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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

15 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • British Petroleum: Get Prepped for Another Whack
    What is it with lawyers? Whenever their client is accused of doing something wrong, they respond, almost instinctively it seems, with a shower of denials. Don’t they realize that this sounds absolutely silly if their client is later found to...
  • Help the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act ...
    Late yesterday, a broad coalition of groups sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives, urging them to pass S. 372, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act. Over 90 groups have signed on to the letter thus far. As...
  • Littoral Combat Ship: Resources in Advance of Toda ...
    Last week, POGO weighed in on the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program with a fairly non-controversial request to Congress. We urged Congress to require that the Navy extend the deadline for legislative action on the LCS program. Some background:...
  • Morning Smoke: Broad Coalition Urges House to Supp ...
    89 Groups Tell the House S. 372 Is a Good Deal for Whistleblowers and Taxpayers Nation's biggest banks benefit most from Fed program by Ryan Sibley [Sunlight Foundation Blog] Defense Logistics Agency relieves key commander by Katherine McIntire Peters [Government...
  • Department of Justice's Fraud Recovery Statistics: ...
    Following up on last month's post about the Department of Justice's FY 2010 fraud recovery numbers, POGO just found this document showing Justice's official fraud recovery statistics dating all the way back to FY 1987. The document provides support for...

Digital Journal

End Homelessness | Change.org

  • Mississippi Launches Plan To End Child Homelessnes ...
    Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state.  What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe and st ...
  • Thanksgiving 2.0: Food, Poverty and Telling the Tr ...
    This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have whil ...
  • Homeless People Wanted: Must Be Open to Demeaning, ...
    What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 su ...
  • LA Plans to Make Homelessness Go the Way of the Do ...
    Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high; it ...
  • Don't Let Violence Against the Homeless Go Unpunis ...
    Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a school ...

Ceasefire.ca

  • Pugliese on the F-35 fighter
    Recent coverage by reporter David Pugliese on the F-35 and Canada: “Can the F-35 win a charm offensive?” Ottawa Citizen, 13 December 2010 “Peter Mackay in F-35 Attack Mode,” Ottawa Citizen, 13 December 2010 “Selling Canada on the need for fighters,” Ottawa Citizen, 12 December 2010 “The untold story ...
  • Ottawa off course on jets
    Tamara Lorincz and Steven Staples comment on the government’s plan to purchase F-35 stealth fighters (Tamara Lorincz & Steven Staples, “Ottawa off course on jets,” Chronicle-Herald, 11 December 2010): Representatives from the Department of National Defence were in Halifax recently to promote the con ...
  • Canadians “may underestimate security threat”
    The Harper government is worried about Canadian opposition to its plans to more closely integrate Canadian and U.S. border security efforts (Steven Chase, “Ottawa crafts plan to ward off criticism over U.S. border deal,” Globe and Mail, 10 December 2010). As the Globe and Mail reports, the Departmen ...
  • Commons supports nuclear disarmament
    The House of Commons gave its unanimous consent to a motion in support of nuclear disarmament on December 7th. New Democrat MP Bill Siksay moved: That the House of Commons: (a) recognize the danger posed by the proliferation of nuclear materials and technology to peace and security; (b) endorse the ...
  • “No one believes in Afghanistan any more”
    European Union President Herman Van Rompuy told the United States in 2009 that “no one [in the EU] believes in Afghanistan any more,” according to a U.S. account of the meeting leaked by WikiLeaks (“‘No one believes in Afghanistan any more:’ EU leader in WikiLeaks cable,” Globe and Mail, 5 December ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-14-10
    Today, Kevin reveals inside information behind why the government really wants the Dream Act passed and what you need to do to prepare yourself for the upcoming revolution! Self Help: Invest In Gold Make A Residual Income Maximize Your Downline Be Prepared Government: Lame Duck House Looks To Pass D ...
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-13-10
    Today, Kevin finally reveals the secrets to making money and becoming successful! Plus, find out what natural cure can lower blood pressure, which one can make you look younger, and which one can reduce appetite to lose weight faster. Self Help: Lose A Pound A Day! Natural Cures Learn The Secrets Ma ...
  • Royalty Attacked By Protesters Over Tuition Hikes
    December 13th, 2010 Yahoo! News By: Cassandra Vinograd British officials defended the country’s security establishment Friday after rampaging student protesters attacked a car carrying the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall. The chief of the Metropolitan Police pledged to launch a full and deta ...
  • FDA Pulls Painkiller Due to Safety Risks
    December 13th, 2010 Fox News The maker of the painkiller Darvon is pulling the drug off the market under pressure from public health officials who say it causes dangerous heart rhythms. The Food and Drug Administration says the drugmaker Xanodyne will halt marketing of Darvon and related brand Darvo ...
  • Judge ‘Stripped’ of Position For Helpi ...
    December 13th, 2010 AOL News By: David Knowles Judge not, lest ye be judged, or something like that. Today, former U.S. District Judge Jack Camp was stripped of his position on the bench following his admission of guilt to providing a female stripper with cocaine, pot and Roxicodone. Camp, 67, plead ...

Pambazuka News

  • Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of the 20 ...
    Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
  • March on Washington scheduled for November
    The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
  • USA: Black community activist faces possible 10 ye ...
    Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
  • Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
    Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...
  • Black Congress to convene in D.C. to set black age ...
    As criticisms of President Obama’s war and economic policies mount, the group that first questioned his intentions regarding the concerns of the black community is holding a national Congress to define a black agenda to serve the interests of black p...

War in Context

  • Rethinking terrorist blacklisting
    Gavin Sullivan writes: Terrorist blacklisting has been a central plank of the “war on terror” pursued by western states since 9/11. The idea is simple. International or regional bodies (such as the UN and EU) and states (such as the UK) designate individuals and groups thought to be terrorists or “ ...
  • An end to the Israeli occupation first
    Akiva Eldar writes: Like every year-end, once again they’re promising that the next 12 months will be “a decisive year.” Fact: Even Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that in August 2011, when Prime Minister Salam Fayyad finishes building institutions in the West Bank, the United Nations ...
  • Holbrooke’s death-bed ’stop the war’ comment just ...
    The real story is not the one reported. The real story we can only imagine — but it’s buried in here somewhere. The Washington Post reports that Richard Holbrooke’s final words before entering surgery in which he died yesterday evening, were these: “You’ve got to stop the war in Afghanistan.” Did ...
  • Press freedom threatened by the Obama administrati ...
    Glenn Greenwald writes: During the Bush era, I frequently wrote about escalating attacks by the U.S. Government on press freedoms. The Bush DOJ vowed to prosecute whistleblowers while steadfastly refusing to do the same for the high-level criminals they exposed. Alberto Gonzales openly threatened ...
  • No act of rebellion is wasted
    Chris Hedges writes: I stood with hundreds of thousands of rebellious Czechoslovakians in 1989 on a cold winter night in Prague’s Wenceslas Square as the singer Marta Kubišová approached the balcony of the Melantrich building. Kubišová had been banished from the airwaves in 1968 after the Soviet in ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Global tropical cyclone activity still in the tank
    Even with the expected active 2010 North Atlantic hurricane season, which accounts on average for about 1/5 of global annual hurricane output, the rest of the global tropics has been historically quiet.  The Western North Pacific this year has seen … Continue reading →
  • “Sustainability” continues to run amok ...
    I’ve written about this before. We have a group of citizens here in town called the “sustainability task force” which is highly influenced by the eco-zealotry of Chico State University pushing their ideas of how everyone should live onto the … Continue reading →
  • Global Eruption Rocks the Sun
    I should point out that thanks to the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), we can see things that we’ve never seen before. So while this event is unprecedented in the history of science, it is likely “business as usual” for old … Continue reading →
  • Voyager1 – so far out, there’s no sola ...
    What is really amazing is that the probe still operates after over 3 decades, which is a testament to the design team. It’s a SNAP to keep powered up though. – Anthony Artist concept of Voyager near interstellar space. Image … Continue reading →
  • Satellites Image the Urban Heat Islands in the Nor ...
    Gee where have we seen something like this before? Dads/Moms and Grandparents: if you’d like your children/grandchildren to be able to do something on UHI for the spring science fair, here’s an easy to do idea. – Anthony From Science … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • The dirty little tax cut Obama signed off on By Je ...
    By Jerry Mazza Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at Online Journal www.jerrymazza.com December 15, 2010 The larger tax-cut deal Obama made with congressional Republicans contains a built in time bomb to help blow Social Security away, as was pointed out by Senate Democrats and other backer ...
  • David Cay Johnston Slams Obama-GOP Tax Deal
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Dec. 14, 2010 “The Worse Off You Are, Your Taxes Increase”: Journalist David Cay Johnston Slams Obama-GOP Tax Deal The U.S. Senate is on the verge of approving President Obamaâs controversial tax deal with Republicans. Under the deal, Obama agreed ...
  • Ten Thoughts About Julian Assange and WikiLeaks by ...
    by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 15 December, 2010 1. Since its founding in December 2006, WikiLeaks, which was established as, essentially, a secure information clearing house for whistleblowers around the world to provide sensitive information, some of ...
  • The Stimulator: Ca-Cancun
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ http://submedia.tv stimulator | December 14, 2010 This Week: 1. 3rd Alex Riots 2. AntiC@p attacks 3. La Caca 4. Boca Floja 5. The hammer Ca-Cancun see Evo Morales: WikiLeaks Cables Reveal “Diplomacy of Empire” + Bolivia’s thirst for change Rafael Correa on WikiLe ...
  • Majority of One by Ralph Nader
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page December 14. 2010 On Friday, December 10, 2010, Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent Socialist, of Vermont, came of age. At last. With just about the best progressive voting record, Senator Sanders has nonetheless been an underachieve ...

Your New Reality

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    Axis Of The Evil Dead How would NeoCons deal with the outbreak of a zombie uprising? Daniel W. Drezner at Foreign Policy takes a closer look : The neoconservative policy response to an undead uprising would be simple and direct. To paraphrase Robert Kagan, humans are from Earth, and zombies are f ...
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    You don't need to know too much background to get the full horror of what this BBCNews host is doing to a young man with cerebral palsy, who is unable to operate his wheelchair independently, simply because he dared to turn up at a recent student protest in London : The blood-chillingly unemphati ...
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    The music of Inception gives everything a heavy, slightly sickening edge. Imagine it playing at a wedding. Or a funeral.
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    The 2nd shooter got a real early start in the business. Via Reddit .
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    It's Propaganda, Yes, But Maybe It's From Our Side, To Reassure Us North Korea Can't Defend Itself As war appears to be about to dawn between North & South Korea, if it didn't actually already begin two or three days ago, this very strange indeed video appears on the UK Telegraph site. The Teleg ...

Wired - Science

  • Massive Volcanism May Have Caused Biggest Extincti ...
    SAN FRANCISCO — The greatest extinction in the history of life may have been caused, in part, by ozone-depleting gases spewed in a massive volcanic eruption, a new study suggests. Geologists have found surprisingly high amounts of the elements fluorine and chlorine in Siberian lavas dating back 250 ...
  • First Volcano Sighting on Saturn’s Most Earthlike ...
    Three icy volcanoes line up on Saturn's moon Titan, giving some of the best evidence yet that explosive eruptions are possible on worlds beyond Earth.
  • How to Test What Really Happened After the Big Ban ...
    A new test that takes data from several realms of physics could explain what really happened in the first sliver of a second after the Big Bang. Most cosmologists believe the universe burst from an extremely dense, hot state around 13.7 billion years ago, and has been expanding and cooling ever sin ...
  • Cheap DIY Camera Systems Perform Amazing Photograp ...
    All images © Linden Gledhill. See Also: Zoom In on Top 8 Ultrahigh-Resolution Science Panoramas 35 Years of the World’s Best Microscope Photography Top 20 Microscope Photos of the Year 6 Super Close-Ups of Crazy Bug Eyes Microscope Shows Cells in 3-D
  • Canadian Microbes Give Clues for Life on Icy Moons
    SAN FRANCISCO — A sulfur-loving microbe in the Canadian arctic could draw a blueprint for scientists searching for life on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. “Ultimately when we go to Europa, we’ll want to be able to tell if there’s any biological activity at all,” astrobiologist Damhnait Gleeson of NASA’s ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Israel refuses entry to Palestinian firefighters b ...
    Palestinian Authority: "It's not clear how the same firefighters who got permits to go out and help snuff the fire now are now refused permits to their honoring ceremony... We did this despite the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Edinburgh city council rejects Violia
    A pro-Palestinian pressure group claimed success last week after Edinburgh Council rejected an attempt by a controversial firm to take over a range of public services in the city. The Scottish... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...
  • Lamis Andoni: Europe must emerge from US’ shadow
    The central difference between the US and the EU is that most European countries, rhetorically at least, believe that a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict must be based on international law and UN... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Jonathan Cook: Israel’s war on Jerusalem children
    10 year old Palestinian boy: “One of the men grabbed me from behind and started choking me. The second grabbed my shirt and tore it from the back, and the third twisted my hands behind my back and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Akiva Eldar: An end to the occupation first
    Fostering the illusion that the conflict is ending doesn't bring a solution closer; in fact, the focus on the final-status talks offers an alibi for deepening the occupation. The high and mighty... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, no ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Breast Inflammation is Key to Cancer Growth
    It took 12 years and a creation of a highly sophisticated transgenic mouse, but researchers at Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have finally proven a long suspected theory: Inflammation in the breast is key to the development and progression of breast cancer.
  • Immune System May Impact Tumor Blood Supply
    1) Early research suggests that the immune system can affect angiogenesis; 2) Manipulation of angiogenesis is a key therapeutic strategy for cancer.
  • Missing Molecules Hold Promise of Therapy for Panc ...
    By determining what goes missing in human cells when the gene that is most commonly mutated in pancreatic cancer gets turned on, Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered a potential strategy for therapy.
  • Robot Arm Improves Performance of Brain-Controlled ...
    The performance of a brain-machine interface designed to help paralyzed subjects move objects with their thoughts is improved with the addition of a robotic arm providing sensory feedback, a new study from the University of Chicago finds.
  • Tulane President Nominated to White House Council ...
    Today President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint Tulane University President Scott Cowen to the newly formed White House Council for Community Solutions.

Natural Health News

  • Penguin Dilemma
    How will this cute penguin couple overcome the obstacles in their path?
  • Evolution of Dance
    Judson Laipply demonstrates every dance style ever!
  • FDA Finally Reveals How Many Antibiotics Factory F ...
    Animals in factory farms are given doses of antibiotics -- both to keep them alive in stressful, unsanitary conditions, and to make them grow faster. �The practice leads to new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, such as the now-widespread form of staph (MRSA) known as ST398. Federal regulato ...
  • Memory Foggy? 5 Signs It's Not Serious
    It's natural to feel nervous when you forget something, knowing that Alzheimer's disease now affects 5.3 million Americans.� But a memory slip doesn�t always mean the worst.� According to KPHO, the following five situations point toward normal, age-related memory loss. 1. Lapses Don't Interfere Wit ...
  • Is the Internet Bad for Your Brain?
    In the book, �The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains�, author Nicholas Carr argues that surfing is rewiring your mind.� One effect of this is that it�s breaking your focus and your creativity. Carr says that the internet �bulldozes our doubts with its bounties and conveniences." �It ...

Antemedius

  • Apes Reading The Constitution
    There is a line in “A Fish Called Wanda” that comes to mind when I think about Tea Party Conservatives and many of what passes for main-line Republicans these days. Wanda is talking to Otto and he says “Apes don’t read philosophy” Wanda replies “Yes, they do, Otto, they just don’t understand it”. Th ...
  • WikiLeaks Founder Assange Granted Bail By British ...
    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, arrested in Britain on Swedish allegations of sex crimes, was conditionally granted bail by a British court today, an article by Reuters says this morning. The article notes that "Judge Howard Riddle, who had earlier granted Assange bail under stringent conditions, ...
  • Faux Victimization And The War On Christmas
    There is a tendency among the Religious Right to talk about their victimization. The whole bogus “War on Christmas” is a great example of that. Even though most of us are perfectly happy to use the religious neutral greeting of “Happy Holidays” the Religious Right seems to think that they are being ...
  • Your Choice: Extend Unemployment And Tax Breaks Or ...
    The lesson I have learned from a lifetime around and in politics is this: Sometimes you give away something you don’t want to in order to get something you do want. Seems pretty straight forward, but it is, to my mind, the cause of more ink (or electrons) being spilled and more ulcers and heartburn ...
  • Two Americas: The Over Privileged and The Ignored
    Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich stated last week that, while a national unemployment figure of roughly 10 percent nationally is alarming enough, the figure is better than double that figure for those Americans without college degrees. While America stands at a dangerous crossroad with a dispa ...

Climategate

  • Dean of science…suggesting rising seas t…
    Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com
  • 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:

Opinio Juris

  • Diplomatic Pat-Downs
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro The government of India is protesting TSA’s “humiliating” pat-down of its ambassadress to the United States. On Dec 4, [Ambassador Meera] Shankar was subjected to a rigorous public “pat down” at the Jackson-Evers International Airport after a visit as a guest of th ...
  • Rare Honesty About WikiLeaks and American Exceptio ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Courtesy of Ben Wittes at Lawfare, responding to a question about whether he believes that, if America should be permitted to prosecute a non-American like Assange for disclosing American secrets, countries like France, China, or Iran should be able to pros ...
  • Assange: Non-Citizenship Should Be Irrelevant to P ...
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro Buried in a post from Ben Wittes at Lawfare is a suggestion (in response to HRW’s Tom Malinowski) that the Espionage Act shouldn’t apply outside US territory to non-citizens: [T]his statute has a nuance that makes one pause before treating it as just another extrate ...
  • Wikileaks and the Pentagon Papers
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford “The majority of the Supreme Court said that although they would not stop publication in advance, the question of whether there could be prosecution afterwards was a completely different thing.” –former Attorney General Michael Mukasey on the Pentagon Papers Mukase ...
  • Australian Journalists Support WikiLeaks
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A coalition of 26 of Australia’s most prominent journalists — essentially, the editors of every major newspaper (with the exception of the right-wing The Australian) and the news directors of all the major networks — have written a remarkable open letter to ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • BREAKING: Hottest year ever claims based on fake d ...
    You hear it trotted out so often it's tiresome, but for those who still believe the climate scientists who claim 2010 is "the hottest year ever", here's a wake-up call: the data is fake. (another perspective here) It's a similar...
  • Britain buried under coldest dump of "global warmi ...
    From Benny Peiser's clmate newsletter, some highlights: The Met Office, using data generated by a £33million supercomputer, claims Britain can stop worrying about a big freeze this year because we could be in for a milder winter than in past...
  • CFL light bulbs dangerous to health - fail German ...
    Classic: The energy saving bulbs show mercury levels 20 times higher than regulations allow in the air surrounding them for up to five hours after they are broken, according to tests released Thursday by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA Remember,...
  • TGIF Edition latest issue
    Try these links...the second one may work better to open the page first, then click on the TGIF link in the middle of that page to bring up the PDF: http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/tgif3dec10.pdf http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment ...
  • Breaking: Air Con premise endorsed by Journal of C ...
    In the 2009 release of Air Con (and again in the latest 2010 Climategate edition about to go on sale in bookshops across NZ), one of the points I argued is that Antarctica is not warming uncontrollably or significantly. Earnest...

My Care2 Picks

  • OIL SPILL CORRUPTION: Use of dispersant Corexit ' ...
    Environmental engineer said BP's use of the dispersant Corexit is wrong, and it will kill the Gulf of Mexico. Sulfur & sulfuric acid based dispersant depletes oxygen levels under the water, killing plankton and everything above plankton in the food chain.Submitted by Care For All to Business �|� �N ...
  • JB Campbell: Anti-American
    What decent person, anywhere in the world today, is not anti-American? Is there anyone more dangerous than our typical ignorant, arrogant American �citizen,� who very likely couldn�t find America on a marked map of the world? Submitted by Bill C. to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
  • One Million Strong Against GM Crops
    Citizen's Initiative Calls for Moratorium on GM Potato Submitted by . to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Bees
    "The mystery of the disappearing bees has been baffling scientists for years and now we get another big piece in the puzzle. EPA document reveals that the agency allowed the widespread use of a bee-toxic pesticide,Submitted by Doug G. to Environment �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Interview With Gordon Duff: Wikileaks Debunked
    Interview which says Wikileaks releases are carefully culled and modified field reports 'bent' to discredit Pakistan and eventually the US : a Mossad/Indian intelligence cooperative effortSubmitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • Blacks doubt death in small Southern town is a sui ...
    Blacks doubt death in small Southern town is a suicide--they want answers now (FinalCall.com) - The idea of a so-called post-racial America was widely discussed, debated and even seen as an... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Cape Town Opera 'lied' over Israel collaboration - ...
    Cape Town Opera 'lied' over Israel collaboration - Sowetan LIVE: "Tutu said the Israelis treated Palestinians like white South Africans had treated black people during apartheid and it would be... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Leader of 50 State Foreclosure Probe Tells Struggl ...
    Leader of 50 State Foreclosure Probe Tells Struggling Homeowners: “We Will Put People in Jail” | War Is A Crime .org: "Attorney General Tom Miller met Tuesday with more than 100 people from 15 states... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Warrant needed to snoop on your emails, court fina ...
    Warrant needed to snoop on your emails, court finally rules | Raw Story: "After many years of legal uncertainty, a federal appeals court has finally declared that emails have the same Fourth... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • US Proposed Multi-Faceted Campaign to Counter Vene ...
    US Proposed Multi-Faceted Campaign to Counter Venezuelan President, Wikileaks Cables Show | venezuelanalysis.com: "Caracas, December 14th 2010 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – A secret US diplomatic cable... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • TIME Readers Pick Wikileaks' Julian Assange as Per ...
    ShareThisTIME Readers Pick Wikileaks' Julian Assange as Person of the Year 13 Dec 2010 The controversial founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has won an online vote to be TIME Magazine's Person of the Year. Readers voted a total of 1,249,425 times, and the favorite was clear, TIME reported. Julian ...
  • WikiLeaks: Julian Assange sex assault court case b ...
    ShareThisWikiLeaks: Julian Assange sex assault court case branded a 'show trial' 15 Dec 2010 The Swedish authorities are turning the sexual assault case against Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, into a "show trial", his lawyers claimed. Mark Stephens attacked the decision by the Swedish authori ...
  • CITGO Launches Venezuelan Floods Relief Effort
    ShareThisCITGO Launches Venezuelan Floods Relief Effort (citgo.com) 14 Dec 2010 Torrential rains over the past two weeks have caused floods and mudslides across much of Venezuela, forcing more than 100,000 people out of their homes. Out of great concern for the victims of this tragedy, CITGO and its ...
  • Iran lawmaker says dozens killed in blast - IRNA
    ShareThisIran lawmaker says dozens killed in blast - IRNA 15 Dec 2010 An Iranian lawmaker was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency that dozens of people were killed in an explosion outside a mosque in a southeastern Iranian city on Wednesday. "The blast happened in front of a mosque in ...
  • Senate to Pass $858 Billion Bush-Era Tax Cut Measu ...
    ShareThisSenate to Pass $858 Billion Bush-Era Tax Cut Measure 15 Dec 2010 The U.S. Senate today is poised to pass President Barack Obama's $858 billion proposal to extend Bush-era tax cuts for all income levels, cut payroll taxes and extend expanded jobless benefits. Majority Leader Harry Reid said ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • BREAKING: Hottest year ever claims based on fake d ...
    You hear it trotted out so often it's tiresome, but for those who still believe the climate scientists who claim 2010 is "the hottest year ever", here's a wake-up call: the data is fake. (another perspective here) It's a similar...
  • Britain buried under coldest dump of "global warmi ...
    From Benny Peiser's clmate newsletter, some highlights: The Met Office, using data generated by a £33million supercomputer, claims Britain can stop worrying about a big freeze this year because we could be in for a milder winter than in past...
  • CFL light bulbs dangerous to health - fail German ...
    Classic: The energy saving bulbs show mercury levels 20 times higher than regulations allow in the air surrounding them for up to five hours after they are broken, according to tests released Thursday by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA Remember,...
  • TGIF Edition latest issue
    Try these links...the second one may work better to open the page first, then click on the TGIF link in the middle of that page to bring up the PDF: http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/tgif3dec10.pdf http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?attachment ...
  • Breaking: Air Con premise endorsed by Journal of C ...
    In the 2009 release of Air Con (and again in the latest 2010 Climategate edition about to go on sale in bookshops across NZ), one of the points I argued is that Antarctica overall is not warming uncontrollably or significantly....

Mondoweiss

  • Secret House resolution says No to Palestinian sta ...
    The US Campaign to End the Occupation is pushing urgent action to condemn an Israel lobby resolution circulating in the House to block international efforts to recognize a Palestinian state. From the US Campaign:We are outraged to learn that Rep. Howard Berman, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Com ...
  • Poll says most Israeli Jews back rabbis’ ant ...
    and other news from Today in Palestine:Settlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Two homes demolished in Sour Baher and Ras al-Amoud Two Palestinian homes were demolished in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Sour Baher and Ras al-Amoud yesterday. The demolitions were ...
  • Why I was willing to risk arrest at the AIPAC annu ...
    Though I've been a community organizer for several years, Monday night was the first time I was willing to get arrested for an action. Though unfortunately, we didn’t get the chance to finish performing our dance and sharing our message before we got 'escorted' out, I felt we accomplished our ...
  • ‘It is ethnic cleansing’
    Download: FLVMP43GPThe video above is of Joyce Ajlouny, who heads the Friends' School in Ramallah in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It was posted at Huffpo yesterday by the interviewer, Nancy Kanwisher, a brain scientist, actually the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience a ...
  • ‘My name is Israel and I’ve been sleep ...
    Dror Etkes in Haaretz. Simple, obvious, beautiful:The story, as one of my friends recently concluded, is no longer about right versus left in Israel, because there is no longer a left in Israel. It is a campaign waged by the right-wing settler movement, assisted by the Netanyahu government, which is ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: The Dark Side of The Vitamin K Shot
    Apart from the trauma inflicted on a newborn of getting the shot, the amount of Vitamin K injected into newborns is 20,000 times the needed dose. The injection also contains a preservative, Benzyl alcohol, that can be especially toxic for your babyâs delicate, young immune system. A parent has to k ...
  • VRM: UK Institutes Brand of Medical Martial Law Wi ...
    As of January 1st, 2011, all children in the UK, upon reaching the age of 1, will be subject to a one stop, 6 vaccine assault. In what is being labeled ‘Super-vaccination’ day, babies will now get a series of 3 injections in one visit, a combination of the Measles, Mumps, Rubella [...]
  • VRM: Vaccine Clinic – A Concise Compendium To The ...
    PRIMARY FACTORS WHICH DETERMINE THE EXTENT OF VACCINE RELATED NEUROLOGICAL DAMAGE: 1. POINT OF ENTRY Vaccines are injected into deep muscle tissue, a route which literally bypasses one’s natural defences altogether. Thus the body is left vulnerable to live viruses, heavy metals, antibiotics, deterge ...
  • VRM: The Problem With Vaccines Part 2 – Syne ...
    Toxicity is defined in the Medical lexicon as “a condition that results from exposure to a toxin or to toxic amounts of a substance that does not cause adverse effects in smaller amounts.” Vaccine-induced toxicity, while similar in some respects to this model, requires a deeper understanding in term ...
  • VRM: The Awakening Has Begun
    On the heals of Ukraine’s 2009 Black Lung Infection, a mysterious variation of flu which bypassed trachea, targeting the lungs directly, a “bilateral pneumonia, the result of viral distress syndrome, i.e the total destruction of the lungs.” (1.3 million infected, over 75,000 hospitalized), eye witn ...

B.C. Preppers Network

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

Michael Yon

  • Ripley’s Believe it Or Not
    14 December 2010 Ripley�s Believe it or Not has asked to publish one of my photos in their next book.� This photo was made in Sangin, Afghanistan during the last time I was with British forces.� Sangin is the most dangerous place in the country.� The enemy is good and the fighting is serious.� The ...
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    13 December 2010 There have been many comments about American arrogance.� During my travels to 48 United States and over 50 countries -- most of those states and countries multiple times -- some themes have emerged.There is a pervasive sense in the United States that we are THE best.� I've seen this ...
  • Inside the Inferno: 1-866-342-3359
    Please call this number to order my new book, "Inside the Inferno," today: 1-866-342-3359 Delivery is scheduled for January 2011.� All copies ordered now will be autographed.   Merry Christmas! Michael
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The Killing Train

  • Spinning the leaks
    My daily routine these days includes going to the Wikileaks twitter feed (twitter.com/wikileaks), which took me to this story in the UK Guardian about how Saudi Arabia proposed an Arab force to invade Lebanon. The Guardian is definitely the best site on the Wikileaks, and for data in general - they ...
  • Wikileaks Cablegate
    The US Embassy cables put out by Wikileaks are not the truth. Even though I knew it, a part of me was disappointed at how ideological some of the cables were. Take #09TELAVIV1060, "Rep. Wexler discusses Iran with IDF Intelligence". The entire discussion is about the threat posed by Iran to Israel. E ...
  • Would anyone be unhappy if Tom Flanagan disappeare ...
    I know I wouldn't... and no, I don't think it's manly. I think it's disgusting.
  • Wikileaks Cablegate! Panamanians hope for a succes ...
    I was just peeking around Wikileaks's Cablegate (cablegate.wikileaks.org). This looks like the real thing folks! Take a look at this 1989 cable on Panama for example: http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/1989/12/89PANAMA8545.html SUBJECT: PANAMANIANS HOPE FOR A SUCCESSFUL COUP More analysis to foll ...
  • Political theory interlude
    Manuel suggested I read Norberto Bobbio, an Italian socialist writer on democracy. So I picked up his "Which Socialism?" In it, Bobbio argues that there's no necessary connection between democracy and socialism. Contrary to what socialists would like to believe, democracy doesn't automatically happe ...

treehugger

  • Adrian Grenier Supports Global Clean Water Project ...
    In an exclusive interview, Adrian Grenier speaks to the global water crisis and why he supports charity: water. Video: Emma Grady. In New York City last night, actor and environmental activist
  • Brussels Sprouts are Back in Style
    Photo: notonthehighstreet Gone are the days when Brussels sprouts evoked a family groan at dinner. Now sprouts are being hailed as a hang-over cure (more on that later), a cancer fighter and a trendy food. One farmer is so committed that he farms 2,000 acres of them, with half a million ...
  • People Shooting at Wind Turbines in Michigan, Else ...
    A pistol at the shooting range. Paper targets, not turbines. Credit: Foxtongue via Flickr. So I heard a TV news report about gunfire that shut down a wind turbine park in Michigan's Thumb. And I went looking for more information on the Internet. It wasn't an easy find, though. Seems shooting bull ...
  • Americans Losing Interest in Killing Wildlife For ...
    Photo via American Hunter Whether it be lurking through the brush with a bow in search of deer, or picking off wolves with a high-powered rifle from the comfort of a helicopter, Americans have a long history of hunting for sport -- but this love-affair with killing animals has apparently been fi ...
  • "New Car Smell" May Have Caused Hit-and-Run On Cyc ...
    Well I am just never buying a Mercedes sedan now. Look what happened to the Rich Vail Fund Manager [who] Hits Cyclist And Runs, Gets Off Because Charges Might "Jeopardize His Job". Now Martin Erzinger's lawyers are claiming that he might have been overcome by the fumes from the "new car smell" in hi ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Service members discharged under 'Don't Ask Don't ...
    [JURIST] Three former service members discharged under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) [10 USC § 654; JURIST news archive] filed a complaint [text, PDF] against the Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] Monday, seeking reinstatement and the declaration that their discharges under the statute ...
  • Rights groups ask Spain court to open probe into B ...
    [JURIST] The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) [advocacy websites] filed a joint expert opinion [text, PDF] Tuesday urging a Spanish court to open an investigation into six former Bush administration officials for their roles i ...
  • Alaska judge upholds parental notification abortio ...
    [JURIST] An Alaskan Superior Court judge on Monday refused to block a law requiring parental notification for women under the age of 18 to have an abortion [JURIST news archive], allowing the law to take effect Tuesday. The law was approved by voters in August but was challenged [complant, PDF] by P ...
  • UN rights expert urges release of Myanmar politica ...
    [JURIST] A UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] expert on Monday urged Myanmar's military government to release 2,202 political prisoners [statement]. Tomas Ojea Quintana [official profile; JURIST news archive], a UN Special Rapporteur, called for the release of the "prisoners of consc ...
  • EU to sanction Ivory Coast over non-compliance wit ...
    [JURIST] The Council of the EU [official website] adopted a decision Monday to institute sanctions [official statement, PDF] against the Ivory Coast. There has been unrest in the country [JURIST report] since elections were held at the beginning of this month. Alassane Ouattara defeated incumbent La ...

Atlantic | Mark Ambinder

  • A Primary Challenge to Obama?
    The apoplexy of loud liberals probably won't be enough to spur a credible primary challenge to President Obama. That's because Obama enjoys extremely high approval ratings among African Americans, who are not likely to desert him for anyone else, because the White House and the Democratic National C ...
  • WikiLeaks: One Analyst, So Many Documents
    To date, Bradley Manning stands accused only of providing a classified video of U.S. operations in Iraq to WikiLeaks. But U.S. government officials say they consider Manning the prime suspect behind the flood of documents that have wound up being promulgated by the group determined to bust U.S. secr ...
  • After North Korean Attack, Obama Waits for Beijing
    In the wake of North Korea's artillery fusillade, President Obama's foreign-policy team is looking to see whether China, which has the most leverage with the isolated regime, responds in a way that the administration considers productive. MORE FROM NATIONAL JOURNAL: Ostrich Oversight? ...
  • I Am a Blogger No Longer
    This is my final blog post for The Atlantic. Five years ago, as a way to boost the competitive metabolism of The Hotline, Chuck Todd hired me away from ABC News to create "Hotline On Call."  I was to be the first political reporter working for a mainstream news organization whose output would be exc ...
  • Billy Joel Explains the Election
    What explains the partial collapse of the Democratic Party in the industrial Midwest? Billy Joel, in Allentown, caught the moment decades before it happened...the last time the economy in Pennsylvania transitioned away from coal and steel.  Educated, hard-working people. The generational tension. Th ...

COAT - Coalition to oppose the Arms Trade

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Tikun Olam

  • IDF Refuses Palestinians Who Fought Carmel Fire Is ...
    Let it not be said that the IDF doesn’t know how to show proper appreciation to Palestinians when they come to Israel’s aid in an emergency. During the Carmel Fire, the PA offered Shimon Peres Palestinian firefighters to combat the blaze. The offer was accepted and they performed admirably by all ac ...
  • Links for 2010-03-30 [Digg]
    Overseas Media Begins Reporting Kam Case An Israeli journalist disappears into the maw of the intelligence services. A gag order prevents newspapers reporting the story. Only overseas media can do so, but they hesitate since so little is known. That's why blogs exist and that's the role that ...
  • Links for 2010-03-18 [Digg]
    Shin Bet Secretly Detains Reporter Leaking Top-Secret Docume I was the first blogger or journalist to break this story outside Israel. Anat Kam, a young Israeli reporter was secretly arrested and imprisoned for allegedly leaking top secret IDF documents about targeted assassinations.
  • ‘We’ll Wipe Israel Off the Map’ and Other Things A ...
    For some reason, the book title Lies My Father Told Me comes into my head in regards to this post.  In this case, I’m writing about lies the anti-Iran hawks tell repeatedly.  One of the chief ones is that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once said that Iran would “wipe Israel off the face of the earth.” Here’s ...
  • Israel and the Misrule of Law
    As far as its minority Palestinian citizens are concerned, there is no rule of law in Israeli society.  That’s why I use the term “misrule” in my post title.  There is no democracy for them.  As Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotsk used to say in a different context: “there is no justice and there is [ ...

Ode Magazine

  • The independent bookstore that could
    By: Jeremy Mercer One can’t help but feel the past decade has been Biblically awful for independent booksellers. There was the plague of big chain stores like Barnes & Noble who introduced heavy discounts on bestsellers that couldn’t be matched by smaller stores wi ...
  • The goal of history is peace
    By: PeaceCorso I’d never thought of history having a goal, per se, have you? Consider these words from educational philosopher and dean of Yale Law School Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899 - May 17, 1977): "The goal toward which all history tends ...
  • The oneness of humanity
    By: Anne Thomas The other night I had the privilege of attending a party of Middle Easterners. It was a farewell get-together for an Iranian friend. He and his wife were heading to the U.S. to work at a university. Of course, everyone was happy for them, so the mer ...
  • Lessons in Chan living
    By: donaldhwong Do majority of us know what needs to be done to better ourselves, the ones we love and the world? Of course. We all have some idea of what is right and necessary. The difficulty really is in the execution. We are either too busy or too easily s ...
  • True peace in the smallest place
    By: PeaceCorso The Science of Mind has been a relative mainstay in my spiritual practice for many years. Its founder, Ernest Holmes, was a great mind. His goal was to integrate science and the depths of humankind. That’s why I like this quote: "When we c ...

OpEd News

  • Are These Dangerous Drugs in Your Medicine Chest?
    Since direct-to-consumer drug advertising was legalized 13 years ago, Americans have become a nation of pill poppers -- choosing the type of drug they desire like a new toothpaste, sometimes whether or not they need it. But here are drugs to avoid.
  • It's official! You're on your own
    We need our "heroes." Without them, we might realize that we're entirely on our own in the fight against the wholesale theft of the peoples' hard work and wealth.
  • The True Richard Holbrooke Legacy
    For nearly 5 decades he was complicit in imperial crimes.
  • This One Is For You Julian
    Land of the free"" Home of the brave, but when a courageous young man such as one like Julian Assange comes along and is willing to "tell the truth," let the rest of the world know what nefarious governments, rich corporations, and powerful people have been saying and doing, what do the Americans do ...
  • Afghanistan / Graveyard Of Empires Will Soon Inclu ...
    Like a moth to the flame, the United states continues to defy the first law of holes in Afghanistan ~ stop digging. Obama's war, or better said occupation, continues to take America down the road of moral and financial disintegration and eventually to the graveyard of Imperial Empires: Allen L Rola ...

Switchboard

  • Judge's Ruling On Biological Opinion Confirms Over ...
    Today, Judge Wanger issued his long-awaited ruling on the legality of the Fish & Wildlife Service’s protections for threatened and endangered fish in the Delta.  These protections, described in a 2008 biological opinion, were issued in response to the ecological collapse of the Delta a ...
  • CPUC Should Continue to Make Efficiency the State' ...
    California voters last month resoundingly defeated Proposition 23, giving state policy makers a mandate to achieve cleaner air, curb global warming pollution, and create jobs. While there are many clean energy strategies California must pursue to meet those goals, energy efficiency mus ...
  • Invisible Energy: Economic Recovery Strategies tha ...
    As the state of the economy continues to disappoint us, Congressional Republicans and the Administration are proposing a large package of tax cuts whose goal is to help promote recovery. But this package has come under attack both from the right and from the left. In other words, the ...
  • Are Southern California Fisheries in Good Shape?
    Sportfisherman Jim Donlan and his friends had fished California’s Channel Islands since the 1950s.  The steep declines in fish populations they witnessed prompted them to propose marine reserves around the islands in 1999.  Abundance of fish and lobsters in those reserves is now on the ...
  • NRDC Expert Wins Award for Innovative Ways to Use ...
    Over the past year, I’ve enjoyed telling people that NRDC is home to the MVP of the water efficiency field: Ed Osann. His name may not be on trading cards yet, but Ed’s star status among water experts was confirmed last week when the California Urban Water Conservation Council gave Ed ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Hacktacular!
    It seems to be an ironclad rule that political analysis from people named “Roger Simon” will have no value. Related posts:What Not To Name Your Son Sure, She Hate Me Sucked, But It’s Not Like He Wrote Scenes From A Mall Or Anything Hacktacular! Related posts:What Not To Name Your Son Sure, She ...
  • Isn’t it just a testament to the power of fi ...
    By “it,” I mean this clip that’s been linked everywhere today: I don’t mean to sound like a jaded film theorist, but the only reason this works is that so many films rely on the same basic cinematographic and emotional principles.  You could splice some David Lynch in there, but only if you decont ...
  • Iron Eating Microbes Undermine Earth Deterrent
    This is going to make it very difficult to mount a credible counter-offensive against the Gamilons: Researchers have been studying the Titanicâs remains since they were discovered resting more than two miles beneath the ocean surface. And theyâve found that the ship has been not-so-slowly disappeari ...
  • Does the quality of legal argument in Supreme Cour ...
    I have a piece at the Daily Beast about the ACA decision which suggests some reasons to be skeptical. I’m particularly interested in the assertion that the professional quality — as measured by the craft values of the legal profession — of the arguments in SCOTUS opinions has or at least in certain ...
  • Oh, Apparently Hitch is Angry About Something&#823 ...
    People seem to be falling over themselves to link to Christopher Hitchens’ latest rant on Henry Kissinger. It’s a good rant, and I’m generally of the opinion that we should evaluate such work in terms of its per piece value, rather than in terms of our overall evaluation of the author. Nevertheles ...

Desert Research Institute

  • Top Cited Article in the Journal of Human Evolutio ...
    Dr. Glenn Berger is lead author in top-cited article in Journal of Human Evolution. The article "Luminescence chronology of cave sediments at the Atapuerca paleoanthropological site, Spain" was the top-cited article published in the Journal of Human Evolution for the period of 2008 to 2010.
  • DRI Researcher Published in Nature Geoscience
    The atmosphere over the Dead Sea, researchers have found, is laden with oxidized mercury. Some of the highest levels of oxidized mercury ever observed outside the polar regions exist there.
  • Taking Your Home’s Energy Temperature
    An article authored by DRI Associate Research Professor Emeritus Charles “Fred “Rogers, Ph.D., outlines the best practices for homeowners who are looking to save money on their home heating and cooling bills.
  • DRI Researcher Earns National Science Foundation M ...
    DRI Research Professor Hans Moosmüller, Ph.D. and colleagues received $649,801 from the National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program to develop a Photo-Acoustic Light Absorption and Albedo Spectrometer (PALAAS) for the characterization of aerosol radiative forcing in the ...
  • DRI Researcher Develops Bioengineering Company
    DRI’s Joseph J. Grzymski, Ph.D. partnered with Adam G. Marsh, Ph.D. from the University of Delaware to develop Evozym Biologics, a company created to bridge the gap between research and innovation and commercial value.

Earth Techling

National Law Journal | U.S.

  • 1st Circuit considers whether aviation law pre-emp ...
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit recently heard arguments about whether the federal Airline Deregulation Act pre-empts Massachusetts' tip law as applied to an airline's curbside baggage check-in process.
  • Mattel seeks to disqualify opposing counsel in Bra ...
    Lawyers representing Mattel Inc. in its ongoing legal dispute with the manufacturer of Bratz dolls have filed a motion to disqualify opposing counsel Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, citing a conflict of interest that arose after the firm hired an associate who has previously worked on ...
  • AALS tries to calm unrest concerning convention ve ...
    A letter from the leaders of the Association of American Law Schools airs their frustrations about the vocal opposition to the organization's choice of hotels for its conference next month.
  • Women's business collaborative at Edwards Angell f ...
    The Women's Business Collaborative at Boston-based Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge has evolved from a group focused on hosting creative networking events for the firm's female clients into a revenue-generating department. Susan Keller, who chairs the program, discusses why she pressed firm management ...
  • Report charges conflicts of interest in Treasury p ...
    The U.S. Treasury Department's program to cut down on home foreclosures is far behind where it planned to be, and its performance is unlikely to improve any time soon, according to a new government report.

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Pittsburgh Sets Model to Reject Corporate-Imposed ...
    November 30, 2010 By S.B. Thompson Chambersburg, PA – Edited for length * The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) is actively involved in many issues to help prevent corporations from raping America’s land and resources, including speaking out against uranium mining and mountaintop re ...
  • Investigating the US Gas Boom
    I know many of you are becoming very aware of the natural gas boom happening in the Mid Atlantic area. This video covers some old ground but it also discusses some very current issues and is a great intro for anyone who is trying to learn about the problems with the fracking process. http://www.thee ...
  • Under the Influence of Fracking?
    In addition to the environmental and health threats posed by gas drilling, driving on PA roadways is also becoming more dangerous.  The Pennsylvania State Police and the Department of Environmental Protection announced that during an October three-day joint safety enforcement operation, three out of ...
  • Speaking Out on Water Issues
    Tiadaghton Audubon Society is pleased and privileged to have Sean Saville, National Field Director of the National Audubon Society speak on the Gulf Oil Spill at our annual meeting on Wednesday November 17 at 7:30PM in Mansfield Pa at the Holy Child Church, 242 South Main St. He has extensive and in ...
  • DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transparent
    COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Dept. of Environmental Protection Commonwealth News Bureau Room 308, Main Capitol Building Harrisburg PA., 17120 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/1/2010 CONTACT: Jamie Legenos, Department of Environmental Protection 717-787-1323   DEP Makes Oil and Gas Operations More Transpare ...

News Blaze

environment 360

  • London’s New Black Cabs Must Be Electric by 2020, ...
    In a push to improve air quality in London, city officials will require that all new black taxi cabs be electric by 2020. Under increased pressure to reduce the worst air pollution in Europe, London Mayor Boris Johnson says the city will refuse licenses to any taxi older than 15 years beginning in 2 ...
  • Wildlife Smuggling Ring Is Uncovered in Central Af ...
    Law enforcement officials and wildlife activists in four Central African nations have broken up a network of wildlife smugglers and confiscated hundreds of pounds of ivory, African gray parrots, tiger and lion skins, and turtle shells. The arrests last week were coordinated by the Last Great Ape Org ...
  • European Butterfly Populations Plummet As Meadows ...
    Grassland butterfly populations across Europe have fallen by 70 percent in the past two decades, according to new report from Butterfly Conservation Europe. Relying on data from 3,000 sites in 15 countries, the study said the main cause of the decline was the switch from sustainable, small-scale agr ...
  • Increasing Drought Seen As Temperatures Rise in U. ...
    A comprehensive study of 99 water sub-basins in the United States shows that rising temperatures, which cause more evaporation and reduce soil moisture, will increase the likelihood of drought in many areas of the U.S. Earlier studies have shown that meteorological drought, based on shifting precipi ...
  • Refilling the Carbon Sink: Biochar’s Potential and ...
    The idea of creating biochar by burning organic waste in oxygen-free chambers — and then burying it — is being touted as a way to cool the planet. But while it already is being produced on a small scale, biochar’s proponents and detractors are sharply divided over whether it can help slow global war ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Suicide Bomber Identified - Surveillance Camera Sh ...
    The suicide bomber has been identified as Taimour Abdulwahab (Taymour Abdel Wahab). He was born in Iraq but became a Swedish citizen in 1992. When he was 10 he and his family moved to the small Swedish town Tranås some 200 kilometers south of Stockholm. Reportedly he was a normal "Swedish" kid, but ...
  • Swedish "Terrorist" Attack: Military Staffer Knew ...
    A Swedish Armed Forces (Försvarsmakten) employee warned an acquaintance to stay clear of an area in central Stockholm on Saturday where, several hours later, two explosions went off in what is being called a terrorist attack. "If you can, avoid Drottninggatan today. A lot can happen there ...just s ...
  • Navy test fires electromagnetic cannon
    The US Navy announced a successful test Friday of an electromagnetic cannon capable of firing a projectile 110 nautical miles (200 kilometers) at five times the speed of sound. "This demonstration moves us one day closer to getting this advanced capability to sea," said Rear Admiral Nevin Carr, chie ...
  • Sweden Bombing Investigation
    Investigations into Saturday's bomb blasts in Sweden have now widened to the United Kingdom. British police say that they have searched a property in the town of Luton, under anti-terrorism laws. But they are not saying whether it is the home of a young father named as the key suspect, Taimur Al-Abd ...
  • Lost Civilization May Have Existed Beneath the Per ...
    Veiled beneath the Persian Gulf, a once-fertile landmass may have supported some of the earliest humans outside Africa some 75,000 to 100,000 years ago, a new review of research suggests. At its peak, the floodplain now below the Gulf would have been about the size of Great Britain, and then shrank ...

Russia Today

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

  • Louisiana Zombie Photo Viral Marketing
    From Mysterious Universe: Recently at my blog The Gralien Report, I took a moment to touch on a story pertaining to a strange trail camera photo, supposedly obtained near New Orleans, Louisiana. The strange image seemed to depict an emaciated, naked, pale-skinned humanoid with large “bug eyes” somew ...
  • Cryptoterrestrial in Louisiana
    In the age of YouTube and photoshop, one must be leery of videos submitted as evidence anymore. But this little tidbit made the mainstream media (such as it is) in Louisiana where weird phenomena are common in the Bayou. … ] … This looks like one of the late Mac Tonnies’ classic cryptoterrestrials. ...
  • Paracast: The Kivas of Heaven
    I was in an “Ancient Aliens” mood yesterday and caught up on some of the more recent Season 2 episodes on YouTube (and drove my wife nuts LOL). Some of them referenced the American desert Amerinds’ (Hopi, Apache, Ute, Navajo) legends of sky people and how they helped The People as they came out of ...
  • Falcon and Dragon Soar
    After much gnashing and gritting of teeth, SpaceX’s second Falcon 9 and first Dragon launched at 10:43 a.m. EST to what become an event for the history books: SpaceX launched the Dragon spacecraft from Florida on a two-orbit test flight Wednesday, and the company brought the automated capsule back t ...
  • SpaceX to attempt Dragon launch
    From Spaceflightnow: SpaceX plans to launch a robotic space capsule, fly it around the world two times, then order the craft back home Wednesday in a whirlwind test flight to demonstrate the ship’s readiness to NASA. The Falcon 9 rocket fired its nine Merlin first stage engines Saturday during a pre ...

Tippers News

  • DNA testing a proven weapon in fight against human ...
    DNA testing is a proven aid in solving child trafficking cases in the country, a well-known international research institute says.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Three men helped starve kids, court tol
    Three men helped starve five children in Adelaide until they looked like they had came from a famine-affected Third World country, a court has been told.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Chinese sex traders challenge verdict
    The three Chinese nationals who were jailed by an Accra Circuit Court for transporting 10 Chinese girls into the country and engaging them in sex trade have appealed against the verdict. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The real terrorist was me - US Soldier -
    The Truth from a American Soldier who fought in an Unjust WAR in Iraq; thankfully his conscience willed him to admit that it was just a war for the rich elite few to get richer and had nothing to do with Patriosm or Security of Americans.He is a True HeroSubmitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • BRUTAL TRUTH Of IRAQ WAR
    'War' on any country is a 'Terrorist Act.' How can it be anything else?? People sit in their cosy homes; happy and Falsely believing that the soldiers are in a Patriotic War; Well see for yourself and ask Whats Patriotic about Suffering of Human Beings?Submitted by Mary P. to US Politics & Gov't � ...

The Freeman

  • Should NCAA Rule Infractions Be Crimes?
    When government is able to criminalize private-rule infractions, there really are no bounds at all on the behavior of the authorities.
  • Ruling Against Obamacare Mandate Shakes Things up
    “Judge Henry E. Hudson of Federal District Court in Richmond wrote with conviction that the lawâs requirement that most Americans obtain insurance goes âbeyond the historical reachâ of Supreme Court cases that limit federal regulation of commercial activity. During the last two months, however, two ...
  • Obama-GOP Bill Makes Progress in Senate
    “In an overwhelming bipartisan vote, the Senate on Monday cleared a path for the tax-cut deal President Obama struck with congressional Republicans last week, with even former staunch opponents of the Bush-era tax cuts voting for their extension.” (Washington Times) Refraining from raising taxes is ...
  • Education: Investment Versus Spending
    Artificially lowering the price of education is bound to create surpluses of increasingly disappointed graduates in the years ahead.
  • Trade Deficit Prompts Anti-Chinese Notions
    “Long-simmering trade tensions between the United States and China have broken out into open verbal warfare, with some highly respected and influential voices on trade now advocating an all-out economic war with the Asian giant.” (Washington Times) Trade war = economic suicide. FEE Timely Classic “T ...

Teaching Online Journalism

  • Skills for journalists: Again, the question
    What skills does today’s journalist need to have? I do not think this question has only one answer. In a comment on a blog post by Robert Hernandez, Michael Grimaldi wrote: The highest skill of journalism is knowing the number of questions to ask, how many people of whom to ask them, and then rep ...
  • Data journalism and programmer journalists
    Some good stuff on this topic: Debate over journalism’s required skills gets heated, by Robert Hernandez: I do not believe you need to master programming to succeed in journalism. I do believe you need to respect and understand the power of each and every craft, not just programming, but photog ...
  • Nitpicking some myths about digital journalism
    Andy Boyle wrote a response to Mark S. Luckie’s blog post 5 myths about digital journalism, and because I left a comment on Mark’s post, Andy called me out on Twitter. Now, I know Mark a little and Andy not at all (except via his tweets), but I think they are both bright and sincere young journalist ...
  • Online video, audiences, sharing: Putting it all t ...
    I thought about titling this post “Another stupid way news sites waste time and effort by failing to understand the Web and how people use it,” but I thought maybe that was far too broad, since it covers so many things. This post is really about how journalism organizations could use video intellig ...
  • Online video, links, and people: Putting it all to ...
    I spend a lot of time speaking (and thinking) about online video — both journalism video and the broader YouTube varieties. When we think about how people use online video — and by “people” I mean mostly North Americans in the college and university student age group — we have to consider sharing. ...

Facing South

  • In wake of Glover verdicts, what's next for New Or ...
    By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica One of the most striking moments in the federal civil rights prosecutions arising from the death of Henry Glover came when Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann, a police officer lauded in New Orleans for his heroic work after Hurricane Katrina, took the stand. Scheuermann told ...
  • Report exposes major problems in maintenance, stor ...
    By Benjamin Leger, Bridge the Gulf After Hurricane Gustav in 2007, north Baton Rouge residents were left without electricity for nearly two weeks. Across the street at Exxon Mobil's Baton Rouge refinery, the second-largest refinery in the country, workers were dealing with their own mess. Th ...
  • Is Gulf seafood really safe to eat?
    Independent testing has turned up oil contamination in Gulf seafood, raising concerns that federal officials prematurely pronounced it OK to eat. The Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper (LMRK) has released results from seafood sampling trips conducted along a broad area of the Louisiana coast s ...
  • Got the holiday spirit?
    I'll admit it, I've got the holiday spirit. Not the fruitcake-eating, gizmo-buying kind. I'm talking about the spirit of friendship, giving thanks and excitement about the promise of a New Year. I'm thankful for yo ...
  • VOICES: Today's $7 billion new nuke attack
    By Harvey Wasserman, NukeFree.org The White House and nuclear power industry are on the brink of grabbing $7 billion in new taxpayer-funded loan guarantees for new reactors. But they can be stopped.� Taxpayer and environmental groups are asking citizens to call their Senators urging deletion of t ...

Worldpress - Africa

  • U.S. Dual-Track Policy in Somalia
    In a country with layers of complexity, clan warfare and a broken state, the Obama administration is taking an appropriately complex approach to stabilizing Somalia, one that may or may not bear fruit.
  • Preventing Maternal Deaths in West Africa
    Dr. Fredanna M'Cormack and her Bele Uman Project are working in Sierra Leone to save the lives of pregnant mothers and their babies.
  • Interview with Kumi Naidoo
    The Greenpeace executive director talks about connections between the environment, poverty, peace, and how the interconnectedness of these issues can drive civil society.
  • Zimbabweans Still Suffering
    On a daily basis, the people of Zimbabwe face starvation, poverty, corruption and oppression, and their government is highly unlikely to bail them out anytime soon.
  • Re: Blood Diamonds: Still Bloody
    We are seeing a steadily growing tide of discontent with the Kimberley Process.

Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Trudeau, Pierre Elliott
    Pierre Elliott Trudeau, politician, writer, constitutional lawyer, prime minister of Canada 1968-79 and 1980-84 (b at Montr�al 18 Oct 1919; d at Montr�al 28 Sept 2000). Trudeau was born into a wealthy family, the
  • Native People: Eastern Woodlands
    Major Language and Tribal GroupsEastern Woodland Indians spoke languages belonging to 2 unrelated families, Iroquoian and Algonquian. At the onset of the historic period, Iroquoians occupied much of southern Ontario, northern
  • Fur Trade
    Fur trade in Canada began as an adjunct to the fishing industry. Early in the 16th century fishermen from northwest Europe were taking rich catches of COD on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland and in the Gulf of St Lawrence (
  • Canadian Pacific Railway
    Commencement of a transcontinental railway within 2 years and completion within 10 years were conditions of British Columbia's entry into Confederation in 1871 (seeRAILWAY HISTORY). Competition for the lucrative contract for the
  • World War II
    Memories of WWI - the tragic loss of life, the heavy burden of debt and the strain on the country's unity imposed by CONSCRIPTION- made Canadians, including politicians of all parties, loath to contemplate another such

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • How can I reuse or recycle split plastic dustbins?
    Philip Mitchell Graham has left quite a few comments on the Suggest an item page recently so I guess I should start making my way through his ideas! First up: Old split plastic rubbish bins. I used one as a liner in an old metal rubbish bin. Metal bins often loose their bottoms, whereas the [...]
  • Great reusing and recycling ideas from November
    Here’s some of my favourite comments left on the site over the last month in case you missed them first time around. First up, props to everyone who left comments on our post about how to get into the habit of taking packed lunches – great answers from everyone: Bellen, Alice, Alexis, carol, Bobbie, ...
  • Recycled Christmas – upcycle trash into hand ...
    Perhaps it’s just the blogs I read but it seems like more people than ever are thinking of making gifts this Christmas. There are lots of suggestions out there for making biscuits, cakes or jams, or knitting or crocheting something pretty — but if you’re after a truly frugal Christmas, all those ing ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle old duvets?
    We’ve covered sheets & valances and feathers & down – but not intact duvets themselves. I was thinking about duvets last week – not just because I spent much of Thursday wrapped up in one and the rest of the week wishing I was wrapped up in one, but also because I saw this insulating [...]
  • How can I make a Christmas fairy out of a chicken/ ...
    Eileen Bradley left a comment on our “how to make Christmas decorations by reusing and recycling stuff?” post, asking about wishbone fairies: Does anyone know how to make Christmas Tree Fairies from Chicken or Turkey wishbones. I have seen them made but donât know how to make them. Thank you I’ve ne ...

Mondoweiss

  • Secret House resolution says No to Palestinian sta ...
    The US Campaign to End the Occupation is pushing urgent action to condemn an Israel lobby resolution circulating in the House to block international efforts to recognize a Palestinian state. From the US Campaign:We are outraged to learn that Rep. Howard Berman, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Com ...
  • Poll says most Israeli Jews back rabbis’ ant ...
    and other news from Today in Palestine:Settlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Two homes demolished in Sour Baher and Ras al-Amoud Two Palestinian homes were demolished in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Sour Baher and Ras al-Amoud yesterday. The demolitions were ...
  • Why I was willing to risk arrest at the AIPAC annu ...
    Though I've been a community organizer for several years, Monday night was the first time I was willing to get arrested for an action. Though unfortunately, we didn’t get the chance to finish performing our dance and sharing our message before we got 'escorted' out, I felt we accomplished our ...
  • ‘It is ethnic cleansing’
    Download: FLVMP43GPThe video above is of Joyce Ajlouny, who heads the Friends' School in Ramallah in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It was posted at Huffpo yesterday by the interviewer, Nancy Kanwisher, a brain scientist, actually the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience a ...
  • ‘My name is Israel and I’ve been sleep ...
    Dror Etkes in Haaretz. Simple, obvious, beautiful:The story, as one of my friends recently concluded, is no longer about right versus left in Israel, because there is no longer a left in Israel. It is a campaign waged by the right-wing settler movement, assisted by the Netanyahu government, which is ...

Media Consortium

  • Jonathan Stray » Does journalism work?
    "Journalism has no theory of change — at least not at the level of practice. I’ve taken to asking editors, “what do you want your work to change in society?” The answer is generally along the lines of, “we aren’t here to change things. We are only here to publish information.” I don’t think that’s ...
  • Nicholas Christakis on the networked nature of Twi ...
    We need metrics, in particular, to determine “which online interactions represent real relationships, where an influence might possibly be exerted.” ..And that has big implications not only for news organizations, but also for the platforms that are hoping to translate their ubiquity into financia ...
  • The New York Times Introduces The Evolution of the ...
    As reported by the Atlantic, The New York Times has snuck in an update to its hyperlink feature. The new feature allows users to link to and highlight individual sentences and paragraphs in its web stories. While it could be a tad complicated for an average reader, it’s a great tool for writers and ...
  • Fundly + Facebook = Millions in Micro-Donations fo ...
    One startup that's trying to capture the heat of micro-donations and make them more social is Fundly, which started life as BlueSwarm in 2009 before moving to Palo Alto, Calif., from Boston. The donation platform lets candidates begin taking micro-donations online quickly, and even embed those effor ...
  • ProPublica Takes Press+ Out For A Spin | paidConte ...
    ProPublica is going public today as the latest customer of Press+, the payment platform from Journalism Online.The investigative nonprofit is the most high-profile addition so far from a recent grant by The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation designed to encourage its grantees to try new methods ...

Reality Asserts Itself

  • Drug Wars in Juarez Fuels Boom in El Paso
    My colleague Malak Behrouznami recently returned from Juarez Mexico where she grew up as a child. She as a wonderful heritage - her father is Iranian and her Mother is Mexican. She went Juarez for family and journalistic reasons. One of her objectives was to find out why Juarez has become a terroriz ...
  • PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI NEGOTIATIONS TO NOWHERE NOT TH ...
    A few months ago when shooting a documentary in the Middle East, we met Zeina, a 13-year-old Palestinian living in a Beirut refugee camp. She was traumatized as she watched the Israeli Gaza war on television. It changed her life. She now thinks of revenge and cannot understand the Israeli children w ...
  • FROM JOE McCARTHY TO GLEN BECK – TIME TO END FEAR ...
    I listened to Glen Becks "Restoring Honor" speech today hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion.  The more important issue is why a man whose megalomania seems to have no bounds can become such a phenomena ( ...
  • PAKISTAN FLOODS AND A FAILED POLICY - UN Sec. Gen ...
    Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, says of the flooding in Pakistan "The world has never seen such a disaster. It's much beyond anybody's imagination". At least 20 million people have lost their homes, more than 1600 have died, and disease and hunger will claim many, many more l ...
  • China and the end of the end of history
    Many economists and political analysts think the current recovery, as it's being called, is a rather temporary phenomenon. Many expect the recession to kick back in, and perhaps within a few years get much more serious. What does that mean in terms of the future of the world economy and world politi ...

Great Beyond ( Nature )

  • Sanofi-aventis picks former NIH director to lead r ...
    Elias Zerhouni, the former director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), will head up R&D at the French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-aventis. He will replace Marc Cluzel and report to CEO Christopher A. Viehbacher starting from 1 January, according to a company statement. Zerhouni ...
  • Drosophila pictures and video seal up "celldance" ...
    Philadelphia rolled out the red carpet (no, not literally) for the sixth annual ‘celldance’ awards at the American Society for Cell Biology 50th annual meeting yesterday. Several dozen conference goers crowded around the big screen at the ASCB booth as Greenfield “Kip” Sluder, outgoing head judge o ...
  • Unexpected hiccup for NASA's high-profile planet f ...
    NASA reports tonight that its high-profile Kepler planet-finding mission was found to have experienced an anomaly during a scheduled contact on December 13th. The agency says it took around 13 hours to correct the problem, during which data-taking time was lost. Investigations are underway to determ ...
  • Research trip to the Antarctic: Invisible carbon p ...
    Posted on behalf of Jane Qiu Science journalist Jane Qiu is at the Palmer ecological research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, joining researchers investigating how climate change has affected the region in recent decades. Please check back for her dispatches from the bottom of the world. ...
  • Night lights make smog
    The bright lights of Los Angeles are increasing pollution in that city, reported Harald Stark of the University of Colorado, Boulder, at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco this week. The light is destroying a chemical that helps to scrub the night sky of pollution, he says, red ...

new geography

  • Hasta La Vista, Failure
    In his headier and hunkier days, Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke boldly about how �failure is not an option.� This kind of bravado worked well in the gym�and in a remarkable career that saw an inarticulate Austrian body-builder rise to the apex of Hollywood and California politics. But Schwarzenegger�s ...
  • Can We Replicate in the 21st Century What we Accom ...
    Can the American republic replicate in the 21st century what its people accomplished in the 20th: widespread economic prosperity at home, the conquering of tyrannies and fascist ideologies abroad, the application of science to eradicate disease and improve life? These accomplishments took great effo ...
  • If California Is Doing So Great, Why Are So Many L ...
    Superficially at least, California’s problems are well known. Are they well understood? Apparently not. About a year ago Time ran an article, "Why California is Still America's future," touting California's future, a future that includes gold-rush-like prosperity in an environmentally pure little ...
  • Are Developers Greedy, Or Just Misunderstood?
    Construction starts in Australia, like much of the English-speaking world, are falling across a spectrum from commercial to retail, industrial and housing. Construction industry jobs - one of the few sources for well compensated blue collar employment - are going with them. Yet developers, the very ...
  • Building the Train to Nowhere
    The California High Speed Rail Authority has approved building its first 54 miles in the San Joaquin Valley. A somewhat longer route, 65 miles, has been indicated in a number of press reports, but Authority documents indicate that only 54 miles of high speed rail track will be built. The route would ...

GM Watch

spiked

Cryptogon

  • Moody’s May Downgrade Spanish Credit Rating
    Via: Bloomberg: Spain’s credit rating may be cut from Aa1, Moody’s Investors Service said, as the government prepares its final bond sale of the year tomorrow amid concern it may follow Greece and Ireland in seeking a bailout. Spain has to raise 170 billion euros ($226 billion) next year, while refi ...
  • Allegations of FBI Backdoors in OpenBSD
    Via: IT World: Amidst startling accusations revealed by OpenBSD founder and lead developer Theo de Raadt today that 10 years ago the US Federal Bureau of Investigations paid developers to insert security holes into OpenBSD code, some confusion about the accusations has already emerged, with one name ...
  • Florida Gunman Killed Himself After Bizarre Incide ...
    Some stories about this incident state that the meaning of the graffiti that Clay A. Duke sprayed on the wall isn’t known. The V surrounded by a circle is obviously from the film V for Vendetta: Via: AP: A gunman opened fire at a school board meeting Tuesday, sending the audience scrambling before h ...
  • U.S. Appoints First Cyber Warfare General
    Via: Guardian: The US military has appointed its first senior general to direct cyber warfare â despite fears that the move marks another stage in the militarisation of cyberspace. The newly promoted four-star general, Keith Alexander, takes charge of the Pentagon’s ambitious and controversial new C ...
  • Police Investigate Cause of Illinois Mayor’s ...
    Via: Reuters: The mayor of Springfield, Illinois, was found dead in his home on Tuesday and police said they have launched an investigation. An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday and police declined to confirm reports that Timothy Davlin, mayor of the Illinois state capital since 2003, had shot him ...

The Economic Collapse

  • How Can We Have A Healthy Economy If Virtually Eve ...
    In the United States today, we are all being constantly bombarded by chemicals, poisons and toxins.  Virtually everything that we eat or drink makes us less healthy.  The vast majority of Americans gladly consume aspartame, fluoride, BPA, genetically-modified food, pesticides, high ...
  • 9 Shocking Examples Of Black Friday Violence &#821 ...
    It seems with each passing year the madness on Black Friday gets even worse.  This year, there were reports of fights and rioting from coast to coast.  It was estimated that over 180 million U.S. shoppers headed for the stores on Friday, and whenever you get that many people togethe ...
  • 10 Signs That Confidence In U.S. Treasuries Is Dyi ...
    Selling government debt is a gigantic confidence game.  For decades, investors all over the globe have gobbled up massive amounts of U.S. debt at incredibly low interest rates because they believed that it was a certainly that they would be paid back and be able to make a little bit ...
  • Happy Holidays? 28 Hard Questions It Would Be Grea ...
    Over the coming weeks, Americans will be wishing each other "happy holidays" millions upon millions of times.  But are these really happy times?  Record numbers of Americans are going to be going hungry and cold this winter.  Millions upon millions of our fellow citizens would gladl ...
  • Derivatives: The Quadrillion Dollar Financial Casi ...
    If you took an opinion poll and asked Americans what they considered the biggest threat to the world economy to be, how many of them do you think would give "derivatives" as an answer?  But the truth is that derivatives were at the heart of the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, and ...

Desertification

  • Preparing for the UN Conference on Sustainable Dev ...
    Read at : IISD Announces Sustainable Development Policy & Practice A Knowledgebase on UN and Intergovernmental Activities The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is pleased to announce the launch of Sustainable Development Policy & Practice: A Knowledgebase of International … ...
  • A community announcement list for policy makers an ...
    Read at : IISD Announces Re-naming of Community List on Sustainable Development The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is pleased to announce the re-naming of SD-L as UNCSD-L UNCSD-L is a community announcement list for policy makers and practitioners … Continue reading →
  • Castor Plant (Ricinus communis) can also grow in d ...
    Read at : http://www.ecosensorium.org/2010/12/castor-plant-ricinus-communis-palm-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Ecosensorium+%28ECOSENSORIUM.ORG%29 The Castor Plant (Ricinus communis): the Palm of Christ The castor plant which is taxonomically known as Ricinus co ...
  • DNI : Indigenous Livestock Breeds and Indigenous K ...
    DesertNet International (DNI) The Steering Committee and Advisory Board of DNI have received eight thematic proposals for setting up new DNI working groups or for continuing with existing working groups or task forces. Dr. Abdul Raziq Kakar invites DNI members … Continue reading →
  • UNCCD News Alert 12/17/2010
    29 November 2010 â 10 December 2010 COP 9 follow-up CRIC: The provisional agenda of the Ninth session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC-9), to be held in Bonn, 21â25 February 2011 is … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

backofthebook.ca

  • Hang the holidays
    By Bev Schellenberg What has happened to our celebratory schedule? It seems it was only a few weeks ago I bought a witch hat and cape for my daughter, a baron costume for my son, and carved a pumpkin. In fact, it was only a few weeks ago. Now here I ...
  • The security perimeter: It’s Aliiiiiive!
    By Alison@Creekside Well, it's back. The "one security perimeter" deep integration SPP/FTAA zombie, now with new and improved emphasis on security. You're shocked, I'm sure. Like it ever really died. The re-animators just learned not to dig it up and parade it around in parliament too often ...
  • The polygamists down the street
    By Jodi A. Shaw Last week, Angela Campbell, a professor of law at McGill University, testified at a constitutional reference case examining Canada’s current polygamy law that the practice ought to be decriminalized. I wasn’t sure if I should gasp or applaud. Campbell visited Bountiful, B.C. in ...
  • A little 4Chan justice for Mastercard
    By Frank Moher So 4Chan has finally found something useful to do with all its suppressed testerone and brought down the Mastercard site, in retaliation for the credit card company's decision to stop processing donations to WikiLeaks. They've also apparently done some serious damage to PayPal (for ...
  • The Revolution Has Been Postponed
    by Eric Pettifor Last year I predicted that a small revolution in web apps would occur thanks to the introduction of Google Chrome OS, and may have implied that this would have a negative effect on the iPhone. I also expressed the opinion that if all went well with the ...

Worldnews

  • One-day schools chess to celebrate Anand's bi ...
    Mumbai: A one-day inter-schools chess tournament for children ranging from tiny tots to high school students is to be held at the Oberoi International School here on December 18 to celebrate the birthday of chess wizard Vishawanathan Anand. Though Anand's birthday falls on December 11, the orga ...
  • It's all for love as Bryan Adams rocks Dubai ...
    There are some artists you never tire of. You can listen to them time and again and yet never get bored. Bryan Adams immediately comes to mind. Can you ever stop singing along to Summer of '69 or getting mushy every time you listen to Everything I Do I Do It For You? Well, brace yourself for an ...
  • Jon Bon Jovi appointed to White House Council ...
    Washington, Dec 15 (ANI): Singer Jon Bon Jovi has been appointed to the White House Council for Community Solutions.� President Barack Obama signed an executive order on December 14, and the 48-year-old singer was named as one of the members.� "The Council will provide advice to the President.. ...
  • Stocks, euro hit by Spanish credit rating war ...
    In this photo released by the New York Stock Exchange, Tianwen Liu, Chairman... LONDON (AP) - World markets and the euro fell Wednesday after Spain was warned it may have its credit rating downgraded, echoing a similar report on Belgium the day before and renewing worries about Europe's debt cr ...
  • STOSUR: I'M BETTER PREPARED
    Samantha Stosur believes she will cope much better with the pressure of playing in her home tournament when the Australian Open gets under way next month. A first-round success at the Brisbane International (January 2-8) could secure the 26-year-old a coveted top-four...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

Common Dreams

  • USAF Blocks Media Sites over Wikileaks
    The US Air Force has blocked access for computers on its network to at least 25 websites that published sensitive diplomatic documents released by the Internet site WikiLeaks, a spokeswoman said.Major Toni Tones, a spokesperson at Air Force Space Command in Colorado, said on Tuesday that the website ...
  • Obama Lashes Out Amid Calls to Free Assange
    WASHINGTON - Barack Obama has made his strongest condemnation yet of WikiLeaks, as supporters of Julian Assange demonstrated for his release.In a call to the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the US President ''expressed his regrets for the deplorable action by WikiLeaks'', the White Hou ...
  • Worldwide Clamor for Worker Rights to Organize
    by David Moberg From the prisons of Iran to the ports of California, the cry went out Friday—let workers organize. International Human Rights Day, observed on Dec. 10, increasingly is an occasion to recognize labor rights as a distinctive, critical part of human rights, as recognized in the Univ ...
  • Rabbis Say 'No Housing for Arabs'
    by Mya GuarnieriHundreds of Israeli rabbis have signed a religious edict forbidding Jews from renting or selling homes or land to Arabs and other non-Jews. The public letter instructs Jews to "ostracise" those who disobey the order, which is widely viewed as an attack on the country's Palestinian ci ...
  • British Police Look to Water Cannons to "Deal With ...
    The Metropolitan police is considering its tactics after rioters attacked officers with metal poles, smashed windows and even vandalised a car carrying the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall during protests against rises in university fees.''The Met Police obviously have to look at how they sho ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • “Violent Agreement: The United States Needs a Comp ...
    The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation�has issued a rejoinder to the Coalition for Green Capital�s (CGC) response to his original critique of the CGC�s �Project 2011� recommendations. In it, they recognizes the overlapping goals of the CGC�s proposal and the ITIF�s agenda.
  • Dead ahead: Eco-totalitarianism
    Paul Gilding, one of those writers I wish would write more often, has an excellent piece up, How free market advocates have delivered us big government:
  • Embodied Energy, a Measure of Sustainability
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  • Did they really say that? Gasoline market stress c ...
    One consequence of a 14-week project to replace several locks on dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers is that gasoline transportation costs will rise in the area. Some gasoline that would have traveled up the river will have to move by train and truck instead, a more expensive process and one much ...
  • Jim Hopf - Clean Energy Standard gains traction at ...
    In a previous post on the ANS Nuclear Cafe, I discussed how a Clean Energy Standard (CES) that included nuclear energy would be more effective (as well as more fair) than a portfolio standard that includes only “renewable” energy sources. There have been encouraging signs recently that this CES conc ...

Green House - USA Today

  • Which U.S. states rank best for greening transport ...
    Almost all U.S. states have transportation policies that either fail to curb carbon emission rates or actually increase them, says a 50-state analysis Tuesday by two environmental groups.
  • The greenest Christmas retailers? Scorecards rank ...
    Sometimes buying Christmas gifts is headache enough, let alone thinking about the carbon footprint of the retailers themselves. Fortunately, there are several consumer guides that rank companies on their environmental efforts, and one offered an updated list Tuesday of big box retailers..
  • Animals still being rehabbed after BP's Gulf spill
    Dozens of animals including baby sea turtles and a young dolphin are still being cared for at Gulf Coast rescue centers set up after the massive BP spill began in April.
  • Beijing architect builds egg-shaped sidewalk house
    Live inside a giant egg? This was the outside-the-box solution that Dai Haifei, 24, had to soaring rents in Beijing. He built a mobile egg-shaped, solar-powered house that he lived in for two months on the sidewalk near his employer, an architectural design firm.
  • Obama agency stymies wind farms due to eagle conce ...
    The Obama administration is holding off on issuing new permits for large wind farms on public lands because of concern that the whirling blades could kill protected golden eagles, reports the Associated Press.

Prior Art

  • Recent Patent Litigation Weekly Columns
    Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...
  • Paul Allen v. The Internet
    Former Microsoft executive and billionaire Paul Allen sued several major Internet companies and three large retailers for patent infringement today, asserting that four patents originating at Interval Research, Allen's dot-com era think tank, cover basic web browsing and e-commerce technologies....
  • Citing Possible Bias, ACLU Asks Rader to Recuse Hi ...
    With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been selec ...
  • Law360 Calls Lawyer-Owned Shell Company a "Public ...
    seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed in E ...
  • Eben Moglen on Bilski, software patents, and big p ...
    Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free softw ...

Peoples Voice

  • Permanent War Is Killing Us, Time for Solidarity
    By Margaret Flowers, MD What do you care about? I became a physician because I care about people’s health. Specifically, I became a pediatrician because children are our future and I wanted to be part of the community that gives each child tools for a healthy, productive and fulfilling life. Sadl ...
  • Haiti's Electoral Council Tries Alternate Ways to ...
    by Stephen Lendman It's almost surreal following Haiti's November 28 elections, a process elevating fraud to a new level. So bad, in fact, most candidates demanded voiding it and starting over, but no matter. On December 9, New York Times Deborah Sontag headlined, "Haitian Vote Results to Be Review ...
  • Leaked Cable: Hike food prices to boost GM crop ap ...
    By Rady Ananda In a January 2008 meeting, US and Spain trade officials strategized how to increase acceptance of genetically modified foods in Europe, including inflating food prices on the commodities market, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks. During the meeting, Se ...
  • A Zoo Of Our Own Making: We will kill for empire a ...
    By Phil Rockstroh In an age, when nature is besieged and the political landscape blighted, and one stands, stoop shouldered and wincing into the howling wasteland of epic-scale idiocy extant in the era, a solitary person can feel lost ... marooned inside an increasingly isolated sense of self. Whet ...
  • Hey, American People!
    By Sheila Samples "The time is always right to do what is right"~~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Whew. Nasty. That was one hell of a campaign season; one hell of an election. Democrats emerged, bruised and broken, yet their mindset seems to be -- hey, we survived Bush, how bad can it be? Sadly, the grim ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • Economists unite. You have nothing to lose but dat ...
    CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan writes in today's Globe and Mail about how "economists on both sides of the political spectrum point to an unsettling truth" about the federal government's decision to scrap the mandatory long form census. She writes: "What’s at stake is the integrity of Statis ...
  • National Post editor concludes income inequality i ...
    Jonathan Kay, managing editor of the National Post's Comment section, read Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks' book The Trouble With Billionaires and came away convinced that income inequality is a "real problem" worthy of public debate in Canada. The book argues extreme income inequality can destabilize ...
  • Unease grows over inequality
    Toronto Star columnist Carol Goar weighs in on worsening income inequality in Canada, pointing to CCPA research, saying there is "dawning recognition" that it's a problem. She writes: "The stirrings of a national debate are there, if there’s a leader who can speak for the slipping majority." Read he ...
  • Deep cuts to BC's Forest Service put our publicly- ...
    Our province's Forest Service has been seriously damaged by reckless cuts and changes. In a study released today, resource analyst Ben Parfitt analyses government data to determine the extent of the damage, and concludes that it's high time for a public inquiry into the state of our Forest Service. ...
  • We're in it for the long haul!
    On Friday December 10th the CCPA-Manitoba will release its 6th annual State of the Inner-City report.� This year it is subtitled:� We're in it for the long haul.� CCPA-Manitoba produces its annual State of the Inner City Report by combining the learned experiences of our community partners with dat ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Afghan Aid Scams
    Billions Down the Drain in Useless US Afghan Aid | Counterpunch Beautiful but fake photographs are often the only evidence that companies have carried out expensive aid projects located in parts of Afghanistan too dangerous for donors to visit. “I went to see a food processing plant in the east of t ...
  • Bee-killing pesticide approved by Bush-era EPA
    Leaked document shows EPA allowed bee-toxic pesticide despite own scientistsâ red flags | Grist It’s not just the State and Defense departments that are reeling this month from leaked documents. The Environmental Protection Agency now has some explaining to do, too. In place of dodgy dealings with f ...
  • Getting Ahead in the GOP
    How to get ahead as a Republican in 2010 | Salon Ken Cuccinelli has called homosexuality “intrinsically wrong,” sought to alter the 14th Amendment in order to strip the children of undocumented immigrants of their citizenship, questioned the science of citizenship, and dabbled in birtherism. He is, ...
  • Environment: Clear And Present Danger
    Lonnie Thompson on why climatologists are speaking out: “Virtually all of us are now convinced that global warming poses a clear and present danger to civilization” | Climate Progress That bold statement may seem like hyperbole, but there is now a very clear pattern in the scientific evidence docume ...
  • All I Want For Christmas….
    Education on kids’ wish list in developing world | CBC Children in developing countries overwhelmingly chose education and food over toys and games in a global survey conducted by the ChildFund Alliance, a group that gives voice to children around the world. The global survey included 3,288 children ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • Daniel Ellsberg on Wikileaks and Julian Assange on ...
  • Bernie Sanders' "Berniebuster" Filibuster Against ...
  • The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
    A soft landing for America 40 years from now?� Don�t bet on it.� The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines.� If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and g ...
  • The New American Oligarchy
    There is a war underway. I'm not talking about Washington�s bloody misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, but a war within our own borders. It�s a war fought on the airwaves, on television and radio and over the Internet, a war of words and images, of half-truth, innuendo, and raging lies. I'm talki ...
  • The Health Insurance Industry’s Vendetta Against M ...
    Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, makes great movies but they are not generally considered “cliff-hangers.” All that might change since a whistle-blower on the “Democracy Now!” news hour revealed that health insurance executives thought they may have to implement a plan “to pus ...

Salon

  • The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning's deten ...
    Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime.� Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and for two months before t ...
  • Terrorism is everywhere!
    The woman who�puzzled over�Hispanics in her audience of high-school students and suggested they looked "Asian" was defeated in her run for the Senate in Nevada. The guy who�called Islam�a cult was knocked out of the Kentucky gubernatorial race. The bizarre candidate who�threatened�to "take out" a ...
  • What does No Labels really want?
    The new centrist, anti-partisan group No Labels launched on Monday with a high-profile New York event featuring Michael Bloomberg, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and several other prominent members of the political class. The group has drawn immediate scorn across the ...
  • Assange grand jury report "purely speculation"
    One of Julian Assange's attorneys tells Salon that the possibility that a secret grand jury is meeting in Virginia to consider charges against the WikiLeaks founder is "purely speculation" that has not been substantiated by his legal team.
  • Is this Lieberman's plan to win back Democrats?
    When last we checked in on him, Joe Lieberman was facing an essentially hopeless predicament as his 2012 reelection year approached: Winning the Democratic nomination would be out of the question (too many burned bridges), running as a Republican would be a dead end (unlike in 2006, the party wil ...

SMB News

  • Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits cam ...
    For SMB News Indonesian volcano rumbles as president visits camps PURWOBINANGUN: Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano spewed more deadly heat clouds Wednesday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited some of the 50,000 evacuees in shelters. Searing gas billowed from the crater of the 2,914-metre (9 ...
  • Kasaba throws spit on the camera
    \Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera saw ...
  • K’taka Speaker disqualifies 16 MLAs
    For SMB News KBANGALORE: Hours ahead of the trust vote for beleaguered Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa in the Assembly, Speaker K G Bopaiah disqualified sixteen rebel MLAs, including eleven from ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), legislative sources said on Monday. Bopaiah signed the disq ...
  • Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8
    For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, believed ...
  • Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistake
    For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage to t ...

Toronto Star - Editorials

  • The penny: Time to get rid of it
    A Senate committee issued a report Tuesday calling for elimination of the penny because it doesn’t buy what it once did (it has lost 95 per cent of its purchasing power since 1908) and it costs more than ever to produce (an estimated 1.5 cents each ...
  • Ephraim Brown: Attack roots of gang crime
    The tragic slaying of Ephraim Brown, and the lack of anyone brought to justice, underscore a need to prevent gun violence before it erupts.
  • Personal debt: Carney’s mixed message
    Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney is calling for “a significant change in behaviour” by Canadians as their ratio of household debt to personal income has surpassed the Americans’ for the first time in a dozen years.
  • Haiti crisis: A friendly warning
    The world has nothing but sympathy for Haiti’s 10 million people, stricken by an earthquake and cholera. Canada alone has pledged $1 billion in help. But patience is running out with Haiti’s fractious elite, their rapacious winner-take-all politics ...
  • Vehicle tax: Why rush to removal?
    Delaying the cancellation date of Toronto's detested vehicle registration tax would save millions of dollars while being fair to all residents.

Energy Collective

  • “Violent Agreement: The United States Needs a Comp ...
    The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation�has issued a rejoinder to the Coalition for Green Capital�s (CGC) response to his original critique of the CGC�s �Project 2011� recommendations. In it, they recognizes the overlapping goals of the CGC�s proposal and the ITIF�s agenda.
  • Dead ahead: Eco-totalitarianism
    Paul Gilding, one of those writers I wish would write more often, has an excellent piece up, How free market advocates have delivered us big government:
  • Embodied Energy, a Measure of Sustainability
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  • Did they really say that? Gasoline market stress c ...
    One consequence of a 14-week project to replace several locks on dams on the Columbia and Snake rivers is that gasoline transportation costs will rise in the area. Some gasoline that would have traveled up the river will have to move by train and truck instead, a more expensive process and one much ...
  • Jim Hopf - Clean Energy Standard gains traction at ...
    In a previous post on the ANS Nuclear Cafe, I discussed how a Clean Energy Standard (CES) that included nuclear energy would be more effective (as well as more fair) than a portfolio standard that includes only “renewable” energy sources. There have been encouraging signs recently that this CES conc ...

EU Times

  • Riots break out in Rome
    Protesters set fire to cars, threw paint and smoke bombs at the Italian parliament and clashed with riot police today in Rome’s worst violence for years after prime minister Silvio Berlusconi survived a confidence vote. Via del Corso, the main street stretching through the historic centre, near Mr B ...
  • Remote ‘kill switch’ added to Intel Sandy Bridge
    Lauded as a security feature, Intelâs new Sandy Bridge processor can be remotely disabled by a hardware/software combination known at Anti-Theft 3.0. Systems can be disabled over 3G networks, even while the OS is not running. Even when the hard drive is replaced, the critical systems will still be t ...
  • Asylum Seekers drown on way to Australia
    Dozens of people are feared to have drowned after a boat carrying suspected asylum seekers crashed into rocks on Australia’s Christmas Island. Pictures from the scene showed the boat, believed to be carrying Iranians and Iraqis, smashed to pieces. Witnesses said they could do little to help as the s ...
  • Stem Cell Transplant Cures HIV In ‘Berlin Patient’
    On the heels of World AIDS Day comes a stunning medical breakthrough: Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure. Timothy Ray Brown, also known as the “Berlin Patient,” received the transplant in 2007 as part of a lengthy trea ...
  • al-Qaeda: Swedish blasts only the beginning
    An internet posting on Monday, attributed to a senior al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, warned that last weekend’s deadly bombings in Stockholm were “only the beginning”, and threatened attacks against Nato and Europe. In an audio recording on the Shumukh al-Islam Islamic website, a man identified as Abu Sul ...

Stonecipher News

  • Don't Quit Your Day Job
    This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses all ...
  • Breast Cancer Gene May Raise Men’s Risk, Too
    Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found that me ...
  • Diabetics Urged to Confer With Their Doctor About ...
    According to Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter, "THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- One day after a U.S. advisory panel recommended that the controversial diabetes drug Avandia stay on the market -- albeit with added restrictions -- several medical organizations are urging patients not to change ...
  • Top Five Cleaning Mistakes
    This is a short video about the common mistakes when cleaning. You may still be sleeping with bugs after cleaning.
  • Repression and the Ruling Class
    From my Triond collection: I recently read Louis Althusser’s article on Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. He discusses the production for conditions of reproduction by breaking down the Marxist theory into several fundamental aspects. Althusser discussed the differences between the proleta ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • Carphone Warehouse Showing Google Nexus S: Back Or ...
    Have you been waiting for the new Google Nexus S by Samsung to land at Carphone Warehouse? Well the wait is over because they are now showing the handset on its online store. The new Gingerbread Android 2.3 device slipped online last night showing that you can buy it for £549.95 and that you can ad ...
  • Google Latitude for iPhone finally approved by App ...
    The Google Latitude location sharing app, re-engineered for iOS 4, has been approved by the Apple App Store. Image: CC gailjadehamilton/Flickr Google Latitude, a mobile location-sharing app, has been approved by Apple for the iPhone. Google has been promising a version of Latitude for iPhone since ...
  • ALG on Moody and America's Credit Rating
    ALG on Moody's Warning of Credit Downgrade : "It can happen here" December 14 th , 2010, Fairfax, VA— Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement on the possible downgrade of the U.S. Aaa credit rating by Moody's : "Because the tax deal now unde ...
  • President Obama’s Uncertain Certainty
    Just over a year ago, President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a rare admission for such an occasion: “My accomplishments are slight.” That, they may have been, but the speech was not. Drawing on various sources, he offered as insightful an account of just war theory as we have re ...
  • Visitors To Cuba From U.S. On Pace Not Seen Since ...
    by Mark Memmott December 14, 2010 Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET Transcript   Stringer / AFP/Getty Images Tourists and locals sit on a wall along the waterfront in Havana; Aug. 25, 2010. As many as 400,000 U.S. citizens are expected to visi ...

Groklaw

  • Harvard Shocker: Crimson endorses university '3-st ...
    Recently, the Motion Picture Association of America began sending thousands of letters to colleges and universities across the country, reminding them of their obligation to set up a "written plan to effectively combat the unauthorized distribution of copyright material by users of the institution's ...
  • Great flash mob video....
    Great flash mob Hallelujah chorus ambush at a food court video [YouTube]. [PJ: Dear Viacom: *This* is popular culture. And if they tried to sing a modern song, you'd probably sue them.] - Stephen Shankland, Twitter
  • Open Source Adds Functionality and Saves Money [PD ...
    Library Network staff have been busy reducing operational costs while improving services for the public and staff. This is accomplished through implementation of free and open-source software solutions, which eliminate licensing and maintenance fees while allowing for enhanced customization. - Pre ...
  • Court Upholds Ban on World of Warcraft Bot
    A federal appeals panel on Tuesday upheld a lower court's 2009 injunction barring the distribution of a computer program that automatically plays the lower levels of World of Warcraft, sparing a gamer the tedium of their character's experience. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Glider ...
  • Google cooperating with New York Times to preven ...
    "We will take great pains to make sure that the first-click-free policy isn't abused in any way," said Martin Nisenholtz, the Times' digital chief. "Google has been quite cooperative in terms of setting a limit for the number of free articles that can go in for any one day, so that you can't just si ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Check to see if your Gawker password was hacked
    Mine was. This includes all their sites; Lifehacker, io9, and more. If your account was hacked and you use that password elsewhere, you need to change it at all other sites that use it. Slate has the super-useful form. Put in your email or username and it’ll tell you if it was hacked.
  • Zero energy house generates excess energy, charges ...
    This concept house uses solar electric and solar thermal to generate more power than it uses. A prototype will be built in Berlin next year.
  • Obama believes in compromise, but only with the ri ...
    Because he never compromises with the left, now does he?
  • When will Americans discover irony?
    Andy Carling writing for New Europe on the US State Department announcing World Press Freedom Day in D.C. next May. They bill it as a celebration of empowered citizens reporting news even if doing so could embarrass or anger governments, saying “we are concerned about the determination of some gover ...
  • Police must not be seen as arm of the state, says ...
    Police fear becoming the focus of public anger at government cuts and that repeated clashes with demonstrators risk damaging their reputation, a top officer has told the Guardian. Hello? The police always have been the arm of the state and of the ruling class, but the pretense has been otherwise. I ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Standoff-ending precedents: The 'USSR' and Iran
    I was just reading the generally sensible 'Talk of the Town' piece on Iran and WikiLeaks that Rick Hertzberg had in the Dec. 13 issue of the New Yorker, that landed on our stoop this afternoon. (Sorry, can't easily find a link for it.) The piece is interesting because-- though Hertzberg seems to ta ...
  • Visser's book on Iraq now available for sale!
    Reidar Visser's magisterial 300-page book A Responsible End? The United States and Iraq, 2005-2010 is now available for sale from Amazon. Actually, it's already selling really well there! Long-time JWN readers will be quite familiar with the work of this smart and dedicated European researcher, who ...
  • U.S. diplomacy in tatters-- and not from Wikileaks
    Our country's ability to influence events around the world is in tatters-- and this was already the case before the latest round of Wikileaks started to dribble out to the public. Yesterday there were "elections" in Egypt and Haiti, two countries deep within the U.S. sphere of influence. Both electi ...
  • Robinson and Brahimi: Wrong on Hamas and women
    Mary Robinson and Lakhdar Brahimi have a piece in HuffPo today in which they argue, probably correctly, that it is Gaza's women and children who are paying the highest price for Israel's now years-long siege of Gaza. They write: Women in this conservative society find their domestic responsibiliti ...
  • Celebrate Laila's book launch today!
    Today's the day! Laila El-Haddad will be launching her first book, Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between at 6:30 pm EST in Washington DC's Palestine Center. The event will be livestreamed. So come in person if you can-- but if you can't, make sure to watch the livestrea ...

First Truths

  • State-Corporate Healthcare: No "Right to Choose"
    I responded to Monday's U.S. District Court decision on the new healthcare law for C4SS.
  • Cartelization Harries the UK Student
    Britain's education oligopoly bleeds its students dry while the ruling class invokes "austerity." My analysis here.
  • The Ivory Coast and "Power-Sharing"
    The election controversy in Ivory Coast has raised the idea of "power-sharing" within the country, an idea that arguably, when carried to its ultimate end, leads to anarchy. Read my comment here.
  • Liberty or Authority: The Social(ism) Question
    Although the vicissitudes of the political season belie the fact, when November draws to a close the state will persist. And with it will remain its ring of members, superficial substitutions notwithstanding, all ready to deal in douceurs with wealth created by the productive among us. Convinced a ...
  • The State's Corporate Wasteland
    Corporations, while they are celebrated as paragons of innovation and efficiency, suffer from the same slow reaction time, waste, and lack of creativity that defines government agencies. Taking into account the fact that the state and the corporation are pieces of the same coercive puzzle, a system ...

Media Co-Op

  • Continued Support and Solidarity with the Morong 4 ...
    On December 10, while the President of the Philippines, Noynoy Aquino, instructing the Department of Justice to withdraw charges against the 43, the health workers remain incarcerated.� For over 10 month, they live in fear, anxiety, subjet to torture, intimidation, forced confessions, sickness, and ...
  • Photos from Barriere Lake action on Parliament Hil ...
    A mass demonstration by members of Barrere Lake First Nation and their supporters on Parliament Hill this afternoon (Mon Dec 13) was met by silence from Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan. Members of the First Nation presented copies of the UN Declaration on the Ri ...
  • Barriere Lake Community Members and Supporters Dem ...
    The Algonquins of Barriere Lake and their supporters demonstrated on parliament hill today. For more information, check out the press release. Original Peoples
  • Frontline Communities and Climate Justice Organize ...
    "Seriously? Again?â thought by activists around the globe Pick a town – The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ended yesterday with the announcement of a new text, to be known as the Cancun Accord, Mexico Roadmap, ...
  • Jury Convicts John Graham: Land Defender Faces Lif ...
    Friday afternoon, a South Dakota jury found John Graham guilty of murder in the second degree. John Graham has been found guilty of felony murder in the kidnapping of Anna Mae Aquash, his friend and comrade in the American Indian Movement (AIM). Anna Mae Aquash was murdered in the 1970's, in an exe ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Wikileaks (virtual world) versus lynching the Prin ...
    David Seaton's News LinksOn Saturday the 11th of December, about 50 people demonstrated in favor of Julian Assange in front of the US Embassy in London. The demonstration was organized on the Internet.� Two days before, in the same city, a crowd of rioting students nearly lynched the Prince of Wales ...
  • Tea Time 2010: Hope trashed, audacity smashed and ...
    "2008 answered the question,' Is America ready for a black president?' In 2010 we'll answer 'Are we ready for an orange speaker?'" � Paul Begala (hat Doonesbury)David Seaton's News LinksIt seems that much of the fate of the Republic is presently in the hands of a tearful man, dyed orange, whose surn ...
  • James Moody (1925 – 2010) Homage to a Jazz Master
    The Durgafilms Dance Company interprets King Pleasure's canonical version of "James Moody's Mood for Love". (Image editing by David Seaton) David Seaton's News LinksThe Great Jazz saxophonist, James Moody just died three days ago. He is best known for his 1949 solo improvisation of "I'm in the Mood ...
  • Tea Party, the "dream vacuum" and the souring of A ...
    Real disaster: the Potato Famine Memorial in Dublin, Ireland Disaster as masochistic fantasy: my favorite doomster, Dimitri OrlovFrom 1836 to 1914, over 30 million Europeans migrated to the United States. - Wikipedia When I got to America on a college scholarship, I realized that the real American ...
  • Wikileaks: has anybody given a thought about Iraq ...
    David Seaton's News LinksIn all the comments on Wikileak's Iraq revelations I've read, I haven't seen much of anything about their effect on Iraq and the Iraqis.� This seems strange to me, because from beginning to end the real victims of everything we've done are the Iraqis themselves and it isn't ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • Lawmakers, Researchers, Doctors Reject Schwarzeneg ...
    Contact: Renee Sharp, (510) 444-0973 x302 or renee@ewg.org Read our letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Oakland, Calif. – Lawmakers, public health advocates, scientists, public utility managers and medical doctors are demanding that... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • Put Low Radiation Smart Phones on Your Shopping Li ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 alex@ewg.org or leeann@ewg.org Washington, D.C. — Shoppers looking for smart phones with the most features don’t have to expose themselves to higher radiation levels to get what they want, a new... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • Obama Signs Child Nutrition Act
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202-667-6982 Alex Formuzis alex@ewg.org or Leeann Brown leeann@ewg.org Taking an historic step to improve the health of children across the country, President Obama signed into law today (Dec. 13) the Healthy,... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • Child Nutrition Act Signed
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202-667-6982 Alex Formuzis alex@ewg.org or Leeann Brown leeann@ewg.org Taking an historic step to improve the health of children across the country, President Obama signed into law today (Dec. 13) the Healthy,... [[ This is a content summary only ...
  • Farm Pollution Knocks Chesapeake Bay Out of Balanc ...
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON – For more than thirty years, contamination from high-intensity farming has been adding to the pollution that fouls Chesapeake Bay, one of America’s most storied waterways. A new... [[ This is a content summary only ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • This Natural Food Should Not be Consumed by Anyone ...
    Milk may be a symbol of wholesomeness for most of us, but according to Time Magazine, it's also a battleground between government regulators and natural health food proponents who want to drink whole, raw milk. The war is a test of their freedom to choose to drink a rich-tasting beverage full of b ...
  • Solar Furnace Melts Rock
    In a clip from the TV Show "Bang Goes the Theory," a high-performance solar furnace focuses normal sunshine into a heat-ray that reaches 3,500 degrees Celsius, hot enough to melt rocks.
  • 40,000 DAILY Hospital Medical Mistakes – How to Sl ...
    Efforts to make hospitals safer are proving ineffective. A large study conducted between 2002 and 2007 found that harm to patients was still common, and that the number of incidents was not decreasing over time. Identified preventable problems included severe bleeding during an operation, breathing ...
  • Flapping into Aviation History
    Todd Reichert has achieved an aviation first -- a record-breaking human-powered aircraft with flapping wings.
  • Blue Light May be Key to Fighting Winter Blues
    Lack of sunlight during winter can lead to the condition known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD). This can make you feel lethargic, gloomy, and irritable. However, while daylight as a whole is beneficial to fight off the syndrome, different colors of light seem to affect your body in different ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • Botswana government rejects high-profile court rul ...
    Four years later, the Botswana government continues to reject the High Court ruling. © Survival Four years on from a court victory which saw the Kalahari Bushmen win the right to live on their ancestral lands, the Botswana government has issued a statement flouting the ruling. In 2002, the Bo ...
  • Botswana president in racist outburst against Kala ...
    President Khama accused the Bushmen of living a ‘life of backwardness’ © Survival In an astonishing outburst, Botswana’s president has described the Kalahari Bushmen as ‘primeval’, ‘primitive’ and ‘backward’. Speaking at the country’s largest diamond mine, President Khama accused the Bushmen ...
  • Brazilian expert sounds warning for uncontacted In ...
    Uncontacted Indians in Brazil seen from the air during a Brazilian government expedition, May 2008. © Gleison Miranda//FUNAI One of Brazil’s leading experts on isolated Indians has warned that loggers could trigger violent conflict amongst uncontacted tribes on the Peru-Brazil border. José Car ...
  • New films on Guarani plight mark UN Human Rights D ...
    Survival has released two films highlighting the plight of the Guarani Indians © Fiona Watson/ Survival Survival has today released two short films highlighting the plight of the Guarani Indians in Brazil, to mark UN Human Rights Day (December 10th). The film âOne must have courageâ reveals t ...
  • Double ‘green energy’ threat to Borneo tribes’ rai ...
    Construction is already under way at the Murum dam site. © Survival International As environment ministers from around the world meet in Mexico for the UN climate change conference, tribes in the rainforests of Borneo are facing a double âgreen energyâ threat as hydroelectric dams destroy thei ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Editorial: Our police forces still don't understan ...
    To hear the Montreal police department tell it, its officers are virtual models of colour-blind, racially sensitive policing. Days after Fredy Villanueva, 18, was shot and killed by a police officer in 2008, then-police chief Yvan Delorme said: "We give sensitivity training to every police o ...
  • Editorial: Worried fathers devise a safer way home
    It has been hailed as a pre-Christmas miracle, and given the speed with which things normally get done in these parts the evolution of the Cool Taxi project from concept to fait accompli is perhaps worthy of the accolade.
  • Welcome suggestions to make winter safer
    In a city like ours, where it's pretty much an ongoing thing for four months of the year, snow clearing is something that calls for a contribution from everyone -not just those in charge of the effort and those operating the machinery, but everyone who ventures forth on these winter streets.
  • Welcome suggestions to make winter safer
    In a city like ours, where it’s pretty much an ongoing thing for four months of the year, snow clearing is something that calls for a contribution from everyone – not just those in charge of the effort and those operating the machinery, but everyone who ventures forth on these winter streets.
  • Editorial: Welcome suggestions to make winter safe ...
    In a city like ours, where it's pretty much an ongoing thing for four months of the year, snow clearing is something that calls for a contribution from everyone -not just those in charge of the effort and those operating the machinery, but everyone who ventures forth on these winter streets.

Food World Order

  • grocer a&p files for chapter 11 reorganization
    from ap: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., once the nation's largest grocer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Sunday after years of struggling with enormous debt and rising competition from low-priced peers. The 151-year-old company, based in Montvale, N.J., operates 395 stores ar ...
  • 12/9 binge & purge: nano-foods & merck muppets
    dems try to pass 'food safety' by hiding it in hr3082* even forbes agrees: more fda authority won't improve food safety* leaked cables reveal gmo, agrofuel agendas* food stamp rolls continue to rise* artificial 'nano-food' could soon show up at a store near you* rat in curry prompts c ...
  • eu food safety chief forced to quit gm lobby role
    from the ecologist: A key figure in charge of food safety within the EU has been forced to quit her director role at a pro-GM group. European Green MEPs had called for EFSA chair Diana Banati's resignation after she had failed to disclose her seat on the board of directors of the International Life ...
  • 'botox apples' genetically modified to keep from b ...
    from delish: The expression "one bad apple spoils the bunch" may soon have to be retired. Okanagan Specialty Fruits, a Canadian biotechnology company, has petitioned the USDA for approval of its genetically modified "non-browning apple." The company is marketing the fruit as the "Arctic" while criti ...
  • white house to serve 2,000 lbs of gulf seafood ove ...
    from food safety news: The White House announced Wednesday it has shipped about 2,000 pounds of shrimp and crabs from the Gulf to serve at this year's holiday parties, a big gesture aimed at boosting consumer confidence in regional seafood in the wake of the devastating BP Deepwater Horizon oil sp ...

CrusadeWatch

  • Sex, lies and money in the church
    source: Indian Express, October 24, 2010 Shevlin Sebastian It was midnight. Fr Jose George could not sleep because there was no fan in his room. Jose knocked on Anna Jacobs door. When she opened it, he told her he could not sleep. She invited him inside, because there was a fan. ...
  • Denigration of Buddhism & conversion of the vu ...
    source:  Vijayvaani.com,   Oct 25, 2010 Christianisation was the third force of colonialism as best expressed by Jomo Kenyatta, the late Kenyan leader, who said: When the white man came he had the bible we had the land. Then he said let us close our eyes and pray. When we opened our eyes ...
  • Christianity's contributions mostly negative, Amer ...
    source:  Christian Century, October 26, 2010 (RNS) When asked about Christianity's recent contributions to society, Americans cited more negatives than benefits, according to a new survey.
  • Evangelism as part of foreign political strategy
    source:  The organiser, Oct 3, 2010  By Manju Gupta Evangelical Intrusions, Sandhya Jain, Rupa & Co., Pp 251 (HB), Rs 395.00 THIS book comes at an opportune moment when repeated reports of religio-political violence in the north-eastern states are pouring in, accompanied by the ris ...
  • What science say about religious conversion
    source:  Helium.com,  October 20, 2010 For many, religious experiences lead to religious conversion. While conversion need not stem from such an experience, per se, many convertees have cited religious awakenings as leading to a new spiritual perspective. But while science accepts a religious ...

Whole Truth Coalition

  • .Lies, Damned Lies and Scottish Justice
    Robert Green, the man who was brave enough to speak out about the horrific paedophile rapes of Hollie Greig, the most probable murder of her uncle Robert Greig to “shut him up”, and the sickening wall of silence by the Scottish establishment, has been arrested. We believe the charge is Breach of th ...
  • Child Rapists Protected By The State
    In the October 2009 print edition of the UK Column, we reported in our article “BBC Hides Truth of Girl’s Sexual Abuse Ordeal” the shocking ordeal of Downs Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who was horribly abused by an Aberdeen paedophile ring, over a period of ten years. After investigating and planni ...
  • An Invitation to Meet Hollie and Anne Greig
    ‘Hollie and Anne would like to thank their many supporters for their continuing hard work and support. Towards that end, they have decided to host an informal function near Berwick-upon-Tweed at the Marshall Meadows Hotel on Sunday the 21st of March from 2 until 5pm. The Marshall Meadows Hotel is s ...
  • Robert Green Speaking at Truthjuice Llangollen, Ma ...
    Wednesday 24th March 2010 at 7pm Reporter Robert Green was arrested in Aberdeen for the crime of seeking justice and an investigation into the case of Down’s Syndrome girl, Hollie Greig, who says she was serially-raped over a decade by an establishment paedophile ring operating in Scotland. Robert ...
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The Economic Collapse

  • How Can We Have A Healthy Economy If Virtually Eve ...
    In the United States today, we are all being constantly bombarded by chemicals, poisons and toxins.  Virtually everything that we eat or drink makes us less healthy.  The vast majority of Americans gladly consume aspartame, fluoride, BPA, genetically-modified food, pesticides, high ...
  • 9 Shocking Examples Of Black Friday Violence &#821 ...
    It seems with each passing year the madness on Black Friday gets even worse.  This year, there were reports of fights and rioting from coast to coast.  It was estimated that over 180 million U.S. shoppers headed for the stores on Friday, and whenever you get that many people togethe ...
  • 10 Signs That Confidence In U.S. Treasuries Is Dyi ...
    Selling government debt is a gigantic confidence game.  For decades, investors all over the globe have gobbled up massive amounts of U.S. debt at incredibly low interest rates because they believed that it was a certainly that they would be paid back and be able to make a little bit ...
  • Happy Holidays? 28 Hard Questions It Would Be Grea ...
    Over the coming weeks, Americans will be wishing each other "happy holidays" millions upon millions of times.  But are these really happy times?  Record numbers of Americans are going to be going hungry and cold this winter.  Millions upon millions of our fellow citizens would gladl ...
  • Derivatives: The Quadrillion Dollar Financial Casi ...
    If you took an opinion poll and asked Americans what they considered the biggest threat to the world economy to be, how many of them do you think would give "derivatives" as an answer?  But the truth is that derivatives were at the heart of the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, and ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Sunday Paper Review: 5th December 2010
    Before we get into this week's Sunday newspaper review, we've seen a very large number of people searching for 'Wikileaks' and 'Princess Diana' this week... ...even more people came here searching for that combo as came here searching for "Nick Clegg" and "hated"... and that seemed to be somethin ...
  • Has the Archbishop of Canterbury (and all women) s ...
    Some of you may remember the fuss that was caused by comments in 2008 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who advocated: "the adoption of parts of Sharia, or Islamic law, in Britain." He may wish to reconsider that position further today after - unusually in this ultra-politically co ...
  • New World Order Watch: Is Canada about to lose it' ...
    When, twelve months ago, Lord Monckton warned that the globalists were advancing plans for global government under the guise of 'man made global warming', some people dismissed him as a loon. Here's yet another nation state where they're concerned their sovereignty is under threat from attack by ...
  • Ban the burqa? It's only fair, seeing as they've b ...
    I was previously against people proposing to ban the burqa. However, I do believe in equality. Now, I have noted before that Steve Gough - aka 'the Naked Rambler' - has spent years languishing in Scottish prisons for wanting to walk around naked. Most of the last seven years, in fact. For bein ...
  • Quote of the Day: 4th December 2010
    "What we are seeing here is one of the greatest collective flights from reality in the history of the human race. As western Europe shivers to a halt and our energy bills soar through the roof, the time has come when we should all start to get seriously angry with our politicians for being carried a ...

Facing South

  • In wake of Glover verdicts, what's next for New Or ...
    By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica One of the most striking moments in the federal civil rights prosecutions arising from the death of Henry Glover came when Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann, a police officer lauded in New Orleans for his heroic work after Hurricane Katrina, took the stand. Scheuermann told ...
  • Report exposes major problems in maintenance, stor ...
    By Benjamin Leger, Bridge the Gulf After Hurricane Gustav in 2007, north Baton Rouge residents were left without electricity for nearly two weeks. Across the street at Exxon Mobil's Baton Rouge refinery, the second-largest refinery in the country, workers were dealing with their own mess. Th ...
  • Is Gulf seafood really safe to eat?
    Independent testing has turned up oil contamination in Gulf seafood, raising concerns that federal officials prematurely pronounced it OK to eat. The Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper (LMRK) has released results from seafood sampling trips conducted along a broad area of the Louisiana coast s ...
  • Got the holiday spirit?
    I'll admit it, I've got the holiday spirit. Not the fruitcake-eating, gizmo-buying kind. I'm talking about the spirit of friendship, giving thanks and excitement about the promise of a New Year. I'm thankful for yo ...
  • VOICES: Today's $7 billion new nuke attack
    By Harvey Wasserman, NukeFree.org The White House and nuclear power industry are on the brink of grabbing $7 billion in new taxpayer-funded loan guarantees for new reactors. But they can be stopped.� Taxpayer and environmental groups are asking citizens to call their Senators urging deletion of t ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Sweden Investigates Suspected Bomber’s Past for Clues Swedish investigators said Monday that they were â98 percentâ certain that the man killed Saturday in twin car bombings in Stockholm was the suspected bomber, a man they identified as Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly, … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Bombings in Stockholm Wound Two, Kill Suspected Bomber Two car bombings in central Stockholm Saturday wounded two people and killed the suspected bomber in an attack that the Swedish foreign minister called a terror attack, according to reports. The suspect … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Holder Criticizes Guantanamo Transfer Ban Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday strongly denounced the Houseâs passage this week of a ban on transfers of Guantanamo detainees. The measure, which prohibits the administration from spending any money on transferring Guantanamo detainees … Continue r ...
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Baltimore Man Accused of Car Bomb Plot in FBI Sting A Baltimore man was arrested Wednesday in an FBI sting and accused of plotting to attack a military recruiting station in Maryland with a car bomb, according to multiple reports. … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    U.S. Judge Dismisses Al-Awlaki Suit A U.S. federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to prevent the U.S. government from targeting and killing U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is suspected of being a key member of al Qaeda in the … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Grooveshark Interface Receives an HTML5 Boost!
    As if you don't know this already, Grooveshark is an online music broadcasting application. Nobody puts it better than TNW, "Grooveshark is a wonderful application that we intend on using until someone sues them into the ground." Grooveshark ditched its previous Flash based interface and now has a m ...
  • Humble Indie Bundle is Back in Action, Pay What Yo ...
    They are doing it again! Last time, Humble Indie Bundle created a small revolution of sorts by quite literally giving away their awesome games to everyone and asking users to pay-what-they-want for the games. No, this is not Utopia. This is for real. And they are making a lot of money for "giving aw ...
  • 5 Important Changes that Reinvented Ubuntu in 2010
    Yet another year is coming to an end. As far as Ubuntu and Canonical are concerned, 2010 is perhaps *the* most eventful year in their history. Let us take a quick flashback and analyse the most important changes Ubuntu has made during the year. [image via ubuntu wallpapers]Ubuntu in 2010 - How Thi ...
  • Clementine 0.6 is Packed With Brand New Features, ...
    Clementine music player will not be known as yet another Amarok 1.4 fork anymore. It has grown much beyond that. Latest Clementine 0.6 release is packed with new feature additions and other improvements which makes it as good or even better than any other music player out there. Read more about the ...
  • YafaRay [Blender 3D's Open Source Raytracing Engin ...
    YafaRay is a free and open source raytracing engine. Raytracing is a rendering technique for generating realistic images by tracing the path of light through a 3D scene. I have no idea what a raytracing engine means or how critical a client it is to Blender. But this video showcasing different capab ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Soros says “Europe should rescue banks befor ...
    Banker George Soros has said in an extraordinary article in the Financial Times today that Europe should rescue the banks before states. The implications of the idea that Europe should put the interests of banks before its constituent nation states to the point where they are all destroyed are incre ...
  • And what about Prince William as London riots?
    Prince William, the patron of the homeless charity Centrepoint, has written an article for the Big Issue this week in which he highlighted how the economic crisis  has resulted in  growing numbers of people sleeping rough on Britain’s streets. Last December, he spent one night in freezing temper ...
  • FT journalist says Julian Assange should be given ...
    Financial Times journalist Gideon Rachman has said  that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be given a medal by America. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/61f8fab0-06f3-11e0-8c29-00144feabdc0,s01=1.html By coincidence, the FT also printed today a comment piece by banker George Soros, arguing that Eur ...
  • Authorities announce first 70 criminal charges in ...
    Authorities in Austria investigating the collapse of the Hypo Alpe Adria Bank that cost tax payers billions have said they are preparing to file the first 70 charges with demands for 300 million euros in compensation . Read more in German at: http://oe1.orf.at/artikel/264349
  • Spain and Belgian must pay more for debt as euro c ...
    DECEMBER 14, 2010, 9:07 A.M. ET Expensive Spanish, Belgian Auctions Suggest Tough Tenders Ahead By Emese Bartha Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES Spain and Belgium were forced to pay sharply higher yields at separate Treasury bill auctions Tuesday, painting a bleak picture for debt sales from Spain and Portuga ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • Weaving Like Drunks into the Event Horizon
    By Les Visible Everyone wants to know what to do. As a wise Chinese sage once said, “The way to do is to be”. Of course, that same Chinese sage left town when he couldn’t take the state of the culture anymore. I want to point out something that I think is of critical importance [...]
  • INSIDE JOB; SWEDISH BOMBS
    The ‘terrorist’ explosion in Sweden, on 11 December 2010, was presumably the work of the military, using some brainwashed patsy. The Swedish media reported on 12 December 2010: A few hours before the explosions in downtown Stockholm, someone in the Swedish military contacted a friend to warn them to ...
  • Viruses and the GM Insect “Flying Vaccine&#8 ...
    Brandon Turbeville Activist Post While it is generally clear, even to the relatively uninformed, that government and corporations have become one and the same, the extent to which this is the case is still largely unknown amongst the general public. Likewise, the extent to which this merger is affec ...
  • RFID – Electronic Pick Pocketing WREG News C ...
    Contactless credit card skimming a real danger. Another news report where Identity Stronghold shows how easy it is to scan or skim all credit card data without touching you. The RFID chips make the card vulnerable.
  • David Kelly: Papers which could finally force full ...
    By Miles Goslett Today, the Daily Mail publishes for the first time the legal document which could trigger a full coroner’s inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. The document, formally known as a memorial was written by group of campaigning doctors who have been trying to secure an inquest since ...

Veterans Today

  • The Omnibus Bill and Gulf War Illness Research Fun ...
    The Gulf War Illness Research Funds current information is that in the FY 2011 Omnibus DOD Appropriations currently under consideration there is funding for Gulf War Illness Research. This measures provides $8 million for the Peer Reviewed Gulf War Illness Research Program and $3.8 million for the ...
  • CHARLES E. COLSON: CHRISTIAN ZIONISM, THE APOSTAC ...
    THE ROOTS OF CHRISTIAN ZIONISM Introduction by Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Charles Colson, famed Watergate figure turned Christian Evangelist, narrates this detailed and entertaining analysis of how Zionism influenced and eventually infiltrated Christianity in America.  I met Charles Cols ...
  • Military Members and Veterans with Disabilities Le ...
    VA to Offer Educational Breakouts WASHINGTON – This week more than 120 wounded military personnel, disabled Veterans and their families are traveling to Walt Disney World in Orlando for the 6th Annual Road to Recovery Conference.  The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is providing on-site counseli ...
  • Blood Donation and Chronic Fatigue and Gulf War Ve ...
    Blood Donation and Chronic Fatigue and Gulf War Veterans/Illness in the National News Alert should also includes those Desort Storm Veterans/Gulf War Veterans 1990-91 who have chronic fatigue syndrome. This should be no surprise, when we returned home in 1991 we had a blood ban
  • Army ‘Birther’ Pleads Guilty at Trial
    We could just settle for this soldier getting what he deserves, but we would miss too much. By all accounts Lieutenant Col. Terry Lakin was good at his job, showed no signs of coming close to pulling a stunt like this. So how does a loyal soldier, smart enough to be a surgeon, end up [...]

electric politics

  • Priorities
    To be honest, the shrimp fishermen don't matter. The Gulf coast tourist traps don't matter. The economic effects of the spill. Don't matter. It's not about the money. What matters is that we're destroying the environment, killing countless innocent creatures. I keep hoping things may not be quite a ...
  • Regime Change Politics
    We tell ourselves that humans are sentient animals. Yet here in the U.S. our politics seem rather more directed by delusion, or denial, than reason. Collectively, we not only do not know that our political system does not produce democratic results, we pretend the results are democratic no matter h ...
  • The Death and Life of Intelligence Analysis
    Magical thinking drives the Neocons' perpetual efforts to start a war with Iran. Politicians, by and large, fail to apprehend the danger. If it weren't for analysts like Dr. Thomas Fingar — and many others — who have held the line on explaining the real costs of war, we would by now be well and tru ...
  • (Unlawful) Targeted Killing
    The U.S. government should not murder people abroad. A simple enough rule, yet in a bizarre, barbaric, and cold-blooded fashion Washington now not only claims the right to murder anyone it wants, anywhere it wants, abroad, including American citizens, but actively carries out such intent with drone ...
  • The Power of Imagination
    Harkening back to an earlier age, the prolific and brilliant author and anthologist Michael Sims helps us to understand science, natural history, literature, and all manner of other things. A Renaissance man. In Dracula's Guest he explores through Victorian eyes the universal human fear of the dark ...

PR News

The Story Behind the Story

  • UTAH SOUND MONEY ACT (Brilliant!!!)
    Today I was introduced to Mr. Larry Hilton, JD, MBA – the author of a brilliant piece of much needed legislation that hopefully will pass the Utah legislature, and then each and every other state in this union. Here is his introduction to me for the “Utah Sound Money Act” —- Click here:  Sound Mone ...
  • Long Live King and Queen Obama!!!!
    Barack Obama enjoys living like a king, so why shouldn’t Michelle Obama live like a queen? The First Lady was photographed last night in Hawaii wearing $635 per pair designer shoes by Maison Martin Margiela. A woman lucky enough to have a job in this economy and working for the federal minimum wage ...
  • Remember November 22, 1963 – The Assassinati ...
    To honor the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, I think it important to post the following correspondence with independent researcher and film-maker John Hankey. This written dialog was first posted on Rense.com by Mr. Hankey back in 2007. A. True Ott, PhD The Reason JFK Jr Was Murdered From John Ha ...
  • COLD FUSION IS HERE!!!
    Understanding Lightning âNeltronsâ is Key to Cold Fusion One manâs study of lightning and itâs effects led to his discovery of the Neltron – tiny negative particles of matter smaller than electrons. The Van Allen Magnetic belts discharges tiny negative particles into the part of the air where helium ...
  • INSIDERS REPORT: OBAMA SUFFERING FROM SEVERE DEPR ...
    So you state that President Obama is depressed?  How did you come by this information?  From a direct source still working within the White House on a daily basis.  As I had stated previously, tensions at the White House have reached a critical stage.  The infighting among staff is off the charts.  ...

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Mailman Tries To Liven Up The Holidays By Deliveri ...
    A mailman in Whitefish Bay, WI, thought he had the solution for cheering up one of the people on his route. Unfortunately for everyone involved, that solution was "deliver the mail bare-ass naked." According to reports, the 52-year-old mail carrier thought that the 21-year-old female employee at a ...
  • Sunny Seat Is A Suction Cup Cat Seat That Sticks T ...
    The Sunny Seat is a cat seat that sticks to windows with suction cups so you can create a horizontal raised surface for your feline without even having to know how to use a power drill. In classic infomercial style, they put the "bad" "frustrating" product, in this case, a cat condo in black and ...
  • Nominate The Worst Holiday Ad For 2010
    'Tis the season to be jolly... Unless you've got to sit through hours and hours of the same holiday-themed commercials over and over again. As an adjunct to our Worst Ad In America Awards, Consumerist is asking readers to get out their end-of-year frustration by nominating the worst holiday ads c ...
  • Site Exposes Facebook Overshares
    In the spirit of PleaseRobMe.com, ReasonsToHate lets users search in real time for specific phrases in public Facebook posts. A few minutes on the site will open your eyes to the cluelessness of some Facebook users, posting phone numbers, addresses and other pieces of information they really shoul ...
  • Man Dares Bank To Foreclose Unless They Reverse Ba ...
    About a month ago we brought you the story of a man who was willing to risk his house going into foreclosure unless the bank refunded a $25 fee it had wrongfully charged. He crossed his arms and stopped paying his mortgage. Fees mounted. The bank ignored his letters. His house was scheduled for for ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • Whistleblowers, 90 Groups Urge House to Approve Wh ...
    Yesterday, GAP and a broad coalition of more than 90 groups -- including the National Taxpayers Union, Project on Government Oversight, American Federation of Government Employees, and Union of Concerned Scientists sent a strong letter of support urging passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhanc ...
  • Noted Whistleblowers Urge Passage of Whistleblower ...
    Today a letter was released by 30 whistleblowers that support passage of S. 372, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act. Signed by star whistleblowers including Frank Serpico and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, to intelligence community and FAA whistleblowers, the letter concludes: “In short, we ca ...
  • Senate Passes Crucial Federal Employee Whistleblow ...
    Washington Post: Senate Passes Whistleblower Protection Bill Summary: The Senate has passed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (WPEA), much-needed legislation that strengthens the rights of federal employees to safely expose fraud, wrongdoing an ...
  • Senate Passes Whistleblower Protection Enhancement ...
    Last night, the Senate unanimously approved comprehensive bipartisan whistleblower protection legislation for federal employees. This action is the result of a decade-long effort to protect the federal employees who risk their careers to protect the rest of us. The Make It Safe Coalition (MISC) urge ...
  • Jesselyn Radack Discusses Tom Drake; Rolls Royce P ...
    Radack Pacifica Radio’s “The Monitor”: Interview with Jesselyn Radack GAP Homeland Security & Human Rights Director Jesselyn Radack discusses WikiLeaks and overclassification, as well as the cases of whistleblowers Thomas Drake and Valerie Plame. Associated Press: Whistleblower Suit Ci ...

UK Progressive

  • What If Math Were Taught Like Science?
    Every time US GOP or Tea Party members in the “heartland” scream about why “Intelligent Design” (Creationism) is not on the classroom curriculum, every school board member across the USA should be shown this cartoon. Originally appeared in truthout.org.
  • Why America’s Two Economies Continue to Drift Apar ...
    by Robert Reich America’s two economies are getting wider apart. The Big Money economy is booming. According to a new Commerce Department report, third-quarter profits of American businesses rose at an annual record-breaking $1.659 trillion – besting even the boom year of 2006 (in nominal dollars). ...
  • Welcome to the New UK Progressive Magazine!
    It’s the Dawn of a New Day and Website. We are thrilled to finally launch our updated magazine. All business and labour was completed here in Wales and we were pleased and proud to support local businesses, developers and artisans. The website is also now hosted here in Wales. You may notice a few t ...
  • Missing The Ryder Cup Plot – Jobs and Inbound Inve ...
    By Denis G. Campbell US President Barack Obama completed a little reported upon trip to India in mid-November. He led a business delegation that walked home from India with £7 billion pounds ($10 billion dollars) of business and US jobs. In advance of the Ryder Cup the Welsh Assembly Government clai ...
  • The Why-Should-I-Get-Out-Of-My-Chair Gap in 2012
    by Robert Reich In the 2010 midterm elections Democrats suffered from a so-called “enthusiasm gap.” If Dems agree to the tax plan just negotiated by the White House with Republican leaders, they’ll face a “why-should-I-get-up-out-of-my-chair” gap that will make 2010’s Dem enthusiasm seem like a pep ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Inflation: the creeping hand of corruption
    You might think inflation and climate science are only linked metaphorically. But the corruption in science is fed by the corruption in our currencies. The monetary system that allows a privileged few to print money from nothing is the same system that allows massively misdirected spending. When the ...
  • Cancun in a nutshell: nothing achieved but it’s a ...
    After the awful post-Climategate-and-Copenhagen year, more than anything else, the Big Scare Campaign needed a PR win. And in that sense Cancun was a major victory. Nothing legally binding has came out of it, but the headlines would warm the hearts of all on Team-Scare-Us. The most important thing f ...
  • Waiting for news of Cancun… $100 billion at stake ...
    What happened through the last long night of the Cancun talks? The most recent news I can find suggests the Greens are partly happy, which means more money must be going to flow from the people to the bureaucratic machinery. Though nothing appears to be confirmed. Ponder the power of 100 billion dol ...
  • BREAKING NEWS! The abdication of the West — the st ...
    It did seem too quiet at Cancun. The power hungry tyrants learnt from Copenhagen. They realized that they have a far better chance of success by underselling the expectations and sliding in long impenetrable documents in front of underling bureaucrats. Due to the importance of this I have reproduced ...
  • Where is the evidence for the dangerous positive f ...
    It appears the warming of the 20th Century has been done before.  It’s just business as usual for the planet. Frank Lansner has been hard at work again, and we’ve been discussing the Vostok ice cores. This time Lansner was looking to see if the current warming trend was unusual, and if there was ev ...

ReNew America

  • Obamacare ruled unconstitutional over insurance ma ...
    (Bloomberg) - The Obama administration's health-care overhaul unconstitutionally requires Americans to maintain a minimum level of health insurance, a federal judge ruled, striking down the linchpin of the plan...
  • Steele to seek re-election as RNC chair
    (Los Angeles Times) - Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele stunned friends and foes Monday by launching a fight to keep his job. Steele discussed his decision during a conference call Monday night with members of the Republican National Committee...
  • Tea Party ramps up efforts against tax deal
    (The Hill) - Conservatives aligned with the Tea Party ramped up pressure Monday on Republicans to vote down the tax deal before Congress. A Tea Party umbrella group circulated a petition in opposition to President Obama's tax deal with Republicans, while another high-profile GOP lawmaker aligned wit ...
  • The story of Christmas and King Herod
    (Marie Jon, RA analyst) - King Herod's existence is not just a historical fact -- he has become a horrible footnote to the Christmas story. Let's be honest about one of the main characters in the story of Christmas. King Herod is very easy to despise. After all, he tried to kill Jesus when He was ju ...
  • Steele to announce he won't seek second term as RN ...
    (Fox News) - Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is expected to announce he will drop out of the highly contested race to keep his post, sources told FoxNews.com on Sunday...

Truth Offering

  • A Nation of Cowardly, Morally-Bankrupt Sheep
    Sheep are led to slaughter. They are controlled from birth to death. They are oppressed. And once they are controlled, they will never again be free. WE are a nation of SHEEP! Tweet � Note: this isn't for the faint of heart. I'm frustrated! Why!? Because I care. I care deeply; about this country; a ...
  • Latest Poll - Week Ending 12/5/10
    Tweet � This time around, we wanted to know what you thought of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy. More specifically, we asked, "Do you think the Federal Reserve's monetary policy will lead to hyperinflation?" Here are the results: So although we didn't all agree it would happen soon, we all s ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    Tweet In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...
  • Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Relatio ...
    At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the Uni ...
  • Politicians and the Voting Public: A Toxic Relatio ...
    Tweet At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect ...

2012 Blog

  • Chinese Pyramid: Excavation Now
    Many tourists in China have seen the terracota warriors and been told that the nearby tree-covered hill is the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. Tourists are unaware, and Chinese authorities have refused to admit that the “tomb” is actually one of the largest pyramids in the world. Legend ...
  • Our Galactic Centre: “enormous energetic eve ...
    Every time a scientist tells us we have nothing to fear, another will admit that they often don’t know much at all. Some 2012 theorists have suggested our galactic centre might be the cause of a 2012 event. For some, like me, it is because most galaxies have very energetic centres, ...
  • Sitchen RIP / Beringian Explorers / Djedi Robot
    Zecharia Sitchen passed away on October 9th, in New York City, at the age of 90. He wrote a large volume of books on a singular topic, and has many fans, as well as numerous detractors. I’ve gotten a few leads from his work, but he isn’t trustworthy enough to reference I’m afraid. S ...
  • Disinformation Overload
    It is becoming increasingly probable to me that disinformation in the areas of 2012 / crop cricles / UFOs is real, and a deliberate governmental ploy. I offer as evidence the purported 400 whistleblowers who have described evidence of aliens or UFOs visiting Earth, yet none of them ...
  • NZ Professor – Bent Pyramid Made from Concre ...
    Professor Ken MacKenzie from the Macdiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology in Wellington, has announced the results of a study that included scientists from the UK and USA. Their findings were released last week at a conference in Japan and published in the jou ...
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