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Friday, December 31, 2010

31 December - RSS SnapShot! Pt 3

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Electronic Intifada

Afghanistan Sun

  • Afghanistan-based US troops' families bear br ...
    The impact of the Afghanistan war is not limited to the soldiers deployed there, but extends to their families back home, who bear the brunt of the psychological and emotional strain of deployments.
  • Roadside bomb kills 10 Afghan civilians
    At least 10 Afghan civilians were killed and several injured Thursday in a roadside bombing in the southern province of Helmand, officials said.
  • US probes army 'death squad' in Afghanis ...
    The US army is investigating a group of soldiers accused of murdering Afghan civilians, mutilating their bodies and collecting fingers and skulls from corpses as trophies, a media report said Thursday.
  • Try a new approach in Afghanistan
    Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 | 2:03 a.m. We are mired in Afghanistan, a country with a weak central government, rampant corruption and home to those who attacked us on 9/11, al-Qaida. The biggest crop in Af
  • Is Pakistan Losing Ground in Its Taliban War
    (See TIME's video of the fight against the Taliban in Marjah.) The recent surge in militants attacks has sparked concerns about the stability of those tribal areas Pakistan had long declared secu

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

  • Dear Blog Readers
    Look, someone has to pore over the reports coming from the Government Accountability Office, various Inspectors General, and sundry ad hoc committees. Someone has to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, hold the legislative and executive branches' feet to...
  • Morning Smoke: Watered Down Whistleblower Bill Too ...
    Where there's smoke, there's fire. POGO's Morning Smoke is a collection of the previous day's investigations, scoops, and opinions related to the world of government oversight. Have a story you'd like to see included? Contact POGO's blog editor. Bill to...
  • Scientific Integrity Memo Could Protect Scientists ...
    In case you missed it, the White House Office of Science & Technology (OSTP) on Friday released a memorandum on scientific integrity. As noted by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), "If fully implemented by federal agencies and departments, the...
  • SEC Describes Possible Criminal Activity in Unpros ...
    Amid Crackdown on Wall Street, Government Enforcement Efforts Still Questioned By Adam Zagorin and Michael Smallberg Attorney General Eric Holder. Credit: DOJ. The Obama administration has stated it will aggressively go after Wall Street criminals, but is the government letting two defendants ...
  • 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...

Digital Journal

  • Mild start of year makes Ontario ponds dangerous
    January will be coming in with mild weather this year in Ontario making bodies of water dangerously unsafe. It may look like local lakes like Lake Simcoe is frozen but York Regional Police report that open water is already present.
  • Autism Speaks awards research grants, virus link t ...
    Worldwide science and advocacy concern Autism Speaks awarded 21 new research grants, including 3 Trailblazer Awards meant to explore 'out of the box' angles - including the link between autism and common viral infections.
  • A year in the life of a journalist in Toronto
    Covering Toronto this year highs and lows were recorded in equal measure. The year 2010 will be remembered for the chaos of the G20 and the year that Rob Ford was elected but so much more took place. Join me for a look back.
  • The use and abuse of Godwin’s law by politicians a ...
    It would be nice if 2011 could see a reduction in the use by the press and politicians of epithets derived from Nazis, Fascism and Hitlerism, but I am not holding my breath, if only because they are becoming all too common, to the discredit of both.
  • No One Is Illegal holds Christmas days of action i ...
    No One Is Illegal, an immigration network based in Toronto, held three days of efforts during the Christmas holiday across the Greater Toronto Area. The group held a vigil and two days of political action.

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

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    Help set out Ceasefire.ca's plans for 2011.
  • U.S. ratifies New START treaty
    The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to accept the New START strategic nuclear disarmament treaty between Russia and the United States (Peter Baker, “Senate Passes Arms Control Treaty With Russia, 71-26,” New York Times, 22 December 2010). U.S. ratification of the treaty, signed by presidents Obama an ...
  • 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 ...

Kevin Trudeau Show

  • Happy New Year!
    Happy New Year from everyone at The Kevin Trudeau Show! We are off the next couple days to celebrate the beginning of the new year with our friends and families! The next broadcast will be at 12PM CST on January 3rd, 2011! Now is the time to catch up on past shows you may have missed, or [...]
  • 14 Of The Most Ridiculous Things That Americans Ar ...
    December 28th, 2010 The Economic Collapse Doesn’t it seem like almost everything is becoming a crime in America now? Americans are being arrested and charged with crimes for doing things like leaving dog poop on the ground, opening up Christmas presents early, not recycling properly, farting in cla ...
  • 25% of Kids and Teens Take Prescription Drugs
    December 28th, 2010 The Wall Street Journal By: Anna Wilde Mathews Gage Martindale, who is 8 years old, has been taking a blood-pressure drug since he was a toddler. “I want to be healthy, and I don’t want things in my heart to go wrong,” he says. And, of course, his mom is always there to check Gag ...
  • The Naked Truth About Scanners
    December 28th, 2010 Politico By: Roger Simon On the day after Christmas, readers of The Washington Post were given a real treat: pictures of naked men. The men in the pictures were fully clothed, but they were naked nonetheless, because the pictures came from airport full-body scanners. The machines ...
  • Studies Show Adverse Side Effects in Schizophrenia ...
    December 28th, 2010 Natural News By: Amy Chaves The November 2010 issue of Nature reported that several large pharmaceutical companies, including AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline, have chosen to pull out of the psychiatric pharmacology in the treatment of schizophrenia. The reason is obvious, accordi ...

Pambazuka News

  • Southern Sudan: Sowing the seeds of agricultural r ...
    After the sound of gunfire fell silent in Southern Sudan, marking the end of one of Africa's longest running civil wars, Pio Kowr Ding decided he would return home to the autonomous region to take up an agricultural research job with the government. ...
  • Ethiopia: Ethiopians to remember martyrs of the 20 ...
    Ethiopians from various cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia held a conference on Saturday to discuss and coordinate plans for the upcoming 5th anniversary of the Ethiopian election massacre. The participants discussed and updated each othe...
  • March on Washington scheduled for November
    The Black is Back Coalition has announced a march and rally on the White House to take place November 13, 2010 beginning in Washington, DC’s historic Malcolm X Park. This will mark the second year in a row that this black coalition will be protestin...
  • USA: Black community activist faces possible 10 ye ...
    Diop Olugbala (aka Wali Rahman) will be sentenced on Wednesday, 13 October to a possible 10 years in prison for speaking out on behalf of the rights of the black community. A press conference and demonstration will be held prior to Olugbala’s sentenc...
  • Morocco: Expats returning home in greater numbers
    Faced with the woes of the global economic crisis, an increasing number of Moroccan expatriates are coming back home. Meanwhile, the government is intensifying effort to aid the community abroad as well as help them maintain ties with their home coun...

War in Context

  • ‘Disappeared’ Pakistanis — innocent and guilty ali ...
    Without a single reference to President Obama’s drone war in Pakistan, extrajudicial detention of prisoners at Guantanamo, the torture of suspected terrorists, CIA-run secret prisons, rendition, presidential authorization to assassinate US citizens, or the United States’ long history of supporting g ...
  • Not just a friend: one Palestinian’s view of Israe ...
    The Palestinian activist Ayed Morrar writes: I know that power – with all the authority, physical comfort, and quality of life it brings – strongly pushes a person into a world of material possessions, and people and things that stimulate their senses. Gradually, they start to protect this material ...
  • Lieberman represents Israel
    In recent months, Israel’s political leaders and Israel’s stateside supporters have been railing against the so-called delegitimization movement. It’s debatable whether such a movement exists but even to the extent that it does, the effect it has had in tarnishing Israel’s image is minuscule in comp ...
  • Obama’s indiscriminate slaughter in Pakistan can o ...
    Mehdi Hasan writes: Speaking at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in May, Barack Obama spotted teen pop band the Jonas Brothers in the audience. “Sasha and Malia are huge fans, but, boys, don’t get any ideas,” deadpanned the president, referring to his daughters. “Two words for you ...
  • When Americans stop being killed in Iraq it stops ...
    Just as the State Department defines “terrorism” in terms of threats to American lives and threats to America’s national security, the war in Iraq is ceasing to be a “war” because fewer and fewer Americans are dying — as though the only blood that supports life is American blood; as though life itse ...

Watts Up With That?

  • USA record lows outpace record highs 21 to 1 this ...
    539 new snowfall records were also set. Since we are often treated to lists of record high temperatures when heat waves occur and they are improperly linked to global warming (like in Russia’s heat wave this summer), I thought it … Continue reading →
  • Clean Coal (Say WATT?) – Our Energy Future
    Guest Post by Ira Glickstein The December 2010 issue of the Atlantic shows an amazing turn-around by some of the Global Warming warmists! Yes, they are still tuned in to the CAGW crowd predicting imminent climate change disaster, but … … Continue reading →
  • NOAA on Miami Florida: Coldest December on Record
    From the NOAA National Weather Service Office in Miami comes this year end report: 2010 South Florida Weather Year in Review Coldest December on Record Concludes Year of Extremes December 30th, 2010: Temperature and precipitation extremes marked the weather of … Continue reading →
  • The top WUWT posts of 2010
    What were the most viewed stories of 2010 on WUWT? Our WordPress stats counter shows the most viewed stories: And here they are with links, should you wish to visit or bookmark: Sea Ice Page 484,896 Widget 119,405 Climategate 77,362 … Continue reading →
  • The Antithesis
    You know, in science, there was once this thing we called the Theory of Multiple Working Hypotheses.  Anathema (a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication) in modern climate science.  So, in juxtaposition to the hypothesis of future global climate disruption … Continue reading →

Dandelion Salad

  • Creation Is A Scientific Fact
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ LogosApologia | December 30, 2010 Everything that begins to exist has a cause.The universe began to exist. Therefore the universe has a cause. Why couldn’t natural forces have produced the universe? Because there was no nature and there were no natural forces pri ...
  • David Barstow: Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hou ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Dec. 30, 2010 “Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours:” The Explosion that Killed 11 Workers and Led to the Worst Oil Spill in U.S. History It has been eight months since the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon set off the worst offshore oil spill in U ...
  • Robert Meeropol: My Parents Were Executed Under th ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Dec. 30, 2010 Son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: “My Parents Were Executed Under the Unconstitutional Espionage Act — Here’s Why We Must Fight to Protect Julian Assange” As the U.S. Department of Justice considers charging WikiLeaks founder Julian ...
  • Amtrack, Hitler and Lunch in Paris by Daniel N. Wh ...
    by Daniel N. White Featured Writer Dandelion Salad December 31, 2010 Reading too much lately, too much time, not enough work, not enough money in the bank to travel or start a project.  That’s Christmas for you.  Picked up and read Waiting on a Train, by James McCommons.  Short, well-written firs ...
  • Letter to Governor-Elect Andrew Cuomo regarding A ...
    http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page December 30, 2010 Dear Governor-Elect Cuomo: The conditions where many regular New Yorkers live are grim. Poverty, unemployment, home foreclosures, and small business bankruptcies keep growing. On the other side of the tracks, the to ...

Your New Reality

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    Ron Paul : In a society where truth becomes treason...we are in big trouble. The truth is that our foreign spying, meddling and outright military intervention in the post-World War 2 era has made us less secure, not more, and we have lost countless lives and spent trillions of dollars for our t ...
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    A Christian South Korean Christmas Greeting To Atheist North Korea If war between South Korea & North Korea breaks out soon, you will seen footage from this Live War Rehearsal passed off in the mainstream media as footage from the actual conflict.
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    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 ...

Wired - Science

  • Climate Models Miss Effects of Wind-Shattered Dust
    Clumps of dust in the desert shatter like glass on a kitchen floor. This similarity may mean the atmosphere carries more large dust particles than climate models assume. Dust and other airborne particles’ effect in the atmosphere is “one of the most important problems we need to solve in order to p ...
  • Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2010
    In a year full of major advances, over-hyped findings and controversial studies, Wired Science had a tough time choosing which breakthroughs were the biggest in 2010. So we've collected the ones that stood out the most to us. From synthetic life and three-parent embryos to the possibility of a new h ...
  • U.S. Science Funding Boost Faces Uncertain Future
    Despite coming under attack by Congressional republicans, federal science funding has received a major and mostly overlooked boost. The America COMPETES Act, passed by Congress shortly before Christmas, calls for $46 billion in science and technology research funding over the next three years. Fina ...
  • The Weirdest Indicators of Serious Medical Risks
    As databases of information about people’s lifestyles and medical ailments grow, ever-stranger omens of our health seem to emerge. Today’s computer-powered studies allow researchers to look beyond obvious health risks of the past. New analyses show, for example, that finger length, grip strength an ...
  • The World’s Biggest, Iciest Particle Detector
     See Also: Elusive Neutrino Change-Up Finally Detected Searching for Alien Neutrino Messages Dark Matter May Be Building Up Inside the Sun Underground Lab Probes How Matter Licked Antimatter New Supernova Image Reveals Third Dimension

Israeli Occupation Archive

  • Avi Shlaim: Obama and Israel – The pessimistic per ...
    The American-Israeli special relationship is a classic example of the tail that wags the dog. As a result of its palpable partiality towards Israel, America has lost all credibility in the eyes not... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Ban on Arabic in Jaffa classroom sparks protests
    Students question why teachers stop them from speaking Arabic, but don't do so when immigrant students speak Russian between themselves. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to the IOA website for much more... ...
  • Rabbis’ wives: Don’t date Arabs
    New letter signed by rabbis' wives appeals to women urging them to stay away from Arabs. 'As soon as they have in you in their grasp – everything becomes different. Attention will be replaced with... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...
  • Amira Hass: Israel’s Qassam strikes on Gaza
    Vilnai is depending on Israelis' total indifference to our Qassams: our soldiers' nearly daily firing on Gaza civilians, regularly wounding and sometimes killing them. The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now in its fifth decade. Go to t ...
  • ‘Shin Bet tortures prisoners and denies access to ...
    As many as 90% of Palestinian prisoners are denied this basic right despite civilian and military legislation, says study produced by Public Committee Against Torture and Palestinian Prisoners'... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, now ...

Ria Novosti - Military

NewsWise

  • Infants Not Exempt From Obesity Epidemic
    Obesity might begin in babies as young as nine months old, a revealing new study finds.
  • Risk for Alcoholism Linked to Risk for Obesity
    Addiction researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that a risk for alcoholism also may put individuals at risk for obesity, and the association between a family history of alcoholism and obesity risk has become more pronounced in recent years.
  • Consistent Exercise Associated with Lower Risk of ...
    Consistent exercise is associated with a lower risk of dying from colon cancer, according to a new study led by Siteman Cancer Center researchers at Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. The study is among the first to show that physical activity can make the disease less de ...
  • Clinical Trials Under Way to Test Anti-Obesity Com ...
    Clinical trials started in December 2010 to determine how well an anti-obesity compound derived from a Chinese herb works in humans. South Dakota State University researcher Gareth Davies, the scientific director for the Avera Institute for Human Behavioral Genetics in Sioux Falls, said collaborator ...
  • Loyola's New Chief Medical Officer Is Champion of ...
    Dr. Robert A. Cherry, 45, a an accomplished trauma surgeon and a leader in quality and patient safety, has been named Loyola University Health System's chief medical officer and vice president of clinical effectiveness.

Natural Health News

  • Kitty Plays Foosball
    There is an added degree of difficulty to this game of foosball.
  • My Blackberry is Not Working!
    Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield star in this sketch from The One Ronnie.
  • 250 Billion Plastic Fragments in the Mediterranean
    Somewhere around 250 billion microscopic pieces of plastic are floating in the Mediterranean Sea. �This is creating a biological hazard throughout the entire food chain. Micro-sized plastic becomes mixed with plankton. �It is then ingested by small fish which are then subsequently eaten by larger p ...
  • The Best Foods for Beautiful Skin
    If you really want beautiful skin, do the same things you would do to strengthen your heart, control your weight, lift your mood and live longer and better: Get regular exercise, sleep enough and eat well. Discovery Health suggests a number of foods to look at if you want a beautiful-skin diet.� He ...
  • Mediterranean Diet Tied to Slower Mental Decline
    People who eat a Mediterranean-style diet may think a little more clearly into old age. �The findings of a recent study add to mounting evidence that such a diet may be as good for your brain as it is for the rest of your body. To determine if slower brain aging might be among the diet�s health ...

Antemedius

  • Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, A Shadow Government of Ki ...
    Originally published at TomDispatch.com I have a friend who sends a note every year in December, pleading with me to pen one upbeat, hopeful piece before the next year rolls around.� Mind you, I consider myself an upbeat guy in a downbeat world and, for me, when it comes to pure upbeatness, you coul ...
  • Republican Right Silent on Real Arizona Health Car ...
    Charles Grassley led the propaganda charge when it came to accusing the Obama Administration of intending to create a health care death panel. It is interesting to observe the stony silence of the senator from Iowa as well as that of his colleagues when a very real death panel has reared its ugly ...
  • 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.
  • Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?
    Editors note: In light of recent political and economic developments and trends, we'll be bumping Sara Robinson's three part series from August 2009 to our front page again - part 1 today, and parts 2 & 3 the next two days. Here is part one... Originally published at OurFuture.org There are dangerou ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Merry Christmas
    by Kenneth Anderson by Kenneth Anderson To all OJers everywhere who celebrate it, Merry Christmas, and to everyone a joyous holiday season.  It is snowing large wet flakes here in DC on Christmas morning.  In my case, my wife and I drove down on Thursday to Chapel Hill, North Carolina and drove ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Hypocrisy of Julian Assange
    by Roger Alford by Roger Alford It is with great concern that I hear about this because it puts Julian and his defence in a bad position. I do not like the idea that Julian may be forced into a trial in the media. And I feel especially concerned that he will be presented with the [...]

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

  • Rigged Elections
    elite selection of candidates: control of the US too valuable * requirements for free and fair elections in the USA * an old problem: vote fraud did not start in Florida in 2000 * why Bush Cheney were allowed to steal the 2000 election Submitted by John Farnham to US Politics & Gov't ...
  • Haitian seeds followup
    There was an approximate 50:50 split between seed that was disbursed by the WINNER program and seed that was disbursed by the Earth Institute No GM material was involvedSubmitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • A Holiday Greeting
    Here is my list (swallowed for too many links, and of course it's only a partial list that I threw together) posted to a Climate Progress story about trees dying from bark beetles:Submitted by John Farnham to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment
  • Who Can Help Tackle the Afghan Conundrum
    The hope to crush the resistance of radical groups in Afghanistan is not materializing while the scheduled withdrawal of the Western coalition from the country is drawing closer ( Does this remind you of France leaving Vietnam and the USA taking over? )Submitted by John Farnham to World �|� �Note-i ...
  • Massive China Dig Reveals How Evolution Conquered ...
    A vast body of paleontological evidence points to the Permian-Triassic period transition, which occurred approximately 250 million years ago, was the largest extinction event in historySubmitted by Christoffer IsNotMyAlias to Science & Tech �|� �Note-it! �|� �Add a Comment

Angry Indian News

  • The US Government Can't Account For Billions Spent ...
    The US Government Can't Account For Billions Spent In AfghanistanKANDAHAR CITY -- In its bid to win the hearts and minds of Afghanistan’s teeming population, the United States has spent more than $55... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Wikileaks Rest in Peace
    Wikileaks Rest in Peace[cryptome.org] The original Wikileaks initiative is dead, replaced by a bloated apparatus promising 260,000 cables at slower than a snail's pace. At the rate of 20 cables a day... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • If imprisoned or killed, Assange reportedly prepar ...
    If imprisoned or killed, Assange reportedly prepared to out CIA-linked Arab leaders | Raw Story: "Middle Eastern leaders who've become friendly with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • VoIP decision means Skype now illegal -- Shanghai ...
    VoIP decision means Skype now illegal -- Shanghai Daily | 上海日报 -- English Window to China New: "The decision was criticized as a measure to protect the duopoly of state-owned telecom carriers, media... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]
  • Manning chat logs contain no smoking gun, Wired ed ...
    Manning chat logs contain no smoking gun, Wired editors claim | Raw Story: "Editors with Wired Magazine have finally come forward to say that the chat logs in their possession contain no further... [[Continue reading Inteligentaindigena Novajoservo...]]

Farm Wars

  • Report from Iron Mountain; Using fear to make peop ...
    "The final candidate for a useful global threat was pollution of the environment. This was viewed as the most likely to succeed because it could be related to observable conditions such as smog and water pollution– in other words, it would be based partly on fact and, therefore, be credible. Predict ...
  • USDA GMO Policy
    Monsanto, Vilsack, and the USDA GMO juggernaut.
  • 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.

True/Slant Headline Grabs

Citizens for Legitimate Government

  • Police demand new powers to stop and search terror ...
    ShareThisPolice demand new powers to stop and search terror suspects�29 Dec 2010 Police have asked the government for a new counter-terrorism power to stop and search people without having to suspect them of involvement in crime, the Guardian has learned... A previous law allowing counter-terrorism ...
  • Moshe Katsav convicted of rape, faces long jail te ...
    ShareThisMoshe Katsav convicted of rape, faces long jail term --Court overwhelmingly accepts complainants' testimony, calls defendant a bully, a liar and a repeat sexual predator 31 Dec 2010 The eighth president of the state, Moshe Katsav, was convicted on Thursday of rape, sexual harassment, commit ...
  • Terrorist watch list: One tip now enough to put na ...
    ShareThisTerrorist watch list: One tip now enough to put name in database, officials say --440,000 on list 29 Dec 2010 A year after a Nigerian man allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials say they have made it easier to add individuals' names to a terrorist watch list and impro ...
  • '1,100 Palestinian kids arrested in 2010'
    ShareThis'1,100 Palestinian kids arrested in 2010' 30 Dec 2010 Nearly 1,100 Palestinian children have been arrested by Israeli troops in 2010, a new report by the Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Detainees' Affairs shows. The ministry said on Wednesday that about 500 of the above-mentioned fig ...
  • Bomb blasts kill 2, injure 18 in Iraq
    ShareThisBomb blasts kill 2, injure 18 in Iraq 31 Dec 2010 As violence continues in different parts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a series of blasts have killed two civilians and injured several others. The worst attack was in the central district of al-Ghadir, where a homemade bomb killed two peopl ...

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

  • Beit Hanoun demonstration commemorates 2 years sin ...
    Poster at the Beit Hanoun protest featuring Ismail, Haia and Lama Hamdan. (Photo: ISM) A demonstration commemorating the beginning of “Operation Cast Lead” was held Tuesday in the Gazan city of Beit Hanoun. Families of victims were in attendance, as were 5 International Solidarity Movement act ...
  • The Phantom Menace: Fantasies, falsehoods, and fea ...
    "To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take [...]
  • Entry 12: For Norman Finkelstein– A conversi ...
    This is Entry 12 in the Mondo Awards end-of-year Inspire-us contest. A regular commenter at this site, occupyresist, asks that we preserve her anonymity, and she nominates scholar-author Norman G. Finkelstein. I was wrapping up a degree in Chicago. My then-husband had run off back to Saudi Arabia a ...
  • Entry 11: For taking the profit out of occupation& ...
    This is Entry 11 in the Mondo Awards end-of-year contest. As the Campaign Manager for CODEPINK’s Stolen Beauty Ahava Boycott Campaign, I had been working with Dalit Baum and Merav Amir, the lead researchers of Who Profits (a project of the Israeli Coalition of Women for Peace) for over a year a ...
  • Entry 10: For the indomitable people of al-Araqib
    Entry 10 in the Mondo Awards end-of-year contest are the people of al-Araqib. It was 6 a.m. when the Israeli police invaded al-Araqib for the third time. Still half-asleep, I stood alongside village residents and Israeli and international activists, trying in vain to stop the impending home demolit ...

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

  • Raj Patel's "Value of Nothing"
    For various reasons I found myself with several hours on public transit and with Raj Patel's fine book "The Value of Nothing" in hand. I really liked a few things about it. First, it's a very readable summary of a lot of economic theories (and ideologies) that guide policies today. For a more mathem ...
  • 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 ...

treehugger

  • The Do Lectures' Bold Designer Posters Deliver Mot ...
    Images via The Do Lectures It's that time of year when, after days of lounging and eating and eating and lounging, we are struggling to get up from our oh so comfy sofas and get moving. 2011 is almost upon us - say goodbye to
  • Give Something Back in the New Year
    Photo: pencils of promise It's new year's eve, time to think about those resolutions for 2011. Some for you (diet? gym? less computer?) and some for others. Under that category there are so many worthy and important causes that one can donate to--here are just a few. Pencils of Promise, a ...
  • National Snow and Ice Data Center Greens Up How it ...
    Photo via Ron Weaver, NSIDC One of a data center's biggest problems is keeping servers cool, and that's true even for the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), which offers data products to researchers and businesses about Arctic and Antarctic snow and ice. Of course, it doesn't want to be ...
  • Conservative City Slicker Explores Urban Goat Farm ...
    Image credit: The Urban Conversion From backyard slaughter to urban bees TreeHugger is more than familiar with the idea of growing food in the cities where we live. On Wednesday I posted about a video tour of a serious aquaponics project in Denver, Colorado. It turns out that this video was par ...
  • Formalitees Merge Formal Wear and T-Shirts
    Photo: Formalitees T-shirt company Formalitees is kicking the stiffness out of formal wear. In fact, they're taking the tie and leaving the rest. Enter the Tie Tee, an alternative to the modern business suit, it is an organic t-shirt with an attached tie that swings free from the neck and Forma ...

Democratic Voice of Burma

Telegraph - Climate Change

National Geographic | Environment

Jurist - Legal Research

  • UN urges parties to prevent ethnic crimes in post- ...
    [JURIST] Officials from the United Nations [official website] on Thursday urged all parties to the disputed presidential election in the Ivory Coast [JURIST news archive] to honor the country's commitment to prevent genocide, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing under the 2005 World Summit O ...
  • Khodorkovsky sentenced to six additional years
    [JURIST] The Khamovnichesky District Court [official website, in Russian] in Moscow on Thursday sentenced former Russian oil executive Mikhail Khodorkovsky [defense profile; JURIST news archive] and his business partner, Platon Lebedev [defense profile], to six additional years in prison, extending ...
  • Former Israel president convicted of rape
    [JURIST] Former Israeli President Moshe Katsav [BBC profile] was convicted of two rape charges on Thursday, following his decision to rescind an earlier plea bargain. A Tel Aviv court found him guilty of assaulting a female employee of the Tourism Ministry during his time as Minister, and two women ...
  • US denies Poland request for assistance in secret ...
    [JURIST] The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights [advocacy website] announced Tuesday that the US government has refused to provide legal cooperation to Polish prosecutors investigating whether Saudi terror suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri [NYT profile, JURIST news archive] was tortured in a secret ...
  • Kazakhstan parliament approves plan for presidenti ...
    [JURIST] Both houses of the Kazakhstan Parliament [official website] on Wednesday agreed to hold a referendum proposing to extend the term of President Nursultan Nazarbayev [official website; BBC profile] to 2020, bypassing two presidential elections. Nazarbayev's current term is set to expire in 20 ...

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

  • Iran’s Defense Minister Confirms Asgari Death, IDF ...
    The Kabuki-like drama of the suicide/murder of Iranian Revolutionary Guard general Ali Reza Asgari in Ayalon Prison continues to deepen.  Today, Ynetnews reports that the IDF circulated an unprecedented warning letter to all reserve officers warning them that Iranian agents might take revenge on th ...
  • Iranian General Murdered in Israel’s Ayalon Prison ...
    Hold on to your hats because this post is going to be a wild ride.  New and astonishing developments in the case of Prisoner X, known to a source within Ehud Barak’s inner circle as Ali Reza Asgari, retired Iran Revolutionary Guard general and former deputy defense minister. I exposed the name of P ...
  • Wikileaks: State Department Lied, Denying Dubai As ...
    List submitted by Dubai to State Dept. of credit cards used by Mossad killers On February 25, 2010, State Department spokesperson Philip Crowley lied when he told a press conference that he wasn’t aware of any request from Dubai for assistance in tracking the Mossad killers of Mahmoud al-Mabouh.  T ...
  • New Mossad Chief Makes Nice to Brits
    Israel’s new Mossad chief, Tamir Pardo (who was named here days before his official appointment, breaking an Israeli gag order) has, according to the Telegraph’s Gordon Thomas (known for spinning a few fancy fictions about the Mossad), arranged for a meeting next month with his British counterparts ...
  • Horowitz’s Seattle Bus Ad: Taking Leave of His Sen ...
    One of my readers has provided the graphic for the ad David Horowitz proposed displaying on Seattle Metro buses.  And I think finally the man has truly taken leave of his senses.  Let’s leave aside the fact that there have been no bus bombings in Israel for years.  But who in their right mind cla ...

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

  • Once Upon a Time
    Julian Assuage, Bradley Manning become nails of truth sticking up only to be hammered down. Any and all that dare speak the truth can expect the same treatment, "In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are f*cked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to ...
  • Let This New Year Must Be The Year of Peace
    The world has still been bleeding despite the fact that now Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama has been ruling the world. Now the peace must given the chance in this New Year.
  • CHANGING CALENDARS, CHANGING WEEKENDS, CHANGING CE ...
    Just a few years back we were all hoping that fex-time would be the way of the future for all employees and students. The benefits to our mental and physcial health were to be enormous. Now with the economies in many lands to be providing few jobs. There is too little serious talk about flexible ...
  • Elena Gorokhova's A Mountain of Crumbs
    Sublimely lyrical writing describes a harsh Soviet childhood when Elena Gorokhova's father urged her to learn English. He died when she was ten, without seeing her masterful debut in this memoir, which describes feelings she once found indefinable, like grief, and radical ideas, like privacy.
  • 2010 "Person" of the Year: The US Supreme Court
    It's difficult to look beyond the tumult of current events and ask, "what happened this year that will be remembered ten, twenty, or fifty years from now?" However, there was one 2010 event that, in terms of its long-term impact, loomed above the others, the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court De ...

Switchboard

  • China counts £130bn cost of economic growth and ot ...
    NRDC has been working in China for fifteen years on such issues as climate, energy efficiency, green buildings, clean energy, governance and law, health, and green supply chain issues. This China Environmental News Alert is a weekly compilation of news from around the world on China an ...
  • Progress and Retreat for Environmental Transparenc ...
    Environmental transparency in China showed both progress and retreat over the past year, and many implementation challenges still remain.  This was one of the overall findings of the second annual Pollution Information Transparency Index (PITI), which the Institute of Public & Environ ...
  • New Year's Hopes and Resolutions for California Wa ...
    ‘Tis the season to be making resolutions for the coming year.  With a new Governor taking office in California next week, and tons of rain and snow marking a great start to the water year, what more could I ask for?  Well, here’s what I’m hoping for in 2011: (1)   Fish populations in ...
  • Lead still found in gasoline? The answer for smal ...
    Here’s a fact that surprises even most environmentalists and public health advocates: Small aircraft in the US still use leaded gasoline. It was certainly a surprise to me.  In the last few years, I’ve spent a fair bit of time working on reducing lead air pollution.  NRDC was very inv ...
  • Six sustainable communities stories to watch in 20 ...
    Here are some stories that I plan to watch in the coming year: What will become of the federal sustainability partnership?  The HUD-DOT-EPA alliance for smart growth and sustainable communities has represented a significant step forward for the federal government in assisting states ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

  • The NCAA Cartel and Integritude
    I’m sure that this will restore the dignity of amateur athletics, or something: Ohio State players facing five-game suspensions next season would not have traveled with the team to the Allstate Sugar Bowl if they had not pledged to return in 2011, coach Jim Tressel said on Thursday. The five player ...
  • Today in Casual Sexism
    According to one local announcer for the Houston Rockets, playing the Miami Heat is difficult because that There are just too many holes in too many dikes and not nearly enough fingers. His partner’s response? You’ve got to be a real man to force your finger in a dike. My response? GO HEAT. NOTE: To ...
  • You’d Think the President Had the Power to S ...
    Shorter Jennifer Rubin: “I am absolutely outraged that, following systematic Republican obstruction of executive branch nominees, President Obama has used his legal recess appointment powers to appoint people Sam Brownback and Jeff Sessions would not appoint if they were president. What an outrage ...
  • Battle Scene Investigation: Towton
    Fascinating account of the archaeological investigation of the Battle of Towton.  “Nasty, Brutish, and not that Short” is really a fabulous title for an article.  I wonder which side the Farleys fought on; I’d like to think my ancestors had the good sense to fight for the Lancasters, the outcome ...
  • Our Neo-Medieval World
    Parag Khanna has an interesting essay in the Financial Times. You need a subscription to read it the whole thing, but a few important excerpts are below: Imagine a world with a strong China reshaping Asia; India confidently extending its reach from Africa to Indonesia; Islam spreading its influence ...

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.

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

environment 360

  • Interview: As Arctic Ocean Melts, Can Ice Refuge S ...
    With the Arctic Ocean heading toward a largely ice-free state in summer by mid-century, scientists are looking closely at areas that may retain remnant sea ice and help preserve ice-dependent creatures. Researchers have identified a key spot north of Canada and Greenland, which they say could be a k ...
  • As the Arctic Ocean Melts, A Refuge Plan for the P ...
    With the Arctic Ocean heading toward a largely ice-free state in summer, scientists are looking for areas that may help preserve ice-dependent creatures. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, geologist Stephanie Pfirman talks about the need for a refuge north of Canada and Greenland that resear ...
  • Market for Desalination Plants Expected to Grow by ...
    More than $88 billion will be invested in desalination technologies worldwide from 2010 to 2016 as regions face dwindling supplies of freshwater and steep population growth, according to a new report. Declining Click to enlarge IDA/World Bank/Pike ResearchTop growth markets costs associated with s ...
  • Deep Water Wind Farm Proposed Off Northeast Coast ...
    A Rhode Island company is planning to use a relatively new design for offshore wind platforms to build a large wind farm 18 to 27 miles off the coast of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Deepwater Wind’s proposed wind farm, which would use four-legged platforms to support large wind turbines, could be ...
  • 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 ...

Red Ice Creations

  • Damaged Gulf Stream Affects Jet Stream
    The latest satellite data establishes that the North Atlantic Current no longer exists and along with it the Norway Current. These two warm water currents are actually part of the same system that has several names depending on where in the Atlantic Ocean it is. The entire system is a key part of th ...
  • Archaeologists Claim to Have Found Oldest Human Re ...
    Have the oldest human remains been found in Israel?Researchers say teeth go back 400,000 years; others say claim is premature. Israeli archaeologists said they may have found the earliest evidence yet for the existence of modern man, and if so, it could upset theories of the origin of humans. A team ...
  • Experiments test if implant can block sleep apnea
    Loud snoring may do more than irritate your spouse: It can signal sleep apnea, depriving you of enough sleep to trigger a car crash, even a heart attack. Scientists are beginning to test if an implanted pacemaker-like device might help certain sufferers, keeping their airways open by zapping the ton ...
  • Former Israeli president convicted of rape
    Former President Katsav was convicted of raping an employee when he was a cabinet minister, the most serious criminal charges ever brought against a high-ranking official in Israel and a case that shocked the nation.The conviction of a former president on rape charges - virtually unheard of in a mod ...
  • Is the Gulf of Mexico Dying?
    The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) does not exist in isolation and is, in fact, connected to the Seven Seas. Hence, we publish these findings in order that the world community will come together to further contemplate this dire and demanding predicament. We also do so with the hope that an appropriate global ...

Russia Today

  • What will 2011 bring? New York on the New Year
    Time to get out the crystal ball and think about what lies ahead for the next 12 months. Lori “The Resident” Harfenist asks people in New York what they expect to happen in 2011.
  • Six hundred sailors imperiled in Far-Eastern ice t ...
    Ten vessels with about 600 people total onboard are trapped in ice near Sakhalin Island in Russia’s Far East. A rescue operation has been launched on Friday, after crews decided that they cannot handle the situation on...
  • Russia’s ups and downs in 2010: the final cut
    2010 had its fair share of intense tragedy, as well as a few spy scandals. But it has definitely not been all bad, with the world's biggest nuclear powers making a New START and Russia netting the 2018 World Cup – a...
  • Russian health campaign tackles demon of drinking
    Following its anti-alcohol campaign which featured a deranged squirrel and went viral over the internet, the Russian Ministry of Health has offered adherents of a healthy lifestyle the option of donning clothes that...
  • Russia and Spain expel spies – report
    Moscow and Madrid have exchanged diplomat expulsions. In early November, Spain revoked the accreditation of two employees of the Russian embassy, and last Friday Russia responded by expelling two Spaniards.

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

  • Binnall of America: Christmas Annual With Stanton ...
    Tim Binnall, that most erudite host of Binnall of America “dot com”, broadcasted his Christmas Annual with guest Stanton Friedman on December 23rd and discussed the usual fare; UFOs, MJ-12, nuclear physics, mainstream science his new book and takes email questions from the audience. Tim outdoes hims ...
  • The Paracast: “In Search of the Men In Black ...
    This past Sunday (12/26/10) Gene Steinberg and co-hosts Chris O’Brien and Greg Bishop speak with Tim âMr. UFOâ Beckley , Claudia Cunningham, and T. Allen Greenfield about the ubiquitous “Men In Black” (not the movies) and the role they play in the paranormal. As a subject, I know very little abou ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • The More Things Change…
    From the Washington Post: The president’s recently departed budget director is joining Citigroup. The New York Federal Reserve Bank’s derivatives expert is joining Goldman Sachs. And numerous investigators from the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are joining Wall Street ...
  • Peter Boettke Discusses Mises on EconTalk
    FEE trustee Peter Boettke, professor of economics at George Mason University and a regular lecturer at our Advanced Austrian Economics Seminar , speaks about the life, work, and legacy of Ludwig von Mises on the podcast series EconTalk, hosted by Russ Roberts. It’s well worth listening to. Also, the ...
  • Congress Adjourns
    “The House and Senate adjourned for the year on Wednesday evening, closing a two-year term that holds the odd distinction of being both historically busy and epically unpopular.” (Washington Post) âNo man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. â âJudge Gideon Tuck ...
  • Watch for Budget Debate in 2011, Obama Says
    “President Obama is predicting a ârobust debateâ next year over the size and shape of the federal budget.” (USA Today) Or will it end up a debate over the rate of growth? FEE Timely Classic “Does Government Always Have to Grow?” by Stephen Davies
  • 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 ...

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

  • Eight homeless youth die in New Orleans fire -- wh ...
    By Bill Quigley Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire early Tuesday morning in New Orleans. The young people were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. Th ...
  • YOU are the answer
    Let's play a little Facing South Jeopardy. Here's the answer: YOU. Now -- can you guess the question? If you said, "How is Facing South going to reach its holiday fundraising goal for the Institute Investigative Fund?" then ding! We have a winner! Actually, we already have lots of winners: Si ...
  • New Orleans gets table scrap in GO Zone lending fe ...
    By Ariella Cohen, The Lens As Louisiana wraps its Gulf Opportunity Zone lending program, only 3 percent of the $7.8 billion went to projects in New Orleans, a review of state records show. Though the program was intended to generate recovery and jobs in the areas most affected by ...
  • Top Facing South stories of 2010: Part 1
    Thank you, dear readers, for another great year at Facing South! Due to your loyal readership and support (there's still time to chip in for our holiday fundraiser!), 2010 was a big success here at your favorite experiment in Southern-fried, non-profit, independent journalism. Here's what I'm mos ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • Great Depression
    Few countries were affected as severely as Canada by the worldwide Depression of the 1930s. It is estimated that between 1929 and 1933 Gross National Expenditure declined by 42%, by the latter year 30% of the LABOUR FORCE was
  • Riel, Louis
    Louis Riel, M�tis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the NORTH-WEST REBELLION (b at Red River Settlement [Man] 22 Oct 1844; d at Regina 16 Nov 1885). Riel was educated at St Boniface and studied for the
  • Macdonald, Sir John Alexander
    Sir John Alexander Macdonald, lawyer, businessman, politician, first prime minister of Canada (b at Brunswick Place, across the Clyde R from Glasgow, Scot 10 Jan 1815; d at Ottawa 6 June 1891). He was the dominant creative mind
  • Confederation
    Confederation, the union of the British North American colonies of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada (Canada being an earlier 1841 union of Lower Canada and Upper Canada), was achieved 1 July 1867 under the new name,
  • Vimy Ridge
    Vimy Ridge, battle fought 9-14 April 1917 during WORLD WAR I . The long, low ridge formed a key position linking the Germans' new HINDENBURG LINE to their main trench lines leading north from HILL 70 near Arras, France.

How Can I Recycle This ?

  • Recycle This in 2010 – my favourite stories
    So here we are at the end of another year – and it’s been a great one for Recycle This. We’ve had more than 1,000,000 unique visitors over the year: about 300,000 from the UK, 350,000 from the US and the rest from around the world – including 12 people from Papua New Guinea, 5 [...]
  • How can I reuse or recycle plastic Smint boxes?
    We’ve had an email from (not my) John: What can be done with Smint boxes? Anything? Smint packets are sealed plastic dispensers, which according to the Smint website can’t be opened and refilled to “assure the maximum hygiene for our product”. That makes them infinitely less easy to reuse as, say, T ...
  • Five fantastic reuses for expanded Polystyrene foa ...
    Expanded polystyrene, the moulded white shapes you get as protective packaging when you buy electronics or large toys etc, is a pain to recycle – it can be recycled now but not many places collect it. Unlike its foam ‘peanuts’ counterpart which can be reused as multi-purpose packaging again and agai ...
  • Fantastic reducing, reusing & recycling ideas from ...
    Last month one of the biggest discussion points was how to get into the habit of taking packed lunches; this month it’s how to freshen up a tired winter coat. I only asked the question on Tuesday but we’ve already had some great responses – and an impromptu confessional session about the size of our ...
  • Our five favourite ways to use up leftover turkey
    It’s easy to stop yourself from, say, cooking too much pasta or rice, but it’s harder to cook just the right amount of turkey since they’re a fixed (or at least minimum) size. Leftovers are no bad thing though – they just get a bit dull if it’s turkey sandwiches every day… Individual turkey and [... ...

Mondoweiss

  • Beit Hanoun demonstration commemorates 2 years sin ...
    Poster at the Beit Hanoun protest featuring Ismail, Haia and Lama Hamdan. (Photo: ISM) A demonstration commemorating the beginning of “Operation Cast Lead” was held Tuesday in the Gazan city of Beit Hanoun. Families of victims were in attendance, as were 5 International Solidarity Movement act ...
  • The Phantom Menace: Fantasies, falsehoods, and fea ...
    "To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take [...]
  • Entry 12: For Norman Finkelstein– A conversi ...
    This is Entry 12 in the Mondo Awards end-of-year Inspire-us contest. A regular commenter at this site, occupyresist, asks that we preserve her anonymity, and she nominates scholar-author Norman G. Finkelstein. I was wrapping up a degree in Chicago. My then-husband had run off back to Saudi Arabia a ...
  • Entry 11: For taking the profit out of occupation& ...
    This is Entry 11 in the Mondo Awards end-of-year contest. As the Campaign Manager for CODEPINK’s Stolen Beauty Ahava Boycott Campaign, I had been working with Dalit Baum and Merav Amir, the lead researchers of Who Profits (a project of the Israeli Coalition of Women for Peace) for over a year a ...
  • Entry 10: For the indomitable people of al-Araqib
    Entry 10 in the Mondo Awards end-of-year contest are the people of al-Araqib. It was 6 a.m. when the Israeli police invaded al-Araqib for the third time. Still half-asleep, I stood alongside village residents and Israeli and international activists, trying in vain to stop the impending home demolit ...

Media Consortium

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 )

  • US administration explains why polar bears are 'th ...
    The administration of President George W. Bush was correct in 2008 to label the polar bear as ‘threatened’, but not ‘endangered’, under the US Endangered Species Act (ESA) – and it should stay that way, said the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) yesterday. The FWS was responding in a lawsuit ch ...
  • 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 ...

new geography

  • The Poverty Of Ambition: Why The West Is Losing To ...
    The last 10 years have been the worst for Western civilization since the 1930s. At the onset of the new millennium North America, Europe and Oceania stood at the cutting edge of the future, with new technologies and a lion�s share of the world�s GDP. �At its end, most of these economies limped, whil ...
  • Toronto: Three Cities in More than One Way
    The issue of income disparity in Toronto has once again been brought into the public eye by a December 15th report by University of Toronto Professor David Hulchanski. The report, �The Three Cities Within Toronto,� points to a growing disparity in incomes between Downtown Toronto, the inner suburbs ...
  • 2011: Jobs Vs The Deficit
    The roadmaps showing the way out of our 1.4 trillion dollar federal deficit almost always begin at the same starting points. During 2010, it became taken-for-granted that today's record-setting red ink is a result of unrestrained government spending — especially stimulus spending. And the idea tha ...
  • Washington Opens The Virtual Office Door
    On December 9, President Obama signed into law the Telework Enhancement Act, a bill designed to increase telework among federal employees. Sponsored by Representatives John Sarbanes (D-MD), Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the legislation gives federal agencies six months to establish a ...
  • Deal Or No Deal? General Motors' IPO
    Those who are looking for a feel-good stimulus story, notably members of the Obama administration, cite the recent initial public offering (IPO) in which the federal government sold off 28 percent of its General Motors shares for about $15 billion. When the government-owned shares went public, Pres ...

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The Economic Collapse

  • The Shadow Banking System: A Third Of All The Weal ...
    You and I live in a totally different world than the ultra-rich and the international banking elite do.  Many of them live in a world where they simply do not pay income taxes.  Today, it is estimated that a third of all the wealth in the world is held in offshore banks.  So why is ...
  • 17 National Debt Statistics Which Prove That We Ha ...
    What we have done to future generations over the past 30 years is absolutely criminal.  30 years ago the U.S. national debt was a bit under one trillion dollars, and at that time it was considered a huge national crisis.  Today, the national debt is 14 times larger and the years ahe ...
  • Almost Everything Is A Crime In America Now: 14 Of ...
    Doesn't it seem like almost everything is becoming a crime in America now?  Americans are being arrested and charged with crimes for doing things like leaving dog poop on the ground, opening up Christmas presents early, not recycling properly, farting in class and having brown lawns ...
  • America’s Message To The Rest Of The World: ...
    Have you ever seen pictures of extravagant wealth from places such as Dubai or Abu Dhabi and wondered where in the world they got all that money from?  Have you ever read news stories that talk about China lending us hundreds of billions of dollars and wondered how they could possib ...
  • The Working Poor
    As the middle class in America continues to be slowly wiped out, the number of working poor continues to increase. Today, nearly one out of every three families in the United States is considered to be "low income". Millions of American families are finding that they can barely ma ...

Desertification

  • New shading technology to improve greenhouse and p ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101228180902.htm New Technology Improves Greenhouse, Plant Microclimates ScienceDaily (Dec. 29, 2010) â A study in HortTechnology featured a new technology that improved greenhouse climates by reducing solar heat radiation and temperatures durin ...
  • NUE: Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency, a potentia ...
    Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101230100056.htm Crops: Improving Nitrogen Use Efficiency Lessens Environmental Impact ScienceDaily (Dec. 29, 2010) â Most agricultural crops require large quantities of nitrate-rich fertilizer to realize optimal yields. The dilemma for growers ...
  • Dry area family gardening in Mexico (Fabio RUIZ / ...
    Sincere thanks to Fabio RUIZ for authorizing me to use some photos of a family garden in Colotlan, located in the northern extremity of the Mexican state of Jalisco. On Fabioâs blog : http://colotlan.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/otros-cultivos-en-el-huerto-familiar/ you will find these photos of … Conti ...
  • Turkey’s support to develop, implement and m ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.todayszaman.com/news-231079-turkey-develops-irrigation-and-well-projects-for-africa.html Turkey develops irrigation and well projects for Africa Turkey continues to win the hearts of people in African countries who are struggling with hunger and wa ...
  • Desertification Photos (Google / Desdemona Despair ...
    Read at : Google Alert – desertification Desdemona Despair: Photo gallery: 50 Doomiest Photos of 2010 By Jim The three most frequently represented events are the Pakistan flood (seven photos), the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill (ten), and desertification/ freshwater … Continue reading →

The Paper Trail

  • The Center’s Impact in 2010
    The true value of an investigative story is not measured in Web hits, media partners or awards – it’s whether our reports help improve the world. By that yardstick, the Center for Public Integrity’s work showed clear impact in 2010:
  • Health Care Fraud Cases Drop Despite Bigger Budget
    The official line at the Department of Justice is that investigators are battling Medicare and Medicaid fraud like never before. But the most recent data on the agency’s activities show that its efforts and ballooning budget have actually produced fewer results.
  • Public Insight Network Offers New Opportunities fo ...
    In early November, the Center for Public Integrity launched our partnership with American Public Media's Public Insight Network or PIN — a group of over 90,000 people (and counting) that have signed up to be "citizen sources" to help journalists all around the country.
  • 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.

backofthebook.ca

  • Justin Bieber does his bit for the Canadian econom ...
    By Frank Moher My New Year's resolution for 2011 is to like Justin Bieber. I'm quite serious. My first reaction to the news that The Bieber caused a near-riot when he appeared at a Kitchener, Ont. mall on Boxing Day, there to buy some shades (because, after all, his future really is so ...
  • 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 ...

Worldnews

  • WENGER: TITLE IS ARSENAL'S TO WIN
    Arsene Wenger maintains the Barclays Premier League title is "Arsenal's to win" despite blowing the chance to end 2011 level on points with leaders Manchester United. In what has become a frustrating trait of the Gunners' season, they failed to build on victory over championship rivals Chelsea ...
  • Roy Hodgson says he will not resign as Liverp ...
    • Despite supporter dissatisfaction Hodgson will persevere • 'I want to be here, to change things, to turn it around' Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson says he has not considered resigning. Photograph: John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images Roy Hodgson insists he will never quit as Liverpool man ...
  • Jake Gyllenhaal shares his views on casual se ...
    Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal has said he is over casual love making. Stars turn out for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, CA. - Russ Einhorn / Splash News...
  • Charlie Sheen jokes about online death rumour ...
    Charlie Sheen joked about his online death rumours - admitting he was as surprised as anyone to learn he'd been killed in a snowboarding accident. The Two and...
  • Jake Gyllenhaal reveals his casual sex past ...
    JAKE Gyllenhaal reveals his views on casual sex and talks about having one night stands in his past. The actor — who’s rumored to be dating female country...

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Common Dreams

  • Denmark 'Foils Terror Attack' Against Newspaper
    Danish and Swedish authorities have arrested five people suspected of planning a "Mumbai-style" attack in Copenhagen against a newspaper that printed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.read more
  • Obama Likely to Pursue Corporate-Tax Cut, Way to P ...
    by David WesselAll signs point to President Barack Obama pursuing far-reaching changes to the corporate income tax, seeking to lower one of the highest statutory corporate-tax rates in the world by eliminating deductions, credits and loopholes.If he proceeds, the administration will insist that any ...
  • Season of Hardship Connects Struggling Workers in ...
    by Michelle ChenMillions of Americans barely scraped by this holiday season, stuck in poverty-wage jobs or mired in unemployment. But the latest retail sector reports show that we did manage to shop a little more, perhaps because people are resorting to the material comforts of consumption to make ...
  • Army Edits Its History of the Deadly Battle of Wan ...
    by Greg Jaffe The Army's official history of the battle of Wanat - one of the most intensely scrutinized engagements of the Afghan war - largely absolves top commanders of the deaths of nine U.S. soldiers and instead blames the confusing and unpredictable nature of war. read more
  • US Declined to Cooperate in Dubai Probe of Mabhouh ...
    by Yossi MelmanThe United States declined a request from the United Arab Emirates to assist an investigation into the assassination of a top Hamas commander.Dubai suspects Israel's Mossad agency to have been behind the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhoh in a Dubai hotel in January 2010. Israel has neither ...

The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

Examine Religion - Tweets

Energy Collective

  • Signs for 2011
    Electric car infrastructure has been appearing in London over the last 12 months, with charging stations now in several inner-city locations and in the car park of at�least�one major shopping mall. One particular enticement, besides the electricity, is free parking, something many Londoners would ki ...
  • Ari Peskoe: As Electric Vehicles Return, Will Fede ...
    By Ari Peskoe | originally pos
  • Emily McGlynn: EIA Predicts U.S. Emissions to Rise ...
    EIA�s recently released preview of its�Annual Energy Outlook 2011 showcases an updated reference scenario for US energy production and consumption through 2035.
  • China is More an Opportunity Than a Threat for the ...
    Sometime early next year, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is expected to release a plan to make China the world leader in �new energy technology vehicles�.� The plan has long been highly anticipated and parts of it extensively leaked.
  • Art Wharton: External costs of energy technologies ...
    by Art Wharton Can renewables rescue us? Part 2 of this article, which appeared�here on December 29, made the point (in part) that the nuclear power industry sequesters its nuclear �waste,� while other power producing industries do not. This capturing of waste products matters when calculating the e ...

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

  • The Huffington Hoax
    By Bob Fox Like many liberals/progressives in this country, I was very happy when The Huffington Post was launched on the web in 2005. The left needed a voice on the internet and Huffpo provided it. Being a writer, I also engaged in posting my opinions on many articles at Huffpo over the years as t ...
  • One More Year of Inhumanity Coming to a Close. Wha ...
    By Pablo Ouziel This year the list of atrocities committed under the guise of representative democracy is extensive, as anyone concerned in analyzing the actions of governments in the West can ascertain. If it was our wish, we could bombard the airwaves with images of suffering people from around ...
  • The Federal Reserve: Stupid Bank Robbers or Robber ...
    By Katherine Smith, PhD “The Federal Reserve isn’t evil because they print our money and make us (the U.S. Taxpayers) pay interest on it. They are evil because, until October 2008, the Fed gave us a no-limit credit card that we used to buy houses, cars, RVs, TVs and DVDs—the “stuff” which, accord ...
  • BDS 2010: More powerful than the sword
    Eric Walberg Boycott Divestment and Sanctions is a two-edged sword, bringing relief to starving Gazans, and starvation to the occupier. It was two years ago today, 27 December, that Israel launched its invasion of Gaza, carrying out 22 days of murder and mayhem, killing 1400 and leaving 5400 civi ...
  • AP: US report adds details on Cold War Nazi intel
    By Katherine Smith As they say, when you are “over the target,” Expect a “404 - Unfortunately we are unable to locate the page you have requested.” December 26, 2010 The Nazi & Jewish Affair to Remember (November 2010) is published at The Peoples Voice The Nazi & Jewish Affair is an informed-opin ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

  • A recipe for greater equality
    The always insightful Alex Himelfarb asks in his latest must-read blog: "What would you think if someone could show that they knew just what it would take to improve our physical and mental health, reduce crime and violence, increase civic trust and participation, reduce teenage pregnancy and drug a ...
  • A holiday gift from the CCPA: Enhanced publication ...
    For a limited time the CCPA is opening its entire cache of research free of charge � giving full public access to our publications via a database run by the Canadian Electronic Library. Browse our books, peruse chapters from our education journal Our Schools/Our Selves, and utilize the key-word se ...
  • Canada's richest 1% taking more than ever before
    A major report by CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan shows Canada's richest 1% enjoy more of the gains from economic growth than ever before in recorded history. The report looks at income trends over the past 90 years, revealing the richest 1% took 32% of all growth in incomes between 1997 and ...
  • New York Times article: Income Inequality too big ...
    New York Times writer Robert Frank says it's time to tackle the problems of income inequality in this article.
  • Let's Do Something About Poverty!
    The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is a proud partner of Poverty Free Saskatchewan (PFS), a coalition of groups attempting to develop a comprehensive anti-poverty program for the province. Today we released Let's Do Something About Poverty!, in order to encourage ...

World Wide Hippies

  • Cablegate Comix
    First in a series of mini-comics recounting true stories that came to light on November 28, 2010 â when WikiLeaks published confidential documents of detailed correspondences between the US State Department and its diplomatic missions around the world. More…
  • Nevada Won’t Legalize — Here’s W ...
    Nevada’s Wild West spirit snubs legal marijuana | AP Nevada is known for letting just about anything slide, whether it’s booze, bets or brothels. But even here there are limits. It has been OK to smoke pot to treat illness for ten years. But don’t think about selling it. Lately, federal agents and l ...
  • Pittsburgh in the 60’s
    Facebook and Twitter and Blogs (OH MY!) With all the goings on with net neutrality and such I’ve been letting my little paranoid inner child run a bit more free than usual. I’m not the type the sees conspiracies in everything and even those events in history that give me pause- hey, I am quite sure ...
  • What a great year for Wall Street
    Wall St’s 10 Biggest Lies of 2010 | Alternet What a great year for Wall Street: profits up, bonuses up and, best of all, criticism down. Somehow Wall Street has much of America believing its lies and rationalizations. What a great year for Wall Street: profits up, bonuses up and, best of all, critic ...
  • TSA Booty Patrol
    TSA bans bikini woman for âunusual contourâ around buttocks | Raw Story A woman who became a YouTube sensation earlier this month when she went through airport security in a bikini spent a night at the airport Tuesday because of TSA agents’ concerns about an “unusual contour” around her buttocks. Ta ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

  • The Game-Changer List
    The Associated Press, as usual, released last week its editors’ poll of the 10 top stories of the year. No. 1, with 54 first-place votes, was the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The congressional passage of health care reform was second with 30 votes. The list by the men and women who actually e ...
  • WikiLeaks may spawn new sedition act
    The infamous Sedition Act, which criminalized speech critical of the federal government and which was passed by the Federalists during another of America’s undeclared wars (that time, against France), lasted only three years, from 1798 to 1801. However, if the congressional critics of WikiLeaks fou ...
  • “Dear Afghanistan:” A New Year’s Call for Peace
    While the US may be the world’s single super power in military terms, it faces another super power: the voices of war-weary millions who detest violence and killing. In Afghanistan, in the United States, and among the populations of countries whose governments have joined the NATO coalition, million ...
  • 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 ...

Salon

  • Fewer journalist killings in 2010
    Fewer reporters were killed worldwide in 2010 than in the previous year, but media advocacy groups warned Thursday that while the number slain in war zones has fallen, criminals and traffickers have become a greater threat to journalists.
  • Michele Bachmann revealed: Gore Vidal made her a R ...
    Every good conservative icon needs an origin story. The best ones -- the vast majority of them, if you believe them -- are former liberals, "lifelong Democrats," or even former Marxists. They become virulent right-wingers, usually, because of something horrible the Democrats did. Reagan was a Dem ...
  • Darfur peace talks end with Sudan exit
    A Sudanese official says his government has withdrawn from peace talks with Darfur rebel groups, but it is still committed to making peace.
  • Huckabee's repeal PAC fires notorious scam artist
    If you watch cable news during the day, you've seen this ad:
  • Mosque foes launch Bieber boycott
    Andy�Sullivan, a construction worker and Brooklyn native, has been one of the loudest opponents of Park51, the planned mosque and community center near ground zero. Founder of the 9/11 Hard Hat Pledge -- under which construction workers vow not to work at the mosque site -- Sullivan has been a re ...

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

  • Signs for 2011
    Electric car infrastructure has been appearing in London over the last 12 months, with charging stations now in several inner-city locations and in the car park of at�least�one major shopping mall. One particular enticement, besides the electricity, is free parking, something many Londoners would ki ...
  • Ari Peskoe: As Electric Vehicles Return, Will Fede ...
    By Ari Peskoe | originally pos
  • Emily McGlynn: EIA Predicts U.S. Emissions to Rise ...
    EIA�s recently released preview of its�Annual Energy Outlook 2011 showcases an updated reference scenario for US energy production and consumption through 2035.
  • China is More an Opportunity Than a Threat for the ...
    Sometime early next year, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is expected to release a plan to make China the world leader in �new energy technology vehicles�.� The plan has long been highly anticipated and parts of it extensively leaked.
  • Art Wharton: External costs of energy technologies ...
    by Art Wharton Can renewables rescue us? Part 2 of this article, which appeared�here on December 29, made the point (in part) that the nuclear power industry sequesters its nuclear �waste,� while other power producing industries do not. This capturing of waste products matters when calculating the e ...

EU Times

  • The Enemy Within
    The phrase “enemy within” brings to mind the image of a shadowy spy stealing military secrets. That was the case for Israeli master spy Jonathan Pollard jailed for 1980s espionage that compromised U.S. Cold War strategy. That phrase also describes those involved in a form of psy-ops that is not easi ...
  • The Simple Solution to Fix America’s Economic Prob ...
    Before I disclose the solution of how to fix America, I must give you some background history to validate the solution. America’s economic problems started on February 3, 1913 with the ratification of the 16th amendment (the income tax amendment) signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson then comp ...
  • Artist Denis Petersonís’s realistic paintings that ...
    Artist Denis Peterson leaves onlookers impressed with his real life scenes showing cities around the world – but gobsmacked when they realise every inch of these pictures are painted. At first glance some of his works look like a simple billboard over a busy urban setting. But on closer inspection t ...
  • Ukrainian president refused to light Hanukkah cand ...
    According to the deputy head of presidential administration, Viktor Yanukovych, “does not choose his faith according to what it can give him later”. In days of celebrating the Jewish Hanukkah, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych has refused to attend a synagogue religious ceremony and light the Ha ...
  • U.S. dominates Middle East arms market
    The United States-dominated defense sales in the Persian Gulf in 2005-09 and delivered 54 percent of the Middle East’s military hardware, including advanced systems that had been denied Arab states because of Israeli objections, analysts say. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, whi ...

Stonecipher News

  • Special Education High School Transition Services
    From my Factoidz page: 1414(d) and in Findings about “effective transition services to promote successful post-Students typically start transition services at the age 14 if educational services are still required as determined by the school district and the IEP team. However, Washington State’s Offi ...
  • 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.

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

  • (USA Today) Medicare to swell with Baby Boomer ons ...
    Baby Boomers are about to create a record population explosion in the nation's health care program for seniors. Starting on Saturday, Baby Boomers begin turning 65 and qualifying for Medicare — one every eight seconds. A record 2.8 million will qualify in 2011, rising to 4.2 million a year by 2030, ...
  • WILDERNESS #55: INTO THE UNKNOWN by David Thompson
    Happy New Year! It’s the last day of the year!!! So, how many of you have bought a Kindle OR if you haven’t bought a Kindle yet, whataya waiting for? Amazon has a WiFi Only Kindle 3 for $139 (Back in stock!), and a WiFi + Free 3G Kindle 3 for $189! Or you can get the larger sized Graphite Kindle DX
  • Stanford Ends UConn Women's Record 90-Game Winning ...
    Filed under: Connecticut , Stanford , Women's Basketball PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The streak stops at 90. Connecticut women's basketball still owns the Division I record for the longest-ever win streak. But the Huskies will have to start a new one now. Stanford -- the last team to beat Connecticut back ...
  • Kindle gets its promised e-book lending feature
    As promised, Amazon.com has launched the Kindle's book loaning feature. In late October, Amazon.com announced the feature would be coming to the Kindle before the end of the year, to match a similar feature on Barnes & Noble's nook. Considering the feature went live, quietly, on Thursday Dec. 30th, ...
  • Skype + Video Calls for iPhone App Available To Do ...
    Skype nowadays declared the recently version of its iPhone application that adds video calling to billions of smartphone users around the world across both 3G and wireless fidelity nets. Free to download from the Apple App Store nowadays, the fresh Skype for iPhone App lets iPhone , iPad and iPod t ...

Groklaw

  • Appointment of Honorable Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to ...
    Chief Judge Mary Beck Briscoe of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit announced today the appointment of the Honorable Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the Court. Judge Matheson's nomination was confirmed by the Senate on December 22. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen H. Ande ...
  • Twins Facebook Fight Rages On
    In addition to a bigger payday, the twins say they want a court to reconsider their original claims about Facebook's founding, pointing to instant messages on the subject sent by Mr. Zuckerberg to various friends. The messages have come to light since the brothers signed the deal. But they say Faceb ...
  • Open languages are not required -- Should I use Ja ...
    But for the sake of argument, let us say that people declare Java closed and proprietary to Oracle. Is this a problem for Java developers and users? No.History easily explains why investing in a proprietary language is not a problem for developers, enterprises, and other users. Looking back to the 1 ...
  • Analysis: California's Online Impersonation Law, E ...
    As of January 1, 2011, California's first online impersonation law - SB 1411 - goes into effect, making malicious digital impersonation a misdemeanor that comes with fines up to $1000 and/or up to a year in jail. [PJ: And attorneys' fees. Language warning on the article.] - Violet Blue, ZDNet
  • Google Sees Life in the Cloud w/o Windows
    First impressions were startling, as the new device (sans any hard disc) finally delivered on the long promised "Instant-on" feature that has eluded Bill Gates and his army of engineers for decades. The remarkable demo also included an instant download of the almost 2K page Obama-Health care Act. Th ...

WideShut

Waterkeeper Alliance

Politics in the Zeros

  • College students and loans they can not pay
    Now our economy is facing the biggest student loan debt bubble in the history of the world, and when our new college graduates enter the “real world” they are finding out that the good jobs they were promised are very few and far between. Then they discover they are tens of thousands of dollars in [ ...
  • Hydrogen from concentrated solar
    A new technique creates hydrogen at much high efficiency from concentrated solar. The hydrogen can then be used to power fuel cells and create energy. The researchers involved specifically designed the hardware to be easy to manufacture in bulk and incorporate into a industrial-size facility, so it ...
  • Commercial satellite for the world’s poor
    Ahumanright.org is bidding on a commercial satellite that it wants to use to beam cheap bandwidth to the poor and disenfranchised of the planet. Their founder says Ahumanright is charged with promoting Internet access as a human right. The organization also promotes endeavors that can ensure everyon ...
  • LED light fixtures replace wi-fi
    The municipal offices of St. Cloud, Minnesota are the first in the country to install a visible light communication system in place of Wi-Fi. The system, which uses LED fixtures to connect office computers to the internet, is saving lots of energy, and the city of St. Cloud lots of money on energy b ...
  • Bank elites and control fraud
    William Black on the lack of criminal prosecutions by DOJ What has gone so catastrophically wrong with DOJ, and why has it continued so long? The fundamental flaw is that DOJ’s senior leadership cannot conceive of elite bankers as criminals. The feds confuse the bank with the banker. The bankers wal ...

TVNZ - Top Stories

Just World News

  • Remembering slavery in Virginia
    Our country here is coming up to the 150th anniversary of the act of secession by southern states that launched the extremely bloody civil war of 1861-65. I am very interested in the civil war, for a number of reasons. For American Quakers and members of the other U.S. peace churches, the civil war ...
  • David Swanson's 'War is a Lie'
    My neighbor and friend, the antiwar activist David Swanson, recently published a terrific book that takes on, one by one, all the main myths/lies that warmongers use to try to persuade people that wars are effective, moral, and necessary. The book's title 'War is a Lie' is a subtle reference to (and ...
  • JWN revived; Israel's wars described
    My apologies to loyal JWN readers that I haven't posted much recently... Indeed, for most of the past three or four months I have been seriously AWOL as a blogger. It happens. I got really busy with Just World Books-- and also, over both Thanksgiving and Christmas, with family things. (I'm writing ...
  • 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 ...

First Truths

  • To Fight Terror, Fight the State
    The U.S. terror state, the mechanism through which the state-corporate power elite butchers thousands of innocents under the auspices of spreading freedom, is no more morally legitimate than than those who strap bombs to their bodies or use IEDs against buses. My latest commentary attacks the ultima ...
  • Speed Bumps on the Information Superhighway
    For the Center for a Stateless Society, I raise objections to IP law and praise networks of free individuals within the context of Facebook.
  • Corporate Welfare Disguised As "Free Trade"
    Beware of "free trade agreements," statist pacts that fix the rules for Big Business and cheat consumers. My commentary here.
  • QE2: The Fed's Latest Scam
    Like the Bailouts, the new quantitative easement plan that will see the Federal Reserve�buy $600 billion in Treasury bonds is a gift to the big banks at our expense. My commentary is here.
  • Getting to Gridlock
    Political gridlock, contrary to the whines of state idolators, would be enormously beneficial to society, but, also contrary to conventional wisdom, the results of yesterday's election will bring no such thing. More on this here.

Media Co-Op

  • The Trial of Land Defender, John Graham
    Graham maintains his innocence despite a guilty verdict. He now faces life in prison. On December 10 a South Dakota jury found John Graham guilty of felony murder in the death of American Indian Movement (AIM) member Anna Mae Aquash. John Gra ...
  • Professor David Schindler on the Pollution of the ...
    Take5 - CIUT 89.5fm - University of Toronto Community Radio There’s no longer any doubt the tar sands are adding toxic compounds to the Athabasca River says Dr. David Schindler, a biologist at the University of Alberta. Listen here: http://sou ...
  • Mining and the new colonization of Tibet
    Vancouver-based mining companies implicit in government repression of villagers In the next five to 10 years, there might be a change in what comes to mind when thinking about Tibet. The 2008 Olympics in Beijing saw an international outcry aga ...
  • World's Largest Environmental Lawsuit in Ecuador
    The world's largest environmental lawsuit � Currently, the world's largest environmental lawsuit is underway against Chevron-Texaco in Ecuador. This has been held up in co ...
  • Grab some pizza! Sign up for the army! One Stop Sh ...
    In a ceremony borderin ...

David Seaton's News Links

  • New Year's 2011... singing in Grover Norquist's ba ...
    Singing in the bathtub Happy once again Watching all my troubles Go swinging down the drain Singing through the soap suds Life is full of hope You can sing with feeling While feeling for the soap. "Singing in the Bathtub" David Seaton's News Links It's New Year's; this is when we are supposed to lo ...
  • North Korea or Murdoch: the art is knowing how to ...
    Korean strongman, Kim Jong-il and his son and successor, Kim Jong-un David Seaton's News LinksThere is a lot of speculation, and practically no hard intelligence, as to why North Korea is behaving so strangely of late. Sinking a South Korean ship and killing 45 sailors, showing off their advanced at ...
  • Homage to Ireland in Her Hour of Need
    Now that they've gone stone broke and are dirt poor again. Lets send the Irish a big hug and kiss for all the fun they've always provided. Just as a token, this trailer from my favorite Irish theme film, (apologies to John Ford and "The Quiet Man")... Alan Parker's, "The Commitments". You think th ...
  • Haitian cholera: opening soon in theaters near you ...
    Haitian VenusA Collier County woman is Florida's first documented case of cholera imported from Haiti. The woman, who lives in southwest Florida, had been visiting family in the region of the earthquake-devastated nation that is at the center of its cholera epidemic.(...)"We really don't anticipate ...
  • What is next for Julian Assange?
    We could be spectators for the start of the cyber Great War � and they�ve just knocked over Franz Ferdinand.(...) The difference now is that this battle is extra-national; it isn�t one country against another, so much as an establishment of nations fighting a global insurgency � with the soul of ...

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

  • The Witch-Hunt that's Taking it To One of America' ...
    Domino's Pizza's domestic sales were falling last year. Then an organization called Dairy Management offered to help. They developed pizzas for Domino's that contained 40 percent more cheese, and then devised and paid for a $12-million marketing campaign. But Dairy Management is not a private busin ...
  • Beauty Sleep -- Truth or Fantasy?
    Many people assume that "beauty sleep" is a myth used to convince children to go to sleep. But a new study suggests there may be something to it. The study looked at the effect that sleep deprivation has on the way other people perceive your attractiveness.� Study participants were asked to sit fo ...
  • RePURRters: The Movie
    Ever wonder what your cat does when you’re not around? Find out by watching the first movie filmed entirely by cats!
  • Memory Foggy? 5 Signs It's Not Serious
    It's natural to feel nervous when you forget something, knowing that Alzheimer's disease now affects 5.3 million Americans.� But a memory slip doesn't always mean the worst. According to KPHO, the following five situations point toward normal, age-related memory loss. Lapses Don't Interfere ...
  • 'Kangaroo' Alternative to Incubators for Preemies
    Sometimes, advances don't come from looking ahead, but from looking back. When the Mother and Child Institute in Bogota, Colombia, found itself short on doctors, nurses, and incubators, Dr. Edgar Rey decided to try something new -- or rather, something old. What he came up with is known as "kanga ...

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

  • Haiti's long agony continues unabated
    On Sunday, 12 of Haiti's presidential candidates gathered on a single stage to denounce the election going on that day as a fraud, and to urge Haitians to stop voting. That sad spectacle was, perversely, the closest thing to a glimmer of hope that Haiti has seen in the agonizing months since the Jan ...
  • Editorial: Bixi is a gamble worth taking
    The incredible popularity of Bixi in Montreal and cities around the world seems to have taken its backers by surprise. A year and a half after the bicycle-hire program was launched here, more than 14,000 of the sturdy bikes are in service on three continents.
  • Editorial: Don't rule out housing for the Royal Vi ...
    Some new use will have to be found for the building that is for the time being the Royal Victoria Hospital. A decision should be made in the fairly near future since its health-care functions will be transferred to the new McGill University Health Centre now under construction and scheduled ...
  • Mega-discontent with the megacity
    This month, 10 years after the Parti Quebecois government hammered together what it claimed would be a unified, streamlined and dynamic Montreal, island residents were asked in an opinion poll how they like it. Their answer: not much.
  • Editorial: Bell's $1.3-million fine is important t ...
    In the months after the national Do Not Call List was launched in 2008, millions of Canadians signed up. With their phone numbers now off-limits to telemarketers, there'd be no more calls from salespeople with their rata-tat delivery begging for "just a minute" of their time. Or so they thou ...

Food World Order

  • 12/31 binge & purge: prices, crisis & new year pre ...
    global food prices in 2011 face perilous rise* inflation may become a bigger worry in 2011 for food companies* food stamps to be spread out in 2011: michigan to change its food stamp distribution policy in 2011* food safety news naughty list 2010* with food safety bill, US govt will spend n ...
  • 11/11 binge & purge: spam the torpedos!
    33 sick in multistate outbreak of e. coli associated with cheese* wv dept of ag gets grant to study e. coli in beef* salmonella in france: 500 sick from beef patties* carnival splendor passenger describes 2hr foodlines, other problems aboard disabled ship* food wrappers leach harmful che ...
  • chemicals in fast food wrappers end up in human bl ...
    from allgov: As if the food in fast food wasn’t questionable enough from a health standpoint, it turns out the wrappers used for hamburgers, chicken sandwiches, microwave popcorn, etc. contain chemicals that are leaching into the human body. Researchers at the University of Toronto found that f ...
  • city of houston shuts down two radioactive water w ...
    from khou: A radioactive water well that is controlled by the City of Houston, and that serves residents of Jersey Village, is no longer being used, according to the communications director for Houston Mayor Annise Parker. On Monday, a KHOU-TV investigation revealed Jersey Village water well #3 was ...
  • 'obama go back' protest by farmers in india
    from gmwatch: Cotton growers in Vidarbha on Friday staged candle-light protests on the eve of US President Barack Obama's visit to the country, seeking to draw his attention to the plight of the agriculture sector in the region caused by American policies. Protests were held under the banner of the ...

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

  • The Shadow Banking System: A Third Of All The Weal ...
    You and I live in a totally different world than the ultra-rich and the international banking elite do.  Many of them live in a world where they simply do not pay income taxes.  Today, it is estimated that a third of all the wealth in the world is held in offshore banks.  So why is ...
  • 17 National Debt Statistics Which Prove That We Ha ...
    What we have done to future generations over the past 30 years is absolutely criminal.  30 years ago the U.S. national debt was a bit under one trillion dollars, and at that time it was considered a huge national crisis.  Today, the national debt is 14 times larger and the years ahe ...
  • Almost Everything Is A Crime In America Now: 14 Of ...
    Doesn't it seem like almost everything is becoming a crime in America now?  Americans are being arrested and charged with crimes for doing things like leaving dog poop on the ground, opening up Christmas presents early, not recycling properly, farting in class and having brown lawns ...
  • America’s Message To The Rest Of The World: ...
    Have you ever seen pictures of extravagant wealth from places such as Dubai or Abu Dhabi and wondered where in the world they got all that money from?  Have you ever read news stories that talk about China lending us hundreds of billions of dollars and wondered how they could possib ...
  • The Working Poor
    As the middle class in America continues to be slowly wiped out, the number of working poor continues to increase. Today, nearly one out of every three families in the United States is considered to be "low income". Millions of American families are finding that they can barely ma ...

CASSE

The Talking Clock

  • Margaret Thatcher, Queen of UKIP..?
    Just before Christmas, Alex Singleton of the Daily Telegraph reported on the extraordinary role that Margaret Thatcher had played behind the scenes for UKIP. Alex detailed how: "Before the general election, she had lunch with Lord Pearson and they discussed the problems that Pearson, then UKIP’s ...
  • Review of the Year 2010 (including readers poll re ...
    As the annus brownalis draws to an end and we sit on the dawn of what is bound to be an even worse year, here's our look back at the misery (and rare joy) that made the headlines in 2010. January was a month in which civil liberties took centre stage. In a rare move, this blog praised something f ...
  • Sunday Paper Review: 19th December 2010
    Not much Christmas spirit here, I'm afraid. Instead, it is beholden on me to point out that none of the following is made up. Links are provided to all the relevant stories. We start the misery with the Sunday Telegraph which trumpets big with a 'swine flu' story, but I think we all heard enou ...
  • Jim Corr: "Top-down engineered financial crash des ...
    I agree with Jim Corr...
  • Quote of the Day: 18th December 2010
    "Look at the silly monkey! Look at the shiny keys." - the ever brilliant Mary Ellen Synon cuts through the crap spouted by Cameron and trumpeted in press releases issued by his image gurus... and tells you what his EU budget 'victory' really means. Don't worry Mary... or maybe do, depending on ...

Facing South

  • Eight homeless youth die in New Orleans fire -- wh ...
    By Bill Quigley Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire early Tuesday morning in New Orleans. The young people were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. Th ...
  • YOU are the answer
    Let's play a little Facing South Jeopardy. Here's the answer: YOU. Now -- can you guess the question? If you said, "How is Facing South going to reach its holiday fundraising goal for the Institute Investigative Fund?" then ding! We have a winner! Actually, we already have lots of winners: Si ...
  • New Orleans gets table scrap in GO Zone lending fe ...
    By Ariella Cohen, The Lens As Louisiana wraps its Gulf Opportunity Zone lending program, only 3 percent of the $7.8 billion went to projects in New Orleans, a review of state records show. Though the program was intended to generate recovery and jobs in the areas most affected by ...
  • Top Facing South stories of 2010: Part 1
    Thank you, dear readers, for another great year at Facing South! Due to your loyal readership and support (there's still time to chip in for our holiday fundraiser!), 2010 was a big success here at your favorite experiment in Southern-fried, non-profit, independent journalism. Here's what I'm mos ...
  • 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 ...

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

  • 13 Breathtaking Conky Configurations You Should Se ...
    Though we used to talk a lot about Ubuntu desktop eyecandy, Conky is something we never really discussed at all.�Conky Ubuntu Lucid theme was the only exception, which is by far the most easy to install Conky theme I have ever used. So as to settle the Conky drought once and for all, here we feature ...
  • Big Buck Bunny Trailer Sighting on Google Nexus S ...
    Big Buck Bunny is one among the three Blender Foundation produced open movies, others being Elephant's Dream and Sintel[watch them all]. And the webpage for Google�s very own Android 2.3 powered Nexus S Phone shows the Big Buck Bunny trailer to illustrate the 'Entertainment on the Go' section! ...
  • Current State of Ubuntu Unity
    This awesome video screencast of Ubuntu Unity interface in the latest developmental release of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal was made by Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community manager. New Ubuntu Unity Video Preview Ubuntu 11.04 codenamed "Natty Narwhal" is perhaps the most important Ubuntu re ...
  • Shotwell 0.8.0 Released, Supports Major Video Form ...
    Shotwell 0.8.0 was released recently with a lot of new features and other improvements. Latest Shotwell digital photo organizer has extensive support for all major formats of videos which even include the support for importing of videos from your camera.� What's New in Shotwell 0.8.0? That sc ...
  • Atolm - Impressive New Theme by the Artists Behind ...
    Hope you all remember Orta GTK theme, one of the best themes I have ever used in Ubuntu. Atolm is another impressive theme by the same artists who gave us brilliant Orta theme. Atolm is especially suited for those who like dark themes more. Atolm GTK Theme Download�Atolm GTK Theme.� You will ...

Case About Bird Flu

  • Help keep the free alternative media, free!
    If you have benefitted from the information on this blog and wish to see the blog continue in 2011, consider supporting it with a donation. Happy New Year! Bank details: Account name:             Buergermeister, Jane Account number/ IBAN      AT831100015211533300 BIC / SWIFT code         BKAUATWWXXX ...
  • Poll shows strong support for reintroducing the D ...
    Every second German wants the D Mark to be reintroduced, according to a poll for Bild newspaper. http://www.bild.de/BILD/politik/wirtschaft/2010/12/26/euro-umfrage-bild-exklusiv/deutsche-wollen-d-mark-wieder-haben.html Two thirds or  67% of the Germans surveyed said they were worried about the stabi ...
  • Polish prosecutors to publish own report on Smolen ...
    It was one of the worst political tragedies in post-war Europe. The Polish central bank governor, the President and about 90 other top officials were killed in a plane crash in Smolenk on April 10th. In spite of the evidence indicating that the people were not killed as they travelled to a commemora ...
  • Smolensk plane crash: Polish president’s rem ...
    Posted Tue Dec 21, 2010 1:02am AEDT Mr Kaczynski, his wife Maria and 94 other passengers died in the crash. (APTN: ABC News) Jaroslaw Kaczynski, twin brother of Poland’s late president Lech Kaczynski who died in a plane crash in western Russia in April, expressed doubt as to whether his brother’s co ...
  • MERRY CHRISTMAS
    It has been a turbulent year and one that also, at times, seemed to never end. For me, personally, it was perhaps the most surreal year of my entire life and I feel extremely lucky to still be in one piece and owe many people a great deal of thanks for all their help and [...]

Invisible Opportunity

  • 9/11 skeptics say Julian Assange being manipulated ...
    By Michael Cosgrove Various 9/11 truthers are changing their previously positive opinion of Julian Assange and Wikileaks. He is now being disowned by this clique and even being regarded as a paid agent. Regular readers of the press will be aware that supporters of recent decisions by Wikileaks and J ...
  • Damn! It’s The MSG! Stop Poisoning Me!
    By Dick Allgire KITV Reporter – Honolulu 12-29-10 I am very careful about what I eat. Some would call me picky or even compulsive. But, having learned from Dr. Russell Blaylock and from personal experience, I avoid MSG. At least I try. I make my own veggie broth. (* Recipe below.) I cook most of [.. ...
  • Christmas Day One Year Later-The Underwear Bomber- ...
    By Kurt Haskell Since it can be almost certainly accepted that the FBI/CIA planted Umar with a fake bomb we must ask a few more questions. Who was the Sharp Dressed Man? The answer is now certain that it was a U.S. Government agent sent to ensure that Umar boarded the plane. Obviosuly, the entire [. ...
  • Christian coalition founder Pat Robertson calls fo ...
    By Ethan Huff Sending young people to prison for marijuana possession and use is not a good thing, said 700 Club founder Pat Robertson on a recent segment. Also founder of the Christian Coalition and former Republican candidate for President, Robertson expressed opposition to the current war on drug ...
  • Pomegranate juice components block cancer cell mig ...
    By S. L. Baker One of the most dreaded consequences of cancer is when the disease metastasizes — meaning it spreads from the primary site where it started to other parts of the body. But University of California, Riverside (UCR) scientists have announced what could be a major breakthrough in halting ...

Veterans Today

  • 9/11: Israel’s Grand Deception
    by Jonathan Azaziah www.maskofzion.com When an event occurs that changes the dynamics of the geopolitical spectrum, there is only one question that needs to be asked, no matter what kind of information is being force-fed to the public by the Zionist media: Who does this event benefit? The answer to ...
  • Park51: A Zionist PSYOP
    by Jonathan Azaziah www.maskofzion.com New York (City) is a place that is heavily influenced, and in the majority of instances, utterly controlled by the obscenely wealthy Zionist elite. The governorship is currently occupied by David Paterson, who replaced the disgraced Zionist Eliot Spitzer. Just ...
  • The Zionist Murderers of Iraq
    by Jonathan Azaziah www.maskofzion.com       It has been 20 years since the murderous sanctions of the supranational police force known as the UN were implemented in Iraq. These sanctions claimed over 1.5 million innocent lives including more than 500,000 children by starving them to death. It has n ...
  • The Baghdad Cathedral Massacre: Zionist Fingerprin ...
    by Jonathan Azaziah www.maskofzion.com Prior to the fascist, destructive, genocidal US-UK-Israeli occupation of Iraq, Sunni and Shia, Muslims and Christians, Arabs and Kurds lived together in a harmonious atmosphere of brotherhood and unity that paralleled that of occupied Palestine before the Zioni ...
  • AFGHANISTAN: MYTHS AND FACTS REGARDING OBAMA&#8217 ...
                            President Obama in bomber jacket The number one myth regarding Afghanistan is that we are fighting this so-called war to keep Americans safe. The ugly fact is that we are maintaining this expensive illegal occupation in order to politically promote President Obama’s image [.. ...

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

  • MSLGroup makes Farnham Atlanta MD
    NEW YORK: MSLGroup made Kyle Farnham officially the MD of the Atlanta office. Farnham has been acting MD of the office since July.
  • The Star Group named AOR for Wish Upon a Hero
    VOORHEES, NJ: The Star Group was named AOR for Wish Upon a Hero, an online social network that connects people in need with people willing to grant their "wishes."
  • SKIL Power Tools selects JSH&A PR
    MT. PROSPECT, IL: JSH&A PR was hired by SKIL Power Tools as its AOR.
  • Happy New Year
    PRWeek is now closed for the holiday. We will be back in the office on Monday and will be publishing our next weekly online edition on January 7.
  • Top 2010 PRWeek corporate articles
    Corporate communicators watched as several crises unfolded this year that dominated headline news. At PRWeek, several crisis issues populated our list of most widely read corporate articles

The Story Behind the Story

  • Understanding the Nine Veils
    Understanding the Nine Veils By A. True Ott, PhD Nearly a decade ago, a dear friend and colleague of mine named Don Harkins authored a wonderfully thought-provoking piece entitled “Slavery and the eight veils.   Prior to Harkins’ untimely death, we discussed this “Eight-veils theory” for literally h ...
  • 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 ...

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Left Foot Forward

  • My songs of the year
    Since my time as Editor at Left Foot Forward has come to an end, I thought I'd indulge myself by posting the list on LFF. Happy Christmas one and all!
  • SDLP: Our progressive vision of an all-island, hig ...
    SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie discusses her plans for the future of the party and progressive politics in Northern Ireland ahead of the 2011 Assembly elections.
  • A year of economic uncertainty lies ahead
    The following 12 months will be the year where the consequences of policymakers' decisions and indecision are felt by all. Five questions will dominate economic discourse in 2011.
  • Labour wins when it is the future
    2011 must be the year Labour realises the scale of its electoral, political, and philosophical defeat and finally articulates a different future.
  • Labour’s ‘no brainer’ case to ca ...
    An exhaustive academic report shows why Labour would benefit from the Alternative Vote. The report argues ""By opposing AV ... the Labour Party is likely to deprive itself of a chance to gain seats"

Consumerist

  • Jobless Claims Drop To July 2008 Levels
    In a potential sign of a mending economy, unemployment claims for the week ending Dec. 25 fell 34,000 to 388,000, the lowest levels since July 2008. However, the good news might be slightly enhanced by it being the week of Christmas, which can throw a wrench into into how the claims are tallied. T ...
  • Have You Had Trouble Using Best Buy Gift Cards Onl ...
    In recent days, we've received numerous complaints from people who attempted to use Best Buy gift cards to make purchases on the store's website, only to end up frustrated and trapped in BB's byzantine customer service maze. Here's one such complaint from Michael, who attempted to place an order a ...
  • Alaska Airlines Delivers Your Bags In 20 Minutes O ...
    Reader Andrew is happy to report that taking advantage of Alaska Airline's guarantee that you'll have your bags within 20 minutes of landing is pretty painless. His bags didn't show up after 35 minutes and when he called in they gave him a choice of two different "we're sorry" options. The airline ...
  • Judge: NYC Can't Make Cigarette Sellers Post Anti- ...
    While the FDA prepares to roll out graphic warning labels for cigarette packages, the city of New York had been hoping to get a head start on the agency by requiring stores that sell cigarettes to put up anti-smoking posters. However, a judge in U.S. District Court has ruled that the city doesn't h ...
  • My Roof Has Leaked For Six Months, And Landlord Wo ...
    Reader A, who lives in South Carolina, has been stuck in a leaky apartment for six months, enduring a management change and endless broken promises that one day a repair would come. She's given up on the leak ever being fixed, but is irritated that the landlord won't pay for her to move to a differ ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

  • GAP Applauds Merit Systems Protection Board Revers ...
    Today, GAP is praising a Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) ruling last week that reverses a far-reaching November 2009 decision exempting national security positions from protections under the civil service merit system. (Conyers v. Dep’t Defense, 2010 MSPB 2047, December 22, 2010) What a ...
  • 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 ...

UK Progressive

  • Should Kwanzaa Stay in Black Neighborhoods?
    Rev. Irene Monroe Immediately following Christmas this year will mark Kwanzaa’s thirty eighth anniversary. From Dec. 26 through Jan. 1, millions of African Americans, like myself, will start their week-long celebration by greeting families and friends with the Swahili term “Harbari gani!” which mean ...
  • Mumbai Case Offers Rare Picture of Ties Between Pa ...
    by Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica Pakistan’s powerful intelligence service has been accused for years of playing a “double game:” acting as a front-line U.S. ally in the fight against terror while supporting selected terrorist groups which serve Pakistani interests. Now, for the first time, there i ...
  • 2010 Stories of the Year
    Oh what a year this has been. Here is a list of the most important news stories of 2010. The ‘Global’ Economy The loss of manufacturing jobs in the UK and US to Germany and Asia is stunning. The US alone created 1.4 million jobs overseas. Had those been in the US the unemployment rate [...]
  • Green Matters: A Sobering Look At The Year We’re L ...
    By Theodora Filis As we take a sobering look at the year we’re leaving behind, let us also take a moment to remember those who have perished in this year’s floods, scorching heat and freezing cold. Nineteen nations set new temperature records this year marking 2010 as the warmest year the earth has ...
  • New Years Prediction (I): The Tea Party Conservati ...
    by Robert Reich Next week starts the new Congress, and with it the Tea Party conservatives. What’s their strategy? What will they rally around? They’ll grouse endlessly about government spending but I don’t think they’ll use any particular spending bill to mobilize and energize their grass roots. Th ...

NewsAlert

JoNova

  • Another test of the BOM vs Corbyn
    Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction appears to be getting noticed (finally). Recently the Telegraph reported on The man who beats the Met Office. But some people (especially outside the UK) don’t seem to realize Corbyn has been doing this for a long time. He started placing bets on his predictions way bac ...
  • Merry Christmas
    The immovable wall met the inflexible mind this week. The bitterly cold weather brought out some spectacular cases of cognitive dissonance. The Greg Graven’s who were overcome with passion, and the Monboit’s who were overcome with the complete “suspension of disbelief” whilst hunting for ways to rat ...
  • An insight into Hacker-land
    Hacked or leaked? Pointman argues the case for the emails being leaked from inside. Part I of his thesis is that an expert hack takes a lot of money, patience and a rare personality. (And after reading his article I believe him.) In Part II Pointman suggests that there is not a lot of money [...]
  • 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 ...

ReNew America

  • Obama appoints deputy attorney general, bypassing ...
    (Bloomberg News) - President Barack Obama installed James Cole as deputy U.S. attorney general, the nation's second- ranking law enforcement post, by appointing him during the congressional recess to overcome Republican opposition...
  • Illegal aliens are illegal and alien
    (Washington Times) - Are "illegal aliens" simply misunderstood "undocumented immigrants?" The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Diversity Committee believes so, and it's engaged in a campaign to "inform and sensitize journalists as to the best language to use when writing and reporting" on t ...
  • Poll: Most Americans will ring in new year with pr ...
    (Christian Post) - Before the clock strikes midnight on Friday, Americans will look to the heavens before they look forward to a brand new year. A new Rasmussen Reports found that a majority of Americans don't plan on skipping prayer even though they won't attend parties this New Year's Eve...
  • Just 21% want FCC to regulate internet
    (Rasmussen Reports) - American voters believe free market competition will protect Internet users more than government regulation and fear that regulation will be used to push a political agenda. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 21% of Likely U.S. Voters want th ...
  • GOP bracing for fight as major Obamacare laws take ...
    (Newsmax) - The newly Republican-controlled House will face a massive task immediately when it gets to work in January. Major planks of Obamacare -- the nation's new healthcare law -- go into effect on Jan. 1 even as the regulations are being challenged by Republican-dominated state legislatures in ...

Truth Offering

  • The Mainstream Media: In the Pocket of the Global ...
    For the record, I'd like to state that I believe in climate change; I believe that during any given period of time, the planet is either warming or cooling. Factually speaking, that is the nature of weather and climate: it's constantly in flux. To deny climate change is to deny reality. I think we c ...
  • Podcast: Truth Offering w/ Matt Gordon - December ...
    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: �
  • Latest Poll - Week Ending 12/19/10
    This week, we asked visitors, "Where do you think the economy is going in 2011?" An overwhelming majority said they believed it was heading toward difficult times, but some still hold on to the hope that we're through the tough part and headed toward better times. Here are the results: What do we t ...
  • Chemtrails: Scars in the Sky
    Geoengineering is a relatively new idea to the world. According to�Wikipedia,�"The modern concept of�geoengineering�(or�climate engineering) is usually taken to mean proposals to deliberately manipulate the�Earth's�climate�to counteract the effects of�global warming�from�greenhouse gas�emissions. Th ...
  • Levi's: All-American or Neo-Communist
    It seems that everywhere I go recently, I see these massive Levi's billboards along the side of the road. At first, I thought nothing of them. After all, they're just billboards, right? Plus Levi's is an all-American company, right? Visually, these ads are quite striking; mostly black and white, and ...

2012 Blog

  • More 2012 Bunkers
    I have three different sources regarding bunkers being built for 2012: Hush-hush, where my contacts give me details, but I am sworn to secrecy Conspiracy forums and blogs – usually unsubstantiated From the builders themselves An example of conspiracy information is the bunker that the Walmart Walton ...
  • New Year Earthquake?
    The two earthquakes which had the most fatalities in the last 5 years occurred within 5 days of a solar eclipse: Haiti Earthquake January 12, 2010 230,000 deaths Solar Eclipse January 15, 2010 Kashmir Earthquake October 8, 2005 79,000 deaths Solar Eclipse October 3, 2005 The next (partial) eclipse i ...
  • Nanodiamonds / Neanderthals / Seas Still Rising
    Nanodiamonds Discovered in Greenland Ice Sheet – adding weight to the theory of a cometary or asteroid impact event roughly 13,000 years ago. Did volcanoes wipe out the Neanderthals? If so it would be a neat solution, but not one that explains how our forefathers survived (given that we were not as ...
  • 5000+1 Bunkers for Moscow
    Russia has some mega-bunkers where presumably indispensable folk can be kept safe, but what about the common people in Moscow? Looks like they will be safe from the [insert SHTF scenario here, but they want us to think nuclear war] as well. Announced a few weeks back on Russia Today are plans to bui ...
  • 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 ...

Facing South

  • Eight homeless youth die in New Orleans fire -- wh ...
    By Bill Quigley Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire early Tuesday morning in New Orleans. The young people were squatting in an abandoned wood framed tin walled warehouse in a Ninth Ward neighborhood bordering a large train yard. Th ...
  • YOU are the answer
    Let's play a little Facing South Jeopardy. Here's the answer: YOU. Now -- can you guess the question? If you said, "How is Facing South going to reach its holiday fundraising goal for the Institute Investigative Fund?" then ding! We have a winner! Actually, we already have lots of winners: Si ...
  • New Orleans gets table scrap in GO Zone lending fe ...
    By Ariella Cohen, The Lens As Louisiana wraps its Gulf Opportunity Zone lending program, only 3 percent of the $7.8 billion went to projects in New Orleans, a review of state records show. Though the program was intended to generate recovery and jobs in the areas most affected by ...
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    Thank you, dear readers, for another great year at Facing South! Due to your loyal readership and support (there's still time to chip in for our holiday fundraiser!), 2010 was a big success here at your favorite experiment in Southern-fried, non-profit, independent journalism. Here's what I'm mos ...
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    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 ...

One News Page

  • Murli Manohar Joshi supports demand for JPC on 2G ...
    Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Murli Manohar Joshi issued a statement on Thursday saying that he is not opposed to the party's demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the 2G spectrum scam. Reported by IndiaVision 21 hours ...
  • Hero Group victim of Citibank fraud
    Leading corporate house Hero Group is a victim of the alleged Rs 300 crore Citibank fraud by bank manager Shiv Raj Puri, says the conglomerate, but did not disclose details of financial involvement. Reported by IndiaTimes 2 hours ago, received via One News Page (http://www.onenewspage.in)
  • Aarushi Talwar case: Moily meets CBI Director
    As public outrage builds over the CBI’s decision to close the Aarushi Talwar murder investigation, Law Minister Veerappa Moily has met the agency’s director. Reported by NDTV.com 2 hours ago, received via One News Page (http://www.onenewspage.in)
  • Australia floods: Towns could be swamped for week
    BRISBANE, Australia (AP) -- Flooded communities across eastern Australia could be underwater for more than a week, with the cleanup bill expected to hit billions of dollars, a state official said Thursday.... Reported by AP 1 day ago, received via One News Page (http://www.onenewspage.in)
  • What did you wear this New Year's Eve?
    Tell us where did you spent December 31 on show us how you decked up for that big year-end party. Reported by Rediff.com 2 days ago, received via One News Page (http://www.onenewspage.in)

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Oriental Review

  • Episode 6. Leon Trotsky, Father of German Nazism ( ...
    Nikolay Starikov (Russia) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 About a year before Hitler organized the Beer Hall Putsch, some curious personalities appeared in his entourage, and historians have still been unable to determine the origin of the sums of money that they brought with them. The cash flowed in from many ...
  • US State Department Defends Russian Sodomites
    On November 17, 2010 the US State Department published another annual International Religious Freedom Report. Naturally, one of the chapters is devoted to Russia. While explicitly advocating the interests of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Scientologists, Seventh-day Adventists, non-authorized âIslamicâ preach ...
  • The Great Game Today
    Konstantin Penzev (Russia) The Great Game obviously did not end in 1907 with the signing of the Anglo-Russian Convention. Given that, we should adjust the definition of the term, i.e., move away from its narrow meaning of the Anglo-Russian conflict in Central Asia during just the 19th century. In a ...
  • Cablegate and South Asia Politics
    Aurobinda MАHAPATRA (India) The recent leaks by the whistle blower website Wikileaks indicate the surreptitious nature of diplomacy which can have wider consequences. Reportedly, out of 251,287 cables that are with WikiLeaks, 3,038 originated from the US embassy in New Delhi.The leaks, despite throw ...
  • Wikileaks As A Mirror On The West
    Anatoly Karlin (USA) A foreign “subversive” journalist, driven by fevered idealism, publishes reams of leaked internal documents from an Authority that, beneath its carefully positioned mask of civility, honor and justice, views the whole world – of both friend or foe – as its own playground, and en ...
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