInside Social Games – tracking all the latest developments at the intersection of games and social platforms. Monday, March 22nd, 2010 Playdom’s New Entrants Retain Their Lead on This Week’s List of Fastest Gaining Facebook Games by MAU Islan ...
• Facebook Roundup: Facebook Credits, Hires, FriendF ...
  
  Facebook Trademark Another Sign of Credits Development – Although Facebook’s virtual currency, Credits, has been available on Facebook for years, and in third-party apps since last June, it is still in testing. Perhaps we’ll hear more about it at Facebook’s developer conference next month, f8? Mea ...
• Facebook Proposes Broad Updates To Governing Docs ...
  
  Facebook is proposing a broad range of updates to its governing documents, the company announced today. It’s a complex combination of simple clarifications and significant changes. The updates could impact everything from the company’s pending location service, to developers and advertisers on th ...
• Facebook Hires Google Advertising Exec to Help It ...
  
  Facebook’s performance and brand advertising services have been booming, and now the company has hired David Fischer, who until last year ran Google’s roughly similar advertising programs. Fischer went on sabbatical last fall, after having taken over Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg’ ...
• Basketball Brackets Vie With Quizzes on This Week’ ...
  
  March Madness is in full swing on this week’s list of emerging Facebook apps still under a million monthly active users. There are no less than three basketball bracket apps listed: CBSSports.com Brackets, Bracket Challenge by Citizen Sports and 2010 Bracket Challenge. Brackets are a way of bet ...

Truthout - Tweets

• truthout: As Congress Takes Break, Obama Names 15 ...
  
  truthout: As Congress Takes Break, Obama Names 15 Recess Appointments: Washington - President Barack Obama reig... http://bit.ly/cjDXBL #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Arundhati Roy: Becoming Internal Securit ...
  
  truthout: Arundhati Roy: Becoming Internal Security Threats: Novelist, activist, journalist, internal security... http://bit.ly/b0zOzU #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Sarah Palin's Gun-Imagery Takes Aim at P ...
  
  truthout: Sarah Palin's Gun-Imagery Takes Aim at Political Targets: Caught in Sarah Palin's rifle sights, liber... http://bit.ly/9MrhOM #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Talking to Taliban and Tribal Warlords: ...
  
  truthout: Talking to Taliban and Tribal Warlords: From October 7, 2001, until about a year ago, the world was h... http://bit.ly/aPWrZR #Truthout #p2
• truthout: Free Press Haven: Iceland May Soon Becom ...
  
  truthout: Free Press Haven: Iceland May Soon Become Utopia for Journalists and Publishers: Icelandic members of... http://bit.ly/bgaDEq #Truthout #p2

ReDress News

• Samson and the second Nakba: a short history of th ...
  
  Gilad Atzmon argues that the rift in US-Israeli relations may be seen by the hawks who dominate Israeli politics as an opportunity to free Israel from what they see as a US bond that holds them back from ethnically cleansing Palestine of all Palestinians and from attacking Iran.
• "Cabbing" for Israel? What UK voters should ask el ...
  
  Stuart Littlewood says that the forthcoming UK general election will be an opportunity for the British public to call to account those politicians – Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat – who are “cabbing”, or “stooging”, for a foreign power, Israel.
• “By way of deception, thou shalt do war”
  
  Paul J. Balles views the use of deception, disinformation and murder by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, and notes that “not a single establishment journalist nor Western intelligence agency has given enough credence” to former Mossad operative Victor Ostrovsky's revelations about the agency’ ...
• Israel’s provocation at al-Aqsa
  
  The Israeli government has indicated that it will press ahead with a plan to enlarge the Jewish prayer plaza at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, despite warnings that the move risks triggering a third intifada, Jonathan Cook reports.
• Bibi Netanyahu’s babe: kneepad diplomacy lives!
  
  Alan Sabrosky argues that US politicians’ loyalty to Israel – “there isn't any longer even a facade of ‘dual loyalty’, only loyalty to Israel alone – has reached a point where, despite its enormous power, the US is totally paralysed in the face of Israel.

Amazon Rainforest

• New threat to uncontacted Tribes in Amazonia !
  
  Anglo-French oil company Perenco has revealed plans to build a pipeline deep into the heart of uncontacted tribes’ land in the Amazon rainforest. The pipeline is being built to transport an estimated three hundred million barrels of oil from the depths of the northern Peruvian Amazon. The company ...
• Austria: Call for OPEC and Latin UNASUR cooperatio ...
  
  Ecuadorian Germanico Pinto, current chairman of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has called for the development of South-South talks and cooperation with the Union of South American Nations(UNASUR). Pinto, who is also Ecuadorian minister of Non-Renewable Natural Resources, s ...
• New study: Air pollution as a possible inhibitor o ...
  
  In the world of climate change there is much debate over the reality of greenhouse gases and the volatile nature of toxic chemical emissions. However, in a new study, published February 17, 2010, scientists are beginning to look at air pollution as a possible inhibitor of global warming. The thick b ...
• Amazonia!
  
  The Amazonia represents over half of the planet’s remaining Rainforests, and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical Rainforest in the World. The Amazon River stretches more than 6.4oo km. The tropical Rainforest of its watershed is home to millions of species of plants and ...
• The first systematic study of surveillance techniq ...
  
  The first systematic study of surveillance techniques for the insect vector of Chagas disease in Amazonia, conducted by researchers from the Fiocruz Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and colleagues, concl ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

• Updates & Weekly Round Up for March 28
  
  Today marks Boiling Frogs Post’s fifth month of operation, and the last day of our fundraising campaign. On behalf of our team members I want to thank all of you for your support, with a special thanks to 658 of you who donated to our cause. We may not have reached our benchmark for our [...]
• Podcast Show #26
  
  NWC’s Stephen Kohn Takes on the Absentee White House Last week Boiling Frogs Post invited Mr. Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, and Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, to publicly debate on the Whistleblow ...
• White House vs. Whistleblowers Debate: NWC Accepts ...
  
  National Whistleblowers Center & Boiling Frogs Post Ask White House to Reconsider On Friday, March 19, Boiling Frogs Post invited Mr. Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, and Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, ...
• Boiling Frogs Post Takes Obama White House to Task ...
  
  Boiling Frogs Will Host a Public Debate on the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act Boiling Frogs Post has invited Mr. Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, and Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblowers Center, to publ ...
• The Turkish Lobby & the Congressional Black Caucus
  
  Would former icons of the civil rights movement sell out their principles for foreign cash? A February 13 New York Times article exposed the degree to which the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), a group composed of African Americans in the U.S. House of Representatives, used loopholes in political f ...

Afro Spear

• Beauty: The Versatility of Natural Hair
  
  {images from Arise magazine} The natural hair shots here are almost aerodynamic in their structure and dimenson. The saturated colour of her lipstick and her accessories clashes in majestic harmony with the crown of gorgeous Afro hair. With the natural hair the possibilities for beauty are endless. ...
• sat’day riddymz
  
• AFRICOM: The expansion of US military interests on ...
  
  Thanks to Désiré Katihabwa for forwarding these videos.
• Ann Coulter’s Canadian Adventure
  
  American conservative, so-called “right-wing”, political commentator Ann Coulter is on a speaking tour of Canadian universities this week. Known for her controversial, sound bite type comments, she didn’t fail to live up to her billing when asked by a Muslim student about her previous stateme ...
• Byts and Bytes: Black to the future
  
  It’s been a while since I dropped a post. I’ve primarily been busy being a husband, father and worker (in that order). The little free time I do have, I’ve been spending reading, as well as watching documentaries, movies, HardTalk (on BBC World), Tavis Smiley and Glenn Beck (more on him in an upcom ...

Expose the BNP

• Police protection of fascist movements
  
  Witnesses to last weekend’s demonstration against the English Defence League in Bolton reported deeply disturbing police operational tactics. Greater Manchester Police sought to stymie the Unite Against Fascism counter-demonstration with aggression and brutality, whilst allowing the racist EDL to ra ...
• MEDIA BRIEFING: The BNP and the election
  
  With DOMINIC CARMAN, journalist and author of the unofficial biography of Nick Griffin. And MARC VALLEE,  photojournalist and investigative journalist who is currently working on a long-term project to document political protest and dissent in modern Britain. Wednesday 7th April at 7pm National Uni ...
• Eyewitness: Police attack demonstrators
  
  The following is the eye-witness testimony of an NUJ member who joined the anti-fascist protest in Bolton on Saturday. On arriving in Bolton at 10.30am, the group from the East London coach walked to Victoria Square, where we assembled on the north side of the square, opposite the eastern corner of ...
• No title
  
  BOLTON, UNITED KINGDOM - 20.03.10. An anti-fascist campaigner is arrested as the far right English Defence League congregate in Bolton on Saturday 10 March 2010 in Lancashire, England.  Police in full riot gear used the controversial tacit of ‘kettling’ along with dogs, horses and riot police sna ...
• Eyewitness: Dogs and riot shields
  
  The following is the eye-witness testimony of an NUJ member who joined the anti-fascist protest in Bolton on Saturday My first and only face-to-face encounter with the EDL on Saturday wasn’t even in Bolton. It was at the motorway services in Newport Pagnell. My coach, which had left central London a ...

Sen45Earth

• Sustainability Education Network
  
  Welcome to Sustainability Education Network! The main website of Sustainability Education Network (SEN) at sen4earth.org will not be completed until May. In the meantime, we are using this ”blog” or article section of sen4earth.org to get underway without delay, because the world is running out of ...
• Blue Men to Earth ~ Do you hear it?
  
• Boycott4Earth.com
  
  Coming Soon: boycott4earth.com Now: Click to TAKE THE PLEDGE, then PASS IT ON! 
• Permaculture Ethanol
  
  The Sustainable and Right-Now Bio-Fuel Solution                  Supportive Activist Daryl Hannah with Dave Blume The “Food Versus Fuel Debate” has been settled. Neither rainforest nor land nor crops grown for consumption as food by humans should be converted to ethanol fuel production on a massive ...
• Fuel-efficient Cars
  
  This table is from the reliable source in the USA, click here to visit     Fuel Economy Rank Make & model CR Overall MPG City MPG Highway MPG 150 mile trip MPG 1 Toyota Prius IV 44 32 55 53 2 Smart ForTwo Passion 39 30 44 46 3 Honda Insight EX 38 29 45 46 4 Volkswagen Golf TDI (man ...

If Americans Knew

• The invisible government: Propaganda Disguised as ...
  
  John Pilger: In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.
• A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love ...
  
  We, a group of Christian Palestinians, after prayer, reflection and an exchange of opinion, cry out from within the suffering in our country, under the Israeli occupation, with a cry of hope in the absence of all hope, a cry full of prayer and faith in a God ever vigilant, in God's divine providence ...
• Documentary Video: Shooting the Messenger
  
  This documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, examines how international reporters became targets.
• Impressions of Israeli Executions in the West Bank
  
  Much planning had gone into our family vacation in Israel-Palestine. We could spare only the last two weeks of 2009, and so had developed an uncompromising itinerary for each day, allowing a mere half-day to recover from jet lag from our trip from California. After devoting most of the first week to ...
• Calling Bono: Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... i ...
  
  In your recent column in the New York Times, "Ten for the Next Ten," you wrote: "I'll place my hopes on the possibility -- however remote at the moment -- that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their Gandh ...

David J. Gregory

• REMINDER: The Vast Majority Of The Government Defi ...
  
  Many people right now are making a scare story out of the U.S. government’s future deficit projections. Many of these same people are also blaming our government’s horrific projected deficits on the current administration. Problem is, as shown in the chart below (via The Economist), America’s defic ...
• Nearly Too Late
  
  Corporate Takeover 95% Complete Time to wake up!! You’ll be late for the END.
• PEACE
  
  ………………………………….PEACE…………………………….. No! Sadly dear heart, passivity and quietism won’t make the nightmares go away!.. Some of US write to reach those who are still asleep.. We rally to express our disenchantment with the status quo! We March to show the strength of our convictions. “We” will com ...
• Join this Care2 group, Care2 over 12 million stron ...
  
  ~  WELCOME  ~ Get involved join this Care2 group to make a difference, apathy is no longer acceptable! Group Discussions new topic default View All red Welcome (4) blue News (4) green Petitions (3) yellow Miscellaneous (10) [...]
• Prayer for America
  
  This prayer was offered eight years ago in Congress by Dennis Kucinich, one of a very small group, who actually represent the American people in government today. Please do all you can to see that he is reelected to Congress, he represents the 10th District of Ohio in the House of Representatives, w ...

  Blacklisted News

• Cash-strapped states using income audits to get fu ...
  
  State audits on income and sales taxes for the smallest businesses as well as out-of-state inquiries on operations in other states are on the rise, accountants say.
• Central Banks Stashing Away Gold at Brisk Pace
  
  Central banks around the world added 425.4 metric tons of gold to their reserves last year, the biggest increase since 1964, according to the World Gold Council.
• CBO report: Debt will rise to 90% of GDP
  
  President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget will generate nearly $10 trillion in cumulative budget deficits over the next 10 years, $1.2 trillion more than the administration projected, and raise the federal debt to 90 percent of the nation's economic output by 2020, the Congressional Budget Office reporte ...
• Pfizer to Pay $142 Million for Drug Fraud
  
  Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has been ordered to pay $142 million US in damages for fraudulently marketing gabapentin, an anti-seizure drug marketed under the name Neurontin.
• U.S. Plunges Central America Back To Era Of Coups ...
  
  Graduates of the Pentagon’s School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia (now the equally euphemistic Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation)

The Intelligence Daily

• Full Circle: NATO Completes Takeover Of Former Yug ...
  
  By Rick Rozoff (The Intelligence Daily) — In 1991 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• Acting Nigerian President Moves Quickly, Decisivel ...
  
  by Gregory Copley (The Intelligence Daily) — Acting Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• If The Money Supply Is Exploding Why Are We Not Se ...
  
  By Michael T Snyder (The Intelligence Daily) — The U.S. money supply has been expanding at an... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• The Afghan ant hole
  
  (The Intelligence Daily) — NATO plans for Afghanistan this year are shaping up nicely:... For more details, please click on the link to read the article
• Venezuela in Washington’s Crosshairs
  
  By Stephen Lendman (The Intelligence Daily) — Washington fears Hugo Chavez for good reason.... For more details, please click on the link to read the article

My AntiWar

• Obama Declares Afghan War ‘Absolutely Essent ...
• President Obama Makes Surprise Stop in Afghanistan
• Two More Nuclear Sites Suspected in Iran: Report
• Israel’s Netanyahu Rejects ‘Obama disa ...
• Israel Minister Vows to ‘Liquidate’ Ga ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

• Obama squeezed between Israel and Iran
  
  Summary: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual show in Washington would hardly be out of place in a Quentin Tarantino movie; picture a giant hall crammed with 7,500 very powerful people regimented by a very powerful lobby - plus half of the United States Senate and more tha ...
• 98% of US Jews Won't Cast Votes Based on Iran Issu ...
  
  Summary: Sharmine Narwani Ninety-eight percent of American Jews do not rank Iran as a major factor influencing their vote in the 2010 midterm elections. source: The Huffington Post read more
• Miliband is lying about Iran's nuclear program
  
  Summary: David Milliband has an op-ed in the International Herald Tribune calling for sanctions on Iran that hits all the usual talking points: that Iran is going nuclear, that a nuclear-armed Iran would cause proliferation in the region, that Israel sees Iran as an existential threat would "a ...
• Lula Shouldn't Buckle to U.S. Pressure on Iran
  
  Summary: President Lula President Lula da Silva has come under fire from opponents lately for refusing to join the United States' campaign for increased sanctions against Iran. Washington recently switched from a brief phase of "engagement" with Iran over its nuclear program to the more aggressi ...
• Insight: U.S. should take Iran's nuclear counter-o ...
  
  Summary: Afrasiabi Instead of dismissing Iran's counter-proposal, the Obama administration should seriously examine the advantages of a nuclear swap, with the International Atomic Energy Agency assuming control of Iran's low-enriched uranium, but on Iranian soil, until the fuel rods are delivere ...

The Daily Galaxy

• Undetectable Extraterrestrials? World-Leading Phys ...
  
  The intriguing remark was made by Lord Martin Rees, a leading cosmologist and astrophysicist who is the president of Britain’s Royal Society and astronomer to the Queen of England. Rees, who last month hosted the National Science Academy’s first conference...
• New Tech: Twitter Developing Censorship-Proof Tech ...
  
  Twitter announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that it is developing technology it hopes will prevent the Chinese and Iranian governments being able to censor its users. Evan Williams, CEO and co-founder of Twitter, which has been...
• "X-Woman" Discovered -Shared Ancestry with Neander ...
  
  Scientists say a third hominin group may have co-existed with early Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. A DNA sample taken from an ancient pinky bone that belonged to a child who died between 48,000 and 30,000 years ago, suggests that a...
• New Artificial Intelligence Helps Mars Rover Make ...
  
  Software uploaded this winter is the latest example of NASA taking advantage of the twin Mars rovers' unanticipated longevity for real Martian test drives of advances made in robotic autonomy for future missions. Now in its seventh year on Mars,...
• 3D Video of Mission to Explore Jupiter's Europa
  
  "There's nothing saying there is life there now. But we do know there are the physical conditions to support it." Richard Greenberg, University of Arizona. world's leading expert on Europa. New research suggests that there is enough oxygen available in...

Natural News

• Heal yourself in 15 days with the people around yo ...
  
  (NaturalNews) Continuing with our 15-day self-healing article series, today we venture into the realm of what I call social healing . I wouldn't have believe this even two years ago, but I have since come to realize that WHO you are living with is just as important (or perhaps more important) than W ...
• Psych doctor wrote 1,000 prescriptions a week for ...
  
  (NaturalNews) The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) is reporting that a Miami psychiatrist has prescribed nearly 14 million pills to Medicaid patients since 2004. According to the report, Fernando Mendez-Villamil wrote about 285,000 prescriptions in just six years with a total tax ...
• New field of nutrigenomics reveals how what you ea ...
  
  (NaturalNews) Kansas State University (K-State) researchers have joined a growing number of scientists who say a relatively new medical field known as nutrigenomics could change the future of public health forever. How? By tailoring strategies to prevent diseases before they can happen -- diseases t ...
• Stunning Research Shows High Potential for DNA Dam ...
  
  (NaturalNews) Nanoparticles may be able to damage the DNA of cells without ever coming into contact with it, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Bristol Implant Research Center and published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology .Nanoparticles are particles so small that they have ...
• Sugary soft drinks linked to pancreatic cancer
  
  (NaturalNews) A 14-year study of 60,000 people in Singapore found that those who consume two or more sweetened soft drinks per week have an 87 percent higher risk of pancreatic cancer .Published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention , the study was led by Mark Pereira of the ...

Threat Level

• Check the Hype — There’s No Such Thing As ‘Cyber’
  
  How can you tell the difference between a real report about online vulnerabilities and someone who is trying to scare you about the security of the internet because they have an agenda, such as landing lucrative, secret contracts from the government? Here’s a simple test: Count the number of times ...
• Hacker Sentenced to 20 Years for Breach of Credit ...
  
  BOSTON — Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years on Friday for his role in breaches into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and other companies. The sentence will run concurrently with a 20-year sentence he received on Thursday in two other cases involving hacks into TJX, Of ...
• TJX Hacker Gets 20 Years in Prison
  
  BOSTON — Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole more than 90 million credit and debit card numbers from TJX and other retailers. The sentence for the largest computer-crime case ever prosecuted is the lengthi ...
• WIPO: Dope-Vaporizer Seller Not Bogarting Domain N ...
  
  The German producer of a popular device used to vaporize marijuana is claiming a North American dealer is bogarting its domain names. But the World Intellectual Property Organization on Thursday sided against Storz & Bickel, the maker of the Volcano Vaporizer, ruling that MSI Imports’ four dozen Vol ...
• ACTA Draft: No Internet for Copyright Scofflaws
  
  The United States is nudging the international community to develop protocols to suspend the internet connections of customers caught downloading copyrighted works, according to a leaked draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The United States is leading the 2-year-old, once-secret negoti ...

PERRspectives : Blog

• The 10 Republican No's on Health Care
  
  When it comes to the health care reform bill, perfect is the enemy of good. But Republicans are the enemy of everything. And on Sunday , every member of the House GOP will likely vote against the final health care reform bill that will bring coverage to 32 million more Americans, end insurance com ...
• Broun: Health Care for Red States a "War of Yankee ...
  
  For many Republicans from Dixie , the old times there are not forgotten. But in equating the health care reform bill to the "Great War of Yankee Aggression," Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) has served up a double irony. For starters, Broun is among the growing legion of Congressional Republicans trying to k ...
• Palin Follows Nixon's Route 66
  
  While Richard Nixon never donned the dominatrix-on-a-motorcycle look on the campaign trail, Sarah Palin in many other ways appears to be following Tricky Dick's path to the White House. Similarly a "serial collector of resentments," Palin's language of " real Americans " who aren't " going to sit d ...
• CBO Highlights Republican Deficit Posturing
  
  The Congressional Budget Office ( CBO ) estimates for the final health care bill are bringing smiles to Democratic faces. Over 10 years, the $940 billion package will cover 32 million more Americans while ending insurance abuses including rescission and the use of pre-existing conditions to deny co ...
• Before Badgering Obama, Bret Baier Compared Bush t ...
  
  The conservative blogosphere is abuzz over the Bret Baier's contentious interview Wednesday with President Obama . Of course, Baier's repeated interruptions and confrontational tone should come as no surprise. After all, the Fox News hatchet man established his partisan bona fides two years ago in ...

Blackspot News Feed

• The American Taliban by Bruce Gagnon
  
  Christians cannot love their enemies and kill them, tooOriginally uploaded by Lorri37 by Bruce Gagnonfeatured writerDandelion SaladOrganizing NotesMarch 27, 2010A French documentary about the right-wing Christian fundamentalists who are preparing to wage war on behalf of Jesus.The difference between ...
• Chris Hedges: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning ...
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/by Chris HedgesFeatured WriterDandelion SaladUCTV – University of California Television11/1/200459 minutesVeteran New York Times correspondent Chris Hedges has covered conflicts in Bosnia, El Salvador and Israel. Tune in for this thought-provoking lecture based on ...
• NATO Chief: Weapons of Mass Destruction threat is ...
  
  Propaganda Alertcompiled by Cem ErtrFeatured WriterDandelion Salad27 March 2010 http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-D6107D8E-02CBC541/natolive/opinions_62395.htm excerpts from: Building a Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture Speech by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Anders ...
• received goods 27mar10
  
  It’s like watching a reknowned and venerable pointillist taking up a brushpen. Studying the paper for long moments, considering its tooth and weight. Laying down five lines without apparent consideration for where they should be or what they are. And with the sixth mark you realise, you see, you can ...
• The Pentagon is using Haiti as a Training Ground f ...
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/by Michel ChossudovskyGlobal Research, March 28, 2010A Recent report in Star and Stripes reveals the nature of the US military operation in Haiti. Combat units from Iraq and Afghanistan have been deployed in Haiti under the banner of a humanitarian operation. Conv ...

Consortium News

• The Right Finds Virtue in Extremism
  
  By whipping the Right into a frenzy over health care, Republicans risk a replay of past violent extremism, writes Lisa Pease. March 26, 2010
• The Politics of 'Corrections'
  
  Who wields political clout in the United States can be gauged by how big news outlets hand out "corrections," says Robert Parry. March 25, 2010
• El Salvador's Ghosts at the Polls
  
  From the Archive: Three decades ago today, El Salvador's Archbishop Romero was slain, sending shock waves across the ages. By Don North
• The Politics of Media
  
  NBC News and the Washington Post see Republican rejection of health reform as only a matter of principle, writes Robert Parry. March 24, 2010
• Making Unneeded Enemies in Somalia
  
  The ham-handed "war on terror" has led to unintended consequences by strengthening Islamists in Somalia, says Ivan Eland. March 23, 2010

CounterPunch

• Uri Avnery : The Dubai Hit
• William P. O'Connor : The Story of Pvt. Hargrove
• Alexander Cockburn : From God to Gaia to Obama's N ...
• Joshua Frank / Jeffrey St. Clair : The Case of Br ...
• Paul Craig Roberts : Looting Social Security

Institute for Middle East Understanding

• Apartheid on two continents (Mats Svensson, The P ...
  
  We all have a common history that crosses borders in terms of both country and time. Together with black and white in South Africa we acted forcefully, taking a stand against apartheid an ...
• Abbas rules out peace talks (Agence France Presse ...
  
  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a speech to Arab leaders on Saturday, ruled out US-brokered indirect talks with Israel unless the latter changes its settlement policy. "We cannot ...
• Religion sways policy, now in Israel (Jerrold Kes ...
  
  *There was a time when Israel was held in contempt by its neighbours for its over-liberal ways. They felt it did not "belong" in the Middle East. There's been a twist in this negative per ...
• Obama finally On board (Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, A ...
  
  Are we about to see a new side to US President Barack Obama after his historical success in having the new healthcare reform bill passed, which all US former presidents before him failed ...
• Palestinians kickstart Gaza economy (Al Jazeera)

Water - AlterNet

• Coal-Fired Plants Drink 1.5 Trillion Gallons of Wa ...
  
  In many respects, some folks might use more water flicking on their lights, than chugging back a glass of that wondrous stuff.
• Meet the Celebrities Who Climbed Kilimanjaro to Aw ...
  
  Grammy-nominated recording artist Kenna has personal drive behind his mission to increase awareness about the global water crisis.
• The Looming Water Disaster That Could Destroy Cali ...
  
  There's a disaster waiting to happen in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and a handful of wealthy farmers seem to like it that way.
• Conservation Counts on World Water Day and Every D ...
  
  The facts are clear: America and the world are running out of the fresh water we all need to survive. Here's what we need to do to conserve.
• World Water Day 2010: A Trip Through One of the Wo ...
  
  I've seen some of the poorest parts of the world, but even for me, what I saw today was a shocking reminder of the wretched conditions that literally billions of people face.

TruthHugger

• Note to readers
  
  I’m om a hiatus again.  Check back now and then, I may surprise you. Tagged: Personal Note
• Texas Progressive Alliance Monday, February 22, 20 ...
  
  Monday, February 22, 2010 Texas Blog Roundup The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you that early voting runs through this Friday at 7 PM for the primaries as it brings you this week’s blog highlights. BossKitty at TruthHugger is amazed that anger is directed toward the Internal Revenue Servic ...
• Tax and Defiance – Short Sighted Protester, Joe St ...
  
  Income Tax is Public money that is managed by our elected politicians, who also design the rules for how to use that money. The American Voter is where the ultimate responsibility lies. If the American voter cannot recognize they are complicit in creating a monster taxation system, they can throw ...
• Military Sexual Offenses, Nothing New – Don’t Ask, ...
  
  How American’s deal with their sexual drives has a long twisted history of abuse and disinformation
• Texas Progressive Alliance Weekly Round Up Feb 8, ...
  
  The Texas Progressive Alliance congratulates the city of New Orleans for the Saints’ stirring Super Bowl victory, and reminds them that the “hair of the dog” trick doesn’t really help with the hangover. The Texas Cloverleaf highlights the sentencing of GOP Denton County Constable Ken Jannereth. P ...

Dandelion Salad - Featured Writers' Posts

• Cindy Sheehan interviews Temir Porras, Venezuela's ...
  
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbo
• As Obama Talks Of Arms Control, Russians View U.S. ...
  
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism M
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• Chris Hedges: War is a Force that Gives us Meaning ...
  
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Axis of Logic

• My Palace, My Palace
  
• China's Report on U.S. Human Rights Record in 2009
  
• Pakistan Must Strengthen Relations With Russia
  
• Greece: The Curse of Three Generations of Papandr ...
  
• On the anniversary of the invasion. The crisis of ...
  

They Gave Us a Republic

• It's late Sunday afternoon. Do you know where your ...
  
  He isn't at Camp David, that's for sure. Friday afternoon it was announced that after a long, eventful, but grueling week the President and First Family would spend a quiet weekend at the official presidential retreat in Maryland. Not quite. About 11:00 my time, emails started hitting my inbox. The ...
• Obama isn't mocking Americans, Mr. DeMint. America ...
  
  For some inexplicable reason, Jim DeMint, the Confederate Senator from the Old South was on Face the Nation this morning. �You remember DeMented...it was he who openly opined that if they could just deny Obama a victory on healthcare reform, it would be "his Waterloo. It will break him." �I don't kn ...
• Am I A Liberal Populist?
  
  YD's excellent piece on Liberal Populism set me to thinking about my own positions and my seeming inability to define a little niche to fit myself into. �I'm not ready to declare myself a true "Liberal" although I don't mind flirting with the word "Progressive" and the number of matters that I find ...
• Because Nobody Deserve This
  
  Until and unless prison sentences specifically include rape as a condition of incarceration, this has to stop. Charli Carpenter at Lawyers, Guns and Money: From Change.org: On March 10, 2010, the Department of Justice opened a 60-day public comment period on national standards addressing sexual abu ...
• Where are the forced-childbirth fanatics when you ...
  
  To the list of disobedient, independent-thinking, non-conformist-acting citizens like the harmless mentally ill, drunks, epileptics and children, add: pregnant women. Three Seattle police officers were justified when they used a stun gun on a pregnant mother who refused to sign a traffic ticket, a f ...

Care 2

• Man tried to kill vet after dog died
  
  Pets are often like family. As a result, when one is sick, it's natural to take him in for care. Unfortunately, some people aren't prepared for what can happen next - death. This appears to be the case of a Florida resident; a man that tried to kill a vet Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note ...
• President Obama remains mute on wild horse roundup ...
  
  Protest against the capture and warehousing of America's wild horses and burros continued Thursday with simultaneous demonstrations in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Las Vegas and London. President Obama remains silent on the issue. Submitted by Simone D. to Offbeat �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment ...
• Restore the American Pit Bull Terrier to Military ...
  
  The American Pit Bull Terrier used to be the U.S. military's mascot. Sergeant Stubby, known as the most decorated war dog, was also a pit bull. But despite their service, in early 2009, just before the Bush Administration left office, the Pen Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� ...
• Animal cruelty, in all its forms, needs to end
  
  People must protect animals from six sources of cruelty: random abuse by owners, animal testing, factory farms, fur farms, puppy mills and hunting. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Wild Horses Offered In Indiana Adoption! Video!
  
  Wild horses caught and corralled mostly in the western U.S. were offered for adoption in Johnson County on Saturday, 6News' Rafael Sanchez reported. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

GreenBiz

• Water: Treasure It, Measure It, Map It
  
  The World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) Global Water Tool has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since its launch in August 2007. Now it's time for the sequel.
• What a Thorny Devil and Camel Nose Can Teach Us Ab ...
  
  The issue of water and how best to use it touches every aspect of our lives. As varied as the challenges are, many of them have already been faced by other organisms, and many of their solutions - provided by crabs, beetles, plants and blood plasma - are worth studying. �
• The Secrets a Water Footprint Can Reveal
  
  The specific issues created by international commerce and virtual water have led to an explosion of activity around water management, and so-called "water footprints" in particular. But what is a water footprint and why is all of this activity necessary?
• Interface 1 Percent Shy of Zero Waste Operations
  
  Carpet manufacturer Interface sent less than 1 percent of its raw materials to landfills last year as it steadily chips away at its ambitious goals to create zero waste and pollution, use no fossil fuels and only use renewable materials. �
• How Water Risks Could Sink Global Investors
  
  Financial analysts need tools to make better decisions about investments that depend on water.

Reuters Global

• Iran’s role in Afghanistan
  
  Depending on who you listen to, Iran is either an unlikely potential ally for the United States in Afghanistan or a spoiler, ready to back its old enemies the Afghan Taliban to make trouble for the Americans.
• India and Pakistan on the U.S. see-saw
  
  The changing fortunes in Washington of India and Pakistan were starkly illustrated last week; while the Pakistanis held talks there, India was complaining about lack of access to a Chicago man accused of planning the Mumbai attacks.
• Burying the Powell doctrine in Afghanistan
  
  Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered what military experts are saying was the final nail in the coffin of the Powell doctrine, a set of principles that General Colin Powell during his tenure as chairman laid out for the use of military force.
• Australian voters worming to PM Rudd
  
  If Australia's election worm has its way, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will be re-elected in a landslide victory later in 2010. Rudd on Tuesday won the first of three televised debates, say political analysts, kick starting what will likely be a drawn-out eight-month campaign ahead of elections tipped ...
• Frustrated Greeks
  
  The Greek debt crisis appears to be entering a new phase, in which the country is no longer just waiting to get needed help but getting concerned that others -- including euro zone powerhouse Germany -- may actually be making it hard for them to recover.

Paul Krugman

• Smear Today, Gone Tomorrow
  
  National Review corrects a deliberate misrepresentation.
• Dealing With The Debt: A Brief Note
  
  The numbers aren't that bad; if we go wrong, the fault will lie not in our debt, but in ourselves.
• File Under Vile
  
  If this is the best critique a conservative budget wonk can come up with then the bill must be pretty sound in fiscal terms.
• More About Bond Vigilantes
  
  Some interest-rate spikes are more equal than others.
• FinReg Reading
  
  What you should read as financial reform becomes the Next Big Thing.

No Quarter

• Join No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry ...
  
  I am thrilled to have Rick Davis join me tonight from 8-9 pm ET on No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle: Richard C. Davis is the founder and President of the Consumer Metrics Institute. The Consumer Metrics Institute grew out of Mr. Davis’ frustration with the lack of timeliness and po ...
• March 28, 2010: Economic/Market Week in Review
  
  The hits just keep on coming. The news on Wall Street, Washington, and literally all around the world is an absolute onslaught. This avalanche of news (healthcare reform, Greece and the EU, China and currency manipulation, South Korean naval ship sinks with speculation of possible North Korea involv ...
• Barack Obama, Coward’s Tour of Afghanistan
  
  I do not begrudge Barack Obama arriving in the dark at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. It makes sense from a security standpoint. But once you are in country you should have the fortitude to treat the visit like Afghanistan is a real country. Barack did not. Sneaking in and sneaking [...]
• “The Heat Is On…”
  
  In light of the recent Health Care vote, the Tea Party marches, and the current sentiment in the country, I found this article by Peggy Noonan to be particularly timely: The Heat Is On. We May Get Burned. Political rage is a national problem, not a partisan one. So where are we? In a dangerous plac ...
• No Quarter Radio’s Sense on Cents with Larry Doyle ...
  
  If 70% of our economy is driven by the consumer, and Sense on Cents is trying to help people navigate the “economic” landscape, then prudence dictates we drill deeper into how the American consumer is doing during these challenging times. What drives consumer behavior? How is the consumer adapting h ...

Environmental Graffiti

• Happy World Water Day
• This is How Environmental Graffiti is About to Shi ...
• Paradise is a Land Called Kissimmee
• 13 Incredible Arcus Clouds
• Amazing Tape Graffiti by Buff Diss

Foreign Policy in Focus

• Ghosts Threaten to Return to Haiti
  
  Development experts are about to give Haiti the same disastrous prescription for reform. But Haitians could still build a very different post-earthquake society.
• Genocide in Burma
  
  Mac McClelland, author of the new book 'For Us Surrender is Out of the Question,' talks about why the media is missing a major story in Burma.
• The Case for a Union
  
  A majestic region-wide union may well transform the strategic calculus of the sceptics and the spoilers.
• Haiti: Recovery Bill Estimated at 11.5 Billion Dol ...
  
  Two weeks before a major donors conference, the Haitian government has estimated that the country will need some 11.5 billion dollars over the next three years to recover from the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.
• The Travails of a Client State: An Okinawan Angle ...
  
  For a country in which ultra-nationalism was for so long a problem, the weakness of nationalism in contemporary Japan is puzzling.

Global Elite

• Fear, Intimidation & Media Disinformation: U.K Gov ...
  
  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 ...
• President European Commission Advocated World Gove ...
  
  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 ...
• Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current C ...
  
  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 ...
• Bioweapons, Dangerous Vaccines, and Threats of a G ...
  
  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 ...
• Today we’re all prisoners in the USA
  
  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

• Obama urges progress in Afghanistan
  
  US president uses "surprise" visit to meet Afghan president and rally military forces.
• Arab leaders condemn Israeli policy
  
  Summit in Libya fails to reach consensus on whether Palestinians should resume talks.
• DR Congo massacre uncovered
  
  At least 300 people brutally killed over four-day period in December, rights group and UN say.
• Italians vote in regional polls
  
  Low turnout in elections set to threaten Berlusconi's governing centre-right party.
• Thai talks end without agreement
  
  Prime minister and opposition red-shirt leaders say they will resume discussions on Monday.

Green Inc. - NYT

• High School Gardening - for Credit
  
  Beginning this week, students at Princeton Public High School can earn physical education credit by working in one of several on-site gardens.
• California Climate Law Would Add Jobs, Study Sugge ...
  
  The law would create modest job growth over the next 10 years according to state regulators. But opponents of the law want it suspended.
• Taxing CO2 Emissions at Europe's Borders
  
  The European Union is already on track to put in place a form of extraterritorial carbon tax beginning 2012 on airlines.
• Of Water, Electricity and the Time of Day
  
  A California study suggests that if people are trained to use less water in the late afternoons, electricity savings result -- and overall water usage falls.
• Transportation Department Embraces Bikes and Busin ...
  
  Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced a "major policy revision" that aims to elevate the import of bicycling and walking. Not everyone is pleased.

Dot Earth News

• In Canada, TV Goes Deep on Climate
  
  A rare thing: five hours of television on climate modeling, science, politics, media coverage and more.
• Heat-Toting Ocean Currents Chugging Along
  
  New findings boost confidence that Atlantic Ocean currents are not at risk from climate change.
• New Ways to Gauge the Finite Atmosphere
  
  An illustrator finds ways to bring to life largely invisible environmental conditions and trends.
• A Physics Maven's Take on Skeptical Science
  
  An Australian blogger takes on climate skeptics' arguments, one by one.
• Art Clues to Trends in Diet, Ice, Quakes
  
  Scientists probe artwork for evidence of growing human appetites, shrinking glaciers and past disasters.

Doug Feith : Hong Pong

• Oh noes: Epic FBI white supremacist troll Hal Turn ...
  
  Alright here's a bizarre story about a strange man from New Jersey, Hal Turner, who rose to fame as a racist, anti-semitic blogger and radio talk show host whose violent rhetoric upset many people. Alex Jones to his credit accurately flagged Turner years ago as an FBI informant/operative. No mainstr ...
• War on WikiLeaks? Nasty intelligence plan to destr ...
  
  Well this is grim! The ACIC or Army Counterintelligence Center published in March 2008 a National Security Information Special Report, under the auspices of the Department of Defense Intelligence Analysis Program (DIAP). Michael D Horvath of the Cyver Counterintelligence Assessments Branch d ...
• Restored 1927 "Metropolis" adds new subplots on wo ...
  
  Frame by frame, the lost almost-complete version of Metropolis is coming out. METROPOLIS2710 It's an amazing & essentially perfect film, which created the bases for epic pop culture characters like Doc Brown, C3PO, as well as a powerful vision of utopian urbanism -- the film itself created a huge c ...
• Young: "The Internet is a giant spying machine rig ...
  
  Got BitLocker? Feel a bit r00ted??? [It was later posted that this full Windows 7 law enforcement pack was actually originally posted on the very cool newer site PublicIntelligence.net: Microsoft Windows 7/Vista Advanced Forensics Guides for Law Enforcement | Public Intelligence ] In a continuation ...
• Viddy Still from Michael Ruppert appearance in Min ...
  
  Its taking a while but I have a lot of footage from Michael Ruppert's visit to St Anthony Main for the screenings of Collapse last week... Overall it was quite awesome, with new items of geopolitics and a lot of jokes. Plus the lighting looks like the movie which is neat :) Standby on that one, I th ...

Daily Censored

• Family Members Needed for Study on Law Enforcement ...
  
  Family Members Needed for Study on Law Enforcement Related Deaths The Investigative Sociology project at Sonoma State University (SSU) and Media Freedom Foundation are conducting a study on the commonalities of law enforcement related deaths in the United States. We are seeking to  conduct telephone ...
• In the Name of Liberty
  
  In the Name of Liberty By Michael Aparicio Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. – Bertrand Russell, Harper’s Magazine, March 1926 Four ...
• BEND OVER, They are doing it again.
  
  The states are in trouble because no one is working and their revenue stream has dropped at a time the demand on their services has increased. “In the scramble to find something, anything, to generate more revenue, states are considering new taxes on virtually everything: garbage pickup, dating serv ...
• Stephen Hill of Detroit Public Schools: Political ...
  
  In the latest news we find that a former department chief at Detroit Public Schools and his assistant used secret offices and their own computer system to improperly divert more than $57 million in school funds to vendors who provided little, if anything, in return. But this is not even the half of ...
• US killed Afghan civilians, lied, got caught, atta ...
  
  engage in comments, including with Operation Mockinbird agents, at source. US-led forces added the murders of pregnant women to the recent murders of school children in Afghanistan. US military officials were forced to admit they lied in their report that Afghan “bad guys” murdered five civilians wh ...

AlterNet's Breaking News

• EPA proposes veto of major US mountaintop removal ...
• Ahead of state-wide vote, marijuana legalization b ...
• WikiLeaks to release video of civilians, journalis ...
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Institute for Policy Studies

• Enabling Wall Street's Gambling Problem
  
  Thought bankers had learned their lesson in 2008? Think again.
• Advice for the Blue Ribbon Commission
  
  Hopefully Obama's new commission will motivate the country to finally deal with the toxic legacy of the nuclear age.
• The New U.S.-Mexico War
  
  Sanho Tree discusses the significance of U.S. officials in Mexico, and whether the new plan is an adequate one.
• Flying and Excess Radiation
  
  The doses of radiation experienced in everyday life, especially flying long distances in jet aircraft, pose risks we should carefully heed.
• Velvet Imperialists
  
  The Obama administration is hearing, but not listening, when it comes to U.S. military bases.

Pine River World News

• The Pentagon is using Haiti as a Training Ground f ...
  
  The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Global Research. The Pentagon is using Haiti as a Training Ground for Afghanistan � � Global Research By Michel Chossudovsky March 28, 2010 A recent report in Stars and Stripes reveals the nature of the U.S. military operation in Haiti. Co ...
• Mass Migration, the Modern Version of Invasion
  
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. Mass Migration, the Modern Version of Invasion � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina March 26, 2010 In the ancient days, such as prior to 1945, politics, that is territor ...
• Paul Craig Roberts: Truth Has Fallen and Has Taken ...
  
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Paul Craig Roberts. Truth Has Fallen and Has Taken Liberty With It � �Paul Craig Roberts March 24, 2010 During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell There was a time when the pen was mighti ...
• Gordon Duff: America and Israel - A Health Care Co ...
  
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Gordon Duff, staff writer and Senior Editor at Veterans Today . America and Israel: �A Health Care Comparison � �Gordon Duff Source: �Veterans Today March 23, 2010 * � Dialog In A Madhouse, Mob Rule In The Health Care Debate Editors note: �Ru ...
• The Age of the Man-Gods
  
  The following column is reprinted with permission from Stanislav Mishin, a frequent contributor to Russian newspaper Pravda. The Age of the Man-Gods � �Stanislav Mishin Source: � Mat Rodina March 20, 2010 What a sorry state we live in, or rather that of the rotting and dying West. A people without ...

IntelNews

• News you may have missed #316
  
  How Khost suicide bomber lured CIA agents to their deaths. News videos on UK expulsion of Israeli 'diplomat'.
• Analysis: US commentator argues in favor of breaki ...
  
  The US National Security Agency (NSA) is a gigantic intelligence organization --the world’s largest-- which is tasked by the US government with worldwide communications surveillance, as well as communications security. But Wired magazine's Noah Shachtman explains that the NSA’s two-fold mission forc ...
• News you may have missed #315
  
  British nuclear bunker spy comes out of hiding. Aussie spy agency spied on little girls. Analysis: Under Panetta, a more aggressive CIA.
• Latest from Hungary and Turkey on Budapest assassi ...
  
  Despite the overwhelming silence in Western media about last week’s suspicious murder in broad daylight of a Syrian man in Hungary, the story continues to make headlines in Israel, the Arab world, Turkey and Hungary.
• Breaking news: UK expels Israeli diplomat over Dub ...
  
  While Israel continues to insist that “there is no proof” of its involvement in January’s assassination of a top Hamas military official, Britain has announced the pending expulsion of an Israeli diplomat over the killing.

After Downing Street.org

• Bill Moyers Journal: The Nation's John Nichols & N ...
  
  Bill Moyers takes a closer look at the newly signed health bill and explores the future of health care reform with THE NATION's John Nichols and National Organization for Women president Terry O'Neill. BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the JOURNAL. There was justification for those high-fives and victory sign ...
• Bank of America, Wells Fargo Probably Won't Pay In ...
  
  Bank of America, Wells Fargo Probably Won't Pay Income Tax for 2009 Annual reports suggest BofA and Wells Fargo won't have to pay federal income taxes for 2009. By Christina Rexrode | Charlotte Observer This tax season will be kind to Bank of America and Wells Fargo: It appears that neither bank ...
• UK To Launch $3 Billion Green Investment Bank
  
  UK to launch $3 billion green investment bank By Matt Falloon | Reuters The Labour government will unveil a 2 billion pound ($3 billion) "green" investment bank in Wednesday's budget to help Britain's transformation to a low carbon economy, a government source said on Sunday. Finance minister Alist ...
• Medicare You Can Buy Into Act Gains Momentum
  
  Medicare You Can Buy Into Act Gains Momentum | Press Release Update: There are now 80 cosponsors of the Public Option Act. Here is the current list: Reps. Baldwin, Berkley, C. Brown, Capuano, Carson, Castor, Chu, Clarke, Wm. Lacy Clay, Cleaver, Cohen, Cummings, D. Davis, DeGette, Delahunt, Doyle, ...
• Health Reform and the Imaginary Conservative Major ...
  
  Health Reform and the Imaginary Conservative Majority By Peter Hart | FAIR One of the main assumptions of the final weeks of coverage of the congressional debate over healthcare reform was that the public was opposed to the White House plan. But some polling analysis shows that this wasn't the ca ...

Grist - News

• Whoops: Energy Star approves gas-powered alarm clo ...
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes This (ahem) "space heater" earned a government Energy Star rating.Photo: Government Accountability OfficeWell this is embarrassing: Federal monitors granted the Energy Star stamp of approval to a number of bogus appliances, including a gas-powered alarm clock and an electri ...
• Reminder: the U.S. already has cap-and-trade&#8212 ...
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes The Center for American Progress offers a reminder that we already have a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions up and running in the U.S.— it's called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, it operates in 10 northeastern states, and it works fairly well, according to ...
• From Pyramids to Paris, landmarks to go dark for E ...
  
  by Agence France-Presse A darkened "Birds Nest" Olympic stadium in Beijing during the 2009 Earth Hour.Photo courtesy Earth Hour Global via FlickrSYDNEY -- World-famous landmarks including the Pyramids, the Eiffel Tower, and Beijing's Forbidden City will go dark Saturday as millions turn out the ...
• New homes are cropping up in cities, not suburbs
  
  by Jonathan Hiskes Today in conventional wisdom–busting news, we learn that grimy old cities are attracting more residential construction than the bright suburban frontier. Urban redevelopment is outpacing fringe sprawl by a solid margin, according to a new EPA study of the nation’s 50 largest ...
• China overtakes U.S. in green investment, study fi ...
  
  by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON - China has surpassed the United States as the top investor in clean energy, with the rising Asian power becoming a "powerhouse" in the emerging field, according to a new study led by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The report said that China has shown determinati ...

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Technorati - What's Hot in Blogs

• A Novel Solution For Beating Ticket Scalpers
  
  A novel idea to prevent ticket touts.
• Tea Parties Are Actually Unemployment Parties
  
  Rally against big government, then get your unemployment money. It's a wonderful system.
• In The Spotlight: Project Be The Change
  
  Project Be The Change was spawned from a lifetime of adversity
• Republican Politicians Aping Third World Politics
  
  The tactics and outcries by John McCain, Eric Cantor, and Sarah Palin are all following the same disappointing pattern.
• Tea Parties Are Actually Unemployoment Parties
  
  Rally against big government, then get your unemployment money. It's a wonderful system.

Time - Top Stories

• Travel Avenger: Why Are Airline Change Fees So Hig ...
  
  Among the many injustices of air travel: airlines charge passengers high change fees, but offer little in return when scheduling disruptions are the airlines' fault
• Classifying Every Known Galaxy -- in Just Three We ...
  
  Do you have an Internet connection, some free time and a penchant for staring off into space? Then Galaxy Zoo needs you.
• Obama Makes Surprise Visit to Afghanistan
  
  Under cover of darkness, the U.S. President arrived in Kabul Sunday to greet troops and meet with Afghanistan's recently reelected leader, Hamid Karzai
• The U.S. Census: Why Our Numbers Matter
  
  The Census is expensive, difficult and controversial. But we do it because our numbers matter
• Five Key Questions About Weight Loss
  
  Five Key Questions About Weight Loss

Washington Independent

• Into the Guts of New START: How to Get From Here t ...
  
  So we knew earlier today that the U.S.-Russia New START nuclear reductions treaty caps deployed warheads at 1,550, a 30 percent reduction from the Bush-Putin “Moscow Treaty” of 2002, and sets a limit of 700 deployed intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles and heavy bombers. What w ...
• Djou: Yes, I’ll Join GOP Effort to Repeal He ...
  
  I followed up with GOP congressional candidate Charles Djou to clear up what he meant when he said Republicans should “try to work on dramatic reform first” before moving to repeal the health care bill. In an email, I asked Djou whether he’d sign the Club for Growth’s “Repeal It” pledge — he hasn’t ...
• How to Discredit Afghan Women, Courtesy of the CIA
  
  Wikileaks obtained and published (PDF) a CIA “Red Cell” analysis — that’s what the agency presents either to counter received wisdom or to be deliberately provocative — on bolstering support for the Afghanistan war among skeptical European publics. (Hat tip to Jeremy Scahill.) Among the strategies e ...
• Mountaintop Mining Addendum
  
  It’s worth noting: Despite the new EPA scrutiny (and potential repeal) of the Bush-era permit approving the largest mountaintop coal mine in West Virginia’s history, a part of that project will continue its operations during the public comment and review process. The Spruce No. 1 Mine — a 2,300-acre ...
• Palin: Anti-HCR Violence Stories Are ‘Ginned ...
  
  At a rally for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sarah Palin — who I do think has been unfairly attacked as a source of “violent” backlash against health care — dismissed outright the idea that opponents of reform were reacting violently. Palin called it a “ginned-up controversy about us common-sense cons ...

CowBoss' Brain Food

• Snail pie is tastier, more nutritious than beef
  
  Malnutrition and iron deficiency among schoolchildren in developing countries could be reduced by serving up generous portions of delicious, bargain-priced snail pie and other handy beef alternatives. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• CO2, Methane Ousted as Worst Global Climate Change ...
  
  Move over CO2—you’ve been ousted, along with methane, as the biggest offenders of global climate change. The majority of “greenhouse gases” are created by humans. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Pe ...
  
  Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe. Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• 6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming
  
  Sure, agriculture provides us with the food we all eat every day. But do you know how those agricultural practices impact global warming? Turns out there's some pretty big impacts, on both the sustainable and industrial sides of the equation; employing su Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to ...
• We love Butchers
  
  Former chef Josh Applestone and his wife, Jessica Applestone, are typical of the new butcher breed. He was a vegan, she was a one-time vegetarian when they founded Fleisher’s Grass-fed and Organic Meats in Kingston, N.Y., in 2004 Submitted by cowboss for the farm animals to Society & Culture �|� �N ...

Suzie-Q

• The Rage And Violence Is Not About Health Care
  
  The Rage Is Not About Health Care The New York Times- Opinion By FRANK RICH Published: March 27, 2010 THERE were times when last Sunday’s great G.O.P. health care implosion threatened to bring the thrill back to reality television. On ABC’s “This Week,” a frothing and filibustering Karl Rove al ...
• ‘Tea Party’ Protesters In Nevada
  
  Los Angeles Times- By Kathleen Hennessey and Ashley Powers March 28, 2010 Reporting from Searchlight, Nev. – [...]
• Israeli tanks enter Gaza
  
  Sydney Morning Herald March 27, 2010 – 9:54PM AFP Israeli tanks entered the Gaza Strip on Friday night, following the killing by militants of two Israeli soldiers, sparking a clash in which a Palestinian was killed. At least seven Palestinians were killed in the clash, which comes amid the worst sp ...
• Palin Campaigning For McCain (VIDEO)
  
  John McCain Is So Confused About Everything Right Now Wonkette–4:51 PM on Fri March 26 2010 By Jim Newell Here is a clip, ANY clip, of John McCain’s rally with Sarah Palin this afternoon, in Arizona. See she’s bustin’ out the leather tit jacket.  TeLLyPrOmmTr, notes-on-mah-hand, e ...
• Fidel Castro: Thoughts on Obama and Health Reform ...
  
  Global Research, March 26, 2010 Digital Granma Internacional – 2010-03-24 Barack Obama is a fanatical believer in the imperialist capitalist system imposed by the United States on the world: “God bless the United States,” at the end of his speeches. Some of his acts wounded the sensitivity of world ...

Solari

• Gardening in a Nutshell
  
  By Anais Starr The image above comes from a wonderful book I’m reading titled “Carrots Love Tomatoes” by Louise Riotte. The book’s byline is “Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening.” I’ve been gardening (or have been a ‘gardener’s assistant’) for most of my life. In my younger days, ...
• The Solari Report Digest ~ New Podcast Available!
  
  Solari has produced a new free podcast—The Solari Report Digest #10. Listen to Solari Report Digest #10 The Solari Report Digest is a podcast featuring highlights from the live one-hour Solari Report briefings. In the rapidly changing political and economic landscape the Solari Report Digest pro ...
• Money & Markets Charts ~ 3.25.10
  
  View this week’s chart comparisons of gold against fiat currencies, oil and the Dow. Stay tuned for our next Money & Markets segment of The Solari Report on Thursday, April 1, 2010. Click here to view all charts as a pdf file. See previous Money & Markets Charts blog posts here. Currency charts are ...
• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  
  - Read the full text of the bill as signed by the President - View an index and references at Thomas.gov Related reading: Obama to Sign Executive Order on Abortion Today ABC News (24 Mar 10)
• Community Call to Prayer
  
  Sent by a reader Happy moments, PRAISE GOD. Difficult moments, SEEK GOD. Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD. Painful moments, TRUST GOD. Every moment, THANK GOD. ~Author unknown Everyone is welcome to join this weekly fifteen-minute Thursday gathering, live on the conference line or from wherever you are ...

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

• Stepping up - University at Buffalo The Spectrum
  
  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��
• Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afg ...
  
  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 ...
  
  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 new ...
  
  Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more��
• An Evolving Afghan Policy - American Chronicle
  
  An Evolving Afghan Policy American Chronicle ... triumph for the forces of Islamic extremism, al-Qaeda would once again gain a foothold, and the return of the Taliban would likely destabilize Pakistan . ...

AlterNet - Rights and Liberties

• Teacher Sued For Bashing Christianity -- Will Othe ...
  
  A teacher in California was found to have violated a student’s First Amendment rights by disparaging religion in the classroom. The ruling could silence outspoken teachers.
• Did a White Sheriff and District Attorney Orchestr ...
  
  African American mayor and police chief assert that they have been forced from office and arrested as part of an coup carried out by white politicians and their followers.
• There Will Be Blood Spilled If the Republicans Kee ...
  
  Rather than recoil at violent language, GOP leadership seems to see it as a chance to turn out votes. The consequences could be deadly.
• Texas Lawmakers Urge Gov. Perry to Stop Execution ...
  
  State Sen. Rodney Ellis, and Rep. Elliott Naishtat have sent Gov. Rick Perry letters urging him to grant a 30-day reprieve for Skinner to test DNA evidence in his case.
• Vile Health Care Protests in Congress Exposed Repu ...
  
  A party that promotes ignorance and provides a safe house for bigotry cannot serve the best interests of our country.

Sideways News

• Space art from Mars
  
  The Mars Reconaissance Orbiter satellite has sent back a collection of abstract yet awe-inspiring pictures from outer space. Take a virtual trip to Mars with Sideways News' gallery of beautiful photographs.
• Homeless to create Chelsea garden
  
  The largest ever garden to feature at the world famous Chelsea Flower Show in May will be created by 320 homeless people with the support of a number of charities across the UK, it has been revealed. The men and women will be involved at every stage of the creation of the Places of Change Garden, in ...
• London Eye – a revolution
  
  It’s 10 years since the London Eye opened, offering visitors unparalleled views of the UK capital from a monument which quickly became a landmark.� The structure, first dubbed the Millennium Wheel and opened by Tony Blair on the eve of the 21st century, did not start accepting passengers until March ...
• UN seeks to erase modern day slavery
  
  Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, called yesterday for the international community to make a renewed effort to ensure all forms of modern day slavery are eradicated once and for all. Speaking in a message commemorating the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Sl ...
• Oliver takes food fight to White House
  
  Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, currently attempting to overhaul the unhealthy diet of Americans in a West Virginia community for ABC television, wants to takes his healthy eating campaign to the White House. Oliver hopes to deliver a petition to the home of President Barack Obama, calling for action t ...

Fabius Maximus

• About the movie “Fight Club”
  
  The most interesting comment thread I’ve seen in a long time:  Matthew Yglesias’ post about the movie Fight Club, at ThinkProgress.  What does it mean?  Why do people like it?  It’s about feminism and masculinity in our culture, and a dozen other things. Fascinating comments, a discussion better ...
• Why does a great nation choose its leaders so fool ...
  
  What has gone wrong with the American Republic?  Why do we choose our Presidents in such a bizarre fashion, often electing people with a combination of inexperience and personality disorders?  Results unlike those of any other major nation.  It’s a broader problem, with our inability to reform ou ...
• “Refighting the Last War: Afghanistan and th ...
  
  A fascinating analysis on a subject often discussed on the FM website (see the list at the end of this post).   I recommend reading it in full. Excerpt from “Refighting the Last War: Afghanistan and the Vietnam Template“, Thomas H. Johnson (Prof of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate Sch ...
• FM newswire for March 27, interesting articles abo ...
  
  Today’s links to interesting news and analysis, collected from around the Internet. If you find this useful, pass it to a friend or colleague. About the new society being shaped by new media:  “The Social Media Bubble“, Umair Haque, blog of the Harvard Business Review, 23 March 2010 “Exporting ...
• Some thoughts about Stratfor
  
  Some  thoughts about Statfor from a long-time subscriber. Their reporting is first-rate, among the best available from public sources.  It and The Economist  are among the best English-language sources of information about political developments in the 3rd world. The analysis of events is usually e ...

Open Your Eyes News

• Regulated or Not, Nano-Foods Coming to a Store Nea ...
  
  AOL News – For centuries, it was the cook and the heat of the fire that cajoled taste, texture, flavor and aroma from the pot. Today, that culinary voodoo is being crafted by white-coated scientists toiling in pristine labs, rearranging atoms into chemical particles never before seen. At last year’s ...
• Cancer question complicates 9/11 compensation deal
  
  AP — Of all the illnesses people fear might be caused by toxic dust from the World Trade Center, nothing scares people like cancer. Hundreds of people are suing New York City over cancer diagnoses they received after working at ground zero. A judge last week rejected a $575 million legal settlement ...
• Purple protests on streets of Rome
  
  The Independent – A political protest movement born on the internet is hoping that it will play a decisive role in the regional elections in Italy. And its aim couldn’t be clearer. The Purple People movement wants to bring down Silvio Berlusconi. The movement has no leader, and no one really knows h ...
• JPMorgan, Lehman, UBS Named in Bid-Rigging Conspir ...
  
  Bloomberg – JPMorgan Chase & Co., Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and UBS AG were among more than a dozen Wall Street firms involved in a conspiracy to pay below-market interest rates to U.S. state and local governments on investments, according to documents filed in a U.S. Justice Department criminal ...
• Iraq election: Iyad Allawi’s bloc wins most seats
  
  BBC – Former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s bloc has achieved a surprise win in Iraq’s parliamentary elections. His coalition has two seats more than that of incumbent PM Nouri Maliki, who has vowed to challenge the results and said they were “not final”. Earlier, the UN’s envoy to Iraq said the ...

Monkey Smashes Heaven

• US leading offensive against Somalia
  
  US leading offensive against Somalia (http://raimd.wordpress.com) They’re at it again. The US is quietly leading a major military operation against the African country of Somalia. Since last year, the US been training and funding the ‘Transitional Federal Government’(TFG). Now, the US is planni ...
• People’s War is not armed reformism
  
  Filed under: ..Shubel Morgan, Communism, Maoism, Maoism Third Worldism, Maoisme, Maoismo, People's War
• Africa in crisis.. hundreds of millions lack acces ...
  
  Africa in crisis.. hundreds of millions lack access to water, suffer from “sick water,” and food shortages (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) Africa, especially West and Central Africa, is in crisis. According to a recent UNICEF report, more than 155 million, roughly 40 percent of the population i ...
• Part 1: Response to the Amerikan Party of Labor: I ...
  
  Part 1: Response to the Amerikan Party of Labor: It’s too bad word processors don’t have a factcheck (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) The American Party of Labor (APL) is a First Worldist, Hoxhaist organization. Recently, they  wrote an article that purports to “refute Maoism-Third Worldism.â ...
• Reactionaries close John Brown park
  
  Reactionaries close John Brown park (monkeysmashesheaven.wordpress.com) In 1859, a handful of revolutionaries, White and Black, declared war upon the United Snakes in order to liberate the enslaved Black Nation from Amerika’s murderous clutches. The leader of this small army was John Brown, a White ...

PakAlert

• The Road To Armageddon
  
  The morons in Washington are pushing the envelope of nuclear war. The insane drive for American hegemony threatens life on earth. The American people, by accepting the lies and deceptions of “their” government, are facilitating this outcome. Paul Craig Roberts The Washington Times is a news ...
• Why the CIA is the World’s Number One Terrorist Or ...
  
  by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy The time has come to abolish the CIA –to smash it into a thousand pieces –as JFK had promised! Its leadership should be dismissed and investigated. Where there is probable cause, CIA members should be investigated and tried for crimes against humanity.Th ...
• Fresh Evidence On The Unprovoked Indian Invasion O ...
  
  Bangladesh Leader Admits India Conspired To Invade East Pakistan Mujeeb’s daughter admits her father was a traitor, says Indian helped him raise an Indian-backed terror militia that raped and plundered in order to malign Pakistan Army India’s advocates in Washington and London have argued for ...
• US-Israel agree privately–disagree publicly
  
  by Moin Ansari There are multiple news stories coming out of Middle East. On the one hand there are stories that the US has tacitly approved the construction of 1600 housing units in disputed East Jerusalem; on the other hand there is bluster from Hillary Clinton which threatens Israel with d ...
• An Open Letter To American War Criminals And Other ...
  
  I am finally convinced that a huge percentage of the American people are the worst hypocrites imaginable ­ considering the fact that some 80% of us claim to be "Christians". The AVAILABLE facts that our barbarian young sons have murdered many thousands of COMPLETELY innocent women and children in Ir ...

ecogeek

• Recyclable Plastic Boat Sets Sail
  
  A boat aptly called the Plastiki, made out of 12,500 recyclable plastic bottles filled with carbon dioxide, has set sail for a great voyage through the Pacific.  While it seems like an extreme stunt, the journey has more of a purpose than just seeing if a plastic boat can make the trip. By now, ma ...
• The Hypocritically Bold Look of Kohler
  
  Taryn, an EcoGeek reader, received her subscriptions to Wired Magazine as well as National Geographic this week. A very EcoGeek combination, I must say, keeping up on the beauty and diversity of our world as well as cutting technology. But what she found surprised her. Each magazine had an ad from t ...
• Vortex-Creating Wind Turbines Could Double Wind Fa ...
  
  An egg-beater-like vertical wind turbine design could potentially double the output of wind farms by using the space between larger, horizontal turbines. Wind farms take up a lot of land because the large rotating blades of the turbines need a lot of space in between them to operate safely and eff ...
• California Considers Mandated Grid Storage
  
  Legislators in California have introduced a bill that would require electric utilities to provide grid-scale energy storage in their operations. The bill would call for a capacity of 2.25% of daytime peak demand by 2014 and 5% of peak demand by 2020. A variety of technologies could be included ...
• High-Efficiency Hydraulic Hybrid Car Could Get 170 ...
  
  INGOCAR is a developmental concept for a 5 passenger car with a hydraulic drive system in place of a conventional powertrian. With the weight reduction this offers and other efficiencies in the systems, the designers say their vehicle could get 170 mpg. The INGOCAR is a hydraulic hybrid vehicle ...

Buzzflash

• "Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Eco ...
  
  THOM HARTMANN'S INDEPENDENT THINKER REVIEW OF THE MONTH Each month, BuzzFlash is privileged to have top-ranked talk show host Thom Hartmann review a progressive book or DVD exclusively for BuzzFlash. See other DVDs and progressive premiums at the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace. Thom Hartman ...
• State Department's Solution: Hire New Contractors ...
  
  BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Marian Wang , ProPublica You may recall the Kabul embassy guard scandal that broke last fall—the photos documenting drunken, lewd behavior by embassy guards—all to the embarrassment of the U.S. State Department. Shortly thereafter, the Department fired eight guards ...
• Brad Friedman Merits the BuzzFlash Wings of Justic ...
  
  BUZZFLASH WINGS OF JUSTICE AWARD � BRAD FRIEDMAN � There are a lot of progressive websites that cover the inner workings, latest developments, and peculiar personalities in Washington D.C., but there are also a few journalists who pursue stories ignored or only briefly mentioned by the liberal web – ...
• John Boehner Signals to Fundamentalist GOP Basis T ...
  
  KAREN MOORE FOR BUZZFLASH Armageddon is not just a Word, Mr. Boehner. When asked whether he thought his use of the word “Armageddon” could cause people to do crazy things like spit at members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Minority Speaker of the US House of Representatives John Boehner said ...
• Mitt Romney Wins Our GOP Hypocrite Award for Slamm ...
  
  Mitt Romney Welcome back to GOP Hypocrite of the Week. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is often mentioned as the smart pick for the GOP to run against President Barack Obama in 2012. Yet, often in the same breath, the issue the Republicans are supposed to run against the Democrats in every ...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon

• The war on WikiLeaks and why it matters
  
  A newly leaked CIA report prepared earlier this month (.pdf) analyzes how the�U.S.�Government can best manipulate public opinion in Germany and�France -- in order to ensure that those countries continue to fight in Afghanistan.� The Report celebrates the fact that the governments of those two nation ...
• Salon Radio: Rep. Alan Grayson
  
  Rep. Alan Grayson has been declared to be the Number One target for defeat in November by various official GOP groups. Grayson has been able to maintain an unorthodox stance, and to publicly attack powerful interests that are normally shielded from attack, because he has attempted to rely upon indiv ...
• The right-wing need for victimization and Israel
  
  As rabid and unhinged as the American Right generally has become of late, the right-wing blogosphere is, as usual, several degrees more twisted.  Here is Powerline's Paul Mirengoff , a lawyer , protesting Obama's treatment this week of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and comparing it to ho ...
• The horrible prospect of Supreme Court Justice Cas ...
  
  A media consensus has emerged that the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the 90-year-old Ford-appointee who became the leader of the Court's so-called "liberal wing," is now imminent.  The New York Times ' Peter Baker has an article today on Obama's leading candidates to replace ...
• When presidential sermons collide
  
  President Obama gave an interview earlier this week to an Indonesian television station in lieu of the scheduled trip to that country which was canceled due to the health care vote.  In 2008, Indonesia empowered a national commission to investigate human rights abuses committed by its own government ...

The BiPartisan Report

• Sex, lies and ‘edited’ videotape
• Nihilism 1 American People Nil
• Sheldon Whitehouse brings truth to the Senate floo ...
• Pesky facts spoil GOP’s mammogram arguments
• Those holier than thou Conservatives

Sciencebase

• Materials, water, and light
  
  Some scientific links from this week, including my Materials Today news round up. Periodic Table of Parodies – Yet more periodic table fun and games Similar websites to Sciencebase – This neat little tool automagically works out your site's keywords and searches for other sites with the same keywor ...
• Awards, PTs, and green phones
  
  Awards – Research Blogging – Winners and finalists in the Research Blogging Awards 2010 announced today! A Clever Periodic Table from Sciencebase | Genome Alberta Education – It's official. My periodic table of science bloggers is clever, even if it maybe didn't include enough Canadians. Go Green! ...
• Periodioc table of science blogs
  
  Many, many thanks to everyone who joined in the fun and frolics in helping create the Periodic Table of Science Bloggers. I cannot quite believe how quickly it got filled – 118 elements – having only started it on Friday after a spate of periodic posts. Thanks for all the tweets, suggestions, retwee ...
• Chemical science, night sky, scientific trust
  
  Delicious links March 16-18 Chemical Science – Building linear polymers from monomers, inaugural paper in RSC's new journal Bing maps now let you scan the nighttime sky – The stars are coming out tonight…even when it's cloudy Sex and social networking – Patterns of prostitution revealed by analysis ...
• The Periodic Table of David Bradley
  
  Given the intense interest and heated debate surrounding an old Sciencebase post about novel periodic tables, I thought I’d have a bit of fun with one of my own…click on an orange element to visit one of my links. If you’ve got a chemistry/science blog and your initials or its initials fit one of t ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

• Defense Secretary Announces Stricter Standards for ...
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2010 ACLU Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today announced changes that will raise the standard for discharging gay members of the military under the discriminatory "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. The Obama administration and other high-ranking military leaders, incl ...
• START Agreement
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2010 Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) Amb. ROBERT GREY, via Kevin Davis Available for a limited number of interviews, Grey is former U.S. Representative to the Conference on Disarmament. He is now director of the Bipartisan Security Group, a project of the ...
• WWF and TRAFFIC: Marine Species Get a Raw Deal at ...
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2010 World Wildlife Fund and TRAFFIC World Wildlife Fund and TRAFFIC called on nations to focus on science instead of politics as marine species emerged the big losers from a United Nations conference on endangered species trade that ended today. read more
• Bill Introduced to Extend Wasteful Ethanol Tax Cre ...
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2010 Broad Coalition Today, Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) introduced a bill that would extend ethanol tax credits for another five years, to 2015. This tax credit is set to expire on December 31, 2010. If extended, the tax credits will provide the conventional et ...
• Liberals Sell-Out on Human Rights With Amendment t ...
  
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 25, 2010 Council of Canadians A Liberal proposal that would fast-track the passage of a free trade agreement with Colombia would put Canada at odds with international allies and betrays a parliamentary commitment to perform an independent human rights impact assessment ...

Common Dreams-Views

• You Are Now Paying for the Next 3 Mile Island
  
  by Harvey Wasserman As radiation poured from 3 Mile Island 31 years ago this weekend, utility executives rested easy. They knew that no matter how many people their errant nuke killed, and no matter how much property it destroyed, they would not be held liable. Today this same class of executives ...
• The Unbearable Lightness of Reform
  
  by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship That wickedly satirical Ambrose Bierce described politics as "the conduct of public affairs for private advantage." read more
• We Won a Robust Public Option . . . on College Loa ...
  
  by Jeff Cohen We won! When President Obama signs the healthcare reconciliation bill on Tuesday, we can crow about a robust public option - en route perhaps to a more inclusive, cost-effective single-payer system. Soon, private profiteers (and subsidies to them) will be sidelined, and the government ...
• March Madness: Why Progressives Always Lose
  
  by John Atcheson Hurling Hail Mary's -- When is a victory more like a defeat? At the risk of being churlish, passing this health care bill was the palest of victories. Yes, it's better than nothing, but as the President himself has pointed out, it's largely made up of proposals the Republicans adv ...
• A Toothless West Watches as Japan Guts Fish Stocks
  
  by Charles Clover The scalloped hammerhead is a pretty cool shark. You could learn to love it. It does cool things. Its eyes are placed to give it 360-degree vision. It can detect an electrical signal as weak as half a billionth of a volt from the muscle contractions of its prey. It gives birth to l ...

Karl Burkart

• Titanium 'leaves' could unlock hydrogen power
  
  The Artificial Inorganic Leaf (AIL) may unlock the secrets to producing cheap, clean hydrogen by mimicking the photosynthetic structure of the leaf.
• EPA gives us a day to celebrate
  
  Today the EPA moves to veto the largest mountain top removal proposal, Spruce No. 1.
• Climate Counterspin TV
  
  After more than a decade of anti-climate spin, the folks at DeSmogBlog say enough is enough with Climate TV.
• Bill Gates: billions for next-gen nuclear
  
  Bill Gates set to commit billions in a partnership between Toshiba and next-generation nuclear company TerraPower.
• Creative kids turn 'Trash to Treasure'
  
  PBS announces 2010 'Trash to Treasure' contest which will turn three kids into eco-design stars.

Water Privatization

• Group bucks water facilities privatization (Malaya ...
  
  The Water for the People Network (WPN), a nationwide multi-sectoral alliance campaigning for people’s control over water resources, is calling on government to abandon its plan to privatize water facilities like the Angat dam.
• CQ Transcript: Crist-Rubio Debate on 'Fox News Sun ...
  
  CQ Transcriptswire
• Challenges increase for Mekong farmers (Vietnam Ne ...
  
  VietNamNet Bridge - Farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta have for long adapted to rising sea levels and are used to a life of hardship, but current challenges have rendered them most vulnerable in years, experts say.
• Officials fear bill will close prison (Jackson Cou ...
  
  The town of Sneads, along with Jackson County, may be facing what officials are calling a “devastating hit” to the economy if a Senate bill is passed, ultimately closing three state prisons. Apalachee Correctional Institution is one the rumored targets of the bill.
• ACCENT: Sides don't know each other; The Star's in ...
  
  Editor's note: The following is the transcript of a 90-minute conversation Sudbury Star reporter Carol Mulligan had with Vale Inco president and CEO Tito Martins in Toronto this week.[...]

Guardian

• No 10 plan to fix football: give clubs back to fan ...
  
  Exclusive: Radical proposals designed to overhaul the way the game is governed The government is to unveil radical proposals that would give football fans first option to buy their clubs when they were put up for sale and require clubs to hand over a stake of up to 25% to supporters' groups. The ide ...
• Pope decries 'gossip' over scandal
  
  In Palm Sunday address pope says faith in God leads 'towards the courage of not allowing oneself to be intimidated' Pope Benedict, facing the worst crisis of his papacy as a sexual abuse scandal sweeps the Catholic church, declared today he would not be "intimidated" by "petty gossip", angering acti ...
• UK-US special relationship 'over'
  
  Barack Obama not sentimental about UK and 'sharp elbows' needed to secure British interests Britain needs to use "sharp elbows" in its dealings with Washington because Barack Obama is "less sentimental" about the historic links between Britain and the United States, a former ambassador to the US has ...
• Obama's surprise visit to Kabul
  
  US military has said that success against Taliban would count for little unless Karzai government wins over populace Barack Obama made a surprise trip to Afghanistan today to press home to President Hamid Karzai, the need to tackle corruption and run the country better to counter support for the Ta ...
• 'Dr Shock' charged with sexual abuse
  
  Canadian police investigate dozens of allegations against psychiatrist nicknamed for use of electricity to 'cure' gay soldiers A leading Canadian psychiatrist who kept accusations of gross human rights abuses in apartheid-era South Africa hidden has been charged in Calgary with sexually abusing a ma ...

McClatchey

• Obama makes surprise visit to Afghanistan
  
  WASHINGTON_President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan Sunday, including talks with President Hamid Karzai and meetings ith U.S. commanders and troops. Obama flew secretly to Afhganistan Saturday night, landing at Bagram Air Force Base about 7:25 pm local time, 10:55 am EDT Sunday. H ...
• Obama makes surprise visit to Afghanistan
  
  WASHINGTON_President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan Sunday, visiting with President Hamid Karzai and U.S. commanders and troops.
• Both parties see hope for November wins after heal ...
  
  WASHINGTON — The bitter legislative battle over health care reform is finally over, but the political war has just begun, and the fallout is being felt across the country and in Missouri.
• Commentary: Economy will get a boost from health c ...
  
  American companies can hire and fire workers with relative ease, one reason that the U.S. economy has been a world leader for decades. Tumultuous and painful at times, the trade-off is an economy that's more responsive and open to change — and faster growth.
• Afraid no more, Fiorina says she's ready to help o ...
  
  WASHINGTON — Carly Fiorina grew up afraid that she would lose her parents.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

• CITES: Murky waters for marine conservation
  
  So, the once-every-three-years Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting has come to an end; and rather like the last time, conservationists are coming away with hands empty, apart from a few scrappy morsels of succour. I haven't been at the meeting in Doha, but I have ...
• Does healthcare win leave climate in better shape?
  
  The passage of President Obama's healthcare reform package prompts the question: what might it mean for climate change legislation? Will it clear the path for a climate bill this year , as some believe? Or has politicking over the healthcare bill poisoned the well of goodwill in Washington, as oth ...
• Tuna defeat's hypocritical roots
  
  The frustration of conservation groups at the outcome of Thursday's tuna trade discussions was almost palpable. The proposal to ban international trade in the Atlantic bluefin discussed at the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meeting - tabled by Monaco and backed b ...
• Climate ads far from divine
  
  Some interesting perspectives on communication, information and climate change emerge this week from Africa and the UK. A survey for the BBC World Service Trust (the corporation's international charitable arm) shows that although many Africans are noticing progressive changes to their weather, they ...
• Can rhinos cure cancer?
  
  Last June, a group of five men drove into South Africa's Addo National Park and held up the rangers' station at gunpoint . They emerged with a small consignment of ivory and rhino horn worth an estimated 850,000 rand - about £75,000, or $114,000. The rhino horn - which came from animals that had d ...

The Wonk Room

• KGL Update: Big Oil Wants A Big Fracking Deal
  
  ConocoPhillips, BP, and Shell Oil Company met with senators drafting energy reform legislation Thursday to request that their legislation block the federal government from regulating fracking pollution. Climate reform such as the legislation being drafted by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), Sen. Joe Lieberma ...
• Republicans To Introduce Legislation Strengthening ...
  
  As I note here, implementing the new health care reform law will provide conservatives with plenty of opportunities to fear monger about health care reform, but this new scandal about Congressional staffers being exempt from enrolling in the exchanges certainly isn’t one of them. Currently, the heal ...
• Virginia Governor Says Gays Don’t Need Legal ...
  
  Yesterday, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell — who recently issued an Executive Directive 1 stating that discrimination “based on factors such as one’s sexual orientation or parental statusâ€� will not be tolerated — said that gays and lesbians do not need protections against workplace discrimin ...
• California Gubernatorial Candidate Smears Opponent ...
  
  California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner (R-CA) has been pulling out every stop to present himself as a conservative immigration hawk and convince California voters that his opponent, former eBay chief executive Meg Whitman (R-CA), is “no real Republican.” His most recent effort consists of ...
• Hatch: I Supported The Unconstitutional Individual ...
  
  Yesterday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) admitted that he supported the individual mandate before he realized it was unconstitutional and now, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has conceded that he too endorsed a policy that would have allowed the government “to tell you what you have to buy, even if you don’t w ...

thwap's schoolyard

• Historians Behaving Badly
  
  The latest is David Bercuson, who wrote a howler recently. About how stephen harper can get out of his own supposedly ill-advised promise to get Canada out of the Afghanistan nightmare by 2011. It's called " This U.S. plea is a [h]arper saver ." The United States, according to The Globe and Mail, ...
• Canada & Torture & Law & Democracy: Where Do We St ...
  
  How depressing. The sub-title of this post started out as "Where We Stand," but seeing the long-term apathy (at best) about our present government regarding the possibility of complicity in the torture of innocent people, reading the detailed expressions of sympathy from conservative trolls on the ...
• A Bounty Paid For Arresting Tony Blair
  
  From George Monbiot . It sounds like a great idea! Encouraging citizens’ arrests of Tony Blair for the crime of aggression is perhaps the only remaining option we have, and the astonishing response to the campaign I launched last week shows that many people understand this. In 30 hours, before P ...
• Maybe Not ...
  
  A few days ago I typed that it was possible to defeat the harpercons in an election based on harper's blatant contempt for Canadian values and our system of government. But after the keystone kops impression the Liberals performed while trying to trash harper for his revolting exclusion of family p ...
• Why Did Rahim Jaffer Cross the Road?
  
  Because when he smashed his car into a telephone pole, his bag of cocaine flew out the driver-side window and landed on the other side. Why did Jim Flaherty spend $9,000 of our money to take a private plane to preach austerity at a Tim Horton's in London? Because he didn't want to risk having a pu ...

Financial Sense Editorials

• Natural Gas Bulls: Capitulation
  
  by Matthew Millar. "One obvious fact in the natural gas market is that inventory supplies have fallen to the 5 year average, after a huge 500 BCF overhang existed as recently as October (Figure 1). What isless obvious are the underlying mechanics of balance between supply and demand, after accountin ...
• Market Observation: U.S. Government Debt, U.S. Bud ...
  
  by Ron Griess. "The following chart shows Gross Federal Debt and the "Debt Ceiling" at the end of February, 2010."
• Battle for the Budget
  
  by Bud Conrad. "Recently the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published its scoring of President Obama's budget for the next 10 years. It shows a budget deficit of $9.8 trillion. That is just shy of $4 trillion worse than the CBO’s baseline budget, a budget that includes only the laws as currently ...
• Bob Prechter Reveals the Most Dangerous Gold & Sil ...
  
  by Elliott Wave Int. "Right now, the gold BULL-ion bandwagon is more crowded than a New York subway train during rush hour. But before you squeeze your way into the crowd of passengers, you should know one thing: Those steering the course are using outdated maps based on ill-conceived notions and il ...
• If You Didn’t Like for the Movie You’ll hate the S ...
  
  by William Hecht. "In 2006 I wrote a piece for this most august website titled “Welcome to the New Economic Order, Goodbye Pluto.” The point of the piece was that in the face of the 2002 capital-spending recession we had had relied upon a very fast-acting and effective means of regenerating economi ...

on Government Oversight

• Congress Should Not Let Itself by Rolled Over by N ...
  
  Realizing that there is mounting doubt on the Hill in the wisdom of spending billions of dollars on four new buildings for the creation of new components for nuclear weapons, the directors of three national laboratories are going on the...
• Did Triple Canopy Instruct Its Guards to Lie to St ...
  
  Props to Dan Schulman at Mother Jones for finding an incredible footnote buried within the State Department IG’s audit on the shortcomings in State’s oversight of Triple Canopy, the contractor responsible for guarding the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. The footnote...
• Kabul Embassy Deja Vu
  
  Does the State Department have the capacity to effectively manage an embassy security contract in a war zone? It depends on your definition of effective. A previously unreleased report by the Department of State Office of Inspector General (IG), made...
• Morning Smoke: How to Prevent the Next Financial C ...
  
  Heading Off the Next Financial Crisis by David Leonhardt [The New York Times Magazine] U.S. Said to Widen Homeowner Aid, Subsidize Mortgage Reductions by Rebecca Christie and Kate Andersen Brower [Bloomberg] House kicks off caucus to push for open government...
• Congress Fighting for Its Ability to Conduct Overs ...
  
  The push to prevent the White House from curtailing congressional oversight of the intelligence community (IC) just gained a little momentum. In a letter sent Tuesday, three Senators and six Representatives urged President Obama to support a provision of the...

Digital Journal

• ATM tampering ring busted in Durham Region, Ontari ...
  
  Durham Regional Police and the Ontario Provincial Police have been working almost a year to bust up an ATM tampering ring.
• City of Toronto to pilot test plug-in hybrid
  
  Teaming up with Toyota Canada Inc. the city of Toronto will be pilot testing the Toyota’s Prius plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHV).
• St. Pierre dominant against Hardy in UFC 111
  
  Welterweight UFC champion St. Pierre took down England's Dan Hardy in 5 rounds of mixed martial arts mastery. Carwin also pounded away a KO victory against Mir in the first round in the co-main event.
• Expensive, artistic, old and weird, dildos were in ...
  
  Dildos of every shape and size - from antiques to haute coûteux and from the wacky to the wonderful - were in the news last week throughout the European Union and in Canada.
• Save hundreds of $$$s, clip coupons
  
  Diligent coupon clippers save hundreds, even thousands of dollars per year and they don't buy just junk food and stuff they don't need. Meet the 'extreme shoppers' known as super coupon clippers.

End Homelessness | Change.org

• Life After Homelessness: Learning to Leave Violenc ...
  
  This is the first of a five-part series looking at the lives of young people making the journey out of long-term homelessness at Hospitality House in Australia. At Hospitality House , we work with a small number of people who can't move out of homelessness using the traditional shelter system and n ...
• City's Backroom Deals Harm the Homeless
  
  Maybe New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city's Department of Homeless Services (DHS), which is responsible for the city's shelter system , can go in together on a public relations specialist -- both of their images have been tarnished by pitifully inadequate responses to the city's hom ...
• Only the Good and the Homeless Die Young
  
  The price of homelessness, for many, is premature death. Our homeless live about 36 percent shorter lives than our housed. And living is an even bigger luxury if you are a homeless Latina female, since you will likely only live half as long as the average housed person. To further depress you, about ...
• Shelters Cost More Than Apartments
  
  According to a report released today by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, every level of government (city, state, federal) could provide homeless families and individuals with permanent housing for less money than it costs to shelter them. "In almost all cases," the report concludes, ...
• Tough Love Shelters, Heavy on the Tough
  
  Despite all that New York City does right, it deserves a prominent place in the Hall of Shame of homeless services. Mayor Michael Bloomberg should get the brunt of the criticism. He pledged to dramatically reduce homelessness (don't they all?) with a five-year-plan he released in 2004. Six years lat ...

Ceasefire.ca

• Petition: Make Canada a UN Peacekeeper again
  
  Once the world's top contributor of troops for UN Peacekeeping, Canada has fallen far down the list as the military has turned away from the UN. Urge Prime Minister Harper, the political party leaders and your Member of Parliament to make Canada a proud UN Peacekeeeper once again.
• U.S. to ask Canada to keep troops in Afghanistan
  
  The Globe and Mail reported on Thursday that the United States will ask Canada to keep as many as 500 to 600 soldiers in Afghanistan following the scheduled end of the mission in July 2011 (John Ibbitson, “U.S. to press for Canada to keep troops in Afghanistan,” Globe and Mail, 25 March 2010).  Acc ...
• The power of protests: “When the public gets mad, ...
  
  Former Senator Douglas Roche on the power of protests (Douglas Roche, “Stand up and speak out for what’s right: Mass protests have the power to bring about social change,” Edmonton Journal, 24 March 2010): “When the public gets mad, politicians… back down. When the kitchen gets too hot, they run ...
• Canadian military quietly stops reporting wounded
  
  The Canadian military has quietly stopped reporting when soldiers are wounded on the battlefield (Murray Brewster, “Canada forbids reporting of battlefield wounded,” Globe and Mail, 23 March 2010).  In order to satisfy the public’s right to know what is going on in Afghanistan, the military says ...
• Dirty water bigger killer than war: UN
  
  Contaminated water is a bigger killer than all forms of violence, including war, says a new UN report. Sick Water? The Central Role of Wastewater Management in Sustainable Development was compiled by the UN Environment Programme and UN-HABITAT, the UN Human Settlements Programme. According to the r ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

• Soldiers Take Psychiatric Meds for Stress
  
  March 26, 2010 ABC News By: Martha Raddatz and Michael Murray After years on the battlefield or in the trenches, many American soldiers are showing signs of psychological distress. An increasing number of soldiers are turning to medication to alleviate their symptoms. From the isolated outposts of A ...
• Women Greater Hypochondriacs Than Men
  
  March 26, 2010 Telegraph A report from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) revealed that women are more likely to report illness than men, but are less likely to die from bad health. According to information provided by more than 750,000 people on national census forms completed in 2001, “Women ...
• Losing Breast May Not Be Best for Cancer Patients
  
  March 26, 2010 Breitbart By: Maria Cheng For some women, having a breast removed once they’re diagnosed with cancer doesn’t always mean they’ll live longer, a new study says. Researchers said that in women with breast cancer who also have genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to the dise ...
• Processed Food Leads to Depression
  
  March 26, 2010 Natural News By: David Gutierrez People who eat more processed foods are significantly more likely to suffer from depression, while those who eat more fruits and vegetables are significantly less likely to be depressed, according to a study conducted by researchers from University Col ...
• Mediterranean Diet May Protect Against Stomach Can ...
  
  March 26, 2010 Natural News By: E. Huff A study conducted by the Catalan Institute for Oncology in Barcelona has concluded that eating a “Mediterranean” diet significantly reduces the risk of developing stomach cancer. Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the study focused specif ...

Pambazuka News

• Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
  
  Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
• 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
  
  Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...
• Haiti: Private contractors 'like vultures coming t ...
  
  Critics are concerned that private military contractors are positioning themselves at the centre of an emerging "shock doctrine" for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Next month, a prominent umbrella organisation for private military and logistic corporation...
• How NGOs are profiting off a grave situation
  
  It's now more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be ...
• Global: New murders and fumigations in ancestral A ...
  
  In only two weeks, four Afro-Colombian leaders have been murdered, and several subjected to death threats. Fumigations have caused the internal displacement of more than 100 Afro-Colombians. The violation of Afro-Colombian fundamental rights continue...

War in Context

• Dennis Ross ‘peddling the same snake oil’
  
  If one man can be said to epitomize the failure of the peace process more than any other American official, it’s probably Dennis Ross. Why then, one might then ask, would he have such a central role in getting this “derailed” process “back on track”? According to this report from Laura Rozen, Ross ...
• After losing election, Maliki fights to stay in po ...
  
  The New York Times reports that even if Maliki lost the Iraqi election he shows no interest in stepping down: Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s party lost the Iraqi election, but a day after the results were announced it became clear that he would fight to hold on to his post — and had taken st ...
• UK needs to be less deferential to US, MPs say
  
  In a new report, Global security: UK-US relations, members of Britain’s parliamentary foreign affairs committee say that the so-called “special relationship” between Britain and America is a thing of the past and it’s time for British leaders to stop kissing American ass — well, they didn’t use thos ...
• The loner in the White House
  
  Howard LaFranchi, (in a rather superficial treatment), raises an interesting issue: Does it matter that Obama has no foreign friends? When French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, sit down for dinner with the Obamas in the White House family dining room March 30, it will be a rar ...
• Apartheid inside Israel
  
  Jonathan Cook reports: The Zakai and Tarabin families should be a picture of happy coexistence across the ethnic divide, a model for others to emulate in Israel. But Natalie and Weisman Zakai say the past three years – since the Jewish couple offered to rent their home to Bedouin friends, Ahmed a ...

Watts Up With That?

• Cartoons by Josh
  
  Bishop Hill has a cohort, Josh,  that has turned Climategate and the blogospheric response into a running series of cartoons. During his blogging sabbatical while he turned his attention to mining (not the data kind), I think Steve McIntyre missed this one, so I’ll present it here. Some others of ...
• England’s Five Year Climate Forecast Cycle
  
  Guest post by Steven Goddard (UK Pic Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response) England, Scotland and Wales completely covered in snow,  January, 2010 In my last article, I discussed the current theory that global warming is going to turn England into a tropical paradise.  And ten years ago we were ...
• 2010 Earth Hour in California – just as inef ...
  
  Earth Hour has come and gone in California (8:30 to 9:30 PM PST) for 2010 without so much as a blip. In fact the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) power usage graph looks much like last year when there was also no discernible difference. Using the graph provided by CAISO, here’s what E ...
• ‘Foamenting’ climate change
  
  From the American Association for the Advancement of Science, more ideas on geoengineering: PACIFIC GROVE, CALIFORNIA—In an effort to curb global warming, scientists have proposed everything from launching sunlight-blocking dust into the stratosphere to boosting the number of carbon-sucking alga ...
• Earth Hour in North Korea a stunning success
  
  The WWF sponsored Earth Hour has already come and gone in the Korean time zone, and the North Korean proletariat has claimed a stunning victory over its evil capitalist neighbor, South Korea. Oh, wait. Seems it is always that way. I like this line from Alan Caruba at the link above: Like fire, elect ...

Dandelion Salad

• Cindy Sheehan interviews Temir Porras, Venezuela&# ...
  
  by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox March 28, 2010 (SOAPBOX #55) Cindy welcomes Temir Porras, Venezuela’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, in charge of the Middle East and Asia.  In today’s world, Venezuela and its popul ...
• NWC’s Stephen Kohn Takes on the Absentee White Hou ...
  
  by Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad originally published by Boiling Frogs Post 26 March, 2010 Last week Boiling Frogs Post invited Mr. Norman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, and Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Directo ...
• U.S. Plunges Central America Back To Era Of Coups ...
  
  by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO Stop NATO-Opposition to global militarism March 26, 2010 March 24th of this year was the thirtieth anniversary of the assassination of Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the Roman Catholic archbishop of El Salvador. His killing drew attention to the m ...
• “The evil scourge of terrorism”: Reali ...
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Noam Chomsky chomsky.info March 26, 2010 Erich Fromm Lecture 2010 Text of lecture delivered at the International Erich Fromm Society, Stuttgart, Germany, March 23, 2010 The president could not have been more justified when he condemned “the evil scourge o ...
• On the Edge with Max Keiser: Dmitry Orlov: De-Virt ...
  
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ photo by Dandelion Salad MaxKeiserTV March 26, 2010 http://maxkeiser.com With Dmitry Orlov see Predictions: The USA during the second decade of the XXI century by Dmitry Orlov Dmitry Orlov: The Collapse Gap Dmitry Orlov: Seizing the Mid-Collapse Moment ( ...

Your New Reality

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  Michael Crichton on the denigration of society by the mainstream media, back in 1993 : There has been a great decline in civility in this country. We have lost the perception that reasonable persons of good will may hold opposing views. Simultaneously, we have lost the ability to address reasoned ar ...
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  Without The Mo, He Kind Of Looks British Would you do business with this man? Some of America's biggest corporations of the 1930s and 1940s did . Redditers find other examples of Hitler after a makeover, including Emo Hitler. UPDATE : Now he's ready to run for the Republicans. Or the Democrat ...
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  The Future Is Now! But With PayPhones & Faxes How the future was envisaged in a series of AT&T ads back in 1993. Note cute importance still placed on faxes, the lack of remote controls for TV units, and non-existence of 3G phones with inbuilt movie studio editing and worldwide instant broadcast cap ...
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  China Fires Back At US Over Human Rights : "The US Citizens' Freedom To Access & Distribute Information Is Under Strict Supervision" China has compiled a detailed, well sourced report on human rights' violations in the United States, through 2008-2009. It makes for some very interesting reading, no ...
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  How The US Intends To Stop The Next Financial Crisis : 'We Will Ask People To Stop Cheating' And so it is up left up to the 'funny coz it's true' alternative news like The Daily Show to expose just how vulnerable the US economy and financial institutions was to theft, fraud and apocalyptic gree ...

Wired - Science

• New RFID Tag Could Mean the End of Bar Codes
  
  Lines at the grocery store might become as obsolete as milkmen, if a new tag that seeks to replace bar codes becomes commonplace. Researchers from Sunchon National University in Suncheon, South Korea, and Rice University in Houston have built a radio frequency identification tag that can be printed ...
• What’s It Like to Fly the Space Shuttle? We Find O ...
  
  As a person who really enjoys flying airplanes, I never thought I would ever say this, but flying a simulator can be as much fun as flying the real thing. Of course it helps when the simulator is a replica of the space shuttle cockpit at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. On a recent assignment [ ...
• Lab-Quality Booze Detector Fits in a Suitcase
  
  Ever found yourself staring down a punch bowl at a frat party and wondering just how spiked it might be? What you needed was the AlcoQuick 4000, a briefcase-sized infrared spectrometer that can accurately determine the alcohol content of a wide variety of beverages in just 60 seconds, according to ...
• Ron Howard Was Wrong: Apollo 13 Would Have Burned, ...
  
  The Apollo 13 module, had it not been for NASA’s heroic efforts to get it back on course, would have missed Earth and tumbled into the depths of cold, lonely space. At least that’s been the story repeated in popular, academic, and cinematic accounts of the ill-fated mission, like Ron Howard’s Apoll ...
• Laser-Guidance Adds Power to Wind Turbines
  
  The wind industry may soon be dependent on a different kind of environmental awareness that has more to do with lasers than ecology. A new laser system that can be mounted on wind turbines allows them to prepare for the wind rushing towards their blades. The lasers act like sonar for the wind, boun ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

• Jonathan cook: Israel’s Provocation at al-Aqsa
  
  The Israeli government has indicated that it will press ahead with a plan to enlarge the Jewish prayer plaza at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, despite warnings that the move risks... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in ...
• Ajami Director: No apologies
  
  Scandar Copti: "Successive Israeli governments that prevent the most basic things, such as self-definition, in every way possible, whether through racist laws, the naming of streets, the way the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...
• Did IDF general cut short probe into U.S. activist ...
  
  The Military Police interrogation of a key suspect in the killing of American human rights activist Rachel Corrie was cut short by a direct order of then GOC Southern, Maj. Gen. Doron Almog, army... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, n ...
• Israeli West Bank food company fakes address for E ...
  
  Shamir Salads, an Israeli company located in the West Bank, is marketing its products in Europe using a false address west of the Green Line, violating an agreement between Israel and the European... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
• Akiva Eldar: Netanyahu and Obama are at a point of ...
  
  The strife between Israel and the United States concerns something far bigger than the proximity talks with the Palestinians. As far as President Barack Obama and his senior advisers are concerned,... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

• Philip Crowley praises new Russia-U.S. arms reduct ...
  
  A U.S. State Department spokesman has praised the new arms reduction treaty Russia and the United States are to sign in April
• Fate of Russia's Bulava missile must be decided th ...
  
  The upcoming tests of Russia's troubled Bulava ballistic missile will determine whether it will be put in service with the Russian Navy or scrapped.
• Black Sea Fleet
  
• Black Sea Fleet future in Ukraine may become clear ...
  
  Russia and Ukraine could agree on the extension of the Black Sea Fleet's presence in the Crimea while Viktor Yanukovich serves his first term as Ukrainian president.
• Russia needs minimum 50 nuclear subs for fleet - N ...
  
  The Russian Navy ideally needs to have at least 50 nuclear-powered submarines, a high-ranking Navy officer said during a live interview with Ekho Moskvy radio station on Saturday.

NewsWise

• Compulsive Eating Shares Same Addictive Biochemica ...
  
  In a newly published study, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have shown for the first time that the same molecular mechanisms that drive people into drug addiction are behind the compulsion to overeat, pushing people into obesity.
• Key Protein Links Insulin Action, Insulin Resistan ...
  
  Joslin scientists find surprising twist in PI 3-kinase molecule that may offer novel target for diabetes drugs.
• Self-Powered Nanosensors Use Improved Nanogenerato ...
  
  By combining a new generation of piezoelectric nanogenerators with two types of nanowire sensors, researchers have created what are believed to be the first self-powered nanometer-scale sensing devices that draw power from the conversion of mechanical energy.
• Paired Drugs Kill Precancerous Colon Polyps, Spare ...
  
  A two-drug combination destroys precancerous colon polyps with no effect on normal tissue, opening a new potential avenue for chemoprevention of colon cancer, a team of scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports in the advance online edition of the journal Nature.
• One Step Closer to Personalized Medicine: Research ...
  
  Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have found the first bio-marker for multiple sclerosis (MS) that might predict which patients will respond to a standard therapy and which will not. In findings published online March 28 in Nature Medicine, the UAB team, in a joint effo ...

Intel Trends

• NOTICE: IntelTrends is moving to Blogger
  
  * * Effective 10-FEB-2010 this blog is moving to Blogger. * * The new URL is: http://inteltrends.blogspot.com RSS subscribers need to "re-subscribe" to the updated newsfeed URL. http://feeds.feedburner.com/inteltrends Thank you for your patience during the transition. Steve Permalin ...
• Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: Peace Campaign Hyp ...
  
  The following comment is from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Reprinted with permission. Peace Campaign Hypes and the Rogue War-mongering Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 10, 2010 �17:46 �administrator Of Late, the invading forces led by America and their surrogates have l ...
• Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism
  
  The following article is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism ©   Pravda By Sergey Balmasov February 10, 2010 Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade urged African leaders and the West to join forces in the fight against al-Qaeda's North African branch ...
• IntelTrends 10-FEB-2010
  
  Military hospitals under pressure in advance of new offensive Telegraph, 10 Feb Military hospitals in Afghanistan and the U.K. are operating close to capacity as British forces prepare to launch a major offensive against the Taliban. Arab diplomat annuls wedding with hairy bride Al Arabiya, 10 ...
• Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: On the So-called R ...
  
  The following opinion is reprinted with permission from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. On the So-called Re-integration Source: �Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan February 9, 2010 �08:56 �S.H. The recent American tactic to lure away members of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan under the nam ...

Organic Consumers.org

• Toxic Sludge Being Thrown on Lawns in Black Neighb ...
  
  Lawmakers and the NAACP are calling for an investigation into reports that federally funded scientific experiments in 2000 spread sewage sludge on yards in poor black neighborhoods to test if it could fight lead poisoning in children. The Associated Press reported Sunday that researchers spread a mi ...
• Nation’s Largest Private Water Utility Joins Lawsu ...
  
  The nation's largest private water utility company has joined a federal lawsuit[1] that aims to force the manufacturer of atrazine, a widely-used herbicide, to pay for its removal from drinking water. Click here to read this article
• Should Whole Foods, Like Google, Get Out of China?
  
  Google is exiting China for a number of reasons, including the hacking of its data, but fundamentally, Google found that it couldn’t live up to its values of openness in a repressive society. Whole Foods Market has a different China problem: The company imports lots of organic food from China, but i ...
• No Regulation of Nanotech
  
  Today, the U.S. is at the fore of worldwide nano-innovation. But when it comes to regulations and laws that will protect consumers and workers from the potential hazards, the country lags badly behind many other nations. Click here to read this article
• New ANH Study Says EU Vitamin Laws Must Change Tra ...
  
  A study just published in a leading peer reviewed journal explains how the European Commission’s proposed approach to limiting maximum doses of vitamins and minerals in food supplements across Europe is not scientifically rational. Click here to read this article

fotoFrontera

• Foto Reportajes: Miel de maple o sirop d'erable 'L ...
  
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Viaje con el Reportero sin Fronteras a través de 47 fotografías en alta resolución, por una de las cabañas más populares de la provincia de Quebec en Canadá . Conozca de cerca el proceso de elaboración del famoso jarabe ...
• Paisajes Naturales (10 imágenes de 1920x1200)
  
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. ¿Está usted buscando imágenes o fotografías de paisajes naturales ? Si usted ha respondido afirmativamente, quiero decirle que hoy es su día de suerte pues tengo en exclusiva para usted que viene por primera vez a visita ...
• Bellísima colección de Autos (27 wallpapers gigant ...
  
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Hola, hola, hola! El día de hoy jueves 25 de marzo , estoy muy feliz porque tengo para todos ustedes una archirequetecontramegasuper colección de wallpapers en alta resolución basada exclusivamente en Automóviles de lujo ...
• Imágenes de pegasos y unicornios. (33 elementos)
  
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. Desde hace algunos días, una excelente persona que visita el Banco de Imágenes Gratuitas con suma regularidad, me había solicitado un especial de imágenes de pegasos . Aunque no fue fácil conseguir la siguiente recopilac ...
• Imágenes de ángeles (23 elementos de seres alados)
  
  Nota: Haz click aquí o sobre la imagen para entrar y ver todas las fotografías. De alguna forma, todos sentimos algún tipo de atracción o curiosidad hacia estos seres divinos llamados ángeles. Sus... Esto es sólo un resumen, por favor haga click en el link permanente para leer todo y ver la co ...

Climategate

• ABC science presenter Robyn Williams seeks more tr ...
  
  ABC science presenter Robyn Williams who in 2007 believed seas could rise 100 meters, seeks more truth from scientists after Climategate.
• How to avoid your own Climategate scandal
  
  What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today.  To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “smoking g ...
• What is the “likelihood” that the 2007 IPCC Report ...
  
  A very interesting analysis of the IPPC Assessment and has some important questions that invite others to help him answer. Please read his article and let him know what conclusions you draw.
• Schools call for a “balanced teaching of global wa ...
  
  USA Today reports that US schools are finally calling for both sides of global warming to be taught, because it is after all, a theory -- not a fact:
• Global Warming can burn your fingers
  
  Here's another bit of EU-sponsored propaganda, starring Mads Mikkelsen (the guy with the bleeding eye in Casino Royale, remember?).

Opinio Juris

• ICJ Kosovo Judgment Due in November
  
  by Julian Ku by Julian Ku The long-awaited ICJ judgment on Kosovo is due out this November, according to this report.  That would be pretty fast work, given the hearings were only held last December and probably involved the participation of more countries (35) filing memorials than any case in I ...
• Jane Mayer Takes Down Marc Thiessen
  
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller In case you haven’t seen it, make sure to check out Jane Mayer’s demolition of Marc Thiessen’s book-length apologia for torture, “Courting Disaster.”  As her review demonstrates, it’s much easier to defend torture when you distort nearly everything. UPDATE ...
• What will a U.S.-China BIT do to Investor-State Ar ...
  
  by Duncan Hollis Today's Financial Times has a story on how unhappy U.S. businesses have become about Chinese government restrictions interferring with their access to Chinese markets.  So, one can understand how U.S. exporters would welcome news that the United States and China are getting closer ...
• Bangladesh Becomes Lucky Number 111
  
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Bangladesh has ratified the Rome Statute, making it the 111th member of the International Criminal Court.  Bangladesh was the first country in South Asia to sign the Statute, which it did on July 17, 1998.  I don’t know what explains the 12-year gap betwe ...
• A Healthcare Vignette…
  
  by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller FADE IN: INT. KEVIN’S OFFICE — DAY KEVIN (obscenely young, ridiculously handsome) sits at his desk, poring through archival material.  An AUSSIE STUDENT (even younger, not as handsome) enters. AUSSIE: Hey, sorry to interrupt.  Just wanted to say congratul ...

Investigate - Breaking News

• So much for acid ocean theory
  
  This news just in: In discussing their findings, the seven scientists say they indicate that "the survival of coral larvae may not be strongly affected by pH change," or "in other words," as they continue, "coral larvae may be able...
• And the award for irony goes to...
  
  I found this post from No Right Turn both informative, but also hilarious. His 'friend' is clearly an idiot but not a savant for financially supporting Greenpeace - a bad habit I myself grew out of in the 90s, but...
• London Science Museum backs down on climate change
  
  This from the Times: The Science Museum is revising the contents of its new climate science gallery to reflect the wave of scepticism that has engulfed the issue in recent months. The decision by the 100-year-old London museum reveals how...
• GUEST POST: End Phase of the Climate Wars?
  
  BY BARRY BRILL History may see the interview of CRU's Professor Phil Jones by the BBC's Roger Harrabin on 12 February 2010 as the opening of the end-phase of the long-running "alarmists versus sceptics" debate. The gap between these two...
• How to fake a warmer Arctic
  
  Regular readers will be well aware of my strong criticisms of the way climate scientists handle surface temperature measurements. Now, Accuweather's Joe Bastardi has set out in simple terms why the current practice of divvying up the world into 1200...

Public News Service

• Arizona Bucks Trend of Fewer State Prison Inmates
  
  Arizona Bucks Trend of Fewer State Prison Inmates Phoenix, AZ – For the first time since 1972, the number of state prison inmates in the U.S. has gone down, according to a new report from the Pew Center on the States. But Arizona’s inmate population continues to rise. Comments from Adam Gelb, Pew’s ...
• Center Offers Families Break from 24-7 Care of Lif ...
  
  Center Offers Families Break from 24-7 Care of Life-Threatened Kids Phoenix, AZ – Families caring full-time for a child diagnosed with a life-threatening condition will be able to get a needed break when Ryan House opens later this month in central Phoenix. The facility will focus on making kids com ...
• Lawmaker: Single People Deserve Equal Chance to Ad ...
  
  Lawmaker: Single People Deserve Equal Chance to Adopt Phoenix, AZ – A bill giving adoption priority to married couples has passed the Arizona House and awaits a hearing in the Senate. One lawmaker rejects the idea that a mom and dad are always the ideal situation for an adopted child. Comments from ...
• Program Promises Lower Energy Bills for Low-Income ...
  
  Program Promises Lower Energy Bills for Low-Income Arizonans Phoenix, AZ – Arizona is getting 57-million dollars in federal stimulus money to weatherize more than six-thousand low-income Arizona households. Those families stand to save up to 25-percent each year on heating and cooling. Comments from ...
• Time Out Called to Protect Abused Arizona Creek
  
  Time Out Called to Protect Abused Arizona Creek Prescott, AZ – Since being restored to a free-flowing stream five years ago, central Arizona’s Fossil Creek has become a recreation magnet, attracting not only people, but also trash and vandalism. New regulations taking effect today (Monday) are the ...

My Care2 Picks

• Water-saving ideas flow
  
  Bouquet... To the City of Red Deer, for its novel approach this year in promoting the importance of water through a naturescaping contest. Submitted by John Farnham to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Lady Ashton secures key powers in Europe's new di ...
  
  Baroness Ashton of Upholland, the EU's new foreign policy chief, has secured key powers over the world's biggest development budget, according to a blueprint for Europe's first common diplomatic service. Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
• Catastrophe in our Children’s Lifetimes
  
  We Must Act With Life-or-Death Urgency Because Today’s Rate of Resource Exhaustion Dictates Catastrophe in our Children’s Lifetimes. In the range of 2025 to 2050, tens of millions and then hundreds of millions will starve annually as shortages of food... Submitted by Gregory Hilbert to Environment ...
• Uranium is NOT My Friend
  
  This film is about a coalition of Native Americans from the Pine Ridge Reservation (South Dakota) and Environmentalists fighting the largest and most powerful Uranium Mining Company on the Planet. Uranium is Radioactive. ... Submitted by joan rodriguez to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Commen ...
• Environmental Racism, Tribal Sovereignty and Nucle ...
  
  Nevadans and Utahans living downwind and downstream from nuclear weapons testing, uranium mining, and radioactive waste dumping have suffered immensely during the Nuclear Age. But even in the "nuclear sacrifice zones" of the desert Southwest, it is Native Submitted by Lone Wolf to Environment �|� � ...

Angry Indian News

• Israel enforces Al-Aqsa restrictions
  
  Israel enforces Al-Aqsa restrictions :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]: "Jerusalem - Ma'an - Israeli forces imposed tightened entry... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• US healthcare expansion means big business for Ind ...
  
  hindustantimes.com: While the contentious political battle over the new healthcare law continues in the United States, here in India, the outsourcing industry is seeing it as a boon for business and... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Maori land claim taken to UN: Opinion – Annette Sy ...
  
  Maori land claim taken to UN: Opinion – Annette Sykes | TangataWhenua.com: "This move however is not unexpected and is welcomed by many of us who are engaged in this process and are feeling as if we... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Is being anti-Zionist a crime in Israel? � Antony ...
  
  Is being anti-Zionist a crime in Israel? � Antony Loewenstein: "Following the recent arrest in the West Bank of an Australian activist, Israeli blogger Noam Sheizaf comments on the ominous, largely... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
• Guatemala must suspend mining operations on Mayan ...
  
   Intercontinental Cry: Several Mayan communities and organizations have presented a Constitutional Petition to the government of Guatemala, calling for the immediate suspension of all mining... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

• What in the World Are They Spraying? Part II
  
  At the same time as finding decreased solar power, Wigington also began to witness dramatic changes on his property as the trees, grass, insects and wildlife started dying. This led him to get his first rain test just four years ago. The results were shocking as they found aluminum levels at 7 ug/l ...
• Vaccine Safety Testing
  
• GMO Quality Control
  
  Ever wonder how they determine if GMOs are safe? Look no further, here is the answer.
• Christopher Walken: How to complete a census
  
  Thank you Ed, for this hilarious video!
• GMO Database 2009
  
  The following table provides a listing of novel traits by crop species. In each case, the number of events with a particular trait is also provided. For additional information on each crop x trait combination, follow the relevant link under the "Crop Name" column.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

• Billionaire playgrounds 2010 (msn.com)
  
  Noted by Sue Frause on March 28, 2010 3:03 PM
• Cadbury celebrates 35 years in Canada (closetcanuc ...
  
  Noted by Sue Frause on March 28, 2010 3:03 PM
• Student uses Westboro Baptist Church visit as Fund ...
  
  Noted by Fruzsina Eordogh on March 28, 2010 3:03 PM
• Ronnie Wood thumped by new girlfriend | The Sun |S ...
  
  Noted by Ethan Epstein on March 28, 2010 3:03 PM
• Bill Maher And Christopher Hitchens “Gloat” About ...
  
  Noted by Ethan Epstein on March 28, 2010 3:03 PM

Citizens for Legitimate Government

• KBR Bills $5 Million For Mechanics Who Work 43 Min ...
  
  By Adam Weinstein The Department of Defense agreed to pay the megacontractor KBR $5 million a year to repair tactical vehicles, from Humvees to big rigs, at Joint Base Balad, a large airfield and supply center north of Baghdad. Yet according to a new Pentagon report , what the military got was ...
• U.S. looks to export drone technology to allies
  
  Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday he hoped to export coveted U.S. drone technology to allies, despite legal hurdles, and played down the threat from rival drone programs in nations like Iran. Gates, testifying at a Senate hearing, said it was in the U.S. interest to try to help fri ...
• GOP: We'll Kill the Liars Who Say We Are Inciting ...
  
  'Where does it say in the Constitution that you can't use the 'n-word?' Satire by R J Shulman Republican leaders are vehemently denying their tactics and rhetoric have been responsible for the major recent increase in political violence... "The liberal press has it all wrong when they accuse me ...
• Obama appoints new chief for war court at Guantana ...
  
  MacDonald repeatedly testified at Congress as bullish backer of tribunal system In the clearest sign yet that the Obama administration is re-energizing tribunals for captives at a Guantanamo it wants closed, the Pentagon this week installed a retired three-star admiral with national security and ...
• No assent given to US drone attacks: Pakistan
  
  Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik says the US drone attacks in the tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan are carried out without the consent of Islamabad. Speaking to reporters outside the Lahore High Court on Friday, Malik said the controversial issue of US drone attacks was to ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

• Climate change trough analysis released
  
  Parliamentary Question to Mapp: How many individual research projects have been funded in part or whole by Foundation for Research, Science and Technology since 1999 that either purport to study or to ameliorate the effects of global warming on New...
• So much for acid ocean theory
  
  This news just in: In discussing their findings, the seven scientists say they indicate that "the survival of coral larvae may not be strongly affected by pH change," or "in other words," as they continue, "coral larvae may be able...
• And the award for irony goes to...
  
  I found this post from No Right Turn both informative, but also hilarious. His 'friend' is clearly an idiot but not a savant for financially supporting Greenpeace - a bad habit I myself grew out of in the 90s, but...
• London Science Museum backs down on climate change
  
  This from the Times: The Science Museum is revising the contents of its new climate science gallery to reflect the wave of scepticism that has engulfed the issue in recent months. The decision by the 100-year-old London museum reveals how...
• GUEST POST: End Phase of the Climate Wars?
  
  By Barry Brill History may see the interview of CRU’s Professor Phil Jones by the BBC’s Roger Harrabin on 12 February 2010 as the opening of the end-phase of the long-running “alarmists versus sceptics” debate. The gap between these two schools has never yawned as widely as media reports often su ...

Mondoweiss

• sea change?
  
  The BBC says that the U.S. may not veto a Security Council resolution that is critical of Israel’s expansion in East Jerusalem: During their talks, [Qatar Foreign Minister] Sheikh Hamad asked the US official whether Washington would guarantee not to veto a UN Security Council resolution that was ...
• Happy Passover, Palestine!
  
  "Israeli army closes West Bank for Passover"–JTA. And do you worry about women wearing headscarves in the West? Have you ever experienced the cattle-station checkpoints for Palestinians and Israelis-only roads of the occupied West Bank? Have you been yelled at by a young soldier from a different e ...
• Why can’t we do this?
  
  Guardian: The UK’s ’special relationship’ with US is over, recommends a British foreign affairs committee. Churchill’s phrase is now out of step with reality. Related posts:UK’s ‘Guardian’ likens Gaza slaughter to ‘Deir Yassin’‘Before I Was a Democrat, I Was a Zionist’–New Chair of Foreign Affairs ...
• It’s time for Americans to discover the true ...
  
  In Israel two months back, a hiplooking young man at a bus stop flipped me the bird as I passed with a couple hundred people demonstrating against the evictions in East Jerusalem. That’s Israeli society. From the Guardian: Two opinion polls suggest many Israelis want their government to continue ...
• ‘Dennis Ross more sensitive to Netanyahu tha ...
  
  My post last night on Dennis Ross was right on time. Laura Rozen at politico reports that Ross is at the center of a battle within the Obama administration about how nice to be to Israel. The piece includes a frank statement of confused loyalty: “He [Ross] seems to be far more sensitive to Netany ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

• VRM: Media Spin & Swine Flu Hysteria
  
  “Canada’s vaccine uses an adjuvant, which consists of squalene (shark liver oil), DL-alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) and polysorbate 80 (an emulsifier also used in ice cream). An adjuvant is a chemical product that boosts the immune response. There were claims that squalene, used in the anthrax vac ...
• Petition: Parents of Vaccine Damaged Children say ...
  
  A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-de ...
• Petition: Doctors & Nurses Say NO To Mandatory Vac ...
  
  A UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RESISTANCE TO MANDATORY VACCINATIONS We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determ ...
• VRM: Photo Gallery
  
  ‘We the undersigned, as Freemen & Freewomen, do not recognize the authority of The World Health Organization (WHO) to mandate general forced vaccinations. Our bodies are sovereign territory and subject to our exclusive self-determination. Any attempted violation of this trust must be construed a ...
• VRM: Your Testimonials On Vaccine Carnage – ...
  
  Vaccine Damage Updates: An opportunity to contribute your testimonials from around the world: Charting Physiological & Neurological reactions, including all related trauma to the H1N1 shot & other vaccines. Charting miscarriages resulting from vaccines – Pregnant women are at a heightened risk o ...

B.C. Preppers Network

• More Tips My Wife Hates
  
  People seemed to get a kick out of my post about tips that my wife hates so I thought I'd keep it. I should let you know though that she doesn't hate all these things. �She seems to range from strong dislike to tolerance with a dash of "my husband is odd". �I should create a "Spousal Colour ...
• A Reader Asks How to Pay Off Student Loans
  
  A� Next Best West reader posted this in the comments which I think deserves a post of it's own as a reply: "I borrowed 12,250 for my college education to become a Registered Nurse. I took out these loans in the early 90s and after three deferments and consolidation I owe 30,000. I want to go ...
• The Ladies Will Be On the Family Preparedness Guid ...
  
  Last Saturday American Prepper , WVSanta , Matt and Bob were interviewed on James Stevens' Family Preparedness Guide radio show on Blog Talk Radio. They did a great job explaining the ins and outs of prepping and why we do it. Kudos guys!!! If you missed the show, you can download it here . This Sa ...
• Riverwalker's Back!!!
  
  It's like the best teaming up since Lewis & Clark!!! Riverwalker & the CPN!!! Riverwalker, usually found "staying above the water line" over at Stealth Survival , is coming to Canada and bringing lots of holiday gifts!!! Stay tuned for more details!!!
• Riverwalker/Stealth Survival Holiday Give-a-way!
  
  Check out this post at the CPN for a message from Riverwalker of Stealth Survival for a great holiday give-a-away! Make sure to leave a comment and you could be the winner of a fireplace accessory of your choice!!!

Michael Yon

• The Battle for Kandahar: Part I
  
  FOB Frontenac, Afghanistan 28 March 2010 Under an early morning sky, a red glow is cast from the lights on an Air Force water drilling rig.  A new MATV, or “MRAP All Terrain Vehicle,” is being deployed to Afghanistan to combat homemade bombs, the favorite weapon of the Taliban. The 1-17th ha ...
• The Scent of Weakness
  
  Kandahar Province, Afghanistan 25 March 2010 Dogs have been trained to carry bombs to attack enemies for decades.  The Soviets and others have used dogs as low-tech smart bombs.  Yet canine platoons likely would rebel if they caught scent they were being duped to die. Today, more sophisticated p ...
• Jungle Law
  
  Mosul, Iraq The first person to use a shield might have been a hairy man who, days earlier, barely survived a barrage from the stone-throwing man in the cave next door. As the use of weaponized sticks and stones spread, improved shields probably were not far behind. Throughout recorded history, b ...
• Gates of Fire
  
  Mosul, Iraq Combat comes unexpectedly, even in war. On Monday, while conducting operations in west Mosul, a voice came over the radio saying troops from our brother unit, the 3-21, were fighting with the enemy in east Mosul on the opposite side of the Tigris River. Moments later, SSG Will Shockley ...
• Be Not Afraid
  
    Be Not Afraid You shall cross the barren desert, but you shall not die of thirst. You shall wander far in safety though you do not know the way. You shall speak your words in foreign lands and all will understand. You shall see the face of God and live. Be not afraid. I go before you always; ...

The Killing Train

• Slumdogs vs. Millionaires: Sainath in Toronto
  
  The lecture hall slowly filled up as slides of families of the 200,000 farmers who committed suicide in India between 1997-2005 played on the flat screens on the side of the room. P Sainath, the day's speaker, was the journalist who brought the farmer suicides to wide attention. He opened his talk b ...
• Implementing the Bolivarian Revolution: Julio Chav ...
  
  On October 10/09 Venezuelan former mayor, now state legislator Julio Chavez spoke at the University of Toronto sponsored by Hands off Venezuela and the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle. He came in sporting the unassuming Bolivarian fashion: red T-shirt, red baseball cap (with a Canada logo on it), jeans ...
• Realclimate on the hacked climate change emails
  
  A friend asked me for my take on the hacked climate change emails. Before formulating my thoughts I went to realclimate.org to see if they had anything. They do... and it's indispensable as usual .
• If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief ef ...
  
  If you are thinking of donating to Haiti relief efforts I would recommend either of these two organizations: The Haiti Emergency Relief Fund or Partners in Health
• Haiti Earthquake Context
  
  I recorded this video last night (using my new flip HD and PiTiVi editing suite). Part 1 Part 2 read more

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• Cameron and Gore Discuss the Amazon, Avatar 2
  
  This weekend, Avatar director James Cameron spoke at an assembly gathered in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon to speak on topics ranging from sustainability and the power of cinema, to the prospects that there will be a sequel to his blockbuster, green-themed film . No stranger to the environme ...
• Big Cats and Dolphins win Humane Society Media Awa ...
  
  Winner Tippi Hedron with daughter Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas at Genesis Awards. Photos by Long Photography Every year the Humane Society toasts Hollywood for good deeds at the Genesis Awards , a fundraiser that recognizes ethical animal-friendly stories on television, in film and pri ...
• Top 10 Earth Day Swag Items That Are Eco-Friendly ...
  
  Credit: www.asicentral.com/earth Earth Day has taken on a (corporate) life of its own. This April 22, the 40th anniversary, is likely to feature a lot of "stuff" generated just for the occasion. And all that swag kind of defeats the purpose of the holiday. But what if the logo-laden give-aways ar ...
• Photographer David Liittschwager Documents Amazing ...
  
  A sampling of the species found around a coral reef in French Polynesia. Photo by David Liittschwager via National Geographic . Even a small patch of dirt in the middle of a big city can be full of natural wonders -- if you look closely enough. That's what photographer David Liittschwager did, ...
• The Godfather of Efficiency Could Get His Own Unit ...
  
  Image: LA Times Seen by many as the godfather of energy efficiency, an international group of scientists has proposed that Arthur Rosenfeld deserves his own unit of electricity savings. The 54 authors of an article, published in Environmental Research Letters, suggest that one "Rosenfeld" equal t ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

• Human Rights Watch call on the G8 to discuss Burma
  
  Ahead of a planning meeting before the June summit of the G8 group of industrialised countries New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged ministers to include Burma on the agenda.
• ‘Frankenstein’s’ state?
  
  One spectre threatens to over shadow the junta's experiment with 'democracy' and in turn the country; a spectre that threatens to dominate the nation and define power within for years to come.
• India looks east, prepares to arm junta navy
  
  As western governments gathered to condemn the junta’s election at the UN, India undeterred welcomes Lt Gen Thar Aye to the eastern city of Kolkatta with talks of naval deals.
• Junta urged to free political prisoners
  
  Burmese military rulers must free all political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi, and ensure that upcoming polls are inclusive and transparent, a group of UN member states said Thursday.
• Malaysia criticised for migrant treatment
  
  The international human rights group, Amnesty International has released a damning report on Malaysia's treatment of migrant workers in the country with workers apprently exploited and lured into jobs with false promises.

Telegraph - Climate Change

• Earth Hour 'will not cut carbon emissions'
  
  A climate change campaign to get everyone to switch off their lights will not reduce carbon emissions, according to electricity experts.
• Government accused over taking credit after greenh ...
  
  The Government has been accused of using the economic downturn to gain green plaudits after new figures showed the recession has led to record cuts in greenhouse gases.
• Record fall in UK greenhouse gases
  
  The Government has been accused of using the economic downturn to gain green plaudits yesterday after new figures showed the recession has led to record cuts in greenhouse gases.
• Home owners at risk of coastal erosion should be c ...
  
  Homes at risk of coastal erosion should be given compensation, according a new report by MPs that calls on the Government to double spending on flood protection to £1 billion every year.
• Disputed Bay of Bengal island disappears into sea
  
  An island that has been at the centre of a dispute between India and Bangladesh for three decades has disappeared beneath rising seas

National Geographic | Environment

• Earth Hour 2010: Record 121 Countries to Go Dark
  
  In the biggest Earth Hour yet, millions of businesses and homes around the world will participate in a voluntary blackout to show support for action against global warming.
• Texas Pioneers Energy Storage in Giant Battery
  
  Uniquely prone to electrical outages, Presidio, Texas, deploys a first-of-its-kind solution.
• Global Warming Making People More Aggressive?
  
  Forget anger over leaked emails: Murders and assaults could jump by a hundred thousand cases a year in a warmer world, a new study says.
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• Gorillas Extinct in Ten Years in Central Africa?
  
  Gorillas may soon go extinct across much of central Africa, due in part to Chinese timber demand, the ape-meat trade, and mining, a new study says.

Jurist - Legal Research

• UN rights committee urges Uzbekistan to investigat ...
  
  [JURIST] The UN Human Rights Committee [official website] has called on Uzbekistan to carry out an independent investigation into the May 2005 Andijan clashes [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] between Uzbek protesters, soldiers and police that human rights groups claim killed up to 500 people ...
• Japan ICC judge urges more Asian participation to ...
  
  [JURIST] A top Japanese judge on the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website] Sunday called on more Asian governments to participate in the tribunal so its regional representation would be more balanced. Judge Kuniko Ozaki [official profile], who was elected to the ICC in January, said ...
• DOJ releases details on 400 convicted of terrorism ...
  
  [JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] released information Friday on hundreds of people tried and convicted in federal courts on charges related to international terrorism since 9/11. The National Security Division (NSD) [official website] chart [text, PDF] has been maintain ...
• Missing China human rights lawyer speaks to journa ...
  
  [JURIST] Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng [advocacy website; JURIST news archive] spoke to a reporter [Reuters report] from Reuters Sunday verifying that he is alive and is living in Wutai mountain in China's Shanxi province. Gao, who had been missing for more than a year, said he had been r ...
• Holder plans to appeal order releasing 9/11 suspec ...
  
  [JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] said Thursday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) would appeal a judge's order to release a Guantanamo Bay detainee suspected of involvement in the 9/11 [JURIST news archive] World Trade Center attacks. In a decision released Monday, US ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

• Wrestlemania 26 Live Tweeting
  
• Pro Wrestling Is Real (For One Night Only)
  
  Professional wrestling is fake, except when it isn't: wrestlers get hurt with disturbing regularity. And, come to think of it, sometimes, a wrestler might work a bit stiffer with someone he doesn't like, which means that contrived tension out of the ring becomes a bit more real inside of it. And it' ...
• McCollum Taking the Lead on Health Care Suits
  
  The genial Florida attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum has been unofficially designated as the lead for the group of AGs who plan to file suit in federal court today to try and block the health care legislation. Mr. McCollum's forum will be the Northern District of Florida - ...
• Sunday Snapshot: Wrestlemania and Obama in Afghani ...
  
  It's Wrestlemania XXVI day! And President Obama snuck off to Afghanistan overnight, landing at Bagram Air Force Base at about 10:55 am ET.� Press Secretary Robert Gibbs just Tweeted that Obama is now at the Presidential Palace in Kabul. (Yes, the press knew about this and promised to keep it quiet u ...
• Obama Uses Recess Power To Appoint 15
  
  President Obama exercised his constitutional power to temporarily appoint fifteen of his nominees to their jobs, including Craig Becker , a pro-labor attorney who has drawn the opposition of all 41 Republican Senators, and Chai Feldblum , an openly gay woman.� Becker was nominated to the National La ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

• [COAT] James Bond vs CIDA in Haiti: Voodoo Power & ...
• [COAT] Making a Killing on War! Cancel CANSEC, Can ...
• [COAT] Canada's Arms Exports to Israel: Aiding & A ...
• [COAT] Myths for Profit: New Cdn anti-War film: 35 ...
• [COAT] Canada's Iraq War Profiteers at CANSEC: War ...

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

• Climate Hackers Want to Write Their Own Rules | Wi ...
• Q&A: Geoengineering Is "A Bad Idea Whose Time Has ...
• Senegalese Government Considering Building Nuclear ...
• World has much at stake in nuclear power decision ...
• Senate votes to lift ban on building new nuclear p ...

Tikun Olam

• Ron Kampeas Breaks Anat Kam Story in Jewish MSM
  
  Avner Cohen brought me news that Ron Kampeas broke the Anat Kam story today in JTA for the mainstream Jewish media.  Kol ha-kavod to him.  And thanks also for his tip of the hat acknowledgement of my contribution to the story. Ron does provide some “value-added” reporting noting that Kam faces up ...
• Clarion Fund Mystery Donor to Inject Millions in N ...
  
  Those of you who read this blog during the last presidential campaign will remember the Clarion Fund, which spent $15-million to distribute its Islam-hating Obsession to 28-million voters in swing states.  The purpose was to scare Jewish voters and others frightened of the ‘Muslim menace’ into voti ...
• Jewlicious Promotes Finkelstein Book
  
  It’s one of those delicious ironies of life when you find someone who is a true scumbag promoting a product that is actually virtuous.  There’s a sort of karmic realignment that somehow pleases.  So it was with a touch of wonderment and puzzlement I noted that David Abitbol features a flash ad for ...
• 2 IDF Officers, 4 Palestinian Militants Killed in ...
  
  During the entire Operation Cast Lead, somewhere around three Israeli soldiers were killed by enemy fire.  And in a single day yesterday, the IDF lost a major and sergeant who were killed by Palestinian militants during an infiltration incident.  It is a serious blow to the IDF to lose any soldier ...
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Ode Magazine

• Getting vaccines where they're needed the most
  
  VillageReach helps to deliver essential vaccines to remote areas in developing countries. Photo: VillageReach It is widely known that vaccines are one of the most cost-effective ways to save lives in poor countries. In some areas, in fact, living conditions are so dire tha ...
• Video: VillageReach and VidaGas ensure vaccines re ...
  
  Issue: March 2010 Related Reading What's your walk score? Developing countries You are what you think, you are what you believe Bulungula Lodge: Where peace is prospering
• Partners in Health continue to help people of Hait ...
  
  Beyond mountains, there are mountains. ...so goes the Haitian proverb, and those words can resonate and pull at you like a perfect bass line. Head and heart become joined. Your feet begin to move not toward any one destination, but to all destinations. Climbing a mountain is ...
• Malaria Consortium saves lives one net at a time
  
  Photographer William Daniels documents an organization that is saving lives by providing free mosquito nets to those in the developing world where malaria has become a widespread. Malaria kills one person every 30 seconds. Nine out of 10 times, the victim is a young African child. The An ...
• America's most sustainable breweries
  
  Coming Soon. Issue: March 2010 Related Reading Spain goes green Gene Seidman Old world tradition meets real world reality in one amazing day Kurt Zuelsdorf

OpEd News

• UM Kansas Bishop Scott Jones Restates Churches Cen ...
  
  In a bid to caution many mainstream Americans (including Christian ones) from going at each otherapos;s throats on health care, the Kansas Area Bishop for the United Methodist Church felt called to circulate the following statement asking peoples to not use nor misuse the issue of "Health Care" and ...
• THE NUNS AS HEROES
  
  How the Nuns might have contributed to the passage of the Obama healthcare bill.
• The last Supper
  
  War, a queue dead bodies, fallen frames, feed the Earth as each and everyone so dutifully carries out their orders to shoot and kill those they have been taught to hate.
• The Coming Iraq Upheaval
  
  Look for a potential "earthquake" to erupt in Iraq. It wonapos;t register on the Richter scale. This will be a political "earthquake" that could shake the tenuous calm of the country. Iraq held a parliament election some weeks ago. There have been charges of fraud leveled by current Prime Minister N ...
• Obamacare -- Rx for "Change and Hope"?
  
  The name "Obamacare" was originally coined as a pejorative by enemies of the Presidentapos;s proposed health care bill, but now that it has become Law, it seems wise for progressives to start calling it by that name. If the present deeply flawed law is going to get amended into the kind of health ca ...

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Law simplifies small renewable energy incentives

KTIV

- Mar 28, 2010

- 5 hours ago

Mike Rounds has signed a bill streamlining the state's complex maze of tax incentives for small renewable energy projects. The new law makes the first ...

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What You Need To Know Before Buying A Home Solar Electricity System

Gather.com

- Mar 28, 2010

- 2 hours ago

The replacement of traditionally generated electricity with electricity generated from renewable or different resources is now a viable alternative for many ...

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A California Ballot Initiative Could Spell Trouble for Renewable Energy

SolveClimate (blog)

- Mar 28, 2010

- 13 hours ago

by Amy Westervelt - Mar 28th, 2010 Millions of dollars in campaign cash could drastically affect the course of California's renewable energy economy in the ...

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Law simplifies small renewable energy incentives

Rapid City Journal

- Mar 28, 2010

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Let me go on field trip or I'll sue, prodigy, 13, tells college

Independent

- Mar 28, 2010

- 3 hours ago

A professor organising the expedition, to study local plant ecology, apparently said he was unwilling to put the young prodigy into what may turn out to be ...

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Cargo ship stalls near Grays Harbor

Grays Harbor Daily World

- Mar 27, 2010

By Rachel Thomson - The Daily World Coast Guard vessel inspectors from the US Coast Guard and state Department of Ecology are monitoring a 570-foot cargo ...

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Hundreds learn about ecology at GreenFest at Edison State College

Naples Daily News

- Mar 27, 2010

- Mar 27, 2010

By ERIC STAATS As many as 1000 people turned out at the college's East Naples campus to get a look at going green at the second annual GreenFest Expo, ...

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A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick

TheaterMania.com

- Mar 28, 2010

- 40 minutes ago

... from William Jackson Harper), a young Ethiopian man whom Pickle met on a Christian tour of his homeland and who is now studying ecology and theology. ...

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Washington Post

- Mar 27, 2010

- 22 hours ago

DESPITE RECENT, tentative signs of stabilization, the housing market remains fragile, and that translates into insecurity or outright hardship for millions ...

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North Harbor Drive reopened after water main break

San Diego Union Tribune

- Mar 28, 2010

- 7 hours ago

By Debbi Baker, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER SAN DIEGO — A water main break that shut down the main artery to Lindbergh Field Saturday afternoon and caused ...

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Boil-water advisory still in effect for Ridgewood, Glen Rock, other areas

NorthJersey.com

- Mar 28, 2010

- 2 hours ago

BY EVONNE COUTROS RIDGEWOOD – Ridgewood and Glen Rock residents were advised Sunday night to continue to boil drinking water as a precaution while village ...

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India asks Pakistan to stop blaming it for water crisis

Daily Times

- Mar 28, 2010

- 3 hours ago

By Iftikhar Gilani NEW DELHI: Concluding the joint Indus Water Commission talks in Islamabad, India asked Pakistan to stop blaming it for the water crisis ...

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