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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.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

23 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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Futurismic

  • Personal Information: episode 24
    Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!
  • Arguments against life extension
    Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...
  • Daddy, where does innovation come from?
    Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...
  • Replacement arms: mechanical or biological?
    Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...
  • How to be a futurist
    The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Follow F ...

geopolitics | geoeconomics

on Government Oversight

  • Morning Smoke: Conflict of Interest Threatens Inte ...
    Gulf oil spill probe may have been compromised by Jennifer A. Dlouhy [Hearst Washington Bureau] Mercs Win Billion Dollar Afghan Cop Deal. Again. by Spencer Ackerman [Danger Room] A Leaner and Meaner Defense by Gordon Adams and Matthew Leatherman [The...
  • Morning Smoke: More Cases of State Department Cont ...
    Contractors behaving badly mean headaches for US by Richard Lardner [Associated Press] Coast Guard Introduces Expanded Whistleblower Protections by Joe Palazzolo [The Wall Street Journal] SBA suspensions in fraud investigation continue by Sean Reilly [Federal Times] House Oks Split LCS...
  • POGO Urges SEC to Resist Industry's Efforts to Wea ...
    In a public comment submitted on Friday, POGO called on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to provide safe and open channels for whistleblowers tips. One of the most significant provisions in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law required the SEC...
  • Systemic Failures That Set the Stage for WIkiLeaks ...
    POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian recently participated in a panel discussion on secrecy, journalism and WikiLeaks. The discussion was part of a one-day conference presented by Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism. Since WikiLeaks touches on so many aspects of POGO’s...
  • WikiLeaks Misconceptions Derail Progress, Threaten ...
    POGO's still hoping for a House vote sometime today or tomorrow on the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act (S. 372), which the Senate passed by unanimous consent earlier this month. S. 372 protects federal workers who use legal and safe channels...

Digital Journal

  • Study: Facebook second only to Google in driving v ...
    A new report by Brightcove and TubeMogul found that Facebook is second only to Google in driving web video traffic in Q3 - demonstrating once again Facebook's meteoric growth and the ecosystem phenomenon it represents.
  • In Search of Christmas in Halifax
    Looking around in Halifax, NS today, one had to wonder if it really was Christmas. The biggest giveaway was the lack of snow.
  • The Salvation Army brings cheer to many families a ...
    The Salvation Army makes Christmas a lot brighter for thousands of people who would otherwise have a gloomy holiday. Donations are down this year due to the economy and the need of more people.
  • Toronto officers nominated for U.S. Attorney Gene ...
    Toronto Police Service detectives Richard Duffus and Peter Wehby have been nominated by U.S. Department of Justice Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives supervisory special agent Regina Lombardo for the annual United States Attorney General Awards.
  • Report: Terrorists to poison food in US hotels and ...
    A CBS News investigative report on terrorism in the U.S. finds that Al Qaeda plans to poison foods in restaurants and hotels in small operations that are broadly encouraged in terrorist propaganda documents.

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

  • Canada’s dwindling peacekeepers
    The Toronto Star reports on Canada’s dwindling contribution to U.N. peacekeeping (Brett Popplewell, “Last of a dying breed: The Canadian peacekeeper,” Toronto Star, 11 December 2010): The Canadian mission in Sudan began in 2005, at the close of a 22-year civil war that saw a rebel movement in the so ...
  • Canadians split on Afghan extension
    Canadians are split on the Harper government’s plan to extend Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan reports an Angus Reid Poll released on Monday (Jill Mahoney, “Canadians divided on Afghan training mission: poll,” Globe and Mail, 13 December 2010). According to the poll, 48% of Canadians support ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • You Could Win $500 Just By Listening To Kevin!
    This is your chance to win it big! There’s no hitch, no gimmicks, and no tricks! All you have to do is listen to the Kevin Trudeau Show LIVE Monday through Friday between 12 and 1PM CST for your chance to win a special prize or even $500!  Pay close to attention to KT’s instructions and [...]
  • You Could Win $500 Just By Listening To Kevin!
    This is your chance to win it big! There’s no hitch, no gimmicks, and no tricks! All you have to do is listen to the Kevin Trudeau Show LIVE Monday through Friday between 12 and 1PM CST for your chance to win a special prize or even $500!  Pay close to attention to KT’s instructions and [...]
  • The Kevin Trudeau Show: 12-21-10
    Today, Kevin explains how the government is using our children as an excuse to rule our lives. Plus, find out how your DNA has been genetically modified and how that affects the evolution of the human race. Self Help: Help Kevin, Help Yourself Lose A Pound A Day Get Informed NWO: 190k Seized Because ...
  • The FCC’s Threat to Internet Freedom
    December 21st, 2010 The Wall Street Journal By: Robert M. McDowell Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will mark the winter solstice by taking an unprecedented step to expand government’s reach into the Internet by attempting to regulate its inner workings. In doing so, the ...
  • Combat Seasonal Coughs and Sore Throats With Laven ...
    December 21st, 2010 Natural News By: Fleur Hupston Lavender is one of the most popular herbs of all and an asset to any herb garden. Used for centuries for its sedative, antiseptic and insect repelling properties, lavender can also be used in cooking and baking. Try lavender to combat seasonal cough ...

Pambazuka News

  • Africa: Angola hosts 3rd African meeting on Cuba s ...
    The third African meeting on Solidarity with Cuba was held in Luanda, Angola, 11-12 September, to consolidate the friendship between the African and Cuban people and contribute to strengthening African solidarity towards the Caribbean island nation. ...
  • Global: Afro-Colombian women fight prejudice by em ...
    On an improvised stage “Bombón de chocolate” (Chocolate Candy) is being performed. The play, which narrates the story of an African-Colombian girl who feels rejected because of the colour of her skin, is one of the events at a special day on drug add...
  • Global: May for the Cuban 5
    The month of May started with a great number of activities in support of the Cuban 5. On May 1st hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched on International Workers Day in Havana and other cities. They were joined by hundreds of internationalists in de...
  • Haiti: Where solidarity means survival
    Perhaps more than anything today, Haiti needs a new macro-economy, one based above all on meeting the needs of its citizens. Post-earthquake economic restructuring could include equitable distribution of resources, high levels of employment with fair...
  • 45 years after the assassination of Malcolm X
    Malcolm X was assassinated 45 years ago this weekend. Earlier this year, WNYC Radio unearthed a 1960s interview between the civil rights leader and a reporter named Eleanor Fischer. On this somber anniversary, we consider Malcolm X’s legacy through t...

War in Context

  • Julian Assange interviewed by David Frost
  • Congress blocks closure of Guantanamo
    The New York Times reports: Congress voted Wednesday to impose strict new limits on transferring detainees out of the Guantánamo Bay prison, dealing a major blow to President Obama’s vows to shut down the center and give federal court trials to many of the prisoners. The Guantánamo provisions were ...
  • Time to be afraid of everyone and everything
    The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders resulted in seven deaths and spawned an industry: the production of tamper-resistant packaging. Four years earlier mercury-injected Jaffa oranges from Israel caused short-lived panic across Europe. But 32 years later tamper-resistant oranges have yet to make it to th ...
  • Will Obama’s war in Pakistan soon escalate to a gr ...
    The New York Times reports: Senior American military commanders in Afghanistan are pushing for an expanded campaign of Special Operations ground raids across the border into Pakistan’s tribal areas, a risky strategy reflecting the growing frustration with Pakistan’s efforts to root out militants th ...
  • The other side of the militarization of Iran’s reg ...
    Elliot Hen-Tov and Nathan Gonzalez write: This week, Iran implemented an overhaul of its national subsidy system, in effect cutting billions of dollars worth of subsidies for daily consumer use, especially fuel and electricity. Though cushioned by transfer payments to low-income households, it is a ...

Watts Up With That?

  • Call for guest authors
    I have been blogging mostly non-stop since I started this blog in November 2006, with a couple of breaks over weekends, illnesses, and during some travel. WUWT now has over 4700 stories, and half a million moderated comments. As my … Continue reading →
  • The Madden – Julian Oscillation
    In a recent discussion in comments regarding the AO (Arctic Oscillation), this subject was brought up by R. Gates (IIRC) I thought I would make it prime time for the educational value it offers. Dynamical Model MJO Forecasts Supported by: … Continue reading →
  • NASA gets CREAMed
    No, it is not what you think… NASA and the National Science Foundation launched a scientific balloon on Monday, December 20, Eastern Standard time, to study the effects of cosmic rays on Earth. It was the first of five scientific … Continue reading →
  • Heading for half a million comments
    Who will it be? It is likely to happen in the next 12-24 hours. Between the hundreds of spam comments we get daily, and regular comments, I’d just like to say thanks to the moderation team. It doesn’t much mean … Continue reading →
  • Cryosat ice mission returns first science data
    NOTE: The image below is NOT sea ice thickness, but ocean topography. Radar data from the European satellite has been used to make a map of ocean circulation across the Arctic basin. Cryosat’s primary mission is to measure sea-ice thickness, … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Robert Penn Warren in True Life: The Politician, b ...
    by Daniel N. White Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 22, 2010 There’s two good ways of looking at Andrew Young’s new book on John Edwards. First way is that it is a National Enquirer sort of trashy cashin dishing out all the inside dirt on John Edwards and his sex life, mostly at the expense ...
  • More Evidence of Medical Experimentation at Guantá ...
    by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk 22 December, 2010 In an investigative report for Truthout, my colleagues Jason Leopold and the psychologist and blogger Jeffrey Kaye have followed up on an important story they published three weeks ago, “Controversial Dru ...
  • World’s Largest Environmental Lawsuit in Ecu ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ TheRealNews | December 21, 2010 30,000 natives fight for compensation against Texaco (now Chevron), accused of 3 decades of toxic dumping in Amazon World’s Largest Environmental Lawsuit in Ecuador see Crude (2009) Chevronâs âCrudeâ Attempt to Suppress Free Speec ...
  • Terrorist by Association by Jeremy Gantz
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Jeremy Gantz In These Times December 13, 2010 September 24 began like any other Friday for Joe Iosbaker and Stephanie Weiner. Then, at 7 a.m., FBI agents knocked on the door of the Chicago couple’s house in the city’s North Side. Armed with a search warrant, m ...
  • Toby Hemenway: How Permaculture Can Save Humanity ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ nicholasschoolatduke | September 22, 2010 Hemenway is a frequent teacher, consultant and lecturer on permaculture and ecological design throughout the U.S. and other countries. His writing has appeared in magazines such as Natural Home, Whole Earth Review and Ame ...

Your New Reality

  • No title
    Fuck The War Fuck The War : The Movie is coming to DVD and torrents in November, 2010. In 2003, during anti-War On Iraq protests, the Australian prime minister was kidnapped by an activist and interrogated for 24 hours. The disappearance of the prime minister was officially covered up as an " ...
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    "We Cannot Allow The Corporate Takeover Of Our Democracy" 1961 : 2010 : .
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    Oh yes, this is cynical, and even bitter, but it's also an excellent and short expose of the formula so many, many Hollywood films put into the market every year. In Australia, the pressure is on producers, screenwriters and directors to turn out pap exactly like this, in the belief that the only wa ...
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    A radical experiment in social chaos is about to be unleashed on the UK. Basically, the government has run out of money and they have try something, anything : At the heart of this revolution is the idea that power shifts from the centre to the local level. The chaotic world that Boles envisages i ...
  • No title
    Okay, Here We Go Just launched the YouTube channel for FTW : The Movie In 2003, during anti-War On Iraq protests, the Australian prime minister was kidnapped by an activist and interrogated for 24 hours. The disappearance of the prime minister was officially covered up as an "unexpected vi ...

Wired - Science

  • Early Reports From the ‘Dark Matter’ of the Genome
    A collection of new studies on the genomes of two model organisms has moved the frontiers of biology forward, and hints at methods that may someday make real the long-promised, as-yet-unfulfilled genomic revolution. Published in Nature and Science, the studies go far beyond the level of genes that ...
  • Video: Blue Eclipse on Mars
    Earth isn't the only planet graced with gorgeous eclipses. On Nov. 9, the Mars rover Opportunity watched the larger of Mars's two moons, Phobos, slip quietly in front of the sun.
  • Fossil Finger DNA Points to New Type of Human
    Continued study of an approximately 40,000 year old finger bone from Siberia has identified a previously unknown type of human — one that may have interbred with the ancestors of modern-day Melanesian people. The fossil scrap — just the tip of a juvenile female’s finger — was discovered in 2008 dur ...
  • 6 Strange Fossils That Enlightened Evolutionary Sc ...
    Critics of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution often cited the fossil record's lack of creatures “caught in the act” of evolution. And though fossils had been important to the development of Darwin’s evolutionary thoughts, these absences frustrated him.
  • Book Excerpt: The Dinosaur Fossils That Changed Ev ...
    Footprints and Feathers on the Sands of Time Humans have been finding the traces of extinct creatures for thousands of years. Unaware of their true identity, a variety of cultures have interpreted fossil footprints, shells and bones as the remnants of gods, heroes, saints and monsters. The cyclops, ...

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Ahmed Tibi: Jews and Arabs must fight Israel’s rac ...
    Something evil is occurring in Israeli society. Racism and xenophobia are consuming its enlightenment and tolerance, and democracy is becoming more and more endangered. Phenomena that had been on the... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Seattle Mideast awareness campaign: 27 Dec silent ...
    Please come join us in a walking vigil to remember the ongoing siege and attacks on Gaza. IOA Editor: Also, read about the group's upcoming Seattle Metro bus ad campaign, and the predictable... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian land ...
  • Richard Falk: The delusions of the peace process
    Given [Israel's] predispositions, combined with the disparities in bargaining power between the parties, as well as the one-sided hegemonic role of the United States, who but a fool could think that... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands ...
  • Nadia Hijab: The Devil’s in the Discourse
    Clinton illustrated how completely the administration has bought into the Israeli discourse. In her eagerness to support an Israel that is both Jewish and democratic, she skated perilously close to... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Jerusalem scrambles as European states move to upg ...
    After reports reached Jerusalem that the Palestinian Authority is trying to persuade about a dozen European Union member states to upgrade the PA's diplomatic status, the Foreign Ministry on Monday... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • High Red Blood Folate Levels Linked to Silenced Tu ...
    A study of 781 clinical trial participants about factors associated with DNA methylation in healthy colorectal tissue ties red blood cell folate count to gene silencing.
  • Eating Less Healthy Fish May Contribute to America ...
    People living in the "stroke belt" states eat more fried fish than people living in the rest of the country, which may contribute to the high rate of death from stroke in those states, according to a study published in the December 22, 2010, online issue of Neurology(r), the medical journal of the A ...
  • America's Stroke Belt Partially Fueled by Fried Fi ...
    Eating a Southern staple, fried fish, could be one reason people in Alabama and across the "stroke belt" states are more likely than other Americans to die of a stroke, according to a study published in the December 22, 2010, online issue of Neurology.
  • Researchers Make Major Breakthrough in Melanoma Re ...
    In a breakthrough that could lead to new treatments for patients with malignant melanoma, researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have discovered that a particular protein suppresses the progression of melanoma through regulation of an oncogene, or gene responsible for cancer growth. The stu ...
  • Researchers Find Gene That Protects Against Dement ...
    Neuroscientists had assumed that a mutation in the progranulin gene, which makes the progranulin protein and supports brain neurons, was sufficient to produce a kind of dementia known as frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). But now an international team of scientists led by researchers at Mayo ...

Natural Health News

  • Does Fluoride Really Fight Cavities?
    A new study has found that the protective shield fluoride forms on teeth is up to 100 times thinner than previously believed. This raises questions about how this renowned cavity-fighter really works. It has long been believed that fluoride changes the main mineral in tooth enamel, hydroxyapatite, ...
  • Watch World's Smallest Periodic Table Being Engrav ...
    Nanoscientists used focused ion beams to write the entire periodic table of elements onto a single human hair. �Then they etched a Christmas greeting onto a snowflake!
  • New Evidence Identifies Strong Cell Phone Cancer L ...
    A recent study could change the debate over cell phones and cancer.� A research group has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of parotid gland tumors over the last 30 years. For many years now, skeptics have argued that the epidemiological studies pointing to a tumor risk from cell phones mu ...
  • 5 Foods that Will Help Make You Healthier
    Fox 5 San Diego reports on five foods that could improve your health: Eating watermelon could reduce your blood pressure.� Researchers found that eating watermelon extract lowered blood pressure in subjects with prehypertension. A diet rich in walnuts could help your body deal better with stress, ...
  • 7 Health Woes Brought on by Winter
    Live Science lists seven health problems you are more likely to experience during the colder months: Heart attack Cold weather increases your heart attack risk.� For every 1-degree Celsius drop in the average daily temperature, there is a 2 percent increase in heart attack risk. Stroke Winter ca ...

Antemedius

  • Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo and WikiLeak ...
    Originally published at www.andyworthington.co.uk A few days ago, I spoke — for the 21st time — with the irrepressible Scott Horton for his show on Antiwar Radio, which is available here. Over the course of 18 minutes, we discussed why my contentiously entitled article, The Irrelevance of Wikilea ...
  • Mark Warner Is Flatly Wrong
    I am not one to usually hammer away at other Democrats for their dumb ideas, after all we have plenty of those piñatas from the Right, but Sen. Mark Warner’s Op-Ed in the Washington Post is so ridiculous that it deserves some attention and derision. In his short post he makes a weak case for changi ...
  • David Frost Interviews Julian Assange
    AlJazeeraEnglish | 22 December 2010 | 24 minutes WikiLeaks founder talks about secrets, leaks and why he will not go back to Sweden.
  • A Leaker Inside WikiLeaks?
    The United States diplomatic cables leak (also known as Cablegate) began on 28 November 2010 when WikiLeaks - an international new media non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks - started to publish classifi ...
  • White House Drafts Executive Order for Indefinite ...
    from Dafna Linzer, ProPublica (view source) 8:15 p.m Dec. 21: This story has been updated with the White House's response. The White House is preparing an Executive Order on indefinite detention that will provide periodic reviews of evidence against dozens of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, acco ...

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

  • CIEL’s New(ish) Blog
    by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis I always wish I had more opportunities to blog about international environmental law (IEL), especially in light of recent developments (and thanks to Dan Bodansky for keeping our readers’ abreast of all the happenings in Cancun).  For those of you who have a si ...
  • Kind of Like the Lakers
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller When Fox News isn’t busy making people dumber, it’s writing chyrons like this:
  • Artistic Death Penalty for Iranian Director Jafar ...
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller A stark reminder that freedom of expression is indeed a precious thing: Jafar Panahi is one of the most acclaimed film directors in the world. Admirers like myself were horrified and astonished at the news, announced yesterday, that Jafar Panahi had been ...
  • More from Jack Goldsmith on WikiLeaks
    by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller Today at Lawfare: If DOJ tries to prosecute Assange, we will see more and more scrutiny of double standards in the treatment of traditional media leak solicitors (NYT etc.) v. Assange, and of double standards in the treatment of high-level U.S. governmen ...
  • Sovereigntism in a Nutshell
    by Peter Spiro by Peter Spiro From a new pamphlet, Why Does Sovereignty Matter to America? Merry Christmas from the folks at the Heritage Foundation: [T]oday, our sovereignty faces new threats. International organizations and courts seek to reshape the international system. Nations are to give up ...

Investigate - Breaking News

  • RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
    It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...
  • Climate scientists go feral, begin wearing cammo g ...
    Utah survivalists infiltrate climate science community. Whodathunkit?: It might surprise, and hopefully disturb you, to hear that in my short time at AGU, I discovered four scientists who are already creating some form of survival retreat for their family, and...
  • Admission: climate science IS stalking horse for g ...
    Slate magazine calls it: For 20 years, evidence about global warming has been directly and explicitly linked to a set of policy responses demanding international governance regimes, large-scale social engineering, and the redistribution of wealth. These are the sort of...
  • 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...

My Care2 Picks

  • Yahoo has let Delicious users down
    It's one of the best-loved online tools, so why has Yahoo neglected its social bookmarking service Delicious?Submitted by Deena Marriecar to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • The climate bugaboo is the strangest intellectual ...
    One of the two ancient principles of natural justice is audiatur et altera pars. Hear the other side too. It�s certainly cheaper, and it�s probably right. Submitted by John Farnham to Society & Culture �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • House Passes 9/11 First Responders Bill
    provide health care and compensation to emergency responders who have become ill as the result of their exposure to harmful inhalants after the September 11 terrorists attacks.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Family Escalates Fight Against Air Force Academy f ...
    USAFA may have endorsed on-campus proselytizing by fundamentalist and evangelical organizations, particularly the Cadets for Christ ministry.Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • CNN reporter on watch list after criticizing TSA
    Tsa says: It is the airline`s fault. The airlines say: We get our list from....TSA.Submitted by Bohm Judith to US Politics & Gov't �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • John John: Viva WikiLeaks! SiCKO Was Not Banned in ...
    �Viva WikiLeaks! SiCKO Was Not Banned in Cuba | MichaelMoore.com: "It is a stunning look at the Orwellian nature of how bureaucrats for the State spin their lies and try to recreate reality (I assume... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • WikiLeaks cables: Iranian TV channel faced UK sanc ...
    WikiLeaks cables: Iranian TV channel faced UK sanction over jamming row | Politics | The Guardian: "The Foreign Office told the US embassy official who deals with Iran in February that it was... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Dear Wikileaks: Leak the Bank Records NOW, Or Fore ...
    Washington's BlogWikileaks head Julian Assange told Forbes that the next leak will be regarding a major American bank. He said that Wikileaks plans to release the documents early next year.Assange... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • WikiLeaks cables: McDonald's used US to put pressu ...
    WikiLeaks cables: McDonald's used US to put pressure on El Salvador | Business | The Guardian: "McDonald's tried to delay the US government's implementation of a free-trade agreement in order to put... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Albania Prosecutor Reacts to Organ Harvesting Repo ...
    Albania Prosecutor Reacts to Organ Harvesting Report � Eurasia Review: "The report links a group of former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters, including Kosovo’s current Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, to... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • The Vote Is In: Congressional Mafia Rams Food Safe ...
    Food Safety legislation passes! Codex, here we come...
  • Bribery and Graft abound as Reid attaches S.510 to ...
    S.510 Fake Food Safety bill was passed quickly late Sunday afternoon; a vote taken when the Senate could be assured few were watching or even aware that the vote on the criminalization of independent and family agriculture was taking place.
  • Food Safety Sneak Attack! Passed by Unanimous Cons ...
    As reported above, the Senate on Sunday night simply took the revised food safety language that was approved by the House in the CR, substituted it to the language of HR 2751, one of the original "Cash for Clunkers" bills from last year, and approved it by unanimous consent.
  • Conservation Easements (CEs)*:Read the fine print ...
    A basic Constitutional tenet of private property ownership in America is the landowner’s right to determine the use and disposition of his or her land. This ownership gives the property owner the right to occupy, use, lease, sell, develop, and deny public access to his or her land. Today, lando ...
  • Truth Squad Radio – Guardian Abuse!
    The legal abuse and exploitation of Gary Harvey: What happens when the state steps in and takes custody and control of an adult? Does the family have any rights?

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Afghan bomb blast kills 2, injures 4
    ShareThisAfghan bomb blast kills 2, injures 4 23 Dec 2010 A massive explosion has rocked the northern province of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, killing two people and injuring four others. The huge blast rocked the capital city of Kunduz province at 8 a.m. local time, eyewitnesses told a Press TV ...
  • CIA launches task force to assess impact of U.S. c ...
    ShareThisCIA launches task force to assess impact of U.S. cables' exposure by WikiLeaks 22 Dec 2010 The CIA has launched a task force to assess the impact of the exposure of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and military files by WikiLeaks. Officially, the panel is called the WikiLeaks Task Force. ...
  • WTF? OMG, LOL! CIA gives WikiLeaks taskforce naugh ...
    ShareThisWTF? OMG, LOL! CIA gives WikiLeaks taskforce naughty name --US spy agency forms taskforce to assess fallout from 250,000 leaked US cables 22 Dec 2010 The CIA has launched a taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables. Its name? WikiLeaks Task Force, or WTF for shor ...
  • UN to investigate treatment of jailed leaks suspec ...
    ShareThisUN to investigate treatment of jailed leaks suspect Bradley Manning --Office of rapporteur on torture confirms it is looking into complaint made by Manning supporter 23 Dec 2010 The United Nations is investigating a complaint on behalf of Bradley Manning that he is being mistreated while he ...
  • W.H.: Polar bears not 'endangered'
    ShareThisW.H.: Polar bears not 'endangered' 22 Dec 2010 The Obama�regime is sticking with a George W. Bush-era decision to deny polar bears endangered species status. In a court filing Wednesday, the Fish and Wildlife Service defended the previous administration�s decision to give the polar bear the ...

The Briefing Room | Investigate

  • RIP Chris Carter, Investigate columnist
    It's an odd thing, finding out on the radio news that your magazine's longest serving opinion columnist has passed away. What turns out to be his last column only hit the newsstands yesterday in the latest Investigate magazine: Chris Carter...
  • Climate scientists go feral, begin wearing cammo g ...
    Utah survivalists infiltrate climate science community. Whodathunkit?: It might surprise, and hopefully disturb you, to hear that in my short time at AGU, I discovered four scientists who are already creating some form of survival retreat for their family, and...
  • Admission: climate science IS stalking horse for g ...
    Slate magazine calls it: For 20 years, evidence about global warming has been directly and explicitly linked to a set of policy responses demanding international governance regimes, large-scale social engineering, and the redistribution of wealth. These are the sort of...
  • 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...

Mondoweiss

  • The world will be a much safer place when American ...
    1. America's not safe for us. (Look around, pal; we have complete freedom here) 2. We need a place to land when things get too hot in Brooklyn. (See #1; and so you warehouse a country in the Middle East-- and the people who were born there can't even move there.) 3. Israel depends for its safety [ ...
  • Israeli soldiers and nonviolent resisters argue ab ...
    The photos above are from a protest today in Al-Walaje, a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank just outside of occupied East Jerusalem. The Jewish settlement of Gilo faces Walaje and has been stealing village land to expand. And Palestinian popular committees organize protests against the ...
  • Debating BDS at Princeton
    This is a post from Blumenthal's site. On December 15 I participated in a debate at Princeton University on the “ethics and efficacy” of BDS. The debate was held as a bookend to the battle over a resolution calling for adding an alternative in the campus cafeteria to Sabra Hummus, an Isr ...
  • Obama affirms the right of return (for gay soldier ...
    I've been as moved as anyone by the liberation story that the repeal of Don't-ask-don't-tell represents for American gay people, and really for all of us. As I confessed when I talked about this last month, I had pretty conventional homophobic attitudes 20 years ago; and a long national education ha ...
  • ‘The Palestine Cables’: Gaza is a bur ...
    This is the third entry in "The Palestine Cables," Alex Kane's series on what WikiLeaks is telling us about the Palestinian position in world politics. Forsaken by the "peace process," ignored by mainstream media, denied justice two years after Israel committed what many rights groups called war cr ...

Vaccine Resistance Movement

  • VRM: Health Matters Part 2
    BISPHENAL A PLASTIC is deadly. It leaks a synthetic hormone which mimics Estrogene & is present in most common store-bought products, also found in the lining of all soup cans. Long term effects include Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Androgeny. It should be noted that in the original tests th ...
  • VRM: Health Matters Part 1
    A compromised immune system is more susceptible to infection. Some areas of concern - Anyone with Hyper/Hypothyroidism needs to redouble their efforts to rapidly cleanse the system. The Thyroid Gland is key to overall health. Produces T3 & T4 hormones (Iodine Atoms). Iodine helps regulate metabol ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Hostages Press Release
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  • Shooting Star
    16 December 2010Six years ago this week, I was packing for my first trip to Iraq.� Been a long road. Earlier this week, the annual Geminids meteor shower was a beautiful sight to behold.� Using 4 cameras, I made about 3,600 photos over the Andaman Sea.�� Due to computer issues, I�ve been able to re ...
  • 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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  • American Arrogance
    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 ...

The Killing Train

  • A short video on Toronto Star's recent G20 coverag ...
    Three minutes on technology and protests, focusing on the Toronto Star's recent G20 coverage, especially Rosie DiManno's articles.
  • Thoughts on Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows"
    After a couple of recommendations from a couple of different directions, I read Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows: What the internet is doing to our brains". It combines neuroplasticity research (which I read about in Norman Doidge's "The Brain that Changes Itself") with ideas about a literary, print-ba ...
  • "Santa" Ford just stole 1000 jobs from the future
    Yesterday's headlines in Toronto newspapers were about how Rob Ford and City Council repealed the $60 vehicle registration tax. The Toronto Sun went as far as painting a beard on a picture of Ford, calling him Santa, and referring to the tax repeal as a christmas gift to Toronto. Another advance aga ...
  • 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 ...

treehugger

  • Schoolkids' Bee Study Lands in Prestigious Journal
    Photo: fueg0 While most young students are happy just having their academic achievements displayed on the refrigerator door at home, there are others whose sights are set a little higher -- and I'm not talking about the freezer. A group of elementary schoolchildren in Devon, England recently mad ...
  • The Most Popular Posts in Green Tech & Gadgets in ...
    Photo by smeadli via Flickr Creative Commons Tech and gadget news is always interesting, and every week has its next-big-thing announcements. But there were a few stories and trends that really stood out from the crowd during 2010. Yes, that includes the iPad -- but also a ton of other neat stu ...
  • Is the UK's Storm Bad Weather or Climate Change?
    Photo: B. Alter The UK has been battered by a miserable snow storm: the worst since 1910. Airports have been closed since Saturday, people were marooned in their cars on the highway for hours and the line-up for the Paris-bound Eurostar was around the block. But was this storm the result ...
  • Two Men Fined After Rescuing Deer From Icy River
    Photo: U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region To many people, Jim Hart and Khalil Abusakran are heroes. When the two men from Maryland saw a deer stranded in the icy waters of the Patapsco River, they did what few others would dare. With an inflatable boat, the duo ventured out and r ...
  • Winter of 2010 - The Valley Forge Of Climate Activ ...
    Von Steuben training Continental troops in Valley Forge PA. Image credit:National Archives. Two Thousand Ten may well be looked back upon as the year US climate activists and published climate scientists lost their metaphorical Battle of Brandywine, and as the year in which it sunk in that rec ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

  • DVB reporter gets 8 year jail term
    21-year-old arrested for photographing the aftermath of the Rangoon bombings in April sentenced while his father awaits verdict
  • USDP assailants fined $0.50
    Two men found guilty of attacking voter on 7 November fined just $0.50 by court as victim spends $30 in legal fees
  • When pixels, bytes and VJs unite
    Suu Kyi's live video forum with London-based intellectuals and Amartya Sen lessened the decades-old divide between 'here and there'
  • Mass Mandalay eviction ordered
    Up to 200 residents to be forcibly evicted from Mandalay apartment block despite pledges by authorities to the contrary
  • Suu Kyi rules out party overhaul
    Aung San Suu Kyi ruled out a reorganisation of her party's top ranks to replace elderly leaders with a younger generation of activists

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • Senate ratifies Russia nuclear arms treaty
    [JURIST] The US Senate [official website] voted 71-26 Wednesday to ratify the so-called New START treaty [materials; JURIST news archive] between Russia and the US. The new START treaty replaces the expired Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I treaty) [materials], with Russia and the US each ple ...
  • Congress approves defense spending bill preventing ...
    [JURIST] The US Senate and the House of Representatives [official websites] on Wednesday gave final approval to a defense spending bill [HR 3082 materials] that includes a provision preventing Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees from being transferred to the US for trial. The legislation ...
  • Obama signs 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' repeal
    [JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] on Wednesday signed into law [press release] a bill to repeal the military's controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy (DADT) [10 USC § 654; JURIST news archive]. The Don't Ask, Don't Repeal Act of 2010 [HR 2965 materials] was approved in the ...
  • Federal judge awards damages to Islamic charity in ...
    [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] on Tuesday ordered [text, PDF] the US government to pay more than $2.5 million in damages and attorney's fees to an Islamic charity for illegally wiretapping its conversations without a warrant. Jud ...
  • UK court denies public inquiry into Iraq detainee ...
    [JURIST] A UK High Court on Tuesday denied an appeal [judgment text] from Iraqi citizens to open a single public inquiry into allegations of abuse by members of the British Armed Forces. The Public Interest Lawyers (PIL) [law firm website], the group representing a group of more than140 Iraqis, appe ...

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

Bulletin of American Scientists - News

Tikun Olam

  • U.S. Military Attache in Israel: Ahmadinejad Like ...
    From the looks of it, the job of the U.S. military attache in Tel Aviv is to echo the views of Israel’s leaders, generals and spymasters.  Otherwise, how does one account for the fact that in his farewell interview with the IDF magazine, BaMachaneh, Lt. Col. Rick Burgess likened Iran’s president to ...
  • Wikileaks: Mossad Sells U.S. on Iran Regime Change ...
    Consider this reverse scenario: four separate planes carrying hundreds of IDF soldiers crash in a single year all due to mysterious circumstances not traceable to mechanical or human failure.  Israeli nuclear scientists die in bombings and under other violent circumstances.  Retired Israeli genera ...
  • Wikileaks: Shabak Told U.S. Hamas Wouldn’t Take Ov ...
    There seems to be a meme among a certain conspiracy minded portion of the left that the Israeli government has colluded with Wikileaks to reveal information that casts Israel’s enemies in a derogatory light and casts no aspersions on Israel.  According to this theory, Julian Assange is in the Mossa ...
  • Martin Van Creveld: Give Up West Bank or ‘Tell You ...
    Hebrew University Professor Martin Van Creveld is one of the world’s foremost military historians.  He’s what I’d call a non-ideological, highly pragmatic observer of the Israel-Arab conflict.  Because of his academic expertise and reputation as an independent, I feature his work here his as a bre ...
  • Bergman: Bibi Will Send Israeli Bombers on Their W ...
    More bragging from Mossad sources and their journalist friends in the Israeli media about the proficiency with which they have attacked both Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and its nuclear program.  It’s very hard to know whether this report is part of Israeli intelligence psyops campaign or whether th ...

Ode Magazine

  • Ode's top 10 positive stories from 2010
    By: EmilyAviles Good news rarely makes the headlines... except in Ode. To celebrate 2010 - and anticipate more good news to come in 2011 - here are Ode's 10 most positive stories from the year that was. 1. Fixing the fr ...
  • How peace entails dropping ego and desire
    By: PeaceCorso Sathya Sai Baba, born as Sathyanarayana Raju, on 23 November 1926, is a popular Indian guru, spiritual figure and educator. He is described by his devotees as an avatar, godman, spiritual teacher and miracle worker. Sathya Sai Baba has said: Peo ...
  • Miyako: A picture of pursuit
    By: Anne Thomas As I watch the many fundamental changes sweeping the world, I find that the young people I teach are either completely taken up with them, or pretty overwhelmed. And I have found among my university students that most often their focus on change lie ...
  • 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 ...

OpEd News

Switchboard

  • Hunting for Oil in the Muddy Waters of the Gulf Sh ...
    While Americans frantically dash through crowded strip malls, Paul and Michael Orr jump into their 17-foot Boston Whaler ready to hunt for a different kind of merchandise—the kind that grows in the Gulf of Mexico. They are searching for samples of seafood and sediment located in the oi ...
  • Only Sensible Option for GE is to "Opt-In" to Comp ...
    I don't usually re-post news articles here.� But today's Greewire piece about the significance of EPA's recent announcement of standards for the Hudson River PCBs cleanup (which I wrote about here) provides an excellent summary of why, for GE,�"[t]he only option is to opt in."� You can ...
  • Closing a Few Loopholes: The California Air Resour ...
    Over the past few weeks, the two major ports in Southern California—the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach—and the California Air Resources Board have taken significant steps to close two loopholes in the Clean Truck Program.  In 2008, the LA and Long Beach ports separately adopted Cl ...
  • Incidents where hydraulic fracturing is a suspecte ...
    Updated: December 22, 2010 NRDC supports federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing under the Safe Drinking Water Act. We believe this is a sensible approach that would ensure a minimum federal floor of drinking water protection in the more than 30 states where oil and gas production ...
  • Two more cases of drinking water contamination lin ...
    I recently learned about two new cases of groundwater contamination in the Barnett shale area; the victims claim that hydraulic fracturing is a suspected cause. In the first case, Grace Mitchell, a�resident of Johnson County, Texas, recently sued�Encana and�Chesapeake. According to he ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • Lind and the Pentagon Papers Case
    A few points about Michael Lind’s argument here: Even if WikiLeaks is defined as a news organization, American law allows both prior injunctions halting publication of government secrets and prosecutions of media organizations following publication, in certain circumstances. In New York Times v. Sul ...
  • On Barbour’s Praise of the Citizens Councils
    Rick Perlstein has a typically brilliant analysis.   Read the whole etc., but a preview: What happened between Brown v. Board of Education and that January day in 1970 comprises some of the most monstrous inhumanity in the cruel annals of American history. Recently, in a cover feature in the conserv ...
  • Some Fun Holiday Reading
    I finally finished the final book in The Hunger Games trilogy. (I was not expecting that ending, though in hindsight I’m not sure why.) For those of you unfamiliar with the dystopian premise: the United States is gone. Its successor nation, Panem, consists of an opulent, entertainment-obsessed capi ...
  • And the 2010 Album of the Year is…
    I hadn’t posted this here, but since Other Scott brought it up … Pitchfork and Rolling Stone have both declared Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy the best album of 2010, but if you read those reviews, you’ll note that both of them avoid talking about the core appeal of the album, choo ...
  • You Mean Judges With Impeccable Records as Reactio ...
    Shorter Arlen Specter:  “I sat on the Judiciary Committee table throughout the second Bush administration, and I still haven’t spotted the sucker.” Related posts:I Really Hate Myself For Doing This The Latest Attempt to Insulate Activist Conservative Judges From Charges of Judicial Activism Howev ...

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.

  • THE PRACTICE: NLRB: no violation in banners near n ...
    Union's dispute was with another employer, but board found the display was neither coercive nor unlawful picketing.
  • 2010: The Year in Review
    In this special issue, we attempt to make some sense of the year that was and to offer a few thoughts about what's ahead.
  • Judge refuses to toss $269M verdict against Disney
    A federal judge has refused to toss out a $269 million jury verdict against The Walt Disney Co. in a closely watched case over the profits owed from the hit television show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
  • Nation's D.A.s press for a national training cente ...
    A training center for state and local prosecutors and public defenders could be coming to Utah — if the National District Attorneys Association gets its way.
  • The Year in Opinion
    During the past year, practitioners, academics and a few senators have weighed in on a range of legal issues in these pages. The U.S. Supreme Court figured prominently, from the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens and the nomination of Elena Kagan to some controverisal cases. Other topics tackle ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

  • Waterdog Training January 10th 2011
    Waterdogs Training Monday, January 10th, 2011 7:00-9:00pm Jersey Shore Middle School Library Registration Fee $10 Additional $20 if you would like a TDS Meter Registration is due by January 3rd, 2011 Please make checks payable to: LCCD Lycoming County Conservation District 542 County Farm Road, Suit ...
  • 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 ...

News Blaze

  • Somali Athletics General Da'ud Cup Kicks Off in Mo ...
    The four-day competition is taking place at the open ground of Somali police academy which has in the past been working as Somalia's Olympic city, because of the country's Olympic village is being occupied by Islamist militants.
  • Myanmar Cyclone Victims Start to Rebuild But Need ...
    But the humanitarian community in Myanmar still needs funding, according to a news release. Only $20.5 million of the estimated $57 million required for both emergency and early recovery phases have so far been allocated by donors, with the main gap
  • Religious Leaders and UN Promote The Practice of E ...
    As Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, commemorates national Mothers' Day this week, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and Hindu leaders pledged at a conference led by the Ministries of Health and Religious Affairs to develop an action
  • EPA Requires Standard Chromium-6 Content in Drin ...
    The agency absolutely has a drinking water standard for total chromium, which includes chromium-6 (also known as Hexavalent Chromium), and we require water systems to test for it. This standard is based on the best available science and is enforceab
  • UN Boosts Response Readiness for Cote D'ivoire Ref ...
    The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said it airlifted additional relief supplies to Liberia and Guinea from emergency stockpiles in Copenhagen at the weekend.

environment 360

  • In China, a New Transparency On Government Polluti ...
    The Chinese government has begun to make environmental records available to the public, empowering green groups and citizens as they try to force factories — and the Western companies they supply — to comply with the law. BY CHRISTINA LARSON
  • Controversial Gulf Sand Berms Did Little to Keep B ...
    A controversial series of sand berms built in the Gulf of Mexico to keep leaking oil from reaching Louisiana’s wetlands has stopped a “miniscule” amount of oil, according to a federal report. According to a presidential commission created to investigate the BP oil spill, the U.S. Coast Guard’s appro ...
  • Arctic 'Ice Refuge' Envisioned As Region Warms Rap ...
    As the Arctic rapidly warms in the 21st century and Arctic sea ice largely disappears in summer, a strip of year-round ice is likely to remain to the north of Greenland and the Canadian Arctic archipelago, providing a refuge for some sea-ice dependent wildlife, such as polar bears and ringed seals, ...
  • Cap-and-Trade System To Be Adopted This Week by Ca ...
    California, which has the world’s eighth-largest economy, is expected to approve regulations this week that will impose a cap and a price on CO2 emissions beginning in 2012. The California Air Resources Board is set to adopt key provisions of California’s landmark climate bill, known as AB32, at mee ...
  • Dumping Retired Navy Ships Has High Economic and E ...
    The U.S. Navy's policy of dumping retired Navy vessels into the ocean to create artificial reefs leads to the loss of hundreds of thousands of tons of recyclable metals, releases toxic metals into the ocean, and costs the U.S. thousands of jobs, according to a new report. As Pentagon officials decid ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Winter Solstice, Total Lunar Eclipse & Ursid Meteo ...
    An extremely rare astronomical event is slated for this coming Tuesday, as a total lunar eclipse occurs on the same day as the winter solstice. The last time this occurred was in 1638 and it won't happen again until 2094. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes through Earth's shadow. The ...
  • Der Spiegel 1974 - New Ice Age Approaching. Odds O ...
    An increased frequency in extreme weather events, a cooling North Atlantic, and growing Arctic sea ice were viewed as signs of climate change. The odds of a warmer climate in the future, according to one scientist, were "at best 1 in 10,000" (see below). That’s what Der Spiegel wrote about in a 3700 ...
  • Britain: SAS Hit Squads At Shopping Malls
    SAS hit squads are today protecting packed shopping centres from terrorists - with orders to shoot to kill. The regiment’s elite troops are poised to foil any al-Qaeda bid to cause Mumbai-style carnage amid Britain’s Christmas crowds. The Who Dares Wins teams have instructions to strike hard and fas ...
  • Ice volcano spied on Saturn moon
    Scientists said on Tuesday they have found the best evidence yet of ice volcanoes on Saturn’s giant moon Titan. Unlike volcanoes on Earth, such a volcano on Titan may spew ice and hydrocarbons instead of molten lava.
  • Ukraine to open Chernobyl area to tourists in 2011
    Want a better understanding of the world’s worst nuclear disaster? Come tour the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Beginning next year, Ukraine plans to open up the sealed zone around the Chernobyl reactor to visitors who wish to learn more about the tragedy that occurred nearly a quarter of a century ...

Russia Today

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

  • Faster Not Better?
    When talking about interstellar probes in the mainstream, the matter of speed always come up. Usually that speed is the speed of light, and how at the present we can’t obtain that with our current state of rocket technology. But at Paul Gilster’s Centauri Dreams blog, ideas flow like clear, clean wa ...
  • The Great False Wall of China
    From io9′s Mad Science: Scientists in China were able to make a “false wall” in an incredible demonstration of illusion optics. Find out why you shouldn’t believe your eyes anymore, thanks to physics.China has been in the business of building walls for a long, long time. Recently, they’ve added a ne ...
  • Lloyd Pye: In Defense of Zecharia Sitchin
    From Paranormal Utopia: Zecharia Sitchin was an author famous for “The Earth Chronicles” series of books about the writings of the ancient Sumerians (circa 5,000 years ago) as he interpreted them. He was one of perhaps 200 people in the world, if that many, who could translate cuneiform, the symboli ...
  • Horse Shoe Shaped UFOs
    Here’s something you don’t see every day, horse shoe shaped UFOs. Here’s a disclaimer though, the first video could be CGI and the second could be the planet Venus. Both are interesting. … Horse Shoe UFO Seen From A Plane ] … Fiery Horse Shoe UAP Seen From The Ground The embedding code was removed, ...
  • Soyuz Launch To I.S.S. 12/15/10
    Expedition 25 launch on a Russian Soyuz rocket happened yesterday at 2:09:25 p.m. EST to the International Space Station. One Italian, one Russian and one American was on the flight and will live on the space station for six months. I would like to try it once just to see if I could do it. [...]

Tippers News

  • Domestic violence
    The statistics are startling: It's estimated that every 18 minutes a woman in the United States is beaten. Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Yes, trafficking happens right here
    A common misconception about human trafficking and modern slavery is that it does not happen here. But it does. It's a documented fact. Take the case of two girls, ages 15 and 16, who ran away from a juvenile home in Fremont in 2007.Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comm ...
  • Human smuggling
    THERE is no doubt that rampant poverty, unemployment and a bleak future stare young Pakistanis in the face. The situation invariably provides a breeding ground Submitted by Rose NoFWDSPLZ to World �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Confused cat found wandering streets of of Linz, A ...
    This hungry kitty thought she was the cat that had got the cream when she found a half-full tin of pet food as she prowled for snacks in bins behind a supermarket.Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Tiger killing 'a crime against nature'
    Three people have been sentenced to a total of eight and a half years in prison for trying to smuggle tiger skins and bones across the Russian border. And for the first time in this kind of case, a charge of 'ecological damage' might be brought for the Submitted by Maria Oniga to Animals �|� �Note- ...

The Freeman

  • Inside Insider Trading
    Insider trading is something we hear a lot about these days. To most people, the practice smells of foul play, and federal law restricts it. But the inside story of insider trading is something very different, as we shall see. The alleged ill effects on shareholders in particular and on the economy ...
  • Tariffs and Freedom
    A historical episode that opponents of consumer sovereignty—that is, opponents of free trade—frequently cite to support their case for high tariffs is late nineteenth-century America. Pat Buchanan, for example, in his book The Great Betrayal asserts about the 1800s that “Behind a tariff wall . . . t ...
  • FEE Is Expanding to Atlanta
    From its founding in 1946 until 2010, the Foundation for Economic Education had one office: its headquarters near the Hudson River in Irvington, New York, less than one hour from New York City. Now, I am proud to announce, it has a second home in the heart of the South. In early May 2010, FEE [...]
  • Congress Can’t Repeal Economics
    It’s raining! I don’t like it! Why hasn’t Congress passed the Good Weather Act and the Everybody Happy Act? Sound dumb? Why is it any dumber than a law called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which promises to cover more for less money? When Obamacare was debated, we free-market advoc ...
  • War Would End the Recession?
    In his September 28 New York Times blog post, Paul Krugman announced that “economics is not a morality play.” That turn of phrase is his way of defending the idea that in unusual times, such as the sort of deep recession we are in, we can get strange relationships between economic cause and effect. ...

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

  • How does the biggest prison strike in American his ...
    By Mark Anthony Neal, TheLoop21.com In September of 1971, more than a thousand prisoners at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, NY revolted in what eventually became one of the most famous prison standoffs in American history. Before the insurrection was bloodily quelled on orders of then N ...
  • SPECIAL REPORT: Two years after Tennessee coal ash ...
    By Sue Sturgis Today marks two years since a coal ash impoundment collapsed at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee, sending a billion-gallon tidal wave of toxic waste into a nearby community and rivers. The disaster also pushed the issue of coal ash ...
  • 2010 Census numbers reveal South's rapid growth, i ...
    It's official: The 2010 Census numbers have been released, and the South's projected growth in population and political clout -- which Facing South has been writing about for over two years -- is now reality. Here are some of the highlights from the Census data released today: * 13 Southern s ...
  • Waking from a DREAM
    By Melissa Del Bosque, Texas ObserverThe Senate finally took up the DREAM Act Saturday only to allow it to die by five votes. Some students, wearing their graduation caps and gowns in the Senate gallery wept as the bill went down. It had been a long, hard fight including hunger strikes, bloo ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Ending 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
    Date on which the Senate repealed the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy prohibiting gay, lesbian and bisexual soldiers from serving openly in the military: 12/18/2010 Number of U.S. service members who have been discharged under the policy since it was adopted in 1993: more than 13,300 Final Senate v ...

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

  • War of 1812
    The war of 1812 was a military conflict between the United States and Great Britain. As a colony of Great Britain, Canada was swept up in the War of 1812 and was invaded a number of times by the Americans. The process of calling
  • Mowat, Farley
    Farley Mowat, author (b at Belleville, Ont 12 May 1921). Mowat has been writing since his pre-teens. He recalls composing "mostly verse" while living with his family in Windsor (1930-33) and then publishing a regular
  • Hydroelectricity
    Hydroelectricity is obtained from the ENERGY contained in falling water; it is a renewable, comparatively nonpolluting energy source and Canada's largest source of ELECTRIC-POWER GENERATION . In N America in the 1850s the
  • Champlain, Samuel de
    Samuel de Champlain, cartographer, explorer, governor of New France (b at Brouage, France c 1570; d at Qu�bec City 25 Dec 1635). The major role Champlain played in the St Lawrence River area earned him the title of
  • Physiographic Regions
    Physiography originally meant "the study of natural phenomena," but later usage limited its application to PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY in particular and, more recently, to landforms alone. Physiographic regionalization is here

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Bike mudguards from plastic milk bottles
    Quentin has been in touch with this great idea: It always surprises me that these days many bicycles are supplied without mudguards. Anyhow, I’ve discovered for my children’s bicycles, that a very satisfactory set of mudguards can be made from a couple of 4 pint milk cartons, 5 x 15cm tie wraps and ...
  • How can I reuse or recycle till receipts & their r ...
    We’ve had an email from Roger: I was wondering Have you ever featured Till receipts on your website, I work in a supermarket and at least once a day i ‘run out’ of till receipt paper and have to replace it, But i’m sure there is at least 10% of the paper still on the [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle old brooms, brushes & r ...
    Following on from last week’s plastic dustbins and Monday’s broken ironing boards, Philip also suggested Brooms and rakes. I don’t know why, but people often throw out orphaned handles and heads of various garden tools. I simply play match maker. You can’t have too many garden tools on a farm. Recon ...
  • Recycled Christmas decorations – our favouri ...
    Wondering how to make your festive season that bit greener by making recycled Christmas decorations? There are lots of ways to make them reusing waste paper, scrap fabric, or random other things from around the home and garden – and they’re certainly not all just for kids. Here are some of our favou ...
  • 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 [...]

Mondoweiss

  • The world will be a much safer place when American ...
    1. America's not safe for us. (Look around, pal; we have complete freedom here) 2. We need a place to land when things get too hot in Brooklyn. (See #1; and so you warehouse a country in the Middle East-- and the people who were born there can't even move there.) 3. Israel depends for its safety [ ...
  • Israeli soldiers and nonviolent resisters argue ab ...
    The photos above are from a protest today in Al-Walaje, a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank just outside of occupied East Jerusalem. The Jewish settlement of Gilo faces Walaje and has been stealing village land to expand. And Palestinian popular committees organize protests against the ...
  • Debating BDS at Princeton
    This is a post from Blumenthal's site. On December 15 I participated in a debate at Princeton University on the “ethics and efficacy” of BDS. The debate was held as a bookend to the battle over a resolution calling for adding an alternative in the campus cafeteria to Sabra Hummus, an Isr ...
  • Obama affirms the right of return (for gay soldier ...
    I've been as moved as anyone by the liberation story that the repeal of Don't-ask-don't-tell represents for American gay people, and really for all of us. As I confessed when I talked about this last month, I had pretty conventional homophobic attitudes 20 years ago; and a long national education ha ...
  • ‘The Palestine Cables’: Gaza is a bur ...
    This is the third entry in "The Palestine Cables," Alex Kane's series on what WikiLeaks is telling us about the Palestinian position in world politics. Forsaken by the "peace process," ignored by mainstream media, denied justice two years after Israel committed what many rights groups called war cr ...

Media Consortium

  • Mobile TV Coming to 20 U.S. Markets by 2011
    The Mobile Content Venture (MCV), a joint effort by U.S. broadcasters, recently announced its roadmap for its mobile TV network. The roll-out plans to have 20 U.S. markets covered by the end of 2011. And we should see mobile TV-compatible devices by the second half of 2011. Could it be true? A real, ...
  • Clyde Bentley updates his timeline for newspapers ...
    Three main points from this post that are important. 1) "For newsrooms that are behind on mobile—and the vast majority of them are,” said Bentley, “the mobile web site is most important thing they need to catch up on. When you’re using a mobile device, you should get taken to mobile site. Technicall ...
  • 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 ...

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 )

  • Should we proscribe placebo prescribing?
    It sounds more like a question for philosophy than for medicine: if you know a placebo is a placebo, is it still a placebo? Definitions of placebo often involve it being a ‘sham’ or a ‘dummy’ treatment. But a Boston-based team has been trying to see if they can elicit a placebo effect when their ...
  • Senate ratifies nuclear arms deal
    The US Senate has ratified the New START treaty, a nuclear arms agreement between Russia and the US that has been a key foreign policy objective for US President Barack Obama. The decision paves the way for a new round of bilateral nuclear inspections, which ended in 2009 when the 1991 START I tr ...
  • Wales to lose nearly half its universities
    The number of universities in Wales must be cut from 11 to at least 6 by 2013, the body that funds higher education in the principality said yesterday. Since 2002 the Welsh government has encouraged universities to voluntarily collaborate and merge and has provided funding for them to do so. But ...
  • Shining light
    A technique that enables scientists to control the behaviour of cells using flashes of light has been named Method of the Year 2010 by the journal Nature Methods. Optogenetics, as it's called, has already been used by neuroscientists to show which nerve cells fire when a sleeping mouse wakes. The ...
  • Capitol Hill's busy day — and night
    For a lame duck, the current session of the US Congress certainly seems to be hitting its stride. Recent days have seen a raft of important legislation passing through both the House of Representatives and the Senate as lawmakers push to get their highest priority bills turned into laws. Here’ ...

new geography

  • 2010 Census: South and West Advance (Without Calif ...
    For a hundred years, Americans have been moving south and west. This, with an occasional hiccup, has continued, according to the 2010 Census. During the 2000s, 84 percent of the nation's population growth was in the states of the South and West (see Census region and division map below), while gro ...
  • Smart Growth and the Quality of Life
    The idea of “smart growth” should be like mom and apple pie. But take a closer look and you find, for the most part, that smart growth policies often have unintended consequences that are anything but smart. If housing is unaffordable, the cost of living is high and people are leaving, it probably ...
  • Toward a Continental Growth Strategy
    North America remains easily the most favored continent both by demography and resources. The political party that harnesses this reality will own the political future. America cannot afford a prolonged period of slow economic growth. But neither Democrats nor Republicans are prepared to offer a ro ...
  • Don’t Touch My Junk – At the Airport OR at the Zon ...
    Until recently, “Don’t touch my junk” was only a rallying cry for people who liked to accumulate broken down cars in their yards, in defiance of local nuisance ordinances. The internet meme radiating from San Diego International Airport puts an entirely new spin on the phrase. Americans have a str ...
  • Belly-Up In The Burbs: Bank-Owned Developments
    In 2009, the number of repossessed autos increased to 1.9 million. The number of homes under foreclosure varies from month to month, but the 2009 total was about 2.8 million. For 2010, it seems that a million new foreclosed homes would be conservative, with a large percentage in California. Miss ...

GM Watch

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Cryptogon

  • Placebos Work, Even When Patients Are in the Know
    The placebo story is very old and well known. It’s the tip of the iceberg. These films provide a good survey of this area of inquiry. The Living Matrix Something Unknown Is Doing We Don’t Know What Via: Los Angeles Times: In what researchers call a novel ‘mind-body’ therapy, most patients in a study ...
  • Trader Holds $3 Billion of Copper in London
    Via: Wall Street Journal: As commodity prices soar to new records, the ability of a few traders to hold huge swaths of the world’s stockpiles is coming under scrutiny. The latest example is in the copper market, where a single trader has reported it owns 80%-90% of the copper sitting in London Metal ...
  • Recording the Police
    Via: Bruce Schneier: I think we need a law that explicitly makes it legal for people to record government officials when they are interacting with them in their official capacity. And this is doubly true for police officers and other law enforcement officials.
  • MI6 Spy Gareth Williams: Keys Found Under Body, In ...
    Via: Telegraph: Detectives investigating the death of the MI6 spy Gareth Williams have disclosed that keys to the padlock on the sports bag were found inside the North Face holdall, underneath Mr Williams’s naked body. An expert on rescuing people from confined spaces has told investigators that it ...
  • U.S. Postal Service Vehicles to Carry Sensor Packa ...
    Via: New York Times: The service’s thousands of delivery vehicles have only one purpose now: to transport mail. But what if they were fitted with sensors to collect and transmit information about weather or air pollutants? The trucks would go from being bulky tools of industrial-age communication to ...

The Economic Collapse

  • Why Democrats And Republicans Are Both Wrong About ...
    All over the Internet, Republican pundits are declaring that extending the Bush tax cuts will save the economy and Democrat pundits are declaring that ending the Bush tax cuts will save the economy. Well, you know what? Nothing will save the U.S. economy. The U.S. government is g ...
  • Has The Financial Collapse Of Europe Now Become In ...
    What in the world is happening over in Europe?  Well, it is actually quite simple.  We are witnessing the slow motion collapse of the euro and of the European financial system.  At this point, many analysts are convinced that a full-blown financial implosion in Europe has become ine ...
  • Say What? 30 Ben Bernanke Quotes That Are So Stupi ...
    Did you see Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on 60 Minutes the other night?  Bernanke portrayed the Federal Reserve as the great protector of the U.S. economy, he claimed that unemployment would be 15 percent higher if the Federal Reserve had sat back and done nothing during th ...
  • Municipal Bond Market Crash 2011: Are Dozens Of St ...
    In the United States, it is not just the federal government that has a horrific debt problem.  Today, state and local governments across America are collectively deeper in debt than they ever have been before.  In fact, state and local government debt is now sitting at an all-time h ...
  • Government Waste: 20 Of The Craziest Things That T ...
    You are not going to believe some of the things that the U.S. government is spending money on.  According to a shocking new report, U.S. taxpayer money is being spent to study World of Warcraft, to study how Americans find love on the Internet, and to study the behavior of male pros ...

Desertification

  • Soil Desertification (Google / Stephaniexin)
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://stephaniexin.blogspot.com/2010/12/soil-desertification.html Soil Desertification is a serious environmental problem in the world. Soil Desertification reduce arable soil to produce food for huge amount of population and there are already some regions a ...
  • “World Atlas of Desertification and Improvement (W ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://pkrc.forst.nu/2010/12/world-atlas-of-desertification-and-improvement/ World Atlas of Desertification and Improvement Between 29th of November and 3rd of December, PKRC hosted an international expert meeting for the development of a new âWorld Atlas of ...
  • Desertification, a threat to global wellbeing (Goo ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://theothersideofeverything.com/flip/2010/12/desertification-is-greatest-threat-to-planet/ Desertification is Greatest Threat to Planet Desertification and land degradation is “the greatest environmental challenge of our time” and “a threat to global well ...
  • What is desertification ? (Google / Blast Magazine ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://blastmagazine.com/2010/12/18/earthtalk-what-is-desertification-why-does-dishwashing-detergent-suddenly-not-work-as-well/ by E – The Environmental Magazine EarthTalk: Can you explain what âdesertificationâ is and why it is an important environmental iss ...
  • Growing Roots (Katherine Leiner – Food Freed ...
    Read at : http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/12/18/growing-roots-the-new-generation-of-sustainable-farmers-cooks-and-food-activists/ Growing Roots: The New Generation of Sustainable Farmers, Cooks, and Food Activists Book Review by Jeanne Santangelo Novato Advance After generations of decline, th ...

The Paper Trail

  • DuPont Penalized For Hiding Chemical Health Risks ...
    When the Environmental Protection Agency settled on Dec. 6 a major enforcement action against DuPont Co., for failing to report possible health risks involving its chemicals, it wasn’t the first time. In 2005, the company also resolved EPA assertions that it hid the dangers of a toxic chemical, agre ...
  • EPA Reminds Republicans Cap-and-Trade Used to be G ...
    The Obama administration is turning the tables on Republican foes of climate regulation, demonstrating not only that cap-and-trade works — it significantly reduced acid rain — but that the program was started by one of their own, George H. W. Bush.
  • Corporations Aim to Narrow SEC’s Proposed Wh ...
    Midnight is the deadline to weigh in on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s plan to offer whistleblowers a bounty of up to 30 percent of settlements over $1 million and protection for alerting the government to corporate malfeasance.
  • In Webcast Debut, Fed Meeting To Propose Limiting ...
    The Federal Reserve Board takes a step into 21st century transparency this afternoon when it offers a first-ever webcast meeting, giving the public a peek into how the secretive U.S. central bank operates.
  • SEC Moves Ahead On Oil, Mining, Derivatives Transp ...
    The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new transparency rules today mandated by the Dodd-Frank reform law for mining companies, international oil producers, as well as companies that buy or use certain “conflict” minerals from Africa.

backofthebook.ca

  • Battle of the Bigots
    A white supremacist group called The Council of Conservative Citizens is outraged that Marvel has cast Idris Elba as Heimdall in Thor, because he is foxy.  I mean, black.  They probably don’t appreciate that foxy black men exist in the world, but it is definitely the blackness that they are ...
  • WikiLeaks’ Canadian secrets not all that sec ...
    By Frank Moher I can tell from our logs that a lot of people are still looking to find out what Wikileaks' purloined cables have revealed about Canada, but the answer remains: Not a whole lot. Little enough, in fact, that it's possible to run the Canadian content all in one ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • Asiad the only low in an otherwise good year ...
    NEW DELHI: Fortunes ebbed and flowed but Indian shooters, led by the mercurial Gagan Narang, experienced more highs than lows in a year that saw them clinch a record 30 medals in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi. A measly haul of eight medals in the Asian Games in Guangzhou following the high at ...
  • Russian President meets Bebo, SRK
    The likes of a Russian president and a world famous magician were spotted hobnobbing with the stars on the sets of RA.One Lately the unit of Shah Rukh Khan's much awaited next RA.One seems to have a lot of high profile visitors On Wednesday evening, the Russian President, Dmitri Medvedev, who i ...
  • Donating Blood Un-Islamic: Darul Fatwa
    New Delhi, December 23: In a potentially controversial decree, Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has said that donation of blood and body parts was against the tenets of Islam, but observed that giving blood to save the life of a near and dear one was acceptable. However, the opinion of the ...
  • Obama repeals 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
    Washington, December 23: US President Barack Obama has signed into law the repeal of the “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” policy, which banned homosexual service-members to serve openly in the military. "[The law] will strengthen our national...
  • Christian Bale to star in Nanjing massacre ep ...
    BEIJING - Acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou has chosen Batman star Christian Bale to star as a heroic priest in his next film about the infamous Nanjing massacre by Japanese forces. The filmmaker -- known for martial arts blockbuster "Hero" and for directing the opening ceremony of the 200 ...

Alex in Wonderland

MY Daily Apple

  • Well: Tim Gunn's Advice for Making It Work
    In his role as mentor on the fashion reality show "Project Runway," Tim Gunn listens, consoles, advises and motivates the contestants. Now the fashion guru is offering his sage advice on how the rest of us can "make it work." (Source: NYT Health)
  • Observatory: Humans, Like Animals, Behave Fearless ...
    A patient with rare brain damage is unafraid and incautious.
  • Cold snap
    Good neighbours urged to help the frail and vulnerable.
  • Transplants Cut, Arizona Is Challenged by Survivor ...
    When Arizona lawmakers voted to cut some state-financed transplant coverage, they relied on data showing that the procedures were rarely successful. Now those numbers are being challenged. (Source: NYT)
  • Bioethics Commission Calls For Enhanced Federal Ov ...
    The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has released its first report - a wide-ranging review of the emerging field of synthetic biology - issuing 18 recommendations including a call for coordinated federal oversight of scientists working in both large institutions and smaller ...

Common Dreams

  • GOP Senator Tom Coburn To Block 9/11 Responders Bi ...
    by Nick WingSen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) plans to block legislation that would provide additional aid to cover the health care costs of 9/11 first responders, one of the senator's aides told The Wall Street Journal Tuesday morning.read more
  • Mercs Win Billion Dollar Afghan Cop Deal. Again.
    by Spencer AckermanThe solution for Afghanistan’s endlessly troubled police force? According to the Army, the same contractors that have trained them for the past seven years.read more
  • Ivory Coast's Ouattara Urges Civil Revolt
    by Dave ClarkABIDJAN - Beleaguered would-be Ivory Coast president Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday urged the Ivorian people to rise up in a campaign of civil disobedience against defiant strongman Laurent Gbagbo.In a statement issued from the hotel where it survives behind a wall of UN peacekeepers, Oua ...
  • Iraq Approves New Government
    Iraqi lawmakers have unanimously approved a new government to be headed by Nouri al-Maliki, the incumbent prime minister. The vote on Tuesday ended nine months of political deadlock after an inconclusive national election in March.read more
  • US Military Commanders Push for Ground Raids on Ta ...
    by Rob Crilly The plan has not yet been approved, they said, but could bring an intelligence windfall if they were allowed to launch cross-border attacks to capture insurgents inside Pakistan. Pakistani and Nato officials denied any such proposals were being considered. However, the demand ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

Green House - USA Today

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

  • Start Treaty Hypocrisy
    by Stephen Lendman Hyped support reveals gross hypocrisy about a deeply flawed process and outrageous price for it. More on that below. Yet a September 14 New York Times editorial headlined, "Ratify the New Start Treaty," saying; "Failure to ratify this treaty would be hugely costly for Amer ...
  • UN Statement on WikiLeaks
    By United Nations Joint Statement on WikiLeaks UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression In light of ongoing developments related to the release of di ...
  • John Pilger's 'The War You Don't See' now on YouTu ...
    By Rady Ananda I’ve uploaded it to my review at TPV: http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/12/19/john-pilger-s-the-war-you-don-t-see-an-iOriginal post blogged on b2evolution.
  • Were Opium Heads Responsible for the Downfall of C ...
    By Elizabeth Young In the early 19th century, traders from Britain and America bought porcelain, silk and tea from China. Allegedly, the problem was the “traitors” could find nothing to sell in exchange and the trade balance went negative. China then built up substantial monetary reserves in silve ...
  • Spoiling for a Fight?
    by Stephen Lendman Washington is a world class menace, waging imperial wars for global dominance called peace, stability and democracy. In the run-up to the 1950 Korean War, Truman used South Korea to goad Pyongyang into a conflict it didn't want. Nor does it now, but events may spiral out of co ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • CCPA features in The Globe and Mail's discussion o ...
    In the last few weeks The Globe and Mail has been examining the problem of income inequality in Canada. Our own Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan was the special guest in The Globe and Mail's online discussion about income inequality. Read that lively discussion here. The Globe also looks at the li ...
  • Income inequality bad for everyone: Richard Wilkin ...
    The CCPA was pleased to co-sponsor a three-city lecture tour featuring Richard Wilkinson, co-author of the best selling book The Spirit Level, which examines income inequality among developed nations. During his sold-out stop in Toronto, he sat down with the CCPA's Trish Hennessy to talk about the b ...
  • Federal budget takes center stage
    It appears as though this year's federal budget will be particularly important in the parliamentary calendar as it may be what brings down the government. �Ignatieff appears to be planning to vote against Flaherty's budget unless there are some radical changes. �This will also increase the relevance ...
  • 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 ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Won’t Be There In Time For Christmas…
    But maybe for the New Year! Why not treat yourself to some Hippie Goodness? Peace Symbol Necklace (metal) & Earrings Metal peace symbol on braided necklace. Metal peace symbol earrings (2) Top quality, adjustable clasp. Satisfaction guaranteed! Metal Necklace & Earrings Peace necklace (U ...
  • What Do You Stand For?
    What Do You Stand For? I was having a conversation with someone this week about Julian Assange. He told me he was against Assange and told me the reason was because he felt Assange was endangering our country. I listened to him and, while listening, couldn’t help ask myself what this person stood ...
  • Hunga Dunga: Christmas Eve, 1970
    “Polizatto is an unapologetic hippie and Hunga Dunga is his homage to hippiedom. He does an amazing job of showing us things through a new set of eyes and writing erotic scenes that are very hot and at the same time have a real innocence about them. Hunga Dunga is outrageous and very, very funny!” [ ...
  • Bachmann Turns To Overdrive?
    Is Michele Bachmann Gearing Up For A 2012 Senate Run? | TPM Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) did pretty well for herself in 2010. A prominent conservative figure who routinely appears on national television, she founded the tea party caucus, and was recently given a seat on the House Intelligence Commit ...
  • Hippie Druids At Stonehenge
    Druids at Stonehenge solstice event | UKPA Snow and ice failed to keep people away from Stonehenge as they gathered to see the sun rise on the winter solstice. More than 2,000 people came together at the stones, which were surrounded by a thick blanket of snow. The winter morning mist obscured the a ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • The Great Fear
    Nine years after 9/11, hysteria about Muslims in American life has gripped the country. With it has gone an�outburst�of arson attacks on mosques, campaigns to stop their construction, and the branding of the Muslim-American community, overwhelmingly moderate, as a hotbed of potential terrorist recru ...
  • Statement by Michael Moore on Accusations Against ...
    Excerpt from "Dear Government of Sweden ...an open letter from Michael Moore"I don't pretend to know what happened between Mr. Assange and the two women complainants (all I know is what I've heard in the media, so I'm as confused as the next person). And I'm sorry if I've jumped to any unnecessary o ...
  • 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 ...

Salon

  • People, we're in deep trouble
    Recently, I reread Orwell's "Looking Back at the Spanish War." The 1943 essay summarizes what he learned as a volunteer militiaman fighting for Spain's Socialist government against Franco's fascist-backed rebels -- a bitterly disillusioning experience that inspired his three greatest books: "Homa ...
  • Alaska Supreme Court dismisses Joe Miller case
    The Alaska Supreme Court has upheld a lower court decision in the disputed U.S. Senate race, saying the state correctly counted write-in votes for Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
  • Russia reclaims tons of nuclear waste
    The U.N. nuclear agency says tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste from a defunct Serbian reactor have been repatriated to Russia.
  • How Obama can stop a GOP redistricting bonanza
    Tuesday's announcement of the final census numbers confirms that Republicans will for the next decade be the primary beneficiaries of massive exurban population growth. Right-leaning states like Arizona, Florida, South Carolina and Utah are set to gain seats in the House of Representatives when t ...
  • Senate reaches deal on 9/11 health bill
    Republican and Democratic senators have reached a deal on a scaled-down bill to help 9/11 first responders who became sick from having worked in the dust of the World Trade Center.

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

Energy Collective

EU Times

  • Guatemala declares state of siege in town taken ov ...
    Guatemala has declared a state of siege in a northern province that authorities claim has been overtaken by Mexican drug traffickers. The government initiated the monthlong measure in the Alta Verapaz province to reclaim cities that have been taken over by the Zetas drug gang, Ronaldo Robles, a spok ...
  • South Korea vows to punish ‘enemy’ as it prepares ...
    South Korea announced new land and sea military exercises on Wednesday, including its largest-ever live-fire drill near North Korea, just as tension on the peninsula was beginning to ease after Pyongyang’s attack on a southern island. The firing drills planned for Thursday near the Koreas’ heavily a ...
  • 7 presidential candidates face 15 years in Belarus ...
    A Belarusian human rights organization says seven of the candidates who ran against the country’s authoritarian leader face charges that could lead to 15 years in prison in the wake of post-election violence and massive arrests. Ales Belyatsky of the human rights center Vesna said the charges have b ...
  • Three giant spaceships to attack Earth in 2012?
    UFO encounters became especially frequent in the middle of the 20th century, when it became impossible to disregard incidents of UFO sightings anymore. Special services started establishing special departments for air defense troops, secret laboratories were organized to study the phenomenon. It is ...
  • Study: Nearly a quarter of takers fails Army entra ...
    Nearly a quarter of all students who try to join the U.S. Army can’t pass the entrance exam, a new study says. The study, “Shut Out of the Military: Today’s High School Education Doesn’t Mean You’re Ready for Today’s Army,” puts the blame on America’s educational system. “This is true for men and wo ...

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

  • Sony launches its music-streaming service
    Sony has launched a new streaming-music service in the U.K. and Ireland, showing that the company is forging ahead with a plan to create a media ecosystem around its products akin to Apple’s, despite a long history of failed efforts in this arena. The streaming service, Music Unlimited, will be ava ...
  • ExoPC Tablet Hacked To Run Google Android 2.2 OS
    ExoPC tablet that was introduced a couple days ago was now hacked to run Google Android 2.2 FroYo OS instead of the default Windows 7 OS. The hack was done by MrWilson, one of the ExoPC Forums member. He managed to run Google Android 2.2 FroYo on ExoPC, capable of hooking up with WiFi network and m ...
  • Did The Xbox 360 *Really* Usher In The Era Of HD G ...
    Flickr’d It’s the end of the year, and that means many publications are rolling out their annual “best of” list. I don’t know if *we’re* doing anything along those lines, but I *do* have a bone to pick with 1UP. They’ve a delightful little list of 10 things the Xbox 360 did to change gaming forever
  • Verizon Wireless to launch Motorola Smartphone for ...
    A smartphone from Motorola Inc. for its new, high-speed wireless network will be introduced by Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. wireless operator in the coming year A smartphone from Motorola Inc. for its new, high-speed wireless network will be introduced by Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. wi ...
  • Is Vince Cable A Fool Or A Mischief Maker?
    Is this the face of a fool or the face of a mischief maker? Business Secretary, Vince Cable, who has long been respected for his forthright views on the economy and his personal reservations about his party’s power sharing coalition with the Conservatives, has been caught in a ‘sting’ by two journa ...

Groklaw

  • 2010: The Year in Free and Open Source Software
    Nothing is new, of course, in companies exploiting FOSS for their own benefit. In the past, however, most companies, however, have eventually realized that at least limited cooperation with a community that includes their rivals can benefit them. What is different now is the number of ways in which ...
  • Silicon Valley Start Up Kno Ships Educational Tabl ...
    California-based start up Kno Inc. announced it has begun shipping its Linux-based touch screen educational tablet for students, letting them read textbooks, take notes and browse the Web. The first Kno tablets will begin arriving this week, the Silicon Valley company said. Kno, short for knowled ...
  • Microsoft BPOS cloud service hit with data breach
    Company data belonging to customers of Microsoft's hosted business suite BPOS has been accessed and downloaded by other users of the software. The issue affected the Offline Address Book of customers of the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) Standard suite. - ComputerWorld
  • ITC to Hear Motorola's Patent Infringement Case Ag ...
    The investigation is based on a complaint filed by Motorola Mobility, Inc., of Libertyville, IL, and General Instruments Corporation of Horsham, PA, on November 22, 2010. The complaint alleges violations of section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 in the importation into the United States and sale of c ...
  • Oracle spends $1.4M on 3Q lobbying
    Other heavyweights such as Hewlett-Packard Co. spent $1.6 million, and Microsoft Corp. spent $1.6 million. Oracle lobbied on issues such as patent litigation and the government's information technology spending plans. - Bloomberg

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • Independent Voting
    Independent Voting is mobilizing against the barriers that block independents from having real representation, such as closed primaries and partisan control of districting. Why do independent voters need a voice? Although the U.S. Constitution makes no mention of political parties – and although Geo ...
  • Electric motorcycle goes from California to Las Ve ...
    Not just any electric motorcycle, either.
  • Dickies. Silent Night
  • Bloomberg sues ECB to force disclosure on Greece s ...
    Bloomberg News filed a lawsuit against the European Central Bank, seeking to make it disclose documents showing how Greece used derivatives to hide its fiscal deficit and helped trigger the region’s sovereign debt crisis. Bloomberg has been doing an exemplary job in exposing the financial fraud, cor ...
  • California lawmakers say good bye to the Governato ...
    Among the gifts they said Schwarzenegger gave in their “Big Five” negotiations were “eight accounting gimmicks,” “five bucks for schools,” “three furlough Fridays,” and “two vetoed bills.” As well as “six unions screaming” and “four smoke and mirrors”! Heh.

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

Media Co-Op

  • Journalists! Pitch your story for 2011
    As we do every month, the Media Co-op will pay two contributors for news features to be published in The Dominion. We prioritize solutions-oriented news pieces with a Canadian angle, including photo essays and video pitches. Pitches are welcome from anyone; priority for payment goes to those who hav ...
  • Pancakes for All! Homes for All!
    VANCOUVER - Van.Act hosted a�pancake brunch�today to mark the publicity launch of the February 2011�tent village at the site of Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson`s�multi-million dollar bailout for developers. The Olympic legacy at the Athlete's Village still has zero social housing units occupied. Se ...
  • "Media is Just the Word for getting the Word Out"
    David Eby, Henry Yu, Tami Starlight, and Harsha Walia Speak Out on Human Rights and Media Last week, on the eve of International Human Rights Day, the Chinese-Canadian National Council and W2 hosted a panel on human right and the media in Vanc ...
  • Who Ya Gonna Call?
    The Commissioner of the Environment takes your questions Some might call Scott Vaughan a modern-day Chicken Little. But Vaughan is the federal Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development. He would know better than anyone if the ...
  • Africville Settlement: A Replica Church Amidst a D ...
    By Denise Allen On November 26th, Mayor Kelly announced that $2.5 million had been transferred by the Halifax Regional Municipality to the Africville Heritage Trust Society. This money has already been committed to the construction of a repl ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • Why isn't Julian Assange in Guantanamo? Where are ...
    Peter King, a member of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, said the latest release "manifests Mr Assange's purposeful intent to damage not only our national interests in fighting the war on terror, but also undermines the very safety of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
  • The Wikileaks cables: the portrait of an empire
    Not really the image that America would like to project at this moment David Seaton's News LinksThere are Wikileaks cables from almost every imaginable part of the world, but since I live in Spain, I'll fill you in on some of the dump's specific effects on Spanish politic ...
  • Wikileaks: comparing conspiracy theories
    Image by Christian Ségal������ David Seaton's News LinksIt isn't as if conspiracies don't exist, but generally stupidity or incompetence explain most disasters and even real conspiracies don't tend to be as elaborate as their legion of fans would like to believe. But if we define a "conspiracy" as w ...
  • The travails of Pfc Bradely Manning
    From the beginning of his detention, Manning has been held in intensive solitary confinement. For 23 out of 24 hours every day -- for seven straight months and counting -- he sits completely alone in his cell. Even inside his cell, his activities are heavily restricted; he's barred even from exerc ...
  • Is "freedom" just another word for nothing left to ...
    David Seaton's News Links There is a world, a universe, of pain in the following quote from the Financial Times: If you want something to get angry about, I wouldn�t look at tuition fees. I�d look at a little graph produced by Leon Feinstein of the Institute for Education, which shows tests of cogn ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

  • EWG Applauds Obama Administration Plan to Address ...
    Contact: EWG Public Affairs            202-667-6982       Washington, D.C. — Just two days after the release of Environmental Working Group's (EWG) analysis of chromium-6 (hexavalent chromium) contamination in the drinking water of 31 U.S. cities, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Vi ...
  • Milestone Measure to Advance Food Safety Passes Co ...
    Contact: Contact EWG Public Affairs            202-667-6982       Washington, D.C. – The nation’s food safety system is responsible for 3,000 deaths each year, and 48 million illnesses annually , according to newly released data from the federal Centers... [[ This is a content summary only. ...
  • EWG Tests Show Notorious Carcinogen is Widespread ...
    Contact: Home Full Report Executive Summary Study Findings Industry Tactics Government Failings Progress in California Study Methodology ... [[ This is a content summar ...
  • EWG response to EPA’s review of chromium-6 health ...
    December 15th, 2010 Read our Press Release Download PDF. November 23, 2010 Office of Environmental Information (OEI) Docket Mail Code: 2822T U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW. Washington, DC 20460 Re:... [[ This is a content summa ...
  • 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. ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

  • FDA Increases Recommendations for Fatally Flawed O ...
    An advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering a request by the medical company Allergan to significantly lower how obese someone must be to qualify for surgery using the company's Lap-Band device. The FDA has already indicated that it believes people in the proposed ...
  • Are Depressed People Too Clean?
    Researchers have been taking a close look at the immune system of people living in today's cleaner modern society.��One effect they have found is that rates of depression in younger people have steadily grown to outnumber rates of depression in the older populations; this may be because of a loss of ...
  • This One Activity Will Slash Your Chance of a Cold ...
    WPHL offers a list of ways to fight a cold that are more natural and more affordable than pricey, over-the-counter medicines. They include: Slippery Elm The inner bark of the Slippery Elm, when mixed with water, it becomes a slick gel. This gel is rich with antioxidants and coats your throat, st ...
  • Wealth and Health of 200 Countries in the World Ov ...
    Statistics come to life as Swedish academic superstar Hans Rosling graphically illustrates global development over the last 200 years.
  • Higher Animal Based Omega-3 Intake Shown Protectiv ...
    Animal-based omega-3 fats could help some older adults protect their eyesight longer. Eating more foods rich in these fats appears to slow advanced macular degeneration, a common cause of age-related blindness. An observational study that included close to 2,400 participants found that people who h ...

JAMA

Survival - tribal peoples

  • WikiLeaks: US renewed Indonesia military ties afte ...
    Footage of Indonesian soldiers torturing two Papuans caused widespread outrage and revulsion. © Survival US government cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed that Indonesia threatened to derail President Obama’s visit to Jakarta this year unless America reversed its ban on military assistan ...
  • Nukak’s desperate plea to return home
    Many Nukak have been forced to flee their forest homes, and now live in refugee camps outside the forest. © Arnau Blanch/Survival A leader of the Nukak tribe from the Colombian Amazon has made a desperate appeal for his people’s survival before the country’s top human rights committee. ’We wan ...
  • Borneo tribes under threat from massive palm oil e ...
    Penan mother and child, Sarawak, Borneo. © Survival International The hunter-gatherer Penan and other tribes are under threat from new plans to expand palm oil plantations massively in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The Sarawak government has announced plans to double the area used for palm ...
  • Tribe reveals new evidence of uncontacted Indians ...
    Kayapó Indians dance at a protest against the Belo Monte dam © T Turner A tribe in the Brazilian Amazon has revealed new evidence showing that there are uncontacted Indians living in the area of the planned Belo Monte mega-dam, and has warned that these Indians are seriously threatened by the p ...
  • Success! USA is final country to support tribal ri ...
    All countries that opposed the Declaration, including Australia, now support it. It is a small step in creating real change for tribal people like this Aboriginal boy. © John Miles/Survival The United States has formally endorsed the UN Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, meaning t ...

Montreal Gazette

  • Restraint is all very well, but have a little hear ...
    On Ste. Catherine St. this Christmas week, huge SOLDE signs hang in the windows, all but obscuring the sparkly decorations. Montrealers are out shopping, but there's a feeling of restraint in the air. Two years after the global economic meltdown, Quebecers are still hurting.
  • Widening the options for an aging population
    With the first wave of baby boomers hitting eligible retirement age this coming year, amid talk of a "grey tsunami" poised to sweep over the country, now is a good time for Canada's finance ministers to be talking about pensions, as they did at their meeting in Alberta this week.
  • Editorial: Amir Khadir unclear on the concept
    One has to wonder if Amir Khadir has some kind of perverse thing about shoes -or just Israel. The Quebec solidaire member of the National Assembly for Mercier previously came off looking silly at an anti-American demonstration where he threw a shoe atapictureof formerpresidentGeorgeW. Bush. ...
  • Editorial: Uncertainty clouds future of anglo scho ...
    Uncertainty is becoming ever more the way of life in the English-language education sector in Quebec, a situation that the provincial government seems little pressed to alleviate.
  • Amir Khadir unclear on the concept
    One has to wonder if Amir Khadir has some kind of perverse thing about shoes -or just Israel. The Quebec solidaire member of the National Assembly for Mercier previously came off looking silly at an anti-American demonstration where he threw a shoe atapictureof formerpresidentGeorgeW. Bush. ...

Food World Order

  • 1 in 7 US homes hit by hunger; numbers nearly doub ...
    6.8m US households did not have enough food last year from alertnet: The number of U.S. households that reported getting emergency food from a food pantry almost doubled between 2007 and 2009, at the height of the recession, a government report said on Monday. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
  • hexavalent chromium found in drinking water of 31 ...
    from washington post: An environmental group that analyzed the drinking water in 35 cities across the United States, including Bethesda and Washington, found that most contained hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen that was made famous by the film "Erin Brockovich." The study, which will be re ...
  • before your next grocery trip, get the non-gmo sho ...
    non-gmo shopping guide: get the app & download the pdf! from NonGmoShoppingGuide.com: The Institute for Responsible Technology is a world leader in educating policy makers and the public about genetically modified (GM) foods and crops. We investigate and report their risks and impact on health, e ...
  • 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 ...

CrusadeWatch

  • "Crorepathy" Fr. Jegath Gasper Raj main ...
    source:  Asian Tribune The Sri Lankan Catholic Church, the Catholic Radio Veritas based in Phillipines, the Tamil Catholic hierachy and its priests have been the main links of the global network of the Church to protect, promote, provide succor and cover to the internationally banned T ...
  • 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 ...

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 ...
  • Mary Rodwell The New Human Vers. 02

The Economic Collapse

  • Why Democrats And Republicans Are Both Wrong About ...
    All over the Internet, Republican pundits are declaring that extending the Bush tax cuts will save the economy and Democrat pundits are declaring that ending the Bush tax cuts will save the economy. Well, you know what? Nothing will save the U.S. economy. The U.S. government is g ...
  • Has The Financial Collapse Of Europe Now Become In ...
    What in the world is happening over in Europe?  Well, it is actually quite simple.  We are witnessing the slow motion collapse of the euro and of the European financial system.  At this point, many analysts are convinced that a full-blown financial implosion in Europe has become ine ...
  • Say What? 30 Ben Bernanke Quotes That Are So Stupi ...
    Did you see Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on 60 Minutes the other night?  Bernanke portrayed the Federal Reserve as the great protector of the U.S. economy, he claimed that unemployment would be 15 percent higher if the Federal Reserve had sat back and done nothing during th ...
  • Municipal Bond Market Crash 2011: Are Dozens Of St ...
    In the United States, it is not just the federal government that has a horrific debt problem.  Today, state and local governments across America are collectively deeper in debt than they ever have been before.  In fact, state and local government debt is now sitting at an all-time h ...
  • Government Waste: 20 Of The Craziest Things That T ...
    You are not going to believe some of the things that the U.S. government is spending money on.  According to a shocking new report, U.S. taxpayer money is being spent to study World of Warcraft, to study how Americans find love on the Internet, and to study the behavior of male pros ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Hated Nick Clegg now genuinely a contender for thi ...
    I can't believe the kind of things that people are now buying in order to express their hatred of Nick Clegg. Go to Amazon or I-Tunes, buy this, and hopefully he'll sod off back to Brussels where he belongs... I am not making this up... click this. This is a genuine section of a screenshot tak ...
  • This deliberate economic vandalism against the UK ...
    So, figures announced today reveal that: "Borrowing jumped to a record £23.3billion in November despite the Chancellor’s austerity drive, according to the Office for National Statistics." The Daily Mail also reveals how: "The national debt rose to £971billion at the end of November, or 65.2 per c ...
  • Quote of the Day: 13th December 2010
    "I think we deserve an apology. By “we” I mean all the Euro-sceptics, Euro-pragmatists, Euro-realists and Euro-hysterics who were alarmed by some of the optimism that surrounded the birth of the single currency. Do you remember the disdain with which we were treated? We were told that we were boss-e ...
  • Bet the rampaging 'students' would like to get the ...
    Days after Marxist Youth thugs masquerading as students smashed up Central London over University tuition fees... ...comes news that the European Empire is handing £1.1billion of OUR British taxpayers money to help "countries such as Turkey and Albania join the European Union". The Daily Expre ...
  • Do us all a favour Vince... and quit already
    So, Vince Cable has been caught out in an undercover 'sting' by the Daily Telegraph. In it, Cable demonstrates his arrogant sense of self-importance, telling two phony constituents (journalists) that he could resign and bring down the Government. Well frankly, we wish he would hurry up and get on ...

Facing South

  • How does the biggest prison strike in American his ...
    By Mark Anthony Neal, TheLoop21.com In September of 1971, more than a thousand prisoners at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, NY revolted in what eventually became one of the most famous prison standoffs in American history. Before the insurrection was bloodily quelled on orders of then N ...
  • SPECIAL REPORT: Two years after Tennessee coal ash ...
    By Sue Sturgis Today marks two years since a coal ash impoundment collapsed at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee, sending a billion-gallon tidal wave of toxic waste into a nearby community and rivers. The disaster also pushed the issue of coal ash ...
  • 2010 Census numbers reveal South's rapid growth, i ...
    It's official: The 2010 Census numbers have been released, and the South's projected growth in population and political clout -- which Facing South has been writing about for over two years -- is now reality. Here are some of the highlights from the Census data released today: * 13 Southern s ...
  • Waking from a DREAM
    By Melissa Del Bosque, Texas ObserverThe Senate finally took up the DREAM Act Saturday only to allow it to die by five votes. Some students, wearing their graduation caps and gowns in the Senate gallery wept as the bill went down. It had been a long, hard fight including hunger strikes, bloo ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Ending 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
    Date on which the Senate repealed the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy prohibiting gay, lesbian and bisexual soldiers from serving openly in the military: 12/18/2010 Number of U.S. service members who have been discharged under the policy since it was adopted in 1993: more than 13,300 Final Senate v ...

CenterLine

  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Trio of False Alarms Put New York on Edge Today’s Terrorism News will be on hiatus until January 3. We’d like to wish all of our readers a happy and healthy holiday season, and we hope to see you in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Lawyers for Ghailani Urge Judge to Dismiss Single Conviction On Friday, lawyers for Ahmed Ghailani, who was acquitted of more 280 counts of murder and conspiracy in November in connection with the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa, urged … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Lawyers for Zubaydah Ask Poland to Open Investigation Lawyers for Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian detained at Guantanamo, have filed a lawsuit in Poland to request a formal investigation into whether Zubaydah was mistreated at a secret CIA-run prison in the … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Guyanese Man Gets Life Sentence for JFK Bomb Plot Abdul Kadir, a former Guyanese politician who was convicted earlier this year for plotting to detonate the fuel system at JFK International Airport in New York, was sentenced to life in … Continue reading →
  • Today’s Terrorism News
    Virginia Man Arrested After Threatening DC Metro on Facebook A Virginia man was arrested earlier this month and charged with communicating threats via interstate communications after allegedly making threatening comments about bombs on DC Metro trains on Facebook. According to … Continue reading →

Short Sharp Science

Tech Drive In

  • Minitube - Perhaps the Cleanest Looking YouTube De ...
    Minitube is a flash free YouTube desktop application for Linux and Mac OSX. Minitube is perhaps one of the cleanest looking YouTube desktop client I have ever used in Ubuntu. And the fact that Minitube does not use the Flash player to play videos makes it a really low consumer of your CPU resources. ...
  • Getting Things GNOME - Useful Tool to Get Things D ...
    Getting Things Gnome(GTG) is a nice and simple tool to organize and manage your tasks and time efficiently.�GTG uses a very handy text edition system for task creation and edition. The task editor can automatically recognize metadata such as tags and subtasks only by the use of a very simple syntax. ...
  • Pinguy OS - Probably the Best Ubuntu Derivative I ...
    Pinguy OS - not many must have heard about it. Pinguy OS is basically a heavily modified Ubuntu with an emphasis on the out-of-the-box functionality of the OS and more importantly on the look-good factor. And I got to tell you folks, on every count, my experience with Pinguy OS was well above averag ...
  • Orta Theme for Ubuntu GNOME Just Got Awesomer!
    We had already featured Orta theme in our listing of�top themes to be used with Faenza icon theme in Ubuntu. Orta GTK theme hit version 1.0 today and has become ever more beautiful. The latest version comes with a number of new features and tweaks as well. What's New in Orta 1.0 GTK Theme fo ...
  • Top 3 Application Menu Alternatives for Ubuntu
    I didn't had any problem with the default menu application I have in my Ubuntu. That was until I tried other application menus available out there. Here is a collection of 3 simple application menu alternatives you should give a try in your Ubuntu. GnoMenu GnoMenu is a nice and simple alte ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • HOW TO SAVE EUROPE AND THE USA: PRINT MONEY LIKE T ...
    Chinaâs rise to economic superpower is largely due to the fact that it prints money without creating debt  as explained by Vienna Economics University Professor Franz Hörmann in an interview in Der Standard newspaper called “Banks create money out of air.” The Chinese government creates money  w ...
  • China shows sudden wish to prop up doomed eurozone
    China c.bank declines to comment on Portugal debt report BEIJING Dec 22 (Reuters) – China’s central bank declined to comment on a newspaper report on Wednesday that it is ready to buy between 4-5 billion euros ($5.24 billion) of Portuguese sovereign bonds to help the debt-ridden country. The Jornal ...
  • Are our water supplies being poisoned?
    While the US media is reporting that an Al-Qaeda-linked group that considered putting poison in food served at  hotels and restaurants, little attention is being paid to the water supply, an obvious target for any “terrorist” group wanting to poison large numbers of people. A police man in Stuttgar ...
  • Pimco says ‘untenable’ policies will l ...
    Pimco, the world’s largest bond fund, has called on Greece, Ireland and Portugal to step outside the eurozone temporarily and restructure their debts unless the currency bloc agrees to a radical change of course. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 7:00PM GMT 20 Dec 2010 Andrew Bosomworth, head of Pimco’s po ...
  • Assange angry over Guardian leak of serious Swedis ...
    So What Is The ‘Graphic And Damaging Material’ The Guardian Says It Left Out Of Leaked Assange Rape Charges? Glynnis MacNicol | Dec. 21, 2010, 11:58 AM | 1,049 | 10 Today he took to the Rupert Murdoch-owned Times of London to complain (in the third person!) about the Guardian. “The leak of the polic ...

Invisible Opportunity

  • What’s any of This got to do with That?
    By Les Visible Well, maybe it’s time for a general mea culpa of sorts along with various bits of evidence that might help in the general understanding. Some people want to know ‘when things are going to happen’. I suggest you look around and you will see that things are happening. It can take a [... ...
  • Fluoride in Water Linked to Lower IQ in Children
    Is this the end of water fluoridation? NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Exposure to fluoride may lower children’s intelligence says a study pre-published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (online December 1 ...
  • Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
    This is just a reminder, lest we forget, of what passes as science from the CRU.  It is actually funny in light of what is happening in the UK and Europe today… By Charles Onians Monday, 20 March 2000 Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow i ...
  • Wintry weather brings snow to Australia in midsumm ...
    By Bonnie Malkin, Sydney 11:24AM GMT 20 Dec 2010 Freezing winds from Antarctica, blown up to Australia by a low-pressure system in the Southern Ocean, gave the country a taste of the conditions that are causing havoc across Europe. Some 11 inches of snow fell at the ski fields in New South Wales, ra ...
  • Feds order farmer to destroy his own wheat crops: ...
    By Mike Adams In arguing for S.510, the “Food Safety Modernization Act,” there are all sorts of attorneys, legislators and internet commentators who keep claiming, “The government won’t try to control the food production of small farms.” They say, “Your backyard garden is safe” and that the feds won ...

Veterans Today

  • 9/11Video: Tower Explosions Occurred Prior to Plan ...
    In the video there are two shots of the planes colliding into the World Trade Center towers, the second airplane didn’t exactly look like a commercial plane. In both cases, the explosions relating to the planes' collisions appear to occur prior to the planes' impact…!
  • JEFF GATES: WHY IS ISRAELI SPY JONATHAN POLLARD B ...
    Why Is Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard Back in the News? By Jeff Gates Over the past two months, Benjamin Netanyahu has mentioned the fate of jailed Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard six times in meetings with President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Israel lobby also mounted a letter-wri ...
  • President Obama’s Statement on Repeal of &#8 ...
    With his signature today, the President put in motion the end of a policy that has hurt our military as a whole, that has forced thousands of those who serve to do so under a cloud of anxiety and isolation, and that has stood as a symbol of the barriers to unity and equality in our [...]
  • The War Prayer
    “I don’t think the prayer will be published in my time. None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth”âMark Twain (March 30, 1905). On the occasion of the publication of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1, published on the centenary of the author’s death, here is another work published post ...
  • War Is Over If We Want It, by John Lennon
    The power of music to inspire has never been so eloquently illustrated as by John Lennon as he spoke for peace in the face of 1,000,000s dead, maimed and traumatized in the Vietnam War; efforts that engaged President Nixon to attempt to deport such a dangerous man. Even now, the music of John Lennon ...

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

  • Is there hidden messaging in The Simpson’s c ...
    Today, a friend named Alex sent me this post: Watch this video to understand how hollywood has given us early indications of foreknowledge of falseflag events including 9/11 and Katrina.  Consider the series “V” coming up on Jan 4 such predictive programming, and liken the “red rain” to chemtrails.  ...
  • The Bursting Debt Bubble – Power Point
    To see Dr. Ott’s newest power point – and to follow along with his radio broadcast, click here:   The Bursting Debt Bubble This is clearly THE BIGGEST STORY in American History. Spread the word — and Merry Christmas – (no thanks to the treasonous traitors at Goldman Sachs.)  
  • 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 ...

k2p blog

Left Foot Forward

Consumerist

  • Regulators Won't Finish Review Of Comcast-NBC Deal ...
    Jack Donaghy had better cancel his Christmas break. NBC and Kabletown, er, Comcast, have announced that they don't expect regulators to finish their review of the planned acquisition of the broadcaster by the cable giant until next year. The two companies still expect the deal to go through. Acco ...
  • Virgin Passengers Not Named Madonna Wait 3 Hours T ...
    When bad weather forced a London-bound Virgin flight to reroute from Heathrow Airport to Stansted, passengers had to wait three hours on the tarmac before they could disembark. A select group did, however, get to leave the plane after about an hour. No, they weren't disabled, sick or parents with s ...
  • Skype Outage Leaves Millions Searching For Landlin ...
    No, it's not just you. A Skype "supernode" outage has left millions of users without access to the popular Internet phone service. According to company engineers, the problem may last a few more hours, and video calling may not be available until even later. So, what's a supernode? Glad you asked ...
  • Train Your Brain To Keep Your New Year's Resolutio ...
    Most people will make a New Year's resolution. And most people will end up breaking them. The problem comes down to willpower. Mainly that relying on willpower alone is a surefire way to end up failing. Sure it will work for a short time, but the prefrontal cortex, which controls willpower, is easi ...
  • Are Amazon's Kindle Covers Making Devices Freeze?
    Marc says Amazon's Kindle covers cause the e-readers to freeze up, requiring owners to reboot or return them, only to see the problem recur with refurbished units. Users on these forums echo Marc's problem. He writes: Amazon.com is selling record numbers of Kindle 3's this season. Amazon also se ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • GAP Statement on WPEA Secret Hold
    The following statement regarding the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act can be attributed to GAP Legal Director Tom Devine: “This holiday season, a Republican senator gave taxpayers a secret Scrooge. After unanimous House approval today, and unanimous Senate approval last month of a stronge ...
  • House Passes Food Safety Bill; Whistleblower Prote ...
    The New York Times: House Passes Overhaul of Food Laws After facing numerous setbacks, the Food Safety Modernization Act received final approval from the House of Representatives yesterday with a vote of 215 to 144. President Obama has indicated that he will sign the bill. The legislation ...
  • Corporate Whistleblower Protections Included in Fo ...
    Protections Cover Workers in Industries Regulated by FDA; GAP Calls for Similar Rights for Federal Workers to be Passed (Washington, D.C.) – Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is praising Congress for passing the most comprehensive whistleblower protections for food industry w ...
  • FCC Votes on New Internet Access Rules; TSA Questi ...
    Washington Post: FCC Set to Enact New Rules Affecting Internet Access The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to vote today on a set of rules that would bolster “net neutrality” -- a principle that calls for Internet Service Providers (ISP) to treat all legal Internet traffic equall ...
  • Why James Cole Still Awaits Confirmation Vote; Sen ...
    Washington Post: Why James Cole is Still Waiting for His Confirmation Vote In this letter to the editor, GAP International Reform Director Beatrice Edwards argues that the delay on a vote for James Cole’s confirmation as U.S. deputy attorney should be prolonged until Cole can explain his lapse ...

UK Progressive

  • December’s Storms & Subzero Temps, Worse Case Scen ...
    by Theodora Filis Climate experts predicted that this year’s winter season could bring the snowiest, coldest weather in Europe for the past century. They were right! Timing was a bit off though, winter didn’t officially begin until December 21st, but snow and ice have wreaked havoc throughout Europe ...
  • White House Drafts Executive Order for Indefinite ...
    by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica Dec. 22: This story has been corrected and updated with the White House’s response. The White House is preparing an Executive Order on indefinite detention that will provide periodic reviews of evidence against dozens of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, according to s ...
  • Remember our Homeless Gay Youth this Holiday
    by Rev. Irene Monroe The holiday season is a difficult time of year many of us. Our cultureâs egregious forms of commercialism always bother me — and its anemic recognition of other celebratory forms of this holiday season other than Christmas, like Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, and the celebration of ...
  • Nothing Says Peace on Earth, Goodwill Towards Men: ...
    Just before term break the activity magazine Primary Times: What’s On Guide for Families was produced and distributed inside South Wales’ schools. It’s a handy compendium of everything one can do over a two-week break with 3 Tweens whose standard line 4-5x per day is… “I’m sooo bored.” The magazine ...
  • In Case You Missed The Winter Solstice Lunar Eclip ...
    This brilliant time-lapse photography version of it is spectacular. Thanks to Catherine Lawrie for bringing it to our attention and William Castleman for the patience in tracking this for  hours across the sky then producing this video. Amazing effort to film it. Nice choice of music as well! Winter ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Could the Australian BOM get it more wrong?
    Warwick Hughes has spotted a neat trifecta: whether it be rain, maximums or minimums, the  BOM gets it wrong. For this spring the Australian BOM predicted it would be dry and warm, instead we got very wet and quite cold.  The models are so bad on a regional basis, it’s uncannily like they are almo ...
  • Glikson: decends to pseudo-psychology and projecti ...
    Remember the Great Debate between myself and Dr Andrew Glikson?  He’s back – in Climate change denial: The misrepresentation of climate science he calls names, resorts to inventing a mental illness, creates strawmen whom he beats down mercilessly, all the while misrepresenting thousands of scientist ...
  • Glikson: decends to pseudo-psychology and projecti ...
    Remember the Great Debate between myself and Dr Andrew Glikson?  He’s back – in Climate change denial: The misrepresentation of climate science he calls names, resorts to inventing a mental illness, creates strawmen whom he beats down mercilessly, all the while misrepresenting thousands of scientist ...
  • Global Warming takes a holiday
    Here in the sunburnt country, floods are running rife, temperatures are so low some people might have a White Christmas, indeed many people are wearing clothes that are from the wrong season, and all of this of course is just weather. Luckily we aren’t getting as much weather as the UK and Europe. T ...
  • Global Warming takes a holiday
    Here in the sunburnt country, floods are running rife, temperatures are so low some people might have a White Christmas, indeed many people are wearing clothes that are from the wrong season, and all of this of course is just weather. Luckily we aren’t getting as much weather as the UK and Europe. T ...

ReNew America

  • Senate approves nuclear arms pact with Russia
    (Washington Times) - The Senate ratified Wednesday an arms-control treaty with Russia that President Obama has made the centerpiece of his disarmament agenda and diplomatic "reset" with Russia...
  • Obama signs 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal
    (Associated Press) - Declaring that members of the military will no longer be asked to lie, President Barack Obama fulfilled a campaign promise Wednesday and signed a landmark law repealing the ban on gay men and women serving openly in the armed services...
  • Obama, pragmatic socialist
    (Stanley Kurtz) - "Is the president still a Marxist if he cuts taxes?" That's the question posed by Slate's David Weigel in his critical review of my new book, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism. I'll answer with a question of my own: Is Lawrence O'Donnell stil ...
  • America's first Christmas
    (Rich Lowry) - Gen. George Washington's army retreated from New York in ignominy in November 1776. As it moved through New Jersey, Lt. James Monroe, the future president, stood by the road and counted the troops: 3,000 left from an original force of 30,000...
  • Census: fast growth in states with no income tax
    (Michael Barone) - For those of us who are demographic buffs, Christmas came four days early this year when Census Bureau director Robert Groves announced yesterday the first results of the 2010 Census and the reapportionment of House seats (and thus, electoral votes) among the states...

Truth Offering

  • Truth Offering w/ Matt Gordon - December 15, 2010
    Check out our first Podcast featuring TruthOffering.com's Matt Gordon. Topics range from WikiLeaks and Internet censorship, to food freedom and the Federal Reserve. Being that it's our first Podcast, it's a work-in-progress. So, please leave any and all feedback. Thanks...and enjoy: �
  • The False Flag Cyber Attack Takedown of the Intern ...
    Here are some of today's top shock headlines: "Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'" - The Daily Mail "Hackers Rise for WikiLeaks" - Wall Street Journal "WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike" - Reut ...
  • 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! Note: this isn't for the faint of heart. I'm frustrated! Why!? Because I care. I care deeply; about this country; about our ...
  • Latest Poll - Week Ending 12/5/10
    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 say hyperi ...
  • S. 510: The Death of Food Freedom Act
    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 mention ...

2012 Blog

  • Lunar Eclipse = Quakes?
    The evidence is (perhaps) stacking up. Mitch Battros of Earth Changes Media, as well as many other researchers (even my Facebook status!) suggested that yesterday’s lunar eclipse could cause an earthquake. And it looks like it did: Japan’s Meteorological Agency said the quake occurred about 130 kilo ...
  • 2012: Brightest Northern Lights
    According to NASA, 2012 will be the big one for observing the Northern Lights. Scientists say that they “should at least be visible as far south as Rome.” Icelandic photographer Orvar Thorgiersso says “By the year 2012 if you catch the moment the Sun is spewing out solar storms dir ...
  • Noah’s Ark / Facebook Game / Bollide Data
    With state-funding, a Christian ministry will build a $150 million theme park, featuring a full-size Noah’s Ark, complete with live animals. There will also be a Tower of Babel. Can’t wait to take my family, and it is aiming to open in 2014. Those 500 million Facebook users now have ...
  • Prince Charles and 2012 Topics
    First of all, I severely doubt HRH Prince Charles is a 2012er, and although I respect his principles, I never thought I would write a blog post about him. But today it crossed my mind that perhaps he has a role to play in the peripheral topics of 2012. He has written a book called [ ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • How does the biggest prison strike in American his ...
    By Mark Anthony Neal, TheLoop21.com In September of 1971, more than a thousand prisoners at the Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, NY revolted in what eventually became one of the most famous prison standoffs in American history. Before the insurrection was bloodily quelled on orders of then N ...
  • SPECIAL REPORT: Two years after Tennessee coal ash ...
    By Sue Sturgis Today marks two years since a coal ash impoundment collapsed at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston power plant in eastern Tennessee, sending a billion-gallon tidal wave of toxic waste into a nearby community and rivers. The disaster also pushed the issue of coal ash ...
  • 2010 Census numbers reveal South's rapid growth, i ...
    It's official: The 2010 Census numbers have been released, and the South's projected growth in population and political clout -- which Facing South has been writing about for over two years -- is now reality. Here are some of the highlights from the Census data released today: * 13 Southern s ...
  • Waking from a DREAM
    By Melissa Del Bosque, Texas ObserverThe Senate finally took up the DREAM Act Saturday only to allow it to die by five votes. Some students, wearing their graduation caps and gowns in the Senate gallery wept as the bill went down. It had been a long, hard fight including hunger strikes, bloo ...
  • INSTITUTE INDEX: Ending 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
    Date on which the Senate repealed the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy prohibiting gay, lesbian and bisexual soldiers from serving openly in the military: 12/18/2010 Number of U.S. service members who have been discharged under the policy since it was adopted in 1993: more than 13,300 Final Senate v ...

One News Page

  • Russian spy sentenced to prison in Poland
    Reported by newKerala.com 2 hours ago, received via One News Page (http://www.onenewspage.in)
  • Two firefighters dead, 14 injured in blaze at Chic ...
    Reported by newKerala.com 2 hours ago, received via One News Page (http://www.onenewspage.in)
  • U.S. soccer star Landon Donovan files for divorce ...
    New York, Dec 23 (ANI): U. S. soccer star Landon Donovan has filed for divorce from his actress wife Bianca Kajlich.  According to the divorce petition, Donovan and the 'Rules of Engagement' star married on New Year's Eve in 2006, but had been separated since October 2009. Reported by Newstrack Ind ...
  • Eating habits that ensure a longer life
    Washington, Dec 23 (ANI): A new study has found that the leading causes of death are no more infectious diseases but chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer - which may be affected by food habits. Reported by Newstrack India 1 hour ago, received via One News Page (http://www.onen ...
  • 'Free spirit' Symonds happy out of cricketing spot ...
    Brisbane, Dec. 23 (ANI): Former Australian Test player Andrew Symonds has gone from the glare of the spotlight to the anonymity of farming life in North Queensland.  In 2006, during the last Ashes series, Symonds was bigger than Santa Claus. Reported by Newstrack India 1 hour ago, received via One ...
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